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X4 - After completely wiping out the Xenon Wharf in Turquoise Sea, I took a short trip over to Scale Plate Green to destroy the Xenon Shipyard there. The wharf was heavily protected, the shipyard was LUDICROUSLY heavily protected. I'm talking 1 I destroyer, 6 K destroyers, and more frigates and fighters than I could count. This took a very long time and there was more than a little save scumming involved, but eventually I destroyed all the critical parts of the shipyard (fabrication/maintenance modules, storage modules, and defense modules). I didn't completely destroy the station, like I did the wharf, and I didn't destroy the I destroyer because it would have taken too long and I have other stuff to do right now. The I desyroyer's shields are just too beefy for me to take down quickly and I can't employ my previous tactic of flanking the I, setting up shop and opening up on it, then moving to flank again as it turned to face me and intercept with 50 fighters pounding my shields simultaneously. I could destroy the Ks because I could take down their shields quickly enough to do hull damage before the fighters swarmed on me. I can't come close to taking down the I's shields before I get swarmed and have to withdraw and reset and by the time I get back the shields have recharged. I'd have to wipe out all the fighters first then fight the I 1 on 1, and that would take more time than I'm willing to invest right now. Anyway, I did enough damage that it will be a while until the Xenon can build ships in that region again. The 1 I destroyer, a handful of frigates, and a hundred or so fighters is all they have for a while, they can't replenish their fleet unless they import from halfway across the galaxy, so I should be mostly free from harassment for a while. Now I'm off to increase my standing with the Holy Order of the Pontifex and to make some money.

Hardest difficulty pacifist/minimum kills run here I come!

^ That's the genius, though. Sony can manufacture a cheap hunk of low-grade plastic for 27 cents a piece, including labor, so that you can lay the PS5 on its side, and they'll charge $20 for it.

I've been running all over the east coast and midwest the past week and a half doing heavy miles, just how I like it. I shut down just south of Nashville today, did some squats, took a nice long walk, and found a sushi place near the truck stop. My delivery isn't until tomorrow afternoon and they won't take me early. I don't usually drink while on the road, but I ain't going anywhere for about 24 hours, so I'm gonna have a beer. I earned it. Beer & sushi #LivingTheDream

Impulsively, I want to say 2020 is the year people lost their goddamned minds, but who am I kidding, that happened years ago.

Still better than this neck pillow abomination:

^ Does that make the xXxBOxXx Orthanc?

I'm sure we'll get another Dad of War eventually, it will be that much better a couple of years into the PS5's life, once devs have figured out all the tricks to get maximum eyegasm out of it. Does anyone know if Demon Souls is a remaster or a full blown remake?

Pfft, God of War shmod of war, we're getting a new Ratchet & Clank! Also, I have no clue what Mamoulian War is talking about, and I'm happy to not know.

This is what happens when Aperture Science designs a console. Much better than the rumored neck pillow design.

Libertarians are probably the closest thing we have to that. They, or I should say we, since I consider myself a libertarian, have our fair share of looneys and ***holes too. *sigh*

That's the thing about the far left fringe, and the far right fringe, for that matter, they say they want change. By "change" they mean the same exact power structure we have now, just with them in charge instead.

There are bad people in all walks of life. Bad people + authority = Really bad people.

The Xenon have been pestering one of my stations, not really a threat to destroy it, but it's been annoying to have to periodically deal with them. I decided enough's enough and went into their space so that I could show them what's up by blowing up their wharf. Cleverly, I destroyed the production bay module first, which meant the wharf could no longer produce ships to attack me with, then I started blowing up all the defense modules to further cripple the station's defenses. While I was doing that, as expected, the Xenon sent some heavy hitters my way to stop me, 3 destroyers to be exact. 2 of them were of the regular K variety, I've destroyed a good number of those, but there was also an I destroyer: Look at the size of that thing! For scale, that burnt up husk is a K destroyer and it's MUCH closer to me. A K is roughly the same size as my Rattlesnake, the I is a super star destroyer compared to the K's star destroyer. And there it goes. With the destroyers out of the way, I turned my attention back to the wharf: With the wharf destroyed, the Xenon can no longer produce small and medium ships in this part of the galaxy. They could import them from Xenon space far away, but that will take time and weaken their forces over there. I'm sure they'll build a new wharf eventually, but until they do, this region is a lot safer. Now, if I can blow up their shipyard as well, they'll be completely screwed. Don't **** with Kresusiso Enterprises. I ain't playin', son.

Some manner of crappy reality show, I'm sure.

The song or the buddy cop movie series... Oh crap, does this mean the buddy cop genre is finished?

That's perfectly fine, the 3600 is a very capable chip that's going to serve you well for years to come. I can't see it becoming a gaming bottleneck any time soon. On the off chance the 4xxx chips wind up being some revolutionary leap forward (la_noire_doubt.jpg), you could always swap out the cpu.

One thing you could do is get a cheap Ryzen 3xxx right now, like the 3100, for example, then swap in a 4xxx once they come out, since it's the same socket. Just make sure you get a B550 or X570 mobo that will support the upcoming chips, if you plan to go that route.

Depends on your use case. If your computer is going to be used primarily for gaming and you don't forsee using a lot of highly threaded applications or doing heavy multitasking on a regular basis, then Intel is probably your best choice. In nearly every other scenario than the one I just described AMD is probably your best choice. If you could wait a few months until the Zen 3 Ryzen 4000 desktop CPUs come out, it may very well be, at that time, that AMD is the best choice in any use case, but we won't know for sure until those chips are out in the wild.

Not to mention that I'm one of those Linux weirdos, so there's a significant chance that I can't use their garbage software. On the bright side, there's always a chance that there is an open-source alternative to their garbage software.

I enjoy all manner of theoretical science and philosophical and scientific thought experiments, even stuff I could never hope to understand, like quantum mechanics, though I'm hardly alone in that.

I've been thinking about time. This has, obviously, been pondered by people much smarter than I am for thousands of years, but I purposely have avoided literature and videos on the subject so that I could form my own conclusions. Here's my theory: We commonly divide time into past, present, and future. Of the 3, only the past is real, the present and the future do not exist, they are abstracts. Explaining why the future doesn't exist seems the easier of the two. It's pretty simple, the future hasn't happened (yet). It is at best a prediction, a guess. Even if the prediction is 100% accurate, at the instant said prediction comes true it is no longer the future. Hence, the future doesn't exist. The present is a bit trickier, but it also doesn't exist. You can never experience the present. Everything you see, hear, smell, and feel has already happened, it is the past. We understand that when we look at a distant star in the sky we are seeing it as it was many many years ago, on account of the fact that it takes light a long time to get from said star to our eyeballs on Earth. It works the same way over short distances too. The time elapsed may be minuscule, but it's greater than zero. If I touch an object, it takes time for a signal to be sent from my fingertips to my brain. It's a microscopic amount of time, but it's greater than zero. Also, you cannot define the present as an amount of time. You can define the past, you can say something started exactly 2 days ago and lasted 1 hour and 15 minutes. You can also say that about the future, but this is not something real, it is a prediction of something that might happen. You cannot define "now" in any unit of time. "Now" is infinitely small, a singularity of sorts, and in scientific terms a singularity is nonsense. It's what you get when math and science fall apart and a clear indicator that current theories are wrong or incomplete. Only the past exists. You can only ever experience the past and since perception is reality then the only reality is the past.

Out of curiosity, do they still make high-end/enthusiast components without the tacky bright lights? I'm not trying to have my upcoming rig look like it belongs at a rave.

^ I don't hate the art style.