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USSMICHELLEBACHMAN posted:i used it for a while and i cant remember why exactly but it had a bunch of annoying problems it's based off linux. hth
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Nov 27, 2013 02:47
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Cocoa Crispies posted:ugh i hate being in the same room as tv commercials i don't watch any broadcast tv, it's all streamed or whatever, and i have totally lost my advertising immune system if i'm in a restaurant and there's a tv, i literally have to sit facing away because otherwise when the commercials come on i will completely zombify and the people i'm with get annoyed the logitech k400 (that wireless keyboard with the trackpad shaggar linked) is actually quite serviceable for spergy htpc use, it's cheap and it feels cheap and you won't feel too bad if you spill a drink on it while watching something
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Nov 27, 2013 02:49
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i used to run it as its own distro, but now just run it as an on top of windows since it's a combined htpc/steambox. i can't stress enough how extraordinarily well it suits my needs. edit: i have that same keyboard and it's useful on the rare occasions i need it, but i mostly just use a harmony remote.
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Nov 27, 2013 02:49
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xbmc is the software equivalent of starting to tell a funny joke but loving up half way through and everyone just half heartedly chuckles out of pity
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Nov 27, 2013 02:59
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Nov 27, 2013 03:00
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i am genuinely not sure what kind of issues you guys have with it, has always been great for me out of the box. but that's ok, there's software for everyone. what a great world we live in. how true that is.
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Nov 27, 2013 03:02
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Shaggar posted:u cant skip ads on live tv yes you can. because the only live tv worth watching is sprots, the commercial breaks are time to A) piss B) get cold beer C) check work mail/charts real quick D) oh cool they are showing that replay haha look at him drop that
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Nov 27, 2013 03:29
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I meant w/ the dvr button!
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Nov 27, 2013 03:31
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Heresiarch posted:i don't watch any broadcast tv, it's all streamed or whatever, and i have totally lost my advertising immune system i have the opposite thing with ads and hearing them now makes me want to spew bile (but i hold it in because i'm a type C person) and on that note  been catching up on reading a lot of iain m. banks in dead tree format. still loving the later culture novels but i think Use of Weapons might have been the peak. Look to Windward was close thoughalso starting in on vernor vinge's stuff. A Fire Upon the Deep has a baller premise and the early 90s usenet as deespace comms is lol in a good way
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Nov 27, 2013 04:02
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Heresiarch posted:i don't watch any broadcast tv, it's all streamed or whatever, and i have totally lost my advertising immune system i'm the same way, except the ads also make me really mad.
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Nov 27, 2013 04:13
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when I see ads that are particularly horrible (mostly car ads and mostly Toyota ads) I get absurdly angry and start yelling at the tv and if the people behind the ad were put in front of me I would probably do them harm.
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Nov 27, 2013 04:18
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man, almost human is great. i really hope fox doesn't go all fox on it.
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Nov 27, 2013 04:22
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you people need to consider medication
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Nov 27, 2013 04:23
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fuckin lmbo if you dont arrange your daily experience so you basically never see advertising. thanks to adblock and not watching tv i really only see ads when i go to movies with my broskis or otherwise step out into the world (a rare occurrence). it boggles my mind that people actually spend portions of their finite mortal lives sitting and watching commercials on television. still probably wouldn't assault anyone over it though (sorry shaggar). still can't wait for my black mirror "say mcdonalds to skip" invasive targeted corporate marketing
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Nov 27, 2013 04:26
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like I can watch the same awful local commercial a thousand times and not care, but when those shitheads at toyota show WHITE AMERICAN FAMILY WITH 2.5 CHILDREN at the Toyota dealership and the mom is explaining to the salesmen how Toyota is the best and most rock solid and the dad just cant wait to give toyota all the money for thier lovely rear end minivan, I want to literally kill everyone involved. Its an insane trigger in my brain.
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Nov 27, 2013 04:27
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ive been listening to hot97 a lot lately and there are some incredible ads like a car dealership that will give you a grand on an amex gift card saying "go into the black this black friday" IF YOU CANT AFFORD CHRISTMAS PRESENT PLEASE DO NOT BUY A BRAND NEW loving TOYOTA
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Nov 27, 2013 04:32
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shaggar are you sure you aren't a sleeper agent who's been deep-brain implanted by Nissan's experimental marketing division to violently unleash against the Toyota creative team when triggered by certain buzzwords to give your masters a leg up in the hypercompetitive world of affordable consumer vehicles
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Nov 27, 2013 04:34
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no cause nissans ads are really bad too, its just nothing is worse than toyota
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Nov 27, 2013 04:35
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the condo ads around here are nothing but white 20somethings living it up. it's weird considering we're one of the most multicultural cities on earth. and absolutely insufferable. are you rich, white, young, and attractive? buy a loving condo already!
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Nov 27, 2013 04:35
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i visited sao paulo a couple years ago and they have a blanket ban on outdoor advertising. no billboards, very strict limits on store signage, no billboards, etc. google it, there's a lot of before/after photos while i was there, it too me a while to figure out what was bugging me, it was like discovering that an appliance makes a very subtle hum, but you only noticed because you unplugged it and it stopped now i am especially annoyed by them
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Nov 27, 2013 04:36
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i started listening to the wind up girl audio book and why the hell is every chapter with the wind up girl 'she almost gets raped, saved by white foreigner' jesus even i'm uncomfortable with that
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Nov 27, 2013 06:00
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c person of interest s i could watch fusco's beatdown of simmons a thousand times; it's cathartic on the level of joffrey getting slapped
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Nov 27, 2013 06:15
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USSMICHELLEBACHMAN posted:yeah but how many times has your laptop lost its connection to your lap and then broken completely none because im so fat i have gravitational pull game set match
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Nov 27, 2013 06:21
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syscall girl posted:also starting in on vernor vinge's stuff. A Fire Upon the Deep has a baller premise and the early 90s usenet as deespace comms is lol in a good way yeah for some reason the usenet stuff really works in the setting im nearly done the third book now and i realize that i really like stuff involving primitive or just plain non-space-age aliens and that kind of thing and now i want more. doesnt even have to be sci fi, hell watership down even scratched that itch when i finally got around to reading it a few years back. is the culture series in the same vein? its next on my list.
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Nov 27, 2013 08:08
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yes a lot of the culture novels have interactions with aliens at all different stages of societal/technological development "matter" and "inversions" in particular you'd probably like.
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Nov 27, 2013 08:26
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google ron paul
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Nov 27, 2013 08:47
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atomicthumbs posted:http://qntm.org/ra
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read fine structure yesterday and today, read it, it's good thanks qntm
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neither of those are very good, actually by free internet fiction standards they're masterpieces but they read like they were written by a person who has never read anything but genre fiction
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Nov 27, 2013 19:18
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Dead Inside Darwin posted:none because im so fat i have gravitational pull idea: a laptop with a hole in the center for your penis, so you can jerk off without having to awkwardly position your laptop above or below your lap while you jerk it
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Nov 27, 2013 19:18
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Cocoa Crispies posted:read fine structure yesterday and today, read it, it's good no problem
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Nov 27, 2013 19:41
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Gus Hobbleton posted:yeah for some reason the usenet stuff really works in the setting read everything you can get your hands on by Ursula K. LeGuin. start with the Earthsea books if you want fantasy or Left Hand of Darkness if you want sci-fi.
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Heresiarch posted:written by a person who has never read anything but genre fiction well, yes
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i realize this says something awful about me as a reader but i have a hard time getting interested in literature outside of non-fiction or genre crap, at least when it comes to modern novels. they all just seem kinda bland, like who wants to read about this random upper-middle class author-standin's boring-rear end life maybe it has something to do with my high school english class curiculum. gatsby is overrated as hell and 'the house of the spirits' is loving poop from a butt
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qntm posted:well, yes assuming you are the same qntm, this is something you ought to remedy
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Can-O-Raid posted:i realize this says something awful about me as a reader but i have a hard time getting interested in literature outside of non-fiction or genre crap, at least when it comes to modern novels. they all just seem kinda bland, like who wants to read about this random upper-middle class author-standin's boring-rear end life try reading some stuff not written by random upper-middle class people (which i agree is boring). gabriel garcia marquez or some manga maybe
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Heresiarch posted:assuming you are the same qntm, this is something you ought to remedy definitely, i kind of come from a universe which starts at douglas adams and ends at terry pratchett if you want to throw some titles out i will get to some self-improvement
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Nov 27, 2013 21:50
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qntm posted:definitely, i kind of come from a universe which starts at douglas adams and ends at terry pratchett it must get tiring blowing up all those asteroids and tiny ufos in your delta spaceship
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axolotl farmer posted:read everything you can get your hands on by Ursula K. LeGuin. start with the Earthsea books if you want fantasy or Left Hand of Darkness if you want sci-fi. sounds like it might be neat. ill add them to my list. i saw a movie called earthsea a few years back and it was loving terrible but movie adaptations usually are so i wont hold it against the book if/when i get to it.
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