10 Free Multiplayer Online PC Games in 2021—Play with Friends
- 10 Free Multiplayer Online PC Games in 2021—Play with Friends
- 10 Online Games To Play With Friends - SAYS
- The best co-op games for PC PC Gamer
- 10 free online games to play with your friends while in ...
- Best 28 online Games to Play with friends in 2020 Free
- 10 free online multiplayer games to play with your friends
- Free MMOs: RPGs and other massively multiplayer greats ...
games to play with friends online pc free
games to play with friends online pc free - win
Recalbox - Powered by Pi
The official Recalbox subreddit. Ask questions, share your feats of gaming, and enjoy the nostalgia!
Subreddit for Thunder League, developed by Hellion Studios
The official subreddit for Thunder League, the eight-player party game with unstoppable vikings!
gta 5 money generator online
Gta 5 money cheat,gta 5 money generator online,how to make money in gta 5,gta 5 how to make money
Free online PC games to play with friends?
Hello, I have a friend who asks us everyday if we wanna chat on discord and usually we just play chess or something. I was wondering if any of you knew some cool browser games we could play together or anything really as long as it's free, legal and multiplayer.
submitted by Gonella1906 to teenagers [link] [comments]
What is the best free game (phone or pc) to play with friends online?
submitted by iAintSeeNothin to AskReddit [link] [comments]
What are some good funny free online pc games to play with friends and meet/troll new people ?
submitted by jamesatom25 to AskReddit [link] [comments]
best free online pc games to play with friends ?
submitted by g3mix2014 to gamingsuggestions [link] [comments]
What are some good funny free online pc games to play with friends and meet/troll new people ?
submitted by urlradar3 to Funnyyyy [link] [comments]
What are some good funny free online pc games to play with friends and meet/troll new people ?
submitted by urlradar3 to gameee [link] [comments]
What are some good funny free online pc games to play with friends and meet/troll new people ?
submitted by urlradar3 to newssss [link] [comments]
What are some good funny free online pc games to play with friends and meet/troll new people ?
submitted by urlradar3 to heryerdeonline [link] [comments]
What are some good funny free online pc games to play with friends and meet/troll new people ?
submitted by urlradar3 to askweb [link] [comments]
What are some fun, free online pc games to play with friends during the lockdown?
submitted by ChengSkwatalot to AskReddit [link] [comments]
[PC]Searching for a new coop online free/or not expansive game to play with friend
Hi guys,as topic i'm searching for some fun free to play games to play with my friend,we just stopped playing minecraft,league of legends,we don't like fps and warframe,team fortress ecc. Even if it cost from 1 to 15 euro/dollars but it's worth the price we could make a thought,we already want to buy rocket league btw ahah and we're playing on PCs
submitted by Walallax to ShouldIbuythisgame [link] [comments]
[PC]Searching for a new coop online free/or not expansive game to play with friend
Hi guys,as topic i'm searching for some fun free to play games to play with my friend,we just stopped playing minecraft,league of legends,we don't like fps and warframe,team fortress ecc. Even if it cost from 1 to 15 euro/dollars but it's worth the price we could make a thought,we already want to buy rocket league btw ahah and we're playing on PCs
submitted by Walallax to AskGames [link] [comments]
GTA Online Mega Guide and Weekly Simple Question Thread
submitted by BryonyBot to gtaonline [link] [comments]
GTA Online Mega Guide and Weekly Simple Question Thread
submitted by BryonyBot to gtaonline [link] [comments]
GTA Online Mega Guide and Weekly Simple Question Thread
submitted by BryonyBot to gtaonline [link] [comments]
GTA Online Mega Guide and Weekly Simple Question Thread
submitted by BryonyBot to gtaonline [link] [comments]
GTA Online Mega Guide and Weekly Simple Question Thread
submitted by BryonyBot to gtaonline [link] [comments]
Free Ignis Wraith Supply Center
 | https://preview.redd.it/umwe2e78gj961.png?width=1075&format=png&auto=webp&s=88eb53f42a3f1baf58c220255bb1d204d2ab695e Yes this is still going and will always be going. These are the new rules Ignis Wraith will forever be 0 plat as the Syndicate Community's gift to the Warframe Community. Yes we see you Ignis scammers mass downvoting and manipulating the forum mods to take down the post we had there. You cant stop this no matter how hard you try the price is 0p live with it. How to participate (now formatted to help you better skip the parts that do not apply directly to you.) To get just your personal batch of 6 - Go to discord.gg/syndicate.
- Click #discord-role-setup on the center popup.
- Click the #9 reaction (this grants you the Ignis Wraith Comrade role which gives you an easy to use trimmed version of the our server).
- Go to #ignis-wraith-supply-center under the Management category.
- When you are online to receive a batch type your in game name and your MR. MR is because you must be MR 9 to obtain the Ignis Wraith we do not make this rule DE does. Please feel free to come back when you reach MR 9 if you are not yet there.
- Please refrain from other discussions in this channel such as casual greetings, this channel is business oriented the less unrelated spam it has the more people we can rely on to not mute the channel.
- Players on consoles other then PC will take a significant time until responded to as we do not yet have a discord for any console clans.
- Wait this may take a while for someone to contact you but you will be contacted.
- In game supplier list also available at the bottom of this post for those that wish to try this without discord these players have vowed to supply Ignis Wraiths. This is likely the harder method but for those that dislike discord the option is available.
- Players interested in joining this list please comment your in game name, platform, and "join list".
To become a supplier by purchasing a large batch of Ignis Wraith from our dojo this is very credit intensive, new players please use the instructions above, this is not your section. - Go to discord.gg/syndicate.
- Close out the pop up welcome screen.
- Go to #requests-of-officers.
- Type your in game name, MR, and "Become Ignis Wraith Supplier".
- Wait this may take a while for someone to contact you but you will be contacted.
- Once you have received your Ignis Wraith supply you have no obligation to the server or clan and are free to leave as you wish.
Utilize your supply of Ignis Wraith to support this process - Go to warframe.market And post 1000 of them at 1p this helps people who do not find this Reddit post and our server get them.
- When you give out a batch of 6 using this method mark those 6 as sold on warframe.market to improve the price accuracy of the graph.
- Go to discord.gg/syndicate
- Click #discord-role-setup on the center popup
- Click the #9 reaction
- Go to #ignis-wraith-supply-center under the warframe category
- Simply watch the channel for people requesting Ignis Wraith. Use the :Inprogress: react to signify you are getting it. :approved: to signify You have completed the request, :unavailable: to signify they where not able to respond to your DM's, and :denied: to signify there is a reason they can not get an Ignis Wraith.
- When possible give players 6 Ignis Wraith instead of 1, this encourages supply saturation they will be able to give their 5 friends or clan mates an Ignis Wraith saving our supply chain the trouble.
How to Distribute your 5, bulk stack, or clan supply - Go to warframe.market and place a sell order for 1p.
- Make sure to open warframe.market before each play session to ensure it registers you as logged in.
- When someone contacts you via warframe.market to buy please mark a "sold" unit for each Ignis Wraith you gave them to help influence the price chart.
- Post WTS orders in trade chat for free Ignis Wraiths.
- Watch either our discord channels #ignis-wraith-supply-center and use the servers :approved: react when you handle someone for us, or ask your warlord to forward the channel to one in your server.
- Set a trade chat filter for "Ignis Wraith" and respond to people wanting to buy it by offering it for free.
Alright guys now that we have clear cut instructions its time for all the unimportant sappy stuff. New rule same as the old rules: Last time we published this we had people go out of their way to DM and harass people who sell Ignis Wraith for plat. Yah don't do that Do not get yourself banned over those fools. Just put them on ignore list to deprive them of any sales from you in the future and call it a day. If you really wanna spite them set trade chat filter to "Ignis Wraith" and post "WTS Free [Ignis Wraith]" immediately after each of their sale posts that is the furthest you should take it. Why we do this: There are a lot of good reasons to do this. The big one is simply giving back to the community that has made the Syndicate clans so successful. We know the stigma of large clans evil, large clans don't love their members. The community has done a great job of looking past that stigma to recognize the efforts we make to make every player matter. Today we extend making every player matter past our own community walls and to all of you. It has always been Syndicate clans policy to never charge a clan member for Ignis Wraith, we are simply extending that policy to the community. And now a few additional reasons to do this. - Fuck scammers charging 15p for this.
- Supporting newish players during Warframes historical low point.
- Pride's massive ego requires constant approval from all of you.
- We do not need to be a guide of the lotus or a partner to help the community. We need only to identify what we have that others do not.
Rules blame DE for most of them: - You must be MR9 to collect (DE rule).
- Must have 2FA account security (DE rule).
- You must accept 6 of them and pledge to distribute 5 for free (My rule).
- You will need 12,000 credits for the system wide trade tax and 0 credits for clan tax (DE rule).
- You will need to place any random item for trade we suggest ammo box its more worthless than an opinion (DE rule).
Players to contact for Ignis Wraith without visiting a discord PC Suppliers - RaddyRoach
- Funky_Ducky
- Nacnud1
- jackalope33
- .Raf
- Theguyver
- Truenerge
- TinyMemeLord
- thedude0000
- MuggyBG
- Atilla0076
- LeakingAmps
- KaiWingless
- Violence
- James_Skyminer
- ...huh
- LupaChalupa
- Rebore
- jazz
- Krugsmash
- DarkGamerZero
- eragonawesome
- ckae84
- TheLastCrazyPerson
- Lust
- Opyt
- TheodanePrime
- Leogaz
- Animisty
- Itztaytay
- FlameisTired
- Effion
- xomp
- Blue
- Naefu
- CortezTheConqueror
- DrLego
- Red.
- ThePurpleGuyCZ
- RawBeard
- xtrm_
- Lyrinux
- -The-Duck-
- Penguinbuddy91
- DeaconCuff
- MarkasLin
- OmegaForce
- Retvik
- RestInPizza
- Lu_Zanth
PS4 Suppliers - Xenneth369
- TookSick
- metroid23
- TheSinhound
- Kakurine2
- BiscuitsJoe
Xbox Suppliers - ExoSin
- Vulcan XBL
- DEO WOLFHART
- FRICKEN PERSON
- bongheadbaz09
- Micha Hana Park
- Sweatlock
If you would like added to the direct PM list please ask for it in comments, Once we have 50 players per platform I will start crossing out the lowest names on the list, If you are already on the list and would like moved to the top please respond as so in comments. |
GTA Online Mega Guide and Weekly Simple Question Thread
submitted by BryonyBot to gtaonline [link] [comments]
My $256 Budget Gaming PC
This is my $256 budget gaming PC. I seen that someone else posted pics of their budget build so I decided I'd share mine and give some insight into what's in it, why I went with the parts I did, the challenges that I had and share my cost breakdown.
Before we get into it, I wanted to let you know that this is an older pic. While all my components are the same, my build looks a bit cleaner than shown here since I shoved some excess cables and my SSD out of the way lol.
For this build, I wanted to be able to play modern games on a tight budget and this build accomplished that.
Specs:
Dell Optiplex 7010 MT
i5-3570 CPU
RX 480 4GB GPU
16GB DDR3-1600 RAM
480GB SSD
500GB HDD
550W Corsair Semi-modular PSU
Back in December 2019, I knew that I wanted to finally get a decent gaming PC after I regretfully sold my gaming laptop a couple years earlier. I didn't have much money to my name so I did a ton of research to know what I needed/wanted to get.
I got almost all of my parts from eBay.
I got the Optiplex itself in December 2019 and it came with an i5-3570 and 8GB of RAM for $100. I went with a 7010 MT since I could swap out the PSU with a better ATX PSU and since it was an MT it meant that it could support full sized GPUs. I knew I wanted one with an i5-3570 since it's a slight upgrade over the i5-3470 that so many of these come with.
My PSU I actually got for just $10 a few years earlier from an online friend. He said he'd give it to me for free but that I just had to pay for shipping which came to $10. I swapped out the PSU before I ever even booted it up since I already had it on hand. Since it's semi-modular it helped with cable management since my case pretty much has none. If you're looking for a great deal on an ATX PSU for a similar price, check out EVGA's midweek madness sales. I've seen EVGA PSUs on there around the $10-30 range and they're better than the $40-$50 cheapo PSUs you can find on sites like Amazon.
Next was my HDD. It didn't come with one, but I got my HDD for just $8 at the time. Funny enough, my PC didn't come with the little HDD trays it needed so I had to mount it under where the dvd drive was with a few pieces of double sided foam mounting tape which mildly helped with reducing vibration noise as well.
I needed a GPU and after doing months of research previously, I went with a Gigabyte RX 480 4GB G1 Gaming. I seen one listed for like $89, but eBay had sent me a digital coupon which brought the cost down to just $75. Not bad at all for this GPU.
The challenge with getting a GPU for this system was that I needed one that was no longer than 10 inches otherwise it wouldn't have fit due to the HDD cage being in the way. There was only a small handful that would fit my system within my budget, but this one was the cheapest at the time that would work. Of course, I could have went with a low profile or ITX GPU but that would have at least doubled the cost for a card and I couldn't afford it.
At this point, I had a budget gaming PC that I was very happy with and I'd spent less than $200 on it at this point. There was just two more upgrades that really wanted to get that I could afford to get, an SSD and some extra RAM.
The SSD came first and is the only part of this build that was new. I went with a 480GB Adata SSD for my boot drive which cost me $60. Since it became my new boot drive, it sped my entire system up a lot. The only challenge here was that I couldn't connect up all my SATA drives up since my GPU covered up my SATA ports. The solution was to get some low profile SATA connectors. There was only one brand of them that would work, Silverstone. They were the only ones I could find that were so low profile that they would fit under my GPU.
I could only afford one or two of them so I couldn't reconnect my DVD drive, but that's fine since I've never used it.
Last was my extra RAM. I wanted an extra 8GB that was identical to the RAM I already had in my system, but prices were around $30 at the time. I waited a couple months and finally found some for $20 saving me $10 so I bought it. Now I had 16GB of RAM in my system.
That's it!
But how well does it perform?
I'll put it this way, I can play any game that I want at 1080p if I'm not picky about framerates or settings. Most newer games (2018 or newer) I have to set to low-medium settings to get decent framerates. Games that are from 2018 or earlier, I typically just put it on medium or high settings and forget about it. Most games I get between 30-60fps though.
Thanks for coming to my TEDTalk!
submitted by Overfrozen69 to lowendgaming [link] [comments]
Lockdown 3.0 Things to do, plus help and support.
Disclaimer I want to thank everyone for the gilds, replies and suggestions. I just do not have time to reply to everyone, but I am reading everything. I am not sure how much bigger the thread can be, I already typed this but it vanished so I think I'm at the limit. I will try to keep updating, but I don't expect the thread to be up top for much longer and will likely vanish soon, so if you need anything save it. Yes, it's hard, it sucks, it's depressing. It is something we all have to do if you want to see this virus go. Everyone knows the deal, too many think they're the exception but no one is. However, staying home is hard so maybe I can help at least one or two people with some incentives. I'll try to give links to some things that can help cure the boredom, and some support if you need it.
Most of this might be obvious to some, some might not even have internet and of course, money is a big issue, so I'll try to give some suggestions:
For streaming and on demand things such as Netflix et al, don't forget you can subscribe for free for your first month. This goes for most things in the list. If you are worried about putting in your payment details and forgetting to cancel a month later, don't worry! You can sign up and immediately cancel and you still get your free month!
For people who don't have a smart TV, you can buy a cheap Amazon Fire TV stick or a Roku box. The Fire stick can go as low as £20 often for 1080p. It will drop to £30 for 4k.
I picked up a 4k Roku device for £18 on Amazon once. It's fast and snappy. currently it's going for £33 for the 4k version. Having both, there is little difference between the devices. NowTV also do their own roku powered device.
Subscription based streaming sites that all offer 2-4 weeks free for first timers
- Netflix *According to comments the second month is free.
- Amazon Prime You can either get Amazon video on its own, or take prime with other benefits. I strongly urge those who use Amazon for buying off their store front to use [https://smile.amazon.co.uk/] as there is literally no difference except everything you buy amazon donates to a charity of your choice.
- Now TV (I believe it's 7 days)
- Disney+
- Britbox
- Amazon channels. I believe you can get all these individually but Amazon offers them as channels bound to your prime account, and they are again either free for a couple weeks (again, take them, cancel instantly) or very cheap. I recently subscribed to Starzplay for £1 for 3 months. It has some good shows on it like Fringe, doom patrol. It also has channels like Curiosity stream and shudder
If you have not subscribed to the any of the above, you can get a few months of free TV by signing up and cancelling instantly. I suggest waiting at least 5 minutes just to let it go through the system.
Some tips for Now TV. IF you already have a subscription, I've noticed you can get it cheaper by cancelling. When you cancel they will beg you to stay. Select "I can not afford it this month" and they should beg again, telling you what shows they have. If you say you still want to cancel, they'll beg one last time and offer you the subscription for cheaper. This won't work every month, but I've noticed they'll always offer it the first time, then again after a couple months. If you're subscribed to both films and entertainment do the most expensive one as it may not work both times (but it might!). You can also pick up passes from storefronts a lot cheaper sometimes, before I could pick one up on Amazon for £3 but, they seem to have cracked down on it. If you shop around (or if anyone knows of a legitimate store please let me know) you might be able to pick it up cheaper. Lastly, check their website and under your account they should have an "offers for you" section.
Completely free TV
If you do have a smart TV and/or device, there are some good free streaming apps. One I really love is called PlutoTV. I know this is on both Roku and the fire stick, as well as Ps4/Ps5 and xbox.
Pluto offers a bunch of live channels and now an on demand section, all for free. It has adverts but they are actually short (shorter than regular TV and fewer of them). Some of the channels are just streaming certain shows like Mythbusters 24/7 or Dog the bounty hunter, but it has a lot of old movie channels as well as 24/7 kickboxing and MMA. It also has a 24/7 poker channel I quite like.
Another one I like is Rakuten Viki however, I haven't watched it for a while as my fire stick is only 1080p and I have too many other devices attached. I believe it is on Roku but you have to jump through some hoops and have an account. The last I checked on the fire stick you did not. Viki offers a metric ton of Asian shows, mainly from Japan and South Korea but it does have chinese, Malaysian etc. It has subtitles. Some Japanese shows are hysterical, albeit weird.
Roku also do their own channels with free shows if you own a device.
For those who don't have a smart TV or a Streaming device, you can set up your own computer as a dedicated streaming device with Plex. It's been a while since I used it but I believe it now also offers free movies and TV.
Anime
If you are into Anime there is
The first 2 are free to watch, or offer premium without ads which you can have a trial with. Crunchyroll is the better of the two with more original choice for Japanese voice and subs, while Funimation has more Dubs. I don't believe HiDive is free to watch but you do get a 2 week trial. These are more exclusives than the previous two.
PC Centric software
If you are a gamer or like Audiobooks or anything that uses computers for things like music making, programming or graphic design
Humble Bundle offers, as per the name, bundles. A long running site that got bought out by IGN. It offers both single items and bundles you can buy individually/as a pack while also offering a separate monthly subscription for around £8-9. The subscription gives you 12 games on average per month. That's the simplest explanation but it changes somewhat as sometimes you get to pick 10 out of 14 games, or get all 12.
Humble bundle offers more than just games though. Every Tuesday they bring a new bundle of games, while Thursday (I "think) a new bundle of books. They very often have books from the Black Library giving you a ton of Warhammer books. Sometimes it's standard E-books, other times it's audiobooks. A few times a year they do bundles for graphic design, a typical bundle would include programs like Paintshop Pro Corel Painter etc, They usually go for £0.76 for tier 1 up to around £18 for tier 3, which would include 4-6 full titles with 10+ addons. They also often have Music making bundles or video editing software as well as Programming or video game development.
The bundles change often, they usually have around 11 bundles at a time that last for 20 days. Sometimes it's trash but they do often have some very good deals.
Fanatical offers the same as humble bundle except usually not as high quality, but sometimes they do have some incredible deals, and they are very very cheap.
Both humble and fanatical are safe, trusted and been around a long time, and they are NOT grey market key sites. They work with the publishers and developers. You can buy games both old and new for a lot cheaper than you would most other places. Unless it states otherwise, keys are usually for steam.
**BOTH HB and Fanatical (HB much more common) offer free games fairly often. The catch is linking your steam account to them (at least HB). It is safe however.
IndieGala is another site like above. Except, these are much much lower quality. However, they offer a metric ton of free games. Quality is low but it is legitimate, and a lot of free stuff.
Game Store Fronts
- Steam This one is so obvious I didn't add it, but apparently many want me to. It is the best out there, and you can find almost everything, with fantastic deals.
- Greenmangaming offers games cheaply. Again, not a grey market site (which are legal but unethical) and they sometimes do bundles.
- GoG (Good old games) is a DRM free site run by CDPR, the makers of the Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk. They offer you games quite cheap and not needing DRM (such as Steam, Uplay etc which is less invasive versions of dodgy DRM from the olden days).
- Epic Games Despite the controversy whether you care about their rivalry with valve, they offer free games ever week. Without ever having bought anything I have gained over 170 games. literally. Good games for the most part. They often give you £10 coupons as well.
- Twitch Everyone knows twitch, but if you don't, it's a streaming service for watching gamers and girls with low cut tops accidentally bending over in front of the game. However, if you're signed up to prime, you get free games each month (and randomly between the set bunch).
- Playstation Store Currently has January sales. Currently the free games for PS+ are for PS4: Shadow of the Tomb Raider and Greedfall. For the Ps5 it is Maneater
- Games with Gold Bleed 2 and the King of Fighters XIII is available until Janurary 15th whilst little Nightmares is available until January 31st.
Gaming Subscriptions
Like the TV versions, you can sign up to these for a free trial (or very cheap). If you do sign up to only one at a time, it should keep you busy for a few months
- Xbox Game Pass You can do this on both/either an Xbox or PC. If you sign up to the regular one, you can get a month (maybe three!) for £1. After you have done that, you can sign up to the premium version for 3 months at £1 a month. Most people know game pass, but you can download a large selection of games for free. The premium version gives you games with gold, allowing you to keep the games forever (but can only play with a subscription)
- Ubisoft+ I'm not 100% sure if you get a trial or not. This allows a large collection of Ubisoft titles to play for £12.99 a month. Quite expensive but good if you like Ubisoft titles I guess.
- EA Play EA's version. Goes by a ton of names I think, EA Access, EA Play, Origin Access etc etc. There's a couple of versions of this, and it is across all platforms (PS4/5, Xbox, PC) but not sure about the switch. I "think" the premium allows you to play on all platforms, while the cheaper one on a single platform, but I may be mistaken.
- PS Now a once terrible service that is now actually very good. Allows you to download some Ps4 games to your PS4/5 and lets you stream a massive amount of Ps2/3/4 to your PC or playstation.
There's more like nvidia's service but you need the Shield device which is quite expensive. I'll leave it at that.
Audiobooks & Ebooks
- Audible Not sure what the current deal is but if you are a prime member you can sign up for a trial and get a free Audiobook each month for 3 months. Some warhammer books are 48 hours long, 3 of those gives you a good 100+ hours of listening!
- Comixology Another Amazon company, but lets you download some free comics I believe.
- Marvel Unlimited No experience with this. ItFuckingWont wanted me to add it. A subscription service for Marvel.
Education
- Sign Language BSL here No experience myself, suggested by n21brown and asked for a few times. Didn't know SL was so popular! Listed as "Pay what you can"
- BBC's Bitesize here is apparently good for home learning. Again, no personal experience.
If you need some spare change
Okay, I don't generally bother with it, but maybe some of this could be useful to you. These are NOT a quick way to make a fortune. These are small things you can do over time for a bit of pocket change
- If you have prime you can get a FREE FIVE POUND GIFT CARD by literally just streaming a song from Amazon music (which is included in prime) here is the details According to the comments it's only for select people, but it's worth trying If the link doesn't work for you just google "Amazon £5 coupon music"
- Now, these sorts of sites have been around for years, I haven't used any other than talkInsights which I must have signed up to 10-15 years ago. Basically they send you surveys and you answer them. They are confidential and don't ask for personal details in the survey. You need 2000 points and you get £20. During the pandemic they've slowed down but I probably get around £40 a year. Not much I know, but it's an email followed by a quick survey ticking boxes. Depending on your answer sometimes you get screened out, I'm not telling you to lie but just be consistent with your answers and you should be able to work out how to not get screened. Some emails are only worth 20 points, others 200. It's slow to get to the 2000 but very quick to just answer a few questions.
- Apparently beermoneyuk is a good sub to make some pocket change with.
- There is also matched betting. I have never done this, I don't have the patience but from what I've read, it's legitimate, it works and you can make a fair amount of cash from it so long as you do it correctly, and there's a ton of guides. I mention this because people stuck at home could get into it and as long as you're careful (I.E not entering in the wrong numbers) it's risk free AND it pisses off the betting shops. It seems people in comments have had success with it. Disclaimer A couple have complained about gambling. This arguably is not gambling. If you are susceptible to addiction do not do it. However, it's argued that there is no fun or buzz in this, and it's a very tedious and time consuming thing. Others argue you can't make the same money anymore (People were making thousands, now only hundreds if that). It's risk free providing you know what you're doing, the risks are user error, such as entering the wrong numbers. Someone pointed out that due to the lockdown, bets could potentially be cancelled due to sport stopping. So use on a side of caution. We're (mainly) adults so I'll leave it up just because this doesn't have the excitement of regular gambling.
- Microsoft Rewards This is an easy way to make pocket change doing very little. Most people have a MS account. The rewards program offers you numerous ways to grab points, by playing free to play games, answering small questions (you don't even need to answer most of the time, just open the link and shut it) and by using bing and searching on it. I've gotten 20k points JUST by answering questions over a couple months. There are many rewards but you can grab a £5 gift card for 6k for example, or a month of game pass (and AFAIK you can make points playing the games)
- Google rewards Someone mentioned this in the comments. I have not used it, so can not give any input on it. Sounds similar to TalkInsights which I linked. Google states "Complete short surveys while standing in line, or waiting for a subway. Get rewarded with Google Play or PayPal credit for each one you complete. Topics include everything from opinion polls, to hotel reviews, to merchant satisfaction surveys. We’ll notify you when a survey is waiting."
That's it for now. I will try to update as I go along. A long post but I hope that it can help some of you with finding something good to do that's free, cheap or a bargain. I do suggest getting prime, especially since you get free music, free delivery, free TV and music and free video games each month. In fact, there's a ton of perks and I feel I've gotten way over the cost investment.
Hope it helps someone at least
PartTimeCrazy said if you bought an Apple product you get 3 free months of Apple Arcade and Apple TV free for a year
fakehunted is upset I didn't mention wanking. Tesco have 225 sheets of Tissue for £0.75!
tale_lost suggested Project Gutenberg for a collection of free E-Books
Learning Language
Unfortunately, I don't have time to check every link listed so I will link the comments:
Togtogtog Gives a lot of links for Spanish
Board & Tabletop games
Corporal_Anaesthetic has made a list of Board games
ilyemco suggested these
HEALTH
I'm not a doctor! But if you're a smoker, something I strongly suggest is to quit. I struggled for years but in the first lockdown I quit, technically. I haven't had a cigarette since, however, I do that silly thing millennials do. I vape, but, it made quitting extremely easy. I would not have been able to do it if it wasn't for 88Vape They sell extremely cheap liquids at £1 each. You can find these in B&M but you can pick up 25 for £20 or buy your own mix.
Vitamin D deficiency has been said to be a big problem for the virus. I'd suggest (again, not a doctor!) that you pick some up. Tesco do a 3 for 2 deal. So you can pick up 270 tablets for £7.
If you are vulnerable you MIGHT be able to phone tesco and get put on their delivery saver list (currently it's paused but phoning may help. At the very least they might give you a priority slot. I did this for my mum, we didn't shop at Tesco but I phoned for her, and they put her on with no hassle, so she can always get a delivery.
HELP & ADVICE
The lockdown Rules.
Reasons to leave home include:
- Work or volunteering where it is "unreasonable" to work from home. This includes work in someone else's home, such as that carried out by social workers, nannies, cleaners and tradespeople
- Education, training, childcare and medical appointments and emergencies
- Exercise outdoors (limited to once a day). This includes meeting one other person from another household in an open public space to exercise
- Shopping for essentials such as food and medicine
- Communal religious worship
- Meeting your support or childcare bubble. Children can also move between separated parents Activities related to moving house
I want to add, if you are in danger you are also allowed (and must!) to get away from the situation for some reason, BBC seems to have missed this very important thing (or I am blind)
Support
FOR THOSE SHIELDING YOU CAN CONTACT THE ROYAL VOLUNTARY SERVICE. These people helped my mother with picking up her medicine from the chemist. They were very helpful and went out their way to keep in touch and do it immediately. (It's the only experience I have with them though)
_riotingpacifist wanted these links added, but I simply just don't have the time to vet and check all the suggestions here, so I will link as is:
Update:
Digital Art
These are Free
- Krita Arguably the best in my opinion. It has a load of options, brushes and a decent UI. It works fantastic with a tablet.
- Gimp This is a decent program but last I used, the UI was a pain, and it isn't so user friendly while misses features, but it works, and it is possible to do some incredible creations on it.
- Medibang Paint This is slightly geared towards Comics and Manga. I really enjoy using this with my drawing Tablet. As far as I know, it also for regular tablets for Android/Ipad and is free.
You can pick up a drawing tablet on Amazon quite cheap these days! Small ones that are just a black slate such as the wacom ones are good but takes some practice to get use to, but very worth it if you can't afford a dedicated drawing tablet with a screen.
Office suit software
A couple of free applications for word processing, spreadsheets etc.
- LibreOffice This has most the average user would need to write their own books or to work from home. There's not a huge amount of difference between the two I'm linking (since I last used anyway) so it's more for preference.
- Open Office You can pick this up here and again, like above it's just preference.
Music Making
I'm going to direct to matthewharris806 for some links as all the programs I've used like Reason are expensive, or cheaper stuff in bundles such as Magix software.
Games development
D_Dad_Default gives some links for that here
submitted by MrSoapbox to unitedkingdom [link] [comments]
The unhappy life and sad end of the 1999 Dream Machine
Gather round my friends and listen to the very long and very sad tale of my technical nemesis the Maximum PC 1999 Dream Machine.
Back in the late 90s I did tech support in rural Alaska. What's not rural in Alaska you ask?
Well urban Alaska is a place you can drive to on a paved road.
Suburban Alaska is a place you drive to on a road.
Rural Alaska is where downtown is on the road, but the houses not so much.
Remote Alaska takes a boat, plane, train, ATV, snow machine, dog sled, or other non standard mode of transportation.
Anyway on with the story. I worked in town at a small tech shop. We had a frequent customer who lived remote. He was a friend of the shop and spent easily $10,000 a year on hardware for his off-grid "cabin." Every time he came to town he bought some new toy or component and talked shop with us techies.
He was super excited about the new millennium so when Maximum PC released their 1999 Dream Machine he came to us to put one together for him. Top of the line: Pentium 3 - Coppermine 800mhz water cooled and overclocked, 1Gb of CL2 SDRAM, GeForce 256 with dual SLI Voodoo 2s, SCSI 8GB boot drive, Striped 20GB IDE storage array. It was hell on rails and the absolute sexiest machine a gamer could ask for.
For those who aren't reaching retirement age, the Pentium 3 Coppermine CPU was basically unobtainable in 1999 it took us the better part of a month just to find someone willing to sell it to us. We paid 3x retail and considered ourselves fortunate to have gotten it at all. Then we had it overnighted to Alaska from somewhere in Indiana for an additional ton of money. CPU alone ended up costing $3000.
The CPU was the last part to arrive and the shop basically closed down when FedEx arrived. We thoroughly inspected the package for signs of damage, triple checked our grounding straps, and everyone watched in awe and trepidation as the lead tech ever so gingerly placed it into the socket. A dab of Silver Fox and the stock heat sink later we're ready for first boot... Hurray it POSTs!
So we do the usual, slap Windows 98SE install disk in let it get to work on install. Install finishes up and we start up 3DMark, gonna get us a high score! Nope... Halfway through the test BSOD! Crap, okay wire check, temp check everything is good. 2nd try, fingers crossed... Boom BSOD.
2 hours of frantic forums searching later. 98SE hates more RAM than 512 unless you tweak a bunch of system settings. So we pull out half the RAM start it back up, run 3DMark so we know it was just the RAM amount. Benchmark score is nice, like double any of our personal rig scores nice. So we tweak some system settings, shut it down, add the RAM back in, spin it up, Mark it. Success!
Burn in time. Now sure we could have set 3DMark on a loop, but this rig was worth better than half a year's salary and the hottest setup we had ever seen. So we hooked it up to the shop network, big screen, and speakers and payed Unreal Tournament till 2am. Satisfied with the hardware we made our way home.
Bright and early the next morning we show up and get to the hard work of switching from air cooled to water cooled. We ran the tubes, measured twice, cut once, plumbed the blocks, checked for leaks...
No leaks!
Drained 'em set aside to let dry, took off the fans from ALL THE THINGS!!!, installed the water blocks, filled the system, prayed to all the gods we could think of, and checked for leaks...
No leaks!!
Second burn in time! It's business hours now though so it's 3DMark on a loop. Rig runs all day CPU levels off at 45c and stays. Awesome! Full load 45c we're good for phase 3. Let's see what this baby can do! Hit the BIOS set the FSB from 100mhz to 133mhz hell yeah! We've got GHZ! Score it again, this time it's mind blowing. I can't for the life of me remember the score but it was insane. So we start the true burn in, watching like hawks crowded around the bench, staring blinkless at the CPU temp. 45, 50, 55, 60... no sign of slowing, 65, 70, 75... fingers poised to abort because none of us can afford to replace this CPU, 76, 77, 77, 77!
Stable!!!
So we let it run and call the customer. Congratulations Mr. Customer sir it's a thing of beauty, come pick it up. Per shop policy we put it in a place of prominence next to the counter and hooked up to the biggest CRT we had for the ceremonial presentation. Customer finally arrives, as giddy as a rough and tumble Alaskan fisherman can be. It's late December so we shout Merry Christmas and usher him to his newest acquisition. He's delighted of course, and since we're in town and have DSL he's got a request. He pulls a copy of Quake off the shelf, writes out a check and takes his rig to our "cyber cafe" to pwn some folks. (Yes I know this was like 5 years before pwn was coined, cut me a little slack.) He spent the rest of the day and a bunch of that evening in there happy as a clam. On the sickest rig I'd ever seen.
Now if that was the end of it this would be the long, pleasant, and anticlimactic story of building a rich guy a computer. This is the long, sad, and sordid affair of the Dream PC 1999. We're only halfway through.
Our happy customer takes his prize home, the owner cashes the $8,000 check, everyone is happy, we close up shop and take Christmas with our families.
New Year comes around and we get a call from our favorite customer. He finally got new telephone out to his place and got DSL but he can't run Quake for more than 5 minutes without the system freezing up. With great trepidation the phone tech asks if it smells funny or there's any water leaking from the bottom...
Nope dry and smell free!
"Ok then bring it in for your 12 months of free warranty service, we'll see what's up with it."
A few days later in he comes with the rig under his arm, evidently chagrined but in good spirits. He gets the favorite customer treatment and we set the rig up on the test bench immediately. It works, flawlessly. Boot up Quake crank the settings to max run a round still fine. Slap 3dMark on it it chews it up and spits out a mind blowing score. We show the customer and he asks us to keep stress testing it while he goes shopping and he'll stop by after. So we spend 2 hours poking at it trying to make it fail but no dice, it's the most stable overclocked machine we've ever seen. When the customer comes back we pronounce it provisionally fixed and he takes it home.
Two days later phone call, "Quakey no worky." Alright bring it back in... This time we're serious we keep it overnight. Which means over a week since the customer only comes in to town once a week. So for a week we poke, prod, and abuse this computer. Constantly running benchmarks and games, use it as the technical teams super gaming rig in-store after hours. We can't make it fail. We call the customer back "Look this thing works like a champ we can't break it" he comes in we show him. He takes it to the cafe it works, so he takes it home.
The next week... "Rigs not working again, maybe it wants a car ride?" In he comes with it. Per usual it works, he shops, he takes it home.
The next day, "Car ride didn't work, can I schedule a house call?" Generally house calls weren't a problem, but remember I said this guy lived remote. He was 40 miles out of town, only 20 of those were paved or plowed and the last 10 weren't even road. No one in the shop wanted to burn a full day going out there for warranty work in February in Alaska, but since Windows Server 2000 was fresh on the market we offered him a copy on the house if he brought the rig back in and let us reinstall it. We figured that maybe the issue had to do with the system tweaks we had done to make 98 accept the RAM. It was a long shot but we were desperate.
The next week in comes our customer and his dream rig. He leaves it in our care and we spend the next week backing up, wiping, installing the new OS, and burning the rig in again. It still handles like a champ the whole time. Never as much as a jitter. When he comes back in we have the rig set up in the cafe all ready for him to test, which he does but you can see the glee has gone out of him. He's waiting for the other shoe to drop when he gets home.
And drop it does. We don't hear from him for two weeks but that's because he was afraid to call the night he got it home. He still can't game on it. This time when he asks for a service call we schedule it. The lead tech was the only one of us that owned a Skidoo to make the last 10 miles so he got the pleasure of making the trip. He set it for Friday morning so he could make a whole weekend trip out of it and go skidooing after the call out.
Does the boss get his happy weekend? NO! The curse of the intermittent problem rises up to defeat him.
He's there on site for 6 hours. The customer isn't lying, the rig will idle fine, but 5 minutes of Quake and it reboots. Not BSOD, just reboots like the reset button got pushed. He used every tool he had with him but couldn't find anything wrong with it. He even took 3dMark and a copy of Unreal Tournament out in case it was somehow something about Quake in specific. It wasn't, he couldn't run anything graphics or CPU intensive without it shutting down. So he restored the FSB to 100mhz thinking it must be an OC thing...Nope still won't run, just now it fails while not performing as well. So instead of a long weekend of Skidoo he has to bring the rig back to our bench to be tested component by component.
After a week of bench testing each component we still haven't gotten anything to fail either individually or together, but we're on the hook with this guy for the most expensive rig anyone has ever built so we RMA every piece we can one at a time, with a trip back to the customer after every RMA. Over the next 2 months we made that rig onto a Ship of Theseus, that means everything from the case on in has been replaced except for the CPU. We kept the CPU for last since we got that technically aftermarket we were on the hook for it and couldn't RMA it. By that point though it was May and we just bought another one retail. It was still $1000...
I remind you that at no point has this rig been anything other than amazing for us to use in the shop and between the time and the extra expense we'd killed any profit we had on the deal but this customer was still our best customer so we kept at it.
Memorial Day rolls around and I get the delivery job for the now entirely new PC. The "road" is dry now so I can take it in my off road truck along with every tester I own, my personal bench PC, and a take no prisoners attitude. This will be a solved issue!
I rolled out with a multimeter, network tester, lineman's handset, broad spectrum RF analyzer, oscilloscope, surge protector, UPS, you name it I had it, and I checked everything. Power? He was on a generator after all. He took me and showed me his setup, 20kw pure sine wave inverter cleaner power than we had in town. Telephone? It was a new copper run... Tested dead on for voltage, coms were clear. Turns out he's paid $3000 a mile for 8 miles of run to his property line. Then hired out for another mile to the cabin privately specifically to have good enough signal to get maxed out DSL internet.
I setup both his computer and my bench rig. Bench rig first in case I was wrong about the power and network. Bench rig goes up gets online plays Quake. Not at the same settings his could but it runs gaming and then 30 min of benchmark without a hitch. So moment of truth, I took down my rig put up his. Hooked it up to all the same peripherals, then booted it up. First ran 3DMark and it went...Fine!! I stepped aside and he took over double clicked Quake III and... Quakey Worky! I shouted, he shouted, he spun up some Rage Against the Machine and we rocked out to our hard fought victory. Then I packed up all my stuff and left feeling secure in my technical superiority.
But was that the end? It was certainly long, but that's not sad enough.
Summer Solstice (June 20th) is a big day in Alaska the longest day of the year. People host BBQs and stay out late under the midnight sun. So it wasn't a huge surprise when our customer invited the whole tech support team out to his place for a solstice party. He knew how much work we'd put into making his computer the dream he had envisioned. We closed the shop a little early and headed out. When we got there there were a bunch of people, BBQ, beer, I think there was even a 3 legged race at one point. It was midweek so nobody was planning on staying too late but the host asked us to stay after everyone started to disperse.
When it was just us techies and our host he went in and brought a bottle of scotch and 5 glasses out to the deck we were all on. He poured, served, and toasted to hard work and perseverance paying off. We drank and then our host pointed out a beige box at the bottom of his field maybe 150 yards from the house. "I invited you guys out here today because you deserve to see this." he said as he went inside grabbed a .308 deer rifle off his mantle, walked down off the deck into the pasture and unloaded 5 rounds into what I then realized was a computer case.
He slung the rifle over his shoulder, went down the field and retrieved his target. Brought it back up for us to inspect. All this while we stared aghast after him wondering why he would literally shoot a dream computer to bits. We asked as much when he returned and he ushered us inside to his living room and attached a camcorder to his TV. There in full living color with a date in the corner of June 10th was a 5 minute video of a computer refusing to run Quake III...
submitted by FatBeardedSeal to talesfromtechsupport [link] [comments]
games to play with friends online pc free video
And you can play one of the best RPGs ever made with up to three other friends in online co-op. Chaos and player agency reign supreme in such a reactive world, meaning one friend could piss of a ... This is one of the best online games to play with friends or you can make new friends here. GTA Online has its own fun. If you’re a GTA games fan then you know how enjoyable these games were, you can ride bikes, cars, jets, you can jump from large buildings and messing with cops (best enjoyable part of the game); What if you can do all these things with your best friends. This app is a library of classic multiplayer games. Invite your friends and play similar versions of games such as Werewolf, Draw Together, UNO, Scrabble, Battleship, Poker, and even Pool! Get it on the App Store or Google Play. Free-to-play games are increasingly common, ... There’s cross-play, too, so it doesn’t matter if your friends aren’t playing on PC. Play Genshin Impact for free. GUILD WARS 2. Trivia geeks love free online games like this one. Here’s how it works: you will collect cards from locations all over the world and compare them against trivia questions like “Who has the bigger economy?” or “Which has the highest mountain?” The best part is you can play alone, offline, or against friends. Playing online multiplayer games with friends is good for the brain too. Studies have revealed how video games improve our hand-eye coordination, quickens our reaction time, sharpen our mental capacity and “improved performance in perception, attention, and cognition.” Classes may be online or cancelled, but as these benefits show, there is ... Uno With Friends is Uno game in the form of an online multiplayer game. You can get it free from Microsoft store and play it with your friends. 2. WWR: World of Warfare Robots. The World of Warfare Robots is a multiplayer online battle robot shooting game based on a hypothetical war in 2156 A.D.
games to play with friends online pc free top
[index]
[6766] [755] [7850] [1320] [5830] [3809] [8873] [8234] [4545] [9249]
games to play with friends online pc free
Copyright © 2024 m.playbestrealmoneygame.xyz