dahmage

moviefreakedmind said:

You couldn’t pay me to work tech support. Or any other kind of customer support for that matter.

me either. well you could, but i would avoid it.

i am not help desk type support, we provide level 2 support to various clients, support specific technologies. So we are the people that the help desk calls. So we avoid most of the headache of directly dealing with end users, but some help desk people are extremely frustrating as well. (they try a bajillion things before they call us, 99% of them things they shouldn’t have done) thankfully this type of work is only like 20% of my job.

Great idea Roy.

Not even two hours into a new week, and i already have a lot of malice towards the clients i have to provide technical support to (This is why you don’t start your week with support tickets). The stupid things people do.

paja said:

TLOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring (Extended editon), I’ve only seen The Theatrical Cut so i’m curious to watch it.

first time i saw someone call it TLOTR instead of LOTR.

I also have a desire to rewatch LOTR. someone mentioned the ending of Fellowship yesterday, and i realize it has been a few years since i have watched these movies.

JEDIT: the extended edition of FOTR is wonderful.

This is a desktop issue not a mobile issue. That is why I did not see it.

pittrek said:

Funny, I’m at work right now so I can’t post any screenshots but there is a chance that it was caused by XBMC or my TV? Weird that it was doing that only in that one scene, but since I am the only person who reported it the problem is probably on my side. So thanks again for your hard work guys, it’s much better than the SSE and this comes from a person who LOVES the SSE 😃

Your TV could be doing temporal processing if you have it playing at 120 fps, etc

/thread

No body messages me, so I dunno. Screenshot?

DominicCobb said:

moviefreakedmind said:

Artists aren’t obligated to do anything. If it’s an obligation then it isn’t art.

They aren’t obligated, but many leave out diversity almost by accident or out of habit. I think we should be careful about forcing an artist to do something they don’t feel is right for their story, but there should be someone there to check and ask the questions that need asking. Does this character really need to be a white man? Is there a good reason why 90% of the speaker characters are dudes?

Again, it’s not a matter of forcing, it’s a matter of looking long and hard at the work and asking why it isn’t diverse. The truth is, most of the time, there isn’t a good reason.

Thanks for making this point.

Binsearch shows something… Tell your friends

whiskey on the rocks.

Possessed said:

out papa smurf.

Possessed said:

ass

b0bafett said:

dahmage said:

It’s going to be available on a.b.starwars and mega links at some point I would assume. Public torrents usually show up at some point as well.

Patience.

FYI, 4k77 1080p is being upped in a.b.starwars right now.

Lol, I guess being vague isn’t in vogue

It’s going to be available on a.b.starwars and mega links at some point I would assume. Public torrents usually show up at some point as well.

Patience.

LordZerome1080 said:

Can someone please PM me with a copy?

Might exceed the maximum post size…

Jay said:

dahmage said:

Hey, the sign on the door should have warned you about the snark. 😉

Snark isn’t rough. It’s tired.

Oh.

Hey, the sign on the door should have warned you about the snark. 😉

Oh you can still get stuck with 95% with really old postings… 😋

Collipso said:

and the freedom argument makes no sense to me. when i was in kindergarten i learned that someone’s freedom ends where someone else’s freedom begins.

so i don’t think we should have killing machines in society, because its whole purpose is to make someone able to take someone else’s freedom away.

There’s a lot of people who refuse to believe that they personally need to change, because they like things the way they are. If other people are having issues, it must be something they are doing wrong.

DominicCobb said:

I’m not sure why it has to be an either or thing. I think most people who are pro gun control would agree completely that we need to improve how we deal with people with mental illness.

The problem is lawmakers on the right (and many on the left too) don’t want to actually do anything about either.

Damn straight. Would love to see this change.

TV’s Frink said:

dahmage said:

Jay said:

dahmage said:

NeverarGreat said:

Jay said:

TM2YC said:

Jay said:

Ask Londoners if they feel safe with people getting stabbed every night

Broadly speaking the answer would be yes. London is one of the most populous cities in the world. One murder is statistically tiny and no danger to the majority but one is still far too many.

Except it’s 36 fatal stabbings so far this year in London.

But at least they didn’t use a spoon.

I’d much rather be a bystander in a knife fight than a gun fight. It’s pretty hard to kill hundreds of people from your balcony with a knife, and if someone does break into your house and you’re in the kitchen, you’re both equally well armed.

Exactly. This whole 🔪 thing is a ridiculous point.

Jay’s argument makes it sound like gun control advocates are silly people who want everything to be happy and safe and who don’t understand that people can be bad/evil.

Way to paint the other side as silly.

When the depth of the argument is often “fewer guns = good”, it is silly. I don’t think we’ll have fewer school shootings at all if we reimplement the assault weapons ban. We’d have to ban guns outright, and there’s a zero-percent chance of that happening.

I’m all for improved background checks and other methods of keeping guns away from people who shouldn’t have them. I’m also for law enforcement doing its job, like following up on reports about troubled people and referring them to psychiatric care.

I’m amazed at how few questions I see about the WHY behind all this. TM2YC seems to think that humans simply kill each other because that’s what we do, so if we ban the tools we use to kill, the killings will stop; I suppose banning delivery trucks is next. But why are we seeing so many mass killings, and why didn’t we see them when guns were even more readily available? Has anyone considered we’ve started behaving in ways that imply a deeper and more troubling issue? How do we prevent people from ending up in such a painful and hopeless place that they think murdering a bunch of people is the way to deal with those feelings?

fewer guns is of course good.

I said this earlier and Jay clearly doesn’t believe it because he asked how it solved anything. Good luck.

its good in the same way that fewer people with root access is good.

ChainsawAsh said:

Jay said:

ChainsawAsh said:

TV’s Frink said:

Mrebo said:

I think Jay’s argument is that those arguing for anything approaching a ban on guns don’t account for the fact that so many of the killings will still happen. And I think that’s right.

We can’t stop all the killings, so let’s not try to stop any of the killings.

Sounds great.

Everyone knows my position, so I’m going to stay out of it this time before the anger overtakes my ability to post civilly, but I’m quoting this because this is how all of the “pro-gun” arguments sound to me.

I actually don’t know your position and would appreciate a discussion that presents your thoughts on things rationally, especially since you’re a gun owner.

Alright, I’ll summarize.

It’s staggeringly easy for someone to get a gun in this country (or at least, it is in Indiana). It’s harder to get a driver’s license. For a lifetime license in Indiana, I was fingerprinted and supposedly given a background check, and lightly scolded that my driver’s license had an outdated address and was told to fix it, but that’s it. And in Indiana, a gun license and concealed carry permit are one and the same. I never had to take any kind of classes on gun safety, was never given any kind of test to prove I knew how to use a gun, didn’t have to provide any kind of evidence that I had somewhere to properly store my gun where it wasn’t accessible to kids or other unauthorized people - nothing like that. I didn’t even have to register my gun with anyone because it was a gift, so if I use it to kill someone tomorrow, there’s literally nothing to tie the murder weapon to me.

Here are the steps I think need to happen:

• Everyone applying for a gun license should be required to take a class on the safe handling and use of firearms, with hands-on training.
• Everyone applying for a gun license should be required to take a standardized test to prove that the information taught in the class was adequate, and retained by the applicant.
• Everyone applying for a gun license should have some sort of mental health screening.
• Everyone applying for a gun license should have to provide proof that they have a secure place to store it when not in use, such as a combination or key locked safe.
• Everyone should be required to register every weapon they own with the state, tied to their license, including serial number and a ballistics sample, and any guns that are given or received as gifts should be required to have their registration transferred to the new owner, just like a car.

That’s just for licensing. As for sales:

• Fully automatic guns should be outright banned (which they are).
• Anything that allows for the conversion of a semi-automatic gun to a fully-automatic gun, or for otherwise increasing the rate of fire through external attachments, should be outright banned. (Last I knew, in Indiana you can buy a full-auto conversion kit, you just aren’t legally allowed to install it. That’s fucking dumb.) This includes “burst” fire.
• Anything classified as an assault rifle should be banned outright.
• Semi-automatic shotguns should be banned outright.
• Semi-automatic rifles should have the same waiting period that handguns do.
• In fact, the only guns that should have no waiting period are bolt-action rifles designed for hunting, and that’s really just me throwing the pro-gun lobby a bone.
• High-capacity magazines should be banned outright.
• There should be a limit on volume of ammunition able to be purchased by any one person.

That’s all I can think of at the moment.

TL;DR - Guns don’t need to be banned entirely, but pretty much every aspect of their sale and licensing needs to be overhauled and tightened considerably, at the federal level.

I have yet to hear a single argument against any of this that doesn’t sound like “But mah gunz!” to me.

damn straight.

Jay said:

dahmage said:

NeverarGreat said:

Jay said:

TM2YC said:

Jay said:

Ask Londoners if they feel safe with people getting stabbed every night

Broadly speaking the answer would be yes. London is one of the most populous cities in the world. One murder is statistically tiny and no danger to the majority but one is still far too many.

Except it’s 36 fatal stabbings so far this year in London.

But at least they didn’t use a spoon.

I’d much rather be a bystander in a knife fight than a gun fight. It’s pretty hard to kill hundreds of people from your balcony with a knife, and if someone does break into your house and you’re in the kitchen, you’re both equally well armed.

Exactly. This whole 🔪 thing is a ridiculous point.

Jay’s argument makes it sound like gun control advocates are silly people who want everything to be happy and safe and who don’t understand that people can be bad/evil.

Way to paint the other side as silly.

When the depth of the argument is often “fewer guns = good”, it is silly. I don’t think we’ll have fewer school shootings at all if we reimplement the assault weapons ban. We’d have to ban guns outright, and there’s a zero-percent chance of that happening.

I’m all for improved background checks and other methods of keeping guns away from people who shouldn’t have them. I’m also for law enforcement doing its job, like following up on reports about troubled people and referring them to psychiatric care.

I’m amazed at how few questions I see about the WHY behind all this. TM2YC seems to think that humans simply kill each other because that’s what we do, so if we ban the tools we use to kill, the killings will stop; I suppose banning delivery trucks is next. But why are we seeing so many mass killings, and why didn’t we see them when guns were even more readily available? Has anyone considered we’ve started behaving in ways that imply a deeper and more troubling issue? How do we prevent people from ending up in such a painful and hopeless place that they think murdering a bunch of people is the way to deal with those feelings?

fewer guns is of course good. it isn’t a cure though. but when you have to summarize a point in a few words… it is pretty accurate. (fewer nukes is also good)

for your point about being all for improving background checks and following up on police reports. i don’t know your politics, but I really get annoyed when these lines come from people who also want to lower taxes / cut funding.

and finally, the why. It is true there might be a ‘scary’ (to borrow your way of speaking about guns) reason behind all of this. but again, are you really solving anything by blaming some shadowy underling cause? This again is the way that people who ‘care’ speak, but not the way that people who want to solve problems speak.

the first few reels and the last few reels are very beautiful, the worst parts are in the middle, as they should be. (wow them to start, and wow them at the end to leave a wonderful lasting impression).

I simply find it amazing that this was done by fans. FANS. not a studio. let that sink in.