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Just finished watching that minutes ago. Sounded like everything I didn't like in The Force Awakens amplified many times. I will continue to not watch Star Wars. It's not an easy job, but someone has to do it (...okay, actually, it's trivially easy because all things Star Wars died for me with Attack of the Clones, so you all should join me).

I thought the Cowboys were obviously a cut above the Eagles. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/sq5w5typ8tnjmti/2019-12-23_06-49-45.mp4

I can't tell if her voice is angelic or if it's just a low quality video. Maybe both.

After McConnell has made it clear that there would be no real trial, Pelosi apparently hinted that she won't send the articles of impeachment to McConnell so they can claim "ACQUITTED IN TRIAL!", but instead will hang them so that he's forever impeached but never cleared. Would be an interesting maneuver.

Would be utterly shocked if he was convicted in the Senate. McConnell has made it clear he's going to make a sham of it as much as he possibly can, and Lindsay Graham has already come out and announced that he'll do the equivalent of plugging his ears during the trial. Not exactly hearing much that suggests others are even receptive to the idea.

Philadelphia has been on life support, and while the Cowboys haven't been too hot either, I think they've looked a clear cut above the Eagles and shouldn't have too much difficulty.

RIP, . Life can be gone so quickly.

Palpatine is a totally nonsensical but fun character, probably the funnest of the entire series. Literally the only reason I have even the slightest desire to watch the Rise of Skywalker is to see him reprise the role and ham it up (note: I still haven't watch the second one). Even though it'll probably be outrageously, insultingly stupid from a writing standpoint (it's JJ Abrams bringing back Palpatine...), Ian McDiarmid will still do a good job. Completely unrelated, this is currently my Steam avatar:

Officially made by members of Trump's 2020 campaign.

The writing's been on the wall for a while now. Wonder if we'll still be able to use the term "UK" in ten years time.

@Gromnir A couple years back, I saw a clip of Trump boarding Air Force One when the wind knocked a stationary serviceman's hat off, and I saw Trump chase after it while it was being blown away and eventually pick it up for him. It was oddly wholesome, and not a light I'd ever seen...or would ever again see...from him. I would like to think that there may be other such human moments that have occurred throughout his presidency, even if rare and not televised, but it is Trump we're talking about. (e): Losing Kentucky Republican Governor pardons 428 convicted criminals, including some murderers and child rapists, on his way out: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/12/12/defeated-gop-governor-pardoned-violent-criminals-spree-lawyers-are-calling-an-atrocity-justice/ (revenge against state that voted him out? idk, very strange and terrible)

If you think the question is not Congress' to ask, would it not make more sense for Clinton to refuse to answer rather than lie? I feel like lying to Congress should have consequences if we want to enforce the executive branch to have some kind of integrity. Obviously, it didn't matter enough then, and even less now.

23 interceptions and 85 passer rating is...actually pretty bad in 2019. Not laughably terrible, but pretty bad. If he finishes the season with more than 27, it'll be the most since Favre's disastrous 2005 season. He's currently the 25th ranked QB by passer rating, barely edging out Goff and Darnold.

holy cow the nfc east is so bad (e): Also, I was wrong, since the Seahawks lost one of their games to the Ravens (instead of another NFC opponent), they hold the tiebreakers over the Packers, c'est la vie

Fun fact: the Packers hold the tiebreakers over the Saints and the Seahawks. If the Packers and Seahawks both win out, regardless of anything else, the Packers would be the #1 seed. And they'd be probably the weakest, most fraudulent #1 seed I can remember in a long while, but hey, a #1 seed is a #1 seed, .

The only reality TV I watch is the Great British Bakeoff, and that's not even American! So screw that, .

One of my friends is currently watching it, and seems to be only in it for the baby Yoda memes. He says the show is okay at best, but he's just got to see baby Yoda. ????? kill me

Error 404: politician not found. As soon as any Democrat (or Republican) starts to get traction (and we're talking about the presidency here), there's usually a massive hate movement against them, . Speaking personally, if you have Democratic staffers and ambassadors testifying President Sanders used his office to extract personal political favors (this is other Republicans that have been testifying against Trump, remember!), I'd be in favor of impeachment. But that's easy to say because 1. he's not currently president and this is an easy hypothetical, and 2. I'm probably not as big of a moron as your average voter. Probably - can't make any guarantees there.

The Cowboys were funny for a while, but now they're just sad.

What's up with Cowboys defensive linemen and legal trouble? "Cowboys DT Antwaun Woods was arrested on Tuesday at a traffic stop and charged with possession of marijuana over 2 ounces but less than 4 ounces, tampering with evidence, and he was cited for possession of paraphernalia, Frisco PD tells me."

GSmartControl is what I'd suggest to read the SMART data of drives. In general, it usually works best to install drivers specific to your motherboard (or in this case, laptop model i.e. from MSI). The GPU drivers are the exception to that rule, since it's usually better to use the latest from Nvidia/AMD, but maybe try MSI's latest driver if they have one for the time eing.

If it continues to run fine, then at that point, it might be wise to look at the SMART data for your hard drive (although I would've expected a chkdsk to have been performed by Windows at some point automatically if the drive were dying). Most likely, though, it sounds like a Windows update or driver issue.

Yeah, not sure. Symptoms are all over the place, so I can't rightly guess as to what it might be or whether the manufacturer will be able to fix it.

Good question: how quickly did you get a warning for this one?

never mind