Pet Peeve rants.
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When one of your current favorite cartoons is being cancelled in its second fucking season.
I am roughly 70% confident that it's essentially a troll club, with rules #1 and #2 being that you never admit it's a troll club.When the fuck did "Flat-Earthers" happen?!
How the fuck did this even become a thing?!
When did willful mob ignorance time travel back before fucking 1492?!
Though, the tinting makes me wonder if the glasses are actually for laser safety. They're about the right color for anti-Ar coated lenses.
Still trying to figure out which MLB that is.
All I guessed so far is that it's probably one of Intel's 915-based LGA775 workstation boards (or the Dell equivalent), but Intel's website is very unhelpful. All it seems to want to do is tell me how end-of-life it is, and suggest other newer products.
--Patrick
GasBandit
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It's definitely a socket 775, but my gut says it's an ABIT.
None of the ABITs I looked at had the right heatsink. They were all either blue/green or not tall enough.
Intel has another 915 board that has the same passive NB heatsink and even has the black SB heatsink, but the number of slots doesn't match, otherwise it would be identical, even down to the rainbow SATA ports. That's why I figured it might be a Made-For-Dell offshoot.
--Patrick
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Maybe I posted this before, but fiction's insistence that "hard" equals "unbreakable". Like, dear Minecraft and Emma Frost, do you know what would make really terrible armor? Diamonds. Or the movie North to Alaska, where John Wayne's character "proves" a diamond is fake by smashing it with the bottom of his beer bottle. I dare John Wayne to do it with a verified diamond, and then cry over the diamond dust. Diamonds are hard, meaning they are difficult to scratch. You know what else is pretty hard? Glass. Hard doesn't mean "not brittle". They're two different properties.
I guess in Emma Frost's defense, they did seem to address this in First Class.
I guess in Emma Frost's defense, they did seem to address this in First Class.
Minecraft at least hand-waves it by saying the pale green stuff is called "diamond," but it is in fact not the same crystalline carbon substance that everyone refers to by that name.
--Patrick
GasBandit
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I'm still really surprised they called redstone "redstone" instead of copper. I mean, it doesn't behave much like copper (becomes a powder instantly when mined), but it has more similarities to copper than not - it's an abundant red mineral you dig out of rock that's useful in constructing electric circuits.
GasBandit
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Yeah, but there's already "iron" in the game, which doesn't oxidize, so it'd be confusing.
But the only way to pierce Wolverine's adamantium skull is to shoot it with an adamantium bullet.
Or maybe I saw a different movie than you...
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Parents who think the rules don't apply to them. Times like that, you really learn that the apple doesn't fall far.
"I know I'm not supposed to do this, buuuuut..."
Of course there are exceptions to this. Sometimes the rules need to be bent for different reasons, because it's the right thing to do. But other times it's just a person undermining your profession and daring you to embarrass them.
"I know I'm not supposed to do this, buuuuut..."
Of course there are exceptions to this. Sometimes the rules need to be bent for different reasons, because it's the right thing to do. But other times it's just a person undermining your profession and daring you to embarrass them.
When you wait a fucking week for a web-comic to update, and its just the damn cover of the chapter. WHY?! Leave that for the damn print!
The overuse of "life-changing". Things like "23 life-changing ways to eat chocolate chip cookies". See, the death of a parent at a young age or a house fire that destroys all of your worldly possessions save the clothes on your back are life-changing. There are positive examples, too, like an inner city kid rising above the odds to become a renowned scientist.
Cookies are not life-changing. Neither is a new method for cleaning the toilet or a different way to fold your clothes. Just stop it.
Cookies are not life-changing. Neither is a new method for cleaning the toilet or a different way to fold your clothes. Just stop it.
Are you claiming these 19 Life Hacks aren't Mind-Blowing and Essential, that they won't Change your Life Forever and You'll Never Look at [item] the Same Way?! Nonsense!
Yeah, no, those clickbait article buzzword titles grate on my nerves too.
My favorite clickbait joke.
GasBandit
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That's like Steve Martin's old "You can be a millionaire and never pay taxes" schtick.My favorite clickbait joke.
This are life-changing tips! Thanks!!!!
I might've said it before but I'll say it again-WHEN STREAMING SERVICES OR DVDS HAVE THE EPISODES IN THE WRONG FUCKING CANONICAL ORDER! I'm sick of having to go on Wikipedia just for the right watch-order just to satiate my OCD-GRAH-I say-GRAH!
figmentPez
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Characters who sheathe their sword without cleaning the blood off first! Are they trying to ruin their blade? How do they expect to clean the blood and viscera off of the inside of their scabbard? ARGH!
Look up Doraleous and Associates, you will enjoy it.
Headcanon: they all have Mugenjin-style swords. Or they're idiots.
I recall a David Eddings book (just not the specific one, but it would have to be from either Elenium or Tamuli) where a character got called out by a senior member of his order for just such a mistake.
i wish cameron byerly had done the audiobooks for those books, the belgariad/mallorean are my favorite books of all time.