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[RadioHeadAche]

What the hell happens in season two of The Big O? I am so hopelessly perplexed at everything. I enjoyed the first season, and of course Adult Swim no longer airs it, but the second season seems like a convoluted mess.

I am a tomato.

 

[thetechkid]

What the hell happens in season two of The Big O? I am so hopelessly perplexed at everything. I enjoyed the first season, and of course Adult Swim no longer airs it, but the second season seems like a convoluted mess.

I am a tomato.

It was more all over the place rather than one complete story, and I still don't get the ending...

 

[RadioHeadAche]

It was more all over the place rather than one complete story, and I still don't get the ending...

Neither do I, and I've seen it several times. Season two is awful compared to the first which was pretty good. I just want to know what happens because I can't figure it out.

 

[thetechkid]

Neither do I, and I've seen it several times. Season two is awful compared to the first which was pretty good. I just want to know what happens because I can't figure it out.

What I think of the ending:

Spoiler

The whole thing happened in a computer, and god was made at everyone and said fuck it and hit reset

. I like to think Season Two of as a here's some more Big-O smashing stuff clip show.

 

[Jex]

What the hell happens in season two of The Big O? I am so hopelessly perplexed at everything. I enjoyed the first season, and of course Adult Swim no longer airs it, but the second season seems like a convoluted mess.

I am a tomato.

Season two is awesome because you are a tomato. It may not surprise you to know that there was supposed to be a season three, hence season two was not supposed to be the ending. Which would make sense because they dont explain anything very clearly.

Spoiler

Also some people claim everything happened in side some kind of holodeck, which makes the most sense. The people in it are real, they have just head their memories manipulated.

 

[RadioHeadAche]

Season two is awesome because you are a tomato. It may not surprise you to know that there was supposed to be a season three, hence season two was not supposed to be the ending. Which would make sense because they dont explain anything very clearly.

Well, that clearly was a good idea. Make the second season to a mildly-popular(?) show convoluted as fuck to attract the same audience to a third season around Midnight on a Sunday. Surely this will attract great ratings!

Brilliant!

 

[weepy]

I can't manually scroll down pages on my laptop anymore. Neither Home, Page Up/Dn, End, or the arrows seem to work right (well, the up and down arrows act as the Home/End keys now) Any ideas as to why this might be?

 

[Jex]

Well, that clearly was a good idea. Make the second season to a mildly-popular(?) show convoluted as fuck to attract the same audience to a third season around Midnight on a Sunday. Surely this will attract great ratings!

Brilliant!

Actually I think the first season was popular, or else it wouldnt have got funding. Also, the first seasons ending annoyed people enough that they made a second, I suppose that may have been the plan that time around as well. However, I doubt it. Chiaki J. Konaka seems to pretty much write for himself, not for the ratings. People either like him or hate him.

 

[Lagspike_exe]

How do I remove people from my Facebook ignore list? :lol

 

[Maklershed]

How long/short is Heavy Rain? Would I be able to beat it before I get GoW3 on Tuesday?

I can play all day today and from 7-9pm tomorrow.

 

[KAOz]

How long/short is Heavy Rain? Would I be able to beat it before I get GoW3 on Tuesday?

I can play all day today and from 7-9pm tomorrow.

Don't know fully, depends on which paths and stuff you take. But if you start playing fuckloads today, then you can probably do it.

It's worth it.

 

[demon]

Is there a S.T.A.L.K.E.R. demo at all? I've been wanting to play this game for a while but I don't know if my non-gaming laptop can handle it, and I don't feel like wasting 20 bucks on Steam only to find the game runs at 15fps with the lowest settings. I haven't played a single game in years, and so I've been catching up a bit....downloaded the Half-Life 2 demo and it runs fairly well at max settings at 1920x1080, but I downloaded some shitty demo (Roboblitz) that uses the UE3 engine and it ran like crap.


my laptop specs:
Intel Core 2 Duo 2.1ghz
Front Side Bus Speed : 800MHz
4GB DDR2/800MHz
graphics chip: Intel® GM45 Express Chipset


Yeah not exactly a beast. I kind of purposefully got a non-gaming laptop because it's a time-wasting hobby I didn't want to get back into, but I'm bored as fuck lately so whatever.

 

[VeryGooster]

How long/short is Heavy Rain? Would I be able to beat it before I get GoW3 on Tuesday?

I can play all day today and from 7-9pm tomorrow.

Heavy Rain is about an eight to ten-hour game.

 

[CommieCaptorS]

Here's one for German-speaking GAF:

I'm writing a short essay in preparation for an exam, but I'm getting hung up over the position of austaschen in this sentence;

Wenn ich ins Theatre häufiger gehen wäre, können wir unsere Meinungen (austaschen) über die Aufführungen die wir gesehen habe (austaschen)

Any other grammatical points welcome too as I'm still quite some way from getting a full grip on the language. The actual content of the sentence is fictional thank god, I couldn't think of anything much drier than discussing the nuances between German and English theatre.

 

[S. L.]

Here's one for German-speaking GAF:

I'm writing a short essay in preparation for an exam, but I'm getting hung up over the position of austaschen in this sentence;

Wenn ich ins Theatre häufiger gehen wäre, können wir unsere Meinungen (austaschen) über die Aufführungen die wir gesehen habe (austaschen)

Any other grammatical points welcome too as I'm still quite some way from getting a full grip on the language. The actual content of the sentence is fictional thank god, I couldn't think of anything much drier than discussing the nuances between German and English theatre.

Wenn ich (wouldn't 'we' make more sense here?) häufiger ins Theater gegangen wäre, könnten wir unsere Meinungen über die Aufführungen die wir gesehen haben austauschen.

 

[CommieCaptorS]

Wenn ich (wouldn't 'we' make more sense here?) häufiger ins Theater gegangen wäre, könnten wir unsere Meinungen über die Aufführungen die wir gesehen haben austauschen.

Thanks alot! Within the context of the rest of the essay, using the first person does make sense(I hope). Cheers for picking up on the other things too.

 

[AIRic]

What is the meaning of ! (exclamation point) symbol in Math?

 

[RedShift]

What is the meaning of ! (exclamation point) symbol in Math?

It's the factorial symbol, it's equal to the number multiplied by all the integers less than it. So 4! = 4*3*2 (*1) = 24

 

[Mike M]

Why do gas stations price everything out to 9/10ths of a cent instead of just rounding up to the full cent?

 

[Mike M]

Double post

 

[Reno7728]

Is there a S.T.A.L.K.E.R. demo at all? I've been wanting to play this game for a while but I don't know if my non-gaming laptop can handle it, and I don't feel like wasting 20 bucks on Steam only to find the game runs at 15fps with the lowest settings. I haven't played a single game in years, and so I've been catching up a bit....downloaded the Half-Life 2 demo and it runs fairly well at max settings at 1920x1080, but I downloaded some shitty demo (Roboblitz) that uses the UE3 engine and it ran like crap.


my laptop specs:
Intel Core 2 Duo 2.1ghz
Front Side Bus Speed : 800MHz
4GB DDR2/800MHz
graphics chip: Intel® GM45 Express Chipset


Yeah not exactly a beast. I kind of purposefully got a non-gaming laptop because it's a time-wasting hobby I didn't want to get back into, but I'm bored as fuck lately so whatever.

Try this it's for CoP but should give you a general idea

 

[Threi]

I have a logitech wave keyboard, but no receiver. On ebay im seeing a bunch of receivers that all look different (I would order from logitech directly but they don't ship to Canada)

My question is if this is what I'm looking for? The bad English in the description has me a bit worried:

http://cgi.ebay.ca/Logitech-Lenovo-...ultDomain_0?hash=item1e5ae40475#ht_2575wt_857

 

[bjork]

Why do gas stations price everything out to 9/10ths of a cent instead of just rounding up to the full cent?

So when you go "fuck, this is $3?" they can go, "It's just under $3!" Same thing as "this console is under $300" when it's $299.99.

My question:

When you go running, what's the correct way to breathe? Is it in through the nose, out through the mouth, or vice versa?

 

[PetriP-TNT]

Why do gas stations price everything out to 9/10ths of a cent instead of just rounding up to the full cent?

To make the prices look cheaper etc. No-one knows for real, millions of urban legends exist

 

[GT500]

I have a logitech wave keyboard, but no receiver. On ebay im seeing a bunch of receivers that all look different (I would order from logitech directly but they don't ship to Canada)

My question is if this is what I'm looking for? The bad English in the description has me a bit worried:

http://cgi.ebay.ca/Logitech-Lenovo-...ultDomain_0?hash=item1e5ae40475#ht_2575wt_857

I am not sure if the receiver is okay or not. But if you are worried about the English, he is a Chinese dude and they sell most of this stuff.

Google your keyboard's name with "2.4GHz" and you will probably find the compilable receiver's model in the results.

 

[DMeisterJ]

Why do gas stations price everything out to 9/10ths of a cent instead of just rounding up to the full cent?

Yeah, what the fuck is 9/10ths of a penny? Do you want me to cut the penny into ten pieces and give you nine?

 

[sankt-Antonio]

where can i get a sony D-NE10 in europe?... its a discman, and my goggle search skills are to weak for this task....

When you go running, what's the correct way to breathe? Is it in through the nose, out through the mouth, or vice versa?

inhale - nose
exhale - mouth

 

[sankt-Antonio]

dp sorry

 

[uraldix]

Yeah, what the fuck is 9/10ths of a penny? Do you want me to cut the penny into ten pieces and give you nine?

The federal tax is 18.4 and many states have a *.5 tax. My guess is that they always use the *.9 to keep so they can get the 1/10 rounding from everyone.

 

[Subliminal]

where can i get a sony D-NE10 in europe?... its a discman, and my goggle search skills are to weak for this task....

http://www.techstore.co.uk/browse.php?a=p&prodLineID=84294

 

[siddx]

Are cockroaches a food source for any other species?

 

[bjork]

Are cockroaches a food source for any other species?

Birds and cats?

 

[quickwhips]

Why did the stop making 3d doritios and will they ever make a come back?

 

[Freeza Under The Shower]

Can I change my GAF username somehow?

 

[Doytch]

Why did the stop making 3d doritios and will they ever make a come back?

They were just a fad.

 

[bjork]

Can I change my GAF username somehow?

It's possible, yes. I don't want to say "pm a mod" because I honestly don't recall how I had mine changed.

 

[siddx]

Birds and cats?

Dont know about birds, but every cat i've ever owned avoids roaches like they are the evil demon spawn they are.

 

[Maklershed]

Why did the stop making 3d doritios and will they ever make a come back?

I was just thinking about those over the weekend as I was lamenting my purchase of regurgitated pickle flavored (Cheeseburger) Dorritos. I was wishing they'd bring back the 3-D Nacho.

 

[parrotbeak]

Why do people with big SUVs and trucks park in the compact stalls when there are plenty of regular stalls open? I got into work a little early this morning and most of structure was still empty, but a lot of the compact stalls were already taken by huge vehicles.

The compact stalls are in the same area as the regular stalls (just across the lane), and they are really small. I don't even park my economy sedan in them because I'll come right up to the line. They're really made for minis.

By 9 am, all the stalls are taken, and I know people will park within inches of each other in the compact stalls, in large part because so many non-compact cars park there. People will jam in anyway, because there's no other option. If you came early enough to choose a stall, I can't understand why anyone would take a compact, especially if you have a plus-sized vehicle.

It doesn't really upset me, because I come early enough to get a regular stall, but I don't understand it at all.

 

[siddx]

Why do people with big SUVs and trucks park in the compact stalls when there are plenty of regular stalls open? I got into work a little early this morning and most of structure was still empty, but a lot of the compact stalls were already taken by huge vehicles.

The compact stalls are in the same area as the regular stalls (just across the lane), and they are really small. I don't even park my economy sedan in them because I'll come right up to the line. They're really made for minis.

By 9 am, all the stalls are taken, and I know people will park within inches of each other in the compact stalls, in large part because so many non-compact cars park there. People will jam in anyway, because there's no other option. If you came early enough to choose a stall, I can't understand why anyone would take a compact, especially if you have a plus-sized vehicle.

It doesn't really upset me, because I come early enough to get a regular stall, but I don't understand it at all.

Well the lot I used to park in, the first 3 floors were compact only, and above were normal size. So yeah, you saw hummers parked in places they clearly shouldn't have been. But you say in your case the two stalls are in relatively the same spot so I have no idea why some dipshit would park in them. Maybe they are too dense to realize they are for compact cars? Or maybe they can't see over out of the massive tanks they are driving to realize where they are parking. I watched some lady back her Expedition straight into my old civic in a parking lot with no other cars around. Some people are just completely blind to the things going on around them.

 

[parrotbeak]

Well the lot I used to park in, the first 3 floors were compact only, and above were normal size. So yeah, you saw hummers parked in places they clearly shouldn't have been. But you say in your case the two stalls are in relatively the same spot so I have no idea why some dipshit would park in them. Maybe they are too dense to realize they are for compact cars? Or maybe they can't see over out of the massive tanks they are driving to realize where they are parking. I watched some lady back her Expedition straight into my old civic in a parking lot with no other cars around. Some people are just completely blind to the things going on around them.

Ya, every floor has rows of compacts and rows of regular stalls so the location is essentially the same.

The only difference, I just realized now, is that there are columns separating every 3 regular stalls, whereas there are no columns separating the compact stalls (the columns are in front of those stalls). So I guess if you are in a hummer and can't see the lines anyway, all you see is that one side of the garage has columns that you would have to line up with (unless you took the middle of the 3 stalls), and one side doesn't. I guess that might explain it (although still stupid).

 

[Lucky Forward]

Back in January I paid off my mortgage. In February the mortgage company sent me a check for my escrow balance, but that's it. Am I supposed to get a deed, title, or some kind of certificate suitable for framing that says I own my house?

Funny, I finally called the mortgage company today and they said a release of lien could take up to 90 days to process. When I got home later and opened my mailbox, waiting for me was my "Certificate of Satisfaction", the official document that released the lien and gave me ownership of my house, signed and notarized.

So......I'm good.

 

[eternaLightness]

Nevermind, sorry.

 

[Cyan]

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This topic is a no-no on GAF.

 

[Chony]

If you were to teleport, would you either:

a) Teleport successfully with a continuation of consciousness?

b) Die at the moment of teleportation, and an exact replica with all your memories and no way of knowing that they weren't the original?

 

[S. L.]

If you were to teleport, would you either:

a) Teleport successfully with a continuation of consciousness?

b) Die at the moment of teleportation, and an exact replica with all your memories and no way of knowing that they weren't the original?

if matter = energy = information
that wouldn't really make a difference, no?

 

[eternaLightness]

This topic is a no-no on GAF.

Ok, sorry. edited.

 

[Cyan]

If you were to teleport, would you either:

a) Teleport successfully with a continuation of consciousness?

b) Die at the moment of teleportation, and an exact replica with all your memories and no way of knowing that they weren't the original?

People will argue about this, but it's pretty obviously b.

Unless the method of teleportation is one that allows for continuity of body and brain, i.e. a wormhole.

 

[MindCollizion]

Trying to buy a new laptop. Choice between Core 2 duo processor or those i-3 or something processors; which is best?

 

[Houston3000]

if matter = energy = information
that wouldn't really make a difference, no?

Well, you'd be dead... in every sense of the word. It would be the same as if you shot yourself in the head and then someone used your DNA to build an age matched replica of you to carry on in your footsteps. You'd still be dead - your entire life will be over. If you believe in heaven/hell you will go there, if not you will no longer exist. It doesn't matter if the replica acts exactly like you and even has the exact same memories. Sure, to everyone else it will be the same as you but you won't ever experience life again.