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Baronash posted:If you're seriously recommending 4K for a 20 inch tv (hell, even a 40 inch tv), then you've bought into the hype. I mean.....no? I don't own a 4K TV myself. I was just saying if that's the next thing that's gonna become commonplace and the poster is gonna keep this TV for 20 years again, it would make sense to go for that. Didn't realise they didn't make em below 40 anyway. Did a 4K TV kill your family or something?
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Escobarbarian posted:Did a 4K TV kill your family or something? Yes, stop triggering me!
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precision posted:Don't worry about any of that. If the TV is flat and less then $100, buy it. Good TVs are dirt cheap these days and if you're looking for something computer monitor sized you shouldn't be paying more than $100. Element is a good cheap brand and you can get one brand new for $80 at Target. That's what I thought. Once burned (got Rambus RAM in my computer for the approx. one year it was a thing, at which point upgrades became much more expensive than DDR, and also grew up back when changing standards hadn't normalized on things like universal plugs), forever shy of just going out and getting something.
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Mar 29, 2017 16:02
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Bruceski posted:That's what I thought. Once burned (got Rambus RAM in my computer for the approx. one year it was a thing, at which point upgrades became much more expensive than DDR Oh my, I had the same thing happen. That was the last PC I bought prefab. Suck a dick Dell.
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Mar 29, 2017 16:20
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Anything under 55" these days is largely trash as the margins are too low to put out quality at those price points. At below 40"? It really doesn't matter at all what you buy, period. TVs in those size ranges are completely disposable commodities. Throw a dart at a best buy ad.
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Mar 29, 2017 16:51
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IRQ posted:Oh my, I had the same thing happen. That was the last PC I bought prefab. Suck a dick Dell. Same folks. I think Dell were the ones who were trying to make it a thing in desktops when everyone else was busy standardizing. I've had nightmares after that of "everything uses GDHQ ports now, didn't you make sure that had some when you bought it?"
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Mar 29, 2017 17:29
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I was watching X-Files on Netflix a couple years ago and stalled out after s7e15. Is there anything good left I should watch before it goes away
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Mar 29, 2017 18:13
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IRQ posted:Oh my, I had the same thing happen. That was the last PC I bought prefab. Suck a dick Dell. Getting burned is just something you should expect when you buy dell. I've made the mistake of buying a couple of Dell laptops in the past, and none of them ever went more than 2 years or so before they either started suffering hardware failure of some kind, or physically started falling apart.
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raditts posted:Getting burned is just something you should expect when you buy dell. I've made the mistake of buying a couple of Dell laptops in the past, and none of them ever went more than 2 years or so before they either started suffering hardware failure of some kind, or physically started falling apart. This was back in like 2001, and to its credit, that PC ran for like 6 years+. You're right about the state of things these days though.
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Mar 29, 2017 18:55
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I have an e1505 from 2006 that's still going strong. It even took the win 10 update fine. My current XPS 15 (2015) is fantastic.
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DivisionPost posted:Yeah so you're definitely going to have to get on The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, like, ASAP. When your main character is an aspiring stand-up in 1958 and you put her in the back of a cop car with Lenny Motherfucking Bruce after her climactic performance, you are putting your massive loving balls right on the table for anyone to smash. Luckily for ASP, she can write her rear end off, and Rachel Brosnahan, perhaps like Sutton Foster and Lauren Graham before her, can act the gently caress out of it. Going back to the this post. This show was really good pretty much solely on the back of Rachel Brosnahan and surprisingly Alex Borstein. A total waste of Tony Shalhoub though. And having Luke Kirby from Rectify as Lenny Bruce did not work for me at all. Thank goodness that appears to be a one time thing. But man, Rachel Brosnahan owns this role in a way we rarely see in shows. It's possible this show might be something like in the vein of House where the show around it nothing special but the lead performance is so good it's a much watch.
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Mar 29, 2017 20:43
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Good news as Netflix has renewed The Santa Clarita Diet.
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muscles like this! posted:Good news as Netflix has renewed The Santa Clarita Diet. Very good news
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I found Santa Clarita Diet to be very mediocre.
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Snak posted:I found Santa Clarita Diet to be very mediocre. You son of a bitch.
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Mar 29, 2017 21:08
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I didn't hate it. Some parts were real great. The daughter and neighbor's kid were my favorite parts.
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Timothy Olyphant looked like he didn't give a gently caress and was just enjoying being in the show.
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Mar 29, 2017 21:16
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SCD is real good but the worst part was probably the way it left off. Glad we'll get resolution, though. 6 eps deep on Patriot. It's not the masterpiece many goons will have you believe, but it's still real fuckin fun and enjoyable and captures that Coens tone better than even the Fargo show.
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Mar 29, 2017 21:17
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Amazon Pilot Season is here, I've only watched Budding Prospects because "weed haha". It's actually very good but the premise of the series is that it takes place on a farm in a small town and by the end of the pilot the characters haven't even visited it yet so it's very hard to say if the series would be good or not since we have no idea what kind of stuff they'd be doing other than "Weeds, but with young actual stoners, and in a rural area instead of the suburbs"
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Mar 29, 2017 21:18
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Echoing what someone said earlier, I'm not sure Timothy Olyphant is a good actor. Don't get me wrong, I really like him, and he was loving perfect for his role in Justified, but the more I see him, the more I think he has more natural charisma than actual range as an actor. I also did not care for Drew Barrymore's performance at all. Least favorite part of the show.
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Escobarbarian posted:6 eps deep on Patriot. It's not the masterpiece many goons will have you believe, but it's still real fuckin fun and enjoyable and captures that Coens tone better than even the Fargo show. I'll be interested to see how you feel after the last 3 episodes, which for me are what pushed it over the top into "masterpiece" territory.
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Mar 29, 2017 21:21
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You know what's a show that doesn't get enough attention (even from me, because I really need to finish the season).... High Maintenance. Nice combination of comedy/drama, short story anthologies plumbing some real heartfelt emotions and character interactions. Definitely recommended.
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Bruceski posted:That's about 20 inches more than I need. I'm looking for something on the "computer monitor with an antenna jack" side of things and will be headed to the store to browse tomorrow. I just don't know what the line is right now between "useful tech" (digital for example, which is of course universal now) and "paying for the privilege of having the best tech" (4K resolution, OLED, stuff like that) I actually have two of those 40" units, one of which is my primary computer monitor.
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Mar 29, 2017 21:47
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IRQ posted:This was back in like 2001, and to its credit, that PC ran for like 6 years+. You're right about the state of things these days though. The early Pentium 4s, released in 2001 and 2002, actually required RDRAM to work, which is why Dell put it in all their machines.
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Escobarbarian posted:4K would be better if you want a TV that'll last you another 20 years, but it definitely isn't necessary lol if you think a modern piece of electronics will last even 10
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Mar 29, 2017 22:23
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I watched the first episode of Patriot last night and The guy who got pushed in front of a truck appearing at the end and having trouble speaking made me really sad because he seemed like such a nice dude. I just want to know how screwed that guy is on a scale of 1-10 so I can be prepared for the worst.
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muscles like this! posted:Good news as Netflix has renewed The Santa Clarita Diet. I hope the next season ends at a better stopping point than the first one did.
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Superrodan posted:I watched the first episode of Patriot last night and The guy who got pushed in front of a truck appearing at the end and having trouble speaking made me really sad because he seemed like such a nice dude. I just want to know how screwed that guy is on a scale of 1-10 so I can be prepared for the worst. Just keep watching. They cover it in the next episode.
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Shageletic posted:You know what's a show that doesn't get enough attention (even from me, because I really need to finish the season).... Yeah this show is great. Most of the web series stuff is excellent too. WATCH IT EVERYONE AND THEN WATCH PATRIOT TOO COS IT'S HELLA FUN I've finished ep 7 and cannot wait to start on the last 3 tomorrow it's getting super tense
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Superrodan posted:I watched the first episode of Patriot last night and The guy who got pushed in front of a truck appearing at the end and having trouble speaking made me really sad because he seemed like such a nice dude. I just want to know how screwed that guy is on a scale of 1-10 so I can be prepared for the worst. As with everything else on the show, it always tends towards 1.
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Superrodan posted:I watched the first episode of Patriot last night and The guy who got pushed in front of a truck appearing at the end and having trouble speaking made me really sad because he seemed like such a nice dude. I just want to know how screwed that guy is on a scale of 1-10 so I can be prepared for the worst. Ugh I knowwwwwwwww, it seems to be pretty polarizing, some people think its so twisted its great, but I just felt bad, I didn't get much humor out of it. He is in slow recovery the entire season, they keep him around because Patriot guy is so terrible at the job, and even though he's super brain damaged he can still work like a savant.
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:I actually have two of those 40" units, one of which is my primary computer monitor. Do you use it from across the room? I think I'd go cross-eyed.
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Escobarbarian posted:Yeah this show is great. Most of the web series stuff is excellent too. WATCH IT EVERYONE Right where you are but taking a pause. Don't want it to end. e: bring back old gbs posted:Ugh I knowwwwwwwww, it seems to be pretty polarizing, some people think its so twisted its great, but I just felt bad, I didn't get much humor out of it. He is in slow recovery the entire season, they keep him around because Patriot guy is so terrible at the job, and even though he's super brain damaged he can still work like a savant. That's the point, and it's supposed to be sad. That's the pathos of the thing.
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bring back old gbs posted:lol if you think a modern piece of electronics will last even 10 The off-brand refurbed flatscreen I bought in 2007 is still truckin' along, albeit relegated to the bedroom. It's heavy as a motherfucker and ridiculously thick compared to modern ones but it has no problems other than the remote is hosed and has survived 4 moves. I think my 360 also still works aside from a noisey unbalanced fan in the psu but I haven't hooked it up lately.
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bring back old gbs posted:lol if you think a modern piece of electronics will last even 10 I have a 42" plasma TV that my groomsmen bought me as a wedding gift in July 2007, and it's still going strong -- and that was at a time when all the experts said plasmas' life expectancy was about five years. Best part? It's HP-brand. I didn't even know they made TVs.
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Timby posted:I have a 42" plasma TV that my groomsmen bought me as a wedding gift in July 2007, and it's still going strong -- and that was at a time when all the experts said plasmas' life expectancy was about five years. Those are usually rebadges from other manufacturers.
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whowhatwhere posted:As with everything else on the show, it always tends towards 1. Did we watch the same show?
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IRQ posted:The off-brand refurbed flatscreen I bought in 2007 is still truckin' along, albeit relegated to the bedroom. It's heavy as a motherfucker and ridiculously thick compared to modern ones but it has no problems other than the remote is hosed and has survived 4 moves. Timby posted:I have a 42" plasma TV that my groomsmen bought me as a wedding gift in July 2007, and it's still going strong -- and that was at a time when all the experts said plasmas' life expectancy was about five years. 2007 was a good year for the pixel harvest, you two lucked out
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Holy gently caress I hate every character of this dumb scrubs spinoff slash scrubs season nine except the smoking hot australian lady who shows up every three episodes or so
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I just want a tv show where a kinda broken character inadvertently says I love you to a girlfriend isn't the basis for an entire episode
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