Steven Korvin
stevenkorvin.com
Steven Korvin
@stevenkorvin.com
I have a lot of interests and hobbies based around esoteric gadgets. Lurks more than posts.

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All that they could say in the community was that it was SimCity Societies, which was despised as a SimCity installment. It was made by Titled Mill Entertainment, not Maxis. That game had a partnership with British Petroleum, by the way.
November 6, 2025 at 3:59 AM
I've backed away from the SimCity 4 community. I used to focus on it too hard and not put my attention toward other things. I've found that I need a good number of hobbies and interests. Anyway, there was the time when FOX News talked about "the liberal agenda" of SimCity Societies.
November 6, 2025 at 3:59 AM
You probably know this, and it's not quite the same thing as mailing in with your favorite games, but the former mayor of Warsaw took part in a SimCity 3000 contest. He became president and sadly, died in the 2010 plane accident.
November 6, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Eventually, I realized that I could use a larger flathead screwdriver to push a tab down and use a smaller flathead screwdriver to push the same tap outward so that I could secure the tab into the socket.
November 6, 2025 at 2:08 AM
I also wanted to say that I totally cut my hands up a few days ago trying to put a giant Socket 370 cooler on my Super Socket 7 CPU. The PTM7950 that I bought from the Linus Tech Tips store didn't work out for me, so Arctic Cooling MX-6 it was.
November 6, 2025 at 2:08 AM
A Quest 3 would make things easier in some ways, including support for three monitors in Virtual Desktop. I can use two monitors in Virtual Desktop with my Quest 2.
November 6, 2025 at 2:08 AM
However, using the MapExt Mod has exhausted my VRAM, even at the Ultra Performance DLSS preset. And my CPU usage is at 40 percent plus or minus 5 percent on a new map. Typing up this message is laggy as a result.
November 6, 2025 at 1:35 AM
24 hours after Patch Day dropped, though, it was super playable with so many mods enabled. I just had to follow the community spreadsheet and Compatibility Report within Skyve. I kind of feel like that game instead of an emulator right now, though.
November 6, 2025 at 1:00 AM
I feel like I can't play Cities: Skylines I and II without Pascal Gilcher's iMMERSE Sharpen shader. And though it can be done through the Nvidia app and Nvidia Control Panel, I've forced 16x anisotropic filtering through Special K. I've used the Rendepth ReShade shader with my Quest 2 with it.
November 6, 2025 at 1:00 AM
If I play Cities: Skylines II, it'll put me to sleep... The community did a super good job this time around of managing Patch Day, though. Oh, and thank goodness for DLSS on my RTX 5070 at 4K. I've used DLSS Swapper to use the latest .dll and I'm forcing Preset K.
November 6, 2025 at 1:00 AM
My local Walgreens had a pile of them by the cash registers here in Bergen County!
November 5, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Just for clarification. I used my Meta Quest 2 headset with Owl3D. My prescription lens inserts for that are a few years old.
November 5, 2025 at 9:55 PM
I've also tried the Rendepth shader through ReShade, but that requires ReShade.

The catch of Owl3D's screen recording feature is that it'll probably require a paid subscription after its "beta" phase.
November 5, 2025 at 9:53 PM
I saw on the front page of Wikipedia some time ago that the Japan-exclusive Android release of Ghost Trick is lost media. That reminded me of how I got worked up when I played the demo of the iOS release on my mother's iPad and the two options that I had available were "Ghost" and "Twitter."
November 5, 2025 at 9:42 PM
According to what I see on Archive, the games ported by Nvidia Lightspeed Studios and the Nintendo Wii games for the Chinese market won't run due to DRM and shut servers. "Back then," I wanted a Java-based phone for the Phoenix Wright port, but I see on TCRF that only Cases 1 and 2 are preserved.
November 5, 2025 at 9:42 PM
That's cool! Leo is super approachable. I ordered my MK1869 XTREME with the PC-MIDI addon, too. Also, I ordered it with an additional 4 MB of RAM on the backside. It's paid for. What's stopping it from arriving is political circumstances. I feel a lot better now, so I won't sell my MK1869 XTREME.
November 5, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I need a few more doodads for my Super Socket 7 PC, but it's almost complete. I got myself a RetroTINK 4K Pro and a MiSTer, so that'll all be fun when it'll be here and set up. It can be tough being in my apartment like this and relying on my mother for a lot, but having "things" that I like helps.
November 5, 2025 at 7:22 PM