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Wonderful Images (Part Deux)

Dec 12, 2013#1

Jay

https://www.halforums.com/threads/the-earthporn-thread.28762/

Since the original was closed...

(No more than 2 images per post plz)

I used to play RTCW here - Jay

This is where @Cajungal and me plan to go on vacation together - Jay

Dec 12, 2013#2

Cheesy1

Dec 12, 2013#3

Cajungal

Oh man @Jay that second one makes me want to take a vacation. I might make that my background at work.

Dec 13, 2013#4

Jay

Selfie in space - Jay

FACT : Furthest known picture taken by human - Jay

Dec 13, 2013#5

Ravenpoe

Jay said:
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View attachment 13277

Well, sure, but where's the picture of his lunch?

Dec 13, 2013#6

DarkAudit

Ravenpoe said:
Well, sure, but where's the picture of his lunch?

Dec 13, 2013#7

Jay

CHOO CHOO!! Out of my way bitches - Jay

Dec 13, 2013#8

General Specific

This is the first known photograph of a person, taken in 1838 by Louis Daguerre. The man having his boot polished in the lower left stood still long enough to be captured by the 10 minute exposure.

Dec 13, 2013#9

Chad Sexington

That's really cool. I like little things like that.

Dec 13, 2013#10

PatrThom

Chad Sexington said:
That's really cool. I like little things like that.

You must really love the Lunch Atop a Skyscraper photo, then. Especially in light of more recent discoveries. At least, I believe it was that photo where they discovered that some of those older, large-format images can be blown up to show lots of hidden details that weren't in the original prints.

Wait, no...I think it was some sort of coastal/shoreline photo along a river? Maybe in Ohio? My Google-fu is failing to find the article I remember.

--Patrick

Dec 13, 2013#11

Chad Sexington

PatrThom said:
You must really love the Lunch Atop a Skyscraper photo, then. Especially in light of more recent discoveries. At least, I believe it was that photo where they discovered that some of those older, large-format images can be blown up to show lots of hidden details that weren't in the original prints.

Wait, no...I think it was some sort of coastal/shoreline photo along a river? Maybe in Ohio? My Google-fu is failing to find the article I remember.

--Patrick

I cannot handle that photo: and I seem to see it blown up huge everywhere I go. I am terrified, totally irrationally, of heights, and that photo makes my gut twist, as though I'm going to watch those men fall to their deaths. I cannot explain why; most photos from/at a height cause no such distress, but that one... oh god. That one.

Dec 13, 2013#12

PatrThom

I suppose it is the casual indifference they exhibit to their predicament, making your brain scream, "DON'T YOU REALIZE THE PERIL YOU'RE IN???"

--Patrick

Dec 13, 2013#13

Jay

4615 Sunflowers (i counted) - Jay

Dec 13, 2013#14

PatrThom

Pshht. Some sunflowers. They're all facing the wrong way!

--Patrick

Dec 14, 2013#15

Jay

Somewhere I'd like to be, instead of Canada in December - Jay

Dec 14, 2013#16

Celt Z

Jay said:
View attachment 13292

I want to go to there.

Dec 14, 2013#17

Tress

Dec 14, 2013#18

PatrThom

Celt Z said:
I want to go to there.

I want to go here.

(The Palace of Generalife)

I mean, I've been there once already...but I want to go back.

--Patrick

Dec 14, 2013#19

Jay

Samurais live here - Jay

Dec 15, 2013#20

bhamv3

It'd be cool if you guys could post the actual location of the wonderful image you're posting, that way I have a better idea of what I'm looking at.

Dec 15, 2013#21

PatrThom

bhamv3 said:
It'd be cool if you guys could post the actual location of the wonderful image you're posting, that way I have a better idea of what I'm looking at.

I updated mine with the location for you (and others).
FYI the pictures just do not do it justice. It's the kind of garden you can mentally get lost in.

--Patrick

Dec 15, 2013#22

Jay

Somewhere with Cherry Blossom trees - Jay

Dec 17, 2013#23

WasabiPoptart

Kilauea, Hawaii

Dec 17, 2013#24

Bubble181

Too bad about the rotation of the picture, it won't fit as a desktop background

Dec 17, 2013#25

WasabiPoptart

I tried finding a bigger version so it could be used as a wallpaper, but no luck.

Dec 17, 2013#26

figmentPez

WasabiPoptart said:
I tried finding a bigger version so it could be used as a wallpaper, but no luck.

The biggest I could find was still only 915 pixels wide.

Dec 17, 2013#27

Jay

I believe these are clouds in the sky - Jay

Dec 18, 2013#28

Jay

This cake is not a lie - Jay

Dec 18, 2013#29

Celt Z

Jay said:
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This cake is not a lie - Jay

ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING is right with that image, except that the real thing is not sitting in front of me.
*tries not to eat her screen*

Dec 18, 2013#30

Jay

I updated every picture with more details as per request.

Press the cool buttons on the bottom right bitches!

Dec 18, 2013#31

General Specific

Jay said:
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This cake is not a lie - Jay

@dill616, I want this cake, we need to find a way to make this happen.

Dec 18, 2013#32

PatrThom

Celt Z said:
ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING is right with that image, except that the real thing is not sitting in front of me.
*tries not to eat her screen*

General Specific said:
@dill616, I want this cake, we need to find a way to make this happen.

Here you go:
http://www.hugsandcookiesxoxo.com/2012/08/reeses-overload-cake-2-peanut-butter.html

--Patrick

Dec 18, 2013#33

General Specific

PatrThom said:
Here you go:
http://www.hugsandcookiesxoxo.com/2012/08/reeses-overload-cake-2-peanut-butter.html

--Patrick

My preeeeciooouussss!

Dec 18, 2013#34

blotsfan

Jay said:
I updated every picture with more details as per request.

Press the cool buttons on the bottom right bitches!

Did I do it right?

Dec 18, 2013#35

Jay

Rio de Something - Jay

Dec 18, 2013#36

strawman

Jay said:
Rio de Dinero

Dec 19, 2013#37

Jay

Canada - Jay

Dec 19, 2013#38

strawman

Here's a larger version of the above image. Tineye found many, many variations of it, suggesting that this final version has been heavily photoshopped. Still very beautiful, even if you'd never see it in real life.

Dec 19, 2013#39

Jay

Yurop - Jay

Dec 22, 2013#40

Jay

Castlevania - Jay

Dec 22, 2013#41

Celt Z

Hogwarts!

Dec 23, 2013#42

Jay

"Drunk Edward Kenway was here" - Jay

Dec 24, 2013#43

Jay

View from the Eiffel Tower - Jay

Dec 24, 2013#44

Jay

Boveria? - Jay

Dec 28, 2013#45

Jay

Kung Fu Panda in RL - Jay

Dec 28, 2013#46

Bowielee

God damn we live on a beautiful planet.

Dec 28, 2013#47

WasabiPoptart

Seven Colored Lands, Chamarel, Mauritis. - not Jay

Dec 28, 2013#48

Jay

Hotel de Ville in Montreal - Jay

Dec 29, 2013#49

WasabiPoptart

Central Park, New York

Dec 29, 2013#50

figmentPez

Jay said:
Kung Fu Panda in RL - Jay

Larger version:

Spoilered because thumbnails dont' seem to be working for me.

Dec 29, 2013#51

sixpackshaker

Texas Christmas -Six

Dec 29, 2013#52

Jay

Japanese Castle - Jay

Dec 29, 2013#53

Emrys

sixpackshaker said:
Texas Christmas -Six

Is this your house or your neighbour's?

Dec 29, 2013#54

sixpackshaker

Emrys said:
Is this your house or your neighbour's?

Not my house, but I know a few people that spent the night in the basement cells...

Jan 3, 2014#55

dill616

General Specific said:
@dill616, I want this cake, we need to find a way to make this happen.

I want this cake. Maybe when I get over this damn bronchitis, I can track down the recipe. Or I could try it now.

Add some peanut *hack hack*cough cough* butter[DOUBLEPOST=1388774806,1388774738][/DOUBLEPOST]

General Specific said:
My preeeeciooouussss!

MINE!

Jan 3, 2014#56

PatrThom

dill616 said:
I can track down the recipe. Or I could try it now.

You did see that I linked the recipe, right?

--Patrick

Jan 9, 2014#57

filmfanatic

Admittedly a different form of wonderful, but what else can you say about Christopher Lloyd dressed as Doc Brown wearing Google Glass and playing the Gibson guitar that Marty used in Back to the Future?

Jan 9, 2014#58

Jay

Jan 11, 2014#59

Jay

Jan 11, 2014#60

Jay

Jan 15, 2014#61

Jay

Jan 15, 2014#62

sixpackshaker

self-ninja'ed....

Jan 15, 2014#63

PatrThom

sixpackshaker said:
self-ninja'ed....

The truth is out, @Jay is just a Canadian 'bot.

--Patrick

Jan 15, 2014#64

Jay

Jan 15, 2014#65

sixpackshaker

What fearful symmetry.

Jan 17, 2014#66

Officer_Charon

You can see his stripes, so you know he's clean.

Jan 17, 2014#67

Cheesy1

I see what you mean.

Jan 24, 2014#68

WasabiPoptart

This is from the Kawah Ijen volcano in Indonesia. The blue lava is caused by molten sulfur. There are more pictures and a better explanation here.

Jan 24, 2014#69

Jay

Kiev

Jan 24, 2014#70

sixpackshaker

Is that a screen shot from the next generation Modern Warfare?

Jan 24, 2014#71

Jay

No from the riots in Kiev.

Jan 27, 2014#72

LordRendar

Jay said:
Kiev

View attachment 13698

That is what a real life movie of STALKER:Call of Pripyat would look like

Jan 27, 2014#73

Jay

Jan 31, 2014#74

Jay

St. Lucia

Feb 5, 2014#75

Jay

Feb 7, 2014#76

Jay

Feb 13, 2014#77

PatrThom

Warning: Tall.

Watkins Glen, Rainbow Falls
...I can almost hear it. This would make a very interesting animated .GIF project.

--Patrick

Feb 19, 2014#78

Jay

Pretty Boat

Feb 19, 2014#79

PatrThom

Jay said:
Party Boat

FTFY

--Patrick

Feb 20, 2014#80

sixpackshaker

I wonder how dirty the water was.

Feb 20, 2014#81

WasabiPoptart

Hanauma Bay, Oahu (not my pic btw)

Feb 23, 2014#82

Jay

Feb 25, 2014#83

Squidleybits

A few pictures of my trip last week:

Feb 25, 2014#84

Jay

Squidleybits said:
A few pictures of my trip last week:

Did you take the hobo with you?

Feb 25, 2014#85

Squidleybits

Work trip.

Mar 3, 2014#86

GasBandit

Niagra falls, today.

Mar 3, 2014#87

Jay

Not Canada ATM

Apr 10, 2014#88

Squidleybits

From my parent's backyard.

Apr 10, 2014#89

Jay

Montreal Island from the ISS. I live on the smaller upper island with all the other upper medium class folk.

Apr 11, 2014#90

WasabiPoptart

Abandoned church

Apr 11, 2014#91

Celt Z

WasabiPoptart said:
Abandoned church
View attachment 14570

Hey, I remember that stage in Diablo III!

Apr 11, 2014#92

Ravenpoe

WasabiPoptart said:
Abandoned church
View attachment 14570

I'm sorry... I've been told there is no church in the wild.

Kanye lied to me.[DOUBLEPOST=1397242960,1397242929][/DOUBLEPOST]

Celt Z said:
Hey, I remember that stage in Diablo I!

FTFY

Apr 11, 2014#93

Celt Z

Ravenpoe said:
FTFY

But I never played Diablo I.

Apr 15, 2014#94

Bubble181

Celt Z said:
But I never played Diablo I.

It's still very much worth the play through. Obviously fairly simplistic by today's standards, but still holds up very well IMNSHO. Especially replaying with the same character a few times to see most of the quests (it was pretty much unique to DI at the time to have only a semi-random selection of quests show up every playthrough) and get all the spells, all of them. (which is also impossible in any one playthrough).

Apr 15, 2014#95

Ravenpoe

Bubble181 said:
It's still very much worth the play through. Obviously fairly simplistic by today's standards, but still holds up very well IMNSHO. Especially replaying with the same character a few times to see most of the quests (it was pretty much unique to DI at the time to have only a semi-random selection of quests show up every playthrough) and get all the spells, all of them. (which is also impossible in any one playthrough).

I mostly played multiplayer mode, because... well, multiplayer was fun. Even when I wasn't playing with others, I preferred solo multi so that those characters could be taken into online games.

The community that had built up around Diablo 1 was also amazing. One of Blizzard's official forums for the game was the Diablo Strategy Forum, and the DSF community that formed within it was amazing. The game was full of bugs that could be exploited to cheat the game with, and since friendly fire was a thing, and other players could kill you to take all your stuff, 'legit' play and general not playing with assholes became an important factor, hence the need for the community.

Also fun about the game was variant play. The game was pretty easy once you knew the mechanics well enough, so people made up various rules to govern your playthrough and make it harder. Things like the Naked Mage which is exactly what it sounds like, a mage character that never equips any items, weapons or armor, and the beyond naked mage, which is a mage that only equips CURSED gear with negative stats.

Good times... good times.

Apr 15, 2014#96

Bubble181

Hey, DSF, that's a long time ago...Definitely good old times.

Apr 15, 2014#97

Ravenpoe

Bubble181 said:
Hey, DSF, that's a long time ago...Definitely good old times.

I still have my 300+ printed out pages of Jarulf's Guide, bound in a spiral binder somewhere.

I'm also, surprisingly enough, still close friends with some of the people I met there.

Apr 15, 2014#98

Celt Z

Bubble181 said:
It's still very much worth the play through. Obviously fairly simplistic by today's standards, but still holds up very well IMNSHO. Especially replaying with the same character a few times to see most of the quests (it was pretty much unique to DI at the time to have only a semi-random selection of quests show up every playthrough) and get all the spells, all of them. (which is also impossible in any one playthrough).

Oh, I'm sure. I should clarify: I've seen Diablo I and II played, although I've never played them myself. When I had to spend my weekends working on my animation, my ex played them on my computer while I was busy drawing. I'd glance over from time-to-time, so I have a vague recollection what they were like.

Apr 19, 2014#99

filmfanatic

Did you ever know that Mark Twain and Nikola Tesla were close friends? Now you do.

Apr 21, 2014#100

General Specific

filmfanatic said:
Did you ever know that Mark Twain and Nikola Tesla were close friends? Now you do.

They even created a steampunk machine that battled monsters and faced off verses the evil Thomas Edison, JP Morgan, & Andrew Carnegie.

...or was that a graphic novel I own?

Jun 7, 2014#101

Squidleybits

Happy flowers