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OverWatch looks really cool and instead of a PVP first person shooter they should make a turn-based menu-driven rpg with lots of dialogue and cutscenes and plot. I'd play that.
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Teach posted:(Sorry for the snatched pics.) It's OK so far - very quick B&W, slow as poo poo on colour or 2-sided. But I'm in no hurry. If you are just printing out school work you might want to check the dpi settings, and other "quality" things. These things can come defaulted to maximum everything because it sucks ink out and looks good when you print that photo one time. Turn it all down to "draft" and it spits out 10 pages a minute of text and 2-3 of color sorta thing. For black and white text it is often no different in actual quality for literally 10% of the ink.
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OSU_Matthew posted:Oh drat! That’s ambitious! Good call getting a contractor and a designer. I wish I had done all that stuff upfront at my place instead of knocking out projects one at a time and trying to live around knocking down plaster walls. Everything is so much easier when you don’t have to move a buncha crap Yeah, we’re not moving in until all the work with walls is completely done. I ripped out a vanity and smashed up an enameled tile counter in the guest bath and man did that make a dusty mess. Our walls are plaster over gypsum board so I know the dust will continue for a while. I’m glad I have a cartridge dust mask.
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rockcity posted:Yeah, we’re not moving in until all the work with walls is completely done. I ripped out a vanity and smashed up an enameled tile counter in the guest bath and man did that make a dusty mess. Our walls are plaster over gypsum board so I know the dust will continue for a while. I’m glad I have a cartridge dust mask. Good call on the PPE, dust will absolutely gently caress you up... don’t forget the safety squints! For content, bought a protectli mini-pc appliance to replace my unifi router with pfsense and redo a buncha stuff on my home network rack: 
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Bought a mid-priced Burr grinder to replace my cheapo blade grinder I've had for like ten years. Let's see if my coffee snob friend is right that there's a difference in taste on my 30 dollar drip maker 
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Do you have an auto drip maker? If so it probably still taste like crap because it won't get the water hot enough. The easiest way to improve it is to boil your water first on a stovetop then pour it into your auto. Or better yet just buy a $5 drip cone at the super market. But yes the grinder should be a massive upgrade over the blade grinder. https://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/store/product/melitta-reg-pour-over-single-cup-brewing-cone/1010182077
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Thanks for the posters that told me about the printer
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I paid $25 for a dongle so I can plug a midi keyboard into my iPhone. I also have not decided on a keyboard yet so...
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Mu Zeta posted:Do you have an auto drip maker? If so it probably still taste like crap because it won't get the water hot enough. The easiest way to improve it is to boil your water first on a stovetop then pour it into your auto. Or better yet just buy a $5 drip cone at the super market. But yes the grinder should be a massive upgrade over the blade grinder. Yeah this is going to be step one in the journey; I also have a french press so I imagine that's where the benefit will be mostly !
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Rolo posted:Overwatch is a really neat game played by incredibly toxic people. I wish I still liked it. So every multiplayer video game?
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Aramek posted:OverWatch looks really cool and instead of a PVP first person shooter they should make a turn-based menu-driven rpg with lots of dialogue and cutscenes and plot. right? I love the aesthetics and the evident care they've put into the world-building and whatnot but I have absolutely zero interest in multiplayer gaming apart from yelling badly-remembered and/or made-up CB lingo at my partner when we're both playing American Truck Simulator
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Pastry of the Year posted:right? I love the aesthetics and the evident care they've put into the world-building and whatnot but I have absolutely zero interest in multiplayer gaming apart from yelling badly-remembered and/or made-up CB lingo at my partner when we're both playing American Truck Simulator I think that Overwatch 2 (not sure when it'll get released, my gut says fall?) will have some sort of single-player campaign. As a nice little treat, any new heroes, cosmetics, and other game changes they do for OW2 will be included in OV1 for free, so no one is "required" to buy OW2 unless you want the single player gameplay and/or improved graphics/performance.
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Mar 23, 2020 14:05
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Exactly what does a toxic multiplayer experience look like?
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colas posted:Exactly what does a toxic multiplayer experience look like? Pretty much like these forums. People getting way too invested in what other people say and being super upset about it, as opposed to like muting people and moving on with their lives.
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Mar 23, 2020 14:43
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Coffee And Pie posted:I paid $25 for a dongle so I can plug a midi keyboard into my iPhone. There is only One True midi keyboard, and that is the Roland AX-1:  Strap one of these to your belt an walk around the neighborhood spreading electronic music joy! 
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colas posted:Exactly what does a toxic multiplayer experience look like? There's a large amount of "gamers" who solely play games to be mean and hateful to others. Usually they target minorities and women. I play online games mostly muted these days and it makes it a fun experience again.
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Solice Kirsk posted:There is only One True midi keyboard, and that is the Roland AX-1: You mean, only one Keytar
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colas posted:Exactly what does a toxic multiplayer experience look like? Endless harassment. From before the game starts until the match ends. From all sides, for all reasons. Play well, play poorly... it doesn't matter. The goon groups were as bad as the general public. Some of the most evil online garbage I've ever seen.
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Yes, yes. But if it's going into a phone it had better be a keytar. They run on batteries!
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LifeSunDeath posted:Pretty much like these forums. People getting way too invested in what other people say and being super upset about it, as opposed to like muting people and moving on with their lives. PYF is good, actually. If American Truck Simulator had multiplayer (whaaaat?) and I had a microphone, I would happily bungle deliveries of explosive gas with you guys while saying "breaker ten-four roger niner" all night long.
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SpartanIvy posted:I play online games mostly muted these days and it makes it a fun experience again. Yeah, I kinda bounce between turning chat and voip on and off. It's hit or miss.
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H110Hawk posted:If you are just printing out school work you might want to check the dpi settings, and other "quality" things. These things can come defaulted to maximum everything because it sucks ink out and looks good when you print that photo one time. Turn it all down to "draft" and it spits out 10 pages a minute of text and 2-3 of color sorta thing. For black and white text it is often no different in actual quality for literally 10% of the ink. Really appreciate this - it's made all the difference. My Macbook remembers the last-used settings, and I can switch back to high-def for my printouts of early-career Britany Spears. Double-sided is a bit slow, but it will be, I think - it's a small-ish printer. Happy with it so far.
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Teach posted:Really appreciate this - it's made all the difference. My Macbook remembers the last-used settings, and I can switch back to high-def for my printouts of early-career Britany Spears. Double-sided is a bit slow, but it will be, I think - it's a small-ish printer. Happy with it so far. Glad it worked. Double sided the printer might be literally stalling for time to make sure the ink dries. Duplex printing in a laser is more or less just double the time with a tiny amount of time for it to re-feed the paper itself. If you ever see the paper getting "wet" you're putting too my ink into it for the weight/quality. Make sure you've set the paper type appropriately too, they might be assuming you're using high quality paper and not lovely copy paper like you definitely are using. Also if anyone is scrolling through this thread thinking about getting a printer, unless you have a deep desire to not wait 5 days to receive photo prints in the mail for almost no money, just get a laser printer. Even color lasers are cheap these days, and Brother puts out a trooper of a ~$100 (depends on sales timing) B&W laser w/ network connectivity and sometimes a duplexer. You will become acutely aware of how much garbage 100% coverage poo poo tickets have on them, but otherwise they are ultra cheap. Mine is 10 years old at least, on its second toner cartridge (starter got me 984 pages, I'm at 4327 pages now), and the drum claims 67% of its life is left.
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Coffee And Pie posted:I paid $25 for a dongle so I can plug a midi keyboard into my iPhone. Ended up going with the Arturia Minilab!  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vu4F9gRBnfA
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Mu Zeta posted:Do you have an auto drip maker? If so it probably still taste like crap because it won't get the water hot enough. The easiest way to improve it is to boil your water first on a stovetop then pour it into your auto. Or better yet just buy a $5 drip cone at the super market. But yes the grinder should be a massive upgrade over the blade grinder. This got me thinking about my Bonavita drip coffee maker. Just tried with warm water and the coffee ground slurrey stayed at 200-203F for the entire brew. I'll recommend it to anyone who wants to drink large volumes of decent quality coffee, but isn't ready to go any farther with the prep.
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Bonavita is coffee snob approved. For a while the SCAA only approved of Bonavita and a super expensive brand called Moccamaster.
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Mu Zeta posted:Bonavita is coffee snob approved. For a while the SCAA only approved of Bonavita and a super expensive brand called Moccamaster. Technivorm  The Moccamaster is a model of coffee machine they make. Technivorm is the best name.
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I have an unnatural lust for the technovorm. I love the design of that thing.
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Are there any bougie coffee makers which actually have a 12 cup glass carafe? I tried to overpay for a drip machine the last time my Cuisinart overpriced garbage failed and everything was 6-8 cups. Wound up with a $40 Hamilton Bay one. It has so far outlasted our last $80 Cuisinart.
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I (unsurprisingly) have a Moccamaster and it's the bees knees.
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Isn't it though? I want one solely for the name. If Technivorm isn't in Dune or a 90's point and click game I'd be surprised.
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I also have one, since 2007-8 maybe. It's great, in that it just works and never breaks like my old machines used to. I only use cheap preground coffee though.
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I want the lime green one because I live my life a quarter-mile at a time.
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I have a mr. Coffee, he's not nearly as snooty as Dr coffee.
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Aramek posted:I have a mr. Coffee, he's not nearly as snooty as Dr coffee. My dad is Mr Coffee, call me ‘and Pie’
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Coffee And Pie posted:My dad is Mr Coffee, call me ‘and Pie’ I actually thought about you while watching Coffee and Cigarettes last night (having a Jim Jarmusch fest, watched Ghost Dog too). The part with Tom Waits and Iggy Pop. They talk about how they're the coffee and cigarettes generation, and the ones before them being the coffee and pie generation. Something like that.
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colas posted:I actually thought about you while watching Coffee and Cigarettes last night (having a Jim Jarmusch fest, watched Ghost Dog too). The part with Tom Waits and Iggy Pop. They talk about how they're the coffee and cigarettes generation, and the ones before them being the coffee and pie generation. Something like that. I guess that makes millenials Monster and cigarettes, and gen z are bang and juuls The actual origin of my username is that when I was making my account I had just seen Brick, which features a diner called "Coffee And Pie, Oh My"
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Coffee And Pie posted:I guess that makes millenials Monster and cigarettes, and gen z are bang and juuls What is bang? wait is this like one of those deez nuts jokes? gently caress
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:What is bang? No, it's this weird energy / pre-workout sorta drink with creatine and poo poo in it. And I have Brick too, very unusual movie.
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