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MrYenko
Jun 18, 2012

#2 isn't ALWAYS bad...

Bonster posted:

...Some of you are massively underestimating the need for natural light in your living environment.

Ya, but we're talking about goons, here. A dark, windowless crevasse with high speed internet, odd machinery in most of the rooms, and an easily defended entrance is pretty much the ideal.

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Tunicate
May 15, 2012

The Tomb of the Unknown Tool Goon

rap music
Mar 11, 2006

Follow up: Tore out a small separate room in the basement that had been made with scrap lumber. They told me it was a room for storing cakes but I found out it was the old man's jerk shack when I found a huge stash of vintage porno under the floorboards.

GreenNight
Feb 19, 2006
Turning the light on the darkest places, you and I know we got to face this now. We got to face this now.

Ahhh, awesome. Nice find.

Facebook Aunt
Oct 4, 2008

wiggle wiggle




Do not eat the cakes.

Bad Munki
Nov 4, 2008

We're all mad here.


Watch the tape, but expect to either die a week after or find the feds knocking on your door.

MrYenko
Jun 18, 2012

#2 isn't ALWAYS bad...

"Anyone want to buy my collection of vintage 60+ mags?"

wesleywillis
Dec 30, 2016

SUCK A MALE CAMEL'S DICK WITH MIRACLE WHIP!!
Floorboard porn is possibly better than forest porn.

spog
Aug 7, 2004

It's your own bloody fault.

MrYenko posted:

"Anyone want to buy my collection of vintage 60+ mags?"

Can you sell pron on ebay?

sorry...'vintage erotica'

Wasabi the J
Jan 23, 2008

MOM WAS RIGHT

wesleywillis posted:

Floorboard porn is possibly better than forest porn.

I don't like the knowledge of knowing the people who jerked off to the found porn

Suspect Bucket
Jan 15, 2012

SHRIMPDOR WAS A MAN
I mean, HE WAS A SHRIMP MAN
er, maybe also A DRAGON
or possibly
A MINOR LEAGUE BASEBALL TEAM
BUT HE WAS STILL
SHRIMPDOR

spog posted:

Can you sell pron on ebay?

sorry...'vintage erotica'

There's a collector for everything.

Slugworth
Feb 18, 2001

If two grown men can't make a pervert happy for a few minutes in order to watch a film about zombies, then maybe we should all just move to Iran!

Wasabi the J posted:

I don't like the knowledge of knowing the people who jerked off to the found porn
You don't watch enough Antiques Roadshow, friend. The value is all in the provenance.

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

I'm torn. On the one hand, no one today has a dedicated porno room anymore, and it seems like something a modern lady or gentlemen should call their own. On the other, with tablets and smartphones around, which room isn't the porno room?

nm
Jan 28, 2008

"I saw Minos the Space Judge holding a golden sceptre and passing sentence upon the Martians. There he presided, and around him the noble Space Prosecutors sought the firm justice of space law."

My Lovely Horse posted:

I'm torn. On the one hand, no one today has a dedicated porno room anymore, and it seems like something a modern lady or gentlemen should call their own. On the other, with tablets and smartphones around, which room isn't the porno room?

The lunch room, Steve. For the last goddamn time.

Jaded Burnout
Jul 10, 2004


nm posted:

The lunch room, Steve. For the last goddamn time.

Just wait til you try the hotdog stuffed crust.

Liquid Communism
Mar 9, 2004

коммунизм хранится в яичках

Polio Vax Scene posted:

imagine this during a heavy rainstorm

WHAT?

I SAID IMAGINE THIS DURING A HEAVY RAINSTORM

Tin roof in a heavy rainstorm is actually pretty awesome. Always put me right to sleep.

Ashcans
Jan 2, 2006

Let's do the space-time warp again!

When I was a kid we had a tin roof on our porch and it was kind of cool to sit there in storm with all the rain hitting it.

Hail was a little less relaxing.

FCKGW
May 21, 2006

spog posted:

Can you sell pron on ebay?

sorry...'vintage erotica'

You used to be, not sure about today.

Back in the 56k days buying a 650mb CD-R with porn on it from eBay was faster than downloading it!

Blue Footed Booby
Oct 4, 2006

got those happy feet

spog posted:

Can you sell pron on ebay?

sorry...'vintage erotica'

I've drunk-bought 70s comics off eBay that turned out to be smut, so I figure the worst case answer is "it depends."

FCKGW posted:

You used to be, not sure about today.

Back in the 56k days buying a 650mb CD-R with porn on it from eBay was faster than downloading it!

If you run the numbers, a station wagon full of hard drives still has a higher bandwidth than the fastest internet connection. The latency isn't so great, though.

Blue Footed Booby fucked around with this message at 02:28 on Aug 22, 2017

hailthefish
Oct 24, 2010

There's a reason google transfers large amounts of data by packing up a server and putting it on an airplane.

Not Wolverine
Jul 1, 2007

hailthefish posted:

There's a reason google transfers large amounts of data by packing up a server and putting it on an airplane.
So that's how cloud computing works. :aaaaa:

kid sinister
Nov 16, 2002

Crotch Fruit posted:

So that's how cloud computing works. :aaaaa:

You laugh, but that's how the idea for Netflix came about. IIRC, the creators had a college professor in the 90s ask them about ways to transfer large amounts of data with current tech, and one of the ideas was just to stick DVDs in the mail.

Queen_Combat
Jan 15, 2011
Netflix is older than Google.

tangy yet delightful
Sep 13, 2005



hailthefish posted:

There's a reason google transfers large amounts of data by packing up a server and putting it on an airplane.

https://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile/

Amazon trucks it.

Wasabi the J
Jan 23, 2008

MOM WAS RIGHT

Do they leave it on their own doorstep if no one answers in .03 nanoseconds?

Pompous Rhombus
Mar 11, 2007

Blue Footed Booby posted:

I've drunk-bought 70s comics off eBay that turned out to be smut, so I figure the worst case answer is "it depends."

I bought a few old ties at the tip (kind of a combination dump and thrift store, it's not really known as much for clothes but some do end up there). One day when I was hanging some up my partner noticed a leg peeking out on the bottom of the backside of a regular red patterned tie. She thought it was like a Rennaissance painting of a woman... unfolded the tie and nope, naked pic of a lady with 70s bush. I looked it up on eBay out of curiousity and they were selling for $60-200, I gave it away because that stuff's just not my steaze.

quote:

If you run the numbers, a station wagon full of hard drives still has a higher bandwidth than the fastest internet connection. The latency isn't so great, though.

This one and stock-picking cat are probably my two favourite animal stories: A Durban IT company pitted an 11-month-old bird armed with a 4GB memory stick against the ADSL service from the country's biggest web firm.

GreenNight
Feb 19, 2006
Turning the light on the darkest places, you and I know we got to face this now. We got to face this now.

This house has it all.

http://imgur.com/gallery/4X17e

RandomPauI
Nov 24, 2006


Grimey Drawer

It's a "The Sims" house made real.

Proteus Jones
Feb 28, 2013




$1.7M in Indianapolis. Hahahahaha.

Collateral Damage
Jun 13, 2009

I'm the lion on the gate trying to shield a yawn.

Darchangel
Feb 12, 2009

Tell him about the blower!


Liquid Communism posted:

Tin roof in a heavy rainstorm is actually pretty awesome. Always put me right to sleep.

Ditto. I actually have an app for that.


I gather from these photos that the "interior designer" really liked stone, round windows, huge fireplaces, and can lights. I've never seen so many can lights. And also hated stair railings. And straight lines/right angles.
That house *had* to have been built by someone who won the lottery, or otherwise became suddenly wealthy(ish).

I wouldn't even know what to do with a house that big. House my entire extended family, I guess.

GreenNight
Feb 19, 2006
Turning the light on the darkest places, you and I know we got to face this now. We got to face this now.

I want to see the HVAC in a place like that.

LvK
Feb 27, 2006

FIVE STARS!!

You know how old school FPS games had environments that were ostensibly real places, but had goofy layouts designed to maximize ease of movement and visual interest/identifiable landmarks? Often with low-red textures?

What I'm saying is that I want to play a multiplayer half-life mod in that house.

The Twinkie Czar
Dec 31, 2004
I went for super stud.
The story behind that mansion is almost exactly what you would expect.

quote:

The estate was the dream of Indy’s Jerry A. Hostetler, whom the Indy Star refers to as “the almost-famous pimp-turned-construction mini-magnate” in a 2012 piece. “Mr Big,” as the cops called Hostetler, bought the property in the 1960s when it was just a modest ranch home, at the age of 23. From there, he began buying up his neighbors’ houses and constructing a fantasy estate — in a style that can only be described as Midwestern Vegas Versailles.

...

“There were zero railings on any of these exterior landings or balconies. The thing was like a death trap prior,” Sanders said. “The owner spent over $100,000 just putting in those railings, and more just restoring it to livable conditions.”

there wolf
Jan 11, 2015

by Fluffdaddy

Darchangel posted:

Ditto. I actually have an app for that.


I gather from these photos that the "interior designer" really liked stone, round windows, huge fireplaces, and can lights. I've never seen so many can lights. And also hated stair railings. And straight lines/right angles.
That house *had* to have been built by someone who won the lottery, or otherwise became suddenly wealthy(ish).

I wouldn't even know what to do with a house that big. House my entire extended family, I guess.

With no doors on any bedrooms?

Darchangel
Feb 12, 2009

Tell him about the blower!



Yep, that sounds about right. It's designed by someone whose seen how rich people live, but only picked up on the superficial details. And apparently never evolved any taste over 40 years.


there wolf posted:

With no doors on any bedrooms?

No that house specifically. Just one that big. Though I suppose that does encourage family togetherness or something.

Control Volume
Dec 31, 2008


Isnt this a Hitman level?

`Nemesis
Dec 30, 2000

railroad graffiti

Try to count all the can lights

kid sinister
Nov 16, 2002
What building inspector signed off on so many frigging stairs with no hand rails?

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Bad Munki
Nov 4, 2008

We're all mad here.


kid sinister posted:

building inspector signed

Ha! Good one.

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