Enforcer84 Posted October 19, 2015 Report Share Posted October 19, 2015 Reading a lot of webcomics lately. I may need to start supporting patreon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted October 23, 2015 Report Share Posted October 23, 2015 I think it was somewhere around these forums that I saw a video from a demo at a gaming con, featuring space exploration in a truly huuuuge universe; I don't think it was Star Citizen. Does anyone know what game it was? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted October 30, 2015 Report Share Posted October 30, 2015 Apparently the Steve Jobs movie is a flop. Despite all the praise it is getting from Hollywood critics and the like. It's weird, how offended some in the Hollywood set seem to be that folks aren't rushing to see it. I suppose to the tech gurus out there, he's either a patron saint or the second coming of Edison (As in ripped off folks and knew how to market), but to most folks, he made a big splash, made his millions, and died. Movies about Silicon Valley and so on have been done, so this movie really just sounded... dull. Add to this that you couldn't escape the marketing if you watched TV at all. It was so darn pervasive that I know I felt something of a growing contrariness about it. The more times they showed those commercials on TV, Hulu, Youtube etc, the more and more I wished the movie would just go away. Maybe I wasn't alone in having a kind of hype resentment. Is it a good movie? Very likely. Does that in any way engender an obligation on the average movie goer to see something that doesn't interest them in the slightest? No. But Hollywood (At least many in it) seems to have a hard time realizing that. They bitch and whine about superhero movies and/or action films getting all the love (And they take that money as they whine all the way to the bank). Look, people can love dramas and agree with the critics. To this day, the I am very glad I saw the King's Speech. But sometimes I think Hollywood's movie people aren't just disconnected from the populace, they're actively disdainful of that public unless the public claps and cheers to their every offering they claim is worthy. Why am I posting about this? I'm not sure. Maybe I'm ironically emulating Hollywood by expecting folks to gasp in wonder at the "pearls of enlightenment" I drop here Maybe I'm imagining that disdain and am totally wrong and would like someone to tell me "Dude, it ain't so." Maybe I'm bored. Eh. Still rather be posting than watch a Steve Jobs movie. Lawnmower Boy and Vondy 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 2, 2015 Report Share Posted November 2, 2015 Concepts I Must Use in an RPG Someday, Part 1178: Throw-Away Line from an NPC: "Oh yeah, (establishment name). They're like an Ikea for military hardware." BlueCloud2k2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted November 4, 2015 Report Share Posted November 4, 2015 Right pay attention ! I am going to be offline for a few days. I have noted in the past a tendency for the posters to get rather silly while I am away. It has to stop. So while I am away no funny business. Right get on with it. Bazza and Hermit 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rails Posted November 4, 2015 Report Share Posted November 4, 2015 While you're away? Seems like there's a lot of silliness here normally. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted November 4, 2015 Report Share Posted November 4, 2015 A. is now a physician, and would appreciate it very much if people would cease to assume she's in the clinic because of Take Your Daughter To Work Day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vondy Posted November 5, 2015 Report Share Posted November 5, 2015 Television I've had enough of: Star Trek X-Files Anything Law & Order Anything CSI Anything NCIS In fact, just about any ensemble cop, doctor, foreman, or lawyer show. Ugh. I've had my fill of reboots, retreads, spinoffs and shows that don't know when to die. And, for the record, Dr. Who. A single episode of that proved more than enough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted November 5, 2015 Report Share Posted November 5, 2015 Did you ever: A. Suddenly remember different things you haven't thought about in years, perhaps decades, or B. Meet all your friends & family (alternatively people you haven't seen in years) unexpectedly then wonder if all this is a sign that you're going to pass away soon? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted November 6, 2015 Report Share Posted November 6, 2015 Just be ok. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted November 7, 2015 Author Report Share Posted November 7, 2015 Blockbuster Movie starring: Matt Damon as the guy who needs rescuing Samuel L. Jackson as the angry but eloquent man with a gun Sean Bean as the guy who dies Scarlett Johansson as the other woman Will Smith as the guy who saves the world Ben Stiller as the guy who gets humiliated in the opening scene Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted November 8, 2015 Report Share Posted November 8, 2015 My father would have turned 77 today. Appropriately enough, I got to watch a couple of movies (The Student Prince, The Desert Song) he loved. Cancer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted November 9, 2015 Report Share Posted November 9, 2015 Note to self: Remove hearing aids before playing a game like Bejeweled 3. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted November 9, 2015 Report Share Posted November 9, 2015 Back from London after five days away. The Spirit of Christmas Fair was a little disappointing but I got gifts for friends for their birthdays (one two months late and one a month early). Saw both of my cousins on Saturday (one of whom it has been a couple of years since I last saw her) and got my Christmas present (unopened). Watched the Remembrance service on Sunday and as usual it was moving. The Cenotaph is a simple piece but the closest Sunday to 11th November there is the service there at 11:00 am which follows the 2 minute silence. And it is nearly 100 years old. The first one was temporary in 1919 but the permanent one was finished in 1920. It was not dedicated as not all the dead it commemorates were Christian. The trip up and back was first class travel. And you know what that means ! Big comfy chair and 4 free cups of coffee each way. it was a little odd going back to London for the first time in over 2 months. tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted November 10, 2015 Report Share Posted November 10, 2015 Bob Ross is becoming an internet sensation. I'm pleased for some reason. Burrito Boy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted November 10, 2015 Report Share Posted November 10, 2015 N.C.A.A. Graduation Rate Hocus-Pocus. Chow and Edsall both made bona fide improvements to the educational quality of their college football programs, and both were fired as thanks. Edsall raised Maryland’s football graduation rate from 56 percent five years ago to 70 percent. Chow raised Hawaii’s football graduation rate from 29 percent five years ago to 50 percent. At least that’s what the Department of Education says. According to the N.C.A.A., Hawaii graduates not 50 percent of its players but 70 percent, while Maryland graduates not 70 percent but 75 percent. At work is the distinction between the Federal Graduation Rate, calculated by the Department of Education, and the Graduation Success Rate, calculated by the N.C.A.A. No other aspect of higher education has a graduation “success rate” — just a graduation rate. The N.C.A.A. cooks up this number to make the situation seem better than it is. The world of the Graduation Success Rate is wine and roses: According to figures the N.C.A.A. released last week, 86 percent of N.C.A.A. athletes achieved “graduation success” in the 2014-2015 academic year. But “graduation success” is different from graduating; the Department of Education finds that 67 percent of scholarship athletes graduated in 2014-2015. (These dueling figures are for all scholarship athletes: Football and men’s basketball players generally are below the average, those in other sports generally above.) Both the federal and N.C.A.A. calculations have defects. The federal figure scores only those who graduate from the college of their initial enrollment. The athlete who transfers and graduates elsewhere does not count in the federal metric. The G.S.R., by contrast, scores as a “graduate” anyone who leaves a college in good standing, via transfer or simply giving up on school: There’s no attempt to follow-up to determine whether athletes who leave graduate somewhere else. Not only is the N.C.A.A.’s graduation metric anchored in the absurd assumption that leaving a college is the same as graduating, but it can also reflect a double-counting fallacy. Suppose a football player starts at College A, transfers to College B and earns his diploma there. Both schools count him as a graduate under the G.S.R. Big-college defending champion Ohio State boasts an N.C.A.A.-calculated hocus-pocus Graduation Success Rate of 81 percent for football players. The Department of Education says the Buckeyes’ football graduation rate is 46 percent. Since the federal figure understates while the N.C.A.A. figure overstates, probably splitting the difference gets closer to the real rate. The real rate comes out to 64 percent graduation in the case of Ohio State football, versus 84 percent graduation for Ohio State students as a whole in the same enrolling year. (Players leaving college early for the N.F.L. draft do not explain Ohio State’s poor football academic performance: In recent years an average of one Buckeye per year left early to declare.) Football players ought to graduate at a higher rate than students as a whole. Football scholarships generally pay for five years on campus plus summer school, and football scholarship holders never run out of tuition money, which is the most common reason students fail to complete college. Instead at Ohio State and other money-focused collegiate programs, players graduate at a lower rate than students as a whole. To divert attention from this, the N.C.A.A. publishes its annual hocus-pocus numbers. From Greg Easterbrook's new column. Yay. Lucius 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted November 12, 2015 Report Share Posted November 12, 2015 Motorhead's original drummer Phil Taylor has passed away Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted November 15, 2015 Report Share Posted November 15, 2015 The fact that Hermit is using Porthos, from the Three Musketeers as played by Oliver Reed, as his avatar is pleasing to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted November 16, 2015 Report Share Posted November 16, 2015 I will watch this always. https://fat.gfycat.com/HighUnrealisticChinchilla.webm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueCloud2k2 Posted November 18, 2015 Report Share Posted November 18, 2015 Am I the only person that hears Seth Rogen's voice whenever Sergent Schlock talks in Schlock Mercenary? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vondy Posted November 18, 2015 Report Share Posted November 18, 2015 Man Pushed To Death From Women-Only Train Because, you know, "safe spaces." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted November 18, 2015 Report Share Posted November 18, 2015 Man Pushed To Death From Women-Only Train Because, you know, "safe spaces." Horrifying story. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted November 20, 2015 Report Share Posted November 20, 2015 Mightybec is 94 today. Wait, what ? tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted November 20, 2015 Report Share Posted November 20, 2015 That looks sheepish. tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted November 23, 2015 Report Share Posted November 23, 2015 Prescription diuretic + large cup of coffee --> significant discomfort towards the end of lecture Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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