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Apple Talk / Re: 80,000+ people try to play Pokemon simultaneously

« on: February 20, 2014, 03:04:49 am »

So this is ridiculous:
http://www.twitch.tv/twitchplayspokemon

They've been in the same area for 36 hours now, by my count. It was working just by first type first serve but they just added this anarchy/democracy thing which is interesting but I don't know how it works. I guess it was in desperation to try to get these fucks out of the basement and stop them from releasing their best pokemon again, lol. I also notice that start spam has lessened.

As best I can determine, users can input "anarchy" or "democracy" to move the slider towards one or the other. The normal state seems to be anarchy, presumably democracy requires consensus on input instead of doing what everyone wants at once.

This is beautiful.

75% of the votes needed to change orientation, and yeah, still stuck on anarchy 

Bird Jesus saved the day a couple of times, but now theyve died and reset at same area for... well, 3 times as far as ive seen.

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Apple Talk / Re: 100k wills, one body - AN EXPERIMENT

« on: February 20, 2014, 02:48:57 am »

oh ok 

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Apple Talk / 100k wills, one body - AN EXPERIMENT

« on: February 20, 2014, 02:42:53 am »

http://www.twitch.tv/twitchplayspokemon

I feel like this is the way our minds/psyches work... tens of thousands of unconscious desires, impulses and wills, fighting for supremacy over the body... 

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Aneristic Illusions / Re: Color Revolutions: Coming to Amerika Soon?

« on: February 19, 2014, 08:29:03 pm »

alright, whos alt is this?    looking at you cain

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Apple Talk / Re: PICS VIII: 10% LARGER THAN PICS VII

« on: February 16, 2014, 11:10:45 pm »

kitty!

dat claws!

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Aneristic Illusions / Re: And now Kansas is getting into the act

« on: February 14, 2014, 08:57:59 am »

maybe somebody is struggling with the "joke" part, chill bro

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Aneristic Illusions / Re: Minimum wage stuff: this could get interesting pretty soon

« on: February 14, 2014, 02:41:57 am »

Really? How does minimum wage affect inflation? I mean, its an important point, because the least that salaries should grow each year is the 3ish% that is inflation, otherwise everything just turns more expensive and spending becomes more restrictive.

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Apple Talk / Re: Notes left by roommates and landladies.

« on: February 14, 2014, 01:10:16 am »

Coffee grinds in the sink again. We have a drip machine with a reusable filter so it’s a really fine grind that you can’t get rid of just by dumping the filter. Sometimes someone will dump them in the sink (we don’t have a garbage disposal) and they’ll get caught in the fine metal mesh drain protector. The little grinds jam themselves between the wires and it takes a lot of scrubbing to get them loose. The sink doesn’t drain well until you do.

I grab a stack of post it notes from my desk and put one on the cabinet directly above the sink. “COFFEE GRINDS GO HERE -->” it points to the right. I make seven more post it notes with arrows pointing to the right. The line terminates above the garbage. “HERE \/” the final note reads.

I haven’t slept in weeks and I have no idea why. I’ve tried eliminating blue light right before bed, I’ve tried associating the bed with sleep only, I’ve tried a hot shower before bed, I’ve tried giving up booze, I’ve tried giving up caffeine. None of them worked so I just started them all back up again.

I need milk for my cereal. The fridge has a note on it. “MAKE SURE THE DOOR IS CLOSED” it reads. Sound advice. I’ll close the fridge door when you put the coffee grinds in the garbage, motherfucker. When you don’t sleep enough nothing tastes right. I’m not sure if my cereal is Ultra Fiber Colon Fuck or Sugar Blasted Frosty Wangs. The milk is bad for all I know. The milk is water for all I know.

I don’t have time to clean the coffee maker and make a fresh pot before my double shift so I hope my shower will do the trick. I don’t bother shaving. A wad of greasy black hair greets me all tangled up in the drain. I don’t have time to get another post it note so I just scream out “CLEAR THE FUCKING SHOWER DRAIN” and hope he hears me. I’ll write the note later. Tomorrow. Next Sunday.

Flecks of flossed out tooth gunk are plastered onto the bathroom mirror. I comb my hair through them as fast as I can.

The bus is going to be at the stop in fifteen minutes. The walk there takes five minutes. The bus is either five minutes early or five minutes late every day. I throw on my work clothes and rush to the kitchen to grab a bottle of water and a granola bar.

There’s a note above the sink. “COFFEE GRINDS GO HERE -->” and a line of similar notes lead to the garbage. I must have left the grinds in the sink again.

I’ll put my coffee grinds in the garbage when you start closing the fridge door, motherfucker.

With the risk of "ruining the joke" for a chance at interpretation...

This piece is nice not because of a kind of "unexpected multiple personalities ending" (which is cliche in itself) but rather because it metaphorically reveals a human basic flaw: egocentrically noting and getting angry at others flaws and quirks while ignoring one's own or pretending to not have any flaws oneself... so a typical scenario of inter-roomate conflict is in reality a mirror to a particular human behaviour, the devaluing of the other and the narcissistic ideation that one is perfect!

 

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Aneristic Illusions / Re: Hiphop and the Prison Industrial Complex

« on: February 13, 2014, 02:02:01 pm »

You mean Death Row Records? But thats a different thing altogether.

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Apple Talk / Re: Notes left by roommates and landladies.

« on: February 13, 2014, 06:48:13 am »

Oh, i dont leave notes, i walk up to them and tell them things amongst the lines of "you know i need coffee in the morning.... i like coffee... ill cut the motherfucker that used the last part of my coffee without asking"

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Aneristic Illusions / Re: Googleprop

« on: February 12, 2014, 10:47:56 am »

Did anyone see "the L word" and can commentate how it would apply to the case at hand?

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Apple Talk / Re: Internet loneliness

« on: February 12, 2014, 10:40:32 am »

Well if were not talking sociologically, then no, for me it revolves around skyping, facebook and email... in other words, my internet interactions are oriented to people i know in real life and not so much strangers.

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Aneristic Illusions / Re: Googleprop

« on: February 12, 2014, 10:34:02 am »

It depends on what representation TV does too. Ive seen far less "catty gossip hairdresser gays" into now so e representation of basicly "fat and nurturing woman (with a penis)" trope... this last is in reference to this one show with the hot latina married to the father actor from Married with Children.

So TV representation is a not only a mirror of social judgement but a bit of moral guideline for judgements.

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Apple Talk / Re: Internet loneliness

« on: February 12, 2014, 10:26:09 am »

I think this might not be a quantitative thing, because everyday theres more "interactions". It might be the quality of the interaction though, because the internet is about narcissistic satisfaction, so others are just an object from which admiration or pleasure is derived, not a human to communicate with or share experiences with.

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Apple Talk / Re: PICS VIII: 10% LARGER THAN PICS VII

« on: February 12, 2014, 08:18:40 am »

Nothing good i would think... a woman made of babies... baby parts are what creates woman... woman cannot exist without babies... babies and woman are the same thing...

but upon closer imspection... im not sure the pectorals are female boobs... and that kind of looks like a penis... is it male or a hermophradite???

a man made of babies?¿...