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Break videos slow to load (Fail Talk Post)

Croccydile says...

I get the same problem, and yes its probably because of adblock. I don't really care much for a 30 second ad for break videos that are usually 3-5 seconds of useful content. If you load it in another tab in the background it seems to work anyways regardless.

Chinese Lady Gets Shocked and Burns Face

Croccydile says...

The camera angle made it hard to see how close she was to the live uninsulated bus bar, I was wondering "How the hell is she sitting there without getting electrocuted by THAT?"

She is lucky to not only be alive, but also not have caused a phase-phase flashover (the other near her feet) that would have been both visually spectacular and a certain death.

Rocket Malfunction Compilation

Arthur C Clarke predicting the future in 1964

GTA 4/IV First Person PC/Windows Mods.

Croccydile says...

The unfortunate thing is that Steam users are locked out of these mods, as most of them are specific to GTA IV 1.0.4.0. In the newer versions (1.0.7.0 is what is the latest, and enforced on Steam) they either wont work or features are disabled for performance reasons. A shame really as some of this stuff looks really nice.

No fucking way I'm buying this game a third time just to make it look pretty.

(Yes, I tried to make it all work in what I had... the problem is most of the HDR/effects are disabled. Hi-res textures are ok though. Still better than default.)

Wow. (Terrible Talk Post)

Croccydile says...

>> ^dag:

Can you still get film developed in stores? Honest question.


Walgreens is locally the better of the 1-hour processing, and the same machine that does film handles the digital photos. The quality is rather good considering.

If I want processing done by actual photography professions I would have to go to Orlando and the local camera store there.

Low Bridge - 13 Crashes in 13 Months

Starcraft 2 Cracktro by Razor 1911

Croccydile says...

This brings back some old memories... common for these kinds of intros on certain C64, Amiga, PC releases back in the day. Razor1911 is one of the originals! You can find alot of these on YouTube as well since finding them individually in original form now is exceptionally difficult. Was this specific to Starcraft 2 or simply an updated .nfo viewer?

On a semi-related note, its good to see that the 64k intros are (amazingly) still being made today as well. Rather difficult to believe its possible to do that anymore, especially in 3D without all the bloat from libraries.

One of the best, and it still works on modern OS/PCs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkEsP9H2HGM

Unfortunately some of the productions are false positives in modern virus scanners, thinking because of the .exe packer its a trojan (Not the case here)

Fail Compilation - August 2010

Most Expensive Public School Controversy

Croccydile says...

The local county attempted to solve this problem 8 years ago by raising the sales tax by 0.5% for "school capital outlay". Now alot of the older schools have been replaced with brand new ones here. However, as of recently teachers are still getting laid off because of the separation of funds as outlined in the video as well.

Took me a little digging to find the results from 2001.

Special Referendum
One-Half (1/2) Cent Sales Surtax for School Construction Renovation and Technology Improvements
Total
For 29,438
Against 23,440


It was pretty hotly contested at the time.

Worlds Luckiest Driver

Teenager launches and crashes his Firebird into a bridge

SAVE THE INTERNET - SEND A MESSAGE TO THE FCC RIGHT NOW~!!! (Worldaffairs Talk Post)

Croccydile says...

What puzzles me about this is how Google had been buying up alot of dark fiber back in the day (remember then?) they could be their own ISP practically and avoid this mess. As far as the FCC and censoring you can blame organizations like the American Family Association and the like for organized "outrage" spam. Who is to say Google won't eventually cave to the same demands? A few years ago if you wrote how Google was going to be dealing against net neutrality you would have been eaten alive by fanboys.

Either way this is worrysome if it gets to the point you have to pay extra to use the "rest of the internet" thats outside of the Google domain. The "we wont do this, pinky swear" clause of vagueness reeks of what we saw in the 90s.

This all comes from an industry we as a country paid billions for from the same time period and now the providers want to eat their cake and have it too. Perhaps this is the end result of over a decade of overselling bandwidth.

I remember when using a fat connection back in the day (> 10mbit university, 1999) the Internet seemed almost instantaneous compared to dial-up. Now if you try to actually use your connection the result is "lol, psych" and the provider thinking you are a bandwith hog.

<sarcasm>I can't wait till I have to pay the Netflix bandwidth surcharge fee of $5.99 per gigabyte along with the Potential Pirated Content fee at $19.99 per gigabyte and Just Because You Have No Choice fee of $49.99 per month</sarcasm>

Live footage of Korean CNG bus explosion.

Zero Punctuation: Shadow of the Colossus

Croccydile says...

Another game apparently I've missed out on... along with Katamari for the PS2. Then again I never had a PS2

Maybe I should hunt these down now. I tried PCSX2 for the first time last week and I was surprised that it can actually... play games quite well!



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