u/atonalsakura

Hello there. Like many out there, I'm also hoping to find a few people that I can click with and just befriend on a longer term, platonic basis. I'm your average full-time employee in the daytime and a bit of a goblin in my free time, choosing to enjoy things like games, chess, music and watching/learning random topics from books and YouTube in my free time.

I really don't do well with small talk, a "how are you" here and there followed up with "any plans" isn't really what I'm looking for. I get that sure, it's got to start somewhere but when it always ends up with "oh ok" rinse and repeat, that's just not for me. I don't expect anyone to be interesting all the time, I myself am quite boring to be honest and lead a plain life, I guess the point is if we don't click that's okay.

I'm currently really enjoying Romance of the Three Kingdoms 8 Remake, and have a solid line of quality single player titles to go through from the ongoing Steam sale and on consoles. I do also play some multiplayer stuff, but as I've gotten older it just feels more and more like quality single-player titles returns more enjoyment. That said, I don't mind playing some multiplayer stuff if that's something we both happen to share.

If you also like stuff like horror (think Resident Evil, Silent Hill, Fatal Frame etc.) and historical timeframes like the Three Kingdoms/Sengoku era, play music (I play the piano, one of my longest standing hobbies), classical JRPGs like Chrono Trigger, and prefer having a few close connections rather than a superficial larger number, perhaps we'll mix well?

I have no greater agenda or demands than to hopefully run into a few people around my age that are just normal, average human beings looking for an online friend. No need to reply to me right away or anything, just whenever you can and want to, I understand we all have lives to attend to and it's not a big deal if you can't respond for a while. I'm more of a go with the flow and take things naturally kind of person, and when it comes to friendship I think it needs time to build, I won't be your best friend within 5 minutes. However, it would be amazing to have a few folks to be able to chat with about really anything consistently.

I do ask that you're ideally 26+ and I do understand that I may be dry and lacking in social skills myself, but I'll give it my best shot and hope that you will too. If you actually read this post, thank you for your time.

hello! quite simply put I just really enjoy playing ARAM Mayhem and it's literally the only thing I do now in the game, would like to have a few more people to run with and banter/joke around, not concerned about winning really but happy to play to try to win.

just be 21+ please and feel free to drop me your ign if you're also looking for Mayhem enjoyers ❤︎⁠

Good morning all,

I'm pretty new to the whole soundbar thing but just bought a Samsung Q930F and Q990F recently as they were massively on sale. I apologize in advance if anything I ask below sounds dumb, I really don't know much about audio at all.

Anyhow, I hooked up the Q990F to my TV, LG G5 using eARC and it sounds pretty sweet, no complaints. Having always been using puny little speakers on PC, I jumped on a Q930F deal and was super excited to get this hooked up to my PC, but after doing so and getting the Dolby Atmos app via Windows Store, I feel like the sound is a bit lacking in the rears, upon doing some more googling and such it seems Windows 11 24H2 onwards made Samsung soundbar rear channels messed up? I'm not really knowledgeable on this, but seems to be the general consensus.

I understand that sources like YouTube and Spotify are mostly 2-channel audio, so I wasn't disappointed in the sound quality from streaming those services, but playing actual Dolby Atmos and DTS:X content I didn't get anywhere near the same level of "oooohhh" as the LG G5+Q990F, of course I know the Q990F is a better system, but I thought the Q930 is no slouch either and shouldn't be that big of a difference?

I currently have optical cables and HDMI ultra high-bandwidth cables. Based on my research, I went with HDMI directly into the GPU and into the non-eARC HDMI port of the Soundbar, this should be lossless audio signal from my PC? I don't have the desk space to hook up a TV to get eARC passthrough, and I'm not sure if that would help improve the Dolby Atmos sound quality, given that allegedly, the signal I'm getting from the GPU is already uncompressed? Sorry if this is a dumb question, I just couldn't wrap my head around this.

If using eARC indeed does matter for sound quality, would an audio extractor work for me? I was looking at the Orei BK929 or HDA-929. The BK929 is a 8K@60 4K@120 model and the HDA-929 is 4K@60. I'm not sure if those specs matter for me, because I use 2x 32" 4K 240 Hz monitors, and I don't need video at all, only audio. Do I just connect the "IN/SOURCE" port of the audio extractor to my GPU, and then HDMI eARC from the audio extractor to the HDMI eARC port of my soundbar? And, I'm assuming the cheaper HDA-929 4K@60 model would work just fine? It's not a much bigger cost to get the BK929, so if that one is somehow better I could get that instead.

I guess my biggest confusion point is that people say HDMI direct connection to the GPU is already lossless audio, but I couldn't find any specific information on if eARC is still the best way to get the best audio? Would really appreciate an explanation and if I should indeed get one of the Orei audio extractors, thank you!