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credburn posted:Q2: I am looking for a tablet but I don't see a tablet thread anywhere. I'm looking to just get something with a large screen that I will use almost exclusively for reading books and looking at archive.org. Is there a particular tablet or brand of tablet I should be looking into or avoiding? Looking at tablets on sites like Newegg and Amazon, they all kind of seem largely the same to me at this point, just with wildly different prices based on technical things I don't really know much about and maybe don't even apply to my needs in any way.
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credburn posted:Errr shoot, to clarify, I guess I get it's a meme. But I generally don't follow memes and my friends don't, but this particular image is just showing up nonstop, so I thought it had some significance. There's text that usually accompanies this image, that is the funny part. You're supposed to read the accompanying text in the style of this very excited woman telling it into the ear of this young man. If you're seeing the image without reading the text then I understand why you might get confused.
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FCKGW posted:There's text that usually accompanies this image, that is the funny part. You're supposed to read the accompanying text in the style of this very excited woman telling it into the ear of this young man. I was wondering why op might be seeing the image out of context and I'm guessing posters are using it to emptyquote-reply to posts? à la 
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Jasper Tin Neck posted:The primary purpose of the pattern is to confuse horseflies. Lions probably don't even have the visual acuity to see the stripes from far away. Cool.
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kalel posted:I was wondering why op might be seeing the image out of context and I'm guessing posters are using it to emptyquote-reply to posts? à la No, it's not that, it's just that this has come up suddenly and so frequently in some familiar circles where memes don't often appear. I that I thought it might be two people who are famous in some way or maybe a still from a movie that everyone has seen.
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Aug 22, 2022 14:23
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credburn posted:No, it's not that, it's just that this has come up suddenly and so frequently in some familiar circles where memes don't often appear. I that I thought it might be two people who are famous in some way or maybe a still from a movie that everyone has seen. I think the memes super fast spread is because it’s very easy for others to riff on the original image, being it’s a text based joke. Other memes you need to edit images directly but with this one it’s just a wall of text with a base image so more people are participating in it and having fun. 
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Aug 22, 2022 14:34
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Does anyone have a nice wood yo-yo that they recommend? It’s for a friend’s birthday so I don’t mind paying more than the stuff on Amazon but not like a hundred bucks or something insane.
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Aug 23, 2022 23:14
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I would check Etsy; you could probably even get one custom-made, and the prices of the ones I saw seemed quite reasonable.
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Aug 24, 2022 11:29
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I got this from Lehman’s a while back and the quality was excellent.
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Aug 24, 2022 15:42
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Jasper Tin Neck posted:The primary purpose of the pattern is to confuse horseflies. Lions probably don't even have the visual acuity to see the stripes from far away. David Attenborough has an episode talking about the study: David Attenborough's Natural Curiosities, Episode 5: Seeing the Pattern
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Aug 24, 2022 19:45
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Thanks for the suggestions!
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Aug 24, 2022 19:46
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Why is Goku's voice actor (in Japan) an 80 year old lady? I assume she was the voice actor when the series was just "Dragon Ball" and Goku was a little kid. Women doing the voice acting for young boys is a common thing. But I'm surprised they kept the same voice actor all the way through Dragon Ball Z where it was just buff dude space fights and yelling.
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McCracAttack posted:Why is Goku's voice actor (in Japan) an 80 year old lady? Why is Bart Simpson's voice actor a retirement age woman?
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regulargonzalez posted:Why is Bart Simpson's voice actor a retirement age woman? Yeah but Bart has stayed a kid for the entire run.
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It's not a problem I'm just curious if the show runners have ever talked about it.
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Aug 25, 2022 04:16
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Is house of cards worth watching now that Kevin has got the boot? I haven't seen any of it but don't want to start if it falls off a cliff.
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David Fincher set a great tone with the pilot.The first two seasons are a pretty good political thriller told from the point of view of a Shakespearian villain. The rest is poo poo.
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Yeah if you can separate the character from the actor I guess the first two seasons are probably still good. Stop after that no matter what.
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McCracAttack posted:Why is Goku's voice actor (in Japan) an 80 year old lady? The way I remember it being explained when I used to watch was that Goku was always just an innocent kid at heart. Compared with all the villains at the time who tended to be voiced by deep male voices, it provided a kind of immediate contrast.
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I guess that does fit with his character. Thanks.
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Aug 25, 2022 23:56
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for fumigation work: is there a reason why they request that you open all cardboard boxes in your house or throw them out? my friend just had to help his parents do that and from the sounds of it it wasn't like there was anything flammable in there
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Aug 26, 2022 01:48
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Cockroaches love eating cardboard. And living in it.
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credburn posted:No, it's not that, it's just that this has come up suddenly and so frequently in some familiar circles where memes don't often appear. I that I thought it might be two people who are famous in some way or maybe a still from a movie that everyone has seen. Are they science / biology circles? Cos that's where that particular meme has caught on, as a way of sharing amusingly detailed and obscure facts about ecology. It's pretty cool.
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:Cockroaches love eating cardboard. And living in it.
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My Xbox one died, it was real old I got it when the Witcher was a new release. What the deal with all these S and X series ones? How do I play the games I own already.
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Extra row of tits posted:My Xbox one died, it was real old I got it when the Witcher was a new release. I assume you mean The Witcher 3 (And not an Xbox you got in 2007). Since then, Microsoft has released 4 new consoles: Xbox One S/Xbox One X. Updated versions of the Xbox One. The Xbox One S is smaller than the original, and the Xbox One X is more powerful and some games can run better. These can all play the same games as your Xbox One. Xbox Series S/Xbox Series X. This is a new console. It is backwards compatible with all games you can play on the Xbox One, excluding games that require Kinect. It can also play newer games that are marked as exclusive to Series X|S. It is also split into a less expensive but slower and a more expensive but faster version.
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If the game you already own are on disc then you need a Series X to play them because the series S doesn’t have an optical drive.
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:If the game you already own are on disc then you need a Series X to play them because the series S doesn’t have an optical drive. Right. Yes. That's a big point I missed. They love to make this stuff confusing. It's basically the same thing as PS5 vs PS4, except Sony named things better. Like Xbox One = PS4 Xbox One S = PS4 Slim Xbox One X = PS4 Pro Xbox Series S = PS5 Digital Eldition Xbox Series X = PS5
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 I'm trying to take apart an oldish (90s) bedframe. It looks like it's being held together by this thing. Any idea what kinda tool you'd use to remove it?
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Aug 27, 2022 14:18
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Can you stick an Allen wrench in the hole and rotate the whole thing?
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mycelia posted:
look at those makers marks. You need to scrape at it with like a chisel or a random screwdriver for awhile
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mycelia posted:
Is there a nut on the other end of the thing? I can see it working where you put a metal rod through the hole to keep the bolt from rotating, and tighten and loosen a nut on the other end. It looks like there are indentations in the wood where possibly a rod hit and stopped the bolt from spinning.
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MyronMulch posted:Is there a nut on the other end of the thing? I can see it working where you put a metal rod through the hole to keep the bolt from rotating, and tighten and loosen a nut on the other end. It looks like there are indentations in the wood where possibly a rod hit and stopped the bolt from spinning. That'd be my guess as well. Bed bolts usually work this way. You aren't supposed to apply much force at the piece in the photograph. Just enough to keep it from spinning while you torque away at the bolt head.
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I feel real dumb; is there no way to create a new thread on the forums using the Awful app for android? I can reply to threads but I don't see a new thread button anywhere.
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Mister Speaker posted:I feel real dumb; is there no way to create a new thread on the forums using the Awful app for android? I can reply to threads but I don't see a new thread button anywhere. It's not supported.
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Dr. Stab posted:Xbox One S/Xbox One X. Updated versions of the Xbox One. The Xbox One S is smaller than the original, and the Xbox One X is more powerful and some games can run better. These can all play the same games as your Xbox One. what is the rational behind this naming convention? ive had xbox's since the 360 but the progression from xbox to xbox 360 to xbox one to xbox one x/s to xbox series x/s makes no sense to me, from a branding perspective or any other really. i worked in marketing for a few years and while i dont consider myself an expert on branding or anything, i usually can figure out what companies are trying to do, but i cant figure out what microsoft is trying to do except confuse people. it strikes me as the kind of thing that is the result of a compromise after some sort of struggle between multiple internal factions but that makes no sense to anyone outside
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they didn’t want to call the second Xbox the Xbox 2 when it was up against the PlayStation 3, etc
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Smirking_Serpent posted:they didn’t want to call the second Xbox the Xbox 2 when it was up against the PlayStation 3, etc sure, and i understand choosing a different naming convention from their main competitor but then why not stick with it? xbox 360, xbox 720, xbox 1080 etc. its the last couple iterations that particularly make no sense
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The one in xbox one is because it was suppossed to be the One Central thing in your entertainment room or something because it was suppossed to be music and movies and web browser and poo poo supposedly
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