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by tanker27
Fri Jul 22, 2022 8:10 am
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Something's different...
Replies: 1628
Views: 328146

Re: Something's different...

Doing my monthly drive by.......Oh man I have seen the new 'advertise' button its painful and also facepalm when you read the trash in it. The Tech Report is a publication and technology platform dedicated to providing our audience with the latest and greatest news in PC hardware, gaming, technology...
by tanker27
Thu Jun 02, 2022 1:53 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Something's different...
Replies: 1628
Views: 328146

Re: Something's different...

Why would the bots do that. It makes no sense and it's outdated tech. >.>
by tanker27
Mon Apr 25, 2022 7:04 am
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Something's different...
Replies: 1628
Views: 328146

Re: Something's different...

The only thing that really remains of the old Tech report are the people left on this forum. not really most of us don't hang out here anymore. We just do drive by's to see whats up." The front-page logo changed and dropped "PC Hardware Explored" moniker. :( yeah I noticed that, new ...
by tanker27
Thu Apr 14, 2022 6:32 am
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Something's different...
Replies: 1628
Views: 328146

Re: Something's different...

Drive by again, and three new BOTs this time: Cameron Wiggins, Shari Tingle, Livingstone Maganya. I am impressed with the pseudo-names.
by tanker27
Tue Mar 08, 2022 11:34 am
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Who is left
Replies: 129
Views: 80416

Re: Who is left

Kathypellerin wrote:
Still here !


Who?
by tanker27
Thu Mar 03, 2022 3:17 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Who is left
Replies: 129
Views: 80416

Re: Who is left

Krogoth wrote:
lamenting for the loss of 3Dfx.


I will always lament the loss of 3dfx. 8)
by tanker27
Mon Feb 21, 2022 4:27 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Something's different...
Replies: 1628
Views: 328146

Re: Something's different...

Just doing a drive by. I see two new BOTS have been brought online, one named Michael Brenner and the other Staff Reporter. I guess the Renee Johnson BOT could not keep up with the listicles. Just realized I almost posted on my 20 year anniversary. Now I am sad to see what my favorite tech site has ...
by tanker27
Sun Jun 27, 2021 7:49 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Who is left
Replies: 129
Views: 80416

Re: Who is left

I lurk. probably once a week or two. Just to see if the bots are still posting listicles and to see if the forums have 404d.
by tanker27
Thu Apr 08, 2021 12:40 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Deleted TR
Replies: 21
Views: 8715

Re: Deleted TR

Kevin, lol. How long has it been since he's administrated here? Even JBI is gone now. Why am I still here, for that matter? Habit and just to see if the lights are still on. :P Habit, definitely. I am disinclined to change. Look at our school...ugh. It saddens me to think that the place that formed...
by tanker27
Wed Apr 07, 2021 8:27 am
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Deleted TR
Replies: 21
Views: 8715

Re: Deleted TR

Vrock wrote:
Kevin, lol. How long has it been since he's administrated here? Even JBI is gone now. Why am I still here, for that matter?


Habit and just to see if the lights are still on. :P
by tanker27
Tue Mar 30, 2021 2:47 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Deleted TR
Replies: 21
Views: 8715

Re: Deleted TR

Seems to me Ned, then that's when the avatar went bye bye. :wink: And they just so happened to login now and notice it was gone? That's a large time span
by tanker27
Tue Mar 30, 2021 2:23 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Deleted TR
Replies: 21
Views: 8715

Re: Deleted TR

If so and it was THAT important you'd think s/he'd would have saved it elsewhere and not hopping some Rando website stays as it is. Thats like people complaining about their gifs on Geocities. BWAHAHAHA
by tanker27
Tue Mar 30, 2021 12:13 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Deleted TR
Replies: 21
Views: 8715

Re: Deleted TR

We've never had avatars. I don't know what this guy is ranting about. >.>
by tanker27
Thu Mar 25, 2021 9:54 am
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: New Bot
Replies: 28
Views: 10860

Re: New Bot

meerkt wrote:
Congrats. I'm sure, tanker, that was a big sigh of relief for you.



I still firmly believe Renee and Swati are Bots.
by tanker27
Thu Mar 25, 2021 8:42 am
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: New Bot
Replies: 28
Views: 10860

Re: New Bot

IT'S ALIVE......Reneebot is back online with a new post.
by tanker27
Mon Mar 15, 2021 11:34 am
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: New Bot
Replies: 28
Views: 10860

Re: New Bot

/shrug

Like others have said I am surprised when I click here I am not met by some 404.
by tanker27
Mon Mar 15, 2021 9:10 am
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: New Bot
Replies: 28
Views: 10860

Re: New Bot

Its been almost a month since any bot has posted a listicle. Did they run out of listicle ideas?
by tanker27
Tue Mar 02, 2021 8:52 am
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: New Bot
Replies: 28
Views: 10860

Re: New Bot

Would you even call that writing? It's a bunch of lists with comments.
by tanker27
Wed Feb 24, 2021 9:05 am
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: New Bot
Replies: 28
Views: 10860

Re: New Bot

Flying Fox wrote:
ReneeBOT gets outsourced to Indian SwatiBOT?



BWAHAHAHAHA! Exactly!
by tanker27
Tue Feb 23, 2021 5:05 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: New Bot
Replies: 28
Views: 10860

Re: New Bot

Vrock wrote:
tanker27 wrote:
I see a new BOT has been brought online. This swatiBOT still produces the crappy listicle article that ReneeBOT did. I guess reneBOT is tired or ran out of listicle ideas.
Thought you had bailed, man.


No I am lurking, here and HotHardware. Derfunk's articles are good over there.
by tanker27
Mon Feb 22, 2021 12:18 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: New Bot
Replies: 28
Views: 10860

New Bot

I see a new BOT has been brought online. This swatiBOT still produces the crappy listicle article that ReneeBOT did. I guess reneBOT is tired or ran out of listicle ideas.
by tanker27
Tue Oct 27, 2020 1:48 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Something's different...
Replies: 1628
Views: 328146

Re: Something's different...

I see Reneebot lives. What of the other real article authors?
by tanker27
Thu Oct 22, 2020 7:31 am
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Something's different...
Replies: 1628
Views: 328146

Re: Something's different...

I may have not posted recently but I still drive by. WOW no news posted since 5 OCT. what's up with that. Not even a crappy listicle from Renee Johnston. (I still think it's a bot)
by tanker27
Wed Jul 01, 2020 9:39 am
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Just wanted to let everyone know
Replies: 44
Views: 6527

Re: Just wanted to let everyone know

DiMaestro wrote:
derFunkenstein wrote:
You completely missed Igor. He was here and now he's banned.

Hey, has anybody ever seen Igor_Kavinski and Starfalcon in the same room at the same time? Very curious.


Igor is banned? He was so goofy. What did I miss in the past few days?


dang I came back to regular viewing and missed this.
by tanker27
Tue Jun 30, 2020 10:55 am
Forum: Visual Haven
Topic: Projector For Home Theater
Replies: 8
Views: 5930

Re: Projector For Home Theater

meerkt wrote:
Also depends on whether you care about projector price range, lamp longevity and prices, 4K or not, blacks, initial setup difficulty (lens shift, etc.), gaming-related features, noise...


Yes :P

However, those 4K ones are way out of budget.
by tanker27
Tue Jun 30, 2020 7:57 am
Forum: Visual Haven
Topic: Projector For Home Theater
Replies: 8
Views: 5930

Re: Projector For Home Theater

It will be going into a legit 15x10 theater room that I am going to building out.
by tanker27
Mon Jun 29, 2020 10:22 am
Forum: Visual Haven
Topic: Projector For Home Theater
Replies: 8
Views: 5930

Projector For Home Theater

If you were going to build a Home Theater what Projector would you build around and why?
by tanker27
Fri Feb 28, 2020 8:54 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Coronavirus COVID-19 precautionary measures?
Replies: 639
Views: 90384

Re: Coronavirus COVID-19 precautionary measures?

JustAnEngineer wrote:
You wouldn't want any of the millions of people forced to stay at home playing that instead of Counter Strike.
https://hothardware.com/news/steam-conc ... oronavirus


Counter Strike is not a game! It's training! 8)
by tanker27
Fri Feb 28, 2020 7:12 am
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Coronavirus COVID-19 precautionary measures?
Replies: 639
Views: 90384

Re: Coronavirus COVID-19 precautionary measures?

.....all because Chinese authorities had to pretend that things weren't that serious and failed to take swift action to contain the infection when their doctors first discovered it. Actually that's partially true by a lot of accounts. (e.g. Read the CDC's account) Sure they dismissed it early on, c...
by tanker27
Sun Feb 16, 2020 3:02 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Anandtech founder leaked Apple confidential material
Replies: 5
Views: 1387

Re: Anandtech founder leaked Apple confidential material

The whole Shimpi episode reads weird within the article. Like what does that have to do with Williams poaching Apple talent?
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