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I didn't have the budget for a modular power supply It's just a spaghetti mess in the basement lol. Oh, I just got a response from them. They want me to document the S/N, ok, a picture of the warranty label, ok, then break the warranty label and send the three pictures in...

My board didn't come with rubber washers. Would that happen if it was working just fine, then nothing?

Let's all remember that the time we're in is PEAK BS season. We see teams "leak" all kinds of information to try to manipulate the draft. I'm sure teams in the bottom of the top 10 are happy to say some BS to try and get folks to pass on a top QB so they can "fall" to them. Let's also give a shout out to the "wait til next year!" folks. They are more than happy to point out that next year's group is so much better than this year's crop of young men. That's just human nature =P I still have no idea who the Panthers pick. Nor do I care. They are going to pick a QB, and I'm going to be behind them 100% until they prove they suck. I'm going to trust this staff to develop them and put them in a situation to be successful. I mean, if they don't, then they'll be out of a job pretty quickly. Stroud is an elite thrower of the football. He showed some great stuff in the Georgia game, but we didn't see those improvisation skills much of the rest of the season. Young is an elite processor who is a point guard of a QB, but to say he lacks ideal size is an understatement. Richardson is a Madden Cheat code of a player, but will he be able to reach his ceiling in time for a coach to not get fired? Levis eats bananas with their skins on...need we say more? Enjoy the BS/smokescreens! Two more weeks (right, it's the 29th?) until we find out for sure!

I filed a warranty claim with Antec so we'll see how that goes. I chose them because a lot of IT folks swear by them.

Troubleshooting help: So I turned off my computer earlier today, and went to turn it back on and it won't post. I've disconnected the power supply, basically took the computer apart, testing out each componenet, all the ram slots, no USB/perepherials, etc. Nada. Here's what it does: the LED on the cooler (AMD box cooler), and the case lighting will start for a second. I hear a "click" that would normally happen before the rest of everything start to spin up, then NADA. Any other ideas for troubleshooting this issue? Could be a power supply issue?

It's a great tool. I watched how Corridor made it, and it's fascinating. Though it's pretty crappy when you train your AI on the art of someone else. I could see a studio could allow an AI like Stable Diffusion to animate the images they trained via their own inhouse artists. It's such a cool tool and idea. I'm thinking I might try to use it as a project down the line.

I use a Linksys mesh system and it has been FANTASTIC! Never going back to those other struggles again! As far as a smart home - you need to figure out what you want out of it. For us: we wanted to have some smart switches/outlets, garage door openers and a couple nest thermostats. It runs off our Google Home. Our main usage is to manage our lighting on a timer and handle our temps while we're out for work and stuff. If I were doing this again, I'd pass on smart thermostats and stick with a programable. We end up leaving our system on a hard schedule instead of letting it make decisions. In the summer, while we're out, it let's the entire house heat up. It takes forever running the AC to death to get it remotely comfortable. When all your walls, floors, furniture and stuff gets warm, it doesn't cool off fast enough. The smart switches and outlets have been fantastic. Being able to set up a schedule when we're out of town is great. Setting exterior lights to come on when the sun goes down is cool. For me, I always get paranoid that I didn't close the garage door. I can open and close it remotely which eases my anxiety. The kicker with all of that is making sure your hub is pretty solid.

You have to take a swing on one. Neither one is a perfect candidate, but we have to pick somebody. I've listened to my fair share of pundits talking about each player and it really comes down to these main points: Young: Better player, IT factor, VERY SLIGHT/Narrow frame. What happens the 5-6th time Young get's obliterated in an NFL game? Stroud: One of the best throwers of the football in several years. Checks a LOT of boxes. But is the Georgia game a one off or a precursor to NFL success? There are legitimate concerns about the Day-Ohio State offense, but Stroud is so much better than the others. A bit robotic. It comes down to what the team wants to do. It could completely be possible in three years we see that Stroud and Young aren't it, and AR and Levis are the two best QBs in the class. Look, that's just how random the NFL can be. I'm fine with the team making the best choice and moving on from there. I thought this would be an exciting time as a fan. Instead, it's just endless, circular logic. Ugh!

I have no idea what the team plans. I do know that looking at AR, due looks like an absolute manimal. Big, tall, fast, rocket arm. Looks like a Madden Cheat Code. But he's not Cam. Cam played better in his one year of starting at Auburn versus Richardson's lone year as a starter. That's not to take away from AR's tools, but the reality of the situation is that you can't really compare them. Now if the coaching staff feels like they can coach AR into being a franchise QB who can be a high level passer, a guy who can elevate the team and the face of a NFL franchise for 10+ years... Well, I'm just an idiot fan with a keyboard We'll have to wait and see what happens.

I'll admit, Richardson was super interesting as a watch. Mega talented athlete, played better than his stats, but he's no Cam Newton. Cam started one year at auburn and was the best player in college that year AND won a National Championship. Thats part of what made Cam the #1 pick in 2011. I just don't see it with AR. I think he's a great talent, and is going to be very entertaining as a player. Do I think he's going to turn the Panthers into the "it" team? Probably not. I feel like this is smoke from Frank. It's going to be between Young and Stroud and I'm completely happy with either one.

He looks like a QB for a movie from Central Casting. If you just needed to look like a QB, here you go. But he really doesn't have control of his body at this point, and he's 24 years old. I wish him well, but there's NO WAY the Panthers draft him, and I think whoever does has a BIG challenge on their hands.

I'm with you there! As much as I like the game play of LF, Strand, Neomuna and what not, the story development of the expansion was piss poor. We shouldn't have to be going "Geez, we know nothing!" nine years into this story. From the mcguffin like the veil to why our light powers still work in the absence of the Traveler, or even what's going on with the Traveler to why the Witness is even here to destroy the Traveler? It's all too confusing. My hope is that Destiny is able to start to rectify it. I love the seasonal stories. I feel like those are the strongest narratives in the game right now. The Witch Queen was phenomenal from a story perspective, and I think we were all hoping for more of that style. Calus would have been a great vessel for this since he has a strong relationship with us and Caital. Why not have Calus capture us and Osiris at the start of the expansion. Try to convince us to join him for the greatest party of all time, become his shadow, etc. Then the Cloud Striders could have come in and broken things up. They could have explained that the Veil has always been on Neptune, and is the source of their power and knowledge. Without it, their citizens would die. Give it a practical purpose here. Then we could have learned what the veil was thank to all of our time spent on Calus's ship. As a psycho-paracausal creation, the veil was instrumental in creating a bridge between the material and deeper realms? Maybe that the veil was the key to allow travel to the Garden where the gardener and winnower wage their eternal, primordial battle between life and entropy. The Traveler is a disciple of the gardener, and the Witness is of the winnower. That's kind of what I think is happening. It wouldn't have taken a lot to get there, but to give us enough explanations of the major things, purposes and motivation. It sucks that we're just not getting it in game right now.

The worst was seeing and hearing Zavala... Too much.

The major issue with Cam is his presence and personality. Lots of these kids grew up playing him in Madden and idolizing him. How do you trot out a young guy who is struggling when you have Cam there ready to roll, smiling like a million bucks, looking like your custom designed character, and his infectious energy? i understand that Cam wants to start, but he’s not going to be a franchise guy anymore. He could be a gadget player and backup at this point in his career. He could probably give 5-6 starts at most a year and keep you in it. But his shoulder is still a major concern. I love Cam. He is the best an we’ve ever had. But Father Time is undefeated.

Oh holy shite! This week's seasonal story.... Oh fudge!

I agree that that's probably the reason why right now, but I'm not sure it bears any fruit. Dude, I'm so stealing that when I talk about Shakespeare later this year! For me, I have no clue. I love the speculation because it's a wonderful distraction from my personal life events that suck. Keep it up! I trust this staff about a billion times more than the last staff to develop anything!

As much as I know the entertainment world is hurting, I can't imagine how bad it is for his family. He was such a nice and cool guy. Lots of stories about him just being an excellent human being. If you want to, you can make a donation in his name at his preferred charity: https://www.momcares.org/

Yep. I think that Zavala is going to go. Would be fitting as he's been here the entire time. I'm not sure they'll do an AI performance, out of respect to Reddick and their desire to not use AI. I think with the quantity of his line work, they will have something they can edit together. But Commander Zavala has to go out with a bang, something Heroic. Then does the Vanguard go away with the end of Light and Dark? Or what else happens? Oh, here's an interesting video about how lightfall was actually not in the plans, which would explain a LOT.

I saw today and was shocked. Such a cool dude, dog lover and great character actor. He was always so fun to watch. It sucks. Bungie will try their best to honor him, but you know the community will hate it, regardless of whatever it is.

That's what I thought when I saw it. DJ is not a talker at all. He's still dealing with it emotionally because he has to uproot his family to Chicago and it was very sudden. So personally, I get it. For the rest of things: it's all just football talk. Nothing too crazy there. We have some massive snowflakes in this part of the fanbase.

I'm running the big brain: I'm not touching crucible =P MAYBE next iron banner...depends on the armor. Generally I can't stand PVP in destiny since 75% of the times I'm killed, I have no idea what I could have done differently.

LOL, don't be ashamed =P I still can't bring myself to buy the silver lol. So I have some thoughts on the new difficulty curve. While I'm not a "I'll solo legendary campaign for funz" guy, I'm not a complete potato. I have builds, synergy with weapons and exotics. I guess I'm an "intense casual." Last night, I was running the new Heist Battlegrounds playlist. Well, I ran one game. It took 30 minutes to get through it. I was play with guys who died a lot. Like more than 30 times between the other two players. I kept running to rez and getting killed as well. It seemed like one play was just "there" while the other guy and I did the encounters and rezed him (and died almost immediately after). I don't mind doing hard stuff, well for me. I did solo my whole exotic pulse rifle and catalysts last season. That was pretty cool, but I think Bungie stepped too far in making us all incredibly weak. I mean, I'm running 100 resilience with various sniper/energy mods depending on what kills me. Heck, even with Woven Mail, I was getting flattened. I don't think the more casual audience than me is going to keep playing if they are going to keep getting curbstomped constantly in the seasonal playlist activity.

I can see the point: if you're a prideful alpha male, who wants to sign on to giving up your job to a kid? Very few pay well enough to do that! If our rookie is ready to rock, let them start. Cam had a LOT to learn, but still came out kicking butt his rookie year. The bridge QB sounds like a nice luxury, but I think it's up to the coaching staff to earn their paychecks and prep that first player to come out and win.

I imagine that he's testing the market, much like Bozeman did. Bozeman saw that he wouldn't make $10 million a year, and said he'd come back for a place he likes where he's going to get as good a deal as he can. Foreman is probably in the same boat. See who will pay the most because he's a runningback and knows that he's not in the CMC class of big money backs.

What are we at? 6 weeks until the draft? So yeah, this is going to be the ad nauseum talking point for a LONG time. The reality is Carolina can't get it wrong, or else everyone loses their jobs. No pressure guys.