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You can't sign-and-trade a free agent unless he finished the season on your team. OKC's picks, including their own and the bevy of protected FR picks, are overrated. Look at them closer. The Suns aren't giving up KD for whatever mediocre haul OKC can cobble together this offseason with the picks, even if KD demands it and PHO wants to blow it up, and OKC won't do it next offseason for a one-year rental. This was a fantasy for a few weeks. They've moved on. Maybe the Knicks.

Durant has been in ring-chase mode for the past 7 seasons. It's easier to do when your market value is MLE and you're more or less fungible, but harder when you are guaranteed $105M the next two seasons at ages 36 and 37. There is no feasible way for him to land in OKC unless the Thunder give up at least one of their big three (SGA, Chet or JDub), and that is likely not going to happen. Maybe once he turns 38 and still has any fire left, he can give Presti a call. So there's that.

It started when Presti poached Chip Engelland from Popovich. By reputation, he's the best shooting coach and one of the best backroom staff members to have, and pretty much turned around their shooting overnight. I've been following the Thunder since day 1 and only their 2013 team was an elite shooting team. They have usually lagged behind the other elite teams in this area and it would cost them. It's also remarkable the Thunder are elite (by SRS and MOV, two reliable predictors of postseason success BTW) despite being the worst rebounding team in the league. For around three-fourths of the regular season, they were either the worst or second-worst ORB and DRB team. They focused on it and became a little better after the All-Star break, but it is an obvious inherent disadvantage. If they make it to the Finals, they would be the worst team ever at a fundamental area of the game to do it. The other handicap is experience even though people don't like to talk about it and think talent overcomes inexperience. But experience isn't a problem until it is.

It is partly because they were the best three-point shooting team in the regular season. They had ten players shoot 39% or better on 3pt. Giddey is a poor shooter, but all their other players can shoot. I think the days of OKC running out Perkins and Roberson while their stars get fatigued from trying to out-hero ball double teams appear to be over.

They should hand over five picks for Markkanen. Go all in now.

Shai and Chet are a lethal combo. That team might have arrived earlier than expected.

And if you want to run the 9th or 10th gen Intel chip at a higher clock speed, then shell out another $80 for the AIO. We're not close to mainstream 4K/144hz ultrawide yet. And I mean 4K at 144hz with 10-bit color and no chroma subsampling or smeared texts. Acer and Asus will rush to market the first 32-inch monitors and they will be $3000+ at launch with quality control issues. It may be one year before Dell, LG, Samsung, et al. even join the fray and the prices go down to ~$1800. I've been rolling with the AW3418dw for a while now and it only makes sense for me to upgrade to 4K ultrawide. At this point, I'm more likely to stay with 1440p and go wider like the LG 38-incher or the G9 (quality control issues and all). Or just use an OLED TV.

Lulz. It's likely I'll hold onto it until we get the RTX 40s, then sell it to my nephew for $100. That's life as a PC enthusiast. I'm happy I've gotten a lot out of it for two years now. I think my next upgrade will happen when we get display port 1.5 (or whatever the next generation will be) and ultrawide 4K/144hz monitors become a reality.

Devastating.

It's not the negging, give me a break. Negging stupid posts have been a daily occurrence since Shaggy introduced rep. I take it that's something you're used to, anyway. It's the reality that almost all of the people on your team vocally and strongly supported DJT before he got into office and for the last 3.5 years, you've had a tough time...with that. It's easier to run and hide, and bide your time until things look up and you all can come out of your caves again. Which is what many of the Surly right wingers have done. I get it.

Read the last few pages. Yep. Surly right wingers have become giant gaping vags. Sad. The right used to give it as much as they think they got. These days they just want to tuck it and run. I think they'll wait it out until someone from the D is in the white house and they'll suddenly have something to say again.

It ebbs and flows, in my view. I've read Hornfans when I was 13 until I joined Shaggy when I was 19. Mostly stayed out of the political boards. During the Obama years, the right wingers got in their shots in just about all the sub-forums, including movie talk, music talk, sports. These days, the turn tables. The difference is that several of the old righties don't participate anymore (and really, it's probably tough to wake up every morning and try to defend the guy in the White House), so the discussion appears to be one sided.

Do whatever you want. I'm just a Sooner. The Surly right wingers have become pussies though (just an observation).

So America's not great again?

/\ What's display(s) do you have? That is indeed a great massive case. Easily room for a second reservoir if you want to get the GPU on a water block.

A couple of the top tier aftermarket RTX 2080 TI cards sold for around $1,100 on r/hardwareswap recently. I would imagine they would go down some more right around the 3000s founder's edition cards get announced as people want to dump the 2000s. I'm not sure if people typically upgrade the highest tier GPUs each generation. I paid $1350 for my MSI 2080 TI Gaming X Trio and would happy to get back $1050 around a month or two before the aftermarket 3080 TI gets sold. If I want to sell it, I will post it here first and see if there's interest. I would rather sell locally (I'm in Tomball).

I was like you and felt pretty good at being to withstand any widespread health issues at 27. I'm 33 now and have neck, shoulder, back, and ass problems. Corona would will not be a walk in the park for me.

The fellas at Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and General Dynamics seem to be doing okay.

Advice for OP to take any concrete steps should also involve knowing the income for he and his wife, no? Ideally, we should also know exact numbers, including the principal and interest rate for each of the debt. For the CC, is it one, or multiple, banks servicing the cards? And if several CC debt spread over different banks, what are the rates for each of them? Finally, he should list out his expenses by necessities/non-necessities so people can recommend where any "excess" may be eliminated. Personal comment: I'm not saying I agree with your wife, but I lived in Oklahoma City for 24 years and there are nice homes in the NW OKC area that are $50-60K below your current house. That is probably too far from where you would be willing to relocate though.

Over the weekend, I finished the main story and 85% of all side quests, witcher contracts, and treasure hunts. Time played clocked in at 167.5 hours over 3.75 months. I am going to do the expansions and the remaining 15% after taking a rest for a week or two. At around 20 hours played, I started keeping track of how long I was playing in each of the main areas of the map. At 60 hours in, I became more thoughtful with my decisions because I didn't want to get a bad ending. At 90 hours in, I never wanted to stop playing. I became personally invested in the story. The amount of care and quality dedicated to the writing and voice acting in this game is incredible.

How do you like the Hurston? I tried out a mattresses at four places over three weeks and that one made my shortlist. It is down to the Purple 4, the Serta 500, and the Hurston. I need a firm mattress but with enough plush to sleep on my side. I would say I sleep equally 33% on each side and 33% on my back. My lower and upper back have aching every morning for a month now.

LMAO at the posters who claimed it's "settled science" from a drive-by link or have "been reading about this topic since like '08."

I built a PC in late 2018. It took about 8 hours over two days. I never built a PC before; the most I had ever done was install more RAM into my laptop. Difficulty level was about a 7. I just took my time and tried to enjoy the process. You can find the parts I used for my PC in my Surly post history. Paul's Hardware's build-a-PC YouTube series is good. I would also watch the guides by Bitwit, Jayztwocents, Hardware Canucks, LinusTechTips, and Tech Deals. They usually make a new video every year. It's good to see what each of them do; watching one video after the other will reinforce certain principles to help you remember important action items when you and your son start your build. If you need recommendations on parts, Tech Deals explains things very well. Some miscellaneous advice I can remember from my experience: If you want an easier way of connecting cables from your power supply, then buy a fully modular PSU. Connect the cables you need for your parts to the PSU first, then screw the PSU into the case, and then connect the cables to the components last. My case is a mid-tower case with no optical drive and was marketed as a build-friendly case with a lot of flexibility, expandability, and modularity. You may not need as much with your son's first build, but it made everything so much easier for me to be able to move components around if I didn't like where it fit. It's not "see-through" in that there is no glass cover on the side to show off my parts. Buy a case with at least one dust filter. Better, buy one that comes with 2-3 fans. On the flip side, the cases that are more flexible, have better cooling features out of the factory, have more fans, have more connectivity ports, have a tempered glass side cover, are more expensive. I stripped one of the screws for a large plate/cover inside the case so the plate is stuck and unremoveable. However, the case is spacious enough that I can still fit parts around it without any issue. At a minimum, buy a mid-tower case. The CPU cooler was difficulty to install. I was extra careful when I installed the RAM because I kept bending the top half of the motherboard when I pressed down on the modules. The SATA ports were kind of hard to reach when I tried to connect the HDD and SSD after the motherboard was already mounted on. I dropped one of the screws into a crevice in the case and cut my finger trying to reach for it. You might run into these things on your build. The expandability of the case has been so great. I've installed two more RAM modules without needing to remove the CPU cooler and another SSD. I plan to put another SSD and upgrade the fans. Put the PC on a desk high off the ground. If you are buying RAM that runs higher than 2666mhz, then check your BIOS to ensure you've enabled your RAM to operate at that speed (or check it in task manager). If your son will have a GPU (a video card), then plug the cable for your monitor into the GPU and not the CPU.

Calm down, snowflake.