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Happy Birthday (PST)! Mine was yesterday, so consider this the birthday hand-off high-five.

http://deadlystream.com/forum/files/file/1004-alternate-revan-romances-updated/

I was trying it briefly the other day and I concur with JCarter426 that reverb went a long way. I was testing compression and curves when I had to walk away from it. Hopefully someone will have time to figure this out.

Yeah that info was directed more at the other windows PC builders that might want to help you but didn't read the specific manual for your motherboard

Everything else in the part list looked good to me. I think you'll probably be bringing the machine up to a pretty happy "minimum".

On the SSD front, the motherboard you currently have selected sports an Ultra M2 slot, which will supposedly take a SATAIII or PCIe 3.0 x4 type M2 SSD. I guess SATA M2 exists for extreme form-factor stuff. In a tower I would think you would just use a 2.5" SATAIII SSD if you're going the SATA route. The PCIe M2 SSDs are spendy but generally much faster (very unlikely that these are limited by the connection speed in any way as PCIe 3 x4 is giving it almost 4GB/s of bandwidth, compared to a .75GB/s SATAIII connection or 1.25GB/s SATA Express)

I think, though, if it's your first SSD, trying to get a slightly larger capacity (512G minimum) SATAIII in the 2.5" form factor is probably a good bang for the buck. Maybe somewhere down the line a PCIe M2 SSD would make sense, but I just think it's probably too expensive right now to get one that you can fit a Windows system and games onto. Personally I like Crucial as an SSD brand, but I have no idea what is good for Windows, so grain of salt please.

I like the idea of covering basics, but I feel like it could have issues. I very much agree with the statement that 'going anywhere from here requires an understanding...'. For me, where I've been trying to get to since the first stream is having my own 'testbed' module. Basically, a clean module that I can add whatever I need into without worrying about weird script conflicts, pre-existing items/scripts/waypoints/etc. I'm mostly there now (it took awhile because I modeled it from scratch).

The issue I see with covering basics is that there are a lot of basics to cover. Like, so many that it becomes really hard for people to take in all at once. I started to have that issue w/ the scripting streams, but I took good notes and have continued processing it over the weeks.

A couple weeks ago I watched HarIII's new module tutorial videos on youtube, which is a 15+ part series that covers a huge number of 'basics'. The thing I really like about it is that if you follow along with it you go from zero to a place where you can actively work on new things, and the info is easier to retain because you're always trying to do something specific and concrete vs. abstract.

So my personal request might be something like 'comprehensive basics' OR 'more scripting', but either way towards some concrete goals that leave people w/ a place to jump off from.

Schedule-wise, Thursday nights work for me, but I'm likely to make whatever time work. Thanks for doing these!

This would be great to attend. I would love to see how you do debugging stuff (like testing what values are in what variables, etc).

I am PST (UTC-8) but I live weird hours and might make it at any time.

Congrats and good luck with the big adventure! Not sure what we're going to do w/o your weekly avatar updates

Your droid request came in just as I was ramping up on a protocol droid reskin. I am hoping to do all the droids eventually so maybe I'll switch gears and have a housewarming present for you by the time you're set up again.