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  1. pharmakos

    Final Fantasy I-VI Pixel Remaster Series

    FF6 is too easy as is, if you're min/maxing you're playing wrong
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    The Peripheral

    Maybe we have been overthinking it. Maybe old her literally ceased existing. And the version of her in this new stub is essentially no different than a Boltzmann brain, spontaneously came into existence with the prior one's memories. Just like everyone in the first stub spontaneously came...
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    MTG thread

    When's the last time you needed to remind yourself about what Birds of Paradise do?
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    The Official Guitar Thread

    Broke a string on my electric and am flat broke until the 1st of the month, literally here begging hoping someone will be willing to buy me a pack of strings lol. 💙
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    The Official Guitar Thread

    Maybe a tube-amp-in-a-pedal?
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    FOH Shower Thoughts

    Fapping has been 147% more enjoyable since having that realization.
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    Post Your Pet

    15 years old and healthy. Love my Pumpkin Pie 😻 She started to get comfy and then realized she didn't really like the jazz music I had playing. She had to listen for a second to make sure she actually wanted to lay down and chill with me. If I hadn't changed the track she would have taken...
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    MTG thread

    The people that want to keep up with every format are but a small and vocal percentage of the player base. Especially when it comes to Commander... Even if I did play Commander, they could release all the Commander shit they want for all I care. It's the sort of format where having more...
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    FOH Shower Thoughts

    An addition to Nick Bostrom's Simulation Theory (restated for redundancy, you all know it -- the idea that 1. if the creatures in a hyperrealistic stimulation have consciousness and 2. The multiverse, in it's vastness, contains at least a few such simulations created by advanced civilizations...
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    MTG thread

    They are catering to all the formats these days. Commander and etc used to just be an after thought. That's part of it.
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    The Official Guitar Thread

    Glad I forced myself to pick up the guitar the other day, I've got some momentum going. Started re-recording my 12 minute Drop B Phrygian Dominant metal song (still need to track solos and bass) And rerecorded this old one too: What I consider to be one of my "short" ones at almost 6 minutes...
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    The Jazz Thread

    Awesome 70s Japanese Jazz inspired by 70s British Progressive Rock. A lot of it sounds like gnarly 70s movie / TV show soundtrack stuff, which might not sound like a good thing but it very much is! Hits me right in the nostalgia even tho I didn't first hear this album until this year. I...
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    The Official Guitar Thread

    Haven't been playing enough lately, so to practice I made myself reconstruct one of my old songs via looper Wrote down all my pieces I've written in the last 19 years that I want to finally get recorded... List is 30 something pieces long, with some being 10+ minutes long. I worked out how...
  14. pharmakos

    Westworld

    The rest is worth watching if you're out of other shit to watch. Just don't even look at it as being the same show.
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    MTG thread

    Good summary of my point haha
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    MTG: Arena

    Damn no one? Tournament? Come ahnnnnnn!
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    MTG thread

    How many people here have ever decided "the economy is doing poorly, I guess I won't buy those booster packs"? Show of hands. That kind of discretionary spending decrease applies to cars and electronics and houses and etc, big ticket items, not really so much to impulse /...
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    The Fast Food Thread

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    Westworld

    It was this simple.
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    AI Image Generation

    I have tried most of the major ones that are available on third party sites (my machine sucks, easier to just use a bunch of Google accounts for more credits) but Stable Diffusion is by far the best algorithm IMO
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    AI Image Generation

    Some of my recent Dali style art renderings Stable Diffusion sucks at Ouroboroses but this came out that was still sort of cool after some inpainting "Black Lotus Pond" "The Blood Drenched Iron Throne" "The Birth and Death of the Day" "742 Evergreen Terrace"
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    The Astronomy Thread

    https://astronomy.com/magazine/ask-astro/2022/04/does-our-oort-cloud-overlap-with-alpha-centauris
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    MTG thread

    Yeah idk WTF they were thinking making it common. Obviously overpowered card in most formats already, before making it Common and showing the world that they still don't give a fuck about Pauper. Once you have three or four creatures in your graveyard it becomes pretty much the best removal...
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    MTG: Arena

    Would anyone be interested in playing in tournaments again? Picking up the tournaments we were doing back a year or two ago? I would run them if anyone was interested, I have the time to devote these days.
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    MTG: Arena

    Edit -- nvm for now
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    MTG thread

    Won't work in every black deck, but there's some black decks that this is going to be really powerful in.
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    MTG: Arena

    mostly took it easy on MTGA this month, on days that i played i mostly just played a few Traditional Historic matches a day, but sat down and grinded back up to Diamond last night. Latest version of my list: I didn't add in Sheoldred until a few games before hitting Diamond, but crap is he...
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    AI Image Generation

    Someone who is better that me at faces want to touch up this Teferi? https://creator.nightcafe.studio/creation/Gd0WHNFaZVVOSwXuWtuF Upscaled version is in the link, file is too big to upload to FoH
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    The Fast Food Thread

    The Double Chicken Grilled Cheese Burrito at Taco Bell is totally worth it even at the $5.99 (for just the burrito) that my local Taco Bell charges. Maybe get an extra side of sour cream or spicy ranch or nacho cheese or something to dip it in, mine was a tad dry. But otherwise, sexcellent...
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    AI Image Generation

    I bet back 700 years ago, people bitched that the famous rich artists of the world had access to better pigments and brushes and therefore their art required less effort, and therefore wasn't real "art"
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    AI Image Generation

    Stable Diffusion (via NightCafe) is very good at making abstract/surrealist Salvador Dali style paintings Just a very small sampling from this very deep rabbit hole I'm going down
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    FOH Shower Thoughts

    Suppose an alien civilization figures out a way to communicate directly with God. Even if it's unlikely, in a pandeistic and/or panpsychic universe it doesn't seem *entirely* out of the question to use technology to communicate with the divine. Now, suppose that aliens use that line of...
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    The Fast Food Thread

    At Taco Bell we used something like this, making cleaning a moot point. Just remove the nozzle and wash that and you're good to go. And yes we washed all the nozzles from the pop machines every night. My store manager was a stickler for it.
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    The Fast Food Thread

    So guys I barely ever eat fast food anymore, and I somehow weigh more than I did when I was a fast food junkie.
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    The Official Guitar Thread

    So many posts in a row, I know, but I just had one more thought. Most people, their complaint about Polyphia is that they're trying too hard. And props to Tim Henson for sticking to his formula instead of listening to those haters and dumbing it down. But my complaint is -- he's not trying...
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    The Official Guitar Thread

    The sort of compositionally/rhythmically complex instrumental music I prefer They got worse after they added their vocalist tho, first couple albums are better than the later stuff. Same general group of musicians was in The Postman Syndrome and Day Without Dawn before East of the Wall, the...
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    The Official Guitar Thread

    I don't HATE on anyone for listening to Polyphia. I don't listen to them all that often, but they're similar to the sort of easy consumption but interesting music I like to put on in the background while doing other things. Everyone listens to music for different reasons, tho, and personally I...
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    The Official Guitar Thread

    @Pemulis did you listen before you grenegged? ;)
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    The Official Guitar Thread

    Anyone thinking "yeah well you probably suck at guitar" I can't shred as hard as they do ever since getting neuropathy from chemotherapy, but I still write way more interesting rhythms. No multitracking / overdubs, that's a single take of a single guitar track with delay set to repeat every...
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    The Official Guitar Thread

    Then: "did you hear the new Polyphia song? It bangs!" Me: "it sounds exactly the same, just in harmonic minor instead of melodic minor..." Like Steve Vai literally just taught them how to make that flamenco sound by swapping in a major IV chord (I think that's what I'm hearing anyway), and...