Bits & Bobs 46

myp · **Posted:** Thu May 05, 2016 21:35

Bamba wrote:

Fucking hell The Internet. My own adventures with Reddit's random button turned up this winner:

https://www.reddit.com/r/waifuism/

It's a subreddit devoted to people who are in a serious committed relationship with a fictional character. It involves someone asking the question "Attempting to make my relationship stronger, any tips?" and genuinely getting a load of serious advice. I cannot even.

That's not weird. I have a waifu - it's basically you in a dress

Grim... · **Posted:** Thu May 05, 2016 21:43

Dress or not, I think he'd be a husbando, not a waifu.

myp · **Posted:** Thu May 05, 2016 21:48

Grim... wrote:

Dress or not, I think he'd be a husbando, not a waifu.

Nu uh - not with the things I make him do

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25594

Dr Zoidberg wrote:

Accidentally or on purpose?

Accidentally. I'm not an idiot, Dr!

:DD

Bamba · **Joined:** 25th Jul, 2010 **Posts:** 11128

Lonewolves wrote:

Bamba wrote:

Fucking hell The Internet. My own adventures with Reddit's random button turned up this winner:

https://www.reddit.com/r/waifuism/

It's a subreddit devoted to people who are in a serious committed relationship with a fictional character. It involves someone asking the question "Attempting to make my relationship stronger, any tips?" and genuinely getting a load of serious advice. I cannot even.

That's not weird. I have a waifu - it's basically you in a dress

But I actually exist...don't I?

Dr Zoidberg · **Joined:** 15th Oct, 2010 **Posts:** 5155

One of our mobile phone users at work managed to use 48GB of data on his iPhone last month, slightly in excess of the 6GB allowance.
The bill was "Interesting"......

Grim... · **Posted:** Fri May 06, 2016 9:20

...

Go on..?

Mr Russell · **Joined:** 6th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 12243

I'm sure he was streaming a football match or something...right?

Or porn, probably porn.

Malc · **Posted:** Fri May 06, 2016 9:33

Dr Zoidberg wrote:

One of our mobile phone users at work managed to use 48GB of data on his iPhone last month, slightly in excess of the 6GB allowance.
The bill was "Interesting"......

It's easy enough to do (that's mostly for streaming the t-20 world cup)

Bamba · **Joined:** 25th Jul, 2010 **Posts:** 11128

Holy shit! That might actually be more data than I even use at home in a month.

Malc · **Posted:** Fri May 06, 2016 9:56

Bamba wrote:

Holy shit! That might actually be more data than I even use at home in a month.

If I change it to show the data from when the t-20 world cup started. It looks like this:

Attachment:

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Dr Zoidberg · **Joined:** 15th Oct, 2010 **Posts:** 5155

Grim... wrote:

...

Go on..?

£1100

Malc · **Posted:** Fri May 06, 2016 10:16

I pay £20 a month

http://www.three.co.uk/_standalone/Pric ... 0624190965

Malc · **Posted:** Fri May 06, 2016 10:17

My work phone is pretty much unlimited everything in any country and is something like £100 a month

Grim... · **Posted:** Fri May 06, 2016 10:50

Girl-Kovacs used my data to stream the WWE preshow in a pub and it came it at six gig for about 45 mintues, I think.

None of use were watching it.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49232

That's pretty damned data-hungry.

Dr Zoidberg · **Joined:** 15th Oct, 2010 **Posts:** 5155

Grim... wrote:

Girl-Kovacs used my data to stream the WWE preshow in a pub and it came it at six gig for about 45 mintues, I think.

None of use were watching it.

That seems excessive. A 1080p download of Game of Thrones that lasted about an hour was 3GB and most 720p TV shows tend to be around 1GB for a 40 minute episode.
Standard definition is a lot less.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49232

Live streams don't tend to have such good compression, do they? Or am I making that up?

Dr Zoidberg · **Joined:** 15th Oct, 2010 **Posts:** 5155

I wouldn't expect them to be in full HD either though

Malc · **Posted:** Fri May 06, 2016 11:44

I think I can tether 8GB a month on my phone, when I tried to watch a test match on my ipad that way last summer I think I got the text that it had been used up at about 16:00, so 5-6 hours of streaming or so.

Warhead · Noob as of 6/8/10

I am pleased to report that the swifts have now returned.

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14489

I remember seeing stuff about his last year (? or the year before) - but a good write up :

https://arcadeblogger.com/2016/05/06/ar ... ster-ship/

KovacsC · **Posted:** Mon May 09, 2016 21:19

zaphod79 wrote:

I remember seeing stuff about his last year (? or the year before) - but a good write up :

https://arcadeblogger.com/2016/05/06/ar ... ster-ship/

What a great blog

Pundabaya · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 5016

I just noticed... the Be Excellent Logo is still in sparkly chrimbo mode.

Grim... · **Posted:** Tue May 10, 2016 9:35

I got an Ask Reddit question voted onto the front page. This officially makes me better at viral marketing than 99% of the people that do it for a living.

Now I just need to market something.

TheVision · **Posted:** Tue May 10, 2016 9:45

Your boxset blackjack?

Grim... · **Posted:** Tue May 10, 2016 9:55

Sadly not.

Although I suspect if it had then Beex wouldn't be working.

MaliA · **Posted:** Tue May 10, 2016 14:14

Dead thread?

Mr Russell · **Joined:** 6th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 12243

Grim... wrote:

I got an Ask Reddit question voted onto the front page. This officially makes me better at viral marketing than 99% of the people that do it for a living.

Now I just need to market something.

On Neatorama now as well.
http://www.neatorama.com/2016/05/11/Peo ... nderstand/

Mr Dave · **Posted:** Thu May 12, 2016 9:29

I Believe I related my story of the two Japanese girls on the train talking about me. One thought I looked friendly, the other not so much.

When leaving, I thanked one of them.

Grim... · **Posted:** Thu May 12, 2016 9:39

Mr Dave wrote:

I Believe I related my story of the two Japanese girls on the train talking about me. One thought I looked friendly, the other not so much.

When leaving, I thanked one of them.

I read that one!

Mr Dave · **Posted:** Thu May 12, 2016 10:08

Grim... wrote:

Mr Dave wrote:

I Believe I related my story of the two Japanese girls on the train talking about me. One thought I looked friendly, the other not so much.

When leaving, I thanked one of them.

I read that one!

Here, not there.

I'm not on reddit. There are some quite similar stories on there though.

Mr Russell · **Joined:** 6th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 12243

Remember when we had a site called UpToJump? That was fun.

TheVision · **Posted:** Thu May 12, 2016 11:55

Mr Russell wrote:

Remember when we had a site called UpToJump? That was fun.

Yes! I'd love to take it over and run it myself but we lost the Twitter log in details. Not essential, but it would have been good to tie it all in together.

Grim... · **Posted:** Thu May 12, 2016 12:02

I'm not even sure we have the domain any more.

TheVision · **Posted:** Thu May 12, 2016 12:03

You're probably right. It has been ages since anything was done with it.

Mr Russell · **Joined:** 6th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 12243

It struck me as the sort of thing that if we were to let it grow organically rather than trying to launch a complete fully featured site, we could get quite a bit of content just from posts. As in, don't try and provide feature rich reviews each time, but sometimes just someone's frustrations with a Dark Souls boss or something would provide entertainment, and there could be a whole swathe of content just lifted from posts here (even if you needed to co-opt the POTW button to become a 'consider this for site inclusion' button).

Grim... · **Posted:** Thu May 12, 2016 12:40

Mr Russell wrote:

(even if you needed to co-opt the POTW button to become a 'consider this for site inclusion' button).

I'm fairly sure we had something like that for UTJ. I remember writing it.

Mr Russell · **Joined:** 6th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 12243

Grim... wrote:

Mr Russell wrote:

(even if you needed to co-opt the POTW button to become a 'consider this for site inclusion' button).

I'm fairly sure we had something like that for UTJ. I remember writing it.

Could it have been an additonal reason on the mods 'report this post' button?

TheVision · **Posted:** Thu May 12, 2016 12:44

Was it the 'bits of beex' site?

Grim... · **Posted:** Thu May 12, 2016 12:47

TheVision wrote:

Was it the 'bits of beex' site?

Ah yes, that was it. It posted to Tumblr.

Mr Russell · **Joined:** 6th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 12243

Grim... wrote:

TheVision wrote:

Was it the 'bits of beex' site?

Ah yes, that was it. It posted to Tumblr.

Heh, I don't remember that, but found the link by Googling:
http://beteo.tumblr.com/

myp · **Posted:** Thu May 12, 2016 12:56

I'm thinking about doing video reviews of low-budget games like World of Subways 3 and Jalopy - would be happy to include those under the Beex banner.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49232

I wonder why we stopped doing bits.of.beex

Oh, I've taken a look - it's because Lave is stupid and doesn't like We Will Rock You. Stupid Lave.

MaliA · **Posted:** Thu May 12, 2016 13:07

Man, did I dislike surface detail!

Findus Fop · **Joined:** 14th May, 2009 **Posts:** 4299

Reading Sat's review of Halo: Reach, it's interesting to see how his review-style has evolved. Much prefer Nu-Sat.

Where is Nu-Sat?

myp · **Posted:** Thu May 12, 2016 13:11

Findus Fop wrote:

Where is Nu-Sat?

He's taking a break. He's all right.

Mr Russell · **Joined:** 6th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 12243

Findus Fop wrote:

Reading Sat's review of Halo: Reach, it's interesting to see how his review-style has evolved. Much prefer Nu-Sat.

Where is Nu-Sat?

On hiatus.

TheVision · **Posted:** Thu May 12, 2016 13:22

Yay! Site resurgence!

Mr Russell · **Joined:** 6th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 12243

TheVision wrote:

Yay! Site resurgence!

Certainly there seems to be some enthusiasm, but let's not get ahead of ourselves

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