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Ok so here's the deal. Monitors are all about context. If you're coming from a 17" CRT then even a basic little 24" 1080p LCD will blow you away. I've slowly climbed the ladder going through this exact path, and am currently gaming on a 34" 1440p 100hz MSI curved jobbie which cost a pretty penny (£350, still fuck all in monitor terms tbh) but I absolutely love it. I've always said that no matter what you game on, no matter whether it's PC, console, or even a fucking calculator - you're always staring at your monitor, so get something good. Nothing more disappointing than seeing someone spend £1k+ on a fancy PC with a graphics card putting out a bajillion FPS on a monitor that looks like it belongs in a 90s post office. When it comes to gaming, the things you actually interact with are where you need to spend the most money. Controllers, keyboards, mice, monitor, headset, etc. These are the things you're in direct contact with every moment of every gaming session so make sure it's exactly what you want, and that you're happy with it. @phil bottle has pretty much reached the pinnacle of affordable stuff with his ROG monitor, going another step up from that is - and this is no exaggeration - an increase of about ten fold. Monitors are second only to GPUs when it comes to diminishing returns. The more you pay, the smaller the bells and whistles get. 4k is a waste of money. I've been in this game long enough to be able to tell you that 4k gaming on the ps5 won't be 4k. It'll be pre-rendered cut-scenes and any gameplay will either be massively reduced in quality, or it'll run at 5fps. It'll very likely chop down to 1080p, or 1440p if you're lucky. To reliably game in 4k on a PC, you're looking at double, or even triple the price of a PS5 for the graphics cards alone. And that's on the lower end of the scale. To get good FPS, you're looking at a pair of 2080 supers, which will cost you £1500, and then you need the rest of the hardware to feed them with enough juice and enough pixels to render. A good 4k gaming PC is easily north of £3k, and that's without monitor or peripherals. No console is coming close to that for a long, long time. For refresh rates, 1ms is wasted on consoles. Unless you intend to go all competitive and use a keyboard and mouse, that 1ms will be cancelled out by using a controller anyway. To benefit from such short refresh rates, you really want a PC with keyboard and mouse. That all being said... I have a 32" 1440p monitor at home, it's a bit of a beast, it's by no stretch of the imagination a high-end monitor but it's still fantastic, @Plumbers Crack games on exactly the same one, maybe he'll pop in and give us his thoughts. In fact, it's this exact model. If you want it, it's yours for the price of postage and a few beer tokens in the FGFGFGFGFGFGFG to help @GazzaGarratt Dad with the site maintenance costs. Let me know. If it's not your bag however and you just want something nice and new, then this is your daddy: https://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/msi-32-quad-hd-144hz-1ms-va-curved-freesync-gaming-monitor-2020-ps33155-at-aoebay-with-code-3529362

For you? No. For us? Yes. You need recording software.

Or you could've taken one for the team and solo'd it. It's the least you could do after your shenanigans.

I logged off during horde night so I assume it's passed.

@GazzaGarratt that's no longer my place, I've started camping on top of a shop which has zombie bears in it. Alex likes to come play with the bears now and then who then promptly give him the shredder treatment and he's usually got some nice goodies in his backpack so it's great. I'm a bit like that bloke with candy in a van except I'm a bloke hiding on the top of a shop with bears. I'm still hopelessly lost on what I'm meant to be doing, the crafting is good and all but I lack the arsed to apply myself to do the more complicated stuff so I pick up these superawesomemegacool recipes, learn them, look at the pretty pictures, then go kill more zombies with a club. I guess being chronically knackered all the time at the moment doesn't help this but whatevs. I'm just enjoying the survival aspect at the moment and learning the quickest ways to dispatch zeds. @tronic44 Rachel and I had a moment last night, all romantic by the fireplace whilst waiting out horde night. On a bridge. Above a massive hungry bear. We drank water, ate charred meat, we may have even sung a little ditty to the bear, I can't remember as I was constantly mesmerized by Rachel's stopsign on his back beautiful eyes. @Shucker Start off by following the basic steps which will appear in the top right of your screen when you first spawn in. The first one will be to create a bedroll, to do this you need 10x plant fibers, so just smash a load of plants to bits and you'll pick them up. Then press TAB to open your inventory, in the search bar on the left hand side, type in "bedroll" and then click on craft/create/make/whatever it says on the right hand side of the screen. Once it's crafted, open your inventory again and drag the bedroll to your hotbar at the bottom of the screen. Using your mouse wheel will scroll between all the items on your hotbar, left click will rotate the item in your hands, and right click will place it. Find a nice house / building / whatever to use as the start of a base and get as high up as possible. You effectively want to reduce the access to you by zombies, I found that a nice high building with only one staircase reaching the top was perfect, I then destroyed the staircase so nothing could climb up it and I use wooden frames to access it. Tbh your best bet is to hop on when we're on, the guys are very helpful as always, just stay away from @GazzaGarratt Leigh The Destroyer. Oh and Rachel collects chairs, it's considered very rude on our server to not bring him a chair when you meet up with him. Don't be that guy.

Same GPU as me. At 1440p I'm getting around 80-90fps. It's fun, come join us!

Couldn't hold the weight of his fat ass. It was also the funniest shit I've seen in ages. I'm enjoying it atm tbh. Need to chuck Rachel a few quid for the hosting bill but it's good fun.

So I've actually been rather keen to play a bit more. The Septicfalcon server is ok but it's dead as a doornail, there's no threat or HOLY FUCK moments, nor is there any night cycle. If anything, the only danger in the game is starvation and thirst, both of which seem to be turned up a bit whilst the food / drink spawns are turned down to nothing. My problem is, I like the KOS stuff. I like the threat of seeing other people in the distance and the adrenaline winding me the fuck up. I have no interest in role play, it just removes the biggest and most exciting aspects of DayZ. I'll find a different server and post it up. When I'm online I'll pop a message in the whatsapp group indicating that I'm online, if you lot want to stop playing My Little Pony for a bit and come be ruthless murder machines instead, you will know where to find me 😄

Probably should've tagged us in that one then huh 😂

Rammstein making a bit of a resurgence in my Spotify again

Yes, that's right! Fuck we're going back to before I even showed up on the scene!

It was Alliance and T2K, these were the only two and FPSHQ was the forum they posted on. There was also Blood4Blood iirc, @BO7H B4RRELS used to be in that I think?

That is fucking lovely. The fact it's all in an In-Win case just makes it even better. Post up some photos of the whole case!

I'm really impressed with that little Stonic, it's a fantastic little car. We were looking at X-Ceeds a while ago and I ended up having a mooch around the showroom and honestly Kia make great cars, as do Hyundai. I remember the days when driving either of these marques was basically self-admission that you've failed at life. It's awesome how far they've come!

HZD right off the bat, Destiny (shut it Leigh), Overwatch, GTA V, RDR 2 ( still need to go back and finish it). The Division was good, I’m not a fan of the whole bullet sponge thing and think that the baddies could’ve been much better but the mechanics, atmosphere and graphics are right up there with the best. Broforce gets a mention for just being a silly over-the-top shooter with TONS of cameos from various films. Great fun. Fortnite, when this game came out it was a game changer and if I was 12 with the reactions to match I’d probably still play it now and then. Can’t think of anything else right now, pretty tragic how few games I’ve actually played on the PS4.

Well, she's got shit taste but she's not fucking blind.

Still rocking the Mini, needs a bit of TLC but it's honestly the best car to have in London. I can squeeze it through any spot, park it on a dime, costs £lol to run, don't care if it gets a scratch or ding, and I can honestly say it's one of the toughest cars I've ever driven. It probably spends more time airborne than it does on the road what with all the speed bumps. How the front valance is still holding on is beyond me. She wants an SUV though and is sort of set on a BMW X1, because... you know... women. Logic doesn't go beyond "that one looks pretty" but this is a discussion for a different thread!

When you find this cool group of people, let me know pls 😄 Welcome to the forum mate!

I just completed this quiz. My Score 75/100 My Time 137 seconds

Happy Birthday Lolliott @Middle Class Caveman , hope you and the fam have a fantastic day ❤️

Fiverr.com is really hitting the big leagues huh.

It's a fucking pizza delivery simulator. I don't care how pretty it is, how awesome the mechanics are, it's a load of wanky bollocks.

Phew, that's a relief. I was worried I wouldn't be able to get through this content in time.

What a waste. One of the best games ever made has been completely fucked by these greedy cunts. I hope it makes all those Switches catch fire so they have to replace them.

Motherfucking consoles, fucking cunts, the lot of them. Luckily Rachel @tronic44 gave me a heads up about having to fire up corrodoory to get it to install all the latest updates because... yanno... we can't automate these things. We have a fucking rover on Mars, men on the moon, we've discovered the Higgs Boson, and a bloke floating around in a Tesla Roadster in space, we're bringing internet to even the most rural parts of the world with motherfucking satellites but we can't automate a fucking software update. Ladies and gentlemen, consoles. PS this whinge is completely unnecessary as it's updated thanks to Rachel but I never miss an opportunity to have a little moan.