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RE: Big Black "X" - 4/18/2017 5:39:23 PM

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Anyone else getting a flash of a large black "X" each time you sign on or switch windows?

Okay...I am DONE keeping up with all these gawdamned new acronyms....now I have to figure out WTF BBX means?

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RE: Big Black "X" - 4/19/2017 2:46:48 PM

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I remember long ago watching a Sci-Fi movie where they interspersed subliminal adverts into streaming media.
They were called "blip-verts" - just an odd frame or two in the stream.
Your brain "sees" it but doesn't actually "read" it.
It relies on our brains having photographic memories (we all have it, it's the recall that fails).
Apparently, it's supposed to be very effective and takes a fraction of a second.

Perhaps they are trying something similar on CS?
It wouldn't surprise me.

Back in the 60s and 70s, movie theaters and drive-in theaters would insert buckets of popcorn and other snacks into the frames of the movie. Too fast for your conscious mind to see it but enough for the subconscious mind to make you hungry. Not sure if they ever proved it actually worked. I think it was finally outlawed around 1979 in the US.

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RE: Big Black "X" - 4/20/2017 4:22:18 AM

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I remember long ago watching a Sci-Fi movie where they interspersed subliminal adverts into streaming media.
They were called "blip-verts" - just an odd frame or two in the stream.
Your brain "sees" it but doesn't actually "read" it.
It relies on our brains having photographic memories (we all have it, it's the recall that fails).
Apparently, it's supposed to be very effective and takes a fraction of a second.

Perhaps they are trying something similar on CS?
It wouldn't surprise me.

Back in the 60s and 70s, movie theaters and drive-in theaters would insert buckets of popcorn and other snacks into the frames of the movie. Too fast for your conscious mind to see it but enough for the subconscious mind to make you hungry. Not sure if they ever proved it actually worked. I think it was finally outlawed around 1979 in the US.

I think it was the late '50s the original test was supposed to have taken place, but it later emerged that the individual who claimed to have done so hadn't, and was lying about the results he claimed. Whether it was actually done no effect off the back of invented research, I don't know.

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RE: Big Black "X" - 4/20/2017 12:24:19 PM

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You can pretend you don't see it but we know better. Indoctrination camps are not in my future. Also my mindset is in a good place. Right where it needs to be.

Nope, you are not destined for an indoctrination camp....
I just checked, you are on the list for a labor squad to remove the silt from behind hoover damn with tweezers.

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I think it was the late '50s the original test was supposed to have taken place, but it later emerged that the individual who claimed to have done so hadn't, and was lying about the results he claimed. Whether it was actually done no effect off the back of invented research, I don't know.

Actually subliminal advertising has been found to be effective only when the subjects are already considering a purchase.

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RE: Big Black "X" - 4/21/2017 4:32:00 AM

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There's been some real research into that since, then? Cool. Didn't know that.

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RE: Big Black "X" - 4/21/2017 12:59:56 PM

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There's been some real research into that since, then? Cool. Didn't know that.

Yep, and the findings also indicated that the process is absolutely worthless on anyone with an intelligence higher than average.

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RE: Big Black "X" - 4/21/2017 2:55:20 PM

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So they save it for use on the audiences of Fast And Furious sequels and Tom Cruise movies, then.

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RE: Big Black "X" - 4/21/2017 5:39:28 PM

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A brief history on subliminal messaging:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-short-history-of-the-rise-fall-and-rise-of-subliminal-messaging/

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RE: Big Black "X" - 4/22/2017 3:56:56 AM

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Thanks, Doc. That's a very handy overview.

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RE: Big Black "X" - 4/22/2017 9:31:26 AM

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Anyone else getting a flash of a large black "X" each time you sign on or switch windows?

Do you mean while browsing collarspace? Or just in general?

That's weird, I never seen it.

And I actually have a program that flashes subliminal messages on my PC while I'm on it.

Subliminal messages of my choice to myself, I wrote them, to help me with some life goals I want to achieve. Need to control the subconscious brain ya know.

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RE: Big Black "X" - 4/22/2017 9:36:55 AM

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I only get the big black X on my phone while browsing the site via the mobile interface. My home PC is set up to block all scripts and ads, so while it may be there I do not see it from my PC.

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RE: Big Black "X" - 4/22/2017 9:39:03 AM

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Anyone else getting a flash of a large black "X" each time you sign on or switch windows?

Do you mean while browsing collarspace? Or just in general?

That's weird, I never seen it.

And I actually have a program that flashes subliminal messages on my PC while I'm on it.

Subliminal messages of my choice to myself, I wrote them, to help me with some life goals I want to achieve. Need to control the subconscious brain ya know.

That's A type, that is. My copy of that programme is set up to show me captions from comics and quotations from deviant porno...

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RE: Big Black "X" - 4/24/2017 6:01:32 AM

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I only get the big black X on my phone while browsing the site via the mobile interface. My home PC is set up to block all scripts and ads, so while it may be there I do not see it from my PC.

Ohhh, I never browse from mobile and yes, my home PC is set up to block all scripts and ads too. No wonder I do not see it.

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RE: Big Black "X" - 4/24/2017 6:14:30 AM

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I only get the big black X on my phone while browsing the site via the mobile interface. My home PC is set up to block all scripts and ads, so while it may be there I do not see it from my PC.

Yep, just on my phone, as well.

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RE: Big Black "X" - 4/24/2017 7:53:17 AM

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You can pretend you don't see it but we know better. Indoctrination camps are not in my future. Also my mindset is in a good place. Right where it needs to be.

Nope, you are not destined for an indoctrination camp....
I just checked, you are on the list for a labor squad to remove the silt from behind hoover damn with tweezers.

Outside work with job security. I love it!
Far better than sharing a bunk with bubba in "Walls Unit" for stocking up nitrates/ diesel to "grow alfalfa on a compound in West Texas!" I'll send you cigarettes.

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RE: Big Black "X" - 4/24/2017 3:58:05 PM

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You can pretend you don't see it but we know better. Indoctrination camps are not in my future. Also my mindset is in a good place. Right where it needs to be.

Nope, you are not destined for an indoctrination camp....
I just checked, you are on the list for a labor squad to remove the silt from behind hoover damn with tweezers.

Outside work with job security. I love it!
Far better than sharing a bunk with bubba in "Walls Unit" for stocking up nitrates/ diesel to "grow alfalfa on a compound in West Texas!" I'll send you cigarettes.

You DO understand that the silt in question is about 300 feet below the surface of the water?

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RE: Big Black "X" - 4/24/2017 5:24:54 PM

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As well as you understand "Walls Unit" is Huntsville prison. Aren't we just being humorously sarcastic here, you got the memo right?

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