grommet
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My friend and I play Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024. I told him about it last year and how much I loved it but it was so complicated I did not know if I could keep playing it. He used to fly real planes and his brother is a professional pilot. My friend did not get interested and it was too hard for me on my own because I did not know anything about planes.
I was surprised a few months later when I had stopped playing, he messaged and said he had seen it at a demonstration booth at an air show and was interested, he got a laptop just to play it. Then he got some controllers, then some add-on software. He loved it so much he upgraded his internet, then bought a desktop with an i9 14-900KF, 64Gb RAM, RTX 4090. He has loved the game and flown and learned so much. He teaches me and I spent a lot of money buying controls and a new monitor because with his help I was learning to play and I loved the game too.
Now he is getting a new PC with an RTX 5090 and is sending me his 4090 PC so we can keep flying together. We learned how to join each other as a group so we actually see each other's planes and I can follow him. It is so much fun. The game looks amazing. The images are my favorite part, seeing trees, snow, rain, neighborhoods. Seeing places I could never go and it is so real. He shows me details like the pitot cover. He showed me that you can see the wind conditions on the ground by seeing how much it moves in the breeze. The developers thought of every detail and it is fun finding new ones.
I flew over Los Angeles and I turned down the engine sounds and the other volumes to maximum. There are sounds I think nobody ever hears but eh developers worked so hard to include because then I heard all the creaking in the airframe, the controls moving in the fuselage but also something amazing, I heard an LAPD police siren running through a neighborhood and it had a doppler effect. They think of everything.
I do not have much money so getting this new PC with the 4090 is exciting. I am really looking forward. I will be able to see things at Ultra setting. I know I am lucky I have friend who can give me equipment as he changes his but I am also lucky I have a friend I can share an interest, obsession, with.
I have never had a computer this powerful. I just want to see what it is like. The i9 has 24 cores, 36Mb L3 cache. The RAM is sixth generation running at over 6000MTS (mega transfers per second, I will be checking the XMP settings in BIOS to make sure it is running at full speed) The PSU is 1,000 watt Platinum. I never had one that nice. Mine is 80 Gold. The case also looks really neat. It is heavy.
Tonight my friend and I did something aspie. We were on the phone both flying but both focused on our own flights so we did not speak, but stayed on the phone. It was neat. Finding someone like you is a good feeling. It feels important because it has not happened much for me. Usually I am the only one like me everywhere I have been.
He and I talk about details other people would not like but we do. About plane liveries, the wear marks on cockpit controls. I told him my favorite flights now are in the worst weather I can set for. Terrible winds, rain storms or snow storms. Sometimes I cannot see the runway until I am 100 feet close to it. The colors of the lights in bad weather is so beautiful.
We also have funny moments because we are new and learning what things mean. We get scolded my ATC (air traffic control) on the radio. I was told I did not have permission to land and must clear the runway, the person sounded mad. The only time it was fun having someone mad at me because it was not really real.
I want to give my old gaming PC to someone, it is fast, an i7-12700 KF, RTX 3070 Ti, 32Gb RAM but since the PC he is giving me is an i9-1400KF, the F meaning it does not have an onboard working graphics processor, I am afraid to give up my 3070 from the old PC, in case something goes wrong and I need a way to still use the PC to fix it. Like if a driver is bad or somehow a power connector fails. If I do not have another card I can use, I will not be able to see anything on the screen.
I always find something that I love so much I do not want to do anything else, it makes me so happy I think only autistic people know that feeling. This is the first time I knew someone else who felt like that about something I liked too. I wish I could find people are loved other things I do but I once posted about a custom house key I made for myself that took two weeks and I still love but no one seemed to be able to connect to it and find it thrilling. It was a big project for me and works great. Part of me hopes one day a locksmith will see it and be confused because even they do not know about that kind of cut.
It feels lonely to love something so much it feels like heaven and no one else reacts that way. It always happens to me. This time I have a friend who feels the same. I am lucky.
If I said something I was not supposed to let me know. I am getting something good and maybe you are not supposed to talk about that too much because someone could feel bad they are not getting something that good. I am not sure about rules like that.
I was surprised a few months later when I had stopped playing, he messaged and said he had seen it at a demonstration booth at an air show and was interested, he got a laptop just to play it. Then he got some controllers, then some add-on software. He loved it so much he upgraded his internet, then bought a desktop with an i9 14-900KF, 64Gb RAM, RTX 4090. He has loved the game and flown and learned so much. He teaches me and I spent a lot of money buying controls and a new monitor because with his help I was learning to play and I loved the game too.
Now he is getting a new PC with an RTX 5090 and is sending me his 4090 PC so we can keep flying together. We learned how to join each other as a group so we actually see each other's planes and I can follow him. It is so much fun. The game looks amazing. The images are my favorite part, seeing trees, snow, rain, neighborhoods. Seeing places I could never go and it is so real. He shows me details like the pitot cover. He showed me that you can see the wind conditions on the ground by seeing how much it moves in the breeze. The developers thought of every detail and it is fun finding new ones.
I flew over Los Angeles and I turned down the engine sounds and the other volumes to maximum. There are sounds I think nobody ever hears but eh developers worked so hard to include because then I heard all the creaking in the airframe, the controls moving in the fuselage but also something amazing, I heard an LAPD police siren running through a neighborhood and it had a doppler effect. They think of everything.
I do not have much money so getting this new PC with the 4090 is exciting. I am really looking forward. I will be able to see things at Ultra setting. I know I am lucky I have friend who can give me equipment as he changes his but I am also lucky I have a friend I can share an interest, obsession, with.
I have never had a computer this powerful. I just want to see what it is like. The i9 has 24 cores, 36Mb L3 cache. The RAM is sixth generation running at over 6000MTS (mega transfers per second, I will be checking the XMP settings in BIOS to make sure it is running at full speed) The PSU is 1,000 watt Platinum. I never had one that nice. Mine is 80 Gold. The case also looks really neat. It is heavy.
Tonight my friend and I did something aspie. We were on the phone both flying but both focused on our own flights so we did not speak, but stayed on the phone. It was neat. Finding someone like you is a good feeling. It feels important because it has not happened much for me. Usually I am the only one like me everywhere I have been.
He and I talk about details other people would not like but we do. About plane liveries, the wear marks on cockpit controls. I told him my favorite flights now are in the worst weather I can set for. Terrible winds, rain storms or snow storms. Sometimes I cannot see the runway until I am 100 feet close to it. The colors of the lights in bad weather is so beautiful.
We also have funny moments because we are new and learning what things mean. We get scolded my ATC (air traffic control) on the radio. I was told I did not have permission to land and must clear the runway, the person sounded mad. The only time it was fun having someone mad at me because it was not really real.
I want to give my old gaming PC to someone, it is fast, an i7-12700 KF, RTX 3070 Ti, 32Gb RAM but since the PC he is giving me is an i9-1400KF, the F meaning it does not have an onboard working graphics processor, I am afraid to give up my 3070 from the old PC, in case something goes wrong and I need a way to still use the PC to fix it. Like if a driver is bad or somehow a power connector fails. If I do not have another card I can use, I will not be able to see anything on the screen.
I always find something that I love so much I do not want to do anything else, it makes me so happy I think only autistic people know that feeling. This is the first time I knew someone else who felt like that about something I liked too. I wish I could find people are loved other things I do but I once posted about a custom house key I made for myself that took two weeks and I still love but no one seemed to be able to connect to it and find it thrilling. It was a big project for me and works great. Part of me hopes one day a locksmith will see it and be confused because even they do not know about that kind of cut.
It feels lonely to love something so much it feels like heaven and no one else reacts that way. It always happens to me. This time I have a friend who feels the same. I am lucky.
If I said something I was not supposed to let me know. I am getting something good and maybe you are not supposed to talk about that too much because someone could feel bad they are not getting something that good. I am not sure about rules like that.
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