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    The Astronomy Thread

    That was crazy watching the first two boosters come down to land side by side. They were showing bird's eye view from each and they looked identical, were moving in unison. Awesome.
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    NBA 2017-2018 Season Thread

    How is Bagley a tweener? He's 6'11 235 lbs, can probably play 3 positions in today's NBA. His shot doesn't look bad, he'll probably take 3's more frequently in the NBA. I also compared Bagley to a better shooting Ben Simmons a while back. He's a solid shooter and a good ball handler for a...
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    NBA 2017-2018 Season Thread

    Yeah, would thought they'd try to get a third team involved to send Bradley to for a late pick.
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    NBA 2017-2018 Season Thread

    I thought Westbrook would be picked last. He's a ballhog in all star games, why would anybody want to play with him? But another list i saw that wasn't alpha made it look like Lebron may have picked him first after the starters, where Steph's first two picks listed after starters were Klay and...
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    NBA 2017-2018 Season Thread

    Was watching this game tonight, poor Kris Dunn, really damn.
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    NBA 2017-2018 Season Thread

    I remember reading it back when, but some of this is funny again in retrospect. Like they had the Cavs going to umpteen straight finals in the same years even though they didn't know Lebron would go back to the Cavs and he wasn't on those simulated Cavs teams. Seeing Lebron on Lakers playing...
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    Augmented Reality

    Projects speech bubbles implementation shown is stupid. Sticky notes in ar is nothing new, and this is less useful. who wants to have to listen to every bubble to find one you're looking for? The speech should be converted to text.
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    Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

    I would have enjoyed this film more if it had Larry David and Leon in it pondering questions more interesting than anything which was answered in this film, like do Jedi use the force to jerk themselves off? Why wouldn't they? Or in Rey's case...
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    NBA 2017-2018 Season Thread

    Yeah. I was opting towards Porter Jr. before the surgery, but Bagley is a can't miss star so it probably ends up being him unless Porter unexpectedly comes back and plays some. 10 years ago Ayton would have hands down been the #1 pick of this draft class, but in today's world he's probably...
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    NBA 2017-2018 Season Thread

    Doncic will be a bust, there's no way he's getting picked before Porter Jr. Anyways, its anybody's guess at this point how the draft order ends up. Lakers are 2nd worst now but there are about 10 teams separated by only 4-5 wins and a lot of games to go. Lakers have seemingly had a drop off...
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    NBA 2017-2018 Season Thread

    Tatum's 3P % has been damn impressive, only finally dropping below 50% lately. He seems to be in that Melo / Jabari Parker (if he can ever stay healthy) line of SF's that can just flat out score, but so far at least is happy to be a role player on a deep well coached team which is allowing him...
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    Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

    Fuckin lol at the dude calling her Shrek in his rant. Damn that video was great. Saw this movie for a second time a couple days ago due to family time. Still a piece of shit, still think its worse than the prequels, still have no idea how Rian Johnson not only managed to get away with this...
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    New Alice in Chains

    Yeah that's crazy. Kid doing Love, Hate Love, nails that shit.
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    Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

    Still angry about this. Rian Johnson gets gifted with the opportunity to do a Star Wars movie and he shits on everything Luke Skywalker stood for for the sake of being different. Enormously wasted opportunity. JJ Abrams put the ball on a T for him and the dude struck out. Continue Luke's...
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    Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

    I had been avoiding this thread and anything that might give spoilers for the past few weeks. Anytime internet ads even came up i turned them off immediately. Wanted to go in with relatively little expectations and just enjoy the movie for what is was. Watched quite a bit of the old movies...
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    VR Gaming - Oculus Rift, Playstation VR, HTC Vive

    Still not even for sale in the US. They're having problems getting FCC approval because nobody has ever put a WiGig (60 GHz) radio in a head-worn device before.
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    Augmented Reality

    Like this?
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    Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

    It's a Journeyman's Walking stick. Luke gonna use that shit to proc tash on Snoke so that Snoke can't resist his Force Shock spells.
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    Curb your Enthusiasm

    Yes, this was a classic.
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    Justice League (2017)

    6/10. Enjoyable, but sucks to think of what a wasted opportunity this was and how it could have been so much better. Completely agree they should have at least had another standalone movie with some of the other characters before this. I'll say it could have easily felt more rushed than it...
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    NBA 2017-2018 Season Thread

    If Lebron goes to the Sixers next year I got them over the Celtics..
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    NBA 2017-2018 Season Thread

    That's the thing. If the Wizards had a coach as good as the Celtics I think they'd be at least as good as the Celtics at this point in time. After the game Charles made some comment about thinking Kyrie would win MVP at this rate if they keep winning. Hell nah lol. Dude's averaging 20 and...
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    Virtual Reality

    You might look at the new windows headsets too. Cheaper (depending on model), easier setup (inside-out tracking so no lighthouses), lower specs required, better displays? and supposedly getting access to the SteamVR store within a week or something. Just saw that mentioned somewhere today...
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    Thor: Ragnarok (2017)

    8/10 Really really good, but as somebody else said its maybe too funny and that takes away from the impact of certain moments that could have been better. I'd also seen the trailers too many times thus felt to some degree like I'd already seen the movie. Doesn't take away from how good the...
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    NBA 2017-2018 Season Thread

    Take all these early season games with even less weight than usual due to the shortened offseason and preseason. Its an adjustment for the players, plain and simple. Especially for teams like the Warriors and Cavs whose seasons didn't finish until mid June and then they're playing real games...
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    Virtual Reality

    A kickstarter? Far more likely one of the companies already in the game will release a headset with 4k displays first. Samsung's just released headset for Windows is 2880 x 1600, their next iteration could be 4k.
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    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    Saw this last week and was like damn these people get work in Gfay! They need to get rid of that lame ramp though and put in an elevator with a PoD at the bottom. And the guard rails can go too, no newb corpses below.
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    NBA 2017-2018 Season Thread

    You can argue Miller vs. Allen, I don't think there's a lot of difference. Miller was arguably a better defender, and a more efficient scorer. His career TS% of 0.6139 is 7th highest all time and 2nd highest for a guard behind only Steph who is currently at 0.6162. Ray Allen is #52 on the...
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    NBA 2017-2018 Season Thread

    Granted I never saw most of the guys that were removed play, but if I had to argue one thing about this new list its removing Clyde Drexler for Ray Allen. Ray Allen is one of the best shooters to ever play, but Drexler was a better all around player - better rebounder, passer, defender. Led a...
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    NBA 2017-2018 Season Thread

    I'd rather they went in the opposite direction and enforced 2+ years of college since this will hurt NCAA hoops. The NCAA tourney is interesting now because you can watch tomorrow's stars today in a high stakes playoff. Remove those guys and I'll watch less of it for sure (I don't do brackets...
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    The Astronomy Thread

    Saw one guy talking about how they can calculate the cosmological constant from this one event where as before they had to combine data from many observations over the last 100 years. F'ing cool. They're shutting down LIGO for the next year to tune it up. They estimate that the sensitivity...
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    NBA 2017-2018 Season Thread

    Still can't believe the Warriors somehow snagged Jordan Bell for cash in the second round. As far as one guy in the draft who could seamlessly step in this season and add something they needed, he may have been the best fit from the entire draft for that. Somehow without even having a pick...
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    Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

    Too much to process, to many possible meanings for it all. Going to try to avoid watching any more of these trailers or the endless speculation about the details for the next 2+ months. Its difficult to avoid clicking when you see that "new Star Wars trailer" everywhere you look online.
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    Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

    10/10? Its that good. This could be the best cyberpunk movie we'll ever see. Not sure how they could have realistically made it better. It's long and the pacing is slow, but it grabbed me from the first second and never let go. It was like somebody tried to take the experience of reading a...
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    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    Nice improvements, but they've been trying to lure people in with "pre-alpha soon" for nearly a year now. Their first stream with Cohh Carnage was December 2016 in which they said hopefully pre-alpha would be available in Q1 17. Now approaching mid Q3 17, and they still aren't giving a good...
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    NBA 2016-17 Season Thread - Knicks in 6

    Don't care as long as he keeps hitting title-clinching daggers in Lebron's eye.
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    Smartphones

    There's nothing special about "Retina Displays." Its always been a marketing term that was used for a certain pixel density. Every decent device out there today meets Apple's original "Retina Display" criteria. So Apple came out with the new "Super Retina Display" for these phones lol. Which...
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    Smartphones

    No you can't. Windows hello uses two cameras for 3d image construction and IR to boot. Apple is just doing the same shit Windows Hello has been doing for two years.
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    What IP would make a great MMO?

    A Song of Ice and Fire has to happen someday. Too much money to be made there for it to not happen. Would love to see a Simlarillion-era Middle-Earth MMO. Potential for so many more bad-ass characters / bosses / storylines. Lord of the Rings era just has a few.
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    Smartphones

    It hasn't been done on a phone, but Windows has been doing it for a couple years now.