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Garry’s Mod

It’s hard to think of any one mod that got remotely close to changing a game the way GMod did for HL2/CS:S/source engine titles. I spent thousands of hours in GMod as a kid, it added infinite teplaya ility to the HL2 campaign, forums like Facepunch and PHWOnline became my second home. There was a ton of content to be loaded from there and FPSBanana, the thriving webcomic scene was truly special.

Absolutely love Shift 2. I feel like it really captured the intensity of Battlefield 3, but transposed to the Racing genre.

Recently revisited it on the Steam Deck and was worried that it wasn’t going to be as good as I remembered, and I’m pleased to say that it has remained every bit as amazing as it was.

Also makes me wonder what the hell simcade games have been doing the last 14 years. Nothing else really matches the sensation of speed and intensity that Shift 2 has. It’s also weird to me that the reactive helmet cam is not a staple in every single racing game.

A tip with wide surface area is good for quick transfer of heat to the piece. It avoids the situation where you’re sitting there with the iron in prolonged contact while the temperature of surrounding areas / adhesives steadily increases while the solder doesn’t wet.

Low melt can be helpful, I recommend against using it for anything where a mechanical mount is needed (HDMI, DC Jacks, USB Receptacles, etc) or for high temperature applications (e.g automotive) Once the bismuth is bound to a pad it’s almost impossible to get off without sanding/grinding, it permanently reduces the melting point in that area and increases the chance of losing that mechanical bond.

In case it wasn’t clear, the advice I outlined is to prevent burning the pad off in the first place. Once you’ve damaged pads / traces / vias you’re in restoration / workaround territory.

First, preheating the work area is important to prevent thermal energy from being soaked away. Board preheaters are helpful for thick boards (GPUs, PS5, etc). You can use a hot air station if you have one, or even a heat gun if you’re very careful and keep your distance.

Electronics are assembled with lead-free solder, which has a higher melting point. Add in some leaded solder and you’ll have a much easier time.

Get yourself a chisel tip or knife point. The wider surface area you can put in contact with the piece will transfer heat more effectively.

Man, that really sucks. the art direction in each of the games he worked on was unlike anything else out there. He really brought something special to those projects.

A few things stand out to me in your screenshot.

It lists the GPU as consuming 0W, which is likely not true. Based on that, the power / current limit reason is probably inaccurate

Your temperatures are both well below TJ Max for those components, so I don’t see the Temp limit reason as valid either.

Your GPU utilization is at around 50%, but I also see your framerate at an even 144 - I would surmise that you have vsync enabled.

For those who don’t know about it, my preferred way to play Timesplitters 2 has become the TS2 Redux project in conjunction with the version of the game that was hidden away in Homefront 2

Really? Duckstation is already so easy though.

Maybe you ought to try EmuDeck.

Sex is not owed and, between romantic partners, is usually not transactional. Either partner should be free to turn it down for any reason whatsoever. Pressuring someone isn’t cool, guilting someone into it is manipulative. I can’t even imagine following through on doing it with someone who wasn’t into it from the start, that’s a total turn off for me and I would feel disgusting afterwards.

“marital duties”

Ew. Talk about inciting “the ick”.

[…] asked how I would react if he just stopped paying the mortgage because he was “too tired.”

It was wildly inappropriate to bring this up at all. Personally, I see this as a huge red flag for manipulative behavior. I probably would have answered by saying that everybody gets down and needs help from time to time, and that in that situation I would find a way to be financially supportive through that difficult time. Followed by asking what the fuck that has to do with sex.

Your husband presumably has hands. If he needs something with a different texture, there are plenty of products on the market for that.

Making sex into an obligation/chore/work is a great way to sap the fun out of it and fasttrack to a dead bedroom.

Soldering the connector is very low risk. No need to worry about heat from an iron. In manufacturing, modern PCBs have their lead-free solder flowed in an oven at temperatures in excess of 220 C.

Reconnecting or accessing the files using just office supplies is possible provided there is access to a fine-point soldering iron or the means to DIY one. In this situation, I’m thinking of office supplies as “things you might find in an office” - not just rubber band, paperclip, eraser, pocket lint.

I’ve cut USB cables and soldered the 5V, D+, D-, and GND wires to corresponding pads on the flash drive to recover data plenty of times.

When a connector is torn or snapped off, it is not uncommon for those pads to be lifted and even for some of the traces to get peeled off the board. 5V and GND are usually pretty big, but the traces for the data lines are often hair thin.

In those cases, someone in the scenario you describe would need to attach the wires to another point that those traces origin connected to, or they might need to scrape away some if the mask (green layer) to expose a contact point to solder to.

Worth mentioning that those four contacts make a USB 2.0 (500Mbps) connections. For USB 3 (5Gbps) there are 5 more contacts, for a total of 9.

USB Type C has 20 contacts and will require a microscope to work with.

Since the USB standards are backwards compatible, you could still recover data from a USB-C device by recreating just the four USB 2.0 contacts - albeit slowly.

I’m inclined to suspect your AIO’s pump is intermittently not working.

Consider a high end air cooler to get comparable performance with less complexity, at the expense of cosmetics (depending on personal preference)

They are definitely faster than running in both games.

It is true that, in Oblivion, you could level up Athletics and Acrobatics to become faster than the horses.