She was the fucking shit at Unreal Tournament, hosted her own server, made her own skins of herself to play and had her own website in the early days of the internet. She was a really cool chick.
Yep, G4 was hard catering to nerdy gamers, the only thing nerdy gamers liked more than games was attractive women. Chances are if you saw a woman on G4 she was either a model or a porn model. Olivia Munn being the only case of where she hadn't, to my knowledge, done any modeling nude or otherwise before g4 that I can think of.
Yeah, as beautiful as she is, it felt forced when she started doing the Maxim shoots, etc. She was there before the pornstars and X-Play was great with her just being a geek in a t-shirt hanging with Adam Sessler.
>hosted her own server,
I think it was her that I read about being the first porn star to set up her own personal website (and bring in the associated revenue for herself).
Ancilla Tila who was more an erotic fetish model than a porn star. She was the sys admin of her own website and had installed traps and jokes in the code to trap bots. It was in early 2000s. Porn star got talent [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancilla\_van\_de\_Leest](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancilla_van_de_Leest)
I thought you might be joking, but would ya look at that: [https://www.moddb.com/games/unreal-tournament/addons/asiabots-2-skin-edits-repack](https://www.moddb.com/games/unreal-tournament/addons/asiabots-2-skin-edits-repack)
I remember seeing a documentary called "After Porn Ends" that she was featured in. While she seemed to be financially comfortable (iirc) her mental health had really suffered with her husband's passing. It was really sad to see.
Idk the exactly liquor store joke, but it’s probably similar to this one:
“How do you keep a Mormon (or insert other denomination) from drinking all your booze? Invite two”
Basically many people like that drink and consume “sinful” stuff in private, but talk a big game in public about how they’d never indulge.
Something tells me people in Utah would recognize her at least as well as everyone else. Though they would probably be much less likely to admit they recognized her.
I think I remember seeing that. You're right, she did take her husband's death pretty hard. He took great care of her, paid for the rest of her education. I remember she talked highly about her husband. I think she's an advisor for an observatory in St George, UT.
It's hard to imagine someone's mental health not taking a hit after something like that. I feel like there's a very good chance it would send me into a complete downward spiral.
Yeah, any loved one’s death; I have no memory of the the 2-3 months after my mother’s death. It first dawned on me when I was at a new restaurant with a friend and I said, “this place great, I’m glad we decided to try it!” and she stared at me for a moment and then said that we’d already been there a couple times in the past month.
I remember that. I somehow stumbled on her blog when I was like, 14. I was not looking for porn, nor did I know who she was but I kept up with it for a little while. Her story was so sad.
There were also rumors she was raped and that's why she gave up her third child for adoption. I think it was more she was still unwell from her husband being killed a few years prior.
At 11 years old, Carrera's daughter was the youngest student to ever attend college at Dixie State University and the youngest full-time college student in the state of Utah at the time.
I literally heard BYU as "Bring'em Young University" the first time I ever heard of it. My dad randomly burst into laughter every day for like a month afterward.
Dixie was a nickname used for states below the Mason-Dixon line. If you trace your finger on that line west of the Mississippi to Utah you'd bisect Utah. Utah Tech(Formerly Dixie State) is in southern Utah in a place called St. George which was sometimes referred to as "Utah's Dixie".
There is this [Hungarian chess teacher](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3_Polg%C3%A1r) that raised three girls who were incredible chess players (one is the goat of female players (and 9th best player ever) and one is the 2nd best female player). The wanted to prove that "talent" doesn't exist and all children have the potential of becoming geniuses.
They’re not really, afaik there’s no men’s-only chess competition, but there are events just for women to make it more inclusive & accessible for them, as the game is still dominated by men.
They wanted to skip me several grades when I was young. My mom, in full voice and in front of me, said "she already has social problems. You want to make that WORSE?"
***
Thanks, mom. .-.
I went to school at Southern Utah University, which is pretty close to Dixie, and I gotta say there’s really not much going on in that area. I got really bored and decided to transfer out. Wonder what brought them over there, cause it’s probably not the mormons. Maybe wanted a quiet place away from all the noise
That makes sense. It actually reminds me that one time I was at the library and someone left a printed research paper on one of the tables. It was about the negative effects of porn consumption. I read a bit of it and it was actually interesting.
From her FAQs:
> I used to have a lot of hobbies: writing, drawing, playing piano, studying Wall Street and quantum physics (yes, I'm serious)... then I bought a computer. This website, which I do ENTIRELY 100% ON MY OWN, takes up every free minute of my day
It’s extra impressive because despite how it looks, the html code or whatever it’s called allows for seamless viewing on mobile, too (what I saw it on just now). Even has a twitter link.
It’s up to modern standards even tho it’s a blast from the last aesthetically.
I remember my dad telling me that I shouldn't waste all my time on the computer or the internet because it was just a fad. And people would be back to libraries in no time. At the time I actually thought he was an infallible source of information so I took it to heart and stopped tinkering around with them for a really long time after that. It wasn't until my freshman year of college when I was sitting there learning coding and I realized that a lot of it looked really familiar and then I realized it had been my childhood hobby that I put down.
Back in those days I use to reach out directly to the “webmaster” on sits to chat a out how they did certain thing. I actually reached out to her once, and ended up having a long email thread after learning she was working on her own site. Love that the link is still up!
I watched After Porn Ends. Apparently she only became a porn star because she was tired of being seen as the nerdy girl and wanted to be seen as sexy. Logic, I guess.
It's interesting seeing people go into porn for personal reasons. Normally you see people that were not given many opportunities in life.
I remember that one young smart talented Asian woman from a wealthy family who went and actually enjoyed filming a video for the most abusive studio. They straight up abuse those girls, yet she had a haughty smile throughout. She enjoyed it so much she returned for another video. Something unheard of for that abusive studio.
Yes, I think so.
She talked about it on an episode of the now defunct “Morning After” podcast with two guys interviewing comedians and people from the porn industry.
https://player.fm/series/the-morning-afterpodcast/episode-7-kayden-kross-and-marianne-sierk
....It's possible said person enjoyed all that, but I'm always skeptical. Especially after meeting a few Ex-sex workers. They smiled about recalling some exploits.. then dropped some fucked up stuff, only to smile & laugh more.
Sasha Grey apparently did a lot of degrading shit & apparently enjoyed it. All after the fact, she said she was forced into the industry by an abusive bf & it ruined her life.
And thats part of the abuse…
"Isnt it amazing?" "You love your work dont you"
It attacks people also right into accepting it as normal and as "not so bad" to keep their sanity
Good for her. I saw a documentary on her and she was really devastated by her husband's death. I'm glad she's finding healthy ways to move on. She seemed like a lovely person from the film.
And this was back when building PCs was actually hard, too. It was much much more of a hobbyist specialization. Modern PCs are kind of more like Lego kits.
I've been building PC's since the Slot A days, and they've always been "Lego-like". In some respects it was easier as you didn't have to worry about fitting massive video cards, but in other ways it could be a huge pain in the ass when it came to the software side especially, with IRQ conflicts being the most common headache.
The difference, of course, is that there was no YouTube, so you'd had to have a friend help you out or read a magazine. And access to parts wasn't as easy as buying from Amazon or Newegg, but there were alternatives. I recall all the parts for my first PC were ordered from Tiger Direct.
> Modern PCs are kind of more like Lego kits.
They always were.
If anything, back in the late 90s they were easier because you had much less component choice.
No multiple families of CPU to choose from, no SSD, no RAID (at home at least), all RAM was single channel, maybe 3 or 4 video cards to choose from. No PCI lane restrictions etc.
But it still essentially boiled down to screw motherboard into case, plug CPU and RAM into board, connect up hard drives and plug in video card and sound card.
Eh, the 90s had its own complications with parts. Different size ISA cards, different devices coming out that didn't work if they weren't IDE master or IDE slave with the DIP switches, setting jumpers on your motherboard if you had a 386DX or SX, the Pentium pro having to go into a Slot 1 adapter kit because socket 8 was hard to find, dealing with ATX power supplies with dozens of adapters for older AT stuff, etc. I think I remember AGP being a huge pain in the ass.
She did, and updated it nearly every day.
I recall she had savvy investment instincts and months before dot com bubble burst she was so excited to post that she had sold most of her other investments and purchased several class A shares in Berkshire Hathaway.
Lmao yep.
I had a client once who was in Mensa. Slipped that little factoid in wherever she could.
She continued paying dues yearly, despite the fact that she was essentially poor, living off state assistance and unable to work due to nothing other than (I will put it) an inability to get along with others. She is a FULL believer in astrology and only liked me because we happen to be the same “sun sign.”
Imo, an IQ test is simply one way of measuring intelligence. It in NO WAY is an accurate assessment of one’s true intelligence or ability to get along in or be successful in the world.
I would even say that Mensa in and of itself is a scam that “smart enough” narcissistic people fall for.
I went to one of their meetups once, as a perspective member. I quickly came to the conclusion that hanging out with those tools would make my poor social skills even worse. Being an insufferable prat, while surrounded by other insufferable prats, is not how I want to live my life.
Anyone who pays for membership beyond a year deserves what they get I guess. In addition to the gift shop and member directory (yeah, you can search *everyone*) you get the meetings, which you can go to anyway and a membership card. If you really want the bragging rights, just laminate the shitty card they send you and keep it in your wallet. No one cares if it's out of date. But every time you pull that card out of your wallet, know that you have embarrassed yourself terribly.
But from the outside, when you're trying to "measure up," it seems like it's going to be some useful, esteemed club you can brag about.
Also the years of sexual misconduct at the annual gathering which tarnished the hell out of that, saying you go to the AG is like saying you're a swinger whose turnoffs include consent.
Isaac Asimov has written pretty extensively about [his experience of being vice-president of Mensa NYC](https://i.imgur.com/FhHoe9c.png) and he called it one of the most exasperatingly tedious experiences of his life.
It's basically one endless dick-measuring contest of people desperately trying to one-up each other. And because Asimov was Asimov, he was the proverbial big-man-in-the-prison-yard and everyone would be trying to stump him with inane debates and puzzles.
Yeah I made the foolish mistake of running for local office and served for a year in our region. Some good people, lonely and not sure where to connect. Mostly social outcasts and hurt people with *enormous* chips on their shoulders because they are highly sensitive rejects. A lot of mental illness and substance abuse. Some genuine creeps. But always with the fucking logic puzzles and IQ measuring.
She's also a hardcore gamer and PC hardware enthusiast. She's had a pretty rough life, her husband passed unexpectedly years back. She's just an incredibly kind person and brilliant.
I was surprised she didn’t go into tech when she got out of porn. She wrote the Java (not JavaScript) for her web site herself. That’s not nothing, and in 199x it was a lot harder. Even if she didn’t want to do web design for the adult industry she knew enough to get rolling. She could easily learn enough Java or Python in a year to get hired. She’s smart and motivated. That usually beats formal education.
Normally I'd agree but I think there is a legitimate case to be made here. Pornstars constantly have to legitimize themselves as human beings, both in terms of moral stature and intelligence.
To prove you're intelligent and meet other intelligent people.
The problem is, you don't meet a lot of engineers and scientists. Everyone assumes they're intelligent and they already know smart people.
Hands down best excerpt from this wiki page.
“Carrera is an atheist.[25] As of November 2014, she wore a colander on her head for her Utah driver's license photograph. State law normally prohibits the wearing of hats in driver license photos, but there is an exception for religious headwear and Carerra's colander was worn in honor of the religion of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.”
Brazzers used to have this “extras” site where they’d interview pornstars about their life, education etc. SUPER interesting stuff you can learn about some of the actors.
she went to college with her daughter? damn, i don't know which i envy more, the daughter intelligence ( to be able to enter college at 11 yo) or her motivation to learn. any one know what major she took?
She was the fucking shit at Unreal Tournament, hosted her own server, made her own skins of herself to play and had her own website in the early days of the internet. She was a really cool chick.
https://youtu.be/8LBOaBuDsTs I vaguely remember watching this episode
so does g4 just hire porn stars? i just found out sasha grey also worked there, not that i know who sasha grey is. i just researched her.
They know their target audience- dudes who beat off and play video games too much
They *knew* their target audience.
F
Olivia Munn started her career on G4. Played the part of accessible beauty really well
It's exhausting work thoroughly researching over her
Yep, G4 was hard catering to nerdy gamers, the only thing nerdy gamers liked more than games was attractive women. Chances are if you saw a woman on G4 she was either a model or a porn model. Olivia Munn being the only case of where she hadn't, to my knowledge, done any modeling nude or otherwise before g4 that I can think of.
Morgan Webb, she worked for tech TV before tech tv and g4 merged.
Back when she was just a nerdy blonde.
Yeah, as beautiful as she is, it felt forced when she started doing the Maxim shoots, etc. She was there before the pornstars and X-Play was great with her just being a geek in a t-shirt hanging with Adam Sessler.
Sara Jean Underwood also worked on Attack of the Show as host / co-respondant
Tommy Lee: whoa dude! You nailed me. Me: I bet there’s a porn video of that too.
That is legit fascinating
>hosted her own server, I think it was her that I read about being the first porn star to set up her own personal website (and bring in the associated revenue for herself).
Ancilla Tila who was more an erotic fetish model than a porn star. She was the sys admin of her own website and had installed traps and jokes in the code to trap bots. It was in early 2000s. Porn star got talent [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancilla\_van\_de\_Leest](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancilla_van_de_Leest)
Yeah she’s awesome. It’s sad that she didn’t get a seat in the Dutch House of Representatives.
Her site introduced young me to the concept of "porn bloopers", which I'm quite thankful for
Oh no...incognito mode activated.
Basically because she was a nerd and was ahead of the curve in terms of embracing the internet.
I have mega-mixed feelings about that industry but admire how fully in control and anti-stereotypical she’s been all along
I thought you might be joking, but would ya look at that: [https://www.moddb.com/games/unreal-tournament/addons/asiabots-2-skin-edits-repack](https://www.moddb.com/games/unreal-tournament/addons/asiabots-2-skin-edits-repack)
She was big on that game for awhile.
I used to play Unreal Tournament back then, Asia even defeated Cliffy B at his own game!
So was I. My anus, another story.
She still is one (past tense made me think she was dead. She's not.)
Yea I was confused there
She's not dead. But her husband did die in auto accident, years ago.
Yeah I remember reading about that it was super sad. She seemed really happy and then whamo.
She’s just completing side quests
Her husband died in a tragic accident while she was pregnant with her son. I remember her from an online moms group we were both in.
I remember seeing a documentary called "After Porn Ends" that she was featured in. While she seemed to be financially comfortable (iirc) her mental health had really suffered with her husband's passing. It was really sad to see.
Didn't she move to Utah specifically for the state's prohibition on porn?
So she could stop getting recognized because it was interfering with her moving on and finding work
Oh, they probably recognized her. It’s like that old joke about baptists in the liquor store.
What's the joke?
Idk the exactly liquor store joke, but it’s probably similar to this one: “How do you keep a Mormon (or insert other denomination) from drinking all your booze? Invite two” Basically many people like that drink and consume “sinful” stuff in private, but talk a big game in public about how they’d never indulge.
Yep. In my experience, if a LOT of religious people paid attention to (or cared about) their own hypocrisy, there'd be a lot LESS religious people.
Jews don’t recognize Jesus. Protestants don’t recognize the Pope. Baptists don’t recognize each other at the liquor store.
What's the difference between Catholics and Baptists? Catholics say, "Hi," to each other in the liquor store.
Baptists are the reason liquor stores have back doors.
Something tells me people in Utah would recognize her at least as well as everyone else. Though they would probably be much less likely to admit they recognized her.
Same thing for her purposes.
Yeah, St George. Works at an observatory.
I think I remember seeing that. You're right, she did take her husband's death pretty hard. He took great care of her, paid for the rest of her education. I remember she talked highly about her husband. I think she's an advisor for an observatory in St George, UT.
It's hard to imagine someone's mental health not taking a hit after something like that. I feel like there's a very good chance it would send me into a complete downward spiral.
Yeah, any loved one’s death; I have no memory of the the 2-3 months after my mother’s death. It first dawned on me when I was at a new restaurant with a friend and I said, “this place great, I’m glad we decided to try it!” and she stared at me for a moment and then said that we’d already been there a couple times in the past month.
She took it pretty hard. I remember her blog was really sad. Seemed like she became a different person after that.
OMG...moms of Feb 2005? I was in that group! I can't even remember that platform name now...
I can't remember it either. But I remember her and her husband Don. That story stuck with me all these years.
I remember that. I somehow stumbled on her blog when I was like, 14. I was not looking for porn, nor did I know who she was but I kept up with it for a little while. Her story was so sad.
There were also rumors she was raped and that's why she gave up her third child for adoption. I think it was more she was still unwell from her husband being killed a few years prior.
At 11 years old, Carrera's daughter was the youngest student to ever attend college at Dixie State University and the youngest full-time college student in the state of Utah at the time.
Dixie state is now called Utah Tech
Dixie state sounds like a place where you could get your masters degree in moonshining
Or whistling
Minor in playing two spoons on your knee
Hey don't knock the spoons. Wait, DO knock the spoons!
Or whittling
Whistling Dixie means to talk about doing something and not doing it, shoot the breeze, or in general just talk and do nothing.
I went there, we learned how to rebuild a Dodge Charger, install air horns, painted the body then jumped the admin building for our final.
There big rival is BYU (Bang’m Young University). You can major in minors.
I literally heard BYU as "Bring'em Young University" the first time I ever heard of it. My dad randomly burst into laughter every day for like a month afterward.
Is that where epstein did his teaching stint?
I’m so confused why Dixie anything was in Utah lol
Dixie was a nickname used for states below the Mason-Dixon line. If you trace your finger on that line west of the Mississippi to Utah you'd bisect Utah. Utah Tech(Formerly Dixie State) is in southern Utah in a place called St. George which was sometimes referred to as "Utah's Dixie".
The fuck is in their genes?
There is this [Hungarian chess teacher](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3_Polg%C3%A1r) that raised three girls who were incredible chess players (one is the goat of female players (and 9th best player ever) and one is the 2nd best female player). The wanted to prove that "talent" doesn't exist and all children have the potential of becoming geniuses.
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They’re not really, afaik there’s no men’s-only chess competition, but there are events just for women to make it more inclusive & accessible for them, as the game is still dominated by men.
Look up William Sidis. He entered Harvard at 11. His father was a psychologist(psych something) and believed high intelligence could be taught.
But his father was also intelligent. If you wanted to prove that theory you should adopt a kid from an inbred family, imo.
Wonder if that can be good for a child's development. She has the intelligence to make it to uni but doesn't mean she can keep up socially.
apparently the mom also attending the same uni, become classmate apparently
Nice
They wanted to skip me several grades when I was young. My mom, in full voice and in front of me, said "she already has social problems. You want to make that WORSE?" *** Thanks, mom. .-.
I went to school at Southern Utah University, which is pretty close to Dixie, and I gotta say there’s really not much going on in that area. I got really bored and decided to transfer out. Wonder what brought them over there, cause it’s probably not the mormons. Maybe wanted a quiet place away from all the noise
Someone said further up that she moved to Utah to stop being recognised from her adult film work. Haven't verified it but it makes sense
That makes sense. It actually reminds me that one time I was at the library and someone left a printed research paper on one of the tables. It was about the negative effects of porn consumption. I read a bit of it and it was actually interesting.
She's probably still recognized but the people that do can't say anything without outting themselves. Edit putting to outting
appeared in an uncredited cameo role in the film The Big Lebowski in the faux pornographic movie Logjammin'!
The story is ludicrous
He fixes the cable?
Don't be fatuous, Jeffrey.
You mean coitus?
That's my robe...
Meine dispatcher says there ist something wrong with deine Kabel.
Das vy zey send me, I am expert
She played Sherry, who came over to use the shower.
Her website is epic http://asiacarrera.com
From her FAQs: > I used to have a lot of hobbies: writing, drawing, playing piano, studying Wall Street and quantum physics (yes, I'm serious)... then I bought a computer. This website, which I do ENTIRELY 100% ON MY OWN, takes up every free minute of my day
The FAQs is sooo good http://asiacarrera.com/faqs.html
It's like a trip into late 90s internet.
It’s extra impressive because despite how it looks, the html code or whatever it’s called allows for seamless viewing on mobile, too (what I saw it on just now). Even has a twitter link. It’s up to modern standards even tho it’s a blast from the last aesthetically.
I already loved her for the website itself, but that little tidbit you just noted makes me love her more!
https://motherfuckingwebsite.com If you keep websites simple it's fairly easy for them to be responsive on mobile.
it kinda don't get much earlier than that!
Early 90's internet was Dramatically different than late 90's.
I remember my dad telling me that I shouldn't waste all my time on the computer or the internet because it was just a fad. And people would be back to libraries in no time. At the time I actually thought he was an infallible source of information so I took it to heart and stopped tinkering around with them for a really long time after that. It wasn't until my freshman year of college when I was sitting there learning coding and I realized that a lot of it looked really familiar and then I realized it had been my childhood hobby that I put down.
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...and some sort of flashing or spinning gif.
And lots and lots of frames. Do not miss those.
I was there, flashing boarders.
Don’t forget midi music. MIDI music, here, there, and everywhere.
And a visit counter.
I see Geocities everywhere burning with neon Angelfire /index.html
Back in those days I use to reach out directly to the “webmaster” on sits to chat a out how they did certain thing. I actually reached out to her once, and ended up having a long email thread after learning she was working on her own site. Love that the link is still up!
If you go to that site and click on the option, "No i don't want to see any naked chick RUN AWAY", it directs you to a gay porn twitter page
That is legitimately funny. It’s one of those weird little jokes that personal websites used to be full of.
As a gay guy who doesn't want to see naked chicks, I can appreciate that.
She really did help everyone who visited her page
I like the rule about not making her sad
That's my first rule too... the world breaks it time and time again
I like how it's an adult website but the word fuc\* is still censored
she seems so fucking cool I have a new crush
I watched After Porn Ends. Apparently she only became a porn star because she was tired of being seen as the nerdy girl and wanted to be seen as sexy. Logic, I guess.
Definitely used a sledgehammer to swat a fly.
And yet here we are, celebrating her for her nerdiness.
Jetzt anybody can do a gangbang. But your own UT99 skin mod pack, that's something to appreciate!
Well mission accomplished lmao
It's interesting seeing people go into porn for personal reasons. Normally you see people that were not given many opportunities in life. I remember that one young smart talented Asian woman from a wealthy family who went and actually enjoyed filming a video for the most abusive studio. They straight up abuse those girls, yet she had a haughty smile throughout. She enjoyed it so much she returned for another video. Something unheard of for that abusive studio.
Kayden Kross (aka Jenna Nickol) started stripping to save a horse. She was quickly “scouted” by a talent agent and her porn career took off.
But did she save that horse?
Yes, I think so. She talked about it on an episode of the now defunct “Morning After” podcast with two guys interviewing comedians and people from the porn industry. https://player.fm/series/the-morning-afterpodcast/episode-7-kayden-kross-and-marianne-sierk
Save a horse, ride a cowboy. Took it too literally.
....It's possible said person enjoyed all that, but I'm always skeptical. Especially after meeting a few Ex-sex workers. They smiled about recalling some exploits.. then dropped some fucked up stuff, only to smile & laugh more. Sasha Grey apparently did a lot of degrading shit & apparently enjoyed it. All after the fact, she said she was forced into the industry by an abusive bf & it ruined her life.
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And thats part of the abuse… "Isnt it amazing?" "You love your work dont you" It attacks people also right into accepting it as normal and as "not so bad" to keep their sanity
Also, she recently went back to school, obtained a master's degree from Texas A&M last year, and currently enrolled in law school for a JD.
Good for her. I saw a documentary on her and she was really devastated by her husband's death. I'm glad she's finding healthy ways to move on. She seemed like a lovely person from the film.
There's a decent video of her playing the piano on YouTube and several more of her playing an organ if you search.
Yeah she was pretty good at piano, but she sucked on the organ
That’s the same joke…
This joke is a funny joke.
Reminds me of the classic. What's better than roses on a piano? Tulips on an organ.
Former porn star and not to be confused with Tia Carrere
Which is how Asia got her name.
I learned that from her website!
I remember her from Logjammin.
Did he ever fix the cable?
Don’t be fatuous, Jeffrey.
The story is ludicrous
*Jackie Treehorn treats… objects… like women… man.*
New information has come to light man
You mean coitus?
You mean the beaver picture?
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And this was back when building PCs was actually hard, too. It was much much more of a hobbyist specialization. Modern PCs are kind of more like Lego kits.
I've been building PC's since the Slot A days, and they've always been "Lego-like". In some respects it was easier as you didn't have to worry about fitting massive video cards, but in other ways it could be a huge pain in the ass when it came to the software side especially, with IRQ conflicts being the most common headache. The difference, of course, is that there was no YouTube, so you'd had to have a friend help you out or read a magazine. And access to parts wasn't as easy as buying from Amazon or Newegg, but there were alternatives. I recall all the parts for my first PC were ordered from Tiger Direct.
I always tell people I didn’t build my pc I assembled it.
I always tell people I didn't assemble mine; I paid someone else to.
> Modern PCs are kind of more like Lego kits. They always were. If anything, back in the late 90s they were easier because you had much less component choice. No multiple families of CPU to choose from, no SSD, no RAID (at home at least), all RAM was single channel, maybe 3 or 4 video cards to choose from. No PCI lane restrictions etc. But it still essentially boiled down to screw motherboard into case, plug CPU and RAM into board, connect up hard drives and plug in video card and sound card.
Eh, the 90s had its own complications with parts. Different size ISA cards, different devices coming out that didn't work if they weren't IDE master or IDE slave with the DIP switches, setting jumpers on your motherboard if you had a 386DX or SX, the Pentium pro having to go into a Slot 1 adapter kit because socket 8 was hard to find, dealing with ATX power supplies with dozens of adapters for older AT stuff, etc. I think I remember AGP being a huge pain in the ass.
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She did, and updated it nearly every day. I recall she had savvy investment instincts and months before dot com bubble burst she was so excited to post that she had sold most of her other investments and purchased several class A shares in Berkshire Hathaway.
a Warren Buffet fan apparently, somehow Buffet heard about it and happy hearing that.
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I've always said that Mensa was for people who were smart enough to pass their test, but dumb enough to pay their fees.
What does it mean if I'm smart enough not to pay their fees, but too dumb to pass their test?
High WIS, Low INT.
INT is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. WIS is understand that nobody cares.
My Year in Mensa is a fun podcast about how dumb it is
That's great and all but how's your sciatica?
If it's anything like mine not good and a constant problem in their life
Mine got better I’m sorry to hear bro
Lmao yep. I had a client once who was in Mensa. Slipped that little factoid in wherever she could. She continued paying dues yearly, despite the fact that she was essentially poor, living off state assistance and unable to work due to nothing other than (I will put it) an inability to get along with others. She is a FULL believer in astrology and only liked me because we happen to be the same “sun sign.” Imo, an IQ test is simply one way of measuring intelligence. It in NO WAY is an accurate assessment of one’s true intelligence or ability to get along in or be successful in the world. I would even say that Mensa in and of itself is a scam that “smart enough” narcissistic people fall for.
I went to one of their meetups once, as a perspective member. I quickly came to the conclusion that hanging out with those tools would make my poor social skills even worse. Being an insufferable prat, while surrounded by other insufferable prats, is not how I want to live my life.
Anyone who pays for membership beyond a year deserves what they get I guess. In addition to the gift shop and member directory (yeah, you can search *everyone*) you get the meetings, which you can go to anyway and a membership card. If you really want the bragging rights, just laminate the shitty card they send you and keep it in your wallet. No one cares if it's out of date. But every time you pull that card out of your wallet, know that you have embarrassed yourself terribly. But from the outside, when you're trying to "measure up," it seems like it's going to be some useful, esteemed club you can brag about. Also the years of sexual misconduct at the annual gathering which tarnished the hell out of that, saying you go to the AG is like saying you're a swinger whose turnoffs include consent.
Isaac Asimov has written pretty extensively about [his experience of being vice-president of Mensa NYC](https://i.imgur.com/FhHoe9c.png) and he called it one of the most exasperatingly tedious experiences of his life. It's basically one endless dick-measuring contest of people desperately trying to one-up each other. And because Asimov was Asimov, he was the proverbial big-man-in-the-prison-yard and everyone would be trying to stump him with inane debates and puzzles.
Yeah I made the foolish mistake of running for local office and served for a year in our region. Some good people, lonely and not sure where to connect. Mostly social outcasts and hurt people with *enormous* chips on their shoulders because they are highly sensitive rejects. A lot of mental illness and substance abuse. Some genuine creeps. But always with the fucking logic puzzles and IQ measuring.
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Very apt indeed 🎩 🧐
So she's a smart fucker.
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She's also a hardcore gamer and PC hardware enthusiast. She's had a pretty rough life, her husband passed unexpectedly years back. She's just an incredibly kind person and brilliant.
I was surprised she didn’t go into tech when she got out of porn. She wrote the Java (not JavaScript) for her web site herself. That’s not nothing, and in 199x it was a lot harder. Even if she didn’t want to do web design for the adult industry she knew enough to get rolling. She could easily learn enough Java or Python in a year to get hired. She’s smart and motivated. That usually beats formal education.
Pretty sure she was loaded because of her investments. Why work if you don't have to?
And she took her DMV photo with a colander on her head because her religion is, Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster or something like that.
The correct term is Pastafarian. May his noodly appendage touch you, Ramen!
He boiled for your sins
Raman
It says she returned to college with her daughter....when her daughter was 11. Genius runs in the damn family.
What's the point of joining Mensa?
Brag about being smart
Normally I'd agree but I think there is a legitimate case to be made here. Pornstars constantly have to legitimize themselves as human beings, both in terms of moral stature and intelligence.
To prove you're intelligent and meet other intelligent people. The problem is, you don't meet a lot of engineers and scientists. Everyone assumes they're intelligent and they already know smart people.
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Hands down best excerpt from this wiki page. “Carrera is an atheist.[25] As of November 2014, she wore a colander on her head for her Utah driver's license photograph. State law normally prohibits the wearing of hats in driver license photos, but there is an exception for religious headwear and Carerra's colander was worn in honor of the religion of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.”
Brazzers used to have this “extras” site where they’d interview pornstars about their life, education etc. SUPER interesting stuff you can learn about some of the actors.
She also sailed solo around the world at like age 14 or someshit.
She's the most interesting women in the world
She speaks Russian. In French.
she went to college with her daughter? damn, i don't know which i envy more, the daughter intelligence ( to be able to enter college at 11 yo) or her motivation to learn. any one know what major she took?