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Jeez I hope you're ok. Hope we see you around in the future.

Crisis averted!

If you do buy a laptop, at least be sure that it has and relatively high capacity SSD. I cannot stress enough how big of an improvement SSDs are in terms of speed over ordinary hard-drives. The laptop I have currently came with a crappy 1 TB hard drive and I ended up buying a 256 GB Samsung SSD. Setting it up as a boot drive means my laptop starts up in less than 8 seconds. It may be smaller in terms of capacity but it definitely makes up for it in speed. Depending on what kind of laptop you have, you can even install a SSD and a HDD by replacing your optical drive with a hard-drive caddy. Just switch your HDD with a SDD and put your HDD into the caddy. You probably won't ever need your optical drive so its a pretty good trade. Alternatively, a lot of new laptops now have M.2 slots which allow you to install M.2 SSDs which are physically tiny but provide all the benefits and capacity of a regular SSD.

You definitely want a good laptop. Nowadays they're becoming much thinner and faster. Some ultrabooks I'd recommend are the Dell XPS 13, the HP Spectre x360 and the Asus ZenBook UX305. They're absolutely tiny but unlike older netbooks, they aren't complete garbage. If these choices are too expensive for you then I'd suggest getting something like a Chromebook like the ASUS Chromebook Flip C302. This is about a third of the cost of the HP Spectre x360 which is IMO the best out of the three I mentioned earlier but it'll definitely get the job done. The HP Spectre is still absolutely bonkers though. Its tiny yet it still packs a Nvidia laptop-grade GPU which can actually run some newer games pretty well at low settings. Not to mention dat 4k resolution. Full disclosure though, I would never recommend you buy this just for gaming. There are so many better options that are significantly cheaper. But if you want a fast, good lookin ultrabook that can pull its own weight and then some, this is what you'd want.

INB4 Nintendo buys domain from Amy.

1) A sleep mask Never in my life have I wore a sleep mask. Even on airplanes. It was only after like the first week of living on-campus where I was like "Yeah, I'm gonna need one of those sleep mask thingies." Luckily for me, my parents used to work for a pretty big company that would send them on business trips semi-frequently and they got to fly in business class. So they had a major abundance of those complementary airplane kits with the toothbrush, mouthwash, comb and of course, a sleep mask. This may be different depending on the people you room with. Since I was placed into overflow which is where they take a study lounge and fit 6 people including myself in there for a semester, there was always someone using their laptop or had their desk lamp turned on. I didn't want to bother them so I figured a sleep mask would be the perfect solution and sure enough, it was. 2) Water boiler Ok so technically its against the rules to have water boilers in dorms at least in my university. But hell, you're bound to break the rules sooner or later. Plus it is just too useful to ignore. Whether you're slurpin ramen or brewing tea, you gotta have one of these things. Lol every time there were dorm checks we would hide ours inside a drawer or something like it was booze. 3) Mini vacuum Again, this may depend on the people you room with and how tidy they are but since I was rooming with 5 other people and I'm kind of a neat-freak, I got me a mini vacuum and used the hell out of it. This obviously goes without saying but if you don't clean your room you're bound to attract uninvited guests like roaches and rodents. The amazing thing was that even though there were 6 of us guys living in the room, we never had any encounters with pests. While the entire hall itself had dead roaches and a rat problem. Some university halls will provide their own vacuum cleaners that you can rent out but they either suck (lol like they're terrible), or are just too inconvenient to get. 4) Multi-tool This is IMO a lot more useful than bringing like a single knife. I've got a fishing multi-tool that is basically a folding pair of pliers with a knife, scissors, screwdriver(s), file and even a freaking miniature saw. You never know when you're going to need one of these things for example one of my roomates was experiencing some problems with his laptop charger. I busted out this little beast and opened up his laptop and quickly diagnosed the problem as a faulty port connection and a dead battery. Now later on I decided I'd buy a dedicated toolkit with all the bits and stuff since I was upgrading my laptop's storage but the multi-tool would've worked just fine on its own. ADDENDUM Alright so right after I posted this I remembered something really important. Its something you should not bring to your dorm either because its too big of a hassle to move or you'll just end up not using it at all. So one of my roomates bought his monster gaming PC which had to weight almost 20+ pounds. How do I know this? BECAUSE I WAS THE UNLUCKY FUCK WHO HAD TO HELP HIM MOVE IT OUT. In the 4 months we've lived on-campus, he only used that thing a grand total of 6 times and only 1 time for actual gaming. I shit you not. And the thing is, HE ALWAYS WENT HOME DURING THE WEEKENDS. Later at the end of the semester he admitted bringing that thing was a terrible idea. He also had a pretty large gaming monitor which probably was fairly heavy itself. So I highly recommend that that you just bring a laptop as that'll be a hell of a lot easier to move around. If you still want to game on a PC, just invest in a decent gaming laptop.

Accidents happen. IMO the only way to get past these sort of things is to push onward. Those payments are obstructing your path, so please just accept the help from your parents and get that stuff out of the way. I understand it may feel like you're burdening them, but I'm sure you'd do the same for them (hopefully). Family are supposed to look out for one another after all. Don't let shit from the past keep you from moving on with your life. This may sound kind of fucked up, but I would be relieved to know that instead of accidentally inflicting that sort of harm onto to someone else, you took it instead. Believe me, the guilt you would feel from that would be considerably worse.

Lol then its our duty as citizens to do whatever is legally within our power to stop this. Simple solution is just to not vote for her if she by some miracle manages to become a candidate. I seriously doubt that would even happen. I think the only reason this is even being discussed is because a vocal minority and the media just blow this shit completely out of proportion.

What's your point here? Just because we've had or have bad presidents doesn't mean we should just say "Fuck it." and vote whatever random person we happen to arbitrarily like into office. If its all the same in the end, we may as well just end the world right here right now. That's the real endgame anyways right? Trying to prolong this pathetic human existence as much as possible. /s

wHaT COuLd pOssIBly gO WrONg?

So it begins.

TFW you used to whiteknight Bungie before any Destiny 1 DLC was released. We all have regrets...

Lol holy shit I honestly forgot how much fun I had playing DDLC with my friends. We hooked up my laptop to my friend's TV and we stayed up till like 3 AM playing this game and we were just slowly losing our minds.

Nah Ubisoft, Activision, and EA have always been figuring out new ways to screw over the consumer. Take a look at For Honor. More P2W items, and not to mention PEER TO PEER CONNECTIONS.

Good games will be around every year as well as shitty ones. The only problem now is the shitty games are getting hyped and backed by big-name companies before they're released, only for the consumer to realize after the game released that the game is a travesty. This year the issue of microtransactions pretty much caused a peak in internet outrage as Eat Ass (EA) tried to get around the lack of a season pass of SW Battlefront II by jamming it full of P2W lootboxes. From a triple game developer and a game that had so much riding on its success, this was a completely new low for the industry. For this reason, I feel like the games that were released this year that were already good, just got elevated to near god-tier. Zelda BOTW, Nier Automata, Resident Evil 7, Wolfenstein II, and Nioh. All these games were good, hell even amazing to begin with. Its these other shitty games contrasting with them that makes them soooo much better. So yeah, 2017 was pretty good for video games.

I've always wanted a dog or a cat but unfortunately both me and my sister are allergic to animal hair. My sister in particular is pretty bad around cats, she starts sneezing and oh boy, once she starts there is no stopping until she leaves the house the cat lives in. I've had fish as a kid and they lived quite a long time but died when I moved. A lot of people don't really like fish as a pet but I really think they're great. I guess there's the misconception that you don't really need to care for fish as actively as cats or dogs but that just isn't the case at all. Caring for fish is a lot more technical as you got to monitor water temperature, acidity, and water purity in order for your fish to live as long and comfortably as possible. Not to mention some fish are just absolutely gorgeous like this Platinum Koi: In clear water their scales literally look like they're worth their weight in actual platinum. My uncle had a school of Neon Tetra when I was a kid and I was just totally blown away by how cool these little guys are.

Titanfall 2 Persona 5 Horizon Zero Dawn Bloodborne Final Fantasy 15 Rainbow Six Siege

Contrary Serperior worked wonders during Amaria's battle, the trick is to know when to back out so you can heal/revive. Depending on your IVs it should tank any ice moves just enough to use Giga Drain or Leaf Storm.

TL;DR: Don't be a toxic, arrogant, whiteknight. Just say what needs to be said and move on. That's what a good community does.

Console or PC? I heard Nier Auto has some pretty bad bugs on PC and FF comes out for PC next year.