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Discussion in 'General' started by Nanimani, Dec 27, 2015.

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  1. Amazon Climber

    Amazon Climber Wholesomely Depraved

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    Fun fact about deer: They’re much smaller during the day than they are at twilight when you’re on foot and have just realized the mother is on one side of the only path out of the woods and her fawn is grazing away on the other.
     
  2. GhostHaxStomp

    GhostHaxStomp I trust you know where the happy button is?

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    I’m getting sick and tired of dumbass deer. These motherfuckers never learn and run around in herds, just standing in the road.

    Im going 65 and either you get out of my way or I go through you, cuz I’m not gonna slow down for some tick infested idiot with a negative IQ score. I drive a shitty car, I can take a hit better than something with straw for bones.
     
  3. Ragnarok

    Ragnarok Well worn.

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    I was looking through my old account on Newegg so I could identify the exact parts used when I built my PC. It was an average-build PC, around maybe $600... back in 2013. I didn't realize it was that old. Anyway, I'm looking to sell it and upgrade to something newer. Right now, the price of individual parts means it would be cheaper to just buy a newer PC altogether than upgrade everything. Especially since basically all the innards of my tower would be replaced.

    I'm thinking of putting it up for $350-$400, with the expectation that people will offer a lower price. Hopefully I can get at least $300 out of it to put towards a new PC.

    Also selling my Thinkpad T61 from '07. They are listed on ebay for around $150.
     
  4. MadGreenSon

    MadGreenSon Verified Devil Tiger, The Childish Yandere

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    Big recommendation from me: The World War Z Complete Edition audiobook. Fucking amazing voice acting, check out the cast list:
    It's goddamn amazing. No movie could ever match it, IMO
     
  5. Venyr4434

    Venyr4434 Well worn.

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    Link?
     
  6. MadGreenSon

    MadGreenSon Verified Devil Tiger, The Childish Yandere

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    It's on Audible. The key is to get the Complete Edition and not any of the other ones.
     
  7. heralding_bubble

    heralding_bubble Liar and Hypocrite

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    I've been getting into audio stuff more again.
    Listened through a few ttrpg games on podcasts, some audiobooks, hell I'm even writing stuff from a scanned pdf into notepad so I can tts it in background when doing stuff.
    (76,174 characters/12,688 words transcribed at the moment)
     
  8. MadGreenSon

    MadGreenSon Verified Devil Tiger, The Childish Yandere

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    Seriously, listen to this, Mark Hamil as Todd Wainio talking about the Battle of Yonkers



     
  9. Highlord

    Highlord Versed in the lewd.

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    Just had utterly hilarious encounter on my front porch. Well, hilarious in a sad, sad way.

    What happened? I had to run off a pair of door-to-door petition workers. A pair of fine, totally upstanding young men from the National American Society for Christian Ideals. Complete with blonde crew-cuts.

    Make that an acronym and say it aloud. I just looked at them with a level glare and said "Wow. You fuckers aren't even trying anymore, are you?"
     
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  10. MadGreenSon

    MadGreenSon Verified Devil Tiger, The Childish Yandere

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    Fuck's sake...
     
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  11. Highlord

    Highlord Versed in the lewd.

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    Pretty much my initial reaction. Honestly, I'm kind of impressed at the sheer brazenness, but depressed at the number of people I know will fall for it.
     
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  12. Guardian Box

    Guardian Box Theocratic Capitalist

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    It's so obvious I'm 95% sure it's the feds.
     
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  13. Highlord

    Highlord Versed in the lewd.

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    I really do hope so.

    But then I remember that I live in the midwest.
     
  14. Treble

    Treble Connoisseur.

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    Pitbull mauled a young girl in a family friend's neighbourhood.

    Fierce dogs. Wonder why people keep them.
     
  15. Ragnarok

    Ragnarok Well worn.

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    Pitbulls are wonderful dogs when properly taken care of. Ive met many friendly pitbulls. It's a problem with the owner, not the breed.
     
  16. Amazon Climber

    Amazon Climber Wholesomely Depraved

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    *looks over at my lump of dog-meat, who makes me shove my fingers down her throat every goddamn day because somehow she find this less objectionable than voluntarily taking the pills she needs to not be covered in hives.*

    Sometimes I wonder.
     
  17. TanaNari

    TanaNari Verified Dick

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    Sometimes the owner, sometimes a dumbfuck kid with even more dumbfuck parents who failed to teach their crotch goblins that you don't stick your hands in a strange animal's personal space.

    Parents who, of course, will blame the animal rather than their own shit parenting.
     
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    Amazon Climber Wholesomely Depraved

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    Saw a video the other day of someone reaching into a car with an open window to pet a golden retriever. You know, those big, dumb, lovable balls of golden fluff? Doggo ended up treating itself to a hand sandwich after the idiot completely ignored all of the ‘do not want’ body language he got.

    Point is, definitely not a breed thing.
     
  19. Treble

    Treble Connoisseur.

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    Every one I've seen was raised properly and was a healthy, friendly enough dog....and then it went nuts out of the blue and nearly mauled someone.

    Of course, it wasn't "nearly" this time.
     
  20. Treble

    Treble Connoisseur.

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    Anyone noticed this weird thing in online nerd communities where they talk in a smugly superior tone, and generally act like everyone except themselves is an idiot? Rather quarrelsome too, and rather obsessed with pointless trivia.
     
  21. TanaNari

    TanaNari Verified Dick

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    Self awareness level: Treble.
     
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  22. Chaos Fantasy

    Chaos Fantasy Versed in the lewd.

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    Well....

    My brother's room is basically an oven right now.
    We opened a window and have three fans on in there, but he'll be getting a new Air Conditioner real soon since it's all mostly hot air blowing around.
    The kitchen is also just barely no better since those two rooms are on the same side and equally vulnerable to the sun's heat.
    And the bathroom absorbs the problems of both since it's above the kitchen and next to the room. And on top of that, turns into an impromptu sauna when the shower is on more than five minutes.

    Dumdum also won't stop closing his door, which basically traped all the heat in more before we opened the window.

    This is well after THREE (used/pre-owned) "new" ACs broke down on us all at once, too.

    Did I mention its summer over here?
     
  23. Snooze

    Snooze Plant-person with facial hair

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    If it's hotter outside, why would you open your window ? moving aire feels better while it's moving but after that you just put your room at outside temperature. When it's hotter outside you close the blinds to prevent solar energy from heating your room and you close your windows.
    Source: at least five mediterrannean generation's wisdom.
     
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  24. chrnno

    chrnno Time Traveller

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    See the problem of that five generations of wisdom is that it means your buildings are actually properly built to handle heat. For places where such wisdom isn't present, or the builders simply didn't give a fuck, rooms where the Sun is on definitely get hotter than the outside if windows and doors are closed. Sometimes with them open even. Presumably it is the case there.

    I say this as I sit in a room with everything open that is hotter than the shaded outside. Though only 30C so not really hot.
     
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  25. Snooze

    Snooze Plant-person with facial hair

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    Hence the "if it's hotter outside". If it gets hotter inside then you should definitevely get outside air to replace yours. If you're directly in the sun at least partially closing your blinds or shutters is a must, even with shitty insulation it's better than a glass panel.
     
  26. Chaos Fantasy

    Chaos Fantasy Versed in the lewd.

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    Wouldn't know what the outside was/is like. Just that inside was really hot/basically a sauna.
    Of course, hot air rises. So an open window oughta encourage it to flow out.

    Either way, we got a new AC in there and it pretty much cooled things down very quick.
     
  27. Snooze

    Snooze Plant-person with facial hair

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    Glad you’re out of the heat, hope it didn’t cost you too much.
     
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  28. Chaos Fantasy

    Chaos Fantasy Versed in the lewd.

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    Cost me nothing. :)

    My other brother's wallet tho... Eh. He'll financially recover. :p
     
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    heralding_bubble Liar and Hypocrite

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    So there's a 9h20m video that apparently goes through the whole story of Bionicle and I know what I'm going to have on when I head home. And get home. And supposed to sleep.
     
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    ShogunTrooper Launching Bees out of a Trebuchet

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    There is also a playlist of the individual videos that make it up, if you want something a bit more bite-sized.
     
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