Random non sequitur posts catch-all thread

I accidentally brewed my coffee at double my usual strength this morning, and didn't notice until I was emptying out the grounds to start a second pot.

You need a Chatty Cafe AI-powered coffee-maker, clearly. “CC, make me a cuppa joe in the style of Dashiel Hammett!”

“No pie with? Sure, whatever, big spender. Not like I have a use for that seat a 2am, unless another loser comes in.”

Minutes later…

“Hey, this is awful!”

“Yeah? Want me to get Butch out the kitchen so you can complain to him, fancy boy? …Hey, where you going with that cup?”

They've made....

Ten. Fast and Furious movies.

Prederick wrote:

They've made....

Ten. Fast and Furious movies.

Fast and Fur10us

Prederick wrote:

They've made....

Ten. Fast and Furious movies.

The other day a picture surfaced of Michelle Rodriguez swooning over Lando Norris, the Formula 1 driver, who was in diapers when The Fast and the Furious came out.

She is looking at him like I look at a steak throughout this video.

I do appreciate how Ludacris has turned this franchise into the American dream. Minimum work, maximum paycheck.

I did watch Fast 9 tonight, and after learning everything we've found out about how incredibly insecure Vin Diesel is about how he's portrayed in films, my GOD does it show.

Oh no.

I've become a "watching Warhammer 40K lore videos on YouTube" guy.

Prederick wrote:

Oh no.

I've become a "watching Warhammer 40K lore videos on YouTube" guy.

You really only need one.

I was at a canal side cafe that we frequent and a couple were ordering at the til even though it’s table service. After taking an inordinate amount of time with it they went and sat at a table.

A little later I looked over and the woman, on the far side of their table, was cradling a baby in her lap. You could just see the top of it’s little head. I hadn’t seen them carrying anything or noticed that either had a backpack. A little later I looked again and realised that the thing her hand was gently supporting was one of her knees.

Edit: Edited for a smidge more clarity.

At least the edibles were high-quality, eh Higgledy?

That’s it. You should have seen the wild colours of some of the ducks!

Bought the latest issues of both The Atlantic and The Economist this morning. I have never felt this much of an elitist asshole.

Pish-posh. Did you get a copy of Harper's and The New Yorker as well? Otherwise, you're diet elitist.

It's kind of amazing that discord is pulling a "hey, everybody suddenly needs to pick a new username and they all need to be globally unique" after eight years of operation.

You wonder how tranquil things must be down at their offices, that they decided to electively create that much work for themselves, to no obvious concrete benefit.

I mean, a bunch of executives just decided that people find "HBO" too scary, and that they'll be less scared of a streaming site called "MAX".

fenomas wrote:

It's kind of amazing that discord is pulling a "hey, everybody suddenly needs to pick a new username and they all need to be globally unique" after eight years of operation.

The "benefit" is they want to be more of a social network, where people can find each other in a search rather than having to be given your user+id.

It's too bad that not being like that was one of the strongest features of Discord, and one of the few things that separated it from the 140 million other places you could chat with people online. You could create your little space and not have randos barging in, if you don't want to.

Apparently, Discord also had a big problem with people using their Steam account name and scammers figuring out how to steal their accounts via Discord interactions. This change (and I did it too) helps prevent that easy hack.

Besides, I came up with a really cool username that no one else is using lol.

We're also using it for "work", so I have sh*t to say.

Is there a particularly good explanation why they added a character that can be described as "Lady with a MAC-10" to Diablo 3?

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Dear Disney: If I give you money now, will you stop?

I will allow Robin hood if they do full fursuits for every character.

Stealthpizza wrote:

I will allow Robin hood if they do full fursuits for every character.

Prederick wrote:

Dear Disney: If I give you money now, will you stop?

Here's my brain reading that image:

> It's a bunch of movies!
> Open the gate!
> They're live-action remakes of animated classics!
> Close the gate!
> One of them is The Aristocats directed by Questlove!
> Open the gate a little!

Stealthpizza wrote:

I will allow Robin hood if they do full fursuits for every character.

Okay, I am here for that one because I am so curious to see how they're going to thread that needle of "Family-Friendly" but not "Furry hot."

He's either going to be horrifying, or the amount of Rule 34 created in his name will be astonishing.

Possibly both.

But they already remade Aladdin?

LeapingGnome wrote:

But they already remade Aladdin?

Sequel maybe? I assume Mufasa is a prequel too.

But Guy Ritchie doing Hercules might be interesting.

Spoiler:

Probably not though.

tuffalobuffalo wrote:
Stealthpizza wrote:

I will allow Robin hood if they do full fursuits for every character.

You know I am right.
There are 10,000 Robin Hood movies out there. Why would I go see another one?
Lady Kluck for the win.

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Lady Marian is such a fox.

Probably as good a thread as any for useless trivia #57. Anyone here old enough to remember the Hamster Dance? A silly little website with a bunch of animated gifs and autoplayed a song. The YT I linked is a video copy of this experience.

Well, you might not know that the Hamster Dance is just a sped-up version of "Whistle Stop" from Disney's Robin Hood. Skip ahead to about the 50s mark.

Stealthpizza wrote:

Lady Kluck for the win.

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If only John Candy were still alive.