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two fish posted:Where did the whole 7D speed chess thing come from anyway? Did he hint at being some kind of chess master or is it his fandom explaining away insane choices and actions of his? If you mean the term itself, it's an evolution of the popular expression "you're playing checkers, I'm playing chess", which is just saying "i'm playing a more complex and strategic game than you", ie. "I'm making moves you can't even comprehend and you're going to lose and not even know why". 3D-chess is obviously therefore a level above that and is usually used ironically about people trying to give the impression that they're making very smart moves that just look dumb because you can't understand them, and adding more dimensions just makes the degree of ridicule greater. So saying that he's playing seven-dimensional speed chess is implying that the things he's doing are so extremely stupid that, for them to make any kind of sense at all, he'd have to be operating on a level at least seven times removed from reality as the rest of us understand it.
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That's pretty much what CLR cleaner is designed to do
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do it work tho always been skeptical about infomercials
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CLR is pretty good at what it does, but you can achieve a lot of what it does with vinegar. Worth a shot given you probably already have some. Honestly 80% of my cleaning is done with a spray bottle of half strength vinegar.
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alnilam posted:vinegar. Worth a shot given you probably already have some. what you trying to say about me
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Yeah if you ever need to clean something you can usually try vinegar first, just leave some of it on these stain for 15 minutes and see if that works. I also just have a half strength vinegar spray bottle under the sink that I use for most things.
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Alan Smithee posted:what you trying to say about me You're just the kind of pathetic loser who would take perfectly good booze, let it ruin itself by becoming acetic acid, and then keep the result in your house, you bastard I bet you didn't even make it yourself, you let Heinz do it for you and paid actual money for failed booze
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Alan Smithee posted:do it work tho
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alnilam posted:You're just the kind of pathetic loser who would take perfectly good booze, let it ruin itself by becoming acetic acid, and then keep the result in your house, you bastard i have a fridge full of beer that is older than gen alpha  Foxfire_ posted:So you're asking if there's a better way? https://twitter.com/i/status/972229980221353984
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mystes posted:I think you still need driver support in both your video card and wifi card (because it requires wifi direct). But I don't have any devices that can act as miracast receiver so I haven't tried it in a while. Maybe most computers support it now. To keep the cost down, for $100 this Tx/Rx pair from Monoprice is what I would go with (not a referral link) for just having an HDMI cable coming from behind your couch or whatever. Killingyouguy! posted:Why are whole blood and plasma two different types of blood donation? If they need plasma can't they extract it from the blood in the bank? There's also a double red cell donation option. I only have experience with donation in the US, but phlebotomists can only take whole blood donations while a nurse has to perform or supervise apheresis; instead of just drawing blood, a machine is used that centrifuges it, removes a small amount of plasma and double the number of normal red cells, then returns most of the plasma along with platelets, white cells, and a blood thinner to the donor.
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Tiggum posted:If you mean the term itself, it's an evolution of the popular expression "you're playing checkers, I'm playing chess", which is just saying "i'm playing a more complex and strategic game than you", ie. "I'm making moves you can't even comprehend and you're going to lose and not even know why". 3D-chess is obviously therefore a level above that and is usually used ironically about people trying to give the impression that they're making very smart moves that just look dumb because you can't understand them, i thought it came from the DIlbert guy? like it was some big political argument on twitter and at some point the guy unironically claimed that either he or trump was "playing 3d chess" which is why moves that appeared stupid to the ignorant masses were actually strokes of strategic genius. and then after that it turned in kind of a meme.
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Earwicker posted:i thought it came from the DIlbert guy? like it was some big political argument on twitter and at some point the guy unironically claimed that either he or trump was "playing 3d chess" which is why moves that appeared stupid to the ignorant masses were actually strokes of strategic genius. and then after that it turned in kind of a meme. I am fairly certain that the 3d chess meme predates trump becoming the right wing icon. It was about some kind of other idiot.
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the concept of 3d chess has existed for decades, it was in star trek TNG like 30 years ago. it's just shorthand for complicated strategizing, it has nothing to do with goofy internet conspiracy dipshits lol
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Nevil Maskelyne posted:the concept of 3d chess has existed for decades, it was in star trek TNG like 30 years ago. it's just shorthand for complicated strategizing, it has nothing to do with goofy internet conspiracy dipshits lol Hell, it was in the original Star Trek.
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I never watched most of tos but that's not too surprising, it's a really accessible and easy metaphor Chess is a two dimensional strategy game that the average person can kinda understand the rules of but has absolutely no chance of winning against someone who's put in the time to get good at it. Add another dimension to the game and it's pretty easy to make it a metaphor for complicated maneuvering and forethought.
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Nevil Maskelyne posted:the concept of 3d chess has existed for decades, it was in star trek TNG like 30 years ago. it's just shorthand for complicated strategizing, it has nothing to do with goofy internet conspiracy dipshits lol
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Both, it's visually depicted but also used as a metaphor for the events of the episode.
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at any rate the current usage definitely predates trump This blog post from 2009 has an image referencing a meme about "11 dimensional chess" in relation to Obama: https://www.ghostinthemachine.net/the-myth-of-11-dimensional-chess/
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Here's a quick picture of the original. Also fitting for the metaphor, the 3d chess never specifies any rules, and there's no actual reason the added dimension would lead to a more complex game. But as a visual metaphor, it works by implying just that.
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BonHair posted:Also fitting for the metaphor, the 3d chess never specifies any rules, don't worry, trekkies overanalyzed it and came up with some https://www.chessvariants.com/3d.dir/startrek.html
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Thanks to a friend giving me a hand-me-down Samsung TV, I've been enjoying having Samsung+ channels on as background noise, including the RiffTrax one. They did a rerun of one of their live shows, and announced that there would be a couple shorts courtesy of Richard Kyanka. Naturally my ears pricked up and I sat down to watch. When they got to showing the clip, they said "this is from Richard Kyanka, it's his 5 year old daughter Lauren, with animation done by Something Awful [BEEEEEP]" They just censored what I assume is the "dot.com" part. Or maybe it was Shmorky's name (the animation looked like their work)? Anyway just curious if someone had some insight into that.
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JacquelineDempsey posted:Thanks to a friend giving me a hand-me-down Samsung TV, I've been enjoying having Samsung+ channels on as background noise, including the RiffTrax one. I assume it was the Jack The Giant Killer live. I have it on my computer and seems like it was just the "dot com". Maybe Samsung didn't want to have a direct SA URL mentioned on their TV channel. There's no bleeping on the Rifftrax's own version.
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Here's a question on another Republican: if Nixon was so obviously going to win in 1972, and he did by an enormous landslide, why did he go through all the effort of Watergate? What was the point in risking everything when he was going to win anyway?
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lobsterminator posted:I assume it was the Jack The Giant Killer live. I have it on my computer and seems like it was just the "dot com". Maybe Samsung didn't want to have a direct SA URL mentioned on their TV channel. There's no bleeping on the Rifftrax's own version. Yeah, that was the one. And your explanation makes some sense, though it seems weird that Samsung would give a poo poo about these dead gay forums (especially since all that was bleeped was the "dot com", so anyone could Google "something awful" anyway). Thanks for checking and the reply!
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two fish posted:Here's a question on another Republican: if Nixon was so obviously going to win in 1972, and he did by an enormous landslide, why did he go through all the effort of Watergate? What was the point in risking everything when he was going to win anyway? Apart from the fact that he was a paranoid lunatic, he set up a security apparatus that was inevitably going to end up in something like watergate on account of being full of the weirdest, most incompetent people possible at the time. Read up on the life of G Gordon Liddy if you're interested in the full extent of that clown show.
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where did the "...oh my" titling come from? As in "nouns, other nouns, and third nouns, oh my!"
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Wizard of Oz.
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Edit: drat, beaten. But yeah it's a fun old flick. Had some neat camera tricks for the time, I think the tornado effect was so good it was reused a number of times in other projects iirc
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To this day it remains unquestionably the scariest looking tornado in any movie. Along with other intense and scary moments. Kids movies were no joke back in the day.
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I remember being so terrified of the Wicked Witch of the West that my parents had to pause and let me get my stuffed bear for reassurance.
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I wonder, was Wicked the first significant work with the "you how the villain of that famous piece of media? They're good actually (or at least relatable)"? Is that where the whole apologia trend began (ref. Loki, Cruella, Maleficent, etc)?
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regulargonzalez posted:I wonder, was Wicked the first significant work with the "you how the villain of that famous piece of media? They're good actually (or at least relatable)"? Is that where the whole apologia trend began (ref. Loki, Cruella, Maleficent, etc)? check out Paradise Lost, op
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Surely there are others, but Hook also fits, right?
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Does A Night in the lonesome October count?
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regulargonzalez posted:I wonder, was Wicked the first significant work with the "you how the villain of that famous piece of media? They're good actually (or at least relatable)"? Is that where the whole apologia trend began (ref. Loki, Cruella, Maleficent, etc)? What about this one? 
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BonHair posted:Surely there are others, but Hook also fits, right? idk, he's a pretty evil bastard throughout the movie. Even when he's nice/relatable, it's artifice to further his stated plan to emotionally destroy Peter Pan
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I just watched this video of a blacksmith making some oil lamps, and it made me wonder: how come the wick itself doesn't burn? I get that the fuel travels up it by capillary action, and that's what burns, but I'm not sure how that means the wick doesn't burn. Does it start burning if the lamp runs out of oil? Also, here's the video. I really like this guy's content, I find it very relaxing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idn6_frgw2s
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