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Darksi4190 wrote:Naw he's actually a really cool guy we actually had a big laugh about the arm-slashing thing when he reminded me of it. I'm just concerned because I've never interacted with him without the group present, and he does have PTSD, so I don't want to do something to freak him out. I know the big things my friends mentioned before we hung out as a group were "don't surprise him," and "don't talk about the war."

Yeah don't suprise him, at all. And don't talk about the war unless he does.

If your concerned, then PM me your info and I'll call the local fuzz if you don't check in a couple of days.

I'm sure you'll be fine though.

Nah man its cool. Thanks though.

Akhlut wrote:

RyanThunder wrote:Giving enough of a shit about a public problem that you're willing to unglue your face from vapid pop culture nonsense long enough to put serious effort into trying to solve that problem, I figure.

But I don't like that term. Everybody affected by something deserves to have input on it.

You're basically engaged in a form of victim-blaming, there. Most people are acculturated to only care about rather narrow groupings of subjects and not to think critically about societal problems. Saying that the victims of this acculturation are responsible for the problems in society is putting the cart before the horse, to a certain extent.

Okay. What would you do about it?

so my ps3 is now in the oven

where it belongs.

Gonna need a new oven....well if you turned it on.

oh it is on, i talked to a guy who fixes these things and he said baking it can reflow the solder joints which fixes this problem like three out of four times

wow it fucking stinks tho. all the doors and windows are open now, i hope it doesn't cool too fast and crack again. but i'm prolly gonna have to clean the oven before cooking anything to eat now

did the guy also tell you to delete system32 to speed up your computer?

: "Hey guys I have a problem with my computer--"
: "Format and reinstall."
: "But you haven't even heard what the problem is..."
:"Doesn't matter, format and reinstall."
: "Okay, I guess..."
:

the process is complete and i have good news and i have bad news

the good is it worked - the thing powered on, green light, no beep. looks like the solder connection was successfully fixed

the bad is the a/v connector melted. the hdmi thing next to it, insulated the same way, was fine, but this thing must be made of different stuff as it is totally misshapen now and i had to bust it apart just to reassemble the unit. since my tv doesn't have hdmi.... this is kinda a problem and i can't be sure it *actually* worked and obviously can't use it anyway


i figure i'll cut the end off one of my spare a/v cables and solder the wires directly to the board so this isn't a dealbreaker. i've had enough of this for now tho, maybe next weekend

time to clean the oven

Just get an HDMI capable TV, you lamer.

RyanThunder wrote:

Akhlut wrote:

RyanThunder wrote:Giving enough of a shit about a public problem that you're willing to unglue your face from vapid pop culture nonsense long enough to put serious effort into trying to solve that problem, I figure.

But I don't like that term. Everybody affected by something deserves to have input on it.

You're basically engaged in a form of victim-blaming, there. Most people are acculturated to only care about rather narrow groupings of subjects and not to think critically about societal problems. Saying that the victims of this acculturation are responsible for the problems in society is putting the cart before the horse, to a certain extent.

Okay. What would you do about it?

Educate people on things.

see attached from episode 6 of the sailor moon dub


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Akhlut wrote:
Educate people on things.

and education is a two way process to boot

Ugh. Logged on to play TOR and I forgot the update was coming out for it today.

Dance the update dance monkey! Dance it!

WHAT THE FUCK PEOPLE ARE BOMBING THE FUCKING BOSTON MARATHON

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/16/us/ex ... .html?_r=0

Well, shit.

Jesus.

My sister in law is supposed to be running that today. Naturally no one can get a hold of her.

Christ. I hope she's ok man.

*shrug* Hurry up and wait, its all we can do.

2 deads and 23 harmed is the numbers I have now.

So unless she's REALLY unlucky, well, statistically she should be fine.

I've seen that number too. Are there any reports on how badly those 23 people are injured?

Oxymoron wrote:2 deads and 23 harmed is the numbers I have now.

So unless she's REALLY unlucky, well, statistically she should be fine.

Yeah, I saw the news. I figure if she was there that odds are shes fine.

None that I'm aware of.

It happened barely 2 hours and a half ago. Reports are still scarce.


I'm hearing right now on the TV that they apparently have found several explosive devices in the city, somewhere else than where the explosions happened.

Yeah, I saw the news. I figure if she was there that odds are shes fine.

If I've heard right, the explosions happened as the first runners where reaching the finish line. And the explosions happened in the public.