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  1. Grim1

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Even though I agree with all of the hate towards the woke crap, I've pretty much given up on boycotting the companies involved. It's like fighting the tide. It may be infesting everything atm, but eventually this tide of sjw stupidity will recede,. In the mean time I'm desperate for...
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    MLB Hot Stove 2020: Congratulations to the nations capital

    Ok. I just have to say it..... PADRES! It's been so fucking long. Feels good. And yeah... 2020 is the weirdest year in history.
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    Get the Gringo (2012)

    Entertaining. Enough so that I watched it again recently. Mel does a pretty good job with these types of characters. Kind of reminds me of Payback, another good one.
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    NFL 2020 Season: Gravy Edition!

    Good person and a great player. Loved watching Aldon when while he was with the Raiders. Had issues with substance abuse. I really hope he has it figured out.
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    NFL 2020 Season: Gravy Edition!

    Raiders D still not good
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    Star Trek: Discovery

    Good television will bring in casual viewers. Discovery is not good. Good Trek will bring back fans so they can watch it again. Discovery is not good Trek. There is no redeeming value to Discovery. In every way it fails. If it was wiped from existence the universe would be a better place.
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    The Boys

    Using the Nazi angle in a story isn't in itself bad. The problem is that EVERY fucking show (and game, etc. etc.) out right now does that. It's fucking old, tired, predictable and boring. Lazy writers following the herd. But The Boys is still great. The predictable Nazi arc isn't going to ruin it.
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    The Boys

    Yeah, they definitely drank the liberal zeitgeist kool-aid with the super nazi crap. But whatever. It's still the best show out atm.
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    Guild Wars 2

    Friday night's alright for fighting.. Even tier one servers are slow most other times. If you have a ocx/sea crew then sat mornings can have some action. Events use to bring people in, not sure if people care much anymore, haven't played in a while. Still have one more set of wvw legendary...
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    NFL 2020 Season: Gravy Edition!

    Looks like the Charger's disease has moved up the coast. Good time for the Raiders to bail the state.
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    NFL 2020 Season: Gravy Edition!

    Carr threw for over 4000 yards in 2019. That is without asshat Antonio Brown and Williams nursing injury all year. Defense sucked last year. Offense on paper should be better this year. Ruggs is a decent deep threat. Waller is a stud. Jacobs is a stud. Defense..... we'll see.
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    NFL 2020 Season: Gravy Edition!

    Fuck the Saints.
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    Guild Wars 2

    There are some really good group synergies that can happen with combo fields, etc. Well played groups in WvW have been indestructible during some Metas, before the inevitable nerfs of course. Fun to watch, if you're not the one getting stomped on.
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    Black Desert

    It's still a very good game. But they are the masters at getting you to spend outrageous amounts of money for pixels. The pet tier system (basically a slot machine) is the one that got me. Wasn't keeping track of things, and then came to realize I had spent hundreds. Fuck. Still like the game...
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    NFL 2020 Season: Gravy Edition!

    Politics is turning a lot of people off. Just like it did for the NBA. We want to watch the games and not be reminded of the political stupidity that is shoved in our face every minute of every day. keep it out of the games. It costs a lot of money to watch the NFL, especially if you have cut...
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    NVidia GeForce RTX 30x0 cards

    Did some water cooling a couple of years back. Was surprised how easy, well made they are now. I ended up just switching it out for Noctua's, because wasn't really overclocking much. But the new water cooling systems aren't nearly as messy as they use to be.
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    NVidia GeForce RTX 30x0 cards

    I'm just going to wait for the next generation. My guess is they will be hearing lots of complaints about heat, etc. this go around and will clean up the next cards to be smaller and require less power / fans. And they're going to want to get this tech into notebooks, so it's pretty much a given...
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    Star Trek: Picard

    Voyager aged well imo. It kept the dignity of Star Fleet and actually explored unknown worlds. Exploration and new worlds were not as common after the original series. Preferred Voyager to DS9, although eventually gave DS9 a shot and enjoyedt it. They really rushed the ending of Voyager though...
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    Black Desert

    Lock your credit card away and throw away the key. You will thank me later.
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    Star Wars general purpose movie stuff

    You are disagreeing with something I never said. Try again.
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    Star Wars general purpose movie stuff

    JJ is great at the smoke and mirrors thing. Setting the audience up to want that big reveal that his sleight of hand and intense action promises. The problem is there is never anything in the box, he doesn't have anything to say, and it's all just an elaborate shaky cam con. He's been doing that...
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    Dune (2020)

    Wish I hadn't read the books (more than once). Wish I hadn't seen the original film (more than once). This new versions looks really well made, but watching every scene knowing what is going on is a bummer. We really need some new IPs in the movies / tv. The remakes are really well done, but...
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    NFL 2020 Season: Gravy Edition!

    Lol. 12 wins on the mind somehow became 2012. Yeah, it was 2016 when Carr won all of those games but then broke his leg just before the playoffs.
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    NFL 2020 Season: Gravy Edition!

    Marriota never really had a chance to replace Carr this season. Not with Covid, no preseason, etc. Even without Covid, Marriota is just a high priced backup. Carr has all kinds of receivers to throw to this year, good ones. I think he will do well. He hasn't really had a decent receiver group...
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    Guild Wars 2

    Just roll another toon and play it until they get out of the low levels. Rev isn't in a great place, or wasn't last time I played. But most of the classes are a lot of fun. My favs are war, mesmer and necro. Engineer also, depending on the meta. For groups, Guardian use to be a great support...
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    Star Trek: Picard

    Star Trek is dead Jim. Kurtzman killed it.
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    New World

    What was the question?
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    Guild Wars 2

    When PoF released there was a story boss that broke all of my Warrior's armor, died endlessly. Did the same fight a couple days later with my Mesmer and it was a snooze fest, it was over so fast I almost didn't blink. Most fights my Warrior just breezes through while some of my other toons...
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    Star Wars general purpose movie stuff

    Yeah. Looper was great. Don't know if I've seen anything else by him. Probably, don't usually check the credits for that kind of thing though.
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    The Boys

    Fuck I love this show. So few good shows out there. Karl Urban is awesome in this. Glad I didn't read the comics. This show works just fine as is. The Stormfront character seems like a nod to the SJW's but since the rest of the show doesn't follow that path then I'm fine with her. And she is an...
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    Star Wars general purpose movie stuff

    I generally dislike the diversity / sjw push going on. But Boyega was great in 7, really liked the Finn character. By 9 he was just standing in the scenes and not used. Didn't really care about Kelly Tran, she was just playing another side character and wasn't that good at it. By 9 Kennedy...
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    Guild Wars 2

    Skritt master race. All run from Skritt
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    The Official Guitar Thread

    Ordered a Mesa/Boogie Mark 5 combo amp a couple of months ago. Covid had the factory shut down off and on. Damn thing is finally on the way. Tracking says it's on the truck and out for delivery. Can't get any work done. Keep staring at the window looking for that fucking truck. Ahhrgggg.
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    NVidia GeForce RTX 30x0 cards

    Didn't know that, didn't really look into it though. We have to use certified drivers for our setup and they tend to be old and slower, but very, very stable. AutoCad is a crash monster if it isn't set up properly and stable drivers are key. Also our newer stations have FirePros which work well...
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    NVidia GeForce RTX 30x0 cards

    Aye, we have Quadros in most of the workstations at the office, or FirePros from AMD. We use them for Autocad and some of the other programs Autodesk sells (Infrastructure works, Civil 3d, 3dsmax, etc, etc.). I have a few games loaded on to some of those machines. They can run the games well...
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    NVidia GeForce RTX 30x0 cards

    Kind of in the same boat. Have a 2080 RTX sitting in an older mb. Could put the 3080 in it but other system parts would probably bottleneck it somewhat. The 2080 replaced two 980's. Baring some really cool AMD release I have pretty much decided to wait for the 4000 series and build a new pc...
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    The Stand

    It's become so bad that I pretty much don't even bother trying to watch new shows anymore. They overload them with SJW shit and ruin IPs with garbage that was never in the originals. I wouldn't mind if it was just a few shows, then the SJW stuff would be interesting, different. But when EVERY...
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    3 Body Problem

    Interesting. I never finished the first book because it was so boring. Didn't get why everyone hyped the 3 Body Problem. Figured it was herd speak. Will have to read the rest of it now see if it does get better. But not sure about Benioff and Weiss doing this. They didn't change much of the GoT...
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    New World

    Played quite a bit over the weekend. Was very enjoyable but not going play any more during this test. Could easily burn out on the crafting, running, fetchit thing. Which is a problem for the game when it releases. What is fun in short doses can quickly get old over weeks, months, years. Game is...
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    NVidia GeForce RTX 30x0 cards

    Yes. The trade offs are a real pain in the A. Color calibrated IPS panels only came in 60hz flavor when I built my system a few years back. And I wanted to use Nvidia Surround at 7680x1440 resolution. Even at 60hz that resolution really taxed the cpu/gpu combos available then but I managed. I'm...