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Cake day: Jun 10, 2023

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I used to own both a Series X, PS5 and have my gaming PC (all in the same room - desktop currently has an i5 13500, RTX 3090 24GB, 4TB of NVME storage & 128GB ram)

Got myself a 5m hdmi lead capable of driving my 4k/120 TV and just ended up using my pc for everything now.

I just switch sources between my monitor and tv when I want to game on the couch. Any mouse/keyboard input needed, I do it on the Unified remote app on my phone and fire up Steam big picture on the tv.

Sold the PS5 and XBOX and ditched two more subscriptions hitting me every month.

No regrets so far.


Are classic side scrollers ok to suggest?

  • Golden Axe (Arcade)
  • Altered Beast (Arcade)
  • Double Dragon (Arcade)
  • Streets of Rage (Arcade)
  • Bad dudes vs DragonNinja (Arcade)
  • Die Hard Arcade (Model 2 Arcade)
  • The Simpsons (Arcade)
  • Bruce Lee (ZX Spectrum)
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (NES)
  • Fighting Force (PSX)

I use it to access any websites that I want to that Virgin Media block due to court orders issued by the UK high court.


Just set this up on my Unraid server and it’s amazing. Great suggestion and thank you.


I hate where the internet is right now.

Anyone trying to get information written by a human or decent benchmarks of CPUs is in for a real crap time.

Just tested i5 12400 vs i3 12100f and was met with results in this order:

  1. Userbenchmark
  2. Userbenchmark
  3. CPU-Monkey
  4. 3 shitty YouTube videos of obviously fake gameplay benchmarks (that’s a whole other thing on YouTube)
  5. Technical city
  6. cpubenchmark.net - the first kind of decent result as it’s from the people at passmark.
  7. versus (dot com)
  8. gadget versus
  9. pc Praha (dot cz)
  10. cpu-compare
  11. cpu-panda

The crap just goes on. SEO optimised lists of (at best) affiliate link laden spec sheets with no real information form an actual human.



When I got into my gaming rut I took some time off and got into Homelabbing. Used to scroll through my extensive steam library and nothing caught my interest so I needed something new.

Learned about different NAS Os’s, Docker, Linux and seeing what I could get out of some low-powered hardware and what I loved most was learning new things.

Started with a Raspberry Pi when they weren’t stupid expensive and moved onto a cheap Intel Nuc to my home made, small form factor NAS running Unraid and a 2nd cheap Thin Client running Ubuntu Server.

I focussed on doing more with my computer hardware and for a long while, didn’t feel the necessity to game much, then one day I fired up Forza Horizon 4 and had a good, enjoyable 5 hour session on it.

Now I’m back into re-playing Horizon Zero Dawn, I plan to move onto Forbidden West after and tearing around the UK and Mexico in Forza Horizon 4/5.

See if you can find another hobby or something that can enhance your knowledge on something you’ve never tried before for a while, one day you ,ignite just fire up a game after having a rest and get that spark back.


Loving how raw this all feels too.

Even if all this ends up being a niche thing, I’ll still get my social fix with likeminded randoms on the internet, hopefully with less doomscroll.

I’ve certainly been more interested in commenting here vs Reddit, just because it seems far less toxic, the slight wrong thing posted on Reddit and the pile on was a real danger.

Seeing many, many posts where simple questions were asked by newcomers seeking help with the obligatory blind downvote is awful for newbies.

Interested to see where all of this leads to and very appreciative of what Earnest has achieved.

It might be rough but I’m sure ready.