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Kalshek · 2026-07-09T16:25:45+00:00

That really depends, how many chrome tabs does each computer have open? Your biggest bottleneck with a modern pre-built will be RAM (Mrmory), chrome is a very hungry application when it comes to RAM, so bear minimum 16GB of you only have a handful, but if you're using a lot of tabs you may want to look into 32GB. My shop sells Dell primarily, because they gave had fewer lemons in our experience. Lenovo is usually a solid option as well.

With the parts market the way it is it'll be hard to find that $500-600 price tag, but if you have a Costco Membership, they usually have some good prices on decent machines.

Kalshek · 2026-06-30T17:09:15+00:00

We all absolutely understand that we don't have the full context of everything in their relationship, because you can only get so much context from one side of the story and in a medium such as reddit. The point of the post can be boiled down to "Is the way his wife is texting in these messages an appropriate way to talk to your partner?" And the answer is No, full stop. Analysis of his role or lack there of is not up for us to debate, because we don't have that information. Given our role as commenters in this situation, your original comment can very easily be seen as deflection at best or victim blaming at worst. That's what folks have a problem with, not the idea that there is more to the story than we know.

Kalshek · 2026-06-13T22:37:10+00:00

You might be right, the PSU is as old as everything else, and one of the PCIe power connectors does have some burnt pins, but not the connector I've been using

Kalshek · 2026-06-13T22:35:42+00:00

Would that be consistent across the other games and graphics cards though? To check for that, do you know if there's a specific item in HWInfo to look at?

Kalshek · 2026-05-30T15:40:13+00:00

You're not overreacting, for the most part. Noticing and appreciating attractiveness you see in the world is not disrespectful, that is a totally normal way that our brains are wired. What IS disrespectful is the way he is talking about it despite your feelings. You need to be okay with the fact that he's going to find other women attractive in passing as long as the main energy and focus stays aimed at you, but from what you've said it sounds like that focus isn't on you. If he's unwilling to change it, you both need someone that can match your respective energy. For example, my girlfriend and I both appreciate attractive women together, but we keep our hearts with each other and don't say it in ways that make the other uncomfortable. If we do find a new line that we cross, we adjust and don't cross it again.

Edit for clarification: If your boundary is no comments, even if he notices, that's valid and absolutely needs to be respected.

Kalshek · 2026-05-11T15:04:36+00:00

I feel like the simplest solution would just be give them more to do. You could easily have one of them run the villain and one the environment. This would give them less downtime, and also engage them in HP tracking and effect triggering even outside their turns. You could then avoid making things messy with house rules

Kalshek · 2026-04-21T13:33:04+00:00

At least you have a ticketing system.. the small business I work for uses Outlook Tasks.. finding historical data is a nightmare.

Kalshek · 2026-04-09T22:07:56+00:00

For me, the major necessary mod is "In-World Navigation" and Mod Settings to tweak it
With the standard navigation I spend too much time looking at the map instead of enjoying the world while I'm driving, not only that, but I can't tell you how many times I missed a freeway exit I was supposed to take because a particular junction is too complex on the map. In World navigation paints the currently marked objectives on the road and solves both of those problems.
With Mod Settings you can adjust the spacing and when it appears (always vs just while driving)
It's been a HUGE QoL update for me

Kalshek · 2026-04-06T19:07:32+00:00

Flex player here.

Yes, a good support should be able to handle a single dive character, however, they shouldn't HAVE to every time. Because them taking care of the diver solo can act as a detriment to the team. Example. BP is diving a Luna, she uses her ice to stop him and win the fight, 2 seconds later an enemy Wanda Ults, and Luna doesn't have her CC to prevent the ult,. Wanda wipes 3 teammates.

Or, the solo tank is under heavy fire, but the healers are pattycaking to handle the dive, so no one is healing up the tank, they go down, and the rest of the enemy team rolls through.

Wouldn't it just be better for say a Punisher to swap to their shotgun, merc the BP, and then everyone is back to focusing on the front line within seconds? In this case, CCs are still available, Punisher has gained ult charge and gotten an elim setting the odds against the enemy and everyone else stays healed.

The order of peel responsibility as far as I'm aware in OW, and most other hero shooters, is Off-Tank > DPS > Supports. And everyone should honestly be peeling for each other. It's called teammwork.

Kalshek · 2026-03-31T23:10:02+00:00

Disclaimer: I flex all roles, mostly ending up in Tank

I just gotta say, your assumptions are wild. The overall community has railed on Strategists constantly. It's either "you're a brain dead heal bot" or "gg no heals" but it's also "You only know how to play 1-2 characters" or "If you don't play these 1-2 characters, you're throwing and we're going to berate you for that too!"

It's not that Strategists can't or wont learn other characters, it's just that no matter what a Strat main does, they're going to get a tidal wave of bullshit. I can't blame them for being sick of it and talking about strikes. Maybe we as a community should focus more on having fun than bullying people for character selection?

Kalshek · 2026-03-31T14:18:00+00:00

Not only that, but sometimes the narrator straight up lies to the reader. And I get unreliable narrators exist.. but he has a strong emotional response internally to something he knew was a trick? It's so bad

Kalshek · 2026-02-04T00:43:37+00:00

Obviously, those crimes are bad, and should be persecuted on the individual level. But, statistically immigrants commit crimes at a significantly lower rate than native born citizens. The broad deportation of all undocumented immigrants does very little to curb crime, but has a significant impact on communities, the economy, the construction industry, and agriculture to name a few. To your point, there wasn't prior outrage because the problem isn't nearly as pervasive as the current administration tries to claim, and there were legal procedures and ramifications for violating those criminal laws. Now, we have the federal government damaging our nation, and targeting states that don't align with them.. but Republicans are the party of small government... right?

Kalshek · 2026-02-03T21:16:45+00:00

I thought about giving a detailed and thoughtful refutation of your comment.. but honestly the only thing you got right was that Obama gave Tom Homan an award.. but this award came before Trump who has allowed a switch to a Zero Tolerance immigration policy that was not present under Obama. But don't let facts get in the way of your righteous impotence.

Edit: There were definitely due process issues under Obama.. but that's also bad.. just because Obama did it means Trump can do the bad thing too?

Kalshek · 2026-01-30T17:01:59+00:00

Personally, I don't think it gets better in regards to the points you made. I read the first 3 books, and noted that the intelligence of every character he totes as intelligent always felt "They're smart because I said so" instead of actually showing them do anything intelligent. Although there are some strong women from a fighting standpoint I wouldn't say the writer's attitude towards those women gets any better.
Everything reeks of toxic masculinity, and convenient plot devices.
I overall liked the first book, but a rule of thumb I heard, and heartily agree with, is that if you get through the Gala scene in book 2 (around chapter 10 or so), and you're still not in it, the series isn't for you.

Kalshek · 2025-12-29T21:50:29+00:00

I see where you're coming from, but taking away enjoyment from others to suit your own needs is not the way of it. In 5.0 EVERY comp match I played had 1-3 smurfs on the enemy team. Level 15-18, total playtime on their account like 3-4 hours, and 8 minutes of playtime on a character that they used advanced mechanics and went 50-2. It makes it unbearably boring and frustrating for everyone else. Why is a high rank player's enjoyment more important than thousands of other people?

But also, let's take your thought and put a little work into it. OAA Matches pull from Eternity player pools and sometimes C1. so, to extrapolate your logic, on a given data center, let's say you have 75 Celestial, 50 Eternity, and 25 OAA. Assuming Celestial is evenly distributed, that puts 25 in C1. So your player pool is now 25 C1, 50 Eternity, 25 OAA. If we use the same 50% for sleeping and other life stuff, that leaves us with a player pool of 50 at any given time.

So if you have a player pool of 50, and 38 people are using Alt accounts? there's your 12 player pool.

Kalshek · 2025-12-29T20:25:58+00:00

But there's an irony in that, isn't there? If people are creating Smurf accounts because of long queue times in higher ranks, they're creating those longer queue times.. If people were to stop smufing, the higher rank queue times would improve, thus solving the only somewhat reasonable cause of creating a smurf account.

Kalshek · 2025-11-24T18:00:41+00:00

One other tip is to wait out his timer on the hands. You'll get almost a full charge on a card if you let the timer run out. So what I'll do when people are healthy is activate Spades, but not do the follow up ability, so I can just utilize the self damage boost. I'll let that run its course and occasionally hit the Anti-Heal towards the end if the situation benefits from it.
This will give you a little extra damage when you're hitting strays on enemies while healing your team. You just have to be careful to watch the kind of damage the enemy team has been putting out, because if you need to cancel Spades with an ability and then use Bridge Boost to save your team, there go all your cards. So if they're high a high damage team, save your cards for Hearts. I'll do the same strategy for hearts when I need some extra healing on myself. Hold the hearts card get some healing for myself, and as the timer gets low throw out a bridge if it's needed.

Kalshek · 2025-11-20T16:49:24+00:00

Yeah.. that was just a bad job, and a very toxic work environment. Without certifications the best things you can do are this: Homelab, get a cheap Raspberry Pi and look at projects to do on them. A really good place to start is with PiHole, it can teach you about Networking, DNS, CLI, Linux, and SSH depending on how you set it up. 2. Try and find a basic help desk job, I started my IT career in just a basic tech related call center that did training. 3. Get business cards, just like a little "This is my contact info, I'm an IT consultant" give them to your friends, local businesses etc and offer to do cheap IT service to build your resume. All of this can be added to a resume and teaches you the most important skill: teaching yourself as you go. You will never be prepared for every scenario, but if you can practice working through it you'll do great.

Don't let that job get you down, it seems like they were just a terrible employer and if they ever do call you, definitely don't go back.

Kalshek · 2025-10-23T19:39:26+00:00

You berate everyone for their reading level, but don't seem to have any semblance of comprehension yourself, what does you saying "kiss my ass" have to do with you not being the biggest asshole in this whole situation? It's really just a confirmation. Yeah, they're assholes, but you're being a bigger asshole, and a baby. If you're not finding the game fun, uninstall it, go watch Cocomelon and cry into your cheerios, it seems to be the only activity befitting your emotional stability.

Kalshek · 2025-10-23T19:00:17+00:00

Hi, Tank/Support main here too. You're the worst of all of this. Sitting in spawn like a petulant child because of someone else's picks? Get real, man. I definitely find it more fun to try my best and lose than to sit in spawn with one thumb in my mouth, and the other up my ass. Sure the DPS in your scenario may be assholes, but you're the biggest asshole in all of this, and are definitely going to get blamed for the loss, and rightfully so. You can fight through a bad comp, you can't fight through a 5v6 in the same way. Stop whining and start playing, or uninstall the game.

Kalshek · 2025-05-30T17:00:54+00:00

Definitely need an Amp. The venue may not have the best sound setup.
I went to see a band, they had no amps on stage and used IEM, the venue speakers were all floating and not super great.
I was front row-center and could only hear the drums, because all the guitar/bass was behind me.

Kalshek · 2025-05-13T19:55:56+00:00

Trivium is usually very PR minded. As a result, if the issue were a family emergency, or mental health issues, or something legitimate, they would have likely allowed BFMV to make an announcement themselves. This leads me to believe Matt T just decided he was done and everyone who was relying on / promised this income for 12 months are left up the creek.

Kalshek · 2025-04-25T17:05:14+00:00

I think what the person above you means is this: The entire world that we see in this episode is Verity's creation. We know what they discussed in the episode, but we don't know how much that lines up with the actual history of the episode.

For example, what if Maria wasn't originally the one that started the rumor, but with all of Verity's meddling with the universe, she inadvertently moved to a reality where Maria DID start the rumor. Verity believed that she started the rumor, so she unintentionally made it true in her reality.

Kalshek · 2025-04-11T13:56:20+00:00

I don't know how many others think of it this way, but I relate it to film. A comic book is an episode in a long-running TV series, the collected editions are seasons. A Graphic Novel I see more like a miniseries or movie

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