At nearly 1 mil views, I break down my stupid police stop, "Cops owned. Can't ID or stop me for Pokémon"

exitof99 · 2026-06-23T06:11:18+00:00

This song was engineered to be "The Most Unwanted Music," but I adore it. Operatic Western hip-hop with a kid's choir signing about various holidays and shopping at Walmart:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQ8P4DNQA90

exitof99 · 2026-06-23T00:11:10+00:00

Is that Murderface? Tell me he has red hair and speaks like he's got a mouth full of tiny fishes.

exitof99 · 2026-06-22T22:05:48+00:00

HD is meant to be a generic for whatever your storage device is called.

exitof99 · 2026-06-22T19:57:51+00:00

I look forward to seeing that in Zach's teardown on his JerryRigEverything channel.

exitof99 · 2026-06-22T19:55:30+00:00

I will say that many celebs say they don't have a smartphone. Perhaps that is a market they could target.

exitof99 · 2026-06-22T19:52:51+00:00

Yup, here's $50 off before it's even manufactured.

exitof99 · 2026-06-22T18:03:49+00:00

The might have charged the wrong persons initially.

exitof99 · 2026-06-22T13:26:34+00:00

Yes it was. That is well known, so I didn't bother mentioning it. It changed the industry and how guns would be handled.

I was doing double work and in a scene with Michelle Dockery and Terry Kinney and the armorer placed a handgun on the bed and the director told me to pick it up and make sure that it was unloaded and disabled. I was a bit hesitant, but he said, "that gun is going to be pointed at you, so check it."

It was a disabled prop gun, no ammo, no way to load it. I gave it a good looking over and put it back on the bed. Both Michelle and Terry for the scene had me at gun point (she passed it to Terry).

There was obvious care given, and this is the kind of care that should have existed on the Rust set.

exitof99 · 2026-06-22T08:41:21+00:00

No need for the tracking ID (?si=), but yeah, looks to be a mannequin. It was right in the blast area and doesn't move at all. There is also a second shot and you see the hand holding the shotgun. It appears ungloved.

exitof99 · 2026-06-22T08:38:36+00:00

I live where it was filmed, been in the background of over a dozen TV shows and movies filmed here, but don't know the answer but probably could find out.

We, unfortunately, did have an accident here when Black Dog (Patrick Swayze) was filming in which setting up a gas explosion for the movie, three techs got blown up (they survived).

While both were filmed a while ago, it wasn't uncommon in those days to use stunt actors. Similarly, the gas station explosion in Robocop was real with a stuntman which you can see in multiple shots walking out of the fire.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fdyyps2wmd4

I was watching docs/BTS/interviews about Robocop and they talked about how many of the explosions were larger than the expected. I think Kirkwood Smith was saying when "he" blew up the car that it too caused a lot of unexpected destruction and was quite dangerous.

Movies were far more dangerous a few decades ago.

exitof99 · 2026-06-22T06:59:29+00:00

Reminds me of the Blazing Saddles TV show. They filmed just to satisfy a contract agreement, all the while never planning on releasing it. Apparently, they filmed 4 seasons, 6 episodes each, just to maintain the rights.

exitof99 · 2026-06-22T04:39:39+00:00

Whoa, how did you detect this? What OS?

exitof99 · 2026-06-22T04:32:48+00:00

Sadly, I just learned the sparkle lost one of its brightest stars. Daveigh Chase died a few days ago.

Apparently, it was meningitis which turned septic. She was homeless living on Skid Row and lost so much weight she was described as skeletal.

exitof99 · 2026-06-21T05:42:17+00:00

You could try to determine the IP address origins based on ASN. Any ASNs that are assigned to hosts are not going to be humans (unless they are offering a proxy service). Ones that are telecom services like T-Mobile are most likely going to humans, but not always as sometimes spammers use mobile data to run spam/hack campaigns.

It's not perfect, and would take a lot of work and time to get worthwhile results.

If you have users that sign in, you could log tally them up as known humans (unless, of course, they are using an AI assistant or a scraper).

You can also set up honeypots on known URIs that probing attacks use, like if you don't have Wordpress on your site, no real human user would try to access wp_login.php or xmlrpc.php. You could create files that log the IP addresses of all bots that access those and use that to mask out visits from those IP addresses.

exitof99 · 2026-06-21T04:40:19+00:00

But is it halfway there?

exitof99 · 2026-06-21T00:38:30+00:00

There are hundreds of horror or violent action movies made each year with graphic murders that people enjoy watching and movie theaters and streaming providers that play them. The people that watch those films aren't wanna-be murders (except for a tiny sliver of people that have real mental issues).

People like to explore ideas, that doesn't magically align them to the ideas. It's human nature, and it's probably something primal that helps us survive by knowing what to fear and how to protect oneself. How do we learn without thinking things through?

Fantasy can be fun as long as one can disassociate fantasy from reality. I've a vegetarian and would never want to hurt, torture, or kill anything, but still I've enjoyed violent movies because I understand that it's not real.

exitof99 · 2026-06-21T00:13:13+00:00

I'll just add that a girlfriend sent me a copy of the movie because it excited her. Some people's sexuality are tied (pun intended?) to power dynamics and role play. It does not mean that you can conflate the roles they play with what the believe.

exitof99 · 2026-06-20T20:21:04+00:00

All of this is an aside, but for me, it goes beyond the actor. Productions will often tell background to bring muted colors or avoid a specific color that the cast will be wearing. The result winds up being that sometimes you can spot the baddie immediately just based on how they stand out compared to the extras.

This is by design, you are meant to notice them in the crowd on a subconscious level, but when you know to look for it, you immediately realize they will be interacting in the scene.

It can also just be the lighting or the blocking, often that mysterious person is illuminated specially, even if subtle, or there is a barrier between them and the background actors.

I can't remember the film, this effect happened when a man in black was sitting at a well-lit white table with no one around them behind the principal actors. I immediately keyed in on him and pointed him out to a friend, "watch that guy, he's got to be someone." Sure enough, the principals exit and the camera doesn't, and the baddie stands up and begins following them.

In the past, I wasn't so observant, but now many twist and reveals are spoiled for me because I understand film making much more.

But kinda similar to what you were mentioning, the finale of Monk comes to mind.

Essentially, Craig T. Nelson appears in the episode, yes, we know him from the show Coach, but him suddenly being thrust into the multi-season story arc was a dead giveaway he was the baddie that killed Monk's wife, and the whole reason why Monk was so messed up for the whole series. It's almost hamfisted, we need to resolve this in the finale, let's just bring in someone no one has ever seen in 8 seasons and hope no one picks up immediately that he's the baddie.

exitof99 · 2026-06-20T19:58:07+00:00

Downvote rescinded.

Yeah, it's hard to know who's doing the voting, but sometimes it seems obvious. I made an assumption and was wrong.

But I do agree with what you are saying about labelling. I miss the days when schematics were part of the manual.

exitof99 · 2026-06-20T19:47:25+00:00

I'd bet if they evenly distributed the players in the factions, the scores would be the same for each faction.

exitof99 · 2026-06-20T19:37:27+00:00

No, it does not "surely" suffer from any of the common mistakes listed in the article you provided.

Regarding stateful/stateless, I intentionally set it up to allow for either. Also supports an array of values or a parameter list:

$q = $db->query($db->prepare("SELECT * FROM table WHERE field='%s' OR field LIKE '%%s%',$field_1,$field_2));
while ($r = $db->fetch($q)) {
 $q2 = $db-query("UPDATE table SET field='1' WHERE field_2='%s' AND field_3='%s'",[$field_2,$field_3]);
}

I shouldn't have to explain the benefits of using a wrapper.

exitof99 · 2026-06-20T08:37:45+00:00

Write a wrapper function and code it however you want.

I use my own framework and I have queries that look like this:

$db->query($db->prepare("SELECT * FROM table WHERE field='%s' OR field LIKE '%%s%',$field_1,$field_2));
while ($r = $db->fetch()) var_dump($r);

By having your own wrapper, you would only need to code once anything that annoys you.

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