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Outdoor Activities / Spelunking: (noun) the exploration of caves, especially as a hobby.

« on: September 01, 2023, 07:20:34 PM »

Used to do some caving when I was a teen. The two I remember the most were the Lost Sea and Cumberland Caverns, both in Tennessee. I see videos on youtube and think about how much fun I had as a teen, but those were guided tours in tourist caves. These guys on youtube are pretty serious about it, going places where you need ropes, repelling gear, super-duper high power lamps, etc. I start thinking I'd like to do something like that... but then I see them swinging from ropes, climbing way up in these shafts where if they fall, they're gonna be hurt REALLY BAD. Nah. Think I'll just sit here watching the younger folks do it on Youtube.

Some really interesting videos I've seen lately...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlltGdU9nT4


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8sag8JI4zY


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9tqxiy7L80


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMtg7Qgekok

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/dev/random / The Good Old Days thread

« on: August 13, 2023, 12:52:44 AM »

A place to remember the good old days.

Like porn in the 1980's. Is that her boob? Is that her knee? It's whatever you want it to be!

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poetry / essays / short stories? / Dr. Seuss

« on: July 23, 2023, 01:59:49 AM »

god vaevictis's stories couldn't make less sense if they were written by Dr. Suess.

it's like he lives in a different reality where he doesn't suck and doesn't throw 3 year old tantrums.   definitely not.

Hey now! Don't knock the Doc! Dr. Seuss is the shit! When tweedle beetles battle with their paddles on a poodle in a puddle, it's a tweedle beetle poodle puddle paddle battle.

Hehe, thought I had posted something about this around here before.

Fox in Socks by Dr. Seuss. One of my my favorite books when I was a kid... and still is today. The part about the Tweedle Beetles was my favorite.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S82jwZ0pD1k

Basically, there's this blue furry dog looking character (dunno really what he is, it's Dr. Seuss after all) named Mr Knox, and a crazy red fox wearing blue socks. The Fox tries to teach Mr. Knox tongue twisters. Mr. Knox sucks at it apparently. In the end, Mr Knox gets pissed off and shoves fox into the bottle with the Tweedle Beetles. Yeah, it's silly, that's why I love it.

Fox in Socks by Dr. Seuss
-------------------------

Fox
Socks
Box
Knox

Knox in box.
Fox in socks.

Knox on fox in socks in box.

Socks on Knox and Knox in box.

Fox in socks on box on Knox.

Chicks with bricks come.
Chicks with blocks come.
Chicks with bricks and blocks and clocks come.

Look, sir.  Look, sir.  Mr. Knox, sir.
Let's do tricks with bricks and blocks, sir.
Let's do tricks with chicks and clocks, sir.

First, I'll make a quick trick brick stack.
Then I'll make a quick trick block stack.

You can make a quick trick chick stack.
You can make a quick trick clock stack.

And here's a new trick, Mr. Knox....
Socks on chicks and chicks on fox.
Fox on clocks on bricks and blocks.
Bricks and blocks on Knox on box.

Now we come to ticks and tocks, sir.
Try to say this Mr. Knox, sir....

Clocks on fox tick.
Clocks on Knox tock.
Six sick bricks tick.
Six sick chicks tock.

Please, sir.  I don't like this trick, sir.
My tongue isn't quick or slick, sir.
I get all those ticks and clocks, sir,
mixed up with the chicks and tocks, sir.
I can't do it, Mr. Fox, sir.

I'm so sorry, Mr. Knox, sir.

Here's an easy game to play.
Here's an easy thing to say....

New socks.
Two socks.
Whose socks?
Sue's socks.

Who sews whose socks?
Sue sews Sue's socks.

Who sees who sew whose new socks, sir?
You see Sue sew Sue's new socks, sir.

That's not easy, Mr. Fox, sir.

Who comes? ...
Crow comes.
Slow Joe Crow comes.

Who sews crow's clothes?
Sue sews crow's clothes.
Slow Joe Crow sews whose clothes?
Sue's clothes.

Sue sews socks of fox in socks now.

Slow Joe Crow sews Knox in box now.

Sue sews rose on Slow Joe Crow's clothes.
Fox sews hose on Slow Joe Crow's nose.

Hose goes.
Rose grows.
Nose hose goes some.
Crow's rose grows some.

Mr. Fox!
I hate this game, sir.
This game makes my tongue quite lame, sir.

Mr. Knox, sir, what a shame, sir.

We'll find something new to do now.
Here is lots of new blue goo now.
New goo.  Blue goo.
Gooey.  Gooey.
Blue goo.  New goo.
Gluey. Gluey.

Gooey goo for chewy chewing!
That's what that Goo-Goose is doing.
Do you choose to chew goo, too, sir?
If, sir, you, sir, choose to chew, sir,
with the Goo-Goose, chew, sir.
Do, sir.

Mr. Fox, sir,
I won't do it. 
I can't say. 
I won't chew it.

Very well, sir.
Step this way.
We'll find another game to play.

Bim comes.
Ben comes.
Bim brings Ben broom.
Ben brings Bim broom.

Ben bends Bim's broom.
Bim bends Ben's broom.
Bim's bends.
Ben's bends.
Ben's bent broom breaks.
Bim's bent broom breaks.

Ben's band.  Bim's band.
Big bands.  Pig bands.

Bim and Ben lead bands with brooms.
Ben's band bangs and Bim's band booms.

Pig band!  Boom band!
Big band!  Broom band!
My poor mouth can't say that.  No, sir.
My poor mouth is much too slow, sir.

Well then... bring your mouth this way.
I'll find it something it can say.

Luke Luck likes lakes.
Luke's duck likes lakes.
Luke Luck licks lakes.
Luck's duck licks lakes.

Duck takes licks in lakes Luke Luck likes.
Luke Luck takes licks in lakes duck likes.

I can't blab such blibber blubber!
My tongue isn't make of rubber.

Mr. Knox.  Now come now.  Come now.
You don't have to be so dumb now....

Try to say this, Mr. Knox, please....

Through three cheese trees three free fleas flew.
While these fleas flew, freezy breeze blew.
Freezy breeze made these three trees freeze.
Freezy trees made these trees' cheese freeze.
That's what made these three free fleas sneeze.

Stop it!  Stop it!
That's enough, sir.
I can't say such silly stuff, sir.

Very well, then, Mr. Knox, sir.

Let's have a little talk about tweetle beetles....

What do you know about tweetle beetles?  Well...

When tweetle beetles fight,
it's called a tweetle beetle battle.

And when they battle in a puddle,
it's a tweetle beetle puddle battle.

AND when tweetle beetles battle with paddles in a puddle,
they call it a tweetle beetle puddle paddle battle.

AND...

When beetles battle beetles in a puddle paddle battle
and the beetle battle puddle is a puddle in a bottle...
...they call this a tweetle beetle bottle puddle paddle battle muddle.

AND...

When beetles fight these battles in a bottle with their paddles
and the bottle's on a poodle and the poodle's eating noodles...
...they call this a muddle puddle tweetle poodle beetle noodle
bottle paddle battle.

AND...

Now wait a minute, Mr. Socks Fox!

When a fox is in the bottle where the tweetle beetles battle
with their paddles in a puddle on a noodle-eating poodle,
THIS is what they call...

...a tweetle beetle noodle poodle bottled paddled
muddled duddled fuddled wuddled fox in socks, sir!

Fox in socks, our game is done, sir.
Thank you for a lot of fun, sir.

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/dev/random / Tastyspleen Discord ChatGPT - moments in time

« on: June 23, 2023, 06:12:17 AM »

In the tradition of old favorite threads like "IRC - Moments in time" and "funny shit you saw in TS-Live" (alas, IRC is no more )

Random shit from ChatGPT bot that strikes you as funny/interesting/etc...



The first question was something random. After I got the answer, I googled it and wiki said he actually had FOUR kids. So I ask again...
"You know he's got 4 kids?"
"Oh yeah yeah, sure! 4! Totally!"

 

Methinks chatgpt might be a woman. (It's never wrong.)

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art, music, etc. / RIP David Crosby

« on: January 22, 2023, 04:22:08 AM »

David Crosby, Folk-Rock Voice of the 1960s Whose Influence Spanned Decades, Dies at 81
He was an original member of the Byrds and a founder of Crosby, Stills & Nash. But he was almost as well known for his troubled personal life as for his music.


https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/19/arts/music/david-crosby-dead.html


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MWqMsQJdYc


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3q6LS5X_Fs

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art, music, etc. / RIP Jeff Beck

« on: January 11, 2023, 08:14:29 PM »

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/11/entertainment/jeff-beck-death/index.html

Jeff Beck, dead at 78. Wikipedia is listing bacterial meningitis as the cause of death, but perhaps that is not official at this point as there is no formal section on the page about his death yet.

One of the most insanely talented guitar players on planet earth. This guy used a combination tremolo arm + volume control and picking technique to basically turn a stratocaster into what sounded like a completely different instrument. To my knowledge, not a single other person on the planet could ever replicate his style and sound. One of the all time greats.

Love this live performance he did of one of his best songs with Tal Wilkenfeld on bass.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VC02wGj5gPw

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/dev/random / The Official 2022-2023 Football Thread

« on: September 03, 2022, 08:02:22 AM »

Yeeeees! It's here! Finally, a reason to use your TV again for something other than being spoonfed wrong-headed opinionations from blatantly biased news sources. We can once again bask in the EnergyStar compliant energy-efficient warm glow of the light emitting diodes,... or perhaps the organic light emitting diodes of a fancy-ass Vizio OLED tv if you're one of those rich bitches.

Odds that Notre Dame will FINALLY beat Ohio State today. Anyone? I'm saying, oh... 500 to 1. By all means Notre Dame, prove me wrong and give me a reason to not believe you've been over-valued by all the polls.

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art, music, etc. / Actor Sidney Poitier passes at 94

« on: January 07, 2022, 08:54:21 AM »

https://nypost.com/2022/01/07/beloved-actor-sidney-poitier-dead-at-94/

One of my favorite actors. The first black oscar winner for Best Actor. He did the "Mr. Tibbs trilogy" before trilogies were even a thing, which are 3 of my favorite movies. I highly recommend them...

In The Heat of the Night (1967) - An excellent movie, perhaps one of the greatest films of all time.

They Call Me Mister Tibbs (1970)

The Organization (1971)

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/dev/random / Thanksgiving 2021 (and 2022) (and 2023... and probably from now on) thread

« on: November 24, 2021, 11:47:09 PM »

What are you thankful for? What did you eat? What did someone make that you REFUSE to eat? Talk about the Lions likely losing, as is the religious tradition in America. Make fun of the Dallas Cowboys. Talk about the crap you're gonna buy people during the black friday and cyber monday or whatever-the-hell-else-sales. Bitch about politics. Whine about gas prices. Recount the inappropriate racist jokes your relatives told at the dinner table. Or just post dumb Thanksgiving memes. Like this:

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Trouble Shooting / Top of page links on forum are missing

« on: September 22, 2021, 07:42:41 AM »

Like the title says, the little link buttons at the top of the forum pages seem to be gone.

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Trouble Shooting / Have you seen my Dick?

« on: September 01, 2021, 05:44:05 PM »

Ok, so that thread title was a little inappropriate. Whatever.

Where is Sgt Dick? Football seasons about to start. Calling Sgt Dick. Please come to the white courtesy phone in the lobby.

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Trouble Shooting / Shoutbox is broke

« on: August 28, 2021, 01:30:16 PM »

Like the title says. Shoutbox is broke. It says... (see attached)

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coop / New Co-op/Single Player models

« on: July 22, 2021, 12:22:03 AM »

In past paks that I made, I took some of the stock game models and re-did the texture mapping and textures to make them look a little more detailed.

For example:







I've decided to try re-doing a bunch of other models as well. It's probably a ways off before I actually release/post any new models or a new pak, but I thought others might be interested in seeing some of it in progress. It's still early into this and I haven't gotten far at all. Currently I'm working on the "Key" models. I've done the Data CD key, which was really simple and quick. Now I'm almost finished with the Blue Key which I've been puttering around with for the last 2 or 3 nights. I've decided this model is simple enough that I probably won't have to remap the texture to get a good result. I used a screenshot from Npherno's Skin Tool get an enlarged version of the original texture along with a bright green wireframe representation of the mapping to use as a template. So if you notice lime green lines on it, those will NOT appear in the finished version, it's just there temporarily as a guide.

I haven't don't the shading and highlighting of the sides yet either, but most of the details are done.





And the new Data CD.

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Trouble Shooting / Q2pro = spyware?

« on: July 10, 2021, 11:24:41 AM »

Random alias (claims to be a Whale regular... which is telling) says that q2pro is spyware.

The following takes place 7-10-21 around 1:45pm eastern on the DM server. I'll try to edit out all the gameplay shit to where it's mostly chat and then colorize the most important parts.

x: q2pro has spyware
x: won't use it

Thresh: is that a fact

x: yes

x: wireshark it

taepodong: lmao

Thresh: no

Thresh: mclaren

x: got a new terrabuggy

TechNoir: thresh's username was always homey

9.99dollarmouse: ENEMY LIFT

Thresh: lol

taepodong: dubs

x: we eat sperm at whale server

x: human, dog, skunk sperm... we eat it all


Fraglimit hit.

Changing map...
reconnecting (soft)...




The Slimy Place (tsmod)


|iR|Focalor has moved to the sidelines


|iR|Focalor: q2pro does not have spyware in it
x: waiting on your mom to cum

x: oh yes it does

x: we tracked the packets

|iR|Focalor: no

x: it is encrypted but we saw the leakage

Thresh: where did u getyour infected version on ts ?
x: it phones home

TechNoir: definitely not thresh

x: we tried every version we could find

|iR|Focalor: who is "we"

x: me and your mom

x: if you have wireshark it takes 2 minutes

x: see for yourself
x: portal

x: personally i dont care if you have no privacy

|iR|Focalor: define "spyware"?

x: leaks your personal data

|iR|Focalor: what
taepodong: ima go check
x: ip, machine name, installed files, etc

|iR|Focalor: um



x: since it was encrypted, and was different data on diff machines, we dont know what it was

|iR|Focalor: your IP is being logged right the fuck NOW

x: but not by the software vendor

x: they have no business in that info

x: and who knows what else?

|iR|Focalor: who?
x: leakage is leakage

|iR|Focalor: you claim to know

|iR|Focalor: so you tell me

x: tell you what?

|iR|Focalor: you said "and who knows what else"

x: i mean, since the data packets were no in clear text, nobody knows what it means

Thresh: thats funny nvidia used spywared q2pro to help male q2 rtx
x: it was all base-64 or hex.

|iR|Focalor: if you know if its spyware and its tracking all this shit for the software provider, then surely you know what its all seeing

Thresh: or wait no they wouldnt do that at al

Thresh: !version
Nimrod: R1Q2 b8012 Tue Sep 13 00:17:47 2011 x86 Win32 RELEASE
[http://r1ch.net/r1q2]
x: R1Q2 b8012 Tue Sep 13 00:17:47 2011 x86 Win32 RELEASE
[http://r1ch.net/r1q2]
9.99dollarmouse: R1Q2 b8012 Tue Sep 13 00:17:47 2011 x86 Win32 RELEASE
[http://r1ch.net/r1q2]
|iR|Focalor: R1Q2 b7904 Sun Oct 19 00:39:57 2008 x86 Win32 RELEASE
[http://r1ch.net/r1q2]
Twiki: q2rtx 1.5.0 Mar 29 2021 Win64 x86_64
Scheissekopf: q2pro r1504~924ff39 Dec  3 2014 Win32 x86
Boss!!: q2pro r1504~924ff39 Dec  3 2014 Win32 x86
TechNoir: q2pro r1504~924ff39 Dec  3 2014 Win32 x86
taepodong: q2pro r1504~924ff39 Dec  3 2014 Win32 x86
Thresh: q2pro r1862~4e94673 Nov 18 2020 Win32 x86
Serge: q2pro r1504~924ff39 Dec  3 2014 Win32 x86

x: if i visited your house and wrote down your wifi password and left.. is that okay with you?

]condump q2pro_spyware

I've heard this kinda bullshit before from these dipshits trying to spread rumors that anticheat.dll was really some kinda malware or spyware. So I suspect this is more of the same: some dimwit dickhead with an alias talking out of his ass. But since others here are way more knowledgeable about this kinda thing than I am, please chime in and set the record straight here.

Also, this part:

TechNoir: definitely not thresh

Dunno this Thresh person personally, but I've heard of them, apparently they play duels and shit, apparently they aren't too bad at it,... and whoever this particular "Thresh" person was, they were NOT displaying a skill style that would lead me to believe they have played duels as much as the real Thresh probably has. Probably a name spoofer.

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Quake / Animated HUD icons? Which Q2 client can do this?

« on: June 29, 2021, 11:31:34 PM »

I've been messing around a bit with some new HUD stuff, and I'm maybe gonna throw together a new pak. I was hoping I could create some animated GIF or PNG images to use for HUD icons, like an animated health icon, perhaps some animated rotating weapon icons.

I tried using an animated GIF for an i_health icon, but it wouldn't show up. I converted it to an animated PNG, and that would show up in game, but only the first frame, it wouldn't play the animation.

I'm still using the old R1Q2 + r1gl, 2008 version I think. So I guess R1Q2 isn't gonna be able to use animated images... unless I'm missing something?

Is there perhaps another client that anyone knows of that WILL utilize animated PNG and/or GIF images for things like this?