Random non sequitur posts catch-all thread

Grubber788 wrote:

I've also read that INTJ's like the idea of MBTI testing, which is why you see so many of them talking about it online :)

What a bunch of nerds.

Grenn wrote:

Anyone ever watch Better Off Ted?

*The Sopranos

Is there a connection between these two? Or is it a (very on topic) non sequitor?

BOT was awesome, btw.

Tests like that are just horoscopes for people who want to feel like they're different or superior in some way. I've got two test results on my CV under the heading 'amusingly contradictory'.

EDIT:

People pick what they value, which is why you might get clusters of types in certain industries.

Miashara wrote:
Grenn wrote:

Anyone ever watch Better Off Ted?

*The Sopranos

Is there a connection between these two? Or is it a (very on topic) non sequitor?

BOT was awesome, btw.

Guy with the gun was Lem, one of the scientists from BOT.

Gee Steam, thanks. I wondered where my hard drive space had gone. Guess I should look for a new 1 zettabyte drive.

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LiquidMantis wrote:

Gee Steam, thanks. I wondered where my hard drive space had gone. Guess I should look for a new 1 zettabyte drive.

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Man, Big Picture Mode really means it.

I found out recently that many other foreign countries talk about people's salaries in terms of Pay per Week, whereas in the U.S. we usually talk about it in Pay per Year terms. I much prefer the former, thinking about it, given that I, and many other people are living paycheck-to-paycheck, or somewhere close to it.

Prederick wrote:

I found out recently that many other foreign countries talk about people's salaries in terms of Pay per Week, whereas in the U.S. we usually talk about it in Pay per Year terms. I much prefer the former, thinking about it, given that I, and many other people are living paycheck-to-paycheck, or somewhere close to it.

Yep, it's pay per month here in HK. I like it for the reason you mentioned.

Grubber788 wrote:
Prederick wrote:

I found out recently that many other foreign countries talk about people's salaries in terms of Pay per Week, whereas in the U.S. we usually talk about it in Pay per Year terms. I much prefer the former, thinking about it, given that I, and many other people are living paycheck-to-paycheck, or somewhere close to it.

Yep, it's pay per month here in HK. I like it for the reason you mentioned.

It just makes sense. Per year basically is just for waving around as some signifier of social status. It's not particularly informative RE: day-to-day life. I'd love to go to a job interview where they tell me what the bi-weekly pay is.

Grubber788 wrote:
Prederick wrote:

I found out recently that many other foreign countries talk about people's salaries in terms of Pay per Week, whereas in the U.S. we usually talk about it in Pay per Year terms. I much prefer the former, thinking about it, given that I, and many other people are living paycheck-to-paycheck, or somewhere close to it.

Yep, it's pay per month here in HK. I like it for the reason you mentioned.

Per month here too. It's very rare to even think about what you earn a year. Usually only tax season.

My particular company (IT contracting) is per hour (rate) and per week (pay period). I love waking up on Wednesdays and finding I got paid by direct deposit.

Grenn wrote:

Anyone ever watch Better Off Ted?

RIP one of the funniest sitcoms ever on TV.

I never realized that Kylie Minogue played Dr. Petra von Kant.

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Are you ready for LITERAL hyperbole island?!

P&C. I can't tell if I'm changing or if it's changing.

DanyBoy wrote:
wordsmythe wrote:
clover wrote:

Supposedly INTJs are only 10-15% of the population. I'm left-handed too... do I get some kind of bonus?

Shouldn't the average per group be (given random distribution in each of the four categories) 6.25%? Sounds like you're in the popular club.

That is a really big assumption.

That's the point, sorta. If it were an equal distribution, then each group would be 6.25% of the total population. If the actual distribution is that 10-15% are INTJ, then it's much more common than average.

1Dgaf wrote:

Tests like that are just horoscopes for people who want to feel like they're different or superior in some way. I've got two test results on my CV under the heading 'amusingly contradictory'.

EDIT:

People pick what they value, which is why you might get clusters of types in certain industries.

I think that knowing what someone values can be worthwhile information.

Grubber788 wrote:

Are you ready for LITERAL hyperbole island?!

P&C. I can't tell if I'm changing or if it's changing.

You are. Scroll back through P&C threads from '05 and you'll see that it's mostly different people but much the same style of conversation.

My head hurts so much right now. Coming to work was a bad idea.

It's so damn hot... milk was a bad choice.

Laughing makes the pain worse you bastard.

Console wars are the silliest thing imaginable.

ClockworkHouse wrote:

Console wars are the silliest thing imaginable.

You're disrespecting the millions who laid down their lives in the Great Patriotic Sony War. PS2 truly was the greatest game generation.

Tanglebones wrote:
ClockworkHouse wrote:

Console wars are the silliest thing imaginable.

You're disrespecting the millions who laid down their lives in the Great Patriotic Sony War.

Oh, totally. In fact, I just sold every Sony console I owned. Nintendo 4 Life!

...
Peons.

*haughtily swishes cape*

Chumpy_McChump wrote:

...
Peons.

*haughtily swishes cape*

*cape swish drops the framerate to 5 FPS; tweaking settings in Nvidia control panel brings it up to 15 FPS; latest version of Direct X drops it back down to 10 to 12 FPS according to FRAPs; fan-made patch restores cape swish to a solid 60 FPS but causes weird glitches at the edges of shadows; different fan patch corrects shadow issues but degrades environmental textures so that they're noticeably blurry at 1920x1200; reducing resolution to 1920x1080 resolves texture issue but places black boxes at the top and bottom of the screen that, bizarrely, causes some key prompts to be replaced with their Xbox 360 controller equivalents rather than custom-set keybinds; a post on the official troubleshooting forums suggests tweaking a setting in an ini file to force keybind displays, but that only works with the Origin version, not the Steam version *

FTFY.

ClockworkHouse wrote:
Chumpy_McChump wrote:

...
Peons.

*haughtily swishes cape*

*cape swish drops the framerate to 5 FPS; tweaking settings in Nvidia control panel brings it up to 15 FPS; latest version of Direct X drops it back down to 10 to 12 FPS according to FRAPs; fan-made patch restores cape swish to a solid 60 FPS but causes weird glitches at the edges of shadows; different fan patch corrects shadow issues but degrades environmental textures so that they're noticeably blurry at 1920x1200; reducing resolution to 1920x1080 resolves texture issue but places black boxes at the top and bottom of the screen that, bizarrely, causes some key prompts to be replaced with their Xbox 360 controller equivalents rather than custom-set keybinds; a post on the official troubleshooting forums suggests tweaking a setting in an ini file to force keybind displays, but that only works with the Origin version, not the Steam version *

FTFY. ;)

This is the best thing.

Tanglebones wrote:
ClockworkHouse wrote:

Console wars are the silliest thing imaginable.

You're disrespecting the millions who laid down their lives in the Great Patriotic Sony War. PS2 truly was the greatest game generation.

http://www.gamerswithjobs.com/node/2...

Why is there no Pencon catch-all?!

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Chumpy_McChump wrote:

...
Peons.

*haughtily swishes cape*

*furtively glances around and then plugs in 360 controller*

Fine. That's more accurate anyway.

Watching the Korean Grand Prix this weekend, my mother was surprised when I burst out laughing at the chequered flag. Why did I burst out laughing? Because PSY was waving it.

MrDeVil909 wrote:

Watching the Korean Grand Prix this weekend, my mother was surprised when I burst out laughing at the chequered flag. Why did I burst out laughing? Because PSY was waving it.

ARRGH, first GP I missed this season since starting watching F1, and turns out it was the best.