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AMD has been getting better and better over the years, now that they have money. It's still not at the same level as Nvidia for their graphics cards, but at least they have managed to catch up with Intel on the CPU side of things. I'm not sure if they'll ever catch up to Nvidia on the upscaling and ray tracing stuff, but they've gotten pretty close. My motherboard is so old that it is simply really hard to find - hence the cost. I hate wearing headphones, so I just deal with the fans. :/

Sorry to hear about your grandpa. Is he alright now? Sucks that you had to cut your trip short, but family is more important than a trip that can be taken again in the future. I've heard that Asian drivers simply do not care about people at all. I've even heard horror stories about people running over people again and again, just to make sure they're dead, so they won't have to pay money for the rest of their lives.

You're lucky that you're able to enjoy both. I'm a city person through and through. I do like looking at nature, but I really hate dealing with all the bugs that come with nature. Flies and mosquitoes are simply the worst! Autumn is also a great time to enjoy those off season deals. ;)

I would agree that South Asia and South East Asia are still behind the West, but East Asian countries like South Korea, Japan, Taiwan seem a lot more advanced compared to the many Western countries. Even China has some things that can be considered more advanced than the West, from what I've seen.

It's mainly liberal cities that are the most dangerous. Avoid those cities and you should be about as safe as many cities in Europe. If you excluded the top 10 highest crime cites (all heavily democratic areas), the America would actually be considered as safe as Europe and Canada. There are many reasons for why liberal cites are the worst, but talking openly about those reasons is a very good way to cancelled and attacked. Also, gun-loving conservative states tend to be safer than very restrictive states.

But isn't the EU set up that every single member has to agree to those laws in the first place? So what solutions is the government working on? I find it funny how for years many Europeans have criticized and mocked Americans for not being open minded enough to not want endless hordes of people coming to their country, only to say the same things after dealing with its own migrant crisis for only 10 years.

Japanese police take stalking of idols seriously after being called out several times for ignoring idols that were later killed or hospitalized. I think they even passed an anti-staling law after all the controversy. Problem is that they still seem to not take the stalking of random people and especially foreigners seriously. You occasionally run into a few comments from people having to demand they actually investigate instead of just noting on their records. Female police tend to be more sympathetic, though.

It's been a while, but from what I can remember, it because many modern houses are required to have some safety glass that doesn't split into sharp blades as much as the old glass. Not every city/state has this requirement, but that particular one did. One of the many criticisms of judges here is that they tend to be activists that stretch the interpretation of the law to whatever they can get away with. And once "legal precedent" sets in, it practically becomes the law everywhere.

I never thought that I would love an anime as much as I did BnHA. It's a good thing too, since I've become so burnt out from anime that I haven't even bothered with the Summer season as all; there are even some Spring anime that I haven't even finished yet. I've just haven't been able to to watch any anime in 3 months. At least I've been able to keep up with a few manga, but I've simply put many titles on hold. I did take your advice and started putting my gaming laptop to use. It's the reason why it took me this long to reply to you. I simply didn't bother checking on MAL when I wasn't watching anything. I am trying to get back to watching anime, so I should be more active now.

I've heard of problems with the 7800 X3D being limited by the having only 8 cores and lower clock speed. Thus, I'm waiting a bit to see how 14th gen Intel looks. Even if I don't buy the new Intel, their 13th gen should get cheaper when the new ones release.

Leaks from Moore's Law Is Dead says that AMD is pushing for 51% margins on all their products these days, while Nvidia is at 70%. While paying off debts and having a war chest are valid reasons, 51% is still a huge jump from their previous 20% margins just 5 years ago. AMD simply just doesn't care to compete with Nvidia right now. This is why Intel failing on their GPU is such a huge deal. When I took it to the computer shop, they told me that it was probably my motherboard. When they asked me if I wanted to spend hundreds of dollars to fix it all, I said no. My new laptop is an 17" Asus gaming laptop with an i9 and 3070ti. Fans scream like crazy sometimes, but it's a good laptop so far. Haven't played games on it though.

Are you having a hard time getting access to your funds? I know that some banks give people hard times when overseas and I know that many charge high fees when withdrawing. It's been so long since we last talked that I forgot where your were last time haha. I hear that Thailand is so beautiful all year round, although Bangkok is a nightmare to navigate.
Does this mean that you're more into nature than all the touristy spots like Seattle's Space Needle and LA's Hollywood? If you're planning on visiting the national parks and seeing the nature, you should go around early Autumn. The snow has long melted and it's not as crowded as summer. You should also visit a shooting range and take some classes shooting guns. I've heard that there really isn't much to do in Singapore, since it's so urbanized and so constrained. I've heard that it's a nice place to live, but not much to do there. I've noticed that many Asian cities have surpassed the West in many ways, in terms of how advanced their cities are.
I won't deny that Asian hate crimes happen, but I won't say Asians go around in fear for their safety all the time. It just depends on the area and how unlucky you are at the time. Many people have noticed that more of the people committing those crimes tend to be a certain color, but saying what that color is a big NO-NO.

Does the farmers being elected mean those laws taking away their farms have been repealed yet? At least the protest in the Nederlands isn't as bad as what's happening in France right now. You're certainly adventurous when it comes to food. What kinds of insects have you tried?

It's usually South Korea or India videos on Asian Boss that I've sort of lost interest in that channel. Wish they would show more from other countries instead of those two. I don't know much about other Asian countries, but I have heard and read enough to know that many people consider Japanese police to be absolutely useless. I've even read a few times about foreign women asking the police for help with crazy stalkers and police not doing anything, because they can't because of the law or they didn't think that it was a big deal. You've lived in Japan for a while. I've sure you must have heard stories from other foreigners there as well.
Not being able to do anything when someone breaks into your home is one of the stupidest things I've ever heard of. In the US, we have the Castle Doctrine, which means that people can defend their homes from anyone trespassing. The problem is how it is interpreted in different states. You are allowed to shoot anyone, but you can be in trouble if someone dies in some states, while being immune in others. You don't even have to actually do anything to them as long as they happen to die from their own doing in your own home. There was this one case a long time ago about a burglar breaking the glass in someone's home, cutting himself, then bleeding to death. Everyone was shocked when the owner was convicted for the bugler's death because the window he cut himself on wasn't up to code, which was the owner's responsibility. News of this case led many other states to grant immunity to people who's homes are being broken into.

I've played Fallout 4 with lots of mods. Oh boy did that game turn into a slideshow when lots of enemies started appearing.

Strange. I am using VLC on my phone. I just finished my 2,900th completed anime. I never thought that something like this would happen these days, but I actually game Boku no Hero Academia 6th Season a perfect 10 rating! My only 10 rating in around 10 years! You should really watch that show. :P

I decided to wait for the 7800X3D instead after seeing the reviews of the 7950X3D. There simply is no point in paying $250 more for what is effectively going to be the same chip. AMD should've released a 12 core single CCD this generation. So disappointed.

How are you, good sir?

I think that I wasn't alone in really hoping that AMD would actually come through and be the heroes by giving us reasonably priced cards. Sadly, AMD proved just as greedy Nvidia. I just hope the rumors are true about them lowering the prices of the 7000 series cards by August this year. Too bad that I have absolutely no choice but to build my new computer next month, when the X3D launches, since my 7 year old computer died on me last month. What's worse is that my old laptop is also having endless crashes, so I was forced to buy a new one. I really didn't want to buy a new laptop so soon before building my new computer, but this new laptop was just such a good deal that I just had to get it, even though it was an open box item. Still, it does suck to be forced to continue using my 980ti on my new rig instead of something that's at least more powerful than my laptop. *Fingers crossed for price drop*

Yeah, I guess you really did pick the right time to travel, now that everything is just going up and up. Inflation really sucks ass here. Even our eggs went up 500%. You must have saved up a lot to be able to travel to all these countries in one go. Hope you still have enough left over for emergencies and the plane ticket back home. What country are you in now? Which country has been your favorite so far? If you are planning on visiting the US, I can tell you right now that red states will be much cleaner, safer, and the people generally nicer than in blue state shit holes. Pretty much all the bad things that you hear about the US come from those state and cities. But if you are planning on visiting places like LA and NYC, only go out in daylight and in places with lots of people. No, I don't use anything other than MAL. I simply got traumatized really bad with the last time I got really sociable with people. It was an absolute nightmare that cost me a lot of people that I thought were friends. :/

But doesn't every single EU member have to actually agree before those standards are put in place? It seems like a really big fuck you to the farmers to simply kick people out of their farms. The thought of eating this terrifies me.

If it's like what I hear about all the other tests in Japan, I'm guessing the recruitment process will be a lot like how people take their driving tests over there. That is really strict about some of the stupidest/nonsensical things, while lacking practicality and common sense in many areas. I've also read about the police in Japan only focusing on solving crimes, but not preventing them from even happening. Simply put, they can not or will not do anything until an actual crime has taken place - because police in Japan are there to solve crimes, not prevent them. I've seen several videos from AsianBoss, but feel their older videos were more interesting than their current ones, and they focus too much on South Korea.

True, but I kinda wish that I actually finished the game before quitting it. Yeah, I can't play Hogwarts Legacy anytime soon, since my GPU isn't strong enough. I can't stand slideshows.

Maybe on your phone, but I use an old One Plus phone. Double tapping only takes me in/out of full screen. What's worse is that now my phone has a bug where if I touch the controls while the video is playing, they won't go away. :( Damn, I don't think I could get through anything near 1000+ episodes these days. Maybe when I first started watching anime, but definitely not anymore. That's an accomplishment right there! What are you planning on watching after you finally done watching One Piece?

Thanks! I hope you have a wonderful new year yourself! You sure earned it! :D As for PC prices next February when I start building.... I'm not so sure on that one. T___T

There's no way that I'm getting those overpriced Nvidia cards. Nvidia screwed over everyone with their greed during the mining boom, so I'm supposed to fall for their plan to manipulate everyone into saving them from their own mistake now that they made too many 30 series cards that use way too much power? Hell no. Fuck Nvidia! I'm planning on building an all AMD build next year when they finally release the X3D cpu's. Hopefully, by Q1 next year, prices will have come down by a lot to make things more affordable for everyone buying into the new platform. Can't say that I'm excited over the new temps, but I really can't afford to wait until the 9000 series X3D chips in 2025.

I guess you really picked the right time to go since everything has gone through the roof these past several months. Everything has gotten a lot more expensive and it's only going to get even more expensive when winter finally hits. Glad to hear that you've been enjoying your trip. What places have you visited so far?

It sounds like those farmers didn't really have that much of an effect on things. What was your opinion on those strikes?

I watched several Jvloggers and people on Reddit talk about it. They mostly say that it wasn't really a surprise to find out that the police were useless since Japanese people only care about appearance rather than actually doing things that are actually effective. They say that Japanese police pretty much rely on the fact that Japan isn't a violent country to slack off and just pretend to do their jobs by simply standing nearby.

We eventually patched things up, but the game was simply just wasn't fun anymore now that I was playing alone and with al the baggage from that whole fight. Only managed to complete around half of the class stories before I couldn't continue any longer and dropped out of the game. Game wasn't pay to win, but you were kinda gimped when you reached the end of the class stories expansions, if you didn't sub. I hate watching anime on my phone since I like seeing everything on screen and it's a huge pain to rewind a few seconds just catch the dialogue you missed. And my phone has shit internet anyway since I don't want to spend the 20 dollars a month on better internet that gets throttled after a few videos anyway. You've been missing out on a good Spring and Summer seasons, but I do understand the need to take a break from anime to enjoy other things.

I just bought the same GPU as the one I had before. I'm planning on building an entirely new computer when the new stuff comes out, so I wasn't gonna spend a lot of money on it. Man, I really wish that it was released, already. I already know that inflation is really gonna bite my ass whe I'm finally able to buy those things next year.

Congratulations! What a strange time to be traveling the world right now, but it's better than never. Although, I do wonder if you can even leave with all those strikes and protests going on right now in your country. I hear that all the roads are being blocked and no one can even get any food right now. Also, a really sad time for Japan. Never expected Abe to actually get assassinated by a gun.

My GPU died from playing Star Wars The Old Republic, after a friend kinda pressured me into playing it, so we'd have something to do online together. Game was fun, but I simply couldn't dedicate as much time as that friend, since I simply had other important shit to do. Got into a fight over being left behind, so I ended up playing the game alone until my GPU died. Anime and manga are my passions right now, not playing video games - and certainly not having to spend money to keep up with everyone in an MMO. Prices were insane at the time, so I couldn't buy a new one. I was getting bored with the game anyway, so it wasn't a huge deal there, but not being able to watch anime really hurt. Finally got a used one for around $80, and have been slowly catching up on anime ever since.

Sorry for being gone for so long. My GPU died and I wasn't gonna pay scalper prices for a new one.

Anyway, how you've been?

Sorry I've been gone for so long! A lot of things kept happening that I really had to deal with. But I'm back! :D

It's weird how I've been gone for months, yet everything has been pretty much the same... yet has gotten much, much worse. Everything is a shit show these days that I really don't know what to say about it. The world has gone to shit. Everything is really damn expensive... if you can find them. Governments around the world have gotten drunk on power. And gaming is still dead because graphics cards and CPU's are still too damn expensive. I planned for years on finally building a new computer next year, when AM5 and RDNA 3 comes out, but it's looking like that won't be happening. Guess I'll be stuck on a 7 year old computer for a couple more years. T___T

On the plus side: at least MangaDex is finally back.

Mangasee123 doesn't have all the manga that I'm reading. What's worse is that I can't even remember what many of the manga that I was reading on MangaDex were, so I can't look them up either. I know that can use some apps to read manga on MangaDex, but I really don't want to download some app and create an account just to go on another site to read things. I'm just using this as an opportunity to catch up on other things like watching anime and play a game or two. I don't like my info floating out there for some criminal assholes to use, so that's why it pissed me off that an email that I used often and an email that I had my email that I just created compromised just like that. It's not like I read all 300 manga at the same time; many manga don't even update for months on end. LHTranslations is notorious for abandoning manga for 6 months or more, before releasing one chapter simply to maintain their claim on the manga. I can't tell you how many times I see an update and I have absolutely no idea what the hell is going on because I completely forgot the manga even existed. LOL

Moving to a different place at this point in time is like deciding whether you would like to be kicked in the balls or stabbed in the back. Both options are absolutely horrible. Even moving overseas isn't all that great since they have their own different set of problems that are just as bad, if not even worse. Take Asia for example: Asia hasn't lost their damn minds and isn't falling apart like the West is. Problem is that Asia is hyper competitive and is so collective in thinking that it's basically like joining the military. Go to South-East Asia: your money will give you as much freedom as money can buy (as long as you have the money) but it's filthy and dangerous that if diarrhea doesn't kill you, the criminal will. Unless you know some trustworthy people there or are really good at protecting yourself, you're better off dealing with your own third world cities and taking your chances there. Go to North-East Asia: everything is expensive and everything is 100x more competitive than anywhere in the West. As an outsider, you'll have a hard time fitting in. And even if you do manage to learn the culture and language enough to get by, you will never be considered "one of us". :/ Communicating with family is important, but learning Chinese tech and instructions? Doesn't everything sold in the West already come with localized instructions?

Quintuplets, eh? I don't suppose you're talking about 5-toubun no Hanayome?

A few weeks ago, I went to the mechanic and had this long conversation with the cashier about how everything has gone to shit these days. She was complaining how everyone seemed to have lost their damn minds and how she was relieved that she finally found someone that wasn't crazy. She also told me about this one encounter where this black guy hit her car and started accusing her of racism and oppression for trying to get basic information for insurance claim purposes. When her husband got out of the car and told the guy that he would call the police if he didn't provide the information, the guy started accusing them of trying to murder him. I hear this shit all the time on the internet, but actually hearing it from someone that I actually know is something else entirely. I'm sure you've heard stories of crazy people in your country as well.

I haven't seen the final movie of Heaven's Feel, but I have seen the first 2. Heaven's Feel is definitely the absolute best of any Fate series in existence. It's a shame that Nasu and Type-Moon have such a hard on for Grand Order and all that gacha money they've been getting all these years. I've even heard that Nasu himself said that Grand Order is the absolute definitive Fate series and the "real cannon Fate". Downloaded the Demon Slayer movie last week, but I also haven't gotten around to seeing it either. Ufotable actually cares about making their anime properly instead of cutting corners and releasing as much as they can for cheap. It's a real shame that more studios don't follow Ufotable example. So, what anime have you been watching this season?

The market did crash, but people have been saying that the crypto boom is still not over yet. If this crypto boom follows the last few, there will be one last boom before it finally crashes down to the point where people can actually buy graphic cards again.

Sorry for the late reply. I've been busy with irl stuff and I haven't had much reason to go on MAL to update my lists since MangaDex has been down for more than a month. What really sucks about MangaDex is that I now have 2 emails that I liked floating around the internet because of the site's really shitty coding allowed them to be hacked over and over again. I'm now trying to get back into watching anime again but it's still depressing not being able to read all my ~300 manga that I can't remember the titles of. :(

The way I see things, the West really isn't the same wonderful place that it used to be. The West is falling apart and everything is becoming more and more like the Third World. Honestly, I really want to get out, but I have no idea where to go that isn't in decline or already a shit hole. There are some decent places in the US, but those are quickly going away as people from other states overwhelm and replace the natives with the same policies that made where they came from a shit hole the first place. What made you have a change of heart and want to learn your language again?

Eh... I just felt really lazy with me not being able to ready my manga for more than a month. I changed it now. Is it to your taste? :3

People in America are brainwashed to think that America is the freest, most open country in the world; where you can do anything and say anything you want because of FREEDOM! That might have been true in the past but it's certainly not true today. I've noticed that many of the greediest, most censorship loving companies in the world tend to be American companies. Poverty is one factor in crime, but it doesn't explain why 13% of a certain population commits nearly 50% of all violent crime in the US. And if we're talking about money, doesn't almost everyone in the world need more money? Everyone in the world needs money unless you're a billionaire but you don't see most of the world at each other's throats committing all sorts of crime. The decent states are the states now being overrun with people fleeing their shit hole states. These people never learn that they were the ones that cause their states to fall apart to the point they had to move out of them, so they immediately get to work voting for the same exact policies that turned their states into shit holes in the first place.

Yeah, I found that sequel after you told me about it. I'm not surprised that it wasn't as good as the original since Train to Busan was never expected to be as huge as it was. They had to come up with an entirely new cast and a completely new story since almost everyone was killed in the first one. I was more hoping for actual zombies in Sweet Home, but as long as it's good. I've totally gave up on Star Wars after The Last Jedi. The Prequels were bad enough, but the Sequels are just a huge disappointment for me. I'm just waiting for that Demon Slayer movie to finally come out on BD so I can download it and finally watch it. The ships in The Expanse are meant to look like how realistic spaceships would look like in the future. With no atmosphere and no magic gravity, ships tend to have more boxy shapes than what people usually see in sci-fi.

The whole supply situation is a huge mess and from what I hear it's not going to get any better next year either. It's looking like everything will just get more and more expansive, while being even harder to get in the future. Everything's gone up these days. I can't think of a single thing that hasn't gone up at all since before this whole thing began.

You really are lucky that you still get lots of offers, despite still being a student. If this were in the here, you would struggling to find work while looking at all those Indian workers being imported because they're much cheaper than natives. You mean you don't know the Chinese language, despite being Chinese yourself. Though I shouldn't be al that surprised since a lot of immigrant children do not bother learning their ancestral country's language, since learning the native country's language is hard enough, while learning a far off language that's hardly used where you're at doesn't seem all that worth it.

I might push the limits a bit sooner than you think ;)

These days, it seems that every single thing that police do is police brutality. It's not like there aren't incidents where police really do go too far, but it's gotten to the point where police can't do anything without someone screaming "police brutality" or "racism". It's simply gone out of control at this point. And you're welcome! But I do have a more skeptical and nihilistic view point compared to most other people. While most people would lean towards being a liberal -- I lean towards the other end of the spectrum. Though, these days, you really have to keep quiet and anonymous, if you don't want to be attacked and made homeless by the mob cancelling everything they disagree with. You mean your country doesn't bribe criminals? How medieval of you people! /sarcasm Actual systemic and open racism stopped being a problem decades ago, but people keep finding new things they want to call racist. Generally speaking: half US is a shit hole, though there are still pockets in rural areas that still have decent communities. Problem is that it's still in those same states where everyone has gone insane, so many aspects of their communities are being influenced and dictated by the majority that live in cities. As a matter of fact: things are so mismanaged, expensive, and downright horrible in many states that many people have been moving to other states for decades.... and then pushing to enact the same exact laws and policies that have ruined the states they've fled from in the first place. I happen to live in one of those states that is so mismanaged and where the people are so insane, that people from other states openly hate us.

Finding actual good zombie anything is so incredibly rare that I just accept that anything zombie is going to suck. Which is why it was such a surprise that Kingdom was actually really good. This after Train to Busan a couple of years prior. I don't know what it is about Korea that lets them make good zombie movies, but they're doing it somehow. Haven't seen Sweet Home. Is it another zombie show? I didn't really like the second season of Kingdom as much as the first because it seemed too rushed to me. It was like they forced 2-3 seasons worth of content into just 6 episodes. I stay away from Hollywood after the my huge disappointment over Star Wars The Last Jedi. I don't want to give them any more of my money, and it's simply too dangerous to pirate anything out of Hollywood. The Expanse is a show more grounded in science than almost every other space scifi show ever. It's not completely hard science, but leans more towards it. I can only guess that what you thought look funny is how the people moved when the ship did something. This is because there is no such thing as artificial gravity or inertial dampeners or shields. Everyone experiences G-forces like jet fighter pilots do here on Earth. I would give it a 7.5 out of 10. It's a good show, but you don't see huge space battles like in Star Wars, Babylon 5, Stargate, and Battlestar Galactica. Most of the show is a mystery with politics going on in the background and the occasional battle/fight scenes for eye candy. Keep in mind that I've only watched the first 3 seasons of what is currently 5 seasons.

I knew that it would be only a matter of time before the 3060 would be cracked. My surprise is how long it took for them to actually do it. I thought that it would be cracked in the first week, but it actually took them 3 weeks instead lol Scalpers are cancer, but Nvidia, AMD, and their distributors are also cashing on the crypto boom. The new 6700 XT is 4% slower than the 3070, with less features. It's 30% faster than the 5700 XT, while being 20% more expensive, but AMD thinks it's a good deal to sell it at just $20 less than the 3070. I guess in this market where anyone will pay anything for a graphics card, they're right. Mining is only worth it if you live in an area with cheap electricity. I live in a shithole state where everything is really expensive -- including electricity. Miners would take around 1-2 years to break even at current prices.

Haha! At least everything is almost done for you, although I'm not really sure if you'll have an easier time after school is done in this shitty economy. Too bad for you, you have to stay home instead of traveling to Korea and Japan again for vacation :P

I think the mod found me from this one comment I made for this Love Live video earlier this month. I'm basically a hermit in that I don't join in on discussions or talk to a lot of people for me to attract enough attention from people. I checked the rules and my warning will expire towards the end of August, so you might be seeing something like my old picture yet again ;)

I still have no intention of taking a vaccine that no one has nay clue what the long term effects are. Hardly anyone dies from the virus and I'm not one of those really old people that have to worry about this sort of thing. Besides, those vaccines are in short supply, so better they take it than me :3

Parents turning in their own children to the police? The complete opposite of what is happening here. There was this one guy that turned in his own father for going to the capitol during the riots and made headlines. Apparently, the father was stuck in prison for questioning for some time before he was released. Why was the father released? Because the father never even entered the Capitol Building in the first place, everything he did was completely legal and thus completely innocent of everything he was accused of doing by his son. People have simply lost their minds here to the point that it's quickly becoming a third world country. There's even news about this one city with huge crime rated that defunded their police because having police is racist. The funny thing is that nearly all the people in the city is black. The city leaders are majority black and the police is majority black. Yet, somehow everyone being poor and crime being one of the worst in the nation is the fault of racism. Guess what? Crime that was one of the highest in the nation has quadrupled in less than a year. Crime has gotten so bad that people are pushing for the government to pay bribe criminals to stop killing everyone and each other. Gee? I wonder how well bribing criminals to stop killing people will work out? >_> Water cannons are considered racist because they were used against rioters in the 1960's. The 60's were full of riots because of protests against the draft for the Vietnam War and civil rights protests. People were burning down entire cities and looting everything in sight. Most of the police at the time were white, while many of the people burning down cities, looting, and killing people were black. Images of water cannons being used against black people put a stigma on water cannons to the point that water cannons are consider racist and a symbol of oppression. It's stupid because countries all over the world use water cannons and even police in African countries use it on their own people, but that's just the way it is.

I tried watching some Japanese live action shows, but I found it too depressing and the acting not very good. Korean shows, on the other hand, are actually interesting and have very good acting. I watched a couple of Korean shows like Goblin, Hey Ghost, Let's Fight, and Kingdom. I enjoyed them, but I quickly got bored at how cliched and generic everything seemed to be. Most of the shows are romance and set in the Joseon Period, and almost always follow the same formula. Anime is the same, but at least you get a lot more variety in anime with fantasy and isekai and stuff like that. Hollywood is simply cancer, but they do have a lot of money, so they're "investing" around the world on anime and Hallyu. :( The Expanse is really good and I do wish to watch the final 3 seasons in the future. But the thing is that I happen to like space sci-fi and space sci-fi is a really niche genre. If you've watched and like shows like Bablyon 5, Stargate, Battlestar Galatica, and liked Mass Effect, you might like The Expanse. The Expanse is the opposite of Star Trek in the it's not some hippie utopia where everyone is just happy for no damn reason. It's a dark show that places an emphasis on politics and hard science, although there are plenty of nice space battles too.

Multi-billion dollar mining firms can afford to hire their software engineers to write their own drivers and bios for them. They even hire former Nvidia and AMD employees to make sure everything works properly. Nvidia doesn't even have to ship entire cards anymore ether. They've been shipping just the CPU and RAM to these mining firms and they complete the rest. Specific drivers crippling cards are simply irrelevant to them since they're the ones actually making their own cards in the first place. Most gamers don't care about mining, but there are a lot of gamers that do mining on the side when they're sleeping or gone to work. It's a way of them to pay off their overpriced card and make some needed extra money in a shitty economy.

You don't even get a break in between semesters? That really sucks. The life of a slave never ends. XD

Speaking of notifications: I got called out by a mod for my profile pic being too lewd. I did censor all the naughty parts, but it was apparently not enough. It appears that all genitals have to covered with standard clothing like bikinis and panties, not censor bars. The weird thing is that I've seen many official hentai anime and manga pictures on MAL using those exact same censor bars that I used on my profile. Sure, they're for hentai, but it's not like MAL limits people from freely accessing those pages. If MAL allows those things for its official pictures, then it's really stupid that it's not allowed for users.

Apparently, the vaccines don't stop the virus at all. All those thing do is prevent the worse symptoms from occurring. Uh, if the virus only really affects old or really sick people, then what's the point in people like us even taking the shot in the first place?

They're usually called riot police here, but I think they're called something else in the UK. It's really just regular police with special riot equipment and tear gas. I know exactly what you mean since we had our own riots just last year. The media were calling them "freedom fighters", but all they really did was burn down buildings, steal a bunch of stuff, and hurt a lot of people. You also find videos all the time of protesters doing al sorts of illegal things and getting angry when police respond. The really stupid thing is how cities actually listened to the rioters idiotic calls to defund and/or eliminate the police. Fast forward almost a year later: Surprise! Crime is up by double or triple it was before the police was defunded. Now these same retards are complaining about the police not being able to do anything about the high crime. What happened to that girl was really fucked up. Of course shooting a water cannon on someone against a wall would really injure them. If that girl was out in the open and not against something, I wouldn't care, but what did the police think would happen when they shoot something high pressure at someone so close to a wall? Water cannons are actually not used here because people associate those with racism. Instead, police use tear gas and rubber bullets on people. Not sure which is worse, but I think those water cannons are cheaper and more cost-effective than tear gas and rubber bullets.

I've only caught up around half of what I want to watch this season. I've been doing my best at clearing out everything as fast as I can, but these only so much I can watch when I'm also keeping up with my manga. My backlog is now at around 530 episodes and growing each day. T___ T At least you're getting your money's worth on that Netflix subscription. I stopped watching live action stuff long ago when I started getting sick at how much of the Hollywood agenda was being pushed into every show. The only live action show I would consider watching is The Expanse. I've watched the first 3 seasons of that show, but I haven't kept up with seasons 4 and 5.

Did you hear the news about Nvidia "helping out gamers" by crippling mining on their cards and seeing special mining cards? Helping out gamers? Does that sound like Nvidia to you? I didn't think so. And yet so many people out there are praising this as a good thing when all it does is screw over gamers. Those cards that would've went to gamers will now go to miners and gamers that used to mine on the side will now be screwed over. The supply issue is caused by corporations literally buying pallets of graphics cards by the shipment. These corporations are rich enough to make their own drivers, so Nvidia crippling cards with a driver update doesn't mean shit to them. What all this does is give more supply to those corporations and screw over the consumer by crippling their ability to make their money back by mining and then by reducing the amount of used graphics cards that will inevitably flood the market when the mining boom crashes. I don't care about mining! I just want to finally build my new computer with the next generation stuff at reasonable prices again.

That's great! How long will your new found freedom last before you're back to slaving away for those deadlines? XD

Those notifications irritate me, so I have to click on that bell to remove them. At least those random friend requests seemed to have gone away. I don't what happened, but I hardly get any of them since the year started.

There have been reports of lots people dying right after taking the vaccine. It's gotten so bad that I think Norway even put those on hold and California has done the same. There are even stories about homes for the elderly where everyone was fine and no one died at all... before the vaccine. Once the vaccinations started, people started dying one after another. This one elderly home had around 23 people die in the first 3 weeks after everyone got the first shot. What's worse are those people having to be send to the hospital because of "allergies" from bees and shit. Huh? What does having a bee allergy have to do with taking a vaccine meant for a virus?

People keep using the excuse of "anything that's biased is not legitimate" to blow off anything they can't argue against. The problem is that everyone has some form of bias. It's almost impossible to find any news that doesn't have some for of bias. And it's simply impossible when it come to articles that analyze news, simply because of the nature of the content (an editorial). The fact is that most people are NPC's that only really follow their emotions rather than reason. People like to think they're smart animals that only listen to reason, but time and again, that's simply not true for most people. That's why people will ignore you, or even get angry, when you start throwing facts around that goes against what they believe in.

You mean they didn't tear your house apart, throw your clothes on the floor, and spent an hour pointing guns at you the whole time they were there? What nice police officers you have over there.

I download anime from the mirrors on streaming sites. It really only takes about a couple of minutes - depending on what mirror you download from - and the quality is much better than streaming. I also don't have to deal with the irritating buffering that comes with overloaded servers. I'm trying to catch up with all the sequels airing this season, but there's just so many sequels and too many episodes released since this the middle of the season. I haven't even started Jujutsu Kaisen and the second season of Re:Zero.

Things have only just gotten started. Have you seen those pictures of laptops being used for mining? Mining has screwed up the market so much that even laptops are being bought up by miners. And considering how much money printing and how the world economy is shit, I don't think this mining boom will end until at least next year. I've always intended to wait for Zen 4 before finally building my new computer. A number of things are going to happen when AMD finally releases Zen 4. AMD is finally moving to a new motherboard platform (AM5), moving to 5 nano meter on TMSC, and motherboards will start using DDR5. Zen 4 is expected to be as huge as Zen 2 and it's being released at the same time as the Radeon 7000 series GPU's. They're supposed to be released at the end of this year, but I don't think I'll be able to get any of it at MSRP.