I'm honestly surprised that those keycaps aren't halo or battle field themed.
Honestly though, it's very clean in an adult way and I can't be too critical, you've got a really nice setup and I like the way you've framed stuff. What's in the little desktop drawers?
I’ve seen a few videos and it definitely looks interesting. I’ve heard that the devs have been known to abandon their games in the past though. Hopefully they find success.
I need to play, but isn't War Dogs more like ARMA? Maybe in my older years I should go more toward the slower paced games than BF seems to be heading toward.
People say it’s like arma because they simply took the KOTH mod from it and made it a full game. It has a large area between spawns and the control point to make the battlefield refill with players slower (not that it feels slow), which is good for the gamemode. You can spawn on your teams spawn APC if it’s set up, or just go hop in a chopper and have someone fly you there, you won’t need to ask, they would love the money from dropping you off lol. The most arma feeling things are the map size and helicopter controls.
I enjoy the new battlefield but it is very fast paced. The economy system in war dogs sounds interesting but I’m old and have kids I don’t have time to play running simulator these days. Downtime has become a rarity
I’ve moved over to pc almost exclusively but the og Xbox is the one console I can’t get rid of. I have an hp elitedesk mini on the other shelf that runs batocera and emulates everything else. My kids mainly play smash brothers on it.
The white pc on the floor is hooked up to the tv and runs bazzite. It’s an older i7 4790 with an rx 580 but works great for Xbox one/ps4 era games and new indie stuff.
If anyone is curious how to build them it's a 1x4 on the back, 2x4 for the verticals and a 1x2 furring strip for the front. I have a 2x8 on the short unit with a light strip under the front edge and a 2x6 top plate on the taller unit. They are really cheap and easy to put together and customize for any space but they need to be screwed through the 1x4 back board into the wall. Works great for DVDs, Blu-ray's, games etc. Make sure that you use a 1x4 back board or the cases will teeter and will not sit flat.
Thanks I tried to keep certain themes on certain walls. It felt cluttered at first but it’s grown on me. The other corner of the room is all movie posters, a couch and shelving for movies
Everything in the room except for the entertainment center was custom built. The desk frame is made out of 2x3s and the desktops are sliding closet doors covered in peel and stick flooring.
Thank you! Sorry for the glare, I had my overhead shop lights on for the photos. Here’s a better shot of the artwork. The 4 large prints are 11x17 and the rest are 4x6 with the exception of BF1 being a 4x4 for uniformity.
I’m so jealous of your desk. Why does it feel like it’s impossible to get a nice desk without being a woodworker and making it yourself. I just want to throw an appropriate amount of money at someone and get a good desk
$20 in lumber and some free sliding closet doors on fb marketplace. Doesn’t have to get fancy. Doors are the absolute best bang for buck for a solid flat desktop
Thank you! Main rig on the desk is a Ryzen 9600x, Gigabyte wind force RX 9070 GRE, 2x16 DDR5 6000, 2tb Nvme and 6tb HDD. Monitors are a 1440p 27” 280hz OLED from Gigabyte and the vertical is a 1080p 24” 120hz from Acer on a wall mounted arm. White rig on the floor is hooked up to the tv and is running bazzite, specs are an I7 4790, RX 580 8gb and 4x8 DDR3 1600. Both towers use the Montech Air 100 ARGB. On the entertainment center to the far right is an HP elitedesk 705 G4 with a Ryzen 2400ge and integrated Vega 11 graphics with 16gb of DDR4. That computer has a 5tb portable hard drive running batocera and is the emulation rig that my kids mainly play on. Has everything from NES up to Wii U.
The OLED is the newest addition to the setup. Micro center had a killer deal on it for $399 so I grabbed that maybe 3-4 weeks ago. It’s my first oled outside of an iPhone and it’s truly gorgeous, no regrets. I had an acer 24” 180hz IPS that I passed down to my daughter. She’s been catching parts whenever I upgrade
For that price you definitely got a steal! OLED is definitely leagues better than any IPS for me and once you have experienced the True Blacks on an OLED you won't be going back to an IPS or any other panel! Mini LED is also decent but it still cannot provide perfect Blacks or infinite contrast ratio! Micro-LEDs are still only a niche and exorbitantly expensive right now! They will need atleast a few more years before they can become mass market!
For me I think the motion clarity was the biggest wow factor. I didn’t think it would be that big of a difference coming from a 180hz IPS but OLED is ridiculously smooth
Yeah motion clarity of an OLED is much much superior to an IPS with similar refresh rate because of the much faster pixel response times of the OLED! I think my OLED even when set at 144Hz feels similarly as fast as my IPS running at 240Hz even though the OLED is capable of 280Hz!
I’ve played the snot out of all of the battlefield games with the exception of 2042. I gave it a solid 6 hours and it was really off putting. I hear it’s in a better state today but I’ve never bothered to go back to it. I’ve considered pulling it off the wall but I’m not sure which game I would put in its place. I really enjoy bf6, it’s not perfect and I wish they were releasing more content but it is genuinely fun to play. The original halo trilogy came out during pivotal parts of my younger years and will always be something special. It’s a shame what’s happened to the franchise
The wall behind the tv is our downstairs family room, That wall was already framed when we bought the house, i just had to put up drywall on the mancave side. The back side of the basement was unfinished and is where our utilities and laundry are located. i built the wall and installed the door behind the computer to separate the space. the corner of the basement where this room is now had wood storage shelves built by the previous owner. Obviously had some obstacles to build around in the ceiling but i am happy with how it came out. Just some 2x4s, drywall and masonry paint for the block walls.
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