Sarex
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As far as SSDs go, I'm thinking of getting a Samsung 840 EVO 500GB. Thoughts?
All of Samsung ssd drives are rock solid, I personally own OCZ Vertex 4 128gb and while I had no trouble with it, I still regret not shelling out a little more for the Samsung 840 pro (128gb).
P.P.P.S. I should also note an SSD's longevity scales almost linearly to its capacity. Lazily quoting Anandtech's estimates for the EVO, at a heavy usage of 50GiB/day, the 120GB model would expire in 4 years, the 250GB in 8 years, and the 500GB in 16 years.
Performance too.
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There's a big difference in abstraction level between Unity and Infinity Engine. Unity is more like an engine for making engines; the P:E engine is built on top of that. Obviously way easier than doing the whole thing from scratch, but definitely more work than what IWD2 had to do.
That is your expert opinion is it?
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I hate the limited edit time on this forum.
I forgot to mention that
The PE beta will not be the full game, it will be more like a demo and contain a small, discrete portion of the game. The devs have have (at least when last asked about it) not yet figured out how they're going to do the beta, or what content it will have, but it will be limited to avoid main story spoilers.
So people should pay 60$ for a demo? That's even worse.
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I zigged when everyone expected me to zag and wound up getting this instead. There's a 15% off promo on it (which ends today), bringing the price down to $144.49. It's a little more expensive than the Corsair or the other Seasonic, but the X Series from Seasonic is pretty renown for its excellent quality and I'd rather pay 20 or 30 bucks more and be able to sleep well at night knowing I have a top-notch power supply powering my 1440p monster machine.
It's also quiet as heck, especially if the fan has it's own hole in the case, which most cases have today.
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I would personally go for this one.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817151087
A little less power, but I know this series is solid. (the 850w is 30$ more)
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I don't get how making children cry equals funny. Oh look, the kids are miserable and crying, ha ha. To me that's mean, not funny. Maybe I'm weird like that.
What a bunch of little brats, I wouldn't have given them the candy at all (excluding the few awesome examples).
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I'd say it's a mistake to cheap out on the psu. It's kind of the foundation of your pc and it's a component that will last the longest in your pc.
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When did Sarex turn into a cartoon character?
The same time you wrote anything worth reading.
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Seasonic platinum edition has great reviews. I own their 660w gold edition.
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Excerpt from War and Gender, Cambridge Press, 2001, by Joshua Goldstein:
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Important points: Goldstein emphasizes how much overlap there are in strength and stamina bell-curves like these. Add to that cultural differences and various human genetic groupings, and you get heaps and heaps of women that are stronger than lots of lots of men.
@Sarex: There are literally millions of women out there that would wear that plate and great axe better and longer than you (using you as a random sample of a male), just based on statistics. So, drop this "it's a myth!". Xena, the Warrior Princess, is out there, and she is mighty angry with you right now.
I really don't see how what he said contradicts anything I said, there are exceptions to every rule. Still doesn't mean that you will see women going around in full plate wielding great swords. In fact nowhere in the excerpt does it validate your claim, it in facts statets that strength shouldn't matter as much in modern warfare as it did in the past.
Yes there are stronger women then men, but then again those men won't pass those tests either. Man are just ahead on the strength bell curve. It's ridiculous that you are claiming otherwise.
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I think the weight skipped her face.
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He looks Slavic to me, which is not at all unreasonable for that geographical area.
He looks like a gay version of Putin to me.
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Haven't you watched the Game of Thrones? I hear there's this character called Brienne of Tarth.
You laugh but there are women like that today, just watch women raw lifting competitions. As I said they are the exception and they have access to training equipment high calorie food and strength gaining supplements. None of which was available in the past.
If you took the time to actually read the links I provided, you'd notice that it's not all about myths and folklore... Also, as mentioned before, I have personal experience of women fighting alongside men.
Edit: However, women have not been accepted to join the recon or guerrilla forces because they have not passed the physical tests but guerrillas operate behind the frontiles haha.
Shield Maidens were found as defenders in armor (light?) who lost (how effective were they?).
It's not just elite branches of the military. It's in everyday sports too, womens league exists for a reason.
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Hang on. You say there were a few exceptions. You just made my point. Women can get into combat roles.
And there weren't women hacking away with swords? History says otherwise. Read up on stuff like Celtic women and Shieldmaidens. There are other historical records that show women have been in battle through the centuries.
And the analogy is just plain silly. Professional footballers against cheerleaders? You couldn't get a worse analogy if you tried.
Yeah there were 2 women that passed the minimal requirements, big whop, women can now strangle men in close quarter combat. We are talking about a women wearing a full plate, wielding a big ass great axe or a mace or a greatsword and still being able to fight. Are you telling me that women can do that?
Gods, are you quoting myths and folklore?
Why is it silly? A cheerleader is an average women, she gets put through the same training, she gets knocked out after the first whistle.
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Or are a bit suspicious of a Wikipedia article about a hot event.
That is just what a brain washed Russian would say!
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No. There's a minimum bar you need to meet to get into a combat role. There would no doubt be many women who could get in but for different reasons choose not to. It's not that they are physically unable to do so, they may have other reasons not to apply. And it's not about being one of the strongest women, it's about meeting a minimum bar to get in.
Sure, if you get the strongest woman and the strongest man, and test both. No doubt the man will win. But this is not about seeing who is the strongest. It's about who can fit a combat role. And there would be many women who could do it. It's just many women choose not to even if they're physically able to. And that was my overall point. Women can and do fit into combat roles, it's just that most women choose not to for their own reasons.
How do you know that, as far as I have read women failed the combat tests in the US in droves, there were a few exceptions, but the general consensus was the women were unfit for the front lines.
Strongest women against strong men, not strongest. As for women being able to but don't want to, that is bs that you are thinking is true but isn't at all corroborated by anything. Soldiers carry up to 45 kilograms in to battle, they need to be able to run/walk long distances with that weight if it's needed. If you are going to keep insisting that they can preform as good as men, why are there no women is special forces or seal teams or any other elite branches? The army doesn't need female soldiers that can preform on the borderline, when they have man who can far outstrip them in performance.
As for the history, yeah there are women that were participating in wars but they were not on the front lines hacking away with swords.
edit: a good analogy that I read: "imagine putting cheerleaders through similar training to play in the National Football League.
"In the football analogy, if the cheerleaders do well in the training facility with the men with adjusted scores and then they get suited up and sent out to play in the football game – well, guess what? They don't last beyond the first whistle," she pointed out. "And the football game is non-lethal combat."
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edit2: Heh, I guess they are going to open up the combat roles to women in 2015/2016. They just need to design new tests.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_pro-Russian_unrest_in_Ukraine
Anyone wanting to catch up, here's a good article. Unless, of course, you're one of those people who buy into Russian propaganda. Then you will immediately decry it as western propaganda.
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Yes, they can.
Your history and biology knowledge could do with an update.
As for that "parallel", it is indeed sexist.
The only sources are from extremely biased individuals or groups harbouring archaic misogynistic notions.
What may be true is that women and men tend to (but that is by no means absolute) excel in different roles.
As has been stated and confirmed by military leaders and the likes of emergency fire-fighting services.
Mixed teams do well.
It's the diversity of roles and capabilities that ensures a cohesive unit can perform above expectations.
People are equal.
Different, yet still equal.
In the case of military performance, both sex and gender matter less than many would like to claim.
Oh, and in the case of a videogame it does not matter at all in any way.
Facepalm.... Are...are you for real?
Women and men aren't equal in strength, they are similar until they hit puberty, then men gain muscle mass much more easily. For an example, man and women of equal height and weight have significant differences in strength. It goes even further then that, a women with more muscle and weight then a male counterpart will still be weaker, the difference in muscle weight would need to be significant for a women to be stronger, because she can't achieve the same muscle density/mass as the male counterpart.
As for the parallels, I don't know what sources you were reading but I would drop them immediately. The facts are that most women couldn't finish the training exercises that were designed for combat.
Another example, that you can't fudge, is that every sport across the world has a male and female league. I mean for ****s sake Serena Williams the number one tennis player in the women league lost to a man who was 200th on the list.
Actually, women are allowed on the front lines. Also history has recorded that women have served on the front lines over the centuries.
Also, I know from personal training that there are women who can run rings around the men. There's one woman from the Army in our boot camp sessions that's like a machine. You wouldn't think it if you saw her.
Oh I know that there are strong women, that is why I said most. The thing is if we take those exceptions which we would consider the strongest women and put them up against the strong man the difference would still be great. Another problem is the amount of those strong women, they could never be anything but an exception to the rule, while strong man are a dime a dozen.
The article you linked says there are 20 women. See my point? Also there is no indicator of how they preformed on the battlefield.
Biology and evolution is on the side of man as far as strength is concerned, there is no denying that.
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Women can (and do/did) wear heavy armour in our own reality too.
You don't need a fantasy for fighters of different genders to be equally capable.
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You're just being facetious, and arguably trolling.
Oh I'm sure that some women can wear it, but that is not my whole statement. I said that women can't carry plate swing a great sword and hope to do any damage. If you want a parallel to modern times, women still aren't allowed on the front lines. Why? Because they, on average, severely under preform as opposed to their male counterparts.
I am not trolling you are just being unrealistic, women and man aren't equal.
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not "the Jews". one particular person passed on information through sinagogues that he will pay 1kk USD for Tzarev's head. and rumors have it somebody already burned down Tzarev's neighbors' house in an attempt to assassinate him.
The second part of the conversation made it seem like the synagogues were used for it though, that would make it seem like it was organized by multiple people.
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there's so much going on... a couple of phone calls were leaked, phone calls between Noginski, Tzarev, Kolomoisky and some unidentified member of the Jewish diaspora. and the things they say... I'll wait for you to hear it in the news before I say any more. but it's pretty ridiculous
Did I understand it right, the Jews put a bounty Tzarovs head?
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In other news, the Division is delayed to 2015.
Update #77: Art in Alpha
in Pillars of Eternity: Announcements & News
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Believe it or not, that was the point I was trying to make... This game is not based on the real world, it doesn't need to justify anything, including boob armor.