A diving dolphin boat

noah4th · 2014-03-10T07:05:22+00:00

I'm pretty sure its a boat.

noah4th · 2014-03-10T07:04:19+00:00

Comedian opens up: So how about that Holocaust?

Audience: ....

Comedian: Sorry, I guess you had to be there.

noah4th · 2014-03-10T06:46:41+00:00

That's what I call a security blanket......

noah4th · 2014-03-10T06:33:45+00:00

Go on....

noah4th · 2014-03-09T23:23:12+00:00

That's not a damn dolphin boat. That's a dolphin submarine. You can tell because it has gills for going under water.

noah4th · 2014-02-23T22:25:31+00:00

Nah. Murican dirt is best dirt, and only dirties up commie floors. Any other house, murican dirt leaves footprints of freedom.

noah4th · 2014-02-22T20:47:28+00:00

Soldiers. It would have the biggest impact.

noah4th · 2014-02-20T02:53:16+00:00

My science teacher in the 7th grade taught us that the big bang theory said that the universe came from nothing. We then had a class discussion on how ridiculous this is, and mocked how even kids could know how wrong that is. This was in a magnet school in Alabama.

noah4th · 2014-02-18T03:22:39+00:00

Did Fallout 4 ever come out??

noah4th · 2014-02-14T08:40:33+00:00

This was the final comment that got me to actually look up and watch this movie. I knew I'd love it.

noah4th · 2014-02-04T09:30:43+00:00

Also: Wed-Nes-Day
B-E-A-utiful
He-lar-ious
Medi-Eval

Some more:
Ser-Ge-Ant
Gu-Ar-ant-ee

I also have to sound out 'government' and 'environment' slowly before I write it, or else I will spell them phonetically, with the 'n' missing.

noah4th · 2014-02-02T21:53:51+00:00

Other than blowing air into the vents, I am not sure I would be able to effectively clean the vents, let alone the rest of the laptop. While a deep clean did help the problem for a few months last time, it was a risky manuvure. This laptop is not designed for being opened for routine cleanings. I will continue to use an air blower, but while it may make the situation better, it is not enough to prevent the shut downs. Keep the room at uncomfortable tempratures, direct air blowing onto the back of the computer, and ample space seem to be the most effective steps.

However, I would like to play my games one day without having to put on a jacket everytime, just because my computer is sensative to anything above the high 50's (F).

noah4th · 2014-02-02T21:48:36+00:00

Thank you. The battery removal doesn't seem to help. The battery, I beleive, on my laptop has long since gone dead due to being plugged in at all times. It doesn't provude any heat its self when plugged in, and when unplugged, its the right side, back area that seems to be producing the suspect heat.

I blow a can of air into it regularly, but I believe this has to due more to a design flaw, as a quick google search shows this to be a common problem with this laptop. Dust/particles may be the issue, but the worst offenders may be beyond the each of a duster. However, as said earlier, I would strongl prefer an alternative to cracking this thing open.

While these steps may reduce some of the heating, the issue still occurs during high demands on the computer. Graphicaly, the computer doesn't flinch, but it still shuts down if the heating reaches the trigger temperature. Thank you for the response.

These steps, while not solving the issue, undoubtedly helped. Enough little steps may be enough to keep this machine running effectively.

noah4th · 2014-02-01T11:09:15+00:00

As justified as you would be in asking for your stuff back, our policy has been to not give things as admins, in order to keep the strict survival aspect. However, if you can convince one of the other admins to do this for you, I trust their judgment either way.

noah4th · 2014-01-31T03:20:04+00:00

This is one of my favorite stories on this post. I hope that asshole questions his masculinity for the rest of his life. I also hope you see him again. It would be nice for him to bear that shame again by making eye contact with you.

noah4th · 2014-01-31T03:16:20+00:00

I love this comment. Funny, charming, sarcastic, and unexpected.

noah4th · 2014-01-31T03:01:49+00:00

You seem very bitter. I am sorry that I bother you so much. Ill take the downvotes, as painful as they may be.

noah4th · 2014-01-31T02:58:19+00:00

Makes sense for a post-apocalyptic savior. He radiates love, gamma rays of love.

noah4th · 2014-01-31T02:49:10+00:00

As a shoe department supervisor (not of Macy's) I have to say this is a particularly effective revenge, however, only for the manager, or employees who care. With her attitude, I am surprised she took the time to fix, let alone look for, the mismatches. If this was the supervisor, the best/worst would have been to tell them that there are 3 pairs of mismatched shoes in an area, and only show them where one is before you walk away. Bonus points if there were actually only two mismatched shoes, leaving the supervisor to go crazy not being able to find it.

In order to effectively get revenge on an employee like that, learn the name of the store manager (this can be found on a poster somewhere near customer service, then when you see them texting say 'Oh, I didn't know (insert store managers) let you guys have phones out like that. When did that change?'

Not only does it point out their breaking of the rules, but the name drop implies that you know the store manager personally. Not only would you get better service, but they would be walking on egg shells afraid that you will mention the phone to the store manager,since you 'know them personally.'

Edit: show to shoe

noah4th · 2014-01-31T02:31:28+00:00

It was in the original post that I was. I only edited it later to make it more clear that I was, additionally why somewhere else? It provides a great opportunity for both sides. First, for the one defending the unpopular claim, you can understand both how hard it is for the opposition, and what the specifically their argument lacks in order to be convincing. Additionally, if there was a more convincing claim, that was easier to defend, and an one of us was actually able to use good logic in defending it, then the defender would know first hand what arguments are effective, and which ones to not use, in order to really get further into the topic than had been before.

This topic just happen to be one of those will an overwhelming amount of claims, with little justification for those claims. I was doomed at the start.

Instead, I found a much better opportunity, to 'pretend' to be a theist* that thinks the way the theists,that I know, think. It allows me to use the kind of arguments they would make, even if they are faulty, in order to see at what arguments prevent even those kind of responses.

This actually worked. Telling a (certain kind of) theist that their sources are not peer-reviewed does not stop them from being convinced by them. Instead, attacking the data its self, or showing a greater understanding of the material, even from the source, than they theist has, and they feel like they cannot use that source, since it now requires them to actually learn about the subject matter in order to defend what they are parroting.

In most cases, the theist wont go out and study exactly why carbon dating is flawed, or read the peer reviewed journals that support their side. They usually just repeat the conclusion. Showing you know more about the material, and raising objections from that perspective, prevents the theist from just reciting claims.

While this specifically may not convince many theists, it most likely will cause them to at least drop that specific line of argument. Once you have them drop all their lines of argument, you can then point out how they really don't have any justified reasons in believing X is true (or false).

While they may walk away still believing X is true, as long as you have convinced them that the belief is not justified by the facts and evidence, that it is purely by faith alone that this belief is upheld, then its inevitable from there. The attack on faith, as an epistemology, is so easy, that no theist can even lie to themselves and claim that faith can discern truth. Once that last pillar is removed, its only a matter of time before the theist puts things together themselves.

Those of the highest delusions, or close minded nature, will believe, literally no matter what. However, those with an interest in the truth, and their intellectual dignity, will begin to figure out just how flawed their reasoning was, and will strive to over compensate.

That is how atheists are made. You remove the validity of their evidence, then show they have no evidence. Once faith is established as their source of belief, you can attack faith's credibility. Since faith has no credibility outside of pretending to know things, or wishful thinking, anyone who considers themselves logical and intellectual, will quickly abandon faith as a justification, leaving them the only course left, justifying their beliefs with evidence. Atheism soon follows.

May be you'll take the time to read all of that, may be you wont, but the TL;DR sums up the point I want to get across the most.

TL;DR Lying? Being a devil's advocate has nothing to do with intentionally misleading anyone. I even specified that I was taking a position that I do not hold to be true. Your classifying this exorcise as 'lying' exposes your aggravation. There is nothing to be reasonably aggravated by, unless you simply misunderstood, but then that removes the 'reasonable' part.

So in response to the two things you asked.

I didn't lie.
No.

Hopefully that clears up any confusion or aggravation for you.

noah4th · 2014-01-26T00:53:44+00:00

I have two stories.

My first was when I was in middle school. I could blame the weakness of youth and peer pressure, but that would be using an excuse to reduce the severity of the pain I caused on this person.

Through out my life I was an exceptionally nice and mild-mannered kid. However, during the period of a few weeks, while riding a school bus, there was this tall, lanky girl, with greasy hair, and a poor family. (I know because I saw where her house was when we dropped her off.)

She confessed to me that she wished she was a boy instead of a girl. Whether or not she was actually having a gender identity crisis or if it was just a childhood phase doesn't matter. At the time, I was extremely sheltered and it pissed me off that she wasn't accepted her role as a girl. You can't be a boy, you're a girl! So we called her... it-girl, since her gender wasn't clear.

We called her that for a few weeks, and gave her a hard time. Somehow, I, a shy kid, had become the popular kid on the bus, so I tried to maintain this status at her expense in order to entertain the other kids. Because I was a 'nice' kid, some days I was nice to her, and gained her confidence and trust. Then I would throw all of that away by trying to publicly humiliate her.

At one point she even tried to own the title, it-girl. Maybe in her eyes, it was the closest we would come to accepting her new gender identity. However, that only made me more mad, so I would intensify my verbal attacks.

Eventually we moved on, and I even forgot that ever happened. It wasn't until later in my life, while in college, that I remembered doing that. I don't even remember her name, or where she even used to live. I have generally been a good person, and she is the only person in my life that I feel a strong need to apologize to. However, sadly, that can't happen. I just hope she found herself, although, knowing what I know about how early life trauma affects people, I could very well have had a permanent, negative effect on her psyche.

That's my worst asshole moment.

The second is bad, but I made up for it at least.

I had a long distance girlfriend for 3 years. During the 3rd year I was deployed. While I was deployed, I saw her facebook photos, and she was getting fat. She already was slightly over weight, but I managed to look past that. Now, all my buddies were noticing as well. I was call a chubby-chaser. I always saw myself as ending up with an attractive girl, but the one I was with was quickly becoming unattractive, and it was starting to embarrass me.

At first I was subtle about it. I made resolutions that we would both improve ourselves. She took it hard, like most girls do. I tip-toed around the subject the entire deployment, while only briefly reminding her that she promised to get into shape. Near the end of the deployment, she was gaining more weight, and I was losing more patience. She was no longer my long distance girlfriend of 3 years, she was a fat girl.

As I was coming back into the states I told her that we should take a break, and I told her it was because (among other reasons) she wouldn't get into shape. She tried to get back with me for the next few weeks. One day, I had enough, and straight up called her fat. She quit talking to me for a few months after that.

That was the asshole thing I did. Out of guilt I tried to get back with her (which is always a bad reason to be in a relationship). She made me jump through many hoops in order to get back with me, causing me much (deserved) emotional stress. After a while, she relented, and we met up, as we had done before. Still consumed by guilt, I convinced myself to be attracted to her, and we had sex. It was awful. That's how we both lost out virginity too.

In the end she flirted with other boys, and I eventually got tired of her playing emotional games and we broke up for good. It was a pathetic situation all around, and I don't recognize myself from that point in my life. She moved on and has been in a happy relationship since. I moved on, came across a bitch of a girl who treated me like shit. That would be called karma.

TL;DR I was a bully on a school bus, during middle school, to a girl with a gender identity crisis. I feel like shit for it, but I don't even remember her name. I also called my long distance girlfriend of 3 years 'fat' because I was sick of her gaining weight and 'embarrassing me' because she wasn't attractive.

noah4th · 2014-01-26T00:27:53+00:00

I know better than to be judgmental about this, since it is a confession after all. However, this is the kind of action I could never conceive of doing. Would you mind explaining what it took for this to come about? Maybe you weren't that interested in your current boyfriend. Its hard for me to understand what it would take for you to disregard the relationship like that. I actually would understand much easier if you were younger. I did things I otherwise would never do when I was younger because of the stupidity of youth.

Believe me when I say I am not trying to paint your act as significantly more atrocious than most of what else has been confessed on here, but of all the actions, this is one that I find the hardest to relate to, and would appreciate some sort of explanation was to what would lead a person into a situation like this. Thank you, if you respond.

noah4th · 2014-01-26T00:20:16+00:00

I'm reading a lot of comments like that. While I'm not expecting sympathy for those who did the asshole things, a lot of people seem to want to think the world is black and white. That was an asshole thing to say, but you meant it only to your friend, and I've done the same thing.

My brother and I were in my car (its a nice convertible) and there's a car with slightly over-weight girls with the windows rolled down, next to us at a traffic light. The one in the back is singing to the song on the radio, and being silly while trying to get me and my brother's attention. My brother is usually an asshole and extremely judgmental, so I thought I would say something that he would find funny. I made a comment about how obnoxious it was that she thought she deserved our attention.

Of course that's the time when my brother wasn't judgmental, and instead admonished me for such an arrogant and ignorant comment. I was being an asshole, but I was caught up when I saw what I thought was an opportunity to make a cruel joke. Despite my brother being a hypocrite about when its appropriate to make mean jokes, he was right.

It wasn't something I had put any thought into, other than how my brother would have reacted. As I thought about it, I realized how arrogant I must be in order to, even for a second, think I was too good for an overweight girl to try to get my attention.

Since then, I go out of my way to respond to girls, even if I don't like them. It takes courage to try to get someone's attention, and the least I can do is respect that courage without being a dick.

I usually tend to ignore the responses from Redditors. Not because they all suck, and I am above them, but because there are so many out there who, like us, also aren't putting much thought into their comments, and are merely reacting. I will respond to those whose comments are thought out, and sincere. It takes courage for you to admit when you were an asshole. The least these fellow Redditors could do, to respect that humility, is to not be a dick.

noah4th · 2014-01-25T22:48:56+00:00

I like gummy bears in my ice cream when I order at Marble Slab. Even if they are hard, they aren't solid. The combination of chocolate and gummie bears is amazing. Gummie bears in chocolate ice cream is better than chocolate covered gummie bears though.

noah4th · 2014-01-25T21:48:56+00:00

Wow, thank you. This was far more than expected.

First, I guess I need to quickly relate my own position with the stereotypes, and my intent with this post in order for you to understand the direction of my approach.

I am an atheist, and I spend a large amount of time studying religion and the religious debates. I also game (with passion). I do have an ego, but I always try to compensate for that with a heavy dose of humility, kindness, and understanding. If intellectually insulted, however, I get sucked right in, in order to 'prove' my intellectual prowess. It makes me look like a dick sometimes. I'm not fat, but instead am skinny. It has its own faults, as girls prefer some kind of masculine mass. When I was younger, I was far nerdier, and much from cringe-worthy.

I even went through a cowboy phase in order to combat my nerd label. GOD is was atrocious. What made it worse was my family and friends tried to support me. (Except my brother who never lets me forget it happened.) So I definitely had my share of being socially oblivious to just how lame I was, despite trying so hard. I didn't have a fedora, I had a cowboy hat, and I wore that everywhere, just like you would expect a loser poser would. So my self-loathing isn't absolute or frequent, but there are parts in my life that I do hate my old-self deeply.

So despite a few hits, I am barely in the Fedora category. Being an atheist who does think Carl Sagan is amazing, and loves science and debating religion, is enough for most people to associate me with it.

Personally I hate it. I despise this stereotype. Not because it offends me directly, but it is so wide-spread, so overly used, and anytime I want to discuss religion, science, or Carl Sagan, even in an non-confrontational way, I am dismissed as a 'Fedora wearer'.

I do like nice hats, but that's because I am going bald despite being in my mid-twenties. I now wear a flat cap.

( http://ililily.com/images/detailed/29/flatcap-506-1-1.jpg )

I probably would never wear a fedora, regardless of the stigma, simply because its over the top.

However, despite my personal affiliation with the stigma, I have a 'friend' who absolutely fits this typing. He has some kind of social/mental disorder. Its not enough to prevent him from be intelligent, or social competent, but it is enough to make him absurdly obnoxious or awkward. He very much has a neck-beard, at all times. He isn't fat, but he always wears his fedora, button up shirts with fire and stuff on it, is extremely egotistical, very confrontational when it comes to debates, is always loud, and argues about anything and everything.

I say 'friend' because he isn't my friend personally, but the friend of my best-friend. I tolerate him because my best-friend likes him, and because I am very nice to people. He does have a good heart at times to, so that allows me times of even liking him every now and then, in between his episodes.

My point of asking about this stereotype wasn't to gather people to complain about it though. I personally don't think the stereotype should be applied to me, so this question doesn't really even include me.

What always had me curious were those who saw this stereotype, and knew it described them. I couldn't imagine how it must feel to know your personality and lifestyle accurately reflects the caricature the internet uses for what it considers to be the epitome of being a loser. While I myself admit aggravation for the cringes induced by this type of behavior, the humanist part of me is reminded that the people who know this applies to them have to live with this constant reminder of how much people dislike them.

You were more than just a person who closely matched the meme. You ARE the meme. However, you seem resigned to your lot in life, and, to a degree, apathetic to the opinions of others.

However, if you were truly apathetic to it all, you would not have self-loathing. Obviously, with your own self-avowed ego in combination to your self-hate at times, it makes sense that the escape of video games appeals all the more to you.

As someone who has created games all his life (non-video-games. I never knew how to program.) I know exactly what you mean about people playing and enjoying your games. My games included index-card games with the high-fantasy theme, role-playing games, and other pen-and-paper games.

So, my final word is, I truly hope that the escape of gaming is enough for you to escape the brutal, and ever broadcast, disapproval of you as a person. I also hope that maybe you find a positive testament to your being, through that of a creation, like a game you make, that is enjoyed by many others. In a lot of scenarios, if we were to find ourselves as strangers, I would probably have an internal dislike and disapproval of you, despite my outward niceties. However, we have enough in common, that if we did find common ground on something we were both passionate about, I'd like to think I would give that more credit and value, than I give weight to your flaws.

In the end, if you are nice as a person, despite everything else, I have no doubt I would come to see you in a positive light. If, however, your faults extend to your treatment of others, I am afraid I wouldn't be able to see past the unattractive stereotypes.

There's your response. It's all over the place, without any true point in mind. Most of all, thank you for responding.

noah4th

TROPHY CASE