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@Gfted1 IIRC, fried oil does tend to clog and ultimately destroy your drains/pipes, so that was a heads-up move. Yeah, there's definitely a bit of a learning curve, haha. We have what's called a "smelt run" every spring, where a ridiculous amount of smelt fish reproduce quickly and there's a big event to capture them and eat them (especially as they're an invasive species). Apparently, even for as crazy as it is now, it was apparently utterly ludicrous back in the 70s when the smelts were at their peak, and apparently that's why it's such a big annual event. Their numbers have greatly declined since then due to other species having adjusted to their presence, I guess...and I'm sure the massive amount of fishing hasn't helped either, . Anyways, love to fry up a pile of those every spring, always extremely tasty.

Fryers are great fun. Except for the mess. That's not so great.

Bucks are done. There's no way they're climbing out of a 3-0 hole.

The people with over-the-top hardware are the ones that usually advertise it the most, and...water is wet, . I'm continuing to run an older i7-4770k and am perfectly happy with a mid-end 1060...although I have 32GB of RAM because I'm a memory hog, so there is that at least.

Real talk: have to imagine that Denver is tired as *hell* after that series. Crazy close series. (e): Yep: https://streamable.com/4wgy9n

If past nvidia releases are anything to go by, the 3090s will probably be out of stock long enough that you'll get news on the AMD series in a couple of months before you have a realistic shot of buying them.

@KaineParker Yeah, just to be clear, there is absolutely a good chance Biden doesn't win. That's not in any way guaranteed. The problem is the writer is a blatant hack. "NATE SILVER TWITTER MELTDOWN", "Nate Silver predicted Hillary would win!", "Nate Silver points out obvious criticisms with trash reporting and is therefore a hack", etc. Who do you think you're convincing (besides other already "very good"-brained people) when you write ridiculous tabloid-esque garbage like this in the face of all evidence and reason? Out of serious poll aggregators, 538 was the only one that gave Trump a chance (~30%, IIRC) and cautioned Democrats against presumptuously declaring victory - I literally remember looking at their model and them saying the exact thing that happened (that he'd be very unlikely to win the popular vote, but that there was nevertheless a realistic chance of a few close Trump victories in key swing states that would give him an electoral vote victory) could very well happen before it ever did. 30% is the equivalent of rolling a 1D10 and getting a 1, 2, or 3. Anyone who's ever rolled a die at any point in their life (or has even the most rudimentary understanding of statistics...which I guess is not nearly everyone these days) should know that that is not very unlikely at all.

What kind of dip****s write this trash? Glad to have anti-javascript and adblock always enabled, at least.

Paradox games like EU4 do the same to make sure achievements aren't cheated. ...Of course, you can literally just use a Steam achievement manager if you really wanted to. And you can just Cheat Engine yourself infinite gold...not really sure what the point of it is - now that I think of it, maybe it's more of a multiplayer integrity feature than anything to do with singleplayer, that'd make a lot more sense.

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Admittedly, they haven't won the series yet, but they did dig themselves out of the 3-1 hole. Whether they'll finish the job is another matter, .

Shady, would it be possible for you to please say "the Bucks have no chance against the Heat, and Giannis is guaranteed to leave the Bucks after next season"?

And as @KaineParker pointed out, it is rather incongruous how it's perfectly well and good to wholly generalize certain groups...say, the protestors...while saying or suggesting it would be totally wrong to do the same to others...say, cops. The reverse situation, of course, happens elsewhere with people on the opposite extreme of things, but given that hardly any (none?) of us are saying "ALL COPS ARE PIGS" or anything of the like, but rather making more pointed criticisms of police as a flawed institution (criticisms that have long been known to and held by many), it seems weird to use us as your sounding board on the radical evils of protestors. Has anybody here extolled the virtues of the protestors/rioters that have gone too far and murdered anyone or razed anything (or attempted to)? Maybe somebody did and I don't remember. Don't think anybody here has even gone so far as to say "defund the police" or anything of the like, either.

Ended up asking on some private moviegoer forums what the best option for my movie poster was, which I guess was probably the logical idea to begin with - apparently, high quality frames that have very limited chance of degrading or damaging the poster over time and that will also properly protect the poster from e.g. UV damage or acidic corrosion without also making it look like crap will run more in the $100-150 range. About as expensive as the poster itself was. This is a bit more of an expensive poster project than I bargained for. Oh well, I guess you can't put a price on staying quality!

The frequent lack of accountability and proportional consequences for blatant bad actions taken by 'bad apples' probably doesn't do any favors for moderating their dispositions or encouraging patience and understanding either, I'm sure. I posted a Twitter image a while back whose content was essentially, "Why are store clerks better at de-escalating situations than cops?", to which the top reply was, "Because we get fired if we don't."

I'm the opposite: eat a good breakfast, eat small the rest of the day. Much easier than the other way around - once you've had your big meal of the day, the rest is so much easier to manage (and it's not nearly as big of a deal if you have to skip something later, whereas if you had a small breakfast, eating a small lunch or skipping it really sucks).

@Gromnir You mentioned the "3 seats flipping to impeach" thing before. I don't remember exactly how this works - it's the House doing what's technically the impeachment (basically laying charges against) which is simple majority, then the Senate votes to convict...but that's 2/3rds majority, isn't it? Or is it only 2/3rd majority to remove the president (as opposed to some other form of punishment)?

Does anyone know anything about framing/hanging posters? Wooden frames for the size (24x36") seem to run around $40-50, but I just don't know that much about poster-framing, and don't know if I'm approaching it from the right angle to begin with.

I actually did get MedicineDan and ComradeMaster mixed up. Whoops, that's my bad...thanks. Those nonsense double noun names get to sound a lot alike after seeing too many of them over the years, and it didn't help that that particular post really rather read like one of SonicMage's, but that makes Malcador's asking for an explanation make a lot more sense - couldn't really understand why he'd bother to ask, .

well no, of course not, but this is self-proclaimed political expert SonicMage I mean MedicineDan you're talking about (e): had the wrong username, RIP

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@Gorth The fusion of traditional instruments and metal was certainly interesting. Not too big on the vocals, but still a decent listen.

...Have you ever actually voted for the person that, you know, ended up winning? If not, please vote for Donald Trump this fall, .

Don't know which Total War game you're playing specifically, but I've found the AI of Total War to be rather mindboggingly stupid. Like, they can't determine how to weigh the worth of anything and have a habit of giving absolutely outrageous trade offers - either in their own favor or against themselves, without much discrimination and in complete defiance of the realities of their situation. And really, once you start noticing the patterns that determine how they behave, you basically have to start setting your own limitations to make it so you're not abusing and exploiting their stupidity. I'd like to see a competent cross between a Paradox game (the underlying systems that it so everything works in a detailed and mostly sensible/consequent way) and a Total War game (real time battles and more cultural/leader/nation personality/variation) sometime in my life, but it's probably not ever going to happen.