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   I am just normal /k/orean :verified: (justnormalkorean@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 20:41:40 JST I am just normal /k/orean :verified:
   What games do you play like this if any?
   Used to play Minecraft like this.
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     white_male (white_male@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 20:41:19 JST white_male

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     @moomin @justnormalkorean @fal1026 Very valuable, stick to it. We will need all the porn we can get our hands on post collapse.
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     @white_male @justnormalkorean @fal1026 porn? no brother we will not save that. you must purge these thoughts you focus upon. what you reflect is what is in your heart. come away from your goon, brother. no more goon, only moom.
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     white_male (white_male@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 20:41:20 JST white_male

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     @moomin @justnormalkorean @fal1026 When spending money usually ask yourself "i can but should i"? ;]
     Few people are storage performance sensitive, i do compute 24/7 and don't bother.
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     moomin (moomin@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 20:41:20 JST moomin

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     @white_male @justnormalkorean @fal1026 good financial advice. but im a data hoarder that saves things as if the internet might turn off tomorrow (because it could). got about 2 exabytes of warez from the last few decades. full backup of near everything important we could ever need post collapse. anyone who has the means should do the same. the internet is becoming more and more empty. should backup all rare things you see, especially dissident stuff and books and videos that teach skills. you might be the one in the future that has the only copy of something important. you might be the only one who has the data when all is lost. keep backups on optical media, and lead line hdd racks. carrington event with ruin both ssd and hdd without hardening.
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     I am just normal /k/orean :verified: (justnormalkorean@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 20:41:21 JST I am just normal /k/orean :verified:

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     @moomin @white_male @fal1026 Man they're way cheaper now
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     moomin (moomin@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 20:41:21 JST moomin

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     @justnormalkorean @white_male @fal1026 the prices are gonna plummet with pcie v5 13GB/s nvme becoming common. 16TB sata hdds are now like $120
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     I am just normal /k/orean :verified: (justnormalkorean@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 20:41:22 JST I am just normal /k/orean :verified:

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     @white_male @fal1026 seen like $40 for a 500 GB SSD last I checked.
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     moomin (moomin@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 20:41:22 JST moomin

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     @justnormalkorean @white_male @fal1026 kingston nv2 2TB 3000MB/s is $90
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     white_male (white_male@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 20:41:23 JST white_male

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     @justnormalkorean @fal1026 Yep, i run high end desktops as workstations, but i can't be arsed to spend more than $35 per GB on SSDs.
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     I am just normal /k/orean :verified: (justnormalkorean@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 20:41:24 JST I am just normal /k/orean :verified:

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     @fal1026 @white_male now is eventually. SDD prices are pretty low for price to performance and price to storage capacity.
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     white_male (white_male@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 20:41:25 JST white_male

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     @fal1026 @justnormalkorean Even commodity grade, basic SSD on SATA is still much more preferable than top performance HDD on SATA.
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     fal1026 (fal1026@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 20:41:25 JST fal1026

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     @white_male @justnormalkorean IDK, I just know that most of my friends at the time said it was ok, but I was better off upgrading eventually, & not only cuz it was just 1TB split.
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     fal1026 (fal1026@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 20:41:26 JST fal1026

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     @justnormalkorean My shit uses SATA memory.
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     I am just normal /k/orean :verified: (justnormalkorean@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 20:41:27 JST I am just normal /k/orean :verified:

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     @fal1026 There's a few "reputable" sources if you don't mind a crypto miner during the install process. The community more or less polices its own so anyone that's been caught putting in rrats or day 0 exploits into a system tends to get ostracized.
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     fal1026 (fal1026@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 20:41:27 JST fal1026

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     @justnormalkorean That sounds cool, but I'd need an updated PC, my shit's old, & I'm not even sure if I can get it done, it needs all new stuff from GPU, more RAM, like at least 16gb on top of what I have, & a high end hard drive times 10, the only thing that's fine is my motherboard, I even need a Blu-ray capable CD drive.
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     I am just normal /k/orean :verified: (justnormalkorean@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 20:41:27 JST I am just normal /k/orean :verified:

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     @fal1026 1. you're probably gonna needs SSDs, no HDDs. Nobody really used them anymore. Some games don't even work on HDDs.
     2. Nobody uses Blu-ray drives because you can just download everything. They stopped making physical releases for PC games awhile ago.
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     fal1026 (fal1026@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 20:41:28 JST fal1026

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     @justnormalkorean Pirating wasn't an option for me, my hard drive was too small, & I'm a Boomer, scared of viruses, I figured I was risking enough with the movies I would get off pirates bay, didn't want to push my luck.
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     fal1026 (fal1026@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 20:41:29 JST fal1026

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     @justnormalkorean I was forced to stop buying n 2013, I had to go on hiatus in 16, played the living shit out of what I had, thankfully it was alot of great games.
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     I am just normal /k/orean :verified: (justnormalkorean@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 20:41:29 JST I am just normal /k/orean :verified:

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     @fal1026 if I every get the itch to get a new game I've just resorted to pirating it.
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     I am just normal /k/orean :verified: (justnormalkorean@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 20:41:30 JST I am just normal /k/orean :verified:

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     @fal1026 I haven't bought anything new in awhile. Been working on my backlog and playing the games I that keep going back to anyways.
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     I am just normal /k/orean :verified: (justnormalkorean@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 20:41:31 JST I am just normal /k/orean :verified:

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     @fal1026 Tell me about it. Starfield is still pretty broken.
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     fal1026 (fal1026@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 20:41:31 JST fal1026

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     @justnormalkorean I've had a rough time of having to forgo games due to the economic shit storm that just kept getting worse as time went on in my life, but I had to laugh about the time I stopped so did the game releases, listening to my friends buying the new consoles & having nothing to play was unreal, if I won the lotto tomorrow I could buy everything I missed out on that actually interested me for probably less than 200 bucks at this point.
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     fal1026 (fal1026@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 20:41:32 JST fal1026

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     @justnormalkorean I loved civ5, but not as detailed, most of the guys who were original creators of C&C in Westwood studios when it was shutdown by EA moved on to the new company Petroglyph to continue their work, they were responsible for Empire at war, so the combat is always realtime & in between when you're building you can kinda pause to help manage everything, but when unpaused the enemy can attack at anytime without warning, TBH it was a bit clunky, but that's the thing about old games, you just had to get intimate with all it's flaws as well as it's strengths, adapt to each game regardless of genre. New games are just broken shit.
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     fal1026 (fal1026@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 20:41:33 JST fal1026

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     @justnormalkorean It's kinda stupid, StarCraft tried to nip it in the bud with population count & multiple resources required for certain units(but then forced the game to end cuz resources evaporated). Each game had it's own ideas, but aside from them, Star Wars Empire at war kinda went the 4X direction, resources, army, & base construction are handled between battles so you can focus on fighting entirely, wasn't perfect, but hell of a change up.
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     I am just normal /k/orean :verified: (justnormalkorean@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 20:41:33 JST I am just normal /k/orean :verified:

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     @fal1026 if we're talking 4x I've finished a few games of Civ6 and Civ Rev lol
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     I am just normal /k/orean :verified: (justnormalkorean@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 20:41:34 JST I am just normal /k/orean :verified:

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     @fal1026 I've heard of tank spam. lol
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     I am just normal /k/orean :verified: (justnormalkorean@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 20:41:35 JST I am just normal /k/orean :verified:

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     @fal1026 they keep telling me it's in my blood. I'm starting out with the new Dune RTS but I've been told my path to greatness is Starcraft 2.
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     fal1026 (fal1026@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 20:41:35 JST fal1026

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     @justnormalkorean StarCraft is ok, but I think they contributed to the downfall of the genre as well with the constant focus on meta, the rules are too rigid, it's not fun until you conform to the arbitrary style of playing, C&C to an extent does have that element, but it's not as important, especially if you play asymmetrical maps, playing "tournament" is boring as fuck, the fun is in the chaos of the inevitable tank spam.
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     fal1026 (fal1026@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 20:41:36 JST fal1026

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     @justnormalkorean RTS is easy to play, hard to master if you love PVP, which scares most people away cuz weaponized autism overtook leaderboards, that & the games industry just loved helping department of education in dumbing everything down.
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     fal1026 (fal1026@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 20:41:37 JST fal1026

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     @justnormalkorean I stayed mad, especially when I got to play the RTS version Empire at war, that game was also fuckin amazing, but like C&C had to be kept alive by modders/hardcore fans. youtu.be/n93_uvJ3G6Q?si=8iOZ3Uw0cPDEF2BN
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     I am just normal /k/orean :verified: (justnormalkorean@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 20:41:37 JST I am just normal /k/orean :verified:

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     @fal1026 I might have to give that one a shot if I ever figure out how to play RTS
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     fal1026 (fal1026@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 20:41:38 JST fal1026

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     @justnormalkorean youtu.be/jInXMruUFw8?si=wErsJcj1hDhW0uSF
     
     We were robbed of 3.
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     @fal1026 I'm still mad about that
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     I am just normal /k/orean :verified: (justnormalkorean@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 20:41:39 JST I am just normal /k/orean :verified:

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     @fal1026 dude BF2 was so fucking lit
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     fal1026 (fal1026@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 20:41:40 JST fal1026

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     @justnormalkorean I'll mention a game that was ahead of it's time in almost every way except in a multiplayer experience, a couple actually: Psy-ops the mindgate conspiracy & Mercenaries by pandemic studios (as well as Lucas arts believe it or not, but together they brought the definitive version of Star wars BF2 in 2005 which EA of course fuckin ruined a decade later).