Random thought thread!

RichVR · 2013-10-04T20:03:25.000Z

CLWheeljack:

NY street nuts? Awww yeah. I’ll eat some for you this winter.

You know you’re killing me here. Right?

SuperAdventurer · 2013-10-08T19:44:05.000Z

So this is “Forum / Quarter to Three Boards / Everything else / Random thought thread!”. But afaik Quarter to Three Boards is the only item under Forum. Couldn’t a step in the hierarchy be eliminated there?

SuperAdventurer · 2013-10-08T19:52:16.000Z

Ok fine. I’m changing how I have this forum bookmarked then. Used to be:

Quarter To Three Forums

Changed to:
http://www.quartertothree.com/game-talk/forumdisplay.php?3-Quarter-to-Three-Boards

Extraneous hierarchy level eliminated!

ReptileHouse · 2013-10-09T10:40:26.000Z

The extra level is still there in the links at the top of the page, taunting you.

RichVR · 2013-10-10T18:22:30.000Z

Life is easy. Hierarchies are hard.

Penny_Dreadful · 2013-10-18T14:58:23.000Z

So apparently this is a thing now. I was at the store just a few minutes ago and I, a twenty eight year old fully grown adult human being, was explicitly told that I could not exchange legal tender for a video game. Why? Because my sister (who is 17 mind you) was with me, and she didn’t have photo ID on her. I had to ask her to wait outside the store before being able to purchase it.

So do parents have to leave their children in the car when they buy R rated movies now?

RichVR · 2013-10-18T17:35:43.000Z

Who buys R-rated movies these days?

CLWheeljack · 2013-11-08T13:12:00.000Z

I was looking at the sheer number of Marvel related threads. 15 years ago, with Marvel lurching along near bankruptcy with the end of the comic speculation bubble, who could have imagined that they’d be the omnipresent media powerhouse they are today?

Freezer-TPF · 2013-11-08T13:16:53.000Z

RDJr saved Marvel.

Scuzz · 2013-11-08T14:03:56.000Z

RichVR:

Who buys R-rated movies these days?

Have they quit making good R rated movies? I mean some of the best movies have been R rated. Of course now PG-13 is pretty close to what used to be R rated.

Scuzz · 2013-11-08T14:04:23.000Z

duplicate post for some reason…my bad

Penny_Dreadful · 2013-11-08T14:15:14.000Z

So I uninstalled a game and this popped up.

Well isn’t this quite the predicament.

ElGuapo · 2013-11-08T14:29:12.000Z

I absolutely love all these Marvel and DC Lego sets floating around. Just bought the Arkam Asylum Escape set. I kind of want to build a to-scale Tim Burtonesque Gotham around it.

RickH · 2013-11-09T11:22:48.000Z

Is anyone else disappointed that the credit card that Samuel L. Jackson is pimping in the TV commercials is not called the BAD MOTHER FUCKER card?

Because I would totally sign up for one of those just for the chance for a waiter to ask whose credit card was whose at some point.

charmtrap · 2013-11-09T12:03:57.000Z

RickH:

Is anyone else disappointed that the credit card that Samuel L. Jackson is pimping in the TV commercials is not called the BAD MOTHER FUCKER card?

Because I would totally sign up for one of those just for the chance for a waiter to ask whose credit card was whose at some point.

I think one of his commercials for that card is the first time I’ve heard someone swear in a TV spot. Companies usually go out of their way not to offend anyone, no matter how minor.

ChristienMurawski · 2013-11-20T14:04:02.000Z

This should probably go in something called “Dumb Thought Thread” but oh well…I’ll put it here.

There are so many little things I look forward to this time of year. One of those little things is the return of Trader Joe’s candles; since they made them seasonal a couple of years ago they only start appearing now. It’s dumb, but I love those things. Dripless. Self-extinguishing. Just the right size for certain holders I have.

This year’s batch really sucks. They don’t burn properly and make a weird fizzing/popping sound intermittently, as if a little elf were over there flicking droplets of water into the wax at the top of the candle as it burns.

Petty. Dumb. Grr.

-xtien

Papageno · 2013-11-20T15:20:32.000Z

Christien Murawski:

This should probably go in something called “Dumb Thought Thread” but oh well…I’ll put it here.

There are so many little things I look forward to this time of year. One of those little things is the return of Trader Joe’s candles; since they made them seasonal a couple of years ago they only start appearing now. It’s dumb, but I love those things. Dripless. Self-extinguishing. Just the right size for certain holders I have.

This year’s batch really sucks. They don’t burn properly and make a weird fizzing/popping sound intermittently, as if a little elf were over there flicking droplets of water into the wax at the top of the candle as it burns.

Petty. Dumb. Grr.

-xtien

What I love at TJ’s this time of year is the imported German Marzipan Stollen. Yum.

Papageno · 2013-11-20T15:50:02.000Z

Christien Murawski:

This should probably go in something called “Dumb Thought Thread” but oh well…I’ll put it here.

There are so many little things I look forward to this time of year. One of those little things is the return of Trader Joe’s candles; since they made them seasonal a couple of years ago they only start appearing now. It’s dumb, but I love those things. Dripless. Self-extinguishing. Just the right size for certain holders I have.

This year’s batch really sucks. They don’t burn properly and make a weird fizzing/popping sound intermittently, as if a little elf were over there flicking droplets of water into the wax at the top of the candle as it burns.

Petty. Dumb. Grr.

-xtien

What I love at TJ’s this time of year is the imported German Marzipan Stollen. Yum.

wisefool · 2013-12-10T08:30:47.000Z

My self-Christmas gift this year is replacing every bulb with 5500 Kelvin lights. Now that prices are decent, I ordered some LEDs and these Alzo CF’s I’ve used before.

These “warm” compact fluorescent lights are always look dark and are depressing. I swear when they came out in the 90s they marketed “warm” lights as better but they suck. I don’t care that you see all the imperfections in fluorescent lighting, that is probably because I can’t see squat anymore with this nasty sunset-color light.

From googling:

1500k: Candlelight
2680k: 40w incandescent
2700k: most “warm” CF lights
3000k: 200w incandescent
3400k: 1 hour from dusk/dawn
5000k: The old tubular flourescents
5500k: bright daylight at noon.

The gall to market something as ‘daylight’ when halfway between candlelight and sunset. Like candles, from wax.

Chris_Nahr · 2013-12-11T13:37:07.000Z

Warm fluorescents are nice and cozy! Just like sunset and fireplaces and incandescents. Keep the nasty yellow face out of my burrow, precious.

In other news, clothing sizes are getting ever more ridiculous. My latest shopping spree ended up with sizes from L to XXL, where the L was rather loose and the XXL was rather tight (both upper body). Why even bother showing sizes? Just stamp everything with “random size, try your luck.”