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Harshaw said:
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Aren't these the same people that celebrate gay men showing their weiners during pride?

Aren't these the people that celebrate prostitution and OnlyFans as a part of women empowerment?

Now they 180 when they don't like something?
 
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INTHEMIDSTOFLIONS

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My current setup:

Lenovo Legion Go
Xbox Series X
Aoostar EGPU w/ 800w psu
HDMI 2.1 Anker cables into a HP Omen 165 hz IPS monitor

I probably sound like a broken record, but need some advice.

Through Amazon's scammer fuckup, Amazon.com is willing to sell me specifically a 9070 XT 16 GB for $530. I would go with this, but Ive read horror stories with the Lenovo Legion Go and AMD cards, that the Z1X igpu drivers constantly fuck with the AMD eGPU drivers.

However. I am looking at my buddy's old gaming pc earlier today to make an offer either on the computer as a whole, or just the gpu. He doesnt know what the gpu is, he doesnt reallyk now anything about building pcs or stats, he's a PS5 player that never touches his old pre-built gaming pc.

Are there any things I need to look out on the MOBO for this current generation of gpus? I want to makesure if I buy his old computer that is compatible with a 2025 AMD GPU. If I buy his old computer, Im wondering if I will be able to swap out the GPU for the 9070 XT 16 GB, maybe update the SSD and the RAM, update the drivers, then call it a day.

I'm mostly likely assuming his set up is a basic ass entry-level gaming pc from Costco from 2019.
 
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INTHEMIDSTOFLIONS said:
My current setup:

Lenovo Legion Go
Xbox Series X
Aoostar EGPU w/ 800w psu
HDMI 2.1 Anker cables into a HP Omen 165 hz IPS monitor

I probably sound like a broken record, but need some advice.

Through Amazon's scammer fuckup, Amazon.com is willing to sell me specifically a 9070 XT 16 GB for $530. I would go with this, but Ive read horror stories with the Lenovo Legion Go and AMD cards, that the Z1X igpu drivers constantly fuck with the AMD eGPU drivers.

However. I am looking at my buddy's old gaming pc earlier today to make an offer either on the computer as a whole, or just the gpu. He doesnt know what the gpu is, he doesnt reallyk now anything about building pcs or stats, he's a PS5 player that never touches his old pre-built gaming pc.

Are there any things I need to look out on the MOBO for this current generation of gpus? I want to makesure if I buy his old computer that is compatible with a 2025 AMD GPU. If I buy his old computer, Im wondering if I will be able to swap out the GPU for the 9070 XT 16 GB, maybe update the SSD and the RAM, update the drivers, then call it a day.

I'm mostly likely assuming his set up is a basic ass entry-level gaming pc from Costco from 2019.
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This might be a better spot on the forums to get the feedback you're looking for: Desktop Computers
 
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Borzak

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When I was very young and arcade games were a big thing and not many of them around the dentist I went to had a pacman game, one of those where it was a flat table and two people faced each other. It probably made great bank for the dentist while all the kids waited to see the dentist.

He specialized in kids and i was a perfect fit.
 
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Another old game that I blew like 50 bucks on in a weekend. I was dragged on a medical convention with my parents to, Florida if I remember right, at some golf resort. Basically there was shit for me to do as a kid, but they had an arcade with this being the "best" game that I was addicted to. I basically spent like 3 days playing the thing lol.

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I can't be the only one who spent a fortune playing this game.

There was a cabinet at the 7-Eleven on the corner a couple blocks from my house. As a kid, I can remember spending entire Saturday's there playing Gunsmoke.

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Borzak said:
When I was very young and arcade games were a big thing and not many of them around the dentist I went to had a pacman game, one of those where it was a flat table and two people faced each other. It probably made great bank for the dentist while all the kids waited to see the dentist.

He specialized in kids and i was a perfect fit.
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Reminds me of how my old orthodontist back when I was a kid used to have Game Boy Colors and a bunch of GB games at their office for kids to play while we were waiting. That was back when playing those games was still a big deal. Made it fun to visit a place I would have otherwise found unpleasant.
 
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Those were fantastic, probably some of the best arcade games ever made
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I have fond memories but let's not get too crazy, even just within the side-scrolling beat em up genre the two Dungeons and Dragons games were barely better than middle of the pack. Right off the top of my head I'd place TMNT 2, Simpsons, and X-Men above them. I was never big into fighting games but I went pretty wild for shooters, especially once I had the idea to pay for both sides and work both guns at once. Working both sides of a pedal shooter like Time Crisis 4 where I not only have to process two pedals and two sets of special weapons but sometimes two completely different screens was intense but memorable.
 
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Borzak said:
When I was very young and arcade games were a big thing and not many of them around the dentist I went to had a pacman game, one of those where it was a flat table and two people faced each other. It probably made great bank for the dentist while all the kids waited to see the dentist.

He specialized in kids and i was a perfect fit.
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Mine also had flat table Tron. As his clientele grew older he converted one of the side offices to a teen room with consoles and music. He was an awesome dentist.
 
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Gavinmad said:
Tower of Doom and the follow-up Shadow over Mystara. They're on Steam together as Chronicles of Mystara.



and yes they are straight up unapologetic quarter eaters. IIRC they at least had the courtesy to make the ancient red dragon an optional boss in Tower of Doom but then brought back more or less the same fight but made it mandatory in Shadow over Mystara.
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Dr.Retarded

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Grabbit Allworth said:
I can't be the only one who spent a fortune playing this game.

There was a cabinet at the 7-Eleven on the corner a couple blocks from my house. As a kid, I can remember spending entire Saturday's there playing Gunsmoke.

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Our 7/11 had Double Dragon and the Ecards next door had that sci-fi tank game, forgot what it was called, but it had the two sticks for manuevering.
 
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Dr.Retarded

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Gavinmad said:
I have fond memories but let's not get too crazy, even just within the side-scrolling beat em up genre the two Dungeons and Dragons games were barely better than middle of the pack. Right off the top of my head I'd place TMNT 2, Simpsons, and X-Men above them. I was never big into fighting games but I went pretty wild for shooters, especially once I had the idea to pay for both sides and work both guns at once. Working both sides of a pedal shooter like Time Crisis 4 where I not only have to process two pedals and two sets of special weapons but sometimes two completely different screens was intense but memorable.
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Think it is more nostalgia for me. We just used to go and hangout at the mall on the weekends or summer, hit up Babbages, then grab McDonald's or Chick-fil-A at the food court and then hit the arcade. Think we liked the DND games because we were playing campaigns at the time and there were normally 3 or 4 of us together, so everyone could play it.

The Time Crisis games were badass though.
 
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I really liked the Area 51 light gun shooter. It had all sorts of secret levels you could get to if you shot out enough barrels and windows.
 
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I would enjoy a light gun shooter that wasn’t designed to eat quarters, but as it stood I quickly began to hate all of them. Dying for no reason is fucking dumb.
 
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Penance said:
I really liked the Area 51 light gun shooter. It had all sorts of secret levels you could get to if you shot out enough barrels and windows.
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My brother and I would play the shit out of this one if we found it at an arcade. I was also addicted to Virtual-On, which was a mech fighter game.
 
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