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I was in the mosh pit during Dragon on Night 3. I work in the climate field and love this album for its hardcore climate warning, and Colorado has been no exception this year. Terrible drought and hot as hell.

Finally during Dragon, around the 2-minute chant of "Petro Dragonic Apocalypse" I was spun around to see lightning striking a few miles behind the venue. I felt all the heat release and had the most blissful moment of the entire weekend. The climate is fucked but we'll make it.

Hey folks -- Best Buy wouldn't allow me to actual leave a negative review, so had to take it here. About 18 months ago, I bought an ASUS TUF Advantage Edition A16 with AMD Ryzen. It was my first new computer in 8 years -- I previously had a blue-screened ASUS Ultrabook that overall did great, so I figured I'd stick with the brand.

That was a mistake. This laptop, especially as it neared the end of the warranty period, has physically started to fall apart. Here's just a few issues I've had:

• The rear screws came loose because the screen makes contact with laptop frame when opening, prying the computer body apart. The screw then got stripped when I tried removing it, so now it's floating and my laptop is half open.
• Games consistently crash and CPU/GPU Temps are way too high -- even when the computer is propped up to allow fans to work or on low graphics settings for older games.
• The trackpad works about 50% of the time. I've updated/reset drivers, reset the computer, etc -- doesn't matter. I can barely use the computer without a mouse now. This is an issue my old ASUS had after about 7 years, not after just 12 months.
• The screen just doesn't turn on half the time. When opening the laptop, it just doesn't register coming out of sleep mode and so I have to reset the computer to even use it most days.
• CPU is running consistently near 90 percent with a few Google Chrome tabs open. It runs slow and stutters constantly, I assume for this reason.
• Per usual like most Windows Machines I've used, it just stops updating for months at a time, struggling to download or install after multiple attempts.
• Battery life is probably at 30% of when I bought it. I don't leave it plugged in, I use low power mode and try to baby the battery but it's basically a brick at this point even for low-end tasks like web browsing.

The build quality of every laptop I've owned since 2012 has been worse and worse and this is the cherry on top. It's mind blowing I paid $800 bucks on this thinking it was a good deal when I'm now feeling like I'll only get 3 years tops out of it. I'd say be way of ASUS, at least on budget models.