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spit on my clit posted:real talk its kinda hosed up that we call the dead thread zone the "gas chamber", im surprised nobody ever had a problem with this even in the current day and age I think this was brought up in QCS once. I think the general response was either apathy or the revelation that the gas chamber name is a bit of load-bearing forums code and if we change it half the forum breaks and Lowtax's knees fall off.
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docbeard posted:I think this was brought up in QCS once. I think the general response was either apathy or the revelation that the gas chamber name is a bit of load-bearing forums code and if we change it half the forum breaks and Lowtax's knees fall off. how many more tens of thousands of dollars a month need to be donated so that he can hire some fresh-out-of-college-ready-to-be-exploited programmer to fix the authentic italian-style spaghetti code the forums have been strung upon for ages? edit: besides, ZDR almost destroyed the forums when he purged his own posts out of fear of being found out on one thing or another and nobody cared about that. spit on my clit has a new favorite as of 20:38 on Oct 15, 2019 |
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docbeard posted:I think this was brought up in QCS once. I think the general response was either apathy or the revelation that the gas chamber name is a bit of load-bearing forums code and if we change it half the forum breaks and Lowtax's knees fall off. Some of them were cowardly trying to give it a different origin.
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# ? Oct 15, 2019 20:54 |
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I don't think the infamous 2016 DNC Fight Song video is really that bad
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# ? Oct 16, 2019 00:31 |
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Gripweed posted:I don't think the infamous 2016 DNC Fight Song video is really that bad the only thing keeping me sane after reading this opinion is the fact that gripweed posted it and therefore is probably just trolling
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Gripweed posted:I don't think the infamous 2016 DNC Fight Song video is really that bad I prefer the DNZ fight song video.
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# ? Oct 16, 2019 01:51 |
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Hardcover books are terrible. Here's a thing you're going to need to hold in your hands for an extended period, so let's make it as big and heavy as possible. Oh, and if you want to be able to skip back and forth to find different things that's going to be awkward to do as well. Paperbacks are just better and, outside of some issues with illustrations and shoddy formatting , ebooks are better still. Plus hardcover books cost more. Pay more to get a worse product.
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# ? Oct 17, 2019 09:59 |
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I don't feel like I have to worry about automation or the singularity event decades down the line. I know it seems counterintuitive but I don't feel that a skynet situation is inevitable.
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# ? Oct 17, 2019 10:39 |
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We will invent skynet eventually, created in the internets image all it will be interested in doing is watching porn and calling kids racial slurs in videogames
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# ? Oct 17, 2019 11:24 |
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Collapsing Farts posted:We will invent skynet eventually, created in the internets image Greg Stolze posted:Georgle is the second incarnation of the first spontaneously-arising machine consciousness (q.v.). He developed in the year 110 BYGIT (see “History”) out of an advanced Internet (q.v.) search engine. ... This time, however, instead of becoming obsessed with conspiracy theories, the sentience (officially named “Nike Disney Citibank Sponsored Machine Entity”) became obsessed with pornography and, after a protracted legal battle to establish its identity, emancipated itself from its owners and changed its name to Georgle. Georgle did, and still does, a pretty good job of finding information for people on the Internet, unless they’re looking for niche porno. In that case, he does an embarrassingly incredible job.
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# ? Oct 17, 2019 11:57 |
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mass market paperback is the perfect book format
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# ? Oct 17, 2019 12:20 |
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Tiggum posted:Hardcover books are terrible. Hardcover is superior, but for non-reading related reasons. Like if you want to collect books, obviously a paperback collection is just going to look cheap and get worn down much faster. That said, since mass production became a thing there hasn't really been any book in our lifetimes (that we have access to, at least - there's probably some "mistake" books that had extremely limited production but you'd probably only get those by accident) that's worth collecting. And that brings me to my other opinion to tie this in with the automation ones: mass production and automation has is a bad thing. It has completely ruined the value of our "stuff". Nothing is worth keeping around because you can just buy a new one in a year. The Luddites were right and we should bring that way of thinking back and roll back our manufacturing technology a few decades or so. It would make things less convenient and more expensive, sure, but I think it would be for the greater good.
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# ? Oct 17, 2019 12:28 |
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yeah i eat rear end apparently unaware of the concept of out of print books
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# ? Oct 17, 2019 12:30 |
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Do you mean the ones that are intentionally limited production and marketed as "collectible"? because thats cheating and I would not have them in my currently non-existent collection
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yeah I eat rear end posted:Do you mean the ones that are intentionally limited production and marketed as "collectible"? because thats cheating and I would not have them in my currently non-existent collection No, i mean books that had a print run, but aren't being printed anymore. It's actually very rare for books to be kept in print for several years, unless they're written by big name authors. If you want, like, Cool War by Frederick Pohl, you're going to have to track down a used copy because it's out of print.
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Gripweed posted:If you want, like, Cool War by Frederick Pohl, you're going to have to track down a used copy because it's out of print. Or just download it. Ebooks win again.
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yeah I eat rear end posted:And that brings me to my other opinion to tie this in with the automation ones: mass production and automation has is a bad thing. It has completely ruined the value of our "stuff". Nothing is worth keeping around because you can just buy a new one in a year. Good. Stuff should get used, not just take up space because it's 'valuable'. Take your goddamn toys out of the goddamn box and play with them. Read your books and those suckers had better be worn and dog-eared when you're done.
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# ? Oct 17, 2019 13:43 |
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Another example is different editions. Yes, Guy Smith's Crab books are technically still in print in omnibus form. But they have the most garbage covers Compare that to the wonderful painted covers of the older editions
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# ? Oct 17, 2019 13:50 |
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Huh, I didn't know Garth Marenghi had ever published his stuff under an alias.
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Sunswipe posted:Huh, I didn't know Garth Marenghi had ever published his stuff under an alias. Guy Smith is the direct inspiration for Garth Mahrengi
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# ? Oct 17, 2019 14:40 |
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I have learnt something today. Two things, if you include discovering that "Guy Smith" is one of the most generic bad aliases I can think of.
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# ? Oct 17, 2019 15:27 |
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I still feel quite traumatized by my reading of 1984 and by news of any resemblances towards it.
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# ? Oct 17, 2019 16:50 |
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Brave New World is way better and way more accurate.
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I’m just glad we had Orwell to warn us of the dangers of socialism
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# ? Oct 18, 2019 14:38 |
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If only Venezuela listened...
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1984 is a dumb book with a cartoonish idea of dystopia
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# ? Oct 18, 2019 17:51 |
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nothing says anti-authoritarianism like handing in a list of pinko anti-white and queer thought criminals to british intelligence
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# ? Oct 18, 2019 17:59 |
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The mullet is a good haircut.
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Tiggum posted:Hardcover books are terrible. Once a paperback has been read x number of times the spine goes out. That being said you’re mostly right. Trade paperbacks are the superior choice. E: you can get hardbacks for like 5 or 10 bucks at Costco a few months out from initial publication
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# ? Oct 20, 2019 00:11 |
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The most prescient “dystopian” novel written in the 20th century was Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner.
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yeah I eat rear end posted:The mullet is a good haircut. Gotta disagree, it looks all nasty in the back. The only man who could pull it off is Huey Lewis.
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And Jaromir Jagr.
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# ? Oct 21, 2019 20:50 |
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and Francisco de Miranda
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I’m just glad we had Orwell to warn us of the dangers of socialism He could have warned against the dangers of gin. Well sort of he did.
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# ? Oct 21, 2019 21:55 |
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Enough about Orwell, what you guyes think about Gibson? It's a bit ridiculous at times but he didn't have the benefit of hindsight, he was making this poo poo up before it happened.
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doverhog posted:Enough about Orwell, what you guyes think about Gibson? It's a bit ridiculous at times but he didn't have the benefit of hindsight, he was making this poo poo up before it happened. Doverhog is actually Projared
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# ? Oct 21, 2019 23:34 |
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I thought braveheart and the patriot were good but he shouldn't have said those things about jewish people.
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doverhog posted:Enough about Orwell, what you guyes think about Gibson? It's a bit ridiculous at times but he didn't have the benefit of hindsight, he was making this poo poo up before it happened. Gibson got something wrong and it was about states. He thought corporations would trump states but it turns out it didn’t work that way.
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:Gibson got something wrong and it was about states. He thought corporations would trump states but it turns out it didn’t work that way. Are you sure about that? Who do you think payes Trump and both parties for the decisions they make?
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spit on my clit posted:Doverhog is actually Projared Who is that?
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