Quote from: Flee on March 31, 2017, 06:13:35 PM

I already regret going PC master race.

Could have got the ps4 and played with your best friend.

But Playstation is literally the weeb console.

Doesn't even look half bad, but I'm always sceptical about serious movies / horror focusing entirely on a children's cast.

I'm not saying it's illogical. Why does everyone here seem to think I'm saying something I'm not?

It's just what your posts seem to suggest. Little of what you say seems to refer to specific situations or policy, but rather to a general "it's too late, might as well stop doing anything". And I'm clearly not the only one who got that impression.

It'd be great if everyone was on our wavelength about this, but most nations aren't, so I'm not going to give a solitary fuck if one meaningless policy gets scrapped, am I?

You actually really should.

This is not just any country we're talking about. The US is the second largest polluter in the entire world. It almost creates more co2 than the entire EU and India combined, and has an emission per capita rate that's almost twice as high as China's. And yet, just last year, it proved to be among the best in the world at lowering emissions under Obama's environmental policies. At the global level, we're now seeing a surge of green energies and CO2 emissions have been staying flat over the past few years despite economic growth. Several dozens of countries have successfully lowered their emissions over the course of the past few years. All of the biggest polluters, whether it's India, China or the EU are all successfully lowering their carbon footprint.

Scepticism is healthy, but you are being downright negative in a way that is not fully supported by fact or science. We are making progress and are doing so faster too, all while green energy is becoming more efficient and new methods of dealing with pollution are constantly being developed. Maybe you just didn't know, but we are definitely seeing a global shift towards combatting climate change and taking global warming more seriously. So yeah, you really should care that the second largest polluter in the world, which is also one of the countries best suited to tackle its emissions, is now taking steps to turn back progress made because the climate change denying and anti-vaxxer demagogue in charge is looking to push an anti-science agenda to benefit his buddies in the coal industry. This is objectively bad and should be met with full condemnation and scorn as it could turn out to destabilize this newfound and positive global trend of improving our environment.

Either way, I think we agree on the core of this issue. I just think you're being too negative and not entirely in line with what recent facts, figures and policy changes are showing us. These things should be met with the outrage and condemnation they deserve, not a casual shrug because "it was pointless in the first place".

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Am I the only one who, at this point, kind of cringes every time people are addressed as "guardian"?

I'm not a climate expert, but maybe we should be investing in the idea of preparing our societies for the impact of climate change, rather than trying to resuscitate an already fucked planet. Seems like a more proactive use of resources.

What is up with all these negative and largely unscientific posts in this thread?

What we have on our hands is a wildfire. It's already burned down swathes of forest and land, and is guaranteed to cause more damage in the future. This much is clear. So what do we do when faced with such a spreading fire? Do we throw our hands in the air because it's all fucked anyways? Do we shrug and say "yo, shit's on fire anyways so might as well pour some gasoline on it"? Do we tell our firemen to stop trying to contain the blaze and minimize the damage and fallout because it's a "fruitless endeavor", or quit their jobs and instead try to prepare for living in a blackened and burned down wasteland because it would be a better use of time and resources?

No, we listen to the experts and people who actually know what they're talking about (these scientists you explicitly said you weren't part of) and follow through on their pretty much universal consensus that looking after the environment, using green energy, lowering our emissions and so on is still actually a good idea with an enormous merit even today.

Especially when you consider that there's a pretty much universal scientific consensus and global move towards lower emissions (even China is going green and has been decreasing their emissions over the past few years), this whole attitude of "doesn't matter, might as well say fuck it all" is so illogical and backwards.

Quote from: Flee on March 29, 2017, 05:29:42 AM

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Quote from: Flee on March 29, 2017, 04:29:23 AM

Bro if you'd just read the Grimoire Cards, you'd understand their genius.

I never said the lore was bad. It's just presented only in such a dumb way that I never even bothered with it much.

Oh, I think the lore is bad. It's mostly just meaningless tidbits of information that don't hold up in-game. I always got a bit of a laugh from killing Oryx with a handful of guns. He's supposed to be just shy of a literal god, but about 5 minutes of being shot with bullets is enough to do it. And your mechanic buddy back at the tower can take his heart and turn it into a gun, for some reason.

Oh, I always heard it was actually quite decent. I just never checked it out after day 1 because of how you have to read it.

Quote from: Anglosaxophone on March 28, 2017, 07:12:48 PM

There's literally no policy on Earth that's going to halt, or even postpone climate change at this point. China and India are shitting out coal emissions like there's no tomorrow. Even if by some international, logistical miracle we all managed to stop emitting CO2, too late, we fucked it anyway.

Maybe it's just the cynic in me talking, but I wouldn't get worked up over a policy that was a fruitless endeavour anyway.

Pretty much.

I disagree. Haven't we had this exact conversation before? Just because we have caused some form of climate change and are bound to reach a certain higher temperature doesn't mean that we can't stop it from getting worse or mitigate the effects. Saying otherwise goes against what is to my knowledge the vast scientific consensus and ignores the fact that there's still thousands of researchers and experts out there looking for solutions and presenting beneficial policies.

NASA, for example, agrees. It first concedes that "Humans have caused major climate changes to happen already, and we have set in motion more changes still. Even if we stopped emitting greenhouse gases today, global warming would continue to happen for at least several more decades if not centuries." But then goes on to add that "But it may not be too late to avoid or limit some of the worst effects of climate change. Responding to climate change will involve a two-tier approach: 1) “mitigation” – reducing the flow of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere; and 2) “adaptation” – learning to live with, and adapt to, the climate change that has already been set in motion. "

And it's not just them. The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Chief also said that it is not too late to avoid even more dangerous rises in temperature. Same goes for other scientists and research papers, who still maintain that "the only way out is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible", or the Yale Climate Connections project saying that such pessimism is a dangerous myth. Even the most renowned US climate change scientist who was one of the first to say that it's too late to still avoid some degree of global warming still says that prompt steps must be taken, including the implementation of a carbon-emission tax on fracking companies and legal actions against governments, to press them to cut down emissions. "The science is crystal clear, we have to phase out emissions over the next few decades. That won’t happen without substantial actions by Congress and the executive branch..."

When you forgot about the bath you have filling up and open the door to a half flooded bathroom, you don't go "well, guess that's it, so I might as well turn the faucet open all the way because I've already got water everywhere". Trump's actions are dumb and anti-scientific as shit. Yes, global warming will happen and it's going to change the way we live and interact with our world in the (near) future. But just how bad it's going to get and how we deal with it is still something we can change. This isn't a bomb with a timer set to get off in 2 seconds that we can't do anything about. It's a spreading wildfire that is sure to take place but can still be contained and limited to a significant extent.

I've got a very specialied job that is basically impossible to automate, so no. I do look forward to more automation in my field though, to make life easier.

Same for me. I don't see my job ever being automated, but I would not at all mind an AI or machine learning tools to help me get things done quicker and more efficiently.

Quote from: Flee on March 27, 2017, 10:18:16 AM

What exactly was fucking you up?

My mom died a little over a week ago.

Sorry to hear that. How are you coping? Other than the mess at school, of course.

Quote from: Flee on March 27, 2017, 10:18:16 AM

What exactly was fucking you up?

Basically he had sex with this dude and got HIV. He's having trouble paying for everything because medicine in America is really expensive and his insurance doesn't cover it.

Wait, seriously? How did I miss that? Fuck, that sucks man.

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Quote from: Thrasher on March 25, 2017, 08:58:56 PM

You going to post some of the benchmarks with that beast?

http://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/3224160

Everything performing above expectations putting me at 111% UFO on UserBenchmark. Would've been higher if I didn't have a bunch of other programs open too and if it wouldn't have included my 5 year old store brand USB stick I used to install Windows with.

Not sure why my RAM is performing below expectations. Anyone have any suggestions? Pretty sure they're in the right slot and everything.

Nice. For your memory I see that it's best for dual/quad channels. Did you install them correctly? With dual channels they actually need to go into specific slots mentioned in the motherboard manual. They are either the 1 and 3 slots or the 2 and 4 slots. If they are installed "next to each other" then that might be the problem.

Yeah, they're in the right slots. I'll try running it again today.

cyborg belongs with the titans and nowhere else

I didn't even know he was in the Justice League.

Now that I finally have a PC capable of running games without terrible screen tearing or low FPS, I can catch up on games I've been missing out on. All suggestions are welcome.

The ones I've installed so far are Quake Live, Overwatch and CS:GO.

Guess I didn't scroll down far enough because I didn't see any of those comments. This guy's post was pretty spot on though.

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I came here from scarce expecting to see angry muslims but instead the comment section is filled with /pol/ retards...