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I'm so sick and tired of all the Willy Wonka poo poo, I don't think the internet has ever beaten a dead horse harder than this.
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The crappy warehouse in Glasgow Story? Genuinely one of the most hilarious things
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Mar 3, 2024 12:17
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People talk about blue raspberry, red velvet, pink lemonade, etc. like it's bad to just change the color of something and insist it's a whole new thing. But that's actually great, they should do it more.
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Mar 6, 2024 05:02
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steinrokkan posted:I'm so sick and tired of all the Willy Wonka poo poo, I don't think the internet has ever beaten a dead horse harder than this. Shall we soothe you with some billionaire Titanic submarine memes? Or some Barbenheimer? Or that ten foot tall goth lady from whichever video game that everyone went so horny for? Or that "Friday" music video? Or #Kony2012?
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Mar 6, 2024 05:23
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steinrokkan posted:I'm so sick and tired of all the Willy Wonka poo poo, I don't think the internet has ever beaten a dead horse harder than this. I am on the Internet and have no idea what you're talking about. I am *aware* there is a new Wonka movie and stars that kid from the Dune movie but beyond that I've not been subjected to anything about Wonka except for the occasional reference to the Gene Wilder film.
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Mar 6, 2024 06:57
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credburn posted:I am on the Internet and have no idea what you're talking about. I am *aware* there is a new Wonka movie and stars that kid from the Dune movie but beyond that I've not been subjected to anything about Wonka except for the occasional reference to the Gene Wilder film. Some con artists held a Wonka themed event and it was disappointing compared to their AI-made promo material. The particular thing people noticed was one poor woman dressed as an Oompa Loompa.
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Mar 6, 2024 07:12
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Doctor Spaceman posted:Some con artists held a Wonka themed event and it was disappointing compared to their AI-made promo material. Is that it? That was a kind of small thing, wasn't it? Or has it "gone viral" as the kids these days say?
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Mar 6, 2024 07:16
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I live about an hour from the Willy Wonka thing and it's just hilarious, the fact someone thought you could just chuck a few plastic novelty huge chocolate bars in a warehouse and pay 2 bored teenagers to paint their faces orange and then charge children £35, thirty five loving quid, in this economy, to drink half a cup of lemonade and eat 3 jellybeans and get scared by a literal 16 year old child with a shiny mask on called "The Unknown". That's mind boggling, and incredibly brazen in itself. Feel a bit bad for the parents and the children but what did they expect turning up to a warehouse on the docks of Glasgow on a cold February weekend? The parents I can't help but see as naïve, for the kids who were disappointed by the event I only hope this serves as a real Kickstarter into the mind of the adult world and how much it will try and exploit and wring every single penny from you. It's really quite a depressing story about greed, false promises and human exploitation. The only thing that would possibly make it funnier is if the kids were compensated by being taken to the cinema and made to watch Dune 2 so they could get a proper whiplash from "cheap, flimsy experience" to "overblown, pompous nonsense". Whole range of human emotion covered in a day there
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Mar 6, 2024 09:07
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Gripweed posted:People talk about blue raspberry, red velvet, pink lemonade, etc. like it's bad to just change the color of something and insist it's a whole new thing. But that's actually great, they should do it more. Well once upon a time pink lemonade meant it had some grapefruit too but that seems to have passed.
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Mar 6, 2024 13:22
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Powered Descent posted:Shall we soothe you with some billionaire Titanic submarine memes? Or some Barbenheimer? Or that ten foot tall goth lady from whichever video game that everyone went so horny for? Lady Dimitrescu from Resident Evil: Village. It was pretty disappointing to play the game and find out she's the first boss and then is absent from the rest of the game
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Mar 6, 2024 13:51
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Rick posted:Well once upon a time pink lemonade meant it had some grapefruit too but that seems to have passed. Pink lemonade was invented by a guy at a fairground who ran out of clean water and used dirty clown water instead.
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Mar 6, 2024 14:20
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credburn posted:Is that it? That was a kind of small thing, wasn't it? Or has it "gone viral" as the kids these days say? It's got a lot more fanart than you'd expect
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Mar 6, 2024 15:05
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Gripweed posted:Lady Dimitrescu from Resident Evil: Village. You should play Baldur's Gate 3. The same voice actress plays Orin the Red in it.
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Mar 9, 2024 04:03
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doverhog posted:You should play Baldur's Gate 3. The same voice actress plays Orin the Red in it. I could never get into dating games
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Mar 9, 2024 05:14
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Unfortunately you can't date her, though it has been requested.
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Mar 9, 2024 06:08
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Gripweed posted:I could never get into dating games That part's completely optional. It's more about whether you like (a modified version of) D&D's combat system, because that's the majority of the game. The stuff around the combat is very well done and contributes a huge amount to what makes the game good, but if you just don't like the combat system then you're not going to get far. Great game though. I've finished it twice and started a third time.
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Mar 9, 2024 08:14
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The combat is great and all, but the story with all the companions you can date (or not) is also a big part of it. There is actual good writing and acting in there. Orin the Red though is a shapeshifting demigoddess of murder, the lash of bhaal, that no matter how much you want want will never date you. 
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Mar 9, 2024 08:37
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Instead of complaining about Neil DeGrasse Tyson’s dumb nitpicks of sci-fi movies, people should just ignore him. The media would stop boosting him if it stopped getting interaction
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Mar 11, 2024 01:08
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thetoughestbean posted:Instead of complaining about Neil DeGrasse Tyson’s dumb nitpicks of sci-fi movies, people should just ignore him. The media would stop boosting him if it stopped getting interaction The classic ignore the problem and it will go away strategy.
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Mar 11, 2024 01:14
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Anyone who voted for Stone should be forcibly removed from the academy and preferably this planet.
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Mar 11, 2024 03:39
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Atticus_1354 posted:The classic ignore the problem and it will go away strategy. When the problem is people giving annoying assholes attention, yes, ignoring them solves the problem
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Mar 11, 2024 03:47
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thetoughestbean posted:When the problem is people giving annoying assholes attention, yes, ignoring them solves the problem Yes, if everyone ignores him, he goes away. But if you think he's famous because people know he's wrong, then you're in for a big surprise
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Mar 11, 2024 06:28
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thetoughestbean posted:Instead of complaining about Neil DeGrasse Tyson’s dumb nitpicks of sci-fi movies, people should just ignore him. The media would stop boosting him if it stopped getting interaction Who's that? I don't pay any attention to him. Doing my part.
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Mar 11, 2024 13:44
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A British knighthood should come with a legal requirement to train and equip a company of men. The British army should be largely dissolved during times of peace because if conflict arises they can rely on these knight companies to serve as Britain’s first line of defense
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Mar 11, 2024 15:13
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a Military loyal to their local warlord, instead of state is such a good, stable system. I hope King gets to keep his own battalion(s) to guard against a coup?
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Mar 11, 2024 16:21
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Issaries posted:a Military loyal to their local warlord, instead of state is such a good, stable system. I doubt Stephen Fry is going to try to overthrow the king. But if he did, I think that’s the exact kind of innovation and dynamism the British government is in severe need of.
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Mar 11, 2024 16:35
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Gripweed posted:I doubt Stephen Fry is going to try to overthrow the king. But if he did, I think that’s the exact kind of innovation and dynamism the British government is in severe need of. Would he be King Fry or King Stephen? I vote For King Fry the 1st
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Mar 11, 2024 16:40
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Jen heir rick posted:Who's that? I don't pay any attention to him. Doing my part. Good man
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Mar 11, 2024 16:57
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I only experience Neil DeGrasse Tyson in the form of Youtube shorts and I find him quite likeable, not quite as likeable as the irish guy that makes woodwork with historic techniques but much more likeable than those irritating Australians that get drunk and make bad jokes
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Mar 11, 2024 18:11
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That's just having a bit of charisma. Most of the other pop-sci guys have either charisma of a dead fish or peddle quackery like aliens build pyramids.
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Mar 11, 2024 18:21
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Issaries posted:Would he be King Fry or King Stephen? King Stephen (unless he chose a different name). English monarchs don't have surnames, so his name would just be Stephen John. He would presumably be the first monarch of the House of Fry, though, as Charles is of the House of Windsor, which is like a surname but not.
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Mar 11, 2024 18:44
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Give Sir Patrick Stewart the HMS Queen Elizabeth, and Sir Ian McKellen the HMS Prince of Wales, and let them turn them into delightful party barges.
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Mar 11, 2024 18:59
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Powered Descent posted:Give Sir Patrick Stewart the HMS Queen Elizabeth, and Sir Ian McKellen the HMS Prince of Wales, and let them turn them into delightful party barges. Both of those guys are insanely old. I wouldn’t force any responsibility on them greater than the equipping and training of a company of men under arms.
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Mar 11, 2024 19:05
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Instead of banning Tiktok, they should ban Youtube Shorts. Because those suck!
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Mar 14, 2024 04:53
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Gripweed posted:Instead of banning Tiktok, they should ban Youtube Shorts. Because those suck! Hey, let me ask a question about YouTube shorts. I'm not really a YouTube person, but to me, Shorts are exactly the same as a regular YouTube video but with some features taken away. They must do something. Do they integrate in a different way with Facebook or something? What exactly is a "short" as opposed to a "video" and why would I ever want to view a short in lieu of a video?
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credburn posted:Hey, let me ask a question about YouTube shorts. I'm not really a YouTube person, but to me, Shorts are exactly the same as a regular YouTube video but with some features taken away. They must do something. Do they integrate in a different way with Facebook or something? What exactly is a "short" as opposed to a "video" and why would I ever want to view a short in lieu of a video? YouTube, like every other site, is trying to be TikTok because that's what's popular now. That's all the explanation there is. It won't work because TikTok already exists and it makes YouTube worse at the thing people actually go to YouTube for, but that's the point of it. You can use something like Enhancer for YouTube to automatically convert them into normal YouTube videos, or do so manually by editing the URL to the normalyoutube video format, eg. take a URL like https://www.youtube.com/shorts/QRofTihf48Q and change it to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRofTihf48Q.
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Mar 14, 2024 05:34
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Tiggum posted:YouTube, like every other site, is trying to be TikTok because that's what's popular now. That's all the explanation there is. It won't work because TikTok already exists and it makes YouTube worse at the thing people actually go to YouTube for, but that's the point of it. I know there are workarounds, but what I really don't get is what Shorts do. If you were trying to pitch me, a YouTube exec, Shorts, what would you say? Because "it's just like a regular video but it takes away features like volume and timeline control" isn't a selling point. It must do something else.
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credburn posted:I know there are workarounds, but what I really don't get is what Shorts do. If you were trying to pitch me, a YouTube exec, Shorts, what would you say? Because "it's just like a regular video but it takes away features like volume and timeline control" isn't a selling point. It must do something else. That's the beauty of it, it doesn't do anything!
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Mar 14, 2024 06:20
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Gripweed posted:I doubt Stephen Fry is going to try to overthrow the king. But if he did, I think that’s the exact kind of innovation and dynamism the British government is in severe need of. As criminal convictions or other public misdeeds are common grounds for the revocation of knighthood, I doubt Stephen Fry will be receiving a knighthood on account of having been in prison for three months in his youth. Which is a shame, because he definitely deserves one more than Harvey Weinstein did.
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I often wondered why Stephen Fry was never knighted while Hugh Laurie was and it always comes back to that criminal conviction. But he did get some fun anecdotes about the quirks of prison life he got to share on QI and that's a lot more memorable in my book.
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