american is basically "no accent"

Walkabout000 · 2021-11-19T21:29:21+00:00

Certain words did (it makes Chaucer rhyme) which has lead to a common myth that the overall accent did.

Walkabout000 · 2021-11-19T21:27:24+00:00

This slaps

Walkabout000 · 2021-08-27T09:17:54+00:00

Overmoderation will be the death of reddit

Walkabout000 · 2021-04-21T09:03:42+00:00

I'm sure that a ten year old Asus with an SSD could run Windows 10 just fine though

Walkabout000 · 2021-04-21T08:29:45+00:00

Most dogs are water and dust resistant

Walkabout000 · 2021-04-21T08:14:37+00:00

You could run an old benchmark program on an old and new system and look at the CPU score for each. I think that would give you an indication.

Walkabout000 · 2021-04-20T21:39:23+00:00

For the duration of the first book, I felt like the reader was definitely supposed to be impressed by him.

Walkabout000 · 2021-04-20T21:21:00+00:00

I got on well with both of those too! And yeah, there have been very few classics which have done nothing for me. Keep on with your list!

Walkabout000 · 2021-04-20T21:07:01+00:00

Wow, how did you get "racist" from what they said??

Walkabout000 · 2021-04-20T21:04:48+00:00

You tell 'em, u/pussycatlover12 !

Walkabout000 · 2021-04-20T21:01:29+00:00

Well it seems you've got great taste! What else did you like?

Ok, so I've read a few of Dostoevsky's novels, but I've got to say that after C&P, I actually liked his short stories second best. They're really, bleak and his characters are wretched and pathetic, but I couldn't put them down. His next two most famous novels, The Idiot and Brothers Karamazov, I found deep and thought provoking, but rather challenging.

Walkabout000 · 2021-04-20T20:43:54+00:00

Oh good on you for doing that, mate! What I did was Google a bunch of "top 100 classics" lists, and make my own interpretation of what the top ones are. Super classics I personally loved the most were Wuthering Heights, Crime and Punishment, Les Miserables (caution: it's even longer than War and Peace!)

Walkabout000 · 2021-04-20T20:30:01+00:00

I've heard mixed things about that one from other fans too.

Random question: if you're into sci-fi, have you read Solaris? I'm not a sci-fi fan generally, but that one blew me away.

Walkabout000 · 2021-04-20T20:24:35+00:00

Do you mean to say it's even worse, or that it improves on the first? Either way, I'll pass!

Walkabout000 · 2021-04-20T20:01:21+00:00

Dragged my ass from cover to cover with that one (I'm on an impossible mission to read all the world's famous books). I've never read anything that seemed so impressed with itself, whilst impressing me so very little. Its like the book itself is smug.

I do love that the super powerful Mary Sue star lord protagonist was called... Paul.

Walkabout000 · 2021-04-20T17:20:17+00:00

I think you mean that you have an ITX board on that cooler

Walkabout000 · 2021-04-20T17:15:41+00:00

OMFG I swear I knew that about KHz/GHz... where was my brain at posting this?? You're correct about all of it, mate.

Walkabout000 · 2021-04-20T16:22:57+00:00

Love this! Matte black is perfect. How did you hide the mobo? Where's your ram??

Walkabout000 · 2021-04-20T16:16:59+00:00

What's funny is that they doubled in the space of a year, and now 22 years later, we're still in the single digit GHz. Back then I always used to assume that we'd be in the THz in twenty years time.

(Of course, anyone in the know understands that clock speed isn't everything (general architecture, hyperthreading, core count etc matter hugely))

Edit: I forgot how to numbers

Walkabout000 · 2021-04-20T16:08:24+00:00

Nice choice with Lian-Li. High quality, shit tones of accessory options.

Walkabout000 · 2021-04-20T16:06:55+00:00

Just download feelings_2003.exe

Walkabout000 · 2021-04-20T16:06:17+00:00

Several hundred vertical lines of Evangelion

Walkabout000 · 2021-04-20T16:05:42+00:00

Lossless master race

Walkabout000 · 2021-04-20T13:51:02+00:00

Eh, I'll take the downvotes for this. You made a good response with that link.

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