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    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    What you've gleaned is off by miles.
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    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    Forget the road to alpha. Here is a leak of the true path to alpha...
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    8-Bit Christmas (2021)

    Companies aren't pushing console prices higher to squeeze customers, they're doing it to break even. When you look at the power you get a PS5 or Series X vs. a PC at a same price point, either is an absolute bargain. They are taking like no profits on the hardware to try to keep you in their...
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    NBA 2021-22 Season Thread - [Insert Whitty Title Here]

    Wiggins did his old boy Kat dirty, put him on a poster... 10-1!
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    Dune (2020)

    They already greenlit the second half - its coming your way, October 2023. Looking forward to how they do the throne scene near the end in particular. I recently compare this scene between the Lynch and Sci Fi series, because its such a money payoff for the buildup. I liked the Sci Fi series...
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    NBA 2021-22 Season Thread - [Insert Whitty Title Here]

    Luka just signed his supermax and is locked up til 2027... gonna be a while before he could really start asking for a trade. Their biggest problem right now is Porzingis not earning 30 mill plus - unless they can dump his contract they'll have to target 2024ish for their big chance to make a...
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    Dune (2020)

    Unless you're Paul the fucking Kwisatz Haderach Cooper Atreides-
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    Investing General Discussion

    I have a little in Intel with sub-50 cost basis more for the foundry side of things. WIth the chip shortage, politics in Taiwan, US companies don't want to have to rely on TSMC as much as they currently do. Intel falling behind TSMC in their nodes is the main reason AMD and Apple have...
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    Dune (2020)

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    NBA 2021-22 Season Thread - [Insert Whitty Title Here]

    Mostly agree, but we've seen that he can be a big part of a finals team. I think he's not as bad a fit next to KD and Harden / Joe Harris etc - more shooters there. The big thing for him to help his team to be successful is that he needs to shoot less. If he can do that and then focus more on...
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    NBA 2021-22 Season Thread - [Insert Whitty Title Here]

    Westbrick's impact on the Lakers starting about as expected - still such a weird deal for them to add him as an obviously poor fit with Lebron. I'm starting to wonder if we might not see a Kyrie for Westbrick swap. Kyrie undoubtedly a better fit with the Lakers, and if he can't play with the...
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    Investing General Discussion

    They call them casinos.
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    The Paranormal, UFO's, and Mysteries of the Unknown

    You lost me here, cause you don't know what a "hyper sentient being" would or wouldn't want to do. It seems completely within the realm of possibility that such a being could simply want to be here to observe, yes over thousands of years. But it most likely wouldn't be the same being, or even...
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    NBA 2020-2021: The Dubs Empire Strikes Back

    Basketball hof is a relative joke because the NBA doesn't have its own. College coaches, wnba players, foreign players.. they all go to the same place. It's not the elite fraternity that mlb or NFL hofs are. You can find much bigger wtfs than Chris Bosh in there.
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    The Astronomy Thread

    Musk isn't trying to go to Mars to make money, he just wants to go. SpaceX might turn into one of the most valuable companies on the planet in time, but there's no way that was his driving motivation when he got into it. Unless he's putting on an act, he's going to be happy if he can take a...
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    VR Gaming - Oculus Rift, Playstation VR, HTC Vive

    The AR industry was supposed to generate 100 billion by 2020, who knows. And I don't think VR has to first succeed for AR to, may be more the other way around. AR is going to be more accessible to a lot of people due to mobile use cases. How augmented reality and virtual reality will generate...
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    NBA 2020-2021: The Dubs Empire Strikes Back

    Lebron protecting the rim? lol
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    NBA 2020-2021: The Dubs Empire Strikes Back

    F cp3, glad he lost. He has a 44m player option next year, no way he's opting out of that. He'll be a sun again.
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    NBA 2020-2021: The Dubs Empire Strikes Back

    Not glad CPwhiner will finally get his ring, hoping the Bucks can at least win the next game to make it interesting...
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    NBA 2020-2021: The Dubs Empire Strikes Back

    Not a great freeze frame there - that's a foul in any era. Anthony doing a ball check with the right hand and grabbing Jordan's arm with his left.
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    NBA 2020-2021: The Dubs Empire Strikes Back

    He was watching that series and thinking if he was healthy they'd have won and be on their way to the finals. Doubt he moves from LA to Dallas after that. PG had a surprising resurgence in that series after many were ready to write him off.
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    The Paranormal, UFO's, and Mysteries of the Unknown

    This patent was referenced in an article I saw... from some crackpot (or is it....?) "inventor".... filed by the US Navy. Pretty interesting. US10144532B2 - Craft using an inertial mass reduction device - Google Patents
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    NBA 2020-2021: The Dubs Empire Strikes Back

    Can't wait to see CP3 and Trae Young try to run into each other to draw fouls for an entire series.... please spare us from having to watch that series NBA gods. Lets go Bucks. lets go Clips.
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    NBA 2020-2021: The Dubs Empire Strikes Back

    Kawhi only has 2 rings.
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    NBA 2020-2021: The Dubs Empire Strikes Back

    Fun game to watch.. especially the result lol. I guess the Bucks would be slight favorites at this point.
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    NBA 2020-2021: The Dubs Empire Strikes Back

    Voulgaris didn't officially join the Mavericks FO until after the Luka draft, so he most certainly had nothing to do with that decision and all credit should go to Nelson. I'm reading Rick Carlise quotes from that first Luka season where he says Nelson told him long before the draft he was...
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    NBA 2020-2021: The Dubs Empire Strikes Back

    Not sure if serious? Mavericks were a joke of a franchise before he was GM. He gave them Dirk, turned them into a perennial playoff team, got the players for the title. As Dirk's reign was clearly ending he somehow found a better player to be Dirk's successor. Hasn't been able to put players...
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    NBA 2020-2021: The Dubs Empire Strikes Back

    Iverson had a hall of famer (Mutumbo) on his team that he took to the finals. Also played with Carmelo when Carmelo was arguably at his best, and they did nothing together. Because in the end they are two chuckers that don't make their teammates much better like true superstars should. I'd...
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    NBA 2020-2021: The Dubs Empire Strikes Back

    I can't rank AI in my top 5. He was such a fun player to watch at Georgetown and early in his career, but he was really the ultimate volume scorer. Few players could have ever done what he did and score the way he did, but if I'm putting a team together thats not what I want in my point guard...
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    NBA 2020-2021: The Dubs Empire Strikes Back

    John Starks was a SG, and not in the same class of player as any of the guys being mentioned here.
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    The Paranormal, UFO's, and Mysteries of the Unknown

    I'm probably way way late on these details since this is from the 2004 video .. but holy shit where they say they calculated the top speed of the tic tac at 46,000 mph.
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    NBA 2020-2021: The Dubs Empire Strikes Back

    Let me clarify, not disagreeing with any of that. Prime CP3 was better than Trae (for sure), and now yeah Trae is probably better only cause his health allows him to be more consistent. And yes Harden is definitely better than Trae now or then. But my main pint was that Trae is every bit the...
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    NBA 2020-2021: The Dubs Empire Strikes Back

    Trae isn't fun to watch, he's every bit as much a flopping bit&* as Harden and CP3, but they are both better. Ayton? not sure you'd label him one of the faces of a new generation at this point. Morant is pretty overrated, a poor man's Westbrook until further notice, but yes he doesn't seem to...
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    NBA 2020-2021: The Dubs Empire Strikes Back

    I think the fact that Dallas is not Cleveland and the Mavs payroll flexibility will allow them to not repeat Lebron's first go in Cle. Dallas may want to try to dump Porzingis soon to give even more flexibility if they can, but even with him they should be able to fit another big contract...
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    NBA 2020-2021: The Dubs Empire Strikes Back

    Both Bagley and Ayton are defensible without hindsight. Nobody expected Luka to be this good. I think all three guys were seen as yeah... maybe all stars... but none of them were viewed (by most) as probable superstars. Bagley's main issue has been that he just can't stay healthy - if he can...
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    Home buying thread

    If you're in an area served by Redfin, you can get a Redfin agent for confidence they're not going to push you into a purchase for money. They work on salary no commission, and their bonuses are based on reviews. I used one for my purchase 1.5 years ago and never regretted it. Helped us to...
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    NBA 2020-2021: The Dubs Empire Strikes Back

    Yeah maybe could happen near the trade deadline if nothing else came to fruition and they're desperate to shake things up for some reason. Yeah, I think Wiggins and Porzingis are pretty similar in that they were both overly hyped earlier in their careers but didn't live up to that due to...
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    NBA 2020-2021: The Dubs Empire Strikes Back

    Very doubtful the Warriors would go this way, even after watching Wiggins give a lackluster performance yesterday. The only thing Kerr knows how to coach is small ball - even with Klay coming back Wiggins is the type of player you want to play that style, especially now that Wiggins has shown...
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    NBA 2020-2021: The Dubs Empire Strikes Back

    Refs kept the Fakers in the game with a lot of BS calls.
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    NBA 2020-2021: The Dubs Empire Strikes Back

    And this Memphis Spurs game about to start!.... might have about 13 people that will watch it. That could be overestimate.