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Is the allure of shoving your take on something in everyone's face too great to pass up?
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solosnake posted...

I hope you explained that there is nothing wrong with mario kissing toad

Well it interferes with canon shipping so I'm against that.
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I am curious why you had it done at such a young age, though. Was it necessary?
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Zangulus posted...

DirtBasedSoap posted...

Zangulus posted...

I got a vasectomy when I was in my early 20s.

this explains a loooooot

Id be curious to hear as to what you think that explains, other than the fact it means I cant have children. Theres not much else to it. Lol

Well he's basically calling you not a man but make of it what you will.
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Gamer99z posted...

Solid Sonic posted...

Well...I don't want to go into the specifics but basically any copy of Windows 7 that is activated can be upgraded to 10 at no cost. Completely free and legal.

That ended a long time ago.

No it didn't. I could do it right now if I had a Windows 7 or 8/8.1 machine available. It's still free.

I was doing it a lot at my last company because part of government contracting required the HDDs be encrypted and Windows 8 Pro onwards contains BitLocker (only the Enterprise version of Vista and 7 had it). Since MS never stopped issuing free copies of Windows 10 upgrades, I upgraded machines that were still running Windows 7 whenever they came back from an outbound employee to Windows 10 in order to make this happen. Never once stopped being free. I also upgraded several of my own machines to Windows 10 after the supposed "drop-dead" date for free copies and even a year on from that date (it happened right before they launched Version 1607, "Anniversary") you can still do it with zero hassle.
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Oh THAT. That's not a standard update, that's a new version of Windows 10.

I thought you were complaining about the usual update cycles. That's considerably bigger and more significant. It's probably in the area of like 10 GB of data.

Though I do agree that software engineering has taken a shit as a whole. Nothing gets tested anymore on the premise of "we'll patch it when it's out", which is absolute nonsense because very often common problems end up unfixed with this mentality. I don't even know who's making those decisions.
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Werks 4 Me
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Well it was tragic, no doubt, but it would have been worse to see Japan ruin itself over the long term because their emperor would never give up.

The radiation effects of the bomb were also terrible but nothing short of a large act like that would actuall prompt a surrender.
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I may have been mixing it up with Superfetch, actually.
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Tangled was much better than Frozen, it must be said.
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Anna's better.
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AlternativeFAQS posted...

honestly I'd cancel the order and get the TCL p605. you'll save some money and it's a better tv especially for HDR gaming

Does it come in 65"? That's the size I wanted to get for a 4K set (my 1080p set is 55").
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Is HDR really such an exclusive tech that only the very best TVs can do it right? People make such a big deal about it you'd think it'd be more commonplace (I've often heard this is the main reason to go to 4K, not the resolution bump).
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Xbox LIVE Games with Gold this month isn't that impressive either.

So much for doing us a solid for Christmas.
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Samsung un65mu6070fxza is the exact model. 65" for $750.
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Apparently, being an LED TV, it can't do the actual HDR, just like a scaled down version of it.

Is this enough reason to return it? It hasn't gotten here yet so I haven't been able to see it in action.

I don't feel like I'd have cared about this until I learned about it but now that I know I feel like I might want to reconsider.
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Yeah, I know about that but I thought prefetch was too because the access time negates any need to preload applications into RAM based on predicted use.
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Renraku_San posted...

Prefetch.

I thought that was shut off on an SSD system.
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Well...I don't want to go into the specifics but basically any copy of Windows 7 that is activated can be upgraded to 10 at no cost. Completely free and legal.
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Nah. I bought a BD of it because of the hype and was unimpressed.
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Mead posted...

Solid Sonic posted...

Whataburger

These are fighting words

I went to several locations and most of them never got my order right on the first try.
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Japan was notorious for fighting to the last man. If the US didn't hit them hard and profoundly, the war in the Pacific was going to continue and do more harm to Japan than the two atomic bombs did.

If anything we did them a favor because we got their emperor to concede defeat before he threw his people's lives away any further.
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Mead posted...

Zangulus posted...

Mead posted...

Subway - they literally got caught using the same material used to make yoga mats as a filling for their bread

Not really. But ok.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/subway-sandwich-chain-to-remove-chemical-found-in-yoga-mats-from-bread/

They also got caught using soy flour as a filler in their processed chicken breasts

WOOOOW. You have a source. Good job.

*Sarcastic clapping and JLaw.gif.*

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Nah, I'm messing. Good sourcing.
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Yaridovich posted...

People who think they're being rebellious by paying fines with pennies are just assholes. Nobody except the clerks are being punished and they had nothing to do with your shit. The system doesn't care one fuck or feel any impact from your 'protest'.

That said, this is pretty funny

That is a good question, though. How DO you punish a system that makes you angry?

Being civil about it just gets you ignored and snubbed by people with power.
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Mead posted...

Smashburger

FUCKING SMASHBURGER
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I'm going to play Devil's advocate and say that Windows 10 is still free so the fact that it snoops on its users is somewhat expected. They have to make money somehow.
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Tmaster148 posted...

SGT_Conti posted...

So what penalty will they face for this?

I don't believe there is anything illegal about this as shady as this practice is.

Lenovo did something similar.

Though they stopped when people caught onto it in order to save face.
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Lonestar2000 posted...

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/259605-hp-caught-installing-spyware-windows-10-systems-without-permission-notification

Good thing I never bought their crap.

You do realize you could just reformat your PC with a completely bare OS and sever any link with the manufacturer, right?

Hell, Microsoft even gives you a tool to do it with: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10startfresh
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Mikablu posted...

KiwiTerraRizing posted...

Pennies are currency, whats the problem?

A lot of places won't accept payments in small change because it ties up an employee for a long time to count it.

I can't pay you with a $100 bill, I can't use pennies.

FUCKIN' CASH.
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Darth_CiD posted...

The US military themselves dropped pamphlets in the weeks leading up to it to warn all civilians to leave

I actually never heard of that.

I know the squadron that dropped the bomb immediately felt remorse for doing so but I wasn't aware the US was trying to warn people it was going to happen.
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I go there all the time. I have a great rapport with one of the stylists (I even followed her to another salon after she left before she came back again).
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I certainly like customization myself so I'm just coming from my own background.

I left Facebook because everyone on my friends list is an ardent right-winger...
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Let's make this topic about times you shit your pants.
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Facebook is less customizable and had a limited scope of accessibility at its start.

Yet it is the social media platform of choice, not MySpace.

Is it because all the college kids who were on Facebook at its inception made it popular when it went wide?
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That title is true clickbait.
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MICHALECOLE posted...

What does the k stand for in 4K?

Thousand, like Y2K.

I think it refers to pixel count but dont hold me to that.
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This is stupid. Like why couldn't they just expand or continue the story of Mirror's Edge? Why did they have to nuke it and start over from zero? It's not like there was a labyrinth of continuity they had to excise in order to tell a sensible story. It was ONE GAME.
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Ben111 posted...

Well I am personally never wrong but I think other people who are wrong should admit defeat

The easiest way to know you need to rethink your position is to disagree with me.
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Personally I wouldn't succumb.
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Like what does he want, exactly?
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Sarcasthma posted...

You need to use an account whose reputation you haven't tainted with shitposts.

I'm sorry, am I supposed to take this personally?
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Instead of having them blown off as being contrarian?
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Even on a 1080p monitor I still get black bars at the top and bottom when watching movies.

Any reason for this? I'm pretty sure they fill up the screen at the theater.

The point of widescreen was to be able to view more of the shot at a time but why should we still have to put up with black bars on widescreen displays?
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Rockies posted...

Man, this topic title bugs me every time I see it. "Naked female breast legalization" is the dorkiest thing I've ever read, just call it topless equality like a normal person

I actually wanted to say that in fewer words but I couldnt come up with a less verbose phrase.
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...that you believe no one else should by that virtue.
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Lootboxes got you down?

We need games where you have infinite resources. Anytime you need more, you just spawn them at no cost whatsoever.

Then games will be boring and you'll be begging for increased consequence and cost in order to keep things interesting.
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