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#149718
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The Things We Hate And Love Thread .
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Originally posted by: ricarleite
This is a stupid steriotype, I know two cases of mid 30s living with their parents and both are not sci fi fans or geeks or otakus or anything of the sort. All the geeks and nerds and otakus and sci fi fans I know live alone, or married, or in college somewhere, or still in high school.

Things I hate: this past week. Everything went wrong, just everything. I lost my driving license due to a speed limit radar in a place I was not awareof the speed limit and cannot appeal to the decision and will face up to $1000 in fines; at work everything that could possibly have gone wrong did; there was a energy problem where I live exactly the moment I needed to get an email - and it didnt go back until the following morning; every SINGLE time I steped out of work, my apartment, or the car, it started to rain over me, all week... Not to mention some other f**ed up personal problems I'd rather not speak here. Sometimes I wish I lived on an island like Gilligan or Tom Hanks in Cast Away and didn't have to face all those problems anymore, nor face anyone else anymore...


Ric:

I feel your pain, more than you will know. The death vigil in my family is over, and the funeral was today. We got about 14" of rain here in one week about 8 days ago, and we probably got another 3 today. My wife is terribly sad over this death.

My job is a dead end, I currently have no other prospects. Parts of my family have been at war for about a decade now, and my health problems continue to worsen with no explanation in site. I try to be thankful for the things that ARE right in my life. I have two great kids, my wife is the best thing to ever happen to me, my parents are both still in good health and live only a few miles away, and I have some good friends in my life. I'm also thankful for this board. A lot of people would take it for granted, but it's a place where we can all just vent, or rage, or joke, or drool over pictures of Natalie Portman, Morgan Webb, Evangeline Lilly, etc, etc, etc. Try not to be too upset...as the saying goes "This too, shall pass". Although if I could be anywhere on the planet, it'd be with the castaways of Gilligan's Island!
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#149554
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The Things We Hate And Love Thread .
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/149554/action/topic#149554
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Originally posted by: ricarleite
Originally posted by: JediSage
I hate...birthday celebrations at work. It's kind of like the scene in Office Space when there's 20 people standing there and only two of them are singing. Man, it's like a funeral. I was just forced into mine when I've got 9 million other things to do.


Yes! Exactly! Isn't it an akward, weird thing? All those people who are supposed to be professional role models, all in their suits and all ready to work and stuff, and they are all singing "happy birthday to you" in a timid way like 8 year old children, with this lousy cake someone bought on a cantina or a deli close to the office... And then either there's not enough cake for everyone, or there's plenty of cake and everyone just gets one piece and there's, like, half a cake left and no one wants it... And you have to give it to people from other sectors or other places... And when it's the boss or something like it, they all want 5 bucks to buy something to him he'll hate, like a tie or an leather cover agenda. And they always do this when you're busy, but when I have nothing to do it never happens... this one day there was half a cake left, and I took home because no one wanted it, and I didn't want to eat it, so it stayed in the fridge for like, a week or something...

LOL we should have a thread for this office insanities...


WOW...Ric, you're scaring me! Actually, I will say that the cake was outstanding. They get them from a bakery in the city that you need to setup an appointment just buy a standard birthday cake from. Really great stuff, and big so there was plenty. However, the entire thing was embarassing for me.
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#149487
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The Things We Hate And Love Thread .
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/149487/action/topic#149487
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Originally posted by: 3RA1N1AC
Originally posted by: JediSage
I hate...The Daily Show with John Stewart. Time to call it quits, IMO.


i kinda hate what it has become. but i'd prolly miss it, if it were cancelled. there was a little while, in there, where it was pretty good... after stewart settled into the job & got over the awkward start, but before it fully changed into a big political rant. it has been really stale for quite a while though. i actually found colin quinn's tough crowd to be refreshing, as knuckle-dragging as it might have seemed, just because of how unpretentiously stoopid and un-demagogic it was, compared with stewart's daily show or bill maher's politically incorrect.

the "colbert report" spinoff series is off to a good start. it's got potential. reminds me of kilborn's daily show: more like a deadpan parody of a news/talk show, an extended kent brockman joke, as opposed to jon stewart's insistence on explaining everything to death & telling you what you're supposed to think. i recommend taking a look at that, if you ever wish the daily show would dump jon stewart & start again from scratch.


I used to like it with Kilborn, who I think unfortunately has had his run at fame. Stewart I liked in the beginning until he became a lefty lapdog. I just think the whole thing about under-the-radar sarcastic newsperson has been done to death at this point. Thank God they haven't given Mo Rocca his own show...

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#149435
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Comics Fans
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/149435/action/topic#149435
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Originally posted by: Count Dushku
So...was a huge comic nut up to a year ago...went overboard and got burned out, mainly due to X-Men stuff and some residual burnout from Our Worlds At War. The most recent stuff I've read is Id Crisis, Joss's Astonishing X-men, that crap GL Rebirth thing (screw Hal, Kyle and Marz forever), and Supes/Bats.

I need money and something to really get me into comics again. As it stands right now, I have hundreds of issues just floating around that are in no order and most aren't even in boxes, just bags. Perhaps that's what scaring me from comics right now...besides the money.

Help?


Well, IMO, the first thing you should do is pick up a copy of Infinite Crisis #1. There are some sites out there that will help you with catching up on the tie-in mini-series leading up to it. I think this event will be almost as big as Crisis on Infinite Earths.

As far as the $$ goes: It's tough to argue with that. They're becoming more and more expensive, and with the inflationary period we're in, combined with fuel costs, the publisher's costs are not going to go down, so neither will ours. I'm spending about $70/month give or take (but my pull list is a mile long). If the money's really an issue, consider getting direct mail subscriptions from the publisher. I know Marvel gives a regular discount, combined with a better discount if you subscribe to multiple titles. DC only gives 20% off the cover price, no discount for multiples.

If space and organization is becoming an issue, can't really help you there, exept to say you might want to just collect the Trade Paperbacks that are popular now. They usually collect the previous 5-6 issues of a series from where it currently is. So, if a book is at issue #6 on newsstands, the TPB will collect issues 1-5, is a little cheaper than getting the individual issues, and will take up less shelf-space.
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#149451
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Things that Scared You as a Kid
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/149451/action/topic#149451
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I will admit, that for a time in my teens, I actually thought the Exorcist was funny. Especially the pea-soup scene. However, those days are long gone. I've heard a quote, and I don't remember from where, but it was something like "When you study evil, you are studied BY evil". That's why I'd have to be pretty loaded to watch that movie again.

There's a legend that I read about back in the early 90's called "The Bell Witch", which was pretty darn creepy. It involves a terrible haunting in the mid-west back around the time of the Civil War. Check this out:

Bell Witch

*EDIT* My timeline for this is wrong...Bell Witch was early 1800's, well before the war. Apologies.
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#149430
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Things that Scared You as a Kid
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/149430/action/topic#149430
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IMO, scariest movie of all time: The Exorcist. That movie brings about a sense of primal terror, in me and people I know. It's not just a matter of being startled, its about being genuinely afraid.

Even the book is terrifying. I once picked it up in the library (I know it sounds stupid, but I won't have either the book or the movie in my house), in broad daylight and it gave me the creeps.
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#149429
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AIM Screen Names?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/149429/action/topic#149429
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Originally posted by: Yoda Is Your Father
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Originally posted by: JediSageI'm just surprised the "Lefties" are actually in favor of using such a "corporate" product You know, money involved and all that.

HaHaHa. Yeah, that's true. In theory I guess I am anti-microsoft, but the windows 95 days are over - their products are actually pretty good these days, IMO. Plus, the 'lefty' in me thinks there should be one single, unified, totalitarian messenger product for the people


LOL...

I used to be one of MS's staunchest defenders in terms of their business practices, but back in the days of 98, 95, and ME I knew their products stunk. For me, I was just happy that most of the memory configuration problems went away and I could play my games, but the blue-screen-of-death problem would rear it's ugly head time and again. Once I got my hands on NT4, that was it. I think their products have come quite far, and IMO Win2k is the best commercial OS on the market, or should I say the NT Kernel is the best one on the market. I don't have enough experience with Linux to make a fair comparison, but IMO Linux/*IX has always been in the realm of "we're making this complex enough to keep it in the hands of the mad scientists".

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#149303
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Comics Fans
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/149303/action/topic#149303
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Originally posted by: Han Solo VS Indiana Jones
Originally posted by: JediSage
Originally posted by: Han Solo VS Indiana Jones
Have we gone over Topher Grace being reportedly cast as Venom/Eddie Brock for Spider-Man 3? I have a bad feeling about that.


I've heard reports that that story has been retracted. Grace is in the movie, but reportedly someone else is playing Venom.


Thank God...


Believe it or not I'm probably one of the few people left on the planet who doesn't know the whole Venom deal. I know the basic premise, but I never read the books. Actually, I purchased "The Venom Saga" on dvd this past weekend, but haven't watched it yet. Seems like a cool villian.

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#149298
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Comics Fans
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/149298/action/topic#149298
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Originally posted by: Han Solo VS Indiana Jones
Have we gone over Topher Grace being reportedly cast as Venom/Eddie Brock for Spider-Man 3? I have a bad feeling about that.


I've heard reports that that story has been retracted. Grace is in the movie, but reportedly someone else is playing Venom.

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#149282
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Comics Fans
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/149282/action/topic#149282
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Hey Chalts, have you heard that now there's going to be a "Special" for each Infinite Crisis lead-in series right in the middle of IC? I guess they're going to flesh things out even more using them.


Also, DC is following Marvel's lead and returning to Annuals, which I think is a good thing.
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#149309
Topic
Things that Scared You as a Kid
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/149309/action/topic#149309
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Since Halloween is almost upon us, how's about this for a thread?

Anyway...I grew up in an "old school" Irish-Catholic household, and my paternal grandmother revelled in scaring the heck out of us as kids. We listened to the same ghost stories for most of our youths, and they were still scaring us. My father also took a perverse delight in sending us to bed terrified. I always say how most kids would get a "good night" from their fathers. Mine would say something like "Well, the vampires are really gonna get you tonight!".

There was one movie in particular, that in retrospect a kid should NOT have been watching. It's the 1970's version of Dracula with Frank Langella. He didn't frighten me so much, but his victims did. In this version, for some reason they reversed the roles of the women. Van Helsing's daughter Mina (possible spoiler!!) was the one killed by Drac, and Lucy was the one they were frantically trying to save.

Any-hoo, there's a scene where Van Helsing (played by Lawrence Olivier!!) and Harker (I think) realize what's going on and decide they need to go into Mina's grave. They go into it, and fall through into a burial vault. Harker gets separated from Van Helsing, and Van Helsing is laying face first in the ground staring at a puddle of water. The water is still rippling from his fall, when all of a sudden you see something white in the reflection and hear "Papa? Papa?". Then they pan around and you see her for the first time. My GOD, it was terrifying to see that, and actually I can feel my heart rate picking up as I write this. All I know is, the first time I saw this, that night I had to go to the bathroom at like 1 am and the bathroom in our house was downstairs from my bedroom. Of course it was the obligatory stormy night. All I can say is that I was moving between lightning flashes that night!!

So, what scared you then?
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#149285
Topic
Any MySQL Folks Here
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/149285/action/topic#149285
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Originally posted by: Darth Simon
i use it MySQL for some of my projects but ive never used the gui for it so i dont know. i know from connecting to it from programs i write you need to set proper permissions for the user. the manual (downloadable) has instructions on how to do this and a google search would probably turn up some useful results...but i cant say if thats even the problem.

-Darth Simon


What do you use as your front-end? I was thinking of getting back into VB, but I'd have to use .NET and I'm not sure how well it works.

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#149283
Topic
Any MySQL Folks Here
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/149283/action/topic#149283
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I downloaded it for the first time last night. Here's a little background:

I have a few years of "hobbyist" type experience with VB development, with SOME experience with making front-ends for Access dbs, although I've been away from development for quite some time. I decided to check out MySQL as I've heard good things about it. I installed the "Essentials" community version of the program on my P4 512mb RAM Dell machine last night (WinXP Home, SP2), ran the config, started the instance, and downloaded the admin gui. For some reason, I CAN'T connect to the db via the GUI. It will ping the host, however it just will not connect. Any thoughts?
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#149281
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AIM Screen Names?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/149281/action/topic#149281
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Originally posted by: Yoda Is Your Father
You're just disagreeing because it's me and Ric saying aren't you Sage
Seriously though, I totally get what you're saying, and would prefer it if Mr.Gates didn't have such a stranglehold on things, but your average computer user doesn't see it as cramming it down our throats. They see it as a handy all-in-one package. They go to their computer superstore, buy what the salesman tells them to buy, takes it home, turns it on, and away they go. Your average user does not know how to download and install alternatives, etc, so Bill Gates is doing them a favour. For example, if Windows didn't come with IE, my Mum would not use the internet (unless I came round and fixed up her computer. I have all kinds of alternative programmes and exotic software on my computer that would baffle most users, as I'm sure do you.

Anyway, like I said, I like MSN Messenger. It looks good and works well. Of all the ones I've tried (When I first came online years ago I was an ICQ user - I can still remember that irritating sound it made when you got a new message) MSN is my favourite.


I'm just surprised the "Lefties" are actually in favor of using such a "corporate" product You know, money involved and all that.

Unfortunately, you are correct regarding the average user. Whatever pops up in front of them is what they're going to use. Although, if they didn't have IE, they'd use AOL, God help us. I just think on balance that most of us here are slightly to largely above average in terms of usage (at least can install a different product), and given the current situation there's no one solution for everyone using MS or AIM. ICQ is kind of the PDF of the IM world (enough acronyms for you?). I've got my buddy list, you've got yours, we're not going to eliminate them.
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#149195
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Worst cartoon characters ever
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/149195/action/topic#149195
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Originally posted by: Warbler
why isn't the whiny wimpy Rodimus Prime(Transformers) on this list. If you ask me, he ruined the whole show.


Well, I thought he was ok as Hot Rod, however I think Ultra Magnus (was that his name?) would have been a better character in the lead.

I always thought Shockwave was a total waste on the show. He had a much greater impact in the original Marvel Transformers comic.

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#149217
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AIM Screen Names?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/149217/action/topic#149217
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In reviewing this thread, it would seem like we're split on which clients are being used. Just posing this as a thought to the group, but would it not now (given the client split) make sense if people want to contact to use ICQ? That way nobody has to deal with multiple invasive IM clients or has to change what they're currently using. ICQ is universal and it would eliminate the need to set up an IRC channel as was being discussed elsewhere.
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#149004
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Comics Fans
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/149004/action/topic#149004
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Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
Well, I'm a huge Titans fan, though I refuse to buy any actual issues since they are so far ahead of where I was. The latest Titans I have read was the end of Beast Boys and Girls, the TPB.

That, and Batman. Though I'm not too fond of the Miller/Lee All-Star run with Batman acting like his DKR self as a young man.

Next on my regular issue list, though, is Supergirl #3... if I can find it.


I'm still up in the air about AS Batman. I think Miller is showing signs of losing it. The dialogue is downright awful at times, and he seems quite out of character. I'll give it till the end of the run and see what happens. Is it going to be a regular series with "rotating" teams?

I think Supergirl has some real promise. The art is fantastic, and the stories are solid.

My new favorite is JSA classified. I'm just kind of discovering that team, and I'm in love with Power Girl...