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Did I post about my HTPC rebuild a few months back?
Ryzen 3500X processor, Radeon 5700XT 8GB card, 32GB of RAM
Same storage as the old PC though. One of these days I'll get around to doing a proper fault-tolerant NAS.

One of the podcasts I listen to mentioned that the amount of bacteria needed is an order of magnitude smaller than what's present in Earth's atmosphere at that height.

I don't have their link, but it's heartening news.

I found out that Cameraman Jenn had never read Where the Red Fern Grows, so I bought her a copy. We'll see what she thinks.

I'm Darth Nibbles on Discord, joined but unable to see.

Sgt, it's a persistent group chat system like Slack or Teams.

If you haven't played Rimworld since Alpha, you need the try the 1.2 update (and the Royalty DLC if you don't mind spending more). Plus... mods.

"Mod it 'til it breaks" applies greatly to Rimworld.

And check out on Reddit the /r/shitrimworldsays sub if you want to be truly horrified.

I'll throw my hat in 4's corner. Without it, we wouldn't have had any of the others

Although I am quite partial to both Empire and Last Jedi.

sgt.null wrote:Tarzan vs. Predator graphic novel

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Av, you should try Rimworld, Factorio, and Gemcraft.

The Holy Trinity of gaming value... All three of them clock in at 5C or less per hour for me. Even Witcher 3 didn't reach that, only getting to around $0.30/hr.

wayfriend wrote:I tend to think like the second group.

Considering that each and every time we thought we found evidence of extraterrestrial life we've been disappointed, that's probably a good idea.

So essentially we found an unexpected chemical in the clouds of Venus.

One group of scientists says, "The only way we know of for it to be there would be bacteria."
Another group of scientists says, "Then it's made through a method we don't understand yet."

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/14/science/venus-life-clouds.html?searchResultPosition=1 From the article (as it's behind a paywall): Life on Venus? Astronomers See a Signal in Its Clouds The detection of a gas in the planet’s atmosphere could turn scientists’ gaze to a planet long overlooked in the...

Douglas Adams is both highly entertaining and a rather comforting escape from reality at the moment. I've been re-reading the complete Hitchhiker's series in tandem with The Stand.

Inspired by an oddly placed thread in another forum that somebody has cast Thread Necromancy on... My favorite movies of all time are 2001 and The Seventh Seal. . At least, that's what I tell people... My actual favorite movies are The Hobbit (Rankin/Bass, not that Peter Jackson abomination!) and Cl...

Han shot first. I saw the first film 17 times in the cinema back in 1978. That is the version I like. If you're willing to look on the seedier side of the internet, you can find something called the "Silver Screen Edition." Put together and restored by enthusiasts from 4 of the original t...

:lol: There are just some books where I am prepared to content myself with the Wikipedia summary - Picketty's works are amongst them. I'm sure they are very good.....but if the central points can be summed up in a few paragraphs without all of the dry background graphs and whatnot, then I'm all in ...

I don't know, I think Suckerpunch was rather daring and risky: both daring the audience to ogle these girls and showing just how disgusting they are for doing so.

Snyder can either make great movies or terrible ones, but I've never seen a mediocre Snyder film

I was excited to see this just for how fun and silly it could be, then I saw the $20 price tag and decided to skip it

Maybe a bundle of all 3 would be more palatable, but for now, I'll have to wait.

I'm curious about this for two reasons:

1) Snyder is a distinct visionary (proof of the Auteur film theory); even if you don't like his movies, they're guaranteed to be unique.

2) The original was a train wreck. A "Director's Cut" will be even more so. I want to see just how bad it can be.

I tried watching one episode, and that first line is traumatizing...

"Have you tried turning it off and back on?"

shudders

Agreed. In respect of your examples, yes - it all starts to get a bit silly when people start bending the rules to justify what they see as right action. Either you agree with and live according to the Rule of Law .......or you do not. Honestly, that's why I couldn't get past the first episode of t...