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Happy birthday!

Happy birthday!

Happy birthday, dude!

Certainly puts it into better perspective seeing it roll down the street on the back of that semi. Very impressive.

Wait... these are supposed to be for games? I thought they were just for the new VR section of the pr0n websites.

People have a hard enough time staying on the road as it is. Let's not give me an actual reason not to be.

Happy birthday dude!

I only got 4 hours of play time in during the beta. I can't say it's really like anything we've played before. It's an experience hard to describe. I would go watch some streams on twitch if you want to get a feel for the game play. The beta didn't convince me to spend $60 on it. I'll be waiting for a sale and then make my decision to drop some cash on it.

Base game is 70% off on Steam. You guys still playing this on multiplayer? http://store.steampowered.com/app/313160/

Well, balling on a budget does limit options some. Utilizing mostly hardware you already have, I would say going with something like "FreeNAS" would keep your price point the lowest. I believe there members here who use and preach this approach. I personally have a Synology 411j and can't recommend their equipment enough. It can be as simple or as complicated as you want to get with it. Their enclosures can be pricey, though, and they don't come with drives. There are other vendors in the same realm as Synology that may offer cheaper alternatives. I have heard good things about Drobo and Qnap, but don't have personal experience with them nor about their pricing You really have to consider what all capabilities you'd like, how large you want to start, how much future capacity expansion you'd like, and then align those within your budget.

If I'm reading it right, $15+ gives a 50% off FS15. But since it's only $25 on Steam, not going to save with that 50% off. You'd break even on the gold edition.

Happy birthday dude!

Happy birthday dude!

So, here it is. Single pistol vault mounted to the side of my night stand. P.S. - The pistol pictured is a FN FNX 9MM

Thanks gents. I got the gift every man dreams of... Working all weekend. Lol. I'll post some pics of what the wife got me when I get to the computer later on.

I am fully aware of what collection systems we currently have. My profession in the military is to work with our satellites in orbit. That's all I can really say on that subject. The amount of data we collect and the quantity of assets is irrelevant. Not only do we not have the technology to clearly see that far into the universe, we do not understand nearly enough about space in general to properly analyze the information we can currently obtain. As you said, our knowledge is simply infantile. Our "best guess" at this point in history is based on fluctuations in light levels. We can't even be certain that our current assumptions and theories about the way light travels through space is concrete enough to base any ideas on what we're observing. This is another extremely valid point that I had intended to make in my last post and forgot. Everything we see today, actually occurred 1500 light years in the past. For all we know, that star has already exploded and completely obliterated any form of life or other evidence of cosmic events that would provide more information on what is causing this 20% light reduction. As I said before, don't misunderstand me. I do agree that this is certainly an exciting discovery and could very well lead to another break through discovery and maybe even revolutionize our understanding of space. My only point is that I don't understand why everyone is so quick to try and label everything when we just simply cannot possibly know what it is we're really looking at. And as much as I would like the general populace to get excited about space and to further support our scientific community in exploring said space... this trend of calling everything we don't immediately understand "possible alien life or intelligence" is just tiresome.

When I say that, I mean it more literally. There will certainly be mounds of theories, assumptions, guesstimates, and probabilities published in regards to what KIC 8462852 might be/could be/probably is. I mean to say that there will be no concrete facts known about this star and/or whatever object or event is causing us to perceive a 20% loss of light. I just want to put this in perspective for a moment. Pluto is 0.0004967903919916 light years away from Earth. KIC 8462852 is 1,500 light years. It took New Horizons 9 years, 5 months to reach Pluto and take relatively low quality images that in turn takes an entire hour for each image to be transmitted back to Earth. Now, even assuming exponential growth in Earth's ability to invent and manufacture orbital telescopes... and also assuming there are no issues with launch vehicles to get said technology into space... I still do not believe we will get any real answers about this discovery in our lifetime or our children's lifetimes. But hey, I've been wrong before. I wouldn't mind be wrong about this, either.

While I agree it is an interesting scientific opportunity, I think the immediate jump to "alien superstructure" is a bit absurd. Finding intelligent life elsewhere in the universe would certainly be exciting, but this object is almost 1,500 light years away. No one alive today will see anything really come from this discovery.

All that time playing KSP finally paid off, haha. Was able to get on the stationary platform on the 3rd try. The moving target took considerable more tries, though.

Happy birthday bud!

Happy birthday!

My headset broke before I left, still have yet to pick up a replacement. I'll see if I can find pants sometime this week and make a trip to Best Buy to get a new one. I bought into SC what seems like forever ago, now. I'll have to check out the progress they've made while I was gone. I agree if they manage to pull it off, it will be a superbly fascinating game... but at this point, it's still a big "if". I think they should have focused more on their initial efforts instead of letting feature creep overwhelm them.

Well gents, I am back on American soil. What games are all the cool kids playing these days? Any new games on the horizon I should be watching for?

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Happy birthday dude!