Topic: Re: POINTLESS THREAD IIb: ESCAPE FROM RAPTOR MOUNTAIN (Read 271022 times)

pwhodges · « **Reply #3350 on:** 07 Nov 2010, 12:11 »

You know how when the wiring in the car goes wrong and the magic smoke escapes...

JD · « **Reply #3351 on:** 07 Nov 2010, 19:40 »

I found a photograph of mai

Blue Kitty · « **Reply #3352 on:** 07 Nov 2010, 19:43 »

Orbert · « **Reply #3353 on:** 07 Nov 2010, 21:50 »

Quote from: Scandanavian War Machine on 06 Nov 2010, 12:17

beautiful

EVERYBODY CLICK ON THIS

SirJuggles · « **Reply #3354 on:** 08 Nov 2010, 12:14 »

Kinda surprised I hadn't heard about this.

Apparently just before Hurrican Katrina in 2005, Six Flags New Orleans was shut down. It has remained abandoned ever since.

KvP · « **Reply #3355 on:** 08 Nov 2010, 13:28 »

Tom · « **Reply #3356 on:** 08 Nov 2010, 14:19 »

Stick it in her pooper

Yayniall · « **Reply #3357 on:** 08 Nov 2010, 16:04 »

Quote from: SirJuggles on 08 Nov 2010, 12:14

Kinda surprised I hadn't heard about this.

Apparently just before Hurrican Katrina in 2005, Six Flags New Orleans was shut down. It has remained abandoned ever since.

Pretty sure that's Dark Carnival from l4d2, especially since they're both in New Orleans.

Ozymandias · « **Reply #3358 on:** 08 Nov 2010, 16:08 »

Dark Carnival takes place in Georgia. Only The Parish takes place in New Orleans.

Not that it matters, that shit is uncanny and creepy and awesome.

Blue Kitty · « **Reply #3359 on:** 08 Nov 2010, 16:45 »

That's it. As I was watching the opening of the video I was thinking, "What does this remind me of"

Lunchbox · « **Reply #3360 on:** 08 Nov 2010, 19:18 »

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1327551/Rescued-baby-dolphin-meets-penguin-marine-reserve-Uruguay.html?ITO=1490#ixzz14es4osqN

Lunchbox · « **Reply #3361 on:** 08 Nov 2010, 20:27 »

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies cover recreated IRL:

http://www.zbrushcentral.com/showthread.php?t=97119

Note: Pretty realistically gross, but also completely awesome

JD · « **Reply #3362 on:** 08 Nov 2010, 22:26 »

Dollface · « **Reply #3363 on:** 08 Nov 2010, 23:06 »

My day = made.

Ballard · « **Reply #3364 on:** 08 Nov 2010, 23:08 »

Haha pretty good.

Man, I was in New Orleans for the Jazz & Heritage Festival last April and remember both my buddy and I got creeped the fuck out because the festival took place at the NOLA fairgrounds which reminded us a little too much of Dark Carnival.

And now this. It's beautiful and haunting and holy shit I am not sleeping tonight.

Ozymandias · « **Reply #3365 on:** 08 Nov 2010, 23:19 »

It'd be a fantastic place to commit suicide, I think.

I'm neither joking nor serious about suicide there, just stating an opinion I suddenly thought.

Lunchbox · « **Reply #3366 on:** 08 Nov 2010, 23:42 »

Hands up if you had to say the Team Rocket creed in your head as you read that meme.

o|

SirJuggles · « **Reply #3367 on:** 09 Nov 2010, 02:37 »

|o

I feel like a bad nerd, I had to look up the first line to remember the start. Though to be fair, they left out the very beginning.

Lunchbox · « **Reply #3368 on:** 09 Nov 2010, 02:44 »

Nah man, there's stuff about protecting the world from devastation right there.

Also I totally just remembered that I still own this CD.

SirJuggles · « **Reply #3369 on:** 09 Nov 2010, 03:00 »

O.O want

But no "Prepare for trouble! Make it double!"

Lunchbox · « **Reply #3370 on:** 09 Nov 2010, 03:18 »

Good point.

"Ready yourself for some calamity, perhaps twofold?"

SirJuggles · « **Reply #3371 on:** 09 Nov 2010, 03:27 »

Perchance seek to verify your ability to undergo hardship, though it may in fact be doubled in regards to original expectations.

Lunchbox · « **Reply #3372 on:** 09 Nov 2010, 04:15 »

Beautiful.

Dliessmgg · « **Reply #3373 on:** 09 Nov 2010, 04:45 »

smack that isaiah · « **Reply #3374 on:** 09 Nov 2010, 07:14 »

Quote from: Lunchbox on 09 Nov 2010, 02:44

pokemon 2.b.a. master

I have that same CD! I got it in 4th grade I think. Paid for it with my own money. I listened to it soooo much (I still remember that "On the Road to Viridian City" (or maybe it was just "Viridian City") was my favorite track)

Lines · « **Reply #3375 on:** 09 Nov 2010, 08:30 »

Jace · « **Reply #3376 on:** 09 Nov 2010, 09:55 »

Camera on the end of a sword

fozmo · « **Reply #3377 on:** 09 Nov 2010, 10:47 »

Holy cow, that is awesome and very, very discombobulating. I'm gonna go throw up now.

In thread-relevant news:

I was not aware of this, but apparently it is actually a true thing.

Scarychips · « **Reply #3378 on:** 09 Nov 2010, 15:48 »

So, guess what game came out today?

Yes.

KvP · « **Reply #3379 on:** 09 Nov 2010, 17:35 »

I shot a kid, now watch your ass.

Blue Kitty · « **Reply #3380 on:** 09 Nov 2010, 17:55 »

jhocking · « **Reply #3381 on:** 09 Nov 2010, 18:32 »

David_Dovey · « **Reply #3382 on:** 09 Nov 2010, 18:54 »

What does the Y axis represent? At first I thought it was a Google Trends thing, but now maybe I think a net worth thing or something?

jhocking · « **Reply #3383 on:** 09 Nov 2010, 19:03 »

I believe that represents the company's valuation. I'm not sure, but that would make sense in the context that I saw the image.

A Wet Helmet · « **Reply #3384 on:** 09 Nov 2010, 19:06 »

More interesting still is put Apple's next to it.

SirJuggles · « **Reply #3385 on:** 09 Nov 2010, 19:11 »

What happened in mid '08? Was that Vista?

Tergon · « **Reply #3386 on:** 09 Nov 2010, 20:10 »

I'm wondering what the chart's supposed to signify. Did the person who made it want to make Bill Gates or Steve Ballmer look good? I have to assume it's one or the other, since the only apparent use of the chart is to make a comparison between CEOs. But all that chart says is that Bill Gates built a company up from pretty much nothing, and Steve Ballmer hasn't destroyed it.

And now, a monkey riding a pig.

Tom · « **Reply #3387 on:** 09 Nov 2010, 20:30 »

I think the chart is trying to say Ballmer hasn't done shit but keep the place tidy.

JD · « **Reply #3388 on:** 09 Nov 2010, 21:11 »

Blue Kitty · « **Reply #3389 on:** 09 Nov 2010, 21:34 »

Jimor · « **Reply #3390 on:** 09 Nov 2010, 21:54 »

Now you CAN give a Flying Fuck.

est · « **Reply #3391 on:** 10 Nov 2010, 01:36 »

Quote from: Tom on 09 Nov 2010, 20:30

I think the chart is trying to say Ballmer hasn't done shit but keep the place tidy.

Yeah, pretty much. Ballmer just doesn't have the nous required to do anything but tread water.

est · « **Reply #3392 on:** 10 Nov 2010, 01:42 »

addendum: I think it's telling that XP would have been designed and in production by the time that Gates handed the reins to Ballmer, but then directly after that there was a big gap until Vista, which was a flop. During this time the Windows Mobile side of things also languished, and may or even may not be only just now getting back on track.

I think the last 10 years have probably been a huge learning experience/adjustment period for Ballmer and MS in general, but 7 is alright and WM7 looks to be at least a step in the right direction. Pity for them that Apple has used their relative impotence during the time to steal a march on them.

Tom · « **Reply #3393 on:** 10 Nov 2010, 01:45 »

I'm ridiculously looking forward to Lion.

axerton · « **Reply #3394 on:** 10 Nov 2010, 02:23 »

While the chart makes it look like Ballmer is treading water, its actually really decpetive cos of the awful scale of the y axis. At the end of Gates time its at 60 (whatever the y axis represents) ten years later its at 30.

the sliding scale would probably also mean that rather than a near linear rise under gates, its probably closer to exponential.

Jimor · « **Reply #3395 on:** 10 Nov 2010, 02:55 »

It's stock price. and yeah, the way they do the scale flattens the peak and changes the growth curve under Gates, but doesn't change much under Ballmer.

LeeC · « **Reply #3396 on:** 10 Nov 2010, 04:41 »

if they actually showed that statue in adventure time, I think I'd go crazy!

McTaggart · « **Reply #3397 on:** 10 Nov 2010, 04:56 »

I don't recognise it, who is it a statue of?

LeeC · « **Reply #3398 on:** 10 Nov 2010, 05:00 »

Quote from: McTaggart on 10 Nov 2010, 04:56

I don't recognise it, who is it a statue of?

Aku

jhocking · « **Reply #3399 on:** 10 Nov 2010, 05:22 »

Quote from: A Wet Helmet on 09 Nov 2010, 19:06

More interesting still is put Apple's next to it.

Quote from: est on 10 Nov 2010, 01:42

Pity for them that Apple has used their relative impotence during the time to steal a march on them.

Y'know I hadn't thought of it, but a chart of Apple's stock price under different CEOs would look like pretty much the reverse over the same time period.

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