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HardcoreHunter

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  1. Ran the 8350 for over 5 years without an issue.
  2. After spending 2k I'm pretty broke for the moment. Cpu optimization will result in better frames and performance overtime. The frames are give or take 3fps difference right now some with ryzen being the winner. But I also do Media stuff which the ryzen is nearly 80% more efficient at doing. The trade off is worth it to me at least. It's why they are called PC because they are personal computers. You build what is better for what you need it to do.
  3. Because the 90 bucks I save allows me to eat and gas my car for the week. As well in a real scenario they perform roughly the same. Ryzen actually preforming better with other background applications running while a game is running or running edditing applications.
  4. It got knocked over and cracked the motherboard near the heat sink. It's at the point where I needed to upgrade anyway. Still it's like $2k in parts. This build is a ryzen 1700 and a 1080ti. My old one was a FX 8350 and a 970sli.
  5. He is a villain in regards that he kills "heros". His character is somewhat sympathetic though as he shares many of Deku's ideals of what a hero should stand for. The difference is that Deku isn't killing Hero's that don't live up to his standard. He's pretty much anti-consumerism and believes that Hero's shouldn't be doing TV ads and endorsements, or at least the ones that do more of that than actual hero work.
  6. My friend was shooing a 12ga and some of the pellets ricocheted into my leg groin and gut. I thought I removed them but I must not have removed all of them, since years later (12 years later) I went to get an MRI because my doctor thought I had a hernia. Turned out I still had some pellets in me and they jacked up my ab muscles from the MRI (having bullets in your body for 12 years probably wasn't good either). So now I had to get 4 hernias fixed and they had to cut out the damaged tissue giving me a tummy tuck and losing my belly button. I had 3 hernias in my abs and 1 in my groin. The largest Hernia was close to 7 inches which went from pretty much my abs to my groin, the smallest one was only a half inch in my groin.
  7. I got shot in the stomach and had to get a chunk of my belly removed that looks like a botched C-section. I miss having a belly button ::]::
  8. Blue Cheese I even keep a block of it in my fridge because I like to add it because I like my dressing with big chunks of cheese.
  9. Advertising pays the same weather you make top quality shows or utter garbage that is cheap so why spend more money? Really they could just do a retro block which wouldn't cost them anything in production and it would be better than TTgo every day. CN I think has an odd mentality of kids don't want to watch old shows. Despite the channels early popularity was based around shows from the 50s-70s being watched by late 80s and early 90s kids. Then they hit it off by trying new stuff and seeing what stuck, and came up with Johnny Bravo, KND, Dexters lab, Cow and Chicken, Megas XLR, PPG, Grimm adventures of billy and mandy, Samurai Jack, Courage the Cowardly Dog, Edd Ed and Eddy, Fosters home for Imaginary Friends etc. The issue that I see is that Cartoon Network has become the only game in town for the moment, and the heads know it. When CN was putting out those great shows they were up against shows like Doug, Rugrats, Angry Beavers, Ahhh Real Monsters, Ren and Stimpy, Rocko's modern life, Hey Arnold, Kim Possible, Goof Troop, The Real Ghost Busters, Tiny Tunes, Animaniacs, Batman TAS, Superman TAS, MIB, Pokemon (before the merger), Digimon, Gargoyles, Duck Tales, Tail Spin, Etc the list goes on. It was a time where their nich was playing cartoons 24/7 and they needed to have original shows to compete. The last time CN sparked any creativity in bringing out new shows was when MLP came out on Hasbro and Gravity Falls Blew up on Disney. Those two shows getting big actually got CN to push for new content. GF has been done for a year now and MLP's fandom has slipped so CN is back to not having any large competition to motivate them to try harder.
  10. The only thing that annoys me is when someone is on their phone, almost hit's into me or stays stopped when the light changes, then yells at me or gives me a look like I'm the asshole.
  11. No BBQ, no Sour Cream and Onion, no Salt and Vinegar
  12. 13 EEE
  13. For the most part they should stay near their coupe, but will sometimes travel if there's food. Then there is always the option to put up some chicken wire.
  14. I have either gotten used to the way 4chan posts or it's not as bad as it was a few years ago. Seriously a few years ago everything was shit. That anime you like was shit, the game was shit except for the tread where op said how great the game was followed by every anon yelling at op for posting that gay shit again, That comic/cartoon is shit etc. I think Darksouls is what trigged /v/ into being the we hate videogames board for a while. Thankfully they have gotten better. /a/ was obsessed with moe and lesbian moe shows forever and now actually has at least half the treads are about non moe trash shows, /co/ is still hit or miss usually it's just waifu cheesecake threads and rage about Korra being a lesbian and ruining avatar. Other than that you get a gravity falls thread once in a blue moon of someone pretending that they just watched the show for the first time, but picking a topic that has been done to death namely Mabel was an asshole and alex is a hack.
  15. Post Creepy videos and stories The video above is of Elisa Lam as the last time she was reportedly seen alive. The video shows her going in and out of the elevator and pressing the buttons. It appears as if she is interacting with someone in a confused manner off camera. Over the video she visibly becomes more distressed before leaving. The elevator then opens and closes repeatedly for unknown reasons as if someone were blocking the door to get on. Days after this video patrons of the hotel complained about the quality of the water. Maintenance was sent to check out the water tower. When they opened the window on the tower they could see Lam laying face up under the surface off the water dead. The fire dept had to cut open the water tank as there was no physical way to enter it, the window used for looking into the tank is sealed, and even if it wasn't was too small for a human to fit through to begin with. An Autopsy report listed her death as drowning. All tests for rape, physical damage, and drugs came up negative.
  16. Somewhat reminds me of how Lovecraft's themes of horror are. Usually any of his stories that involve the old gods. People kinda miss the point of the old gods and how Lovecraft used them. The thing with the Old Gods is that they were just meant to look like something that would cause any sane person to go mad at trying to comprehend them. It plays into his fear of the ocean and views on outer space. It's meant to be a sense of being utterly powerless against these forces of nature.
  17. Horror is often looked at as just gore, violence, and sometimes the supernatural. People rarely think about why something is scary. I sometimes reflect upon watching horror movies for the first time to remember how it used to feel seeing something for the first time; and what kind of impact stories can have depending on your age and view of the world at the time. Directors and Authors often place their own fears into their works. Lovecraft had a fear of the ocean and sea life, so many of his works depicted aquatic horrors. Wes Craven was always bothered by a news story he read about teens who were so afraid to fall asleep that they overdosed on caffeine and self mutilated to stay awake until their hearts failed. While those are inspirations for horror it isn't really the elements to horror. The Elements of horror get at something in our core of what we fear. Here we can discuss and debate what horror really is, and the elements used by different stories. Dracula is symbolic of an inferiority complex. Dracula and most singular vampire based stories are more a status symbol expy for a noble or rich businessman. His powers with men and women is hypnotic. Everything about him is above the average mans physical ability or refinement. In the original story he targets a mans bride, visiting her at night slowly taking her from him (innuendo). This is targeting our own inferiority, a feeling of being powerless to someone who is by most senses above the law and can use their influence on others. It makes you wonder if you can truly protect someone dear to you if someone else wants them. Group Vampires such as Salems Lot are aimed at peer pressure and isolation. In these stories it usually a whole town sans a few people become a vampire. It usually starts out with a friend goes to meet up with a new person then starts hanging out with that person/group. Their behavior steadily becomes stranger and they act as if they were different people. Before you know it the group is getting larger, and you are being treated as even more of an outsider. A lot of this deals in our fears of not going along with the group and being isolated as a result. Hatian Zombies depending on the narrative are a fear of losing control of your life, fears of industry collapse, or fears of Race. Losing control of your life is shown in the Serpent and the Rainbow. That someone else is controlling your life and you are just wondering through it being told what to do, much of what people suffer when falling into a mid-life crisis. The second fear is more for the owners of businesses, what if workers (unionize)? This was a large concern when these types of films were being made. It still holds true today but with mexican laborers. Lastly are inter Racial fears that a minority will attack because we are different. Undead Zombies are a fear of the inevitable, and our ability to adapt. With the Undead Zombies you are forced to confront death. The idea that no matter what, you will one day die. No matter how hard you fight against the dead it doesn't change the end result. That one day you will still die and be like them. Many people fear the idea of mortality and how momentary life is, or fear what will happen to their conscious mind and memories. The other fear is loss of everything modern and our ability to adapt to it, or survive based on our current physical state. Ghosts are a fear of things out of our control, what we can't explain, and paranoia. The human mind still retains much of it's primal instinct for survival. When you lay down to go to sleep but hear a sound your mind can paint a picture relating that sound to things you have experienced. However some sounds are not familiar enough and your mind will paint a darker image. From there paranoia sets in as a precaution to possible danger. Soon your mind begins attributing small occurrences back to the unknown sound, until eventually all the horrible things in your life are the result of that sound that can only have been a ghost.
  18. Zombies walked the earth in cinema long before George A Romero got round to populating his movies with them. But they never had a cheerleader like this influential horror director, who has died aged 77 from lung cancer. His counterculture hit Night of the Living Dead (1968), which he also co-wrote, got the ball rolling. The simple scenario – a group of misfits holed up in a farmhouse defend themselves from a zombie attack – suggested Rio Bravo with added putrefaction. Ironically, the word “zombie” isn’t mentioned in the film; Romero even contested this description of the story’s monsters. “I didn’t call them zombies and I didn’t think they were,” he said in 2013. “Because the traditional Haitian voodoo zombie is not dead. And I thought I was doing something completely new by having the dead rise. The recently dead. They’re too weak to dig themselves out of graves. They’re too weak to eat brains, because they’ll never crack the skull.” In spite of these objections, Romero is seen now as the godfather of a genre that is alive, or rather undead, and kicking. It was not a lucrative corner of cinema when Romero made that first film, originally called Night of the Flesh Eaters, for only $114,000. But even now, its haunting black-and-white cinematography (modelled on Orson Welles’s Shakespeare films), detailed makeup and ingenious suspense lend it a chilling seriousness. “I wanted that stuff to look like newsreels, everything from the race riots in the south to police coming out with dogs,” Romero said. “I wanted it to look like all-American crisis footage.” Much has been made of the casting, unusual for its time, of an African-American actor, Duane Jones, in the lead role. His presence as one of the besieged humans gave the picture an extra tinge of social commentary, particularly in light of the despairing ending, which sees the character mistakenly shot dead. The film became a popular fixture on the midnight film circuit, though Romero lost out financially when the distributor altered the title: the copyright pertained only to the original one. There was a dramatic change of tone for Romero’s next zombie outing, Dawn of the Dead (1978), an anti-consumerist black comedy in which the undead plod through a huge shopping mall where a group of humans are hiding out and living it up in a materialistic fervour. Asked why the zombies are congregating there, one character replies: “Some kind of instinct. Memory of what they used to do. This was an important place in their lives.” The film was drenched in a sly, knowing humour – the incessant muzak seemed to be instrumental in keeping the zombies in their somnambulant state – and it was impossible not to notice that, give or take the decomposing flesh, the picture depicted what looked like a normal day in any American mall. It was filmed in a functioning shopping centre near Pittsburgh. “We shot every night from 11pm until 7am, when we had to clear out,” he said. “We had a regular assembly-line established to make up the zombies, and there was a lot of competition among our extras about who would get a ‘special wound’, or get to be killed in a spectacular way, or get to eat human flesh. The shopping mall had one of those machines where you get four photos of yourself for a dollar, and there was always a line outside it; zombies taking their pictures.” In contrast to its predecessor, Dawn of the Dead had a cultivated blandness that extended its satirical commentary into the realm of the visual. “With Dawn, I wanted to bring out the nature of the shopping centre, the retail displays, the mannequins. There are times when maybe you reflect that the mannequins are more attractive but less real – less sympathetic, even – than the zombies. Put those kinds of images side by side, and you raise all sorts of questions.” The film was remade, not to Romero’s liking, in 2004. He contributed a further four instalments to his own zombie cycle – Day of the Dead (1985), Land of the Dead (2005), Diary of the Dead (2007) and Survival of the Dead (2009) – though none had the impact of those first two. Son of George and Ann, Romero was born in New York City, where his father was a commercial artist. He studied art and design at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, and continued working in that city for most of his career. After graduating, he and a group of friends started the production company Image Ten Prods, and made commercials and shorts. It was with the help of those friends that he rustled up the budget for Night of the Living Dead and paid for initial print and cinema hire costs. After the success of that film, Romero made the drama There’s Always Vanilla (1971), Season of the Witch (1972), about a suburban witches’ coven, and the biological horror The Crazies (1973). His favourite among his own movies was Martin (1978), a strangely tender horror film which thrived on an intriguing central ambiguity: despite plentiful references to vampire lore, the lonely title character appears to be a serial killer with delusions of vampirism. In between zombie movies, Romero also made Knightriders (1981), about travelling entertainers who stage jousting events; Creepshow (1982), a larky Hammer-style portmanteau film written by Stephen King; the tense Monkey Shines (1988), arguably his most frightening work, in which a quadriplegic man develops a dangerous psychological bond with the primate brought in to help him; and The Dark Half (1993), adapted from King’s novel about a writer whose pseudonymous alter ego takes on a malevolent life of his own. Despite the part played by zombies in his success, Romero was reluctant to be associated too closely with that genre. “My stuff is my stuff. I do it for my own reasons, using my own peculiar set of guidelines. I don’t care what anybody else does.” Nevertheless, he was frank about any pop-culture phenomenon seen to be following in his footsteps. He likened the hit TV series The Walking Dead, which he had turned down an invitation to direct, to “a soap opera with an occasional zombie”. He is survived by his third wife, Suzanne, and by three children, Tina, Andrew and Cameron. • George Andrew Romero, film director, born 4 February 1940; died 16 July 2017 https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/jul/17/george-a-romero-obituary Sad to hear my favorite collaborator--and good old friend--George Romero has died. George, there will never be another like you. - Stephen King Romero has passed away. Hard to find words right now. The loss is so enormous. - Guillermo del Toro Goodbye George A Romero. We laughed through 50 years and 9 films. I will miss him. There is a light that has gone out and can't be replaced. - Tom Savini
  19. She got big over the past couple months
  20. Well I call her lily but she's still a pupper
  21. Buy a dehumidifier, I bought one and haven't killed myself yet so it must be doing something. ::HMM::
  22. 80lb bags don't sound that heavy, until you have lifted your 30th one mixed it, poured it into 5gal buckets, then carried those buckets to pour and level then texture. I'm putting this up with drywall in things that I hate doing but end up doing anyway. Almost as much of a chore is keeping the pupper from jumping into the wet cement, which is hard because not dying in cement seems to depress her
  23. It would be interesting if he takes them off and he has small hands and feet.
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