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I've only used something awful for one thread a friend recommended; a couple of years ago. Came from Reddit. I'd appreciate some tips. Know a little bit about goons (?) Edit: how do notifications work here, can you mention someone in post? Darth blob fucked around with this message at 18:27 on May 5, 2018 |
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Darth blob posted:I've only used something awful for one thread a friend recommended; a couple of years ago. Came from Reddit. I'd appreciate some tips. nope its just a basic old school type messageboard. there isnt even an option to switch between threaded or chronological view
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May 5, 2018 18:56
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Darth blob posted:I've only used something awful for one thread a friend recommended; a couple of years ago. Came from Reddit. I'd appreciate some tips. 
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May 5, 2018 19:02
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Darth blob posted:I've only used something awful for one thread a friend recommended; a couple of years ago. Came from Reddit. I'd appreciate some tips. Hot tip: get the Awful mobile app.
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May 5, 2018 19:16
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Qubee posted:That's exactly the part that's mindfucking me! I'm glad I'm not the only one, but I'm really sorry to have dragged you into this. It was thrust upon me, so I figured I'd spread the pain. Arrgh god dammit! Yeah I am positive there's a fairly well known song out there that these both sound like. Like well known enough that I'm really surprised we haven't gotten an answer yet. If you find out elsewhere please do remember to post it here.
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May 5, 2018 21:51
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Earwicker posted:nope its just a basic old school type messageboard. there isnt even an option to switch between threaded or chronological view I never thought I would get nostalgic about a specific message board format, but man gently caress whatever reddit is and everything that looks like it. Also IRC is still better then Slack and gently caress anyone who thinks otherwise.
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May 5, 2018 23:50
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bongwizzard posted:I never thought I would get nostalgic about a specific message board format, but man gently caress whatever reddit is and everything that looks like it. Also IRC is still better then Slack and gently caress anyone who thinks otherwise. Reddit is copying Slashdot is copying USENET as viewed through certain newsreaders. Now you know who to blame!
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May 6, 2018 00:02
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there are a lot of boards where either the administrator or even individual users can choose whether the content is seen in chronological view (like SA) or threaded view (like reddit). but that option is not available here for some reason
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May 6, 2018 00:06
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So whose fault is it that you have to click the tiny "nn comments" link to actually read the thread, rather than get taken off to imgur or twitter or whatever news site? That's some straight garbage.
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May 6, 2018 00:23
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Hipster_Doofus posted:Arrgh god dammit! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obuz7XUG7mU a champ from the music thread said it sounds very similar to this, and it was perfect closure for me.
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May 6, 2018 00:33
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Is there a thread for people with mobility problems? I have some wheelchair questions.
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May 6, 2018 02:48
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fishmech posted:Reddit is copying Slashdot is copying USENET as viewed through certain newsreaders. Now you know who to blame! sorry i didn't end up seeing this post because it's not top rated, tough break
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May 6, 2018 04:17
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Dudes, what is this thing from the beginning of the SNES game, Illusion of Gaia? This is along a series of obvious mysterious real world whatevers but this one I can't figure out. Is it Stonehenge? A really awkward angle of the Arch de Triumphe?
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May 6, 2018 04:19
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credburn posted:Dudes, what is this thing from the beginning of the SNES game, Illusion of Gaia? The construct of three large stones, with the top one making a roof over desperate wall stones, is called a trilithon. It's common all over very ancient sites, Stonehenge's is just more widely known as it has some of the largest remaining examples.
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credburn posted:Dudes, what is this thing from the beginning of the SNES game, Illusion of Gaia? Doesn't have to be any of those things, could just be a Dolmen.  Which I learned about later in life after first seeing them referenced in the Asterix books, also menhirs, which are also real things.
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May 6, 2018 04:26
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Well, this is a game that was made for, I think, Japanese/American kids or young adults. The rest of the images are of things I can recognize (the Sphinx, Ankor Wat, Moai statues, and what is later in the game to be revealed as the Tower of Babel) but this one is so awkward. I should think that this would be an image recognizable by most people in the 90s. And the other ones are so specific.
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May 6, 2018 05:10
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there is a mouse in my house my cats and i are chasing it everywhere at 430 in the morning, I want to catch it so I can put it outside, the cats just want to play with it, should i actually care about this or just let the cats eat it or whatever edit - its under my fridge now hiding edit 2 - got and put it outside be free little mousey edit 3 - he's still in the little container I used to put him outside, he's not dead, but maybe he can't jump or something  edit 4 - I moved the container a little and he jumped like ten feet and ran away Doorknob Slobber fucked around with this message at 14:53 on May 6, 2018 |
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May 6, 2018 12:34
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What a roller coaster of a post.
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May 6, 2018 16:39
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Doorknob Slobber posted:there is a mouse in my house my cats and i are chasing it everywhere at 430 in the morning, I want to catch it so I can put it outside, the cats just want to play with it, should i actually care about this or just let the cats eat it or whatever I’m sorry nobody was here with you through the night to help you through the process.
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May 6, 2018 16:49
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Sometimes mice get paralysed in fear or get little heart attacks if they get chased too much. Or play dead. Usually when I release traumatised mice, they just sit there. Takes them a bit to skitter off.
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May 6, 2018 17:27
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Wondering if someone can throw me a price range for repainting a car in the San Joaquin valley. Its an '04 Mustang and I want to repaint it in the same color, its got clear coat failures all over.
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May 6, 2018 17:46
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honestly catching a mouse with tupperware is a lot harder than you'd think
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May 6, 2018 18:36
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Doorknob guy that mouse will most likely find its way back in - they can follow they own stank for like half a mile. Next time you might want to release it farther away! Just my advice as someone who has done this a lot. I release mine across the river from here, try following your smell across a half a mile long bridge bithc!! There are plenty of nice not lethal traps you can make yourself that are easier than tupperware hunting but nicely done
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May 6, 2018 19:07
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Leal posted:Wondering if someone can throw me a price range for repainting a car in the San Joaquin valley. Its an '04 Mustang and I want to repaint it in the same color, its got clear coat failures all over. A good one? Probably $2k+. For an 04 mustang i would probably go rattle can special.
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May 6, 2018 19:32
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alnilam posted:There are plenty of nice not lethal traps you can make yourself that are easier than tupperware hunting but nicely done are they normally baby and cat proof? my landlord put in snap traps once and we just threw them away because keeping children away from snap traps is a lot of work and also i felt bad for the little mousies if they would die
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May 6, 2018 20:08
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Leal posted:Wondering if someone can throw me a price range for repainting a car in the San Joaquin valley. Its an '04 Mustang and I want to repaint it in the same color, its got clear coat failures all over. Detail guys can work magic with existing paint, you might throw $250 at one of them and see what they can do. If that's not satisfactory, ask that guy's advice on how to approach a repaint. The guy at the auto body shop can also help, although he is way more inclined to talk you into the $10,000 paint job than the $250 paint job.
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May 6, 2018 20:15
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Doorknob Slobber posted:are they normally baby and cat proof? my landlord put in snap traps once and we just threw them away because keeping children away from snap traps is a lot of work and also i felt bad for the little mousies if they would die a basic non-lethal trap is a little box, you put food in the box, and the mouse can enter via a sort of little ramp that allows it to go in but not back out. i cant really think of a way it would injure a cat or child. but then i dont have either of those things. worst i can imagine is a kid finding the box when it has a mouse in it and accidentally (or on purpose) letting the mouse back out
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May 6, 2018 20:16
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I literally had no idea that people didn't just kill mice.
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May 6, 2018 21:40
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Doorknob Slobber posted:are they normally baby and cat proof? my landlord put in snap traps once and we just threw them away because keeping children away from snap traps is a lot of work and also i felt bad for the little mousies if they would die here's my personal fav trap that is cat and child proof take a trash can or bucket at least 2 ft tall, preferably 3 precariously balance like a paper towel cardboard tube on a shelf over the bucket with some bait on the overhanging side mOuse goes into tube, tips it over into bucket, can't get out tricky part mice can jump like a foot or more and if the tube is tall enough and lands wrong that the mouse can climb to the top of it and jump out that's why you need a deep enough bucket
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If you know how the mouse got in, seal it up or more mice will get in the same way; there's probably a bunch of them living nearby. If you don't know how the mouse got in you're basically going to have to have traps out all the time until you figure it out and seal it up. If your cat does manage to kill a mouse inside your house it will leave blood and guts all over your floor. You really want to find out how they're getting in and put a stop to it.
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In my experience making a big effort to put all food in mouse proof containers helps kill their motivation to move in in the first place, too
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bongwizzard posted:I literally had no idea that people didn't just kill mice. there are many people who try not to kill anything at all, even spiders and bugs. of course it's not really possible to kill nothing but getting rid of a mouse without killing it is pretty easy
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Earwicker posted:there are many people who try not to kill anything at all, even spiders and bugs. of course it's not really possible to kill nothing but getting rid of a mouse without killing it is pretty easy And we call those people... socialists. 
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photomikey posted:Repainting a car costs between $250 and $10,000 and the quality ranges from absolutely terrible to fresh-off-the-showroom floor. The best advice I ever got was "wait until you're going to sell it, repaint it, then immediately put it up for sale". Oh this isn't going for sale, I managed to get the car I've always wanted growing up. I don't think detailing will work out, when I say clearcoat failure I mean  My car needs lotion
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Earwicker posted:there are many people who try not to kill anything at all, even spiders and bugs. Speaking of which, is there any truth to the notion that putting a spider outside is basically condemning it to a horrible death, since an "indoor" species of spider isn't adapted to live out there? It's certainly true that the spiders I see outside look completely different from the ones I see inside.
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Earwicker posted:there are many people who try not to kill anything at all, even spiders and bugs. of course it's not really possible to kill nothing but getting rid of a mouse without killing it is pretty easy I am one of those people, but mosquitoes can go loving extinct as far as I'm concerned, ecological balance be damned.
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Powered Descent posted:Speaking of which, is there any truth to the notion that putting a spider outside is basically condemning it to a horrible death, since an "indoor" species of spider isn't adapted to live out there? pretty sure all of the spider species that live in people's houses also already existed just fine in nature before humans were building houses. its not like they are domesticated animals
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Earwicker posted:there are many people who try not to kill anything at all, even spiders and bugs. of course it's not really possible to kill nothing but getting rid of a mouse without killing it is pretty easy
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Earwicker posted:pretty sure all of the spider species that live in people's houses also already existed just fine in nature before humans were building houses. its not like they are domesticated animals Not really how these things work. For instance, there was an archaeological study of the populations of two species of mice in Mesopotamia. When people started building homes in the area, the population of one species skyrocketed and the other plummeted. When the homes were uninhabited for long periods because the people were seminomadic, the reverse happened. It’s easy to imagine that we live in a state of artificial equilibrium with all sorts of creatures where they’re ideally suited to human buildings while only occupying a narrow niche in nature, so if the buildings went away the house spider species probably wouldn’t go extinct, but that particular spider you throw out probably wouldn’t have been born or be able to survive without your home.
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