whose flood market

[PhantomCatClock]

not as refreshing as a free beer but maybe if i took the time to get addicted i'd have appreciated it more

[DiscoBallClock]

https://imgur.com/rAUFTnf

given the hint "they're a conscious wonderful immortalized figure", the clock crew made the following guesses in the following order:
1) jesus
2) david bowie
3) god
4) disney
5) buddha
6) jesus
7) karl marx

is this your way of letting us know you love us and the saturday night slurpee games

yes

<3

[DiscoBallClock]

even non-smokers don't say no to free cigarettes




until the little worms

Turning down free drugs is just poor social etiquette

this

[Slurpee]

HBO Max head Andy Forssell took to Twitter to state he's currently "working on" a potential Venture Bros. series finale, though "nothing" is "imminent."

that's really cute but im literally whining like a dog, please save my cartoon friends mr. hbo 😭

[Slurpee]

I'm sorry we're degenerates slurpee



This statement is made in earnest not meant as a flippant remark

wasn't judging

just seems like once you start, stopping sucks

[FLOUNDERMAN_CLOCK]

That's part of why don't drink much coffee. It's nice once in a while or with friends but I don't like the idea of needing it to be awake. Not that it's anywhere near trying to quit smoking but it still sounds like a chore.

Also if this special happens and they really do a finale I'll probably catch up the whole series all at once. That's gonna be a ride. Once it's greenlit we'll only have to wait another six years for the special to be completed and released.

[FLOUNDERMAN_CLOCK]

Also coffee just doesn't taste great to me. Adding a bunch of sugar and creamer just makes it taste weird so I just go with a single sugar or nothing at all. Yet I love chocolate covered espresso beans and coffee brownies. Seems to be true of near anyone who's not that into coffee. Hell even if they can't get past the taste at all they love the smell of fresh coffee. It's impossible to hate that smell.

[PhantomCatClock]

I started drinking coffee when I found myself getting mad at people at work too much, and it always made me not be mad at them for the rest of the day. Eventually I started just drinking it every day and my quality of life immediately improved vastly. I don't always drink it on my day off—it definitely doesn't make me feel less awake, not to—but now that I type this I remember that sometimes I'll get headaches if I don't drink coffee so NEVERMIND I GUESS I AM ADDICTED HAHA



also if you do ever commit to just drinking coffee: it doesn't take long for it to stop tasting like dog food. Like, a month or so. You really might as well get used to it without creamer or anything. Black coffee is easy to find ("a drink you can get at any port" eh wot) and you never crash if there's no sugar in it. It'll just gracefully wear off

[DiscoBallClock]

I only started drinking coffee well into my 20s (most people over here start before they're 20), but I gotta say, I love it. I don't drink it for the "energy" factor, I just love the taste. No cream, no sugar, black. I like that bitter twinge

To be fair, over here most coffee is espresso, so it's small and very concentrated. I don't dislike American coffee, but it kinda feels like coffee-flavored water to me; I get why some people would dislike it

[GreyClock]

wasn't judging

just seems like once you start, stopping sucks

There's this soundbyte that keeps running through my head. I think it's from some Adam Sandler movie. A guy with a thick foreign accent says something like: "Love... it's a motherfucker." Only I hear it with "nicotine addiction" instead of "love".

I still haven't finished my pack yet, trying to slowly wean off, but now I'm experiencing pre-quitting anxiety or something. This entire thing is one helluva mindfuck.

[GreyClock]

Also this discussion about the death of expression and new forms of media, the internet and so on. It reminds me, in spirit (Rob), of this exchange from season 1 of True Detective:

"So you're telling me the world isn't getting worse? I've seen kids today, all in black, wearing makeup, shit on their faces; everything's sex. Clinton!"
"You know, throughout history, I bet every old man probably said the same thing. And old men die. And the world keeps spinning."

I remember hearing that about all those old quotes from roman times where people were saying the same shit but then I learned some of them were saying that in the last couple hundred years for the empire so hmm. But THEN what they point to is shit like young men playing the lyre. which was kinda like the equivalent of college dudes playing wonder wall in the grass to pick up chicks. Will people look back on us in thousands of years and say "yep, wonderwall, that was the point where it all went to hell"? I sure hope so.

Returning to this, because I had a thought that kinda ties in with it: I'm thinking more along the lines of smartphones or maybe the internet. Think about a place like Montego Bay. Maybe you've never heard of it, but even still it might conjure up images of tropical beaches, a tiki bar that serves cocktails in coconuts, a warm sun slowly melting you into a malleable ooze of pure bliss? Montego Bay... So alluring and mysterious... But you can bet bottom dollar that if you go there at this point in time, there will be a bunch of assholes blasting memes into their eyeballs with their iPhones. (Maybe not right right now...) If you went there in say the Fifties people were probably playing dominoes or baccarat or some shit, wearing wool suits in 90 degree heat. Which isn't even all that cool, but it still beats whatever the hell this is. I can't even articulate just what it is that I find so objectionable about the former. Probably something to do with homogenization and globalization, a loss of wonder. I can probably look around on a beach there with Google Street View. Which, everything considered, I think is a good illustration of that quote earlier. And it's completely irrational. Rose-tinted, faux-nostalgic drivel. Those people that were there in the Fifties? Likely a bunch of sweaty, smelly racists. It doesn't matter where (or when) you go, it's still just a bunch of people doing whatever, and people are terrible.

[GreyClock]

That's a great example of what makes me such a natural smoker by the way.

Just picture me sitting in a dark room smoking a cigarette, coming up with that shit.

[VCRClock]

I think that's a legitimate criticism of the now times that goes a bit deeper than blind nostalgia, and it absolutely does tie in with globalization. Before the first cell phone, traveling to Jamaica would mean that anyone you knew from home who wanted to contact you would at least have to phone you on an unfamiliar number, and they'd only be able to occupy your time while you were at the hotel. Before the telegraph you might as well have been dead until you stepped off the boat home.

With smartphones, for one thing, you're as connected as you want to be with all of the same people and sources of memes as you are when you're at home in your pajamas; depending on your employment situation, your colleagues may expect you to be responsive to messages within a few hours, despite being in Jamaica. That might lead to you always thinking as if your colleagues or friends are always within arms' reach, because they are. Travelers in the past would have felt a stronger obligation to take pictures of stuff, in case you needed to explain something to someone later, or commit things to memory for the same reason, or literally bring something back from the trip.

The rest is just the extension of globalization. What's remote is no longer remote, if you're a tourist; even the quirky out of the way shit is on TripAdvisor; no stone is unturned. You can enjoy Haagen-Dazs ice cream here, at home, or at the airport. Actually learning about how other people live, or experiencing something truly unique to a region, requires additional detective work. You're not going to be playing dominoes with any locals if they're looking at memes on their phones too.

Another aspect of that obstacle: if I drop you like a Street View man on Fremont St in Las Vegas, you can walk up and down the street, maybe some side streets, and see everything you see on Street View, which is fine if you're looking for a casino, gift shop, maybe even whatever they consider a big deal restaurant in Las Vegas. But some of the most enterprising, physical-space-having little guy local artists and businesses I know of are located in, like, industrial spaces, or they're in Building C Suite 108 or something. In the rose tinted past, businesses like this would have had to operate in spaces visible to potential foot or vehicle traffic for anyone to know they existed. Nowadays they're easier to find on the internet; if they even have a physical space with opening hours, they're always moving around. If you're not spending all your time on the internet trying to discover such things, are you even really traveling?

[RobClock]

speaking of sitting around in the darkness smoking and wearing wool jackets, i bought this jacket today for $15 at Value Village (Canadian Goodwill for the yankees)

[RobClock]

also fuck globalism its destroying the unique and valuable assets of culture the world over as well as despicably consolidating power over individual nations within a centralized governance

[RobClock]

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[GreyClock]

So yesterday I was sitting on the couch streaming a show when BLIP my pc turned off. It won't start up again either. I cleaned it, checked the connections inside, but that's about as far as my knowledge goes.

There's this little LED light on the power supply that still works, it turns on and off whenever I press the power button. That's it, no other reaction. I'm guessing the motherboard is kaputt? The whole rig was at least 11 years old anyway.

I dug up my unbelievably shitty laptop, through which I'm reaching you now. Talk about nostalgia, due to the terrible resolution and speed, it's like being back on the internet circa 2005.

I doubt I'll be able to participate in the weekly shenanigans though.

[PhantomCatClock]

if it was actually the motherboard, you can check all the capacitors and see if any popped/are bulging (which would basically equate to "yes, that's the issue")


was it a prebuilt? you may be able to get a POST code out of that blinking light if you hold the power button for some random amount of time, depending on the maker. Otherwise, if you can find someone who'll let you borrow that... little speaker that plugs into the motherboard, it'll beep out what's wrong with it (to reference with googling the motherboard's manual)


mentioning this because wouldn't it be nice if the answer was "unplug the ram and stick it back in" or "jiggle the graphics card" which is what some of those diagnostics codes equate to

[PhantomCatClock]

not that post codes are the only way to check, it's just it'd be nice to have something other than "eleven years old? probably the power supply. buy another one" to fling at you ALSO









bedtime

[GreyClock]

Prebuilt, yeah. HP Compaq something or other.

Held it for about a minute. No blinking, just turns on and stays on or turns off and stays off.

I pretty much wrote it off already, disconnected it and put it away. I'll jiggle a few things, sure.