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My right armpit has more hair then my left one, what the hell?
 
kai3345 said:
The only reason i use it is to stream music from my computer to my 360, will VLC let me do that?
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I don't think WMP has anything to do with the 360 playing music. I don't have it set to associate with any file (VLC for everything) and I can still use the 360 for music. I've only done that once or twice, though.

VLC is free, easy to usee. If you don't like it, just get rid of it.
 
Kitchen Nightmares (Gordon Ramsay)

Is there any place I can watch the UK version online? I go to the Channel 4 website, and since I live in the US, it won't let me watch them.

EDIT: Guess I should have checked YouTube first. I just assumed they would have been removed.
 
JodyAnthony said:
is it dangerous for the consoles to have my Wii horizontal on top of my horizontal 360? Of course only one would be running at a time.
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It shouldn't be, as long as you're not blocking any fans or ventilation holes. What you should look out for is to not have them at an angle. Vertical or horizontal is fine, but I've heard that if you have them at an angle (for example 45 degrees) your hard drives might crash (and possibly scratch the DVD/CD?). It has something to do with the rotating disks and gravity and stuff.
 
Why is it that probably 40% of the time I load Steam, my games icons don't load like so?

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If there was a catastrophic end of the world type tsunami that was gonna hit, would the best thing to do be to hide in the basement with a scuba suit?
 
WanderingWind said:
What? No. What?
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I guess the logic is that the actual wave won't harm you (?) and when the basement floods you will be able to breath long enough for the damaging effects of the wave to pass over. I'm pretty sure if the wave is powerful enough to travel cross-continental, you're fucked pretty much anywhere above 100 feet underground.
 
Kenak said:
I guess the logic is that the actual wave won't harm you (?) and when the basement floods you will be able to breath long enough for the damaging effects of the wave to pass over. I'm pretty sure if the wave is powerful enough to travel cross-continental, you're fucked pretty much anywhere above 100 feet underground.
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Plus, the building would fall down, plus you'd get dashed against the walls with the swell, plus you might get trapped...

Your best bet would be to get to high ground. I guess SCUBA gear would be okay, if you're trained in it. If not, you can cause more harm than good. If you have that much time, bring an inflatable raft or something.

More than likely, you're screwed either way, but staying at the lowest point possible during a flood is like trying to avoid a lightning storm by clinging to a flagpole wearing a suit of armor.
 
I'm not the one who thought it would be safe =P As I said, I'm pretty sure you're fucked no matter what unless you have a bunker of some sort deep under ground. I was just trying to rationalize the thought process.
 
So I'm not about to create a thread about this, but something happened this morning that blew my mind.

Rainy shitty day in Philly, and traffic this morning was moving pretty shittily. I go through the toll-booth station and all the lanes are slowly merging into 1 lane (3 lanes in 1). I'm in the middle lane, so I let the car to my left and to my right get in front of me (as per the "every other" traffic etiquette with merging).

As I'm letting the cars merge in front of me, I notice the car to my right (behind the car I'm letting merge) is riding the tail of the car in front of her. It's entirely clear to me that she's trying to jump in front of me, totally taking advantage of my good traffic etiquette. I look directly at her through my window when she was next to me and give her a little horn saying "hey...chill out."

She continues to push past me and aggressively hits me with the bird on her way forward.

...I couldn't believe that shit. She was actively the aggressor in that situation, and somehow I'm the person getting the bird.

What an awful human being.
 
^^That shit sucks. I also hate those people who leave their current (right-most) lane to go into the merging lane and get ahead of like three cars and merge back in. Whenever I see that shit in my rear-view, I but my ass out into the right lane, block em off, and flip em the bird.
Clydefrog said:
Why is it that probably 40% of the time I load Steam, my games icons don't load like so?
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Let me guess: You open up Steam, it automatically sets the home tab to be the Steam store, and then you hit the arrow to collapse it? I'm pretty sure the way that Steam's built, it will only load your game ICOs when you switch over to the My Games tab. Whenever I do the steps I listed above, no icons. Repeat, but click My Games before collapsing? Icons. To save a click, set your default tab on program launch in Options to be My Games.
 
RubxQub said:
So I'm not about to create a thread about this, but something happened this morning that blew my mind.

Rainy shitty day in Philly, and traffic this morning was moving pretty shittily. I go through the toll-booth station and all the lanes are slowly merging into 1 lane (3 lanes in 1). I'm in the middle lane, so I let the car to my left and to my right get in front of me (as per the "every other" traffic etiquette with merging).

As I'm letting the cars merge in front of me, I notice the car to my right (behind the car I'm letting merge) is riding the tail of the car in front of her. It's entirely clear to me that she's trying to jump in front of me, totally taking advantage of my good traffic etiquette. I look directly at her through my window when she was next to me and give her a little horn saying "hey...chill out."

She continues to push past me and aggressively hits me with the bird on her way forward.

...I couldn't believe that shit. She was actively the aggressor in that situation, and somehow I'm the person getting the bird.

What an awful human being.
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This isn't a question, sir.
 
bjork said:
This isn't a question, sir.
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I guess the question would be: Is there a level of hell reserved just for this woman?
 
RubxQub said:
I guess the question would be: Is there a level of hell reserved just for this woman?
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Oh okay, then the answer is yes. She can reside with the guy who was once tailgating me at night, so I slammed on my breaks and he swerved off into the bushes on the side of the road.
 
bjork said:
Oh okay, then the answer is yes. She can reside with the guy who was once tailgating me at night, so I slammed on my breaks and he swerved off into the bushes on the side of the road.
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:lol
 
RubxQub said:
So I'm not about to create a thread about this, but something happened this morning that blew my mind.

Rainy shitty day in Philly, and traffic this morning was moving pretty shittily. I go through the toll-booth station and all the lanes are slowly merging into 1 lane (3 lanes in 1). I'm in the middle lane, so I let the car to my left and to my right get in front of me (as per the "every other" traffic etiquette with merging).

As I'm letting the cars merge in front of me, I notice the car to my right (behind the car I'm letting merge) is riding the tail of the car in front of her. It's entirely clear to me that she's trying to jump in front of me, totally taking advantage of my good traffic etiquette. I look directly at her through my window when she was next to me and give her a little horn saying "hey...chill out."

She continues to push past me and aggressively hits me with the bird on her way forward.

...I couldn't believe that shit. She was actively the aggressor in that situation, and somehow I'm the person getting the bird.

What an awful human being.
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Interesting article on the subject. Someone linked this in another thread, forget which one.
 
Question about product placement in movies:

How does this happen? Do they approach Coca-cola beforehand saying "Okay, we have an opportunity for drink placement in one of scenes. $x million to make that drink Coke. Deal?"

Or is it more Coca-cola approaching the production company saying "Here's $x million to find a way to work our product into your movie. Deal?", where the director is then told to make sure an actor is drinking Coke somewhere in the movie.
 
My grandmother got a phone call from a company called NCO, wanting to talk to me about a "personal business matter." So I looked them up and apparently they're some kind of scam outfit with judgements against them and tons of complaints. How are places like this allowed to keep operating?
 
not a small question

i'm in film school right now, freshmen year, second semester just started, and i'm starting to hate it. i feel like ron livingston in office space before he watches that guy die of a heart attack. i'm miserable. i love the city and the people, but the school is just miserable. i haven't learned a single fucking thing, we spend more time writing essays than we spend working on actual projects. aside from my film classes, i still have to take the useless, monotonous maths and sciences. this place costs a fucking fortune and i feel like every cent is a waste. i want to drop out after this year, but i have no idea what to do after that. help.
 
dustin said:
not a small question

i'm in film school right now, freshmen year, second semester just started, and i'm starting to hate it. i feel like ron livingston in office space before he watches that guy die of a heart attack. i'm miserable. i love the city and the people, but the school is just miserable. i haven't learned a single fucking thing, we spend more time writing essays than we spend working on actual projects. aside from my film classes, i still have to take the useless, monotonous maths and sciences. this place costs a fucking fortune and i feel like every cent is a waste. i want to drop out after this year, but i have no idea what to do after that. help.
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Stick with it. You have to go through the gen ed stuff no matter what you study, so it should get better after you've cleared all that stuff out of the way.
 
ChefRamsay said:
Question about product placement in movies:

How does this happen? Do they approach Coca-cola beforehand saying "Okay, we have an opportunity for drink placement in one of scenes. $x million to make that drink Coke. Deal?"

Or is it more Coca-cola approaching the production company saying "Here's $x million to find a way to work our product into your movie. Deal?", where the director is then told to make sure an actor is drinking Coke somewhere in the movie.
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I think product placement is something that be easily included in the movie without changing anything so much, so I'd venture to guess that the people that work on the movie approach these companies to get sponsoring, and they talk and discuss how they can include this sponsoring and depending on the time,position on screen they agree to a specific amount of money. I could be wrong, though.
 
Can someone explain the point of "double dipping" in regards to games? ie buying the same game for two different platforms, or multiple copies on the same platform, etc.
 
Frester said:
Can someone explain the point of "double dipping" in regards to games? ie buying the same game for two different platforms, or multiple copies on the same platform, etc.
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You may have sold your original copy, lost it, broken it, you may want to support the developer, the console, the medium (Digital Distribution i.e.), for a collection, etc.

I suppose. Never did it myself.
 
Frester said:
Can someone explain the point of "double dipping" in regards to games? ie buying the same game for two different platforms, or multiple copies on the same platform, etc.
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I did it for DMC3:SE because they added Vergil who made the game quite different. I probably would have gotten SF4 on the PC during the Steam sale if Super SFIV wasn't coming out so soon for more competition.
 
I thought double dipping was for when you buy 2 same games on 2 different platforms but I see no reason not to allow it when you buy back a game you once owned.
 
Shoogoo said:
I thought double dipping was for when you buy 2 same games on 2 different platforms but I see no reason not to allow it when you buy back a game you once owned.
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I probably should've been more specific, since I wouldn't have included buying a game you used to own. I'm talking about people who post pictures in the pick-up threads of buying the same game, twice. MarkMan has something like 150 fight sticks, right?
 
bjork said:
Stick with it. You have to go through the gen ed stuff no matter what you study, so it should get better after you've cleared all that stuff out of the way.
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I know, but at 40 grand in this economy for a major in the entertainment industry, it's just starting to not seem worth it
 
dustin said:
I know, but at 40 grand in this economy for a major in the entertainment industry, it's just starting to not seem worth it
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Then switch it up to something else, but don't bail out of school entirely.
 
I am writing a literary analysis of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest and Fight Club basically comparing how McMurphy/Durden influence Bromden/Narrator and was wondering if anyone could lead me to a web site that would have deep criticism and analysis of these works. Google has been failing me pretty bad and I am having trouble finding any great secondary analysis.

There has to be some kind of search engine or site that is just literary analysis right? Any help would be awesome.
 
Do chickens fuck? I've never actually seen it happen even though my neighbor has chickens. I mean seriously, do roosters have peckers? Or birds in general??? mind blown thinking about it.

If they don't have peckers, then how does the egg get fertilized?? Does the rooster come back after the hen laid the eggs and shoot rooster juice all over the eggs and they soak it up and form chickens?? shit man...that doesn't make sense either. eggs are hard.

help gaf.
 
Okay, so I have one ethernet port in my dorm. Is it possible to buy a router, plug that into my one ethernet port, then plug my computer/xbox into the router for connectivity without the hassle of changing wires?
 
Got last posted and really need to find some damn secondary analysis...

I am writing a literary analysis of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest and Fight Club basically comparing how McMurphy/Durden influence Bromden/Narrator and was wondering if anyone could lead me to a web site that would have deep criticism and analysis of these works. Google has been failing me pretty bad and I am having trouble finding any great secondary analysis.

There has to be some kind of search engine or site that is just literary analysis right? Any help would be awesome.
 
Primetime21 said:
Got last posted and really need to find some damn secondary analysis...

I am writing a literary analysis of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest and Fight Club basically comparing how McMurphy/Durden influence Bromden/Narrator and was wondering if anyone could lead me to a web site that would have deep criticism and analysis of these works. Google has been failing me pretty bad and I am having trouble finding any great secondary analysis.

There has to be some kind of search engine or site that is just literary analysis right? Any help would be awesome.
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Do you have access to a library? There's an entire section in my local library dedicated to literary criticism and analysis - old and new.
 
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