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- Comment on Anon revisits early youtube 2 weeks ago:
First movie I ever pirated was Spider Man 1 (the Tobey McGuire one). Over dial up. Similar situation, it took days to finish with intermittent downloading. The quality was so shitty it was basically unwatchable.
- Comment on PSA: Do not approach the wildlife. 2 weeks ago:
If you’re in a neighborhing state you can just drive to Yellowstone over a weekend. It’s actually really beautiful and unique. I even got a selfie with a Bison but it was standing 25 ft behind me in the background, munching or grass if whatever. I will never understand people who want to fuck with 800 pound meat tanks.
- Comment on Anon revisits early youtube 2 weeks ago:
I remember trying to pirate Doom at some point in the 90s over a 56k modem. It was a 10mb download. I got shouted at by my parents for tying up the phone line the whole evening but I persisted. Turns out it was just the demo for Doom.
Good times.
- Comment on Medieval Doomsday Weapon 2 weeks ago:
I favourite think about that story remains that even if everything had gone to plan and he hadn’t fully dropped the second half , it would still just be a couple of dudes with PhDs only slightly irradiating their own junk.
- Comment on Anon is vengeful 2 weeks ago:
Even faker is the idea that the police would actually investigate and take action in response to evidence.
- Comment on Anon watches The Last Samurai 2 weeks ago:
I find it hilarious that this is by far my most vivid memory of this movie.
- Comment on Chad Diogenes 5 weeks ago:
The line between those men is literally made out of jizz.
- Comment on A new Matrix movie is in development with The Cabin in the Woods filmmaker Drew Goddard at the helm 1 month ago:
Sort of? I mean I blame the studios who funded it for that shit. After watching the 4th one if I had to describe it in one word it would have to be “unnecessary”.
- Comment on Whenever Donald Trump is accused of something, he responds by accusing his opponent of that exact thing. The idea is less to argue that Mr. Trump is clean than to suggest that everyone else is dirty. 4 months ago:
How is this a current article? This has been known for years.
- Comment on ‘NCIS’ Prequel Series About Young Gibbs Ordered at CBS 4 months ago:
I hope they cast Marc Harmon as young Gibbs and go all-in on AI de-aging just to make it a complete farce.
- Comment on TrekMovie.com: Patrick Stewart Reveals New Star Trek Movie Script Featuring Jean-Luc Picard Is In The Works 4 months ago:
Season 2 was arguably worse.
- Comment on Stop pussyfooting that gaspedal! 4 months ago:
I immediately thought this would be better with Clarkson’s face on it, and sure enough the creator had already realized that.
- Comment on The more you know 4 months ago:
One molecule is thick af, with no extra Cs. Sexy Limits don’t stop just because our feeble reality has size limits.
- Comment on The four houses dads belong to. 4 months ago:
They exist in NA but definitely aren’t as popular. The Bosch evsk1617 kit is still the best value for a larger size (not palm) router kit.
- Comment on The four houses dads belong to. 4 months ago:
Its also worth mentioning that adapters are available to convert between battery systems. If you’re on Milwaukee and want to buy a DeWalt palm router (which is superior IMO) then you can just get a converter to use it with a Milwaukee battery. You can keep the converter in the tool itself, and most tools don’t mind this.
The exception is Ryobi. Converters only exist one-way, since Ryobi still uses “stick” type batteries for low voltage stuff. The opposite converter could theoretically exist (say, to use a Ryobi battery with a DeWalt router) but it would be very large and bulky and so nobody really makes them.
- Comment on Probability.... Need I say more?! 4 months ago:
There’s various technicalities of how and where Beysian statistics apply to the world but I really interpreted it as meaning “if the world is ending then it doesn’t matter and if not then I’m up $50”. The Beysian is just ruthlessly practical.
- Comment on poggers 5 months ago:
Sorry if this is stupid but how to deal with sums to odd numbers ? Won’t you have a number left over after pairing all the others?
- Comment on poggers 5 months ago:
The rules underpinning math are axioms in the end, but they’re not completely arbitrary, because if you change them in most cases it just fucks everything up.
The axioms that were chosen were chosen for good reason, and the rules they result in (such as summation and multiplication being commutative so 3x4=4x3 and 3+4=4+3) allow more complex rules to be created.
There’s a lot of philosophy of math at the core of all this , but it’s not really true that this is all arbitrary.
- Comment on poggers 5 months ago:
The algorithm gets a little weird if you’re summing the numbers to an odd number, though since there will be a left over number you have to deal with . By calculating 2S it works exactly the same in either case.
- Comment on 10 Movies That Are Surprisingly Hard to Find (So Keep Your Discs) 5 months ago:
I mean the whole thing is on YouTube and you can use any number of tools to rip it from there.
- Comment on Just some fun size comparisons 6 months ago:
All I got from this is that the Galaxy is thiccc af.
- Comment on But my WiFi is just fine! 7 months ago:
They do that shit on purpose. Use a shield or an htpc. Only input your TV should be getting is HDMI.
- Comment on Drew Barrymore announces talk show will not return until strike ends 7 months ago:
They were bad in that they were unscripted. If they hadn’t done them the crews wouldn’t have been paid either.
That said, on Conan there was one of those episodes where his staff are playing guitar hero and Conan walks in there with a real guitar and plays the same song on a real guitar at the same time. I have never seen one activity so thoroughly undermine another.
- Comment on [MEGATHREAD] Starfield - Your experiences! 8 months ago:
Damn dude I thought my 4770 was old.
- Comment on [MEGATHREAD] Starfield - Your experiences! 8 months ago:
There’s no reason for studios to behave better when they get a bazillion pre-orders and games make a profit before they’re even released. When that dynamic is in play there will always be an army of MBAs who point out that the purpose of the company is hoped releases and everything else is strictly secondary.
So to sum up, I agree. I won’t be touching this until it’s mature, stable, and on sale.