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Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:Kinda surprised they don't need their own power supply connector, I guess they've done some real work on the efficiency. The nice thing about lower end graphics cards is that they've come a long way in the last couple of years. They are a lot more efficient than they used to be and much more powerful. Intel's onboard video these days isn't too bad. You may want to look into upgrading your CPU at some point too. The 2500k is a good processor for most things but when it comes to gaming it's starting to show its age.
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Geoj posted:I can't fathom drinking a sizeable percentage of your calories. I did low carb back in the early 2000s - I've always been a bit overweight but it was really bad between 2005-2008 - and dropped most sugary drinks then. I'll still have a bottle of cane sugar sweetened pop maybe once every other month when the mood strikes, but otherwise I haven't looked back. There's still days where beer/liquor is my only source of caloric intake. This is probably a good portion of my problem.
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Cage posted:Why you gotta show me up like that tt fight me in cs Ok except overwatch I'll warn u I am about to hit diamond rank 
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slothrop posted:I have, in the past, brushed enough hair off Lydia to create a second Lydia. This is a 20+ kg dog. My oldest dog is (we think) a German shorhair pointer/lab/sharpei mix. Defintiely GSP:  GSP's are pretty much shedding machines and she is almost constantly in a state of blowing her coat. We almost need to vacuum rugs and sweep our hardwood floors daily.
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That's a good dog I found an old pic from his weekly light brush Huskies are fluffy
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Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:EVGA's Ti SC version is currently $145, the Ti SSC version is $160. Those are both for the 4GB versions too. I actually picked up another evga 4gb 1050ti new on eBay last night for $120 because there was a flash coupon for $15 off. Had a kid in 2 days ago had a quad core 2 extreme he was going to get an amd mobo and a Fx chip spend about 600 upgrading convinced home let me sell you this 1050ti and clean your system up (someone built it for him and was a mess) for $200 he called me today and said it is glorious.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:There's still days where beer/liquor is my only source of caloric intake. Are you me?
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kimbo305 posted:What's the deal with rental cars and California's toll system? Dollar said that the transceiver is activated as you leave the lot? It felt like the kind of thing where they could have it activated on all cars and just try to get people to buy into the system. Driving between LA and SF and around there, I didn't see a single toll, but didn't know what to look for. Like, the rental comes with EZPass or whatever it's called and you just get charged by Dollar for any tolls? And it's a system you can opt into/out of but if you opt out and drive through a toll without paying they charge you 5 times as much or something? All of my relevant driving is to/from Bay Area (I live in Reno and sis lives in Berkeley)(and it's not in a rental) but unless it's significantly different elsewhere, you're never going to unwittingly drove through a toll. Not everyone has EZPass and they still want their money so there will be cash lanes. And they are cash lanes, don't bother trying to hand them a credit card. The one time I forgot to make sure I had a five on me it turned into $25 since it's not like they have the option of making you turn around and go the other way (sent me a nice photo of my license plate). And then the $25 turned into $75 when I forgot about it for a few months.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:There's still days where beer/liquor is my only source of caloric intake. Fortunately for me, these days are becoming fewer and further between. It's amazing how much cutting down on booze has made a difference. I'm 33 on Monday and I honestly think I'm at my healthiest since I was 19. Certainly the smallest my gut has been. I still probably drink far too much, but hey, I work in the industry. 
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:There's still days where beer/liquor is my only source of caloric intake. Sounds like a good problem to me. When I intake a large number of liquor calories I frequently wake up the next morning and discover that sometime after 2 AM I also ingested 2,000 calories of cheese or some poo poo. Where'd that whole rotisserie chicken go? Oh yeah, I was drunk last night.
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funny Star Wars parody posted:That's a good dog i take my doggo to a park and do that and let it become tumblefur weight chat: i'm at about 210ish right now, 33in waist and 6'4" but need to get to 32 waist and 200 seems like a good goal. i think i'm going to try to do a half marathon in october so i need to start upping my mileage on runs. i usually do about 3.5 to 4 miles for workouts.
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Previa_fun posted:I got my wisdom teeth out at like 21 and it wasn't that bad. The nerve block into the roof of my mouth loving SUCKED though and I still wince when I think about it. Oh poo poo, did you just do local? I had them gas me all the way out. Wake me up when it's over, doc.
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So I found some bread under the hood of my car. Recently my car has been absolutely covered in bird poo poo. Is this a thing birds do or is some shithead loving with my car?
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KidDynamite posted:So I found some bread under the hood of my car. Recently my car has been absolutely covered in bird poo poo. Is this a thing birds do or is some shithead loving with my car? On one hand birds are messy eaters so if we're talking crumbs it could be the birds but on the other hand birds don't like to get rid of food they've gotten so odds are good someone's loving with you.
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funny Star Wars parody posted:Ya he's starting to blow his coat which means I'm going to be brushing a 40kg dog who is deathly afraid of the blow out brush This is Fred:  We use a rake on him to get his fur brushed as it's way too thick for everything else we've tried. Never heard of a blow out brush, and after some quick googling that looks like something I need. He's so fluffy and it's easy to get a couple of dog's worth of fur off of him in a brushing.
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I'm waiting for the 1080ti to come out fully because it's going to tank the price of the rest of the 10 series cards hard- already starting to see 1080's at 1060's prices. I'm not really needing to upgrade the rest of the PC- it's a 2600K that runs happily at 4.2ghz with a corsair HN80 water cooler on it. Bout the only thing I could really upgrade would be swapping the 16gb of 1600mhz ram out for 32gb of 2133 and getting another 512gb ssd and run them in raid for a primary drive. The Evga 770 GTX superclocked 4gb GPU still holds it own but BF1 constantly bitches about frame rates.
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Ferremit posted:I'm waiting for the 1080ti to come out fully because it's going to tank the price of the rest of the 10 series cards hard- already starting to see 1080's at 1060's prices. We are on a glorious eve of cheap powerful cards. The future is now.
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QuarkMartial posted:This is Fred: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTg2LLh41z8 
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 It's also $400, so.... maybe the groomer can keep doing it.
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I just use the exhaust end of a shopvac with a gerry rigged brush on the end to help get stuff loose rascal loving hates it 
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Ferremit posted:The Evga 770 GTX superclocked 4gb GPU still holds it own but BF1 constantly bitches about frame rates. I have a GTX970/i5 6600k and for the first month or so BF1 bitched about frames constantly. It took a few driver updates and some tweaking to get it smooth; what helped a lot was editing some (iirc) .ini/config file to limit frames to ~60, and then increasing that number by 10 or so until it started getting bitchy again. Something about the CPU and GPU trying to render max frames all the time and struggling to do so. I've kind of already forgotten the reading I did, but I recall the number of CPU cores active/percentage being used had as big an effect as the GPU.
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Game designers suddenly remembered that they can use unoptimized CPU code on top of their poo poo GPU code and it's been a shitshow
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Are all parts stores loving garbage useless or is it just Repco? Literally every part I have bought from them has been incorrect and I've had to take it back and get it elsewhere. I always tell them exactly what I need and then they ask for the registration number and plug it into their computer and then somehow sell me the wrong thing. In retrospect I should stop buying things from them. It doesn't help that the only parts stores near me are Repco and BNT and they're both 40+ km drive away Now I have my Corolla on axle stands in my driveway for the next ?? days until I get the correct size frickin steering rack boot in the mail
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Does SA have anywhere mentally ill people congregate? I'd assume the Crackhead Clubhouse, since drug use and brain problems generally go hand in hand, but I've been there a few times and it's weird... I don't venture out of AI or LP much these days, and I don't really know where to look. Like, I appreciate the chat threads' patience with my own issues, but I don't feel like it's the most appropriate place to vent my often irrational frustrationsfunny Star Wars parody posted:Game designers suddenly remembered that they can use unoptimized CPU code on top of their poo poo GPU code and it's been a shitshow Wait, isn't setting your poo poo on "ultra-high" or the equivalent thereof, actually easier on your GPU because it's forcing your CPU to work more than medium-leveled settings would? How do so many developers release such poorly optimized pieces of garbage as finished products? It's worth it to spend another 2-3 weeks working on optimization, so that your game is realistically playable. I would've never bought Bloodborne, or its DLC, if they didn't fix the awful, awful load times. Even though Bloodborne is my favorite FromSoft game after Armored Core 1, which will always be the best for obvious reasons. *Cschk* You are... a RAVEN *Cschk*
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Official sadbrains subforum is E/N, or i guess now it's called Much Ado About Nothing.
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Enourmo posted:Official sadbrains subforum is E/N, or i guess now it's called Much Ado About Nothing. E: I thought you were being facetious, but I found exactly what I was looking for in their stickied thread, thank you sir gimpsuitjones posted:Are all parts stores loving garbage useless or is it just Repco? Literally every part I have bought from them has been incorrect and I've had to take it back and get it elsewhere. It's basically everyone at every store since they get paid like poo poo, on top of having no real training or experience with cars. I went to 5 different parts stores (2 different Autozones, a PepBoys, and an O'Reilly's. A second O'Reilly's finally got me the part an hour and a half after I started looking for a bolt that I knew every place should have had...) before I could find an oxygen sensor bung. No clerk knew what "the M18x1.5 nut that holds an O2 sensor onto the exhaust, you know, the thing that you weld onto the exhaust piping to make sure the lambda sensor reads exhaust gasses" meant The Door Frame fucked around with this message at 05:57 on Mar 22, 2017 |
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KidDynamite posted:So I found some bread under the hood of my car. Recently my car has been absolutely covered in bird poo poo. Is this a thing birds do or is some shithead loving with my car? There's also a fairly good chance the birds are the ones loving with you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCgd2kv2TSI
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The Door Frame posted:It's basically everyone at every store since they get paid like poo poo A district manager was having to defend to the regional manager why he authorized a driver to be hired $0.90 above minimum wage. Every raise I've recieved has been a required part of my promotion or had to be submitted and rejected twice for being too high, then broken into 3 parts and submitted piecemeal. The company posted record profits all 4 quarters of 2016. Lol, retail. quote:on top of having no real training or experience with cars. Most people I've met are as knowledgable as anyone in AI. Most just don't give a gently caress about what you want or aren't trained in anything more than basic use of the computer catalogs and never trained on the paper catalogs. Half of why my stores retail side is as strong as it is is because I drill the training of every way to find parts into people's heads. And stay on people to use it. Elmnt80 fucked around with this message at 06:12 on Mar 22, 2017 |
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It's funny seeing some people's heads explode when they walk into my store and I actually know a thing our two about the beer/whisky/gin they're enquiring about. That's what happens when you shop at an independent store that actually cares about retaining and training instead of Dan Murphy where it's a loving alcohol supermarket that isn't any cheaper most of the time /rant
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The Door Frame posted:Does SA have anywhere mentally ill people congregate? I'd assume the Crackhead Clubhouse, since drug use and brain problems generally go hand in hand, but I've been there a few times and it's weird... I don't venture out of AI or LP much these days, and I don't really know where to look. Like, I appreciate the chat threads' patience with my own issues, but I don't feel like it's the most appropriate place to vent my often irrational frustrations It's the chat thread, fucko. Post whatever you like even if it's ~feelings~ related, I don't think anyone in here is enough of a oval office to flip out at anyone else for doing so. If they are then they can get tae gently caress.
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Cop Porn Popper posted:A district manager was having to defend to the regional manager why he authorized a driver to be hired $0.90 above minimum wage. Every raise I've recieved has been a required part of my promotion or had to be submitted and rejected twice for being too high, then broken into 3 parts and submitted piecemeal. The company posted record profits all 4 quarters of 2016. Lol, retail. Penny pinching is everywhere you look, and it's always in the most asinine ways. My boss was only allowed to give out a single 3% raise, three 2% raises, and twenty one 1% raises a year in a department of 35 workers, but I only got told "be more careful" when I destroyed almost $40,000 in medical equipment on accident because it was improperly loaded for shipping and I sliced through the seals while removing it from boxes... Or at my last job when they just sent an email explaining the process of closing, instead of taking the time to train supervisors how to close the bar. Our inventory was permanently hosed and every bartender would be scrutinized for wasting booze. All the while, we'd have cases and cases of liquor that ended up getting literally poured down the drain, but none to make the profitable drinks that we were being instructed to push on customers. They also fired all of the maintenance staff and we were left on one of our biggest weekends without working taps because not paying a guy to fix and maintain the pressurized system that generates your revenue is good business quote:Most people I've met are as knowledgable as anyone in AI. Most just don't give a gently caress about what you want or aren't trained in anything more than basic use of the computer catalogs and never trained on the paper catalogs. Half of why my stores retail side is as strong as it is is because I drill the training of every way to find parts into people's heads. And stay on people to use it. That might be true, I've only actually interacted with a few and the majority of them didn't know anything that the screen doesn't tell them. Of course, they could've also been actively avoiding conversation with customers because they hate being at work, which I can't realistically fault them for
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The Door Frame posted:That first part is just Corporateamerica.txt Business, Finance, and Careers › Corporate is the worst form of job, except for all the others
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Cop Porn Popper posted:A district manager was having to defend to the regional manager why he authorized a driver to be hired $0.90 above minimum wage. Every raise I've recieved has been a required part of my promotion or had to be submitted and rejected twice for being too high, then broken into 3 parts and submitted piecemeal. The company posted record profits all 4 quarters of 2016. Lol, retail. I think I've told you this before, but I wish the Oreilly guys here cared 10% as much about their jobs as you seem to. The only store I can get actual service at is one particular Napa, which happens to employ a bunch of older dudes who have been there 10+ years (since I've been going there, anyway). Anywhere else? Dumb looks are still free, I guess. I'm sure you know what a Holley 4150 metering block gasket looks like and where it is, in fact I think it was you who told me where they keep it behind the counter, but it was like pulling teeth asking anyone besides the Napa dudes about any of this stuff.
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Wow, driving to Four Corners from Phoenix sucks. That sucked. EVERYTHING CLOSES AT 2100
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The Door Frame posted:That first part is just Corporateamerica.txt Of course, 3 out of the 4 last hirees turned down the job offer. Nobody is gonna work in SC summer heat for minimum wage, especially when they're already working for $10+ somewhere else. Come on now.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:x220 + SSD + IPS screen Well, an X220 with the IPS screen just popped up at a reasonable price. It's got a 320GB spinny-disk drive and 4GB RAM, and I don't know about the battery life*. But it's an X220 with dual-band wifi, Bluetooth and 3G WWAN  I'll use it for a while, and probably upgrade it to 8GB RAM and an SSD at some point. * It's got the 6-cell battery. Unless it's in good condition, I'll just buy a 9-cell for it.
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I have many parts stores in a Relatively small town but I have found one Advance that seems to really have good people. Particularly one time when I just knew it was my alternator and the guy convinced me to leave my battery and let him do the long test. I mean really had to convince me. And it was the battery still on same alt 2+ years later.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:There's still days where beer/liquor is my only source of caloric intake. I think I posted this before, but I quit alcohol for 1 month and I dropped darn near 20lbs and my blood pressure went down something like 15 points. Just from the booze, nothing else. No change in diet, no extra exercise, nothing. Still snacked on poo poo food periodically and still ate fast food a few times a month. Mostly drink highballs.
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