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If you get too caught up with how many different things you "have" to do to 100% the game, then it is indeed miserable. I found about two hundred of them while completing the game, contemplated actually properly finding them all after having done most everything else I wanted to do, said "screw this", and then used a save game editor that gives you each and very single one (while also properly setting the collected flags for each Korok, as if you had actually collected each one). Don't feel even a little bit bad about it either, . But...you're the type of person that *has* to watch every second of a TV show you're watching, even if it's pointless or unenjoyable to you; I'm the type of person where so long as I *have* every second of that TV show, then I don't actually need to watch it - simply properly having it all is good enough for me. So I'm betting that you would feel the need to collect every single Korok Seed manually, right? And yeah, there are definitely a few obtuse points in Zelda II - there's that one dude you need to find in a completely unmarked, random section of the overworld forest in order to progress, and I always forget that he exists, . Glad I took the extra effort to be vague, since I wasn't sure what, if anything, you actually know about the movie. Literally the only thing I knew about the movie before watching it was having seen the main official poster for it, which was so intriguing that I had no choice but to try it out immediately. I still love OoT, but YMMV, . I actually own a Wii U and ended up dumping my console, then played BotW on my PC. For the most part, a much better experience than playing it on the actual console, especially since there are patches/hacks you can enable to reduce some annoyances as well as even make the game look and run better. 60 FPS patch? Don't mind if I do! Want to move faster? I'll just temporarily set the game speed to to 2x or 3x. Don't feel like chopping down a thousand trees for some random sidequest? Think I'll just set my collected wood to a thousand, thanks. I get absolutely no sense of accomplishment or enjoyment out of utterly skill-less repetitions, so I don't really bother anymore whenever I can. Some people call it cheating, I call it not wasting the precious time I have being alive doing completely pointless and unfun parts of games that are supposed to be fun. I'll get my sense of accomplishment from tasks that actually require some skill, like playing and beating Dark Souls at soul level 1...and not from freaking chopping down trees for a few hours.

@majestic

I'm always intrigued by attractive concept art, and then the song immediately is on the attack. Not cool!

Okay, to be fair, this one happened in the original show every once in a while too, and it was hilarious every time. That, and Usagi turning into a 1930s toon skeleton.

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, .