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After typing this out it occurred to me that you can use CMD to bypass the internet requirement for windows install. After doing that and running the driver update it resolved the issue. Hopefully this helps someone else!

iPhone 13 Mini
 
Come and join the ”phone that is comfortable in pants pockets” -master race!

Well I have a pic of myself as my profile picture, but here is a little more casual one

League of Legends is one of the most popular games in the world, it helped raise a new era of Esports and PC gaming, it has decent graphics and play-ability, and is overall one of the single best designed games I have ever played. Yet all of this is worthless to me for only one reason; the game is un-enjoyable. 
 
For those of you who have never played, this is the basics of how a typical solo/duo queue ranked game goes.
-You get into a lobby where you along with the other 4 teammates can pick your champions and figure out your roles.
-Either there is no communication between the team or there is at least one person who is already insulting players or demanding they receive a certain role or else they will intentionally throw the game or something along those lines.
-After some more insults or silence, the teams are picked and the game loads up.
-Now in the game, there is about a 5% chance someone on your team has either had their client crash or they intentionally left to go do something else.
-If this case is true then the team either starts complaining and telling others to report the AFK or in the EXTREMELY RARE cases the team remains calm and prepares a new strategy to play without the lost teammate.
-After a couple minutes of farming away in lanes or smiting away at some monsters in the jungle, inevitably someone has to die, and for some reason it always seems to be on your team (I still am not sure how this is true).
-The player who died was "lagging", the enemy champion is a counter or "SUPER OP", or it's another players fault for the death. All typical explanations you will see.
-The game continues on and people die here and there, chances are that you have been insulted multiple times by not only the enemy team who is usually just trash talking, but often by your own teammates who see the only productive way of communication to be picking every little bit of your gameplay and tearing it to shreds or even insulting you as a person and your family. But unlike an xbox or playstation match of CoD, this game will last likely 30-45 minutes and it is usually in the teams best interest to not mute the player.
-Once the laning phase has ended and towers have been destroyed, dragons slain, and blames passed out; it is about time for a team fight. 
-Each team fight has a potential to totally swing the direction of the game, so every action is important.
-Once you have gone through the first fight or two either your team is in good shape and you are feeling confident, or the more probable case; your team is down and every chance of a comeback is decimated by the arguing breaking out among allies. Everyone HAS to blame someone else for the loses.
-The game continues on and you either win or lose, either way someone will be insulting you.
-After the game, the post-match screen comes up with a chat lobby of all the players. This is mostly intended I believe to congratulate the Viktors (punny right?) and to look over the statistics of the match to see how you performed.
-What the post-match lobby almost always becomes is a complete shit show. Players threatening to report, cussing at one another, and giving other players instructions on how to uninstall the game.
 
Well today I decided to follow some of those last steps, and I did uninstall the game. Sure I will miss playing with some of my friends who spend a lot of time playing just like I did, but I still don't believe I will regret my decision. I simply believe playing League of Legends is mentally unhealthy. Video games exist to bring you into a new world, where you can be free of a lot of the stress we find outside of gaming. Video games are meant to bring excitement, joy, along with many other emotions. However I do not believe video games are intended to, nor do I wish to play games that intended to, cause stress or true anger. For me I found that League of Legends causes these emotions probably as often, if not more, than it ever made me feel relaxed or happy.
 
Maybe I am the only one that feels this way, but I truely think that League of Legends is a mostly un-enjoyable and an unhealthy use of my time. 

League of Legends is one of the most popular games in the world, it helped raise a new era of Esports and PC gaming, it has decent graphics and play-ability, and is overall one of the single best designed games I have ever played. Yet all of this is worthless to me for only one reason; the game is un-enjoyable. 
 
For those of you who have never played, this is the basics of how a typical solo/duo queue ranked game goes.
-You get into a lobby where you along with the other 4 teammates can pick your champions and figure out your roles.
-Either there is no communication between the team or there is at least one person who is already insulting players or demanding they receive a certain role or else they will intentionally throw the game or something along those lines.
-After some more insults or silence, the teams are picked and the game loads up.
-Now in the game, there is about a 5% chance someone on your team has either had their client crash or they intentionally left to go do something else.
-If this case is true then the team either starts complaining and telling others to report the AFK or in the EXTREMELY RARE cases the team remains calm and prepares a new strategy to play without the lost teammate.
-After a couple minutes of farming away in lanes or smiting away at some monsters in the jungle, inevitably someone has to die, and for some reason it always seems to be on your team (I still am not sure how this is true).
-The player who died was "lagging", the enemy champion is a counter or "SUPER OP", or it's another players fault for the death. All typical explanations you will see.
-The game continues on and people die here and there, chances are that you have been insulted multiple times by not only the enemy team who is usually just trash talking, but often by your own teammates who see the only productive way of communication to be picking every little bit of your gameplay and tearing it to shreds or even insulting you as a person and your family. But unlike an xbox or playstation match of CoD, this game will last likely 30-45 minutes and it is usually in the teams best interest to not mute the player.
-Once the laning phase has ended and towers have been destroyed, dragons slain, and blames passed out; it is about time for a team fight. 
-Each team fight has a potential to totally swing the direction of the game, so every action is important.
-Once you have gone through the first fight or two either your team is in good shape and you are feeling confident, or the more probable case; your team is down and every chance of a comeback is decimated by the arguing breaking out among allies. Everyone HAS to blame someone else for the loses.
-The game continues on and you either win or lose, either way someone will be insulting you.
-After the game, the post-match screen comes up with a chat lobby of all the players. This is mostly intended I believe to congratulate the Viktors (punny right?) and to look over the statistics of the match to see how you performed.
-What the post-match lobby almost always becomes is a complete shit show. Players threatening to report, cussing at one another, and giving other players instructions on how to uninstall the game.
 
Well today I decided to follow some of those last steps, and I did uninstall the game. Sure I will miss playing with some of my friends who spend a lot of time playing just like I did, but I still don't believe I will regret my decision. I simply believe playing League of Legends is mentally unhealthy. Video games exist to bring you into a new world, where you can be free of a lot of the stress we find outside of gaming. Video games are meant to bring excitement, joy, along with many other emotions. However I do not believe video games are intended to, nor do I wish to play games that intended to, cause stress or true anger. For me I found that League of Legends causes these emotions probably as often, if not more, than it ever made me feel relaxed or happy.
 
Maybe I am the only one that feels this way, but I truely think that League of Legends is a mostly un-enjoyable and an unhealthy use of my time. 

League of Legends is one of the most popular games in the world, it helped raise a new era of Esports and PC gaming, it has decent graphics and play-ability, and is overall one of the single best designed games I have ever played. Yet all of this is worthless to me for only one reason; the game is un-enjoyable. 
 
For those of you who have never played, this is the basics of how a typical solo/duo queue ranked game goes.
-You get into a lobby where you along with the other 4 teammates can pick your champions and figure out your roles.
-Either there is no communication between the team or there is at least one person who is already insulting players or demanding they receive a certain role or else they will intentionally throw the game or something along those lines.
-After some more insults or silence, the teams are picked and the game loads up.
-Now in the game, there is about a 5% chance someone on your team has either had their client crash or they intentionally left to go do something else.
-If this case is true then the team either starts complaining and telling others to report the AFK or in the EXTREMELY RARE cases the team remains calm and prepares a new strategy to play without the lost teammate.
-After a couple minutes of farming away in lanes or smiting away at some monsters in the jungle, inevitably someone has to die, and for some reason it always seems to be on your team (I still am not sure how this is true).
-The player who died was "lagging", the enemy champion is a counter or "SUPER OP", or it's another players fault for the death. All typical explanations you will see.
-The game continues on and people die here and there, chances are that you have been insulted multiple times by not only the enemy team who is usually just trash talking, but often by your own teammates who see the only productive way of communication to be picking every little bit of your gameplay and tearing it to shreds or even insulting you as a person and your family. But unlike an xbox or playstation match of CoD, this game will last likely 30-45 minutes and it is usually in the teams best interest to not mute the player.
-Once the laning phase has ended and towers have been destroyed, dragons slain, and blames passed out; it is about time for a team fight. 
-Each team fight has a potential to totally swing the direction of the game, so every action is important.
-Once you have gone through the first fight or two either your team is in good shape and you are feeling confident, or the more probable case; your team is down and every chance of a comeback is decimated by the arguing breaking out among allies. Everyone HAS to blame someone else for the loses.
-The game continues on and you either win or lose, either way someone will be insulting you.
-After the game, the post-match screen comes up with a chat lobby of all the players. This is mostly intended I believe to congratulate the Viktors (punny right?) and to look over the statistics of the match to see how you performed.
-What the post-match lobby almost always becomes is a complete shit show. Players threatening to report, cussing at one another, and giving other players instructions on how to uninstall the game.
 
Well today I decided to follow some of those last steps, and I did uninstall the game. Sure I will miss playing with some of my friends who spend a lot of time playing just like I did, but I still don't believe I will regret my decision. I simply believe playing League of Legends is mentally unhealthy. Video games exist to bring you into a new world, where you can be free of a lot of the stress we find outside of gaming. Video games are meant to bring excitement, joy, along with many other emotions. However I do not believe video games are intended to, nor do I wish to play games that intended to, cause stress or true anger. For me I found that League of Legends causes these emotions probably as often, if not more, than it ever made me feel relaxed or happy.
 
Maybe I am the only one that feels this way, but I truely think that League of Legends is a mostly un-enjoyable and an unhealthy use of my time. 

Well I have a pic of myself as my profile picture, but here is a little more casual one

Here goes nothing
 

Prove it. Having actually used Windows 10 for nearly a month now it's about as stable as Windows 7 ever was.

http://linustechtips.com/main/tags/forums/windows%2B7/
 
Such terrible OS. People on tech forum asking for help with problems. Must be bad. Windows 7 pile of shit.
 
The fact that you couldn't name a single problem yourself without searching a tech forum specifically looking for them tells me that you a) don't know what you're talking about and b) know shit all about statistics and the effect of a biased sample.

None then. Good to know you're just talking shit

You keep saying that. Can you specify what bugs you're talking about?

NOOOOOOOO I MISSED IT. I COULD HAVE HAD QUAD SLI TITANS! 

Now that's a controller to get. Will definitely pick this up to use with my PC. GTA V still horrendous with keyboard

Because MS doesn't give a shit about putting their multi billion dollar cash cow of a franchise on the PC. Deal with it. Get over it. It will maybe happen a year or two down the line when the game is old, but I doubt MS has any desire to port over their system seller anytime soon. 
 
MS gives you the OS and the APIs and the sandbox to make games. Get over not getting every franchise. It makes PC gaming fanboys sound obscenely petty. MS has plenty of focus on PC gaming.

Pictures have been deleted by the site I uploaded them to and I don't have a backup.
This thread is now basically useless.
 
 
I have a Z97 Sabertooth Mark S. One of the sexiest motherboards that are currently on the market. But it's really hard to find something that fits its colour scheme. A Galax/KFA² HoF card? No thanks.
Instead I got myself two Gigabyte G1 Gaming GTX 980s.

[spoiler2=My PC before the paint job][/spoiler2]

The problem is, that those don't really fit my colour scheme. So it's time to change that.
Welcome to the ultimate GPU paintjob... or so...  :wacko: 

To paint my G1s I had to take them apart. For that I needed a nice anti-static workplace with enough room.
 

WoW, old times. 
Never forget. RIP.

YOU IDIOT! why would you mention the nsa on this forum?! now obama is going to ignore isis even more and focus his attention to our forums!!
P.S. good paper, clear thesis, lacks a works cited page though. 

In the off-topic category.. also it's predominately about tech related stuff 

They definitely know you watched it.. Sorry man
 
NSA and stuff..

Just be a dick, works 10/10 times for loosing friends

Source: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1598272670/chip-the-worlds-first-9-computer
 

 
The super-cheap computer is still fairly new and arguably started with the $35 Raspberry Pi back in 2012, and multitudes of other affordable, mini computers have come since. This was 3 years ago. Today, something more ambitious is in the works, and it costs only $9. Of course, I'm talking about CHIP. Started as a Kickstarter project asking for $50,000, they are well over their current asking price currently sitting at $75,000 with 29 days to go.
UPDATE: Currently sitting at $280,000 with 28 days to go.
 
"CHIP is a computer that does computer things." It's extremely small, and for only $9 you get quite the bang for your buck. CHIP comes with a 1GHz processor (assumed to be a single core), 512MB of RAM, and 4GB of storage. Oh, and on top of this it comes with built in WiFi and Bluetooth. So how about video connectors? You can connect via composite, VGA, or HDMI. On top of all of this, CHIP comes pre-installed with its own open source operating system that looks very much like Windows.
 

 
Want to use CHIP on the go? It's all good. There's an addon for that. Dubbed the PocketCHIP, it's a tablet-keyboard kind of thing that you can pop your CHIP into and use it on the go. The PocketCHIP comes with a 3,000mAh battery, 4.3" 470x272 display, full qwerty keyboard, GPIO breakouts, and it's even fully open source.
 

 
So when will CHIP be available to the public? That has yet to be seen, but backers will get their CHIP in May 2016. 
 
So what about backer rewards? A mere $9 will, of course, get you a CHIP, and there are many other reward tiers. So what do you think about this amazing new product? Personally, I will be backing this. 

Angry Birds over Halo? 

Lol okay. That F2P disaster over a franchise worth 3 billion dollars with these glorious cutscenes which are more enjoyable than most franchises? Lol indeed. 

Post this to twitter instead

k.