Author Topic: Random talk thread: It just keeps happening (Read 4258587 times)

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #27600 on:** May 15, 2015, 12:46:30 AM »

Contempt for the contemptible god

king of the internet · « **Reply #27601 on:** May 15, 2015, 12:56:30 AM »

Quote from: Vularai on May 15, 2015, 12:02:03 AM

Nat Sherman Hint of Mint is amazing.

Yessss. I should go buy a pack tomorrow.

suppadoopa · « **Reply #27602 on:** May 15, 2015, 08:40:59 PM »

bought groceries
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CFEyq0HWIAA6nbF.jpg:large

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #27603 on:** May 16, 2015, 12:24:13 AM »

I bet those cookies taste utterly whimsical.

suppadoopa · « **Reply #27604 on:** May 16, 2015, 12:42:30 AM »

It tastes like that Nintendo Soul™ that WiiU/3DS fans clamor about

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #27605 on:** May 16, 2015, 04:45:25 PM »

There have been fire crackers the last couple of times walking Nami and now she won't go outside again. Last time this happened she was anti anxiety meds for 6 months and only really got ok when I moved to a new area. Serious fuck people who thinks fire crackers are fun. And fuck people with overly loud motorbikes. I want to murder someone right now. Fuck.

chronovore · « **Reply #27606 on:** May 17, 2015, 01:49:08 AM »

I agree. Firecrackers are just annoying.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #27607 on:** May 17, 2015, 02:04:48 AM »

A friend of mine who came home from Afghanistan and Iraq would have panic attacks every Fourth of July due to fireworks. He'd have to stay in his parents basement with headphones on.

thankfully he's had therapy since then and is doing a lot better. But yea, seeing his reaction for the first time was scary. His eyes alone were haunting.

milchs evil twin · « **Reply #27608 on:** May 17, 2015, 11:25:09 AM »

This kinda looks like a bore smiley

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demi · « **Reply #27609 on:** May 17, 2015, 11:39:04 AM »

Just ordered my flight to E3. Is anyone in LA area? Lets meet up, I got days to kick it

milchs evil twin · « **Reply #27610 on:** May 17, 2015, 02:48:29 PM »

Quote from: Dufus on May 17, 2015, 11:41:58 AM

Quote from: milchs evil twin on May 17, 2015, 11:25:09 AM
This kinda looks like a bore smiley

That's because it is a bore smiley (Image removed from quote.)

White people appreciation

Kara · « **Reply #27611 on:** May 17, 2015, 04:35:17 PM »

Quote from: demi on May 17, 2015, 11:39:04 AM

Just ordered my flight to E3. Is anyone in LA area? Lets meet up, I got days to kick it

I'm in OC but work and my health make it difficult for me to commit to anything fun these days.

Rufus · « **Reply #27612 on:** May 17, 2015, 05:50:17 PM »

e: actually, no, one tab over

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #27613 on:** May 17, 2015, 07:19:19 PM »

Another fire cracker while walking Nami at fucking 7PM. I had to drag her the rest of the walk (because I was told to act like everything was normal when this happens). Anytime I stopped she would just start shaking hard. If I ever see someone lighting one of these I'm going to break their fucking face in.

Kara · « **Reply #27614 on:** May 18, 2015, 02:46:12 AM »

TIL disposable needles can be duds.

milchs evil twin · « **Reply #27615 on:** May 18, 2015, 10:41:34 AM »

Pro cycling is so utterly devoid of any form of entertainment.

I will never understand why my fellow Euros are so in love with these boring sports.

Just yesterday, there was a fucking MLS game on TV. Apparently, if there are too few soccer games (there aren't there's like a million games per year), the alternative isn't a different sport but other soccer leagues.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #27616 on:** May 18, 2015, 10:54:03 AM »

Quote from: Esch on May 18, 2015, 10:48:33 AM

Being from germany and stanning a niche american sport with 11 minutes of play per 3 hour broadcast

Kara · « **Reply #27617 on:** May 18, 2015, 11:45:41 AM »

Quote from: Esch on May 18, 2015, 10:31:17 AM

I was introduced to the fuckery of pro cycling fandom this weekend. I love eurosports brehs. The corruption, the drama, the stanning, the absolute and utter lack of integrity. (Image removed from quote.)

Katusha and Astana tho

Astana are a criminal enterprise, it's great.

Sadly no World Tour team really moves my spirit, thankfully CCC gets invited to most of the Euro events. (Polish team riding Italian bikes while wearing orange.)

RE entertainment: stage races can get dry, but if you can't enjoy Paris-Roubaix I don't know what to say.

Kara · « **Reply #27618 on:** May 18, 2015, 12:11:43 PM »

Fuck Sky, oh my gooooood. Every fucking race the Eurosport poms spend too much time talking about them because where a team is licensed matters more than say the nationality of the bike manufacturer. (I'm more English than Pinarello.)

I'm staning for Degenkolb this season. Proudly continuing the East German doping tradition.

Euroscum brothers forever.

milchs evil twin · « **Reply #27619 on:** May 18, 2015, 12:18:33 PM »

Pretty much all Euro sports are shit.

I used to love F1 but it's gone to shit in the past 15 years or so.

Soccer

Winter sports besides biathlon

Formula 1

Rugby (sadly, thought it could be fun)

Cricket

Cycling

Rally racing

Aussie rules football

NFL

Kara · « **Reply #27620 on:** May 18, 2015, 12:24:24 PM »

I'll admit I only still watch F1 for the love of the game. Ecclestone keeps shitting up the elite level of it to "keep costs down" while pocketing a zillion dollars.

Aussie rules.

milchs evil twin · « **Reply #27621 on:** May 18, 2015, 12:44:52 PM »

My hate of soccer and my hate of Bayern are mostly independent.

I used to love the Bundesliga from maybe ages 8-11. Then I grew out of that shit and realized it was fantastically boring.

Football came like 10 years later.

Tom Brady's crotch

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #27622 on:** May 18, 2015, 01:27:01 PM »

Corruption wise, Euro leagues are basically what people think the NBA/NFL are lol. Those leagues aren't saints but it's like night and day when it comes to fuckery lol.

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NCAA tho...disgusting

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milchs evil twin · « **Reply #27623 on:** May 18, 2015, 01:27:09 PM »

Baseball is the Eurosport of Amerisports.

I think what I love about football compared to soccer is the physics. Between the speed, the hitting, the differences in stature, the fact that hands are simply better tools than legs etc, there's just a lot more variety in the imagery, especially in slow motion. It feels like football makes better use of the available space/dimensions, soccer feels so "flat" to me. I can't really describe what I mean, sounds kinda weird, but it's a very visually satisfying sport.

I feel like you could take a single Rams-Jags game to the NFL Films guys and they'd be able to turn it into a better higlight film than what a whole World Cup will produce in soccer.

I also think that there's an inherent problem with the incentives in soccer. In football, each play will either end in points or a tackle, so it will always try to move forward. In soccer there's so much lateral and backward passing, I can sit there and be like "oh, something's gonna happen! Oh, so close! Wait, something's gonna happen!" and then I realize another 30 minutes have passed where I was constantly waiting for something to happen, but it didn't.
It's a horribly Blue Balls sport.

Then again, I also love Michael Bay movies. I can tolerate a lot of shit if there's a bit of amazing visuals in between.

milchs evil twin · « **Reply #27624 on:** May 18, 2015, 02:13:44 PM »

I also enjoy the NBA passing game. They have a shot clock, though.

Also, I always think there's some degree of exoticism involved. I probably wouldn't love the NFL as much if I was constantly subjected to Peter King and Skip Bayless, and you wouldn't like soccer as much if it was the only thing that's ever on TV.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #27625 on:** May 18, 2015, 02:13:53 PM »

Comparing football strategy to rock paper scissors...come on brehs, enough with the trolling. I respect soccer, I played it for a season and it was the hardest sport I ever played. But the idea that hundreds of pages worth of playbooks and formations can be broken down to a simple QB/coach game is laughable my dude.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #27626 on:** May 18, 2015, 02:29:47 PM »

Quote from: Esch on May 18, 2015, 02:21:12 PM

It is though (multivariate though it might be).

Who else is really contributing intellectually or controlling the game, on the field, besides the quarterback? And on defense, the middle LB?

where's AiA...

What about strong safety, CBs like Richard Sherman, the center calling pass protections and scouting defensive formations, QBs doing specific things with certain WRs....there's too much stuff going on to put it on just the QB. Most QBs aren't Peyton Manning breh.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #27627 on:** May 18, 2015, 03:32:00 PM »

But still...even if we look at skill players that argument feels shaky. A running back makes a ton of decisions, and sure as hell makes plays. The OL makes plays...

A WR often changes their routes depending on what's happening with defensive pressure on the QB. Meanwhile a CB has to adjust. Just an example from last year of faking a route to beat the best CB in the game. That's a skill player adapting a play to make it work against an elite player.

My point is just that multiple positions do multiple things, there's a lot of strategy and individual decision making that separates good players from great ones. That's true of every sport. I think we're closer to agreement than disagreement, I'm just saying the game is quite complex and there aren't many positions out there that get to mentally not show up. Hell the TE position is becoming nearly as complex as the QB position. The Lions drafted a TE last year who was good in college but struggled specifically because he had to learn as much of the playbook as our QB.

milchs evil twin · « **Reply #27628 on:** May 18, 2015, 04:09:34 PM »

I don't get enjoyment from things being hard (pause)

I bet golf is fucking hard. Pretty sure baseball is. The end result is still terrible to watch.

I also don't think the fact that fewer people are in control of creating something will necessarily result in a lesser product. Apple products still look better than some open source shit.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #27629 on:** May 18, 2015, 04:13:16 PM »

Quote from: milchs evil twin on May 18, 2015, 04:09:34 PM

I don't get enjoyment from things being hard (pause)

Is that why you cosign cheating?

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #27630 on:** May 18, 2015, 04:18:15 PM »

brehs we gonna talk about how hard it is to do suicides on a soccer field.

archnemesis · « **Reply #27631 on:** May 18, 2015, 04:22:43 PM »

Quote from: milchs evil twin on May 18, 2015, 04:09:34 PM

I bet golf is fucking hard.

Not really. It's one of those "easy to learn, difficult to master" skills.

milchs evil twin · « **Reply #27632 on:** May 18, 2015, 04:36:41 PM »

Quote from: Phoenix Dark on May 18, 2015, 04:13:16 PM

Quote from: milchs evil twin on May 18, 2015, 04:09:34 PM
I don't get enjoyment from things being hard (pause)

Is that why you cosign cheating?
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According to cold hard science, your team cheats more
http://yourteamcheats.com/cheaters/

Steve Contra · « **Reply #27633 on:** May 18, 2015, 04:46:42 PM »

Quote from: Esch on May 18, 2015, 04:26:30 PM

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Quote from: Phoenix Dark on May 18, 2015, 04:18:15 PM
brehs we gonna talk about how hard it is to do suicides on a soccer field.

Suicides suck ass, but the bane of my existence during football and wrestling was this:

http://thehighschoolrunner.com/2007/08/indian-runs.html

Its long distance and HIIT and the shame of racing all combined in one brehs

Oh god we did that in wrestling except there were two flights of stairs to climb. You've never seen so many people puke so hard as after one of those.

Huff · « **Reply #27634 on:** May 18, 2015, 07:56:32 PM »

Nope fuck those quitters. We took pride in being the toughest sport with the hardest practices. We laughed at the football players each year that joined for a week before limping away.

Even the one year we only finished with 4 dudes. Still worth it

Kara · « **Reply #27635 on:** May 19, 2015, 05:54:17 PM »

Aside from the whole using for-profit banking thing (sadly Ally is no longer a ward of the U.S. government), switching to direct banking for my business needs has been pretty swell.

No human contact.

The days delay thing is still weird af though.

Broseidon · « **Reply #27636 on:** May 20, 2015, 05:15:23 PM »

Anyone having issues with imgur? Nothing from it loads (including my own avatar here) and I cant even get on the site itself. 2 days now.

Rufus · « **Reply #27637 on:** May 20, 2015, 05:18:15 PM »

Fine on my end.

Broseidon · « **Reply #27638 on:** May 20, 2015, 05:25:53 PM »

Rufus · « **Reply #27639 on:** May 20, 2015, 05:39:58 PM »

Try clearing your DNS cache.
https://documentation.cpanel.net/display/CKB/How+To+Clear+Your+DNS+Cache

If that doesn't help, change your DNS to Google's.
https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #27640 on:** May 20, 2015, 07:02:47 PM »

And if that doesn't work, then take the hint and get off the Internet.

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j/k

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Broseidon · « **Reply #27641 on:** May 20, 2015, 07:59:22 PM »

IMGUR LIVES

Started working again as suddenly as it stopped and I didn't do anything

Hasbunallahu wa Ni’mal Wakil

Rufus · « **Reply #27642 on:** May 20, 2015, 08:02:17 PM »

Well, now you know what to poke at next time it happens.

Broseidon · « **Reply #27643 on:** May 20, 2015, 08:05:29 PM »

The blessings of the Omnissiah?

Rufus · « **Reply #27644 on:** May 20, 2015, 08:17:29 PM »

...You're not wrong.

Kara · « **Reply #27645 on:** May 20, 2015, 08:45:18 PM »

Quote from: Broseidon on May 20, 2015, 08:05:29 PM

The blessings of the Omnissiah?

ferrarimanf355 · « **Reply #27646 on:** May 21, 2015, 05:22:50 AM »

My Apple Watch finally shipped after a month of waiting. Should be here in a couple of days.

Brehvolution · « **Reply #27647 on:** May 21, 2015, 09:33:25 AM »

Quote from: Huff on May 18, 2015, 07:56:32 PM

Even the one year we only finished off 4 dudes. Still worth it

Newsfeed

Kara · « **Reply #27648 on:** May 21, 2015, 12:22:05 PM »

Kojima was right.

suppadoopa · « **Reply #27649 on:** May 21, 2015, 09:21:16 PM »

Driving around downtown with friends and one of them got "triggered". He bolted out of the car in the middle of the street and ran off cause one of new people we started hanging out with took our casual/poking fun at eachother racism to a whole new level. (e.g actual racism)

I hope he's ok, he isn't answering any of our texts or phone calls

Huff · « **Reply #27650 on:** May 21, 2015, 11:47:55 PM »

lolwut

king of the internet · « **Reply #27651 on:** May 22, 2015, 12:13:30 AM »

Yeah, never talk to him again.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #27652 on:** May 22, 2015, 12:20:22 AM »

Quote from: suppadoopa on May 21, 2015, 09:21:16 PM

Driving around downtown with friends and one of them got "triggered". He bolted out of the car in the middle of the street and ran off cause one of new people we started hanging out with took our casual/poking fun at eachother racism to a whole new level. (e.g actual racism)

I hope he's ok, he isn't answering any of our texts or phone calls

please post this on GAF so I can wile out

milchs evil twin · « **Reply #27653 on:** May 22, 2015, 03:20:06 AM »

Organs

PlayDat · « **Reply #27654 on:** May 22, 2015, 12:37:04 PM »

Who knows? Maybe he was actually experiencing some traumatic stress? People who do the "racist for fun" thing are kind of suspect to me.

Kara · « **Reply #27655 on:** May 22, 2015, 03:37:30 PM »

I'm bored--I think I'll become a kibbutznik.

I'm a Puppy! · « **Reply #27656 on:** May 22, 2015, 03:51:17 PM »

Quote from: suppadoopa on May 21, 2015, 09:21:16 PM

Driving around downtown with friends and one of them got "triggered". He bolted out of the car in the middle of the street and ran off cause one of new people we started hanging out with took our casual/poking fun at eachother racism to a whole new level. (e.g actual racism)

I hope he's ok, he isn't answering any of our texts or phone calls

Sounds like something a Person Of his race would do

suppadoopa · « **Reply #27657 on:** May 22, 2015, 04:26:51 PM »

Quote from: PlayDat on May 22, 2015, 12:37:04 PM

Who knows? Maybe he was actually experiencing some traumatic stress? People who do the "racist for fun" thing are kind of suspect to me.

Real traumatic stress? Probably - but he must of have experienced/absorbed it from the Internet.
He's an open minded "[he/him]/queer/ equality for all/etc/ feminist". By "open minded" I mean he tolerates and sometimes participate whenever we joke around in the group.

But this new guy who we where hanging out with spouted some legit actual racism (against people of Indian and Arab decent) and I guess that "actual racism" that was coming out of his mouth just "triggered" our friend.

In hindsight we knew that our feminist friend of ours had limits and we should of have shut up the new guy. But we couldn't believe what we where hearing from him that we just didn't say anything. We were just shocked, and before you know it, our friend was like "fuck off with this shit" and got out of the car.

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god writing out [he/him] was made me cringe hard and I go to a liberal arts uni

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CatsCatsCats · « **Reply #27658 on:** May 22, 2015, 04:35:31 PM »

Casual racism escalated and didn't end well? Tell me more

suppadoopa · « **Reply #27659 on:** May 22, 2015, 08:49:58 PM »

Quote from: Dufus on May 22, 2015, 04:42:29 PM

Forget backgrounds though. Sometimes these yakety yak cacs need to say "them brown folk" and get it over with. (Image removed from quote.)

He can't hate on the other brown folks cause he is brown himself (Guatemalan)
He probably can though since he made some very self hating comments.

Anyway so about a few mins ago these people were going door to door in my apartment complex. These "good Samaritans" must think that all people people with a Hispanic name must be poor or something cause they were offering to donate food to us. (and only us with a Hispanic name it seems)

They looked at me strange tho (prolly saw the bravia in the living room) but still offered me the box.
Inside the box was nothing but pop tarts, chocolate covered raspberries and other junk. (It's like they spread diabetes instead of helping out) I politely declined.

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