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I've finally picked it up after about a year of waiting and I'm wondering if any of you chaps have already played it?

If so, what are some good pointers for starting out?
No worries if nobody has played it though, it's not exactly AAA errbody play it material.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-36280987

Reading the daily dose of propaganda from our beloved state broadcaster and this article came up, pretty funny how you have that jarring moment for the chinese where they expect a britbong to be all 'tea and scohnes, my lady?' and instead they get 'FUCK OFF ARSEBANDIT I WAS HERE FIRST'.

The perception of rudeness also cuts both ways, according to Eddie Chan. Chinese people, he says, often have an image of foreigners from films and the British in particular are imagined as being terribly polite, doffing their hats at passers-by and drinking tea with exquisite care.

It comes as a shock when Chinese visitors arrive in the UK to find many conversations peppered with foul language and drivers with road rage shouting at anyone who pauses too long at a traffic light.

I've got a build-it-for-jew specs list here and it'd be appreciated if any of you can critique it
It's a buy it one obviously, but spec wise is this a good build/can you see any issues with it?



If it seems like a good one, i'll feed the components into part picker and see what the price difference looks like for buying it individually/having someone build it. This^ is sitting at £1000 which is about the cap of what I would spend and it would be good to get it cheaper than that tbh but ye

(Compatibility wise the site didn't show any issues but I'd double check that later)

but he is too embarrassed to admit it and so he asked me to make this thread to help him get out of the closet and accept the fact that he is a honoka chan and always will be a honker.

In about two months I want to be putting together a PC, assembling it and all that won't be an issue because family of techpriests and all that but in terms of picking out the good things to go for, I imagine some of you lot will have a better idea of what's a good component etc.

I'm not going for a budget build because I'd like it to actually still run games in a few years time and not just become obsolete by the time I turn it on so as a guideline i'd say around $1k (£800) is what I'd be spending. I don't need a monitor either, or accessories it's just the machine itself.

I'd also like to stick with Intel/Nvidia because that's what I currently have, other than that I'm starting from a blank slate pretty much.

Any recommendations? and is it worth just going for 16GB RAM now anyway?

So I'm sure everyone has already heard on the grapevine what happened but here's the summary for clarity and questions.

One of the rules that applies to staff only is regarding the discussion or leaking of information from the HQ board that has some significance. I.e saying how it's a ghost-town of shitposts and archived threads is fine, but disclosing some of the information there is not.

A hypothetical would be a report about X user containing personal information that we remove, we can still see and access that information through the edit/report but because of this we are not allowed to discuss it.

Rest assured though, nobody in staff actually cares about that kind of thing and it always gets forgotten in a month or so. Example here is that we struggle to remember exactly why XYZ user got banned without checking the log. It's not important, but we can still access it to find out.

As I'm sure people are now half aware, kiyo was given a permaban a while ago for doing something along these lines. Leaking something from either HQ or Skype, which we promptly cleaned up and kiyo was given the boot for.

Kupo knowing that kiyo was banned and not just gone was one of the bits of info we aren't meant to discuss. Now it's out of the bag, nobody is bound by that anymore because it's utterly futile to try and cover it up when it becomes public knowledge.

It doesn't look good to have a former mod get the big spoopy red text, and since it was a quiet breach of the rules there was no real need to make it a big public announcement.

So kupo, as a former staff member, who has leaked staff shit and made yet another tedious piece of non-drama for us to clean up has received a permaban as of this moment. He is free to appeal it to Cheat or LC in which case it would revert to his present normal ban of a few months (as a result of his recent bans being measured in months not days).


tl;dr
Kupo leaked shit from staff, that shit was that kiyo got banned for leaking from staff. Now kupo is banned for that.

Sorry for the rambly read as always, questions are open but obviously I'm not going to say what the information was in the first place.

We'll make america great again, okay?

Daih-noh-sahw dee-en-ay

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Mine is the Parasaurolophus

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/03/31/police-use-chainsaw-in-cardiff-drugs-raid

Who needs battering rams when you have a tactical chainsaw?

Thank. Fucking. God.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-35850932

Before he was ousted as Conservative leader in 2003, Iain Duncan Smith was dubbed "the quiet man". But there was nothing subdued or understated about the manner of his departure last night.

Instead, a zinger of a resignation letter, designed to inflict maximum damage on Chancellor George Osborne; a relationship that had long been testy, tested to destruction by this week's Budget.

By questioning, as the Conservatives' critics have long done, the Tory slogan to justify cuts - "We are all in this together" - Mr Duncan Smith knowingly provided the government's opponents with ammunition.

For a man with ambitions to lead his party, these have been difficult days for George Osborne.

This morning David Cameron woke to a vacancy in his cabinet and a wound inflicted on his government.
'Step too far'

Baroness Stroud, who worked with Mr Duncan Smith at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and now heads the Centre for Social Justice think tank, which he founded, told the BBC: "He always used to say to me, 'I'm here in order to deliver reform and to protect the poorest'.

"Yesterday he felt that he could no longer protect the poorest... This is a step too far."

Conservative MP Bernard Jenkin, an ally of Mr Duncan Smith, said: "A lot of colleagues will be extremely annoyed at this explosion but they will not be surprised.

Jeremy Corbyn: "He's suddenly found a conscience now... I wonder where it has been hiding for six years"

"I think the high-handed and short-termist political approach that the chancellor has tended to take to the management of other departmental budgets has tested the patience of more than one minister."

But Conservative MP Stephen McPartland, a member of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Disability, said he welcomed the resignation and saw it as a "real opportunity to get these welfare reforms right".

He said he was "not the chancellor's biggest supporter" but believed "aggressive reforms" and an "evangelical point of view" at the Department for Work and Pensions under Mr Duncan Smith "have consistently failed disabled people".

Commons Leader Chris Grayling told the BBC Mr Duncan Smith had done "some really good work" on welfare reform and he was "surprised" and "very sorry" to see him go.

Asked if this was really about Europe, Mr Grayling - who like Mr Duncan Smith is campaigning for the UK to quit the EU, in opposition to the prime minister - said: "I don't think this makes any difference at all to the referendum campaign."

Sources close to Mr Duncan Smith also say his resignation was not about Europe.

Labour MP Frank Field, who chairs the Commons work and pensions committee, said: "Behind this is a much, much bigger drama... What he crucially cared about was the balance of resources going to families and children and older people.

"The pensioner element, the biggest part of the Budget, was safeguarded and in fact increased... all these cuts were on people of working age and it's this point that Iain thinks the social contract between generations is being broken."

In his resignation letter, Mr Duncan Smith said: "I have for some time and rather reluctantly come to believe that the latest changes to benefits to the disabled and the context in which they've been made are a compromise too far.

"While they are defensible in narrow terms, given the continuing deficit, they are not defensible in the way they were placed within a Budget that benefits higher earning taxpayers."

Replying to Mr Duncan Smith, Mr Cameron said there had been collective agreement between "you, No 10 and the Treasury" that "the increased resources being spent on disabled people should be properly managed and focused on those who need it most".

"[On Friday] we agreed not to proceed with the policies in their current form and instead to work together to get these policies right over the coming months.

"In the light of this, I am puzzled and disappointed that you have chosen to resign."

Guto Bebb becomes under secretary of state at the Wales office, replacing Mr Cairns, the MP for Vale of Glamorgan.

Highlight of the assorted banter being flung at that miscreant

Jeremy Corbyn: "He's suddenly found a conscience now... I wonder where it has been hiding for six years"

tl;dr the biggest problem I had with the tory party just rage quit last night.

Fingers crossed that the new guy is less of an egotistical sadist.

If any of you remember from ages ago, my nephew was born (pretty much one year ago next week).
So here is a photo of the happy little fellow and me :DDDDDD

I think he was hungry or something because he was a bit fidgety but oh well

So I was doing the grocery shopping tonight and I saw this

abomination

For those of you who remember the 14 page flamewar over milk colours, the arrival of yellow milk on the scene will no doubt be of the utmost importance to you. For those of you who were spared the bloodshed here is a refresher http://sep7agon.net/the-flood/the-final-battle-draws-near/



Yellow. God. Damned. Milk.

Who could dream up such an atrocity against the sanctity of green milk?

;-;

Your assessment was received by the University at 23:59:23 (UK time) on 02 February 2016

Deadline was the 3rd.

I mean we have until 11am to hand it in tomorrow, but FML that's the closest it's ever gotten to me not handing it in the day before.

and with that, I am done with assignment hell (for now)

Normally I'd have had all this shit done a week before the deadline but family, christmas and my job all managed to eat up tonnes of time, leaving me blitzkrieging this shit for the last three weeks solid.

so yeah

/blog

i feel like absolute shit courtesy of all the caffeine this has required too

so

how was your january? I hope it was significantly less shit than mine.

Most Online Today: 180. Most Online Ever: 216 (January 21, 2016, 09:40:20 PM)

I thought it was going to be hard to beat the last count, but apparently people keep on coming back in pretty sizeable numbers too.

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