Shane_B.

I think the middle 8 needs to be quantized.

I still have my XP slipstream disc I made with my legit serial number embedded on it. It's really easy to install XP with one of those plus it has all the last official updates that I'm aware of. I'm tempted to make a gaming rig just for those few games and install XP but I never seem to find the time. Plus the insane cost of video cards now. A lot of people are still playing these older Bethesda games online. There's a lot of Youtube and Twitch people modding them. Red Rocket TV on Twitch is really good. His graphics are excellent. He runs 100's of mods on F3, FNV, F4, and The Outer Worlds. I don't like TOW. I tried it once and it was too slow. It's made by Obsidian, the same company that did FNV for Bethesda and it was supposed to be like a FNV 2 but it was too linear imo.

Thanks! I'm in to the Fallout series from 3 on and Skyrim but that's it. I was told I can run them in 1080p HD at 60fps smooth as glass with a 1060 video card with 16Gb ram. Good luck finding one though. ?I looked for months if you recall the thread and I never could find one, and when I did it was a scam. Took me weeks to get my money back from eBay. I see they just remastered and re-released Quake. You can play it online again even on consoles. I don't even want to get sucked in to that scene again. It consumed my life way back in the day. Hah. It still doesn't look as good as GLQuake though if you remember that port. I made a custom bootable DVD a long time ago with all the editors, GLQuake, various scripts, and all the official add-on's with original CD soundtracks (compressed). Plus it had Quake II and all the official add-on's for it as well. You can play it from the disc or copy it to your drive and customize it more. It won't work on Windows 7 or 10 but it fires right up on XP. I can't bring myself to throw it out even though I don't have an XP machine any more.

Thanks! The TV detects that it's connected to a PC and it automatically turns all of those settings off and locks them so I can't turn them on. It did allow me to go in and turn Gaming Mode on but it made no difference other than allow me to adjust the blue light eye strain settings. When I turned on Gaming Mode it said I was getting 30fps but I also don't have a video card. I'm using the CPU/HDMI port on my DAW. One thing that did help a lot is I started using a mouse pad. I have an optical mouse and normally just use it directly on my dark tabletop. I just tried a mousepad and it did help a lot so that was part of it. I'm really happy with the performance for my needs. I don't know how it would work as a true gaming monitor but I suspect it would be fine if I had a decent video card. ?? There is only a couple games I am interested in these days anyway and I don't have time to spend on them until the winter months when I can't go outside.

? I just checked and I spelled it wrong. Actually it's both ways but the traditional way is Shoo-fly. I also see some people make it in a cast iron skillet which I forgot about. My mom cooked a lot in cast iron skillets. You just can't fry scrapple any other way than in cast iron. What's scrapple you ask? It's all the stuff leftover from a hog once it's butchered. It's ground up in to a gray paste. Grizzle hair and all. You fry it in lard or butter. Best served with breakfast smothered in molasses. Those Germans sure knew how to eat I tell ya. This pic is a real Shoo-fly pie. The crispy bottom must be due to the iron skillet.

LOL! No, I was fully clothed. I was still working on the bathroom at that point. You can see the shims under the toilet where I was working on it. It wasn't done yet. That was one of my old fat guy shirts I wore. To give you an idea it was a 5X tall. I lost all that weight but kept some of my old T shirts to work in. It took me a while to get used to it too but there is a lock on the door and the skylight has blinds on it. That really freaks you out when you're in the shower and you can see the sky. I don't know why they put so many skylights in this house. There are 8 of them. I hate them but it's a fortune to have them removed and the ceiling and roof redone to cover the opening. It's an older fixer upper house we bought 9 years ago. I'm redoing the last room of the house now. I'd love to post pics but it kind of goes against the TOS. Not really music related. It's been my full time job since we moved here. It's taking a lot longer than planned due to illness and an accident, but I'm almost done and I'm back to almost 100% now so it's all good. ?? Edit: I forgot to mention that I put an LED light show in there also. It's really cool at night. There was a ledge on the wall where they had adjustable can lights. I removed them and it was the perfect place to hide a strip of LED lights. Maybe one day I'll take a chance and start a thread with video and pics of all I've done. Maybe record a song and put to the video so it's in line with the "TOS".

I've always had a transparent liner that goes on the inside (to prevent water getting out during showering) with an opaque curtain on the outside. That said, not all shower curtains are made equally! ? Here's my shower. I can set up a live cam some night if you'd like. ? I stripped this room down to the wall studs and did everything you see myself except for the shower doors and the ceiling texture. It took me two years to finish but I was in an accident before it was done so it took longer than it should have. The company wouldn't sell the glass to me, they had to install them. The guy said in 25 years of business he's never seen a wall so true. The opening where all the glass went in was less than 1/8 of an inch out of square. My reply to him was, it's all my fault. I made the mistake of giving my wife who is an obsessive compulsive engineer a laser level for Christmas. Worse thing I ever did. Never, ever give an engineer a laser level. OMG!

Yeah. Then he'll claim that pork chops, ham, and bacon all come from one magical beast.

I can understand how it could be seen that way. Over here it means it's a big part of our heritage I guess is a good way to put it. If I had to guess I'd say it probably started with John Chapman (Johnny Appleseed) from the 1700's. Nothing to really speak of came from here until well after the country was established. The Shoefly pie I mentioned is an old German recipe.

So I went to Sam's Club and they have these TV's on sale now. $60 bucks off. I kept wondering why they were on clearance because the sign said "New for 2021". Then it dawned on me, holy shit, it's almost 2022. ? I asked the very nice lady if I could get a price match refund. It had been 30 days and she said they only did that for 14 days. I laid on the ol' Bub charm and had her laughing and she finally said ok. So I got $60 bucks back plus I grabbed another one. They only had 2 left. These are incredible TV's for the price. We are putting the one I'm using now in our bedroom when I'm finished remodeling it and then I'll use the second one for a PC monitor. It's a little sluggish when I use it as a monitor but I can live with it. I know it would be fine if I had an actual video card. Using Studio One is a pleasure on this huge screen at 4K. I was always ticked that I couldn't make the track screen expand enough to make a single track full screen but I discovered if you double click them and pull them up in the Editor, you can then make them full screen. ??

You should have said something, I would have shipped you a pumpkin and you could have made a fresh pie. It was pretty easy actually. Cut the pumpkins in half, bake for an hour and let cool. You need two cups, 2 eggs, some sugar, a few spices, and that's it. I saved the seeds and roasted them. They were really good too. Sam's Club has a great bakery department. I would imagine Costco does too since they are very similar type stores. I have to avoid that entire section of the store when I go to Sam's. Believe it or not Sam's has really good Sushi too.

Great. They double screwed me. ?

Ya know ... I don't know.

They stopped doing that, at least with the defective $2000 dollar guitar they sent me. LOL

Sweetwater was bought out and things seem to be changing already. I just had a really bad experience with them and that's why I'm a bit leery of this. I bought a Fender modeling guitar from the a few months ago. They did go the extra mile for me. They let me return some very expensive software that was over a year old that never worked and I couldn't get any tech support from the seller. But, they never did the "55 Point Inspection" and sent me a broken guitar. I live out in the country and can't sign for packages most of the time. They had very clear instructions to deliver without a signature. They screwed it up twice. So basically a guitar showed up here 3 times. Once broken, and twice the delivery guy turned around and left with it according to my Ring camera because I wasn't here to sign after they reassured me twice I wouldn't have to sign. I had enough and told them to just cancel the order but they did let me keep the refund for the software that never worked. I felt really bad for the sales guy but in the end it was their fault. I'm right handed but play guitar left handed and it's incredibly hard to find good left handed guitars. This one was a special guitar that is really hard to get lefty. I even wrote to Fender bitching that they didn't make a lefty and about a year later they came out with one. I saved for a couple years and sold some stuff to get it and then that happened. I couldn't believe it. So yeah, I've had some bad luck with them.

Melda is selling their vst's through Sweetwater now. I don't know if that's a good or bad sign.

Ya know, I've never been a fan of apple pie. How un-American of me. ? My mom could bake and cook. OMG. Her and my dad managed and owned 2 restaurants from the mid 60's to around 78. But I could never gag down hers or anyone's apple pie. For Christmas my wife makes a great pecan pie. I guess my favorite's are now pumpkin pie made from fresh pumpkin's and my moms shoefly pie (aka molasses pie) and my wife's pecan pie 3rd. I've tried to duplicate my moms shoefly pie's but I can't. She's been gone since 98 so I can't ask for advice. I don't know how she kept the bottom crust flaky, the center chewy, and the top crunchy with the sugary crumble. She made her own crust rather than use frozen ones from the store so I'm guessing that had everything to do with it. Anyway, the pie is gone. It only lasted 2 days. I can feel myself bloating up already. I never eat this kind of stuff anymore except on Thanksgiving and Christmas day. I'm kind of slipping here. It astounds me how I can gain 5lb's in 2 days and it takes 30 days to lose 2lb's. ?

I find the candles give that extra smooth texture.

Oh. Believe me. There was whipped cream involved. I keep a stash in the freezer for such emergencies, I was waiting for it to thaw.

Well gee, when you have a DAW that could power 3 nuclear submarines who needs to freeze anything. ?

You know Kenny's had his finger on the Submit Reply button for like 3 days now. Come on Kenny. Get the hell back here! ?

Well this is truly a thread that could never die.

LOFL

I'd try that and smash out my windshield. Hold my nearbeer ...