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The Chatterbox => Random Chat => Topic started by: Malwyn on October 01, 2007, 07:42:33 AM
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My test results got back and I have neither teh AIDS, chlamydia, hepatitis, gonorrhea or herpes. Go me. <3
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perhaps you should be more careful in the future. XD
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That does not rule out syphilis.
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No, but generally unlikely odds as well as lack of a [non-sweat... fuck this heat] rash kinda do.
Funnily enough, 'syphilis' is usually the base for a lot of in-jokes with my friends. Not having it in the test was kind of ironic. :D
I'd like to think I'll be more careful in the future but I totally won't. :D
Anyway. This thread is about happies. Go.
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My girlfriend and my friends and family in general. They rock.
Also, getting a 97% on that trig test, and good grades in general.
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I've gotten more support from the rom hacking community, and I have some stuff to try to decompress the .bin files properly in my translation project.
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Singing along to songs in the car, particularly They Might Be Giants songs. Those are the most fun to sing.
All this car singing has actually improved my vocal range, I can actually sing for srs if I wanted to now.
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I sing along to anime on occasion, lmao. It's kinda a guilty pleasure. Unfortunately, my vocal range sucks still. lol. But I can sing the DNAngel oening.
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Alice in chains.
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I sing along to anime on occasion, lmao. It's kinda a guilty pleasure. Unfortunately, my vocal range sucks still. lol. But I can sing the DNAngel oening.
I can barely get high enough to reach the D 5 in the ff6 song lolz
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Singing along to songs in the car, particularly They Might Be Giants songs. Those are the most fun to sing.
All this car singing has actually improved my vocal range, I can actually sing for srs if I wanted to now.
I can sing along to most Dream Theater songs :3
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Well, there's a reason I only do it when nobody's around, lol. Also, I try to lower the octave of anything outside my range, but I have a hard time staying in that octave, and usually end up trying to hit the right notes no matter how high it is. I know all the lyrics to the Magic Knight Rayearth opening 1 and 3 ( [the official video for the singer doing this song: ] and )
Oh, and apparently the 1st opening is in Popn Music 14, rofl:
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Alice in chains.
i think you just won this thread so far.
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Dare I ask what you stuck it in.. or.. were you raped? D=
is it that important to know?
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Dare I ask what you stuck it in.. or.. were you raped? D=
Me, and yes.
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Holy christ, I got a hundred on my Trig test today!
Me + doing good in math = 404 error, just fyi. >_____>
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Basically there was a lot of unprotected oral sex with more men that I can remember let alone count on one hand, most being over 35. There wasn't too much of a risk (despite things... you had to be there I guess) of anything but I got tested just to be sure.
MortifiedocAlot- pfft. That wouldn't be rape. <3
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Basically there was a lot of unprotected oral sex with more men that I can remember let alone count on one hand, most being over 35. There wasn't too much of a risk (despite things... you had to be there I guess) of anything but I got tested just to be sure.
MortifiedocAlot- pfft. That wouldn't be rape. <3
Why? Also, how? A club of some sort?
PS: My girlfriend definitely fries my potatoes with happies. Wow.
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Err, it's more of a weekly/monthly thing. I've been having sex since I was about five (or before, I can't remember), and lately the only guys that hit on me (or would sleep with me) tend to be about 40. There were no orgies or anything. >.>
Also I've set a limit at 40 and/or looking 'old'. Yep. I'm healthy. ^^;
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Also I've set a limit at 40 and/or looking 'old'. Yep. I'm healthy. ^^;
Shit, as long as you don't catch anything, also I need to get laid :-X.
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I need to get laid :-X.
who doesn't? xD
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who doesn't? xD
Que Eff Fucking Tee.
Also: Tokyo Paradise Ska Orchestra is win.
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I don't. Sex gets old (hwahahaha! Unintended pun!) very quickly. Especially if you can't physically enjoy it. :D
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I don't. Sex gets old (hwahahaha! Unintended pun!) very quickly. Especially if you can't physically enjoy it. :D
Gross pun :'(. Also my friend tried to drink a gallon of milk within 20 minuets, he failed all over the McDonald's parking lot. Made this a great night.
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Gross pun :'(. Also my friend tried to drink a gallon of milk within 20 minuets, he failed all over the McDonald's parking lot. Made this a great night.
What. How much were you gonna pay him?
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Not everyone's smart enough to ask for money to do stupid things...
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What. How much were you gonna pay him?
If he drank the whole thing within 40 mins and didn't vomit for another 30 he would have gotten 8 bucks (double the cost of the milk, some high stakes shit). He just honestly thought it wouldn't be hard to do, but so far that's 2 friends that have failed it.
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I've never heard of anyone managing that. Apparently it's impossible, because the milk starts to ferment in your stomach. Maybe if you cheated and took some dramamine before hand you could pull it off, but otherwise, no good.
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Oh shit, I might get another friend to try it.
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Maybe if you were really fat?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallon_challenge
No info on whether it's possible for most people, or whether you really need anything special to be able to do it successfully, but it's insanely hard to do properly, and pretty much always will result in the drinker un-drinking his milk.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallon_challenge
No info on whether it's possible for most people, or whether you really need anything special to be able to do it successfully, but it's insanely hard to do properly, and pretty much always will result in the drinker un-drinking his milk.
fuck that. i could do it, no problem.
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We had a massive electrical storm that only lasted about half an hour but managed to knock out 3/4s of Toowoomba's electricity.
Toowoomba is pretty large.
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Why is that a good thing?
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It sounds pretty cool :3
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I live in the lightning capital of the world. Our summer storms are "a little bit" electrical.
Also, long hugs make my potatoes become golden and delicious. Hee hee, I'm so cool.
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Obligatory "wewt, linux" post.
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Sushi, and also early release days.
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Obligatory "wewt, linux" post.
I retort this with a "wewt, freeBSD" post.
Also: wget is probably the best thing ever. quite possibly. I mean seriously. wget is just.. SO BAD ASS.
"wewt wget"
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wget is freaking amazing.
I've also found some time ago that the GNU tools compliment cmd.exe quite nicely. I like being able to grep in Windows...it never gets old.
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Got a lovely new Logitech mouse today, to replace my craptastic Microsoft one. The left mouse button started not working.
Jesus, this thing is so touchy now, it's gonna take some getting used to.
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Yeah, I remember switching over from an analog to an optical mouse the first time, I went from using 20+ sensitivity in cs to 3.75 <_<
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Got a lovely new Logitech mouse today, to replace my craptastic Microsoft one. The left mouse button started not working.
My old Microsoft mouse experienced "microswitch death" as well. Not fun when you're in the middle of a round of TFC when it decides to die. >_<
Did you get an optical or laser mouse?
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MX400 Precision Laser Mouse.
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Logitech "Wheel Mouse" here, lmao. According to an image on wikipedia, it is a Logetech iFeel. I like it, it's simplistic, works great, and seems to last pretty good.
Overall, I really like Logitech's products.
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MX400 Precision Laser Mouse.
Ooo, pretty slick-looking.
I love laser mice. They all just seem to have that nice, precise feel to them.
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Yep, they just feel much nicer. When I first got a laser mouse, I was absolutely amazed. I did not ever want to touch a crappy wheel mouse again.
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By "wheel mouse" you mean the ones with the balls, right?
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crap yeah oh and sorry for no punctuation or caps
i accidentally held shift for eight seconds and i forgot how to turn it off since it stays on even if you disable the fucking shortcut
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By "wheel mouse" you mean the ones with the balls, right?
heh, I noticed it too.
crap yeah oh and sorry for no punctuation or caps
i accidentally held shift for eight seconds and i forgot how to turn it off since it stays on even if you disable the fucking shortcut
It's prolly incorporated into explorer.exe. Accessibility tools don't have a service defined for them. (That is if you meant "shortcut" as a .lnk file)
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crap yeah oh and sorry for no punctuation or caps
i accidentally held shift for eight seconds and i forgot how to turn it off since it stays on even if you disable the fucking shortcut
Control Panel -> Accessibility Options
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Well, I managed to get it (I rebooted). That's always the first place I think to look Zak, and it pisses me off that it's not there.
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yeah, I wasnt sure what you meant by disabling the shortcut. modifying .lnk files shouldnt do anything, but I don't see how your windows could be broke because you had just reinstalled it. (Maybe you remembered disabling them, but it was the older installation?) Actually, I'm very surprised accessibility does not have its own service. Curious.
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Shortcut as in holding shift for 8 seconds straight, not editing some .lnk file....
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yeah. :D "shortcut" is perhaps too oftenly used on windows. :\
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Sierra Mist Cranberry Splash is one of the best sodas i've had in a while.
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I love the Stewarts Fountain Classics Black Cherry flavour. It's one of the best Cherry flavours I've ever had.
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Basically all of Stewart's soda is amazing. The Key Lime or whatever it's called is made of delicious and incredible.
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Yeah, Key Lime was the first one I ever tasted, IIRC.
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You know, now that I think about it, all green soda is pretty much amazing.
Edit: On second thought, not cucumber pepsi.
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You know, now that I think about it, all green soda is pretty much amazing.
Edit: On second thought, not cucumber pepsi.
That exists? What the christ?
Also, Stewart's Orange 'n Cream soda is my favorite soda on the face of ever. I get it every single time I go to Cracker Barrel, in one of their icy mugs, oh god, so good. Goes amazing with any and everything.
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All of the 9th, 10th, and 11th graders have to take the PSAT tomorrow until about 11:45. 12th grade gets to sleep in. :D
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I'm listening to some Final Fantasy Vocal Collection CDs right now, and I'm fucking addicted. I love hearing all the classics rearranged with lyrics added. It's amazing. I'm listening to a Japanese version of Eyes on Me, and it's absolutely astounding. Manami Kiyota does an excellent job singing, and the arrangement is very nice. I'd have rathered a more jazzy feel, like a small time jazz band singing, because that's what the original makes me think of, when I picture it, but either way, it's great.
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All of the 9th, 10th, and 11th graders have to take the PSAT tomorrow until about 11:45. 12th grade gets to sleep in. :D
What the christ? I had to pay $17 to take that thing, and I'm in 11th so it's not even technically required for me. That test sucked ass too, it was pretty easy but still a pain.
Meteos makes me happy on the inside. I'm actually really extremely amazingly addicted to that game-- I see it when I close my eyes, when I look at parked cars, when I look at people's faces. I want to arrange them all into rows and make them blast off into space.
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Meteos makes me happy on the inside. I'm actually really extremely amazingly addicted to that game-- I see it when I close my eyes, when I look at parked cars, when I look at people's faces. I want to arrange them all into rows and make them blast off into space.
God I know. That game is brilliant.
I wish it had online play. :( Oh well.
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What the christ? I had to pay $17 to take that thing, and I'm in 11th so it's not even technically required for me. That test sucked ass too, it was pretty easy but still a pain.
Same, except I had to pay $14.
I get to sleep in for the next two years on the state test day though.
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God I know. That game is brilliant.
I wish it had online play. :( Oh well.
Ahhhhh. Online play would've been indescribably amazing. I would've sold my soul to get online play on Meteos.
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I finally fixed my Firefox and made it usable again, which is good because my laptop doesn't have a lot of RAM and Opera hates that.
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If anything, Opera is a lot easier on system resources and RAM than Firefox is. Firefox uses more memory than both Opera and IE on every system I've used.
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Opera started lagging after I used it for about a week. Like, it wouldn't be able to smoothly play YouTube videos and it would occasionally completely freeze up for 5-10 seconds. Also, according to my task manager, Opera was merciless with my system resources.
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Youtube? Sure flash wasn't to blame? After switching to x86-64 linux and sandboxing flash to a single web browser, I couldn't be happier. Flash freaking RAPES resources.
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I don't think Youtube runs on flash, not 100% sure tho.
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Yeah, YouTube runs on Flash. Pretty much all of the Internet movie sites use Flash video for their stuff nowadays.
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Yeah, youtube moves are in FLV format.. And flash does rape system resources. It makes me sad when people try to make games in flash only to have it ruined by running at like, 5 FPS.
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It wasn't just on youtube though. It randomly froze up at any website I went to, including here.
EDIT: So, according to Kate, the band directors are "cool with everything." (if you don't know what I'm talking about (http://www.spectere.net/smf/index.php?topic=121.165))
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Good to hear. Also on css their was this random 9 year old girl so about half of the server was spraying porn pictures and you could hear her yell "EEEWWWW". Made me lol.
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HAHA, nice. Now you need the Shitting Dick-Nipples image sprayed when she's around XD
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I just scored a tall bottle of vodka and a box of wine for some old computer parts thrown together at the last minute, aka, Edwin.
Edwin is a pretty sweet ride, a coppermine pentium 3, I think about 256mb ram... maybe 128mb, a high end (for 1999~) motherboard with decent onboard sound, a network and SiS video card, a shitty 1992 monitor, one of my last keyboards and last mouse. All in all, a pretty awesome general-purpose computer. Dunno how it'll fare with XP though. D:
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i wouldnt trade computer parts in for alcohol... Unless I really, really, really wanted alcohol.
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i wouldnt trade computer parts in for alcohol... Unless I really, really, really wanted alcohol.
They were old, and I have more parts than I can build into a macho mecha man and have sex with.
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Dude, I'd definitely trade for alcohol. Unless they were offering enough money to buy more alcohol than they were offering alcohol. Then I'd tell them to give me the money, keep their alcohol for themselves, and drink with me.
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My girlfriend's boobs.
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My girlfriend's boobs.
QFT.
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My boobs.
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My boobs.
QFT.
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My friends. Damn, they're pretty awesome.
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My girlfriend's boobs.
This goes for me as well. Sadly, my girlfriend is getting reduction surgery due to back and shoulder pains.
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Wow, that sucks. I mean, I'm not one for overly huge breasts, but I still feel bad when someone has reduction surgery. I know it's pretty much necessary in that case, and I do think it's a good idea, but it still sucks when someone has to have the surgery.
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Getting MVP in a game of halo 3 even tho I don't own an xbox.
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Wow, that sucks. I mean, I'm not one for overly huge breasts, but I still feel bad when someone has reduction surgery. I know it's pretty much necessary in that case, and I do think it's a good idea, but it still sucks when someone has to have the surgery.
Heh, to give you an idea, picture a 120 lb. girl with F cup breasts. Me thinks that don't work to well.
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When your girlfriend thinks of you enough to take pictures in victoria's secret dressing rooms.
oh yea
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Getting MVP in a game of halo 3 even tho I don't own an xbox.
g-freaking-g
I had similar experiences way back when. Anyone remember Dave/Armegeddon? When he was in the dorms at college we'd occasionally have Halo parties with a couple of our friends and his, uh, dormies. The people in the dorm played Halo quite a lot. Dave and I almost never played it and our team of four was able to beat their team of four most of the time. It's kinda funny.
Also, I think two of the times my other friend and I beat Halo on legendary happened before I owned an Xbox.
Speaking of Halo, a s.net Halo 3 co-op party might be fun. Anyone up for it?
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I'm game, 'cept for the whole "not owning a 360" thing.
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My school's band got a 1-1-2 at the UIL marching contest, so for the first time in our school's history we're going to the area competition.
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weeeeeeeeeee I got TF2 to work weeeeeeeeeeee. Now I need someone to play with...
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g-freaking-g
Meh, halo 3 seems a lot easier then halo 2, in fact I halo 2 is kinda a shitty game. Also all you really need to do in halo 3 is get a somewhat decent weapon and start shooting someone first, after that it's basically impossible for them to survive. Even if they take cover you can just toss like 3 grenades behind what even cover their taking. Also it seems most halo 3 matches have a decent amount of lag, but it could be my friends connection.
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Heh, to give you an idea, picture a 120 lb. girl with F cup breasts. Me thinks that don't work to well.
Yeah, that's kinda really overboard. My GF is about 130ish with like, mid size C.. (I forget the actual size, lol. I guess it's not as important as remembering our anniversary ;))
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weeeeeeeeeee I got TF2 to work weeeeeeeeeeee. Now I need someone to play with...
Add me, NewF1, i'll play. Although I don't really like it too much and I ain't too great at it.
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I'm game, 'cept for the whole "not owning a copy of halo 3" thing.
fixd to make it relevant to me, i do have gears of war however......
*edit*
ololo i don't have xbl gold so i guess i can't even do gears of war
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I just realized that I'm the only "Hero Member" on the site. lol.
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p0ast whore.
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Playing pool. I love that game. I wish I had a pool table though :x
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Playing pool. I love that game. I wish I had a pool table though :x
I have a pool table, have had it for 6 months and it's still not set up.
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Finding out that all the walgreens in Arizona now have JOLT
FUCK YES
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I just realized that I'm the only "Hero Member" on the site. lol.
Heh, an hero.
The new episodes of the Boondocks :U
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My lady friend (who coincidentally is my ex) makes my potatoes golden brown with happiness. Ahh.
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I got a letter of acceptance from KU today via e-mail (I sent in my application last Thursday), which means I got into at least one of the 3 universities I applied to. Score.
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I got a letter of acceptance from KU today via e-mail (I sent in my application last Thursday), which means I got into at least one of the 3 universities I applied to. Score.
Niiiiice. Also on the subject of acceptance, coincidentally Nielsen Media Research called me back just now, they want me to attend a training session (apparently, I got a job!) on November 26th, which is after band- I'll actually have time to work then. Today just keeps getting better.
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Today I have "try-outs" at this fancy-shmancy sushi place later today. Dress shirt, etc. Yup. Hella pro shit. Interview went over well, she was like, "Do you have experience in food service?" And I replied, "Yeah, I worked at Straw Hat Pizza and at Carl's Jr." Then she just shook her head and said it wasnt really food service... D.D However, she was really pleased with the rest of my interview questions
anyway, so she said if they were interested in me to expect a call in a few days for try-outs, to really see if I can completely satisfy the customer's needs and stuff. ;] she called me back *later that day* and told me to come in 3 days. Fucking score. Being a waiter + expensive sushi = good tips.
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My friend had that same job, basically, tips at sushi places are just disgusting. Apparently tabs at the place he worked were almost always more than a hundred bucks, he made a stupid amount in tips alone, and got 9.25 an hour as well.
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Only 9.25? Lol. Most jobs around here now that aren't fast food pay at least $10... (nearly everything on the job bank starts at 10 minimum.)
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in before "canada > united states"
(which is becoming more and more evident as time goes on)
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Oh, that's because you guys and your canadian dollar haven't figured out that your currency is actually worth as much as the USD yet, and you haven't adjusted. :V
Minimum wage in washington is 7.96 an hour, which is a fuxton higher than most places.
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Eww, Our minimum is like, what, $9? lol.
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Yeah well, see above statement. Back when your dollar was worth like 85
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True :/ Until we brought up the minimum wage recently it had been frozen at like, 6.80 for like, 10 years, and the cost of living was quite a bit higher than 6.80, so it was a good thing they finally brought up minimum anyway. However, a strong canadian dollar like we have means that you guys will be getting more canadians going down there to buy stuff, lol. Part of the reason your stuff is cheaper is that there's more buying power in the states. Compare 30 million people to 300 million. Yeah, big difference. With 300 million people you can afford to make things cheaper.
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Eww, Our minimum is like, what, $9? lol.
Mine is like 6$, you nigger.
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its 7.50 in California, its going up to 8.50 in a month or so.
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$6.67 here, at least it's higher than the national average :x
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$5.15 here, thanks to Mexico sharing most of its northern border with us.
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$5.15 here, thanks to Mexico sharing most of its northern border with us.
Yeah, wow, that blows. That's probably, like, the single worst minimum wage in the country :x
Also, I just got back from an assessment at Nielsen Media Ratings, they're most likely going to hire me. And that place pays ridiculously ($9.25 base, what). Woot.
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Yeah, wow, that blows. That's probably, like, the single worst minimum wage in the country :x
That's what Ohio's was not too long ago.
I think it's up to 6/7-something there now (took long enough)...not sure what it is in Maryland.
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I started working out a lot more and I am starting to see major results. yayzorz
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I got 3 cans of Sprite today for the price of 1 thanks to the guy stocking the machine improperly.
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Nice. :3
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I just got admitted to another of the universities I applied to, Kansas State. This means I've been accepted by at least 2 of the 3 I applied to. Awesome.
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Woo, nice! :D
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I got 3 cans of Sprite today for the price of 1 thanks to the guy stocking the machine improperly.
I got 3 pounds of wings today for the price of 1 thanks to the cashier being on the phone and not paying attention.
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Haha, nice work.
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I got 3 pounds of wings today for the price of 1 thanks to the cashier being on the phone and not paying attention.
Mistakes in our favor FTW.
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I got two bottles of mountain dew for a dollar out of the vending machine yesterday, instead of one for 1.25. :3
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I found an unopened Dr. Pepper in the vending machine when I went to buy a Mt. Dew once... gave it to the first random person I saw.
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Heh. I miss Dr. Pepper. :(
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As far as soft drinks go, I've started drinking Sprite almost exclusively now, occasionally substituting it with 7up or Sierra Mist, although both of those are too limey for my taste.
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Watching the sunset with my "friend", while holding her and being extremely happy about life.
Wink wink. "Friend". We aren't "going out".
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Watching the sunset with my "friend", while holding her and being extremely happy about life.
Wink wink. "Friend". We aren't "going out".
I assume you're going to have made out with her by the end of the night.
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I assume you're going to have made out with her by the end of the night.
During commercial breaks while watching Desperate Housewives, and between the time after the show ended and her parents came to pick her up.
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So I just realized that I'm completely over my fear of getting emotionally hurt. This is awesome.
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Nice.
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So I just realized that I'm completely over my fear of getting emotionally hurt. This is awesome.
That is definitely a great fear to overcome.
Also, Thanksgiving dinner makes my potatoes crispy-fried. Yummmm.
Also also, Thanksgiving dinner leftovers. Happiness.
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Stuffing :3
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Stuffing :3
Mmm yes.
Also, I just made a gigantic plate with leftovers, ate some and hid the rest in my minifridge. I'm set :D
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My new mouse. One button opens Firefox, one does the same as F5, and one is the ` key, which I use as a key shortcut for things like StumbleUpon. It's awesome.
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Hmm, I should make a global hotkey to open firefox, lol.
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I have had a turkey dinner 4 nights in a row now.
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Turkey and cranberry sandwich now, yum.
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Turkey and cranberry sandwich now, yum.
Hahaha, my sister had one of those earlier, I called her crazy XD
She did put some mayonnaise on it too, though. Did you? :O
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I put everything on my turkey sandwich. Anything that can be found on a table during Thanksgiving can and will be on my sammich.
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She did put some mayonnaise on it too, though. Did you? :O
Nope, but I would have thrown on stuffing and gravy if it was available.
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I got a 4-port USB hub/drink warmer for $10 from Radio Shack. Kickass.
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Honey roasted sunflower seed kernels in bulk :D
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drink warmer
Lol, secondary function, or just using the excess heat?
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Lol, secondary function, or just using the excess heat?
Actually, I think it's the primary function, but it's not why I got it.
Also, a while ago my headphone jack broke, so yesterday I finally got a USB headset.
EDIT: My English teacher is having the class memorize a passage from Macbeth by next Friday.
I memorized it the day he assigned it.
"Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death; Out, out, brief candle.
Life is but a walking shadow; A poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury
Signifying nothing."
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Passionate lovemaking.
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HEY, GUESS WHO JUST GOT A JOB WITH NIELSEN MEDIA. :D
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... Bobbias? ;s
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HEY, GUESS WHO JUST GOT A JOB WITH NIELSEN MEDIA. :D
What Media?
... Bobbias? ;s
If only.. Erm, what does Nielson Media do anyway?
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Haha I was being intentionally stupid, ignore me :3
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I just said if only I had a job there, and then wondered what exactly I'd be doing, since I know nothing about the company :P
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Hi thar Google/Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nielsen_Media_Research (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nielsen_Media_Research). Basically, they determine (via hardware that's installed in televisions in select homes) how many people are watching a certain show, give them a numerical rating, and send it to the TV stations so that they know who's watching what. I'm going to be a field technician.
Company car, company lappy, company phone, expense account, $30k/year, 401k, health care benefits, flexible hours (basically, I work when I want), with overtime.
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Fucking noice, GG
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Wow, that's pretty awesome.
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I'm getting a 750 GB external hard drive for Christmas. My current internal hard drive is only 70 GB. I figure I'll move most everything not required to run the computer to the external and use the internal for OS's.
I've been needing more space for a while; I have about 40 GB of media burned on DVD-R's in order to make room.
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Tanks guyz. :3
I'm getting a 750 GB external hard drive for Christmas.
Nice. :D I ended up going with a SATA enclosure when I got my 750GB drive. It's proven to be very handy.
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/me likes internal much more than external. I have 5 SATA slots, so I could just connect them and hold them outside the case.
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I can't see a 3.5" hard drive fitting in my laptop. I don't care how many SATA ports I wind up with (the board I have specced for my next system has 7, my next case has enough slots for that many, and my next power supply will put out enough power for all of them), external hard drives have definite advantages over internal drives.
In a way I wish I would have gone with a 2.5" drive simply because they can get all the power they need from the USB port, but 750GB is a lot of space (even for me, even if my drive is half full now).
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Well, External is portable, and can be changed between computers (or stored in a climate controlled room someplace else, under lock and key and such.) But still, I like having them in the system... I'd rather keep my USB ports free. Honestly, if I was doing external storage for anything over 500 GB, I'd probably want to set up a networked storage server, even if I had to salvage some junker from a garage sale to do it. (a pretty cheap way to do it, too.)
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Yeah, they run faster in a system, but you can't take them with you. eSATA is a pretty awesome idea, though, I'm going to try to get an eSATA port in my next mobo; my external enclosure's going to rock when I do that. Look into my eyyyeeesss...
listen to read my voice text...
Only reason I didn't slap the 750GB into my desktop system right now is due to me not having the opportunity to shift the data around to make that possible. As soon as things settle down and I get a fancy new system (which should happen fairly soon, considering I won't have any expenses aside from food while I'm in Florida for job training...WOOT!) I fully intend to shift my 400GB drive into the enclosure and put my 750GB drive into my compy.
Also, funny you should mention the USB port thing...I managed to use all six ports on the back of my main system (the two in front are basically dedicated to USB pen drives). I had to get a hub. O.o
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Wow, ouch. That's kinda scary when you use all 6. then again, I've got one USB I use for my midi keyboard, one that's always in use for the webcam, and one that's always in use for hooking things like my brother's phone, or his ipod in (actually, each of those use a different port), so I guess if we had much more we'd start getting into trouble with using them all up, lol. I guess it's really not that hard if we were to get an external drive or 2. (We don't have a firewire port, so USB would be all we have)
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I'd also prefer an internal, but I'm on a lappy.
I need to get a move on building a tower before going to college.
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THIS AMAZING SPICE TEA THAT MY MOM MADE <33333333333
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No final and no class on Monday.
Grades are based upon quizzes, attendance and extra credit papers.
and with this I have passed my classes. Also I didn't have to take the final for my other class so no finals for me either.
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HEY, GUESS WHO JUST GOT A JOB WITH NIELSEN MEDIA. :D
What the hell? I start training there in about... 3 hours. I told you guys I got a job there a few weeks ago rofl
But I'm only gonna be working there part-time. Regardless, go us. I have friends who work there and according to them, the job rocks.
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christ, that's kinda weird, both of you getting into the same place.
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Creepy :s
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christ, that's kinda weird, both of you getting into the same place.
Nielsen is a huge company...
What the hell? I start training there in about... 3 hours. I told you guys I got a job there a few weeks ago rofl
Huh, I must have missed it. :o
How long are you going to be in for training? I'm going to get flown down to Florida in early January -- the 6th, I believe -- and will be there for 5-8 weeks (OH DARN I GET TO MISS OUT ON OHIO'S SNOW LOL).
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The 9th, 10th, and 11th graders all have to take the practice TAKS (Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills) tomorrow. The rest of us get to sleep in until at least 11:00.
EDIT: My mom's getting me 3 of the T-shirts from the xkcd store. :D
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Oh my god she's the best mom ever.
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Nielsen is a huge company...
Huh, I must have missed it. :o
How long are you going to be in for training? I'm going to get flown down to Florida in early January -- the 6th, I believe -- and will be there for 5-8 weeks (OH DARN I GET TO MISS OUT ON OHIO'S SNOW LOL).
Whoa, wait, what? There's a huge chance you'll be getting flown to my county. Where exactly in Florida you headed? Nielsen is huge in my county, it's like its world headquarters.
Oh, and I'm in training for two weeks of M-F, 6:15-10:45. I'm only going to be working there part-time though, so the training really isn't that bad.
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I'm going to the main campus in Tampa, so yeah, I'll probably be in the area. SCARY.
Any good dancity thingies in your area (ITG2 r21+ with custom songs or PIU Exceed or better, preferably)? I'm pretty much going to have my weekends free and will likely be bored.
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I just found out that Colorado State University, my first choice, accepted me. Kickass.
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Awesome. I remember when I got accepted to my first-choice school, best feeling ever. Then I proceeded to not do my homework for three weeks. :3
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A friend of mine is in college right now and has only been to 1 full class for 3 of his courses. And he has 70's in everything. He's only been to 1 class of History, Social Sciences, and Sociology.
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sounds like a winner
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None of my friends understand how I managed to get accepted by all 3 of the colleges I applied to. I put forth minimal effort all through high school, my GPA is 2.9286, I got a 27 on the ACT, and I got an 1880 (1370 without writing) on the SAT. I don't think I look like much more than an average student, but I'm guessing they mostly paid attention to how I did in math and science courses. Whatever the case, I'm just happy I got accepted into CSU.
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Lol, you should see my averages, I swear I'd probably get rejected everywhere. One semester, I had a class average of 38 at the end of the year. I failed 2 of my 3 courses. I would have to be in school again this year if it weren't for my co-op teacher grudgingly giving me a 5th credit in my last semester to help me graduate. I got the 5th credit because over the semester, I had logged somewhere around 500 hours, give or take. We weren't sure exactly because I never handed in my sheets I was supposed to log all my daily activities (and hours) on. But we worked it out that I would have logged about 517 hours over the semester, give or take. I did spend extra time there after school, as well as on a weekend at one point (terribly hung over from a VERY close call with alcohol poisoning, and I had to be there by 8 AM and left at 6 PM. When my dad woke me up I was confused because I blacked out and lost almost the entire night. My shoes are still at my friend's place to this day.)
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One of my xkcd shirts came in the mail today. I'm wearing it right now.
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One of my xkcd shirts came in the mail today. I'm wearing it right now.
Which one.
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Turns out the rest of them came in different packages that were in my mom's room. The package in my room had the "Sudo" one. The other two are "Useless" and "Regular Expressions".
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I'm going to the main campus in Tampa, so yeah, I'll probably be in the area. SCARY.
Any good dancity thingies in your area (ITG2 r21+ with custom songs or PIU Exceed or better, preferably)? I'm pretty much going to have my weekends free and will likely be bored.
Sweeeeet. I have no idea where one would find an ITG machine here. There's a Gameworks with two DDR machines though, I still have a ton of credits from my friend's birthday party a few months ago, so I need to go back there and finish using them.
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There's Canadians at my house. <3
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Explain?
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I imported some friends.
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Did they bring you some bagged milk?
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Don't diss the bag milk. Bag milk is awesome :)
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Cashing my first Nielsen paycheck. Damn, that was a lot of money.
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Don't diss the bag milk. Bag milk is awesome :)
Damn straight!
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Hell yeah! I personally like the bag better, cause with the container, the opening of it gets all hard and crusty, and its gross lol.
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Not with cartons, that only seems to happen with the plastic bottles.
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I've noticed it with the carton itself, the top part where you open it gets all crunchy and hard and what not.
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Huh, I don't think that's ever happened to me. I go through milk really fast, though.
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Yeah, mine sits for a while, thats prolly why.
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Yeah, that'd probably happen to pretty much any container. Isn't it kind of hard to pour from a bag? : \
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Nah man not at all. The container you get for it, makes it easy as hell. Just snip a little hole in the corner, and off you go!
*Edit*
(http://static.flickr.com/51/128389322_be5f183849.jpg)
There it is!
Also, if you're wondering, when you pour, the I dunno, stability of the milk I guess you would call it, would stop the bag from sagging over the container. Dunno how to explain it really.
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There's a special container for bagged milk? Haha, that's awesome. I still think it's weird that you can't really seal it, but whatever. How much milk is in a bag?
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Well all together 4 litres, 3 bags, you do the math, i'm too lazy to.
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It costs almost $5 here for a 3 back pack like that. Oh, and when there's very little milk, it sometimes sorta slips out of the holder thingie, but very rarely, it tends to usually just cause the bag to hang over the corner just a bit.
PS: I managed to install the new Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends without mounting or burning it. I extracted the files into 1 directory and ran the installer. It worked perfectly. Fuckin A.
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all I have to say is lul canada. l2cardboard
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Did they bring you some bagged milk?
No, they didn't. The bastards. D:
I couldn't help but lol when I saw that stuff in the store up there. It was amazing. Seeing the classic cardboard containers right next to it kind of reduced the impact it had, though.
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Yeah, I prefer bags over cartons. I've used both, but I just never liked the cartons.
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It's almost CHRISTMASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS.
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I know :3
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I don't get how bagged milk works. Do you stab the bag with a straw and drink away? Or tear it open and pour it everywhere? :x
PS here's a picture of an indian dude I bought at the mall yesterday:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v682/IceBlasphemy/100_0485.jpg)
I love just buying random stuff sometimes.
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Wow that shoudld be on your dash bored. Also winning a gun game (on CSS) while some what drunk.
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With bag milk you use scissors (or a knife, if you can't find any scissors) and cut a small hole in the corner.
Here's an ascii diagram. The /'s are where you'd cut/ More or less.
______
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Yeah, but do you pour it or drink it? Or play with it? I'd probably just play with it.
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You also have to remember, there's 1.3 Liters of milk in there. Kinda hard to drink that much milk at once. Also kinda hard to drink straight from the bag, since you'd have to hold it up higher than your head.
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You also have to remember, there's 1.3 Liters of milk in there. Kinda hard to drink that much milk at once. Also kinda hard to drink straight from the bag, since you'd have to hold it up higher than your head.
Don't you usually have a thing you put it in that holds it and lets you poor it? Sounds like a huge pain in the ass if you didn't.
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Yeah, it does sound like more trouble than it's worth. <_<
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Other than the comedic value of having any sort of common liquid other than water in a bag.
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Yeah, I guess that's true.
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Other than the comedic value of having any sort of common liquid other than water in a bag.
LOOK AT THIS BAG OF MILK, GODDAMN.
Also I'm getting to eat steak, lobster and cheese potatoes for dinner.
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LOOK AT THIS BAG OF MILK, GODDAMN.
Also I'm getting to eat steak, lobster and cheese potatoes for dinner.
I had Macaroni Grill. I got the most delicious pasta, it was amazing.
Also, my parents let me open a present just now, I got these really comfy slippers 8)
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I ate some Chicken cordon blue. [sp] Breaded boneless chicken breasts wrapped around provolone cheese and slices of ham.
mm
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I just installed another gig of RAM in my laptop. It's so awesome.
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I ate some Chicken cordon blue. [sp] Breaded boneless chicken breasts wrapped around provolone cheese and slices of ham.
mm
Cordon bleu is awesome. You're a lucky man. I had some of my sister's leftovers from Macaroni Grill.
Also, dancing (or, alternatively, jivin') to Aphex Twin is really fun.
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I haven't really been hanging out with anyone within the last few months, then over last week I saw a lot of college friends and tonight I saw a bunch of people I hadn't seen in a while (friends, just not ones I usually call and go to hang out with).
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Oh man, I had an amazing time playing Call of Duty 4 with Dave today.
It actually started off pretty shittily -- both of us were doing horribly. Finally, someone (fuck...forgot his name) bitched about one of the perks in the game -- martyrdom. Basically, when you have that perk enabled you drop a live grenade. It has a full fuse, CoD4 has a decent grenade indicator, and it makes a nice solid CLINK sound when it hits the ground, so it's not like it's all that difficult to avoid. It's a mild annoyance, especially compared to airstrikes and helicopters, which are far more annoying and harder to deal with (but that's a whole 'nother rant altogether). I replied, simply saying, "it's not that hard to dodge." His reply? It was something like "it is if you play like I do, not like you'd know anything about that." Dave then replied, "like an idiot?" Pandora's box opened.
The next three rounds basically consisted of him spouting childish insults at us while we laughed our asses off and owned him. Here were a few exchanges:
Him: *something about my mother's clit and him*
Me: wow, seriously, how old are you? 14?
Him: 21
Me: HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Dave: lol
Me: and you're still making mother jokes...amazing
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Him: please i was 1st the last 3 rounds
(editor's note: actually, he wasn't)
Me: heh, I can't even remember the last time *subject name here* killed me
Me: in fact, last time I even saw him I blew his head off with a shotgun
Just things like that. I wish I had some sort of chat transcript; it was hilarious.
The clincher came when Dave did a kickvote on him. The end result was something like Yes: 9, No: 3. Somehow, that wasn't enough for a kick. He then opened a kickvote on himself and the result was Yes: 2, No: 8.
Most amazing thing ever.
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I love dipshits that take games way to seriously, especially something so minor like that.
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I hate just starting in a game and getting pwned terribly because you'd barely played before, and then having people complain about you. Like, jesus, I just started...
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When it gets cool outside. Living in South Florida means that we see sub-50 degree temperatures during the day, like, twice a year.
A ridiculous cold front is supposed to come through tonight, and it's apparently gonna get down to freezing. Sweeeeet.
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Finding out I can re-use my character in Mass Effect for another playthrough. Harder difficulty and now I'll be the 'asshole' renegade dude. haha
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My grandparents said that in texas the temperatures were like, 36, 37 or so on Christmas day.
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It was more like 50-60 here.
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It is -19 with windchill. The air is so crisp it hurts to breathe. It's also so cold that it can't snow.
I love it.
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The air is so crisp it hurts to breathe.
The crispness forms around -12 C and "matures" around -15 C
-19F = -28.3...C
At about that temperature, school buses around here can't run. The diesel doesn't burn, lol.
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r\Rofl I live in sunny California, its 55-60 F right now.
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r\Rofl I live in sunny California, its 55-60 F right now.
Hell it's probably 60-65 here, still feels cold for Florida tho.
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Hooray for 40 F and raining. Seattle's weather is awesome ;_;
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Surgery, wheee! Painkillers don't do much, and I am itchy, itchy ittttchyyyy.
Also hallo.
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My girlfriend. Again. Man...
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Surgery, wheee! Painkillers don't do much, and I am itchy, itchy ittttchyyyy.
Huh? for what?
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Surgery, wheee! Painkillers don't do much, and I am itchy, itchy ittttchyyyy.
Itchy itchy what a bitchy. =(
Also, hai thar.
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Yeah, I was kinda wondering where you went... Yeah, we wanna know all the details.
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PAYCHECK GET
FUCK YEAH!F#O{QKO{!!!!!!1
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How much did you make?
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Enough to pay my bills, eat, and maybe buy something nice.
It's been a while since I've gotten a paycheck, hence the jubilant port.
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Port? lol, I take it you're a little tired?
Either way, nice. Money is always a good thing :P
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I get my paycheck on Sunday, 300 cool ones. I work with beaners btw.
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Port? lol, I take it you're a little tired?
You have no idea.
I'm pretty much working a graveyard shift. Sleep has not been coming to me easily as of late.
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Ouch.
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Audiosurf :3
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Audiosurf :3
Seconded.
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Haha, DDR. Such a fun game. Also, watching Spec get an A on Max 300 Heavy on Doubles. Christ. Something you don't see in person everyday (or ever)
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I think my attempt at FAXX doubles was even better.
"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?!"
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I sincerely hope there are videos forthcoming. if not :<
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Nope...my bags were packed to the brim as it is. Sorry.
ALSO: Family Guy: Blue Harvest. Simply hysterical. I usually don't laugh out loud for movies (I generally do a quiet chuckle) but some parts of that just made me bust out laughing. I highly recommend it.
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Odd, my brother (who is usually a pretty good critic for comedy movies, and is usually pretty right about his predictions) said he thought it was going to suck ass.
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Odd, my brother (who is usually a pretty good critic for comedy movies, and is usually pretty right about his predictions) said he thought it was going to suck ass.
My girlfriend saw it, and said it was really funny. Your brother might be wrong for once :x
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Odd, my brother (who is usually a pretty good critic for comedy movies, and is usually pretty right about his predictions) said he thought it was going to suck ass.
WWWWWRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!! </luthor>
But in all seriousness, it was quite funny.
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Double post.
NEW CAMERA:
(http://files.spectere.net/pictures/photos/nikon-d40.jpg)
I LIKE IT SO FAR. Wasn't able to get any good photos with it yet (aside from some in the hotel room, but I'm not going to post those, haha)...I'll try to get some shots with it tomorrow, if I wake up early enough.
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But in all seriousness, it was quite funny.
It had added stuff that wasn't in it's on T.V. showing. Also The Invisible was a good movie, damn good sound track too. My friends mom was ;_; at the end.
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It had added stuff that wasn't in it's on T.V. showing.
Yeah, they went over that in the commentary. I wound up totally bleeding the disc dry of its bonus content after one day. 'twas great.
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Nice camera...
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The fact that now my mom will stop calling me anorexic and complaining about my weight loss. Yay, it was entirely beneficial.
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After a very long 3 months, I'm finally over Kate. I seriously can't remember the last time I was in this good of a mood.
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After a very long 3 months, I'm finally over Kate. I seriously can't remember the last time I was in this good of a mood.
What?! I thought you guys were still going out... you broke up 3 months ago, but remained friends?
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We never actually went out. I liked her, but I learned it wasn't mutual. I kept myself from avoiding her for 3 months for the sake of the rest of our friends.
Side note, in 5 months I'll know whether or not I'll have gone through all of high school single. Wait, wrong thread.
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Side note, in 5 months I'll know whether or not I'll have gone through all of high school single. Wait, wrong thread.
Eh, I went through 23 years of life single (virginity still intact). No complaints here.
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Well, I've been through most of highschool with a GF, however, I am still a virgin as well.
The only time I get bothered in the least about that is when someone asks if I've had sex with my GF yet, and I tell them no, and they act like I'm either A) insane, B) stupid, or C) a complete looser. I just fucking hate when people get all hung up on it. I try not to care, because most of the people who care are douchebags anyway, but I can't help but be bothered by it.
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The only time I get bothered in the least about that is when someone asks if I've had sex with my GF yet, and I tell them no, and they act like I'm either A) insane, B) stupid, or C) a complete looser.
I generally just look at those kind of people, blink a few times (for effect), say "k", and walk away.
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Well, most of the time that I'm actually talking to one of those people, I'm probably not in a situation that I can easily get out of without "offending" them and making things worse for myself. I've learned that the more I react, whether it's leaving, or saying something insulting, generally just makes things worse.
These people are the "cool" people who like starting conversations with me more or less to subtly make fun of me and such, in a way that I can't respond to because it'll just "offend" them. It's kinda hard to describe exactly what I'm talking about. This also might be a somewhat slanted view because after all the bullying I've been through, I tend to automatically hate the "cool" people unless they actually do something to show that they're trying to be friends. I can usually tell just by the way someone talks, whether they really care about talking to me, and whether they're baiting me or not.
Of course, that could be somewhat slanted by me as well. I've developed some social anxiety thanks to all that bullying, and unless I know who I'm talking to, or at least have some idea of their personality and social standing and all that, I tend to be very anxious, and don't know what to say and how to act. It's really problematic, but I've got 8 straight years of bullying to thank for that.
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We never actually went out. I liked her, but I learned it wasn't mutual. I kept myself from avoiding her for 3 months for the sake of the rest of our friends.
Side note, in 5 months I'll know whether or not I'll have gone through all of high school single. Wait, wrong thread.
What. Didn't you guys have sex at one point, or did she have sex with some other guy, or what?
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No, some guy had sex with a different girl 3 times while Kate was going out with him. Damn, you really misinterpreted my posts, didn't you?
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Lol, apparently.
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I was on the interstate today and traffic really slowed down because of a wreck, and my music was blasting because I was driving with my windows down, so I had pusher man blasting in my car when we slowed down to about 10 MPH. As I did this there was a black guy in the car to the left of me in the passenger seat, he heard the song looked and me and laughed, which made my day.
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Haha, nice one, that's pretty fucking sweet.
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I am no longer bound by T-Mobile's firm grasp on my ass. Verizon fucking pwns.
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It's true.
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They trapped me into a three-year contract that I couldn't break without paying $400. The rest of my family was on Verizon for a year before I got on. I didn't get cell phone reception in my house because their coverage sucks.
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Gah, everything in general. Getting a bunch of cash for my birthday is pretty sweet too. I'm gonna buy a kickass half cent with it.
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They trapped me into a three-year contract that I couldn't break without paying $400.
Kinda like what all other cell phone providers do? All of that is in the contract that you signed when you signed up with them.
I didn't get cell phone reception in my house because their coverage sucks.
CDMA is a better established network in the US. They make up for this "good thing" by restricting the shit out of what you can do with your phone and what devices you can bring into their network.
I hear there are still ways of getting your own ringtone onto a Verizon phone, though...
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Kinda like what all other cell phone providers do? All of that is in the contract that you signed when you signed up with them.
Verizon told us upfront that I was being put into a two year contract, and it would cost something like $300 to back out early. T-Mobile made NO mention of it.
CDMA is a better established network in the US. They make up for this "good thing" by restricting the shit out of what you can do with your phone and what devices you can bring into their network.
I hear there are still ways of getting your own ringtone onto a Verizon phone, though...
I really don't care about the whole country, seeing as I won't be using my cell anywhere besides my hometown. And I got no coverage in my hometown.
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Kicking ass at pool. Man, I should start hustling people at that game. I beat everyone I play and I've never even owned a pool table before >_>
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Verizon told us upfront that I was being put into a two year contract, and it would cost something like $300 to back out early. T-Mobile made NO mention of it.
Like I said, it's all in the contract. You should really get in the habit of reading those before you put your name on them. Where do you suppose the expression "signing your life away" came from?
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Kicking ass at pool. Man, I should start hustling people at that game. I beat everyone I play and I've never even owned a pool table before >_>
My dad is somewhat like that. He plays with professionals that can clear a table and know how to set up their next shot exactly. We have had a pool table for like 6 months but it doesn't have the stone or the cloth on it.
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Like I said, it's all in the contract. You should really get in the habit of reading those before you put your name on them. Where do you suppose the expression "signing your life away" came from?
Yeah, when someone hands me a contract, I'm going to read every word of fine print on the damn thing. Not only that, I happen to be decently well versed in legalese, so I can understand what they mean (I found out that apple can decide not to fix a broken iPod on warranty and charge up to $100 for telling you they won't fix it [technically, it's for the examination of the iPod, but still.])
Though I will admit that it's nice when companies are willing to put those things out in the open rather than never saying anything about it expecting you to know it. It's the difference between a company that's greedy, and a company that, while willing to take measures to make more money and all that, is still a bit closer to the "morally right" side...
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Though I will admit that it's nice when companies are willing to put those things out in the open rather than never saying anything about it expecting you to know it. It's the difference between a company that's greedy, and a company that, while willing to take measures to make more money and all that, is still a bit closer to the "morally right" side...
The funny thing about that is that Verizon intentionally cripples features of the phone to prevent people from getting use out of it while T-Mobile basically says "aw, fuck it, whatever." My mom and my nephew both have stock T-Mobile phones and they can do just about anything with them. I have yet to see a GSM phone that does something so stupid as to distinguish between "My Music" and "My Ringtones" and force you to pay $2-3 for a badly cut, low quality MP3.
The only CDMA provider in the US that I've seen that doesn't actively restrict phone usage is Alltel. I'm not sure about Sprint.
As far as the contract is concerned, it might just be a regional thing. When my dad signed up for T-Mobile they were very clear about the contract conditions.
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Like I said, it's all in the contract. You should really get in the habit of reading those before you put your name on them. Where do you suppose the expression "signing your life away" came from?
I'm just going to say that I'm 15 now and was 12 when I got my T-Mobile phone, so technically it was my mother who "signed my life away". I don't like making excuses, but I didn't really have the power to do that.
Anyway, my opinion is that Verizon is a better carrier than T-Mobile. I haven't seen the "crippled features", and I made sure to distinguish between My Music and My Ringtones so I didn't waste money on stuff that I could effectively do nothing with.
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Well, the way I see it, if there's a way to get around the crippling (I dunno if there is), then I'd definitely go for the CDMA network, and all that. I'm all for hacking things and so-on so I don't care about most of that unless it seriously causes a problem for me later on (like voiding a warranty on something I may need it for.)
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Well, the way I see it, if there's a way to get around the crippling (I dunno if there is), then I'd definitely go for the CDMA network, and all that.
Don't count on it; Verizon installs their own custom software on almost all of their phones (the Motorola E815 is a notable exception).
Also, with a CDMA network you cannot use your own phone. I'd much rather be able to buy a phone retail and be able to use it (which I have done, and wound up getting a much better phone than I could have gotten at any major carrier at a much lower price without extending the contract).
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Jesus, I didn't realize it was that bad... My brother has a Razer, but he's on a Rogers pay as you go account, and he owns the phone himself. It took a bit of searching to get the program to put on your own custom ringtones and stuff, but we managed to get that working and stuff. Unfortunately, Rogers is a shitty network, and he barely gets any reception in our basement. Bell is a much more well established network around here.
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There's tons of sites dedicated to hacking Motorola phones. The RAZRs also require nothing more than a mini-USB cable, so if you already have that (from a digital camera, etc) you don't have to pay for anything.
If you buy a Motorola phone retail (as opposed to purchasing it through your cellular provider) they provide a data cable and software. I think just about all unlocked GSM phones are capable of pay-as-you-go service as well.
As far as getting reception in your basement goes, building penetration on most cellular bands is rather low. Depending on how your house is built, you're not going to get good reception with any network.
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Truest statement ever. Getting cell reception in a house is a losing battle, let alone a lecture hall >: |
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Well, my friend's old piece of shit that's like, 5 years old now, and running on Bell can get reception damn near anywhere. Even int he middle of the school, with tons of concrete and metal all around. He gets something like, 3-4 out of 7 bars in my basement.
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Yeah, my phone gets like, negative two bars inside any building anywhere. It's sad. I've got the T-Mobile.
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T-Mobile is mighty fine in Ohio and most of Maryland. The only area I've had problems with in Tampa is around this hotel, but I think that be more because of its proximity to the airport. I get decent reception even in the Nielsen building.
Well, my friend's old piece of shit that's like, 5 years old now, and running on Bell can get reception damn near anywhere. Even int he middle of the school, with tons of concrete and metal all around. He gets something like, 3-4 out of 7 bars in my basement.
CDMA phones can transmit at a lower frequency -- 800MHz -- which offers better building penetration than many newer phones (which use a 1.9GHz band) and GSM phones (which, in all but rare cases, have a 850MHz floor). This is why older CDMA phones can, in some cases, get better reception at the expense of audio quality.
Like I said earlier, GSM also isn't as widely supported in the US and Canada. CDMA basically came first and GSM is playing catch-up. It's not that T-Mobile, AT&T, and Rogers suck, they just haven't been in this continent as long. I'll gladly take the freedom that GSM provides rather than having extra coverage and an overly-locked phone. Besides, if worst comes to worst, my company phone is going to be through Sprint, so I'll have the best of both worlds. :>
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Well, my friend's old-ass phone only really gets used once in a while, and he bought a couple ringtones, I dunno much about the phone itself, so I dunno how much hacking and such can be done to it, but it still works fine, and he is on a pay as you go service, so he's not locked into some contract.
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Oh yeah, forgot to mention this.
Last week, at work/school, my instructor ended up showing another instructor 2 Girls 1 Cup.
THE RESULT IS PROBABLY THE FUNNIEST THING I HAVE EVER WITNESSED. Seeing a 2G1C reaction live is so much better than seeing it on YouTube.
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Lol wut? was he just like "hey, check this out" and he didn't get into any sort of trouble?
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Fucking epic. Seriously.
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Lol wut? was he just like "hey, check this out" and he didn't get into any sort of trouble?
I'm not sure what led up to it exactly, but no, nobody got into trouble. The nighttime instructors are pretty cool about stuff (and apparently the one that was dragged into 2G1C is going to be my boss...oh dearz).
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Haha, nice.
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Work. I'm starting to really enjoy it, and I get paid a hell of a lot for what I do. It's pretty great.
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Super Bowl 42.
That game kicked ass.
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Chocolate rain
the pats, did lose; now they do feel the pain
chocolate rain
eli manning so full of himself
chocolate rain
for good reason, he should celebrate.
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Super Bowl 42.
That game kicked ass.
Sadly Pats lost, but I do agree it was definitely a nail biter.
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Sadly Pats lost, but I do agree it was definitely a nail biter.
Yeah, it was one of the few games that I actually got into (towards the end at least). It was exciting.
Also, I love finding various coins on the ground. Yay, free money!
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Am I the only person who wasn't rooting for the patriots here? :<
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Am I the only person who wasn't rooting for the patriots here? :<
Nope. :)
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Good, that makes me feel better, haha. Everyone I know in real life was going for the Giants, I was thinking it was really weird that you guys were all like "hooay patriots".
But then again, football, serious business.
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Good, that makes me feel better, haha. Everyone I know in real life was going for the Giants, I was thinking it was really weird that you guys were all like "hooay patriots".
But then again, football, serious business.
Don't mess with football.
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Heh, like I said, serious business.
PS my post count is catching up to yours.
On a serious note, frozen personal pizzas. They're seriously the best college food in the universe.
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You should catch up then, as I should be getting a job soon. MOTHERFUCKING FINALLY. Also I'm probably going to shave my head, just because I'm tired of having hair 6 inches past my shoulder, and long hair is against my new jobs dress code.
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If my job required me to cut my hair I'd quit. Speaking of jobs, my dad has told me that you can get a job at Yum Yum Donuts at 14, and if that's true than I guess I'm going to apply for a job there...
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So I got my work schedule for next week, I'm only working Wednesday and Sunday, and Wednesday is just a two-hour long graduation ceremony (graduating from training), complete with cake, that we get paid for. Sweeeeet.
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If my job required me to cut my hair I'd quit. Speaking of jobs, my dad has told me that you can get a job at Yum Yum Donuts at 14, and if that's true than I guess I'm going to apply for a job there...
Yeah they manager was like "you sure you want to cut your hair for a 7.50 an hour job?" and since I haven't had a hair cut in 2 years I agreed. Plus I always have my hair pulled back and it gives me a headache by the end of the day.
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complete with cake
THE CAKE IS A LIE
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THE CAKE IS A LIE
That's exactly what I thought at first, but from what I hear, it isn't :x
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That's exactly what I thought at first, but from what I hear, it isn't :x
"There really was a cake..."
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28 on ACT
i win
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I get to see Rocky Horror Picture Show tonight with a bunch of girls.
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BITCHES MANN.
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konichiwa bitches
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there's 2 n's :-X
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There's one n in, I don't give a shit. ;)
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I just got finished watching the original Die Hard.
That movie kicks ass.
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I get to see Rocky Horror Picture Show tonight with a bunch of girls.
What is that, anyway? I've heard of it before... no idea what it's about, though.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Horror_Picture_Show
In sort: It's a fucked up musical comedy parody that's amazing.
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The movie made no sense, but this is a cult film location we went to. Every Saturday at midnight, some people dress up and basically put on a show while the movie is going on. A lot of other people dress up to watch and participate. Most of it is them yelling inside jokes at the screen, 100% of them being sex jokes. I didn't particularly enjoy the experience, though.
Also, since this was the Saturday after Mardi Gras, there was a lot of flashing. In fact, toward the end, one girl just took her top off and went around topless for the next 30 minutes. It was strange.
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Haha, nice.
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Going to UCF to see my friends this weekend. None of them have seen my hair as short as it is now so this trip should be lulzy.
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Getting back into touch with old friends.
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No more pressure -- I passed all of the tests for Nielsen. Whew. Had a few drinks with my coworkers last night and found out that Yuengling brews some damn fine lager.
My roommate didn't make the cut; he flunked out yesterday. It's kind of weird having the room to myself. O.o I feel sorry for the guy -- that can't be easy. It's ridiculous how quickly they shipped him back. He was on a plane before I even got out of class.
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Well, nice to hear you passed. But yeah, that is pretty shitty for him.
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Wow, yeah, that does suck. Seems like they would've given him another chance to take the test or something- I know Nielsen is good with giving people second chances and stuff. They told me at training that they wouldn't waste their time and human resources training people if they were just gonna be quick to get rid of them if they didn't immediately "get it".
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They might be a bit more choosy when it comes to field training due to the nature of that particular job. I know they spend a hell of a lot of money on new hires (from what I understand, they basically drop $10K on every student that gets flown down here), but as a field rep you can't have any uncertainty when you're dealing with a person's equipment. If you smoke a person's $1000 TV, Nielsen's going to have to pay for it. If you don't do the installation properly, Nielsen can't use that home in the ratings (thus losing them money) and you'll wind up having to keep going back there to fix your mistakes.
But even so, it still sucks to get this far into it only to have that happen.
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My dogs surgery worked out nicely.
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Rofl I got my drivers license finally.
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My girlfriend's mom gave me $20 for giving her daughter rides "home" from recent band practices tonight. Sweet, free money.
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I drove one of my friends to school last year, and her parents gave me 20 bucks a month too, it was pretty awesome :U
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Yeah, during wind ensemble earlier this year, I gave my girlfriend's friend a ride home maybe a grand total of 4 or 5 times, and her house was dead on the way to mine, so it wasn't out of the way at all. And her mom gave me 20 bucks and a thank you card afterwards. I was like, whoa, sweet. It was nice 8)
Also, christ, my girlfriend.
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a thread on /v/ about gay sex with vaan turned swiftly into a thread about spiders, and the guy spamposts images of spiders making the thread awesome.
because of threads like that, i have multiple spider images saved on my hdd. can't deny the cuteness of some of dem spideys, arachnaphobic or not.
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hey vlad, weren't you b& from random chat?
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slowpoke.jpg
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lols ninja sterz
Seriously I always smile when I look at my posts now.
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Here be my company car:
(http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/7672/2006fordfivehundredwm4.jpg)
2006 Ford Five Hundred. I lurve it.
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Too bad it's a ford.
I get to go 2 KR 4 da summa.
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Too bad it's a ford.
Agreed.
Fucking Old Rebuilt Dodge...
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Too bad it's a ford.
beats the hell out of what most people drive.
i drive one of these, ohh yeah.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontiac_Montana
umm, a first generation one at that.
i like it as in i hate driving cars, give me a minivan or an SUV and i will be happy.
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My parents drive Pontiac Grand Prix and a Pontiac Grand Am (GT I think). Dunno the years on them, but they're on 4 year leases, and my mom's is almost up.
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Too bad it's a ford.
I used to dislike Fords until I started driving some of the newer models. Looks like they got most of the kinks out.
It runs nice. Very smooth, pretty quick for its size. It's taking me some time to adjust to driving a large car again.
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Oh man, why did I not know about this before? I did not know they had IDE/SATA to USB connectors...
:/
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Oh man, why did I not know about this before? I did not know they had IDE/SATA to USB connectors...
:/
You mean an external hard drive that connects threw a USB? I'm pretty sure I saw one that was 1TB at staples.
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No, the piece inside of the enclosure that the physical hard drive plugs into.
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Cuban food. Man, so delicious.
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Tomorrow is "Senior Skip Day", which I'll be taking advantage of. Next week is spring break. The following Monday is a day off because we haven't had a snow day this year. 11 days off.
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Heh, my spring brake was last week.
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You mean an external hard drive that connects threw a USB? I'm pretty sure I saw one that was 1TB at staples.
No, I mean a special cord that will connect any regular internal hard drive to a USB connection, instead of to the IDE or SATA connection inside your computer. It eliminates the need for buying drive enclosures, or buying normal external drives.
(http://www.memoryexpress.com/Images/products/L/MX13054-0.jpg)
That one is listed as $50 on memoryexpress.com, but I'm pretty sure you can get those as cheap as $20 if you look hard enough.
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o i c. well that's handy. Wouldn't it be easier to find a cheap external hard drive instead of getting a cheap internal plus that?
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It's close on the cheap end, but if you can get that USB to SATA/IDE cable for less than $20, then you could pay less for an internal than an external.
Tigerdirect.ca listings show that a cheap internal is about $45-55 CAD. A cheap external is $70-75 CAD.
If you compare prices of the most expensive/large drives: 1TB internal hard drive by Samsung is $304.99, a Kanguru BioSTOR 400GB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive with 40 Bit DES Encryption runs you up to $487.99 CAD.
I'd say that $325 is still cheaper than $490, despite needing to buy that adapter.
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HEY GUYS, I SPLURGED:
(http://files.spectere.net/pictures/photos/samsung-monitor.jpg)
BIG MONITOR IS 25.5" BIG. OH GOD THIS IS SO AWESOME.
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that thing wouldn't even fit in the confines of my pc desk
fapfapfap
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fapfapfap
Indeed.
I've also been using it with my 360. Mass Effect looks niiiiiiiice on it.
I want to eventually get a second one to replace my CRT. I think it would just barely fit.
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I'm so envious I could kill you and live in your skin...
Wait.. That might just work......
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weird people are calling me.
This shows that at least my friends are messing with me.
Which means they like me.
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HEY GUYS, I SPLURGED:
pic
BIG MONITOR IS 25.5" BIG. OH GOD THIS IS SO AWESOME.
That is very, very pimp. I am proud of you. It shames my lame CRT nothing-inch monitor D:
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How much was it?
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$550.
It has HDMI, DVI, and VGA ports, so you can even hook cable (or a Blu-Ray player or whatever) into it if you have an HD-capable cable box. I plan to do that eventually.
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Whoa, that's pretty freaking awesome. More questions: What resolution does it run at?
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i can answer this question since i am an expert
the native resolution of that monitor is
alotxalot
now that i think of it, watchin pron on that thing must be awesome....and uhh other important stuff like uhh microsoft excell...and umm microsoft paint...yeahh...
*edit* galdamn
mc donnalds breakfast
i love it
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Whoa, that's pretty freaking awesome. More questions: What resolution does it run at?
1920x1200, same as my laptop (albeit a lot larger and brighter).
It looks completely ridiculous when you lock in 640x480 or some other low resolution.
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Haha, that must be really funny.
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SpeedTest.net through my phone:
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/250051059.png)
Not too shabby...
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That's a lot better than I expected. I should totally show you guys what I get at school, you'd die. :V
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We got OpenITG running on an upgraded arcade cabinet (specifically, the Beaver Valley Mall's) :V
I've been up for over 24 hours and I don't care because I'm still psyched.
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Whoa, cool. You haxorz you >_>
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Nice one. :)
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OpenITG?
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For the past month or so, Vyhd, Matt1360, and I have been making breakthroughs implementing full ITG functionality into regular StepMania 3.95. Through collaboration, we have managed to take StepMania 3.95 and mimic ITG behavior on the known cabinet types for the game by trying to retrace the steps of the ITG dev team. It started off as a fun project, then sort of boomed into a possible replacement for official ITG and then some.
What has been implemented so far in terms of ITG Functionality:
- ScreenArcadePatch: ability to update the game through machine revisions (.itg or .bxr files)
- ScreenArcadeDiagnostics: hardware, network, and I/O diagnostics screen. For this to work on windows, the LibUSB filter driver must be installed (http://libusb-win32.sourceforge.net).
- PIUIO: though full functionality is still not implemented, will still work on a dedicab
- RageFileDriverCrypt: reading of proprietary file system used for ITG2 arcade systems.
- Custom song support: songs loaded from file in an r21/r23-like fashion
Basically, we're rewriting ITG2 AC to be open-source, higher quality, and have more features. :) There are also PC builds available for Windows and Linux. All the stuff listed above is implemented and confirmed working. If you wanna give it a go, head over to http://openitg.gr-p.com/
</plug>
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Very interesting. Can you point me to some info on the proprietary file system used for ITG2 arcade systems? That sounds like an interesting read by itself.
Nice to see a project like this going though. I've never played ITG, but I've always supported it. the way I see it, that lawsuit that took out ITG was pretty much just a legally supported move to keep control on a monopoly. People can argue this stuff back and forth, but that's what I believe anyway.
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Woo! Got my federal tax refund. :3
Edit: SWEET. I got my relocation package with my paycheck today, meaning I'm going to have enough money to finish building my computer, buy Vista Ultimate, throw in two more gigabytes, and have some money to spare. :D
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Vista Ultimate
You have joined the dark side!
Well, I've got my personal gripes, but after all the stuff I've seen and hear about vista, it's not nearly as bad as some people make it out to be. I won't be upgrading any time soon, but that's partly because I don't have the money, or the need to.
Until they can promise me more than what they've got right now, I don't see the point in upgrading to vista.
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No, it's nowhere near as bad as people say it is. A lot of people bitch about it being a resource hog, but the only reason it takes as much memory as it does is because of how aggressively it caches everything. It does start up and shut down slower than XP does, but when it's running it runs great, even better than XP in some cases (and, for the record, it runs fine with only 512MB of RAM).
Until they can promise me more than what they've got right now, I don't see the point in upgrading to vista.
Heavily updated kernel, symbolic link support in NTFS, DirectX 10, new audio architecture, etc etc etc etc etc.
I'll take it.
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Thing is, I don't need any of that. The updated kernel architecture might be nice, but I'll wait a bit. There are still some compatibility issues with stuff not running on Vista (not much any more, but still). I'll either update in a while, after there's more reason (such as games I might actually want to play requiring DX10 and such), but I may just wait till the next OS comes out.
XP still runs quite nicely, despite all it's shortcomings.
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There are a lot more changes going from XP to Vista than there are going from 2000 to XP. And the stuff I listed was just skimming the surface -- Vista is a fairly dramatic upgrade.
Also, the rest of my computer should be arriving on Monday and/or Tuesday!!!!!!!1 :D
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my personal experience with vista has been terrible. friends get new pc's, loaded up with vista...trying to lan/do other stuff...can't quite figure out what to do because everything is different.
i have one friend who upgraded back to xp, and another who will do the same thing as soon as he can afford to buy a new os.
im sure there are good things, but the thing is just way too differant, 512 memory to run an os is retarded, and really xp works just fine.
its sort of like typing on a qwerty keyboard, then you buy a new pc, and the keyboard is dvorak. dvorak may be tested to have faster typing speeds, but you aren't used to dvorak, and would rather just keep using qwerty.
retarded analogy but it gets my point across.
AAAAANNNNNYYYYWAAAYYYY for my potato frying olive oil happy thing, friends are done with college this year on the 18th, which means more time with them, yyyaaayyyy. uhh and star wars 4 and 5 are on spike today, since i have never seen them (stfu) i am rather excited to see them.
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retarded analogy but it gets my point across.
Quite nicely too. I'm staying with XP until there is a reason for me to deal with all the changes and crap. I'm too used to XP, and there are still some things that are difficult to switch over.
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I really like vista. The only thing that bothered me was the "Aero" pointer, but that was easily fixable.
Although I do agree that it's a resource hog:
(http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/1377/taskmanagerqq7.jpg)
I only had IE open.
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I have 457 MB in use, and that's with all the background apps open and a firefox window eating up 88,560k. :/
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Like I said, the only reason Vista uses all of that memory is because it performs very aggressive caching. It's not a resource hog. If another application needs that memory, it'll release it instantly. The reason Vista feels faster than XP in a number of cases is because it performs that caching. Microsoft isn't pushing up memory requirements because they feel like it -- they're pushing them up because there's no need to keep them down. Cheap computers come with 2GB of RAM nowadays; why not use it to make the OS run faster?
Also, vlad, if you think that Vista requiring 512MB of RAM is outlandish, try taking a fully upgraded XP SP2 system and reducing it to less than 512MB of RAM. It's probably going to run worse than a Vista system would with 512MB.
My dad had a fairly clean 256MB system running XP SP2 and it runs like ass. The only things he installed in it are Quicken, TurboTax, and Ad-Aware. He slapped an extra 256MB stick in it and all of a sudden it started running smooth. XP, when fully upgraded, needs just as much RAM as Vista does.
One thing that does make me laugh is when Apple fanboys go on about how much memory Vista takes. Guess what -- OS X requires 512MB of RAM as well.
Edit:
I have 457 MB in use, and that's with all the background apps open and a firefox window eating up 88,560k. :/
Yep, Firefox definitely loves memory...
That's about the only gripe I have with it. I have to run Opera on my P2-300 (equipped with 64MB) simply because Firefox consumes more memory than the system even has. Opera's a fine browser, though, so it's all good.
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I found my first star note ever today :D
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_note
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Yep, Firefox definitely loves memory...
Yep, it does because it caches pages you've been to up to 8 pages per tab. (among other things). It's there to make hitting the back button faster, lol.
Lots of tabs = lots of memory taken. I've seen firefox eat 250+ MB of memory on here, thanks to their caching system.
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The biggest problem with Firefox when it comes to its caching is that, unlike Vista, it doesn't know when to stop; it'll happily run your computer out of memory and fill your swap file, bringing whatever you wanted to do to a screeching halt.
Truth be told, Opera seems to do something similar (you can go back/forward almost instantly) but it runs perfectly well on machines without a whole lot of memory. What Firefox needs is an easy way (not an about:config way, because changing setting in that interface is like getting a root canal with no Novocaine) to set the maximum amount of RAM that you want to devote to caching, like the old Mozilla suite used to let you do.
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I think Dan has most of the cache-ing on our firefox turned off.
in relation to topic... uh...
I took a long well needed nap today. yummmmmmmm
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I went to the local arcade today for the first time in about 5 months to find that all of my ITG-oriented files had been put back on the machine by someone I don't even know. I was pretty happy about that, because the files I made are my favorites. Plus, it means my stuff is considered good by a lot of people instead of just people who know me.
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Yeah, I liked your files before I really talked to you on here. I was kinda surprised with one of those "oh, wicked" type thoughts when I realized who you were on here and such (sorta like when I first noticed eggman posting a lot on here.) Just one of those "oh cool, someone who's somewhat known online, and he hangs out here" type thought.
But yeah, that's pretty cool.
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Kate told me I was a "pretty amazing guy" on prom night. I didn't know how to take that compliment, and it's been echoing in my head since.
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The biggest problem with firefox is whenever I have to look at someone's html loaded myspace page (or a score thread), it has a good chance of just shutting the fuck DOWN
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That's generally the fault of a plugin (probably Flash) than Firefox itself, though.
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Yeah, Flash has cause my FF to need to be closed quite a few times. And it only rarely actually gives me a message saying a plugin has fucked up.
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unfortunately, that belongs in the paring knives of anger thread and not potatoes of happy.
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So, I checked my bank account online, afraid I had overdrafted. Seriously, I hate to check my bank account because every time I do I have less money than I thought I did/want to.
Anyway, open that shit up, and BAM! $460.97. Fuck yes!
My potatoes are totally being fried.
Stimulus check was nice. Now I get to pay rent for next month. 30 more days of a place to sleep, yay. :] This couldn't come at a better time, the economy sucks and everyone that works in retail is getting their hours cut. 25 hour work weeks aren't cutting it that much. :\
Christ, I'd almost like to say that George W. Bush did something right for once, but... That's being very generous.
As tempting as it is for me to want to by a wireless card and a new keyboard, I must restrain myself. Oh the humanity.
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I didn't think I was getting paid anything on my last paycheck, but the statement came in the mail today and I ended up getting $117. Woohoo.
PS apparently I got a raise, too. Sweeeet. Makin' ten bucks an hour now 8)
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Today, I took my AP Physics exam, which was pretty much the last thing I had worth caring about in high school. Now all I have to do is wait for graduation.
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We have all our exams on one day. They're also on like, the last day of school.
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Yeah, I took my AP American History exam last friday, now I have nothing to worry about in that class- all we're doing is watching movies for the next 3 weeks.
Wednesday is my AP English exam which shouldn't be too bad, then after that I have nothing left to do in that class as well.
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We have all our exams on one day. They're also on like, the last day of school.
I thought you graduated high school?
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He did, but that doesn't mean the school system changed the timing of their exams.
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He did, but that doesn't mean the school system changed the timing of their exams.
Exactly.
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Vista.
Performance-wise, it completely blows XP out of the water on my machine (and it looks pretty).
Also, being able to finally use symbolic links for files in a Windows environment is wonderful.
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I just don't like the way Microsoft is going with their Trusted Computing crap.
Maybe if I stop hearing quite so much negativity towards vista, I might look at getting it, but for now, XP works perfectly fine for me. The only thing I would really like that I've seen in vista is the ability to search your start menu. I've got a GIGANTIC start menu, and that would really help me :/
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Work today was essentially eating barbeque and chillin', and getting paid three hours for it. Sweet deal.
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Maybe if I stop hearing quite so much negativity towards vista, I might look at getting it, but for now, XP works perfectly fine for me.
And I'm sure Windows 98 worked perfectly well when XP came onto the scene. If you recall, XP had a lot of negativity thrown onto it from people who refused to change. Now just about everyone running Windows uses XP.
It'll be the same thing for Vista. In a year or two people will forget what they were whining about in the first place.
Also, for Trusted Computing to work, your system needs a TPM. Non-OEM boards generally don't have one of those. It is a non-issue unless you buy a Dell or similarly branded computer and (in the case of Dell, anyway; haven't worked with other OEM systems with a TPM) go out of your way to enable it. A lot of people whine about the DRM imposed with HD DVD and Blu-Ray, but that's all the work of the movie studios. I somewhat doubt Microsoft really wants to burn those kinds of bridges and I can't find it in my heart to blame them.
I still stand by my belief that most of the people that bitch about Vista did nothing more than look at the system requirements and dismiss it on the spot, despite the fact that competing operating systems have the same requirements.
People talk about how much more efficient OS X is. Well, no. It doesn't use system memory as effectively and it requires as much as Vista does.
People go on about how tiny Linux can be. Well, yeah. It's a shame that once you add modules for every type of modern hardware imaginable, Xorg, GNOME/KDE/Xfce/whatever, hundreds upon hundreds of support libraries to support any kind of application imaginable (since there are dozens of different ways of doing the same damn thing) you wind up with an OS that takes far more disk space than it needs and can quickly consume memory above and beyond the needs of the standard operating environment. The only way you're going to get a Linux desktop that's appreciably faster and more efficient than Mac OS and Windows is by rolling your own or choosing a source-based distro, and even then things can balloon out of control. Say I'm a KDE user who wants to use the Gimp. All of a sudden I have to have a full GTK+ setup, not to mention whatever dependencies it uses, all of which consume additional memory when I decide to load it. With Windows and OS X, most programs utilize the system default libraries, meaning that the only thing taking up space is the program itself and whatever resources it needs to do its job. Much more efficient.
It bugs me when people whine about how much memory Vista "consumes." Right now, Vista is using 3GB of my memory. If you think it absolutely requires all of that memory, please let me know so I can unceremoniously ban you. My mom's laptop, which has 2GB of RAM, has about 1-1.5GB used. The system with 512MB of RAM that I accidentally installed Vista on only had about 400MB in use at any given time. This is the reason why I can do just about anything in the OS without having to wait for it. Let's say I want to start up a game that requires a lot of RAM. Since it's just cache data, Vista can drop it immediately and give my game however much RAM it wants. Additionally, it disables Aero to prevent it from interfering with or lagging the game (which is another major point that some people seem to refuse to acknowledge or flat-out lie about).
The system requirements are another thing. I've had numerous people whine about how "they heard" that Vista stalls on lower-end systems. Well, guess what, I used it on a lower-end system and it ran about as well as XP. I've had people call me a liar because I said that Vista ran well with 512MB of RAM. Never mind the fact that I've used a machine with Vista Business that had 512MB of RAM quite a bit (it was a test machine at my old workplace and I intentionally pushed it hard).
People just assume too many things without asking themselves WHY it is the way it is. People see that Vista is taking 3GB+ of their 4GB of available RAM. Rather than clicking around and saying, "oh hey, it's still quick and responsive!" they start screaming "LOL FUCKING MEMORY HOG." The official name for this feature is "SuperFetch."
Woo, that turned into a long-winded rant. Holy crap, I'm turning into Bobbias. -_- (jk u no i luv u <3) I'll just stop here for everyone's sake (including my own).
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Actually, my sister has vista installed on her laptop...It's compaq with a dual core amd 64 (i think) and has 512 mb of ram.. Totally a "bang for the buck" type of thing, cost less than $500. Anyway, so once you get rid of all of the extra proprietary BS compaq preloads with the computer, it's remarkably fast.. Faster than my mom's HP @ 2.8 Ghz/ 1GB laptop running XP.
I doubt I'll be making the switch to Vista, though. As soon as my replacement 500 GB drive comes back from seagate, I'm installing freeBSD and gnome. :> I would do it now, but all of my disks are in NTFS and I don't have any breathing room.. Both my drives are almost completely full. I guess it's what happens when you collect COMPLETELY LEGAL files and music on your computer.
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COMPLETELY LEGAL
That's PERFECTLY LEGITIMATE, bub.
Vista uses a better task scheduler than the NT5 line does, so that probably helps a lot. I'm sure they also improved the performance of multicore systems as well -- I know their threading model improved.
A lot of people really underestimate Vista. I've heard people go so far as to call it "XP with a new skin" (then again, those very people usually consider XP to be a dramatically updated version of Windows 2000, which is most certainly false) despite the fact that it is probably a more dramatic change to the NT architecture than the move from NT4 to NT5 was. People are stupid.
Best of luck on your FreeBSD ventures! May the ports guide you...
And it's kind of funny you should mention FreeBSD -- that's the next OS that I plan to put on hazard (my old compy). My menu.lst on that system is going to be ridiculous, haha.
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I wonder how much of the Native API changed in Vista...
I've begun reading about the new changes in vista, and I really like what I'm seeing. I'm going to really do a lot of reading on it, but my stance IS changing.
Oh, and I'll mention that I'm never going to buy some pre-built machine with vista on it... One of my friends is locked out of XP completely because the driver that enables his laptop's fan only works in Vista, so switching to XP causes it to overheat.
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Most manufacturers aren't dumb enough to completely lock their system fans to a particular OS (that design decision doesn't even make any bloody sense). Dell doesn't have any issues; haven't really used any of the others.
I wonder how much of the Native API changed in Vista...
It really can't change all that much. It still would have to retain some semblance of compatibility. I doubt Microsoft would want to rewrite things like CSRSS, for instance, with every Windows release.
Not that using it for normal programs is a good idea, of course... ;)
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True, but it can be an interesting way to look at the internal structure of windows more in depth than normal. Plus, you could probably achieve some performance increases if you used some of the Native API functions (albeit not likely much of one, but sometimes every little bit counts). I don't know too much about it, but I'd think there are probably some things that are easier to implement using the Native API as well.
You also have to think of how many things changed in Vista though, there were a lot of changes in how some things worked.
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Plus, you could probably achieve some performance increases if you used some of the Native API functions (albeit not likely much of one, but sometimes every little bit counts).
When given the choice between performance and compatibility ten years down the road, I'm going to take the latter. No sense taking risks.
You also have to think of how many things changed in Vista though, there were a lot of changes in how some things worked.
Uh...I've been ranting about how different Vista is from XP since long before it came out (I've used it since Beta 1). I'm well aware that it's a very different OS.
The point is, it's not cost effective to completely change APIs between versions in the middle of an OS line. If they completely revamped the Native API, they'd have to revamp all of the documents, all of the programs that require it, and wipe out any semblance of compatibility. Seeing as Vista is an NT, they're not likely to do something that extreme.
The Native API isn't likely to do much more than grow until Microsoft phases out the NT product line in favor of something entirely different. For that reason, it's not a good idea to rely on it. You can count on the Win32 APIs staying the same. This is why an OS as new as Vista can run my beloved Stars (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stars!). Windows is so bloody compatible with itself that, with a minor change to the file header, Vista can run applications designed for Windows 1.0 -- that's 20 years of binary compatibility. If you want to take it down another notch, you can run DOS applications on Vista as well. There's a neat little game called Executive Suite that I play from time to time. This game works perfectly under Vista. It was written in 1982. The game is older than me and it runs perfectly fine under a modern OS.
The obvious exception to this is that the x64 editions of Windows only support the Win32 and Win64 APIs. Even so, that's still 15 years of binary compatibility, given NT 3.1's release date. Very impressive as far as operating systems go.
But anyway, the point that I'm trying to make is that using things like the Native API can very easily break you. It's like how some programmers came to rely on VXDs in the Win9X era. Guess what; those cannot function at all in NT. The Native API was introduced in NT, intended for internal use and for when the standard Windows API isn't available. Whenever Microsoft moves onto their Next Big Thing(TM) the Native API is going to either disappear from the equation or be radically changed, since right now it's specific to the NT kernel.
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My point was that if you have a time critical application that is very specific (only going to be used in a very limited environment that isn't likely to change for some time) it might be possible to take advantage of speeding the application up by a little bit by using the Native API, but I never meant that it would be a very widespread thing, either.
And as for my comment on how it changed: There are a LOT of differences between Vista and XP, I realize that they are both NT, and so share most core aspects of the Native API, but technically, they could make a HUGE change in the Native API and still ahve it nearly seamless, because almost every program, aside from essential startup programs and deep parts of the kernel use the WIN32 API instead of the Native API, and they can make drastic changes to the Native API and simply use the same WI32 API to wrap it. That way they can modify the underlaying structure of the Native API without affecting most programs. And compared to the work of writing some of those parts of the kernel that are new in Vista, upgrading a couple essential programs to use slightly different Native API calls wouldn't be much work at all.
My point is that the Native API is pretty much invisible to the end user and since it's so low level, with everything above it, it could be heavily modified with very little outward appearance in the WIN32 API. I never said that they WOULD do that though.
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If you have a time critical application you're NOT going to trust an OS with preemptive multitasking to run it. Odds are you wouldn't even use PC architecture.
And no, they can't make drastic changes to the Native API because it's a documented API in the DDK. Microsoft would receive a lot of flak from third-parties if they were to make sweeping changes to it between versions of NT.
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I didn't realize it was documented in the DDK. Though I should point out that the DDK's documentation isn't complete anyway. (nor is the Native API's documentation anywhere, as far as I know).
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The Native API is documented but is not publicly available from Microsoft. Third-parties have no doubt partially documented it, but that doesn't say anything for how complete Microsoft's documentation is (and considering how essential complete documentation for such a thing would be to anti-virus and similar vendors, there's no doubt in my mind that it's at least 99% complete). As I said, documentation is provided with the DDK (and the installable file system SDK, as it turns out) because they sometimes need the ability to run before the Windows API is available.
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I've heard people saying that even the DDK's documentation is incomplete, and poorly done and such.
There was a hacking group that needed to make a driver that could emulate a hardware dongle to use something that had a complaint in their install documentation saying that it took them something like 3 months just to write the necessary code for making that driver (they knew what the dongle did and such, so it was only the driver code they needed to deal with there really) because of the poor documentation and such. I've no doubt that Microsoft has the Native API fully documented somewhere, but from what I hear, the DDK's documentation is incomplete/poor, and 3rd party documentation is even poorer in some aspects (of course, they probably have documented some previously undocumented functions somewhere).
I've read in more than one place that writing drivers for windows is painful, at best, because of the poor state of the DDK.
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What on earth does any of that have to do with the Native API? The only way the two are related is that the DDK comes with the Native API documentation. That is it.
I've heard mixed things about the DDK as well but that doesn't have any impact on the Native API documentation.
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Oh god. Nerds.
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Oh god. Nerds.
OMFG A GURL
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OMFG A GURL
OH MY FUCKING GOD WHERE?!?!?
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THE HELL?
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Oh god you.
You don't fry my potatoes.
You PEEL them.
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Just got a new phone, and it's a LOT nicer then my old one. Apparently I can load MP3s into it, it has bluetooth (which I could use to load MP3S with, right?) and a 1.3 mega pixel camera.
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Just got a new phone, and it's a LOT nicer then my old one. Apparently I can load MP3s into it, it has bluetooth (which I could use to load MP3S with, right?) and a 1.3 mega pixel camera.
a razr?
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What on earth does any of that have to do with the Native API? The only way the two are related is that the DDK comes with the Native API documentation. That is it.
And from what I hear, the documentation that comes with the DDK is terrible, I'm going to assume (yes, that evil word) that that would include the Native API documentation.
Fake Edit: I went and did a google search to see what more people had to say.
Comments here bash the DDK's documentation
http://www.amazon.com/Windows-2000-Native-Reference-Circle/dp/1578701996
1 comment here says it's good
http://discuss.fogcreek.com/joelonsoftware2/default.asp?cmd=show&ixPost=64371&ixReplies=12
There are about 240 Native APIs in Windows. Currently, the only documentation on Native APIs is located in the Windows Device Driver Kit (DDK) and the Windows Installable File System Kit (IFS Kit). The DDK actually describes the parameters and usage of a around 25 Native APIs, and includes prototype and parameter information for a few others in NTDDK.H. The IFS Kit documents about 25 more APIS only by providing prototypes in header files that come as part of the kit, and sometimes through their use in sample code. Most of APIs included in the IFS Kit are in the file I/O and security categories. You can find prototypes and some minimal documentation for many Native APIs in the book Windows NT/2000 Native API Reference.
Last year, Macmillan Technical Publishing released a book by Gary Nebbett entitled Windows NT/2000 Native API Reference. This book contains a description of the 10% or so of the native API routines that are documented in the DDK, as well as a long list of undocumented routines that the author sleuthed himself (with apparently no access to the sources). The level of documentation is similar to that found in the MSDN online sources (the function prototype, a description of the function, each of its parameters, and return values, etc). The book could have benefited from some source code examples, but it
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And from what I hear, the documentation that comes with the DDK is terrible, I'm going to assume (yes, that evil word) that that would include the Native API documentation.
Again, Native API != DDK. They are separate pieces of documentation, evidenced by the fact that the Native API isn't exclusive to the DDK.
Microsoft doesn't exactly want to encourage developers to run around using the Native API because of the potential damage it could do. It's not intended for general use, hence its limited availability and fairly limited nature.
Just got a new phone, and it's a LOT nicer then my old one. Apparently I can load MP3s into it, it has bluetooth (which I could use to load MP3S with, right?) and a 1.3 mega pixel camera.
Yeah, most phones I've used let you load things to the phone memory via Bluetooth. If it's a Motorola, you definitely can.
If it has a microSD slot and a mini-USB jack you could generally use it as a card reader by plugging it into the computer. I have a 1GB microSD card in my V3x and a 2GB microSD card in my BlackBerry for storing media and stuff on, it really comes in handy.
a razr?
If it's a RAZR, it's a V3i or V3m (depending on the network; V3i's work with GSM, V3m's work with CDMA).
Sheesh, I need to stop being a Moto geek...
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If it's a RAZR, it's a V3i or V3m (depending on the network; V3i's work with GSM, V3m's work with CDMA).
Sheesh, I need to stop being a Moto geek...
It's not a razr, but it's really similar. Also yes it has a MicroSD slot and I think a USB plug in.
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Ah, alrighty.
I'd really recommend getting a microSD card for it. Most phones only seem to come with 64MB of onboard RAM (even my company BlackBerry only has 64MB of Flash...what's with that?).
Most phones don't allow you to access the microSD card while the phone is plugged into a computer. What I typically do to counter this on my V3x is load ringtones onto the microSD card and move them into internal storage. Same with wallpaper. These are the only things that I keep on the phone internally. The camera is set to dump pictures onto the microSD card. If I want to put videos, music, or just about anything else, I leave it on the external storage. It works quite well that way.
If you already have a Bluetooth transceiver, just use that. If not, you can pick up a 512MB-1GB microSD card for what you'd pay for one.
Also, speaking of videos, grab a copy of 3GP Converter (http://www.divx-digest.com/software/3gp_converter.html) if you want to watch them on your phone. Phones typically don't work well with longer videos, but they aren't bad for clips under 10-15 minutes if you can get past the small screen.
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I want a new phone. :(
Oh, and the LHC (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider) started up today. FUCK YEAH PARTICLE ACCELERATORS.
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THEY'RE WAITING FOR YOU GORDON, IN THE TESSSSSSSST CHAMBER.
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I want a new phone. :(
Oh, and the LHC (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider) started up today. FUCK YEAH PARTICLE ACCELERATORS.
We're not dead yet, so obviously they haven't blown up the earth yet :P
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We're not dead yet
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speak fer yourself
x.x RIP
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Good, I didn't feel like being dead or anything. XD
In relation to thread - I get to see a friend from high school I haven't seen in about 3 years tonight. X3 yaey friends.
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We're not dead yet
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speak fer yourself
x.x RIP
B& 4 phail.
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B& 4 phail.
No sir, you failed. :[
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ground beef, eggs and cheese. tasty.
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My mother brought me home a big ass taco, it's probably 2 pounds. I'm eating a quarter of it now and I'm having trouble finishing it.
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Yay, I have a 360 again!
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sex!
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INDEED.
Maybe we can play R6V2 one of these days, eh?
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POSSIBLY SO MY GOOD SIR. Whenever I'm on just GIMME A HOLLA and we'll do some shit
also : get GTA IV
and love it
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I'm totally getting GTA4 when I get my next paycheck. Holy shit I want that game so hard I want that game I want that game I want that game OHHH *boom*
Sorry, I just got excited when I realized that I actually have the means of playing GTA4 again. :)
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We'll have it as soon as Dan gets his stim check. :D
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[spoiler]niko is actually solid snake, and he finally kills raiden(who was actually roman) at the end of the game[/spoiler]
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Raiden playing a male charecter, SURELY YOU JEST.
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Yeah so uh, The World Ends With You is a fantastic game.
Also, my team meeting last night at work was awesome, getting paid for two hours of eating and talking. Sweet.
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TAX RETURN GET :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
FINALLY SHOES THAT DONT HAVE HOLES X3
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OH MAN, double post for this
(http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j263/huckleberry_jinx/1211314420bbmbbf_amor02.jpg)
THIS IS THE BEST WEEK EVER
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Practically everytime I see that sig, I crack a smile.
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Practically everytime I see that sig, I crack a smile.
Yep.
http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j263/huckleberry_jinx/1211314420bbmbbf_amor02.jpg
Can you explain why that is so important?
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Fangirlism.
Shut up. XD
also see avatars.
yeup. best $45 spent ever.
God my priorities suck balls. XD
also Leesy is the best and worst cat ever... and is also pissed all of the time. but i love her anyway.
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I got tmobile to send me a new sidekick lx
woot
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I got bored and made a picture message version of meatspin. Sound and all.
Sent it to about five friends so far. All have responded with something akin to "AAAH! MY EYES!"
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Please send that to me lol 602-579-6834 I'll throw it around
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also Leesy is the best and worst cat ever... and is also pissed all of the time. but i love her anyway.
DO YOU HAVE THAT ONE PICTURE OF HER? XD
I got bored and made a picture message version of meatspin.
Yes, I noticed.
If I were truly a malicious bastard, I'd make an MMS version of swap.avi.
(then again, that would require watching it, and I don't really want to do that)
Long story short: meatspin is hilarious.
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Yes, I noticed.
If I were truly a malicious bastard, I'd make an MMS version of swap.avi.
(then again, that would require watching it, and I don't really want to do that)
Long story short: meatspin is hilarious.
Bwahahahaha
Please send that to me lol 602-579-6834 I'll throw it around
Sent!
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I have swap.avi on my hard drive and have watched it in entirety with Dan.
We rofl'd.
and I have that pic in the middle of this one, i habeeb:
(http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j263/huckleberry_jinx/leesypissed.jpg)
XD
this is the "my cat is pissed all the time" image
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X3 I LURVE IT.
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Woo...so I just slept for 11.5 hours. I almost feel human again.
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Lovely, isn't it?
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I wanna do that :(
man tomorrow is my first day that i would have been able to do so but I have a hair cut appt at 10:30. uhmm hm yeah but that's cool, I GET SHORT HURRRR AGAIN. yes, hurrrrrrr. my hair is retarded.
That makes me excited again. because long hair is cool but ffs its so much easier to keep up with when it's short because I AM FUCKING LAZY.
i'm trying to achieve this:
(http://www.gundamofficial.com/worlds/uc/msg/characters/images/chara_sayla_a.gif)
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Woo...so I just slept for 11.5 hours. I almost feel human again.
double posting asshole. >:| :-P Also, fuck your sleep. jk,jk. <3
Waking up and programming. :>
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OMG MY STEPDAD GOT ME A TICKET TO IRON MAIDEN ON MONDAY HOLY SHIT YES OMG
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I wanna do that :(
It actually put me behind on my work, so I had to catch up on it today.
BUT GOD DAMN IT FELT GREAT.
It was sort of accidental, actually. I just sat down in my compy chair after work and slipped into a coma. Seriously.
I looked like hell, too. My eyes were all bloodshot and sore, it looked like I got punched in the eye socket, etc etc, you know, that shit. Fuck insomnia.
Edit: ...actually, the insomnia probably had a lot to do with the vicious caffeine cycle that I have a nasty tendency of getting into. Y'know, you start off bad (waking up at 6 in the fucking morning on Monday for work, driving for a total of like six hours, and not getting home until after midnight...fucking JOYOUS :x), pump your system full of caffeine to stay awake so you don't slam into a guardrail/car going 70, then continue to maintain that caffeine intake so that you can survive the rest of the week. UGH. Give me a 9-5 any day, this shit is for the birds.
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yeah, slamming into a guardrail sorta sucks. :D
also my hair is super short. ;-; like, too short but I think I can make it work.
but regardless of that, the haircut makes me look like I'm 25 years old and COMPLETELY EFFIN DIFFERENT. like she gave me bangs and everything. Pics to come when I don't look and feel like complete ass.
It's pretty awesome.
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yeah, slamming into a guardrail sorta sucks. :D
also my hair is super short. ;-; like, too short but I think I can make it work.
but regardless of that, the haircut makes me look like I'm 25 years old and COMPLETELY EFFIN DIFFERENT. like she gave me bangs and everything. Pics to come when I don't look and feel like complete ass.
It's pretty awesome.
PIX NAO!
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My uncle is known to come into our house with random things he's purchased. He lives by himself, so he likes to buy little things for my parents and I every so often. Semi-disposable income, y'know?
I think this morning, he put the icing on the cakes of randomness.
He bought me freaking BAGPIPES.
*squees with delight*
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Haha, wow, nice. Fucking bagpipes, lol.
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Bagpipes are killer, but hard to play. Good luck learnin' :x
I finally got my employee referral bonus at work, woo. $150 for referring a bilingual friend of mine back in, like, February. So pimp.
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The management at the North Park Clubhouse finally let my friends clean out the damn pads on the ITG2 machine.
This much stuff was sucked out of them. Stuff! (http://s65.photobucket.com/albums/h222/ShinimegamiJupi/?action=view¤t=DSCN8936.jpg)
They're so great now. @_@
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Jesus, i hope you showed that to the management.
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This much stuff was sucked out of them. Stuff! (http://s65.photobucket.com/albums/h222/ShinimegamiJupi/?action=view¤t=DSCN8936.jpg)
Do I see the leg of a certain Nick in that photo?
Also, why am I not surprised? Those pads have been growing increasingly more shitty since Andy left...not to mention that I heard the MGD2 boss songs are still farked.
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Do I see the leg of a certain Nick in that photo?
Also, why am I not surprised? Those pads have been growing increasingly more shitty since Andy left...not to mention that I heard the MGD2 boss songs are still farked.
Nope! Those legs belong to my friends Brian and Evan. You might have met Brian...I'm not too sure. He's commonly referred to as Dumple. (Though he really hates that name.) :3
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I dunno...I met so many people there. :S I'd know if I saw his faec again.
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I dunno...I met so many people there. :S I'd know if I saw his faec again.
Here's an idea!
Get your ass up here! :D
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I want to. :(
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Then do it!
Hell, we'll just kidnap you.
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So as it turns out, my system can handle EVE at 1280x960 with all the fluff turned on, GLQuake in a 1650x1050 window, and Aero without breaking a sweat.
Sheesh. Amazing how much things improve in 3-4 years.
Hell, we'll just kidnap you.
Sweet. 8)
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So as it turns out, my system can handle EVE at 1280x960 with all the fluff turned on, GLQuake in a 1650x1050 window, and Aero without breaking a sweat.
Sheesh. Amazing how much things improve in 3-4 years.
Sweet. 8)
See you next month then. :D
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I managed to get 12 $1 Silver Certificates from my bank, through an act of god. Read about them, they're really interesting. And rare, in 2008, what the HELL?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_certificates
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So, I finally got payed by my company. My bank account now has $430 :P A nice improvement over the $2.07 that was in there before I pgotpayed :P
Fuck Yeah!
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So today I convinced someone that we should switch over to using hydrogen rather than drill in Alaska for more oil.
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I'm interested in the actual numbers of how much energy it takes to separate hydrogen from water and how much energy hydrogen gives off...
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So, I finally got payed by my company. My bank account now has $430 :P A nice improvement over the $2.07 that was in there before I pgotpayed :P
Fuck Yeah!
GO BUY A 4 PACK OF GUINNESS right now please.
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Bah, a 4 pack? How about going down to the bar and drinking a couple pints :P But man, I need to save most of that money. Paying for my schooling is going to fucking kill me :/
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ORDER THAT FLIP TOP AND PLAY SOME IMPORT IIDX
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ORDER THAT FLIP TOP AND PLAY SOME NON-SHIITTY IIDX
fixed ;)
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It is now June 6th, and fifteen days to go until I arrive in Pittsburgh.
Then I am going to go on a wild and crazy tour and meet about a dozen online friends all at once, go to Kennywood with half of them, then visit AnthroCon for the first time in ever with a bunch of crazy-ass furries that I love to death.
I haven't been this excited since I can't remember.
...well, okay, I think I was about this excited when I went to DisneyQuest for the first time and found out that they had more arcade games than God. But this beats even that.
Wheeeeeee~
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I hope I can make it over there. It's hard as fuck to actually get days off for some stupid reason (me missing the MGD3 party because of that = RAGE...me missing AC08 and hanging out with a lot of my friends = RESIGNATION (well, maybe not quite that, but either way it's going to definitely encourage me to head over to a company that treats its employees like human beings)).
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It is now June 6th, and fifteen days to go until I arrive in Pittsburgh.
Then I am going to go on a wild and crazy tour and meet about a dozen online friends all at once, go to Kennywood with half of them, then visit AnthroCon for the first time in ever with a bunch of crazy-ass furries that I love to death.
I haven't been this excited since I can't remember.
...well, okay, I think I was about this excited when I went to DisneyQuest for the first time and found out that they had more arcade games than God. But this beats even that.
Wheeeeeee~
omg fifteen days! *squee*
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Last day of school was today. Graduation is the day after tomorrow.
FUCK HIGH SCHOOL!
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You're still in high school? I thought you where older then me.
Also I got to go to the beach and then later dick around with friends, while getting the lawn mowed and taking a shower, it was a very fun and productive day.
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Last day of school was today. Graduation is the day after tomorrow.
FUCK HIGH SCHOOL!
ditto, cept i go I go to like 4 amusement parks with all of the seniorsbefore I graduate.
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I got another quad-star.
Vyhd got another quad-star.
:D happy
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faggots go to fucking Oklacon.
this is because I cant go to anthrocon because i live in DUMBFUCK TEXAS and my job is like IF YOU LEAVE WE SHUT DOWN BECAUSE YOU DO EVERYTHING.
so yeah. this should probably be in the other thread but bears relevance to this topic.
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this is because I cant go to anthrocon because i live in DUMBFUCK TEXAS and my job is like IF YOU LEAVE WE SHUT DOWN BECAUSE YOU DO EVERYTHING.
Hell, that's what my old boss said to me when I gave them my two weeks' notice. I said "Dammit, this is Eat-n-Park! Perhaps if you stopped making me do the jobs of six different people at once for 14 straight hours, then I wouldn't be quitting now would I?"
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beats being an unemployed bum living in THE most unemployed state in the country.
but other than that, my life is quite good, and i can't complain, so its worth posting here, BECAUSE I AM HAPPY :O
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beats being an unemployed bum living in THE most unemployed state in the country.
but other than that, my life is quite good, and i can't complain, so its worth posting here, BECAUSE I AM HAPPY :O
Happiness is awesome.
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See, I have a job and all it's doing is leaving me with little time to hang out with my friends and making me rather miserable.
Sure, spectere works longer weeks than I do, but he doesn't have to do as much physical labor as me :/
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this is because I cant go to anthrocon
:'(
Sure, spectere works longer weeks than I do, but he doesn't have to do as much physical labor as me :/
Try moving 36" widescreen 1080p CRTs by yourself and then come back and try to tell me that I don't do much physical labor.
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Try sorting 13 skids taller than I am of stuff, and then stocking 220 cases of crap, tossing all partial (or sometimes full) cases of stuff onto a canopy taller than you are. Lifting boxes 40+ lbs above your heard repeatedly is not what I would call fun.
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try putting this little chat in the thread of ANGER
DON'T YOU DARE RUIN MY HAPPY
I AM THE ADMIN, THIS IS MY FORUM, THESE ARE MY RULES
NO FUN ALLOWED
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Try sorting 13 skids taller than I am of stuff, and then stocking 220 cases of crap, tossing all partial (or sometimes full) cases of stuff onto a canopy taller than you are. Lifting boxes 40+ lbs above your heard repeatedly is not what I would call fun.
Yes, because moving fully loaded entertainment centers with heavy CRT TVs in them on deep pile carpet is easy.
My point (that you obviously missed) is: bitching about your job is one thing, but don't even try to spout that "OH SPECTERE DOESN'T DO ANY PHYSICAL WORK LOL" bullshit. You obviously don't know what I do so quit trying to compare things to it.
And please don't act as though I've never worked stock. I've done it. I've helped sort out huge deliveries of big heavy boxes and made minimum wage while doing it. I've walked through a store with two 50-pound dog food bags over my shoulders and I'd much rather do that than the physical work that I have to do on this job.
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*sniffle*
no fights plz. <3
(http://www.stickergiant.com/Merchant2/imgs/acd696.gif)
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well to keep with the recent tone of happy...
my tldr in the lamest threads explains it well, but i played the ninja gaiden 2 demo, and it was fucking fun.
vidyas that are fucking fun a happy vladgd make.
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My friend gave me a PS1 emulator and FF7, 8, and 9, so I can finally play those games that I've been missing out on since the dawn of ever. I've only ever played up to FF6, and from what I hear, 7 and 9 are good, and 8 was 'kay. Also I finally get to play Chrono Cross, even though I heard mixed things about it, I'm still dying to play it.
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I just graduated. FUCK HIGH SCHOOL!
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Wow, Vista doesn't completely pester you to install updates. Amazing.
I've had the little update icon sitting in my systray all day and it only came up with a balloon once, when it initially appeared. I might actually keep automatic updates on (with the "download and ask to install" option selected, of course) in this installation!
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Nice, I've been pissed at how annoying XP is about this crap. Especially when it's like "You've updated, restart your computer" every 5 minutes.
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oh dear LORD, I know.
The restarting stuff doesn't bother me as much, because usually when I install the updates I have every intention of going all the way. What bugs me about XP is how it constantly popped up with "HEY DO YOU KNOW YOU HAVE UPDATES?" "REMEMBER, YOU HAVE UPDATES!" "WE NEED TO KEEP POPPING UP THIS BALLOON" shut up shut up SHUT UP. It's like you'd wind up telling it to INSTALL THE FUCKING UPDATES DAMNIT just to get it to shut up, then it would start nagging you about restarting.
So uh, yeah, add that to my list of favorite Vista features.
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Yeah, well, restarting this computer is a PAIN, and for the most part, updates running without restarting isn't a big issue, I figure I'll install the updates, forget about it, and the next time the computer crashes/freezes etc. and I need to reboot, it'll finish the process.
But yes, the nagging is a PAIN. Right now I've got a program that hides those little icons down there (completely, so you don't see them when you click the "expand" button, either) hiding the update icon, and a couple others, so since the icon isn't there, I don't get the balloons either.
Oh, and why the fuck does fading a balloon in take so much damn processor time. If I'm playing something like Stepmania or some other time critical/framerate critical game, and a balloon pops up, the game's FPS goes to shit. That fucks me up REALLY bad in Stepmania, and annoys the fuck out of me in other games.
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Restarting my system is a pain, too. I always have a bunch of things open.
That said, power outages are a pain, too, and my area seems to have them in droves. We just had one earlier -- that would be the second one in two weeks. Ridiculous.
I think the balloon (or other popups, like the "download complete" box in Firefox) lag the system out so much (in full screen mode, anyway) because they're drawing a 2D surface over a 3D surface. I don't seem to recall having any issues when SM was windowed in XP.
Oh, amusing thing to do in Vista (with Aero enabled): put SM in a window, move the window off of the screen so that you can't see it, mouse over the StepMania entry in the taskbar, and play it using the window preview.
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oh dear LORD, I know.
The restarting stuff doesn't bother me as much, because usually when I install the updates I have every intention of going all the way. What bugs me about XP is how it constantly popped up with "HEY DO YOU KNOW YOU HAVE UPDATES?" "REMEMBER, YOU HAVE UPDATES!" "WE NEED TO KEEP POPPING UP THIS BALLOON" shut up shut up SHUT UP. It's like you'd wind up telling it to INSTALL THE FUCKING UPDATES DAMNIT just to get it to shut up, then it would start nagging you about restarting.
So uh, yeah, add that to my list of favorite Vista features.
Yeah, well, restarting this computer is a PAIN, and for the most part, updates running without restarting isn't a big issue, I figure I'll install the updates, forget about it, and the next time the computer crashes/freezes etc. and I need to reboot, it'll finish the process.
But yes, the nagging is a PAIN. Right now I've got a program that hides those little icons down there (completely, so you don't see them when you click the "expand" button, either) hiding the update icon, and a couple others, so since the icon isn't there, I don't get the balloons either.
Oh, and why the fuck does fading a balloon in take so much damn processor time. If I'm playing something like Stepmania or some other time critical/framerate critical game, and a balloon pops up, the game's FPS goes to shit. That fucks me up REALLY bad in Stepmania, and annoys the fuck out of me in other games.
Restarting my system is a pain, too. I always have a bunch of things open.
That said, power outages are a pain, too, and my area seems to have them in droves. We just had one earlier -- that would be the second one in two weeks. Ridiculous.
I think the balloon (or other popups, like the "download complete" box in Firefox) lag the system out so much (in full screen mode, anyway) because they're drawing a 2D surface over a 3D surface. I don't seem to recall having any issues when SM was windowed in XP.
Oh, amusing thing to do in Vista (with Aero enabled): put SM in a window, move the window off of the screen so that you can't see it, mouse over the StepMania entry in the taskbar, and play it using the window preview.
well to keep with the recent tone of happy...
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vidyas that are fucking fun a happy vladgd make.
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Okay, THAT was fucking funny. <3
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being as i am playing the final fantasy anthology, i remembered i had an old copy of expert gamer which had a guide of sorts on the anthology.
so since i don't throw anything out, i went to the basement and dug out ISSUE 65, complete with guides for final fantasy anthology, suikoden 2, dino crisis, soul calibur, and crash team racing.
this magazine was released in november of 1999, boy was gaming differant back then, so yea, nostalgic gaming + nostalgic gaming coverage = worthy of posting in this thread
not to mention, getting guides for current games back then, when the internet wasn't too popular (this was before i had DIAL UP), getting a magazine chock full of gaming information was almost as kickass as getting a new game.
SO...MUCH....NOSTALGIA....MUST...BUILD....TIME...machine...so..i can be a young gamer playing...playstation and n64...in middle school..again.....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expert_gamer
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to add, when expert gamer turned into gamenow, back in the day when egm and gamenow used the gamers.com forums, i made a thread raving about the gba sp, and it was published in an issue of gamenow (with all of my typos fixed i may add, this was WAYY back when, when i used leetspeak to communicate on the internets)
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Eleven days until I arrive in Pittsburgh!
My grandma was going through grandpa's old things today (he died last year) and was making a rather large charity pile. Mom was checking her stuff and found grandpa's prized laptop in the pile. She asked if I could have it (since I had been shopping for one), and well, she said sure!
Needlessly said, I have been dancing wildly around the house like a squirrel on coffee since then.
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Needlessly said, I have been dancing wildly around the house like a squirrel on coffee since then.
O.o
Vidz plz.
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The new Mountain Dew Voltage. Delicious. That stuff floods my mouth with sex when I drink it.
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I think the balloon (or other popups, like the "download complete" box in Firefox) lag the system out so much (in full screen mode, anyway) because they're drawing a 2D surface over a 3D surface. I don't seem to recall having any issues when SM was windowed in XP.
There is a small performance hit (maybe 20 FPS, if that, and that's only from the fade animation) but since it's windowed and not using vsync, things can get pretty studdery dropping 20 FPS. I'm really sensitive to things like studder and changes in the FPS.
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YES. I pretty much have a new job now! I'm going to turn in my two weeks notice to the current shitstorm very soon.
I think in the new job I'm going to be a technician for a contracting agency that does a lot of medical billing type stuff. It's also in Ohio, so I'll be able to avoid the ridiculous living expenses in Maryland.
That said, SHARDE, YOU NEED TO COME OVER BEFORE I GO BACK.
Jupi, I'll be seeing you, Nick, and vyhd again soon! And Jinxie/Dan, move the fuck back to PA. <3
There is a small performance hit (maybe 20 FPS, if that, and that's only from the fade animation) but since it's windowed and not using vsync, things can get pretty studdery dropping 20 FPS. I'm really sensitive to things like studder and changes in the FPS.
Unless your framerate is relatively lowish, it's probably dropping more than 20FPS. It's just such a sudden and short drop that the framerate counter can't properly account for it. Even so, that is a pretty large drop.
You might want to try having it render in DirectX instead of OpenGL (which is the default in almost all cases). Edit your StepMania.ini (or Preferences.ini in 4.0) and change the VideoDrivers section. First driver listed gets priority. I doubt you'll have a problem wrapping your head around how to change it. ;P In my experience, DirectX generally works far better when running StepMania in Windows.
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It's also in Ohio, so I'll be able to avoid the ridiculous living expenses in Maryland.
back to tornado alley with yee
and, i have a 4th edition character made
level 2 dwarven cleric named Angus Blackthorn
bitchin'
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Unless your framerate is relatively lowish, it's probably dropping more than 20FPS. It's just such a sudden and short drop that the framerate counter can't properly account for it. Even so, that is a pretty large drop.
You might want to try having it render in DirectX instead of OpenGL (which is the default in almost all cases). Edit your StepMania.ini (or Preferences.ini in 4.0) and change the VideoDrivers section. First driver listed gets priority. I doubt you'll have a problem wrapping your head around how to change it. ;P In my experience, DirectX generally works far better when running StepMania in Windows.
VideoRenderers=d3d,opengl
Already using D3D. I think I run at about 140 FPS on average, but when a balloon comes up, it goes to hell for a bit. But even dropping something like 10 FPS or so produces noticeable stutter. I'm just REALLY sensitive to frame rate issues when playing stepmania. I'd play full screen, but it's just too big for me now, since I've been playing windowed at 800x600 in 1280x1024 and 1440x900 that I just can't stand it full screen.
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I don't think it's so much that you're sensitive to it (otherwise a light bulb running on 60hz AC would drive you apeshit), it's just that the drop is sharp and fast enough that it looks bad but isn't bad enough to register a drop on the framerate counter.
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If your at 140, and it drops 10, wouldn't you not see the difference? Unless you are used to a monitor with some ungodly high refresh rate.
Also was playing a 4 person FFA on brawl with some of my friended players. So it was me fighting 1 on 1 with the last guy standing, he had just killed me with a smash ball and had taken a lot of damage, so he went down to camp the lower part of spear pillar (he also camps often in FFA, he wins a lot but I don't see how it could be fun to spam projectiles at people fighting in a FFA). So, after standing still and noticing him not coming up, I spam my taunt that says "LOL spam and camp", so he started spamming his "What a MAGGOT". So, after about 40 or so seconds of that, one of the already dead people in game ended it (you can pause, which gives you the option of either dropping out or ending the match). Which resulted in the next round starting with his "WTF" taunt.
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Work today was actually really easy, TONS of answering machines and privacy managers. And I met a few black women at work that want me to appraise coins for them :D
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I think in the new job I'm going to be a technician for a contracting agency that does a lot of medical billing type stuff. It's also in Ohio, so I'll be able to avoid the ridiculous living expenses in Maryland.
Jupi, I'll be seeing you, Nick, and vyhd again soon! And Jinxie/Dan, move the fuck back to PA. <3
pretty large drop.
If I weren't sitting in Vyhd's house right now while everyone else is either in bed or asleep, I think I would have just squealed.
But I managed to restrain myself and I only flailed my arms with glee.
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Work today was actually really easy, TONS of answering machines and privacy managers.
Heh, if I told that to my boss he'd accuse me of lying again...
And I met a few black women at work that want me to appraise coins for them :D
XD
Speaking of that, were there any winners in that stack of pennies I forced you to take?
Edit:
If I weren't sitting in Vyhd's house right now while everyone else is either in bed or asleep, I think I would have just squealed.
:D
But yeah, I never got to hang out with you all that much and stuff...there were a few random encounters and that one night we decided to go to StarBucks (and when I tried to run back to NPCH while carrying all of that crap). GOOD TIMES.
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If your at 140, and it drops 10, wouldn't you not see the difference? Unless you are used to a monitor with some ungodly high refresh rate.
Uh, when it's not full screen, it's not synched to the monitor, which means we can get stutter and tearing. Just because it's rendering 140 times a second doesn't mean every render is displayed fully when the screen refreshes.
Tearing and stuttering happen when a frame is partially drawn at the time the monitor updates, but if the framerate is stuttering really badly you can get some pretty ugly movement in SM.
By sensitive, I mean the effects of the drop in framerate. Any tiny amount of jagged movement due to tearing etc. bugs me. If it gets bas bad as most frapps videos, I couldn't play worth crap (part of the reason I am not making videos of me playing).
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Heh, if I told that to my boss he'd accuse me of lying again...
XD
But yeah, I never got to hang out with you all that much and stuff...there were a few random encounters and that one night we decided to go to StarBucks (and when I tried to run back to NPCH while carrying all of that crap). GOOD TIMES.
Yeah, we haven't gotten to party nearly enough.
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Speaking of that, were there any winners in that stack of pennies I forced you to take?
They were all winners. :D
My parents got a membership to Sam's Club again, which means I can go buy ridiculously cheap stuff with them now. Which is pimp.
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Still chillin' at Vyhd's house.
ooooh yeah. :D
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Tearing and stuttering happen when a frame is partially drawn at the time the monitor updates, but if the framerate is stuttering really badly you can get some pretty ugly movement in SM.
I thought that was the whole idea behind vsync.
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vsync is meant to make the screen only render when the monitor refreshes, but you can't have vsync in windowed mode.
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Still chillin' at Vyhd's house.
(http://www.spectere.net/smf/Themes/dilbermc/images/groups/awesome.gif)
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(http://www.spectere.net/smf/Themes/dilbermc/images/groups/awesome.gif)
It's quite (http://www.spectere.net/smf/Themes/dilbermc/images/groups/awesome.gif).
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(http://www.spectere.net/smf/Themes/dilbermc/images/groups/awesome.gif)
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today i'll be working a full day of overtime. It's my seventh day of work in a row, and tomorrow will be another overtime day, as it will be my 8th consecutive day. Fuck yes. 8*8*1.5 = 96 IIRC So I'll be making a gross $96 today, not including my commissioned sales. fuuuuuuuck
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Got my paycheck today, $300.48. Sick as hell. Next one's gonna be even bigger :D
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Finally bought a fliptop/swap magic. Cost $54 with shipping and tax, but I didn't feel like shopping around forever, and it was cheaper than buying it from the couple other places I saw.
God paid yesterday $460.
Got off work early yesterday (7:00 instead of 7:30) and today (6:30 instead of 7:30) because we literally ran out of shit to do.
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I'm getting up in about five hours to go to the airport.
AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Also, I see Spectere on AIM. I kind of want to say 'uh hi' or something, but then I dunno. I'm too hyperactive to think right now.
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Also, I see Spectere on AIM.
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screenname, spec? >.>
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I only get on when I need to coordinate stuff (in this case, AC08). I rarely ever sign on.
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My fliptop is supposed to arrive today. Fucking sweet. Now I need to download/burn (and probably buy some CDs/DVDs first) some IIDX.
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I've arrived in PA.
In the past forty-eight hours, I have probably spent twelve playing video games with one of my best friends. Also, I forgot how wonderful it was to throw all ideas of 'diet' out one's window. We went to Wendy's last night, and then got a double-scoop of ice cream each for dessert. My stomach felt like it was gonna EXPLODE.
This is so awesome.
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I've arrived in PA.
In the past forty-eight hours, I have probably spent twelve playing video games with one of my best friends. Also, I forgot how wonderful it was to throw all ideas of 'diet' out one's window. We went to Wendy's last night, and then got a double-scoop of ice cream each for dessert. My stomach felt like it was gonna EXPLODE.
This is so awesome.
:D
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I've arrived in Ohio.
Well, uh, I technically did yesterday but I was so fucktardedly tired it's ridiculous. I was awake for...30 hours -- I was packing and loading the truck for twelve of those hours and driving for almost six. Ugh.
That said, I feel awesome. I had the best pizza in Struthers (nay, best pizza in fucking OHIO) yesterday shortly after I came home so all is good.
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*dobble poast*
AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW: http://www.vgcats.com/gallery/kittens_wallpaper_1360.jpg (http://www.vgcats.com/gallery/kittens_wallpaper_1360.jpg)
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reminds me of that capitol 1 commercial...
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Yay, I get to see peoples today!
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hair cut
not a small "trim"
but hair cut, like, more than 12 inches, cut off
ill post pix in the camwhore thread when i get them later
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:<
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hair cuts are fail
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either way i say it i get people who go "eww long hair" and people who go "eww short hair"
maby i won't bother taking a pic(y'all is busta), but its still "long", it just barely covers my neck now.
i was starting to look like a hippie anyway, and that needed to change, plus, hair grows back and i do intend on growing it back to an extent(maby 4-5 inches more, or not, im pleased with how it turned out).
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I got a new phone. Unlike my old one, this one doesn't suck hard.
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i was starting to look like a hippie anyway, and that needed to change, plus, hair grows back and i do intend on growing it back to an extent(maby 4-5 inches more, or not, im pleased with how it turned out).
I miss being able to tie my hair back, and I hardly did that most of the time, but when I finally did I rather liked it.
Also while talking about Brave Fencer Musashi, someone posted a link to the soundtrack of the game, and it's damn good.
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Fucking most underrated game, came with a FF8 demo and I still think it's better then FF8, probably one of the better PS games.
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I still think it's better then FF8
In my opinion, that doesn't take much.
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hair cut
not a small "trim"
but hair cut, like, more than 12 inches, cut off
ill post pix in the camwhore thread when i get them later
*wins the hair contest*
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pretty much a given
but im diggin it so far
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In my opinion, that doesn't take much.
True, but it was still a damn good game. I've heard a few people compare it to OoT, yet it got a ton of average rating when it came out.
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imo, oot was better than ff8
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imo, oot was better than ff8
Agreed. I hated FF8.
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Web comic artist that leave comments on the page, so when you idle on the comic it shows their oh so witty comment.
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True, but it was still a damn good game. I've heard a few people compare it to OoT, yet it got a ton of average rating when it came out.
Stuff like this makes me giggle because I actually remember reading the actually good review for it in EGM way back when it first came out and playing it. Great game but uh, I would never compare it to Ocarina of Time. This newer generation as a whole is pretty funny to me.
Also, FF8 actually makes me extremely happy. FINALLY a game comes along with a main character who would actually react to having someone tell him to save the world like I would. And the freakout about being talked about in past tense. And a romance that I could actually see happen. And a level system that actually punished you for grinding (I mean hey, isn't that what all the kids hate these days?). And a stat enhancement system that was both easy to use and easy to break, making it hilariously fun. And an ability to turn off all random battles. And characters that aren't children. FF8 and 9 are both far better than people give them credit for. I like them both more than 7 by a lot.
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Stuff like this makes me giggle because I actually remember reading the actually good review for it in EGM way back when it first came out and playing it. Great game but uh, I would never compare it to Ocarina of Time. This newer generation as a whole is pretty funny to me.
It copied a lot of things zelda did (there was even a lost woods) but really, this game was at least on par with OoT. It tried a ton of new things and did them well and had an awesome story that didn't take its self to seriously.
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Diablo 3 looks to be awesome :D
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FF8 and 9 are both far better than people give them credit for.
Sorry, but I still thought the story in FF8 was retarded. I'd rather my story be actually out there and not trying to make things realistic in a fantasy world.
FF9 does NOT get enough attention though. I absolutely love that game.
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I liked 8 a lot. It's still my favorite after playing through 4, 6, 7, and DoS 1 (I didn't finish ones I didn't like, such as 3, 10, and DoS 2. I'd get stuck and then lose motivation to finish). I'm playing through 9 now, and it's pretty good.
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ADVENTURES AT ANTHROCON.
I met Plaguefox today. That guy is seriously awesome.
I commissioned a chibi badge of the crosswalk guy (the one that appears on the graphics "[don't] walk" signs). I should get it tomorrow.
Someone set up IIDX Gold in the game room. A bunch of us sang the "lyrics" loudly and got yelled at. :(
There was some HILARIOUS stand-up comedy earlier, followed by a Whose Line Is It Anyway? styled improv act. HILARIOUS.
So yeah, yet another awesometacular day. =D
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ADVENTURES AT ANTHROCON.
I met Plaguefox today. That guy is seriously awesome.
I commissioned a chibi badge of the crosswalk guy (the one that appears on the graphics "[don't] walk" signs). I should get it tomorrow.
Someone set up IIDX Gold in the game room. A bunch of us sang the "lyrics" loudly and got yelled at. :(
There was some HILARIOUS stand-up comedy earlier, followed by a Whose Line Is It Anyway? styled improv act. HILARIOUS.
So yeah, yet another awesometacular day. =D
WE MUST MEET TO PARTY!
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I've arrived in Ohio.
Well, uh, I technically did yesterday but I was so fucktardedly tired it's ridiculous. I was awake for...30 hours -- I was packing and loading the truck for twelve of those hours and driving for almost six. Ugh.
That said, I feel awesome. I had the best pizza in Struthers (nay, best pizza in fucking OHIO) yesterday shortly after I came home so all is good.
Have you eaten at Marion's Pizza before?
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Have you eaten at Marion's Pizza before?
Negative.
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Negative.
K, then you haven't had the best pizza in Ohio. You can find 'em in the Dayton area... if you're ever over there :o
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You obviously haven't eaten at the Elmton. :P
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ADVENTURES AT ANTHROCON.
Am I reading this correctly? Was yiffing a part of this?
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My parents met several furries when they were adventuring downtown on Friday.
It was lulz.
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Am I reading this correctly? Was yiffing a part of this?
Totally.
There was a /b/ walkthrough at one point where my friends and I got a dose of Astley (and would have been made to lose the game had we not lost it by ourselves mere minutes ago) and fro. Good times.
Speaking of the game, we've been constantly losing it (and if reading this made you lose it, as it probably did, more power to me). Honestly, we've been losing probably losing it twelve times a day, no joke.
Edit: Oh, another fun story. One of the people in our group -- Jayden -- decided to mix coffee and Khaos Monster. The concoction was quite...bad. OneX and Lucifur -- another member of our group -- both wretched after sipping it. Me, being the smarty man I am, drank the whole thing (probably 6 oz worth). I'm smart.
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Well that's fun. Also I just saw a friend from college which I haden't seen in a while, fun times ensured.
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anthrocon
shit sounds scarey
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anthrocon
shit sounds scarey
Agreed. Albeit I would almost (almost) be willing to go for the /b/ walkthroughs and IIDX and general colol things that did happen. However, I'd probably end up getting sick of seeing furry shit everywhere I look.
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^ Third'd. That's why I just stayed with friends in Pittsburgh and didn't go. I have a few issues with the furry fandom, mostly how a lot of furries I've seen thrive on shock value and fursecution complexes, and are physically incapable of doing something that isn't furry-related. But that's more of a peeling and less frying. Anyway, I saved money, got to hang out with some friends, and got time away from other annoying 'friends' by not going, so it was a good weekend. :)
We had a power outage for 13 hours at home - according to server logs, it was from about 5:45 PM yesterday to about 6:40 AM today. I got to get out matches and light candles and everything. :) And just when things were starting to get monotonous, too. The sky was pretty well-covered, but I got a few nice glimpses of the universe in total darkness before the power came back on.
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Agreed. Albeit I would almost (almost) be willing to go for the /b/ walkthroughs and IIDX and general colol things that did happen. However, I'd probably end up getting sick of seeing furry shit everywhere I look.
Don't knock it 'till you've been there.
It's really not as bad as 4ch and SA would have you believe.
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^ Third'd. That's why I just stayed with friends in Pittsburgh and didn't go. I have a few issues with the furry fandom, mostly how a lot of furries I've seen thrive on shock value and fursecution complexes, and are physically incapable of doing something that isn't furry-related. But that's more of a peeling and less frying. Anyway, I saved money, got to hang out with some friends, and got time away from other annoying 'friends' by not going, so it was a good weekend. :)
We had a power outage for 13 hours at home - according to server logs, it was from about 5:45 PM yesterday to about 6:40 AM today. I got to get out matches and light candles and everything. :) And just when things were starting to get monotonous, too. The sky was pretty well-covered, but I got a few nice glimpses of the universe in total darkness before the power came back on.
:D :D
My power never went out for more than a second or so. But I did have dreams where several tornadoes raped the general Pittsburgh area! Whoo! ^^
Hmm...frying my potatoes today...Er...I got to sleep in my comfy comfy (but very creaky) bed again. <3
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Don't knock it 'till you've been there.
It's really not as bad as 4ch and SA would have you believe.
I'm not really relying on 4ch and SA as much as I am all the stuff I've seen about furries in total. I'm not as huge an SA or 4ch lurker as I seem to be.
Plus, being around 2 or 3 people in all out furrieness is bad enough, if I had to deal with anyone in a fursuit, I would quite likely be willing to walk out because of that alone.
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Plus, being around 2 or 3 people in all out furrieness is bad enough, if I had to deal with anyone in a fursuit, I would quite likely be willing to walk out because of that alone.
So if you went to Disney World and saw someone in a Mickey Mouse suit you'd walk out because of it? It's the same damn thing.
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So if you went to Disney World and saw someone in a Mickey Mouse suit you'd walk out because of it? It's the same damn thing.
One gets payed, the other one has some sort of sexual fetish. It's more like going to an BDSM convention then Disney world.
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One gets payed, the other one has some sort of sexual fetish. It's more like going to an BDSM convention then Disney world.
...what? I seriously hope you aren't being serious. Furry fandom is NOT a sexual fetish.
Seriously, if you don't have the slightest clue about what you're talking about, don't post.
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going to a bsdm convention would be both awesome and scarey at the same time
to be on topic, i had yet another awesome 4th edition session.
-stubborn horse
-failed command(cleric encounter spell) roll
-pissed off horse
-failed rope attempt (as in, failed to keep him contained, he took off with me tied on the other end of the rope he was tied too)
-land surfing on the back of pissed off horse
-kill horse....
-horse becomes undead flaming horse
lulz
Furry fandom is NOT a sexual fetish.
really? shows how much i know, i blame pron/ignorance.
anyway, a bunch of good art people from the FA are there and it'd be sweet to say hi or something.
*edit*
also these jalape
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Even if it's not a sexual fetish, (though I can pretty much guarantee it is for some of them) I still wouldn't want to be there. There is a marked distinction between mickey mouse and some random guy in a fur suit. First: Mickey Mouse gets payed, the furry doesn't, second: Mikey Mouse is a cartoon character, and is well known to people, and has transcended beyond simply being furry into being something beyond simply a person in a suit. I will say right now that I'm not exactly a fan of those guys going around dressed like Mickey Mouse either. Different reasons, but I still don't care for them. Sure, they're great for the kids and that, but I drive absolutely 0 enjoyment out of them, and if they were to insist on intruding on my privacy and ability to enjoy the park, I would in fact become frustrated/angry.
Furries are people who either A) are losers trying to fit into a group, B) Freaks who get off on half-animal drawn porn/imagining people/themselves as part animals/having sex with animals, C) people who believe some variation or such of the idea that they are more animal than human, or have some aspect of some animal in them.
The first 2 types bother me quite a bit more than the last one. However, people going around in fur suits and most things I've seen associated with Furdom so far are enough to make me know that I would more likely than not wish to be very far away had I actually attended AnthroCon.
I'm fine with Furries existing, but as is my general rule with most things I don't like: I don't want to know about it. Just like there are people who are illiterate/negligent/abusive/etc. I don't want to hear about that stuff. I know it goes on, but I also know that I can't really do anything about it in pretty much every case. If I can't do anything about it, and I don't like it, I don't want to hear about it.
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...what? I seriously hope you aren't being serious. Furry fandom is NOT a sexual fetish.
Seriously, if you don't have the slightest clue about what you're talking about, don't post.
No all of it no, but yes there is definitely some people out there who think it is, and apparently it's a decent amount of people. I would definitely assume that a person in a fur suit of a muscular wolf would be into that aspect.
Furries are people who either A) are losers trying to fit into a group, B) Freaks who get off on half-animal drawn porn/imagining people/themselves as part animals/having sex with animals, C) people who believe some variation or such of the idea that they are more animal than human, or have some aspect of some animal in them.
Well, kind of. There are people who get off on it, then there are people who think they have a mental link to a type of aniumal (which is worse then the previouse) and then there are is a very small group that thinks sex with animals is a-OK. I really only have a problem with these people.
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Furries are people who either A) are losers trying to fit into a group, B) Freaks who get off on half-animal drawn porn/imagining people/themselves as part animals/having sex with animals, C) people who believe some variation or such of the idea that they are more animal than human, or have some aspect of some animal in them.
Thanks. I'm sure my friends will appreciate the sentiment as much as I do.
No all of it no, but yes there is definitely some people out there who think it is, and apparently it's a decent amount of people.
No, it's not a decent amount of people. Most furries actively shun furries that are like that.
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All it is is a genre of media, with a following of people who are known as furries. The fandom is comparable to a sci-fi or anime fandom; people go to conventions, dress like their favorite characters (though in a furry's case it is a personal character), ect.
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No, it's not a decent amount of people. Most furries actively shun furries that are like that.
Decent doesn't mean majority, I'm just saying they exist and they are what furries are usually known for (at least so on the internet, because most people don't know what furry even means unless they have internet).
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All it is is a genre of media, with a following of people who are known as furries. The fandom is comparable to a sci-fi or anime fandom; people go to conventions, dress like their favorite characters (though in a furry's case it is a personal character), ect.
makes sense, its just the furries catch more flak than say cosplayers or trekkies.
now that i think of it, i think im nerd enough to go to a star trek convention. not nerd enough to dress up as a star trek character, but going to the convention.
now that i rethink that, maby not. but seeing some of the actors would be pretty cool.
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All it is is a genre of media, with a following of people who are known as furries. The fandom is comparable to a sci-fi or anime fandom; people go to conventions, dress like their favorite characters (though in a furry's case it is a personal character), ect.
Shh, you're making way too much sense and not using enough stereotypes!
Also, very thanks.
Decent doesn't mean majority, I'm just saying they exist and they are what furries are usually known for (at least so on the internet, because most people don't know what furry even means unless they have internet).
Well...yeah, they exist. Just like there are people who have fetishes related to Star Trek races. That does not make it a sexual fetish or anything of the like.
What's been really pissing me off about this argument is that I get this feeling like I have to justify having a good time at a furry convention. It's like "hey guys, I had fun, here's what I did" and having everyone scream "EWWW FURFAG" in response. Seriously, take it somewhere else.
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What's been really pissing me off about this argument is that I get this feeling like I have to justify having a good time at a furry convention.
you don't. you went to a place, had a good time with friends, and thats that.
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I was merely commenting saying that I doubt I would be able to enjoy it, because of the surroundings. I have nothing against furries personally, but I don't want to have to see/hear it.
I'm glad you had a good time, because I know I likely wouldn't be able to in the same circumstances.
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Then do me a favor and refrain from throwing around unsubstantiated stereotypes next time.
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Dander can sometimes make me sneeze.
Screw the convention. (lol joke)
Also wtf @ furries. I can see dressing up as a trekkie, or even as Naruto characters, but pretending to be an animal, imagining your identity as an animal, or having sexual fantasies with them is out of the question. We're all freaks in our own way, but I guess some just more than others. I'm sure hella people would enjoy a furcon-- but for me, I'd prolly be there thinking, "These guys are way too fucked up for me." Which is also kind of ironic seeing as how I visit ___ chan on occasion.
If you like animals, cool. If you like people, roger that. But anthropomorphism...... what the eff, yo.
I liked pancake's post, but the problem is that star trek, anime, or gaming conventions bring fans, people that like something. Furries aren't so much "fans", being a furry is part of your lifestyle in many regards, and for me to go to a place with a high concentration of people who like that sort of thing isn't at all my cup of tea. I like people a lot, but not crazy shit involving animals. (by the way, what the hell did animals ever do to anyone? Fuck, leave em alone.) And yes, I would consider buying and wearing an expensive fur suit (for free, and for the lulz) to be "fucking crazy." Like I said, perhaps they'll have a fun time, but I'm not interested. They can go do that without me. (works out better that way)
I don't care about being politically correct. It's still my opinion, regardless of how skewed it may seem to someone else. I'm not going to reply to subsequent replies to this post, the subject is stupid, and has gone on long enough. Also, wrong thread.
Edit: I'm not saying I dislike furries, which isn't true... I'm simply not interested in anthropomorphism. (Which is similar to bobbias' opinion, if I understand him correctly)
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related to this here topic of happy
http://www.battle.net/window.shtml
I COULD LISTEN TOO IT ALL DAY
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Watching all the AVGN videos and then playing the games he reviewed makes me giggle.
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Actually, by far and large, the convention was just a furry-themed gathering of geeks. I talked far more about video games (DDR, IIDX, Brawl, and other fighting games) than I did about anything involving furry stuff at the con. And if nothing else, it was kind of adorable (if, occasionally, a little creepy) on how cuddly and affectionate everyone was.
...not to say that I still am recovering from walking in on my roommate doing...okay, yeah, let's not talk about that.
Other than that, the con was excellent and I look forward to next year's. And I need to stalk you at least one more time before I leave for Philadelphia, Ian. :3
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I have my courses lined up for next year, and I'm not in any language-relates courses. :D
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I have my courses lined up for next year, and I'm not in any language-relates courses. :D
Why is that so great? I'm honestly thinking that I might take the time to actually get some language courses when I get into college. I'm sad that we didn't have anything other than french and native (which you had to be native to get into) at school.
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We had spanish, native spanish [from spain lol], and french. I took french.
D:
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French sucks. Period.
I don't know if there is any person more qualified than I am (due to being canadian, and having taken french for most of my life) on this site (aside from maybe xxxxx) to be able to say that.
My biggest issue with the language: Who the fuck decided things like "eaux" and all the other fucked up letter combinations should be allowed?
My second biggest issue: Quebec/canada french is a pig language compared to France french.
My last issue: Teach us Latin and we'd be able to read most things in French. And Italian, and all the other romance languages. We'd miss the odd word here and there that came from somewhere else, but the romance languages have MANY common roots in Latin. Part of the reason I can read as much French/Spanish/Italian etc. is became of my knowledge of english words and their Latin roots.
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I don't like studying languages outside of the countries where they're spoken. Besides that, I'm not in any English writing/literature courses, either. I have some philosophy course, a political science course, physics II, calc III, and marching band. This semester is going to be awesome.
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Lol, while I can see how you might not like the atmosphere and such of a language class (they are kinda formal and crap, unlike stuff like marching band, philosophy (sometimes) and other classes like that), I still think that language classes are really helpful. I'd absolutely love to have a german, russian, japanese, korean, finnish, norse, estonian, romanian, class, or just about any of the slightly more obscure languages really.
The big thing that I've realized recently, while trying to learn languages by myself is that it's extremely hard for me to learn the vocabulary without any structure, and it's also hard for me to learn how more complex sentences are structured in that language without someone I can ask about it. Just because you know a language is Subject Object Verb doesn't mean you know where adjectives, adverbs, and entire other clauses go, and how to join them.
I've tried software and websites that try the "total immersion" style as well (the Rosetta stone, and a couple websites that copy that style of teaching) and found that it is very awkward, even if I know the writing system they are using. They simply give you a flash card with something on it, show you the word that means what's on it (which can be obscure sometimes), and then say the word. They don't explain anything, including the writing system, which means seeing something like "女の子" and a flash card of a young girl can be simple, but seeing something like "私は短いです" on the same flashcard can really confuse people.
(note for anyone that can't read them, the first is "onna no ko" or literally "girl child", and the second one is "watashi wa mijikai desu" or "I am short".)
After having tried to learn number of languages and barely scratched the surface of them, I've begun to learn how incredibly useful it is to have a class. Even if you don't learn how to speak the way a native would, it certainly helps you learn many words that are in common use, and that is really helpful.
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The only reason I'd ever want to learn French is to be able to read the text on my Erik Satie sheet music and Les Miserables in their original forms.
Japanese wa for otakus desu lol kawaii desu ne.
Spanish is where it's at for foreign languages.
Oh and German simply because TimJing is learning German.
But mainly Spanish. Second most useful language ever if you're American. (Hey, guess what's first most useful!)
As for having classes... that's fine, but having a book for Spanish is also lovely. And I also have Pimsleur audiotapes which are awesome as fuck. Sorry if you disagree but I really like the "infer how it works" method. It really helps me learn how to truly manipulate the language. Also, I shat bricks when I learned that castellano is another way of saying Spanish in Spanish.
Also maybe one of the reasons why you could never get the hang of a language is because you never stuck strictly to one and persevered. I make sure to study Spanish at least 15 minutes every day on my own. I've been stepping it up a bit more now that I'm on summer vacation, e.g. whenever I walk to get lunch I make sure to go to a specific pizza place far away from my house so I can listen to (almost) two Pimsleur lessons throughout the round trip.
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I hated learning French in school. However, I can read a half decent amount of material in french now :P I couldn't speak it or listen to someone speaking it and know what the hell they mean, but I can read it pretty decently. Erik Satie kicks ass.
My problem is vocabulary. I can learn basic grammar (enough to read the more complex sentences as well) very quickly, however, especially in a language such as Japanese, learning the vocabulary is a big stepping stone. In the case of Japanese, you have to deal with learning the kanji, as well as learning the pronunciation.
I don't live in the US, so Spanish is essentially as useless to me as Japanese or Russian would be, except of course, that I could find a lot of use for being fluent in Japanese, since the Japanese have a huge presence on the internet.
See, I learn differently than a lot of people, so simply being given a sentence in some language I barely know, that I can't read, and must simply assume the meaning has something to do with a flash card that I'm shown, generally doesn't help me very much.
Sure, I might eventually be able to figure out what it means by inferring meaning form the other cards, and eventually after that, being able to figure out the meaning and use of each part of the sentence, but being given some basic knowledge of the grammar and writing system would help me a lot more than simply doing that over and over.
I'm a bit of a social learner when it comes to language. I prefer having someone there to be able to ask my own questions and get clarification from than simply having to use a static resource, such as a book or online course to figure it out. If I can get a straight answer, I'll be able to learn it right away, because I know how to ask a question to figure things out.
The other problem with learning by yourself is that it's hard to find a properly ordered lesson that teaches you vocabulary well. Yes, classes in school are kinda boring when all you're learning is how to say cat and dog in that language, but learning sentences like "the cat is small" really helps cement your basic understanding of the fundamentals of the language. Building on that you can very quickly learn how to say things like "that at is looking at me" or "the cat ran away quickly". It gives you a solid foundation form which to build you knowledge.
Learning by yourself generally bypasses that part, unless you are able to teach yourself in a very structured manner, which I find quite difficult.
If I have a book on the language, I can learn the basic and intermediate aspects of grammar quickly, but I always get stuck very quickly on the vocabulary. Unfortunately, those programs and such that are supposed to immerse you in it and such just feel wrong when I try to use them. I'd much rather just try to have a discussion with someone and have the same sort of books that teachers tend to use for teaching resources in those classes.
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i'm learning latin via rosetta stone
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But mainly Spanish. Second most useful language ever if you're American. (Hey, guess what's first most useful!)
Unless you live in Maine, especially northern Maine because they've got a decent population of French speaking Canadians.
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My problem is vocabulary. I can learn basic grammar (enough to read the more complex sentences as well) very quickly, however, especially in a language such as Japanese, learning the vocabulary is a big stepping stone. In the case of Japanese, you have to deal with learning the kanji, as well as learning the pronunciation.
Yeah, same here. Grammar comes really easily and vocabulary is a bitch. I was annoyed by how quickly my classmates forgot the conjugation of some verbs in two different tenses after a three week tangent considering we spent oh who knows how long on it beforehand. But it seems like everybody else has no problems with vocabulary, while I have to study it and use the worst tricks ever to remember the words (e.g. peinarse means to comb... I remember that because it's a "pein" in my "arse" to get the knots out) (not that those tricks aren't totally amazing... but I just feel like it should come more naturally for me).
Now it's definitely harder to learn a kanji AND the normal, phonetic word on top of that, but as far as my experience goes, learning definitions for kanji is pretty easy. I know quite a few and I don't even actually care for Japanese; I just have Rikaichan in my browser and I've taken note of a lot of kanji definitions. I could probably write approx. 20 kanji with their English definitions (excluding numbers rofl that's cheating). But that might just be how I learn things.
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I just realized this, but I have this rather attractive spanis girl as my "study buddy" (supposed to gather papers for said person while they are absent). So that's fun.
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diablo ii, drugs, programming, electric light orchestra, london elektricity.
Turns out i got turned down for a promotion at work that I applied for. Also turns out they still want me to be a manager, and will be starting my training in two days. When I'm done, I'll be filling the next opening or will be transferred to a different store. Fuck yeah.
Also, biking on drugs at night past midnight to pick up a friend while listening to music with no bike light. :]
Oh, and breaking up with my girlfriend, only to go back out with her several days later. I forgot that I hadn't mentioned this prior.
Basically, I broke up with her, and then several days later asked me if i wanted to go out with her again. It went down like this:
Her: I want to ask you something, but I don't want to be annoying or whatever.
Me: It's fine, just ask.
Her: Well, will you date me again?
Me: You have balls.
Her: I'm sorry, forget I asked. I apologize.
Me: Do you promise to keep them?
Her: My balls?
Me: Yes.
Her: Yeah.
Me: Then ok, yes.
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Haha, nice one.
And quite honestly, I could not write a single kanji. I haven't practiced writing them at all, lol. However, give me a list, and I could fill some of them out. I wouldn't know all the on-yomi and kun-yomi readings, and especially none of the nanori ones for those that have them, but I could definitely write the English meaning. I've gotten to the point where certain kanji are so well know I instantly recognize what they mean, and the most likely reading they have (大 dai big). Those kanji I have learned enough to be able to read them without manually translating. Of course, I'm much better with Spanish and French (though there are still VERY many words I don't know in both those languages (for example, peinarse, lol)). If the sentence is using words I know, i don't even have to think to know what it means, I can read it fluently.
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So Dairy Queen now sells a Blizzard with Thin Mints crumbled in.
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I'm about to get much fatter. >_<
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they changed the volume thingy on youtube
like i can adjust the volume, take my mouse directly away from the volume meter, AND IT GOES AWAY. rather than before, i had to drag my mouse down, and to the side, or else it would stay.
BOOYAH!
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So for the last couple of months, explorer.exe wasn't staying open. I tried something to fix it a while ago, but it didn't work, so I just went and used Ubuntu for everything. I ran combofix.exe today, and now it works fine.
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combofix is absolutely amazing. It kills a whole host of evil crap that is hard as fuck to remove.
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Gee. I wonder if it would've fixed my machine back in November. My dad bought some little photo keychain for my mom's birthday, and it turned out to be loaded with viruses. x.X I fought with it for a week or two, then eventually resolved to just reformatting the damn thing.
The worst part of it was I thought I backed up the stuff that was really important to me - like my year and a half's worth of pictures that I had taken.
Nope. >> The damn CD was blank when I went to go open everything. -.- It was quite a bitch reshooting five projects for my photography class in three days.
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Yep, that's why I never reformat, or bother with backing things up. Instead of formatting, I reinstall windows over itself, and that usually breaks most viruses because the registry is cleaned out. Then I use a virus scanner and/or my previous knowledge of where they were to delete all the dead virus files. And I don't lose anything on my computer, or have to back a ridiculously huge collection of stuff I want to keep.
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Yeah, I'll hafta keep that in mind. Silly me has never had to deal with viruses or spyware until that happened.
I let my dad plug one thing into my computer.
*BAM!* dead.
>> I know my dad looks like Hitler, but he didn't kill computers...
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Well, if I had to backup my entire collection of stuff I'd want to save, even with Blueray disks, I'd need like, 5 or more. I don't want to know how many DVDs I'd need.
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Hm. Happy time!
Frying my potatoes with olive oil of happy means waking my mother up by blasting the 1812 overture at 5:30 in the morning. :3
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Today is my last day of work until September. Hooray seasonal jobs!
Also Frutistas at Taco Bell are delicious.
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Well, if I had to backup my entire collection of stuff I'd want to save, even with Blueray disks, I'd need like, 5 or more. I don't want to know how many DVDs I'd need.
I needed 6 DVDs (single layer) just to back up my downloads directory a while back, after wiping out what I didn't want (and that's not even including all of my PERFECTLY LEGITIMATE downloads and Lunickz/BeeEssDee ISOs).
Very ouch.
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I'd estimate somewhere around 80% of my 320 GB drive is worth keeping.
Not to mention the 80 GB drive and 15 GB drive that are also hooked into my computer. Oh, and all stuff on my networked storage server (only 27 or so GB because I'm lazy and it doesn't get very good transfer speeds.
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I thought our ISP was throttling my torrents, but it turns out I just had to reopen some ports. Now I'm getting awesome download speeds.
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So I had a project due today that I didn't do last night. I ended up doing it this afternoon and driving it back to school to give to my teacher, which is rather awesome.
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Yay, my lappy be clean:
(http://files.spectere.net/pictures/clean-lappy.png)
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delete all of your data, and rename the drive "perfect topaz"
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That's a fresh Windows installation, with drivers and a 2GB hibernation file, so it's about as perfect as it gets.
Also, quit reminding me of Diablo 2 or I'm going to start binge-playing it again. D:
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Beijing beef from Panda Express.
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Also, quit reminding me of Diablo 2 or I'm going to start binge-playing it again. D:
its hard not to talk about a game you are currently playing/way into.
anyway, the first time i have ever seen a firefly in person was last year. odd, considering apparently i live around trillions of them. like my back yard is a cornfield right, and at night, you see sparks of light covering all of it, and its as awesome as seeing shooting stars.
odd how they don't show up till recent.
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Dude, fireflies are so cool. I remember when I was little visiting family in Kentucky always trying to catch fireflies at night, and just thinking about how wondrous they were. It made Kentucky seem like another planet, so awesome.
Apparently we have them here, too, somehow. They're just extraordinarily scarce. I saw a few when some friends and I walked to the park at 2 am a couple weeks ago and went on a trail. It surprised me, I never had any idea they were down here.
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Fireflies are so awesome, they make me want to vomit awesome!
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v34/Jupichan/Awesome/1195205512522.gif)
...whoops.
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Animal Collective.
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Agreed.
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There are a lot of areas where fireflies hang out at night. So many, in fact, that I felt a deep obligation to show everyone. I only marked spots that I can see from my house - others may well exist. :P
Blue dot = my house, green highlighted areas = firefly hangouts.
(http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/8486/snapshot34og9.png)
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I request a firefly pokemon. :(
Type 1/type 2 = Bug/fire
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Volbeat and Illumise. Except they're not part fire.
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There are a lot of areas where fireflies hang out at night. So many, in fact, that I felt a deep obligation to show everyone. I only marked spots that I can see from my house - others may well exist. :P
Blue dot = my house, green highlighted areas = firefly hangouts.
(http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/8486/snapshot34og9.png)
I saw that picture without reading the rest of your post first, and my first thought was "Wow, when did they get a swimming pool like that?"
and then I felt just a bit more like an idiot.
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I take it they're bug/lightening?
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I've seen like 1, or 2 fire flies in FL. I did see a bug that had head light like lights on its front. That was pretty awesome.
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I take it they're bug/lightening?
They're just bug. I think they have a couple of exclusive moves, but I'm certain they can learn Flash.
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(http://photos-d.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v295/157/101/730744862/n730744862_541331_124.jpg)
That's right. I 5'd BOTH of my AP exams. :DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
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I DEMAND TO SEE THE REVERSE SIDE.
But seriously, congrats! ;)
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Great job! ^_^
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IIDX GOOOOLLLLDDDD makes me happy.
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Clubhouse trip + infamouspat + spectere + jupi = this. (http://vyhd.homelinux.org/images/awesome/1195206625914.png)
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Ooohhhh yeah. ;)
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I want my own cardboard box. There is inner peace in the box.
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so i had another dungeons and dragons game today, it went awesome.
-raided by orc fighters, one super strong berzerker, and two very durable axe throwers
-"raided" an orc building with loads of orcs, and a leader
-went downstairs to fight....A GREEN DRAGON
killed him, twas a very long and tense, but awesome fight.
but before that game, i brought my external hdd (thing is fucking awesome) and got fallout 1/2 from a friend of mine on there, went back here, installed the first game, fucking works, now i can play FALLOUT. hellz yeah.
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Hey Vlad what genre is Fallout btw?
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I SHALL ANSWER.
Fallout is a post-apocalyptic RPG with an isometric viewport. It is quite good.
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Thanks Sphincter...I mean Spectere.
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so i ordered a USED copy of tomba 2 on monday for $45.00 (including shipping)
i received it today, and aside from the case not having plastic wrap on it, and the case having a few minor (like you need to look at it in a glare or something to see them decently) scuffs, the game basically looks new.
i mean the guy could have charged me $8000, or even $100.00 and sold the thing as "new" but no, i get this "used" copy for only $40.00.
yeah, getting a "used" rare game, in EXCELLENT condition, that is a cause for major nostalgia, as well as being one of my favorite games...
FRY MY POTATOES WITH OLIVE OIL OF HAPPY!
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I saw the Incredible Hulk.
It was quite funsome.
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I've been playing FFXII a lot lately. That game is pretty awesome.
Also, The Dark Knight kicked ass. Serious ass.
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I saw the Incredible Hulk.
It was quite funsome.
I still need to see Iron man.
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I still need to see Iron man.
I'm waiting until it is at the dollar theater
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My dad bought a car yesterday to replace his fallen Caravan. It's a 2002 Dodge Intrepid SE (hmm, he seems to have a thing for Dodges all of a sudden :P). It's quite roomy, quite comfy, and rides amazingly smoothly. About the only thing that's "wrong" with it is that it has almost 140,000 miles (WHOA) and that the body is a little dinged up. Not bad considering he only paid $2500 for it, including tax and title (the Kelly Blue Book price on it is over $7000). Not too shabby!
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I'm waiting until it is at the dollar theater
What the hell is it with dollar theaters I keep hearing about? I've never heard of such a thing until tonight when I was at my girlfriend's house and my dad commented about how there used to be one when they lived in ohio, and there's one kinda near here not really. Sounds like a steal.
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Oh yes, it's quite nice. The one here in Boardman (Cinemark Movies 8) is fairly well-kept and, best of all, the rates aren't even up to the $2 mark despite every other theater flying up to at least $9 for tickets.
The only problem, of course, is snacks and popcorn, but you can always *ahem* find a way around that. My friend was sly enough to sneak in an entire meal from Chile's into a movie theater once.
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Oh yes, it's quite nice. The one here in Boardman (Cinemark Movies 8) is fairly well-kept and, best of all, the rates aren't even up to the $2 mark despite every other theater flying up to at least $9 for tickets.
The only problem, of course, is snacks and popcorn, but you can always *ahem* find a way around that. My friend was sly enough to sneak in an entire meal from Chile's into a movie theater once.
Heh I sneak food in all the time into the theaters around here Spec.....it's not that hard.
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There's a Movie Tavern around here with $4 matinees. They're food's generally pretty expensive, but they have $4 pizza on tuesdays, so when I want to see a movie, usually I go to a tuesday matinee. A lot of the time, on busy nights when they're selling tickets inside, you can walk right into a theater and sit down without being stopped. I've only done that for Children of Men and 300, both times before I turned 17. Since then, I've been avoiding crowded movie theaters.
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Video coming soon. Shout-outs to Jupi for being there, Spectere for ditching us last-minute, and pat for figuring most of this shit out in the first place. 8)
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Spectere for ditching us last-minute
D: :'(
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ITG3? lol, wicked!
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I just found out that David Eick (BSG producer) is producing a TV adaptation of The Children of Men. :D
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ITG3? lol, wicked!
*adds another adjective to the list for describing yesterday*
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I'm LEGITIMATELY ACQUIRING a bunch of PS2 RPGs, there ought to be something good in all of them :P
Spec edit: Fix't. ;)
EDIT: Oops...
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One word: FOOOOD!
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I'm getting a new TV to replace the one that blow'd up. :3
It's nothing super spiffy, but it's pretty big, so I'm happy. ^_^
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I'm getting a new TV to replace the one that blow'd up. :3
It's nothing super spiffy, but it's pretty big, so I'm happy. ^_^
Make sure to write about it in your live journal.
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Make sure to write about it in your live journal.
and...the point of that was...?
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and...the point of that was...?
No real point just there to be an asshole.
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No real point just there to be an asshole.
Ah, nice.
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Ah, nice.
Well when you work with a bunch of them you become one yourself.
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Okay, guys. I have just discovered how awesome string cheese is. I had no idea until yesterday, and was reminded today, when first my girlfriend made me taste some and then I had more. It's DELICIOUS!
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Okay, guys. I have just discovered how awesome string cheese is. I had no idea until yesterday, and was reminded today, when first my girlfriend made me taste some and then I had more. It's DELICIOUS!
Indeed it is.
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Okay, guys. I have just discovered how awesome string cheese is. I had no idea until yesterday, and was reminded today, when first my girlfriend made me taste some and then I had more. It's DELICIOUS!
My mom once bought string cream cheese, and it was some awful stuff.
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String cream chease...sounds like a bad idea from a B-rated science flick.
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EVERYTHING
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EVERYTHING
relevant
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TURBOPUNS!
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You know what makes me happy? making my own batch file so that utorrent will automatically extract and burn my newest PS2 game as soon as it finishes.
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You know what makes me happy? making my own batch file so that utorrent will automatically extract and burn my newest PS2 game as soon as it finishes.
thats fucking l33t.
EDIT:
now just make a USB device to load the cd tray with a blank dvd, eject it when it's done. Then you'd be legendary.
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Well, I'll be learning how to use PLCs in college, so I could potentially set some sort of PLC arm up and wire it to the serial port to receive a signal from the computer, and have the arm's movements controlled by the PLC.
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Well, I'll be learning how to use PLCs in college, so I could potentially set some sort of PLC arm up and wire it to the serial port to receive a signal from the computer, and have the arm's movements controlled by the PLC.
Here's and idea....turn tables.
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You man using a PLC to control an arm to DJ? Not bloody likely. The type of code you use and the way PLCs work mades them poorly suited to anything that is realtime like scratching. You need sensors to tell you when anything has moved from it's intial position, and when it arrives at the final position and all that stuff. It's just a collection of dumb parts hooked up to a small computer that controls them by reacting to things. To even get an arm for it, unless I wanted to pay like, hundreds of thousands of dollars, I'd need to build it myself, probably using pneumatics, sensors, and some scrap metal, which would still cost me a decent amount.
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OH MY GOD
I just went to the bank looking for half dollars to go through.
I got three rolls of them, 60 coins, and out of those, 53 were older, 40% silver halves.
53*.1479(net wt silver per coin, in oz)*17.44(current spot price of silver per oz)=
$136.70!
And the face value of those coins is, uh, 53*.5, or $26.50. So I just generated $110.20. How ridiculously, hideously badass!
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Sooo for my birthday today I went to school, then came home and took a nap. After that, I opened up some presents and got a wireless mouse (I needed one) and wireless USB receiver, a couple of nice clothes and a 19 inch flat screen HD monitor. Which is pretty amazing, considering how small my desk space is. After that I ate shrip with steak and a cheese potato, which was AWESOME. Then I went to a friends house to hang out with a friend who has the exact same birthday as me (exactly one year younger). Me and a few other chaps dicked around and played video games, then I came home. Damn good day.
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Sooo for my birthday today I went to school, then came home and took a nap. After that, I opened up some presents and got a wireless mouse (I needed one) and wireless USB receiver, a couple of nice clothes and a 19 inch flat screen HD monitor. Which is pretty amazing, considering how small my desk space is. After that I ate shrip with steak and a cheese potato, which was AWESOME. Then I went to a friends house to hang out with a friend who has the exact same birthday as me (exactly one year younger). Me and a few other chaps dicked around and played video games, then I came home. Damn good day.
It would have been better if you got birthday sex.
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It would have been better if you got birthday sex.
Shit, I'd take the 19" monitor over that. Which is somewhat sad.
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Shit, I'd take the 19" monitor over that. Which is somewhat sad.
That is.
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Shit, I'd take the 19" monitor over that. Which is somewhat sad.
Nah, not really. 19" monitors are harder to come by, cost more, last longer, and serve a better purpose.
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Nah, not really. 19" monitors are harder to come by, cost more, last longer, and serve a better purpose.
And you don't have to call a 19" monitor the next day.
And you don't have to worry about a 19" monitor's gossiping friends.
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And you don't have to call a 19" monitor the next day.
And you don't have to worry about a 19" monitor's gossiping friends.
A 19" monitor will never go out of its way to destroy your life if you get into an argument and break up.
The 19" monitor will never threaten you and, in fact, cannot speak.
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A 19" monitor will never go out of its way to destroy your life if you get into an argument and break up.
The 19" monitor will never threaten you and, in fact, cannot speak.
Man, fuck getting a boyfriend. I'll just get a 19" monitor!
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A 19" monitor will never cheat on you.
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A 19" monitor will never cheat on you.
Unlesss you look at pron.
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Unlesss you look at pron.
Monitor pron.
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/r/ rule 34
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/r/ rule 34
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v34/Jupichan/monitorpr0n.png)
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bah, that's not porn. That's mildly suggestive at best, and downright mundane at worst.
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That's because it's gonna lead up to some hardcore shit, man!
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Unlesss you look at pron.
Too late.
Also I went to the store with my mum and she bought me a 12 pack of canned yoo-hoos and some jones soda. FUCK YEAH.
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My new computer is up and running. I still need to install a lot of drivers, though. Also, I need a sound card.
The assembly was pretty painless, actually. I had a friend come over who'd built his own computer a couple of months ago and he helped me with the assembly. We got pretty much everything right the first time.
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That's because it's gonna lead up to some hardcore shit, man!
Thats white monitor pron.
If it was black monitor pron they be fucking.
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The only thing not hooked up properly in my computer (which I put together with no experience taking apart, or putting a computer together before hand) is the power light in the case. Even the Hard Drive Use light is in, but the location of the power light pins and the orientation of the connector don't fit properly.
Also, I just found out about this: http://www.sysadminday.com/
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v253/annonymous/Untitled-3.jpg)
I have a good computer now :D
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XD
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ackanime was just fucking around, it was just a technical issue.
darknest isn't dead, just temporarily down.
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darknest isn't dead, just temporarily down.
Yay!
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well i figured something was up because both of ackanime's other sites were down also, so yeah, good news regardless.
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I has chicken curry and garlic naan cookin' right now.
*prepares for noms* ;D
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So I've noticed this in about everyone I know. When they win in some online game they will say something along the lines of "rape" or "wow, I just pwned them". If they start to lose, then they say something along the lines of "wow this kid is a loser, he must play all day". The hypocrisy of it all is kind of funny, and I swear 90% of the people who play online act like this.
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So I've noticed this in about everyone I know. When they win in some online game they will say something along the lines of "rape" or "wow, I just pwned them". If they start to lose, then they say something along the lines of "wow this kid is a loser, he must play all day". The hypocrisy of it all is kind of funny, and I swear 90% of the people who play online act like this.
It's just a way of increasing the size of their e-penis. I know people that are like that for stuff in person too. Heh.
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Well, I sometimes say pwned and stuff, but usually only when someone honestly just got fucking wrecked. And when I lose, I usually just start swearing like "stupid fucking son of a goddamned whore, fucking bitch."
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Well, I sometimes say pwned and stuff, but usually only when someone honestly just got fucking wrecked. And when I lose, I usually just start swearing like "stupid fucking son of a goddamned whore, fucking bitch."
That's what I do, or if it's CS I bitch about the hit registry. It's just that people will tell themselves whatever to make them feel better.
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I don't mind using chat or l337 speak when I am gaming. However when I hear 12-14 year olds doing that I want to sucker punch them or have Mr. T chase them with a Hummer with a Snickers chain gun attached.
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I don't mind using chat or l337 speak when I am gaming. However when I hear 12-14 year olds doing that I want to donkey punch them.
http://www.menarebetterthanwomen.com/donkey-punch/
Um...what? :-X
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Productive++
I bought the materials for this (save the PacDrive, which I'm borrowing) Sunday afternoon, spent an hour wiring up a test circuit and running tests. Downloaded the source for libhid (the test utility was based on it), recompiled it to echo the USB control messages it was running and linked that to the test utility. I used that information to develop a device driver, then a lights driver, and it all works perfectly. :) Took me about 6 hours of off-and-on work, including the incredibly frustrating process of getting the breadboard put together without any pliers.
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http://www.menarebetterthanwomen.com/dick-and-maddox-man-pack/
Fucking funny.
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Oh, Dick Masterson. What a guy.
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POTATOES FRYIN FOR COMIN BAX TO PITTSBURGH ON THURS.
:D
YAEYAYEYAYEYAYEYA ETC ETC ETC ETC FUX
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Will you come play with me? ;-;
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POTATOES FRYIN FOR COMIN BAX TO PITTSBURGH ON THURS.
CUM 2 MY HAUS PLZ ;D
YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO GO TO YO-POLAND
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I found my Crysis disc, and now I'm on an annoying tank mission.
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I have an Eee PC now.
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I found my Crysis disc, and now I'm on yet another annoying mission.
Fixed to sum up my complaints about Crysis after a few hours of playing. :P
I've been sort of reviewing it as I've been going through it...expect bloggage when I finish it.
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Fixed to sum up my complaints about Crysis after a few hours of playing. :P
Heh, well I haven't had any problems really. A little dull and the AI really hinders it, but it's still fun. The really annoying thing is those god damned helicopters, you can at least hide from a tank but those fuckers tear shit up and never stop chasing you. At least every hut that has attack choppers near it also has some rockets.
Also Psy Ops the mind gate conspiracy and Far cry are free, legitimately.
Also also why is Larsa from FF12 so delicious.
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I dunno, after a while Crysis exhibited a minor form of Far Cry syndrome, where the difficulty gets ramped up very suddenly and battles become little more than bore-fests.
I really enjoyed the game up until I got about 4-5 hours into it. It's been pretty meh since then. Definitely overrated by the gaming press, whose lust for ZOMG GRAFFIX!!1 never ceases to astound me.
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I dunno, after a while Crysis exhibited a minor form of Far Cry syndrome, where the difficulty gets ramped up very suddenly and battles become little more than bore-fests.
I really enjoyed the game up until I got about 4-5 hours into it. It's been pretty meh since then. Definitely overrated by the gaming press, whose lust for ZOMG GRAFFIX!!1 never ceases to astound me.
I needs ot comes overs and playz spekturz.
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I have an Eee PC now.
Why? Those things are basically only useful for browsing the web (albeit dealing with a small screen even makes that a bit less fun than it should be, and basic things like word processing.
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Why? Those things are basically only useful for browsing the web (albeit dealing with a small screen even makes that a bit less fun than it should be, and basic things like word processing.
Because that's all I'll be using it for. I have a gaming rig already. I don't need another one.
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Well, that's not bad, but man, those screens are fucking small. I don't see how anyone would willingly subject themselves to that torture unless they actually needed to.
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I got a 900. The screen isn't as small as the 701.
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Wasn't sure which one you had, but I know the 2 screen sizes are 7 and 9 inches.
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It's a 9 inch, which isn't bad once you get used to the overall size.
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Yeah, when you mentioned the model number, I knew which one you meant, but for me, going from 2 19 inch monitors to 1 9 inch screen would drive me absolutely mad.
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Why? Those things are basically only useful for browsing the web (albeit dealing with a small screen even makes that a bit less fun than it should be, and basic things like word processing.
Erm, actually the Eee's are pretty well-equipped for what you pay for them.
Not to mention that there are numerous instances where ultra-portables are considerably more useful than full-sized laptops. I don't particularly mind hauling my 17+" laptop around, but for most tasks that I perform on the go an ultra-portable would be more than adequate.
Also, a small screen is certainly not worse than a larger high-resolution screen. I'm sure the display on an ASUS Eee is far more readable for most than my laptop's 1200p screen.
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YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO GO TO YO-POLAND
late as hell but
YO POLAND~
of course i be goin' daer.
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I have acknowledged that it can be useful at times (this conversation has been going on in 2 threads, lol), but even if it's more "readable", adjusting to a 9 inch screen from dual 19 inch widescreens would REALLY bug me, it's simply the screen space itself that I'd miss. Even when I have to use someone else's setup with only 1 monitor, I feel weird.
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holy jesus, FA is up. well, its a bit buggy right now (like click a page, and the screen goes white, so basically click back then re click the link over and over till it goes through) but that ok, they will work the kinks out soon with the new hardware.
i expect over 100 submissions (considering its been down for 31 days, i actually expect near 600[i have a lot of people on my watch list]) by the time i wake up.
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holy jesus, FA is up.
Fucking finally.
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Ugh I am have trouble with just going there T_T
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a little bit slow, but things seem to mostly be back in order right now.
also gunmouth's journals are always awesome to read because the kid is always enthusiastic about the art.
its like "you liked that? WELL SWEET JOHNNY BILL CLINTON'S PET FROG ON A NUCLEAR BOMB YOU CAN GET THAT RIGHT HERE!"
or something along those lines. less capslock anyway.
on another happy related subject...
i made myself 4 mozzerella grilled cheese sandwiches on wheat bread (WHEAT > WHITE) and with the help of cream cheese, i devoured them all. it was ORGASMIC.
kind of funny that every time i make sammiches, i eat nearly half a loaf of bread. IM STILL SKINNY ;o
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Heh, it's a rare moment when FA isn't slow.
It definitely needs more PennAvenue content. Speaking of which: http://www.furaffinity.net/user/pennavenue/ (http://www.furaffinity.net/user/pennavenue/) vlad, Omni, go there...stat.
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is it common that i don't get it?
or am i just retarded?
and i thought of another thing that brings me joy.
certain moves astaroth does in soulcalibur 4, he yells out "ANNOYING" and its like "annoYING"
i don't know, but i really like it when he says that, not to mention he is obviously the best fighting game character ever.
*edit*
k i kind of giggled
KIND OF
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XD.
Nice Spectere.
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is it common that i don't get it?
They're my fantastic, well-constructed yiffy stories! ^^
(and by that I mean they're pretty much making fun of the whole concept)
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Wow since FA got up agian it's hard to get on.
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FA IS BACK? OH GOD THE HOURS I WILL WASTE YET AGAIN
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(http://www.bestweekever.tv/bwe/images/2008/06/BASSETHOUND%205.JPG)
This.
Seriously, I lol'd for a good while at this. <3
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(http://img357.imageshack.us/img357/8193/lawloa6.jpg)
maby not 500, but still...daymn
*edit*
fapfapfapfapfapfapfap
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No!
I can't get on FA T_T
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I'm going to Otakon with Vyhd in just a little bit. :3 He should be here to get me reaaal soon. <3
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They're taking the Hobbits to Isengard.
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Found my first Buffalo Nickel going through rolls of nickels the other day. 1926. Pimp.
Also my new ESOL student is really cool, 26-year old Brazilian chick.
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Awesome on the Buffalo Nickle. I have about 5 of those.
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Yeah, I've bought quite a few, but to find one actually still in circulation is pretty neat. I've read estimates of the probability of finding a Buffalo- something like one in every 400 rolls, or 16000 nickels. Yikes.
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Damn.
I don't like those odds...but then again getting one of those is good luck.
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I am going to this: http://www.mayhemfest.com/ tomorrow.
Fuck yes, Disturbed (yes, I actually like them), Mastadon, Dragonforce, Walls of Jericho, Underoath, Suicide Silence, The Red Chord, and Black Tide! (and some others I don't care about)
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Dude have fun.
Hope you enjoy.
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Disturbed (yes, I actually like them)
I don't understand what people have against them.
Oh wait, they're popular. My bad.
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Lol, well, I can understand musically why some people might not like them. They're kinda nu-metal-ish. They're that generic American type metal that "true metal fans" who only listen to death metal and European metal always hate. (though I will admit that about 90% of European metal IS better than the vast majority of American metal.)
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Damn.
I don't like those odds...but then again getting one of those is good luck.
oh, i see them all the time. I'll have to start saving them from now on, then. rofl...
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I don't understand what people have against them.
Oh wait, they're popular. My bad.
i like justin timberlake, hes popular. i don't like disturbed. then again, i don't like the genre they are in, or any music related to them, BUT I WAS SIMPLY GIVING OUT A POINT!
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I have this to say...tits tits tits.
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Aside from standing in line for quite some time to register/enter the convention, Otakon was quite awesome. As was just this entire weekend in general. :3
And times shall continue to be awesome, as the party continues today/tonight at Vyhd's place! ^_^
And tomorrow! Oh yes, tomorrow! A small horde of people shall meet to place enchantments on an ITG2 machine. <3
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Well not going back to college this semester because my finical aid got "lost" because a new system YSU put in that hasn't been full tested and they just did this with in the last 6 months.
Yes I did go to the Finical Aid office and they told me just to go online.
*sighs*
According to some others I talk to some of their loans haven't even processed yet...with the old system it maybe took a week or so.
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Aside from standing in line for quite some time to register/enter the convention, Otakon was quite awesome. As was just this entire weekend in general. :3
OTAKOOOOOOOOOONNN.
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OTAKOOOOOOOOOONNN.
Yes! That's where we were all weekend! ^_^
I met another Quailman there. I was quite surprised. As was he. :3
We started to fight, giving each other the Quail-eye and all, but we eventually decided that it was best to talk through our problems and to solve them without silly violence.
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Well not going back to college this semester because my finical aid got "lost" because a new system YSU put in that hasn't been full tested and they just did this with in the last 6 months.
Yes I did go to the Finical Aid office and they told me just to go online.
*sighs*
According to some others I talk to some of their loans haven't even processed yet...with the old system it maybe took a week or so.
That blows four or five dicks.
I got $200 worth of nickels and $50 in half dollars from Bank of America today.
Within the first few rolls of nickels I found two buffaloes. Metal! I have GODLY LUCK.
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Woo, I got stuff without spending much moneys.
First off, I traded in a TON OF SHIT that I wasn't using at GameStop and wound up with $130 (edit) $172 worth of trade-in credit. I bought a used copy of Mass Effect (which automagically got me a GameStop card slash magazine subscription renewal) and a wireless Cock Band guitar, leaving me with $65.
Next, I traded in my Xbox 360 racing wheel to a small game store in Aliquippa, PA, called the Gamemaster's Realm. I only got $35 of store credit from it, but that's okay since nobody else takes racing wheels. Anyhoo, I started putting the next part of my Master Plan(TM) into play by purchasing Guitar Hero 3 from them. I also bought a copy of Sonic & Knuckles -- since I wasn't able to find it at any other place up until that point -- and picked up a second PC->GameBoy cable (it comes with the GB/GBC GameShark yet I've never actually used it with my GameShark...kekeke I'm awesome).
Then, I went back to GameStop and bought an Xbox 360 Guitar Hero guitar and a copy of Guitar Hero 2 -- both used -- for $62. FUCK YEAH.
Long story short: I traded in a whole bunch of shit that I'm not going to miss, wound up replacing my second shitty Rock Band guitar with a new wireless one, got rid of the awful first-generation Guitar Hero PS2 controller I had (that was part of my first trade-in set, along with GH1 and GH2), effectively switched my Guitar Hero stuff over from PS2 to Xbox 360, and picked up Guitar Hero 3 at the same time.
Damn, that wasn't short at all. OH WELL.
Pardon my hyperness, I'm coming down from a Monster and a 1L bottle of Vault. YAY.
Edit: Interesting note: Guitar Hero 1 for PS2 nets you $9. Guitar Hero 2 for PS2 only gets you $8. Interesting.
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Silly Spectere, I told you GH3 was poop. :P
Now I'm gonna have to kick your ass. <3
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For some reason I much prefer playing GH on the wired PS2 controllers.
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Silly Spectere, I told you GH3 was poop. :P
Now I'm gonna have to kick your ass. <3
:(
I liked GH3 way more than the first two and all the little spin-offs.
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Silly Spectere, I told you GH3 was poop. :P
I bought it for TTFAF and One, primarily.
The other songs seem pretty cool, too. :P
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Yeah, I liked the setlist in 3. I also liked the set list in 2, but 1's was kind lacking (it had a couple cool songs, but the lack of real challenge made it pretty useless to me). Rocks the 80's had some pretty wicked songs. However, I'm planning on never playing the Aerosmith one. Why didn't they pick a better band. I'm happy they are making Metallica, since they have a lot of songs worth playing, but Aerosmith only has a couple good songs.
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The Aerosmith one is less challenging than GH1 was. Really, I only played to the 5th tier, but all of the charts so far have been easy enough to be first or second.
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Well, it's not like Aerosmith has the greatest guitar work in their music.
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I got my somewhat-sucky "new" TV to be quite tolerable. Whoo!
The sound could still be better, but it's more than enough until I can afford/acquire some spiffy speakers to hook up to it. And as I'm told (and kinda figured myself anyways) the picture for my ps2 will get a lot better once I can obtain an S-video cable. :P
Money money money. Oh well.
But hey, at least I can didder/groooove at home again. <333
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I recently started drinking this (http://www.bottle-green.co.uk) stuff. Specifically, the Elderflower Presse, and the Elderflower & Pomegranate Presse. This stuff is amazing.
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I found my TI-83
I found my fife
I've got two classes with one of my bestest friends
My dad doesn't have cancer anymore
My bedroom smells of peaches
I'm about to make a tasty tasty lunch consisting of salmon and a side dish that has not been decided upon yet.
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that's a lot of stuff
grats
anyway, miu is working on some comic thing that is CLEAN so like he can actually show it off to more people and it get it to the book shops and stuff. i'm probably going to buy it when avalible, since i just fucking love his artstyle.
(http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/7192/12187699023applesmediabsd1.jpg)
i mean c'mon, his stuff is just like the epitome of "cute"
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OpenITG properly supports the r16 input speed-up kernel hack now, which means it's almost ready for beta. :)
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So I am debating if I should get my hair buzzed or not.
To give you an idea of how long it is take TimJing's hair length and shorten it a bit and that's how long mine is.
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OpenITG properly supports the r16 input speed-up kernel hack now, which means it's almost ready for beta. :)
Sweet. 8)
Install it at the Clubhouse when the machine unexplodes itself.
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Unexplodes? what happened?
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Not too sure, all we know is that it got buggered up somehow.
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Lame.
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Not too sure, all we know is that it got buggered up somehow.
Yeah, and the management refuses to take any advice on how to fix it, so my guess is that it's gonna be muffed up for quite some time.
For now, I guess, they could rent it out as one nerdy paperweight.
OpenITG properly supports the r16 input speed-up kernel hack now, which means it's almost ready for beta. :)
:o Yay! ^_^
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So I am debating if I should get my hair buzzed or not.
To give you an idea of how long it is take TimJing's hair length and shorten it a bit and that's how long mine is.
No. Don't cut it :x
Unless it's bothering you, or you need to be overly impressionable for a job or something, let the hair flow :D
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So I am debating if I should get my hair buzzed or not.
To give you an idea of how long it is take TimJing's hair length and shorten it a bit and that's how long mine is.
No, you were awesome with long hair.
I have my job back!
Granted, we're shortstaffed to hell and the manager is hopelessly inept at scheduling people properly, but hey, I have a job again!
I have no idea what to spend my newfound wealth on.
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Heh understaffed is an understatment at my place of employment.
I think we are down almost 8 kitchen crew members when the best number is about 20....weekends are fun when you work a station by yourself in the dinner rush.
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I found a 1908 Liberty nickel while going through nickels about a week ago. Not worth more than two bucks, but still, damn nice find. The thing's a hundred years ago! What the hell!
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Wow nice.
I think my dad still has several of his Silver Half Dollar coins from the 1950's some where.
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You know, it's a pretty nice feeling being up all night and finishing the night off with a couple beers. (And a mix of Coke and Disaronno)
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Beer is good.
What kind of beer did you have ie regular, pale ale, lagar.ect
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Wow nice.
I think my dad still has several of his Silver Half Dollar coins from the 1950's some where.
Franklin halves?
Also, my first day of school tomorrow is cancelled! YES.
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/me is posting from college
So, yeah, got my Ethernet, bed set up, etc. etc., having a good time with the marching band, made some fast friends (particularly with the RA and other freshman alto sax), just kinda chillaxin' before I sleep (waking up tomorrow around 6:30). :)
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You know, it's a pretty nice feeling being up all night and finishing the night off with a couple beers. (And a mix of Coke and Disaronno)
Same, I just did about 3 or 4 games of man pong and I have a decent buzz.
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/me is posting from college
So, yeah, got my Ethernet, bed set up, etc. etc., having a good time with the marching band, made some fast friends (particularly with the RA and other freshman alto sax), just kinda chillaxin' before I sleep (waking up tomorrow around 6:30). :)
^_^ Yay!
You must tell me more later! But I has to go to class in a few minutes. :3
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/me is posting from college
whoa
You go to YSU, right? If so, you live like 10 freaking minutes from me. That's both awesome and scary at the same time.
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Whats worse is that I live down the street from you.
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whoa
You go to YSU, right? If so, you live like 10 freaking minutes from me. That's both awesome and scary at the same time.
Obviously, you two should party.
And I'll hop over too. :P
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Whats worse is that I live down the street from you.
More like down the street, around a bend, down another street, around another bend, down another street, around another bend, then up a hill.
Eh, close enough.
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My textbooks that I thought were going to cost me over $400 only turned out to be about $260. :3
Well, $260 once I can finally get a hold of my piano book. No bookstore around my campus has it. x.x
But sweet! Saved money. <3
Edit: And this is the building where one of my classes is held.
Holy crap. Ish purdy. :o
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v34/Jupichan/DSCN9548.jpg)
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My textbooks that I thought were going to cost me over $400 only turned out to be about $260. :3
Well, $260 once I can finally get a hold of my piano book. No bookstore around my campus has it. x.x
But sweet! Saved money. <3
Edit: And this is the building where one of my classes is held.
Holy crap. Ish purdy. :o
That is purdy. Also, you play piano? My girlfriend's into that too :o
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Well, I'm learning how. :3
Those studyin' music in college need to take these classes! :D
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I find it funny that people in CSS think that lag/choke have no impact on someones knifing abilities. I'm literally having people knife me at a range were I could see the end of their knife, while I was running into someone and knifing only to have that still miss, and before this I had a few incidents were I couldn't get my scout kill (I was in a gun game, and I basically had to get a no scope with a scout just to win, and it was rather hard to do this with my new PC set up). So, after all this bullshit, I get into the next game on a map I rather like. So, I end up constantly killing the two people who were shit talking previously, and after they both bitch at the same time I say "stop crying". It was rather awesome, I one of the two quit with about negative 30 kills.
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I find it funny that people in CSS think that lag/choke have no impact on someones knifing abilities.
Funny how many people seem to think that Internet communication happens instantly...
Kudos for fucking them up in the end. :)
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Beer is good.
What kind of beer did you have ie regular, pale ale, lagar.ect
I tend to drink Stout (Guinness) fairly often, I like drinking Kilkenny (Irish Cream Ale) with it, I also tend to drink Coors Light, Red Cap (the most Canadian beer ever) and Strongbow (a fermented Apple Cider).
I've had a couple others, such as Budweiser, Canadian, and a couple others, but I'm not a fan of many "normal" (as in, the kind you usually buy in cans/bottles) beers.
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I got hooked up with a free rental clarinet for this semester because my section leaders really didn't want me to march with a wooden one.
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No offense, but that reminds me of the kids in my woodshop class that didnt pay for their wood because they couldnt afford it.
Still, thats pretty cool.
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I got hooked up with a free rental clarinet for this semester because my section leaders really didn't want me to march with a wooden one.
Hah, sweet.
I really miss playing the clarinet. :/ But it's no fun playing by myself.
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All my teachers are really cool this year. Can't complain. Although I am still enrolled in the band class, even though I quit band. I wonder if I should change that...
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Probably my friend.
I have been watching The Boondocks and love the show. I can relate to Huey and how he acts.
Also I won my bid for my game on E-Bay.
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But it's no fun playing by myself.
You must not be doing it right GAH GAH GAH.
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Jupi I believe you got served.
Damn.
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Blue Fanta is amazing. That is all.
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Jupi I believe you got served.
Damn.
Mm...not quite. Twas a good effort though. :3
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I tend to drink Stout (Guinness) fairly often, I like drinking Kilkenny (Irish Cream Ale) with it, I also tend to drink Coors Light, Red Cap (the most Canadian beer ever) and Strongbow (a fermented Apple Cider).
I've had a couple others, such as Budweiser, Canadian, and a couple others, but I'm not a fan of many "normal" (as in, the kind you usually buy in cans/bottles) beers.
Newfoundland beer - Black Horse.
*Comic book guy voice* Best, beer, ever.
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What type of beer is it? Also, I really want to try Newfie Screech :P
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Also I won my bid for my game on E-Bay.
Sweet. Always a good feeling. Which game?
Also, my potatoes are golden delicious- my awesome English teacher I had sophomore year is now teaching AP Literature for the first time, and I'm in one of her classes. Pimp. Although she's only ever taught sophomore English classes before (I think), I'm really good at English and should be fine on the AP exam.
Also, being a senior is pretty cool.
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Sweet. Always a good feeling. Which game?
Legend of Legaia...such a great RPG.
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I found a Rubik's Magic (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPZKwrfw_aQ) at a Wal-Mart last night. I didn't even know these were sold in the US. This thing is so much fun to screw around with, and it's foldable and pocket-sized, making it more portable than the Rubik's Cube. As a result, I'm carrying this thing with me wherever I go.
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in june of 2006 i worked on getting my drivers licence. i drove and stuff till i was fine, and i took the test and got my licence in september.
started looking for a job in october 2006.
I GOT A JOB TODAY, so i start the paperwork on monday.
been two damn years, and yeah. im literally holding back tears, its quite like, damn.
i mean the job itself is little caesars, but i know a few good friends of mine work there, and working there shouldn't be too bad at all.
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i feel good
and on a random note, because of this, im getting WAR when it comes out, rather than waiting till christmas.
RUNEPRIEST BIATCH!
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Congratmations. :3
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Training at work was really fun tonight... our main trainer is really funny. Something new we have to do now is, if we get ahold of someone's cell phone, before we talk to them we gotta ask if they're in a safe place to talk (i.e. not driving 70 mph down a freeway) and then went on saying that a dead/maimed respondent is no good to us. Funny stuff :D
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I GOT A JOB TODAY, so i start the paperwork on monday.
Sweet! Congrats. :)
Edit: Mungyodance 3 is due at 5AM. I can't freaking wait.
ALSO:
(http://files.spectere.net/pictures/mgd3-credits.jpg)
DAMNIT, RENARD.
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Well, he could have put a picture of your arse in there. :3
lessee...happy...happy...
Well, my first week of class is done.
I bought a new dress, *world stops turning for a moment* O.o but I'm going to tear it apart and just keep the skirt part of it. The top is oogly.
Tomorrow is my bestest friends' birthday! I must mess with him. xD
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Oh wow Spec...that is a god damn it.
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It made me think of Johnny Cage.
I'm not sure why.
But it made me think of Johnny Cage.
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It made me think of Johnny Cage.
I'm not sure why.
But it made me think of Johnny Cage.
Who wants to play MKII?
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So even though I don't really weigh much less, I suddenly fit into a dress that SHOULD be three sizes too small for me.
wtf? Neat.
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I found a used, working Dreamcast at the flea market for $20. Now I can play powerstone 2 and crazy taxi again :D
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I found a used, working Dreamcast at the flea market for $20. Now I can play powerstone 2 and crazy taxi again :D
I hear Ikkaruga for Dreamcast looks better but the controler is shit compaired to game cube's.
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eh, i don't want a shooter game much anyway :x
also work kicked ass tonight. basically we just made fun of our jobs all night haha.
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I hear Ikkaruga for Dreamcast looks better but the controler is shit compaired to game cube's.
False on the first count, true on the second.
The GameCube is more powerful than the Dreamcast (by quite a bit) and the controller is better. The d-pad is too...weird on the Dreamcast. In a bad way.
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False on the first count, true on the second.
The GameCube is more powerful than the Dreamcast (by quite a bit) and the controller is better. The d-pad is too...weird on the Dreamcast. In a bad way.
Ah ok. Thanks for the Correction Spec.
Still it looks like an awesome game...just bringing myself to drop $60 for it is a tad hard.
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Well I have the same teacher for 2 classes, and he seems pretty awesome. A little work hard, but he's really looking at building design from a unique way. Also this, somewhat NSFW.
http://s94.photobucket.com/albums/l94/mortifiedocalot/?action=view¤t=DMC.jpg
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*Jaw Drops*
Oh she is hot...also awesome design.
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Woo! Hacked my Xbox tonight. :D
I love being able to hack systems into accepting PERFECTLY LEGITIMATE games with no questions asked. It just feels so...dirty.
Also, it's nice actually being able to use ZSNES on a console. It looks incredible (double the resolution of the SNES with AdvMAME2x and hi-res mode 7) and runs even the most advanced games at a silky smooth 60fps.
Of course, it took quite a lot of fiddling and trial-and-error to get that far (I used the HDD hot swapping method) but uh, it worked like a charm and both the Xbox and my old computer are still a-okay. :)
(FYI, this is the type of things that happen when I get bored)
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Wi9cked, I was thinking of doing an HDLoader type thing with my PS2, but it's practically impossible to find a simple method I can actually understand that allows me to have the option of either loading games off the drive, loading a snes emulator/rams, or loading game via my swap disk. Everything seems to be geared towards only really doing one of those things, and all the info I have seen has been pretty poorly written for the most part.
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That was one of the things that kept me from doing that to my PS2. For one thing, most of the games that I play (IIDX, Pop'n) on it don't work properly with the HDLoader, plus what you mentioned.
If you want a good emulation console, your best bet would probably be to find a cheap Xbox that nobody wants. They have the advantage of being easily hackable, having a processor that makes sense to mere mortals, and having x86 processors (so ZSNES can actually be used with all of its ass-kicking goodness).
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well, if I have free money next summer, maybe. I really wish I knew enough about programming on the PS2, and how to make a SNES emulator, because I'm pretty sure the few SNES emulators that work on that thing are utter crap (I've never used any, but I'm pretty sure that's the case...)
It's be kinda cool to actually learn to program on a 128 bit CPU... But probably ridiculously hard.
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Oh she is hot...also awesome design.
Her name is Vikki Blows, I still find that last name awesome.
Also how would modding my Wii be?
Also also why are you ass holes awake?
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I'm up because I'm working security now, and my weekday shift is 9 PM to 2 AM.
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Programming the Emotion Engine isn't hard because it's a 128-bit processor. C is C, really. It also utilizes a fairly common MIPS core, similar to what you'd see in the PSone, PSP, and N64, albeit a few steps up (the EE is similar to a MIPS 5900).
The part that makes the PS2 so difficult to optimize for are the SPEs. It's pretty much be the equivalent of taking an old Pentium -- a fairly weak processor -- and attaching a handful of smaller, very fast processors that can only do SSE, to it, then telling you that in order to maximize the power of the chip you'd have to be sure to keep all of the processors fully utilized. It would be a nightmare.
Not only that, but the PS2 is all stream-based. As I'm sure you noticed, the PS2 doesn't have a whole lot of RAM of any sorts. As far as temporary storage goes, the PSP outclasses it by a fairly large margin. The PS2's strength, however, is in data streaming. Its architecture can push small amounts of data around at an incredible rate of speed. It's pretty much the opposite of PC design -- it deals with small amounts of data very efficiently rather than loading everything in memory and processing it slowly. Of course, that also requires a whole new approach when you're a programmer -- you have to keep the bus full at all times, otherwise you're not taking full advantage of the architecture.
So, really, the challenge of PS2 development isn't just the processor. Oh no, you wish you could be that lucky. The entire system is a set of intricate challenges. That's why the late-release titles look so much better than the launch titles; it took forever for developers to learn the ropes (and from what I read, Sony's poor documentation didn't help matters). It's not like in the NES/SNES days where the later games looked better because developers were jamming new chips in the cartridge. No, in this case developers were finally learning how to deal with the system.
That said, the architecture is quite unique. I suggest reading up on it, it's very interesting.
Also how would modding my Wii be?
If you have a copy of Twilight Princess, an SD card, and want to play homebrew or PERFECTLY LEGITIMATE Wii channels, about as easy as blinking your eyes (http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Twilight_Hack).
If you want to play "backups," however, you'll still need a chip.
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Programming the Emotion Engine isn't hard because it's a 128-bit processor. C is C, really. It also utilizes a fairly common MIPS core, similar to what you'd see in the PSone, PSP, and N64, albeit a few steps up (the EE is similar to a MIPS 5900).
The part that makes the PS2 so difficult to optimize for are the SPEs. It's pretty much be the equivalent of taking an old Pentium -- a fairly weak processor -- and attaching a handful of smaller, very fast processors that can only do SSE, to it, then telling you that in order to maximize the power of the chip you'd have to be sure to keep all of the processors fully utilized. It would be a nightmare.
Not only that, but the PS2 is all stream-based. As I'm sure you noticed, the PS2 doesn't have a whole lot of RAM of any sorts. As far as temporary storage goes, the PSP outclasses it by a fairly large margin. The PS2's strength, however, is in data streaming. Its architecture can push small amounts of data around at an incredible rate of speed. It's pretty much the opposite of PC design -- it deals with small amounts of data very efficiently rather than loading everything in memory and processing it slowly. Of course, that also requires a whole new approach when you're a programmer -- you have to keep the bus full at all times, otherwise you're not taking full advantage of the architecture.
So, really, the challenge of PS2 development isn't just the processor. Oh no, you wish you could be that lucky. The entire system is a set of intricate challenges. That's why the late-release titles look so much better than the launch titles; it took forever for developers to learn the ropes (and from what I read, Sony's poor documentation didn't help matters). It's not like in the NES/SNES days where the later games looked better because developers were jamming new chips in the cartridge. No, in this case developers were finally learning how to deal with the system.
So that explains why Summoner looks like shit (graphic wise) to FFXII.
Also I didn't know this stuff about my PS2....thanks for the info Spec.
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I should point out that6 the SNES also has to make a LOT of use of the DMA. A LOT.
lol.
But yeah, I didn't really realize that it was that different. I can understand that though, actually. They are using the 128 bit processor because it's capable of handling larger chunks of data at once, making it more efficient for streaming. If you can handle a 128 bit chunk of data just as quickly as a 32 bit computer can handle 32 bits, you can have a lot faster throughput when it comes to data manipulation using the same number of cycles.
Any idea on how the graphics display mechanism works in the PS2? Because I know that dealing with graphics in the SNES is a nightmare. (other than music, it's probably one of the most agonizing things for a new programmer to grasp. SNES music is still in HEAVY development and very early stages when it comes to homebrew sound systems.)
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start workan tuesday
the dude said i should be getting about 30 hours a week, so it shouldn't be too bad.
assuming i start later, 4pm-10pm for 5 days, assuming that's when ill work, not too shabby. don't start too early, don't work too late. and that's assuming i don't open, which id probably start around 10 or 11, and even that's not bad.
anyway, the faster i get the initial training done with, the better, i want this shit to be routine boring stuff rather than "ohh no what am i doing WFSEGEHE"
-laid back manager
-about an 8 minute drive from my place
-kickass parking
-i know people there
-from what they tell me, its a pretty easy jerb
SHOULD BE OKIEDOKIE.
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And what are you doing again?
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Don't work to hard now Vlad :P
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I found a copy of Animal Farm in my band room, so I took it. It was in the music library room, a little room in one of the corners of the band room. It looks like it hasn't been used for quite a while, so it won't be missed. I liked that book, and I read it last in, like, 7th grade, so I might reread it in the near future 8)
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Turning around potential insults without saying anything.
So today in the lecture hall of Polisci before class started, I'd started up my Eee and was screwing around in the terminal to kill time.
Jackass behind me: (in a condescending tone) "Hey, nice computer."
Me: (stares back at him with a plain look)
Jackass: (same tone) "How much memory you got on that thing?"
Me: (gives him a "you can do better than that" face and turn back around)
Jackass: "Wha-"
Jackass's friend: (laughing) "Dude, you just got dissed hard."
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My swamping pictures came out really good. :D
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But yeah, I didn't really realize that it was that different. I can understand that though, actually. They are using the 128 bit processor because it's capable of handling larger chunks of data at once, making it more efficient for streaming. If you can handle a 128 bit chunk of data just as quickly as a 32 bit computer can handle 32 bits, you can have a lot faster throughput when it comes to data manipulation using the same number of cycles.
Indeedy. The entire system is literally built from the ground up for this. Its total bandwidth is ridiculous.
If the DVD drive weren't so damn slow it would have a lot more potential, methinks.
Oh, also, I drastically understated the PS2's memory. I got it confused with the PSone for some reason. :x The amount of system memory matches that of the phat PSP.
Any idea on how the graphics display mechanism works in the PS2? Because I know that dealing with graphics in the SNES is a nightmare. (other than music, it's probably one of the most agonizing things for a new programmer to grasp. SNES music is still in HEAVY development and very early stages when it comes to homebrew sound systems.)
I'm not really too clear on how this all fits together, really, or how you deal with graphics.
I'm pretty sure most of the graphical work is tasked to the two vector processors that the PS2 has (VU1 and VU2). They can push out polys at an absurd rate for the age of the system (in practical terms, we're talking up to around 650,000 polygons at 30fps and 325,000 at 60fps...quite a bit more than the GeForce 2's T&L processor could do). From what I understand, the Graphics Synthesizer was capable of rendering all of that as well. Basically, if you can harness the power of the two VUs (both 128-bit SIMD processors) I'd imagine you'd be able to do rendering on it. Not sure if you can go without knowing how to use them or not.
IIRC, the main weakness of the PS2 is that many of the effects that come standard with a GeForce chip have to be done in software on the PS2. This is why the Xbox and GameCube, despite technically being "slower" systems, easily won the graphics race. Having pixel shaders on the video chipset helps more than having a powerful main processor and extremely large amount of bandwidth in this case, plus the two systems were easier to program for. Developers were able to take the PC paradigm straight to those platforms (especially with the DirectXbox, as it was once known for obvious reasons).
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Ahh, well, I suppose it's probably somewhere around how difficult programming for the SNES is. (Have you ever tried that? It's pretty damn hard, especially considering the limitations of the processor speed and such.)
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Made me and my girlfriend a delicious omelet, with onions, red peppers, broccoli, ham and potatoes... and sausage on the side. mmmm. oh yeah and lots of cheese.
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Made me and my girlfriend a delicious omelet, with onions, red peppers, broccoli, ham and potatoes... and sausage on the side. mmmm. oh yeah and lots of cheese.
Links or patties?
I prefer link sausage (no not penis you sick fucks)...only because of the taste.
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This pickup line: If I were to ask you for sex, would your answer be the same as the answer to this question?
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This pickup line: If I were to ask you for sex, would your answer be the same as the answer to this question?
That's awesome. Also my Trigun replacement skin for the degal in CSS started working for no reason.
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My dad just went and bought me a MacBook, I had no idea that he was going to get me one. Holy shit, like this thing is so cool. I also got a free Ipod touch for being a college student as well as a 100$ discount on the mac book. /stoked
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Discounted stuff=awesome
Free stuff=HELLS FUCKING YEAH!
Have fun with your new MacBook.
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Seeing these two things fried my potatoes.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v34/Jupichan/0830081510.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v34/Jupichan/0830081615.jpg)
Pardon the lousy quality. I didn't feel like digging out my camera at the time, so I used the camera on my cellphone. :3
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the star wars game i played today
me throwing thermal detonator...at 6 or so droids, in front of two giant boats, both filled with 100 people, fueling up....and huge fuel tanks in front of said boats...
chuck, run the fuck away, blast doors BARELY close....the town above suffered good damage...yeah...
nice way to trivialize a hard encounter. the bothan informant shouldn't have given me that thermal detonator, because i sure as hell used it.
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I'm starting to really enjoy biking.
Also, I don't know if I already posted this, but the university's internet connection gets me like 2MB/s download speeds from mirrors.
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Biking is fun...I need to get one before next spring (lots of hills so awesome stamina builder).
2MB/s for download...beats my shitty average of 700kb/s.
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I fucking hate you. I get 310 if I'm lucky and the site isn't either limiting me to 150 (because some sites do that) and I'm not using uTorrent.
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At least you can torrent. If we get caught using any P2P, they cut off our internet connection then we have to pay $40 to get our computers scanned and get our internet back up. Since I've been getting a lot of linux distros lately, it's annoying for the ones that don't mirror their DVD isos and I end up having to get the multi-part CD isos.
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That is retarded.
I'd actually try to make a point to someone who can deal with that, because P2P like limewire and all that is one thing, but more and more torrents are being used to distribute free/open source software.
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Made over a hundred dollars at the flea market yesterday, buying coins for way less than they were worth. Having a good eye really helps with that kind of stuff :)
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My uncle does stuff like that all the time. He goes to the local flea market every weekend. :3
A lot of the stuff he gets is junk, but neat junk, imo. Usually, he doesn't end up paying very much for it at all, so we end up with some nifty things for pretty cheap.
and then he comes over with bagpipes for me. :D
muwahaha.
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when people make themselves look like jackasses.
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Okay, people. First, I saw this:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v34/Jupichan/1220399221628.jpg)
And I thought to myself "Wow! That's awesome! ...wait a second..."
*click to desktop picture*
*headdesk*
*look back at baby*
*headdesk*
*desktop picture*
"FUUUCK!"
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v34/Jupichan/Awesome_borealis_wallpaper.jpg)
Bricks were shat.
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Holy shit.
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/317581586.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)
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I KNOW!
Best baby ever.
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seriously, jupi... That's pretty amazing.
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(http://www.speedtest.net/result/317581586.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)
Shared T1 connection then? God damn son.
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work isn't bad, burnt my finger, scolded my hands, and i still had a good day.
whaddayaknow
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Sour cream and onion pringles
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My new Laptop.
It's a Toshiba Satellite L300D, with an AMD Athlon 64 X2 (I forget the speed), 2 GB DDR2 Ram, and some other crap I can't be arsed to look up at the moment.
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Shared T1 connection then? God damn son.
T1s are only 1.5mbps up and down...
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The ITG cab at CMU is back up and running. When I was there last night, twas no longer hacked, among a few other things.
However, I'm being told that it's being hax0rd right now. xD
Wahoo. <3
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T1s are only 1.5mbps up and down...
I thought T1 was one of the fastest connections you could get...
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T3, maybe? Also, one of the fastest doesn't mean the fastest.
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More like OC1xx or fibre optic if you can get it. Stupid verizon.
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T3, maybe? Also, one of the fastest doesn't mean the fastest.
Unfortunately, he never said anything about "the fastest".
But really mort, T1 is actually pretty slow nowadays.
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But really mort, T1 is actually pretty slow nowadays.
I really know jack shit about this type of stuff.
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its cool, dawg. I still remember the days when 56k was the best you could get.
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I started on a 28.8k modem :S
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I started on a 28.8k modem :S
Oh wow, that's awful. I remembering having 56k and AOL, it was fun having it take 20 minuets just to load a page of text.
Also I GOT ONTO MY SCHOOL E-MAIL FUCKING YESSSSS.
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Let's put it this way, until I was able to move up to 56k, I believe my average download speed was 1kb/s. After moving to 56k, I think my averaged became like, 3 kb/s on a good day, slowly moving down to 1 kb/s again by the time we switched to high speed. Actually, by that point in time, 1kb/s was a good speed, since we were more often than not operating at less than that.
THAT is slow internet. Especially when you're doing things like downloading 100 MB demos of games.... Anyone here remember HappyPuppy?
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Ditto to that. I wanted to feel independent so I bought netzero on my own phoneline with some of my allowance haha. Also so that any time I got online, it wouldn't affect the main house line. This was about 5 or 6 years ago I think. I averaged 5kb/s up to 7kb/s. haha.
At the time I was involved in games like the first rouge spears/rainbow six's and respective expansions, all of which I still have. Most of all, Tribes 2. Funny thing is, I never really got a LOT of lag, just here and there.
Now I have DSL and it's mostly all good
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5kb/s to 7 kb/s? You lucky man, that would have been heaven to me.
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I still have to download my porn by going outside
walking uphill
BOTH WAYS, even
in the snow
with no shoes
and a boner!
And when I canceled that internet service, they took my dick away and made me a girl. :(
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I remember when I didn't have internet for almost a month thanks to my dad.
I nearly went berserk.
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The one little ray of happiness I've had in the past few days if the fact that I managed to complete my project for java class alll by myself. <<;
Other than that, the past few days have been quite hellish for me.
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I remember when I didn't have internet for almost a month thanks to my dad.
I nearly went berserk.
I had none for like, 2 months years ago (back in the days when 56K was fast). Hell, the whole computer was gone. I actually forgot what It was like to have a computer that could play music :/ And to be able to surf the web:/
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Found an awesome bike at a local bike store that I think is going to be my christmas + birthday present. I went there with my dad to look at a bike for me to ride to work and back, and a bike hitch for his car, and we found everything quite nicely. :)
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I got a my Rubik's Master Magic in the mail today TWO WEEKS BEFORE IT WAS SUPPOSED TO GET HERE :DDDDDD
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I just went on a morning bike ride with my dad and it felt miraculous.
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I just checked my online puzzle shop.
THE 6X6X6 AND 7X7X7 RUBIK'S CUBES ARE NOW BEING MANUFACTURED FOR CONSUMERS :DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
They're currently out of stock, and they're pretty expensive, but I'm getting an arrival notice for the 6x6x6. This is so awesome, I've been looking forward to it for almost 2 years now.
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I just checked my online puzzle shop.
THE 6X6X6 AND 7X7X7 RUBIK'S CUBES ARE NOW BEING MANUFACTURED FOR CONSUMERS :DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
They're currently out of stock, and they're pretty expensive, but I'm getting an arrival notice for the 6x6x6. This is so awesome, I've been looking forward to it for almost 2 years now.
my god
why would anyone want one of those?! ridiculous. i can't fathom being able to solve something like that.
edit: WHOA OH MY GOD THERE USED TO BE A CARTOON ABOUT A FLYING RUBIK'S CUBE
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubik,_the_Amazing_Cube
WHAT
edit2: AND IT HAD A HISPANIC THEME ! ! !
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My mind has been blown.
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Oh wow, that's awful.
My first modem had a maximum speed of 2400bps. That's 300 bytes per second.
Try downloading 1MB+ files on that (hint: it takes about an hour per megabyte if you get the full transfer rate).
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edit: WHOA OH MY GOD THERE USED TO BE A CARTOON ABOUT A FLYING RUBIK'S CUBE
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubik,_the_Amazing_Cube
WHAT
edit2: AND IT HAD A HISPANIC THEME ! ! !
Rubspik's cube, the movie, the game.
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Well, I went to the manufacturer's official site and ordered it from there. I should be getting it sometime next week. You guys have no idea how excited I am about this.
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WAR is fun
nice change of pace from the typical WoW faire
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WAR is fun
nice change of pace from the typical WoW faire
Good to know, there is an open beta/demo going right?
Also I got my school books, which only took 3 weeks.
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the game was released almost 26 hours ago mang.
either pick up a copy, or wait till they start handing out free trials.
if you want a pvp based mmo, so far (mind you i am rank 8 ) its chock full of fun pvp.
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I HAVE A COMPUTER(with electricity going to it)!!!!!111111111111!!! OMGOMG OMG
<3
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I'm bringing $50 or $60 worth of nickels to go through at work today :D
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<3 I have power again! Yay!
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Woo! Yay for restored power!
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We don't have to shit in the dark anymore! Yeeeeeeeehaw!
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Well thats a good thing...i think...?
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Woo, I'm smoking a Capitan Black's sweet cherry cigar. God I love these things. Cigars are way better than cigarettes.
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We don't have to shit in the dark anymore! Yeeeeeeeehaw!
Yeah, I've always been terrified of doing that when the power goes out... so afraid a rattlesnake will burrow in my anus upon my sitting down -_-
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lol
I hate and love living in AZ. So fucking hot in the summer, BUT we never get any natural disasters, mostly just the jitters from any relatively close cali earthquake. Also that and 'monsoons' but microbursts never last for more than an hour and never do any horribly HOUSEFLIPPINGLY FUCKCOCK damage.
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I wish I lived there then, if Ike hit here my house wouldn't be standing.
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I got my bluetooth USB adapter today, so now I can use my Wiimote as a mouse.
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the only thing michigan gets is a few tornados (south michigan is in tornado ally...a few of em migrate north) and i guess ive heard of flooding, but ive never seen it where i live.
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We had a tornado once..... It was like, the only tornado in forever though...
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The Tokyo Curcuit race course on Forza is easily the most annoying and difficult one for the game.
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The Tokyo Curcuit race course on Forza is easily the most annoying and difficult one for the game.
And you're happy about it?
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Happy that I can take the other cars and slam them into the walls ;D
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Getting paid in chocolate pudding to help someone with their math homework. I do like chocolate pudding.
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Getting paid in chocolate pudding to help someone with their math homework. I do like chocolate pudding.
You're a really cool guy.
Also, the fact that I make around $20 profit selling candy each day at school. I put that money towards my car: gas, insurance, oil change, new tires. And everything is going... just as I planned. Made about a thousand last few months of last school year, made maybe $300 so far this past three weeks.
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Woo, I'm smoking a Capitan Black's sweet cherry cigar. God I love these things. Cigars are way better than cigarettes.
Weakling...smoke a Black -n- Mild and grow some hair on your chest.
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Never had Black n Mild. I would like to try other cigars, but in general, I'm a little skeptical of how much I'd like them. I'm not a fan of cigarettes, so any cigars that are like cigarettes, I won't like.
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http://www.cigarsforless.com/middleton-cigars-c-21_124.html
Good stuff, However they become about 10 times better if you "freak" them.
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IT FEELS
SO
AMAZING OUTSIDE
OH MY GOD
we just opened up all the windows in the house. It's like, 70 outside, and it feels so cool and crisp. Fall is definitely here for the next few days. SCORE!
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Yeah, it's been like that here for almost the past two weeks. Rather fortunate timing of it, really. I couldn't have had a week-long power failure with better weather.
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Bah, you people and your somewhat warmer winters than me :/ I'm not a fan of fall, because fall means that winter is coming, and I absolutely detest winter. Sorry to angry up the happy thread, but I'm not gonna start cross quoting things.. That's just plain messy.
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I love the cold though, only because of sled ridding and snow ball fights...oh yes and body part correct snow people. I love freaking out my nieghbors with them.
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I can't stand the cold (screw being Canadian, I really hate the cold). And the snow.
When you have to dig 4 feet of snow out of the mouth of your driveway because the damn plow went by, you'd very quickly begin to hate it too.
Mind you it's not always that bad, but most years we end up with between 6 and 8 feet of snow on either side of our driveway, and it's not fun trying to back out when you basically can't see anything because of the snow.
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IT FEELS
SO
AMAZING OUTSIDE
OH MY GOD
Same here, it's rather odd.
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So there's this "that guy" down the hall. He's really obnoxious, annoying, and stupid. He's always taking people's food and shit like that. Tonight, he took his sleeping roommate's car without asking to make a Taco Bell run and he got a ticket for running a red light. :D
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Haha nice move lol.
I hate the weather here. It's way too hot for anything.
Ps iPod touch poast
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Throwing my, uh, girl friend a surprise birthday party tomorrow. Wewt.
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Driving through Oakland when you suddenly hear Britney Spears' "Hit Me Baby One More Time" on someone's radio.
You look to your left, and you see a gentleman sitting in his car listening to it.
Of course, since you're a douchebag, you decide to start singing along very loudly. Which causes the driver of your car to follow suit/rofl, then causing the driver of the musical car to do the same.
<3 college folk sometimes. haha
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That was so epic ;D
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Sorry for the double post but:
Today is Sunday which means I get my better computer today so I can watch lots of porn...er...anime that I can get IN A PERFECTLY LEGITIMATE FASHION.
Also lots of WoW, StarCraft and StepMania.
Spec edit: Slightly fix't. :D
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Goo job spec. Also, why did you need to fix it in the first place... Anyone who's been here for very long should know by now that you must type that, and not the other wording. And no, we're not placing any word filters in, it most be "voluntary".
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Spectere is being himself Bobbias. Thats what he does.
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Surprise birthday party for my girl friend today. I'm excited and hope everything goes well :)
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Spectere is being himself Bobbias. Thats what he does.
I was alluding to the fact that you should have done it without spectere needing to...
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Knock it off, you two. :|
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Knock it off, you two. :|
*Salutes* Sir Yes Sir!
Any who I just finished all the Amature races in Forza which means I have only 3 more other race catagories to finish in Carrer mode.
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One of my friends at college, who has an amazing computer and tons of games, gave me his password so I can log on and play stuff. :)
In other news, Spore. <3
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Ooh. That sounds awesome.
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Knock it off, you two. :|
Please stay on topic sir.
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:D
I think I'll go up to the North Park Clubhouse on Tuesday. I've received word that their ITG2 cab is working again, and I want to see for myself just how well it works.
Huzzah! <3
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The new Xbox 360 dashboard makes me happy. Party support = win win WIN.
The only thing that I'm a bit shaky about is the new avatar system. I'm going to be a little sad if my 160 MSPs worth of Sonic gamer pics suddenly becomes useless.
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I want :(
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My little Dell desktop makes me happy and is living proof that the Pentium III is still an incredibly usable processor nowadays. I dare say that most people wouldn't even notice a difference between a P3 and a Core 2 Duo in most cases.
One of the main reasons that I like this system is because it's so damn flexible. How many OEM systems from 1999 can reliably boot to any CD, allowing you to safely remove the floppy drive? How many thin desktop systems allow you to shove two hard drives and a CD-ROM drive into them? How many of them have a strong enough power supply to do that? How many small profile systems let you put in an AGP video card and up to two full-sized PCI cards?
Best question of all: how many of them are reliable enough to be left running 24/7 for about four months straight, acting as a main router?
I love this computer. :)
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We don't have school tomorrow because of Jews.
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Well "new" computer is almost done but just waiting about some test from Dr. Spectere to make sure it is awesome.
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My little Dell desktop makes me happy and is living proof that the Pentium III is still an incredibly usable processor nowadays. I dare say that most people wouldn't even notice a difference between a P3 and a Core 2 Duo in most cases.
One of the main reasons that I like this system is because it's so damn flexible. How many OEM systems from 1999 can reliably boot to any CD, allowing you to safely remove the floppy drive? How many thin desktop systems allow you to shove two hard drives and a CD-ROM drive into them? How many of them have a strong enough power supply to do that? How many small profile systems let you put in an AGP video card and up to two full-sized PCI cards?
Best question of all: how many of them are reliable enough to be left running 24/7 for about four months straight, acting as a main router?
I love this computer. :)
Heh, I had a P3. It was a pretty good system, but in the face of todays games, it just wasn't fast enough, so eventually, it went to the computer graveyard in my basement. I now have so much random computer stuff down there that I can't tell what was originally from what.
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Well, yeah, that's why I said that it would be good for most people. Your average computer user uses their system to browse the Internet, play music, check e-mail, and use things like Office. A system like that is perfect for those tasks. I could probably swap it with my mom's laptop (a 1.5 year old Dell Inspiron E1505 with a Core Duo) and the only thing that she'd notice is that the OS looks a bit different (i.e. XP instead of Vista).
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I am currently watching a walk through of Condemned 2: Bloodshot and I just saw a "finisher" where after an enemy got their ass kicked, the person playing the game dragged the body over to a press type object and turned a wheel and POP they have no more head.
I love the "mellon" head explode effect of it.
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Well, yeah, that's why I said that it would be good for most people. Your average computer user uses their system to browse the Internet, play music, check e-mail, and use things like Office. A system like that is perfect for those tasks. I could probably swap it with my mom's laptop (a 1.5 year old Dell Inspiron E1505 with a Core Duo) and the only thing that she'd notice is that the OS looks a bit different (i.e. XP instead of Vista).
Quite true, though my parents are actually able to notice and get rather annoyed at the slow down that windows has (where after having had it installed a long time ago, everything just keeps slowing down).
My dad wants to get me to reinstall windows for him on his computer at his office because of that.
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Surprise birthday party was awesome. She was really happy and surprised, and everyone enjoyed themselves quite muchly. 'twas fun.
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http://press.nintendo.com/articles.jsp?id=16456
Scroll down and read software. I came.
cave story, but it's supposedly a different company/game.
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Holy christ. That is awesome. I wonder who's responsible for that...
I also wonder what that "new, exclusive content" is, and whether it'll make things better, or worse.
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Well to look on the bright side of things, even though it is becoming colder around where I live at least I have a space heater and my PJ bottoms to help keep me warm <3.
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I'm a self described "realist", which usually equates to something like an optimistic pessimist. I look at things in a pessimistic light, but I still hope for the best, knowing that odds are, it won't happen that way.
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Well to look on the bright side of things, even though it is becoming colder around where I live at least I have Spectere to help keep me warm <3.
YOU SON OF A BITCH
I thought I told you not to tell anyone about us!
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Well now they know.
You can sleep on the couch tonight! :P
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YOU SON OF A BITCH
I thought I told you not to tell anyone about us!
OH I SEE HOW IT IS.
See if I ever make you falafel again!!!
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I'm sorry Jupi we wanted to tell you sooner.
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Motherfuckers. :(
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Ah come on Jupi, I still love ya <3
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Well to look on the bright side of things, even though it is becoming colder around where I live at least I have a space heater and my PJ bottoms to help keep me warm <3.
They say that the need to use indoor heating in the winter is a sign that you don't have enough computers.
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Ah come on Jupi, I still love ya <3
You love me for my cooking. That's it. :(
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Partially true, you know I love hanging out with you <3
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Happy Grabass Day everyone! :D
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Yay! But... mine won't begrabbed today T_T
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Holy christ. That is awesome. I wonder who's responsible for that...
I also wonder what that "new, exclusive content" is, and whether it'll make things better, or worse.
Same, also apparently I'm wrong, it is the same cave story (at least, I think/hope so) also the pikmin remake is an actual remake of the first 2 games, with a new 3rd one being made for the Wii.
BALLIN'.
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They say that the need to use indoor heating in the winter is a sign that you don't have enough computers.
That is the greatest quote ever.
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Woo I only have 2600 left on my car to pay off!
:D
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I was at a party last night with about fifteen of my friends from school/club. Games were played, caffeine was consumed, several guys (one with a very hairy chest) in dresses happened, junk food was eaten, and glomping occurred.
Someone brought a little pack of beef jerky, and though I won't eat it, I felt like reading the label and whatnot. Toward the bottom of it, I saw a sentence that I never expected to see on a package of beef jerky.
"The meat contained herein is for personal use only."
At seven in the morning when we're all somewhat groggy...that sentence is fucking hilarious.
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Haha, that is pretty funny. Man, packaging is so weird these days...
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"Ich Bin Ein Horny!!!"
xD
Sweet jesus that was silly.
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It looks like Obama is going to win. :DDDD
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This weekend, essentially. <3
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Just beat Chorno Trigger...now I can play new game plus. Woo!
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This weekend, essentially. <3
Jupi agrees. <3
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I'm going to see Infected Mushroom live on the 29th.
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I think there's one of those shows coming up in Pittsburgh soon. If it hasn't happened already at least. I recall seeing a few posters for it around the South Side. :3
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Just watched the Iron Man movie.
It was much better then what I though.
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I'm going to see Infected Mushroom live on the 29th.
Lucky cock! Tell them to come down here.
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This past weekend. <3
Also, MOAR.
I set me up foo_controlserver on my main system and threw a remote controller on my PSP. Since it uses Wi-Fi vigorously it drains the crap out of the battery, but it works quite well. It comes in handy when I'm helping out somewhere upstairs that isn't my room or if we ever get a set of wireless headphones that don't suck.
We also got a free, damaged laptop. The system works for the most part, but it received some liquid damage and the system was dropped multiple times (translation: the screen is about half-dead and plugging anything into the front USB ports causes the system to instantly shut down due to reasons of short circuiting). We hooked it up to our family TV to stream Netflix movies to the largish screen but I had no choice but to up the ante.
Let's just say, the system now has XBMC installed. I have a dedicated user account for it that automagically starts it (without wasting RAM by loading Explorer ;)), I enabled the web interface so that we could control it from another laptop and my PSP, dumped a bunch of videos (30-35GB worth, I'd say?), and started peppering the network with SMB shares to do remote stuff. I have a few other things that I want to implement -- namely, getting a web browser (probably Opera) to work with it seamlessly -- but I think it's pretty good for a couple hours of work. I love having things to play with.
Now I can't wait until we get a wireless keyboard and/or a proper remote. :)
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Or you could use a Wiimote as a remote and get a cheap bluetooth dongle. That's what I do for watching movies/anime on my computer. Of course, this is assuming the laptop has a free USB port.
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We also got a free, damaged laptop. The system works for the most part, but it received some liquid damage and the system was dropped multiple times (translation: the screen is about half-dead and plugging anything into the front USB ports causes the system to instantly shut down due to reasons of short circuiting). We hooked it up to our family TV to stream Netflix movies to the largish screen but I had no choice but to up the ante.
Let's just say, the system now has XBMC installed. I have a dedicated user account for it that automagically starts it (without wasting RAM by loading Explorer ;)), I enabled the web interface so that we could control it from another laptop and my PSP, dumped a bunch of videos (30-35GB worth, I'd say?), and started peppering the network with SMB shares to do remote stuff. I have a few other things that I want to implement -- namely, getting a web browser (probably Opera) to work with it seamlessly -- but I think it's pretty good for a couple hours of work. I love having things to play with.
Damn. Even with the damage, that's a good deal to come across. I'd like to check that out sometime, get a chance to destroy mess with it, that sort of thing. Seeing as I'm something like 5 minutes away, it shouldn't be quite as hard to pull off as before. :P
On the subject, I'm working on making MPlayer work on that machine next time I go. That'll be a fun time, being able to watch movies and anime and such on the machine. :D
For further frying, the high school marching band's last competition is this Saturday at Meadowbrook, the one they go to every year (and, as of the last three years, qualified for state competition at), and I'm going with a friend to watch them. <3
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The latest xkcd: http://xkcd.com/486/
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The alt text wins that one.
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Finished applying for Florida State University yesterday. Glad I got that out of the way, even though it wasn't very hard >_>
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The alt text wins that one.
I always forget to check that, and it's always the best part.
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Or you could use a Wiimote as a remote and get a cheap bluetooth dongle. That's what I do for watching movies/anime on my computer. Of course, this is assuming the laptop has a free USB port.
It does have a free, working USB port. Thing is, I only have one Wiimote and the system is one floor under my room (it normally wouldn't be an issue, I guess, but I've actually been using my Wii for Megaman 9 as of late), so that's definitely a no-go. For now, the PSP, a web browser, or an old school remote (i.e. getting up and poking the keyboard) will have to do.
Also, my dad's main justification for getting a wireless keyboard and not just a remote is that we'd be able to surf the web from the couch and generally just use the computer for other things. Certainly not a bad idea -- a 32" LCD TV, even at a lowish resolution, certainly beats a 17" computer monitor. If nothing else, it's easier on the eyes since you're not right in front of it.
I probably wouldn't use it since my monitor is basically a 1200p TV anyway, but it's nice for my dad. ;)
Damn. Even with the damage, that's a good deal to come across.
Indeed!
The only thing that concerns me is how much longer the system is going to last. The hard drive especially; after that many falls it's amazing the thing still works.
On the bright side, I can always switch to XBMC Live should the hard drive fail. We'd just have to stream all of the content through the network; nothing big.
I'd like to check that out sometime, get a chance to destroy mess with it, that sort of thing. Seeing as I'm something like 5 minutes away, it shouldn't be quite as hard to pull off as before. :P
Haha, very true.
Just as a heads up, the system is running Windows XP, so no Tux love there. My dad wants to be able to use the system when he needs to and having Linux on it sort of compromises that. :P The hard drive definitely isn't big enough for two operating systems and a plethora of media, either (it's only an 80GB drive and space is already becoming an issue given the rate that I'm filling it up).
The XBMC box only truly needs one more thing -- a way of getting rid of the damn XP Welcome screen a bit faster. When using a non-standard shell (such as StepMania or XBMC :P) the Welcome screen tends to freeze on the profile loading step longer than it should. It wouldn't be an issue if that didn't completely prevent any full screen or 3D accelerated applications from running. Right now I have the startup script set to delay loading XBMC for thirty seconds to allow the screen to give up but that's obviously not ideal. Definitely something I need to research one of these days. The system starts up very quickly (15 seconds to the Welcome screen, if I were to guesstimate), it's a shame that I'd have to ruin that by inserting a completely arbitrary delay during the login phase.
On the subject, I'm working on making MPlayer work on that machine next time I go. That'll be a fun time, being able to watch movies and anime and such on the machine. :D
Awesome. :)
Shouldn't be too hard, but the end result would definitely be worth it.
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http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx
Think you might find some use in that?
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I got my "I survived the LHC" shirt today.
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http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx
Think you might find some use in that?
Thanks, but probably not. AutoRuns is essentially msconfig.exe on acid, allowing you to selectively disable startup programs from every possible place rather than the outdated and limited selection that msconfig provides (msconfig leaves out support for policy-based runs, in addition to a few other places that spyware in particular likes to lurk).
The problem isn't getting it to start, it's getting the Welcome screen to bugger off so that I can run fullscreen and accelerated applications. Proper shells (Explorer, bbLean, LiteStep, etc) will cause the Welcome screen to disappear very quickly, so I doubt that it'll be tough to write a quick program that does that. The Welcome screen stays on the "loading profile" message for exactly thirty seconds before disappearing, which leads me believe that it's designed to mask the process of the shell loading until the shell specifically gives it the word to stop (or until the thirty second timeout expires).
Of course, this is all conjecture until I actually get some research done on it, but given how the system behaves it seems like a reasonable hypothesis to me.
Edit: Here we are! Pulled from the bbLean source:
/* Hack to terminate the XP welcome screen... */
HANDLE hSRE;
hSRE = OpenEvent(EVENT_MODIFY_STATE, FALSE, "Global\\msgina: ShellReadyEvent");
if (hSRE) { SetEvent(hSRE), CloseHandle(hSRE); }
hSRE = OpenEvent(EVENT_MODIFY_STATE, FALSE, "msgina: ShellReadyEvent");
if (hSRE) { SetEvent(hSRE), CloseHandle(hSRE); }
/*hSRE = CreateEvent(NULL, 0, 0, "ShellReadyEvent");
if (hSRE) { SetEvent(hSRE); }*/]
Given that the event is specifically called "ShellReadyEvent" it seems as though my hypothesis is correct. Jubilation!
Now all I need to do is fire up Visual Studio and do something about this...
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Lol, I like how they labeled it as a hack.
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That's about the only way to put it.
Custom shells are, obviously, not officially supported. I don't think ShellReadyState is well-documented, if documented at all, for that reason.
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I love my new computer so much <3
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JUST bought megaman 9. Makes me feel somewhat guilty, considering there is a rather large portion of the megaman games I haven't beaten.
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I finally have consistent tags and filenames in my Music\CDs folder. Only a bazillion more files to go before I'm done.
I can't complain too much, honestly...Mp3tag (http://www.mp3tag.de/en/) has been a godsend. It doesn't look like it's very intuitive but it really is.
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Does it have the ability to autotag from freedb?
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I bought a DS with two games and a charger for only $75!! :o :o
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Does it have the ability to autotag from freedb?
Main features:
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# Import tag information from local freedb databases
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Yep.
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Nice, I did check the site, but I guess I missed it.
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So we're puppy-sitting today. <3
OMG SHE DOES BACKFLIPS. <3<3<3<3<3
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So I just beat the insane chart of Lune Noir on MGD3 by just hitting all four arrow keys with the correct timing and passed it! XD
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NetFlix makes me happy. I'm currently streaming a video (Team America: World Police ;D) on my laptop. The quality is amazingly good for streaming video; it's at least as good as DVD, possibly better.
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You must have pretty fast internet then, since DVDs run somewhere between 3 and 10 mbits a second...
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Anyone want to recommend a spy ware software? I just ran a virus search and it came up with nothing, yet there was still 3 pop up windows.
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Try hijackthis and send me a log (or post it here so spec and i can go through it).
It's only a registry scanner, and it doesn't automatically fix things, and it doesn't flag anything as being bad or anything, but it's a very useful tool.
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You must have pretty fast internet then, since DVDs run somewhere between 3 and 10 mbits a second...
DVDs are based off MPEG2. Pretty much any company that's serious about streaming video doesn't] use that because it's considered so inefficient nowadays. MPEG4 and H.264 are so much better that it wouldn't even be fair to compare them with MPEG2.
Also, Netflix did serve me the high quality video, which requires a connection speed of between 1 and 2 megabits I believe. Not at all unreasonable to assume that it could have been loaded with a roughly DVD-quality MPEG4 or H.264 stream given that high of a bandwidth requirement.
I also somewhat doubt that they use 24-bit 96KHz audio. That would make a pretty big difference. It also doesn't have 5.1 surround support.
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My government teacher is a sadistic bastard. =p He was handing back our midterms today. When calling out roll, he'd say afterwards 'Oh, and you did pretty well on your midterm...' He did not do this very often, leaving everyone who didn't get a 'good job' comment wondering just how poorly they did.
Turned out he was messing with us. I got a 92. >_>
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Haha, that's awesome. I love it when teachers are cruel like that :P
I just had ribs, and they were delicious. Also, brisk bike rides at sunset along the beach, when the temperature is 70 degrees (aka perfect for biking)
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Jupi wrote a story this morning!
Story! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGOsZppaIdk)
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My PSP is unbricked, and the pandora battery I ordered works as a regular battery if I don't have a magic mem stick, meaning I effectively have an extra PSP battery that I paid less for than a Sony battery but still functions just as well.
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Got a decent amount of my project done. Still behind as far as everyone else is concerned, but now I'm making progress. Also I've missed the same class 3 times in a row now, wich means it's been about 4 weeks since I've been here.
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I think I got a job at Starbucks.
I think I'm gonna apply there real soon. I need a job. Like, now.
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Obama's coming to CSU on Sunday. There aren't any tickets to sell, people just show up. It's awesome and I'm going.
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Wicked, I wish i was somewhere in the states, so I could actually get to see Obama talk in person.
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This is amazing. Palin as President (http://www.palinaspresident.us/)
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I was massively confused by the raptor, also:
(http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l94/mortifiedocalot/obamathinks.jpg)
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He's not wearing sunglasses in the first frame. Fail.
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S'CUZ HE'S PUTTIN DEM STUNNAH SHADES ON, SON
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He's not wearing sunglasses in the first frame. Fail.
Because he put them on in the second, like some CSI Miami shit.
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He's supposed to be already wearing them in the second frame, and be putting a second pair over the first...... And I'm pretty sure he's supposed to have a pair already on in the first frame (I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure he does).
I don't have any of the Horatio ones on my computer to use as a reference though. Either way, though I found the concept funny, the lack of a second pair in the second frame definitely ruined it for me. Now, if someone had photoshopped it so he was putting a second pair on at the same time, that would be epic lulz.
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He's supposed to be already wearing them in the second frame, and be putting a second pair over the first...... And I'm pretty sure he's supposed to have a pair already on in the first frame (I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure he does).
Nope. Horatio starts off shade-less, starts a sentence, slaps them shades on, finishes the sentence, then YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!
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Ahh, well, I know he has a pair already on in the second frame. I do know that part for a fact.
Also, melatonin makes me happy. Then tired. Yay for melatonin and going back to sleep after skipping a relatively unimportant class. fuck I need to sleep.
Brb, sleeping......
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I made my first truly fun step chart in quite a while, heh. Just kind of took a nice, calm 105 bpm song and made reasonable steps. It's kind of a nice switch from doing pad charts to Venetian Snares songs (and half of my other Mungyodance charts, ugh...I can't even come close to passing half of my own charts).
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I watched Ferris Bueller's Day Off for the first time Saturday night. It was a great movie.
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I got my performance evaluation at work today. Managed to snag an outstanding employee overall award, the first ever in the department. Got the raise I had been waiting for, to boot.
The same sneaky government teacher built up the tension when he handed back our research papers. He stared me in the eye for what must've been five seconds before handing me my paper with a 'very nice work'. A+. You bastard, you scared me half to death. XD
This is gonna be a lucrative semester! (my parents are bribing me to do well - every B will be $200, every A, $500. They figured that since I'm going to a cheap community college instead of one of the numerous expensive universities, they could afford to spend some bonus money on me. =p)
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Good going, Pepe! xD
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Christ, nice bribes!
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Two-dollar bills. And kit kats.
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I'm writing a VB.NET program to control foobar2000 via foo_controlserver and it's coming along very nicely.
I ran into a major hurdle when I first started because I made the mistake of trying to use someone else's telnet library to do the work, but I wound up having a ton of problems because of the way it handled its read buffer. I stripped it out altogether and started working on my own system using System.Net.Sockets.TcpClient and quickly brought the program up to its previous state.
End result? This is the entire net code of the program, sans the single line required to actually connect to the server:
Private Function netRead() As String
Dim length As Integer = client.Available
Dim encoding As New System.Text.ASCIIEncoding()
' this will hang if the length is zero
If length > 0 Then
stream.Read(readBuffer, 0, client.Available)
Return encoding.GetString(readBuffer)
Else
Return Nothing
End If
End Function
Private Sub netSend(ByVal message As String)
Dim encoding As New System.Text.ASCIIEncoding()
' add a newline to the string
message += vbNewLine
stream.Write(encoding.GetBytes(message), 0, message.Length)
End Sub
So. Damn. Easy. And nice and clean to boot.
Now all I have to do is finish up my fooControl class and then I can work on the actual UI.
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My potatoes are gonna be fried by my potential class schedule for next term.
My dad's potatoes are gonna be peelin' though. xD
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Yeah spec, telnet is really unnecessary for really basic stuff like that, lol. I've noticed that some people have a tendency to use libraries even for really simple solutions that they don't really need the library for, lol.
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Yeah spec, telnet is really unnecessary for really basic stuff like that, lol.
It was more to save time than anything else. No sense reinventing the wheel, after all, especially considering I never did any raw networking with .NET before.
Of course, if I'd known it were easier than VB6 (I wrote a crappy telnet client in VB6 way back when...it was a royal pain in the ass) I would have just went for it. No big deal either way.
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Understandable, but I haven't done any networking in .net yet, but from what I have seen it's pretty simple.
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I have an 8GB mem stick for my PSP now. This should last me a while.
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Had a long day today. First off, I went to my Grandparents house in town and helped clean their kitchen After that my Grandma gave me 50 bucks (which I wasn't expecting, but is really awesome). So after that, I found some supplies for my school project that's due next week. Then I went to get some gas, and in my hurry to leave I left my gas tank on the top of my car, which I then promptly lost. Thank god I'm white trash and I can use the gas cap on the broken down jeep in my back yard. After all that noise, I found out that my right headlight is broken, but all in all it was a progressive day. Now I just have to slap my project together and hope it sticks.
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New month! Happy November!!!
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That I got invited and am now a functioning member of sows :D
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The past few hours have more than made up for how much Friday sucked. Yay for friends and relationships. :)
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That I got invited and am now a functioning member of sows :D
Nice. I was a member, but got banned because I've always had trouble being connectible (my router is a piece of SHIT and refuses to properly forward ports), and I ended up getting torrents that nobody wants to download (and being behind a firewall sicks, since I have to initiate the connection, and when seeding, that practically never happens). And I can't keep a torrent seeding 24/7 (my brother closes uT on that computer whenever he needs to do something like go on Yahoo live or anything that uT interferes with), so I got banned.
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Damn. That blows! I was worried I wouldn't be able to get a good ratio [its bullshit that you start off with zero.. I mean what the hell? at least start it HALF to one..] their requirement is .4 after two weeks, and you can't get banned as long as you're seeding/have a torrent open.
Luckily I had a game that the site didn't have at all, so I got to boost my ratio by posting that. [eJay clubworld]
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It's understandable why private torrent sites have a required minimum ratio, but it's rather annoying. I also feel afraid of losing my account if I download torrents that ended up not doing well.
I've lost my account on Underground Gamer because I forgot about it and never logged in for a year.
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Look what I made. :3
(Ignore the one that looks REALLY stupid. I cut the piping bag too much at first.)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v34/Jupichan/1101082219.jpg)
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Damn. That blows! I was worried I wouldn't be able to get a good ratio [its bullshit that you start off with zero.. I mean what the hell? at least start it HALF to one..] their requirement is .4 after two weeks, and you can't get banned as long as you're seeding/have a torrent open.
Luckily I had a game that the site didn't have at all, so I got to boost my ratio by posting that. [eJay clubworld]
Nice. But you know, it's kinda impossible to keep a torrent open 24/7 when your ratio is utter shit, and NOBODY is downloading that torrent, and you are NAT'd and unconnectible by other people. I had it running for something like 4 days before my brother closed uTorrent, but it was gonna happen, and at the rate that my ratio was going, it's probably take another week to a week and a half to fix my ratio doing the whole "save the world" stuff.
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One of my friends fell asleep on me while we were watching Youtube videos on my laptop. And then his cat climbed on him and she fell asleep, too. :D Most adorable thing ever.
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That's just precious. :3
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I may have a trade going on whilst I send my original copy of pop'n 10 for perfectly legitimate off-site backups of IIDX 3rd -10th style
:D
/sex
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Grand Buffet at Ceaders Lounge this saturday with a $5 dollar cover charge....hell to the fucking yeah I am so there.
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half melted Nutella on my cookies and cream ice cream.
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Those in the USA and can vote: Vote for Obama!
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This is the Wikipedia entry for a township that neighbors mine.
Upper St. Clair (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_St._Clair_Township,_Pennsylvania)
I think someone had a bit of fun with it.
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The machine at the Robinson Club House no longer crashes...it got moar RAM...yay!
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Just got back from seeing Grand Buffet at Ceaders Lounge....holy shit they are fucking amazing. The two guys are really fucking cool as well. When I get the software (or when I even log onto linux) I will show pics of the guys.
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The manager of the restaurant my friend Brian works in wants me to come be a cook for them when they extend their hours in January. :o I applied a while back, but they didn't have room in the kitchen for weekend staff. But now that they're going to be open past 3pm, I can work after class!
Whoo!
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So, I was at a friend's dorm room, since he invited me over to play some 007: Nightfire. Somehow, we got into talking about retro games, and he was all 'oh, yeah, Diddy Kong Racing was an amazing game'. I mention I have an N64 and three controllers, and so we end up playing Diddy Kong Racing (and on a rather nice LCD HDTV, at that. Pixels EVERYWHERE).
Not 5 minutes pass before some guy I don't even recognize stops and says 'oh man, do you have Mario Kart? I loved that game!', so we switch games. Not long after, some more people come in, and soon a queue starts with 5 people waiting to play in 3-player matches. By the time my friend and I go to the dining hall to grab some late-night food, they're playing GP with two players.
When we've returned, there's a full group of people playing Mario Party 2, going batshit INSANE over everything that's going on, which is particularly hilarious given that it's 11:30 PM by now and it's supposedly quiet hours. :P The guy that ended up winning, around 12:30 AM, had 11 stars by the end of the round (more than the other three combined), and a good time was had by all. At one point, we had 8 people in this tiny little dorm room all shouting and hollering and stuff like that.
I love this dorm, and the people in it, and it's some of the most fun I've had, ever. :D
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Glad you're having fun over there. ^^
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So I bought I mic head set I am having too much fun with it.
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The Thing, Total Recall, Blade Runner, and Sin City are all on scifi back to back.
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My cousin Dave (lol Armegeddon) got married toda...err, yesterday. ;D I'm so happy for him and his lovely wife. Really fun party, too. I didn't drink much because I was the designated driver (had some of da bubbly in the limo, a sip of wine, and a shot of Bacardi rum) but I had a blasty. Only downside is that my tie was a bit too tight so the skin in the front of my neck is totally red and chaffed. Ugh.
Also, yay birthday party tomorr...err, today. One day belated but whatever.
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I got a new flash drive. :3
And my dad was all "Aw, hell. I'll buy you a new camera today. So long as we don't spend one cent over $106.99."
Incidentally, the camera cost $106.98. So whoo. :P
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I don't think I could stand getting any cheap camera now, lol.
I may not really know much about actually focusing things, and all the real intricate aspects of photography, but I certainly know enough to want a digital SLR, not to mention I hate using those LCD displays (and most cheap cameras now don't even have a viewfinder).
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Even if you had no intention of using the manual modes, one very good reason to get a DSLR is simply the lack of noise. At the wedding yesterday, my other cousin (Dave's sister) wanted me to snap a picture of her with some of the others in the bridal party. It was a little Canon Powershot camera, literally the first non-SLR I've used in a while, cell phone camera not included. The thing was set to ISO 50 and it gave about the same results at that sensitivity that my D40 gives at ISO 400. Yikes. Forget about setting that little thing to ISO 400. The picture was so smeary because of the heavy noise filtering that the mode is basically unusable.
The problem isn't so much the lack of features or anything like that, it's all about sensor size. Smaller sensors with higher megapixel counts introduce a lot of noise and, therefore, require the photographer to use less sensitive modes (like ISO 50) to get a decent shot. The higher the megapixel count gets the worse the result is. My dad's 3 megapixel Sony Cybershot stands up reasonably well against my D40 as far as image quality goes. It takes damn nice shots for what it is just because Sony didn't go overboard with megapixel count. It doesn't offer a full manual mode, but it still has the PSA modes that my D40 has, giving you quite a bit of control over the picture. How many standard digital cameras let you manually focus and set the shutter speed? Not many.
It kills me when people scoff at my D40 because of its relatively "low" megapixel count. 6 megapixels is more than enough for an 8.5x11 printout (and possibly bigger), plus the picture quality is outstanding. Those stupid "12 megapixel" compact digital cameras have about the same level of quality as my cell phone camera. The resulting image only looks passable if you shrink the image down to your average screen size, and even then the colors sometimes get fudged up because the sensor isn't very good.
The only real complaint that I have about my D40 is that the matrix meter is terribly inconsistent. I constantly have to adjust the exposure level to fit the scene. It has a tendency of overexposing outdoor daylight shots, which really shouldn't happen. Depending on how bright sunlight is I have to set the exposure adjustment down by an entire stop to compensate. My F4, designed and manufactured starting in 1988, is perfectly fine. Funny how that works.
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Eh, I'm just happy I've got a camera that I can carry about with me. My AE-1, while I quite like it, is a real pain in the arse to carry around.
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Different strokes (giggity) for different folks, as they say.
Really, with the compact digital cameras you're fine as long as you don't get any of those ones with ridiculous megapixel counts. With the small sensors that they use, too much is definitely a bad thing.
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Define ridiculous megapixel count. Haha.
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It kills me when people scoff at my D40 because of its relatively "low" megapixel count. 6 megapixels is more than enough for an 8.5x11 printout (and possibly bigger), plus the picture quality is outstanding. Those stupid "12 megapixel" compact digital cameras have about the same level of quality as my cell phone camera. The resulting image only looks passable if you shrink the image down to your average screen size, and even then the colors sometimes get fudged up because the sensor isn't very good.
I should point out that my mom uses a 12 MP digital camera and actually gets some decent looking shots form it. She uses it for exterior shots of the houses she's listing, and they come out looking pretty nice, considering she has 0 photography skill/knowledge. Of course, for the sake of making things easier on myself when I need to send pictures to my dad or any time I have to deal with them really, I set it to use 6 MP anyway, since that is still MAJOR overkill. She has to resize all her images to 640x480 in the end anyway :/
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Define ridiculous megapixel count. Haha.
Basically, greater than is practical for the sensor size employed. It depends on the camera, but generally having 12 megapixels in a sensor smaller than the APS-sized sensor that's in a DSLR is too much. The Canon Rebel XTi and Nikon D40x -- both 12 megapixel DSLRs -- need to be bumped down to ISO 100 to get the similar results as my 6 megapixel D40 does with ISO 200. Basically, they'd need more light to get the same level of noise that mine gets on a more sensitive mode.
The fact that cameras with sensors half the size (or smaller!) than those DSLRs are pushing the same megapixel counts, you're definitely going to notice a loss in picture quality.
I should point out that my mom uses a 12 MP digital camera and actually gets some decent looking shots form it. She uses it for exterior shots of the houses she's listing
This is why. As long as the camera is in a well-lit area, the shutter can stay open long enough for handheld operation at a low ISO speed (usually 50 for those kind of cameras). That, plus the built-in noise filtering prevents you from seeing a whole lot of noise.
Even in light areas those cameras tend to require shutter speeds as long as 1/125 or 1/60 to get decent results even with bright light due to the slow ISO speeds. In contrast, 1/2000 is sometimes too slow at ISO 200 for my D40 when the lens is fully open.
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Soo...34.53 megapixels on a cellphone camera...Ridic or redonk?
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Soo...34.53 megapixels on a cellphone camera...Ridic or redonk?
Not enough, I'd say.
I'd go for at least a couple of gigapixels. No sense selling yourself short, after all!
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Shit, by that time I'll REALLY be able to steal someone's soul with my camera! :D
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I didn't know that Audiosurf came with the entire Orange Box soundtrack in unprotected mp3s until just now. Now I can put awesome background music on my PSP.
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My package came, and now I have beatmania IIDX styles 3rd-10th :D /yiff
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I got my clarinet fixed. <3 Happeh.
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I'm going to an Expo in Philly on Sunday.
So most likely I'll start a thread about what I saw there.
^_^^_^^_^^_^^_^^_^^_^^_^^_^
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I love how the Wii has been hacked to hell and back. I mean, it can now be downgraded, custom IOS modules have been written to enable all kinda of fancy new features. Dang. It's like a console version of the PSP now.
I'm glad I Twilight Hack'd mine before Nintendo stopped that lovely little exploit.
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Lol, so, what are the highlights of the cool things that people have done with the Wii?
(Also, am I the only one who still hates that name?)
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I...just stated the highlights. :/ I suppose you could add that it can now play PERFECTLY LEGITIMATE backups of games without a modchip, but that's more of an extension of what can currently be done than anything else. The entire system has basically been owned at this point.
The ability to downgrade firmware means that no matter what Nintendo does they're not even going to be able to stop people without modchips. Of course, you can't exactly rely on being able to prepare a special battery to put the system into service mode, but there's always going to be backdoors, especially when it comes to loading saved games and such. Nintendo, like Sony with the PSP, isn't going to be able to keep the system locked down forever. What's worse is that Nintendo seems to be a lot slower at patching holes like that than Sony is. Sony is known to quickly patch their firmware whenever a save game exploit comes out. The Twilight Hack was open for quite some time before Nintendo finally closed it in an effective way and, apparently, homebrewers have already found numerous other holes in other games.
I'm not too worried, really. Nintendo's idea of patching security holes is just plain laughable. When Sony stops a saved game exploit, they stop it. Nintendo's idea of stopping the Twilight Hack in the v3.3 update was to create such a specific "fix" that it took no time at all for people to find a way around it and rework the exact same exploit. Their idea of stopping the Custom IOS was to create their own IOS254 (the tag that cIOS installs itself under). What's to stop the homebrew community from using the IOS253 tag (or something similar) instead? Nintendo's solutions are completely ineffective. They're better off not bothering. After all, Sony's doing a much better job at patching their system and they can't keep people out.
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So pretty much you're saying it's back to the Nintendo where they don't have that special chip that you NEED in order to play the game. Ya know...that seal of nintendo quality that has been out since SNES.
and yes, I don't really care for the name but at least its better than what they were going to name it...Nintendo Revolution...and before they changed the shape into the current one...Gamecube Revolution.
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I...just stated the highlights. :/
I was referring to specific hardware mods and such. things that happened because of Nintendo's slow-ass and ineffective attempts to stop people from abusing the Wii.
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I was referring to specific hardware mods and such.
The point is that they aren't needed at all. My Wii is completely softmodded and can play PERFECTLY LEGITIMATE games (though I don't believe it supports dual layer games) if I felt so inclined. Like I said, it's like a console version of the PSP at this point.
Even the PlayStation 2's weak protection isn't this bad; you still need a boot disc to play burned games or imports on that system.
So pretty much you're saying it's back to the Nintendo where they don't have that special chip that you NEED in order to play the game.
Almost.
The Wii is still several steps ahead of the old 10NES lockout chip (which can be easily knocked out using a voltage spike or by soldering a programmable EEPROM onto a legit cartridge in place of the ROM). The Wii uses encryption and all of that jazz. There are two major problems with the Wii's security:
1) It's possible to fakesign applications so that the system will run it. This allows you to install third-party channels and such in the system.
2) The system has already been exploited via software. Nobody with half of a braincell will install an official update after doing this. Nintendo has lost control of every single console that is softmodded (basically, all systems that have the homebrew channel installed).
As a result of number two and the Wii's somewhat insecure architecture, the safeguards that keep the system from reading DVD-Rs can be bypassed. The Wii's operating system -- the IOS -- runs on an ARM9 core inside of the main PowerPC processor. If you write a module for the OS, you essentially have privileged access to the system. If you use a custom IOS and a piece of software to load data, you can run burned DVDs on unmodified hardware. My guess is that it fools the system into decrypting the disc despite the DVD being burned.
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And, since it is possible to run gamecube code on a Wii, modders who've been working on GC hacks/homebrew are already familiar enough with programming for that sort of environment, making it easier for them to move over to the Wii.
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They're not that much alike, really. The hardware is very similar but the security system, system software, and services provided by the kernel and OS are radically different. That would be like a dedicated Windows developer working on a Linux application.
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If you ever get minor surgery, ask for a shot of Versed. You don't even feel the shot, and then you become all loopy. It's awesome! I remember I saw the ceiling tiles moving. And then during the surgery, I didn't feel a single thing. I kept asking random questions, like if my surgeon remembered anything from high school biology. The nurse said she'd never seen me this talkative. I thought that the surgeon was cutting through a piece of cardboard when he was actually putting stitches in.
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I got an HL2 shirt today. Also, 9 days of freedom now.
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If you ever get minor surgery, ask for a shot of Versed. You don't even feel the shot, and then you become all loopy. It's awesome! I remember I saw the ceiling tiles moving. And then during the surgery, I didn't feel a single thing. I kept asking random questions, like if my surgeon remembered anything from high school biology. The nurse said she'd never seen me this talkative. I thought that the surgeon was cutting through a piece of cardboard when he was actually putting stitches in.
Lol, well, I've been on laughing gas before, that was awesome.
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My friend Jasmine cut 14 inches of my hair off. :o
I feel...well...aerodynamic. xD
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14 inches
Damn that must have been a lot of hair...then again, I have hair like an afro but curly...and I'm white...so, like um...yeah.
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Lol, well, I've been on laughing gas before, that was awesome.
I've always wanted laughing gas, but I've never needed it for surgery.
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Damn that must have been a lot of hair...then again, I have hair like an afro but curly...and I'm white...so, like um...yeah.
Haha, yeah, it was. I'm likely to get a bit more cut off soon. I just promised my friend that I'd let her do the main hacking. Now I must go get it sexified. >>;
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I'm likely to get a bit more cut off soon.
Oh, so you're shaving it off like we discussed, then?
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Oh, no. I don't want to look like a cancer patient. ;-;
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SO I now have a copy of Chrono Trigger for my DS and what I have played so far I absolutely love it to bits!
When I beat it I will put it in the gamming section as it's own thread for all to see my insights and what not.
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I'm now on brake, I don't have to worry so much about work, I'm going to get a big ass dinner soon and all my college buddies/community college buddies are in town and ready to party. Should be a fun time.
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Just watched Zack and Miri Make A Porno at the theater with some buddies. It was hilarious.
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Just watched Zack and Miri Make A Porno at the theater with some buddies. It was hilarious.
this
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So my friend found a Linux liveCD called backtrack. He wanted to use it so he could take down his school's server as a senior prank, but right now we're both busy being amazed that it managed to automatically get Wi-Fi working on both of our laptops upon boot.
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My parents and I are puppy sitting this week. :3
He's so cute. An 11 week old Dalmatian named Ryder.
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An 11 week old Dalmatian named Ryder.
You a busta CJ?
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I love my Omega Drives sooo much. I now able to play TF2, Portal, ect ,ect and my computer no longer gives me the middle finger crash and restart.
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You a busta CJ?
I've wanted to call him a busta several times already. x.x
...Interestingly enough, my initials are CJ. Haha.
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This T-shirt: http://store.glennz.com/rockmeamadeus.html
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Oh god. I want. xD
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I love my Omega Drives sooo much.
Watch out for those. They've always fucked up in some very large way on every system I've used them on.
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Bustas all got in my mouth and took metal shit out
It's been 1 hour with no braces, and it fucking rocks
scheduled to go in and get Retainers next week <:U
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I'd say this fries my potatoes.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v34/Jupichan/screen00028.jpg)
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*groan* <3
Yay CMU!
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The TF2 heavy makes me chuckle every time. I want to get the sandwich now XD
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*groan* <3
Yay CMU!
:D I love that picture.
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It's finally snowing here.
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My local gameworks [tempe, AZ] just got renovated about a month ago, they dropped about a million bucks into the joint, and sega/owners asked if they wanted even more new games [they added about 50 new games]. They rearranged it VERY nicely, and I now adore that place.
They added Beatmania IIDX GOLD FUCK YES IN MY BUTT FUCK YES YES YES NEGRO YES
and Pop'n adventure
They had no pop'n or iidx to speak of before this happened, and now I finally have a relatively close arcade cab to play at! :D:D:D:D:D:D I'm so fucking happy.
Also this IIDX'r guy named courtney was playin alot of it, so I referred him to this site, hopefully he'll come and check it out!
I'm gonna manufacture a sign with spectere.net on it and put in on the table whenever I play IIDX/DDR. I'm so fucking happy they got iidx
like really happy.
fucking happy.
which is why I'm posting in this thread.
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Ooooooooooo... </envy>
But seriously: Dang. Nice. ;D
I'm gonna manufacture a sign with spectere.net on it and put in on the table whenever I play IIDX/DDR. I'm so fucking happy they got iidx
DO IT. <3
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Ooooooooooo... </envy>
But seriously: Dang. Nice. ;D
DO IT. <3
Agreed, on both accounts.
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Semester is almost over and that means free time baby!!!!!
On the downside is, I haven't registered for my new classes....fuck!!!!
Birthday and Christmas is coming up and the christmas party where I work is going to be nice because it is at a place called Georgine's and there is a chance I may get picked to get a present, yay!!!!
Also, got Guitar Hero World Tour and beat the hell out of it in one night (just have the guitar). Satch Boogie can kick my ass because the slider bar helped out to extreme ends with that song on expert.
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Last time I updated my Gentoo system it pulled down a release of VLC that actually properly supports Xinerama. YES. Now I don't have to disable my second monitor when I want to play a video in fullscreen. ;D
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I may own an MK5 soon. There's one going on eBay for $40, and I've been meaning to write a driver for that I/O device (some guy was helping me with it, but had to back out). Granted, it's old hardware, but whatever. Still fun to mess with. :)
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I was able to take a test for my online class a day later than it should have been allowed because I'm
sexy like that persuasive like that honest about how much time I actually have to be able to take something like that. So, I'm happy about that...also, I'm baking cookies for the last week in school this semester
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So I definitely managed to spend the night at my girlfriend's house, and on a school night no less. Her parents were out of town, her brother and his girlfriend didn't spend the night there cause he had class in the morning, and I told my parents I was going over to my friend's house to work on a project and I don't think they noticed me not coming home until the next afternoon after school.
We slept in, I ran and got us some McDonald's breakfast goodness while she showered, and we feasted and watched TV, then I moseyed on to school when I felt compelled to. What a wonderful morning. All is well with the world.
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So I definitely managed to spend the night at my girlfriend's house, and on a school night no less. Her parents were out of town, her brother and his girlfriend didn't spend the night there cause he had class in the morning, and I told my parents I was going over to my friend's house to work on a project and I don't think they noticed me not coming home until the next afternoon after school.
We slept in, I ran and got us some McDonald's breakfast goodness while she showered, and we feasted and watched TV, then I moseyed on to school when I felt compelled to. What a wonderful morning. All is well with the world.
Nice work. I recently managed to steal my girlfriend a while ago as well. My mom was in a conference in toronto, my dad went to spend the night with her there and drive back in the morning. So, I had from 4:30 that night till about noon before anyone would be here.
I've also managed to stay the night at my GF's place (she's living with some friends in her friend's grandmother's basement) twice over the semester, though her landlady changed the rules a couple weeks back so that I wouldn't be allowed anymore :/
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My Optiplex GX150 is even more awesome now.
Just slapped a SATA card in it (which also provided me with two eSATA ports -- one on the card and the other with a header that I had lying around) and a 500GB hard drive. Not bad for an old desktop system that doesn't natively support ATA drives larger than 137GB. :3
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Oh my god.
Guys.
I installed a BSOD screensaver via remote desktop on Evan's computer (guy who's earned a very bad reputation around the hall for a variety of reasons).
He took it into the IT department at this school when he noticed the persistent BSOD, but he didn't notice the error message was random.
Apparently the IT department didn't either because they backed up his music and stuff and COMPLETELY WIPED HIS HARD DRIVE WITHOUT PROVIDING HIM A BOOT DISK.
AND THEN THEY CHARGED HIM FOR IT.
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Oh my god.
Guys.
I installed a BSOD screensaver via remote desktop on Evan's computer (guy who's earned a very bad reputation around the hall for a variety of reasons).
He took it into the IT department at this school when he noticed the persistent BSOD, but he didn't notice the error message was random.
Apparently the IT department didn't either because they backed up his music and stuff and COMPLETELY WIPED HIS HARD DRIVE WITHOUT PROVIDING HIM A BOOT DISK.
AND THEN THEY CHARGED HIM FOR IT.
win.
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Oh my god.
Guys.
I installed a BSOD screensaver via remote desktop on Evan's computer (guy who's earned a very bad reputation around the hall for a variety of reasons).
He took it into the IT department at this school when he noticed the persistent BSOD, but he didn't notice the error message was random.
Apparently the IT department didn't either because they backed up his music and stuff and COMPLETELY WIPED HIS HARD DRIVE WITHOUT PROVIDING HIM A BOOT DISK.
AND THEN THEY CHARGED HIM FOR IT.
I do believe that that is the best computer prank I have ever heard of. You just made my day!
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Final Fantasy IX
and
Final Fantasy Tactics
In perfect condition baby!!!!
Now to figure out how to get to the special dragon den area in the first disc where you can pretty much get killed in one hit.
and
get Cloud and master everyone's abilities
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Oh my god.
Guys.
I installed a BSOD screensaver via remote desktop on Evan's computer (guy who's earned a very bad reputation around the hall for a variety of reasons).
He took it into the IT department at this school when he noticed the persistent BSOD, but he didn't notice the error message was random.
Apparently the IT department didn't either because they backed up his music and stuff and COMPLETELY WIPED HIS HARD DRIVE WITHOUT PROVIDING HIM A BOOT DISK.
AND THEN THEY CHARGED HIM FOR IT.
Give this motherfucker a gold medal. :o
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Yeah, annon, you definitely win. Hands-down.
My copy of "Men Are Better Than Women" came in the mail today :D fantastic book so far.
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I just had one of the best turkey sandwiches evar. <3
And it wasn't even real turkey. *nomnom*
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I have 3rd row AC/DC tickets.
Also, my PERFECTLY LEGITIMATE IIDX happy sky is "here" and I'm going to play it directly.
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That's so impressive it's scary annon. Also This comic is delightful : http://hiimdaisy.livejournal.com/21892.html
It's about Metal Gear Solid 1/2 and after that there's one about Mother 3, fun stuff.
Link fixd
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Soooooo, on Tf2 on a dead server me and two other people decided to play the map just as scouts...epic rofl in-sues. Me vs 2 better people as scouts with baseball bats killing each other...so much fun.
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v34/Jupichan/DSCN0092.jpg)
Best. Cookie. Ever.
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IIDX Happy Sky.
Tomorrow perfume and Starmine. I fucking LOVE those songs!
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Jupichan, that's incredible. Did you get that or a friend?
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My dad got it. :3
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I am eternally envious of your father 8)
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I am eternally envious of your father 8)
I wouldn't say that if I were you.
He looks like Hitler. :o
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She's pretty cute man.
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Not sure if having my friend Yuuki dressed up as a girl for our school video makes me happy, but its sure creepy as hell.
]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v732/DrakeDamore/DSC00459.jpg
Damn, that is a good resemblance.
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The newest addition to my family. :3 Her name is Gracie.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v34/Jupichan/DSCN0114.jpg)
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I was there when she was brought to Jupi's...such a cute puppy and very cuddlely <3.
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Fuckin' D'awwwwwwwwwwwwww
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A coworker informed me of an open wifi connection near our dairy door( I work at frys) so now I can poast and do other shit on my ipod touch yayyyyyy
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I have a PS3....sooo fucking happy right now!
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I have a PS3....sooo fucking happy right now!
Games to get:
1) Metal Gear Solid 4
2) Madden if you like football
3) Little Big World
These three I've played at my friend's house and they are amazingly awesome.
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3) Little Big World
Oh you, but yeah those all seem awesome other then Madden. Also armored core for answer and Valkyrie chronicles both seem awesome.
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I guess this makes me happy, I braved the shitty weather here for a coffee and doughnut... It's -11C (12.2F) out here, but with the wind chill it's more like -20C (-4F).
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Games to get:
1) Metal Gear Solid 4
2) Madden if you like football
3) Little Big World
These three I've played at my friend's house and they are amazingly awesome.
MGS4 is a given
Madden has been the same game for the last 10 years
Don't know much about Little Big World
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Ugh, can't wait for christmas. It's weird, I usually don't care about getting things for free, but a few days before the wait starts to kill me. That and I really want to play a 2D fighter, and I might be getting GG accent core.
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Lol, I don't even know anything about what I might be getting, I haven't really talked to my parents at all about anything I want lately.
Though I might get some sort of MP3 player, probably a moderate sized iPod Nano or something, if they even go that far. Unfortunately, iPods don't last long in this house, I've gone through 2 already (one lost at school the week i got back to school, and the other damaged when I accidentally stepped on it, breaking the screen).
Unless my parents somehow read my mind or listened when I mentioned Grado headphones sometime, I'll be buying myself a pair of those with Christmas money, but that's about all I can think of for what I want. Ideally I'd like a mp3 player that has a card reader, so I can buy cards and just keep them on me and swap when I feel like something else.
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FUCK YEAH MOUSE WHEEL NOW WORKS.
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Our new puppy has now learned to respond to her name. Only took her a week and a half. :P
So now when we shout "Gracie!" we get rewarded with a small brown puppy bounding her way over to us.
Before this, our other lab would simply go and retrieve her for us. It's fun to tell her "Annie, go get Gracie!" 'cause then they'll just start chasing each other.
They're so much fun to watch. <3 Puppies! and a random appearance by Daisy, the wonder Bagel. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjmMzMwx2wE&fmt=18)
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Today is my birthday and here is what I got:
1) Brain Age--DS
2) Guitar Hero shirt and boxers
3) Playstaion boxers
4) Risk
5) Storm X Rocker game seat
So far my brain age is 36 but that is a lie.
I haven't tried on the boxers or the shirt yet but I know they fit.
Risk is one of my all time favorite board games.
The chair gets complex if you don't know how to set it up. I had to feed the input from my PS2 through my DVD player then feed it from the output to my chair...I haven't been able to figure out the wireless parts yet but it will happen in all due time.
Also, I have yet to get the present from my sister so I'll be updating later on about what she got me.
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FUCK YEAH MOUSE WHEEL NOW WORKS.
Pssh, sounds like me whenever my G5's mouse wheel actually decides to work properly. It occasionally doesn't register tilts to the right and it skips when scrolling vertically, occasionally jumping down two lines. Sadly, a few good smacks against the desk usually fixes it for a few weeks. It's not just mine, either, my friend's G5 does the exact same thing. Some "gaming mouse" this thing turned out to be. If its tracking engine weren't so damn good I'd have just hooked up my cheap (but fully operational and very reliable!) Microsoft laser mouse.
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I just got a blowjob in a car and she you-know-what'd.
/win.
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You little whore. xD
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You lucky man.
fixd
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I wish I could get a blowjob in a car. ;-;
*grows a penis*
Oh god. :o
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Haha, nice work.
Too bad my GF doesn't like doing that.... I guess I could give her head in a car, but that's kinda different.
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Wow, I just discovered that the Klondike bar was created by a dairy company in Youngstown, Ohio.
You know what that means? You all have me, personally, to thank for those delicious treats.
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Wow, I just discovered that the Klondike bar was created by a dairy company in Youngstown, Ohio.
You know what that means? You all have me, personally, to thank for those delicious treats.
Wow, that is pretty wicked.
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Wow, I just discovered that the Klondike bar was created by a dairy company in Youngstown, Ohio.
You know what that means? You all have me, personally, to thank for those delicious treats.
*ahem* Did you forget about someone you jerk! >:(
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Wow, I just discovered that the Klondike bar was created by a dairy company in Youngstown, Ohio.
You know what that means? You all have me, personally, to thank for those delicious treats.
The main part of that company was based in Pittsburgh. :P
And now that particular product got sold off anyways. So now it sucks. ;_;
It used to be really good too, for a chunk of ice cream covered in chocolate.
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*ahem* Did you forget about someone you jerk! >:(
I'm older, which (1) automatically makes me better 8) and (2) makes it so that you should also be thanking me!
YOU MESS WITH THE BULL AND YOU GET THE HORNS, SON.
And now that particular product got sold off anyways. So now it sucks. ;_;
Yeah, it pretty much does now. :(
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Hey! I'm older than he is too!
Yay, I get to harass him.
GET OFF MY LAWN.
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Gary Larson.
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Same, probably my second favorite comic.
Also Scarlett Pain.
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I'm older, which (1) automatically makes me a bigger retard at Doom 8) and (2) makes it so that you should also be thanking me and OmegaOmni!
fixed
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Practice today was actually really fun. It usually blows the big one but our main instructor wasn't there, and he's kind of a douche sometimes. Plus we got out like 20 minutes early, which was nice.
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My dad finally ordered himself a new computer. This'll be his first new one in, like...five years. XD
Here's what he's going from:
- Athlon XP 2600+
- 1GB DDR
- 80GB + 250GB ATA HDDs
- DVD+RW drive
- GeForce 6200, 256MB GDDR2
And here's what he's getting:
- Core 2 Duo 2.8GHz
- 4GB DDR2
- 500GB SATA HDD
- DVD
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I finally got a new phone yesterday. It doesn't suck.
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I'll be 18 in 5 days, and therefore legally allowed to purchase weapons at the flea market. Can't wait.
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I just fixed my NES from continually resetting itself by clipping the 4th pin on the security chip.
yay nostalgia! Now to start collecting some cartridges.
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I just fixed my NES from continually resetting itself by clipping the 4th pin on the security chip.
H4X0R!!!!
lol, nice work!
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Yep, I looked up some online guides and there was the option of buying a new 72 pin connector or doing what i did. I did this because when i opened it up, hardly any of the contacts had any kind of debris or wear on them, so I knew that it wouldn't be in issue if this chip snip worked.
I'm going to bookmans and TRX2 to get some games for it today :D:D:D:D
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I did a speed test at my college on speakeasy.net
I did New York first, and got 502 kbps down, and something like, 320 up. Normal broadband speeds, really.
Then I did Chicago: (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v227/Bobbias/speedtest.jpg)
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Holy ass. Nice.
Purchased NES titles from bookman's:
Tetris $8
The Legend of Zelda [gold cartridge] $10
SMB/Duck Hunt $4
Super Mario Bros 3 $15 [wtf?]
Kiss Destroyer album $3
Yay
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Wow, I only paid $1.99 for SMB/DH and $3.99 for Zelda.
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I payed $20 for Zelda
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK
Also, SMB3 is only $12 o'er here.
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I have two copies of Zelda for some reason. Yay, shiny.
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Number 5 on the No-Heroes servers for wrench kills...hells yeah!
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So work yesterday was a joke. It was a 'town hall meeting', where everyone that works there is invited to come and listen to higher-ups talk about the company, changes, new stuff, how we did last cycle, etc. and get paid for it.
I sat in the very very back, in a little alcove where nobody could see me, behind my friend. I read for two and a half hours, got paid for it, and nobody noticed. For all everyone else knows, I was a valuable employee last night, now updated on all the latest company shenanigans.
They also gave out pizza afterward, and I went at the perfect time- when they were starting to give out seconds. I asked for an entire pizza and they obliged- they didn't want to have a bunch of leftover pizzas sitting around. My two friends followed suit, and one of them ended up giving me theirs.
So I got two large cheese Papa John's pizzas out of the deal last night, too. What a great night. :D
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I got 8 consecutive wins on a Trackmania Nations Forever server where nearly everyone's rank was higher than mine. Awesome.
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I has employment. (http://www.youngstowncomputer.com/)
On the down side, I've been hella busy with work (10-12 hours a day, five days a week), but unlike with Nielsen I'm actually enjoying myself.
I just fixed my NES from continually resetting itself by clipping the 4th pin on the security chip.
Haha, well played! I didn't realize it was that easy. :p I'll have to keep that in mind if I manage to get my hands on a front-loading NES.
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:o Employment!
Now you can help pay for the strippers at my next party! :D :D :D
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I'm jealous, but I'm about to call into Home depot, and I know they're hiring.
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I has employment. (http://www.youngstowncomputer.com/)
Nice work, I hope you had no part in that ass ugly website though :P
Some friends of mine (twins, actually) have been working on this site (http://www.shopmidland.com/) for a while. I swear they work 12 hours a day almost every day.
The guy who started the sites (They plan on having something like 600+ sites for Canada alone) apparently works pretty much from the time he wakes up till the time he sleeps. Not to mention they code the site in coldfusion... Ugh, HTML style tags for programming... And apparently their boss doesn't really know how to program well, so his code is almost impossible to figure out. He rarely makes new lines, he doesn't really use loops, etc.
I kinda feel sorry for them. However, he treats them really well, and pays them nicely (He gave them each a laptop, and on top of that, he gave them each an iPod touch for "testing purposes" to test the mobile version of the site).
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I just beat Wario's Woods (the VS COM mode). Yay. It wasn't terribly difficult. Beating the Round Mode will be a considerable amount harder though.
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LOL iPhone post. :o
But yeah, I got my company iPhone today. This is the slickest smartphone I've ever used. I doubt I'd be willing to change providers or, for that matter, pay for it, but it's still really freaking cool. The onscreen keyboard is far better than I thought it would be.
The touch screen is literally as responsive as the commercials depict. It's not so much tapping and dragging as it is gliding your finger over it.
All in all, daddy likey. :)
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LOL iPhone post. :o
All in all, daddy likey. :)
OMGFANBOYYYYYYYYYYYI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v34/Jupichan/34jan29-fanboy.jpg)
(I find it very amusing that I google-searched the word "Fanboy" and this was the fourth picture to come up.
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OMGFANBOYYYYYYYYYYYI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111
Hey, I didn't pay anything for it. It's cool. 8)
The biggest deal breakers for me when it comes to the iPhone is the exclusivity and price. It's a fine device aside from that. Its on-screen keyboard actually proves to be easier to adapt to than the Blackberry's QWERTY keyboard (even the full-sized ones) despite them being actual keys, probably because the iPhone's texting system is so forgiving.
(I find it very amusing that I google-searched the word "Fanboy" and this was the fourth picture to come up.
But are you really surprised? I mean, Apple fanboys are a force to be reckoned with (in more ways than one, as that picture proves).
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Holy shit.
Fleetwood mac is coming here in may.
holy shit
:D
Oh and so are flight of the conchords.
must see both. Nevermind billy joel and elton john hah
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/jealousy :o
Do take pics/vids. ;D
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Aw hell I wasn't surprised. Just amused. :D
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Fleetwood mac is coming here in may.
Compulsory holy shit!
It's nice to see someone else our age actually interested in those guys. Fleetwood Mac is an amazing band.
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I just got one of these:
(http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/5687/logitechg15v2uo7.jpg)
It's replacing that piece of garbage Saitek Eclipse II that I had. NEVER EVER BUY AN ECLIPSE II. I treated that thing very well and now, after less than a year of ownership, most of the keys are either unresponsive or trigger multiple times per keystroke. Additionally, the space bar is literally cracking in half. I should have never switched away from Logitech...they actually know how to make input devices.
The keys on the G15 feel absolutely wonderful. While the Eclipse II has kind of mushy keys, the ones on the G15 feel crisp and responsive. I can honestly say that it's worth what I paid for it.
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That thing is hhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwttttttttt Spectere...also what are your plans for March 29 BTW?
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http://www.ustream.tv/channel/dj-sneaky%27s-show
:D and its free! better than stickam in my opinion
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MadWorld is coming out in about a month and I can't wait. Hopefully it will be like God hand if any of the in game videos have told me anything.
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I just got one of these:
(http://www.samstoybox.com/toypics/Spirograph86.jpg)
Psssst
:>
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Uhh, programming + ctrl+Ving is bad in general....
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Uhh, programming + ctrl+Ving is bad in general....
Not quite so much when it requires hardcoded byte maps for the arrow graphics. Though, I do agree that it should have separate files and load more dynamically.
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Not quite so much when it requires hardcoded byte maps for the arrow graphics. Though, I do agree that it should have separate files and load more dynamically.
Well, there are times when it comes in handy, but in general copying things can really make some bad code, lol.
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Psssst
:>
Holy awesome.
Well, there are times when it comes in handy, but in general copying things can really make some bad code, lol.
It's not much worse than writing a program to autogen code.
Also, I trust that Pat knows what he's doing.
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Lol, but how many people write a program to autogen code?
Also, yeah, it's not like I don't trust him, but it's one of those "you'd better know what you're doing" warnings, because I know VERY WELL how spaghetti code is a PAIN IN THE ASS to deal with.
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I prefer rigatoni code myself.
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I made a torrent for demonoid and apparently I can upload to 100KB/s
\m/
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I has interview for new job on saturday.
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Though, I do agree that it should have separate files and load more dynamically.
which, at the most, 5 people would figure out how to use in the SM/ITG community anyway
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which, at the most, 5 people would figure out how to use in the SM/ITG community anyway
The ineptness of the community should never dictate that the design of the program should be anything less than elegant.
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http://www.joystiq.com/2009/02/11/left-4-dead-dlc-4-free/
L4D content new free. Fucking awesome.
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The ineptness of the community should never dictate that the design of the program should be anything less than elegant.
Have you seen the source code for the StepMania before 4.0? Trust me, there's nothing anyone can do to make it elegant. Ever. I could write the hackiest shit ever and it would probably be an improvement.
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Job interview went well today...should get a call soon or my dad will let me know.
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Awesome. I hope you get it. :)
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Pez.
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Rich, chocolaty Ovaltine.
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Bought L4d for $25...yay steam and random discounts.
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ohmigosh, thanks for the heads up. I'm totally getting it now.
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Went to visit a new friend of mine the other day. He's got a boatload of Bemani games. :3
- I suck at Keyboardmania.
- It's damn near impossible for me to keep a straight face whenever IIDX Gold loads up.
- I must legitimately acquire myself something other than Beatmania US. >>
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Bought L4d for $25...yay steam and random discounts.
ohmigosh, thanks for the heads up. I'm totally getting it now.
Add me, I need someone to play with and this game with randoms can be somewhat meh.
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This ain't exactly frying my potatoes, but it's by no means peeling them either..
I'm helping to start up a "club for young creative musicians" at my school. I figured "Hey, clubs are generally fun, and hell, if I'm a music major, it rather makes sense for me to join." xD
So now we're trying to get word out around the campus as to our existence. Literally by word of mouth, putting up flyers, whatev. Another way we're trying to get some publicity is by organizing a little open-mic performance thingy.
Cool beans, yada yada... I've had a fair bit of experience getting people to join clubs. I've recruited a lot of people into the anime/video game club that I co-founded/am still an officer for; and cripes, I got three people to join the musicians' club today.
I thought that what I'd be doing for this event was at most emceeing the event. I tend to be good at attracting attention when I want to. :3
But nooo... My prof wants me to join him in a piano/clarinet duet. Bahaha.
Despite my having played clarinet for thirteen years, I've never once publicly performed in a duet or as a soloist. I've made a strong point of never doing so, as I tend to get incredibly nervous and just muck up the entire thing. (Though really, saying I've never done it is a lie - I've tried. But it didn't end well at all. I quite literally just freaked out and ran offstage.)
Shit, even if I had a second clarinet player there with me, I'd be fine. But this...ugh.
So, forewarning, if I've died of embarrassment next Wednesday, y'ins know why. <3
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Have you seen the source code for the StepMania before 4.0? Trust me, there's nothing anyone can do to make it elegant. Ever. I could write the hackiest shit ever and it would probably be an improvement.
No, I haven't.
And trust me, it can be worse: http://www.informit.com/content/images/9780321440303/samplechapter/Chen_bonus_ch01.pdf and http://www.informit.com/content/images/9780321440303/samplechapter/Chen_bonus_ch02.pdf
These are reports from a guy who actually worked for microsoft and details various bugs and issues he's come across dealing with terrible code.
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Meeting with store manager tomorrow of Home Depot...hope I get the jurb!
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Me and the guy who sits next to me in the CS lab managed to finish this week's and next week's work today because we debugged each other's code.
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Meeting with store manager tomorrow of Home Depot...hope I get the jurb!
Good luck. :]
Me and the guy who sits next to me in the CS lab managed to finish this week's and next week's work today because we debugged each other's code.
Meh, only thing the person next to me did in any sort of programming class is copy my assignment.
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We did the assignment mostly differently. It was a little Ceaser cipher program we had to write in Java without using if, for, or while. Mine printed each character individually after it was shifted and then reset the variables, while his added all of them into a string once they'd all been shifted. It's a first-level course, and we can't use things that haven't been taught, otherwise the assignment would've been a lot easier.
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Met with the store manager had to get a drug test (which I know I will pass) and hopefully I will get the job :3
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We did the assignment mostly differently. It was a little Ceaser cipher program we had to write in Java without using if, for, or while. Mine printed each character individually after it was shifted and then reset the variables, while his added all of them into a string once they'd all been shifted. It's a first-level course, and we can't use things that haven't been taught, otherwise the assignment would've been a lot easier.
Lame. My teachers never cared how we achieved something, whether we added extras, or anything like that. I regularly wrote things differently in my classes just for the fun of trying to do something in a weird way. In one I remember I created a loop that acted differently depending on a certain variable using the tertiary operator to completely change how it worked. That was slightly less than fun to think through to make sure I didn't mess things up. (something like that is even worse to debug later, so it's best to make sure you have it right at the start...)
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Part of the servers I play TF2 on made ladders and I am on a 6v6 and we have a match on saturday....cheer for The Original BLU Team :3
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A few friends and I broke into song on Wednesday night.
Dedrick: "Hey Jupi! I ran into CC on the bus last night!"
Me: "Oh? What was she doing?"
Dedrick: "She was going to her boyfriends' house to make him dinner."
Nick: "Why? Is he sick?"
Dedrick: "No, fool! We're gonna kill him! And Simba too!"
Me: "Great idea! Who needs a king?!"
Entire carload of people: "NO KING! NO KING, LA-LA LA-LA LA-LA!"
Dedrick: "IDIOTS! THERE WILL BE A KING!"
Me: "Hey! But you said..eh.."
Dedrick: "I will be king! Stick with me, and you'll NEVER GO HUNGRY AGAIN!"
Me and Samantha: "YAY! ALRIGHT! LONG LIVE THE KING!"
All males in car: "LONG LIVE THE KING! LONG LIVE THE KING!"
and then the rest of us finished the song.
Best spontaneous song evar. :3
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Wow.... That kinda makes me want to die inside.
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any movie with James Earl Jones + Jeremy Irons + Elton John is epic win :->
I was gonna say just Jeremy Irons but then I remembered the D&D movie and Eragon
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Although I won't be seeing fast download speeds and it'll kill my Demonoid ratio, I figured out how to torrent on my school's connection.
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Although I won't be seeing fast download speeds and it'll kill my Demonoid ratio, I figured out how to torrent on my school's connection.
Cool, I was thinking about using SSH tunneling, but I'm too lazy to set it up on my 1TB NAS system that I've "jailbroke".
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I joined demonoid earlier last week, and uploaded a ps2 game that no one had on there, the club eJay music maker. Now my ratio is apparently maxed out at 3.72GB uploaded, 0 downloaded.
hmm
edit:
"Ratio: 3991059294"
wtf
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Lol, you divided by zero.
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I think demonoid has a ratio limit or something haha, because it should be the same as my ratio here on uTorrent for that one torrent file. I haven't downloaded anything, so my ratio is 11.773. fantastic.
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Got the jurb at home depot :3
Also this made me lawl very hard : http://www.teamfortress.com/scoutupdate/force-a-nature.htm
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I want that gun BAAAAAD. Ugh, I just want to run in as a scout, blast off both shots and do a decent amount of damage, then run off and reload and repeat until dead. The only downside I can think of is running into another Scout that has the Scatter gun because you can't outrun or out gun him.
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New video card works and kick major ass from my shitty Radon 9800 and I am quitting my job for a better one :3
Hest ist mien tag!
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i got an 88 on my calc test!! :D
calc 1.
GOD i hope i pass that AP test. did you guys all pass it?
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Some of my friends were in AB and they all got 4's, so if you have a good teacher, you should be fine.
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Some of my friends were in AB and they all got 4's, so if you have a good teacher, you should be fine.
Yeah, my teacher kicks ass, which helps a lot. Whether or not I get a 3, 4, or 5 doesn't matter, I'll still get the same amount of college credits... so I just need to pass it, that's all. I'm not terribly worried.
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I just downloaded the latest beta of DaedalusX64 (PSP N64 emulator), and now I can play Star Fox 64 on my PSP. The definition of awesome.
Also, I want this shirt: http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TO&Product_Code=SMBC-CALCULUS&Category_Code=SMBC-SHIRTS
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Use the boost to get through.
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I just ordered my TPB Tshirt.
Suck my dick :D (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120362943081)
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Setting the captcha POWAH to high seems to have stopped bot registrations for now. Yay?
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http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=822226
- Players who are stunned by a Scout now take 50% less damage
- Increased the minimum distance to stun a player with the Sandman
About fucking time, shit was crazy overpowered.
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Valve did a really stupid job with the scout update. I mean, seriously, just from reading the description I could tell that they were ridiculously OP.
Good to see that they corrected their blunder.
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Yeah, they really need to hire someone who knows how to balance games better.
Also on a completely retarded note, people have actually started calling the Scout useless now, when he was still really good before the update ever started.
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I just got back from vacation.
WHEW.
Spent three days in Reno at the Atlantis Fun Center. They had:
- IIDX DJ TROOPERS with custom songs thrown on so it was basically Troopers + Empress. I threw sixty freaking dollars on this thing and spent the better part of one of the days on it.
- Pump It Up NX2. SEXY. <3 Amazing, managed to pass Witch Doctor (CZ), Chimera (HD), and Energizer (CZ). Flippin' amazing machine. In awesome condition, well-maintained.
- STEPMANIA Yeah modified DDR cabinet with a hojillion songs. Managed to pass Guillaume Tell (original from KBMP) and most of Beautiful Synergy. Also played One More Lovely and managed to spam for like thirty seconds before dying on the pad.
- Pop'n Music FEVER (didn't play, was too busy with IIDX)
- DDR Supernova (lol wut)
- Initial D 4 - AWESOME. The game is amazing and beautiful to even watch, let alone play. About the only thing I'd have liked more would have been an F-Zero AX cabinet but who cares this thing is AWESOME.
- Time Crisis 3 + 4 - Smashed my old record on 3 and finished the game on one credit for the first time. Down to three credits on finishing 4. Whoo!
So yeah, vacation was AMAZING and about the only thing that was bad about it is that there's no longer any ITG because the other arcade sold theirs off and replaced it with a PIU Zero but WHO CARES I'm not even typing using proper punctuation anymore.
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I bought both original Odd World games off of Steam yesterday and I've been playing them to death. I'm trying to do a near perfect run and about EVERY secrete area will get me killed about 10 times in a row. I can see why I never bothered doing all of this as a kid, shit's hard.
I already have this error that now gives me a black box on the upper left section of the screen and I can't get rid of it, and their's no video options so I'm probably going to be forced to re-download the game...
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Classes are canceled today because of a blizzard. :D
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Blizzard? lmao. Up here it's actually finally looking like spring :P
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Yeah, it's weird. We didn't get our first snow until December, and now we're getting a blizzard in late March. It's like the earth wobbled or something. Weirder is that it was 50 and sunny yesterday.
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It was 70 two weeks ago. Today it was 25, windy and snowing. And apparently the west edge of Minnesota is going to have its worst flood season ever.
So yeah, weird weather.
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Well, around here we had a couple times where the temperatures went from like, -10 to about 20 (14 to 68) in 1-2 days.
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So a couple of weeks ago I turned a piece-of-shit paper in for my political science class. I did it in one night, barely met the length requirement, and basically spewed irrelevant BS on the last page. I was going to withdraw because I thought I'd get a really bad grade, but I missed the withdrawal date.
Today, I got my grade back. 88. Wtf awesome.
I have two guesses as to why I scored so high: The TA was far from sober when grading, or the papers were graded alphabetically by last name, and roughly 300 other shitty papers came before mine so the TA had lowered his/her standards by the time they got to mine.
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Haha, that's awesome. I need to save my ass in communications (or English, for the rest of you people :/ no idea why they decided to call it that in my college.) I took an online course, which is usually a good idea for me, but I've been concentrating on all my other courses (you know, the ones that matter....) and basically, I'll fail it if I don't do something soon to save myself (as in, asking to teacher to help save my own ass :/)
And no, the majority of this post does not fry my potatoes in awesome..
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I bought a new sound card today. It's a Creative X-Fi Titanium and it's awesome. It's also the first PCI-Express card that I own that isn't a video card. :)
I mainly wound up getting it because my onboard sound card had a fuckton of noise. Here's an example of the level of line noise that I get with both cards whenever I try to record:
(http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/3234/noisecomp.png)
To the left is my onboard Realtek HD audio device and to the right is the X-Fi. Both levels have been amplified +36 dB. The SNR on this card is just incredible.
The Creative ASIO driver is also amazing. I was able to do mess around with a bunch of synths with only 2ms of latency. Wow.
Long story short: the Ian is pleased.
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Wow, that is absolutely amazing. How high is the SNR on that?
How much did that cost you anyway?
Thanks to being a sound nerd, I now have enormous envy for you...
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The SNR is 109 dB. I could have gotten an X-Fi with a 115 dB SNR (the Elite Pro) but I didn't want to spend $100+ more for that insignificant of a jump. Right now the only audible noise I get is a very soft amplifier hiss. My old SB Live! had a different SNR depending on whether the speakers were plugged into the rear port. The rear port used a better DAC than the front port (for...some reason?) but I'm not sure exactly what the numbers were.
The thing that impresses me the most about the X-Fi so far is the resampling engine. It's an amazing improvement over the Live! and Audigy lines.
This is the moment when I ask myself (again) why I didn't just get a decent sound card after I put this system together. Okay, I asked myself...for some reason I then proceeded to slap myself in the face. Ouch.
The card cost $140, I believe. Somewhere in that range, anyway. It's less than I paid for my old SBLive! Platinum way back when I bought that (1999?). No breakaway box, front I/O box, or anything fancy like that, but it does support them if I wanted to pick one up in the future. I think the next thing on the docket is a new set of 5.1 speakers with a digital I/O. I was thinking of saving up for these (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16836121120), but we'll see. I definitely don't want to get a set that has anything worse than what I have now (Logitech Z-2200 2.1, 8" 120W RMS subwoofer, 2 x 40W RMS satellites).
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I have a job interview on Tuesday. Whoo, potential money.
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I have a job interview on Tuesday. Whoo, potential money.
Yay! Let us know how it goes. :D
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Will do. :3
What's real lovely about this place is that it's about a ten minute walk from my house. (To the people that have been to my general area - it's right next to the Denny's up the hill from my house.)
So chyeaaaah boi.
And Mexicans. I'll be surrounded by Mexicans. :o
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Speaking of jobs, I got called back to Pizza hut to do a questionnaire for them. Hopefully they call me back.
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You live in Texas? :o
Fixed.
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Colorado? Texas?
Fixed.
Nope, I live in Pennsylvania. Somehow, the vast majority of the Hispanic population (of which there are like...20 people around here) is employed at the restaurant in which I want to work. Haha
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Nope, I live in Pennsylvania. Somehow, the vast majority of the Hispanic population (of which there are like...20 people around here) is employed at the restaurant in which I want to work. Haha
Bleh, being Canadian sometimes sucks.
We are not culturally diverse anywhere but the cities.
Seriously, there are all of like, 5 black people in Midland, and like, no Hispanics. We do have some Asians, but more often than not they are running the corner stores.
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Haha. We're not terribly diverse in my immediate area. I think there was like a grand total of ten black people in my high school, a butt-ton of Indians, and one French chick.
The local black population seems to be growing around here though. I never used to see any black folk on my bus, but now I's seeing them. Neat.
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my bday i guess?
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Bleh, being Canadian sometimes sucks.
We are not culturally diverse anywhere but the cities.
Seriously, there are all of like, 5 black people in Midland, and like, no Hispanics. We do have some Asians, but more often than not they are running the corner stores.
All things considered, Midland does do better than Thunder Bay where I went to school. The cultural diversity there revolved around italians, polish, the fins, northern ontario white people, the natives (which made up around half the population), and at most 5 blacks, hispanics and asians combined
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I still think that's more diverse than midland... lol.
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You should have seen my graduating class, shit had like ONE asian, one black guy, and a few hispanics (but still 70% less than what you'd think for south Florida).
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lol, well, i think our entire school had like, 1, maybe 2 black people? And no hispanics.
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My graduating class was roughly 35% hispanic and 20% black, with a few asians here and there.
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Wow, lol.
Man, I kinda hate being from a pretty much all-white small town. I find it hard to not be conscious of all the different races and such when I go to places with more diversity. Hell, I went to Mississauga a while back because a friend wanted surface piercing in his back. Well, the place he got it done was in the back of an all-black barber shop. That was rather awkward at first. They had it divided and such so it wasn't just some guy piercing my friend in the back of some place, but even so, I was really off-put by the well, "blackness" of the front place.
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My new costume. :3
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v34/Jupichan/0401092119.jpg)
Go go Gadget Jupi!
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Holy fuck is that hat fan moving?
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Yup! It's not motorized yet (that should be done by the time Otakon rolls around) but if I move it or catch a good breeze, it spins very well. ^__^
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I decided to check out this LAN center near campus. Now I'm at a lock-in, playing L4D and a bunch of other FPSes. Damn glad I decided to check it out tonight.
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Aw yeah, I'm hot baby.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v34/Jupichan/DSCN0855.jpg)
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Freaking lol! ;D
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With the exception of my four-legged critters, I have the house to MYSELF!
*squees in circles*
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Just got a new computer, my old one quite literally died. The sad part is that its a netbook that's twice the computer my old laptop was in terms of memory and storage, at half the price and size (actually I think it's smaller than half my old computer). Now once I get some more money I'll be able to get a actual monitor and actually be able to see the screen :P
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I was browsing around Newegg because I'm planning on getting another hard drive and more RAM, and I saw that getting an extra 4GB of the same brand of RAM I already use would cost less than $50.
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My main compy is back up and better then ever. No it doesn't sound like an ongoing fridge with it's condenser going on all night.
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Nekros and I just watched the new Star Trek. I have to say that it was extremely well executed (Not that I'm very surprised... Bad Robot Productions kicks ass.)
I was a bit skeptical about the whole new cast and such, but it turned out really well.
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I was a bit skeptical about the whole new cast and such, but it turned out really well.
You really expecting them to use Shatner?
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No, I just meant I was skeptical about if they would be any good. I'm aware that they can't really make any new movies with the old cast any more.
But I have to say, the new cast worked great.
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Oh my god, there's a new DT album in a month, and I didn't know about this. AAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-
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I got a 4.0 this semester.
wtf?
Now to see if I can do it again with the semester starting next week. :3
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Nekros and I just watched the new Star Trek. I have to say that it was extremely well executed (Not that I'm very surprised... Bad Robot Productions kicks ass.)
I was a bit skeptical about the whole new cast and such, but it turned out really well.
Yeah. I'll have to say I was skeptical about pretty much everybody in the new cast to some degree except Zachary Quinto, especially Karl Urban and Simon Pegg (don't get me wrong, I think he's a great actor). Turns out everybody in the new cast did pretty well. What was up with the spontaneous romance between Spock and Uhura, though?
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I'd wondered about that, but then decided "you know what, let them have their freedom, it did add a certain element of tension to the relationship between spock and kirk".
It was a great way to give them a solid reason for them to be less than friendly with eachother, aside from the fact that kirk is pretty much everything spock isn't.
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The wart on my left hand disappeared. There still a few smaller ones, but the large major one is completely gone. About FUCKING time.
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SO ELFEN LIED IS PRETTY MUCH AWESOMENYUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
nyu nyu nyu
HEAD EXPLODE.
nyu?
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^ I agree
but the ending is bleh
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I found a 1TB hard drive at Fry's for $92, so now I have about 1TB of total free space in my comp.
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I just realized than an ancient, shitty simfile of mine was put in CKBMP3 (Disconnected Disco), and I didn't even know it. Oh well, the simfile sucked.
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We have a thing at work called safety bingo. I won triple bingo which means I get an extra $150 on top of my pay check...woot!
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We have a thing at work called safety bingo. I won triple bingo which means I get an extra $150 on top of my pay check...woot!
nice, I wish we had something like that at my work:P
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We have a thing at work called safety bingo. I won triple bingo which means I get an extra $150 on top of my pay check...woot!
Where do you work O_O
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We have a thing at work called safety bingo. I won triple bingo which means I get an extra $150 on top of my pay check...woot!
Good! Now buy a new razor. :P
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less than two weeks until I graduate 8)
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I learned that my grandma from Arizona is coming out for a week. I haven't seen her in almost 10 years!
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I learned that my grandma from Arizona is coming out for a week. I haven't seen her in almost 10 years!
Aww, I wanted the 1337 get.
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Maybe next time annon :P
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Just got back from seeing the new terminator movie ($4.20 night), really good movie (not as good as Star Trek but thats hard to top) and Christian Bale makes a much better John Connor than Nick whats his name sissy from Rise of the Machines.
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Went to a concert last night in Toronto. It was Art of Dieing, Skindread, All That Remains, and Disturbed. It kicked serious ass.
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I just saw Spectere today as he was coming from BK back to his place of employment...god I wish he would post once in a while. ;-;
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DBl poast: I remembered my Steam password and I am currently dling tf2...soon l4d :D
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Add me on steam, I like never play L4D, despite it getting a bit old.
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Sure my Steam id is [BLU]OmegaOmni
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despite owning l4d, i played it once online with some friends.
not that fun, one of those "yo man this game is awesome we are all playing it" and it bites me in the ass.
killing floor mod for ut2k4 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> l4d
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Got a new phone (samsung rugby) today because my other one was becoming rather useless and holy fuck, I think I can use it as a brick lol. Thats ok though, I'm pretty hard on electronics at times. (I think thats why my other phone is becoming useless. Going for a swim in the lake, dusty environments and epoxy generally don't go all that well with electronics)
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Well, I watched Wall-E for the first time today. That was really great. Too bad I still feel like complete shit :/
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Same here, finally.
I just noticed your new avatar. Awesome stuff.
Too bad for some reason that stuff doesn't work here.
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Just go back after hanging out with Jupi and Vyhd. We saw the movie Up and got to play on the PIU:Pro machine. That is the best machine I have played on.
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Just go back after hanging out with Jupi and Vyhd. We saw the movie Up and got to play on the PIU:Pro machine. That is the best machine I have played on.
Heh, I also saw Up tonight.
Also, jealous of your PIU:Pro adventures. PIU kicks ass (I think I prefer it to DDR), but I've hardly been able to play, because the only machine I know of is at Canada's Wonderland, and I rarely ever go there.
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PIU is awesome. If you're ever out west, check out Calgary's. Its always in great shape. And located right next to an ITG2 machine my friend owns :)
Hopefully gonna see Up tonight (Monday).
I also found out that I may still be able to afford next years tuition without getting a loan! Yay!
I have also resolved to try to work out a bit more, go for walks and what not. I have my iPod, so I can go pretty much anywhere and be happy. I wish the city were a little more scenic so that it would actually be worth going for runs in lol.
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Lol, I've never been out west. I've been out east once, but I rarely ever leave the province.
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i wish i was in shape enough to play
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i wish i was in shape enough to play
Oh, I'm hardly in shape. :P Still fun to play whenever my knee isn't "lolKILLu."
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My cat ran into my leg, and because of this she stopped and sneezed about 10 times in a row non stopped. I laughed rather hard.
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Aww, kitties. :3
Lately, mine has taken to hopping up onto my desk while I'm sitting here working and sitting on my keyboard. D:
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IT SHIPPED BIATCH
vlad's getting an autographed copy of said cd, and the first cd while im at it.
anywho, cotts and ravine kickass, subscribe and listen. or follow them on happyhardcore.com, or the hardcore channel on di.fm.
*edit*
tron, AND mah melt banana album came in today, fuck year!
ordering multiple items on the internet makes a bunch of mini christmases during the week....though the melt banana case was cracked...fucking shipping. least it was on the top really, even though it's a big crack, it doesn't go through the middle, and the cd itself is fine. cd cases suck, music needs to move on to dvd cases, or someone to convert dvd cases to the size of a ds game case.
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(http://web5.twitpic.com/img/11046805-b3f94adcdcfbc87ae0aaa1abc704ed0d.4a2737c5-full.jpg)
Got my order of an extra 4GB of RAM today.
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Just got Auctioneer addon.
I'm gonna go rape the auction house now.
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Just got Auctioneer addon.
I'm gonna go rape the auction house now.
I've never understood how people could not use that addon... It's in my list of "absolutely necessary" addons, lol. It saves you from getting raped by the auction house, helps you set the price of items without needing to try to memorize how much everything should cost, and helps you locate severely under priced items that you can buy and sell back at full price :P
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Addons really aren't made aware to newbs first time joining with WoW, unless you've got friends that convinced you to join and thus will inform you. If not, the only reason I found out was Spec's mentioning of Cartographer, then I explored more addons and tried to find the useful ones.
ps halfway to lvl 40
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hit 80 by the end of next week son
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Khadgar&n=Onegd
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Addons really aren't made aware to newbs first time joining with WoW, unless you've got friends that convinced you to join and thus will inform you. If not, the only reason I found out was Spec's mentioning of Cartographer, then I explored more addons and tried to find the useful ones.
ps halfway to lvl 40
Not necessarily. I found out about addons really quickly, and I didn't have anyone to mention them or anything.
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Well, aren't you just mister righty-pants?
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Well, aren't you just mister righty-pants?
I made it to level 55 with no addons what so ever.
HE KNOWS NOTHING.
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Is that even possible? lol
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Anub%27arak&n=Radunas
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Oh yeah? Well I made it to level 105 without wearing pants.
... Okay, I was playing Gauntlet in my basement last week and had forgotten to do laundry. <3
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YES BOBBIAS YOU WIN MASTER
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honestly, if you play nonstop and know what you are doing, AND have people helping you (instances and shit) yeah, it's possible. though like 70-80 took me...i wanna say 2-3 weeks of pretty solid play (time off for work and chillin with bros).
anywho, if you do make it to 67 for outland content, the quests are actually good, and well designed for the most part.
and if you make it to northrend...well just say i wasn't rushing to level for leveling sake, but rather i was actually ENJOYING the zones and the quests....AS A PROTECTION WARRIOR of all classes. if when they make a new expansion, im getting it to get the warrior to 90 or whatever, because they have proven to me they can make that kind of game fun. not to mention getting geared out in epics for raid content isn't hard. i only quit playing because i didn't want to raid, but i had fun doing everything prior. and well pvp....i play street fighter for a competitive game, not WoW.
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I've been wondering, megaupload is supposed to have a 45 second waiting period for non-members, and 25 seconds for members, before downloading. But ever since they redesigned their download page, I haven't had to wait at all, after I input the CAPTCHA. Is this affecting everyone, or just me? The page still says it's supposed to have a waiting period, and I've seen people talking about the wait, but I've never had to wait, since the redesign... I certainly like the lack of a waiting period (hence the post in here) but I'm rather curious as to whether this has happened to anyone else.
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Got my learner's permit today. + soon to be mobile Jupi
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Cool, it definitely helps to be able to drive places.
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Got my learner's permit today. + soon to be mobile Jupi
Wait, how old are you? I remember getting my permit at like 17 and getting a license at 18.
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Man, I'm 21 and I still don't have my full G...
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Man, I'm 21 and I still don't have my full G...
Bobbias, you also have to remember that Ontario is one of the few places that has a graduating drivers license, thus compared to places to don't, you would have a full license.
Also I have my full G
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Never got a permit, got mine when i was 18 :p
also watched coraline today, freaky movie.
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Wait, how old are you? I remember getting my permit at like 17 and getting a license at 18.
I'm 22. I've just never been terribly interested in driving until a week or two ago. I'm still fairly content taking the bus to many places. But the local port authority is proposing massive changes to pretty much all of the service lines, and mine will no longer be as super-awesomely-convenient to me like it is now. (Right now, there are three buses that stop within 30 feet of my driveway. By next year, the closest any of them will get to me is a bit over half a mile. While that's still not terribly far, it's all uphill, which sucks when I'm really tired after class. haha.)
Also, when I leave my current college and transfer to a university, my options will increase significantly if I can drive. As well as job options. :3
never got a permit, got mine when I was 18 :p
You can freakin' do that in Arizona? Weird.
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You can freakin' do that in Arizona? Weird.
You can do that in FL too. Hell, I thought it was the nation wide standard.
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Not in Pennsylvania. :o
But, considering my age, I can go get my license tomorrow if I felt inclined to do so.
Actually, I don't think I can. I don't think the DMV is open tomorrow. haha.
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In Canada, we have the graduated license, which means we MUST get a G1 first (bunch of restrictions, majors being absolutely 0 alcohol, and being required to have someone with at least 4 years driving experience) then a G2 (can drive alone, still 0 alcohol) then you can try for your G. To get the G2 and G, you need to take a driving test, but to get your G1, you just do a small written test.
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Prototype is fun. Lots of hacking and slashing people to death makes me happy. :3
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Prototype is fun. Lots of hacking and slashing people to death makes me happy. :3
That's a nice, healthy attitude you've got yourself there, boy. :3
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driving kicks ass though, when you first get your license it's like...
"hmm, i want to go to the store and get something...where am i going to get a ride...wait, ill just drive there myself."
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Still don't have my G2. I've had to rebook the bitch like 8 times. Had my G1 for a year and a half now too, ugh...
Lol, I'm a miracle worker, I got my G2 hung over as fuck from a friend's birthday party the night before :P
Mind you, I went to Orillia for mine, because it's likely the easiest place to take your test around here.
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image related to thread topic
(http://fc09.deviantart.com/fs45/f/2009/102/a/4/Dee_Jay_Maximum_by_ice_vision.png)
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Awesome day with friends yesterday. ^^
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made an akuma player ragequit when i was using honda
honda is an odd character, i haven't played him much, and ive had the most "o shit im fucking dead" to "how the hell did i win that game" comebacks than with any other character...basically dee jay or zangief.
and i guess im getting better into ticking into spd, last dude i fought with gief was honda, and i was landing a good amount of those jumping fierce into spd(while he is in a corner), so when i get that down to like a 90% success rate, my gief will be downright scarey. i mean, when im fighting against a gief who can land that shit all the time, it's basically bullshit, but bullshit that requires down to the milisecond timing to get down, it's hard to time, and damn almost impossible to counter.
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Got a 4.0 again. :3
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So I installed Ubuntu Netbook Remix on my Eee. Unlike Mandriva Spring 2008.1, Ubuntu recognized my wireless card. Everything else works awesomely as well. My Eee feels useful again.
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I got the first two seasons of House for 20 bucks. Awesome
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I had a very fun forth (was a wee bit sick this morning) but other wise I was perfectly fine.
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Douable Paost for being bored: FINALLY got twitter working so I can use on my phone. Thanks Jupi^^
It's OmegaOmni1331 if yin's want to add.
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This doesn't exactly fry my potatoes, but it by no means peels them either. It's more like...Blanching my potatoes with water of disturbance.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v34/Jupichan/tfhaal.jpg)
I'm not sure what's more disturbing; the fact that he fits into one of my old white gowns, or the fact that the last time I wore that, I was at most fifteen years old...Meaning I was the size of a 22 year-old male dork when I was 14 or 15.
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Yeah that's me guys xD.
As a side note I crossed dressed about 3 halloweens ago just for shits and giggles...I can't find the pics ><
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A bit late on the post, but I spent last weekend at my girlfriend's trailer. If there's one thing that that trailer park knows how to do, it's drink. I love going up there because it means I pretty much get to drink my face off all weekend (depending on how much I can buy, etc.) I was lucky enough that my GF and her mother were willing to buy me beer this time, since I'm kinda dirt poor at the moment.
But yeah, hopefully I can go back there on labor day weekend. That weekend, on the saturday, there's free booze for everyone, meaning that I buy a little bit to drink friday night, and then drink myself stupid for free on saturday.
Plus, the people there are cool. The trailer is technically shared between my girlfriend's grandmother and her uncle (on the other side of the family. They live together, and have some sort of relationship, but they're not related by blood). Her grandmother was a trucker, so she drinks, and jokes like the rest of us. None of that nice little old lady stereotype crap.
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I got a girlfriend yesterday.
/win
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It's not Omega, is it?
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Sadly, no.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v115/SneakyMu/melaurenjuly6.png)
More pix later. Just a quick snap from my shitty phone cam, her and I on top of South Mountain (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=south+mountain+park+az&sll=37.579413,-95.712891&sspn=49.692938,79.013672&ie=UTF8&ll=33.346877,-112.076254&spn=0.05191,0.077162&t=h&z=14) here in phoenix. You can see all the way from Buckeye and Laveen to Tempe. It's a GREAT place to take girls to if they haven't been before with someone else. Awesome thing is, there are usually a few people up on the top, but NO one was there when I took her. It couldn't have been more perfect.
/bawws
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It's not Omega, is it?
*spits on monitor*
Good job, sir.
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Thats awesome Sneaky, grats. Those are some pimpin glasses too. And the view looks amazing.
My birthday is on Saturday!
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It's not Omega, is it?
Oh haha...I am not into men good sir. Also congrats Sneaky.
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Yes I got Scatman (kill 26 fuckers with out being killed) as a Heavy on TF2...so fucking happy right now.
Also new phone coming soon...can't wait ^^
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I'm leaving tomorrow night to go to Tallahassee (it's going to be a LONG ass drive from Palm Beach) to see a mate of mine at FSU for his 21 birthday. Shit's gonna be one hell of a weekend.
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LoZ got item plays in background* I got my phone ^^
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(http://fc05.deviantart.com/fs43/i/2009/118/1/8/Khezuuuuuuuu_by_bleedingcrow.jpg)
at first i hated this fucking monster, but he grew on me, now i want one as a pet.
FUCK YEAR! KHEZU!
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Reminds me of the MP Evangelion units 5-13 for some reason D:
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Got to hang out with Spectere today guys. Yes he is still alive and was not super busy or tired from work. However is still busy with stuffs and says he will try to post when he can.
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Oh yay, I was kind of getting worried about him. I'm glad he's O.K. :D
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Yeah, his last activity here was April 7th, lol.
But I've seen his occasional posts on Twitter, so I knew he was at least alive.
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so i bought tomba! and ape escape on amazon...used.
$60.00 for tomba! (fucking steal considering i remember it going past $150.00usd)
$10.00 for ape escape ($5 of that...was for shipping, too cheap not to get)
they arrived today...
both in EXCELLENT (lightly scuffed discs, but practically new) condition. i mean i was whatever on ape escape since i didn't pay much for it, but tomba!, a rare ass game, i only expected it in a damaged case with no instructions and a barely workable disc....and i was wrong. same happened with tomba! 2 last year, came in kickass condition, now i have both tomba games.
today is a good day.
and yes ps1 games give me more entertainment than most of the games this current generation. and technically STHD is just sf2 with online, sf2 came out on the snes. i wouldn't consider myself an oldschool gamer, but they made games better back then than they do now. it can't be nostalgia talking when i am literally playing those games right now, in 2009. but i guess nostalgia has something to do with it, the ps1/n64 was my "golden age" of gaming, old enough to understand things, got an allowance to buy vidya rather than being hollidays/birthdays only, vidya magazines were pretty big back then, and even dial up internet for the gaming forums.
tldr- look properly for a used game on amazon, you should be satisfied
*edit*
motherfucking tomba won't play on my ps2
LEAST I STILL GOT MY ps1, which it works perfectly on with my ps2 plugins/controller.
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FUCK YEAH. I finally got the kill everyone you meet achievement tonight so fucking happy :D
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I was looking up some information about rooting my T-Mobile G1 when I found an entire section on T-Mobile's own forums that seem to be dedicated to Android OS development:
http://forums.t-mobile.com/tmbl/board?board.id=AndroidDev (http://forums.t-mobile.com/tmbl/board?board.id=AndroidDev)
I was amazed when I saw that. That would kind of be like if there were a thread on Apple's forums titled "How to Jailbreak your iPhone" and they let it fly. The fact that they allow their customers to openly discuss hacking their phones makes me that much happier with them as a carrier.
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hah, that is pretty amazing. Hell, maybe some people just don't care.
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methinks T Mobile has realized that their customers are shelling out mega bucks for phones, that maybe they should let them do MORE than just 'use' it for calls/text/internet and such. COUGH SIDEKICK LX COUGH. I wish we could do more as sidekick owners, but they're pretty tight-cornholed about it. :/
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It kind of depends on the phone itself as far as its capabilities. The G1 is practically a computer. It has an ARM processor, like a DS, iPhone, or iTouch, and is designed to run a Linux-based mobile operating system (Android).
The Sidekick is more of a pimped out standard cell phone so its options are a bit fewer. You can generally take control of the phones if you have the right software (as I was able to do with my previous Motorola V3x) but since it uses a more obscure processor your options are extremely limited. Most phones like that are designed to run a single, proprietary operating system.
So, really, it has more to do with the phone manufacturer (which, in the most of the Sidekick models' case, is Danger Incorporated) than the distributor. Still good to know that T-Mobile, at the very least, doesn't absolutely forbid phone modding.
Just FYI, if you wanted to do more with your Sidekick, get it connected to your computer and look around. The only things you need to completely tweak most handsets are a USB cable and some software. If the phone is popular enough, odds are somebody found a way.
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It has an ARM processor, like a DS, iPhone, or iTouch, and is designed to run a Linux-based mobile operating system (Android).
Also, the Western Digital MyBook storage systems run ARM processors.
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My cat is making little mew noises in her sleep, and it's positively adorable. <3
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New avatar whoo-hoo
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I like the avatar it makes me giggle.
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I just rooted my phone (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_Dream) today and installed a custom Android build on it. Given the type of things that are possible to do on this platform (http://www.saurik.com/id/10), this should prove to be interesting.
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The North Park Clubhouse/Pittsburgh Prime Time got a second ITG cab!
wtf
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A shit Valve latest deal and a good one too. All half life games 66% off and the half life complete pack is 10% off 0.0 must buy!!
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goddamnit, fuck you. because of that post, i bought half-life episodes 1 and 2. $6.79, goddamn. so i literally bought...half-life, opposing force, blue shift, hl2 ep 1, hl2 ep 2...for a GRAND TOTAL of...
$9.76
holy shit
(mind you, i got the first 3 games listed for 99 cents each on their respective sales, pretty much too good of a deal to pass up)
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I just bought TFC after seeing those deals.
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Sigh being a HL fanboy sucks :( Full price for most of those for me... Save for the very first 5-game multipack valve [sierra games] came out with that had Blue shift and opposing force on it.
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goddamnit, fuck you. because of that post, i bought half-life episodes 1 and 2. $6.79, goddamn. so i literally bought...half-life, opposing force, blue shift, hl2 ep 1, hl2 ep 2...for a GRAND TOTAL of...
$9.76
holy shit
(mind you, i got the first 3 games listed for 99 cents each on their respective sales, pretty much too good of a deal to pass up)
You are a consumer whore and how!
Sigh being a HL fanboy sucks :( Full price for most of those for me... Save for the very first 5-game multipack valve [sierra games] came out with that had Blue shift and opposing force on it.
Yeah well now my half life game collection is complete.... time for another one. Maybe when I get the money the id collection.
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DUDE.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v34/Jupichan/PARTY_BONUS.jpg)
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I know Jared's last name. HAH, your censorship is useless against me.
But...wow. If BVM gets a decent 7th mix machine again, I'm camping there FOREVAR.
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I haven't played on 7th since...since...Shit, probably the last tournament that was held at Century III mall. Maybe once or twice after that, before they "upgraded" it to SuperNOVA.
I think that's going to be one of my first major outings once I get my license. Oh lawd.
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I haven't played on 7th since...since...Shit, probably the last tournament that was held at Century III mall.
YEAH, ON *MY* MACHINE.
If the same cabinet is still there, the missing bracket on the P2 right arrow was all me, baby. I taught the bracket a lesson or two about popping off during extra stage.
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Cripes, I think I actually recall bitching about that bracket being missing. Haha.
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I don't know what is going on ><
But I have kool-aid.
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I think it's pretty obvious. The dance game scene in PA's getting more awesome by the day.
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Cripes, I think I actually recall bitching about that bracket being missing. Haha.
Sweet. I've made a difference!
Anyhoo, the story behind the bracket: I was playing on the machine when it was still at the Southern Park Mall. I AA'ed my last song and was like ZOMG EXTRA STAGE. Since MAX2 has soooooooo many selections for extra stage, I wound up playing MAXX UNLIMITED by Z. I was near the middle when I was all like OMG I MIGHT ACTUALLY PASS THIS. Then, disaster. I started hearing a metallic "clink!" sound as I stepped on the right arrow. Feeling something beneath my foot, I kicked the object away when I was holding the freeze jump. I finished up the song and looked down, noticing a missing bracket. I found the screw but the bracket was gone...probably deep underneath another one of the arcade machines that were there.
So, there you go. That's the story of the missing bracket and the story of the first time I passed Unlimmy on extra stage. It's like a double header, only with words.
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Does anybody know what those little long red peppers in Chinese food are called? I asked for them when I ordered today and now I'm trippin' peppers, but I still don't know what they're called. They're all kinds of tasty though :>
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Sweet. I've made a difference!
Anyhoo, the story behind the bracket: I was playing on the machine when it was still at the Southern Park Mall. I AA'ed my last song and was like ZOMG EXTRA STAGE. Since MAX2 has soooooooo many selections for extra stage, I wound up playing MAXX UNLIMITED by Z. I was near the middle when I was all like OMG I MIGHT ACTUALLY PASS THIS. Then, disaster. I started hearing a metallic "clink!" sound as I stepped on the right arrow. Feeling something beneath my foot, I kicked the object away when I was holding the freeze jump. I finished up the song and looked down, noticing a missing bracket. I found the screw but the bracket was gone...probably deep underneath another one of the arcade machines that were there.
So, there you go. That's the story of the missing bracket and the story of the first time I passed Unlimmy on extra stage. It's like a double header, only with words.
Yeah, guess what song/stage I was doing/loling at because I know I'll never pass it when I noticed that the bracket was gone.
Guess.
Does anybody know what those little long red peppers in Chinese food are called? I asked for them when I ordered today and now I'm trippin' peppers, but I still don't know what they're called. They're all kinds of tasty though :>
I just call 'em Chinese Death Peppers.
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I think I preferred 8th mix over 7th.... but both of those are quite possibly the 2 best arcade mixes.
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so i got a new xbax, meaning ive been playing STRET FITR TU
and well, playing zangief again after a long period with hawk...and i ACCIDENTALLY did something awesome. st short into super...
going into training mode, at least on 1p side, st short into super is easier to do than just jump in super. meaning...ill be seeing more supers with zangief, MEANING, more ass whoopins i will deliver! now it's still kind of hard to do a 720 before the st short ends, but it's doable, i just need to work on 2p side and im golden. GIVE PEOPLE SOMETHING TO FEAR ABOUT WHEN GIEF HAS THAT METER!
FUCK YES!
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*conga line*
My car passed inspection! :D :D :D
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So, I'm going out with a couple friends to the local pub (not bar) that we go to. I'm poor, but my friends are willing to cover me. We've only recently begun going there together on a regular basis.
My friend Mike and I are already well known by the bar tenders there (and a couple regulars), but my friends Trevor and Shane (identical twins) have only just started drinking, let alone going to a bar. I've been friends with these guys through all highschool, so it's awesome to get together and drink and talk like this, because I hardly see the twins.
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Twins!
Do they have ESP?
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I finally got the beta of the MZX game I've been working on released. 8)
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Twins!
Do they have ESP?
No idea, lol. But they only need 1 ID to get into the bar :P
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Hanging out with friends on saturday...woot!
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I was bored last night and went to a friends house, we then played Rampage and drank while watching MST3K. It was a rather fun time.
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so i went in to my local 711 for a monster, and i see some new monsters. curious, i purchased the green one along side a 24oz monster.
it's a monster NITROUS, some well, new monster. there's three flavors, and the one i happened to buy (basically going from left to right in the store so i know which one to buy next, since well i want to try em all) was the "super dry" flavor.
it doesn't taste like monster with a different flavor to it like the assault or khaos flavors (both which are good) and it doesn't taste like liquid ass like the heavy metal. it's like, what orange juice would taste if it was an energy drink, only kind of carbonated.
like take a glass of orange juice, and drop dry ice into it to carbonate it.
meaning, it's pretty fucking good, i highly recommend trying it if your local 711/convenience store has em. wikipedia said they released these things aut 15 1009 in the us, so based on that, i wouldn't assume canada has em yet.
tldr- super dry, drink it.
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Dammit, figures that after almost three months of being "caffeine lite"* (i.e. one 20-24oz caffeinated drink per week; a major cutback) Monster would have to go ahead and release a good new flavor. :(
If they have it at Sheetz I might wind up making that my caffeinated beverage of the week.
*It's pretty awesome. After going without a whole lot of caffeine even Red Bull has a ton of kick to it.
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Lol, yeah, anyone with low caffeine intake REALLY feels a lot when they drink an energy drink, lol. Man, I had a starbucks Venti sized Bold Pick of the Day coffee a while back, and those things have a LOT of caffeine. I haven't had the money to drink energy drinks lately, but I still drink coke all the time, so it's not like I've got no caffeine intake, but that was unbelievable. It apparently has about 400 mg of caffeine in it.... I was on the verge of having the shakes, lol. Coming from someone used to drinking energy drinks and pretty much not feeling a thing, that was a VERY big surprise.
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generally i don't feel anything when i drink one. i mean, i generally drink soda like squirt (caffeine free soda) and well, yeah. unless im just "used" to the stuff. i drank that 12oz monster and shortly after, the 24 oz standard monster, and i was just fine.
but maby it contributed to my playing of shadow complex until 7am (i generally get to sleep around 6...but 3 days off in a row kind of fucked up the sleep pattern so i blame that over the monsters)
though one time i drank one when i clocked in at work in the morning. i got really fucking tired half way through my shift, so i was laying on a table in the back spouting noncoherant babble. 2 hours sleep + the end of an energy drink + being at work = BAD
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Well yeah, when your used to caffeine, it will make you stay up later and such without having any other real noticeable effect.
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WoW: Cataclysm is looking FUCKING BRILLIANT right now, and its web site (http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/cataclysm/) is pretty badass. Seriously, it's rare that I get this excited over a game...I can't wait to buy that shit up when it hits the shelves. I'm definitely going to pre-order it, no doubt about it.
Well yeah, when your used to caffeine, it will make you stay up later and such without having any other real noticeable effect.
Also, I've found that after cutting back on my caffeine I can stay up later and not feel as many nasty effects the next day as I would if I were caffeinated (i.e. completely crashing the next morning). Drinking caffeine is kind of self-defeating when you think about it. It's a shame that so many awesome drinks (like Dr. Pepper, Vault, and motherfucking iced mochas...mmm...) have it.
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Dude yes Vlad, those are my new favorite energy drink. I have no idea why, but they are incredibly awesome. D:
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tried the anti gravity flavor today.
i don't like it as much as super dry, but it's still damn tastey. which is saying something since i can count the amount of good tasting energy drinks almost on one hand, and ive tried A LOT of different energy drinks.
killer b (iirc the name) will be what i try tomorrow.
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The only one they sell around here is the super dry one, but I'm down with that, because it tastes goddamn delicious D:
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http://img36.imageshack.us/i/scoutsanddemoman.jpg/
Yes I made it up there as a scout no hax :D
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Double Post: District 9 is a good movie.
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Happiness is a warm bra. Not that any of you other than Boobias would know about that.
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Happiness is a warm bra. Not that any of you other than Boobias would know about that.
Wut?
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Happiness is a warm bra. Not that any of you other than Boobias would know about that.
I do
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Wut?
Agreed.
Both for the oddness, and for the fact that for the record, I am a guy.
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It's very refreshing to see that whenever I play a music file that has Japanese in the tags, it now shows up as Japanese rather than unicode gibberish.
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You mean non-unicode gibberish.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojibake
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You mean non-unicode gibberish.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojibake
Ok, I'm glad I see Japanese instead of Mojibake. Either way it's legible and looks prettier.
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Just got a PStriple.
I'm waiting for 2.80 to download and install, so I haven't gotten onto PSN yet. If you guys want to add me, Spectere1984 should do it (that's what I use on my PSP, anyway). Edit: Yep, Spectere1984 worked.
Current collection:
- Gran Turismo 5: Prologue
- Uncharted: Drake's Fortune (came with the system)
- Metal Gear Solid 4 (I GameFly'd it, so it's a rental)
In the Blu-Ray movies department, I picked up Boondock Saints. Hell yes.
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I hear good things about Uncharted.
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Just got a PStriple.
I'm waiting for 2.80 to download and install, so I haven't gotten onto PSN yet. If you guys want to add me, Spectere1984 should do it (that's what I use on my PSP, anyway). Edit: Yep, Spectere1984 worked.
Current collection:
- Gran Turismo 5: Prologue
- Uncharted: Drake's Fortune (came with the system)
- Metal Gear Solid 4 (I GameFly'd it, so it's a rental)
In the Blu-Ray movies department, I picked up Boondock Saints. Hell yes.
Awesome. Boondock Saints in Blu-ray should kick ass.
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8) I can parallel park now. 8)
*can basically smell her license*
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i can't, and here i am, with a license to DRIVE!
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I hope you never have to park in Pittsburgh then. D:
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i can't, and here i am, with a license to DRIVE!
Nor can I, lol Florida.
Also Skullmonkeys is shockingly hard, and they even give you infinite continues. Still a fairly awesome game.
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Everything half-life makes me happy. Just played thru episode 1 again.
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Always a great game series to play through Sneaky :D
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Gmod is on sale for $5 this week bitches...go, buy, add me steam friends, fun stuffs >:D
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Didn't that used to be free
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I am not sure...gmod was made by gary's team who is responsible for HLBS and HFOFs...but it uses the HL2 engine.
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Gmod 9 is free, Gmod 10 is not.
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Yeah with Gmod 9 you can use sonic chararters and what not...gmod 10 is not as nice.
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This 60 minutes interview with the real people behind the movie The Soloist. That movie definitely did them justice. After watching this, I've gained a new appreciation for the acting and attention to detail that movie had: http://theenvelope.latimes.com/news/politics/la-me-lopez-skidrow-nathaniel-series,0,2774908.special
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Yeah with Gmod 9 you can use sonic chararters and what not...gmod 10 is not as nice.
Actually, pretty much every mod for Gmod 9 that matters has been ported to Gmod 10. I have ragdolls for Sonic characters and a bunch of others as well.
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Could you send me a link to download custom ragdolls....I want to do some stuff with them.
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http://www.garrysmod.org/downloads/
You'll find most everything you'll need there. Otherwise, go to http://www.facepunch.com/ and you'll find a lot of mods in progress.
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Today's just a good day. :3 I'm still sick, but whatev. Happy! :D
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New avatar...thanks Jupi for helps!
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I realized last night that I didn't have my class at 8 today. I don't have to be at college till 3 (meaning I leave about 2). That's a huge improvement from waking up at 6 and leaving at 7.
The reason I don't have it is because that class (electronics fundamentals) has 4 hours of class a week. 1 hour allotted to labs, and 3 hours allotted to lecture. Instead of having a weekly lab that's only 1 hour long, my teacher opted to have a 2 hour lab every second week.
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Getting my moms laptop for frizzle.
Also getting a portable HDD for rizzle.
Also firefox says rizzle is spelt wrong, but frizzle is an actual word
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I'm a licensed driver now. :P Whoo.
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Got like a 65 on an amazingly easy test, BUT I can make it up by writing a semi short paper.
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Got like a 65 on an amazingly easy test, BUT I can make it up by writing a semi short paper.
That always blows. But hey, it's nice to be able to save yourself with something small.
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Also getting a portable HDD for rizzle.
Get one of those 2.5" ones. I love being able to carry a 400GB drive (yes, I know there are larger ones...stew-foo) in my pocket.
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three of the busiest days ive worked in a while, now i got myself sunday/monday off.
FUCK YES !
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My solo might not sound like shit when I go in to record it tomorrow :-D
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Got my Parasite Eve 2 game working again. Shit's better then Resident Evil.
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Got my Parasite Eve 2 game working again. Shit's better then Resident Evil.
Agreed.
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Lucky nigger.
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I found a PSX/USB adapter that works with Vista x64 :D:D:D:D:D
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I found a Sega Master System and a bunch of controllers while searching thrift stores today :o
also: a copy of No One Lives Forever with a bonus music CD for $2
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also: a copy of No One Lives Forever with a bonus music CD for $2
You lucky fuck. That game was one of the most fun games I've ever played/
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Posting from Windows 7.
The speed of this OS amazes me. Way better than XP and Vista.
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Posting from Windows 7.
The speed of this OS amazes me. Way better than XP and Vista.
Could it work on systems that are AGP MoBo's or would I need to upgrade?
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I would assume yes. It's not like microsoft decided that they were going to dump support for older hardware. If they did something like that, I think it'd make a pretty big splash. There are lots of people still using computers with AGP.
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Could it work on systems that are AGP MoBo's or would I need to upgrade?
Yes, it'll work.
Windows 7 will install and run on anything that Windows Vista will run on.
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I saw a nun driving a school bus today.
There's something pretty amusing about that.
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I saw a nun driving a school bus today.
There's something pretty amusing about that.
We didn't have school today :o
because it's all snowy
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mail arrived today.
(http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/5140/img1524.th.jpg) (http://img62.imageshack.us/i/img1524.jpg/)
which go into my small collection of..
(http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/5105/img1525n.th.jpg) (http://img408.imageshack.us/i/img1525n.jpg/)
only flipped through the darkstalkers book thus far, lots of good stuff, and a few people i follow on DA (i noticed at least two from FA even...)
and the sf tribute book is goddamn beefy, fucker weighs a ton. but it's good stuff if you are a person who enjoys looking at pretty pictures of vidya game characters you like. i mean, there's pretty good variety. you got your "OMFG HOT GUURL DRAWED GUD" and you got your "HOLY SHIT THAT SCULPTURE LOOKS REAL" and you got your "MY GOD THATS RATHER FUNNY SIR" as well as your "ODD LOOKING BUT OVERALL IT BRINGS SOMETHING NICE AND DIFFERENT TO THE TABLE" good stuff.
*edit*
i meant to put this in the random replies thread but i guess it's best put here...and i even accidentally posted it here.
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Myself and at least one friend are going to go down to a nearby theatre next week and see Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Mwahaha. This'll be odd.
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i guess im slow, but i just realized tali is confirmed to be an active party member in mass effect 2.
FUCK YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSsssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
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wake up 4:00 pm
shower/whatnot, and wake up some more.
go to work to check work schedule at 5:00pm
get with friends to go to gamestop to wait for MW2, arrive at 6:00pm, second in line with 8 other people in our group.
BLABLABLA FUN SCHENAGINS HANGING OUT WITH PEOPLE HAVIN A GOOD TIME
12:00am, line is like several hundred people (probably long, but it was a stupidly long line) long and we are basically second in line to grab our game.
book it back to a bros house to play till 6:00am
head to mc donnalds for some breakfast, drop people off, come back, installing game as i type this, it's 7:40am.
had a pretty good day i tell yah what. night vision goggles were fun to play with (i didn't get them obviously, but one of mah friends did), and well, the game itself was fun. did lots of the co-op missions, they can get masochistically hard, but that's why they are fun. played a few online matches as well, only used riot shield. best weapon ever, and it isn't even a weapon.
GOOD SHIT
GOOD FUCKING SHIT
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wake up 4:00 pm
Wow, I did the EXACT same thing.
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Played ITG for the second time this week - took a bunch of scores on single and doubles. Doubles is becoming considerably easier for me as of late. Now, if I could just stop my shoes from becoming untied. :3
Tried Ben & Jerry's ice cream for the first time this week. My dad would never let anyone bring it in the house. He says Ben and Jerry are communists, and he won't have communist ice cream in his house.
Little does he know...There's communism in the back of his freezer right now. Chocolate flavoured communism.
Also, the massive load of drama among my friends at school seems to be finally drawing to an end. Finally. There's still some animosity between a few sets of people, but they'll just ignore each other. So I'll take that. I'm tired of being put in the middle of everything. My brain has been fighting all of it. Several times now, I've just completely forgotten the past hour or two. It's pretty confusing. I'm quite functional, but if I go through a change of venue when that happens, I'm just like "...wut? How did I get here?"
At least it's only happened while I've been driving once. <_<
Now for puppy cuddles. <3
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Went to FFA (just got back actually) to play some DDR and did pretty good for not playing in over a month. Also FFA's server messed up so I got free games ;D
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Heh. I almost went to FFA today. But a friend of mine told me he's going there tomorrow, so I just went to Pittsburgh Primetime again. :3
<3 Cheap dance games.
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I threw CyanogenMod (http://www.cyanogenmod.com/) on my G1 the other day. Now it completely blows my iPhone 3G out of the water in terms of performance. The G1 has always been far more responsive than the iPhone (I love that input lag that the iPhone seems to get hit with constantly while I'm trying to type stuff...not to mention how long it takes to switch apps) but with CM the animations manage to even be more fluid.
If only it had a real headphone jack. Oh well...can't have everything, I guess.
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I owe a little over $900 on my car...such great news.
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Played me some DDR up at FFA, got some new AAAs. :3
Laughed more today than I have in the past six weeks. My friends at school and I were just nuts today. <3
Also, I got myself on the unwritten list of people to help set up/run the ITG tournament at Pittsburgh Primetime. I figure unless we get enough people to warrant a lower-level tournament, I might as well not bother entering. So, I'll help out! Wahoo.
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i...finally...finished...mass effect
i have my 60 soldier with lift with every quest in the game completed except the gay collection quests, and the "colonist/earthborn only" specific quests since i am a spacer.
i have literally lost count on how many times i have played through/completed this game, i probably have over 300 hours of playing this game and yeah.
listening to the awesome ending credits music as i type this, and i look forward to mass effect 2 AS MUCH AS diablo 3, which is saying a lot from me.
GG until i decide to play the game again later down the road...
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Happy: Just a few days until my Thanksgiving break. Whoo-hoo for a week off! <3
Happy: Gonna go play me some more ITG after class today. It's been such a long time. ;_; It's been since like...Sunday. Bahah.
Joy: Only two full weeks of class left in this semester.
Joy: My black lab makes the world's best pillow. Soft, cuddly, and doesn't fart in your face. <3
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Free windows 7 came in the mail
i like pancakes, i like pancakes
they make me a happy peter
i like pancakes, i like pancakes
la la la la laaa.
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What the fuck? The full game?
Also spectur, you need to give me your Borderplands game name.
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Also spectur, you need to give me your Borderplands game name.
I think it's Spectere84...can't remember. I hate GameSpy.
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What the fuck? The full game?
...Wow I mean the full OS.
Also I'll try adding you, but I still can't host....
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With enough luck, I might have my own laptop tomorrow. Wahoo.
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...Wow I mean the full OS.
Also I'll try adding you, but I still can't host....
yes? lol. it was part of the 'buy a laptop/PC within x date and y date, get a free W7 full upgrade dvd" so since my laptop i bought had vista home premium, I got w7 home premium with proof of purchase [just scanned my receipt and emailed it to the provided address from ASUS]
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So, for this week, last week, and next week, I'm rehearsing/performing in a cantata at some friends' churches. :3 Spiffy enough.
Today, one of the two flute players sitting next to me says that her church is often in need of clarinet players, and she's going to give the pastor my name so they can contact me about playing there. :D
Very unlikely to be a paid gig, but hey, I've gotta start somewhere. The lady has been and is currently in some high-end orchestras, so if I don't mess this up for whatever reason...Potential score! Wahoo.
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So, I had a co-op interview today. For a small place called Global Controls Group. My dad knows some of the guys there (and it's a small company) and they do exactly what I want to do. They work exclusively with automation, be it Robots, PLCs, etc. Their entire job is integrating automated workcells (building the panels, wiring everything up, programming the PLCs and/or robots, etc. etc.) which is exactly what I want to get into. And I think the interview went well. Since this is my last week, the guy said that he'd get back to me in the next day or 2 with a decision whether they want me or not.
I really hope I get the job.
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After going through my LJ, I found this gem I made way back in the day for one of flypie's contests:
The Night Spectere Went Crazy
Down in the fourm, all the users were makin' posts
About their e-penis's and other dumb boasts
When the boss busted in, nearly scared 'em half to death
Had a rifle in his hands and cheap whiskey on his breath
From his beard to his boots he was covered with ammo
Like a big fat drunk disgruntled sexy Rambo
And he smiled and said, with a twinkle in his eye,
'I've got your IP's, now you're all gonna die!'
The night Spectere went crazy
The night he just went insane
Realized he'd been gettin' a raw deal
Something finally must have snapped in his brain
Well, the forum is gone now, he decided to wipe it
Everywhere you'll find pieces of Flypie and Charlotte
And he tied up his members and he held the mods hostage
And he ground up poor Boland into good e-sausage
He got Blinky and Citrus with an old German Luger
And he slashed up iPatch just like Freddie Krueger
And he picked up a flamethrower and torched Armegeddon
And he took a big bite and said, 'It tastes just like chicken!'
The night Spectere went crazy
The night our admin went nuts
Now you can't just walk around the Flying Pie
Without steppin' in reindeer guts
There's the RIAA and the F. B. I.
There's a van from the Eyewitness News
And helicopters circlin' 'round near the Pie
And the IP are flyin', the ban rate's risin'
And everyone's dyin' to know, oh Spectere, why?
My my my my my my
You used to be such a jolly guy
Yes, Virginia, now Spectere's doing time
In a federal prison for his infamous crime
Hey, little friend, now don't you cry no more tears
He'll be out with good behavior in 700 more years
But now Harry's in therapy and Kagome's still nervous
And the members all got jobs working for the eBay service
And they say Spectere's dog, he's on the phone every night
With his lawyer negotiating the movie rights
They're postin' 'bout the night Spectere went crazy
The night that cool guy flipped
Broke his back for some data and forums
Sounds to me like he was tired of gettin' gypped
Wo, the night Spectere went crazy
The night the Flying Pie flew
Realized he'd been gettin' a raw deal
Something finally must have snapped in his brain
Wo, something finally must have snapped in his brain
Tell ya, something finally must have snapped... in his brain
Helped the original material was good!
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Oh gosh. Haha
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Hahaha, man. I think I must have joined not too long after that. I remember all those guys, but just barely.
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someone has to have "flypie likes to party all the time" remix i did! i miss that. lol
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After going through my LJ, I found this gem I made way back in the day for one of flypie's contests:
YES YES YES YES
Holy crap, I forgot about that. EPIC.
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Typing this post on my brand new laptop. <3
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A buddy who I play TF2 with just bought me Bioshock...I am speechless :x
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It's on sale for $5, isn't it
I was thinking of getting a copy
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Same, but I REALLY want Serious Sam HD and Muramasa first.
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Went to a party with Vyhd.
Drinks were had.
Games were played.
Kitties were tossed.
Food was eaten.
Blanket forts were built/inadvertently destroyed/rebuilt.
Posh Japanese food was purchased/eaten.
Now he and I are watching Doctor Who.
Aside from the general lack of sleep, it's been quite a fun time.
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Kitties were tossed.
You have piqued my interest. Do go on.
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My friend has several cats. As well as several dogs. All very nice animals.
They're all fairly social, but one or two of the cats in particular are just some of the most patient cats I've ever seen in my life. Last week, one of them let me pile a whole bunch of stuff on him and take pictures from several angles. Didn't flinch at all.
They'll let you put them in bags, toss them around (gently, mind you), and they won't get mad at all. When they grow tired of flying, they just walk away.
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I effing love my car.
Driving stick in the snow is soooooo much nicer than driving an automatic. Downshifting is so much smoother, you have complete control over the vehicle, and you can very easily keep the revs down when you're driving on a flat road (1.2k RPM in fourth on a slippery road == you can floor the accelerator and not spin the tires) and up when you're going downhill. LOVE IT.
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I wanna learn to drive a stick. D:
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It's not too hard, really. I learned in a few hours.
The hardest part when you're first starting off is, believe it or not, getting it into first. Shifting through the rest of the range is a pretty simple task -- let off the gas, push in the clutch, shift, release the clutch, push the gas pedal. Getting the car moving in first is the part that requires a bit of work. Basically, you have to give the car a little bit of gas, then slowly let out the clutch, steadily applying more acceleration until the clutch is engaged. If you don't give it enough gas the car will stall, if you give it too much gas you could either wind up peeling out (if you pop the clutch) or putting excessive wear on your clutch (if you let it out slowly). It's just a matter of finding the right balance for the car.
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Odds are, the hardest part for me is going to be getting my paws on a manual trans car. Haha.
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Yeah, you don't see too many of them anymore.
I got lucky with mine. Everyone gawked at the thing until they looked in and saw the shifter. Ba-zing! Newer, redder, less automatic Saturn for me.
Edit: Weird coincidence about my two Satties:
I got my 1995 Saturn SC2 in 2002. It was seven years old.
Seven years later, I got my 2002 Saturn SC2 in 2009. It is seven years old.
FREAKY.
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Four months ago, I got my 1992 Honda Civic LX. :P It's getting close to being an antique by my state's standards. Haha.
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It's not too hard, really. I learned in a few hours.
The hardest part when you're first starting off is, believe it or not, getting it into first. Shifting through the rest of the range is a pretty simple task -- let off the gas, push in the clutch, shift, release the clutch, push the gas pedal. Getting the car moving in first is the part that requires a bit of work. Basically, you have to give the car a little bit of gas, then slowly let out the clutch, steadily applying more acceleration until the clutch is engaged. If you don't give it enough gas the car will stall, if you give it too much gas you could either wind up peeling out (if you pop the clutch) or putting excessive wear on your clutch (if you let it out slowly). It's just a matter of finding the right balance for the car.
My friend taught me a bit about driving stick (by saying here, get in the seat and I'll teach you to drive this) in his truck a while back, and I will definitely agree with that statement. The other thing that got me was remembering to clutch in when you brake so you don't stall out.
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Heh, I wasn't too bad with that. The only time I stalled due to braking without clutching was when some idiot decided to start going and then slam on her brakes for no bloody reason. Luckily, I was able to get the car started before she started moving.
Oh, one other technique that should be learned while driving stick: rev matching. It's going to be different from car to car (then again, everything relating to smoothness basically is), but the trick of it is to rev the engine before you complete a downshift to make the shift smoother and put less stress on the car.
For instance, in my Saturn, if I want to downshift from 5th to 4th while going 30mph, I would disengage the clutch, tap the gas to rev the engine up to about 1900 RPMs, then engage the clutch. The result is a fast, smooth downshift.
Four months ago, I got my 1992 Honda Civic LX. :P It's getting close to being an antique by my state's standards. Haha.
Eh, that's okay. My first car was older than me -- a 1982 Oldsmobile Toronado. That car was ridiculously comfortable to drive in.
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I cat passed out on my lap
:3c
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I cat passed out on my lap
:3c
Cute.
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Finally found the hard drive with my 47GB of Amiga stuff.
BRB, downloading WinUAE...
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Found out I have a few movies, a few episodes of Cowboy Bebop, and a few more episodes of Samurai Champloo on my computer. Fucking awesome.
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Cutest VG Cats ever (even if it is almost a month late): http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=292 (http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=292)
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Yeah that is pretty cute.
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I had basil and swiss stuffed chicken for dinner, and now I have a lovely black lab sitting at my side.
Tis a nice night.
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Something called Banana Nut Cheerios exist, and they are fucking good.
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Something called Banana Nut Cheerios exist, and they are fucking good.
Ohh yes, they're really good.
I saw chocolate Cheerios last night. :o
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I know few people live over here on the west coast, but the 4 fucking storms we're getting are rapetastic!
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Yeah, I heard about the storms over there, and I was like "Oh snap, Sneaky's gettin' raped."
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So apparently I'm still a beast at Asteroids. woot.
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My friend is giving me his broken xbox that can be fixed for 30 bucks. and a memory card. all i need is a controller and the wireless dongle thingy and a copy of MoW2 and i'm back in the action :) I haven't had a 360 for at least a year
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I might be able to play BlazBlue CS.
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I'm playing it right now. At home.
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Then tell me how to get mine working, shit doesn't seem to do anything in winrar or 7-zip.
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Been talking to a girl for about the last 2 months...we get along great and she really makes me happy just talking to her ^^
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I might be able to play BlazBlue CS.
Got that going just fine now. Also today has been a great day, got some homework done, dicked around and did decently in a small Vampire Savior tourney.
I really need to do shit tomorrow tho, I just realized I have no book or supplies for school.
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I've been missing my favourite hat for the past month or two. It just got returned to me last night. :3 Turns out, it was behind an ITG cab alllll this time.
So happy. <3 Special hat.
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..How does that even happen?
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My stuff usually winds up in a pile next to the machine when I play. It probably just got kicked back there when a bunch of us made a pile. I'm impressed that nobody picked it up in all that time though.
Shows how often they clean around there, eh?
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So I was hired about a week ago to work on Pump It Up Pro 2. I'm still kinda speechless.
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Yeah, that blows my hat right out of the water.
Congrats again, man. :3
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Got a Sega Genesis emulator and playing my favorite 2 game combo on it...ah nostagia.
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my favorite 2 game combo on it
Sonic 3 and Sonic and Knuckles? Shame you can't combine them to my knowledge.
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im pissed because i opened my eyes to see a package, that basically jewed me out of some 4 hours of sleep.
im happy because i knew in that package was this.
(http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/5200/img1616e.jpg)
why am i not playing it right now?
it's installing 8)
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Today has been a good day. I was stressed about me being behind in class when I'm not really that far back, and NOW I have a ton of work to do in a book I didn't even have that JUST arrive stupidly late today. and the book came with candy, which was the best surprise I've had in a while.
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Best present ever:
I just got a pair of Grado SR-80i headphones! They sound fucking awesome.
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DXM. what. the. fuck.
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Going on close to a month since I stopped smoking.
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DXM. what. the. fuck.
Dohoho, you drugy.
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Going on close to a month since I stopped smoking.
Grats!
Now stay stopped this time, buddy. :3
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Dohoho, you drugy.
I didn't even mean to trip. I've had a constant annoying cough due to a bronchial infection something-or-other, and my stepdad noticed and told me to 'finish the bottle' of robitussin we had around. probably 2x and change more than the 'recommended' dosage. About 30/45 mins later, I felt like I do when I'm buzzed with alcohol. Nothing extreme or noticeable visual affects. Then, since my mom was still concerned about my cough I asked her to get some Delsym for me (12hr Polistirex 5 oz bottle.) I took 2 FULL caps of this, which would equate to 40mL. In terms of DXM HBr, this is equal to 240mg. About an hour or 2 later as i was laying down I began my unintentional trip! haha. It was pretty neato. I only noticed feeling fuzzy and soft when someone texted me and i reached for my phone, my hand had motion blur trails following it. I was also able to focus on corners of my room and distort the room slightly by unfocusing my periferal(?) vision. I went to sleep after exploring some minor CEV's, and woke up not being able to walk so correctly. I had this weird afterglow of being stoned for the time Delsym actually prescribes on the bottle (12hrs). My high wore off around 730/8, 12 hours after I injested the delsym shots.
I knew people chugged robo to get high, I just never looked into it. I love dissociative effects, it's totally my bag. I spent my day at work researching DXM on different forums (including erowid). I think I'll try it again soon.
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periferal(?)
Since you had the question mark thingie there, it's "peripheral."
Also: that sounds friggin' crazy. O.o Thanks for the, uh, account.
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Haha, yeah, DXM is awesome. If you haven't read it, read the DXM FAQ. (found all over the place). I drank a whole bottle of robo once, in a short period, but didn't get all that high. I did get some effects, but mostly the dissociative effects, rather than any of the other cool crap, like CEVs and visual distortion and crap. I was kinda disappointed... But it was still fun.
That reminds me, I need to try that again sometime.
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Yea that's the first thing I read, and reread it throughout the day, viewing some trip reports, etc. There is a huge difference between Robo and Delsym's version of DXM. I think I touched the 1st plateau, maybe a tiny bit past that. my 'recommended' dose for my body is somewhat around 320mg of DXM HBr
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My college rescheduled the Homecoming gala that was supposed to occur last Saturday, but wound up not due to Snowpocalypse.
They first re-set it for March 6th. Date sucks because I'm going to be in Buffalo for a bowling tournament.
"What fun is being in the homecoming court if you can't even make it to the event?" D: is essentially what I said to the coordinators.
They're so nice. They actually changed the date again so I could be there. <3 Of course, it helped that I made my case before they had made any announcements, printed flyers, etc.
But still. <3 Yay.
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I played Settlers of Catan for the last 4 hours with some of my friends. Good (board) game!
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A good game of chess. I was in a Gmod server just now, and someone had a chess E2, so some people were playing chess and one guy kept winning. I decided to play him. The game lasted over an hour, and it was the best game of chess I've played in over a year. He won, of course, because I made a stupid mistake that lost me my queen. It was still a great game.
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I FRELLING LOVE THIS SHOW GODDAMNIT I FUCKING LOVE IT ITS THE BEST GAT DAMN SCI FI SHOW I HAVE SEEN THUS FAR JESUS WHY CANT THERE BE MORE LIKE IT FUCK I COULD CUM BUCKETS IF THERE WAS ANOTHER SHOW LIKE IT
OHH AND WHILE I AM HERE EDITING MAH POSTS LIKE NORMAL AND CRUISE CONTROLING WITH CAPS LOCK
VANILLA COKE IS GOD TIER AMONG COLA SOFT DRINKS, AND I DONT EVEN LIKE REGULAR COKE OVER PEPSI
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Regional bowling tournament this morning. <3
My team took second place overall (of the ladies. We've got no men on the team.)
We also took second place in the doubles match. We lost first place by thirteen pins. D:
And I took third place of all the ladies. :3
Whoo.
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So I went drinking Friday night, and ordered 3 triple rum and cokes, 2 doubles, a single, and 2 beers.
My tab came out to 39 bucks.
Amazing.
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That feeling you get when you get a decent amount of work in. Not feeling it today, but yesterday, hell yeah.
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That feeling you get when you get a decent amount of work in. Not feeling it today, but yesterday, hell yeah.
Ooh, that IS nice.
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So, I'm at the NJCAA Bowling Tournament. Big deal, nationals, etc, etc.
I have never bowled this well in my whole fucking life. I'm lucky to end the day averaging about 145-150. Right now, I'm at about 170. The only ladies that are ahead of me right now are those that bowl like...every day. If I can manage to pull another two or three 200+ games out of my ass tomorrow morning, I could place in the top 10. :D
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got a date this coming friday
yes.
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insurance ftw?
i don't have to pay a dime. i should feel more happy than i do, which is just feeling content, but i didn't "physically emotionally" feel too horrible about the accident, so yeah, it happened, and it's getting fixed, and i don't have to spend jack.
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In 6 hours, I'm gonna be on a plane to Vegas, preparing for the Amusement Expo and the Pro 2 stuff. Oh man, guys, this is all sorts of amazing. I think it just finally hit me, the scope of what's going on.
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Hey have fun dude.
Also FF13 is just amazing.
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Oh man. Lucky. D:
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In 6 hours, I'm gonna be on a plane to Vegas, preparing for the Amusement Expo and the Pro 2 stuff. Oh man, guys, this is all sorts of amazing. I think it just finally hit me, the scope of what's going on.
You damn lucky bastard, lol. I hope you have a wicked time there.
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Being able to feel more relief when I'm sober.
Having someone that brings out the great in me.
A new, virtuous perspective on life.
These are three things I've been needing for a very long time, and I can't describe what it feels like for things to finally be going in the right direction for me.
WHOO FOR PROGRESS!!
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That's great to hear! It's nice that things are finally starting to work out for you, man.
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Just bought 2 brand new ps2 controlers on ebay for less the $20...fucking win.
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Drinking with people I wish I could drink with more. Always fun.
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As of 9:50 this morning (93 minutes~)...
SPRRRRRRING BRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAK!!!
Er...But yeah. I'll have a week "off." Still have a ton of shit to do, but at least I don't have to deal with classes next week. <3
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Got a 20 cent raise today...score.
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Just got back from a Freezepop concert. <3 I think this is the fourth time I've seen them. :D
The opening bands were pretty damn awesome. The venue, while pretty huge compared to the other places I've seen Freezepop, was a veritable sauna. But oh man, it was SO much fun.
Possibly too much fun for a Wednesday night.
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Glad you enjoyed it. Personally, I can't stand freezepop, but either way, concerts are fun.
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I love how my work has awesome deals for everyone. For example we were selling a 9 gallon 3.5 hp Rigid shop vac for $20. So I need a shop vac for my room so I bought it. Damn little thing gets the sweeping that I need done and its not awkward or heavy like the craftsman one we have. Best thing yet its not very loud. Such a win product.
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Well might as double post:
Due to certain cirmcumstances at work I am a head cashier in training until one of my head cashiers comes back from another department.
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Paid off my car today...such a great feeling.
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Congratulations :] It's always a burden lifted when you pay off a debt. I recently paid of a credit card that I've had for 3+ years. It really is a great feeling.
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Congratulations :] It's always a burden lifted when you pay off a debt. I recently paid of a credit card that I've had for 3+ years. It really is a great feeling.
Much agreed.
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second 28
PROFOUND SADNESS!
im going to want to see guy lose all the time, that death scream of his is the best in the game. it's so bad it's good.
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Have you not heard Juri's scream? I'LLLLL HAVE MY REVEEEEEENGE.
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I'm having an abnormally happy day. Nothing particularly amazing happened; in fact, I almost got killed by a truck on my way to my second set of classes. But still, very good mood, lovely weather, happy dogs... And there is little that is more energizing than driving with the windows rolled down, singing along to great music as loud as one can.
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I'm having an abnormally happy day. Nothing particularly amazing happened; in fact, I almost got killed by a truck on my way to my second set of classes. But still, very good mood, lovely weather, happy dogs... And there is little that is more energizing than driving with the windows rolled down, singing along to great music as loud as one can.
Lol, despite having practically no sleep form last night (staying up till 4-6 AM 2 nights in a row, and then trying to sleep at 12 is hard as hell) I had a good day today too. I'm basically only awake thanks to energy drinks, but I don't feel bad.
As for the music thing, I generally don't have my windows down when I'm singing to music. Not that anyone would hear me over my insanely loud music anyway. I'm making the most of having my mom's car (leased, and has a damn nice system in it) before I have to drive the shitbox I'm waiting to get fixed.
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Today was a fucking awesome day that started out horrible.
I woke up at about 12 from my alarm, but I was tired so I fell back asleep and woke back up at 2:20-ish. My class starts at 2 and all my homework for the past two weeks were due and I had to take a test. So I brush my teeth, jump into my car and speed like a motherfucker all the way to school. I make it RIGHT as the last student was leaving, and my teacher lets me stay about 20 minuets after class to finish my test and accept my homework.
After that I went to get a haircut, as soon as I walked in I was seated and she started cutting. She finnished shockingly quickly and it looked great, so I paid, tipped and went home. Shit rocked.
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How does getting a quick/good haircut balance out the crap earlier? lol.
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Man, hell if I know. Few of my haircuts have ever ended well, imo. The only one I really remember liking was the one my friend Jassy gave me a year before she died. And that was only because later, I went up to my mom with the fourteen inches of hair Jassy cut off, lightly smacked my mom upside the head with it and said "I challenge you to a duel!"
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How does getting a quick/good haircut balance out the crap earlier? lol.
I'd be pretty happy if my teacher allowed me to finish a test after I was later than everyone else, AND on top of that, he/she accepts my homework. That'd be a nice mood-lifter.
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I guess, but I'd still be pretty pissed about missing most of the class and being forced to rely on that in the first place.
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I'd be pretty happy if my teacher allowed me to finish a test after I was later than everyone else, AND on top of that, he/she accepts my homework. That'd be a nice mood-lifter.
That's why.
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Past my drafting test, shame I know I'll fail due to my lack of finnished assignments.
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Just got asked to play at a concert on Memorial Day. :3
Pretty nervous about the prospect, actually. I think I'll be the only clarinet player.
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I passed statics with a C and got all As in the rest of my subjects. Everything went better than expected!
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I thought I was going to fail all 3 classes, but I ended up passing like 2 of them and getting my drafting certificate. Ballin'.
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My arctic silver came today, so now I can repair my 360 that RRoD'd. They sent me this fuckin' huge bottle of arctic silver remover, but the tiniest little thing of actual arctic silver. :-(
also, I have zero 360 games :-(
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You really shouldn't need much.
Also I did some chores for my Grandma and she gave me 80 bucks and I might have a job moving playground equipment tomorrow. I'M RICH BITCH.
Had a fairly awesome evening, just sat around with a few close friends and bullshitted all night long.
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Just this in general
http://www.dontstayin.com/members/trancepants
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double post for FUCK YOU, RULES.
I purchased a SIIG USB audio jack to enable my laptop to have 2 audio ports. Then, I downloaded ASIO4ALL to enable my laptop to function as if it had an ASIO soundcard, which lets me create aggregate devices of sorts. Doing this, and PERFECTLY LEGITIMATELY ACQUIRING Traktor Pro, configuring the audio settings, lets me cue and preview tracks on my headphones while sending the master track/signal to the other audio jack which is hooked up to an external speaker system.
In short, I can DJ live now.
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Saw that Portal is being given away for a few more days. :3
Yay, free game.
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Back when my car was my brother's car, the best mileage he could ever get out of it was just under 35mpg.
I just got nearly 38. Mwahahah. :D
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Needs more happy. At work, my boss (well, the guy I work with, the coke guy) told me that I was doing surprisingly good, and that he's had people that have been in field and that were bigger then me that would bitch piss a moan after only a week. Feels awesome after having him, my friend, and my friends parents (the actual employers) warn me that it was a hard job.
Also this made my day.
http://metsadevin.deviantart.com/art/kid-and-punker-at-gay-pride-123158808
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there's bad news which doesn't bother me and good news which im pretty excited about.
bad- blizzard stopped negotiations with kespa for the starcraft 2 stuff. kespa is the korean esports association, basically they are the backbone of the starcraft broadcasts on tv and whatnot.
good- blizzard is going with gomtv (http://www.gomtv.net/).
basically that kicks ass. for starcraft 1 english games for the most part, i would watch youtube footage of people doing english commentary (as it's normally commentated in korean), this is fine and dandy. with gom, they do livestreams of the games (i think kespa does this as well) AND they get english commentary for said livestreams. so i can enjoy my pro starcraft (soon to be starcraft 2 with this blizzard deal) games, live, commentated in english, yeah. it's one thing to experience an exciting moment days after it's happened, it's another to experience it as it happens. like flash winning the first gom tournament, that was awesome, and i was there watching it. now flash is like the best starcraft player in the world.
tldr= gomtv is awesome, they have a contract with blizzard letting them do starcraft 2 stuff.
but i recommend checking out some of the gom stuff. you don't even need to be much a fan of playing the game to enjoy it. i mean not everybody who watches "insert sport here" enjoys playing it. i mean i enjoy myself some starcraft, im just so ass at it i would rather watch.
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Just bought my tickets to the electric daisy carnival. fuck yes
http://www.electricdaisycarnival.com/la/index.php
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Holy fuck, that looks awesome. I wish I could go to something like that. I've wanted to go to one of those for so long, but there's hardly ever anything worth going to here. Even the stuff in Toronto is usually pretty crappy. Canada never has any really awesome music festivals.
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http://www.eclipsefestival.com/#/tickets-bus 9 hour drive for you?, next month.
http://www.shambhalamusicfestival.com/partyinfo.php yes, its in BC, but still looks like an EPIC time.
just 2 i've heard of that are pretty humongous.
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http://www.eclipsefestival.com/#/tickets-bus 9 hour drive for you?, next month.
http://www.shambhalamusicfestival.com/partyinfo.php yes, its in BC, but still looks like an EPIC time.
just 2 i've heard of that are pretty humongous.
I've got a whole ton of reasons I'm never going to make it to either of those, lol. Sure, there are still huge festivals that happen here, but it's so much of a pain in the ass for me.
Plus, the shambhala is alcohol/drug free :/ That's not cool, lol.
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Damn that sucks.. move out of canada then. hahah
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http://e3.nintendo.com/wii/
That. Also notice the 007 at the bottom.
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http://e3.nintendo.com/wii/
That. Also notice the 007 at the bottom.
may just have to get a wii now
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>donkey kong country returns
possibility i might pick up one of them doorstops in the future
it's like opposite day or something. nintendo at e3 makes me make a post here, and there's a lot of other nintendo stuff that looks awesome (ie GAMES)
microsoft and sony...well, i would have to think of a post for the ANGER thread, but i would fall asleep half way through typing that so i won't. maby the one analog nub on the 3ds irritates me (dude the fucking psp already does that, give me two), but at least the thing looks big enough, and in the right location to be fairly comfortable.
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it's like opposite day or something. nintendo at e3 makes me make a post here, and there's a lot of other nintendo stuff that looks awesome (ie GAMES)
microsoft and sony...well, i would have to think of a post for the ANGER thread, but i would fall asleep half way through typing that so i won't. maby the one analog nub on the 3ds irritates me (dude the fucking psp already does that, give me two), but at least the thing looks big enough, and in the right location to be fairly comfortable.
hah yeah, after last year Nintendo was somewhat dead to me and I was about to sell my Wii, but now I've got at least 5 or 6 games in my head that I really want.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/6/16/
relevant.
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This is the lovely shop where I might be working soon:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v34/Jupichan/0618001545.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v34/Jupichan/0618001544.jpg)
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Double post to say that I am now employed there! :D
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Awesome! How is it, or have you actually worked a shift or 2 yet?
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Haven't done a shift yet; I'll be doing that this coming week. They're gonna start me out just making/serving tea and stuff, but very shortly, they're gonna move me onto cooking. Which is why they hired me in the first place. :D They needed someone that can actually cook.
AND NOW THEY'VE GOT IT. <3
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Joy of Joys the engi update is up..been waiting for this for almost 2 years now :D
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the gunslinger gloves sounds awesome.
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THIS (http://axis-radius.com/event.php?pic=PRINT_Kaskade_PHX_front.jpg&event=KASKADE&date=July 16)
yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
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Downgraded my work phone to iPhone OS 3.1.3. YESSSS. It's actually a usable device again!
Apple should have never allowed 3G users to upgrade to iOS 4. About the only real feature that we get are folders and a truckload of slowdowns and app crashes due to the different memory layout (which 3GS and 4 owners do not generally get, probably because those devices have more memory). It literally took upwards of 5 seconds just to go to the home screen. F'in ridiculous.
But anyway, if any other 3G users were dumb enough to upgrade, this guide on Lifehacker is detailed and easy to follow: http://lifehacker.com/5572003/how-to-downgrade-your-iphone-3g%5Bs%5D-from-ios-4-to-ios-313 (http://lifehacker.com/5572003/how-to-downgrade-your-iphone-3g%5Bs%5D-from-ios-4-to-ios-313). Of course, I had numerous issues following it because I used my PowerMac for everything, and nobody builds any software for OS X 10.4 and PowerPC anymore, so naturally I had to jump through a bunch of hoops to build iRecovery, but it was totally worth the pain and suffering.
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Hah, I can sync the iPhone using an installation of Windows XP running under VMware.
That's pretty cool. It keeps me from having to waste the limited disk space on my Mac by having to store music and apps on it (which I've mainly been using to play older games on) and it keeps me from having to install iBloats in my main environment. I can get used to this whole USB-in-a-VM thing.
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4 day weekend due to tropical storm.
Went out and bought a Classic Controller for 15 bucks and then got the 360 madcatz fighting pad for my PC, and I fucking love both. Plus, m7y grandma just gave me a 50 dollar check for my birthday. It's good to be king.
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Keepvid went back to not charging people for its service. Also I found a bunch of onoken songs I hadn't heard before, which hasn't happened in years.
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Got a job
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I have $1200 in my account and can't think of anything to spend money on, which means continual savings for the first time....ever. Keep the train going! I want $10k in that account at this time next year (I also want to open a savings account and put at least $1000 in it to start).
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I really should do the same. I have about 3000 in my checking account, and I'm going to use it mostly for school.
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HAH, I got permission yesterday to jailbreak my company phone in the interests of seeing how many "brand new" iOS 4 features that I can use on my 3G (which pretty much only supports using app folders on iOS 4 and running exceedingly slowly) running 3.1.3.
This should be interesting.
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Job interview tomorrow! <3
Edit: After the longest job interview in which I've ever been, I got the job! Whoo.
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Got some stuff...gonna be building something new soon...can't wait. Just a little bit more *evil grin*
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Got some stuff...gonna be building something new soon...
So you're finally going to build the SexBot 2010? Sheesh, took you long enough...
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So you're finally going to build the SexBot 2010? Sheesh, took you long enough...
Hey that shit isn't easy to get a hold of. It's doesn't help that I need to hide it from my family :P
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Oh, you didn't get the transforming model? During the day it's a boombox, during the night it's a wet dream.
That said, it might be a little hard to explain to your parents why you sleep with a boombox...
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It's so if he should ever get an urge to breakdance in the middle of the night, he's well prepared. Hence why he's got a bunch of broken-down cardboard boxes as well.
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Nah, he has those set up in anticipation of me coming to his house one day.
I was never potty trained, so I tend to see cardboard as a target. I'm glad that Omni understands me and wishes to cater to my needs.
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few weeks ago i started casually watching the tv show "bones". i just finished the first season, then went to wiki to see how long this sucker goes. i thought it was done since the first season was a while ago, but the 6th season starts sepptember 23rd.
basically, the show is tits and i have to watch all of it.
it's like going from star trek to farscape and going "it's better than star trek" to going from csi to bones and going "it's better than csi"
not knocking star trek or csi, i love both to death, but these two shows just entertain me more.
i put it in the happy section for no reason, but it's still relevant. EVEN THOUGH THE LAST EPISODE OF SEASON ONE MADE ME TEAR UP A BIT, seems to happen to me a lot now a days. isn't it ironic though, as the "FUCK STORY IN VIDYA I AM ONLY IN IT FOR THE GAMEPLAY (which i am)" guy, i am so easily sucked into these tv shows enough to frequently have tears jerked out of my eyes? i don't much get it myself, but i figured it was worth noting.
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It's so if he should ever get an urge to breakdance in the middle of the night, he's well prepared. Hence why he's got a bunch of broken-down cardboard boxes as well.
Hell yeah Jupi I know how to party! :)
Nah, he has those set up in anticipation of me coming to his house one day.
I was never potty trained, so I tend to see cardboard as a target. I'm glad that Omni understands me and wishes to cater to my needs.
Well duurr.
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I just watched my computer compile the Linux kernel in one minute, five seconds.
/me ejaculates.
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...Dude.
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Don't be jealous of my processing power, Jupi. 8)
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But we can watch you process all night Spectere :P
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Don't be jealous of my processing power, Jupi. 8)
Your computer shall be humped.
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I just watched my computer compile the Linux kernel in one minute, five seconds.
/me ejaculates.
The real question is how long do OpenOffice and Firefox compile in :P
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The real question is how long do OpenOffice and Firefox compile in :P
That is always the better question.
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The real question is how long do OpenOffice and Firefox compile in :P
I won't try the former because it's a festering pile of shit, but I'll probably give the latter a go (though I'm not crazy about the number of dependencies Firefox pulls in consider I don't plan to use it, though I can always unmerge them later).
It didn't take too terribly long on my last machine. I don't remember the exact time frame, but it was under an hour with dependencies and all.
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I won't try the former either because it's a they are festering piles of shit
Fixed lol
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I wouldn't go so far as to call Firefox a festering piece of shit. I mean, really, aside from it falling horribly far behind in the browser race it's still a damn good browser. It takes far, far less memory than Chrome, for one, Opera's rendering engine simply isn't up to par with anything else simply because it can't handle anything but the standards (which, in today's web, is not acceptable), Internet Explorer 8 and below tend to be sluggish, and Safari is horrendously slow and unstable as of its most recent version. It's a good middle ground, plus it has very rich extensions support, something that no other browser offers. Yeah, they offer extension support, but Mozilla's extension support is so rich that you can literally implement anything in it (dangerous in the wrong hands, but potentially extremely powerful). I have a lot of respect for the Mozilla team in general because of their tremendous accomplishments in the browser market (they got half of the web population to switch from Internet Explorer with a terrific marketing campaign, including people who barely know how to use a mouse...that's damn good) and really wish that they'd catch the hell up.
OpenOffice, on the other hand, has earned my ire on numerous counts because, literally, the entire product is broken. Its interface resembles the clunky Office 97 interface, its Office "compatibility" is anything, and its cross-platform support is worse than Microsoft Office (seriously, I'd rather do the extra work to get Office working in WINE than to use that clunky free POS).
And it's not that I'm looking for faults, either. Personally, I find KOffice to be a very easy-to-use and capable office package. It doesn't try to gain popularity by making overly bold claims and, best of all, it doesn't try to emulate the interface for an obsolete piece of software. It's probably one of the finer pieces of KDE software out there.
...too bad my X environment of choice uses GTK as its toolkit. I don't want to pull in kdelibs if I don't have to. *sigh*
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My point exactly.
Opera's quirks mode is quite bad compared to other browsers. Like I said, it handles standards quite well but tends to bug out if pages aren't standards compliant, to the point of the rendering engine making illogical decisions. I've tried using Opera numerous times but wound up switching back to something else because of that.
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What point? You said it can't handle anything but the standards, and I said I've only ever seen one rendering error with it, period. That's less than I've seen with everything besides Internet Exploiter, which seems to actively encourage bad HTML and will render just about anything properly.
edit: the rendering error in question is the drop down menu beside the search bar on DMZX, if you're curious. It's supposed to be inline-block but gets pushed down to the next line for some reason.
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My point was that Opera's ability to handle diversions to the standard is simply not as good as any other browser, and you gave me a very specific example of one of a somewhat broken system that has a quirk that causes Opera to fail to render properly. One nice thing that Opera has going for it, and the main reason why it's so successful for many sites, is their browser.js (http://my.opera.com/core/blog/show.dml/3130540) implementation. Basically, it patches known bad web pages on-the-fly. However, this does nothing for web pages that fly under their radar, and that is where the problem lies.
And drop the defensiveness. Seriously. I'm not bad-mouthing Opera. I'm merely stating what I've observed as a (reluctant) semi-professional web designer. Opera sticking to the standards is great if you're doing development because it keeps you on the straight and narrow, but it was never known for its forgiveness and, thus, isn't as good of a browser for pages that might break the rules. Sure, the aforementioned pages should have followed the standards, but there's nothing that a general user can do about that other than try to adapt.
Since you decided to brought up Internet Explorer, IE8 is far less forgiving than the previous versions were. For it to tolerate the quirky HTML that IE6/7 supported it must be set to compatibility mode. If it's in IE8 rendering mode, half of the flawed HTML that worked with IE6/7 simply won't display. Let's just say, when IE8 first came out, even IE-specific sites would not work with it.
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OMG OMG OMG OMG SPECTERE ITS UP AND RUNNING!
FYI: I was the one who bought the stuff from Spectere guys.
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When someone passes me on the freeway without a turn signal, I briefly make eye contact and mime a turn signal, and they signal when they switch lanes again. Makes me feel a little better about drivers at large.
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high (lol) possibility of a hippie flip at an upcoming event. yay!
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ffxvi beta problem solved, i can start playing the game now.
solution was simple.
download new drivers.
get driver sweeper, have it nuke your current drivers.
reboot
install new drivers
reboot
boot up ffxvi beta
IT GODDAMN WORKS
ill save the screenshot for when i get playing more tomorrow in the whatchaplayin thread.
seriously though, i jumped through a lot of hoops to get this faggot working.
backing up all of my important shit (with just usb2.0, this takes too long, wtb external sata hdd)
upgrading to service pack 2 just to have the installer install
downloading the 7 700 mb patch files from external sources because the standard p2p downloader doesn't fucking work
using an external torrent program each time a new patch is released, and placing those files in the proper folders
spending 3 days finding a solution to this graphic glitch problem listed in the anger thread solved in the text above
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My iPod Touch shipped.
/me does a happy dance.
Now I can still be an app addict after I leave my current job (and my iPhone 3G). Not to mention that I can ensure that the auxiliary input for my car sees plenty of use.
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What do you plan on having as a telephone communication device once that happens?
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Two tin cans and some string.
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What do you plan on having as a telephone communication device once that happens?
I actually have two smartphones right now, one being my work one and the other being my trusty HTC Dream/T-Mobile G1 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-Mobile_G1).
And, if that fails...
Two tin cans and some string.
This.
Edit: Yay, my iPod touch made it into the States! Granted, it's in Alaska -- which might as well be a Canadian province -- but at least it's not in China now.
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Granted, it's in Alaska -- which might as well be a Canadian province -- but at least it's not in China now.
Hey, you guys were the ones who bought it from russia. All things considered alaska is a barren wasteland, even by canadian standards.
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Hey, you guys were the ones who bought it from russia. All things considered alaska is a barren wasteland, even by canadian standards.
I wasn't around at the time so it's not my fault. ;P
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(http://imgur.com/uMZVO.jpg)
Holy fucking shit, the IE team has been pulling some overtime. IE9 is officially far more interesting and progressive than both Firefox 3 and 4 combined.
Only thing I wish they'd do is move the address bar up and the tabs down, or vice versa. Or at least give us a means to do that.
But major credit is due; between the sheer speed of that motherfucker (started up Chrome-fast, no joke), the silky smooth scrolling that it manages thanks to its new hardware acceleration, and its amazing progress that the IE team made in terms of standards compliance, I think Trident just about has enough fuel to dethrone Mozilla in the Windows world in terms of rendering engine quality and performance. IE8 was a good step forward; IE9 is just a miracle.
Now I need to give it a whirl on a sub-standard platform. Say, my laptop. ;)
Edit: FYI, here's the error listing that I get in IE9:
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Message from webpage
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Failed 5 tests.
Test 26 passed, but took 577ms (less than 30fps)
Test 69 passed, but took 2 attempts (less than perfect).
Test 75 failed: Object doesn't support this property or method
Test 76 failed: expected '0' but got '100' - Incorrect animVal value after svg animation.
Test 77 failed: Not implemented
Test 78 failed: expected '90' but got '1.9237771034240722' - getRotationOfChar(0) failed.
Test 79 failed: Not implemented
Total elapsed time: 2.47s
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OK
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The only time that the test really stalls for a perceivable length of time on my system is test 26, and the length of the stall varies. Total elapsed time is anywhere from around 1.4s to 2.5s. It's not quite as smooth as Chrome (which gets a perfect score on my system in both performance and, of course, rendering) but performs about as smoothly as Firefox 3.6.9 stable.
The only rendering error is that the shadow under the "Acid3" text is not displayed and, of course, the blue mark isn't completely blue due to the failed tests.
Edit: Here's a SunSpider benchmark: http://www.favbrowser.com/ie9-platform-preview-4-beats-safari-5-acid3-95100/ (http://www.favbrowser.com/ie9-platform-preview-4-beats-safari-5-acid3-95100/). IE9 platform preview 4 (which is what the beta is based on) kills Firefox 3 and 4 in JavaScript performance, edges out Safari, and closes in on Chrome.
The browser wars just got a little bit more exciting, I think.
Of course, real world use is far different than synthetic benchmarks. So far, with my limited interaction with IE9, it definitely feels far less clunky than IE8. I'm definitely going to have to test it on lower-end hardware to get a good idea of how well it's going to run.
Edit: Just loaded IE9 on my laptop and tried out a few demos. My laptop's GPU doesn't support IE9's GPU acceleration, so we're stuck with software rendering here.
Overall performance feels closer to Firefox than IE8. Firefox was fairly smooth with a bit of choppiness on certain sites with this system and IE8 just stuttered every few lines. Definitely a marked improvement over IE8. Both browsers still fall short of Chrome, which somehow manages to allow this system to scroll quickly and smoothly despite my dumb ass turning Aero on with only a RADEON X300.
I went over a few demos from Microsoft's IE test site to compare the speed of Chrome, IE, and Firefox.
In the pinball demo available on Microsoft's site, Chrome ran consistently fast, even with tons of balls on the screen. IE9 ran at a consistently slow speed, pulling maybe 10-15fps and staying roughly around there...hard to say whether it's the JavaScript engine or the rendering engine at fault there, though I'm guessing that it's the former struggling with the physics engine. Firefox 3.6 was definitely faster than IE9, but it behaved far worse from a user perspective, going back and forth between sluggish to zippy as the rendering engine failed to keep up with the JavaScript engine. If I had to guess (there's no framerate counter on the site) Firefox was going back and forth between 15fps and 45fps rapidly, which made me want to shoot myself. Firefox 4 was slower than Firefox 3.6 (!!) but held a steady framerate. It was slightly faster than IE, but it certainly wasn't a speed demon.
Another demo, the "speed read" one, showed a very different set of results. IE9 was able to maintain 2-3 fps by drawing one frame every ~400ms. Chrome stayed at a whopping 0fps because each frame too 1150ms to draw. Firefox 3.6 wound up in the middle at 750ms a frame, but I disqualified it because it didn't actually draw anything, so that doesn't really count. Firefox 4 not only actually rendered the animations (WOW) but its speed matched IE9 on my system.
Next demo I tried was the "flying images" demo, using the "all browser" setting with 36 images and the mouse cursor kept to the far left side at the vertical center of the page. IE9 stayed within a range of 8-11fps, averaging 10fps. Chrome pulled off 13-14fps, averaging 14fps. Firefox 3.6 managed 5-7fps, averaging at 6fps. Firefox 4 rendered a tad slower than 3.6, managing 4-6fps and averaging 5fps.
Next up is the EMCAScript5 Breakout demo. There was no framerate counter on it so I'm pretty much going based on my observations. IE maintained a fairly consistant framerate, with smooth movement from all three balls. Chrome started out extremely choppy, smoothing out as more blocks disappeared, then exceeded IE9's performance at the very end of the test. Firefox 3.6 does not have EMCAScript5 support (which is understandable, seeing as it was released a month after it was published). Firefox 4 performed identically to IE, smoothly animating the balls and maintaining a steady framerate.
And my final test for the night is the IE Beatz test. It's basically an HTML5-powered drum sequencer with some basic fullscreen graphical effects. IE managed a "score" (the beats per second that the JavaScript tracker is able to maintain multiplied by the framerate that the render can maintain -- the higher the better, obviously) of 280-300, Chrome managed a score of 20-30, and neither version of Firefox could run it because it can't natively play MP3s (perfectly understandable due to the patent issues).
I'm sure that the Microsoft demos are probably more intended for IE9 than other browsers, but given how far performance drifts back and forth, particularly between IE and Chrome, it seems like they are probably fairly reasonable tests in general.
In conclusion, I think it's safe to say that, despite IE beating Chrome in a few instances, Chrome is quite a bit faster overall. Firefox 3.6 and 4.0 were an odd pair. Firefox 4.0 was very close to IE9 in terms of speed and performance, though 3.6 did edge its younger brother out in a few tests.
It's also very telling that Chrome 6 -- a stable release -- overall managed to outperform both of those cutting edge, beta browsers. It's even more telling that the Internet Explorer team was not only able to catch up with, but in some cases even beat the Mozilla team in just a year and a half (IE8 was certainly no threat for Firefox 3.0 when it was released; IE9 will most definitely be a threat to Firefox 4.0). I hope for Microsoft's sake that they keep the IE team going in full swing (I remember hearing that the reason IE suffered so badly through versions 6 and 7 was because the IE team was essentially turned into a skeleton crew) and continue to crank out quality releases. If they manage that, IE10 could very very well give Chrome a run for its money. If development continues at its current feverish pace, by the time IE9 is released it could very well end up being one of the best browsers in the Windows world.
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Which chrome release were you using, out of curiosity? I wonder if there've been any changes between that one and the dev release. (aside from the obvious design ones, and such).
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I was using the latest stable release of Chrome 6. I'm not at home so I can't get the exact version string.
Edit: WAHOO!
(http://imgur.com/8AajQ.jpg)
Apologies for the annoying lack of focus; my iPhone 3G has a fixed lens. And yeah, I took a picture of an iPod touch with an iPhone. Too many i's.
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You've given apple quite a bit of your money, lol.
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Only $2400 total, haha. PowerMac G4 in 2002 for $2000 and now an iPod touch. :) The phone isn't technically mine; it's my work phone*.
About damn time, too. I've been wanting an iPod since they actually started offering a decent amount of storage. XD
*Yes, a work iPhone. It works with Exchange like a dream, surprisingly. Way better than the Blackberry I used at my last job, too.
Edit: Wow, the Retina display is beautiful. 960x640 on a 3.5" screen? Smooooooooth! Looks like I do have a dead pixel, though. Oh well.
I can still make out individual pixels (apparently my vision hasn't been completely destroyed by a couple of decades of computer use), but it's still the sharpest display I've ever seen. Apparently an Android phone will also be getting that LCD panel soon, so the, uh, Retina is spreading?
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That I'm finally understanding electrical theory. I am so happy I took on that EE major. :3c
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That I'm finally understanding electrical theory. I am so happy I took on that EE major. :3c
Which part? (I say that because there's so damn much to electrical theory... And I'm in Electrical Engineering myself :P)
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How you get watts from volts and amps, Kirchhoff's laws, how resistors work (fucking Ohm's Law how does it work), voltage division, current division, etc.
I've had a very basic working knowledge of electricity before, but the theory gives all of it an overarching sense of logic. I'm four weeks into this class and already quite happy with it, so we'll see where we get to by the end of the semester.
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Looks like I do have a dead pixel, though. Oh well.
Nope, it just looks a little odd when that part of the screen is black. Looks fine with every other color.
How you get watts from volts and amps, Kirchhoff's laws, how resistors work (fucking Ohm's Law how does it work), voltage division, current division, etc.
How about the seemingly misunderstood notion that milliamps kill, not volts? :p
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How you get watts from volts and amps, Kirchhoff's laws, how resistors work (fucking Ohm's Law how does it work), voltage division, current division, etc.
I've had a very basic working knowledge of electricity before, but the theory gives all of it an overarching sense of logic. I'm four weeks into this class and already quite happy with it, so we'll see where we get to by the end of the semester.
Ahh, ok. Yeah, there's tons of stuff out there. All the stuff dealing with capacitance, the laws dealing with magnetism, etc.
How about the seemingly misunderstood notion that milliamps kill, not volts? :p
Well, both are important. Ultimately, it IS the current that kills, but because of Ohm's Law, the voltage is part of the equation. You can't have amps without enough volts. Skin can have a resistance anywhere between 100 kohms to as little as 500 ohms (when high voltage breaks the skin down), so it's not too hard to end up drawing dangerous currents. But lower voltage tends to stay on the skin (due, in part, to the "skin effect", among other things), which means that you could very easily end up drawing what would be a lethal current over your skin harmlessly. Of course, if you have a cut or something, that can change matters. Open wounds allow the current to travel through your circulatory system, meaning that you are REALLY at risk.
The other aspect of electrical shock is that you can be burned by high voltages. Basically, the higher the voltage, the deeper the burns will be.
This is part of the reason I don't want to work on hydro stuff... I'd like to keep as far away from lines that have voltages measured in the kV range, especially ones in the hundreds of kVs. I'd much rather deal with what you see in industrial settings: 600 volts usually the highest you'll see, unless your dealing with stuff like mining equipment, and such.
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That reminds me of something I saw about a guy who's face melted off from an electrical burn and survived. Apparently it's so intense that it actually dissolves the bone and tissue?
Anyway on a happy note, I am feeling more secure about my finances since I got my job back :D
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Yes, I'm well aware of that.
I'm just saying that laymen tend to overreact when they hear about anything -- low-current or not -- throwing out multiple kVs. If you could die simply from getting zapped with a 50kV source every single person that gets tased would die.
I've gotten shocked by a high-voltage, low-current source (roughly 1-2kV before my hand helped it discharge). It surprises the hell out of you, but as long as it's a low-current source and it doesn't bridge your heart there's really nothing to worry about.
Anyway on a happy note, I am feeling more secure about my finances since I got my job back :D
Woo, grats! ;D
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That reminds me of something I saw about a guy who's face melted off from an electrical burn and survived. Apparently it's so intense that it actually dissolves the bone and tissue?
Well, more or less, yeah, depending on the voltage, current, and whether or not your in the middle of an arc flash.
In case you don't know what an arc flash is, it's essentially an explosion. Only thing is, they are an explosion of superheated copper (or whatever else is currently conducting the rather large current) plasma. They are the REALLY dangerous things, and they can be VERY hard to avoid, since sometimes it can be nearly impossible to check if something is under fault conditions.
That is a particularly good example of an arc flash.
Yes, I'm well aware of that.
I'm just saying that laymen tend to overreact when they hear about anything -- low-current or not -- throwing out multiple kVs. If you could die simply from getting zapped with a 50kV source every single person that gets tased would die.
I've gotten shocked by a high-voltage, low-current source (roughly 1-2kV before my hand helped it discharge). It surprises the hell out of you, but as long as it's a low-current source and it doesn't bridge your heart there's really nothing to worry about.
Well yes, the internal resistance of the current source is one of the things that factors into things (which is generally what limits the current, unless the circuit was designed with a current limiter). I've been shocked by a 100kv hand held tesla coil before. It was interesting. I've also been shocked with 120v house power (twice :/). A lot less fun. Pretty damned scary, actually. Now, low voltage current limited sources are interesting. I've likely had 5 or 10 volts running through me a number of times, and I likely never even noticed.
The problem I have with high voltage stuff isn't so much the voltage involved (though it makes it a hell of a lot easier to get zapped) but the fact that 44kv power lines for instance, may be designed to conduct 100 amps, or more. By the time any sort of relaying trips, you can say goodbye to whatever part of you just got hit.
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Wow shit. That guy caught in the explosion looked like he just vaporized o_o
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If you follow the discussion at the bottom, you'll see people saying that from what they can gather, he's still alive, so that's good. But yeah. What happened is that he was putting a circuit breaker for some high voltage lines in. Those have 3 big posts at the top that fir into a thing inside the cabinet. If there's a fault on the hot side of the circuit, and you rack a breaker in, if the 3 posts don't all begin conducting at the same time, there's the possibility of what happened there happening.
And there's no way to detect if the hot side is under fault conditions.
There are remote breaker racking devices, but they are REALLY expensive, and still quite new, so most places, people still have to do that by hand.
And that's one more reason I don't want to work for hydro companies.
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Daft Punk is touring next year.
just sayin
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This:
http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2010/08/arcattack-and-the-worlds-first-lightning-proof-midi-guitar/
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101005/12252211299/court-denies-injunction-against-ea-over-tim-langdell-s-edge-trademark-slams-langdell.shtml (http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101005/12252211299/court-denies-injunction-against-ea-over-tim-langdell-s-edge-trademark-slams-langdell.shtml) HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
EAT IT, LANGDELL.
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Oh man, that is fucking amazing. I love how they actually used the term "trolling" lol. That is one of the best things I've read since some retard tried to sue google and ended up getting it thrown out, and counter-sued by google and forced to pay both his and their legal fees.
EDIT: Forgot to mention he was suing them for billions of dollars.
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After being a shutin forever, I'll probably have a lot going on this weekend. My friends girlfriend is coming down from school and I think there's going to be a party for the hell of it, and then my other friend is having a birthday at the beach, and drinking at the beach is good ol fashioned fun.
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Fuck yeah, Thanksgiving.
Agreed. Had an awesome dinner. My grandparents food is amazing.
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Fuck yeah, Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving Day in 2010 - November 25
ಠ_ಠ
</troll>
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Be easy, Canadians are a little slow.
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</troll>
NO.
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Be easy, Canadians are a little slow.
Then why is our Thanksgiving earlier than yours? I think it is the Americans who are slow :P
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Nah, we're just more patient, you impatient Canadian motherfuckers.
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Got a new monitor. Went from 1440x900 to 1920x1080. :D:D:D
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So, I'm gonna be in Barrie all week with my girlfriend at her place. Somehow I have a feeling there will be lots of sex.
Only downside is I don't have a vehicle (since I usually have one of my parent's vehicles, since my car is still not legal to drive).
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I'm getting a new 460 :v
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By this time tomorrow I will have my first electric guitar. At least one good thing came out of my birthday :D
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So far at work, I've entered two raffles.
In the first one, I won a tea set. A nice teapot, a teacup, and like ten different types of tea.
In the second one, I won a $25 gift card, good at any Market District store, Giant Eagle, or any of their related gas stations. Boner~
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minus the bear is coming to columbia
and i love weed
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and i love weed
I do too.
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I do too.
Seconded (Thirded?)
Though to be honest, I think I love shrooms a considerable amount more.... But that's a bit more expensive than weed, and not something you can really do as much as weed.
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My tf2 clan decided to make me an admin...fuck yeah!
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My tf2 clan decided to make me an admin...fuck yeah!
congratulations you have fallen deeper into the ladder of loserness hahahahahahaa
ps obvious troll is obvious
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My tf2 clan decided to make me an admin...fuck yeah!
It's cool for the first day or two, until you realize that all you wind up doing in the long run is listen to people whine about bots (because someone else might be more skilled than them) and trying to break up arguments.
I admined a few Action Quake 2 servers and ran two CS:S servers (the first when the game first came out, the second about a year and a half ago) and...ugh. It's fine when the server is nice and small, but there are only so many times that people can demand that you install X mod before you start to slowly lose your mind.
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It really depends on the type of server they run. Having admin powers basically makes any game better (not talking about banning/kicking people, but having server control and being able to change maps and being able to balance teams is a godsend).
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Yeah, being able to do shit yourself rather than either bitch at someone till they do it, or bitch because there's nobody on that can.
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Having admin powers basically makes any game better (not talking about banning/kicking people, but having server control and being able to change maps and being able to balance teams is a godsend).
As far as I'm concerned, they're only good if nobody knows that you have them.
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This song
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uh
my birthday is on wednesday so that's pretty cool i guess
free din din
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That avatar.
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This song
Agreed.
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This song
B& in the US. ffffffff
This song makes me happy:
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I got money from the government today, so I bought Starcraft 2. Fucking A.
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Got some free booze..fuck yeah!
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I got a little restless, so I went out and took a pretty decent drive (about 45 minutes, I think). The weather outside is gorgeous. Around 25-30F, light snow, some ground coverage. The temperature is very comfortable and the snowfall makes everything look that much nicer.
It's been a while since I've taken a night drive. It's amazing how pleasant and calming it can be.
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I can definitely agree. It's pretty nice here. Pretty much the same as you described it, an inch or 2 of snow on the ground, pretty much no snow falling, temp was something like -4c (24.8f). I've always enjoyed driving at night, I dunno why some people don't like it.
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Yeah, I think we're right around the same latitudinal line, and we both definitely get a bit of a lake effect. So, yeah, you know exactly what I mean. :P
When I went out there wasn't much accumulation. Probably a centimeter on my car and a light coating on the ground. I drove a few miles west (to Canfield, OH, to be specific) and the snow was coming down a bit more there, so we'll probably get an inch or two by tomorrow morning.
I just love being able to throw on a pullover hoodie, walking outside, and getting a lungful of cool (but not cold) air. So refreshing.
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Just got TurtleBeach X11's :) and carl on duty: black cops. sweet
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I just discovered blackberry preserves and Nutella sandwich
oh
mai
GAWD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyophYBP_w4 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyophYBP_w4)
I think I just came a little in my mouth
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:V That sounds delightful.
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Ordered a Razer DeathAdder (http://store.razerzone.com/store/razerusa/en_US/pd/productID.169416100/parentCategoryID.35208800/categoryId.40946100) yesterday :D
According to newegg it's begun shipping today, but they don't have any info on it's progress yet... I hope to hell it arrives Monday, but with my luck it'll be at LEAST Tuesday before it arrives. Either way, I'm damned happy about this, because my last mouse was some generic Targus travel sized mouse (which is over 2 years old now). I like the small size and light weight, but the cord is breaking, and the mouse is beginning to get jitters, or just fly off to random corners of the screen and such. It makes playing SC2 a LOT harder than it should be. Plus, with the DeathAdder, I'll be able to adjust my CPI to the right level without having to trade accuracy for speed (I like a fairly quick mouse ingame).
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Ergonomic Right-Handed Design
definitely not my sort of thing, but congrats anyhow :>
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They do have a leftie one for that as well.
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Ordered a Razer DeathAdder (http://store.razerzone.com/store/razerusa/en_US/pd/productID.169416100/parentCategoryID.35208800/categoryId.40946100) yesterday :D
You have been infected by the SC2 virus. What's next on the list, a SteelSeries 7G keyboard? :p But anyhoo, nice pick! Looks cool and, from what I've heard about Razer products in general, it'll be awesome.
I have my eyes on the SteelSeries WoW: Cataclysm mouse, personally. I've grown tired of Logitech's horribly unreliable mice as of late (the last good mouse I had from them was the MX510; my last G5 and current MX518 have the shittiest scroll wheels I've ever used), and I heard that the Cataclysm refresh of the WoW mouse is outstanding. Also, one cannot possibly have enough buttons for WoW. Never. Not to mention that having a PTT key for Vent right on the mouse would be very useful.
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I wanted a SteelSeries, actually. The Taiwanese SC2 player Sen uses all SteelSeries, and my dream setup would a SteelSeries Xai mouse with a 7G Keyboard... But that's kinda really expensive.
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Yep. :(
Aside from the Cataclysm mouse, I have my eyes on a SteelSeries 7G. I miss my old Model M and am still pissed that someone threw it away without bothering to ask me if I wanted it. Mechanical keyboards are amazing.
My G15 is the best rubber dome keyboard I've used to date, but it's still a rubber dome keyboard. The only thing I'd miss from my G15 are the LCD display (handy for telling me the time while I'm in a full screen game, but I have two cell phones and an iPod sitting next to me almost all the time anyway, sooo...) and the programmable keys (and losing those won't be an issue if I get the mouse).
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New mouse is here! Gonna take some getting used to, but fuck yeah.
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Just made a phone call using my computer for freeeeee.
Funny, I remember doing such a thing years and years ago and it worked sorta okay despite the ridiculous plastering of ads everywhere. Now you can do it through Google Talk and all you need is a Google Voice number. The voice quality is amazing, too. Better than Skype, better than cell phones, better than land lines. I remember that being an issue with the earlier "free" calling services.
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(http://imgur.com/0oR7x.jpg)
House key on left, garage key on right. Garage remote in my car. So it seems I have a house in Boardman now. :V
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Ballin'
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So it seems I have a house in Boardman now. :V
Look again. I stole it.
But serious, grats. :D Text me your address or something and I'll drive over there and egg it.
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Look again. I stole it.
But serious, grats. :D Text me your address or something and I'll drive over there and egg it.
You throw eggs, and you will start a war.
We WILL have means to retaliate. Just you see, young man.
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So, I seem to be getting ever so slightly better at Starcraft 2. I really want to get good at this game. I always decide on something like that and never follow through, never put the time and effort into actually trying to accomplish something, but maybe this will be different. I actually seem to be getting better, and it feels awesome.
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I had to do a bit of memory shuffling with the two laptops that I have now (I'm buying my friend's Inspiron E1705 and...well, more on that when I feel like doing a comparison between the two laptops, which were built about a year apart from one another) and ultimately wound up with 1GB in my Inspiron 9300 and 2GB in the E1705. Before I booted the 9300 (which is what I'm using now) I was worried that performance in Windows 7 would drop severely.
Man, it feels nice to be proven wrong. This thing runs as good as it did with 2GB. I don't really use this system for much other than web browsing, Office stuff, and playing music (i.e. normal people stuff) but still, I'm running it with the minimum memory requirements for the OS and it's still running great. I still have plenty of RAM available (which means that SuperFetch has it allocated, but it will release the memory without swapping if needed since it's nothing more than prefetch cache), too. I have about 333MB of RAM free with one tab open in Chrome and a Word 2007 document loaded (Chrome is using around 92MB and Word is using about 15MB).
Not sure if I'm even going to bother kicking this system back up to 2GB. As much as I love love love this laptop, it's still five years old, has a single core processor, and a weak graphics chipset. At least the E1705 is enough of a powerhouse to score 4.2 on the Windows Experience thingie, though it has its share of issues of varying severity (more on that when I feel like writing about it).
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For $20 I bought the FEAR games and the Complete DOOM pack...such win ^________^
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Good:
I got my full G today. Barely passed the test, but a pass is a pass.
Bad: I basically didn't sleep for more than about an hour last night because I'm sick :/
Is this overall Good y/n?
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In contrast to my earlier gaming frustrations (http://www.spectere.net/forums/index.php?topic=121.msg36681#msg36681), I found a real gem in Chime (http://www.chimegame.com/). Fun, addictive, relaxing. A perfect way to cool down after playing two horrendous games.
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I'm moving tomorrow :D
(same city, different apartments. no more dealing with heat that doesn't work, no hot water, drug dealers and loud fucks (both kinds), roaches, bitches who lose my rent checks, ignored maintenance requests, etc etc etc)
s'good. And the place is within 5 minute walking distance to my work.
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Lotion makes mastur :o
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I got a call from my friend in jail and evidently he's doing rather well. He's still waiting to be sentenced because he has a lot of charges against him, but he's in a nice part of a nice prison evidently and he sounded like he was doing generally better (working out, obviously stopped doing drugs).
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I think we're the only model parliament in North America that actually gets to sit in the actual legislative buildings
You know Canada is the only country in North America with a parliament...right?
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I got a call from my friend in jail and evidently he's doing rather well. He's still waiting to be sentenced because he has a lot of charges against him, but he's in a nice part of a nice prison evidently and he sounded like he was doing generally better (working out, obviously stopped doing drugs).
Jail can help people out. I dunno what your friend's relationship with drugs was, but by the way you talk about it, it sounds like he may have had a problem, so it's good to hear that he's doing well.
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He was goofy, probably had an actual chemical addiction. He did it in front of me one time and kept talking about how he wanted to quit and how he didn't want to hang out with this other person, then while with said person he got all mad at me for "having a problem with it" (I never really did, he's just fucking dumb).
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I have a Windows Phone now (in face, I'm posting with it right now). It's insanely nice so far. Unlike my experience with Android, I have more complaints about the handset (an HTC HD7 in my case) than the underlying OS. It has the first onscreen keyboard that I've used that even compares to the one in iOS, and it is better in a couple of ways and worse in others (namely, the autocomplete doesn't do as much handholding, which is both good and bad). The interface itself is very different from any other smartphone I've used, but it doesn't feel different for the sake of being different -- it's actually very functional.
In some ways it takes the best of both worlds. Instead of widgets, ala Android, or traditional icons, it uses Live Tiles, which allow you to start an app and also get at-a-glance information. For instance, a weather app might display the current temperature and conditions on its tile.
It also has very nice integration with Xbox Live, allowing you to chat with friends and even earn achievements by playing mobile Xbox Live games on the phone.
Probably the weakest point that I've seen so far is the web browser, as it's a hybrid of the IE7 and IE8 browser engines. On the plus side, it feels snappy, keeping up well with Safari on my iTouch.
I his platform will get to be very nice as it matures. For a new phone OS, I've been very impressed thus far.
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I was just messing with you.
I can't wait until March.
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I'm now a registered Windows Phone and Xbox 360 indie game developer (I was aiming for the latter, but both things come in one juicy package). As a result, I wrote a Windows Phone 7 program to read and graphically display the accelerometer values of the device. Simple stuff, but it's satisfying as hell to see it running on my handset.
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I'm now a registered Windows Phone and Xbox 360 indie game developer (I was aiming for the latter, but both things come in one juicy package). As a result, I wrote a Windows Phone 7 program to read and graphically display the accelerometer values of the device. Simple stuff, but it's satisfying as hell to see it running on my handset.
Oh cool, what kind of hoops did you have to jump through for that?
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Not many. I actually spent more time getting the little pixel-thin bars to display than it took me to actually read the accelerometer. The main reason for that being that I'm not used to working with Silverlight and the mobile subset of it doesn't give a lot of friendly ways to directly modify bitmaps, most likely for performance reasons.
Reading the accelerometer was just a matter of handling an event. That's it. You couldn't ask for anything easier.
With regards to Silverlight, I'm impressed at how intuitive it is to deal with. I've always used Windows Forms exclusively, but Silverlight's XAML approach is fairly straight-forward and flexible; it didn't take me a whole lot of time to get the basics down. Changing the way that the application behaves (i.e. page transitions, etc) is just a matter of defining something once and changing properties. It gives the feeling of being designed for fixed window sizes and being able to display rich animations and transitions. The way that it handles resources makes it suitable for single-file deployment. Given its original design as a web technology, none of that is surprising. It's basically like a non-shitty version of Flash that focuses more on applications and happens to work well on a mobile device (unlike, y'know, Flash, which is absolute shit on mobile devices and even more reasonably powerful set-top devices [hello, Wii!]).
If Moonlight weren't so damn far behind the curve (Moonlight is about as much of a joke to me as the HURD), Silverlight would probably be a lot more prevalent.
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Well, my friends father died, and he and his family have both had a whole lot of support from their community and friends. I saw him tonight and he and his brother seemed to be doing quite well, and he seemed to have a lot of friends helping him through all this bullshit, which I'm really glad for.
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If Moonlight weren't so damn far behind the curve (Moonlight is about as much of a joke to me as the HURD), Silverlight would probably be a lot more prevalent.
What is moonlight anyway? (I do know of the HURD, lol)
WPF also uses XAML for defining windows, and I actually quite liked using it. It was nice to see a section of code that represented the window without any random bloated stuff around it. Everything was easy to change, and it makes designing things really quick if you know what you need to do with it.
WPF has quite a few nice build in features, actually.
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Well, my friends father died, and he and his family have both had a whole lot of support from their community and friends. I saw him tonight and he and his brother seemed to be doing quite well, and he seemed to have a lot of friends helping him through all this bullshit, which I'm really glad for.
That sucks. :( At least he has a lot of support, though. Losing a family member is never easy.
What is moonlight anyway? (I do know of the HURD, lol)
It's the Mono Project's implementation of Silverlight.
While the rest of Mono is compatible with most of .NET 4.0, Moonlight is only compatible with Silverlight 2.0. They were scheduled to have had an alpha for Moonlight 4.0 in November of last year, but that never happened.
WPF also uses XAML for defining windows, and I actually quite liked using it. It was nice to see a section of code that represented the window without any random bloated stuff around it. Everything was easy to change, and it makes designing things really quick if you know what you need to do with it.
WPF has quite a few nice build in features, actually.
Not surprisingly, Silverlight is a subset of WPF. WPF is more intended for rich desktop apps (a competitor to Adobe AIR) while Silverlight is intended for web and now mobile apps.
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Ahh, that makes sense. I didn't realize that WPF and Silverlight were so closely related.
I was just wondering to myself about whether managed applications will ever be built into windows or not, and why microsoft would chose to keep it separate. You'd think that having things integrated into windows would benefit things quite a bit (aside from the security concerns that would cause, since integrating anything heavily into an OS requires a heavy rethinking of the security)
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.NET has been essentially integrated into Windows since Vista. I think Vista introduced .NET 3.0 and 7 introduced .NET 3.5, both of which feature WPF. You can choose to uninstall the .NET Framework, since Windows is pushing toward modularity, but there's not much of a point in doing so.
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Speaking of Silverlight, can anyone explain why I can't get GFWL to do anything without crashing? I've tried several times to install Age of Empires 3, but I get nothing but crashes and errors.
That and the Witcher seems crash happy.
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The Witcher has pretty much always been crash-happy. I don't know about GFWL, but I know that a lot of people haven't had a whole lot of luck with it.
I haven't used GFWL for anything, personally (I already have a love-hate relationship with Steam, no sense jumping to another, less proven service), so I'm probably not the best person to ask.
Does it only do it for AoE3 or does it do it for everything? If it's an issue that's specific to AoE3, try looking for some sort of repair function. Steam buggered up a couple of downloads for me (hi, Mass Effect) and that did the trick. If that fails, try to delete the downloaded file and redownload it.
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both AoE3 and Viva Pinata crash while downloading.
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That could be an issue with GFWL itself, then. I don't know about Viva Pi
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My motherfucking Arduino arrived!
Fuck yes.
Also, I'm gonna make a thread on what I'm doing with it.
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So I didn't really mention anything on here, but I recently moved out of my cold shitty college house to a nice new suburban house, it has a dishwasher too which is sweet.
Edit: also I did have some money issues but thanks to a nice financial advisor I'll be receiving some bursary money, so far a most excellent day.
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Got my new monitor today...holy shit is it nice.
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What resolution?
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Hay guiz, check out my new computer:
(http://files.spectere.net/pictures/c128/NewComputer-sm.jpg) (http://files.spectere.net/pictures/c128/NewComputer.jpg)
Apologies for the poor picture quality. The one without flash looked bad due to blur (because the HD7 has the hardest-to-press camera button in the world), my work iPhone 3G made it look like a blurry mess, and my iPod just mutilated it.
But anyhoo, it's kind of a shame that the C128 has the "fixed" SID chip, but this acquisition should still prove to be pretty awesome. Now to get an RCA splitter and a 3.5mm jack adapter so that I can pump some SID through the beefier speakers I have on my desk. Using the built-in speaker on the monitor is far too simple for my tastes.
Edit: I went through the disks that I received with the computer and found a Quantum-Link disk. That is now, officially, the oldest version of AOL that I've ever had in my possession.
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Does this disc double as a coaster?
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What resolution?
1920x1080
Hay guiz, check out my new computer:
(http://files.spectere.net/pictures/c128/NewComputer-sm.jpg) (http://files.spectere.net/pictures/c128/NewComputer.jpg)
Apologies for the poor picture quality. The one without flash looked bad due to blur (because the HD7 has the hardest-to-press camera button in the world), my work iPhone 3G made it look like a blurry mess, and my iPod just mutilated it.
But anyhoo, it's kind of a shame that the C128 has the "fixed" SID chip, but this acquisition should still prove to be pretty awesome. Now to get an RCA splitter and a 3.5mm jack adapter so that I can pump some SID through the beefier speakers I have on my desk. Using the built-in speaker on the monitor is far too simple for my tastes.
Edit: I went through the disks that I received with the computer and found a Quantum-Link disk. That is now, officially, the oldest version of AOL that I've ever had in my possession.
Lawl tat computer is teh shitz!1
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Fucking BADASS. You need to code up some DEMOs now XD
Also, "Fixed" SID?
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Fucking BADASS. You need to code up some DEMOs now XD
Hmm...C64 mode or C128 mode?
Or, hell, CP/M mode. The C128 has a 2 MHz Z80 and shipped with CP/M disks (which I have). :p
Also, "Fixed" SID?
There were two SID chips, the 6581 and the 8580. The former is the one that shipped in all C64s and early C128s. The C128D -- the reduced cost desktop unit (the one pictured) -- has the latter.
The 6581 didn't follow the specifications properly and, thus, the chip had a few bugs, particularly in the filter. The 8580 chip follows the specs and supports all of the features correctly. However, as a result of that, not all SID tunes play properly on the 8580. In general, songs tend to sound muted on the 8580 due to the differences in the filter.
There are some songs that were written for the 8580, but given the dominance of the C64 and the 6581 chip, they are a minority.
In summary, the 6581 is the most popular SID with most songs written for it, but it didn't follow the specification properly. The 8580 follows the spec to the letter, but is less popular and doesn't match the output of its predecessor.
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Ahh, yeah, once you mentioned the issues with the filters, I remembered reading about many C64 songs taking advantage of that.
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Indeed.
I did a little bit of checking and it seems like I have the 128DCR, and as far as I can gather it only came with the 8580. I should take the cover off to find out for sure. It's a desktop model, so that task should prove to be easy.
I also love how the drive in the C64/128 is single-sided. I've only used Datasettes in the past (I didn't have a floppy drive for my VIC-20), and my experiences with 5.25" floppies have been on the PC, which always had a dual-sided floppy drive. I had about thirty seconds of confusion before I noticed that some of the disks had notches on both sides (which is a mark of a high density 1.2MB floppy in the PC world), so I flipped it over for the hell of it and HEY! Success.
Gotta love it.
Edit: To clarify, the disk drive (1571) in the C128DCR is double-sided, but that feature cannot be used in C64 mode (and almost all of my software -- and double-sided floppies -- are for the C64). It pretty much dumbs itself down to emulate a 1541.
Speaking of that, you can't truly appreciate the glacial performance of a 1541 via emulation. Seriously.
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Got 2 12" Kenwood subs in a sealed box, Kenwood Mono Amp, Wiring Kit with inline fuse, and power capacitor for about 400 bucks.
Installed it myself in practically one day. The first day was me just researching how to do it, since the only knowledge I had previously was putting in my own front and rear 4-way pioneer speakers. Also first day was spent installing the subs into the box, since they came separately.
Now I am bumping. hell yea
also now have a full time job with weekends off, 630am-330pm. awesome. and they have a game room with ping pong included ;)
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What's the wattage on that amp?
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1000 good sir.. both subs are Single Voice Coil, so i have short speaker wire connecting the +/- of one to the other, then longer ones from that to the amp and it works wonderfully and sounds fantastical
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Nice. 1kw is definitely worth having, though of course 2kw is always better :P
A friend of mine had an alpine 12 inch 2kw sub in the back seat of his car.... It was loud enough to break the rear windshield, lol. God I loved sitting next to that beast (It was in a box for a home theatre, rather than in the car). The car went from seating 5 people to seating 3 with that beast in it, lol.
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Ian is sitting on my couch, playing video games.
\o/
Life is so, so good.
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8#====D
\o/
Indeed.
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I love Solid State Drives. They're so quiet. So fast. So wonderful.
God damn guys. I just had to say it.
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I've been looking into getting one for my desktop system as an operating system drive. Fast = awesome.
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Now in the last full week at my current job. Soon after this coming weekend, I'll be moving up to Boardman. :V Have a job offer in New Castle, PA, but I'm still not certain if I wanna go for it. I'll need to talk with them about a few things before I go and transfer out completely. Until then, I'll be back in Pittsburgh each weekend for work.
So yeah. Whoo.
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ITT: Bobbias realizes he doesn't know where any of that is on a map :<
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Boardman - Ohio. New Castle - Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh - also Pennsylvania.
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I can't even picture where Pennsylvania is on a map, lmao. I know my Canadian geography, but there are a whole crapload of states that I literally can't place on a map. I mean, there are certainly some states I know, but there are also a bunch I dont know :/
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I can't even picture where Pennsylvania is on a map, lmao.
Directly south/southeast of New York. Ohio is to the west of it.
Pennsylvania is probably due south of where you live.
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Just checked a map, and it looks like I'm actually north of right where Ohio and Pennsylvania meet.
Seeing that just reminds me that I'm really not THAT for away from you guys. It's too bad I have no money for a road trip (and no time for it, since my classes keep going during the summer too :S)
Plus, considering I've been using my mom's car to drive around for the past 3 years because mine is still not ready, my parents would not like the idea of me driving off to somewhere in the states with one of their cars, lol.
But yeah, I'd love to find some way to head over and hang out with some of you guys.
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Get a mobile igloo?
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Seeing that just reminds me that I'm really not THAT for away from you guys. It's too bad I have no money for a road trip (and no time for it, since my classes keep going during the summer too :S)
It will probably work out to be about 6-7 hours, give or take. Keep in mind that you'd have to wind up going southeast, to Buffalo, NY, then head southeast on I-90, then hop on OH-11 for a while. You basically have to go around both Lake Ontario and Lake Erie.
And hey, if you're ever in the situation where you're able to make a road trip, let me know. Not entirely sure if I'd be able to provide accommodations, living with my parents and all, but I could take a few days off or something if I have advance notice.
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Yeah, if I ever get enough money for that to be a viable option I'll definitely give you guys a shout. It probably won't happen in the next year or 2 but at some point I definitely want to do that. Maybe by then I'll be out f my parents place and living closer to work, wherever that may be.
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Nutter Butter cookies, flamin hot cheetos, and bud light. Fuck yeah.
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Happy: Birthday + good (http://www.innisandgunn.com/thebeer_newproducts.htm) beer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aventinus_(beer)) (and a bottle of Lancaster Bomber (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thwaites_Brewery) before I came home) + time with the GF + New CD + relaxing bath = Awesome day.
(also, the beer cost under $10)
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Happy birthday, Boobies! This is for you: (http://www.spectere.net/forums/Themes/default/images/cake.png)
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Thanks! Vinshuka also made me a cake :P
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Welp, I'm not completely unpacked yet (pretty much everything but my clothes; and there's still other things at my parent's house that wouldn't fit in my car), but I'm officially living in Boardman, Ohio.
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Awesome, congrats!
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Went to a Cleveland Indians game today and they fucking won! I've been to about ten Cleveland games and whether it be baseball, football, or basketball I haven't seen them win. So, this was kind of a nice surprise for me. :)
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Go racially insensitive sports team!
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Go racially insensitive sports team!
Hey, go fuck yourself! I'm gonna go watch the Bethesda Honkeys ALL FUCKING DAY.
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Everyone knows the Honkeys are a TERRIBLE sports team.
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So I just bought a can of "Drank". I didn't know they sold that here in Canada. I'm gonna see if it seems to have any effect on me or not, but either way it seems to taste pretty decent.
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HE GOT THAT DRANK. THAT GRIP N SIP.
This fucking video, maybe this should go on the youtube page but this fills me with happy.
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Just got myself one of these (http://steelseries.com/us/products/games/world-of-warcraft-cataclysm/world-of-warcraft-cataclysm-mmo-gaming-mouse). Huge mouse is huge.
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Are we compensating for something?
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Yeah, we are.
I'm disappointed by the size of my ears.
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Woo, new hard drive. I now have a nice 640 GB 7200 RPM laptop drive in my laptop :P And no more gentoo without sound (until I get unlazy and try to unfuck the sound on there... I'd definitely like to have a gentoo install to fuck around with.
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Been running for the last two weeks and I feel much better and more energetic.
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I've been thinking of hitting the track in Struthers (can the general public still do that?) after work. WTB weight loss this summer.
I'm still pleased with my stamina, but I really, really want to shed some poundage.
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Yo Spec, I picked up a pedometer for the iPod Touch. Seeing as you want to hit the track, I would suggest picking it up. Its free, it records time, speed, calories, distance and # of steps (obviously). I just hit Play on my Playlist of Running/Awesome, then turn the pedometer on overtop. Works great, looks great, and like I said, free.
http://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/pedometer-for-free/id397936651?mt=8
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I've been thinking of hitting the track in Struthers (can the general public still do that?) after work. WTB weight loss this summer.
I'm still pleased with my stamina, but I really, really want to shed some poundage.
I don't even hit up the track Spec...the hills of Struthers give you one hell of a work out.
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Haha, this is true. It must be really nice living right off of Center St. Not only do you have that nice hill, but you also have Wetmore, the field where the elementary school used to be, and the trails (aka scenic route).
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Yep
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Went to Kennywood yesterday with my family and Jupi, Keys, and Vyhd. Lots of fun. Great day over all.
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http://www.techspot.com/news/44319-chevronwp7-labs-a-microsoft-approved-windows-phone-7-unlocking-service.html (http://www.techspot.com/news/44319-chevronwp7-labs-a-microsoft-approved-windows-phone-7-unlocking-service.html)
Microsoft-approved third-party homebrew, coming soon to Windows Phone. Wow.
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daaaaaayyymn
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Had a really fun time yesterday. Went to the beach for a few drinks and swimming, then went to a rather nice bar (stone paths and trees everywhere, all outdoors and right on the water) for dollar drinks and a pretty awesome band. When leaving we got to talk with the band and when we went to the next bar we saw some friends I hadn't seen in a while.
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I'm happy about something, but I can't say what I'm happy about.
Stupid NDAs!
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You've become the new spokespuppy for Cottonelle toilet paper?!
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Stupid AIDS!
?????
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You've become the new spokespuppy for Cottonelle toilet paper?!
Nah, that was last week.
?????
You know exactly what happened, bub. D:<
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Picked up a 23" monitor for $102.47 at Best Buy yesterday. On clearance (it's an LG Flatron W2340VG -- a discontinued model), last one in the store, and I had a $100 gift card. To make a short story long, I paid $2.47 for a 23" monitor. I then went to McDonald's and bought a caramel Frapp
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Just bought a Logitech wireless trackball. It's going to take some time to get used to, but I like it so far. I have a feeling I'm going to like it a lot more on my laptop and in instances where I have to jump between monitors a lot. I love my Cataclysm mouse, but it is kind of on the huge side.
Edit: I've been using it extensively for the last couple of days (not for games, obviously; I use my million button mouse for that) and it's been working out great. I think I would have preferred one with a finger-controlled ball, but those tended to be more expensive and didn't fit the shape of a hand particularly well, appearing to be designed more for mobility than comfort. The one that was a reasonable price -- another Logitech one, in this case -- had an odd button layout. However, the thing that killed the deal was the size of the wireless receiver. It was one of the large ones with a cord. The one that I wound up buying (the M570) has one of those nubby-looking receivers that Logitech has been using lately. The nice part about that is that I can stow it away in the battery compartment if I should want to bring it with my laptop. There's even a little slot for it there.
It's funny, but I think that this is the first trackball I've used on a home system in around twenty years. I used to have an AT keyboard with a 3 button serial trackball built-in many years ago. I doubt I still have that.
Edit 2: The weirdest part, so far, has been trying to train myself not to move my thumb when I left-click (or to take my thumb off the ball before I click). Thankfully, that's proven easier to do than expected.
And finally, unlike the last two Logitech pointing devices I've used (a G5 mouse and an MX518 -- the former having been shitcanned because it's a cheap, horribly designed piece of shit and the latter being used on my Mac), this one has a scroll wheel that doesn't suck. Seriously, this is the first Logitech mouse that I've had that has had a clicky, responsive wheel since my MX510. The G5 and MX518 would both double- and triple-scroll occasionally, making them useless for just about anything related to gaming, and the G5's scroll wheel eventually gave out altogether. The M570's scroll wheel is a bit firmer than the one on my Cataclysm mouse but is equally responsive. Thank you, Logitech, for both realizing that what you had sucked hard and working to correct it.
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You actually use a trackball for gaming? seems like one hell of an adjustment but I could easily see it being useful.
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Nono, I don't use it for gaming all that much. It's really not too bad in things like Minecraft (in peaceful, at least) and for my lowbies in WoW (anything that doesn't require using a ton of buttons for abilities, that is), but that's about it. Anything involving any precise aiming and shooting is way better with a normal mouse.
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I got a job interview already lined up. Woohoo!
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I got a job interview already lined up. Woohoo!
AWESUM JACK DANIELS SSSSSSSSSSSSAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!! With Bacon Strips Bacon strip.
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I got a job interview already lined up. Woohoo!
Grats hope it goes well and your job sucks less than your last one :P
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Got...another raise? :V
Went from $9 to $10 an hour in three raises over the course of about two months. Hot damn?
Also, vacation next week! Currently no plans to go anywhere, but it's nice to have a paid week off.
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Got...another raise? :V
Went from $9 to $10 an hour in three raises over the course of about two months. Hot damn?
Also, vacation next week! Currently no plans to go anywhere, but it's nice to have a paid week off.
Good stuff have fun :3
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JOB GET!
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Congrats nigga, for you
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JOB GET!
Care to mention details? Either way, grats man!
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It's a temporary position (that could easily turn into full-time). It's basically going to involve doing remote software installations and upgrade on client PCs. It won't involve me putting 100-200 miles on my old car every day or, for that matter, working 60-80 hours a week.
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Well that's good to hear. Hope everything works out well. I'm looking for a part time job right now. I'm done my 3 years of college, but I' missing 8 credits and 2 co-ops so I've been trying to get the credits I can and trying to get a part time job and trying to figure out what I can do for the co-ops. It's a really awkward position.
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Wound up getting promoted to permanent full-time before I even started, getting myself a substantial wage increase and benefits.
Fuckin' A.
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Dude, that's awesome. I'm stuck in limbo right now :/ I'm supposed to be graduated, but I need 8 credits, and 2 co-ops... And I have 2 years to get them.
Now, I can get 2 credits this semester, but I kinda need a part time job too, and I also have to find places that'll take me for a co-op, preferably somewhere that will take me for 8 months straight so I can get both co-ops finished one after the other... Of course, that's provided it doesn't interfere with taking my classes either :/
Bleh.
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Wound up getting promoted to permanent full-time before I even started, getting myself a substantial wage increase and benefits.
Fuckin' A.
Very very nice. Full of win my friend :D
Passed my block 4 test. 3 more to go then I am back to fucking Texas...I hate Texas.
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Wound up getting promoted to permanent full-time before I even started, getting myself a substantial wage increase and benefits.
Fuckin' A.
Dude, I'm buying you a congratulatory Hot Pocket for that!
...Wait. You know what? FUCK the Hot Pocket. You're getting a Chipotle burrito!
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Thanks, guys. ;D
...Wait. You know what? FUCK the Hot Pocket. You're getting a Chipotle burrito!
Like they say, the fastest way to a man's heart is through Chipotl
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Well, this is all my fault for either withdrawing from classes or failing them... Still sucks worse than I thought it would though.
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On the bright side, at least it shouldn't be hellaciously hot down there when you go.
How long do you have to stay in Texas?
Another 4 months...so a total of 6 months in Texas.
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I got the urge to start making stepcharts again, so I grabbed StepMania 5 and, for the first time in a long time, I've actually been impressed by a mainline StepMania version. Making SM-SSC the mainline branch was the best idea the SM team ever had. I've never played with SM-SSC (I've been away from SM for quite some time now) but now I wish I would have earlier. It would have probably been enough to make me interested in charting again.
I think I'm going to have some fun with the new scroll options. I've never been a fan of the concept of lifts (or rolls, to be honest), but I like how we can now, at long last, truly make PIU-style psyche-out charts (without resorting to bizarre glitches that should have never worked and other things -- like fakes -- that would have been impossible to properly do in 3.9/OITG), and make different scroll types for different difficulties.
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I didn't know about any of that... Then again, I prefer my SM oldschool, with none of that crazy stuff anyway, but it's cool that it's there for the people who like it.
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That's just the added features. It seems like it's far more stable as well, and from what I understand the codebase is considerably cleaner than 3.9 and "3.95". That finally dethroned 3.9 as the recommended download on stepmania.com, so I think it's a good idea to upgrade to that even if you have no intention of using the new charting features.
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Already done. Though I'm kinda bothered by the different colors in the Note noteskin being different than what I'm used to. And there's something about how 3.9 handles the visuals of hitting a note (kinda hard for me to describe) that feels cleaner (not the right word :/, no idea how to describe it) when I'm playing. I'm much worse than I used to be at SM but I still seem to be pretty close to as accurate as I used to be...
What were the default life/timing difficulties before?
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I'm not sure what the timings used to be or, for that matter, what they are now. It feels about the same to me, really.
As for the noteskins, there are a ton of ones included in the SM5 distribution. Failing that, I wouldn't be surprised if someone ported over the old noteskins.
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The only thing that really bothers me is that I can't find a bunch of the old simfiles I used to have. I've gone through various hard drives and computers since I used to play all the time, and I've lost a lot of the old simfiles I used to play :/ I can't find most of HSTs files, and I'm sure there are a TON of ones I simply can't remember out there that I'll never get the chance to play again.
Also, this new scoring method throws me off. Seeing scores above 100 million on a regular length song makes me feel weird.
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Currently using the Windows 8 developer preview. It's...different.
More on this later on. :)
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I got the urge to start making stepcharts again, so I grabbed StepMania 5 and, for the first time in a long time, I've actually been impressed by a mainline StepMania version.
o/
http://code.google.com/p/sm-ssc/source/list?name=LuaDriver
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Well, yeah, I kinda figured you had a part in it. :3 It looks like the timing is spot-on, too! Very nice work.
Also: we need to totally do something one of these weekends. I WILL ACTUALLY HAVE TIME AND MONEY AND A CAR THAT WON'T VIBRATE ITSELF TO PIECES (emphasis on the latter) SOON!!
Edit: Wait. Was that video done in your garage?
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Man, I wish I had an ITG machine. :P That video was taken in a friend's garage in Niagara Falls, Ontario. Jeffrey1790's place, if you've heard the username at all; he used to run a huge repository of StepMania and ITG stuff at jeffrey1790.com
Also, yes, definitely hit me up sometime about hanging out. Phone number's the same it's always been, and while I'm drowning in work right now, I am definitely interested in the prospect at some point.
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Oh, nice! Yeah, I've heard of him, and I've been to his site countless times.
As far as a hangout date, I'm thinking next weekend. This week, I have plans for Friday and some contracting stuff to do over the weekend. Dinner will be on me, by the way. ;)
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Dinner on you? Sounds like I should join. And bring Annie. o.o
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Little Orphan Annie?
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Needs to be christmas time.
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Deposited some money and managed to take out like 3 hornets nests without getting stinged.
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Deposited some money and managed to take out like 3 hornets nests without getting stinged.
*stung
Fixed.
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So been talking to a gaming buddy outside of steam and what not and her and I have alot in common. I may have a crush on her :-X
Nope she is my girlfriend now...and she will be flying out to see me when I come home for christmas.
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Aww, yay!
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My Das Keyboard shipped. I should be receiving it on Thursday.
I are excite.
The Logitech G15 v2 has proven to be a horrible keyboard to both type on and game on. There is absolutely no tactile feel to the keys (even the Logitech Elite, another rubber dome keyboard, feels better, and its keys are stiff as hell), and they have a very mushy feel to them. Even the media buttons feel mushy and unresponsive. The backlighting looks nice and the LCD is a nifty feature, but those do not a good keyboard make. I've gotten much more development work done on my significantly slower laptop because its scissor-switch keyboard has a significantly better feel to it. That's just sad.
The key matrix for the G15 is also kind of bizarre. Playing Binding of Issac was a nightmare, because literally only two combinations of the up, down, left, and right arrows can be pressed at once. If you accidentally tap down while you're holding up and left, BAM. You stop moving/shooting. Not that it would be any fun playing it in the first place. I gave up trying to play Super Meat Boy on that rig because of that. I plugged in my old Elite into another USB port and my success rate at SMB was closer to that of my laptop since you can actually feel the keys bottoming out on the Elite (which is how a gaming keyboard should be. You don't have to guess the trigger point on a controller button, after all).
I should also note that the legs that prop the keyboard up broke within two months of normal use, and Logitech offers no replacement parts for sale on their web site.
Strangely enough, the original G15 keyboard is actually a significant improvement to the shit-tastic v2. The keys are light and have a crisp, responsive feel. The LCD is bigger, making it easier to steal a quick glance at it (though the dull backlight is a very large problem for that model). There are 18 G-keys which, while excessive, is better than the G15 v2's paltry 6.
Oh yeah, did I mention that the ports are USB 1.1? Really, Logitech? REALLY? I have a fucking Apple keyboard right next to me from September 200-fucking-3 that has a USB 2.0 hub built-in. There is no excuse whatsoever for a modern $100 gaming keyboard not to have USB 2.0 ports. It seems like a petty thing to bitch about, but for the price it's hard not to expect something that's at least practical.
Long story short, I'm not going to miss it. The only thing I'm going to miss is writing programs to use the LCD display, but even then you're very much limited on resolution (unless you really, really want to spent $200 on the G18 keyboard, which most likely offers the same typing "experience" as the G15).
Another thing that's pathetic: at work I use a Dell keyboard, which uses low-profile keys. It doesn't feel like it uses scissor switches, but rather low-travel rubber domes (maybe I'll pry one of the key caps off tomorrow, if I'm feeling adventurous). It's easily the best "cheap" keyboard that I've ever used. Dell sells it for $20 (I believe this is the one that I'm using (http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=dhs&cs=19&sku=331-2249&~ck=baynoteSearch&baynote_bnrank=6&baynote_irrank=0)) and it's significantly better for typing than a keyboard that's five times its price. Pathetic.
I don't know what's worse. The fact that it sucks so hard at being a keyboard or the fact that I bought it in the first place.
But, thankfully, I will be liberated on Thursday. Rejoice!
Edit: Strange how many people seem to find the G15 G2 to be a "pleasant" keyboard to type on. I normally manage 100-120 on both my laptop and work keyboard with a low error rate. I have a very hard time breaking 100 on the G15 without having a plethora of errors. Different folks, different strokes, I guess.
Also, I am very amused by this: http://lowendmac.com/fishkin/08af/leopard-vs-vista.html (http://lowendmac.com/fishkin/08af/leopard-vs-vista.html). A web site focused on Macs essentially saying that OS X and Vista are on equal footing with a fair and balanced review of the two operating systems. What the flying fuck? I didn't think such a thing existed! Andrew Fishkin of Low End Mac deserves serious kudos for that, even if some of the comparisons are a little strange (many of the comparisons, while valid, are a bit like apples and oranges -- Office and Office: Mac are produced by different teams, for instance). I suppose in terms of user performance, it's far better than spouting out XYZMark results.
And yes, OS X really shuts down that quickly. My 1.25GHz G4 iMac, running 10.5.6, shuts down in seconds.
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OS X always shut down immediately for me, cuz it was always crashing!!!!!!
actually it (used 10.5 at the place I worked) didn't crash a lot but it'd always take a really long time to shut down, probably because I ran half a million things for weeks on it between reboots. Note, this was AFTER I manually closed everything I was running
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OS X is a weird beast. My iMac shuts down ludicrously fast (five seconds on average). However, the iMac that I used at my last job acted like a piece of junk. It ran Snow Leopard and typically took a minute to shut down. On top of that, Finder had a nasty tendency to crash to badly that the system needed a cold boot if you tried to do too many network file operations during a session. And yes, I've tried everything that I could to keep from holding the power button down and doing a hard shutdown. I even did research on the issue and people pretty much said "that's just the way it is." Yeah. Nice.
That being said, my G4 is amazingly stable and reliable, if sluggish at times. Like I said: weird.
In other news, my Das Keyboard came in today. Oh ho, what a difference. The keys feel very light, crisp, and reponsive, making typing effortless while simultaneously letting me know exactly when each switch makes contact. Full n-key rollover is a nice bonus, for sure. I think I'm going to try playing some games that I never used to be able to play well on this system (VVVVVV, Super Meat Boy, Binding of Isaac, etc) and see how I do now.
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OS X is a weird beast. My iMac shuts down ludicrously fast (five seconds on average). However, the iMac that I used at my last job acted like a piece of junk. It ran Snow Leopard and typically took a minute to shut down. On top of that, Finder had a nasty tendency to crash to badly that the system needed a cold boot if you tried to do too many network file operations during a session. And yes, I've tried everything that I could to keep from holding the power button down and doing a hard shutdown. I even did research on the issue and people pretty much said "that's just the way it is." Yeah. Nice.
That being said, my G4 is amazingly stable and reliable, if sluggish at times. Like I said: weird.
In other news, my Das Keyboard came in today. Oh ho, what a difference. The keys feel very light, crisp, and reponsive, making typing effortless while simultaneously letting me know exactly when each switch makes contact. Full n-key rollover is a nice bonus, for sure. I think I'm going to try playing some games that I never used to be able to play well on this system (VVVVVV, Super Meat Boy, Binding of Isaac, etc) and see how I do now.
SO MUCH ENVY.
I really want a good keyboard :/ I make so many typos on this keyboard. Hell, I missed hitting the I in "this" there twice before actually typing it, thanks to the shitty keys on this thing.
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The sad part is that the Das Keyboard doesn't cost much more than considerably shittier "gaming" keyboards. I paid $100 for my G15v2.
The best part about the Das is that if you want a keyboard that's more geared for gaming you can always get the silent edition, which comes equipped with Cherry MX Brown switches, which are tactile (unlike the MX Blacks, which are intended for games) but has a very close reset/actuation point. The regular Das has the MX Blues, which are absolutely orgasmic when it comes to typing but not quite as good for gaming, as the reset point is above the actuation point. That being said, I can double-tap keys far better with these Blues than I can with that rubber dome abomination that I was using before, so this is still a considerably upgrade for me, even in terms of gaming.
Also, the noise that this thing makes is kind of weird. When I first unboxed it in an open room it sounded a bit underwhelming, especially considering the fact that one of the accessories that they sell are earplugs. When I actually plugged it in and sat over it, I found that it is actually pleasantly loud. :) I might actually have a chance of hearing my keystrokes over my music now. That being said, I don't recall it being as loud as the Model M, but that's probably a good thing. This keyboard is also much heavier than it looks, and I'm satisfied that its build quality is quite good.
I'm not convinced that putting the USB ports on the top right side of the keyboard was the best idea, but it works well with my trackball's mini-receiver (now I'm really glad I bought the thumb trackball with the uber-small Logitech wireless receiver instead of the finger trackball with the large, old-school receiver!). Even though it's USB 2.0, I'm not going to plug my WoW mouse into it. It takes up enough room in and of itself.
Speaking of that, this keyboard is the perfect size. It has a fairly standard layout and is exactly as large as it needs to be; no smaller, no larger.
Edit: On yet another unrelated note (I should invest in one of them thar blog things), I recently started using Mercurial for source control.
Wow. Distributed source control is so so SO much better than CVS/SVN. Holy shit. I like being able to keep a local repository without having to dick around with a web server. Or any server at all, for that matter. It makes much more sense, is so much easier to use, and works exactly like you'd expect, with no surprises.
I think I know what I'm going to use for every single project that I do. SVN was just so much of a pain in the dick to get rolling that I didn't even want to mess with it. Just let me code, dammit.
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Got myself a stick blender. Hells yeah.
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Xbox 360 S: GET.
Now I actually have a large enough hard drive to install shit on. Amazing!
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Ok, This made me so happy. Day[9], one of the most well known personalities in the Starcraft 2 community, decided that he would start playing Amnesia last night. He decided that after his usual Funday Monday SC2 show, he would stream him playing Amnesia, and what followed was one of the funniest things I've ever seen. I highly suggest you guys watch this. Had over 17k viewers, and averages about 10k+ viewers every day. He makes his money doing his daily webcasts.
Part 1: http://blip.tv/file/5678993
Part 2: http://blip.tv/file/5679031
Part 3: http://blip.tv/file/5679067
Part 4: http://blip.tv/file/5679101
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A few days ago, a friend of mine and I found a tiny kitten. It was really cold outside, and it was going to get colder, so since there was no sign of his mother anywhere, we took him inside. Took him to the vet, and aside from an eye infection, he's a healthy little kitty.
Now I just have to figure out what to name him. :3 http://www.twitpic.com/7a6ppa (http://www.twitpic.com/7a6ppa)
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Now I just have to figure out what to name him. :3
Ash Ketchum.
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Coming home for Christmas on the 21st of Dec. My girl is coming out on the 28th....so happy right now ^^
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Now I just have to figure out what to name him. :3
Aslan Mr. Bigglesworth Sex Master Rutherford B. Hayes?
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I love the kind of crazy shit you can do with plain ol' SQL.
Now if only MySQL didn't find new ways to eat dick every time I used it...
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I've done some pretty hilarious stuff myself with MySQL though I fucking wish they had a full outer join implementation
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I wish they'd implement transactions correctly first. I was doing a "DELETE FROM" the other night and it wound up forcing a commit for no good reason. Uhh, 'kay! Luckily, I did have a backup. I've had enough fun MySQL adventures to know to do that before doing anything that would be a safe operation in another RDBMS.
I've been using MSSQL at my day job and it's like night and day. The language is closer to the actual T-SQL standard (MySQL tends to drift quite a bit away from it in a lot of ways), the tools are far better (SQL Management Studio isn't crash-happy like MySQL Workbench and isn't exceedingly slow in large queries like the Query Browser, and the SQL Server Profiler is pretty much the best thing EVER, letting you see what queries are running in real-time as they're happening -- far better than the MySQL Administrator), and it's far easier to set it up for optimal use.
I don't care how much enterprise usage MySQL gets. As far as I'm concerned, the only thing that's allowing it to get that much use is its price tag. Nothing can possible make up for some of its terrible flaws and the poor quality control on their related projects (the MySQL .NET Connector, for one, is one of the worst .NET components I've ever had the "pleasure" of working with).
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Only time I used MSSQL was when I was screwing around with a private server for Mu Online... I basically knew nothing about SQL at the time, so I was pretty clueless, but from what I remember the tools did seem to be pretty good. They felt more professional than the MySQL tools I've used so far.
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I wish they'd implement transactions correctly first. I was doing a "DELETE FROM" the other night and it wound up forcing a commit for no good reason. Uhh, 'kay! Luckily, I did have a backup. I've had enough fun MySQL adventures to know to do that before doing anything that would be a safe operation in another RDBMS.
holy shit what :(
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I know, right? :| I'm kind of inclined to believe that there was a good reason for it, but I was too busy restoring from backup to really read it. Still, it's not good that common, yet dangerous, commands would ever not be transaction-safe.
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Computer upgrade:
(http://i.imgur.com/HLnO5.png)
brb, rolling out a bunch of VMs.
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Holy jesus fuck.
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18GB what :o
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Computer upgrade:
(http://i.imgur.com/HLnO5.png)
brb, rolling out a bunch of VMs.
Fuck you pal...nah jk spec. Got my girlfriend's tickets to fly her out to see me when I come home for christmas. Can't wait ^^
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Holy jesus fuck.
18GB what :o
Virtualization, baby. I kept smashing into my old 6GB barrier before, so I figured it was time to break free.
Also, hilarious fact: when I put this system together (July 2010-ish, I think), 6GB of DDR3 memory was $150. The 12GB that I ordered the other day cost $75. The exact same memory that I had cost $40. I was originally planning to just double my RAM, but I couldn't pass that deal up. ;)
Now to start saving up for my next system: a hex-core monster!
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Jesus man, always an upgrade in mind.
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Now to start saving up for my next system: a hex-core monster!
When I heard that they were coming out with Hex-core ships I wanted one so bad. Still do.
Fuck i love how technology keeps advancing.
Although I still want to get a bunch of FPGAs and make my own mini-supercomputer...
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Another reason why having so much RAM is practical outside of spinning VMs: it lets me load pretty much any game (short of WoW, which is a damned monster) I want from a RAM drive. I should be able to easily do that for games up to 14GB large or so.
Jesus man, always an upgrade in mind.
You bet!
One stopgap that I might wind up doing is getting a new GPU when the next series rolls out. My card is starting to show its age just a tad nowadays. I don't seriously plan to do a full upgrade for at a year, and I'll most likely wait until the next processor generation comes out before I bust out the bank card, because I don't want to get stuck at the end of a socket type (which just happened to me when Sandy Bridge came out; I'm running a LGA 1366 board, so I can't use the newer chips at all, nor can I put my chip in a next generation board).
Two things that need to happen first, though: a laptop purchase (I'm still using a 6-year-old Inspiron 9300 and that beast is finally starting to show its age) and a car purchase (my Saturn is 16-years-old and the automatic transmissions are notorious for acting stupid after a while...and mine has been getting progessively stupider over time). After I take care of those, I'll start saving up for something big.
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Just bought an XBox360 MW3 Special edition!!! Finally, a fucking 360 and a MW game, FUCK YEAH!
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I found a cheap keyboard and fixed two busted keys on it
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Just bought an XBox360 MW3 Special edition!!! Finally, a fucking 360 and a MW game, FUCK YEAH!
huh, odd, I never struck you as a COD person. I have a friend who might know some useful info about it.
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huh, odd, I never struck you as a COD person. I have a friend who might know some useful info about it.
Well, normally I wouldn't be, but my friends all play it, and I've been sick of being the one guy who doesn't have the game. I'm still pretty garbage at the game, but playing online should help me improve.
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I finally got off of my parent's cell phone plan and moved to my own. I ended up going with AT&T for three reasons: (1) I've used them extensively before and within the last year the number of dropped calls went down to almost nil, (2) they're the only provider that actually has a selection of Windows Phones (everyone else has exactly one), and (3) I get a 13% discount on voice and data plans through my employer.
The phone that I selected is a Samsung Focus S. The HTC Titan looked nice, but the screen is just too big (4.7"? I would literally be unable to use it for Internet radio in my car due to it being way oversized), the screen sucked compared to the Focus S and was barely an improvement over my HD7 (Super LCD vs. Super AMOLED -- the latter always wins), and after dealing with the issues from my last HTC phone I wasn't willing to go through the same experiences (camera never autofocused right and the images were crap, even compared to my old "dumb phone", chrome covering easily rubbed off of the screen bezel, and the metal around the camera lens got dinged up badly after two days and no abuse). This phone is light as a feather, the capacitative buttons don't have as large of a touch zone, the screen is absurdly bright at the highest settings, and the camera is surprisingly good at picking up color. It was able to capture the warmth of an incandescent bulb quite well -- something that my HD7's camera was unable to do. There are also a few interesting settings provided by Samsung's camera driver, including wide dynamic range, which I have yet to properly test.
It also has a 1.4GHz Scorpion processor. Now, Windows Phone's UI is buttery smooth even on my HD7's 1GHz Snapdragon (which is the minimum Snapdragon CPU required for a device to be certified), but bumping up the clock a few notches does make a noticeable difference in games, app loading times, and stuff like that.
So...yeah. I are excite. The only thing that I have left to do is apply my shiny developer unlock to it and all will be right with the world.
Edit: Somewhat relevant:
I wound up having to choose between Rhapsody and a Zune Pass. Since I'm actually on a robust 3G network, I can actually stream music now without it cutting off every time I drive down a few major highways around here (seriously, T-Mobile has the weirdest 3G dead zones in my area). While both of them do support downloading the content directly to the device, I think it would be nice to actually be able to select something on a whim and just play it.
Rhapsody is nice because it allows streaming to the PC, would allow me to download music to the iPod app, and has a native Windows Phone 7 app. The problem is that I've been a Rhapsody customer in the past and I'm very familiar with their software -- it fucking SUCKS. When the PC app isn't crashing, it very often will come up with a cryptic error and suddenly not allow you to use the artist/album browser (so it might as well be a crash). Additionally, the iOS app crashed far more often that I would have cared for. It didn't like my old iPhone 3G at all, and even my 4th gen iPod touch despised it. The app was a complete mess. I really doubt that the Windows Phone app would be any better, but even if it were flawless I would kinda like to listen at home, too. The interface for the app was usable, but could have used a ton of improvement. Furthermore, it was very sluggish, even on high-end hardware (Core i7 2.8GHz). Like iTunes on Windows, but worse.
I had a 15-day trial for the Zune Pass. Naturally, it integrates well with Windows Phone 7. And, just as obviously, it has zero iOS integration and there is no app available for it. It has the advantage of blending seemlessly in with any local music that you would put onto the device, but the problem with that is that my phone only has 16GB of storage. I currently have more than 16GB of music stored on my iPod, not to mention gigabytes of apps (speaking of which, I had around 4GB of apps on my HD7, so loading a ton of music on that thing was definitely out). I also greatly prefer the iPod interface over the Zune-inspired one. I could probably get used to the latter and just use my iPod as a gaming device, but the storage limitation throw that idea off the docks.
Technical issues aside, the Zune Pass is great on the software end. As I said, the Zune ecosystem is integrated into the phone and works quite well. The PC software is slick, fast, and very responsive, and makes for a decent media player (though giving up fb2k was, and will be, tough). Furthermore, it seems to have just as good of a selection as Rhapsody without the downsides. Unfortunately, you cannot download 10 free songs per month anymore. I would have happily paid the extra five bucks to be able to do that, but I decided to subscribe too late. Sadface.
Overall, the price is the same $10/month, so we'll see. I'm sure Zune will work out just fine for what I need, but I'm sure I'll make a whiny post here if it doesn't.
Edit 2: Hoo boy, found a major gripe with the Zune software -- tagging songs. Granted, this is a task that most media players fail at (and something that iTunes is somewhat decent at), but this is just bad. You can't arrow down if you only want to change the song title. You have to tab, tab, tab, tab, tab, change one, tab, tab, tab, tab, tab, change another, and so on. Ugh! Thankfully, despite the DRM on these files, I can actually jump into MP3Tag and change them in there! Oh, thank goodness.
One more thing that's awesome: you can freely change the tags on the files that you download. With Rhapsody, it would keep changing them back to the hideously broken tags that Rhapsody assigned to some files. I was able to change tags on the WMAs that I downloaded through Zune (mostly to remove the unnecessary "(parental advisary)" tag that was thrown on some tracks -- one thing that Apple does infinitely better (by making that its own tag with its own appearance in the iPod/iTunes software)) and have them actually persist both on the phone and on the PC. Ahh, it's nice when things just work. Now if only I didn't have to rely on a third-party program to handle my tagging. Oh well...
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Well, normally I wouldn't be, but my friends all play it, and I've been sick of being the one guy who doesn't have the game. I'm still pretty garbage at the game, but playing online should help me improve.
Map memorization goes a very long way in those games. Find out what will be arguably best weapons, figure out which perks benefit specific play styles, and then memorize the majority of the choke points and typically where people will migrate when looking for people to kill. I sort of worded that terribly, but once you play for a while you'll notice different parts of maps will have more people running towards them because they're generally safer.
Also on topic, I had an awesome night last night and I got to hang out with a lot of people I typically don't get to see too often.
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MOAR HAPPY.
I did some Zune'ing from my car today and...holy fuck. The audio output quality on the Windows Phone blows the iPod out of the water. One of the common praises that reviewers throw at the Zune players is their fantastic audio quality, and I have a feeling that Microsoft made sure that the same standard was enforced for the WP7 handsets. Even at high volumes, the midrange (particularly the guitar and vocals) sounded bright and crisp, compared to the muddy sound that the iPod outputs. It felt like I could literally hear everything with no compromises. The bass is a bit lighter as well, likely a bit more true to the mastered sound and far more EQ-friendly than the iPod output (FYI, my iPod's EQ is off, but it's definitely doing some post-processing to the audio at some point, as it doesn't sound like it does on any other device).
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Map memorization goes a very long way in those games. Find out what will be arguably best weapons, figure out which perks benefit specific play styles, and then memorize the majority of the choke points and typically where people will migrate when looking for people to kill. I sort of worded that terribly, but once you play for a while you'll notice different parts of maps will have more people running towards them because they're generally safer.
Also on topic, I had an awesome night last night and I got to hang out with a lot of people I typically don't get to see too often.
Yeah, I'm well aware of how much map awareness counts for. I've been playing Since MW2 came out, just not very much since I've never owned a copy myself.
I do need to find which guns people prefer and such, and I do definitely need to learn the safe/unsafe locations in lots of the maps. Its so fucking annoying to turn a corner, and just die, or to turn a corner, run a bit farther, and get gunned down from behind, or any other permutation thereof...
Also, lag seems to really cause problems for me T.T I've put entire clips into people only to die from a single shotgun blast after I'm done and reloading, and shit like that.
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Shit, assuming you're playing TDM there really isn't much you can do outside of trying to predict enemy spawns. Honestly, there's a lot of luck in TDM games. Also with xbox live match lag can be a real gamble. Some shit you just can't counter.
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Yeah, I'm playing TDM, and yeah, lag can just be instadead. I'm fine with that once in a while, but it feels bad when I go something like 4 and 1 in a match where I could have gone 8 and 4 instead if lag hadn't been the cause of 4 of those deaths...
I've had some better games recently, but even then a good game for me is where my KDR looks about even.
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practice makes perfect. You should see my SFAE win loss ratio. I think it's slightly below 30% for ranked matches.
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As part of a job for my employer, I've been trying to use an OPC server (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPC_server) to communicate using a custom protocol plugin with a Burster Digiforce 9310 (http://www.burster.com/uploads/tx_productkat/FL_9310_Modul_E.pdf) so we could grab the pressure measurement from the unit and send it to a Mitsubishi PLC... The protocol the Burster unit uses is actually a known protocol (ANSI x3.28), but the OPC server didn't have a built in communication driver for that protocol, so I had to roll my own... Well, before I tried that, I actually ended up coding up a neat little program on my laptop to communicate with the Burster in C# (which actually worked, for the limited use I needed it). That made me happy, but what made me infinitely more happy is that later on in the day we got a call telling us that the customer no longer needed this setup.
Why am I so happy that a few days' worth of work was just made useless? Because about all I had to do to make things work now was connect the Burster, PLC, Touch Panel, and a computer to an Ethernet switch, and configure everything to communicate on the same network, so the computer could see the PLC, HMI, and Burster, to program the PLC/HMI from Ethernet, and to be able to run the Burster's program to track the pressure measurements.
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(http://i.imgur.com/jEnIC.png)
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Oh fuck you :P
Nice!
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Alright all you Youngstown and Pittsburgh fuckers...nah jk about that guies :P <3...13 days and I come home for christmas break! :D :D Parteh at mai place when I come home?
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Amazon internship are go! Working out details this upcoming Tuesday.
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Amazon internship are go! Working out details this upcoming Tuesday.
Nice..congrats man :D
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Oh fuck you :P
<3
Alright all you Youngstown and Pittsburgh fuckers...nah jk about that guies :P <3...13 days and I come home for christmas break! :D :D Parteh at mai place when I come home?
Only if I'm allowed to trash the place!
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Only if you clean up.
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Nah, that ain't me.
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The economist, talking about video games?
http://www.economist.com/node/21541162
Great article, too.
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Only if you clean up.
I'll bring the squeegee!
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I read that as "The Squeakquel"
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Well, our parties do usually wind up involving gerbils that may or may not be entering body cavities (usually Omni's, but I digress).
I have to say, you're really good at reading between the lines!
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Well, our parties do usually wind up involving gerbils that may or may not be entering body cavities (usually Omni's, but I digress).
I have to say, you're really good at reading between the lines!
Digress indeed sir.
Also got DJ Hero 2 with game and turntable for $15...win!
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How the hell did you manage that? That's a great deal.
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How the hell did you manage that? That's a great deal.
The Base Exchange (BX for short) had it on sale 75% off from the original price of 38...and best thing tax free >:D
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Also got DJ Hero 2 with game and turntable for $15...win!
Well played, son!
Is DJ Hero 2 more interesting than the first one? Honestly, I got kind of bored of the first game after a while. Everything just felt the same after a while.
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A few new things added with scratches and such...and the mixes grow on you not as quickly as the first one though...but still pretty awesome :D
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Well, our parties do usually wind up involving gerbils that may or may not be entering body cavities (usually Omni's, but I digress).
I have to say, you're really good at reading between the lines!
:o can I come to your parties
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Sure thing!
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:o can I come to your parties
There's always room for you, honey. :-*
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Kewl 8)
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3 more days until I come home OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG I am so excited :D
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eBay'd a couple of official SNES controllers for $7.50, shipped. Now maybe I can actually play that sucker again (err, in 5-11 days...damn shipping).
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I'm HOME! :D
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WELCOME BACK, NICO!
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WELCOME BACK, NICO!
Ty Spec...as much as Ohio sucks I missed it here...espically all my friends :D
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Chilling with Vyhd watching him play Supah Meat boy.
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Chilling with Vyhd watching him play Supah Meat boy.
eye mist u
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eye mist u
Eye mist u 2
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At Jupi's house with Jupi (obviously,) Vyhd, and keys...good times :D
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just won like 30 bucks because my friend kept getting drunk and betting he could beat me in COD sticks and stones.
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I just came to the realization that all the people I have a problem with are pretty much out of my life, and that's pretty sweet.
Also spec, this isn't exactly related but this guy does a pretty goddamn good job breaking down the first two Castelvania games .
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My girlfriend comes into today * :D It is going to be a good day ^-^
*FIXD
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I just came to the realization that all the people I have a problem with are pretty much out of my life, and that's pretty sweet.
Also spec, this isn't exactly related but this guy does a pretty goddamn good job breaking down the first two Castelvania games .
Haha that video was awesome, man.
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His Megaman video is also great, he does a great job of pointing out what makes the game good and doing it in an entertaining way. Hell, I even prefer the RPG Castelvanias and I love that video.
My girlfriend comes into :D
I read that as "my girlfriend comes into me". No judgement man.
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I only tried the original castlevania on an emulator, and that doesn't make it any easier, so I've never been heavily into the castlevania games, but the music is totally badass, and I have a feeling I'd prefer the RPG ones too, but he does make some damned good points, and he manages to do that without being overly offensive about it, despite being quite opinionated, which is really hard to do.
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Also spec, this isn't exactly related but this guy does a pretty goddamn good job breaking down the first two Castelvania games .
Okay, that video pretty much reminded me of why I love Egoraptor. Thanks for the link!
In other news, I'm typing this on my new iPad (and the above is the first video that I watched on it). Boo yeah. Rerave and Jukebeat are actually fun now! It's kind of weird that I can actually type sort of normally on a touchscreen, too.
Edit: I've been quoted!
(http://i.imgur.com/3Pa6z.jpg)
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I only tried the original castlevania on an emulator, and that doesn't make it any easier, so I've never been heavily into the castlevania games, but the music is totally badass, and I have a feeling I'd prefer the RPG ones too, but he does make some damned good points, and he manages to do that without being overly offensive about it, despite being quite opinionated, which is really hard to do.
The music is amazing, but you really should find a way to play some of the RPG games (they're some of my favorites, and I've never grinded in them in order to beat one). Aria of Sorrow and Symphony of the Night are both goddamn amazing (despite SOTN having some problems, it still has this ).
So yeah, try em.
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My Internet connection doesn't totally suck now! Yay!
Earlier I managed 24mbps down and 1mbps up. This is up from 5mbps down and 512kbps up. The latter might not seem too horrid, but there's a noticeable difference in load times between the two. Our current Time Warner connection feels snappy, even when loading regular web pages. The old AT&T connection at times felt more sluggish than my AT&T cellular data connection, which is just pitiful. I also used to get faster rates and more consistent performance by tethering my phone when I was still on T-Mobile (6.7mbps down, 768kbps up on 3G).
It's a shame, as the DSL in this area used to be decent when SBC still controlled it. As far as I can tell, AT&T basically bought them out and threw a bunch of new people at the network without making an attempt to increase the bandwidth pool. It's so obvious that it's a neglected division in AT&T; their cellular network is actually pretty decent now.
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Picked up a hardware VGA->S-video (VGA, composite) adapter for $20 (after shipping). Best piece of specialized hardware I've picked up in a long time. I can finally get Andamiro's Pump It Up games running on our cabinet + flatscreen TV!
Also, Mass Effect 2 on PC in the living room is pretty nice. I may buy a separate one down the road for the PC upstairs; I don't actually want to give it up to the arcade cabinet. :D
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Lucky bastard!
I loved PIU the bit that I played it years ago. The 5 panel design feels more natural than DDR for me.
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No idea where this should go (Happy or angry).
I've decided to play around with the idea of doing some graphical game programming, and I've been looking at using C# with Tao SDL and OpenGL...
Well, things work (for the most part) but I'v had to do some really funky stuff. A lot of the code I'm using at the moment was lifted from a tutorial and slightly modified by me, and I'm now trying to figure out how to render text using SDL_TTF....
Here's a line that loads a font... I didn't even know about System.Runtime.InteropServices until this stuff... Thank god my intuition was right ant these lines match lines I found earlier in the tutorial, because there's no way on earth I'd have figured this out entirely on my own.
IntPtr fontptr = SdlTtf.TTF_OpenFont("c:\windows\fonts\calibri.ttf",12);
SdlTtf.TTF_Font font = (SdlTtf.TTF_Font)Marshal.PtrToStructure(fontptr,typeof(SdlTtf.TTF_Font));
I'd always wondered how you worked with pointers to structures and such in c#, since it has so many limitations on how pointers can be used, since they're not really supposed to be used unless absolutely needed.
It's too bad I can't use inline assembly instructions in C# though, my friends are using some inline assembly for using MMX instructions for some number crunching for OGL, since OGL's built in stuff seems to be slower (and those inline assembly segments are retardedly simple)
Hopefully I can get this SDL_TTF stuff working nicely with opengl in this thing, most of what I'm going on is either SDL_TTF without OGL in c# or SDL_TTF with OGL in C++, which is a bit different thanks to Tao.
EDIT: This shit is driving me mad, lol. It's so hard to figure out how to make this stuff work with no real OGL experience, since I've been basically translating and modifying a C++/CLI piece of code and trying to make it work with code from the original tutorial I started with. My brain hurts D:
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Okay, if you have to do that, they have completely failed at writing a managed library. Holy hell. Seriously, if you're using C# you're probably better off using XNA, FlatRedBall, or something similar.
As for not being able to use inline assembly, I'm glad that it isn't even an option in the CLR because it's high time most programmers started moving away from that. You may envy your friends for being able to use MMX right now, but the world is leaving them behind. ARM processors rule the world now. Targeting specific platforms is very 90's. Even John Carmack doesn't use it anymore, and he always tried to squeeze as much out of processors as he could. He's even using C++ now.
There just comes a point where portability and convenience is far more important than an imperceivable performance increase. We've passed that point a few years ago. You're far better off learning about multithreading than learning MMX, since that applies just as much to the non-x86 world.
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Yeah, but why the hell is the equivalent OGL function slower to the point of making a noticeable impact. All my friends were doing was a MOVW and a PADDUSW or something... Basically it was just a parallel packed add command for adding some vectors.
Also, I don't know much about working with XNA, but I know XNA is kinda dying (it's technically part of directx, and directx is being merged into the Win8 API, meaning that there's been a code freeze for ages, and much of XNA is likely going to be abandoned rather than added to the Win8 graphics API). I'm trying to avoid DX because the API is fucking retarded at times, and Managed DX is pretty horrible.
Never heard of FladRedBall. Also, I've only had to use lines like that a few times, and it's just for times when it's extremely difficult to port over the C++ functionality into C#. It's actually not that hard to do, or figure out when it's needed.
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Considering engines are continually written without resorting to using inline assembly, odds are there is a faster and processor-agnostic way of doing it. Once again, there is not a single line of assembly in Doom 3 and that engine is fast as hell.
XNA is dying? Where'd you hear that? There are numerous games on Steam created using XNA, Windows Phone games are based on XNA, and every Xbox 360 indie game in the market place is written using XNA. XNA is most definitely not part of DirectX, either, aside from using it as a renderer. It's related to DirectX about as much as SDL is.
Regardless of how often you have to use a line like that, it doesn't change the fact that no proper managed library should require you to do that. Not only does that involve essentially bypassing the CLR, but it would also become a debugging nightmare if something were to go wrong. I'm not saying it's anything you did, it's something that's unacceptable on the SdlTtf side.
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Well Tao is basically a binding for SDL among other things for managed environments, and without resorting to stuff like that things would require some messy work inside Tao. Also, the I read a blog article talking about DX and XNA and how basically neither of them are likely to survive the transition to Win8 when it comes. I know full well that's not a good reason to not want to use them, but from the limited experience I've had managed DirectX is a complete nightmare.
All things considered that's not such a horrible line anyway. All you're really doing is saying "well this native code uses a pointer to a struct, so I'll create a pointer, and grab the struct from it."
It's basically just dereferencing a pointer, but since CLI code generally stays away from doing that they've made it lame.
I'd rather deal with pointers in CLI code than deal with a horribly mangled c# binding for something. I tried one of the Curses bindings for C# a little while bad and god was it a fucking nightmare. Missing functions who's functionality had been packaged into other functions, renamed functions calls, the entire API had been essentially rewritten... Poorly. I'd rather be able to follow the documentation for the original API and still be able to call the same functions in my C# binding, even if it means I've gotta do some funky pointer stuff.
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Yeah, I wouldn't trust that source. Considering how ingrained XNA is in the Windows Phone and Xbox 360 DNA, I really don't see it going anywhere anytime soon. The beauty of it is that it can even work for Windows 8 tablets without a problem, since it's all managed code. You can very easily write one set of code that works perfectly well with both Windows (from XP to 7) and the Xbox 360, and with a bit of addition work make the same code work with Windows Phone (though that uses a subset, obviously, so advanced shaders and XACT sound will not work).
And yeah, managed DirectX was a nightmare. Fortunately, it went away quickly.
As for the code, dealing with memory is not something that any managed code should have to do. When you do any sort of direct memory manipulation it jumps outside of the confines of the managed environment. The second you touch memory directly is when you start having to deal with endian issues and how long the native code that you're trying to nurture into working thinks that an "int" is. The moment you escape that sandbox, you're losing out on some of the biggest benefits of using managed code in the first place.
And yep, there are some terrible .NET bindings out there. I've used a bunch of them myself. I remember using one OpenGL binding that renamed a bunch of functions. I can't remember off-hand which one that I used semi-recently (read: something like six months ago), but it was quite good. The best part about it is that it made great use of what .NET offered while still leaving everything similar enough that you could port C/GL code over without much of an issue.
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Well, the Tao binding seem to be rather good, aside from the times when you need to work with pointers.
It doesn't seem to have renamed or removed any OGL functions, and the SDL stuff seem to work rather well, aside from the small nagging question of why it seems to want to use Apple.Foundation when I call SDL_Init() (and subsequently thrown an exception... which doesn't seem to adversely affect the rest of my program).
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With regards to the Apple.Foundation thingie, my guess is that it does that for Mono compatibility. SDL will happily create a window for whichever operating system that you're using.
My best guess is that Mono doesn't translate Windows.Forms very well to the Aqua user interface (the menu structure for OS X is far different than Windows and X applications), so it probably tries to pop open a native Apple window first and only tries Windows.Forms (or possibly even something like GTK.NET) after that fails. It probably made more sense for them to handle it with exceptions than to make a possibly error-prone assumption about which OS the user is using.
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Yeah, sounds plausible.
It's catching the exception and not failing, so that's probably it.
What I've been doing has been kinda cobbled together with a mixture of example some using .net in an OSX environment and some using C++/CLI etc.
It's nice to know I can translate managed C++ to C# relatively easily. Makes me feel good about my ability to at least read and make sense of code.
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And that's exactly what I love about C#. You get the rapid development features of VB.NET with the terse syntax of C#, plus the benefit of being able to easily port over most C++ code without too much of an issue.
I haven't dealt with managed C++, but it looks kinda weird.
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Yeah, it has some weird features. I've loved working with C# since I started working with it. I Started with learning C++, then learned Java thanks to a class in highschool, so C# felt like a natural progression.
Plus, the C# intellisense spoils you so much, lol. After trying to do some C++ I realized how reliant I am on intellisense, lol.
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Oh, I know.
Intellisense usually manages to not get in your way, either. One of my biggest complaints about Eclipse is that it tries to code everything for you. It can get very frustrating.
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I was more talking about how in C++ in VS2010 intellisense does not pop up the moment I start typing, it doesn't have all the reserved words, it doesn't try to guess what your about to type to complete it for you in many cases.
Even just using constants it won't pop up to help you complete the constant, which can be a pain. Overall it' just not as helpful in C++ as in C#.
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I've had pretty much the opposite experience with it, to be honest. C++ is highly dependent on the Intellisense database being updated, so if it's not updating for whatever reason (for whatever reason, it stays really up to date on my desktop but always lags behind on my laptop -- I'm almost positive that it throttles it based on your CPU speed).
C++ is insanely hard to do that sort of thing on. C# is a bit more predictable.
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I do understand that C++ is harder, and I don't fault them for not having intellisense pop up the moment I begin typing anything anywhere, but I'm so used to it in C#. I basically don't remember fuck all, and just use intellisense to explore the existing libraries looking for something that should do what I want.
I'm actually serious too, instead of looking stuff up on the MSDN I usually just browse through stuff in intellisense. I usually have some idea where to look to find it, so being able to confirm stuff by popping up the intellisense entry for it and reading the tooltip is immensely helpful. And since they use enumerations rather than just "#define"ing constants its easy to locate constants as well.
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I was mainly just saying that in some situations Intellisense works quite well on C++. That being said, I'm not sure exactly what makes it that way. I haven't looked closely enough at it to find out.
Yeah, I usually do that, too. The Intellisense documentation is usually at least passable for the Microsoft components. If there's anything too vague, it's nice that you can mash F1 and pull up MSDN to get the full documentation.
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Replacement laptop keyboard came today. Took no time to replace the old one, and I love the new one. Only thing that kinda messes me up is that the enter, \ and / keys are laid out a bit differently. On my old one there was a second \ key between the Z and shift, and there was a smaller \ key and the enter key was one of those weird backwards L shaped ones that takes up double the height of a normal one with the slightly larger bottom half.
But still, I'm so happy that this thing is here.
Also, I've ordered a USB cable for my wireless Xbox controllers from some chinese company for like $5, should arrive in the next little while. Hopefully it works, because I can't stand playing kingdoms of amalur without an xbox controller now. I've been borrowing a wired one from my GF's roommate when I'm at her place.
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GOT MY ORDERS TO LEAVE SHEPPARD!
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Wrex.
Also good luck, any idea where you're going?
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Wrex.
Also good luck, any idea where you're going?
Yes, tell us!
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McConnell AFB in Wichitah Kansas.
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Graduated tech school yesterday and leaving for my next duty station this 28th.
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Graduated tech school yesterday and leaving for my next duty station this 28th.
Congrats man!
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At my base and I FUCKING LOVE IT HERE! :D Inprocessing is a pain in the ass but my sponsor is fucking chillaxed and my bosses are fucking cool as hell.
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I managed to score a barely-used Late-2010 11" MacBook Air for $700 today. I definitely didn't go to work expecting to buy a laptop, but here it is.
I'm impressed so far. This thing is obscenely portable (it's a hair bigger than my iPad) but it's actually pretty quick for what it is. Also, after actually using Lion for a while, I can definitely see where GNOME ripped, literally, their ENTIRE FUCKING INTERFACE from and still managed to make it inferior.
In other news, this thing manages 50-60 FPS in WoW at native resolution (1366x768) at "good" quality with 4x anisotropy (albeit without add ons...the CPU is only a C2D 1.4GHz ULV, so throwing a ton of Lua at it will probably slow it down some). That's okay, though, this isn't really meant to be a gaming rig, more like a stepping stone between my Inspiron 9300 and whatever I get next, and an ultra-portable system after that.
I mean, seriously, this thing is insanely small.
At my base and I FUCKING LOVE IT HERE! :D Inprocessing is a pain in the ass but my sponsor is fucking chillaxed and my bosses are fucking cool as hell.
From what I've heard about the military, having cool bosses is pretty much the best thing that could possible happen to you, aside from not getting deployed, so awesome! ;D
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My father found a new window for my truck, and I've been having a ton of fun with a lot of people I haven't seen in a while. Hung over now and am trying to deal with the digesting IHOP, but that will pass.
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Myself, and nine other under geared people, killed Deathwing on our first actual guild raid weekend (we had raided before, but we only had 4-5 guilded people in the raid -- we had 8 guildies in this week).
Man, I'm pumped. If we can pull that off with the bare minimum gear I'm excited for what we'll be able to do when we push our item levels up a bit.
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Myself, and nine other under geared people, killed Deathwing on our first actual guild raid weekend (we had raided before, but we only had 4-5 guilded people in the raid -- we had 8 guildies in this week).
Man, I'm pumped. If we can pull that off with the bare minimum gear I'm excited for what we'll be able to do when we push our item levels up a bit.
Sounds like you guys actually know what your doing, nice.
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I know! This is the first time I've been in a guild that doesn't suck.
At this rate we'll be one of the first guilds in Turalyon to clear heroic DS.
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I performed a bit of an excessive storage upgrade on my computer. I bought a 180GB Intel SSD (6 Gbps SATA, because that's how I roll) and a 2TB HDD. Right now, I have three 750GB Samsung drives, a 750GB Hitachi, a 400GB Seagate, a 180GB Intel SSD, and a 2TB Western Digital, giving me a total of approximately 5.58TB total storage space. Naturally, some of that will be redundant, because holy fuck.
But anyway, I just reinstalled Windows 7 onto the SSD (naturally...) and am seeing boot times of 10 seconds. BRB, dry humping my computer.
The hilarious part is that it takes around 20 seconds for my computer to get through all of the BIOS and firmware screens. Can we just switch to UEFI so that we don't have to do that shit anymore? Thanks to my rig being PC-compatible it still takes as much time, from button to desktop, as my almost-decade-old OpenFirmware-based iMac G4.
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Nice :D
Tomorrow I turn quarter of a centry (damn I am old).
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I'm right behind you. Going to be 24 soon.
Also employed currently, was supposed to work today and my friend wasn't, but I fell asleep and my friend went in. I'm not in any sort of trouble but my friend is for going in late.
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Damn kids. Just wait until you're 3/4 of the way to 30.
Edit: In other news, it sounds one of my hard drives (which I called Tr
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So, I turned 24 today. And my girlfriend got me a present I was not expecting. A brand new pair of Grado SR-125i headphones. Now, I've mentioned having Grados before. I have a pair of SR-80is. The thing is, they were a display model, and were heavily used before I even got them, and they had some issues (I've had to re-solder the wires back onto the back of the speakers because the housing ended up shifting and cutting the wire where it entered the housing...).
I really wasn't expecting this because although she had been mentioning how she should have let me pay the difference so I could have gotten a proper pair of 125's before, but these things are like $200 with taxes and shit.
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everybody is fucking 24, i turned 24 a few weeks ago.
http://fightanvidya.com/stream.php
it's where i have lived the past year
see like i used to 4chan /v/ fightan generals, and it spawned that site, now i don't go to 4chan anymore. cool place if you like watching/playing fighting games.
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There's also twitch.tv if you feel like sifting through all the non-fightan-gaems.
Plus it has other stuff gaems.
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>non fighting games
ill pass
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but bro you gotta check out the COD competitive scene
just kidding jesus christ why does that exist.
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>non fighting games
ill pass
Meh, I can't stand competitive SFFIV, so..... (Guilty Gear and BlazBlue, I do like though)
And yes, CoD and Halo are both a joke. I can't see them lasting as eSports scenes.
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lol esports
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http://www.toonamiaftermath.com/schedule
FUCK YES! :D :D :D :D :D
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This site still being alive fries my fries with happiness.
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This site still being alive fries my fries with happiness.
If by alive you mean more like zombie status :/
Also, sup.
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s.net don't die.
Also add me on steam or facebook, I'd enjoy keeping contact with you gents.
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S.Net won't die. Add me on Facebook if you'd like.
Zack Curnew.
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s.net won't die? D:
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I don't know anyone's FBs here, lol.... And I'm basically never on FB...
So add me on skype or some shit.
I know I have newf on MSN, but I don't know if I have anyone else on anything else.
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My name is Mathew Ryan Dalton on facebook, I've already got Ulti and xxxxx. I have skype but basically use it for gaming, if you want to add me there I'm mortifiedocalot on there. Also yeah, Lord Mortimi on steam.
Also yeah, happy, I'm employed twice now and someone wrote a really nice compliment on my facebook wall for basically no reason.
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Nick Black (OmegaOmni) on fb
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i got no social media accounts, i hardly use instant messaging, i don't text...
good luck contacting me!
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Obligatory entirely-too-late post-summer check-in!
I had an internship with Amazon over the summer and it went well; I'm starting full-time next June. Also, while I was there, I met a dude I am insanely in love with (and vice versa, even). Life is looking up \o/
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OMG this place still exists?!? No idea why I ended up here again.
To contribute to thread...3 day weekends make a happy, and the walking dead makes me happy too.
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I'm still alive.
Also, Osu! (http://osu.ppy.sh) now has a Mania mode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdlwYB3iJcQ). Supports from 4k to 8k. This makes me very happy.
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i don't text...
now made false, i finally got a smart phone.
woop woop
as for the communication bullshit, if interested in playing stuff on ggpo (less than likely, i already tried that jargon here) hit me up on steam i guess. im willing to play karnov, breakers, vsav, or st...i can do 360 for fightans(or me3mp) as well...
ae/ttt2/scv/hdr/sfxt(lol)/vsav when that comes out
vladgd = steam and 360gt
pretending i didn't say "yo nig i got a smartphone and it makes me hahpee" miu's art is still fantastic and i wanna have his babies, MY AVATAR RELATED
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HOLY FUCKING SHIT A NEW PHOENIX WRIGHT GAME!!! LAJKHFLDAJKHCDFS OIUAH DFO CKJAZSHBDBTOI UACHFZO IUDCHAOSRE IFCH VALJKHNFLJK;SAKDJHGFPWUH FGLKWJHESLKC FSHWFDOTFLUCJ HAOS FDBYG HOIEWC UK,XVSD;F RLTVGJ NZPCIDTYGNF9342N OWQ C8-19U4JG-93N 47W64GVY UT-RF8342WY509TPG JASD0UY5FTCF0 NUSWV BDGPSLXdwCJ DHDGLISIECJ FFNEG09URWY N4THPEINC BOIUI4WU5T0I1
CAN'T FUCKING WAIT FOR THE US RELEASE! :D :D
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I ate some Qdoba breakfast today I always go in just when breakfast is about to end so I can get tortilla soup with my burrito so the eggs end up having been out a little while but it still tastes really great
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Just got the new MaSu album (and the t-shirt for said album) in the mail today! Ultra-fanboy pic commencing:
505119145696833537[/tweet]/photo/1] (http://[tweet)/photo/1[/url]
Edit: Almost forgot:
(http://files.spectere.net/pictures/wod_beta.jpg)
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I have a pup! Here is a picture of him being adorable:
(http://i.imgur.com/2bSWOrb.jpg)
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This keyboard makes me happy: http://gaming.logitech.com/en-us/product/g710plus-mechanical-gaming-keyboard (http://gaming.logitech.com/en-us/product/g710plus-mechanical-gaming-keyboard)
Easily Logitech's best keyboard in the history of ever. Solid design, wonderful Cherry MX Brown keyswitches, sound dampening o-rings (first mechanical keyboard I've used with them...amazing how much they muffle the clack), and dedicated media keys. I can't emphasize that last one enough. Why do so many keyboard manufacturers add a goddamn Fn key nowadays? I can understand it a bit more if I'm using a goddamn laptop (not completely, though; my 2005 Inspiron 9300 had dedicated media keys. I really miss that), but certainly not if I'm using a full-sized desktop keyboard. The real kicker is that in spite of that, the keyboard is actually smaller than another keyboard that has an Fn key (namely, the Das Keyboard). Makes a ton of sense, that.
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For $140 bucks it better be the best damn keyboard, shit
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Mechanical keyboards are generally pretty pricey due to a number of factors. Typically the electrical design is a bit more complicated since modern ones will literally support all of the keys being pressed simultaneously if you plugged it in via PS/2 (if you tried to do that with a rubber dome keyboard it would shit itself), and there are way more moving parts. Rather than a flat grid with contacts on them, each and every key has its own individual mechanical switch. One plus is that you don't have to bottom out the keys in order to trigger the switch, reducing typing fatigue dramatically, and the other big advantage is that the keys themselves last a considerably long time. We're talking 20 million keystrokes for switches with a tactile bump (such as the Cherry MX Blues or Browns) and 50 million for linear switches (such as MX Blacks or Reds).
$140 is actually around the median price for a pre-packaged mechanical keyboard. In the case of he G710+ it's the MSRP. I was able to pick mine up for $110 (which, I should add, is around how much a typical rubber dome gaming keyboard costs). I'm also planning to buy two more fairly shortly, both from WASD Keyboards (http://www.wasdkeyboards.com/)--a CODE keyboard with MX Clears for work and a custom keyboard with MX Clears for my iMac. The rubber dome keyboard that I use at work is pretty lousy, all in all. The bog standard Apple keyboard is a scissor switch keyboard (think laptop keyboard). I don't normally mind those, but the keyboard has an aluminum back which causes me to bottom out hard when I type. One of my biggest mistakes was trying to play Cave Story on that system. Very ouch.
Oh, I also have another HAPPY thing. Got a fairly nice performance bonus at work, so I'm going to be grabbing a couple of GeForce GTX 980s here soon. It'll be my first-ever SLI setup. I was originally just going to buy one (since I have a buyer for my GTX 680 already) but what the hey.
Edit: I just bought two of these (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814487079). That...was 'spensive. Totally worth it, though.
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Oh, I also have another HAPPY thing. Got a fairly nice performance bonus at work, so I'm going to be grabbing a couple of GeForce GTX 980s here soon. It'll be my first-ever SLI setup. I was originally just going to buy one (since I have a buyer for my GTX 680 already) but what the hey.
Edit: I just bought two of these (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814487079). That...was 'spensive. Totally worth it, though.
Congrats dude that's awesome. I think you have more money than you know what to do with right now!
I wish I could turn back time last year and wait before I got my 4gb 770 Windfroce. The 970 turned out way better than I expected.
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Congrats dude that's awesome. I think you have more money than you know what to do with right now!
Not after buying those cards. :p But hey, Christmas bonus well spent.
I wish I could turn back time last year and wait before I got my 4gb 770 Windfroce. The 970 turned out way better than I expected.
If I waited to upgrade I probably would have ended up in the same boat as you. I ended up getting a GTX 680 about two years ago, so the 980s are a pretty sizable upgrade for me.
Oh, I wasn't able to get SLI hooked up quite yet. Turns out my motherboard box inadvertently got thrown away, so I had to order an SLI bridge. It should be arriving today. Instead of going with SLI through the motherboard I just ended up setting one GTX 980 to render and the other to do PhysX. I was pleasantly surprised. I averaged 80-90fps at 1080p, holding over 60fps consistently, with everything cranked to the max except AA (which I kept at TXAA2) in Far Cry 4! I ended up pulling out all the stops, turning DSR on and cranking the resolution up to 4K. Solid 30fps at 4K, detail level maxed, AA disabled (not like I needed it with DSR, though)...with one 980 rendering and one doing physics. Holy fuck.
I'm slightly pleased.
Just to compare, I was impressed that my aging 680 was able to hold 60+ fps on very high.
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I really really want to see FC4 super maxed out. lol what a beautiful game. My GPU is my only current bottleneck.
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A friend of mine asked me to take a video of it, so when I do that I'll probably throw it up here as well. Not sure if I have enough disk bandwidth to manage 60fps capture, but I'll do what I can. :)
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High expectations: shattered.
So I got SLI working and ran Far Cry 4. With everything cranked it was consistently over 60fps at 1080p. No real shock there, since a single GTX 980 can handle that for the most part.
The part that blew me away was when I turned DSR on 4x and came to the realization that, with AA off (let's face it, you really don't need it as much on 4K, even less so if you're using DSR, which is basically supersampling and downscaling), I can hold a very playable 45-55fps. At fucking 3840x2160. If I turn soft shadows off, it averages 55-60fps. Fuck me with a rolling pin and call me Sally, that just blew my mind when I saw that. I figured that if I managed 30fps with one card I might squeeze 45 out of two. I wasn't expecting to get that close to 60fps. Also, when I say that I got 30fps on a single card, that was with soft shadows off. I had them off by accident, since the option for them was kinda sorta hidden-ish.
I'm going to need to see how these suckers handle Crysis 3 this weekend, and perhaps upload some 4K screenies of FC4.
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Apparently I have a new job.
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Congrats! What will you be doing?
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Congrats! What will you be doing?
Your mom.
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She said that you were crap. She also said that the cat's way better (and he doesn't even have balls).
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I am now a Press Operator in a factory. Specifically, I operate presses with progressive dies.
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Very nice.
Another benefit to a lot of jobs like that is that there's a ton of room for advancement. Stay there long enough and you could quite literally end up running the place.
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Depends on the place. My brother's a machine operator at a plastic place and I'm pretty sure his chances of advancement are pretty shit, but the place I'm at has apprenticeships for various jobs and such, so there's definitely a lot of chances to work my way up.
Plus, the pay goes up every year for the first 7 years from like $14.30something to like $23 an hour.
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Yeah, that is very true.
I do know how it feels to be at one of those zero advancement places. If the place treats you well and has a lot of good benefits it isn't too much of a problem, but if the place already feels soul crushing, going there every day can be a real killer.
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Yeah, that is very true.
I do know how it feels to be at one of those zero advancement places. If the place treats you well and has a lot of good benefits it isn't too much of a problem, but if the place already feels soul crushing, going there every day can be a real killer.
Agreed. Forcing yourself to work somewhere that you dread even the thought of going to is not worth any amount of money. I've left a few jobs for that reason. Other opportunities will always present themselves so long as you keep looking.
Good luck Bobbias. Hope it works out for you.
Ian what company do you work for?
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I currently work as a web developer for Classic Optical over in Youngstown, right on Belmont. Good pay, close to home, and generally enjoyable.
Edit: So I got a Surface Pro 3 today. I like it so far. :D
I mostly snagged it to use as a note-taking device, but I think it's going to make a nice ultraportable. It's amazing how fast a tablet can be if you manage to stuff an i5 in it.
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If I needed to mobile-compute at that level I would definitely love a surface. They look awesome! Don't have enough reasons to buy one though
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I'm really liking mine so far. I've been using it for both work and home.
There are only two real complaints that I have about it. The first is that the battery life isn't that great. If you use it occasionally throughout the day you won't have a problem, but you definitely won't be able to make it through a full eight hours without plugging it in. The battery life isn't terrible; I'd guesstimate 5-6 hours on average, depending on how you use it.
The second complaint is that HiDPI is pretty icky on Windows. It's not really an issue with the hardware, but it's annoying nonetheless. If an application isn't HiDPI aware, it'll render the window at normal resolution and scale it up, resulting in some really obnoxious blurring.
If the application is HiDPI aware but they do it in a half-assed fashion (and yeah, this isn't even a Microsoft issue, but it's still important to know), you run into other issues. Regarding Adobe applications, the Creative Cloud application draws everything at 100% scaling, causing the text in the window to appear tiny (bear in mind that the Surface Pro 3 has a 12" display at 2160x1440). Photoshop only supports either 100% or 200% UI scaling, so everything is either tiny or way too large (no doubt because they only intended that to be used with Apple Retina or 4K displays).
The positives definitely outweigh the negatives (and, once again, the negatives aren't all on Microsoft here). It's great being able to seamlessly tap the screen, write on it with the stylus, and even sling the Type Cover out and using the keyboard and trackpad. Speaking of the trackpad, it's surprisingly good for its size, probably one of the best ones I've used on a Windows system. I wouldn't say it beats an Apple trackpad (mostly because of how tiny it is, not its precision) but it's very close.
I'm sure I'll probably post more about it as I use it more, and I'll doubtlessly gripe about it on Twitter at some point, because that's kinda what I do. :P
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Awe yessss nigga, awe yesss.
(http://media.eventhubs.com/images/2015/08/27_mikabreakdown.jpg) (http://giant.gfycat.com/BowedShallowFerret.webm)
She has like a tag team partner and shit, and they said it wasn't going to happen, and it does. So now it's like 3 alpha characters, 6 street fighter 2 characters, 1 new character. The final roster is to have 16 characters with 4 being new, so that means there's room for...3 more returning characters, and the other 3 will be new to street fighter 5. Maybe some third strike characters? I didn't like that game, but it had a cool roster with like Q and oro and whatnot.
Either way, im happy with the current roster. Birdie, Bison, Mika, Ken, Chun, Necali looks neat. They can put in whoever at this point and I have a good handful I want to play already.
Anyway, here's the trailer.
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wtf is this thing and what is it doing in my ohio
(http://files.spectere.net/pictures/photos/gachapon_tricoro_t.jpg) (http://files.spectere.net/pictures/photos/gachapon_tricoro.jpg)
So yeah, we have a IIDX machine in Ohio now. It's glorious. It's about a two and a half hour drive for me, but it's totally worth it. ;D
I, of course, compared it to my DAO FP7. Because I'm lazy, here's the tweets I typed out copied and pasted for your reading pleasure:
Alright, let's compare my DAO FP7 with the IIDX machine I played on today!
Buttons feel lighter on AC, but that's most likely because they're way more broken in than mine. Mine are still infants by Omron standards.
TT felt a tiny bit stiff on the AC P1 side, a bit better on P2. The FP7 TT is a bit looser than both. Again, most likely due to age/use.
TT on AC is, of course, larger. I don't have a DAO RED to compare it to.
The AC TT felt very similar to the one on the KOC--pretty much hard plastic. The FP7's has a rubberized top, making scratching easier on it.
A rubber coating probably wouldn't last too long on an arcade machine, so I can see why they wouldn't do anything like that.
I had zero problems adjusting to spacing. I did have some difficulties due to the angle of my hands/wrists, as mentioned earlier.
I had some issues hitting the 7 key. My ring finger usually sits pretty high on the key on my FP7. Standing put it almost off the key.
Standing threw off my pinky scratching a bit, and the stiffer/smoother TT caused me to need a bit more force.
If I had to make a comparison, I'd say the P1 TT felt like a US KOC and the P2 TT felt like a JP KOC. Definitely could be a lot worse.
When I mention the angle of my hands/wrists, I'm referring to the difference between my home setup (controller on a TV tray table with me sitting on an office chair at its highest height) vs the realities of the arcade experience (standing in front of a machine with a fixed controller). I'm slightly above average height (~6'1"/~185cm) so the buttons were definitely lower on AC than they are on my home setup.
I managed to compensate by leaning a bit back from the machine and squatting slightly. I have no idea how ridiculous I looked, but hey, it worked out. I started out missing a lot of notes simply because I lost track of where the buttons were to being able to pass 10s, so yay for that. My scores were a bit meh, but I suspect that's partially because of the monitor differences (I had the same issue the first time I played Pop'n AC). I'm pretty much going from playing on a 25" CRT from a distance of about 4' or a 26" LCD at 3' to a ~37" TV at, like, 2'. It also took me a few rounds to find a green number that would work for me. Thankfully, since it's Tricoro, I was just able to use floating hi-speed and keep everything flowing at roughly the same effective speed.
Unfortunately, while I was able to adapt pretty easily on single play, doubles was out of the question. I had trouble with 4's (at home I can pass an easy 7--5.1.1. [7H]--on doubles very consistently). That said, I didn't put too much effort into it, so I'm sure I could have worked my way up if I had.
I also got to play jubeat copious for the first time. I've played around with the Jukebeat iOS game, but I never found it particularly fun. The arcade game, however, is both easier and more fun! I think a large part of the fun factor has to do with the fact that you get such a solid tactile response while playing it, not to mention that the display is large enough that you can see everything very clearly. On my iPad Air everything felt cramped and, naturally, there are no physical buttons involved.
Both my friend and I had the same experience with it: the game looks bloody impossible if you watch someone play it. However, the second you step in front of it and start a round it's a much different story. If you're able to put your brain on auto-pilot and don't put too much actual thought into it, you'll just kind of...do it. I didn't expect to be able to pass an 8 (not sure what the highest difficulty is on jubeat, but unless you're talking about Pop'n, 8 is usually a pretty high number!) on my second time playing the AC version. Bloody good fun.
Speaking of 8's, I played DJ MAX Technica while I was there, too. I tried the PS Vita version of it and ran into much the same problem that I did with jubeat: the game was there and intact, but everything was cramped. With the screen being nice and large, I was able to clear Blythe normal, which is an 8. Looking back, I have no idea why I only played one round of that. That game was really fun.
So yeah, I had a ton of fun. I might try to make a monthly pilgrimage out of that (weather permitting, of course).
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Where in Ohio would this machine be?
If for whatever reason I happen to be going south, I may be interested in knowing a IIDX machine is within a days drive.
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It's in Columbus (central Ohio). Here's the address:
195 East 5th Ave.
Columbus, OH 43201
Let me know if you ever decide to go. :)
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Looks like an 8 is still quite high on jubeat. I checked remywiki, but it didnt have level info for copious. It had level info for ripples, and 10 was the highest level on that, so unless they recently expanded above that I'd guess 10 is the top difficulty.
I played DDR at canada's wonderland on the weekend, and sucked terribly. It's a DDR Extreme cab. Best I managed was passing A on standard. I tried Daikenkai after that and got rekt lol.
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Daikenkai (heavy/oni, at least...not sure what the light/standard charts look like, to be honest) is pretty rough. Definitely underrated as far as difficulty is concerned.
That was one of the charts that I just got my obligatory AA on and moved on (in MAX2 and Extreme I AA'd every non-10 singles chart, as well as MAX 300, Sakura, and PARANOiA Survivor...I found that there were quite a few "get the grade and NEVER EVER PLAY IT AGAIN" charts on those games!).
Speaking of DDR, I played some OpenITG when I was at Gotcha Gachapon (the place in Columbus). I was pretty pleased that I'm still able to pass Max. (Period) heavy. I tried PSMO because I'm an idiot and managed to get to the death runs before I nope.jpg'd and walked away. Oh, I also got 4 ITG greats on Can't Stop Fallin' In Love (Speed Mix), which pleased me. I might have actually FEC'd it if the sync weren't off (it was noticeably late on the non-ITG songs unfortunately). That's ITG timing, of course, so it's a bit looser than it otherwise would have been. My DDR record on that song was 6 greats on Extreme.
Man, I miss proper DDR cabinets. While it's nice to be able to play literally any DDR song on a single machine, there's a certain charm (and legitimacy, because let's face it, anything outside of straight-up passes are meaningless) about playing on an official mix.
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Yeah, there's a certain something about playing on a legit DDR cab. I'd love to try ITG though. I'm still sad that the PIU disappeared from canada's wonderland though. I prefer that to DDR.
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ITG was fun, but I wasn't too crazy about the direction they were taking with their stepfiles. ITG1 was generally fun (outside of some really stupid ones, like Utopia), ITG2 was generally a bit better, but I wasn't too fond of the leaked ITG3 files I've seen. Maybe it was because they didn't have time to polish them, but they struck me as being kind of bland or loaded with artificial difficulty (i.e. sudden hands, mines IMMEDIATELY following steps, really dumb rolls, etc).
PIU is generally solid, though some of the older charts were a little rough. And man, the days before they added a mod menu. Ugh. I played on a PIU:NX recently and had to look up the speed mod codes. I'm not too crazy about playing crazy charts at 1x (AHAHAHAHA).
I think it's largely due to the arrow layout, but PIU doubles generally felt better than DDR/ITG doubles. The transition between pads feels significantly smoother. And man, those freestyles. Holy shit.
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Just got a new mech KB. First mech I've owned. It's a red Ducky Shine 4 with MX Red switches. It's gonna take a while to adjust to, but I've already noticed I can play some jackhammers and stuff I couldn't hit easily before thanks to the laptop keys I've been using until now.
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Congratulations! You've just taken your first step into a larger world. :)
One nice thing about the MX Black/Red switches is that they have a consistent actuation and release point, so when you find that sweet spot and can hit it consistently you'll be in really good shape.
I'm using two mechanical keyboards now: a Logitech G710+ with MX Browns on my gaming rig and a CODE Keyboard with MX Whites at work. Kinda thinking of getting a CODE Keyboard with MX Greens for my Mac (for maximum clack!). We'll see.
Speaking of which, if the clack you get when bottoming out annoys you (or anyone around you), grab these two things:
http://www.wasdkeyboards.com/index.php/products/keyboard-accessories/cherry-mx-rubber-o-ring-switch-dampeners-125pcs.html (http://www.wasdkeyboards.com/index.php/products/keyboard-accessories/cherry-mx-rubber-o-ring-switch-dampeners-125pcs.html)
http://www.wasdkeyboards.com/index.php/products/keyboard-accessories/wasd-wire-keycap-puller-tool.html (http://www.wasdkeyboards.com/index.php/products/keyboard-accessories/wasd-wire-keycap-puller-tool.html)
I recommend the 0.2mm O-rings.
For some inexplicable reasons the CODE Keyboard with MX Greens ships with O-rings pre-installed, but the one that ships with MX Whites doesn't. It's strange, because the clack when you bottom out is louder than the MX Blue/Green switches. Considering I work in an office, I ended up installing those after getting the keyboard to dampen the sound a bit, and it actually made it a bit quieter than the cheap Dell rubber dome keyboards that we normally have at the office.
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I've already considered getting o rings, and the kb actually came with red wasd keycaps and a puller (which I immediately used to switch out the black default ones because why the hell not).
The actual biggest issue I have with it right now is that placing it in front of my laptop moves the screen far enough back that I have trouble reading patterns in o!m, so I've been playing with the laptop sitting at the front of the desk and the keyboard in my lap, because I dont have a desk with a keyboard tray.
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O-rings are a pretty good investment. Cherry MX keyboard switches trigger much earlier than they bottom out, so the noise--particularly on Blacks/Reds--can potentially throw you off. Even if the noise isn't a concern or if you're used to that by now, the fact that they soften the blow when you bottom out is pretty handy. I used to use a SteelSeries 6Gv2 with MX Blacks and no O-rings, and that keyboard was not fun to type on because of its lack of tactile feedback and how hard it would bottom out.
On a sidenote, don't ever buy SteelSeries (or, for that matter, Razer) keyboards. They fucking suck. My old Logitech Elite rubber dome keyboard (seen in most of my StepMania videos on a0.com) looks like it went through a war, and that sucker still works (I still use it on one of my other computers!). I babied my 6Gv2 and it barely lasted a year. I know someone with a Razer BlackWidow that barely made it four months (fortunately, his was still under warranty. Mine was two days outside of the warranty).
Edit: Forgot about my dad's Razer DeathStalker. Same deal with his. He had one, it lasted six months before dying, we replaced it under warranty, and the replacement lasted a bit longer before dying. I ended up getting him a Corsair K70 with MX Blues last Christmas as a replacement. He loves it so far.
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Yeah, at first I'd considered a G6v2, but when I looked around at what people were talking about on other forums and websites like deskthority I noticed that when people who were serious about mech kbs talked about them, wasd, ducky, cherry, etc. were all far more popular than gaming brands.
Considering that I can't play o!m when my dad's in bed with this kb right now o rings might help bring the noise down to acceptable levels (maybe). My biggest issue so far is that playing 7k feels weird as fuck. I'm getting used to 4k on it far quicker than 7k.
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Yeah, it doesn't seem like any of the major gaming brands make good keyboards for whatever reason. Based on the way they seem to fail, it almost seems like the thing that ultimately kills them are broken solder joints. Corsair seems to be an exception to this, thankfully. One of my friends is a fairly, uh...serious/angry/dontleavemealonewithhimwhilehesplaying LoL and HotS player that has a nasty tendency of throwing his keyboard across the room when things happen. He's had a Corsair K70 for a year and it's survived a considerable amount of punishment. His previous Razer keyboards didn't.
I do wish that more mechanical keyboards had dedicated media keys. Some of the things that I absolutely love about my Logitech G710+ is that it doesn't have an Fn key, it has media keys that are difficult to accidentally hit, and it has a really awesome volume wheel. The K70 is the same way, and the volume wheel on that is actually very similar to the G710+.
I'm really not sure why it's so unusual to see dedicated media buttons in keyboards nowadays. I've always thought they were incredibly convenient, both on desktops and laptops (I still miss the backlit media buttons on the front of my old Inspiron 9300).
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My ducky has an Fn key, but it does have dedicated calculator/explorer/email/browser keys. Most of the Fn key uses are actually for the backlighting and repeat rate type stuff. For volume it's Fn+del/end/pgdn but apart from that it's only use is for the aforementioned keyboard specific settings.
I'm actually slightly disappointed the backlights in this are 2 color red/blue rather than actual RGB ones, but oh well.
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That's all well and good, but I personally have no use for those. I've used the calculator button a few times when it's been available (though I typically just do "Win+R, calc, ENTER" since those keys are far from commonplace nowadays), but I generally just use Win+1 for the browser and personal email, Win+2 for Explorer, and Win+3 for my work e-mail (on my SP3 and my work laptop). Those buttons are also generally useless outside of Windows, so I don't really feel all that motivated to get used to them if they do exist.
I use the media keys all the time on my G710+, so it's kind of a pain in the ass when I end up with a keyboard that doesn't have them. It definitely doesn't help that every keyboard has their own idea of which buttons should be media keys. On my WASD keyboard it's Fn+Ins/Home/PgUp/Del/End/PgDn. On my laptop it's Fn with the arrow keys (the volume controls are F10/F11/F12). My Apple keyboard has all of them on F7-F12. Three different keyboards, three drastically different layouts.
You still have to contend with muscle memory with dedicated media keys, especially if you switch between keyboards often enough, but at least they stand out like a sore thumb, especially if they're backlit. With chorded media keys I always have to look around and be like, "Okay, where's the Fn key? Okay, cool. Now where are the media buttons?" during which time I could have already manually changed the song.
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that. Those three keyboards also have the Fn key in a different place. It's between left Ctrl and Super on my laptop, between right Super and Ctrl on my WASD, and where the Insert key normally is on my wired Apple keyboard with numeric keypad. To add in some more fun and excitement on my other systems, it's to the left of left Ctrl on my MacBook and wireless Apple keyboard, where right Ctrl would normally be on my Surface Pro 3 Type Cover.
I think you can see why I'm annoyed.
Oh, right! The icing on the cake. My work laptop is a Precision M4600--a professional mobile workstation. You'd expect a modern $2500 high-end business laptop to put productivity first and skip some of the niceties that the home models have. I mean, media keys belong on Inspirons, not Precisions, right? Wrong. The Precision M4600 has dedicated media keys. Inspirons do not. What the actual fuck.
Ahem. Yeah.
And yeah, the backlit keyboards that I do have all have plain white lighting. I don't really need the backlighting to find my place, but I wouldn't mind having one with RGB lights just for the bling factor.
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"Features!"
Yeah that's pretty dumb. Still not as dumb as my laptop requiring you to use Fn to access the regular F keys, with no way to toggle it though. I don't need a key that defaults to fucking toggling airplane mode.
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Really? Not even in the firmware setup or anything? That's pretty shitty. Even that horrible Inspiron 17R that I had for a while let you change that. Even Apple recognizes that people might actually have to use the regular F keys once in a while (though it's fairly rare to have to do so in OS X apps, they're almost mandatory if you do a lot of Windows work).
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Well honestly the biggest use I have for the F keys is when I play o!m (f8 is chat, f9 is friendslist, and I never felt like remapping them. those map to alt+tab for f8 and turn the screen off for f9. f7 is also switch frame limiter in osu, and that maps to airplane mode, and nothing is more annoying than messing up and hitting airplane mode and watching your computer choke for a second while it realizes the network just disappeared), so it's not a HUGE deal for me, but it is pretty annoying. I looked all over and there was absolutely no way to swap it :/
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See, I use the F keys quite a bit in Windows. I've gotten rather used to, say, hitting F2 to rename files in Explorer. If I couldn't disable that on my laptop it would be pretty awful (Fn+F2 is the airplane mode toggle on mine). I also typically close applications with ALT-F4. It's a lot faster to do that than to use the mouse, after all, and it's an easy one-handed chord.
If you want some really stupid Fn keys, you should see the Surface Type Covers. Here's what the layout looks like:
F1: dim keyboard backlighting
F2: brighten keyboard backlighting
F3: mute
F4: play/pause
F5: search
F6: share
F7: devices
F8: settings
F9: home
F10: end
F11: pgup
F12: pgdn
Okay, so I totally get F9-F12 being what they are, seeing as the system has a full-sized keyboard and is 10/12". Only having a mute option is fine, because there's a volume rocker on the tablet itself. Search can definitely be handy.
But where's the option to adjust the screen brightness? Why is there a bloody share button on the keyboard? A settings button? What? I don't know about you, but I don't reconfigure my computer on a daily basis. Considering how bad the devices screen on Windows 8/8.1/10 is, that button is pretty damn useless.
The reason I brought that up is because there's no obvious way to invert the Fn key on that system, and most of the "enhanced functionality" is actually quite useless. There apparently is an Fn lock (Fn+Caps), but I highly doubt that sticks around after a reboot, and there's nothing indicating that the feature is actually enabled (or even present). Urgh.
This is starting to get dangerously ranty for this thread, haha.
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Yeah that's kinda.... ugh. I do use f2 for rename, and alt+f4 (one of the only good ideas they had was to make f4 map to alt+f4) and also occasionally stuff like f5 (which is mapped to... f5 actually) or f6 when in browsers and not using a mouse.
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I upgraded to an iPhone 6s Plus. That fucker is huge (I was using an iPhone 6 before).
I also love the fact that both of my parents now use iPhones. We have a nice hand-me-down system going that 1) ensures that all of us will get upgraded every year and 2) ensures that I, specifically, will always have the latest and greatest. ;D
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Haha, that's awesome. I need to get me a fucking phone sometime.
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Doublepost because #1postwhore status never goes away. I mean, because my girlfriend just got hired full time at the place she's been working as a temp for a while now. She likes the job and applied for full time earlier, but they told her she 'lacked focus' as why she didn't get hired earlier, and she was pretty upset about that.
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I've been lurking around here for the past year and haven't really given much of an update to anything.
Considering my previous problem, all that has ended. I once again, moved back to the Philippines in May, 2015, am now happily married (With a new proper girl), have full citizenship status, working fulltime and have my first baby on the way! Super happy and excited. Just thought I'd let you guys know. Hope all is well with everyone else.
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Congrats man! That's awesome.
Also, my sd2snes arrived. Can't wait to play some snes games on real hardware without shelling out thousands of bucks for a huge collection of games.
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I've been lurking around here for the past year and haven't really given much of an update to anything.
Considering my previous problem, all that has ended. I once again, moved back to the Philippines in May, 2015, am now happily married (With a new proper girl), have full citizenship status, working fulltime and have my first baby on the way! Super happy and excited. Just thought I'd let you guys know. Hope all is well with everyone else.
Congrats! ;D
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I updated the web server and nothing got fucked up! It's sad that the above is a reason to be happy, but with the combined powers of Arch and systemd, it truly is a reason to celebrate.
Edit: Just to clarify: I mentioned something about migrating to a different distro a while ago, but I canned that project due to how cumbersome using a source-based distro on a public web server would be. I do use Gentoo for the Minecraft server that my friends and I screw around with, but for that VPS I absolutely need to have as light of an init/log system as I can (rather than the accident-prone, resource-addicted systemd, which, all in all, is using more RAM as MariaDB right now...not even fucking joking). This one, fortunately, doesn't get hammered as hard, so I can afford to keep it as-is. If things get too stupid I'll probably swap to a different binary distro (probably something that uses apt, definitely not CentOS), but for now I'm keeping it as-is.
And yeah, I know there's plenty of Minecraft hosts out there, but a Linode VPS isn't much more expensive, the ping times are lower, I have far more control, and it's way less laggy. Admittedly, Minecraft Server Host (http://www.minecraftserverhost.net/) did come pretty damn close, but I enjoyed writing my own init scripts and cron jobs for it. They seem to be quite robust, too!
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TWIPPLE POST.
So I got something today: 667131251908710400[/tweet]] (http://[tweet)[/url] (apologies for the inconsistent lighting)
Also, I can't help but be amused that the minor video editing that I used to do for my ancient rhythm game videos can now all be done on a cell phone. Gaddang.
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In case people haven't seen it yet, Undertale won this year's GameFAQs Best. Game. Ever. contest.
I don't know whether to be more excited about the fact that it won or the sheer level of salt from people who think that Ocarina of Time deserves to automatically win every year. It is glorious.
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If the "Best. Game. Ever." awards weren't meant to capture contemporary trends in gaming, they would have only held it once. QED.
Ocarina of Time is good for its era, much the same way Final Fantasy VII is, buuut we've had nearly 2 decades of constant improvement and innovation since then. I love Super Mario RPG, but I wouldn't call it a better game than e.g. FFX because the experience is nearly incomparable.
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Oh yeah, no doubt. I tried revisiting Final Fantasy VII a couple of years ago and, while I still enjoy it, the sheer amount of grinding is a bit of a turn off. I have a lot of games that I need to get through and I no longer have the time or the desire to spend 200 hours doing what amounts to watching numbers go up. And yes, I realize how strange that sounds coming from an MMO fan, but at least there you get some social interaction.
I've gotten considerably more enjoyment out of the iOS port of FF7 because it has some band-aid "fixes" for that (though I think that they should have offered an "increased exp" option rather than simply offering "now you're OP, lol" button). I've been watching news about the remake with great interest to see what kind of new mechanics they bring to the table.
With regards to the actual contest itself, I've no doubt that nowadays GameFAQs uses it as a means to drive traffic to their site more than anything else. All the more reason why I think it's hilarious that people take them as seriously as they do.
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Ive been living under a rock and I even get exposure to undertale. Also those things are just popularity contests so, the most popular(not the best, typically) will win. Though talking about it, instead of "best game ever" how bout "gamefaq's most popular game of the year", fits better than "best game" imo.
And about grinding in ff7, of all ff games? I played it about...shit it was a while ago, but like 9 years ago, and I specifically remember even running away from a lot of battles and still being sufficient to complete the game with no real effort. (albiet, a few select grinding spots, I don't recall them being too bad). I had a way worse time in ff10 if anything, with the grinding. I just didn't really use magic at all, didn't let materia lower my max hp and whatnot (mostly used the yellow type materia), and physical attacks the whole way through.
But iunno, we all play games differently. I probably grinded a hell of a lot more than I needed to in other games that most people probably didn't need to grind much at all in. (ff12, im looking at you, you stupid game)
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That's why I brought up my totally original conspiracy theory. "Most popular game of the year" just doesn't have the clickbait appeal of "Best. Game. Ever."
FF7 could definitely be beat at lower levels, but there were some encounters that were a little rough at lower levels (and low level runs generally require very specific equipment to be possible). If you do opt to use magic and summons, the materia grinding alone is certainly worth a mention. If you wanted to have decent magic/summon representation across your party (which was a pretty big deal later in the game, when you had to equip multiple parties) or even have the abilities at a reasonable level it would take quite a bit of experience.
Using physical attacks throughout probably saved you a lot of headaches in the long run, I'd wager. Admittedly, I've never tried that kind of run (now that you mention it I can definitely see it being pretty damn effective), but a lot of the fun for me is fiddling around with materia combinations. Like you said: we all play differently, YMMV, etc.
FF8 was significantly streamlined in that regard. I believe last time I played through FF8 (which, again, was in the late 90s and early 00s) I beat it with an average party level of around 15 with a relatively short playtime. That fucker scaled like Oblivion, yo. Certainly a more enjoyable experience for me (though I greatly prefer the story and general aesthetic of FF7), but the game mechanics were a bit weird (you need to use GFs to gain the item ability? WTF?!) and somewhat poorly explained. The way that junctioning was implemented was also pretty goddamn ridiculous and kind of discouraged magic use. I found myself gravitating towards physical attacks and GF summons, using Aura to proc limit breaks and stockpiling everything else to pump my attack/speed stats up. I think it was actually easier to break FF8 than it was FF7. It certainly took less time (outside of that motherfucking draw system).
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My new laptop has been making me very happy:
Dell Precision 7710
CPU: Intel Core i7-6820HQ, 2.70GHz (boosts to 3.60GHz)
RAM: 16GB DDR4 2133MHz
SSD: 256GB Samsung SM951 M.2 NVMe
HDD: 1TB HGST 7200rpm
GPU: AMD FirePro W5170M (and, of course, an Intel HD 530)
Display: Dell UltraSharp UHD (4K), with PremierColor
And it has some other doodads, like a backlit keyboard, fingerprint reader, smart card reader (I...actually do have some Mifare cards lying around), docking port, webcam, etc. It's a hell of a performer, too.
I ended up going the workstation route because I was tired of dealing with the numerous quality control issues on my ASUS G750. For as many negative things as I had to say about the Dell Inspiron 17R that I made the mistake of buying (basically, they took a system with a thermal system designed around an i3 and stuffed an i7 and dedicated GPU into it...gee, I wonder why it overheated), at least it didn't just randomly break while it was just bloody sitting there. The display on the ASUS started dying mere weeks after the warranty had expired, and in the process of opening the case, one of the screw posts broke while I was loosening the screw. I've literally never seen that happen, and I've dissected some of the cheapest laptops on the market.
Let's not even get into the highly variable battery life, the mushy keyboard, the fucking AWFUL sound (ASUS jammed the speakers behind the display hinge), bizarre design decisions (wi-fi module under the keyboard on a 17" laptop), the display quality of the panel they selected (you couldn't see it well unless you were at just the right angle, and the color rendition was really off...oh, and it fucking killed itself), the fact that the thing was a fingerprint magnet, and the firmware being buggy as sin (I'm not kidding when I say that the backlight control would suddenly stop working at random). Actually, yeah, let's get into all of that.
You know what laptop doesn't have the problems that I mentioned above? The cheap ASUS touchscreen laptop that I bought my mom to replace her old Inspiron E1505. A cheap ultrabook is better assembled and more reliable than one of their premium laptops. What the everloving fuck.
So yeah, enough was enough. I already spent almost as much on my last two craptops as I did on this one, and this one is far more likely to stand the test of time. Not only that, but if something does go wrong, this thing is covered by a three year on-site warranty. If something happens, they send out a contractor to fix it at my house. Score.
About the only complaint I can think of is that it doesn't have a numlock light. It's kind of a bizarre omission. It almost looks like the intention was to provide a software indicator for it, but the system didn't ship with it preinstalled. There is a dedicated light for the capslock key, so that just seems really strange to me. The keyboard doesn't feel quite as good as the one on the M4800, but the keys are all crisp and responsive. There is a dedicated calculator button (which is surprisingly handy when you get used to it) and a few media keys--previous, play/pause, and next--but, unlike the M4800, there are no dedicated volume keys. Instead, you have to use Fn-F1/F2/F3 for mute, volume down, and volume up, respectively. Also unlike the M4800, the arrow keys are half-sized, but that's not really a huge deal.
One of the Fn-key things that makes a ton of sense is the way that Dell bound Fn-Left and Fn-Right to home and end, respectively. If you're at all used to using Macs, that makes getting the cursor to the end of the line feel very familiar (in macOS, home and end move you to the home and end of the document--Cmd-Left/Right move the cursor to the beginning/end of a line). PgUp/PgDn are right above the left/right keys, flanking the up arrow, which makes paging through documents feel incredibly intuitive.
11/10 best laptop evar
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(http://i.imgur.com/3UPi5aL.jpg)
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I came. Twice.
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I've been away from Infected Mushroom since they started experimenting. I mean they had some good stuff, but also some bad stuff. While I respect trying to do new things, doesn't mean I'm going to like it.
Their latest album doe...
breh, they're bak. This album is going to be a go to jogging album for me.
Not to mention the album cover is sick as hell.
(https://tse4.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.Mb4b6a1442440c10199dff636089c481co0&pid=15.1)
I don't even listen to electronic music much at all anymore(i'm a hip hop head now a days), but this is bringing me back.
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Woo! I'm gonna have to check that out. Thanks for the heads up!
Edit: Just listened and...damn. So fucking good.
Also, I'm pretty pumped because I just successfully reverse engineered the saved game checksum algorithm for a game from 1993! Fun way to spend a Friday evening (though I admittedly did spend a lot of it cursing the segmented memory model). ;D
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I'm curious what kind of computer wizardry is required to do stuff like that.
As of recent I've been more interested in learning programming for fun, but apparently I'm dumb enough to find even installing python to be challenging, so that's where I'm at right now, lol.
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reverse engineering is still beyond me. best i ever accomplished was bypassing a cd key in an obscure game, but there was a secondary copy protection involving missing content causing crashes lol. all i did was figure out the correct change to the jump instruction to bypass the check window entirely.
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I'm curious what kind of computer wizardry is required to do stuff like that.
In this case, it was a matter of unpacking and tearing open the executable file with a disassembler (IDA, in this case).
I looked for the file write functions (_fwrite, in this case) and looked at what segments of code were calling that. I saw a piece of code that was going through a data structure that was the size of the saved game, did a rough transcription of what it was doing in LINQPad (basically a nice way of running .NET code without creating a new project) and voila!
Here's an explanation of the checksum code:
mov al, [si-4780h] - Retrieves a byte and stores it into the al register.
add [bp+checksum1], al - Adds the retrieved value to the first byte of the checksum.
mov al, [bp+checksum1] - Moves the first byte of the checksum into the al register.
cbw - Expands al into a word and stores it into the ax register.
push ax - Pushes the ax register onto the stack.
mov al, [bp+checksum1] - Moves the first byte of the checksum into the al register.
cbw - Expands al into a word and stores it into the ax register.
mov dx, ax - Loads the contents of the ax register into the dx register.
pop ax - Pops the top value off of the stack and stores it in the ax register.
imul dx - Multiplies the value in the ax register by dx and stores the result in the ax register.
mov [bp+var_2], al - Stores the contents of the al register into a temporary variable in memory.
mov al, [bp+checksum1] - Loads the al register with the first byte of the checksum.
sub al, [bp+var_2] - Subtracts the contents of the al register with the contents of the temporary variable.
mov dl, [bp+checksum2] - Pushes the second byte of the checksum into the dl register.
add dl, al - Adds the value in the al register to the value in the dl register, then stores the output to the dl register.
mov [bp+checksum2], dl - Stores the dl register to the memory location holding the second checksum byte.
Here's a couple of core concepts:
Registers: These are tiny bits of memory within the processor. Put simply, whenever a mathematical operation is done, the numbers are typically loaded into registers, calculated, and the resulting output is moved from a register back into memory. While you can't store a whole lot of data in registers, because they're located in the processor core, reading and writing to them is extremely fast.
The two registers in the above code are ax and dx. These can hold 16-bit (0 to 65535) values. The upper and lower bytes of these registers (8-bits each, or 0 to 255) can be addressed individually using ah/dh and al/dl, respectively.
Stack: This is a section of memory set aside for some processor operations. The name is apt, as it simulates having a stack of objects. You can place (push) an arbitrary number of objects on the stack and remove (pop) them in the reverse order that you put them on (you can technically bypass this rule, but that's beyond the scope of this post). This is known as LIFO, or last-in, first-out.
There is one important bit to keep in mind. First, as I mentioned, the al register holds values from 0-255. What happens, then, when the value exceeds that? There's no checks to make sure that it never exceeds 255, after all. Basically, the value wraps around. If you take 255+1, you'll get 0. The same wrap-around can happen when we hit the subtraction a bit later on. The same thing occurs with the multiplication instruction (imul) as well.
There is one other noteworthy thing. It looks like the cbw instruction isn't necessary. After all, couldn't you just push al and be done with it? Unfortunately, no. The 8086 processor can only push 16-bit words, so you have to push ax. The game was written in C and presumably uses chars to hold the checksum values, and cbw is the cleanest way to preserve the sign prior to pushing the value to the stack (if you want to learn more about how signed values--i.e. ones that can either be positive or negative--are stored, look up two's complement (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two%27s_complement)).
So...yeah! That's how the saved game checksumming in Dungeons of the Unforgiven works. Woo.
Edit: Here's the C# equivalent of the above assembly code (assuming that cs0 and cs1 are bytes and i is one byte of file input):
cs0 += i;
cs1 += (byte)(cs0 - cs0 * cs0);
It's funny how verbose things appear to be when you dive down to a much lower level.
As of recent I've been more interested in learning programming for fun, but apparently I'm dumb enough to find even installing python to be challenging, so that's where I'm at right now, lol.
A lot of those languages tend to have fairly unintuitive Windows installers, honestly. Some of them (and, if I remember correctly, Python is in this camp) are fairly easy to install, but actually being able to use the interpreter is a different story, since it doesn't usually set paths and stuff up for you.
One thing you may want to look into is Microsoft Visual Studio (http://www.visualstudio.com/). I seem to remember it supporting Python fairly well. One caveat is that VS is heavily project-based, so you won't be able to just pop open a script and go, but it's easily one of the best programming suites out there.
reverse engineering is still beyond me. best i ever accomplished was bypassing a cd key in an obscure game, but there was a secondary copy protection involving missing content causing crashes lol. all i did was figure out the correct change to the jump instruction to bypass the check window entirely.
That's basically how I "fixed" Milk Chan's old O2Jam server. The server software that he was using had a bunch of highly annoying nag screens that would pop up, so I used OllyDbg to locate the offending segments of code and disabled them.
I don't remember if I jmp'd past them or replaced the calls with nop's. It's been a while.
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Another thing I am curious about, having dipped my toes into the programming ocean (not having gone far AT ALL), it made me realize that this shit is wayyyyy more complicated than I had originally thought (and your post verified this). If I put time into one language, will it therefore make other languages way easier to comprehend? I know each language is different in what it does, and the whole higher level lower level languages and whatnot, but if I put time into python (basically because people say it's one of the easier languages, and you can actually get some actual work done with the thing) will it make...iunno C easier to understand even if it is a lower level language?
I'm teetering on piddling around with this stuff on the side as like a hobby type of thing, but then I get bogged down by "well I don't know anything and even tutorials are way over my head" territory.
I blame this asshole (https://www.youtube.com/user/shiffman/featured) for spiking my interest since his videos typically have a goal, and he vocally goes through his thought process as he gets stuff down.
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The main reason that my post was kind of complicated is because I was taking apart code from a mere baby step above the lowest level. When you get down to the processor level things tend to get very verbose. 16 lines of assembler ended up translating into a relatively simple formula that can be easily represented into two lines of code in a higher level language.
And yes, experience with one language most definitely makes other languages that follow a similar paradigm easier to understand. Most of the traditional languages (including Python, C, C#, BASIC, etc) are procedural languages (that is, they consist of procedures that contain instructions for the computer to carry out). By learning one you can get a relatively good idea of how things will work in the other languages. You'll probably still need to Google things here and there to understand exactly what's happening in some cases, but the concepts are fairly portable. For example, even though all of the procedural languages that I'm familiar with have a concept of what a for loop is, it is expressed a bit differently in each one. There are other paradigms (such as functional programming) but procedural seems to be where most people start.
I would agree that something like Python, Ruby, or BASIC provide a very good starting point. They allow you to get familiar with those concepts without having to dwell too much on the nitty gritty. Even C#, despite resembling C/C++, takes a much higher level approach to things. With languages like C (and, to a slightly lesser extent, C++) you can very easily wind up digging yourself a giant hole without realizing it. When I started programming, I started off with C++, though I didn't start having fun with it until I started playing with BASIC (QuickBasic, to be specific). After getting a solid handle on things, I find C and C# to be my overall favorites.
I wouldn't dwell on the difficulty of all of this until you start to dig into it. Just take things one step at a time and try not to think about the overall picture. It's like anything else, really. If you look at any concept as a whole--math, any spoken/written language or, hell, video games--it will seem overwhelmingly difficult. Like anything else, if you tackle programming one step at a time you'll be able to manage it.
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Well Python will be on my checklist of shit I need to focus attention on, along with working out. Just need to put my motivation cap on, really hard to get myself to apply myself after an 8-10 hour shift. It's a bad excuse, but after work I just want a beer and mindless youtube or vidya. Goal this coming Easter Sunday when I have nothing going on after morning, piddle more with python, get AT LEAST 3 sets of some compound lifts done. It looks like a lot of fun after you get past the initial learning wall.
But the thing that brought me here...
YOOLA LAYLEE SOUNDTRACK (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii-h4viojs8)
I've only played the game about 3-4 hours so far, but listening to all the tracks, goddamn. Phenomenal. Like you expect banjo kazooie right? You totally get that, but then it kind of evolves into classic rare games in general, like you hear some donkey kong country influenced stuff (no surprise since the people who did the soundtracks on dkc and bk are making this), and even things that remind me of like battletoads or other rare stuff, like it's not a one trick pony at all in terms of sound.
Like you go from what sounds really similar to the hubworld of banjo tooie (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQKWH2G5S4w)
to like guitar influenced dkc minecart levels (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5SMxgReJAQ)
it's even got chiptune that gives me mad battletoads vibes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHGbmjk0uAo) for some reason
I don't go into videogames with music in mind, but Rare games was my damn childhood, and listening to this OOZES the golden era when Rare could do no wrong. Did I mention I'm a big banjo fan? Because I honestly believe banjo kazooie is flat out better than sm64 in every way, which it should since it came out later, but damn if my opinion isn't popular. (I like sm64 so im not hating)
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Snagged a set of Shure SE425s (http://www.shure.com/americas/products/earphones/se-earphones/se425-sound-isolating-earphones), since I wanted a set of IEMs for home use. It's actually kind of shocking how much of an improvement they are over the SE215s that I use at work.
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I now own a Sony PVM-14M2U, a 4-port SCART switch, and a Nintendo multi-AV to Euro SCART adapter. As soon as my Euro SCART to RGBS BNC adapter arrives, shit's gonna look reaaaaaaal nice. After I get that rig hooked up (and play through Super Metroid again because holy shit that game is gonna look amazing) I'm going to rig up a few more of my consoles to output RGB (or buy the necessary adapters for ones like the Genesis Model 2, which already do).
I really hope I can get RGB output on my N64. Apparently only certain models can do it.
If you guys have never seen a retro console hooked up to a professional-grade CRT via RGB, you're really missing out. It's gorgeous.
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I went from an awkward teenager in hs to a socially skilled mastermind that scares the fuck out of all my adversaries, thanks guys
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I now own a Sony PVM-14M2U, a 4-port SCART switch, and a Nintendo multi-AV to Euro SCART adapter. As soon as my Euro SCART to RGBS BNC adapter arrives, shit's gonna look reaaaaaaal nice. After I get that rig hooked up (and play through Super Metroid again because holy shit that game is gonna look amazing) I'm going to rig up a few more of my consoles to output RGB (or buy the necessary adapters for ones like the Genesis Model 2, which already do).
I really hope I can get RGB output on my N64. Apparently only certain models can do it.
If you guys have never seen a retro console hooked up to a professional-grade CRT via RGB, you're really missing out. It's gorgeous.
Fucking want. I've got a SNES and a generic CRT, but no SCART/RGB shit. I've heard shit's gorgeous though.
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This really doesn't do it justice, but here you go anyway:
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DCaC46CUwAAWAU7.jpg:small) (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DCaC46CUwAAWAU7.jpg:orig)
(click to enlarge, like, if you want to and stuff)
Daaaaaamn, does it look sharp. I don't even have the 1CHIP SNES, either--mine is the SHVC-CPU-01 (not as good as a 1CHIP, not as fuzzy as an SNS-CPU-GPM-02. If I can manage to find a 1CHIP at a reasonable price I'll definitely snatch it up, but the people who actually know what they are demand a pretty penny for them. SNES Mini would probably be my best option for RGB--those are going for about half the price as a standard 1CHIP SNES.
I also found out that my N64 as an NS1* serial number, so a fairly basic RGB mod will work nicely for that. PSone/PS2 only needs a cable, so that should also be happening shortly. Miiiiiiiight look into modding my NES as well. We'll see.
Also, didn't mention it in my previous post, but I also got one o' deez:
(https://i.imgur.com/CWFLMZcm.jpg) (https://i.imgur.com/CWFLMZc.jpg)
It's purple!
I found out that the company that puts together the SD2SNES Deluxe and Custom units is literally 30 minutes from my house. I might stop in and see what they have.
Also, as it turns out, I can still do the mockball trick in Super Metroid. Lovin' them early Super Missiles:
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DCaMZ-fUAAA6MpM.jpg:small)
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Fuckin A man. I've got a SD2SNES myself:
Click for Huge image (http://puu.sh/wn61A/12c7a4a377.jpg)
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Oh wow, I love that label. :o
I absolutely love that thing so far. Not only can I grab training carts and be able to get some good Super Metroid practice in, but I can also fill out my collection...because fuck paying $100+ for Chrono Trigger (especially since precisely $0 is actually going to the developers).
I do need to get around to socketing the battery backed cartridges that I have (since I 855905410599047168[/tweet]]have a fair amount of experience doing that (http://[tweet) thanks to socketing my friends' carts). I know for a fact that my Super Metroid cart has a dead battery at the very least. :<
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Yeah, only game I've paid for so far since I got the cart is SMRPG, which I paid $90 for, because it's not compatible (thanks SA1) and it's basically a must for a SNES game collection.
And yeah, that label is fucking awesome. I actually forget the site I got it off, but they also let you chose the color of the cart (although the cart was extra, and anything other than grey was more on top of that, but I wanted something that looked cool too). I looked around after and noticed most of the labels weren't as cool as the one I got, so I was pretty happy about that.
Oh, I do also have a copy of The Incredible Crash Test Dummies, which is apparently one of the few games I didn't sell years ago for some reason.
Also, that's a lot of sockets lol.
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Yep, I'm lucky enough to have most of the SA-1/SuperFX carts that I want. The only ones that I don't have that I wouldn't mind collecting are the Kirby games. Aside from that, I have SMW2, SMRPG, and Star Fox, so I'm sorted. I also wouldn't mind having a copy of Doom, for the novelty factor more than anything else, and that one seems like it's relatively cheap.
Yeah, I think the company that actually makes the SD2SNES boards just sells the PCBs. I seem to remember seeing one site where you could literally just buy the PCB and put it in a cart yourself.
Oh jeez, I haven't played The Incredible Crash Test Dummies, but the plot synopsis made me chuckle. I might have to give that one a shot. :P
Yep, I resocketed something like 22 carts. Most of them were easy, but I had a really tough time desoldering the battery on some of them (FF4 was particularly bad). Still, all's well that ends well!
I am going to have to check where my friend snagged his sockets and CR2032 cells. He managed to buy them in bulk, which probably saved him quite a bit (you can see the tray of batteries in the photo and there's a belt-like roll of sockets somewhere else on the table).
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Do you guys have a preferred console you acquire games for? I grew up with nes and snes, but I feel the most nostalgia for ps1/n64 mostly because I was a bit older back then and it was during the time when I had multiple videogame magazine subscriptions.
There are probably less than 5 n64 games I want that I don't have, and I cant have enough of dat ps1 (faves console by far).
Would love a copy of Suikoden II, but even loose discs fetch for over $130 over here...
...Definitely going to emulate that one because of that.
(random note please recommend me a good soldering iron, id like to step my solder game up as there are a few projects I need it for)
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In terms of the style of classic games that I play, I find myself gravitating toward the SNES. I love the RPGs from that era, and some of the Nintendo side-scrollers from around that time period are nothing short of stellar (Super Metroid is one of my favorite games of all time). I have a pretty harsh filter when it comes to older titles, since they tend to be chock full of bullshit mechanics. I'm very elective when it comes to NES titles, for instance.
I don't actually have much childhood nostalgia for consoles, so I tend to chase specific games more than systems. I've been a PC gamer pretty much since the beginning, so you could say that I'm a child of Apogee, id Software, and Epic (Mega)Games more than anything else. Generally, if I do have nostalgia for older titles, it's because I played them at a friends' house (which is one of the reasons I'm particularly fond of the NES port of Snow Bros and a lot of N64 titles).
The PS1/N64 era, specifically, is a bit of a weird one. I find myself gravitating more toward the N64 for the more action-orientated games just because the level of jank on the PS1 is off the scale in a lot of cases. I think Nintendo putting an analog stick on that sucker right from launch made a bigger difference than some people think it did. I can still have a hell of a good time with SM64. I doubt many people can go back to some of the pre-DualShock mascot platformers on the PS1 and not feel like something's missing.
That said, PS1 is unbeatable when it comes to RPGs. It's on the same level as the SNES for that genre as far as I'm concerned. And when it comes to 2D platformers...well, it hardly needs stated that SotN is a fucking masterpiece (real shame about the load times, though). And, naturally, one of the reasons that I've been fiddling around with PS1 systems a lot lately is because I want to play some of the Bemani titles from that era. I'm a sucker for classic 5-key Beatmania. And since you can now use an Arduino Uno as a modchip that makes me even more interested.
As far as soldering stuff goes, strap yourself in and prepare for a ton of links.
If you need pretty much everything, Adafruit has a nice kit for $100 (https://www.adafruit.com/product/136) that includes an iron, a number of tools, a multimeter, an iron stand, and more. Pretty good value for the money.
If you're just looking for an iron, here's the one I've been using: https://www.adafruit.com/product/180 (https://www.adafruit.com/product/180). Seems to work very nicely!
I'd also recommend a decent soldering iron stand. Those little flimsy things that some irons come with royally suck, and using them is a great way of burning yourself or your table. Here's one: https://www.adafruit.com/product/150 (https://www.adafruit.com/product/150)
I use a brass sponge to clean my tip while I'm working. The specific one that I have is very open and has caused me to get pelted by molten solder. I'd recommend something like this to prevent crap from getting flung everywhere: https://www.adafruit.com/product/1172 (https://www.adafruit.com/product/1172)
Here's some solder: https://www.adafruit.com/product/1886 (https://www.adafruit.com/product/1886). Not much else to say about that.
I also have an adjustable magnifying glass and PCB holder: https://www.adafruit.com/product/291 (https://www.adafruit.com/product/291). The magnifying glass is really useful. If you want something that grips the board a bit better, here's a good looking vice (haven't used this one personally): https://www.adafruit.com/product/151 (https://www.adafruit.com/product/151)
For desoldering, I'd recommend both wick and a solder sucker. Here's the wick that I use: https://www.adafruit.com/product/149 (https://www.adafruit.com/product/149) (you may want to order a few of those if you have a lot of work to do--5 feet doesn't seem to go very far if you're doing a lot of component replacements). I have the $5 solder sucker that Adafruit uses and it's a piece of shit, so I'm thinking of getting something better. I have my eye on this one ($17.50), though I'm not sure how good it is: https://www.adafruit.com/product/1597 (https://www.adafruit.com/product/1597).
As far as tools go, I'd recommend a pair of diagonal cutters (https://www.adafruit.com/product/152), wire strippers (https://www.adafruit.com/product/527) (if you're working with solid core or stranded wires--if you're just swapping components I wouldn't worry about it).
If you're missing more than a few of these things, just do yourself a favor and get the kit. :)
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Oh jeez, I haven't played The Incredible Crash Test Dummies, but the plot synopsis made me chuckle. I might have to give that one a shot. :P
Be warned, it's NOT a good game lol. It was part of awful games done quick 2013.
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Well, if we're being honest, most licensed games are a truckload of suck. :P
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I may have to nab that iron, ive been looking for a paddle tip soldering iron but all the ones ive seen have been pencil tipped. In the small amount of times I've tried to solder, I just can't get enough heat contact with a pencil tipped iron. Could have saved $200.00 on a monitor if I didn't fuck up changing the capacitor because of that. LESSON LEARNED! I should have practiced more on old pcb's I don't need anyway.
Another lesson for you chaps, don't buy samsung monitors, shit capacitors die after a year. I swear off that company now, no samsung monitors or phones in my house.
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This video might help with the soldering stuff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtJ5gngTm-A (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtJ5gngTm-A). He gives plenty of very helpful tips and also links to an eBay search where you can buy practice kits to help you git gud. I've been thinking of picking up a few myself because my technique is a bit...well, it works, but I think it could be better. I'd much rather screw up something that I only paid a couple of dollars for.
Sucks to hear about the monitor. I have a Samsung display from around 2009 or so that's still kicking, but I have a feeling that might be when they actually gave a shit (or I got lucky...who knows). It's the last 16:10 display that I have, so I hope it hangs on for a while longer.
As far as their phones and tablets go, they can die in a fire. I decided to try a Samsung tablet (Galaxy Tab S 8.4) because they seem to have a decent reputation in the Android ecosystem and...god. Fuck that pile of junk. Not only did it cost more than a fucking iPad, but it was slow as molasses from day 1. Even simply rendering the home screen brought that piece of shit to its knees. Browsing the web on an old iPad 2 is a better experience than trying to use that thing. It would also overheat fairly quickly because Samsung has a fetish for putting quad-core processors in their tablets (in this case, it had a Exynos octa-core--a big.LITTLE design where one set of four cores could be active at once). Yeaaaah, there's a reason that most sane companies use dual- and tri-core processors in their phones and tablets. Not only can you attain higher clock speeds for each individual core, but it can maintain those speeds for a longer stretch of time.
I figured it was just the software, since that tablet, on a fresh boot, actually consumed as memory than a full desktop installation of Windows 10 (no, I'm not shitting you--both used something like 1.6-1.7GB, and I think it's safe to say that you can get way more accomplished with the Windows 10 installation). But, no. I flashed it with Cyanogen (basically as close as it would ever come to running stock Android) and it was only marginally better.
The best part are the Samsung fanboys. Some of them seriously think that Apple went out of their way to sabotage the Note 7 battery when they started exploding. I wish I were kidding. Then again, the simple story of Samsung failing to rewrite the laws of physics and thermodynamics isn't absolutely batshit insane, so I can see why they might reject that explanation.
Aaaand, this is dangerously getting close to ANGER thread territory, so I'm going to stop here.
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I've got an S7 and I like it so far....
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No matter how fucking Berserk-Kaiser Ryu from Breath of Fire III I can act, what brings me back to Earth is that I have very loving and supporting friends that continue to lift me up, no matter how down I am.
<3
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Amazon job get
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Hey, nice! :D
Whatcha gonna be doing?
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So, I posted about it in the random shit thread, but I'm gonna post something a bit more complete and not written on my phone while drinking in a bar in Montreal.
So, for my birthday present, my girlfriend got me tickets to see Hiromi Uehara in Montreal. She played there last year and met Edmar Castaneda, a Colombian harpist, and she's been touring with him since then.
So, she decided to play this year at the Montreal jazz festival with him....and apparently they decided to record the entire show for a live CD. the show was fucking amazing, because they two of them really do seem to speak the same musical language. We got 2 encores, the second of which happened to my be ABSOLUTE favorite Hiromi song, which was the most perfect way to end the show.
We also found a fucking amazing asian bakery just down the street from our hotel. They had all sorts of amazing buns, and they also had a bunch of mochi and other assorted treats too. I've got some banana mochi roll things and an egg tart left over, and she has a "cheesecake" (which is like some sort of angel cake or something, very light fluffy stuff) and dorayaki (basically 2 small pancakes with red bean paste in the middle).
We also found the best sushi place we've been to so far there. Shit was expensive, but oh man it was good. She had a $12 glass of sake which was by far the best sake I've ever tasted, and I got 2 glasses of plum wine to go with the awesome sushi.
Just got back, and literally the ONLY shitty thing about the trip was the fucked up traffic I had to get through on the way back. We parked right in the middle of the entertainment district in Toronto, right in front of the Air Canada center, not far from the Rogers Center either. And we also made the mistake of coming back at 11:30 PM on Canada Day.... That was probably the busiest part of the entire fucking city.
All in all, it was a fucking awesome trip, and I hope I can go back again sometime.
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So Evo is happening as of this post.
Tekken happened a few hours ago and they announced a new guest character.
My thoughts is "i hope its not a king of fighters character since most of the characters except benimaru and geese are boring and lame"
GEESE MOTHER TRUCKING HOWARD (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MK2TKFFtQA)
So they have akuma and geese, and they both look like they legit fit the tekken universe. They're 2 for 2 in my book, good shit namcops.
(ive been playing a lot of tekken and put more hours into it than street fighter 5 which came out feb 2016, im legit hoypppe)
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大見解
hay guiz i fixed utf-8
Edit: Also, I installed the British language pack for our neighbo(u)rs up north, because why the hell not! <3 I know British English doesn't strictly equal Canadian English, but if you like extra u's and hate zeds you might prefer this.
To change your language from 'murican to Engluish, click "Profile" in the top menu bar, go to Modify Profile > Forum Profile, select "English British" from the "Preferred Language" dropdown, verify your password in the box at the bottom, and then click "Change Profile."
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http://i.imgur.com/UqNoCKx.jpg
Achievement Unlocked
PAY OFF CAR
That's $2500 cash, most money I've handled in my life, only to go to finishing that car loan 5 minutes later.
Feels good though.
Funny thing, the lock in my passenger side door feel into the door(note, chevy aveos apparently have this problem a lot, my drivers side door had the same fucking problem when i first bought the thing)...and I bit my lip hard (crunch) eating lunch after that. NOT ALLOWED TO BE HAPPY NOPE NOPE NOPE
The good outweighs the bad at least, the door thing is minor and will be fixed monday.
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Woo, congrats! On, uh, paying off the car, not the series of minor disasters that followed. ;D
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utf-8でありがとうございます。
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