A “young man” waiting at Portland International earlier today, perhaps bored as we all are by the drudgery of airports, figured he could just unpack his PS4 console, plug it into an airport information monitor and start playing some Apex Legends right there on the spot.
Local radio station KXL (via The Oregonian) report that the man had his console connected to a monitor intended to display a map of the airport for visitors, an incident heard on the local emergency scanner as a “hijacking” of the display.
When approached and asked “to unplug and cease using the monitors at the airport” by operations supervisors, he reportedly asked “very politely” if he could finish up his round first.
That request was denied, and Port of Portland spokesperson Kama Simonds took the opportunity to use the incident as “a good reminder of what not to do at the airport.”
A “young man” waiting at Portland International earlier today, perhaps bored as we all are by the drudgery of airports, figured he could just unpack his PS4 console, plug it into an airport information monitor and start playing some Apex Legends right there on the spot.
Local radio station KXL (via The Oregonian) report that the man had his console connected to a monitor intended to display a map of the airport for visitors, an incident heard on the local emergency scanner as a “hijacking” of the display.
When approached and asked “to unplug and cease using the monitors at the airport” by operations supervisors, he reportedly asked “very politely” if he could finish up his round first.
That request was denied, and Port of Portland spokesperson Kama Simonds took the opportunity to use the incident as “a good reminder of what not to do at the airport.”
Clearly, that airport is XBone territory.
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RingoHe/Hima distinct lack of substanceRegistered Userregular
A lot of the art department for various Halo games seems to live in Portland, checks out
The fan in our living room has a remote, with pretty much that exact UI, just the buttons are in different spots. Honestly it's not the greatest UI, because every elderly person who has ever looked at it is confused as hell. The words "fan" and "light" don't appear at all. It's just UL/DL, and one button that says "off". So an elderly person trying to divine which button turns off the light and the fan just gets frustrated. At least those buttons are better labeled.
I thought the answer was he was too dim to realize it was the "fan off" button. Incidentally the "solution" to his problem is that both the remote and the fan itself have dip switches, and you can change the frequency of them. Clearly the installers never changed them from the default. We had a related issue with the remote. At first it was ridiculously sketchy getting the thing to actually work and you had to stand practically under the fan. We replaced the battery and now the remote works from across the damn house. If they're in a condo unit with multiple of these fans within 20 feet of each other, all on the same frequency... oh man!
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"The sausage of Green Earth explodes with flavor like the cannon of culinary delight."
I had no idea. My wife has astigmatism and i showed her and she's like yeah that's why i wear glasses. When i wore glasses (before i had LASIK) i didn't have that at all, but i couldn't see past like 10 feet. She can see distance fine, just everything flares like that!
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I had no idea. My wife has astigmatism and i showed her and she's like yeah that's why i wear glasses. When i wore glasses (before i had LASIK) i didn't have that at all, but i couldn't see past like 10 feet. She can see distance fine, just everything flares like that!
Some of us both can't see past ten feet and everything is skewed sideways like that! It sucks!
I had no idea. My wife has astigmatism and i showed her and she's like yeah that's why i wear glasses. When i wore glasses (before i had LASIK) i didn't have that at all, but i couldn't see past like 10 feet. She can see distance fine, just everything flares like that!
Huh, guess I have light astigmatism then. Without glasses, lights at a distance have short flares like that, but nowhere near as large as in those photos.
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Huh. I thought it was because of LASIK that I saw those flares, but I started wearing glasses at 9, couldn't function well without them, and got laser surgery at 33. Probably I just didn't know they were there among the blurriness.
"People with perfect vision sometimes have blurred vision too" is a useless tautology. The only valid point being made is don't self diagnose medical issues off the internet.
Just remember that half the people you meet are below average intelligence.
"People with perfect vision sometimes have blurred vision too" is a useless tautology. The only valid point being made is don't self diagnose medical issues off the internet.
Too late. I can see the blurry in the images and the internet said it's cancer.
It's not just lights I can get to do that. It's only something that's come up in the increasing technological age we live in, but white text on a black background (or any contrasting colours really) and I can vaguely get a bit of double vision. It's like somebody cut the lettering in photoshop, pasted a copy maybe 5 pixels up, and dropped the transparency down to 5%. Hell, I just woke up about 15 minutes ago, and my eyes are still in that state of having excessive tears and other shmut in then and I can get get that double vision on everything on my desk just by squinting ever so slightly.
And yeah, I've mentioned it to an optometrist. They say it doesn't mean much of anything.
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(Also, not sure what 'fruit and nut pudding' refers to but if it's spotted dick, that doesn't contain nuts. It's suet and currants.)
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That's probably not a bad idea, cause she had absolutely no clue what tzatziki sauce was supposed to taste like
Not that it wasn't a tasty gyro!
Just like everything in there - completely unexpected and off kilter
My b. Always thought it had nuts. Ya meant spotted dick
Clearly, that airport is XBone territory.
Bad news: this twitter thread's situation
Gone right: we get to read about it
I thought the answer was he was too dim to realize it was the "fan off" button. Incidentally the "solution" to his problem is that both the remote and the fan itself have dip switches, and you can change the frequency of them. Clearly the installers never changed them from the default.
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comma Cheez. One side of the great cheesesteak war.
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Gone Right: it may be reflected in their art and contribute to the varying depictions of light we see in animation
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Some of us both can't see past ten feet and everything is skewed sideways like that! It sucks!
Huh, guess I have light astigmatism then. Without glasses, lights at a distance have short flares like that, but nowhere near as large as in those photos.
Congratulations, you're the Abramatar, here to usher in another generation of half-assed soft reboots with gratuitous lens-flare!
Don't bother promising to use your power for good, it doesn't work that way. Sorry.
If it is rainy or foggy everyone sees them, because of the diffraction of light.
I guess you can see them on a clear night sometimes just because of the way the eye works. It would be unusual to see them all the time.
but they're listening to every word I say
Yanni, white/gold dress, glare as all hell lights.
"People with perfect vision sometimes have blurred vision too" is a useless tautology. The only valid point being made is don't self diagnose medical issues off the internet.
Too late. I can see the blurry in the images and the internet said it's cancer.
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And yeah, I've mentioned it to an optometrist. They say it doesn't mean much of anything.