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• On the post: Corruptville, Florida May Lose Its Cityship

  

  Watchit ( profile ), 21 Mar, 2014 @ 09:28am

  Yep, it's pretty much a known fact in florida: Don't speed in small towns, they're all speed traps.
  
  I have to go through about three or four such towns when traveling from home to college, and in each one a cop is waiting to pull you over if you go so much as 3mph over the speed limit.

• On the post: Kid Bullied For My Little Pony Backpack Told Not To Bring It To School Anymore

  

  Watchit ( profile ), 19 Mar, 2014 @ 04:39pm

  Re: Re:

  How about we put it "marketed towards" girls instead? Then it makes sense.

• On the post: Kid Bullied For My Little Pony Backpack Told Not To Bring It To School Anymore

  

  Watchit ( profile ), 19 Mar, 2014 @ 04:36pm

  Re:

  actually the backpack was blue. Blue and rainbows.

• On the post: Kid Bullied For My Little Pony Backpack Told Not To Bring It To School Anymore

  

  Watchit ( profile ), 19 Mar, 2014 @ 04:35pm

  Re: Reality Check

  semantics. when a school "ask" a kid to not do something, it's just a nice way of saying, if you do it again you'll be in trouble.

• On the post: Kid Bullied For My Little Pony Backpack Told Not To Bring It To School Anymore

  

  Watchit ( profile ), 19 Mar, 2014 @ 04:29pm

  Re:

  Agreed. Also, it's nice to see other bronies in the comments here. Though, I admit, I haven't been here often recently.

• On the post: NSA Has Capability To Record And Store ALL Foreign Phone Calls In Certain Countries

  

  Watchit ( profile ), 19 Mar, 2014 @ 04:56pm

  Daaaayum that wizard graphic... would put even the great Zazzerpan himself to shame.

• On the post: Kid Bullied For My Little Pony Backpack Told Not To Bring It To School Anymore

  

  Watchit ( profile ), 19 Mar, 2014 @ 04:37pm

  Wow, I went through the entire comments section without one person bashing the boy for liking my little pony.
  
  A little bit of my faith in humanity has been restored.

• On the post: DailyDirt: Not Playing To Win Can Be Fun

  

  Watchit ( profile ), 26 Feb, 2014 @ 09:54pm

  Re: Re: Re: What?

  P.S. Praise Lord Helix ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ

• On the post: DailyDirt: Not Playing To Win Can Be Fun

  

  Watchit ( profile ), 26 Feb, 2014 @ 09:53pm

  Re: Re: What?

  Yes that's Twitch Plays Pokemon, but only in democracy mode. I'd just write that down as the author not fully understanding what was going on, or getting only a partial view of the event. But that's fine too.
  
  To explain for those who don't know:
  Most of the time the twitch stream is in anarchy mode where the game takes in every command at once, with some latency of course. To get into democracy mode the stream needs a super majority.

• On the post: RPS Takes On Critics Of The Idea That Games Should Eventually Enter The Public Domain

  

  Watchit ( profile ), 11 Feb, 2014 @ 06:48pm

  It's not like many people actually BUY games older than 20 years now a days... And usually even if you wanted to, older games just aren't available to buy anymore. Unless the title was popular enough to be re-released or put up on GOG, you usually have to track down a used physical edition, which doesn't even pay to the publishers, let alone the people who actually created the game. The only recourse for most is emulators and cracked copies.
  
  I dare someone to find me a legitimate unused copy of DuckTales: The Quest for Gold for sale.(DOS or Comodore 64 version, I don't care)
  
  I won't hold my breath, because you can't. All that exist are emulators from third parties.

• On the post: Baybrook Remodelers, Still In The Midst Of Suing People For Negative Reviews, Deploys A Disastrous SEO Hitman

  

  Watchit ( profile ), 07 Feb, 2014 @ 04:34pm

  "His claims of slander have no basis in reality..."
  
  Technically, since it's all written, it's libel not slander. So he's wrong on that account as well.

• On the post: The Importance Of Anonymity And The Wonders Of YouTube's Saddest Comments

  

  Watchit ( profile ), 31 Jan, 2014 @ 10:53pm

  yeah I just use a fake name on my google+ account, which I kinda just ignore, since I use it for youtube only. I go by "Watchit Van Walraven"!

• On the post: T-Mobile Writes The Best Press Release You'll Ever See From A Phone Company

  

  Watchit ( profile ), 29 Jan, 2014 @ 11:18am

  Haha, wow. Yes, this is probably the best reaction T-mobile could possibly have done. Bravo T-mobile, Bravo.

• On the post: Awesome Stuff: Nixie Tube And Oscilloscope Clocks

  

  Watchit ( profile ), 27 Jan, 2014 @ 03:51am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  yep! :D

• On the post: Awesome Stuff: Nixie Tube And Oscilloscope Clocks

  

  Watchit ( profile ), 25 Jan, 2014 @ 12:43pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re:

  Stiens;gate an anime that only tangentially related to nixie tubes. And it's ok, stargate is pretty damn cool too B)

• On the post: Awesome Stuff: Nixie Tube And Oscilloscope Clocks

  

  Watchit ( profile ), 25 Jan, 2014 @ 10:23am

  Re:

  steins;gate*

• On the post: Awesome Stuff: Nixie Tube And Oscilloscope Clocks

  

  Watchit ( profile ), 25 Jan, 2014 @ 10:22am

  reminds me of Steing;gate

• On the post: If Only All 'Narcisstic Traitors' Were This Reasonable And Insightful

  

  Watchit ( profile ), 23 Jan, 2014 @ 04:46pm

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  I hate to derail your derailment, but whether or not Google spies on people is another issue all together. Try and stay on topic.

• On the post: President Obama Surpasses Exceptionally Low Expectations On NSA Reforms, But Reforms Are Still Very Weak

  

  Watchit ( profile ), 17 Jan, 2014 @ 10:34am

  Which court will approve the data query though? If it's the FISA court then I don't see it as much of an improvement considering they're a glorified rubber stamp.

• On the post: Senator Leahy Tries To Sneak Through Plans To Make Merely Talking About Computer Hacking A Serious Crime

  

  Watchit ( profile ), 10 Jan, 2014 @ 03:44pm

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  The conspiracy to hack already was a crime, but that's not the problem. The problem is that with the 4 words added to the law, the conspiracy to hack would be treated the same as if you had actually committed the crime.

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