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| Topic | Due to Israeli-Palestinian ceasefire... Israel bombs Iranian consulate in Syria |
| ParanoidObsessive 04/02/24 4:08:19 PM #6 | Lok gonna Lok.
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| Topic | Apple TV plus |
| ParanoidObsessive 04/02/24 3:52:00 AM #4 | No.
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| Topic | is reddit having problems? |
| ParanoidObsessive 04/02/24 1:14:34 AM #11 | I just had the same problem today. using new.reddit fixed it.
I'm having other issues, though. My keyboard is currently screwed up. I can't type q w e r or u (I've been C&Ping them individually in this post). No idea if it's a physical hardware issue, a driver issue, or some sort of virus/malware issue. No idea how to fix it, either. Might just get a new laptop - this on is already having other issues anyway. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Someone should convince Jimmy Carter.. |
| ParanoidObsessive 04/01/24 3:01:34 AM #5 | KJ_StErOiDs posted...
True; JC's in hospice now but he's had an amazing run. Fun fact: The start of his post-presidency is closer to the Great Depression than it is to now. Speaking as someone who was alive at the time he was President, I now hate you for saying this. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Found a new go-to McDonalds order. |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/31/24 8:36:54 PM #10 | Glob posted...
6I mean, its the Daily Mail website so theres around a 3000% chance that theyre talking shit. The real problem is that they're using a picture from an old commercial... and burgers in commercials today don't look like the burgers you actually get. So comparing an ad from then to reality today is even less likely to be accurate. What you'd need to do is find a home photo of a random person eating a Big Mac then and compare that to that same person eating one now. It would be the only real 1-to-1 scenario you could possibly get without a time machine. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | I can't wait for the upcoming April release Dead Island 2. |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/31/24 8:27:54 PM #7 | ConfusedTorchic posted...
just steam though Still counts as a "current" release. At least by the standards of past polls, where pretty much a launch on at least one platform counts. I mean, sure it's wrong and stupid, but we ARE talking about the GameFAQs Poll of the Day here. Wrong and stupid is the baseline. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | I can't wait for the upcoming April release Dead Island 2. |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/31/24 7:02:11 PM #5 | "The game is scheduled to release on Steam on April 22, 2024"
That's why. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | You have to choose one of these things to do for $1,000,000,000... |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/31/24 3:23:25 PM #34 | ZayKayWill posted...
Disagree about what? He's being aggressively European again (like always). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Found a new go-to McDonalds order. |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/31/24 1:48:30 AM #5 | I think that was pretty much the order some old-school wrestlers used to make. I think I remember Jim Cornette mentioning that Jesse Ventura would go into a McDonalds or Wendys and order a couple burgers and then eat them without the buns because he wanted protein but not carbs.
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| Topic | AMD or Intel? |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/31/24 1:44:10 AM #10 | Whatever comes in whatever HP computer I buy off the shelf from Wal-Mart.
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| Topic | damn, my hair's starting to thin out |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/30/24 10:17:06 PM #14 | adjl posted...
Not entirely true. Some baldness is X-linked, but it comes from quite a few different genes. Having bald maternal uncles/grandparents doesn't guarantee you'll be bald, nor does having maternal uncles/grandparents who aren't bald guarantee you won't be. This. Some is X-linked, some is Y-linked, some isn't purely genetic at all. It all depends on what type of baldness/thinning you have. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | What's the point of anything anymore? |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/30/24 10:12:03 PM #6 | EclairReturns posted...
I'm assuming that this is a rhetorical question that is posed often by existential nihilists. Therefore, I shall abstain from responding to it. It's more an anti-nihilist question, honestly. It's essentially arguing that there IS no "point" to anything, and there never has been - so the only thing that has ever really mattered is what you choose to value and how you choose to define what matters. Anyone who tells you there's a meaning to life is trying to sell you something. Life is. And that's all. Everything else is up to you. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | What's the point of anything anymore? |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/30/24 9:41:40 PM #4 | What was the point of anything ever?
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| Topic | First human patient to receive neuralink brain transplant uses it |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/30/24 2:56:35 PM #5 | Sega_Saturn posted...
To pull an all night gaming session I was expecting it to be porn related. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Look at my hole |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/29/24 7:43:29 PM #58 | Jen0125 posted...
I think you can get really small traditional concrete pools for like $30-40k but I'm not sure tbh I didn't do a lot of research for concrete pools because I didn't want one You can get above ground pools for even cheaper, which are usually adequate for most people's needs if they can't afford to go the full in-ground route. Hell, for some people, you don't even need anything more than this: https://i5.walmartimages.com/asr/68521e22-5020-41f7-8e1c-100b0b9f00fa_1.5dc03bc84a7fd071bab7379c0100bc89.jpeg --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | If Bruce Wayne and Tony Stark where real people, they wouldn't even be that rich |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/29/24 7:36:26 PM #7 | The problem is that they're supposed to be insanely rich, so Marvel and DC are constantly retconning exactly how rich they really are. Bruce Wayne has been described as a trillionaire in some stories, after having started out as a millionaire in the 40s and being upgraded to a billionaire later on (and at one point it was explicitly stated he had $100 billion). Any calculation to determine their "true wealth" is going to be obsolete shortly after being written. Doubly so when you consider that there are differences between how rich he is in the movies versus how rich he is in the comics versus how rich he is in various cartoons, and so on.
Though what's more impressive for Tony Stark is that he's lost his fortune multiple times and then had to basically rebuild his wealth from scratch. Half his major stories seem to involve hostile takeovers from other companies or corporate mergers that go wrong, with him ultimately having to form a new company from the ground up, then potentially leveraging his new assets to attempt to get the old ones back. Bruce's wealth is generally much more stable in general. Though it's also worth remembering that Lex Luthor is supposed to be much wealthier than Bruce is. Because Lex is willing to make money in ways that Bruce isn't. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Enter this topic at your own peril |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/29/24 1:25:37 PM #5 | Colonel_Lingus posted...
Voulez-vous coucher avec moi, ce soir? Non. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | damn, my hair's starting to thin out |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/29/24 1:17:06 AM #4 | Being in my 30s was awesome. It was once I hit 40 that all the wheels came off and everything started going wrong.
For me and multiple of my friends, we've basically described it as our warranties clearly ran out at 40. Hair started thinning, joints started aching, eyesight started failing, etc. I'm kind of afraid of what parts of me are going to self-destruct when I hit 50. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Enter this topic at your own peril |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/29/24 1:14:45 AM #2 | Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate.
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| Topic | What's the deal with Che Guevara T-shirts? |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/28/24 9:59:58 PM #4 | Sahuagin posted...
yeah I wonder too. he's a mass murderer but people have posters of him? never heard a valid explanation so far. Because teenagers and college students are stupid. Most people wearing those shirts or getting posters have literally no idea who he was or what he actually stood for. It's just "hur hur rebellion" meets Hot Topic. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Look at my hole |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/28/24 9:57:11 PM #46 | Dikitain posted...
Body dumping party at Jen's house! https://cdn.someecards.com/someecards/usercards/1321845511781_3584471.png adjl posted... I guess it makes sense that that trend wouldn't apply in Arizona. I'm more used to thinking in terms of Canadian cities, where pools aren't unheard of, but also definitely aren't a top priority for many buyers because they're mostly useless for 2/3 of the year. Yeah, Canada doesn't count. For anything. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Look at my hole |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/28/24 1:17:28 AM #9 | Jen0125 posted...
Look at my hole https://youtu.be/vcl69RfGw54?t=20 --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Important research question: who would you rather regularly hang out with |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/28/24 1:10:52 AM #10 | Most of the people I know who voted for Trump barely talk about Trump. As opposed to most of the anti-Trump people online who seem to find it utterly impossible to ever shut the fuck up about Trump.
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| Topic | Thats crazy how long Diddy got away with all this |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/27/24 7:12:11 PM #11 | OhhhJa posted...
Granted, I don't believe Sinatra was ever accused of serious sexual crimes so its a bit different lol Also to be fair, Sinatra was never actually in the Mafia. He just had friends/associates who were in the Mafia, and who may have used their influence to help him out from time to time. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | I think I'm gonna make geek necklaces my thing. |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/27/24 7:08:11 PM #13 | adjl posted...
Well there we go, make a hybrid of the two, and you're golden. If you want to be really fancy, you can make multiple rows of pop-o-matics, each with different types of dice, so you can roll multiple dice of a given type as needed. https://www.homestuck.com/extras/20 --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | if duckbear was still here we would know about the bridge collapsing and p diddy |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/26/24 9:06:29 PM #5 | ConfusedTorchic posted...
if duckbear was still here we would know I wouldn't, since I've had him blocked for like a decade now. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Amazon telling me a package will be here by 10 |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/26/24 7:39:31 PM #13 | Yellow posted...
Gee, I sure can't wait until your packages get there They showed up at 2:30pm. Amazon came through for me. 10pm guarantee success. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | PRO Tip: Never trust a big butt and a smile.... |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/25/24 11:47:30 PM #2 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qq4j1LtCdww
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| Topic | Amazon telling me a package will be here by 10 |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/25/24 11:41:51 PM #10 | VideoboysaysCube posted...
Anytime they say 10pm, I know it's delayed. I've never received anything after 7 or 8pm. I've got two packages coming tomorrow that say they'll be delivered by 10pm. I'll let you know when they arrive. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | it's not a film |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/25/24 11:39:06 PM #2 | It's a cinematic experience.
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| Topic | The New BeetleJuice movie looks great |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/23/24 6:41:34 PM #3 | Also:
BlazeAndBlade posted... some of the old cast is back as well I'm guessing they don't bring Lydia's dad back... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Jones#Criminal_offenses --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | The New BeetleJuice movie looks great |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/23/24 6:38:07 PM #2 | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NeverTrustATrailer
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| Topic | How are FE Three Houses and Engage? |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/23/24 6:36:58 PM #33 | DemonicChaosXX posted...
I hated the lack of a clear villain, and how they had to put TwSitSh to fit it...but ultimately those guys had NO role in the story. Three Hopes is pretty much the same, though depending on the path TwSitS are much more significant villains and you can oppose them more directly. The closest thing Hopes has to a clear villain is Byleth - and you can even subvert that if you choose to give up your quest for vengeance and refuse to kill them. Hopes has a more ambiguous ending, though. The war doesn't actually end, and it's implied things are going to keep happening even after the game ends. And your main character arguably has less influence on the lords you can side with (though it also avoids the time skip, so they also don't have some of the dramatic changes they go through in Houses). --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | I think I'm gonna make geek necklaces my thing. |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/23/24 6:08:10 PM #9 | adjl posted...
The easiest option would be to strap a phone to your wrist and use an app-based solution. Yeah, but that's just a digital dice-roller and that's stupid and lame. I meant actual, physical dice like the necklace I linked to. What good is science if we can't even figure out how to roll physical dice in a bracelet?! adjl posted... Maybe a bracer with a series of those dice poppers used in board games like Trouble For a second I thought I remembered something like this existing in a webcomic somewhere, but I think I was confusing two separate things in my head - the magic calculator-bracer the main character of Erfworld wears, and a pop-o-matic weapon in Problem Sleuth. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | how does the spear trap at the start of Raiders of the Lost Ark work? |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/23/24 5:51:27 PM #11 | atomicfear posted...
nailed it. I want to believe it's 2 because I want the universe to be less magical. But they break that wall in every movie, so who am I kidding. That being said, it's positioned--to start the franchise-- as scientifically plausible and genius. To be fair, even though magic blatantly exists in that universe, Indy is skeptical as fuck about it for most of Raiders (which is even stupider when you realize Raiders takes place after Temple of Doom, so by this point he's already seen a man who can pull people's hearts out of their chest and magic god rocks). In other words, Indy probably wouldn't be so blase about a trap using an inherently illogical and supernatural trigger, so there'd have to be some physical mechanism that he understands for him to be so chill about it. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | How are FE Three Houses and Engage? |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/23/24 5:47:56 PM #30 | Revelation34 posted...
Only if they're incredibly stupid. Never underestimate the size and power of that particular demographic! SpeedDemon20 posted... They do that on the best route a bit before the final chapter. Yeah, but that's a "Way too little, way too late" sort of moment. The time where talk would have helped was way earlier, before everyone was pot-committed to the war. Also, Azure Moon? Ick. Not even once. DemonicChaosXX posted... Would you recommend three Hopes to someone who didn't like Houses? It would depend on what you didn't like about Three Houses, honestly. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | I think I'm gonna make geek necklaces my thing. |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/23/24 2:58:48 PM #7 | adjl posted...
Needs a quick-release button so you can roll by just leaning over the table and opening your necklace. Someone needs to figure out how to make the bracelets from Quag Keep (the first D&D-themed novel ever written - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quag_Keep ). Basically, all of the characters have bracelets with dice in them, and every once in a while the dice will roll with various effects. Which is meant to simulate players rolling dice for their characters as an in-universe thing. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | How are FE Three Houses and Engage? |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/23/24 2:13:27 PM #22 | Nichtcrawler-X posted...
3 Houses is unapologetically dark, with no real designated good guys. Though as for player factions, the easiest way to describe it is that every faction thinks it's the good guys, and that they're doing the right things for the right reasons, but pretty much everyone is wrong about something. So in the end, everybody can wind up as an enemy to everyone else. And most of the conflict could be solved in about 15 minutes if everyone would just sit down and talk about things. But everyone's the hero of their own story - and you really only start seeing the ways in which they're wrong is if you play the other paths as well. Though it's been pointed out that the color scheme itself can influence the perceptions of people who've played Fire Emblem games for a long time - the Kingdom is blue (the traditional color of the player's units), the Church is green (allied units), the Alliance is yellow (neutral units), and the Empire is red (enemy units). So more experienced players may be influenced into thinking Dmitri's path is the "good" one, the Church is your ally, the Alliance is mostly a distraction, and the Empire is the true enemy. But as has been said, Edelgard is obviously the real hero of the game. Black Eagles/Crimson Flower best timeline. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | how does the spear trap at the start of Raiders of the Lost Ark work? |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/23/24 4:04:09 AM #2 | Inca magic.
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| Topic | Student loan/Credit card debt |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/22/24 11:36:55 PM #13 | Technically I've got credit card debt because I only just got this month's bill and haven't paid it yet.
But I pay off the full value on my bill every month, so I never pay interest and don't have any long-term debt. I've got no student debts, I fully own my own car(s), and I don't even have a mortgage (my house is fully paid off). My finances have been solidly in the black for a looong time now. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | What way do you eat your hot dogs? |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/22/24 11:34:20 PM #18 | Metalsonic66 posted...
A hot dog is a taco STRAIGHT TO HELL. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | I think I'm gonna make geek necklaces my thing. |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/22/24 6:26:05 PM #2 | https://www.amazon.com/Kingdong-DND-Dice-Necklace-Interchangeable/dp/B0CQ82JR2M
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| Topic | What way do you eat your hot dogs? |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/22/24 6:22:50 PM #10 | I eat them like this:
https://youtu.be/MtZfjD8v2Dg?t=104 Dikitain posted... Like seriously, who the fuck cares this much about how people eat their hot dogs? The Internet often runs out of things to be performatively outraged about, and has to invent new things so they can get their adrenaline rush. Oh, and speaking of which - from the link you posted: "appreciate the sandwich in the best way possible" A hot dog is not a sandwich, and fuck anyone who says otherwise. Fuck them straight to hell. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | How are FE Three Houses and Engage? |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/22/24 6:18:57 PM #5 | From what I've picked up from Fire Emblem fans by osmosis, apparently Three Houses is one of the best in the franchise while Engage kind of sucks.
But if it was up to me I'd probably rather play Three Hopes. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | What is your favorite kind of meat? |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/22/24 1:31:12 AM #44 | Long pork.
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| Topic | austin powers reboot with timothy chalamet as austin and will sasso as dr evil |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/22/24 1:29:46 AM #5 | ConfusedTorchic posted...
thoughts? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l06ynaWFyCo --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Ai art looks better than "real" art |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/22/24 12:01:00 AM #20 | DrYuya posted...
Not arguing that the person who "creates" it is an artist. If they are creating art, they are, by literal definition, an artist. You could argue to which degree they influence the act of creation, but that's one mother of a slippery slope because every artist uses tools. There is a significant difference between someone who fingerpaints on a cave wall using self-crafted pigments and someone who draws on a computer tablet or manipulates a photograph in Photoshop, but they're all still artists. Someone creating AI art still needs to have the skills necessary to tell it to create the image they're looking for, and to at least some degree they're still impressing their intentions and mental expectations onto the work. One could argue that there's a difference between someone who is micromanaging descriptions and commands versus someone who just types out a single short sentence, but there's also a difference between someone who spends months painting a masterpiece and someone who doodles on a napkin for 30 seconds. People get hung up on the idea of the tool, but ultimately we're liking going to reach a point as the tech improves where the end product becomes almost indistinguishable from anything a human could create. Which can actually open doors for people to become more creative (like, say, someone who has ideas for a comic but lacks the skill to draw it, who can now potentially use the new tools to provide art - in exactly the same way most sprite-art comics allowed people who couldn't draw to still tell stories). There are already AI that can write and perform songs you'd never realize wasn't composed by a human. The limiting factor isn't "technology bad, no human soul", the limiting factor is the tech is still in its infancy, and WILL improve. The future is coming whether people want it to or not. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Your greatest asset |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/21/24 11:44:51 PM #13 | MY MIND.
Specifically, the one that I keep in a jar on my desk. At night, in the dark, it whispers secrets to me. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | I'm coming |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/21/24 11:43:13 PM #9 | Zareth posted...
Chosen One!!! I'm coming! --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Spring snow fall |
| ParanoidObsessive 03/21/24 2:28:15 PM #5 | I was expecting a post about lousy Smarch weather.
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