u/MadMeeper

Heya, I have a Windows machine that I built in 2019 and have since decommissioned in favor of a Mac for work, but I realized I might be able to take a good chunk of those parts and put it into a mini pc case to work as a living room gaming console. What I have in there is as follows

• Intel Core i7-8700K 3.7 GHz 6-Core Processor
• be quiet! Dark Rock 3 67.8 CFM Fluid Dynamic Bearing CPU Cooler
• Asus Prime Z370-A ATX LGA1151 Motherboard
• Corsair Vengeance LPX 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3000 CL15 Memory
• Samsung 970 Evo 250 GB M.2-2280 PCIe 3.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive
• GIGABYTE Gaming OC GeForce RTX 3070 8GB GDDR6
  • I also have a Asus Turbo GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6 GB that I could use instead but id prefer the nicer one if possible.
• EVGA SuperNOVA 750 G3 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply
• NZXT H500 – Compact ATX Mid-Tower Case

My priorities are

• Reuse as many parts as possible, especially the expensive bits like ram and gpu
• Small form factor, Id love to use Fractal Design's mini-ITX small case, but I'm open to suggestions.
• Low cost. I know I'll have to spend some money on a new motherboard and probably a power supply but budget is the name of the game. Ideally would like to keep this a sub $300 endeavor.
• 1080p 60fps is totally fine, I dont play a lot of games that require precision fps. Indie titles and legacy games will be primarily what this machine runs.

Any ideas on how ya'll would rebuild this would be super appreciated!

So it turns out, I may be developing a dubia allergy - which, you can imagine is outrageously irritating. I have a dust mite allergy, and I have some reactions to shellfish (tho not formally allergic), but my allergist told me that roaches wouldn't be off the table for things I should watch out for. Ive discovered that using gloves and a mask mitigates itchiness I have, but it's going to put a damper on my long-term plan to use them as my staple insect.

Do ya'll have recommends on what I can give to my tristis that ISN'T a roach? I cant get grasshoppers here in SoCal, or else that'd be my go to. Most other available insects to me are just crickets (hateeeee hate hate) and worms... and Ive historically had a lot of problems with constipation with superworms in my beardies. He started snubbing his nose at quail reptilinks, but WILL happily take eggs. I have easy access to waxworms, but I worry about the fattiness of them. He snubbed his nose at hornworms last time I tried that with him as well, but its been about a year.

Thanks for ya'lls insight! Ill probs still give him dubia, but much less frequently. Trying to find new things to have at-hand.

Heya! I'm running Keys of the Golden Vault for my players, we're having a great time and I haven't necessarily gotten any complaints, but my players love to yap and spend a lot of time planning their heists. It's making it difficult for me to keep sessions as brief as I'd like and has us playing further into the night than I'm intending. (It's not helped by I have a table of 6 players hahah)

The problem usually is the planning stages before they jump into the heist proper - that "downtime" space between receiving the job and arriving at location. They have a home base and city with resources available to them to gather all that they need for a job, so I like to let them talk and strategize. Sometimes they spend as long as 2 hours planning, though.

Any tips on how I can get them to move along a bit quicker in these situations? When they're at location, I have methods of speeding their "on the go" planning along, it's just the before times where they don't have the looming pressure of an active heist that I struggle reining them in.