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Valve index is probably the best from what I've heard. It's most expensive and the visual quality is not as good as some of the newer ones, but the tracking is superior. Probably best all round.

The HP Reverb is the best resolution and refresh rate, but poor tracking, so it's good if you primarily want to play racing/flight sims only. Slightly cheaper than the index.

Oculus 2 is best value most likely because it'll get the job done, but has baggage like requiring facebook login, or extra hassle to hook up to the PC.

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Sackgurl posted...

no, it's over. if you're holding, you're going to lose all your money because you bought shares of a company that does not make money.

Ehh, disputable. Gamestop makes billions in revenue, can probably capitalize on their speculation to become cash rich enough for a pivot, and the new board members are highly suggestive of a digital pivot in gaming, and it's enough of a household name that a pivot could be successful.

GME was definitely undervalued when it was single digit stocks. People who thought they were going to go out of business during the pandemic when new consoles were coming out underestimated how much more disposable income a segment of the population had that did have stable employment, since that was no longer spent on going out and doing things. The gaming industry is at an all-time high, and while brick and mortar as a general trend is going by the way side, usually the dominant player in each BnM can weather it, of which outside of big box retailers, gamestop is really the only one.

Even the original guy who had the 50k long call who made millions on the GME hype didn't try and push the squeeze thesis. He invested in GME from a value perspective. The current stock price is much closer to a fair market value than what it was at half a year ago. And if they do a successful pivot, it can probably go higher. Back to 300s, 400s? Likely not.

But the problem with the GME hype were people who were expecting a lamborghini from a $500 investment in the course of a week. They weren't willing to weather violent swings for the bull thesis.

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gafemaqs posted...

Dude havent played ass creed since 2 what am i missing

They've become more RPG-esque. Loot with different stats, different weapon playstyles. But they suffer from most open world problems which is tremendous amount of filler side quests and exploration mixed in with average storytelling.

Though that's kind of Ubisoft's M.O.. They make beautiful worlds with nothing in them

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DVF didn't lose 13M. He lost 13M of unrealized gains. He cashed out some of his options really early on, so he's still a millionaire from all of this. The rest he is letting ride, but he was always more of a long term play with regards to GME.

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uwa ej posted...

Who says you need a $30,000 car? Get a car you can afford (buy not finance). There are plenty of really good $1,000 cars. When you get more money, get a better car

This comes with risk. As someone who has bought used cars private party, used cars through dealership, leased cars, and bought new, each comes with pros and cons.

New cars have better interest rates and you go in knowing the entire history of the vehicle. They're good for people who want to hold onto their cars longer, usually well past when it is payed off. The value of the car comes from the fact you get the "best and newest features" with no question of the history of the car and the best warranty for a very affordable budget. But you technically lose value given the depreciation immediately from driving off the lot.

Leased cars are cheaper to "own" when you view it strictly from a budget perspective. You never own the asset, but you usually drive something nicer and you only drive new cars that are fully warrantied and you know the history of the car. They're for people who want to drive the nicest on their budget and "upgrade" frequently. Not unlike how people upgrade their flagship phones every 2 years.

Used dealership cars are often "safer" than private party, but the issue is that dealerships charge a premium. You'll buy a car that likely by the end of the loan you won't have much equity in it at all, so you plan to keep forever as well, the only difference being it won't last as long as the new car (most likely) and the monthly payment is probably more budget friendly. Though if you buy used but still relatively new, it'll increase the lifespan, but you're also paying more interest despite lower sticker price. One might argue buying a 1 or 2 year old car is the "sweet spot", but is contingent on good credit and shopping for the best deal. Also good luck finding anything good at a dealership less than 10k.

Used private party is the only way you'll get a 1k car and it is a total gamble. Only car I did this ended up having the odometer rolled back and I didn't find out that my 125k mile 4runner was actually 400k until I happened to roll into the same shop the previous owner did the oil changes at. It's the cheapest way to drive capital-wise, but unreliable and I got tired of every new sound just stressing me out that the next big repair was around the corner.

People with good credit and a healthy budget shouldn't really risk buying cheap 1k cars. Usually the reliability of private sellers doesn't go up until the 10kish price point, to which you need to be cash rich to even go that option. In that sense, a 30k car is "more affordable" to someone with good credit and stable work.

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Know the MSRP of the car you're interested in. Calculate a monthly payment before hand based on a duration of loan you're willing to take, knowing that longer loans mean more expensive because of the interest you pay. This is more palatable if you have good credit, but can kill you if you have terrible credit and get a high rate. But a lot of the times is limited by your budget, because by this logic the best deal is buying a car upfront 100% which most people can't afford.

Usually what they will try and do is fixate on monthly payment (ignoring that it is simply a function of length of loan and down payment). If you feel the number is too high, what they might do is simply increase the length of the loan to get to that lower monthly payment and make you feel like you're getting a deal. Always check the math on the term. One time I was financing a car I had leased at lease end. The initial quote made no sense. The residual on the car was 12k, but their monthly payment + loan length equaled out to a loan of 24k. I pointed out the math and when they came back the number made much more sense. They prey on people who wouldn't notice.

Anywho once you get down as low as they're willing to haggle, walk away. They will try everything to keep you in the door, even so much as to say they won't be able to go this low again if you change your mind. Ignore it. Tomorrow they'll call back with a better rate.

If they don't, that might truly be as low as they can go. But they'll still call back with the standing offer.

Bonus points if you go to multiple dealerships to essentially throw lower offers in their face to see if they will match. Once this back and forth slows down and you're comfortable with the price, then you sign all the paperwork. At that point it's a last chance cash grab with the finance department to sell you expensive warranty packages that are optional.


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WingsOfGood posted...

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/gamestop-stock-retreats-from-record-gains-after-more-than-half-of-short-positions-eliminated-11612203497

How does stock go down if they exited 35 million shorts?
This article is misleading right?

Exactly. That's my take. Ever since the whole Citadel acquiring Melvin Capitol and shortly after, Robinhood restricting trading, of which Robinhood sells it's user data to Citadel made me realize that the level of manipulation is like the movie the big short. Different arms of the finance industry are likely covering each other's asses. Even a video from early 2000s of Jim Cramer admitting the tactics of hedge funds that are playing out very similarly to what's going on, up to and including getting journalists to report falsehoods to improve their position, regardless of the truth.

They're cheating and may very well win because of it. I'm just fascinated at how blatantly they got caught with their pants down.


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Esrac posted...

So, if now the date people are eyeing is 02/09, that kind of feels like kicking the can down the road. Last week, it was Friday, then today, and now Feb 9th.

The only reason friday was "significant" was the expiry of a bunch of ITM call options as well as the expiration of long put options by the shorts. Some people took that to mean the shorts had 6ish days to cover their margin at that point, but that was never the case. They can hold their position as long as they want to pay the interest.

Some people thought another gamma squeeze would happen like the week prior where all those calls exercised, driving price up, and requiring the market makers to also drive price up by securing the shares in the first place to give the option for those contracts to execute. Like a positive feedback cycle.

But I suspect a lot of last week's call options just sold the contract rather than executed.

Again, this is all uncharted territory. A lot of people called the events of two weeks ago a gamma squeeze. Mainstream media is reporting that was the actual squeeze. Feb 9th will reveal actual short positions, not just speculation, but there is daily manipulation that muddies the waters.

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BignutzisBack posted...

@BlameAnesthesia
What are your thoughts on this post by @Tyranthraxus ???

The low volume of trading makes it easy for them to ladder against each other to drive down the price. Then they exercise options and do other things to get the stock back to cover their shorts. Yes it takes longer and yes they're still losing money but they're losing a lot less money than they would by covering shorts at $300 per share.

The gains made from refreshing shorts help offset the losses as well.

Totally plausible and why I'm not 100% convinced a violent short squeeze will even happen. The price has been somewhat trending down since trading is limited and this is largely because they did try this in the past, but retailers continued to buy the dip in large volume.

They can't do this anymore. However, most genuine stock is not being sold right now, so i reckon it would take a very long time for them to exercise put options that are ITM from their manipulation to cover their position. And basically it means it just starts this week, which means price will stay inflated at these levels (at least relative to the double digits of early january and last year). And they still bleed a ton of money.

That being said, isn't that what they want you to think if they are doubling down?

Again, this is why I don't have serious money in this. I only put in what I'm comfortable losing entirely.

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GoriIIa posted...

@BlameAnesthesia What's with that Feb 9th date?

http://www.nasdaqtrader.com/trader.aspx?id=shortintpubsch


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Esrac posted...

Is there any reason to hold at this point?

Just been trending down all day.

Look at it this way. Imagine 100 shares of a company exist. a hedge fund borrowed 140 shares they didn't actually own, and immediate sold them to drive price down. They hoped that they could buy back 140 at lower prices to pocket the difference in profit.

Instead people bought those 140, and hold them, which makes them scarce. This drives price up. The ones who sold the 140 initially are paying interest on that bet every single day. They already lost 6 billion on their bet and they're worth 12.5 billion, plus got a cash injection of 2.1 billion from another hedge fund.

When/if they give up, they will have to buy those 140 shares at any price. It's simple supply/demand.

Now the question is this. The weeks leading up to this has shown consistent short interest in excess of 100% (i.e. they're on the hook for borrowed shares that need to be bought back for more than the total amount of shares in existence).

Mainstream media lately has been reporting that they closed their position, but this implies they bought on the order of 50-75 million shares. If you look at the volume the week prior before brokers were limiting buying of stock, daily trades were a magnitude higher than they were this week with all the manipulation.

They aren't officially required to report the short interest until Feb 9th. Everything else is speculation. But at the same time, media was reporting that reddit was jumping on a bunch of other "pump and dump" stock, when any idiot with a brain could see none of the other options were in a similar position of being shorted in excess of 100%. And if you've been following the conversation on WSB, absolutely no genuine user was pushing silver, or whatever the media was saying today.

Whether it's worth it to hold? No one can answer for you. If this squeezes, it's a theoretically infinite cap. No one knows what that will mean. They've already blatantly manipulated the market and so so so desperately want people to sell. If they truly covered their position, they wouldn't necessarily want to advertise that. So why are they spending so much effort to tell you this?

Last week had a dip to 120 before stabilizing back to the 300s. No one has a crystal ball, but yes there is reason to hold if you believe the underlying short squeeze premise.

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My take on the whole short squeeze.

Capital gains losses can be written off. I don't really trade. I only put in small play money, which can be written off if it completely tanks.

I've been following this for a few months now and really things only got fucky when it hit mainstream. Otherwise the underlying DD was solid. And nothing has changed on that premise. Every day shorts lose millions and millions. Biggest HF involved already down 50%. It's a battle of attrition. Even with today's losses, they still lose. It costs nothing to hold. And I can write off if people lose steam and give up.

If retail or institutional longs give up and sell out now--it becomes a pump and dump with lots of bag holders.

If retail and institutional longs continue holding, a squeeze will still happen with HFs being the entirety of bag holders with everyone else having days of insane gains to cash out.

For what it's worth, it's interesting seeing information on WSB from like days prior only to percolate up to mainsteam, but the way it's reported is muddying the waters. It's the first real-time hand I've seen of true manipulation of narrative. Which makes me want to hold all the more.

Today's trades were extremely low volume. Look at the candle bar graphs, not the line graph and price. Most trades were even 100 of stock down to multiple decimal points of cents. This tells me shorts are artificially trading counterfeit shares to drive price down. No one holding actual shares is actually selling, except maybe small hyper bandwagoners who are just playing this like a pump and dump and spook easily.

Either this makes history or it doesn't, and the small entrance fee is worth the ride. And either a squeeze comes, or it doesn't, and by Feb 9th we'll know actual short interest numbers to see if the media lied about melvin covering their position (which seems unlikely they somehow picked up 50-75 million shares over the weekend somehow, lol).

Not financial advice, just my incoherent ramblings.

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Every time I see the truck get close to my street, it decides to do a U-turn and make some funky non-logical path zig-zagging all over the place. I'm better off not knowing where my graphics card is...

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Nu_Titan posted...

Timing the top is very tricky. The famous Volkswagen short squeeze in 2008 went up crazy high but came crashing back down after a day or 2 after the top iirc.

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So don't time the tippy top. So long as the shorters over extended themselves, the price will go up. These red herring blips and dips are trying to distract you from the fact large firms are losing millions daily because they're betting GME will be 75% down when even at this point now it's 25% up from Friday close. Lol. Slow upward pressure.

If you're worried about timing the top, set a sell limit order that is a couple hundred percent above the current swings relative to where you got in. So that when the real squeeze happens, it triggers your order on the upslope, but not so much as to be caught up in these daily swings.

This isn't a stock to put your real portfolio in. This is a stock to put in fun money you can afford to lose because the circumstances are so unique and a repeat of VW is a once a decade kind of opportunity. Study it and learn to recognize when it happens again and get in earlier.

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Centurion posted...

Thinking AMC will be the next GME.

I don't think people appreciate the circumstances that led GME to be GME.

AMC doesn't have billions of dollars of naked shorts by institutional money. Every day GME remains up from open (even today considering the blip and dip) is all of those shorts loosing a tooooonnnnnn of money. And when they decide they've had enough, it skyrockets.

Everyone just looking at the petty margins of the 90 dollar open to 150 peak today are missing the forest for the trees. GME is behaving like once in a decade stock, not the meme of the week.

If anything, all the short sighted day traders are interfering and leading people to think it's a bull trap, which is exactly what the shorts want.

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I have a PS5 and I am vaccinated.

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Dat_Cracka_Jax posted...

What causes trading to be halted for a company?

Sudden rises or dips >10%

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littlebro07 posted...

So why the fuck is GameStop doing this?

A few large firms aggressively shorted gamestop last year assuming they wouldn't survive the pandemic. It was shorted so much, there isn't enough stock out there to cover. Both a subreddit with a large appetite for risk YOLO'd for the long haul to put pressure on the naked shorts. Plus the owner of Chewy.com invested a ton into it early January and got a seat on the board so it's a combination of a legitimate pivot of Gamestop (potentially), the aggressive shorts who got caught, and a bunch of social media hype trying to maintain the squeeze.

If it succeeds, GME can go in the upper 3 digits or even 1000 per share, presumably. This is because if the shorts get margin called, they will essentially have to pay any market price, even 1000 to buy up the shares they shorted.

It's simple supply/demand. Any minor plays like today's record high followed by drop is nothing compared to what can happen--presuming everyone buys shares and HOLDS. Dumping because you made chump change on a dip is short sighted. This is like a once in a decade opportunity. Or it will fizzle out. Either way, a ton of retail investors YOLO'd into it with a bunch of people putting money they can spare to lose for the ride of a lifetime.

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https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Nr8vkBriAuo/U0RSt0E3_1I/AAAAAAAAAs0/fDcm_9XTzI0/s1600/volkswagen.gif

Look at the dip before the actual squeeze to those that thought 140 was the squeeze.

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The Trent posted...

i just could never bring myself to chase something like this GME thing
it's ready to crumble literally any second isn't it

Look at the VW dip before the actual squeeze.

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Future_Trunks posted...

short term GME calls are crazy risky rn lol
i'd stick to just buying the stock outright @emblem_boy

Also calls don't help the current situation, which is the short squeeze on institutional money that recklessly shorted more than the available GME shares. When the squeeze happens, $140 a share is nothing.

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GME to the moon baby


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Beemo_Season12 posted...

You should have waited for dips.

GME dips are peanuts compared to a short squeeze.

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dummy420 posted...

I could go AMD as well or standard 3080

I had a few opportunities to pull the trigger on a 6800xt or a 6900xt, but the lack of DLSS and good RT made me hesitant to go with it. Also I heard AMD tends to have buggy drivers for a while for their GPUs.

If you're looking for a CPU upgrade, the 5600x is a solid bet if you have an AM4 motherboard. I updated to the beta bios with my x470 and it works with the new chips no issues so far. Only reason I went with a 5800x was because stock has been so difficult, I took the opportunity for a 5800x. The 5600x is a better value for sure.

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Rain_Dust posted...

not bragging. but I ordered a 2080 (whole computer) BEFORE the card game out from cyberpower. They apparently didnt have any 2080s and my order was already weeks behind, so they game me a 3080. I almost shit.

That is incredibly lucky. Congrats.

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dummy420 posted...

Im waiting for the 3080Ti

I'm worried with the state of the market now that they won't feel pressured to release the Ti version for a while now. And even if the tariffs go away, I think the new prices are here to stay (since people are still paying them). I wouldn't be surprised if a 3080ti will MSRP at 1200 for FE, which means partner boards will retail for up to 1500, which is old 3090 prices.

And since the 3080ti likely won't surpass the 3090, it seems like the early adopters of 3090's came out ahead if they managed to snag a card early.

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steveoSEK posted...

All tech manufacturing is fucked because of covid. Cards have it worse because of how insane crypto is right now, but it's still bad for everything. It's gonna be a year or more before you'll see a ps5 sitting on a shelf, for instance.

I lucked out with a PS5. And I already upgraded my CPU to a 5800x. It seems AMD CPU's stock is slowly normalizing. But yeah, I agree with you, I think GPU stock will be a shit show for the next year at least.

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Usually sales reps don't pull the "oh wait, we just found a discount for you, plz stay." Usually you need to request to speak to retention.

These days it's become such a joke ritual. You basically call, request to speak with retention and then say, "I want a lower price." "Okay, here's what I can do."

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VipaGTS posted...

This is what PC nerds get for being nerds.

I bet this guy scalps cards on ebay.

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I've been trying since September to get a 3080 to no avail. I'm on the EVGA queue, but I signed up a few days after launch which means I'm still likely months away. I did somehow get an email for a 3070 on the queue, and was surprised how quickly it got to me given the later release date. But I passed on it thinking the stock will normalize soon if that was the case. Definitely regretting that.

Next thing, tariffs hit and cards go up 10-25% in MSRP.

The only cards I've seen on the twitter stock alerts lately are 3090 bundles, which with the price increases are basically $2000. Occasionally a 3070, which I don't want for an inflated price. Rarely see a 3080 go up and when they do, it's out of stock immediately even in seconds.

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Jabodie posted...

"reddit conspiracy theories" damn

More shots fired at the capitol

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Bio1590 posted...

Is any channel actually just showing this? NBC has Lester/Chuck/etc doing more talking than they're actually showing of this thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR729TRvM7c

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tremain07 posted...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR729TRvM7c

Here's a link, sorry it's starting with mitch the bitch

Did the utah senator refer to Pence as Mr. President?

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Start with the Athena charm, get her dash ability. It deflects projectiles. Alternatively, once you unlock the Poseidon sword variant, you can spec for Athena's cast and just spam the shit out of it, and using special to regain the charges immediately, rinse repeat.

Center your build around those two perks and you'll routinely get to the end.

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Here's my favorite videogamedunkey video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lN-rVlMIJZs

Pretty much all his soulsborne videos are gold.

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TheGoldenEel posted...

Thanks for your service

the wife and I have been sitting around doing jack shit for 9 months like good citizens of the world during a pandemicin a normal year we would have been busy many weekends of the summer going to music festivals and concerts out of town

i recognize that there are many who dont have that luxury

It's funny how we covet what we don't have. What I'd do for more free-time...

Although I guess job security during these times is priceless.

The new kitchen looks great, good job.

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krazychao5 posted...

LFG

looking for group?

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What spare covid-time? Hospital still squeezes me for everything I'm worth as a resident.

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Waiting on Godfall for PS5 lol

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VipaGTS posted...

I wanna watch it on CSpan >_>

What's there to see? Democratic house will pass it. GOP senate will sit on it. The 600 dollar checks will go out and nothing more.

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It's great on PC and will be great when the PS5/XSX update comes. Doubt it'll ever be good on PS4/X1X

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Hayden Christensen is reprising his role as Vader in the Obi-Wan series, although I don't know how significant he'll be given that nothing between the end of the prequels and the start of the originals can be that influential. Vader was allegedly never aware of Obi-wan or Luke's presence on Tattoine.

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CommonJoe posted...

Its because they dont know the glory that is Five Guys and are too indoctrinated to know any better even if they do.

Their fries are only "good" because they literally drown them in salt. I can feel my kidneys shriveling up when I eat them.

At least I don't need to immediately drink 2 gallons of water after In-n-out

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tremain07 posted...

I got a switch for christmas but my save data is on my brother's switch for Smash bros, according to nintendo I cannot bring that data over to my switch because it's ownership is in my name and not his account wise.

Basically, am I fucked, I have to buy all this shit again?

I guess?

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I finally got an EVGA email about the queue. I thought I was finally getting a 3080. Turns out it was for a 3070 and forgot I signed up. I passed on it.

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Perks of being a frontline healthcare worker.

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Him trying to pick it up while standing on top of it after the jump leads me to believe it wasn't intentional. Still cool.

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Adyingod posted...

Or maybe I just want to rid the world of dangerous people. Did you ever think of that, smarty pants?

Doesn't lifelong incarceration without parole achieve the same effect?

If you really cared about that as an endpoint, why is the means so important? I agree with TC. Death penalty comes with a non-zero chance of killing an innocent person. And it's an error you can't reverse if discovered, unlike a life sentence which can. Any amount of risk, however little, outweighs the benefit of ridding the world of dangerous people when there are ways to achieve the same result without said risk.

And ignoring the possibility of human error and bias and saying "well some cases are so obviously guilty without a doubt!" is just plain hubris. Which leads me to believe the motivations for supporting the death penalty are a bit more primal, i.e. you enjoy the bloodlust. Maybe not consciously, but the underpinning is there if that is how one approaches justice.

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XboxLegendary posted...

What's important to me is stopping the mistreatment of cisgendered women by radical members of the trans community.

Or you could just....not interact with any of those online communities and just treat every real live person you encounter with the same respect you would anyone else and not make mountains out of mole hills.

Your typical person wouldn't even recognize this "drama" exists because these online communities are not relevant. That's not to say their issues aren't relevant, but how we interact with one another in person in society is often different than what social media, forums, and chat rooms would have us think. Almost every online "community" is a cesspool that isn't really reflective of what "society thinks." It's just the "local" drama of that corner of the internet.

Get some sunlight.

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Waiting on PS5 update to play. I want the best frame rate and fidelity that I can get.

Or if I manage to snag an rtx 3080 in the mean time I'll play on PC

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