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  1. Tripamang

    Archer

    Just because I see people say they've lost talent etc when it comes to writing and it always irks me but every single episode is written solely by Adam Reed (creator of archer). So if an episode sucks, it all lies with him and his writing. This was definitely the weakest season, but the Jungle...
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    Major security flaw found - Public urged to reset all passwords

    It's been in the OpenSSL library since 2011, so anything that used that library up until the patch released on the 7th was vulnerable.
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    Playstation 4

    As far as I know it includes all DLC, but fuck it's 69.99$ CAD. I'm getting raked over the coals buying it from PSN.
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    So about that no such thing as voter fraud?

    C'mon man, how doesn't it?
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    Weight Loss Thread

    My wording of minimal could have been better. I'm talking about focusing where the calories come from and not overly emphasizing meat. faq - keto The reddit keto FAQ even emphasizes keeping the protein to a moderate amount. There are some pretty big differences between a keto diet and an...
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    Weight Loss Thread

    I'm no expert on keto in general but my brother in law (Professor of microbiology) who went crazy when he first started and read a bunch of pubmed articles on the subject came to the conclusion that too much protein can push you out of ketosis. The literature heavily emphasized deriving as much...
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    Virtual Reality

    I was going to pull the trigger on one of the new Dev Kits today... but man this really turned me off it fast. I honestly believe that he didn't want to do this and his VC partners saw a super quick return and bit it but we probably won't know until years later what really happened. It just...
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    Weight Loss Thread

    I'm 10 days into my keto diet, I've lost 16lbs. The first couple days I was losing 2.5/lbs per day (water weight), now it's been a steady .8-.1.0lb/day. The main reason I'm fat now is stomach issues I have where my body will have severe hunger pangs/acid reflux when I get hungry which drives me...
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    Weight Loss Thread

    Thanks I'll give these a try this weekend.
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    Weight Loss Thread

    I'm on a medication that's a diuretic already, so there wasn't much to lose in terms of water weight. I'm actually a little concerned on how quickly the pounds are dropping off, the physical transformation in the last week has been pretty dramatic. The shape of my face is night and day compared...
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    Weight Loss Thread

    My bad, I misread the fiber line as the Carbs line. They really are shit food
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    Weight Loss Thread

    The almond nut chips contain a minimal amount of carbs, and almost all the energy derived from them is fat. They're bloody awesome for a keto diet, since decent snack foods are pretty hard to come by. I've been on a keto diet about a week and the pounds are falling off me.. but I'd kill for...
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    SteamOS - SteamWare

    If you look up the steam dev days channel on youtube there is a video on the controller. This has design has been the plan since late last year, and the video has a really good explanation as to why they went this route. From the descriptions of people who have used the current model, this looks...
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    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    My understanding of blockchain is that there are two levels of security with it. The first is the login to your actual wallet, the second is another password you use to protect it (it's required for all transactions). You can request a backup of your wallet from blockchain that you can use to...
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    South Park Stick of Truth

    I got an email stating that we'll get our keys at 5pm today, or on the 7th. If it's the 7th they're offering a refund. So far I'm not too impressed with them as I'm getting boned on my first purchase potentially.
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    The Grand Tour (from the guys in Top Gear)

    I think it happens during shift changes when the engine becomes idle for a short period and fuel doesn't completely combust, then when it exits the exhaust it's hot enough to ignite. The P1 does the same thing. I honestly thought you couldn't have a road legal car that did it.. but that might...
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    The Grand Tour (from the guys in Top Gear)

    Yea I wonder why that happened, they kept saying "In the coming weeks we're going to have both on the track" then dropped the bomb we have to wait till next season this episode. Yas Marina Circuit (Where they were filming the 918) has seen a lot of action lately as a few magazines that were...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    The 75 million+ people on steam would beg to differ. If they targeted the lower end machines and relied on their art direction to keep the games looking good (They do that now really with their underpowered hardware) they'd be targeting an install base 10x+ larger than the WiiU install base...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Maybe I'm crazy but they could walk a fine line between having their own hardware offerings and delivering their software to the masses by just embracing PCs. They can develop whatever peripherals they want, it's an open market with a large install base and their games would sell like hot cakes...
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    SteamOS

    I haven't tried it, but I'm pretty sure Win->Win streaming works. I finally got steamos installed on the weekend and it's very much a beta product. Most of the stuff that needs polish is related to the operating system specifically, I had issues with trying to use some basic system options...
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    The Robots are Coming (DoD to replace one fourth of soldiers with bots by 2030)

    I'm surprised nobody has mentioned this. My biggest fear with a robot military is that power is then concentrated into fewer and fewer hands with little standing between them and just deciding that aspects that the civilian population are redundant or that some random country needs some ethnic...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    I thought this was amusing... ditch your PS3 and get 100$ towards an xbone. Microsoft ad asks you to Eurogamer.net
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    Which Mass Effect installment is your favorite?

    ME2 was by and far my favorite game in the series. The story and game play were top notch, and I got to kick a guy down an elevator shaft.. so yea that was pretty fucking awesome. ME3 game play wise was great, it just shit the bed in the final hours which has still left a bitter after taste in...
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    SteamOS

    I gave installing this a try over the weekend. I went with a re-spin of it that supports Intel/AMD graphics and non UEFI booting. I managed to get it through the partitioning process and it died on the floor in the final software installation step. No idea why it failed, there was no visual...
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    SteamOS

    Valve has decided to kill off the touch screen on the controller and just use physical buttons (Exactly like their beta units). Honestly it seems like a smart move to me. I have an LCD screen on my keyboard that I never look at it, and I couldn't see myself looking at a touch screen on the...
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    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    What a bullshit article title, bitcoins are NOT banned in China. Chinese banks are just prevented from investing/doing financial transactions in them. They weren't doing this in the first place, and transactions from exchanges to banks for purchasing bitcoins is still possible. This changes...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    I'm not sure if I'd pay a 50% premium to get it, but I would definitely fall into a demo-graph that would be interested in such a feature. Hell I'd do the same thing for movies (fuck buying a movie again in every new format/definition), music too.
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    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    I pulled the trigger on an X-3. We'll see how much I regret this come the end of February.
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    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    This, BFL was pretty incompetent. I bought my 60Gh/s unit from them in September last year, it didn't arrive until August this year. The thing is a fucking turbine with how loud it is and I'm right at the edge of their +/- 10% on performance (It actually hashes at 54Gh/s). I purchased a...
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    The Astronomy Thread

    Neutron star mergers are another candidate for making large quantities of heavier elements. It's also speculated to happen when a neutron star starts eating/siphoning off material from a companion star, restarting short lived but intense fusion. I can't find the original new scientist article...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    It might let me with an amazon.com gift card, but my mailing address for Amazon.com is already a US address (Shipping center on the otherside of the border I pick up things from). It doesn't like the fact I have a Canadian Credit card.
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Sooo lame, amazon.com doesn't let Canadians buy the code for 1 year of PS+.
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    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    The senate committee setup to discuss virtual currencies with Bitcoins being the focus was overwhelming positive in supporting them in anyway they could, primarily because they represent the future. They specifically stated stifling them would hurt American interests and harm future innovations...
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    South Park

    hah yea, I pointed it out and I think I was the only one in the room that even knew the reference. So far this has been a solid story, I really hope they have something good planned for the pay off.
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    I have to plug NFS: Rivals too, it's a solid game and I'm having tons of fun with it.
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    PS4 came yesterday.. I spent a solid 20mins checking the HDMI port and making sure the drive was plugged in properly. Thankfully mine seemed to start up okay, then I replaced the drive with a HGST 7200rpm 1TB and it was pretty smooth sailing after that. I found that the PSN network speed for...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    You sir are a smarter person than I.
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Yet it's still a better health system.
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    I'm literally an hour from the shipping center.. I'm not in bum fuck nowhere. I ordered it early the day it was available for pre-order. They sent me an email last night specifically stating they're shipping my unit Friday and not before then. So yea, amazon.ca is fucking anyone who pre-ordered...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    This was the canned response I got from the rep: 02:08 PM(GMT) Mary Bhagiam(CSA): Yes, #####. All the launch edition of the item are shipping on 15th of November. We only offer the Release-Date Delivery option when we know we can get the item from our suppliers in time to meet our delivery...