Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@Tyranexx Man, it's starting to get confusing what with all the leg pulling to and fro...
@Woomy_NNYes Yeah, of course you are. And getting myself banned in the process. No sir-ee...
Besides, why the hell would you want to see bestiality videos? And to be honest, I think it's safe to say that even YouPorn doesn't have these kinds of videos. And a good thing too, because it's pretty disgusting, if you ask me.

@Woomy_NNYes Yup. this light dusting - which, looking out the window right now, appears to be stopping already - isn't gonna help things. It's been about 2 years since we've had a significant snowfall in this area. Most of the skii resorts in the mountains are or are about to, declare bankruptcy. The fact that there were several of them should tell you what used to be the norm. We asked our 7th graders the other day if they remember when the last time they played in the snow was. 5th grade for most of them.

But hey, at least we have this little reminder of what snow looks like! I've always been of the mindset of, if it's going to be cold (and I consider cold anything less than 12C) then I want it to just drop right to freezing and snow. There's nothing enjoyable about that nasty 1-12C range. All the plants go dormant and grey or brown or just die and it's still cold and unpleasant. Rain is miserable at that temperature too. At least when it drops below freezing snow is beautiful and fun. If I must be cold, I want the beauty!

@NintendoByNature
Here you go
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Yes redeem it like it's a game

@ThanosReXXX I didn't read backward to see the animal reference. Only seeing the partial address typed, for comedy, I had to ask. I'm into big (blanks) anyway. Blanks=games. 😊

@Ninfan Regarding online games outside of the popular Nintendo games, I've been playing Rocket League - 300 hrs.

@Eel thanks a million, looks like it worked. I really appreciate it.

If you guys enjoy The Onion, there's this new podcast called The Topical.
It isn't quite as great as their old Onion News Network videos, which were amazing and I still watch them from time to time, but it's worth listening if you like their stuff.

@NintendoByNature glad it still worked! Enjoy the new characters.

Yw

@Vinny Have you seen how many Nintendo stories TheOnion has made? There are a lot of very Onion-esque Nintendo article titles.

Unrelated. This commercial has been running for a while, and I still find it amusing. I like the guy in the green car.

@Woomy_NNYes Well, good to know that there's still hope for you yet, then...

By the way: I like my blanks/"games" petite and perky. I don't like what gravity and age ultimately do to the bigger sizes...

P.S.

I do believe that the guy in the commercial is "The Sherminator" from the American Pie movies.

It's been some time since I've watched The Onion on YT. It's an awesome parody source.

@ThanosReXXX I do indeed thrive on the pulling of legs and arms, but I refuse to pull fingers. Thank an uncle for that.

I'm one of those dry humor, punny, metaphorical humor types.

@Tyranexx Ah, the old "pull my finger" gag...
Yeah, I know all about that from an uncle too. That and other finger jokes, like a wet finger in your ear and such. Old-timers and their weird sense of humor...

Well, if you're the metaphorical type, then you'll definitely appreciate the "bokkepootjes" (goat legs) from the Dutch bakery...

@ThanosReXXX Believe it or not, I wanna try the goat legs the most since they have such an interesting name.

Thankfully I've never the wet finger in the ear done. I'm not sure what that's called in your neck of the woods, but I've heard them referred to as wet willies.

@Tyranexx Well, usually, the Dutch are pretty literal, so they'll often just call it "wet finger in the ear", but in some areas, I have heard of it being referred to as ""ear worm". Kinda gross as well, but still better than the idea of any other wet appendages close to my ear, though...

Well I spent a few days in the hospital, so that was a thing. In hindsight, I shouldn't have tried to beat that level of Doom that day...

Hospital food is overhated. They had pancakes!

@kkslider5552000 After years and years of a reputation of being terrible, I'm not surprised that some hospitals have improved their food.

Since you're apparently out, I'm happy for ya! Hope you're back to 100%

65% but whatever. Needing to take an uber was gonna minimize the point of going to work this week anyway :V

and I'm not kidding btw, I noticed some pain but avoided it to go to the basement partially to beat a level of Doom 4. The real hell would've been being stuck there for 8+ hours unable to move if I hadn't found a clever way to get an ambulance.

@ThanosReXXX Heh, fair point. I could see where "ear worm" would be a good description there, though I've only heard it used locally to describe a contagious song that you can't get out of your head.

@kkslider5552000 I've never yet had an overnight hospital stay (barring when I was born), but I've had some hospital food before. It was fairly decent.

I'm glad you're out now and on the mend!

Anyone else also annoyed by the umpteenth upcoming change on YouTube?
Every damn video I open now has this incessant message bar stating:
"This version of YouTube is going away soon. Switch to the new YouTube"

As if this version isn't already bad enough. I already had to add a script to my Tampermonkey add-on to get rid of the previous "improvements", and now they're pushing it again. Changes for the sake of changes, with no real, tangible improvements for the majority of users...
Looks more like keeping people at Google busy because they've got nothing useful to do in certain periods of the year, or something...

@kkslider5552000 The same could be said about airplane food. It does depend on the price of your flight, though. And I'm pretty sure that there's also differences between hospitals and the quality of the food they offer.

P.S.

Don't leave us hanging concerning the clever way you got an ambulance and escaped the basement.
Spill the beans, man!

@Tyranexx Well, we also know that one, and it is indeed used for the exact thing you described.
Speaking of musical ear worms:

Any PC Wizards out there?

I've got a USB stick with bit-locker encrypted files on it using a Windows 10 PC.

I'm trying to access those files on a Windows 7 PC, but when I insert the stick and enter the password encryption I get an error, the text of which suggests a file system issue or corruption.

Have I got myself just a standard USB corruption on my hands, or is there some incompatibility between the two operating systems, particularly when using Bitlocker?

@gcunit Here you go:

• https://www.m3datarecovery.com/bitlocker-windows-home/can-win...
• https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/reading...
• https://www.tenforums.com/antivirus-firewalls-system-security...
• https://www.windowscentral.com/how-use-bitlocker-encryption-w...

Those are some steps you can try. If they don't work at all, then you might indeed have a corrupted USB drive.