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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • The early 2000s.

    I was a Genesis kid. Loved the 16 bit era, and also had plenty of 8 bit. Much love all around.

    Got into PC gaming in the 1990s. Loved strategy especially, and it’s something you can’t do well on 16 bit.

    But the early 2000s were relatively dark. 3d graphics were around and pretty shitty by today’s standards. There was a lot of straight garbage in the gaming market that I don’t want to experience again. There was good stuff, like HL2, but on the whole things were bad.










  • The US has a problem of representation. Specifically and especially since the Citizens United decision, corporate interests can easily flow money towards politicians to make them do just about anything they want. This exacerbated an existing problem with the corporate tax rate and has now brought it into laughably low territory.

    That’s all an oversimplification of course, but it’s not that Americans haven’t “figured it out”. It is far more complicated than that.



  • Maybe you have just ended up with a lemon CPU. Though for random crashes like that, I’d almost always look to RAM first.

    I did have some stability issues early on when trying to enable Expo. Never quite got that working right so it is currently disabled. I keep my 7600x in Eco mode since it is air cooled and the performance difference is not that great anyway, so I haven’t noticed any major differences with Expo off.

    The Expo issues were also with a very early MSI BIOS. I haven’t tried it again after upgrading, but I probably should.