Mel81x

Oldie but a goldie.

Those are some crazy images.

I liked the final results in the scanner. Seemed to be under-exposed a bit with the bright light shots but then it seemed totally fine with the more closer ones. His coffee videos and takes on different types of coffee are very good imo. The amount of detail he goes into and how he explains the brewing/prep process are what I like the most about his videos.

You've got some ways to go in Sekiro and yeah I'd give Ghost of Tsushima a run its more casual and has a good story.

I think it plays a bit like the original NiOh without the disgusting difficulty if you don't choose Legend. It's got a lot of exploration in it but it does get a bit repetitive at times. However, the duels are super fun and a bit challenging as well. I'd say its really good as they use the story to generate a lot of interest in the game and you dont spend a lot of time listening to them talk and more time doing stuff which I like. It's actually a bit like Phantom Pain where you can choose to stay on the path or just roam the land and do stuff.

Lets not discuss the Sword Saint because at the end you feel like no matter what you he just won't f'ing die. I had to attempt it 12 times or maybe a bit more before I finally got it done. What a fight though and a true test of how good your mastery on the control is. As for Ghost of Tsushima I am almost done with Act 2. Took this pic in-game yesterday.

I think it is luck-based as well. Sometimes you see the sprite go over you and you think 'okay im dead' then you realize you're not.

I don't think we've ever really conversed about religion either but let me preface it with this, I was raised Catholic and my parents really never pushed us into religion but made sure we understood what it was. My parents are super religious but having spent many years away from home and having to work in a largely Muslim populated country I suppose had some effect on the way we were allowed to discuss religious things at the dinner table (we still got whacked for misbehaving but open questioning wasn't really reprimanded unless we were being disrespectful in some way). I personally identify as Catholic but would I shun someone away if I found out they supported something that the larger catholic community was against? Not really. I'm more curious why people do the things they do. In most cases it all boils down to time and the experiences that culminate in that moment and over the years I have learned that if you discount something just because someone tells it to you or feeds it to you as dogma you're really doing yourself a dis-service in the longer run. Why this long answer? To answer the question about our PM and the going on's with the building of a temple on a place once held by a mosque is a nothing event to me honestly. For years people have talked about the riots and what one community should have done and why the other just sat silently. The bigger issue to me was how the justice system woke up and decided to do this at a time when we as a country are facing some of the most polarizing viewpoints on how Muslims and Hindus are being treated/viewed. I think this is the start of something new that we won't be fully equipped to deal with as our numbers rise due to COVID cases and I'd like someone to put that to bed first before we go about doing the things that are going on right now. We have a fractured society and while it may not impact me as much as someone who finds the time to go to protests or causes disturbances like we've seen in the last year I would like my country to get to a point where we can put this kind of shit behind us and actually start moving forward.

For anyone wondering what this Demon of Hatred is.

Was on call with a colleague who works in Lebanon and she said initially it was just shock now there's so much going wrong with medical services that people are dying just because they can't get any medical aid. The story i was told is that a family had their house blasted due to being closer to the actual blast and the wife got injured, so they rushed her to the hospital as a priority but she had to wait for medical attention and she died while her family was making its way there. Scary stuff going on out there and all because of something stored for years with no proper security around it. The governments can all point fingers and lay blame all they want but the real issue is that Lebanon was going through so much before this bomb-blast and I really don't think the economic issues that were rampant there will ever get resolved due to this catastrophe now.

I thought the same when I played it. You really can't go back to the slow style that DS has once you play Sekiro. And yes, fuck Ishin.

I'm following it here. https://www.annahar.com/ But this is also good https://www.mtv.com.lb/en/

Some Arabic news channels are saying it wasn't fireworks but explosive materials (not explosives) so when they caught fire it exploded the way it did.

Half contemplated trying this but that size is the down for me. The social game I play with friends these days is DOTA2 and we do about two rounds during the week post work to unwind. Edit: I of course say that but I am sure my games download over the span of four months crosses 200GB comfortably.

I am midway through Act 2 of Ghost of Tsushima. So far the game has offered some challenge and in some areas its gotten a bit mechanical but one thing is for sure the duels this game brings to the front when you have to complete missions or in the middle of big events are awesome. I'll probably be done with Act 3 over the weekend and then I'll move onto something else. Have to say cleaning out my backlog has been one of the best things I did during the COVID break. I have only two more games to finish and I'll have a clean slate.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/07/florida-teen-arrested-charged-with-being-mastermind-of-twitter-hack/ Whenever I hear that a teenager hacked someone I am reminded of how fickle prosecuting laws are when it comes to minors. Yes, hes a minor (17) but he also conspired with some adults to do this so anything those guys get should apply to him as well (assuming they actually charge him). In cases like these I also think its imperative that whoever gets caught can no longer operate a computer and be forced to follow this rule with no kind of leniency of any kind. As harsh as that sounds the reasoning is simple, would you let an adult get away with no repercussions when the fiscal scam was this size? Absolutely not. So, it shouldn't matter if you're 14 or 12 or even 9. These kids aren't dumb and they know what they are doing, its the stupid laws that protect their fake-ignorance and sometimes arrogance as well.

Well in Goa there are good places to hit like the far side of Anjuna (little outside) if you want some quiet but if you want some real quite on a budget hit something like Agonda in South Goa. You'll get some quiet and enjoy the nice beaches and a lot of local flavour. For the other options try Pondicherry (if you want a beach) or the Himachal Pradesh area if you want mountains. Is there a budget around this?

What a great read. I think so many factors are obscure to the big decision makers when it comes to taking risk. They were worried that their film business was at risk and fair play on that but I think Kodak was making so much money that they could have taken that risk. The other impeding factor would have been the commercial viability of that tech to the common person because if you put it out then you have to maintain it and maybe the surrounding tech was not ready. Still, missed opportunity and they may have been in a very different position today because of it.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/28/kodak-soars-another-40percent-after-trump-announces-deal-to-manufacture-generic-drug-ingredients.html#:~:text=Markets-,Kodak shares soar 400% in wild ride after Trump taps,giant to make drug ingredients&text=Eastman Kodak shares soared on,response to the coronavirus pandemic. While I know this is photography thread this is semi-photography news. Well done Kodak, well done.

This is pretty much why I hate it when you have one product in a space catering to a community that has a requirement for integration into their workflows. Sure, the example states a minuscule difference in acquisition speeds but the kicker is the price and this is where Canon have never really backed down. Granted they've let third parties do most of that legwork for them by building addons and products which they can then use with their core base but at the end of the day this is good for the consumer. I can't wait to see what the other quiet competitor in this space Nikon does now.

I think that's the idea eventually, it is way too impressive to not let it trickle down to lower models. When that is, however, is a whole different question. I imagine it comes to the mid-high ranges first then to everything else. The spec sheet for the new sensor and the AF point system is also very impressive.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/07/heads-roll-at-intel-after-7nm-delay/ As a person that has built a career in technology watching Intel fail to AMD is a bit weird in the sense that I love the fact that someone finally got the better of them but at the same time the market is so reliant on certain CPU instruction sets it may take maybe 4 yrs for this to change. On the horizon, Apple, ARM and Amazon are also trying to get into this domain and Apple specifically worries me because they tend to fuck everyone over when they do something hardware related unless you follow their rules. I hope Intel gets their shit together because I like choice and I like choice that doesn't compromise performance and security. In another interesting development, China has also put an interesting card on the table. https://www.extremetech.com/computing/309187-meet-the-zhaoxin-kx-u6780a-chinas-first-homegrown-x86-cpu Now, with all the shit that they've done over the years in backdoors, mid-ground hacks, network hacking, etc I would be very wary putting something like this in a data-center just because you don't want to wake up one day and find out you've got hardware doing illegal things. But, I also like to give things a fair shake and I'd like to see where this goes. For now, AMD would get my money if I was building a new workstation (which coincidentally I will be come January next year)