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[Sirus]

I'm not made of money.

Actually a basic UPS is fairly cheap (~$40-50) nowadays, so long as you only need it to stay up long enough to save your work and perform a clean shutdown...

Are they bulky? I don't have a lot of room underneath/behind my desk.

[Teneb]

I'm not made of money.

Actually a basic UPS is fairly cheap (~$40-50) nowadays, so long as you only need it to stay up long enough to save your work and perform a clean shutdown...

Are they bulky? I don't have a lot of room underneath/behind my desk.

Not really. Just too damn heavy for their size.

EDIT:

Spoiler: A picture of mine, sorry for bad lighting (click to show/hide)

[Flying Dice]

Umm, where in there do you see an insult or diminutive remark?

I didnt put one foreward, so *shrug*

He presents a very earnest character.


Perhaps you mistook 'child like mannerism' for something else than 'earnest'.

its memetic because he has like 3 teeth, squeaks like a dolphin, and has that certain childlike method of storytelling.  why its a chosen meme for any misbegotten altright standpoint idk.

fuckin bacon strips, milk cups and frog faces.  yea, real clever.  completely the intellectualisms that will compete with the march of liberalism.  college elite versus pepe.

And then go on to associate him with people you dislike politically where no such association exists (except in the minds of deluded out-of-touch socjus journos). You didn't know what you were talking about, so you instantly defaulted to assuming that it was a meme because of that shit. "Hurr he's a meme because he looks and sounds strange-" "-oh no I didn't mean that he looks and sounds strange, I was just complementing how his behavior resembles that of a child!" 

This is a kinda rare (kek) meme in that there actually is a surface-level characteristic which helps inform meaning even if you're not familiar with the culture behind it, but it's also... blatantly obvious. Guy laughing and hardly able to stop himself. What's that Pokemon meaning?! Next you're gonna say that Scumbag Steve is actually Serial Rapist Steve because he looks slightly intoxicated and is coming into a house late at night.

[pisskop]

.  When one fails to appreciate why something can become so popular ( hint: its uncanny, tickling that spot between genuine and unreal ) and instead falls back onto blathering I care not for it.

Sure, it was because he was genuine and had an infectious sort of laugh.  But you know what else?  It was it damn appearance that made it uncanny from everyday living.

 But you cant see that, because to admit it would be to admit that their is room to critique his image, culture, or mannerisms, hunh.

[Neonivek]

I find it interesting that cheaper production costs kind of has two effects.

One is it leads to higher quality programming as you need less money to do greater things, allowing good writing / scripts / ideas to become more viable and less immediately risky.

two is it leads to lower quality programming as now the benchmark for garbage to be made becomes smaller.

But as in my opinion the value of a medium isn't in the lowest common denominator or even the average... But in how many good and great products are made.

If you are wondering that is my opinion on singular games as well. It is why I don't give very much praise to long but tepid games.

[Sergarr]

"Saddam's black magic"

[AzyWng]

"Saddam's black magic"

Has anyone actually done anything about the book other than remove it from public display?

I mean, IIRC, blood is considered an unclean fluid in Islam and thus writing a Quran in it qualifies as sacrilege/is forbidden. Now that it's been completed, however, it's sacrilege/is forbidden to destroy it.

[Avis-Mergulus]

"Saddam's black magic"

Has anyone actually done anything about the book other than remove it from public display?

I mean, IIRC, blood is considered an unclean fluid in Islam and thus writing a Quran in it qualifies as sacrilege/is forbidden. Now that it's been completed, however, it's sacrilege/is forbidden to destroy it.

If I am correct, worn or defective copies of the Quran can be buried or burned in a respectful manner. So, given a reason to dispose of it, they could have done it. It's not really that much of a logic bomb.

[itisnotlogical]

I thought being able to view my schedule online would be badass. No need to go in and ask if I forget my hours, right? Well, the website doesn't work. I refresh it a few times in Firefox, disable adblockers, no dice. Trying Internet Explorer reveals a message saying "The publisher of this content doesn't allow it to appear inside a frame." So, not only does it not work, they designed it to not work. At least IE lets you pop the content into a seperate window and it works then.

So, the last two major errors I've encountered on the internet have been because of outdated, insecure websites using iframes improperly. Sigh

[Neonivek]

Ok here is something.

So I am watching a Chinese (or Korean >_< or... another Asian country) anime about a professional MMO player.

and they make him seem more and more super special as the show goes on with the feats and builds he is able to pull off. Yet in doing so they are kind of making the MMO they are playing seem incredibly, stupidly, broken. He is managing to out DPS the damage based classes as a "Classless". I am not even getting into some of the bigger bunch of BS he pulls earlier either (including but not limited to: One shotting a 100-man raid boss)

Has anyone experienced anything similar? Where a show tries so hard to convince us that the protagonist is apparently amazing... but it seems to come at the cost of making the game/sport/whatever seem like it has terrible rule issues?

I mean the only other example is Harry Potter where the entire... Game portion seems to not matter as the Snitch is just worth too many points... But then again that game is MEANT to seem broken. You aren't supposed to think it has really great rules (Heck the Muggle version is nothing like the actual game even if you took out the flying)

[pisskop]

Plenty of children's shows have arbitrary rulesets to their games or even realities.

pokemon, the show -> one at a time, 6 max, 4 moves (no giving half your money, sadly)
yugioh -> wholly shit I dont even understand how the show works, everything is 'the final final battle' simply because it can be.

Any of the saturday morning cartoons place limitations on the conduct of both the villains and the heroes based on morales that are being expressed.


FPS games are famous for giving the protag magic healing skills.  I often wonder if a hero with such abilities would really win out over an army, but in any case your berserk bullet sponge has the rules bent in their favor.  Reality literally exists for the player's avatar, and npcs will do 'odd' things to help validate the player.


Are you asking about a show that goes out of its way to present a 'video game' that the protag is magic-mary good at even though the rules clearly bend for them?  I dont really watch shows in general, but there are certainly numerous examples of protags getting by just because convenience for the plot.

Good plotlines are good because they better hide their plotarmor.  look for bad plot.

[Neonivek]

Are you asking about a show that goes out of its way to present a 'video game' that the protag is magic-mary good at even though the rules clearly bend for them?  I dont really watch shows in general, but there are certainly numerous examples of protags getting by just because convenience for the plot.

Somewhat (sports and other games included)... or SORT OF

I am asking for examples where it goes so far out of its way to show how great the protagonist (or some other character) that it less makes you believe the main character is good and more that it makes you think the game they are playing is flat out broken, unbalanced, or nearly unplayable.

Broken =/= Arbitrary.

Yu-Gi-Oh definitely has broken rules but they don't stem from the protagonist oddly enough... It is the villains and opponents who show how barely functional it is (Season one exempted, but that entire season was broken) with their ability to create entirely new sets of rules, the fact that you can create your own cards legally (SOMEHOW!), and that you don't have to tell anyone what the cards you have actually do.

[Lord Shonus]

"Saddam's black magic"

Has anyone actually done anything about the book other than remove it from public display?

I mean, IIRC, blood is considered an unclean fluid in Islam and thus writing a Quran in it qualifies as sacrilege/is forbidden. Now that it's been completed, however, it's sacrilege/is forbidden to destroy it.

As I understand the situation, this particular book is considered the same way a corrupted translation or error-filled copy would be - it isn't a Quran at all.

[Sergarr]

"Saddam's black magic"

Has anyone actually done anything about the book other than remove it from public display?

I mean, IIRC, blood is considered an unclean fluid in Islam and thus writing a Quran in it qualifies as sacrilege/is forbidden. Now that it's been completed, however, it's sacrilege/is forbidden to destroy it.

As I understand the situation, this particular book is considered the same way a corrupted translation or error-filled copy would be - it isn't a Quran at all.

I wonder if you could use it to summon eldritch horrors from beyond...

[Eric Blank]

You can summon ISIS to kill you, i guess.