@gauravtee I still think the top role should be called "Morbidly Obese Basement Dwelling Unhygienic Incel," and that such a title is sex neutral.

@HeilJUDEN In what city do you reside?

@gauravtee I've been calling myself Deadly Ramon ever since I started gaming by dialup modem in 1996.

I wouldn't argue with that soul brother over his name <:haha:550081069744128000>

@CEOofNEGATIVITY Just looked it up. Looks like a cool VR game.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/630630/Apex/

@CEOofNEGATIVITY Never played it, but I did read a recent article on PC Gamer in which it was mentioned.

https://www.pcgamer.com/apex-legends-and-20-other-recently-terrible-videogame-titles/

My mother was a stewardess for Iberian Airlines during the 1960s. She and my father travelled the world and visited India more than once. Their house is full of Indian tapestries and artwork depicting pagan deities with elephant trunks, blue skin, bare female breasts, and multiple arms.

I'm watching Big Bang Theory Season 4 and am imagining Gaurav talking like Rajesh Koothrappali.

I know, I'm not saying you sound exactly alike, just slightly similar.

Bobby Jindal and Dinesh D'souza are the only conservative Indian Americans I know.

@gauravtee I agree. If anything, too close a genetic similarity between two mating humans is far more likely to result in defective offspring than a pair in which each person is from a different continent or nation.

@Deleted User It's by people who are jealous of Hebrew accomplishments and blame them for their own deficiencies.

I like Jill Stein for the same reason that I like Ralph Nader.

@sara77 https://store.steampowered.com/app/71166/ToeJam__Earl/

@HeilJUDEN If the Toronto is in Canada, then try contacting a staffing/temp agency like this one: https://www.roberthalf.ca/en/on-toronto

@gauravtee What if you build the system while in the U.S. and then take it back with you fully assembled?

@Deleted User Ever worked with a Pentium Overdrive chip?

@gauravtee Been a few decades since I've travelled internationally, and never as an adult. Does Customs really want to know about every last piece of luggage you bring back with you?

@gauravtee Hint: I was 13 when I saw Bon Jovi opening for Ratt in the summer of 1985. Ratt was the better, though ultimately less commercially successful, band.

https://youtu.be/n1sFCszjBoc

I'm offended. Don't call me nigga, call me jigaboo instead.

@Deleted User http://www.os2museum.com/wp/intel-overdrive-part-ii-pentium-overdrive/

@gauravtee It was a mere hint for those who don't have a superpower-by-2020 superintellect.

@gauravtee Yeah, as of late last year.

@Deleted User The Pentium Overdrive predates those. It was an upgrade for motherboards with 486 and first generation Pentium sockets, though the benefit was reduced for 486 computers because of their lower data bus sizes.

https://web.archive.org/web/20110709032810/www.pcguide.com/ref/cpu/fam/g5P54OD-c.html

When you say you're into old computer hardware, and I see you linking to specs with 4 digit i7 and i5 sockets, then I gather that you're significantly younger to consider chips from earlier this decade old <:haha:550081069744128000>

My first i7 chip was the 970, running at 3.20 GHz. I bought it in 2011.

https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/47933/intel-core-i7-970-processor-12m-cache-3-20-ghz-4-80-gt-s-intel-qpi.html

Now I'm running an i7 7700 at 3.60 GHz.

I don't pretend to keep up with cutting edge, but a generation or two behind fits my budget.

Although I did cave in back in 2013 and buy a $1000 Geforce GTX Titan card.

I saw the 6 gigabytes of VRAM on it and lost my mind.

The 6 gigabyte model of the GTX 1060 is superior. The 1050 I think goes only up to 3 gigabytes.

Still, it has newer architecture.

The 20xx models with the new Turing architecture are amazing.

But for those who can't afford discrete graphics cards, the graphics built-in with modern CPUs are more than sufficient to run at more modest settings.

And I see you mentioning such capabilities often in this thread.

Intel is always improving the HD graphics on its CPUs, too.

I heard that Battlefield 5 uses ray tracing.

And that it's noticeable even to a casual gamer.

I've not yet used an AMD CPU or GPU. I did have an ATI 2d card on my Pentium 120 MHz machine back in 1996.

And ATI got taken over by AMD in the mid-2000s.

I bought a GTX 1070 in late 2016 only to learn within a month that it suffered an overheating issue that required physically installing a heatsink on it to rectify. The firmware update didn't help me.

I eventually had to RMA it after I noticed my machine overheating.

Now I'm running a GTX 1080 with 8 gigabytes of VRAM (same as on the 1070).

Cool! I got mine with a system I purchased in 2017 from Best Buy. It was originally a Cyberpower PC with a 7700k and 32 gigabytes of system RAM, but that machine failed within a month (bad RAM was my educated guess), and Best Buy's Geek Squad apparently couldn't repair it, but they did offer a trade with an Alienware Aurora R6 they had in stock with slightly lower specs (7700 without the k, 16 gigabytes of system RAM, and an SSD with only 256 gigabytes of storage). I upgraded the RAM and SSD separately to 32 gigs and 512 gigs.

The Cyberpower PC had a window on the tower's left side, with a pulsating light that cycled through various colors.

*right side.

I'd read that Cyberpower machines often had poor construction, and that the company's customer service was often unsatisfactory, and in my case the former turned out to be true.

Nice tower and multi-monitor setup!

Cyberpower and Ibuypower (which I am convinced are the same company) have nice advertisements in the gaming magazines with very reasonable prices.

But I got a lemon, while the replacement Alienware machine has been running fine for nearly two years now.

So I guess Dell didn't entirely ruin Alienware after all.

I'm using a Microsoft Sidewinder X6 keyboard that my brother gave me around 10 years ago. The detachable keypad can fit on either side!

Prior to that, the only Sidewinder product I'd ever owned was a gamepad (Playstation style) that connected to the parallel port.

We could form an anti-SJW CSGO clan.

Though the ping rates for a team with members from each hemisphere would be quite high.

@Deleted User

@Deleted User I've been a member of Steam since it started in 2003, though from memory I could have sworn that it started for me with Half Life 2, which required online activation through Steam and which sat on my shelf for several days as I awaited the activation.

@Deleted User I own even more games on GOG (https://www.gog.com/u/DeadlyRamon). Not all of them were purchased, certainly not all at full price, but many of them were gifts from another person or limited-time giveaways that I was able to permanently add to my library. Stick around on either such platform (or preferably both) and who knows how many games you will have after 15 years?

I remember when bots were introduced with Counter-Strike: Condition Zero in 2003.

That's the one where the single player campaign went through three different developer before finally getting released by Gearbox as Deleted Scenes.

Holy shit, my favorite online retailer, GOG, just released Diablo, optimized to run on modern machines!

https://www.gog.com/game/diablo

@Black Plague I just recently reinstalled BF4, too.

@mxngxxse I like BF3 more because of the Close Quarters Combat expansion, though when I last checked a couple of years ago almost no servers were running it.

@Deleted User Talisman appears to be talking out of his ass, and I'm more of a single card solution kind of guy. Back when I built my system with a first generation TITAN, a friend of mine built his new system with two such cards, but I think he got maybe a 20% performance boost from the extra $1,000 spent rather than a 100% boost.

@Mishtaña Prrprrts https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/strawman

@gauravtee Not these Jews: http://jpfo.org/

@TayHornibrook My final grandparent, my American grandmother, died in October 2012. I miss her the most of the three grandparents I knew.

@gauravtee Have you tried making one from a different IP address, or using a VPN?

@TayHornibrook I'd rather feed live snakes to my birds.

https://youtu.be/PWk3rHrlIhs

@ShadowSkratch

@ShadowSkratch

@ShadowSkratch

@ShadowSkratch http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/09/30/5-facts-about-indian-americans/

@ShadowSkratch http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/fact-sheet/asian-americans-vietnamese-in-the-u-s-fact-sheet/

https://youtu.be/3BfeANSBff8

@Deleted User That's my favorite of Sacha's characters.

@Deleted User This is Urkin, the town rapist. Naughty naughty!

@Deleted User Actually, I just remembered that Ali G is my favorite character of Sacha Baron Cohen's.
https://youtu.be/C5P9J1wCgNM

@5150.

@Fellow Comrade

@Fellow Comrade

@Fellow Comrade

https://youtu.be/vayksn4Y93A

@gauravtee https://youtu.be/s7EdQ4FqbhY

https://youtu.be/G7HkBDNZV7s

@HeilJUDEN https://youtu.be/o7-BTs9fW5k

@gauravtee Just got a 30 day ban because someone in Anti-SJW reported a reply I made on a post that showed a map of the U.S. with each state identified by its primary immigrant population. Someone said that Florida is more Haitian than Cuban, I replied with a screen shot from GTA: Vice City with that infamous "Kill the Haitians" mission, and someone flagged it. I selected the option to have the decision reviewed but there's no space to enter text for explaining and elaborating.

@gauravtee

@gauravtee Don't know, it's the first time I've ever seen that happen. Couldn't submit a text explanation when I requested the first review, but I could after that review resulted in them (whoever reviews such posts) supporting their original claim that the pic violated Facebook's TOS. I clicked on the sad face and was then able to submit a written explanation while requesting a second review, and I am awaiting a response now.

@gauravtee Never received a message like that, and I can currently access Facebook just fine, though I can't post, comment, or use Messenger (though it appears I can react to posts and comments using Facebook's emoji system, something I've never been able to do during previous bans beyond the first (3 hour) one).

Uneducated Parents In Ripon Think a Cellular Tower Causes Cancer In Their Children

https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2019/03/12/school-cell-tower-causing-cancer/

https://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancer-causes/radiation-exposure/cellular-phone-towers.html

I can confirm that Facebook isn't working for me, too.

@Deleted User It's intermittent for me. Keep reloading it and you might find a blank screen sometimes.

@gauravtee YEOH!