So Ive gotten about 3 years out of my current stuff and I'm ready for something new. I don't do incremental upgrades so I tend to go as high end as I can without paying for highly diminished returns on things like extreme edition whatevers that offer 2% more performance for twice the price. Proposed build currently looks like this.

• i7 5930k
• 980ti x 2
• Motherboard ( Undecided )
• 32GB DDR4 ( whatever is priced right, doesn't really matter)
• Samsung 950 pro SSD
• PSU ( undecided ) . Probably 1kw
• Want to add a 1440p+ monitor or 4k TV but have yet to find a 4k tv with acceptable response times.

Not sure on the motherboard. I know I need X99 and really am only concerned with having the lanes available for SLI and the SSD without them fighting over resources. Adding a BD drive and an NH D15. Otherwise using existing chassis and fans etc etc.

And you don't find that to be crushingly bleak and depressing? When I imagine laying in a hospice looking up at anyone who happened to care enough to stop by I get the same feeling I get when I imagine death by drowning.

lol @ people who still see skin color. Maybe one day after you have gained some perspective you'll realize that the faults of man are colorblind and dwell in the bosom of anyone willing to harbor them regardless of what color the exterior is painted.

With that said, I find black history month to be a no longer relevant relic that only serves to water the seeds of racial division.

I spent literally all of 2013 fighting stage 3 colorectal cancer and after going through the chemo...the radiation...2 surgeries and 6 months worth of wearing an ostomy bag, I can say to an ABSOLUTE certainty that I wont do it again if I get a recurrence. I have just become that comfortable with the idea of eternal rest after becoming so tired with life.

I guess what made last year tolerable was the fact that I hadn't been told "you are going to die" so It was fairly easy to just fool myself into thinking that it was just bound to work out. Now I'm back to as normal as I'll get ( bowel adjustments aside ) and I have the next few years worth of dodging bad news to look forward to. All those screens...scans...scopes...all of those things that can just burst my bubble at a moments notice.

So I find myself thinking about death a lot. Not because I want to die but because I want to KNOW how I would die if it came to that. The whole drifting away in a hospice while mourners look on and that last breath after every facet of life has been stolen just doesn't appeal to me but I know deep down I probably dont have the balls to kill myself.

I guess a lot of my problem now is dwelling on how trapped I would feel if someone gave me "the news". It's a pretty claustrophobic feeling. Like the entirety of the universe being shrunk down to a singular hopeless thought.

It seems the only place from which to draw comfort going forward is the delusion that I would spare myself a slow passing. Maybe that will change.

Rambling aside, How would you handle being given a terminal "go home and die" diagnosis? Would you suffer the coming of the inevitable or would you handle it on your own terms while you still had most of yourself left?

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As far as nasa goes. While fascinating I think everything they do is pretty pointless in regards to collision detection. Anything big enough to cause global damage would be too big for them to do anything about. So at best, they let us know it's going to happen and there isn't anything we can do.

This isnt Armageddon. If something the "size of texas" were headed our way it would just hit us. End of story. I'd rather not know to be honest.

br0kenrabbit

If NASA can raise the alarm a few decades in advance, we have the tech to do something about it. But we have to know they're coming first, and that's the role NASA is filling.

What tech are you talking about? Traction based trajectory altering? Projectile impact based trajectory altering? Sure, if it's found 40 years out and we can manage to bump it an inch to the side it'll probably miss us but you have to remember we are talking about humans who are wildly incapable of making anything happen most of the time.

As far as nasa goes. While fascinating I think everything they do is pretty pointless in regards to collision detection. Anything big enough to cause global damage would be too big for them to do anything about. So at best, they let us know it's going to happen and there isn't anything we can do.

This isnt Armageddon. If something the "size of texas" were headed our way it would just hit us. End of story. I'd rather not know to be honest.

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I came here to say this x1000

The only thing that would be capable of extinction would be worldwide climate change that made earth totally uninhabitable or something like a large impact event so massive that it either destroyed earth entirely or knocked it out of the habitable zone which would then cause world wide unescapable climate change.

War, famine, overpopulaiton, pandemics etc etc won't be able to accomplish full extinction due to the vast distances and numbers of totally isolated groups of people.

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People suck for the most part. There are no problems we are facing right now or in the future that are NOT made worse by adding more people to it. I say just cut it off entirely. Our species isn't going anywhere positive. All roads lead to different flavors of "we are fvcked".

Alter_Echo

If you honestly feel that way then why not start with yourself?

Working on it. I have a genetic mutation that gives me like a 9 out of 10 chance of getting colorectal cancer before the age of 50 and I haven't been to the doctor in 20 years and have never had a colonoscopy. It'll kill me eventually. Will just take some time.

I also smoke which should speed things up a bit.

Rofl. Called it. Diagnosed with Rectal Adenocarcinoma. Not even joking :o

Don't know how bad it is but if they start talking about a permanent ostomy I'm just gonna go home and die. Fvck that noise lol.

He's busy inventing the internet 2.0