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Phantonex

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    Phantonex reacted to Arika in Unlocking ingame items for free - is it piracy for you or not?   
    if it's a single player game. who cares, it's your game, play it how you want. If it's a multiplayer game, it's cheating
  2. Funny
    Phantonex reacted to FullSquadOnMe in Experiences with non-techies   
    Funny story happened with my ISP about 4 months ago. I live up in the mountains and it took a while to get that sweet Gigabit Internet from Comcast. However, after 4 techs coming to my house, I finally decided to to just have some fun with them. So I have a 2.5 Gigabit port on the motherboard, and i was suppose to get 1.2gigs down. I was only getting 800-900MBs. After countless calls and four techs, you would think I would a better solution other then " well you just cant get the full speed at that address." So i started digging. Turns out Comcast and Charter both send out CAT5 cables no matter then internet plan. If you want anything over 1000MBs,then you need a CAT6 LAN line......................................................................................... So i thought i would call one last time to see if comcast had had advice or just to see if they would send me a cat6 cable. Instead i went to walmart and bought a 6 dollar CAT6 cable and boom, I get around 1500 MBs down now. I waited for the tech, which is one that has been here before, and he checked my lines and i came over to the pc and did a speed test.  Still only 800 down. I swapped the cable while he checked something else. Realistically, He didn't do anything. He said all the lines are working great and IDK why you  just cant get the full speed. I said its probably the modem because its made in china. Snacked it lightly in front of him and threated the modem with a salt water bath if it didn't work right. I did the last speed test and and got around 1500. The Techs mouth dropped and i said" Sometime you just got to manhandle your equipment, ya Know?" He said right, shook his head and just left. LMAO
  3. Agree
    Phantonex reacted to lewdicrous in California Just Passed a Law that Will Destroy the Internet   
    Easier said than done.
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    Phantonex reacted to Dedayog in California Just Passed a Law that Will Destroy the Internet   
    There are 2 issues in your post. 1 is parenting, 2 is this law.
     
    You're not a parent.
     
    Did you ever go anywhere your parents told you not to go when you were young?
     
    You also realize that pornhub doesn't have age verification, right?
     
    Basically, real life issues are not relevant online.  Ie.  a 12 year old can't walk into a strip club, but can access porn easily online, even the most depraved and fucked up shit out there.  Can parents stop that?  They could if they were knowledgeable, but technology changes and evolves so fast that even good parents can't keep up with all the new ways kids can do shit.
     
    There are literally dozens of new apps daily that are purpose built for kids to bypass shit.
     
    Raise a child, then come back and talk.
     
    Edit:  3.  Who the fuck is Rebecca Watson?  4.  You can't destroy the internet, stop being a drama queen.
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    Phantonex reacted to drdrewnatic in Is a Linus Tech Tips rebrand really necessary?   
    Just a thought after yesterdays WAN show. Linus has said on numerous occasions now that he want's to dis-associate himself with the brand LTT. While his logic makes sense on the surface it made me think about other tech journalism websites. Notably Tom's Hardware and AnandTech continue to live on as major tech news sites even after both Thomas and Anand left. With these sites still operating after the creator left, is it really necessary to change a brand that has been engraved in to peoples head for almost 14 years?
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    Phantonex reacted to Middcore in Gamers Nexus calling out Linus for monetizing on his own controversy   
    LMG would probably be better off as a company if Luke was the one running the business side, instead of futilely toiling away on Floatplane. 
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    Phantonex got a reaction from Dirtzoo in Is there a disadvantage to plugging your mouse into the keyboard?   
    I have a Razer Deathadder Chroma mouse and a Corsair K70 RGB keyboard. Is there a disadvantage in plugging the mouse into the keyboard instead of the PC? Like mouse delay or something? Thanks!
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    Phantonex got a reaction from NunoBqB in What is the best wireless gaming headset for under $200?   
    I asked for a wireless headset.
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    Phantonex reacted to Brooksie359 in What is the best wireless gaming headset for under $200?   
    As I can only go by own experience I would say you would be better off looking at third party reviews as most people haven't used as many headsets as a reviewer would. I would personally look at hardware canucks as they do a pretty good job at reviewing headphones and headsets. Also I think 3 months ago they did a gaming headset round up for exactly these types of questions. 
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    Phantonex reacted to Brooksie359 in Epic says it’s ‘open’ to blockchain games after Steam bans them   
    Honestly when I heard the concept of what an NFT is it sounds like a scam to me so idk why any platform would want anything to do with it. 
  11. Funny
    Phantonex reacted to Moonzy in Epic says it’s ‘open’ to blockchain games after Steam bans them   
    steam literally went from accepting bitcoin in 2017 to banning crypto in 2021
     
    someone prob salty they sold during the 2018 dip
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    Phantonex reacted to char3327 in YouTube testing video download feature for desktop   
    Youtube does know that there are YouTube to mp3 or mp4 converters on the internet right? People are already downloading the videos they want for free...why make people pay for a premium membership to not even have the actual file??? Seems kinda useless to me
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    Phantonex reacted to Freakwise in AHAHAHAHA IT HAS A NOTCH - Facebook's Meta smartwatch leaked   
    Does camera really necessary for watches in the first place?
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    Phantonex reacted to Arika in AHAHAHAHA IT HAS A NOTCH - Facebook's Meta smartwatch leaked   
    here's the image for people who don't wish to click on the sources
     

     
  15. Agree
    Phantonex reacted to LaroTayoGaming in The FBI asked Signal to hand over user data, Signal complied by giving them nothing   
    Well that's a great move for signal though xD
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    Phantonex reacted to Bitter in Experiences with non-techies   
    Ok so Life Tip here everyone, if you're using an old toothbrush to clean PC parts of dust and old thermal paste in your bathroom because you're washing it down with alcohol over the sink DO NOT under any circumstances leave that cleaning toothbrush next to your sink when you are done.
    Another Life Tip, old thermal paste makes for lousy toothpaste.
  17. Funny
    Phantonex reacted to Alireza in Boys vs Girls (gender bias in online games)   
    because finding a girl in action online games is like finding a GPU at MSRP 
    everybody wants it and they try there best to at least get close to it
    personally if i see a gamer girl which by gaming she doesn't mean fortnite and some stupid mobile game
    ill marry her right away😁
  18. Informative
    Phantonex got a reaction from da na in What would be a reasonable selling price for a PC with these specs?   
    I7-6700
    GTX 1060 3gb
    16 gb ram
    H170-Pro motherboard
    128gb SSD
    1TB Hard drive
     
    This is my current PC which I am looking to sell. It is a prebuilt that I bought back in 2016. What would be a reasonable price for it?
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    Phantonex reacted to Dr0y in My mouse, keyboard and headset   
    Hyper x cloud 2, cooler master mh751 and mh752, sennheiser pc37x and pc38x are the only headset that are ok ... the hyper x and the coolermaster are based on takstar headphone (pro80 and pro82) which are actually a good enough headphone and they tuned it a bit and put a microphone on it. 
     
    All that being said I would get a headphone and a seperate microphone if you have the budget and the place for it. 
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    Phantonex got a reaction from Omar.B in Is the Acer Nitro VG240Y a good monitor?   
    Thank you so much! This seems to be the best monitor that fits my needs. 
  21. Agree
    Phantonex reacted to shperax in Why would you lower your mouse polling rate   
    No one posted the easy answer so i will.
     
    If your mouse is wireless it can significantly save battery life time setting your polling rate lower.
     
    Doing normal in windows stuff like browsing websites and such you would never need more then around 125
     
    For gaming i would recommend 500+
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    Phantonex got a reaction from givingtnt in What GPU should I get?   
    ok thank you
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    Phantonex reacted to BigRom in Experiences with non-techies   
    Absolute madlad
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    Phantonex reacted to Gegger in Experiences with non-techies   
    i finally finished reading all 1247 pages of this thread
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    Phantonex reacted to Gegger in Experiences with non-techies   
    I only have 35 pages to read until I finish reading the whole thread
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