Bartimaeus

You should've seen some of the noodley-armed alien replicant shapeshifter screenshots we found like 30 or 40 pages of this thread back. They were freaky. And yeah, SU could irritate sometimes because of some of its problems (and all the development issues surely didn't help...6 month hiatuses in the middle of seasons, yaaay), but a pretty remarkable show overall even with its sticklier points. @ArtistFormerlyKnownasKP @majestic

PFF has liked Green Bay's drafts under our new-ish GM, but I kind of figured they wouldn't this time around because while we didn't have any *insane* reaches by way of consensus, all of our major picks were at least mild head-scratchers in terms of "value". They all but gave us a D, and I kind of wish they had - if you're going to say all our picks were bad, then your grade should reflect that, you spineless, fence-walking worms, . In 2018, they said the Packers "won" the draft because we traded down in the first round to get an extra first round pick from the Saints the next year (who turned out to be safety Savage, who has been quite good so far), picked a "good" CB with our first round pick (All-Pro Alexander) but then also took their absolute top CB that had "fallen", Josh Jackson, with our second round pick...who, again, has done absolutely nothing his entire career. He hasn't even been injured, he just has screwed up every single chance we've given him to play, and so he basically never plays.

Emotional turmoil? There's no turmoil there, she's perfectly happy! Can't you see how happy she is? ...What, that? That's just her face - don't be so judgemental! Meanwhile...

I'm sorry, I don't talk to people who fail to LOUDLY recognize the objective superiority and awesome power of Yellow Pearl!

Uh...Jordan Love, the guy that the Packers drafted in the first round last year that set off all of this? From videos we saw of him in camp last year, he couldn't even hit a net the was standing still from like 20 feet away, so I don't even know what Rodgers is worried about! Presumably, it's more to do with what drafting a first round QB signifies than the actual kid himself. Uh...that's totally going to happen. For sure. Definitely. Okay, here's the thing: if that's actually what he's demanding, then that's patently absurd, . The media has so frequently gotten Rodgers wrong in years past that I'm still holding out hope that they've gotten much of this wrong even if there is some kind of schism between Rodgers and the front office, but...you know, it'd be a lot easier to have hope if he just came out and said "I still want to be the Packers QB, all of this has gotten completely blown out of proportion and most likely we're going to work this out".

Speaking of people living vicariously through their teams...who the HELL cares about the draft guys, I'M IN A FULL-BLOWN FOOTBALL-EXISTENTIAL CRISIS HERE: is Rodgers going to my QB or NOT? literally nothing else matters

@ArtistFormerlyKnownasKP Glad you liked The Movie! Massive plot holes/inconsistencies, endless singing, repeated character beats, and a kinda TV movie formulaic plot got on my nerves when I first watched it, but I liked it a lot more for what it was on a second watch and forgave some of its flaws and realized that it did some neat twists on even some of the repetitions. Plus, I mean, Pearl's in it, so... By the way, have I ever told you guys that the only thing better than Pearl in SU is...

I'd be pretty loathe to throw away a 30 G tube of the stuff that I've only used probably 6-7 times, so I'd hope it's fine, .

The advice I read online seems to generally be "if it doesn't seem noticeably wrong when you try to apply it, like being runny or too solid or flaky, then it's fine - make sure you seal it and don't store it in the sunlight", .

I have a big tube of Prolimatech PK-3 I've had for a few years. Not quite as good as the Kyronaut, but close enough: Did I mess up the mounting? To be determined...

Hmm...maybe! I'll be adding a couple of additional fans I purchased recently to the case, maybe I'll try re-mounting it then, because it is definitely thermally limited from what I tested.

IIRC, it does make a little difference, but not enough to discount the gap between our numbers. Mine maxes out at just ever so slightly below 14000, and I have a danged good quality air cooler too - just not enough for the 5800X, sadly. Thanks for the test - shows how much these chips really need their cooling to not throttle. I had a buddy that was using an old Hyper 212 Evo to cool his, and I could hardly believe anybody would still have one of those in this day and age, much less try to cool a 5800X with it...he was getting more like 11500-12000 with his. Yikes.

Attack Number One sounds pretty brutal. However, one thing I don't think you covered in your post was whether you ENJOYED the two episodes you just watched. Was it any good? Surprisingly, there are decent quality blurays of this (well, at least it's an actual bluray-quality transfer - i.e. not terrible upscales a la the Sailor Moon blurays).

If you run Cinebench R23 on multicore (only takes a minute or two), what score do you get after a couple of runs? Presuming you haven't overclocked or anything and are still just running stock everything - want to see how badly yours beats mine when you presumably won't have yours throttling like mine is because I'm on an air cooler. https://www.guru3d.com/files-get/download-maxon-cinebench-r23,1.html

At this point in my life, I would basically never completely take apart an already finished build if I don't have to. It's way too much hassle and pain to dissemble a PC - would rather just pay for another chassis than to try to rip a motherboard out of one just to put another back in, . Looks like you got some expensive RAM there - 3600 CL14, wowie! I kind of regret getting a 5800X and not waiting for a 5900X. I'm not one for liquid coolers, but the 5800Xs basically need one to really work at their full potential due to the entire CPU being on one chiplet and producing a ridiculous amount of concentrated heat - the 5900X cools better and is more power efficient even with it having 4 more cores due to being on two chiplets, . Still a great CPU, but can't help but feel like I made the wrong decision, which isn't a feeling I've really ever had before (and certainly do not like) when building a PC.

Y'all really need to step your baby burning game up.

It is pretty amazing how so many completely overlook this. Endlessly Packers fans whine and complain about not getting enough help for Aaron Rodgers, that we never sign free agents like other teams do, and why don't we ever just trade away assets for known great players like other franchises do...like Julio Jones? Julio Jones is available, we'd be mad to not go after him! He might cost a first round pick or two to trade for, he may already be 32 years old, he may have been already pretty injury prone the last few years, and he'll cost tens of millions of dollars we literally don't have...but sure, let's trade for Julio Jones with the only assets we have that give us a potential way to get better. Seems smart, my fellow Packers fans! Now if you can trade for a guy who still has a couple of years on his rookie deal, that's an different entirely subject...but starting-calibre players still on their rookie deals being on the trading block is quite rare, doubly so for Pro Bowl-quality-plus players. Another problem with this is that sports, and therefore the NFL, is super results-driven, even when it makes no sense to do so. I guess it's the result of the age-old mantra that "winning is the only thing" becoming the ultimate imperative. Sometimes you make all the right trades that would theoretically say you got fantastic value, and then picked what seemed like all the right players for your teams' needs without ever reaching...and then none of those guys are on the team three years later because one of them broke their necks and had to retire, another tore their ACL and never got back to what they should've been, a few guys never were able to put it together, and the rest were just JAGs. That kind of result happens quite often for teams, and people will clown on the GM for making what were good value trades to pick players that didn't work out. Did the GM actually do a bad job, or was it just bad luck that the players didn't work out? Or heck, maybe it was coaching and fits that made it not work out... Either way, nobody ever really cares, results are the only thing that matter - kick the GM out the door and let the new one try their luck. Maybe I'm crazy, but it tends to seem like a few certain teams have pretty consistently picked lower quality character players over the last decade-plus that some other teams shy away from. I guess "winning is the only thing" hits a little harder for some teams more than others. (e): Initially forgot to finish my first paragraph - not sure what happened.

I wasn't - just thought I had heard before that the first dose did give *something*, just didn't know exactly what or whether Gfted did either or what any of the numbers might be. I think I can speak for all of us that have already had the second shot and had any kind of immune reaction that our immune systems would most certainly agree that the second shot is important, .

Completely random page with sources I didn't bother to read: https://www.healthline.com/health/why-two-doses-of-covid-vaccine#immunity-after-first-dose "What level of immunity do you have after the first vaccine? Even though the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines require two doses, you do get some immunity after you receive the first dose. Let’s examine this in a little more detail below. Pfizer-BioNTech Researchers working on the clinical trials for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine observed a vaccine effectiveness of 52 percent between the time of the first and second doses, which is a 21-day period. However, the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine may be more effective after the first dose than was previously thought. This information comes from a separate analysis from scientists in the United Kingdom. These scientists wanted to look at vaccine effectiveness 15 days or more after people had received the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. They found that vaccine effectiveness was actually closer to 89 to 91 percent 15 days after the first dose. Moderna In a reportTrusted Source submitted to the FDA, researchers discussed vaccine effectiveness in clinical trial participants who’d only gotten one dose of the vaccine. A vaccine effectiveness of 50.8 percent was found up to 14 days after the first dose. Vaccine effectiveness was 92.1 percent beyond the first 14 days." Assuming it's either Pfizer/Moderna for him, .

He said he'd be getting his second shot in two weeks, so his resistance would go from 80% to 90%, strongly implying he already had his first. I don't know exactly if that's how the second changes the average resistance numbers, but he was not talking about his first shot or any sort of "natural resistance".

Metropolis (2001). Story and characters were pretty pants, but it was kind of an a fun little steampunk adventure that kept my interest for the most part...well, up until the end sequence, . Posters were better than the movie was, . Actually, that first poster is why I bothered to check it out at all... If I liked the movie more, I'd probably get it, especially seeing as I already have another print from this artist and this one's pretty cool too, but it seems kind of silly to shell out a lot of money to buy and frame a print for a movie I didn't even care too much for...

I have been hearing clowns vicariously living through their sports teams that have nothing better to do with their lives overreacting to draft picks for way too long to care at all about the draft anymore. 1. That guy was a major reach! 2. Oh, he was a GREAT value. 3. He's too undersized! 4. He's just like [HoF] player, you guys are gonna be scary! 5. He's just like [player that was a bust], LOL what a terrible pick! 6. I can't believe we're having such a great draft. 7. Oh my gosh, shoot me in the face, we're having such a horrible draft. 8. That guy had terrible attitude and discipline problems in college. 9. Our GM is such a clown. 10. In [GM] we trust! 11. This guy's a real team player and a grinder and everyone will love him. 12. Cancel the franchise. 13. We plugged the holes in our team! 14. We didn't do anything to address our needs. 15. We took the best player available. Every different thing under the sun about every situation. Some guys mysteriously fall down the draft from where the wanna-be online GMs like Mel Kiper and Mike Mayock making their big boards - sometimes it's for good reason and it's "yeah, the GMs knew what they were doing", and sometimes the players that fell make the GMs look like clowns and a team actually did get a fantastic value for eventually picking him. None of this matters right now, and so I'll never make any definitive claims about guys - only three years from now will anyone have any idea how players will have translated to the NFL or developed past what were previously weaknesses (mental, physical, personality - whatever), or alternatively shown that for all their talent, they still couldn't put it together. It's hard to muster up much of a single ounce of caring about that until then. In 2018, the Packers drafted: 1. CB Jaire Alexander in the first round that people said was a little over-drafted that turned out to be an All-Pro; people complained endlessly that we we had bigger needs and there were better players still available. 2. CB Joshua Jackson in the second round that people said should've gone in the mid-first round, so it's amazing that we got a great pair of CBs that will be the future of our secondary; has done absolutely nothing his career thus far. 3. An ILB that everyone said was a physical freak that needed time to develop that has turned out to be horrible at football in the third round. 4. An extremely physically talented WR that didn't, and doesn't know how to play WR at all and didn't last past his first year on the team in the fourth. 5. A guard that retired before he even played a snap with us in the fifth. 6. WR Marquez-Valdes Scantling that was an absolute nobody that has been a solid (albeit somewhat inconsistent) contributor the past couple of years and caught 7 TDs this past season in the sixth. And so on and so forth. All of these men are individuals, and it's impossible to tell how individuals will develop physically and mentally. I've made it a general rule to only check in to see what happened on the draft after the day is already over - it's a lot more pleasant than it used to be actually trying to watch it and see endless overreactions that don't matter. (e): Unrelated: if Rodgers actually does end up leaving the Packers, then I'll temporarily be a fan for whatever team(s) he's with for the rest of his career. He was probably the biggest component that got me into liking football, much like Favre was for many others. I just hope it's not for the Bears, Lions, Vikings, Cowboys, 49ers, Steelers, Seahawks, or Patriots. Only the 49ers look like an option that make sense right now, and they're probably the lowest on that totem pole of teams I'd least like to see him on.