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... and all the other things floating around out there / Re: Star Citizen

« on: August 24, 2016, 12:13:42 am »

Looks like Star Citizen will be amazing if they dont no mans sky it. Will def buy it when it comes out.

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... and all the other things floating around out there / Re: Star Citizen

« on: August 22, 2016, 11:48:31 pm »

i played a bit of Elite dangerous last year (got third ship or so) but havent played it in a while, is star citizen similar and worth getting as well?

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General Off Topic / Re: #BlackLivesDoNotMatter (UK Edition)

« on: August 22, 2016, 07:11:50 pm »

so there is no difference between what happens in the us and uk O.o ok could have fooled me

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General Off Topic / Re: #BlackLivesDoNotMatter (UK Edition)

« on: August 22, 2016, 09:36:19 am »

Think there is a slight difference between the UK and the USA here  He wasn't shot to kill him with handguns he was shot to immobilize with a tazer and became unwell afterwards and died on route to the hospital. The two police officers were immediately put under criminal investigation. He died due to underlying health issues which is very sad but hardly the same as what happens in the US. 

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General Off Topic / Re: Mr Robot (Best series ever alongside Breaking Bad & Sopranos)

« on: August 21, 2016, 12:37:06 am »

last time i custom built a pc i was putting in 32 mb ram chips

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General Off Topic / Re: Mr Robot (Best series ever alongside Breaking Bad & Sopranos)

« on: August 20, 2016, 11:47:42 pm »

i had to stop halfway through the first episode to be honest :/ as someone who isn't a coder/hacker/superintoPCs i literally don't understand half of what he is saying I mean i know what linux is and i kinda know what a node is but when you cant follow what he is saying its hard to enjoy

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General Off Topic / Re: LIVE YOUR MYTH IN FRANCE.

« on: July 26, 2016, 10:39:53 pm »

At least there is the possibility that you won't be shot first instead of impotently waiting to be shot last or shot while fruitlessly charging him. 
So your solution is to be shocked by the blood and screams and shots and have nothing but bare hands to react with?
It's not a question of being a hero.  Survival with all the body parts I boarded the train with is the motivation.
Training can do much to make drawing and using a weapon muscle memory.  A COD kid is the antithesis of that.

are you actually saying that places like the USA are safer than places like Europe because USA has more guns? What western Europe is suffering now is pretty much what the USA has all the time..

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General Off Topic / Re: LIVE YOUR MYTH IN FRANCE.

« on: July 25, 2016, 09:21:29 pm »

Guns are gud. You only have to look at America to see that plentiful guns make you safer and far less likely to be shot than in the UK France or Germany.





Also sarcasm if you didn't get it.

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General Off Topic / Re: Pokemon No

« on: July 19, 2016, 04:43:43 pm »

Because he is hipster who knew it before it went mainstream.  Now it's mainstream it's bad mkay

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General Off Topic / Re: Turkey coup d'etat

« on: July 16, 2016, 12:14:09 pm »

PM Yildrim has announced that a country that would stand by cleric Gulen won't be a friend of Turkey and will be considered to be at war with Turkey, referring to Muhammed Fethullah Gülen, a former Turkish preacher living in self-imposed exile in the United States

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So Turkey gonna declare war on USA if they dont hand the guy over? 

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... and all the other things floating around out there / Re: [Blizzard] Overwatch

« on: July 12, 2016, 08:15:49 pm »

some interesting mechanics for ana (i thought her name was sombre?) 

The speed dart + lucio could be fun


Ana fires a dart from her sidearm, rendering an enemy unconscious (though any damage will rouse them).


so rip Mcree even more, most useless ulti even more now

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General Off Topic / Re: Leave or stay in the EU?

« on: July 12, 2016, 08:10:42 pm »

Yeah i think may was the best choice from the candidates. Trying to judge whats going on with the economy is really hard atm, depending on which articles or websites you read you get totally differing views.
Only thing most of them have in common is that Italy came out worse than anyone from Brexit. Gonna be months before we can really know the impact that Brexit will have on the economy (if thats your primary concern) The economy will probably take another drop when we finally do invoke article 50 question is will it raise as much as before.
Seems we are talking to India about a trade deal (which is odd considering we haven't invoked article 50 yet)


May seems to have some interesting ideas for a Tory, pandering to the centralist labour voters/mps?

http://news.sky.com/story/bosses-union-welcomes-mays-proposals-10498556
"So if I'm prime minister, we're going to change that system - and we're going to have not just consumers represented on company boards, but workers as well.

"As part of the changes I want to make to corporate governance, I will make shareholder votes on corporate pay not just advisory but binding."


Also looks like Labour never want to be in power ever again. They call for a new General Election when they would lose so many seats. The corbyn story could keep going and going with him refusing to back down and the MPs trying everything they can to remove him. If they push him out via the back door will the party split i wonder




Sky news on pound and stock surge post May.

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http://news.sky.com/story/sterling-surges-as-may-heads-for-number-ten-10499782

Sterling rose to nearly $1.33 as traders took stock of developments in Westminster - though it remains far below the levels seen before last month's EU referendum result.

The currency had spiked at $1.50 on June 24 when markets were expecting a Remain win, before plummeting by an unprecedented 18 cents to $1.32, a level not seen since 1985, as it became clear that Leave would win.

Last week, with the prospect of a lengthy Tory leadership battle to come before a new PM was decided, the pound slipped below $1.28.

But with Mrs May just a day away from taking her place as the new incumbent of 10 Downing Street, it was on the rise on Tuesday.

Hussein Sayed, chief market strategist at FXTN, said the relief rally for sterling was likely to be short-lived as many questions about the political future remained unanswered.

Meanwhile, the FTSE 100 has been trading at 11-month highs as the fall in the value of the pound since the referendum has boosted the sterling value of overseas incomes of many of its largely-global firms.

more less balanced things

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May says she does not want to call an early general election. She probably won’t need to. Not only does she have a workable majority in the House of Commons, but the opposition is in complete disarray. The leader of the Labour Party, the far-left Jeremy Corbyn, just received an overwhelming vote of no-confidence from his own colleagues, but has refused to resign.

Theresa May therefore looks like the strongest British prime minister since the early days of Tony Blair. Vast numbers of British centrists and conservative Labour supporters — and many Labour members of parliament — may secretly feel closer to her than to Corbyn.

You can measure the reaction in the markets. The FTSE 100 index UKX, -0.03%   of top British stocks rose another 1.4% on Monday and the pound GBPUSD, +2.0540%  stabilized. When converted into U.S. dollars DXY, -0.13%  , the FTSE 100 is up 10% from its post-Brexit lows, although it remains about 9% below the peak — in dollars — seen just before the June 23 referendum.

A better metric of underlying British business confidence is the FTSE 250 index MCX, +0.60%  of mid-cap stocks (the FTSE 100 is heavily dominated by London-headquartered multinationals), which rose 3% on Monday. In dollar terms the FTSE 250 is up 9% since the post-referendum panic, though it also remains below the peak from earlier in June.

Sterling’s trade-weighted index has fallen by around 11% since the Jun. 23 vote, but is still only marginally below levels three years ago that the Bank of England regarded as appropriate at the time. Between May 2013 and May 2016, sterling’s real (inflation-adjusted) index rose 7%, against a fall of 4% for the euro GBPEUR, +1.8886%  , and rises of 16% for the dollar GBPUSD, +2.0463%  , 8% for the renminbi GBPCNY, +2.1625%  3% for the yen GBPJPY, +4.07%  .

The pound’s fall, although made more dramatic by the EU vote, has hence been in large part a correction to a previous overvaluation. The question now is when the dollar BUXX, -0.18%  start to fall again, although this will probably be delayed until some time after a new U.S. president takes office.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/how-britain-may-get-the-last-laugh-on-europe-2016-07-11
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/brexit-backlash-has-thrown-europe-not-britain-into-crisis-2016-07-12?siteid=yhoof2&yptr=yahoo&ref=yfp

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... and all the other things floating around out there / Re: [Blizzard] Overwatch

« on: July 08, 2016, 10:41:21 am »

Played with 4 man stack lvls from 40-80 avg rank 48. We got drawn against a 6 man stack full of people over level 100 and over 200 with higher avg rank. We got rekt  they can't be good if they played so much to hit lvl 230 and still be our rank but it's hard life against full 6 stack

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General Off Topic / Re: The Chilcot Report

« on: July 07, 2016, 12:09:51 am »

2.6 million words no thanks i heard his speech and will read maybe the summery.

It is pretty brutal for Blair i must admit, However saying that to me the major problem was what we did post war, I can find no fault in removing Saddam if only we had stayed to rebuild and not just fucked it up. Our biggest failing is not the war itself but the creation and then destruction of hope, They cheered when Saddam fell, hoping they could be like Dubai or even Israel and then we took that from them too, If we had rebuilt properly and had a plan we could have made peace in the region

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... and all the other things floating around out there / Re: [Blizzard] Overwatch

« on: July 06, 2016, 08:09:54 pm »

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