Nokra

On 11/29/2023 at 6:09 AM, AbsolutSurgen said:

How often do people really upgrade their CPU and keep their existing MB?

My upgrades tend to be every five years or more, so changing sockets doesn't bother me since the rest of the tech has probably also advanced enough for it to be worth it. 

I also finally watched this today and overall I enjoyed it, It's obviously primarily a movie for kids, and clearly it's not "high cinema", but they made it fun for sure, IMO. The time did fly by quite quickly, and I like what they did with the characters and how they gave them backstory, personality, etc. 

Hell yeah, congrats on the new setup!

I heartily recommend watching something like Disney's "Coco" or something else that's animated and bright; the colors are insane on OLED.

1 hour ago, Spork3245 said:

The F150 Lightning has a neat trick too: if you have a power inverter installed on the line that has the charger, if your power goes out in your house (and the Lightning is plugged into its charger) it automatically turns into a generator and can power a house for 4-5 days (that number is conservative. In their tests it lasted over a week in some cases).

I'm not sure how the wattage compares, but the Hyundai Ioniq 5 and Ioniq 6 do this as well, as does the Kia EV6. 

19 hours ago, Jason said:

NGL, for a brief moment I thought I was in the "Post your pic" thread and I thought "holy shit... Jason does not look at all like I remembered."

3 minutes ago, Bacon said:

I saw this but I don't believe it. I'm saying the data was gathered in an insufficient way.

Yeah I'm skeptical of this also, considering how quickly it came out.

10 minutes ago, Jason said:

 

It's not just a rolling death trap, it's a rolling projectile.

 

 

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/11/the-tesla-cybertruck-finally-goes-on-sale-starting-at-60990

 

 

How in the ever-loving fuck is this thing street legal?

The same could/should be asked of e.g. the Ford F250, which weighs 5,697 to 7,660 lbs.

2 hours ago, GeneticBlueprint said:

Game of Thrones Cookbook Gets First Official Look From George R.R. Martin - IGN

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A Song of Ice and Fire author George R.R. Martin has shared a first look at the incoming official Game of Thrones cookbook, including a recipe for Highgarden Dumplings.

 

I don’t care about how Tyrion makes a pecan pie. Used to be very curious how he gets back to Westeros if at all. Now only a little curious. 

This makes me irrationally angry.   It always annoyed me in the books how much ink he spent describing food rather than moving the plot forward, and now he's taking it to the next level.

5 hours ago, TUFKAK said:

What I can say worked for me was my “eureka” moment when I discovered one of root causes of my, using clinical terminology here, fuckedupness. Then it became a puzzle for me to figure out, I’m nowhere near done but I felt vastly different when I made that discovery and still am doing weekly therapy. So far staying off pharmaceutical treatment but that is an option.

 

In particular reading the book “The Body Keeps the Score” helped a lot too.

5 hours ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

 

I also highly recommend this book as well!

 

I've given it to several people whom I thought would benefit from its insights into the nature of trauma and its effect on the mind and body.

I've never read the book myself but saw this article about it a few months ago and read it because of all I'd heard about the book. I'd be curious to hear both of your opinions on the article, if you have the inclination to read it and share. 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/08/02/body-keeps-score-grieving-brain-bessel-van-der-kolk-neuroscience-self-help

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Happy Birthday, my good sir! What did you end up doing to celebrate?

I can't even remember now what the most recent occasion was, but... the last time Best Buy did this, 8 out of 10 of the games were practically shovelware. Let's see, I guess. 

You should go Intel, purely because it helps me out. 

1 hour ago, SoberChef said:

I recently saw a tweet by FilmsAtHome and it was an image from roughly 20ish years ago, comparing Blu Ray prices to 4K prices today, we're actually making out pretty well w/ physical media prices!!

 

Solid haul there Nokra!

When 4Ks first come out it seems like they're around $40, but my thinking is that if you wait until they're on sale, it costs around $6 to rent on e.g. Amazon, or I can pay another $3 and own it. 

1 hour ago, Kal-El814 said:

 

How much money have you made off skins?

Nothing gained so far, but I've spent maybe $10 to unlock crates.  

Two of my weapons are worth about $20 each though, so I could potentially make it all back and then some, if I didn't want to keep them. 

Are you playing, too? 

I guess I wouldn't care if they want to smoke privately (and nobody, especially children, has to be around it) if e.g. their premiums for insurance are also sky high. Otherwise, it seems to me like it's not just "their body, their choice", as everyone else has to compensate for their stupid choices. Am I completely wrong/ignorant in thinking this? 

Steam is telling me I've put in 44.5 hours into CS2 in the past two weeks. The problem with that number is that I've only been back from a two-week vacation for one week, and I didn't play at all on my vacation. Soooo.... playing this has basically been like my full-time job this past week (on top of my regular 9-5).  Granted, there have been several days off for Thanksgiving, but... it's probably time to ease up.

Once I've started to get better at learning the maps and the angles, learning where to target, when/where to throw grenades etc., I'm starting to more frequently get kills and assists and I'm sometimes even ending up on the upper third of the scoreboard; my enjoyment of the game has gone up a lot over the past few weeks. There are still some very frustrating moments here and there (mostly having to do with the gun physics, i.e. "how the hell did I miss that shot?!") and there do seem to be an above-average number of toxic jackasses playing (racism, juvenile attention-seeking, etc.) but so far I haven't been completely dissuaded from playing. On the contrary: the game definitely has that "just one more round" appeal to me. When you get a couple people with mics who are calling out enemies, strategizing ("you go this way and I'll go this way", etc.) it is really damn fun, IMO.

3 hours ago, Dodger said:

 

Hey what a coincidence my mortgage is $1525 a month!

2 hours ago, TheLeon said:

$1500 would cover over 2 months rent for me, if you wanted your money to go farther. 

Bloody hell, where do you guys live that's so cheap? I pay $1600/month for a 550 square foot 1-bedroom apartment in downtown Portland, OR. 

Thanks to Best Buy's Black Friday 4K sale (still ongoing as of this post), I bought:

1. The Hobbit: The Motion Picture Trilogy [Extended/Theatrical]
2. The Bourne Complete Collection
3. The Transformers: The Movie [35th Anniversary Limited Edition]
4. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
5. Inception
6. Watchmen
7. Dr. Strangelove
8. Speed
9. A Clockwork Orange
10. Everything Everywhere All At Once
11. The Shawshank Redemption
12. Planet Earth II

all 4K, for about $240 all together. 17 movies + 1 show (Planet Earth) means $240/18 =  about $13 each, so not too bad for 4K, IMO. 

1 hour ago, gamer.tv said:

Casually suggested the idea to my wife and was told, unequivocally, no.

I'm sorry for your pending divorce.  

34 minutes ago, Jason said:

 

The stuff we get in the US is horseradish with green food coloring, did you try any of the real stuff while you were in Japan? 99% of the real stuff stays in Japan. Pretty different experience. 

TIL...

1 hour ago, Brian said:

Cilantro is disgusting

Sounds like genetic inferiority. 

44 minutes ago, marioandsonic said:

I was at a family Thanksgiving dinner, and my grandmother just had a stroke in front of everyone.

 

Fuck.

Ugh, that's awful, I'm sorry to hear that. As awful as it no doubt was to witness, and at the risk of "bright-siding" it: I guess it's better than her being alone for that.  Terrible no matter what, though. Wishing her, you, and your family healing in the days and weeks ahead.  

6 hours ago, CitizenVectron said:

I really wish I had a use-case for this, because I really want one, but can't justify it. I mostly do m+kb FPS games or simulations like Cities Skylines. I guess I do play Rocket League, which is great for the deck...but I also don't go anywhere or need to be mobile, lol.

Do you poop? That's potentially hours of mobile gaming right there. 

Yeah I'm still cautiously optimistic. It won't be a game I'll pick up at launch for full price, but once it hits a low price on a Steam sale, I'm in. 

15 hours ago, Uaarkson said:

Happy Thanksgiving you fucks. Tomorrow begins my journey toward getting ripped. I ordered that book and it should be here tomorrow. I will try to keep my progress updated here. Currently sitting at around 192 lbs.

Will be very curious to hear what you think of the book once you've given it some attention!