Alligatorjandro
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cant stop playing Diablo 3
need moar lootz
need moar lootz
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NFL Off-Season |OT3| Josh Freeman is fat and eats too much food. Fat. Fatty. Fatfat.
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AngmarsKing701
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The game rocks hard. Been playing it with my two sons. Two wizards and a demon hunter. We're having a blast. I love using the frost nova spell coupled with wave force. My wizard literally shatters some of the lower levelled enemies.
I loaded up on magic find and gold find gear. The game is basically a loot slot machine. Even with the server troubles, it's been a blast running though it.
Alligatorjandro
Banned
I kind of regretted buying it when the servers were down but when i started playing those regrets went away.
AngmarsKing701
Member
Also picked up Civ V in the Steam sale this last weekend. Started playing that and having fun, too.
I love my new laptop!
New Humble Indie Bundle came out today with really good games.
Michelle Beadle left the mother ship? That show she was on and her career are now over.
I've been playing V. I've had it since launch and am just now getting around to it. So far, I think IV was better. The ai is too dumb to play the sophisticated wars.
XiaNaphryz
LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
I much prefer the combat in V, but overall the game doesn't feel as deep as IV. I'm hoping the upcoming V expansion helps out there.
AngmarsKing701
Member
I also need to grab Baldur's Gate II at some point. GOG.com has it for $10. Might bite on that. I played the first one but not a ton; never played II.
Also, the new Heroes of Might & Magic.
And I haven't finished Skyrim yet and now the expansion is coming. And I haven't even started Witcher 2.
Dammit. Good thing there's still 90+ days til football season starts.
Also, the new Heroes of Might & Magic.
And I haven't finished Skyrim yet and now the expansion is coming. And I haven't even started Witcher 2.
Dammit. Good thing there's still 90+ days til football season starts.
Rosenhaus is a twat. Wish he'd get banned.
XiaNaphryz
LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
I think Crusader Kings 2 is still on sale over at Amazon. Activates on Steam.
AngmarsKing701
Member
Yes, I saw that bundle. $12.50 for like 6 games from Paradox. Just couldn't pull the trigger on it, given all the stuff I already mentioned.
AngmarsKing701
Member
Isn't he part owner? Did he make the check out to "self"?
Read that this morning. And he still wants to play for the NFL in the upcoming season...
The 50 dollars were for his ownership of the team.
smh
If he gets hurt im sure the Eagles will INF him
Do they really need Hines Chower and the bus
NBC will be unbearable
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TheLegendary
Member
Just got an SSD set up for my desktop. 95 bucks for 120 gb so prices seem to finally be somewhat reasonable. Damn this thing is speedy. course I'm also on a fresh install of Windows but still... noticeably quicker.
Dutch Gronk
Banned
DUTCHIES ARE GOING TO MARS
You less superior people can visit me on Mars in 2024. Snes will be 70 by then.
You less superior people can visit me on Mars in 2024. Snes will be 70 by then.
Bolt Vanderhuge
Member
Good. Take the Patriots with you.
Have fun with Newt Gingrich.
TheLegendary
Member
I really thought that we'd have Moon hotels by now. When I think of all the money we've wasted on poor people it makes me sad
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I really thought that we'd have Moon hotels by now. When I think of all the money we've wasted on poor people it makes me sad
Now that the government has handed over the space race to private corporations we will be there within 25 years. SpaceX has advanced rocket efficiency more in the last five years than the gubmint did in 60.
A private company never would have launched Challenger with the known o-ring failures. The political pressure just doesn't exist.
That said, manned flight isn't really the goal. Decreasing the cost to orbit is the ultimate goal, at which point the government will steal additional tax dollars to license that rocket tech and set even more ill-gotten proceeds on fire to re-start NASA's shuttle program.
False, because as squicken said, investors would pull out at the loss of a billion dollar asset. The profit motive is supreme. There are always taxpayers the government can rob, but private companies don't have that luxury (or maybe SpaceX will get too big to fail!)
And if they did launch and fail, their sources of capital would simply leave and find someone capable, not keeping dumping money into the same failed organization.
SSD is the biggest upgrade you can made these days for your PC or laptop (outside of gaming).
I upgrade last year to my MBP and it was night and day, especially the difference in shutting down.
Hines might not be bad. He tells it like it is. We will see though.
False, but it is the most awe-inspiring upgrade you'll make. It doesn't really add anything to your PC in terms of "upgrading" it, it just makes it faster than FMT nutting to a picture of the cuckold on the toilet.
is this why no private airline has ever had a crash?
wait, what's on the toilet? fmt, the cuckold or the pic?
yankeehater
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lol
cuevas. PhD.
Member
You just blew his mind.
In terms of how fast apps open and the general "speediness" to a computer, it is the biggest upgrade you can make in my opinion.
A 2 year old i5 with an SSD on a laptop is going to feel faster than a new i7 with some shitty 5200rpm 1 TB drive. The difference is very noticeable.
The only problem is size. I only have 128 gigs in my laptop, whereas the old drive had 500. But I will gladly take that tradeoff for the gains in speed.
The airlines haven't really been private companies since the 30s. I'm not taking a big stance on this, but if people actually had real choice, no one would put up with the current state of air travel. I'm just not sure what the alternative is.
Cant you just use a SSD for speed/important data and a platter for not important data?
First, the scale is magnitudes different. The cost of a plane is barely a fraction the cost of putting a craft into orbit. Airlines are also insured. As yet, no agency has been willing to insure space flight.
The big difference though is the revenue source and the immediate utility to that stream. Private space enterprises are wholly dependent upon private (and more importantly patient) equity as there is no incoming cash flow. The fee for ferrying cargo to the ISS covers roughly 20% (at best) of the fuel cost. These companies literally hemorrhage money every day with expected returns 20 years in the future. It's a patient mans game. A single disaster costing lives would represent a massive fail rate. Additionally, there is no utility for the common man on the horizon. If SpaceX succeeds or fails in their launch last week, we go about our day.
Passenger flight, however, is a utility. Airlines can absorb crashed because society needs flight. The costs (both to society and to the company itself) of a plane crash are a tiny fraction of the same costs to a space exploration entity. Once you have "proven" something to the point where society accepts it is safe, you can afford a certain fail rate. Until you reach critical mass, however, each failure is magnified.
Yeah, but it doesn't allow your computer to do anything new, so I don't really consider it an upgrade. It's definitely something I would suggest everyone buy though.
That would be ideal, but you can't do that in a lot of laptops as they don't always have room for two drives.
I am mostly a laptop guy at this point in my life. The last PC I owned was like 7 years ago. I loved that thing though, but I am almost always on the go these days and it doesn't fit my lifestyle anymore.
If I ever get a different job or change my preference of OS again I look forward to building and turning on a new PC. That first week of running the new PC you just built is awesome.
You sound like my wife
I really thought that we'd have Moon hotels by now. When I think of all the money we've wasted on poor people it makes me sad
If we stacked the countries poor people on top of each other, how close to the moon would it get us? Two birds, one stone.
If we stacked all the women in Wisconsin up, would it get us to Mars?