Kirkendall 1st MRB

Happy birthday bud!

Things Gearhart says while playing Rust: "Oh God, it's the helicopter. Nope, wait. That's just the wind." "I thought I heard a vehicle driving in game, but there's a truck outside my window. I had to take off my headset to be sure."

Dat HS percentage. I agree with your investigation. Thanks very much for bringing this to our attention.

Unbanned. Sorry for the inconvenience, again, Fuji.

It doesn't count if you pay for a booster service! Congrats anyways

Pssh. More impressive:

Heco, Canton, & Saba are all German speaker makers. They are ones that I won't have a lot of direct experience with. However, I do recall "Diamond Dave Bennett" (my old audio guy) once telling me, "Germans can make a great car... I just wish they'd leave the speakers to us. Bennett always made me exceedingly jealous since he had a nice old Mcintosh audio setup with Klipsch and Definitive speakers. But as I said, I won't have a lot of direct experience with the German ones. The Pioneer CS 777 is definitely the choice I would go for. I like the specs on the Heco speakers, but I don't know what kind of pricing you're getting on any of the choices. So unfortunately I don't have a grand amount of input. All the reviews I'm reading of the Canton's are less than stellar, there's that at least. As for a receiver swap-out, I usually peg those into the "audio-snob" category. The expression "warm sound" gets thrown around a lot these days for old audio equipment that gives out more of the original sound that the artists heard when they were recording old music. Older generations dislike digital music as it gets "cleaned up" to sound crystal clear. Vinyl records go a long way for making older music sound like what the artists were listening to, but you'd need a full analog receiver to pair with that to give the true "old warm" sound. In short, I don't personally believe it's worth the effort. If you're looking for a wide view of music, Basing yourself to an old receiver limits modern music. The "warm sound" that people look for in older music is not present in a lot of modern music. So if you are looking for older music, go with an old receiver. If you're looking for newer music, go with a newer receiver. If you're looking for both, stay with the new.

My tip for ohms ratings: Don't pay too much attention to them. You won't burn out your system by having different ohms ratings. Ohms offer resistance for power coming into the speakers. For the typical setup, stay around 8 ohms. Your receiver doesn't list resistance in the manual, so the safe assumption is 8 ohms. If you have different speakers hooked into the system, you will start getting odd sound distortion since the reciver has to drive each speaker differently. Typically if a speaker is offering 4 ohms, it's telling you to crosswire the speakers. I won't go into that here, but it's basically splitting the power output from a receiver. Your receiver is pretty legit, if a bit aged. When receivers give out ratings they can do a couple of different things. If your receiver is saying 120x5 that means it's a 600 watt receiver that's spreading it's power across 5 channels. Pretty simple really, 600 / 5 = 120. So you have 120 watts per speaker connection to work with. That's probably "topping out" power in that it can't pull much more than that. Disclaimer: Don't be fooled by "Home Theater in a Box" systems that advertise outrageous amounts of power (like this). That system is expected to power both the blu-ray player inside the receiver as well as the passive subwoofer. Anyways for recommendations, I'd really like to know a price range that you'd like to stay within, but I can highlight some of my favorites. If you ever get me going on sound equipment, I'll gush about Klipsch. I own 3 Klipsch soundbars, 2 wireless speaker sets, a set of Klispch earbuds, and the ProMedia 2.1 PC speaker set. I'm a huge Klipsch fanboy and I always recommend them, but they can be a tad pricey. Here's a starting point for Klipsch. Don't get scared by the max wattage listed on any speaker recommendations. Look at the running power, not peak. Peak would be if you jacked the receiver to the utmost highest volume it can do. I don't recommend that for your eardrums, your neighbors, or your sound quality. One brand who has been putting out just a fantastic line of entry speakers is Pioneer. Seriously, their starting speakers are great quality, I highly recommend reading any reviews of them online. Really a great price for a heckuva pair. Example. If you're just looking for price efficiency, you could do a lot worse than Polk Audio. They've been in the game forever and give out a great sound at hard-to-compete with pricing. Check out the T15s. Those are three brands I have experience with so my recommendation will be obviously biased. If you have a certain price range you're looking for, please let me know. Otherwise, if you have a specific kind of sound you want to hear (you like to slappa da bass, or get some of those Freddy Mercury high notes) let me know as well. (If you're wondering Klipsch is phenomenal at capturing high notes) Either way, let me know if this is what you're looking for or if you have any other questions.

Even for battle scarred, that looks pretty sweet.

Skins don't degrade in quality if that's what you're saying. The prices of individual skins fluctuate. You used to be able to buy an m4 howl for $30, now the same skin will cost $400 Isn't that because it's Contraband due to Valve having used someone picture from DeviantArt or something like that without permission? Yes and no. Valve did not make the skin, almost all of the skins that are available in game are made by the community. Basically someone made the skin for the gun, stealing the art from a person's deviantart, and uploaded it to be voted on by the community. The community loved the skin, and voted heavily for it to be in the game. During that time, no one from Valve or the community realized it was a different user with the skin than with the deviantart page. Once Valve was informed, they took appropriate action. I'll give you about tree fiddy.

Skins don't degrade in quality if that's what you're saying. The prices of individual skins fluctuate. You used to be able to buy an m4 howl for $30, now the same skin will cost $400

I got a muthafuckin knife!

Weird theory, summed up with a very inconsequential line. The movies never went into the backstory of the Eagles, and their complicated relationship with middle earth and Gandalf. But that doesn't mean you should disregard their actions during the war of the ring. Gwaihir, Lord of the Eagles, and his race, were very proud. It was considered a great honor to be carried by an eagle, Gandalf saved Gwaihir from poison which established a relationship between the two. Even becoming friends, Gwaihir only bore Gandalf three times, once from Orthanc (to escape Saruman), once from Silvertine (the mountaintop where Gandalf battled the balrog), and once to retrieve Frodo when the ring was destroyed. Although Gwaihir was lord of eagles, he was not their king. While that may seem a minute difference, neither Gwaihir nor his brother, Landroval could demand the eagles something they were unwilling. Beyond the Eagles, ask yourself: why did Gandalf not use more magic to influence the people of middle earth? When Theodon was cleansed some magic would've been great to get him to come to senses and ask gondor for aid. Some magicks would've been great to use on that bitch Denethor. The answer to that is the same as the answer for the question with the eagles. Both Gandalf and the Eagles are creatures given to middle earth to act as guides. Gandalf and the other wizards easily had the power to create armies and dominate mankind. But the Valar, the gods of the west, restricted them. They were to only act as guides. To use more of their power would endanger them to corruption, as happened to Saruman and before him, Sauron. The easiest answer to the question of the Eagles is that it doesn't make sense in the world Tolkien created. The Eagles would not destroy the ring on their own, as Gandalf would not either. Gandalf hinted he would not be able to resist that corruption, you can bet the eagles wouldn't resist it either.

Tom Waits provided the persona inspiration for the Joker. The voice and demeanor is eerily similar. See the video below: Waits comes on ~1:40

Evil Geniuses won the recent DotA 2 tournament that had a staggering $18 million prize pool. This play has been dubbed "The $6 Million Slam" since it secured the victory for EG,was a crazy quadra kill, and the move Earthshaker uses is called "Echo Slam". After a little bit, EG finished the game, winning first place in the tournament. The total pool was the largest winnings accrued for an esports game to date, a larger prize pool than the 2963 SC2 tournaments recorded on esportsearnings.com combined.

If you follow this guy's logic, I hope to hear you pronounce SCUBA phonetically. I also want you to pronounce JPEG as J-Pheg. English beats up other languages in the alley for spare nouns. English don't have rules concerning pronunciations of acronyms.

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You don't get to make an X-Wing every day...

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Who else might be alive?