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Should I step down as head of twitter
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Yes 420 4.43%
No 69 0.73%
Goku 9001 94.85%
Total: 9490 votes
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Dwesa
Jul 19, 2016

Maybe I'll go where I can see stars

Slotducks posted:

why does he look like that

if i were a billionaire i would do anything to not look like that

transformation into a full Deep One can only be delayed for so long

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Kale
May 14, 2010

Neddy Seagoon posted:

The best part was doing it in a Rhino with the turret aimed behind you, so the recoil fron firing the cannon would launch you and keep you airborne.

That was sometimes the only way to really do it it felt like

R.L. Stine
Oct 19, 2007

welcome to dead gay dog house

Kale posted:

That was sometimes the only way to really do it it felt like

there was a forum at the time where some dudes made their own gameshark codes and they let you do some insane poo poo, like actually being able to fly the airliner you see in the sky all the time, with actual plane physics and stuff. it was ridiculously impressive

Sir Tonk
Apr 18, 2006
Young Orc

Goddamn, replying to zerohedge. How is he so good at replying to the worst people on the internet?

Armitage
Aug 16, 2005

"Mathman's not here." "Oh? Where is he?" "He's in the Mathroom."

Sir Tonk posted:

Goddamn, replying to zerohedge. How is he so good at replying to the worst people on the internet?

Because he IS the worst person on the internet!

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

Lol at the KKK logo

R.L. Stine
Oct 19, 2007

welcome to dead gay dog house
did npr do something stupid, why are they laughing at npr and saying rip a year after they stopped posting. npr seems to be doing fine?

Zulily Zoetrope
Jun 1, 2011

Muldoon

Slotducks posted:

why does he look like that

if i were a billionaire i would do anything to not look like that

He's taking muscle drugs (leading theory is HGH) and doing zero exercise to accompany them, so all they're doing is blowing up his organs without giving him any muscle.

It is very easy to not look like that, all you have to do is either not take muscle drugs, or adopt at least a light workout regimen. Elon is capable of neither.

shyduck
Oct 3, 2003


R.L. Stine posted:

did npr do something stupid, why are they laughing at npr and saying rip a year after they stopped posting. npr seems to be doing fine?
A current senior editor at NPR wrote some piece about how NPR no longer reflects America's diverse viewpoints (i.e. not enough conservatives) especially since 2020 and the George Floyd riots and cites DEI as part of the reason, so naturally Elon and the other idiots have latched on

Here's said piece: https://www.thefp.com/p/npr-editor-how-npr-lost-americas-trust
Here's NPR's response to said piece: https://www.npr.org/2024/04/09/1243755769/npr-journalist-uri-berliner-trust-diversity

shyduck fucked around with this message at 14:54 on Apr 10, 2024

heard u like girls
Mar 25, 2013


:hai:

digital penitence
Jan 3, 2008

Crescent Wrench posted:

This is a perennial post. Every single time someone says they've finally seen a Cybertruck, the reaction is "it's even uglier than I could have imagined from the pictures." And it's the exact same reaction I had, and I saw the drat thing from down the block.

I have yet to actually see one in the wild. Kind of looking forward to seeing the stupid thing. Both the trukk and the person behind the wheel.

steinrokkan
Apr 2, 2011



Soiled Meat

Slotducks posted:

why does he look like that

if i were a billionaire i would do anything to not look like that

Oh he does

Imagine what he would look like without billionaire resources constantly battling the ravages of daily horse tranquilizer binges

gschmidl
Sep 3, 2011

watch with knife hands

shyduck posted:

A current senior editor at NPR wrote some piece about how NPR no longer reflects America's diverse viewpoints (i.e. not enough conservatives) especially since 2020 and the George Floyd riots and cites DEI as part of the reason, so naturally Elon and the other idiots have latched on

"Nazi" is a viewpoint to be exterminated, not included, of course.

IBroughttheFunk
Sep 28, 2012

shyduck posted:

A current senior editor at NPR wrote some piece about how NPR no longer reflects America's diverse viewpoints (i.e. not enough conservatives) especially since 2020 and the George Floyd riots and cites DEI as part of the reason, so naturally Elon and the other idiots have latched on

Here's said piece: https://www.thefp.com/p/npr-editor-how-npr-lost-americas-trust
Here's NPR's response to said piece: https://www.npr.org/2024/04/09/1243755769/npr-journalist-uri-berliner-trust-diversity

From the NPR response article:

quote:

Yet Berliner says NPR's news coverage has fallen short on some of the most controversial stories of recent years, from the question of whether former President Donald Trump colluded with Russia in the 2016 election, to the origins of the virus that causes COVID-19, to the significance and provenance of emails leaked from a laptop owned by Hunter Biden weeks before the 2020 election. In addition, he blasted NPR's coverage of the Israel-Hamas conflict.

Can't wait to see what diverse opinions he believes NPR should have included on these topics /s

Random Stranger
Nov 27, 2009



Crescent Wrench posted:

This is a perennial post. Every single time someone says they've finally seen a Cybertruck, the reaction is "it's even uglier than I could have imagined from the pictures." And it's the exact same reaction I had, and I saw the drat thing from down the block.

I saw one when I went to the eclipse. It's genuinely amazing how lovely it is. The cheap plastic roll up bed cover was a highlight that I never noticed before.

IBroughttheFunk posted:

From the NPR response article:

Can't wait to see what diverse opinions he believes NPR should have included on these topics /s

I'll attack NPR all day long for how they've handled those topics: mainly by letting conservatives air their conspiracy theories and insanity without challenging it our even pointing out the factual errors. Somehow I suspect that's not the same reason this person is mad.

Random Stranger fucked around with this message at 15:04 on Apr 10, 2024

redshirt
Aug 11, 2007

Random Stranger posted:

I saw one when I went to the eclipse. It's genuinely amazing how lovely it is. The cheap plastic roll up bed cover was a highlight that I never noticed before.

I'll attack NPR all day long for how they've handled those topics: mainly by letting conservatives air their conspiracy theories and insanity without challenging it our even pointing out the factual errors. Somehow I suspect that's not the same reason this person is mad.

Nice Polite Republicans

PhazonLink
Jul 17, 2010
you guys are thinking too hard, he's pissy at NPR because they were some of the early major big important orgs to go "nah blue check marks are stupid we're not paying and may sunset and will exit twitter useage", musk then got pissy and said "lol im going sell NPR to a porn maker like BBC" or some other ket fried anti joke.

also he was making the unforced mistake that username strings have to be UUIDs and literally stole X from some years old music(?) maker

PhazonLink fucked around with this message at 15:45 on Apr 10, 2024

Laopooh
Jul 15, 2000

I saw one in Berkeley yesterday and...it wasn't as huge as I'd thought it was gonna be! I was disappointed. It was big and stupid but I had my expectations set to bigger and stupider.

redshirt
Aug 11, 2007

PhazonLink posted:

you guys are thinking too hard, he's pissy at NPR because they were some of the early major big important orgs to go "nah blue check marks are stupid we're not paying and may sunset and will exit twitter useage", musk then got pissy and said "lol im going sell NPR to a porn maker like BBC" or some other ket fried anti joke.

also he was making the unforced mistake that username strings have to be UUIDs and literally stole X from some years old music(?) maker

Also, NPR is in the "Go To" hate list for regressive assholes, so right up Musk's alley.

Kale
May 14, 2010

R.L. Stine posted:

there was a forum at the time where some dudes made their own gameshark codes and they let you do some insane poo poo, like actually being able to fly the airliner you see in the sky all the time, with actual plane physics and stuff. it was ridiculously impressive

I mostly remember using the in game controller input codes to do various stuff and the PS2 era being kind of the last for those sorts of things aince nowadays people just make mods and patches on PC versions and poo poo. I also remember if you tried to fly off the map there would be invisible walls that would turn you around 180, but for some reason they didnt put any at the north eastern corner of the map so trying to fly to far northeast would crash the game by I guess overflowing the value for your in game hex coordinates

PhazonLink
Jul 17, 2010
its always funny(and good programing) that devs put in invis walls and other guardrails in parts of the game the player cant even reach normally or even if they beyond if they do lighter game breaking stuff.

Plan R
Oct 5, 2021

For Romeo

Crescent Wrench posted:

This is a perennial post. Every single time someone says they've finally seen a Cybertruck, the reaction is "it's even uglier than I could have imagined from the pictures." And it's the exact same reaction I had, and I saw the drat thing from down the block.

Finally saw one the other day here in Seattle and I could only shake my head as it lumbered past. I'm surprised it took this long as every third car is a Tesla.

Burning_Monk
Jan 11, 2005
Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to know
I've seen some around north bay. They are so silly. The frame is larger than you think. Gives it a real "compensating" feel when sitting next to normal cars. But the low poly look just seems like a joke, a toy, something unfinished. Like a bad 80s scifi car with the steel plating bolted on a pickup.

I saw one with actual matte blackish paint and it made it look somewhat better. At least more like a car.

redshirt
Aug 11, 2007

How many Cybertrucks are actually out there on the roads? 10K? 20K? It's low odds to see one.

steinrokkan
Apr 2, 2011



Soiled Meat
Thankfully the pure evil regulations of the EU ensure I'll never see a cybercruck

Presto
Nov 22, 2002

Keep calm and Harry on.

red19fire posted:

I saw a cyber truck in the wild. God drat what an ugly behemoth.

The thing I noticed after seeing a few in LA is that it just doesn't fit in anywhere. It doesn't matter what environment it's in, it sticks out like a sore thumb and clashes with everything around it.

Sentient Data
Aug 31, 2011

My molecule scrambler ray will disintegrate your armor with one blow!

redshirt posted:

How many Cybertrucks are actually out there on the roads? 10K? 20K? It's low odds to see one.

It's low odds for the general population in bumfuck nowhere, but they're going to be in high-wealth/high-population-density areas, and on top of that the general forums demo is very likely to live in the same areas as techbros

Kit Walker
Jul 10, 2010
"The Man Who Cannot Deadlift"

I live in NYC and spend like 40 hours a week in the heart of traffic and I still haven’t seen one. I see lots of other stupidly expensive luxury cars but no cybertrucks

#blessed

davecrazy
Nov 25, 2004

I'm an insufferable shitposter who does not deserve to root for such a good team. Also, this is what Matt Harvey thinks of me and my garbage posting.
I saw a cybertruck in person for the first time yesterday. It’s just as stupid up close as it is in photos.

redshirt
Aug 11, 2007

Kit Walker posted:

I live in NYC and spend like 40 hours a week in the heart of traffic and I still haven’t seen one. I see lots of other stupidly expensive luxury cars but no cybertrucks

#blessed

Condolences on the traffic

ben shapino
Nov 22, 2020

davecrazy posted:

I saw a cybertruck in person for the first time yesterday. It’s just as stupid up close as it is in photos.

wrong. it's way stupider

redshirt
Aug 11, 2007

THIS IS THE END, MY ONLY FRIEND, THE END

Kit Walker
Jul 10, 2010
"The Man Who Cannot Deadlift"

redshirt posted:

Condolences on the traffic

My job would be a lot easier without all the cars around but hey it’s a living!

Jelly
Feb 11, 2004

Ask me about my STD collection!
I have yet to see a Cybertruck in the wild and the only one I've been exposed to in my network of friends is a guy I went to engineering school with who ended up landing a job with NASA got one. My only takeaway from this is I thought he was smarter as he's never posted tech bro stuff. He likes his gadgets though, I remember he also posted videos jetting around with those arm hover pack things on a lake a while ago. NASA treating him well, evidently.

Random Stranger
Nov 27, 2009



redshirt posted:

How many Cybertrucks are actually out there on the roads? 10K? 20K? It's low odds to see one.

I figured the number was still in the hundreds, which made spotting one in the middle of bumfuck nowhere really odd.

pixaal
Jan 8, 2004

All ice cream is now for all beings, no matter how many legs.


davecrazy posted:

I saw a cybertruck in person for the first time yesterday. It’s just as stupid up close as it is in photos.

How was it cutting the veggies for dinner?

PhazonLink
Jul 17, 2010

Kit Walker posted:

I live in NYC and spend like 40 hours a week in the heart of traffic and I still haven’t seen one. I see lots of other stupidly expensive luxury cars but no cybertrucks

#blessed

youre never going to see one in NYC because musk is a pussy and thinks Fox News propaganda about big cities is real. here's a le epic me me image macro of escape from NY being real. also maybe the tesla truck is too loving big for the roads?


ignore that Fox is HQed in NYC ands its talking heads live, work, and play in the NY tristate area.

Slo-Tek
Jun 8, 2001

WINDOWS 98 BEAT HIS FRIEND WITH A SHOVEL

In unrelated news, we are moving our corporate headquarters to Texas.

coconono
Aug 11, 2004

KISS ME KRIS

Truck shaped Elon’s vision of the master race is also truck shaped.

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Zero VGS
Aug 16, 2002
ASK ME ABOUT HOW HUMAN LIVES THAT MADE VIDEO GAME CONTROLLERS ARE WORTH MORE
Lipstick Apathy

Non-profit pays Elon $8 a month to have Elon insult them.

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