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MillionX Level 16

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cheh, I am not quite sure why the "movie buff" personalities out there (at least the ones I watch on youtube-- Collider and John Campea) are shitting on the idea that the Academy Awards show will implement a "Best Popular Movies" category....it seems like they're assuming the only metric will be whatever makes the most money, so---Movie A made 700 mil, then Movie B made 750 but Movie C hit a billion so Movie C automatically wins.  I'm *assuming* it would be more like they pull those 3 high grossing popular movies and then judge what _in that category_ is truly the best one.  

Also, I'm sure the folks that run the awards shows still care about ratings too... and that category would likely get more people to watch what has typically been a self-congratulatory snooze-fest filled with movies they've rarely heard of or will ever care to watch.  (e.g.-- oh let's see... movies like The Terminator..or any Star Wars, even the bad ones.... vs. incredibly boring shit like THE POST.  Oh I wonder what more people would prefer to see?)

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misterBee Level 18

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10 hours ago, DanZan said:

Obvious question first....Do you have insurance that covers damages to your home?

No flood insurance actually, because where I live this kind of thing is extremely uncommon.  We've had plenty of heavy rain before with no problems.  This time was just a freak occurrence.

 

I think I'm gonna buy some anti-flood stuff and mount them at my door the next time severe rain is coming.

 

Everything seems to be back on track for now. 😃

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40 minutes ago, misterBee said:

No flood insurance actually, because where I live this kind of thing is extremely uncommon.  We've had plenty of heavy rain before with no problems.  This time was just a freak occurrence.

 

I think I'm gonna buy some anti-flood stuff and mount them at my door the next time severe rain is coming.

 

Everything seems to be back on track for now. 😃

Glad things turned out okay man.

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MillionX Level 16

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holy shit the thumbnail pic on this vid!! 😮  I wonder how many kids glanced at this and will have nightmares for the next few days?  Jesus H. Christ, man...

 

 

Reminds me of how incredibly disturbing Adam Lanza's face was:

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Adam+Lanza&FORM=HDRSC2 

goddamn, man... looks like he's of the same species... creatures that just vaguely resemble humans but you can still tell they are something else pretending to be human.  

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Deadly_Raver Level 13

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I had never heard of the momo thing.  It says something that we have an app that tells you to kill yourself.  It says something else that we have numerous people who have downloaded it and are using it.  What does the man formerly known as Starhammer have to say about it?  I think you can guess. 

 

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This is the biggest,"Just turn the shit off!!"situation I've ever seen!  The fuck you want download THAT shit for?  Tide pods ain't enough anymore?  Some people simply can't be helped.

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MillionX Level 16

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woooo lawd what a difference that sweet gentrification makes.  I was at a certain Kroger again recently, and it's a complete 180 in terms of the hotness/eye-candy factor.  Previously, you could expect to see nothing but only the lowest tier ghettofab girls like "gangsta boo" or a character from that movie B.A.P.S., etc.... along with various old people.  NOW you go there and frequently see a lot of girls that look like Stacy Keibler or Stacey Dash, Trish Stratus, Charlize Theron... mixed in of course with a few hot "probably a trust-fund baby" Indian and Asian girls too.  It's such a wonderful thing. 😃  What was once one of the most low-tier Krogers in the city has now become one of those spots to see some truly FINE (and most likely wealthy) ass.

 

Oh and the funny thing is that a lot of the "po' folks" are actually still there....so it's quite a strange mixture of people to be seen in that store... basically you see a Kardashian in the checkout line behind Pookie and Fred Sanford with his son Lamont.

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22 hours ago, MillionX said:

woooo lawd what a difference that sweet gentrification makes.  I was at a certain Kroger again recently, and it's a complete 180 in terms of the hotness/eye-candy factor.  Previously, you could expect to see nothing but only the lowest tier ghettofab girls like "gangsta boo" or a character from that movie B.A.P.S., etc.... along with various old people.  NOW you go there and frequently see a lot of girls that look like Stacy Keibler or Stacey Dash, Trish Stratus, Charlize Theron... mixed in of course with a few hot "probably a trust-fund baby" Indian and Asian girls too.  It's such a wonderful thing. 😃  What was once one of the most low-tier Krogers in the city has now become one of those spots to see some truly FINE (and most likely wealthy) ass.

 

Oh and the funny thing is that a lot of the "po' folks" are actually still there....so it's quite a strange mixture of people to be seen in that store... basically you see a Kardashian in the checkout line behind Pookie and Fred Sanford with his son Lamont.

I'll take gentrification any day.  If it means I won't get shot then I don't care how high the rent gets.

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MillionX Level 16

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The YouTube Report:

 

haha, sheeeeeit man I didn't think this would get so out of hand, but the saga of Mundane Matt's apparent downfall just keeps on rolling... something about false-flagging a channel?  I'll admit to barely paying much attention to that, but I was checking out a livestream (it was either WorldClassBullshitters or Ethan Van Sciver's channel) where he actually showed up and it was SUCH a bad look I'm surprised he even got on..

 

BRUH--- this other vid is the hot shit though... will I ever tire of youtube drama?  Doubt it.

This has actually been a bit more eventful than the DSP sagas in the past few days.  The next major story-arc there will probably be when Kat inevitably leaves him for some guy she met at the gym....and that's assuming it was ever a real relationship in the first place. (*some suspect he's simply paying her to make occasional appearances for whatever reason...there's a lot of juicy conspiracy theories about whatever he does; that's actually part of the overall entertainment value surrounding that character for me.)

 

On another note... it's really annoying that I lost the joycon connector thing for my Switch... I'm 99% sure I accidentally threw it away...it's a good thing that those are fairly cheap compared to what is normal for gaming peripherals.

 

*sidenote about youtube again, in general--- it's amazing to see how much money these people make, man... particularly in the live broadcasts with the "super chat" thing now.  I'm surprised people actually pay just to post and get questions answered by the on-air people but there it is... on one I was watching earlier today, I noticed it was adding up to several  hundreds of dollars, and I didn't even count ALL the super-chat questions... for 2 hours of "work"!!  Goddamn what a sweet gravy train that must be.

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MillionX Level 16

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ehhhhh I'm not so sure about the plantain, but I haven't had peanut butter on a burger before... I'll admit I'm intrigued by that concept specifically... and bacon is always ok on a burger for me.  I'd try that.

 

Ok, that TMNT....

  • Why in the hell is Raph about 2x bigger than the other 3 turtles?!  He's the 'roided up "Scott Steiner" of the group now!  
  • Annnnd now April is black for some reason. 😆 Race-swaps on any character are usually hilarious to me.  (*one of the worst, silliest examples that come to mind before this one -- Jimmy Olsen who is now suave, tall black dude ladies' man "James Olsen" on Supergirl.... he also becomes a hero as well around season 2 or 3... basically an entirely different character at this point...like if you had a tv show where James Bond 007 is now a fat nerdy hispanic high school teen... or Aeon Flux is now a depressed elderly Jewish man in a retirement home somewhere in Florida.)
  • Interesting, my baby Kat Graham is playing the voice of April though.... niiiice legendary CW hotness there.
  • What the hell is up with Splinter?!?!  He's fat and lazy now?!  What is this?

Other than some questionable character redesigns, I like the overall look and animation though.  This might actually be enjoyable if the Turtles  weren't so visually out of wack there.

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4 hours ago, DangerousJ said:

Someone mentioned a burger from an ATL restaurant called Vortex called "Fat Elvis"

It has bacon, sweet plaintains, and peanut butter with a standard beef patty/bun.

Would you eat it? (I know Million is going to vote "no" lol)

 

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That immediately reminds me of a final fantasy 7 villain.  Make the bacon wave and we're good to go.

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MillionX Level 16

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ohoooo it just keeps going on, this thing with Matt... "Metokur" put up a vid today which does well explaining things from the start to where we are now... haha that awkward silence from Matt when the guys told him there's a way to screenshare his reporting history... 😆  hell yeah I can't get enough of all this dirt.

 

DSP also did a "shill stream" today; he got (surprisingly) paid to stream some horrible game and of course he pretended to enjoy it the whole time.  The game was laughably bad, holy shit [Elo Hell, I think it's called].  I'm curious how much they paid him for that....he had less than 400 viewers the whole time if I recall.

 

*TODAY is the day for Avengers Infinity War on dvd/blu-ray, folks.  I'll more than likely get it today or sometime this week.  Hahaha my old cheap friend can finally see it (unless he already pirated the thing earlier; this is the guy that hasn't been to a movie theater since probably the late '90s)....

 

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Darc_Requiem Level 19

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3 hours ago, MillionX said:

ehhhhh I'm not so sure about the plantain, but I haven't had peanut butter on a burger before... I'll admit I'm intrigued by that concept specifically... and bacon is always ok on a burger for me.  I'd try that.

 

Ok, that TMNT....

  • Why in the hell is Raph about 2x bigger than the other 3 turtles?!  He's the 'roided up "Scott Steiner" of the group now!  
  • Annnnd now April is black for some reason. 😆 Race-swaps on any character are usually hilarious to me.  (*one of the worst, silliest examples that come to mind before this one -- Jimmy Olsen who is now suave, tall black dude ladies' man "James Olsen" on Supergirl.... he also becomes a hero as well around season 2 or 3... basically an entirely different character at this point...like if you had a tv show where James Bond 007 is now a fat nerdy hispanic high school teen... or Aeon Flux is now a depressed elderly Jewish man in a retirement home somewhere in Florida.)
  • Interesting, my baby Kat Graham is playing the voice of April though.... niiiice legendary CW hotness there.
  • What the hell is up with Splinter?!?!  He's fat and lazy now?!  What is this?

Other than some questionable character redesigns, I like the overall look and animation though.  This might actually be enjoyable if the Turtles  weren't so visually out of wack there.

In fairness, April O'Neil's design has been all over the place. Here is her original design. No, she wasn't black, but given that the comics were black and white, I could see how people think she was.

 

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MillionX Level 16

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heh, looks like they drew her to have that general "mixed girl from the '80s" look....nice.... looks like she had a jheri curl though, so point deduction on that.  

 

*youtube stuff again--- I'll just never agree with Angryman's constant defense of the "Pookie & Ray-Ray" types, man....at the very least, it seems like we have different ideas of that that description means.  Sometimes it's like he's using that describe the "average dudes" from the hood.... but I think of that as another term to indicate the riff raff... the worthless TRASH that gives all of us a bad name and constantly adheres to all the negative stereotypes that come to mind. (this is why I think a more accurate term is the "Deebo")  That stupidity should never be defended.  The trash is why there is no bright future for our "tribe", y'know?  New generations are being spawned by only those on the low end of the totem pole. 

Young girls and women have the choice between the Urkels and the Deebos... we all know which ones they are really going for, and that is ultimately to the detriment of the tribe, assuming one even cares about such a thing.  Instead of more Urkels or "Obamas"(*wherever one is on the political spectrum, I think most reasonable people can at least agree he and his wife are intelligent people)--- we're repeatedly churning out more new generations of Deebos...and often times the new generations are actually dumber than the preceding ones.

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I wonder if the path of evolution is usually the same on other worlds... like there's some other planet in this or another galaxy that is similar to Earth... perhaps it's at the early stages and there's creatures similar to dinosaurs over there right now..?  I am always curious about how many worlds went the same route as this one, complete with similar animal kingdoms and civilizations.  I think this planet and its history is something that gets repeated at least a few times out there.  There's other bipedal dominant species out there like us that are also wondering--"hey, maybe there's some other world out there like what we have here..?"  The sad thing is when you realize how many other worlds out there will forever be unknown. 

Even if mankind ever gets to the point of truly mastering interstellar travel (*it's really doubtful, imo)... imagine how many worlds are already lost to time...like say there's an "Earth 2" out there with similar civilizations and everything, but they all went extinct a few thousand years ago either due to global war, or natural disasters... like a sufficiently large meteor hitting the planet, a gamma ray burst, the death of their own star, etc. etc.  Eventually there's literally no trace of evidence that they ever existed.  

 

Debbie Downer moment of the day--- the same is true for this world.  Eventually, there will be nothing left, and even if a future advance species cruises by this spot where Earth once was... they'd have no idea anyone or anything was here previously.

 

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Mayo is one of the worst food items ever invented.  It's just generally gross and looks kinda like someone jizzed or puked on your sandwich.  Whoever invented it... I wouldn't mind seeing that person get punched one good time.

 

On another note-- I had a lucid dream last night... the thing that fascinates me is that moment when you realize a dream while it's still going on.  I was at home in the dream, but then realize the ceilings, walls and other stuff were wrong... which for some reason gave me the idea I might be dreaming.  To test the theory, I decided to "super-jump" and hover near the ceiling....sure enough it worked, proving my assumption to be correct.  So I went on to just fly around in whatever large building that was...it was fun as usual... then I tried out super-speed as well since I figured it would be boring to waste a lucid dream on just flying around.  This was disappointing though, as for some reason I wasn't as fast as in other dreams....but now I regret not getting much more creative with the situation [time travel, cloning myself, warping reality, etc...some things I've done before in a lucid dream from years ago], since anything goes in Dreamland. 

 

It's interesting that superhuman things like flying and super-speed in a dream seem to be as natural as walking... in the many dreams where I've been able to fly or move superhumanly fast... there was never a learning curve to it that I recall... I just instinctively knew what to do somehow.  Dad has also mentioned flying around quite often in his dreams....hahah usually to get away from this pack of angry dogs that was always chasing him. 😄

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13 hours ago, MillionX said:

On another note-- I had a lucid dream last night... the thing that fascinates me is that moment when you realize a dream while it's still going on.  I was at home in the dream, but then realize the ceilings, walls and other stuff were wrong... which for some reason gave me the idea I might be dreaming.  To test the theory, I decided to "super-jump" and hover near the ceiling....sure enough it worked, proving my assumption to be correct.  So I went on to just fly around in whatever large building that was...it was fun as usual... then I tried out super-speed as well since I figured it would be boring to waste a lucid dream on just flying around.  This was disappointing though, as for some reason I wasn't as fast as in other dreams....but now I regret not getting much more creative with the situation [time travel, cloning myself, warping reality, etc...some things I've done before in a lucid dream from years ago], since anything goes in Dreamland. 

 

Lucid dreams are the absolute best! As a teenager I used to have them very often, then suddenly they stopped once I reached 17 or so. I remember my first distinct lucid dream, it started off as a regular dream where I was on foot being chased by some silhouetted biker dude riding a Harley over an empty bridge in the middle of the night, then for some strange reason I started to realize none of this made sense and the entire scene just shattered...  and I was floating in a void. Then I just started creating whatever popped up in my head and flew around in the sky that looked out of a Reading Rainbow intro.

 

Subsequent lucid dreams were mundane stuff like me dreaming up my own MVC2 arcade with a setting similar to my mall's arcade at the time and practicing Ironman's infinite over and over and over ("Hut Hoot Huh HAH!") and I could strangely feel  the button taps and the timing. (which also shows how insanely obsessed I was with Marvel back then) Truth be told I did see an improvement in my combo skills lol

 

Once I was acclimated to recognizing my dream state I soon realized that there is practically NO LIMIT to what you can do in a lucid dream. The best example is one time I created an entire city styled like a much cleaner NYC; with people doing everyday stuff- traffic, subway, flora/ fauna and even sewer systems, all moving about in "real time" so to speak, and it all felt real but just tad bit "brighter" visually. But that wasn't the craziest part, the really confounding thing is that I could see the city overhead in isometric view, and on ground level and even subterranean level simultaneously!

 

It wasn't like a split screen view either, I was experiencing multiple points of space at the same time, in weird indescribable layers without confusion. It wasn't mentally taxing at all, hell, I didn't even feel the slightest bit overwhelmed. I wasn't even micromanaging the flow of the city but yet cars were stopping at red lights and people were having coherent conversations at cafes and all that stuff. I could pick a random person to focus on like a guy in a suit walking to work and sort of shadow them like a spectre.  My only guess as to how the brain can even do something this amazing is that when you're asleep a lot of the mental processing our neural network devotes in our awake state (depth perception, ambient noise filtering, tactile sensing) can be allocated towards something like this.

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15 hours ago, MillionX said:

Mayo is one of the worst food items ever invented.  It's just generally gross and looks kinda like someone jizzed or puked on your sandwich.  Whoever invented it... I wouldn't mind seeing that person get punched one good time.

1 hour ago, Darc_Requiem said:

Mayo is disgusting and I refuse to eat it.

COME CATCH THESE HANDS SON 😡

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...and the only real downside of lucid dreaming is when the thing ends....it's almost always unexpected and just before something else cool is about to happen.  I've found that this seems to happen sometimes because I'm thinking too much about it...at least that is my assumption.  The previous one I had was last year, where once again I was flying around...outside in the night sky this time... and I was pondering this idea of feeling like I'm in 2 places at once--- on one hand I was really asleep on my couch...but I clearly felt like I was also outside flying around in the sky... even noticing the details like how the cold winds felt all around me, clothes flapping in the wind.  I kept thinking about how this is even really possible that it 100% feels like I'm really flying, but my physical body is back there on the couch at home...like perhaps it's some "out of body" experience sort of thing and that part of the "self" truly is somewhere else while the body sleeps... then I woke up, sadly.

 

Reality simply cannot hang with a lucid dream.  In Dreamland, we can become gods.

 

It would be nice if we could somehow take a checklist into the next lucid dreaming state...y'know, to have a general plan of what to do.  I'm not sure I've ever done the "epic transformation" like some character out of an anime before...that would be cool...some accompanying theme music for it would be good too....

I've had dreams about being something or someone else already though, with no transformation sequence... one time I was actually Jack Bauer, working with CTU to stop another terrorist threat.  There was another cool one where I was a character in my favorite vampire show The Originals... I was a trusted friend of the legendary Mikaelson family, of course.  Sheeeeit, I'd love to go back to that again and again.

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yeah I just saw a vid where "geekdom101" was talking about this foolishness.  This is just....bizarre.  It's so silly it's hilarious.  Jiren is near or AT the top of the "tier list" in this shit at the moment... and this puny human... Roshi... he's able to dodge and actually fight with him?  Yeah ok bruh 😄  The writer is clearly smoking something.

 

Lucid Dreaming again-- maybe I just keep a mental checklist to try and remember for next time... I've never tried that before, actually.  I haven't spent much time in space before in a dream...so perhaps that is next...I'll try that and energy-projection/manipulation.  The challenge would be remembering the "to do list" while in the dream and hitting the moment of awareness.

There was one where the powers didn't work out--- I had a dream where I had to fill-in as "Spiderman" for a day, since he was elsewhere, I guess.  The timing of web-slinging around the city took a while to get used to... I kept giving too much slack and dragging into the damn ground as a result...people probably wonder "damn what's up with Spidey today?  Is he drunk or somethin'?"  Funny thing was it actually hurt in the dream.  Usually you don't expect get hurt too much in a dream...heh, usually.  There was another one where I was flying but suddenly lost the ability when I saw my old school (*OBVIOUS MESSAGE!*) I hated so much...normally, you'd expect to wake up before hitting the ground in a dream....well, not that time.

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sheeeeit, more talk of the possibilities of life elsewhere in the universe...  as mentioned before, I think the reality is the depressing fact that most advanced species that are like humans or better simply don't get to exist long enough to reach that point of mastering interstellar travel... (and perhaps our species is simply "lucky" to have even lasted this long)

 

 

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