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For anybody checking this thread other than skaycog or .357, as previously mentioned, the epic thread is below. Here's a link if you need:
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Wait a second.... None of that happened to me.
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@TowerOfPower: Hey, we could always use an extra hand in our chatroom.
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Do you guys want to go for 1000 again and not embed pictures, or should we have a lower cutoff this time?
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:)
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Whoa, 9** replies?!?
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Oh, and you commenters more awesome than me, how do you favourite posts?
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Looks like somebody had a broken CAPS Lock key, or never read LifeHacker's Guide to the Galaxy/Internet.
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I prefer this Youbook and Facetube Jeremy Clarkson advertised on last week's show.
Oh, and f*** the Great Firewall of China, can't even access Facebook right now.
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This has got me looking back on my Autoblog days with pity. Those commenters could never pull off somthing this big, even though they have more stars than we do.
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And sexy. :)
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@Mr. Syrax:Happy holiday, enjoy the nice weather!
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How you guys doing this morning? I only got a couple hours of sleep last night again, so hopefully I'll be rippingly funny again today, and get passed over for COTD by Matt again.
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I remember when Autoblog had a +/- voting system for comments, and if enough people + clicked you, you would become "highly ranked" or "highest ranked" instead of "neutral". That was sort of cool, since you could get a general feel for people's thoughts on any given comment, but given the amount of interaction we have in the comments on Jalopnik, we don't really need it to get people to voice their opinions.
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You gonna try asking for one? :D
@skaycog - 1000 Club: to @Leeeeena - 1000 Club: Good night to you, America. It's not quite so early here.
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It seems to be sort of hit and miss whether they start playing or not. The two videos in this thread do for me, but other commenters have linked to videos in other posts and they seem to be acting normally and only playing when you click on them. I think I might just keep a Firefox tab open for this thread until Nibbles sorts the autoplaying stuff out.
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I'm just kidding, don't assault my messages!
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That or she didn't see it yet.
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pj, I'm actually totally straight. I'm very open-minded and have tried a lot of stuff, but have figured out by now what does it for me or not. That doesn't prevent me from appreciating something remarkable, though, and beautiful bodies, whether male or female, definitely fall into that category. Besides, I know you guys enjoy it ;)
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"Must.Resist.Sex.Jokes"
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Oh, and no autoplaying Youtube, since there's no playing Youtube at all in China. The Commies have bitten something.
It's midnight, and I've got "sitting-around-an-office-pretending-to-work" tomorrow. Good night all! I'll keep this going during your night!
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Alright, good night for real. Zzzzz
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:)
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How do we know the reply count now?
At least we have an edit button.
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http://kotaku.com/5310953/kotaku-comments-get-star-power-edit-option-tiering
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As they say in China, "one hand can't clap".
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You are queer! Y... er... er... ok...
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I came to understand, that pretty much everyone on Gawker's main site is a friggin star-commenter. The rest was thoroughly ignored, pretty much. Especially with their concerns.
Mr. Denton, while addressing most technical issues, ignore more of the philosophical ones, with the exception of the following statement: "That's more or less it. We let the comments get out of hand -- the audience is about five times the size it was when we first launched comments. We want to showcase the smarter comments -- but without creating a static caste of elite commenters. Hence the ease with which a smart comment can be promoted to the front of a post. "
Personally, I feel he failed pretty bad at not creating static caste of elite commenters, especially after he created a system for caste of elite commenters.
We didn't have any elites before, because we treated everyone equal.
Now we're hiding away those "nor worthy" and I can't for the life of me see that actually making this place better.
Screw this shit. I don't appreciate being treated as a second class visitor while some elitists with stars get all the attention. Most star commenters I have read don't say anything worthy of privledges. Most of the really good comments come from the now second class user. So if you want to bury those and have the elitist comments prominent, don't be surprised if the site traffic drops.
With that, I say kiss off. I'll take my traffic and comments to another gaming blog where everyone's comments are displayed equally be default, without any segregationist bullshit class system in place.
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Dammit, Ray!
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And he's right about many star commenters having nothing that important to say. Heck, what exactly did we talk about on the 1000 thread?
Maybe, just maybe, Gawker could treat all comments equally but let us stars demote comments? We know a troll when we see one.
However, going to another blog? Have you been to any of them Weblog sites lately? No auditioning and free registration and commenting makes for some chaos.
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Yeah, I once was on Autoblog all the time, which wasn't anywhere near as bad as Engadget. Gadgets bring out the worst in 8-year-olds.
No other commenters willing to join the glorious 1000 Club from around the area where time is GMT+8? Come on!
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It was like torture. It was hurting my head. Nothing was where it was supposed to be. I almost went to Autoblog, for Pete's sake.
But has this thread gone quiet or what?
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Gawker 2.0 killed the 1000 replies star!
Gawker 2.0 killed the 1000 replies star!
In my mind and in my car, we can't rewind we've gone to far
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Hello? Anybody here? Ha! I got the last word here too!
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187. #trains
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/waits patiently for the boys to notice this thread #trains
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Just you wait... I'm positive that a certain large Norwegian will be in here (in police costume?) to bust up the party shortly. Or is that to get the party started?
I think I'm starting to appreciate the merits of fishnet clothing more and more. #trains
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*snicker*
Dammit, blew my cover before the pajama party pillow fight got going. #trains
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POLIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICE!
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We have our first victim....the bait worked. I really have the giggles!!
Way to go, TimTim!!
This makes 14,701 watchers.
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[www.scavengeinc.com] #trains
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Skaycog... forget what I said earlier.
Pillow fight?
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...You're here for the audience anyway.
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I wonder how long before this tornado thread will no longer load.
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This page loads easier than 2000club for me. I think that's probably due to quirks of the new system though. #trains
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This loads easier for me also.
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And who knew? I never thought guys would like giant gaping holes that suck in long hard objects and then completely destroy them.
What? I was talking about tornadoes and trains, you pervballs. #trains
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I actually just watched that video for the first time... I don't like to suck the bandwidth at work for movies. Plus, until recently, YouTube has been blocked.
I'm going to go watch the storm chasers video now (also for the first time)
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Of course there is strong temptation for abuse, which is why I don't watch the video posts at work.
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Yes, I went and watched the dominator video... and then I felt like an idiot. Having read that article and seeing that the vid was from the company's website I thought it was privately produced. I didn't realize that it was actually from Storm Chasers on Discovery... But now nobody can read my comment, 4 months later, about the dominator being in a TV show. That's why I normally don't comment on articles with videos.
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I guess I'll clean up my act on the entrapment here. I don't want you guys to think I'm a sicko.
For the first time today, IE is telling me that this script may cause IE to run slowly. I had that warning from them for months on the last tornado thread.
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215 is nowhere near as epic as the 1830+ we got to in the last one though! #trains
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We'll just keep trying for that 2000 mark wherever we may be and however we can.
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222. I wonder if you'll comment a minute after me again? #trains
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That Porsche video you put in tips yesterday was awesome! I hope everybody sees it. There needs to be some kind of alert when a 'tip' is posted. I only noticed it in my profile because you are a friend.
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My car is actually perfectly drivable, but makes me nervous because the hood is a bit crumpled in front and looks like it'll fly open when I'm driving on the freeway. I'm getting it repaired for primarily cosmetic reasons, but also just for peace of mind. That car has been so damn good to me over the few years I've owned it, and I hate it looking abused.
Glad you liked the Porsche video! My own reaction was much like Mobius': I thought it was incredible... until the Panamera showed up. LOL.
My fingers get all dyslexic when I try to type Pamanera. Whoops, see, there I go!
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You have problem typing Panamera like I do with aluminium. I can say it better than I can type it.
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Speaking of aluminum, that's what my hood is made out of (that's how Miatas are so freaking light), and a replacement OEM one would be about $700 before shipping. They are also incredibly fragile, so I would need to have some crazy insurance on it to make sure it arrived intact. I could also buy a steel aftermarket one, but that would be much heavier and would still be about $350-400 minimum. I am probably going to be a cheapskate (read: student) and get a hail-damaged OEM hood from someone local on Craigslist for $150-200 instead. I should have all the parts, hood included, within the next week or so, so my baby will be back on the road looking fine in about two weeks! :D
227, my birthday! (American)
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YAY! Storm Chasers lives on! I can actually still get there and comment. I gave up checking on it last week....comments would never load.
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I know some people who live near Lawrence, any my father worked for the C&NW Railroad for over 30-years, before they were purchased by the UP.
This happened in January of 2008
Union Pacific spokesman Mark Davis said no one was injured when one locomotive and 12 freight cars derailed Monday around 4 p.m. in Harvard in McHenry County.
One tank car, which leaked for hours before being contained Monday night, contained shock fluid, Davis said. Another tank car that ended up on its side contained ethylene oxide, a flammable material widely used to sterilize medical supplies, but a Union Pacific manager on the scene determined that tank was not leaking, Davis said.
Authorities ordered the evacuation of about 500 residents in the nearby unincorporated town of Lawrence because of the potential for a hazardous materials situation, said Capt. David Shepherd with the McHenry County sheriff's office. No injuries were reported, he said.
Three other derailed cars on the train headed to Janesville, Wis., from North Lake contained auto parts, and seven more were empty, Davis said.
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"What's an F5?"
((clang of dropped fork))
"Finger of God"
-Twister may be the worst movie ever.
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These are the type of koans that keep me up at night.
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"Hey,... If there's anyone out there,..I'm from Arizona,... and I have no clue about what to do when a tornado comes down right in front of you..."
The previously silent radio instantly erupted into life, with hugely conflicting advice, obviously from people watching the same funnel-cloud I was, get closer and closer to the ground.
"Get Out Of The Truck!!!!".
"No, No, No, Stay In It!!!".
"Find an Overpass, Quick!!". (Never mind that we can all see twenty miles in any direction, and they're ain't any overpasses, quick or not.
"Try To Outrun It!!!!"
"No, No, No, There's No Way,...Turn Around!!!!". (These two probably saw me, but Mr. Turn-Around must have known that the ground was so soft from all the rain that I would be instantly stuck the minute I left the roadway, but maybe not).
I gunned it, out of fear mostly, and as I came up abreast of it, right as it touched down for only a second or two, it was clear it was headed away from me.
Many years later I worked with a kid whose Dad and Uncle ran a Trucking Company in Iowa, hauling corn seed, and when he headed home for Christmas one year, I asked him to ask them what to do when a tornado comes down right in front of you. When he got back, he said he had totally forgotten until Christmas Dinner, and when he asked them he said the reaction from everyone else was
priceless. People blew milk out their noses, choked on food, and attempted to stifle laughter, unsuccessfully. Evidently when they were kids, they were hauling a load of seed right by a hog-farm when a tornado touched down right in front of them. Dad chose to stay in the driver's seat, while Uncle elected to take his chances in the culvert under the road. Well, tornado's are usually accompanied by huge amounts of rain, and unfortunately for Uncle, the culvert he chose happened to be downstream of the hog-farm. The tornado crossed the road just in front of the Truck, and while Dad was plenty scared, the plight of his brother being washed out of the culvert in a torrent of pig-shit causes great amusement to almost everyone in the family, even though no one talks about it.