Taquito
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can you illustrate with a pic lowenz? I'm lost
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I am more worried with the installing than anything else.
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I didn't know the detail about not having a 6 pin included in the PSU means it didn't have the necessary power for the card. That could have been the indicative I was looking for. I will take the PSU out to see if the sticker with some info is at the other side. At least a PSU is still in budget. I saw a 500w in Best Buy.
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Where can I find a 6 pin adapter to connect the card to the Supply?
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Thanks lowenz BTW:
:laugh: 
:D :D-
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I can't deny I'm pretty exited to get this package. It's been years since I bought stuff for myself other than sneakers.
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Ok I understand now. I though the Lore was pretty much written on stone and going beyond canon was considered a no no. Good to know.
@Demagogue. I can't write novels in English since my grammar is poor but I can certainly add some story prompts and premises to the Inspiration thread.
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Update:
I decided to go with the GTX 1060 since getting a 500w pcu is cheap and it's all still in budget. Hopefully I can say goodbye to lag now. I'll let you know when the items arrive. Thank you all for having patience with me. I might be needing help with the SSD installation cause I have installed a Graphics card before but nothing beyond that. Do I need anything else?
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Shipping seems a bit high in Newegg.
I also tried checking out the Power supply and there's no sticker or any id at all. Perhaps in the other side of the piece but I cant see it. I tried finding the box but nothing. I still got the original one in the closet which is 250. But I don't remember the exact w of the one it has now.
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This might sound like a stupid question but is it a big difference between the Evga 1050ti SC vs the regular one?
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I'm creating an account right now. I was thinking Best Buy but most GTX 1050 and 1060 are sold out.
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Just came from Best Buy. There's really nothing there other than an EVGA GTX 950 at $206.
I cancelled the order already.
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I haven't cancelled the order yet.
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Do they have a website for the BestBuy in your country that I can have a look at..?
In the meantime what has been order thus far and from where..?
-Nope. But I can check it out tomorrow. I'm assuming prices could be close to this:
-The SSD Card. In the order info it says it will arrive in between Dec 21 and 30.
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@dukenzo: I can cancel the order but I can't order before i get the refund first.
@Bikerdude: I can't tell cause I rarely purchase anything online. I'm fighting the urge to go across the street and get one at Best Buy.
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You ought to keep the notes for the purpose of possibly doing an FM yourself in this setting! Who knows how things change, and where we end up at.
Unfortunately I don't have the talent to make a map but I can certainly create stories or adapt Old Folk Stories based in this setting that can be interesting. But they need a specific formula. I'm gonna give an example of a story related to Necro Witches.
Act 1
The thief is contacted by a Necro Witch. And Old Lady, owner of an apothecary (It should be noted than no one around her know about her hidden agenda). The lady looks completely harmless. The Old lady explains the situation that a client of hers asked for a love potion but these things come with a price, which was given. The love potion didn't work and the unsatisfied costumer is threatening with accusations of witchcraft to the Church. The job of the thief is to place a small Pagan statue in a chest inside the customer (A noblewoman) House and leave an anonymous letter to the authorities alongside more evidence scattered to make it all believable.
Act 2
The Client is burned alive in the Town Center and the Thief watches the consequences of his actions (Consequences should always be visible). It showed the Witch, the Thieve can be reliable and reveal their evil plan of creating a "Perfect Vessel" out of human parts, each one have to be representative of something specific stored in a jar and then create a certain situation in the city that causes hate and suffering to empower the piece of the vessel. The thieve goes into collecting the pieces of the vessel and watches the consequences of his actions unfold each time.
Act 3
The last part of the ritual is to get a baby of a noble family heir of something great in reflection of the vessel heir of the reign of evil. The thief proceeds to kidnap the baby and watches the consequences of his actions, feels remorse and start thinking that this ritual could actually be real. The necros proceed with the ritual in an abandoned house outside Bridgeport with the final part being to sacrifice the baby in order for his soul to reanimate the vessel. The Thief gets in the way in a party pooper style, steals the baby back, encloses the house and burn the witches inside and bringing the baby safe and sound back to his cradle.
The meaning of the story is that even if the thief may despise noble people, he realized that he was becoming worst than they are. The thief should be able to make lots of mistakes, watch the consequences and learn from them or try to fix them.
I'm not suggesting the Lore should be changed. I just pointing out that some details could be consolidated and placed all inside the city to add depth. Make story premises that are interesting cause in terms of gameplay, TDM will not reinvent the wheel, so concentrating in interesting and flashy stories may be the perfect formula. In fact I think Bridgeport should be potentially depressing, so depressing the player would never want to live in this particular setting and even wish to nuke it all. But still feel related and compelled with certain key characters that are trapped there and make the player keep going because of them.
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What item are they unable to ship? and why haven't they offered an alternative..?
The GTX 1015.. The SSD appears as "Preparing for Shipment" and arriving Dec 21 to 30. That's the only mail I've received from Amazon.
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Sooooo
Should I cancel the order or what? Honestly I rarely purchase stuff online so I don't know how these things work. 
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I think the idea of a precious mineral is perfect, but not for the main city.
It's a perfect excuse for an entire second setting, an explosion of economic bubble and a good reason for mining aesthetic I don't see too terribly much of.
Also, potentially bright for difficulty?
Rather than a complete second setting, a second location would be more desirable since the point of the proposal is to sort of concentrate all the elements inside the City except the Mages since it's more interesting to keep them away. The perfect location could be a mine outside close to Bridgeport so Bridgeport could serve for administration and storage of the precious gem before it's sent to the Empire.
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A couple more shots from my city mission.
Down in the canals
Love the fight between the cold and warm colors. Very reminiscent of Thief 3 Art Direction where the blues and oranges competed with each other and made a great feel.
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Here's a little proposal for expanding the Dark Mod Universe Lore:
Why? Cause I think the current Lore is too safe. The game needs more extremes for inspiration, more shock value and more controversy. Taquito is all about controversy and making people talk.
1. Plague:
As part of the Deus Ex winning formula. The Dark Mod needs a specific Plague (Dark Plague, Dark Death?) As an invisible yet present enemy in the subconsciousness of the player's mind, adding atmosphere and much more dreaded feel in the game as well as a great element for Artistic Direction or Aesthetic element.
-Piles of bodies or infected burned bodies appear all around in the city. Infected were often thrown out of the City gates or escaped to the sewers.
-The ones with infected families could not go out and have their houses marked with red paint.
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2. The most Precious Material:
Bridgeport should gravitate towards a precious gem or material that is the most important for the empire. This precious stone, gem or material is both mined and directly sent to the Empire. Failure to administrate this good correctly is considered death and its a vital item for the Empire's growth. Highest priority of the Empire.
-Mine workers are often caught carrying this and are immediately executed (hanged or burned alive).
-All sort of thieves are also caught, even some disguised as priests carrying the precious material inside sacred small wood statues.
-Every one getting in or out City Gates are checked for carrying this precious material.
-Captured Pagans are often used to mine this precious material in concordance between Builder Church and Empire
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3. Slavery: Pagans
Pagans are considered the scum of the Land according to the Builder Church. Often hanged or burned alive. The Builder Church has no mercy on heretic Pagans.
-Pagans often live inside City Gates hiding their identities. Whole families pretended faith to the Builder but hide their stone figures inside chests deep inside their homes where they practice their heretic ways in secrecy.
-Pagans living inside Gates often use last names relative to stones or flowers in order to identify between themselves and often talked or wrote in codes to communicate with each other without raising suspicion.
-Being related or coming from a Pagan Family no matter how long ago or how far back the traces are is frowned upon.
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4. Moors: Like the Dutch to the Spanish.
-Enemies of the Empire. Moors look for ways to access this precious material and will pay huge amounts of goods in order to attain a piece of the cake.
-They look for ways to sabotage the empire and often use thieves to do so.
-Their ships are often located in hidden bays far from the City waiting patiently for the arrival of anyone capable of bringing them the precious item out of the Gates.
-Moors are looked upon as Pirates to the Empire. A pest hungry for the precious gem but not strong enough to be considered a threat to the Empire.
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5. Witches/ Necros: Same thing
-Instead of making Necros who lived far secluded from the City. Making a similar approach to the Pagans yet combining the Necromancy and Witchcraft altogether.
-Witches live secretly inside City gates, have a secret sect where they service their evil God. (have to come up with a name) and believe to be an active element into bringing this evil being back from the pits of Hell by indirectly creating havoc and building this Perfect and powerful vessel out of human parts.
-Witches often service noble people in secrecy with weird concoctions or powerful love potions to clients with deep pockets.
-Due to the nature of their work and the constant threat of the church, witches often ask for help to thieves in order to collect these parts or simply make a quick hand if they become victims of black mail by an unsatisfied costumer by placing a diabolic or pagan figurine into their ex clients abodes and making sure the Inquisitor gets a hint.
-Witches and Necros often act as the most devoted Builder believers or even act as priests of the Church. They like to be close to the enemy and they take great joy in their bold activities.
-Witches and Necros are the smartest (Probably the only ones) of Bridgeport and very hard to cross, deceive or get caught.
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6. Wizards/ Mages: A thing of the past.
-With technology, Mages are now considered useless and obsolete.
-Mages live far outside the city as Kings of their own castles, more like rustic abandoned castles taken over by nature with no electricity and often in poverty.
-Most Mages only live with one Page or one Mage Apprentice who not only cared for the well being of the Mage but the whole abandoned castle. Which obviously were not enough for the big task. These talent less apprentices were often used by mages as personal slaves in exchange for little knowledge given by them.
-What mages lack in Guards and Security of their castles, they got in all sort of Magical beings like Fire elemental (should be directly correlated to Mages as their creations) as well as traps to guard their precious treasures.
-Mage castles often have precious antiques or artifacts highly priced by Nobles and Moors. So it shouldn't be a surprise to see thieves in the look for special items.
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7. Prostitution: Cause it's necessary (Jobs)
-Prostitution is a vital part of Bridgeport's economy. Considered ilegal by the Empire, yet pretty much ignored by law.
-Even if its frowned upon by Church. It seem to be a way to keep the women of good from the clutches of lust and dark desires of men.
-Prostitutes work in taverns and are busy all day and night. Often had a bucket of dirty water beside the bed to clean up in between clients so they don't get ill between the legs as they say in Bridgeport.
-Most of the clientele are Guards, Noblemen and even Builder Priests who visit way late at night were most clients are long gone.
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8. Vampires: Cause why not?
-Some say Vampires live deep hidden in the Sewers below the city and are secretly organized.
-Vampire attacks are often reported
-Not much is known or talked about of this tho
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9. Racism and Classicism: Slavery
-Obviously wealth is the most important thing in Bridgeport.
-Having a name is almost as important. Being the daughter or son of General this or Sargent Mayor that can get you places.
-Marriages are arranged by class level. Marriages between social classes are frowned upon and extra marital Romances and Love stories with different classes are topics of romantic novels and gossip.
-Having a Pagan or Moor in your blood line is a stain in the family and it will be kept secret, if not, it will be constantly reminded by society. No matter how far back it was.
-Pagans are the scum of society. Often used for service or slavery.
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10. Miscellaneous stuff
- People were just dirty. They rarely took baths and used a concoction of herbs to keep their breath fresh although still dirty for special occasions.
- Women of good hated Prostitutes but had to keep quiet about it in fear to be left alone by their husbands
- Women with good families, wealth or name will marriage first. Not being married past a certain age is almost as being cursed
- Pagans spoke their own dialects and are seen as the same thing even if they came from different tribes.
- Pagans who worked as service in a nobleman family often mixed certain herbs with food to make them sleep deeply in order to make their heretic activities at night without getting caught.
- People actually believed in ghosts and all sort of stories. (Ghost can serve as some sort of envisioned element or clue to a story or path. Similar to System Shock or other games).
- People often trusted and often wrote complaining letters to the Inquisitor or Patriarch way more than the Emperor. The Emperor was more looked upon as mostly interested in exploiting the rich material before mentioned.
I think this is it. Hope it serves as point of discussion and in no way it means these elements should be implemented but rather serve as point to enrich the lore. English is not my first language so my apologies if some grammar errors.
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I don't remember the model but I know I had to change the Power Supply and got one much better but I'll have to check the exact details. The moitor is pretty old and outdated, nothing fancy. Hp Pavillionf1503
.The purchase has been made for the Evga and the Crucial.
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Does the dual fan thing makes any difference?
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For size of your monitor and CPU there isn't much point going above the 1050Ti and the Crucial 512GB is a good price and perf. So what I recommend you do instead is upgrade the PSU to a single rail 500w and maybe get a bigger monitor - remind what's the make/model of the one you have atm,..?
PSU - EVGA 500W 3yr warranty - $40
I already got a new Power Supply not long ago. Basically these are the options shipping where I'm from:
Card:
SSD
Sorry to keep bothering you but I'm pretty insecure with things I don't know much about.
New Graphics Card Help!
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ATX is a brand of a PSU? I'm not sure I get it. Yes There's a Best Buy, Office Max, Office Depot within a 10min radius. There's also places to get the installation done but they will most likely charge around $60-$100 for the installation. I think I can do it.
-Remember I changed the original psu. the guy who installed it told me he had to break a part of the cage to fit it in and had more watts than the factory one but I don't remember exactly the number and this new supply doesn't have any labels on. I think I'll pass by and ask if they have records of it.