grangervoldemort

1 hour ago, Suika said:

Where and how? I'm in a bit of disbelief that'd anybody would sell a major holiday title for that low.

This guy probably is referring to grey market. AKA stolen goods.

1 minute ago, Drak3 said:

Seeing Christmas being celebrated for a full month (or longer) is extremely fucking annoying. Every consumer aspect of Christmas is only tolerable in very small doses.

Yeah I agree to some extent. FREAKING diabetes sugar mothertruckers advertising everywhere COCA freaking COLA. The reason why I started this is actually because most xmas music is utter dog poop and VERY annoying. They play some of the most horrible songs in supermarkets during xmas. There are certain xmas songs where if they are playing... say for example a supermarket, that I hate it SO much I walk out. Music and smells are powerful things that we can either love or hate.

It's interesting to see just how many people hate xmas due to the consumer aspect.

7 hours ago, VegetableStu said:

jingle bells

eardrum pells

bursting in my head

 

can't hear shit

scream in fit

please just kill me dead, hey!

WTF is wrong with all you Linus forum guys? Why do you hate xmas?

2 minutes ago, Keith W said:

♪ ♫ Oh the weather outside was whitening, till the dog did something frightening, he's got no other place to go, yellow snow, yellow snow, yellow snow ♫ ♪

facepalm

Seems everyone hates xmas. It is magical in movies. In real life it can be. Depends on who you are with and where you are. With a hot girl and good friends in a luxurious log cabin with a fireplace and a deep rug, huge bed etc (friends in their own log cabins) in the french mountains with french hot chocolate (real hot chocolate not that powder crap... real hot chocolate starts at 12 Euros a small jug)..... well. We can all dream huh.

4 hours ago, VegetableStu said:

IT'S ONLY SEPTEMBER, ARE YOU SERIOUS

 

^{(sorry had to comment lol ,_,)}

It's xmas all year round. Good xmas songs are cheery and warming and upbeat and childish to some extent. They can be dreamy. Who doesn't like songs like 'I'm walking in the air' from the movie the snowman?
Or some of my personal favs, songs from movies that have children that are magical.
How about HOT CHOCOLATE from the Polar Express? Catchy song.
Excellent hot chocolate is hard to come by. I would recommend Cafe de Flore in Paris, France. 

1 minute ago, WereCatf said:

I have only one Christmas-song I like: complete, utter silence.

bah humbug

Fav xmas songs?

Noise levels

EVGA 8800 GTS 640MB KO ACS3

- Whisper quite

- Runs at 85c when gaming

Gigabyte HD 7870 OC Windforce 3x 2GB

- Insanely loud

- Has vibrating shroud which is HIGHLY irritating and loud

- Runs loud even when idle

- Can't remember temps as the card is now RIP

Why is it that a card from 2007 is whisper quiet whereas a card from 2012 sounds like a jet engine?

On 9/10/2019 at 11:48 PM, TomvanWijnen said:

Meh. I've eaten chocolate of more than a year past the best before date. Cheese of more than two weeks past the best before date. Some meat after a day or perhaps two, but only after looking, smelling, and asking someone else. As for meat, heating it (e.g. tosti) can help a bit too. Do be really careful with meat though, as it is one of the more tricky foods regarding dates. Never had any issues.

Best before only indicates when the food item will taste as it's meant to, and have all it's nutritional value intact. NOT when it is SAFE to eat by which is the USE By date.

I ended up not cooking the minced beef as I wasn't even sure it was minced beef and instead pork which I hate. Long story. It's from Hellofresh. I would strongly not recommend buying hellofresh as the macros are insane. The chicken chow mein paste and sauce (which both go into the dish) combined contain more sugar than a can of soda. More than 35g of sugar! 

It also doesn't taste good. The thai prawn curry I made today was utterly disgusting. My first and last ever thai dish although as I said the recipes from hellofresh are utter vile. They rely on the flavor coming from there cheap premade sauces/pastes instead of fresh spices and herbs.

3 minutes ago, Acid Panda said:

i live in the UK as well

this also seems like advice.

so what your saying is that the moment food goes past the use by date you bin it? is that not a waste of food and money.

Read my OP. I haven't really ever cooked. It's been years since I cooked properly and even then I have never cooked an entire days worth of food by myself for myself as I don't know any good recipes. Either my mum and aunty cook or I eat out for the past many years and go hungry most of the time.

Also I just discovered a game on the Mac called Rimworld. I have been playing it for 10 hours straight now apart from sleeping. Help me. It's one of the most addictive games I have come across.
I haven't eaten for over 24 hours now.

Please emember the difference between use by and best before. Easy to mix it up. 

In that video he lady says minced beef has basically a larger surface area and so goes bad faster. I have MINCED beef with TODAYS use by date.

1) Is it safe to cook and eat it today?

2) Is it then safe to store it in the fridge once it's cooled down (it will be cooked with other stuff obv like potatoes, rice, red pepper etc) and then eat it over the next 2-3 days, bearing in mind the USE BY date is TODAY?

2 minutes ago, Acid Panda said:

i really feel this opinion is wrong. its a liability standpoint to make sure they don't get sued if you eat food past a certain point. i frequently eat food that is past the use by that and have never been ill because of it.

 

please prove me wrong @grangervoldemort

This is written on the NHS website. I live in the UK. If you don't know what the NHS is look it up. Prove you wrong? What die or become disabled somehow due to infected meat? No thanks,

5 minutes ago, Acid Panda said:

wow i thought this was going to be about the apple keynote.

 

for the food the use by date is a massive safty margin from where you got the food from.

generally if it does not smell or look bad its fine

This is wrong: Don't use any food or drink after the end of the "use by" date on the label, even if it looks and smells fine. This is because using it after this date could put your health at risk. ... Once a food with a "use by" date on it has been opened, you also need to follow any instructions, such as "eat within 3 days of opening".

3 minutes ago, AlexOak said:

 

 

oK so that just tells me cooked meats are ok to eat 2-3 days. Which I already know. My cirumstance is outlined above - TODAYS use by date etc etc.

I just started cooking properly for the first time ever. 

I have two beef minces in the fridge from hellofresh.

2 different recipes.

I can cook them both tonight (it's 10:06pm here in the UK).

The Use By date is TODAY.

Does this mean I can eat them today? What about after midnight - it's like wtf.... I know it's not magically gonna become e coli infected after midnight but at what point do you adhere to the use by date then?

IF I can safely cook and eat this meat, can I then store the cooked meat in the fridge and consume within 2-3 days? 

Me sacred.

Thanks

19 hours ago, bimmerman said:

As for noises, have you checked everything is screwed down and can't move? Have you tried unplugging specific drives to see which, if any, make the noise? I would really not want to be continuously power cycling drives that aren't intended for that.

Thanks for the detailed reply. 
Clearly you ddn't read my posts properly. I have checked for years. I tried everything. This case needs to be sold or binned.

????

So ermm can we get back to my OP?

I left for a few hours and WTF HAPPENED. Insane. A billion posts.

8 minutes ago, Intransigent said:

You're basing what you're saying off of a reddit post of all things. Off of a dude named u/shadow3467. And a few others with random aliases. Come on dude. Open your eyes.

I've explained why. Buy your console and find out for yourself.

No I'm not. I have owned various consoles over my over 30 years of being alive and still have one. A PS3. What a dumb thing to say 'basing what you're saying bla bla'. Don't make assumptions.

The PS3 looks totally fine. I have no issues with it other than there are no new titles for it.
Love playing on console. You turn it on and game and it just works.

Just now, steelo said:

It's all a matter of personal preference. Both have its advantages and disadvantages. I have both but rarely even turn my xbo on.

Please tell me why.

11 hours ago, Intransigent said:

Yup. 24-30 fps is that bad. In fact, it's awful. Going below 60 is barely tolerable when you've been playing around double that for the past few years. It may never matter to people that have never laid eyes on it. PC gaming is everything console gaming is not. 

FPS is VERY different for consoles. 30FPS is playable on a console but not on a PC. Plenty of discussions about it:
https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/console-runs-smoother-than-pc-in-30fps-why.2496021/
https://www.neogaf.com/threads/30fps-on-pc-vs-console-why-does-the-latter-always-feel-better.1061621/

5 hours ago, GoldenLag said:

in what world do you pay 3800£ for a top of the line PC?

 

you get top consumer specs for 2000£..................

3700X, 2080 Super EVGA, 32GB 3600Mhz RAM B die, £300 case, £80 fan controller, Dark bequiet cooler, £250 mobo, 512GB NVME, £180 PSU, etc etc.

5 hours ago, GoldenLag said:

 

depends on which macbook. self built PC are rather reliable. offcourse there is the chance of user error. 

5 hours ago, GoldenLag said:

 

you should probably look at getting somethign else than a laptop if you will be doing it every day. depends on the size of the projects tho. 

Casey Neistat, Jim Chapman, Tanya Burr, Alfie Deyes, Zoella etc ALL use Macbook Pro's for daily videos. A Macbookis fine for YouTube 1080 or even 4k videos.

2 hours ago, Intransigent said:

If you've got around £5,000 to spend, cost is not a reason.

Dumb thing to say. Just because I have 5k to spend on an item that will generate me income doesn't mean I am made of gold.

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Do dogs pee on brick walls?

I almost agree with you here. They look more or less the same as PC. Depends on the game and if you choose to change how everything looks on the screen.

 

But do they feel the same? Do they play the same? Hell to the no...

 

If you prefer laggy, choppy, unclear, unsmooth game play, by all means go the console route. But if you prefer lagless, calm, clear and smooth game play, imagine a third video beside these two at 120(24 x 5) fps portraying 5x the laglessness, 5x the calmness, 5x the clearness and 5x the smoothness. That's console gaming vs PC gaming in a nutshell. You either want lag or you don't. You either want to change the game to your liking or play it the way it comes out of the box with little to no workarounds to any issues you may have with it.

I bet that video comparison were both on PC. It is not console 30FPS vs PC 30FPS or 60FPS.

FPS is VERY different for consoles. 30FPS is playable on a console but not on a PC. Plenty of discussions about it:
https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/console-runs-smoother-than-pc-in-30fps-why.2496021/
https://www.neogaf.com/threads/30fps-on-pc-vs-console-why-does-the-latter-always-feel-better.1061621/