Topic: Re: POINTLESS THREAD IIa: ESCAPE FROM RAPTOR MOUNTAIN (Read 264350 times)

Scarychips · « **Reply #2850 on:** 08 Dec 2009, 20:31 »

This is even funnier when you know that Charles Aznavour was the voice of that character in the french translation of Up.

JD · « **Reply #2851 on:** 08 Dec 2009, 21:03 »

Mobius Strip Bagel?

Finin · « **Reply #2852 on:** 08 Dec 2009, 21:58 »

How long can you last the best I've done so far was 159

SirJuggles · « **Reply #2853 on:** 08 Dec 2009, 22:09 »

Bahhhh 191 and then my browser froze up for a second and it threw me off.

the_pied_piper · « **Reply #2854 on:** 08 Dec 2009, 23:32 »

207, oh yeah

Alex C · « **Reply #2855 on:** 08 Dec 2009, 23:53 »

389 second try.

You guys suck at this.

Dliessmgg · « **Reply #2856 on:** 09 Dec 2009, 00:13 »

You don't suck unless you score 7 (like me).

Dollface · « **Reply #2857 on:** 09 Dec 2009, 00:50 »

Quote from: Dliessmgg on 09 Dec 2009, 00:13

You don't suck unless you score 7 (like me).

Bitch, i got 4.

Yayniall · « **Reply #2858 on:** 09 Dec 2009, 03:14 »

elizaknowswhatshesfor · « **Reply #2859 on:** 09 Dec 2009, 03:50 »

http://www.sketchysantas.com/

What is says. Woo Christmas! (read that last bit in a monotone & you're there.)

Yayniall · « **Reply #2860 on:** 09 Dec 2009, 04:01 »

Fancy Santas, fuck 'em.

Jace · « **Reply #2861 on:** 09 Dec 2009, 04:05 »

elizaknowswhatshesfor · « **Reply #2862 on:** 09 Dec 2009, 06:02 »

HE'S RIDING A MUTHAR FLIPPIN' POLAR BEAR!

(I think I love fancy santa's)

Also "You know you~~r a redneck~~'ve been unemployed too long when you click on this link:

http://nottingham.gumtree.com/nottingham/82/50626482.html

JD · « **Reply #2863 on:** 09 Dec 2009, 07:01 »

Also, The Beatles in the year 3000

smack that isaiah · « **Reply #2864 on:** 09 Dec 2009, 07:44 »

that pirahna plant... gun thing, I guess? inspired me to ask my roommate to try and make a pirahna plant in LittleBigPlanet. He's working on it as I type this (fingers crossed he makes a good one).

Jace · « **Reply #2865 on:** 09 Dec 2009, 07:51 »

its the plants from Super Mario Brothers

E. Spaceman · « **Reply #2866 on:** 09 Dec 2009, 09:34 »

http://www.conservapedia.com/Homosexuality_in_Nazi_Germany

SWOON! at My Gravitas · « **Reply #2867 on:** 09 Dec 2009, 10:54 »

FuuuuuuuuuuuuuckwhydidIclickonthatlink

Dliessmgg · « **Reply #2868 on:** 09 Dec 2009, 10:56 »

hacking real life

pantsless in the subway

smack that isaiah · « **Reply #2869 on:** 09 Dec 2009, 11:13 »

Quote from: Jace on 09 Dec 2009, 07:51

its the plants from Super Mario Brothers

I knew that, it's the piranha plant, but I think that picture specifically is supposed to maybe be a gun of somesort, since it's from "pimpmygun.doctornoob.com"

onewheelwizzard · « **Reply #2870 on:** 09 Dec 2009, 11:16 »

Quote from: Dliessmgg on 09 Dec 2009, 10:56

hacking real life

Whoa. I'm reserving judgment until I can try this for myself, but it looks like it has the potential to be one of the coolest and most utile things in modern history. I think I want some.

Jace · « **Reply #2871 on:** 09 Dec 2009, 12:09 »

Quote from: smack that isaiah on 09 Dec 2009, 11:13

Quote from: Jace on 09 Dec 2009, 07:51
its the plants from Super Mario Brothers

"pimpmygun.doctornoob.com"

15 or so pages back we went wild with that site making guns that had more barrels than even Leifeld could draw.

pilsner · « **Reply #2872 on:** 09 Dec 2009, 13:36 »

Quote from: E. Spaceman on 09 Dec 2009, 09:34

http://www.conservapedia.com/Homosexuality_in_Nazi_Germany

There is no way that is not satire.

Ã¶de · « **Reply #2873 on:** 09 Dec 2009, 13:59 »

Also it was high-ranking Jews in the Nazi party that decided to set up the concentration camps, to keep the Jews safe. All of this pinko liberal terrorist traitor holocaust bullshit makes me sick!

A Wet Helmet · « **Reply #2874 on:** 09 Dec 2009, 14:24 »

Quote from: Dliessmgg on 09 Dec 2009, 10:56

hacking real life

The 'theme' being presented here ties into something that I feel very strongly about. Fixing and improving your own shit.

I suspect that most of us who have parents older than 60 grew up around a Dad who could fix everything. And if not Dad, Grandpa sure as hell could. I know that I can count on one hand the number of times I saw one of my parent's cars ever go to a mechanic, but I have completely lost count of how many trips I made to the local auto parts store with the old man so that he could find a part to fix something himself. I've also lost count of how many wrenches I've handed him, paint brushes I cleaned, and hours spent in hardware stores looking at lumber.

What happened to being self sufficient? What happened to not being afraid to work on something yourself? A couple of years ago my air conditioner broke. I did some googling, asked a couple questions, and then took the damn thing apart. Luckily, it was an easy to identify fix that cost me about eleven bucks for the part. The worst part of the whole thing was I had to go to five or six different places in town to find a capacitor the right size. Saved me at least $150 by not having to call a repair man. When I went to work and got asked what I had been doing, mentioning that I fixed my own A/C drew absolutely shocked looks followed by "How did you know what to do?"

Answering "I just figured it out" got even more amazement. You'd think I had mentioned that I invented perpetual motion. Same reaction when I mention that I build things in my garage, or that I make my own electronics.

Have we become so service dependent as a society that we've lost the critical thinking skills to 'hack' our environments? If so, I'm sad for society. I really am.

Please go back to the pointless thread now, I just had to get that out.

edit: Grammar and typo fix

Ã¶de · « **Reply #2875 on:** 09 Dec 2009, 14:35 »

I always try to be able to rely on myself to fix or make things, but you can't expect the same from most people. We live in a service society because we trade the knowledge on how an extremely wide variety of how things work and the skills to fix them for being able to pay someone to do it for us so that we can focus on other things. Their reaction is pretty sad though.

elizaknowswhatshesfor · « **Reply #2876 on:** 09 Dec 2009, 15:49 »

Helmet? Can I Marry you?

I value this above all other traits in men (except one other I won't mention here). I live with someone who between him and his Dad built the house from inside (I mean re-did non structural walls & the central heating & electronics & Kitchen & such) The boiler breaking the other week is the first time they have called a professional.

I'm get similar looks of amazement for stitching up a jumper or darning my socks from women I work with "But they're only £1 in primark...."

(This to me is scarier as it's REALLY easy)

So, back to being pointless....

Lunchbox · « **Reply #2877 on:** 09 Dec 2009, 16:16 »

I really need to learn how to darn. All of my socks and jumper and t-shirts have holes!
I have given it a go and it always falls apart, and my mum has tried to teach me but she tends to just go 'look' and pokes the needle through and then suddenly it's done.

GenericName · « **Reply #2878 on:** 09 Dec 2009, 16:22 »

It seems logical to me that the shift from fixing to getting others to fix things may have occurred when technology became so intricate so quickly. Like, the people that had been fixing their cars for years may have kept up to date on cars and their structure, but the advent of computers and their perceived complexity and impenetrability led to these same people throwing in the towel when their computer's motherboard broke. This led to fewer role models and so not many young people learned the habit of fixing things themselves. That's really only a guess, though, and it might be completely off.

That said, I've grown up completely in the era of computers and find myself fixing everything of mine too, from my guitars to the soundsystem where I work to (contradictory to what my earlier conjecture posits) my computers.

Scandanavian War Machine · « **Reply #2879 on:** 09 Dec 2009, 16:33 »

what the heck is darning?

is that, like, a kid-friendly way of condemning a sock to an eternity in Hell?

Scandanavian War Machine · « **Reply #2880 on:** 09 Dec 2009, 16:34 »

And now, blasphemous sock, I darn thee!

Lament thy fate and repent, ye sinful garment!

FIXDIX · « **Reply #2881 on:** 09 Dec 2009, 16:49 »

Tentacle Grape

Ã¶de · « **Reply #2882 on:** 09 Dec 2009, 16:49 »

Balls, it was the rapid and expansive proliferation of computer technology that lead many people into thinking that they're magic boxes that need a wizard to fix them. How many people could fix a car before the Model T was introduced? Not many, because not many people had a car. Likewise, computer technology has only become so affordable in recent years that it's being introduced to lower-income households where people will need to fix their own computers, or get someone in their friends and family that know how to do it for them. And savvy people can even build their own computers*, or hack together stuff because it's so cheap to get the parts now.

*mine cost, using spares and new parts, £120 and will be £180 when I get round to buying a video card, but it's more than serviceable at the moment.

Maybe I've been reading too much Doctorow recently.

pilsner · « **Reply #2883 on:** 09 Dec 2009, 16:52 »

That's nonsense. In the early '80s, almost everyone who had a computer was by definition someone capable of fixing it. Now that the computer is less an expensive niche item and more an inexpensive commodity, folks are far more likely to toss it rather than trying to fix it.

jhocking · « **Reply #2884 on:** 09 Dec 2009, 16:55 »

I fix most of my own computer problems because I know way more than even most computer techs about how computers work, but otherwise I'm hard pressed to even think of anything else I own that's even needed fixing. I mean, I don't have a car, and I don't own a home... I guess I'm fairly handy at building stuff, like installing fixtures and assembling ikea furniture, but that barely counts.

pilsner · « **Reply #2885 on:** 09 Dec 2009, 16:58 »

I fix drinks.*

*Damn good drinks.

JD · « **Reply #2886 on:** 09 Dec 2009, 18:55 »

The Octopus Jig

Bastardous Bassist · « **Reply #2887 on:** 09 Dec 2009, 19:00 »

Quote from: pilsner on 09 Dec 2009, 16:58

I fix drinks.*

*Damn good drinks.

Me too!

Fixing my motorcycle is easy. It's 30 years old. Everything in it is mechanical and therefore easy to repair. Fixing my car is harder. It's less than a year old. The complexity is far greater. I mean, sure there are mechanical parts, but a lot of the tolerances are tighter, and therefore more difficult to address with just a wrench and a hammer. Also, the rise in urban living has reduced the number of people who have a shed/garage in which to accomplish these repairs.

Now, I've fixed computers and electronics other electronics (as long as nothing on the etched parts of the circuit board was wrong), and I've built pieces of furniture that I needed but didn't exist any more. When my upright bass encountered a problem, I left it to the professional, because he had years more experience than I and that piece of equipment was my livelihood. It needed to be repaired correctly, because again the tolerances needed to be tight.

Ã¶de · « **Reply #2888 on:** 09 Dec 2009, 19:43 »

I'm not saying you can fix a processor (no-one can do that) but there's no reason you can't replace it (or make one, although only for fun/education). Just like how you probably couldn't make your own piston but you could probably replace the brake pads or something.

Bastardous Bassist · « **Reply #2889 on:** 09 Dec 2009, 19:51 »

You don't have to tell me that. I haven't replaced a processor (haven't needed to), but I've built my computer, and my next project for my bike is actually replacing the front brake pads. The problem with fixing my bike is that I don't have a convenient place to do my work (I live in an apartment building).

Also, making a processor? Starting with just transistors, resistors, wiring and breadboard? There's no way I would want to do that. I've made moderately complicated circuits and those took a long time. I don't even want to think about having to build each logic gate, followed by stringing them together into something that would actually do something reasonable.

Ã¶de · « **Reply #2890 on:** 09 Dec 2009, 20:16 »

http://hackaday.com/2009/10/30/processor-built-with-transistor-transistor-logic/

But more excitingly:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QS4RKoRyTik&feature=player_embedded

And less excitingly and less nerdily:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5lksMvmqQc&feature=player_embedded

Bastardous Bassist · « **Reply #2891 on:** 09 Dec 2009, 20:36 »

That's lame. I was actually hoping that the processor would be built out of transistors rather than whole logic gates. I still wouldn't want to assemble and route the wires for that, though.

ETA: It's been a while, but those logic tables will probably result in nightmares tonight.

Also, on the soldering. DUDE! Awesome!

Blue Kitty · « **Reply #2892 on:** 09 Dec 2009, 20:54 »

Ballard · « **Reply #2893 on:** 09 Dec 2009, 21:53 »

Jesus they've finally made something worse/better than Left 4 Dead porn.

Jace · « **Reply #2894 on:** 09 Dec 2009, 22:34 »

Ed Edd & Eddy fanart where edd and eddy hook up.

JD · « **Reply #2895 on:** 09 Dec 2009, 22:37 »

jhocking · « **Reply #2896 on:** 10 Dec 2009, 04:27 »

Quote from: Blue Kitty on 09 Dec 2009, 20:54

scooby

I love Fred's expression in panel two. "Well I might as well!"

Dollface · « **Reply #2897 on:** 10 Dec 2009, 04:50 »

Quote from: Blue Kitty on 09 Dec 2009, 20:54

scoopy doo.

In first picture take look at Daphne's hands those are mans hands!

David_Dovey · « **Reply #2898 on:** 10 Dec 2009, 04:54 »

One of my first thought upon seeing that pic was "can't see their faces and they are wearing wigs they could just as easily be dudes and we'd never know"

scarred · « **Reply #2899 on:** 10 Dec 2009, 04:59 »

Velma's hands in panel 2 look like a dude's as well.

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