Honestly couldn’t think of anything particularly exciting.
I mean, I thought of stuff, but I can’t exactly rip my heart out of my body, now can I? Besides, I believe having a broken heart is usually just a metaphor.
The Lime iBook had a broken screen. The iBook G4 was hit by lightning. The classic Mac mini’s power supply became super flakey and would shut down the unit randomly. The MacBook Air’s RAM suddenly stopped working.
Not pictured because it is in my basement and is rather heavy: my Mac Portable that doesn’t work because its near-impossible to replace lead-acid battery is completely depleted, and unlike modern computers, it can’t run off of wall power alone - it ran exclusively off the battery which would charge when plugged in.
I promise that despite all these forlorn units, there are many more working, much loved ones all over my home.
@mfladd yeah, even just looked at my profile to make sure I didnt say anything terrible and forget, and went through all the other days to make sure i didnt already ask for something broken
@mfladd innocent here!! Thinking maybe the header image is you?? Can’t see it … Too bright outside, chillin’ because fucking all day meetings are killing me…regardless @mfladd
“It’s an easy fix. We can do it ourselves. Should only take 10 minutes.” Many years later and the replacement pieces are still hanging out in the case.
I bought this on an Amazon warehouse deal when they had like a 20% off sale. They said like new, it wasn’t and was missing accessories. It also had broken wires to the heated bed that are a result of a design flaw.
I got some more credit back from Amazon for the damage, rewired the bed and tried but haven’t gotten it to work right yet. I haven’t had time for it much the past couple of months, so it’s sitting here kind of sad and that sample filament is probably soaking up humidity.
On the positive side, the SD card came with a bunch of models on it from the previous owner who ran it long enough to break it and return it to Amazon.
@narfcake I’ve seen plenty of homes with cracks like that simply from the foundation settling. I have one myself that I had to patch. Always seem to happen at the corner of a doorway.
@bramby2 That’s fucking magical the way the toilet paper just hangs there without falling. (On a side note, it seems taking the picture in landscape mode seems to help with the rotation issue when uploading.)
@bramby2 The iPhone expects you to take pictures in a landscape view with the home button on the right. I’ve had much better luck doing it this way and uploading them here.
@mehcuda67@PlacidPenguin@Seeds Hmm. Let’s discuss the mysterious JakeJake with the disabled profile that suddenly got a tying star in there at the very end. I hope there’s no shenanigans and no one is using another account to vote for themselves.
@bramby2@mehcuda67@PlacidPenguin@Seeds Exactly. Which makes an account with virtually no history here extremely questionable and annoying. I’d hope for some absolute honesty. Hell, I could ask all the friends I have with an account here to hop on and star my submission but to me that’s simply cheating. So, if that account belongs to someone else already here I’d hope they step up and admit it and play fairly.
Well, if someone’s trying to cheat, that’s really fucking irritating. I hope that’s not what’s happening.
I promise you, the prize is nothing worth cheating for, I only included it at all because I thought the game might be more fun and have more participation with it.
Don’t fucking ruin everyone’s fun.
Whatever you guys think is the best way forward, I am your humble goatservant.
@Seeds crap… I have been cheating since day 1… @mfladd … you were beautiful then, are now, so quit your bitchin’ – use it as a lesson for your kids, what is posted on the internet stays on the internet!
@bramby2@mehcuda67@PlacidPenguin@Seeds Personally, I say go forward without a prize. Let’s just do the hunt for the simple fun of seeing how everyone interprets that day’s request. No stars to worry about, no prize to cheat for.
It’d be a pain, but going forward we can only allow voting by people who have some sort of past activity. I really would rather keep the prize in if possible
@Seeds Past activity can be a little difficult to determine, especially when someone’s account is hidden. In this case I didn’t recognize the name at all and a Google search didn’t show any posts or comments by them either.
@cinoclav I mean it can be, but I just went through this whole thread and jakejake was the only voter whose name I didn’t recognize. If it’s only a couple randoms showing up I can chase em down.
I’d hate to tell someone who just happens to join meh now that their vote doesn’t count, but if people are going to cheat I don’t see another way so you can blame me if that happens. If I do disallow a vote I’ll tag the person in the post after closed.
Of course, new (as in just joined or have no past activity on the site at all) people are still encouraged to participate in the scavenger scramble.
If my voting on my posts makes you uncomfortable then I won’t do it anymore.
And you have no reason to feel bad. If I was hosting a contest and somebody whose name I did not recognize (and could not track down) starting voting, possibly altering the vote, I would probably also be suspicious.
It’s just, if lurkers are participating, then wouldn’t it be a disservice to not count them?
I’m truly sorry that this turned into a thing though.
I’ll hear out the community, I’ve already got all the current participants tagged in the points post. I just think if we’re going to make a rule about this we have to decide by tonight.
@cinoclav@JakeJake@Seeds I don’t care about the prize, I just think the daily photo posts are fun. In other forums I’ve been a member of, they make rules like “only votes from unhidden accounts older than XYZ months”, etc. But that’s annoying to police.
Really…I think the stakes are so low it probably doesn’t matter.
@Seeds I’d personally rather run the risk that someone is cheating than run the risk that someone legit is being discounted. At the same time, I’m participating because it’s a fun little distraction and not for any particular desire to win, so the hypothetical threat of cheating really doesn’t affect me anyway. So, however much weight it should get, my vote is to let suspicious actors act freely.
@Seeds I don’t care. Oh crap…did I post this in the wrong place? I don’t want to get called out by vol mods again for trying to participate!
/giphy over it
@narfcake I think in this case it isn’t an issue of someone being new, but an issue of whether that ‘new’ person is just a secondary user id trying to alter the outcome of the game.
@narfcake counter intuitive how? Excluding ringers seems to be supremely intuitive. They’re “new” but have the wherewithal to block their history? :snort: #FakeVotes
@narfcake@PlacidPenguin@Seeds I think Narf is on the wrong side of history (again) with his overly inclusive attitude. Just like his opinion of the poo emojis he is just wrong, wrong, wrong.
@Seeds I’m just posting because it’s fun. I’ve not concerned myself with cheating. If someone is, that sucks, fuck them, but it doesn’t make participating any less fun.
@Seeds Like the others I don’t really care about a prize. Actually the prospect of winning has probably kept me from posting as often as I could (of course being on vacation without super reliable internet also has been a factor). Cheating (if/when it occurs) sucks. Whatever you decide will be fine with me though.
ETA: We all know who’s to blame anyway if there has been cheating.
@Seeds I would guess that most of us are in it for the challenge not the possible prize so you do what feels right to you. I’m one of those who rarely has commented/ participated in the past but your scavenger scramble spoke to me. So thank you no matter what your decision is.
@Seeds Chiming in since I was tagged but I think whatever you decide is fine. Like I whispered to you when I screwed up and posted late once, I’m not in it to win it, just posting for fun at times. It’s your contest, so I think if you choose to take the votes at face-value because that’s easier and less time-consuming, then that’s okay.
@Seeds Not quite what my mom envisioned for me, but I guess I can accept that
I am just playing here – I have no need for a prize! So, imho, you should run your contest as you wish, if you are getting lurkers to participate, all the more power to you!
I know we’ve had our share of bad apples for Mehxchange, maybe @kidsandliz or other past runners of that can privately share their bad apple list with you for exclusion if there’s any concerns.
I am personally willing to give people the benefit of the doubt and have been having fun participating when I can think of something, regardless of whether or not I win.
@Kawa I’m all for sharing the bad apple list. Thieving bastards can really suck the joy out of games. I trust meh to uncover twisted fuckheads trying to spoil the amateur games here. And @Seeds, part of the competition joy is night terrors from dreading the win. Keep the prize. 'Scuse me, I do believe it’s time for my medicine.
Seeing as how it was advertised up front that it was going to be a “shitty prize” I hadn’t really thought of the likelihood of cheating. I’m doing this because it’s tremendously fun. (Thanks @Seeds!) If someone is cheating, it’s on them.
A quick thought -
Hopefully, the number of suspect voters is very small. Maybe the Meh staff could glean enough info from the accounts to see if it’s a likely cheat?
In the final analysis, though, this is @Seeds game and @Seeds prize, so the decision lays (goat blame or not) on @Seeds.
I really wanted to drop a “/giphy cheaters suck” here, but thought better of it. Use your imagination.
Also, stay tuned later today for the first edition of Seeds Shitfaced Stories.
No explanation necessary.
Low-effort post, sorry! But hey look, the image uploader didn’t screw up the orientation!
Ugh
Honestly couldn’t think of anything particularly exciting.
I mean, I thought of stuff, but I can’t exactly rip my heart out of my body, now can I? Besides, I believe having a broken heart is usually just a metaphor.
Here’s a pill broken in half.
This big ass vase I got as a gift a few years ago took a nosedive the other day and dismembered one of its calla lilies.
The Lime iBook had a broken screen. The iBook G4 was hit by lightning. The classic Mac mini’s power supply became super flakey and would shut down the unit randomly. The MacBook Air’s RAM suddenly stopped working.
Not pictured because it is in my basement and is rather heavy: my Mac Portable that doesn’t work because its near-impossible to replace lead-acid battery is completely depleted, and unlike modern computers, it can’t run off of wall power alone - it ran exclusively off the battery which would charge when plugged in.
I promise that despite all these forlorn units, there are many more working, much loved ones all over my home.
@Seeds!!!
@mikibell BLAME!!!
@mfladd what I do?
@Seeds
@mfladd yeah, even just looked at my profile to make sure I didnt say anything terrible and forget, and went through all the other days to make sure i didnt already ask for something broken
@Seeds
ugh.
@mfladd still lost. be blunt in a whisper?
@mfladd innocent here!! Thinking maybe the header image is you?? Can’t see it … Too bright outside, chillin’ because fucking all day meetings are killing me…regardless @mfladd
Hehe…such a cute picture.
@Seeds hehehe blame is mine…not yours!!
pattern…when did he last say dafuq to me…when I resurrected old pics of him…
what do all of your thread headers do lately… Pull first pic from old threads!
First pic from dafuq … Mfladd as a little boy! (So blessed cute!)
@mikibell @mfladd whoops. Sorry about that.
Nuts!
“It’s an easy fix. We can do it ourselves. Should only take 10 minutes.” Many years later and the replacement pieces are still hanging out in the case.
I bought this on an Amazon warehouse deal when they had like a 20% off sale. They said like new, it wasn’t and was missing accessories. It also had broken wires to the heated bed that are a result of a design flaw.
I got some more credit back from Amazon for the damage, rewired the bed and tried but haven’t gotten it to work right yet. I haven’t had time for it much the past couple of months, so it’s sitting here kind of sad and that sample filament is probably soaking up humidity.
On the positive side, the SD card came with a bunch of models on it from the previous owner who ran it long enough to break it and return it to Amazon.
My house. Sheet rock isn’t supposed to crack like that.
(Earthquakes will do that.)
@narfcake
No receipt on hand today?
@PlacidPenguin it’s a 99¢ store receipt?
@narfcake I’ve seen plenty of homes with cracks like that simply from the foundation settling. I have one myself that I had to patch. Always seem to happen at the corner of a doorway.
@RiotDemon
Ah. I see it now. Thanks.
@cinoclav I have those issues too.
This one is upstairs and cracked again after a trembler yesterday.
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/ci38167848#executive
@RiotDemon Yep, it’s a 99-cents only store receipt. I’m surprised @PlacidPenguin hasn’t started trying to analyze what I bought that day.
@narfcake @RiotDemon
Sheesh. Even I wouldn’t do that.
@PlacidPenguin @RiotDemon
Our magical dispenser of paper is broken again:
My live-in handyman forgot to read the instructions before attempting to fix it:
@bramby2 That’s fucking magical the way the toilet paper just hangs there without falling. (On a side note, it seems taking the picture in landscape mode seems to help with the rotation issue when uploading.)
@cinoclav The whole phone/ipad upload versus computer viewing is still a mystery to me (or I have magical TP):
@bramby2 The iPhone expects you to take pictures in a landscape view with the home button on the right. I’ve had much better luck doing it this way and uploading them here.
@cinoclav Thank you for the important tip! I am a little let down that my TP isn’t magical…
just bumping this above day 8
Forgot about this broken gem from a BoC. At least once a month someone comes over to my desk and tries to turn it on.
@hillee how broken?
@Seeds The band broke up, yo!
@Seeds According to Wikipedia, “indefinite hiatus” kind of broken
@hillee @medz yup, that works!
@mikibell handwritten username!
@Seeds rules broken
@mikibell @Seeds
Ah Ha! A loophole!
@Seeds @therealjrn
/giphy happy dance
@mikibell lol, you can have it this one time. Copycats will be ignored.
Meh sent me this light bulb to break, and I did. I’ll make a full post of it soon, I swear, just a lot of GIFs to go through.
These tights.
RIP.
@RiotDemon That wasn’t my fault
@mfladd shhhh!
@mfladd @RiotDemon
/giphy uhh ohh
@mfladd @Seeds I told him not to wear my tights…
@mfladd @RiotDemon @Seeds
I’d ask if there’s a picture, but I’d rather not have to burn the internet down.
closed
congrats @cinoclav and @PlacidPenguin on tying for stars (you both get an extra point!)
congrats @mehcuda67 for sharing your wonderfully aesthetic nuts.
@Seeds Thank the Mehcronomicon
May it rest in the deepest darkest parts of the internet. So Mote It Be.
@mfladd
You’re saying you want a large canvas poster of that picture?
That could be arranged.
@PlacidPenguin I love that picture. Just not as a topic bubble. p.s. you have an archive for everything - so there it will sit, I know.
@mfladd
Lately I’ve hard a harder time remembering when and where certain posts were made.
/shruggie
@PlacidPenguin I have a hard time remembering what I did just days before each current day. Both a blessing an a curse.
@mfladd
That’s still a better memory than I have.
Which is odd, because then you remember the Patriots scandals. (Yeah I went there.
)
@PlacidPenguin That’s because haters bring me joy.
@mehcuda67 @PlacidPenguin @Seeds Hmm. Let’s discuss the mysterious JakeJake with the disabled profile that suddenly got a tying star in there at the very end. I hope there’s no shenanigans and no one is using another account to vote for themselves.
@cinoclav @mehcuda67 @PlacidPenguin @Seeds …we all know we are competing for a shitty prize, right?
@bramby2 @mehcuda67 @PlacidPenguin @Seeds Exactly. Which makes an account with virtually no history here extremely questionable and annoying. I’d hope for some absolute honesty. Hell, I could ask all the friends I have with an account here to hop on and star my submission but to me that’s simply cheating. So, if that account belongs to someone else already here I’d hope they step up and admit it and play fairly.
@bramby2 @cinoclav @mehcuda67 @Seeds
They starred other comments, but I didn’t look at all of them.
@bramby2 @mehcuda67 @PlacidPenguin @Seeds I did look at them. Those that are starred now weren’t all starred then… Y’know, like my comment just above.
@bramby2 @cinoclav @mehcuda67 @Seeds
As far as the prize goes:
They might be junk, but people still want fukos (and fukus when they existed).
@bramby2 @cinoclav @mehcuda67 @PlacidPenguin
Well, if someone’s trying to cheat, that’s really fucking irritating. I hope that’s not what’s happening.
I promise you, the prize is nothing worth cheating for, I only included it at all because I thought the game might be more fun and have more participation with it.
Don’t fucking ruin everyone’s fun.
Whatever you guys think is the best way forward, I am your humble goatservant.
@bramby2 @cinoclav @mehcuda67 @Seeds
And that’s been a success. I’ve seen some users participating (who otherwise don’t really post).
@Seeds crap… I have been cheating since day 1…
@mfladd … you were beautiful then, are now, so quit your bitchin’ – use it as a lesson for your kids, what is posted on the internet stays on the internet!
@bramby2 @mehcuda67 @PlacidPenguin @Seeds Personally, I say go forward without a prize. Let’s just do the hunt for the simple fun of seeing how everyone interprets that day’s request. No stars to worry about, no prize to cheat for.
@bramby2 @cinoclav @mehcuda67 @PlacidPenguin
It’d be a pain, but going forward we can only allow voting by people who have some sort of past activity. I really would rather keep the prize in if possible
@Seeds Past activity can be a little difficult to determine, especially when someone’s account is hidden. In this case I didn’t recognize the name at all and a Google search didn’t show any posts or comments by them either.
@cinoclav I mean it can be, but I just went through this whole thread and jakejake was the only voter whose name I didn’t recognize. If it’s only a couple randoms showing up I can chase em down.
I’d hate to tell someone who just happens to join meh now that their vote doesn’t count, but if people are going to cheat I don’t see another way so you can blame me if that happens. If I do disallow a vote I’ll tag the person in the post after closed.
Of course, new (as in just joined or have no past activity on the site at all) people are still encouraged to participate in the scavenger scramble.
@cinoclav @Seeds
If my voting on my posts makes you uncomfortable then I won’t do it anymore.
And you have no reason to feel bad. If I was hosting a contest and somebody whose name I did not recognize (and could not track down) starting voting, possibly altering the vote, I would probably also be suspicious.
It’s just, if lurkers are participating, then wouldn’t it be a disservice to not count them?
I’m truly sorry that this turned into a thing though.
@cinoclav @JakeJake
I’ll hear out the community, I’ve already got all the current participants tagged in the points post. I just think if we’re going to make a rule about this we have to decide by tonight.
Hey jerkfaces, read the thread. If you have an opinion, share it.
@bramby2 @brhfl @candiedisilvio1 @carl669 @cinoclav @curtise @djslack @heartny @hillee @jksquared @Kawa @lehigh @looseneck @medz @mehcuda67 @metaphore @msklzannie @narfcake @OldCatLady @PlacidPenguin @PurplePawprints @RiotDemon @shahnm @thejackalope @therealjrn @UncleVinny
@cinoclav @JakeJake @Seeds I don’t care about the prize, I just think the daily photo posts are fun. In other forums I’ve been a member of, they make rules like “only votes from unhidden accounts older than XYZ months”, etc. But that’s annoying to police.
Really…I think the stakes are so low it probably doesn’t matter.
@Seeds I’d personally rather run the risk that someone is cheating than run the risk that someone legit is being discounted. At the same time, I’m participating because it’s a fun little distraction and not for any particular desire to win, so the hypothetical threat of cheating really doesn’t affect me anyway. So, however much weight it should get, my vote is to let suspicious actors act freely.
I still lean towards continuing without a prize or worrying about stars. Just play the game for the simple fun of it.
@Seeds I don’t care. Oh crap…did I post this in the wrong place? I don’t want to get called out by vol mods again for trying to participate!
/giphy over it
@Seeds Everyone is new at some point. It is counter intuitive to exclude mehmbers simply because of their join status.
@narfcake I think in this case it isn’t an issue of someone being new, but an issue of whether that ‘new’ person is just a secondary user id trying to alter the outcome of the game.
@narfcake counter intuitive how? Excluding ringers seems to be supremely intuitive. They’re “new” but have the wherewithal to block their history? :snort: #FakeVotes
@narfcake @therealjrn
A fake vote in every pot.
@narfcake @PlacidPenguin @Seeds I think Narf is on the wrong side of history (again) with his overly inclusive attitude. Just like his opinion of the poo emojis he is just wrong, wrong, wrong.
@narfcake @Seeds @therealjrn
He’s probably also in favor of a unified California.
@Seeds I’m just posting because it’s fun. I’ve not concerned myself with cheating. If someone is, that sucks, fuck them, but it doesn’t make participating any less fun.
/giphy I’m not here to be a winner
@mikibell @Seeds
@Seeds Like the others I don’t really care about a prize. Actually the prospect of winning has probably kept me from posting as often as I could (of course being on vacation without super reliable internet also has been a factor). Cheating (if/when it occurs) sucks. Whatever you decide will be fine with me though.
ETA: We all know who’s to blame anyway if there has been cheating.
@Seeds I would guess that most of us are in it for the challenge not the possible prize so you do what feels right to you. I’m one of those who rarely has commented/ participated in the past but your scavenger scramble spoke to me. So thank you no matter what your decision is.
I think we need to exclude those awful people with the poo icons. Sheese, who would use a poo icon? The less of those undesirables the better.
@bramby2 @brhfl @candiedisilvio1 @carl669 @cinoclav @curtise @djslack @heartny @hillee @jksquared @Kawa @lehigh @looseneck @medz @mehcuda67 @metaphore @msklzannie @narfcake @OldCatLady @PlacidPenguin @PurplePawprints @RiotDemon @Seeds @shahnm @thejackalope @therealjrn @UncleVinny hurrrayyyyy… I didn’t make the jerkface list!!!
@mikibell
You need to be on a list to be thought of as a jerkface???
@PlacidPenguin nope… just labeled as one
@Seeds Chiming in since I was tagged but I think whatever you decide is fine. Like I whispered to you when I screwed up and posted late once, I’m not in it to win it, just posting for fun at times. It’s your contest, so I think if you choose to take the votes at face-value because that’s easier and less time-consuming, then that’s okay.
@mikibell Whoops. My fault- didn’t add day 9 points on yet and I just got it by replying to points thread.
You are a jerkface though
@Seeds Not quite what my mom envisioned for me, but I guess I can accept that
I am just playing here – I have no need for a prize! So, imho, you should run your contest as you wish, if you are getting lurkers to participate, all the more power to you!
/giphy accepts label
I know we’ve had our share of bad apples for Mehxchange, maybe @kidsandliz or other past runners of that can privately share their bad apple list with you for exclusion if there’s any concerns.
I am personally willing to give people the benefit of the doubt and have been having fun participating when I can think of something, regardless of whether or not I win.
@Kawa I’m all for sharing the bad apple list. Thieving bastards can really suck the joy out of games. I trust meh to uncover twisted fuckheads trying to spoil the amateur games here. And @Seeds, part of the competition joy is night terrors from dreading the win. Keep the prize. 'Scuse me, I do believe it’s time for my medicine.
Seeing as how it was advertised up front that it was going to be a “shitty prize” I hadn’t really thought of the likelihood of cheating. I’m doing this because it’s tremendously fun. (Thanks @Seeds!) If someone is cheating, it’s on them.
A quick thought -
Hopefully, the number of suspect voters is very small. Maybe the Meh staff could glean enough info from the accounts to see if it’s a likely cheat?
In the final analysis, though, this is @Seeds game and @Seeds prize, so the decision lays (goat blame or not) on @Seeds.
I really wanted to drop a “/giphy cheaters suck” here, but thought better of it. Use your imagination.
@mehcuda67 Went to giphy. Severely disappointed.
@mehcuda67
/giphy cheaters suck