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Anonymous #BF56
HELP HOW DO I MAKE AN IMAGE IN THE COMMENTS PLEASE ANSWER MY PRAYERS GOD
General Discussion » Stupid Stuff That Comes to Mind That We Want to Post » Post 640
Elly Catfox 
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Naming your religion in Civilization V be like:
Furry porn is spreading!
Vatican City wants furry porn!
Furry porn is spreading!
Vatican City wants furry porn!
General Discussion » Stupid Stuff That Comes to Mind That We Want to Post » Post 639
Anonymous #F109
General Discussion » Stupid Stuff That Comes to Mind That We Want to Post » Post 638
Elly Catfox
nya
@Anonymous #24A6
Refrigeration, in some ways, is one of the closest things to free energy we’ve ever invented. Okay, that’s hyperbole, it still uses a lot of energy, but it’s very efficient in some senses of the word. It actually works on the compression and expansion of refrigerant gases going from gas to liquid and back, which of course causes heating and cooling, and then we radiate the heat off the back coils, leaving it cold inside.
A reverse oven would be more like a dutch oven, where you apply a heat source to the outside of the unit in order to heat the inside, rather than heating from inside first.
Refrigeration, in some ways, is one of the closest things to free energy we’ve ever invented. Okay, that’s hyperbole, it still uses a lot of energy, but it’s very efficient in some senses of the word. It actually works on the compression and expansion of refrigerant gases going from gas to liquid and back, which of course causes heating and cooling, and then we radiate the heat off the back coils, leaving it cold inside.
A reverse oven would be more like a dutch oven, where you apply a heat source to the outside of the unit in order to heat the inside, rather than heating from inside first.
General Discussion » Stupid Stuff That Comes to Mind That We Want to Post » Post 637
Anonymous #F109
@OliverHancock
movie logic. those places must all each be orbiting around a different sun.
movie logic. those places must all each be orbiting around a different sun.
General Discussion » Stupid Stuff That Comes to Mind That We Want to Post » Post 636
Elly Catfox
nya
@Anonymous #F109
That doesn’t look like any place in the usa I’ve ever seen. Or mexico or canada etc.
That doesn’t look like any place in the usa I’ve ever seen. Or mexico or canada etc.
General Discussion » Stupid Stuff That Comes to Mind That We Want to Post » Post 635
Anonymous #F109
General Discussion » Stupid Stuff That Comes to Mind That We Want to Post » Post 634
Elly Catfox
TL;DR: NFTs are a convenient scapegoat, but are currently transitioning to be 100x better on electricity consumption/environmental impact.
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@Anonymous #F109
All blockchain technology has been horrible for the environment until lately. NFTs are just a scapegoat because many people don’t like the idea of them in the first place, whereas it’s easier to be indifferent about cryptocurrency or even enthusiastic about it. NFTs are such a new concept to me, I’m still evaluating whether or not I think they’re bullshit. I think if an artist wants to sell their art that way, I don’t see the problem with that. Cotton is very bad for the environment but nobody complains an artist selling their prints on a shirt. “Selling” a tweet, or selling someone else’s art as an NFT… now that’s ridiculous however.
What you might not know however, is that just as everyone is now suddenly complaining about the environmental impacts of NFTs even though a lot of the same people who complain about it have ignored cryptocurrency for years, all etherium transactions and NFTs will soon be 100x less impactful on the environment, and in fact, many already are. We’re in a transitional period from what’s called proof of work, over to proof of stake.
In proof of work, everyone on the blockchain who’s trying to mine currency is competing to calculate validations all at once.
Proof of stake randomly assigns just one person on the blockchain to solve it instead, which somehow is only 100 times more efficient. 100x more efficient means that where one cotton T-shirt actually used to have the environmental impact of about 5 to 10 NFTs, with proof of stake, you have to buy 500 - 1000 NFT to have the same environmental impact of a t-shirt, making them basically much less harmful to the environment than most forms of merchandise you could ever buy.
Etherium and NFTs are actually in the early phases of transition, with many people having already transitioned their system early, and I think within a couple months, proof of work will be totally done for everyone, at least for those. IDK about bitcoin. I gotta go look this up again and see how the transition is coming along.
BTW, the whole, “more power than a house uses in a year” thing is only one extreme estimate. I’ve seen just as many estimates saying it’s between 2 and 10 days worth of power, which is still ridiculous, but again, that’s with the old proof of work validation tech, not the new proof of stake.
There are people who can explain this way better than me and know a lot more than I do, but that’s the jist.
All blockchain technology has been horrible for the environment until lately. NFTs are just a scapegoat because many people don’t like the idea of them in the first place, whereas it’s easier to be indifferent about cryptocurrency or even enthusiastic about it. NFTs are such a new concept to me, I’m still evaluating whether or not I think they’re bullshit. I think if an artist wants to sell their art that way, I don’t see the problem with that. Cotton is very bad for the environment but nobody complains an artist selling their prints on a shirt. “Selling” a tweet, or selling someone else’s art as an NFT… now that’s ridiculous however.
What you might not know however, is that just as everyone is now suddenly complaining about the environmental impacts of NFTs even though a lot of the same people who complain about it have ignored cryptocurrency for years, all etherium transactions and NFTs will soon be 100x less impactful on the environment, and in fact, many already are. We’re in a transitional period from what’s called proof of work, over to proof of stake.
In proof of work, everyone on the blockchain who’s trying to mine currency is competing to calculate validations all at once.
Proof of stake randomly assigns just one person on the blockchain to solve it instead, which somehow is only 100 times more efficient. 100x more efficient means that where one cotton T-shirt actually used to have the environmental impact of about 5 to 10 NFTs, with proof of stake, you have to buy 500 - 1000 NFT to have the same environmental impact of a t-shirt, making them basically much less harmful to the environment than most forms of merchandise you could ever buy.
Etherium and NFTs are actually in the early phases of transition, with many people having already transitioned their system early, and I think within a couple months, proof of work will be totally done for everyone, at least for those. IDK about bitcoin. I gotta go look this up again and see how the transition is coming along.
BTW, the whole, “more power than a house uses in a year” thing is only one extreme estimate. I’ve seen just as many estimates saying it’s between 2 and 10 days worth of power, which is still ridiculous, but again, that’s with the old proof of work validation tech, not the new proof of stake.
There are people who can explain this way better than me and know a lot more than I do, but that’s the jist.
TL;DR: NFTs are a convenient scapegoat, but are currently transitioning to be 100x better on electricity consumption/environmental impact.
General Discussion » PC Master Race Thread » Post 1
Luna 
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Current:
CPU: Intel Core i7-6700k
Mobo: Asus Maximus VIII Formula
RAM: 32G 2666Mhz RAM (Kingston HyperX)
GPU: ASUS Novideo GeForce RTX2060SUPER
CPU Cooler: bq! Dark Rock 4 Pro
PSU: Corsair HX1000
HDD: 4TB WD Black
SSD: 2x 512G Plextor drives in RAID 0 array
Case: Cooler Master Silencio S600
Peripherals
Monitor (left): Eizo FS-something I dunno, 24” 1920x1080 (IPS)
Monitor (center): Benq XL2540, 24” 1920x1080 @ 240hz (TN)
Monitor (right): Wacom Cintiq 24 Pro, 24” 3840x2160 (IPS, 10-bit color, Rec2020 color space)
Keyboard: Corsair K70 Mk.2 (MX Brown)
Macro keypad: Razer Tartarus v2 (for art marcos)
Mouse: Benq Zowie EC1-B
Mousepad: Benq Zowie G TF-X
Headset: Steelseries Arctis 7 (wireless headset)
Upcoming upgrades:
CPU: Ryzen 9 5950X (or 5900X, or a Ryzen 6xxx series equivalent if I take too long with buying it)
GPU: RX 6800 XT (unobtanium right now, hopefully will be obtainable by the end of 2021)
Mobo: Gigabyte Aorus X570 Master (or a Ryzen 6xxx series equivalent)
RAM: 64G 3200Mhz Kingston HyperX with CL16 latency
SSD1: Samsung 970 Evo Plus (2TB, will be used for Windows and games + arts and NOTHING else)
SSD2: Samsung 970 Evo Plus (2TB, will be used for Linux and actual daily driver stuff)
HDD: none, mechanical storage will be moved off to a home NFS server
… otherwise the config will remain the same as it is right now
Peripheral upgrades
Monitor (left): any sort of IPS 3840x2160 monitor, probably 27”
Monitor (center): any sort of IPS 3840x2160 monitor capable of 120hz refresh rate, also 27”
CPU: Intel Core i7-6700k
Mobo: Asus Maximus VIII Formula
RAM: 32G 2666Mhz RAM (Kingston HyperX)
GPU: ASUS Novideo GeForce RTX2060SUPER
CPU Cooler: bq! Dark Rock 4 Pro
PSU: Corsair HX1000
HDD: 4TB WD Black
SSD: 2x 512G Plextor drives in RAID 0 array
Case: Cooler Master Silencio S600
Peripherals
Monitor (left): Eizo FS-something I dunno, 24” 1920x1080 (IPS)
Monitor (center): Benq XL2540, 24” 1920x1080 @ 240hz (TN)
Monitor (right): Wacom Cintiq 24 Pro, 24” 3840x2160 (IPS, 10-bit color, Rec2020 color space)
Keyboard: Corsair K70 Mk.2 (MX Brown)
Macro keypad: Razer Tartarus v2 (for art marcos)
Mouse: Benq Zowie EC1-B
Mousepad: Benq Zowie G TF-X
Headset: Steelseries Arctis 7 (wireless headset)
Upcoming upgrades:
CPU: Ryzen 9 5950X (or 5900X, or a Ryzen 6xxx series equivalent if I take too long with buying it)
GPU: RX 6800 XT (unobtanium right now, hopefully will be obtainable by the end of 2021)
Mobo: Gigabyte Aorus X570 Master (or a Ryzen 6xxx series equivalent)
RAM: 64G 3200Mhz Kingston HyperX with CL16 latency
SSD1: Samsung 970 Evo Plus (2TB, will be used for Windows and games + arts and NOTHING else)
SSD2: Samsung 970 Evo Plus (2TB, will be used for Linux and actual daily driver stuff)
HDD: none, mechanical storage will be moved off to a home NFS server
… otherwise the config will remain the same as it is right now
Peripheral upgrades
Monitor (left): any sort of IPS 3840x2160 monitor, probably 27”
Monitor (center): any sort of IPS 3840x2160 monitor capable of 120hz refresh rate, also 27”
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