#general-chat

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velvet summit
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I can't afford a single 5090

sinful blade
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Stop eating from Pizza Hut
Their corporate standard for wages is still $7.25

nocturne flicker
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I don't

proud jackal
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dominos > pizzahut

sinful blade
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It was more of a general warning

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Pizza Hut is just about as scummy as they get corporate wise

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No other major pizza brand has as low wages as Pizza Hut
Not even Little Caesars

nocturne flicker
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Corporate is YumYum Brands. And I imagine they are so scummy because they are desperate to not have 20k stores go belly up like they are constantly on the verge of kekw

sinful blade
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General managers for Pizza Hut (around me) is $17.50/hr.

velvet summit
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Minimum wage

misty sparrow
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you would think pizza hut has higher wages because their pizza is a bit higher quality than little caesars

nocturne flicker
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I am looking at their financials for PH and it is absolutely hilarious how badly it does

misty sparrow
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they used to be good

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they used to experiment and do things

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now they're getting their ass handed to by papa john's of all places

nocturne flicker
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They've got an operating margin of nearly 40% and their profit is laughable

pliant berry
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The last pizza hut I remember in my area im pretty sure closed like over 10 years ago.

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Besides that I have been to one in europe a few times

misty sparrow
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have you seen pizza huts in china

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they used to have salad bars but the chinese customers were incredibly smart and exploited them

pliant berry
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Lol

misty sparrow
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they had restrictions on salad bars where you couldn't get seconds or something

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so people in china would make monstrosities like this

pliant berry
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Salad cake

misty sparrow
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salad stacking

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they had to take the salad stations away

pliant berry
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People always find a way

random osprey
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number 3

misty sparrow
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fair enough i did get popeyes one time, they are hit and miss on service

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first time got chicken sandwich it was great

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second time they gave me my stuff in three different bags, opened it all up and some of the fries were missing, biscuit was gone, chicken portions were tiny

random osprey
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real hot take though, chick fil a is not a S tier fast food chicken spot, its like mid-high A tier

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sauce is what mainly carries it

misty sparrow
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if the sauce is what makes the chicken good then it is not good chicken

pliant berry
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I don’t think that is a hot take anymore

misty sparrow
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imagine combining the chicken of church's or popeye's with chickfila sauce

pliant berry
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There have been so many chicken places popping up recently. Saw at least 2 or 3 pop up or up coming in penn station

random osprey
pliant berry
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Its just going to be a row of chicken stores

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Raising canes was pretty nice last I tried

misty sparrow
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they're only good because of the sauce

random osprey
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raising canes is good, just not worth the hype and lines for it

misty sparrow
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stupidly expensive for meals though

pliant berry
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I do think its better than chick fil a though

misty sparrow
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especially because of the toast right?

velvet summit
pliant berry
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Unfortunately I pretty much only go to their times square location which is almost always mobbed. Only got a chance to sit in like twice

misty sparrow
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that's like, In-N-Out levels of hype

pliant berry
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I still have yet to see an in n out here 💀

random osprey
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both raising canes and in n out are good, just not good enough to sit in those 40 minute lines

velvet summit
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Anyways Popeye's for me is either dry as hell or good I guess quality

misty sparrow
random osprey
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only the biscuits are suppose to be dry

pliant berry
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Tbf in that raising canes location the lines go really fast, but good luck finding a place to sit

velvet summit
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I've been to like 4 different locations

misty sparrow
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i have never tried popeyes biscuit

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they robbed me of that chance

random osprey
velvet summit
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They overcook the chicken for some reason

random osprey
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better than kfc buiscuits imo

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by like a lot

misty sparrow
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so is it true that if you order popeyes with no drink, the biscuit will make your mouth really dry?

velvet summit
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KFC is worse than Popeyes at least
6/8 locations I've been to were dry

random osprey
worn wave
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Canes needs some seasoning in their breading, or a better brine. The chicken is cooked well but it's just bland without the sauce

velvet summit
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Popeyes is more like.... Actually 2/5 were dry

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So not as bad

velvet summit
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I always get churches when I have the chance since that hasn't been dry for me in 2 locations

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Haven't been to Jollibee

random osprey
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churches has always been good and even better than jollibee at times for me but their locations near where i lived were not favorable since they tend to be located in bad neighborhoods

velvet summit
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Lmao

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The hood ain't gonna be happy without their chicken

random osprey
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place i havent tried that always seems to get high praise is zaxbys

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dont know if its a midwest/east coast thing or i just never seen one here on west coast

velvet summit
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Never seen in Canada either

misty sparrow
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popeyes is only bad because they vary on service quality so much, if they had consistent quality like Chick-Fil-A then they wouldn't be like that

pliant berry
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I haven’t really seen or heard them

proud jackal
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Never had church's before

random osprey
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says they have 909 locations

pliant berry
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Me neither, probably aren’t any in my area. And the closest jollibee to me is like 40 miles lol

random osprey
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map seems to show theyre mainly south

misty sparrow
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i have a church's near me but never had it

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it's right next to Popeye's

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conveniently

random osprey
pliant berry
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I’m always surprised by how different some of the chains are in south vs north

misty sparrow
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what's special about church's anyway? everybody has told me it's bad

random osprey
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theyre imo a top 5 fast food chicken place

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just good fried chicken

velvet summit
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Better than Popeyes for me most of the time

tacit quiver
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i desperately want canes.

misty sparrow
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too bad its pricey

tacit quiver
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There's plenty of them near where I live and the price isn't an issue for me, but I'm not home right now and I won't be home for another couple months

mortal grail
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Management would like you to explain this AAA game picture

misty sparrow
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Spider-Man is sending people to the shadow realm

mortal grail
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Real

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That was taken using a 4090 btw

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Powered by RTX™️

misty sparrow
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Can I borrow your 4090 if you get a newer graphics card?

mortal grail
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Come on over

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We can co-op

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Send perps to the webby shadow realm together

misty sparrow
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okay

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can we also play terraria? let's build a house

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i want to build a giant house

wise wigeon
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on god that box is nuts

misty sparrow
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well thank god i'm not the only one

wise wigeon
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look people make tacobell diarrhea jokes but

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ima be real I get more GI issues with chinese food

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and i love chinese food

hoary zodiac
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Is it Americanised chinese food

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Or actual chinese food

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I can't stand takeout chinese

wise wigeon
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crunchwrap, 5 layer, and the cheesy potatoes with a medium baja blast is 👌

hoary zodiac
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They're full of sauce and grease

wise wigeon
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depends on the places

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obviously buffets have the worst quality

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but i'm not going to a buffet for quality

hoary zodiac
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Imo you can get more authentic Chinese if you make them at home

wise wigeon
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local places can be good

hoary zodiac
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Traditional Chinese dishes were made by poor people

wise wigeon
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I mean with local places i only usually get lunch specials

hoary zodiac
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ironically the local ones are better

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Since they don't mess with the dish too much

wise wigeon
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which is usually the main dish pork fried rice and an eggroll

hoary zodiac
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mmm

wise wigeon
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$10

hoary zodiac
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Yeah that's decent

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For fast food prices

wise wigeon
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its not like tiktok stuffed but its enough to touch the tops of the container

hoary zodiac
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I mean eating all is overpriced for anywhere so

wise wigeon
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and its like decent fried rice

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so many places have such bland fried rice

hoary zodiac
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At least with that you're getting like double-triple the food of a McDonald's meal

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Actually I'm not sure tbh

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US McDonald's is usually larger than everywhere else

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Still likely a better deal

misty sparrow
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i ordered a burger there and it was about the size as the palm on my hand

hoary zodiac
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AHAHHAHA

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SCAM

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So it's just as bad

misty sparrow
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the only thing that's large are the profits they make on overcharging people

hoary zodiac
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I straight up don't buy fast food anymore because I can just go next door to an actual restaurant and get more bang for the buck

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Actual scam

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For the price of a meal I can get a burrito that will quite literally fill me up so much that I can barely eat dinner

wise wigeon
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Under neath like half that rice is more chicken

hoary zodiac
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I don't know how they make money

hoary zodiac
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That's pretty good value

wise wigeon
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10.12 including tax

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chicken is so damn crunchy still even drowned in sauce

hoary zodiac
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Yeah I'm not a fan of that

wise wigeon
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like me I like some american junk food too

hoary zodiac
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Restaurants tend to overdo the sauce too much

wise wigeon
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its like a decent sauce too

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sometimes restaurants are like oh this is "spicy"

icy ore
hoary zodiac
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Spice is a funny thing

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People spice dishes when it makes no sense

wise wigeon
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but this has a decent enough heat to it, not to actually be spicy, but enough that i can still feel its presence

hoary zodiac
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Yeah good spicy is hard to master

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The Koreans just dump spice in everything

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Which... I'm not a fan of

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Spicy for the sake of spicy is bad

wise wigeon
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i mean its still american tso's so its sweet and spicy

nocturne flicker
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Need a spicy doughnut to go with my olive oil coffee

hoary zodiac
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Spicy for the sake of making the dish taste better is good

wise wigeon
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but sometimes you get tso's and it taste like orange chicken

hoary zodiac
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Chinese dishes are generally fine in spice

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Same with Japanese

wise wigeon
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japanese dont really like spice that much

hoary zodiac
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Yeah they only add spice as in the not hot kind

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Like for curries and stuff

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Japanese fish curry slaps hard

wise wigeon
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japanese curry slaps

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and is so piss easy

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thank god walmart has more international stuff

hoary zodiac
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And healthy too

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The Japanese and Chinese are really good at making cheap and healthy food

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Same with the Indians

wise wigeon
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seeing kewpie mayo and golden curry at a neighborhood walmart is so surreal

hoary zodiac
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Yeah it's great

wise wigeon
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like my recent visit they added furikake

hoary zodiac
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Since a lot of the international recipes are actually way healthier than the domestic stuff

wise wigeon
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if they had like some miso though

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i'd make it more often

hoary zodiac
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Yeah

wise wigeon
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they have the instant stuff but its not the same

hoary zodiac
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Here in Australia we generally have more of an international selection

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And also asian shops too

wise wigeon
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my walmart started getting the ore uncommon buldak flavours

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and like cups of tteokbokki

hoary zodiac
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I just eat the Chinese stuff

wise wigeon
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last 2 years i became a lao gan ma addict

hoary zodiac
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And Mi Goreng

wise wigeon
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omg

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they have indomie at my local walmart

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indomie is straight up crack

hoary zodiac
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And also Nissin

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This stuff slaps

wise wigeon
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my local place stopped carrying it but they had chapughetti in the past too

hoary zodiac
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I've eaten so much indomie I'm getting tired of them

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Like straight up I eat so much of it

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It's good

wise wigeon
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indomie you cant just have 1 for an american

hoary zodiac
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I usually add more soy sauce

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Because they're never enough

wise wigeon
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portion size too smol

hoary zodiac
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Real

wise wigeon
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but 2 feel like too much at the same time

hoary zodiac
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I usually add an egg to a single packet

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And sometimes a sausage

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To make it more filling

wise wigeon
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oh i love the egg in shin ramen broth

hoary zodiac
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Without the bloat of two whole packets

wise wigeon
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its so damn good

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and the remaining broth tastes like egg drop

hoary zodiac
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Efficiency

wise wigeon
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talking about the souffle

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you eat the noodles, crack 2 eggs in, add some sesame oil, stir well, and nuke it for 3 minutes

hoary zodiac
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I usually just let it poach

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If you make a hole in the middle of the noodles and dunk the egg in it

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It'll poach perfectly

wise wigeon
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yeah

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but sometimes you like some fluffy eggs too

hoary zodiac
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Yeah

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I prefer to steam them in that case

wise wigeon
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and shin ramen definitely has enough seasoning to season an egg

hoary zodiac
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Steamed eggs + soy sauce is delicious

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Although it's better for rice so It probably doesn't apply here

wise wigeon
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like most of the video is fine

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but man i hate like really inefficient "hacks"

hoary zodiac
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I'd cook it in a pot tbh

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So it'd cook properly

wise wigeon
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like why would i fold the top to a lil cup to "cool" noodles down

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just blow on it lady like the rest of us

hoary zodiac
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I just just turn on a youtube video or the news

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For it to cool down

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Because I usually have to wait for my coffee to cool too

wise wigeon
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i dont like when the noodles are too soggy

hoary zodiac
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Yeah I usually only cook them for 2-3 minutes

wise wigeon
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like them to still have a little bite

hoary zodiac
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Or slightly undercook them

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And let the residual heat finish cooking the noodles

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So when it's cool enough to eat it'll be perfect

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Usually the instructions are on point

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get the hell off my discord

misty sparrow
pseudo patrol
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18 more days until 5070 series

tranquil pebble
tranquil pebble
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it is painfully cold outside in my area rn, -2 F (-18.9 C)

elfin mural
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less than a month of time to finalize designs?

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jesus

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AIBs are being squeezed

random osprey
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i may have woken up my neighborhood trying to make 6am tacos. cooking shrimp and smoke alarms went off

icy ore
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bruh take your time and get crap right we’re not in that big of a rush for a new GPU that you’ve got to cut corners on such an important component

elfin mural
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i don't get it

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some AIBs get as little as 2 days to finalize pcbs

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two goddamn days

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to finish a design and test it

icy ore
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Stupid

elfin mural
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inb4 a flood of dead gpus

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or cards dying after some time

icy ore
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honestly tho

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time for this again

loud trail
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hey im looking at buying a 5080 when it comes back in stock it says free shipping will i need to pay any other fees ?

elfin mural
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no

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free shipping means free shipping

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but if you can help it, find used 4080 supers

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the 5080 isn't as good as nvidia wants you to believe

loud trail
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its a bit better than a 4080 super but ive been locked on tryna get one so why not

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but if all fails ill get a 4080 super

mortal grail
elfin mural
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bro spent all his money on the tv

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instead of a whole new pc

wind quail
sinful blade
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It begins

proud jackal
cedar compass
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Me hunting 5090 but white pepeF

tranquil pebble
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Someone just gave me the rest of their spare antifreeze so to return the favor I am going to finish filling my coolant then give them the rest of the antifreeze I bought. They may very well have saved me a costly repair.

tranquil pebble
velvet summit
proud jackal
tranquil pebble
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Crispy critters

wraith fern
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w11 💔

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im still on w10 🥶

craggy shoal
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"Ultra High End PC" wow

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if 4GB of VRAM is ultra high-end, I wonder what my 12GB is

icy ore
craggy shoal
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💀

sweet phoenix
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4gb of gddr3> 12gb gddr6x

icy ore
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Lower number the better

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Like golf

sweet phoenix
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exactly

craggy shoal
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gotta upgrade to 2GB then 😭

sweet phoenix
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thats why i have my i1-100 and nvidia gtx 1010

pliant berry
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just use integrated

dusk knot
tranquil pebble
craggy shoal
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Dream setup fr

tranquil pebble
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not enough floppy drives. Needs 25 more.

brittle lynx
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"newest and easiest"

tranquil pebble
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Windows 95 is in fact easier than what came before it

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no more needing to install DOS first, for one thing

brittle lynx
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well getting the img file to work off a floppy was the real difficult part

sinful blade
brittle lynx
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what should I choose for most features?

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typical, custom?

craggy shoal
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Always choose custom

tranquil pebble
brittle lynx
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I need a .... certificate of authenticity? bro 😭

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nvm i can skip

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no I cannot

tranquil pebble
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People are legitimately insane

craggy shoal
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bruh that's wild

tranquil pebble
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Reminder that RISC-V emulation is also how someone ran Linux on an Arduino Uno

brittle lynx
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for win95 do I just install all detected devices or are there any I should deselect for some reason?

craggy shoal
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You should be using Google for most of your questions tbh. Most people here have installed Windows 10 at the earliest

dusk knot
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mh.

craggy shoal
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mh.

brittle lynx
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too much to Google I'll just install all devices

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Hopefully there are no conflicts later

tranquil pebble
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reminder that Microsoft recently dropped support for Windows 95

sinful blade
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@devout forum guy is selling me a 5700xt for $100 from hws discord

proud jackal
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Just left Costco, people are buying eggs to scalp

sinful blade
craggy shoal
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(She cooks very good)

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(Could probably start her own restaurant tbh)

sinful blade
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Get her to start one and I will

rancid juniper
craggy shoal
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5700 XT for $100 is nuts. Congratulations

sweet phoenix
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mine was $90 but its a really loud OEM card

dusk knot
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how powerful compared to ngreedai?

rancid juniper
dusk knot
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sad

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still waiting on th 9700xt

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AMD is losing heart

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😔

craggy shoal
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fr bruh what's taking AMD so long

sweet phoenix
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Imo theyre taking extra time for driver and performance optimization for less backlash on launch like with the 7900xtx

craggy shoal
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Acceptable then

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"The child must not be an obstacle" ahh release

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"Hey [AMD fans], u ok if I [optimize drivers before releasing the new GPUs]? Don't want to [upset all of you (again)]"

"A [driver issue] must not be an obstacle"

"Thanks is that a yes??"

"Proceed"

sinful blade
sinful blade
# ancient swift Nice

Just a note for anyone, if you reply to me, tag me

I will not check my pings until I can’t find something in 3 weeks

ancient swift
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I got the ASRock Phantom Gaming

sinful blade
sweet phoenix
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I can guide you throw an underclock/power limit if you want it to be quieter, i saved the one i gave my friend

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Well I oced vram, uved core and power limited

wise wigeon
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You guys ever look at all your new parts and feel buyers remorse for no reason?

sweet phoenix
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Yes

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Too much

wise wigeon
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Like it’s been almost 5 years

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It’s not like it’s unreasonable for me to upgrade

fresh timber
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I only had buyers remorse when I bought a legion go

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I soon realized handhelds suck

wise wigeon
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Uh yeah I would too

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Eh I like the steam deck I just rarely use it

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It’s a fun tinker toy though

fresh timber
wise wigeon
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Damn what games

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Thing is like a handheld ps4

fresh timber
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The crew motorfest.. I don’t even wanna know how spiderman 2 runs in it

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The only thing that saved it for me was remote gaming from my pc

wise wigeon
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What in the

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I just found a 16mb memory card

sinful blade
fresh timber
wise wigeon
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Huh no 99% alcohol in my area?

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There is 91% though

opaque sedge
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No regrets on this game at all

wise wigeon
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I mean considering only wiping down the cpu ihs and not any pcb

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70% is probably fine and I’ll let it dry longer

fresh timber
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Your fine with 70% just let It dry like you said

lone mango
fresh timber
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Fix your damn Rocm

lone mango
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The strategy amd has will keep them where they are. They keep playing chicken and they keep adapting to what nvidia is doing rather than trying to build value by themselves

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They just follow nvidia

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Coreteks made a good video about this

frigid stag
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nvidia is market leader

fresh timber
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Bigger company than AMD

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Also amd do good at ai too

frigid stag
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depends on the model

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even gtx can handle some ai models

lone mango
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Like almost as good as nvidia but costed way less

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Mi300x i think it was

frigid stag
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theres sone cheap cards for ai too i forgot the name

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mp600 or something

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idk

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maybe mi600

lone mango
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Bro 192gb hbm3 is insane

fresh timber
sweet phoenix
wise wigeon
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Oh wow they restocked 7800x3d at my wlamrt

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$400

rancid juniper
mortal grail
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Good morning goofballs

lone mango
atomic mist
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I’m a goofball

fresh timber
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i went afk and mf crashed

chrome mirage
# lone mango

I know people who have free cars that are nicer than the $1 car in the thumbnail

fresh timber
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is the game tripping

velvet summit
wise wigeon
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Walmart has 91%

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But it’s like no biggie

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I’ll just cleaning the ihs

velvet summit
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walmart isnt a medical supply store last i checked Kek

dusk knot
woven turret
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is 2133mhz DDR4 bad?

misty sparrow
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it's usable but that's on the really low end in terms of speed for DDR4 ram

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i think DDR4 can go up to....3600mhz?

lone mango
velvet summit
lone mango
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Just say yes

woven turret
lone mango
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Its really bad

lone mango
velvet summit
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really bad? no

woven turret
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apparently MB only supports 2133

velvet summit
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it's just not good

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lmao

woven turret
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I dont want to get a new MB and stuff and do everything again

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what if I get 2 more ram sticks

misty sparrow
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it's "usable"

woven turret
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but I haven't had issues running anything

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so my question stands, should I get 2 more sticks? will that even it out?

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is 64gb ddr4 2133mhz better than 32gb ddr4 3200mhz?

velvet summit
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no

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well, depends on what you do

woven turret
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game

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RDR2 runs fantastic on everything ultra

misty sparrow
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I think you'd like the faster 32GB ram

woven turret
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I would

misty sparrow
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I may be wrong though, that's just what I would do

woven turret
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but I'll need a different motherboard

wise wigeon
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I mean most PCs are even in need of over 32gb

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Also

misty sparrow
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if your motherboard has a certain speed cap then you can just get the bigger ram capacity

wise wigeon
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I forgot how annoying getting cases out of the box was

woven turret
misty sparrow
wise wigeon
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Iirc am4 isn’t as speed sensitive

woven turret
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same with mine, wasn't easy

wise wigeon
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Good packaging LIAN li but damn if that wasn’t a struggle

misty sparrow
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here's an idea, cut out the bottom and then pull the box off the case

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just lift it up

wise wigeon
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It’s sideways

misty sparrow
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what

wise wigeon
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It’s already out though

misty sparrow
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you were making it seem like you didn't get it out yet

wise wigeon
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Now the real struggle is

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How tf am I gonna film me opening the mobo

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And film it while checking for bent pins

dusk knot
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Hm

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Lian li

fresh timber
misty sparrow
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he looks like a generic character i'd create in GTA Online

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you've got the beard, haircut, head size

wise wigeon
#

I should be recording me opening the mobo yes?

#

It’s just been so long since I worked on an lga

#

Having to feel worried about bent pins again

fresh timber
#

@rancid juniper i updated to the newer driver and nothing but issues kekw

#

my 6th one

#

ima downgrade

rancid juniper
#

its an optional driver

#

not certified

fresh timber
#

yeah

#

the one the game says you should use

#

maybe dont suggest u update ur driver if ur game still sucks on it

#

the highlight

misty sparrow
#

spiderman 2 pc release is probably just buggy

fresh timber
#

Somebody buy it for my ps5

#

So I can play with no issues

misty sparrow
#

whole thing feels like an expansion for base Spider-Man or Miles Morales

#

you aren't missing out on much

fresh timber
#

I’m missing everything

#

I love this game

#

I loved miles morals

sonic breach
#

Greetings

wise wigeon
#

Huh

#

There is a stain on one of my psu cables

#

Looks like someone tapped it with a sharpie marker

#

Oh looks like it’s normal and a qc mark corsair does

dusk knot
#

Huh

dusk knot
dusk knot
#

I do not get it

velvet summit
#

Long ears

dusk knot
#

Hm

#

I mus not be this meme's proper audience.

#

😔

velvet summit
#

I'm only 1/2

#

Maybe 2/3 at most

wise wigeon
#

Anybody here got eagle eyes?

velvet summit
#

I don't have an eagle

wise wigeon
#

Just posted my lga socket in build chat and wanted a second pair of eyes

sonic breach
rancid juniper
sonic breach
icy ore
#

Lmao

velvet summit
rancid juniper
icy ore
#

Joined my first one back in 2015

sonic breach
icy ore
#

damn I’m old

sonic breach
#

Indeed

unreal trail
sweet phoenix
#

Smh imagine being 17

#

Just age already

sonic breach
#

Your gonna die before me :)

sweet phoenix
#

YES

#

THANK GOD

sonic breach
#

Huh

misty sparrow
#

the pictures?

fresh timber
unreal trail
hoary zodiac
#

Y'all still in school?

rancid juniper
misty sparrow
#

so should i actually make a paper of an rtx 5090 and sell it on ebay

rancid juniper
#

😭

hoary zodiac
hoary zodiac
#

You have rights in college

unreal trail
#

I am the school

rancid juniper
#

LOL

fresh timber
#

You have rights at highschool when ur a senior

fresh timber
#

They legally can’t tell me to do anything

rancid juniper
#

this game will forever be garbage

#

smh

#

going for $50 now

fresh timber
#

My rgb is suppose to be off..

unreal trail
#

lifestyle and social experience kekw

rancid juniper
#

i keep my rgb at blue

dusk knot
#

I sleep

unreal trail
#

leaked on an h site kekw

dusk knot
#

What

unreal trail
#

it originally leaked on e-h.org. Cant type out the whole thing

dusk knot
#

Good

rancid juniper
#

baffled really

#

😂

wise wigeon
#

Gigabyte should give me a 4090 because of this

#

Smh look at this blemish on my vrm

dusk knot
#

Soo...we live in an age where GPUs barely lose their resale value. Maybe I should get a 5080(would be a mistake in a year or two) now and sell it when the 6090 comes out.

rancid juniper
hoary zodiac
rancid juniper
#

but i dont think AC shadows will be the best selling AC game for real

#

who knows, it may be lower than AC mirage

hoary zodiac
#

I played Black Flag

#

👍🏻

#

I've lost track with AC games

dusk knot
hoary zodiac
#

They're like AAA slop nowadays

rancid juniper
#

i could sell my 7800xt for the same price i bought it

#

😏

hoary zodiac
#

2020 2.0

rancid juniper
#

heheh YEA

nocturne flicker
hoary zodiac
#

Except we have the 7900XT

nocturne flicker
#

The first 3 games or so were basically the exact same game with new plot and a new mechanic or two

icy ore
hoary zodiac
#

Ubisoft needs to make something original

rancid juniper
#

WTF IS AN ORIGINAL GAME 🗣️

hoary zodiac
#

Every company in the movie/gaming industry when they get to a certain size just stops making original games/movies or even good sequels

#

Just look at the terminator movies

#

The plot is literally recycled

#

And sports games

#

Sports games are the most shameless reskins

rancid juniper
#

if the games have no guns or balls then no buy
-average gamer in U.S

unreal trail
#

all my homies hate yellow paint

rancid juniper
nocturne flicker
nocturne flicker
#

Finish one game hop right into the next no new disc insert needed

rancid juniper
#

if DVD technology was improved people would buy more consoles with physical drives

nocturne flicker
#

We have UHD DVDs. No

rancid juniper
#

those aren't fast enough to load all that data

#

now we need NVMEs to load all that uncompressed chunks of 8k assets or something

wise wigeon
nocturne flicker
#

What I mean is that there was very little change between the games despite the fact that they were new games. Story being a continuation is expected, the copy and paste, not so much

#

I think the only thing Brotherhood did differently was add the Assassin Brotherhood management stuff

#

It has been like, 8 years since I last played them so eh

rancid juniper
#

there's not much to innovate on when the formula is already said and done

#

they gotta come up with something entirely new

nocturne flicker
rancid juniper
#

sadge

nocturne flicker
#

We live in a digital world now

#

Maybe in 50 years somebody will make them hip and cool again and make a new and improved, faster disc

hoary zodiac
#

DVDs are still going strong

#

People are buying them again

#

Especially since you can get them for dirt cheap at garage sales

nocturne flicker
#

Secondhand purchases don't drive businesses. 2024 was the first year in ages for physical media purchases to increase yoy yes, but at the same time numerous stores limited and stopped selling discs

#

Sony is stepping out of the blu ray production business

#

LG already has pulled out too with blue ray players

ancient swift
rancid juniper
#

legit what nintendo is kinda doing

ancient swift
#

They use flash memory.

#

I think closer to what Microsoft used for the expansion port on the Xbox, but with smaller SSD's to save cost. Lul

nocturne flicker
#

The Switch cartridges are basically SD cards

ancient swift
#

Also not as overpriced as what Seagate and WD charges e.e

hoary zodiac
#

I wonder

#

It would be based if the switch 2 has nvme expansion

worn wave
#

No shot, not from Nintendo and especially not in such a small device

rancid juniper
#

actually wild that in this generation people are now conditioned to where games have to stay alive as long as possible (liveservice bs)

#

this is what the companies want

hoary zodiac
#

this is why the best cod is black ops 2

#

last good campaign

rancid juniper
#

no wonder why you hear the term "Dead game" alot

#

or "it fell off"

#

no man, games will come and go

#

that's how it should be

ancient swift
#

People are complaining that Halo MCC isn't going to be updated anymore. Like it's been 10 years. Let em move on lol

rancid juniper
#

^^^

worn wave
hoary zodiac
#

that's also why people are saying that ps5 have no games

rancid juniper
#

😂

worn wave
hoary zodiac
#

huh?

#

is activision making a comeback?

#

based?

worn wave
worn wave
wise wigeon
#

Omg gigabyte why would you make your ssd heat sink go over one of the mobo screws

ancient swift
#

I was so excited to see people play the Emergence mission on bo6

hoary zodiac
wise wigeon
#

Also I noticed another blemish on my mobo

hoary zodiac
#

just a counter of all the clown awards

wise wigeon
rancid juniper
ancient swift
#

People on the cod subreddit say they'd rather have map packs than free updates. 😭

hoary zodiac
#

free map pack update

#

👍

rancid juniper
worn wave
ancient swift
#

Cause they hate optional cosmetic microtransactions

hoary zodiac
#

DLCs are actually cheaper than subscriptions in the long term

worn wave
#

Get the goofy ahh skins outta cod and battlefield

ancient swift
#

My biggest issue with Bo6 is the grind. Leveling up is a pain. Too many games to play to do that

rancid juniper
#

Never gonna happen

hoary zodiac
worn wave
#

Bo6 leveling is acting more like old cods

#

With a prestige system

ancient swift
hoary zodiac
#

war thunder

ancient swift
#

It's so slow

#

Old cod was much faster.

hoary zodiac
#

war thunder is notoriously grindy

nocturne flicker
worn wave
#

The last few levels are pretty slow I guess. Doesn't matter too much for most weapons, except the snipers with the strelok laser being late in the leveling

ancient swift
#

This is why I prefer arena shooters. I just wanna play the game and not worry about weapon levels and metas.

hoary zodiac
nocturne flicker
#

What's funny is that LotRO is finally rolling out 64 bit servers derpyBlob

hoary zodiac
#

how old is that game

#

lmao

nocturne flicker
#

18

hoary zodiac
#

and only now?

ancient swift
#

There have been some nice surprise updates to a lot of games.

nocturne flicker
#

Also they are going to be condensing the entire community down to 2 EU and 2 US servers

#

Eventually

#

Besides the two special servers that is

ancient swift
#

Doom II and Star Wars Empire at War got updates last year (and doom II got another one this year) that are great.

hoary zodiac
#

imagine getting into the mmo craze in the 2000s as an investor

hoary zodiac
#

empire at war still has update?

#

👀

#

I love that game

#

great modding community too

ancient swift
#

EaW's update helped modders get better control

#

Not like a content update but a engine/tool update.

hoary zodiac
#

the EaW mods are actually insane

#

it's like EaW II

ancient swift
#

Yeah lol

hoary zodiac
#

that game gets a lot of love from the community

ancient swift
#

Eaw, sims and elder scrolls' modding communities are great. Hoping BG3 can get to those levels of modding.

hoary zodiac
#

yeah most early 2000 games have a lot of diehard communities

#

even 90s games

ancient swift
#

Morrowind modders built an entire engine to replace Gamebryo lol

hoary zodiac
#

Star Trek: Bridge Commander still mods these days

#

are there still SW: Battlefront 2 servers still around?

ancient swift
#

Yeah

hoary zodiac
#

damn

ancient swift
#

Cause the classic collection wasn't as good as people expected. Not sure what state it's in now

#

I have it, but for galactic conquest on the steam deck. For ease of use lol

safe cape
#

is it possible now with ai to build an indie game ?

hoary zodiac
#

you can build... a game

safe cape
#

ost/art/coding....

ancient swift
#

No promise as to how good it would be

hoary zodiac
#

I wouldn't go as far as coding

#

I'd just use it for ost and art

#

I'd use it as a tool to debug

#

but not for actual code

ancient swift
#

AI can help with coding. But tweaks might need to be made

hoary zodiac
#

AI is a tool not the actual game

ancient swift
#

What engine are you going to use?

icy ore
#

5.2l v8

hoary zodiac
#

AI for OST/art can generally work for all games

#

if you use it well

#

like generating a RPG map

ancient swift
#

GB Studio, RPG Maker, and Godot would be ones to start with.

hoary zodiac
#

or textures

safe cape
safe cape
#

not pixel game

hoary zodiac
#

I think we'd be getting into ethics here

safe cape
#

ethics ?

hoary zodiac
#

the ethics of AI use

safe cape
#

interesting

hoary zodiac
#

the thing with AI art is that

safe cape
hoary zodiac
#

most of the time it's probably trained off stolen data

safe cape
#

yeah okey

ancient swift
#

I think using it to make your art and music would be ethically wrong.

But if you train the model locally off your own work then it'd be fine.

worn wave
nocturne flicker
#

I don't have problem with it if it is personal use stuff. I sometimes mess around with Stable Diffusion if I'm bored and want to have an AI spit out something silly or weird. But I would never take that and publish it or pass it off as mine

worn wave
#

Not saying it's 100% morally right but I don't think it's 100% wrong

ancient swift
hoary zodiac
#

it depends on the model tbh

#

I know adobe steals user data

#

and it also comes with copyright issues

worn wave
velvet summit
ancient swift
hoary zodiac
#

It can still be copyrighted if it's on the internet

ancient swift
#

Out there on the internet ≠ free to use.

worn wave
nocturne flicker
#

Even posts in chat rooms are protected

hoary zodiac
#

software published under the GPL is still protected

worn wave
hoary zodiac
#

well as inspiration is fine

#

that's not the issue

worn wave
hoary zodiac
#

the issue is using it in the commercial product

#

that you are selling

ancient swift
#

The problem is Training an AI isn't inspiration. It's being used in a commercial product lol

#

And when artists tried to poison their work to protect it from being used without permission, OpenAI was upset lol

worn wave
#

Nah I don't think they have the right to clean/unpoisoned data but what's out there is out there

ancient swift
#

The whole matter is. Artists should be paid. If the companies were paying for the artwork no one would have an issue.

Plenty of artists would love a full time job where they just make art to train the AI.

nocturne flicker
#

I once technically plagiarised myself on a high school essay. It was the same assignment that I had been assigned a week earlier as alternative work and I just rewrote the same essay with some slight variations in wording derpyBlob

hoary zodiac
#

ChatGPT is a commercial product

ancient swift
#

These are multi billion dollar companies being built on other people's labor.

hoary zodiac
#

training the AI off other people's copyrighted work is technically plagarism

hoary zodiac
#

especially without permission

#

if they had acquired a license for it sure

worn wave
#

Like seriously what makes it count as plagiarism?

#

Again, I don't think it's 100% morally correct. But I dislike when people go "oh AI is stealing and plagiarizing other people's art"

hoary zodiac
#

the artists don't get credited

nocturne flicker
#

It takes copyrighted/protected content, mashes it together with other copyrighted/protected content and passes it off as uniquely their own

ancient swift
#

Again, the company is built on someone elses labor that was not acknowledged or paid.

hoary zodiac
#

the problem is not AI

ancient swift
#

They have already come out and said they couldn't do what they did without bypassing copyright.

hoary zodiac
#

the problem is the companies not training AI ethically

safe cape
#

wait

#

there is copyright free art/music....

hoary zodiac
#

that's a different story tbh

ancient swift
#

"Because copyright today covers virtually every sort of human expression — including blog posts, photographs, forum posts, scraps of software code, and government documents — it would be impossible to train today's leading AI models without using copyrighted materials," the company wrote in the evidence filing. "Limiting training data to public domain books and drawings created more than a century ago might yield an interesting experiment, but would not provide AI systems that meet the needs of today's citizens." OpenAI whining about copyrighted content.

hoary zodiac
#

if it's copyright free then it's acceptable

#

because that's the way the artist intended it

worn wave
safe cape
nocturne flicker
#

Which is plagiarism

ancient swift
worn wave
hoary zodiac
#

again

safe cape
#

i will make a game without ai

hoary zodiac
#

that's not the issue

safe cape
#

.

nocturne flicker
#

If I write a paper about a topic and am heavily inspired by someone else's work, I am legally required to cite them

#

If I do not, I am commiting plagiarism

ancient swift
#

Again. AI isn't the issue.

worn wave
#

I'm just talking about image generation tbh, I haven't looked into text as much

hoary zodiac
#

it's the same story

#

To prove my point

ancient swift
#

Use it as a tool. Don't try to take other people's work.

#

One of the new open source AI's can be run locally without internet.

hoary zodiac
#

Adobe software has a setting on by default that allows them to use user data

safe cape
#

i will make a free game 😎

hoary zodiac
#

if it wasn't ethically and legally grey they wouldn't have had that setting

#

they'd just be sipping off user data

worn wave
ancient swift
#

Twitter changed their TOS so they could use anything posted to feed grok e.e

#

Feel bad for any artist on Twitter.

worn wave
hoary zodiac
#

again

#

the problem is not AI

ancient swift
#

It's how the companies using AI are going about training said AI

hoary zodiac
#

the problem is using copyrighted material without permission

ancient swift
#

OpenAI is getting a 500 billion dollar contract. They can afford to pay for copyrighted work.

hoary zodiac
#

or hell

#

a lot of artists will just give them the license

#

if they just asked

#

stuff like royal free music,art

#

a lot of artists are fine with it being used that way

#

as long as they get the proper credit

mortal grail
#

So bored

nocturne flicker
#

Sobered

mortal grail
ancient swift
#

Play Morrowind Felix

safe cape
#

yes ?

fresh timber
#

im bored

#

stable diffusion time

ancient swift
safe cape
#

okey

hoary zodiac
#

depends on the scale of the model

ancient swift
#

7b 24gb of vram or more. But 1.5b is pretty lightweight

dusk knot
#

Hm

rancid juniper
#

found this on twitter

#

☠️

nocturne flicker
#

Ultra High End Potato PC

deep parcel
#

bros monitor is worth more than his pc like double

#

or triple even

fresh timber
#

a 1050ti could... do video playback at 4k.. nothign els

hoary zodiac
#

wasn't even high end when the parts came out

unreal trail
#

bruh who asked for 30 player Skyrim?

mortal grail
#

It was fun af at the time tho

#

Skyrim was the last I could really give any effort, tho ig if the new one is genuinely interesting maybe

nocturne flicker
#

I was going to contribute to this convo but an older fellow came up to my kiosk and told me I looked like I needed Jesus, so I'm afraid I've forgor what I was going to say

fresh timber
#

do u lookk like jesus

mortal grail
#

Jesus could've looked like a potato and no one would know

#

Who knows what they were thinking 2000 years ago

hoary zodiac
#

JeSUS

mortal grail
#

"We better make him look good for the cover"

nocturne flicker
#

If he did look like a potato I would definitely look a lot more like him derpyBlob

mortal grail
unreal trail
#

thats fine I mean who doesn't like potatoes

hoary zodiac
#

He got voted out

#

For venting

mortal grail
nocturne flicker
#

My fav Jesus

mortal grail
#

@wind quail can u confirm

nocturne flicker
#

He turned water into mash y'know

mortal grail
#

Then Jesus declared "I am the mash o' life"

sage sluice
#

i want mash now

#

damn

mortal grail
#

"Whoever comes ta me will never go hungry, 'nd whoever believes in me will never need a refill"

hoary zodiac
#

Free refill

#

Jesus studied capitalism

sage sluice
#

switching up the alcohol here

#

instead of wine we got scotch

mortal grail
#

Whiskey mate

hoary zodiac
#

If we invented a time machine

#

I would go back a thousand years and troll

mortal grail
#

BLESS ME I'M IRISH

sage sluice
#

😭

hoary zodiac
#

Going to bomb Constantinople with a hydrogen bomb

#

Fourth crusade solved

sage sluice
#

which has more alcoholics, ireland or germany

mortal grail
#

That took a dark turn

hoary zodiac
#

Or Rome actually tbh

mortal grail
hoary zodiac
#

No Rome = no crusades

#

👍🏻

nocturne flicker
#

How about both

#

Both is good

sage sluice
#

ironically the drinking age in germany is 16

mortal grail
#

Italy pretty low

#

I think it was only like a decade or two ago they raised it to 16 haha

sage sluice
#

lmao

hoary zodiac
#

Byzantines would've fallen sooner but

#

No stupid crusades

sage sluice
#

boeing in his own realm of thought rn

mortal grail
#

Fr

hoary zodiac
#

See

#

Here is how we can get RTX 50 series to be faster

sage sluice
hoary zodiac
#

Go back to the 1100s and bomb the papacy

mortal grail
#

I would've said switch off for 2 years but ok

sage sluice
#

explosive dialogue we're exchanging, some might say it blows me away

hoary zodiac
#

I want to show a medieval pope a RTX 5090

#

See how he reacts

sage sluice
#

i dont think he'd care, that or call it heresy

#

not to mention a gpu on its own doesnt do anything

#

lmao

hoary zodiac
#

Wait until it generates anime women

unreal trail
#

OC it and kindle a fire right in front of him

sage sluice
#

ah yes, generates anime women on the pope's 4k hdr monitor

#

with his elaborate electric work

hoary zodiac
#

Powered by god

sage sluice
#

it might be a bit late to say thats a bit of a stretch but this whole conversation is so i guess fair enough

hoary zodiac
#

If we had time machines we can start the industrial revolution a thousand years early

nocturne flicker
hoary zodiac
#

Show the Romans a steam engine

sage sluice
#

we've had steady time to acclimate to technology

#

they wouldnt

hoary zodiac
#

The Romans probably would have the means to start an industrial revolution

sage sluice
#

theyd bomb each other the second they had the chance to not understanding its potential

#

with humanity comes violence

#

and humanity doesnt learn without error

hoary zodiac
#

Don't give them guns

#

ez

#

Meanwhile in Shogunate Japan:

#

"Europeans have funny boom stick, we copy boom stick design and mass produce them and take over the whole country"

#

What were we talking about before this

#

Where did this convo go

nocturne flicker
#

Uh Irish Jesus

atomic mist
#

We talking about a certain Irish militia group?

mortal grail
#

No

#

Don't go there

#

Oml

storm narwhal
#

Snakes

#

And their erasure from the face of Ireland

peak heart
#

Any idea on 5070 in store price??

fresh timber
velvet summit
#

does this look like an eggplant to anybody else

#

in terms of shape i mean

mortal grail
#

Eggtato

#

Potplant

gentle canyon
#

should be atleast 16

#

5080 should of had 24

fresh timber
#

Nvidia supreme

cedar compass
#

My birthday is coming H_pepeDance

nocturne flicker
#

I'll take a Nvidia Supreme and a Nachos Bell Grande to go please

icy ore
#

Extra thermal paste on the side

gentle canyon
#

the paste is to dip the nachos in

trim finch
#

hey

elfin mural
#

id like a side of dlss 4 mfg please

#

with reflex 2 sprinkle

icy ore
#

perfect your total is $50.90/wk for 52wks @ 11.99% APR