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Sounds like a case of "We're 100% in favour of free speech as long as you agree with us" and you don't agree with our beliefs regarding feminism.

Sounds like a case of "We're 100% in favour of free speech as long as you agree with us" and you don't agree with our beliefs regarding feminism.

Sounds like a case of "We're 100% in favour of free speech as long as you agree with us" and you don't agree with our beliefs regarding feminism.

i always do, have a good value if your reselling 

It blows my mind that they are still using the "think of the children" argument.
I wish there was a "think of the children" version of Godwin's law.

This is some seriously sinister stuff...
It's no secret that corporations like to skew the facts to their agenda... But this is real proof, it's tangible evidence, not just an opinion.
 
'we're doing it for the children' 'this will prevent terrorism'
 
Not sure who they mean by 'respected technologists', they could either mean people like tech publications or people like LMG and Tek Syndicate.


Here is the full conversation: https://web.archive.org/web/20150419103700/https://wikileaks.org/sony/emails/emailid/104331

Here they detail their overall agenda:
https://web.archive.org/web/20150419104216/https://wikileaks.org/sony/emails/emailid/105049

Is it just me, or does it sound like they're looking for another CISPA, SOPA or PIPA?
 
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/3320vb/wikileaks_has_proof_fox_disney_nbcuniversal/

Yo mama so fat calculating her gravitational constant causes a stack overflow.

Yo mama so fat calculating her gravitational constant causes a stack overflow.

Remember this day.....

 

You should be the official low end card announcer dude, always a guaranteed lol

EVO is still cheaper.

Until it reaches the low prices of the 212 evo then it beats it but until then the evo still wins with its $25 prices before rebates.

I want to see temperature numbers

Those fucking way too close up shots, I want to see the whole goddamn cooler!!!!
 
Edit: I see you added a full pic, buttt that still doesn't show of the cooler that well imo, I'm not seeing a mobo underneath it and the angle is, well, shit

Don't really agree with him since digital games are still $60 at launch. They don't get cheaper usually until a few months afterwards on a good sale.
 
By the way, he does have a point though. The average price of a game in 1995 was $50, accounting for inflation and if games had no actual price increase, they should be costing $71.78 today. The fact that they are selling for $60 means that they are effectively selling them for less than they use to.

HOLY SHIT I GUESS I SOLD OUT WHEN I JUST LEFT MY JOB TO MOVE TO ANOTHER ONE THAT PAYS MORE AND HAS BETTER BENEFITS AND PAYS FOR MY PARKING AND IS ALLOWING ME TO HAVE MY NAME ON PUBLISHED RESEARCH ARTICLES
 
Fuck, I'm such a sellout

I used to hear A LOT of negatives. There was a period where a lot of people shipped the item, and ASUS would claim they received the item damaged, and would attach a picture with maybe a broken corner with obvious plier marks on it. ASUS has always had pretty notably bad customer service at times. Unfortunate thing about them is, their products are really good, but customer service is a bad experience usually. 
Now this is NOT asus, but it would look something like this, but with plier marks 

Isn't the first time I've heard shit about Asus' customer service.

I've been a fan of Asus ever since my first gaming computer back in 2008-2009. Since then I have been highly recommending Asus for many other products and parts because of build quality, excellent features, competitive prices and "services" - I'll get to this in a sec. As a geeky high school student, I started saving my entire income from my part-time job and my lunch money, I could finally get hands on one of these premium option for gaming computers on 2012 December. Around Boxing day week sale, my heart skipped a beat after seeing G75VX-RH71-CA was on sale (discount of around $300). It was my first time blasting over a grand on a single item on NCIX. However, I guess my expectation was a bit too high. After spending roughly around an hour on unboxing, I finally reached a point of a meat of the pie. I held my breath and pushed the ON button... No Post. I cold-rebooted again... No Post. I tried several times and FINALLY it turned on with splash screen on glorious ROG loading screen. After hours of tinkering with Windows 8, I finally reached a point where I need to reboot. Unsurprisingly, it got stuck in non-posting scenario again. But then again, I was too excited to go back to NCIX to replace it since I knew that it was going to boot normally after resetting and turning it back on around 9999 times.
 
As days went by, the problems were exponentially increasing; decreasing chances of posting for every boot. I figured NCIX would be happily to have my half-dead laptop exchanged for fully functioning one. Sadly, I was quickly informed by a technician... that they no longer support exchange, instead they do replacement. Basically they check over all the physical damages and reuses them on new machine. For mine, bottom cover (user-accessible cover that can be removed if upgrade was necessary) had few flimsy latches broken off after 3-4 times of open and close for RAM upgrade and adding additional SSD into my system. As a result they switched in my old cover on new computer - this wasn't very big deal for me anyways since I just wanted computer to work normally. The computer worked flawlessly... for few months.
 
The computer stopped detecting my drives (but still boots into BIOS no problem) This time I couldn't RMA through NCIX because of their replacement policy has been ended long time ago and all I got was Asus's RMA service. I headed over to Asus's website and filled out the form since I had a free year of accidental warranty. The service was great. In fact, it was one of best things ever happened while trying to RMA anything to any companies that I dealt with. They paid for shipping company who picked up the computer from my house, fixed the computer, and sent the computer as soon as possible - one of painless RMA experience ever despite of everyone's reaction in some google forums regarding how bad Asus's RMA service is.
 
After 3-4 months of usage... My computer stopped posting. All I did was setting boot priority in BIOS to USB so that it boots into Windows installer. (I was planning to reinstall the OS as a new fresh start for University) After F10 (saving the current settings), the laptop never posted after that. Pulled the internal battery out for troubleshooting, leaving it for a week without any power - never worked. I finally decided to call Asus again for help, but this time, I was out of any sort of warranty. Still, I was willing to pay to get my laptop fixed no matter what. I decided to send the computer in original packaging with set of untouched original manuals / disks (because I didn't want them to be misplaced in my room) On Nov 12th, they finally "received" the item that should have been arrived atleast 1-2 days before.
 
Basically:
 
Nov. 12 - They notified me that they received the item.
Nov. 17 - They finally contacted me about parts that they need replaced.
             - They mentioned that they need graphic card to replaced to 670M (The current system is 670MX) I emailed about this regarding keeping the current card and just change out the motherboard.
Nov. 18 - They replied to me around 24hours later that they can't do that because apparently that doesn't meet their specifications.
             - I asked them if I could buy the specification for ones that I can use with 670MX, because I was willing to pay to keep the performance of my current set up. (I never got this reply back)
             - Send them my credit card info so that they can just get it over with.
 
They wanted to change out the video card as well because that didn't meet their specifications. I paid:
 
$76 for Graphic card (670M) [Part number: 60-NLEVG1001-D01] - Paid for this, and they didn't bother replacing it.
$109 for motherboard [Part number: 60-NLEMB1101-C04]
$40 for labour
$30 for freight - This is a big problem too. They shipped with worst packaging ever with no original box or stuff that was inside
 
     
 
 
I wouldn't care less if the computer was actually safe, but it was different story. First I slowly pulled out the laptop out from the box and powerbrick and powercord just fell out and hit the wooden floor from the packaging which was just lodged into the packaging of laptop which wasn't even protected with single bubble bag or anything. Just one elastic band that held those together. The lousy packaging was still impressed me how my laptop was still in single piece when it arrived. I took out my laptop from the air-sealed bag and instantly noticed that one of the feet is gone. I wonder just how is it possible to lose one... I was literally dumbfounded. Now my laptop sits lopsided when it was placed down on my glass table.
 
 

I opened my computer and instantly noticed that bottom frame of the screen has been dislodged from either rough shipping or magical repairman's skill. The screen frame never snapped in fully.
 
 

Lovely fingerprints of repairman's all over the internals of my laptop... lel
 
 
    
Thank god the computer now boots, so I took out original HDD and replaced with my SSD as boot drive which I have been using on other laptop without any problems. I placed original HDD as a slave drive (storage drive). After installing and troubleshooting, I can safely say that second SATA port is DOA. I tried many other 2.5mm drives including SSD/SSHD/HHD. None of them worked. Since I am one of those power-users, atleast I had a HDD Caddie to replace out the DVD drive with Hard drive. It is a really bummer to not utilize / populate the SATA port. 
 
 
Asus used UPS to send my computer back. It mentioned that the item will the delivered EARLIER THAN 12PM. They couldn't keep that promise at last.  :mellow: 
 
 
After few hours of tinkering... I noticed that Asus LIED to me. The betrayal was just too strong for me to withstand, so that is why I am sharing with this on the page. Oh, btw do you guys remember I mentioned that they charged me $76 for new graphic card (670M)? Well one that I am using currently is still equipped with is same old 670MX. THEY DIDN'T FREAKIN' CHANGE THE VIDEO CARD! I just lost myself after finding out that.  :angry: 
 
In total, I went to NCIX once to replacement, sent to Asus two times to get my laptop back to "normal."
 
I am utterly utterly utterly - I need to say few more to express my current feels towards Asus - UTTERLY UTTERLY disappointed. Never going to deal with them anymore. Never... EVER...  :angry:  :angry:  :angry:  :angry:  :angry: 

Value and performance is much better for gaming when you can throw most of the budget at the graphics card. AMD also has killer pricing lately.

This is why they bring the stuff to me. Then I don't have to travel.

Graphically shown in a nutshell....

Graphically shown in a nutshell....

Did you just call PETA vaginal farts? #ThisisGold