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Quake / Re: invite! spam

« Last post by |iR|Focalor on October 21, 2025, 01:14:05 AM »

If the goal is to spam and annoy people because it's fun, why would you stop just because someone asked you nicely to?

YOUR m.o. is to annoy people because you think its fun. Solipsism at work.

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Quake / Re: invite! spam

« Last post by XANA on October 17, 2025, 05:38:03 PM »

If the goal is to spam and annoy people because it's fun, why would you stop just because someone asked you nicely to?

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Quake / Re: invite! spam

« Last post by QwazyWabbit on October 15, 2025, 04:49:31 PM »

I would be nice, wouldn't it?

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

« Last post by |iR|Focalor on October 15, 2025, 01:26:22 AM »

  I didn't get that far. For certain, Anthony Perkins was a better "mother".



Black Sabbath (1963): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057603/

ENGLISH version streaming: https://play.xumo.com/free-movies/black-sabbath/XM0EOHWGA22VZT
ITALIAN version streaming (turn on subtitles): https://tubitv.com/movies/100008899/black-sabbath

One of my sort-of favorite horror movies is the old Boris Karloff narrated Italian-made Mario Bava film, Black Sabbath (1963). Apparently it's the film that Geezer Butler saw that gave him the idea to name their band Black Sabbath. And... apparently not too many people saw it back in those days, as it was a commercial flop in Italy and internationally. According to wiki, it did decent sales on home video, although I'm not sure if they mean once it was released on vhs and betamax in the 80's (which is doesn't mention at all) or when it was later released on dvd in the 2000's.

I've had a lower quality 480p version for many years, but this year I was finally able to track down a full 1080p English language version. It wasn't easy. It's easy to find a 720p or lower English language version... or a 1080p Italian language version. But one single place had the 1080p in English.

Boris Karloff is just a cool creepy dude, I love his movies. His narration intros help make this movie better than it otherwise would be... and in fact he actually STARS as a character in one of the three stories presented. It should be noted that the English language version is a good bit different from the Italian version. They edited out things like any mentions of lesbian relationships or prostitution (which were key plot points in "The Telephone" segment in the Italian version, as well as clipping out some of the more violent and bloody scenes. Also, according to wiki, the color mastering techniques they used differ from the Italian to the American version. Which is odd, because one thing I always notice about the film is the great usage of colored lighting effects to create eerie atmosphere in the backgrounds and to accentuate faces and parts of the foreground in key moments.

For example... the faces in the window at the end of The Vurdulak story:



And most especially on the face of the old dead woman in the Drop of Water story:



There's almost no horror movies that legitimately scare me... but lemme tell ya... you watch this part late at night with all the lights out... and the part where the dead lady with the freakish face shows up will give you legit chills, it's pretty good. The best part of the movie in my opinion. I guess thats why in the original italian cut, they saved that story for last.

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Quake / Re: invite! spam

« Last post by |iR|Focalor on October 15, 2025, 12:18:06 AM »

It's 2025, and some people STILL do this. 

I don't play anymore, but for the sake of others, I'm gonna do something crazy that probably won't work, but you never know until you try: I'm going to simply ask nicely and hope they're excellent enough to listen. And so I humbly ask this person to please cease with the chat spam and just play the game and enjoy the miraculous fact that this many people still bother coming to these servers to play this very very ancient game.

  

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Quake / Re: invite! spam

« Last post by Mr Wizard on October 14, 2025, 03:22:10 PM »

the player "go tet urself" (and many other aliases) has been absolutely flooding the dm server with spam for days now. Any admins around???

10/14/25
[11:21](dm) go tet urself: your tet is mnie 11!
[11:21](dm) go tet urself: MHe Bac }i{aJlb
[11:21](dm) go tet urself: go cJle3
[11:21](dm) go tet urself: e6y u nJla4y
[11:21](dm) go tet urself: xHblK-xHblK...
[11:21](dm) go tet urself: Ka6bl He 6blJlo Hy6b9 B ropogax u ceJlax
[11:21](dm) go tet urself: HuKorga-6 He 3HaJlu Mbl 3Tux gHeu BeceJlblx
[11:21](dm) go tet urself: O e6Jle Hy6oB cneTbl Bce cJloBa-a
[11:21](dm) go tet urself: BoT no3ToMy noI@ 9 Jla-Jla-Jla-Jla-Jla-a -]
[11:21](dm) go tet urself: Hy6bl nuLLLaT, 3agblxa9cb oT c4acTb9
[11:21](dm) go tet urself: u cToHyT TaK cJlagKo, u gblLLlaT TaK 4acTo, 4To
[11:21](dm) go tet urself: xo4eTc9 gBuraTbc9 c Ka}i{gou ceKyHgou 6blcTpeu
[11:21](dm) go tet urself: Tpaxa9, Tpaxa9, Tpaxa9 Hy6oJlI@geu
[11:21](dm) go tet urself: better dead than tet 1!1
[11:21](dm) go tet urself: i'll tet you in the ass man yeah
[11:21](dm) go tet urself: Ka6bl He 6blJlo Hy6b9 B ropogax u ceJlax
[11:22](dm) go tet urself: HuKorga-6 He 3HaJlu Mbl 3Tux gHeu BeceJlbl
[11:22](dm) go tet urself: He TynuJla-6 MaJlblLLlH9 y peJlbcbl u KBaga
[11:22](dm) go tet urself: He e6aJlu-6 Mbl JloLLlb9, Ka6bl-Ka6bl-Ka6bl
[11:22](dm) NuKeM: shut up

[11:15](dm) T R U M P !!!: trump is a shield to hide behind
[11:15](dm) T R U M P !!!: trump is a feel to grow inside
[11:15](dm) T R U M P !!!: and when i sometimes close my eyes my mind starts spinnin' round
[11:15](dm) T R U M P !!!: so u deserve to have a pedofile for u president
[11:15](dm) T R U M P !!!: simple as that
[11:15](dm) T R U M P !!!: trump is a baby in mother's arms
[11:15](dm) T R U M P !!!: trump is a breath that makes u worm -
[11:16](dm) skullduggerry: trump can turn off the light and be in bed before the room gets dark
[11:16](dm) T R U M P !!!: u voted for him - u got him as ur president. all is legal
[11:16](dm) T R U M P !!!: trump is a shield to hide behind
[11:16](dm) T R U M P !!!: trump is a feel to grow inside
[11:16](dm) T R U M P !!!: and when i sometimes close my eyes my mind starts spinnin' round

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

« Last post by rikwad on October 12, 2025, 07:00:00 PM »

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

« Last post by |iR|Focalor on October 08, 2025, 02:30:13 PM »

Watched the Psycho collection - there's 4 movies total, although theres technically 5 because theres one in the late 80's between parts 3 and 4 called Bates Motel. I skipped that one. It was a made for tv thing (not a theatrical release as far as I know) that had Lori Petty in it. Um, NO THANKS.

Psycho is pretty much a horror masterpiece. I have to assume that Alfred Hitchcock never intended for it to have any sequels. Hitchcock never made any sequels to any of his movies, and I think what says it all is the fact that it wasn't until a couple of years right after he died that they dared to make the 2nd one. I don't think he would've approved of it. Nevertheless... it happened, and I watch them sometimes, and they aren't too bad. They don't compare to the original obviously, but sequels very rarely do.

But if you want to get REALLY technical... there were 6 Psycho movies... if you include the 1998 remake they did starring Vince Vaughan, Anne Heche, Julianne Moore, Viggo Mortensen, and William H Macy.

I think I had seen it before a long time ago on HBO or The Movie Channel. I had forgotten all about it until I started looking up some info about the Psycho movies while watching them. I didn't remember anything about it so I tried watching it...

I got about 50% through it, right to the shower stabbing scene and the part where he pushes the car into the bog... and I turned it off, I couldn't take anymore. There was NO POINT TO IT!

This is precisely why YOU NEVER MAKE REMAKES. Psycho was a masterpiece, people love it, so if you change it, people are going to complain. And changing the work of a brilliant director like Hitchcock is probably considered blasphemy among Hollywood folks. So obviously when they started to make this movie, they had no intention of changing it and having everyone say that they ruined it. So instead... they pretty much copied it shot for shot. The credits looked the same, the music was the same, the camera angles were the same, everything the same. So... what's the point of making the movie at all? Why should I sit here watching the remake when I already saw the original? Maybe there's someone who hasn't seen the original before. Why should they bother seeing this remake when they can just watch the original?

This is the problem you have with doing remakes. If you change it around, people complain that you changed it too much. If you don't change it at all and you do a shot for shot copy... then there's no point. You're honestly better off braving the complaints and revamping it with some modifications to things. Either way it's gonna suck, but at least it'll be something that sucks that I haven't already seen before.

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Science / Re: The Baloney Detection Kit

« Last post by |iR|Focalor on September 30, 2025, 05:11:21 PM »

The original author of the so-called Baloney Detection Kit was Carl Sagan in his book The Demon Haunted World.

The 9 tools in the Baloney Detection Kit part 1...

• There must be independent confirmation of the facts given when possible.
• Encourage debate on the evidence from all points of view.
• Realize that an argument from authority is not always reliable. Sagan supports this by telling us that "authorities" have made mistakes in the past and they will again in the future.
• Consider more than one hypothesis. Sagan adds to this by telling us that we must think of the argument from all angles and think all the ways it can be explained or disproved. The hypothesis that then still hasn't been disproved has a much higher chance of being correct.
• Try to avoid clinging obdurately to your own hypothesis and so become biased. Sagan tells us to compare our own hypothesis with others to see if we can find reasons to reject our own hypothesis.
• Quantify. Sagan tells us that if whatever we are trying to explain has numerical value or quantitative data related to it, then we'll be much more able to compete against other hypotheses.
• If there is a chain of argument, every link in that chain must be correct.
• The use of Occam's razor, which says to choose the hypothesis that is simpler and requires the fewest assumptions.
• Ask if a given hypothesis can be falsified. Sagan tells us that if a hypothesis cannot be tested or falsified then it is not worth considering.

Part 2 - 20 logical fallacies that must be avoided...

• Ad hominem. An arguer attacks the opposing arguer and not the actual argument.
• Argument from authority. (aka appeal to authority) Someone expects another to immediately believe that a person of authority or higher knowledge is correct.
• Argument from adverse consequences. Someone says that something must be done a certain way or else there will be adverse consequences.
• Appeal to ignorance. One argues a claim in that whatever has not been proved false must be true, and vice versa.
• Special pleading. An arguer responds to a deeply complex or rhetorical question or statement by, usually, saying "oh you don't understand how so and so works."
• Begging the question. An arguer assumes the answer and makes a claim such as, this happened because of that, or, this needs to happen in order for that to happen.
• Observational selection. Someone talks about how great something is by explaining all of the positive aspects of it while purposely not mentioning any of the negative aspects.
• Statistics of small numbers. Someone argues something by giving the statistics in small numbers, which isn't very reliable.
• Misunderstanding of the nature of statistics. Someone misinterprets statistics given to them.
• Fallacy of inconsistency. An arguer is very inconsistent in their claims.
• Non sequitur. This is Latin for "it doesn't follow". A claim is made that doesn't make much sense, such as "Our nation will prevail because God is great."
• Post hoc ergo propter hoc. Latin for "it happened after, so it was caused by". An arguer claims that something happened because of a past event when really it probably didn't.
• Meaningless question. Someone asks a question that has no real meaning or doesn't add to the argument at all.
• The excluded middle. An arguer only considers or mentions the two opposite extremes of the conversation and excludes the aspects in between the two extremes.
• Short-term vs. long-term. A subset of the excluded middle, but so important it was pulled out for special attention.
  
• Slippery slope, related to excluded middle (e.g., If we allow abortion in the first weeks of pregnancy, it will be impossible to prevent the killing of a full-term infant. Or, conversely: If the state prohibits…).
• Confusion of correlation and causation. The latter causes the former.
• Straw man. Caricaturing a position to make it easier to attack. This is also a short-term/long-term fallacy.
• Suppressed evidence, or half-truth.
• Weasel word (aka anonymous authority) A word or phrase aimed at creating an impression that something specific and meaningful has been said, when in fact only a vague, ambiguous, or irrelevant claim has been communicated. The terms may be considered informal. Examples include the phrases "some people say", "it is thought", and "researchers believe".

With all of the podcasters and people on social media these days having such... interesting... opinions and theories about things, these tools are now more necessary than ever. Just because someone is charismatic and speaks confidently doesn't mean they really know what they're talking about.

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/dev/random / Re: UFO SPACECRAFT CONFIRMED BY USA

« Last post by 2d on September 11, 2025, 08:10:12 PM »

Holy shit -


https://www.youtube.com/v/nUbl5HLIGkA&ab_channel=GlobalNews

Full:


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