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  1. Necronic

    Let's talk about all the hate on millennials

    They're lazy They're entitled They all want participation trophies Yada yada yada. I keep hearing this. I hear it everywhere. I hear it from people all over the Internet to people at work. And I hear it from both the old and the young. And I don't get it. I don't see a spoiled...
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    Path of Exil: Atlas of Worlds

    So the last league just finished today and a new one will be started in a week or so. I just got back after a few years away and I have to say I thoroughly enjoy the game now. They've added a lot of stuff and frankly made the game more accessible in some ways. Drops are a bit more common and...
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    Vermintide

    Man, this game. I mean. THIS. GAME. Ok, so Vermintide takes place in the Warhammer fantasy world during whats called the End Times. Chaos and Skaven (rat men) are overrunning the entire world. Apparently Skaven blew up the moon? Anyways, that's not important. This game is about you...
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    Low upload speeds, surprisingly not Comcast's fault

    I have very low upload speeds on my main rig, sub 1 mbps on both ookla and testmy.net. Youtube uploads are a bear as well. At first I thought it was comcast. But my dbs looked ok on my upstream. I had my wife check on her laptop and her speeds were screaming. So I switched out my...
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    The NFL will never stop lusting for unearned taxpayer dollars.

    Right now the NFL is telling the city of Houston that they need to cough of 50 million dollars to improve Reliant stadium if still want to host next years Superbowl. This is in the same city that is paying at least 5 million dollars a year to simply maintain the old, unused, Astrodome that no...
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    Can we talk about Oil?

    So. Oil prices are at a new obscene low. The Saudis have no intent to cut their production and are fine running in the red for quite a while. As a Texan, and a Houstonian, I fear we are on our way to a new recession. I don't know if it will hit the nation as a whole but Texas and the Dakotas...
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    Elite: Dangerous

    Anyone playing this? I installed it last night but didn't have time to really play more than the tutorial. So far though it looks amazing. Definitely something to get you through to the Star Citizens launch.
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    Roguelikes

    What roguelikes do you guys like? I like: DCSS: gold standard for Roguelike IMHO. Totally free, been in development for over a decade iirc. TOME4: static map, which is weird, but otherwise excellent. Has incredible item detail. Very fun. The Pit: not sure about this one yet. Items are...
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    Roko's Basilisk

    Is anyone familiar with this? It was referenced in the latest XKCD alt-text, so I looked it up. The premise of it is complicated and I won't do it proper service, so I'll just link the Slate article discussing it...
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    Best video game trailers

    I've been watching some trailers for different games recently, and man are some of them epic. Honestly the Dead Island Trailers are some of the best I've ever seen, but my exposure is a bit limited. So what are some of your favorites? Expose me damn you! and possibly the best of...
  11. Necronic

    MRA's will never satisfy their lust for identifying mysandry

    MRA stuff seems to be all the rage now in geekdom, and it's an interesting and controversial enough topic that I think it's worth throwing the beehive grenade that it is on the ground here and seeing what happens. I'm not going to state my position on it just yet, because I am lazy. Curious to...
  12. Necronic

    Budgeting software

    So apparently there's all sorts of great budgeting software out there. I'm getting married in October and trying to buy a house at the same time, so budgeting is sort of important to me right now. Any suggestions?
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    New Orleans Indians

    I've been watching Treme on Amazon Prime and there is a bunch of stuff about the Indians in there. For those that don't know the Indians are an African American tradition in New Orleans where "gangs" walk out in their costumes to engage in ritualized warfare. This is an old tradition...
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    Something about cosplay really bothers me

    There is something about cosplay that really bothers me, and I think it has a lot to do with the ogling and sexualisation. A man's costume is good because its a good costume. A woman's costume is good because it shows off a nice rack. This isn't universally true, but it also shouldn't be...
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    So, I guess its about time we start talking about Ukraine

    Whelp, this is starting to get legitimately scary. This isn't just thugs anymore, these are armed insurgents taking down helicopters. No one is for sure yet if they are Spetznaz, which to me seems unlikely because they are dying in large amounts, but they are remarkably well armed (with...
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    Titanfall (beta)

    Anyone else in the Titanfall beta? It's a pretty good game. A little thin at the moment, but given time this game will be the shit.
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    Recovering a raid partition (ext3 -> NSFT)

    I bought a Seagate Black Armor NAS a while ago to back up all my stuff, lo and behold it failed within 3 years (Seagate: never again ). I removed the hard drive from the enclosure and hooked it up, only to find that it uses ext3 and has some weird internal RAID setup. I was able to burn an...
  18. Necronic

    Complicated issues about charities

    I was talking about Goodwill today with some co-workers at lunch and a few issues came up that I was in the minority on. They are both complicated issues with some obvious knee-jerk answers that I just don't buy. I'm curious to hear your thoughts since my co-workers didn't really want to...
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    Paypal problem

    So I transferred 300$ to my mom on paypal yesterday. It was from my bank account which is verified. The transaction details say "complete". My mom is trying to put that money in her bank account, but for some reason it is only letting her transfer 267 of it. Does anyone know why it would...
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    PS4, Roku, Slingbox, or ???

    When I upgraded to my latest computer I decided to turn my old PC into a media server that I would run my TV off of. I was right about to do this when I realized (much to my chagrin) that the video outs on the PC were DVI. This means I can't hook it directly up to the TV through HDMI (as they...
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