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  1. Phazael

    Elden Ring - From Software + George RR Martin

    Nightreign is a poopsocker's game. Don't get me wrong, it is fine for what it is, but its basically a coop looper game with an Eldern Ring skinsuit for the next level autists. As an old man who likes the relaxing methodical fighting of most Souls games, its not my jam. Plus I am a console...
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    I have kept warning my superiors about this (big push toward Claude here and no one seems to be taking costs into their calculus atm) and keep getting hand waved. Our mostly non-technical leadership seems to think this is a magic wand that will cut staff costs and solve everything, even though...
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    The Boys

    Source material was ok for its time. Its just that the woke psyop went public shortly after its run, so its kind of in this half assed middle space and Rogan and Garth tried to turn it into Orange Man Bad the series, kind of like they sort of did with Preacher. And to make matters worse, they...
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    Poll Should Mario Speedwagon be Permanently Banned from the Politics Forum?

    You are the gayest Rickshaw Jockey ever. And a reminder that list included esteemed faggotry from the likes of Tyen, Manessa, Ossoi, Fanaskin, Chris, and Keg.
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    Poll Should Mario Speedwagon be Permanently Banned from the Politics Forum?

    Are you a woman or something? Get your shit together. I thought the Juggalos were all required to have functioning testicles.
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    Routers & Other Networking Stuff

    For the travel router, yeah I had to check constantly. People were scalping them for like 4-5x the retail cost, too. As for their home security stuff, they had a whole separate platform of camera, door, and motion detector products and the routers used to come preloaded with the software...
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    Routers & Other Networking Stuff

    Beat me to the punch here, but yeah. I have a specific VLAN for our printing lab that we share with our friend who uses it with us (and has most of his set up at) so he can send and monitor jobs. We also have home brew apps for some of my homebrew board and TTRPG games running on our NAS that...
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    Routers & Other Networking Stuff

    Yeah I was doing tech support for the German club and two other paying clients. Remote admin was incredibly useful, if you get everything set right. I am personally using a UDM Pro that I upgraded to when I moved to my new house, along with a bunch of managed switches and a dedicated gateway...
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    Dating

    All women are essentially like orangutangs in the sense that they never let go of the prior branch before securing a hold on the new one entirely, though it varies by both demographic and individual. The need to have an invisible 50 mile umbilical cord with their mothers is one of the main way...
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    Avengers: Doomsday (2025)

    When I ponder this situation, I think of the movie Margin Call. Its a great movie, which I highly recommend. In it, one of the core threads is that the company in question deliberately begins the 2008 crash in order to be the first one to sell off its shit positions to ensure the survival of...
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    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    I have no idea why, but bitches go crazy for Olive Garden for some reason. It crosses all racial and social boundaries. Italian food in general tends to make women excited but there is definitely a specific Olive Garden fetish. It is literally the only place I can open the bid with when my...
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    Friends

    Cad and Khane have the most critical reasons, but to summarize it takes effort to make real friends once your out of the education bubble and not forced to interact with a bunch of people you might otherwise avoid interacting with. Most people have co-workers and maybe a hobby community as...
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    In my personal experience, most companies will opt to limp along band-aiding existing systems rather than invest in something newer. They only move up the updated path if forced or if the newer option has rather immediate ROI (usually through reducing workforce or physical asset infrastructure...
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    The Boys

    First of all, you are describing narcissism. Second I am pretty sure if they made the president a secret foreign agent with a tranny "wife" the same people hand waving this shit would be reeeeeing their asses off. The real sin for me is that its eye rolling and just not funny or entertaining...
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    Also, this song has held up over the years.
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    I dub this phenomena Schrodinger's Poo, which basically means when it makes things look good Poo numbers are included and when it does not, the reverse happens. Its massaging statistics but done in a way to make things look more rosey and obfuscate how much horse shit with H1B Poo infestation...
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    What happened to..........(FoH Poster)?

    That probably makes you the longest tenured poster at this point. Most of the UO guys packed it in a long time ago. I personally arrived here because I followed some folks from Toril MUD to the EQ release, playing on Veeshan with a lot of that crowd. I was not aware of it fully at the time...
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    What happened to..........(FoH Poster)?

    A lot of the old guard is long gone. I think if you could do a headcount of those of us who were around during the noows era, that 10ish number is probably about right. We lost a bunch to the hoofshots spat and a bunch more to the Jeffylys shit. But really when the core old guard hung it up...
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    Good work output never comes without a toll. Some people are social cancer, others just straight up assholes (me), and others sketchy/untrustworthy. Learning to cope with that to get shit done is pretty much the way you get to be successful as a leader, especially in IT. Well adjusted people...
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    That or there is a Poo with a title up the food chain you are not aware of orchestrating things to increase the infestation. Our company has a couple of those and the last six contractors that got hired on all produced zero work, literally zero, over the 18 months they were here before finally...
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    Dating

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    Dating

    As much as we would like to believe it, we are simply not up to the high standards of racism and hatred that Asians operate on. She probably would be bored here.
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    Dating

    Good luck.
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    Dating

    Everyone in agreement just makes your woman brain ("Don't tell me what to do!!") dig its heels in harder. The bottom line is the same. You won't know unless you take the risk and if the downside is unbearable for you then you probably are not ready to date and won't be for a while...
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    Dating

    He might not be the problem. You might be subconsciously punishing your self for the mistakes made that led to your prior relationship. Spending more time will answer some of it, as well as either confirm or alleviate doubts you might have. You learn a lot when you have to share a bathroom...
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    Young Sherlock

    I get that you're arguing this like a lawyer but I was mainly debating the idea that people can't go back to past memories and look for additional details about specific things they didn't find noteworthy at the time. You're trying to diffuse it into some nebulous issue because you operate on...
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    Dating

    I agree with pretty much all of the advice being presented, but would add this: Don't let the perfect become the enemy of the ideal. All relationships involve sacrifice and personal investment by both people, if you want them to succeed. Keep an eye out for red flags and check him out in his...
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    Young Sherlock

    No, we get it. People can actually do this. Think of it in terms of something like watching the movie Fight Club and how many seemingly pointless details are in the movie that you do not make the connection on until the second viewing. For people with exceptional or eidetic levels of memory...
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    Young Sherlock

    I can definitely say from personal experience that there is a layer of organization that goes on, even if its unconscious. Also, training does factor into it. People with exceptional memories will tend to have freakishly strong memories when the subject matter involves something they are well...
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    Young Sherlock

    Not necessarily true. You can experience something and have a memory of it, but not understand its significance until you gain more information later on. I am by no means eidetic, but I do have a very freakishly strong memory, especially long term things. It does have a high correlation with...
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    Star Trek: Starfleet Academy

    There are some cheesy episodes and some outright bad ones, but a lot of the OG Trek was build on solid sci-fi ideas that let the viewer think without slamming them over the head with imposed morality. Special Effects have not held up (the remastered versions help a bit here) but the core...
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    Kristallnacht

    Gotta admire on some level their commitment to living up to the stereotypes.
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    I feel like we might be working for the same company..... but then I realize that its like this everywhere and my faith in the world fades a little more.
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    Cloud computing's revenue model works like drug dealing. Get people hooked cheap, get them dependent, then ramp up the cost when you have set the hook and they cannot go back. This is going to be the gameplan with AI as well, with a side of surveillance state thrown in to sweeten the pot.
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    Westworld

    Well Trek has been progressive leaning since day one. But that does not mean it was bad story telling and DS9 had good story telling with complex characters where the viewer was left to decide what they had been presented. The bulk of the OG series and TNG had this going for it, where it was...
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    Westworld

    Which is the difference between good writing and shit writing. Dukat was a fundamentally evil and selfish the entire time, but after his mental break and his Pah Wraith interactions, he went completely off the rails as you noted. This was actually part of the story and his character, not the...
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    Westworld

    Well that was the literal strategy for a lot of these shows in the 2010s, particularly the ones on HBO. Have a great premise, with some high ticket actors, and some major titties during the first couple seasons. They were actually hiring literal strippers and whores as extras in many of these...
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    2025-2026 NFL Season Thread - God hates the Chargers

    I love dogpiling the Cowboys as much as anyone, living in Texas as a Packer fan, but they do draft fairly well. There issues are almost all in Jerry's choice of coaches and how he fucks with them. The Mike McCarthy hire was hilarious enough, but then he follows up with Iberfluss? The last...
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    Fallout

    Marcus was the Super Mutant who had a BOS pal (started as enemies) who he helped set up the town of Broken Hills for which he was Sheriff for a long time. This was in FO2 and he is a character that can be a companion in the game who is very intelligent (he was once a servant of the Master) but...
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    2025-2026 NFL Season Thread - God hates the Chargers

    Well I cancelled my game day subscription, if that tells you anything. I used to watch all day Sunday and the two weekly night games during reg season. I am at the point where I don't even know if I want to watch the packers for the first time ever, and I sat through the fucking Randy Wright...