Somebody please explain American internet speeds to me, because I have seen people call 20 GB in 2 hours unacceptably slow.
Just about everyplace these days can get 6/1.5 Mbit/s or so ADSL as an absolute, pants-down bare minimum, assuming you can get a land line. (I'm leaving cellular data and esoterica like satellite out of this for the moment). Comcast and most other cable providers can go up to about 100 Mbit/s down and 20 up. Verizon FiOS can get up to a blazing 500 Mbit symmetrical, if you're in a place where it's available, and if you can afford it. There are fiber networks like Google Fiber (and, as I understand it, a few public-access municipal networks) that are even faster than FiOS, but with even spottier availability.
20 GB in 2 hours is about 20-30 Mbit/s, which is good but not great. It was pretty standard about 5 years ago or so.
Until today I was stuck with the supersonic speeds of... 280 kb/s.
There was a time when I would have taken anything above dialup...the first DSL line I got back in 2000 was a breezy 608k downstream. Back then, it seemed amazing, at least when my brothers weren't downloading stuff.
Fun fact: When I went to college, the data connection there was a crappy 19.2k async port on the phone. They didn't even have Ethernet (unless you were an upperclassman or a grad and lived off-campus). I HATED that, and so did a lot of other people (28.8 modems had been out for a while at this point).
I was trying to do the thing where you pretend to be Bane from Batman.
Munroe is not pretending to have anxiety, and made no claims in such a direction. I communicated my joke poorly and I apologize for such.
One shouldn't accuse people of pretending such things. That attitude helps nobody, and I wish people had told me as a kid that my anxiety issues (which have been helped a lot by meds in the last decade or so) were due to chemical things in my brain, and that it was a normal, understood thing. It would have helped me understand why I had so much less emotional controll than other kids my age.
I talked to my friend about Deadpool apparently being funny and he launched into a narrative about blah blah blah Fox will have to sue because blah suing because of Fantastic Four blah blah X-Men blah not seeing the movie because Disney needs to get the rights
I am sick of narratives. There does not need to be an epic meta-struggle between two monstrously evil corporations being told at the same time as the story of the latest summer blockbuster
I am sick of narratives. There does not need to be an epic meta-struggle between two monstrously evil corporations being told at the same time as the story of the latest summer blockbuster
I am sick of narratives. There does not need to be an epic meta-struggle between two monstrously evil corporations being told at the same time as the story of the latest summer blockbuster
I am sick of narratives. There does not need to be an epic meta-struggle between two monstrously evil corporations being told at the same time as the story of the latest summer blockbuster
I am sick of narratives. There does not need to be an epic meta-struggle between two monstrously evil corporations being told at the same time as the story of the latest summer blockbuster
I am not involved in the fucking narrative. I just like Deadpool and thought it a fairly fresh reinterpretation of something I had long since gotten bored by.
I was honestly more frustrated by Jane's yesquoting than yours there, since it felt like a point I already know about being tediously beaten into my head, but thanks for the reassurance.
I'm sorry. I'm being pointlessly self-defensive and argumentative again and should stop that.
The frustration you two display towards these films is valid. I'd just rather leave Deadpool off on its own and I want to be allowed to do that if I so choose.
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that would put me at 66% of national average, apparently
anyway i drew a nephron
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Does the game have a "kill all robots" button?
That is pretty much my only requirement for a game with self aware robots where you play as a human instead of a robot.
Is that allowed around here?
The frustration you two display towards these films is valid. I'd just rather leave Deadpool off on its own and I want to be allowed to do that if I so choose.
I misread and jumped before I thought. I need to find a way to deal with this argumentative side of me somehow.