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by Roger Mexico
Mon Sep 23, 2024 8:39 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 1225
Views: 730404

Re: What are you listening to?

by Catoptric
Mon Sep 23, 2024 8:36 am
Forum: World
Topic: What's going on in your city/country/region?
Replies: 420
Views: 488810

Re: What's going on in your city/country/region?

A Real Estate Broker offered Half Price Books a complete set of unused material in 15 volumes that he would have likely bought for around $3,500 in 2006. Of course, I found it in the trash. Listed for $500 on Amazon: Nouveau Riche - Residential Real Estate Encyclopedia (R2E2). (The R2E2™ is a 15- Vo...
by Madrigal
Sun Sep 22, 2024 11:55 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What's going on in your city/country/region?
Replies: 420
Views: 488810

Re: What's going on in your city/country/region?

https://people.com/boars-head-closes-plant-deadly-listeria-recall-originated-discontinues-liverwurst-8713230 "Boar’s Head Discontinues Liverwurst...'This is a dark moment in our company’s history'" The amount of contaminated food I keep reading about is staggering. I hardly use processed foods but ...
by Madrigal
Sun Sep 22, 2024 11:38 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1249
Views: 807572

Re: What are you watching?

Letterkenny. Funny enough.
by Roger Mexico
Sun Sep 22, 2024 8:51 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 1225
Views: 730404

Re: What are you listening to?

by HighlyIrregular II
Sun Sep 22, 2024 5:22 am
Forum: World
Topic: ChatGPT and AIs
Replies: 56
Views: 143416

Re: ChatGPT and AIs

OK, I thought if I do more research I'd figure out why I was called elfsprin. I asked directly. Still nothing. Creepy.


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by aether
Sat Sep 21, 2024 8:19 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1249
Views: 807572

Re: What are you watching?

Cool music video and classic rave song:

Emmanuel Top - Acid Phase

by HighlyIrregular II
Sat Sep 21, 2024 2:48 am
Forum: World
Topic: ChatGPT and AIs
Replies: 56
Views: 143416

Re: ChatGPT and AIs

I was called elfsprin when I was being random with ChatGPT. Me: You are a gentleman and a sponge ChatGPT said: ChatGPT Why thank you, elfsprin! I'll take that as a compliment—absorbing details and serving them up like a true gentleman. Anything else you'd like me to soak up today? I did my due dilig...
by Roger Mexico
Sat Sep 21, 2024 2:27 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 1225
Views: 730404

Re: What are you listening to?

by Catoptric
Fri Sep 20, 2024 11:40 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 1225
Views: 730404

Re: What are you listening to?

I found a bunch of Bollywood movie soundtracks in the garbage. . . This one is probably my first introduction to Bollywood (from the 1998 movie, Dil Se.) https://youtu.be/fWtz7xtj3w4 Also, a bunch of 1920s shellac records (that I couldn't just let get thrown away.) I'll start adding a few songs as I...
by aether
Fri Sep 20, 2024 6:08 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 1225
Views: 730404

Re: What are you listening to?

Kuffdam and Plant - Summerdream (Paul Van Dyk Remix) HQ

Paul van Dyk - The Politics of Dancing 2 (2005)


by Catoptric
Thu Sep 19, 2024 10:26 pm
Forum: World
Topic: Seen on the internet
Replies: 161
Views: 364892

Re: Seen on the internet

https://youtu.be/-keeRf8uy0c Matt Groening based it on this: He alludes to Yugoslavia in some episodes, with a car "from a country that no longer exists." I didn't know he did this short, based on this: https://youtu.be/EjWXxfZ252I She is mostly known for her harassment of people at Meijer's grocery...
by Roger Mexico
Wed Sep 18, 2024 9:37 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 1225
Views: 730404

Re: What are you listening to?

by HighlyIrregular II
Wed Sep 18, 2024 5:26 pm
Forum: World
Topic: Seen on the internet
Replies: 161
Views: 364892

Re: Seen on the internet

Squint for Hitler
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by HighlyIrregular II
Wed Sep 18, 2024 2:11 am
Forum: World
Topic: Science Microthreads
Replies: 97
Views: 298396

Re: Science Microthreads

They found "a third state of existence beyond life and death." It goes something like, if you were healthy enough when you died, some of your cells could change and their hairs become like legs, and they roam around repairing stuff. Studies had already shown that a dead person's brain goes through c...
by HighlyIrregular II
Tue Sep 17, 2024 6:45 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 1225
Views: 730404

Re: What are you listening to?

Chicken Attack is good stuff.

Otis - Lover's Prayer
Some people know this song from a Sopranos episode.

by HighlyIrregular II
Tue Sep 17, 2024 5:02 am
Forum: World
Topic: What's going on in your city/country/region?
Replies: 420
Views: 488810

Re: What's going on in your city/country/region?

https://people.com/boars-head-closes-pl ... st-8713230

"Boar’s Head Discontinues Liverwurst...'This is a dark moment in our company’s history'"
by HighlyIrregular II
Tue Sep 17, 2024 4:09 am
Forum: World
Topic: What's going on in your city/country/region?
Replies: 420
Views: 488810

Re: What's going on in your city/country/region?

"Secret Service admits not searching golf course perimeter"
by Catoptric
Mon Sep 16, 2024 11:24 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1249
Views: 807572

Re: What are you watching?

https://youtu.be/LfaflmjDNDY https://youtu.be/kVY4qTQnloU One of the comments: charlespaugh 2 months ago (edited) Several years ago, I had the opportunity to visit an Amazon warehouse in Portland, Oregon USA. Within minutes, I noticed no fire alarm pull handles. I asked about it, and I was told ther...
by Madrigal
Sun Sep 15, 2024 12:06 pm
Forum: World
Topic: Little Raves
Replies: 109
Views: 251215

Re: Little Raves

There's Latin on Duolingo.
by HighlyIrregular II
Sun Sep 15, 2024 1:54 am
Forum: World
Topic: Seen on the internet
Replies: 161
Views: 364892

Re: Seen on the internet

by HighlyIrregular II
Sat Sep 14, 2024 11:50 pm
Forum: World
Topic: Science Microthreads
Replies: 97
Views: 298396

Re: Science Microthreads

I've had a theory like forever and I recently made it more persuasive. I'm looking for a suitable venue to publish it (post it on a message board or whatever). I don't necessarily want to expand on it and struggle to get an article published in whatever crappy publication would publish me, but I wan...
by Catoptric
Sat Sep 14, 2024 10:27 pm
Forum: World
Topic: Science Microthreads
Replies: 97
Views: 298396

Re: Science Microthreads

https://youtu.be/hZCuaj9fXrE I'm only speculating: Our "universe" is only what we see, and many "universes," are probably akin to how we see galaxies. If you could fast-forward from one point in time at what we see as the "beginning of the universe" it would probably resemble popcorn bursting in a h...
by Madrigal
Sat Sep 14, 2024 8:37 pm
Forum: World
Topic: Seen on the internet
Replies: 161
Views: 364892

Re: Seen on the internet

by Catoptric
Sat Sep 14, 2024 6:57 pm
Forum: Meta
Topic: Pixelate your mental state
Replies: 34
Views: 180616

Re: Pixelate your mental state

Trump fans:

Image
by HighlyIrregular II
Fri Sep 13, 2024 9:33 pm
Forum: World
Topic: Health and Fitness
Replies: 34
Views: 70871

Re: Health and Fitness

Unhealthiness ranking of cheeseburgers.
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by Catoptric
Fri Sep 13, 2024 2:22 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1249
Views: 807572

Re: What are you watching?

https://youtu.be/VIz4QXUidYg When Shelley Duvall died, the Terminator 2 actor, Edward Furlong, had costarred with her in her last film, 'The Forest Hills,' and he was supposed to attend some nerd convention in the area, but his appearance was canceled, and I always wondered why (as though he might h...
by Catoptric
Thu Sep 12, 2024 8:09 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 1225
Views: 730404

Re: What are you listening to?



I wondered if this should just be posted in "seen on the internet?"


by Madrigal
Thu Sep 12, 2024 6:48 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1249
Views: 807572

Re: What are you watching?

You can look up shows dubbed into a language you want to practice using this:

https://www.netflix.com/browse/audio/

It's great for practice, dubbed shows are way easier to understand than original shows in any language.
by Roger Mexico
Thu Sep 12, 2024 6:37 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 1225
Views: 730404

Re: What are you listening to?

by Madrigal
Thu Sep 12, 2024 6:28 am
Forum: World
Topic: What's going on in your city/country/region?
Replies: 420
Views: 488810

Re: What's going on in your city/country/region?

Jon Bon Jovi talked a woman off a bridge today. I wonder if he said take my hand we'll make it I swear.
by HighlyIrregular II
Thu Sep 12, 2024 3:11 am
Forum: World
Topic: The discerning person's guide to attractive stuff with 100% less snark
Replies: 31
Views: 104201

Re: The discerning person's guide to attractive stuff with 100% less snark

Tori Amos is 61 (years old!) and looks like this:

by HighlyIrregular II
Wed Sep 11, 2024 9:14 pm
Forum: World
Topic: Little gusts of hot air that don't deserve their own thread.
Replies: 104
Views: 308930

Re: Little gusts of hot air that don't deserve their own thread.

I found someone's driver's license, debit card, and insurance cards walking home today. I found the non-emergency police number online and they recommended that I call the person, but there was no phone number. They asked for their name and address, and mine, and the police came to me. Almost. The o...
by HighlyIrregular II
Wed Sep 11, 2024 1:21 am
Forum: World
Topic: What's going on in your city/country/region?
Replies: 420
Views: 488810

Re: What's going on in your city/country/region?

So, I can't bring myself watch the debate, I just don't like debates, but I can handle the live fact checking at https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/live-fact-check-trump-and-harris-meet-for-presidential-debate I also look at polls and things like https://www.newsweek.com/who-won-presidential-deba...
by HighlyIrregular II
Tue Sep 10, 2024 5:23 am
Forum: World
Topic: Science Microthreads
Replies: 97
Views: 298396

Re: Science Microthreads

Me: Write a poem that includes the names of four organs that humans don't have ChatGPT: In the world of myths and fables, There exist strange organs, unable To dwell within our mortal frame, But in this verse, they'll find their name. A gizzard churns with ancient might, Grinding meals with endless ...
by Roger Mexico
Tue Sep 10, 2024 1:25 am
Forum: World
Topic: Health and Fitness
Replies: 34
Views: 70871

Re: Health and Fitness

...I've noticed that my stride is longer than most people of any age, yet on my treadmill it took me about 400 steps to go a tenth of a mile which I read is twice the steps it takes the average man (avg is 2000 steps/mi). I think you've got that backwards. Taking twice as many steps indicates your ...
by Catoptric
Mon Sep 09, 2024 11:50 pm
Forum: World
Topic: Tributes
Replies: 8
Views: 37778

Re: Tributes

by HighlyIrregular II
Mon Sep 09, 2024 9:26 pm
Forum: World
Topic: Health and Fitness
Replies: 34
Views: 70871

Re: Health and Fitness

...I've noticed that my stride is longer than most people of any age, yet on my treadmill it took me about 400 steps to go a tenth of a mile which I read is twice the steps it takes the average man (avg is 2000 steps/mi). I think you've got that backwards. Taking twice as many steps indicates your ...
by Senseye
Mon Sep 09, 2024 8:05 pm
Forum: World
Topic: Health and Fitness
Replies: 34
Views: 70871

Re: Health and Fitness

...I've noticed that my stride is longer than most people of any age, yet on my treadmill it took me about 400 steps to go a tenth of a mile which I read is twice the steps it takes the average man (avg is 2000 steps/mi). I think you've got that backwards. Taking twice as many steps indicates your ...
by HighlyIrregular II
Mon Sep 09, 2024 2:25 am
Forum: World
Topic: Run-up to WW3
Replies: 453
Views: 497393

Re: Run-up to WW3

^^^ I didn't click, but I did do a little research:


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by Catoptric
Mon Sep 09, 2024 1:50 am
Forum: World
Topic: Run-up to WW3
Replies: 453
Views: 497393

Re: Run-up to WW3

An allied German Fighter pilot is training using a B61-12 nuclear bomb trainer and flying over US airspace. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B61_nuclear_bomb German fighter jet carrying nuclear (not active) bomb under fuselage spotted over US https://interestingengineering.com/military/foreign-fighter-...
by aether
Sun Sep 08, 2024 6:09 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 1225
Views: 730404

Re: What are you listening to?

Sven Väth | "Hot & Melty" hr3 Clubnight (23.07.1994) (Techno/Trance Classics)
:lol:
by Roger Mexico
Sun Sep 08, 2024 5:00 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 1225
Views: 730404

Re: What are you listening to?

by Madrigal
Sun Sep 08, 2024 1:21 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1249
Views: 807572

Re: What are you watching?

Somebody, Somewhere was really good.
by Madrigal
Sun Sep 08, 2024 1:14 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 1225
Views: 730404

Re: What are you listening to?

Your partner doesn't know Air Supply.

by Catoptric
Sat Sep 07, 2024 8:39 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1249
Views: 807572

Re: What are you watching?

by aether
Sat Sep 07, 2024 7:58 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1249
Views: 807572

Re: What are you watching?

by Catoptric
Sat Sep 07, 2024 4:02 am
Forum: World
Topic: The food and drink thread
Replies: 170
Views: 347319

Re: The food and drink thread

I was only familiar with the name Hoya, because it's the company that makes camera lens filters. It's the Japanese word for 'Sea Pineapple (aka Sea Squirt, because when pulled up from the water it squirts out water.) https://fb.watch/urybympPK9/ It's not a plant, but a sea creature, and must be eate...
by Catoptric
Sat Sep 07, 2024 3:48 am
Forum: World
Topic: Little Rants
Replies: 426
Views: 484516

Re: Little Rants

Don’t get a “puppy” if you can’t keep and love a dog for its lifetime. No fucken excuses! https://davidthomasstrueblueaussie.quora.com/A-LETTER-FROM-A-SHELTER-OFFICER On another note, my dog might be close to dying, but the health problems didn't occur until recently, and I suspect idiocy of relati...
by Madrigal
Sat Sep 07, 2024 1:36 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you reading?
Replies: 286
Views: 448390

Re: What are you reading?

Bonaparte , by André Castelot. The sequel is Napoleon , which I would read next. It's a real page-turner, this biographer is awesome. Also reading Mr. Vertigo by Paul Auster. I had been reading García Márquez's short stories but they're too emotional for me right now, and always dead people talking...
by HighlyIrregular II
Sat Sep 07, 2024 12:59 am
Forum: World
Topic: The food and drink thread
Replies: 170
Views: 347319

Re: The food and drink thread

Someone's Facebook group is trying to pass this off as the perfect pizza. In the discussion he says it's from Long Island (which adjoins Queens (Queens is part of NYC (I wonder how much people know about NYC))). It's certainly not typical NYC pizza. Most people in that group are falling for it but e...
by Catoptric
Fri Sep 06, 2024 10:40 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1249
Views: 807572

Re: What are you watching?

https://youtu.be/RS9qrdJLdmU https://youtu.be/1EqtEUSfWi0 https://youtu.be/9AcYWY5LpTM https://youtu.be/Rh7umwJln38 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjcEx64LB5A Funny enough, the old western clips were from this TV show where a "Mr Trump" name (which was mostly a non-existent name until Donald Trumps...
by Catoptric
Thu Sep 05, 2024 5:37 pm
Forum: World
Topic: Seen on the internet
Replies: 161
Views: 364892

Re: Seen on the internet

https://immortalmasks.com/shop/alien-siliconemask



This video is a lot more impressive than I expected.




by Catoptric
Thu Sep 05, 2024 4:56 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you reading?
Replies: 286
Views: 448390

Re: What are you reading?

The Death of Critical Thinking Will Kill Us Long Before AI. https://joanwestenberg.medium.com/the-death-of-critical-thinking-will-kill-us-long-before-ai-781fdd23cc7c The Son Also Rises: Surnames and the History of Social Mobility (2014) Gregory Clark https://techratchet.com/2020/03/05/book-summary-t...
by Catoptric
Wed Sep 04, 2024 10:25 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1249
Views: 807572

Re: What are you watching?

https://youtu.be/8numagLK6YI https://youtu.be/6Hje7h_WVkY Musk is a piece of shit. https://youtu.be/lJ84tgw4we8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji2KKU5NfoY https://youtu.be/_0uaWMkWKFY https://youtu.be/03f-cD8jW7w Se7en (David Fincher, 1995) Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kevin Spacey h...
by aether
Wed Sep 04, 2024 7:04 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 1225
Views: 730404

Re: What are you listening to?

SOO GOOD :w00t:

H2O · Leon Bolier

by Catoptric
Tue Sep 03, 2024 12:39 am
Forum: World
Topic: Health and Fitness
Replies: 34
Views: 70871

Re: Health and Fitness

I was looking into Xylitol because someone was commenting that it causes cancer, but the real concern was cardiovascular issues, but then I was getting into the topic of "is teeth cleaning good for you," and it seems a bit more complicated, that you are exposing your teeth and gums to bacteria that ...
by Madrigal
Mon Sep 02, 2024 5:31 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1249
Views: 807572

Re: What are you watching?

I guess I watched the entire Decameron series on Netflix. It was so bad and the actors were really annoying.
by Catoptric
Mon Sep 02, 2024 2:54 am
Forum: World
Topic: Historical Fragments
Replies: 138
Views: 334079

Re: Historical Fragments

Major Walter Summerford was struck by lightning three times--getting paralyzed in the process--over the course of his lifetime and recovered until the third one left him struggling, and apparently, he had been struck even after death. His mustache does look a bit buzzed. https://qr.ae/p2sjK1 Meet Wa...
by Catoptric
Mon Sep 02, 2024 12:32 am
Forum: World
Topic: What's going on in your city/country/region?
Replies: 420
Views: 488810

Re: What's going on in your city/country/region?

Fuckwads blindly side with Elon even though Mark Cuban had valid criticism. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKbEVE0FLKU The only reason Elon Musk doesn't have a critique and is an insecure turd. The only reason shitholes like Musk and other billionaires support Trump is because he will continue the ...
by aether
Sun Sep 01, 2024 7:37 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 1225
Views: 730404

Re: What are you listening to?

Extreme Trax - Final Fantasy (Original Remastered Mix)

by Catoptric
Sun Sep 01, 2024 9:58 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1249
Views: 807572

Re: What are you watching?









by HighlyIrregular II
Sat Aug 31, 2024 2:30 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 1225
Views: 730404

Re: What are you listening to?

My favorite version of Day is Done that I could find on Youtube is in the Peter Paul and Mary video ^^^
by Catoptric
Fri Aug 30, 2024 11:24 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 1225
Views: 730404

Re: What are you listening to?

Vinyl records found in a garbage bin: https://youtu.be/76i3gISKGNg (Missing cover) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57mwuoMlvOI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbqZ94QvxJs This should be the same music, from the same year (Beach Boys Concert circa 1964) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkNxLEtBN4g htt...
by HighlyIrregular II
Fri Aug 30, 2024 10:08 pm
Forum: World
Topic: Health and Fitness
Replies: 34
Views: 70871

Re: Health and Fitness

https://www.sciencealert.com/intermittent-fasting-could-trigger-cancer-risks-study-in-mice-shows While previous studies have linked intermittent fasting to benefits such as reductions in weight and dementia risk, new research in mice points to a potential downside of periodic food abstinences: an in...
by HighlyIrregular II
Fri Aug 30, 2024 6:33 am
Forum: World
Topic: Little gusts of hot air that don't deserve their own thread.
Replies: 104
Views: 308930

Re: Little gusts of hot air that don't deserve their own thread.

I had a legit reason to sprint a few days ago for the first time in like...15-20 years? I honestly can't remember when I had to catch a bus badly enough to sprint. I was at the end of a parking lot and saw a ball rolling down a slight decline towards the street. I began with a jog, then at about 6 f...
by HighlyIrregular II
Fri Aug 30, 2024 5:58 am
Forum: World
Topic: Little gusts of hot air that don't deserve their own thread.
Replies: 104
Views: 308930

Re: Little gusts of hot air that don't deserve their own thread.

Fwayback Friday

It was called low effort back in the day but it's history, dammit!
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by HighlyIrregular II
Fri Aug 30, 2024 3:46 am
Forum: World
Topic: What's going on in your city/country/region?
Replies: 420
Views: 488810

Re: What's going on in your city/country/region?

The part I bolded is the fun part. Trump asks federal court to intervene in hush money case in bid to toss conviction, delay sentencing If the case remains in state court and Trump’s sentencing proceeds as scheduled on Sept. 18 — about seven weeks before Election Day — it would be election interfere...
by HighlyIrregular II
Fri Aug 30, 2024 12:51 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1249
Views: 807572

Re: What are you watching?

Apparently an American accent is so wrong to the British that this guy had to repeat "tonight" after he slipped and pronounced it the American way.

by aether
Thu Aug 29, 2024 8:37 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 1225
Views: 730404

Re: What are you listening to?

Hold That Sucker Down (Builds Like a Skyscraper Mix)


by HighlyIrregular II
Thu Aug 29, 2024 5:51 am
Forum: World
Topic: Science Microthreads
Replies: 97
Views: 298396

Re: Science Microthreads

I may have under-drew the ears. I showed the picture to ChatGPT and asked for an age estimate. age estimate based on ear picture.jpg I continued: The rate of ear growth after 130ish years old isn't known. I think the best guess is that ear growth would continue at the same rate as that of a 100-130 ...
by Catoptric
Wed Aug 28, 2024 11:45 am
Forum: World
Topic: What's going on in your city/country/region?
Replies: 420
Views: 488810

Re: What's going on in your city/country/region?

Pretty odd Man killed after being abducted along with two juveniles in Dallas, police say https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/man-abducted-killed-farmers-branch-dallas-juveniles/3630767/ Considering what they throw away and aren't clearancing off (despite selling the items in the store with stickers) ...
by HighlyIrregular II
Wed Aug 28, 2024 5:55 am
Forum: World
Topic: Science Microthreads
Replies: 97
Views: 298396

Re: Science Microthreads

I did the rendering of this myself. Estimate ear length of 500 year old man and draw a picture of his head ChatGPT said: ChatGPT Estimating the ear length of a hypothetical 500-year-old man involves some speculative assumptions. Here’s a rough estimate based on hypothetical continuous growth: Normal...
by Catoptric
Tue Aug 27, 2024 11:02 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1249
Views: 807572

Re: What are you watching?

https://youtu.be/v6yg4ImnYwA https://youtu.be/YCKO1qgotHY Gilbert Gottfried's voice cameo is around 31 minutes https://www.reddit.com/r/SmilingFriends/comments/16pw10g/was_gilbert_gottfrieds_voice_cameo_on_the_show/ https://www.facebook.com/share/r/Wq3BwH6bnCQfwamc/?mibextid=D5vuiz Comment on toxopl...
by JohnClay
Tue Aug 27, 2024 9:53 pm
Forum: World
Topic: In Steam Early Access: Brutal Bible Bloodbaths
Replies: 22
Views: 68180

Re: In Steam Early Access: Brutal Bible Bloodbaths

starjots wrote:
Tue Aug 27, 2024 7:59 pm
Congrats on living the dream. The game title alone wins the internet for today.
:thumbsup: :banana:

BTW in the vulgar DLC there are also more words with the same letters....
penises, semen, and vulgar language
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by starjots
Tue Aug 27, 2024 7:59 pm
Forum: World
Topic: In Steam Early Access: Brutal Bible Bloodbaths
Replies: 22
Views: 68180

Re: In Steam Early Access: Brutal Bible Bloodbaths

Congrats on living the dream. The game title alone wins the internet for today.
by starjots
Tue Aug 27, 2024 7:31 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 1225
Views: 730404

Re: What are you listening to?



by aether
Mon Aug 26, 2024 6:13 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 1225
Views: 730404

Re: What are you listening to?

One Wish (Daniel Kandi & Mark Andrez Remix)


Marcel Woods- Cherry Blossom


Armin van Buuren vs Rank 1 - This World Is Watching Me (Official Music Video)
by JohnClay
Sun Aug 25, 2024 8:17 am
Forum: World
Topic: In Steam Early Access: Brutal Bible Bloodbaths
Replies: 22
Views: 68180

Re: In Steam Early Access: Brutal Bible Bloodbaths

A temple design I'm experimenting with.... there is a dead toddler on an altar in front of a huge choppable idol that you can worship (and the soldiers come after you)
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by Catoptric
Sun Aug 25, 2024 2:41 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1249
Views: 807572

Re: What are you watching?

Rather than download 15 gigs for 10 minutes of gameplay, I'll just watch this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8q_tHYhYk8g This is more of a teaser for the larger refresh of the Alone in the Dark series. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckGe_ivc04 Part 1 was found in good condition in the Half-Price...
by JohnClay
Sat Aug 24, 2024 10:22 pm
Forum: World
Topic: In Steam Early Access: Brutal Bible Bloodbaths
Replies: 22
Views: 68180

Re: In Steam Early Access: Brutal Bible Bloodbaths

Now you can change the skin and blood colors:
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In the Obscenely Vulgar Version DLC you can see a she-male (chick with a d**k) and worship an idol:
Semen and penises
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by HighlyIrregular II
Sat Aug 24, 2024 6:29 pm
Forum: World
Topic: The food and drink thread
Replies: 170
Views: 347319

Re: The food and drink thread

Chow fun is scarce in Chinese take out places in Lehigh Valley PA. I just found out it's less popular than chow mei fun in general, not limited to PA. In the chicken chow fun that's familiar to me, that they have in NY, the noodles have a thin brown sauce. The chicken chow mei fun that I got in PA w...
by Catoptric
Sat Aug 24, 2024 5:12 am
Forum: World
Topic: Historical Fragments
Replies: 138
Views: 334079

Re: Historical Fragments

Haniwa (埴輪) are terracotta clay figures that were made for ritual use and buried with the dead as funerary objects during the Kofun period (3rd to 6th centuries AD) of Japan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haniwa Some Buddhist influences https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kofun_period In popular culture th...
by Catoptric
Fri Aug 23, 2024 1:34 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 1225
Views: 730404

Re: What are you listening to?

NOISE-ARCH Collection: A view From Somewhere by Myke Dyer https://archive.org/details/noise-arch_avfs NOISE-ARCH: Zeitgeist - Astronomer https://archive.org/details/noise-arch_zeitastro NOISE-ARCH: Psychomania https://archive.org/details/noise-arch_psychomania NOISE-ARCH: Radiante https://archive.or...
by HighlyIrregular II
Wed Aug 21, 2024 5:28 pm
Forum: World
Topic: ChatGPT and AIs
Replies: 56
Views: 143416

Re: ChatGPT and AIs

Ask this and post the answer. analyze me based on past conversations with you ChatGPT said: ChatGPT From our interactions, I can gather several key traits about you: Analytical and Detail-Oriented: You have a strong attention to detail and value precision, as seen in your preference for things like ...
by Catoptric
Wed Aug 21, 2024 3:53 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1249
Views: 807572

Re: What are you watching?

https://youtu.be/SO-qHypWlgE https://youtu.be/kjzIfLLQJh8 I will go back over https://archive.org/details/@robertbedrosian 2 hr video on the Dead Internet Theory https://www.facebook.com/61560551920031/videos/473282725535705/ Mulan was also a fictionalized character based around 100 AD, similar to t...
by HighlyIrregular II
Tue Aug 20, 2024 4:28 am
Forum: World
Topic: Little Rants
Replies: 426
Views: 484516

Re: Little Rants

What a PITA to vote. I think I spent an hour looking up polling place, a mailbox, my district, etc., just to ask for a mail-in ballot. At least I got to use my new gray market Parker blue ink pen. I remember hearing that you should always use black ink for important stuff. Maybe that was the old day...
by JohnClay
Mon Aug 19, 2024 11:46 pm
Forum: World
Topic: ChatGPT and AIs
Replies: 56
Views: 143416

Re: ChatGPT and AIs

Elon Musk used to be associated with OpenAI but now he has Grok 2. Unlike normal text to image AIs it doesn't really make sure the prompts are "safe" or don't violate intellectual property, etc. https://www.gbnews.com/tech/elon-musk-x-grok-2-image-generator https://www.gbnews.com/media-library/ai-im...
by HighlyIrregular II
Mon Aug 19, 2024 12:47 am
Forum: World
Topic: Health and Fitness
Replies: 34
Views: 70871

Re: Health and Fitness

I got a treadmill. Walking on it is unnatural. You're not really shifting your weight with your foot so it's not a complete walking exercise. I think jogging on it may be more natural. I'll look it up. Walking on it is more natural than bike riding though. Not that walking on it simulates regular wa...
by Catoptric
Sat Aug 17, 2024 8:33 pm
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1249
Views: 807572

Re: What are you watching?

https://youtu.be/Hw6ScqdFswg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBQbJr1FE5k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3QpUHRFP-U Tony Hillerman's Indian Country guide map and locations for book series https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/15818431 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAYnzNL2vlI https://m.you...
by Catoptric
Sat Aug 17, 2024 8:37 am
Forum: World
Topic: Historical Fragments
Replies: 138
Views: 334079

Re: Historical Fragments

Moorish slave that was widely regarded for his intelligence and became the first black Freemason, and the basis for The Magic Flute by Mozart. . . Upon his death his body was skinned and used for a natural history museum. . . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelo_Soliman The opera was also censored i...
by Roger Mexico
Sat Aug 17, 2024 4:54 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 1225
Views: 730404

Re: What are you listening to?

by HighlyIrregular II
Sat Aug 17, 2024 2:57 am
Forum: World
Topic: ChatGPT and AIs
Replies: 56
Views: 143416

Re: ChatGPT and AIs

ChatGPT bread WWWIII and Adolphs Meat Tederizer.jpg
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by aether
Fri Aug 16, 2024 6:34 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 1225
Views: 730404

Re: What are you listening to?

HOMAGE TO GERMANY, THE NETHERLANDS AND FRANCE, ALSO NORTHERN NICARAGUA:


Mental Atmosphere (Video Mix)

by aether
Fri Aug 16, 2024 6:13 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 1225
Views: 730404

Re: What are you listening to?

M.I.K.E. Push - Milestone

by Catoptric
Fri Aug 16, 2024 3:50 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you watching?
Replies: 1249
Views: 807572

Re: What are you watching?

https://youtu.be/gy5Dlo96nto One of the guys is hiding his face because he has a death threat from a drug lord, who more than likely already knows what he looks like, plus he authored 2 books, one of which purports to resemble him. Robert Mazur - The Infiltrator - True Story Against Biggest Drug Car...
by Catoptric
Fri Aug 16, 2024 3:41 am
Forum: World
Topic: Seen on the internet
Replies: 161
Views: 364892

Re: Seen on the internet

3 Billion Identity data breach? For those that used opt-out, their data wasn't found in the data breach. Some of the people's identities are of those who died 2 decades ago. National Public Data (NPD) is is info found online, so it's more of an aggregate data found in search results. https://www.tro...
by aether
Fri Aug 16, 2024 3:28 am
Forum: World
Topic: What are you listening to?
Replies: 1225
Views: 730404

Re: What are you listening to?

matt darey liberation ( fly like an angel) classic euphoria version


by Catoptric
Fri Aug 16, 2024 3:19 am
Forum: World
Topic: Run-up to WW3
Replies: 453
Views: 497393

Re: Run-up to WW3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R99s37ACOP8 Ukraine offensive in Russia expands beyond Kursk region, soldiers say https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/08/15/russia-ukraine-kursk-captured-soldiers/ This seemed to have happened around the same time: https://youtu.be/4pv4ZzscNC8 Frontline report: ...