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The Flood / Re: Meme thread
« on: January 08, 2019, 06:04:59 PM »

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The Flood / Top 1 Albums of Ever
« on: January 07, 2019, 12:47:06 AM »
For eternity thus far, some okay music has been made, but this comprehensive list is, beyond my opinion, sheer and indisputable fact. This list, generate through scientific testing, showcases the objectively greatest 1 Albums made during the last ever, and provides the data by which these assertions grace fact.

1. Testify by Phil Collins

This album not only changed my life, but also the world, and by proxy your life too. Phil Collins poured all of his vast mastery into capturing the human condition and connecting with every living human being simultaneously to produce this album. It is beyond doubt that musically, it is the finest piece of art to be produced by humans, that is, barring the much more likely event that it was handed down to Phil by God himself. Lyrically... the term poetry doesn't come close to describing the beauty encased in his words. A select few albums have been blessed in either of these ways, but Testify blends them together seamlessly and with truly divine beauty.

There's not much more to be said in plain words, but you MUST immediately listen to this album, regardless of whether you've heard it before or not, lest you face indefinite incarceration on earth and eternal hellfire beyond.

Phil bless you.

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The Flood / Re: LG Stylo 4: The King of Entry Level Phones?
« on: January 06, 2019, 03:22:34 AM »
haha just let the site die already

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The Flood / LG Stylo 4: The King of Entry Level Phones?
« on: January 06, 2019, 01:54:49 AM »
I've been using this phone, on sale for $110 at best buy for a week now, and it sports some flagship design, with some drawbacks, at entry level prices.

With only a Snapdragon 445 and 2GB of ram, as well as having SD card adoption disabled to expand the internal storage beyond the stock 32GB, this phone is very similar to other entry level devices in terms of raw performance. However, there's more to a user experience than the geekbench score.

The included stylus launches a small bubble with some quick options, like the Galaxy Note, and works remarkably well. The mesh tip actually feels more premium than the rubber tipped s pen in pure use feel, but obviously lacks many of the s pen's features.

The ability to draw a cutout from the screen for a screenshot never gets boring, even if my unskilled hand makes ugly, jagged cuts. For drawing, I miss the S Pen's reticle displayed when hovering, but the accuracy is better, especially after you've slightly bent the S Pen's rubber tip.

Small bezels are nice, and the phone sports a fairly premium 79.9% screen to body ratio. The chin at the bottom of the phone is the same size as the forehead at the top, and I applaud LG's decision to forgo a notch to try and increase that screen to body ratio just a little higher. It's not winning any awards, but the 18:1 aspect ratio, with a 1080x2160 resolution on a 6.2" display (with rounded d corners), pushes even lower end smartphones toward the future of a more affordable premium feel.

I instantly missed the Super AMOLED display of my Samsung phone, and the colors will just never feel right without it. It's the sort of thing you can never come back from.

The Stylo 4 is a big winner in productivity. It handles more intensive chat apps like snapchat with no problems, and running Android 8.1 Oreo, it has no shortage of support for newer applications like Riot.im. I don't know how they stretch the small RAM so far, but I never feel like I'm losing performance.

App launch time isn't premium feeling, but it's far and afield beyond yesterday's budget, or even mid level options, so while launch is instantaneous, the brief hesitation to populate constant, while not necessarily welcome, isn't a major drawback.

The cameras sport fairly premium resolutions (5MP front & 13MP back), but they're frankly shit in post. After a few shots I already thought it may be a good idea to consider carrying a lower res, lower price, Samsung as just a camera to get all of life's little moments recorded. It's a damn shame, and makes me wonder if LG's claims of the great camera performance on the V40, might not be worth the five sensors, purely because their post processing, theoretically the same across their entire line, is so severely lacking.

Next, we come to battery life. This is where everything comes to a head. The 3000mah battery would have been great at one point, but it just doesn't cut it anymore. The fast charging is a nice feature, but as no fast charger is included it's kind of a letdown. The phone doesn't support Qi charging, so don't expect to get away with a cheap online charging pad. I have to wonder why Qi wasn't thrown in, as the design completely allows for it, which I'll touch on in a moment. Perhaps budget was a constraint, on this budget model. This kinda undermines the productivity claims I made earlier, as you might be productive with this device, you just won't be for long.

From a design perspective, mostly premium materials were used. There's adecent  hardened glass on the front of the screen, though LG didn't spring for Corning Gorilla Glass, not even an older formula, and the back of the phone is an imitative glass acrylic, which feels cheesy at first, but after some use, isn't as bad as many acrylics, and actually offers better grip than glass would. It looks like glass, and is definitely a fingerprint magnet, but it doesn't send a "cheap phone" message when viewing or touching it, after you've imparted some of the oils from your hand to make it less tacky to the touch. The fingerprint sensor is not fast, but it is pretty accurate, and it is definitely still much faster than swipe to unlock. The buttons, (volume and power, no quick access key) are made of metal, as is the entire outer frame of the phone, which offers decent drop protection and makes the phone feel more premium in general. Oh, and it has a headphone jack, in addition to the Type C port which is usually so absent on entry level phones.

If anyone out there can't be bothered to spring a few hundred for Nokia's latest offerings, which I consider the best of mid-range phones, or incrementally more for the Oneplus 6T or another Flagship at twice the price, I would definitely recommend this unit over my 2017 entry level pick of the year's successor (the Samsung J7 2017 held this title, and the J7 2018 is just a refresh of the same hardware). The Stylo 4 feels newer and more premium than even some flagship hardware from a couple of years ago, which do offer better performance, but this unit has all of the good design elements that arose in 2018, and seems to have left behind all of the bad ones.

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The Flood / Re: I love disregarding stupid words
« on: January 04, 2019, 10:38:02 PM »
All time turners were destroyed during the battle for the department of mysteries
read cursed child
I would rather never ever do that ever

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The Flood / Re: I love disregarding stupid words
« on: January 04, 2019, 09:08:59 PM »
did you know that, in harry potter, there is an in-universe rumor that draco malfoy's wife was impregnated by voldemort after they got married? (who proceeded to give birth to the antagonist of harry potter and the cursed child)

do you know what that makes him?

dracuck malsoy
literally how would that even work
time turner
All time turners were destroyed during the battle for the department of mysteries, and there is never shown any evidence of a time turner having the ability to press its user forward in time.

In fact, the only known instance of time magic being employed to take a subject from the past and bring them into the present, the closest thing to forward time travel seen in universe, resulted in the subject aging the full amount of time that they were moved along the time line, in this case 497 years.

Beyond those two observations, should Malfoy's wife somehow have acquired a time turner and gone back to when Voldemort was alive, there would certainly have been grave consequences. It's more likely than not that the mother would never survive her trip back to the present, that is, assuming someone in the present knew she had gone and was trying to retrieve her, and it's also possible she would not have survived her trip into the past, as moving through time in leaps larger than a few hours is extremely hazardous and unpredictable for other, more vague and magical reasons.

or in other words
literally how would that even work

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The Flood / Re: I love disregarding stupid words
« on: January 04, 2019, 02:39:40 AM »
did you know that, in harry potter, there is an in-universe rumor that draco malfoy's wife was impregnated by voldemort after they got married? (who proceeded to give birth to the antagonist of harry potter and the cursed child)

do you know what that makes him?

dracuck malsoy
literally how would that even work

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The Flood / Re: hel lo my dearies
« on: January 01, 2019, 08:32:02 PM »
Theyre very clearly rising up here
but are they back on the street

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The Flood / Re: What are your plans for the 2019
« on: December 31, 2018, 06:23:02 PM »
think of ways to kill myself before I get too old to be pretty anymore

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The Flood / Re: Where is Administration sep7agon.net ??
« on: December 30, 2018, 08:17:35 PM »
huh maybe I'm just literally retarded

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The Flood / Re: Where is Administration sep7agon.net ??
« on: December 30, 2018, 08:17:17 PM »
overlord

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The Flood / Re: Where is Administration sep7agon.net ??
« on: December 30, 2018, 07:10:34 PM »
I think this is the first time I've seen a bot post on the forums. Usually they just make accounts and that's it.
Posts of new members need moderator approval, mods just usually don't approve bot's messages
I like to live dangerously.
wooooow you replaced o v e r l o r d with your own name?

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The Flood / Re: Where is Administration sep7agon.net ??
« on: December 30, 2018, 07:09:36 PM »
Sorry for the jokers above. You can reach the leader of our community and overlord, David Dague, via email at DeeJ@bungie.net

Alternatively, you can ask any further questions in my email inbox, at Achronos@bungie.net

Thanks, and have a Sony day!

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The Flood / Re: Im in love
« on: December 30, 2018, 06:32:09 PM »

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The Flood / Re: Need help on a former member of the forum.
« on: December 27, 2018, 06:56:30 PM »
DecimatorOmega. I know a few of you are rolling your eyes already. But I was looking back at the older threads here that he occupied. Some of them have been redacted so if anyone can fill me in on what happened it would be great
DecimatorOmega, or as he's known in the dark and dangerous underworld of Glendale, Armen the Armenian, is a tenth level wizard who sells heroin to young black girls.

He uses his signature Crackromancy to curse niglets with potent addictions, though it should be noted that Crackromancy is just an exact copy of Cokeromancy, which he stole from the Elder God Viltre.

In his spare time, Armen likes to issue copyright notices on YouTube.

If you attempt to help him in any way to become a better person, he will use his ultimate ability, Self Destruct. This causes a complete and catastrophic meltdown, and forces him to become dormant for an extended period of time. Armen still believes this ability does damage to opponents, though most other creatures are largely immune to it, save for a hearty chuckle.

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The Flood / Re: Challengerx trigger thread
« on: December 27, 2018, 01:23:06 PM »
are we just gonna ignore the big hairy scrotum that someone posted on the last page
I was hoping we'd try.

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The Flood / Re: Christmas Haul/Activities Thread
« on: December 27, 2018, 07:44:02 AM »
Quote
my dad and his wife
👀

parents are divorced, I don't feel the need to hide that or anything.
He remarried huh

he did indeed, and she's a very bizarre and uncomfortable person. I don't like how she acts towards my little brother.

She has cameras and keypad locks at all the entrances, including the door inside the garage.
I remember you telling me about this when they were first dating. I'm sorry you couldn't do anything to prevent this fate.

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The Flood / Re: Challengerx trigger thread
« on: December 27, 2018, 07:41:24 AM »
also it looks like I won the thread

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The Flood / Re: Challengerx trigger thread
« on: December 27, 2018, 07:40:50 AM »

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The Flood / Re: Challengerx trigger thread
« on: December 26, 2018, 11:35:02 AM »
sandnigger

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The Flood / Re: Christmas Haul/Activities Thread
« on: December 26, 2018, 11:34:12 AM »
We canceled Christmas because my dad might be about to die.

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The Flood / Re: Merry Christmas you animals
« on: December 22, 2018, 05:02:38 AM »

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After reviewing the source, I find it safe to say that they are somewhat of a cult of pseudointellectualism. The Forbes contributor works for The Heartland Institute, and is involved in Republican organizations for the limitation of taxation and decrease of entitlements.

In fact, none of the scientists who believe the earth is warming that The Heartland Institute invited even attended the conference.
Likely as not to lend an air of legitimacy to the conference, which unfortunately only further serves to secluded this group.

Ultimately, I feel that climate change is really not a very important issue anyway. Man has had a very profound effect on the world, its ecology, and its climate since long before industrialization. Just as the ancient peoples of South America cultivated widespread change to the Amazon rainforest, and in large part helped to create it as we know it now, and as the ancient people of Mexico caused drought through extreme deforestation, modern man will have an impact on the world that our descendants will one day be able to study. It's pure vanity though, to think that the Earth itself won't move on, and that any impact we have will be anything even resembling "permanent".

If you're still worried about trying to control the weather, you may have a God complex.

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Gaming / Xbox One External Hard Drive not recognized - solution
« on: December 14, 2018, 01:11:50 PM »
Hey, so I don't post anywhere else except discord really, so I was hoping someone else who is more prolific on other sites could spread this info around, as I was unable to find this suggestion anywhere when trying to troubleshoot this drive detection problem.

I recently upgraded an Xbox One S's internal storage, and sold him his old hard drive back in an enclosure so it could be used via usb 3.0

The trouble was, the drive would not show up on the Xbox as either media storage or as game storage. Even formatting the drive did not resolve the issue. I decided to take a crack at something as a shot in the dark and it worked.

I initialize all drives with GUID Partition Tables, and indeed this disk was already GPT when I removed it from the Xbox. Most off the shelf drives use the older Master Boot Record standard though. I converted this drive from to an MBR disk, and ouala, the Xbox now recognizes it as game storage.

To convert a disk to MBR, if anyone has this problem themselves, open up the Disk Management utility in Windows, or on Linux you can download GParted. On Windows, delete all partitions on the drive, right click on the drive at the lefthand side of the window, and select "Convert to MBR disk". On Linux the process just entails selecting the drive and going to the toolbar and selecting "Create Master Boot Record"

When you're done, create a new partition in the NTFS format, as the Xbox will not recognize the drive without a partition.

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The Flood / Re: Going to Texas
« on: December 12, 2018, 09:49:49 PM »
There's literally a separate line of over 30 mobility scooters / special wheelchairs wtf.
welcome to texas

nobody tells you that barbecue sauce is mostly sugar

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Serious / Re: defend your most controversial belief
« on: December 10, 2018, 11:08:46 AM »
Transgenderism is a non-centralized cult preying on young boys, designed by no person in particular to shame and convert young people who are insecure or lonely.

Members unconsciously participate in targeting and evangelizing to children, in whom they sow the seeds of mental illness with the ultimate goal of culling these individuals from the gene pool.

Cells grow across developed nations, wherein cultists self-segregate and immerse themselves  in hedonism and reckless self-indulgence. Anyone unfortunate enough to be captured by the magnetic rhetoric of the sociopaths who become the defacto leaders of these cells become slowly reprogrammed to believe that beauty, strength, or whatever else their sex lacks naturally would be the solution to their unhappiness and inability to accept themselves or connect with others.

For the Cult of Transgenderism, fear and regret are powerful weapons, as they advocate conversion therapy to the youngest available, and enforce the idea that transitioning during middle school and early high school is the only way to ensure becoming normal and desirable.

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The Flood / Re: Marvel Studios' Avengers - Official Trailer
« on: December 08, 2018, 09:39:56 AM »
>Make a fantastic movie with an absolutely kino ending
>Ruin it with a sequel

I mean, I know that we all knew they were gonna come back from the film release schedule chart, but having the Avengers end on that note would've been brilliant.
No, it wouldn't have. The ending works only in the context that our collective protagonists have finally tasted defeat, and what made it so brilliant is exactly what made Empire so brilliant. It forces the hero(es), and by proxy the audience, to take a step back, and look within themselves to learn from defeat, and grow as a person.

A lot of characters go through this of course, but what makes it resonate so much in Infinity War and Empire is that in the end we're left with that defeat, and truly get to meditate on it. If there's nowhere left to go, and the series ends there, then nobody is going to care enough to do that, because they know it's over forever and there is no coming back from this.

Basically, without a sequel, nobody is going to connect with the defeat, and the ending wouldn't have resonated with anyone. We would all just be bummed out and mad.

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The Flood / Re: Tumblr Destroying All Porn
« on: December 06, 2018, 07:13:44 AM »
Why would they suddenly decide to sanitize their platform of something that isn't inherently wrong when they never had an issue with it before?
because they're now being pulled from the app store for it
weird because twitter has porn on it and so does reddit

They weren’t removed for porn, according to apple they were hosting actual child porn.
You still use this account, Cheat?

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The Flood / Re: reddit's only problem
« on: December 05, 2018, 09:17:52 AM »
if someone challenges you you gotta beat them in order to call yourself better. If a kid challenges the world champ in boxing and the champ says no the kid can proudly say that the champ ran away from his challenge.
Or you can ignore them and win automatically because you place them beneath yourself.

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The Flood / Re: reddit's only problem
« on: December 05, 2018, 04:11:59 AM »
I think you spend way too much time on the internet if you try to reply to everyone who disagrees with you. Or hell, maybe you need the attention.

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