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not even kind of

I think black men look better than white men though
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imagine if real life was like this? there are the people that you're 99% sure are real people, the people that you're 90% sure are fake people, and the people that you will never know for sure either way.
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I bought a cheap ($400) RCA 49" 4k tv a week or so ago. I wish I could have kept it, but it had a dead pixel and unbelievably bad vertical banding, so I took it back. I was almost going to just live with it since the price was so good and the problem wasn't always visible, but it got too annoying.
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doesn't it mean they also write the songs they sing? isn't that more impressive than just singing, and worth mentioning?
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good looks really just give you more *charisma* which is really what you want/need.
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a bit salty but otherwise make lots of foods better, and are great on their own in small amounts

benbeverfaqs posted...

Depends on the quality, there's a huge difference, even between canned

this is true. some are like cardboard, some are super tender.
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eating4fun posted...

Spacechem. The dark souls of puzzle games.

yes, in fact all Zachtronics games:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/504210/SHENZHEN_IO/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/558990/Opus_Magnum/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/370360/TIS100/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/300570/Infinifactory/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/92800/SpaceChem/

or the bundle:
http://store.steampowered.com/bundle/2925/The_Zachtronics_Puzzle_Pack/

Shenzhen is probably the best. TIS-100 is the most hardcore. Opus Magnum is the newest and nicest looking, but also the easiest (which might be a good thing or a bad thing). Spacechem is similar to Opus Magnum but more hardcore.
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close or equal to -40 not including wind chill. it's very unpleasant.
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I named my game Snowflakes without even considering that it had that meaning
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I do like cottage cheese. sounds weird to eat them with chips, but not awful. normally you'd eat plain chips with something that has extra flavor, but cottage cheese and plain chips are both neutrally flavoured foods which might be why it's slightly odd.
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use large icons with no text, grouping, and pin to taskbar. one of my favorite windows 'innovations' of the last many years.


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_AdjI_ posted...

It kind of is, actually. The spinal cord is not a continuous mass of nerve tissue. It's a bundle of a very large number of individual nerves, which branch off at the appropriate points to innervate the target tissues. The arrangement of those nerves relative to each other is not identical from person to person, so the nerves coming from the head might not end up attaching to the correct nerves in the spinal cord. which could result in some very odd and unpleasant effects (including, as you mentioned, the autonomic nervous system failing to connect to the involuntary processes that are necessary for life).

it's more organic that you're making it sound. yes, it's a bundle, and some parts are communicating signals for one thing and some parts are communicating signals for others, but it's not so distinct that you could literally hook up the arms to the eyes. (the eyes aren't even in your spinal cord anyway).

it's not like, oops, we wired your arms backwards, it's like, oops, you're having massive seizures and convulsions, your heart is not beating, and your lungs are not working. gee I wonder why, maybe it's because you're a corpse from the neck down?
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go get a coffee and/or snack
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adjl posted...

mismatched nerves, such that the brain trying to move an arm will result in blinking, or things like that. Same with sensory nerves not connecting to the right places at all (which could result in things like a touch on the arm giving the sensation of being kicked in the balls).

are you serious with this? if your spinal cord has been *severed at the neck* and *connected to a corpse* you aren't going to have your arms switched with blinking, wtf. it's not like a USB port or something, geepers. your entire autonomic nervous system will need to communicate with a foreign spinal cord just to have things like a heart beat, regulated blood pressure, breathing, functioning digestive system, etc. (there are a few functions you'll inherit from the spinal cord.) it's not like the blue wire connects to the eyes, and the red wire connects to the arms or something.
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wouldn't you at best be a quadriplegic? until we can properly heal spinal injuries, this will at most be a way to keep someone's head alive a short while longer.
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WarGreymon77 posted...

The PS3/360 generation of consoles apparently had very little RAM, and therefore, 30 fps became the norm. Either that or the idiots developing/publishing the games decided resolution was more important. Very, very few 60 fps games in that gen.

I dunno what RAM would have to do with it, but 60 is twice as much stuff to draw as 30, which is no problem if you can live with only half as much content on the screen, but otherwise you're making a tradeoff between content (and complexity of content) and framerate.
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ParanoidObsessive posted...

Not once in my entire life have I ever really been able to see a difference worth caring about.

"worth caring about" implies that you'll just refuse to care, so ignoring that, yes there is definitely a huge difference. there's a sort of glassy silky smoothness to motions when you're getting true full screen 60fps. it's a HUGE effect when it's really there, it's just that it requires a game to consistently output graphics at that rate, and as chewy noticed, i60 is not really the same either, even if it's "60fps", those frames are only half the screen each.
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WaffIeElite posted...

I think one of my favorite fan mods has to be Mantera's Lords of Magic rebalancing. Gives that game a real kick in the ass that it needs. Shit, I might go play right now.

hmmm... apparently I'm not the only person in the world that knows about LoM:SE? where do I get this mod? I see a "mantera's lords of magic" site, but it seems pretty ancient.
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I'm not surprised, but I am saddened, because I wish it was good... poor DC...

though, 93.5 VS 115 is not THAT bad.
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Golden Road posted...

like "it'll never even come close to happening ever in poker" sort of suspicious

well, there are something like 4.36 x 10^20 milliseconds since the start of the universe. so if you tried once per millisecond for the entire age of the universe, you'd still only have about a 1 in 7.3 x 10^25 chance of it occurring (counting each set of 8 hands as separate from each other set of 8 hands, so ending with 3 royal flushes, and then starting the next set with 5 wouldn't count).
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ah yeah, big difference between 1080i60 and 1080p60
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Golden Road posted...

What are the odds of that, even?

1 in 649,739 of occurring on a given hand.

so (I think) 1 in 649,739 ^ 8 of occurring eight times in a given eight hands, which is 1 in ~3.18 x 10^46
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I just looked at some OLED TVs today that were playing 60fps video. looked amazing.

Rockies posted...

Whenever I play games or watch TV, it never looks like it's 60 FPS to me. Because when I watch videos on my computer in 60 FPS, I can tell a difference, and my computer monitors are nothing more than cheap TVs. So what gives?

the game actually has to be generating 60fps content, which most/many console games don't. but there definitely are some, and you can usually tell.

it also depends how you connect. if you're using composite, not sure that will ever look good.
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adjl posted...

They were solid games, but I've never particularly enjoyed them all that much. They always seemed to struggle with balancing the core idea of going really fast with the reality of needing to go through levels more slowly until you learned them (since levels that can be sped through on the first try tend not to have that much going for them in terms of interesting platforming). I can see how they would have been appealing for anyone that was interested in playing lots of the game and learning the levels well enough to speedrun them, since then you would get to go really fast, but for just finishing the game, I didn't find it that interesting.

this
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I was punched in the jaw by a girl once. Can't remember why. Jaw hurt for a few days. I was only like 10 years old at the time.
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https://shop.gordyspicklejar.com/products/fine-brine

pickle juice in a can. $16 for a 4-pack is pretty expensive...
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should have posted this earlier (it has a couple sound problems that it didn't used to have):



also this one:


image at the end of that one is the best:

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Yellow posted...

What I'd like to see is RAM being used as a hard drive running windows. As far as I've looked I've never seen that. It probably wouldn't even need any RAM being used as actual RAM.

The drive could flash to an SSD on power off and vice versa. That could be a neat project.

apparently a drive that contains RAM is already considered to be an SSD. (well... basing that on the unsourced sentence from wiki saying "... to distinguish it from a hardware RAM drive that uses separate hardware containing RAM, which is a type of battery-backed solid-state drive.")

doing it with a 'virtual' RAM drive (a section of motherboard memory reserved as hard drive space) is apparently possible, but tricky since you have at most 16GB to work with in windows. in linux you could have more. (oh, apparently 16GB limit only applies to windows home; windows pro can take 192GB!)

https://superuser.com/questions/985332/ramdisk-os-installing-windows-10-on-a-ramdisk
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AllstarSniper32 posted...

Why is RAM so expensive?

it isn't? I guess it depends what you compare it to...

What's the point in getting two 4GB sticks over just one 8GB stick?

if you have dual channel memory slots, you can access two sticks faster than one stick. put a pair of sticks into the same color slots.

Do I really need to consider MHz and V?

voltage "should" be ok... theoretically you can burn out the RAM if you play with the settings in your BIOS or something. if you want to be really careful, check your motherboard specs against the RAM you're getting. it's not something I've ever paid attention to. reading about it, lower MHz might be better...? but I don't think it matters that much.

more MHz is faster but more expensive. no idea how big of a difference it can actually make.
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it's hitting 100k like at this exact moment. it's increasing at like 20 votes per second or something, if not more. maybe votebots?
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4GB is starting to be the bare minimum these days, and 8GB the standard. with 16 you will rarely if ever run out (which should be the point IMO). especially considering how cheap it is these days.

AllstarSniper32 posted...

How do you even check what's causing the bottleneck?

when you start to run out of physical memory, windows will page stuff out to virtual memory, which is written to the hard drive. generally it will be the programs that are running that you've used the least. when you tab back to a program you haven't used recently and it takes a while for it to load back, that's because it's being pulled from virtual memory back into physical memory. having more RAM prevents this from occurring as often and allows you to run more programs and keep them all in physical memory.

note that preventing this virtual memory slowdown effect is about the only thing more memory will do, though additionally of course faster RAM will be better than slower RAM. also, I'm not sure of the benefits of having your pagefile on an SSD; it's possible that virtual memory on an SSD would be way faster, though it's also supposed to be bad to write to SSD too much, so I'm not sure if that's a good idea anyway.
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time seems to do the opposite of what you want it to. when you're a kid, you want to be bigger and to grow up; you want time to move faster, so it moves slower. when you're an adult, especially when you start to age, you want time to slow down or even stop, which just makes it do the opposite.

if for some bizarre reason you *couldn't wait* to turn 50, it would seem to take forever to get there. if you wanted to be 10 forever and hated every day older you got and saw each new year coming with dread, it would seem to just blast through the years.

another way to say it is, having too much time makes it slower, and having too little makes it faster. when you're a kid you have nothing to do; when you're an adult you have too much to do.
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FatalAccident posted...

But my friend's talking about you need to find the heaviest you can lift with good form and just do that for every single set, same amount of reps. So rather than 15x30kg, 8x35kg, 5x40kg I need to be doing say 10x37.5kg, 10x37.5kg, 10x37.5kg.

you should reduce it slightly each time (10x37.5kg, 10x32.5kg, 10x27.5kg...). whatever enables you to do 10 reps on the next set, even if you're now at half of what you started with. you shouldn't be struggling to do the 10 either. don't bend and twist to try to complete the set, if you can't complete it with proper form then that's how far you got and you needed a lower weight.
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Cacciato posted...

FrozenBananas posted...

Man on Fire

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heck yes, small to medium amount of cream, no sugar
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Rockies posted...

Uh, yeah I guess, you could say that of pretty much any retail PC manufacturer though

yeah, and it would make equally less sense to say "their PCs are shit" when they aren't even really manufacturing anything in the first place. you're buying hardware. if the hardware you're buying is "shit" then you bought the wrong hardware. complain about celerons being crappy or something.
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my family had a lot of emachines. I'm not sure what you mean by saying they were "shit"... it's not like they actually made the computers, it just had inexpensive hardware (often celerons).
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oh, it is garbage day today isn't it? thanks for the reminder
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Zeus posted...

Sure, there are motivational factors involved, but Japan's culture has never taken women all that seriously and, although you're starting to see the rise of career women in the country, gender equality is still extremely low. It's kind of exactly the place which could use an empowerment talk but, given the nature of the country, women aren't exactly inclined to seek out empowerment because traditional gender roles are so entrenched.

yeah, they only *think* they know what they want. little do they know they need *us* to *tell* them what they should want.
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WastelandCowboy posted...

The Narrator from Fight Club

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a large problem is that games are software and software development doesn't scale well. with normal labor, double the workers double the output, maybe minus some diminishing returns, but still a relatively proportionate increase in productivity from increasing the number of workers.

with software this isn't even kind of true, and increasing the number of workers can actually reduce output, because the knowledge base has to be understood by every single new worker. this means that software development works best with relatively small teams of highly skilled workers, and even then you generally still have a hard limit on how fast production can move. (good) software can't be mass produced.
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try to every year
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LeetCheet posted...

while at work, I don't feel as bad for some reason. Even longing to play some videogames whenever I get home.

But as soon as I get home after nine hours of work, I immediately lose all desire to play videogames.
And so instead of doing something that might be fun, I don't do anything besides doing some random shit on my phone(YouTube, GameFAQs, etc.)

At work, I usually laugh and crack really shitty jokes.

maybe you are or are becoming extroverted, yet are living an introverted lifestyle

another possibility which I have also considered for myself is that while maybe I'm an extreme introvert, that doesn't mean that literal 100% isolation is something that I can actually live with even though it seems like it sometimes. isolation seems like it might actually lead to a very gradual and insidious form of depression which is only avoided by being around people.
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I would like either different servers that stops at each expansion, or else a vanilla server that will be cycled through the expansions.

I've now levelled twice to warlonds of draenor and enjoyed every second up to that point only to hit complete boredom once I got there. anything pre WoD is great.

also having real talents again would be great.
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I guess it's true that if everyone has their guns out, it's not like a game where you get instant friend-or-foe detection, you can't necessarily tell who the bad guy is until he starts trying to kill you.

I don't see that as a reason to ban guns though. you can't really say "we need all civilians to be unarmed and defenseless so that we can tell who the bad guy is".
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the first of two college courses that I took, Linear Algebra, I had the worst instructor I've ever seen. I was too much of a noob to recognize it at the time, though, but he would just mumble throughout the class, and write chicken scratch on an overhead projector. I had no idea what was going on and was too stupid to recognize how well or not I was doing. ended up with an F. (the other course I took was Intro to Computer Science 1, and I was already a competent programmer, so I got an A without even trying.)

the second time I took Linear Algebra, at the same school, I had one of the best instructors I've ever seen. he was extremely articulate, brought props to demonstrate most concepts, explained everything in intricate detail and wouldn't stop until he was sure the class was getting it. it was amazing.

one of the last courses I ever took, can't remember the title, but it was about numerical calculations in computer programming. the guy teaching it was in his 70s or even 80s and wasn't doing that great a job. by this time though I had mastered taking classes and knew to just teach myself the class and forget about the lecture. but something else weird was going on that I never saw first hand since I skipped most classes. he would teach the course very angrily, and even would sit in front of a particular set of students and angrily lecture at them, and ramble about stuff I couldn't make out where he didn't like them for some reason. the final was super weird, literally no one said a single word, not even him. he came in, handed out exams, sat down, we took the test, not a word said by anyone.
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is she the one who locks up? maybe she has to wait for you to leave before locking the door/gate/setting the alarm/etc.
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the single hardest game out of all of those? or each hardest game from each of those? I'll go with the latter since that's more interesting.

All of these are limited to the games that I've played.
2D Mario - SMB3
3D Mario - SM64
Zelda - Zelda 2
Final Fantasy - FF1 (compared against 4, 6, 7, and 10)
Metroid Prime - 2
Classic MegaMan - 7? I think 7 is the only one I couldn't beat even though I gave it quite an effort. Didn't really play 5 and 6 though.
Dark Souls - 3
Halo - none of 1-3 seemed hard

Hardest of all of these is either Dark Souls 3 or Zelda 2
I had forgotten about FF1 actually... it's hard to say because FF1 and Zelda 2, it's really easy to get stuck, but DS3 takes way the heck more skill, even if you don't get stuck.

N/A - haven't played enough to compare or even at all
Pokemon
2D Sonic
3D Sonic
Resident Evil
MegaMan X
Tales of
Persona
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Hirokey123 posted...

Weren't like the wizards all absurdly powerful but the powers that be specifically hindered their power while one this plane and made it all but law that what power they did have they were only to use in the most extreme circumstance? Like pretty certain they were more less the equivalent to angels.

This is just my interpretation from reading it 15+ years ago, but I think in the book just about everything magical that happens is severely understated. The reason the wizards feel "weak" is that the movies made all kinds of things super explicit and obvious that were really supposed to be very subtle. Magic isn't this big flashy in-your-face thing, it's always subtle, almost as if it were an illusion, and when you're seeing it you're not really sure that what your seeing is real or not. It's almost always described with phrases like "it seemed as if..." or "he felt as if he could see..." or "it appeared like..." etc. It was not usually if ever described as "and suddenly there was a huge <effect>...".

so in the movies, magical effects ARE done the explicit in-your-face way, but meanwhile the wizards themselves are not going around doing anything flashy, because that wasn't the way it was supposed to be. so now in the movie you have this disconnect between magic being this flashy obvious thing, and magic users that don't often or ever do flashy obvious things.
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