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Comment Re:Surprised? (Score 1) 120

LOL looking through the thread there's quite a bit of extremely naive. So like a lot of people we got prime for the shipping, video was just kind of a bonus. Wife and kids all have our RADARR and SONARR servers bookmarked on their phones. I'd say... 90% of the time when we're browsing AppleTV or Prime and we see something for rent, or with ads we just pop over to our RADARR or SONARR server and grab the same content, ad free, cost almost free (I do pay for a easynews and a nzb indexer) but hell, the price of that stuff is fairly static. If we can wait 15 minutes, it'll be up on our plex server.

I'll continue paying for prime because we buy hella shit from Amazon, and I have no doubt we'd get raked over the coals on shipping. I also have an amazon prime card, which is like 5% back on all amazon and whole foods purchases.

Comment It's not a minecraft clone... (Score 1) 16

It actually seems more like a clone of Cube World, with RPG elements, and voxel building added. Biggest difference between this and Cube World is, Cube World has no building elements. Biggest difference between this and Minecraft is, Mobs and players aren't made of voxels, and Minecraft has no RPG elements. Might give this a try tonight.

Comment About to drop my D+ subscription (Score 1) 84

Yes I subscribed, mostly for the Star Wars stuff, and a few Disney classics. Unfortunately though as many others have said, it's starting to feel like it's not worth it.

About 2 months ago I finished building out my Truenas server, loaded Plex, SabNZD, RADARR, and SONARR on it. Got a NZBGeek and a Newshosting subscription. With the smattering of hard drive I had laying around, I managed to eek out a measely 4.3tb. While not a ton of storage, I figure it's good enough for mostly 1080p content.

It seems like with the last decade of streaming, a lot of these studios forgot the whole reason they needed to stream cheaply in the first place was to curtail piracy. Now that they're all getting greedy, it'll just take some entrepreneuring engineer to make what I put together something easy for people to use to remind them.

Comment Re:"Willow was cancelled and removed from Disney" (Score 4, Informative) 187

Willow was THE WORST.

It followed the usual 90's sitcom trope of "The adults are out of touch, the kids are with it and know what's up" In addition to that, it strayed way too far off the path of fantasy adventure, everything from contemporary music in the show to shoehorning in issues not relevant to the story or the original universe. There was so much that just serves as filler, and not even good filler at that. I had to stop watching as well.

It wasn't *just* the story and filler. The acting was atrocious. Granted there was some decent acting to be found, Joanne Whalley reprising her role as a mature, grown Sorsha was nice, but most of the other Cameo's were kind of sad like the Brownie Rool. Instead of the wild creature he was he's now living in what looks like a standard suburban home. This goes back to the 90's trope I mention in the first sentence. It's horrible. I want to see my Rool flying through the air, landing in a beer, drinking love potion and falling in love with a cat like he did in the movie.

It was just so bad, and I never pirated it. I still have a D+ subscription.

Comment Dear stupid vendor (Score 1) 77

#assuming this is AD related...
#assuming you have users in an OU called users
$users = get-aduser -filter 'name -like"*"' -searchbase 'cn=users'
#loop through each user
foreach ($user in $users){
$passfunction = get-random
#concat username+ random number for a password, ya it's shite but quick n dirty
$password = $user+$passfunction
Set-ADAccountPassword $user $password

#define $csvobject to prep the above for nice and neat CSV export.
$csvobject = [pscustomobject]@{
user = $user
password = $password

}
}
#pipe the CSV object into the CSV exporter.
$csvobject | export-csv c:\temp\userpass.csv
#I make no claims if this would work, this is just a quick and dirty comment based on my own sources and quickly looking at some stackexchange

Comment Re:Exercise causes injuries (Score 1) 121

>your problem was probably locking yourself into an HMO (perhaps to save a few dollars on premiums?).

It wasn't a problem when the wife and I first signed up many moons ago. Her mother was a director of an unnamed department at the hospital, so we were always treated well. Once she retired though that changed.

Comment Re:Exercise causes injuries (Score 1) 121

Here's a few pics for you from 2012. A before and after (2009 to 2012)
https://imgur.com/a/iz5Rqg4

Shirt off pic. You can see the washboard forming, pectorals were starting to form too. I was wearing a size 34.
https://imgur.com/a/ppsb6bh

You can build muscle with cardio and running. Sometimes it's genetics. My 14 year old son has been doing road bike racing the last 2 years, and has seen some crazy gains on his legs.

Comment Re:Exercise causes injuries (Score 1) 121

>Calories don't appear magically in your body. That you may not have been able to refrain yourself for either eating healthy, or eating less, or both, is another issue entirely.
Cereal for breakfast, a sandwich for lunch, and a proteins, side veg and roll for dinner.

>Or maybe it is the same issue, if you were actually doing exercise to compensate your bad eating habits.
Or maybe it's like I said, I can't even walk a mile now without pain. My mobility has been severely limited to the point where the only way I would have stayed at 180 would have been a 700 calorie a day diet.

>Also, if you had been in a country with good public healthcare (like in Western or Northern Europe), this wouldn't have been a problem either.
Does Canada count? I have friends here in the US that LOVE our privatized health care because in Canada they would be waiting months just to see their doctors.

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