ITT Post Your Random Thoughts

[Angry Critter]

because i am right and anyone who has a differening opinion is wrong and i must school them on how wrong they are

Either you are wrong or I am wrong.

Since I know I am most certainly not wrong, logically it must be you who is wrong.

I must convince you of this.

It was mostly a rhetorical question, but... Yes. Very yes.

[Skipper]

No, you are wrong.

[Angry Critter]

OK.

[DaikatunaRevengeance]

everyone but me is wrong

[Skipper]

everyone but me is wrong

I agree

[Skipper]

So your statement is false

[Angry Critter]

I've come to hate Blizzard but I don't want to stop playing games that I love and get comfort from.

[DaikatunaRevengeance]

I agree

So your statement is false

DAMN

[DaikatunaRevengeance]

i can't be wrong!

YOU'RE WRONG

[DaikatunaRevengeance]

YOU'RE ALL WRONG

[Angry Critter]

So I'm watching someone being shot and killed by police in a Wallmart while scrolling through my Twitter feed and I'm not even surprised. My first and most prominent thought was "this is probably against the rules and executions are not why I enabled viewing mature content".

[Pocket]

I keep dreading the day I become too old to appreciate the direction Internet culture is heading, but also I keep encountering new slang and being like "Yes, we needed that word in our vocabulary and I don't care where it came from." Like "poggers". If you'd told me a year ago what people mean when they say that, but not explained the context, I'd probably guess it was one of those quaint British expressions. Seriously, imagine a stuffy Monty Python character with a mustache saying that in response to some surprising news. It totally fits. I have similar feelings about "stonks".

[DaikatunaRevengeance]

the only type of internet culture that's been getting on my nerves lately is playing off self-hate and self-deprecation as humor, especially calling it "millenial humor" when it's just circle jerking about how much you hate yourself

it's been a thing on tumblr and later twitter for a while now and everyone who engages in it constantly acts like it's all "ironic"

[Fizzbuzz]

I keep dreading the day I become too old to appreciate the direction Internet culture is heading, but also I keep encountering new slang and being like "Yes, we needed that word in our vocabulary and I don't care where it came from." Like "poggers". If you'd told me a year ago what people mean when they say that, but not explained the context, I'd probably guess it was one of those quaint British expressions. Seriously, imagine a stuffy Monty Python character with a mustache saying that in response to some surprising news. It totally fits.

Half the problem there is that it's strongly tied to one site, one subculture, and thus can't be spread quite as easily as if it were just a funny image or video. Since it revolves around getting spammed whenever something happens on a Twitch stream, it's a symbol for people who watch a ton of stuff on Twitch but not much else.

[DaikatunaRevengeance]

that's very poggers

[Mr. Big]

the only type of internet culture that's been getting on my nerves lately is playing off self-hate and self-deprecation as humor, especially calling it "millenial humor" when it's just circle jerking about how much you hate yourself

it's been a thing on tumblr and later twitter for a while now and everyone who engages in it constantly acts like it's all "ironic"

Co-signing. This gets on my nerve as well.

I also dislike the "adulting is hard" posts you see a lot. Adulting was never easy.

[Mr. Big]

"Remember ALF? He's back, in poggers form! That's so poggers"!

[DaikatunaRevengeance]

"Remember ALF? He's back, in poggers form! That's so poggers"!

[Pocket]

For the sake of memory efficiency, was it common back in the day (or for that matter, is is possibly even still common) for computer programs to store monetary amounts as integers and then just add a decimal point before the last two digits when displaying them? Seems like it would maximize the amount you could store compared to floating-point decimals, and also maybe even improve the speed of making calculations.

[The Ghost of Ember]

monetary data should never really be stored as floating point because sooner or later you're going to get rounding errors that are going to compound as numbers start to get big or lots of operations are done on those numbers. the most accurate way to store monetary data is as an integer of the smallest denomination of the currency (1 cent in USD)

some programs still handle money as floating point, but its usually because the program is expected to handle multiple different data types that may not always be monetary, and the only practical way to deal with that is to convert it all into the most flexible number data type which is floats. generally you just force a round and store as int if at all possible to try to prevent the data from accumulating rounding errors

some computers in the early days were designed without floating point functionality but generally it is/was included because its good for a lot of types of operations besides monetary.

good video on why floats aren't used for money if at all possible:

[Fizzbuzz]

There is a whole separate numbering system called binary-coded decimal that's useful for when floating-point rounding errors are absolutely not acceptable. It was commonly used in old systems, but nowadays processors that you'd use on your computer aren't built to handle BCD operations natively (a computer can still do it, it's just slower, to put it roughly).

[Mechanical Ape]

You know, they call her “Red Riding Hood” but we never see her ride anywhere.

[DaikatunaRevengeance]

yeah!

[Orange Fluffy Sheep]

you ride on your feet op

[Gloomy Rube]

"Riding Hood" is the name of the type of hood she's wearing. It's been so long since anyone's called anything a riding hood that it sounds like a non sequitur.

[DaikatunaRevengeance]

whoa

[DaikatunaRevengeance]

i didn't know what

[Gloomy Rube]

Does anyone know what flintstones episode Weird Al took the audio from in his song, Bedrock Anthem? I've scoured the internet with various search terms and it looks like no one has ever sourced the audio clip

[Mechanical Ape]

I haven't found the answer to your question, but in the process I did discover this alternate version of the theme with the voice actors:



I didn't know that existed!

[Mr. Big]

I haven't found the answer to your question, but in the process I did discover this alternate version of the theme with the voice actors:



I didn't know that existed!

"Rise and Shine" was the first theme song for "The Flintstones", used in the first 2 and a half seasons. However, the version on the show was instrumental only

[Angry Critter]

Idk why but I really enjoy tormenting myself and others with sauces and marinades that are way too spicy

[Pocket]

"Rise and Shine" was the first theme song for "The Flintstones", used in the first 2 and a half seasons. However, the version on the show was instrumental only

That's nuts. How many other shows have gone through multiple theme songs that have been all but forgotten because they got replaced with the most famous one in reruns? I know it happened to Garfield and Friends, and Rocky and Bullwinkle kind of had to do it because during most of its run it was known by a different title altogether—twice!

I also wonder if this sequence had some influence on The Simpsons. Both depict the man of the house driving home from work, pulling into the garage, and then sitting down to watch TV as the camera turns to face it.

[Mr. Big]

Fun fact: the end credits originally had a billboard for Winston cigarettes. It was reanimated to remove all references to Winston in reruns:

[Mr. Big]

Rocky and Bullwinkle kind of had to do it because during most of its run it was known by a different title altogether—twice!

It gets even more confusing with "Rocky and Bullwinkle" because there were two different syndication packages, each with different names, available simultaneously.

The first two seasons was syndicated as "The Rocky Show", which featured all-new opening titles and credits created for it. This version was quarter-hour (15 minutes) long, featuring 1 Rocky segment, 1 Mr. Know-It-All segment, and 1 of either "Peabody" or "Fairy Tales". Some stations would simply run two episodes to fill the half-hour time slot.

The rest of the show's run (Seasons 3-5) was under "The Bullwinkle Show", which was standard half-hour. That was how the show was called when it moved to NBC in season 3 (the first 2 seasons aired on ABC as "Rocky and His Friends").

This show went through so many titles during its original run and syndication rerun...and it was never called "Rocky and Bullwinkle" during that period The closest was when the main Rocky segments had an inter-title called "The Adventures of Bullwinkle and Rocky". Note that Bullwinkle got top billing.

[Mechanical Ape]

I also wonder if this sequence had some influence on The Simpsons. Both depict the man of the house driving home from work, pulling into the garage, and then sitting down to watch TV as the camera turns to face it.

Probably. The Simpsons was the first animated prime-time sitcom since the Flintstones/Jetsons era, 25 years prior. At the time those Hanna-Barbera shows would be the reference points for both the creators and the audience. It makes sense there would be nods to them. Homer was following in Fred's big footsteps.

Well, for instance, the opening of the Simpsons theme (the Simp-sooooooons...) is sung to the Jetsons theme. I wonder if people even notice that anymore.

[Mr. Big]

After "The Flintstones" proved to be a success when it premiered in 1960, it lead to more prime-time cartoons being greenlit in the next few years.

The following season had...

"Top Cat" (ABC, also Hanna-Barbera)
"The Alvin Show" (CBS)
"Calvin and the Colonel" (ABC)
"The Bullwinkle Show" (NBC, originally airing daytime on ABC)
"The Bugs Bunny Show" (ABC)
"Beany and Cecil" (ABC)

"Bugs Bunny" and "Bullwinkle" lasted multiple seasons, but all the other shows only lasted one season. "Top Cat" and "Alvin Show" later reran on Saturday Mornings for years ("Alvin" in particular benefited greatly from it, doing better there than on prime-time).

"Beany and Cecil" had some following in syndication reruns, but "Calvin and the Colonel" absolutely BOMBED hard when it aired on Tuesday nights. The show was removed from the lineup after 6 episodes. The remaining 20 episodes eventually would move to Saturdays at 6pm during mid-season, where it was burned off before ABC dropped it altogether, never speaking of that show again.

[Pocket]

I remember reading that Groening provided a list of things he wanted his theme to sound like, one of which was the Jetsons theme.

[Void Chicken]

I watched Rocky and Bullwinkle religiously as a kid. At some point I noticed that every single next episode preview I saw at the end was of an episode I'd seen. I concluded that the show's timeline formed a loop. To this day I choose to believe that it does.

[Mr. Big]

That's nuts. How many other shows have gone through multiple theme songs that have been all but forgotten because they got replaced with the most famous one in reruns? I know it happened to Garfield and Friends, and Rocky and Bullwinkle kind of had to do it because during most of its run it was known by a different title altogether—twice!

"Happy Days" had this happen after the show ended.

However, the show entered syndication when new episodes were still being made. When that happened it was retitled "Happy Days Again". From my understanding it was common for the syndicated version to have different titles to differentiate from new episode premieres.



To add another example, "Gunsmoke" was retitled "Marshall Dillon" when it entered syndication during the show's original run. A cartoon example is with Jay Ward's' "Hoppity Hooper"; in syndication it was retitled "Uncle Waldo's Cartoon Show" (the theme song was still the same; they just sloppily spliced in the new title card to cover up the original title)

[Ragnar]

To this day I am insist the reason the MLP movie has the twist that they're actually hippogriff-sea ponies instead of just sea ponies is because Celestia was originally going to say "hippocampus" and they were worried this wouldn't go over as well. It's wrong I hate it why is it like this.