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Install Gentoo posted:In the Games menu click Activate a product on steam. To add: Click on the "Add Game" link in the lower left corner, then click "Activate a product on Steam."
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I'm moving away from home for the first time in two months. Is it too early for me to buy some dishes? I just found an awesome deal on some really nice dishes and I'm wondering if buying them two months out is nuts, or if I'm just imagining that. I could just stash them in my closet in the box until I move so space isn't an issue. But is it generally considered a silly idea to buy stuff like this so soon? Should I wait until I'm actually moved out so that I don't have to move that much more stuff? The only reason I'm considering buying the dishes right now is because it's an online deal that will expire tomorrow.
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Depends on how tight money will be. Moving out for the first time can have a lot of expenses that are hard to plan for. If money is not a concern go for it, if not just hit up a local thrift store. I got a really nice set of dishes for about 20 bucks.
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Budget Bears posted:I'm moving away from home for the first time in two months. Is it too early for me to buy some dishes? I just found an awesome deal on some really nice dishes and I'm wondering if buying them two months out is nuts, or if I'm just imagining that. I could just stash them in my closet in the box until I move so space isn't an issue. But is it generally considered a silly idea to buy stuff like this so soon? Should I wait until I'm actually moved out so that I don't have to move that much more stuff? Nothing wrong with buying the stuff early if you can get a good deal. Especially if space isn't going to be an issue. Obviously if you're flying you probably don't want to check dishes, and if you're going long distance make sure it'll all fit in your car/truck. Moving protip: Use small boxes. Your poo poo doesn't look heavy but it is, and it'll just get heavier as the day goes on. You'll be kicking yourself the third time you go up a flight of stairs with one big box where you could have used 2 or 3 smaller boxes instead. Rent-A-Cop fucked around with this message at 07:21 on Jan 3, 2013 |
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Jan 3, 2013 07:16
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Budget Bears posted:I'm moving away from home for the first time in two months. Is it too early for me to buy some dishes? I just found an awesome deal on some really nice dishes and I'm wondering if buying them two months out is nuts, or if I'm just imagining that. I could just stash them in my closet in the box until I move so space isn't an issue. But is it generally considered a silly idea to buy stuff like this so soon? Should I wait until I'm actually moved out so that I don't have to move that much more stuff? I'd get them in advance. Plates, cutlery and cookware are the sort of thing you are going to want pretty much as soon as you move in. Unless you're planning to live on pizza for a week.
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Jan 3, 2013 07:52
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Here's a bad/good one: How much of WWE/WWF isn't fake/staged? I know in reality TV shows they tend to stage the right personalities together and let the rest take it's natural turns. I'm not sure how much of the same is applied to wrestling. I'm pretty curious about how much work is and isn't put behind the scenes.
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Mak0rz posted:To add: Click on the "Add Game" link in the lower left corner, then click "Activate a product on Steam." Thanks. I was trying to find it in the top menu. I haven't used Steam a whole lot.
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Jan 3, 2013 09:02
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Avocados posted:Here's a bad/good one:
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Jan 3, 2013 09:06
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Avocados posted:Here's a bad/good one: The storylines and match outcomes are entirely predetermined (outside a couple odd scenarios where a guy didn't do what he was supposed to.) The moves that they do require very real athletic skill but they're worked around to where they're going to hurt as little as possible. They'll script out some of the fight and/or leave some of it for the wrestlers to come up with in the ring, but in the ring the wrestlers will be working together to do whatever the script is (end the match after a certain amount of time, get ready for someone to run out an interfere, which is also scripted.) So yeah, it's all predetermined. Edit: Also, there are three groups of wrestling fans. The first group is those that truely believe that everything that happens out there is real. They're usually kids since usually if you're interested in wrestling you figure it out as you grow up. The second group are people who 'know' it is fake but suspend their disbelief and watch it as if everything is real. It's the same way people watch any TV show and suspend their disbelief, just a bit more 'real' since you can actually go down and watch them perform. The third group are people who know it is predetermined and get entertainment from watching it that way and generally paying a lot of attention to the behind the scenes stuff that happens. If I had to guess I'd say the second group is by far the largest. Fork of Unknown Origins fucked around with this message at 09:20 on Jan 3, 2013 |
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Jan 3, 2013 09:11
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Avocados posted:Here's a bad/good one: http://www.drunkard.com/issues/10_06/10_06_andre_giant.html posted:A very green rookie wrestler named Hulk Hogan toured Japan several times with Andre and witnessed the Giant’s alcohol consumption first hand. According to Hogan, Andre drank, at a minimum, a case of tall boys during each bus ride. When he finished a can Andre would belch, crush the can in his dinner-platter-sized hand, and bounce the empty off the back of Hogan’s head. Hogan learned to count each thunk, so he could anticipate when Andre was running low. True facts.
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Jan 3, 2013 09:37
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Wrestling's physical demands are very high, so that is definitely the most real thing about it. Don't underestimate the physical toll these guys take just because it's scripted.
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I've also heard that the actions in the matches themselves are fairly loosely scripted and occasionally left entirely to the wrestlers to develop/improvise, usually backstage. Sometimes you can see a wrestler fairly visibly whispering instructions to the other wrestler. There's a YouTube channel dedicated to posting funny videos of wrestlers loving the act up by going off script and such, but I can't find it. Most of this information is from watching Jeff Gerstmann talk about wrestling, his one true passion.
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God I fucking love Diablo 3 gold, it even paid for this shitty title
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randyest posted:"Pro" wresting and reality tv are both 100% fake and at least loosely scripted. Reality TV isn't generally scripted, it's just edited beyond recognition to make it look like exciting things are happening when it's actually just a bunch of ordinary people being uninteresting. They do stuff like splicing innocuous comments and reaction shots into a scene in a way that makes it seem like there's a major disagreement or something or make people look worse than they are, because the unedited footage is actually pretty dull almost all the time.
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Fork of Unknown Origins posted:The storylines and match outcomes are entirely predetermined (outside a couple odd scenarios where a guy didn't do what he was supposed to.) The moves that they do require very real athletic skill but they're worked around to where they're going to hurt as little as possible. They'll script out some of the fight and/or leave some of it for the wrestlers to come up with in the ring, but in the ring the wrestlers will be working together to do whatever the script is (end the match after a certain amount of time, get ready for someone to run out an interfere, which is also scripted.) A friend of mine was in the third group and used to get typewritten photocopied newsletters in the post with all kinds of behind-the-scenes goings-on (Kevin Nash faced charges for sexually harassing a 50 year old woman in his hotel, Mark Henry's sex-addict storyline was written to try and get him to quit after he conned Vince into giving him a bigger contract thanks to his gold medal and then turned out to be the world's worst wrestler, etc.), is there a blog like this out there? This was by far the best part of wrestling for me. syscall girl posted:True facts. That article you quoted is one of my favorites and Andre is nothing short of an absolute legend for all time.   (that's Muhammad Ali on the left)
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greazeball posted:That article you quoted is one of my favorites and Andre is nothing short of an absolute legend for all time. Yeah I wasn't being sarcastic. I just find Andre's real life antics to be some of the funniest (and most melancholy) poo poo in all of WWF/WWE's history. He was by most accounts a real sweetheart but often a dick to Hogan for some reason.  Edit: and I'm a huge fan of The Giant.
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Alright, I may have gone on a long walk in the heat in sandals, taken my sandals off due to a strap-induced blister, then ended up with some more nasty blisters on a big toe and on the soles thanks to boiling old mr road. I need to MacGyver up a solution to walk around without looking like the Penguin, as I'm currently restricted to using my heels. I can't get to the shops and the best thing I have around the house is tissues and duct tape to make stupid shithead shoes. As I've made at least 3 or 4 poor decisions today in regards to foot health I thought I'd ask if this was a good solution.
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Jan 3, 2013 10:33
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You are boned, tissues and duct tape wont bail you out of this one. Pain killers, alchohol, rest, and weed will make you feel better. Other than that your boned. Feet are one of the only body parts you can't push beyond their limit. Just take it easy and think of how mean you have been to your feet. Edit; for the record I am waiting on 3 surgeries for my feet. These surgeries are atleast somewhat due to me running Marathon length distances and never giving a poo poo about my feet. I care about them now. TheHistoryChannel fucked around with this message at 12:12 on Jan 3, 2013 |
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Jan 3, 2013 12:09
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I am trying to buy a product built and sold by a UK company. They say they do not ship to the US. I'm not sure why that is, but do I have any other legal options? Am I legally allowed to have someone in the UK buy the product, then ship it to me?
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Abel Wingnut posted:I am trying to buy a product built and sold by a UK company. They say they do not ship to the US. I'm not sure why that is, but do I have any other legal options? Am I legally allowed to have someone in the UK buy the product, then ship it to me? Yup, you can do that (at least, as far as the UK is concerned) - assuming it is not a WMD or restricted item. Have you asked why they do not ship to the US? It might be that they just don't want to handle the shipping side of things, but if you arrange it, they will be happy to do so.
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Jan 3, 2013 14:30
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I open the mail at work, and we get a surprising amount of envelopes with obviously reused stamps on them, cut out from the original envelope and then glued on the envelope that we receive. I would have thought the post office would have a way of identifying stamps that have already been used. Is this not the case or what?
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Jan 3, 2013 17:33
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Most of the time the post office here in St. Louis stamps an ink emblem over the stamp which would presumably limit reuse. edit: Something like this for example: http://www.postmarks.org/members/examples/yap_corn.jpg
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Jan 3, 2013 17:44
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Is there a thread somewhere on the forums covering home automation technology? (X10, zigbee, insteon, others?) Search function isn't turning up anything useful.
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Xenoborg posted:Most of the time the post office here in St. Louis stamps an ink emblem over the stamp which would presumably limit reuse. That is called the cancellation, and that's exactly what its intended purpose is. The first adhesive postage stamp was the English Penny Black, which only lasted a year before being replaced by the Penny Red. Reason being, the cancellation mark was hard to see on the Black, so re-use was rampant. I'm surprised that Florida Betty sees so much of that though. Are there multiple cancellation marks on the stamps? Might be worth talking to your mailman about, but there's probably not a lot he can do about it.
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Florida Betty posted:I open the mail at work, and we get a surprising amount of envelopes with obviously reused stamps on them, cut out from the original envelope and then glued on the envelope that we receive. I would have thought the post office would have a way of identifying stamps that have already been used. Is this not the case or what? Related to this, I've noticed that recently the stamped stuff on the front of my letters (in the UK) has become much more discreet, and there is no discernible mark on the stamps themselves. My mum and my girlfriend reckon that they can reuse the stamps but I am a bit  and am assuming that there is some kind of invisible mark on the stamps.What is going on? Am I right or are the ladies?
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I don't know why they'd go to an invisible mark but the most likely one would be visible under a black light. Get ahold of one and compare a used stamp to a new one. It seems that they'd have incentive to use a visible mark though.
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Florida Betty posted:I open the mail at work, and we get a surprising amount of envelopes with obviously reused stamps on them, cut out from the original envelope and then glued on the envelope that we receive. I would have thought the post office would have a way of identifying stamps that have already been used. Is this not the case or what? Could it be that the stamp was never originally used? That the sender attached a stamp to an envelope, decided not to send it for whatever reason, and attached the stamp to a second envelope instead?
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Most likely some post offices are getting lazy about properly post marking the stamps. They're fine to be reused if they don't look like they're marked but I guess it's on your conscience to do it properly.
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stubblyhead posted:That is called the cancellation, and that's exactly what its intended purpose is. The first adhesive postage stamp was the English Penny Black, which only lasted a year before being replaced by the Penny Red. Reason being, the cancellation mark was hard to see on the Black, so re-use was rampant. I'm surprised that Florida Betty sees so much of that though. Are there multiple cancellation marks on the stamps? Might be worth talking to your mailman about, but there's probably not a lot he can do about it. Usually there is a cancellation mark, but sometimes not, or at least it isn't visible. Today I had about 20 letters to open, and one didn't have a cancellation mark (maybe because it had 3 30 year old 15 cent stamps on it instead of a more modern machine-readable stamp?). I assume the post office just isn't too vigilant about people reusing stamps because few people would go to such an effort. My company works almost exclusively with people over the age of 60 (who are known for their frugality) so maybe this is why.
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I remember my mom told me when she was a kid people would put scotch tape over stamps when sending to a friend so that friend could peel off the tape, cut out the stamp and re-use, probably with tape again.
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greazeball posted:A friend of mine was in the third group and used to get typewritten photocopied newsletters in the post with all kinds of behind-the-scenes goings-on (Kevin Nash faced charges for sexually harassing a 50 year old woman in his hotel, Mark Henry's sex-addict storyline was written to try and get him to quit after he conned Vince into giving him a bigger contract thanks to his gold medal and then turned out to be the world's worst wrestler, etc.), is there a blog like this out there? This was by far the best part of wrestling for me.
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Is it weird to use a hairdryer on your beard?
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Lance Streetman posted:Is it weird to use a hairdryer on your beard? No more weirder than using a hairdryer on your crotch.
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I went to Barstow, California and my friends and I went dirt bike riding over behind the mall. My friend was saying that it is public land and you can camp and go drive your off road vehicles pretty much with out any restriction. Is this true?
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Lance Streetman posted:Is it weird to use a hairdryer on your beard? I wouldn't call it weird. It's unusual, probably, but I wouldn't attach any sort of social stigma to it.
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Completely wrong forum. Have no idea how I ended up here.
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b0nes posted:I went to Barstow, California and my friends and I went dirt bike riding over behind the mall. My friend was saying that it is public land and you can camp and go drive your off road vehicles pretty much with out any restriction. Is this true? According to this map a lot of the area around Barstow is federal land owned by the Bureau of Land Management so maybe? But if it's directly behind the outlet mall I'm assuming most if not all the land along I-15 in that area is privately held. EDIT: Your friend is correct, the Stoddard Valley recreation area is right behind the outlet mall and is public land. They allow camping and OHV use. http://www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/fo/barstow/stoddard.html http://www.californiadesert.gov/maps.php?code=svohva FCKGW fucked around with this message at 03:23 on Jan 4, 2013 |
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There is a depressing lack of Simpson's quotes on youtube. Has a big index of Simpson's quotes been attempted before but Fox has taken them down? I would be tempted to go to the effort of putting every good Simpson quote (so about 11 seasons worth) up on youtube if I could be reasonably sure Fox wouldn't gently caress it up. To my limited understanding, small clips of shows are allowed but I know youtube takes videos down whenever a big company complains.
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TheHistoryChannel posted:You are boned, tissues and duct tape wont bail you out of this one. Pain killers, alchohol, rest, and weed will make you feel better. Other than that your boned. Feet are one of the only body parts you can't push beyond their limit. Just take it easy and think of how mean you have been to your feet. Ahhh crud. At least they're feeling slightly better today. Will not be so dumb in the future.
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TheHistoryChannel posted:Edit; for the record I am waiting on 3 surgeries for my feet. These surgeries are atleast somewhat due to me running Marathon length distances and never giving a poo poo about my feet. I care about them now. Good luck with your surgeries. I had to get 5 surgeries between my two feet after having an accident and crushing them both. The broke in half pelvis I had was the most potentially threatening, but it was my god damned feet that kept me in a wheelchair for 2 months. Feet injuries blow, hope recovery is smooth for you! edit: is there a point in recovery that ringworm stops being contagious? Like, it's nearly gone and so on the way out, not a threat anymore? My cat's got a tiny spot on his head, nearly gone w/ treatment, and he's decided that rubbing his face all over my face is the best way to wake me up in the mornings and I'm gonna be so pissed if I catch this poo poo
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Avocados posted:Yeah thanks for the replies guys. I'm kinda in that 3rd group that wants to know how all the behind the scenes acting and storywriting goes. (And of course eventually see a live match, this is sort of a new interest for me). Of course I wouldn't want to be that guy that tries pointing everything out and ruins the magic, I just want to go there and enjoy myself. But i'm equally fascinated by the behind-the-scenes stuff. Any documentaries, youtube links or blog articles would be cool. The Punchsport Pagoda forum in SAS will probably have all the sources you can read and more. It covers professional wrestling along with MMA/Boxing/etc but there seem to be a lot of threads on professional wrestling. http://forums.somethingawful.com/forumdisplay.php?forumid=177
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