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Tbh I did not feel like spending a few hours attempting to come up with a tally for total deaths for each regime, type of death, indirect or direct, systematic or granularly intentional. So I did a quick Google search and not a real investigation. Never ask AI these kinds of things, people lol. Let's turn back a little on the heel turn. It isn't easy to quantify this, and affirming one side or the other does more killing or violence is more blame assignment than well well-intentioned historical review. I'll be honest and admit I did give in to BTG's opinion to appease the subject and move on lol. I can do that as a people pleaser and do apologize. I am not as well-informed as I should be on bloody left-wing regimes, and I'll try to inform myself a bit more, just like I studied more right-wing regimes in the past with more detail. So rather than focusing on who has done the most harm, we can focus on what we can learn from history itself and not try to assign blame. At least that's what I'll do lol. To me, fascists and colonial regimes have been the deadliest. Literally ethnic cleansing, sterilizing native populations, restricting social liberties, and such, but the damage done by supposedly left governments, which have also fallen into authoritarianism, cannot be denied either. BTW, I've been absent from this subforum specifically for a long time, so I'm not 100% familiar with everyone's perspective yet. Please be patient with me on that lol.

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That's a lovely rig, btw. What made you go with AIO instead of air cooling? I'm going Micro ATX for my next one and will try to get a smaller case like yours. Full ATX is just too cumbersome if you're not swimming in expansion cards. Ok, you definitely convinced me lol. I will be increasing my RAM to 32 GB. I found a CL17 stick for $14 more than the CL18 I was eyeing. Do you think it's worth it to go for CL17? I'm trying to decide between the Ripjaws V CL18, which are 35 bucks each, or the KINGSTON FURY BEAST RGB DDR4 3600MHZ – 16GB, which is CL17 and costs $50 each. The RGB could be sweet to have. I've never had RGB RAM. And Helldivers 2 is my most played game and will continue to be for a long time, so to me it makes sense to want to optimize my system to get the most in it. There's also this wild card kit that isn't bad at all, the Patriot Viper 4 Steel DDR4 4000MHz – 16GB (2 x 8GB) 19-19-19-39 for $40. I could get two and have 32gb of 4000MHz memory lol. Howeve,r I read online it's hard to get going with my CPU/Mobo combo and would probably have to dial down the speed a bit and adjust timings manually, and I don't really want to tinker that much right now. Here's my current rig, fully listed: CPU: Ryzen 7 5800X Motherboard: Asus Prime X570-Pro RAM: G.Skill Ripjaws V 3000 CL16-18-18-38 2 x 8gb GPU: ASUS STRIX 3070 Storage: 480GB Adata SU650 SATA for boot 3TB Toshiba DT01ACA HDD for mass storage 2 TB Kingston Kingston FURY Renegade PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 SSD for my games/most used files PSU: Seasonic Focus GM-850 Display: Asrock PG32QF2B 1440p/165hz VA Plus an HP Z24i G2 1080p IPS panel from work lol CPU Cooler: BeQuiet Dark Rock Pro 4 Keyboard: Red Dragon Dragonborn K360RGB Mouse: Logitech G305. Was using a G600 but I grew tired of the cable. I do miss the extra palm rest. Sound: Oppo HA-2 Headphone dac/amp + Audio Technica MSR7 or 7hz Timeless II OS: Windows 10. Case: Cooler Master MasterBox MB511 RGB. It has an extra pair of BeQuiet PureWings 2 fans providing extra exhaust.

I did a little superficial investigation, and it seems you're correct about the left regimes having killed more in raw numbers. TY for correcting me :)

No, I didn't claim that. You interpreted it like that. We obviously disagree on this. I didn't say communism hasn't caused fatalities. Ideologies and regimes that claimed to be communist or are cataloged as having slaughtered millions. Yeah. I said right-wing governments, of all kinds, most notably fascist, colonial, imperial, and apartheid regimes, are the ones that have caused the most fatalities in the last 100 years and maybe even more going back.

Hey people. I haven't posted here in a while. My rig is currently a 5800X on an Asus Prime X570-Pro, a 3070 and 16gb of ram @ 3000mhz. I use an nvme drive as boot drive and a combo of sata ssds and an hdd for massive storage. The rig has remained the same since I upgraded to the 5800X and 3070 in 2020. It does play my games mostly fine at 1440p with the exception being maybe Helldivers 2. It gets to 40-50 FPS on the most chaotic scenes. The rig also chuggs when I use Adobe Lightroom. I'm not really in a position to upgrade most of it right now, so in order to bring performance back a little, I thought I could switch my 16gb of 3000mhz ram for 32 or 64 of 3600mhz ram. This will allow me to use the Infinity Fabric at the highest rated speed 1800 MHZ instead of the current 1500. This should improve my 1% lows in HD2 by a little margin, and help Lightroom run better as it currently maxes out my 16gb. Am I crazy for wanting to upgrade my ram for a bit of performance in the 1% lows of CPU intensive games and make 1 photo editing program work well? The RAM would cost me about $75. I can get a 32 gb kit of G Skill Trident Z 3600mhz cl18 for $75. I can probably make back 20-35 bucks from selling my current kit too. What do you guys think?

You know, 20th-century history is the clearest evidence that the right has way more violent tendencies than the left. Like sure, there's been regimes on both sides that have been very bloody. Same with supporters and political activists. But if you look at the social, political, and economic events that have shaped the world through violence, the right is more involved than the left in the violence. The world's economy and politics have been engineered for decades to benefit the right. I might be partial to think this because I come from Central America, and my continent and South America have been intervened by the US for corporate interests or to stop democratically elected leftist officials from assuming power, or a mix of those plus some other ones. And guess what happens next? The neo liberal agenda goes craaazy in those. Also, let's try to kick up respectfulness and assertiveness a notch if possible :)

Let's be clear about a couple of things, moderation wise: -Nobody's opinion is more important than another person's. -The forum allows for discussion of sensitive and controversial topics to the point where there's coherent exchange of ideas and an exclusion from personal insults. Telling someone that they are never going to be normal has an intent to discriminate that is a personal insult so let's refrain from that. Now, on topic: It's a tragedy that anyone is executed in public, in broad daylight by some vigilante. That doesn't take away from the fact that Kirk was an ultraconservative neo fascist who promoted violence, militarization, islamophobia, sionism, racism, the anti migrant agenda, the far right, white supremacism and hate. What is really interesting to me is that Charlie had begun to be critical of Israel in public media right before this happened. And Trump and Bibi posted on X about it within a minute of each other isn't a great look either lol.

y is for folding. a is for calling and b is betting.

I'm sure you'll get the most posts crown. I'll get the last post brooch.

Idk about that :P

Hey :) I regularly consume short form content on Youtube and also long form and something that's called by attention lately is that, even though the genre has died down a lot, there's a whole new generation of content creators making machinima and specifically, source engine machinima. Only more catered to the short form content that is so prevalent today. Check out Chungus: Have you found other good examples of newer machinima? I'd love to explore what creators have been up to.

Gotta love 8th gen i5s. I used the snot out of a 8400 back when it came out. I'm considering building a HTPC for my projector and I'd love something like that. An ITX case and to have some fun with it.

To me, the root of all issues is a lack of empathy. You wouldn't want to be an asshole to your neighbor if you felt empathy, regardless of who he is. Same if he did for his neighbor. I think this scales as big as you want. Society wouldn't be letting itself down in so many relevant aspects if we just decided not to be assholes to each other with apathy and hate.

Good morning to you, too. How's the weather?

Hey y'all. How have you been?

I do consider myself to also be just mildly affected by the shortage. I have an i5 8400, 16gb of ram @ 3000mhz and I kind of feel lucky to have my 1070. The only game that I play has pushed my setup to the point where I say ''Ok yeah an upgrade would be nice'' is Cyberpunk 2077. And it's not like it didn't run at 55-75 FPS with the 1070 at low-medium but I have a 144hz monitor lol. Buying at the moment is so screwed. A 1660Ti is what I can buy for what my 1070 cost me back in 2016. And that's a slight downgrade in terms of performance if my 1070 were to kick the bucket. An RX 580 could be had for a little bit less but that would just be to get by I was so excited when the announced the 3070s MSRP. I thought ''Great. Those $500 will buy me a card for the next 5-6 years''. Boy was I not expecting all of this lol.

To me that's more of a forum's webmaster/owners decision to make. So if it hasn't been activated or requested by Ross or any of the other admins I'd say we should just leave it alone unless a huge demand surges. And thanks for the accursedfarms.com/online link. I do like to see this kind of stuff as well hehe. It's pretty mind boggling to me how many lurkers this forum has in the form of guest users.

Yeah that's a pretty cool feature in most forums. I liked it a lot back when I had a forum. It's a nice indicator of the forum's userbase health. I'd guess it is not activated on ours but I truly don't know how the back end of this forum works. Mine was on phpBB WAY back in the day around 2007 or so. But yeah, nobody will judge you for that. lol

Alright I think everybody had a say in this thread and this isn't a ''Civilization Problem''. It's just a farewell letter filled with rage. The tone here got a lil too close to hate speech so I'm just going to lock this thread and move it over to ''Misc AF stuff''. For 2 reasons: -This is a great example of how not to have a civilized discussion. Lots of name-calling and derogatory terms are used. This violates rules #1 and #2 of this forum. -I don't feel like just just poofing the post out of sight in a way that might seem like censorship. Civilized discussion and debate has always been a part of this forum. There are places for this and rules (which are lenient compared to the overly politically correct tone the internet in general has taken) so, next time someone wants to express their views on this or any community they can use this thread as an example of how not to do it. (mods, if anybody feels deleting it is a better move, please be my guest). Locked.

Wow I've always heard Shenmue is amazing but you made the best argument I've heard yet. Any opinions on Shenmue 2? I'm definetely getting a dreamcast emulator soon to play it. My response would probably be Portal 1 and 2. I love how unconventional the portal mechanics were and GladOS as a character is amazing. I never dove deep into the community made levels but I'm sure you can invest hundreds of hours there and still be amazed.

I enjoyed this so much. Even though I never got hooked into any of the other Mind series I love that this is all documented. It's a part of my childhood/teenage years and it's a very professional portrait of that time and the content creation that was going on then. Thank you for sharing it!

Anti-depressants will not take away the ''ups'' in your life. And if they do, you can get off them and try with different meds. It is not a guarantee you will find the right meds for you the first time but if you don't you have to talk it over with your health expert so that you try something else until you find something that works. The question you should be asking is ''Why am I not doing anything to prevent my lack of action in this matter from ruining my life?'' You have to keep actively trying to make things better in order to improve things. Even if the benefits are not being felt in the short-term. A couple of my friends have struggled with depression. I have also struggled with it and struggle with anxiety on a daily basis. Sometimes we want short term solutions only when the only kind of solution available is long term. It is a great first step to start getting involved with therapy. Talking to somebody helps us arrange our thoughts and understand them better than if we just keep them bottled up inside our head and let them roam in there without being expressed. I am sure that you will make progress if you continue going to therapy In my experience with the friends that have taken medication, depression sets in and becomes a way of being and living, you co-exist with it and it becomes a part of you. That is when it starts being destructive because little by little it takes your strength away. The meds are a way for your brain to get used to having the right chemical balance it should have. They are like a temporary boost to help you remember what you should feel like without the depression. That boost will help you put some things in order in your life and make the necessary lifestyle changes you need to make in order to improve. Then, after making those changes and feeling better because you made them, you may feel able to stop taking the meds and resume your life without them with this new balance that they helped you achieve. Of course, I'm not a psychiatrist. There are people who cannot keep the proper chemical balance in their brain on their own and need the medication indefinitely. And there is nothing wrong with that at all. One should always do what is needed to feel well. My first advice to you (and ANYONE struggling with anxiety and depression) would be to start working out little by little. I can advise you on programs you can use to get started which include different levels of intensity for beginners, intermediates and seasoned people. I can even give you the torrents you need to download them. The habit of working out is the first line of defense you need to establish in your brain. It will make your mental state stronger so you can bear with the bad stuff better and shitty things don't affect you as much. You will feel better because you are actively doing something to better yourself. You will feel you are achieving things little by little, even if you don't work out more than 15 minutes a day. With that, you will get more and more strength to start doing things to change that status quo and establish healthy habits that will help you little by little get better. Being OK is something that must be built up by working on improving your lifestyle and committing on improving so that you little by little feel better. And when you start making progress you will ask ''Why didn't I start doing this earlier? it feels great!'' Believe me. I feel so much better when I work out on a daily basis than when I do not. Sorry if I seem preachy about all of this but I have seen really close people be fucked by depression. I have been at their side when they don't feel like things can get better but I have also seen them slowly get over it by actively doing things to improve themselves. A couple has been able to completely get out of the vicious circle @Annie mentioned but it is not easy. Having people accompany you through the way makes things a lot easier but at the end of the day, the only person who can actually improve things is you. But people that are close to you and like you can make a ton of difference encouraging you. And that is exactly what we are here for the dude. Even if we haven't met in real life. :)

I pinned this because it's important and can get lost in between the other posts as this subforum is one of the more active ones.

I believe acting classes could help you as being expressive with your facial muscles and tone of voice is essential in acting. Maybe Improv classes could also be a good compliment to that. Yoga is good for helping your body become more flexible and stronger and to help strengthen your mental stability but I don't think it will help with your desire to be more expressive and animated. Honestly, you do not even need to get to acting classes. Just look for tutorials and exercises on youtube and other platforms but acting classes would be a SURE way to help. Especially because you have an instructor coaching you all along the way who you can explain to what is your objective with these acting classes. I also suggest meeting new people and noticing the way they are expressive. I have copied many mannerisms and ways of expressing myself from friends and am at a point where some people accidentally start copying mine. hehe.