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Entertainment / Re: "What TV Shows Have You Watched Lately?" Thread

« Last post by scottws on Thursday, May 29, 2025, 03:29:51 PM »

I've realized over the years that I'm a huge sucker for dramas and sci-fi, especially sci-fi. I also enjoy comedies.

I've been watching The Last of Us and Andor. Both are excellent! I also enjoyed S3 of The White Lotus, but less than the previous two seasons.

Some good shows I've seen in the more distant past I liked are The Expanse and Ted Lasso.

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General Gaming / Re: The Currently Playing Thread / Recently Finished Thread

« Last post by MysterD on Monday, March 17, 2025, 06:53:23 AM »

Currently playing RoboCop: Rogue City for PC from GOG - and currently, I'm loving it so far. Some 7 hours in or so.

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General Discussion / Re: How are you guys holding up?

« Last post by Pugnate on Wednesday, March 12, 2025, 08:08:14 PM »

That’s a great way to do it.

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General Discussion / Re: How are you guys holding up?

« Last post by K-man on Thursday, March 06, 2025, 07:49:13 AM »

Trying to not consume any more political media than I have to.  I already know shit's crazy and don't need a reminder of it every 5 minutes.  My tactic is to focus on the variables I can control, which is how I serve and interact with my immediate community and raising my kids to be decent human beings.  That's where I can make the most impact.

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General Discussion / Re: How are you guys holding up?

« Last post by Pugnate on Friday, February 28, 2025, 12:15:32 PM »

Holy crap that Trump/Vance Zelnisky presss conference was awful. Can't believe there was a shouting match.

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General Discussion / Re: Where's Pugnate and his new PC's Specs?

« Last post by Pugnate on Tuesday, February 25, 2025, 08:52:38 AM »

Sorry, I never got around to replying, D.

I got this on a crazy deal:

https://www.lenovo.com/ca/en/p/desktops/legion-desktops/legion-t-series-towers/legion-tower-7i-gen-8-intel/90v6000mus?orgRef=https%253A%252F%252Fwww.google.com%252F&srsltid=AfmBOop2F2ZnFyeZbhSZPuMiRi0xIzohhp0kFN82y4_XT9zPiXu_kZR1

It was 65% off. Sold my laptops and barely had to pay anything.

I upgraded my RAM to 64GB DDR5 and added a WD SN850 SSD. I love the case and the cooling on this. It's also very friendly for upgrades unlike other branded PCs like Alienware.

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General Discussion / Re: I've moved to Linux

« Last post by Pugnate on Tuesday, February 25, 2025, 08:44:28 AM »

Ohhh nice. I really didn't want to switch to Win 11. Initially, I hated it. I guess I am used to it now. The hand-holding seems to increase with each iteration of Windows and it's very annoying.

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General Discussion / Re: How are you guys holding up?

« Last post by Pugnate on Tuesday, February 25, 2025, 08:42:09 AM »

Scottws! Would love to see you in Canada. I think we'll get the Liberal federal government again. The Conservatives were leading in the polls until Trudeau resigned. His probable successor, Mark Carney, seems pretty competent. And then, after the Trump threats, the Conservatives started losing ground in the polls rather rapidly. Ontario, (where I, Ren, and Cools are) can get pretty cold. However, British Columbia (where Kams and GPW are I think) is much warmer. Housing prices are nuts, though. And it may be a better idea to move to Europe in the event that the United States invades Canada.

New Zealand is apparently not very open to new people because of their housing issues. My brother is in Germany and it's apparently very nice. Though the right-leaning party just won elections and the far-right Nazi type party apparently also got a lot of votes.

I'm also scared that they'll do things to make it difficult to emigrate, such as limiting travel, seizing funds, or preventing accessing funds internationally.

Yikes.

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General Discussion / Re: How are you guys holding up?

« Last post by Pugnate on Tuesday, February 25, 2025, 08:34:16 AM »

Good to see Scottws. My sister and her hubby are doing the ostrich method, too - only consuming as much news as possible to avoid straining their mental health.

So far, it seems that the move toward authoritarianism will be insidious. I don't think we're going to get a Reichstag fire moment. However, the fact that we're sleepwalking into this is potentially more dangerous because many people underestimate how bad things are. However, I have a feeling that at some point, we're going to see a bigger pushback and maybe even civil war.

Following Musk, Bannon just did the Nazi salute, too.

Yeah, installing puppets in the military, FBI, NSA, and CIA is authoritarianism 101. And the latest news is indeed scary.

Here in Canada, people are really disturbed by the 51st State nonsense. Canada has made a huge mistake in not developing its military. It should at least have enough defences to deter the United States from invading. And it's pretty sad how the tech companies are bowing down to Trump. Not only did Google rename "Gulf of Mexico" to "Gulf of America" to please Trump, but they may have started renaming our "Provincial Parks" to "State Parks." It's outrageous. https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/angry-google-maps-users-report-canadas-provincial-parks-mislabelled-as-state-parks/

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General Discussion / Re: How are you guys holding up?

« Last post by scottws on Friday, February 21, 2025, 10:09:19 PM »

And it’s begun.