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/dev/random / Re: Whatcha watchin'/streamin'...

« on: September 06, 2025, 01:21:15 PM »

October is horror movie marathon month for me. I've downloaded probably 60 or more movies to watch. I won't list them all but here's some of them:

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• Vampyr (1932) old black & white 1930's German-made vampire movie... if you couldn't tell from the title. No idea what it's about, will be the first time I've ever seen it. Watch it here.

I am somewhat of a horror movie fan, but at the same time, I find most of the movies labelled as "horror" to be pretty ridiculous, so I also tend to avoid horror movies... until October rolls around, and then I binge the living hell out of them, assuring that I don't feel the need to watch them any other time of the year unless I really want to.

It's not October yet... but I'm starting my yearly Halloween Horror Binge a month early this year. I downloaded a CRAPLOAD of movies, and I probably won't get through them all by Halloween.

Some good ones I've seen so far that I would recommend...

House of Wax (1953) - Starring Vincent Price.
The Body Snatcher (1945) - Starring Boris Karloff, a smaller role played by Bela Lugosi
The Mummy (1959) - Starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee as the Kharis/The Mummy - Hammer studios got permission to do remakes of the old Universal classic monster films, such as Frankenstein (Hammer version: Curse of Frankenstein), Dracula (Horror of Dracula), and The Mummy with Boris Karloff - not sure if they did any others. I'd recommend all 3 of these Hammer remakes, especially Curse of Frankenstein.

Watched this one for the first time:

White Zombie (1932) - Starring Bela Lugosi - Not great, but not terrible either... considering its a movie from the 30's, and also considering the star is Bela Lugosi (I'm not a Lugosi superfan) - Its awkward and silly at parts, but like I said, that's just how some movies were back then. It was "the style".

And one that I DO NOT RECOMMEND.



Satan's Cheerleaders (1977)
It's very bad. Some movies are so bad that they're good. NOT THIS ONE! This one is just plain bad. Stay away! The dialogue is fucking terrible. The story is terrible. The cast is mostly terrible. It has Yvonne DeCarlo in it. Even her part is horrible because of the dialogue. She obviously didn't give a shit about what roles she took around that time. I saw another horrible one with her in it that she did right after this one in 1979 called Nocturna. It was SO BAD. One of the worst bad b-movies I've ever seen. Well now it doesn't stand alone as the single worst halloween/horror movie, I'd put Satan's Cheerleaders right beside it. Trust me, you CAN'T BE bored enough to make watching this movie worth it.

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/dev/random / Re: Whatcha listening to?

« on: August 26, 2025, 10:36:56 AM »

RIP Brent Hinds.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OA70S4b-ofM

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/dev/random / Re: Whatcha listening to?

« on: July 31, 2025, 06:28:59 PM »

Pretty sure this song about Chris Cuomo.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPFIkty4Zvk&ab_channel=FrankZappaVEVO

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/dev/random / Re: hi guys - intro

« on: July 31, 2025, 07:29:01 AM »

Probably won't be too many people responding to this. The forums are pretty dead these days. The servers get less traffic as well. Traffic started tapering off around 2018. DM still does plenty of business, but no one ever plays on Vanilla or Railz anymore like they used to. The greatest bestest dude who ever lived, Quadz, who was the owner, operator, CEO, head tech support, genius guru, and white wizard of the mountain of Tastyspleen, sadly passed away in July of 2021. We also got news not too long ago (Feb 2025) that Pepp, a longtime regular at Tastyspleen, passed away. So that answers #2 and part of #1.

Me personally, I very very rarely play Q2 anymore. My old Win7 box that I played Q2 with slowly fell apart piece by piece. First the monitor failed, then the bearings in the tiny fan on the video card wore out and started making horrible noise, and then finally the mechanical HDD failed. I have a newer little mini-ATX Win10 gaming box now, 1080p 27" Benq Zowie TN panel gaming monitor that can pull 160hz, GTX 1660 Super video card. It's not a newer Win11 box with an RTX video card, but it runs 1080p stuff like GTA5 pretty well and thats good enough for me at the moment.

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Quake / Re: Anyone else ever pull a psycho like this?

« on: July 31, 2025, 06:17:35 AM »

Shalom! Want some bacon?

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Jokes / Re: Oh those wacky Nigerians!

« on: June 01, 2025, 06:36:34 PM »

Got a new one. I like this guy. Sort of a blackhat Death Wish vigilante blackmailer.

They added hidden white colored numbers between all the words to keep someone from reposting it maybe, or perhaps to keep certain filters from reading it properly and weeding it out. I guess they don't know that "image to text" is a thing now, and that's what I used to copy the text from a screenshot. 

-------------(START OF EMAIL BELOW)----------------------

Hi there,
I want to inform you about a very bad situation for you. However, you can benefit from it, if you will act wisely. Have you heard of Pegasus?
This is a spyware program that installs on computers and smartphones and allows hackers to monitor the activity of device owners. It provides access to your webcam, messengers, emails, call records, etc. It works well on Android, iOS, and Windows. I guess, you already figured out where I'm getting at.
It's been a few months since I installed it on all your devices because you were not quite choosy about what links to click on the internet.
During this period, I've learned about all aspects of your private life, but one is of special significance to me.
I've recorded many videos of you jerking off to highly controversial porn videos.
Given that the "questionable" genre is almost always the same, I can conclude that you have sick perversion.
I doubt you'd want your friends, family and co-workers to know about it.
However, I can do it in a few clicks.
Every number in your contact book will suddenly receive these videos - on WhatsApp, on Telegram, on Skype, on email - everywhere.
It is going to be a tsunami that will sweep away everything in its path, and first of all, your former life.
Don't think of yourself as an innocent victim.
No one knows where your perversion might lead in the future, so consider this a kind of deserved punishment to stop you.
Better late than never. I'm some kind of God who sees everything.
However, don't panic. As we know, God is merciful and forgiving, and so do I. But my mercy is not free.
Transfer $2000 USD to my Litecoin address:
{************* - I DELETED THE ADDRESS}
Once I receive confirmation of the transaction, I will permanently delete all videos compromising you, uninstall Pegasus from all of your devices, and disappear from your life. You can be sure my benefit is only money. Otherwise, I wouldn't be writing to you, but destroy your life without a word in a second.
I'll be notified when you open my email, and from that moment you have exactly 48 hours to send the money.
If cryptocurrencies are unchartered waters for you, don't worry, it's very simple.
Just google "crypto exchange" and then it will be no harder than buying some useless stuff on Amazon.
I strongly warn you against the following:
Do not reply to this email. I sent it from a temp email so I am untraceable.
Do not contact the police. I have access to all your devices, and as soon as I find out you ran to the cops, videos will be published. Don't try to reset or destroy your devices.
As I mentioned above: I'm monitoring all your activity, so you either agree to my terms or the videos are published. Also, don't forget that cryptocurrencies are anonymous, so it's impossible to identify me using the provided address.
Good luck, my perverted friend. I hope this is the last time we hear from each other. And some friendly advice: from now on, don't be so careless about your online security.

---------(END OF EMAIL)--------------

Yeah, this guy is fishing for suckers. I don't have a camera on my computer, nor do I have any problem with people knowing what kind of porn I watch: LESBIAN PORN, LOL! Because what's better than one naked woman? TWO NAKED WOMEN! OR MORE! I don't do messengers (besides Discord), my cell phone is a burner, they are welcome to see my home phone records (I get nothing but literally 20 to 30 spam calls a day, no kidding, it's super annoying, I'm about ready to unplug all the phones in the house), most of my emails are spam (maybe some are other scammer friends of his... he could say hi to them), I never do any online purchasing without a prepaid credit card to prevent identity theft and fraudulent charges.

I would like to meet the person that this kind of email snags though. Just to laugh at them.

But I'd also like to meet the person sending this email so I could bash them in the head with hammer. Seriously, if you're gonna be a scammer, don't scam regular everyday people. It's just fuckin' rude. There are plenty of opportunities to scam companies that probably deserve it... or even the government. Plenty of people got rich off the stupid business loans the govt was giving to virtually anyone who asked during covid, and there was SO MUCH of it, that they only had the resources to prosecute a very small percentage of them.

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/dev/random / Re: Memorial Day

« on: May 26, 2025, 01:36:34 PM »

To any members of the community who served in the military, THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE.

Got to spend part of the weekend at the shooting range, watching movies and grilling burgers with my nephew who is home from the Air Force for the first time in about a year. Good times!

Hope you had a great Memorial Day weekend, folks.

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/dev/random / Re: Whatcha listening to?

« on: May 09, 2025, 07:37:32 AM »

Good quality rock bands are too few and far between these days in my opinion.

Superheaven.

Happened across these guys on youtube earlier this year. Overall sound is good, not too flashy, has a style that is consistent from song to song even though it's not a particularly uniquely special kind of sound. Somewhat reminiscent of alternative rock bands from the 90's, which I guess is fine and great since there really IS NO ROCK SCENE these days to compare it to... at least not a GOOD rock scene that I care to listen to (rap and pop has taken over everything) The vocals sound good, but could be even better and more well defined with some work, but as I said, still good as is.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siDhacKVxdE


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voVL8Ey-CiI

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poetry / essays / short stories? / Re: Quotes

« on: May 05, 2025, 01:55:56 PM »

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/dev/random / Re: Whatcha listening to?

« on: May 05, 2025, 10:06:34 AM »

The more you browse youtube, the more you realize all the things you'll NEVER be able to do on a guitar... because I didn't start intensive training when I was barely old enough to scribble my own name like this lady obviously did.

Ana Vidocic, classical guitarist.

Absolutely FLAWLESS technique and she seems to play all of these pieces completely from memory. Just WOW.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e26zZ83Oh6Y&ab_channel=OmniFoundation

I honestly don't lament my lack of ability to play classical guitar. At this point, I don't TRY too hard to improve, and I play just for my own enjoyment of it. I'm not interested in impressing anyone with my skills. It's fun for me and that's enough. Also, as much I love listening to and especially watching someone this talented play classical guitar, it's just not really a style of music I've ever been too interested in playing much past it's practical application towards rock music, as in when I spent a little time studying Randy Rhoads tabs as a teen. Also... the last time I even picked up a classical guitar, I was astounded by how entirely flat and wide the fretboard was compared to a typical radiused fretboard on an electric.

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/dev/random / Re: Whatcha listening to?

« on: April 25, 2025, 07:15:31 AM »

Started branching out into jazz late last year.

Chet Baker. Was RIDICULOUSLY talented, but spent probably the larger portion of his life as a heroin junkie. His life was about as sad as some of his songs sound. He died when he either fell out of a 2nd story apartment window or jumped, no one is really sure.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4PKzz81m5c&ab_channel=Sweetydu972M


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gsz3mrnIBd0

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Religion, and the Changing Moral Zeitgeist / Re: Ye Religion Thread

« on: April 11, 2025, 04:00:43 PM »

Woooo! Church people burnin' it UP with the memes!

Just goes to show you... Democrats are the only ones who still can't meme.

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Bot Drop / Re: First hack of the year 2993

« on: April 08, 2025, 05:03:39 PM »

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/dev/random / Re: The last movie you saw....

« on: March 31, 2025, 03:36:57 PM »

The Exorcism (2024)



Russell Crowe is one of my favorite actors. I don't recall seeing anything he was in that I didn't like. The Insider, Gladiator, A Beautiful Mind, Master and Commander, 3:10 to Yuma, some of the best movies ever.

But this thing... it's so bad. It's every cliche of every dime-a-dozen possession movie. It's like a 13 year old girl watched the Exorcist (1973) and then used the idea of the filming of that movie as a setting for a movie about an exorcism... or something. I can't even describe the plot on my own, because it's so stupid that I can't bring myself to recall it in such a way that I could type it out coherently. The story is dumb. VERY DUMB.  You'll have to read the full plot on wikipedia to know what I'm talking about.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Exorcism_(film)#Plot

 And it'll spoil the movie, but don't worry, there was nothing to fucking spoil anyway. There's no mystery, there's not much development, it's just a bunch of fuckin lights going out and loud bangs and stupid jump scares.

This movie was about 90 minutes long. I'd rather watch 90 minutes of rapid fire short-form commercials on Youtube than watch this movie. I downloaded this movie illegally... AND I STILL WANT MY MONEY BACK.

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/dev/random / Re: Whatcha listening to?

« on: March 15, 2025, 08:47:38 AM »

A little belated...

RIP David Johansen AKA Buster Poindexter. (Jan 9, 1950 - Feb 28, 2025)

He was singer for the early 70's glam punk band the New York Dolls. I'm sort of into punk, but New York Dolls were never my thing.

Clip of him on the Conan OBrien show back in the 90's talking about funny stories of times from when he was with the New York Dolls.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwMpn7EmXTY&ab_channel=ConanO%27Brien

He also had a big hit in the late 80's, one that practically EVERYONE knows either from just being alive at the time... or probably from hearing it for one of the 9000 different occasions that it was used as an advertising jingle for all sorts of products.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhZba-P7R18&ab_channel=BusterPoindexterVEVO

Yeah, I wasn't a fan of his Buster Poindexter stuff either. 

But I did like him as a character actor, especially as the filthy obnoxious cartoony cab driver Ghost of Christmas Past in the Bill Murray Christmas movie Scrooged, one of my favorite Christmas movies. It's a classic!



Even though I was never really any kind of fan of his music, I still think he's one of the most interesting people to ever be in the music business. He's the kind of guy I would've loved to have chatted with about music and movies and such.

He passed February 28th 2025 from cancer of some kind, brain cancer I think. He was 75.