... and it made me smile.

BIL · Joined: 10 May 2007 Posts: 13875 Location: COLONY

Stevens wrote:

Wonder what else they find on this guy if they keep digging?

Bodies, I'm sorry to assume. :sad:

What a cartoonishly evil piece of shit. It's like a Phillip Garrido or Ariel Castro who ran for elected office as a Virtuous Pedophile Nazi.

rapoon · Joined: 24 Mar 2007 Posts: 792 Location: Dallas, Texas

the rise and fall of the bank robbery capital of the world

Edit: link fixed

Durandal · Joined: 16 Nov 2015 Posts: 1481

rapoon wrote:

the rise and fall of the bank robbery capital of the world

Edit: link fixed

Quote:

The sudden drop in bank robberies in the years following 1992 was almost as dramatic as their spectacular rise the decade before. Prior to the arrival of the Baby Bandits, security was not a major consideration in the overall business plan of the big banks. Spread out among them, losses from robberies were an almost meaningless line item on the annual expense sheet. Even the occasional big heist like the Tarzana robbery was not all that important to the bottom line. “They lose more than that on a single bad loan,” says Rehder.

But after particularly harrowing encounters with Baby Bandits, the banks were starting to see the entire staff of terrorized branch employees quit en masse. The cost of hiring and retraining all new employees to take their place was becoming enormous. And then there were the workman’s compensation claims from the former employees and lawsuits from customers due to post-traumatic stress or actual physical injury. By the end of 1992, losses related to robberies exceeded those from fraud for the first time ever.

vol.2 · Joined: 31 Oct 2016 Posts: 1075 Location: bmore

Sanwa sent me a little paper cut-out sushi with my mouse pad. I guess I could have cut all the black lines off better on the shrimp, but I think I got the contour pretty good.

BIL · Joined: 10 May 2007 Posts: 13875 Location: COLONY

Aww :3 Makes me think of me old cat Handsome Jack who I can't see atm because coof. Like I am sure most cats, the aloof bastard will be your BFF if you've had sushi anywhere on your person in the past 48hrs. I think even he'd be briefly confused!

vol.2 · Joined: 31 Oct 2016 Posts: 1075 Location: bmore

BIL wrote:

hahaha. that furry bastard.
makes me wonder if they aren't just biding their time until we're vulnerable. you occasionally hear some story of a cat lady dying and being eaten by her starving cats. guess i can't blame them.

I am occasionally addicted to the CatsStandingUp subreddit

orange808 · Joined: 20 Aug 2016 Posts: 1996

Saving the world with a smug expensive off the grid home project?
https://www.ids.ac.uk/opinions/will-sol ... al-africa/

Well... Those batteries are an issue. A large shared grid can move energy across large distances and deliver it without the need for storage. Maybe we should work together on fixing that?

Neat little home project.

Neat toxic waste, too.

You aren't saving the world, tho. Makes me smile to wipe that smug smile off your face.

BareKnuckleRoo · Joined: 03 Oct 2011 Posts: 4529 Location: Southern Ontario

Your attitude is charming, as always.

It's not just the batteries; the panels themselves use a variety of rare and toxic heavy metals in their construction. They're very beneficial for their ability to produce electricity without producing carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse we need to avoid producing to avoid warming the Earth's climate, but they definitely pose a waste recycling problem and is why I'd like to see more focus on wind energy. Wind energy however is subject to a lot of "not in my backyard" attitudes because people love electricity but hate the idea of seeing a wind turbine. Very odd.

Wind energy's main disadvantages, other than the metals used to build them, are the risk of flying wildlife hitting them (which apparently can be drastically reduced by painting one of the blades black) and the potential climate changes resulting from drawing energy out of the wind (if it has a real impact it's still going to be far less significant than anthropogenic climate warming from greenhouse gases is).

BIL · Joined: 10 May 2007 Posts: 13875 Location: COLONY

BareKnuckleRoo wrote:

Wind energy's main disadvantages, other than the metals used to build them, are the risk of flying wildlife hitting them (which apparently can be drastically reduced by painting one of the blades black)

Interesting - totally offhand, I guess that promotes some predator recognition circuitry in prey animal brains? Like newly-hatched chickens running for cover if you move your hand over them like a passing hawk.

Reminds me of something I heard from noted wildlife expert James Heftfield Esq. on beekeepers never wearing black, it makes the bees rank up hard. Seems legit.

Udderdude · Joined: 16 Feb 2006 Posts: 5640 Location: Canada

These error messages hidden in this game .. Matt's in trouble.

Quote:

numFrames <= 0 illegal. you're under arrest dipshit
fix this mr. matt duncan
Shitfucker
Hmmm... these aren't equal! Fire Matt immediately
something's wrong in the state of denmark
What the fuck? Scorp ptr isn't scorp
Now how, I said how in the hell did this happen?
No mysterio. Fire Matt
Fire Matt after kicking him decidedly in the nutsack
Fire Matt, he fucked up the rhino XA. Actually, kick him in the nuts first
What in the name of God above?
Don't collide with yourself idiot
what in the name of Dog?
Just how in the name of Jeezus did zis happen?
Stuck goddammit
What the fuck?
Not enough slots. Fire Matt
What the hell?
Fire matt
Demote Matt immediately
Who's been smokin' crack today?
fire matt immediately please

BIL · Joined: 10 May 2007 Posts: 13875 Location: COLONY

Decisive nutsack kick, the "Golden Target" of Wing Chun style

In the comments on a classic Game of Thrones season 1 clip, directed at nobody in particular :lol:

Show used to be SO AMAZIN. Now its just amazing how fast it TURN 2 DOG SHIT

Mischief Maker · Joined: 08 May 2008 Posts: 3899

BIL wrote:

Show used to be SO AMAZIN. Now its just amazing how fast it TURN 2 DOG SHIT

There's a difference between trying to write for a show to be a success by itself, and writing a resume to get a job making $tar Wars films for Disney.

orange808 · Joined: 20 Aug 2016 Posts: 1996

This.
https://github.com/VitorVilela7/SA1-Root/releases

Finally.

Sumez · Joined: 18 Feb 2011 Posts: 5957 Location: Denmarku

This night I had the strangest dream. I'm dead serious here, this is something I dreamt.

Due to some kind of earlier controversy, every single representation of Mark of the Wolves had been removed from YouTube. To the point where a search for "MOTW" resulted in only a single, unrelated, result.

It had me shortly pondering whether I recalled the title entirely wrong, and it immediately demonstrated how much power a platform like YouTube has nowadays, despite being literally just a video sharing service.
Eventually the consequences were that everyone from the internet generation who gets all of their information from YouTube somehow came to the conclusion that MOTW was this completely unknown hidden gem that no one knew about.

Weird.

Blinge · Joined: 19 Feb 2013 Posts: 4219 Location: Villa Straylight

They removed La Li Lu Le Lo from Youtube?
wait what even is that? a gacha game?

BIL · Joined: 10 May 2007 Posts: 13875 Location: COLONY

Sometimes I pine for the sixth and seventh ASOIAF books that'll never come, but then I look at this week's spam and feel like the luckiest man in the world. 3;

dojo_b · Joined: 07 Dec 2014 Posts: 67 Location: Chicago

My favorite one from years back read: "Hello Friend, Are you tired of Disappointing that Special Someone? Now the girls will call you Largissimo!"

Our aesthetic categories are still lagging behind the spammer-scammers' work, IMO. I was asked recently why these emails made me so happy, and I struggled to answer---the best I could do, "They make me feel at home in the world." Thinking a bit more, they're delightful partly for what they withhold; they invite you to imagine the speaker, crouching behind his flimsy curtain, but also to strain to picture the true target audience, deep in Chumpsville (oh and, the wonderful world in which the scammer's claims are really true). Maybe all this provocative absence is like the concept of the "acousmatic" in modernist music. There's also an interesting tension between the hyper-banality of concerns, and the almost-poetic tiptoe dance around the spam filter's watchful eye---with the occasional dash of creativity for its own sake.

vol.2 · Joined: 31 Oct 2016 Posts: 1075 Location: bmore

Junk mail has been around since the birth of the written language.
If you go back to the introduction of the printing press, junk mail notices and adverts were the main stay of the business.

There is something comforting about it's constancy.

BIL · Joined: 10 May 2007 Posts: 13875 Location: COLONY

dojo_b wrote:

Our aesthetic categories are still lagging behind the spammer-scammers' work, IMO. I was asked recently why these emails made me so happy, and I struggled to answer---the best I could do, "They make me feel at home in the world." Thinking a bit more, they're delightful partly for what they withhold; they invite you to imagine the speaker, crouching behind his flimsy curtain, but also to strain to picture the true target audience, deep in Chumpsville (oh and, the wonderful world in which the scammer's claims are really true).

I had a Nigerian professor once, and a couple of Nigerian classmates, and the subject of infamous "419" came up (the Nigerian penal code's designation for spam/scam, etc - if the Prince of Nigeria has been kidnapped by ninjas, again, and only your renowned compassion and judgement can save the day, that's 419!). I'll always treasure my buddy's translation of the word "MUGU" for me in the unofficial 419 anthem "I Go Chop Your Dollar."

"It mean a bum, a chump..." *pause for emphasis* "A real big loser." I asked him about those old biddies who blow their life savings trying in vain to foil the ninjas and he got kinda sad and said they weren't MUGU, "just victims." :sad:

(prof had a marvelous way of pronouncing "decades" as "dickheads." Building this doctrine, it took dickheads! Many, many dickheads!)

BIL · Joined: 10 May 2007 Posts: 13875 Location: COLONY

How'd I hear about this but not this? 2018 was a more innocent time I guess.

"You're treating me like A FUCKIN BLACK PERSON!" - Jeffrey Epstein

"Look at 'em! They're gonna beat me up! DONT BEAT ME UP YOU MOTHERFUCKERS"

Epstein says he created the disturbance on purpose to "prove a point" about police use of excessive force.

BareKnuckleRoo · Joined: 03 Oct 2011 Posts: 4529 Location: Southern Ontario

My first honest-to-goodness accusation of cheating. Brings me a little tear of joy to my eye.

The person deleted it soon after posting it because it's not on the actual video comments, but it still showed up on my notification feed. I like that they picked a game I had been streaming regularly on Twitch showing the attempts, and a game that's a PC game. I have no absolutely no idea how to TAS or save state something that's not in an emulator, sorry buddy. :lol:

BIL · Joined: 10 May 2007 Posts: 13875 Location: COLONY

The deletion is a fascinating twist, I wonder if he realised it wasn't emulation or if he just got scurred. :mrgreen:

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