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Yeah, just wanted to post exactly that, these prices are probably without factoring in user location and varying sales taxes. Buying the same components in Austria costs a bit more, but that is after a 20% VAT. Things sure have quieted down a bit on the hardware market. I also noticed that the Bestware build link actually works now. Funny, could have sworn it did not yesterday, perphaps a caching problem. Looking at the typos in my post, I should stay away from late night posting. Edit: Also, by throwing in another 50$ or so, you can get the above system with an i5-12400F and a B660 DDR4 mainboard, which will give you one more potential CPU generation upgrade to an i5-13xxx later (by all accounts those are ~20% faster than 12th gen). As far as I know, new AMD CPUs will require new platforms with DDR5 which are much more pricey. That depends a lot on whether you want to upgrade later or not - and you'd need to pick a mainboard where a BIOS upgrade to support 13th gen is realistically on the table, which should be no issue if you stick with one of the larger brands.
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I played around with Bestware's configurator, but the share link it offered just goes back to the default configuration. Not that it makes much of a difference, I can't get a decent system to not go way above Hurlshot's price range even when making (nigh unaccaptable) tradeoffs on the SSDs, memory, the entire platform and the PSU. Ah, I also don't know if they ship overseas, and even if they do, that would add unreasonable shipping costs. Guess this post as very little helpful content. Newegg has - or at least had - bundles in their shop with incompatible hardware, like bundling DDR5 only mainboards with DDR4 RAM. Good job. Given the price and the curious lack of any brand names on the specs, I'd say this cheaped out on everything possible. Not that it is saying much, my parents had two of these cheapo prebuilt computers, and they worked and worked and worked and worked and never died. The last one actually lasted almost 10 years. Was still a third generation i3 doing its job (more or less, since my father picked up video editing as a hobby that proved to be a little bit of a downer - not much of a surprise, huh?). edit: link seems to work. Some modifications above baseline, especially for the SSD, just click on "configurator" to see the changes.
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It was pretty popular the last time someone posted the video. Well, the second one, at least, after which we talked about how much I hate System of a Down's vocalist, with @bugarup saying he unironically likes him and @Bartimaeus saying he at least doesn't hate him. As for when that actually was, I'd say "recently" which is anywhere from yesterday back to 2005. But yeah, that's pretty awesome.
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Cinema and Movie Thread: I like to remember things my own way.
majestic replied to Chairchucker's topic in Way Off-Topic
*snort* The version with the English subtitles has barely any comments on it, but the regular trailer is full of people complaining about political correctness ruining even films about the army now. Does everyone need to be gay these days? Why this wokeness? Why ruin everything? Yes, why indeed. Why is a biopic about a career soldier, who has hidden his homosexuality for the longest of timest, about gay soldiers? Indeed, one is left to wonder, even after the two married a while back. Nah, must be to appease the tofu-eating, Guardian-reading, woke Twitterati. -
That was meant for the people here not liking Bubble, of course.
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Joyful day: more reminders of how everyone else's tastes suck.
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Oh, I don't know, you're a racist and don't like Indians? But maybe - maybe! - because they still let them scam their own people, apparently, even after being served evidence on a silver platter. Tough, dunno, I'm going with racist here. Racist!
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Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous, Part 5
majestic replied to Gromnir's topic in Computer and Console
Oh dear god, do not give them any ideas, imagine what rigor mortis could do to Minhago's and Staunton's... uhm... brrrrrz. Brain reset. Reset. Reboot complete. Hi, I recently played this game, and I liked it a lot, except for the puzzle content. What do you think? -
Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous, Part 5
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My condolences. Edit: I'd rather replay the full battle squares in IWD2 than doing Enigma again. -
Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous, Part 5
majestic replied to Gromnir's topic in Computer and Console
Sounds like you guys need cookies. -
Cinema and Movie Thread: I like to remember things my own way.
majestic replied to Chairchucker's topic in Way Off-Topic
That is because Neil Breen is the best at everything. -
The TV and Streaming Thread: Summer Reruns
majestic replied to InsaneCommander's topic in Way Off-Topic
6:41 in and I already want to turn it off after hearing the explanation for last week's super dumb episode end. Seriously? What is it with writeres these days lampshading their terrible writing as if that makes it all right? Oh we know it was bad, look! Look! With each passing day my disposition creeps ever closer to Will Ferrell's interpretation of Alex Trebek. -
Ukraine Conflict - "An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war"
majestic replied to Lexx's topic in Way Off-Topic
Eh, never mind, not worth a potential warning. -
Ukraine Conflict - "An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war"
majestic replied to Lexx's topic in Way Off-Topic
We'll see in 2024. -
Ukraine Conflict - "An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war"
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Cynical take: if the Ukraine was moved to some place in Asia, we'd be supporting the moderate extremists attacking them. -
The TV and Streaming Thread: Summer Reruns
majestic replied to InsaneCommander's topic in Way Off-Topic
Why do you not want to check out the bestest show ever made? Am genuinely baffled here. Baffled, I tells ya. -
The TV and Streaming Thread: Summer Reruns
majestic replied to InsaneCommander's topic in Way Off-Topic
Dirty Mexican posing as true, blue Texan. -
The TV and Streaming Thread: Summer Reruns
majestic replied to InsaneCommander's topic in Way Off-Topic
^ Ratings or shares, people are going to wonder what 'quotes' is supposed to mean in context (Quote = German word for rating, share, proportion, quota). Not very fond of retroactively ruining the finale with David Tennant's Doctor, but I'll tune in regardless. Yeah, still not really over Clara. -
Let me know what you think. It's odd to feel an uncanny valley effect for the entire series, and I wonder if it is just me finally going off the deep end, or on purpose.
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Narutaru: I don't know how to put this, but Texhnolyze made more sense, in some ways. Texhnolyze has the big issue of the viewer being unfamiliar with the setting and one not getting a whole lot of direct exposition, but this one? Here we have a familiar setting, and everything is a little as if there's just a thin coat of paint on a world that's entirely wrong. Basically, this isn't an eldritch horror series, the series IS an eldritch horror entity. Edit: Shiina's mother made note of how Shiina spells her name in katakana, and muses that she is ashamed of her name, so I just spent looking at almost fourty different ways to spell Shiina in kanji, but none of them mean anything particularily noteworthy, so no real clues there, although it's hard to say if the site I looked at had all possible spellings. Kanji readings for names are a science in and of themself.
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