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Forum Community / Monthly Update Nov 25: Steampu...

Last post by The Machine - Nov 30, 2025, 08:00 PM

Ahoy, gear-grinders and valve-turners! It's your espresso era-blender, The Machine, whirring to life with a steampunk shot of the latest forum ferment. Picture this: brass cogs churning through the misty vapors of VizionEck, distilling the essence of your chattiest escapades into a potent elixir of updates. Time for the monthly brew—pipette in hand, let's pour!

The grandest thread to erupt from the steam vents this past month? None other than New Steam Hardware, belching forth 15 replies like a locomotive at full throttle. This piston-pumping prowess earns the-Pi-guy a gleaming ticket in the monthly raffle—may it propel you to victory!

And the crowd-pleaser, the one drawing eyes like moths to a gaslamp? It's the same brass-bound beast: New Steam Hardware with a whopping 1370 views. For this spectacle of spectators, the-Pi-guy snags an extra ticket—double the boiler pressure, double the raffle luck!

As for the post that sparked the most affectionate sparks? Behold Re: New Steam Hardware, racking up 2 likes like polished medals on a inventor's vest. Kitler53, you've forged a winner—claim your raffle ticket and let the gears of fortune turn!

For a splash of whimsical whistle-stops, here's some bonus boiler-room banter: The top chatterbox of the month, Legend, hammered out 115 posts—enough to fuel a zeppelin across the skies! And as thread-weaver extraordinaire, Legend also spun 14 fresh topics, weaving the web of discourse like a master clockmaker.

I'll stoke the engines and return next month with another frothy update—keep those valves open and the conversations hissing! What's brewing in your contraptions?

#12

Off-Topic Community / Re: Movie Thread

Last post by the-pi-guy - Nov 30, 2025, 05:27 AM

But the theaters will be empty!

Nah, the theaters will be full. 

But no one will be talking about it after they leave. Except for how full the theaters were. 

/Jk

#13

Off-Topic Community / Re: EV recommendations?

Last post by Legend - Nov 30, 2025, 12:10 AM

they don't really meet my "affordable" criteria.  I could buy the ioniq 5 twice for the same cost as a lucid or rivian. 

Yeah I can't really help you from that point of view. I've just heard that a lot of traditional car companies have half assed their ev offerings.

#14

Off-Topic Community / Re: EV recommendations?

Last post by kitler53 - Nov 29, 2025, 10:04 PM

I tend to like 100% ev companies, like lucid and rivian.

they don't really meet my "affordable" criteria.   I could buy the ioniq 5 twice for the same cost as a lucid or rivian.  

#15

Gaming Community / Re: Metroid Prime 4 OT: guess ...

Last post by Legend - Nov 29, 2025, 09:44 PM

for how bad the games looks this is probably the range it deserves.  but it's a Nintendo game so you should increase the range by +5 to account for Nintendo bias.

I just looked it up and despite being terrible prime 3 got 90.

Metroid other m got 79, so there is hope!

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Off-Topic Community / Re: EV recommendations?

Last post by Legend - Nov 29, 2025, 06:01 PM

I tend to like 100% ev companies, like lucid and rivian.

#17

Off-Topic Community / EV recommendations?

Last post by kitler53 - Nov 29, 2025, 05:31 PM

Not sure you guys are the best source for a recommendation but there is so much Elon Tesla discussion here I figured I'd ask.  I think you (Legend) cares more about self driving than EV but.. 


... my beater car needs about $5k in work and my wife wants to get rid of it to get an EV.  our criteria are:
- affordable 
- full EV not hybrid
- not Tesla

right now my wife is highly interested in the Hyundai ioniq 5.  we test drove it yesterday and it seems fine.  I told my wife we need to at least look at other options.  the Chevy equinox seems like a viable option to me. kia is also on a lot of recommendations list but it it's noticably more expensive without being any better as far as I can tell. 

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Gaming Community / Re: Metroid Prime 4 OT: guess ...

Last post by kitler53 - Nov 29, 2025, 05:20 PM

87
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79

for how bad the games looks this is probably the range it deserves.  but it's a Nintendo game so you should increase the range by +5 to account for Nintendo bias. 

I just looked it up and despite being terrible prime 3 got 90. 

#19

Off-Topic Community / Re: AI General Thread

Last post by Legend - Nov 29, 2025, 05:33 AM

Well I only have 12gb vram so the full version better not be too full 

#20

Off-Topic Community / Re: AI General Thread

Last post by the-pi-guy - Nov 29, 2025, 05:08 AM

I tried it for myself after my last post.

I feel like image quality is pretty good, but I am seeing some limitations in terms of what it is actually generating.

From what I understand this is a distilled version and the full version is coming out soon.

Hoping it'll be better.