u/OGMagicConch

Spoilers for both 12026 concert and Automata

>!I'm not going to rehash the story but I want to talk about the Pearl Harbor mission and how 21S probably led to 2B being created (specifically, E types). !<

>!Notably B units did not even exist in this time, as we learned in the end As were basically decommissioned and replaced with Bs. One other thing I noticed was that to our knowledge this S unit was left unchecked by an E. The (fake) Council's mission was probably what Red Girl said, to collect data to continue the war. One of the BIGGEST takeaways I believe the Council got was that they NEED Es alongside every S. !<

>!Think about how much 21S screwed up the mission from the Council's perspective:!<

• >!She was smart enough to catch her virus before it took her over and was able to even resist letting the others know obviously. Now 4A did catch on but it was after 21S said she'd hang back, so I think that's a pretty decent hint. Anyways I believe the council didn't send any backup because they knew the squad would have to meet with the resistance who they probably knew had the virus, hoping that a couple teammates would catch it and kill the others in the end and "failing" the mission!<

• >!Even after being taken over by machines, she was somehow able to overpower the control and hack into 16G killing both possessed 16G and herself again saving the others. !<

• >!Generally she was also obviously the most intelligent and really held the group together even when they were fighting amongst each other. Likely the whole group would've been weaker anyways without her. !<

>!Why is this such a fuck up from the Council's POV? Well the entire squad was supposed to die, and because they didn't, A2 is now on the loose with compromising intel on YoRHa. And wouldn't you know, in the end it is A2 who ends the proxy war after all. !<

>!So the Council likely already knew this was a huge mistake and I believe after this mission their best intel was that they NEEDED E units to keep the S units in check so there'd never be a repeat of what happened. Of course this directly led to the creation of the Es which include 2B.!<

>!The story behind this concert explaining A2's origins was heartbreaking and I think really further fleshed out her character. But I think this also fleshed out the pre-backstory of Automata's other 2 characters explaining the catalyst of 2B's designation's creation as well. I also think it was interesting that all units were female and that 9S of course is male, I haven't cooked this one in my head long enough but that's probably another direct nerf to the S units to get them to fall for the Es and leave them blind with a weak spot like we saw in Automata. !<

Anyways those were just my initial thoughts post-concert, lmk what y'all think!

I moved my Bazzite BC250 over to my 4k TV from my 1440p monitor and instantly noticed decreased performance. This is strange to me because I have resolution forced at 1080p in gamescope settings. I am assuming though that there is something still causing upscaling which is degrading my performance. For example, Descenders gets a locked 60fps at 1080 on my monitor but drops frequently down to 50 at 1080 on my TV. Anyone experience anything similar or have any idea what could be going on? Thanks

Hey I watched the lamer video but this is pretty outside of my wheelhouse, what are the PSUs you can and can't use for the molex mod? The lamer vid showed how to assemble the cables that feed into the board, but what does the other side look like on the PSU? Does this work with apevia 500w for instance? Thanks

Does anyone have stability issues specifically with gamescope using bazzite? At first I kept getting crashes to a white screen after ~5 min so thought there was a throttling issue, but after checking the temps I saw they were fine. I switched to Desktop and NEVER had this issue come up. I then followed https://docs.bazzite.gg/Installing\_and\_Managing\_Software/ujust/ and ran the fix steam command and THOUGHT I fixed it but sure enough white screen came back, again ONLY in gamescope.

Not sure what else to try at this point, I've already reinstalled the OS using a different physical boot drive and I get the same exact behavior.

Edit: another update, I enabled governer without the OC configuration to at least help the device at rest. The new behavior I see is the system will crash then shortly after black ribbons will shoot across the screen from left to right top to bottom. Then white screen. When that happens the temps are like 61-65 so not even that high ... Is this s dead gpu? 🥲

Hello, got my bc250 yesterday and I've done the following

• Successfully flashed the modded bios - made the exact configurations specified in the GitHub (disabling stuff changing buffer size etc)

• Reset CMOS

• Made a bazzite live (bazzite deck) boot drive, no issues using the boot drive then installing bazzite to my nvme once on desktop

• Booted into bazzite from the nvme once removing the USB

However I cannot even really proceed with the bazzite post install setup as after a couple minutes it will have a completely white screen. That's if it even boots at all, sometimes it also just stays on some black screen that looks like it's loading with like an underscore that looks like some typing at the very top left. Everything has worked perfectly so far - I still can boot into bios no problem. I have a couple suspicions:

1. Borked OS install, maybe worth reinstalling to see if it's okay

2. Temp issue. Idk how hot other people's boards get but mine seems to be getting very hot. As I can't even really get into OS I haven't been able to temp check. I haven't opened the heatsink but for setup I didn't think this would be an issue, I have the recommended Arctic fans with one sitting on top of the gap between the heatsink and the IO and one sitting perpendicular to the board on the other end. The backplate I noticed was also very hot during the OS install but didn't realize till the end and there were no issues during the install. I've since attached a heatsink to the back and those temps seem to have gotten better but still having the white screen issue.

I hope if it's (2) that the VRAM didn't get messed up during the OS install, I unfortunately didn't realize it was getting very hot until late into the install and had the board lying on my desk so prob didn't help the heat either. But I figured it would've just throttled if that were the issue or that the system would've just crashed during the install. But nope only seems to be an issue since the install.

My next steps are to 3d print the fan shrouds (the ducts for the fans so I don't have to open the heatsink yet) and if that fails I guess it's repaste time. Anyone have any other pointers or suggestions?

edit: Some updates, I found my USB was borked so I tried doing another boot drive this time using the non-live legacy launcher (still Bazzite deck). No white screens during the OS install! This time too I was actually able to log in with Steam and didn't have many issues getting that far. However, I'm seeing the white screen again soon after logging in. So I'm guessing there still are some thermal issues. I'd suspect the VRAM but actually the back is not really hot to touch at all after adding the additional heatsink to the back. The front is reasonably toasty but again I didn't expect to be having such issues when not even playing games. Does this sounds like it needs a repaste then?

Tried searching but couldn't find anything specifically about this. I know that 2230 NVME would use the same port as a 2280 NVME so I know it would work, but are there any weird issues like not being able to secure the drive due to the form factor? Thinking about using a steam deck ssd in the bc 250 but have neither the 250 nor the SSD yet, just planning 😁 thanks!

Anyone playing legacy today? I'm stuck on an objective "defeat the ninjas" at Ra's Al ghul, not sure if it's just me. No ninjas left