The CWAL Rubber Room

[STORY] Anthems for a Twenty-Year-Old Grill - Fron 00:01:18 12017-11-12

Wow...Frostpunk is intense...that ending though? So worth it...so, so worth it... [NT] - Tssha 16:57:26 12018-04-25
[LINK] Finally what we've all been waiting for, a youtube channel combining video game shitposting with random biology facts. - Fron 22:16:27 12018-04-24
- This is cool. Subbed. AvE is one you might like. He's also Canadian, eh. [NT] - Rotten 11:32:11 12018-04-25
- Oh yeah, I've seen this but figured this was probably definitely one of those things even too bizarre for most people I know? Anyway, I'm definitely waiting for their small-medium cat meta analysis. [NT] - Vektor 04:46:26 12018-04-25
So the Toronto guy was another incel rampage. Directly repped Elliot Rodgers and 4chan on Facebook before the attack. - Inconsequential Lurker 15:10:37 12018-04-24
- Funny, I came here to post this too. I was going to say that, due to my involvement with CWAL and gaming forums ~15-20 years ago, I actually feel like I've seen this type of character close up. It's creepy to think what became of some of the people/types of people we interacted with here. [NT] - Snapper 19:43:19 12018-04-24
  - Hey chums! Do any of you guys like honeycrisp apples? :) [NT] - Mana 11:38:02 12018-04-25
    - Haha, I get it. Wow, that really takes me back. Some of you turned out fine thank god. [NT] - Snapper 21:17:03 12018-04-25
    - This response is an outrage of the greatest order. [NT] - Rabbi Sheckles 15:13:07 12018-04-25
That Lost In Space series on Netflix is really, really good. Watched about ten episodes in a day...series only has ten episodes so far. Consumed my whole Saturday. - Tssha 10:44:09 12018-04-22
- I still miss the fishbowl head robot, but didn't dislike the one they went with. I really enjoyed the series, and hope that it gets a followup, unlike the movie from the 90s that was supposed to be the first part of a trilogy and they never made any more. - Psycho Sam! 10:59:18 12018-04-22
  - Yeah, I kind of rolled my eyes at the robot when I watched the trailer. Still haven't checked out the series proper yet. [NT] - Sassypants McJerkface 11:32:30 12018-04-23
  - Not familiar with Matt Leblanc, but I did really like Don West. That guy was cool, hilarious and chill. [NT] - Tssha 11:13:47 12018-04-22
    - Joey, from Friends, played West in the film in the 90s. [NT] - Psycho Sam! 11:52:15 12018-04-22
      - I don't remember that...then again, I don't remember most of that film and I think that's for the best... [NT] - Tssha 18:48:36 12018-04-22
        They had a CGI space monkey friend, and Gary Oldman's Doctor Smith was a giant spider! [NT] - Psycho Sam! 19:10:59 12018-04-22
        Oh god...why did you remind me of the Gary Oldman giant spider......... [NT] - Tssha 19:31:26 12018-04-22
        "Never fear... Smith is here..." [NT] - Psycho Sam! 08:38:15 12018-04-23
        Also the time travel in the movie really bugged me when I was a kid. - Psycho Sam! 18:17:52 12018-04-23
        Yeah, that was pretty broken... [NT] - Tssha 20:24:13 12018-04-23
I still can't believe he named his son after his fake agent persona... [NT] - Psycho Sam! 20:11:55 12018-04-21
- Damnit Scotty, I need more cryptic! Give me more cryptic! [NT] - Tssha 10:24:48 12018-04-22
Is it weird that literally the only reason I've even considered getting an XBox One is because Microsoft is bringing back the XBox Live avatar system? I miss having a little cartoon me to interact in very limited ways with my friends. [NT] - Psycho Sam! 09:04:10 12018-04-18
- It's kind of funny to me that you're considering getting one since over here it just made it to the chopping block - Ravage! 17:10:04 12018-04-20
  - Oh, I'm not considering getting one, just lamenting the fact that I miss the fun little avatars, and worry that if Sony tried something similar we'd get Playstation Home back. [NT] - Psycho Sam! 17:43:54 12018-04-20
- Wait, are there other potential reasons out there or something? [NT] - Legacy 11:16:51 12018-04-20
  - The Halo franchise was the only real X-Box exclusive I was interested in, and after Halo 4 it's not really a system seller for me. PS4 exclusives, on the other hand... [NT] - Psycho Sam! 11:24:44 12018-04-20
- The fact I can't hug you right now as a tiny mushroom person makes my soul hurt. [NT] - Paradox 20:18:31 12018-04-19
M A G I C A L T H I N K I N G I N T E N S I F I E S [NT] - Rotten 14:59:19 12018-04-17
- Is this about your bathroom habits again? - Sassypants McJerkface 13:15:26 12018-04-19
- _R͙̙͍̼͙̙̗͈͢Ǫ̥̜̞̦͝ͅT͉̯̖͕́͡Ṯ̖͈̬͔E ̡̢̛̩̜̩͇̘̯̘̝Ń͕̱̺͎̩͎͘ ̴͜҉͓̬̹̯͍̱̪̝̲ẖ̢̨̪͎̠̤͢ͅe̫͓̦̼̥̙̥͘ ̠ ͓̦͓c̸̳̫̀o̡͔͍̼̮̫̬m̗͔͕͎̩̠̘̪͢͢e̵̳̦͠ s̖̤͕̳̮̳_ [NT] - Vektor 19:45:57 12018-04-17
[VIDS] Garbage Day! - Tssha 21:56:26 12018-04-15
- Huh? No! [NT] - Psycho Sam! 14:52:45 12018-04-16
  - Ahahahahahahaha! [NT] - Tssha 16:03:52 12018-04-16
    - [VIDS] If anyone hasn't seen the full scene, it's worth a watch. - Mana 23:56:53 12018-04-17
Man I am glad this thing is extinct - Rotten 15:06:26 12018-04-15
- That's like, the ultimate Heron... It wouldn't even mess up your pots and pans, it would just reduce the whole kitchen to rubble. [NT] - Psycho Sam! 16:25:36 12018-04-15
  - I mean, have you actually seen herons? They're a little bit terrifying. - Vektor 20:04:56 12018-04-15
    - I'd seen the first image many times and always thought it was hilarious, but the second part just makes it terrifying. [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 09:36:32 12018-04-16
      - If that's how a rabbit fares, what hope do we have of ever seeing our teacups again? [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 09:37:43 12018-04-16
        Precious ceramics, impaled like so many helpless bunnies [NT] - Vektor 11:39:19 12018-04-17
[VIDS] Apple iOS update BRICKS repaired iPhones after screen repair! - Rotten 11:14:09 12018-04-12
- DOWNLOAD the Rotten APP for PUSH UPDATES as the story DEVELOPS! [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 12:50:13 12018-04-12
  - ps your ip is visible. we all saw it. we laughed about it. you shouldn't go walking around with your ip hanging out like that. we all made fun of you. your friends make fun of you when you aren't around. download the ROTTEN APP to get your self esteem back. [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 12:51:35 12018-04-12
    - The EULA is a single question: do you like to go to the bathroom? [NT] - Rotten 06:04:20 12018-04-13
      - I just wish it'd let me click-through instead of mimicking a specific set of noises in response. [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 12:20:01 12018-04-13
        hey do you remember that time you took a video of the dolphins rotten [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 12:49:03 12018-04-13
        when you stand up and feel yourself five pounds lighter than an hour earlier, do you imagine yourself lithe and graceful, like those animals? does it sweep you back through time's sorrows to that moment of joy as they swam along the harbour's edge? [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 12:51:48 12018-04-13
        I looked up at God and asked Him: "Do dolphins go to the bathroom?" What He said amazed me! [NT] - Rotten 16:34:46 12018-04-13
[POLL] How do you fellas feel going to the bathroom? [NT] - Rotten 14:20:25 12018-04-10
- I imagine your face down in the toilet bowl before taking a HUGE dump. [NT] - livefortheswarm 15:47:28 12018-04-12
Just dropping by with the fact that Pink Lady far exceeds Honeycrisp. Have a great day. [NT] - Ravage! 01:10:30 12018-04-10
- I've compared them twice and we'll have to agree to disagree. :) [NT] - Mana 11:39:44 12018-04-10
  - I'm willing to help out with a GoFundMe so you can receive the support you need to recover from the facts. [NT] - Ravage! 15:07:44 12018-04-10
    - You mean these facts? Honeycrisp: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Pink Lady: 💩💩💩💩💩 [NT] - Mana 18:03:36 12018-04-10
      - You've made an error Honeycrisp: ⭐⭐⭐ Pink Lady: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ [NT] - Ravage! 18:25:51 12018-04-10
        Sweet, sweet summer child. The ecstasy of Honeycrisp is cyclical in nature. You are just not thinking four-dimensionally. - Mana 18:52:41 12018-04-10
  - I love you. [NT] - Sassypants McJerkface 12:18:03 12018-04-10
- From a cost to flavor ratio, that is true. You be dropping some Lincolns for a bag of HC. [NT] - Frito 08:21:53 12018-04-10
- *HISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS* [NT] - Vektor 01:57:07 12018-04-10
Well, for epitaphs that wind up getting lost in translation, I think I have a 3x Great-grandfather who is now a prime candidate. Result when run through google translate: "Smash the sugar guards." As awesome as that translation would be, I don't think that's the intended meaning. [NT] - TheDeamon 23:55:55 12018-04-08
- He was the last of the diabeties warriors. Traveling from town to town, liberating candy from the stores of the Gumdrop King. That your family forgot is the greatest shame. [NT] - Frito 09:16:16 12018-04-09
  - More like he was exiled from Bohemia and sent to live in exile in Nebraska as a homesteader at the decree of that King, am i rite? [NT] - TheDeamon 11:00:08 12018-04-09
    - You dishonor him and your lineage, young sugarfoot. [NT] - Frito 08:23:01 12018-04-10
      - Eh, in late 19th Cenutry/early 20th Century fashion, "I'm only related through a grand-daughter, so not my family line." As to the actual paternal line, Snapper and a few others should "enjoy" part of a discussion today. - TheDeamon 00:36:15 12018-04-11
Hey I made a song - Arcturus 22:26:37 12018-04-07
- Sounds good, man! [NT] - Dorg 04:45:46 12018-04-14
- Nice! Yay for making things, yay for sharing them. That moved across a number of different styles and... things... and I am manifestly too ignorant to usefully discuss them. [NT] - Lothos 01:08:20 12018-04-09
Ravil: Crusader Kings 2 is free at the moment, and it's vitally important you add it to the list of games you have access to but probably don't have time to play. I was going to do the same thing, but it turns out I'd already bought it and forgotten about it, unplayed so far. WHEE. [NT] - Lothos 16:30:43 12018-04-05
- The Song of Ice and Fire mod for that is just about the best video game adaptation of anything originating in another medium that I've ever played. [NT] - Fron 01:09:34 12018-04-07
  - ....ooooOOOOOooooooohhhhhhhhhhh [NT] - Lothos 19:38:38 12018-04-07
    - I initially found it much easier to get into than the base game, because I recognized the characters and factions of Westeros a lot better than those of 11th-century Europe. [NT] - Fron 20:14:24 12018-04-07
      - Yep, I can see how that'd work... [NT] - Lothos 17:49:50 12018-04-08
  - Next time you stream it work on sound mixing! Could barely hear you! - Psycho Sam! 10:21:33 12018-04-07
    - When did he stream it? [NT] - Sassypants McJerkface 10:59:27 12018-04-11
      - Two years or so ago, I think. [NT] - Fron 19:32:16 12018-04-11
        Oh. Anyway, your reasoning behind the mod has left me intrigued about the game generally! [NT] - Sassypants McJerkface 19:42:09 12018-04-11
        Behind using the mod, I mean. So. [NT] - Sassypants McJerkface 19:42:41 12018-04-11
- So good... [NT] - Frito 10:25:58 12018-04-06
[VIDS] Well Blinky, you were right, Reboot: The Guardian Code is awful. - Tssha 12:50:05 12018-04-05
- Yeah, I'm not even going to bother watching it. They never brought ReBoot back and they never will. [NT] - Psycho Sam! 13:49:41 12018-04-05
  - Well, the story of how it got to be so awful is actually kind of interesting. - Tssha 12:35:24 12018-04-06
    - It's even worse than I could have ever imagined. [NT] - Sassypants McJerkface 21:50:59 12018-04-08
      - Clearly we are living in the darkest timeline. [NT] - Tssha 15:13:06 12018-04-10
    - OTOH I bet his son is, like, super excited. [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 14:55:16 12018-04-07
      - Maybe you shouldn't be jealous cause all your dad ever gifted you was various neuroses and maladaptive phenotypes. [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 14:56:05 12018-04-07
        what [NT] - Tssha 07:43:56 12018-04-08
        Maybe you shouldn't be jealous cause all your dad ever gifted you was various neuroses and maladaptive phenotypes. [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 14:23:35 12018-04-08
        Are you sure *this* isn't a neurosis, IL Two-Two? [NT] - Tssha 15:17:55 12018-04-08
        I've come to terms with being a human stop codon. [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 13:56:43 12018-04-09
        Crusader Kings 2 is free at the moment. [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 14:24:13 12018-04-08
[PICS] The internet is wonderful because it makes things like this. It's a meme so it'll be tired soon, but sssshhhhh just let me have this for now - Lothos 21:23:51 12018-04-04
I have a theory on warm and hot foods. It's most likely quackery. The problem is that people eat hot foods when it's hot out and cold foods when it's cold out. I believe that people would be better off deciding what to eat based on the temperature of their food. If you are physically cold, eat something hot. And if you are hot that day (during summer), eat something cold. This will keep you sated - Rotten 10:51:26 12018-04-03
- There is something seriously wrong with you. [NT] - Frito 10:24:34 12018-04-06
  - I think someone had cold rice krispies when they should have had oatmeal! [NT] - Rotten 09:00:13 12018-04-07
    - Oatmeal packets are waterproof so you can use them to measure out the water, but the line they provide is way too much and you end up with soup. It's good if you're lazy though cause you can just pour hot water into the packet and burn first your hands, and then, as you drop it, your leg, as punishment for being so pathetic and lazy. A+ recommend very good product. [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 14:00:07 12018-04-09
      - comma comma comma comma comma [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 14:00:49 12018-04-09
- I read a breakdown of the actual effect of the temperature of food/water on your body temperature and IIRC it was essentially moot either way. You weigh too much and spend too much time pumping fluids around for such a small amount of material to make any real difference unless the temperature's extreme enough to injure you, or you're, like, shoveling ice water into your body as fast as you can. [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 14:10:04 12018-04-03
- Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. - Fron 12:09:40 12018-04-03
- I also use this theory when deciding on drinking coffee too. If i'm physically cold, drink hot coffee. And if I am physically hot, drink water to cool me down. [NT] - Rotten 10:52:39 12018-04-03
[LINK] Gravity Falls available on DVD/BluRay because Disney finally had their case of cretinism and brain-worms seen to! Of course, they don't ship outside Canada and the US. ........joy. - Lothos 17:32:06 12018-04-02
- Excellent... Have you figured out how you're getting one yet? [NT] - Psycho Sam! 10:28:50 12018-04-03
  - My current theory is to promote it places and cheerlead wildly from the sidelines, while hoping it sees wider distribution eventually? It's important that it's seeing curation and release, and I want to support it if I can - but having it isn't as important as it existing in a sane format. [NT] - Lothos 17:59:57 12018-04-03
    - So we couldn't just buy a copy and leave it under a conspicuously placed box propped up with a stick here in Canada then... [NT] - Psycho Sam! 20:07:16 12018-04-03
      - Whoever you catch is likely to be at least a LITTLE awesome? [NT] - Lothos 21:33:03 12018-04-03
So I got fooled twice yesterday. First was a video on “piston return springs” and the second was a tweet which claimed that Indiana Jones would fight isis in new movie. - Rotten 07:46:23 12018-04-02
- Today I'm excited to re-read everything from yesterday and find out what was real. [NT] - Psycho Sam! 10:55:29 12018-04-02
  - 1.1.1.1/1.0.0.1 was probably the most interesting real offering (from APNIC/Cloudflare) that I'm aware of. [NT] - TheDeamon 22:01:42 12018-04-04
- Aaaaaand the lego vacuum that automatically sorted bricks was fake, but it came out before EST April Fools so I guess that doesn't count. [NT] - Rotten 10:34:36 12018-04-02
Thank God you brits no longer have these dangerous weapons on the street!!! - Rotten 11:36:59 12018-04-01
- Do you have any idea how easily that file could be converted to semi auto or full auto? All the necessary tools are there!!! [NT] - livefortheswarm 15:04:59 12018-04-01
  - Would a full auto file just be a belt sander? [NT] - Vektor 01:09:16 12018-04-02
    - Our founding fathers never conceived of such a thing when they drafted the 2nd amendment!! [NT] - livefortheswarm 14:04:39 12018-04-05
[VIDS] This is extremely dangerous to our democracy. - Psycho Sam! 18:49:39 12018-03-31
So apple has soldered their ssd’s to the mobo for a model of their MacBooks... so if the board dies you may be fucked getting your data. - Rotten 12:51:18 12018-03-30
- On the one hand, I continue to not like Apple's practices on making it near-impossible to repair things. On the other, your data already wasn't safe unless it was backed up somewhere else because you can also just lose your laptop on the bus entirely. [NT] - Fron 13:01:00 12018-03-30
  - Yeah. Shitty practice is shitty, but every HD will die and everyone needs a backup solution. [NT] - Mana 16:25:33 12018-03-30
For Lothos: "Ontario PC Leader Doug Ford Claims He’ll Cut CBC Even Though CBC is Not Provincially Funded" - Psycho Sam! 15:54:13 12018-03-29
- ...................i have a sadness. you gave me a sadness blinky. [NT] - Lothos 18:35:47 12018-03-29
Who likes burgers? Come to Prince Edward Island if you like burgers. - Psycho Sam! 10:39:20 12018-03-29
- What if we like burghers? [NT] - Rotten 16:37:31 12018-03-29
  - From road trip experience, I can tell you that eating burgers for every meal gets old somewhere around the 4th week. [NT] - Tssha 23:14:38 12018-03-29
    - On the other hand, if you were referring to the medieval merchant class, I can say I like them too, but not so much for eating. [NT] - Tssha 23:20:46 12018-03-29
- But how do we get to this Burger Valhalla?? Must we first die in glorious Burger Combat? [NT] - Dorg 15:32:20 12018-03-29
  - It's free to get on the island, but $45 to leave. [NT] - Psycho Sam! 15:49:14 12018-03-29
[LINK] Anybody here with media production experience interested in a job with me in NZ, or does anybody know someone who might be? - Lothos 03:05:57 12018-03-29
Thinking of how Kazz used to periodically yell "FISH SEX". If only he'd known there was an Oscar-winning movie in the idea. [NT] - Fron 00:39:09 12018-03-29
- I follow his Youtube channel... I don't think he's doing too well lately. [NT] - Rotten 16:39:35 12018-03-29
  - Doesn't seem like it, no. :( [NT] - Sassypants McJerkface 19:14:01 12018-03-30
- Someone on Twitter dubbed it "Grinding Nemo," and... that was it. They won. [NT] - Lothos 01:22:50 12018-03-29
  - I saw another pretty good one, "it's weird that Guillermo del Toro's fish-banging movie isn't the one he called Pacific Rim" - Vektor 09:31:03 12018-03-29
    - hah, i missed that one. nice. [NT] - Lothos 15:48:58 12018-03-29
[PICS] my life in pictures - Lothos 20:15:27 12018-03-27
- Will this be on the exam? [NT] - Frito 10:27:53 12018-03-30
  - see, it's funny but also not funny because I have explained what's in the exam and then been asked if it'll be in the exam [NT] - Lothos 15:57:47 12018-03-31
    - Truly we are all living in a purgatory made of Poe's law. [NT] - Tssha 12:33:13 12018-04-02
- Feed them into the Teaching Cannon and launch them into the Wall of Ignorance. [NT] - Paradox 08:45:13 12018-03-29
  - *sobbing* i would but THAT'S WHERE THEY LIVE [NT] - Lothos 15:48:12 12018-03-29
[POLL] So how many people in here are using some form of Fit-Bit type wristwatch these days? - TheDeamon 12:30:03 12018-03-22
- Not me [NT] - Legacy 14:12:51 12018-03-23
- My wife does. My daughter kinda does. [NT] - Kalledon 08:42:35 12018-03-23
- Not me so far anyway, the idea of paying a corporation to on-sell my medical and activity data to unspecified third-parties for unspecified purpose and unspecified profit doesn't appeal. [NT] - Lothos 00:41:49 12018-03-23
  - I'm skipping the middle-man and just tweeting my genetic code, 280 characters at a time. [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 11:47:37 12018-03-23
  - It's weird too, because at the end of the day if I've been particularly active (above 4,000 steps, actually, which isn't really *that* active) my watch tells me what percentage of people I'm ahead of. Like, two days ago I spent a lot of time walking and I was ahead of 33%, and yesterday it didn't say anything... [NT] - Psycho Sam! 09:50:55 12018-03-23
- No but I'm in the market for one. [NT] - Rotten 13:59:30 12018-03-22
  - And I just got an Apple Watch 3. It's cool. I have to get a nylon band for it though. [NT] - Rotten 10:30:50 12018-03-23
- I miss my Pebble Time Round and got an Amazfit Bip to replace it when it became nearly unuseable. It's nice, but not fancy. - Psycho Sam! 13:18:24 12018-03-22
  - Help me! I'm dying! [NT] - Blinky's Watch Battery 13:36:31 12018-03-22
    - Yeah, I'm not getting the ~45 days as advertised but I'm still getting about a month. Used to get 3-5 days with my Pebble Time Round, but it was a much thinner watch. [NT] - Psycho Sam! 18:50:10 12018-03-22
      - I suppose I could turn off the 1-minute update always on heartrate sensor and the GPS, but meh. It last long enough that I can use it as a sleep tracker. What's the Apple Watch getting these days? Are they up to five hours yet? - Psycho Sam! 19:02:59 12018-03-22
- Original Apple Watch. It's nice being able to read texts / email notifications. Strava app integration helps with running. Once in a blue moon I'll accept a call directly on the watch if I'm pumping gas. Haven't exploded from doing so yet. [NT] - Mana 12:47:47 12018-03-22
  - I often leave the phone in my truck while I go inside to do things, so being able to get notifications(via NumberShare) while away from the truck in some circumstances is good. - TheDeamon 13:48:33 12018-03-22
Fron is trying to act like a tough guy. Actually, he is weak, both mentally and physically, and yet he threatens me, for the second time, with physical assault. He doesn’t know me, but he would go down fast and hard, crying all the way. Don’t threaten people Fron! [NT] - Donald John Trump 11:05:41 12018-03-22