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Yeah, the 5800X3D is STILL a really great gaming CPU. It might be the single best CPU AMD has put out, relative to the landscape around the time it came out, since the glory days of Athlon 64.

The new gaming king, though the 13600K is a better value if you're on a budget.

I used ogórki małosolne from the Polish store in Pineville; there's no vinegar, they're pickled in brine and they're light years better than anything from Krakus. I'm not going to use a pickle brand I can buy from any ol' supermarket. If my family caught me doing that they'd disown me.

I didn't specify any piercings but I'm not going to judge what the AI is into.

I started messing around with text to image AI image generation and, while it's far from perfect, it's both thoroughly impressive and more than a little terrifying. My input was "Neil Breen drawn in the style of Boris Vallejo" and this is what was generated: Now that you've seen it you can't unsee it. You're welcome. Edit: I think I have a new profile picture.

I'm enjoying the fact that the Rodgers trade has stalled. Hopefully this drags out for another 4 months or so. Rodgers could do another darkness retreat... Maybe the Jets can all do a darkness retreat for solidarity?

What @Gfted1isn't telling you is that they have 250 fingers on each hand.

Oldie but goodie:

I reached my first ending in AI: The Somnium Files - nirvanA Initiative. Well, that's not entirely accurate, earlier I got a joke ending, similar to one from the first game, where I forgot about the case and ran off with the big breasted receptionist at Lemniscate. This was the first "real" ending. Spike Chunsoft tradition is that all the endings besides the true ending range from sad to horrifying to WTF!? and this was no exception. It's a branching paths type game, so I'm going to go through several of these, unlocking new routes along the way, until I get the true ending and the full story. So far the game is already fairly weird, with corpses cut in half at the molecular level appearing and talk of simulation theory. Of course, if previous Spike Chunsoft games are anything to go by, it's going to get way weirder and more complicated from here on out, stuff like simulation theory (which is not THAT crazy, if you think about it. I'm not saying it's necessarily correct, but it is plausible) is liable to only be the tip of the iceberg. I fully expect much more crackpot stuff ahead. A nice feature is that there are separate difficulty options for the somniums and for QTEs. The first game didn't have a lot of action scenes, and neither has this one, so far, but there were a few and they were the worst part of the game, by virtue of the "gameplay" being just QTEs. At least in this game I can make the QTEs so trivial that I can breeze through them and the action scenes essentially just become cutscenes without changing the difficulty of somniums. Somniums are puzzles and I like puzzles, hence I don't want to make those trivial, but QTEs are not fun (does ANYONE think QTEs are fun?) and while I can't remove them entirely, the next best thing is to just make them trivial.

I mean, I'm not going to say anything bad about "Sexual Chocolate" Mark Henry.

I love They Live and "Rowdy" Roddy Piper was good in it, largely because it was the perfect role for him, but he was not a good actor. Ahem,

Big Dave is a surprisingly capable actor. I'd go so far as to call him the best pro wrestler turned actor that I can think of. Obviously, The Rock is a bigger star in Hollywood, but The Rock always just plays The Rock, no matter what movie he's in. It works because of how charismatic he is. Dave Bautista actually has some acting range. He's not Daniel Day-Lewis or anything, but he can do more than just one character. Side-note: At the very end of Big Dave's WWE run when he already knew he was leaving rasslin' and going to Hollywood full time and was just fulfilling the end of his contract, he completely stopped giving a **** and it was the best chunk of his rasslin' career, from an entertainment standpoint. Giving zero ****s Big Dave was GLORIOUS.

You might say... ... Moore's Law is dead. I'll show myself out.

Nothing says "classy" like Jim Wynorski. Best case scenario is something on the level of Chopping Mall, which gave us this gem:

I'm confused. The costumes and effects look like something out of a 2007 vidya game, which makes me think they're going for a comedic/goofy tone, but they seem to be mostly playing it straight in the trailer, so I don't know what tone they're going for. My hope is that they play it straight and it's terrible enough to be hilarious. Also, I'm calling it that Sean Bean dies 45 minutes into the movie.

This is a clean out the fridge special: Nacho cheese sauce on the bottom, ground pork, rotisserie chicken, cheddar cheese, bell pepper, mushroom, red onion, avocado, and a bit of ranch dressing. The other tortilla goes on top then I cut it with a pizza cutter.

I got a chuckle out of Biden rejecting China trying to broker a peace. Granted, the stance that China has ulterior motives and an agenda in brokering a cease fire is obviously correct. Still, if we are to believe that Imperial Murica is NOT engaged in a proxy war with Russia (dismissive_wank.gif), and only sending "defensive weapons" (whatever the **** that means) to Ukraine, then what gives Imperial Murica the right to accept or reject any sort of treaty between 2 other sovereign nations? Gotta keep that sweet sweet racket going for as long as possible, funneling money from the treasury into the pockets of Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, and the like, all while palms all around the Capitol are getting nice and greasy, and the best part is that it's happening thousands of miles away with non-Americans getting slaughtered by the thousands. Good times for everyone, except us taxpayers, who will ultimately foot the bill for the billions of dollars the fat cats in DC keep pumping into the war to keep it going as long as possible, and, more importantly, the Ukrainians and Russians dying.

If there aren't at least a dozen different idle animations of opening and closing a butterfly knife, what's even the point?

I decided to get adventurous. I'm fairly knowledgeable about Scotch, I certainly know what I like, but when it comes to Bourbon, I'm much less experienced in that department. I saw this bottle at my local ABC store that I had never seen before: When I saw Washington State, I hesitated; I was confident that folks in Kentucky and Tennessee can make good Bourbon, but I was unsure about folks in the Pacific Northwest. I decided to try it anyway. I'm happy to report that the people of Washington State do indeed know how to make Bourbon. It's got a very woody flavor, it's got some spice, a little nutmeg maybe, and just the tiniest hint of vanilla. No sweetness initially, but a tiny bit of sweetness on the finish with a bit of caramel flavor. It goes down decently smooth but I was pleasantly surprised by how little it burned, given that it's 90 proof. This won't be replacing Dewar's 12 year old as my main whisky of choice, but I'll probably buy this again sometime. I might get this for my dad in the future, he's more of a Bourbon guy.

AI: The Somnium Files - nirvanA Initiative I'm saving this last screenie to use as a reaction picture, though I'll probably just crop it down to the speech bubble at the bottom: I could probably go into the politics thread and use it at least 20 times right now, but that would entail going into the politics thread and reading posts therein, and, dear God, why would I do that to myself?

@GorthThat's not a praying mantis, that's a Tyranid!

It was the raccoon dog all along!

As an aside, I have not pre-ordered S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2, not because I have a rule about not pre-ordering, which I do, but because I'm supporting Putin.