LadyCrimson

---with the sizes of drives these days if I wanted to separate so much stuff I'd just stick in 6 interal drives + use externals or something like that. But yeah, I don't do much re: file organization anymore. I mean I have "folders" and sub and sub-sub folders up the yang but most are old and rarely added to, they just sit there unlooked at. I used to like digital files because no physical space, right, but now I don't even like that because it's become so unmanageable. When there is no physical space one has to take into consideration, like boxes in a room, the digital file hoarding becomes out of control. I've decided just like physical things, I truly don't need 99% of it. So these days things get deleted, either almost immediately or in one fell swoop of periodic cleaning. --all I remember about old gpu's was the Voodoo (offhand I can't recall now if it was 2 or 3) that I had. I know there was a period where it felt like I was buying a cheapish new gpu every year or so, but I couldn't tell you what they were. I paid little attention to gpu tech news then. I'd just go to Fry's and pick some cheap one off the shelf that was newer than the old one. 😛 --the biggest CRT monitor I picked up and moved room to room was the 19" one. Later there was the 27" CRT TV too, but for some reason monitors always felt heavier than the TV's, vs. size. For me it was all sorta heavy but workable short distance. These days I'd probably wrap such in cardboard, tie a rope around it and try to drag it across the floor. Pffft.

Played Diablo1 for 20 minutes. Played Dungeon Keeper Gold for 30 minutes. Turned on a couple newer games, then turned them off. Stared at a wall. ....guess I'll sort/organize more of the piled up boxes of household stuff, at least it keeps me busy.

Reached a point where I seem to either: try a bunch of kdrama's, which I like/watch half of then get bored of, or rewatch old favorite things. Like Drive Angry. Which was funny, since I mostly love that movie for Fitchner's small The Accountant role (I watch only his clips occasionally), and had forgotten most of the other stuff. Fitcher is a 10, the rest maybe a 5. I did notice on HBOMax that they somehow have gotten season 1 of The Winchesters (a CW Supernatural spinoff). I'm guessing it's likely terrible but maybe I'll stare at an episode or two just to see....it's set in the past and seems to retcon the original series parent's past...I smell alternate timeline shenanigans.

Spring and it was time to get things done. Way too much driving back and forth, back and forth, fixing, cleaning, organizing, sleeping on the floor, the past week. But the other house is now ready to rent and the house we're existing in looks a bit less like a multi-room storage closet. Man we are beat. Gettin' too old for this as the saying goes. Maybe I can game/relax a bit today.

I'm in the middle of sorta watching a Diablo retrospective video (all three games). Near the beginning they mention trudging in the dark in D1, beating monsters, and suddenly that ring-drop sounds and your excitement ratchets up like crazy. ...sooooooo true. I remember hearing that sound and sometimes pixel hunting with the mouse for 10 minutes trying to find it. "I know it dropped, I heard it, dangit!" Sure it was likely going to be junk but they were rare enough and maybe it'd be a Zodiac ring and... I miss that. I don't think I've had that same kind of item-drop sensation from a sound cue, in a game, for a long time. These days half the time it's more about visual or icon/text color cues then sounds. And they're not rare. >.> Well, in games I play anyway.

Decided I wanted my giant, shorter-height-than-typical, office desk back (that I'll never find anything like it again) vs. tossing it, so we took it apart and lugged it in this room and put it back together (it would not fit hallway/doorway otherwise). Spent most of today shifting everything around to make it the centerpiece of the room again, with the smaller table hubby made to the side. So I'm now exhausted, but I like it much better/am happier. 😛

I'm not logged in to YT when I watch videos - so on PC there is no watch history. I think the phone/tablet might still keep track of that stuff even if not logged in, not sure. I don't typically watch embeds from those, but I might check one day. I haven't logged into YT since they seemed to want to lock me out/force me to add a phone number to login (removed my account avatar etc) - I still haven't bothered to see if there was a way around that.

Like RE4-RM, you may be able to run it while exceeding your Vram by 1-2gb but that likely increases stutter/poor performance etc. Screencapped from Hardware Unboxed's test/benchmakring video.

Btw, does watching a YT video while it's still embedded in the forum get calculated into THE ALGORITHM? I've never noticed/paid attention.

The only things I regularly might check up on are either well known/popular (Asmongold, that Pitch Meeting guy,etc) or stuff no one here would be interested in. And none of it would make me look smart or cultured. I mostly look for gaming, film/TV snippets and reviews, cats/animals, anything that might make me giggle.

Am I the only one that still uses bookmarks vs. "subscribing?" eg, Asmongold Clips - load bookmark every couple days to see if there's anything new of his I want to watch. But yeah, I'm not one to faithfully follow any channels regardless, or be logged into accounts etc, so probably different for me overall. 😄

If you really don't want to see THE ALGORITHM, you can just bookmark some random YT URL (or your own account URL) that is not the "home" page and use the search bar all the time instead. Which is what I did forever, until I started using a tablet a lot (I find on a tablet I just don't care so much, vs. desktop). On the PC it's what I still do, because on PC I'm usually looking for something specific in the first place so I can watch it on the big TV or play a song in the background on loop etc. THE ALGORITHM is only for when you're really bored and don't mind video lottery. Because even when it's taking into account your previous watched/interests, it still pops up with some unrelated random thing now and then (hey, watch this 10 year old horsehoe-ing video that has 200 views!), or it's promoted's, or whatever. ...blah blah ... babbling....blah blah... *slinks out again*

Oh, btw, what I've seen bandied around is high vram use is in part because of next-gen games wanting to shift primarily to streaming assets in real time from (currently often faster for the desired task, if your gpu isn't really old) video memory rather than constant load screens and whatnot. And such assets (like the textures) getting bigger and bigger, ofc. Per usual, only what I've seen mentioned around, feel free to correct me.

@Gorgon Yeah, I've been noticing ever increasing vram usage for a bit too, mostly on 'next gen' or AAA games as they are getting pushed out now, but I think it'll become more prevalent even below that, before too long. Outside of "poor ports/poor coding" etc, it's just one of those fast major transitional periods. I'm still trying to hold out until the 50xx period before building a new rig - I think there would be too many bottlenecks or mobo/other issues to just upgrade gpu, from my wants anyway. 2080ti was a 'joke' to some re: performance/cost ratios but hey, at least it had 11 vram, even if it's slower vram, so I'm still marginally pushing thru so far. 😄

This talk of YT/algorithms reminds me - re: my updating Win10, I finally noticed that "news/interest" feed icon in the r-corner of the taskbar, when my mouse randomly moved over it one time, popping up some tall sidebar, and I was like "wtf." Got rid of that via Group Policy disable, posthaste. I'd already gotten rid of previous similar before, must be a new version. This is a desktop, not a mobile device, go away. And...another topic: I saw a review on the film Tetris. Which made me wonder...is there anyone else who has never, not even once, played Tetris? I mean, I know what it is/as pop culture reference, but like many similar popular/fad games, never played it. 😄

People thought for pc gaming it was going to be "16 system ram isn't enough anymore, better get 32" But the real issue will end up being "Anything less than 16 Vram is a toaster/barely minimum 720p req." And 24+ vram is only going to be on the top tier gpu's. Or maybe they'll start selling separated add-on VRAM modules, or something. 😛

Crash Course in Romance - finished it. Skimmed thru bits. It turned out to be less rom-com and more overall family drama with cautionary tales about how terrible it is to over-pressure students. I think they have social issues with that there, like Japan (reputedly, I don't live there) does. The romance bits were fun, the rest well-meaning but often too otp for my tastes. Plus, like about 40% of k-drama's it tossed in a small killer side plot for tension which was not needed. >.> Jung Kyung-ho is still awesome, tho.

Oh, I forgot! I rented Puss n Boots/Last wish last night, too. Definitely leagues above that first movie. I found some of the animation style choices interesting during action bits but not always pleasing outside of action. I thought it had too many groups of chrs so loses focuses a bit here and there. But still...enjoyed it overall. And it made hubby briefly LOL a couple times (which is fairly rare for him while watching a movie), so bonus points. 😄 The Nick Cage film meme reference did have me rolling (hubby didn't get that one but I sure did, lol ).

Instead of Narcos, started watching k-drama Crash Course In Romance (what is with these cheesy titles, heh). Jung Kyung-ho is an awesome drama actor - he's been in a lot of the more serious-side dramas lately (like Prison Playbook) but I missed him in trope-y rom-com territory. The series does indeed have some silly comedy although there's a bit too much focus on the teenage and scheming student mothers subplots for my liking so far. Anyway, seems decent starting. And at least the opening episode was totally worth it to see Jung do this:

My old Win7 backup rig (eg, almost never on) still has an old Steam client version on it, in order to keep one or two games at an older version vs. what's downloaded/on the main rig. I just unhook the internet cable from the rig before opening Steam so it can't update itself. 🤣 But yeah....I don't really care at this point even for that. I think that rig is soon going to go in the emergency use closet, at best. There are still a few people who refuse to go above Win7 even to this day tho - even as a separate gaming-only machine - you see them around.

At 17:00 - customizable difficulty via accessories (that show on-screen, can't hide you're using them). I think my lazy butt likes that way more than just an "Easy/Story" mode. So one can keep some combat elements normalized and others 1-button or slow-down/quicktime-like easy. I wasn't very interested in ff16 (even as an action game, nvm "FF game") but this video sorta makes me interested. Not just for that aspect, but overall too. Sideline: 24:00 - yes you can pet the dog. ...still, I'm not sure. Difficulty customization doesn't mean it'll be fun to actually play through the whole game. Also the way AAA PC releases have been going recently, I feel like I should just get a PS5 be done with it. ...to paraphrase Asmongold: "On console, smooth 3 second load times. On PC, it'll crash." Haha, yea....

That bat file seems the same directory locations and cmd/powershell strings all the articles I saw all mentioned. I could see all those things in cmd and trying to force-uninstall commands etc did nothing. The more current method link seems to be much more registry altering which since I don't understand what it's doing - outside of also putting in that "don't install on update" tweak as well - I'd be more leery of unwanted affects. My Edge install seems to be build 111.0.1661.54 and I'd say that's why the force-uninstall etc. stuff would not take/work. I actually tried to delete all the Edge directories in the Programsx86/Microsoft directory (I backed them up first ofc) - and the darn thing still opened/functioned peachy-keen when I clicked on the start-menu shortcut. Not even an error message (what I was sorta expecting). It must have multiple install locations where the one you can see is a ghost/duplicate or some weird tech thing I have no clue for. >.> I think the integration of Edge to the O/S mainly affects MS "apps" - which I pretty much got rid of most or never use/open, but if one did like using a lot of those, it might be 'bad.' Not sure tho. Not that it matters but I have the Start Menu set up so if I click on it initially all that shows up is C drive link, and I never use the "all apps" view or start programs from it (I always tell programs not to put a shortcut in the start menu), I just type to pop up what I want, or use my taskbar shortcuts, so am not visually bothered.

I finished episode 4 and maybe 1/3 of the fifth. I guess it's actually going to be two episodes per crime/story. The bullying story gave me mixed feelings because on the one hand, the cliched stuff reminded me of some older (cheestastic/better) highschool-rom kdramas in small bits. But on the other hand, I was expecting serial killer, murder etc. vigilante crime and it felt a bit forced/head scratching. I also began to realize I didn't care all that much for the strange broken up pacing the show is doing. I love the lead actor playing all these roles, but I probably won't continue either. Oh well. There are some good ones here and there but episodic crime/sci-fi isn't yet S. Korea's forte. Maybe I'll check out Narcos for the first time, now. Probably won't be my thing but who knows.

Apparently, Last of Us PC Remake is making people wait 40-300 minutes for the 1st "shader compile" to finish (beefier gpu/cpu/ram=less time seemingly). 5 minutes would be fine, maybe 10 at most, but that's just silly. What tf is it with DX12. I so far have not liked the (tech performance) of all DX12 games I've had, especially ones that do the visible shader compile screen at start up. I don't care whose "fault" it may be, it's annoying regardless. Can we smooth this process out please.

^ I was hoping that this would be the last time I'd care, since with Win11 means Win10 updates will now be largely security stuff, not "feature changes" or whatever. But it'd been long enough for me that maybe there was still a bit of "feature" stuff (eg, that games might care about?) involved. No clue. Anyway, it seems to have updated, didn't go haywire. Sadly, no method (powershell, cmd) to uninstall Edge has worked. I'd like it gone if it was possible because I don't like fluff I don't use installed, but it's no biggie. I think everything else about my much modified Win10-Pro looks the same, at least on the surface. >.>