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sassassin posted:They went to a hippy college so being "conservative and anti-progressive" was shock humour to their original audience.
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Baronjutter posted:The internet of things and home automation are loving stupid and make me feel like an angry luddite. We're living in a world where people can and do hack your lightbulbs and appliances. Idiot nerds spending 10k on a bunch of stupid automation poo poo so they can turn their lights on from their phone or adjust the furnace using cloud based personal biometrics while playing their VR game and their Wifi kettle AI can predict when you need another cup of coffee. Sure it doesn't work half the time and needs hours to set up and isn't actually practical but it's so cool man!!! mind the walrus has a new favorite as of 21:52 on May 31, 2017 |
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I don't get the niche tablets have. It does the same things as my phone and if I need A Better Device I have my laptop. But I got a free ipad with my phone upgrade so I guess I should use it. Kids and old people love them because they're more intuitive than mouse/keyboard set-ups. Kids respond instinctively to "touch to activate" from like toddler age and old people are just happy they don't have to figure out what a pointer is and the difference between left/right click.
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May 31, 2017 21:55
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The only thing that bugs me about a tablet is unless you get a keyboard attachment it's utter garbage for writing more than 20 words at a time, and as a chronic overtly verbose shitposter on the SomethingAwful forums I cannot abide such limitations on my ability to express myself.
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Jun 1, 2017 22:31
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Baronjutter posted:I need a full multi-monitor "battlestation" and mechanical keyboard for my SA poo poo posting. Jerry Cotton posted:Around 100% of so-called laptop computers are used solely as desktop machines because who the gently caress actually works anywhere except at their desk but employers keep buying laptops because idiot hell fuckers have been going around screaming "THE DESKTOP PC IS DEAD HUAGLUAGHUGHUALUAGH" for the past 20 years.
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Jun 2, 2017 07:31
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Like a decade ago when you had to hunt for decent internet video and XP/Vista were nightmares I recall Mac OSX being really reliable and not prone to bugs... but that was before the iPhone and iPad and Jobs' death so I'm not surprised the quality has gone to poo poo. I actually like Windows 10 a lot outside of the lovely forced upgrades and nebulous privacy settings. I liked Windows 8 for the same reasons. Using some basic cleaning tools and anti-virus I've yet to contract anything like I did back in the early 00s.
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Jun 3, 2017 23:22
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If you live above the Mason Dixon line and have an outdoor pool I think you're kind of an idiot. You overspend on water heaters for a few months of the year where most of you barely even use it precisely because you have to heat the pool and that poo poo gets expensive so fast it's stupid.
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Jun 4, 2017 11:22
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I don't mind vaping but I do mind that most people I see with them are obvious they want some attention and a cookie, then talk about vaping. Oh and if you use one indoors. Douche move.
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Jun 5, 2017 07:00
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Jun 5, 2017 09:55
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ToxicSlurpee posted:I didn't give a crap about vaping until it turned out that >90% of people I met that vaped were incredibly insufferable about it. We're talking sitting in the front row of a college class, vaping the entire time in the most visible way possible, and then acting like the professor was a jerk for asking them to stop. The stigma came around because of the people that did it early on. Now it's forever tainted. Henchman of Santa posted:Because sometimes people just want chocolate and not peanut butter? Solice Kirsk posted:Reese's Pieces are good in trail mix.
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Jun 5, 2017 13:06
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Reeses peanut butter is great in certain contexts. When I'm feeling really gluttonous I buy a Kit Kat Big Kat bar and a Reese's Big Cup and make a crunchy peanut butter delight. But in Reeses Pieces? It's pretty eh. Whatever they do with the candy shell and preservatives in that particular peanut butter is just eh.
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Jun 5, 2017 13:21
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This is really shameful, but I've been caring for MS patients recently and I have one request-- MS patients, please learn to give directions for positioning. Specify limb, joint, or thoracic region. Specify vector of movement. Specify type of movement--bend knee, rotate wrist out, angle head downwards to my right. Break your instructions into clear steps. If you have a speech impairment come up with any kind of workaround at all. If your caregiver asks for clarification before moving you be prepared with an answer. I have bottomless sympathy for you guys, and I'm willing to spend half an hour or more positioning you. But if you start throwing hissy fits because I ask for clarification and you refuse to specify exactly what you want, it takes three times as long and everyone leaves hating each other. You may be paralyzed all over your body, but you still have a responsibility to yourself, and I hate that I feel the need to say that. In summation. My popular opinion is that MS is a terrible condition.
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Jun 6, 2017 05:12
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Oh yeah MS is one of those things that should scare you white. I genuinely don't blame people who kill themselves after being diagnosed. It's a hard, hard life. But I've also taken care of enough MS patients to know that some have put the work in and in turn I'm able to give them much better care, and those that haven't. The ones who haven't... You don't know shame until you've wanted to curse out someone who can't move their body outside of their right elbow and head/neck.
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Jun 6, 2017 05:57
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Well if the only info you get on the subject is from White Dad Radio (so-to-speak) you'd think so. "Political Correctness is killing the nation" and "People are too culturally sensitive" and "Cultural Appropriation is overblown" has been a meme since I was a child nearly 30 years ago and it was old then. The majority of the time that sentiment comes from a guy--almost always white--who is wondering why he can't do or say whatever he wants without blowback. In other words the type of person who can talk poo poo but can't handle getting hit. That isn't to say there isn't a point buried in there--people are lovely regardless of culture and there are more than a few assholes who abuse minority privilege to further their own lust for power, and there's nothing inherently wrong with cultural exchange--but those points get completely lost in the sea of "Why isn't there a White Pride Month?" assholes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdyin6uipy4
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Jun 8, 2017 02:56
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Mu Zeta posted:I think at least 90% of the actors in The Sopranos were terrible actors. Gandolfini, Edie Falco, and some other main people were fantastic but people like Silvio and pretty much the rest of the crew were embarrassing to watch.
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Jun 9, 2017 00:42
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Coffee And Pie posted:I also don't understand how people whose ancestors immigrated to America and dealt with discrimination and racism can be against Mexican immigration. Plus immigrants are always scary to the entrenched poor because of general xenophobia and the apprehension that more poor people in their community will equal a poorer economy, and the local rich are all too happy to encourage this notion for classic class war manipulation.
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Jun 9, 2017 16:47
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I actually dig the term "First Peoples" but like "Indigenous People" and "Native Americans" before it, you can't use it without starting political bullshit about "Political Correctness" and the typical bullshit.
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Jun 9, 2017 19:29
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Aramek posted:Grew up next to a reservation. We had an actual Tribal staffed/run "Department of American Indian Studies" at my university. I asked why they still use that term, and the director said "because we specifically have nothing to do with the far northern/Inuit tribes". ----------------- Something lighter: Cream Soda is the worst and if you like it I think less of your worth as a human being.
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Jun 9, 2017 20:59
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fruit on the bottom posted:How do you feel about orange cream soda? Solice Kirsk posted:Cream soda is disgusting and terrible and a crime against all other sugar based drinks. Including those weird glucose sprays for aiding in crop growth. Baronjutter posted:After the age of 12 of so you should not be drinking carbonated sugar poo poo. Get some club soda or carbonated water and add a few drops of bitters of something if you want a flavoured carbonated drink.
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Jun 9, 2017 21:33
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quote:Everyday sadism was assessed by the Comprehensive Assessment of Sadistic Tendencies.
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Jun 9, 2017 22:22
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Mu Zeta posted:Based just on the trailer, Baby Driver looks insufferably bad with all the emphasis on music and how the character uses music. I also really dislike Edgar Wright's directing style despite watching all his movies. Also I'm happy he left Ant-Man because I'm convinced his version would have been worse.  on Ant-Man, and I really like Edgar Wright.Henchman of Santa posted:I dig him but I'm kind of surprised there aren't more Edgar Wright haters out there.  PHUO: The World's End is the best Wright movie by far and the Invasion of the Body-Snatchers plot almost ruins it. I genuinely wanted to see Gary King's story play out without smashy smashy eggmans getting in the way, even if it was really well done. Hot Fuzz is great but mostly brilliant on a screenwriting level, and drags like crazy in the second act.
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Jun 11, 2017 11:56
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yeah I eat rear end posted:It's a pretty stupid concept for a movie so I understand why so many people hate on it, and it did have an incredibly predictable ending, but still. WampaLord posted:According to Edgar Wright, this was done by design, to satirize the way Bad Boys 2 feels like it's ending, but then says "This poo poo just got real" and keeps going.
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Coffee And Pie posted:Fantasy bores me and I have no interest in LotR, Game of Thrones, or the Elder Scrolls series. quote:At some point older works are going to end up like Shakespeare, where no layman can just sit down and appreciate it without a teacher or a companion text to explain the language and the dick jokes. quote:One reason I like Stephen King and Tolkien both is that in their nonfiction writings on writing, they both profess a strong support for story for story's sake. That is, it's perfectly good and human to read genre fiction or detective novels or whatever purely for escapism and avoid looking for more than just a good story. Tolkien makes an analogy to a prisoner of war- escaping isn't seen as cowardly. In literature there's no shame in using stories merely to escape the mundane drudgery of modern life. You can find, for example, catholic themes running through Tolkien's work but that doesn't mean Gandalf is an allegory or a symbol for anything. Gandalf, in Tolkien's mind, is exactly what the reader interprets him to be.
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Gyro Zeppeli posted:Also "nerd culture" doesn't exist. A culture runs deeper than classifying yourself by the poo poo you buy and the movies you watch. veni veni veni posted:My favorite fantasy is Dark Souls because it's basically all of the cool poo poo and none of the lame poo poo. . The story goes that the creator just made stuff based on imagery and concepts he saw in Western fantasy but couldn't understand because he didn't speak English, so it's this beautiful realization of every wide-eyed imaginative flurry you'd get as a kid browsing the paperback covers of your local library, bookstore, or other public book area. And I say that as someone who can dig traditional fantasy. Aramek posted:Speaking of which, I like laughtracks, and more shows should have them.
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We Know Catheters posted:Peaches, pears, pineapple, blueberries and coconuts are gross. Decrepus posted:How strongly a nerd feels about Big Bang Theory is a good barometer for if they are worth talking to or not. Das Boo posted:I know it's gotten less functional with every update, but gently caress. I downloaded the dumb app while trying to upload that picture, but it has no option for link uploads. So I downloaded the gif, and it only provided sharing options for contacts and other social media sites. No share links. I held my tongue when they hid the share links, removed easy multiple uploads and withheld features behind account walls but I mean jesus, how do they think people use that thing? Aramek posted:I don't know...
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Spiderjelly posted:Chris Elliot is an underappreciated comedy genius. quote:There’s a fascinating moment where new cast member Chris Elliott comes on screen for the first time and is greeted by a short but distinct burst of laughter and applause. At least some audience members clearly recognized this weird-looking goofball from Get A Life and David Letterman’s late-night show. Yet the moment Chris Elliott recreates Clinton in his own image—as a W.C Fields-style surly misanthrope or a Lou Costello slapstick stooge—that laughter and applause gives way to the silence of confusion and non-comprehension. It’s as if the crowd likes the idea of an eccentric, hip goofball like Elliott in theory, but once he starts doing weird stuff, they start pining for the fat guy to fall down again. spit on my clit posted:the new gorillaz album is subpar, and I feel they should cool off of the collab albums. gotta say though, Strobelite, Saturnz Barz, and Andromeda are good
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Das Boo posted:An echo chamber hosed us last election, I'm not sure what good doubling down is meant to do.
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I don't get the big deal about Eric Clapton and I feel kind-of guilty about that.
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King of Foolians posted:It's true that the commercial is mainly sappy but I totally got romantic more-than-just-siblings vibes from it. It's mainly they way the camera lingers on both of them staring and smiling at each other multiple times combined with some of the lines. "I waited up all night for you", "What are you doing?", and "You're my present this year" all sound vaguely like they are from the set-up of a porno. The weird part is that these are all specific choices that someone definitely made while filming and in the editing room to emphasize. That last line in particular could have easily been changed to "Our family being all together is my present this year" and it would have emphasized "family" more than the relationship between this brother and sister. fruit on the bottom posted:According to one YouTube comment it's a remake of an older Folgers commercial and in that one the girl was a lot younger so the whole thing reads a lot more like a little girl idolizing her big brother. Also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhfcWTZeP1k
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yeah I eat rear end posted:Michelle Branch was the best solo female singer of the 2000s and deserved all the hype that avril lavigne got instead. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NERmgwWfnoI It's hard to write about such whiny, adolescent emotions and balance them on just the right side of bittersweet on top of such a killer hook. Corporate pop? Absolutely. But the best kind.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:US Office is better than british Office And while Nick Offerman is funny, the image cultivated around him is the worst.
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poptart_fairy posted:Wanted to get into Rick and Morty based on a friend's recommendation, but Rick's constant belching and Morty's high pitched voice irritate me far too much to continue watching the show. Baronjutter posted:Nick Offerman is a very good and cool person, but his parks and rec character while often cool and funny is not exactly someone to hold as a role model. It's a sort of Archie Bunker situation, where you have a super anti-racist left wing actor playing a horrible lumpenprole racist mostly as mockery, but then other lumpen racists love the character and think he's the hero of the show. Nick's character became the same sort of thing, but for conservative libertarians. Edgar Allen Ho posted:Everything with UK and US versions, the UK version seems like an amateur hour production.
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If we're gonna keep talking about shows for Middle Schoolers: Yu Yu Hakusho > Dragonball Z
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Honestly as a huge unashamed cocksucker cheerleader for Marvel adaptations half my life... All the Marvel TV stuff are varying degrees of bad. I don't mean that in some "inaccurate to the comics" poo poo. I mean they are bad stories badly told, which is frustrating because I think they have a great casting department. The Defenders is going to blow, but I'm going to watch anyway because gently caress it. I never thought I'd see the day.
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I don't know I hated Fisk (that voice) and Electra, whom I've never ever found interesting. Punisher and Kilgrave were good, but even then I whine because I hate superhero properties that get taken over by the villains. At the bottom of it I just find poorly written stories executed with mediocrity despite having the cast, concepts, and budget to do a lot more.
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It's all about the voice. The forced gravel did not work for me at all. I get what they were going for but it made him sound very nonthreatening and not in a "he's so badass people are scared of him regardless" way. Too much baby, not enough man.
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I learned everything I needed to know about snobbery from Caddyshack.
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Jastiger posted:Texting and driving laws are stupid as hell. Its ok to eat and drive? Make up apply and drive? Google maps and drive? But not text, thats too far. We would all be safer if wr didnt bit the application of the law is poo poo. My PHUO along these lines is that automakers finally need to start making dedicated smartphone holders in their cars, legislatures need to allow this to happen without penalizing automotive companies for "encouraging distracted driving" or what have you, and smartphone makers like Apple and Google need to come up with viable voice-activated software specifically for driving (we're close, but as it stands I can't open my phone and open a music app or text app solely via voice and that is a loving problem). People are all doing it. It's not ok. But it's happening. gently caress all the fear of liability and start forging for real solutions. Can't help with the makeup and eating though. quote:Actually yes you CAN judge parents by what their kids do to a certain point. Solice Kirsk posted:I like how we'll trust them to run the country, but not want to stand behind them in a grocery line. It's a good thing they get driven everywhere as elected officials anyway  For real though I don't agree with the pity for our President. I can see the sympathetic logic, but I think it only goes as far as the end of the silver spoon in his mouth.
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I respect your point Whitlam and agree. I especially appreciate your argument about not offering drunk-driving classes, and that driving is a privilege where sacrifices must be made to reap the benefits. I hadn't thought of it like that. My point was more that automakers, legislatures, and smartphone makers all have an ethical obligation to fix the overall problem of texting while driving... but no one will because it requires multiple public and private bodies to band together for a common good where any one of them can be held liable for damage at the drop of a hat and there is minimal obvious profit motive... which is absurd because the problem of texting while driving isn't going to go away no matter how many "people shouldn't loving do it"s get said. You have to go out and buy a drink as an elective activity. A smartphone and texts are in the top three, if not the top form of communication in the developed world. You can't realistically minimize the access on a broad scale so thus the best solution is to mitigate how the access is handled. This problem is solvable for the majority populace-- docks in cars with improved voice activation--but it won't be done and that's serious bullshit.
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