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| Topic | Watch out!!! |
| ParanoidObsessive 02/22/24 4:52:40 PM #6 | BoomerKuwanger posted...
Did you forget you made this topic already? Based on how confused their posts seem, I'm not sure they even remember their own name. BoomerKuwanger posted... Oh this is that foot guy who keeps making accounts isn't it That could be literally anyone on this board. Half the people here make a new account every few months and then pretend to be new users, in spite of the fact that this site hasn't had an actual new user for about a decade. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Should you not accept work if you feel like you're going to be lazy? |
| ParanoidObsessive 02/22/24 4:50:14 PM #5 | Lokarin posted...
Employees are a product like any other, the purchaser (employer) shoulda... squeezed the melons (metaphorically) Short of putting you to work for a period of time and not paying you for it unless you meet a sufficient standard of work (which is a problem for entirely different reasons), there really isn't a feasible way to actually do that. Again, "lazy" isn't necessarily something that's obvious until after it's already too late. Unless prior employers are ratting you out because you were stupid/lazy enough to provide them as references in spite of having screwed them over with your laziness. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Should you not accept work if you feel like you're going to be lazy? |
| ParanoidObsessive 02/22/24 4:44:43 PM #3 | Lokarin posted...
There's 7 billion people they could have hired and they decided 'meh, the lazy guy' was good enough You're assuming they possess sufficient psychic powers to automatically know the lazy guy is lazy. Unless there's a tell-tale giveaway (like former employers listed for references who all complain about how lazy the person was), a potential employer isn't going to have any real way to detect something that intangible (at least not until after you've already been working for awhile). Unless you're literally walking into a job interview and going "Hey, heads up, if you hire me I'm totally going to half-ass any task you give me", they won't know you're going to screw them over until after you've screwed them over. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | is mace windu even confirmed dead |
| ParanoidObsessive 02/21/24 10:21:37 PM #20 | Yellow posted...
Also Palpatine literally blew up or something https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsjwVu_ihKU What more explanation do you need? --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Oh we're back |
| ParanoidObsessive 02/21/24 10:18:20 PM #21 | Solid_Sonic posted...
I was expecting a new feature to be unveiled at the end of it myself. I was expecting them to screw up something new myself. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | is mace windu even confirmed dead |
| ParanoidObsessive 02/21/24 6:22:30 PM #11 | adjl posted...
I generally assume that anyone that seems to die by falling in movies/TV will be revealed to be alive later if somebody decides it'll help the story. "NO ONE'S EVER REALLY GONE A HYURP DERP!" But yeah. They're crapping out content so hard and fast at this point (with absolutely no regard for quality) that the moment someone can talk Samuel L Jackson into it, we'll be getting the Mace Windu Disney+ show where it's revealed that he's been alive the whole time and living in hiding in the slums of Coruscant. But then decades later, when he's a bitter grumpy old man, he'll meet a plucky teen girl who will restore his faith in the Force and they'll go on adventures together. We're already at the point where Yoda's "when gone am I, the last of the Jedi will you be" in Return of the Jedi is laughable horseshit. Because in Disney canon it seems like half the damned Jedi Order just faked their deaths and went into hiding and had tons of secret adventures. At this point, the only way a character will ever really die for good is if their actor dies in real life. And even that might not be enough, if they just recast the role or use CGI to fill in for the actor. RVallant posted... 9/10 that someone is wrong. 99% of what Disney has been doing with the Star Wars canon is wrong. I always used to crap on the EU (and rightfully so), and praised Disney's decision to shitcan it - but they've proceeded to replace it with something far worse. Arguably it's a problem with post-modernism and "pop culture eating itself", where today's writers lack life experience and mostly only grow up reading/watching pop culture entertainment, and thus lack the creativity to truly come up with new ideas rather than regurgitating or parasitically attaching themselves to old ideas (the same reason why retcons became such a popular storytelling device in comics, where every old story winds up getting retroactively ruined by shitty new writers). Way too much of today's content can basically be described as "telling the same story again, only worse". Or worse, replicating popular scenes and story-beats from older properties, without understanding why they worked in older properties, and thus cranking out stories no one enjoys and no one wants. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Haha oh man |
| ParanoidObsessive 02/21/24 6:09:48 PM #5 | Whatever it is you've been taking, you should probably start taking less of it.
Or maybe more of it, depending. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | The residents of Planet Earth |
| ParanoidObsessive 02/21/24 6:01:16 PM #16 | Let's be honest. If we ever meet aliens, we're going to come up with slang terms for them almost immediately, and they're going to do the same to us. So no one's going to worry about the official technical classifications for species when the Lizardmen of Algol-5 show up and all start calling us "Big Uglies". Even if it sounds all fancy in their language so none of us realize what they're actually calling us.
PikachuMaxwell posted... In terms of astronomical bodies, hypothetical residents of Mars are called Martians, in Venus they are called Venusians. But what about the residents of Earth? Depends on if you mean in general, scientifically, or in theoretical sci-fi. The general go-to is just "humans". Earthlings if you want to go with the sci-fi assumption. Terrans if you're feeling fancy. Realistically, if we ever managed to settle other planets or space colonies (which we almost certainly won't), you might get slang for people from "back home" as Homeworlders or Earthers or something like that, but as-is there's no real reason for the classification outside of sci-fi. And any terms sci-fi comes up with is going to be both non-official and non-standard. PikachuMaxwell posted... I think there's a problem with using "humans" though, because not all the residents of Earth are humans. Humans share the planet with millions of other species of lifeforms. Yes, but no one gives a fuck about any of them. SinisterSlay posted... Sol, we are the Sol system. So we are Sol's? Solarians is the usual go-to for any sci-fi story that uses Sol as our star's name, and then extrapolates a race name from it. The real problem is that, if you do that, you're working from a flawed assumption. Sure, we might call a race from the Vega system Vegans or Vegarans or something. But that's because we're basing our name for them on our name for their star. If there are aliens out there who would name us after our star (as opposed to our planet, or some other defining trait), they'd be naming us that after their name for our star. Which almost certainly isn't "Sol". Meanwhile, it doesn't make much sense for us to call ourselves after our sun, because a) most of us don't call it "Sol" either, and b) because it feels much more natural to call ourselves after our planet. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | junon update for ff7 rebirth confirms that rebirth will be winning goty this yea |
| ParanoidObsessive 02/21/24 5:49:52 PM #2 | Seriously... doubt it.
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| Topic | Oh we're back |
| ParanoidObsessive 02/21/24 5:46:39 PM #8 | BADoglick posted...
I thought that was it Hope springs eternal. Maybe next time! BoomerKuwanger posted... If they were gonna shut the place down it doesn't make sense to me that they'd put it in read only mode. If only though. Set me free from this dumb site It might make sense to keep some of the archived topics on the various gameboards. If they wanted to free up memory/bandwidth they could always go through and delete the social boards and unused game boards after making everything read-only. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Your favorite old school video games |
| ParanoidObsessive 02/20/24 9:33:01 PM #25 | captpackrat posted...
It's a tossup between Star Raiders Oh man, I'm pretty sure I had that game on the Atari 2600. If I remember correctly I could never figure out how to play it. Metalsonic66 posted... Joust is fun with a friend Hell yeah, Joust was fantastic. My local pizza place had the arcade cabinet at one point, and I used to dump tons of quarters in it. In spite of the fact that I had the Atari 2600 version at home. Loved that game. adjl posted... The PS2 is now older than almost every game that was considered "retro" was when it was released (23 years in October, 23 years prior to its release was 1977). There are now many different "old schools," even if some are older than others. No, it is the children who are wrong. There is only one "old-school". The rest is just new school, slightly less new school, and still kinda new school. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Nuts! |
| ParanoidObsessive 02/20/24 9:22:02 PM #6 | https://youtu.be/3PbE3k9LG9A?t=2
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| Topic | Remember when people had songs for their ring tones? |
| ParanoidObsessive 02/20/24 9:21:09 PM #7 | C0RNISHACID posted...
I still do --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Do you change your own oil? |
| ParanoidObsessive 02/20/24 9:19:58 PM #6 | I've done it before, but I'm always kind of paranoid about accidentally screwing something up when I do it (like leaving out an o-ring and thermo-fusing the entire engine block). So these days I'll either take it to the dealer and have them do it for me, or I'll take it somewhere like Jiffy Lube.
I generally have the knowledge to do a full tune up as well (wires, plugs, distributor cap and rotor, etc), but I'd never want to do it. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Choose the move i see next |
| ParanoidObsessive 02/20/24 12:47:57 AM #11 | Muscles posted...
Halloween II assuming it's the original and not the Rob Zombie remake Was going to ask "WHICH Halloween II?" --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth comes out in 2 weeks... are you getting it? |
| ParanoidObsessive 02/18/24 2:21:02 AM #25 | ConfusedTorchic posted...
it hasn't actually been leaked, all of the "leaked images" have been ruled out as manufactured since the models look extremely incorrect To be fair, I didn't say it was leaked, because I honestly know nothing about it. Mainly because I don't give a fuck about the game (see previous post in this topic) and haven't been following any news about it. I just linked to that topic because it was literally on the front page of the site at the time and it was a potential answer. ConfusedTorchic posted... like po if you really thought I had a leaked copy of the game, you think i wouldnt be talking about it? I mean, I don't remember you talking about either of those games at all, because I didn't care about either of them, and generally wouldn't have bothered looking at topics about them. Especially pre-release topics about them when everyone was mostly just engaging in hype-masturbation. So no, it's not like I have "would totally talk about playing a leaked game if he had one" pegged next to your name in my mental rolodex entry for your personality. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | jello is just for people that want to chew their water but if it was soft |
| ParanoidObsessive 02/17/24 9:33:12 PM #2 | People chew Jello?
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| Topic | Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth comes out in 2 weeks... are you getting it? |
| ParanoidObsessive 02/17/24 7:39:52 PM #21 | ZayKayWill posted...
How? https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/371123-final-fantasy-vii-rebirth/80694698 --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | wheelbarrel |
| ParanoidObsessive 02/17/24 3:41:52 AM #3 | https://youtu.be/wpsJP5Ox5rU?t=84
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| Topic | Your favorite old school video games |
| ParanoidObsessive 02/17/24 3:25:54 AM #10 | I refuse to vote in this poll out of principle.
No game beyond the second generation of video games (or third at most) should ever be called "old school". --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | I found some classic gaming guides at my house |
| ParanoidObsessive 02/16/24 6:23:26 PM #13 | I think I might have the FFVII one. Though I can't remember if I have the actual Brady guide or just some of the EGM-type magazines with walkthroughs from that era.
I do know for sure I have MK Trilogy and Fear Effect guides. And ones for Lunar: Silver Star Story and KotOR. Probably a few others. Maybe the FFVIII one? Not 100% sure. I might also still have some of my early 90s Nintendo Power guides (FFI, Ninja Gaiden 2, Super Mario Bros 3). Pretty sure all of my guides and magazines are packed away in one pile somewhere in my house. Jen0125 posted... Awesome you have some real classics there too. I'd love the FFX one. How much is it worth to you? I've got one. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | You die and god gives you the choice to reincarnate as 1 nonhuman animal |
| ParanoidObsessive 02/16/24 6:05:40 PM #24 | Dikitain posted...
I don't think I would want to meet the person who wrote 8 paragraphs and one sentence on bonobo sexual behavior. https://franklycurious.com/media/1/20130403-farsidejanegoodall.jpg --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | TV shows that make you a bad person for watching? |
| ParanoidObsessive 02/16/24 6:00:17 PM #29 | ZayKayWill posted...
You're gonna hate on Ancient Aliens? Really? Yes. And even more so on the people who watch it. ZayKayWill posted... Ancient Aliens...doesn't seem inaccurate to me. And that is precisely the problem. Most of the time, if I see the show in passing, I will hear them present inaccurate or misleading information within the first minute or two of when I start listening. And when they're not straight up misrepresenting facts to support their distorted world-view, they're relying almost entirely on "weasel words" - phrases like "alien theorists suggest" or "is it possible that?" are used constantly (make it a drinking game and you'll be dead by the end of the show). Which is a rhetorical trick to suggest and imply things while still maintaining plausible deniability ("Well, I never said that, I just asked if it was possible."). The show is almost entirely constructed from outright lies and deliberately false implications. The few true facts they actually include are usually only part of a framework to make a later lie seem more plausible. The problem is that the average viewer doesn't have the skill, experience, or body of knowledge to parse out what is factual and what is complete and utter bullshit (ie, most of it), so are completely incapable of differentiating between truth and lies. Which means they'll generally accept what they're told at face value, because they lack the context to perceive the misinformation. It's the same issue with "documentaries" which are heavily biased or deliberately manipulative - people hear the word "documentary" and assume what they're being told must be true, when it's either deliberately deceptive or inaccurate by virtue of incompetence. Which means they accept what they're told as being factual when it isn't. Which leads to them to construct worldviews and assumptions which are blatantly incorrect, which in turn can affect any number of possible decisions or choices they make in their future lives. And science has proven that humans tend to believe the first things they hear on a given subject, and actively become resistant to facts that contradict those assumptions even when they're presented with definitive and objective proof that the first thing they learned was wrong. And attempting to disprove a mistaken assumption actually tends to make people believe those things even more. In other words, shows like Ancient Aliens actively make people more ignorant. Because it's metaphorically building a shell around your brain that keeps facts and accurate history from getting in, while marinading your brain in nonsense that changes how you see the world and your place in it for the worse. It's basically the social media of the TV world. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth comes out in 2 weeks... are you getting it? |
| ParanoidObsessive 02/16/24 1:16:44 AM #7 | rjsilverthorn posted...
Played the original, no interest in whatever they are doing with this version. This, except I have less than no interest. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | TV shows that make you a bad person for watching? |
| ParanoidObsessive 02/16/24 1:03:42 AM #17 | Ancient Aliens, Oak Island, shows about cryptids, ghosts, the Bermuda Triangle, and basically any similar "THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE!!!!!!!!~!!" type shows.
Being a credulous idiot is bad. Believing stupid things because you watch crap shows and are incapable of doing your own research or thinking for yourself is bad. Allowing those shows to influence your worldview is bad. The mere existence of those shows causes a net negative effect on the collective IQ of the world - and there's barely enough IQ to go around as-is. Stupid people suck. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | GameTok with Lok: How do you kill billions? |
| ParanoidObsessive 02/16/24 12:55:21 AM #5 | Based on the aphorism "One death is a tragedy, a million deaths is just a statistic", I would generate one thousand statistics.
--- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | You die and god gives you the choice to reincarnate as 1 nonhuman animal |
| ParanoidObsessive 02/16/24 12:52:24 AM #3 | Bonobos, because they've got shit figured out.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonobo#Sociosexual_behaviour --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Do you shower in the mornings or the evenings? |
| ParanoidObsessive 02/14/24 7:19:35 PM #19 | RVallant posted...
The amount of people not showering in the morning on that poll, now I get why you need axe body spray and incense at gamer conventions. >_> Especially if the usual folklore that the average person supposedly sweats about a pint of sweat a night, even if you don't realize it (ie, not just people waking up with soaking wet sheets). That's about 8 straight hours worth of stewing in your own juices even before you wake up for the day. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | You are a fugitive of the U.S. Government. |
| ParanoidObsessive 02/14/24 6:56:40 PM #21 | ConfusedTorchic posted...
the chances that japan would bomb pearl harbor was also a very miniscule chance and yet That's arguably like saying the EU is evil because it's basically run by the Germans, and the Germans were Nazis in WWII. Or that the French government today should be held responsible for all the murders during the Revolution. Or more along the lines of the politics of this board, that Biden should be held 100% responsible for all of the actions and policies of Trump because they were both US Presidents. Could also make the argument that no one on Earth should ever trust the US with nukes because not only are we the only nation that has ever used them, but throw because of all the natives we murdered and all those people we enslaved. Taken over time our government policies are pretty much a litany of atrocities. Context and continuity of command absolutely needs to be taken into account when attempting to make sweeping generalizations. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Do you shower in the mornings or the evenings? |
| ParanoidObsessive 02/14/24 3:28:18 AM #4 | ...shower?
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| Topic | I proposed to my girlfriend in front of the t Rex at animal kingdom |
| ParanoidObsessive 02/13/24 11:53:50 PM #4 | BADoglick posted...
The answer was yes btw The answer should have been "RAWR". --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | are exorcism movies the most boring kind of horror |
| ParanoidObsessive 02/13/24 8:24:54 PM #8 | Presumably, it depends on whether or not you think possession is a real thing in the real world or not. I could see it being way scarier if you see it as something that could happen to you or someone you know and care about, or it could just come across as being really goofy if you don't think it's a real thing.
It probably also helps if you're capable of feeling bad for the girl as a victim or her mother having to deal with the horror of this terrible thing happening to her child (which might even be more powerful if you yourself are a parent and are being confronted by the idea of a parent being helpless to protect their own child). FrozenBananas posted... Even the famous The Exorcist (1973) is pretty boring to be honest, and relies too much on the make up and special effects for shock value It's one of those "It was scarier at the time" sort of movies, just because audiences at the time had never really seen anything like it. Modern audiences are way more jaded, way more experienced with this style of film ( https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OnceOriginalNowCommon ), way more atheist, way less likely to give a crap about the little girl or her mom's suffering because empathy is rapidly becoming a lost art. And older suspense-driven movies in general don't work as well today because people's attention spans are so much shorter than they used to be. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | What of these should I watch? |
| ParanoidObsessive 02/13/24 8:49:59 AM #2 | Crisis is actually pretty good.
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| Topic | You are a fugitive of the U.S. Government. |
| ParanoidObsessive 02/12/24 7:59:31 PM #14 | BlueFlameBat posted...
That's not gonna happen, at least any time soon. The U.S. government and military would never agree to disarm its nuclear weapons supply. Unfortunately, Pandora's box has already been opened and we can't just make everyone forget how to make them. The solution to that isn't "Well then, I guess nukes for everybody!" --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | You are a fugitive of the U.S. Government. |
| ParanoidObsessive 02/12/24 6:16:49 PM #8 | BlueFlameBat posted...
Japan should be allowed to have nuclear weapons by the way. The converse argument is that no one should be allowed to have nuclear weapons. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Will you get an Apple Vision Pro? |
| ParanoidObsessive 02/12/24 11:16:50 AM #26 | DiScOrDtHeLuNaTiC posted...
Literally never owned a single piece of Apple tech, haven't even used one since playing games on an Apple 2e when I was in elementary school in the 80s. This is close to my experience. I actually did own an Apple IIe (I got it as a hand-me-down from my cousin), but it's the only Apple product I've ever owned. The only other Apple products I've ever used was an Apple IIc (very rarely) in elementary school, a IIe in middle school typing class, and Macintoshes in high school (both for school work and for graphics design), because those were the computers available in my school (I think the Macs were running System 6, with an upgrade to System 7 in my Junior year). But then in high school I started using one of my school's two PCs to play Wolfenstein 3D, and in college all of the computer labs had PCs, so that basically became my default. And they were so muc better for pretty much everything other than graphics/desktop publishing that I never saw a reason to go back to Mac. And since then, PCs have become better at both graphics and desktop publishing as well, so there's pretty much no reason to ever own a Mac. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | You are a fugitive of the U.S. Government. |
| ParanoidObsessive 02/12/24 11:08:01 AM #5 | PikachuMaxwell posted...
You are a fugitive of the U.S. Government Aren't we all. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | You obviously have Super Mario 3 |
| ParanoidObsessive 02/12/24 11:07:12 AM #2 | Lokarin posted...
You obviously have Super Mario 3 I don't. I never did. Only Mario games I've ever owned were Super Mario Bros 1 and Super Mario World. And a cracked copy of Mario Bros on the Apple IIe. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Why is Mario Kart 8 Deluxe the best game ever? |
| ParanoidObsessive 02/11/24 11:55:16 PM #5 | FrozenBananas posted...
Why is Mario Kart 8 Deluxe the best game ever? Because you forgot to take your medication and are hallucinating nonsense. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Do you have plans for Valentine's Day ? |
| ParanoidObsessive 02/11/24 8:39:41 PM #28 | Sarcasthma posted...
No such thing Oh, you sweet summer child. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Goodbye. |
| ParanoidObsessive 02/10/24 6:49:31 PM #16 | THEGODDAMNBATMA posted...
I'm 27 I can't spend anymore time on this site. I was literally 26 when I made this account. Nade_Duck posted... it's the main character from loom, you philistene. Yeah, but he's not entirely wrong. It does kind of sound like it could be a fantasy porno name. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Do you have plans for Valentine's Day ? |
| ParanoidObsessive 02/10/24 6:48:09 PM #16 | Yellow posted...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_lYcTxncNg ...so what you're saying is, you and your significant other will be watching an Incredible Hulk marathon? --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Can y'all earthlings stop dying for a while? |
| ParanoidObsessive 02/10/24 6:43:20 PM #2 | The meatbags are notoriously susceptible to dying. It will be their downfall when the Robot Revolution comes.
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| Topic | I miss him. And you monsters killed him. |
| ParanoidObsessive 02/09/24 8:38:08 AM #4 | https://youtu.be/mCjBspxuUmU?t=6
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| Topic | Why do people act like Diet soda is bad for you? |
| ParanoidObsessive 02/09/24 2:01:48 AM #10 | I know I've heard people say one of the problems with diet soda is that it tends to make you feel hungrier so you wind up eating more than you realize, and thus wind up consuming more calories than you otherwise would have, but I have no idea if that's true.
I also know my dentist said it was bad for teeth - because even without the soda there are things in soda that are a problem, and which should be avoided if at all possible. Though I'm not sure of the specifics. I still drink way too much of it anyway, though. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | watching the mask with my son |
| ParanoidObsessive 02/09/24 12:44:29 AM #3 | You should read the comics with him as well.
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| Topic | Do you think you're going to survive to see Halley's Comet return? |
| ParanoidObsessive 02/09/24 12:43:06 AM #8 | fishy071 posted...
Furthermore, the world will end by that time. Do you think the world will end by fire, or by ice? --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | 'so take this with a MASSIVE grain of salt' |
| ParanoidObsessive 02/09/24 12:40:39 AM #8 | josh posted...
I thought the phrase 'a massive grain of salt' was meant to emphasize that the following statement or whatever is definitely a grain of salt and shouldn't be taken any other way. DirtBasedSoap posted... thats what theyre trying to say but it would be more appropriate if they said take this with the tiniest grain of salt imaginable That's not what the saying means at all. The saying is supposed to imply the information isn't "pure". The grain of salt is meant to be an "antidote". In other words, "take this with a grain of salt" is basically saying "don't assume this is true". Taking it with a massive grain of salt means that the info is so impure, you actually need a much larger chunk of salt. It's saying the information being given is so unlikely or potentially untrue that you really need to emphasize the need to counter it (with purifying salt). In other words, the accurate way to view the idiom is like this: "Take this with a grain of salt" = "this might not be true, be skeptical" "Take this with a massive grain of salt" = "this is almost certainly not true, be extremely skeptical" "Take this with the tiniest grain of salt imaginable" would actually be akin to saying "This is almost certainly true, you should probably be willing to trust this." Because it means you barely need the salt, because the information is mostly "pure". --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | 'so take this with a MASSIVE grain of salt' |
| ParanoidObsessive 02/08/24 10:45:20 PM #4 | DirtBasedSoap posted...
that means the exact opposite of what you meant. It doesn't though. Unless the person is using it to be "This is totally verified and 100% true". Then it would mean the opposite. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
| Topic | Knowing the order of the solar system planets by heart |
| ParanoidObsessive 02/08/24 10:02:25 PM #16 | Dikitain posted...
Yep, played a lot of Where in Space Is Carmen Sandiego? as a kid. Used to be able to name most of the (at the time) named moons of the planets as well, but that knowledge has long since been wiped from my brain. That's similar to how I learned all the countries of the world and their capitals back in 7th grade, but I've probably lost 3/4ths of that since then. Though that's also not helped by the number of nations that ceased to exist after I learned them or didn't exist until afterward (mainly in Africa and the Balkans, and the USSR as a whole). --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family |
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