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Living Room / Re: Movie news and views

« Last post by wraith808 on June 26, 2014, 06:23 PM »

"Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn"

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by wraith808 on June 26, 2014, 05:53 PM »

From a book store signing.  And don't blame the messenger when you get it!

-wraith808 (June 26, 2014, 01:28 PM)

I don't get it. Is it Libba Brary? Or is the Butcher Skin Game the joke?

-Deozaan (June 26, 2014, 05:51 PM)

Look at the titles of the books stacked up behind it...

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by wraith808 on June 26, 2014, 05:19 PM »

Does it better than most adults I've seen... and without a stuntman!

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by wraith808 on June 26, 2014, 01:28 PM »

From a book store signing.  And don't blame the messenger when you get it!

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Living Room / Re: Soccer World Cup 2014

« Last post by wraith808 on June 26, 2014, 01:27 PM »

So the U.S. won, tied, lost, and advanced? I will never make fun of American football again.

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Living Room / Re: Beating ridiculous IP infringement claims by doing things stupidly

« Last post by wraith808 on June 26, 2014, 08:53 AM »

http://edition.cnn.c...ernatives/index.html

Bye bye Aereo. The shitlords have won again.

-Renegade (June 26, 2014, 04:14 AM)

What's amazing is that Scalia of all people was in the dissenting opinion.

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Living Room / Re: Movie news and views

« Last post by wraith808 on June 25, 2014, 09:11 PM »

But, I'm just dreaming... It would be entertaining to see though!

-Renegade (June 25, 2014, 07:44 PM)

It's a comedy, however.  And it looks like a bad comedy.  Like I said, it's just better to ignore it.

As far as movies about assassinating the POTUS...

http://en.wikipedia....President_(2006_film)

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Magrunner FREE on GOG for 24 hours! (June 18, 2014)

« Last post by wraith808 on June 25, 2014, 03:54 PM »

My complaint is that the flash sales on GOG end at weird times. I saw something on sale the other day, it looked interesting from the "box" art, but I'd never heard of it so I watched the trailer for it and was convinced that I should buy it. When I added it to my cart, the sale had ended. This was at something like 20-25 minutes after the hour. I would have expected a sale to end on the hour, or at least in half-hour intervals. Not at 6:22 (for example).

That really annoyed me.

-Deozaan (June 25, 2014, 03:43 PM)

My complaint towards that one... their ajax sucks.  Steam always updates.  GoG is more problematic.  New things were on sale on GoG on a page I had open, and it still showed the old things with Expired :-( in the time left... and didn't show the new items at all until I manually refreshed.  With such short turnaround, that's sucks.  And they did it for the insomnia sale... when it was over, they automatically refreshed the available items.

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by wraith808 on June 25, 2014, 03:36 PM »

There is an animated gif attached to that post, with a special spaghetti fork.

-app103 (June 25, 2014, 02:30 PM)

Ah!  I see it now... told you I probably missed something

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Living Room / Re: Movie news and views

« Last post by wraith808 on June 25, 2014, 02:29 PM »

Ok... it's just for strange stories like this that I love the entertainment industry.  Watching their real life antics is more popcorn worthy than some of their works!

So, there's this Seth Rogen and James Franco movie coming out called The Interview.  I like Seth Rogen.  I like James Franco.  But if I'm real- they've been sort of hit and miss with their movies.  This one seemed pretty much a miss, and when released, would have probably sunk like a heavy stone.

...but then you add in Kim Jong-un...

North Korea says Seth Rogen's new movie is an 'act of war' (via The Verge)

North Korea denounces James Franco and Seth Rogen's Kim Jong Un movie (via The LA Times)

I think he's just given them a lift from the publicity.  Sometimes, people just don't know when to shut up.

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by wraith808 on June 25, 2014, 02:16 PM »

Looks like something you'd find sold through an infomercial.

-app103 (June 25, 2014, 12:18 PM)

What does?  I think I missed something... that happens a lot 

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Living Room / Re: FCC ruling on ringtones is... shortsighted

« Last post by wraith808 on June 25, 2014, 02:14 PM »

To go back to the short sighted part... here's a better (though not perfect) wording that would have closed at least some of the loopholes.

"Until the connecting provider is contacted, no response can be given to the dialer.  At the point that it is contacted, but no handshake is completed- silence or a message may be played, that may or may not identify the receiver of the handshake.  Only at the time that the terminating provider has completed the handshake can an audible ring be played."

I didn't mean that the ruling might not be needed (though in the times that its personally affected me, I've remained on the call until VM picks up because everyone I know has it), but that the wording of the ruling was short-sighted and didn't look at the realities of the technology and what was going on.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Magrunner FREE on GOG for 24 hours! (June 18, 2014)

« Last post by wraith808 on June 25, 2014, 11:48 AM »

I think there was perhaps a bit too much flash in their flash sale. The free offers were on for such a short time that I didn't manage to pick any of them up.

Edit: reading the previous posts after posting, this should just have been a +1 instead .

-Jibz (June 25, 2014, 11:26 AM)

I think you helped to hit the nail on the head of the problem for me.  With steam... it's in multiples of 8 hours for things changing.  You can predict.  I *still* haven't figured out how these gog sales are scheduled.  I know they're shorter than 8 hours.  So at some point it becomes... meh, I'll get them if I get them.

Same problem with the insomnia sale they ran a while back.  With no set (reasonable) timetable, people can't plan.  They're good ideas in theory, but the execution has fallen a bit short...

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Living Room / Re: Movie news and views

« Last post by wraith808 on June 25, 2014, 10:24 AM »

It's saddening to see it going this way for him.  He's got the big guns lining up... (via washington post)

... people missed the point.  And I still don't see why actors give interviews about anything other than... acting.  A 9 hour interview sliced up with the juiciest parts to get people frothing.  You can still see the point if you look hard enough, and realize that it was slanted.  But... no one does.


Shia Lebouf is back... and in a... surprisingly good looking movie.  Of course, it's got Brad Pitt in it too...

http://www.denofgeek...y-starring-brad-pitt

Of course, that doesn't mean he's out of the woods with his strangeness. (via The Guardian)

...and of course, there's that apology for filming on remembrance day (even though they'd been told before hand it would be happening).

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Magrunner FREE on GOG for 24 hours! (June 18, 2014)

« Last post by wraith808 on June 25, 2014, 10:14 AM »

Exactly.  And I didn't really view it as nit-picking... seems valid to me!  I actually almost bought something once the ticker had expired because of this particular glitch.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Magrunner FREE on GOG for 24 hours! (June 18, 2014)

« Last post by wraith808 on June 25, 2014, 09:43 AM »

But when I went to check out, that first item was off sale and showing up in the cart at its regular price.

-40hz (June 25, 2014, 06:31 AM)

Yeah... steam is friendlier in this regard.  They put big orange letters that something in your cart has changed in price, and put an asterisk beside it.

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Living Room / Re: FCC ruling on ringtones is... shortsighted

« Last post by wraith808 on June 25, 2014, 09:42 AM »

So at this point, about the only doable short-term semi-solution is to light a fire under these bigger players.

-40hz (June 24, 2014, 07:04 PM)

But how does that part of the ruling do this?  As I talked about, instead of a ring... and instead of silence... you instead get a recording.  The recording is serving the same function as the ring.  And has the same problems.

That's what I meant about short-sighted.

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Living Room / Re: Movie news and views

« Last post by wraith808 on June 25, 2014, 09:17 AM »

Well, yes ... But that's a really short list as I understand it...Just Nazis, smokers, and (I think) people that don't recycle ... Right?

-Stoic Joker (June 25, 2014, 06:37 AM)

You only wish! You're on the list for at least a half dozen reasons!

-Renegade (June 25, 2014, 07:18 AM)

... and items can be added for any reason or no reason.  As long as there is perceived 'offense'.  And they are removed for...  I'm at a loss.

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Living Room / Re: Researchers find out how governments hijack phones

« Last post by wraith808 on June 25, 2014, 09:16 AM »

hey... I was presenting without comment

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by wraith808 on June 24, 2014, 08:13 PM »

baking is a contact sport?

http://theconcourse....75661/+AlbertBurneko

-Target (June 24, 2014, 07:45 PM)

Posted already

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Living Room / Re: FCC ruling on ringtones is... shortsighted

« Last post by wraith808 on June 24, 2014, 06:27 PM »

So right now, I think the FCC did as much as they could by focusing awareness and drawing attention to where the problem is - and more importantly, who is responsible. If there is sufficient public outcry, it will eventually force our government to do something more concrete. And hopefully address the root of the problem. But until then, don't hold your breath. There's a lot of telco lobby money leaning on Congress and the Senate. And the Congress and the Senate are leaning on the FCC as a result. And it is an election year...

-40hz (June 24, 2014, 06:13 PM)

But did it draw attention to the right place?  As shown above, mwb1100 thought it was a Vonage problem.  I think that given that Vonage is who is being paid for service, most people would think that.  The onus should be on the receivers of the handshake, right?

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by wraith808 on June 24, 2014, 04:05 PM »

^ Good one app!

Meet Shane, the Walmart Deli Employee Who Gives His Managers a Major Headache

If this doesn't make you laugh out loud, nothing will!

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Living Room / Re: The Rant Thread!

« Last post by wraith808 on June 24, 2014, 03:28 PM »

Was it a preinstalled windows 8, I take it?

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Living Room / Re: FCC ruling on ringtones is... shortsighted

« Last post by wraith808 on June 24, 2014, 02:55 PM »

All this reg is doing is making it obvious where the delays in getting an actual connection are occurring. It's also a safety issue. Suppose you were checking up on an ageing parent and you worried something bad had happened because nobody answered the phone, not knowing the call never reached them because it was hung up in your wireless carrier’s inadequate and under-provisioned network. 

-40hz (June 24, 2014, 02:12 PM)

But that's not what is happening.  As I said, I picked up the phone, and dialed in to work (about a half-hour's drive), and received the message "Your call is being connected, your call is being connected.... your call could not be complet..." And then the line kicked in.  How is that solving the underlying problem?

That's what I mean about the ruling being short sighted.

As far as the cell tower bit... yes, that makes a bit of sense.  But then again... it's still not Vonage.  They made half thought out regulations, and Vonage followed it.

I was making suppositions about the reasons, but the underlying point is still the same... there are more regulations on the books that do nothing like what was intended.  Because they don't understand fully the ramifications before they make a ruling.

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Living Room / Re: The Rant Thread!

« Last post by wraith808 on June 24, 2014, 01:49 PM »

When people can avoid the natural consequences of rudeness, their real personalities just blossom for all to see.

Want a good example?

Rainbow-Cake Recipe Inspires Comment Apocalypse

...So, wait. How long should I freeze the numbers?