Vent thread

@BadgingBadger
 
If you think about it, the Truman Show also has a light grain of thematic similarity to the Matrix. The concept of a guy trapped in an artificial world and for his entire life up to that point, unaware.

@ArkyNoid  
Except that in TTS, the simulation revolves around a single guy, while in the Matrix, it encompasses the entirety of humanity (except for the ones in Zion). Hence the anthropological/sociological interpretations that were made in The Matrix but not in The Truman Show.

Why does my YouTube always default to 240 or 144p when it used to go for 480p by default?  
Also, the lag and delay at the start of EVERY FUCKING VIDEO is getting annoying.

@SeraphimDawn  
What really pisses me off is that it used to be that if you paused the video at the beginning, it would load all the way through until the end. Now if you do that, it will only partially load and you have to watch it partway for it to keep loading.

@BadgingBadger
 
Yeah. Just saying from the protagonist’s POV.

Edit: oops I guess refresh worked.

@TheHappySpaceman  
Sometimes, when i drag the player button a few inches forward into the grey “loaded” line, the video will start to buffer, DESPITE the drag button being in the grey line and not in the blank/black line.

@TheHappySpaceman  
That as well.  
EVERYTHING I load these days lags for some reason.  
One it might be my crappy internet provider.

Anyone here ever been in a march? I’ve been in several, and plan on doing another this year.
 
Going to attend the March for Science in April, will be the second time marching down the Capital Mall.
 
Last time when I was there, we had these suits leaning out a window yucking it up. If I got my job by sucking enough dick and greasing enough palms to put every strip joint in DC out of business, I wouldn’t be showing my face in public. Best of all, they were just staffers, half this site probably makes more money than them.
 
It was pretty much the equivalent of serfs pointing at whatever the king did in a failed attempt to make sempei notice them. Like the old saying goes “The public sector is filled with people too incompetent to work in the private”.

I’m going to be feeling that oily and saline concoction in my systems for at least hours now…. UGH!  
I probably lost my taste for instant noodles. Used to like them, but now deterred.

@BadgingBadger  
@SeraphimDawn  
It’s like with every change YouTube makes to the site, it gets progressively worse.

@TheHappySpaceman  
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix.  
How hard is it for people to understand that?

@SeraphimDawn  
Apparently really hard. And for god’s sake, must YouTube’s layout be so eye-burningly bright white?

@TheHappySpaceman  
It’s been that way for years.

@Zincy
 
If I went marching for the things I want to see, the principles, and justice I’d be marching all day and night for centuries.

@Zincy  
Marching? We did plenty of that. Being the company commander is hard if your cadets don’t know what they’re doing.

More folks from the admin keep trotting out that “millions voted illegally” crap.
 
You know, I had heard that someone can be a sore winner, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen it to this scale. Can someones ego be so fragile that even in victory they act defeated?

You remember the stupid thing I mentioned doing yesterday with the noodles?
 
Yeah…  
It all came out in a burning and oily concoction through my rear this morning.  
UUUUUUGGGGHHHHH!!! My ass still stings.

@SeraphimDawn  
So, how did Seraphim feel today, Terry?

@SeraphimDawn
 
You have failed as a person of Asian heritage.
 
*I proceed to slurp curry and rice with ghost peppers through a straw.

I saw a video claiming that most people who win a big sum of money like a million or better in a lotto or other venue actually become less happy. Whhaaaaaat?

I’ve been having ridiculous problems with the Internet on my computer lately. Frequently, it won’t load or connect at all even when it says my Internet is connected, and it always seems to happen around the same time periods every day. Even worse, usually when it happens the only way to fix it is to restart my computer, because unless I do that, it will NEVER. CONNECT. Even if I wait like an hour and try again.

@ArkyNoid
 
You ever actually had ghost peppers?
 
I had some ghost pepper popcorn from a specialty store near me. Went pretty good with whiskey.

@Zincy
 
Allegedly in a turkey chili. I doubt it was authentic ghost pepper used, since in my judgment it wasn’t even as hot as a habanero.

@Zincy  
Got some ghost pepper chips a while ago.
 
Plenty hot, but tasted awful.