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I've heard nightmare stories about Fedex but I have never had a single bad experience with them for deliveries. Guess it's just luck. I have had at least one complaint about USPS, UPS, DHL, and even Amazon delivery drivers but never Fedex

A handful of games when I built my first gaming PC in 2012, some of them being Battlefield 3, Assassin's Creed 2 and Brotherhood, and some other ones I forgot.

Most recently I bought Outriders on PC first and then again on Playstation when it was on sale but I did that so I could carry myself and also farm high end gear since it's a crossplay title

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Yeah from Gamestop. I went for a release version in case you're eventually able to homebrew it. Didn't get the MK bundle, but if I get picked by Nintendo before my GS order processes I'll probably cancel it and get the bundle

Probably the last big fun purchase for a little while though

I think I'm still living them even though there's been a lot of ups and downs

As far back as I can remember - end of elementary: Had a lot of friends, was really close with family and family friends, involved in a lot of sports and was pretty popular academically among kids my age in my town

Middle school: Moved so this was probably the worst time. Nothing special really happened

High school: Great typical high school times. Was still doing sports (V basketball, JV/V football, V baseball, cross country), met some great people, great memories

Undergrad (Alabama): Fun times and great people, got adopted by some students from Japan my first year there who showed me the ropes, frat parties, Bama won the natty my senior year. Got on a plane for the first time to travel to Penn State for a conference. I was terrified when I left home but that changed within the first week I was at Bama so it broke me out of my shell

Grad school (Notre Dame): Felt like the first time I actually used my brain, met some people that I'm still good friends with today, learned a lot about myself since I was so far away from other family members in the south. Traveled outside the U.S. for the first time and then like 5 times more after that for conferences

Post grad school (the last 10 years): Moved to the DMV, exploring the area led to a ton of fun times pre-covid, things have been a lot slower now but it's nice experiencing the adult freedom most of the time. Met a ton of people including some people from CE, tried out a bunch of new stuff. Also took a personal vacation to India for a grad school friend's wedding. I think it's still all good as long as I have a job and my body doesn't start to ache because for now I just feel like an out of shape version of my grad school self

I ask my grandson to shove them up his ass because I've done it too many times

neccis posted...

Probably. Their beaks and feat will be cut off Probably to when they're stuffed into a tiny cage because it makes them go crazy. Gotta feed the fat piece of shit humans though. And i get yelled at occasionally by Karen men and women whwhen my dog catches and eats rabbits on a 20 foot lead lol.

wut

Sometimes

Have you found a shirt that actually fits you yet

they fucking suck

Yeah unless I get fired or doge'd

Work is slow in the government especially compared to industry but the projects are never boring and I care more about helping the military (it's still basic research that applies beyond that) a lot more than lining the pockets of some worthless sack of shit techbro

Yeah I was in Tokyo in March 2013 for 8 days. But I was there for a week long conference (stayed an extra 3 days becuz). It was also the first time I left the states

The only overseas vacation I've ever taken was when one of my friends got married in India and the friend group also stayed a couple days in Sri Lanka at the very beginning of 2020

https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/body-recoverd-search-missing-kayaker-lake-lanier/85-3f66a9ef-881b-4294-bb6c-0676f4ad1c0b

I only met him one time, but it was during one of the worst times of my life during the holidays and my family was going through a lot of things. He and his wife opened their home to us and we stayed in their basement for a few days while things blew over (I also caught the flu around the same time and was out of commission on a bed the entire time). My sister had known them for years though and still kept in touch.

I just wanted anybody to know that if that is him (they haven't officially identified the body yet but said they are ending the search) that he and his family are saints.

The most souped up plug in hybrid that doesn't have a crappy reputation for reliability. Best I can think of off the top of my head is a phev Lexus RX with all of the options but I don't think that cracks 90k

Kid me would love adult me since I have a ton of Steam games with 2 high end PCs (high end mostly for AI/ML work), a good number of PS5 games, and a lot of Switch games

Too bad that 90% of my gaming nowadays is just Rocket League and The Division 2

Yeah I've had an Index since late 2020. It's gimmicky as hell but still fun here and there in VRChat, Rec Room (I don't chat there since I'm pretty sure the average age of players is like 13), and a few VR games like Blade & Sorcery

Need remastered Gears 3

That, Black Ops 2, Halo 4, and Assassin's Creed Brotherhood was peak 360 online gaming for me

pinky0926 posted...

Imagine how much brain melt is going to happen when AI girlfriends with VR and sex toys all comes together and is widely available

Cooked generation

mfw
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I love XC2 though I didn't finish the game, it's probably because the fanbase is hilarious (and horny)

The BlunZ reaction to Pyra/Mythra being announced is what I remember the most back when I was hyped af about DLC characters and the rumors

Flirty drunk for all of 15 minutes and then sleepy drunk for the rest of it

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DJ Mac is a dog, one you do not trust
You leave your [drug] around me gooby your [drug] gon get lit up
You leave your drank around me, believe your drank gon get drunk up

I didn't have any bullies because I was always ready to throw hands against anyone (fortunately never backfired for my face), but there was one dude in highschool who pretended I didn't exist so we did that mutually.

No idea what he's up to nowadays since I of course didn't add him to social media, and after going out of state in college I again jumped states when I finished grad school. Just two lingering childhood friends other than Facebook people I haven't seen in person in almost 20 years.

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5272905-hegseth-pentagon-women-peace-security/

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declared Tuesday that he had begun to shutter a Pentagon program meant to advance womens participation in peace-building and conflict prevention, which was created by a law written by GOP lawmakers and signed by President Trump during his first term.

This morning, I proudly ENDED the Women, Peace & Security (WPS) program inside the [Defense Department], Hegseth wrote in a post on the social platform X.

He said the program was yet another woke divisive/social justice/Biden initiative that overburdens our commanders and troops distracting from our core task: WAR-FIGHTING.

bluezero posted...

I bought a new PC and phone last year
Bought a new car this year

Doe posted...

I got a car, steam deck, switch 2, and upgraded my PC in the last 6 months >_> I feel all set.

Oh yeah I also got a car recently (November 2023) and got a 4090 and 5090 to tide me over for some years unless they melt my cables. CS phd working with AI/NLP and robotics so the 5090 was entirely for productivity, on top of that I'm also in charge of ordering computer parts (and assembling them) for my team at work since they are pure linguists, so I kinda have to be in the loop for that stuff

The cable issue is the main reason I've held onto my 2070 Super >_>

WingsOfGood posted...

"I voted for Trump because he is better for Gaza"

One of my friends said this (minus the voting part) and also claimed that Trump isn't senile like Biden because he could hold a convo about unimportant bullshit with Joe Rogan. I don't hold back on insulting him over this every chance I get and told him that if he continued saying dumb shit that we were gonna stop hanging out

But I'm still not letting him live that down anytime soon

I think the Switch 2 is the last thing for me before I'm stuck with buying only the essentials. I'm a little concerned about my PC because my bios is acting funny here and there and resetting my system clock constantly (already replaced CMOS battery)

dry hump the next vertical thing I see

Got a new car because I don't plan on selling it unless there is something that forces me to and I plan to have it easily over a decade, so depreciation wasn't a major factor. So right now I know everything about this car and there aren't any gotchas or vehicle damage that was covered up

If you change cars often or within common financing terms like 4-6 years then there's no point in new

I was at work watching my boss use ChatGPT and stable diffusion to generate a kid's story for Bring Your Kid to Work Day in a building with the shittiest cell reception I've ever seen, whipped out the Gamestop app at 10:30am thinking that I forgot the drop at 10, and had it pre-ordered in a minute

Being very descriptive because this was after spamming Walmart, Target, and Best Buy last night on multiple browser tabs and mobile for 2 hours with no success

Took a few mins for the confirmation email
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Can't wait for disappointment

Audio at home definitely got better after I grabbed a Q990D last year but there are still a lot of times where I don't know what people are saying. So I leave subtitles on 100% of the time

Personally right now I wouldn't quit (or not be worried if I got fired) until I had over a year of savings that covered all of my essential spending.

The job market kinda sucks atm

Damn Paul Rudd actually looks old now

Actually nevermind it's the hair his face still looks almost the same in the 1991 commercial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYhGL5y4DPQ

I set up my NAS a year before hard drives became dirt cheap. Paid $200 a pop for 8 TB drives

Edit: Oh looks like prices have returned to that amount. After I bought mine I saw larger drives for cheaper

Only spare parts I have are a 2070 Super and 750w power supply. Holding onto the the 2070 just in case the other two ticking time bombs (4090 and 5090) go off

AceMos posted...

no i wont tell you trust me your better off not knowing that movie exists

i wish i could forget that it exists

A Christmas Story wasn't that bad of a movie

I bet that dude is still doing it

Yeah my life is where I want it to be (really the only thing missing from that is a s/o) but I know I could be trying a lot harder at my job. Not just to be a good wagie but for self-satisfaction leading the kind of cool research that I've always wanted to do instead of just tagging along for various projects

I have a pretty sizeable art book collection now that I should probably get insured. It wouldn't fill a room dedicated as a personal library but it's getting there

Probably. It's the first time I've been hyped for a MCU movie since Black Panther 2

That probably doesn't say a lot because I don't think there's been that many MCU movies since Black Panther 2, but I wouldn't know since I haven't been keeping track that much

I've only done that the last 2 generations because I lucked out. I've had 5 cards in the last 13 years
2012: GTX 560 Ti for my first gaming PC
2013: GTX 680 as a Christmas present. Gave 560 Ti to a friend who killed it by having his PC plugged directly into a wall outlet during a thunderstorm
2020: RTX 2070 Super as part of a completely new build
2022: RTX 4090 from the military exchange for exactly MSRP (no tax or other fees). Put the 2070 Super in a new ITX build in my living room
2025: RTX 5090 from Nvidia's VPA program. Put the 4090 in the living room PC so now the 2070 is in a closet

If it weren't for the military exchange store and Nvidia's VPA program I'd probably still be on the 2070 Super, or optimistically a 4090 from a Best Buy drop since I wasn't gonna pay extra for the AIB models. 32 GB of VRAM vs 24 GB of VRAM is mostly useful for work and ML stuff, I didn't get the 5090 for gaming purposes.

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He's definitely being coached to say this shit because we all know he doesn't know dick about American history

I would suggest the 5070 Ti over the 4060 because game devs are getting lazy and 8->16 GB of VRAM can make a ton of difference and should keep you good for like 5 years. But that is like $800 for a GPU

I'm also an AMD fanboy now for CPUs so if I were building a mid-range ($1500-$2000 range) I'd go for the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D. And 32 GB of RAM is like $120 at least for now

DrizztLink posted...

Give me the salt, boy
And free my soul
You pour the NaCl
I'll waste away

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Just surviving, like all of us ya know

Pour some salt on him to free his soul

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My job will still definitely exist since it's research for the DoD to develop autonomous military robots that can communicate with people via natural language and America absolutely loves war. AI is still far too infantile to automate that away since people forget that all of this GPT stuff generates one word at a time based on previous words and doesn't understand the overall context of things (or context at all after a certain number of words). And that's just for text, it hasn't even gotten started on processing the real world other than using VLMs to understand snapshots.

The only question is if I personally will still have that job with doge fuckery