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@schizrade Account secured. Will be reaching out to email on account.

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@yamanawabi I would like to say this as well. We have identified these "hacked" accounts stemming from one source. When the EVGA forums were hacked, it seems to us that they got user PWs. Over 90% of the accounts on HardForum that have been compromised, used the same PW on EVGA and HF.

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@yamanawabi I saw this before you reached out and nipped it in the bud. Your account was secured at that time. I just sent you reset instructions. Please read the notice we are running the top of https://t.co/PFYiHg1O7Y. There are 2FA security tools there for you to use, please.

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[H]ardOCP RatPadz OG one step closer to being back!

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Was talking to some long-time brothers sisters in the HardForum tonight and spoke to why it has taken me a bit longer to get closer to production with RatPadz OG and thought I would share that reply here.

""My plan was to be at this point in October. Finding the right surface has happened several times already. Finding a company in USA that could provide consistency in surface texture has been a chore. I flew out to one plant, and the sheet they rolled one day, looked nothing like the sheet they rolled next week. The fact is what we are using the material for a purpose that simply no one else is. I have to be extremely picky about the surface texture. I got lucky and the surface we are using for the OG was my favorite.

"For the RatPadz XT, that polymer was produced in a plant in Georgia. I had a deal with them on consistency. The sheets that I bought from that company came off one single pair of rollers, so it was the same every time. Big issue here is being a very small fish in a huge pond.

"You can DIY your own hard gaming mousepad. Start buying cutting boards till you find one that has the texture you want. Then get out sandpaper and profile the edge how you want. So you are $10 in on the cutting board, and hours down on sanding. If you have a router, bingo. That said, you will not find a surface texture better for gaming and content creation than the one I have picked out by hand since last summer.

"My point is however, I found the exact surface I wanted, and I found a company that tells me they can sell me 10s of thousands of sheets that will be exactly the same. It is a big ask. No one else that buys this material gives a damn about consistency. Then to qualify all the manufacturing product as "made in the USA," is something that no one else cares about. Polymers are made from crude oil. Your RatPadz OG most likely came out of the ground in West Texas. Was cracked either in Houston or southern Louisiana, rolled in Georgia or Alabama, and will be shaped and footed in North Texas. And shipped by USPS. All our money is going directly back into the US economy on the production side.

"When I made the first gen RatPadz, I never even considered any of this.

"The entire OG product is based on digging into the minutia of perfection and patriotism.

"Every competitor in this hard mouse pad space is made in China or elsewhere in Asia. I am going to give you a better product than their top end premium product and I am going to either match or cut their price. I am going to give you better customer service. And do it in the USA."

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@n050up4u1 HardOCP will not be in the PC hardware review business. This will be "RatPadz by HardOCP." Kickstarter launching soon.

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HardOCP is coming back to get into some Made in the USA RatPadz business.

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We just hinted at what's coming in terms of @RatPadzOG on HardForum. The first post from MavericK in response told me he never needed to buy another one since he still had the first ones he bought. I want to make RatPadz OG even better.

https://t.co/I5n9INHTqK

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@IanCutress @graphcoreai 🤣

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A great discussion on video card MSRPs and hardware review industry changes that is worth a listen.

[𝐷𝑟. 𝐼𝑎𝑛 𝐶𝑢𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠 @IanCutress]

Appearing on the @AdoredTV podcast, come hang out!

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@IanCutress @AdoredTV Not much to disagree with your editorializing on my editorializing. You hit on a lot points that I didn't include as I didn't want to go too far into the weeds with my post. Thanks for taking the time to discuss it, I think it is an important topic that deserves more exposure.

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It gets even better...

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Dear English-speaking friends,

As part of my PhD, I'm researching human-AI creative interaction. I created a little tool where you can write two themes and see the beginning of a story come alive.

You can try it here:

https://t.co/sqIo4qPcy0

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[Rodolfo Ocampo @_RodolfoOcampo]

Dear English-speaking friends,

As part of my PhD, I'm researching human-AI creative interaction. I created a little tool where you can write two themes and see the beginning of a story come alive.

You can try it here:

https://t.co/sqIo4qPcy0

(1/2)

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Even the AI knows....

[Rodolfo Ocampo @_RodolfoOcampo]

Dear English-speaking friends,

As part of my PhD, I'm researching human-AI creative interaction. I created a little tool where you can write two themes and see the beginning of a story come alive.

You can try it here:

https://t.co/sqIo4qPcy0

(1/2)

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@xfxglobal Apple IIe

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@ESlibrarian @Barnacules @tegelz @LinusTech @JayzTwoCents and beaten with sticks*

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The Status Quo is No Mo.
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@nvidia does not want to go through a Fed US Court case that brings up repeated and multiple past instances of very real anticompetitive behaviors. The PR around that would be horrible for NV alone. Just one of my hypothesis on this. I was looking forward to the case arguments.

[*Walter Bloomberg @DeItaone]

*NVIDIA IS SAID TO QUIETLY PREPARE TO ABANDON TAKEOVER OF ARM
$NVDA

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@jdarrenmcphee We set our first Pentium IV overclocking world records using a phase change system. We however did not immediately disclose it was done in a garage in Alaska during the winter. Fun times.

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GPU MSRP is Not Meaningless @AMD @Radeon @NVIDIAGeForce @IntelGraphics
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@iwarford Probably not. But has been kicked around.

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CES Thoughts: No desktop Arc-Not surprised. No power or battery life talked about by Intel on its new notebooks-Very surprised. No TDP given on 6500XT-Hmmm. 🤔