Lurker > Dark_Spiret

but

but what? if she wasnt perfect before, shes definitely perfect now.

SSD and RAM ASAP. upgrading to 16gb minimum or ideally 32gb isnt expensive and a decent ssd can be had for under $70 and can be a night and day difference in performance depending on what youre doing. those upgrades will give you longest reaching performance boosts to your pc in general, let alone gaming and you wont have to invest much in them to get very good results. after that (and assuming your psu is still up to the task) id go for the graphics card and then the cpu if you want to.

0 or 6.

on one hand seeing some of the people who work at mcd's getting $20 for a job they dont give a shit about or put much (if any) effort into kinda pisses me off. on the other hand if you actually wanted to do your job well and are in it for the long haul, its still not enough (especially in cali) for the amount of bullshit and stress you have to put up with on a daily basis.

i worked as a crew trainer and maintenance tech for McDonald's for a few years and iv never gotten burnt out on a job like i did on that one. at the store i worked at in michigan ended up giving everyone a $2 increase in their hourly pay to help gte more employees in the door, which worked, but it also meant the higher ups also cut a lot of corners (like cutting my 40hour weeks down to 32, which negated the price increase and the bosses would do everything in their power, more so, to make sure you didnt get over time even if their business suffered for it) and on top of that it lead to the more skilled people leaving due to the new increase of kids not caring about the job which made the vets have to do extra work and piled on even more stress. plus the bosses cheaped out further in other ways like less produce/item buys (which meant we ran out sooner if we happened to get some unforeseen rushes in the week), less maintenance on the back end (which made my job hard since i had to do more when i had to it) and ended up making the overall service portion especially suffer from people not being able to get the time they need to properly learn stuff due to cut hours and the rush nature of the job.

while it needed to happen regardless, i guess what im getting at is dont expect the increase to mean much. dont underestimate peoples greed and cheapness. the people in charge WILL find a way to screw you out of that extra money.

i have a couple grand in a safe along with about $10k in metals. something liquid that i can grab and go fast with if certain things were to occur, but its not a crazy amount. enough for certain situations to blow over, but nothing sustainable in the long run. there are other more important preps for something like that.

if you can live with turning shadows down a notch and maybe one or two other things (which you probably wouldn't notice anyway) and not worry about playing at 4k or even higher, you can literally cut the price by a third, atleast. its only when youre trying to MAX everything at 4k 120fps is when the price can get really crazy.

their not democratic underground levels of cesspool, but their fairly close. stick to the gaming threads thats related to what youre enjoying in the moment and nothing else. its very very easy to get banned there.