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by Isaac
Mon Aug 28, 2023 6:46 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Maui
Replies: 30
Views: 4447

Re: Maui

I hear it was really dry on the island, though. More try than normal.
by Isaac
Mon Aug 28, 2023 12:15 pm
Forum: PTMC Cafe
Topic: Anyone hear from spooky?
Replies: 2
Views: 2452

Anyone hear from spooky?

He was always friendly with me, even in my less mature days here on the forum. I haven't seen in a long time. I know he was on the older side. Spooky's account would be on this url if it still existed: https://descentbb.net/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=3725 His posts: https://descentbb.net/...
by Isaac
Mon Aug 28, 2023 12:08 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Threads vs Twitter: misinformation vs uoᴉʇɐɯɹoɟuᴉsᴉɯ
Replies: 14
Views: 3216

Re: Threads vs Twitter: misinformation vs uoᴉʇɐɯɹoɟuᴉsᴉɯ

I want atomic batteries already. Caution be damned. I want the motor to burn out before I run out of power.
by Isaac
Mon Aug 28, 2023 12:07 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: What the world has come to...
Replies: 298
Views: 1180425

Re: What the world has come to...

Tunnelcat wrote: Mon Aug 28, 2023 9:55 am Isaac, The What, I would never consider being inconsiderate and cutting in line. It's gouache. :wink:
No wonder he won't talk to me about lunar eclipses, because he hates it when the moon cuts in front of the earth.
by Isaac
Sun Aug 27, 2023 9:26 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: What the world has come to...
Replies: 298
Views: 1180425

Re: What the world has come to...

TheWhat wrote: Sun Aug 27, 2023 8:12 pm Do you mean that bright round thing that god put on the canopy that covers the flat earth only to test me? Yeah, I see that thing.
Good, then you can reply to my question: https://descentbb.net/viewtopic.php?p=396663#p396663
by Isaac
Sun Aug 27, 2023 8:01 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: What the world has come to...
Replies: 298
Views: 1180425

Re: What the world has come to...

TheWhat wrote: Sun Aug 27, 2023 7:07 pm ’m pretty old (50+) ...I have bifocals (vision changes REALLY suck, maybe the worst thing I’ve noticed with age).
So, are you able to see things like the moon?
by Isaac
Sun Aug 27, 2023 3:51 pm
Forum: DBB Feedback Forum
Topic: General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the ePrivacy Directive
Replies: 10
Views: 4574

Re: General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the ePrivacy Directive

No offence taken. I made this post to learn about something I new little about. I've been doing it for years with jquery as well. But yes, people should be prompted, even if we think it should be obvious almost all sites do this at some level.
by Isaac
Sun Aug 27, 2023 2:15 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: What the world has come to...
Replies: 298
Views: 1180425

Re: What the world has come to...

Ah, to be young again. I sometimes stay up till midnight if I'm playing a video game. I used to do that with Descent and right now I'm on Metro Exodus. But I pay for that lack of sleep by yawning and bad tiredness the next day if I don't sleep waaaaay in the next morn. Being old sucks. I'm sure it'...
by Isaac
Sun Aug 27, 2023 1:23 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: What the world has come to...
Replies: 298
Views: 1180425

Re: What the world has come to...

Tunnelcat wrote: Sun Aug 27, 2023 9:58 am Isaac, do you ever sleep? :P :lol:
I'm working on a project and I do my best work on a terrible sleep schedule.
by Isaac
Sun Aug 27, 2023 3:49 am
Forum: PTMC Cafe
Topic: Which one of you is the best chess player?
Replies: 32
Views: 10714

Re: Which one of you is the best chess player?

Neo wrote: Sun Aug 27, 2023 2:46 am Isaac stop trolling.
I'm not joking. If I can find the screenshots I'll post them.
by Isaac
Sun Aug 27, 2023 3:37 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: What the world has come to...
Replies: 298
Views: 1180425

Re: What the world has come to...

Neo wrote: Sun Aug 27, 2023 2:45 am You're obviously a troll. Told ya. I'm not stupid.
I'm serious. Bibles are flat. Or do you believe in round bible?
by Isaac
Sat Aug 26, 2023 6:30 pm
Forum: DBB Feedback Forum
Topic: General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the ePrivacy Directive
Replies: 10
Views: 4574

Re: General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the ePrivacy Directive

It began in 2018 and Google has had to pay a fine already: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation#:~:text=On%2021%20January%202019%2C%20Google,personal%20data%20for%20behavioural%20advertising. I think for my sites, I'm just going to start adding the pop-up. I'm not sure if...
by Isaac
Sat Aug 26, 2023 5:54 pm
Forum: The DBB Testing Zone
Topic: It lives again.
Replies: 2
Views: 38232

Re: It lives again.

I love your avatar
by Isaac
Sat Aug 26, 2023 5:49 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: What the world has come to...
Replies: 298
Views: 1180425

Re: What the world has come to...

Neo wrote: Sat Aug 26, 2023 3:10 pm I'm surprised you didn't say hellfire isn't real. Most people scoff at anything that's in the Bible.
The Bible is flat. I've never seen a round Bible. Checkmate, atheists.
by Isaac
Sat Aug 26, 2023 5:47 pm
Forum: PTMC Cafe
Topic: Which one of you is the best chess player?
Replies: 32
Views: 10714

Re: Which one of you is the best chess player?

Neo wrote: Sat Aug 26, 2023 3:08 pm I hope they don't allow people to say just anything. I've run into an immature chess player once.
I had an Indian guy hit on me, thinking I was a girl. But most people don't want to be banned so they're polite.
by Isaac
Sat Aug 26, 2023 2:18 pm
Forum: DBB Feedback Forum
Topic: General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the ePrivacy Directive
Replies: 10
Views: 4574

Re: General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the ePrivacy Directive

If they really didn't want their IP address reaching google they should have blocked their computer from pinging it in the first place because it all happens client side. You're rational about how GDPR should work, but I don't see where on the official GDPR site gives the user any responsibility or...
by Isaac
Sat Aug 26, 2023 12:48 pm
Forum: DBB Feedback Forum
Topic: General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the ePrivacy Directive
Replies: 10
Views: 4574

Re: General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the ePrivacy Directive

Yeah, you can assume this is basically about ads and tracking cookies. Stuff like the cookie that the DBB uses is strictly for the functionality of the DBB itself. The only things the DBB cookies store on your computer are your user ID, session ID (which is randomly generated every login), and a pa...
by Isaac
Sat Aug 26, 2023 12:31 pm
Forum: PTMC Cafe
Topic: Which one of you is the best chess player?
Replies: 32
Views: 10714

Re: Which one of you is the best chess player?

Neo wrote: Sat Aug 26, 2023 8:32 am zero. I don't play Chess much anymore, and never got a rank.
if you make chess dot com account and play a few games it gives you a rank. Once you're at your true level the game is more fun, as your opponents are about as serious or unserious about chess as you are.
by Isaac
Sat Aug 26, 2023 12:26 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: What the world has come to...
Replies: 298
Views: 1180425

Re: What the world has come to...

Neo wrote: Sat Aug 26, 2023 8:34 am lava isn't hellfire.
Lava isn't real.
by Isaac
Fri Aug 25, 2023 8:37 pm
Forum: DBB Feedback Forum
Topic: General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the ePrivacy Directive
Replies: 10
Views: 4574

Re: General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the ePrivacy Directive

I'd imagine ads running on a page would probably require you ask for consent. Maybe tracking cookies? ... We may also create cookies external to the phpBB software whilst browsing “DescentBB”, though these are outside the scope of this document which is intended to only cover the pages created by th...
by Isaac
Fri Aug 25, 2023 8:02 pm
Forum: PTMC Cafe
Topic: Which one of you is the best chess player?
Replies: 32
Views: 10714

Re: Which one of you is the best chess player?

Darth Wang wrote: Fri Aug 25, 2023 7:14 pm
Isaac wrote: Thu Aug 24, 2023 11:58 pm
Darth Wang wrote: Thu Aug 24, 2023 11:33 pm 2400+ online blitz.
omfg... you'd destroy me.
I don't like to brag about it.
That's the point of this thread, though. I wanted to know.
by Isaac
Fri Aug 25, 2023 6:16 pm
Forum: PTMC Cafe
Topic: Which one of you is the best chess player?
Replies: 32
Views: 10714

Re: Which one of you is the best chess player?

Someone once did an 'en passant checkmate on me. It broke me inside. I thought I was winning.
by Isaac
Fri Aug 25, 2023 5:45 pm
Forum: PTMC Cafe
Topic: Which one of you is the best chess player?
Replies: 32
Views: 10714

Re: Which one of you is the best chess player?

TigerRaptor wrote: Fri Aug 25, 2023 5:31 pm Back when I played, speed chess was my favorite.
Is that like with 5 min on each clock?
by Isaac
Fri Aug 25, 2023 1:26 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: P01135809
Replies: 21
Views: 5086

Re: P01135809

I don't know what's more crazy.. The fact a presidential candidate has a mug shot during a busy campaign year or the fact he's still going to keep running. edit: “The photographer told me, tears in his eyes, it was the best mugshot he’d ever taken. Probably the best mugshot in the history of mugshot...
by Isaac
Fri Aug 25, 2023 11:30 am
Forum: PTMC Cafe
Topic: Which one of you is the best chess player?
Replies: 32
Views: 10714

Re: Which one of you is the best chess player?

I know the rules, but I've never really played. Was never all that interested in it. I see Backgammon the same way. It looks neat, but I'm no going to sit-down and learn the rules. Backgammon boards have haunted the backs of my Chess/checkers sets since I was born. Nobody I grew up with knew how to...
by Isaac
Fri Aug 25, 2023 10:22 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: P01135809
Replies: 21
Views: 5086

Re: P01135809

If I was Biden, I'd be offering cake with the image of Trump's mug shot to a gaggle of reporters.
by Isaac
Fri Aug 25, 2023 2:44 am
Forum: PTMC Cafe
Topic: Which one of you is the best chess player?
Replies: 32
Views: 10714

Re: Which one of you is the best chess player?

CDN_Merlin wrote: Fri Aug 25, 2023 2:32 am I once checkmated someone in 4 moves.
Sounds like scholar's mate. I have to block a scholar's mate every other game.
by Isaac
Fri Aug 25, 2023 12:02 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: What the world has come to...
Replies: 298
Views: 1180425

Re: What the world has come to...

I do hate intolerant bigots, yes. Time out.. How is being a flat Earther bigoted? It's bigoted against everyone who works in any industry that involves aerospace, astronomy, physics, cartography, geology, telecommunications, and a few hundred other disciplines, since it accused them all of being in...
by Isaac
Thu Aug 24, 2023 11:58 pm
Forum: PTMC Cafe
Topic: Which one of you is the best chess player?
Replies: 32
Views: 10714

Re: Which one of you is the best chess player?

Darth Wang wrote: Thu Aug 24, 2023 11:33 pm 2400+ online blitz.
omfg... you'd destroy me.
by Isaac
Thu Aug 24, 2023 7:29 pm
Forum: PTMC Cafe
Topic: Which one of you is the best chess player?
Replies: 32
Views: 10714

Which one of you is the best chess player?

I'm a ★■◆● 700 on chess dot com. I play every day and have played for decades. What are you?
by Isaac
Thu Aug 24, 2023 11:49 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: What the world has come to...
Replies: 298
Views: 1180425

Re: What the world has come to...

I do hate intolerant bigots, yes. Time out.. How is being a flat Earther bigoted? It's bigoted against everyone who works in any industry that involves aerospace, astronomy, physics, cartography, geology, telecommunications, and a few hundred other disciplines, since it accused them all of being in...
by Isaac
Thu Aug 24, 2023 12:13 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: What the world has come to...
Replies: 298
Views: 1180425

Re: What the world has come to...

Homophobia is a mental disease that nurses hate. People with this phobia, like Neo, like to use an ancient religious book to justify acting on that hate by sanctioning death as a divine punishment. They may not believe they're haters, but they are. They certainly have no humanity at all, because th...
by Isaac
Wed Aug 23, 2023 10:34 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Goodhue
Replies: 56
Views: 7160

Re: Goodhue

And you've already been told, by me, by tunnelcat, and by others that police are known to escalate the situation. when there's no probable cause. I agree with that completely, though. You see the problem right? That's not arguing against the benefit of being polite to a police officer , which was m...
by Isaac
Wed Aug 23, 2023 9:53 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Goodhue
Replies: 56
Views: 7160

Re: Goodhue

Again: In your opening statement, you claimed cops would only detain people if they were rude. Oh really? That's easy to check. I'm Latino and have never had a bad encounter with the police, but I'm always polite and do as instructed. On the other hand I've seen these videos where people have accid...
by Isaac
Wed Aug 23, 2023 8:02 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: What the world has come to...
Replies: 298
Views: 1180425

Re: What the world has come to...

Top Gun wrote: Wed Aug 23, 2023 7:50 pm Why are you assuming I'm limiting my statement to this single profoundly-dumb topic that you keep egging him on about everywhere?
Because I'm profoundly dumb.
Top Gun wrote: Wed Aug 23, 2023 7:50 pm He's been spewing homophobic stuff for ages.
Oh okay. That answers that. Thank you for the quick reply.
by Isaac
Wed Aug 23, 2023 7:41 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: What the world has come to...
Replies: 298
Views: 1180425

Re: What the world has come to...

Top Gun wrote: Wed Aug 23, 2023 5:57 pm I do hate intolerant bigots, yes.
Time out.. How is being a flat Earther bigoted? Is it because he's intolerant of internationally collected data? Or am I missing something else he said? Forgive me, for I am illiterate.
by Isaac
Wed Aug 23, 2023 4:47 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: What the world has come to...
Replies: 298
Views: 1180425

Re: What the world has come to...

Neo wrote: Wed Aug 23, 2023 3:43 pm There’s a lot of hate coming from you all, not me.
Not me. I love you. I just wish you'd ★■◆●ing ANSWER MY QUESTION: https://descentbb.net/viewtopic.php?t=25024&start=40
by Isaac
Wed Aug 23, 2023 12:27 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Run
Replies: 3
Views: 826

Re: Run

I thought this was going to be about the comment Trump made about fleeing to Russia over the $200k bond. Same thread title would apply.
by Isaac
Wed Aug 23, 2023 10:46 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Goodhue
Replies: 56
Views: 7160

Re: Goodhue

I think Ferno's point is valid that people of color tend to be on the receiving end of cop violence more than white people do, even when being compliant. The issue is, nobody is arguing against that. Ferno made that point to sound like he was countering a very racist argument nobody here has made. ...