Last post wins!!!!!

[j_tour]

the strangest of the strange

Not too familiar with the work of Hieronymus Bosch?  Pretty weird stuff.

[perfect_pitch]

Okay - maybe for the 1500's what he did was bloody weird, but the artwork is sublime.

I'm talking about people who eat balloons with paint on them, and then internally pushes them out onto a canvas... that's the shxt I'm talking about.

[j_tour]

I prefer the well known bit of performance art wherein the artist consumes much Alphabits soup (noodles shaped sort of like roman alphabet characters, comes in a tin), and vomits it onto the street.

See, that's a class act.

Poésie concrète.

I'm talking about people who eat balloons with paint on them, and then internally pushes them out onto a canvas... that's the shxt I'm talking about.

Well....that could be a new hobby for you!  I recommend such an endeavor.

[perfect_pitch]

Well....that could be a new hobby for you!  I recommend such an endeavor.

Did you not pick up on the disgust and hatred for such a hobby??? I thought it was obvious that an activity such as that is beneath pretty much every human being on the planet, except the twat who thought it was 'performance art'.

[j_tour]

Did you not pick up on the disgust and hatred for such a hobby???

No!  I genuinely thought you were a closeted avant-gardist who had immense respect for all forms of experimental art.

My bad for getting that wrong.

But thank you for the clarification.

[perfect_pitch]

No!  I genuinely thought you were a closeted avant-gardist who had immense respect for all forms of experimental art.

My bad for getting that wrong.

But thank you for the clarification.

You're very welcome.

[j_tour]

You're very welcome.

That is dulce et decorum:  respect for one's elders.

May we all please have a moment of silence for this polite and thoughtful young man?

 

[perfect_pitch]

Well, it's been almost 2 hours of silence. That will do.

[j_tour]

Well, it's been almost 2 hours of silence. That will do.

Oh.  So you're exactly like this girlfriend I had to "let go," in part because she felt some need to fill the void inside her brainpan with noise of all and any type.

Carry on.

And listen to this performance of "4'33"" while you're at it.

I know you agree it's one of the heights of 20th C repertoire.

[perfect_pitch]

No... my intention is to one day attend a performance of said piece and at the 2:00 mark, yell "Wow... this is boring as sh*t".

I'm fully serious.

[lostinidlewonder]

"Wow... this is boring as sh*t".

Sh*t is something though. Silence is something too I guess, but in a concert hall it's more like listen to people breathing and coughing. I wonder what real silence is like, it would likely make you go a bit mad.... I'd totally want to try that.

[j_tour]

but in a concert hall it's more like listen to people breathing and coughing.

Not if they're sitting next to me.

[perfect_pitch]

Sh*t is something though. Silence is something too I guess, but in a concert hall it's more like listen to people breathing and coughing. I wonder what real silence is like, it would likely make you go a bit mad.... I'd totally want to try that.

I think it would just creep you out hearing all your bodily sounds ultra loud (compared to the ambient noise around you), but I doubt you'd really go mad.

[j_tour]

I think it would just creep you out hearing all your bodily sounds ultra loud (compared to the ambient noise around you), but I doubt you'd really go mad.

So says the Madman of Alcatraz.

I sentence you to ten years in an immersion chamber.

<gavel>.  Take the prisoner to his tank.

[perfect_pitch]

So says the Madman of Alcatraz.

I sentence you to ten years in an immersion chamber.

Mmmm... can I get high-speed internet and a computer installed in there? Need to have a beefy gaming computer - then that sounds like a plan.     

[perfect_pitch]

That's not the.....it's not.....then it wouldn't be.....

No you cannot bring your damned GameBoy with you!

GAME BOY??? What decade are you living in? I ain't playing with no damn gameboy. Not even the latest Nintendo Switch 2 would do me in there. I get my PC, or screw it.

[j_tour]

I get my PC, or screw it.

Sure.  One "PC" coming right up, Steely Dan.

The right amount of "thermal" "paste" has been applied, so your "gaming" experience will be satisfactory.

[perfect_pitch]

Good - it better have an RTX 5090 and an AMD 9800X3D. Otherwise it's just a potato PC.

I love my 120fps gaming at 4K.   

[j_tour]

Otherwise it's just a potato PC.

So you like-a the potato, even if it got no sauce?

That can be arranged.

You can have an NVIDIA card running Arch linux, but no updates.

That should occupy you for a while, king chief! 

[perfect_pitch]

Do you actually know anything about good gaming hardware, or did you have to google that???

[lostinidlewonder]

Good - it better have an RTX 5090 and an AMD 9800X3D. Otherwise it's just a potato PC.

I love my 120fps gaming at 4K.   

If you think anything less than an RTX 5090 and AMD 9800X3D is a “potato,” then by that logic, 99.8% of gamers on Steam are using potato PCs because only 0.19% actually use a 5090, or 4.3% use the AMD so that means 95.7% of other computers by your measure are potatoes. And as for 4K 120Hz gaming, it’s great for visuals, but in competitive play, 2K at 240Hz still gives a clear edge in responsiveness and motion clarity. So hey, enjoy your cinematic eye candy I’ll take the smoother kills.

Monthly cost example (3 hours/day gaming):
Australia: 3 hrs × $0.24 × 30 days = ~$21.60/month

Pretty pricey too for a 5090, running cost is ridiculous.

[j_tour]

Do you actually know anything about good gaming hardware, or did you have to google that???

I know you ain't playing sheet with NVIDIA and Arch linux, without some effort to resolve hardware issues.

Plus, it ain't exactly Windows, son.  Results will be unsatisfactory.

And I don't think you got the stones to figure it out, boy!

But you can get a good game of tetris, and there's always solitaire.  You might get Castle Wolfenstein to work.

[perfect_pitch]

If you think anything less than an RTX 5090 and AMD 9800X3D is a “potato,” then by that logic, 99.8% of gamers on Steam are using potato PCs because only 0.19% actually use a 5090, or 4.3% use the AMD so that means 95.7% of other computers by your measure are potatoes. And as for 4K 120Hz gaming, it’s great for visuals, but in competitive play, 2K at 240Hz still gives a clear edge in responsiveness and motion clarity. So hey, enjoy your cinematic eye candy I’ll take the smoother kills.

I don't play competitive. I prefer something with a deep and expansive story - Last of Us, RDR 2, or playing with friends cooperatively - like Ghost Recon Wildlands.

Problem is - I used to have a 1080p monitor, but as soon as I upgraded to a 4K monitor - I saw the light. I can't go back... although I found an intermediary.



Almost the same amount of pixels as 4K monitor, but the immersion is so much greater... and yeah, maybe I'm being a bit elitist in terms of hardware but it seems like it's majorly stagnating in terms of its advancement, and most of those competitive people who play on their 2K 240hz monitors play games like Counter Strike 2, Overwatch, and Rainbow Six Siege... games that are almost 10 years old (granted Counter Strike for a face lift last year, but it's still very basic looking).

Also, the RTX 60xx cards ain't going to be cheaper - in fact I know they'll be even MORE expensive than these current 50xx cards.

[lostinidlewonder]

The power consumption of the new GTX just make me totally not want anything to do with it for gaming. Spend like $250 a year on electricity for hobbyist game play? I know someone who is a professional gamer who plays like 12 hours a day, that'd be $1k per year just to run the stupid card alone! Now if you use it to run AI models or something where you can earn money from, I guess its more worth it then, but you can just hire that gpu power remotely for less.

[j_tour]

Run the card with super nerd strength.

[perfect_pitch]

The power consumption of the new GTX

You mean GPU? They haven't been referred as the 'GTX' brand since the 1660 cards in 2019; they're now RTX cards.

Spend like $250 a year on electricity for hobbyist game play?

It's not burning a hole in my wallet... BRING ON THE GAMES!!!

[lostinidlewonder]

You mean GPU? They haven't been referred as the 'GTX' brand since the 1660 cards in 2019; they're now RTX cards.

Just highlights my disinterest in the new cards. The last ones were made in 2024 as I read.

It's not burning a hole in my wallet... BRING ON THE GAMES!!!

Yeah I think the running costs is absolutely ridiculous for a hobbyist but each to their own .

[j_tour]

It's not a real game unless the loser's severed head ends up impaled on a wooden stake.

[perfect_pitch]

You seriously should play Red Dead Redemption 2 - voted by many as the greatest game of all time.

You get to play the role of Arthur Morgan, a man caught between his loyalty to his gang leader of outlaw criminals and a society that is becoming more and more proper and instilling rules. As he follows in his leaders footsteps, he truly learns what it is to not just be a good man... but to try and live a good life.

Brilliant game. Well worth playing.

[j_tour]

You seriously should play Red Dead Redemption 2 - voted by many as the greatest game of all time.

It was a good motion picture show.

Bruce Willis, Mary Louise Parker, Helen Mirren.

Your abilities confuse and frighten me.

[perfect_pitch]

It was a good motion picture show.

Bruce Willis, Mary Louise Parker, Helen Mirren.

Not even close. You got one word right and just forgot about the rest.

RED isn't even a bloody western.

[j_tour]

Not even close. You got one word right and just forgot about the rest.

RED isn't even a bloody western.

Isn't it a martial arts movie from the Phillipines?

[perfect_pitch]

Yes... Bruce Willis is clearly an unmistakable Martial arts champion and shows off his prowess in that movie.

I think he even beat Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan in the same fight once...

[lostinidlewonder]

I think it's like a true story though.

[perfect_pitch]

Was that after World War 3, where the robots had their uprising and decimated most of the humans... and then the aliens came and wiped out the robots and the last surviving humans had to band together to form a singular community to survive and repopulate the planet???

...or before?

[lostinidlewonder]

I mean Alice in wonderland is a true story, everything in that happened irl. Also Red dead is true story, every time you play it its really happening to real people, in reality, and real time. True!

[j_tour]

I mean Alice in wonderland is a true story, everything in that happened irl.

It is true.

If you feed a bunch of acid to a young girl, you'll see that it's true.

[perfect_pitch]

Sorry, but this was the first thing that came to mind when you mentioned acid...

Back when Family guy was actually funny.

[lostinidlewonder]

It is true.

If you feed a bunch of acid to a young girl, you'll see that it's true.

Chromic Acid?

[perfect_pitch]

Well... J_Tour has always been talking about how go get rid of a body...

Seems like this stuff still isn't good enough - unless you have a fortnight of no one sniffing around your residence and a large bathtub to store the corpse in.

[lostinidlewonder]

It's more than enough I think, it just takes a bit of time to break it down. Maybe if you cut it up into little pieces so there's more surface area.... or use hungry pigs and then dissolve the rest..... yes... hmmm not that I'd do that of course..... or?? *AFP knocks at door*

[j_tour]

It's more than enough I think, it just takes a bit of time to break it down. Maybe if you cut it up into little pieces so there's more surface area.... or use hungry pigs and then dissolve the rest..... yes... hmmm not that I'd do that of course..... or?? *AFP knocks at door*

See?  That sounds like a sensible fooking man!  About six pieces, cut it up.  Shave the head, and take out the teeth.

Oh, my girlfriend is alive and happy, thanks for asking.

She's not real talkative these days, though, for some reason.

[perfect_pitch]

Shave the head

Why would you need to shave the head? Hair would be one of the EASIEST things to dissolve in acid. The Teeth... sure, but the hair?

[lostinidlewonder]

Shave it now.

[perfect_pitch]

Sometimes you have to wonder where the little part of the brain that says 'what the *** are you doing???', or 'is this really a great idea' is when they go to do stupid sh*t like this.

I actually looked up the user in the video... looks like a right tool who does stupid crap merely for views. I guess that part of his brain has withered and died.

[j_tour]

My god.  It's like dealing with children.

Pigs will indeed consume hair.

It does not agree with their digestive system.

And we like to ... nay, we need to ... keep our hogs happy.

Christ.  Have to explain everything to you people.

I actually looked up the user in the video... looks like a right tool who does stupid crap merely for views.

That's what we call a choad.  Or in simpler language, a dumbass. 

Well....at least he didn't eat his own hair.  That would have made for a good video, but it would have ended in an unfortunate manner for him (?) or whatever that beast was.

[perfect_pitch]

Pigs will indeed consume hair.

It does not agree with their digestive system.

Well, screw pigs. They get what they're fed. Like my generation - you either eat what you get, or you go hungry. 

[j_tour]

Well, screw pigs. They get what they're fed. Like my generation - you either eat what you get, or you go hungry.

If self-preservation is an instinct you possess, you better fooking do it and do it quick.

So pretty please, with sugar on top, feed the pigs.

I got a problem with my girlfriend, and I ain't in no mood to be jiving and squabbling with youse all.

Damn kids.

[lostinidlewonder]

I actually looked up the user in the video... looks like a right tool who does stupid crap merely for views. I guess that part of his brain has withered and died.

Nah withered brains are nuisance influencers like Johnny Somali or Vitaly Zdorovetskiy getting rightfully the book thrown at them in Asia for their brainless acts for views.

[j_tour]

Nah withered brains are nuisance influencers like Johnny Somali or Vitaly Zdorovetskiy getting rightfully the book thrown at them in Asia for their brainless acts for views.

The "book thrown at them"?

Whatever happened to chemical castration, or forced games of Russian roulette?

World's gone soft, entirely.