I find the new Avalon unpromising, it looked better when it was it's 2016 or 2013 model. It looked like a Lexus monster, as in that horrifying design.
Good WoT match story today Spoiler I played 3 games in tier 6s and 1 in a tier 7, all were tier 8 matches where my team lost with less than 5 kills... So it's been a fun day... My most recent match was in the IS as I am grinding out the upcoming IS-2M. Being the IS, most of my aimed shots bounced or landed in the wrong post code but the ones I didn't aim penned and rolled high. That's not anything special though, the chat in this game was special. Only one TD went field and being WoT, he refused to retreat when he should have, died, and blamed everyone else for his stubbornness/lack of awareness. Once the field fell the rest of the team crumbled. That TD (A Skorp.G) spammed chat for the rest of the game about how rubbish everyone is and how WoT is screwig him over with his 61% winrate and being close to his third MoE. Then others took after his example, soon the entire chat was constantly complaining about everyone else. Post battle results: the Skorp G was one of 4 players to do 0 damage, he was tied with one of them for least XP. The other 3 were in tier 6s. The second most complaining person was the AMX 12t, who was also the victim of a lot of the Skorp's abuse. The AMX had a good game by spotting damage but was really picking on the T71. Said T71 was top on XP and probably gave the AMX a lot of his assistance damage. The T71 was not one to complain. People on the top of the team usually don't. Bonus round: I looked up that Skorp.G's stats. Statistically a below average player with not far above bot level stats in his Skorp, absolutely no where near even his first MOE.
It just occurred to me that the ThinkPads we used when I was in school still said IBM on them. Weird to think about.
The last ThinkPads to bare the IBM logo where the Lenovo ThinkPad T60's produced under licence by IBM in 2006ish. That's why some T60's have a IBM logo and some just have ThinkPad.
If I remember correctly, they were mostly T40's at first, probably with some T60's thrown in somewhere but I don't think they were as common. They had pretty much all been replaced by Lenovo T400's by the time I graduated, but I remember seeing older models with the 4:3 screens as late as 2010 or so. If I had to guess, I would say the school district bought the T40's in bulk in 2003-4 and squeezed every bit of life out of them they could before doing a complete refresh, with the T60's only showing up to replace ones that went early.
For my first few years in high school we had these "Viglen" things. Pentium 4's with something like 256Mb running Windows 2000 IIRC. I'm shocked I found a picture of one. Then we moved to a newer school, the UK was updating all of its comprahensive schools to "Learning centers" and we got some crappy core 2 duo RM branded laptops.
Let me simply explain the discontinuation. There was a controversy that grew around because of the name referring to the Boston Massacre event with the Americans and the British in Boston.
But still. People is obviously going to remember that unfortunate attack before the other one. I didn't even know about that other story until I looked it up just a few minutes ago.
