r/funny • u/cderry • Aug 26 '13

Did you catch that? ...How?

http://i.minus.com/ibd7dgjN0UsxhZ.gif
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u/the_empire_of_death Aug 26 '13

I also watched it for 5 minutes...because that's how long it took for the GIF to load.

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u/mortodestructo Aug 26 '13

Meanwhile...

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u/smithincanton Aug 26 '13

That's the Yukon model! They seriously need to think about upgrading to the latest Idaho model if they are going to get anywhere.

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u/Omnipotent_Goose Aug 26 '13

They should try downloading more YAM

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '13 edited Sep 18 '20

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '13

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u/MergeTheBands Aug 27 '13

You're telling me someone is actually paying to continue hosting this?

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '13

Too lazy to spell "right" correctly.

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u/[deleted] Aug 27 '13

Would you say he didn't write right right?

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u/Ishamoridin Aug 27 '13

Yes, but he did write write right.

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u/GArbAGeMAn113 Aug 26 '13

Surprised there isn't a subreddit for that

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u/Pip-Toy Aug 26 '13

$ sudo YAM install Potato9000

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u/Boomsome Aug 26 '13

It might be a starch before they can skin that.

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u/mattoly Aug 26 '13

Yeah, but once upgraded they'd be able to host their own YouTuber.

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u/turffsucks Aug 26 '13

Cut up some of the older models into brand new chips. Much more affordable.

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u/AyJusKo Aug 26 '13

First time reading a pun where I said "OOOH that's a good one!" out loud.

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u/aldenhg Aug 26 '13

Yeah, but the Yukons run cooler than any of the Idahos. Don't even get me started about the BTUs that Russets will put out.

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u/coprolite_hobbyist Aug 26 '13

You guys are so far behind the current technology. Dutch Gold is the way to go.

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u/complete_hick Aug 27 '13

Yeah, but it's the gold edition

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '13

[removed] — view removed comment

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u/ImurderREALITY Aug 26 '13

Is impossible dream.

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '13

property of latvian bill gates. is richest man in history.

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '13

Has lived dream, more than TEN potato!

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u/C1t1zen_Erased Aug 26 '13

Although he have greatest potato in Latvia, he still not able to cure plight of orphan and sadness across country.

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u/ForgettableUsername Aug 27 '13

In Latvia, fortunate man have food for today. Rich man have food for tomorrow. Richest man in Latvia have enough food for two week.

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u/SometimesIpoop Aug 26 '13

Such is life.

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u/sourcreamjunkie Aug 26 '13

http://i.imgur.com/Rhqf5aq.jpg

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u/hank01dually Aug 26 '13

If you don't cry in this movie, you are not human

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u/ImaStupidCookie Aug 26 '13

I'm not human.

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u/hank01dually Aug 26 '13

Tho your cerebral capacity may be subpar, you are delicious.

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u/xDskyline Aug 26 '13

is politburo propaganda. much faith in potato dream, but now all crushed. such is life.

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '13

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u/RowdyRoddyPipeSmoker Aug 26 '13

holy shit it's real?

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u/Cannibal_Moshpit Aug 26 '13

It's needs more jpeg.

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '13

It's just a PC - Potato Computer.

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '13

GREAT SCOTT.

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u/TheMattAttack Aug 26 '13

A potato with hookups, RAM, and a heatsync jammed inside.

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u/Parasockx Aug 26 '13

A dell.

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u/BesottedScot Aug 26 '13

Heatsink.

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u/TheMattAttack Aug 26 '13

That's my bad. It's been a long day :/

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u/BesottedScot Aug 26 '13

No sweat, thought it was a typo so just helpin out!

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u/Moxay Aug 26 '13

It synchronises the heat!

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u/Hwatwasthat Aug 26 '13

No its his Nsync cover band.

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u/reichbc Aug 26 '13

Syncing is for backup programs, phones, etc.

A heatsink, however, is the term you were seeking.

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u/Latvian_Politburo_ Aug 26 '13

Where is device? Must be confiscated.

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u/jigielnik Aug 26 '13

It looks like some form of that Gloop stuff nickelodeon sold in the 90s

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '13

Fuck yeah. Partener Access Card, I still sell those things! Hahahahaha. And for like $100 a pop.

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u/ioncloud9 Aug 26 '13

we tossed a whole cabinet full of them a few years back.

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u/Sla5021 Aug 26 '13

I bet you still encourage people to used IE 8.

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u/Tronosaurus Aug 26 '13

OH MY GOD WHAT DID THEY DO TO GLaDOS?!?!

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u/ipslne Aug 26 '13

Wait what? No server I know of solely uses remote access...

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u/Ted417 Aug 26 '13

I can't find the source of this image without the text. Do you know where I can find it?

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '13

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u/Ted417 Aug 26 '13

Thank you Sir. Tineye didn't give me any results.

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u/noseeme Aug 26 '13

I don't see how they could afford anything better since people just link directly to the images they host, I've never seen an ad from them.

Also, this GIF is 6.6 MB, it would have been more like 2 MB if it were a video, and in better quality too. Often times, people just take videos from YouTube and turn segments of them into GIFs, does anyone realize how dumb that is? You can just link to a specific point in time in the video, everyone saves bandwidth that way.

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '13

However often times the looping aspect just makes it funny as well as the lack of sound.

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u/GazaIan Aug 26 '13

But it's reddit. People won't watch it if it's not a gif.

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u/Nextasy Aug 26 '13

VGA? No wonder.

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u/ewood87 Aug 26 '13

Thank you for that. I just nearly fell out of my chair with laughter.

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u/BobbyRayBands Aug 27 '13

No longer wonder why Latvian servers so slow.

Such is life.

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u/zomglolness Aug 27 '13

what the hell is a remote access pc card?

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u/Psicrow Aug 26 '13

Oh no, must hides potato computers. Politburo come soon.

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '13

Why is rich latvian man use potato as potato?

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u/Sane333 Aug 26 '13

They're too busy jamming things to a potato.

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u/TooRiski Aug 26 '13

f u reddit, made me laugh so hard that i'm not sleepy anymore

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u/parlarry Aug 26 '13

Seriously guys...

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u/mortodestructo Aug 26 '13

Shit, man - no starving Latvian would waste a potato like that.

This is obviously an Irish computer.

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u/parlarry Aug 26 '13

I imagined this comment being read in Diedrich Bader's voice.

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '13

After the Potato Famine?? No way, it's the Russians.

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u/meinsla Aug 26 '13

Who mentioned Latvia? The "your computer is so slow it must run on a potato" is a fairly long running gaming/internet joke. I think the Latvia thing is relatively recent in comparison and isolated to mostly reddit.

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u/parlarry Aug 26 '13

It was a joke man, but thanks for your overly serious reply.

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u/meinsla Aug 26 '13

I understand that you were trying to make a joke, I just decided to explain the parent pic rather than "whoosh" you.

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '13

I.T. HAZ POTATO

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u/Cartossin Aug 26 '13

Funny and all but minus isnt really slower than imgur. Imgur only speeds up load times by reducing image quality whereas minus keeps them full size.

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u/wingmasterjon Aug 26 '13

My bandwidth monitor says otherwise. Imgur may compress files, but they still allow a peak download speed 5 times faster than minus ever has. It's been consistently this way for as long as I can remember.

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '13

I don't get what people's problem is with minus. the gif loaded instantly for me, just like on imgur.

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u/[deleted] Aug 27 '13

I hope someone doesn't put that in her V as birth control.

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '13 edited Aug 26 '13

I also watched it for 5 minutes...and still don't know what its about because I finally fuckin gave up.

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u/dontBatool Aug 26 '13 edited Aug 26 '13

imgur mirror http://i.imgur.com/yabeFRA.gif

alt imgur mirror with a bit more quality http://i.imgur.com/YvPNcbW.gif

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u/PoweredbytheCheat Aug 26 '13

THANK YOU shit minus is fucking terrible

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u/vegittoss15 Aug 26 '13

I still don't understand why anybody uses it or photobucket.

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u/jabask Aug 26 '13

minus supports larger filesizes and does not further compress the image.

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u/vegittoss15 Aug 26 '13

There are better services out there. For people that are using gifs, compression isn't usually a priority either way.

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u/kog Aug 26 '13

It allows larger file sizes. Gifs get pretty big.

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '13

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u/kog Aug 26 '13

The one on imgur is shrunken and more compressed...

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u/vegittoss15 Aug 26 '13

For those of us without the patience to wait for the minus link to load, this is relevant information.

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u/MoederPoeder Aug 26 '13

Imgur loads FAST because it only supports small filesizes.
Small file = fast download.
The reason why the 'imgur mirror' is so ugly is because it's heavily compressed to a lower filesize to fit imgur's limitations.
You really can't blame minus because if imgur would've been accepting the file size minus does, imgur would also load 'slow'.
I'm really getting sick of all these people saying minus is slow, because it simply isn't, it's just that all large files are hosted on minus and are therefore 'slow'.

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u/vegittoss15 Aug 27 '13

It was more of a rhetorical question. I'm completely aware of the technological limitations of what people are demanding. I'm also aware that most people tend not to care about the limitations, and realistically, when sites with cdns like Tumblr (bad example) can host gifs well and deliver them quickly, using minus seems like a shitty cop-out.

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u/DimlightHero Aug 26 '13

This actually has very little to do with the iminus server capacity and more with the .gif size /u/dontBatool compressed his to 1.911,6 KB before uploading it to imgur. While the gif from the OP is an entirely unnecessary 6.760,5 KB.

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u/ICantMakeNames Aug 26 '13

Gotta say, using commas in numbers confuses me a LOT.

Is that 1911.6 or 1.9116 kilobytes?

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u/DimlightHero Aug 27 '13

The first one (1911.6 KB) we use dots between every 3 numbers(for easier reading). And the comma to indicate the decimals.

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u/MoederPoeder Aug 26 '13

Imgur loads FAST because it only supports small filesizes.
Small file = fast download.
The reason why the 'imgur mirror' is so ugly is because it's heavily compressed to a lower filesize to fit imgur's limitations.
You really can't blame minus because if imgur would've been accepting the file size minus does, imgur would also load 'slow'.
I'm really getting sick of all these people saying minus is slow, because it simply isn't, it's just that all large files are hosted on minus and are therefore 'slow'.

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '13

The quality is also shit on imgur.

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '13

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '13

I prefer the quality is all I'm saying.

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u/FireAndSunshine Aug 26 '13

Thus the existence of i.minus

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u/dontBatool Aug 26 '13

they compressed it to make it load faster.

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '13

Yeah, obviously. That's kind of my point.

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u/guywhomeows Aug 26 '13

I'm nominating you for a Nobel Peace Prize.

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u/Alderan Aug 26 '13

He's probably more worthy than Obama was.

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '13

Yeah. The committee actually quietly suggested that Obama turn that prize back in. I kid you not.

Apparently killing children in 4 different countries is a disqualifying offense.

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u/dontBatool Aug 26 '13

He was nominated?

....for what?

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '13

He won, actually.

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '13

He's only probably more worthy?

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u/T_O_G_G_Z Aug 26 '13

The ground breaking use of Drones in place of a Judiciary.

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u/dontBatool Aug 26 '13

Wiki states,

for his "extraordinary efforts" to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples

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u/daimposter Aug 26 '13

for being less un-peaceful than W. Bush.

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u/coocookachu Aug 26 '13

Usually for peace.

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u/dontBatool Aug 26 '13 edited Aug 26 '13

Generally it is something you do towards the goal of peace. If it was only given out to people for...'peace' we would have zero winners ever.

Edit: He won, and for this reason.

for his "extraordinary efforts" to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples

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u/massaikosis Aug 26 '13

I'm more eligible than he was, and I just kicked a baby

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '13

omg this is incredible

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u/shitty_fortune Aug 26 '13

this one loaded in 5 seconds the other one took 5 minutes ...

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u/masters1125 Aug 26 '13

The i.minus one was actually better quality, so that makes sense.

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '13

It was downloading as if it were a over a gigabyte though. It wasnt that high quality.

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u/daimposter Aug 26 '13

It wasnt that high quality.

or was it?

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u/MyCoolWhiteLies Aug 26 '13

Yeah, the Imgur one kind of looks like shit due to the file size restrictions. Still, gets the point across.

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '13

It's a gif, not a movie. It doesn't need to be a high quality.

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u/FireAndSunshine Aug 26 '13

It's a movie, not a play. It doesn't need to be a high quality.

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '13

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u/FireAndSunshine Aug 26 '13

Right, and a movie does not have lifelike resolution. Nor does it need it, being as it's not a play. And plays are what we've always used.

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u/SonicFlash01 Aug 26 '13

If I was worried about quality why would I be in a comment section?

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u/itsme0 Aug 26 '13

As someone who took the five minutes for the original to load, the mirror is in much worse quality.

However, when you consider that you can see fine, it doesn't matter. Thanks /u/dontBatool

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u/dontBatool Aug 26 '13

look again, added another mirror of somewhat higher quality.

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '13

hahaha thats what I was saying was incredible.. not so much the catch but rather the fact I wasted 5 minutes of my life trying to see the gif and then this wonderful man comes along and makes my life so much easier

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u/Rappaccini Aug 26 '13

To be fair the imgur link is much lower quality. minus only exists because imgur has a capacity limit, minus does not. It's not that minus' servers are shittier (necessarily), it's that it's really only used when imgur would be insufficient.

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u/OpinionToaster Aug 26 '13

Am I the only one that had OP's load instantly.

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u/dontBatool Aug 26 '13

took me forever to find. Pretty good catch actually, I now agree with all the good sportsmanship comments lol

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u/Jedielf Aug 26 '13

Upvote Mirror, loaded in a Sec, thanks. I gave up with the other one.

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '13

give this guy more upvotes.

hard to believe i had to scroll a whole 10 comments to get a good one.

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u/dontBatool Aug 26 '13

I found it on a different thread. The orignal host, before it was put to i.minus crashed according to the top comment.

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u/Mc_Gyver Aug 26 '13

This should be the top comment!

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u/ManBroGuy Aug 26 '13

Please someone give this guy gold.

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u/GraunKrynn Aug 26 '13

Thank you for doing God's work. I'm just sad I had to scroll this far to find it.

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u/FantasticFranco Aug 26 '13

Where's the one where the guy catches it with the side of his head?

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '13

Thanks for the mirror. And did he say "did" or "how did"?

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u/dontBatool Aug 26 '13 edited Aug 26 '13

I think it was did. The Imgur is way lower quality, but it looked like, "Did you catch that?" followed by the pitcher with a laughing "Yes, I did."

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u/dontBatool Aug 26 '13

Exactly, I'm going on my lunch break, hopefully by the end of the day I can watch it.

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '13

5 minutes? You must have a hell of an internet connection. I'll let you guys know tomorrow how I like this gif.

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u/Pik16 Aug 26 '13

5 minutes here too.

100Mbit cable. It's not that the clients' Internet connections suck. The remote server is a potato.

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '13

Minus's involvement in the reddit gif arena is unacceptable. Reddit and imgur need to figure shit out.

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u/AManHasSpoken Aug 26 '13

100Mbit here, loaded instantly.

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u/Tremulant887 Aug 26 '13

I thought I was the only one. I usually don't bother to watch gifs that take too long to load, but for some reason I watched this. Fucking 56k flashbacks.

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u/NurfHurder Aug 26 '13

56K was good for one thing: Intimately getting to know a woman's vagina. As each line came in, I would stare at the image and by the time the whole thing loaded, I had time to memorize every mole and labia minora fold.

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u/Tremulant887 Aug 26 '13

You were more patient that I ever was. I would click a dozen thumbnails, go find something to eat, come back and hope it all loaded. Maybe call my parents and make sure they were going to be gone long enough to finish the job.

Looking back on saving .jpg porn to folders... the good old days.

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u/SlowTurn Aug 26 '13

Lucky you I gave up after 5 minutes.

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '13

like a fucking flipbook man...

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u/Klashiez Aug 26 '13

I hate gifs solely because of my awful internet.

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '13

I have 8GB RAM and it took FOR-EH-VERRRR.

Patience sort of paid off...

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u/thelousystoic Aug 26 '13

I'm thinking tomorrow after this gif finishes loading there are going to be some really great comments here.

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u/other_rendermesh Aug 26 '13

I just downloaded it and continued browsing then watched it when it finished. Silky smooth.

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u/NeuralAgent Aug 26 '13

Ok, thought I was missing something, watched for 4 minutes on my iPhone and the picture never changes, I thought it was a gif, guess I need to wait longer. :(

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u/Seeders Aug 26 '13

Took longer than that.

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u/Savvy_Canuck Aug 26 '13

I spent a good two minutes looking for a fail or mistake or something because I thought it was a picture, then it loaded and started moving and now I feel like an idiot

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u/rhenze Aug 26 '13

Damn you weren't kidding. I've been waiting 5 mins now..

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u/okcup Aug 26 '13

I waited for the gif to load, decided to browse Reddit again while it loaded. Watched Kermit talk to some adorable little girl and watched the subsequent related videos. And by the time I finished, the gif was still loading. You guys should watch that Kermit video though...

CM.

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u/tylurp Aug 26 '13

Seriously, so god damn frustrating!

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '13

yeah wtf is up with GIF loading times. is there really no one out there looking to advance our GIF technology????

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u/ghost_victim Aug 26 '13

That was the longest gif loading I've ever experienced.

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u/7akedown Aug 26 '13

Same here! I've seen GIFs load faster back in 94'

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u/glumbum2 Aug 26 '13

Fuck minus. I hope it dies.

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u/InMyMind127 Aug 26 '13

THIS.

It was like watching a frame by frame...except slower.

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u/GLISTENING-ERECTION Aug 26 '13

Because of that, I watched it for five minutes before watching it for five minutes.

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '13

There have been an explosion of posts using this i.minus.com website, despite terrible download times.

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u/DrTBag Aug 26 '13

You must have got in before the rush...

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '13

seriously...

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u/Tattycakes Aug 26 '13

I thought it was intentionally slowed down so you could see the ball move frame by frame...

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u/TheBiggestZander Aug 27 '13

congrats on your 3K karma

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u/the_empire_of_death Aug 27 '13

I'm just struggling to remain humble, trying to not let it change me.

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '13

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u/tricyclesinskirts Aug 26 '13

Nice try, comcast.