Reminds me of lordofthefat.
[editline]25th March 2013[/editline]
Just noticed, he goes on about how he can't buy stuff, yet i see a pair of dr dre beats and apple headphones in another photo (most likely has an iDevice).
YEAH REALLY CONVINCING
I can't believe there are still people using XP as their main OS (Unless they have a shit computer)
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I used to play Arma 2 with this kid and he said this kind of shit ALL THE TIME
also he's absolutely terrible at flying helicopters
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I know toooooo many people like that.
Supposedly comcast doubled my internet from 25/5 to 50/10 today.
I had a great little experience with this guy who was buying a laptop back when I worked at a computer shop.
So this guy, who was pretty old, told me he was after something with a really good graphics card. The best one you could buy. He also told me he knew his stuff, (obviously since he knew what a graphics card was, eh?) and that he had a big budget. So, at any rate, I went through our range told him the different kinds of power you could get at each price point and whether he should go AMD or NVidia. That sort of thing. I like to put time and effort into my pitches, after all, and since this guy "knew his stuff" and was after a good card, I thought I'd focus on the really powerful units.
But while I was doing this, I could see he hadn't listened to a word I'd said which was pretty annoying (but hey I guess he knew it all already, right, since he knew his stuff, right?) and he just turned his nose up at everything I showed him as he wandered aimlessly looking oddly arrogant, leaning over, looking down his nose and squinting in that way people do when they're trying to look clever. Slowly I was beginning to question whether this guy really did "know his stuff" and thought... "hang on... what's this old guy doing on a laptop that he needs good graphical horsepower for? He's not going to be gaming, he's not going to be video editing or anything like that... what's he spending his money for?" So, since I'm making no progress, I figure I'll ask him. "So what exactly are you intending to do with it that you need a lot of graphical power, sir?" I ask. "Well I do a lot of streaming online"
"hmmmm... yeah you don't want to waste your money sir" I say as I steer the poor guy to the cheaper laptops. He was really willing to spend in the region of a grand for the sake of streaming some videos but he really did not want to budge and was pretty adamant that he needed a good graphics card.
Oh yeah and by the end of it he decided he didn't want any of them because of this new "rubbish looking Windows 8 thing" which I wasn't huge about.
Not really a hugely interesting story. We all know someone like that, though.
[editline]26th March 2013[/editline]
I might just spend a little while sharing some stories from my time there, actually. It was really interesting and there's a bunch of real characters.
[QUOTE=Brt5470;40039988]Supposedly comcast doubled my internet from 25/5 to 50/10 today.[/QUOTE]
[quote]Specifically, the Blast! plan is increasing download speeds from up to 25 megabits per second to speeds up to 50 Mbps and upload speeds from up to 4 Mbps to up to 10 Mbps, while Extreme 50 customers will receive download speeds up to 105 Mbps (formerly 50 Mbps) and upload speeds up to 20 Mbps (formerly 15 Mbps). The Performance plan is increasing to speeds up to (20 or 25) Mbps from 15 Mbps downstream and to (4 or 5) Mbps from 2 Mbps upstream. For more information, call 1-800-XFINITY or visit [url]www.comcastcorporation.com[/url].[/quote]
Okay here's another little story from my working at a computer shop but I'll give you some background to it so you get it a bit more.
So everyone who worked there was between about 16 and 30 - even the manager was around 30 - except this one who I'll call Dave (for the sake of his privacy, that's not his actual name - you never know what's going to happen. It's the internet!) who must've been in his 50s or 60s since, in the staff room, there was a newspaper cutting hanging that said he was their longest serving employee at something like 40 years.
Now, this guy is really weird. The kind of weird it takes to work in the same shop for 40 years as a salesman where your job is basically to sell people bullshit insurance and stuff they don't need whilst squeezing the most money you possibly can out of them. He was an insanely good salesman, though, something everyone else just attributed to him being such a weirdo. One of his weird traits is that he saves all of his money like crazy. He doesn't have anything to spend it on (he doesn't go on holiday, he has no kids and he just generally doesn't splash out) so it just accumulates. 40 years of selling bullshit and getting huge bonuses for being such a good salesman. He used to brag about it which was the eeriest bit. He'd show off his bank statements to everyone and that sort of thing. I think it's somewhere between 500 grand and a million... Nothing wrong with saving, don't get me wrong, it's just that he was never ever going to do anything with it.
So the other bit of background is there's this running joke we had. You know the word smeg in Red Dwarf? It's basically like that. Our word was Toola and it was pretty much our word for penis. We would call each other Toola, write little notes with the word Toola, write the word Toola on someone's cash register when they weren't looking, slip it into conversations, all that. There was a particularly funny moment where, when the shop was clear, someone said "Toola Toola Toola" over the intercom. I'm not totally sure why it was so funny, on reflection, and it's certainly much funnier than it sounds. I guess it's just the persistence of it and the people that said it being funny guys.
So onto the actual story. Quite a while back there was a woman looking to buy a laptop and she'd been unlucky enough for 'Dave' to be the salesman that spotted her first. So he's giving her this pitch about a laptop and, since he's done this before so many times, he's getting a bit absent minded. In the end he's starting to run out of features of the laptop to talk about. So, without thinking (and probably because this guy was so obsessed with using this word) while listing through some random features he tells her it's got the Toola screen. This spikes her interest. "The Toola screen?" Oh shit, he must have been thinking. He can't just say "No sorry I made that up lol" so he has to just bullshit. So he makes up this thing called the Toola screen - I think he decided to say it was to do with glare but that's not important. In the end, she buys the laptop. This poor woman went home really happy with her laptop and it's shiny new Toola screen. "It's got this great new Toola screen" She'll tell her friends and they'll all want this amazing new Toola screen on their laptops.
It just goes to show, you should never trust anything a salesman ever tells you ever. Especially not when they're as weird as Dave.
Anyone know a decent image viewing tool? The windows 8 stock one is extremely annoying. If possible one that only shows the image to make it load faster and stuff.
[QUOTE=latin_geek;40039677]I used to play Arma 2 with this kid and he said this kind of shit ALL THE TIME
also he's absolutely terrible at flying helicopters[/QUOTE]
I don't understand how people can be bad at heli piloting in arma 2, it has like literally the most stable flight mechanics of any game (I mean there's even an auto-hover mode ffs)
[QUOTE=Confuzzed Otto;40041109]Anyone know a decent image viewing tool? The windows 8 stock one is extremely annoying. If possible one that only shows the image to make it load faster and stuff.[/QUOTE]
I've been using [URL="http://www.honeyview.org/"]HoneyView[/URL] for a while now, never had a problem with it
[QUOTE=CoalTen;40041135]I've been using [URL="http://www.honeyview.org/"]HoneyView[/URL] for a while now, never had a problem with it[/QUOTE]
Holy shit yes, this is lightning speed. Thanks man.
In my dream last night I told some kids in my English class to shut the fuck up and the teacher banned me for flaming. Should I take a leave from Facepunch or is this normal behavior?
[QUOTE=TrafficMan;40041126]I don't understand how people can be bad at heli piloting in arma 2, it has like literally the most stable flight mechanics of any game (I mean there's even an auto-hover mode ffs)[/QUOTE]
if you use autohover you're a weenie (and you're putting your craft in danger since iirc the auto hover top speed is like a mile an hour)
I really FUCKING hate people like this.
[url]http://puu.sh/2o7kG[/url]
God I can't even put it into words. People ask for help on something so... incredibly like... fundamental. HOW DO I TAKE A BUNCH OF PICTURES AT A SPECIFIC RATE, I HAVE NO FUCKING IDEA HOW TO FEED MYSELF.
ALSO SOME PEOPLE DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT ISN'T THAT NOT AS GOOD AS NORMAL WHY IS THAT
WOW THIS IS A LOT OF WORK
Fuck... you.
I get this shit from people I used to work with on computers. They'd ask about some CPU or something, and they say idk,
"So I'm looking at the FX55 from AMD. It's $500 or something. Fast. What do you think?"
"FX55 sounds fine, I'd go for it."
"But my friend said I should go intel."
"... Ok so"
"Well."
"WELL FUCKING WHAT WHO THE FUCK CARES WHAT YOUR SHITTY FRIEND THINKS. YOU FUCKING ASKED ME. YOU WANTED MY ADVICE NOW FUCK OFF."
Jesus christ I can not handle these people. I want to shove this cunt off a cliff. He asks me shit every single day about the more mundane and basic of anything ever.
Nahh not too have dreams like that means that you are not a regular person to the cipwttkt standards, so I wouldn't worry. Hey makol what about the little shits that fucked up your room and stole your DS? Would like an update.
[QUOTE=rsa1988;40041663]Hey makol what about the little shits that fucked up your room and stole your DS? Would like an update.[/QUOTE]
I found the DS.
I assumed they tried playing it, luckily my games weren't found, since it was covered in finger prints that are way to small to be mine.
My parents and our realtor decided that the listing information to be updated with a note stating that parents who want to bring their kids to see the house have to agree to have me or one of my parents present because of "a previous incident". So far no one seems to have an issue with it.
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Now people are just coming at really weird times. We had people coming at times like 6:30pm and 7:15pm which is when we usually have dinner :v:
[QUOTE=Makol;40041747]Now people are just coming at really weird times. We had people coming at times like 6:30pm and 7:15pm which is when we usually have dinner :v:[/QUOTE]
vampires want to buy your house
[QUOTE=Protocol7;40041817]vampires want to buy your house[/QUOTE]
o shit
[editline]25th March 2013[/editline]
In other news I may be getting a desktop support internship at a family friend's company.
yay
sleep with a wooden stake and a cross above your door tonight
So the Ghost doing good Makol hope nothing is messed up about it by having the side panel being taken off by the kids. Well nighty night time for me have a good day or night where ever you all might be.
[QUOTE=rsa1988;40042067]So the Ghost doing good Makol hope nothing is messed up about it by having the side panel being taken off by the kids. Well nighty night time for me have a good day or night where ever you all might be.[/QUOTE]
Yeah my PC is fine, nothing wrong from what I can tell. Doesn't seem like they messed with anything inside of it.
Just has greasy finger prints on it.
They must have had greasy kids from all the finger prints I've been finding. But it's funny they messed with my shit yet all they did nothing to my brother's room. Guess my room was more interesting or something.
[QUOTE=HolyCrapAWalrus;40041387]In my dream last night I told some kids in my English class to shut the fuck up and the teacher banned me for flaming. Should I take a leave from Facepunch or is this normal behavior?[/QUOTE]
It's fine, I often rate people out loud after they finish speaking.
[QUOTE=rhx123;40043255]It's fine, I often rate people out loud after they finish speaking.[/QUOTE]
"And that's why we need to push for real change in North Korea"
"[B]PINKNIPPLE[/B]"
Wwwooooowww "networking theory 101: wtf is a bit???"
and here I expected fun and interesting morning classes
[QUOTE=MTMod;40033216]A new standard of GPU measurement.
[I]"The new GTX Titan is four Tratzdicks long."[/I][/QUOTE]
I have wanted to reply to this with actual measurements but for fucks sake I can't find a ruler...
so i better won't. Also it would be too creepy.
The titan is what, 27CM long?
It'd be more like slightly lower than 2.
[sp]that is not a measurement done by me, 14cm is the usual length of a dick. and no i didn't google that, it was in the xkcd where they had the easy metric system chart[/sp]
I am so fucking confused right now.
I used PHP to take a password, then salt it, and print out password, salt, and encrypted password.
Then I made something that takes in a password, applies the pre-existing salt and prints out the results from that.
Apparently:
"lamepassword" with salt "3df18e861126c2f51988cc66d6b74b" = "3dnEBPXmOp9jY"
and
"lamepass" with salt "3df18e861126c2f51988cc66d6b74b" = "3dnEBPXmOp9jY"
I am so fucking confused right now.
I think the salt might be too long, and then causing some problems. But who the fuck would look at that salt and go "yeah that's too long".
Who the fuck looks at anything password-related and says "that's too long"?
Edit:
Hmm, I think the default method for the crypt function might not like my salts.
The documentation for this, is honestly shit. The examples are way more useful.
[QUOTE=HolyCrapAWalrus;40041387]In my dream last night I told some kids in my English class to shut the fuck up and the teacher banned me for flaming. Should I take a leave from Facepunch or is this normal behavior?[/QUOTE]
I had a dream about Facepunch the other night. I was at my old primary school (Don't know why, I left there nearly 10 years ago) and sat on a bench with a laptop talking to Wingless. She was just replying to everything with "Maybe" and then.. [B]User was banned for this post: (Stop repeating yourself. Maybe x 20)
[/B]You know you have been reading too much Sipwicket when that happens.
oh yeah, i got banned from facepunch in a dream as well
don't even remember what i did
So I ordered [URL="https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B004S1GYM0/ref=oss_product"]this[/URL] from amazon and instead got
[t]http://i.imgur.com/QgBROAa.jpg[/t]
I am mad and dissapointed, unless the one I got works with DS3.
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