Technical Issues

No reader has clamored for an update, but since 0 is a significant portion of my readership, I felt obligated to provide one.

I am nearly done surmounting three different technical issues:

- the cheap earphones I use have the Left/Right backwards!! Discovered by one of those stereo test YouTube movies. Solution: use the better set of earphones.

- Latest Win Update is making Tarkov not run full screen anymore on my second monitor (one backed by GPU). Solution: use windowed view.

- From my location, I discovered there is one Tarkov server that has a great ping (20) and all the others not-so-great (90+). I am trying to just use the one server. Unfortunately, this means very long wait times for games. I gave up after 15 minutes for a daytime raid and had to quit after waiting 10 minutes for a nighttime one.

I was able to do a nighttime scav raid on the fast server with little trouble. Spawned in with a shotgun and one (1) shell in it, and no others. Shot another scav point blank in the face with the round, and he then proceeded to give me a long lecture on proper firearm safety which culminated in my death.

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On "The Video"

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