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Hijo Del Helmsley posted:Varg Vikernes on his own is enough to make it into this thread. He is a very disturbing individual. He now has a YouTube channel! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=user?ThuleanPerspective
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Redczar posted:If I didn't know better I'd think this is a Tim & Eric sketch with how over the top it is, the music, and how so many words are used to say nothing I recall a version with Miscavige himself presiding over a huge theater filled with people and they showcased this, it got a standing ovation. I showed this video to one of my coworkers and we both were  over it. They all have the crazy eyes, too.
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Mr. Flunchy posted:You could record it directly as it plays rather than ripping it. VLC probably does it. I tried this and VLC is such a pile of poo poo for doing anything except playing things directly that it completely failed to produce a working video file under any circumstances. Minarchist posted:The Golden Age of Tech II It's a similar format to this, but it's a different video.
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Redczar posted:If I didn't know better I'd think this is a Tim & Eric sketch with how over the top it is, the music, and how so many words are used to say nothing You pretty much just described Scientology as a whole, there 
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atomicthumbs posted:I tried this and VLC is such a pile of poo poo for doing anything except playing things directly that it completely failed to produce a working video file under any circumstances. Install Camtasia for their month trial and just record the entire screen or video player. Or some other screen recorder.
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I think YouTube and most copyright lawyers would encourage you to follow the accepted procedure which is to play it on your mid 90s TV and stand on the other side of the room pointing your zoomed-in cell phone at 1/2-1/3 of the screen while it plays. Also I don't get the reference to Joss Whedon or Community, do you mean that people don't appreciate that Joss Whedon existed as a person before Avengers (or Buffy) or that Community season 6 was preceded by 5 other seasons? Or what?
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Minarchist posted:The Golden Age of Tech II
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I have put more effort into ripping the DVD and have so far managed to produce two corrupted videos, which are absolutely horrifying. I may just hook a DVD player up to my video capture card.
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Mar 31, 2015 04:51
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Post the corrupted videos.
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Mar 31, 2015 05:04
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Let's just hope it's done before christmas.
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atomicthumbs posted:I have put more effort into ripping the DVD and have so far managed to produce two corrupted videos, which are absolutely horrifying. I may just hook a DVD player up to my video capture card.
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Sulla-Marius 88 posted:Also I don't get the reference to Joss Whedon But honestly I find them less annoying and vocal than the people that won't hesitate for a moment to tell everyone how much of a hack Joss Whedon is whenever his name comes up. He makes watchable shows/movies. No reason to feel strongly about him either way.
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The Master is a really insightful take on how cults like Scientology can exist and thrive, and the process by which people are developed into true believers that will fight ferociously to protect them. Joaquin Phoenix's character is an amalgam of every type of person who would be susceptible to this type of thing. He's a severely damaged(by war and earlier traumas) and pretty much doesn't function as a human being anymore. Even worse he's become invisible, he stumbles around drunkenly groping at the world in general and nobody even notices anymore, he's part of the background. When he stumbles onto the Master and his group all of that changes, all of the sudden here's a bunch of people who seem to care about him and root for him to succeed(at their bullshit "tests"). They feed him and put resources into him, they value him. Its pretty easy to see how all of that becomes addictive, and he doesn't want to give it up regardless of whether the actual Cause is legitimate or not. I'd guess pretty much every person who falls victim to a cult has at least one quality in common with Freddie Quell.
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Also, Joaquin Phoenix' family used to be members of the cult Children of God (now Family International), so he has some personal experience on the subject.
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They've recovered a video of the final moments of the german plane crash, taken by a passenger apparently. http://news.sky.com/story/1456421/video-captures-final-moments-of-alps-crash quote:Paris Match, which has not published the video, reported: "The scene was so chaotic that it was hard to identify people, but the sounds of the screaming passengers made it perfectly clear that they were aware of what was about to happen to them. Yeah, I don't think I'm gonna be watching that.
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Frostwerks posted:Post the corrupted videos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVgPClj7ZYI
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Someone turn the saturation down and run the audio through a ring modulator
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dude what about FRAPS
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I don't know, maybe those crazy Scientology folks are on to something. The ability to shape-shift into pixellated rainbows at will sure seems like a superpower to me.
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It's better this way. The corruption definitely adds to the whole evil empire trying to brainwash the world deal.
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Mr. Gibbycrumbles posted:They've recovered a video of the final moments of the german plane crash, taken by a passenger apparently. From that article: quote:Recovery teams scouring the crash site have said not a single body has been found intact. Jesus. Though I imagine that's not uncommon in plane crashes on land.
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Given the speeds involved and the mass of the plane it's probably not uncommon for those that crash on the water either.
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ConcreteDachshund posted:From that article: I am really appreciative of my boring office work. I really am.
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ConcreteDachshund posted:Jesus. Though I imagine that's not uncommon in plane crashes on land. I read a book by a woman who was a medical examiner in New York (Working Stiff by Judy Melinek) during 9/11. Her task immediately after the towers fell was to help identify the bodies (no cause of death needed, everyone knew what had happened). Out of all the things I read and seen about 9/11, that section of the book was the most evocative of how outside the realm of normal the whole thing was. The medical examiners and coroners and pretty much everyone who worked with dead bodies in New York gathered in big tents with huge refrigerated trucks outside. Every body part was examined and numbered and anything that could be used to identify them was logged--hair color, tattoos, any medical implants like pacemakers or artificial hips, pieces of office supplies that had been driven into their flesh. The part that made me have to put the book down was her description of a man's torso, missing the limbs and head and kind of battered but otherwise intact. They x-rayed it to see if he had a pacemaker or anything, but instead found a woman's hand, complete with wedding ring, that had somehow been lodged in his ribcage. That's how chaotic and powerful and awful it was, and nothing else drove it home for me like that.
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How legit are those newspapers? That would be a pretty easy story to invent.
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ElwoodCuse posted:How legit are those newspapers? That would be a pretty easy story to invent. I think the story may have originated from The Daily Mail so yeah, I would take it with a grain of salt.
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This reminds me of the Polish presidential plane crash in 2010; a local rag claimed they'd gotten access to the cockpit recordings before they were released to the public and that the pilots' last words were "Jesus, Jesus!". Then the authorities released the actual recordings and it turned out that the actual last words were "FUUUUUCK!!"
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HelloIAmYourHeart posted:I read a book by a woman who was a medical examiner in New York (Working Stiff by Judy Melinek) during 9/11. Her task immediately after the towers fell was to help identify the bodies (no cause of death needed, everyone knew what had happened). Out of all the things I read and seen about 9/11, that section of the book was the most evocative of how outside the realm of normal the whole thing was. I know. I was a NY National Guardsman, and 9/11 was my first activation. I was stationed to guard one of those tents for several nights. I remember everything being in black bags as it came past me, to be cataloged, etc. Just being near the place had a profound effect.
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ubergnu posted:I am really appreciative of my boring office work. I really am. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VcSwejU2D0
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I would love to know HR's reasons for bankrolling something that ridiculous. "It's actually cheaper for accounts payable to soak up as many bullets as possible so that the servers upstairs with customer data are less likely to get damaged."
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HelloIAmYourHeart posted:I read a book by a woman who was a medical examiner in New York (Working Stiff by Judy Melinek) during 9/11. Her task immediately after the towers fell was to help identify the bodies (no cause of death needed, everyone knew what had happened). Out of all the things I read and seen about 9/11, that section of the book was the most evocative of how outside the realm of normal the whole thing was. I read that book, too! Excellent, but hard to get through because holy gently caress.
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If it isn't you, someone is doing God's work. Bless you, my brother! Having seen Going Clear but read the book, which is excellent.
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Jack Gladney posted:I would love to know HR's reasons for bankrolling something that ridiculous. "It's actually cheaper for accounts payable to soak up as many bullets as possible so that the servers upstairs with customer data are less likely to get damaged." It's a lovely bit of fear-mongering. "Mostly office days are dull and normal but occasionally a psychotic gunman will come in and start shooting at people randomly. You have to be prepared." Like the average office worker is ever likely to be in one let alone multiple shootouts. nonathlon has a new favorite as of 22:47 on Apr 1, 2015 |
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I got to watch that at work, I only hope that if I'm ever in that situation that I'll be as awesome as the guy with the fire extinguisher. Content: I was reading an article today that mentioned the worst hitter in baseball history, Bill Bergen. There is nothing unnerving about Bill Bergen, however there was something that stood out at the bottom of the wiki. Wikipedia posted:His brother was Marty Bergen, a big-league catcher for the Boston Beaneaters, who suffered from severe mental illness. Marty Bergen brutally murdered his family and committed suicide in 1900. Marty Bergen was loving insane. Wikipedia posted:In mid-July 1899, Bergen silently walked off the team's train at the beginning of a road trip, leaving Boston with just a backup catcher during a heated pennant race. Wikipedia posted:In September, Bergen disappeared again for a few days, then showed up unannounced a few minutes before a game and put on his catching gear without speaking to anyone. Wikipedia posted:On October 9, Bergen had to be removed from a game when he dodged the pitches rather than catching them, because he was preoccupied with avoiding knife thrusts from an invisible assailant. Wikipedia posted:However, he refused to take any of the bromides prescribed by his doctor, explaining, "I thought someone in the National League had found out that you were my family physician and had arranged to give me some poison. I did not take it from my wife because I didn't wish hers to be the hand that poisoned me." All of this culminated with a murder-suicide. Wikipedia posted:Bergen killed his wife and two children with an axe, then used a straight razor to cut his own throat with such force that he nearly beheaded himself.
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None Dare Call It a Conspiracy: Who was behind the Moscow apartment bombings? GQ ran this story in print in 2009 but Conde Nast wouldn't publish it online (or in Russia).
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The 2008 Greyhound Murderquote:According to witnesses, McLean was sleeping with his headphones on when the man sitting next to him suddenly produced a large knife and began stabbing McLean in the neck and chest. The attacker then decapitated McLean and displayed his severed head to other passengers outside who had fled the bus in horror. quote:The suspect alternately paced the length of the bus and defiled the corpse. Police officers then observed Li eating parts of the body.[5] quote:Parts of the victim's body, placed in plastic bags, were retrieved from the bus, while his ear, nose and tongue were found in Li's pockets. The victim's eyes and a part of his heart were never recovered and are presumed to have been eaten by Li.[9] quote:On March 5, 2009, McLean's killer, 40-year-old Vince Weiguang Li ... was found to be not criminally responsible for murder and was remanded to a high-security mental health facility in Selkirk, Manitoba where he currently is detained.[2] I don't know how big this news was outside of Canada, but when it happened I was taking the Greyhound almost exclusively to and from school over holidays and such. It was interesting to see how much security tightened after this incident, with the company going so far as to frisk you and check your bag before you got on the bus.
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The Endbringer posted:The 2008 Greyhound Murder Oh drat, I remember hearing about this case from these very forums way back in the day. My understanding was that the perpetrator had been acting perfectly normal up to that point, even striking up conversations with other passengers when they were at a rest stop taking a smoke break. And then he just up and takes out a knife and starts stabbing an innocent kid. I was taking Greyhound buses to and from school around this time as well, but I don't remember there being any additional security added after this, so that probably didn't spread too far outside of Canada.
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Let's bring spooky back. Scientists are recording strange noises from way out there in the dark, and they discovered a mathematical pattern: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22630153.600-is-this-et-mystery-of-strange-radio-bursts-from-space.html?full=true#.VR3jFvnF-7k
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The Endbringer posted:The 2008 Greyhound Murder    "Yes hello Mr. Li, are you feeling particularly psychotic at this time? No? ... Now you aren't murdering anyone right this minute are you...? Ok good, fine, we'll take your word for it. Have a good day"
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