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  1. Comment on Why I love the Witcher books in ~books

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    Disclaimer: this is original content! By me! :D I wanted to do something positive post Far Cry 5, because FC5's story still upsets me. I wanted to do something minimal, and keep a tight focus on...

    Disclaimer: this is original content! By me! :D

    I wanted to do something positive post Far Cry 5, because FC5's story still upsets me. I wanted to do something minimal, and keep a tight focus on not just a piece of art, but just one aspect of it.

    This is not a review of the witcher novels or the typical video essay where the entire plot is summarized and criticized. I wanted to leave room for anyone interested in the books to still have a reason to read them, so I focused on one thing only.

    I hope you enjoy!

    8 votes

  3. Comment on 'The Boys' has ended. What are your thoughts? in ~tv

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    Any fanbase can get toxic fast, especially when it's a whole subreddit obsessing over the same thing. I think it's even worse for The Boys. They had a legitimate problem with rape denial so much...

    Any fanbase can get toxic fast, especially when it's a whole subreddit obsessing over the same thing. I think it's even worse for The Boys. They had a legitimate problem with rape denial so much so that the mods added a disclaimer to the side-bar that yes, Becca was in fact raped by Homelander.

    I think the moder iteration of the internet, fueled by algorithms, only makes this worse in general. It's so easy to build a following as a creator by just relentlessly shitting on media and from there it's only a small step into right-wing ragebait grifting.

    Like Annie and Hughey naming their kid Rose. Like Rose got murdered, they didn't just break up.

    I think her name was Robin, but that's irrelevant. I agree with you that people getting enraged about that is insane. They're even calling her Hughey's ex, which is like, not true. She died while they were in a relationship. There's so many legitimate criticisms to be levied against the show and season 5 in particular, and these guys pick the one that's completely irrelevant to the story and also actually okay? It's so weird.

    3 votes

  4. Comment on Project Glasswing: An initial update in ~tech

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    Who is flying penguin?

    Who is flying penguin?

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  5. Comment on 'The Boys' has ended. What are your thoughts? in ~tv

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    Oh so you're telling me Frenchy's eulogy that was like 5 minutes of non-stop asshole jokes didn't fit the scene? Wow! Shocker! Who could've guessed?! (Not the writers) It was so tiring. They...

    Oh so you're telling me Frenchy's eulogy that was like 5 minutes of non-stop asshole jokes didn't fit the scene? Wow! Shocker! Who could've guessed?!

    (Not the writers)

    It was so tiring. They really overshot it with the crass humor.

    2 votes

  6. Comment on 'The Boys' has ended. What are your thoughts? in ~tv

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    Yeah, I get it. We sure love it when sexual assault is hilarious coz it happens to men. /s

    Yeah, I get it.

    We sure love it when sexual assault is hilarious coz it happens to men. /s

    5 votes

  7. Comment on 'The Boys' has ended. What are your thoughts? in ~tv

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    It's definitely a slide down the entire time. If you managed to get away, you didn't lose much.

    It's definitely a slide down the entire time. If you managed to get away, you didn't lose much.

    3 votes

  8. 'The Boys' has ended. What are your thoughts?

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    I was pretty disappointed by the entire fifth season. The show has been floundering after season 3, when it was clear that the natural climax of the story was post-poned because they couldn't handle a show without Homelander.

    There's a number of issues that I have with S5, starting with the pacing. The episodes are paced incredibly weirdly. We spend a lot of time on things that, given the show is in its last season, really shouldn't be the focus. New B-side superheroes are introduced and take a lot of focus away from the core protagonists who's stories we are supposed to be finishing up. There's a whole haunted house bottle episode. There's a 5 min sequence of two new villains sniffing each other's asses because they're animal themed in the penultimate episode. The consequence of this is that the actual climax is incredibly rushed and dealt with in all of 30 minutes. There's a whole storyline that's introduced with a stronger superhero drug that makes you immune to the virus the Boys are cooking up to kill Homelander, and he takes it and then within 2 episodes they just find a new dumb way to kill him. It reeks of upping the stakes without a good reason.

    Another issue is how cheap everything felt. There's a distinct lack of set-up shots and extras. Most of the time, it's named characters sitting in a closed room, talking at each other. If there's action, it's just a fist fight with maybe some dry-wall punches. The entire climax of the show is confided to a single room's decor getting torn to shreds and that's while evil superman is getting killed. There's a chase sequence in ep 2 which made me laugh out loud because of how stupid it looked. In this high stakes situation it's just people jogging down roads.

    I do feel for the show because for something written pre 2024, they got outpaced by reality on the satire. But that doesn't absolve you from dogshit dialogue that cannot stay away from crass words and sex jokes. All the time. S1 was raunchy and gory at times, but it was timed well and balanced out by genuine, normal conversation. The word fuck loses all it's fucking meaning if you fucking put it in fucking front of every fucking other word. Ignoring even that, the writing still sucks from start to finish.

    I'm happy it's over and that I can let this franchise rest. I stuck with it because S1 was really good. I'm sad that a show which had such a clear through line from S1 onwards with the Boys killing their way up the Seven was turned into, well, whatever happened in seasons 4 and 5.

    30 votes

  9. Comment on My wife releases her 5th book today! in ~books

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    Beautiful put and so real.

    It's never been easier to publish your book and it's never been harder to get that book noticed.

    Beautiful put and so real.

    2 votes

  10. Comment on My wife releases her 5th book today! in ~books

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    As a writer, though I've never written a whole book, major props to your wife! Even the "simpler" books are a ton of hard work that people don't appreciate, because a lot of folks imagine writing...

    As a writer, though I've never written a whole book, major props to your wife! Even the "simpler" books are a ton of hard work that people don't appreciate, because a lot of folks imagine writing as "just sitting down and typing away".

    Congratulations!

    3 votes

  11. Comment on Startups in Berlin in ~finance

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    I agree with all of this as well. The sentences didn't flow very well.

    I agree with all of this as well. The sentences didn't flow very well.

    8 votes

  12. Comment on Startups in Berlin in ~finance

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    This will sound harsh, but if you're looking to build up a blog for a niche audience like English speakers in Berlin, then you need to do better reporting. The posted article doesn't offer any...

    This will sound harsh, but if you're looking to build up a blog for a niche audience like English speakers in Berlin, then you need to do better reporting.

    The posted article doesn't offer any insights at all. It just claims that London was supposed to stop mattering due to Brexit and Berlin could've stepped in, but didn't. The proposed cause of this is that Berlin start-ups don't care about marketing, making money, or working hard. There's no personal anecdotes, no interviews, no nothing. It's words on a page putting down a vague feeling, surrounded by AI generated images and offers to advertise on the site. For your core audience, it won't offer anything new. If this vague feeling matches reality, then people in Berlin working in the start-up space will already know this. For everyone else, reading this without personal experience, it doesn't offer anything personal to latch onto.

    I don't want to accuse your text of being AI generated, because I like to believe that there's a person I'm addressing this criticism to. Even then, the post is indistuingishable from the million SEO blogs spewing out content that doesn't matter as much as the ads being shown around it.

    I think there's a few discussion around the benefits of AI, and even a couple users here who believe that it has upsides, but you'd be hard pressed to find anyone here that finds those upsides in generating articles.

    I commend your desire to do something new and try how it goes. Tildes can be a harsh audience, so if you want to succeed here, you need to start with good text. AI images are going to detract from the text that is supposed to stand out.

    Good luck.

    14 votes

  13. Comment on What I learned building my first custom water loop in ~comp

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    Not an expert either, it's just common advice to not mix the two because of galvanic corrosion. I guess the electrical charge is optional?

    Not an expert either, it's just common advice to not mix the two because of galvanic corrosion. I guess the electrical charge is optional?

    1 vote

  14. Comment on What I learned building my first custom water loop in ~comp

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    Thank you! The Fractal Torrent is a really sexy case and I had to work hard to maintain the two 180 mm fans at the front that I love so much, literally cutting into it. :D

    Thank you! The Fractal Torrent is a really sexy case and I had to work hard to maintain the two 180 mm fans at the front that I love so much, literally cutting into it. :D

    1 vote

  15. Comment on What I learned building my first custom water loop in ~comp

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    Loop order in a custom water loop doesn't matter. I guess that's something I could've added to the initial post. Maybe I'll do an addendum section. The water within it moves too fast, at best...

    Loop order in a custom water loop doesn't matter. I guess that's something I could've added to the initial post. Maybe I'll do an addendum section.

    The water within it moves too fast, at best assembling the loop in an "ideal" order of rads following components buys you maybe 1 to 2 °C. I think people often equate a custom PC water cooling loop to a car engine but they aren't really comparable because the temp delta in a PC is much smaller and as such the order matters much less.

    If your water is over 50°C your loop is already running extremely hot and you're likely missing rads. The actual temperature differences are too small for order to be significant.

    2 votes

  16. Comment on What I learned building my first custom water loop in ~comp

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    Oh that's sick as fuck! I just went with a pump reservoir combo. No clue D5s were this strong. Personally I went with Alphacool, they seem to have a fine reputation, but I'll keep Koolance in mind...

    Oh that's sick as fuck! I just went with a pump reservoir combo. No clue D5s were this strong.

    Personally I went with Alphacool, they seem to have a fine reputation, but I'll keep Koolance in mind if I need more stuff.

    Hopefully at this point I don't though. I've spent so much money. 💀

    1 vote

  17. Comment on What I learned building my first custom water loop in ~comp

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    This is very useful to me because since I need to pull apart my system anyway again to fix my GPU, I plan to put in 3 quick disconnects around the cpu and gpu to make future upgrades easier. I...

    If you’re using a D5 pump, you probably don’t need to worry about flow rate. They can push through five blocks and 20 quick disconnects at 70% power no problem, but I see a fair number of people worrying that even a single minor restriction in a normal one or two block loop might cause problems.

    This is very useful to me because since I need to pull apart my system anyway again to fix my GPU, I plan to put in 3 quick disconnects around the cpu and gpu to make future upgrades easier. I mean, with the rubber standoffs, my D5 pump can run at 100% no problem and it's still completely silent, so I don't mind much either way.

    1 vote

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  20. Comment on What I learned building my first custom water loop in ~comp

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    Sure! I haven't taken one in it's completely assembled state, but here it was nearly done and running: https://u.cubeupload.com/monarch/signal20260514174420.jpeg...

    Sure!

    I haven't taken one in it's completely assembled state, but here it was nearly done and running:

    https://u.cubeupload.com/monarch/signal20260514174420.jpeg

    https://u.cubeupload.com/monarch/d60signal20260514174420.jpeg

    Just imagine a big glass side panel and on the top a simple plastic covering. The case in question is the Fractal Torrent: https://www.fractal-design.com/app/uploads/2021/07/Torrent_Black_RGB_TGL_16-Left-Front-Above-810x810.jpg

    I guess my WIP pics actually show where I had to cut into the case to make the front rad fit! :D

    6 votes