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GoT season 8 unpopular opinion: I thought the bottle episode and the final episode were pretty good.
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mind the walrus posted:Bill Hicks is overrated as balls but his bit on marketing was on-point. I'm so glad he died young because I absolutely do not want to know how he would be now.
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Apr 21, 2022 02:28
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I was a little surprised to find out GRRM is just some rear end in a top hat from New Jersey, just like me.
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Apr 21, 2022 02:32
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Here's my unpopular GoT opinion: I didn't watch it. It's unpopular in the sense that not many people share it, I don't really experience any opposition to it
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Apr 21, 2022 02:35
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hallo spacedog posted:I was a little surprised to find out GRRM is just some rear end in a top hat from New Jersey, just like me. Everyone is just some rear end in a top hat from somewhere.
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Apr 21, 2022 02:36
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McCracAttack posted:Everyone is just some rear end in a top hat from somewhere. Be that as it may, please don't underestimate just how big of an rear end in a top hat you have to be to be from New Jersey.
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Apr 21, 2022 02:37
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some plague rats posted:Here's my unpopular GoT opinion: I didn't watch it. It's unpopular in the sense that not many people share it, I don't really experience any opposition to it That used to be one you'd get opposition to in the sense people would say that you have to watch it, but that stopped eventually. Weirdly the only show I remember I had people outright get mad at me for not watching it was Archer.
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Apr 21, 2022 02:44
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Boba Pearl posted:My grandfather got a laugh, and said the ones with those little armrests would normally belong to like a secretary or school official or some other professional that was on the phone constantly, and because they were on the phone constantly they had the skills to get almost anything done like magic. Buy gramps a forums account
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Apr 21, 2022 02:45
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hallo spacedog posted:Be that as it may, please don't underestimate just how big of an rear end in a top hat you have to be to be from New Jersey.  Philly and NYC produce some really impressive assholes, but NJ produces loving assholes. Massachusetts is the only state that can compete pound for pound. It's no surprise Boston is full of NJ transplants. ultrafilter posted:I'm so glad he died young because I absolutely do not want to know how he would be now. He would absolutely be on Twitter and regardless of where on the political spectrum he'd ultimately fall, he'd be used as a "cautionary example."
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Apr 21, 2022 02:47
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https://twitter.com/snopes/status/1516976772948152320
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Apr 21, 2022 04:50
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grittyreboot posted:GoT season 8 unpopular opinion: I thought the bottle episode and the final episode were pretty good. The plot points of season 8 are good, it was just done pooorly.
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Apr 21, 2022 06:16
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Boba Pearl posted:My grandfather got a laugh, and said the ones with those little armrests would normally belong to like a secretary or school official or some other professional that was on the phone constantly, and because they were on the phone constantly they had the skills to get almost anything done like magic. wow I didn't know they let young people on this dead gay forum what's next you tell us you don't know what a cassette tape is or why a pencil would be used on it
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Apr 21, 2022 07:35
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Some of us were 11 - 13 and snuck on to read danganronpa. e: I'm going to assume it's how you rewound tapes when you were a boomerling. (pre-boomer) e2: Or at least a specific part of the song, like if you wanted to go back 2 songs, but not the whole thing. Boba Pearl has a new favorite as of 07:45 on Apr 21, 2022 |
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Apr 21, 2022 07:39
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mind the walrus posted:Philly and NYC produce some really impressive assholes, but NJ produces loving assholes. Massachusetts is the only state that can compete pound for pound. It's no surprise Boston is full of NJ transplants. I had to deal with like deep red south levels of racism when I lived in NJ. I lived in an area that was home to like 20 of the top 50 CEOs at the time so it was a bunch of rich white pharmaceutical fucks and then the rest of us the blue collared (but also racist as gently caress) people. The N word was thrown around all the time because I think there were 2 black kids in my graduating class and 1 asian and no hispanic kids. We were honkey as gently caress white.
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Apr 21, 2022 07:47
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Boba Pearl posted:Some of us were 11 - 13 and snuck on to read danganronpa. Heh it's actually somewhat amusing to think of someone sitting there rewinding tapes with a pencil. "Well that album was great, now to sit here for an hour getting the tape ready for the next time I want to play it". (it was for when the tape got eaten, i.e. the player managed to wind it around the capstan or something and pulled out a shitload of tape from the cassette - you would insert a pencil into one of the drive holes on the cassette to manually rewind the tape back in).
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Apr 21, 2022 08:00
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Now tell us what you think we used scotch tape for with cassette tapes (it wasn't for fixing broken tape)
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Apr 21, 2022 08:21
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SyNack Sassimov posted:(it was for when the tape got eaten, i.e. the player managed to wind it around the capstan or something and pulled out a shitload of tape from the cassette - you would insert a pencil into one of the drive holes on the cassette to manually rewind the tape back in). In case that description's not clear to any small children who may be reading, it was situations like this:  The actual tape has been pulled some way out of the cassette, so you need to wind it back in.
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Apr 21, 2022 08:23
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greazeball posted:Now tell us what you think we used scotch tape for with cassette tapes (it wasn't for fixing broken tape) I'd forgotten about doing this. Happy days.
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Apr 21, 2022 08:29
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Aramoro posted:I'd forgotten about doing this. Happy days. No that was vinyl.
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Apr 21, 2022 08:37
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Back in my day if you wanted to double the capacity of digital storage media you would take a hole punch to it.
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Apr 21, 2022 08:45
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Scaramouche posted:No that was vinyl. Judging by my shelves Vinyl days are right now, they are also happy days though.
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Apr 21, 2022 08:50
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Breetai posted:Back in my day if you wanted to double the capacity of digital storage media you would take a hole punch to it. I actually have a purpose made device for doing that, it came with a box of C64 and Vic 20 hardware and manuals.
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Apr 21, 2022 09:11
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I can no longer tell if you all are doing a bit or not, because I'm trying to imagine a machine spitting out black spaghetti because you plugged it in wrong. Like google says it's true, but I do not understand how this was the epitome of your music technology, and you're still alive today to post on the internet. Like if someone came up to me today and said he uses his horse and buggy to get to work. Or when someone tries to explain why we still need VIM in every linux distro.
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Apr 21, 2022 09:23
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Boba Pearl posted:I can no longer tell if you all are doing a bit or not, because I'm trying to imagine a machine spitting out black spaghetti because you plugged it in wrong. Like google says it's true, but I do not understand how this was the epitome of your music technology, and you're still alive today to post on the internet. Like if someone came up to me today and said he uses his horse and buggy to get to work. Or when someone tries to explain why we still need VIM in every linux distro. https://www.webcommand.net/index.php/2019/07/31/does-anyone-remember-the-floppy-disk-punch-notcher/
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Apr 21, 2022 09:31
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I have no love for cassette tapes but vim is great for quick edits
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Apr 21, 2022 09:33
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Some data centers still have use for magnetic tape. It can store a lot of data for cheap as long as you don’t need to access it often or on short notice.
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Apr 21, 2022 09:34
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Lobok posted:What a name. It would fit right in with my favourite baseball players.
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Apr 21, 2022 10:56
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From the replies, mods please change my name to Toulouse L'Attack.
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Apr 21, 2022 11:11
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Boba Pearl posted:I can no longer tell if you all are doing a bit or not, because I'm trying to imagine a machine spitting out black spaghetti because you plugged it in wrong. Like google says it's true, but I do not understand how this was the epitome of your music technology, and you're still alive today to post on the internet. Like if someone came up to me today and said he uses his horse and buggy to get to work. Or when someone tries to explain why we still need VIM in every linux distro. My first computer was a ZV Spectrum and the programs came on a cassette tape that was completely separate so you could use essentially any home cassette player for. The quirk was that the volume of your cassette player mattered and it was different for different cassettes. If I wanted to play Treasure Island Dizzy then I'd need the volume about halfway, if I wanted MiG-25 then full blast. The people who lived through this built the internet today, the progress is truly staggering.
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Apr 21, 2022 11:16
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I'm Insane Worrier
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Apr 21, 2022 11:24
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hallo spacedog posted:From the replies, mods please change my name to Toulouse L'Attack. I'm ALDEBARAN NIPPER
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Apr 21, 2022 11:34
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mind the walrus posted:The most cursed part about this is that I stay logged out of Twitter and usually if I try to read threads it's a safe bet I won't be able to scroll too far before Twitter logins block me. This is healthy and good because it keeps me from going down Twitter holes.
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Apr 21, 2022 12:27
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Boba Pearl posted:I can no longer tell if you all are doing a bit or not, because I'm trying to imagine a machine spitting out black spaghetti because you plugged it in wrong. Like google says it's true, but I do not understand how this was the epitome of your music technology, and you're still alive today to post on the internet. Like if someone came up to me today and said he uses his horse and buggy to get to work. Or when someone tries to explain why we still need VIM in every linux distro. The last decade of physical technological development has been pretty boring. It's all just the same stuff but smaller. I miss the throwing poo poo at the wall to see what sticks era of zip disks and LaserDisc
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Apr 21, 2022 12:42
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Aramoro posted:The people who lived through this built the internet today, the progress is truly staggering.
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Apr 21, 2022 12:44
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Aramoro posted:My first computer was a ZV Spectrum and the programs came on a cassette tape that was completely separate so you could use essentially any home cassette player for. The quirk was that the volume of your cassette player mattered and it was different for different cassettes. If I wanted to play Treasure Island Dizzy then I'd need the volume about halfway, if I wanted MiG-25 then full blast.
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Apr 21, 2022 12:49
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The cassette tape unspooling thing was predominantly a crime of the car stereo, leading to another phenomenon you don't see anymore - miles of unspooled cassette tape by the side of the road from people chucking cassettes out the window, which would then be driven over.
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Apr 21, 2022 13:41
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Boba Pearl posted:I can no longer tell if you all are doing a bit or not, because I'm trying to imagine a machine spitting out black spaghetti because you plugged it in wrong. Like google says it's true, but I do not understand how this was the epitome of your music technology, and you're still alive today to post on the internet. Like if someone came up to me today and said he uses his horse and buggy to get to work. Or when someone tries to explain why we still need VIM in every linux distro. It's not like tapes got tangled in decks often, it's just a memorable thing for anybody who had to fix their favorite tape. We weren't all carrying pencils just to fix our constantly eaten tapes.
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Apr 21, 2022 13:53
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https://twitter.com/BinAnimals/status/1517072497933443073?s=20&t=HUxg1ANv39ZKZiYKTwheZA
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Apr 21, 2022 13:57
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Boba Pearl posted:Some of us were 11 - 13 and snuck on to read danganronpa. What was the story there anyway? Someone did a posting LP of it before it was translated/available in the West? I’ve seen the “lol Tumblr paywall” videos but never got the full context.
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Apr 21, 2022 14:16
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Warbird posted:What was the story there anyway? Someone did a posting LP of it before it was translated/available in the West? I’ve seen the “lol Tumblr paywall” videos but never got the full context. That was pretty much it. Before it was translated, someone did a full LP with translations, and this was pretty much the only way to experience the game in english on the internet, exclusive to SA (it probably wasn't, but it was the most well-known). Tumblr discovered this, but got real mad when the paywall went up, blocking their access to precious, precious anime murder club. It was pretty funny to see some of the overreactions over  .
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