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The Flood / When you upset your GF on your birthday
« on: August 22, 2023, 11:08:19 AM »
Please console me.
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The Flood / When you upset your GF on your birthday« on: August 22, 2023, 11:08:19 AM »
Please console me.
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The Flood / New Computer« on: February 07, 2023, 12:18:29 PM »
I haven't touched any of my internal PC components since I built the monstrosity that's currently on my desk SEVEN years ago. In Ian-years that is a very long lifespan for tech hardware. However the storage is starting to become limited, the fans are failing, and the GPU (while being considered high-end at the beginning of 2016) is now incredibly dated and laughably bad by today's standards.
As such I have have taken my tax return that would've just gone into an index fund, and used it instead to completely rebuild the computer with all new internal parts. I am keeping my mouse, keyboard, monitors, and case because there is nothing wrong with any of them and Corsair still doesn't make a mid-tower version of my Corsair 760T and I am very in love with this case design. Below is a list of what I currently have inside compared to what I am waiting to come in the mail. Original build (2016): Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-SLI DDR3 CPU: Intel i5-4690 RAM: Corsair Vengeance 8GB DDR3 (2x4GB sticks) GPU: EVGA Geforce GTX 980 PSU: EVGA 850W G2 Supernova 1xSamsung 250GB SSD 2xWD 1TB HDD OS: Windows 8.1 New build (2023): Motherboard: Gigabyte Z690 UD AX DDR4 CPU: Intel i7-12700KF CPU Cooler: ID-Cooling SE-914-XT RAM: Corsair Vengeance 32GB DDR4 (2x16GB sticks) GPU: Gigabyte Geforce RTX 3060 Ti PSU: Corsair RMX RM750x 1xSamsung 970 2TB m.2 SSD OS: Windows 10 Please rate and offer suggestions. I will be keeping the HDD trays and eventually getting two very large (10TB+) HDDs for media storage in the somewhat near future. 4
The Flood / "Being poor makes you fat"« on: December 25, 2022, 09:54:26 PM »
Is a straight up fucking lie. I've lost nearly 15 pounds in the last two and a half months.
Which isn't a bad thing but I do kind of miss the days where I can just order Chinese takeout without fear of any financial turmoil from doing so. 5
The Flood / AMA I broke my straight edge lifestyle« on: November 08, 2022, 05:36:02 PM »
As some of you might remember, I had a pretty bad situation almost five years ago. I drove out to a liquor store with the intent of buying enough alcohol to make the pain go away. I ultimately decided against it because I had a small moment of clarity and didn't think the situation would improve if I started getting shitfaced drunk.
Fast forward to now and a far worse life event has occurred and I've been trying to build up tolerance so that I inevitably can drink all that pain away. Of course because I've never drank before I've been starting out small, like real small. I had three bottles of Mike's Hard Lemonade a few nights ago, which did....fuck all and I felt nothing. What would one recommend to in terms of a ladder or rung for moving on to some of the harder stuff? 6
Serious / The Darrel Brooks Trial« on: October 25, 2022, 09:46:30 AM »
Darrell Brooks faces 76 charges after driving through a Christmas parade of white people, killing six and injuring many more. Wisconsin does not have the death penalty. Trial is scheduled to run through 10/28, beginning at 8:30am each morning.
Previously: >Brooks chose to fire his public defenders and represent himself >no understanding of court procedure >using sovereign citizen websites for legal arguments >made an uninterrupted 51 minute rant last >trying any and every strategy in order to tease out a mistrial >Brooks forfeit his right to testify Coming up next: >jury instructions >closing arguments (inb4 jury nullification shitstorm) >the (objectively guilty) verdict and sentencing 7
Gaming / Valkyrie Elysium« on: September 27, 2022, 11:04:47 PM »
"Wretched soul! By Odin's command, you shall be purified!"
I just finished playing the demo and I had an absolute blast. I have it preordered and I'm waiting for it to come in the mail after Florida is done getting slapped in the face by the Atlantic Ocean. Anyone else tried the demo yet? YouTube 8
The Flood / AMA I MIGHT be interviewing for another promotion« on: July 05, 2022, 11:52:32 PM »
Nothing is set in stone.
I have already been studying the questions, and these are pretty difficult in comparison to the ones I had to answer for my current position three years ago. 9
The Flood / Shin Ultraman & Shin Kamen Rider« on: May 16, 2022, 01:22:28 AM »
Will they be as Kino as Shin Godzilla was?
And yes I know Ultraman came out a few days ago. ![]() ![]() YouTube YouTube 10
Gaming / Yugioh Master Duel« on: February 20, 2022, 12:44:15 AM »
If you run the following the decks against me:
Drytron Tri-Brigade Virtual World Those fucking Bird-lolis I hope you have some porn with you cause I'm just going to auto-click for my ten minutes before surrendering because you're filthy fucking meta cancer killing this game and you don't deserve an enjoyable victory. If you run the following decks against me: Eldlich Zoodiac Some variation of Mekk Know that you're not quite as fucking insufferable as the previous group and I'll still play a match with you but only with the acknowledgement that your decks are insanely overtuned and need a hit with the ban-hammer. t. A very frustrated Thunder Dragon player. 11
Serious / Excerpts: The Gulag Archipelago« on: September 28, 2021, 11:20:57 PM »
While reading through the first volume I have found many quotes, stories, and other writings only halfway through this book that I found noteworthy and have further light shined upon them. While I'm sure there's someone, somebody out there that seethes at the existence of this piece of literature (probably the son of some Blue Cap who worked in the Lubyanka), the fact that Putin himself has decreed this essential/compulsory reading in Russian High Schools lends untold amounts of credibility. Regardless, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was not a controversial figure in any circle and I'm sure anybody can take a little piece of what he has to say with them.
My only regret was starting to mark these writings at around page 175. Massive walls of text obviously follows. On Rights and Doctor Examinations: Quote At nine o'clock the morning check-up took place. For a long while beforehand, we could hear especially loud turns of the key and particularly sharp knocks on the doors. Then one of the duty lieutenants for the whole floor would march forward and enter, almost as erect as if he were standing at attention. He would take two steps forward and look sternly at us. We would be on our feet. (We didn't even dare remember that political prisoners were once required to rise.) It was no work at all to count us - he could do it at a glance - but this was a moment for testing our rights. For we did have some rights, after all, although we did not really know them, and it was his job to hide them from us. The whole strength of the Lubyanka training showed itself in a totally machinelike manner: no expression on the face, no inflection, not a superfluous word. On Soviet POW's Quote It was already clear to them that the Germans were not the heart of the matter, or at least not the Germans alone; that among the POW's of many nationalities only the Soviets lived like this and died like this. None were worse off than the Soviets. Even the Poles, even the Yugoslavs, existed in far more tolerable conditions; and as for the English and the Norwegians, they were inundated by the International Red Cross with parcels from home. They didn't even bother to line up for German rations. Wherever there were Allied POW camps next door, their prisoners, out of kindness, threw our men handouts over the fence, and our prisoners jumped on these gifts like a pack of dogs on a bone. On Ideology: Quote We would prefer to say that such people cannot exist, that there aren't any. It is permissible to portray evildoers in a story for children, so as to keep the picture simple. But when the great world literature of the past - Shakespeare, Schiller, Dickens - inflates and inflates images of evildoers of the blackest shades, it seems somewhat farcical and clumsy to our contemporary perception. The trouble lies in the way these classic evildoers are pictured. They recognize themselves as evildoers, and they know their souls are black. And they reason: "I cannot live unless I do evil. So I'll set my father against my brother! I'll drink the victim's sufferings until I'm drunk with them!" Iago very precisely identifies his purposes and his motives as being black and born of hate. 14
Serious / The Biden Presidency« on: January 24, 2021, 04:15:36 PM »
Sooooooooooo
Where's my Biden Bux? I don't care if he sniffs children's hair, just give me my NEET dollars. 16
The Flood / The Market Bubble« on: January 02, 2021, 02:07:29 PM »
I’m taking my $100 meme investment to the moon.
Cya later poorfags! 17
The Flood / Evangelion 3.0+1.11: Thrice Upon A Time, DVD/BD 3/8/23« on: December 08, 2020, 10:42:03 AM »![]() >Covid cases surging across Japan >Japanese journalists come out with sources saying packed cinemas for Demon Slayer's success had no involvement in it >Khara announces 4D release of 1.11, 2.22, & 3.33 in select theaters leading up to release of Shin >Adds more theaters because of increased demand >Covid cases soar even more >"A-Anno-sama! Please! You have to delay your movie!" >Anno: "Lol no way fag." >Khara announces release of Revival (Death(True)2 & End of Eva) in cinemas leading up to Shin also Anno is going to release this movie after eight years and there's NOTHING anybody can do to stop him. Next Time Preview at the end of Q: YouTube Trailer 1: YouTube Trailer 2: YouTube Trailer 3: YouTube Main theme song for 3.0+1.0 is new Utada Hikaru single "One Last Kiss" NEW TRAILER 12/24/20: YouTube TV spot 1/22/21: YouTube 18
The Flood / Happy German Reunification Day!« on: October 03, 2020, 01:29:22 PM »![]() Soviet sympathizers need not reply. 19
The Flood / Should I sell or keep?« on: September 15, 2020, 02:53:48 PM »
I was at Target today doing my typical grocery shopping, and they had the 2020 Yugioh Megatins in stock for $20. I had less stuff to buy than I normally do so I went ahead and bought one on an impulse. Here's a picture with the four notable pulls I got.
Spoiler ![]() Witch's Strike and Strength In Unity are pretty cheap despite being pretty good cards so I'll probably incorporate both into my Dark Magician deck since I haven't made any changes to it since I finished my Thunder Dragons & Sky Strikers. The real luck I got was from Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon & Borreload Savage Dragon. Here are their prices on TCGplayer: Spoiler ![]() ![]() If I sold them together and threw in another random staple like a Red Reboot I have laying around, I could sell them for $60 and make $40 off the tin. Red-Eyes would be very powerful in my Dark Magician deck; however the Japanese ban-list came out yesterday and banned Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon but here in NA we got one last week and Red-Eyes didn't get hit and we wont have a new list until December so I have a few months to decide on him. Borreload has no reason to get hit and he'd be kind of useful for my Thunder Dragons but I was hoping more to get Apollousa instead and she's only $10 on TCGplayer. Even if Red-Eyes gets banned here in NA, he'd still make a pretty nice collectors card and I have more than enough room in my Collectors Binder. 20
The Flood / AMA Lmao I got shadow banned on r/animemes« on: August 10, 2020, 09:53:00 PM »
I can only guess because I criticized their decision not to undo the ban on the word trap. I wasn't even defending the word, I was just saying that lifting the ban would solve literally all of their problems.
Quote It's pretty fun how literally the only thing they have to do to make all of this go away is undo the ban and they wont. They wouldn't even need another discussion thread, a vast majority of the shit posting would disappear instantly and they'd stop hemorrhaging subs overnight if they just undid the ban. Every time I refresh the main page the sub number goes down, and it's been going down faster to boot. Shadow bans are literally the most cowardly thing you can do. The post was in the sticky meta discussion thread so it's not like it was just a random shit post like the literal thousands of other comments that are right now. JFC 21
Serious / Ghislane Maxwell Arrested« on: July 02, 2020, 03:27:07 PM »
Everything they'll be linked to will all just be coincidences right?
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The Flood / It's summer in FL and the AC is out« on: June 22, 2020, 03:29:55 PM »
Maintenance is swamped and we don't know when they'll be out to repair, it's already been two days.
Send help. 24
The Flood / Big Burger Culture« on: June 05, 2020, 08:18:21 PM »
Look, look, look, look, LLOOOOKK
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After doing some cleanup in my tiny apartment room to add in some new shelving units (they're "meh") I now have space for ONE (1) (Uno) model kit at the top, but over the years I have gotten my hands on six different kits. All the ones at my mom's place are broken (I'm really bummed about the MG Turn A) so I can't use any I've already built.
Which one should I put together? ![]() 26
The Flood / Kyoani arsonist arrested« on: May 28, 2020, 01:35:23 AM »
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/05/27/national/crime-legal/police-arrest-suspect-kyoto-animation-arson/#.Xs9a51VKiUk
The man suspected of being responsible for the fire at Kyoto Animation which killed over 30 people is finally in police custody. Kyoani's comment: Quote “We have nothing to say to the suspect … Our fellow workers whose lives were lost will never come back and the wounds of our colleagues will never be healed.” 27
The Flood / Learning an instrument« on: May 25, 2020, 11:55:49 PM »
I'm not sure of it's just a passing interest that will fade with time but I've been giving serious thought about wanting to learn to play the clarinet. Regardless of whether or not I'll go through with it, I'll have to wait until I'm back to work anyways, a good beginner's clarinet starts at around $650. I've never played an instrument before in my life, which is partly what led me to choosing the clarinet over others. I originally thought about the oboe but they are not only significantly more expensive, but supposedly extremely difficult to play. The clarinet came up after some light research and supposedly it's no harder or easier than most instruments.
Has anyone ever played an instrument before? How was it? I'm still figuring out how to start if I do decide to go through with it. 28
The Flood / Today is Goku Day« on: May 09, 2020, 03:58:52 PM »
Discuss one of the most iconic anime characters of all time.
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The Flood / Today is Karl Marx's birthday« on: May 05, 2020, 03:27:39 PM »
Press S to spit on his grave. Good riddance to that lazy fuckwit who created an ideology leading to the deaths of untold millions. Even his own mother thought he was full of shit, constantly asking her for gibes literally wishing for her death just so he could get money for booze faster.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henriette_Pressburg Quote Over the years he complained repeatedly that his mother did not want to help him out of his financial distress, and openly hoped for her demise in order to hasten receipt of his inheritance. Henriette's view was that he should do more to earn money, she commenting "if only Karl had made Capital, instead of just writing about it". 30
The Flood / The Movie Theater Industry« on: May 02, 2020, 07:51:15 PM »
I debated whether or not to put this in Serious, but I figured it wasn't super serious business technically so....
With movie theaters shuttered for a while, there's been a lot of talk about whether or not they were even viable even before lock-downs became common place and the virus has certainly gave it a blow to the knees. Big companies like AMC are rumored to be filing for bankruptcy and several big titles have made their way to VoD in time frames where they should've still been in theaters had they been open. Disney's Onward is now on Disney+ after only a small window of being in theaters before the lock down really went into place; but the biggest movie in the discussion is Trolls 2. That movie went instantly to VoD via Amazon Prime and despite Amazon being very stingy with their revenue numbers, it's estimated that it already made back its initial investment in only a few days. The fact that this was a family movie only further creates problems for the theater business. Most families will look at streaming as a much cheaper alternative for getting to see the same movie. Big studios like Disney, Universal, & Paramount would immediately cut out the middle-man theater business if straight-to-streaming was proven to be a viable alternative and Trolls World Tour has been a perfect example of that being the case. I don't know how to feel about this. One the one hand, most of the movies I go to see nowadays are Fathom Events, either anime screenings, classic re-releases, or art-studio plays. Those have a higher premium ticket price than the already high ticket price for a standard movie in most locations. I'm easily looking at $30 for just myself when I also take concessions into account, although using various reward programs has helped alleviate the price somewhat. On the other hand, I'm also one of those snobbish art critics who considers seeing my Chinese cartoons on the big screen with the sticky gum on the floor and hearing the crowd go nuts at whatever bullshit happens on screen as an authentic movie-going experience. Certain movies have become social events (Hence I guess why its called Fathom Events) and you just can't recreate that experience from the comfort of your home. Going to the movies is also a social experience, I think the last time I went to see a movie by myself was Pacific Rim 2 and needless to say ignoring the fact that it was a garbage movie, it was also a lonesome experience and I've always gone with somebody to see a movie afterwards. In my personal opinion, family movies will begin to get phased out of theaters regardless of when society reopens. It simply makes too much sense for both the consumer (budget-focused families) and the producers (cutting out the middlemen) to maximize efficiency and cost. But big KINOPLEX 9K theaters will still be around for generic Marvel capeshit #843 and college-dropout director films that are thinly veiled pornos disguised as Neo-Noir NC17 art films. What are your thoughts? |