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Re: The many faces of Geekhack
« Reply #200 on: Tue, 23 April 2013, 17:15:15 »
too many f-bombs getting dropped in here, it makes you look bad

I was like "what F-bomb", then I realized what you meant

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Re: The many faces of Geekhack
« Reply #201 on: Tue, 23 April 2013, 17:21:51 »
We also went to a pirate party in which I and her Mum was a pirate/pirette and she went as a parrot in a homemade outfit. I don't think we got any pictures of her in it though. Had homemade wings and everything! :D
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Re: The many faces of Geekhack
« Reply #202 on: Tue, 23 April 2013, 17:25:36 »
me eating to the right! 2010 in turkey
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Re: The many faces of Geekhack
« Reply #203 on: Tue, 23 April 2013, 17:26:21 »
We also went to a pirate party in which I and her Mum was a pirate/pirette and she went as a parrot in a homemade outfit. I don't think we got any pictures of her in it though. Had homemade wings and everything! :D

did you buy any dvds while you attended?

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Re: The many faces of Geekhack
« Reply #204 on: Tue, 23 April 2013, 17:29:10 »
tp4 is asian? go figure, never would have guessed

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Re: The many faces of Geekhack
« Reply #205 on: Tue, 23 April 2013, 17:29:37 »
We also went to a pirate party in which I and her Mum was a pirate/pirette and she went as a parrot in a homemade outfit. I don't think we got any pictures of her in it though. Had homemade wings and everything! :D

did you buy any dvds while you attended?

Only three! Terminator 6, Expendables 38 : Zimmer Frame Roundhouse Kick and last but not least, Lord of the Rings : Gollum's Lava Hot Tub. I was skeptical at first since I thought they were fake, but they entertained me.
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Re: The many faces of Geekhack
« Reply #206 on: Tue, 23 April 2013, 17:30:49 »
We also went to a pirate party in which I and her Mum was a pirate/pirette and she went as a parrot in a homemade outfit. I don't think we got any pictures of her in it though. Had homemade wings and everything! :D

did you buy any dvds while you attended?

Only three! Terminator 6, Expendables 38 : Zimmer Frame Roundhouse Kick and last but not least, Lord of the Rings : Gollum's Lava Hot Tub. I was skeptical at first since I thought they were fake, but they entertained me.

That LoTR's sounds like an awful porno.
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Re: The many faces of Geekhack
« Reply #207 on: Tue, 23 April 2013, 18:11:53 »
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Re: The many faces of Geekhack
« Reply #208 on: Tue, 23 April 2013, 18:15:51 »
I think they are acceptable if you're a villain, British or an old-timey rich person.

b-b-but im a brit....wait what were we talking about again.
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Re: The many faces of Geekhack
« Reply #209 on: Tue, 23 April 2013, 18:17:29 »
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Mini girlshark wizbros != children

They are simply mini girlshark wizbros.

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Re: The many faces of Geekhack
« Reply #210 on: Tue, 23 April 2013, 18:19:01 »
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Mini girlshark wizbros != children

They are simply mini girlshark wizbros.

I didn't even think of that

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Re: The many faces of Geekhack
« Reply #211 on: Tue, 23 April 2013, 19:18:48 »
Honestly I thought there'd be more 'puffy" people, but it's about 1:1 so far...

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Re: The many faces of Geekhack
« Reply #212 on: Tue, 23 April 2013, 19:40:52 »
you wanted more fat people? you like making fun of fat people like me? shame on you sir!

lots of people here are all cleaned up,

because this thread was missing some neckbeard, i just took a picture.

but the fun part is cleaning myself up when i go on  trips, you would never know i looked like a bum the previous week......lol

hopefully my work doesn't start doing video conferencing, would hate to have to shave regularly.
 

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Re: The many faces of Geekhack
« Reply #213 on: Tue, 23 April 2013, 19:43:36 »
you wanted more fat people? you like making fun of fat people like me? shame on you sir!

lots of people here are all cleaned up,

because this thread was missing some neckbeard, i just took a picture.
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but the fun part is cleaning myself up when i go on  trips, you would never know i looked like a bum the previous week......lol

hopefully my work doesn't start doing video conferencing, would hate to have to shave regularly.
 

i didn't make fun of puffy people, I just expected since this is a geek oriented forum, there'd be more puffy than non-puffy

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Re: The many faces of Geekhack
« Reply #214 on: Tue, 23 April 2013, 19:55:22 »
you wanted more fat people? you like making fun of fat people like me? shame on you sir!

lots of people here are all cleaned up,

because this thread was missing some neckbeard, i just took a picture.
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but the fun part is cleaning myself up when i go on  trips, you would never know i looked like a bum the previous week......lol

hopefully my work doesn't start doing video conferencing, would hate to have to shave regularly.

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Re: The many faces of Geekhack
« Reply #215 on: Tue, 23 April 2013, 19:57:32 »
he's wearing a portal 2 shirt dude. i would guess reddit not 4chan

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Re: The many faces of Geekhack
« Reply #216 on: Tue, 23 April 2013, 19:59:59 »
you wanted more fat people? you like making fun of fat people like me? shame on you sir!

lots of people here are all cleaned up,

because this thread was missing some neckbeard, i just took a picture.
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but the fun part is cleaning myself up when i go on  trips, you would never know i looked like a bum the previous week......lol

hopefully my work doesn't start doing video conferencing, would hate to have to shave regularly.

Definitely a /g/ user. What gnu/linux do you run?
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Re: The many faces of Geekhack
« Reply #217 on: Tue, 23 April 2013, 20:00:21 »
he's wearing a portal 2 shirt dude. i would guess reddit not 4chan

Pretty sure they're the same people, or a subset of one another.

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Re: The many faces of Geekhack
« Reply #218 on: Tue, 23 April 2013, 20:00:53 »
he's wearing a portal 2 shirt dude. i would guess reddit not 4chan

Pretty sure they're the same people, or a subset of one another.
No lol.  Reddit and 4chan hate eachother.

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Re: The many faces of Geekhack
« Reply #219 on: Tue, 23 April 2013, 20:01:54 »
/g/ and /mu/

The internet's cesspools of elitism.
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Re: The many faces of Geekhack
« Reply #220 on: Tue, 23 April 2013, 20:03:44 »
he's wearing a portal 2 shirt dude. i would guess reddit not 4chan

Pretty sure they're the same people, or a subset of one another.
No lol.  Reddit and 4chan hate eachother.

they say that... but i find it hard to believe they're not the same party, they behave exactly the same way.

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Re: The many faces of Geekhack
« Reply #221 on: Tue, 23 April 2013, 20:04:55 »
/g/ and /mu/

The internet's cesspools of elitism.

it's not just the internet..  Most people are out to elite' themselves at "something" no matter what medium

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Re: The many faces of Geekhack
« Reply #222 on: Tue, 23 April 2013, 20:06:22 »
he's wearing a portal 2 shirt dude. i would guess reddit not 4chan

Pretty sure they're the same people, or a subset of one another.
No lol.  Reddit and 4chan hate eachother.

they say that... but i find it hard to believe they're not the same party, they behave exactly the same way.

4chan creates. reddit ****s all over it. well 4chan doesnt really create much of anything anymore because it's swarmed with normal people (like every website now) due to the consumerization of internet.

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Re: The many faces of Geekhack
« Reply #223 on: Tue, 23 April 2013, 20:06:42 »
they say that... but i find it hard to believe they're not the same party, they behave exactly the same way.
Nah, at least reddit is somewhat constructive in some subreddits. /b/ was kinda entertaining 2-5 years ago, but in the past year it's just been dire.
it's not just the internet..  Most people are out to elite' themselves at "something" no matter what medium
I know there's elitism everywhere but I have never seen such a concentrated supply of it anywhere except /g/ and /mu/.
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Re: The many faces of Geekhack
« Reply #224 on: Tue, 23 April 2013, 20:07:01 »
he's wearing a portal 2 shirt dude. i would guess reddit not 4chan

Pretty sure they're the same people, or a subset of one another.
No lol.  Reddit and 4chan hate eachother.

they say that... but i find it hard to believe they're not the same party, they behave exactly the same way.
Not true at all.  The large subreddits are basically massive circlejerks of people trying to boost their karma.  4chan is just a bunch of keyboard warriors shouting about eachother, saying one thing is better, blah blah.

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Re: The many faces of Geekhack
« Reply #225 on: Tue, 23 April 2013, 20:08:43 »
ive never posted on reddit ever in my life and i dont use linux. obviously i am missing the joke or not understanding the insult. i feel sad now

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Re: The many faces of Geekhack
« Reply #226 on: Tue, 23 April 2013, 20:09:03 »
they say that... but i find it hard to believe they're not the same party, they behave exactly the same way.
Like idiots. /b/ was kinda entertaining 2-5 years ago, but in the past year it's just been dire.
it's not just the internet..  Most people are out to elite' themselves at "something" no matter what medium
I know there's elitism everywhere but I have never seen such a concentrated supply of it anywhere except /g/ and /mu/.

well both those topics have extreme ends. most people listen to complete **** music because they are extremely ignorant to whats out there. and then there are the majority of people who are computer illiterate. it's hard not to be elitist..

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Re: The many faces of Geekhack
« Reply #227 on: Tue, 23 April 2013, 20:09:36 »
ive never posted on reddit ever in my life and i dont use linux. obviously i am missing the joke or not understanding the insult. i feel sad now
He assumed by your looks that you lurk /g/, a board on 4chan who is obsessed with Linux and Richard Stallman.

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Re: The many faces of Geekhack
« Reply #228 on: Tue, 23 April 2013, 20:09:46 »
ive never posted on reddit ever in my life and i dont use linux. obviously i am missing the joke or not understanding the insult. i feel sad now

do you at least go on /g/? i'd assume not since you dont get the joke?
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Re: The many faces of Geekhack
« Reply #229 on: Tue, 23 April 2013, 20:10:20 »
ive never posted on reddit ever in my life and i dont use linux. obviously i am missing the joke or not understanding the insult. i feel sad now

do you at least go on /g/? i'd assume not since you dont get the joke?

obviously lml

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Re: The many faces of Geekhack
« Reply #230 on: Tue, 23 April 2013, 20:12:24 »
ive never posted on reddit ever in my life and i dont use linux. obviously i am missing the joke or not understanding the insult. i feel sad now

do you at least go on /g/? i'd assume not since you dont get the joke?

nope

Do i come off at elitist though? i feel like you guys are jabbing me bad.

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Re: The many faces of Geekhack
« Reply #231 on: Tue, 23 April 2013, 20:14:02 »
ive never posted on reddit ever in my life and i dont use linux. obviously i am missing the joke or not understanding the insult. i feel sad now

do you at least go on /g/? i'd assume not since you dont get the joke?

nope

Do i come off at elitist though? i feel like you guys are jabbing me bad.

nobody is making fun of you. we were basically testing if you knew about the inside joke. it's all good man  :)

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Re: The many faces of Geekhack
« Reply #232 on: Tue, 23 April 2013, 20:17:39 »
/g/ is the technology board of 4chan.org, and it is famously full of 'neckbeards' who use linux. Rare was just joking since you implied you were a neckbeard in your post. No hard feelings were meant and nobody was calling you elitist :)
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Re: The many faces of Geekhack
« Reply #233 on: Tue, 23 April 2013, 20:17:42 »
they say that... but i find it hard to believe they're not the same party, they behave exactly the same way.
Nah, at least reddit is somewhat constructive in some subreddits. /b/ was kinda entertaining 2-5 years ago, but in the past year it's just been dire.
it's not just the internet..  Most people are out to elite' themselves at "something" no matter what medium
I know there's elitism everywhere but I have never seen such a concentrated supply of it anywhere except /g/ and /mu/.

I think the dire /b/ is the result of kids' growing up and moving on to reddit where they can hate their past selves.

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Re: The many faces of Geekhack
« Reply #234 on: Tue, 23 April 2013, 20:18:24 »
ive never posted on reddit ever in my life and i dont use linux. obviously i am missing the joke or not understanding the insult. i feel sad now

do you at least go on /g/? i'd assume not since you dont get the joke?

nope

Do i come off at elitist though? i feel like you guys are jabbing me bad.

wtf... what is with this womenly sensitivity... you're all macho in the picture... :D

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Re: The many faces of Geekhack
« Reply #235 on: Tue, 23 April 2013, 20:18:34 »
they say that... but i find it hard to believe they're not the same party, they behave exactly the same way.
Nah, at least reddit is somewhat constructive in some subreddits. /b/ was kinda entertaining 2-5 years ago, but in the past year it's just been dire.
it's not just the internet..  Most people are out to elite' themselves at "something" no matter what medium
I know there's elitism everywhere but I have never seen such a concentrated supply of it anywhere except /g/ and /mu/.

I think the dire /b/ is the result of kids' growing up and moving on to reddit where they can hate their past selves.

anyone who goes on /b/ ever belongs on reddit

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Re: The many faces of Geekhack
« Reply #236 on: Tue, 23 April 2013, 20:21:31 »
ive never posted on reddit ever in my life and i dont use linux. obviously i am missing the joke or not understanding the insult. i feel sad now

do you at least go on /g/? i'd assume not since you dont get the joke?

nope

Do i come off at elitist though? i feel like you guys are jabbing me bad.

wtf... what is with this womenly sensitivity... you're all macho in the picture... :D

/g/ is the technology board of 4chan.org, and it is famously full of 'neckbeards' who use linux. Rare was just joking since you implied you were a neckbeard in your post. No hard feelings were meant and nobody was calling you elitist :)

ive never posted on reddit ever in my life and i dont use linux. obviously i am missing the joke or not understanding the insult. i feel sad now

do you at least go on /g/? i'd assume not since you dont get the joke?

nope

Do i come off at elitist though? i feel like you guys are jabbing me bad.

nobody is making fun of you. we were basically testing if you knew about the inside joke. it's all good man  :)

ah ok, lol

it all makes sense now

carry on

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Re: The many faces of Geekhack
« Reply #237 on: Tue, 23 April 2013, 20:24:39 »
Hey glod, I also wear tinted glasses for when I play bf3, what do you use um for.

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Re: The many faces of Geekhack
« Reply #238 on: Tue, 23 April 2013, 20:26:50 »
Hey glod, I also wear tinted glasses for when I play bf3, what do you use um for.

everything   :rolleyes:

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Re: The many faces of Geekhack
« Reply #239 on: Tue, 23 April 2013, 20:28:58 »
Hey glod, I also wear tinted glasses for when I play bf3, what do you use um for.

everything   :rolleyes:

lotta glare in ur room?

you hate the color Blue and Red?

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Re: The many faces of Geekhack
« Reply #240 on: Tue, 23 April 2013, 20:35:19 »
yeah i'm always here so anything to help my eyes is a plus, and i am completely serious about that.

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« Reply #241 on: Tue, 23 April 2013, 20:50:08 »
hashbaz w/mini-hashbaz:

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« Reply #242 on: Tue, 23 April 2013, 21:15:28 »
I dont have a kid but...



I do have an adorable mutt. Plus she's destroying the right diety :P  That's right Moose, I said it.

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Re: The many faces of Geekhack
« Reply #243 on: Tue, 23 April 2013, 21:19:38 »
I love you Glod. You looks like a nice guy. I also have 2 identities :D

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Re: The many faces of Geekhack
« Reply #244 on: Tue, 23 April 2013, 21:23:43 »
I love you Glod. You looks like a nice guy. I also have 2 identities :D

His first pic is def nice guy, the second one... there's some evil in those eyes. :D

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« Reply #245 on: Tue, 23 April 2013, 21:39:16 »
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Pimples have since gone away and I've shaved for prom.
your facebook profile pic look much much much much much better than this.

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Re: The many faces of Geekhack
« Reply #246 on: Tue, 23 April 2013, 21:44:22 »
No pictures, too tired to upload right now so I'll link a crappy video we did for a film class. The entire thing was shot and edited in 6 hrs so enjoy! But which one is me...
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« Reply #247 on: Tue, 23 April 2013, 21:46:07 »
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Re: The many faces of Geekhack
« Reply #248 on: Tue, 23 April 2013, 21:49:40 »
No pictures, too tired to upload right now so I'll link a crappy video we did for a film class. The entire thing was shot and edited in 6 hrs so enjoy! But which one is me...

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Re: The many faces of Geekhack
« Reply #249 on: Tue, 23 April 2013, 21:56:31 »
No pictures, too tired to upload right now so I'll link a crappy video we did for a film class. The entire thing was shot and edited in 6 hrs so enjoy! But which one is me...

You are Peter, I know it!
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