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30 Nights of Paranormal Activity with The Devil Inside The Girl with The dragon tattoo (2013) in Movies · Mar 5, 2013

Witty, smart parody.
The acting is solid too (except for maybe three or four scenes involving those one-off bit players).

It’s an "internal parody"—which means if you haven't seen the movies being referenced, the whole thing just feels mindless and dumb. Obviously, besides needing to know the source material, the deciding factor is the viewer's sense of humor and their ability to spot the "illogic, absurdity, or uselessness" in an event—whether in real life or on screen—that inspired the parody in the first place.

Best tattoo design software? in Software · Feb 24, 2013

No, having a tattoo or whatever has nothing to do with it... It’s like asking if there's a specific "app for masturbation" after downloading a porn movie. Of course there is! Windows Media Player, VLC media player, VLC media player, VLC media player... 🤷

You just need a graphic editing tool.
If the tattoo in your photo is something like this, and you need those "sharp, clean" lines, try using vector graphics software. Inkscape is free and works fine for conversions (there's even a portable version available)...
But if the tattoo is an actual image (like this, for example), then... well, you're going to need something similar to Photoshop (you'll probably need a Photoshop-type program anyway).

Once you have a decent program and if you still can't figure it out, feel free to ask...

Best tattoo design software? in Software · Feb 19, 2013

Are you suggesting tattooing a "drawn" person? As in, getting someone's likeness from a photo tattooed?

Check this out in Forum Help! · Feb 17, 2013

Click on "#1", "#2", or "#number" (located at the top right of the post)...

P.S.
/here is this link 😁 /

Best video cutting software? in Software · Feb 12, 2013

Jamie Stewart said:Can someone give me a quick rundown on how any of these programs actually function? For instance, if I pull something from YouTube, can I just go in and trim the parts I don't want?

Sure, let’s put it that way. You download a 15-minute video from YouTube, but you only want one specific clip—say, a single jump into a pool from a "funny fails" compilation.

I'm downloading AnyVideo right now.
I installed that software and now this CCleaner icon is popping up. Do I actually need it, or can I just ignore it? What is the point of it anyway?

CCleaner serves a purpose, sure, but it has absolutely nothing to do with the AnyVideo converter.
When you install software—especially free stuff—stop clicking "Express Install." It’s a trap. Always choose "Custom Installation" instead. During the process, uncheck every single box and permission for extra junk like toolbars, random banners, or secondary programs. If it isn't strictly necessary for the specific software you're actually installing, get rid of it.

How do I upload images and videos to the forum? in Forum Help! · Feb 12, 2013

restlessraven11 said:thanks 😍

just testing this out

properly

🙂 since I realized how quickly I figured it out, I don't believe 🙏

👍 (personally, I don't recall anyone catching on that quickly)

How do I upload images and videos to the forum? in Forum Help! · Feb 12, 2013

restlessraven11 said:Hello 👋

How can I turn a single word within my post into a hyperlink?

Thanks! 😍

Highlight the text you want to use as a hyperlink, right-click, and then click this -> Click the icon, then type or paste the URL.

Your text will look like this in the "reply box" afterwards:
Python Code:

 [ICODE][COLOR=#000000] [COLOR=#0000BB]How?[/COLOR][COLOR=#007700]... [/COLOR][COLOR=#0000BB]u [/COLOR][COLOR=#007700][[/COLOR][COLOR=#0000BB]The URL.[/COLOR][COLOR=#007700]=[/COLOR][COLOR=#DD0000]http://www.americanforum.com/[/COLOR][COLOR=#007700]][/COLOR][COLOR=#0000BB]Mine.[/COLOR][COLOR=#007700][/[/COLOR][COLOR=#0000BB]The link is right here.[/COLOR][COLOR=#007700]] [/COLOR][COLOR=#0000BB]postu [/COLOR][COLOR=#007700]... [/COLOR][COLOR=#0000BB]Create a link.[/COLOR][COLOR=#007700]? [/COLOR][/COLOR]

[/ICODE]

The published post will look like this:
How... in... Mine. How do I create a link in a post?

Beer pop-up ads in Forum Help! · Feb 12, 2013

Kate Cox2 said:...every single page on this forum today is being hit by an Anheuser-Busch ad pop-up that takes about 20 seconds to clear. Every time I click a new thread, it happens again...
....
How do I kill this thing?

From what I can tell, those are just standard images from a Rorschach test.🤷

How do I use Multi-Quote? in Forum Help! · Feb 8, 2013

Frank Booth12 said:Man, you aren't kidding, I see it now! But seriously, why on earth are the arrows gone??😕🤷

That arrow (which is actually just a link back to the original post) is generated by that ID number (;43535166) located behind the author's username in the original post. Every single post has its own unique number.

with the number
Python code:

 [ICODE][COLOR=#000000] [COLOR=#007700][[/COLOR][COLOR=#0000BB]QUOTE[/COLOR][COLOR=#007700]=[/COLOR][COLOR=#0000BB]Frank Booth12[/COLOR][COLOR=#007700];[/COLOR][COLOR=#0000BB]43535166[/COLOR][COLOR=#007700]]...[/[/COLOR][COLOR=#0000BB]QUOTE[/COLOR][COLOR=#007700]] [/COLOR][/COLOR]

[/ICODE]

Frank Booth12 said:Man, you aren't kidding, I see it now! But seriously, why on earth are the arrows gone??😕🤷

without the number
Python code:

 [ICODE][COLOR=#000000] [COLOR=#007700][[/COLOR][COLOR=#0000BB]QUOTE[/COLOR][COLOR=#007700]=[/COLOR][COLOR=#0000BB]Frank Booth12[/COLOR][COLOR=#007700]]...[/[/COLOR][COLOR=#0000BB]QUOTE[/COLOR][COLOR=#007700]] [/COLOR][/COLOR]

[/ICODE]

Frank Booth12 said:...

How do I use Multi-Quote? in Forum Help! · Feb 8, 2013

Highlight the text you want, then just click the quote icon.

First, click the icon. That should get you what's shown below.
Python code:

 [ICODE][COLOR=#000000] [COLOR=#007700][[/COLOR][COLOR=#0000BB]QUOTE[/COLOR][COLOR=#007700]][/[/COLOR][COLOR=#0000BB]QUOTE[/COLOR][COLOR=#007700]] [/COLOR][/COLOR]

[/ICODE]

...pa onda između pejstaš tekst.
To add a quote, just insert an "=" followed by the username of the person you're quoting. It ends up looking like this:
->

xyz said:

Regarding your question about nested quotes, here is what "empty" code looks like:
Python code:
[ICODE][COLOR=#000000] [COLOR=#007700][[/COLOR][COLOR=#0000BB]QUOTE[/COLOR][COLOR=#007700]=[/COLOR][COLOR=#0000BB]x[/COLOR][COLOR=#007700]][[/COLOR][COLOR=#0000BB]QUOTE[/COLOR][COLOR=#007700]=[/COLOR][COLOR=#0000BB]y[/COLOR][COLOR=#007700]]++++[/[/COLOR][COLOR=#0000BB]QUOTE[/COLOR][COLOR=#007700]]- - -[/[/COLOR][COLOR=#0000BB]QUOTE[/COLOR][COLOR=#007700]] [/COLOR][/COLOR][/ICODE]

Basically, you just click the icon, move your cursor to where the text goes, and click the icon again. That's it. No pluses, minuses, or extra steps required.
The first username contains the minuses; the second holds the pluses.
x said:
y said:++++

- - -

How do I use Multi-Quote? in Forum Help! · Feb 7, 2013

jadedrifter2 said:I have a couple of questions:

1. How do I quote a post that’s already quoting someone else? I'm trying to nest them—you know, having one quoted block inside another rather than just stacking them on top of each other.

2. Is there a better way to split up a single post into several different replies while keeping the original author's name attached to each part? Up until now, I've just been manually copying and pasting the username along with those little ID numbers, which is honestly such a chore... is there a faster, more streamlined way to handle this?

Like this:
Python code:

 [CODE][COLOR=#000000] [COLOR=#007700][[/COLOR][COLOR=#0000BB]QUOTE[/COLOR][COLOR=#007700]=[/COLOR][COLOR=#0000BB]coppersailor28[/COLOR][COLOR=#007700]][[/COLOR][COLOR=#0000BB]QUOTE[/COLOR][COLOR=#007700]=[/COLOR][COLOR=#0000BB]jadedrifter2[/COLOR][COLOR=#007700];[/COLOR][COLOR=#0000BB]43514056[/COLOR][COLOR=#007700]][/COLOR][COLOR=#0000BB]How do I quote a post that is...
Quoting someone else.[/COLOR][COLOR=#007700]I have nothing to add.[/COLOR][COLOR=#0000BB]I want both quoted posts included in my response.
He's an absolute disaster.[/COLOR][COLOR=#007700], [/COLOR][COLOR=#0000BB]One inside the other.[/COLOR][COLOR=#007700]?[/[/COLOR][COLOR=#0000BB]QUOTE[/COLOR][COLOR=#007700]][/COLOR][COLOR=#0000BB]Like this.[/COLOR][COLOR=#007700]:[/[/COLOR][COLOR=#0000BB]QUOTE[/COLOR][COLOR=#007700]] [/COLOR][/COLOR]

[/CODE]

And then you get this:

coppersailor28 said:
jadedrifter2 said:I have a couple of questions:

1. How do I quote a post that’s already quoting someone else? I'm trying to nest them—you know, having one quoted block inside another rather than just stacking them on top of each other.

2. Is there a better way to split up a single post into several different replies while keeping the original author's name attached to each part? Up until now, I've just been manually copying and pasting the username along with those little ID numbers, which is honestly such a chore... is there a faster, more streamlined way to handle this?

Like this:

jadedrifter2 said:Is there a more efficient way to quote a post I want to split into multiple parts? I need the author's name included in every segment. Up until now, I’ve been manually copying and pasting the username along with those numbers, which is tedious and inefficient. Is there a faster, simpler method?

I don't know any "simpler" method either. You just write everything out, then at the end, paste "=xyz" wherever it needs to go.

xyz said:...[
The number doesn't matter, except in the first quote; /the number is just the URL to the original post/

How do I upload images and videos to the forum? in Forum Help! · Feb 5, 2013

Jacob Castillo5 said:Is there a way to get images to sit side-by-side instead of just stacking one on top of the other?

It works exactly like text. If the content is short enough, everything stays on one line unless you force a break. If it's too long, the overflow wraps to the next line automatically...
If the images are small enough, they'll stay lined up. If they're too wide for the page width, the right one will naturally drop below the first:
Code:

(image)(image)

Reddit is lagging... in Feedback & Suggestions · Jan 21, 2013

George Vaughn58 said:Also, some people actually took my post literally and tried to explain why a 50:50% login probability is statistically impossible.

Right. Even though you mentioned 50:50, I really should have written "...the outcome definitely wouldn't be 70:30..." and just fabricated whatever ratio favored your failed login attempts versus the successful ones.

George Vaughn58 said:I don't personally have an issue with logging in, accessing the site, or the page failing to load while the site is actually online.

The problem arises when the site goes offline.

There have been times when the site was offline for a few days at a time.

Yep. "Offline for a couple of days," then "online for a couple of days," then back to "offline for a couple of days." And so on. What was the ratio again? 50:50? 40:60? 95:5? Or maybe just zero?

Reddit is lagging... in Feedback & Suggestions · Jan 20, 2013

Elizabeth Davis said:Maybe the guy logs out after every single visit, then hits an error the moment he tries to log back in.

Whatever this person is doing—or trying to do—everyone else manages to post "every second" without any major issues. I'm not counting minutes or hours here; most of the time there isn't even a single new post on the site for long stretches.

This site isn't the cause of his technical glitches. He’s either exaggerating the issue or he’s essentially causing it himself. Even if we assume it's just bad timing, try logging in and out continuously for 24 hours straight. You wouldn't get a 50/50 split of failures and successes; you'd hit such a streak of errors that you'd eventually lose your mind. And even if you did hit that 50/50 mark, half the results would still favor the site. It comes down to "timing," or more likely, user error.

Suggestion for a new PDF format in Feedback & Suggestions · Jan 14, 2013

deleted (turns out I didn't actually get it)

Need some help! in Forum Help! · Jan 10, 2013

crimsonharbor313 said:how can I just find my own threads and the posts I've replied to...

Once you're logged in, click on your profile picture—say, /right here/—to pull up your user stats. From there, hit "show all statistics" or just check statistics.
Alternatively, if you're signed in, click your username and select "find more posts by..." from the dropdown menu.

Or (while logged in) try clicking "options" at the very top... though even I can't locate exactly what you're looking for there. You might as well give it a shot and see if luck is on your side.

Proposal to increase max image size limit in Feedback & Suggestions · Jan 8, 2013

Thanks, Harold Taylor6. Things are looking a lot clearer now (which is more than enough clarity for my "needs") 🙂

Proposal to increase max image size limit in Feedback & Suggestions · Jan 8, 2013

Nicholas King said:You aren't being right🙂. I think you’re fundamentally misunderstanding how the very thing you see as a "forum page" actually renders on your screen.

You're looking at this like a classic hotel breakfast, where the waiter—the forum server, in this case—first gathers everything you want to see onto his own tray, and then brings that tray out to you with the coffee, the croissant, the butter, and everything else. So, if you suddenly decide you want ten pounds of butter, or a hundred different items from a hundred different locations, well... that becomes the waiter's problem, doesn't it? It creates the bottleneck...

Actually, a better comparison might be a buffet: your browser pulls various pieces of information from all sorts of different web servers, and then it simply aggregates them all together on your screen just for your eyes. Everything that isn't physically hosted on the forum's actual server—and keep in mind, photos are usually linked from other servers; the forum server itself just holds the instruction of where to go and what to grab—doesn't impact the congestion of the forum server at all.

I see. Fine. Thanks, 🙂

(It just occurred to me that if I delete my photo from Google's "Picase," the image disappears from this forum too—even though it was—to quote myself—exactly on this forum and "nowhere else". If it were actually hosted here ("on the forum's dime"), then deleting it from "Picase" wouldn't matter)

Proposal to increase max image size limit in Feedback & Suggestions · Jan 8, 2013

Harold Taylor6 said:Michelle Alvarez8 makes a solid point. Honestly, the actual size of an image doesn't really impact how the server performs. It’s more about the browser itself—you know, when someone loads a massive thread full of high-res photos for the very first time? If they're browsing on a smartphone, things might get a little sluggish. Maybe we could consider approving specific threads where images are the main attraction and allow larger dimensions there, while keeping everything else on the rest of the site at a standard 640x480.

(Not trying to lecture here, just asking because this doesn't track)
If all of Reddit had only three posts, would the server still be "screwed" (overloaded or whatever)? If yes, fine. If not... then the images visible right there are also strictly on this forum and "nowhere else," just like the text of the posts themselves is strictly on this forum and "nowhere else." 🤷

I don't need a technical breakdown. A simple "you're wrong" is plenty—there's Google if I actually cared about the details.

Proposal to increase max image size limit in Feedback & Suggestions · Jan 7, 2013

slywolf45 said:And?
I rarely post images or GIFs anyway, so I highly doubt the entire site is going to crash because of one single file.

Besides, even if the servers are already running on fumes, I’d much rather look at an image in these dimensions than the ones being suggested.

Nothing. 🤷
I responded because your post was basically saying, "Quote: Violently happy"What a bunch of idiots. Rude.Dammit, I hope you all rot!")

The site isn't going to collapse just because of one person.

Not even for a few specific threads—which would actually deserve that "privilege"—would I suggest it. Having images at an 800px width would serve the purpose of those topics much better.

It’s much better seeing the actual dimensions in this photo rather than just looking at the suggested ones.

Same here. Most threads aren't even my cup of tea, and a 640px width is overkill—often completely unnecessary for the amount of info being shared.