Other What currently makes your life awesome?

The name Big Elf predates (1996) my fat bstard phase. I should really have been renamed 'Enormous Elf'

 

Substantial Elf.

Congrats on getting the insulin resistance under control.

 

Ace Combat 7: Unexpected Expansion Pack!

Seriously, they announced it all of a week ago and I assumed it would be a few Top Gun themed skins, it's not
Although it is quite funny/depressing/inevitable that the SU-57 is now the '5th Generation Fighter,'

 

My new bionic knees !

 

Finding out you have this just up the road from your ma's house.

https://www.barnhamvintagevinyl.co.uk/

That said should it make my life awesome? could potentially be life ruining

Nah jokes aside I am stoked. Quite a few old ones I want, but tired of paying the £4 value for the record and then £5 in postage.

 

Careful dangerously close to blaming your tools there !

But well done, that's better than I would have managed after a full day (and a tub of 500 pellets) !

 

TOM STOLTMAN WINS AGAIN! THE ALBATROSS FLIES PROUD!

Novikov missing out on second place was a bit of a surprise. Would've liked to have seen Luke in the top 3, but as mentioned previously, it's a mental line up this year. When Brian Shaw misses out on the podium, you know poo's got real.

 

There were many new things announced at Star Wars Celebration over the weekend

• SW: Andor - August 31st (Prequel show about Cassian Andor & Mon Mothma from Rogue One, set about 5 years before the movie)
• SW: Asokha - 2023 (Will feature SW:Rebels characters Hera Syndulla, Sabine Wren & Chopper the droid. Maybe Ezra Bridger too)
• SW: Skeleton Crew (cartoon) - SW's version of ST: Prodigy, starring Jude Law. Set during Mando/Asohka
  
• Mando season 3 - Feb 2023 (Jon Favreau is already writing season 4)
• SW: Bad Batch season 2 (cartoon) - Fall 2022
• SW: Visions season 2 - Spring 2023
• Tales of the Jedi (cartoon) - Fall 2022 (Origin stories for Asohka & Dooku teased)
• Young Jedi Adventures (cartoon) - Spring 2023 (High Republic era)
• Jedi: Survivor (game) - (2023) Sequel to Fallen Order

Non SW stuffs shown:-

• Indiana Jones 5 - June 30, 2023
  
• Willow TV show - Nov 2022

 

Laura found her missing rings.

 

Oh dude. You just reminded me of something.

When I was a kid (like under 5) my mum used to work as a Freeman's rep. Due to this she had huge piles of envelopes. Brown ones, pre printed and paid to send in people's cheques.

Now with me being autistic and developing an obsession with putting things in them just like mum I might have put her sapphire engagement ring in one and popped it in the post box as we walked past it.....

I still feel shitty about that to this day

 

The dreaded 'safe place,' at least they were found.

 

Laura .. Laura .. um, plays with police cars huh .., ok.

 

A classic childhood act.

Just the day before I overheard her showing Sully a toy on her phone and saying "If you can remember where you put my rings I'll buy you this."

 

Are you telling me you don't?

 

I had a session on the Air rifles not too long ago with my son. I had a decent break barrel rifle, where my son picked up a gas powered rifle. And I was pleasantly surprised at how silent, and smooth the gas powered was. Actually had a really great time

 

ridiculous assumption sir. Me, I crash 'em into trucks, and other cars full of bank robbers, and sometimes even the wall. But that's not playing, that's just my inner 7 year old.

 

Finally got my FXF 780i SLI board to boot. Now in the process of installing Win XP (again) on a build consisting of:

Core 2 Duo E8400 (Dual core @ 3Ghz)
2GB PC1066 DDR2 OCZ Reaper memory
XFX 780i SLI MB
Dual Quadro FX4500 GPU's (7800GTX 512MB proxy)
120GB SSD (because I am not going back to spinning rust... )

3DMark01 > 06 here I come!!

Turns out the board just hates having all memory slots populated. They all work just doesn't like 4 at a time. Who knew when it was giving me a sodding CPU error..... (not like a modern CPU, the memory controller is on / in the NB thus I didn't even think it could be memory related!)

In other news, prepping a Win10/11 Hybrid install for a X58 build. Guide I am following stated the conversion of the install.wim file would hit the CPU....

Yep!




EDIT: Lol the setup is slower than the previous one with a A64 6000+ & 7950GX2... The FX 4500's are clocked lower which is most likely causing the difference. Bizarrely they seem to have some sort of clock offset as Afterburner is reporting the clocks in benchmark around 40Mhz higher than what is set (stock 430 vs 470). Not sure what is happening there as the 7950GX2 was reported correctly and 430Mhz is correct for the Quadro.