OT: HFPens Community Lounge: Or Ogrezilla and LOGiK's Nerd Thread ;)

[Honour Over Glory]

This website is good about it, mostly because it has a very strict no politics board. I think the only time it was a mess was in the COVID threads, which rightfully got shut down after how much of a mess they were.

I think it's overly simple to say "this all boils down to the 2016 election", because there was a lot of shit brewing that went under the radar before then, but you'd be insane to argue against it being a major factor. That election emboldened both shitty people who loved Trump and shitty people who hated Trump to become more radical and more polarized, and social media is the obvious outlet for that because there are no consequences for it. Especially if you hide behind a fake account.

Now 8 years later, people are just openly shitty on these social media platforms because they've done it for 8 years with pretty much no consequences. No matter where you sit politically, you can find somewhere to be a piece of shit online and face no consequences for it.

Not to be political (in this case a piece of shit Radio jockey that rose to prominence for feeding into the minds of the deranged and hateful), but when an absolute shit stain of a bloke like Rush Limbaugh had the popularity he did, it was bubblin' for a while mate. But a certain Cheeto looking took his shtick and went hard in the paint with it around that time and it gave a lot of shitty people this new found courage to suddenly be hateful and vile because someone that thinks like they do was in a very powerful role, much to dismay of everyone sane.

 

[Buddy Bizarre]

I've gone off all SM for the past 3 years and I feel like my mental health has never been better.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

I've gone off all SM for the past 3 years and I feel like my mental health has never been better.

Soy Milk is gross and can really alter your mood for drinking fake moo juice.

....

 

[Honour Over Glory]

 

[Honour Over Glory]

So this DIddy thing, he has his own Maxwell and likely a pretty filthy list of famous people that have frequented his parties and I hope this time, he doesn't get Epstein'd and is found accidentally on purpose, committing suicide or something like that. Because unlike the last time, I'd like to see shitty famous assholes and powerful losers get in real shit for their disgusting acts.

I don't think anyone on that Epstein list will ever get in shit, I suspect there's just too many big names on there that they don't want to see the light of day being dragged into court for the chain reaction it will cause for all of them ratting each other out.

 

[Buddy Bizarre]

So this DIddy thing, he has his own Maxwell and likely a pretty filthy list of famous people that have frequented his parties and I hope this time, he doesn't get Epstein'd and is found accidentally on purpose, committing suicide or something like that. Because unlike the last time, I'd like to see shitty famous assholes and powerful losers get in real shit for their disgusting acts.

I don't think anyone on that Epstein list will ever get in shit, I suspect there's just too many big names on there that they don't want to see the light of day being dragged into court for the chain reaction it will cause for all of them ratting each other out.

This is Epstein 2.0

Nothing will happen to the elites (celebs, politicians, etc) because there’s a true deep evil at work

Puff will go to prison. Perhaps will die by "unnatural causes" because he knows too much

 

[Tom Hanks]

You know what always floors me about Canada, the amount of racism and hate there actually is here. You're made to believe it's this amazing cultural melting pot that is accepting of everyone and while it is for a lot, there's also a massive rise in how many that aren't happy about that being the case anymore. Lately I've noticed this intense rise in South Asian hate, I dug into this a little more, it seems before this the focus was on how the Chinese were taking over the lower mainland and how Richmond was basically China, the signage, the jobs that require you to speak Mandarin or Cantonese when trying to work in Richmond or even parts of Burnaby now, but that seemed to taper off for the new focus of hating South Asians, which I find odd because it's filled with some intense vitriol and more so than the hate Asians were getting by a large margin. I mean every "group" has its bad apples but the way each social media platform is taken over locally by this rampant hate is just astounding.

My wife is on tik tok and all the social media platforms you can post messages on - Instagram, Tik tok, Threads, X, etc. She follows mostly local things because of her work and because she still likes exploring this place. We look at the food places because Vancouver, Surrey, Burnaby have some amazing small local restaurants that rival some of the over hyped Michelin bs restaurants over seas and in the US and occasionally you follow these Vancouver hot spots and news and anytime it's an accident or an incident in Richmond or Surrey, holy shit is it vile.

I also noticed the moderating on those comments is next to non-existent. If you mention certain wars going on for certain countries, you see that content moderated to death, but legitimate hate comments are almost never taken down. I told me wife to report a couple of comments out of curiosity, these were so blatantly over the line comments that it'd get anyone here banned permanently, we took screenshots to see if it was going to get taken down and saved the post for reference. A week went by, got a notification that it didn't violate any rules, so we pulled up the rules, it did violate it and we also learned they use an AI to moderate.

You know, the biased AI towards poc that even Google had a hard time explaining, that Instagram moderators specifically program to look for certain things, which apparently isn't to moderate racist comments towards Asians, South Asians, Black, or Latino's.


I think one of the craziest I saw was this one video my wife showed me on Tik tok of a truck driver that flipped his truck and ran into something, immediately the comments were "this is the new canada with these new Indian immigrants that cheat to get licenses" and the bloke in the truck which you see in the video is caucasian. Some are definitely bots, but some have their literal names and links to their instagram accounts and are mom's and dad's and teenagers, it's just so vile.

It sucks having to follow these accounts, I mean cool we got to find a place called Say Mercy! off of Fraser and King Edward, fantastic Italian cuisine, mediocre Negroni's though, but then we see the comments on an Indian restaurant and it's like wow...grow the f*** up people. My wife and I still get the bs being Black (bi-racial but no one knows until they get to know me and ask) and my wife being Vietnamese but American born, eventually we just become numb and blind towards it after a while, just ignoring the looks or off hand comments, but you'd think at least on social media where there's kids being heavily influenced by the garbage people post, that they'd moderate it better. Don't even get me started about how these OF tossers exploit hashtags, my wife's friend was telling me how her son is 12 and he loves lego so he followed lego hashtags and the parents monitor his account as they're able to on Instagram, well she showed me how these OF peddlers will post thirst traps as being lego fans with a "spicy link" on their page, so kids being kids and curious...it's like you can be careful and idiots will still find a way to affect you because they don't care how they negatively impact others with their behavior.

Maybe the current "political" hate towards people has me angry enough to talk about this without getting into politics but seriously, it's gotten bad everywhere.

/Rant

Twitter (obviously the worst) and even Reddit now have complaints about immigrants in the comments of any post about Canada.

I get why the government is bringing in more because we don’t have the population to cover the mass retirements and a declining birth rate.

Now first year immigrants particularly from a different culture aren’t going to help the economy too much in fact it’s probably a slight hindrance but when they have kids and the 2nd,3rd,4th etc generations come through that’s when we get the real benefit. There’s no way to bypass this process unless the dumbass’s want the economy to turn to which they’ll never understand that because they’re dumb racists.

On the flip side we have a housing crisis and a health crisis which a lot are oblivious to the latter. So we need more infrastructure being built as quick as possible to make it as smooth as possible but housing in Canada is a commodity and unfortunately no government in Canada will do anything to change that. From a healthcare perspective they’re laying the groundwork to privatise.

So essentially Canada caters to big interests and the can gets kicked down the road via our heads.

I might have to go back to Australia It has its flaws but I don’t want to grow old in Canada the way it’s trending.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

Twitter (obviously the worst) and even Reddit now have complaints about immigrants in the comments of any post about Canada.

I get why the government is bringing in more because we don’t have the population to cover the mass retirements and a declining birth rate.

Now first year immigrants particularly from a different culture aren’t going to help the economy too much in fact it’s probably a slight hindrance but when they have kids and the 2nd,3rd,4th etc generations come through that’s when we get the real benefit. There’s no way to bypass this process unless the dumbass’s want the economy to turn to which they’ll never understand that because they’re dumb racists.

On the flip side we have a housing crisis and a health crisis which a lot are oblivious to the latter. So we need more infrastructure being built as quick as possible to make it as smooth as possible but housing in Canada is a commodity and unfortunately no government in Canada will do anything to change that. From a healthcare perspective they’re laying the groundwork to privatise.

So essentially Canada caters to big interests and the can gets kicked down the road via our heads.

I might have to go back to Australia It has its flaws but I don’t want to grow old in Canada the way it’s trending.

Yeah I know what you mean, in my case if I am going to wait for care in Canada if we say up here when we'd eventually need it, I'd probably die before getting it, whereas I know with money I can get the care I need and when I need it in the States, I'd probably not to back to the UK as I don't really see that as a possibly at all at this point in my life or in the future.

They're making it so the only way to see actual doctors or to even get a diagnosis via MRI, XRays, Ultrasounds, etc is only with privatization, which is unfortunate really. Doctors/Physicians all complained about this for years, that they're over loaded, too many are leaving for more money elsewhere, etc, and they just acted like oh well we'll just wait for more Doctors to finish school, well yeah, you think they want to stay as well? It's like the Nursing shortage as they want to call it, well the rotation is absolute shit, you have so many burned out working some ridiculous hours and rotations and then you have a bunch of others that have to play the seniority game because of how OT works and then Unions and you're fear mongering a shortage that doesn't exist but is entirely created by shit processes.

The lack of doctors, family physicians, this trend of online doctors, waiting over a year to even get an MRI or other things just to find out what you may need to get surgery on, Canada has been trending towards this for a long time and there's no real wanker in charge to blame, it was something that was going to crater the longer it kept going on.

The housing crisis here is comical, they had issues with money laundering and this housing crap going on since the 80s and knew about it since the 90's and haven't done anything real about it since except just whine about it in "campaigns" to trash one another while neither side has ever done anything about it when they had their go.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

Saw the first two episodes of Agatha all along, I guess this is what Marvel thinks is horror, where it's less spooky than the Netflix Sabrina show. But ok, more of the fake dead or not dead mains etc, it's exhausting af. Marvel lately can't get out of its own way. That Secret Wars show was a brutal watch too. They did very well with the Falcon and Winter Soldier show, but the rest of their shoes were lame and more of the same same sort of thing.

First episode of The Penguin - A little out there, but I can see what they're going with for Oswald. They did mention Scarface being an inspiration so it leaves off right after The Batman movie to see his rise, interesting take. Insane cast.

That new animation by Snyder on Netflix, massive yikes. It's like he took 300 and turned it into a messed up show. f*** sakes, studios need to stop giving money to Snyder.

 

[Empoleon8771]

I think I talked about this before, but I officially got my offer for my new company in Maryland on Wednesday. I really choked up when I told my manager on Thursday and I feel even more down about it after going out with my hockey teammates tonight, but I know it’s the right decision. Either way, I’m super happy to be back on the East coast and way closer to friends and family.

I’m still gonna try to stay connected with my hockey team in Seattle though, it gives me a good reason to go out to Seattle if nothing else. They’re also in an outdoor hockey tournament in early 2025 that I’m going to try to fly out for, we’ll see if that ends up working out.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

This board is such a joke.

Some moron posts a thread about hockey music or anthems or whatever. He lists Gary Glitter's song.

The moron doesn't know Gary Glitter is a convicted child rapist and pedophile. So I post a few links to show why he should never be an option for his music, then I posted my list of songs. Apparently, that's trolling/flaming. Then because there's a lot of idiots on this board, one bloke posts a list of songs by singers that are convicted of disgusting crimes, one of them is Lost Prophets.

If you don't know why Lost Prophets being posted even as a joke is f***ed up, go google it, because if I post actual info I might get another warning by some dipshit. The stuff you will read about one of the members in that band will haunt you for the rest of your life. But yeah sure, posting about that as a joke is something someone felt was appropriate to do.

You have to be f***ing kidding me.

 

[Gurglesons]

Saw the first two episodes of Agatha all along, I guess this is what Marvel thinks is horror, where it's less spooky than the Netflix Sabrina show. But ok, more of the fake dead or not dead mains etc, it's exhausting af. Marvel lately can't get out of its own way. That Secret Wars show was a brutal watch too. They did very well with the Falcon and Winter Soldier show, but the rest of their shoes were lame and more of the same same sort of thing.

First episode of The Penguin - A little out there, but I can see what they're going with for Oswald. They did mention Scarface being an inspiration so it leaves off right after The Batman movie to see his rise, interesting take. Insane cast.

That new animation by Snyder on Netflix, massive yikes. It's like he took 300 and turned it into a messed up show. f*** sakes, studios need to stop giving money to Snyder.

I liked the first episode of the Penguin, but I thought the Pattinson "Batman" was the best Batman movie made.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

I liked the first episode of the Penguin, but I thought the Pattinson "Batman" was the best Batman movie made.

I'm a fan of most things Matt Reeves puts out for movies. Also I liked that Pattinson is a fan of Batman and really wanted the role, showed up to meet Matt Reeves with a binder of ideas and what he wanted to portray as Batman. It was the best take on Batman that wasn't a retread of what Burton started and Nolan polished up and in between, Schumacher shit all over.

I mean everyone hopes Pattinson bulks up a little more, but really, he just needs to be in a shape that is convincing enough with fighting skills and for once I'd like them to explore more of Bruce Wayne as the alter ego to Batman which Pattinson's version does. Kevin Conroy will always be THE BATMAN to me and many others, the OG of the Bruce voice vs Batman voice.

I still wish they would adapt Court of Owls as the main villain in one of the movies, it has the potential to be awesome especially to see Batman battle against The Talon (click the link if you're curious who they are and why I think they'd work will be explained). Of course, in addition to a better take on some of the Rogues Gallery, Hush would be awesome but I don't think Hush works in Matt Reeves' Gotham. I think Keoghan as Joker would be immense, he has the talent to do Heath Ledger's version justice considering that portrayal is still one of the best in comic book adaptations, ever.

 

[Gurglesons]

I'm a fan of most things Matt Reeves puts out for movies. Also I liked that Pattinson is a fan of Batman and really wanted the role, showed up to meet Matt Reeves with a binder of ideas and what he wanted to portray as Batman. It was the best take on Batman that wasn't a retread of what Burton started and Nolan polished up and in between, Schumacher shit all over.

I mean everyone hopes Pattinson bulks up a little more, but really, he just needs to be in a shape that is convincing enough with fighting skills and for once I'd like them to explore more of Bruce Wayne as the alter ego to Batman which Pattinson's version does. Kevin Conroy will always be THE BATMAN to me and many others, the OG of the Bruce voice vs Batman voice.

I still wish they would adapt Court of Owls as the main villain in one of the movies, it has the potential to be awesome especially to see Batman battle against The Talon (click the link if you're curious who they are and why I think they'd work will be explained). Of course, in addition to a better take on some of the Rogues Gallery, Hush would be awesome but I don't think Hush works in Matt Reeves' Gotham. I think Keoghan as Joker would be immense, he has the talent to do Heath Ledger's version justice considering that portrayal is still one of the best in comic book adaptations, ever.

I didn't have any problem with the aesthetics of the Batman movie.

Great casting in my opinion. Loved it.

 

[Randy Butternubs]

Pattinson and Stewart pretty much using the Twilight series to enter Hollywood. I think they've both been great since that series.

Hey, you gotta start somewhere.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

Pattinson and Stewart pretty much using the Twilight series to enter Hollywood. I think they've both been great since that series.

Hey, you gotta start somewhere.

I mean it's why he literally took the role, he wasn't a fan of it but his agent told him - If you want to be in Hollywood, you need to do garbage teen heart throb shit like this.

Some of the funniest shit from Pattinson comes from how much he despised the book and the entire thing, he now back tracks because he knows it got his name out there, but he has some legit dislike for that entire franchise that he now won't talk about in that way lol.

 

[Gurglesons]

The movie with him dying a bunch looks interesting.

 

[Tom Hanks]

 

[Honour Over Glory]

Marvel using Ai to make the Thunderbolts poster is hilarious.

 

[LOGiK]

Haven't been in awhile ...
Games:
Gave Mount and Banner 2: Bannerlord a go and (early game, at least) is the exact magic of the first, built upon more updated graphics and such. Such a fun game to build up into your own personal sim box.... so much is going on over time and it's like an RPG journal world... heh... plus mods make it more 'specific' to your liking.

Books:
Still finishing up Anna Karenina (slowed down with 200 pages left because I dont want to not have a great book going!)

Films:
Crap crap and more crap. Do not understand how today more people than ever veg out to TV and it is absolute trash. Pure filth and without a doubt the biggest contributor to societal / moral decay.

Tech:
90 series x3d cpu's out soon and ngreedia 50 series gpu's out (relatively) soon.

 

[Randy Butternubs]

Movies:

I watched the Weird Al movie last night. Hilarious. 8/10.

Games:

Eastward. Amazing pixel art and music. Story was more touching/moving than expected. Gameplay-wise, the puzzles were better than the combat. I also give it an 8/10.

Books:

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglass Adams = 6/10
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino = 4/10

 

[Pens1566]

Movies:

Finally got around to watching some of my Netflix backlog this week. Went with seasonal fare and watched both "Night Teeth" and "Army of the Dead". Neither one is gonna win any awards, but decently entertaining way to kill ~2hrs. I plan on starting "Midnight Mass" either tonight or tomorrow.

Games:
Age Of Wonders 3. It's old, but fun.

Books:
Finished a re-read of Children of Dune probably a month or so ago. Went back through the first 3 books right after Dune 2 came out on bluray. Haven't started anything since due to paralysis by analysis. Leaning towards "Burn Book" by Kara Swisher though.

 

[Ogrezilla]

Marvel using Ai to make the Thunderbolts poster is hilarious.

Did they? Lighting on it is weird like most posters but did they ai it?

 

[Ogrezilla]

Loved the Weird Al movie. It's great.

I watched Civil War and I Used to be Funny recently. Both are good, neither is great. Probably 6.5 or 7 out of 10.

Started playing Vampire Survivors. It's fun and pretty addicting. Good time-killer type game with progression but not a story to keep up with, so easy to pop in and out of. Same sort of niche as Hades in that way.

I read The Covenant of Steel series from Andrew Ryan recently. I liked all three books though probably progressively a bit less each one. They all had parts where I couldn't put them down, but they also all had some bits that sort of dragged I think. Well written and never bad certainly. Probably in the 7/10 range overall.

 

[Randy Butternubs]

Started playing Vampire Survivors. It's fun and pretty addicting. Good time-killer type game with progression but not a story to keep up with, so easy to pop in and out of.

I think I've put 80+ hours in to it which is definitely my most played game in recent years. There's a multiplayer mode which I haven't tried out yet. But maybe we will tonight.