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| Topic | Looking for a reasonably priced laptop with a dedicated graphics card |
| man101 12/31/19 10:47:08 AM #1 | I need something I can take on the road with me that is still capable of playing a variety of games. I bought a new laptop about a year ago but somehow I was so caught up in the other impressive specs that I failed to notice it only had integrated graphics. Which means while it has the processing power to run a dozen bits of software simultaneously without a hiccup, it can barely even launch games like FTL or Terraria. I'm not looking for something to replace my gaming desktop--just something that offers me the ability to play my lower-strain indie games when away from home for a bit. Right now the Aspire 5 is my top candidate: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07XJRGKKD/?coliid=I2VWT7JBI3QHVG&colid=33A0KFY2GEK6K&psc=1&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it but it's also right at the top of the budget I really feel comfortable dropping on a secondary gaming device. Anyone have any suggestions that match or exceed its specs at a lower cost? Maybe trade more graphical power for less storage space? --- \\[T]// Praise the Sun |
| Topic | 41 hours in Just Cause 2, and only 168 locations completed |
| man101 12/13/19 4:40:57 PM #3 | TheWorstPoster posted... I am completing the entire Just Cause series Whyyyyy. . . .? 2 is by far the best and the best part of the game is running around doing random janky action film stunt things. The completionist part of the game is horribly tedious and unrewarding and pointless. --- \\[T]// Praise the Sun |
| Topic | Do you expect the new star wars movie to be a good movie? |
| man101 12/13/19 4:38:16 PM #6 | pros
Already have my ticket preordered but I got a BOGO deal and I'm keeping my expectations low. --- \\[T]// Praise the Sun |
| Topic | Why are the Daniel Craig James Bond movies so determined to have Bond depressed. |
| man101 12/10/19 6:21:32 PM #6 | He's a raging alcoholic who kills people for a living and never has any meaningful interpersonal relationships, and all his romantic partners end up dead directly or indirectly because of him. I'd be fucking depressed too. --- \\[T]// Praise the Sun |
| Topic | If you think The Last Jedi is the worst Star Wars movie |
| man101 12/10/19 4:37:14 PM #29 | ParanoidObsessive posted... I'd argue it's worse than the prequels in a number of ways. Even the Phantom Menace has some redeeming features TLJ lacks.At least the prequels all had internal logical consistency even if they weren't necessarily good movies. TLJ is just a complete clusterfuck of nonsense character behavior and plotwriting. --- \\[T]// Praise the Sun |
| Topic | Okay, so let's say you and a roommate are watching a football game... |
| man101 12/10/19 4:33:38 PM #8 | You mean battery, not assault, but in either case I'm pretty sure a legit charge would need to prove intent in some way so worst case you could be stuck with some sort of harmful negligence charge. --- \\[T]// Praise the Sun |
| Topic | Majority want trump impeached and removed from office in new Fox News poll |
| man101 10/10/19 7:20:48 PM #22 | ForteEXE3850 posted... Reminder that every news outlet poll said Hillary was going to become president guaranteed. No, they were all saying that her odds of winning the election were extremely high. Which they were. But since people don't understand how probability works they see something like 'Hillary has a 95% chance of winning' and say, "See? She's guaranteed to win." No, it means there is a 5% chance Trump wins. And Trump winning was due to a lot of districts voting at the every edge of the margin of error for their polling predictions. --- \\[T]// Praise the Sun |
| Topic | People are really sitting in line 25-30 minutes for a chicken sandwich |
| man101 08/28/19 8:16:37 PM #53 | America: where people will stand in line for half an hour to get a chicken sandwich that they'll eat in 90 seconds, but won't participate in primary elections. --- \\[T]// Praise the Sun |
| Topic | Trump is telling officials to start seizing private land for border wall |
| man101 08/28/19 8:12:29 PM #40 | Cacciato posted... And as for the religion thing, that speaks for itself. Especially since anybody dumbass that had been to church on a regular basis wouldnt call it Two Corinthians. You learn that shit in bible school. Seriously I'm surprised that didn't get more traction. I have never attended a church service in my life and even I know it's 'Second Corinthians.' --- \\[T]// Praise the Sun |
| Topic | Why are people freaking out over Alabama? |
| man101 05/24/19 7:25:57 PM #345 | OhhhJa posted... man101 posted...I don't even know how to respond to you because I can't tell if your reading comprehension is horrendous or if you're so angrily desperate to prove that women are the cause of all your problems that you're just suppressing your ability to apply logic to a situation. I explained as clearly as I could and you don't seem to understand. And have you shown this women who is going to be engaged to you your nice little collection of statistics that accuse women of being a burden on the tax system for things like daring to have to care for children and all that vile women stuff? Oh, and for having the audacity to not die as much as men in war? --- \\[T]// Praise the Sun |
| Topic | do people literally tip delivery drivers? |
| man101 05/24/19 7:19:20 PM #12 | jbomb1234 posted... It's funny. People who work for tips blame the tipper. How about blaming your company that you work for, for not paying you.Yes there are a handful of jobs you can get good tips at but most of them are a waste of time. You should get paid at least minimum wage and a tip should be extra, not your actual pay. Yes we should live in a society where jobs pay enough that tips are not necessary but we don't. So you should vote for people who want to force companies to pay a living wage but that's not an excuse to not tip people in our current world. Some people have no other options but to work a job that relies on tips for any number of reasons that have nothing to do with their own education or competence level. --- \\[T]// Praise the Sun |
| Topic | Why are people freaking out over Alabama? |
| man101 05/24/19 7:13:44 PM #342 | OhhhJa posted... man101 posted...Did you really just try to use the fact that more women attempt suicide as an argument that they are somehow more privileged? What the f*** I don't even know how to respond to you because I can't tell if your reading comprehension is horrendous or if you're so angrily desperate to prove that women are the cause of all your problems that you're just suppressing your ability to apply logic to a situation. I explained as clearly as I could and you don't seem to understand. --- \\[T]// Praise the Sun |
| Topic | Savage breakdown of game of thrones final season |
| man101 05/24/19 7:06:17 PM #29 | Ah yes, posting memes with no accompanying text. The ultimate indication that you've backed yourself into a corner in an argument with nothing left to say for yourself and hoping that your humorous cop-out is interpreted as an intelligent response. Yep. --- \\[T]// Praise the Sun |
| Topic | Savage breakdown of game of thrones final season |
| man101 05/24/19 6:55:56 PM #27 | wwinterj25 posted... man101 posted...No you clearly missed his point. Pretending you're morally superior to other people is not a substitute for having a good argument. I think my "juvenile name calling" is totally justified in your case. --- \\[T]// Praise the Sun |
| Topic | Why are people freaking out over Alabama? |
| man101 05/24/19 6:41:23 PM #340 | OhhhJa posted... man101 posted...Also lol at showing the ratio of deaths by suicide as an argument. Women attempt suicide far more often than men. Men are just better at it, to put it bluntly. Did you really just try to use the fact that more women attempt suicide as an argument that they are somehow more privileged? What the fuck Mentioning that men are more likely to commit violent crimes is not an off the wall hypothesis. It's a fact. And I clearly explained why your New Zealand citation is not a good example, for the same reasons as everything else you posted. Out of context statistics clearly twisted to try to show a particular trend. --- \\[T]// Praise the Sun |
| Topic | Savage breakdown of game of thrones final season |
| man101 05/24/19 6:38:03 PM #25 | wwinterj25 posted... OhhhJa posted...I'm thinking you just consider it whining unless its something you like then it becomes constructive criticism No you clearly missed his point. Man would imply adult and you don't seem to be acting like one with your juvenile name calling thus it's a ironic username to me. I hope that clears up things for you. I called you a dope for having a dumb opinion that people shouldn't be upset or vocalize their disappointment about an amazing show taking a shit turn. Hardly juvenile. --- \\[T]// Praise the Sun |
| Topic | Savage breakdown of game of thrones final season |
| man101 05/24/19 6:07:12 PM #20 | wwinterj25 posted... constructive criticism is indeed welcome however shitposting it whenever possible isn't. This video is well written criticism with a humorous spin. No one in here is shitposting. Most of the criticism of season 8 is totally valid. name calling proves my point further and I find irony in your username. Please do tell me what irony you find in my username which I made up in four seconds 16 years ago and has literally no meaning whatsoever. --- \\[T]// Praise the Sun |
| Topic | Savage breakdown of game of thrones final season |
| man101 05/24/19 5:28:09 PM #14 | wwinterj25 posted... man101 posted..."Anyone who is disappointed by something they spent 8 years waiting for is a whiner and needs to shut up." So people should just keep their opinions to themselves and allow the people who wrote game of thrones season 8 to believe that they did a great job and go on and continue to make more shit? It's called giving feedback you dope. --- \\[T]// Praise the Sun |
| Topic | Why are people freaking out over Alabama? |
| man101 05/24/19 5:24:21 PM #335 | The_tall_midget posted... OhhhJa posted...Yeah men are so privileged. That's why men make up the overwhelming majority of suicides, homeless, workplace deaths, prison inmates, murder victims, and military casualties Oh wow, an analysis of the taxes from one year in New Zealand, how applicable to the rest of the world. /sarcasm Also any research summary that uses the term "Our supreme feminist leaders. . ." is clearly not unbiased and cannot be taken seriously. Also lol at showing the ratio of deaths by suicide as an argument. Women attempt suicide far more often than men. Men are just better at it, to put it bluntly. Also, average jail sentence comparisons? Could that be perhaps because men are far more likely to commit violent crimes? Let's not use any logic and instead just blindly share statistics, which is what every idiot does who hasn't actually taken statistics and doesn't understand how easy it is to manipulate them to fit any argument. --- \\[T]// Praise the Sun |
| Topic | Savage breakdown of game of thrones final season |
| man101 05/24/19 5:18:56 PM #12 | DrYuya posted... Noop_Noop posted...yeah they pretty much nailed it "Anyone who is disappointed by something they spent 8 years waiting for is a whiner and needs to shut up." What a smart and well thought-out opinion. --- \\[T]// Praise the Sun |
| Topic | Any recommendations for hair clippers? |
| man101 05/23/19 8:22:03 PM #1 | Been cutting my own hair for a year or so now with a $20 electric beard trimmer and while it does work, it obviously wasn't designed for the heavier strain of head hair. Finally getting sick of it catching. Browsing around online and devices advertised as hair clippers specifically seem to run three figures. Is that just how it is or are there cheaper models that aren't crap? --- \\[T]// Praise the Sun |
| Topic | Why are people freaking out over Alabama? |
| man101 05/21/19 10:36:16 PM #238 | How do you even have the opinion that people who want the option to get an abortion are "demanding that society fix their problem?" From the perspective of affecting society, an abortion is no different that a routine teeth cleaning or a visit to a general practitioner. It's a medical service that you pay for or that your healthcare provider covers, which you pay for by paying for health insurance. Why is that punishing other people? What a nonsense argument. Also what the fuck is this attitude The_tall_midget posted... 1. She's not obligated to make a baby in the first place, but she did. Are people not allowed to make mistakes or change their minds? How much of an asshole do you need to be to think that people deserve to live with the consequences of every decision or mistake they make for the rest of their lives? What kind of insane absolutist draconian mindset is that? OhhhJa posted... I actually care about people. Something the left pretends to care about but clearly doesnt Right, the left just pretends to care about people by constantly pushing for legislation that improves basic human quality of life. Sounds a lot like actually caring about people. --- \\[T]// Praise the Sun |
| Topic | Dude I fucking hate Game of Thrones |
| man101 05/21/19 3:58:18 PM #112 | I'm actually a bit disappointed that they never made Gregor out to be the absolute sociopath and vicious animal that he is in the books. In addition to making him more interesting it also explained the Hound's motivations and distrust of knighthood more explicitly. Instead we got a big dude who grunts angrily and smashes people with a big sword. --- \\[T]// Praise the Sun |
| Topic | Why are people freaking out over Alabama? |
| man101 05/21/19 3:54:47 PM #220 | Brain activity is irrelevant. It's a matter of body autonomy, period. Full stop. It does not matter if the person who is on the verge of curing cancer is dying and specifically needs one of your kidneys to live. It does not matter, You cannot be forced to use your body or compromise part of your body to save another person, or for any other reason. You cannot force a woman to carry a baby if she decided she does not want it. People have the absolute right to use or preserve their body in any way they see fit. --- \\[T]// Praise the Sun |
| Topic | Why are people freaking out over Alabama? |
| man101 05/17/19 3:44:49 PM #111 | Unbridled9 posted... And the democratic voting base is well known for their ability to go to college for underwater basket weaving on daddy's dime before thinking that anyone who disagrees with them even slightly is getting ready to goosestep. None of that makes the republican stance on abortion any less hypocritical or preposterous. This isn't a discussion about how young democrats are out of touch with reality. --- \\[T]// Praise the Sun |
| Topic | Why are people freaking out over Alabama? |
| man101 05/17/19 3:40:34 PM #108 | The_tall_midget posted... Love on how people are saying that means that they want to remove the rights of a woman to her body. wat --- \\[T]// Praise the Sun |
| Topic | Why are people freaking out over Alabama? |
| man101 05/17/19 3:38:57 PM #107 | Peterass posted... BlackScythe0 posted...It is impossible to ban abortion. The only thing you can accomplish is banning safe abortion and creating laws to murder women who seek what women have sought all through human history. No one accidentally uses an abortion the wrong way and your kid/grandkid can't take your abortion that you legally had done and use it to kill other people. That's a pretty flimsy analogy. --- \\[T]// Praise the Sun |
| Topic | Why are people freaking out over Alabama? |
| man101 05/17/19 10:32:52 AM #95 | -Komaiko54- posted...
You must have declined to read the part where I explained it's a matter of personal autonomy. You can't force someone to do something with their body, the argument whether the fetus is alive or not is irrelevant in the discussion. You can't force someone to breast feed either, and in that case the baby is already fully alive. Also your little meme is hilarious because that's exactly the sort of situation pro-choice people are trying to avoid. Because they will probably end up in foster care because the political party that fights the right to have an abortion is the same one that cuts funding for all the programs that would allow a mother to keep a baby she didn't want for financial reasons. --- \\[T]// Praise the Sun |
| Topic | C/D: No one would bother becoming a doctor if... |
| man101 05/16/19 4:30:24 PM #11 | Solid Sonic posted... DeathMagnetic80 posted...I mean, there are doctors who volunteer in impoverished countries to help people. Do you have any citation whatsoever for that claim? Also some people do genuinely like to help others. It's not about money. It's the same reason people teach. They get paid dogshit. --- \\[T]// Praise the Sun |
| Topic | Why are people freaking out over Alabama? |
| man101 05/16/19 4:26:34 PM #53 | -Komaiko54- posted... Zangulus posted...youre not controlling her body. Because until it is born a fetus is dependent on and inside of a woman's body. You cannot force someone to make a decision about their own body. You cannot force someone to give blood, you cannot force someone to donate an organ. And you cannot force someone to carry a baby for 9 months if they are not willing to do so. It's a basic right to one's own bodily autonomy. --- \\[T]// Praise the Sun |
| Topic | Why are people freaking out over Alabama? |
| man101 05/16/19 3:21:27 PM #42 | Mead posted... Access to abortion also has a direct correlation to reduced violent crime They also need all them unwanted pregnancy babies to grow up in a society that doesn't educate them or care for them because it makes them about a thousand times more likely to sign up for the military and go fight in the war of the month to generate more oil and arms manufacturing revenue for all those lobbyists who keep them in office. But it's definitely all about the sanctity of life. --- \\[T]// Praise the Sun |
| Topic | Why are people freaking out over Alabama? |
| man101 05/16/19 3:16:27 PM #40 | -Komaiko54- posted... Not anymore lol Yeah, more states should ban abortion, because there definitely isn't a clear, overwhelming correlation between the states that restrict abortion and sex education and states that have the highest teen pregnancy and lowest highschool graduation rate. Even more states should contribute nothing to the rest of the country, GDP or otherwise, and just be fetid pools of uneducated poor people with too many kids who suck up federal aid. That's all definitely better than just letting women not have kids they don't want. --- \\[T]// Praise the Sun |
| Topic | Why are people freaking out over Alabama? |
| man101 05/16/19 11:28:08 AM #14 | mastermix3000 posted... man101 posted...And fighting every piece of legislation that would fund programs to assist low income parents with childcare in any way. And cutting foreign aid to countries suffering human rights violations. And now pulling families apart at the border as they flee warzones. There's an old George Carlin bit where he basically says conservatives preach about the sanctity of life right up until the moment you're born, at which point fuck you, you're on your own, or at least until you're old enough to join the military, at which point they like you again. I have never seen anything that contradicts that assessment. --- \\[T]// Praise the Sun |
| Topic | Why are people freaking out over Alabama? |
| man101 05/16/19 11:10:55 AM #12 | Mead posted... Makes it all the more hypocritical considering a lot of these same conservatives spent 8 years under Obama screeching about how they needed small government that stayed out of peoples lives And fighting every piece of legislation that would fund programs to assist low income parents with childcare in any way. And cutting foreign aid to countries suffering human rights violations. And now pulling families apart at the border as they flee warzones. They've never been pro-life or pro-family in any way. They could give less of a shit about the sanctity of human life. They support anti-abortion legislation because it makes them feel morally superior and more importantly it allows them to control other people. Because the only thing right wing pseudo christians love more than proselytizing is making sure women aren't treated as equal humans with the freedom to make adult decisions. And that's a statement coming from someone who can't stand the SJW movement. --- \\[T]// Praise the Sun |
| Topic | A thing about Restaurants... |
| man101 05/16/19 11:01:37 AM #7 | Either they're being sleazy as has been suggested, or perhaps they're encouraging you to celebrate on a day adjacent to the holiday/special day in question. That would spread out the business they would normally receive in one day over two or three days, easing the load on the employees and supplies. --- \\[T]// Praise the Sun |
| Topic | Do you think there's a good chance roe v. wade is overturned? |
| man101 05/15/19 8:58:15 PM #8 | I don't know about the chances but I kind of hope it does get overturned if only because it'll piss off a bunch of people who either don't vote or who voted against their own best interests and then maybe next election cycle we'll finally oust a bunch of these ancient hypocritical right wing 'christian' douchebags who occupy far too many elected offices. --- \\[T]// Praise the Sun |
| Topic | GoT Season 8, Episode 5 *spoilers obviously* |
| man101 05/14/19 5:32:04 PM #59 | wolfy42 posted... I kinda get it, but I don't want to see it lol. I think of her as a total badass that can accomplish anything and nothing really fazes her much. It's hard for me to see her acting like a normal human would in that situation. Even just a bit of the Arya spark would have helped, but she just seemed overwhelmed and the whole, got knocked down and trampled on + not even defending herself against the Darkthraki part....really sucked. That is not the Arya I know. In both situations she could have easily been killed. The darthraki just didn't attack her, but if he did, she just flinched and cowered so she woulda been dead. The nice thing about game of thrones is that the characters are (almost) never one-dimensional. Even the badass assassin is still in reality a somewhat naive little kid, and absolutely susceptible to the horrors of being in a city under siege by a dragon. Which is why I'm even more annoyed by the end of Jaime's story because he clearly finally had it with Cersei after she broke her promise to help the North, yet after everything he just ends up right back where he started as a shallow piece of shit. He had one of the most compelling and morally ambiguous storylines in the entire show and in one episode they pulled a HARD 180 and threw him back to season 1 Jaime. "I never really cared about all those innocent people." So much for that amazing bathtub monologue from Season 3. --- \\[T]// Praise the Sun |
| Topic | GoT Season 8, Episode 5 *spoilers obviously* |
| man101 05/14/19 2:37:04 PM #56 | wolfy42 posted... Yeah, I really hate how Jamie ended up. Actually prob just gonna ignore this last season in the future, it had a few good moments, but over all just ended things horribly and destroyed characters I really love. Tyrion's abrupt inability to read or predict other people's behavior correctly is definitely stupid, contrived writing. But Arya I don't feel is as bad. Yes, she trained as an assassin and she's a very competent warrior but that's a totally different ball game from full scale war. She might have become desensitized to bloodshed and killing people who she feels wronged her or her family, but it still makes sense that in the face of this overwhelming devastation and senseless violence that she does revert to a kid a little bit. --- \\[T]// Praise the Sun |
| Topic | GoT Season 8, Episode 5 *spoilers obviously* |
| man101 05/14/19 1:18:20 PM #50 | Although Jaime and Cersei's ending is just bad writing and I do blame B+B for that. --- \\[T]// Praise the Sun |
| Topic | GoT Season 8, Episode 5 *spoilers obviously* |
| man101 05/14/19 1:15:13 PM #49 | ParanoidObsessive posted... chaosbowser posted...I think this the direction the story is...supposed to go. its just being so hamfistedly crammed into 6 episodes and one season that it seems forced and stupid. I don't know why HBO would want to give up on more seasons of game of thrones and throw together this mess of a season when they had a lot of subscribers just for this show. Yeah I pretty much place all the blame on the show's current writing state on Martin. People are quick to hate on Weiss and Benioff but they were never the ones writing the story; only adapting it. And when they had books to adapt, they did it very well. But now it's clear that they're pretty much just adapting a very rough plot outline. If Martin had gotten around to releasing even one of the two books at any point in the last 8 years, the show would have had so much more solid material to base itself on. But as is it's basically been sort of flailing for 2 and a half seasons. --- \\[T]// Praise the Sun |
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