Vent Thread

@Terminal Red  
Don’t. Wait for the next gen after 2080 if you are actually able.  
The 2080 is a proof of concept. It delivers decently on raster; delivers very well (obviously, by design) on RTX [Raytracing] but the generation after it should actually take the reviews and opinions and deliver a consumer product.

@Luzion  
VR is a mixed game. 980ti delivered at a reasonable pace. It was improved by turning the monitor off. (I know, weird but true. You will gain about 10-20 fps, critical in VR)  
Vivecraft, for example, is extremely CPU dependent. On my 2080ti it is difficult to push the rendering distance, let alone custom textures and shaders on my ancient i7 920 processor.  
In the meantime, I can throw Doom at the i7 920 and 2080, it’ll eat it (with a lengthy load) and render at 4k 60fps with no issues.

@Crazieman  
Yeah, definitely gonna wait. Gotta update my i6700k cpu as well and that means a new motherboard to go with it.
 
I’d like to squeeze a few more years out of my current set up because I spent a lot on it in 2016.

@Terminal Red  
HAH! I hear you, my baby was built in 2009 and carefully overclocked, pushed, and upgraded since.  
I can’t get anything else out of it.

@Crazieman  
Your current setup is 11 years old? That poor computer must feel like Tom Hanks at the end of the Green mile. Poor fella just wants to die.
 
I reckon you’ve got your money’s worth out of your RIG.

I believe my rig was built in mid-early 2011. My dad believes it’s was built with of his workplace computers motherboard.

Insomnia.

@Zaknel  
I know how that feels. I’ve been up since 2 this afternoon.

At this point I’m just waiting for someone to sue Microsoft over the forced obsolescence “updates” and constant dicking with people’s privacy settings & installation of unwanted software.

@Officer Hotpants  
I can’t agree more with that. They even forced download edge on my computer.

@Officer Hotpants  
Why does it feel like they also remove features and menu items with each update?

@DvneT  
Probably because they do.

@Officer Hotpants  
“Well it looks like these 4 things don’t work anymore, despite their actual usefulness, but hey, we’re adding 4 new things in this update, so it kind of evens out, right?”

Boy do I dislike sites ask me to disable AD-block.

@coolmaster43232  
http://archive.ph/  
Archive it and bypass the stupidity. Archive EVERYTHING. Don’t give them a single red cent of ad revenue.

@coolmaster43232  
Same here. I don’t go on sites to look at ads. I go on sites to read stuff, chat on forums such as this one, or any of the other myriad things the Internet has been useful for since it was first invented.
 
Some ads even advertise things I do not care for, too. So that’s yet another reason I use Adblock.

@VioletBasilisk  
I’m fine with them until they either become obnoxious (12 ads on the sidebar and stuffed into the middle of the page with more linked to random phrases in the text) or dangerous (malware & redirects (usually to malware)).

@Officer Hotpants  
Unbearable to read certain news sites on my phone because I end up getting a window smaller than a postage stamp to read the article under the damned ads.

@JCV  
I especially love when I have a technical issue and the thing that I need ISN’T THERE ANYMORE

@VioletBasilisk  
I do too I always use Ad-block expect on YouTube since wanted too support the creators. Since some of those ads could contain virus in them even if the look legit. I even know a You-tuber that says you should never disable AD-block.
 
@Officer Hotpants  
Yeah website with those types Ads are the worse.

I wonder how other DB refugees would feel about me returning after 2 years.

@NotYourAverageLurker  
Just fine.

@Zaknel  
I know you’re one of the refugees lol. God knows how many more tho.

@NotYourAverageLurker  
I left Derpibooru ages ago.
 
Trust me, they have been like this for ages.

Personally I practically never touched the community of the site and never knew how screwed things got. Watching people dig in to staff history and pull up posts showing quite frankly frightening stuff (Threads to dox/ruin peoples lives by people who have access to private information as staff) and such was something else though.
 
Honestly at that very moment I realized I won’t be able to continue using the site in any real capacity at all, even if I did want to get involved in the community and if things started to improve.