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Topicone of my brand fucking new guitar strings just snapped
stone
08/20/17 7:06:54 PM
#2
Tuned it too high?
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PONG WAS REAL? I thought that was just a story parents told kids to scare them
TopicRate my NES collection x/10
stone
08/20/17 7:05:58 PM
#3
Not in alphabetical order/10
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PONG WAS REAL? I thought that was just a story parents told kids to scare them
TopicWara ningyou ni
stone
08/20/17 6:50:18 PM
#7
Why does all this nonsense sound like Street Fighter special moves?
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PONG WAS REAL? I thought that was just a story parents told kids to scare them
TopicAnyone who gives money to pan handlers is an idiot.
stone
08/20/17 6:17:44 PM
#7
Should only be illegal if they don't declare it as revenue in their taxes.
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PONG WAS REAL? I thought that was just a story parents told kids to scare them
TopicOver 9,100 baseballs, bats stolen from 18 schools
stone
08/20/17 5:28:01 PM
#4
That's like 500 bats per school... Why the hell do they need that many bats? And who the hell would steal them?
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PONG WAS REAL? I thought that was just a story parents told kids to scare them
TopicOh, hey... I remember Cookie Clicker
stone
08/20/17 3:34:47 PM
#13
Wasted so many hours on that "game" back when it was all the rage.
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PONG WAS REAL? I thought that was just a story parents told kids to scare them
TopicList games with double jumps.
stone
08/20/17 12:20:20 AM
#15
Super Mario World, while riding Yoshi.
Most platformers nowadays.
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PONG WAS REAL? I thought that was just a story parents told kids to scare them
Topicnintendo caught pirating its own games and selling them back to us
stone
08/19/17 7:10:48 AM
#69
Rika_Furude posted...
Dash_Harber posted...
Rika_Furude posted...
spikethedevil posted...
Rika_Furude posted...
Chicken posted...
Who cares. They created the game itself.

then why would they need to steal it and break the law?


How can you steal from yourself?

they aren't, they are stealing from the person who bought the game

No, the ROM contains their digital intellectual property. There is no theft. There is no story.

but they don't own the rom. they have no right to take someone elses property

Funny how you argue against it in this specific case, but are all about emulation and downloading stuff for free the rest of the time
Hypocrite/troll much?
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PONG WAS REAL? I thought that was just a story parents told kids to scare them
TopicYou know, I'm theoretically okay with Roland being a black guy.... BUT!...
stone
08/19/17 7:03:41 AM
#10
I thought this was about Borderlands' Roland.

yanksfan4247 posted...
Thought this was about borderlands

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PONG WAS REAL? I thought that was just a story parents told kids to scare them
Topic"Your level has changed to Rookie User"
stone
08/18/17 10:24:21 PM
#6
MrResetti posted...
You kids and your new user level names

Haven't changed levels in 3 years..
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PONG WAS REAL? I thought that was just a story parents told kids to scare them
TopicSave that ANIMAL! Round 6.
stone
08/18/17 3:12:39 PM
#34
American eel
Beluga
Prairie dog
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PONG WAS REAL? I thought that was just a story parents told kids to scare them
Topiclol, what is this clip from? >_>
stone
08/17/17 11:47:15 PM
#5
Hahaha wow
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PONG WAS REAL? I thought that was just a story parents told kids to scare them
TopicBest artist or band to start with the letter: W
stone
08/17/17 11:15:39 PM
#88
The Wallflowers
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PONG WAS REAL? I thought that was just a story parents told kids to scare them
TopicSave that ANIMAL! Round 6.
stone
08/17/17 11:14:36 PM
#4
Ferret
Skunk
Platypus
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PONG WAS REAL? I thought that was just a story parents told kids to scare them
TopicSave that ANIMAL! Round 5.
stone
08/17/17 8:50:16 AM
#26
Wolverine
Penguin
Meerkat
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PONG WAS REAL? I thought that was just a story parents told kids to scare them
TopicWarned/Suspended General XXIII: The Number 23 (starring Jim Carrey!)
stone
08/17/17 6:49:33 AM
#58
Wariodorf posted...
SomeLikeItHoth posted...
--kresnik-- posted...
Nice. I made a new account recently, too.

I really need to make more alts. It's so much fun to make topics and have no one know it's you.

I thought you said you didn't have any alts

Cue one of his alts coming in saying Hoth made a typo, like he always does when he admits to having alts.
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PONG WAS REAL? I thought that was just a story parents told kids to scare them
TopicSave that ANIMAL! Round 5.
stone
08/16/17 10:09:03 PM
#6
Raven
Raccoon
Wolf
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PONG WAS REAL? I thought that was just a story parents told kids to scare them
TopicSave that ANIMAL! Round 5.
stone
08/16/17 8:52:45 PM
#2
Ferret
Platypus
Skunk
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PONG WAS REAL? I thought that was just a story parents told kids to scare them
TopicDo you put people on your ignore list?
stone
08/16/17 7:48:54 PM
#26
DreadedWave posted...
tennisdude818 posted...
No, because I'm not a baby.

This logic literally makes no sense.

Does seeing southcoast meltdown for the 100th time somehow make you tough?

No but I'm sure it makes him laugh.
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TopicWhy do people hate Axe deodorant so much?
stone
08/16/17 7:08:07 PM
#3
Works fine for me, too, I like the scent of it, and so do the ladies.
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PONG WAS REAL? I thought that was just a story parents told kids to scare them
TopicTopic where I talk about my bubbly bootie
stone
08/16/17 7:01:46 PM
#11
Bubbly, as in it makes bubbles when you fart under water?
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PONG WAS REAL? I thought that was just a story parents told kids to scare them
TopicHow many gigs of data have you used on your phone this current cycle?
stone
08/16/17 3:33:32 PM
#15
I have 500mb on my plan. I used around 120 so far (since the 2nd)
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PONG WAS REAL? I thought that was just a story parents told kids to scare them
TopicSo my bank FINALLY got Samsung Pay.
stone
08/16/17 2:46:42 PM
#25
Simon_Petrikov posted...
Strange that y'all needed to argue a point that doesn't seem to apply to people in the US.

How am I to know that something that's been available in Canada for over a decade still hasn't made it to the States?
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PONG WAS REAL? I thought that was just a story parents told kids to scare them
TopicSo my bank FINALLY got Samsung Pay.
stone
08/16/17 1:46:40 PM
#22
Simon_Petrikov posted...
@stone
@Rika_Furude

Where do ya'll live?

Québec, Canada. We've had paypass/tap/whatever for at least 10 years, if not more. And chip cards for even longer than that.
Rika's in Australia.
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PONG WAS REAL? I thought that was just a story parents told kids to scare them
TopicWhy does everyone assume a book should take years to write?
stone
08/16/17 8:36:11 AM
#19
JE19426 posted...
_Goggalor_ posted...
make arrangements for someone to take over in case you die


I'm pretty sure GRRM has said he's not doing that. Either he finishes it or it doesn't get finished.

Didn't Wheel of Time have that happen?


Yes Brandon Sanderson wrote the last few books.

How did those turn out anyway? Read the first 8 or 9 books (until he started making plans for someone to take over if he couldn't finish) but I never got around to finishing the series.
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PONG WAS REAL? I thought that was just a story parents told kids to scare them
TopicSo my bank FINALLY got Samsung Pay.
stone
08/16/17 7:03:01 AM
#15
Aristoph posted...
stone posted...
See, in your examples you act like people don't know where their wallets are, even if it's always at the same place, same with their cards.


Actually, in my example at the start I assumed both people were competent. You're the only person who assumed any level of idiocy at any point. If both people are competent, the phone is significantly faster. If they're both morons, then they both take ages. That's literally all there is to it. And it's an objective fact, as I literally tried it out myself tonight. And it was my first time using Samsung Pay, so I didn't even know the exact process yet (had to follow the tutorial the first time to make sure I wasn't missing a step) and it was still faster than the card.

I live near Cleveland and our card readers suck. It takes about 3-5 seconds after the customer has finished their input for the reader to communicate with the banks and get the approval. Yes, they're abnormally slow. But the actual input from the customers is faster with the phone than with the card, which means that the whole transaction is faster with the phone. Not sure what is so hard to comprehend here.

BEST CASE SCENARIO:
The wallet and the phone take the same amount of time to get out.
Getting the card out of the wallet takes the same amount of time as swiping up to bring up the Samsung Pay.
Putting the card into the machine takes the same negligible amount of time as pressing the fingerprint scanner on the phone.
Card requires 3 questions, phone requires 1.

So in the end, the phone is once again faster. There is literally no scenario where the phone is slower, given the same level of competence from the user. It's not even a debate, honestly. It's just reality.

Except you keep ignoring the fact that both Rika and I have pointed out. Cards have tap/paywave/paypass. That makes your argument invalid.
Both take the same time if used by a competent user.
But most of the time, the user isn't. Both for cards and phone pay.
I've seen plenty of people taking forever with both payment methods, for various reasons.
And in my example, it's how I personally do it. I take my wallet out BEFORE the cashier gives me the total. I don't wait for them to finish scanning my things before starting my part of the transaction. I always have my card out by the time they're ready to give me my total, and it takes half a second to put my things back afterwards.
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PONG WAS REAL? I thought that was just a story parents told kids to scare them
TopicDo you believe that President Trump is racist?
stone
08/16/17 6:40:44 AM
#24
pegusus123456 posted...
I don't really believe he's the KKK level of racist, but I'm almost certain he's the casual grandpa level of racism. Like he doesn't say "Get that [racial slur] off my damn lawn," he'll say something like, "I like that colored boy who delivers the mail, he's one of the good ones."

Or "these kkk people aren't that bad, they're good people!"
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PONG WAS REAL? I thought that was just a story parents told kids to scare them
TopicDo you believe that President Trump is racist?
stone
08/16/17 6:37:20 AM
#22
Kineth posted...
Probably, given that he's been sued over racially discriminatory business practices, that he has cabinet members that are racists, seems sympathetic to racists, has deceased members in his family who were openly racist and announced his candidacy and started off saying racist shit right off the bat.

"B-b-but Hillary! "
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PONG WAS REAL? I thought that was just a story parents told kids to scare them
TopicSo my bank FINALLY got Samsung Pay.
stone
08/16/17 6:34:56 AM
#13
Rika_Furude posted...
Aristoph posted...
It literally takes at minimum 20-30 seconds to run a card just from the moment the card is inserted into the reader to the moment they are allowed to take it out.

what? i've used my card hundreds of times and it never takes more than 5 seconds, and thats on a slow day
and thats how long it would take to process the same payment via phone

and cards have paypass/wave

Wonder where he lives that takes so long. Even 15 years ago when chips were introduced it wasn't that slow.
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PONG WAS REAL? I thought that was just a story parents told kids to scare them
TopicSo my bank FINALLY got Samsung Pay.
stone
08/16/17 6:33:53 AM
#12
Aristoph posted...
Rika_Furude posted...
you're overreacting, it takes 2 seconds to pull your card out of your wallet and should be done before you're at the counter
america has implemented cards wrong if you have to answer 3 questions, but even then that should only take like 1 and a half seconds


It literally takes at minimum 20-30 seconds to run a card just from the moment the card is inserted into the reader to the moment they are allowed to take it out. The chip reader is slow as hell. And yes, there are 3 prompts (that people constantly screw up). It's annoying as hell and just plain sucks. For whatever reason the phone reduces it solely down to 1 question (the "do you want cash back" and "verify amount" prompts are gone), significantly speeding up the process.

stone posted...

Take wallet out before cashier is done ringing. Take card out within 2 seconds. Tap to the machine. Put back in.
I don't see how that's slower than
Try to find phone. Fiddle around with it to turn it on. Swipe left and right to try to find the wallet app. Fail to put finger at the proper place. Give up after 3 unsuccessful tries. Put phone back wherever it was. Try to find wallet. Look around inside it to find your card. Insert it the wrong way. Take it out, and put it back in too fast, causing an error. Take it out again. Put it back in once the cashier told you to. Enter wrong nip. Remove card. Wait for cashier to tell you to try again. Insert card again.


So in your example they know exactly where their wallet and card are and how to use them when they try to pay with the card, but then are apparently mentally challenged on doing the exact same thing if their intent is the phone? Not to mention that the general population is far more likely to know where their phone is than their wallet, considering their phone is used at least 10 times as often. I've literally not heard a single person utter the phrase "I forgot my phone" in at least 10 years. You can't just assume that one person is competent and the other is not because it suits your agenda. If they're both competent, the phone is at least twice as fast. If they're both incompetent, then it doesn't matter because they're both going to take fucking forever.

Also, the Samsung Pay app leaves a small slider at the bottom of the screen (kind of like the Apps Edge panel on the sides of the screens) so you just swipe up from anywhere. You don't even have to unlock the phone to use it, so it's just "tap the button, swipe up, fingerprint scan" and you're done. There's no searching for anything.

And 9 times out of 10, the person who's actually tech savvy enough to know what the fuck Samsung Pay is would also be perfectly capable of using it properly. Whereas any dumbass fuckhead can have 20 credit cards.

See, in your examples you act like people don't know where their wallets are, even if it's always at the same place, same with their cards.
My wallet's in the same pocket as my phone. The cards are all in the same place, and I always use the same two for my various purchases.
And chio readers certainly don't take 20-30 seconds. What kind of prehistoric machines do they have over there? It's like 5 seconds, tops. Even faster when you tap.

And I just did it the way you did it to show you your examples sucked, but hey you'd be good at writing those "as seen on tv" ads, where people can't do simple things without setting their house on fire, just for the sake of selling something you didn't know you needed.
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PONG WAS REAL? I thought that was just a story parents told kids to scare them
TopicWhy does everyone assume a book should take years to write?
stone
08/16/17 6:28:40 AM
#3
EffectAndCause posted...
Fuck that, GRRM has no excuse at this point.

Sure he does. His own series, his own pace.
Not happy? Write your own series and see how it goes.

Yes it sucks when authors take forever to write sequels to books you love, but they owe you nothing.
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PONG WAS REAL? I thought that was just a story parents told kids to scare them
TopicMillennials, the positives and negatives.
stone
08/16/17 6:14:05 AM
#3
Got to love how your Pros list is just the same two arguments reworded in 6 different ways.
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PONG WAS REAL? I thought that was just a story parents told kids to scare them
TopicSo my bank FINALLY got Samsung Pay.
stone
08/16/17 6:09:40 AM
#9
Aristoph posted...
Rika_Furude posted...
its just as quick to pull out your card


It's really not. At the place where I work it's literally at least twice as fast. For our store:

Card: Pull out wallet, open wallet, get card out of annoying little slot, put it in the machine, wait for it to register, answer 3 questions (cash back, verify amount, credit/debit), remove card, put back in annoying wallet-slot, put wallet away.

Phone: Pull out phone, swipe up, touch fingerprint, answer 1 question (credit/debit), put phone away.

Take wallet out before cashier is done ringing. Take card out within 2 seconds. Tap to the machine. Put back in.
I don't see how that's slower than
Try to find phone. Fiddle around with it to turn it on. Swipe left and right to try to find the wallet app. Fail to put finger at the proper place. Give up after 3 unsuccessful tries. Put phone back wherever it was. Try to find wallet. Look around inside it to find your card. Insert it the wrong way. Take it out, and put it back in too fast, causing an error. Take it out again. Put it back in once the cashier told you to. Enter wrong nip. Remove card. Wait for cashier to tell you to try again. Insert card again.

See, I can do it too.
And the way I described it happens more often than people actually knowing how to use their phone to pay.
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PONG WAS REAL? I thought that was just a story parents told kids to scare them
TopicHave you ever sent a girl a dick pic?
stone
08/16/17 5:59:05 AM
#24
Sure, many times.
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PONG WAS REAL? I thought that was just a story parents told kids to scare them
TopicSo my bank FINALLY got Samsung Pay.
stone
08/16/17 5:57:46 AM
#5
Rika_Furude posted...
its just as quick to pull out your card

But then he can't show off.
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PONG WAS REAL? I thought that was just a story parents told kids to scare them
TopicThe sun is going to come back after the eclipse, right?
stone
08/15/17 6:25:59 PM
#4
That's what they want you to believe! It's actually going to be a fake sun, put in place by the illuminati to spy on us!
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PONG WAS REAL? I thought that was just a story parents told kids to scare them
TopicWarned/Suspended General XXIII: The Number 23 (starring Jim Carrey!)
stone
08/15/17 3:50:07 PM
#27
YourAlt posted...
stone posted...
Muffinz0rz posted...
Why are topics like this allowed to exist

Because otherwise people would make a new topic each time someone got suspended or something. It concentrates all these posts in one place.


And it's kind of like a news topic, it's not meant to harass but keep people informed, kind of like the police blotter for a small newspaper.

Plus it is hilarious.

It sure is. Main reason I tag these topics, for the entertainment value.
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PONG WAS REAL? I thought that was just a story parents told kids to scare them
TopicWarned/Suspended General XXIII: The Number 23 (starring Jim Carrey!)
stone
08/15/17 3:45:27 PM
#25
Muffinz0rz posted...
Why are topics like this allowed to exist

Because otherwise people would make a new topic each time someone got suspended or something. It concentrates all these posts in one place.
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PONG WAS REAL? I thought that was just a story parents told kids to scare them
TopicWarned/Suspended General XXIII: The Number 23 (starring Jim Carrey!)
stone
08/14/17 3:28:13 PM
#8
More drama *popcorn*
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PONG WAS REAL? I thought that was just a story parents told kids to scare them
TopicRemember pandamaster?
stone
08/13/17 11:47:10 PM
#6
Just check the banned/warned topic, there's plenty of people
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PONG WAS REAL? I thought that was just a story parents told kids to scare them
TopicRemember pandamaster?
stone
08/13/17 11:40:12 PM
#4
Surprising he isnt part of the mass racist warn/ban happening this weekend
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PONG WAS REAL? I thought that was just a story parents told kids to scare them
TopicFound a thing for CE to play with
stone
08/13/17 9:50:41 PM
#160
PBusted posted...
http://generated.inspirobot.me/062/aXm7100xjU.jpg
This would actually be an inspiring message if the background wasn't so suspicious

Bit creepy indeed
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PONG WAS REAL? I thought that was just a story parents told kids to scare them
TopicWarned/Suspended General XXII: 22 Caliber of boolit
stone
08/13/17 9:49:55 PM
#448
It's like a Christmas miracle!
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PONG WAS REAL? I thought that was just a story parents told kids to scare them
TopicThe Microsoft support is about to check out all my porn
stone
08/13/17 6:27:32 PM
#18
Error1355 posted...
Chicken posted...
The error is not enough porn.

the fuck you say?

You're fine, you're errorless, after all.
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PONG WAS REAL? I thought that was just a story parents told kids to scare them
TopicSave that ANIMAL! - Nomination topic.
stone
08/13/17 7:50:33 AM
#4
DocileOrangeCup posted...
Snake
Ocelot
Foxhound
Octopus
Mantis
Raven
Wolf

Nice choices ;)
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PONG WAS REAL? I thought that was just a story parents told kids to scare them
TopicSave that ANIMAL! - Nomination topic.
stone
08/13/17 7:50:17 AM
#3
Ferret
Platypus
Skunk
Racoon
Wolverine
Capybara
Squirrel
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PONG WAS REAL? I thought that was just a story parents told kids to scare them
TopicHow come we don't just put giant corks over all the volcanoes
stone
08/13/17 7:38:50 AM
#8
Read that as giant cocks. But disappointed.
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PONG WAS REAL? I thought that was just a story parents told kids to scare them
TopicDane suspected of killing Swedish woman in his homemade submarine.
stone
08/13/17 7:33:23 AM
#15
BalanceLost posted...
No body found in the sub...

Probably dumped her in the sea.
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PONG WAS REAL? I thought that was just a story parents told kids to scare them
TopicIf Trump banned Sinco De Mayo in USA
stone
08/12/17 6:03:44 PM
#26
creativerealms posted...
Isn't cinco De Mayo only a big deal in America?

Why would it be a big deal elsewhere? It's a Mexican holiday. That'd be like expecting people in Europe to care about 4th of July.
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