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New comment by cptnapalm in "Rob Reiner has died"

cptnapalm — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 14:57:15 +0000

Having been in a metal band and known guys that toured, I can assure you that This is Spinal Tap is a real life depiction of being in a metal band.

New comment by cptnapalm in "The RAM shortage comes for us all"

cptnapalm — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 19:41:50 +0000

DDR 4 shot up too. It was bad enough that instead of trying to put together a system with the AM4 m/b I already have, I just bought a Legion Go S.

New comment by cptnapalm in "An LED panel that shows the aviation around you"

cptnapalm — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 17:05:05 +0000

There's a flight path directly over my house. I'm going to see if my wife would be on board for this.

New comment by cptnapalm in "Disney Lost Roger Rabbit"

cptnapalm — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 16:31:41 +0000

Termination of Transfer is what happened to the Friday the 13th franchise. The screenwriter wound up owning the name Jason Voorhees, but not the adult visual of Jason. As I understand it, the F13 franchise owners could have made movies with adult Jason Voorhees as long as they don't call him Jason Voorhees. All in all it was a mess. I think it's all resolved now, but the situation did tank the online game that a lot of people enjoyed.

New comment by cptnapalm in "10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him – bad idea"

cptnapalm — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 02:36:43 +0000

Just found out my unit was robbed. The thieves ignored the lock and just destroyed the unit's latch which the padlock secured.

There went Uncanny X-Men 94 through 300.

New comment by cptnapalm in "YouTube says it'll bring back creators banned for Covid and election content"

cptnapalm — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 21:19:14 +0000

That's interesting. Off the cuff, I'll say it would depend on venue. Like on Reddit, you can easily have dozens of people saying exactly the same thing and other views can easily disappear in the muck. That's not even getting into the dominant view down voting all dissent. Still, everyone there can type out their thoughts in as complete a fashion as they so choose.

In person, things are different. The dominant side can and often enough does drown out dissent. In that case, the intent is to silence. So that would be "censorship" in a cultural, not legal sense which would be hostile to the freedom of speech in the cultural sense, not legal.

New comment by cptnapalm in "US cities pay too much for buses"

cptnapalm — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 13:55:31 +0000

I didn't know this had a name! Thank you!

New comment by cptnapalm in "YouTube says it'll bring back creators banned for Covid and election content"

cptnapalm — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 00:32:56 +0000

Fair enough on that. The problem I've seen (and don't have a good idea for how to fix) is on Reddit where the most terminally online are the worst offenders and they simply drown out everything else until non-crazy people just leave. It doesn't help that the subreddit mods are disproportionately also the terminally online.

New comment by cptnapalm in "YouTube says it'll bring back creators banned for Covid and election content"

cptnapalm — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 23:46:29 +0000

As I understand it, Twitter has something called Community Notes. So people can write things, but it can potentially have an attached refutation.

New comment by cptnapalm in "When Knowing Someone at Meta Is the Only Way to Break Out of "Content Jail""

cptnapalm — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 22:27:55 +0000

I've been banned for over a decade from leaving reviews on Amazon. I have no idea why.

New comment by cptnapalm in "Top UN legal investigators conclude Israel is guilty of genocide in Gaza"

cptnapalm — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 22:24:27 +0000

I think you are the only good moderator on the internet.

New comment by cptnapalm in "Bulletproof host Stark Industries evades EU sanctions"

cptnapalm — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 20:37:54 +0000

I forgot about the HP one! I distinctly remember there was a Sun too; it was like a backyard shoot.

New comment by cptnapalm in "Bulletproof host Stark Industries evades EU sanctions"

cptnapalm — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 18:50:46 +0000

My mind first jump to an old video of somebody shooting a Sun Microsystems machine and the bullets did not in fact penetrate the steel.

New comment by cptnapalm in "Like Intel before it, AMD blames motherboard makers for burnt-out CPUs"

cptnapalm — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 14:04:14 +0000

I started seeing this more than a week ago on r/ASRock. There was a BIOS update and loads and loads of people reported that their CPUs fried.

New comment by cptnapalm in "Frederick Forsyth has died"

cptnapalm — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 20:13:01 +0000

Dogs of War was good enough for it to be the basis for multiple attempted mercenary led coups. Hoare's in the Seychelles failed because his forces went in by plane instead of boat and met the problems which Forsyth foresaw. Denard's guys (if I remember correctly) were given copies of the book with bookmarks to indicate what to do next.

New comment by cptnapalm in "Click-V: A RISC-V emulator built with ClickHouse SQL"

cptnapalm — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 13:57:06 +0000

"Because" is always the most fun reason.

New comment by cptnapalm in "So Long and Thanks for All the Words: A Toast to Douglas Adams"

cptnapalm — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 14:17:50 +0000

I remember there being a collection of the first 3 called the Complete Hitchhiker's Guide. In typical Adam's fashion, after the 4th book was released a new compendium was released called the More than Complete Hitchhiker's Guide. That titling should have continued, so we'd have gotten the Even More than Complete Hitchiker's Guide and, finally, the Completest Complete Hitchiker's Guide.

New comment by cptnapalm in "Why is Warner Bros. Discovery putting old movies on YouTube?"

cptnapalm — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 17:29:22 +0000

That's my thinking too. In fact, I was in a mood to watch OG film noirs, but between 3 streaming services, the only movie available was Sunset Blvd. Also failed to find any of the 1950s sci-fi movies I went looking for.

New comment by cptnapalm in "Why is Warner Bros. Discovery putting old movies on YouTube?"

cptnapalm — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 17:20:45 +0000

10 out of 10. Would guffaw again.

New comment by cptnapalm in "Documented and annotated source code for Elite on the Commodore 64"

cptnapalm — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 16:09:16 +0000

Note: there's a crash bug. If you try to look at the local sun, the game will try to explode it, but suns can't explode so the game crashes.