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/dev/random / Re: Wrestling

« on: August 25, 2023, 06:15:07 PM »

what surprised me more is his age vs his CoD.. seems young to have such heart problems. Dunno if he is into steroids. His physique aint like most of his colleagues that you can immediately suspect.  I kinda like his WWE persona with the rest of WYATTs.. Guess he was one of those last acts that I really enjoyed and await before I quit avidly watching wrestling.

He's always been kinda overweight. In fact I think I was reading on wiki about him one time that back in his NXT or pre-NXT days, he was known as "Husky Harris", lol. He kinda had that classic beer-belly strongman physique, like Vader (r.i.p.), Bam Bam Bigelow (also r.i.p.) and most of the guys you ever see competing in the reruns of strongman competitions on ESPN2 late at night.

Bray wasn't even the biggest (aka ROUNDEST) guy WWE had.

Meet Otis. He can't even put his arms all the way down at his sides.



He's sorta funny. I still think Bo Dallas was a better character. And now that I think about it, perhaps Elias was funnier, although he was more in the love-to-hate-him "heel" category than Bo Dallas was.

But NOBODY was a better heel than Rowdy Roddy Piper. LOVED Piper. If you have Peacock Premium, I think WWE Network comes with it. Check out some of the old collections of episodes when he did his little "Piper's Pit" skits. It's hilarious! He almost killed a guy bashing a real coconut over his head in one of the skits.

edit: Haha, found the clip on youtube:


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

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/dev/random / Re: Wrestling

« on: August 25, 2023, 01:57:51 AM »

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-66613784

Bray Wyatt: WWE champion dies aged 36

That sucks. I hadn't heard of him until he moved up from NXT to WWE. I sort of liked him when he first showed up with the hillbilly Manson-esque "Wyatt Family"... and their family became even more interesting when they added the big man Braun Strowman to the roster. But after the Wyatt Family broke apart and Bray started doing his own thing as "The Fiend", it got to be too theatrical and over the top for me. I was kinda hoping he'd get shit together and work out a good direction for his character, kinda like Cody Rhodes did during his time away from WWE. Bray Wyatt was one of the only wrestlers they had who might've been capable of having a scary character rising to the same level as Undertaker to fill that role, but... not anymore.

Didn't realize it before now, but old 90's WWE wrestler Irwin Roy Schyster (aka IRS) was his father, and ex-WWE wrestler Bo Dallas was his little brother. I miss Bo Dallas, he was a good comic relief kinda wrestler.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZfq7XUBBXA

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

« on: August 24, 2023, 10:53:49 PM »

Alan Watts on Religion


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4f5yF8GeCG4

My point in posting this is not to echo the statement "THEY MADE IT ALL UP" like the video thumbnail shows. The more interesting thought provoking part is how he points out the similarities between the major religions.

P.S.:

IMDB says release set for March 31st 2021, but who knows.

The Passion of the Christ: Resurrection (2021)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5795232/

IMDB says 2022 now.

C'MON, MEL. Shit or get off the pot.

Hope this movie gets done soon. Jim Caviezel is gonna be a gray haired Jesus before long, and nobody wants that.

2023 coming to an end. Surely if this were coming soon, it would probably be big enough to have a Christmas Day release date, but I've heard not a peep about ANY work being done on it. Something tells me we'll never get this in the can. *shrugs*

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art, music, etc. / Re: The Best Drummer

« on: August 24, 2023, 10:34:20 PM »

its also good to show that you've looked outside what is probably the most successful (best?) rock band of all time.

The Beatles?   

But Ringo was a crappy drummer.

I think I was probably serious about that statement at the time. HOWEVER... I've come to learn that perhaps Ringo deserves a little more credit than most people are willing to give him. I've since seen a few videos on youtube discussing him and how his talent for stamina is often overlooked by people who criticize his apparent lack of technical flare and think everything he played was "easy". It may have been "simple" in structure, but not necessarily "easy" to play physically.

Gene Hoglan

Gene playing along with Death - Overactive Imagination (from the album Individual Thought Patterns, 1993)
He's always said he's a "lazy drummer" and I've always chalked that up to him just being humble, but as someone who's listened to Individual Thought Patters about a million times since it came out in 93, and after listening critically to his playing here, he's a tiny bit sloppy on some parts. He misses a few hits here and there, nothing too serious.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3opnYkuYQc

Gene playing along with Death - The Philosopher (from the album Individual Thought Patterns, 1993)
Hard to pick a number 1 favorite song by Death, but if this one isn't number 1, it's definitely in the top 3 for me. I love the unusual waltz beat for the verse.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGope68pHf0

Full version of his drumming technique video, Gene Hoglan - The Atomic Clock (2010).


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpVTPUxnE3I

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

« on: August 21, 2023, 07:38:08 AM »

Clash of the Titans (1981)

This was one of my favorite movies growing up. Made in 1980, released in 1981, featured lots of great classic stop-motion animation. Some of scenery in it doesn't hold up well compared to today's movies, but for the time, it was pretty awesome and epic. I was also a fan of all the old classic monster movies when I was kid (King Kong, Wolfman, Dracula, Godzilla, etc), so the excellent elaborate usage of stop-motion animation in this sort of classifies it alongside all those older ones, at least in my opinion. Sure, the animation in movies like Star Wars was much smoother, but I kinda like the way they animated Clash of the Titans - sort of reminds me of Jason and the Argonauts, another even older movie with some great stop-motion animation of sword-fighting skeletons that totally blew peoples minds back when it came out.

DEAD LINK://wwwyoutubecom/watch?v=wVdVlYUsRpA
(youtube link: Clash of the Titans - 1981 - full movie - just in case they ever remove it and someone wonders what the hell this link was)
Edit: oct 16, 2023 - yep, they removed it. Here's the trailer instead, hopefully it'll stay up longer than 2 freakin' months.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojw1sau98Jg

I remember when I was a kid and went into the hospital to have my tonsils removed, my grandpa came by afterwards and gave me a Golden Clash of the Titans graphic novel get well soon gift. It was one of my favorite books that I re-read probably 100 times or more. I still have it somewhere around here, probably on the bookshelf with all my old pc game boxes. I think it's probably worth maybe 10 or 15 bucks now. I see them online going for anywhere from 10 to 25 bucks (original price was $2.50). Like I said, I read it TONS, so the edges are well worn like the one in the picture. The pictures inside look like typical comic book stuff, nothing like the cover. For the most part, it mirrors the movie, although some of the monsters like the Kraken were drawn a little different, and Calibos is green. Also... In the comic, he throws his shield to whack Medusa's head off. In the movie, he uses his sword.

   


   

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Outdoor Activities / Re: Outdoor projects while self-isolating due to covid-19

« on: August 20, 2023, 10:46:00 AM »

This guys house is AMAZING.


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

That last video shows a water wheel system for generating local power. This one uses a PMA (permanent magnet alternator) and 4 water jets from a gravity fed piping system run from a creek to turn it. Interesting stuff.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2QoKRWANs4

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poetry / essays / short stories? / Re: Quotes

« on: August 20, 2023, 10:15:48 AM »

I still think the illiterate rednecks who walk into stores with AR-15s slung over their backs are compensating for very small dicks.

Depends on what kind of illiteracy we're talking about here. If it's the kind of assumed illiteracy where you're prejudiced against people from the south and think they're all a bunch of uneducated barefoot banjo paying hillbillies, well... that's just a YOU problem. If it's the kind of REAL illiteracy where people can't read and comprehend the laws on the books, well... maybe that's ALSO just a YOU problem, because if it's an open carry state, it's totally legal to do that. If you're attempting to express that you think it's largely unnecessary to do that, I would certainly agree with you. I'll admit that it's an "unusual" practice, and something that would make many people who are undoubtedly strangers to them feel uncomfortable around them. Personally, I would never do that. Recently, my state has legalize open carry, but I've had a concealed carry permit before that, which I still have, and when I do carry, I conceal it. Why? I don't want the attention or hassle.

Nevertheless... it's not against the law. Unless they are breaking the law, I nor anyone else has the right to harass, hinder, or prevent them from doing it.

I see what you're saying though, as I've seen it MANY times on people's youtube channels. To me, it's kinda like these "first amendment audits". Sure, police have a responsibility to KNOW the laws and to NOT violate anyone's rights... but it's not entirely responsible for a person to potentially bait the police into violating their rights. It can end with them DEAD if it goes badly enough. Police get a call about a guy with an AR15, maybe the dispatcher doesn't properly explain that they aren't being a threat to anyone, the police approaches them gun drawn, locked cocked and ready to rock, the cop gets nervous, they interpret the subjects movement the wrong way, they empty the clip into them. Not a situation I'm gonna voluntarily place myself in... so my rifle doesn't go in public places.

And a cannon would be cool to own but seriously impractical.

Not if it's the 1800's and people are using them for ship to ship fighting.

For today's military applications, they still use cannons... it's just that the ammo they load them with has changed dramatically.

But it's good that you used the word "impractical". Where is your freedom if it hinges on what is deemed "practical", and who should have the right to determine what is and is not "practical" or proper for a free citizen of a free country to own? The government? Mmmm yes, because we've seen how capable they are of mandating senseless ineffective things, especially in relation to covid.

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

« on: August 19, 2023, 08:37:00 AM »

Think I heard either my parents or my grandmother mention the name before, but I've never personally shopped at one or seen one anywhere where I've lived in Georgia (NE and E sides of Atlanta metro area). I googled it, and Wiki shows a pic of an empty one at the old now closed Regency Mall in Augusta.

Just got off the phone with my ma. Mentioned it to her, and she said she remembers the Montgomery Ward catalog (says they used to call it the "Monkey Ward catalog") (... I dunno was that a thing, or just my nutty folks being nutty?), but doesn't really remember any of the stores. She grew up in the Avondale Estates and Stone Mountain area and doesn't remember ever seeing one, but said that there might've been one somewhere in downtown Atlanta.

I do remember Rich's though, perhaps they had one in Florida somewhere too. Rich's was Macy's biggest competitor in the southern states. They did very well for many years, even diversified into having some "general merchandise" stores (kinda like Walmart, Kmart, Target) that were called Richway. I remember shopping at the Richway a BUNCH when I was growing up, going there for back to school clothes, christmas shopping, toys, housewares, etc. Eventually Target bought them out I think, because if I recall correctly sometime between probably 1988 to 1991 they closed the store for a month or two and it became Target.

I posted somewhere else about Rich's before I'm pretty sure...

... Here in Georgia, we had a major department store known as Rich's.
Rich's. My grandmother worked there in the 1950's. They were a main fixture in Atlanta since the 1920's or earlier. They branched out and had Walmart/Target style stores called Richway. I remember shopping there as a kid with my folks all the time. But alas, Rich's was swallowed up by Macy's, and Richway was eviscerated by Target. But Macy's was nice enough to hijack all of Rich's christmas tradition that Atlantans have enjoyed for years, like the Pink Pig ride that I remember riding on with my dad every year as kid at the old Rich's downtown location. Actually... that ride used to scare the living shit out of me, lol. It was a rusty old suspended chain driven ride that was mounted on the edge of the roof of the old Rich's building. The cars would sway and creak and had rust all over them. Being on the rooftop, it was exposed to the December air, and the cars had no windows or heat in them, so you'd freeze your balls off riding in this thing, looking about 6 stories down off the side of the building, thinking that any moment the thing was gonna break and send you hurtling to the street below where you'd surely die in a heap of twisted pink rusted metal and bodies of other passengers. Good times. As far as I know, Macy's redid the ride at their Lennox Mall location and it's now an indoor MUCH LESS DANGEROUS choo-choo train kinda thing rather than a suspended rusty coaster thingy. I think they still have the old Rich's pink pig cars on display there though. I feel sorry that my nephews will never get to know that special Holiday terror like I did.

Picture of the old Pink Pig ride on the rooftop of the old Rich's building in downtown Atlanta, not sure when it was taken.



My dad says he remembered it as a kid in the late 50's when it was suspended from the ceiling in the toy department on one of the upper floors of the Rich's building in Atlanta. In the mid-60's, they moved it to the roof where it ran until the store finally closed in 1991.

Like I said in the part quoted from 2017, I remember going to Rich's on Christmas Eve that last year it was open to ride the Pink Pig. It was cold as FUCK that day. The cars had no windows in them or heaters, and the last part of the line to get on the ride was outside on the 6th floor rooftop in the winter air. We froze our asses off! It made it VERY memorable... because to this day, I still remember how insanely cold it was. Kinda made the whole thing all the more depressing too. By then, the ride was all rusty and fading and needing paint. And I remember walking all through the store that year as we headed up to the roof. We encountered many areas where you couldn't get to certain escalators because those portions of the store were giant junk heaps of empty clothes racks, mannequins, and all sorts of other fixtures. They managed to hollow out a path through the mess on the 5th floor leading to the only open escalator that went to the 6th floor, and the escalator was dead. The whole store was very depressing like that, not very Christmas-y at all.

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

« on: August 19, 2023, 01:45:37 AM »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciLEWR_ugI4


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVp6AiRbxvs


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3ctZI9_oyo

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poetry / essays / short stories? / Re: Quotes

« on: August 18, 2023, 04:20:24 AM »

I've heard this quote or some form of it from some of the folks in this community (ie ex):

"The 2nd Amendment means a militia, like the National Guard."

Nope.

It's not like there isn't plenty of additional contextual information available, because there is. There's TONS of it. Pretty much everyone who signed the Declaration of Independence is recorded elsewhere at some point (either in published writings or in personal correspondence to others) discussing the importance of a free citizenry to be armed.

Here's an interesting collection of historical quotes on the importance of an armed people:
https://ammo.com/articles/founding-fathers-quotes-second-amendment-guns-keep-and-bear-arms

Here's another quote our former vice president has erroneously stated lately:

"You couldn't buy a cannon when the Second Amendment was passed, ... and, remember, the Constitution, the Second Amendment was never absolute." -Joe Biden (reference here)

Was never absolute? Well if he's talking about slaves not having any of the rights listed in the Bill of Rights, then... sure. But considering that the 13th Amendment abolished slavery, I guess congress should get to work repealing it in order to reinstate the slave class and deny people their rights.

And I got news for Joe and any of the rest of you anti-2A british loyalist wankers - Cannons were 100% legal to own, and STILL ARE. (reference here) (and here)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CquUBWHU2_s

Note that at 2:36, he talks about President Madison signing a letter of marque and reprisal, authorizing PRIVATE CITIZENS to engage in piracy with cannons that they privately purchased as individuals/citizens.

Some further important info... it should be noted that it was the British Crown who prohibited all colonists under the King's rule from producing cannons. Just one of the many things the King did to keep us firmly pinned under his thumb.

Dunno who this quote is from, but it's a good one:

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poetry / essays / short stories? / Re: Quotes

« on: August 18, 2023, 03:06:39 AM »

"Seek first to understand, then to be understood"

If I don't understand you, does that mean we're both wrong? 

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/dev/random / Re: Whatcha listening to?

« on: August 17, 2023, 07:30:32 AM »

AI music. 

Dunno how to feel about this. I love Hank Williams Sr. I think he was one of the greatest songwriters and lyricists of all time. I've seen how there are... what I guess are like virtual instrument plugins for modern DAW's (kinda like the Arturia keyboard software I use, and other VST's like that) but are synthetic voices of famous singers like Ozzy Osbourne. The Ozzy one I saw was far from perfect as it took lots of manual editing to get the vibrato and "sliding" notes just right. Doesn't seem like that's what this is though. This one seems to take an existing isolated vocal track and modulate it to sound like Hank Williams Sr. Some of these on this guys channel (he's got several) are from original recordings done by his son Hank Williams Jr, and I suppose the fact that they are so closely related makes it easier to make him sound like his old man. And when you compare the two... you couldn't really hear it before, but suddenly you notice how similar their voices actually are.

Anyway, I don't really like the idea of "fake" music like this, but it's still interesting to hear Hank Sr with a more modern sounding band since 99.99% of his known recordings were done with pretty low quality production (fuzzy sounding drums etc) and no electric instruments other than a lap steel.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wi_zH1zA_Q

edit:

More AI wankery... System of a Down with a fake-as-shit Kurt Cobain. This one sounds broken as hell.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIWvtcuNym4

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Religion, and the Changing Moral Zeitgeist / Re: But seriously folks...

« on: August 16, 2023, 04:28:09 AM »

you and I have rarely seen eye to eye on politics

Well if you'd like to start being RIGHT, start agreeing with me.

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dm / Re: Possible Impersonation?

« on: August 16, 2023, 04:12:38 AM »

Either he's been drankin'... or "2d" borrowing his name maybe.

Then again, there are few total nobodies around here who seem to get off on using other people's names. One of them used to spoof |iR|Joe (aka "Poopoppa" from the Monsterkill days) until he finally hooked up with Beaver and joined his iteration of {KEA} which seemed to finally give him a reason to find his own damned identity and stick to it. Not to mention the couple of other fruit loops around here who I can't even really fuckin' NAME... because they haven't used ANY one name long enough to be known by it.

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Jokes / Re: The Dick Movie Title Game

« on: August 13, 2023, 01:17:47 AM »

Dick Hard with a Vengeance
My Big Fat Greek Dick
Schindler's Dick
It's A Wonderful Dick
The Hand that Rocks the Dick
The Neverending Dick
No Dick For Old Men
The Thin Red Dick