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    If you could view something again as though it was for the first time, what would it be?

    Annihilation. It was the last film I sat down to see without any spoilers whatsoever that wasn't capeshit or similar. At the end I turned Netflix off and thought to myself 'damn, that was a really good film!' Then I thought about it for several days and still rate it highly. Either that or...
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    Returning Members

    Funnily enough this is actually my job, I am a systems admin and I can confirm it's probably possible. What would prevent me though is that I'd not be sure of how much historical interest the forum actually is. If I was going to take over the design, maintenance and deployment of the site I'd...
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    Returning Members

    A buyout isn't necessary, but personally I think the forums have little to no historical value and would simply flatten the site and rebuild on standardised software rather than a custom built solution. It also has the nice side effect of destroying all the embarrassing shit they don't want the...
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    Returning Members

    That sounds like such a complete waste of time and effort, if it were me I'd kill this obsolete forum and take the opportunity to upgrade it to something both more full featured and easier to maintain. How many other times do you get the opportunity for a complete teardown and rebuild?
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    Returning Members

    Oh sure, it's just by way of showing a potential problem more for consideration than anything. Dollars to donuts I see a site-nuke and rebuild coming so I have a feeling almost everything will change anyway.
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    Returning Members

    So one of the big problems the Escapist has is that a good number of its older and most loyal users actually got banned. If I was going to suggest one feature for the forums it'd be doing away with the unenforceable notion of a lifetime ban in nearly every case, because all it does is put loyal...
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    I just got around to seeing Infinity War.

    Vulture was probably my favourite villain so far too, he had the most adult and understandable motivation in that he got stiffed by a wholly preventable action, got bankrupted and needed a way to pay his mortgage. He also wasn't looking for a way to reshape the World/Universe to his vision or...
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    Is CD Projekt Most overrated Developers of today?

    >is X overrated? This fucking site man
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    How often do you guys get electrical black outs in your homes?

    You need to re spec your UPS if you're bumping the delivery limit and getting intermittent failure to take over supply, sounds like your battery is shagged. They're a limited lifetime component. Consider either replacing the battery or going up a tier of capacity. Having said that a UPS is...
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    So The Witcher 3 is three years old today

    If it's any help, you're wasting your time doing any real form of inventory management because most of it is crap. What you want to be doing is ignoring the inventory, attaching mods only when you see a number that's significantly higher than you remember, then two or three times just go drop...
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    Router problems

    Can you ping an IP address when on WiFi?
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    I saw Solo and I have opinions.

    Yes and it makes absolutely no sense beyond wanting the evil ships to be constantly vulnerable to the plucky underdog. Time marches on, technology improves, the TIE fighter gets a substantial refit so why have they not introduced point defence on their stations and capital ships after: The...
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    I saw Solo and I have opinions.

    There's a bit at the start of the Last Jedi where some kind of star destroyer (it's like a beefier star destroyer but not a super) gets in a spot of bother trying to shoot down a fighter because, and I quote the film here, "That 'puny ship' is too small and at close range. We need to scramble...
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    I saw Solo and I have opinions.

    >See, this robot cared about the liberation of Droids in a way that was obviously meant to invoke a sort of civil rights activist. The movie consistently treated this as a joke. I've not seen it yet but are you sure it's a joke rather than being an unintentionally ridiculous character who was...
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    Router problems

    So if it's affecting your phone and PC it's not the OS on either, if you can get a wired connection it's not the connection or probably not your router. So what I'm getting is that you can connect and authenticate but then can't access the network. Can you disconnect from the wired...