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@Luzion  
Heh. I’ve been playing about a used system that’s about 10-12 years old system (the sticker on the side advertised it coming with Windows 7 as a major feature). Up until now, however, about the most advanced game I could run was Dragon’s Dogma, and I had to keep a shop fan on the system or else it would overheat running it. Man, does it feel good to stick my hand behind the tower and feel COOL AIR rather than a borderline air dryer.
 
 
@Havoc  
–Thermaltake View 71 TG four-sided tempered glass full tower.
 
–AMD Ryzen 7 3700x processor.  
-8 core, 16 thread.  
-3.6ghz base, 4.4ghz max boost.
 
–AMD XFX Radeon RX 5700 XT Thicc III Ultra (I swear to god it’s really named “thicc”).  
-8GB GDDR6  
-4.0 PICe  
-Somehow I lucked out and got the gold foil’d limited edition version. Must have been a mistake at the warehouse.
 
–2x Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro RAM sticks  
-8gb (each)  
-DDR4  
-3200mhz
 
TUF B550-Plus Gaming Motherboard  
-4xDIMM  
-128gb  
-DDR4
 
–900w power supply  
-under/over voltage protection  
-135mm LED fan.
 
–4 extra 120x120x25mm LED fans
 

 
I just keep staring at it. Watching the RAM change colors like there’s a liquid rainbow flowing through it. Sticking my hand behind it and enjoying the feel of cool air rather than weak dragon’s breath. Watching the CPU fan spin. Just need to get used to the activity light being red instead of yellow. I keep noticing it out of the corner of my eye and thinking something’s wrong.

@Officer Hotpants  
Welcome to the club. Join me on Warframe or something IDK.  
Also, Specs?

@Jomok0  
Yeah I’ve seen that. The guy I’m watching playing it is a veteran Paper Mario player some the puzzles have confused him.

Welcome to the master race  

I just spent the day putting together a brand new PC with a friend. It’s… it’s beautiful. And fucking gargantuan. And heavy enough to keep the house on the ground the next time a hurricane comes through. It’s been some 16 years since I bought a new PC, and even then it wasn’t a gaming rig. And now I’m going to celebrate by playing something that’s been sitting in my library for over a year: DOOM 2016.
 
 
… tomorrow. Because the projected download time is “one day, six hours”.

@coolmaster43232  
I just got that and it’s a really great game. Mixing the puzzles with the turn based stuff seemed a bit gimmicky at first but it’s actually a really great combo and it’s satisfying to do them right when they actually throw a challenge at you. The puzzles stay a little too easy a little too long for my tastes, but it is Mario and it’s primary audience is like a decade younger than me, so what can ya do lol.
 
And yeah, the music is rad.

I’ve been watching someone playing Paper Mario: The Origami King and I have to say the Battle themes are a complete bops.

I meant Master Chief collection

Minecraft is awesome.

Been playing MCC with some friends lately. good fun.

@Azure Fang  
I see. Well, that’s a shame, considering there’s probably at least some stuff on there that’s gonna be lost forever then, although I guess understandable from their point of view.

@Jomok0  
First and foremost, looks like I need to correct myself. Kong is no longer owned by GameStop. As of 2017, they’re owned by Modern Times Group, a digital entertainment holdings group that owns multiple esports “brands”, including ESL and DreamHack, broadcasting companies in multiple European and Asian countries, multiple radio stations in same, and a satellite broadcasting company. Their purchase of Kongregate is about the time Kong started suddenly and rapidly expanding into mobile.
 
On July 1, 2020, it was announced that no further game submissions will be accepted, game chat rooms are shutting down, and social features are being disabled, and forum moderators were disbanded, while their focus as a site is now to “help indies develop for their new storefront Kartridge”; these changes are effectively complete as of August 7th. Existing games can still be played until Flash total EOL or until staff decide to pull the plug entirely, but staff are more interested in transitioning developers to the Kartridge storefront/launcher to sell premium games and have not given any information on later preservation of existing content; if you want anything from Kongregate, back it up as there’s no sign that any preservation attempts will be made.

@Azure Fang  
Newgrounds is mostly user submitted too lol. I was saying Newgrounds made a new player with the intention of keeping Flash content on their site functional in the future once Flash is gone. It’s possible Kongregate will do the same, or license Newgrounds’ player.

@Jomok0  
Kongregate never “made their own”. They are (were) a submission platform for other people to submit games. But rather than embracing HTML5 and moving to a WebUnity and HTML5 service like other platforms, they’re rebranding entirely.
 
@Azure Fang  
WebUnity and HTML5 are the forerunners. Current problems are lack of adoption, but it’s either those or nothing for now.

Isn’t HTML what’s basically replaced Flash for games and cartoons at this point?  
Newgrounds has made a player with the intention of keeping all their old flash stuff functional, dunno if sites like Kongregate will use that or make their own or just die off.

@Azure Fang  
I’m interested in seeing what will inevitably rise from the ashes when flash is gone. Because you know someone will create their own player to play them. Probably be better than Flash, too.

@Havoc  
I’ll just leave this here
 
That requirement out of the way, at least there are movements to preserve Flash history.

@Azure Fang  
The real ones to blame are the idiots who run Adobe.

@Officer Hotpants  
As hesitant as I am to agree with that shithole of a company (former employee, not gonna go into it in this thread), I cannot actually blame them. With the death of Flash, maintaining a monetized Flash platform isn’t a sound business choice. Not saying Kartridge is a smart move either - GameStop has been trying to get into the digital distribution market for closing on two decades - but it’s a smarter move than maintaining a dead platform.
 
Still, will be sad to see the loss of Kongregate. There are some good games there.

@Azure Fang  
God damn it. This is why we all agreed that Gamestop wasn’t allowed to buy our shit anymore.

@Officer Hotpants  
GameStop’s “rebranding” Kong. They stopped accepting submissions earlier this year and closed some features (game chatrooms, for one). Meanwhile, they’re pushing their new “Kartridge” launcher/storefront app. There are some expectations that the flash archive end of the site will shut down completely by the beginning of next year.

@Williver  
Nice. I’ve been putting together a new system, myself. How’s the game? I’m not much of a fighting game person but I’ve been meaning to get it for ages just to support the devs.

I upgraded my laptop’s RAM from 2GB to 4GB two days ago, visiting a small-business computer parts shop, and now my laptop can better handle Them’s Fightin’ Herds! I paid 40 bucks for it and I feel it was worth it for the convenient location of the store and to support a small business.
 
I bought Them’s Fightin’ Herds two years before but now I can play the game at decent framerate with 3D backgrounds and at a resolution where the text is readable.
 
Has anyone ever played that game? I’ve played a bit of the one story chapter that went up on April 30.

@Azure Fang  
Kon not doing so hot?

@Havoc  
Was an unlocked offline version of the final update of AI:TG ever made/found? The one I have is still 1.828, and the last version was 1.832; with Kongregate looking more and more like it’ll purge its archive in the foreseeable future, and Tukkun never making good on the re-dev, I’d really like to get the final version offline.