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#11
Nintendo - Switch 2, Switch, 3DS, and Wii-U / Re: Pokémon Pokopia
Last post by Mai Valentine - April 01, 2026, 08:01:47 AMI desperately want this game but I do not have a Switch 2. I plan on getting both the system and Pokopia once I finish paying off a medical bill.
For now I am living vicariously by watching my favorite streamers play it. The gameplay loop looks like a lot of fun, and it has a surprising amount of Pokemon.
If you want to see how it plays, I have two main recommendations; if you want to watch someone who has never liked "cozy" games and is newish to Pokemon, check out Jahara Jayde. If you want to watch a long time Pokemon fan, Shenpai or Vulpixie have fun videos.
For now I am living vicariously by watching my favorite streamers play it. The gameplay loop looks like a lot of fun, and it has a surprising amount of Pokemon.
If you want to see how it plays, I have two main recommendations; if you want to watch someone who has never liked "cozy" games and is newish to Pokemon, check out Jahara Jayde. If you want to watch a long time Pokemon fan, Shenpai or Vulpixie have fun videos.
#12
General Discussion / Re: What music are you listeni...
Last post by Mai Valentine - April 01, 2026, 07:53:58 AMI was listening to Chappelle Roan most recently. I like how she goes from kind of 80s sounding pop (Hot-to-go) to modern pop (Subway).
#13
General Discussion / Re: Merry Christmas 2025!
Last post by Mai Valentine - April 01, 2026, 07:50:56 AMLate to this, but for Christmas I treated myself to a proper gaming chair for my bedroom when I'm PC gaming. My old chair was great but didn't have the headrest so my neck would get sore. Now I don't have to worry about that.
#14
PC Rigs, Builds, and Peripheral Devices / Re: Modern Routers
Last post by BLUEVOODU - March 30, 2026, 01:30:25 PMAwesome post @targetrasp --> I know a few people now that have settled on the Ubiquiti setups. They are sold and sold on it ... though it's not cheap (or cheapest). There is a cost to it, but once you get there, the hardware handles everything really well. The use cases I've heard work great:
Your $280 in all in cost is really not bad AT ALL. I am going to look into this at a certain point. I'm running with Eero right now and the lack of being able to build my own network to it is frustrating. There are things you can do, but if I want to connect my own unmanaged switch to then connect to a managed network... just doesn't work. It's supposed to but the port just won't recognize a managed or unmanaged switch. I gave up as I don't have much time to play around with this stuff right now ... life be life'n as they say... and it's kicking my butt. Once time opens up...
$280... really need to look down this route.
- Streaming
- Multitudes of PCs and Devices and handling it all well at once
- Gaming
- Hosting Media Sharing with Many access to many
Your $280 in all in cost is really not bad AT ALL. I am going to look into this at a certain point. I'm running with Eero right now and the lack of being able to build my own network to it is frustrating. There are things you can do, but if I want to connect my own unmanaged switch to then connect to a managed network... just doesn't work. It's supposed to but the port just won't recognize a managed or unmanaged switch. I gave up as I don't have much time to play around with this stuff right now ... life be life'n as they say... and it's kicking my butt. Once time opens up...
$280... really need to look down this route.
#15
PC Rigs, Builds, and Peripheral Devices / Modern Routers
Last post by targetrasp - March 29, 2026, 12:16:38 AMI've used the same Asus RT-AC68U router since it came out in the early 2010s and really didn't know any better. I didn't care about wireless, every computer and video game console gets wired so I just didn't keep up.
It finally caught up to me. I'd find myself having random network errors playing on the Playstation or getting disconnected from games on Steam. Toward the end I'd even watch ping on discord go from 25 ms to 3000+ ms. I blamed the ISP for years and just bought the highest speed available every time they offered something faster, trying to keep up that way.
Before dropping $800 on a ROG Rapture router, I did a deep dive via chat gpt one everything from throughput to scalability and went so far as to provide dimensions, devices I have, typical use, everything up to and including a basic network map.
I ultimately landed on a Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra and a Ubiquiti U6+ Wireless access point. I also purchased a Ubiquiti POE Injector since my POE switch is too loud for inside use. All in I spent about $280.
For less half the cost of a mid-tier Rapture I'm getting a something a whole lot more stable with maybe not the gaming focused QOS but it's not too shabby and I've seen more than the advertised gig speed on the routers speed test, the ookala app for windows as well as speedtest.net. Even with several computers gaming at once a speedtest shows over 900 Mbps.
The access point was super simple to incorporate, and the software really does do much of the heavy lifting despite many reviewers saying setting up Ubiquiti gateway and router can be challenging. Even the recommended tweaks were already tweaked in my case.
The biggest difference I've noticed between the new setup and the old, or what some other friends have is the smoothness when there's more than 4 computers gaming and / or streaming at once. The gaming routers seem more focused on wifi and QOS gets meh when more than a few are gaming. The Ubiquiti set up seems to handle multiple users without issue and tons more stable. Buffer bloat doesn't seem like an issue either.
For something seemingly more small business / enterprise focused, these things make great gaming routers
It finally caught up to me. I'd find myself having random network errors playing on the Playstation or getting disconnected from games on Steam. Toward the end I'd even watch ping on discord go from 25 ms to 3000+ ms. I blamed the ISP for years and just bought the highest speed available every time they offered something faster, trying to keep up that way.
Before dropping $800 on a ROG Rapture router, I did a deep dive via chat gpt one everything from throughput to scalability and went so far as to provide dimensions, devices I have, typical use, everything up to and including a basic network map.
I ultimately landed on a Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Ultra and a Ubiquiti U6+ Wireless access point. I also purchased a Ubiquiti POE Injector since my POE switch is too loud for inside use. All in I spent about $280.
For less half the cost of a mid-tier Rapture I'm getting a something a whole lot more stable with maybe not the gaming focused QOS but it's not too shabby and I've seen more than the advertised gig speed on the routers speed test, the ookala app for windows as well as speedtest.net. Even with several computers gaming at once a speedtest shows over 900 Mbps.
The access point was super simple to incorporate, and the software really does do much of the heavy lifting despite many reviewers saying setting up Ubiquiti gateway and router can be challenging. Even the recommended tweaks were already tweaked in my case.
The biggest difference I've noticed between the new setup and the old, or what some other friends have is the smoothness when there's more than 4 computers gaming and / or streaming at once. The gaming routers seem more focused on wifi and QOS gets meh when more than a few are gaming. The Ubiquiti set up seems to handle multiple users without issue and tons more stable. Buffer bloat doesn't seem like an issue either.
For something seemingly more small business / enterprise focused, these things make great gaming routers
#16
General Discussion / Re: Project Hail Mary
Last post by BLUEVOODU - March 28, 2026, 09:47:09 AMWe ended up seeing this movie last night in IMAX. I highly recommend Project Hail Mary! It is one of the best movies we have seen in many many years.
Fly Me to the Moon was also really high up there.
I highly recommend Project Hail Mary - no spoilers for everyone yet lol
Fly Me to the Moon was also really high up there.
I highly recommend Project Hail Mary - no spoilers for everyone yet lol
#17
Nintendo - Switch 2, Switch, 3DS, and Wii-U / Re: Pokémon Pokopia
Last post by retro junkie - March 27, 2026, 04:25:02 PM@BLUEVOODU
My Daughter and I looked into the Pokopia game, but it is not available for the Switch. It is a Switch 2 exclusive. They are making it that way on purpose because they are wanting to motivate you to get a Switch 2. I think they are going out on a limb making some drastic changes to a franchise that has been their bread and butter. It is also a Key-Card download. Or it was when we were interested. That alone killed any interest we had. (cough)I am retired, fixed income.(cough) $70 for a game? The cost of admission alone just to play that one game? Or any other $70 Switch game? I don't see myself with a Switch 2 anytime in the near future. I'd rather focus on my Evercade vs-r.
With that being said. The game looks interesting to me. It would be interesting to see the response from the pokemon fan community. My Daughter did not like the abandonment of the 3/4 view of a standard pokemon game.
The game seems to be digging a little deeper into RPG elements mixed with Animal Crossing and a few other games. I would like to see how they make all of this work together.
My Daughter and I looked into the Pokopia game, but it is not available for the Switch. It is a Switch 2 exclusive. They are making it that way on purpose because they are wanting to motivate you to get a Switch 2. I think they are going out on a limb making some drastic changes to a franchise that has been their bread and butter. It is also a Key-Card download. Or it was when we were interested. That alone killed any interest we had. (cough)I am retired, fixed income.(cough) $70 for a game? The cost of admission alone just to play that one game? Or any other $70 Switch game? I don't see myself with a Switch 2 anytime in the near future. I'd rather focus on my Evercade vs-r.
With that being said. The game looks interesting to me. It would be interesting to see the response from the pokemon fan community. My Daughter did not like the abandonment of the 3/4 view of a standard pokemon game.
The game seems to be digging a little deeper into RPG elements mixed with Animal Crossing and a few other games. I would like to see how they make all of this work together.
#18
Nintendo - Switch 2, Switch, 3DS, and Wii-U / Re: Pokémon Pokopia
Last post by BLUEVOODU - March 27, 2026, 01:40:53 PMyou know, there are decent titles launched for the Nintendo Switch 2 @targetrasp. I find myself not wanting to buy them right now and technically only have 2 Nintendo Switch 2 games so far. The vast Majority are Nintendo Switch 1 games. Part of that is due to backlog. For example, Donkey Kong Bonanza is a pretty fun game... I've played it. However, do I want to buy it right now? No because of backlog and also price.
Pokémon Pokopia --> seems like a pretty great game. It's a cool concept, but for $70? I don't know at this time.
@Kinikko @Mai Valentine --> do you have any thoughts? Maybe @retro junkie has a few thoughts as well since he is a fan of Animal Crossing!
Pokémon Pokopia --> seems like a pretty great game. It's a cool concept, but for $70? I don't know at this time.
@Kinikko @Mai Valentine --> do you have any thoughts? Maybe @retro junkie has a few thoughts as well since he is a fan of Animal Crossing!
#19
General Discussion / Re: Official Recent Game Happe...
Last post by BLUEVOODU - March 26, 2026, 04:53:25 PMdangit.. ok... time to play soon.
Also - My wife and I made a bit of progress in the Bluey Video Game
We are going to platinum trophy it
Also - My wife and I made a bit of progress in the Bluey Video Game
We are going to platinum trophy it #20
PC Rigs, Builds, and Peripheral Devices / Re: RGB Lit PC Peripheral Hard...
Last post by BLUEVOODU - March 26, 2026, 04:51:29 PMLOL The computers heart... that's pretty cool @targetrasp. At the end of the day, I have also gone more simplistic and stayed to mobile this time. It's a pretty beefy laptop... and thankfully I was able to get into 64 GB of memory before the Massive RAM Price increase.
I used to ALWAYS favor the blue lights. However, I'm now all over the Green RGB lights on my mouse, laptop bottom light that wraps around the whole bottom, and sometimes keyboard... though, I think I have red there. Might change that to green as well
Hopefully @Grindspine will create a thread and share his new build
I used to ALWAYS favor the blue lights. However, I'm now all over the Green RGB lights on my mouse, laptop bottom light that wraps around the whole bottom, and sometimes keyboard... though, I think I have red there. Might change that to green as well
Hopefully @Grindspine will create a thread and share his new build