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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Is Islam a radical religion or is everyone else wrong?

« on: December 11, 2013, 09:42:44 PM »

There are three big problems I have with this video:

• Yes, "all" people attending the "Islam is the best" conference think Islam is great. I hope they notified the media. This could be a big story. I can see the headlines right now: BREAKING: Muslims Still Muslim!
• He keeps putting "normal" and "Sunni" in the same sentence.
• If you're holding a conference in English and can't say a single sentence without interjecting Arabic in the middle, something's not quite right.

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Technology & Information / Re: My phone has been shipped!

« on: December 11, 2013, 06:09:06 PM »

It'll be broken before you get back.

>implying I'm going to wait until I'm back

First impressions are pretty good. The build quality is fair - about what I'd expect from an Android phone. The screen looks really amazing.

I took a picture of the phone I've been temporarily using. It's another example of "moar pixels != better pictures", but it does look quite good when scaled down: clicky click

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Technology & Information / Re: My phone has been shipped!

« on: December 11, 2013, 05:08:54 PM »

OMG IT'S HERE!

They declared it as "replacement parts" valued at $15, so I didn't have to pay tax. <3 China.

I'm about to leave for work, but I shall be posting my first impressions soon.

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Technology & Information / Re: Xbox users are bricking their consoles

« on: December 11, 2013, 09:55:49 AM »

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Suggestions & Concerns / Re: ban list

« on: December 11, 2013, 06:20:06 AM »

Worst idea ever, will not implement.

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Technology & Information / Re: Xbox users are bricking their consoles

« on: December 10, 2013, 08:24:23 PM »

I'm sorry, I guess my out of the box Debian install just didn't count, did it?

Parsifal's idea of "out of the box" is just very different from that of us mere mortals.

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Technology & Information / Re: Xbox users are bricking their consoles

« on: December 10, 2013, 05:54:29 PM »

This. I know Windows is a hassle to get working right, but Steam works out of the box on Debian [...]

This is inaccurate. [...]

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Technology & Information / Re: Xbox users are bricking their consoles

« on: December 10, 2013, 11:29:11 AM »

Very few games require you to actually build a powerful PC

QFT. I play games on a shitty laptop because I keep spending money on things that aren't a better computer. Despite the common view that shitty laptops can't run games, they can. You just need to turn them graphics sliders down a bit (don't worry, it'll still look better than xbone).

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Make music!

« on: December 10, 2013, 04:37:58 AM »

I haven't made anything I'm confident posting yet.

It's a goops

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Technology & Information / Re: Xbox users are bricking their consoles

« on: December 10, 2013, 04:02:21 AM »

Steam's working on that. Although you could just walk into a store and buy an ok-ish pre-assembled PC since 1998.

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Technology & Information / Re: Xbox users are bricking their consoles

« on: December 10, 2013, 02:32:30 AM »

If PC got all the exclusives the consoles do, I would not buy consoles. As it is, it doesn't. :[

Yes, because people buy consoles.

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Technology & Information / Re: NSA play WOW

« on: December 10, 2013, 02:10:36 AM »

Contrary to what shows like CSI depict, the white-collar professionals doing office work and the badasses waving guns around and busting the bad guys are actually in two separate lines of work.

But... but...

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Technology & Information / Re: NSA play WOW

« on: December 10, 2013, 02:05:35 AM »

As a former WoW player I take offence to this

We're not all fat and unhygienic. Some of us are extremely skinny and unhygienic.

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Technology & Information / Re: Xbox users are bricking their consoles

« on: December 10, 2013, 02:04:22 AM »

It's okay, people will buy them anyway.

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Suggestions & Concerns / Re: Hosting earth not a globe

« on: December 09, 2013, 10:29:22 PM »

I think the best course of action would be to put it up on the Wiki (as actual Wiki pages instead of links). That way it would be easily-navigable and well-integrated with the rest of the site.

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Announcements / Re: Wiki - all sorted.

« on: December 09, 2013, 09:07:40 PM »

I added a link to the home page to the left-hand-side navigation bar

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Status Notices / Re: Sorry about the brief downtime

« on: December 09, 2013, 09:04:00 PM »

5 minutes of downtime is inexcusable.

IT WAS 3 MINUTES OKAY?!

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Announcements / Re: Wiki - all sorted.

« on: December 09, 2013, 09:16:28 AM »

Users should be allowed to register freely. This may change in the future if people decide to be irresponsible about it.

Welp, apparently spambots already know about us. I disabled user registration for the time being while I look into a solution. In the meantime, anyone interested in editing can request an account via PM. I do not intend to refuse anyone access, this is just to stop bots.

Hopefully I'll be able to look into something similar to the plugin we use for the forum tonight or tomorrow, so this should be a very temporary hindrance.

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Technology & Information / Re: Xbox users are bricking their consoles

« on: December 09, 2013, 05:52:30 AM »

If this problem can't be fixed, then it looks like the people who fell for it are well and truly...Xboned.

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Technology & Information / Re: Xbox users are bricking their consoles

« on: December 09, 2013, 02:14:50 AM »

I'm with Rushy on this one. It doesn't matter how hard it is to access the dev console if people are producing instructions that consist of:

1. Access the dev console
2. Press the "DO NOT PUSH THAT BUTTON" button

If people are dumb enough to follow these instructions, they'll follow any instructions to the same effect.