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Hyperlynx posted:Where would I go, on these great forums of ours, for game recommendations? Spec ops: the line is a game that a lot of people are going to recommend, and now that I'm looking it up, I can't believe that it's almost 11 years old
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And add to that the visual hierarchy of faces on posters. That's why you end up with actors faces underneath the wrong names on posters that have them side by side. Are 'and introducing ...' credits a big thing anymore? One example I can think of is Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, who ended their feature credits with Ke Huy Quan, who was a completely unknown kid at the time
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Qubee posted:the Middle East is stupid I think this is a very weird conclusion to draw from this. The guy who did it is obviously smarter than you since he both saw the nature of the scratch, and what you'd pay. But then again, not that smart, since he didn't have the good sense to tell you to come back in half an our. In Europe or North America, they would have done the 'repair' out of sight. And charged A LOT more for it
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Hyperlynx posted:I'm still waiting for them to release gigapedes before I upgrade. If they weren't going to bother counting the the legs, they sure as hell weren't going to get all the Greek and Latin poo poo correct either
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DildenAnders posted:What if I don't like my current body chemistry? Yes, much better to make sure the only body chemistry going on is your body decaying underground
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Jun 7, 2023 07:32
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To continue the sub line of questioning: How helpful would it be to kill the other four people in a stuck sub with a capacity of five? Would you really survive five times as long? It feels like maybe you wouldn't because of the way the air mixture works. That all is ignoring the extra breathing caused by the struggle of bludgeoning someone to death with a bluetooth controller
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Jokerpilled Drudge posted:pages back but I am deeply involved in alternative transit, have travelled around many cities all over the world and have never in my life seen a placebo beg button. Much easier to imagine people are just dumb as poo poo and don't understand the light cycles In some places in Amsterdam (and I guess probably the rest of the Netherlands too), the button activates the ticking signal for blind people (ticks or beeps more rapidly when it's green) but it doesn't actually signal demand. So still not a true placebo button even if it has no bearing on the light cycle
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Trapick posted:Yah Canada is *just now* moving to ban imports of ivory, it's in a 30 day consultation at the moment - https://www.gazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p1/2023/2023-06-24/html/reg3-eng.html - and even then I think it still allows for domestic sales. So depending where you are it might be no big deal. Only 33 years after the international ban came into effect!
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Trapick posted:I always rinse pop bottles and cans after drinking them, because I don't want them to get moldy or attract ants or wherever while they wait in the recycling bin. But I just realized, I drink mostly diet/sugar-free pop, do I need to do that? There's no calories in there for the ants, would they just leave it alone? How are the ants supposed to know that there are no calories? The drinks smell sweet all the same. It might be that they're sensitive enough to tell the difference between sugar and some artificial sweeteners, but in combination with other ingredients, I think they're still going to be attracted. In fact, attracting insects to drinks without any calories may be a great way to exhaust them or maybe even kill them. They do all the work of getting there and drinking, and there's no reward. I've got a question of my own too: My phone battery lasts much longer when I charge it using my laptop charger (likely a 45w charger, but the brick is underneath my bed so I'm not going to check) than when I charge it using a wireless charger. Is what I'm seeing a software thing with the charging being limited or something, or is it really in the hardware of the battery? Phone is a Pixel 5 if it matters
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Yak Shaves Dot Com posted:The heck is a snipe, and why are some good or bad? Do some top-of-page posts not have enough stuff in them to continue discussion or something? They are neither good nor bad. On some other forums, people sincerely celebrate getting the top post. I imagine that was done here too, once upon a time, but now it's only something that's done ironically to bring back that memory or the practice on other forums. It's a bit of the serious/unserious thing going on here. Like, you can post seriously, but don't let anyone see that you're taking it seriously because you can't have people thinking that you actually care. A low content post that opens a new page sometimes feels bad because it makes it harder to see for new page visitors that the discussion was about
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Alan Smithee posted:any way to get to a larger version? Other browsers (notably on ios retina devices) use bigger versions, so you can try using one of those and fishing the favicon out of your temporary internet files. That is, if the website owner has set up the site to serve the best possible quality favicon. This is somewhat standard now. For example, most favicon generators will give you a set of different dimensions, rather than just the one favicon
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Tree Bucket posted:Are there any good stories that end with "and it was all a dream"? Inception. Or was it? 
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obi_ant posted:What is the point of companies not allowing price adjustments online? I purchased a couple of glasses two days ago and they went and they went on sale today. I emailed about getting a price adjustment and they said they wouldn’t be able to do it. So I would have to place and new order and return the original one. It might be that whoever processes their payments isn't set up for partial refunds. So if they'd refund part of what you paid, you'd still be able to claim a full refund from your card issuer for something else. This really shouldn't be a thing anymore, but still occurs sometimes. Or their own software may not have ways to do partial refunds at all
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Is there a smart watch/fitness tracker thread? Or separate threads for those two? The most recent Fitbit app upgrade made me hate their new interface so much that I'm seriously thinking about getting something else
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BonHair posted:Actually, millennial just means those drat kids with their skateboards and TikToks and whatever millennial means young people you hate just like boomer means old people you hate and yes, there can be overlap
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abelwingnut posted:i was always told accurate is a highly effective drug with highly volatile side effects. so much so that it was a real danger to take. Assuming you did mean accutane: From what I understand, the bad side effect mainly have to do with menstruation, pregnancy and fertility in women. Some doctors still claim that it's also bad for male fertility or can lead to birth defects and miscarriages when used in men who then impregnate women, but I think there was never any proof for that and it sounds far fetched anyway. There was some debate here in the Netherlanders about fifteen years ago about it being prescribed off label for contraception if girls responded too strongly to the real contraception drugs, but it was just the Christian parties crowing 'off label use of meds is wrong and should be banned' because that was a more palatable message than 'contraception is wrong and you're going to hell.' If you're thinking about using it, though, consult your doctor before doing anything!
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Endymion FRS MK1 posted:I bought a case of energy drinks from Amazon and inside were these seed things. Are they seeds? Do I need to be concerned? It's rice op More than half the world population eats it on a daily basis It's in your package because whoever you bought stuff from is either too cheap to buy a box of desiccant packages or too lazy to empty used boxes before using them again
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credburn posted:Are anime goons called TLO now? And what does that mean? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5y3NQi_RAY
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Get it replaced. You may get used to not chewing on that side after a while, but it's still not healthy. It's going to take a while for your gums to close (which you don't want!) and all kind crap will get in there, leading to inflamed gums and who knows what else more
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butt dickus posted:my friend has a WRX and has expressed in the past that they want to drive it on a track. i'm pretty sure this is a thing that is possible, how do i get this experience for them? Google "track day [location]"
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Bright Bart posted:I got contact today. They offered to let me return the goods despite their policy on opened products. They did not agree to refund shipping or pay for shipping it back to them, that's on me. Leave the review up. gently caress those guys. If I were shopping for things I'd be very happy to find a review like yours that highlights their lies
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dokmo posted:Do asians object to the use of the word oriental? A lot of them do, but there will be regional and individual differences. The ones who care about what you call them usually will object
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Bright Bart posted:I have zero doubts there's a Department of Oriental Studies. University of London School of Oriental and African Studies is a world leading name in non western regional studies. And the name is still that
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dokmo posted:I received a message from an acquaintance who wrote "blah blah blah... and walla, it's done!" Is this is likely to be an ironic misspelling? Or can I make fun of her for not knowing voila? It's common enough, but likely not mean to be ironic. I think it's usually because people have only ever heard it and aren't aware of the word being French originally
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Mine showed Finnish text yesterday. Good to see that I'm not the only one seeing weird text
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Part of it is the growth of leasing as a model. Those cars need to be resold quickly after three years, so you can only get them in the most boring colors that will sell easily So that accounts for all the colors of leased cars, as well as the cars that were previously leased
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Fruits of the sea posted:Strongly recommend bookmarking your ‘subscriptions’ page and never visiting YouTube’s front page. We all browse the forums this way, so why is this not the default way to do literally everything else for everyone?
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two fish posted:UN peacekeepers aren't able to fire at anyone, right? So why are they deployed places? What's their function? Their function is to act as a barrier. Be between the warring parties to say 'if you want to go and genocide your neighbors, you'll first have to murder 200 innocent soldiers from Jordan/Argentina/Canada/wherever' and that kind of works well enough in a lot of cases Edit: This emphatically didn't work in Bosnia, because the Serbs didn't give a poo poo about taking British soldiers hostage and in another instance Dutch light infantry were outgunned so badly that they had to look on as the Serbs took hundreds of Bosnian men away to be exterminated EricBauman fucked around with this message at 20:40 on Mar 4, 2024 |
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bee posted:When I was at university, I remember my biology professor talking about someone a hundred or so years ago (quite possibly a nurse) using circles or big dots to visually represent a data set. Possibly the data set had something to do with the spread of disease or something healthcare related, but it was the way they used the graphics to show the data that really got people's attention at the time. Basically it was a story about how you can get people to take data seriously if you present it in a particular way. It's probably Florence Nightingale, who some people say "invented infographics" to show that the health outcomes of the Crimean war were even worse than the battlefields 
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Earwicker posted:"the artist is dead" is not a universally true philosophy, it's one point of view. Easy to say, given that Barthes is dead
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Slimy Hog posted:This conversation is dumb. Half of Robin Hood's animation is from other movies, so they kind of had to have the snake do the same thing it did in Jungle Book to be able to reuse those bits So the question should really be why the snake does it in Jungle Book. It does it in Robin Hood because it does it in Jungle Book
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Earwicker posted:is that related to some of the animations/characters from Robin Hood showing up completely out of context as a hallucination in 9 to 5? ive always wondered about that The Dolly Parton thing? Or something else? I have no idea. I just know that you can find a million examples of sequences from Jungle Book and Aristocats dressed up for reuse in Robin Hood
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two fish posted:What's up with all these spam pages on Facebook where there's a whole bunch of presumably fake accounts going "amen" to AI-generated images? They will start sending people to a page full of ads or dropshipped crap once they have enough followers. And they won't do that by posting a link to their timeline. They'll post a picture, with the link in the first (pinned) reply, because FB prioritizes image posts an deprioritizes link posts
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Do we have a frequent flyer (program) thread, or is that just the business travel thread in bfc?
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alnilam posted:I vaguely remember something from a story, probably a fantasy or medieval-ish one, where a messenger delivers a sealed letter to a nobleman or whatever and it says "please kill the bearer of this letter" because to the guy who wrote the message, the messenger guy has become a problem somehow. Road to Perdition did this, I think, with Tom Hanks delivering the 'Kill Tom Hanks' message
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I think bans are the only real solution, since there's really little room to tax the desirability out of tobacco. Research has shown that smokers (at least those who can afford it) are willing to pay even $60 for a pack if taxes are raised that far. And the "anyone born after 200x can't buy tobacco" model is actually fairly generous if you compare it to what happens when other things get put on the list of illegal substances (or alcohol during prohibition). At least the old people who are super addicted still get to buy cigarettes. I recognize that this is also politics: Only people who can't vote yet get their cigarettes taken away from them, so no one is going to vote against the govt over this ban. But I hope it works! And that the tories get voted out of office for all of their other crimes
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In actual practice he'd likely use Windsor or Sussex, just for administrative reasons. Or who knows maybe he managed to get a passport with his mom's last name on it and he goes by Spencer. The UK passport office will have guidelines for this and because any govt ID he gets in the US will be based on the information in his British document, that's where his name will come from
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Arbite posted:I recall him being called Lieutenant Wales in some news report way back. Depends on the jurisdiction. Panorama rights (that's the term you'll want to google for) is a mess. And it's likely to get worse!
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Earwicker posted:the idea that crystals have magical powers is silly and bullshit but it's not a "conspiracy theory" per se because the belief, in and of itself, doesn't involve a conspiracy. There is a "wellness to qanon" pipeline, though. From yoga and crystals (so especially the more ~spiritual~ side of the wellness spectrum) to rightwing conspiracies. Strikingly, there is no leftwing equivalent
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credburn posted:Is there a way to find out if I'm on anyone's ignore list? And, if I am, how many? You know that people will put you on ignore just for this post, right?
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