>>26986>>26982

Czech yourselves before you wrzech yourselves.

Hey lads, I'm in a similar position to OP but have procrastinated on a decision for about a year now. It's just so bloody difficult to make a choice on what you want when it comes to a new best friend. I was looking at a V-series the other-day but upon closer inspection I suspect the build-quality is absolute toffee:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lenovo-81V50004UK-V155-15API-Laptop-Windows/dp/B07HVZFSXB/ref=sr_1_1

My criteria has shifted around but generally:
>Budget is £500-£1000 depending on what it can do
>Weight isn't a problem, this is going to be an effective desktop/tv due to lack of space in the flat
>Something sturdy that will last me years and years if anything
>My benchmark was finally getting to play GTA V but a laptop able to play it in decent quality appears still out of reach

I really should make a choice now as my current laptop is starting to BSD more and more.

>>27265

>My benchmark was finally getting to play GTA V but a laptop able to play it in decent quality appears still out of reach

Not any more. At the low end of your budget, a machine with a Ryzen 5 2500U will run GTA V on medium settings at 720p at about 50fps, while still being reasonably portable. At the high end of your price range, you could have something with an i5 and a GTX 1650, which will give you decent frame rates at 1080p on very high settings.

https://www.ebuyer.com/885240-hp-probook-455-g6-15-ryzen-5-8gb-256gb-ssd-win10-pro-6eb47ea-abu

https://www.ebuyer.com/900672-asus-rog-strix-i5-9300h-8gb-512gb-ssd-gtx-1650-15-6-win-10-g531gt-al106t

>>27265
Your budget will definitely stretch to something GTAV-capable, my laptop runs that and it's only worth ~£500. I picked an Inspiron 15 7577, which doesn't look like the usual "gamer laptop" with rainbow LED and go-faster plastic tacky embarrassment. By all accounts it has a quiet cooling system by gaming laptop standards, but it's still too loud for me when it gets going. When a game like GTAV is running you'd better have headphones or some way of moving the thing into an adjacent room.

Can you really not squeeze in a decent desktop? And then grab a second-hand chromebook or something dirt cheap for when you're out and about? Gaming laptops are inherently a significant compromise, don't go there unless you really have to.

If anyone is after a refurb laptop, there are loads at 20% off on eBay right now. You can have an X250 with 8GB of RAM and a 180GB SSD for a mere £127.99.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Lenovo-Thinkpad-X250-Core-i5-5200U-8GB-Ram-180GB-SSD-Windows-10-Webcam-Laptop/233240665373

>>12213
I'm not entirely convinced by this argument. My music collection includes plenty of pop music from all eras and the lyrical content is largely irrelevant to my enjoyment of it. It just sounds good.

I think the tendency of songwriters to write about love is kind of a crutch to meet the aim of making the music widely accessible, easy to remember and easy to sing along to. Bear in mind that a lot of it is written by someone other than the person singing it, with the goal of making money rather than conveying a meaningful idea in an artistic format.

>>12213
So in other words women are responsible?

I see you lads have never talked to someone in a new relationship.

Most of the music I listen to is about pirates.

>>12218
Does your playlist consist of the excellent Captain Dread by Dreadzone?

>>87377
>Are you being daft m7. You can't impose new contractual terms without consideration.
Go home, freemanlad, you're high.

I've got an idea one of the parties can suggest to buy votes.

How about instead of giving NHS and police etc a pay rise, how about just stop taxing them. I mean if you work in the public sector your money comes out of the government's pocket anyway, so isn't it a waste of time and effort to tax them?

I'm sure with the way our modern economic monopoly money and government debt etc works, the government could get away with doing that essentially for free.

>>87380
Why though?

I'm excited about the election debate. I need to get a life.

>>4839

>and they wouldn't be some sinister uniform civilisation but lots of divergent personalities with mundane objectives.

I don't know about that. I know it's a very Sci-Fi thing to say, but they could all share a consciousness or be the last surviving community on a planet that worships a cult like figure obsessed with blue planets or anything really. You're probably right that they need to be curious and social, but even then, I don't think it's impossible to end up with some sort of intelligent fungus with legs that just wants to eat every tree they can find.

Fermi's paradox ensures that there are others out there but first the distances could be too big, especially if there is no warp drive and everyone is limited to lightspeed.

Second, the universe is not Sid Meier's Civilization, not everyone spawned at the same time. Human civilization started 20.000 years ago, but we started acting as civilized, technological people only in the last 150 years. There is a good chance that if we met the Aliens they would be as incomprehensible to us as a network engineer with a bionic hand would be incomprehensible to an ancient Egyptian farmer.

>>4841
The spirit of your analogy isn't wrong but ancient Egyptians used prostheses. They'd get the gist of it even if impressed by how well it works.

>Do you believe in aliens?
Yes. Because of the vastness of the Universe.

>Do you believe we are visited by aliens?
No evidence.

>Have you ever seen or encountered any aliens?
No.

>Does the government know about aliens but cover it up?
No evidence.

>Did aliens visit and influence our ancestors in the past? Are aliens friendly, benign, or threatening?
If we were visited by intelligent life, I think they would harvest the resources of our planet and subjugate us. Much like in the past when humans with superior technology met those who were primitive (see the new world).

I've never really spoken about this to anyone before, I'm not 100% saying it was an alien or anything but I think this is the right place to tell this story.

In 2013 I fucked up a quite important exam and needed to get away for a few days. A mate of mine was going down to Cornwall camping with some hippie friends of his and I agreed to tag along. There was a big permanent Ghegnis Khan style tent at the campsite with a stove in it etc and we basically would just sit up all night in there drinking and chatting or (when it wasn't raining) we would do like a fire outside.

On the last night before we went home we ran out of firewood and so I went over to the next campsite over to borrow some wood. We'd spoken to the people who were staying there quite a bit and knew they wouldn't mind. There were these long holes in the ground between the campsites and it was really dark so I can't really say for sure but Worf was there.

>>64327
As a Royal, it's important not to refer to the subjects as "normal".

Pizzagate is real.

One day you'll all hang.

Especially the alphabet boys who enabled this.

>>64326
Funny. It's normally the Mail complaining about knives being stuck in.

How does prince Andrew take his whisky? Like his women; 15 years old and full of coke!

>>20650
It's interesting how a tweet of Maya Forstaters' with this exact meaning was cut down to less than half font size in the Telegraph article.

>"Why my case is important: Freedom of belief is fundamental to a democratic society. We can respect people with different beliefs without being compelled to profess to share them. We should never become so afraid of giving offence that we can't talk about things that matter -Maya Forstater (@MForstater) October 9, 2019
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/11/13/tax-expert-lost-job-transphobic-tweet-takes-case-employment/

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>https://terfisaslur.com
Jesus Christ, people believe this. We've all heard of an echo-chamber these days but there's literally no effort to even hide it here. I know just how depressed i get spending too long at the other place - just imagine the reality tunnels of the people who'd have this site bookmarked. Fuck.

>>20650
You're not going to get away with that false equivalence. How is discrimination comparable to 'criticism'?

>>20652

What's discriminatory about talking shite on twitter? What service or right did she obstruct anyone from having by displaying her own controversial political views on social media?

Don't call false equivalence and then go on to make one yourself. And if you're going to, at least make an effort to address the point that was made.

>>20653

You're not wrong, in that people should still have the right to disagree with conventional wisdom. On the one hand, with sex and gender in particular, there really is more than one way of looking at it, not in the least because transsexuality itself is still not fully understood even by the world's most renowned experts.

But on the other hand also because as you implied, what's "right" and what's "wrong" can change with society's swinging pendulum. And also, if we say that simply having a disagreeing opinion hurts people like transsexuals, then that just isn't worthy of a democratic society. At the very least, a difference in magnitude should still be observed between someone simply stating opinion that transwomen aren't women, and somebody maybe actively harrassing a transperson in the street and calling them names and beating them up. Without that kind of scope, one side's opinion and its proponents can easily become totalitarian.

Whites can be black if they wish, says lecturers' union

People should be allowed to identify as black no matter what colour they are born, a lecturers' union has said.

The University and College Union (UCU), which represents more than 100,000 university lecturers and staff, set out its position on whether people should be able to self-identify as different races or genders. In the paper "UCU Position on Trans Inclusion", it stated: "The UCU has a long history of enabling members to self-identify, whether that is being black, disabled, LGBT or women."

A spokesman for the UCU said: "Self-identification is a standard practice in many organisations and the Office for National Statistics says 'there is no consensus on what constitutes an ethnic group and membership is something that is selfdefined'."

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/11/18/whites-can-black-wish-says-lecturers-union/

Julian Assange isn't looking well.

He looks like some kids have found his gold.

It's gonna happen to us all lads.

>>64333
Already has lad.

As a lanky, hook-nosed metalhead now, i'm going to pretty much look like saruman when I'm old.

I'm going to embrace it and wander around town centres in a robe, muttering cryptic shit at passers by.

>>23154
I wasn't talking about the games, I was talking the weird pricing. I checked again just now though all the £30 DLC has been removed so I think it was just an error.

I reinstalled Battlefield 4 last night, because BFV is still shit and I've spent more time in BF1 than most soldiers on the western front did in the real war.

Dice are definitely the next developer EA will sacrifice to appease the Great Old Ones. It's remarkable how badly BFV holds up compared to its direct predecessors. The rot of corporate interference and shareholder greed have well and truly taken hold now.

>>23156
Battlefield 4 is a masterpiece - I also have BF1 and BF5 but regularly go back to 4 when I just want to play and have fun.

https://twitter.com/valvesoftware/status/1196566870360387584?fbclid=IwAR08DQpQFS6sQhmX8EguFjxGp4WVyTlHZMjrJ5nVHemuh9nVvU3qecBttHY

Valve just announced a new Half Life VR game.

>>23158
So they still can't count to 3?

I got back to my car and it was ridiculously condensed on the inside of the windscreen. It hadn't happened to any of the others in the car park, so I'm guessing my car wasn't fully airtight or something like that.

>>432131
How old's your car? I think that starts to happen with every car over ~10 years old.

>>432132>>432133
It's a 64 plate. It's a Picasso so the windscreen is fucking massive, if that makes any difference.

I've got a cold and am feeling miserable as fuck. Lying on the sofa, aimlessly watching Netflix.

>>432135
IT IS FREEZIN TONIGHT

Also on the sofa, wrapped up in a blanket.

>>432102

Wensleydale is always available in shops here up north, though usually only one type. I see Red Leicester just as much. I don't think there is a North East cheese though so maybe that's why.

>>432106
CHEESE.

>>432107

>>432106

I really enjoy Red Leicester, I think of it as much better than, say, Cheddar on a sandwich.

>>432129
I'd say it depends on the quality of the cheese. I'd take ordinary Cheddar over ordinary Red Leicester, but I'd opt for the latter if it's aged.

>>432117>>432122
For reasons I can't explain, I object to owning tahini.

>>432120
>three syllables
>ok boomer
Lad.

>>432125
Counting correctly is for boomers.

>>432125

How do you pronounce OK? Isn't it like him off spiderman?

>>432127
Spiderman is a Jewish lawyer. I reckon you mean Spider-Man, m80.

There was a picture floating around of the supposed body with significant differences in the ear compared to known images of the old Ep.

An extremely rich and powerful man with apparent investments in bio-engineering.
I don't suppose it'd be a difficult for such wealth and networks to source a replacement body, using ones own stemcells if need be, for just such an occasion.

He owns an island for fuck sake. E's not dead.

>>20599
>>/boo/

>>20001
Where you following are lad's blog before he deleted it? Do you know why he did it?

>>20000

>>20599
Have you ever seen old people? They all have weird fat ears.
Everyone's ears actually carry on growing bigger through their entire life, which would probably explain what people think they are seeing.

No, there is another.

Her heart's in the right place, but I don't think she has the experience or the political savvy to be PM. She'd be a decent opposition to a Johnson government, she'd be an excellent DPM, but I worry that a Phillips premiership could be a road to hell paved with good intentions.

I still fancy the pants off her, mind.

>>87242
She's a TERF.

>>87350
So's your mum.

>>87350
Let's not forget "Until I get what I want, I don't give a toss about tackling the high male-centric rate of suicide" or words to that effect.

Keir Starmer or nothing, thanks.

Why would you link a version that doesn't have the video?

or even the updated version?

>>24127

I'll really miss it. It kind of felt like an international version of this place. Just cosy discussions without any boring shitposts and memes.

Kohlchan has now emerged as the successor but it's just KC 2.0 with all of the same problems.

I guess I should find better things to do than waste time on imageboards.

>>24125
>>24129
I know I'm replying to fucking old posts, but I think this really presents just what a plague 4chan and /pol/ are. People have been going to Krautchan for years, but in the last few years or so it's become truly unbearable, like so many other places.

Kohlchan is down now, rumour says it's due to cloudfare removing them for ties to this shooting in Germany. Could be bullshit, but...

>>24265
Yeah, probably. The same shit's going to happen to big chan sooner or later.

I'm not too arsed.

Up and down and up and down
You spin me right round, Casey
Right round like a record, Casey
Right round round round

>>29159

I too was set on buying a second hand one from eBay, but then convinced myself I need freesync. Then Amazon worked their magic and a voucher popped up so I went with a new one.

If it makes you feel any better, I've only just realised I'll probably need to buy a new graphics card if I actually want to play games at 1440p ultrawide, and that will definitely be a battered, probably ex-miner 1080/1080ti.

People in the office have been coming in sick the past week and now that it's Friday I can feel the start of it for me. Fuck sake, I foolishly thought it was the same cold from a couple months ago that battered me.

Speaking of monitors, is it normal for the edges of a white background to have the appearance of having a slightly darker shadowing, with the shadowing disappearing if you move your head so you're directly in front of it? I bought the cheapest 27" IPS 1440p monitor I could find and I'm not sure if I'm only noticing it because of the size of the screen. My old 24" 1080p does the same thing but I guess I eventually got used to it and didn't find it as noticeable because of its smaller size.

>>29162

I think that sounds normal, that just sounds like you reaching the limits of the viewing angle of the screen. Although IPS monitors have far better viewing angles than most other panel types, you'll still see minor shifts if you're not more or less looking at it head on.

I think that's what you mean, anyway.

>>29159

Me again, if it makes you feel any better I've had a change of heart and cancelled the huge 49 inch ultrawide because I really don't have that much space, or need to spend that much, and also I accidentally won a curved 34" samsung on ebay for £260. No freesync but I'm not even sure I'll notice.

>>431966

Nuclear has the lowest death rate per TWh of any energy source, including renewables.

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/deaths-per-twh-by-energy-source.html

Also coal is a bit radioactive, so a coal power plant emits more radiation than a nuclear power plant.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-radioactive-than-nuclear-waste/

>Veneto regional council, which is located on Venice's Grand Canal, was flooded for the first time in its history on Tuesday night -- just after it rejected measures to combat climate change.
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/11/14/europe/veneto-council-climate-change-floods-trnd-intl-scli/index.html

Catechism will be updated to include ecological sins says Pope Francis who yesterday called on the international community to recognize Ecocide as “fifth category of crime against peace”
https://cnstopstories.com/2019/11/15/catechism-will-be-updated-to-include-ecological-sins-pope-says/
Could have some interesting repercussions in certain places.

>>432110
And you think this might help reduce CO2 levels?

>>432111

I've posted this in the wrong thread. Sorry.

>>62859
That's all well and good, but the overwhelming majority of homeless people placed in temporary accommodation are the 'hidden homeless' who have been priced out of where they live.

Oh, well. At least we're not Americans.

>Twisted police officer who fed homeless man dog poo sandwich keeps job

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/twisted-police-officer-who-fed-14182279

>>62860
We need to glass that entire damned continent and I mean the Covenant kind not to pint kind.

Couple ‘Murdered Homeless Woman And Dumped Her Body In Bins So They Could Spend Her Benefits’

https://huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/couple-murdered-homeless-woman-dumped-body-benefit_uk_5dcbff3ce4b0a794d1f8983d

Imagine getting killed by grand day out era Wallace.

>>64315

Imagine that bloke's neck pain after a windy day.

>>64318
Ohhhhhhh gromit, lad.

>>29069
I don't know about evil, but it certainly is harmful. I think I have something bookmarked, and I will post it when I get home.

>>29071
Against 'God', or whatever those feelings are in your heart - guilt, doubt and disapointment mingled with pleasure, freedom and indulgence. Essentially doing what you know (or at least suspect) to be wrong. Continuing to eat dispite a full stomach, staying up way past the time you realised you're tired. I know these are'nt 'evil' in the sense of the term, but it's a dis-service to yourself. Maybe sin is a better word - i don't know.

I fancy that my problem has something to do with a lack of dicipline.

It's just videogames, you know? I've found something that can help me enjoy spending more time alone in my room, just at the time i'm coming to realise staying alone is actually soul destroying and not producing what i want in life.

I need to cut out all the shit in my life that's wasting time - actually build some character and develop a personality. Then anything that happens to come by will be genuine whether it's a cock in the arse or not.

I've been stuck inside for too long - i need to get out for some fresh air. It doesn't address the issue but it definitely cuts back the feedback loop.

>>29072
That would definitely be appriciated.

>>29073
There's nothing evil or sinful about sex itself in that context then. Wasting your time pursuing it at the cost of other things that make you feel fulfilled maybe but from the sound of it computer games are far more "evil" by your meaning of the word than your pursuit of sex is.

I almost had normalcy, but it's gone and it's never coming back.

>>29076

Never say never m8.

>>29075

I envy anyone who "wastes" an appreciable amount of time on shagging.

>>64254
Love to tell racists they're only racist because they learned it from foreigners

>eyes up some bird
>"we'll get to that later"

did people have sex back in those days?

>>64256

ONLY WITH A LEATHER CONDOM SO YOU COULDN'T FEEL ANYTHING

>>64257

Cambridge!