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Hadn't spotted this thread originally. My 2500k is still in the OP's Lian-Li case! Well, not his, but an identical one. I used to rotate alternate year upgrades between that and an earlier traditional beige case that went in a skip, finally, last year. Hated getting rid of it, but... all good...

Look, it's been a while, ok? The PC in question still has a [email protected] (with the original, faulty SATA controller motherboard!) but it still does what I ask, thanks to a 1070 upgrade a few years ago. However, I've been using a low end gaming laptop for a long time as my main machine, so the big...

I have always (ok, apart from FC2, obvs) enjoyed the Far Cry games. Ok, hang on... FC6 is awful too. But... apart from those two, I've always... ok, nearly always enjoyed Far Cry games. Craft upgrades, take over bases, rinse, repeat. Scratches my make-the-numbers-get-bigger itch nicely...

Sounds like you were touched deep inside. I'd drive my Chevy to the levy and drink whiskey and rye if I were you.

Top Gun: Maverick, on C4 catchup (but not for much longer). 10/10... 7 for the movie, 3 for the great music. I watch the start of quite a few movies, but I rarely finish them.... there are so many reasons to be disappointed these days. But I finished this one. A good old fashioned, cheesy...

I'm 60 and when I was a kid, twice a day brushing was definitely not a thing in our house. And buying chewy sweets to suck on the long walk home from school was. I have... <runs out of fingers> an increasingly expensive mouth.

Tonight's guitar-faff is sponsored by this thread... https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/threads/fallout-tv-series-being-developed-by-amazon.18892201/page-6 ...and this video!

They had me at "I don't want to set the world on fire...." However I reserve the right to be as unimpressed as I have been with the vast majority of promising TV in the last decade. Now, 'scuse me, I have to get back to the apocalyptic wastelands of Tony Soprano's fridge.

I have never been a fast learner... every bit of information I ever, temporarily, retained has had to be hammered in, one repetitive example at a time. And music theory is a long term failing of mine. I always start well, trying to grasp a few basics, a few scales, a few "this key contains these...

My "guitar jukebox" songbook now has an extra song in it! How could I not have this in the repertoire? Added next to The Locomotion & The Twist for assorted fill the dancefloor antics. Thanks for jogging my memory... takes a bit more jogging every year, sadly. Won't be long before I go to a...

For the last 14 months I had increasingly bad -- and limiting in non-guitar stuff -- left shoulder troubles. I've been through the full range of YouTube and Google diagnoses, but (eventually!) I think I've narrowed it down to practicing lazily while sat on the sofa... so my arm's spent much of...

Perfect prize in the Homaze Lottery.

I used to sneer at DJs like Wright. All that saccharine cheeriness, the silliness. But the older I got, the more he became part of the reliable "fabric" of life. I didn't listen very often, but I felt better for knowing he was there, if that makes sense. Then I started looking after my Mum as...

I am very far from a missile/radar expert, but the Ukrainians have proved themselves to be very resourceful, and I wonder if they're finding ways to use the Patriot's guidance/tracking capabilities with some unusual missiles, extending the range somehow. Or boosting the radar range and pushing...

While this thread's surfaced, I'll add to the fanboydom and say that before Christmas I finally caved in and forked out the grand total of £40 for a 7l, single tray, three year warranty, Tower Vortyx air fryer from Argos. It's a bit noisy, and a bit of an ugly black carbuncle in the kitchen...

I'm not a delivery driver, but I hate ringing doorbells where you can't hear that it's worked (ie like an "old fashioned one" near the door). You can stand a long time not knowing if there's been a sound where it's needed. And I wonder if delivery drivers are increasingly frustrated with remote...

I did sim racing, from its earliest forms (GPL!) through to iRacing, and for a very long time I thought the idiots who banged on about the very long tracks, specifically the Nordschleife, were totally deranged. But, I eventually learned, there's no racing challenge quite like the long tracks...

It's been a long time since I did any sim racing, but when I did, it was laps at the Nordschleife which drew me back as a challenge, time after time. Watching this almost gets me itching to turn on my 2500k box and see if it still works. The main problem won't be that increasingly ancient system...

I'm struggling with the concept of "fashionable socks". Socks come in three varieties... novelty (for muppets & lurking dustily at the back of sock drawers), ordinary plain, and thick-enough-to-wear-inside-your-walking-boots-without-giving-you-blisters. :D

I paid about £15 for a pack of five pairs about two years ago. Only one pair is left without holes, and they weren't socks I wore in constant rotation. I used to wear socks for years (with occasional washes, obvs!:D) but I'm not going to risk M&S again. I'll buy cheaper and not be too...