Gorth

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So... is your contribution on the way yet?

By uploading a virus to them?...

Dang, there went my cover. Now the whole world knows I'm Gorth!

Aww I’ve got a badge @Guard Dog yay, good to hear you’re Ok and enjoying life now

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More war in the Middle East

I wonder how Starfield compares to the X games, especially X4

They are anonymous contributions, right?.... right?

I'm fairly sure those national flags on the vehicles are not part of the original paint scheme

The smaller, "skirmish like" games do tend to lean towards competitiveness. I know Kill Team can feel quite competitive at times, but luckily I'm in the company of like minded people when playing it (Kill Team and Horus Heresy being my two go-to games these days). 40k is a monstrosity when it comes to games balance. It's virtually non existing, which is ironical considering it's also one of the biggest tournament attractions. They release balance updates reactively, every few months based on tournament feed back and win ratios for it. Horus heresy hadn't had a decent balance update in... I don't think one exists As mentioned previously, it's (HH) a game that appeals more to those who like narrative gaming experiences instead of competitive play. It's inherently "unfair" with the distribution of perks and abilities amongst the legions, the Mechanicum and Solar Auxilia armies completely favouring a few poster boy legions (Imperial Fists and Sons of Horus) Unless you feel like splurging $3000+ USD on each Warlord titan to put a competitive Titan Legion on the table (never mind the table space)

Somewhat tangential, but wasn't the Kent State shooting one of the first mass shootings at a US educational institution?

Maybe it’s just getting old? Did notice a marked increase in guests and general slow down. Both signs of sudden media exposure somewhere leading to increased traffic

Started playing Star Wars the Old Republic again. Just enough to try out the new story bits and level a few characters up to the new max. This, together with the gear grind made me love Guild Wars 2 even more! edit: GW2 has had no level increase or gear inflation the last 10 years. You don’t lose anything by taking a break from it

I'm sure @majestic is either an AI or gets paid per word I'm sure at some point we had a cartoon thread that wasn't anime. I just can't seem to find it. Probably slipped back to page something 10 years ago Anyway, I sometimes come across these Chikatoon's, which I think are Korean animations (the earliest ones I saw a few years ago was on a different channel iirc, and you had to manually select subtitles then. From this channel, English subs seems to be on by default)

Wouldn’t good satire be based on reality and actual quotes, just condensed to create absurdity? Just making up things doesn’t automatically make it funny edit: doesn’t mean made up stuff can’t be funny, but I would think of it as a joke, good or bad, not satire. Point in case, the (fake) announcement of Elon Musks death in the funny thread was funny, but I didn’t think of it as satire. It didn’t put words in his mouth either, as far as I know, he never claimed himself to be dead

I don't think so, when it's all opened and bolted together in the case... no returns there other than under warranty if it happens to have manufacturing defects edit: that is, assuming it's the same as "buyers remorse" down here

Since I've bought everything else except the CPU and ram, it's sort what if speculation now anyway

I do see a number of differences. In the case of cold war Berlin, the western troops did not actively engage in open warfare with the WP forces and were based in areas acknowledged as western territory by the WP. In modern times, how long would Macron be able sell a war on the home front if it turned into a full scale war with Russia (without Nato backing)? No doubt the initial nationalism would carry it for a while, but once the body bags starts arriving back in the thousands, it may be a hard sell, not dissimilar to the Vietnam war (imho). Is France ready for a "limited" nuclear war and the costs associated with it? Is the rest of Europe ready to die for France's military ambitions?

Oh look, V'ger is till alive and well and broadcasting to anyone who cares to listen to it's messages https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-68881369 Now sending from 24 billion kilometers away, taking 22+ hours for the messages to reach Earth. Who knows, maybe it makes new friends out there some day

Only cpu''s I've been familiar with since the Motorola 68040? Price and overclocking isn't a consideration, so generally in the past, I looked at compatibility and stability (and at some point in the past, years ago, AMD struggled with those, if only for a few years). So I stuck with what I was familiar with. Also why I went for Gigabyte, bad experiences with ASUS, good experiences with Gigabyte, so it's what I go for gravitate towards.

Way to open the door for unrestricted Russian retaliation against said countries. It won't just happen on the Ukrainian battlefield, but at the countries of origin of said troops. If someone sitting in a safe bunker somewhere wants to place bet on Russia not retaliating massively, well good on them, but if I lived in one of said European countries, I would make mental note of nearest cold war era shelter right away. Edit: If into gambling anyway, want to bet Putin is constantly weighing up Nato's participation int he conflict and on a day by day basis decides when the participation has entered the territory of active participation?

I remember buying a handful of Slade cd's back in the 80's when it was still a new media and cd's were relegated to a small corner at the back of the record stores This particular concert was not among those available though, just a perk of having youtube I guess (profanity warning!)

Slowly putting together a new PC. Not that my old one is "outdated", as much as it has developed quirks and occasionally refuse to boot up. Even if trying to boot from a USB stick. Got some new SSD drives (4tb) and a Gigabyte motherboard. I'm going to reuse my old case, PSU, existing drives (and my Windows), soundcard and graphics card (none of which are in any way state of the art). The two things I still need is a CPU (getting the Intel I7 20 core cpu of some variety) and some RAM (getting 64gb of Corsair ram). All in all, it will have cost me about $2400 AUD including additonal SSD's (roughly $1500 USD) Edit: I really haven't had much joy out of Asus cards over the years, be they gfx or motherboards