Recent content by Ravinoff

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    They fired the Escapist's editor, and the video team, Yahtzee resigns

    Yeah, can't say I'm surprised after the recent "we're censoring ZP because 'Youtube is demonetizing anyone who says fuck', so go buy a subscription!" nonsense started up.
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    Train derailment in Ohio explodes into major environmental disaster, journalists arrested.

    This whole "MEDIA COVERUP" thing is utterly bizarre, and I'm damn convinced it's astroturfed to hell (fucked if I know who or why, though). There weren't even any fatalities in Ohio, but the internet is being plastered in posts comparing it to Chernobyl and trying to stir up as much panic as...
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    Alec Baldwin faces involuntary manslaughter charge over deadly “Rust” shooting

    The thing with The Crow was somewhat stupider and more negligent than that. As I understand it, what's believed to have happened is this: the armorer went home for the day because none of the other scenes filming that day required them. But for reasons I'm not clear on, there was one involving a...
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    Cloudflare and DDOS Guard take down Kiwifarms

    Is there an option to hate both? I utterly loathe Cloudflare due to their constant irritating presence and aggressive browser interrogation, but I also would like to wish a flaming armageddon on Kiwifarms at the same time.
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    Rainbow Six: Extraction - A Gamepass Game

    Damn, I was optimistic for this one, the Halloween event thing in Siege (which I thought was the basis of Extraction) was really cool. A bit limited in having only three missions and a handful of playable operators, and in desperate need of some balance, but there was some real potential there...
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    GPU Availability and Pricing Update: Keep Watching…and Waiting

    I'm so glad I managed to snag an RTX2080 for Christmas 2018. Paid...shit, I don't know, Newegg won't give me the item price but the full order of a 2080, a Coolermaster HAF 912 case, a 500GB Samsung SSD and an EVGA SuperNova 850W PSU totaled up to a bit under $1600CAD. Gets a bit of a workout...
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    Biden is trying to lower gas prices now. The problem with Climate Change pushers.

    EV batteries tend to be pretty big for obvious reasons, and if they're anything like older hybrid batteries, they run at...considerably higher voltage than the average person can be trusted with. If you get one bad cell in the battery module of a Prius, for example, the approved fix is to pull...
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    The “WTF?!” Thread

    I present this without comment. Wikipedia front page several days ago.
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    Does eating snow dehydrate you?

    If it's black bear territory, you're generally pretty safe. They very rarely attack humans, and when they do it's not usually intending to kill unless the animal is starving. Now I'm not saying to go try petting one, but if you look around there's a ton of videos out there of black bears...
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    Battlefield 2042 open beta impressions; Oh boy.....

    Oh god dammit, here was me hoping they learned from BF5 (which I got for free on launch and still played less than three hours of) and were actually going to make a comeback as decent as BF1, at least. Hell, I'd be quite content with an HD upgraded remake of 2142. But no, we can't have nice...
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    Metroid dread reviews are coming in at 6 a.m. Pacific time, let us have a thread about the game.

    Okay, regarding the whole appearance and Zero Suit thing...what about The biggest thing that annoys me with the Zero Suit look is how much it goes towards the stylized anime look. Like, the Super Metroid cutaway image there is a pretty good match for what you see in the 100% completion ending...
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    Resident Evil Welcome to Racoon City film trailer.

    Are we just gonna ignore their music selection?
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    Twitch just keeps getting worse and worse.

    See, I feel like what streamer culture needs is some history lessons on the internet ecosystem prior to/outside the curated social media bubble. So much drama comes from shit that anyone with an online presence 10-15 years ago has seen a thousand times (particular laughter directed at the people...
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    Twitch just keeps getting worse and worse.

    ...people are actually getting this upset over spambots? This isn't even skilled trolling, chat spam is right down with DDoSing in terms of low-effort script kiddie fuckery. Mute the damn chat if it bothers you that much.
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    Do not buy Gigabyte power supplies

    I don't know a whole lot about the subject of DACs, but I got something called a Topping TP30 that appears to be unobtainable now. Used that with a Razer BlackShark Gen 1 headset for a few years (amazingly not shit for being Razer) until that crapped out, then replaced all of it with a HyperX...