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Powered Descent posted:Serious question, if we have a milgoon in the house. Why do they always throw the grenade with that stiff-armed out-to-the-side maneuver? It looks awkward as hell, not to mention accident-prone. Why not just toss it like a baseball?
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`Nemesis posted:Cammer cuts a big line of traffic exiting the freeway - don't be scared that it's liveleak  the song makes it, "i get what i deserve"
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`Nemesis posted:Cammer cuts a big line of traffic exiting the freeway - don't be scared that it's liveleak Massholes 
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Guy was using a tried and true maneuver to avoid the long exit line and should have relied on one person being a nice guy to get in before the double white. He got greedy, and that's why he deserved to be pulled over.
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The schaden is that anti-fascist is being used as some sort of pejorative instead of being lauded.
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`Nemesis posted:Cammer cuts a big line of traffic exiting the freeway - don't be scared that it's liveleak The only thing he did wrong was to cut in after the solid line began. I've gone through that section of Hartford a bunch, and there's literally no better way to go to get to Eastern Mass, and the lines are always a nightmare. I've cut in a ton of times over the dashed lines to make that exit and it saves me a massive headache.
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`Nemesis posted:Cammer cuts a big line of traffic exiting the freeway - don't be scared that it's liveleak He should have just taken the nice big gap the mini cooper left him, he deserves that for crossing hashed marks and solid lines right behind a cop Besides he was moving markedly slower than the posted limit in a live lane while eyeing up his opening, if anyone had creamed him from behind he would have had a tough time explaining 'I was trying to cut in front of everyone...' Like this, take that space! It's your right as a professional driver https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qq-c8lRCyh4 Blue On Blue has a new favorite as of 21:26 on Mar 5, 2017 |
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oldpainless posted:It's a 50/50 percent chance. Either it falls on the truck or it doesn't So they cut down one tree and it doesn't fall on your truck. Then the lumberjack gives you a choice of moving your car before they cut down the next tree or keeping it where it is. Should you move your car?
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Eponine posted:If it were a nicer truck, Hey man that is an old Jeep truck and those are awesome.
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Random Stranger posted:So they cut down one tree and it doesn't fall on your truck. Then the lumberjack gives you a choice of moving your car before they cut down the next tree or keeping it where it is. Should you move your car? You gotta let it ride
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Random Stranger posted:So they cut down one tree and it doesn't fall on your truck. Then the lumberjack gives you a choice of moving your car before they cut down the next tree or keeping it where it is. Should you move your car? We all choose to leave our cars where they are while a lumberjack cuts down trees several thousands of times every day and only a small number of us have trees fall on our cars. I think that guy with the truck was just playing the odds.
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You know, I've got to admit that was a clever maneuver he tried, cutting over right before those traffic poles (or whatever they're called). It would have worked to lose me, I probably wouldn't have been willing to ram through them to keep up the pursuit.
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I put the wrong manual back into the 2DS box I returned the other day, as evidenced by my desk possessing a 3DS and a 2DS manual. I dunno if it's schadenfreude, though, because the only misfortune here is my own guilt over it, because I doubt someone buying a 2DS is going to be horribly pissed that they got a game manual for a 3DS.
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MisterBibs posted:I put the wrong manual back into the 2DS box I returned the other day, as evidenced by my desk possessing a 3DS and a 2DS manual. Why do you keep doing this to yourself?
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:The footage will probably pop up at some point, it seems that every second person at the protest was filming it on their phone. There's already a few 1 hr + youtube videos. I saw this episode of star trek. it was Geordi
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Prokhor Zakharov posted:Why do you keep doing this to yourself? At this point I'm pretty sure he gets off on negative attention.
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Jesus Christ that's utterly brutal. This man's nuts are dead.
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https://www.nintendo.co.uk/Support/Nintendo-Switch/Troubleshooting/There-are-black-or-bright-dots-on-the-Nintendo-Switch-screen-that-do-not-go-away-or-there-are-dark-or-light-patches-on-the-screen-/There-are-black-or-bright-dots-on-the-Nintendo-Switch-screen-that-do-not-go-away-or-there-are-dark-or-light-patches-on-the-screen--1201195.html] I thought of shortening the URL but in hindsight a long URL is a feature, not a bug.
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quote:Small numbers of stuck or dead pixels are a characteristic of LCD screens. These are normal and should not be considered a defect. Are you loving making GBS threads me It is 2017. If I had dead pixels on my iPhone I would assume Apple had started making lcds in North Korea and also fired all its QC people due to some executive order
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Railing Kill posted:The Trump administration is systematically alienating everyone in the country. I would say that this would be good for Dems in the 2018 and 2020 elections, except that: C he will be re elected just like every president before him except for bush sr because he isn't stupid enough to raise taxes. Apparently being the ire of grover norquist is the only thing that will make you not get a second term. Even nixon had a second term. And trump is just nixon 2.0 minus kissinger. nintendo posted:Small numbers of stuck or dead pixels are a characteristic of LCD screens. These are normal and should not be considered a defect.  Aerdan posted:Worth mentioning that Nintendo will replace affected units on request despite this. snergle has a new favorite as of 07:03 on Mar 6, 2017 |
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Sponge Baathist posted:https://www.nintendo.co.uk/Support/Nintendo-Switch/Troubleshooting/There-are-black-or-bright-dots-on-the-Nintendo-Switch-screen-that-do-not-go-away-or-there-are-dark-or-light-patches-on-the-screen-/There-are-black-or-bright-dots-on-the-Nintendo-Switch-screen-that-do-not-go-away-or-there-are-dark-or-light-patches-on-the-screen--1201195.html] Worth mentioning that Nintendo will replace affected units on request despite this.
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Aerdan posted:Worth mentioning that Nintendo will replace affected units on request despite this. You say that like it's generous.
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Every monitor I've bought for the last 15 years has had a zero dead pixel guarantee. It's not "good" that Nintendo are replacing them, it's literally the least they should be expected to do.
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"Electronics get very hot, it should be expected that the Nintendo Switch will occasionally catch fire or explode." - Nintendo
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Gorilla Salad posted:Every monitor I've bought for the last 15 years has had a zero dead pixel guarantee. Literally the only device I've had with dead pixels as far as I can remember has been one of the older DS models. Either DS Classic, DSi or DSlite. I returned the first one, second one had dead pixels too so I just accepted fate and dealt with it.
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Prokhor Zakharov posted:"Electronics get very hot, it should be expected that the Nintendo Switch will occasionally catch fire or explode." 
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Prokhor Zakharov posted:"Electronics get very hot, it should be expected that the Nintendo Switch will occasionally catch fire or explode." Samsung managed to dump the rest of their batteries on Nintendo 
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Sponge Baathist posted:https://www.nintendo.co.uk/Support/Nintendo-Switch/Troubleshooting/There-are-black-or-bright-dots-on-the-Nintendo-Switch-screen-that-do-not-go-away-or-there-are-dark-or-light-patches-on-the-screen-/There-are-black-or-bright-dots-on-the-Nintendo-Switch-screen-that-do-not-go-away-or-there-are-dark-or-light-patches-on-the-screen--1201195.html] Haha gently caress that. gently caress Nintendo for that throwaway response. Every single other company will just replace a first run manufactured device with dead pixels no questions asked.
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TopHatGenius posted:Haha gently caress that. gently caress Nintendo for that throwaway response. Every single other company will just replace a first run manufactured device with dead pixels no questions asked. That isn't really true. Even Apple has an unspecified acceptable number of 'pixel anomalies' https://support.apple.com/en-nz/HT202025
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Gorilla Salad posted:Every monitor I've bought for the last 15 years has had a zero dead pixel guarantee. The last thing I bought that had didn't have a zero dead pixel guarantee was a 15" phillips LCD monitor from mid last decade. Dead pixel on day two. I would like to acknowledge that Nintendo's quality control is as archaic as their physical shopfront business model.
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Note that "zero dead pixels" ≠ "zero stuck pixels". About the only company I've seen with a "zero anomalies period" policy is Dell, and they're basically the Tesla of monitors. Even high-end Asus screens don't have that guarantee. That said, I went through Amazon for my monitor and exchanged it twice to try and get the best possible screen. Only one of the pixels out of all three 1440p screens was stuck, and the other two only had some dust stuck inside (which I found out works itself out over time). Not accepting exchanges for actual dead pixels on a 720p screen would be a pretty stupid move, considering how rare they should be.
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Powered Descent posted:Serious question, if we have a milgoon in the house. Why do they always throw the grenade with that stiff-armed out-to-the-side maneuver? It looks awkward as hell, not to mention accident-prone. Why not just toss it like a baseball? Go throw a 5lb baseball like a baseball and tell me how that works out. I'll wait. Edit: wiki says it weighs 14oz and a baseball weighs 5oz. My point still stands, though. Steel balls filled with explosives are significantly heavier than a twine ball bound in leather. As a result, a significantly different delivery method is required to get the 'ball' over 'home plate '. Two Feet From Bread has a new favorite as of 13:47 on Mar 6, 2017 |
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It's funny, things like this make me appreciate living in NZ. We have something called the Consumer Guarantees Act, which is basically says if anything you ever buy for home use fails to live up to reasonable expectations, you can walk back into actual store you bought it from (not the manufacturer, the STORE) and ask the to replace, repair, or refund it. "Reasonable expectations" lands heavily in the consumer's favor, including things like dead/stuck pixels, and the hilarious iPhone (4?) defective antenna. In the later case, Apple was forced to give out the fix for free that they where gleefully charging the rest of the world for. Such good shadenfreude, mmmmm
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My monitor has exactly one dead pixel, but it's way down in the lower right corner and I never even notice it unless I have to look at the system clock for whatever reason. That's my contribution to the dead pixel talk 
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snergle posted:C he will be re elected just like every president before him except for bush sr because he isn't stupid enough to raise taxes. Apparently being the ire of grover norquist is the only thing that will make you not get a second term. Carter. Ford. Hoover. I'll stop there because there's more further back that are less relevant. I won't even count the one-term guys that chose not to run again. But American presidents fail to get reelected for plenty of reasons, like being unpopular (Carter) or being tremendous fuckups (Hoover). Trump is historically unpopular and a huge fuckup, and this is assuming he doesn't just resign mid-term or not run for a second term. I would not be surprised if he puled a Sarah Palin and quit mid-term.
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Railing Kill posted:Carter. Ford. Hoover. I'll stop there because there's more further back that are less relevant. I won't even count the one-term guys that chose not to run again. But American presidents fail to get reelected for plenty of reasons, like being unpopular (Carter) or being tremendous fuckups (Hoover). Trump is historically unpopular and a huge fuckup, and this is assuming he doesn't just resign mid-term or not run for a second term. I would not be surprised if he puled a Sarah Palin and quit mid-term. People forget that Ford won exactly 0 presidential elections. He never even ran as VP, he was appointed to Spiro Agnew's spot when he got run out.
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snergle posted:C he will be re elected just like every president before him except for bush sr because he isn't stupid enough to raise taxes. Apparently being the ire of grover norquist is the only thing that will make you not get a second term. Trump is currently doing his best to make Nixon look like a genius politician. Among other things, Nixon had much more positive ratings than Trump at this time period and helped contribute to settling some of the tensions during the Cold War. He wasn't awesome and made some lovely decisions, but at least he had some kind of experience at governing. He didn't gain his modern reputation until the Watergate scandal broke after he got elected for a second term. Trump, on the other hand, has too many scandals and gaffes to name that begin before he even took the oath of office.
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Serephina posted:It's funny, things like this make me appreciate living in NZ. We have something called the Consumer Guarantees Act, which is basically says if anything you ever buy for home use fails to live up to reasonable expectations, you can walk back into actual store you bought it from (not the manufacturer, the STORE) and ask the to replace, repair, or refund it. "Reasonable expectations" lands heavily in the consumer's favor, including things like dead/stuck pixels, and the hilarious iPhone (4?) defective antenna. In the later case, Apple was forced to give out the fix for free that they where gleefully charging the rest of the world for. Uh the bumper cases were free for everyone.
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