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Dark Java Dude 64
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Posted: 13th Oct 2014 15:20 Edited at: 13th Oct 2014 15:22
xD I just woke up from the most odd dream. I was on the computer, doing some Internets, etc, and suddenly this big ad pops up on the web page. Before trying to take any other action to get rid of the ad, I pull out my desk drawer, remove a hammer, and begin violently hitting the screen with my hammer, all while remaining quite calm in emotion. The ad went away a little bit each time I hit the screen, but then afterwards, I was sad to see that my screen was full of dead pixels. I then became truly angry, and went to task manager to try and fix the dead pixels. True dream.

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Posted: 13th Oct 2014 15:37
Quote: "True dream."


I absolutely believe you! I can totally imagine that being a dream I might have Isn't it strange the way our brains work sometimes?

I just finished spending an hour (ok, probably more like half an hour) trying to work out HOW ON EARTH my Facebook friends were posting the crying-laughing smiley. Finally work out it's an emoji, and you can post it from you phone and have it show up fine on PC (even from Android where the emojis are kinda crap). Then I posted detailed answers on Yahoo Answers here and here so others won't have to waste time trying to find out how to do it.

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Posted: 13th Oct 2014 20:58


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Posted: 13th Oct 2014 22:37
What about left?

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Posted: 14th Oct 2014 19:02
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So here's another work-related story that will make you go "wow!"

I was manning the customer service desk last night, when this woman came up and said she had left her wallet in her purse at home, but had a checkbook along with a PHOTO ON HER PHONE of "her" ID. What else made this not at all suspicious (heavy sarcasm) was that ANOTHER woman behind her tried to vouch for her, claiming to be her ex mother-in-law that just happened to be shopping at the same time. Riiight...

Anyway, as me and a co-worker are explaining how our policy clearly states that for first-time purchases paid for with a check we require a valid, current, physical form of ID (driver's license or state ID), my co-worker gets the current manager on duty involved. He re-iterates what we say, and the woman acts like it's completely fine, and the other woman said she would just buy the other's with her debit card. We decided that was fine, but kept a VERY watchful eye when they checked out.

No way on Earth were we about to take that as a valid form of identification. It was probably photoshopped. People try to use checks to get cash back because we allow that - thankfully, next month our limits are being reduced significantly, so people won't want to do it anymore.

Couldn't believe it, and I'm sure there's more stupidity to come in the years ahead...


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Posted: 15th Oct 2014 00:57
I can't think of any comics that have a character that isn't voiced by pam from Archer.


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Posted: 15th Oct 2014 04:39
Goat Simulator!

Here I am playing it, it's ridiculous...




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Dark Java Dude 64
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Posted: 15th Oct 2014 04:45
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Please Independence Day Bunny, stop discriminating against JIT compiled languages.

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Posted: 15th Oct 2014 05:09
If you haven't already done so - watch Band of Brothers.
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Posted: 15th Oct 2014 05:44
Quote: "What about left?"


Would you believe it took me 5 minutes to get that joke

Quote: "So here's another work-related story that will make you go "wow!""


Indeed I did. Wow!

Quote: "People try to use checks to get cash back because we allow that - thankfully, next month our limits are being reduced significantly, so people won't want to do it anymore."


What? In Australia just about any store (and definitely all the major ones like Woolworths, Coles/Bi-Lo, BigW and Kmart) allows full refunds on any product for any amount if it's not "fit for purpose", regardless of payment method (although you have to have the original card if you bought it with Visa... even then, they'll frequently just pull cash out of the register for you if the item was less than about $40-50). Ah, of course, they have to allow refunds. It's Australian law.

Quote: "Goat Simulator!"


True!

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The extra 8GB of ram arrived today (now yesterday cuz I forgot to post this)! We now have 10GB ram in our NAS... 32KB SnapRAID block size! Huzzah!

I also managed to finally work out to send an email from the NAS. Waaay more complicated than I expected. Using sSMTP; sendmail and Postfix are both insanely overcomplicated for just sending a notification email. Easy enough with sSMTP once you work out what settings you need (probably made it more difficult for myself by trying to send it to a Yahoo email). Now SnapRAID is scheduled with cron to launch at 3.00am and send me an email with the results of the sync. I'll check these each day to make sure nothing went wrong.

Now we're installing Java so we can run MC servers on the NAS, then I'll install Serviio and configure that so- [hmm... I've left this untyped and forgot about it]

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Well, that was clever. I completely destroyed my Lubuntu installation. All fixed now, though. And not being a big, heavy Windows installation with hundreds of programs installed it only took half an hour

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Posted: 15th Oct 2014 06:21
Quote: "So here's another work-related story that will make you go "wow!""


I lol'd. People are so stupid.
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Posted: 15th Oct 2014 08:51
Clonkex hehe what about up and down lol

Btw 💰 cash back is not refund... It means get some money 💵 back from the company who will have to request it from your bank... But I find this odd to be done with cheques.......

Also that new AUS drama 🎭 The Code makes for a horrible impression on AUS for me... Are people really that awkward? I know one should take drama 🎭 TV 📺 with a pinch of salt but damn... They are making Aussies look so bad and unintelligible

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Posted: 15th Oct 2014 11:19 Edited at: 15th Oct 2014 11:31
Quote: "Btw 💰 cash back is not refund... It means get some money 💵 back from the company who will have to request it from your bank..."


Of course it does...

Quote: "Also that new AUS drama 🎭 The Code makes for a horrible impression on AUS for me... Are people really that awkward? I know one should take drama 🎭 TV 📺 with a pinch of salt but damn... They are making Aussies look so bad and unintelligible"


I haven't watched it, but that doesn't sound good at all. *watches normal and extended trailers on YouTube* Huh, that's the first Aussie-made drama that I've actually liked the look of. *watches first half of episode 1 on iView* Well that looks pretty good actually. My first impression was that it's not amazingly well-acted, but it's also not bad by any stretch of the imagination.

In terms of "unintelligible"... that must just be because you're British. I had no trouble whatsoever understanding them and the actors spoke perfectly normally.

The only slightly unrealistic thing I noticed was the lack of aggression from the cops when the guy's brother tried to carry the box inside Parliament House. It might be just me, but I would have expected the cops to have drawn their guns when the journalist grabbed the box.

So IMO a pretty good show, bearing in mind I only watched half of the first episode

EDIT: Speaking of Aussie-made stuff, check out Reflex. For the first time, bringing back twitch-shooting in a good way! I sincerely hope they get lots of people on their servers!

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Posted: 15th Oct 2014 12:02 Edited at: 15th Oct 2014 12:02
Quote: "I had no trouble whatsoever understanding them and the actors spoke perfectly normally."


Not speaking, maybe I am too particular

Quote: "
The only slightly unrealistic thing I noticed was the lack of aggression from the cops when the guy's brother tried to carry the box inside Parliament House. It might be just me, but I would have expected the cops to have drawn their guns when the journalist grabbed the box.
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That was one of the few points where I felt, bleh, Not watching more of this rubbish...

But when you figure out why weirdo brother is twitchy haha then I felt like watching the rest of it...

I have actually been following a lot of Aussie news lately, no idea why, no plans to visit the continent yet, not for at least 5 years...

Only found out Neighbours? was an Aussie drama a few years ago... it was/is right?

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Posted: 15th Oct 2014 12:32
Quote: "Only found out Neighbours? was an Aussie drama a few years ago... it was/is right?"


Yup, I've never watched it but it was/is exceptionally popular. It's been running since 1985 and is still going. That's 30 seasons and 6990 episodes!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neighbours

Yodaman Jer
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Posted: 15th Oct 2014 17:22
@Clonkex:

Yeah, a line somehow got deleted before I posted that. It should have read "people like to get cashback at the lanes during their purchase, which we allow."

So people can get up to $50 cashback, with a check or with a debit card. However, if it's with a check, they have to be well-established customers and have been in our system for at least a month. I really don't like that they can get cashback though, a grocery store is not a bank...


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Posted: 15th Oct 2014 21:18
This is not my story, I found it on tumblr.

What’s the laziest thing you’ve ever done?

I was once on a US military ship, having breakfast in the wardroom (officers lounge) when the Operations Officer (OPS) waks in. This guy was the definition of NOT a morning person; he’s still half asleep, bleary eyed… basically a zombie with a bagel. He sits down across from me to eat his bagel and is just barely conscious. My back is on the outboard side of the ship, and the morning sun is blazing in one of the portholes putting a big bright-ass circle of light on his barely conscious face. He’s squinting and chewing and basically just remembering how to be alive for today. It’s painful to watch.

But then zombie-OPS stops chewing, slowly picks up the phone, and dials the bridge. In his well-known I’m-still-totaly-asleep voice, he says: “Heeeey. It’s OPS. Could you… shift our barpat… yeah, one six five. Thanks.” And puts the phone down. And then he just sits there. Squinting. Waiting.

And then, ever so slowly, I realize that that big blazing spot of sun has begun to slide off the zombie’s face and onto the wall behind him. After a moment it clears his face and he blinks slowly a few times and the brilliant beauty of what I’ve just witnessed begins to overwhelm me. By ordering the bridge to adjust the ship’s back-and-forth patrol by about 15 degrees, he’s changed our course just enough to reposition the sun off of his face. He’s literally just redirected thousands of tons of steel and hundreds of people so that he could get the sun out of his eyes while he eats his bagel. I am in awe.

He slowly picks up his bagel and for a moment I’m terrified at the thought that his own genius may escape him, that he may never appreciate the epic brilliance of his laziness (since he’s not going to wake up for another hour). But between his next bite he pauses, looks at me, and gives me the faintest, sly grin, before returning to gnaw slowly on his zombie bagel.

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Posted: 15th Oct 2014 23:15 Edited at: 15th Oct 2014 23:18
Hmmm


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Posted: 16th Oct 2014 00:02
swissolo - is that the first time you saw it like that? been like that for me for past four years... [Ever since I first came here really]

TheComet - " ... " seriously, no comment...

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Posted: 16th Oct 2014 00:07
Quote: " been like that for me for past four years... [Ever since I first came here really]"


Take a good long look at the browser you use.
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Posted: 16th Oct 2014 00:09
Quote: "Take a good long look at the browser you use. "


Perhaps you mean my huge high res wide screen monitor...?

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Posted: 16th Oct 2014 00:34
Quote: "Perhaps you mean my huge high res wide screen monitor...?"


Pahahaha. No. IE will be rendering it wrong.
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Posted: 16th Oct 2014 00:39
Quote: "rendering it wrong. "


Or perhaps the other browsers are rendering it wrong?

Conspiracy



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Posted: 16th Oct 2014 00:39
Quote: "Pahahaha. No. IE will be rendering it wrong."

This. It looks fine on my windows pc and on my mac both in chrome.


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Posted: 16th Oct 2014 00:42 Edited at: 16th Oct 2014 00:44
Just noticed swissolo was not pointing out the gap, I thought it was the space, after taking a closer look, I saw that text was missing lol, so nope, IE renders fine for me...

EDIT

Also, as nobody has mentioned it yet...



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Quote: "Just noticed swissolo was not pointing out the gap, I thought it was the space, after taking a closer look, I saw that text was missing lol, so nope, IE renders fine for me.."


Still your mistake.
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Posted: 16th Oct 2014 00:45
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Actually, it is swissolo who is at fault lol, he drew the line straight down very close to the text, so I did not look closer and assumed the latter

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Posted: 16th Oct 2014 00:47 Edited at: 16th Oct 2014 00:52
xD 3rd picture from the bottom xD

I am currently a teacher's assistant, so when grading papers, I see things like those all the time, although to a lesser degree. Still pretty funny.

Quote: "it is swissolo who is at fault lol"
That lol, it indicates well intended aggression due to disagreement. Just kiddin.

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Quote: "That lol, it indicates well intended aggression due to disagreement"


lol



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Posted: 16th Oct 2014 03:32 Edited at: 16th Oct 2014 03:35
Quote: "This is not my story, I found it on tumblr.

What’s the laziest thing you’ve ever done?"


That's been on Facebook for ages.... still a brilliant story though

Quote: "Hmmm"


I don't get it. What's "hmmm"?

lol at those photos TheComet The one with the red-pen "Nice try" looks just like Mum's handwriting when she's grading my school. I'm homeschooled, you know.

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Posted: 16th Oct 2014 05:44 Edited at: 16th Oct 2014 05:45


Weird, but sadly true.

@TheComet: "How do we love god" what third-world country did that exam come from?
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Quote: "@TheComet: "How do we love god" what third-world country did that exam come from?"

You make me laugh sometimes


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Posted: 16th Oct 2014 10:19
Quote: "@TheComet: "How do we love god" what third-world country did that exam come from?"


Seriously? It's probably just a Christian curriculum. That's the kind of question I would occasionally get in my schoolwork.

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Quote: "Seriously? It's probably just a Christian curriculum. That's the kind of question I would occasionally get in my schoolwork."


Gross. But that makes sense I guess.
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Dem ebonics classes is paying off.

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Posted: 16th Oct 2014 22:52
Haha, you lost points

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I lost points once, because of a forum error.


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I gain points due to a forum feature

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Posted: 17th Oct 2014 02:06
I finally got around to installing the shader mod for MineCraft:





It's really awesome, especially when exploring caves. The lighting is just... wow.

The nether looks little too extreme, though:



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Posted: 17th Oct 2014 02:30 Edited at: 17th Oct 2014 02:30
That discussion I should start posting entirely normal pictures so people can argue over them I thought everyone was joking at first but I suspect not... I'll make it easier for everyone! (btw the line is just there so I could split the image and avoid page stretching )


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I have absolutely no clue what's wrong that image. The forum has looked exactly like that since I joined, AFAIK. What were you expecting?

Quote: "I finally got around to installing the shader mod for MineCraft:"


The shader mods are seriously cool, but they frequently have bugs, most notably with clouds. The tall mountains in the distance that cause shadows to appear and disappear.

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Quote: "I have absolutely no clue what's wrong that image. The forum has looked exactly like that since I joined, AFAIK. What were you expecting?"

Can't tell if you're serious or not It's pointing to the most recent post.

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Yeah you really distracted attention away from it with the big wavy line!
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Apparently zooming in the beta forums resizes the image. So as much as I zoom, I can't read it (I did open it in a new tab, how did that thread get there?)


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Posted: 17th Oct 2014 04:18
Quote: "It's pointing to the most recent post."


OH NOW I get it... didn't see the dates before! Or, the.... LOL I just noticed the name as well! I wonder what on earth that happened.... Did you edit the HTML or did TheNext have fun with his powers?

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Somebody isn't too observant today...

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The shaders mod for minecraft is awesome. As clonex says, the popping shadows are a bit annoying but I can overlook that. The nether looks awesome but the game is unplayable like that. I usualy toggle mine on and off as I play

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Posted: 17th Oct 2014 18:04 Edited at: 17th Oct 2014 18:43
OH just noticed the arrow lol

EDIT

OKAY....... just installed Origin and BF3 to have a fiddle and boom....... where did all my experience points go? all that flying time lost....... darn it, I don't mind regaining weapons again but those blasted vehicle levelling ups...

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