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a cyberpunk goose
May 21, 2007

it's possible that when i do, some site or program or computer content i wrote (which ill do on my death bed and will possibly be the cause of my death bed having) will keep executing on whatever computers people will have then and it will be like my own ghost echoing in their machines

makes u think

post ur computers after death thoughts itt

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GameCube
Nov 21, 2006

maybe when i die, amazon will stop billing me 64 cents/month for an unused aws instance and finally delete my account, like their automated alerts have been threatening to do for the past two years

GameCube
Nov 21, 2006

Dear Amazon Web Services Customer,

Your AWS Account will be suspended. You have not resolved the outstanding problem with your account. Our previous communications were not able to produce a satisfactory payment of past due AWS charges. We were unable to charge your credit card for the amount of $0.64 for your use of AWS services during the month of May-2015. We will attempt to collect this amount again. Unless we are successful in collecting the balance of $0.64 in full by 06/30/2015, your Amazon Web Services account will be terminated.

GameCube
Nov 21, 2006

Dear Amazon Web Services Customer,

Your AWS Account will be suspended. You have not resolved the outstanding problem with your account. Our previous communications were not able to produce a satisfactory payment of past due AWS charges. We were unable to charge your credit card for the amount of $0.88 for your use of AWS services during the month of Oct-2013. We will attempt to collect this amount again. Unless we are successful in collecting the balance of $0.88 in full by 11/30/2013, your Amazon Web Services account will be terminated.

a cyberpunk goose
May 21, 2007

woaj too spooky tone it down a notch

GameCube
Nov 21, 2006

its comforting to know that i will live on forever in the aws database, long after facebook goes bankrupt and deletes my memorial profile

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003


I can't wait, OP.

NoneMoreNegative
Jul 20, 2000
GOTH FASCISTIC
PAIN
MASTER




shit wizard dad

lol if you don't think we're already in a Bostrom-style simulated reality.

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
what about if you were in the matrix.. but then did dream sharing, and in the dream you jerked off to keanu Reeves from the matrix.. the matrix

angry_keebler
Jul 16, 2006

In His presence the mountains quake and the hills melt away; the earth trembles and its people are destroyed. Who can stand before His fierce anger?
the lady at the dmv gave me the stink eye because i checked No i don't want to save a life by being an organ donor and i told her if i'm ever in an accident i want more and more organs bolted on until i come back to life and never die again

minivanmegafun
Jul 27, 2004

i just watched a good movie about death it was called Harold and Maude maybe you shoudl watch it op

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

my posts will live on forever in the cloud

a cyberpunk goose
May 21, 2007

echinopsis posted:

what about if you were in the matrix.. but then did dream sharing, and in the dream you jerked off to keanu Reeves from the matrix.. the matrix

i wouldnt even look into his eyes cuz im not worthy

Izumi Konata
May 4, 2012

by Ralp

echinopsis posted:

what about if you were in the matrix.. but then did dream sharing, and in the dream you jerked off to keanu Reeves from the matrix.. the matrix

quote:

Fourteen thousand people think Keanu Reeves might be depressed. And with reason — the man hasn't had a hit movie in years, and his entire acting career can be summed up in one word: Whoa. So when a paparazzi photo surfaced on the Internet featuring an unshaven, mopey Reeves eating a sandwich on a park bench, fans started to worry. Was he sad? Lonely? Bored? Was something actually wrong, or was he just tired? The Internet, as tends to happen, became very concerned.

Did I say concerned? I meant obsessed. The park-bench photo spread everywhere: on gossip sites, on message boards — it even got its own Tumblr blog. People left more than 200,000 comments on the website Reddit.com. Web illustrators Photoshopped Reeves into other sad settings: next to Forrest Gump, surrounded by cats, on the Lost island, in a Lady Gaga video, even next to Stalin and Churchill. Nothing they did seemed to make the actor happy. But maybe this will: Tuesday, June 15, is Cheer Up Keanu Day.
(See "Keanu Reeves: The Man Who Isn't There.")

"I'm sure he's doing fine," says Daniel Murphy, 21, who created the Cheer Up Keanu Facebook page to advertise the new holiday. "I don't really think he's that sad; I just think his work is underappreciated." Murphy and some of the 14,000-plus people who joined the Facebook group believe that Reeves' acting is overlooked because of his airhead-surfer stereotype. "His depiction of Hamlet was probably one of the best American versions, but everyone still thinks of him as Ted," Murphy says, referring to Reeves' role in the 1989 movie Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. That film grossed $40 million at the box office and includes one of the best nuggets of stoner philosophy ever uttered: "Be excellent to each other."
(See the top 10 disappointing box-office blockbusters.)

But unlike other celebrity-related Internet fads — Chuck Norris facts, Lesbians Who Look Like Justin Bieber, Rickrolling — Cheer Up Keanu Day seems to be based on sincerity and affection. "At first I thought this was a joke," writes Marlon McAllister on the Facebook page, "but then I did some research, and he's actually a really supremely nice person ... let's show Keanu some love!" Fans have offered to give money to cancer research, donate bone marrow or organize charity walks in the actor's name (Reeves' sister has been diagnosed with leukemia, hence the interest in cancer charities).

This is the most surprising aspect of the meme. While the Internet is most commonly used to mock celebrities, Cheer Up Keanu-ites just want to show the star how much they care. On message-board discussions of the park-bench photo, there is almost no mention of Reeves' good looks or failed Matrix sequels. Even his role in the cult classic Point Break is largely ignored. Instead, people fret over Reeves' strained relationship with his father and the fact that in 2001 his girlfriend died in a car accident. They swap stories about him — Reeves offered a ride to a hitchhiker! He bought Harleys for a movie's special-effects crew! He treated strangers to breakfast! — that, even if only half-true, demonstrate some sort of untapped fondness for an actor of otherwise negligible importance. "[His personality] has made me love his movies," writes an anonymous commenter on Reddit.com. "I don't care how great they are. I love to see him because he makes me happy." In other words, it's pretty hard to hate on Reeves.
(See pictures of Facebook's headquarters.)

And while Reeves seems to be experiencing a mini-version of what Betty White did during the Facebook campaign to get her on Saturday Night Live, fans may find him less accepting of the attention — his representatives do not want the actor associated with Cheer Up Keanu Day. They declined to let the star be interviewed and issued a statement saying simply (and somewhat humorlessly), "Keanu Reeves would like to thank all of his fans for their concerns regarding his happiness and wants to assure everyone that all is well. This situation is a result of a misinterpretation of a paparazzi shot."

"He was just eating a sandwich. Of course he isn't depressed," says Murphy. "Cheer Up Keanu Day isn't really about that. We just wanted to show him that we cared." And that is pretty excellent.

See TIME's 2003 cover story "Secrets of the New Matrix," on The Matrix Reloaded.

See TIME's Pictures of the Week.


SmokaDustbowl
Feb 12, 2001

by vyelkin
Fun Shoe
ray kurzweil says you can become a cyber ghost and live in the matrix so

Triglav
Jun 2, 2007

IT IS HARAAM TO SEND SMILEY FACES THROUGH THE INTERNET
give google your data to live forever in cyberspace

Triglav
Jun 2, 2007

IT IS HARAAM TO SEND SMILEY FACES THROUGH THE INTERNET
ads are cool

a cyberpunk goose
May 21, 2007

there is a good episdoe of black mirror about a wife who's husband dies and she signs up for an experimental service that logs into his facebook and builds an AI personality based on his entire online identity and it's freaky realistic to her and he's a way better boyfriend and it creeps her out

good poo poo

a cyberpunk goose
May 21, 2007

Triglav posted:

ads are cool

are you a ghost??? thats just what a google Triglav would say

Triglav
Jun 2, 2007

IT IS HARAAM TO SEND SMILEY FACES THROUGH THE INTERNET
supposedly there is this in south korea http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-app-that-lets-depressed-teens-text-with-celebrities-and-dead-friends and on iphones there is an app called lark that chats with you about your healthkit data http://www.web.lark.com/#home

Izumi Konata
May 4, 2012

by Ralp
i need to bypass having to sign into google's youtube to confirm my age just to download a flash stream because i may become a ghost someday, but today i wish to bypass signing up to use a google service.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYuBamg4oFI

e:youtube sure was quick to start charging for lovely old vhs rips. p[erhaps things will be better in the afterlife.

Izumi Konata fucked around with this message at 05:38 on Jun 22, 2015

madeupfred
Oct 10, 2011

by FactsAreUseless
around this time last year my uncle very suddenly had a massive stroke that destroyed all his motor functions so he couldnt breathe or eat or anything but he was still able to hear so he got to listen to all his brothers and sisters decide to terminate life support not able to do poo poo about it and he loving started crying as he died ive been really frreaking scared thats gonna happen to me too well seeya.

madeupfred
Oct 10, 2011

by FactsAreUseless
the xbox one has the wrong ram

a cyberpunk goose
May 21, 2007

madeupfred posted:

the xbox one has the wrong ram

::~yourPosts() { }

Triglav
Jun 2, 2007

IT IS HARAAM TO SEND SMILEY FACES THROUGH THE INTERNET
ignorance, attachments, and aversions are the three poisons that chain you to samsara and by eliminating each you will reach nirvana

SmokaDustbowl
Feb 12, 2001

by vyelkin
Fun Shoe

Triglav posted:

ignorance, attachments, and aversions are the three poisons that chain you to samsara and by eliminating each you will reach nirvana

I have an aversion to your posting so see you next life bitch

a cyberpunk goose
May 21, 2007

SmokaDustbowl posted:

I have an aversion to your posting so see you next life bitch

aww its like an rsvp for a playdate

SmokaDustbowl
Feb 12, 2001

by vyelkin
Fun Shoe

Mido posted:

aww its like an rsvp for a playdate

I am nobody's bitch!!!!

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

Nagato
Apr 26, 2011

Why yes my username is the same as an autistic alien who looks like a 9 year old from an anime, why do ask?
:nyoron:

madeupfred posted:

around this time last year my uncle very suddenly had a massive stroke that destroyed all his motor functions so he couldnt breathe or eat or anything but he was still able to hear so he got to listen to all his brothers and sisters decide to terminate life support not able to do poo poo about it and he loving started crying as he died ive been really frreaking scared thats gonna happen to me too well seeya.

there was a guy at my college who used to work in a comic book shop, he sported a different hawaiian shirt every day of the week, fedora and a neckbeard, and he once started talking at the dinner table about how he voted his grandma off life support.

a cyberpunk goose
May 21, 2007

i miss making half life maps

i miss doing 2d and 3d animation

i miss finding the time to try and make little game engines

a cyberpunk goose
May 21, 2007

do you think games will live on in future generations? like when architectures dramatically change and the developers who made them have died fifty years ago

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
why can't you do it anymore my friend

a cyberpunk goose
May 21, 2007

maybe we should make games for simpler systems that emulators already exist for, or make new ones and rely less on complicated targets. c# and unity potentially satisfy this but the client features change so much I don't think there's a sane way to get a game image in a state that would be relatively easy to run in 100 years

a cyberpunk goose
May 21, 2007

we need another scumm

Breakfast All Day
Oct 21, 2004

Mido posted:

we need another scumm

why? the one we have already has the only games the should have ever been made

Twat le Piss
Aug 4, 2004

Grimey Drawer

Breakfast All Day posted:

why? the one we have already has the only games the should have ever been made

yeah, i wouldn't want to see day of the tentacle in any other way

(not anime tentacle, ugh_)

Izumi Konata
May 4, 2012

by Ralp

Mido posted:

maybe we should make games for simpler systems that emulators already exist for, or make new ones and rely less on complicated targets. c# and unity potentially satisfy this but the client features change so much I don't think there's a sane way to get a game image in a state that would be relatively easy to run in 100 years

Arcade cabinets in the 1990's were built to withstand the ravages of time and torture. Certainly, Neo-Geo could develop some kind of eeprom, and a sturdy format. Man, games were released solid before companies were allowed to rush incomplete products to market.

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bump_fn
Apr 12, 2004

two of them
same

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