Tulpa

21 minutes ago, OptOut said:

Nah, I think you're missing the wood for the trees with this one. Where's the GOO?!

What do you think they're sucking down in those Big Gulps? It ain't Slimfast, that's for sure.

3 minutes ago, OptOut said:

I just wanna live in goo, getting fed/jerked off by a robot. Is that a crime?! 

Wouldn't you rather be a human in the Wall-E world? Seems more appealing. I mean, we're already neck deep in mass consumerism right now.

I love the conversations the Internet can create.

Ah. I knew they sunsetted RCAs on TVs at some point. Wasn't sure exactly when it was. 

28 minutes ago, a3quit4s said:

 Problem is I used it for retro gaming and it still had composite RCA input and the 65” Vizio didn’t have that port. I figured that port is probably dead now 

They started combining the composite RCA ports with the component ports, if your Vizio still has those. The yellow composite video connects to the green input (which is why it's labeled video twice.) The Retrotink is still a good idea, though. 

6 hours ago, Sumez said:

 

Heh, I read that they filmed a scene where Ray visited an old fort, put on a uniform (for reasons) and got in the bed (for reasons) when he was seduced by the ghost. They scrapped the scene but kept part of it for the dream sequence. Because ghost BJs = funny, apparently. 

WTF? I searched Ghostbusters and it didn't come up.

Shenanigans! 

3 minutes ago, Reed Rothchild said:

I'm like 100% sure we did it already

Did we? Was it on NA? Because it's not here.

Ghostbusters 2016 better be the next poll. I want to see the split on that one.

11 minutes ago, Daniel_Doyce said:

This guy is the coach? And he got a new job? Can't they just find another one, or are they out of stock?

Apparently Estil just learned that capitalism exists in college sports. 

Eclipse livecam. Almost total!

Somewhat better than its reputation, but still not up to the lightning in a bottle of the original.

I saw it somewhat recently (like maybe 8-10 years ago), and now that I'm older and better able to read people, I can tell that Bill Murray absolutely doesn't want to be in this movie. It really shows in his phoned in Venkman.

11 hours ago, wongojack said:

Isn't there one of these every 18 months somewhere on earth?  Maybe I'll make the effort to travel to one someday.

Yes, but most happen over the ocean. Hitting land is a little more rare. 

Next one is 2026, over Greenland, Iceland (including Reykjavik), and Spain, just north of Madrid, though by that time it'll be near sunset, so you need to be away from the hills and such.

2027 will have one over northern Africa, though Gibraltar should also see it.

Central Alaska will see one in 2033, and @Reed Rothchild should see one in 2044 (along with the deckles, I mean, Calgarians.)

2045 will have one that'll cross the US again. This time in August, which should see sunny skies. Assuming by then the climate hasn't turned complete overcast 24/7/365 and asshole clouds are the norm.

15 hours ago, NostalgicMachine said:

All of my regrets were thankfully only rentals back in the day LOL.

Hey, back then a wasted weekend was a crime against humanity. 

It's called the Paul IV hall or the audience hall in Vatican City. It's actually a relatively new building (compared to the centuries old ones next to it in the Vatican.) Though some of the other "thrones" of the pope do nothing to dispel the final boss image.

The top one is the cathedra in St. John Lateran, which is the official cathedral seat of the pope. It's actually not in the Vatican, but nearby in Rome itself. The bottom one is the seat in St. Peter's Basillca, which isn't actually a cathedral, but is the church that is actually in the Vatican. The weird history of the Papal States and modern Rome has stuff scattered all over. 

1 hour ago, JamesRobot said:

@galacticlint is that you?

Come on, my conspiracy theories are a lot more plausible. They involve wizards.

2 hours ago, JamesRobot said:

Yeah, laugh now, but soon you'll realize those things are sentient. And assholes.

10 hours ago, T-Pac said:

What a great project - and an even better video!

I had to show this to my family just because it was so neat, and the modder was so funny that they even got a kick out of the technical stuff that they didn't otherwise understand.

[T-Pac]

He's got some other crazy vids, too, like his SFC/SNES turned Playstation. I like how he doesn't even try to neatly disassemble the circuit boards, but just rips them apart.

I understand the temperature drops, too.

When I saw the annular eclipse, it definitely screwed with the colors of everything. Didn't notice any temperature change, but it was October in bumfuck Utah (actually, a nice little town called Richfield) and I forgot my jacket, so it was already cold. But seeing the ring of fire was awesome.

7 hours ago, Estil said:

Once again I'm just BARELY out of totality range   

You should still have a decent eclipse experience. If you can somehow make a trip to a totality area (that doesn't have asshole clouds), go for it, but if you can't, get some eclipse glasses (or rig up an eclipse box) and enjoy the show.   If there's an eclipse event, I recommend going to it, as they're more fun in a crowd of people.
 

I went to Utah and saw the annular eclipse back in October. That one was pretty damn cool. And back in 2017 a whole bunch of us at work gathered on our portico with glasses, boxes, and even things like colander spoons to see it. You could even see little crescent suns in the shadows of tree leaves.

3 hours ago, Reed Rothchild said:

• Jerkass Homer

I think you hit on a lot of why the show went downhill (though that wasn't the only thing.) The original Homer was more a somewhat dim father, but still loved his family and tried to be a good dad. They made him progressively dumber, but you could still laugh at the antics. 

But jerkass Homer was a lot less likeable.  

51 minutes ago, Sumez said:

There's a lot of things to criticize Facebook for, but your account getting hacked over and over might be a "you" problem. I've never seen it happen to anyone who didn't click something dumb  

Hey, she said she knew me! And her profile picture had her in lingerie! 

Are you saying that's MY fault?