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  1. Sat, 01-11-2014, 08:03 AM #1
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    It already happened, Orwell just got some of the details wrong.

    - We don't fight over northern Africa so much as central Asia.
    - Everything we do is watched, though not through our tv sets, but what we type and where we go on the internet, or texts.
    - It's still 1st world versus 2nd with everyone else in the middle, but it's NATO/EU versus former Warsaw Pact/China.
    - Thoughtcrime is all too real.
    - The NSA spies on its own citizens, rather than looking outward, while saying they look outward, but they're not so foolish to call themselves something contradictory.
    - Doublethink is used all the time by our government to get re-elected, not so much the proles and outer party.

    Regarding Newspeak/Novlang, every scandal in the western world is now suffixed with -gate, because the media are morons. CNN only asks if things are good or bad (they might as well say ungood), and we use fewer and fewer English words as time goes on, while constantly making new words by contracting two others, portmanteaus, always stupid ones. "Twerk", "netizen", "netiquette", etc.
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    Turned on the food disposer to drain some sink water... spent the next 2 hours cleaning up all the water that leaked into the under-sink area and working on replacing the disposer. Luckily I had a spare disposer in the garage (brand new in box, don't ask me why I have that), but then I made the mistake of removing the lower retaining ring which in turn released the sink flange and ruined the plumber's putty that sealed it. Of course I don't have any plumber's putty, so I'll have to go buy some. In the meantime, half of the kitchen sink is out of commission. Half hour of cleaning dishes leads to 3 hours of repair work.


    “For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
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  3. Thu, 01-23-2014, 12:24 AM #3
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    Finished Beyond Two Souls... possibly the worst game ever. Ridiculous storyline, terrible gameplay, unlikable characters, and a terrible experience all around. I think they spent most of the budget on the high priced Hollywood actors, and stole the story from the Carrie movies. Ellen Page gets to be a bitchy little tough chick, same as she tries to be in real life. What child names their invisible friend "Aidan"??

    The gameplay is an afterthought, used mainly to lead you through the painfully cliched storyline. Someone else said it when I lamented how easy games are now compared to early generations, but the game's developers seem more interested in the player getting through the whole story than actually being challenged by the gameplay. Failing a mission doesn't have any consequences in the game, you still move on to the next mission regardless. It just means you don't get the pointless achievement.

    I'll say that the twist is kinda cool, if you can stand playing the game to almost the end, which is a montage of cut scenes tying up all loose ends and the writers telling you what the afterlife is like. What pretentious bullshit. Terrible terrible game.


    “For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
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    Cheap, abrasive toilet paper: those things should be outlawed.

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  5. Fri, 02-07-2014, 10:05 PM #5
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    Quote Originally Posted by Buffalobiian View Post
    Cheap, abrasive toilet paper: those things should be outlawed.
    Yeah but they tend to generate less dust. I use a single-ply cheapy toilet paper at home because I got tired of the layer of dust on everything in the bathroom from using the plush quilted stuff.

    My bitch: my home computer keeps crashing while I'm playing BF4. I'd buy new components to replace the i7-930/X58/ATI HD6970 but I spent >$1k a few months ago for a new system that I use at work.


    “For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
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    Blame bf4, not the comp

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    Quote Originally Posted by Buffalobiian View Post
    Blame bf4, not the comp
    Nah, it doesn't crash my office PC. And the home PC crashes a lot even when I'm not playing BF4. Considering all the hate and angry comments I see about BF4, it's been quite stable and problem free for me. I had the same problem connecting to games like everyone else but that's apparently been resolved with the last patch. Now it's just little annoyances in the game but it rarely crashes. Knock on wood.


    “For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
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  8. Wed, 02-12-2014, 09:30 AM #8
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    My community practice class decided to order some custom shirts, we were given the option of choosing one shirt or two. AFTER we picked, the person in charge said that one shirt will cost 420$, so logically two shirts will cost... 560$. Can someone explain this fuckery?
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  9. Wed, 02-12-2014, 09:45 AM #9
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    What are these "custom" shirts?
    Why did they not have the price beforehand?
    Are these USD?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Buffalobiian View Post
    What are these "custom" shirts?
    Why did they not have the price beforehand?
    Are these USD?
    A) Just printed logo or something
    B) Apparently it goes like this, if we reach 40 shirts we get a discount, we didn`t, but she decided it was "unfair" for those that picked two so she`s giving the discount to doubles while charging extra to singles. Beyond retarded in my opinion.
    C) Dominican pesos, 400 = roughly 10 dollars.
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  11. Wed, 02-12-2014, 10:12 AM #11
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    Actually that's usually how it works, buy more -> save more. It encourages people to buy in volume.


    “For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
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  12. Wed, 02-12-2014, 10:22 AM #12
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    Right, but you shouldn`t add extra weight to those that buy less. If you buy a shirt for 10 pesos and I decide to buy two, logically I should pay 20 pesos. Instead we`re charging 14 to whoever bought one, while whoever bought two ends up paying 8 per shirt, because we didn`t collectively achieved a discount we never qualified for in the first place (there`s only 20 of us, assuming EVERYONE would buy two is ridiculous.)
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  13. Wed, 02-12-2014, 01:51 PM #13
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    lol, domenican pesos. I just thought "wtf, a shirt for 420 Dollars? GTFO!"

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    Are Dominican pesos written with a $ sign? They aren't even called dollars.
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    Quote Originally Posted by shinta|hikari View Post
    Are Dominican pesos written with a $ sign? They aren't even called dollars.
    It's the dollar sign.
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    I heard once that the $ started as a symbol for pesos
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    (source: Wikipedia)
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    I've been without power for over 16 hours here in Augusta. Fuck this ice storm...
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  18. Thu, 02-13-2014, 08:11 PM #18
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    Quote Originally Posted by Marik View Post
    I've been without power for over 16 hours here in Augusta. Fuck this ice storm...
    Hope you have a fireplace and maybe a gas generator.


    “For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
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    Would many layers of clothes suffice? The lack of hot food (I use electric stoves) would be the main torture for me.

    And Internet too I suppose.

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    Do you have a bbq/grill and some propane or charcoal? That would take care of hot food, and the nostalgia and campiness of cooking over a fire would be fun family time. Keeping warm would be the least of my worries, what with a fireplace and warm clothing.


    “For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
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