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by Krom
Fri Feb 07, 2025 4:01 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Wow, just wow
Replies: 45
Views: 55950

Re: Wow, just wow

Law and Order for thee, not for me.
by Krom
Fri Feb 07, 2025 4:00 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: file suit to get court to suspend all tax filing until Musk access and possible damage is undone
Replies: 4
Views: 1041

Re: file suit to get court to suspend all tax filing until Musk access and possible damage is undone

I'm going to laugh when a bunch of conservatives go to plan a vacation to some tropical paradise and end up having to cancel and eat ★■◆● on the up front ticket costs they already paid because they can't get their passports in time and or a million other things the federal government used to do for e ...
by Krom
Sat Feb 01, 2025 1:29 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Wow, just wow
Replies: 45
Views: 55950

Re: Wow, just wow

It will be amusing if they continue to blame the crash on DEI if it turns out the only people with any realistic chance of altering the outcome were all white men.
by Krom
Sat Feb 01, 2025 8:14 am
Forum: Descent Old Skool
Topic: Descent Material Replacement Project
Replies: 4
Views: 18451

Re: Descent Material Replacement Project

Just saw this updated to version 0.15, covers the textures up to level 14 and secret level 1.
by Krom
Fri Jan 31, 2025 4:19 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Wow, just wow
Replies: 45
Views: 55950

Re: Wow, just wow

When conservatives stub their toes in the dark they blame DEI. When it rains they blame DEI. When it doesn't rain they blame DEI. I would say it is ★■◆●ing retarded, but that would be an insult to actual retards. As for the retaliatory tariffs; do it. Punish the fools. When prices spike all over the ...
by Krom
Wed Dec 25, 2024 10:58 am
Forum: Tech Forum
Topic: good heatsink/fan?
Replies: 5
Views: 6653

Re: good heatsink/fan?

Heat pipes conduct heat many times better than pure copper, and in fact better than any bulk material available to humanity.
by Krom
Tue Dec 24, 2024 5:33 pm
Forum: Tech Forum
Topic: good heatsink/fan?
Replies: 5
Views: 6653

Re: good heatsink/fan?

Cooler Master Hyper 212 variants remain a simple, cheap and reasonably effective solution. Any Be Quiet Dark Rock variant. Any Thermalright Peerless Assassin variant. Any Noctua heat pipe tower coolers (warning: expensive). Need more flexibility for mounting it in the case? 240/280MM AIO water ...
by Krom
Fri Dec 20, 2024 9:03 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Learned a new word
Replies: 11
Views: 4424

Re: Learned a new word

https://www.carsized.com/en/cars/compar ... 017-sedan/
Its not as long sure, but it is way taller.

And if you think a Bolt has snap, keep in mind the Model 3 I'm driving has double the power to weight ratio and is AWD on top of it.
by Krom
Fri Dec 20, 2024 5:42 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Learned a new word
Replies: 11
Views: 4424

Re: Learned a new word

Over 4 years in and my battery is still at over 97% of its original capacity so I have no plans on replacing it any time soon. But since what I like and want to drive is no larger than a mid size sedan on the sporty side, the Tesla Model 3 is basically the only EV option on the US market. Everything ...
by Krom
Sun Dec 15, 2024 6:47 am
Forum: Descent Single Player
Topic: Going Rambo on D1 level 6 (And other levels)
Replies: 437
Views: 862873

Re: Going Rambo on D1 level 6 (And other levels)

Fine tuning ones aim with slides is pretty much universal, I do it on a joystick all the time. And more traditional shooters with a mouse I still do it sometimes.
by Krom
Thu Dec 12, 2024 12:55 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Are we next...
Replies: 18
Views: 4700

Re: Are we next...

Americans wanting/celebrating healthcare CEO deaths didn't just come out of a vacuum. The $5 trillion dollar annual price tag on our so-called healthcare is certainly the primary contributing factor, but also despite the exorbitant cost the overall quality is not particularly good by most objective ...
by Krom
Sat Dec 07, 2024 7:11 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Screw the bloodsucking vampires
Replies: 36
Views: 8836

Re: Screw the bloodsucking vampires

Politics aside; SLS should be canceled. Call it a broken clock being right twice a day.
by Krom
Sat Dec 07, 2024 3:01 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Screw the bloodsucking vampires
Replies: 36
Views: 8836

Re: Screw the bloodsucking vampires

That not dropping your coffee is a sort of automatic reflex? You spend your entire life working to not spill glasses of liquid you carry around with you, it would almost be weirder if they tossed it in a moment of panic when the coffee in their hand was probably the last thing they were worried ...
by Krom
Sat Dec 07, 2024 12:26 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Screw the bloodsucking vampires
Replies: 36
Views: 8836

Re: Screw the bloodsucking vampires

Makes you wonder if Elon Musk is tied up in that prepper mentality since he's one of the richest pricks on the planet, and perhaps has his own little bunker somewhere ready to move into. So would they even invite a loser like Trump into their cabal, or is he just their society destroying pawn? I'm ...
by Krom
Sat Dec 07, 2024 9:40 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Screw the bloodsucking vampires
Replies: 36
Views: 8836

Re: Screw the bloodsucking vampires

The thread in SA that catches most of the discussion about this killing has some talk about the ultra wealthy preppers and the luxury bunkers they have constructed in places like New Zealand. It has some excerpts about how they were trying to figure out how to keep their private security forces in ...
by Krom
Fri Dec 06, 2024 6:59 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Screw the bloodsucking vampires
Replies: 36
Views: 8836

Re: Screw the bloodsucking vampires

I heard on the radio today that private security forces are getting swamped with calls by insurance company executive teams lol. Like they are just now realizing that even as divided as America is on basically everything, there is one thing that brings basically the whole country together in a ...
by Krom
Fri Dec 06, 2024 6:00 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Screw the bloodsucking vampires
Replies: 36
Views: 8836

Re: Screw the bloodsucking vampires

The CEOs around the country are running scared.
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lmao

Also making your employees sign a pledge like that may be illegal in many states.
by Krom
Thu Dec 05, 2024 4:07 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Screw the bloodsucking vampires
Replies: 36
Views: 8836

Re: Screw the bloodsucking vampires

It is very amusing how the internet has basically zero sympathy for the dead CEO. I mean, it makes sense, UHC is particularly terrible (I would know, I'm actually stuck on it), and Americans are literally forced to spend $5 trillion (yes, trillion) dollars annually on healthcare. So if you wanted to ...
by Krom
Mon Dec 02, 2024 7:04 pm
Forum: Descent Single Player
Topic: Descent 1 - Full game on insane (deadless)
Replies: 3
Views: 5043

Re: Descent 1 - Full game on insane (deadless)

The dedication, memory and raw skill on display in this video is truly an amazing feat! Well done!

I don't think I could have come close to pulling off something like that even in my prime.

Let me know if you want a custom title here, I'd say you have definitely earned one.
by Krom
Wed Nov 20, 2024 8:24 pm
Forum: Descent Old Skool
Topic: Descent Material Replacement Project
Replies: 4
Views: 18451

Re: Descent Material Replacement Project

Tried this out yesterday after reading your post and it looks incredible.
by Krom
Wed Nov 20, 2024 5:29 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: The Prez, Vice Prez and Speaker of the House walk into a bar….
Replies: 33
Views: 8518

Re: The Prez, Vice Prez and Speaker of the House walk into a bar….

Democrats have frequently promised to do things and then actually done them. Most of the time they come up short is when they invariably try to work across the aisle with Republicans in the name of bipartisanship and end up passing some half-ass measure filled with conservative poison pills everyone ...
by Krom
Mon Nov 11, 2024 4:03 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Did you vote?
Replies: 82
Views: 20791

Re: Did you vote?

To be honest, I've been actively avoiding news and commentary as much as possible for the past week for purely mental health reasons. Glad I'm not the only one, basically pulled the plug on reading anything political since last Wednesday and I really don't miss it. I am really starting to think ...
by Krom
Sat Nov 09, 2024 3:33 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Did you vote?
Replies: 82
Views: 20791

Re: Did you vote?

Concentrating into the blue states will have no significant impact either way on the EC once the next census adjusts the number of representatives. It isn't strictly the popular vote, but it can't entirely escape the popular vote either.
by Krom
Sat Nov 09, 2024 2:00 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Did you vote?
Replies: 82
Views: 20791

Re: Did you vote?

Don't buy into the bull★■◆● propaganda, the Democrats aren't even remotely left, let alone extreme left, they almost exclusively bring forward only the most pathetic tepid watered-down barely progressive policy ideas imaginable short of just going full right wing themselves. All the problems the righ ...
by Krom
Wed Nov 06, 2024 4:00 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Woodchip got banned
Replies: 105
Views: 31670

Re: Woodchip got banned

I was debating adjusting the time to January 20th 2029, but ★■◆● it: permanent it is.
by Krom
Wed Nov 06, 2024 9:33 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Did you vote?
Replies: 82
Views: 20791

Re: Did you vote?

Right wing media won this round.

Let's see how reality retaliates.
by Krom
Tue Nov 05, 2024 3:53 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Did you vote?
Replies: 82
Views: 20791

Re: Did you vote?

I did, several weeks ago. Thank god for early voting.
by Krom
Sun Nov 03, 2024 10:34 am
Forum: Tech Forum
Topic: Any recommendations for a new video card?
Replies: 7
Views: 4135

Re: Any recommendations for a new video card?

A couple things to note then, if your monitor has VRR (g-sync compatible) support, then if you get a nvidia GPU you will need to plug the monitor in via display port. Nvidia does not do VRR over HDMI. AMD GPUs will do VRR over HDMI but it is not as good or reliable as the DP implementation. (AMDs ...
by Krom
Sun Nov 03, 2024 6:27 am
Forum: Tech Forum
Topic: Any recommendations for a new video card?
Replies: 7
Views: 4135

Re: Any recommendations for a new video card?

Also you might want to be more specific defining "newer games" and "issues". Just low frame rates/tearing/stuttering but it does play? Or straight up unsupported/rendering glitches/requires a newer driver version than your end of life GPU has? What monitor/resolution/refresh do you have and what ...
by Krom
Sat Nov 02, 2024 8:40 pm
Forum: Tech Forum
Topic: Any recommendations for a new video card?
Replies: 7
Views: 4135

Re: Any recommendations for a new video card?

I'm gonna come right out and say you should build a whole new PC. Just a video card isn't going to cut it even if for example an entry level nvidia RTX 4060 Ti is roughly 4x faster than a Radeon R9 390. I would be extremely wary of plugging a recent PCIe 4.0 video card like that into a 10 year old ...
by Krom
Sat Nov 02, 2024 5:45 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Woodchip got banned
Replies: 105
Views: 31670

Re: Woodchip got banned

ThunderBunny aka Nightshade requested to have his account deactivated 6 years ago.
by Krom
Sun Oct 13, 2024 7:00 pm
Forum: PTMC Cafe
Topic: Got My New Plate
Replies: 4
Views: 4170

Re: Got My New Plate

Nice! Very nice! Almost makes me want to check and see if that is available in WI plates, but my annual registration renewal is already like $300 mostly because I drive an EV and throwing a custom plate on top would make it even worse
by Krom
Wed Oct 09, 2024 6:00 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Hurricanes
Replies: 15
Views: 4850

Re: Hurricanes

I just came across a right wing political cartoon and article suggesting that hurricane Milton was seeded by the government using chemtrails and then steered with lasers, liquid nitrogen, turbines and microwaves. Also claiming the fires in Paradise, California and Lahaina, Maui were caused or aided ...
by Krom
Wed Oct 09, 2024 3:52 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Hurricanes
Replies: 15
Views: 4850

Re: Hurricanes

No single point of failure, but between all these conservative boards of education (Texas/Florida/etc), christian nationalism, and internet algorithms amplifying social media biases; you can see an easy picture of how people already predisposed to right wing insanity like woodchip willingly crawl ...
by Krom
Tue Oct 08, 2024 6:16 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Hurricanes
Replies: 15
Views: 4850

Hurricanes

Is it too late to spread a conspiracy theory on the web that the hurricane isn't going to be that bad and it is really just a liberal democrat government plot to give a bunch of homes in Florida to illegal immigrants while all the real owners are away? That way all the chuds and maga shitheads will ...
by Krom
Tue Oct 01, 2024 3:56 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Rhythm of the falling rain
Replies: 18
Views: 6326

Re: Rhythm of the falling rain

There will be no peace so long as right wingers control Israel and its adversaries. With how extremist Israel is getting, I think it is dangerously likely that Israel could deploy nuclear weapons against Iran.
by Krom
Sun Sep 29, 2024 2:37 pm
Forum: DBB Feedback Forum
Topic: Hey, Krom. I know we're all busy, but let's put the logo back up
Replies: 8
Views: 48070

Re: Hey, Krom. I know we're all busy, but let's put the logo back up

I remember that, too bad there isn't a high resolution flavor like I had made with our current one. Speaking of which, let me know if anything broke because I just updated the forum software.
by Krom
Sun Sep 22, 2024 1:52 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Reasonable Person
Replies: 37
Views: 13788

Re: Reasonable Person

The thing about the exploding pagers then radios and then bombing of senior Hezbollah officials that I really don't get is just the sheer disregard of previously unknown compromised intelligence sources. I see it as basically an admission that they have Hezbollah's internal communications so ...
by Krom
Sun Sep 22, 2024 7:52 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Reasonable Person
Replies: 37
Views: 13788

Re: Reasonable Person

Why are our tax dollars supporting this? I mean, the answer is fairly obvious: it is because we signed a treaty to help defend Israel. Granted, at the time the treaty was crafted Israel wasn't yet in full on genocide mode and nobody anticipated they would ever be, but going against the treaty even ...