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No Irish Need Imply posted:I'm still sad and processing my recent breakup but... I met someone. You never know. My wife of not quite 15 years is my rebound, and supposedly I am hers as well.
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OK, I guess I'm the weird outlier. I didn't hate Last Jedi but I understand how someone could, and I really liked Rise of Skywalker, though again, I can understand the complaints. LOTS of fan service, some warranted, some not really earned, and it's hamstrung by having to work around Carrie Fisher's death. Still didn't hate it, though.
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extradite THIS! posted:Got a movie ticket from my grandma. What's currently good in the cinemas? The Lighthouse still seems to run, I understand that poo poo's supposed to be dope Knives Out, if you can find it still.
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Dec 22, 2019 11:41
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My wife is sick so we aren't going to Christmas at her folks at all. Just the two of us alone, as usual. 2019 has been a good year for us financially so I was able to get her a nice piece of jewelry, and we've already bought me a new super-ultrawide monitor and an Ergodox keyboard so I've got my silly toys, but still... I hit 40 in March and it's really dragging me down thinking about what I have that actually matters. No kids. No friends that live close by. My parents are 500 miles away, not that there's a lot of close feelings there anyway. No siblings, either. Drunken depression ftw... 
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Dec 25, 2019 08:03
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bradzilla posted:If Jedi Fallen Order worth $45? It's worth a month or two of Origin Premium at $14.99 a month.
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Dec 28, 2019 16:54
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I know I'm a heretic but I've always thought that Howl's Moving Castle is better than Spirited Away. I do love Mononoke though, and Grave is in that category of "spectacularly beautiful but good Lord I never want to see it again it's so crushingly sad".
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Dec 30, 2019 21:11
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Spiderdrake posted:Also PCs don't move very fast anymore. Yeah, hitting the limits of Moore's Law kinda hosed up Intel's progress. PCs just had a major leap forward in terms of CPUs in the last few months. The latest AMD chips now mop the floor with Intel for almost every desktop and server use case. It's not even close anymore. AMD has unleashed the Core Wars, forcing Intel to get off their lazy asses and innovate, or else be left behind. CPUs had really stagnated for like 7 or 8 years, though. Intel got the normal desktop market to quad-cores with hyperthreading and just stopped innovating. AMD now offers a 16-core desktop CPU. Hell, you can go to the high end desktop/workstation parts now up to 32 or soon even 64 cores. The software has finally caught up to multi-core as well.
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Jan 2, 2020 22:16
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Drew McIntyre posted:i don't know if that's actually true or not. there are only 6 possibilities, but my methodology was a lie based on coincidence. i'm sorry. a b c d ab ac ad bc bd cd 6 possible combinations, as long as ab and ba are considered the same combination. Kvantum fucked around with this message at 20:15 on Jan 15, 2020 |
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Jan 15, 2020 20:13
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Chris James 2 posted:I loved it but I get why some hated it We were gonna go see that but I had a really awful migraine. 
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Jan 24, 2020 03:55
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Mekchu posted:WRT to the first episode of Star Trek: Picard
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Jan 25, 2020 18:35
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Jerusalem posted:I never even considered picking Alexios over Kassandra, but apparently if you do, Kassandra absolutely revels in being the bad guy and really chews on the scenery in a fun way. J-ru, my biggest issue with the game is that the good ending that you and I got with Kassandra then does not tie into the first DLC at all where the whole point is you starting a family of your own and having a kid. You would think that the two of those would have a major interaction, but there's no reaction between them at all. But the second DLC pack? Holy crap that's pretty. The third bit of that might be the prettiest place I've ever visited in a video game.
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Jan 26, 2020 03:47
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and then I took them all onboard my boat to go on a family cruise
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drrockso20 posted:On the Scorsese discussion, my favorite would probably be Casino, though I haven't watched Irishman yet The Irishman needs at least half an hour if not a full hour cut out. Its just too friggin' long. Casino is my fav, though.
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Jan 29, 2020 03:28
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Spikegal posted:I had some sad brains last night but was able to get through it then and lately in general by focusing on my diet. When I started in Jan I was 321 this morning I was 305. These little mini goals really help keep the existential dread away for now. 16 pounds in a month is nothing to sneeze at. Good going.
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Feb 7, 2020 15:58
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WSAENOTSOCK posted:I'm outta' heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeere. Two words for you: monkey torture.
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Feb 8, 2020 03:58
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Jerusalem posted:This is an utterly irrelevant and petty complaint to be making in light of Captain Magic's post... but loving UGH the AC Odyssey DLC is loving AWFUL. Did you save your family in the main game? No we've decided you didn't now even though they're literally right there on the boat with you. Did you play Kassandra as gay or even just asexual? Well too loving bad we've decided you're straight now. Did you completely reject the utterly boring and generic nobody every time they made romantic advances, including the big climactic departure where you just waved goodbye without a care in the world? Too bad he comes back and in a cutscene you decide you love him after all? Did you repeatedly tell the characters throughout the game you enjoy a life of adventure and travel and find home life utterly boring and uninteresting? Too bad you've settled down into domestic "bliss" with what'shisname the guy so personality-less he might as well be an anime bodypillow. Oh also you've got a kid now because apparently being a badass assassin/mercenary/freedom fighter/soldier living a life of adventure is irrelevant to being a mom or some bullshit.
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Spikegal posted:
I kinda went in the exact opposite order you did, Spike, Atheist to Deist to Christian. Raised Unitarian, so vaguely Christian but about as much Atheist or Agnostic as a church could be. I was never happy with the idea of this being all there was, and then the more I studied physics in college, the more things just seemed just ever so "off" thinking of this as all there was. Then there was a truly bizarre, nonsensical sequence of events that lead to me meeting my wife, the both of us just having weird feelings out of nowhere and spontaneous trips putting us in the same place at the same time hundreds of miles away from where either of us were both living at the time. No possible rational explanation existed in my head for how the hell we met. Nothing in normal, rational space could explain it to me. I think the final breakthrough moment for me was when I was re-reading Edwin Abott's Flatland (we were assigned it in college) and one night it all just kind of fell into place, a Eureka moment. How can God exist with us just in this three-dimensions-of-space-and-one-dimension-of-linear-time universe? Well, the simplest way possible: He/She/It doesn't, at least not in just these dimensions, in just this linear time. Then everything just kinda came to me out of that. Admittedly calling myself an active Christian is kind of a... conceit? At least not the way most people in this country who claim to be Christian. I am fairly certain something else exists outside of all of this, so there are three possibilities to it: 1) God doesn't care, so worship is a waste of time. 2) God hates us, in which case worship is insane. 3) God cares about us, so worship is appropriate to one degree or another. I remain hopeful that #3 is the case, and that the extradimensional entity/force/power some call "God" would be wise enough to learn and revise plans: send down explicit plans directly, those don't work, then send messengers with a list of Commandments, and then realize that all of the messages from others aren't enough, it was time to go be the message. That's why I claim specifically Christian faith if anything, not anything humanity built up around the idea of Christ or the church, but the core idea that God would act in this subset of reality to be born as the message, live as the message, and yes, die as the message as well. Everything about the message may be flawed and imperfect the second it starts interacting with human failings, but at least the idea of it is something there. As I said, it's all kind of a conceit, I admit that freely. I may be a terrible Christian in the eyes of many for not big-B BELIEVING and only "believing", but I do remain eternally hopeful that my beliefs are correct. I could be wrong, though. Way too much of a scientist to not live with that possibility in my heart and mind at all times. TL;DR - I remain hopeful that God exists outside of linear space and time, and that He/She/It cares.
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Spiderdrake posted:
He's principle owner of Valve (since his co-founder left in 2000) so all of the profits from Half-Life made him rich before Steam even existed. There are no corporate or VC interests AFAIK so all of the profits go straight into his bank account, or else those of employees with stock options. But he owns more than 50% of all stock as well.
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Feb 16, 2020 01:02
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WSAENOTSOCK posted:The story they're telling about the Federation being total bigot assholes is relevant as all get out, but I'm just done with it. We've been seeing it over and over and over since Deep Space Nine first did it and it hasn't been done as well since. I'm a cynical rear end in a top hat by nature and even I think Picard goes too far. DS9 had the balance right. The Federation is not all it seems, not by far, but there is good there, hope. If Picard was more about the quest to restore some of that ideal, searching for the Rodenberry-style utopia, I'd be all for it, but so far the show has kinda just turned me off with how terrible the Federation seems, not even worth trying to save.
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Feb 19, 2020 06:32
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The Matrix The Blues Brothers Thor: Ragnarok Wall-E Casino (I know Goodfellas is the vastly superior movie, but there's just something about Casino that resonates with me.)
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extradite THIS! posted:Knives Out was good but I really don’t get people going so nuts about it. It was entertaining, well-made American popcorn cinema. Not some sublime masterpiece. It's over-reaction to something we almost never see anymore - an original film not based off of a novel or some other property, or else from a director whose built up so big of a reputation that we all just go "let's go see the new XYZ flick" without any real care as to what the film is actually about. Yeah, with another decent film or two Rian might end up in the Scorcese or Nolan category, but for now it's still more about the individual work.
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SunshineDanceParty posted:Yeah it's a bummer. I was able to laugh about it a couple of hours ago because I saw it coming and that's always my initial reaction to bad news, but now I'm thinking about the months ahead and it's just gently caress. What area are you in? I know in Houston at least Amazon and most of the grocery stores are hiring basically anyone that can pass a criminal background check as temp workers. It may not be much, and probably won't have benefits, but it might be better than nothing.
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Benne posted:My big takeaway from this week is that getting paid to sit at home is a lot more fun in theory than in practice Yeah, we worked from home 1 day a week before all of this happened, and yeah, it gets boring. Even with Doom Eternal, which I sadly have to report I am kinda disappointed in. The balance is way off from Doom 2016, and they're trying to make it have a plot and I'm just like "don't care, wanna go kill a bunch of things... wait, I only have how much ammo? I don't care if the chainsaw does turn enemies into an ammo pinata, that poo poo just ain't fun!"
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Mar 20, 2020 20:51
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Shard posted:My aunt died. Won't be able to go to the funeral. Don't even know if they are gonna have a funeral My condolences. Look into virtual or live-streamed funerals. It was at first a thing they mocked as "Millennials killing yet another business" but now it's kinda important.
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Seth Rollins posted:personally, i feel that Square betrayed their fans' trust in them when they released a sequel to Final Fantasy. many people at the time, myself included, were under the assumption that it would be the final piece of fantasy media made, ever. by anyone. if fans of the fantasy genre had known that was false, i, along with many others, would not have rushed to purchase a copy at release. IIRC, they named it that because the studio was about to go under, so it was going to be their "final" game before bankruptcy.
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I've been playing Ori and the Will of the Wisps. I loved the first one even though I could never get passed the first escape sequence climbing the water tree. Gave up on it after about two hours of trying. Will of the Wisps is a lot easier. I've only given up in frustration now with the final level where I have to somehow bounce an enemy projectile through four different directional portals to break one barrier. It's a lot like the first one overall, though the combat is now more Hollow Knight-ish. Beautiful art, music, and heart-wrenching story, but infuriating difficulty in places. Now to find a Let's Play for the last level...
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Captain Magic posted:
Mila is nude initially before they apply the bandages to her. It's brief, but if the audience is going to flip out over any nudity then it's a no-go.
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ChrisBTY posted:I was having fun with that game. Then it just kinda...ended, leaving me to wonder where the other half of the game went. That might just be a me problem though. It's not just you. The game is very short by open world sci-fi RPG standards. "Only" 20ish hours.
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Jerusalem posted:Seriously, it's a pitch-perfect love letter/ending to the trilogy. I wish I could. I really, really wish I could, but the ending was such an utter and complete slap in the face that I've never touched a Mass Effect game since. I've never been more disappointed in a game's ending in my life.
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Cavauro posted:don't spoil ff7r in this thread, because i have to wait 2 years for it to come out on the computer. the ul;timate platform! It's just a 1-year exclusivity to the PS4. We'll get it next April. (The most recent video about it from Square has "Captured on the PC" on some of the clips.)
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Bluedeanie posted:I haven't played a ton of the series but I have yet to play an rear end creed I really liked. The closest was Black Flag and that's just because if you squint hard enough you don't see all the tedious and glitchy rear end creed stuff, it turns into Sid Meier's Pirates! I was going to say "Have you played Black Flag?" but that's out. Umm, have you tried Origins or Odyssey? Odyssey has a lot more of the ship combat than Origins.
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Shard posted:I bought every single part from my computer and put it together by hand. Hardest part was the processor I was sweating over that thing like I was defusing A-bomb Rgb lighting cables are way worse once you get used to normal PC building. Now hardline water cooling tubing, that's even worse from what I've seen. No thanks. I've built my PCs since 2003.
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Captain Magic posted:Rewatching First Blood. Mad Max Fury Road?
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That's huge even by Great Pyrenees standards.
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Apr 20, 2020 16:55
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The size of this lad/lass
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CobiWann posted:So...how's everyone holding up? Bored with my current job, but realizing I should be overjoyed just to have one, still. I've got an interview tomorrow for a new job that would pay way more than I realistically ever thought I'd make, but it's an oil and gas company so I realize I'd basically be selling my soul. Six figures is six figures, though. I'm sure there has to be a German word (or maybe one of the Scandinavian languages) for "I've got my own problems but I'm doing fairly alright in context, however I do definitely feel bad about not having it as hard as so many other people out there". Kvantum fucked around with this message at 18:32 on Apr 21, 2020 |
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NienNunb posted:It's 40 bucks right now is that the Right Price? I'm not in the mood for Doom rn or else id get that. It's on Xbox Game Pass for PC which is $1 for the first month. (There's only about 20 hours of gameplay so you can beat it in one month.)
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That... sounds more like a bipolar mania episode to me. Source: am Bipolar II, have brief manic spells every few months or so and more frequent depressions. (Bipolar I is the other way around.) Is this the first time she's ever done something like that?
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CobiWann posted:Eh...she was diagnosed with a minor case of ADHD, but she says being trapped in the house is causing her to turn creative. She's hung LED lights in her room, taken up painting, and now did her bathroom. She hasn't physically seen her high school friends in months and has only seen her bio-dad and stepsister for a handful of days. I haven't sensed or seen any depression beyond sleeping for 12+ hours a handful of times. I really think she's taking advantage and stretching her creative wings. It's the 2 AM part of things that really seems a bit off to me, or at least familiar. Gotta clean, gotta fix, gotta just "do"... Something. Can't sit still, can't sleep, gotta go do something now. Not later, now! I've been there a few too many times. Now this can easily be a one-time thing written off as "adolescent", but if it happens again, it might be worth talking to her therapist and/or adjusting meds if she's on any.
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Cavauro posted:dudes. I monumentally hosed up when i said "by going amd" in my computer post earlier, and didn't specify that i meant cpu only. i don't know about amd gpus other than people being annoyed with their drivers recently Well, every hardware rule is going to have to be reevaluated in the next year or two. Both the PS5 and Xbox Series X have new, much more powerful AMD CPUs and GPUs (well, compared to previous consoles at least), and also NVME SSDs running at 20 to 50 times faster than HDDs. The big issue is that those numbers will become the new baselines for game performance for cross-platform stuff coming to PC. Maybe AMD will also finally get a high end GPU that outdoes the best of nVidia's cards. The "intel CPUs for just gaming, AMD for gaming and (insert anything else here)" rule will likely stay true, though.
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Shard posted:I picked up a 1080 ti a couple years back and I can't imagine upgrading from that for a good long while. I love my 1080ti, but I got a doublewide 5120x1440 monitor (Samsung 49" CRG9) that I want to push to 90+ Hz (it'll max out at 120.) The 1080ti isn't really enough for that in the high-end titles anymore so I'm targeting the 3080ti when it supposedly comes out in Q4 of this year. I'm also a massive PC hardware nerd with no kids so, yeah. RGB blinkenlighten trying to fill the gaps in my life.
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Chris James 2 posted:Don't know which I appreciated more, the random unnecessary hate crime to a gay couple in the literal first scene that let me knew immediately I was gonna hate this film, or the fact that significant time was spent over the rest of the film to take potshots at King for being bad at writing endings just to provide a worse ending to the film/story than King did The hate crime was in the book, too, but that was when the adult version was set in 1984.
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