My laptop died in a rather abrupt and irreparable way. I am needing a new computer, and I'm thinking that I've had better luck with full desktops than I have with laptops.
So, where is a place to get decent desktops that are worth the money? I am aware that I will need to pay for quality and I'm willing to do that, I just want to know what company in general gives the most quality per buck. I'm not looking for a high-end gaming rig, but being able to play game easily is desired (I don't care if I can't crank up the graphic options, I just want to be able to play new games).
EDIT: I also need a monitor. I have a tiny flat screen TV but it uses weird hardware and I can't mount it to typical mounts, and the base got swiped.
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IT professional mode: if you don't really care all that much, one of Dell's gaming desktops should do pretty much anything you want.
Gamer mode: Newegg has some really nice pre-built gaming rigs, and reviews that are quite accessible (and generally gamer slanted) so you can make an informed decision.
Total geek mode: Newegg carries all the parts you need; build your own rig. Why would you consider anything else?
Begging for work mode: I build custom PC's to spec; lemme know what you want and I'll quote you a price.
Gamer mode: Newegg has some really nice pre-built gaming rigs, and reviews that are quite accessible (and generally gamer slanted) so you can make an informed decision.
Total geek mode: Newegg carries all the parts you need; build your own rig. Why would you consider anything else?
Begging for work mode: I build custom PC's to spec; lemme know what you want and I'll quote you a price.
Newegg would also give you more bang for your buck.
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
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--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
I don't know where you are, but we have a computer place that builds really good boxes and sells them for $200 - $250. They're warrantied and everything. You might try looking at a computer shop locally.
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Newegg is absolutely the place to go if you don't mind "some assembly required". Dunno how it goes for pre-built stuff.
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I usually buy my own parts and assemble myself, but found it was actually 40$ cheaper to get the exact same computer from IbuyPower a few years ago. They were having a sale so I do not know if this is still true but worth a look.
Also yeah newegg/tiger direct.
Also yeah newegg/tiger direct.
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If you decide to build, Count, look at PC Part Picker. It helped me a lot when I built my desktop.
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Winnah wrote:No, No. 'Prak' is actually a Thri Kreen impersonating a human and roleplaying himself as a D&D character. All hail our hidden insect overlords.
FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.
It's a song about being happy and free after a breakup with a shitty guy who didn't want to commit.Maj wrote:In Beyonce's video, "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)," she keeps saying that if [he] liked it, he should have put a ring on it. The implication, of course, is that her guy should have asked her to marry him.
But she's wearing armor [only] on the hand that you put the engagement ring on (in the US). Doesn't that also imply that she would have turned him down?
Let me break it down.
This verse is an attention getting refrain that names the people the song is aimed at, and is celebrating.All the single ladies, all the single ladies
All the single ladies, all the single ladies
All the single ladies, all the single ladies
All the single ladies
Putting your hand up is a way to be noticed, in this context it means that you should be proud.Now put your hands up
She's in the club enjoying herself after a breakup.Up in the club, we just broke up, I'm doing my own little thing
In this case, "you" is her ex. He's jealous because she's dancing with another man, and generally acting like an asshole over it.Decided to dip and now you wanna trip
'Cause another brother noticed me
She she the new guy like each other.I'm up on him, he up on me
You, again, is the ex. He doesn't have any right to be jealous, especially after all he put her through.Don't pay him any attention
Just cried my tears, for three good years
Ya can't be mad at me
Translation: You were an asshole who was just string me along and shitting on me for three fucking years and now that I'm having a good time with someone else you think that you're the one being wronged, go fuck yourself.'Cause if you liked it, then you should have put a ring on it
If you liked it, then you shoulda put a ring on it
Don't be mad once you see that he want it
'Cause if you liked it, then you shoulda put a ring on it
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
RepeatIf you liked it, then you should have put a ring on it
If you liked it, then you shoulda put a ring on it
Don't be mad once you see that he want it
If you liked it, then you shoulda put a ring on it
I'll do whatever I want, you don't have the right to control me.I got gloss on my lips, a man on my hips
Got me tighter in my Dereon jeans
Acting up, drink in my cup
I can care less what you think
The same thing, just in different words.I need no permission, did I mention
Don't pay him any attention
'Cause you had your turn, and now you gonna learn
What it really feels like to miss me
Repeat of the chorus.'Cause if you liked it, then you should have put a ring on it
If you liked it, then you shoulda put a ring on it
Don't be mad once you see that he want it
'Cause if you liked it, then you shoulda put a ring on it
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
If you liked it, then you should have put a ring on it
If you liked it, then you shoulda put a ring on it
Don't be mad once you see that he want it
If you liked it, then you shoulda put a ring on it
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
And this part is very important. It shows that her ex basically tried to buy her with things. Instead of actually engaging with her and being there for her, he'd be off doing his own stuff, give her expensive presents, and expect her to drop everything for him. It was a one-sided relationship where he got all the love and support and she just got material goods that she neither needed nor wanted.Don't treat me to the things of the world
I'm not that kind of girl
Your love is what I prefer, what I deserve
This guy treats me like I'm important in a way that you never did. But you actually have a chance. If you treat me like I actually matter to you, then you'll have a shot, but you can't just keep taking me for granted.Here's a man that makes me, then takes me
And delivers me to a destiny, to infinity and beyond
Pull me into your arms, say I'm the one you own
If you don't, you'll be alone, and like a ghost, I'll be gone
The chorus is catchy, but the song really isn't about marriage. It's about being treated like a human being rather than as an expensive accessory.
I have no clue what made you dredge that up, hyzmarca. I know what the song means, but I was struck by the armor. Unless it's actually a chastity belt.
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When a thread has gone on as long as this one, it's very easily to just click the title and assume that you're on the most recent page, when, in fact, you aren't.Maj wrote:I have no clue what made you dredge that up, hyzmarca. .
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Gotcha. 
Who really let the dogs out?Chamomile wrote:If Beyonce's ex was such a horrible partner, why did she want him to propose so badly?
What is riboflavin?
Who is so vain they think the song is about them?
Why did it end in a church, and did they ever explain what the numbers mean?
How did Darths and Droids turn out?
Is Stephen King worthy of the hype?
Is anyone else dreading the Preacher TV series?
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
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Maxus wrote: What is riboflavin?
Vitamin b-2 which is the compound that gives multivitamin pills their orange coloring. You get can maladies like anemia and a scaly rash on your scrotum if you don't get enough in your diet.
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Peculiar properties of spacetime ensure that the perception of the magnitude of Soon is fluid and dependent, not on an individual's time-reference, but on spatial and cultural location. A marketer generally perceives Soon as a finite, known, yet unspeakable time-interval; to a fan, the interval appears greater, and may in fact approach the infinite, becoming Never. Once the interval has passed, however, a certain time-lensing effect seems to occur, and the time-interval becomes vanishingly small. We therefore see the strange result that the same fragment of spacetime may be observed, in quick succession, as Soon, Never, and All Too Quickly.
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What is riboflavin?
Who is so vain they think the song is about them?
Why did it end in a church, and did they ever explain what the numbers mean?
How did Darths and Droids turn out?
Is Stephen King worthy of the hype?
Is anyone else dreading the Preacher TV series?
- What Josh said
- John Ritter and a kumquat. Two of them.
- Because it did.
- Well enough, but David needs to step up his game.
- Of course he is.
- Just remember: No matter how thin you slice it, it's still baloney.
Is this wretched demi-bee
Half asleep upon my knee
Some freak from a menagerie?
No! It's Eric, the half a bee
Half asleep upon my knee
Some freak from a menagerie?
No! It's Eric, the half a bee
Riboflavin is a gag from a friend in middleschool. "I've always been suspicious of riboflavin. What is riboflavin and why do they put it in my Cheerios?"DSMatticus wrote:I'm not catching the references.Maxus wrote:What is riboflavin?Chamomile wrote:If Beyonce's ex was such a horrible partner, why did she want him to propose so badly?
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Why did it end in a church, and did they ever explain what the numbers mean?
The latter one is a reference to Lost.
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
Why do people honestly believe that famous people actually personally write their own autobiographies? Why do they not understand that most famous people don't necessarily have time to do that, or the skill to do that, but they do have the money to pay a ghostwriter? And that means a ghostwriter can technically write someone else's autobiography and no, it's not a fucking biography.
My son makes me laugh. Maybe he'll make you laugh, too.
If you have a ghostwriter write it (rather than merely edit it) it is not an autobiography. It just isn't. At best, its a memoir.
FrankTrollman wrote:I think Grek already won the thread and we should pack it in.
Chamomile wrote:Grek is a national treasure.
So, I saw a post on tumblr today saying that Americans refusing to take in Syrian refugees parallels similar sentiment in the 30s because there was a minority Jewish identifying political movement at the time which sought the overthrow of the US which Americans thought may try to enter America with refugees.
Veracity? Also, what was that movement? I can't remember the name (pretty sure it's not the Bolsheviks, which is what my mind is trying to tell me)
Veracity? Also, what was that movement? I can't remember the name (pretty sure it's not the Bolsheviks, which is what my mind is trying to tell me)
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.
Winnah wrote:No, No. 'Prak' is actually a Thri Kreen impersonating a human and roleplaying himself as a D&D character. All hail our hidden insect overlords.
FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.
Um, yes? Of course it was Bolshevism. This was an elementary Nazi canard; dudes were all about conflating Jews and communists. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion was fabricated in Russia at the turn of the century as evidence for allegations that Jews were preparing a cryptofinancial conspiracy to take over the world; by 1920, the country was under new management by economically high-minded revolutionaries, a Jew was in charge of their army, and the Third International was holding conferences with the explicit purpose of building a world-wide revolutionary front. If you're a fucking moron, then that's about the time you start jeering and yelling "told you so!" Naturally, fascists near and abroad were pissing themselves in excitement.
Most people leaning on the "but what about that time with the Jews???" rhetoric with respects to the Syrians, though, would be referencing events like the voyage of the MS St. Louis, which happened in the late 30's, and thus deep enough into wartime footing that Jewish refugees could be turned away under the suspicions that they might have been blackmailed into performing espionage for the Nazis they were fleeing. It's more symmetrical with current events.
Most people leaning on the "but what about that time with the Jews???" rhetoric with respects to the Syrians, though, would be referencing events like the voyage of the MS St. Louis, which happened in the late 30's, and thus deep enough into wartime footing that Jewish refugees could be turned away under the suspicions that they might have been blackmailed into performing espionage for the Nazis they were fleeing. It's more symmetrical with current events.