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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.
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    Smartphones

    It's a nice phone and all, but watching the presentation they were trying to sell all these repackaged "innovations" as some revolutionary vision of the smartphone for the next 10 years. Of course the hyperbole is to be expected at all these tech releases, but this was a bit much. They wanted...
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    The 60s music thread, ya dig?

    That's an especially shitty recording of one of the most perfectly sweet rock songs ever written.
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    NBA 2016-17 Season Thread - Knicks in 6

    Word was that Lebron really wanted a Bledsoe / Josh Jackson deal with Phoenix but Phoenix didn't want to part with Jackson. You can understand Phoenix wanting to stay younger because of how ridiculous the west is right now, and even with a Irving / Booker backcourt they may make the playoffs...
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    NBA 2016-17 Season Thread - Knicks in 6

    Some guy that posted on twitter about a conversation he had with Ainge the day before the trade went down, said Ainge told him the Celtics offered the Nets pick+ for Paul George. For some idiotic reason the Pacers were hellbent on shipping him out of the conference, so they took Oladipo and...
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    NBA 2016-17 Season Thread - Knicks in 6

    The Warriors core is locked up for 2 more years, assuming Durant opts out and signs a long-term deal next year. Their first challenge in holding it together will be 2019 when Klay becomes a FA.
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    NBA 2016-17 Season Thread - Knicks in 6

    Could be a great trade for Cleveland. That Nets pick could give the Cavs leverage to try to keep Lebron around after this season by either trading the pick with other assets for another star he wouldn't want to pass up playing with or by simply drafting a guy Lebron might want to play with...
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    The Astronomy Thread

    Shoebox viewers suck, find glasses. We had 90% blockage here or something, disappointing. Should have made the trip to Oregon.
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    Stephen King's The Dark Tower

    Gf wanted to see a movie, and this was the only thing starting around the time that we hadn't yet seen. We both thought it was ok. Not terrible, not good, just passable for something to do. Kept us engaged at least, and now I have the urge to watch some Wire or True Detective season 1. I...
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    Atomic Blonde (2017)

    Thought it was pretty f'ing awesome. The action was killer, enjoyed the soundtrack mostly, and the plot keeps you on your toes as you try to figure out wtf is going on. It was a bit overly convoluted, but I prefer that to predictable.
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    NBA 2016-17 Season Thread - Knicks in 6

    I think it has a lot to do with Lebron's passive aggressive BS that he's constantly shoveling.
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    NBA 2016-17 Season Thread - Knicks in 6

    You can't say Kyrie is a "much" better defender than anybody, he's objectively one of the worst defenders in the league. They both are. The rest I agree with. Kyrie is a marginally better shooter, much better at penetration, IT is more adept at getting to the line. Kyrie is great in the...
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    NBA 2016-17 Season Thread - Knicks in 6

    I don't think the Celtics do that. Kyrie is a bit better but IT just had a superb season and Kyrie is not a prototypical PG. He hasn't shown that he can make the players around him better. Don't see the Celtics giving up a valuable asset for a marginal upgrade.
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    RIP Chester Bennington

    Spent a huge chunk of that summer listening to all that, for better or worse, whatever the radio station was looping, while killing shit in Kunark. Good times. Alarm goes off and "In the End" starts playing. Time to go to class or try to find a KC group?....
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    Jaqen ain't doing shiet to Arya, he respects her. She already shit on their beliefs and he nodded to her like "Good for you."
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    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    Really though, the video is 50% less cringe if you mute it and throw on any random music instead. It's actually ok then. The animations are whatever, nobody ever played EQ for the animations.
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    Agree, the Frey revenge was too easy and fast. But obviously taking out Circei isn't going to be that easy, something is going to stop Arya. Seemed obvious Euron is gonna go find the dragonhorn, only thing that can make Cirsei relevant. Also with regards to the "You can't trust a Targaryen"...
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    NBA 2016-17 Season Thread - Knicks in 6

    They'll all get plenty of PT. Collecting SF's is fine in today's game since you can throw out lineups with 3 or 4 of em at a time. Jaylen Brown especially seems athletic and big enough that he'll be able to guard positions 1-4 at times.
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    NBA 2016-17 Season Thread - Knicks in 6

    Yeah, doesn't really move the needle without an even bigger move. And they'd been trying to couple this with a big trade, but the options they were looking at are probably about all gone now.
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    NBA 2016-17 Season Thread - Knicks in 6

    But that's pretty much been his path to the finals for the past 5+ years anyways. His challenge is no different because Paul George moved from a mediocre Pacers team or Butler moved from a mediocre Bulls team. At least there's still a chance Gordon Hayward signs with the Celtics.
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    NBA 2016-17 Season Thread - Knicks in 6

    For sure not sold on it either, but its mostly going to be economics and will have little to do with the basketball side of things. The new supermax deals in general seem like they're going to hamper teams from holding 3+ big name stars long term, which should be good for the league. Warriors...