Posts by slysurfer14

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wiredlynx33 said:I honestly can't decide whether I should be laughing or weeping. This entire discussion about medications and a father battling 30 grams of cancer is just... overwhelming. Does anyone actually grasp the sheer volume of pills—these literal poisons—he had to swallow to manage those 30 grams? It’s no wonder he feels like death. Honestly, if I don't find some other way to cope, I might end up feeling just as miserable. I am practically hysterical while typing this out... the man even shared a video from CBS (which even my mother has heard of) discussing this specific drug... or perhaps urbanorca filmed it in secret just to push LDN on us. Oh, please, tell me urbanorca isn't actually trying to pull this one over our eyes. 😢 What an absolute joke!!
Please, I am asking you—and I urge everyone here to exercise a modicum of logical reasoning—tell me: what is the actual difference between 3mg and the 50mg doses typically taken by addicts or people struggling with substance abuse?? There is a massive, undeniable gulf between those two amounts; I would personally put any pill in my mouth immediately if there were even a 1% chance it could help me. Every medication, especially when dealing with cancer, carries side effects, but every single drug is different in that regard. Just take a look at the instructions for Salofalk to see for yourself, not to mention the implications of taking Medrol!!

Look, a half-liter bottle of Jane's costs maybe 3 dollars$1.25 and it's "proven" to cure cancer, leukemia, and everything else (just check the Alternative thread about Meki) and supposedly has zero side effects. Why bother with chemo when plain water cures everything, as proven by homeopathy?
So, tomorrow I'll head to Walmart to grab a few bottles and boom... cured...
And no, I'm not being sarcastic. There are hundreds of people on this forum who could swear they were cured by water....

Mark Brooks72 said:So I should just grab an ADM GF 9800 gt from Best Buy? 🤷
$231It’s cheap, but I guess it can still run most newer games okay enough. 🙂
P.S. — Honestly, you won't find any GPU for peanuts that actually lasts 2-3 years. You'd probably need to drop more cash, which means you'd likely have to swap out the power supply too,
and the CPU as well.

Thanks!!!!

Alex Harris32 said:Look, sure, we might get a little heated when the OP suggests something, but that's just so we can give them a way better solution.
If you'd actually asked before buying the rig, you would've been much better off. 😉

You can see the problem clearly with this simple example: a FullHD monitor paired with an 8500GT.
Who in their right mind would do that?! 🙄
Okay, I guess I believe the monitor was bought long after the PC, but you really should have stuck to a lower resolution for your setup.

And fine, let's say we suggest an XFX HD4870 1GB to you, a $350 (best buy) at Protis, without even asking what kind of power supply you're running.
You buy it, plug it in, and hope for the best.
Possible outcomes:
1. The PC won't even turn on.
2. Maybe it turns on, but then something fries because the PSU is junk.
3. Maybe it boots and you can play a bit, but it keeps crashing constantly because the power supply can't handle the load.
4. You come back to the forum asking why any of that happened... (one of the above).

That's why having a quality power supply is huge—better GPUs demand it.

I'm going with Deadwalkerov's suggestion. 👍

The monitor is only a month old, so don't tell me I should've bought something with 1280/1024 resolution (hardly find anything like that anymore anyway), and the PC is 3-4 years old. It’s not even for gaming, just something used occasionally when the other PC is busy (two kids in the house)...
Besides, I'm an electrician, so you don't need to lecture me about power supplies—I pretty much know my stuff.

Casey Long2 said:Then don't count on him. At best he's just some SunPro guy, which is basically nothing.

You "experts" are something else. Every time someone asks a question here, everyone just jumps down their throat about what they have, but nobody actually gives a straight answer...
My rig has been running fine for 3 or 4 years now. I just wanted a recommendation for a card better than an NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT that won't break the bank. I need this thing to last another couple of years so my kid stops nagging me when his games start lagging...
Right now he's playing Company of Heroes Online, and he can't deal with the frame rate drops when he's trying to move units around...
So, look, the simple question is: what's a decent GPU better than an 8500 GT for cheap? That's it.

Alex Harris32 said:http://www.piriform.com/speccy

Use that to find your motherboard info, or just use CPU-Z if you already have it installed.

You mentioned a 400W power supply. Who actually made it?
If it's some random no-name brand, I doubt it'll handle any decent GPU.
And honestly, the CPU and RAM aren't really up to par for anything around $333.

Might be better to just build something used, maybe an Intel chip up to $167 and an $167 card.

Gigabyte M55S-S3 (Socket m2)
As for the power supply, I'm not really sure, I just grabbed the whole bundle at Best Buy... It's just some SuperPower case with a PSU included.

Casey Long2 said:What motherboard and power supply are you running? What games are you playing and at what resolution?

The PSU is 400W, but I guess I don't know about the motherboard. Resolution is 1080p.

Where would I even find info on my motherboard?

AMD Athlon 64 x2 dual Core 4000 2,11
1 GB RAM
GeForce 8500 GT
Any ideas for a better GPU? Budget is maybe $500$333

Angela Wright said:Sadly, in reality—like in Washington, D.C.—they split things up by neighborhood. I’ve actually heard stories about people being sent home because they were told, "You don't belong at this hospital based on where you live."

That's a lie. If you have a referral, you can go wherever. I guess maybe ERs are divided by district, but honestly, only the emergency rooms act like that...

Nicole Myers18 said:Can anyone tell me if they’ve dealt with this personally or known someone who has? I'm trying to figure out what my disability rating might look like. I've been in treatment for three years now, and they're basically wrapping up my care at the end of the year since there's just no progress left to make.
Three years ago, I broke my spine. I was completely immobile for a while, and it took six months of brutal physical therapy just to walk again. But the damage is done—my legs go numb, I can't run, and sitting or standing for long periods is a nightmare. My right leg is way thinner than the left because the nerves are totally shot.
I'm a hairstylist by trade, so that career is pretty much over for me now. Does anyone have a rough idea of what my disability percentage would be?

If they approve you for full disability, it's 80%, otherwise maybe 70% max.

So, you basically file for disability through the Social Security Administration. You’ll need all those medical forms and your full history. It doesn't cost anything, I guess. If you hit an 80% rating or higher, there are some perks, but if not, then nothing. Like, maybe free transit in New York City or getting out of certain co-pays, but you can only get the accessibility placard if it's at least 70% for your lower limbs.

feralridge3 said:It doesn't strictly have to be an injury to your limbs to unlock certain privileges. The key requirement is that the overall disability rating hits that 80% threshold.
Take my cousin, for example. From the outside, you wouldn't think anything is wrong with her, but over the years, her various health issues have added up to an 80% disability rating—things like a mastectomy, a hysterectomy, thyroid issues, hearing loss, and so on.
Because of that rating, she’s entitled to use handicapped parking spaces and even gets free passage on toll roads.

There is zero chance she qualifies for an accessibility placard.