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Magic Hate Ball posted:Every time she posts I wind up looking at Zillow listings in my hometown and I found this today: It screams "upscale residential cult compound" to me, but maybe that's just the white paint.
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That hurts to look at, and I'm using f.lux
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Feb 7, 2018 08:21
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When I picture a virtual hell, I picture the interior of that house. If you kidnap me and I wake up in that house, I’m spilling all the beans.
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Feb 7, 2018 08:24
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Its like a house you'd find in video game, but the needs of a video game designer and a real life human are completely different. I feel I should be looking for all the little clues and objects that will let me open the front door and escape.
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Feb 7, 2018 11:42
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ZAPHOD: It’s the wild colour scheme that freaks me. I mean, when you try an’ operate one of these weird black controls which are labelled in black on a black background, a small black light lights up black to tell you you’ve done it. What is this? Some kind of intergalactic hyper-hearse? TRILLIAN: Well perhaps it is. ARTHUR: Isn’t there anyway you can control it? You’re making me feel space sick. FORD: Time sick. We’re plummeting backwards through time. ARTHUR: Oh god! Now I think I really am going to be ill. ZAPHOD: Go ahead, we could do with a little colour around the place.
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Feb 7, 2018 12:02
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C.M. Kruger posted:It screams "upscale residential cult compound" to me, but maybe that's just the white paint. Yeah, it's like it was built for those mutants in the Planet of the Apes movie.
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Feb 7, 2018 13:42
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I'd love to see someone live there for a year without painting just to see where all the dirt marks for regularly used walkways and walls that are touched end up. It would be like a real life heat map of activity
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Feb 7, 2018 14:11
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I think somebody forgot to load the textures.
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Feb 7, 2018 14:24
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couldcareless posted:I'd love to see someone live there for a year without painting just to see where all the dirt marks for regularly used walkways and walls that are touched end up. It would be like a real life heat map of activity No need to live there a year, just get my old flatmate in. The answer within 2 months was "below every lightswitch and on every convex corner".
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Feb 7, 2018 14:32
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Magic Hate Ball posted:Every time she posts I wind up looking at Zillow listings in my hometown and I found this today: It looks like the end of a Progressive commercial.
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Feb 7, 2018 16:07
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When Apple fandom goes too far.
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Feb 7, 2018 17:39
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I look at that cavernous living space and think, "I can build a comfortable house within this space."
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Feb 7, 2018 19:33
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Baronjutter posted:I get having carpets in your in-home stairs, but the big 100% concrete stairwells serving the whole building probably don't need carpet and can just be reasonably finished concrete? Those stairs need carpet for sound-dampening even more, if they're located in sections where the noise from normal foot traffic is going to carry into residential or business areas that don't expect to deal with it. My neighbours from the college apartment building I used to live in didn’t want or need to hear me getting in from work at 2 am, and I didn't need to hear them getting up for class at 7 am. Thanks to lovely carpets, neither of us had to hear that.
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Feb 7, 2018 23:27
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Sound dampening is like the #1 reason I wouldn't want to live with all hardwood floors, even though the latter has every other advantage. And I have a dog, too.
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Feb 8, 2018 00:52
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Blue Footed Booby posted:Please elaborate. Carpet is bad.
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Feb 8, 2018 10:34
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I have a mix of laminate, Lino, and vinyl with the only carpet being on the stairs. Big rugs are the solution, especially from a hygiene point of view. I bought my first house at auction, it had new carpets everywhere and for 10 years there was this Smell. It was a damp musty smell and I simply could not find the source. When it was time to sell last year I ripped up the carpet and discovered the underlay had the exact consistency of a sponge cake. When it was torn up I discovered old wet newspaper from 1996 under it. I’m never having a fully carpeted house again.
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Feb 8, 2018 11:24
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In Finland carpeting was this 70s thing that never caught on, viewed in the same vein as water beds. It's really weird to see how common it is still. One room in my parents house had it, it was their master bedroom. Got ripped out in the 90s for some kinda lino-esque I think. But anyway seeing carpet being so common elsewhere always gives me a weird mental shock, it's like seeing water beds, or 70s cars, or disco!
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Feb 8, 2018 11:48
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His Divine Shadow posted:In Finland carpeting was this 70s thing that never caught on, viewed in the same vein as water beds. It's really weird to see how common it is still. One room in my parents house had it, it was their master bedroom. Got ripped out in the 90s for some kinda lino-esque I think. Do you use large rugs, in Finland? Because otherwise, I'm a bit confused about how carpets would have never gotten popular. Asides from being useful for sound-dampening, they're good at keeping the house a little warmer in the winter; even a crappy carpet is usually a few steps above wood floors if it's cold, and it's a massive improvement over stone floors. And a carpet can be fixed in place more easily than a rug.
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Feb 8, 2018 12:07
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Rugs and mats are very common, as decoration, like putting them under tables for instance. Never felt cold floors were much an issue here, or cold houses for that matter.
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Feb 8, 2018 12:55
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I’ve never found wooden floors cold because we wear slippers here.
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Feb 8, 2018 13:23
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His Divine Shadow posted:In Finland carpeting was this 70s thing that never caught on, viewed in the same vein as water beds. It's really weird to see how common it is still. One room in my parents house had it, it was their master bedroom. Got ripped out in the 90s for some kinda lino-esque I think. Actually, carpet reached its "peak" in the 70s in the US with shag carpeting. Imagine carpet thick enough to need a rake to "comb" it. It's been on its way out since. Well, I don't think it will disappear, but it's definitely become less popular here since then.
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Feb 8, 2018 15:59
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learnincurve posted:I’ve never found wooden floors cold because we wear slippers here. Carpet is like slippers for the entire room.
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Feb 8, 2018 16:02
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Feb 8, 2018 16:08
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We looked at a house that was pure white like this when we were moving. Every wall, white. All tile and carpet, white. Most furniture, white. It was loving unnerving. We moved in nearby, and we pass the house all the time, and we've noticed all their cars are white, they put up nothing but white Christmas lights, and at Halloween, white pumpkins.
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Feb 8, 2018 16:08
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I wonder if they wear tyvek suits at home to keep everything clean
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Feb 8, 2018 16:20
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moist turtleneck posted:I wonder if they wear tyvek suits at home to keep everything clean doesn't everybody?
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Feb 8, 2018 16:32
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Slugworth posted:We looked at a house that was pure white like this when we were moving. Every wall, white. All tile and carpet, white. Most furniture, white. It was loving unnerving. We moved in nearby, and we pass the house all the time, and we've noticed all their cars are white, they put up nothing but white Christmas lights, and at Halloween, white pumpkins. I am curious about their ethnicity. If Afro-American, then they will be an attractive contrast when in the rooms. If they are WASPS, then they will have to keep humming so they can keep track of each other.
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Feb 8, 2018 16:34
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It's just this guy and his weird little dog.
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Feb 8, 2018 16:38
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Bad Munki posted:Carpet is like slippers for the entire room. This. Carpet is for rooms you relax in, hard floors are for areas where liquid messes happen. Bathrooms, kitchens, utility rooms, entryways, those are places where hard floors make sense. Everywhere else, give me nice thick soft carpet any day.
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Feb 8, 2018 18:02
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wolrah posted:This. Carpet is for rooms you relax in, hard floors are for areas where liquid messes happen. Bathrooms, kitchens, utility rooms, entryways, those are places where hard floors make sense. Everywhere else, give me nice thick soft carpet any day. Carpet is gross. Get rugs instead.
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Feb 8, 2018 19:14
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Like wall-to-wall rugs? That are tacked down and tucked under the baseboard? Roger that! 
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Feb 8, 2018 19:58
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wolrah posted:This. Carpet is for rooms you relax in, hard floors are for areas where liquid messes happen. Bathrooms, kitchens, utility rooms, entryways, those are places where hard floors make sense. Everywhere else, give me nice thick soft carpet any day. I have a kid, therefore liquid messes happen everywhere. Even though she’s 16 now. That said, I bought bamboo flooring for the living room, ripped out the carpet... then didn’t install the flooring because there’s drywall work to be done and I can’t be arsed to move everything out of the living room. I mean, the TV is in there!
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Feb 8, 2018 20:01
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The_end posted:Carpet is gross. Get rugs instead.
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Feb 8, 2018 20:03
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Yeah but I can put carpet straight onto my new subfloor, if I put down rugs I have to pay for wood flooring and then cover it up.
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Feb 8, 2018 20:05
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I have vinyl flooring and Large Rugs in most of my house because I am a poor. It’s good because you can lift the rugs up to clean and if they need replacing you don’t have to shift all the furniture out of the room to do it.
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Feb 8, 2018 20:30
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Darchangel posted:I have a kid, therefore liquid messes happen everywhere. Even though she’s 16 now. so your living room is just bare concrete/subfloor now?
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Feb 8, 2018 20:35
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FCKGW posted:so your living room is just bare concrete/subfloor now? The only way to win the flooring game is not play at all. 
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Feb 8, 2018 22:29
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just lol if you're not constantly hovering over an abstract void without form or substance
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Feb 8, 2018 22:37
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Splicer posted:just lol if you're not constantly hovering over an abstract void without form or substance Well, isn't that just the best description of the last year in the United States.
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(Placeholder for a post about the genius merits of tatami from a superior culture) Nm don't do that, if your kid spills chocolate milk on tatami just once, it's there forever. It's still nice for lazy summer days, but you're also supposed to replace it every 5-10 years.
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