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Ok did watch I swear liberals are dudes that don't ask why enough. They get a "good enough" answer and just run with it.

For example. He is railing on the media for how they mishandle these stories and runs with that answer. As opposed to asking why they do that. 

He is explaining sympthoms of societal decay but doesn't realize those aren't the root causes of societal decay.

26 minutes ago, Brick said:

 

 

Does he mention how the profit motive for our news outlets means you have to cover Trump because he is a walking/talking news story?

3 hours ago, Brian said:

My only real complaint is the battery life. Even playing games that I think are less demanding and dropping frame rate to 30, I still average about 2-3 hours of game time.

 

I can’t imagine Asus having decent battery life using Windows, dual fans, and a newer processor. 

AMD is really efficient with their laptop chips. It will run as low as 5 watts as high as 28-32 watts. It will be faster then the steam deck at the same TDP. Also this looks steam deck sized so unless its super thing I'm expecting a bigger battery. I think the Aya Neo has a 50.25wh. 

There are room for more premiun models but there is a price ceiling for these. Probably cost of a lower end ultrabook so like 1k-1.2k. An aluminium body model would be cool.

22 minutes ago, thewhyteboar said:

If you don’t believe that guns are the cause of violence and that the 2nd Amendment should be abolished you are just flat-out delusional. Hope it’s fun to wake up, wash your hands with blood before you enjoy your stupid fucking hobby. 

I'd say they aren't the only cause and Republicans use that one as cover. The other sounds like a personal issue and distracts from the other issue of guns. 

Did I mention we suffer a lack of mental health care professionals and mental health care is expensive plus meds are expensive?

Ideally we should ban guns used in these incidents, do a buy back program for existing owners, and fix our mental health crisis. Once the effect of mental health crisis start to look better you think about unbanning the guns perhaps as a compromise to gun owners. Reasonable solution that we can't implement because people are unreasonable. Plus people are used to getting the short end of the stick so they don't believe they'd get the right to say AR-15 rifles. 

I don't recall who's union on the boards. The Obama era union contract grandfathered in pension plans essentially. New workers will get an enchanced 401k match. We won't ever gwt that back tbh. The precarity of life in America makes the kind of long term strike needed to get that back as undesireable.

3 hours ago, unogueen said:

Did jesus know this would happen?

In theory he is a man god so yes. Yes he does. 

Probably still crying over everything that happened after since human history/present is grim dark.

25 minutes ago, 5timechamp said:

 

yup, that is whats killing me right now... I just retired military, I enjoyed what I did so in a sense work was "play" it was my social outlet... now as I sit here purposeless I went from working 19 hr days as a DS constantly moving and talking to just doing nothing... just sitting home with pent up energy. I keep thinking of places to volunteer or work to be useful but as an introvert just the thought of establishing something new is killing my will to move...  Sometimes I think im over thinking it and that im actually social, but the reality is just the prospect of going out for "fun" is in itself exhausting...  

Need to find a balance in your case. However you won't find it by overthinking. Overthinking can be okay but if you ever find yourself just going in circles mentally it might be something else. Life feels so easy now however I do think something was wrong with me physically. Just the meds alone brought a profound change. I could have figured out my life on my own in theory. I just could never make decisions on my own. I'm not sure why. Still trying to figure it out. 

If you do find your mind just runs in circles and you can't really make decisions and stick to them then maybe xanax. It helped alot and was the first step in breaking down and deciding I need help. I did the lowest dose one a night and the difference in my mood was good. If you feel you can't improve your life without help get a therapist. You aren't working right now so it's a good time to see a therapist and get started on meds if needed. 

21 minutes ago, Ricofoley said:

It's moments like this--where you have prominent writers and political figures all the way from the far right to what you could generously call the center-left--all popping at once to say, "I don't understand why people keep ragging on the billionaire nazi garden. I have also taken many trips to the billionaire nazi garden," that really de-mystifies how things have gotten to be as fucked as they are.

Omg is my old post about feeling like Captain America and finding out Hydra took over S.H.I.E.L.D ever appropriate.

1 hour ago, Fizzzzle said:

Insulating yourself from all people is bad for your brain, and I say that as a certified introvert. When you live in an isolated suburban home, drive in your isolated metal box to work in your isolated cube only to go back home, it melts your brain.

 

Having somewhere that you can just relax and be around other people does wonders for things like... I dunno, empathy. It does good for the soul to realize you're not the main character in a movie.

I thought I was an introvert all my life but I think I'm an extrovert actually.

My actions are of someone that likes to be alone but it's more of I see like going to the movies, vacations, sight seeing, etc as social activities. If I'm by myself I'd rather read, study, hobby, etc.

On 4/8/2023 at 9:14 AM, CayceG said:

It IS, in fact, capitalism. 

 

For the longest time I had two Third Spaces: a morning coffee shop downtown, and a bodega/cafe I'd hang with friends on saturday nights. The owner of the coffee shop closed it and rented the building out to some fancy developer who turned it into a cigar/whisky bar. The bodega was purchased by a developer, closed, and turned into luxury apartments. 

Ya we live in a capitalist society. It is by definition our main problem.

It's not the lack of religion per say. It's the decline in a central place where people in the community could socialize. Today is Easter so Church's will be packed. That every Sunday 1 hour mass grind means every week you see members of your community. 

Stories like this and I am sure plenty of other occured before the pandemic. However the pandemic changed alot. Aside from the dead and retired. Alot of people got to live more fullfilling lives by being at home. The "We won't ever work from home." changed to "We have to.". People either worked, didn't work, or worked from home. The bad thing was people getting sick, deaths, and not being able to go out and hang out basically. So like the plague hurt fuedalism, this one has hurt capitalism. 

Our society is too focused on the individual at the expense of the collective. I feel it causes a lack of meaning and love in our lives. 

16 minutes ago, stepee said:

3m is a damn good start!

Who knew Elden Ring was the greatest handheld game ever made?

On 4/5/2023 at 2:26 PM, stepee said:

 

I think it’s more the speed improvements. For gaming in general single thread performance is king.

 

Edit: That’s why you disable hyper threading/smt on deck for emulation, because you get a higher clock speed on the 4 remaining threads.

Ya I want to avoid having to do that. I'd upgrade to a Zen 5 or 6 3D 8 core variant whatever has 1 CCD. 

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It would be cool if ASUS is the first of many from other system builders. I'd reconsider the UFO so long as AMD can keep the chips coming. 

16 hours ago, Greatoneshere said:

 

Makes sense given Republicans' hard-on in some states to get rid of or relax child labor laws. They've been missing a key demographic to abuse all this time, and kids are the easiest to trick and convince! Get 'em young.

I recall reading an article about migrant kids working in the meat industry. Which is basically dystopian.

46 minutes ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said:

No child should go hungry, period, and it is the responsibility of the parent and state, jointly and respectively, to ensure this. 

I'll one up you and say no child or adult should go hungry (unless they want to dieting basically) or lack housing. 

2 hours ago, GeneticBlueprint said:

 

How often do you think each of these guys says/thinks "I have a black friend so I'm not racist"?

100% of the time the thought can be brought up.

What's crazy is like it's clearly blatant coruption and they legatimately don't care. They might as well tell us to "Let them eat cake" and I don't think she (Marie) actually ever said that.

2 hours ago, thewhyteboar said:

Imagine being so rich that you commission the ugliest non-Thomas Kinkade painting in the world.

Billionaires unironically wasting money on shit art.

When you realize the Republican Party would fit right into the Legion of Doom. Denying school lunch feels like something a super villian would do.

2 hours ago, Keyser_Soze said:

 

I wouldn't say that I do. If you pay attention to the rate the movie thread I literally watch everything. I think my tastes are a lot more open than most people here, who seem to have a very narrow taste of just watching whatever's popular.

My mistake. I dont really pay attention to the what you are watching. I only post it when I find a super amazing show. Like my tastes are kinda bad actually. I am enjoying How I met your father. 

9 hours ago, CitizenVectron said:

 

What happens if a SCOTUS judge is imprisoned due to a big crime (murder caught on tape, etc) but their party won't impeach/remove them? Could they continue to cast votes from their cell? 

We are ultimately winging this so sure. Nothing matters let him vote from his cell that just so happens to be his house.

1 minute ago, crispy4000 said:

 

They do.  The last two big single player FF entries (FFXV and FF7R) sold between 10 and 15 million units apiece.  The franchise has lost some relevance in comparison to say, Sony 1st party, whose biggest releases cross the 20 million mark.  But I wouldn’t call it a niche.  Not unless you’re willing to claim franchises like Resident Evil and Tomb Raider are niche as well.

 

FFXIV is the real juggernaut for them now, at 27 million.

MS is thinking of COD numbers when buying Activision-Blizzard. Square is much smaller then they are.

Like they could just buy Square but why don't they? They need the money generated by like EA or Activision Blizzard to move their needle. 

19 hours ago, Keyser_Soze said:

I'm not sure about that audience score either. They seem like retaliatory ratings rather than real opinions. I saw on twitter before everyone had seen it people were already defending it and saying how they would love it and critics would hate it. Then people pointing to the sonic movie scores (The Sonic movie sucked too imo) were similar but higher critics rating actually.

I think you may prefer a higher quality of art to the average movie goer. To them it should/could be a break from their every day lives. So they expect it to be a dumb kids movie. It sounds like it is so it meets their expectation and they viewed watching it as a good to great time. 

Like I kinda wanna watch it with my mom because we stopped going to the movies with her working 2 jobs, cancer, depression, etc.

4 hours ago, crispy4000 said:

It’d have to be very sour to leave so much money on the table.  In theory, at least.  Square’s not even giving PC as much love as they could.

 

When are we getting KH games on Steam?

It could be the opposite. Square is used to exclusivity deals they love it. I don't think Square games really move the needle anymore. It won't atleast on the Xbox. The people that want Square games have other options. They'd have to beat Sony via bidding wars and why spend the money for a niche genre. 

Lol MS is working with partners (Relic and AOE4) for games but in general they kinda just buy dev studios now. 

MS fears another tech giant getting into gaming not Sony.

9 minutes ago, Jwheel86 said:

 

NC Republican Leadership is already hinting they'll try to gerrymander her district to help her. 

Ooo ya she got bought. They wouldn't be hinting at shyt they want to do and something that obviously an agreement would have had to cover for her to go along with the change in party.

It might in fact not be that rotten in fairness. She could have had an honest change of heart. One of my benefits of 4 years of therapy is that I noticed alot of problems are about not wanting to change your mind. To the point I'd find that the least likely explaination. People seem to just out right lack interspection. 

I'm very mentally flexible right now. I would legit apology to someone if I am wrong about something. To have a change of heart about issues like woman's rights and others would require mental gymnastics people don't actually do. 

2 hours ago, ort said:

After I betrayed people's trust by lying to their faces for months and months and stealing their money by presenting myself in a deceitful and fraudulent way... now everyone is being mean to me... wah...

4 hours ago, CitizenVectron said:

I had a good discussion with my wife the other day about Christianity, and she was very confused about the whole thing. Couldn't understand why there are Catholics but also other Christians. When I explained what Protestantism is, she was also confused by how many types there are, and how big the range is in extremism. She asked "so who are the worst Christians?" and I had to explain which ones are more extreme in different ways, etc. How you have Anglicans and also Evangelicals in the Protestant camp (technically). She kind of threw her hands up in the air and said none of it makes sense, haha.

It makes sense there is just alot to study. I legitamately would read the books that were used as source material from the Hell On Earth podcast.

7 hours ago, unogueen said:

80 years? Try hundreds. It's been a pious practice for men of the cloth to tempt themselves with children since the no nut for jesus challenge started.

Thousands kid. The Catholic Church traces its origins to early Christianity. The pope is the Bishop of Rome.