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Guys
I played Overwatch a bunch in the open beta, even though it ran like shit on my computer (Played a lot of Mercy to compensate)
I did a bunch of research and upgraded my processor since I figured it'd been bottlenecking my GPU for a long time figuring it'd be enough of an upgrade to be able to play the game normally, but now that the game's released it still runs like shit, even with the new processor. (Noticably less shit, but still unplayable unless I just play Mercy.)
Here's my
>CPU
Intel Core i3-4170 3.70GHz
>GPU
Nvidia GTX 750 Ti
Could any more experienced PC builders tell me what I'm doing wrong here? Is my trusty old meme card GPU just not strong enough to handle the game, or did I shoot too low on the new processor? Is there something else that could be fucking things up?
I brought this up in another thread, and they mentioned the processor I bought is shit. I upgraded without changing the motherboard, which has an 1150 socket. Would that socket be screwing me over here? I don't know how to compare processors, honestly, so any help is appreciated.
Post this on /g/. Sage.
>>17176355
The /g/ sticky literally says not to ask questions about this shit, mane
>/g/ is NOT your personal tech support team or personal consumer review site.
>>17176267
Build a new rig faggot.
>>17176355
This. sage
How do I make the transition from being a mainstream sports bar frat bro to an underground artsy hipster who wears flannel and goes to warehouse parties?
>>17176244
Sorry, some of us don't do threads about suicide.
listen to neutral milk hotel
Shower no more than once a week using vegan approved products
Smoke weed if you don't already.
About to have sex for the first time later this week with my sexually experienced friend, she's helping me out. Any tips for this 19 year old virgin?
>>17176231
find out if she's got a thing for corrupting innocent young men. if so, be completely yourself and let her teach you everything. you'll lose your virginity and she'll keep the experience in the spank bank forever. i know i did
Don't let yourself be "introduced into it" like a little boy
TAKE HER and feel yourself being the leading man in the situation.
That'll be great
use a condom
How do I become mentally stronger or tougher, /adv/?
I suffer from clinical depression if it matters, but I'm sick of minor things like fights with friends or stressful situations bring me down, sometimes to the point of sleep deprivation. I desperately need to get mentally tougher. What do?
>>17176216
I think it's a habit to develop, basically by entertaining tougher thoughts every fucking day and realizing when you're bringing yourself down in your head, saying SHUT THE FUCK UP to this inner critique and build brick by brick a fucking castle of manlyhood
>http://markmanson.net/not-giving-a-fuck
Read this.
>>17176216
become psychotic all the time
>Imagine terrible things happening to me all the time.(Stuff like my family dying, my gf dying, becoming paralyzed, etc)
>It feels as if a melancholy mood is my natural state of mind. It almost feels comforting
>Whenever my work load increases slightly above my comfort zone, I freak out and can't motivate myself to do anything
>I feel incapable doing anything to my fullest ability
Is this depression?
You actually just described some of the specific symptoms of a very specific mental disorder. You may need professional help dealing with this.
>>17176227
what's the mental disorder?
>>17176213
A few things I forgot to add
>I am intimidated by others success and motivation
>Despite all of this, I still view my life as being pretty good
What do you think about removed tattoos? Are they a disgrace?
Tattoos are usually overrated as fuck and people have really poor taste. If it's anything like the OP pic, yes.
Or wait, there's a chemical that's going to be released in a year or two that removes tattoos quickly and painlessly. It breaks down the ink rather than frying your skin
T. My cousin is a tattoo artist
>>17176308
Laser tattoo removal doesn't fry the skin in order to remove the tattoo, it breaks down the ink particles until they're small enough to be absorbed by white blood cells.
>>17176445
Doesn't matter, there's a better method soon
So I have diagnosed social anxiety. Basically I went to high school, got bullied, lost all my self confidence, lost all my friends, became a hermit, lost all my social skills, and here I am now. I'm 20 in college now and I still have this problem. I went to see a shrink and that didn't help.
I know I haven't always been like this. I know it's all in my head. Usually I'll be sitting at home, thinking "wow, social anxiety is a joke. How could I be nervous in a social situation?" But when I get out into the real world, old habits return and no amount of tricking myself will help me otherwise. Why, why, why am I still so awkward, nervous and weird? I feel like there's a trick to getting rid of social anxiety. Has anybody here overcome such a problem? I honestly feel like I've wasted the best part of my life and if I don't fix it soon, I'll be stuck here forever. What the fuck is wrong with me?
I don't really know what I'm going for asking on /adv/ other than the fact that I'm drunk and my life is in the shitter.
im 32 and im not over it, it is just part of me, you better just focus on finishing college and getting a good job
> I honestly feel like I've wasted the best part of my life and if I don't fix it soon, I'll be stuck here forever
1. Yes, focus on this. Your life is finite, and if you don't improve yourself, you will waste it and then die.
2. Other people are mere people, like you. They're not something mysterious or dangerous. They're just apes like you.
3. You probably care too much about what people think about you / about doing things in the right way, or whatever. Realize that fixating on this hampers you. Life has no rules, nobody will arrest you for saying the wrong thing.
I was rather socially anxious until somewhere in my 20's, when I learned to not care. Life is short and there's no time to waste being bogged down by anxiety. Also, even if you do something dumb, I've found that if you do whatever you do confidently, people are accepting. Own yourself and live, and things will improve, and bear in mind that if you don't, your life will be worse than otherwise.
This is all a complicated way of telling you to learn to not care, which frees you.
>>17176133
>I went to see a shrink and that didn't help.
Ok wait a sec, explain this further.
What medication did they try?
And did you go to the therapy? How did that go?
>I feel like there's a trick to getting rid of social anxiety.
There are tricks but all of them work on specific situations only. They work for normal people that are only scared of very particular things like public speaking, or talking to their boss.
For you, you don't need any tricks, since you're fucked in every situation.
Learning a gigantic set of tricks will simply replace it with a sort of social OCD, like me and others who grew up with this problem (had it since 5yo or so): we have many rules, tactics, and rituals to cope with each situation, but still get fucked whenever anything that's not "in the book" comes up or when someone goes off-script. It's not a good solution.
Like >>17176175 said, focus on your studies first. Don't let this interfere with academic progress: if it ever does, go back to the shrink and get medication for it immediately.
This >>17176204 is good advice since it sounds like you have the ability to follow it, ie not a pathological case (those generally start in childhood, from birth to age 12 or so).
Like that anon said, the biggest thing is to say "fuck everyone and their opinions". Let them think you're fucked up or crazy if that's what they want to think: the worst that can happen is that you end up with a reputation for being "the crazy guy", which incredibly freeing since you can fuck up every social situation, wear whatever you want, act as weird as you want, etc and everyone will think it's completely normal (oh, that's just Anon, he's a little crazy, don't mind him).
I'm going to be homeless soon and my mother won't give me my high school diploma or social security card so that I can get a job.
What do I do?
tell your mother to give you your high school diploma and social security card. pussy.
>>17176128
Already tried it faggot.
>>17176121
why does she have them anyway
call the cops on her for theft
Hey guys. I have made a thread almost a year ago about my first gf. I will green text the back story.
>20 years old at college. Have never had a girlfriend. I met a 19 year old girl that went to the same school as me on yikyak. We hung out awkwardly for a few times over a couple weeks. I asked if she liked me and she said she does. During one of our normal meetups she cuts it short and says she needs to go and help with her friend. I hugged her and went back home where I see she has texted me. She said she never wanted to see me again and I asked what changed and she got very angry and listed off everything bad about me. From my hair, to my body language, to other things. She blocked me and said she never wanted to meet again. Weeks later she texts me and apologizes and I forgive her. She wanted to meet before she left for a summer job. A few days later we decided we want to be a couple. For the next two months she is crazy over me and tells me she wants to marry me and stuff. Then she started blocking me saying never to text her again, to apologizing saying she keeps self destructing. A month after that she got with another guy at her job and blocked me until he dumped her, then came back and tried to be friends, which was alright with me. When this happened I lose myself and sent her a very bad text message. When she came back from her job we tried to be friends then she just called me and said we shouldn't talk again that we just hurt each other. That was last august.
Haven't talked since then, but I have seen her a few times around campus. Every time I see her (most of the time with her presumptive new bf) I just get super depressed. It bothers me that I couldn't give her something this new guy can. I don't want her back, but I don't like the feeling that I wasn't good enough for her. I went through so much shit trying to make us work and it seems that her new relationship is just fine without all the drama.
Shameless bump for help.
>>17176115
>Weeks later she texts me and apologizes and I forgive her.
You fucked up. This cunt is unstable as fuck and you have oneitis to the fullest degree.
>but I don't like the feeling that I wasn't good enough for her
F U C K T H A T U N S T A B L E B I T C H
Dude, she is completely mental. Do not contact her again, trust me. Don't doubt yourself over some obviously unstable cunt. If you have a thread of self worth you will listen to the advice given to you.
I'm 23, and barely drink alcohol. Usually a hard soda or 3 a year and champagne on New Year's. Maybe some red wine with a steak, steak being a rare treat to myself.
My question being: What beers do you recommend for a lightweight semi-newbie?
>>17176070
Someone more experienced will probably chime in, but I say go for lighter beers like lagers and ales. Avoid IPA until you have a taste for normal beer.
>>17176070
I used to be like you.
Drank only a bit when I was a teenager and then stopped.
Now I'm an alcoholic. Haha. Who saw that coming?
Anywho, as you get older, beer becomes tastier and tastier.
As you get older, you appreciate bitterness more and more.
Keep trying beers. There is such a variety. One day, you'll find one and you'll be like "Damn! This is great!". And that'll be your gateway.
If you just want to get drunk, I recommend rum and coke. Sweet and inoffensive. Generally, mixed drinks are easy to drink.
My ultimate advice is to take it easy. I remember all the mistakes I made.
Now I can be almost blackout drunk and be almost indistinguishable from my sober self. But my early years were messy as hell. So much embarrassment.
Get some practice in. Understand what it means to be drunk. Learn your limits.
beer can mess your stomach and liver, it might not kill you but it will decrease your life quality, for guys heineken is a light beer, never try famosa is pure poison, I think malta beer is also light, do not drink beer just for social pressure, it will harm only you not the others
so essentially my girlfriend is about to turn eighteen, and recently a creep from her past is trying to work his way back into her life, she's scared and he's not at all concerned with the negative implications because he's a pedophile tool who just got out of prison, i don't want him to be a concern of hers anymore but he's Facebook stalking her and now he's friendly with her mother. where do i go from here?
>her and her mother not having restraining orders
just why
her mother is really friendly with him, just trust me that's not happening. She brought it up and her mom absolutely refuses to believe it's a problem.
>>17176056
Toxic mom is as big a problem then.
>Friend (she) stay at home because is late
>Let her sleep with me
>never feel atracted to her before
>we had a night talk about our problems and lonliness (she splitted up with his bf weeks ago)
>She jumps over my chest and tells me 'you're so smol'.
>I panicked internally, very nervous
>she looks at my closely, I may thought it was a good moment to kiss her, just feeling the moment
>didn't do anything
>minute later she goes normal position and we sleep
>my heart was going to explode, but i sleep that night
>she seemed to be a bit less friendly since then
>she may avoid sometimes my messages
>we met today with other friends and she didn't look angry nor very friendly as usual.
he let me now a great curiosity, I may really wanted to kiss her, but my body didn't react.
What happened to her? Did I offend her? Don't know what to do. She's a 'cold ENTJ'. OP is INTP.
if you didn't jump at her at the first opportunity then you didn't really want to
>>17176062
What if I want it now?
What is the problem with her right now? Why does she stay with me like that? May she be in love with me?
I couldn't do anything with her because of nervous and because I thought I may be misunderstanding the situation...
>>17176035
>>17176085
See she wanted you to make her feel less alone and gave you an opportunity to make a move to possibly do whatever you like...
Imagine how you would feel if you were in her shoes.
Just talk to her in private the next time you two are together. Ask her if you hurt her. Don't ask her if she is mad, or mad at you. That would only end in her cuntsplaining your face off.
Explain to her exactly this
>I thought it was a good moment to kiss you but i was just enjoying the moment
What is the best way to ask a girl out while you're in highschool? I'm looking for ideas on exactly what to say, how to bring it up, etc. Any help is appreciated.
Just write a note
Do you like me more than a friend?
[ ] yes
[ ] no
>>17175988
Or make the text, "I like you", and then muster up the courage to hit send and throw your phone down in front of you.
>>17176007
Are you sure that won't seem too immature?
I lost my virginity to a some kind of prostitute of the institute without condom who also took my first kiss, all of this while having a waifu.
However, I didn't enjoy it. How can I help myself? Feel better? Move on?
Thanks in advance!
Bump. Q_Q
>>17175981
Have you considered suicide?
>>17176042
Hopefully around 50 or 60.
Hey /adv/ I could use some advice. Pic unrelated.
>Girlfriend and I break up because she can't get over her abusive ex.
>Hookup with this girl, let's call her Susie, in order to get over my ex and move on
>Susie ends up being really cool, and I ask her to stay over again sometime
>She comes over again, while I am blacked out, and hangs out with me and some of my friends
>I apparently start to talk with one of my friends about how Susie is really cool and I actually might want something more with her (Little did I know she heard)
>Susie and I hookup a few more times, and she even stays over once or twice when she is on her period
>Finally tell Susie that I actually have feelings for her, and she says she also has feelings for me
Keep in mind this all happened in about 3 weeks
>Summer hits and I have an internship that requires me to move away for 8 weeks
>The night before I leave I ask Susie if she wants anything more than just being friends with benefits
>She tells me that she really does; however, neither of us are sure that it is a good idea since I will be gone for 8 weeks. In addition, she metions that she has known I was interested in something more since the night I was blacked out
>We hookup one last time before I move, and it is all really good
The problem is that I want a relationship with this girl in the future, but I am not really sure how she will feel when I return. We still text and communicate, yet I am not sure if she is wanting to wait and see where this goes or not. What should I do to ensure that we can have a relationship in the future?
Thanks /adv/
I would just stay in contact with the girl for awhile. There is really not much you can do long distance unless you are able to visit her every once in awhile
Bumping because I am in a similar situation
This can be a tough situation. Do you know if she was still wanting to hookup with other guys or not?
