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Tennis ....men serving against women. I dont know if thats how the entire thing went...I doubt it....but thats surprising to me. I mean thats Serena Williams there as one of the female players and she is like an untrained kid against those serves.

Daehawk wrote: ↑Tue Jun 05, 2018 6:00 pm Tennis ....men serving against women. I dont know if thats how the entire thing went...I doubt it....but thats surprising to me. I mean thats Serena Williams there as one of the female players and she is like an untrained kid against those serves.

Serena would get crushed by men in the top 200-300 in the world.

Daehawk wrote: ↑Sat Jun 02, 2018 1:46 pm The series that didn't happen cept for a pilot and trailer.

TREMORS SEASON 1

Damn. Never even knew this was a possibility. I would have definitely watched this.

J.K. Simmons is one of my favorite people / actors. It all started with Red Alert 3. Those farmers ads rock too!

I realize that is two different videos but can someone tell me what they are?

Also, why is the thimble cymbal spun when being hit repeatedly?

Moliere wrote: ↑Tue Jun 05, 2018 6:40 pm

Daehawk wrote: ↑Tue Jun 05, 2018 6:00 pm Tennis ....men serving against women. I dont know if thats how the entire thing went...I doubt it....but thats surprising to me. I mean thats Serena Williams there as one of the female players and she is like an untrained kid against those serves.

Serena would get crushed by men in the top 200-300 in the world.

I'm not completely surprised, after all the "women in combat" topic goes into great detail (most of which is valid) about the physical inferiority (we can call it differences if that sits better) of women, but I am slightly surprised about Serena placing so far back. She is clearly an imposing female specimen of strength, stature and skill. So much so that she (and her sister) always gave me the impression of being uniquely special in the same way that players like Gretzky or Jordan were in their day, so I'm a little surprised that the 300th ranked male is better than she is.

That said, she's still a better tennis player than over 7.5 billion people, 3.75 billion of which are men. Being faster, stronger and more skilled than 3.75 billion men is a pretty big deal. Being faster, stronger and more skilled than 3.75 billion men as a woman is at least an order of magnitude even more impressive.

GreenGoo wrote: ↑Fri Jun 08, 2018 11:00 pm I realize that is two different videos but can someone tell me what they are?

Also, why is the thimble cymbal spun when being hit repeatedly?

Mike Portnoy is a professional drummer. JK Simmons is an asshole jazz band leader in Whiplash.

And physics. Which is beyond my ability to describe or locate.

Also, he's trying to follow the directions from JK Simmons using a Hello Kitty drum set.

Moliere wrote: ↑Fri Jun 08, 2018 11:41 pm Also, he's trying to follow the directions from JK Simmons using a Hello Kitty drum set.

The hello kitty drumset was not lost on me. I'm almost certain the original unmashed video has been posted here in the past, but I don't recall anything about it.

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Fri Jun 08, 2018 11:39 pm And physics. Which is beyond my ability to describe or locate.

Presumably. I assume it's magic musical physics that I am destined to never understand by its very nature.

Toe wrote: ↑Thu May 31, 2018 8:53 am Jamiroquai Bee Gees Mashup by Pomplamoose

This is excellent! Good find

morlac wrote: ↑Sat Jun 09, 2018 11:29 pm

Toe wrote: ↑Thu May 31, 2018 8:53 am Jamiroquai Bee Gees Mashup by Pomplamoose

This is excellent! Good find

+1

Guy turns bolt into micro hunting knife.

If the handle is actual leather or plastic and not simply painted/coloured steel I will be additionally impressed.

Be impressed, then...

Paingod wrote: ↑Mon Jun 11, 2018 6:56 am Be impressed, then...

*additionally* impressed.

Does it help more that he also made it razor sharp and crafted a tiny leather sheath to go with it?

Kraken wrote: ↑Sun Jun 10, 2018 2:17 am

morlac wrote: ↑Sat Jun 09, 2018 11:29 pm

Toe wrote: ↑Thu May 31, 2018 8:53 am Jamiroquai Bee Gees Mashup by Pomplamoose

This is excellent! Good find

+1

Very fun

I could have sworn Jamiroquai was a male lead singer?
I must be thinking of a diferent band. (this is the band that made Emergency On Planet Earth" ?

Unagi wrote: ↑Mon Jun 11, 2018 8:45 amI could have sworn Jamiroquai was a male lead singer?

Yup.

I thought that was old but wow 1996.

My wife did not appreciate my Jamiroquai album when we first met.

Shrug, I liked it.

The keyboardist in that video needs to take it down a notch. Although I'm glad he's enjoying himself.

GreenGoo wrote: ↑Mon Jun 11, 2018 9:28 am My wife did not appreciate my Jamiroquai album when we first met.

Shrug, I liked it.

The keyboardist in that video needs to take it down a notch. Although I'm glad he's enjoying himself.

He looks like someone who is exactly where he wants to be, doing exactly what he loves to do. The pure joy on that man's face is part of what makes the video infectious.

Perhaps, but he still might end up on medication to "even him out". He looks like a lunatic. You're playing the keyboard for the billionth time in your life, not landing on mars.

I don't begrudge anyone enjoying what they do, but if I start thinking straight jacket, maybe dial it down a notch (I'm the final arbiter on what's reasonable, duh). It's like everyone in the video is competing to show us just how much fun they are having, but the keyboardist left the gate before the starting pistol went off. He's so far out in front, no one is even bothering to try to catch him. Plus he keeps looking around at everyone, making sure he's still in the lead.

someone posted this on the OO discord server. It was just sort of dropped there with no comment, but it's quite good so I'm bringing it here. I thought it was ok the first time I heard it, but a couple more listens have really got me hooked. It doesn't hurt that I immediately fell in love with Electro Swing when someone somewhere introduced me to Parov Stelar's stuff.





Booty Swing for good measure. Probably already in this thread somewhere.

I have an Electro Swing station on Pandora, and those pop up quite frequently.

Nutty guy drinks old drinks. Some 30+ years old. Be warned when he gets to the Crystal Pepsi. Of all the drinks he does that one gets him so be ready

Good time for this.

GreenGoo wrote: ↑Mon Jun 11, 2018 11:23 am Perhaps, but he still might end up on medication to "even him out". He looks like a lunatic. You're playing the keyboard for the billionth time in your life, not landing on mars.

I don't begrudge anyone enjoying what they do, but if I start thinking straight jacket, maybe dial it down a notch (I'm the final arbiter on what's reasonable, duh). It's like everyone in the video is competing to show us just how much fun they are having, but the keyboardist left the gate before the starting pistol went off. He's so far out in front, no one is even bothering to try to catch him. Plus he keeps looking around at everyone, making sure he's still in the lead.

I guess you didn't see the Bassist spazzing out...

Yeah, I saw him. But it was only for a bit when he realized he was so far behind in enjoying himself. I think he over did it and strained a funk muscle trying to catch up.

Why is the drummer in a different room? Is that a recording thing I don't know about?

Probably afraid of the keyboardist.

GreenGoo wrote: ↑Mon Jun 11, 2018 11:34 am someone posted this on the OO discord server.

...? We have a discord server?

I hate it when I show my ignorance of computer stuff, but what even is discord (which I vaguely understand to be a voice chat service for gaming), and why is there an OO one? Are you all using it to talk about me behind my back?

Sorry for the derail, but this is second or third time in a week I've bumped up against the fact that the online world has moved on from my familiar zone. Please advise.

Daehawk wrote: ↑Mon Jun 11, 2018 6:05 pm Probably afraid of the keyboardist.

GreenGoo wrote: ↑Mon Jun 11, 2018 9:28 am My wife did not appreciate my Jamiroquai album when we first met.

Shrug, I liked it.

The keyboardist in that video needs to take it down a notch. Although I'm glad he's enjoying himself.

My wife loved my Jamiroquai CD, I still have it somewhere. Even today i still love that song.

Holman wrote: ↑Mon Jun 11, 2018 6:17 pm

GreenGoo wrote: ↑Mon Jun 11, 2018 11:34 am someone posted this on the OO discord server.

...? We have a discord server?

I hate it when I show my ignorance of computer stuff, but what even is discord (which I vaguely understand to be a voice chat service for gaming), and why is there an OO one? Are you all using it to talk about me behind my back?

Sorry for the derail, but this is second or third time in a week I've bumped up against the fact that the online world has moved on from my familiar zone. Please advise.

Meant to get to this.

First, you're not alone. I skipped the entire IRC era. I barely know what IRC is. Also, I'm only vaguely aware of what RSS feeds are.

I stumbled upon Discord because it has become popular like many products before it and so when I want to do something with someone, I get told to join their discord server.

My limited understanding based on my usage. Discord is:
1) A voice chat program
2) Also a live text chat program
3) Also a forum chat program

I'm pretty sure it does other things (possibly hooks in some video games for voice features, maybe. I know PUBG allows a discord overlay which shows who's in your discord channel while in a PUBG game, but more importantly tells you who's speaking so you can put the voice you hear to the name you already know).

The super simple answer is that it's a voice chat program with very low overhead, high quality voice transmission. It's the next iteration/generation of Teamspeak/Ventrilo/whatever. It does more and seems pretty good at what it does.

There are several of us that use the OO discord server for PUBG nearly every night, and I know another group of OO'ers use it about once or twice a week for their own multiplayer games (like GTA5 or Rainbow Six Siege or Vermintide).

When I said "someone posted this" it's because in the general chat channel you can just write stuff, or drop links or post screenshots or whatever, so whoever dropped the video I posted here on OO had posted the link. Their user name didn't match any OO'er's name that I recognize, so I'm not sure who it was.

Hope that helps a little.

Ah! Thank you!

Since you tell me it's related to a game, I can wrap my mind around it.

I was worried that social media had evolved to the point where our forum had developed a chat channel dedicated to talking about goings-on in our forum.

Hey, everybody, come on over to discord to see the latest discussion about Holman! It's amazing.