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Mak0rz posted:Funny you should mention that... Dammit is nothing I knew true anymore
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:I'm in the radio industry, and goddrat did I hate that trend. Everyone was trying to outdo everyone else, so you had people chasing radio vans down freeways at dangerous speeds, winning fake prizes (here's your new Toy Yoda!), and as late as '07, someone loving died in a contest to win a Nintendo Wii. Hosts from an Australian radio show rang the King Edward VII's Hospital Sister Agnes in 2012 and pretended to be the Queen and Prince of Wales and tricked two of the nurses into talking about Duchess of Cambridge who was being treated there at the time. The station's lawyers okayed the segment and it was broadcast three days later. The hoax became a huge scandal and one of the nurses they'd pranked committed suicide. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Jacintha_Saldanha
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Sep 27, 2016 16:32
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Hosts from an Australian radio show rang the King Edward VII's Hospital Sister Agnes in 2012 and pretended to be the Queen and Prince of Wales and tricked two of the nurses into talking about Duchess of Cambridge who was being treated there at the time. The station's lawyers okayed the segment and it was broadcast three days later. The hoax became a huge scandal and one of the nurses they'd pranked committed suicide. That nurse seems like a very troubled woman who needed help before she transferred a phone call and then killed herself over it.
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Takes No Damage posted:Weren't they also the ones who ran that scavenger hunt that had couples go gently caress inside a confessional booth? That sounds more like Opie and Anthony's "Sex for Sam", where a couple went for the 2-point conversion in Saint Patrick's Cathedral and got busted.
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Sep 27, 2016 23:18
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ehh too big as a gifv embed, what do you think? Slavs, chavs, other? https://i.imgur.com/8OOCLDY.gif Edit: found video with sound, chavs! https://www.queerty.com/two-hunky-brits-share-a-kiss-before-doing-the-dumbest-thing-you-will-ever-see-20150820 `Nemesis has a new favorite as of 00:42 on Sep 28, 2016 |
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:I may have already mentioned it but don't do a GIS for 'cat bite infection' if you've eaten recently. It'll bring up photos from articles like "US Man Who Survives Bubonic Plague From Cat Bite Will Have Fingers and Toes Amputated" Isn't that more of a reflection of the US healthcare system?
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Meskhenet posted:Isn't that more of a reflection of the US healthcare system? It was the man's own cat, which was choking on a prairie dog (the disease vector) When he tried to save the cat it bit him for his trouble putting the plague into him. They're actually working on a cure for the plague in prairie dogs as well.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2Yr77mOWxg
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What is the guy at 0:49 getting shot with?
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Sep 28, 2016 04:00
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Looks like a potato gun.
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`Nemesis posted:ehh too big as a gifv embed, what do you think? Slavs, chavs, other? We can't rule out them being hybrids.
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https://twitter.com/BBCWorld/status/780988385469030400
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Sep 28, 2016 05:33
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"Again" 
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AlphaKretin posted:"Again" "Australian"
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Sep 28, 2016 05:35
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He must be a legs man.
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Sep 28, 2016 05:38
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Radirot posted:
And caught on camera. Cops are going to rail him on it.
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gently caress these people: http://www.sfexaminer.com/villain-eviction-attorneys-bornstein-bornstein-break-sue/quote:Eviction specialists, brothers and gentrification “villains” Bornstein & Bornstein are breaking up. And boy, is it (legally) messy.
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Sep 28, 2016 06:15
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Human poo poo walking around in suits.
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Sep 28, 2016 06:39
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It's not often business psychopaths get their comeuppance, but it is so very nice to watch.
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You really think they'd have expected that. Both of them make their living off of exploiting loopholes and intimidation to get money out of people they don't deserve. Did they really think neither of them would try to do the same to their own business partner? No, probably not. They think too highly of themselves for that.
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Radirot posted:
I like to picture the long train of extended middle fingers driving past him as he sits there like "well, gently caress".
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chitoryu12 posted:You really think they'd have expected that. Both of them make their living off of exploiting loopholes and intimidation to get money out of people they don't deserve. Did they really think neither of them would try to do the same to their own business partner? Reminds me of a friend of mine who worked for a lawyer in SF that main money grab was going to local city councils that had set up a law limiting billboards (like the kind you see on the side of the road) and suing them for first amendment violations. Never going to court, always settling (sometimes for millions) because the council didn't want a bunch of advertisements all over the roads in town. After the third time my friend had to give a deposition on his boss sexually harassing the women in the office he finally saved enough to quit. tl:dr high profile lawyers are scum Burning_Monk has a new favorite as of 21:28 on Sep 28, 2016 |
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Getting irrationally upset they're using a picture of a black widow when they're one of the few deadly things that doesn't exist in Australia.
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Tofu Terry posted:Getting irrationally upset they're using a picture of a black widow when they're one of the few deadly things that doesn't exist in Australia. Australian redback spiders are in the widow genus Latrodectus. The photo in the article was taken in Sydney NSW by photographer Ian Waldie. http://www.gettyimages.com.au/license/56714764 Snowglobe of Doom has a new favorite as of 18:11 on Sep 28, 2016 |
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Sep 28, 2016 18:02
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Ooh, huh. How 'bout that. When I think Australian spiders I usually think huntsmen or similar.
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Sep 28, 2016 18:13
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There are over 2,400 known species of spider in Australia but they reckon there's thousands more yet to be discovered and classified. Pretty much every time the scientists go out bush for a week they find a dozen new species. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jul/27/thirteen-new-spider-species-discovered-australia-bush-blitz https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jun/05/seven-new-species-of-australian-spider-discovered-including-unique-tarantula
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Brent Spiner keeps 'sneaking' into the audience of other Star Trek: The Next Generation cast members Q&A sessions at conventions and trolling the gently caress out of them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvJ7xR4D1ZI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0GTcQeqc_Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxD-Y0_XXLU .... and then they do it back to him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKsYK8Tg9jI
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No Man's Sky is being investigated for false advertising.  http://www.pcgamer.com/no-mans-sky-is-being-investigated-by-the-advertising-standards-authority Not that it means anything in any real terms, but still, it's hilarious.
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There's an Australian Rules Football team called the Western Bulldogs who are playing the Grand Final this weekend. They joined the league in 1925 and since then they've only won the finals once, way back in 1954. Their fans are understandably incredibly hyped that their team has a shot at breaking their 62 year losing streak and if they end up losing then there's going to be cascades of schadenfreude raining down all over Australia.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:There's an Australian Rules Football team called the Western Bulldogs who are playing the Grand Final this weekend. They joined the league in 1925 and since then they've only won the finals once, way back in 1954. Their fans are understandably incredibly hyped that their team has a shot at breaking their 62 year losing streak and if they end up losing then there's going to be cascades of schadenfreude raining down all over Australia. So, "The Cubs" but with tackling.
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Wade Wilson posted:No Man's Sky is being investigated for false advertising. I'm somewhat familiar with this just from being on these forums, but was it really as much of a bait and switch as people are claiming? It seems like almost every game nowadays over promises and under delivers, and I've seen the "side by side" trailers and they both look like games where you just wander around space for a while and nothing really happens. Only egregious thing I remember seeing is the complete lack of multiplayer despite them saying it'd be in.
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fullroundaction posted:I'm somewhat familiar with this just from being on these forums, but was it really as much of a bait and switch as people are claiming? It seems like almost every game nowadays over promises and under delivers, and I've seen the "side by side" trailers and they both look like games where you just wander around space for a while and nothing really happens. I don't understand how anyone not looking at the game with cult-like blinders on couldn't tell exactly what it was going to be. When I saw the first moon-promising trailer I could only think "lol good luck getting all these features to work and be actually fun/interesting/meaningful rather than marketing check-boxes". We've all played games that boast unlimited procedural exploration or content, and it always means "explore 50 billion very slightly different versions of the same few boring templates". Never in any trailer did the game actually say what you did, what the point was. "woah exploration, limitless exploration! You can explore forever!!" yea but why? Is there a game in there or just a lazy procedural planet generator and some basic space travel and shooting? Anyone expecting anything other than samey procedural bullshit trying to mask a bare bones product with very little actual gameplay had to purposefully lie to them selves. If you can't read between the lines from a trailer or hype announcements you should probably wait a few weeks after games come out before buying.
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Baronjutter posted:I don't understand how anyone not looking at the game with cult-like blinders on couldn't tell exactly what it was going to be. When I saw the first moon-promising trailer I could only think "lol good luck getting all these features to work and be actually fun/interesting/meaningful rather than marketing check-boxes". We've all played games that boast unlimited procedural exploration or content, and it always means "explore 50 billion very slightly different versions of the same few boring templates". Never in any trailer did the game actually say what you did, what the point was. "woah exploration, limitless exploration! You can explore forever!!" yea but why? Is there a game in there or just a lazy procedural planet generator and some basic space travel and shooting? I think the multiplayer is the biggest strike against them, as no announcement was made that it was a single player game until people purchased the game and saw for themselves that one of the promised features simply didn't exist.
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Baronjutter posted:I don't understand how anyone not looking at the game with cult-like blinders on couldn't tell exactly what it was going to be. When I saw the first moon-promising trailer I could only think "lol good luck getting all these features to work and be actually fun/interesting/meaningful rather than marketing check-boxes". We've all played games that boast unlimited procedural exploration or content, and it always means "explore 50 billion very slightly different versions of the same few boring templates". Never in any trailer did the game actually say what you did, what the point was. "woah exploration, limitless exploration! You can explore forever!!" yea but why? Is there a game in there or just a lazy procedural planet generator and some basic space travel and shooting? Remember the Mass Effect 1 marketing? Over xx worlds to explore! In the end, it was driving the Mako across featureless expanses with identical objectives planet to planet.
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I think the biggest strike against them is going on multiple talk shows and demoing a game with tons of features that never made it to the game. And answering direct questions like "Will there be Mp? Will you see each other?" with a "Yes, definitely."
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I don't remember that. I remember them saying you could have multi-player but the chances of meeting someone was so small it wasn't likely to happen. Is that still a possibility or it strictly single player?
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It's completely impossible. Two players managed to reach the exact same spot and couldn't see each other.
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Beastie posted:I think the biggest strike against them is going on multiple talk shows and demoing a game with tons of features that never made it to the game. For some strange reason I doubt that anything will come of this
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