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La Brea Carpet posted:The best was the Amazon reviews for this product. I had to check out Amazon after this post, there's another 55 gallon drum from a more "off brand" lube. The packaging is great, just a black drum like you would expect oil to be sold in. Anyhow, my favorite comment from that product is that someone, obviously facetiously, asked if they sell it in larger sizes, and the seller respond super earnestly "Thank you so much for your interest in our product! Unfortunately, 55 gallons is the largest size that we offer."
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Feb 1, 2018 20:36
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"Available in 2, 4, 8, 16 and 34 Ounce. Also available in 55 Gallon Drum." That's one hell of a jump in size.
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Feb 1, 2018 20:39
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They've got the Proctor and Gamble logo on there, so at least half the other logos are just repeating themselves. Also, bic? Do they draw on pigs or something? 
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Feb 1, 2018 20:44
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There used to be an ad on these forums for that Amazon listing that just said "55 GALLONS OF LUBE".
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Feb 1, 2018 20:45
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Chitin posted:It's cool to like things, but "fans" are the loving worst. Anti-fans are worse. RP1 was obnoxious at best but who the gently caress cares what other people like. If someone wants to listen to Nickelback while watching Jersey Shore when they are taking a break from reading Twilight who cares
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Feb 1, 2018 21:37
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Brewmaster posted:"Available in 2, 4, 8, 16 and 34 Ounce. Also available in 55 Gallon Drum." But think of the savings!
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Feb 1, 2018 21:49
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Jose Valasquez posted:Anti-fans are worse. RP1 was obnoxious at best but who the gently caress cares what other people like. If someone wants to listen to Nickelback while watching Jersey Shore when they are taking a break from reading Twilight who cares You know that kind of nerd who has no personality or sense of humor so they speak entirely in pop culture references to compensate. RP1 is that in concentrated form. I was lucky enough to have never heard of it until I saw a trailer for it in theaters. It's one thing to hate Nickelback, no one is forcing me to sit through a Nickelback song to get to a song I want to hear, but I can't go see a movie until they stop showing that trailer before everything.
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Feb 1, 2018 22:03
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My RP1 story is that I randomly bought his next book (Armada) without knowing much about the author. Barely got through the first half due to the constant HEY GAME OR NERD THING, but the second half was decent enough, if not kinda clichéd and not at all groundbreaking. Did like the concept of a bunch of alien races going around poking lesser-developed races, giving them technology to uplift them, but all too willing to genocide the upstarts if they use the technology to say "stop poking us", though. I imagine a while novel of what the first half of Armada was to be murder. 
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Feb 1, 2018 22:03
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Jose Valasquez posted:Anti-fans are worse. RP1 was obnoxious at best but who the gently caress cares what other people like. If someone wants to listen to Nickelback while watching Jersey Shore when they are taking a break from reading Twilight who cares A 2005 reg date is wondering why people would mock others on SA forums.com
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Feb 1, 2018 22:10
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MisterBibs posted:My RP1 story is that I randomly bought his next book (Armada) without knowing much about the author. Barely got through the first half due to the constant HEY GAME OR NERD THING, but the second half was decent enough, if not kinda clichéd and not at all groundbreaking. Did like the concept of a bunch of alien races going around poking lesser-developed races, giving them technology to uplift them, but all too willing to genocide the upstarts if they use the technology to say "stop poking us", though. Wait is that the plot to Armada? Because that sounds like it was lifted wholesale from Singularity Sky.
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Feb 1, 2018 22:18
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Trig Discipline posted:Wait is that the plot to Armada? Because that sounds like it was lifted wholesale from Singularity Sky. From memory, yes, but I've never read SS. Aliens go around to systems with life and basically set it up do that the local lifeforms believe the alien race is there to kill them. The initial invaders just happen to drop tech that the defenders can reverse engineer to better defend themselves and/or go on the offensive. You're given three "invasions" to realize shenanigans are happening and you're being hosed with; otherwise the alien race assumes you're too violent to be in the galaxy and your planet is blown up. The main character calls this bullshit, but the aliens go "man, gently caress you, this works. After all, you realized it, so Earth doesn't blow up." MisterBibs has a new favorite as of 22:27 on Feb 1, 2018 |
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Feb 1, 2018 22:23
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It's that plus The Last Starfighter with computer games instead of arcade cabinets.
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Feb 1, 2018 22:25
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Trig Discipline posted:Wait is that the plot to Armada? Because that sounds like it was lifted wholesale from Singularity Sky. The first half is a direct lift from The Last Starfighter too
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Feb 1, 2018 22:25
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Waterslide Industry Lobbyist posted:The first half is a direct lift from The Last Starfighter too I think the main character even says it feels like it, directly. I dunno, like I said the first half is painful, but the second half was entertaining enough. But if RP1 is anything like the first half of Armada, gently caress that noise.
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Feb 1, 2018 22:30
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MisterBibs posted:From memory, yes, but I've never read SS. Aliens go around to systems with life and basically set it up do that the local lifeforms believe the alien race is there to kill them. The initial invaders just happen to drop tech that the defenders can reverse engineer to better defend themselves and/or go on the offensive. You're given three "invasions" to realize shenanigans are happening and you're being hosed with; otherwise the alien race assumes you're too violent to be in the galaxy and your planet is blown up. The main character calls this bullshit, but the aliens go "man, gently caress you, this works. After all, you realized it, so Earth doesn't blow up." Ah, Singularity Sky was more like a galactic 4chan dropping universal fabbers on primitive planets and watching the society completely implode for entertainment.
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Feb 1, 2018 22:50
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I love how its so edgy and cool to now hate RP1. Can I be cool with you cool droogs?
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DandyLion posted:I love how its so edgy and cool to now hate RP1. Can I be cool with you cool droogs? Obviously not.
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Feb 1, 2018 23:08
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DandyLion posted:I love how its so edgy and cool to now hate RP1. Can I be cool with you cool droogs? I didn't even know about Ready Player One until the movie trailers started. The trailer actually looks cool and good (looks like Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within + Wreck-It Ralph + the image attached below), but everything I've heard about the book says it's a nostalgia wankfest. 
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Feb 1, 2018 23:08
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Ernest Cline is a good author and not a creepy weirdo who exemplifies everything wrong with 'nerd culture' 
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Feb 1, 2018 23:22
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SurreptitiousMuffin posted:Ernest Cline is a good author and not a creepy weirdo who exemplifies everything wrong with 'nerd culture' lol learn to use search engines better, n00b also "nice guy" "friendzone" "beta" "cock carousel" "transaction" etc
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Feb 1, 2018 23:26
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Oh you think that poem sucks? I guess you're just too cool for a popular author, you ... hipster. 
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Feb 1, 2018 23:31
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SurreptitiousMuffin posted:Oh you think that poem sucks? gently caress. That's a poem? I thought it was a manifesto.
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Feb 1, 2018 23:33
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Didn't you see the linebreaks? That's how you know it's
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Feb 1, 2018 23:34
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Feb 1, 2018 23:34
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Thank you, that was beautiful.
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Feb 1, 2018 23:49
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SurreptitiousMuffin posted:Oh you think that poem sucks? I dodn't realize that it was a modern poem because the stanzas didn't start off with the word "sheeeeit"
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Feb 1, 2018 23:52
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There's something special about condemning porn as misogynist because it doesn't sexualize the women you, a man, find attractive.
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Feb 1, 2018 23:58
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They should have sent a poet.
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Feb 2, 2018 00:08
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The trouble with poet is how do you know it's deceased?
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Feb 2, 2018 00:20
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    http://botnik.org/content/tng.html
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Feb 2, 2018 00:23
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Data Graham posted:The trouble with poet is how do you know it's deceased?
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Feb 2, 2018 00:24
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I no longer wonder what Trek directed by David Lynch would have been like.
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I'm a little upset we never saw Riker convince a planet to explode, hth
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DandyLion posted:I love how its so edgy and cool to now hate RP1. Can I be cool with you cool droogs? I pretty much just found out about it the other day and I'm pretty sure the reason it wasn't more hated already is because people just hadn't heard of it. Are you really going to go to bat for the film adaptation of TV tropes: the book?
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