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Awesoooome. I still haven't bought them but I will after the 30 do you have a leveled up character?

Hey guys Back in the day when I first got BORDERLANDS I made a couple of playthroughs and have a couple of decent level characters but I stopped playing before the DLCs came out (and stopped gaming all-together for some time). I've heard they're really good. I'm specially interested in Dr. Zed's and CLaptrap's. Is there anybody who is up for the challenge? Borderlands is 3x as fun with more people and I really want to get the best experience out of it. I'm also down for the Borderlands 2 DLCs if you guys are! We need 3 people . Let's do it!

Hey I recently upgraded my motherboard, CPU and RAM. I went from an i5 4430, Asus Z87-K and 8 GB of RAM at 1600Mhz to an i5 8400, an Asus Z370-A prime and 8gb of ram @ 2133 Mhz (cheap ass ram) but this serves me well for now. I basically wanted to get better minimum FPS in PUBG as the war modes that concentrate tens of players in small spots made my framerate drop to 30s and 40s. Now it's more like 40s and 50s lol. Kept the 1070, CM 690II, Seasonic 620w PSU, storage, 212X and optical drives from before I'm thinking about a VR headset now but I need to get stuff like new speakers and a DAC before that.

Nice GPU upgrade! Those 3rd/4th gen i5s, even the 2nd gen, have great performance for 1080p gaming.

I just want to take time to appreciate the work of you guys behind the scenes. I have a lot of fond memories here in AF and love to see the forum and website re-vamped. Maybe Ross will start promotion the site a little bit more ro bring the forums back to their glory days.

People who buy cards for that much money tend to want them to be certified. You might want to look into that to sell that one easily. https://www.starcitygames.com/content/cardconditions

I'm not into MTG or any card game but used to be into Yu-Gi-Oh a lot as a teen. I'd go the e-bay route and try at your local Anime-TSG-video game stores and tournaments, you can probably find people who value them in the crowd or get some better advice on how to sell them at a good price.

Hey @ScumCoder , @RED@KTOR . Guys, it would be great if you could keep it on-topic and avoid off-topic talk. And if possible, provide an english translation of that russian text to save us all the hassle (and unprecision) of google translating everything. Just common courtesy

Imperialism does not need to count in direct boots-on-ground military intervention. The US has a long history of intervening in Latin American democracies and politics, supporting dictators, regime changes and with the most remarkable being assisting a coup d'etat in Chile in 1973 against Salvador Allende a democratically elected left-wing candidate, airstriking the Parlament and killing him. All because of in-house interests. Let me put it this way: The only major armed conflict Costa Rica (my country) has ever had was against Nicaraguan forces led by an infamous US imperialist, William Walker who invaded Nicaragua in the middle of the 19th century and just proclamed himself president, supported by the US government. You can look up lots and lots of examples of the US supporting nasty stuff like dictators and Death Squads in Latin America all through the 70s, 80s and 90s. In 1823, through the Monroe Doctrine the US basically dictates Latin America is its backyard and they have as much right to excerce influence over the territory as they wish.

I am I've been having some issues with Sven Coop though, i dont know why always when I open it it acts llike if I were pressing the walk key and I cannot run. It's really annoying. I'd be up for something similar in Synergy as well if you're interested. I downloaded Sven Coop back in the day and got turned off by the public servers, it{d be great to play with some AF peeps. My steam ID is Luigi2806 just in case

I commented on one of these that the content should be more constructive and generally engaging and that the author should put more effort into it because honestly even for a kid it's way too shallow and he's making a ton of money not to be able to improve it in some ways. And the worst thing is that it works like a charm. There's videos like that with dozens of thousands of views. Now, knowing this, it would be amazing if somebody with the caliber of Ross or even similar would make GOOD machinima for kids (or for all ages really) to counter the shitiness that is the status quo in that genre.

Hello guys. Most of us were present during the golden ages of machinima (2007-2013). Ross being one of the main exposers at that time and still has established a high standard of quality for what the genre can achieve, and so have multiple other producers. ''Machinima'' in itself as a term got overshadowed by the company who took it as a name. Originally the term was just meant to define movies made using game engines and assets. I've noted a resurgency of the genre in the form of videos specifically made for one of the most profitable audiences there is, young, small kids on youtube. In case youre not aware, channels for KIDS content are extremely profitable and extremely popular, reaching absurd levels of popularity. And it is common practice for noob parents to just hand a tablet to their kids to make them stay quiet or distrct them at all times, and a lot of that time can represent views, specially because kids don't mind watching the same content over and over and over. This video is one of the less-popular ones but a good example on how people really can bank on this kind of content while making 1/26th the effort ross makes per video. Take a look at this one with 4M views: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9RzcdJ86ZE. Most of these videos have ads enabled. What do you think of them? I find it annoying that so many of them are filled with branding and characters which get embeded in the minds of children way too much. There's whole compilations about mcdonalds happy meal animated trailers, I believe it is a bit conditioning for the minds of kids but so are lots of things... and production is really, really low cost with almost no dialogue, shitty animations/models/maps/lighting, it all sucks.

Hello everyone Well, I wanted to bring the subject to the table really as I've become interested in mining as a source of passive income, even beyond the current ethereum craze. Some people who were mining the most profitable alt-coins before this ethereum craze have been greatly benefited from the ethereum boom. People who went in ahead while the solving difficulty was as it lowest also were greatly benefited. Somebody who begins today may still be greatly benefited from mining in a year from now. While Ethereum may die down new currencies aresure to pop up and less-popular ones won't see a surge in mining difficulty as bitcoin or ethereum have in recent history so I've become interested in bulding a mining rig and hope to have it running or at least bought by the end of the year I thought about mining with my current PC as I have a 1070 bought before the craze and it's one of the most efficient ones (Zotac Mini, 1 8-pin plug ) but it isn't the most rugged in VRM or cooling (and the cooler is rather noisy), and it's my personal card so I'd rather not shorten its lifespan as it's my first really high end component (coming from a HD 6750) and was bought as a long-term investment, as the rest of the rig really. But I still ran the numbers and this is what showed me this has potential, potential to at least help me pay the bills. My numbers with this rig aren't really bad at all. My GTX 1070 is capable of 32 MH/s as per some youtubers, I'm new and I don't know how good I'll be tweaking so I estimated I could get it to 30 MH/s as in stock it gets about 29 I think. Power cost for me is $0.14 per KW/s and according to an online calculator, running my rig at current spec without optimization draws 268W from the wall. I ran a calculator and these are my results: Not too shabby I think, specially considering this is a gaming rig. To get started I plan on getting a RX480 from the local used market, they tend to go for $260 so we're good there and get either a new kaby lake pentium and mb or AMD APU, whichever comes out the cheapest and offers the best platform generally and for the rest of the system get a solid brand new PSU and source a hard drive from the local market and maybe a case which i'll strip down for max airflow. If I manage to mine nicely on my own or in a pool for some months and the card pays for itself I might just reinvest in another one and keep them milking that ether... What do you guys think?

You can only conjure Dinosaurs from the past, meaning Dinosaurs who are alive in the past. When summoning one what you're technically doing is teleporting a Dinosaur from the past who is minding his own business so when you summon him he has a panic attack and berserks everything around it. My super power is the ability to collect superpowers and choose which one to use at will

Hey Nice setup! You can breath new life to the 2500 with an after market cooler as BTG said. I've been wanting to go Mini ITX for a while now. I love my CM690II but it's a bit too big sometimes you know? I think you could get better FPS with a GPU upgrade and a nice cooler, that 2500 should have similar performance to my 4430, you could go nuts with a 1060 or 480-580. Btw, I had that power supply from my old setup and when I got my new PC some months ago my new motherboard kept warning me about overload protection when booting to the point i had to disable that to boot. It was able to run my system with a 1070 but after a couple of weeks it turned really unstable (the PSU had like 2 years with me) and at the end I had to return that 1070 under warranty, it burned a friend's motherboard when we tired it on his system and got another one but also decided to upgrade my PSU to be safe. What I wanted to say is, I had an issue with it so be careful

I have a Wii U since 2015 and friggin loved it. First console since the GameCube, I skipped thw ii generation as I got into PC gaming way more. I played BotW on the Wii U, about 120 hours into it and I loved it except for the technical shortcomings. The game runs at 1280 x 720 with what seems to be trilinear filtering, no form of AA and is truly jaggy. I'm not sure if I noticed this way more because played it on a 768p screen. The framerate drops a lot more tha the Switch version (it has got better with updates though). Seen it emulated in CemU at 4K 30FPS or 1080p 60 FPS with AA and AF is truly amazing. If you guys are able to I highly suggest emulating it on PC. Playing at 1080p, 30FPS with some AF would already be WAY better than what the switch or Wii U could offer and I don't believe it requires more than an average PC gaming build (4 core CPU at least 2nd gen i5, some 2013-2014 mid-tier to high tier GPU) As for the Switch itself, a friend of mine is very convinced Nintendo did a Soft launch here. It's getting better with Arms, Splatoon 2 and Mario Odyssey coming soon. Fifa 17 might give it a kick too and if that oes well it may gain momentum with 3rd party publishers but we'll see. I'm getting one as a Nintendo Fan boy and specially Splatoon fanboy as soon as i can afford one.

I believe it won't go over it's kinda niche status if it doesn't improve quickly. VR is either too complicated in it's better form for the mainstream or unimpressive enough in its mobile incarnation to catch on ''Nintendo Wii'' style with the mainstream. When we get higher res, clearer headsets with no screendoor effect and no cables, easier setup for movement in rooms and lower PC requeriments or more affordability in PC hardware all together it won't catch on as we need. The industry is making a big effort but they still need to pull off some key moves to truly win everyone. VR doesn't have to be overwhelmingly intense. I believe designers and artists could create calm and peaceful experiences that don't make your senses soar as much as games, maybe other demographics other than gamers would be interested in that sort of thing. I would love to travel to some VR world while I get surgery done or something.

Just finished Fallout 4 and started with NV (I was put off from new vegas after playing like 5h and losing progress for not saving the first time I played it after Fallout 3)

Mine was CS 1.6 NOSTEAM. I was like 10 when I started to play and soon discovered Half-Life after encountering the props in mod servers and wondering what game they came from. I remember I had a 733 MHz Pentium III that could run GoldSrc but could not run Source so my uncle had a Pentium III that ran at 1 GHz and had a 16 mb video card so I installed Half-Life 2 on it (pirated) and took my first sip of Source in like 5 FPS. I went back to my PC and played the heck out of the GldSrc games, even Decay. At that time I didn't know anything about editing config files so it was until 2012 that I built my first PC with a C2D E7500 and a HD5750 and got myself the Valve Complete Pack and experienced all of the valve goodness.

People don't know you were at ground zero Freeman, you're just being paranoid.

There aren't old members of the forum just popping up again, Freeman. You're just being paranoid.

Not at all. I love sleeping with Jazz when I nap and I'm on a certain mood Some people like hearing sounds of nature like rainforests or waterfalls. Or crickets, ya know. Am I weird for enjoying rewatching TV show clips on youtube so much?

Do you have any Nintendo games that you would eventually like to talk about? Have you ever done grafitti?

Nothing like a good ol' audio interface to beef up your PC's audio game. My music has NEVER sounded clearer than when I used a Digidesign MBOX as my soundcard. I recommend keeping that part of your setup for all of eternity.

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