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| Topic | im gonna take may 12th off |
| ParanoidObsessive 05/04/23 3:04:12 AM #4 | Zangulus posted... I never beat Breath of the Wild. I stopped caring about Zelda when Ocarina of Time came out. I win! --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | I noticed any time I see an article on something that's rare |
| ParanoidObsessive 05/04/23 2:55:03 AM #2 | Sounds like you're describing Malfomo Disorder. My cousin has that. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Lawn mowing advice |
| ParanoidObsessive 05/03/23 7:35:19 PM #13 | streamofthesky posted... I have allergies, and I never even wanted grass. I want to do as little maintenance as possible and mow as infrequently as humanly possible Same for me. I've got mild hay fever when it comes to grass, and it makes mowing a real miserable experience. Fortunately I'm not severe, but it does mean when I mow I'm constantly blowing my nose for a while afterwards (and often during). Just oh so much snot. streamofthesky posted... Thanks for any tips/advice. Two things: First, what sort of mower you want kind of depends on what your yard looks like. If you've got a relatively flat level yard, a self-motivating mower might be great for you (or even a ride-on mower if your yard is large enough). But if your yard is very hilly and has lots of trees or other obstacles you'll need to mow around, that kind of mower will be terrible and you'll probably want something smaller and fully manual. Added to which, if your lawn grows relatively slowly, doesn't have a ton of weeds, and you're planning on mowing often an electric mower may serve your needs, but if your lawn is heavier, is prone to a lot of weeds, and/or if you want to put off mowing as long as possible (meaning the lawn is going to be much higher when you finally mow it), an electric mower might lack the power you need to really push through it, and you'd be better off with a gas-powered mower. No one mower is going to be perfect for every yard type - you need to judge for yourself what your needs are. Second, if you can, try to look for a recycling/mulching mower. Those you can mow bagless and the mower basically recycles the grass clippings into fertilizer that goes back into the lawn. You want this, because emptying a bag full of grass is an absolute bitch if you have hay fever, and getting rid of the clippings can be a hassle if you're not just composting them or otherwise just straight dumping them somewhere. The average mower can run without the bag, but will tend to leave large clumps of grass that look like crap and can cause your lawn to look patchy - so you're better off making sure you've got one that will help break the grass clippings down smaller as you go. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | I recommend getting a tattoo |
| ParanoidObsessive 05/03/23 7:23:07 PM #9 | My personal policy has always been that I'll only ever get a tattoo if I join a secret society that requires one. Though a really good secret society wouldn't require one, because it's really stupid to advertise that you're a member of a secret society. Like, that's a pretty big part of what "secret" means. Literally nothing else in my life has ever been something I want eternally branded onto me. Love fades. Everything disappoints you eventually. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | We went to the moon in 1969 |
| ParanoidObsessive 05/03/23 5:36:13 PM #6 | Jen0125 posted... WE LANDED ON THE MOON! I haven't just watched Dumb and Dumber, but it was the same thing my mind went to when I saw this topic as well. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Is it a red flag when somebody uses the term "female" |
| ParanoidObsessive 05/03/23 12:05:39 PM #12 | Blue_Thunder posted... Depends on the context. This. Also depending on context, people being bothered by someone using the term "female" is itself a red flag. Context (and intent) is always key. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | If you had your own boat, what would you name it? |
| ParanoidObsessive 05/03/23 12:04:15 PM #27 | FrozenBananas posted... The Bat Boat Better remember to bring your Bat Shark Repellent. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | wow you aren't allowed to talk about a game before the game releases apparently |
| ParanoidObsessive 05/02/23 8:00:30 PM #68 | DirtBasedSoap posted... guys, please get lives. thanks. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Is June a Spring or Summer month? |
| ParanoidObsessive 05/02/23 5:55:53 PM #11 | The local standard for most of my life was that summer starts around Memorial Day (which is when people start opening their pools) and ends around Labor Day (when people start closing their pools and kids go back to school). There's an argument to be made that most of June isn't summer because most schools' summer break doesn't start until the end of June, but that might depend on the school (and a lot of colleges will actually end in May, sooo...). As others have pointed out, it's technically both, since the official start of summer is the 20th/21st. But people usually round that off so that June/July/August is summer, Sep/Oct/Nov is autumn, Dec/Jan/Feb is winter, and March/April/May is spring. Of course, seasons aren't really exactly "equal", and depending on where you live it might seem different to you. For example, for most of my life in New Jersey we've kind of gone directly from summer to winter (and vice-versa) in the span of about a week, and there's the old joke in places like Milwaukee that there's only two seasons - winter and July 12th. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | A guy at my job has gone mad with power... |
| ParanoidObsessive 05/02/23 5:42:44 PM #25 | LinkPizza posted... Though, some like having the extra power No one man should have all that power. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | A guy at my job has gone mad with power... |
| ParanoidObsessive 05/02/23 1:20:44 AM #17 | LinkPizza posted... He keep arguing about AFIs (Air Force Instructions, which are basically certain kinds of rules) and stuff, but is wrong most, if not all, of the time Reminds me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnvUIaoEdq4 --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | If you had your own boat, what would you name it? |
| ParanoidObsessive 05/02/23 1:13:39 AM #20 | slacker03150 posted... Depends on the kind of boat. This. When I was playing GTA Online and bought a yacht, I named it "Cerulean Dream" because that's a yacht-y sort of name. But when I have a pirate ship (or similar Age of Sail-type ship) in various games I usually name it the "Rhapsody" (and in one game where I had a small fleet, I named some of the other ships "Melody" and "Crescendo"). Everyone always wants to go for clever puns or sexual innuendo, but that always feels like something you'll absolutely hate a week later, so I'd never go that route. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | how come when i call people morons on twitter it keeps recommending me them? |
| ParanoidObsessive 05/02/23 1:02:54 AM #8 | It's the same reason why YouTube will recommend videos with high dislike counts - the algorithms that control what gets recommended measure engagement, not approval. If you interact with something out of disgust, anger, or hate, it will register in exactly the same way as if you react to it positively. So basically, stop interacting with things you hate. Learn to ignore it. Stop giving it your attention. This is a lesson most people need to learn these days, honestly. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Do you have any friends you didn't meet online? |
| ParanoidObsessive 05/01/23 6:59:44 AM #18 | faramir77 posted... Literally none of my friends were met online. This. I had a couple friends I met online while playing White Wolf RPGs back in the late 90s/early 2000s but I've fallen out of touch with more or less all of them. Ironically, the only person I met online back then that I still talk to at all is my girlfriend. Everyone else I socialize with is someone I met in school and have stayed friends with for decades, people I met working, or people I met through other people. Pretty much everyone I know is someone I only really know from real life. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Pump up the jam |
| ParanoidObsessive 05/01/23 6:55:55 AM #7 | Lokarin posted... that's me in the corner Is that you in the spotlight? --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | At just under an inch, this is the longest my hair has ever been |
| ParanoidObsessive 05/01/23 6:52:39 AM #19 | PK_Spam posted... At just under an inch, this is the longest my hair has ever been I think my beard hair is longer than that right now. And I usually shave it somewhat regularly. In fact, I should probably shave again soon. PK_Spam posted... my dad misled me and told me we needed to pick up some dirt and clay for a road we were going to make leading to their shed, and even hitched the trailer to our jeep, and then brought me to a barber in the middle of nowhere so I had no choice but to get it cut down. The fact that you believe this is incredibly sad. Entity13 posted... Meanwhile, here I am with my hair down to a couple inches shy of my butt. When I was in middle school I had to spend months convincing my parents to let me cut it real short, to like an inch in length, because I wanted it short until college. Then I wanted it long. My sister-in-law used to tell my niece that she wasn't allow to have haircuts because she preferred her hair long. It was like halfway down her back and she kind of hated it because of having to constantly brush it and condition it and clip split ends to keep it from becoming a tangled bird's nest. I used to threaten/offer to cut it all off whenever she came to visit, because I'm a rebellious iconoclast and I'd happily take the heat from her mom if it meant she could get a hairstyle she actually wanted. But she never quite had the courage to take me up on it. Meanwhile, when -I- was in high school, I shaved my head bald except for a foot-long pony tail out the back (basically like this: https://youtu.be/FNrQOUtXYOo?t=45 - though I had mine before he did). And then a few teachers were like, "What do your parents think of you having hair like that?", and then I answered (honestly) "My dad is the one who cut it for me!" --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | no gundam you can't win against the megazord and freaky alien monster iron man |
| ParanoidObsessive 05/01/23 6:36:48 AM #5 | ConfusedTorchic posted... freaky alien monster iron man My mind immediately went to this: https://thetelltalemind.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/ah_001_0011.jpg https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/valiantcomics/images/1/1f/X-O_Manowar_Vol_1_12_021_XO_Commando_Armor.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20180418180749 https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/valiantcomics/images/1/19/X-O_Manowar_Vol_1_33_001c.jpg https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/valiantcomics/images/7/70/XO-Manowar-IronMan-Heavy-Metal_004_Shanhara_Armor.jpg --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | All these people who say bro or bruh all the time |
| ParanoidObsessive 04/30/23 8:43:03 PM #5 | What about people who say bra? Or dude? --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Why do people pick shitty degrees in college? |
| ParanoidObsessive 04/30/23 5:55:05 AM #27 | KingDavid posted... I hear a lot of talk about how some degrees are completely worthless nowadays, and I'm just like "well why would you pick them then?" Because teenagers generally don't know what they want to do with the rest of their lives, and they're really bad at judging which degrees will actually matter and which ones will doom them to working at McDonalds. They also have unrealistic belief in their own potential - "Sure, 99% of people who get this degree wind up unemployed, but -I'm- going to be the exception!" Zangulus posted... Its almost like education for the sake of is still a net positive to people who dont need to have a specific reason to engage in higher learning. That hasn't been true for decades! --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | I know more than Steven hawkman |
| ParanoidObsessive 04/30/23 5:50:49 AM #2 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQDShFgGzeE --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | If you didn't already have enough reasons to hate WotC . . . |
| ParanoidObsessive 04/30/23 5:24:29 AM #30 | ConfusedTorchic posted... the law doesn't stop them from asking for it back, just that they can't demand you pay for it afterwards The problem is - and the point that you keep conveniently and repeatedly ignoring - is that they didn't just ask politely and he decided to return their product because it was the right thing to do. They used outright fraud and implied threats of violence to coerce behavior out of him. Which, you know, is kind of illegal. In other words, the agents hired by WotC actually committed multiple crimes, while the YouTuber was completely within his rights to do everything he did. That's why people are reacting to the excessive reaction with outrage and calls for boycott and firings. WotC wasn't in the right - they were 100% in the wrong. The YouTuber actually has a strong case to press charges (and he could potentially win millions). He almost certainly won't pursue it though, because he's likely not going to be able to retain better lawyers than Hasbro can hire, he's probably not in a position in life where he can engage in lengthy legal battles that span years and punitively bankrupt people just to uphold a moral and ethical principle, and it's probably not a good idea to stand up to the sort of people who send armed thugs to your house when you've got a pregnant wife. But it's not a day ending in Y unless helly is devoting all of his energy towards being definitively and aggressively wrong about something, so it's no surprise how strongly you're trying to defend the company using Mafia tactics to punish someone who leaked scanned card images a few weeks early. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | If you didn't already have enough reasons to hate WotC . . . |
| ParanoidObsessive 04/29/23 4:29:39 PM #13 | shadowsword87 posted... The internet is very, very happy to bandwagon together to hate on a large corporation acting shittily, especially when using anti-union groups. On the plus side, at least they haven't pissed off two massive fanbases with a history of constant outrage, very long memories, holding grudges, nitpicking literally everything, and dramatically overreacting to things. Oh, wait. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | If you didn't already have enough reasons to hate WotC . . . |
| ParanoidObsessive 04/29/23 3:55:09 PM #9 | Revelation34 posted... They were pretending to be cops. Basically, WotC hired a company with a looong history of harassment, abuse, and violence to recover something from a YouTuber who received it early by accident, by 100% legal means, and who was under no NDA obligations. After making almost no effort to actually contact him through legitimate channels or otherwise address the issue by civilized means or through official channels. And then those agents engaged in harassment, abuse, and implied threats of violence to get what they wanted... in spite of the fact that, because of how US postal law works, they had literally no legal right to do so (you're not actually obligated to return a product if it's accidentally sent to you prior to the street release date - you're only culpable if you deliberately took action to acquire it ahead of time). WotC essentially overreacted to a relatively meaningless leak for PR reasons, and in the process created a PR clusterfuck of astronomical proportions. It may be the worst thing they've done recently - which is incredibly impressive considering they've spent the last few years acting like cartoonish supervillains. At this point a fire that burns down their entire office and kills half their staff would probably do less damage to the company than they've been doing to themselves. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | 0c is 32f right? |
| ParanoidObsessive 04/29/23 8:19:45 AM #10 | Kyuubi4269 posted... You'd be hard pressed to tell the difference between 11c and 12c You say this, but I'd argue there's a noticeable difference between a few degrees, depending on where on the scale you are. I may have trouble telling the difference between 52 (~11c) and 54 (~12c), but I can absolutely tell the difference between 68 and 70 and 72 degrees when entering a room. Extra granularity isn't necessary, but it's still an improvement on the alternative. Kyuubi4269 posted... Farenheit has zero value and is not used in any context with any significance Life is a pretty significant context. Far more so for the average person than literally any scientific context. Fahrenheit is based on human experience. 0 and 100 are the points where survival starts to become impossible without external support. It makes a very neat numerical span for environmental temperatures under normal conditions. Celsius is based on scientific applications (more specifically, the temperature of water), which is why it tends to work better for scientific contexts. But it doesn't scale to real world temperatures as well, because you're basically locked into to a scale between -18 and 38 (give or take). Sure, people who are raised judging temperature via Celsius will be more used to it, but it doesn't necessarily make it the best system for it - in the same way the fact we could all learn to understand weather forecasts if they were given in Kelvin doesn't mean weathermen should be predicting that it's going to be 289 degrees and sunny tomorrow. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | What 80's cartoon should be made into a major motion picture? |
| ParanoidObsessive 04/28/23 7:59:06 AM #31 | Lokarin posted... ...or a hard NC-17 Toxic Crusader TV show I mean, that's more or less how it started out in the first place. And it's basically come full circle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Toxic_Avenger_(upcoming_film) --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | It is your 7th birthday. 1995. |
| ParanoidObsessive 04/28/23 7:49:07 AM #20 | BADoglick posted... DZ the discovery zone was where it was at Sadly, that was more of an 90s thing. 80's kids just had Chuck E Cheese and Showbiz Pizza. Or, if you lived near me, you got Razz-Ma-Tazz: https://bestofnj.com/features/entertainment/nj-vocabulary-razz-ma-tazz Count_Drachma posted... Uh, learn to swim already? Why? I'm already in my mid-40s. I'll be dead soon. Also, I don't really go on boats or planes so my odds of winding up in a large body of water are pretty much zero at this point. And considering I'm literally sitting here with stitches in my back from the recent removal of an "abnormal pre-cancerous mole", I'm not even sure I'm overly keen on going in pools anymore. I want to live underground far away from the traitorous sun and its evil radiation. Hisssss! Yellow posted... On my 7th birthday I just saw the twin towers collapse and people were trying to tell me why it was "not cool" Was just doing the mental math in my head. I would have been 8 when the Challenger exploded. That was pretty much my "childhood tragedy" moment. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | What should I buy: Xbox Series X or PS5? |
| ParanoidObsessive 04/27/23 6:45:49 AM #13 | Grendel_Prime posted... Starfield will be a buggy mess for at least a year, being a Bethesda game. I'm sure it'll be great eventually but I wouldn't want to play it Day 1. A year? That's optimistic. Skyrim's still a buggy mess, and that's been out on like two dozen different systems for 11 years now. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | What 80's cartoon should be made into a major motion picture? |
| ParanoidObsessive 04/27/23 6:21:22 AM #25 | captpackrat posted... What 80's cartoon should be made into a major motion picture? None of them. Because while I love half the shows on your list and dozens more besides, I have no faith that Hollywood is capable of doing anything with an existing beloved property of the past other than metaphorically slitting its throat and raping its corpse. Blightzkrieg posted... I am so fucking sick of 80s nostalgia tbh I wish I could actually have 80s nostalgia. Instead of the soulless exploitation by corporate motherfuckers who don't give a solitary shit about anything other than how they can exploit existing branding because they're incapable of having a single original thought of their own. I utterly dread any time I hear some show or movie from the 80s is getting a remake, because it will almost certainly contain literally none of the charm or other elements that made people love it in the first place, and in the drive to try and "update" it for new audiences, all studios really accomplish is making sure it appeals to no audience. I'm kind of sick and tired of having literally every single thing I've ever loved mutilated beyond all recognition and turned into something I loathe. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | It is your 7th birthday. 1995. |
| ParanoidObsessive 04/27/23 6:11:47 AM #2 | My 7th birthday was in 1984, if I went swimming with anyone I'd be dead because I can't swim, I never went to Chuck E. Cheese as a kid, I've never played Yoshi's Island, and my life was pretty steadily upward trending until I hit 40 or so, which is when my warranty expired and my body began to break down a piece at a time. Also, I'm pretty sure I never knew anyone my own age named John, let alone as a friend. You're really bad at this cold reading stuff! --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
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