Bartimaeus

Oops, in my previous I post, I had a brain fart in my previous post and wrote "AM5" - I *presumed* Zen 3 would have to be AM5 to necessitate this to begin with, but I guess AMD has its own set of socket issues. I've been getting more and more annoyed with my 4770k system over the past year or so - weird and inexplicable slowdowns and response times (with 32GB of RAM!) seem to occur much more frequently than they used to. Wonder if that's been the result of the various security patches Intel's CPUs have had forcibly applied? Making me want to upgrade sooner than I had planned...

AMD to create "one way ticket" BIOS upgrade path for X470 and B450 motherboards to support AM5 Zen 3 CPUs.

Yeah, I didn't enjoy the LotR books when I was in 3rd grade at all, and I think I also gave the Silmarillion a try at some point and didn't care for it either. Tolkien's style was...long-winded, to say the least. However, I did read The Children of Hurin years later and thought that was solid if a bit off-color for Lord of the Rings.

I read Fellowship, Towers, and Return in 3rd grade. I do not recommend for various reasons. The Hobbit, of course, is much more appropriate for that age: unless he's not much of a reader, I don't think it'd be beyond his reading level - but my perspective might be slanted, given that I was reading around 30-50 novels every year from the time I was about seven to when I was eighteen. Big-time book nerd when I was younger, sadly I don't read nearly as much anymore. The way it goes, .

I was listening to the Aurora song and was thinking, "Hm, this isn't TOO bad...", then I came back to the tab and saw the video and was like "welp I'm out". If your chosen music video is horrifically cringey, creepy, and/or embarrassing, you may wish to choose a different YouTube video of it when sharing to other people, .

Fred Willard, .

In case you want to do this yourself, don't read these spoilers: Overall, only missed a couple I shouldn't have. Not too terrible. Coincidentally, a few friends and I recently did this video game sound effect test: https://vg-sfx-quiz.herokuapp.com/ I ended up getting 33/60, which was the second best out of the people that I knew - a friend got I think it was 54 out of 60, but he is a no-lifer that has played just about every game under the sun.

Note that I said "mouthbreather", and he immediately conjured himself with a completely inapplicable scenario as a rebuttal. Draw your own conclusions, folks.

@Amentep re: no-knock raids: I'd be pretty shocked if anyone but the police themselves (...and maybe some of their most hardcore mouthbreathing supporters that say everything is currently perfect with our institutions) would disagree.

Three murderers break into Kentucky woman's home past midnight and murder her. The murderers were reportedly surprised that the occupants of the house would attempt to resist the burglary attempt after having been rudely awakened by the sounds of their home being broken into seconds earlier, and started blindly firing into their home, striking and killing the woman. The boyfriend of the woman who was murdered is currently in jail for defending himself and his lady against the plainclothes, breaking-and-entering, midnight murderers even after it turns out they were, in fact, unable to read, having executed their search warrant upon the wrong house. Oops, think I wrote "murderers" instead of "police officers" a few times there. C'est la vie: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/black-woman-shot-killed-after-kentucky-police-entered-her-home-n1205651 (e): FML, this is not the politics thread. Or, uh, wait...it turns out, they also had coronavirus! More to come...

Also, shingles sucks, and the chickenpox vaccine prevents it from ever occurring. Think I'll wait to see if there's a vaccine...

lmao, wouldn't worry about it. Tried to go back and play NWN1 a few years back, but I was super burned out by the time I got to Luskan and couldn't keep going.

Never got far enough in Hordes of the Underdark to know that Aribeth reappeared.

The behind the scenes of that was pretty good. They will often say that they can see what a filmmaker was going for or imagined something would be like vs. what actually got put on film, because when you have a horribly limited budget and a horribly limited amount of personnel (who might be loyal and enthusiastic, but nevertheless of relatively low professional skill), it's very, very difficult to make a genuinely good film. There's a reason B-movies get treated on a totally differently scale from Hollywood studio-made movies. Actually, it's all the more mystifying when those movies with relatively unlimited resources turn out so horribly over and over.

Listening to his empty, soulsucking generalities will quickly lull your consciousness into oblivion, too.

...Buttigieg? The guy who was polling ~1-2% in almost every state except the two early races where he spent all his time and money on in the hopes of getting enough coverage to launch a real campaign? Yeah, somehow, I don't think so. If they had all been held on the same day, Bernie would've almost certainly been the leader (although not necessarily the winner, since an outright winner does require >50% of delegates) due to having the largest individual base while the rest of the race was splintered. That was why everyone but Biden dropped out the night before Super Tuesday to make sure Bernie wouldn't have won in a Trump-esque fashion.

http://ja2v113.pbworks.com/w/page/4218334/Downloads ? Mirror #1 for the main release still seems to work, while you can use a wayback machine link for its patch: https://web.archive.org/web/20150429185030/http://kermi.pp.fi/JA_2/v1.13_Releases/Official/English/v7435/Update/JA2_113_UpdateForRelease7435_English_7609.exe

I think this might be the wrong way to look at Gromnir's and I's positions on the matter, though I obviously can only really speak for myself. The argument that I have previously and specifically taken issue with is the overly simplistic equating of the two parties, their leaders, and where they are going right now. It would be so easy, especially as someone who doesn't like either parties or its leader, to do that - but that's intellectually and morally (I feel) lazy to me, which is why I have argued against doing that. Whether or not that leads to somebody else wanting to vote one way or another is a different matter entirely - just the fact that they're not exactly the same does not mean anyone is obligated to vote for them, and I don't think I ever made that argument. As for personally you (or anyone else), it's whatever - at least you engaged with the process (...if I remember correctly anyways, I'm pretty sure you did). Keep in mind that I come from a younger generation than yourself, and I have grown so incredibly weary of dummies closer to my age group who will not bother with the primaries, then complain that they utterly despise Trump and also don't like Hillary/Biden very much and why should they vote for someone they don't like or feels represents them, as if the older generations are responsible for choosing a candidate that represents those who by and large didn't and don't vote. The primary, to me, is more important than the actual general, but so many - too many - people don't see it that way. I think anybody that votes in the primary pretty much already did their job, and aren't obligated to engage further if a candidate they do not find morally reprehensible didn't emerge - not in this laughably awful first-past-the-post, two-party system anyways. People who didn't bother to vote in the primary and then complain that both choices suck should have their brains violently and gruesomely dashed against the rocks for their crimes of utter cluelessness. Fortunately for them, their shortsightedness and almost certain stupidity is not actually a capital-punishment level crime.

Securing shipments your state rightfully and legally paid for in the face of likely illegal seizures (speculation: hasn't been challenged yet, but from what I've heard, the current opinion is that it will eventually reach court and the federal government will be ruled against long after this pandemic is already over) in order to save lives of your citizen is a little different from the national crisis profiteering the administration has been pursuing in my books, but you do you.

the promised land, of course, being the NFCCG It's weird, for most of their careers, JG and MM have been considered to be like the same kind of coach with the same kind of competencies - okay from a coaching talent and schematic point of view, but great in terms of culture and building a team up. Why hire the same kind of guy to replace the guy you just fired? I don't know, at least MM won a Super Bowl I guess, maybe there's something there...we'll find out within the next couple of years.

lmao you don't expect mccarthy to take you to the promised land?

Speaking of, how do you expect the Cowboys to finish this upcoming season assuming it happens?

The media: "Is Rodgers going to demand that he be released or traded?" "We thought Rodgers hated his head coach last year, but that turned out to be utter nonsense as the year went on - but now it definitely must be for real!" "Did the Packers draft specifically to piss Rodgers off?" "Will Rodgers pull a Favre and treat Love like garbage and refuse to mentor him?" Rodgers today on Instagram: "#relax"

Maryland governor says coronavirus tests acquired from South Korea under guard at undisclosed location [due to concern of feds stealing them] Been hearing for the past month how the feds have been outright stealing medical shipments from states, then giving those shipments to 'politically-connected' companies, who then turn around and auction them off to other companies and states again. Using federal force to steal critical medical supplies and give them to friends and family to profiteer during a national crisis, I sure wouldn't mind if Trump and the rest of this administration lost their frontal lobes right about now.

I love that they did it in preparation of the beaches re-opening after six weeks of being closed down. Any trace of coronavirus would've died off by then: just killing the normal life there.