... and it made me smile.

[drauch]

By Crom is right. Regalsin is a gift from God. I get so happy when I'm at work and I see a new post come up. Makes my day.

[Ruldra]

I'm following the Twitch Plays Pokemon event that's been going for a couple of weeks now. In case you don't know what that is:

Twitch plays pokemon, or TPP, was a social experiment started by an anonymous Australian, who wished to conduct a social experiment to see if twitch could collectively play pokemon through the chat. Chat inputs would be translated to button presses on a hacked rom of pokemon red.

TPP started going viral with 1000 monkeys banging on typewriters, to an all-time peak of over 150000 viewers.

Sounds like it would be a complete disaster and nothing would be accomplished, but the guys, somehow, actually managed to play through the whole game. At this very moment they're battling the Elite Four. This is nothing short of amazing.

http://www.twitch.tv/twitchplayspokemon

[Skykid]

Every post that RegalSin makes ever.

my new favorite. by Crom, let him never be banned. his Wonder Momo post took me back to the glorydays of grading bigoted ESL student essays. "I think your paragraph about womenz staying in the kitchen needs a topic sentence..."

By Crom is right. Regalsin is a gift from God. I get so happy when I'm at work and I see a new post come up. Makes my day.

And to think, now he's gone, turned back out into the wilderness of any forum who will let him darken their doorstep.

[Ed Oscuro]

Concussions are serious business. Even dildo concussions. Now that's settled, I present this for your consideration:

New Mexico woman arrested for hitting mother with vibrator and causing her to bleed

/me imagines some kind of Spaceballs/Strangelove-like scene where the vibrator wriggles free from the grasp of the woman using it to pound in nails for family photos

[gs68]

The fact that as of last year, the South Bay has a working and up-to-date Pump It Up cabinet again.

[Obiwanshinobi]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-mjc25R0Nc

(That Soviet handheld is legendary.)

[Skykid]

An email from my editor to say my recently submitted copy is "God Tier". I welled up, and almost beat one out, in that order.

[Xyga]

ECH !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sr_SGkqrrdM

[Ed Oscuro]

45db dishwashers

also, salvaging the old controller module and finding out that you can sell them on eBay But still just interesting to see the components on it.

[system11]

PS4 outselling the XB1 in the US during the Titanfall release month & bundling.

[ED-057]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZaXCn070Io
Kanno-san goes to Sweden, is mistaken for Chinese, throws ice over a bridge, and barks at sled dogs, all the while accompanied by random faces in the upper right corner.

[Skykid]

Flying business class.

[BulletMagnet]

Asshole rancher grazes his livestock on federal land, refuses to recognize gov't authority or pay grazing fees for years on end. Feds finally start moving in to confiscate his herds. Right-wing blowhards hail rancher as a hero. Armed vigilantes show up, threaten to use women as human shields against feds. Accolades for him grow louder.

Then he does this. It couldn't have been scripted any more deliciously.

That said, I'll be stopping into the "things that annoy you" thread when aforementioned blowhards (let alone their movement at large) inevitably fail to suffer any tangible consequences for cynically cheerleading the lunatic fringe, for the millionth time.

[Friendly]

[Obiwanshinobi]

[BIL]

Worst movies to be in (if they real)

Apes are the dominant species. payback time!!

[Captain]

Captain - Mars Matrix- Blue ship 1CC -71669606470

As I rolled this game I started smiling.

[trap15]

Revival of the RegalSin thread

[drauch]

Revival of the RegalSin thread

Oh yeah, baby!

[Ed Oscuro]

Hearing the lifetime ban announced for Donald Sterling. Not exactly Sterling after Silver got done with him.

[BulletMagnet]

What you're truly happy about is not the ban but being able to make that pun as a result of it.

[Ed Oscuro]

Haha. Actually there's one other thing about it, which I suppose I'd be happier about (and you too!) if it was talked about more loudly, is that this is just as much about wealthy privilege as anything else. From what he said, it's not actually having somebody cheat on him with a black man that counts, but the perception.

Forum needs a projectile vomit emote here...that's rather old-school reputation management though, and the issue of wealth lying at the core of "I house and feed these black players already, (so I've done my share)" is not getting talked about as much, as far as I can see.

[BulletMagnet]

the issue of wealth lying at the core of "I house and feed these black players already, (so I've done my share)" is not getting talked about as much, as far as I can see.

Considering that most of the people expected to "talk about things" (or at least the figures the general public are inclined to listen to, if only due to the size of their megaphone) are very wealthy themselves, and in most cases became so via the direct patronage of people even wealthier than they are, with famously little patience for dissent among their ranks (especially on the media/PR end of things), it's not particularly surprising that rubber so very rarely meets road when it comes to issues of wealth in our discourse. Can't upset the (minimum-wage dead-end McShit) job creators, after all!

On a semi-related note, you might've heard that after having both previously spoken against excessive executive compensation in general and expressing specific misgivings about a lavish pay package that Coca-Cola's bosses recently offered themselves, Warren Buffett chose to "abstain" from the shareholder vote on said package instead of actually take an official stand against it (and the measure thus passed with between 80 and 90 percent approval). You'd figure that if anybody could say he didn't have to feel intimidated by what others might think of him it'd be Buffett, but it seems even he has his limits...and yes, I know that abstention as opposed to outright approval sends some manner of "message" in and of itself, but if that's as far as perhaps the best-equipped advocate for restoring some manner of sense to modern capitalism is willing to take things, I'm not sure who else we're supposed to expect to step up.

Sorry, ought to get back to smiles in this thread, heh.

[Blinge]

met a girl.

there's a chance i might not screw this up..

Edit: wait, I just posted this in a shmups forum.. I've already lost.

[Formless God]

Atlus showing 1.5 hrs of gay porn on their Persona stream.

[Skykid]

Atlus showing 1.5 hrs of gay porn on their Persona stream.

For real?

[Jonst]

met a girl.

there's a chance i might not screw this up..

Edit: wait, I just posted this in a shmups forum.. I've already lost.

A girl? That's gonna kill your scores mate!

[Formless God]

For real?

Yep, the stream was here although it doesn't seem to be loading for me right now. It's tame at first, but gets incredibly hot toward the end.
The fact that a bunch of Persona fans got tricked into watching two men groping each other instead of getting their P5 news amuses me to no end.

[Ed Oscuro]

Not sure if I should smile or frown - mostly happy, though, at the results of reinstalling Windows. It always takes a fucking age and a day, and when it takes just a little bit less or doesn't blow up, you're happy. On the down side, now I know Windows 7 installations can easily go AWOL in (lots of) little ways.

First, I finally updated the ancient Sandforce firmware on my SSD - I've been putting this off for a long time. SATA and AHCI are unbelievably nice - since the controller I normally have the drive plugged into doesn't let the PNY firmware updater detect the drive, I just had to realize that it only took a simple cable swap. Done and I had to check twice to see that it actually updated - really quickly. Very anticlimactic after downloading the huge 200MB+ update file; PNY's horrible servers served up three broken downloads in a row (all too small).

So many restarts for Windows Update; I wish I had a Service Pack 1 installation disc. However, it went through them as well as could be expected. The only snag to watch out for is Internet Exploder 11 (AMD's Catalyst Control Center throws an obscure error message up repeatedly if you don't have it installed), which would have been worse if I had gone through stupid Windows Update's recommended update order and fooled around with patching IE8. Disabled that, proceeded with updates, etc.

IE11 updates are insane. You first have to get a huge 55MB installer, which I had hoped would roll everything into one. Nope, that's Microsoft's idea of a "stub" installer (compare with the Firefox and Chrome ones which are no bigger than a few megabytes, if that). Then it goes through a lengthy process, restarts your system, then Win Update finds a 45MB update, then a 35MB one, then a 15MB one, and then restarts again.

Figured out a few things this time: No need to install Flash for IE if it's not used.

There are so many dumb guides and "helpful" addons for Firefox that claim to help you save files. Throw them all in the garbage - just update your old installation of Firefox to the newest version so the files will be compatible, get Session Manager for the old and new installs if you don't already have it (and you want to save your session - otherwise this is one of the biggest things you can leave out), get new copies of your extensions for the new install and then just copy and paste over a few key files from %appdata%: Import your bookmarks (copied from the bookmarksbackup folder - import specially from the Bookmarks pane in Firefox), copy and paste over your key3 and signons file, copy over the cookies file (again, if needed), copy over your latest sessions backup file (i.e. backup-3.session) and restore it from Session Manager.

A fresh install of Firefox 29 with mostly stock setting looks pretty different from (and is much smaller than) a continually-updated one. NoScript used to have its scripting business on the left side of the screen. Overall, I've warmed up to the new way of doing things (not so much the new look) pretty quickly, and it's good to have that small row of pixels back at the top of the screen.

So transplanting an old Firefox installation to a new one went surprisingly well and - the strangest part - I seem to not only be running that considerably faster, but my system seems to be using 50W less now.

Amazing how much hard drive space Windows 7 eats up: 10GB for the User directory before I've put anything on there. Other directories also eat up gigabytes. Still, you can claw back a few gigabytes by using the Disc Cleanup wizard to blast out old Windows Update files.

[Ruldra]