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  1. Eriol

    Random Video Game Crap

    TotalSpend $1,065 OldSpend $513 147 games No idea on hours. Not sure how to access that. Per-game is pretty easy, but total isn't.
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    Games on SALE!

    Steam Sale supposedly runs until July 5th. So good luck @Dave
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    What are you playing?

    I finally found a cannon somewhere else (underwater islands wreck) so was able to go in. Turns out I was going IN the opposite way you "usually" do since I was definitely getting the PDA updates backwards. I always stayed out of the back since a Reaper keeps trying to eat me that way, while...
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    What are you playing?

    Well my parkour skills apparently suck. I couldn't even get in the entrance. So still looking for that gun. 2/3 fragments right now.
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    Gas Bandit's Political Thread V: The Vampire Likes Bats

    Maybe the original link is incorrect, but the not-exactly-right-wing (the opposite really) CBC in Canada says this: So the previous thing about embassies are probably right, but maybe not, depends, though asylum has been claimed at embassies before, but even then the advice I quoted before was...
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    What are you playing?

    I've read the wiki. I know. Hence my frustration about the propulsion/repulsion gun: you NEED that to get in the Aurora! And I can't find the %$@#ing thing!!! I have the ARM for the prawn for that function, but not the regular gun!!!
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    What are you playing?

    I'm 20 hours into Subnautica. I'm not sure if I have another 20 hours, or 40 hours left. I've found all 3 seabases, I have a Cyclops and Seamoth, but don't have the blueprints for the Prawn Suit (despite having ARMS for it now), and haven't found any alien places besides the mountain...
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    [Movies] Talk about the last movie you saw 2: Electric Threadaloo

    I'd say depends. I don't agree with your interpretation, but I acknowledge it as perfectly valid. I more saw it (from the original movies) as both Han and Lando being all about how fast the ship was, when Solo says that the "run" only succeeded because they did a massively stupid shortcut, as...
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    [Movies] Talk about the last movie you saw 2: Electric Threadaloo

    I agree, but would put one more point forward: I think it's dumb that they made something that was supposed to be about skill and ship capability (in the mythos) down to dumb luck in the movie. IMO the next time some network makes The Twilight Zone or The Outer Limits (or similar show where...
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    Gas Bandit's Political Thread V: The Vampire Likes Bats

    I'm going to copy from the article @stienman linked, since you apparently didn't read this section: You're making a false choice comparison here. IMO the real situation is, "Do I try and sneak in, and then live illegally, or do I make a refugee claim at an embassy that will be (rightly)...
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    Gas Bandit's Political Thread V: The Vampire Likes Bats

    What does this look like to you two? @stienman 's post that he linked showed pretty clearly what happens when somebody crossing illegally is caught (or at a border, in the case of somebody claiming asylum there). So what do you two propose to do instead? House the families together? What...
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    Random Video Game Crap

    Sadly, many, many parents are in the situation of "hey kid, can you set up my phone for me? Oh and restrict yourself too." Tech "literacy" is higher than it used to be, but still horrific. I guarantee you that USB sticks were the solution to both better portable storage, and not having to...
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    Weird weather

    My brother lived in Chicago for 10 years and talked about the 98/98 days, as in 98 degrees F, 98% humidity. I visited once during that. Holy hell.
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    Nintendo Switch Thread

    For those two, graphics only. We have 8 on both consoles, and I think there's tweaks so it's not so bot-broken online, and maybe a tweak or two, but that's it. And I have BotW on Switch, and a friend has it on WiiU, and supposedly just a draw distance (for detail) difference. I wouldn't waste...
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    Video Game News and Miscellany

    Fair enough. I think there's flaws in their implementation as well, but I put most of the blame on the HW manufacturers, not MS. Apple doesn't have this problem because they only need to support a small number of hardware vendors, and that's it. If you go outside of that, they say "nope...
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    Video Game News and Miscellany

    The advantage to MS (and to users) is that MOST blue-screen errors can ONLY be caused by bugs in drivers. It's how the modern memory model works. If you can throw things at a driver that cause it to blue-screen, while you may be "breaking" what the API intended, ultimately it's the DRIVER'S...
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    The Internet will never satisfy its lust for Net Neutrality and Bandwidth

    You keep saying this to ANY statement of equivocation between the two parties, but I have a reality check for you: Gas has been saying that since BEFORE Obama came in (at least). So saying "well Russia says this, so it's false" is just Reductio ad Hitlerum under the name of "Russia" these days.
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    Video Game News and Miscellany

    But that's the part about WHQL stuff: MS doesn't MAKE those drivers, the manufacturers do (a few "generic" exceptions to this). But if the manufacturer STOPS submitting to the database, but release drivers through their own "update" application, then you can have newer, and then the OS looks...
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    Video Game News and Miscellany

    You've basically described the WHQL process there Patrick. And vendors are continually trying to find ways to break it because having high standards is too much trouble. And thus we get the "we're rolling your drivers automatically to WHQL ones because that's the best we have right now"...
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    The Internet will never satisfy its lust for Net Neutrality and Bandwidth

    blots, you are quite clearly stating "Only X group can stop Y group (which is "cancer") and thus I will support anything X group does, no matter how bad they are, because even implying they did something wrong gives weapons to group Y." This mentality is what led to your governments supporting...
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