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Bot Drop / Re: First hack of the year 2993

« on: January 07, 2024, 03:41:19 PM »

Fader, stop being Fader just because you're Fader. You can't Fader it.

(Waits for "virtual deadnaming" to become the next crime I'm accused of after virtual-genociding the Palestinians.)

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/dev/random / Re: The Strange and Interesting Thread

« on: January 05, 2024, 09:39:32 PM »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RblW8-lU_rU

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Bot Drop / Re: First hack of the year 2993

« on: January 04, 2024, 03:07:19 AM »

the biggest asshole here (you)

We can actually measure which one of you is the bigger asshole.

I wonder what we'd see if we read your server chats for the past year. Are you a nice fun loving guy, or are you a chronic shit stirring asshole?

ps. didn't download the demo. Still, I got 5 bucks that says NOTHING TO SEE HERE. I mean when you describe it as someone who just installed, then obviously they aren't walling. Wallers have been playing a while and mostly know what they're doing. How many times we gotta do this? I'm at the point where I'm not gonna look at your demos anymore.

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/dev/random / Re: Whatcha listening to?

« on: January 02, 2024, 12:48:33 AM »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylXk1LBvIqU

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/dev/random / Re: What games are you playing ?

« on: December 30, 2023, 05:42:16 PM »

What has the world come to?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7XyfYQPTyU

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/dev/random / Re: The Official Inclusive Non-denominational Holidays 2020 Thread (and 2023 also)

« on: December 25, 2023, 05:57:55 PM »

Man. Is it just me or has this year, and especially this holiday season, gone by like lightning? I ain't getting any younger, and putting out all the Christmas decorations this year was a lot of work: digging out the 10 big ole plastic tubs of ornaments and decorations and doo-dads and everything. My god, it's SO MUCH. I gotta drag about 5 loads up from the basement around the side of the house and up the hill using big heavy duty handtrucks. And then theres my pre-lit 9-foot artificial tree that comes in 3 pieces and is like dragging 3 dead mooses up from the basement. And this year I added a whole bunch of big lighted yard decorations that took forever to hook up with 90-zillion different extension cords and 3-way adapters. I guess I've just been so busy this year with work and everything that it's taken up all my time and made things go by faster. Luckily I have JACK SHIT to do other than sit on my butt and watch tv and whatever the hell else I wanna do until the new year.

October, November, and December... without a doubt, my favorite 3 months of the year. It's great. Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. Leaves changing in fall (plus grass stops growing and no more yard work for a while, hooray), football season, nice cool weather.

But alas all good things must come to an end.

Anyway, like my lord and savior hath said, I hope EVERYONE, even my enemies, had a wonderful Christmas.

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/dev/random / Re: The Official Inclusive Non-denominational Holidays 2020 Thread

« on: December 21, 2023, 09:07:25 AM »

One of many peoples favorite Christmas movies, National Lampoons Christmas Vacation.

They've show it damn near every day on TV this December... and I've seen it on TV plenty thoughout the rest of the year too. Hell, it's almost like they're TRYING to make people get sick of it. Here's a short video with some interesting info about several deleted and missing scenes that are likely hidden away in a vault somewhere. Maybe they'll dig 'em out one day.


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

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/dev/random / Re: The Man Thread

« on: December 16, 2023, 03:01:35 AM »

It looks like it belongs in a ZZ Top Video 

That was a 33 Ford Coupe.



My grandpa had a 1935 Willys Coupe that he bought after coming home from the Korean War.



He drove himself and my grandma all the way from the Naval base in Washington state back to Atlanta GA. I think there's pics of them in front of the car stopping at different places in the desert out in Arizona and such. My dad said he was kinda pissed when he sold it in the mid or late 60's because he was looking forward to getting it. Instead, before he started driving, they went out and bought him an old 62 Chevy Imapala SS. The car was stolen out of the driveway at night not long after I was born. Back in 2009 or so when I was making shitloads more money that I am now, my friend and I found him another one, towed it home, worked on it ourselves for a year in secret, and I gave it to him for Christmas that year.

So if I outlive my old man, I'll get it back... and I like a 62 Chevy Imapala... but I dunno, I kinda wish grandpa would've kept that 35 Willys too, then that would've been what I restored for him.

I dunno though, those old 30's coupes look cool, but they're pretty small inside. I dunno that my big ass could fit in one comfortably.

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Quake / Re: REAL money CHALLENGE 1v1 / DUEL

« on: December 14, 2023, 06:24:19 AM »

Don't back out 2d, it could be entertaining watching you die, run, die, run, die, run, die.

That's what Hamas is good at.

focalor that was low blow

Because you hold them in the highest regard?

If you don't like Hamas, you should be happy that the IDF is getting rid of them.

Your logic has more holes in it than the backs of the 364 people murdered at the Supernova Sukkot Gathering in the Re'im kibbutz.

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/dev/random / Re: The Good Old Days thread

« on: December 12, 2023, 07:32:19 AM »

More K-mart shit.

From what I've been reading online, there's now only TWO K-mart's left.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heg2OmKVVFM

I remember back in the early 2000's, my then girlfriend and I went to the Winder GA K-mart store that was a week or two away from closing because her friends told her they had everything about 50% off to get rid of everything. Apparently the sale worked, because they had almost nothing left in the store. So many sections of empty shelves, shelves with one or two sparse items. And none of it was anything you'd really want. We thought we'd get some furniture and housewares kinda stuff for good deals... pretty much a wasted trip. The only thing I saw that I liked was these little funny looking horses heads eraser ends for pencils that were about 50 cents. 

Got to looking on wiki... didn't know this, but apparently the larger Kmart company also bought up Borders and Waldenbooks, which is why you don't see those anymore.

Venting:

These companies are all assholes. All of them have been doing the same thing: they take out these ENORMOUS loans so that they can build tons of new stores all over the place in an effort to saturate areas with their presence and gobble up as much market share... but in order to sustain that, they need to continue to do crazy-good business like they tend to do when they first open and everyone is excited to shop at the new place in town. And when locations no longer rake in the same levels of profit, they can't pay back these loans, so they go through bankruptcy. They either GET bought out, or they buy out someone else in hopes of consolidating profits and operating in the green again,... and they don't. And the cycle continues until you're left with cities that have tons of empty retail spaces, and only a handful of retailers left with a severely limited selection of items compared to what they used to carry.

I don't really think K-mart's been as guilty of the practice as other newer companies. (Then again, they bought out Borders and Waldenbooks like I said above.) K-mart's just had streams of unending bad luck. Mostly, there was the Columbine thing - when it was found out that the little idiots who did that had bought their ammo and maybe one of the guns at a Kmart, lots of people boycotted them. (I think they got sued as well.) You've also had Wal-Mart making DAMN SURE they always build a Wal-Mart near any K-mart, making sure to try to screw them outta business from that side. And in more recent times, you've had the rise of Amazon serving to screw them from the other side... because pornographic double-penatration analogies are always fun. K-mart's just been trying to do what they do and make a living. It's sad. I miss the K-mart where I grew up. Working there that one Christmas  (2003 I think) was one of the best jobs ever - selling the shit outta real and artificial Christmas trees, helping load them up for people, the fun group of guys I worked with, and the inside of the store wasn't a total fuckin' MADHOUSE of pissed off shoppers like it was at the Walmart I worked at the year before. Good times.

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/dev/random / Re: The Man Thread

« on: December 12, 2023, 03:01:03 AM »

1939 Cadillac LaSalle

Probably THE COOLEST custom job on an old Cadillac I've ever seen in my life.

Looks mean and beefy, but also super classy. That color they picked is PERFECT.











https://www.motortrend.com/features/1048srp-1939-cadillac-lasalle/

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/dev/random / Re: The Good Old Days thread

« on: December 11, 2023, 06:24:53 AM »

Not sure if this really is a copy of the in-store music. Maybe. Some of it's got LP record hiss.

When I worked at Walmart in college, I know they had their own national radio that was pumped in via satellite connect from the home office I think. I also worked at a Kmart back then too, they had a similar thing. But back in the 70's and 80's I suppose it would've been some kinda pre-recorded thing they played in the store itself. Would be interesting to know how they did in-store music in the 70's since they had to be using records at the time, and records only have about 25 minutes of play on one side.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQt5umECcdo

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Quake / Re: REAL money CHALLENGE 1v1 / DUEL

« on: December 09, 2023, 04:33:04 PM »

Don't back out 2d, it could be entertaining watching you die, run, die, run, die, run, die.

That's what Hamas is good at.

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

« on: November 22, 2023, 05:50:41 AM »

In my movie collection, I have a folder with a small handful of Thanksgiving themed movies:

Planes, Trains, and Automobiles (1987) - starring Steve Martin and John Candy
Dutch (1991) - starring Ed O'Neill and Ethan Embry
A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (1973)
Alice's Restaurant (1969) - starring Arlo Guthrie

If anyone knows of some other good Thanksgiving themed movies I can add to it, let me know.

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Alice's Restaurant.

It's a Thanksgiving cult classic. Either you hate it and would never watch it, or you don't hate it and maybe would. I've never met anyone who really LOVED it though. I like the song a lot better than the movie. I like listening to it on Thanksgiving in the car on the way to family's house to eat Thanksgiving dinner. It's kind of a tradition. Some stations play it on the radio every Thanksgiving. The old classic rock station in Atlanta used to play it a few times throughout the day on Thanksgiving, but that station closed many years ago. The movie... I'll watch it every few years maybe - definitely not EVERY year. Might watch it this year.

If you wanna watch it...


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

It's kinda weird. An interesting snapshot of life in the 60's and hippie culture. The message in it? I don't really know. That family isn't just blood, it's everyone. The ending feels kinda sad, with Alice left standing on the steps of the church as Arlo drives away - and who knows when or if they'll ever meet again. Something about families can't stay together forever, or learning to let go maybe? I guess you can find whatever meaning you need to find in it.

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Bot Drop / Re: Epod/septic

« on: November 19, 2023, 06:06:55 AM »

LOL