Well yeah fuck that guy and this program and it’s implications, but this particular issue doesn’t sound too unexpected considering the scope of the procedure.

I’m all for the science, but you know this is going to be some directly streamed ads hellspace we’ll never escape from if it comes to fruition.

Here’s a good rule for this sort of thing to move forward: No implants before right to privacy and freedom from advertising.

You should never do anything that isn’t fun. Everything is fun if you make it so.

Line from a solid song by a local band i found when i was 16. Oddly enough, it never occured to me how much i liked it as a name until a decade later.

I’ve played most of the metroid games, and i know theres a ton of nostalgia for super metroid, but to this day nothing has matched the feeling of exploration and awe from Metroid Prime. Every place in the game was so radically different, and the ability to scan and learn about the environment was so unique, and exactly what i didn’t know i needed. Learning the lore and finding out what happened to the planet only by analyzing everything made the world feel like it had died, and it’s death was a tragedy. All the enemies you encounter are just local animals that don’t know better, or had been corrupted by pollution. That is, until about halfway through the game when you meet actually hostile, malicious intelligence, and the combat steps up exponentially.

It’s fantastic. I still remember being amazed at the fogging and raindrops showing up on the visor the first time you step off your ship on Talon IV. I had never seen graphocs so good, and such attention to detail, and the game was already 4 years old.

The only game i’ve ever played that felt similar was subnautica, and while it had the wonder, it lacked the melancholy and insane combat.

Prime is the best in the series, hands down.

I’m a 6’5 reasonably muscular male running two offices entirely staffed by women, except for two gay guys. There’s no masculine competition, which is nice, and communication is much more personal. Due to my strict rule of not considering any of my coworkers potential partners, I make sure I’m as supportive as possible without being threatening to any of the girls or their respective partners. It’s very interesting seeing how patients act towards me vs the other workers. They seem to treat me as an authority figure, and take what I say at face value, even if I’m just confirming what one of the women already told them. The girls have to convince patients they’re professional and not jerking them around, where I can just state something and they’ll believe me. I’m viewed as a scientist, and the women are viewed as salesmen or interns.

I mentioned my stature earlier, because it’s led to me being the office protector. I will defuse situations, defend my workers, and even fire patients if they offend anyone else in the office. If a rep for a company talks down to any of the women, or only wants to speak to me, I won’t do business with them.

Ive hired men before, but they never last. They either make the girls uncomfortable, try to start relationships, or try to butt heads with me as if they hold authority over anyone else. It’s very easy to see how someone with less feministic views could easily take advantage of the situation I’m in.

Edit: they’re always fucking cold though. 73 degrees is not fucking cold Donna. I’m wearing a suit. Put on a sweater.

Another species is very useful for unity, not necessarily for us to band together against, but because a proper intelligent alien kind of invalidates every religion. All the conflicts from culture clashing suddenly become pointless.

Or at least racists will have something else to look down on.

Both of your wives are plants by the marketing firm to make sure your attempts to remove all ads are stymied. You’ll have to kill her. I’m sorry.

I suppose it really depends on what games the guy is into. If he’s an occasional stardew guy, no trouble. If it’s call of duty, might be a problem. Although if he’s into call of duty they’ll need another whole ass hard drive to support that bloat

Yeah. Norm core for basics, but I’m generally dressing in layers anyway. I don’t think I’ve worn only a t shirt outside the house in years.

That makes sense, I’m not sure how I missed that. My bad.

I’m always a little weary of APUs, because most people will try to over game on them, and every overheat is a tiny bit slower CPU. Heat damage is why laptops eventually get shitty whether you abuse them or not. Even a low end dedicated card will save the processor a bit of stress. I run a few zen APUs at my offices and they’re great, but no one is trying to play anything more demanding than freecell on them.

I have pretty skewed view of prices because I’m always scouting for closeouts and pricing errors. I can’t imagine spending 400 on a PSU. I’m not sure what good ones go for, but I got my 1200w super flower for like 150 two years ago. If they’re really going for 400, fuck that get a 750 Corsair and ignore me.

I always suggest higher power than you need for a few reasons:

Peak efficiency is at about half load, and peak efficiency produces less heat, which is what kills components.

Long term compatibility - larger PSUs have more ports and can support significantly more specialized upgrade paths

Larger units tend to be made with higher quality parts. As I stated in the other comment, the PSU is the only thing that can take everything else with it when it goes.

As a generation of parts age, they often get more power hungry as companies start packing more chips into the same form factor. The regular CPU and GPU lines will get more efficient, so they’ll release a premium or creator line that has more cores or units.

Finally, a good power supply can be effectively permanent. Having more than you need is never a problem, and you can reuse it in an entirely new build ten years down the line when we have no idea how much wattage will be needed.

I suggest raid 1 for long term data storage, not for your boot drive or games. No loss in event of a disk failure, and hdds are cheap.

When trying on frame initially, Oakley’s actually will be more comfortable due to their temple style, although after your lenses are made any frame will be adjusted and balanced to be exactly as, if not more comfortable with less squeezing. (Unless the place selling the glasses doesn’t care about fitting, which is more common than you’d think)

I’m a licensed advanced optician that owns three practices, I’ve designed and manufactured my own line of frames, I’ve helped design progressive lens forms, I have taught classes at eight out of the last 12 vision expo’s. My capture rate of every premium product sale is miles above the national averages.

The only brand I call in more warranties in on than Oakley is Nike. Their zyl frames use plastic rivets that regularly snap and can’t be tightened. The temples stretch out over time, which is normal and wouldn’t be an issue except the metals use either single bar spring hinges that will keep loosening or monel flat rivets that can’t be replaced.

They are not the worst brand by any means, but if you think you’re paying for anything other than the name, you’ve been sold.

I would argue that podcasting doesn’t require a lot of power, and any modern CPU will have more than enough overhead to handle whatever he’ll do. Just make sure there’s adequate storage as audio files can get pretty big depending on how they’re recorded.

A raid set up to make sure there’s no loss of recordings in a disc failure would be a good idea.

I can’t help with mics, but for headphones, audio technica m40x has the best quality to price. There are Definitely better phones, but the m40x punch way above their cost.

I know future proof was a concern, but it’s worth noting that we’re at the beginning of the next gen of ram and cpu’s, so for a LOT cheaper you can get the best of the previous generation of parts and they’ll work for years. No real room for upgrading, but there won’t be a major difference between performance for another few years . I would recommend going for the best Ddr4 and AM4 setups rather than mediocre am5 and ddr5 parts that will cost a lot more. Black Friday deals on Newegg for the last gen are pretty solid.

I generally recommend AMD over Intel just because the value is vastly higher for the price, and they don’t make you get a new motherboard every time they release a new chip.

As GPU’s are going, higher video ram is more important than chip speed for editing. Nvidia makes the best but they cost a mortgage, I run AMD myself and have never been let down, but the specs on the new Intel ARC cards are crazy considering how cheap they are. I have no experience with them though, and reviews are hard to believe because they’re so new, so half of them will be complaints about driver issues that were ironed out months ago.

Monitors are all over the place. IPS, especially high speed IPS is better for gaming and all around, VA is better for movies and video editing. Honestly high end monitors are so expensive, I’d go for a 200$ IPS and assume he’ll replace it himself if he starts getting serious about video editing.

Mechanical keyboards are great, but they’re pretty loud for podcasting, unless you specifically look for a quiet switch. Monoprice makes great mech keyboards that regularly go on sale for like 30$ and have replaceable switches if one breaks, which they never really do.

Mouse’s are unique to the individual, so don’t go too high end and find out it doesn’t fit his hand how he wants it. Again, might be best to consider it a placeholder.

Get a case with lots of room for drives. Glass panels are nice, but if you don’t have one, you’ll never be tempted to fall into the rgb pothole. Unless he wants to rgb the hell out of everything. I did the lights. No regrets.

Good power supply is key and effectively permanent, so go big and get a good brand. I recommend super flower. He’ll probably never need more than 750w, but if you go for 1000 or even 1200 he can use it indefinitely. In general more wattage is more efficient and safer. This is the only part that can take everything else with it when it fails, so don’t take risks here. I’ve had two build lose mobo, CPU, ram, and actually a backup uninterruptible power source to bad PSUs.

Edit: if it interests anyone, the bad PSUs that took down the builds were both EVGA golds, one 750 and one 850. The 750 was two years old and started a fire in the case, the 850 was brand new and killed everything in a new build, including the battery backup I had it plugged into.

Guys wearing florescent orange or yellow knee high socks with Adidas slides and shorts that was all over a few years ago.

Dudes setting flat billed hats on top of their head way too high.

Yeti stickers on trucks. Glad you like your cooler dude.

Repping brands. Like tshirts that say Oakley or under armor on them. Why are you wearing a shirt that says under armour, but isn’t the actual under armour? You paid them to advertise for them you rube. Seeing Oakley gear kills me, I have very in depth inside knowledge of the optical industry, and Oakley’s aren’t even good glasses. You paid too much for the privilege of looking like a tool.

I may be interested in being a dj/random song info guy. I’ll have to think about it for a few days, and see if I can make a regular appearance.

In the settings menu for flauncher there’s a button for Android options. If you open that you should be able to adjust the picture settings, it at least find the Bravia settings that can control the picture.