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Re: Tales & photos of Expo 2015

It just works.

Thrax

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Re: Tales & photos of Expo 2015

I've never seen a shoe being fixed with a palletjack before.

Signal

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Re: Need help with my mother (rant and question)

#hoffa

Thrax

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Re: WOMW - Watch On My Wrist - Daily Watch pics

Ran into an Apple employee at a bar, she let me try on her $17k Apple watch. The strap was pretty small but damn are these things well made.

doabarrellroll

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Re: PC Share at Expo?

@RyanMM said:
What's the bare minimum GPU needed for the Decathalon and TF2 tourney? I think that may be the bottleneck in the stuff I have on hand, I don't like to keep any of that stuff around since it degrades in value so quickly.

I have a spare 5770 I could bring. It'll do all the usual games no prob.

Garg

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Re: The Big E3 2015 Announcement Thread

XBox backward compatibility trip report (I am a preview member):

I only loaded one of my games (one of the free Games With Gold offerings), so the test is pretty limited, but.

It was just as perfectly seamless as I could have asked for. 3 games showed up in my "ready to install" sidebar and I chose Toy Soldiers: Cold War, since it was the one that was selected when I hit it. The game installed just like any other digital release and showed up in the games list with all the others, with a nifty edge graphic to indicate it's a 360 title.

Gameplay was indistinguishable from the 360 downstairs and it loaded and exited just like a native game.

Keep in mind that this is a pretty stellar technological feat. The processor in the 360 is an IBM Power5 RISC (this was big-iron/heavy-lifting hardware when it was released), and emulating it in an x86 is no small task.

I look forward to getting more games in, particularly Forza 4 (and possibly 3).

AlexDeGruven

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Re: Expo @ ICHQ: Rules of engagement 2015

@Linc said:
Beverage cooling logistics:

The full-size pub fridge is now in the carriage house for communal beverages.

A vintage ice chest (!) in the basement is for communal beverages (if someone can assist figuring out how its drainage works).

Two mini-fridges in the pub will be for labelled private beverages. Please use conservatively. Sharing > hoarding.

figured out the vintage ice chest drainage.

fatcat

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Re: My racing collection

By the way, if you guys noticed something in the lower right corner, that would be this beauty:

That is the rear bumper of Casey Mears' #25 National Guard/GMAC Chevy Monte Carlo SS from 2007. I bought it at a flea market at the State Fairgrounds.