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Poor early results for Democrats so far, with the House almost definitely going to the Republicans already, and bad early numbers in key Ohio, Georgia, and North Carolina senatorial races. (e): A reminder for those who were tricked by the overwhelmingly pro-Republican early results and thought Donald Trump won on election night last election: where the votes are coming from matters a lot more than any raw vote count. Having a Democrat up 100,000-5,000 is all well and good...until you realize that there are hundreds of thousands of outstanding ballots left in the biggest red areas of the state and that it's likely going to flip over the next few hours. (e): Maybe not quite so bad as it initially looked. It's looking like Republicans will win the House with a slight lean, while the Senate is still too close to call.

It's not really any different from how it was with Trump and the absolute outpouring of news outlets constantly writing about and reacting to everything he said on Twitter. Well, elsewhere too, but the least we could do is stop caring about the hundred or so tweets he would send out a day. Nope, guess we're gonna start to doing the same thing with Musk - people just can't stop clicking on it.

It's so weird how having even an ounce of empathy for your enemy while still wanting them to be defeated can get you lumped right in with them to at least a couple of posters in here.

Packers and Raiders are both now in the hilariously bad stage of football failure. Particularly the Packers for me, as it has gone from concerning, to disappointing, to infuriating, to genuinely funny in seeing how incompetently an Aaron Rodgers-led offense is run week in and week out.

I don't think the reason for it really matters, because it was difficult to sit through most every moment of it starting with the guys awkwardly staring at nothing and repeating themselves over and over in the very first scene. I was willing to overlook that if it would get moving along after, but it was just stacking goofy and awkward endlessly. Well, it's not for me, that's for sure. Ah, see, now I'm the type of person that wishes they had no eyes and no ears any time I am subjected to full ham theater or play stuff, especially when it is supposed to be serious (I may be able to make exception if it's intentionally tongue-in-cheek), so it makes sense that it just wasn't ever going to work for me.

The gaming benchmarks showed that ECO mode didn't matter at all for gaming with the 7950X because the games they benched didn't stress the CPU enough to hit the power limits (and the power limits are all that those ECO mode settings change - i.e. if playing a game without ECO mode would only draw a steady 140W and then you set the ECO mode to the 105W profile, which contrary to its name allows 142W of steady wattage, then yeah, little to no change is going to occur). Which makes sense, seeing as it's a 16-core $700 processor that you'd be wasting ~$400 of if you're only using it for gaming...which is why I was a little disappointed not to see them do more interesting stuff with the video.

Rashomon (1950) by Akira Kurosawa. I checked this out because the premise sounded more interesting than those I read of other Akira Kurosawa films. It's an extremely uncomfortable combination of serious and hammy that did not sit well with me already within the first few minutes, and the feeling only got worse as the film went on: 12 Angry Men this is not. I especially did not like the lead actor, who I think was supposed to come across as wild and intense, but instead...well, there's probably a cultural barrier there, since that was downright silly. Better luck next time, Mr. Kurosawa: I'll give a director two tries if they're revered enough. Speaking of... Hour of the Wolf (1968) by Ingmar Bergman. And that's the last I'll ever speak of Ingmar Bergman.

"It feels a little bit bad if you spend $700 to buy a part, and then you go into BIOS and intentionally limit the performance." Not for me, this is the information I've been looking forward to the most: performance/power efficiency is the most interesting part. But...I have to admit to being a little disappointed here: it feels like a lost opportunity for GN here in limiting themselves purely to the trash ECO mode presets instead of really experimenting with the power curve or individual settings themselves, while also not bothering to doing any similar kind of power testing for the 5000 series or anything Intel (if Intel allows any kind of power settings modification in the first place?). Still, the results look good: the old power/efficiency king, the 5950x, is pretty clearly dethroned here...if one can be bothered to place the same kind of power limitations on the 5950x, anyways.

Yep: the only other media for it is a manga.

Poor Shinji just keeps getting gobbled up by those angels...

Yeah, I don't remember much about its animation, so I can't really disagree or agree. I probably wasn't super keen on it, but that's more to do with the aesthetic, which is very related but not quite the same thing.

The fifteen minutes of pure anime melodrama terror and pain that I sat through after you recommended it to me a couple of years ago says YES! ...No, wait, I mean no: "bad" is subjective. But would I blindly recommend it without giving some idea of what kind of film it is while just saying "it's a masterpiece of animation"? No, no I would not. Now while I know how you feel about these kinds of films, I don't think I've ever heard KP much mention them in either a positive or negative light, so I think the warning is apropos. If that's the kind of film one is in the mood for...well, that's fine.

It's a soft piano drama. Seriously, read this synopsis: How much more soft piano drama can you get? In fact, the first and most highly upvoted tag for every single movie made by the director/writer is "drama"...and if there were "soft piano drama" or "teenage melodrama" tags instead, I'm sure those would be at the top as well.

Whoa, whoa, hold on a second here...that link is just a recommendation to make use of the normal ignore list (while also carrying an implicit suggestion to exercise self-control), not my filters. The filters are a paid service, . (Okay, not really, but yeah, not a link to the filters. Ironically, I barely ever use the filters these days because...well, they were a useful tool for learning to stop caring and use self-control, and I've almost entirely mastered that at this point - pretty much the only time I look at one of the most egregious posters who are on my ignore lists' posts is if they happen to post directly after mine, otherwise I assume they're not talking to me and there's no need to look. I'm sure the moderators appreciate that, because in years past, I used to kind of spam them with reports for BruceVC and company's, how would one phrase it...unreadable posts? That seems appropriately non-inflammatory while still being somewhat insulting).

Sorry, I've had Linux bros tell me that sort of thing unironically too many times. While I actually have multiple Linux machines that I use and am comfortable with for specific uses, I pick up way too much miscellaneous software for all sorts of random purposes for Linux to not feel like a constant exercise in frustration whenever I try to do something new with it. Part of that is simply being way too used to Windows, part of that is my personality (just not having my normal Windows navigational keyboard shortcuts already feels like an intolerably painful slowdown when there aren't equivalents nor even a unified approach across distributions for Linux; there are times where I can literally go an hour without touching a mouse while doing real stuff because of how little it can be needed when you have proficient control of your keyboard shortcuts...I try to use my mouse as little as possible because of how slow and painful it is in comparison), part of that is Linux is just generally very sensitive and quite trying to use. It is way easier for me to break Windows in all the right ways to get it to work how I like than for me to screw around and try to do the same with Linux.

but it literally only took 30 seconds, there's video proof

oh no, my stolen copy of windows 10/11 isn't activated, whatever will i do :'( it's amazing what you can do with just a .bat file that's been openly hosted on github for several years these days

In my experience, stuff with peanuts or peanut butter tends to have the oils go rancid within like 6 months, so that's something to beware.

Yeah, I am pretty much the biggest hater of fansubs around. If you go through the trouble of taking a movie or show that is not in English and which doesn't already have a translation and you translate the entire thing because you're that much of a diehard fan, I applaud you. Really, that's impressive and makes it watchable for tons more people, and that can only be a good thing. But...you know, it goes without saying that I am going to revert your disgusting teal-yellow text color to normal white with black shadow, and I'm going to change the font from your "inspired" choice of Comic Sans to Calibri or something halfway respectable, and pretty much anything that require an asterisk to explain something is going to get thrown straight into the garbage with only rare exception given...and if god forbid you decided to inexplicably not translate "sensei" because it could not be accurately translated to "master" or "teacher", I'm gonna hunt you down so that I can slap you square in the mouth. Fansubs are the worst, made by just the dumbest people...who are unfortunately much smarter than I am.

Well, personally, I just illegally steal installation images of corporate-only Enterprise versions of Windows that cut a lot of the worthless cruft out while giving you fuller control over the OS compared to the Home/Pro editions, illegally activate it via the infamous Microsoft Activation Script (MAS) suite, and then use a few other things to further illegally lobotomize the OS, preventing it from ever calling home except for when I elect to run updates. ...Oh, you're not comfortable with all of that? Well, I can't say I didn't try, .

I've noticed that there largely isn't consistency in how the tracks are named between web streaming and even DVD/BD sources. For my own files, I ended up calling everything with descriptive text "SDH" rather than trying to discern the precise differences between SDH and CC because...uh, well, it's genuinely pretty difficult to discern at times with the different ways that they're handled. I can only hope that the term "closed captioning" goes the way of the dinosaur entirely in favor of "SDH" over the next decade or two and retroactively makes my choice here completely correct, . I find reading descriptive text to be pretty disruptive to the reading experience, so I'm not a big fan. I am me, though.

Don't take it too personally, I am either openly contemptuous of or straight up laugh at 99.9% of music videos, even those made by my own favorite artists. I have zero respect for the medium of music videos. Of course (and it is now time to be offensive), the only thing funnier than the band looking hilariously miscast for their own music video is Billy Corgan's voice... That calculator is a little on the...large side. Might need another decade or two of cooking.

I, too, despise reading closed captioning and/or SDH subtitles (one of the two which is the only option seemingly roughly 75% of the time); on the other hand, I can at least be thankful that I am not hard of hearing or deaf, so there is that.

Bears got smashed even by the Packers, don't look into it too much. I don't know how they blew out the Patriots. Falcons are gonna win the NFCS...maybe. (e): nvm there was 20 seconds left and Falcons let up a 60 yard hail mary idk (e): But then the Panthers missed the game-winning XP, . (e): And then missed the game-winning FG from like 30 yards out. Okay then.