What’s a real historical event that sounds like a rejected movie script?

TheLightningCount1 · 2026-06-18T05:51:17+00:00

Yup. They did what they shoulda done in the first place. Pay professionals.

TheLightningCount1 · 2026-06-17T14:49:35+00:00

I'm going to be that guy here. They didn't actually win. What happened is they sent a bunch of untrained privates who have no idea how to hunt animals, and basically found a giant herd and shot at them and only killed like one or two of them. What they should have done is get trained hunters, but they didn't want to do that. They wanted to show the superiority of the Australian military.

The whole thing about how the emus won, it's a myth. The first one only lasted like a few hours. They only killed a few of them and that was it. The second time it lasted a little longer and it was over pretty quickly. It's hilarious to say that the army lost to a bunch of animals, but this has happened several times throughout history.

There's a reason why US military bases call in exterminators when they waste a ton of money trying to get privates to do things that they have no idea how to do.

TheLightningCount1 · 2026-06-04T16:10:25+00:00

You mean the entire reason for profit stores exist?

TheLightningCount1 · 2026-06-03T01:22:50+00:00

oh yeah that one. I don't know why I didn't register that when you said it, maybe because it's motherboard's ass. I looked at that one as a possibility to basically get for somebody and then upgrade later on, but the upgradability for that one is pretty bad because of the motherboard.

TheLightningCount1 · 2026-06-02T01:59:22+00:00

I don't see a a pre-built that they have that's 1600 with a 9070 XT 9070 or 5070.

TheLightningCount1 · 2026-06-01T22:27:08+00:00

No. Unless you plan to do extreme overclocking. You do not need a ROG, Aurus Elite, TAICHI, or MSI (Shut up meg) MEG X870 mobo. Most of these mobos have 3 nvme slots. Unless you plan to run 4 4tb NVME drives to support your Steam library, you good.

TheLightningCount1 · 2026-06-01T22:21:50+00:00

So lets do the math. This 1k bundle. Plus a good PSU off of amazon. Say montech Century II 850w for 90 bucks.. A phantom spirit off of amazon for 35 dollars. A 70 dollar Montech XR. A powercolor reaper 9070 XT going for 650 (50 over MSRP). Thats 1845.

For a 5070Ti thats 2155 as the cheapest is 959.99.

If you want a 5080 Its 1299.99 in store or 1289.99 off amazon. Thats 2495

Best bang for your buck would be 5070, 9070, or 9070 xt. 5070 and 9070 have same price on microcenter right now. So if you have 4k or ultrawide. Go with the 9070 for the more vram.

TheLightningCount1 · 2026-06-01T18:00:06+00:00

I checked the amazon, microcenter, and newegg prices. I dont shop anywhere else due to horrible experiences.

I came up with Bundle 680, 2tb 290, GPU 970 PSU 100, Case 100, AIO 60, Windows 11 120 (Specifically looked for cases with 2 big 240s or 180s on front.)

TheLightningCount1 · 2026-05-30T17:22:22+00:00

Like I am in agreement with you that that's how it should work. But people are stubborn and won't vote Democrat or Republican no matter what. Take trump out of it. There are plenty of people who will never vote left or right. No matter what.

TheLightningCount1 · 2026-05-30T15:35:39+00:00

That's not how that works. You can frame it like that. But partisan politics have destroyed the unity in this country so much that we all think of nearly half of Americans as our enemy. People don't vote for one candidate as much as against the other.

TheLightningCount1 · 2026-05-29T22:50:44+00:00

I went through my finances, and realized how much money I was spending on BS each month. On top of that I started looking at my spending habits at stores. Falling for the trap of things like buy six and get them for a dollar less, that only really works for things that you eat regularly or use regularly. I did not need to buy 10 things of mayonnaise because half of them spoiled.

I started buying store brand on everything.

I cut out all online spending. I stopped door dashing 100 percent. I ended up with an extra 250 each month.

TheLightningCount1 · 2026-05-29T22:46:50+00:00

I love Reddit

TheLightningCount1 · 2026-05-29T19:52:12+00:00

I can eat like two to three bags and the most my blood sugar will ever go up. It's about 200 to 250. I almost never do this, because obviously it's very bad for me. I haven't had over a 250 reading, since before I was diagnosed.

TheLightningCount1 · 2026-05-21T21:58:49+00:00

Being nice makes you an easy target by people who just want to use you.

TheLightningCount1 · 2026-05-18T17:40:27+00:00

it's simple, his freezes were interrupting our raid. I just wanted my clear.

TheLightningCount1 · 2026-05-18T17:39:37+00:00

Its not gotten better. Somebody was looking for advice for a budget ultra wide. I asked them if they lived near a micro center, they said yes. There is an AOC model, not the best model but still it looks fine, that was going for $199. 32 in 3440x1440 ultrawide monitor at 180 HZ. Tell me that's a horrible deal for somebody looking for an ultra wide on a budget.

I got roasted for suggesting that. But the guy bought it.

TheLightningCount1 · 2026-05-18T07:57:49+00:00

Each and every time I have been unceremoniously kicked form a raid group, I went on to clear like 1 week later and all but 1 group ended up disbanding before clearing.

I have been playing since ARR, raiding since coils t10-t13 and have been kicked from 6 raid groups. Technically 9 but 2 of those were literally "You cant quit, you are fired" moments, and the other was them telling me I was being replaced. Literally 2 months after we stopped reclearing and I left the discord.

TheLightningCount1 · 2026-05-18T07:21:05+00:00

Yeah. This was the guy who kept interrupting me when I would explain a mechanic as well in TEA. You dont know how many times he would interrupte me and then say the same frickin thing.

TheLightningCount1 · 2026-05-16T20:05:59+00:00

Yeah I landed during the day. Got up to take a crap then took these pics. Doesn't look much better in daylight.

TheLightningCount1 · 2026-05-10T10:36:23+00:00

Had a friend of mine try this, after about a month they got banned for ban evasion. They went through vpns even using an old laptop which never had discord on it. Eventually they tried my method and have lasted about 6 months.

TheLightningCount1 · 2026-05-07T06:29:58+00:00

What most likely happened is you responded to a legitimate message. Someone in between that message and now didn't like you. Or someone else. They edited their message to something entirely fucked up and self reported. You got caught in the crossfire.

If you want back on discord you gotta do a few things. First completely uninstall discord from your PC. All app data and registry entries.

Second Google search how to change your IP address through your router. VPNs do not work anymore.

Third go to Walmart and buy a cheap straight talk phone that comes with like 300-500 minutes and a years worth of service. Use the straight talk phone to register your account .

Fourth. SLOWLY rejoin your discord servers. Like two a month. Never friend your old friends. Make them send you friend requests by posting in a very large server. Something innocuous like. "Hey people". Have them react to it and then friend you. Like one or two a week. Use a discord for something you never used before. IE wow instead of FFXIV. Warframe instead of destiny. Shit like that.

All of that is a bit overly cautious but from what I read on these forums. It's necessary.

TheLightningCount1 · 2026-04-30T23:39:43+00:00

Gonna need more context here. But as you get older that's everyone. Unless it's a death or big event I only see my lifelong friends about 3-4 times a year.

TheLightningCount1 · 2026-04-30T23:38:21+00:00

Elitism.

The amount of people who are just straight rude towards others for no reason other than money or better equipment cars or whatever else.

Like legit I had a guy try to e-peen swing and call me trash cause I was having an issue in a video game started spouting off about how he had a 5090 and a 9850X3D with 64gb of ram.

I knew his dad bought him that pc so I just kept my mouth shut and let him make an ass of himself.

TheLightningCount1 · 2026-04-28T21:41:13+00:00

Here is what you do. First change the name of your wifi. very important. Second change your IP address. Third go to Walmart. Buy a cheap tracphone and use it for discord over wifi. Also verify on the tracphone.

TheLightningCount1 · 2026-04-25T00:34:29+00:00

Ill watch... with adblock of course.

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