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The Chatterbox => Random Chat => Topic started by: Spectere on March 13, 2010, 03:22:39 PM
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Hi.
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HI2U
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About damn time.
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Whoohoo! <3
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About damn time.
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UR LATE MISTER
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nice job putting a cap on my e-rl-drama post.
you were late anyway, fagit.
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Must post on page one.
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Wow you all have so many posts
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Pfft. This is nothing compared to what I and a few others accumulated on the old weezer.com boards.
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You're all luesers.
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nigga you gay
and talking to my bruhs at work, i am doing a bit better.
ff13, i would recommend it as a stress ball, served me well :)
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Wow you all have so many posts
How many posts do I have anyway?
**Edit** 407, haha.
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It's gonna be a long year...
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Not that long of a year.
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Double post for fun:
Alright its Pi day...now I want lots of circle calculations here :P
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Use the edit button, doofy. :P
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My car needs a new muffler.
Hurray! :D
I won't be able to get it fixed for a day or two, so until then, my tiny Civic sounds like a truck. :D
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Printed 3.156 when I tried it.
Also, seeing some of that guy's other stuff makes me want to get into obfuscation.
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Well, I didn't write it, lol. Did you copy my test, or use the original one that I linked with my "quote" tag? (not that it likely makes a difference).
Either way, that is one weird way to calculate pi, lol.
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so i thought to myself a bit ago, i want to start drawing. so yesterday, i attempted to draw some stuff...but i don't really know where to start.
thinking maby get the basics down for specific parts before moving to the next one, when i have the basics down for an entire figure, just draw draw draw draw and try to improve from there.
so maby...
-skeleton (not like anatomy skeleton, but a basic framework for the body in whatever pose i will be drawing)
-head
-face
-hands
-feet
i mean it's kind of hard to just jump in and do something when you don't really know the abc's yet. probably dedicate an hour of my free time per day into practicing this stuff until i start getting better. when i get better and start enjoying the results of my work, i will obviously want to spend more time on it, but it's a pain in the ass getting started when nothing you draw is something that looks "good"
but i don't particularly enjoy the process of learning how to draw, but i want to do it because i know i will enjoy it when i start pumping out art that looks good. it's like i have images in my head i would like to have a way of showing other people without shelling out money to people who can draw already, even then it's their vision of what i am explaining to them. not that i have paid anybody to draw something for me, but it's come across my mind.
kind of have my own character who i would like to flesh out a bit. he's a caveman named korg, uses a giant club, and lives in one of those cartoon times where cavemen and dinosaurs both exist at the same time.
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I can ask my girlfriend about what you should maybe try to do to get better. She's in college for art, and has had a number of drawing classes, so maybe she can help point you in the right direction.
Of course, the biggest aspect to getting better at drawing is well, drawing, lol.
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Of course, the biggest aspect to getting better at drawing is well, drawing, lol.
obviously. but it would be a better use of my time if i knew what to focus on.
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So reading my April issue of gameinformer and there is going to be a Sonic 4 game that takes place after Sn3K...best yet it is DLC...for all 7th gen consoles....I am so gonna buy it when it comes out :P
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(http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:D_dUvoN5Jl3_bM:http://evofantasy.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/slowpoke-sonic.jpg)
obligatory
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I'm going to California tomorrow for a week. Should be good.
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Good GOD I cannot wait to get my damn muffler replaced.
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It's pretty crazy to think that I've known some of you for six years D: That's longer than a lot of my current real life friends. Is it normal for a general forum community to stay active like this with no specific basis for discussion? I haven't been as active on many other forums, but most of them I've seen are centered around one unifying topic. This one seems to sustain without any distinct discussion source besides life in general. It's purty cool.
In other news: getting older is weird. Especially when you're old enough to start seeing other people get older. And old enough to start noticing that 80% of the things we learn to be absolute truths throughout our childhoods are actually completely subjective or theoretical.
Also, I want a sandwich.
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lol, I think spectere.net is a rather unique little niche of the internet. I've never heard of another forum like this lasting the way s.net has. Then again, I've never felt involved in other forums, the way I feel involved with s.net. I consider you guys actual friends, regardless of the fact that I've never met any of you guys in person.
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It's been said before, and I'll say it again:
S.net meetup! ballin, yo.
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It's been said before, and I'll say it again:
S.net meetup! ballin, yo.
I think I've only met Monkey Man and possibly Hayden? in person. Maybe some others but I didn't know at the time. I think it would be pretty awesome to get as many people together as possible.
I remember people used to fly across the country for the Arch0wl.com meet-ups. I never attended one though.
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I'd be up for that in the summer. let's all to to Ohio :D
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We should all meet in the center of the Atlantic ocean in my secret laboratory under the sea floor.
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Yeah, slight problem for me. Going to toronto is a big deal for me, so going any farther than that is damn well out of the question for the time being. I still don't have my own car on the road (and I don't think I'd trust it for a trip to toronto). I'd love to go to a s.net meetup, but I've got no way to get there really.
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lol, I think spectere.net is a rather unique little niche of the internet. I've never heard of another forum like this lasting the way s.net has. Then again, I've never felt involved in other forums, the way I feel involved with s.net. I consider you guys actual friends, regardless of the fact that I've never met any of you guys in person.
Ditto.
Well we can say that we are one weird "family" if you want to put it that way.
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We should podcast xD haha. we ramble on about facets of life that I've heard podcasters such as Kevin Smith or Adam Carolla rant on and on, seems to be a pretty healthy outlet, and we do have some good minds floating around here.
I just don't know how we could get that even done/started haha. I've thought about podcasting before, but it does require some nice setup $ if you're even remotely serious.
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Yeah that is the only thing that sucking considering one would need a site to upload the podcast to so others can listen to it not to mention using a good "chatroom" type thing to do the pod casts...though vent is really good when it comes to voice chat.
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Ohh, that sounds like a fun idea.
Also, on the idea of a meetup, where the hell do we all live? We should set up one of those map pages where we can pin ourselves, and then figure out a good meet up point from there if we're at all serious about this. I would totally love to do that, but I am pretty sure I might be the only person left posting from this site in the PNW :s
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We had a map a while back :x
arizona, btw
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I live in Oregon :D You're actually only a few hours away from me Ulti.
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i don't like any of you, i just post because y'all need me.
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I live about an hour and a half north of Toronto. (because all canadians measure distance in time :P)
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Well what would one be without the other :O
If I'm going somewhere I'd rather know how long it will take than how many miles it is, personally.
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Which is exactly why we do that. We don't really care how far something is in actual kilometers nearly as much as how long it'll take us to get there. Mind you, for longer distances, we generally use the actual distance, because if you drive a significant distance, depending on how fast you drive, and how often you stop, and what route you take, it can take much less or much more time than you'd think.
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All this talk of time and space reminds me of one of Zeno's Paradox: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno's_paradoxes
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Northeast Ohio...Also Spectere and Vyhd are in the same region as I am.
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South Central Saskatchewan.
Am I the farthest north of you guys? Doesn't someone live in Alaska?
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Oh shit, I totally forgot about that, Sq3r. Hurrr I'm actually in Bellingham now, so I'm like a good four to six hours away from Oregon at all, depending on traffic, but one state over isn't as bad as I expected it to be! Hurr, if we meet up, we're going to have to eat mad drugs.
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Pittsburgh represent, yo!
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pretty sure everybody measures distance with time in terms of going somewhere.
also i am the most central michigan located s.net member on the site. i live about 10 minutes from the center of the state.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Louis,_Michigan
that other dude from michigan doesn't count since the upper peninsula only houses about 5 people.
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Hmm, all this talk about states makes me remember that I know fuck all about where half the states are. I know where Michigan is, and a number of others, but a good portion of th states, I basically have to guess at, lol.
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well there's a lot more states/territories than provinces/territories.
im sure the average citizen knows fuck all of half the states anyway.
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(Jewish frat)
lol
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I no rite?
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Does said frat have some sort of camping event?
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It's my birthday. What did you guys get me?
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It's my birthday. What did you guys get me?
I could give you spoilers for FF13 if you wanted.
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A large huge, but you must come here to get it.
Also this is fairly scary
http://www.opencongress.org/articles/view/1715-McCain-and-Lieberman-s-Nightmarish-Detention-Bill
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i just found out about the FEAR rattata.
i need to make me one of those eventually. having a level 1 rattata what can kill a healthy amount of stuff is pretty neat.
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It's my birthday. What did you guys get me?
I got you bits of potato mushed together so as to form a triangle. And fried it.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v34/Jupichan/Snapshot_20100317_1.jpg)
But then I ate it.
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It was suspiciously delicious.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v34/Jupichan/Snapshot_20100317_3.jpg)
...What? You want something better?
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v34/Jupichan/1244433214182.jpg)
Happy birthday. <3
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I could give you spoilers for FF13 if you wanted.
I already beat the game.
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v34/Jupichan/1244433214182.jpg)
GREAT-GRANDFATHER IS THAT YOU
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Yeah only assholes would propose such a bill...oh wait. Once again the 4th and 5th amendments are ignored -_-;
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A large huge, but you must come here to get it.
Also this is fairly scary
http://www.opencongress.org/articles/view/1715-McCain-and-Lieberman-s-Nightmarish-Detention-Bill
I would hope that this is too bullshit for it to pass :| Didn't we get screwed over enough with the Patriot Act?
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I would hope that this is too bullshit for it to pass :| Didn't we get screwed over enough with the Patriot Act?
Yes we did. Ben Franklin said it best: "Do not give up your freedom for a false sense of security."
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If only more people realized how many false senses of security we actually have in our lives.
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I already beat the game.
One thing that annoys me at this point in the game is that every one now can use every class but it costs a shit ton of CP.
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If only more people realized how many false senses of security we actually have in their lives.
Funny how they never tell you how much safer you are after something like this passes. Also
"Floors are a lot like walls."
- Alexxx
My construction teacher said something basically just like this a few weeks ago. At least in wood construction.
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So this goes for the TF2 players on snet...did any of you get a mystery item today? I did I find it quite odd.
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Funny how they never tell you how much safer you are after something like this passes.
I have never felt like I was in any danger of being attacked by "terrorists". I'd be more afraid of being perceived as a terrorist by my government and wrongfully detained haha.
My construction teacher said something basically just like this a few weeks ago. At least in wood construction.
A couple of my friends and I ate some mushrooms a while ago and somehow being on the subject of walls, my friend Alex said that line and we stopped for a few seconds to let it resonate in our minds and then we burst out laughing because of it's hilariously obvious -but debatable- nature.
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so i have a little birthday list because i am an underageb& and my parents are awesome
total comes to about $70
pokemon hg/ss strategy guide. frankly, i quite enjoy having a strategy guide around for quick reference when playing myself some pokemon. game doesn't exactly tell you "OHH IN SEVERAL LEVELS THIS SHITTY POKEMON GETS A REALLY GOOD MOVE AND IS TEMPORARILY WORTH USING" yeah i can use gamefaqs, but having used a guide in gen 1-3, i just prefer having one around.
clerks. i don't watch many movies, i like this movie.
farscape the peacekeeper wars. i have the complete farscape box set thing, but farscape kind of ends on a clffhanger, the peacekeeper wars wraps up the show.
diablo III shirt. diablo is my favorite game series, the new jinx shirt looks awesome, i want one.
logitech mic, cheap, heard it's good, i prefer having a mic on my desktop rather than wearing a headset, my current mic sucks. plus if i can watch a guy livestream starcraft 2, and his voice comes in good, and looking on his desktop seeing said mic, hey, it can't suck.
i was going to ask for cromartie high school(THE only anime i will willingly watch now a days. the dub is just good, and the show is just damn funny), but i seen it already and whenever i get a pc game i play with my bros, having a new mic would be really nice. plus it shaves off $20 from the total cost, which is always good.
also, no goddamn vidya, nnnnoooovidya. noenzipnada....i buy every vidya i want without second guessing it and it's a problem i need to fix
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I have never felt like I was in any danger of being attacked by "terrorists". I'd be more afraid of being perceived as a terrorist by my government and wrongfully detained haha.
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I'm about to tell my landlord/boss that I'm moving out of his house and ultimately getting a new job. I know he largely values as an employee and a renter, so this isn't going to be fun for him. Especially considering his son is in rehab, he's in the middle of a divorce, just went bankrupt, his business is failing, and he can't seem to keep an assistant for more than a few months because of his total lack of professionalism and responsibility.
:/
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I'm about to tell my landlord/boss that I'm moving out of his house and ultimately getting a new job. I know he largely values as an employee and a renter, so this isn't going to be fun for him. Especially considering his son is in rehab, he's in the middle of a divorce, just went bankrupt, his business is failing, and he can't seem to keep an assistant for more than a few months because of his total lack of professionalism and responsibility.
:/
His loss...he doesn't like it he can go choke on a dick.
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hi s.net my keys have been lost for like 3 days
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His loss...he doesn't like it he can go choke on a dick.
Wow, how cold for no reason
hi s.net my keys have been lost for like 3 days
FLAESHAL
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hi s.net my keys have been lost for like 3 days
i totally don't remember you brah
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It still amazes me how active this forum is. Mostly because of stuff like this.
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That's a bitch and a half.
Also yeah, it's basically a miracle that we stay open.
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I'm about to tell my landlord/boss that I'm moving out of his house and ultimately getting a new job. I know he largely values as an employee and a renter, so this isn't going to be fun for him. Especially considering his son is in rehab, he's in the middle of a divorce, just went bankrupt, his business is failing, and he can't seem to keep an assistant for more than a few months because of his total lack of professionalism and responsibility.
:/
Come to MD and get a job, I need a roommate.
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My mom's going back into the hospital today. :/ More drug therapy to try and help her migraines and dizzy spells.
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i totally don't remember you brah
:(
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I'm trying to recall your old name from s.net, but it's not reaching me.
Also I just ran away from a boss so long in Metal Slug that I went from fat to skinny. I laughed hard when it happened.
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post 900 posting for no reason other than 900
i should delete this account and start a new vladgd :)
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season 3 episode 15, farscape.
FUUUUUUUUUUUUuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
ive like never been so connected to a show before, it's weird feeling emotions for stuff that does not exist. it was on par with some of the other major losses to the show, made me all mopey, which for some reason makes me feel pretty good. odd isn't it? i don't feel like this for people i know in person (i am a horrible person, yeah yeah) but this goddamn show, it's messed up. though you know, i guess i would be literally more connected with say a frelling tv show more than say...two uncles dying within several months of eachother(one from can you guess it, DRINKING), neither of which i knew very well.
i really need a new sci fi drama thing after farscape is done because i want more. i mean, yeah, other genres exist, but really i have a big huge raging science fiction fetish. even as simple as basic astronomy, i eat the stuff up....WHICH IS WHY I SHOULD TAKE COLLEGE CLASSES ON THE STUFF MY GOD I THINK I KNOW AT LEAST ONE THING TO TAKE UP IN COLLEGE, yay for rambley posts.
seriously, i don't fucking know what i want to take in college, i don't particularly like anything, but i fucking love space. it would be dumb not to take at least one astronomy class. though finding an actual practical job related to astronomy...maby not so hot. though, taking the class for a credit or two shouldn't be too bad of an idea.
and uhh for the record, i do not like battlestar galactica. yeah it's drama, but...it's not my kind of show. it feels way less sci fi and way more "SO FUCKING SERIOUS NO FUCKING FUN SO GRIMDARK MAN FANCY CAMERA ANGLES UP IN THIS BITCH EVERYBODY IS A CYLON"
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so ep 15 made me baww, and ep 16...
it's like watching an episode of loony toons(LITERALLY, LIT ER AL EY), holy comic relief batman! im lollin. scorpius even made a reference to william shatner doing priceline commercials. little touches like that make this show a bit more interesting because the main character comes from the world we lived in the early 2000's(when the show was aired) rather than say star trek deep in the future. i guess stargate does this also, and it is in present day...but i don't recall anything real specific mentioned, just general stuff like fishing and football.
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I was browsing bemanistyle looking for a few IIDX songs when I realized how much it's like looking in the memetic past. One of the files on my current account is a rickroll file I made in 2007.
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I was browsing bemanistyle looking for a few IIDX songs when I realized how much it's like looking in the memetic past. One of the files on my current account is a rickroll file I made in 2007.
That was a pretty epic riickroll, lol. You pissed off a lot of people :P
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I still have like 2 songs on that site maybe.
I remember when I got... oh god I don't remember his name... anyways I got an Uber Rave that I thought was so kick ass. Back when that shit was HARD. I miss the days where Skors K8107 were the hardest files ever made.
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Lol, yes, I have a lot of nostalgia for oldschool simfiles. Too bad nobody seems to make them like that any more.
Anyone happen to know some cool simfile authors that are active now? I've been out of the loop for so long. I've downloaded some of the packs, with stuff from Gl0ve or however you spell his name, among others, but aside from that, I can't think of any active authors, and I'm not much of a fan of his stuff.
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You'll need to define your version of "cool" lol. There are still a few active ones, but no where near as many as there were.
Kommisar, moches, rebirth still makes a couple... if you're thinking old school like Zag and DTM they don't exist anymore. Or at least don't make files anymore. There are alot more newer kids on the scene who produce some real good stuff, very technical now, kinda difficult - wc973, roar, izzy, g-d, and so on.
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http://www.bemanistyle.com/sims/simfile.php?id=14797
lolold
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You'll need to define your version of "cool" lol. There are still a few active ones, but no where near as many as there were.
Kommisar, moches, rebirth still makes a couple... if you're thinking old school like Zag and DTM they don't exist anymore. Or at least don't make files anymore. There are alot more newer kids on the scene who produce some real good stuff, very technical now, kinda difficult - wc973, roar, izzy, g-d, and so on.
I've seen files by Kimmisar before. In my mind, izzy still makes absolute trash (Kinda like how everyone hated linus, lol). Any suggestions for good files by some of these guys? I've got some random packs downloaded, but I like to get more than 1 or 2 files by the same person, lol.
Any suggestions for packs I should get, or simfile makers I should download would be appreciated. My collection has stagnated for too long.
Folders in my songs directory:
Arch0wl Originals
beast1x5
Beyond Legends
Community Keyboard Megapack Volume 1
Community Keyboard Megapack Volume 2
Dark Chancellors Pack
dvw_pack
Eggman (nowhere NEAR completel, lol)
Essential Sim Collection
Hard Songs Megapack Volume 1
Hard Songs Megapack Volume 2
Hard Songs Megapack Volume 3
Izzy (Large collection, looks like a bunch of jokes/BS files)
KangXIX
KBU
Keyboard Megapack 1.5
Kraezymann
Misc (all individual downloads)
Mystery Pack
ODIPack2
Reach (not complete)
Skor's Selection of High quality Simfiles
SMGpack
Toph (Good collection, no idea if it's complete, or how many Toph even made)
Xclusive MegaPack
Xoon
Xoon 2
EDIT: ohshit, I just remembered one file I lost a while ago that wish I hadn't... I had CatchRothy22's (is that name correct?) joke file Kick Your Arch0wl... That was funny as fuck. And old as fuck too. Hardly anyone I've mentioned it to knew what the fuck I was talking about.
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No one has a complete record of everything I made. Mostly because I had a bunch of stuff finished that I never uploaded anywhere and I lost it all when I reformatted and didn't want to bother backing it up. And now I don't even think Stepmania works on Windows 7 64bit. At least not without massive lag. I know it didn't work right in Vista 64bit. It was probably something like 800 files.
Honestly, I've hated nearly every new author after the point that I was making stuff in my prime and stuff like Fury of the Storm started to come out. Being too technical means it's pretty much super boring and annoying unless you use spread, which feels dumb.
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Eggman I still play your Ghost Revival lmfao its fun as shit
PS I like the work you did for... uh... I can't remember if it was Steel Needle or Acid Immortal. The one you did for Mazrim TaiM
I had Kick your Arch but lost it... I found Arch0wl (Hard Mix- the one that goes Arch A-A-A-A-Arch) haha
Boobies if you can get the Red Faction Pack and both SMGroove packs. There is some really good stuff in those
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I did the entire section of that file from Solid State Squad through Acid Immortal and Steel Needle. Watching videos of people actually doing Steel Needle is really really fun.
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I find it funny that some of you guys seemed to be big wigs in the whole stepmania community, makes me want to redownload the game.
Also I've come to the conclusion that I throw away too much food.
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Meh, I tried playing Stepmania just now and I found that I'm not nearly as good as I used to be and can't play some of the stuff I really liked when I did play, so it really wasn't that fun. I'm not going to delete it, though, because there's still a ton of good music there.
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i can't really enjoy stepmania anymore, though it was good times while it lasted. i seriously wish i had a timer for how much time i put into that game, i can easily see it going over 1500 hours. it was to the point where there could be 30-40 songs i would remember exact scores to, like even to this day say another planet oni i got 2 greats on. i can't even pass that sim now.
22 greats on quasar 1.5. guess what, i can barely pass that one anymore.
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I still play occasionally. I do play spread now. It's the only way to really play the new files, with all those triples and such. When I switched to spread, I found I could do stuff that I was never able to do before, so it was nice at the time. Now it's just normal, and I don't play enough to be very good. I don't think I'll ever get worse than I am now, due to lack of playing, but It'll take a lot for me to get much better than I am too.
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Stepmania XD
I still occasionally hear a song and imagine what kind of steps I could put to it, but I don't think I could get back into it. I feel like I could make some pretty awesome simfiles if I tried now, though. I still like some of my older ones but they could use some improvement haha.
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Man sq3r I still have your Tsugaru Apple Mix and Beetles and Prep Gwarlek 3b and Disconnected Hyper... I forget what all else
I did the entire section of that file from Solid State Squad through Acid Immortal and Steel Needle. Watching videos of people actually doing Steel Needle is really really fun.
Fuckin own man, I was there for the release of it. Watching 4 people pass that beast of a song first try was amazing.
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so like it's my birthday and whatnot, and i got my stuff and whatnot, but my mom found something she thought i would like.
a chocolate bar, with bacon in it.
if you can find one of these, give it a try. best damn chocolate bar i have ever tasted. it's like i don't want to just eat it, i want to savor each bite, it's just good smokey chocolaty baconey goodness.
but uhh she had to order this from ye ole internet, but if a store 'round here sold these for say... even at it's $7.00 price, i would probably make it a monthly buy.
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Man sq3r I still have your Tsugaru Apple Mix
I think I have it here somewhere. If not, then I want it, because I know I used to. It's an awesome file.
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birthday over
uneventful, relaxing, good. even had a bro over and played some perfect dark, good shit.
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Bought a gig of ram for my computer bringing it up to 2 gigs when I install it.
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House would be a better show if he wasn't supposed to be such an "edgy" atheist.
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Pantless DDR.
Fun in concept.
Not-so-fun in execution.
Just thought I'd share.
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Pantless DDR.
Fun in concept.
Not-so-fun in execution.
Just thought I'd share.
Hey what ever makes you happy is all that matters.
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Flop Flop Revolution(s)
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Oddly, Flash Flash Revolution is also somewhat appropriate.
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Hey what ever makes you happy is all that matters.
Playing DDR sans pants does not make me happy.
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Did they throw you out of the arcade?
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I only owe $282 on my car...I'm paying it off next month :D
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Did they throw you out of the arcade?
Can't throw me out of my own basement! :D
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Man sq3r I still have your Tsugaru Apple Mix and Beetles and Prep Gwarlek 3b and Disconnected Hyper... I forget what all else
Wow you must be the only person who still has Beetles and Prep Gwarlek. I don't think I even have them anymore XD.
And HB vlad :D
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Wow adding another gig of ram to compy makes things so much easier ^_^
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Depends how much you had, lol. If you've got 8 GB, 1 GB wouldn't, lol. Mind you, if you had 8 GB of ram, not much would make things unhappy, unless you were using it as a server for stuff... I don't get why they even offer desktops with 8GB of ram now, since it's nealry impossible to use up that much even when your trying to. (Or even half that, really. 4GB should be enough for any desktop that isn't acting as a server.)
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the new youtube layout...
going to take some getting used too
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Depends how much you had, lol. If you've got 8 GB, 1 GB wouldn't, lol. Mind you, if you had 8 GB of ram, not much would make things unhappy, unless you were using it as a server for stuff... I don't get why they even offer desktops with 8GB of ram now, since it's nealry impossible to use up that much even when your trying to. (Or even half that, really. 4GB should be enough for any desktop that isn't acting as a server.)
When you have bills and have to get your car fixed you don't have alot of money to build a new rig. Going from 1 to 2 gigs mad a huge difference in loading speed for tf2 and l4d2.
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When you have bills and have to get your car fixed you don't have alot of money to build a new rig.
What does that have to do with what he said?
But yeah, doubling one's RAM does have a tendency to help things along.
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Depends how much you had, lol. If you've got 8 GB, 1 GB wouldn't, lol. Mind you, if you had 8 GB of ram, not much would make things unhappy, unless you were using it as a server for stuff... I don't get why they even offer desktops with 8GB of ram now, since it's nealry impossible to use up that much even when your trying to. (Or even half that, really. 4GB should be enough for any desktop that isn't acting as a server.)
Not unless you want to run Metro 2033 on max settings.
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Unless it does something stupid, most of those settings should be graphics settings, meaning that the ram is uses (higher quality models, high res textures, etc.) should eat up more video card memory than computer memory. I highly doubt that a game would ever require 8GB to function properly.... Unless they fucked up and wrote some shitty code.
When you have bills and have to get your car fixed you don't have alot of money to build a new rig. Going from 1 to 2 gigs mad a huge difference in loading speed for tf2 and l4d2.
I just said it depends on how much you had. I know very well that a rig with 1 GB really does benefit from an extra GB of ram. I was kinda bitching about how there are all these pre-built systems that come with like 8GB ram and crap and are billed as gamer rigs when in all honesty, if a game requires 8GB of system ram (as in, non-dedicated video ram) then there's an issue somewhere, either in the memory management in genral, or in what the programmers are loading. I don't think most games could use up 8GB of ram if they tried. But if you were using a dedicated server or something, you could eat up 8GB in no time flat. Even the old Mu Online server I had (which was designed to run in a distributed system, with differnet server programs on different computers) could eat up a couple GB without much trouble. I think the game server by itself ate up a minimum of 800MB, and the 2 database servers ate up about 250 MB each. (well, 2 regular database servers anyway, there was another dedicated one for PVP stuff). And that game wasn't really a high requirement game as far as servers go.
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My pee has been the clearest I've ever seen pee before in the past couple days.
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My pee has been the clearest I've ever seen pee before in the past couple days.
Sounds as if SOMEONE is well hydrated!
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I've had it been completely clear (like, no noticeable difference in my toilets color after use) back when I was addicted to water and would drink several plastic bottles a day.
Also I'm watching this documentary on channel 101 about the pill trade in Florida right around were I live and it's horrific. Basically doctors aren't tracked in Broward County and can sell heroin (Oxycodone I think was the major player in this? That and Xanax) to people as much as they like with little to no ramifications to them.
Ah, democracy.
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i just realized you can do a ghetto resize job with mspaint, so i will probably make a bunch of different avs now. too damn lazy to reinstall photoshop just to make random avatars.
you are a furfag if you can tell me the artist of the very current avatar i have.
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What does that have to do with what he said?
But yeah, doubling one's RAM does have a tendency to help things along.
He doesn't need to add his long winded two cents in there...it just irritates the hell out of me. He's worse then some of the dumb ass customers that I have to work with.
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He doesn't need to add his long winded two cents in there...it just irritates the hell out of me. He's worse then some of the dumb ass customers that I have to work with.
But the remark about money had absolutely NOTHING to do with what he said. Reading comprehension, man. Perhaps you ought to learn it.
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He doesn't need to add his long winded two cents in there...it just irritates the hell out of me. He's worse then some of the dumb ass customers that I have to work with.
This is a website, we discuss things. If we didn't discuss stuff like that here, the site would have died a long time ago.
And at least unlike those dumbass customers, I actually have some idea of what I'm talking about.
But seriously, if I go off an a tangent related to something you said, and you get all pissy thinking I said or meant something that I didn't with my post, then it's not my problem. I'm not trying to start shit with you, so don't start shit with me.
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where's my clerks 3 goddamnit, i want it now
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Not gonna happen.
Also I hear Clash of the Titans was shitty.
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Save yourself $5 and watch it in 2D. It looks kinda good actually, typical unsung hero kind of movie, but the effects are kinda neat.
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Wow, being in a room with people who like anime, and a few other people who don't like anime while Bebop comes on has a shocking reaction. My one friend (who I basically got into anime) got into this argument with the guy sitting across from him about whether or not anime is shit, and my friend sitting next to me was basically agreeing with him. Funny how strong the opinions people hold over anime, it's odd.
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anime is (mostly) shit, and I'm Japanese
lol
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i personally can't tolerate most of the stuff anymore
though some stuff like cromartie high school (dubbed) is just too funny to pass up. i mean, how is it even possible to get irritated at that show.
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Heh I rarely see movies anymore.
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I'm going to just pretend you said "anime" instead of "movies" and that you didn't just post yet another thing that's completely unrelated to any conversation people have been having here.
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I thought the point of this thread is that there is no real topic of conversation to follow...
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I thought the point of this thread is that there is no real topic of conversation to follow...
No! You must stay on the invisible topic at all times!
Fifty DKP MINUS to you! :P
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Fifty DKP MINUS to you! :P
non-WoW players know about that video?
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non-WoW players know about that video?
Yup! :D
Pretty sure I saw it through a WoW-playing friend though.
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anime is (mostly) shit, and I'm Japanese
lol
I'd agree completely. The shit to good ratio is really wack.
Also WoW sucks. Even my friend who hardly plays video games says the last update made the game too easy.
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ask him if he beat heroic lich king.
ill bet $100.00 he says no.
don't give me a "ohh that's the hardest boss in the game right now" in a game made "too easy"
back when the game was "hard" didn't really feel much different, only now people know more about the game, and certain class specs are no longer gimp (remember when warrior was the only tank, and anybody that could heal...could only heal).
note, i haven't played since last summer, and i haven't really raided since vanilla. but my text still stands.
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In all honesty, anyone who says "wow sucks" is basically saying "MMORPGs suck". I have not yet seen or played an MMO that is anywhere near as good as WoW is. It's got the largest community of any MMO (and MMOs are heavily defined by their community), it's got more class options and possible specializations than anything I've played, it's got more bosses, dungeons, hell, even more items than every other MMO I've played.
Regardless of what anyone thinks of WoW, it is the pinnacle of MMO design, in my opinion. It took everything that was common to MMOs, and expanded upon them. No other company had the resources to create something on the scale that Blizzard did. Sure, the level scale was low, but the amount of things that you could do at a given level were far greater than most MMOs. I mean, in most MMOs, it doesn't matter what race you chose, if your at level x, you go to locaction y and level till you can finish dungeon z. WoW has options, depending on where you start, and what quest lines you want to do.
Anyway, I was gonna make another tl;dr post, but I figure I've said enough.
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in all honesty though, people can say the game sucks for it being the only thing said friends play, or even being blown off to play said game.
it's happened to me before, i can see it happening to others.
now it's mw2...
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You know what I meant. And yes, addiction to WoW can be a pretty terrible thing.
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Yeah, I know someone that lost his job and failed out of tech school because of his addiction to the game. :/ Pretty sad.
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In all honesty, anyone who says "wow sucks" is basically saying "MMORPGs suck".
Probably ture. I've only ever played WoW and as the only MMO I've played I wasn't a fan. I hate to think there are entire genres of games that I hate, but whatever.
ask him if he beat heroic lich king.
ill bet $100.00 he says no.
don't give me a "ohh that's the hardest boss in the game right now" in a game made "too easy"
back when the game was "hard" didn't really feel much different, only now people know more about the game, and certain class specs are no longer gimp (remember when warrior was the only tank, and anybody that could heal...could only heal).
Well he never bought that expansion. That and only a hand full of people have beaten the Lich King so far so that's a fairly safe bet. That and it's dumb to take the hardest part of a game and say that that's the standard difficulty for most of the game.
Also back when I played Warriors were only allowed to tank. Fucking EVERY instance conversation went "Hey, I'm a fury warrior" "cool man, you can tank".
As for the WoW addiction thing? My friends were MASSIVELY into it and it was semi annoying. I once brought my Wii over, hooked it up, and wanted to play Brawl with them but they literally never stopped playing WoW (had a different friend come over and play Guilty Gear, which was cool).
I think the real reason a large portion of the gaming community hates it is because it's based in a fantasy setting involving Dwarfs, Orcs, and other tolkienesque fantasy things. That and there's the whole stereotype of WoW gamers being basement dwelling nerds and because it isn't SHOOTAN BRAH.
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Well he never bought that expansion.
then his opinion is void (assuming you mean he never bought WotLK) -- your friend is a bandwagoning faggot
until he can show how many hard modes he's done, his opinion is garbage like the majority of the community
ps your other friends are insane to blow you off for brawl, I wish I had some friends who wanted to brawl with me :(
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then his opinion is void (assuming you mean he never bought WotLK) -- your friend is a bandwagoning faggot
until he can show how many hard modes he's done, his opinion is garbage like the majority of the community
lolwut. He's had a top level character for a while, so I'm assuming he's done a few of them at the least.
Also I REALLY doubt he'd be the bandwagoning type, considering he doesn't check any websites.
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Well he never bought that expansion.
lolwut
in case you didn't know, it seems to be a meme in the WoW community to say everything's easy even when it's not
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I'm going to just pretend you said "anime" instead of "movies" and that you didn't just post yet another thing that's completely unrelated to any conversation people have been having here.
I thought the point of this thread is that there is no real topic of conversation to follow...
What annon said.
lolwut
in case you didn't know, it seems to be a meme in the WoW community to say everything's easy even when it's not
Could you elaborate please? I'm not into Pokemon.
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so world of warcraft is pokemon?
news to me.
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THAT'S WHY YOU NEVER SEE THEM IN THE SAME PLACE AT THE SAME TIME.
Also he's played WoW for a while after WotLK came out, so that's another reason.
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What I said still stands. :)
so world of warcraft is pokemon?
news to me.
Well, duh.
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Eh I'll take riding a chocobo over stupid pocket monsters anyday.
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gonna go to a rave friday. never been
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rave until the night is over~
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rave until the night is over~
Or over the night he shall rave?
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how much do vent servers run for now a days?
when i get off my lazy ass and attempt to get people to play vidya, i might want to get a vent server running. why? voice chat > text chat. when i am playing vidya with other persons over the internet, i enjoy talking. typing while playing just aint cut it no mo.
make it my own private vent/spektur vent or something like that. maby 10 person, 20 person if people catch on and i find more use for it.
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:D That sounds like fun.
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I missed the last one, and I still don't have a working mic...
Shit, I really should pick one up, playing games online without one just isn't as good.
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I missed the last one, and I still don't have a working mic...
Shit, I really should pick one up, playing games online without one just isn't as good.
You are correct sir.
As a pre-req for playing, say L4D2, I would make every one have a mic or a mic head set for better communication.
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Yeah, NeoTokyo or L4D (moreso Neotokyo, the whole ghost thing is the definition of teamwork) without a mic is like boxing with one glove.
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I dunno, I think you can play L4D without a headset just fine, as long as you pay attention to your teammates. @_@
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I dunno, I think you can play L4D without a headset just fine, as long as you pay attention to your teammates. @_@
It helps though. Also having the captions is the way to win as well.Yeah, NeoTokyo or L4D (moreso Neotokyo, the whole ghost thing is the definition of teamwork) without a mic is like boxing with one glove.
Yeah pretty much...tf2 you can get away with but those two and L4D2 you need one.
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So anyone have any tips for raving
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inb4 "speed rave"
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so i preordered ssfiv, because well, i want that game. one day shipping, yadda yadda. $40.00...
i think i had some random promotion for preordering ffxiii, so hey, 40 bones for a game what cost 40 bones, and technical free release day shipping. pretty baller.
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So anyone have any tips for raving
Take the E, drink enough water, try not to die, don't lick anything, and bring Vick's vapor rub.
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Take the E, drink enough water, try not to die, don't lick anything, and bring Vick's vapor rub.
I've heard people use vicks to make it 'better', but is this applied like on your neck/nose or chest?
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So anyone have any tips for raving
Haha, I was so tempted to say
Step 1: Take E
Step 2: Rave
Step 3: ???????
Step 4: Profit
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going back to thinking about making a stick.
yeah i have my madcatz stick, but making your own, kind of sounds like fun. plus like, ill make it both ps3 and 360 compatable, so like if i run into a situation where i am playing on a tripple, ill be good to go.
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If you want to get something into the venue, a good idea is putting things in tiny bags and putting them in your socks, or wrapping them in foil. At least in my experience, I've never had to remove socks :s
Taping them to the back of your nuts works, too.
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If you want to get something into the venue, a good idea is putting things in tiny bags and putting them in your socks, or wrapping them in foil. At least in my experience, I've never had to remove socks :s
Taping them to the back of your nuts works, too.
wut?
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Like, if you want to smuggle drugs in.
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Reported to the authorities.
Also the saying "My friends call me Hadouken because I'm down right fierce", I just fucking got it. It's the input needed for a hadouken. Ahm so smrt.
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So anyone have any tips for raving
why the fuck do you need tips on a rave like what the fuck is someone even supposed to reply
drink a lot of water I guess?
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Just be careful but have fun Sneaky
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drink a lot of water I guess?
Not a lot. Enough. Some (retarded) people have died or severely been brain damaged by drinking too much water. (look up water poisoning.)
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I think it is a bit silly when in FFX that Rikku before you get here Godhand weapon that you can make her hit like a truck and as speedy as a F1 Formula race car. I mean my current game she hits for quad 9's, has over 7k hp and has an agility of 90.
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Not a lot. Enough. Some (retarded) people have died or severely been brain damaged by drinking too much water. (look up water poisoning.)
you do realize how much water you have to drink to do that, right? it's not even worth warning anyone about, unless they enjoy drinking 2 gallons of water every hour
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Doesn't change the fact that nearly evry E related death is because some fucktard drank too much water, or some fucktard didn't drink any water.
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Doesn't change the fact that nearly evry E related death is because some fucktard drank too much water, or some fucktard didn't drink any water.
Who cares? Means more O2, H2O, food, and resources for everyone else.
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Doesn't change the fact that nearly evry E related death is because some fucktard drank too much water, or some fucktard didn't drink any water.
There's a thin line between dehydration and dying from your brain absorbing too much water and being crushed on the inside of your skull.
Also does the E really have to do with the water? I've seen my friend take it and I think the only thing he had to drink was beer and he seemed fine.
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So anyone have any tips for raving
rave until the night is over
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There's a thin line between dehydration and dying from your brain absorbing too much water and being crushed on the inside of your skull.
Also does the E really have to do with the water? I've seen my friend take it and I think the only thing he had to drink was beer and he seemed fine.
The problem isn't the E itself, it's the fact that it's a pretty hefty simulant (especially if you get pills, as opposed to molly, as they're almost always cut with caffeine, amphetamines, or meth) which will prompt you to dance all night in a boiling hot warehouse surrounded by bodies, and will make you have absolutely no desire for food or water until you're done tripping. Thus, people worry about dehydration to excess, and drink waaaaay too much fucking water and die. Just drink a bottle of water every hour or so, give or take (Assuming you're like, dancing this whole time, as opposed to just standing around doing whatever, that's not so strenuous), and you ought to be fine.
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Yeah, more specifically, because it affects dopamine levels, and dopamine regulates your internal body temperature system, your body has no fucking idea that it's getting damn hot. Dopamine also happens to have a role (no idea whether it's direct or indirect) on appetite, and it happens that when you have increased levels of dopamine in your brain, your body no longer thinks it needs food, so it's a good idea to eat something if you are exerting a lot of energy and shit.
And yes, it is hard to kill yourself drinking water, but I do not want people tripping on E getting all freaked out and doing that. It's a terrible way to die, and it makes E look bad. It's just like how your average useless moron who smokes weed makes weed look like it can destroy your life. I firmly believe that a good portion of those people who smoke weed and are going nowhere would have been going nowhere if they weren't stoners as well.
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DJ Jesus died for you spins.
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My friend, whom I've known for over 8 years, and I made a deal not too long ago not to do any harder drugs until we're both more mentally stable. And of course he goes and buys 6 E pills because his new girlfriend wants to.
For ONE thing, he's in no mental condition, especially these days, to be taking a drug that basically sends your emotions for a roller coaster ride. And anOTHER thing is that this girl that we've both known for a year, is absolutely the worst person for him right now. She is extremely immature, quick to anger, impulsive, and just plain dumb. I've been against this relationship since I knew my friend had a crush on her, and this is exactly the reason why. My friend is like clay at this point, willing to be molded and shaped however he needs to be to fit in, and this girl will turn him into a douchbag.
Fuckin shit.
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stuff
I love being asexual.
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I love being asexual.
Ditto
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I find this interesting. In C, i=-~i does the same thing as i++. Likewise, i=~-i does the same thing as i--. So you can write a for loop like this:
int i;
for (i = 0; i < MAX; i=-~i)
{
//do something
}And it works the same as
int i;
for (i = 0; i < MAX; i++)
{
//do something else
}
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Wait, what is the ~ operator there?
crap
That fucking blows. Taking drugs when your mentally unstable is not a good idea, ever. If I thought I was mentally unstable, I would avoid drugs as much as possible. It's basically been proven that taking drugs while mentally unstable is what causes most oeople to have bad trips/flashbacks/get royally fucked.
I love being asexual.
I don't even think this has much to do qith sexuality, really. It's more about the fact that his friend, who is easily influenced at this point, is being influenced into doing shit that he probably shouldn't right now.
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I don't even think this has much to do qith sexuality, really. It's more about the fact that his friend, who is easily influenced at this point, is being influenced into doing shit that he probably shouldn't right now.
I mean women (or men, actually) can't influence me into doing stupid shit because we're fucking
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Lol, well that just means your not whipped. Neither am I for that matter. (mind you, my girlfriend and I have been together for over 6 years now)
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Wait, what is the ~ operator there?
Bitwise NOT operator. It works because of 2's complement. NOT 3 = -4, -(-4) = 4. I haven't tried it on anything other than int variables because I'm pretty sure it wouldn't work.
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Ahh, it's been a long time since I needed to use bitwise operators, lol.
Thanks to my college classes I always think of not being a overscore/bar...
I see what you mean about the 2s compliment, lol. That's kinda an amusing way of doing things.
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I mean women (or men, actually) can't influence me into doing stupid shit because we're fucking
It all depends on who you are. I actually had a chick say that she would let me fondle her if I shaved my hair off (back when I had long as FUCK hair). I declined and then cut my hair really short about 2 or so months later. Bitches and whores man.
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Ahh, it's been a long time since I needed to use bitwise operators, lol.
Yeah, I just found out that C has bitwise AND, OR, XOR, and NOT operators (&, |, ^, and ~), so I've been messing around with them.
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It all depends on who you are. I actually had a chick say that she would let me fondle her if I shaved my hair off (back when I had long as FUCK hair). I declined and then cut my hair really short about 2 or so months later. Bitches and whores man.
FUCK
THAT
SHIT!
I like my long hair...I would only cut it if work told me so.
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lol, how different is that. In both conditions, your getting paid to cut your hair. One, you get paid directly in physical contact, in to other, you get paid in money.
All things considered, most of the time my GF asks me to do something that I'd only do if I'm whipped, i stare at her with a face that looks something like "are you fucking serious?"
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lol, how different is that. In both conditions, your getting paid to cut your hair. One, you get paid directly in physical contact, in to other, you get paid in money.
All things considered, most of the time my GF asks me to do something that I'd only do if I'm whipped, i stare at her with a face that looks something like "are you fucking serious?"
Well considering I had my hair short until I was out of high school I like it better long. Considering when I go to the bar I get carded every time because I look like I am 17 years old and then they see my age and the barkeep is like "No fucking way."
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lol, well, my girlfriend doesn't get into bars in our hometown, thanks to a bunch of them not accepting out photo health cards as "valid government issues photo ID" which they are. The law states that they aren't allowed to specifically ask for that as ID, but if presented, there is now law forbidding them explicitly from accepting.
And I've got some friends who happen to be twins. Only one of them has ID. Some places won't let the other in because he doesn't have ID, even though his brother, who shares the exact same DNA has ID....
How old are you anyway?
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How old are you anyway?
*clicks on username link*
he appears to be 23 years old
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*clicks on username link*
he appears to be very old
Yes I am
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Yes I am
I read this in Gary Coleman's voice from Avenue Q and it was wonderful.
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Postan from work. I'm so fucking hungry, and the girl that was supposed to come in at 2 so I could have a break never got called. Fuuuuuck.
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Postan from work. I'm so fucking hungry, and the girl that was supposed to come in at 2 so I could have a break never got called. Fuuuuuck.
That's the fucking worst. My friends would do that to me when I worked at this restaurant. Basically they'd go on brake together and I'd never get anyone to cover me.
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Drove a friend back to his house in Warren, half an hour away, in return for whatever I wanted on food stamps. I got a full peach pie and sparkling apple cider. Score.
Also it is my birthday. Cash, checks, and credit cards accepted.
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I want peach pie. :V
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Also it is my birthday. Cash, checks, and credit cards accepted.
Do you accept air high-fives? Or blown kisses? I can blow a mean kiss.
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Gah I am going to be quite tired today. I ment to get up at 6:30 this morning and I ended up waking up at 5.
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Also it is my birthday. Cash, checks, and credit cards accepted.
Cash Money: For your dollars, pounds, and slags.
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One part bragging, one part complaining:
I wrote this chart, it's awesome, they're awesome, but WHY DID SHE SYNC THE OVERLAID MUSIC HALF A BEAT EARLY AARRRGH :(
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One part bragging, one part complaining:
I wrote this chart, it's awesome, they're awesome, but WHY DID SHE SYNC THE OVERLAID MUSIC HALF A BEAT EARLY AARRRGH :(
That looks like a really really really fun chart
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guess i am going to have to aquire the newest photoshop apon release
watch the video and you will probably think it's fake, in fact, i am a bit skeptical about it. but if it works as shown....i would really like the new pscs5
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I just took a several hour nap, now I really need to get some work done.
Also I apparently fucked up majorly on my last math test, which wildly pisses me off.
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I think the picture is somewhat inappropriate for the article (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8621394.stm)
holding hands in bed ahahaha
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guess i am going to have to aquire the newest photoshop apon release
watch the video and you will probably think it's fake, in fact, i am a bit skeptical about it. but if it works as shown....i would really like the new pscs5
I saw that feature mentioned on Cnet news. I'd be inclined to trust them, though it does seem pretty amazing. I do definitely think it is possible. It just takes a couple really fucking complex algorithms. I've gotta give some major props to whoever worked those out.
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One of my AIM names (of which I have several) arbitrarily stopped working a few days ago, saying I had a bad name or password. I just today tried to do a "forgot your password". You can enter either your name, or an email address, and then a Captcha. Entering my screen name says "We're sorry. We do not have enough information to reset your password. If you are unable to remember it you will need to create a new Username.". Entering my old email address says that it's sending a password reset link to an "alternate email address", of which I do not know. What the fuck? My password worked fine last week, and it's the same password I use for my other AIM accounts. It's not as though I NEED this account, but this was my first AIM account, and I'd really rather have it back.
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i should change my gamertag
420XxVlAdGdxX420
sound good?
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One of my AIM names (of which I have several) arbitrarily stopped working a few days ago, saying I had a bad name or password. I just today tried to do a "forgot your password". You can enter either your name, or an email address, and then a Captcha. Entering my screen name says "We're sorry. We do not have enough information to reset your password. If you are unable to remember it you will need to create a new Username.". Entering my old email address says that it's sending a password reset link to an "alternate email address", of which I do not know. What the fuck? My password worked fine last week, and it's the same password I use for my other AIM accounts. It's not as though I NEED this account, but this was my first AIM account, and I'd really rather have it back.
I swear I've had this happen to my facebook account a while back, no idea why tho. I typed in my password past the point were human error could effect it and it still would say it was wrong.
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Good: Kickass is a fantastic movie, go see it now GO NOW GO.
Bad: My parents are completely and utterly incompetent with money and bills and as a result, BG&E cut off our power and won't turn it on until we give them at least $3900. No, that's not a typo. Fridge/modem and router/few other things are running on generator power right now, laptop's running on batteries. Fuck. This. Shit. I'm calling my cousin tomorrow and seeing if I can crash on his couch.
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Holy shit, that's terrible.
I hope my girlfriend's roommate doesn't end up like that. He just got evicted for not paying rent (because he had no money, because somehow he can spend money faster than anyone though possible). Of course, the eviction itself was illegal (like the place they are staying in). Here, you need to give 2 weeks notice on an eviction, and can't touch their shit, at all. She told him he had 2 days to get out, and she'd be putting his stuff under a tarp outside.
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So I just saw an old man whose head was coming out of his chest...
Well I assume it didn't start that way, but I've never seen someone with such a severe hunch in my life. Imagine always having to look up to see in front of you :[
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i was at a used game shop today, seen 50 cent blood in the sand for $18.00.
three dollars too much for me for that game.
i proceeded to go to the home depot and spend $15.00 on a big ass sheet of acrylic.
fuck year, acrylic!
[spoiler]fuck no, cutting acrylic![/spoiler]
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i proceeded to go to the home depot and spend $15.00 on a big ass sheet of acrylic.
[spoiler]fuck no, cutting acrylic![/spoiler]
Thank you for supporting the company I work for.
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Fucking Starcraft runs with a decent enough chunk missing from the right side of the screen (Red Alert does the same).
It seems like half the old games I try to run won't run properly, and it doesn't look like Starcraft has proper video adjustment settings in game for me to be able to adjust it through that.
that and I have no idea how big my screen is...
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i was at a used game shop today, seen 50 cent blood in the sand for $18.00.
you actually thought about buying that game?
lol
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It's actually a lot of fun. It uses some ideas from The Club.
You can find it for $10 shipped on newegg usually though so anything over that is too much.
I just put in my full application at Fedex as a customer service agent. Namedropped my dad and brother who both work for the company and are super highly rated so hopefully something comes of this. I'd like to get into a company and have an actual career like my dad's had (he and my brother make around $65k/year). It's pretty much the only thing I need.
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Nice man nice.
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you actually thought about buying that game?
a cheap solid fun third person shooter with co-op? yeah i did. not to mention the game itself is funny as hell.
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http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/533395
Not really related but funny as shit.
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I find it funny that newer generation gamers think console is the shit. I went from console to PC and find PC game to be much more fun (there are alot of exeptions but you know).
Point is:If you want to play a fps: play PC.
Ever thing else: Console or arcade.
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I'm still trying to find companies not named Nippon Ichi who make turn-based RPGs for the PS3
it has not gone well
btw lol Final Fantasy
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PC games in general have gotten really boring. There's very little genre differentiation or style differences. The most original games on PC now are console ports. It's pretty sad.
I don't know why you'd lol about FF13 though. Technically that battle system is normal ATB, but jacked up in speed and letting you macro-manage. It's fantastic.
Nippon Ichi sucks now. Especially NIS America. They put the smallest amount of effort into anything they do, knowing that people will just lap it up. Just look at Last Rebellion. It's one of the worst games in years.
Resonance of Fate is really good too. Get that.
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normally i would side for pc, but even for fps games (it wasn't too long ago where i wouldn't dare get an fps on console over pc), the focus is on consoles. pc ports of console games are not preferable to the console game in my opinion.
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I don't know why you'd lol about FF13 though. Technically that battle system is normal ATB, but jacked up in speed and letting you macro-manage. It's fantastic.
Haven't played FF13, actually. I was thinking of FF10 when I said that (it's the last FF I've played) and I'm pretty sure it's turn-based.
Nippon Ichi sucks now.
No. Disgaea 3 was gangster shit, yo
I also have endless respect for them because before the first Disgaea, games rarely came out with the Japanese track, and hearing English VAs in a Japanese game makes me sick.
Especially NIS America.
I agree with this, though. I'm thinking about importing all my games from now on, actually
Just look at Last Rebellion. It's one of the worst games in years.
Resonance of Fate is really good too. Get that.
ahahahaha Last Rebellion -- I rented it using GameFly, and it was back in the envelope in like 10 minutes
And I'll check out Resonance
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normally i would side for pc, but even for fps games (it wasn't too long ago where i wouldn't dare get an fps on console over pc), the focus is on consoles. pc ports of console games are not preferable to the console game in my opinion.
To every rule there is an exeption. Bioshock made for a good console to pc port.
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normally i would side for pc, but even for fps games (it wasn't too long ago where i wouldn't dare get an fps on console over pc), the focus is on consoles. pc ports of console games are not preferable to the console game in my opinion.
Eh, it depends. You sometimes get a good port and you some times get a bad port, the same could be said of any system (the 360 version of Fallout 3 was horrible, never played the PS3) but I'll agree the majority of bad ports are made to the PC. I did really like how Prototype and DMC4 played tho.
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To every rule there is an exeption. Bioshock made for a good console to pc port.
funny, i got bioshock on steam.
guess what. IT DOESN'T WORK.
thanks 2k.
anyway, good news. http://www.justin.tv/cicadatehl337#r=YjoBUj0~
not sure how long it will go for, but it's on hour 20. ssfiv got "leaked" and people are playing it. good people for the most part. actually seen hakan kick a fair amount of ass.
and cody has a fucking stupid japanese voice, his 'merican voice is infinity times better. japanese cody sounds like a faggot 6 year old boy, 'merican cody sounds like what cody looks like he should sound like. that and both of t-hawk's voices are bad. he should sound like sagat meets seth or something.
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What book would anyone recommend for learning C++?
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Not C++ for dummies. I've got both Learn C++ in 24 hours, and C++ for dummies, and neither of them are all that great. Learn C++ in 24 hours isn't nearly as bad as C++ for dummies, though.
I've learned more programming from tutorials online than I have through books, to be honest. The only programming book I have that is any good is the absolutely gigantic Java book I have (Java 2, The Complete Reference, fourth edition) And it's outdated as hell now.
I'd recommend grabbing a torrent with a bunch of books, like this one (http://isohunt.com/torrent_details/13555522/C?tab=summary) and combining it with tutorials and such on subjects that get glossed over or don't seem very clear. Using a combination of sources to learn usually makes it easier to find the right resource to learn each specific thing from, rather than trusting one source to teach you everything you need to know.
For example, algorithms and data structures, which are very important aspects of advanced programming hardly get touched on in most "Learn C++" books. But without some decent knowledge, it can be very difficult to properly program a lot of things. Networkin is another subject that tends to be left out, or glossed over because it's such a huge and complex subject (Networking in C++ is torture compared to in C# and Java).
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funny, i got bioshock on steam.
guess what. IT DOESN'T WORK.
thanks 2k.
anyway, good news. http://www.justin.tv/cicadatehl337#r=YjoBUj0~
not sure how long it will go for, but it's on hour 20. ssfiv got "leaked" and people are playing it. good people for the most part. actually seen hakan kick a fair amount of ass.
and cody has a fucking stupid japanese voice, his 'merican voice is infinity times better. japanese cody sounds like a faggot 6 year old boy, 'merican cody sounds like what cody looks like he should sound like. that and both of t-hawk's voices are bad. he should sound like sagat meets seth or something.
I wouldn't bother with videos of the leaked version. It's not the final version and has a ton of stuff incorrect. Damage from combos being completely wacky, Ultras glitching, etc.
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(the 360 version of allout 3 was horrible, never played the PS3)
The PS3 version is even worse. Lots of bugs, too.
I pretty much have to get console versions because my PC doesn't have the hardware requirements to run most games. Shit sux.
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when i get a console game, i know it's going to work, at the bare minimum. when i get a pc game, i don't know jack, even if i have well above the recommended system requirements.
bioshock and stalker are both games i own and want to play. bioshock and stalker are both games i payed money for that don't fucking work. ill sacrifice better controls for the ability to play the game at all.
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Yeah true, you really should look through some forums/walk through for that, because there has to be something for it.
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believe me, i did.
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This. Fuck having a shitty computer.
Mines about 8 years old and I still use it.
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I've got fairly new parts (mostly AMD stuff but it's still a good dual-core with plenty of ram and a pretty good video card) and I still feel like I can't get enough out of it for PC games to be worth playing. I guess I want to be able to go big or go home yeah? I mean, I can play most stuff with what I've got, but not at 1920x1080 to maximize the potential of my monitor. Playing at 720p just feels odd. And even the games I do want to play aren't especially optimized (oh my god The Witcher, even the Enhanced Version) so things chug and dip annoyingly.
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This. Fuck having a shitty computer.
sad part about that for me, i don't have a shitty computer. my computer can buttfuck both of those games running at the same time maxed, if they wanted to get to the part where they ran.
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I've got fairly new parts (mostly AMD stuff but it's still a good dual-core with plenty of ram and a pretty good video card)
Yeah I think the computer that I want to build this year is an AMD dual-core
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My laptop is an AMD dual core, and it seems to run pretty nicely. The only problem is, it's a laptop. Mobile graphics chipsets fucking SUCK.
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Anyone know what happened to Spectere? It's been over a month since he was last active...
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Anyone know what happened to Spectere? It's been over a month since he was last active...
He may be busy with work stuffs...or porn...wait what if both is one? O.o;
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it's not unusual for him to have long stints of inactivity, post a little bit, then back to the inactivity.
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Yeah, though it is kinda depressing, since this is his personal site, and whatnot.
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Eh as long as he is okay thats what matters, right?
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Monday at 3pm, I decide my fate. I get my application/interview session with Fedex thanks to my dad and with luck, I'll get my job and I'll get my career. It's one of those things that's really clawed at the back of my mind for a really long time. I guess it's just something that happens when you start hitting your mid-20's and most of your friends seem to have better lives than you do yeah?
This job is only part-time but Fedex is really good on moving up the ranks. I'll probably have to wait a year or so for a full-time route to open up (this is a courier position) but until then it's 3pm-8pm Monday-Friday for $15.61/hr with full benefits.
I figure the interview should go very well because I plan on bringing up the fact that my dad's been with the company for 21 years now and my brother's been with them for 10 and I'd like to start my time with them. Strong loyalty and ties to the company should really get them going.
Now I just need to write out my employment record for the last 10 years (good lord they are thorough) and get everything together.
And then next Friday, I'm moving across the Twin Cities westward into a house!
It's a super busy week next week.
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I guess it's just something that happens when you start hitting your mid-20's and most of your friends seem to have better lives than you do yeah?
I know what you mean (sort of). I'm still young yet I feel like I'm going nowhere in life.
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guess i would be in the same boat, albiet a few years younger. starting to look into what i want to "go into" education wise. i mean, there's the general college credit stuff which is whatever, and then there's the stuff i would want to go into.
two months ago, i didn't have anything. now, im leaning towards the sciencey stuff, particularly astronomy. i mean a person like me going into that shit? well, i am interested in the subject, i can't see it being too crazy to delve into such a field.
still i guess im still young, thinking about starting college in the winter...which i should start getting shit sorted out soon so i don't further procrastinate on it.
*eeed*
watched the diago v justin rematch thing.
diago picked...guile...and it was a tie...
so yeah it was pretty interesting, since diago didn't pick ryu, i was actually rooting for him.
DOUBLE KO
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I still think Daigo threw that last round. He just walks right up to him when he had never done anything close to that in the entire rest of the match. And he had such a huge lead that there's no way Daigo would normally chance that. He wanted to make it more exciting and it ended up as a double KO.
Also, I think I'm totally set for this interview tomorrow. I have all of my employment history accounted for, gaps and all, I've got some great references both inside the company and out, a game plan for the whole thing (harp on loyalty to the company and family ties to it), my clothes are all clean.
I just have to find my dress shoes, wherever they went.
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Got a new monitor for my PC! It was a graduation gift from my parents.
Samsung 23" LCD. 2ms response and 1920x1080 resolution.
AND AS A GIFT TO MYSELF: Last week my Windows 7 arrived in the mail. 90 bucks with student discount!
Now all I need is to fix/replace the fan (grinds for a bit when I turn on the PC) and maybe pump it up to 4GB RAM instead of just my 2.
Also congrats Eggman, Fedex is apparently a pretty chill place to work. What are the benefits like?
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guile
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I laughed hard.
Super Sonic Boom 4.
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My initial interview went very well. The other guys that were there for it were a lot older than me (Fedex likes to hire youthful guys over older) and two of them had speeding tickets in the last couple of years so they're right out of the running. I was also the only one actually dressed up for it and prepared with my own pen and my employment/address history printed out beforehand.
My second interview (the major one) should be late next week. Crossing my fingers on this one. Fedex gives full benefits for permanent part-time with full dental coverage, vision, nearly full medical (something like 90% of all doctor's visits/surgeries), they give a 401k plan, paid time off, etc, etc, the whole shebang and I could definitely use it.
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(Fedex likes to hire youthful guys over older)
in before age discrimination lawsuit
oh, wait (http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2008/02/us-supreme-court-allows-fedex-age.php)
A little more seriously, though, good luck with the job. I wish I'd be able to get something like that, haha.
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I'd want to hire younger guys too if the job required lifting up to 75 pounds unassisted fairly regularly. You can't count on a 45-50 year old man being able to do that for too long. I know I sure as hell could do that all day long. I love physical labor (as weird as that sounds). My favorite job that I've had so far was when I worked at the MN State Fair and I had 12 12 hour days in a row. That sort of physical/personal challenge is something I relish.
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I'd want to hire younger guys too if the job required lifting up to 75 pounds unassisted fairly regularly. You can't count on a 45-50 year old man being able to do that for too long. I know I sure as hell could do that all day long. I love physical labor (as weird as that sounds). My favorite job that I've had so far was when I worked at the MN State Fair and I had 12 12 hour days in a row. That sort of physical/personal challenge is something I relish.
Right and my dad does morning frieght at home depot and has to down stock some items that weigh any where between 150-200lbs...fuck 1/2" 4x12 dry wall.
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It's my birthday today. Woohoo.
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yea here
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It's my birthday today. Woohoo.
Happy birthday! <3
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I was just playing AvP 2000, it crashed, and now my computer has no sound. Help.
NEVERMIND, evidently it forced some random volume control all the way down.
Also I've finally been assed into changing all my windows default sounds.
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I'm bad, but not terrible, at driving the manual transmission car my roommate ended up buying. (He's had it for a week, and he's not that much better.) The main problem with it is trying to get into first gear smoothly and quickly, and practicing on a hill didn't help, but I'm pretty sure I'll have it more-or-less down by the end of the week.
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I'm bad, but not terrible, at driving the manual transmission car my roommate ended up buying. (He's had it for a week, and he's not that much better.) The main problem with it is trying to get into first gear smoothly and quickly, and practicing on a hill didn't help, but I'm pretty sure I'll have it more-or-less down by the end of the week.
Yeah shifting from 1st to 2nd is the hardest shift on a manual transmission...after that everything is a cake walk. The best advice I can tell you is when you let go of the clutch start hitting the gas. However timing is the key.
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Heh, yeah. I stalled it about ten times in 10 minutes by letting the clutch out too quickly, and squealed the tires once when I gave it too much gas, before I got somewhat used to it. Then again, he's done all of that while actually driving - including stall-start-repeat through an entire green light with people behind us - so I'm not too fussed.
All in all, he's had the car for a week, so we're both still learning how to use it, but I taught him how to downshift smoothly and I've been anticipating this for a while, so I'm aiming to be better at it by Saturday. :P
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Well, if this keeps up, tell him to be ready to replace the clutch at some point, lol.
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Well, if this keeps up, tell him to be ready to replace the clutch at some point, lol.
The car's got 247k miles on it and it's still running great. :P I'm pretty sure it'll even out once we get the hang of it.
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Well, clutches are pretty easy to wreck, but also last a long time if treated properly.
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question,
if I install a modchip or homebrew firmware on a 360 for the purpose of playing region-locked games, and only played legitimate copies, whether NTSC-U or NTSC-J, would I get banned from Live? I'm not sure if they ban you for the act of modding you console or for playing illegitimate copies of games. I assume they would ban me for having a modded console, so is there any way to get around this?
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I have no idea. I would assume they'd ban you for having a mod chip, since that essentially breaks any agreements you have with them (somewhere buried in a license you agreed not to modify it) and they do NOT want people installing mod chips for any reason.
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There is now no possible way to have a modded/hacked 360 online. They have yet to re-crack that so that it doesn't get flagged.
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I turned 18 today
I'm going to go look at pornographic pictures without feeling guilty
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Don't forget to buy cigarettes and lotto tickets as well.
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I am honestly getting sick of the new Steam overlay and how often it looses connection to the Steam servers. Seriously it booted me off servers on TF2 three times in less then 5 minutes because the message was "Cannon connect to a VAC server."
What fucking horse shit.
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cigarettes
eww
lotto tickets
...maybe
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At least one lotto ticket, just to say you tried once
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New avatar because Tchaikovsky's a badass.
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I turned 18 today
I'm going to go look at pornographic pictures without feeling guilty
Buy cigearetts, buy porn, buy a shotgun and fire a shot through a voting ballot.
but yeah, evidently there was a problem with the wireing for my internet down the3street, but I ended up getting a new browser through the whole ordeal anyways.
On the topic of driving a stick shift, you basically learn how to do it within a day or two tops, but getting it down takes a little while.
Also I sure do love not having a spell check.
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AND WHAT BROWSER WOULD THAT BE
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IE something on my moms old PC.
Modified for a potentially good deal.
http://www.wolfire.com/humble
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It's definitely a good deal, if only for World of Goo. Penumbra is really good too. I paid $1 because I am a cheapskate. And it went to charity.
I had my final interview at Fedex this morning. Went extremely well. They see me as an extremely dependable, details-oriented man with a solid handshake and who is always on time (I was 10 minutes early for my interview) and enjoys physical challenges. I could not have done better.
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I love it how new people to L4D2 call bullshit for a few reasons:
1) How I can head shot them with a shotty at medium range and kill them.
2) They pistol whip a uncoming charger and get charged.
3) Freeing oneself from a smoker tounge by melee it at the right time.
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I love it how new people to L4D2 call bullshit for a few reasons:
Welcome to any videogame ever. Really, people are impationt and have huge egos over minor bullshit. It's just another case of people not understanding what they're talking about, but talking anyways. Can't tell you how many times I've seen this happen in CSS (people not knowing what hitboxes or packet loss is, people saying that I need a better connection because I have choke problems...). Plus, the endless amount of rage from people when they don't know how to counter something in a fighting game and call it bullshit.
Also just saw Iron Man 2, it was fairly mediocre. Both "villans" are massivly cartoonish, the story is sort of a mess, the fights scenes were generally weak, and the end russian guy goes all weeaboo at the end for some reason.
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http://www.livestream.com/striderdoom
episode 100
i really want to play some damn starcraft 2
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I've played it a bit. I suck at the game hardcore but I've just been screwing around against the AI. It doesn't really feel a whole lot different from what I remember of the original. I've only tried Protoss though and they feel kind of overpowered.
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The AI? Which AI? Have any of the blizz AIs been leaked yet, or were you playing one of the custom AIs people have made?
I suck hardcore as well, and so far can't stand up to the StarCrack 7 AI. SC 5 is weak as shit though.
And yeah, Toss still feel a bit OP, but if you watch a bunch of the pro-games, you can see that it's still well balanced.
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i kind of want to get "good" at the game. that video was essentially like a starcraft motivational speaker.
unlike street fighter, i have friends that are buying starcraft 2, my friends i can play with all the time, im kind of really fucking hyped right now. the game comes out in...less than 3 months...the first non WoW game blizzard will have released since warcraft 3 the frozen throne.
thinking how im talking about street fighter now "hey if y'all want to play hit me up", probably going to intensify 10 fold for sc2.
or until the motivational speaker talk seeps away from my mind, im pretty easily emotionally manipulated. still though, my friends play mw2, and SOON they will play starcraft 2. shit's exciting mang.
as for races, i INTEND on going zerg, but it's possible i will play terran. no way in hell ill play toss though, that's like me maining ryu in street fighter or something. i mean i want to get good at street fighter, but having friends into the same game as you are makes getting those games in together all the better.
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I rather liked Iron Man 2. It wasn't perfect, but I thught it was pretty good. Putting a typical ego-driven villain against Tony Stark doesn't work well, given his personality.
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The AI? Which AI? Have any of the blizz AIs been leaked yet, or were you playing one of the custom AIs people have made?
I suck hardcore as well, and so far can't stand up to the StarCrack 7 AI. SC 5 is weak as shit though.
And yeah, Toss still feel a bit OP, but if you watch a bunch of the pro-games, you can see that it's still well balanced.
Normal level difficulty AI? You can create a game and then add AI enemies to it and just play a match without inviting anyone.
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The more I seek answers for things the more I get questions but a few question have been answered for me today...I am content.
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Oh god what do I get my mom for mothers day.
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if your mom is like all the other 40-something women of today, get her a FarmVille gift card.
(that's what I got my mom)
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flowers because it's easy and effective
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I got her candy and a card with a little black kid on it, should do nicely.
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I got her candy and a card with a little black kid on it, should do nicely.
How nice of you. I did a bunch of cleaning for my mom yesterday considering I have to be at work in about an hour.
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I got my job at Fedex. I'm either starting on thursday or on the 24th, depending on if the results from my drug test/physical exam go through in the next two days. If they don't, the manager's gone all of next week and I'll have to wait until the 24th to start up. I want to start on thursday though.
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gratz hope you didn't smoke any weed
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Putting my dog's voice through autotune is pretty funny. :3
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I'm drinking beer
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gratz hope you didn't smoke any weed
I never take any form of drug other than caffeine and headache stuff so I'd be amazed if something came up on that.
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I figured you didn't, but it was mostly a joke anyway.
grats again, I'm still hanging around doing nothing
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finished season 3 of farscape, now i have to dig into my "complete series dvd set" rather than netflix to see the rest.
it's weird, it climaxed in the episode prior to the last...then it get's really fucking weird in the last episode, and ends in on a very unlikely grim bizarre cliffhanger.
with what i know now, i am unsure how another season is supposed to happen. i mean, everything is fucked in all the wrong ways.
kind of want a little break from farscape with something different and maby less serious. thinking knightrider.
*edit*
new av. SMUG PANDA GIRL YEAH! i need to hunt down the artist for whoever drew it, good lines mang. i believe they are from some french mmo thinger.
for those interested (spectur is dead so probably nobody) here's the full version.
http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/3861/f3880d5a33395ad3170d4ab.jpg
worksafe, nothing wrong with it.
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Not sure exactly how work safe that is.
Also my CPU is running stupidly hot. Two cores are running at 60 and the other two are at 50 or so, and when I play a game (not even demanding ones) it makes some of them run right up to 70. I think my fan might be slightly lose or something.
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Woot only an hour until I have to depart for work x.x
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Not sure exactly how work safe that is.
it's worksafe enough bruh
*edit*
imo this is less worksafe
http://img512.imageshack.us/img512/498/headbutt.jpg
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gomen、 but when I saw that I instantly thought of 306 kid
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What?
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Vlads avatar, it looks like the show them online kid.
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Vlads avatar, it looks like the show them online kid.
can't unsee
"the great thing about the internet isn't being turned into a closet furfag, but showing everybody online that i am"
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You're far from closeted.
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guess im kind of a faggit aren't i?
have this 50 cent to compensate
speaking of guilty gear, kind of want to try that nigga out. watching videos and shit, potemkin and zappa look awesome.
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I have come to realization I am not as strong I though I was. A very close friend has helped me realize that and a bunch of other things...as painful as it is it is also at the same time eye opening. I (hate to admit this) just got done crying for about 10 minutes...yes I know you will make fun of me for this but I know this community is also as supportive as well.
Thanks guys and gals...OmegaOmni will be up to is usual spunk later.
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Well, if it makes you feel any better I'm weak as fucking shit..... And I'e got a friend who can lift a 600 lb car engine by himself, and is strong enough to bend a wrench, with his bare hands... Shat's scary to watch.
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That's odd. Not really a bad thing, it's fairly horribly for you mentally to have pent up emotions.
Also boobies, I'm not sure that's what he meant.
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Not sure exactly how work safe that is.
Also my CPU is running stupidly hot. Two cores are running at 60 and the other two are at 50 or so, and when I play a game (not even demanding ones) it makes some of them run right up to 70. I think my fan might be slightly lose or something.
Fucking shit is getting worse, goddamn what the hell. I might actually take out my motherboard just to place the new fan in there.
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That's odd. Not really a bad thing, it's fairly horribly for you mentally to have pent up emotions.
Also boobies, I'm not sure that's what he meant.
Yeah Mort knew what I ment Bobbias...but thanks for trying though
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and is strong enough to bend a wrench, with his bare hands... Shat's scary to watch.
The fuck?
How many boxes of Wheaties has this man eaten?
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The fuck?
How many boxes of Wheaties has this man eaten?
lol, no idea. Like I said, he scares me at times.
That's odd. Not really a bad thing, it's fairly horribly for you mentally to have pent up emotions.
Also boobies, I'm not sure that's what he meant.
Apparently I was rather tired when I posted that, and missed some of the message :/
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Well you are Canadian, so it's impossible for you to feel emotion.
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Of course. Our robot overlord, Stephen Harper programmed us to be emotionless.
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Were you all crying messes when Paul Martin was in office?
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Nah, but he's no Chr
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Rave was good last night.
then the cops showed up and busted all the underage kids who were drinking
didn't bother anyone that was of age or that blew a zero
then the party resumed. i love phoenix AZ Police. <3 thanks guys.
oh and i was shuffling and jumpstyling my dick off to dubstep and hardstyle dark electro. fuck yes.
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Haha, that's awesome.
Though personally I prefer (Tech Step) DnB or Techno (Or Acid).
Either way, I've never heard any proper electronic music (NOT shitty club music) anywhere yet.
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hardstyle is god tier electronic music
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I used to listen to Hardstyle, Gabber, and even the Hardcore channel on di.fm. But I just sorta grew out of that stuff for the most part. Well, that, and I MUCH prefer the classic Gabber sound to the new stuff (Thunderdome CDs, if you want to hear what I mean. My favourite being Thunderdome 9, but that's a hard CD to get a hold of.) Now I listen to the Drum and Bass, Techno, Oldschool Electronica, and very occasionally, the Classic Trance channel.
I don't mind dubstep (some tracks are pretty damn awesome) but I can't handle too much of it at once.
I just really wish di.fm would get some goddamned IDM channels already.
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i needed a brake from /v/. mods don't like it when you challenge them. i mean there will be innocent porn threads on /v/ all the time that result in no bans. i have posted PLENTY of nsfw and only allowed in /b/ images on /v/ with no consequences whatsoever. but if you post something directly challenging a mods authority, BAM!
(http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/3836/lolfinally.jpg)
that would make ban number 3. first was for calling timeshift a generic shootan game (seriously). second was for forgetting about the wordfilter on butthurt.
this recent ban was for posting a nsfw picture of girl hakan. i quoted a man who stated that /v/ is a worksafe board and that no pornographic images should be posted (that guy was most likely the mod who zapped me), and i stated "you new here".
funny stuff though, ive been moderately trying to get banned, but you can't do that just by randomly posting nsfw content. maby ill go outside and get some fresh air now.
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so I was browsing Pixiv, and:
NSFW (http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/6866/9494659.png)
be prepared to have your brain fucked
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No thanks I will pass.
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so I was browsing Pixiv, and:
NSFW (http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/6866/9494659.png)
be prepared to have your brain fucked
Silly, that's not MY brain!
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RONNIE JAMES DIO IS DEAD
BRB KILLING SELF
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http://www.examiner.com/x-29040-Boise-Music-Examiner~y2010m5d16-Ronnie-James-Dio-death-rumors-thankfully-turn-out-to-be-a-hoax-video
Not cool bro.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100516/ap_on_en_mu/us_obit_ronnie_james_dio
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Well thank satan I got to see him + Black Sabbath (tony iommi and such) last year.. rest in peace.
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Tis a sad sad day :/
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thinking about spending a portion of my already large "sit on my ass and do nothing" time to doing some exercise and getting my ass in shape.
the only problem with this, ive said this plenty of times. though, it doesn't hurt to talk about it, maby one of these times ill stick to exercise, and maby even clean up my diet while i am at it.
maby get a new mp3 player (last one died) so i can have something to listen to while doing whatever physical activity. exercise + dj shadow = yeah
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Well, first day of work is done. Was a fairly easy first day, even if it did drag on. I just have to wake my ass up at like 5:30 tomorrow, which is going to suck.
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actually, i could probably see myself jiving well to jogging to this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uikiBuLfUDg&playnext_from=TL&videos=SRgn8BLGpjI).
ignore the pain of standing up with hot jamz!
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Heh, I closed Google Chrome while it was clearing its cache, so whatever was left got corrupted. Now s.net has the same favicon as South Park Studios.
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http://revver.com/video/99898/imagining-the-tenth-dimension/
if link doesn't work
http://www.sirlin.net/
scroll down, watch the last video of the "meanings, pictures, and words" post.
it's all sorts of fucked up in all the right ways. im not going to spoil it for you, but he gets to "infinity" before even hitting the 8th dimension. if you get your rocks off from dimensional thinking, this video is worth checking out.
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My "boss" (I work for him, but he doesn't pay me) is a fairly crazy guy. The first day I met him he said fuck in every other sentence, and today he told me about the time he did coke with the lead singer of Stone Temple Pilots.
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http://revver.com/video/99898/imagining-the-tenth-dimension/
if link doesn't work
http://www.sirlin.net/
scroll down, watch the last video of the "meanings, pictures, and words" post.
it's all sorts of fucked up in all the right ways. im not going to spoil it for you, but he gets to "infinity" before even hitting the 8th dimension. if you get your rocks off from dimensional thinking, this video is worth checking out.
Yeah, this is a cool video, I saw this in a class a few years back. It's a good, concise explanation of that stuff.
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My "boss" (I work for him, but he doesn't pay me) is a fairly crazy guy. The first day I met him he said fuck in every other sentence, and today he told me about the time he did coke with the lead singer of Stone Temple Pilots.
Haha, that's awesome.
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Oh nice mort
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Ahahaha really? That guy is super famous. He's notorious for doing all the drugs ever. That's sweet.
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Yeah, apperently he used to be a fairly big addict. Shit's nuts, he's always telling me these crazy/personal stories, but he seems like a fairly solid gent.
Oh yeah, and the writing inside the porta-pottys were so god damn funny. The whole front door was covered in some sports argument with people saying the NFL and the MLB were for fags, and the NBA was for niggers and fags, and someone pointed towards this and wrote wetbacks, THEN someone wrote that around the world hispanics are some of the best athletes. Then on the wall there was a ton of writing just about random stuff that was generally funny, and in the middle of it was written "Quit wrighting shit and get back to work".
Oh yeah, and I had my first hard day today. I unloaded a semi full of playground equipment and by about 3:30 ish I couldn't feel my arms. Even several hours later I went to pick up my dog, which is usually and easy thing to do, but I struggled just to get her up. I'm wondering if I should try and work out again or if I should just do it once in a while and let my work try and bulk me up.
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We're going to pump you up!
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So. In the first voice class I took, I was an alto. The only one in the class, in fact.
The second one I took, I was put with the sopranos.
The third one, I was primarily in the altos, but I'd be made to switch to soprano if the need arose.
Today, in my latest class, I was put in the tenor section.
This is going to be interesting.
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That's like me throughout high school choir. I started as a bass, moved to baritone, then they wanted me in the tenors, then I was asked to fill in when we were missing altos, then I was told I could do whatever I felt like I wanted to do as long as I knew the part. Which meant I actually went falsetto a few times to help out sopranos.
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lol, I never knew you did choir. How long have you been out of highschool, anyway? (I can never keep track of where everyone is here)
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I did choir too xD. only cause I needed a fine arts credit, and my friend told me they were in serious need of guys, and any guy that joins got an automatic A for the year. So, I join, audition, they throw me in with the bass, and the rest is history. I never knew I could sing that good. Halfway thru, they recruited me for Vocal Jazz (smaller ensemble with a jazzy A Capella twist), I loved that too.
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I kind of wish I did that. It would be nice to at least know HOW to sing correctly.
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Well, my singing is ass-tastically bad, but the worst part is that I have a terrible range. So even if I wanted to get better, I'd still be stuck with a shitty range.
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I've been out of high school for 7 years now, which is honestly kind of sad. I keep up pretty well on my singing though. My upper range has gone away a little bit but I can still hit most Alto stuff just fine. My lower register's actually gone away more I think.
I still remember we were doing recitals and stuff and we had a group of 9 guys doing a three part (Bass/Baritone/Tenor) song. We had practiced and practiced and then when the actual recital day came around, the other two guys in the Baritone part chickened out so I was the only one. And the Baritones had a solo section in the song and the other parts were supposed to back us up. So I had to belt out the solo by myself strong enough to overpower 6 other guys (choir can actually be quite competitive between singers and certain groups don't like to be overshadowed. Tenors are especially bad on this from my experiences). Apparently it turned out really well because I got a fairly awesome standing ovation afterwards and I actually had a lot more girls talking to me after that. Too bad most of the girls in choir were total sluts. But whatever, it was good for my self-esteem back then.
I was pretty much oblivious to girls in general back then though. The only girls I ever wanted to ask out were already taken by random jocks or had been friends with the guy since grade school and I had no real presence outside of my own circle of friends. Other than that, there was one girl who, looking back on it, totally liked me but again, I was a retard and totally oblivious and now I have no idea what happened to her because she's not on facebook or anywhere else that I've tried to look up.
I actually got the nickname of Eggman through choir too. I got it from 7th grade choir. Apparently the deoderant that I used smelled like eggs to this other kid in choir so he started calling me Eggman. And that actually stuck and I don't know why I kept it haha. But it was eventually my legacy because by senior year, I was actually Eggman Sr. and I had trained an Eggman Jr. and I can only hope that he did the same. I'd love it if I went back to the high school and found an Eggman VIII or something. I doubt anyone kept it up though.
This has been an Eggman High School Memory Time.
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That's hilarious man haha. I definitely saw a little bit of the competitive aspect of it, except in our choir group, it was more about just being a man and not singing in the high ranges. So, me and the other 2 true basses (not baritone) would always go around talking in the lowest note or some bullshit like that. To me, I've always put being a guy in choir in highschool was like being a male cheerleader. Yea, it's kinda like wtf, but play your cards right, and you're a pimp.
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Yeah, I've seen it the same way, it's one of those things that is sorta seen as lame, but at the same time, can get you noticed a lot more, and can work in your favour.
Like I said, I'd like to be able to sing properly, but I know that my range is really limited, so it wouldn't be worth too much anyway.
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I wish I could have been in the choir throughout middle/high school. My school district sucked though, and once you hit the 6th grade, you had to choose only one. So if you were one of those kids in the 5th grade that was in the choir, band, and orchestra... Yeah, you only got to be in one.
Silly school district. :(
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probably an easy question to answer.
in vista, in my documents (no where else apparently) my files do not stick to a grid. IE, they go wherever i drag them. this is very annoying, i only just discovered it because i really don't move stuff around much, but i don't know how to "turn on" the sticky/grid/magnet/whatever it's called.
*while i am here*
may as well pimp this guy, his art is so fucking good.
http://steveargyle.deviantart.com/
there's some nsfw content on there, but like, the detail in some of those things is quite amazing.
like this "kraken" (http://steveargyle.deviantart.com/art/Lord-of-the-Kraken-130470607?q=gallery%3ASteveArgyle%2F19000146&qo=32) (nsfw, though it isn't what i would call dirty or anything) the lighting and whatnot, just damn good for lack of a better term. if anybody else has links to any fantasy/sci fi artists along the lines of this quality, hit me up, im a sucker for this stuff.
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I want my car back D:
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Girlfriend and I are moving into our new apartment this weekend! This shit is so fly. The apartment is a really nice old building, updated to the new standards. Its location RULES. Centre of downtown, which makes everywhere in the city a 15-20 minute drive TOPS. Neighborhood is gorgeous, lots of big trees and nice old houses and friendly people. Work for us is about a 10 minute drive/bus ride/bike ride for me, 5 minute walk for her. My mom and dad live on the other side of the river, but again, 10 minutes to free gourmet meals :D
Rent is 600 a month too. Really great deal for a place like this.
If only I got Red Dead Redemption AFTER the move though... I'm dying to get back to playing
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are you still in SK? if so, Saskatoon or Regina (best city name ever, btw)?
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attempted jogging today...
this is going to take some time before i can go "a reasonable distance"
*eddidiitthjghie
thinking, walk every other day, "attempt" jogging every other. figure i have this 60-80ish minute walk i can do from my house to one of two different convenience stores. for jogging, i basically take the opposite direction from the walk down the dirt road and back, which i estimate is about a mile or so. so, jog down that, get tired, walk, when rested start jogging again, get tired...till im back at my house.
as for diet...it's not going to be easy. i am not going to make a dead effort towards eating healthy, because if i do, ill probably quit and im back at square one. so i am starting with "eating less unhealthy". so that mcdonalds hotcakes 2 hashbrowns sausage biscuit and cinnamelt, that went down to a cinnamelt. deepdishes i eat at work all the time, that shrank to a small cheese bread, which shrank to a normal order of breadsticks.
it's a start.
it's not even as much being healthy as much as it feels good to be doing something better for my body, and if i continue, ill get physical results ill be happy with.
*EDF*
jogging sucks ass, i think im going to get a bike and do that instead.
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yeah, jogging and running are shockingly hard. I have a few friends who do it who are much bigger then me, and I have no idea how they do it.
Also everything makes my CPU run hot, what the fuck...
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Whenever spectere gets back, I think he should set something up to ban people who have ICQ addresses, lol. Every damned spambot I see signing up here has an ICQ address, and I haven't heard of anyone using ICQ in the US or Canada any more.
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Also everything makes my CPU run hot, what the fuck...
Your heatsink's probably screwed somehow.
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Your heatsink's probably screwed somehow.
You mean the fan, the thermal gel, or both? I'm tempted to try and wrestle the massive fan I have now and get it in there.
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Since thermal paste is cheap and easy to apply, I'd start there.
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I tried out Resonance of Fate
wtf is this, lol 3D turn-based
I guess I really am stuck with PS1/PSP games and Nippon Ichi :X
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That game's amazing.
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Since thermal paste is cheap and easy to apply, I'd start there.
I recently (last time I cleaned the dust out of my case) replaced the thermal gel, and this time I used a bag to cover my finger while using the thermal gel. I just have a question, should I redo my thermal gel when I replace my fan? I have a massive one that I bought a while ago and I'm assuming I'll need to reapply thermal paste.
Also anyone here use RivaTuner? I'm still worried about my graphics card overall heat now that I know my processor will get stupidly hot while hardly doing anything.
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That game's amazing.
My friend rented it, and MY GF said something about how the everyone was expecting it to be a POS. It looked really fucking fun, and had some hilarious characters, to boot. I thought it was awesome.
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I recently (last time I cleaned the dust out of my case) replaced the thermal gel, and this time I used a bag to cover my finger while using the thermal gel. I just have a question, should I redo my thermal gel when I replace my fan? I have a massive one that I bought a while ago and I'm assuming I'll need to reapply thermal paste.
You should reapply thermal paste every time the heatsink loses contact with the CPU. It's not necessary, but it's recommended to keep anything bad from happening. And I don't mean just adding thermal paste, I mean cleaning and reapplying. I use these for cleaning: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835100010
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That game's amazing.
I never said it sucked. It's just that I want 2D, not 3D
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You should reapply thermal paste every time the heatsink loses contact with the CPU. It's not necessary, but it's recommended to keep anything bad from happening. And I don't mean just adding thermal paste, I mean cleaning and reapplying. I use these for cleaning: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835100010
I could probably remove it with a paper towel, carefully making sure I get no dust anywhere.
I never said it sucked. It's just that I want 2D, not 3D
3D pig disgusting?
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I never said it sucked. It's just that I want 2D, not 3D
Unless it's A) on a handheld, or B) A fighting game, your probably almost never going to see 2D games again :/ (well, except indie games.)
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Unless it's A) on a handheld, or B) A fighting game, your probably almost never going to see 2D games again :/ (well, except indie games.)
DISGAEA
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2D will never die, EVAR. It's still a rather popular and visually appealing style; game developers would be foolish to abandon it entirely.
Also, you forgot shmups.
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Seconded, I honestly think 2D games on average look better then 3D games.
I am a bit tired of this whole pseudo 3D stuff that SF4 and TvC do. It's just "OOOOH LOOK AT THEIR FACE BEFORE THEY THROW A SUPER ATTACK".
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I agree 2D will always have a great place in gaming, for sure. Any future IIDX that comes out, just has to be 2D. I mean, I like Amplitude/Frequency, but those music games have their place in 2D land. As for shumps, ones like Cherry blossom and ESP Ra De take the cake for manic 2D kickassness that I haven't seen replicated in 3D.
Yet games like Mw2, halos, etc look beautiful on a huge ass HDTV with HDMI and JBL speakers. mmmm
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Yet games like Mw2, halos, etc look beautiful on a huge ass HDTV with HDMI and JBL speakers. mmmm
but Halo 3 doesn't even reach minimum HD requirements. That and my Dads friend walked into the room while we were playing MW2 and he commented on the lack of color and thought the TV was actually screwed up. Hell, MOST games don't even do HD right, and even then polygon count is much more important.
At least Halo uses colors, can't stand how most games now a days are grim dark shit trying to be edgy.
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I don't play halo at all, I'm just stating that (most) modern full 3d 1st person/3rd games are meant to be beautiful HD gloryholes. Or, at least they try to be
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I get what you mean, and I agree. I just feel that 2D games overall are underestimated compared to 3D. You never see people look at a 2D game and say "OH GOD THAT LOOKS GREAT".
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I was really sad that more people weren't interested in Wario Land: Shake It and A Boy & His Blob for the Wii because wow the 2D art in those is amazing. And Muramasa.
The Wii's honestly the place to go for stuff like that these days. Or just quirky games in general. I think Little King's Story is still my favorite game from the last couple of years.
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Well, yeah. I'd say that's because you can't really market a game on a system that's designed for amazing 3D with a game that doesn't use any of that. It's like saying "Hey, check out this game that completely ignore one of the big selling points of your console!"
Where the other consoles are competing with graphics and such, the Wii has carved a nice market by not caring about graphics the same way the others do, and supplying a cheaper and easier platform to develop for. Those 2 factors are probably more than enough to make it attractive as a platform for quirky/unique/experimental/indie/gameplay oriented games...
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The Wii is pretty awesome except for one thing: region locking.
I'm giving my Wii to my mom after I move out, but if the next-gen Wii is more like the PS3 (NO LOCKS WITH JAP SHIT WOOOOOOO) then I'll buy one.
Otherwise fuck that shit, importing all your games gets too expensive
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Got my very first legitimate paycheck today, got about 369 dollars for the first week.
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The Wii is pretty awesome except for one thing: region locking.
I'm giving my Wii to my mom after I move out, but if the next-gen Wii is more like the PS3 (NO LOCKS WITH JAP SHIT WOOOOOOO) then I'll buy one.
Otherwise fuck that shit, importing all your games gets too expensive
Well, I'd assume that by the time it comes out bluray will be pretty much standard for disc media so yeah, it'll be like the PS3. And actually, even if the PS3 were region-locked, it wouldn't matter. Bluray Region 1 is both US and Japan.
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Bluray Region 1 is both US and Japan.
(NO LOCKS WITH JAP SHIT WOOOOOOO)
when I said that, I was referring to the fact that the US + Japan are on the same lock
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So I was basically forced to buy some steel toe boots (not that it really bothers me, I was going to buy some soon just because I definitely don't want to smash my feet open here) so I get half my day off. it's funny, I like these boots and I don't want to mess them up, but I probably will today.
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Gary Coleman died
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I guess he never figured out what Willis was saying :/
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Man, at this rate by 2012 we might not have any celebrities left... Then it might as well be the end of the world, lol.
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I guess he never figured out what Willis was saying :/
HA.
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Dennis Hopper's dead too. Ugh.
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Wasn't Gary Coleman in the hospital before? Or was that a different stroke?
it was funnier yesterday, but I forgot to post here >:(
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Wasn't Gary Coleman in the hospital before? Or was that a different stroke?
it was funnier yesterday, but I forgot to post here >:(
Amazingly, I'd not heard that one yet.
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2012 is a load of bull.
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Yeah that movie sucked.
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Alright then, I have a problem. I finally put in the massive CPU fan that I've had around into my PC, and now I've put everything back together, turned it on, and it's not showing anything on monitor. Everything seems to be running fine, but nothing shows on my monitor outside of a brief message that states that it's not getting a signal. I've unplugged my hard drives and my graphics card completely and made sure they had everything they needed back in place, but I'm still not getting anything. Keep in mind I had to remove my motherboard from my case in order to get my processor in, and everything seems to be running fine now but I still have nothing on my screen.
I did mess up a few of the case connectors (some LEDs, and now my reset button and power buttons are switched) but I don't think that would do anything with my monitor. So, any advice? I'm probably going to have to just undo everything (outside of taking that CPU fan off, fuck doing that again) and just try and throw it back together. Any advice before I go through all that bullshit?
Also is this page all messed up for anyone else? http://www.evga.com/support/manuals/files/122-CK-NF67.pdf
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Does the computer pass POST? There are error messages for graphics card issues in the POST error sequence...
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Dennis Hopper's dead too. Ugh.
.... :(
thats all i can think of to say.... shit...
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There is absolutely nothing. My hard drives and my graphics card should be good, and it can't be a fan problem because the fan would just shut off. my only assumption is that something is hooked up wrong, I just need to know what. I just pray that my man handling of my mother board hasn't done anything too drastic to it.
Alright, disconnected everything and reconnected, I'm fairly sure everything is hooked up right but I'm still having thew same problem. So, what gives? All I'm getting is "No signal output, check cable" or something along those lines and then it just goes blank, and I know the monitor works.
Where's Spectere when you need him ;_;
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Make sure there's no dust in any of your slots. I know it sounds stupid, but I had the same problem once after taking everything out and putting it back in, and I just re-assembled it again and it worked. @_@
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I'll buy a can of compressed air, because last time I did this is was fairly dusty. I hope nothing got onto my processor, I hate doing the thermal paste. I might wait a day or two and get some more opinions before removing everything for a third time (been also talking to a guy from my old CSS clan and I'm thinking of writing a help article on Reddit).
Air blasted the RAM and graphic card slots, same shit still happens. Getting desperate now...
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Man, it'd be pretty awesome if my music prof would make up his mind on what vocal parts he wants me to sing. I've gone through soprano, alto, and tenor all in the span of two weeks now. Arg.
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Sing them all at once :P
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Sing them all at once :P
voice box explosions are not cool
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voice box explosions are not cool
Trufax, yo.
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wow, just figured I'd point this out.
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I'm now certified to drive a W700 diesel truck for Fedex. Awesome.
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Cool shit negro. Also this is going to sound incredibly dumb, but is it a bad sign that my mobo is bent ever so slightly? My new fan seems to have caused this odd fluctuation in it.
From what I've read, it's not that big of a deal. Plus, with the new fan it should semi straighten out.
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Been depressed the last few days don't know why. :-\
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Cool shit negro. Also this is going to sound incredibly dumb, but is it a bad sign that my mobo is bent ever so slightly? My new fan seems to have caused this odd fluctuation in it.
if it means anything, i had to "bend" my video card a little bit to fit with the stupid tool-less design of my case. that was over a year ago.
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I'm now certified to drive a W700 diesel truck for Fedex. Awesome.
Dude. I want a ride!
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Hi
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Hi2u. <3
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hello thar
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I feel smaller now then when I used to work out regularly. I've been digging tons of holes and moving at least 100 60 pound concert bags over the past several weeks, but I still feel smaller and weaker then from when I used to work out semi regularly. What the fuck.
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I feel smaller now then when I used to work out regularly. I've been digging tons of holes and moving at least 100 60 pound concert bags over the past several weeks, but I still feel smaller and weaker then from when I used to work out semi regularly. What the fuck.
Its because you are not used to do that kind of work constantly.
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Ugh, I can't wait to get through training. Fedex is working me harder right now than they work full-time employees. I get to drive a guy around his delivery route in the morning starting at 8am (sometimes 10am), get back to the station around 2pm, get a half hour break where I have barely enough time to get food and come back, then it's back out to ride along with a guy to learn my route, back to the station 6-6:30 and then I either split (priority packages on one side of the belt, everything else on the other), unload trucks or inspect trucks and then I'm done by 7:45-8pm. I'm pretty sure I'm supposed to get a full hour break for working 12 hours but they sort of make up the rules for training as they go along.
It's a lot more exhausting than what my route will be, which is just 3-8pm (sometimes 2-7pm). I probably have another month to go on this before I do the route solo.
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Sounds pretty shit. They probably do it to whip you into shape or to scare off people who would quit too fast.
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trying to unfuck my IP situation, and I'm getting the message "The port numbers you entered are invalid. The number in port entry box should be between 1 - 65535.". What do I do?
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make the number in the port entry box between 1 and 65535
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but evidently GGPO needs something more then that.
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then give GGPO more than that
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I'M GIVEN HER ALL SHES GOT, CAPTIN.
Also they really need to make a Rock Band game based around the Berzerker.
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Why? So people can feel that their rockband skills are woefully inadequate for the game? That would be like trying to kill yourself by playing music... Or at least, playing the drums would be.
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Eh, Visions is already dumb enough and Rock Band Network has a bunch of really really unfun superhard drumming songs.
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Yeah, I don't see how the berzerker would be fun at all. Even for a real drummer.
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While were on that note, you should throw in some vsnares. I'm sure everyone would love to drum to that! D:
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Why? So people can feel that their rockband skills are woefully inadequate for the game? That would be like trying to kill yourself by playing music... Or at least, playing the drums would be.
exactly, shit would be brutal. It would be the hardest game ever played for vocals and drums.
Also Metro 2033 is on sale on steam for 25 bucks. I just bought it, now I need to fix up my processor fan.
Also also why is Quake so hard? Like, goddamn.
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While were on that note, you should throw in some vsnares. I'm sure everyone would love to drum to that! D:
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lawl, that guy is a fucking BEAST.
But yeah, I can't see anything like that being a viable way to make money... So it'll never be officially endorsed.
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I assume myluvr Spectere is on one of his extended absences, again? :(
Glad to see everybody's still here...
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i don't understand sonic games. the only two sonic games i recall enjoying is sonic adventure for the dreamcast, and sonic 2 for the gamegear (NOT TO BE COMPARED TO SONIC 2 ON THE GENESIS, they are quite different.)
i mean i have sonics UGC for the 360, which has pretty much all the sonic games on the genesis save for sonic cd. i just can't get into them. the levels seem like they are specifically designed to be annoying. ill hold the rant, but i don't see how people can get past the clunky controls (sonic takes a while to get going) and downright awful platforming. speaking of that, i wonder how the gamegear sonic holds up.
posting vidya related post here because the vidya forum is currently full of cobwebs and dust.
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Started playing Guitar Hero II again. Until yesterday or so, I hadn't played in well over a year and a half. Yesterday sucked 'cause my controller was too busy complaining that I hadn't played with it in such time, and today I finally started getting actual scores again.
In fact, I did better than I ever did on most of the songs. Except Free Bird. Haha. I used to be able to pass that sucker fairly consistently. But now, each time I've tried it, I've failed at 74%. Haha.
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I just started up my PS2 and played some Beatmania US (only IIDX I could find, since the others were burned copies). Somehow, I can still play rather well, and might actually be better than I was before, if I practice for a while. Some songs that I could almost pass before completely destroyed me, but I could do pretty damn good, all things considered. My timing is crap, but it's always been crap on IIDX anyway.
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I just started up my PS2 and played some Beatmania US (only IIDX I could find, since the others were burned copies). Somehow, I can still play rather well, and might actually be better than I was before, if I practice for a while. Some songs that I could almost pass before completely destroyed me, but I could do pretty damn good, all things considered. My timing is crap, but it's always been crap on IIDX anyway.
http://freemcboot.psx-scene.com/
did this, took me like a good 6 hours of research and testing/failing to get it right 100% at my house without spending any $. :)
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http://freemcboot.psx-scene.com/
did this, took me like a good 6 hours of research and testing/failing to get it right 100% at my house without spending any $. :)
I have swap magic and a flip top case for my ps2. But for now, I don't have a memory card.
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I just started up my PS2 and played some Beatmania US (only IIDX I could find, since the others were burned copies). Somehow, I can still play rather well, and might actually be better than I was before, if I practice for a while. Some songs that I could almost pass before completely destroyed me, but I could do pretty damn good, all things considered. My timing is crap, but it's always been crap on IIDX anyway.
Oh god, Beatmania US. I don't know if I'm quite willing to drag that monstrosity out again. I'd almost, almost rather play Guitar Hero III.
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Lol, it's not THAT bad. It's nowhere near great, but at least it's IIDX (sorta), lol.
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Ok, perhaps I exaggerated a little bit.
But it IS pretty awful. Konami really blew their chance at making IIDX popular (outside of the rather niche crowd).
I'm all for exposing oneself to new music, but with the first release, I really think they should have gone with more music the US crowd would recognize from Konami. DDR crossovers and whatnot.
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Ok, perhaps I exaggerated a little bit.
But it IS pretty awful. Konami really blew their chance at making IIDX popular (outside of the rather niche crowd).
I'm all for exposing oneself to new music, but with the first release, I really think they should have gone with more music the US crowd would recognize from Konami. DDR crossovers and whatnot.
I think I'd have hated it even more if they did that.... But then again, if they hadn't ended up failing miserably then there might have been more releases.
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That's basically it, really. The first one or two released really ought to have pandered to the crowd familiar with DDR. Build a base and whatnot. Then as time went by, they could put fewer crossovers and stuff in it.
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Quite tired have to be at work for a stupid meeting about helping customers at 6am...don't want to go rather go to sleep and get about 7 hours of rest in.
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I assume myluvr Spectere is on one of his extended absences, again? :(
Glad to see everybody's still here...
Yeah, he's been on the loose for a while now bawwww he haets us
i mean i have sonics UGC for the 360, which has pretty much all the sonic games on the genesis save for sonic cd. i just can't get into them. the levels seem like they are specifically designed to be annoying. ill hold the rant, but i don't see how people can get past the clunky controls (sonic takes a while to get going) and downright awful platforming. speaking of that, i wonder how the gamegear sonic holds up.
The momentum is all part of the game. I mean, yeah you have a spin dash, but you still have to be careful about and where you use it. Basically, the way sonic works, the higher you are in a level, the better you're doing. You usually need to stay at a decent speed to hit ramps and what not.
Then again, I've always disliked Mario 3, and Mario 2 is an okay at best game but I'm sure most people hate that (the American version, at least).
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I dunno why you don't like Mario 3, I thought that aside from being a bit on the chunky side, as far as the graphics go, the game did a pretty good job of playing out like a proper mario game.
Also, Really high, and listening to Tardis Sound (August 2005) - mixed by DJ Finny (http://forums.di.fm/drum-n-bass/tardis-sound-august-2005-mixed-by-dj-finny-85484/), Specifically, Sonic & Silver - USB, I believe.
DnB sounds fucking awesome high.
Yeah, he's been on the loose for a while now bawwww he haets us
When did that even begin? He's been gone for a while now, actually, I believe.... :< It's sad that this is his site, and he isn't posting.
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When did that even begin? He's been gone for a while now, actually, I believe.... :< It's sad that this is his site, and he isn't posting.
Because Mario 3 has a fuckton of sliding.
Also I don't think rivatuner effects my CPU fan speed in the slightest.
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Sliding? You mean momentum? Super Mario Bros has just as much. New Super Mario Bros has a bit more. It's definitely not anything bad or unplayable. I mean really, that game is easily one of the top examples of how to do running momentum correctly.
You kids. I'll never get you guys.
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mario controls like ryu from ninja gaiden
sonic controls like chris from resident evil
seriously though mario is an agile little fucker, and it's pretty easy to get him to do what you want him to do. sonic just doesn't control well. he takes too long to get going, and his jumping feels not good for the amount of platforming they have you do.
im not calling the sonic games bad, i just can't get how people get past those (in my opinion) major flaws.
as for super mario bros 3. game got pretty damn challenging later on, id always get half way through world 8 before it killed me. ill beat contra 10 times before i can beat smb 3 once...and speaking of contra, talk about a nes game with perfect controls.
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I never had any issues beating World 8, it was always World 7 that I could never finish.
Also, sadface @ Spectere missing :'(
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mario controls like ryu from ninja gaiden
sonic controls like chris from resident evil
God no. In both games, if you're moving fast and you try to stop you'll slide fairly far, but when it comes to the platforms Mario always controls much worse. You have to use the run option for a lot of tricky jumps in mario, and doing so causes you to skid around like a retard. In sonic, his slow build up of speed made it easier for platforming (both with the small hops between platforms, and the making of large gaps and ramps).
Neither is perfect, but the slide effect from Mario's run in Mario 3 is just harsh. I LOVED SMW to death, but 3 is annoying.
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So did you just never learn to use jumps and jump control to stop yourself or what? I thought that was sort of common knowledge for anyone playing any platformer ever.
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I never had any issues beating World 8, it was always World 7 that I could never finish.
world is easy if you use dat flute
Also, sadface @ Spectere missing :'(
AND HE'S NEVER COMING BACK
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So did you just never learn to use jumps and jump control to stop yourself or what? I thought that was sort of common knowledge for anyone playing any platformer ever.
I learned how, it's just that they're shit. I figure Nintendo thinks the same considering they toned the sliding and momentum down in SMW.
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Clearly they didn't since they actually increased sliding distance in later games. They're pretty clearly not shit or even anything close to it.
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I learned how, it's just that they're shit. I figure Nintendo thinks the same considering they toned the sliding and momentum down in SMW.
It's called different game mechanics. Yes, you slide. There are ways to control Mario fairly accurately. It's like saying that IIDX is shit because it's got tighter timing than DDR and WAY harder timing than PIU. Different mechanics for different games.
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IIDX is harddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddolololololololol
but srsly, I like mario 3 just because its different than the others! plus the colors and maps are neato.
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It's called different game mechanics. Yes, you slide. There are ways to control Mario fairly accurately. It's like saying that IIDX is shit because it's got tighter timing than DDR and WAY harder timing than PIU. Different mechanics for different games.
Has anyone ever actually liked a platformer and thought it needed MORE sliding? Why would anyone want less control over their character?
Also there's a big difference between timing windows and having a character slide.
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Also there's a big difference between timing windows and having a character slide.
Not shit. They also make their respective genre of game harder. And that was my point. I can't get jack all for good scores in IIDX just because of the tight-ass timing. That makes IIDX a whole lot harder than most other rhythm games I've played for that fact alone. Having a character that has some sliding makes them harder to control, which makes their respective game harder in some ways than other platformers.
You can't just say that because rhythm games and platformers are different genres that I can't make an analogy between something that makes one genre harder and something that makes the other genre harder.
I'm not saying I like the sliding in Mario, because I certainly find it frustrating as hell sometimes. But that's always been a part of the Mario games. And besides, there's no point in bitching about the game. If you care so much about the mechanics, go hack the rom, find the physics code for sliding and modify it.
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You know what I hate?
What I really fucking hate?
PEARS.
Fucking vile.
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PEARS.
Woah woah woah woah. Are you hating on Pears? That's just not cool. I am disappointed in you Jupi...
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You know I don't hate: Kitties
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Woah woah woah woah. Are you hating on Pears? That's just not cool. I am disappointed in you Jupi...
Pears make my mouth disappoint. :(
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Not shit. They also make their respective genre of game harder. And that was my point. I can't get jack all for good scores in IIDX just because of the tight-ass timing. That makes IIDX a whole lot harder than most other rhythm games I've played for that fact alone. Having a character that has some sliding makes them harder to control, which makes their respective game harder in some ways than other platformers.
I'm saying there's a difference between tight timing of something and being forced to lose control over your character for a longer then necessary time. In SMW the slide could kill you, but it was still short, in M3 it would ruin lives like a baby.
The double jump in Shinobi and the wall jump in Metroid has some HARSH timing needed, but it still didn't bother me THAT much.
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Kitties also make my mouth disappoint, though they are adorable and they mew, so no hate. :3
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It really doesn't change anything. There are almost zero parts of Mario 3 where the amount of slide that you have would actually kill you unless you're just super terrible and then it's not the game's fault, it's yours. Like seriously, you are never going to ever get anyone else to agree that both Mario 3's controls AND level design are anywhere close to what you're saying they have.
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So the game lacks holes and enemies now? because you can easily slide into them. I never said the game design was bad, just the whole sliding mechanic
lol personal attacks
You know I don't hate: Kitties
Kittens also love hats, but cats hate hats. This is also an accurate depiction of the TF2 community.
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That's exactly what I mean. The game gives you all of the tools and is built well enough that that really isn't an issue if you aren't terrible. You can't "easily" slide into them unless you A. are willfully ignoring learning the game, in which case you probably are really terrible at every game ever or B. you are actually blind. I mean really now, this is just ridiculous.
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Bunnies can't use a cell phone.
BUT
THEY
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DANCE!
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I watched Prince of Persia. It wasn't a good movie, but it wasn't too bad either. It's the kind of movie you watch on TV when nothing else is on.
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Fuck my Xbox to Hell. About a month ago, I got one with the RRoD and a good seal for $30, fixed it without a problem, then found out that the DVD drive (Hitachi) wouldn't play games, although it would play CDs and normal DVDs. Furthermore, it made a grinding noise while spinning the disc. I assumed the drive was bad, so I bought a BenQ drive with the intent of flashing/spoofing it. I bought a SATA card so I could hook the drive up to my computer and found that Jungleflasher would output an obviously false drivekey (74 repeating), whereas no other program would even detect the drive. I DID NOT write anything to the drive, so it's not bricked or anything; it's in the same state as it was before. I bought a new Hitachi drive, tried swapping the motherboards as to rule out the seemingly likely possibility of it being a mechanical problem, and shit still doesn't work. Wat do?
I guess like, sell 360 on eBay for like a $100 and buy three more 360s, sell them for $100 each, and buy and buy a PS3.
On another note, failing English
got a 100% on the final, brought my overall grade up to an 80%. Fuck yeah.
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I think I heard somewhere that connection a 360 hard drive to a PC voided it somehow, but I really have no clue.
Also good shit about that test, basically the same shit I did at community college.
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I think I heard somewhere that connection a 360 hard drive to a PC voided it somehow, but I really have no clue.
Also good shit about that test, basically the same shit I did at community college.
Well, the drive is locked, and if you break the lock, it won't work. You need to do some really funky stuff to get it to work with a computer, and then work with the Xbox again, I believe.
In either case, I do believe you need to do some funky stuff to get a generic drive to work with it.
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one of my co-workers is making me extremely angry, to the point where i want to quit (which wouldn't be a good idea).
i would post this in the ANGER thread, but im past the point where im going to go to work and skin him alive with a kitchen knife, because life in prison doesn't sound fun.
rather, im just going to wait until it looks like things are cool between us, and then give away some of his personal information on /b/ or something. i mean i can't hurt the guy physically, he's a fatass, that shit could absorb a sledge hammer, but having lots of random people call his phone (a thing the fucker is attached more than his own family) would be really funny.
irrational? sure. but for the past few months now ive tried ignoring the problem, and not talking to him, but the fucker just keeps persisting, and im going to let him pay somehow in a way where i don't suffer any consequences. unless any of y'all have any better ideas? im not letting this fool just get away with it.
what do y'all do to annoying asshole co-workers that won't give up? i could try talking to the "management" but i doubt that would help much since they are just stoners.
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fuck it, im going to just keep reporting these incidents until the fucker gets fired. best option.
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...what is he even doing?
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being a fucking faggot 24/7 365
i talked to the manager about it, i said if he doesn't quit his shit, im calling the higher ups.
im going to be as polite as possible from here on, and every time the faggot makes me rage enough to lash out in violence, im making a phone call. those add up, he gets fired.
i mean i never liked the guy, but he was tolerable, now he won't get off my back. as to what he is doing specifically? he's being a faggot, edging me on to do something stupid out of anger.
but that's what's up, im a bit calmer now, just need a bro to chill with but ervone is busy with their own business, so looks like i have to just chill here till i see the fat faggot tomorrow. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQaCy2lgb0I)
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Batman is riding on top of Superman...your arguement is invalid.
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You REALLY messed that one up.
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Whoa. Good god. o.o
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Your avatar pretty much explains my feelings towards that urlthing, K-Mann.
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weighed myself today. lost 3 lbs.
drink more water, 20 minute bike ride 6 days a week, don't eat healthy but eat less unhealthy = weight loss? either it's me, or this is easy. im not trying to lose weight, im a skinny fuck, but trying to eat better (less bad foods is better), and getting even a little 20 minute bike ride seems to be doing something.
now's just a question to when i step it up, probably keep at this for a while longer and when i feel like amping up the diet/exercise i guess ill take another step.
so far i kind of have this thing going on.
one monster per week, said monster counts as a soda
one soda a day
3 fast food outings per week
bike every day except friday
pretty easy stuff, but it's doing something. i can't feel any difference, but im sure if i keep at it, and look at my self when i started, there will be something noticeable. kind of cool though, it's easy, and so far im not procrastinating about it.
*edituttg
i may have to make a toy/collectible thread one of these days...after i buy something. i don't know where this random interest came from, but i want some stuff, and ive been looking, and finding a lot of nothing, and the little stuff i want is too goddamn expensive, or sold out.
http://tomopop.com/square-enix-and-konami-team-up-to-have-metal-gear-solid-s-snake-infiltrate-your-home-11977.phtml
solid snake from peace walker, FAPFAPFAPFAP
there's also a felicia i want but it's like $300.00 on ebay so fuck that noise.
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I also would like to collect toys/figures, but yeah, they're insanely overpriced. I may spend $350 on Psychic Assassins Taromaru for the Saturn, but fuck paying $350 for a toy.
Also, selling my xbox http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250655972920 buy it
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sometimes you find stuff that looks good on the cheap. if i was into this shit two years ago, that $300 felicia would have been around $60.
anywho, ill make a thread when this comes in.
http://www.amazon.com/Capcom-Fighting-Jam-Ingrid-Figure/dp/B000HH01TG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=toys-and-games&qid=1277338518&sr=8-1
EVERYBODY LOVES DOESN'T KNOW WHO INGRID [is]
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fucking youtube has a vuvuzela button now.
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Youtube now a days just keeps getting shittier and shittier
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Youtube now a days just keeps getting shittier and shittier
Oh please. The button is funny. :D
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Eh there are many thing I can complain about YT but its already been said
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any current space/sci fi shows airing? after i finish farscape, im going to need something to fill that void, or watch firefly which people keep saying i would like.
farscape season 4 episode 12 "kansas" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Farscape_episodes)
i want to watch the next episode...but ill have to wait until tomorrow.
episode 11 = MINDFUCK
episode 12 = DOUBLE MINDFUCK with a lot of comedy thrown in
episode 13 = tripple mindfuck? from the end of 12, looks like it.
seriously though, given the circumstances, MINDFUCK HOW CAN THIS SERIES EVEN CONTINUE ANOTHER 10 EPISODES? still have a ton of shit to watch. 10 episodes, and all of the bonus content in the previous 3 seasons. there's entire episodes with actor commentary throughout. like episode 12...and commentary from the two lead people, it's awesome. seeing an episode, seeing something happen, and the guy it happens to talking about it and all the stuff going behind the scenes.
pretty satisfied with my purchase of the entire series rather than just buying what wasn't on netflix (season 4). plus $60.00 for season 1-4 + 2 dvd's of bonus stuff (along side the bonus stuff on each of the 24 discs), pretty badass.
quick rave, wanted to type something, here it is.
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My friend thought that having multiple fire fox tabs open would cause my connection to be slow, I'm still not sure how to properly grasp that thought...
He then went on to complain that PC games have too much lag.
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My friend thought that having multiple fire fox tabs open would cause my connection to be slow, I'm still not sure how to properly grasp that thought...
He then went on to complain that PC games have too much lag.
Tell him more QQ and less pew pew so people can kill him more often.
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Yay, power outage. Good thing I have a tetherable cell phone and two batteries that will work in my laptop.
Eh there are many thing I can complain about YT but its already been said
Most of the "problems" with YouTube are because content "providers" abuse the DMCA to remove videos that are clear examples of fair use.
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Who are you again?
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Yay, power outage. Good thing I have a tetherable cell phone and two batteries that will work in my laptop.
Most of the "problems" with YouTube are because content "providers" abuse the DMCA to remove videos that are clear examples of fair use.
Happened to me the other day too. Had the power out from 6:30pm until 11am the next day. Luckily I had just purchased a new laptop for my mom and had it fully charged so I just watched movies on that for a few hours until the charge got low and then played DS/PSP stuff until I went to bed.
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I saw Jonah Hex last night. It was baaaaaaaaaaaaaad.
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Who are you again?
Your worst nightmare.
Happened to me the other day too. Had the power out from 6:30pm until 11am the next day. Luckily I had just purchased a new laptop for my mom and had it fully charged so I just watched movies on that for a few hours until the charge got low and then played DS/PSP stuff until I went to bed.
Haha, nice. My DS was my contingency plan, but luckily that wound up not being an issue. The power was only out for about two hours (blown generator), which is more than enough for my fancy Made In China(TM) battery to handle, even with my cell phone leeching from it.
Speaking of that (on a completely unrelated note and all), I'm getting the same speeds from AT&T and T-Mobile 3G (roughly 1Mbps down, 256-512kbps up). Not too shabby considering T-Mo's only had their 3G network up in my area for a few months.
Also, CyanogenMod (http://www.cyanogenmod.com/) for the motherfucking win.
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Your worst nightmare.
Punk.
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I saw Jonah Hex last night. It was baaaaaaaaaaaaaad.
It looked shitty. What's her name from the Transformers looked beyond annoying.
Your worst nightmare.
Oh lawd.
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It looked shitty. What's her name from the Transformers looked beyond annoying.
Actually she only had like 10 lines, so there was little room to be annoyed by her.
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Your worst nightmare.
Haha, nice. My DS was my contingency plan, but luckily that wound up not being an issue. The power was only out for about two hours (blown generator), which is more than enough for my fancy Made In China(TM) battery to handle, even with my cell phone leeching from it.
Speaking of that (on a completely unrelated note and all), I'm getting the same speeds from AT&T and T-Mobile 3G (roughly 1Mbps down, 256-512kbps up). Not too shabby considering T-Mo's only had their 3G network up in my area for a few months.
Also, CyanogenMod (http://www.cyanogenmod.com/) for the motherfucking win.
It's u :o
Also, hi Pancake, didn't recognize you at first because of your display name :)
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Actually she only had like 10 lines, so there was little room to be annoyed by her.
Really? She was ALL OVER every preview for it.
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Well of course, because the guys behind the previews realized that the movie's shit and Megan Fox could attract viewers.
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It's u :o
HOW ARE YOU GENTLEMEN.
ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US.
YOU ARE ON THE WAY TO DESTRUCTION.
Also, hi Pancake, didn't recognize you at first because of your display name :)
Yeah, I had to do a little bit of legwork to figure that out, too. :s
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2 things, where is Pancake and why is everyone having power outages?
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where is Pancake
http://www.spectere.net/forums/index.php?action=profile;u=3
and why is everyone having power outages?
I'm not; I'm too gangster for that
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HOW ARE YOU GENTLEMEN.
ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US.
YOU ARE ON THE WAY TO DESTRUCTION.
What u say :o
Yeah, I had to do a little bit of legwork to figure that out, too. :s
I figured it was flaffl or somebody until I went back and read the Deeker's Diaper Page thread.
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What u say :o
You have no chance to survive make your time. HAHAHAHAHA!
Any way going to try a new MMO that is not WoW or FFXI (wow that one left a bad taste in my mouth [no homo]). Its called Granado Espada
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Also, hi Pancake, didn't recognize you at first because of your display name :)
Yeah, I had to do a little bit of legwork to figure that out, too. :s
where is Pancake
http://www.spectere.net/forums/index.php?action=profile;u=3
I figured it was flaffl or somebody until I went back and read the Deeker's Diaper Page thread.
Man, I honestly thought everyone knew...
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Back from the Fort Rapids 4 ITG tournament in Columbus, Ohio. Amazing, amazing trip. :D I went with JJSz (Jared, local DDR/ITG player dude) and a bunch of people he knows, helped out with the machine, worked on OpenITG for Mac (partly done), slept for maybe 8 hours between three days, and came out of the trip with a bunch of in-jokes.
I also slept longer yesterday than I did during the entire trip, but that's okay because it was just that good.
And now, gratuitous namedropping of some people I met and talked with: Rynker, TheCosmicPope, Jimbo22291, Archi, PYK, JohnDesire, DVogan, Devon, Dickey, Kalek, Dan Alvarez (tag?), Jai Coulter (tag?)
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Granado Espada
I'm pretty sure people have mentioned that one here before. I tried it a while back and never got into it (not to say it isn't good, but I just never got into it).
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Man, I honestly thought everyone knew...
I figured it was you, but I was never sure.
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I'm pretty sure people have mentioned that one here before. I tried it a while back and never got into it (not to say it isn't good, but I just never got into it).
It completely sucked balls...next week after I pay bills and such I am getting Guild Wars off of Steam
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Guild Wars is garbage. If you want to play a real MMO, get WoW (and I'm not saying this as a fanboy; it's the truth)
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Guild Wars is garbage. If you want to play a real MMO, get WoW (and I'm not saying this as a fanboy; it's the truth)
I sadly must agree that WoW is the best MMO out there.
The difference: Blizzard is actively working on it, even though it's out. Basically no other MMO has even close to that much participation by the devlopers, and that is why so many stagnate, and disappear.
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GE is really, really fun for about a week - Then it becomes unbearably grindy. One of my IRL friends was apparently the leader of the biggest guild on one of the NA servers or something retarded like that, he said the game was pretty much a shitfest at endgame play, it's all just super grinding, getting OP characters, then ohko-ing everyone you can click on in PvP.
I wouldn't really consider Guild Wars much of an MMO, tbh. It reminds me more of action games like Diablo 2, since it's all instanced small group play, instead of "HOLY SHIT 200 GUYS ON SCREEN FARM ALL THE SPIDERS YOU CAN MADNESS!". But I am also biased, since my uncle's one of the art guys at arena.net :v
I started playing DDO lately, and it's kind of fun. It sort of reminds me of GW in the sense that all the missions and such are instanced, but it's moderately entertaining, especially if you're familiar with the tabletop game, they did a better job than I expected to at staying true to the tabletop game, but still having everything be useful.
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sup vidya thread.
i might pick up blazblue cs because i like throwing money away. problem, it comes out same day as starcraft 2...yeah im getting starcraft 2.
as for MMORPGAS, ffxvi comes out sep 22. ill probably buy it, roll a kitty, play for a month, quit. good or bad, i have no attention span for an mmo in the longer term anymore. unless all signals tell me that the game is horrible then i guess i won't waste my time, though i did get aion...
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Started my solo route today and did just fine. Was a little pushed for time here and there but overall I got through without a hitch. There was one residential place that I had no idea where it was though and that was annoying. Took too long to find it on the map (which is to say more than 1 minute).
I was all happy because I was listed as being done after I got back without the unload but no, manager has to come over afterwards and say hey go grab your steel toes we're sticking you up top loading cans (large containers that you have to fill with boxes very tightly by t-stacking so they can go on planes), which is horrendously tiring and annoying. And then once I got up there, I ended up just standing there watching two other guys work so they didn't even need me at all and it was just a waste of 45 minutes.
I'll be reminding them that I'm not on the schedule for it tomorrow unless they just let me do the regular unload, which is pretty mindless but I enjoy the release.
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Guild Wars is garbage. If you want to play a real MMO, get WoW (and I'm not saying this as a fanboy; it's the truth)
I sadly must agree that WoW is the best MMO out there.
The difference: Blizzard is actively working on it, even though it's out. Basically no other MMO has even close to that much participation by the devlopers, and that is why so many stagnate, and disappear.
Those are STRCITLY a matter of your opinions...that is like say you two think Fuji Apples are the best apples ever where I prefer Granny Smith...point being STFU I refuse to pay $15 a month to Blizzard for an MMO. Guild Wars is free to play and I don't feel like going through loops to play WoW again.
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Yeah man, that's just your opinion, man.
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Those are STRCITLY a matter of your opinions...that is like say you two think Fuji Apples are the best apples ever where I prefer Granny Smith...point being STFU I refuse to pay $15 a month to Blizzard for an MMO. Guild Wars is free to play and I don't feel like going through loops to play WoW again.
U MAD BROOOOOOO
not my fault you're poor
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Yeah man, that's just your opinion, man.
Pretty much Jupi.
U MAD BROOOOOOO
not my fault you're poor
Point being? Don't flame a game just because it makes you e-penis bigger. WoW is a good game it just my problem is the lack of customer support from the Blizzard staff for WoW. I had better luck with Diablo 2 and SC/SCBW when it came to that aspect. If you have never played a game don't bash it if you never played it.
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MMORPGS SUCK HAVE FUN WASTING YOUR $15 A MONTH SO YOU CAN PARTICIPATE IN A MASSIVELY MULTIPLAYER ONLINE GRINDFEST THAT WOULD PUT FINAL FANTASY 8'S MAGIC DRAWING TO SHAME LOLOLOLOLLLOLLOLl :D :D :D :D :D :D :D ;D
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a fuckton of assumptions
I have played GW. And it was garbage.
You can't even jump in the damned game.
MMORPGS SUCK HAVE FUN WASTING YOUR $15 A MONTH SO YOU CAN PARTICIPATE IN A MASSIVELY MULTIPLAYER ONLINE GRINDFEST THAT WOULD PUT FINAL FANTASY 8'S MAGIC DRAWING TO SHAME LOLOLOLOLLLOLLOLl :D :D :D :D :D :D :D ;D
WoW hasn't been anything resembling a grindfest since 2008. Also, the FFs I've played weren't any good, either (LOL BLITZBALLLLLLL)
seriously, $15 isn't shit.
P.S. Yeah man, that's just my opinion, man.
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Those are STRCITLY a matter of your opinions...that is like say you two think Fuji Apples are the best apples ever where I prefer Granny Smith...point being STFU I refuse to pay $15 a month to Blizzard for an MMO. Guild Wars is free to play and I don't feel like going through loops to play WoW again.
Yes, it's my opinion. It is however supported by evidence, such as the fact that the world is constantly changing, thanks the the heavy involvement by blizzard's development team, which is something that almost no other MMO out there today has.
I haven't played WoW on the official servers since just before TBC came out. And I'm certainly aware of the shitty reputation of their customer service for that game (which is sad, considering blizzard has generally had decent customer service).
I wasn't agreeing with v33mon's bitchy attitude, or with his bashing of Guild Wars, but I was agreeing that I thought WoW was basically the pinnacle of MMO development for now.
I've played countless MMOs. I wouldn't even try to start listing out every one I've played. And I can say with reasonable confidence that not one of them has come close to matching how I felt when playing WoW, before or after it came out.
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v33mon's bitchy attitude
lol, the dude told me to "STFU" because he can't pay $15 a month
If I was being bitchy, then that dude was drowning in period blood
P.S. I didn't know (nor care) about your past involvement with WoW. I thought you were playing your first MMO
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WoW hasn't been anything resembling a grindfest since 2008. Also, the FFs I've played weren't any good, either (LOL BLITZBALLLLLLL)
seriously, $15 isn't shit.
I've never actually played WoW, I was just making a stupid generalization based on other MMORPGs I've played in the past (also, you're playing the wrong Final Fantasy games, if that's the case).
And as somebody who pays maybe $5 at maximum for every video game I get, and hardly plays video games anymore anyway, $15 is a serious waste of money to be pouring away monthly into what would amount to me as nothing more than a gigantic Internet Time Sink. I can waste my time on the internet for free, and gladly do so (this paragraph's about me, don't assume I'm saying anything about you).
TL;DR: don't take me seriously when I write in ALL CAPS and follow my sentences up with the same emoticon 7 times. :)
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eh, I figured you weren't being completely serious. I did think it was somewhat serious/honest, though.
and FFX is the only FF I've put any significant amount of time into. holy hell that game is boring (imo)
and lol @ $5 a game, do you buy everything used years after it came out? (or pirating games, but I was never a fan of that)
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I was gonna post a big response to all this. Then I realized INTERNET IS SRS BUSNESS!!1!
Alice has no right to comment on WoW, and v33mon has no right to generalize about FF games.
Omni agrees that WoW is a good game, but not all of us have $15 a month to spend. I sure as fuck don't.
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http://games.adultswim.com/robot-unicorn-attack-twitchy-online-game.html
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So I'm the only person who played WoW and genially didn't like it? I know there's a fuckton of people who hate WoW before even touching it, but I gave it a more then fair shot (fuck the people saying I need to do end game, not worth the grind to get to that point). It's not that I mind grinding (I fucking play Monster Hunter and Killing Floor for fucks sake) but the main gameplay in WoW (QUESTS) was just all around boring for me. Instances were alright, but took fucking forever and required you to do them again and again.
That, and PVP was all gear based, which was lame. At least world PVP was good for greifing.
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Bro. You need to do endgame at least a little bit in order to have a decent opinion about the game. It's like me saying all FF games are shit after playing FFX /ohwait
Besides, a lot has changed since BC: I couldn't stand leveling back then, either, but I tried it again recently and it was way easier. However, I can respect that you never got into it, so I won't be an asshole about it.
Also,
v33mon has no right to generalize about FF games.
lol, thanks dad
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The new party-finder system for instances/raids actually helps a fuck-ton. I like the direction they are taking the game. It still has a lot of characteristics i love about it, and some not so much. I don't mind paying for it when I feel like playing it, but right now it's cancelled. And if I feel the need to start up again [get that ITCH bitch], all I have to do is re-enter my card and BAM. after a quick update, back right where I left off. Play for a month or two or however long the stint goes for, and cancel it again.
The only reason I do it like this is because I don't have a regular group of people to go raid/instance with. If I had a good steady consistent group or guild, I'd hop back on. Playing WoW by yourself, while possible, just doesn't do it for me
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It sounds like it's improved, but I still have no interest. The whole combat system is just not my bag, which is the biggest problem.
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So I'm the only person who played WoW and genially didn't like it?
Nope. I've played it. Didn't really care for it. I suppose I'd be willing to give it another shot, but I can't waste my money on new games right now. I'm content playing DDR for 2.5 cents a game. :D
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So I'm the only person who played WoW and genially didn't like it? I know there's a fuckton of people who hate WoW before even touching it, but I gave it a more then fair shot (fuck the people saying I need to do end game, not worth the grind to get to that point). It's not that I mind grinding (I fucking play Monster Hunter and Killing Floor for fucks sake) but the main gameplay in WoW (QUESTS) was just all around boring for me. Instances were alright, but took fucking forever and required you to do them again and again.
That, and PVP was all gear based, which was lame. At least world PVP was good for greifing.
Playing with someone else makes a huge difference. Not pugs, but having a guild or something and playing with them doing quests together and shit is a LOT more fun than soloing that game. They basically made WoW insanely un-fun for solo players.
Though I also hate the gear based PvP. I've never bothered with PvP specifically for that purpose.
The only reason I do it like this is because I don't have a regular group of people to go raid/instance with. If I had a good steady consistent group or guild, I'd hop back on. Playing WoW by yourself, while possible, just doesn't do it for me
Yeah, if I had a guild/friends that I could play with all the time, I'd consider going back, whenever I get the income to support it.
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I'm content playing DDR for 2.5 cents a game. :D
/insert jealous rage
do you have a DDR machine on campus? Mine has one, too, but I'm sure it's not that cheap
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So I threw the Windows 7 taskbar on the right side of my screen.
It's weird, but it does make more sense to have it there. I think I can get used to it.
That, and PVP was all gear based, which was lame.
lawl. Yeah, I'll believe that when I see it.
Armegeddon and I were doing the Hellfire Peninsula PvP daily and had four Alliance bitches decked out in T9 PvP gear go after us. We were both in T9 PvE gear (resilience: 0) with specs to match and very little PvP experience and slaughtered all of them easily.
If you fucking suck, all the gear in the world isn't going to help you win. And there's a lot of players that fucking suck.
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Dude, I've seen some outrageous twinks. I saw a legitimate level 9 twink that could kill a level 30+ before the higher level guy could even close the distance to melee.
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/insert jealous rage
do you have a DDR machine on campus? Mine has one, too, but I'm sure it's not that cheap
Nope. It's about half an hour away from my house. On Monday nights, it's set for a nickel a play. And with the coupons I use for the joint (Put $5 on my card, get another $5 for no additional charge), it's like half price! :D
s'pretty nice, when they maintain the machine at least. I've got over $30 on that stupid card now. heehee
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v33om is a bigger troll then flaffl is and at least flaffl is funny
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Playing with someone else makes a huge difference. Not pugs, but having a guild or something and playing with them doing quests together and shit is a LOT more fun than soloing that game. They basically made WoW insanely un-fun for solo players.
I did play and quest with friends, still wasn't a huge fan of it.
lawl. Yeah, I'll believe that when I see it.
Armegeddon and I were doing the Hellfire Peninsula PvP daily and had four Alliance bitches decked out in T9 PvP gear go after us. We were both in T9 PvE gear (resilience: 0) with specs to match and very little PvP experience and slaughtered all of them easily.
If you fucking suck, all the gear in the world isn't going to help you win. And there's a lot of players that fucking suck.
Twinks man, twinks. Still, isn't there the same basic strategy for encountering every single class?
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v33om is a bigger troll then flaffl is and at least flaffl is funny
I'm not trolling. Don't pull the "troll card" if you can't come up with a response :D
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Awwwww snap brotha! Now you've done it!
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my opinion is right, your opinion is wrong
(http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/8448/1277337737178.jpg)
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Can I get an "amen?!"
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I still remember when some of my friends started playing FFXI. Then a bunch of them said they'd never play it. Then a week later they were all playing it. Then every time we'd hang out it would just suck because they'd all be jabbering away about some retarded mmo thing and I wouldn't care.
Then WoW came out and they all moved to that. Then they all started getting all drama-y about it and I just flat out told them I'd had enough of it and that if they were going to just talk WoW all the time I wasn't going to do anything with them anymore because it wasn't fun. Then most of them quit playing MMOs but there's still a weird split between most of them because of it.
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That's actually really sad. I've been close to doing that when my friends got really into wow, and the only time they would hang would be to play it.
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So my birthday is in one week. Gotta figure out what I want to tell people to get me. Any ideas?
Also, you guys are scaring me with your fighting about WoW. Please stop the fights. We're all internet bros, right?
(http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs51/i/2009/318/b/2/MAXIMUM_BROFIST_by_Defiant_Ant.png)
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This week at my new job, I made:
Cream of carrot soup (Twice, even. The first batch I made sold out in just a few hours.)
Onion and herb bread
Many salads
Blueberry scones
Russian vegetable pie
A metric fuckton of tea
and I made them my awesome croutons. :V
Next week, they're showing me how to make all the types of cookies they have. So enthused. <3
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http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=madcatz+te&x=0&y=0
KRAZEY COULD USE A TE
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and lol @ $5 a game, do you buy everything used years after it came out? (or pirating games, but I was never a fan of that)
Either of those, or I get it from Steam when it's on sale. Usually if I pirate it and like it, I go buy it, though (like Unreal Tournament).
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v33om is a bigger troll then flaffl is and at least flaffl is funny
I'm not trolling. Don't pull the "troll card" if you can't come up with a response :D
Knock it off, you two. Seriously.
If either one of you post another flame you're getting three days off.
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my balls are salty?
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that's probably why Mr. T ate them
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What K-mann said.
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that's probably why Mr. T ate them
I heard he does enjoy some good savoury balls.
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my balls are salty?
I want to STICK MY BALLS inside your rectum, Kyle.
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http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=madcatz+te&x=0&y=0
KRAZEY COULD USE A TE
Fuck I want to but I just spent 700 bones on my first DSLR camera... soooooo maybe later.
Thanks for the idea though. I used a regular one (one of them $80 jobs) and used it for BlazBlue rofl woops what a bad idea.
Maybe for SSFIV. Maybe.
Anyways, CAMERA GET
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now that you mentioned 3 letters that go "cam" that's related to this.
testing out camstudio again, think i have it up to record at a passable quality now.
opinions?
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Doesn't seem that bad...then agian I don't mess with recording programs.
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yeah im not happy with the framerate im getting, looks too choppy when im playing a game. if i jack up some settings, it looks the fucking same only with massive audio delays.
probably read more up on it tomorrow, tried enough to get a decent looking game video today with no success.
video up there is legit, i do not have any media player in the background playing music, and from me, strangely, i don't have any street fighter 2 music on my computer. literally thought i had spyware when that happened, but then going back to the same part again and again, it did the music again and again. weird.
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I want a chip buddy.
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Don't have any, sorry friend.
I have some crackers though.
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Heh. Chip Buddy sounds so good though.
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chipp
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_butty
This.
Sounds yummeh!
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Got a second job today. <3 Yay, money.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_butty
This.
Sounds yummeh!
This does sound yummy. @_@
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Indeed.
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those aren't chips, they're freedom fries.
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So a female friend of mine has a problem of me being a prude...I don't see why.
Just because I am the type of guy who would rather bake instead of taking his shirt off when it is hot does not make me a prude.
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So a female friend of mine has a problem of me being a prude...I don't see why.
Just because I am the type of guy who would rather bake instead of taking his shirt off when it is hot does not make me a prude.
Haha, I'm one of those people who A) rarely takes their shirt off, and B) NEVER wears shorts (swim suits not included).
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I rarely work with my shirt off, but did today because it was fucking 90 out.
Also EVO stream.
http://static.streamapi.com/flash/custom.swf?ver=0.3.6&flashPath=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.streamapi.com%2Fflash%2F&userType=204&authType=nameAndPass&publicHostID=1000422591&autoRecord=true&authField1Label=Username%3A&skinPath=%2Fthemes%2F100%2F000%2F964%2F4%2Fskin_7ffe1dfd-8ab8-11df-8528-85e0786ff4d7.xml&layoutPath=%2Fthemes%2F100%2F000%2F964%2F4%2Ftheme_7ffe1dfd-8ab8-11df-8528-85e0786ff4d7.xml&siteID=1000009644&authField2Label=Password%3A&app=custom.swf
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Haha, I'm one of those people who A) rarely takes their shirt off, and B) NEVER wears shorts (swim suits not included).
I don't swim so B doesn't apply.
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Well, I have a pool in my back yard that I hardly ever use, but I do occasionally swim. Lately, I've been in my friend's hot tub more than I've been swimming though.
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I wear shorts all the time because it's part of my work uniform and if I didn't wear shorts I would probably die of heatstroke.
I never take my shirt off because if I'm so hot that I'm sweating so much that I'd want to take my shirt off, I'm probably sweating so much that I smell really really bad and I don't need to horrify people with taking off the only layer of clothing holding that smell back.
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evo day 1 was ok. didn't catch the tatsunoko stuff due to work, but i got the majority of the sf4 (whoop dee doo). should catch tekken, mvc3, and sf4 finals on sunday, maby even the end of hdremix.
though i guess it wasn't too bad today, ultradavid was commentating a good amount of the time. fucker is dedicated, didn't enter, but drove 5 hours to get there, only to drive 5 hours back home after the day's events were over.
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Went to the Redbull Flugtag, and it was fairly lame. Still Miami as a whole was a lot of fun, and there's a shocking amount of attractive females down there.
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Seems like it's been more than a few months since I've been here for some reason. Lots of dramatic and depressing things have happened since the last time I was here which I might save for another time cause I'm actually in a good mood today and don't want to ruin it.
So however hot it is outside right now, it's about 5 degrees more in my dad's house. There is no air conditioning, all of the windows are painted shut, and I've searched high and low for a fan of some sort, but there is none. There aren't even any ice trays so I can enjoy a cold beverage. Lame :[
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Not to be a dick, but you always seem to find some drama.
Also Jesus fucking christ what are you doing in a house like that?
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evo is getting pretty damn hype right now. mike ross just made top 8, vangief sent jwong into losers and is in top 8.
as i type this it's shizza (pad chun), vs diago.
the stream is at 21,000 viewers at the moment, yeah, get on this bitch.
http://evo2k.com/live/
*edit*
diago beat shizza, shizza sent to losers and beat floe to enter top 8.
gamerbee (taiwanese adon player) ELIMINATES jwong from the tournament.
ALL ABOARD THE HYPE TRAIN, CHOO CHOO, FINALS TOMORROW!
this is like the goddamn superbowl/world cup for fighting game fans.
it's funny though. when diago beat justin with guile at the ssfiv invitational, hundreds of people got onto the guile forums.
when inthul took third place with fei long at east coast championships, hundreds of people got on the fei long forums
when gamerbee eliminated justin wong, SRK FUCKING CRASHED!
top 8 goes as follows
Winners bracket:
Daigo Umehara (Ryu) vs. Mike Ross (E. Honda)
Vance "Vangief" Wu (Zangief) vs. EG.Ricky Ortiz (Rufus)
Losers bracket:
Henry Cen (E. Honda, Dhalsim) vs. GamerBee (Adon)
Infiltration (Akuma, Juri) vs. Shizza (Chun-Li)
vangief plays on a ps3 pad, and shizza plays on one of those madcatz fight pads.
*edit*
wong v gamerbee, till the video gets taken down anyway.
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Its my birthday in about 20 minutes... its 11 40 here
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Its my birthday in about 20 minutes... its 11 40 here
get your ass on sneaky's chat. www.stickam.com/djsneakyaz
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fighting stuff
Fairly awesome matches, from what I watched. When does the winners start?
Also I'm in love with that Adon player. It's a shame that there isn't a single 3S character in sight, but I figured Adon would be decently good (not very punishable moves, amazing normals) and I'm glad to see him get some recognition.
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So a female friend of mine has a problem of me being a prude...
You? A prude? WHAAAAAAAAT?
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Why are there always so many guests? Are you people really that lazy that you cannot log in?
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i log on to post then i immediately log out.
blame the "most time online" stat.
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haters gonna hate on my time online stat.
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snake eyez (zangief) wins hdremix, it was an amazing set of games vs dgv (ryu).
http://www.eventhubs.com/news/2010/jul/09/evo-2010-live-stream/
all evo info there.
these games are really good, from marvel, to tatsunoko, to sf4 top 32, to hdr. tekken is up next.
but it's fucking awesome. my main character in my main fighting game finally winning a tournament, at evo of all tournaments.
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Do you think you could find me a video of the top 8 SSF4 games? I missed them and I want to watch them tomorrow.
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they haven't yet happened, and when they do, you might have to do some looking. i got that gamerbee video from /v/.
as of this post the tekken finals are about to happen, and mvc3 (yes 3) is after that. THEN ssfiv final 8 after mvc3.
*edit*
it was pretty good up till people i wanted to win in top 8 started dropping like flies(any of the bottom 5).
1. Daigo Umehara (Ryu)
2. EG.Ricky Ortiz (Rufus, Chun-Li)
3. Infiltration (Akuma)
4. Mike Ross (E. Honda)
5. Bruce "GamerBee" Hsiang (Adon)
5. Vance "Vangief" Wu (Zangief)
7. Henry Cen (E. Honda, Dhalsim)
7. Shizza (Chun-Li)
and in your typical boring fashon, diago wins another one.
at least the action was good before the top 8 started to disappoint. pretty decent spread of characters at the top too. gief won hdr and i guess that's all that matters to me.
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Not to be a dick, but you always seem to find some drama.
Also Jesus fucking christ what are you doing in a house like that?
I'm not sure what other drama you're talking about... Nothing in my life has ever come close to being as crazy as what's been happening in the past three or four months. I don't know if I mentioned before that my idiot boss fired me, but that's relatively new. A few weeks after that my friend killed himself after being missing for a week. This being the first encounter with death I've ever had. I almost got into a fight with the schizophrenic ex-boyfriend of a girl I was completely and utterly smitten with who I thought felt the same for me, until of course she starts dating one of my best friends, both of whom I haven't been able to talk to for about four weeks. There's other stuff but that's good enough to convey my point. As far as shit storms go, it's been a real doozy. I've been seeing a therapist though, which is about a decade overdue, but it's going well I suppose.
Anyway there it is.
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Damn Sqthreer that sucks man.
I wish the best for you and hope things get a bit better.
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Glad you're getting some professional help, that's nothing minor.
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Yeah, it's definitely good that your getting help.
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Thanks and yes it's good that I'm getting help finally. I should've years ago but it's happening now. It is good to be back here too, though :D
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Jesus, that sounds like a serious clusterfuck. @_@
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So a girl I really like is seeing an old flame of hers and she loves this guy to no end. Even though I have tried my best to get her to ask him to have the two get together she doesn't want too.
I have even gone to the point to be a dick to her to make her see my point. I feel bad that I was like that to her but even though she knows my feelings I'd rather see her be happy and know some more answers.
When I mean I really like her I mean she is very pretty, she plays video games, and she has a lot of common interests as I do. However, I'd rather see her be happy even if I am miserable. I will eventually get over it but I just at a loss now. :/
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Just tell her, hey, if you won't go talk to him, how about we go out on a date?
I had my manager checkride today. Apparently I do things so perfectly textbook that she wants me to eventually go for being an "Accomplished Courier" which means I'd be one of the guys that new hires could ride with to watch for how to drive routes and process packages. I thought that was hilarious. My manager is also extremely awkward to be around and it was 4 hours of her just talking and talking and talking. And it was 95 degrees out so it was at least 110 inside the cab of the truck and at least 130 in the back. It was god awful and I was so drenched in sweat it was disgusting. But the very nice girls at one of my stops gave me a mini icepack but I didn't want to flirt with either very much because uh, my manager is right there and that's 1003028909x more awkward than even if my mom were standing right there.
Apparently I still have to do an hour or so of backing practice tomorrow since I'm still so new to the whole thing. I told my manager I didn't really need it and felt comfortable but she wouldn't listen so whatever. I'll do some stuff with the driving instructor, get it over with and be happy that she won't bother me with anymore training for a very long time.
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lol Sharde, you have such great timing (http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/7425/grea.jpg)
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stuff
It's always nice to get to the point where your no longer in training any more.
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Phase 1 of "Operation: GFY, NVIDIA" should be complete on Monday. I am excited.
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Yo, spec, I've been meaning to ask: where've you been? Super busy, forgot about the site, Internet connection died for a while?
Assuming everything checks out, Jeff (as in LunarKeys), Jupi (as in Jupi), and I will be renting a house in the Austintown/Youngstown area as of August. You should definitely stop by and visit when everything's set up. :D
(Also, the Pump machine will be there, and it will be running a release drive of PIU Pro 2 because I am a PIU Pro 2 developer and am getting a free one, so there is that)
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Assuming everything checks out, Jeff (as in LunarKeys), Jupi (as in Jupi), and I will be renting a house in the Austintown/Youngstown area as of August. You should definitely stop by and visit when everything's set up. :D
Agreed! Come party with us. :3
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Yo, spec, I've been meaning to ask: where've you been? Super busy, forgot about the site, Internet connection died for a while?
Wasn't really feeling too hot for a while. I got kinda depressed due to a lot of things, including long hours, a stupid, uninsured bitch totalling my car, and issues at work. I wasn't really able to travel too far because the gold car has transmission issues (faulty sensors; it occasionally sticks in second, especially on humid days) and, well, I doubt I was very pleasant to be around.
I guess the truest answer would be "lost in WoW," because that kinda helped me take my mind off of things.
Assuming everything checks out, Jeff (as in LunarKeys), Jupi (as in Jupi), and I will be renting a house in the Austintown/Youngstown area as of August. You should definitely stop by and visit when everything's set up. :D
coo~!
Sure as hell beats driving to East Liverpool, Pittsburgh, or Texas. :)
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lol Sharde, you have such great timing (http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/7425/grea.jpg)
I try my best.
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(Also, the Pump machine will be there, and it will be running a release drive of PIU Pro 2 because I am a PIU Pro 2 developer and am getting a free one, so there is that)
I hate you just a little more because of that. Well, more so because I can't be there. PIU is so much damn fun.
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We should meet up at the Playdium in Mississauga and hang out the next time I go up to Canada! I'm hoping they'll upgrade to Pro 2, since the existing Pro machine is damn nice (loud, responsive, etc.).
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Awesome. That would be cool.
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Just tell her, hey, if you won't go talk to him, how about we go out on a date?
Two problems:
1)She lives in Virgina.
2) She really loves this guy...
I have just about given up on any romantic relationship on her and rather be her friend.
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This is really strange and annoying. When my corded keyboard is a few inches too close to my wireless mouse, the mouse's connectivity gets fucked up and the movement is choppy. If I move the keyboard away from it, it's smooth again. The keyboard isn't obscuring the signal in any way but it's affecting the mouse somehow >:/ wtf
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Been wanting to cry the last couple of days...don't know why :-\
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Do it then, it's unhealthy to supress that.
Also I'm becoming a big Jason Ellis fan. He sounds and looks like a moron at first, but his show is entertaining.
Wow, Alien Swarm is surprisingly fun. I bet they add DLC and whatnot to it.
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Thinking I need to actually finally get a cellphone. Mostly just for work. Looking at the Droid Incredible because I get a discount on Verizon through work and I like the google whatnots its got. It'd be nice to be on the road and use google maps to just look up where to go for my next stop.
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Looking at the Droid Incredible because I get a discount on Verizon through work and I like the google whatnots its got.
That would be a good buy, methinks. Android has matured considerably these past couple of years and the built-in apps work incredibly well.
Also, you never realize how convenient having reasonably fast e-mail and web access in your pocket is until you've tried it.
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Does anyone happen to have any of my old simfiles from back in the day? I haven't played SM in like a year and am feeling kinda nostalgic.
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8:14 PM - |ZG| Ulti: okay you wanna try this?
8:14 PM - |ZG| Ulti: it seems like
|ZG| Ulti is now Offline.
Your state is set to Offline.
fucking steam, how does it work.
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Does anyone happen to have any of my old simfiles from back in the day? I haven't played SM in like a year and am feeling kinda nostalgic.
I have:
Disconnected Hyper
Tsugaru Apple Mix
July
I used to have beetles an Prep Gwarlek, but I can't seem to find them. I dunno if I can get them, you didn't have many files in the old packs...
I have LOTS of classic artists:
(a couple) annon :D
(a few) cat?
(a couple) duk amok
(a lot) pfx
(a couple) Specterrrrrr :D
Yeah if anyone wants anything specific I can probably get it for you
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(a couple) Specterrrrrr :D
I'm not classic, I'm classy. 8)
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Sure, you can be both!
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Sweeeeeet.
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WORD!
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ATTN EVERYONE: ALIEN SWARM.
THAT IS ALL.
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FINALLY GOT GGPO WORKING FUCKYES.
Spectere, unlock that GGPO thread, I need to play AvP with someone now.
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Okaaaaaay. :(
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I've uh...got a date tomorrow. Whoo~
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I've uh...got a date tomorrow. Whoo~
aaaaaaaaaaw snap.
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I know right? It's all so foreign to me. haha.
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jus b urself :]
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Well, that hasn't scared him away yet. So I guess I'll go with that. :3
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always a good choice... Unless your one scary person. On second thought, the fact that you get along with us at spectere.net is scary enough.
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Even more frightening, I think he'd get along with you lot too.
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Heh. Well have fun then Jupi
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HEY SQ3R HERE YOU GO!
3 files. Couldn't find any others... sorry bro
(http://www.spectere.net/forums/userav//avatar_29.png) (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=Q3M6QWSD)
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Awesome thanks :D I'm sure the others will turn up somewhere sometime.
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Mike Nelson:
"I'll re-editerate that this is a Street Fighter panel, and not a Darkstalkers panel. but how many people would like to see a Darkstalkers game?" Again, loud applause. "How many of you have a wallet? Take a dollar out of your wallet and show it up in the air. We'll take a picture of it and show this to the folks at Capcom that people will buy a Darkstalkers game." Everyone takes a dollar out and they took the picture.
Capcom is the biggest cock-tease in town.
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as much as they teased darkstalkers, watching evo seeing the dude behind tekken and the dude behind street fighter. "street fighter x tekken" is a bit of a no brainer to expect.
i don't give a fuck either way. darkstalkers has fappable characters and ok gameplay, tekken x street fighter looks like it could be something pretty different.
course i would prefer a non vs game, but from the small amount of early gameplay available, it doesn't look like your average vs game.
in the words of a police man posing as an underage girl to a child preditor "mite b cool"
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as much as they teased darkstalkers, watching evo seeing the dude behind tekken and the dude behind street fighter. "street fighter x tekken" is a bit of a no brainer to expect.
i don't give a fuck either way. darkstalkers has fappable characters and ok gameplay, tekken x street fighter looks like it could be something pretty different.
course i would prefer a non vs game, but from the small amount of early gameplay available, it doesn't look like your average vs game.
in the words of a police man posing as an underage girl to a child preditor "mite b cool"
this is how you judge games
always
WWE games are some of the worst games ever made
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I've been waiting for a new Darkstalkers game for goddamn ever. They'd probably make some dramatic changes to it, I just hope they keep the same health system that's in VS.
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Pizza and bowling. What a night. Haha! <3
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Pizza and bowling. What a night. Haha! <3
Sounds like win
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Was there a time change recently?
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Not til fall my friend
Finally have the whole weekend off with the lady... gonna go on an adventure!
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Am I the only one who things that playing osu! with the mouse is horrendous and insanely unfun?
Playing it on a device that supports touch is a blast, but anything other than that just sucks.
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gave fraps a shot
aside from over-compression on my part (original video 576mb, compressed...8mb) i think the quality turned out damn good. im going to have to acquire this software sometime down the road.
sc2, gas, blazblue cs, few days renew xbl gold. rather not spend money for a while.
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I love ice tea.
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I am so goddamn bored all the time now, and no one lives near me. I feel like nothing goddamn happens now, and it's killing me.
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I am so goddamn bored all the time now, and no one lives near me. I feel like nothing goddamn happens now, and it's killing me.
I know exactly how you feel. Same thing happened to me a while back. The only reason I don't feel like that right now is because I've got college classes now, and a co-op coming up. The co-op might not be so cool though, because usually I end up somewhere where I'm the only young person, and there's not really anyone to hang out with, and none of my friends are free when I am, and crap.
So in short, shitsux, your not the only one to go through that.
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I was like that even worse when I did literally nothing all day, but now I have a full time job and I'm still bored out of my skull.
It's just that everyone I know is moving away, and everyone else is busy or I'm too busy. Not to mention I'm constantly reading how people I know are constantly going on parties/road trips/ out of the country while I sit around home and do nothing sort of irks me.
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Yeah, I've been there, it really does suck ass. When I was on my last co-op i rarely ever hung out, except on like, fridays, occasionally, if I wasn't tired.
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I feel like I'm shifting towards that.
Also I just got back from my cousins wedding, which was a decent amount of fun. Got free beer, and saw a bunch of relatives I never see. Makes me feel shitty, considering how we almost all live in Florida.
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Now that I'm out of school for the summer, I'm in the same boat. Stuck back at my parents place for two months with pretty much nothing to do but be free labor. D:
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I just decided to check my PayPal account on a whim today and apparently I've had $150 sitting around for almost four years. Fuck yes.
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That's pretty fucking awesome. Did you place it there, or did someone pay you?
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I transfered it from a bank account I haven't used in a couple years in early 2007.
Oh and then just a few hours ago I bought a tootsie roll pop that was on the stick sideways. Been a pretty lucky day.
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I just woke up from a semi-lucid dream. Essentially, I knew that I was dreaming, and I knew that once I realized that, I had to try to stay asleep. Once that was accomplished, all I got was telekinesis. I didn't fully realize that it was my dream, so I wasn't able to do exactly what I wanted.
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ALL you got was telekinesis? That's like, the ultimate dream power for me...
I checked this site out a while ago, you might like it if you're into lucidity: http://www.dreamviews.com/content/
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Well, it was really weak and hard to control. Like, I could pick up a pen or something from a few yards away, but it was hard to get it to go anywhere accurately. Besides, if I'd realized I could, the first thing I'd do would be to disable gravity.
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My speedometer is trying to mess with my head. A few days ago, it started sticking at zero. After a few seconds, it'd realize "Hey, we're actually moving!" and start working properly. Now today, I was going about 65mph. Then it decided to drop down to zero. For a moment, my tachometer was all "wut?! WTF?!" but it caught on a lot quicker than the speedometer. Heh.
Shame I just had the car in for inspection the other day. Else I could have been all "Yo, check that out, yo."
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My speedometer is trying to mess with my head. A few days ago, it started sticking at zero. After a few seconds, it'd realize "Hey, we're actually moving!" and start working properly. Now today, I was going about 65mph. Then it decided to drop down to zero. For a moment, my tachometer was all "wut?! WTF?!" but it caught on a lot quicker than the speedometer. Heh.
Shame I just had the car in for inspection the other day. Else I could have been all "Yo, check that out, yo."
Thats really odd Jupi...might not be something major now but I would get it to a mechanic shop and have them check it out. It may become problimatic later on. Don't want you to be out of a car for a simple fix :P
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I have come to the conclusion that I am growing up.
And it doesn't feel too bad
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Well, it was really weak and hard to control. Like, I could pick up a pen or something from a few yards away, but it was hard to get it to go anywhere accurately. Besides, if I'd realized I could, the first thing I'd do would be to disable gravity.
Hah that's still pretty awesome. I recently had a telekinesis dream where I had some kind of flash cards that taught me how and I practiced by spinning a walnut in the air around me. I wish I had those flash cards now :[
I have come to the conclusion that I am growing up.
And it doesn't feel too bad
It's weird when you really realize it isn't it?
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Thats really odd Jupi...might not be something major now but I would get it to a mechanic shop and have them check it out. It may become problimatic later on. Don't want you to be out of a car for a simple fix :P
Aye. I'm gonna have my dad take a look at it, as when I mentioned it just sticking, he had some ideas as to what it could be. And there's a good chance he can fix it.
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I have dreams about work. And not like interesting dreams. Just dreams where I have to do a missort delivery because the morning person couldn't deliver it. Or I have a bunch of on-calls at a bad time. That's when you know you're getting older.
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It's been a while since I've had a dream I remembered, but I dreamt last night about how to implement a fairly well-optimized lookup system in C++ for key-value pairs, searching by either key or value.
The most boring dream I've had was actually a two-level dream: I dreamt I was getting ready for school (the only unusual thing being that I'd gotten my day's clothing out of a wastebasket), then I "woke up" and I was in math class, listening to the pre-calc teacher drone on for a while. Turns out, I had dozed off on the bus while coming back from a band competition; I woke up with literally no idea where I was for about 30 seconds, because it was just that disorienting.
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I have dreams about work. And not like interesting dreams. Just dreams where I have to do a missort delivery because the morning person couldn't deliver it. Or I have a bunch of on-calls at a bad time. That's when you know you're getting older.
I once did DPH/DXM, and thought I was working the dish line the entire night, and kept trying to stack imaginary plates. My roommate laughed at me for days afterwards. When your drug trips turn into everyday life, you know something is wrong :(
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It's been a while since I've had a dream I remembered, but I dreamt last night about how to implement a fairly well-optimized lookup system in C++ for key-value pairs, searching by either key or value.
Let me guess, you're taking data structures now.
The most boring dream I've had was actually a two-level dream: I dreamt I was getting ready for school (the only unusual thing being that I'd gotten my day's clothing out of a wastebasket), then I "woke up" and I was in math class, listening to the pre-calc teacher drone on for a while. Turns out, I had dozed off on the bus while coming back from a band competition; I woke up with literally no idea where I was for about 30 seconds, because it was just that disorienting.
When I was still going to YSU I had a really f'ed up dream.
One day, I wasn't feeling too great. I had a few hours between classes, so instead of doing something productive I headed back to my car to catch some z's. I proceeded to have the most vivid dream that I recall ever having. I was in an area that can only be described as "post-apocalyptic Youngstown" (I say that mostly because it was an improvement over the current Youngstown, but partially because it had that whole "demolished Gears of War look"). It was raining, and it was so vivid that I could feel the rain drops hitting my face.
I walked around for a bit, trying to find some sign of life, when I ran into some sort of armed patrol. True to form, they started shooting at me. I had a pistol (which, annoyingly enough, did not have infinite ammo) so I fired back as I fled. I felt a searing pain in my leg, realizing that I'd gotten shot. A few seconds later, I woke up, my leg hurting a bit.
I'm not sure if I just bumped it into the steering wheel or if the feeling was so strong that it transcended the confines of my violent, dismal imagination, but shit was intense.
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When I was little, I wanted to go to YSU because their mascot was a penguin
not kidding
EDIT: the memories (http://haydenface.ytmnd.com/)
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Haha wow. Good ol' a0.com.
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found my new sci fi to watch
stargate universe
5 episodes in, i should be sleeping right now but i need to watch another episode.
it's like stargate sg-1...well no. atlantis, sorta...no.
finally a space show (that i am aware of) that doesn't take place in our galaxy. shit's rad.
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The original Stargate movie didn't, either, but I guess you mean television show specifically :o
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found my new sci fi to watch
stargate universe
5 episodes in, i should be sleeping right now but i need to watch another episode.
it's like stargate sg-1...well no. atlantis, sorta...no.
finally a space show (that i am aware of) that doesn't take place in our galaxy. shit's rad.
Ohh, I haven't seen this yet. I liked SG-1 a bit, but didn't really care for Atlantis. Should look into that :v
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if you don't want to get boned with a cliffhanger that makes things get fucked in every possible direction, wait a while before watching season 1.
season 2 airs september 28.
so i implied i seen season 1, it's good. lots of drama, action, tension, there could be more sci fi in there, but stargate hasn't been as crazy with that subject matter than other sci fi shows. it's still crazy and whatnot(cross galaxy travel, instantaneous consciousness swapping from anywhere in the universe, mcgyver, pretty crazy stuff), but i mean it's stargate, not farscape.
watch it, it's good.
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the memories (http://haydenface.ytmnd.com/)
omg
In retrospect, I wish I would have participated in that particular string of shenanigans. Le sigh...
Edit: I've been doing some playing and managed to get my iPhone 3G (running 3.1.3, because I want to actually be able to use the thing) to looks sorta like it's running iOS 4:
Before:
(http://files.spectere.net/pictures/iphone/basic-os3.png)
After:
(http://files.spectere.net/pictures/iphone/os4-theme.png)
Not bad for an hour of research/implementation. Pretty damn easy, too.
Do note that it's not perfect. Between iPhone OS 3 and iOS 4, the dock labels moved up 5 pixels. I was only able to move them up 3 pixels; anymore than that and the top of the labels were cut off. I also had to bump up the undocked application labels up two pixels so that the text shadows didn't get cut off. The text shadows were also made a bit darker than they are in iOS 4 because I wasn't able to get the app icon shadows skinned (no amount of persuasion would get it to skin them...not sure what I was doing wrong). And, of course, there are no icon reflections on the dock. I could have faked that (not to mention giving the dock labels an authentic look) with a bit of Photoshoppery, but my main goal was to make a usable iOS 4 style theme in a short amount of time, not a perfect-looking one that would rely on specific app icon placements. That would just be silly.
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2 pixels, who's gonna see the difference?
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I notice it every time I look at it, and it is a bit annoying.
I do like the iOS 4 look, so I'm putting up with it for now (not to mention that you basically need to have shadows on in order for the text to stand out against backgrounds). I just really wish that there was something that I could do about it. I've tried pretty much everything that you can do in CSS to make the situation a bit better (i.e. changing z-index, attempting to making the blocks bigger in conjunction with display:block, using absolute positioning, etc) but it seems like the CSS support for certain elements is a bit limited (which does make sense).
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I notice it every time I look at it, and it is a bit annoying.
lol, yeah, i guess if it's just for personal use, that is a piss off, but anyone else wouldn't notice...
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lol, yeah, i guess if it's just for personal use, that is a piss off, but anyone else wouldn't notice...
Eh, considering I've used iPhone OS 3 pretty extensively and iOS 4 quite a bit, I'd definitely notice that something is a bit off, even if I weren't counting pixels in Photoshop to try to get it right. On my laptops very high density screen (1920x1200 on a 17" screen) I can notice when elements are a single pixel off. It's enough to drive a guy mad.
Also:
And, of course, there are no icon reflections on the dock.
Where there's a will, there's a way (in this case, an app on Cydia that's aptly called ReflectiveDock):
(http://files.spectere.net/pictures/iphone/os4-theme-reflective.png)
More nitpicking: after changing the background it seems to me like the dock is a bit too translucent. I'll have to look into that and do some comparing.
Edit:
The translucency is actually right. The dock only really stands out on dark or gray backgrounds. In most cases it kind of blends in.
I did confirm my suspicions that a few elements are still a teeny bit off (i.e. dock icons are two pixels too high). Looks like Apple bumped the undocked icon labels up by one pixel in iOS 4. I'll have to determine whether I'd rather be accurate and potentially cut off the shadow of some letters by one pixel (would probably be a lot more tolerable than the two pixels that were cut off before) or leave it up one pixel as it is now. The way it is is pretty tolerable. It looks like it actually could be up a bit, unlike the dock which just looks wrong.
Unfortunately, it doesn't look like I can bump the dock icons down by a couple of pixels. If I could have done that, it would make the text fit in a bit better (i.e. without the goatse sized gap that's there now) and it would put the icons to where they belong.
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omg
In retrospect, I wish I would have participated in that particular string of shenanigans. Le sigh...
Why don't we make a v.2 with everyone from here :D
Also.... I am using iOS 4 on my iPhone 3G and I am wondering how to get a background image behind my apps because there isn't a clear option to do so in the settings. I haven't done a whole lot of research to find out, but I guess that's what I'm doing now. If I have to have it jailbroken to do so then nevermind :/
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You can't really use many of iOS 4's new features on the 3G. About the only thing that Apple decided to give us were app folders. Despite jailbreakers having app backgrounding, wallpapers, and well, pretty much everything and more since iPhone OS 1, 3G owners don't really get anything new. It's kind of lame, really. :/ But yeah, to make a long story short, you'll have to jailbreak if you want to use wallpaper.
Just for reference, the screenshots that I posted were from an iPhone 3G running 3.1.3, jailbroken with Spirit Jailbreak. The theming was done with WinterBoard and the wallpaper was set with BossPaper (with the exception of the default iOS 4 wallpaper, which was set in a WinterBoard theme for ease of application).
Jailbreaking is actually pretty simple if you're at all interested in doing it. When I jailbroke this one, it was literally a minute-long process. I downloaded Spirit Jailbreak (not sure what you'd use for iOS 4 -- I downgraded mine to 3.1.3 before I did mine because 3.1.3 ran much better), plugged the phone in, and hit the big button. It automatically restarted the phone, installed Cydia, and that was pretty much it. The only downside is that you need to wipe the phone if you want to undo everything.
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Bought myself a Droid X today after Best Buy actually had one. Really liking it so far. If it's this nice now, I can't imagine how nice it'll be after 2.2 hits it.
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I had it jailbroken once before the iOS 4 update came out actually. What my friend neglected to tell me is that it would wipe all my photos from my camera roll. I couldn't restore it either because I had just formatted my computer and didn't bother to save any iTunes backups (not that I would have known how anyway). It was pretty cool at first but it just made the phone really slow and glitchy and I'm way less into customization than I used to be so I got rid of it.
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I really need a better phone, but I hardly see what I'll use a smart phone for. Shit, EVERYONE I know that owns one only uses it for texting and calling.
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I really need a better phone, but I hardly see what I'll use a smart phone for. Shit, EVERYONE I know that owns one only uses it for texting and calling.
Ever wondered what that song playing somewhere is, and none of your friends know? You can, with an iPhone (and possibly android, I dunno). Ever want to look up something on wikipedia, but don't have a computer? You can do that, too.
A friend of mine has an iPhone, and although it does see a lot of use for texting and calling, there are a lot of other features that are useful. I'd love to get one if I could ever afford it.
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yeah, that is true. My one friend uses google all the time on his phone.
Also SOOO MUCH nostalgia.
http://www.joystiq.com/2010/08/07/reminisce-about-classic-sonic-over-this-six-pack/
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Yeah, Android has Google Goggles (lets you take a picture of something and it'll search for it online) and Shazam (let it listen to a song and it'll tell you what it is). The Google integration is what really pushed me to get a Droid X (as well as the verizon thing since I can get a discount through work). Google Navigation is going to be a lifesaver when I get an on-call stop that I don't recognize or if it has some really confusing numbering. It also happens to be a very nice phone on top of that. And honestly I've never had a camera or a camcorder or even an mp3 player so it serves all of those purposes. And it has Kindle for Android as well so if I want some e-books, I can read them that way (and the screen is actually big enough to comfortably read off of).
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It was pretty cool at first but it just made the phone really slow and glitchy and I'm way less into customization than I used to be so I got rid of it.
Mine hasn't been jailbroken for very long, but I can kind of see that happening if you experiment with a bunch of different unapproved apps. Just glancing through my phone's filesystem after a couple of days kind of showed me how bad the packages are at cleaning up after themselves.
Bought myself a Droid X today after Best Buy actually had one. Really liking it so far. If it's this nice now, I can't imagine how nice it'll be after 2.2 hits it.
Nice. :D I'm kind of surprised that it didn't ship with 2.2, though. FroYo's been out for a while.
Try to sign up for the beta for Swype (http://www.swypeinc.com/). I've used it for a few months on my G1 and it's just fantastic. I haven't even touched the hardware keyboard in a while because Swype just works so well.
I really need a better phone, but I hardly see what I'll use a smart phone for. Shit, EVERYONE I know that owns one only uses it for texting and calling.
It's really one of those things that you grow into. My dad never thought he would ever use anything more than a flip-phone until I bought him a WinMo phone (it's a bit older, a Samsung Blackjack, but he loves it) for Christmas. Now he's an app-aholic.
The sucky part about having a smartphone is that you usually have to have a data plan, which means a higher monthly bill. For unlimited messaging and data, my bill went up about $30, if I remember correctly. Not a bad price for convenience, though. I love being able to do product research while I'm in a store looking at a product.
Ever wondered what that song playing somewhere is, and none of your friends know? You can, with an iPhone (and possibly android, I dunno).
Yep, Shazam is available for Android.
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i ordered a muramasa figure. shipping kind of sucked...
2400jpy
durrrrr another impulse buy shoots my bank account in the face.
*edit*
thinking of more figures i would like, there's too many that don't exist, even "simple" shit.
maby, i want a nicely detailed pvc statue of a hydralisk. blizzard, get on that shit, hydralisks are like the coolest looking unit in the game. I WANT TO OWN ONE FOR REALZ!
*edit*
item shipped, hot damn. look forward to receiving it. i think it was 3-5 days or something, so yeah, bitchin. i hope to not buy anything like that anytime soon, shit is bad for my moneys.
gotta limit my next "big" purchase to civilization v.
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Just got back from Mayhem, shit was goddamn amazing. Hatebreed was really good, Lamb of god was nuts (funny how they said "this song is for the soldiers" and then played now you have something to die for) and Rob Zombie was SO GODDAMN GOOD OH MY SWEET JESUS. He was just downright amazing, and during one song he had a video of tentacle hentai playing, which was fun. Also this band In This Moment surprised em and was fairly awesome. I lost my shoe and scraped the shit out of my hands in a circle pit, and then 10 minutes later someone kicked it towards me and I put it back on.
So yeah, amazing show.
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In This Moment has always been awesome. In fact, I'm pretty sure I've posted videos of their stuff in the music thread. Maria Brink is unbelievably hot and can seriously scream.
I want this week to be over so I can just start having regular weeks of work. One of the PM handlers got hurt (twisted his ankle and then slammed his knee into the mesh floor) while loading the containers that get put onto airplanes so now they have me trying to replace him and it just doesn't work out because good lord he was really good at it and I am new at it so it becomes very difficult for me to keep up. I actually burst a blood vessel in my hand from it, which hurts, but isn't something to get me taken out because of. And now tomorrow the main street on my route gets shut down at 5:30pm because of a parade so I have to get everything in that area done before then, which is very difficult.
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In This Moment has always been awesome. In fact, I'm pretty sure I've posted videos of their stuff in the music thread. Maria Brink is unbelievably hot and can seriously scream.
I would second all of that.
Also this is my friend in a pit during hatebreed http://www.sun-sentinel.com/entertainment/music/sfl-rockstar-mayhem-festival-20100811-pg,0,6477723.photogallery?index=sfl-mayhem-8-2010081120100811172441
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I want to go on a road trip after this semester is over. Maybe to Maine?
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I would second all of that.
Also this is my friend in a pit during hatebreed http://www.sun-sentinel.com/entertainment/music/sfl-rockstar-mayhem-festival-20100811-pg,0,6477723.photogallery?index=sfl-mayhem-8-2010081120100811172441
Awesome. I saw the first Mayhemfest when it was in Toronto. Shit rocked. Mastadon, Dragonforce, Walls of Hericho, The Red Chord, and Disturbed were all part of the lineup.
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Dragonforce
So, in all honesty, how do they really sound live?
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They are super terrible live. Like, when I saw them I just went because Sonata Arctica was opening for them (ugh, such a waste of an amazing band) and their sound setup was god awful. Everyone was maxed out on volume and no one could keep the beat and the drummer couldn't keep up at all. And all of the little kiddies had their Guitar Hero guitars and they'd raise them up to them every few seconds. It was disgusting. I couldn't even tell what songs they were playing. And then I walked out.
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...alrighty then!
That seems to be the general consensus. I just wanted to confirm that since I trust you guys a lot more than I trust Random Forum Troll A and his prepubescent band of merry men.
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They are super terrible live. Like, when I saw them I just went because Sonata Arctica was opening for them (ugh, such a waste of an amazing band) and their sound setup was god awful. Everyone was maxed out on volume and no one could keep the beat and the drummer couldn't keep up at all. And all of the little kiddies had their Guitar Hero guitars and they'd raise them up to them every few seconds. It was disgusting. I couldn't even tell what songs they were playing. And then I walked out.
They sure as hell weren't like that when I heard them. I posted about it way back then as well. They sounded fucking amazing when I heard them.
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Perhaps the quality of their performance is inversely proportional to their blood alcohol level.
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Perhaps the quality of their performance is inversely proportional to their blood alcohol level.
This is a proven theory with me and fps's Spectere :P
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Perhaps the quality of their performance is inversely proportional to their blood alcohol level.
This is the general consensus as far as I've heard. They can actually play okay... when they're not blackout drunk, which is most of their shows.
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I register for classes in 30 minutes. I'm moving in about 11 hours.
...
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They are super terrible live. Like, when I saw them I just went because Sonata Arctica was opening for them (ugh, such a waste of an amazing band) and their sound setup was god awful. Everyone was maxed out on volume and no one could keep the beat and the drummer couldn't keep up at all. And all of the little kiddies had their Guitar Hero guitars and they'd raise them up to them every few seconds. It was disgusting. I couldn't even tell what songs they were playing. And then I walked out.
I vomited in my mouth a little.
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Everyone go see Scott Pilgrim vs. The World.
Movie rules, and I know everyone here will appreciate it.
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Yeah, it is pretty much the anthem movie of the gamer generation.
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Everyone go see Scott Pilgrim vs. The World.
Movie rules, and I know everyone here will appreciate it.
My GF was planning on seeing it last night, but by the time we really got ready at my place, we'd be going to the late show (9:40) and have to drive 30-45 minutes to get there, and another 30-45 minutes back.
She's been excited about the movie since it was announced, because she started reading the comics right after they came out.
We ended up hanging out with friends instead, and reschedules to tonight, because we can go to a somewhat earlier showing, and it won't be opening night (so it won't be packed-as-shit and/or sold out.)
This is the general consensus as far as I've heard. They can actually play okay... when they're not blackout drunk, which is most of their shows.
That would explain things. I could see them as being the kind of guys who don't know how to handle being as famous as they are, and end up partying their face off when they probably shouldn't, and being unable to handle playing in those circumstances.
But yeah, when I saw them, they played fucking amazing. Mind you, they were still maxed out on volume (fucking hell they were loud) but I didn't even really mind, because they killed it. And the pit was crazier for them than for Mastadon (which I found unbelievable).
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Everyone go see Scott Pilgrim vs. The World.
Movie rules, and I know everyone here will appreciate it.
What am I, some sort of hipster?
That movie does look decent, despite all that jazz.
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It's more than decent. Honestly saying that you're a gamer and disliking the movie is tantamount to calling yourself a poser in the worst way.
There's a place called Oishi Teriaki that's really close by and oh my god I got their level 4 (out of 5) spicy chicken and ahhhhh it's so gooooood but it's like molten lava. And their gyoza are so delicious and I haven't even tried their sushi yet but they all sound amazing.
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hipster faggots
failed troll aside (i know it was obvious, but some people fall for the easy ones) i just seen law abiding citizen because it was there on the netflix and i remember reading about it.
pretty fucked up, aside from the early parts of the movie (I DO NOT ENJOY SAW LIKE SCENES OF TORTURE, and though the movie did not show anything too graphic, it threatened to), i enjoyed it.
didn't quite know how it was going to end, i was hoping the "bad" guy was going to live and continue doing his thing, but the way it ended was still satisfying.
kind of an interesting movie anyway. good guy has his family killed, doesn't get the justice he needed, goes fucking crazy and ends up being really goddamn awesome/scary.
and i need to stop going to tomopop.
http://tomopop.com/kotobukiya-s-new-bishoujo-statues-need-even-more-images-14045.phtml
http://tomopop.com/kotobukiya-s-darth-maul-art-fx-statue-looks-even-better-in-full-color-14044.phtml
http://tomopop.com/toy-fair-2010-kotobukiya-s-doctor-doom-11095.phtml
im just glad a lot of figures don't mesh with my interests and mostly deals with anime with some comics, because holding myself back from the money i would want to spend would be difficult. i mean there's a lot of nice things, but it's mostly from random anime i know/care nothing about.
even then it would be fine, but the whole "if you don't buy it now, by the time you will want to throw down the money for it, it's going to double/tripple/quadruple in price, and only be found on ebay" is the kicker. fuck that shit. plus the preorder now, receive item in...take the first link as an example. $60.00 now, receive item early 2011...yeah, 2011. not a fan of paying for something im going to get in half a year, the price is fine though. maby...later...NO, NO, MUST KEEP MONEY IN BANK
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It's more than decent. Honestly saying that you're a gamer and disliking the movie is tantamount to calling yourself a poser in the worst way.
I use decent fairly liberally. Not sure where all this gamer jazz is coming from, the only game related thing I've seen from that movie is the Alpha 3 KO.
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Hmm, they use music form zelda a number of times, the entire movie is presented like a game, they use stat values in a couple spots, as well as a health-bar type thing for one scene... He gets a 1 up at one point.... Really, the whole movie is based on being a gamer.
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I use decent fairly liberally. Not sure where all this gamer jazz is coming from, the only game related thing I've seen from that movie is the Alpha 3 KO.
He plays the Final Fantasy 2 baseline, entire shots and lines are taken from videogames and other media, and yeah, the whole thing is basically set up like a videogame.
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oh yeah, I live in Hawaii now
it's quite warm
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hows the humidity treating you?
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oh yeah, I live in Hawaii now
it's quite warm
I have a friend on a military base in hawaii, if you see him tell him hello.
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Why does everybody seem to hate Monster MIXXD, I think it's the best tasting Monster drink :(
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Why does everybody seem to hate Monster MIXXD
I dunno. I couldn't stand it at all. My friend thinks it's okay, though.
It's probably one of those flavors that just hits some people in a very bad way (kinda like Pepsi Blue. I loved that stuff, but apparently not too many people did).
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I really don't see the appeal of energy drinks at all. They do make for good mixing with alcohol, but then that lame song came out.
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I really don't see the appeal of energy drinks at all. They do make for good mixing with alcohol, but then that lame song came out.
Trust me, when used as an actual energy drink, they can be helpful (not in the sense of "zomg, I can run a mile now", but in the sense of "I'm fucking tired, I need to stay awake".)
Mind you, for that sort of thing, 5 hour energy works WAY better.
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I really don't see the appeal of energy drinks at all.
If you ever try to do a 5-6 hour drive at 12-1 AM you'll learn to love them.
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I've used 5 hour energy twice, and both times it did nothing to me. I took it after a party to wake up and it made my hangover worse and I was still sleepy, the second time I took it I was the first person to fall asleep and missed all of Black Dynamite.
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Do you typically drink a ton of caffeine? When I was drinking espresso drinks left and right it pretty much did nothing for me. Now drinking any sort of energy drink makes me hyper as hell.
It could be just your system, too. Maybe caffeine, taurine, and stuff like that just doesn't affect you all that much.
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I've used 5 hour energy on a number of occasions. The effect is very subtle (probably partly because I did drink energy drinks all the time then). But when I needed to be awake from 9PM till 7AM, it came in REALLY handy some days.
I've used 5 hour energy twice, and both times it did nothing to me. I took it after a party to wake up and it made my hangover worse
First of all, that's just a bad idea. Those things are meant to keep you awake and alert. Which means that any sort of deadening of the senses that might have saved you from the full hangover will be gone.
and I was still sleepy
Would you have fallen asleep? The effect isn't a sudden burst of energy. It's more like delaying being as tired as you would be.
the second time I took it I was the first person to fall asleep and missed all of Black Dynamite.
Well that sucks.
But yeah, I don't actually feel any effect when I take it. But I notice afterwards that instead of being too tired to drive by 7AM, I'd be awake just enough to safely drive home, and pass the fuck out. It never made me feel like I was noticeably more awake than I was before I took it, but it seemed to delay me from getting more tired than I already was.
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It could be just your system, too. Maybe caffeine, taurine, and stuff like that just doesn't affect you all that much.
I've heard this before, and I honestly think that's what it is. 5 hour energy SORT of worked, but I still felt like I could have taken it and fallen directly asleep.
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hows the humidity treating you?
it's so soft, it's almost as if it isn't there at all. the sun is strong, though.
I have a friend on a military base in hawaii, if you see him tell him hello.
yes, I will definitely know who he is from this info
(I know you were jk)
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I was all super confused at what my phone bill was showing up as but then I realized that since I scheduled autopay to start on September 1st, it had pushed my August payment to then and then added it onto my September payment. Whew. Had me worried there.
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don't you hate it when you have a dream which emotionally effects you?
now im all unblocking said person from various places to see how things are.
i was all fine and dandy forgetting said person ever existed, but becuase my brain wanted to pull something ive been trying to forget for my sleep viewing pleasure, it ain't fine anymore.
shitsux.
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I agree, I hate when I have a dream that messes me up for the rest of a day.
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I only have two Monsters left, and I had a case like a week ago. ;o;
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I've heard this before, and I honestly think that's what it is. 5 hour energy SORT of worked, but I still felt like I could have taken it and fallen directly asleep.
Yeah, some people are just naturally resistant to that sort of thing.
And Like I said, it doesn't really have a noticeable feeling of being more awake (for me anyway, and my friend who's also used it), but a feeling of not getting any more tired for those 5 hours. After a while I would be a bit more awake than I was when I took it, but only because I had enough stimulation (such as driving around in a golf cart at 4AM ripping around in a swampy area, lol) to wake me up a bit more. If you were tired enough to go to sleep when you took it, I doubt it would ever keep you from really falling asleep. To do that, You'd probably need to chug like, 6 energy drinks, lol.
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I agree, I hate when I have a dream that messes me up for the rest of a day.
It just happened, goddamn.
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HHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAXXXXXXXXXXXXX!
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It just happened, goddamn.
ill take the blame, look in my awesome thread for something to make things better.
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Woot, computer.
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ill take the blame, look in my awesome thread for something to make things better.
It wasn't really a negative effect, it was just a really vivid and odd dream. I think I kept waking up and falling asleep and continuing the same dream I had.
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I bought the original StarCraft tonight. i herd datz a gud gaem
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I bought the original StarCraft tonight. i herd datz a gud gaem
dat gaem iz gud phor pr0n!
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so you are pulling a vinny (giantbomb) by playing the first game after the second one came out.
well, i guess you can't quite appreciate all of the various improvements of the second game without experiencing the first game.
seriously though, worker rally points, multiple building selection, no cap on unit selection...those alone make a game of starcraft 10 times more fun.
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Yeah, pretty much.
Well, technically I have played StarCraft before. By "played" I mean played a couple of rounds with my cousin against the computers. I never did the campaign. Just a teeny-weeny bit of experience with it.
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http://tomopop.com/mass-effect-2-series-2-just-in-time-for-the-ps3-release-14097.phtml
FUH CK
FUU
FUCKKKKK
series 1 has tali and maleshep thane grunt, characters that are fine but i don't want in figure form
series 2... MORDIN GARRUS LEGION and miranda the worst character ever in a videogame
though, im not a fan of the helmet look for the tali they have showing currently, if it doesn't change, ill not get it. the pictures of garrus and mordin look amazing however, and they don't come out till 2011, so that's a bonus for me.
i don't know about y'all who played mass effect 2, but mordin is ALWAYS in my party, except for the end fight for obvious "can't be having my bro mordin die" reasons. nigga is my favorite mass effect character, by far.
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Currently installing Snow Leopard on my new Core i7, uh..."Mac." Apparently I picked a pretty decent board for Hackintoshing with.
Edit: Ugh, kernel panics up the wazoo from the ATI enabler. Fuck it. I don't feel like dicking with it anymore at this point in time.
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ok, mad max 2 (the road warrior) came in, and i seen that.
mad max wasn't too good, pretty boring till the last 15 minutes, not a good movie to enjoy on it's own. having seen the sequel, it sets it up pretty good since the general tone is a lot darker, and it's nice to see where the character came from.
probably 5 minutes of dialog in the whole movie, but i enjoyed it.
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Completely agreeable.
Gotta love having you father walk into your room when your penis is outside of your pants.
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Ouch :[
Might I ask what the occasion was (for your penis being outside of your pants, I mean)?
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Well, I was going to fap until I was rudely interrupted.
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should have told him
"yo can you wait till im done?"
what sucks is having friends who don't call you and come over randomly at any time in a 24 hour day.
NEVER SAFE!
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Marching band! I've met a lot of cool new people! Band preview is 7 PM today at Stanbaugh Stadium, I'm fairly sure it's free. If you know what Stanbaugh Stadium is, you should go. :V
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Marching band! I've met a lot of cool new people! Band preview is 7 PM today at Stanbaugh Stadium, I'm fairly sure it's free. If you know what Stanbaugh Stadium is, you should go. :V
Lucky me I swapped with someone and work until 5!
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I saw Inception for a second time tonight and it still rules.
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dorm room connections
so fast, yo
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Yep, remember LEGITIMATELY OBTAINING stuff at over 2MB/s when I lived in my university's dorms.
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I saw Inception for a second time tonight and it still rules.
damn fucking right it does
i'm drunk and watched the 1st van wilder movie, funny, but whatever
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fucking netflix, i can't go much time without being at the computer.
you know what this means.
NO COMPUTER MONDAY YEAH!
see y'all on tuesday.
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The other night I was out on the deck at a friend's house alone at around 3am and down on the street there was this drunk/cracked out looking guy walking down the street casually trying all the car doors to see if any of them were unlocked. Then this van came zooming down the road with a flashlight beaming out the driver's window. The guy hid somewhere and the person in the van stopped and it sounded like (too dark to see) he got out and threw something into somebody's yard and got back in the van and zoomed away. Portland is weird.
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Portland is weird.
This is so true. Bellingham is the same way :|
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I can't see myself living anywhere else right now, though. The weirdness of Portland is what's so attractive about the city to most people. That's why that "Keep Portland Weird" merchandise is all over the place.
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http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/544746
I lawl'd. Egoraptor is funny as hell.
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So evidently I messed up too often in my math classes, which means I now have to pay out of state tuition, which means I need to pay 1000+ dollars for a single class, or take it at a different community college. I doubt I even have time to sign up and do that now, plus it seems I can't even take completely unrelated classes without first doing that math class. So fucking sick of this goddamn bullshit.
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they are making a peaches figure
ABSOLUTE WILLPOWER MODE ACIVATED
though if they turn out good(the prototype ain't painted yet), and i could nab one AFTER the release without preorder, ill consider it
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I just saw a cockroach run across my tooth brush.
Anyone want to re-size an image for me?
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Just got done playing plain sight...pretty fun game for only 2 bucks.
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Just watched Clash of the Titans for the first time. It wasn't that great of a movie, but I was highly aroused by Medusa. Is this a bad thing?
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As long as you didn't look her in the eye, you're good.
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but I was highly aroused by Medusa. Is this a bad thing?
as long as i post here, you don't have to feel uncomfortable about any of that stuff. ill still be the weird one.
ill just leave it at that.
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as long as i post here, you don't have to feel uncomfortable about any of that stuff. ill still be the weird one.
OMG that zerg in your avatar is so hawtttt! ^^
I'm totally going to yiff his tailhole. >:3
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Is it bad that I've actually seen zerg related pornography?
Also fuck yeah, signed up for classes with plenty of time to work. Now I just need to fix my internet and I'll be sitting pretty.
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Is it bad that I've actually seen zerg related pornography?
Nah, that's to be expected. Rule 34, yo!
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As long as you didn't look her in the eye, you're good.
I never look'em in the eyes anyway HAH
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I never look'em in the eyes anyway HAH
LMFAO bitches been wrecked.
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OMG that zerg in your avatar is so hawtttt! ^^
I'm totally going to yiff his tailhole. >:3
i take back what i said, ill be the second weirdest one.
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Pff, that's not weird. This is weird. (NSFW) (http://us-p.vclart.net/vcl/Artists/NachT/TradesNGifts/ScottyZebra/TestingFacility.gif)
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What the fuck.
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That's just horrifying.
I apparently made a friend at Best Buy today. I went in to buy the final season bluray set of Lost and went up to the checkout and I was wearing my Persona 4 shirt and she looked at it all excited and started talking to me about it and the game and how she just bought the last season of Lost too and when I walked out a few minutes later, I noticed she had rung it up as $41 when it was on sale for $48. I'll be trying to catch "Asha" at checkout when I go there the next time.
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Niiiiccce. Cool name, too. Also that was your seven-hundred and seventy-seventh post :O
I was playing around with a cool new knife I got today and accidentally dropped it on the cord of my keyboard. The cord had a minor laceration but was deep enough to affect the central nervous system. I sent the keyboard to the ER for immediate surgery, and within a short time, it came out of the anesthesia feeling much better. Little perioperative testing was needed, and after minimal rehabilitation, the keyboard is working at full potential.
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Pff, that's not weird. This is weird. (NSFW) (http://us-p.vclart.net/vcl/Artists/NachT/TradesNGifts/ScottyZebra/TestingFacility.gif)
Bah, that's not weird. This (http://paulrobertson.mechafetus.com/robertson.gif), or This (http://visublog.mechafetus.com/img/src/1266097367903.gif), or maybe This (http://visublog.mechafetus.com/img/src/1248236814811.png), and especially This (http://paulrobertson.mechafetus.com/gamecrop.gif) qualify better. Of course, then there's This (http://paulrobertson.mechafetus.com/dicks003.png). (I don't think any are SFW)
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Man, I love the internet. Without it, I would've been scarred by most of that.
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Pff, that's not weird. This is weird. (NSFW) (http://us-p.vclart.net/vcl/Artists/NachT/TradesNGifts/ScottyZebra/TestingFacility.gif)
Bah, that's not weird. This (http://paulrobertson.mechafetus.com/robertson.gif), or This (http://visublog.mechafetus.com/img/src/1266097367903.gif), or maybe This (http://visublog.mechafetus.com/img/src/1248236814811.png), and especially This (http://paulrobertson.mechafetus.com/gamecrop.gif) qualify better. Of course, then there's This (http://paulrobertson.mechafetus.com/dicks003.png). (I don't think any are SFW)
Meh, I don't really think any of those are all that bad.
...damn you, Internet.
I have to say, though, this (http://paulrobertson.mechafetus.com/robertson.gif) one that Bobbias posted is just awesome (NSFW due to b00bz).
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Well, it IS for anamanaguchi :P
But the main one that's messed up is the last one. I saw that on Gelbooru while browsing the what tag, and just started laughing when I saw it.
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I was playing around with a cool new knife I got today
dropped it on the cord of my keyboard
I play with knives around wired keyboards
I loled
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nsfw time
http://penipenipenipenipeni.blog33.fc2.com/
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Meh, I don't really think any of those are all that bad.
...damn you, Internet.
I have to say, though, this (http://paulrobertson.mechafetus.com/robertson.gif) one that Bobbias posted is just awesome (NSFW due to b00bz).
I love the artist that does that, I have like two that are pretty sweet, but my connection sucks to hard for me to try and upload them.
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I loled
Hey I play with knives regardless of my environment. I'd play with a knife around babies if I had the chance.
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Hey I play with knives regardless of my environment
I'd play with a knife around babies if I had the chance
I'd play with a baby's knife
I'm a pedo
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We all knew that. Troll harder next time.
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ayo who troll harder; Onyx or Vince Carter
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Niiiiccce. Cool name, too. Also that was your seven-hundred and seventy-seventh post :O
A lucky post for a lucky occurrence! Also yeah I really liked her name. She also had a nice tattoo on left arm from her elbow to her shoulder and a stud in her nose that made her look really cute. And I'll be going back to Best Buy probably this weekend because I have more reward zone coupons to use now hohoho. She probably won't even be there. I should ask if she likes Atreyu because I was thinking of going to their show coming up in November. Or maybe Ratatat in a couple of weeks.
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quotes
I do not remember saying these things.
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Just got off work after being there for 13 hours. I am going to have a 40 of MGD and not care if I don't get alot of sleep because I have to be back there at 9 am tomorrow.
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That sucks, I'd get the sleep.
Also spectur http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l94/mortifiedocalot/distraction2.png
NSFW
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Hate to say it, but Boobies already posted that one.
Is it sad that the only thing that really stood out to me was the kitty in the front saying "Hi!"? I mean, first thing you see when you click on it is the huge dick, but about half a second after that the little grey cat really stands out for some reason.
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http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LatawnyaTheNaughtyHorseLearnsToSayNoToDrugs
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I don't know why, but it's kind of surreal to look up videos of people playing my step charts on YouTube. :s
Kind of makes me want to bust out StepMan and create something that's not a complete joke (hai into teh inferno).
Edit: Actually, hell, I should check with Renard and see if it'd be cool to release my Never Wanted To Dance sim that was originally going to be in Mungyodance 3's second expansion before it got canned (and get the banner/background graphics while I'm at it). I have to say, that's an incredibly fun chart on pad, and I rarely like my own charts. :3
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lol, into the inferno. That is actually legitimately fun. I have yet to AAA it though :/
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I still play Born to be Bone and Starmine Pop'n'mixxx. They's so fun! And if you need graphics I am willing to make them. I've been making lots for people actually. Some examples:
Xoon Pad Pack 3:
Springtime (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v282/Kraezymann/spring.png)
Phantom of Blue (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v282/Kraezymann/phantom.png)
Single Sims for people:
Kommisar:
Arsonist (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v282/Kraezymann/arsonist.png)
whocares973:
Witchcraft (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v282/Kraezymann/witchcraft-1.png)
Beat It (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v282/Kraezymann/beatit.png)
Last Burning (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v282/Kraezymann/last.png) (BMS)
Cyrenics:
Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v282/Kraezymann/ecclesia.png)
gma/rogdor:
Song About Dead Malls (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v282/Kraezymann/arsonistbn.png)
Yesssss:
Marionette Purple (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v282/Kraezymann/mario.png) (BlazBlue)
ferrari:
Penetration (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v282/Kraezymann/penetration.png)
AlexDest:
Hate vs. Brilliance (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v282/Kraezymann/hate-1.png)
I make the banners ITG sized as well. I'm part of a still rather large SM community so I know most of the ins and outs of SM. Also, get SM-SSC (http://code.google.com/p/sm-ssc/). Better than SM4 and 3.9. There are a lot of quality files being made, and even though most of them are retarded hard, they aren't as stupid technical like they used to be (I know a couple people have complained about that). There are even a couple old school names that show up once in a while and drop a sim or two. 7Key is the new Solo (which is still pretty big) and there are a lot of interesting ideas/tournaments/whatever that bounce around. SM still hasn't quite died. It would be cool if you showed up, Spec. :p
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Interesting. I never knew about SM-SSC. It's downloaded, and I'm gonna check it out. Not that I really use themes, but even so.
Which community are you part of, anyway?
Also, I've got Xoon keyboard packs 1 and 2, lol. I still occasionally drop by http://houkouonchi.net:8080/packs/, but it appears to be down now :/
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Keybeat Online (http://www.keybeatonline.com/). How to sum it up...
A NOT SHITTY FFR with a better flash game and an infinitely cooler user base. No one liked FFR but this place blows FFR out of the water. It came about a couple months before FFR died (and its still dead)
SSC is not a theme, it is a brand new Stepmania, coded with LUA and has much better coders who actually care about the state of their game. They often hop on KBO to discuss various features/bugs and get a good idea of how its doing.
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I'm aware of that, I mean that I don't use themes, and therefore many of the added things are probably lost on me.
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Oh, sorry for the misunderstanding. But SSC actually has a load of cool features and stuff that separate it from the others. Just gotta explore bro
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I still play Born to be Bone and Starmine Pop'n'mixxx. They's so fun!
Aww, danke. :D
And if you need graphics I am willing to make them. I've been making lots for people actually.
Pretty snazzy. I'm typically a DIYer (and my Photoshop-fu has thankfully improved drastically since my early sim days), but if I can't get myself inspired I'll shoot you a PM.
7Key is the new Solo (which is still pretty big) and there are a lot of interesting ideas/tournaments/whatever that bounce around. SM still hasn't quite died. It would be cool if you showed up, Spec. :p
Ugh. That's pretty much the only thing that gives me pause. I'm still very much an indexer. And the way I see it, if I want to play 7 key I'll play a IIDX sim with autoscratch enabled. :)
Do people still release a lot of 4-key keyboard charts, or is it pretty much all solo/7K now?
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Downloading some single files now. Hopefully they aren't bullshit hard for me.
Also, is there a regular old Note skin for SM-SSC?
Also, all this talk of mines there pisses me off. Mines are basically just bullshit IMO.
Also, what's wit the x theory crap?
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@ Spec: Yeah, 4Key is still the main thing. Most packs require it to be 4Key, its just people enjoy the variety of solo. 7Key hasn't taken off yet, so that's no big deal. But the majority of users still go for scores on 4Key. I'm learning solo because its a fun new style :P and you can do more with a chart vs. 4key
@Boobies: Yes, sorta, and its kinda cool.
- Its called midi-note in the game. Its a slightly flashier version of note, but works just the same
- I personally don't like mines as well, but there are theories about it. Where they should be placed and how. I'm not sure why people use them, but in SSC you can use them as mod attacks, like MGD (I think?)
- x mod theory is the use of BPM stops and changes to suit the song. For example, Kommisar's and Patashu's Groundhog (From DJ Hero) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPu_K5ELTNE&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPu_K5ELTNE&feature=related) Yes, those glitches are the song, not the camera lagging or anything lol
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By x I just meant anything, not x mods. I do know about using freezes, negative bpm etc.
I meant stuff like "green note theory" and crap. Is that just people being pretentious/retarded and not just saying "there's some 48th notes in there"?
It sounds like the whole arch0wl-esque belief that there needs to be an insane amount of discussion on pattern making and theory behind crap.
So far, I'm not a fan of playing in sm-ssc. Mostly because the ingame theme feels wrong. In 3.9, the note flashes are fast, and the timing fees very defined for me, where ssc feels "squishy" like there's too much extra crap that they added to make it "look nice" and consequently the timing feels like it suffers. I could be wrong, but I can't get anything close to the scores that I get in 3.9.
Is there a way to turn mines off in ssc? That's another thing that may prevent me from getting into it. (If I can mod the noteskin to be more like the 3.9 one, then I'll be fine, I'm not scared of modding stuff like that to what I prefer, I already added a bunch of C speed mods.)
It almost feels like the notes don't properly line up with the receptors or something in ssc.... I know it's just me, but it really feels off. And it looks like if I want to original note noteskin in ssc, I'm gonna have to start doing some heavy modding.
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In options you can fix all that. Most of SSC is customizable. In song options you can turn off mines, the judge/life default is set easier when you install it originally (Like 3/3 or something, you can change it back).
While SSC is made to fix virtually everything in 4 and 3.9, its still only at RC2, and only just got off the ground. It sucks that you can't get into it, most people on KBO think its fantastic (me included). But to each their own. At least you tried it. And its to bad about the timing thing. I know there are people around there who can help you out if you have any questions about it.
As for theories, they've existed since a0.com, and probably won't go away anytime soon. The only "theories" that seem to be around these days are x-mod/mine/layering and some stuff in Solo. Although people might mention that "those 32nds are supposed to be 24ths" they aren't gonna be dicks about it. Most people have decided that if you want to be a douche and talk about theories and why your chart is better example of said theories, they just ignore you and piss off.
While it is pretty old school thinking to say "Why bother about the technicality, I just want to play for fun. Gimmie the old days" etc., the general consensus is that if the game is evolving, so should the player base and the files. Soon there will be such things as "lifts" where you need to have your finger off the key at a certain point, and even roll theory. A lot of people have moved on from the "old days" and are quite happy with the way things are going.
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What kind of torrent sites do you people use these days? I'm kind of way out of the internet loop right now and I've just been using thepiratebay ever since isohunt and torrentspy got F'd in the A but it I am often disappointed by it.
EDIT: Also, I just downloaded the sm-ssc thing and it's pretty neat, but I can't get into the song options to change speed mods and such without it crashing which blows a lot. Any idears why this is?
EDIT.2: K so I actually spent a whole ten seconds trying to figure out for myself why this was and the sm-ssc site said not to install the game in Program Files if you're using Windows 7.
EDIT.2.6: Does anyone have my Full Rinse simfile? I've been listening to a lot of Squarepusher lately (not that I ever don't) and every time I listen to that song I get the urge to refine the steps I made.
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In options you can fix all that. Most of SSC is customizable. In song options you can turn off mines, the judge/life default is set easier when you install it originally (Like 3/3 or something, you can change it back).
While SSC is made to fix virtually everything in 4 and 3.9, its still only at RC2, and only just got off the ground. It sucks that you can't get into it, most people on KBO think its fantastic (me included). But to each their own. At least you tried it. And its to bad about the timing thing. I know there are people around there who can help you out if you have any questions about it.
As for theories, they've existed since a0.com, and probably won't go away anytime soon. The only "theories" that seem to be around these days are x-mod/mine/layering and some stuff in Solo. Although people might mention that "those 32nds are supposed to be 24ths" they aren't gonna be dicks about it. Most people have decided that if you want to be a douche and talk about theories and why your chart is better example of said theories, they just ignore you and piss off.
While it is pretty old school thinking to say "Why bother about the technicality, I just want to play for fun. Gimmie the old days" etc., the general consensus is that if the game is evolving, so should the player base and the files. Soon there will be such things as "lifts" where you need to have your finger off the key at a certain point, and even roll theory. A lot of people have moved on from the "old days" and are quite happy with the way things are going.
I play spread, so I can handle layering. I'm getting good enough that most triples and quads aren't really an issue, unless someone just piles on the bullshit (also triple jacks/quad jacks are retarded). And I do definitely see merit in technical simfile design. I've always felt that the simfile should follow the timing and possibly laying of the original song as closely as possible, etc. (None of that "i made up the rhythm" crap that you see in so many shitty first time files, or in crappy official charts to make things easier).
I have never been a fan of mines, and rolls, and the lift thing just sounds retarded (even if it is a logical extension of the game). If I wanted something to penalize me for pressing at the wrong time, I'd go play djmax.
Part of the reason I kinda miss the older simfile generation is that I'm missing so many of the ones I used to have, and I don't even remember all of them any more. I used to have a huge collection (like, almost 2500 songs), but it got wiped out a while back. I'm up to like, 1k now, but I'm missing a lot of the older tracks that weren't in packs, and such. I used to have like full collections of the guys on a0 and such. I used to have a (nearly) full HST collection, among other things. and I'm finding that although I can play many of the newer tracks, because I'm still not all that good, I don't find many of them to be all that fun.
As for SSC, I'd really like to make it my main. I definitely think it's a huge improvement over 3.9, but I'll need to sort out all of my issues, and that's gonna take a while. Maybe I just need to play it more often (whenever I would switch from SM to o2jam, I used to get the same sort of feeling like the timing was fucked up, due to the different timing system).
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I don't know why, but it's kind of surreal to look up videos of people playing my step charts on YouTube. :s
Kind of makes me want to bust out StepMan and create something that's not a complete joke (hai into teh inferno).
Lawl Final Destination (OMGIMONFIRE) chart.
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EDIT.2: K so I actually spent a whole ten seconds trying to figure out for myself why this was and the sm-ssc site said not to install the game in Program Files if you're using Windows 7.
Yeah, I just put it in my documents folder. Works great.
Boobies I can see where you're coming from. I agree with most of that. But I am glad that the generation of step files has moved on :p
Also, try BlueXoon (http://www.bluexoon.com/) for your SM files. When it comes go to Stepmania then songs, and its all sorted into packs. Its got a shit load of them, so you might find stuff you've been missing.
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http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/d67js/how_did_you_get_your_job/c0xuow6
lol'd
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That's pretty awesome.
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Also, try BlueXoon (http://www.bluexoon.com/) for your SM files. When it comes go to Stepmania then songs, and its all sorted into packs. Its got a shit load of them, so you might find stuff you've been missing.
Someone needs to tell him flash sites are fucking retarded. Still, thanks for the link.
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Flash sites are only shitty if they're made shitty, just like any other website. I agree that most attempts at making a website completely in flash fail horribly, but I would say that site is an exception. It definitely puts form over function, but not so much that you instantly give up trying to figure it out. It is actually quite stylish but not too hard to navigate either. And it doesn't take centuries to load which is a big plus. I don't really like how it abbreviates all the simfile packs though... The only ones I recognized from their acronyms were the Community Keyboard Megapacks. Still it seems like a good resource for sims.
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Its a pretty good site for them, yes. This one (http://www.staiain.net/StepMania/Songpacks/) is also great. Has a shit load of packs, but a lot of them are pretty bad. But there's a shitload so you might find something you like.
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Flash sites are only shitty if they're made shitty, just like any other website. I agree that most attempts at making a website completely in flash fail horribly, but I would say that site is an exception. It definitely puts form over function, but not so much that you instantly give up trying to figure it out. It is actually quite stylish but not too hard to navigate either. And it doesn't take centuries to load which is a big plus. I don't really like how it abbreviates all the simfile packs though... The only ones I recognized from their acronyms were the Community Keyboard Megapacks. Still it seems like a good resource for sims.
Yes, it does, but IMO sites should NEVER be completely in flash. It's just plain bad form, if nothing else. And I do like being able to copy ans paste out of sites, which isn't always possible on flash sites. (although some sites use javascript to black that, you can usually solve that one by disabling javascript).
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"Evolving" Stepmania is honestly really laughable and no, it doesn't go beyond trying to apply pretentious ideas to something that's just super simple. I can guarantee you that the people who make IIDX charts don't sit there and try to have "theories" or whatever for what they make. They just make charts.
And the whole usage of negative bpm tricks and stuff like that's been around since the beginning. No one used it originally because it's dumb and adds nothing to the actual game.
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@ Spec: Yeah, 4Key is still the main thing. Most packs require it to be 4Key, its just people enjoy the variety of solo. 7Key hasn't taken off yet, so that's no big deal. But the majority of users still go for scores on 4Key. I'm learning solo because its a fun new style :P and you can do more with a chart vs. 4key
Thank goodness.
Maybe I'll work on something if I get some inspiration one of these days.
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And the whole usage of negative bpm tricks and stuff like that's been around since the beginning.
...wait what? How is that even possible?
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From the moment you could do it in Stepmania. I remember screwing around with it before any of the gimmick charts started showing up with it. There were some really dumb things you could do with Dance With Intensity too.
The whole point is that the Stepmania community just refuses to believe that it's a very simple game.
Oh, and I've already made 8k songs for Stepmania just using doubles. It's really dumb. But I'm sure they're going to think they're "evolving" the game when they get to that point too, even though people have been making keyboard doubles files for years.
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Negative BPM and negative stops are glitches. They weren't technically supposed to exist, but someone found them and took advantage of them. You can't use them in SSC because the writers completely redid the code and got rid of as many glitches as they could... and those tricks were a couple of them.
"Evolving" Stepmania is honestly really laughable
How is it laughable? People have brought the game into a different place than it was a few years ago, and they love it.
and no, it doesn't go beyond trying to apply pretentious ideas to something that's just super simple. I can guarantee you that the people who make IIDX charts don't sit there and try to have "theories" or whatever for what they make. They just make charts.
Like I said, the whole "theories" thing doesn't really exist anymore unless they are trying to BE THE BEST. You might see a theory or two in a file but thats just because thats how they wanted to step in in the first place. Not hard, like you said.
Also, no one likes doubles unless you are playing pad files.
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Just finished a big part of the number system for the language I'm creating. I can now create any number between 0 and 999,999 :D
Example: to write 489,563
English - four-hundred eighty-nine thousand five-hundred sixty-three
Dzetlyven - Nyúlavút'zy'ctzalaveyúlacety'z
I've been using version of the Calibri font that I modified so a couple of the characters don't appear correctly, but you can kind of get the idea. Making a language from the ground up with little linguistic knowledge is extremely hard, but also one of the most fun things I've ever done. Although verb conjugation hurts my head :[
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Negative BPM and negative stops are glitches. They weren't technically supposed to exist, but someone found them and took advantage of them. You can't use them in SSC because the writers completely redid the code and got rid of as many glitches as they could... and those tricks were a couple of them.
How is it laughable? People have brought the game into a different place than it was a few years ago, and they love it.
Like I said, the whole "theories" thing doesn't really exist anymore unless they are trying to BE THE BEST. You might see a theory or two in a file but thats just because thats how they wanted to step in in the first place. Not hard, like you said.
Also, no one likes doubles unless you are playing pad files.
But they 7k is the total "wave of the future" currently though right? So no one likes to play 8k but 7k is the "future?" That is also laughable.
The game isn't in a different place now. Chart writers are trying to do too much with their shitty placement of arrows and so now they think they need more space and that's it making the game better. It never needed expansion, they needed to be better chart writers.
Nope, the entire current Stepmania community is still a big wad of pretentious twats just like it always was.
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But they 7k is the total "wave of the future" currently though right? So no one likes to play 8k but 7k is the "future?" That is also laughable.
No, 7K is not the wave of the future. I don't think I ever said that (if I did, please show me, I hate it when I contradict myself). Its just a new way of stepping files. It is also meant for keyboard files, not pad files, which is technically what makes 7k different from 8k. Like I said, it still hasn't taken off yet, and 4k is still the main way that people chart their files.
The game isn't in a different place now. Chart writers are trying to do too much with their shitty placement of arrows and so now they think they need more space and that's it making the game better. It never needed expansion, they needed to be better chart writers.
Better chart writers exist. There just aren't as many as there used to be. Yes, SM is dying, but some people still enjoy it enough to at least TRY to produce quality charts.
Nope, the entire current Stepmania community is still a big wad of pretentious twats just like it always was.
I don't like to think of myself as a pretentious twat. My charts aren't near the quality of many other folks, and all I want to do is produce a better quality file. That makes me pretentious? I enjoyed the stuff you made for the Denjin K megamix; I thought those charts were awesome, and made me want to really try hard with my files.
I agree that many of the attitudes present in some charters are pretty awful, and it bothers me that sometimes they produce files just to rub something in. But its wrong to assume the same about the entire community, myself included.
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all this jazz
Guys, I believe we need to take sqthreer out.
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Just finished a big part of the number system for the language I'm creating. I can now create any number between 0 and 999,999 :D
Example: to write 489,563
English - four-hundred eighty-nine thousand five-hundred sixty-three
Dzetlyven - Ny
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So I just got rainmeter and it made me realize that I want rss feeds. Anyone know of any good ones? I got my local news site and BBC news (<3 BBC). ANy other suggestions?
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And remember that Beatmania evolved from a 5-key layout to a 7-key layout. Are you saying that Konami should have just hired better chart writers instead of adding two buttons?
yes
I can't play 7-key, but 5-key is no prob (I forget where my fingers are Q_Q)
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I played like, 2 songs in 5 key and hated it, I then proceeded to 7 key, and ended up spending quite a bit of time getting to where I am now (which is to say I need to spend a lot more time, and get better than I am).
Also, instead of trying to immitate o2jam, people should just get vittee's server (if it's actually available somewhere) and host their own. I'd love to have a stable o2jam server again, since PH's is down, and o2jamv3 is down, and I don't feel like playing on o2jam latino.
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Guys, I believe we need to take sqthreer out.
If you mean to dinner then yay! :D But if you mean to end my life then nay :'[
Can I get a breakdown on what each "chunk" of the number is and how to pronounce it? I'm curious.
I will try to explain it without making toooo lengthy but I'm pretty certain that's not gonna happen...
The pronunciation of all the characters used in just that number are (in alphabetical order):
A - "ah"
E - "eh"
C - kind of like an English G sounds, eg. goat
'C - like an English K
L - like an English L but more towards the roof of the mouth
N - like an English N
T - like an English T, but if followed by a 'Z it becomes just one sound kind of like in "tsunami"
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That depends. What kind of stuff are you looking for?
The ones on the Cheezburger network are decent for humor. Techdirt (http://www.techdirt.com/) is a good one if you're looking for a blog dealing with copyright issues and stuff. I'm a fan of Twenty Sided Tale (http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/) is a good one for video games and such (along with the occasional personal post from a dude from Butler, PA). There's one for Zero Punctuation, if you're a Yahtzee fan.
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Fuckin' love this stuff! Check 'em:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v282/Kraezymann/2.png)
I'm thinking about getting rid of the taskbar, I found an app for RM that adds the startmenu to the toolbar at the top. Opinions?
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Normally it would be the same letter but with a small dot right above it instead of the apostrophe to the left of it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot_above That help? Unicode has glyphs for damn near anything you might want to do with an existing alphabet, lol. And I think those are glyphs created without using the modifier codes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combining_diacritic), which can add all sorts extra crap (ala zalgo text).
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so im afraid of spiders, but i like them.
like if i see one on the wall right next to me, or crawling around my room real fast, ill flip the fuck out. but if i see one around the house doing spider stuff, ill investigate what it's doing, or help it climb to where it was trying to go.
there was a small furry bugger crawling up the outside of my window, so i had to stop what i was doing to get a closer look.
(http://img838.imageshack.us/img838/647/1205194970928.jpg)
obviously not my picture, but how do you say no to a face like that?
genetic engineering needs to invent a dog sized spider with the intelligence of a dog. SCIENCE, MAKE IT HAPPEN!
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I'm thinking about getting rid of the taskbar, I found an app for RM that adds the startmenu to the toolbar at the top. Opinions?
Eh, I wouldn't. Then again, I use the Windows 7 taskbar very heavily in its natural state. Hell, that's half of the reason I use Windows 7 in the first place. The only thing that does as good of a job as it does when dealing with tons of open windows is the Dock on OS X (not too surprising, since they're basically the same thing). I'm one of those people who can't believe that people would make it act like the taskbar from Vista.
That being said, you are more than welcome to ignore my opinion. :)
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Stepmania is still a game? thought all of those guys grew up and just bought tools to swap disc or modded their ps2 to play REAL iidx rather than making stupid charts to retarded fucking songs.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot_above That help? Unicode has glyphs for damn near anything you might want to do with an existing alphabet, lol. And I think those are glyphs created without using the modifier codes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combining_diacritic), which can add all sorts extra crap (ala zalgo text).
Yeah that's what I modified the font to look like. When you type any of the letters: P, K, F or S, I made it so they just become overdotted versions of B, C, V, Z (respectively). The overdot in Dzetlyven is considered a consonant "hardener". I suppose I could have put in the effort to sift through the character map to find them to type here, but that explanation I typed was already a pain in my ass :p
so im afraid of spiders, but i like them.
like if i see one on the wall right next to me, or crawling around my room real fast, ill flip the fuck out. but if i see one around the house doing spider stuff, ill investigate what it's doing, or help it climb to where it was trying to go.
there was a small furry bugger crawling up the outside of my window, so i had to stop what i was doing to get a closer look.
picshur
obviously not my picture, but how do you say no to a face like that?
genetic engineering needs to invent a dog sized spider with the intelligence of a dog. SCIENCE, MAKE IT HAPPEN!
I'm the same way. I think they're fascinating, but I don't want them near me without my knowing ahead of time. Although I don't agree with dog-sized spiders. I'm sorry but even with the intelligence of a dog would still freak me the fuck out. Plus, dogs aren't THAT smart. What if the dogspider was mistreated by its previous owner and lashed out at you? That fucker could wrap all of its legs around your torso and start fanging your face. No bueno :/
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Stepmania is still a game? thought all of those guys grew up and just bought tools to swap disc or modded their ps2 to play REAL iidx rather than making stupid charts to retarded fucking songs.
That implies that IIDX doesn't have stupid charts to retarded songs. Sorry, not every IIDX track is worth listening to or playing. And by the way, with SM, you have the choice to download and play only the tracks you want. IIDX, nope. If you want to do certain things, your gonna have to play certain charts, some of which is downright bullshit terrible (Dirty of Loudness anyone? Most of the shitty jpop tracks also count here for retarded songs.)
IIDX is not perfect. It may be better than DDR, but it is definitely not perfect.
Case in point: I have a fliptop and swap disk, and DD, Gold, and some others. I still play Stepmania too. And o2jam when I can.
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Sorry, not every IIDX track is worth listening to or playing.
IIDX has better music than 95% of the crap people make sims to
also:
IIDX is not perfect. It may be better than DDR, but it is definitely not perfect.
LOLNO
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IIDX has better music than 95% of the crap people make sims to
I can agree to that. Then again, look at the number of songs available in IIDX, compare that to the number of songs available to be played in stepmania. SM wins hands down, simply because 5% of the music available for it still amounts to way more music than IIDX. Oh, and I don't have to swap disks to play different tracks in SM.
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Thats like saying walmart is a better store to shop at simply because they have more shit in their stores. Doesn't change the fact that most of their products either a) have blood on them (figuratively and literally) and b) are manufactured cheaply as can be (most relative to SM). I enjoyed SM when I played it, but too many 'artists' flooded that shit and made shitty charts. Thats why I enjoyed the community so much at a0.com, because we actually had a small group of really good stepchart makers. I'm sure its still a fun game to some people, but after playing IIDX, I just loved it so much I stopped playing SM at all. Also when a0.com went down, I think that may have been the catalyst to do something else because I was forced to go somewhere else to talk about it, and I wasn't about to go to the FFR forums.
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What I'm trying to say is that even if 95% of simfiles out there are trash, there are still ones worth playing out there.
I can understand switching because you find IIDX more fun in general (I still like IIDX a lot myself) but nothing will have the same appeal of simplicity coupled with song choice, and challenging gameplay without necessarily being too challenging.
One of my problems with IIDX is the retarded learning curve. I can pass the occasional 8 now, but that took a lot of work, and I hate (and hated) the easy songs. There's such a narrow range of tracks that are enough of a challenge for me, without being too hard or too easy. In SM, there are TONS of songs that I can play competently enough to enjoy, without them being too hard or too easy.
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How about we just drop the whole SM vs. Everyone thing? Its perfectly clear that some like it and some don't, which is totally cool.
I'm all for moving on.
EDIT: Ah, Spec, I see what you mean. Why get rid of something if its doing the job its supposed to do lol. Is there a way to pump up the taskbar with a bunch of quickstarts like on a dock?
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What I'm trying to say is that even if 95% of simfiles out there are trash, there are still ones worth playing out there.
Sure, but the problem is that when the crap drastically outnumbers the good, you suffer from Atari 2600 syndrome. Sure, you might have a few charts that are fucking phenomenal, but those charts are going to be often overlooked because people are so used to seeing complete crap that they choose to not get anything. Megapacks resolved this issue for a while, but then the packs themselves started getting shittier and shittier.
EDIT: Ah, Spec, I see what you mean. Why get rid of something if its doing the job its supposed to do lol. Is there a way to pump up the taskbar with a bunch of quickstarts like on a dock?
Sure. There are two good ways to do that. One way is to right click on an application that's already running and select "pin this program to the docktaskbar." Another method is to right-click on a program or shortcut and click "pin to taskbar," and, finally, you can drag the icon directly onto the taskbar ala OS X. From there, you can drag them around freely. Unlike other Windows versions, you can even drag around the icons to running programs without an issue.
The thing that the current taskbar excels in is managing gobs and gobs of open windows. For me, using Windows 7 -- especially at work -- is essential for my productivity. I typically have upwards of 12-20 windows open at any given time and, between the condensed view that only having the application window provides, the thumbnail previews of each window, and Aero Peek, the only thing that would make finding a window easier would be to have an Expos
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Dropping anything doesn't solve shit at least debate gets the opinions out there. We're here to discuss things, at least I am and I damn sure know bobbias is. Open debate/discussion is the reason forums exist in the first place. Neither of us are trying to get the other one to take their beliefs and practice them, just arguing different points.
Either way, I see the value in SM and personally don't prefer it over IIDX.
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stepping manias
http://jeffrey1790.com/
Here is a thing.
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Dropping anything doesn't solve shit at least debate gets the opinions out there. We're here to discuss things, at least I am and I damn sure know bobbias is. Open debate/discussion is the reason forums exist in the first place. Neither of us are trying to get the other one to take their beliefs and practice them, just arguing different points.
Either way, I see the value in SM and personally don't prefer it over IIDX.
Agreed about the discussion thing. I hate when people can't seem to understand that if someone disagrees with their idea, it doesn't mean that they are being personally attacked; which is by far the most common issue plaguing internet discussion. I like sites like this because generally the people here are smart enough to make that distinction, and not get all pissy about something that doesn't really matter anyway.
I find both SM and IIDX (and o2jam) fun, but IIDX has less appeal to me in some cases, due to the previously mentioned issues.
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I just like Stepmania because I can make my own charts. I'm not active in any community anymore, so I haven't released anything in years, but I still occasionally play.
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tl;dl of this entire site: i luv u guyz
edit:
oh and post 1000
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I hate when people can't seem to understand that if someone disagrees with their idea, it doesn't mean that they are being personally attacked; which is by far the most common issue plaguing internet discussion. I like sites like this because generally the people here are smart enough to make that distinction, and not get all pissy about something that doesn't really matter anyway.
Okay... but isn't being called pretentious an attack? Calling music that I listen to and create charts for "retarded fucking songs" also seems like an attack to me. Thus, I decided to drop it since it "doesn't really matter anyways," why should I continue defending it? It just doesn't seem like a debate when I'm arguing my opinions in the most mature way I can, and I see things like the above. I think its pretty cool that people like Sneaky prefer to keep going, when its still up for "debate"; it shows good character. But I never really saw a debate in the first place, just varying opinions.
Sneaky: I know you prefer IIDX, but there is a whole dump of songs on all the styles that I avoid. Doesn't mean they're retarded. I keep saying to each their own, but people must have been over looking that part.
I have grown up, and I still enjoy the game. Everyone seems to have stated their opinions, which is why I said I'm all for leaving it alone. The community at a0.com is what got me INTO the whole SM thing, not just made it better. I'm almost 100% positive that if you looked around and downloaded a few packs you would find music you like and charts that suit it just fine. There is a whole new generation of charters that have produced amazing charts since you left. I have no idea if you tried anything new (I guess around really late 2008-early 2009) so I can't assume that you haven't tried anything. But I think you might be pleasantly surprised at what you download.
Just don't download mine, I need to work on mine hella bad :P
I agree that maybe dropping it like that was a cop out, and I apologize. Like Bobbias said, there is no point in getting pissy about something that isn't important. I didn't think that it was all that important OR that I was pissy, but I guess I was wrong. I'll learn for next time.
PS I love you guys too.
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I agree with you too, I know there's shit I've just simply not responded to because I didn't feel I needed to expel the energy to apply to a post or 10 about it. Basically went FFR for a week > a0.com > SM love. I played for a great amount of 4 years, still 2 finger, even if I picked it up today. I enjoyed the time I had with the game, and although my love for it may have died with a0.com, I have since picked up IIDX and ACTUAL DJing (soundcloud.com/djsneaky). So by that nature, I can thank SM for a LOT in my life.
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tl;dl
I didn't know you were azn
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I didn't know you were azn
only my lower half
lolololololol
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I smirked.
but my head hurts and I can't sleep.
http://www.wetherobots.com/2007/10/08/at-the-end-of-the-day/
This is a fairly good comic I've stumbled upon. It's basically fight club/office space, the comic, but with more dark humor.
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i can't really play stepmania anymore, the hundreds/thousands of hours i put into that game is enough for one lifetime.
IIDX kept me occupied for a while, and i still might be interested in picking up a newer version, but im not too serious on the music game stuff anymore.
that leads to competitive vs games(rts/fightan, not fps but you could add that in for other people). same "play a lot to get better, improving is fun" mentality, only with the "feel good/feel bad" aspect of winning/losing. i mean starcraft has about an annoying a leveling curve as IIDX. or so it feels right now. that and there's the whole the only competitive vs game i am competent at is sf2hdremix and nobody plays that.
and this place needs to be an imageboard.
(http://img842.imageshack.us/img842/3695/scorpius.jpg) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpGAxziiHic)
*edit*
top 10 starcraft players in the north american server.
5 protoss
4 terran
1 zerg
FEELS GOOD BEING A ZERG PLAYER RIGHT....right?
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and this place needs to be an imageboard.
I had one of those set up a while back and nobody used it. D:
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That would be useful.
Also Vlad, I heard Terran were OPed.
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Holy shit guys. Dexter is a kickass show.
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Heeeeeell yeah it is. It's pretty much my inspiration for becoming a vigilante serial killer myself.
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^^ A++ comment would read again
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Also Vlad, I heard Terran were OPed.
the people who don't believe this, are terran players. terran buttfucks zerg, but believe it or not, they also kind of rape protoss too.
a patch is comming though, video related.
(http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/9673/1282991362762.jpg)
pic unrelated, but related to pro starcraft broodwar
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Lol, nice one. Also, I love that happy dance when he hears reapers and siege tanks are nerfed.
I am definitely a fan of Jaedong. He was one of the first pros I saw (Jaedong vs Bisu, I think).
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Ugh, waiting for updates and game data installs on the PS3 can be such a drag.
I've been reading Wikipedia articles and poking about on the net for about 20 minutes just waiting to play ModNation Racers.
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That game does look fun.
Oh, and quickly, Steam crashed and when I click the icon it does nothing, how exactly can I get steam back up without restarting (my internet just seemed to unfuck itself, and I want my Witcher).
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It is fun, except that the AI is a fucking cheating bastard.
Not all that unexpected in an arcade racer, but I can't tell you how many times I've had a decent lead on first and due to a mixture of blatant rubberbanding and weapons of mass convenience, I wound up getting demolished five seconds from the finish line. Argh.
Oh, and quickly, Steam crashed and when I click the icon it does nothing, how exactly can I get steam back up without restarting (my internet just seemed to unfuck itself, and I want my Witcher).
If you're referring to getting Steam back up without restarting Steam, I doubt you'll be able to do that.
You might as well just end the process and restart it. If you were downloading anything it should continue where it left off.
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I found the process, ended it, and it still wouldn't start. Not that it mattered, my internet sorta mellowed out. Also AIM went unresponsive, think it's a problem with my PC?
Also prepare for sad http://i.imgur.com/TGYoF.jpg
Someone send him a card.
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I kinda wish I hadn't looked at that :[ That is very sad.
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I found the process, ended it, and it still wouldn't start. Not that it mattered, my internet sorta mellowed out. Also AIM went unresponsive, think it's a problem with my PC?
The Steam system service might be hung up, then. AIM going unresponsive is practically standard behavior, so that's most likely a separate thing. ;)
You might as well just reboot. That's the easiest way to unstick a service.
If you want to be adventurous and try just restarting the service, right-click on My Computer, click Manage, and look for the "services" tab. Restart "Steam Client Service" and see if that helps.
Also prepare for sad http://i.imgur.com/TGYoF.jpg
Someone send him a card.
Aww.
I think I will. :x
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I might too, he looks so sad...
EDIT: This page has his mailing address: http://www.facebook.com/pages/William-J-Lashuas-Birthday/147964501901246?v=wall
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http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/d8is5/can_we_please_make_this_guy_the_happiest_person/
Don't feel too bad, he seems to have a lot of cards, and possibly people, coming his way. Still, it makes me sad as hell and want to call my grandparents/send him a card.
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Ok, so now there's like 20 reddit pages, an ED article, and a Facebook page with an exponentially growing number of likers (1,180 as of this post). I love the internet right now.
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a couple of things before I fall asleep
For those of you who actually are interested in doing something nice for others, events like this are happening in your local communities every week. Check out the classified ads or announcements section of the area newspaper. You will see all sorts of anniversaries and birthday parties that are open to the public.
Toss some names you find into the google. Maybe you'll learn something about their history that resonates with you. Get a card, go to the party, eat free food.
Who knows...perhaps the dude who is turning 90 has a hot granddaughter around your age.
One who may be extremely impressed by a stranger who took the time out of his life to celebrate the life of someone he does not know.
And if that doesn't work, hey, there's cake.
a good idea, considering this whole ordeal could be a scam.
and Luis CK ranting drunk on a plane.
http://twitter.com/louisck
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are you guys fucking serious
he looks like any 90 year old man, not sad
what's with all of this sappy BS
(in before terrible, unfunny insults)
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(http://img52.imageshack.us/img52/1783/1283418353edgarcoronagi.png)
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a couple of things before I fall asleep
a good idea, considering this whole ordeal could be a scam.
and Luis CK ranting drunk on a plane.
http://twitter.com/louisck
Haha, I love the Palin bashing stuff :P
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are you guys fucking serious
he looks like any 90 year old man, not sad
what's with all of this sappy BS
(in before terrible, unfunny insults)
It's the combination of the typical sad old man look in the picture and the fact that there is a "Wanted:" ad asking for people to come to his 90th birthday party, implying that he has either outlived anyone close to him or simply has no one. Even if that is a hoax, if the very idea of that doesn't cause you even a shred of sympathy and/or empathy then I feel sorry for you :/
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So I am seriously considering about joining the Air Force.
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That's a pretty hefty decision to make, bro. Take your time with it. But joining the military can also be mighty rewarding (at least in Canada).
Does the American military have the same sort of benefits?
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So I am seriously considering about joining the Air Force.
Like K-Mann said, that is a pretty big decision. I'm not saying I disagree with the choice, but for something like that, it's important to understand why you're considering it. If the reasons you feel this way now are more fleeting than they are lasting, then you could end up making a big mistake for yourself.
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On a side note: fucking grade 8 memories. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=957a5RWZeHo) Man this takes me back. Still a cool song, even though the rest of the album was pretty... uh, not me. Actaully, I didn't really enjoy the band at all. But I did like one or two of their songs, not including American Psycho
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That's a pretty hefty decision to make, bro. Take your time with it. But joining the military can also be mighty rewarding (at least in Canada).
Does the American military have the same sort of benefits?
Well considering the Air Force is considered the "smart" branch of the military and there is a lot of shit before you even start the paper work let alone getting in.
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Well considering the Air Force is considered the "smart" branch of the military and there is a lot of shit before you even start the paper work let alone getting in.
Well, if you do apply, just be sure not to scream "DAAAHHHH, SHOTGUN!" if you happen to see one, k?
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I have a friend who's considering working in AF intel. He met with a recruiter who said he was more than qualified, which may or may not be a recruitment tactic, but nonetheless he's considering it instead of going back to college and getting a degree in comp sci.
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From what I've heard, the Air Force is the hardest (more like Chair Force am I rite?) with Navy being next and Army dead last. There are a lot of safe positions in the military, you just have to be smart about how you go about it. That and theirs always those long commitments.
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Well, if you do apply, just be sure not to scream "DAAAHHHH, SHOTGUN!" if you happen to see one, k?
I won't...I may scream ROCKET LAUNCHA!
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I won't...I may scream ROCKET LAWNCHAIR!
fixed.
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Also got a hair cut. Its rather short now...but I has no camera to take picture :/
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Also got a hair cut. Its rather short now...
Wow, I don't recall seeing you with short hair for quite a while. Next time I see you is going to be freaky, methinks.
Edit: http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_ipod/family/ipod_touch?mco=MTM3NTEyOTc (http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_ipod/family/ipod_touch?mco=MTM3NTEyOTc). 4th gen iPod touch, 64GB. Me want.
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Just got maself a comfy-as-shit futon setup. I've always thought futons were awesome just for the fact that they transform from bed to couch with little effort. Not only does it have the most comfortable futon mattress I've ever felt, but I got it in great condition for $30.
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Futons are awesome.
Pix plz?
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This is the best I can do unfortunately :/ The only camera I have is my iPhone and the lighting sucks but you get the idea.
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The only camera I have is my iPhone and the lighting sucks but you get the idea.
Eh, gotta make do with what you have. 8) I can make it out just fine.
But yeah, that's awesome. I could really use a futon in my bedroom. It would be a hell of a lot better for games like Pop'n (right now my only chair in there has two massive armrests...yeah, not fun).
I'd go so far as to say that if I ever got a futon I'd probably get a better TV for that room and move my PS3 or something in there. So, that said, maybe looking into getting a futon is a bad idea. It would just make me buy more stuff that I don't really need. XD
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Well if you do decide to get one, I suggest checking thrift stores first. The ones in my area often have them though they're not always in the best shape, so this one was a pretty good score. Especially since it was only $30. I've never seen one less than around $80, even second-hand.
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My friend had the same futon, shit was awesome.
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I found the process, ended it, and it still wouldn't start. Not that it mattered, my internet sorta mellowed out. Also AIM went unresponsive, think it's a problem with my PC?
Also prepare for sad http://i.imgur.com/TGYoF.jpg
Someone send him a card.
Guys, 4chan took care of him
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Double post as I am considering switching to Google Chrome. I currently have Firefox. Opinions?
I also found this site (http://www.blackviper.com/Windows_7/servicecfg.htm?) that has a list of what services you can turn on or off for some speed improvements. If anyone can maybe check the credibility of it that would be nice.
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Guys, 4chan took care of him
That is...really awesome. He looks so happy. :D
Double post as I am considering switching to Google Chrome. I currently have Firefox. Opinions?
Do it. :o
Chrome starts up faster than Firefox on my system. I've had Firefox take upwards of 20 seconds to start on a Core 2 Quad (with addons disabled), where Chrome starts up in a couple of seconds.
Firefox's tab separation isn't that great. If one tab crashes in the right way, the whole browser will go down. While they implemented plugin separation (so that, in theory, Flash taking a shit won't bring the entire browser down), it's still not great since all plugins work in the same sandbox. Essentially, one dying Flash plugin can impact all plugins in the sandbox. Similarly, if the rendering engine takes a dive, the entire browser will still go down faster than the titanic. As much as people rag on Internet Explorer, it has infinitely superior better tab separation.
If you're worried about losing out on AdBlock Plus, there is an AdBlock extension for Chrome which uses the same filter list. I've had it installed since I switched and it's worked fantastically.
I also found this site (http://www.blackviper.com/Windows_7/servicecfg.htm?) that has a list of what services you can turn on or off for some speed improvements. If anyone can maybe check the credibility of it that would be nice.
That's actually an incredibly descriptive site. Unlike many "ZOMG IM A TWEEKAR" sites, clicking on the service name actually gives you detailed information on the service.
I certainly wouldn't go with the barebones configuration (though I really doubt that was intended for general use), but from what I'm seeing of the tweaked configuration, it looks like the guy really did his homework on this. There is a possibility that some of the choices could potentially affect applications (hence the inclusion of a safe configuration set) but I doubt it would affect most of the programs that people run; plus, that's a bridge that you could always cross when you get there.
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Firefox's tab separation isn't that great. If one tab crashes in the right way, the whole browser will go down. While they implemented plugin separation (so that, in theory, Flash taking a shit won't bring the entire browser down), it's still not great since all plugins work in the same sandbox. Essentially, one dying Flash plugin can impact all plugins in the sandbox. Similarly, if the rendering engine takes a dive, the entire browser will still go down faster than the titanic.
Yeah, I've seen that happen before. I always wondered why I could be watching a flash video in one tab with this site open in another, then have the whole thing crash because the one tab couldn't play the flash video for some reason. Youtube uses flash so it happened more than once for me.
If you're worried about losing out on AdBlock Plus, there is an AdBlock extension for Chrome which uses the same filter list. I've had it installed since I switched and it's worked fantastically.
Excellent. I was really happy to hear that its available on Chrome; should make the experience that much more awesome
That's actually an incredibly descriptive site. Unlike many "ZOMG IM A TWEEKAR" sites, clicking on the service name actually gives you detailed information on the service.
I certainly wouldn't go with the barebones configuration (though I really doubt that was intended for general use), but from what I'm seeing of the tweaked configuration, it looks like the guy really did his homework on this. There is a possibility that some of the choices could potentially affect applications (hence the inclusion of a safe configuration set) but I doubt it would affect most of the programs that people run; plus, that's a bridge that you could always cross when you get there.
So then his "safe" category is a sure bet then. Thats good, I had always looked for a comprehensive list on this stuff but when I found them, they never really had a good reason or explanation.
Well if you do decide to get one, I suggest checking thrift stores first. The ones in my area often have them though they're not always in the best shape, so this one was a pretty good score. Especially since it was only $30. I've never seen one less than around $80, even second-hand.
What he said.
I also have a futon and my god, a futon is a good thing to have around, especially if you're on your own. It switches easily to couch mode too for those "movie nights" you are bound to have with your new futon. Even though its nice to find a used on in good shape though, if you have a bit of extra cash, hit up a mattress store or bed store or whatever. They usually offer different kinds of mattress sets for your futon so you can get anything from something firm to lie on to "sink in until you can't see out." I got a middle guy for an extra $50 bucks or so, but again, it depends on where you get it.
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I bought Metroid: Other M but haven't gotten around to playing it yet
I hope it's good :S
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I just finished it and after the first hour it gets really really good. And then once you "beat" the game you get a real nice epilogue that's a lot of fun. And then you can just search the ship for everything that you have left.
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Need a good list of the best free apps you can get for an iPod touch. Utilities before games preferred (unless they are the coolest games in the universe (of ipods))
Thanks!
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Well I don't use a whole lotta apps for my iPhone, but for games, I've been consistently entertained by the ones produced by Donut Games.
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I really can't think of too many free ones that stayed on my iPhone for very long.
If I had to pick a few good'uns (some of these might be free...don't remember really), I'd say go with TapDefense (pretty sure that one is free, but ad-supported), Plants vs. Zombies, Tap Tap Revenge 3 (I'd only recommend it on the 2nd gen Touch and up; I get lag spikes on my iPhone 3G, so you'd probably run into the same issue with a 1st gen Touch), Canabalt, and Jumbline.
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I can't stand cellphone games. I bought Zenonia because it seemed like it was the only one that had some form of actual meat to it but even it's just loaded down with inane time-wasting garbage. And the icons for special attacks are too small. Oh well.
I ended up just throwing an SNES emulator on my X and now I have SNES RPGs to play since I don't trust a virtual d-pad to ever be good enough to play anything else from that era.
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I'm siding with Eggman, but I've never really played around with smart phones. There was one fairly awesome Doom RPG for cell phones that I put a lot of time on when the hurricanes came around and we lost power for a few days.
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&feature=sub
the entire video is silly, but the last 20 seconds especially made me giggle.
vidya related, but like, im posting it mostly for the humor.
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Who has a new job interview Friday? Is it me? I think it is.
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Well let us know when you find out who it is so we can wish them good luck.
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i don't feel like making a post in the computer section yet.
past few days i updated my video and monitor drivers, various windows updates, upgraded to sp2, ect.
somehow in that time, my monitor shows everything a lot darker than normal. even turning up the brightness on my monitor doesn't do anything...anything except making the cursor the proper brightness.
now i don't know about you, but it's annoying having my cursor display the color white, as the color white. but every other instance of white is starting to be more of a grey. my monitors brightness before was a 40(anything above 50 hurt my eyes), now it's 80, and it's a lot dimmer than it used to be at that setting.
*edit*
weird, it's back to normal.
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I have that issue after I exit Mafia II. It's almost like the system is preparing to display a UAC screen.
Locking the workstation (i.e. Win+L) and logging in again fixes it for me.
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Yeah the idea of me joining the air force is going to happen. Going up to the recrutment office tomorrow with my best friend.
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Congrats dude. Reap the benefits and work hard! Did you decide what exactly you want to do within? (ie Personnel Recovery, Special Operations, Reserves, etc.)
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Congrats dude. Reap the benefits and work hard! Did you decide what exactly you want to do within? (ie Personnel Recovery, Special Operations, Reserves, etc.)
Well it depends on how well I do on the test. If I score high enough I can do the jobs right up my alley. Not to mention because I have some college education under my belt I would start at an E-3 to an E-4.
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A friend of mine was able to start out pretty well-off in the Navy without having any college experience (I think he made E-5 in about a year or a year and a half). It pretty much all depends on how well you do on the starting tests and talking to the right people.
I think you're do fine; you're a smart cookie (unless you're playing Doom...that's like our kryptonite).
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Heh, remember when I said I got a job and nobody cared
Taking off again, see you in 1-3 months, as usual
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Heh, remember when I said I got a job and nobody cared
Taking off again, see you in 1-3 months, as usual
I cared, you little cog in the machine you.
Also I've been sick all day. Couldn't fall asleep last night, and when the day rolled around I couldn't stop shitting.
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A friend of mine was able to start out pretty well-off in the Navy without having any college experience (I think he made E-5 in about a year or a year and a half). It pretty much all depends on how well you do on the starting tests and talking to the right people.
I think you're do fine; you're a smart cookie (unless you're playing Doom...that's like our kryptonite).
Oh god yes.
I took the practice ASFAB test and I scored a 64 which allows me to get majority of the jobs but it was a practice one there is ways to study up so you can get a better score. Yeah but my mind is made up I want to go into the air force.
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Well, I'm off to an interview for my co-op in a couple minutes. It's about damn time I've heard from someone. It's not the best job (It's probably the worst one I've applied to by a fair bit) but at least it's something. The job is basically building electrical panels part time for some large job that the company just didn't have enough people for, or something to that effect. Not exactly rocket science, but hey, it's something.
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So, yesterday at work.
I'm walking through the restaurant side of the building, trying to get to the cooking school room. Had to report for some class for new staff about selling alcohol.
I'm just about to the elevator, when I stop to have a gander at a cardboard cutout of some guy that had seemingly appeared near a doorway. I figure "Eh, must be some new promotion or guest. Whatev." and continue along my way.
Then some guy walks in front of me. He stops, looks at the cutout, then to me. I look at him, then to the cutout, then back to him.
The cutout is now DIAMONDS!
No, not really.
But it was in fact the same guy. I stood there for a moment with a bit of a *derp* look on my face, thinking "Did that just happen?" when he says to me "Hey, that guy there kinda looks like me, eh?"
"Yeah, kinda. But the guy on the cutout is a bit cuter."
"Yeah, he is. Ha!"
(twas this (http://www.munchiestv.com/media/media.html) fellow.)
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Haha, nice one.
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That must have been confusing as hell.
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But it was in fact the same guy. I stood there for a moment with a bit of a *derp* look on my face, thinking "Did that just happen?" when he says to me "Hey, that guy there kinda looks like me, eh?"
"Yeah, kinda. But the guy on the cutout is a bit cuter."
"Yeah, he is. Ha!"
(twas this (http://www.munchiestv.com/media/media.html) fellow.)
Haha, grats! XD
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Tired as hell. The routine I am doing to get my ass into shape kicks my ass everytime.
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Tired as hell. The routine I am doing to get my ass into shape kicks my ass everytime.
YOU'RE GONNA NEED A MONTAGE!
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SPECTERE
IS MY AVATAR WORKSAFE ENOUGH
I ASK BECAUSE IF YOU HAVENT NOTICED, IT WAS CROPPED FROM FURRY PORNOGRAPHY
THOUGH I MIGHT CHANGE IT BECAUSE IT LOOKS A BIT ODD CROPPED
IT WILL HAVE TO DO FOR NOW
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I'm going to guess that the, uh, "stuff" going into her (His? Hard to tell sometimes!) is...uh, man milk.
I actually wouldn't have guessed its origins if you didn't say anything, so it can stay. XD
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not seminal at all my dear spektur
if you zoom out, you would see that white substance...is not a substance at all but a pair of sunglasses. as for the other stuff going on, use your IMMAGINATIONNnnnn, or know the artists name and look it up, or pm me.
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lawl, yeah, I suppose semen isn't brownish on one end. Didn't really see that.
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lawl, yeah, I suppose semen isn't brownish
wait
WHAT
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YOU'RE GONNA NEED A MONTAGE!
MONTAGE!
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wait
WHAT
Yep.
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so you're telling me my brown ejaculations aren't normal?
gtfo
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so you're telling me my brown ejaculations aren't normal?
gtfo
you might need to see a doctor.
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My god. You ejaculate chocolate milk.
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My god. You ejaculate chocolate milk.
*insert ASCII facepalm here*
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My god. You ejaculate chocolate milk.
but does it taste the same?
Also, both my hard drives are full after deleting like 5 or so different games, what's the deal?
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(http://imgur.com/FKUqB.png)
Apple-esque, much?
I mean, sheesh, I love Windows Server and all, but that's pretty shameless. XD
but does it taste the same?
I think we should have Bobbias go over there and find out.
Also, both my hard drives are full after deleting like 5 or so different games, what's the deal?
u broke it
How large were the games? Were they downloaded through Steam or were they CD titles?
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i don't know why i am just now finding this weird
i have a friend who plays your typical "gta, halo, call of duty, ect" games, and doesn't like rpg's. that's ok. but he plays them for the story...
with that in mind, i recommend something like kotor, and he's content with not ever trying it. BUT THAT HALO REACH MAN, TOTALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO THE ENTHRALLING STORY IN THAT GAME, I MEAN AMIRIGHT?
that's like me playing rpg's...for..the..gameplay? FUUUUUUUUUUuuuuuuuuuu
it's like we're opposites man!
(http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/8431/1272839996606.jpg)
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"gta, halo, call of duty, ect"
your friend is a huge fgt imo
needs more delicious meat bun
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How large were the games? Were they downloaded through Steam or were they CD titles?
Would that matter? and pretty big games. Not sure where you'd find bigger, THE BIGGEST AROUND.
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i went with bros to get reach. i didn't get it but it was something to do. ended up getting early morning breakfast, and twas a nice time. i mean, why would i get reach when CIVILIZATION V IS NEXT WEEK GOING TO BE ALL OVER DATTTtttt!1.
and i found another die antwoord interview
hard to dislike these people, I MEAN LOOK AT NINJA'S VANILLA ICE SHIRT, ITS AWESOME!
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Would that matter?
Yep. Sometimes Steam doesn't clear its caches properly.
and pretty big games. Not sure where you'd find bigger, THE BIGGEST AROUND.
omg bluray
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Yep. Sometimes Steam doesn't clear its caches properly.
That's probably the problem, any way to cure this?
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You'd pretty much have to jump into your Steam folder, go into the "steamapps" directory, and delete any GCF/NCF corresponding to what you deleted. If the file is an NCF (i.e. most non-Valve games), you'll have to go into the "common" directory and delete the folder corresponding to the game. Make sure to go into the folder and back up and saved games that might happen to be there if you want to keep them.*
*Note: whether they are saved in there depends on the program. Some games, particularly older ones, put their saved game files into the program directory. Many newer ones chuck them somewhere in My Documents (which is REALLY FUCKING ANNOYING because (1) Vista/7 provide a very lovely "Saved Games" folder that nobody uses, not to mention that a lot of games designed for XP use the much neater "My Games" folder inside of My Documents and (2) I like to my DOCUMENTS in that folder. I can tolerate XP-era games putting their shit in a "My Games" folder, but there's no fucking reason why I should be seeing folders named "EA Games", "Bioware", "EVE", "Adobe" (not game-related, but still), "StepMania CVS", and "WBGames" in there -- and yes, on a fairly new Windows 7 install I already have six different pollutants in my Documents directory that I have to skip over every time I want to sort shit out...fucking assholes).
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On a completely non-ranty note, it's really amazing how postal services and companies like UPS, DHL, and FedEx work. I mean, people complain about them losing packages, damaging packages, and so on, but the fact that they work as well as they do is just stunning.
Think about it. On a given day, thousands upon thousands of packages -- big and small -- are being routed all throughout the world. You can ship a package from China and have it on the way to its recipient in Ohio in just a few days. A tiny little 5"x5"x3" box, a needle in a haystack essentially, can be accurately delivered around the world in just a few days thanks to an efficient set of linked hubs. The infrastructure behind all of that is just incredible.
The Internet is the same way. Exactly the same, in fact, only the delivery times are in milliseconds rather than days. One of the most interesting parts of my Cisco training was studying how WANs work. It's really fascinating stuff.
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On a completely non-ranty note, it's really amazing how postal services and companies like UPS, DHL, and FedEx work. I mean, people complain about them losing packages, damaging packages, and so on, but the fact that they work as well as they do is just stunning.
Think about it. On a given day, thousands upon thousands of packages -- big and small -- are being routed all throughout the world. You can ship a package from China and have it on the way to its recipient in Ohio in just a few days. A tiny little 5"x5"x3" box, a needle in a haystack essentially, can be accurately delivered around the world in just a few days thanks to an efficient set of linked hubs. The infrastructure behind all of that is just incredible.
The Internet is the same way. Exactly the same, in fact, only the delivery times are in milliseconds rather than days. One of the most interesting parts of my Cisco training was studying how WANs work. It's really fascinating stuff.
I bet that the technology in all those shipping hubs is more evenly distributed than across the net, lol. I mean, there are some OLD fucking servers acting as pretty essential parts of the net. The internet is a goddamned miracle, all things considered.
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Yeah, the Internet just kind of exploded. It's a good thing that there were enough standards that were more than good enough to support it during that spread. I mean, we're in 2010 and haven't reached the limits of IPv4 just yet. Considering when IPv4 came around (1980, originally; it's older than us!) that's pretty damn good. The people who put all of that in motion truly were geniuses, and I'm not even sure if they realized it at the time. :p
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Yeah, the Internet just kind of exploded. It's a good thing that there were enough standards that were more than good enough to support it during that spread. I mean, we're in 2010 and haven't reached the limits of IPv4 just yet. Considering when IPv4 came around (1980, originally; it's older than us!) that's pretty damn good. The people who put all of that in motion truly were geniuses, and I'm not even sure if they realized it at the time. :p
Will they ever?
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stuff
Yeah, I found all of that and got my shit straight.
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Ugh, I don't know why but I suddenly feel very ill...FML.
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Ah good, the poison is finally taking effect. Don't worry though, once we're done experimenting and you regain consciousness you won't remember anything.
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My sleep cycle is cuh-razy.
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I've been having some insanely crazy and vivid dreams almost every single night for the past two or three weeks. I'm not complaining really but it's just weird because I went from never having dreams (or at least not remembering them even slightly) to suddenly having them all the time (sometimes multiple different ones during one sleep session) and remembering them very clearly.
Just last night I dreamed about my friend and I killing his dad for some reason and then feeding his body to some weird little fuzzy dog things that hiss. And the whole thing felt like the style of how It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is filmed. Before that I dreamed about a girl who used to like me in high school revealing to me that she was a hermaphrodite. And one of the most intense and vivid dreams I have ever had was just recently. I was doing some business with the main characters from Lost near some airport and suddenly this huge rocket-powered plane was taking off a couple hundred yards from us and botched the take off so the front end swung up in the air and it was about to tip backwards but the pilot must have been trying to stabilize it because it kinda hovered on it's rockets, slowly dragging across the ground taking out buildings and blowing shit up with its humongous engines. At that time I was running away until it finally fell and exploded. The explosion had somehow turned all the Lost characters into small living plastic dolls except for Sayid and Kate who were sitting on a log waving at me and smiling. There's more but that was the exciting part.
Anyway, dreams are amazing and weird and it's cool to be having them again.
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Ah good, the poison is finally taking effect. Don't worry though, once we're done experimenting and you regain consciousness you won't remember anything.
My butt feels weird.
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Well, the drug DID have a warning that one of the side effects was random pains...
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Well, the drug DID have a warning that one of the side effects was random pains...
I don't think that's what he was implying by "weird"
also:
Before that I dreamed about a girl who used to like me in high school revealing to me that she was a hermaphrodite.
I wish this happened to me irl
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im paranoid about malware and whatnot, so quick question.
is it ok to have my UPnP turned on? i need it on to have my NAT set as open on the xbox, else i have problems connecting to bros and whatnot.
if not, then ill just turn it off when im done with the xbox, and turn it on when i get on.
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UPnP is fine to keep on. When it's used on the router level, it's used by clients to dynamically poke holes in the firewall, hence the reason it's required for XBL/PSN to work. Note that it only allows devices on the inside to do that, it won't let an attacker open a hole in your firewall.
Edit: Whew, organizing MP3s is tedious work. I managed to get through 10GB of my collection doing The Works(TM) -- sanitizing tags, standardizing filenames, making genres consistent, removing pointless comments (I literally had a bunch of tracks that had comments like "Track 1," "Track 2," etc), standardizing track numbers and disc numbers, dumping multidisc albums into a single folder, and adding cover art. Even with Mp3tag (http://www.mp3tag.de/en/) it's taking a while, I can't even imagine life without that awesome utility.
Album art is a pain in the ass. The problem isn't finding it, the problem is finding stuff that doesn't look like mushy, compressed garbage. I don't really need high resolution art for use on my PC. I use Rhapsody to play both my local and on-demand streamed music (It's not too bad. At least it's better than my last experiences with WinAmp...it's definitely no foobar, though), and its block for album art is fairly small. Nonono, the issue are my portable devices, of all things. My iPhone isn't too hard to please. Its screen resolution is only 320x480, so a 320x320 image is enough to make everything look as good as it can. But that's not good enough for the new iTouch! Oh no no, that screen's resolution is quadruple that of the older iPlayers. Head over to discogs.com or, hell, Google Image Search and try to find album art that's at least 640x640. Good freaking luck. On average, the best sizes that I've been able to find have been between 400x400-600x600. I was only able to find a couple of them that met or exceeded the demands of the Retina display. The more obscure stuff didn't even come close (I have more 350x350s than I'd like to have).
Ugh. I'm too much of a perfectionist when it comes to this shit.
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UPnP is only unsafe if another computer on your network is unsafe. Most programs now use UPnP to automatically open ports on your router so that they can connect to internet services properly. Since it'll be opening ports, there's the inherent security flaws with having ports open, but unless you want to do without any of those services (Xbox Live...) it's not worth turning off. Basically, if you have a secure network at home, it shouldn't be a problem. But if you happen to have malware, that would make it easier for the malware to open a back door, phone home, download/install other malware, etc.
Let's put it this way: If your paranoid enough to turn UPnP off and on for each Live session, that's like unplugging your ethernet cord every time you stop using the internet for a little while.
At least, in my opinion. Spectere may have something to say on this.
Ninja'd
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My butt feels weird.
I don't know what you're talking about....
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My butt feels weird.
It matches how your face looks. :V
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My oma may have had either a stroke or a mis-mix up of her meds...we don't know yet. I just got back from hanging out with friends but I did go see her for about an hour before I did so...I am quite worried about her.
Yes I know we should have taken her to the hospital but if you know older full blooded german women: tough as hell but stubborn as well.
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If y'all even suspect a stroke, you really oughta get her to hospital. Time plays a major role in those.
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If y'all even suspect a stroke, you really oughta get her to hospital. Time plays a major role in those.
This times a very large number. Strokes are definitely not good. My friend's grandfather had a stroke and even though he received almost immediate treatment he was unable to use the right side (IIRC) of his body without considerable therapy. It also indirectly led to his death a year after that.
Hopefully it's just a medication mix-up.
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This times a very large number. Strokes are definitely not good. My friend's grandfather had a stroke and even though he received almost immediate treatment he was unable to use the right side (IIRC) of his body without considerable therapy. It also indirectly led to his death a year after that.
Hopefully it's just a medication mix-up.
My mom thinks it is because my oma has not been feeling good since tuesday and even though she is a diabetic she takes 2 kinds of diabetic medicine which is odd and may be the case.
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For any interested parties, I attached a screenshot comparing the resolution difference between the so-called "Retina display" and the, uh, non-Retina display. iPhone 3G running 3.1.3 on the left (scaled up using nearest neighbor from its native 320x480), iPod touch running 4.1 on the right (at its native 640x960), both in the built-in Clock app.
What I find amazing is that that little 3.5" screen is displaying a resolution that's exactly half of what I have on my secondary monitor. It looks stunning in person.
And yes, I've been an iWhore lately. I've wanted an iPod for years now...sue me. :p
My mom thinks it is because my oma has not been feeling good since tuesday and even though she is a diabetic she takes 2 kinds of diabetic medicine which is odd and may be the case.
Yeah, if there's some sort of med mix-up when it comes to diabetes it can lead to a lot of unpleasantness at the very best. I know a few people with diabetes and it's amazing how drastically their moods and overall health appears to change depending on what they eat, what medicine they take, etc. It's kind of a scary disease when you think about it; a critical part of your body just doesn't work and the only way you can remain among the living is to control it yourself. *shudder*
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lol, hotlinking fail. How oddly appropriate.
Also, I am a huge fgt
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(http://kentuckysportsradio.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/hotlinks.jpg)
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I am a huge fgt
I know
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http://kentuckysportsradio.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/hotlinks.jpg
I loled
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What the fuck am I reading? I haven't slept recently and that all made me laugh.
Also I'm looking for a new wireless router, and possibly a new wireless receiver (I'm like 90% sure my current router is causing most of the problems, but this Dlink dongle thing looks horrible and its software crashes half the fucking time I try to use it).
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833156249
Thinking of getting this, any thoughts? Should I look elsewhere for a cheaper/used one? Also I'm really tempted to search for a phone like splitter so I can run a wire to my room, but I'm unsure how to do that, plus it would be a massive pain.
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Every TRENDnet product I've used has been garbage. I've seen about three of them in the field and all of them had problems with random crashes, dropped wi-fi, etc. That one got a good rating, but I'm still very weary of that brand name.
I'd go with either Netgear or Linksys. I've had fewer issues with Netgear routers (though I'd avoid their USB dongles; their software is kind of annoying), but the interface on Linksys products tends to be considerably better. The only real issue I've been having with my Linksys router (a WRT54G, I think it's a v6) is that it occasionally (and by "occasionally" I mean once every month or two) freezes and has to be power cycled. Other than that, I've had exceedingly solid wi-fi despite having a decent number of wireless devices around the house (three laptops, two cell phones, my iPod, a DS, a PSP, a Wii, a PS3, and a printer).
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Don't cheap out on Linksys though, I find that their really low end stuff is more prone to crashing than the WRT54G, plus the WRT54G has custom firmware, which doesn't work on some of their lower end models.
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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833124277
I'm assuming this would count as one of their cheaper products? The rating doesn't seem great, then again it always seemed screwy to me.
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When I was living in Maryland, my roommate and I had a WRT150N. I don't know how the new WRT160N's fare, but the 150N was solid as a rock. I never had that sucker crash and I never had any dropped connections.
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I think that's the one I have now, which has been REALLY good to me. I forget what I had before, but it wasn't a WRT model. It was similar, but crappier, and has a habit of randomly dropping the connection to the modem, among other things (refusing to forward ports, etc. etc.) The one I have now looks like that one, and has been working flawlessly since we got it.
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Thanks a lot yall, I'll look into it depending on how much my current wireless router shits out on me and how my patience is.
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Oh yeah, also:
The rating doesn't seem great, then again it always seemed screwy to me.
I rarely trust the independent reviews on Newegg simply because most people on there seem to think that buying parts online makes them a computer genius. I've seen far too many reviewers listing cons that are very obviously not issues with the product that they're "reviewing," yet they insist on marking their tech level as "high." Either that or they simply don't provide any detail, and give a shit review like "Pros: nothing, cons: everything" and give it one eggs without any explanation, presumably because they're an anti-fanboy.
Here's a dissection of a review from someone with a "high tech level":
- Cons: 3 major problems with this unit:
Well, he listed more than three, for starters.
- * it randomly directs your HTTP(s) requests to incorrect servers. You will se obscure erros in the browser
Bullshit.
All of Linksys's routers after a certain period of time do nothing but forward DNS requests to the DNS servers that are configured. Furthermore, it's impossible for it to resolve to an incorrect DNS setting only on HTTP requests -- DNS is a totally separate protocol.
More than likely, his dumb ass got himself infected by something that's hijacking his browser.
- * It's speed occasionally drops to very slow (bot wired/wireless), requires unplugging the power cable and plugging back.
This could be caused by external interference, the fifth issue that was listed, or more than likely an application that's being run on his network. Considering his browser was hijacked, his network is probably being bogged down by a lovely piece of malware that's continually sending me spam and creating a bunch of bogus user accounts on my forum.
- * It completely looses connection once a month or so, requires unplugging power cable/unplugging
No arguments there. My WRT54G and BEF41SR both do the same thing.
- * WinXP/Sp2 and with some ISPs, it doesn't work with its default settings, need to reduce MTU size for wired/wireless network
That's an ISP issue, not a router issue. It should not be listed as an issue with the device.
Also, the MTU size that matters is determined by your ISP and your modem, it has absolutely nothing to do with the operating system that you're running. Routers are nothing more than switches (and wireless access points in most models) that are bridged with an external connection. They don't give a shit what you're running on your main system and will take just about everything that you throw at it.
- * Its QoS feature is buggy, and causes extremely slow speeds, needs to be turned off. It is on by default
QoS has a tendency to do that if you're an idiot who doesn't know how to configure it properly. The QoS feature on Linksys routers feature is fine, was fine, and will probably always be fine. I should know, I've used it plenty of times. The main difference is that I actually know what the hell I'm doing.
Maybe the problem is simply that Cisco/Linksys give the user too much power for their own good and makes it too easy for them to change settings that should be reserved for people who have at least managed to get through Networking 101.
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Well, I know fuck all about wireless routers, but I can see where you're coming from.
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Yeah, I kind of figured based on the tone of your other posts. I just wanted to give you a detailed example of what's wrong with customer reviews on sites like Newegg.
The people that do that sort of shit piss me off; they wind up screwing over people who are looking for a decent device by posting that drivel. Reviews are supposed to help consumers, such as yourself, pick out devices. Customer reviews, particularly negative ones, are rarely good for the product -- they either oversell it or royally undersell it (especially since people are more likely to post negative experiences rather than positive ones). If I don't know enough about something, I either ask someone who knows or just keep my fucking mouth shut. Then again, I know enough to know when I'm wrong. Most of the damned tinkerers who think that they know a thing or three about computers don't even realize how dumb they are.
Honestly, I would run any technical purchases you plan to make past the people here (as you have done ;D). We've got quite a few smarty men here who would be lot more helpful than Bozo291 on <insert online store here> or your local Geek Squad "agent."
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That's usually how I get all my word of mouth info/advice, if I don't know who it's coming from I take it with a huge grain of salt. Also yeah, I always hunt someone down who knows something.
Also my dog almost gave me a fucking heart attack this morning. She started crying relly loud and twitching on my floor, so I jumped up and was thinking about called my Dad, then she woke up and acted like nothing was wrong. Pissed me off.
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Honestly, I would run any technical purchases you plan to make past the people here (as you have done ;D). We've got quite a few smarty men here who would be lot more helpful than Bozo291 on <insert online store here> or your local Geek Squad "agent."
I know that first hand...Spectere helped me out quite a bit when him and I built my new rig.
Thx Spec!
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Speaking as someone familiar with hardware and able to apply common sense, I prefer to read negative reviews. People with no problems usually won't bother to review the item; people with problems will. Weeding out the ones that don't make any sense or are unreasonable leaves you with the best information about the product's potential downfalls.
As far as relying on people here...it's not inherently a bad idea, but people differ in their specialties and experiences. If you're looking for something that's good relative to cheap, sure, ask away. If you're wondering about any potential problems, you're much better off reading the hardware reviews (as many as possible, from different sites if possible).
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Speaking as someone familiar with hardware and able to apply common sense, I prefer to read negative reviews. People with no problems usually won't bother to review the item; people with problems will. Weeding out the ones that don't make any sense or are unreasonable leaves you with the best information about the product's potential downfalls.
I do as well for the same reason, but that approach falls apart when you don't know what one would consider to be unreasonable. When I dissected the review above I intentionally went for one that would go over the heads of most people who would buy such a product. If you're not sure what you're looking for and are relying on the reviews to tell you about a product, your average "techie" (i.e. the type of person who knows enough to be dangerous) is going to sound like he knows what he's talking about.
As far as relying on people here...it's not inherently a bad idea, but people differ in their specialties and experiences. If you're looking for something that's good relative to cheap, sure, ask away. If you're wondering about any potential problems, you're much better off reading the hardware reviews (as many as possible, from different sites if possible).
Agreed to a certain extent, but I feel like we have a pretty good mixture of specialties here. I have a strong background in Windows and computer networking, with above-average knowledge of Linux, Mac OS, and programming; not to mention that I try to keep abreast with all of the modern hardware. You have a strong Linux and programming background with what appears to be plenty of low-level hardware and electronics knowledge. OmegaOmni and Mort each have strong backgrounds in pwnage, etc.
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I can't stop listening to Simple and Clean. WHEN YOU WALK AWAY, YOU DON'T HEAR ME SAY, PLEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSE.
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I am so tired of that damn song. haha.
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OH BAAABEEEEY, DON'T GO. SIMPLE AND CLEAN IS THE WAY THAT YOU'RE MAKING ME FEEEEEEEL TONIGHT.
Yeah it's goddamn terrible, but it's so catchy.
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1000 combos
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Agreed to a certain extent, but I feel like we have a pretty good mixture of specialties here. I have a strong background in Windows and computer networking, with above-average knowledge of Linux, Mac OS, and programming; not to mention that I try to keep abreast with all of the modern hardware. You have a strong Linux and programming background with what appears to be plenty of low-level hardware and electronics knowledge. OmegaOmni and Mort each have strong backgrounds in pwnage, etc.
I'm just a bit behind both you guys, lol. Compared to your average "techie", I've got knowledge/experience in all those things too (well, except maybe networking, my networking is a bit weak, but only because I haven't needed anything fancy, and haven't had to learn any of the heavier subjects).
I can definitely say that asking here has helped me more than any other website out there. I usually get a prompt response (unless spec is on one of his extended absences), and most of the time I get more information from him than I do from forums dedicated to whatever I'm asking about. The thread I made about getting gentoo onto this thing has been so much more helpful than all the threads I've made on the official gentoo forums combined. Spectere always had useful info, bits of info about the internals related to what I was asking about, etc. and that helped me so much more. I don't get why other people (who obviously know all that stuff) can't be arsed to actually mention it. They could always just link people to previous posts if they didn't want to explain something over and over again...
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1000 combos
more like 1500 hit combo.
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more like 1500 hit combo.
Actually -- and this kind of scary -- he simultaneously managed to snag the 1000th reply to this thread as hit 1500th post.
For pulling that off, I feel like a "grats, annon" is deserved so: grats, annon!
(unless spec is on one of his extended absences)
Typically when I'm on hiatus I'm depressed and angsty, so you wouldn't want me here anyway.
The thread I made about getting gentoo onto this thing has been so much more helpful than all the threads I've made on the official gentoo forums combined.
Yeah, when I need help with Gentoo I usually peruse the Ubuntu forums. :| Every time I posted questions to the Gentoo forum I'd get the runaround for a few days (not even stuff that could potentially fix the issue, just stuff that's blatantly false) and wind up posting the solution that I determined to the topic that I made. Gentoo Wiki is pretty awful in a lot of topics as well. It's startling how much of that site is filled with outdated knowledge that's long past its use by date. If I didn't love Gentoo as a distribution I wouldn't have put up with it. It just so happens that the starter guides and portage utilities are good enough to let you work out your own solutions to problems.
Pretty much the only thing I go there for is the occasional HOWTO.
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Typically when I'm on hiatus I'm depressed and angsty, so you wouldn't want me here anyway.
im blaming linkin park on this
also like im sleeping early so i can play civ v the whole goddamn day. you imagine how hard it is trying to sleep when it's dark out? really difficult i tell you. much as i hate the sun, i have adapted into sleeping when the sun is rising/has risen. it's like 2am as i type this, i normally sleep at 8-9am.
TIME TO LAY IN BED NOT GETTING ANY SLEEP TILL I HAVE TO BE AWAKE AND BE TIRED ALL DAY PLAYING CIV V
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The wounds, man, they just will not heal.
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Typically when I'm on hiatus I'm depressed and angsty, so you wouldn't want me here anyway.
But I luvs u
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it's true!
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SPEC STANDS OUT LIKE BIRD SHIT ON A BLACK SHOE
THAT'S TRUE
Sorry, first thing that popped into my head. <3
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im blaming linkin park on this
also like im sleeping early so i can play civ v the whole goddamn day. you imagine how hard it is trying to sleep when it's dark out? really difficult i tell you. much as i hate the sun, i have adapted into sleeping when the sun is rising/has risen. it's like 2am as i type this, i normally sleep at 8-9am.
TIME TO LAY IN BED NOT GETTING ANY SLEEP TILL I HAVE TO BE AWAKE AND BE TIRED ALL DAY PLAYING CIV V
I've been doing that too, lol, go to bed like, 8 AM, wake up 4 PM, rinse and repeat. Of course, I'm fucked now because I've gotta be in barrie for 11 AM today... Meaning I'm gonna be awake all damn day, on no sleep. And somehow I need to arrange to pick up some stuff a friend of mine left at a party here a couple days ago before I go for that meeting :/ I just hope I can actually get a hold of someone.
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Gotta get some sleeping pills. Shit's great. I usually wake up at 3:30 PM but today I woke up at 9 and felt fine due to some pills.
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omg wheres shadow ???
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you have some big eyes
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Just got home from taking my ASVAB.
I got a 76 which opens up 85% of the jobs in the airforce (yay ! ^_^)
But this:
LONGEST TEST I HAVE TAKEN IN MY LIFE!
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How long was it?
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3.5 hours
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you have some big eyes
The better to see you with, my dear...
Just got home from taking my ASVAB.
I got a 76 which opens up 85% of the jobs in the airforce (yay ! ^_^)
Woo! Grats, man. ;D
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Just got home from taking my ASVAB.
I got a 76 which opens up 85% of the jobs in the airforce (yay ! ^_^)
Mad props, how hard was the test and what was it about? I'm tempted to take this now.
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3.5 hours
Ouch, that is one long-ass test. Grats on the score.
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Mad props, how hard was the test and what was it about? I'm tempted to take this now.
I am not allowed to say because I can be indited if I do so but I can say go to military.com and you can take practice ones to see for yourself.
Ouch, that is one long-ass test. Grats on the score.
It was. Thank you very much I am quite happy with the score. It was a HUGE mental marathon.
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I am not allowed to say because I can be indited if I do so but I can say go to military.com and you can take practice ones to see for yourself.
That's a bit ridiculous. I understand keeping things under wraps, but that sounds a bit extreme. I mean, you can still say something like "the text was as hard as xyz standardized test" or something without giving away anything about the test question composition, answer format, etc. etc. :/
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Ah okay...its like you take everything you have learned in school and use it for this test.
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That's a bit ridiculous. I understand keeping things under wraps, but that sounds a bit extreme. I mean, you can still say something like "the text was as hard as xyz standardized test" or something without giving away anything about the test question composition, answer format, etc. etc. :/
Hey, better safe then sorry. A Canadian wouldn't understand matters of military importance.
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OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHH
Anyway, my left pinky has been twitching on and off throughout the last three days. It's awesome to watch :O
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Hey, better safe then sorry. A Canadian wouldn't understand matters of military importance.
Yeah, except that our military ends wars, not starts them.
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Note: If I see a single smartass post that could lead to a lame international flamewar, three-day bans will be handed out. No further warnings will be issued.
That's a bit ridiculous. I understand keeping things under wraps, but that sounds a bit extreme.
Some of the high-end military jobs are high-clearance, top secret jobs. It would be stupid for the government not to keep those sort of tests under wraps.
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Some of the high-end military jobs are high-clearance, top secret jobs. It would be stupid for the government not to keep those sort of tests under wraps.
Agreed Spec.
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Some of the high-end military jobs are high-clearance, top secret jobs. It would be stupid for the government not to keep those sort of tests under wraps.
I do understand that the military needs to keep its secrets, but I think that it's still a bit overkill for a placement test (that was basically a placement test, right?)
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I do understand that the military needs to keep its secrets, but I think that it's still a bit overkill for a placement test (that was basically a placement test, right?)
Basicly. Its more for what jobs you can get depending on on your score. For me I can get about 85% of the jobs the air force offers.
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Note: If I see a single smartass post that could lead to a lame international flamewar, three-day bans will be handed out. No further warnings will be issued.
I was just kidding :3c.
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I was just kidding :3c.
Yeah, and I was just being a smartass, because you have no idea how often canadians hear crap like that from people who are serious.
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Regardless, I see enough of that shit elsewhere and it's honestly quite tired and beyond stale. The last thing I want is for people to take it seriously and derail the entire site.
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It's the Canadian sore spot, talk about their military might, or say they had no role in WW2.
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It's the Canadian sore spot, talk about their military might, or say they had no role in WW2.
Quite true. Though I will admit that our army is not exactly in a position of power at the moment (like, half of our navy doesn't have enough man power to actually be deployed :/)
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how come they get talked too for minor bickering, but me with my mass shit generating posts a year or so back didn't even give me a temp ban?
you aren't fair you fucker.
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Because he's a terrible parent who doesn't know when to give attention to all his children.
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i think it's the furry thing
BECAUSE SPECTERURER IS FURRAY
AND THE INTERNET CALLESMEFURRAY TOO EVEN THOUGH I DONT BELIVEE I AM ONE BUT SINCE I LIKE THE ARTWORK I AM APART OF THE FANDOM
it's like me being a starcraft player because i watch starcraft. better example, i am a crime scene investigator by watching csi on tv.
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how come they get talked too for minor bickering, but me with my mass shit generating posts a year or so back didn't even give me a temp ban?
I just enjoy watching you suffer. <3
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ur gay
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You wish, sister. :3
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Stop bickering, or I will be forced to ban one of you.
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fuk all u bitches lol
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Amusing Minecraft title screen shout-out: "MAP11 has two names."
First person to get the reference wins a cake.
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Sorry no idea
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Nope, no idea here.
I liked "150% Hyperbole!"
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im going to pimp these dudes because they are rather entertaining
http://teamspooky.com/content/?page_id=171
if you enjoy watching people who are good at fightans, play fightans, this is good.
plus like i requested some gief action when they were playing ST, and niggas totally obliged to show me some zangief action on the stream. plus ultradavid was there using him. no idea what ultradavid is doing in new york, but hey, it's cool that he's there.
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Worst thunderstorm I've seen 'round here in some years took place the other night.
Knocked out my power for several hours, which is pretty odd. It's rare for our power to be out for more than a minute or so.
Just got back the cable and internet a few hours ago. Kinda sucks that it was out the whole time I was off work, as I couldn't really go out and do much, what with my street being one of the few places 'round here that has electricity right now.
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Sorry no idea
WUT KIND OF FAIL R U
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Man I love installing a fresh copy of Windows. Not only does it run smoothly but I get to go through all the settings and tweak things to my liking. For some reason I get much gratification out of changing settings for software...
PS It looks like the banhammer 'sploded and sent banshrapnel everywhere.
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So apparently the 4 serious same games (yes the original and the hd versions) are on sale on steam until monday for $10...fucking nice deal IMO
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Hey, what'd I miss?
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so after finishing a dvd of sg-1 from netflix, i decided to watch something else. then i realized that sg-1 is now available for instant stream.
GUESS ATLANTIS IS GOING TO HAVE TO WAIT
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA Yourself.
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Ok so my roommate ordered a shitton of Legos because he's building a Lego-based computer case. He doesn't have all the parts he needs for the case, so he told me and our other roommate that we should feel free to build whatever we want with the Legos before he gets everything. I managed to make a 17" tall monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey with the proper 1:4:9 ratio.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v253/annonymous/2010-09-26002416sm.jpg)
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kamikaze*
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So now Bee, the girl who works at Oishi, the very nearby Japanese take-out place (REALLY nearby, like one mile from here, if that) not only knows me by name when I walk in the door but when she gave me my food she just said, "See you next week!" I didn't even realize I was going there every Saturday but apparently I do and so I guess I will just keep doing that because their food is really really good, filling and inexpensive (like $7 and they give you at least a pound and a half of food). And she's hot. She doesn't normally wear glasses but she had these black thicker-rimmed glasses that looked really good.
Then later today I go with my friends to Buffalo Wild Wings for UFC night like we always do and we got a different waitress than normal since they had to seat us in a different area and the waitress was super hot and had this flower in her hair that looked really really pretty and I just blurted out that it looked really good without any real intention of hitting on her further than that and she ended up blushing and I just stammered like an idiot for a few seconds until I just stopped talking.
Definitely a good Saturday though.
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(REALLY nearby, like one mile from here, if that)
a mile is close by?
having a car must be nice
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A mile is close by. It's like a 15 minute walk, if that.
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Bought HOPEFULLY a good copy of wipeout xl...god I remember back in the day just destroying my dad's record times like nothing.
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A mile is close by. It's like a 15 minute walk, if that.
Well, yeah, it's certainly doable...but it's not something I would enjoy doing every weekend.
Then again, Honolulu is a very car-biased place. Nothing like waiting 5 mins for the light because all the places with food are at intersections (never your side of the street, btw.) Or having to cross streets with no lights/signs, and basically having to wait until a benevolent driver lets you run across.
/ugh
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A mile is close by. It's like a 15 minute walk, if that.
Hmmm not bad I think I do about a mile and a half in about 15 walking (7 minutes if I run)
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Man, a mile and a half in 15 minutes walking is pushing it. I walk around 4 miles an hour, and that's a decent speed, most people I know don't walk that fast (there are some who do, but not the majority by any means). A mile and a half in 15 minutes is 6 an hour, which is pretty much jogging speed. 6 miles an hour walking is nearly impossible for most people... I'm not saying you couldn't do it, but if you actually do, that's damn fast for "walking" somewhere.
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Oh yeah, and I have to walk 2 miles if I get hungry after about midnight or so, since I live on-campus in a very residential area (read: nothing's open) and the nearest 7-Eleven is a mile away.
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Lame. I think the closest 24 hour convenience store (which is right near a mcdonalds and an a&w) is probably about a kilometer away (1 km= 0.62 mi), maybe a bit longer than that, but not a mile. My girlfriend's parents place is across town though, and we would usually meet about halfway (well, closer to her place, but it's the best meeting ground) when we'd walk and it's about 2 miles (one direction), so I'm used to walking that sort of distance fairly regularly (a bit less in the last couple years, because she's been in Barrie a lot, and Barrie's about 50 km away... not something I'd walk, lol.) And one of my friend's places is about 2 miles away (maybe a bit closer, since it's uphill, and it takes me about 30 minutes [sober] to walk it), but he used to live somewhere between 3 and 4 miles away, and I made that walk back home a lot.
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Man, a mile and a half in 15 minutes walking is pushing it. I walk around 4 miles an hour, and that's a decent speed, most people I know don't walk that fast (there are some who do, but not the majority by any means). A mile and a half in 15 minutes is 6 an hour, which is pretty much jogging speed. 6 miles an hour walking is nearly impossible for most people... I'm not saying you couldn't do it, but if you actually do, that's damn fast for "walking" somewhere.
A lot of people say I walk really fast. I think it's because I'm tall and have long legs. It takes me about 12 minutes to walk a mile unimpeded at my regular pace.
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There's a 7-11 just down the street from my house, but everything else is at least a mile away. Campus is about 3 miles away. But I bike everywhere, which is like 4x faster than walking.
Oh yeah, and I have to walk 2 miles if I get hungry after about midnight or so, since I live on-campus in a very residential area (read: nothing's open) and the nearest 7-Eleven is a mile away.
That kind of sucks. I remember when I lived on campus one of the dining halls was open until 1am.
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let's see. nearest convenience store from me is about a 15 minute walk away...but it's not 24/7. two different places at two different locations, but roughly the same distance apart, i have a 711, and an admiral (apparently a michigan only gas station). though, walking to either place takes about 35-40 minutes.
not a big damn deal when i can just drive. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dpZrtcumlY)
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Anything within a couple miles of me is considered extremely close because anything outside of that range is the freeway and if I have to take that to get somewhere, I usually don't really care how long it'll take. I drive 25 minutes to work so I can work for four hours driving and then I unload trucks and then drive 25 minutes home. I basically drive for 5 hours every day.
Also, I continue to make an ass of myself by blurting out stuff, though it seems to work in my favor. I went over to Best Buy to go see if they had any copies of Monster Hunter 3 because they had a coupon for $20 off and I have a ton of reward zone coupons, but they didn't seem to have any and then Asha came up behind me and asked if I needed any help and I just sort of glanced over, started saying the usual, "No, I'm just browsing" and got cut off at "Nuh" when I noticed it was her and then blurted out, "Wow you look really nice." But then some douchebag that also worked there came over and was all, "HEY I GOT THIS THEY WANT YOU TO HELP OVER IN CELLPHONES" and then I just shook my head and said I was browsing and went on with my business. Damn you Best Buy, just let me embarrass myself and let me ask out someone in peace. Maybe some day.
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Ok so my roommate ordered a shitton of Legos because he's building a Lego-based computer case. He doesn't have all the parts he needs for the case, so he told me and our other roommate that we should feel free to build whatever we want with the Legos before he gets everything. I managed to make a 17" tall monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey with the proper 1:4:9 ratio.
How....did you know the ratio? I was going to say that's really not impressive, but when you get the right ratio I lolwuted.
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The ratio's in the book. The real trouble was getting the height right, since Lego width and Lego height aren't the same.
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schwasted live online right now. great local DJ tag team http://www.livestream.com/edmradio
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I just now noticed how the overall SF story sort of compares to Star Wars.
"Buzz stops talking even though he doesn't think he's a toy" comments.
Holy fuck, the first toy story ruined for me.
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It's my dad's b-day today and for his present I'm going to finally start production on the website for his business. It's weird being back in web/graphic design mode. Funny how several years of Photoshop use sticks in your brain forever; it's like I never stopped using it.
EDIT: Just realized after reading the above that the phonetic pronunciation of "b-day" sounds kinda like "bidet" :]
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Well one week and I go up to MEPs for my physical for the military...I have to loose 6 more pounds.
Also for my sub-scores for my asvab I got a 91 in electrical which means if what I said above goes well ALL the jobs for electrical will be open.
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Well one week and I go up to MEPs for my physical for the military...I have to loose 6 more pounds.
YOU? Shit.
I'd hate to see what I'd have to lose if I wanted to join the armed forces.
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YOU? Shit.
I'd hate to see what I'd have to lose if I wanted to join the armed forces.
It depends what you'r height is...FYI they height you lower then your actual height.
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Amusing Minecraft title screen shout-out: "MAP11 has two names."
First person to get the reference wins a cake.
SINCE NUN'YA GOT IT
MAP11 is Doom II has two names. On the intermission screen preceding the level, the name appears as "Circle of Death." However, if you check the automap, the name that is given for the map is "'O' Of Destruction."
And now you know.
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...fuck, and I was just playing Doom 2. Only stage name I remember is traps and treats.
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traps and treats.
kjlfdas
MAP08: Tricks and Traps
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Yes, I've played way, way, way too much Doom throughout my life (since 1993, ma'fockers).
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That is scary, spec.
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Spec, what's the name of the city map near the end of Doom 2 with all the Reverent near the end on a building side?
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http://infamousones.tumblr.com/
pointless internet social media for your consumption.
oh this is mine btw
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Following.
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Spec, what's the name of the city map near the end of Doom 2 with all the Reverent near the end on a building side?
I wouldn't say that it's near the end of the game (since the last "chapter" technically takes place in Hell) but I believe you're referring to Downtown. I want to say that's map 13-ish.
That's one of my favorites.
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Holy shit now you can buy in game tf2 items with real money.
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Man everyones jumpin on the blogging train now.
I would, but I'm always scared about forgetting about the site and never posting. My last journal (livejournal lmfao) was a waste of time... I had a blog at one point that I think I posted twice in. And I deleted my facebook account because I hadn't posted in it for over 2 years.
So I'll think about it.
In the mean time, new avatar. I am also listening to the new Linkin Park album, so I may post about it in the Music Thread.
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Spec, what's the name of the city map near the end of Doom 2 with all the Reverent near the end on a building side?
That's MAP13, downtown, I think.
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We has a spam bot...spekture we need your mighty admin powers.
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Holy shit now you can buy in game tf2 items with real money.
Yeah, you can spend 23 dollars on a fake ingame hat.
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best part of living in Hawaii?
getting Monday Night Football at 2:30 in the afternoon.
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Sometimes I really like CRT monitors.
I have a 17" Dell M780 monitor connected to my Mac. Not a horrible monitor, but it sure isn't an UltraScan. Its, quote, maximum addressable resolution, unquote, is 1600x1200 at 60hz. Right now I have it set to 1792x1344 at 60hz and everything is very clear and readable.
Similarly, the secondary monitor on my PC is a 17" Dell P793. It has a crystal-clear DiamondTron display, could no doubt kill a man if you were to drop it on his head, and has quite possibly the richest color I've ever seen from a VGA monitor. Oh, that thing can also very easily display 1920x1080. Not bad for a small monitor that predates 1080p as a common resolution.
Sometimes analog is better. CRTs don't give a shit about pixels. They don't have no stinkin' native resolution. You just set the timings and, as long as they're within the bounds, it'll happily draw things as sharply as it can, and as long as your display isn't a piece of shit, it'll be crystal clear. LCDs will never, ever have that awesome trait. Playing a game that can't run at your native resolution? Welcome to blur-o-vision, sucka.
On the other hand, at least 26" 1080p LCD monitors don't weigh in excess of 100 pounds. My P793 weighs about 40 pounds. A good 21" CRT weighs in at 70-80 pounds. My 26" LCD weighs 30 pounds. Yay?
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Well there are limits... But yeah, until you hit them, everything is nice.
How do your force your monitor to display past it's manufacturer's limits?
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As I said, resolution means precisely nil on CRTs. As long as your horizontal and vertical timings are within range and you have a decent quality tube, you can hit literally any resolution that operates within those timings. Some programs even did that to their benefit. For instance, ZSNES offers (or at least used to offer in the DOS version) 256x256 and 512x512 resolutions for any video card that it could convince to display it.
About the only thing that I miss from the NVIDIA drivers is the ability to easily add custom resolutions. If you do that, you can essentially force the video card to try to sync the monitor at any given resolution. The thing that I didn't miss from the NVIDIA drivers was their lame resolution detection. Literally, the only 16:10 resolution it gave my monitor was 1920x1200, which was just bloody fantastic if I was running a game that the card couldn't handle well. That combined with its horrendously inconsistent LCD scaling (it occasionally stretched 4:3 images to 16:10 in such a way that it prevented me from overriding it via my monitor menu) literally made custom resolutions a requirement.
ATI doesn't have any built-in facility to add in custom timings, but it does let you ignore the monitor's EDID information. If I ignore that, I can crank the P793 (the EDID for that monitor indicates a maximum resolution of 1600x1200) to 1920x1200 without having to do any real work. I should download PowerStrip and see if I can make some ridiculously whack resolutions. Or not, since PowerStrip doesn't support the R800 series. I'd have to override the monitor's EDID with a custom one if I wanted to do that.
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Why would you want a square resolution in ZSNES? The Snes didn't run at those resolutions anyway.
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Going up to MEPS today folks...I will post some time tomorrow when I get back home.
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Why would you want a square resolution in ZSNES? The Snes didn't run at those resolutions anyway.
256 vertical pixels would let you render at either PAL or NTSC and still give room for UI elements.
It might have also had greater compatibility with video hardware. Oddball resolutions can be done on most monitors without a problem, but the video card needs to be able to be massaged into using it.
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SO WHO ELSE WANTS THIS NOW
http://www.calgarycosplay.com/pedobear.php
Cause I do.
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256 vertical pixels would let you render at either PAL or NTSC and still give room for UI elements.
It might have also had greater compatibility with video hardware. Oddball resolutions can be done on most monitors without a problem, but the video card needs to be able to be massaged into using it.
Right, I forgot about the UI aspect. And yeah, i guess 256x224 would have been damn hard to get nearly any card to do, lol.
This reminds me of how much I'd like to experiment using either an FPGA or something like a Parallax Propeller to generate video signals and such.... (And how much I'd love to actually get my hands on an FPGA in the first place). If only I had a bit of disposable cash. As it stands I've been flat broke since before the end of the summer semester, and I still haven't found a co-op position for this semester :S
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Right, I forgot about the UI aspect. And yeah, i guess 256x224 would have been damn hard to get nearly any card to do, lol.
I'm not really sure if that was the reason, but given how odd video hardware was back in the DOS days it wouldn't surprise me.
I think the NTSC and PAL support (since PAL has more visible scanlines) in addition to a little bit of space for some UI elements and/or letterboxing and/or overscan area is the most likely reason.
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I'm at a complete loss when it comes to screen resolution, no clue what my monitor is even at.
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If you're really, really curious, you can do one of the following:
On XP, right-click the desktop and click "properties." The screen resolution is set in the right-most tab ("Settings", I believe it's called).
On Vista, right-click the desktop and click "personalize." The screen resolution is set in the "screen resolution" applet.
On 7, right-click the desktop and click "Screen Resolution."
Not like it really matters much anymore. LCDs are good at feeding your video card their native resolution, and your video card drivers are good about picking it. The only time you really have to fuss with it is when you're tweaking game settings or setting up a CRT monitor.
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As of today I am now in the USAF
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As of today I am now in the USAF
/clap
Nice job, man. ;D
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As of today I am now in the USAF
Congrats dude. Make your country proud
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http://www.joystiq.com/2010/10/09/iwata-dont-chalk-up-poor-software-sales-to-piracy/
I'm so glad someone finally said this.
Also congrats negro.
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http://www.joystiq.com/2010/10/09/iwata-dont-chalk-up-poor-software-sales-to-piracy/
I'm so glad someone finally said this.
People have been saying that for years. The only difference is that usually it's the PC people talking about that kind of stuff.
Pretty cool that the CEO of Nintendo (of all people) seems to be pretty down to earth when it comes to piracy, though. Most console developers flip the hell out over it.
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Nintendo still practices region-locking. Sony has won this generation
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Nintendo still practices region-locking. Sony has won this generation
Only if you're a weeaboo.
but no really, I never understood region locking.
Also Bad Company 2 and Splinter Cell keep crashing on me today and I have no idea why.
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I always thought region locking was completely and utterly retarded. All it winds up doing is encouraging people to modify their console to give it the ability to, you guessed it, play pirated games.
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I thought region locking was done to avoid any possible licensing issues. Plus isn't the PS3 only region free if the game makers specifically make the game region free?
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No, it wouldn't matter if Sony wanted to region lock PS3 games in the first place. Region 1 bluray discs include both Japan and the US.
Otherwise yeah, it's a matter of licensing problems and that's perfectly understandable. I personally never understood why everyone just goes, "It's retarded!" without ever actually thinking past themselves. Then again, gamers are largely some of the most selfish people ever.
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That's a pretty poor reason for region coding, and it's hardly "perfectly understandable." You've proven my point yourself by indicating that the borders for region 1 Blu-ray discs include Japan and the US. If it were about licensing, each country would be its own "region," especially distinct markets like the Japanese and American markets. Considering Asia itself is divided into two regions, I can't help but believe that Japan's inclusion in region 1 is more of a fan service to importers than anything else, seeing as licensing (which seems to be your entire argument if you ignore the unnecessary blanket attacks) isn't magically shared between our countries.
Licensing affects why, say, a compact disc is sold in one country but not another. Region locking is little more of an anti-consumer way of "enforcing" such a thing. If I were in Europe for a month and my PS3 decided to roll over and die, none of my legitimately purchased, region-locked US titles would play on my European device. When I got back to the US, none of the region-locked European games that I purchased would play on a US device. How is that fair? Am I "selfish" for expecting a PS3 game to play on a PS3, regardless of where it was purchased?
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Considering Asia itself is divided into two regions, I can't help but believe that Japan's inclusion in region 1 is more of a fan service to importers than anything else
Which is why I brought my PS3 with me, but left my mom with the Wii WOOOOOOOOOOO
also there's a Wii + SSBB in my campus center, AND they let you use your own GameCube controller. YESSSSSSSSSSSSS
TL;DR: WOOOOOYESSSSSS
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That's a pretty poor reason for region coding, and it's hardly "perfectly understandable." You've proven my point yourself by indicating that the borders for region 1 Blu-ray discs include Japan and the US. If it were about licensing, each country would be its own "region," especially distinct markets like the Japanese and American markets. Considering Asia itself is divided into two regions, I can't help but believe that Japan's inclusion in region 1 is more of a fan service to importers than anything else, seeing as licensing (which seems to be your entire argument if you ignore the unnecessary blanket attacks) isn't magically shared between our countries.
Licensing affects why, say, a compact disc is sold in one country but not another. Region locking is little more of an anti-consumer way of "enforcing" such a thing. If I were in Europe for a month and my PS3 decided to roll over and die, none of my legitimately purchased, region-locked US titles would play on my European device. When I got back to the US, none of the region-locked European games that I purchased would play on a US device. How is that fair? Am I "selfish" for expecting a PS3 game to play on a PS3, regardless of where it was purchased?
Not to be mean or anything man but you really have no idea what you're talking about on this one.
And honestly, yeah, it IS pretty selfish to expect every game to play on every system everywhere no matter where you are. It ignores a very large side of the business.
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also there's a Wii + SSBB in my campus center, AND they let you use your own GameCube controller.
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Not to be mean or anything man but you really have no idea what you're talking about on this one.
And honestly, yeah, it IS pretty selfish to expect every game to play on every system everywhere no matter where you are. It ignores a very large side of the business.
It'd be nice if you or spectere would provide some links verifying how this shit actually works, rather than just claiming the other doesn't know what they're talking about...
I'll put in my 2 cents, but I'll say now that I'm speaking for myself, as a consumer, and I really don't know how all the licensing crap really works. I'd like to see something explaining that crap.
I'd say that if I payed for a game, I damn well better be able to play that thing on the moon if I bring it with me. That's why I bought the game in the first place. And I'm pretty sure a damn large portion of consumers would agree with me. Just because a company does something, doesn't mean they are right to do so. I can understand refusing to sell a game in a country you can't sell it, but going as far as to block the hardware from being able to play it outside of it's own region is going too far. If I import something, I'm still supporting the people who make the game. I'm probably supporting them a lot more than buying the translated version, anyway. And I can understand if someone says "wait till the american release and buy it them so we can show company xyz that there is demand for game zyx in english". But that doesn't count for the fact that I'd bet pretty heavily that most companies have a pretty good idea of where imported games are going, and can see whether there's a demand for an english version of something based on that anyway (if you can prove me wrong, go right ahead, because I'm just basing this on the fact that generally companies do a pretty good job of tracking their sales).
But If I happen to buy a console in one country (such as canada) and take it with me to another one (such as japan), I REALLY do not want to have to buy another system, just to play any game I buy in japan. I mean, I'm (theoretically) already buying the games, why should I pay an exorbitant price for a second piece of hardware that is 99% identical to the one I already have? That is just exploiting the minority because there aren't enough members to make a stink about it. It's like saying that since your country only has 1% of the population from some small-ass country, your going to make them pay taxes 10 times what everyone else pays, and nobody would listen to them because they're the vast minority anyway. It's pure bullshit.
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Not to be mean or anything man but you really have no idea what you're talking about on this one.
Thanks for the great response. Really.
While you're up there on your high horse, why not actually try to explain why licensing for certain titles is suddenly shared across the US/Asian border for no rhyme or reason? Licensing doesn't work in magical blocks that Sony draws out. Licensing is far more granular than three huge regions and I dare you to try to prove me wrong on that point.
Likewise, if you feel that customers being peeved about region coding enforcement, i.e. "force consumers to pay hundreds or thousands of dollars on new hardware and software if they move to a different country," is selfish, then I sincerely hope that you are never in charge of a major gaming company.
It'd be nice if you or spectere would provide some links verifying how this shit actually works, rather than just claiming the other doesn't know what they're talking about...
I don't think it's too hard to see that region coding isn't enforced due to licensing. If that were the case, US and Canada would be in two distinct codes.
Look at online streaming services, like Hulu or, well, pretty much anything US-based. Oftentimes they'll block Canadian viewers. Why? Licensing. If licensing was such a huge deal, DVDs and games would not work across the US/Canadian border because there is as much of a rift between our two countries than there is between us and Europe when it comes to that stuff.
That also fails to explain why games that are developed entirely in-house are region locked. If it were simply due to licensing there would be no reason for the games to be locked. Region locking is more about control over distribution than licensing. Why do you suppose Sony forced Lik-Sang out of business over a handheld that's largely open in terms of region coding (with UMD movies being a notable exception)?
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Wiimote is for fgts; I hate using that thing for any game
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Wiimote is for fgts; I hate using that thing for any game
Though if it's well calibrated I imagine it'd be fun to use for a rail shooter.
(note: I haven't played a rail shooter for the Wii, nor have I used my Wii to play Wii games in a very long time)
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I can understand how licensing is more granular, but there may be aspects about dealing with licensing multiple countries at once, etc. etc. that get commonly dealt with by those companies. That's the sort of thing I meant. A company's habits can affect stuff like region locking too (say a company is in the habit of licensing a game to multiple countries at once [eg USA and Canada], rather than as individual separate deals.)
Look at online streaming services, like Hulu or, well, pretty much anything US-based. Oftentimes they'll block Canadian viewers. Why? Licensing. If licensing was such a huge deal, DVDs and games would not work across the US/Canadian border because there is as much of a rift between our two countries than there is between us and Europe when it comes to that stuff.
That just reminds me how much I hate seeing messages like "This service is not available in your region". That shit is REALLY annoying.
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Wiimote is for fgts; I hate using that thing for any game
I meant the fact that you're playing brawl, not the controller you're using. And spektur, pointing with the Wii remote is fine, it's the waggle that needed tweeking for accuracy.
Also this whole conversation, really? I mean, this site has some of the smartest people I know posting here, but a few of you tend to have some ego problems. but this conversation is just dumb, and there's no real point to it. Basically region locking can and will be a hindrance on some customers, but they don't give a fuck.
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Also this whole conversation, really? I mean, this site has some of the smartest people I know posting here, but a few of you tend to have some ego problems.
That's why it hasn't already degenerated into everyone calling everyone else a "dum fukn fagt"...
Eggman's line there wasn't particularly nice, and neither was spectere's response (mind you, it was kinda warranted), but I don't think that this will degenerate into a complete flame war.
Plus, I would really enjoy some insight into why some game companies thing region locking is a good thing, because I sure as hell don't understand it. If eggman can shed some light on what their though process is, I'd welcome that information (preferably with a link to someone in the industry talking about it, or some other source like that though).
I mean, I see region locking in some things (American based streaming stuff, Pandora, etc.) and I see plenty of other things that are doing fine without any region locking (y halo thar PC games [sans SC2]).
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I meant the fact that you're playing brawl, not the controller you're using.
o. That would make more sense.
The most "hardcore" fighting game I play is Soul Calibur (lol), so I'm not really the type to care about "real" fighter fans' opinions
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Oh, not really a shock. No one seems to care for 2D fighting games until they learn the basics, but not having anyone to play with is the biggest buzz kill.
Plus, I would really enjoy some insight into why some game companies thing region locking is a good thing, because I sure as hell don't understand it. If eggman can shed some light on what their though process is, I'd welcome that information (preferably with a link to someone in the industry talking about it, or some other source like that though).
Yeah, I'd second that.
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Oh, not really a shock. No one seems to care for 2D fighting games until they learn the basics, but not having anyone to play with is the biggest buzz kill.
Agreed. The other thing that sucks is if you find someone who'll play you, but basically just button mashes and BSs everything.
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Block and punish bro, or throw out some high priority moves.
http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/gay-sex-vs-straight-sex/
Scroll down to the "Have you ever had a sexual encounter with someone of the same sex" and check each gender, it made me lol.
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that's because women are indecisive and don't know what they want
also lol @ the country map having no Hawaii (or Alaska)
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because those aren't parts of America.
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Hawaii feels like a third-world Asian country that speaks English. It is perfect.
EDIT: Removed link because BBC fixed it
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This one made me almost fall over. (http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6982CY20101009)
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Really? No wonder they shot those guys.
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This one made me almost fall over. (http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6982CY20101009)
SO OLDDDDDDDD
How come that article is the only one non-sports fans ever link? (http://www.sj-r.com/sports/x1985977155/Prep-Spotlight-Negro-sets-SHG-record-at-cross-country-meet)
EDIT: I think the funniest part of that article is that no one commented.
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http://tinychat.com/flesy
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Yeah, this site has been slow as hell.
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I'm still as active as ever :P
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I'm still here!! Well kinda.
Anyway, I just finished the last episode of season 3 for the show Breaking Bad. Probably one of the best shows and best season finales I've ever seen. Watch it now.
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Yeah, I keep hearing it's really good.
Also in need of tech help, my friend is trying to play CS:S but his screen is completely sideways, and ctrl alt arrow keys only mirror the screen for him.
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Tell him to rotate his monitor (or his head) and <ahnold>stop whining.</ahnold>
In all seriousness, have him check the screen resolution. Make sure that it's using something like 1280x720 instead of 720x1280.
Failing that, make sure that there everything involving rotation in nView (if he's using an NVIDIA chipset), Catalyst (if he's using an ATI chipset), or Intel's control panel (if he hates himself) is set to zero degrees.
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(if he hates himself)
lawl. Does intel even HAVE rotation ability? I didn't think something that low quality would have an option for that.
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Intel chipsets are actually quite good for doing basic Windows work, including presentations. Their rotation option is actually easier to find and activate than either NVIDIA's or ATI's (the Ctrl+Alt+Arrow shortcuts that a lot of people throw around are Intel-specific).
Intel graphics solutions really aren't bad if you don't mind being a few years behind. I saw a laptop with an Intel chipset from late 2007 play CS:S surprisingly well, for instance, offering similar performance to my laptop's X300. You're never, ever going to get good performance for newer titles, but it's more than good enough for things like EVE, Counter-Strike, and some older titles. I had World of Warcraft (running the WotLK engine) running on my mom's 2006 laptop, with an older Intel i965 chipset. The performance lagged behind even my laptop's X300, but it was still quite playable.
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He seems to have figured it out.
Also goddamn the CS:S community is dumb. People still don't understand what choke means...
http://www.toddschorr.com/Paintings/index.html
Some cool shit I stumbled upon while looking for desktops.
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I didn't even know there was a CS:S community, I thought it was a bunch of 13-year olds, drunks, and suuuper stoned guys running around playing fy_iceworld all day @_@
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It's really not that bad once you find a decent server (which typically aren't 24/7 servers or any sort of arena death match type deal).
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pretty professional newspaper imo (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-11608241)
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Christ. That is terrible.
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That's so gay.
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Quickly, give me a word that has a vague meaning so I can write an essay about the definition of said word.
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Ethical.
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Good stuff, and actually fairly topical, I'll see what I can do.
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Wow, Internet Explorer 9 kills every browser except for Opera in the Sputnik JavaScript Compliance test, scoring 86/5246. For comparison's sake, Opera scores 80, Chrome 7 scores 131, and Firefox 4 scores...262 (lower is better, obviously).
If this keeps up, Firefox is going to have the least compliant JavaScript engine. I wish I could say that I was surprised at this point, but all Firefox 4 has been to me thus far is a complete and utter disappointment.
It's really starting to sound like I have it out for Mozilla, but they're really sucking right now. They managed to pimp the hell out of their browser and actually make it popular, then they just fucking stopped progressing altogether. I use Firefox for one thing -- to watch Internet TV. Why Firefox? Because its AdBlock extension works the best. I used to use IE until I found that 75% of the time I was completely unable to watch South Park because the ad system that they use was garbage (I have no problem watching ads on Internet TV, honestly, but if your ads don't fucking work and prevent me from watching the show, I'm going to skip them). Using Firefox actually felt like a downgrade. Not only did it take several times longer to start up (10-15 seconds on a Core i7? Opera starts up faster on a Pentium II and Safari/Chrome -- with their full rendering engines, no less -- start up faster on ARM-powered mobile devices) but it's falling behind on the thing that it so dearly touted all of these years -- compliance. It's hard not to be annoyed by what they're doing.
If they get their act together, perhaps I'll switch back and stop talking shit, but in the meantime they're not getting any mercy from me.
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While I am not a Firefox apologist, I do like how you compare beta versions of some browsers to stable releases.
cool story coming up: I remember way back in Firefox beta my mom (lol) downloaded it and told me about how awesome it was and why I should switch, and I was expecting to resist to the very end...I ended up switching a few months later. Back in '08, I hear about this new browser called Chrome, and I was expecting to resist to the very end...my end is coming soon :(
Also, I would have laughed in your face if you told me IE would still be relevant/somewhat innovative now 4/5 years ago.
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I love Opera so much. ;o;
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Man, I want to switch browsers now. It should be simple to switch bookmarks right? I have a fuckton of them. Plus, the only fire fox add ons I use are addblocker, tineye, and linkification.
Also no sleep last night, my sleep schedule is fucked and falling asleep at 8 in the morning seems like a dumb idea.
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Also no sleep last night, my sleep schedule is fucked and falling asleep at 8 in the morning seems like a dumb idea.
I have you beat. Been up since 9 yesterday morning and just had 3 shots of wiskey...fuck yeah!
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YEAAAAAAAAAAAH MISERABLE FEELINGS CONTEST!!! WHOOOOO~
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I switched to FF when it came out. I hated IE with a passion back then. Now FF feels like it's the 300 lb elephant in the room that nobody quite wants to actually discuss because it used to have so many reasons that it was better than IE. mine you, I switched to Chrome almost the day it was released. And never looked back. I have FF on here, but I never really use it for anything.
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While I am not a Firefox apologist, I do like how you compare beta versions of some browsers to stable releases.
Eh, the only two stable releases that I'm comparing them to are Chrome and Opera. IE and Firefox are the two browsers that really need work, and IE seems to be the only one that's actually making any real progress. Firefox 4 is a beta product as well and it simply doesn't compare to the IE9 beta. About the only thing that I've witnessed that it does a better job on is Acid3, and even then it only scores two more points.
cool story coming up: I remember way back in Firefox beta my mom (lol) downloaded it and told me about how awesome it was and why I should switch, and I was expecting to resist to the very end...I ended up switching a few months later. Back in '08, I hear about this new browser called Chrome, and I was expecting to resist to the very end...my end is coming soon :(
Give in to the Chrome! Join usssssss...
Also, I would have laughed in your face if you told me IE would still be relevant/somewhat innovative now 4/5 years ago.
Funny story: aside from being bundled with computers, the main reason that IE4 overtook Netscape Navigator (also known as, you guessed it, "Mozilla") is because Netscape fell far behind in standards compliance. When IE4 was released, it was one of the most standards compliant browsers on the market.
It's kind of amusing how history is sort of repeating itself.
I kind of had a feeling that IE would wind up improving. Really, it had to at some point. I just didn't realize that it would improve so goddamn quickly. I thought it would be more of an incremental thing. IE8 was a big step over IE7, but the leap from IE8 to IE9 is mammoth. It's practically a completely different engine.
Man, I want to switch browsers now. It should be simple to switch bookmarks right? I have a fuckton of them. Plus, the only fire fox add ons I use are addblocker, tineye, and linkification.
Browsers can usually import bookmarks without a hitch. I'm using the Mac version of Chrome right now and it's giving me Firefox as an import option. I can't imagine the Windows version being any different.
As for your extensions:
Chrome AdBlock: http://chromeadblock.com/ (http://chromeadblock.com/)
TinEye for Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/haebnnbpedcbhciplfhjjkbafijpncjl (https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/haebnnbpedcbhciplfhjjkbafijpncjl)
Bprod(uctive) (one of its features does what Linkification does): https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/oiamoccpbchfhpiokdmojejefcnijhlk (https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/oiamoccpbchfhpiokdmojejefcnijhlk)
Happy Chroming!
I switched to FF when it came out. I hated IE with a passion back then. Now FF feels like it's the 300 lb elephant in the room that nobody quite wants to actually discuss because it used to have so many reasons that it was better than IE. mine you, I switched to Chrome almost the day it was released. And never looked back. I have FF on here, but I never really use it for anything.
300 lbs? That's an awfully slim elephant. ;)
I'd say that it's more like a 300 lb former star athlete that constantly talks shit about the guy across the hall who has a physical deformity while continuing to stuff Cheetos in his mouth while furiously fapping to hentai. The thing is, the guy across the hall is saving up for a plastic surgery op to get his deformity fixed.
Basically, by the time Firefox 4 is released, it's going to weigh about 500 lbs and barely be able to roll out of the couch to get another bag of crisps while IE is going to be a better-looking guy who doesn't get continually rejected by the two hot sisters down the hall (WebKit and Opera).
Man, that was a fucked up analogy.
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No, that was an awesome analogy. 8)
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No, that was an awesome analogy. 8)
What he said :P
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I'm pretty sure you'd still notice a 300 pound elephant, i mean that thin has to be crying out "kill me" or something lol
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Hmm, true.
Or the elephant could be extremely young and thus cute. I think they "only" weigh 250-300 pounds at birth (OH YEAH, IS THAT ALL?!). So, uh, cuddleable?
(http://imgur.com/B939M.jpg)
Yeah, cuddleable.
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tell me when chrome gets a built-in RSS reader guyth
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I just keep Google Reader open in an pinned tab. It works as well as any standalone reader I've seen and is... *drumroll* in the cloud (OMG). But seriously, it's nice to be able to open my feeds from anywhere and have their state persist so I've just sort of stuck with that.
One thing that it curiously lacks is the ability to easily subscribe to feeds. Luckily, there is an official extension (https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/nlbjncdgjeocebhnmkbbbdekmmmcbfjd) for that.
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So, uh, is dead space, overlord, and bioshock all for the PC any good? Honestly Dead Space has me the most interested.
Oh and zombie driver looks fun.
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I didn't play Bioshock on the system because some fucking halfwit at 2K decided to throw SecuROM on the Steam version.
That aside, I did play the 360 version of it and, frankly, I have no clue why that game is so popular. The scenery is beautiful and the story is intriguing. I tried to like it, but the gameplay is just crap. It literally looks like they put no effort into balancing the game, they just made the respawn system ridiculous to make sure that the player doesn't get pushed back too far.
Oh, and if you do decide to play it, I really hope you like the game Pipe Mania (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipe_Mania), because you're going to be seeing a lot of it. If you think that the Mass Effect's "hacking" (QTEs for the console versions and even dumber crap for the PC version) is bad just wait until you play that for your twentieth time.
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I'll avoid it then, because I've had another person tell me this and I was never all that impressed with the game.
I might look into Dead Space, considering I have a controller and I hear the game plays fine with one. It's a pretty shit controller tho.
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I didn't play much of Dead Space, but it seemed like it was a pretty fun game.
If you want a decent controller, pick up a wired 360 controller (the last one that I picked up was around $30). Many games pick it up automatically and provide you with the exact same control set as the respective 360 verison of the game would have. I can't for the life of me remember if you have a 360 or not, but if you do it makes a perfectly good secondary controller, mostly because you don't have to constantly worry about making sure that it has batteries.
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True that, I don't have a 360, but I got a used wired 360 controller a while back for $20, and it works perfectly every time I use it. The 360 headset also works with it.
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Heh, yeah, I actually use a wired 360 controller and a headset for Ventrilo and Skype. It works beautifully.
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I probably will, I already have a fighting pad, so a 360 controller would cover the rest of my needs.
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So I got minecraft and I have to say addicting as hell. I have been playing for almost 4 hours now
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Yeah. I really want to figure out a way to get the damned halloween update. I've got no way to buy it and no money coming in any time soon, but I REALLY want that update :/
EDIT: Found it. I'm definitely gonna buy this whenever I get the money.
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the BBC is the best news service ever imo (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-11575773)
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So it would appear it is nearly impossible to get premium membership for NND without living in Japan. Many other companies do this, and I am simply left wondering why so many Japanese companies do not seem to want my dirty, foreign money.
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It's dirty and foreign, I thought that was apparent! 8)
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the BBC is the best news service ever imo (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-11575773)
Britain has the best news stories ever. (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/relationships/6709646/All-men-watch-porn-scientists-find.html)
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Britain has the best news stories ever. (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/relationships/6709646/All-men-watch-porn-scientists-find.html)
This will end well. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-11696035)
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posting from my "new" iPod Touch. bought a second generation iPod from LunarKeys's girlfriend. it is enjoyable! :V
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You should try jailbreaking it. :]
It's easy and quite awesome.
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Giggity?
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http://www.picturesforsadchildren.com/index.php?comicID=347
Goddamn, this goddamn comic.
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I love the BBC (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11731928)
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That was on the local news here.
Someone here should buy it.
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The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure: a Child-lover's Code of Conduct has now been removed from sale.
too rate
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quick someone torrent it
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http://www.ustream.tv/channel/teamspooky
Canadian tourney going on. Lots of terrible players getting their shit pushed in.
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Huh, curious how other people would solve this
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/11/13/weekinreview/deficits-graphic.html?hp
I had something like 29%/71%
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I had 42%/58%, but I didn't spend nearly as much time as I probably should have, lol.
The problem with stuff like that is that it completely masks the true difficulty of those decisions. Nobody knows for sure how much you would save by enacting many of those measures. Plus, there are always unintended side effects to those things that people need to try to figure out a and plan for.
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I did 35%/65% :p fuckin banks
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Lol, yeah, that, and estate taxes. Those were one of my big things. I mean, if you can manage to be worth millions of dollars, I think there is a bit of extra tax due... I'm all for a free economy, but the people making absurd amounts of money deserve to give a fair bit back.
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Lol, yeah, that, and estate taxes. Those were one of my big things. I mean, if you can manage to be worth millions of dollars, I think there is a bit of extra tax due... I'm all for a free economy, but the people making absurd amounts of money deserve to give a fair bit back.
Must be nice to live outside of the US. Many (dare I say "most"?) Americans will argue that people making millions of dollars a year do not deserve to pay any more than they do now...even when they themselves are under the poverty line.
And people wonder why I dislike this country
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I've never understood how slightly taxing the rich more isn't a good idea. Every argument against it is just bullshit. "BAWW PEOPLE WON'T WANT TO WORK MORE BECAUSE THEY'LL GET TAXED MORE" is the dumbest shit I've ever heard.
I did 35%/65% :p fuckin banks
HOW DO THEY WORK?
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Must be nice to live outside of the US. Many (dare I say "most"?) Americans will argue that people making millions of dollars a year do not deserve to pay any more than they do now...even when they themselves are under the poverty line.
And people wonder why I dislike this country
Fucking teabaggers. Those guys should be in an insane aslyum. (And yeah, I do follow american politics a bit. Seeing as you guys are our big neighbour, it does tend to make some difference here.) I like to see myself as a North American first, and a Canadian second. Sometimes I truly wish I could vote in the American elections as well.
To be fair, I'd much rather live in the US than Russia, or China, or a good portion of the world, for that matter. I just think that maybe some of the socialist ideas (NOT communist, and not what people are calling socialist, but the REAL socialist ideals) are good. I think that there should be a much smaller distance between how much the rich earn, and how much the poor earn. I mean, even here in Canada, the politics are retarded.
<rant topic="Politics" length="not long enough">
And Canada has it's share of retarded political shit too. I'd love to see our NDP party get some real power, but like hell that's happening any time soon. Every time the conservatives fuck up, people vote liberal, and when the liberals fuck up, they vote conservative. Nobody ever seems to realize that the NDP would probably fix most of the crap people are complaining about. We're practically a fucking 2 party system, thanks to how retarded Canadians seem to be.
It bothers me that even here in a place that is known for being socialist, it seems like idealism takes a back seat to the ridiculous posturing, and preening that is politics. And what's worse, we don't even vote "for" our ideals, we always seem to be voting "against" whoever fucked up last. One year the liberals are caught misusing money, so the conservatives end up in power, and then a couple years later, they get caught, so the liberals are back in power. And what's worse, our conservatives are far more conservative now than they were a generation ago, thanks to the crazy reform party taking over. It's like if the teabaggers took over the republican party :/ But we have an alternative (well, a couple, but the only one that matters is the NDP). A lot of my friends, and even my brother voted for them (I voted liberal because I knew damn well that one election wasn't gonna suddenly see the NDP winning enough seats to be in power, and I'd much rather get Harper and his cronies out of power) but it seems that outside of the young generation, the NDP isn't getting nearly enough votes to matter. It's sad, when so many people want change, and refuse to vote for the one party that would actually bring some change...
</rant>
Yeah, I could write a pretty large essay on this shit. We still have our fair share of retarded people. We might be more liberal than the states, but there are still crazy bastards like the teabaggers here (the conservative party is now full of them).
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The stuff on American politics I will not comment on, because nothing else needs to be said
I actually read cbc.ca every day. I enjoy seeing how much more...intelligent and overall less "angry" the commenters are. From what I understand, the Conservatives are half-retarded and blame everyone else for everything, the Liberals go "uhhhhhhhhhh" when asked for comment about anything/something that could give them a lead in the polls comes up, and the NDP is like that kid that's half your age that's only there to be the butt of jokes.
I actually find Canadian politics interesting, despite my strong disdain for American politics. And despite my dislike for the US, I would rather live here than Russia or China, too, but for a couple of extra reasons (I don't remember Japanese people being well-received in China or Russia :P)
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lol, you've got it pretty close there. The NDP are a little more socialist than the liberals (Basically, more left wing in general) but they also seem to have the least retarded posturing and shit. Basically, if they say they want to do something, they're gonna try to do it, and do it right, unlike both the liberals and the conservatives (neither of whom ever seem to deliver on half their promises, like most politicians).
There's one thing I really wish that we'd take from american politics. You guys get to vote for a particular candidate, while we're stuck voting for a party, and hoping that the leader of the party is someone we actually like. (And we have no actual power in deciding who the leader of a party is, that is entirely controlled by party members :/)
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That is.... wow.... 28 seats for the green party? lol.
But yeah, that is pretty fucked. Pretty much backwards from what things usually look like. Aside from the green party failing miserably, like they always do.
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I found the fact that the Bloc is the official opposition to be the funniest part personally
There are just so many weird things that would have to happen irl in order for that to happen (Hey Alberta: Have you voted BQ lately?) that it makes the surreal part of my brain happy.
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Good point, lol. I've always basically felt like the Bloc were a joke (albeit not a very funny one).
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hey fgts
As some of you may have noticed, I've been getting into making gifs lately. However, I can't seem to figure out how to make gifs with text like this (http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/5862/didnotread.gif), with the 1-2-3 style of appearing text. Any help kthx
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gifs are usually multiple frames aren't they? You should be able to just copy paste the text on to every frame you want it to be on, adding other text to other frames as needed. I could be wrong though, but when I open a gif up, all the frames become availible.
ALSO
RIP Pat Burns. Man, that name makes me nostalgia alot.
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gifs are usually multiple frames aren't they? You should be able to just copy paste the text on to every frame you want it to be on, adding other text to other frames as needed.
Basically this.
GIFs are also limited to a 256 color palette shared amongst all frames, so make sure to use as few colors for the text as possible (or colors that are already being used by the actual image) so that quality is preserved as best as possible.
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I've started sticking to a regular work out routine, maybe I can keep this up.
Also the SSF4 finals were grand, shame that Vangeif lost to a counter pick. Still, he did an amazing job.
Also also I'm terribly afraid that I'm a dumb, boring person.
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Despite my rather lukewarm reaction to the original iPhone announcement, I think I've become an iTard.
I have two mobile phones -- one for personal use that I own and one for a mixture of personal and business that's owned by my company. The phone that I own is a T-Mobile G1 -- also known as the HTC Dream -- and runs Android. My company phone is an iPhone 3G which, obviously runs iOS.
The G1 has a faster processor than the iPhone, not to mention more RAM. It has a better camera then the iPhone 3G with autofocus, supports multitasking, has a slide-out keyboard, has a digital compass which is reasonable accurate, and really does look rather nice on paper. Here's the kicker: I can't bloody stand using the thing.
Why? Fucking Android, that's why. I've never seen any OS that can take a powerful ARM platform and absolutely bring it to its knees. Android 1.1 (which came on the device when I bought it) ran rather well, keeping up with an iPhone 2G/3G running iOS 3 (definitely not as speedy as an iPhone 2G/3G with iOS 2, though) and being rather snappy. That said, Android 1.1 was, in some ways, a downgrade from my Motorola flip phone. Then, Android 1.5 came out and the phone got ludicrously slow. 1.6 sped it up a bit, but...well, if you've ever tried to run iOS 4.0 on an iPhone 3G, you'd know what it feels like. My usable phone turned into a slow hunk of plastic. The major difference is that Apple realized that they fucked up and made 4.2 rather speedy on the old platform while the G1 was perpetually stuck running 1.6.
I got around the speed issue by using a custom firmware and installing Android 2.1, then 2.2. Well, sort of. The phone sure is fast on the home screen, but the rest of it is a mixed bag. Here's the process that I have to go through when I try to reply to a text message:
1) Press a button to wake up the display.
2) Slide to unlock the screen.
3) Wait about 5 seconds for the home screen to draw (note: I only have two widgets active, neither of which hit the CPU or RAM very hard).
4) Press the Messaging icon.
5) Wait a few seconds for the screen to show feedback indicating that I hit the icon.
6) Wait about 10 more seconds to see a black screen come up.
7) Wait about 5 seconds for the messages to pop up.
8) Decide whether I want to try to use the shitty, unresponsive, and inaccurate on-screen keyboard or use the device keyboard, which will add about five seconds to the experience because it actually has to rotate the screen. Gasp.
At this point, the app is relatively responsive, but it took 15 goddamn seconds to get to that point. Oh, I almost forgot: 192MB of RAM is not enough for Android. Even though I manually went through and killed off a ton of services that I don't plan to use on the phone, Messaging sometimes manages to run out of memory on first launch and winds up getting force quit by Android, forcing me to have to reopen it and wait 15 more seconds before it becomes usable. 1.5/1.6 were both terrible in terms of launch speed, but at least Messaging wouldn't force quit on those versions.
When I had my iPhone 3G running iOS 4 (I must emphasise: 3.1.3 or 4.2.1. 4.0 and 4.1 are bad, m'kay?) it wasn't that damn slow. Here is the process that I take when I want to send a message on the iPhone (which is now running 3.1.3, but the experience is identical on all versions I've used on it):
1) Press the home or lock button to wake the screen up.
2) Slide to unlock.
3) Press "Messages" on the dock.
4) Wait about three seconds.
That is literally it. No long delays, no waiting for the damn SpringBoard to catch up, and no random force quits (well, technically I do get them in certain instances, but those are triggered and required by some jailbreakware that I have installed that adds some additional SMS functionality; without that being installed I've never had Messages force quit). It's how a smartphone should work. Hell, it's how a modern cell phone. It's how my "dumb" Motorola flip phone worked!
The terrible part about this is that my experiences aren't even limited to my handset. Technically, my phone isn't even supposed to run Android 2.2, but I have it running that anyway (more on that in a bit). However, I know an owner of the original Droid -- a handset that does support 2.2 -- that has the exact same issues with it that I'm having with my unsupported G1, even more in some cases.
That leads me to another major problem with Android: market fragmentation. Any phone that you wind up buying could have anywhere from a ~500MHz ARM11 or a 1GHz+ ARM Cortex-A8, anything from Android 1.6 (yes, they still sell Android 1.6 handsets) to 2.2, anything from 256MB of RAM to 1GB, literally any amount of internal storage, any screen resolution, a few have a physical keyboard, different GPUs, and not to mention various other manufacturer-specific quirks that can literally prevent well-behaved apps from running. It's J2ME all over again.
Developers not only have to deal with all of that crap, but they also have to deal with the mess that is the Android SDK. By and large, if an app is released for iOS, it will work nicely with future hardware platforms. If I run older iOS apps (as in designed for iOS 2, to be run on an iPhone 2G/3G) on my 4th gen iPod touch, the apps still work great, sometimes better than it does on the hardware that it was targeted for due to the increased RAM size and better CPU/GPU. With an Android app, you just have to cross your fingers and hope for the best. While things have certainly improved, it still gives off a vibe of everything just being thrown together. It's truly awful. About the only saving grace is that the Android platform was designed around a lot of variables, so the Android simulator can be configured to be just about anything. While that doesn't cover the aforementioned "manufacturer-specific quirks", it'll at least allow you to see how your program would look on all varieties of different hardware configurations.
Probably the worst and most predominant bit of market fragmentation is the actual version of Android. Every time there's a new version of Android, hundreds of comments in the Market say "I upgraded to X.Y and this app broke! Please update!" While that does certainly happen in Apple's walled garden, I noticed considerably fewer issues going from iOS 2 to iOS 3 and iOS 3 to iOS 4 than I have going from Android 1.5 to 1.6. Android breaks app compatibility regularly in what should be minor OS revisions, and in the entire time I've been watching the Android market (from 1.1 to present) it's never stopped being an issue.
The worst part about all of this is that if you have an older handset like mine, you tend to get stuck between a rock and a hard place. I could either stick with the supported 1.6, still have a fairly slow phone, and have a limited app selection, or I could stay with 2.2, have an even slower phone, and be able to use it for a lot more things. What's the solution here? I've only had the damned thing for a little over a year and I can't do shit with it! I'm not going to buy another piece of shit Android handset only to have the same bloody thing happen. I'm not completely stupid.
The worst part is that the iPhone 3G, which pre-dates the G1, is considerably more useful. It's based on the same platform as the original iPhone, with 3G capabilities added in, but it's still a dream to use! Just earlier I was browsing the web with Safari. I clicked on a YouTube link and it opened in the YouTube app, as expected. I pressed Done and it went right back to the web page. That's the way it fucking should be! Even with as dated as the processor in that sucker is, everything still handled smoothly. It took a bit more time to render the web pages than it would if I were to use my iPod, but it was still well within acceptable boundaries.
I've tried to do similar things on my Android device and I've found that actually getting back to what you were working on is a trying experience at best. You can hit the back button and, if you're lucky, it'll work. No guarantees, though. Sometimes the OS will force quit the browser from under you and you'll have to find your way back to where you were after waiting for the page to reload. It doesn't need to have a consistent or rational behavior because...well, because it's Android.
And seriously, that iPhone experience that I just related inspired me to write this rant. Honestly, when I do things like that with iOS it just feels very intuitive and natural. It really highlights just how much of a gigantic kludge Android is.
The saddest part is that I started out being very pro-Android and borderline dismissive of the iPhone. I loved the capabilities of the G1 when it was coming to the market. Now I love iOS and regret ever buying an Android handset. Funny how that works, isn't it?
I am seriously considering getting an iPhone if it moves to Verizon. If not, well, I guess I'll just go back to a flip phone for all of my personal calls/texts. I don't know how much longer I'm going to be able to tolerate my G1.
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To augment my rant above: I just updated my iPhone to iOS 4.2. It runs beautifully. Far better than the 4.0 disaster and, in some workloads, even better than 3.1.
A two and a half year old phone running on a three and a half year old platform with a 412MHz CPU and 128MB of RAM and able to run the latest operating system version? Not bad, especially when you consider that a phone with a 528MHz ARM (which I overclocked to 572MHz due to performance issues!) and 192MB of RAM can't run any OS other than the one that it shipped with acceptably.
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Nice sight xxxxx, any recommended albums?
Also spec, I usually think smart phone users are assholes (getting expensive phones because it's largely a fad [my friend said touch screens were the future, I disagreed] and largley using said phones for facebook, texting, and really dumb "apps") but you seem to be using yours to its fullest.
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I have a cheap Pay As You Go phone and it seems to be doing me fine <.<
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Also spec, I usually think smart phone users are assholes (getting expensive phones because it's largely a fad [my friend said touch screens were the future, I disagreed] and largley using said phones for facebook, texting, and really dumb "apps") but you seem to be using yours to its fullest.
Well, I would use my G1 to its fullest if it would let me. :< Agreed on the comment about the average smart phone user, though. I'm continually amazed how many people buy $400 phones just to text on. Oh well, more power to them if they want to blow their money.
My main motivations for owning a smartphone for personal use is the ability to check my e-mail on the go and look things up on the Internet while I'm at stores. Running applications is also nice, whether it be a game to pass the time or some sort of utility that I can use to make things easier. I like the iPhone in particular because it doesn't overcomplicate things.
Android apologists are quick to jump on people who have any complaints about their platform by saying shit like "rooting your phone will fix that!" or "if you're complaining about performance and don't have a task killer, I have no sympathy!" Seriously, these tools should listen to themselves. I paid $160 for the fucking phone. Why should I have to dick around with low-level OS shit just to get it working acceptably? That would be like if a large computer manufacturer just shipped their customers a box of parts with a note saying "good luck, fucker." Sure, the tweakers and tinkerers would love it, but your average customer wouldn't be too pleased.
I have a cheap Pay As You Go phone and it seems to be doing me fine <.<
Yeah, I'm actually thinking about going back to my half-broken flip phone. :x It's great at making calls, decent at texting, doesn't require a data plan, doesn't drive me insane, and I can still use my work phone for doing on-the-road browsing.
It was a lesson learned, at least.
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I have an LG Rumor. Thing runs great with 1 exception. Loading any of the text message folders when they have more than like, 40 messages stored, is INCREDIBLY slow. But I rarely need to do that, so it's acceptable. Also, I'm using pay as you go, and it's pretty cheap... Of course, my phone's out of service for now thanks to being broke :/
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http://g-k.sakura.ne.jp/chinko-ondo.swf
Oh japan...
http://everything2.com/title/Chinko+Ondo
On a much more serious note:
http://www.reddit.com/r/self/comments/ec3xh/even_skimming_this_post_once_will_blow_your_mind/
What. The. Fuck. How does that legally exist? Why has nobody managed to even deal a serious blow to them yet??
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I had like $60 rollover built up once, but AT&T stole it when I accidentally put a card in a day late.
Wow, that's bullshit.
You'd think that sort of thing would just stay in your account, not mystically disappear if your payment is slightly late once.
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On a much more serious note:
http://www.reddit.com/r/self/comments/ec3xh/even_skimming_this_post_once_will_blow_your_mind/
What. The. Fuck. How does that legally exist? Why has nobody managed to even deal a serious blow to them yet??
That is pretty outrageous. Makes me want to find those responsible and set fire to their houses at night.
Oh and how about that war with Corea?
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http://www.reddit.com/r/self/comments/ec3xh/even_skimming_this_post_once_will_blow_your_mind/
What. The. Fuck. How does that legally exist? Why has nobody managed to even deal a serious blow to them yet??
Holy shit, that's scary, especially after reading the page where he answers specific questions about the school...
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rant
I have a Galaxy S running Android 2.2 and I haven't had any issues with it. Only real things that bug me are that Android arbitrarily doesn't close out apps, which is solved with a task manager (though it would certainly be nice if I didn't need it...); and I had issues with battery life until I rooted the phone and got SetCPU. Everything aside, the phone is responsive, the onscreen keyboard works great (I'm really liking Swype), and I really haven't had anything like the issues you mentioned since I got the phone.
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I have a Galaxy S running Android 2.2 and I haven't had any issues with it. Only real things that bug me are that Android arbitrarily doesn't close out apps, which is solved with a task manager (though it would certainly be nice if I didn't need it...); and I had issues with battery life until I rooted the phone and got SetCPU. Everything aside, the phone is responsive, the onscreen keyboard works great (I'm really liking Swype), and I really haven't had anything like the issues you mentioned since I got the phone.
That's because the Galaxy S is a top of the line phone. A phone running a gigahertz ARM Cortex-A8 and half a gig of RAM had better run well. I'm referring more to the fact that anyone who has a sub-gigahertz phone is basically screwed, even more so if their carrier pushes 2.2 to their phone. Also, thanks to the various forms of market fragmentation with Android, if you don't update to 2.2 (or at least 2.1) you're going to have a hard time running a bunch of Market applications.
From what I've seen, the only way to make Android run well is to throw a bunch of hardware at it and hope for the best. My iPhone 3G running the latest OS is extremely usable with surprisingly little lag. My G1, on the other hand, can barely run 1.5/1.6 even though its hardware is quite a bit better than the iPhone 3G. That, to me, is a serious problem. My only choice right now is to jump back to a well-optimized ROM based on 1.X (say, Cyanogenmod 4) and hope that everything I need runs on it or to go back to my flip phone.
You could argue that Android needs more power because of some of its features, like multitasking. That said, why on earth do I need true multitasking on a phone? I think a lot of people really overvalue true multitasking on a mobile platform. The screen is so small that you really can't fit multiple programs on-screen at once. The CPU is generally weak enough where running multiple programs at once would be a bad idea. The only thing that should feasibly run in the background are things like media players. If I press the home button it's because I want to stop using the app and return to my home screen, not leave the app running. That's how literally every other platform works. Except Android, that is. Android has absolutely no concept of quitting an application, aside from when you go in and tell it to kill it.
I actually forgot to mention battery life in my original rant. Android doesn't go to sleep properly about 10% of the time. The only way around that little "feature" is rooting the phone, tweaking the behavior with Spare Parts, and getting a SetCPU profile. Even then I've had that fail. Sometimes, mysteriously, something will keep the CPU clocked to full speed and my phone will die within an hour. This happened in every version of Android that was on the device, from 1.1 to 2.2. That is a severe issue and one of the reasons why my phone rarely leaves the house. There was one time that I needed to make a call on the road. Let's just say, it's a good thing I had the iPhone with me. I know several other people with Android phones, rooted and non-rooted, that have the same issue, though it's not as severe on the non-G1s. The battery life was one of the negative points of the G1, and it certainly wasn't helped by Android's bugs. My phone, idle and off the charger, lasts anywhere from two hours (when it's "sleeping") to 3-5 days (when it really is sleeping). Make sense of that if you will.
All in all, you simply should not have to do any of that in order to get a usable cell phone. There's no reason that anyone should have to download task managers and root the device. With the iPhone, you jailbreak if you want additional functionality, not to maintain stability. I mean, reread your post. You said you had no issues with it but you still had to install a task manager and a tool to set your CPU's clock speed. Why should you have to do that on a consumer device? You don't have to do that kind of crap on computers and you most certainly shouldn't have to do it on a mobile phone.
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Ok, I see what you're saying. Android's way less stable than any full release should be. I'm used to having shit phones, so an Android was a pretty big upgrade. I'm also used to tweaking things to get them working right, so I didn't really see it as the consumer-level problem that it is.
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Yeah, you're pretty much nailed my concerns with it. My biggest issue with it is that I very much depend on my cell phone and my fancy smartphone just isn't dependable due to its OS.
Now that I've cooled down a bit I'm going to try downgrading to 1.6 tonight. I suppose I can deal with it running slowly as long as it's reasonably stable. Right now it's slow as hell and I have a hard time keeping core programs running, so going back to 1.1 would be a major improvement at this point.
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You know, I'm for the concept of (the whole "women are equal to men" thing) feminism but there are too many goddamn crazy feminists.
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I just rigged together a simple 2-bit adder in Minecraft. Now I feel somewhat white and nerdy.
Here's some screenies (click to enlarge):
(http://imgur.com/sgh0ys.jpg) (http://imgur.com/sgh0y.jpg)(http://imgur.com/xKmWEs.jpg) (http://imgur.com/xKmWE.jpg)
It's probably more complicated than it needs to be and it's kind of messy because I didn't plan anything (design plan: "hmm, let's make something that can add 3+3...GO GO GO"), but hey, it works. It was a nice introduction to redstone.
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That is quite a bit more messy than it needs to be. I've got a 1bit adder set up in one of my worlds. What really gets interesting is when you try to make a proper circuit that does something useful (like say, set all the right turns in your rail system so you can select a destination)
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there are too many goddamn crazy feminists.
They're a vocal minority, like militant atheists and evangelical Christians. They make the entire movement look way crazier than it actually is, and that makes everything suck pretty hard.
This woman in particular actually does fit the description of "feminazi" since she seems to think all men should stay out of the Female Master Race. And fuck, the first comment says that calling the gay/trans community LGBT is "steeped phallocentrism" (despite the fact that LGBT, as an acronym, represents men and women in equal parts) because it acknowledges that *gasp* males exist too.
It must be tiring to actively hate most of the world for irrelevant reasons.
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That is quite a bit more messy than it needs to be.
and it's kind of messy because I didn't plan anything
One step ahead of you.
Most of the complication arose from me forgetting about various things. For instance, I wasn't handling carry properly on the bit 1 adders, so certain combinations would give improper result. This is one of the reasons why I have 5-block high staircases and a bunch of gates sticking out of the back of the "machine."
All in all, this could have been made smaller and neater if I had planned it, but like I said, I didn't plan it at all. I literally threw together one adder, made sure it worked, then threw another one in. The carry logic, particularly for result bit 2, is probably more complex than it needs to be.
But, again, it works fine, and that was the sole objective. Considering it's my first redstone machine ever, I don't think it's too hideous. I can work on making a better adder another time, and I probably will.
I've got a 1bit adder set up in one of my worlds. What really gets interesting is when you try to make a proper circuit that does something useful (like say, set all the right turns in your rail system so you can select a destination)
Yeah, I was kind of inspired to mess with redstone when I saw a video of someone who set up an elaborate subway system.
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Probably the one I was thinking of when I write that, and I was agreeing with you when I made that post. I made mine look very close to what a 1 bit adder with carry out would look like on paper, but that's because I could design one of those in my sleep. I actually had installed some special software (same stuff that is used for designing the logic/functions of FPGAs, and such, very advanced stuff) because I wanted to design and test the logic before I made anything complex with redstone (and I didn't want to deal with the shitty redstone simulator that seems to be so common, because the program I had could create a completely simplified logic chart out of a functional description of how I wanted it to work). I could basically write a program in the language, and have that program synthesize the logic required to make my program work.
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Just out of curiosity, what software did you use to plan out the logic? I mainly ask because the redstone simulator is kind of an abomination, really. I tried to use it once before and found that it was a pain in the ass just to visualize a chain of repeaters. It's literally easier to just jump into Minecraft and throw blocks around.
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Its called Quartus II, but I had to LEGITIMATELY ACQUIRE it... There is one called Logic Friday (http://sontrak.com/downloads.aspx) I use for small stuff. Quartus is a MASSIVE program (try something like 13 GB... an no build in logic simulation capabilities.) Logic Friday can lay stuff out as a diagram, or build one from either a truth table, or a logic function, and can simulate and simplify as well, it's just kinda clunky and unprofessional, but its free.
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I'd probably go with Logic Friday if anything. No sense installing something massive on my computer just to dick with a Minecraft feature, after all. :p Thanks for the link.
I also found a couple more via Google -- Logisim (http://ozark.hendrix.edu/~burch/logisim/) and CEDAR Logic Simulator (http://cedarlogic.scienceontheweb.net/). I'll probably try all three and work out which one I like better.
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I've seen this Minecraft business pop up a lot lately and I have no idea what it is. Someone care to enlighten me?
PS did anyone know that Marshall Mathers made a short cartoon series based on himself as Eminem? If you couldn't guess, it was a pile of shit.
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Imagine if Garry's Mod got a graphics downgrade and as a tradeoff you were allowed to take apart everything in the world including the world itself and build whatever you wanted out of the remains.
Also Spec, I used Logism for my computer architecture course last semester. On Windows it runs pretty well, but the GUI tends to freak out a bit on Linux OS's. Still, it's really easy to build digital circuits in it, so it's a nice little program to have.
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I've seen this Minecraft business pop up a lot lately and I have no idea what it is. Someone care to enlighten me?
minecraftwiki.net
Imagine if Garry's Mod got a graphics downgrade and as a tradeoff you were allowed to take apart everything in the world including the world itself and build whatever you wanted out of the remains.
You forgot that unless you set the game to peaceful, you get to deal with monsters that want to kill you when it gets dark out (or anywhere that is too dark, really)
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Oh yeah, you get attacked by spiders and cows and stuff like that. I learned that the hard way when I first played and decided to see how far down I could dig a cave.
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Bah, cows don't attack (they give you leather to make armor, when you kill them), and spiders aren't that dangerous. The damned creepers are what you want to watch out for. They seem to find a lot of amusement in turning you into nothing more than a small hole in the ground. And skeletons like to turn you into a pincushion... Oh yeah, and now that "hell" exists, there are some ghosts that throw fireballs at you...
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Imagine if Garry's Mod got a graphics downgrade and as a tradeoff you were allowed to take apart everything in the world including the world itself and build whatever you wanted out of the remains.
That's...actually a really good way of putting it succinctly. O.o
Also Spec, I used Logism for my computer architecture course last semester. On Windows it runs pretty well, but the GUI tends to freak out a bit on Linux OS's. Still, it's really easy to build digital circuits in it, so it's a nice little program to have.
Sweet. Yeah, I'll definitely give it a go, then. Also, it was the first thing to come up when I Googled "logic simulator," and Google knows everything, so therefore it must be good.
Bah, cows don't attack
Like hell! I can't tell you how many times I've been pushed off cliffs because of those damned bovines.
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This woman in particular actually does fit the description of "feminazi" since she seems to think all men should stay out of the Female Master Race. And fuck, the first comment says that calling the gay/trans community LGBT is "steeped phallocentrism" (despite the fact that LGBT, as an acronym, represents men and women in equal parts) because it acknowledges that *gasp* males exist too.
Yeah, it's amazing.
Also good news, the stray dog that's been on my back porch for several days has been found. My mother called the owner after seeing something up at publix and they came and picked him up.
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TBH I was more offended by her attitude towards transsexuals, but yeah, what a piece of shit. She has no right to be writing for something that calls itself an LGBT support website :/
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All forms of bigotry tend to piss me off. I showed it to one of my friends, who's a MTF transgender, and she was pretty damn angered by it too. Really I find the writer's attitude towards everything and everyone that disagrees with her a bit disturbing, and the utter denial that she could ever be wrong is even worse. She doesn't even support the rest of the gay/trans community at a time when there's still civil rights issues to iron out, issues that affect everyone LGBT. I mean, what could have happened to her that made her hate everything that had or supported a Y chromosome?
At least the majority seems to be in agreement that she's batshit, so, like the WBC and Glenn Beck, she's not making a real political impact so much as pissing people off. I always feel good knowing that shit like this won't matter (or will at least matter a lot less) in 20 years.
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Anyone here happen to know anyone that lives in or near Draper, Utah? :V
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I built another 2-bit adder in Minecraft (click to enlarge, as always):
(http://imgur.com/djjaNs.jpg) (http://imgur.com/djjaN.jpg) (http://imgur.com/qezJGs.jpg) (http://imgur.com/qezJG.jpg)
This one is a simpler design, has more of the wiring tucked underground, has the adders stacked, and is quite a bit faster than the other one. The crazyness happening on the left of the rear shot (the second one) is a kludge that flips the 0 and 2 bits. I should neaten it up and do an over-under flip, but...meh. I think I'm going to play 360 instead.
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I'm kind of amazed at my body's utility right now. All this week the only sleep I've been getting is two-hour afternoon naps once a day so I'd have more time to work. I've been functioning far better than I expected to under the circumstances, too. Then a few minutes ago, right as I finished my last major assignment and started printing it out, I suddenly felt a massive rush of fatigue. It's like my body's saying "Ok, you don't need any energy anymore. Fucking go to bed."
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Yep, it is certainly possible to do stuff like that. I've noticed the same sort of thing where it just feels like your body knows things, lol. I can consistently wake up at the time I need to in the morning, even when it changes, without any sort of alarm clock. (And going to bed at random times, on top of that.)
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So if we don't hit 100 pages by the end of the year, we fail
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Why is it that the PS3 seems to be the only system that isn't a complete sloth when it comes to using external storage? I just copied 2GB of MP3s over for use in Gran Turismo 5 (mostly because I didn't feel like setting up a uPNP media server on my PC, if it'll even access that in-game) and was surprised when it copied everything extremely quickly, like PC speed.
I suppose you could ask just the opposite question -- why on earth does the 360 and the Wii make such a huge goddamn deal over transferring data? Especially the Wii. Waiting for that overglorified GameCube to transfer data from internal storage to SD is agonizing.
So if we don't hit 100 pages by the end of the year, we fail
Agreed.
Post moar, mutha truckers!
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mission accepted.
Also I hate how someone in a gaming group I'm in acted like a complete douchebag and I look like the badguy for bringing it up.
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I suppose you could ask just the opposite question -- why on earth does the 360 and the Wii make such a huge goddamn deal over transferring data? Especially the Wii. Waiting for that overglorified GameCube to transfer data from internal storage to SD is agonizing.
Th Wii, I can see, because the hardware in that really isn't what I would call powerful (or even close to that), the 360... Well, that's probably just bad coding on their part :/
Post moar, mutha truckers!
Do you really want me to resume my previous level of post whoring?
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Th Wii, I can see, because the hardware in that really isn't what I would call powerful (or even close to that)
No, no, no, no, no. Not going to accept that one. The Pentium II in my basement can sling files around faster than the Wii can and that thing definitely isn't faster than a PowerPC. We're also talking USB 1.1 ports on the Pentium II, not a SD card reader that's connected to the bus.
My old 8088 could move 64KB files around faster than the Wii does, and that's really not much of an exaggeration.
the 360... Well, that's probably just bad coding on their part :/
I think the 360 is just over-DRM'd, honestly. Microsoft definitely knows how to make an OS. And I am exaggerating a bit with the 360. At least it can push around a few megs faster than the Wii can push around a few kilobytes. Still, it should be much faster than it is. Considering the memory stick I'm using is a very, very fast 16GB jobbie from OCZ (more than fast enough for ReadyBoost, and its requirements are pretty stringent), there shouldn't be as much of a delay.
FYI, I'm definitely not excusing the 360 for being sluggish on file transfers, not by a long shot. But the fact that the Wii transfers tiny amounts of unencrypted data as slowly as it does is just mind boggling. I've even tried the 133x SD card that I have with my camera, which can record large RAW files almost as fast as my camera can write them, and the Wii still drug its heels. It's definitely an issue with the hardware or software, not the SD card itself. That said, I haven't even turned on my Wii in months, so an update might have fixed it. I wouldn't hold my breath, though.
The memory stick that I used for my PS3 tonight was a Sandisk stick that came with the collector's edition of Forza Motorsport 3 (how fitting that my first usage for a USB flash drive that came with an Xbox 360 exclusive racing title was transferring over music that I intended to play inside of a PlayStation 3 exclusive racing title).
Do you really want me to resume my previous level of post whoring?
*shudder*
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I've got the house to myself this weekend~<3
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I suppose you could ask just the opposite question -- why on earth does the 360 and the Wii make such a huge goddamn deal over transferring data? Especially the Wii. Waiting for that overglorified GameCube to transfer data from internal storage to SD is agonizing.
My guess would be "read block, write block, sync, repeat". That can be several orders of magnitude slower than asynchronous read/write operations, especially when flash memory is involved.
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My guess would be "read block, write block, sync, repeat". That can be several orders of magnitude slower than asynchronous read/write operations, especially when flash memory is involved.
That's the only way it would make any sense, yeah. Even so, I have to wonder why it feels about the same speed as the PlayStation (whose games, I believe, primarily or exclusively used synchronous reads/writes when saving to the memory card) when the interfaces that are in play should be considerably faster. Particularly puzzling is the fact that putting a fast SD card in didn't make a difference. My camera does have a 3-4 shot buffer when dealing with RAW files (something like 45-60 with JPEGs), but it can flush the buffer and fully write a ~3-4MB file in less than a second (133x cards have a write speed of 160mbps). I've seen the Wii take 10 seconds to copy a 2 block file (256KB). Even the slowest SD cards on the market could save a 3-4MB file in less time.
Maybe the Wii (at least the version that I run, which is rather obsolete) just has a pitifully small copy buffer.
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That's pretty insane. Also this comic is golden http://www.picturesforsadchildren.com/index.php
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Into the Inferno's been the top sponsored file on BMS for about 3 years now.
Yep.
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Damn right. Not too surprising, really, it's pretty much the best simfile on Bemanistyle.
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Damn right. Not too surprising, really, it's pretty much the best simfile on Bemanistyle.
Mo' like the best on the internet!
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Games for windows live keeps crashing on me, and I have no clue how to unfuck it.
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GFWL is kind of an abortion, really. :x
I heard that one of the things that you have to have installed is .NET Framework 4.0. The installer is apparently a little...retarded and doesn't have the right set of dependencies. If you don't have that installed, give it a go.
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Why is it that the PS3 seems to be the only system that isn't a complete sloth when it comes to using external storage? I just copied 2GB of MP3s over for use in Gran Turismo 5 (mostly because I didn't feel like setting up a uPNP media server on my PC, if it'll even access that in-game) and was surprised when it copied everything extremely quickly, like PC speed.
I suppose you could ask just the opposite question -- why on earth does the 360 and the Wii make such a huge goddamn deal over transferring data? Especially the Wii. Waiting for that overglorified GameCube to transfer data from internal storage to SD is agonizing.
Agreed.
Post moar, mutha truckers!
Try doing system transfers from one PS3 to another. It can take literally 10 hours. Putting something from an outside source to a system goes fast (even on the Wii for the few games that allow it) but between two systems or just a system item like a save is slow on everything out there.
From what I remember, the Wii also has a ton of built-in piracy checks on things you transfer to SD card/from SD card to system. Also why some games just aren't allowed to transfer save at all. I've never really seen that come up as a problem though since I can't say I've ever felt a need to bring a Wii save with me anywhere.
Try downloading a game from Wii Shop directly to SD card. It barely takes any longer than straight to system memory.
You should also really try to lay off the hyperbole.
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You should also really try to lay off the hyperbole.
Why is it that the PS3 seems to be the only system that isn't a complete sloth when it comes to using external storage?
I just copied 2GB of MP3s over for use in Gran Turismo 5 (mostly because I didn't feel like setting up a uPNP media server on my PC, if it'll even access that in-game) and was surprised when it copied everything extremely quickly, like PC speed.
Waiting for that overglorified GameCube to transfer data from internal storage to SD is agonizing.
YEAH MAN THIS NIGGA IS JUST SPREADING IT TOO THICK
LIKE SPREADING BUTTER ON BUTTER
ps your Wii fanboyism is showing jk I dunno how you call that hyperbole, but whatever
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Everyone shut the fuck up.
Dio Brando might possibly be in MvC3.
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Everyone shut the fuck up.
Why? This site is for DISCUSSION. It hasn't degraded into a flamewar yet, so I'd say it still qualifies as discussion.
Also eggman, he was just talking about his observations, he never tried to say that the Wii and 360 are definitively slower than the PS3.
And somehow, I'd say that the PS3 is quite likely to be faster at transferring data than either of those, considering the hardware it has at it's disposal.
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Try doing system transfers from one PS3 to another. It can take literally 10 hours. Putting something from an outside source to a system goes fast (even on the Wii for the few games that allow it) but between two systems or just a system item like a save is slow on everything out there.
Nobody said anything about system transfers. I talked about transferring MP3s.
Doing an image backup between two devices is always going to be slow, especially when you're dealing with large hard drives.
From what I remember, the Wii also has a ton of built-in piracy checks on things you transfer to SD card/from SD card to system. Also why some games just aren't allowed to transfer save at all. I've never really seen that come up as a problem though since I can't say I've ever felt a need to bring a Wii save with me anywhere.
The Xbox 360 is DRM'd to hell, but it can still transfer a 256KB data file considerably faster than the Wii. There is absolutely no reason a reasonably fast PowerPC can't handle DRM, even if it's not backed by dedicated hardware (which it likely is, which would mean that there should be virtually no decrease in speed).
Like I said, most of my experiences came from backing up my saves. It was far slower than it should have been. I already gave my relative benchmarks and how fast you should be able to transfer data from SD cards, so I won't bother repeating it. If you really want to read it, go to the previous page (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0) and look for the post yourself.
Try downloading a game from Wii Shop directly to SD card. It barely takes any longer than straight to system memory.
Irrelevant, considering my issues were copying data between external and internal storage for each system.
It's kind of hilarious how much I seem to be getting under your skin just by writing rants and intentional (and admitted) exaggerations. To know that I'm affecting a person enough to incite them to make a couple of angry posts without even trying is just funny.
And somehow, I'd say that the PS3 is quite likely to be faster at transferring data than either of those, considering the hardware it has at it's disposal.
The PS3 is pretty evenly matched for the Xbox 360 when it comes to basic operations. The Xbox 360 essentially uses a three-core PowerPC while the PS3 uses a single-core PowerPC with seven SIMD processors called SPEs (the Cell has eight, but one was disabled on the PS3 spins to improve yields), with six usable to game designers. The Xenon chip used by the Xbox 360 uses a very similar core ("PPE," as they call it) to the one used in the PS3 and both chips are clocked at 3.2GHz. So, really, for general purpose operations the Xbox 360 wins due to parallelism and for heavy calculations the PS3 wins because of the SPEs.
If we were to be really, really picky, the Xbox 360 should technically be able to do asynchronous copies faster because the copy operation can be threaded into an unused core while the dashboard is running, while the PS3 would be stuck keeping it in the same PPE that's running the bling, but for all intense and purposes they're evenly matched.
That said, the hardware for both is obviously much stronger than the Wii.
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I'm pretty sure he was just saying jokingly so he could announce that Dio Brando might be in MvC3.
Ahh, it wouldn't have been the first time someone here got fed up with a heated discussion and said something like that.
In any case, can we not make a separate thread for this whole discussion?
Why? The lamest replies thread is for random stuff, and this just happens to have cropped up in our random talking... Plus, we need to break 100 pages by the new year...
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I'm pretty sure he was just saying jokingly so he could announce that Dio Brando might be in MvC3.
Shut the fuck up with your logic and logicness.
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Why? This site is for DISCUSSION.
Nigger did you just back talk me? but yeah, you really can't have any tone of voice while using text, but it was a joke
Like I said, most of my experiences came from backing up my saves. It was far slower than it should have been. I already gave my relative benchmarks and how fast you should be able to transfer data from SD cards, so I won't bother repeating it. If you really want to read it, go to the previous page (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0) and look for the post yourself.
Really? Is that necessary? Not that I hate any problem with this conversation, but there is no need to toss out RickRolls like this is 2006.
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Happy Birthday Pancake
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Really? Is that necessary? Not that I hate any problem with this conversation, but there is no need to toss out RickRolls like this is 2006.
Well hey, it got you, didn't it?
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Youtube linkification saved me.
Also Pancake is never here so NO BIRTHDAY WISHES FOR HIM.
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I hope he has a shitty birthday and that his favourite sports team loses an important game.
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I hope he has a shitty birthday and that his favourite sports team loses an important game.
We get to eat all of his cake and ice cream :P
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Hey guys
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Important thing to say
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POST 1000
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POST 1000
EAT A DICK
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POST 1000
awww sheeeeeeit
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EAT A DICK
I'LL EAT YOUR DICK IF THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE OFFERING :3
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EAT A DICK
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Oh PBF, you the best web comic made.
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A PBF for every occasion
Aa wins this thread
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Our cable modem at work took a shit today. Our solution? We took our main router, which runs DD-WRT, set its wireless mode to client (which basically turns the wi-fi into a WAN port), and connected it to a Verizon MiWi device.
In short, we currently have a router that is routing Internet traffic through a reasonably fast cellular modem. Fun fun!
A PBF for every occasion
Aa wins this thread
This. I should just lock this and start the next lame replies thread.
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Programmer + simple math + transmission geekery = this comparison of the manual and automatic transaxles used in my car.
Getrag F23 stats [ed. - manual transaxle]
MPH per 1000 RPM:
1st (3.580:1): 5.387
2nd (2.020:1): 9.547
3rd (1.350:1): 14.285
4th (0.980:1): 19.678
5th (0.690:1): 27.949
Final drive ratio: 3.840
Daewoo 4T40E stats [ed. - automatic transaxle]
MPH per 1000 RPM:
1st (2.960:1): 6.398
2nd (1.626:1): 11.648
3rd (1.000:1): 18.939
4th (0.681:1): 27.811
Final drive ratio: 3.910
This will work for any geared transmission as long as you know the gear ratios, final drive ratio, and the wheel size. Any requests? :V
On a related note, if my car's automatic transaxle eventually dies, everything else is still good, and I have the money, I'm gonna swap it out for a manual transaxle. Been looking into it for a while (morbid curiosity) and it's actually not too terrible: drop the engine block, remove the transaxle and torque converter, apply flywheel and clutch housing, install clutch pedal and hydraulic control, apply transaxle, weld two mounting brackets into place, replace engine block. Get the ECU reflashed or pick one up from a junked manual car in the meantime.
My car's still running strong, but I hate my transaxle more than everything else about it combined and would love to replace it when it dies rather than getting a new car. Parts and tools look to be close to $1000, which is barely enough to buy a clunker running on borrowed time.
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Yeah, transmission swaps aren't as complicated as people make them out to be... They're just a giant pain in the ass to actually do :P
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I don't mind that it'd take forever, honestly - get me the tools, parts, and time to make it happen and I'll do it - but I'm a terrible welder and I'm not sure where to get the welding brackets (aside from torching them off a junked third-generation J-body). Other than that, I'm totally willing to put a week or two into making it happen. Hell, if I didn't have to pay for the materials, I'd do it as soon as finals week is over. I hate my car's transaxle. The gearing isn't great, the torque converter makes throttle response terrible and loses a lot of power, and the torque converter clutch is finicky at best in cold weather; it won't engage at all until the engine's almost completely warm, which screws with the gearing, since it normally engages the clutch in the middle of 3rd gear (to make the ratio drop less dramatic).
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Fucking war on the internet, yess
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I don't mind that it'd take forever, honestly - get me the tools, parts, and time to make it happen and I'll do it - but I'm a terrible welder and I'm not sure where to get the welding brackets (aside from torching them off a junked third-generation J-body). Other than that, I'm totally willing to put a week or two into making it happen. Hell, if I didn't have to pay for the materials, I'd do it as soon as finals week is over. I hate my car's transaxle. The gearing isn't great, the torque converter makes throttle response terrible and loses a lot of power, and the torque converter clutch is finicky at best in cold weather; it won't engage at all until the engine's almost completely warm, which screws with the gearing, since it normally engages the clutch in the middle of 3rd gear (to make the ratio drop less dramatic).
Wow, that is retarded.
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<car stuff>
Jeez I dunno, I'm just glad that my car goes vroom when I press the pedal ._.
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Wow, you guys know a lot about cars. I hardly know how to change my own oil.
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I don't know how to change my own oil >.>
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I don't own a car, I don't have my license, and the only thing I know how to do is drive it. I don't even know how to park.
How do you think I feel?
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Wow, you guys know a lot about cars. I hardly know how to change my own oil.
I still dont know that much about cars myself, but it really helps having a friend who just got a job as a mechanic, and who's hobby was working on cars. I've see him perform an engine swap using nothing but a couple metal bars and a come along... I've seen him tear out steering arms, and all sorts of other crazy things.
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I have a friend who rebuilds old trucks and whatnot (he's a mechanical engineer major, and does a lot of that stuff for muddin') and I still now fuck all about cars.
Oh yeah and http://www.killingfloorthegame.com/xmas/
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I have a friend who rebuilds old trucks and whatnot (he's a mechanical engineer major, and does a lot of that stuff for muddin') and I still now fuck all about cars.
Oh yeah and http://www.killingfloorthegame.com/xmas/
Have you active assisted him in his projects? I've gone with my friend to pick up random parts from the scrap yard, helped him perform engine swaps, etc. etc. and I've learned a lot about that stuff. I'd still say I know dick all, but I certainly know a LOT more than I used to thanks to him.
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I picked most of my knowledge up from my dad, not to mention actually doing some of the work. He's done more work on my car than I have lately due to my job sucking up a lot of time, but between the cars that I've owned I've replaced plenty of parts, changed oil plenty of times, and all that fun stuff.
Probably the thing that I did that made me the happiest was replace my Saturn's stock air intake with an open air intake and its exhaust with a sports exhaust (better air flow, slightly gruntier noise, but definitely not a weedwacker fart can). With a bit of careful driving, I was able to get 50 mpg (highway) out of it, which is pretty bloody awesome for mid-90's automatic that can actually get out of its own way. That car is only "supposed" to get around 34.
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<car hax talk here>
I work with a guy who restored several cars and fixes them ontop of working at Hell Depot. He has taught me alot about them.
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To boobies.
....no.
I gave my dog a bath today, and it was really depressing. She could hardly stand, and washing her almost made her fall. She's old as hell, but it still makes me sad to know she doesn't have much time left (shit I've been saying this for a while now).
Also there's this cute girl in one of my classes who I think is into me (we made eye contact a few times, and I swear she gave me this weird signal) but I only have one class left and it's an exam and I've never really had a conversation with this person and we sit nowhere near each other. OH GOD WHAT DO?
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I gave my dog a bath today, and it was really depressing. She could hardly stand, and washing her almost made her fall. She's old as hell, but it still makes me sad to know she doesn't have much time left (shit I've been saying this for a while now).
Ouch. We had to put down our cat a couple years ago, and for quite a while before that she was getting pretty bad like that. She could barely get up and down the stairs. It was really hard on me seeing her like that, I mean, I literally grew up with that cat, she was actually a bit older than I was. Even now, it makes me sad when I think about that.
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Also there's this cute girl in one of my classes who I think is into me (we made eye contact a few times, and I swear she gave me this weird signal) but I only have one class left and it's an exam and I've never really had a conversation with this person and we sit nowhere near each other. OH GOD WHAT DO?
Well, talk to her, you have a class together you could talk about that or about the exam. Try to catch her either before or after the exam, you should probably try for before she sits down with her friends or just as she's leaving the room. Since its the last class, you have to get a good enough conversation going to be able to ask her out to coffee or something, or at least to build enough of an aquaintance to friend her on facebook. If she has been giving you a "signal" then she'll want to talk to you and won't brush you off, but you have to make the first move.
Womens be tricksey like that.
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Well, talk to her, you have a class together you could talk about that or about the exam. Try to catch her either before or after the exam, you should probably try for before she sits down with her friends or just as she's leaving the room. Since its the last class, put it in.
/bro version
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"hacktivists"
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I just had a crazy Inception-like dream this morning.
I forgot what the purpose of it was but my boss at work put me and a bunch of my friends and coworkers asleep for some kind of shared dream experiment. When we started we were all in a city and on the horizon was a gigantic title wave coming at us so we had to run/slide down this extremely steep and distorted street for like a mile to escape it. At the bottom the wave hit us all and took us somewhere and some other shenanigans ensued.
The dream lasted a while and there are a lot of random details I remember but this is the third dream I've had recently where I got together with a girl I've been completely smitten with for a while now but is dating one of my best friends. So that kinda sucks to have to wake up from but oh well.
The dream was intensely vivid for the parts I remember, and it was weird to be totally lucid in a dream, but within another dream. I don't think I've ever had anything like that before so it was pretty neat.
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I also had a really vivid dream. It was pretty long, but there was this one part were I was on a plane/bus type deal, and then out of fucking nowhere this guy puts a gun to some girls head because he was mad about something. Everyone starts to panic and eventually he pulls the trigger and has this empty look on his face, then he shoots himself. The person sitting next to me then vomits, and I wake up.
Oh yeah, and my last class basically got canceled, so forget all that jazz prior.
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Finally got around to getting Fedora 14 installed on my refreshed compy (only took me what, five months?). On that note, Chrome Sync is fantastic. I was able to get all of the bookmarks from Chrome for Windows pulled in without any hassle whatsoever. If only there was a version of Chrome for PowerPC Macs. Oh well, I'm sure there's a Firefox plugin that'll handle it.
The only thing that's going to probably annoy me is getting Flash to work well with 64-bit Linux. I had considerable success using it with nswrapper under Firefox on my old Fedora 13 install, so hopefully Chrome is just as easy. We'll see.
Edit: Well, it works. Fullscreen doesn't, with or without compositing. I'm pretty much used to that, though. Flash Player fails on anything but Windows (it's a bit better on OS X than Linux, but it's slow as fucking hell and doesn't do a very good job capturing key events consistently).
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I start working for the Department of National Defence in three weeks woooo!
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I start working for the Department of National Defence in three weeks woooo!
You realize that now I am expecting a Canadian-style WikiLeaks report soon, right?
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I start working for the Department of National Defence in three weeks woooo!
Whoa, welcome back. And congrats! :D
Edit: Also, here's the best Microsoft Knowledge Base article ever: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/261186 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/261186).
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So it would appear that I will be eating Japanese curry twice a day, 6 days a week. This will be fun.
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I saw OmegaOmni at a Sheetz gas station tonight. I kicked him in the balls and made him lick my car clean.
Discuss.
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I kicked him in the balls and made him lick my car clean.
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Please...tell me more.
I need this.
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After he cleaned all of it, I reached out and grabbed him by the shoulder. I turned him around, whispered, "This might feel a little weird..."
Then, I picked him up and wiped all of his saliva off of the car using his clothes and hair. When I was finished, I stuffed him in one of the trash cans.
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That is so hot.
Too bad I don't have a good ejaculation gif.
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Too bad I don't have a good ejaculation gif.
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Happy Christmas Eve, everyone!
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It's my dad's birthday today, lawl.
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Happy Blair's dad's birthday. ;D
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WELL THEN TODAY IS A DAY OF BIRTHDAYS.
My friend just had his 22nd. We started at this Irish pub, but then moved to a strip club were the fun began. He ended up spending like 400 or so bucks (we're not sure yet, we left him there). Overall I enjoyed myself, but you'd definitely need money to burn to go there.
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I never understood the point of strip clubs. So you basically go to throw money at women you aren't allowed to touch?
What the fuck?
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Well, sort of. Basically if you walk to the main stage you can stuff some dollar bills into the panties, or pay extra to get dry humped for a song. My friend basically went to the back room several times, which is why he burned a fucking ton of money.
Really, it's not worthy the money, but I can easily see the fun in it.
http://www.joystiq.com/2010/12/24/garrus-plushie-turns-mass-effects-ugliest-dude-into-an-adorable/
OH GOD THESE CALIBRATIONS.
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http://www.joystiq.com/2010/12/24/super-meat-boy-what-went-wrong-with-wiiware/
Well, I don't have a Wii, but disappointing for anyone who has one, and likes Super Meat Boy. Fucking retarded file size limit. Serously, 40 MB?
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the Wii is all about hardware limitations.
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the Wii is all about accessibility to non-gamers.
PS Nintendo is retarded
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DAT CHRISTMAS
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So far, I've gotten a bubble machine, a knife/potato peeler set, an apple, an orange, a pack of gum, and $100.
This has been a rather odd day.
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a bubble machine
Automatically the best present. And combine with:
a pack of gum, and $100.
And you can have yourself a REAL good evening
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I've gotten nothing.
Buddhism Q_Q
EDIT: JUST LIKE DINOSAURS
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And you can have yourself a REAL good evening
If I didn't work at 6:30 tomorrow morning, hell yes. I most certainly could. :V
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Can someone make a gif of Tony Little on the Gazelle with "U MAD?" at the bottom? Thanks.
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Can someone make a gif of Tony Little on the Gazelle with "U MAD?" at the bottom? Thanks.
Seconding this. Also make sure he has that big, dickish smirk on his faggot face.
Amazing time waster
http://grantkot.com/MPM/Liquid.html
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Double post, because of DRAMA. My friend and someone else got into a wrestling match, and it took like half the party to separate them, and afterwords the same person and a different friend got into this rather nasty gay debate with a gay friend of mine.
Also said gay friend thought I was bi, which I thought was confusing. God I'm bad with women.
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DRAMA
I'm curious as to what the "gay" debate was about...
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I'm curious as to what the "gay" debate was about...
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Not so much a debate about homosexuality, but it went like this. I walked in on this conversation, and it started with straight guy saying that he was secure enough with his sexuality to make out with another guy to make a homophobic person feel uncomfortable. My gay friend got offended by this, because he sounded like a closeted guy. The conversation continues, physical threats are issued, other person doubts said threats would be possible, gay friend thinks it's because he was gay. Conversation eventually gets defused, people calm down and we leave his house.
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lol gay guys
they think every guy is in the closet
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lol my avatar took all night just to update
gg spec
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I LOVE IT.
Also it seems oddly appropriate to post this now.
http://www.microsoft.com/taiwan/silverlight/default.htm
MS has some terrible marketing, and this is my favorite.
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lol my avatar took all night just to update
gg spec
CLEAR YOUR CACHE
Problem solved. 8)
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JUST got home from doing a job with my dad in new york. I am very tired and very sore and in loads of pain.
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What kinda job?
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Moving 3 arcade machines from the guy's house in NY and bringing them to his house in Ohio.
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lol gay guys
they think every guy is in the closet
Maybe it's just you
in the closet
8)
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Maybe it's just you
in the closet
8)
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Lock this shiznit spectah!
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One of many Bro Mating Rituals, where the bottom dresses like a gangsta and talks about how he likes it in the b*tt and dances in front of the camera while the top slowly comes up from behind
Am I interpretting this right? Sound would help :(
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Lock this shiznit spectah!
Nah. You fuckers failed to hit 100 pages, so now you will all be punished. You must post in this obsolete thread until it reaches its prime. Muahahahahahaha! >:D
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Well, technically the thread was started on March 13, so it hasn't been a year yet.
2010 IS DEAD THOUGH SO IDK
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Well, we need to get this to 100 pages before I'm going to lock it, so...
So, um.
How was your new year, Aa?
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Spectere has 3333 posts :o
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The prime factorization of 3333 is 3 * 11 * 101.
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would love not to hotlink but the computer at the tennis center is crapping out on literally every image upload site
goddamn
Spec edit: I fixed it. :3
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I caused steam to crash while installing L4D2 because I ran out of hard drive space.
I really shouldn't be so cheap.
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How was your new year, Aa?
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I had azuki and mochi for lunch to celebrate. Then I forget what happened after that.
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I just ordered pizza, and I think my roommate's family is taking me out to dinner
I really want sashimi to complete the trifecta
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Today I woke up and took a shower. Go me!
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Seung-hui Cho is one of my heroes
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deceitful charlatans
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Yay more work today >.<
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Colorado is boring
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Dov Davidoff is a funny guy.
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I ate half of a 16" pizza and drank more than a liter of Mountain Dew yesterday
I feel kind of sick
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DID YOU DONATE TO WIKIPEDIA
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I don't want Jimbo Wales staring at me
I ASKED IF YOU DONATED TO WIKIPEDIA
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Giant Jimbo
I fucking hate you. >:(
nmiaow
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I fucking hate you. >:(
nmiaow
hawt
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It's my birthday this year
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not sure when though
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Ask your mum!
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I also like how I practically encouraged postwhoring in this thread. I'm not a hypocrite or anything.
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Violating rules for fun and profit...you hooligans are something else!
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Irony: the time to postwhore is here, and I'm not posting.
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Ask your mum!
Spectere = British
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I am so thin and attractive
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18 Y/O AM LF 20+ AF PST
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16/f/uk u?
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I said 20 y/o+ gtfo
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and AF = azn female; are u azn?
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nigga look in my eyes
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you can't even see my eyes can you fgt
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I'm cawkazn
nmiaow
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I'm cawkazn
*sticks penis out cautiously*
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You can do such things cautiously? I toss mine out with reckless intent.
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You can do such things cautiously? I toss mine out with reckless intent.
For it to be able to be defined as reckless, it means you must be able to be not wreckless... You question whether it is possible to do so, and yet imply that it is with your wording...
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16/f/uk u?
lol I read 16/fuk u
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lawl
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For it to be able to be defined as reckless, it means you must be able to be not wreckless... You question whether it is possible to do so, and yet imply that it is with your wording...
my intent was reckless, my dick is always reckless tho.
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I recklessly stick my penis in other men
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A lot of stuff has been happening lately. Moving in with the girlfriend soon. (insert lols)
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You'd better keep spinning that awesome music. I know I miss most of them, but thats because I'm out somewhere when it happens :/
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hell yea lol. i just need stuff to calm down, the next step for me is to learn how to mix with CDJs so i can spin at clubs or raves
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ANTH 484 Japanese Popular Culture (3) Explores contemporary Japanese popular culture through themes such as gender, consumerism, globalization and nostalgia. Rather than a survey of popular culture genres, the course is organized thematically around issues and problematics.
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Good god, that book sounds terrible.
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I was just thinking about this, but shouldn't there be a new Lamest Thread I mean its 2011 now.
Also if I was taking a Japanese culture class, I would want a book featuring Doraemon or Gundam something more in japan only, pokemon is too americanized now.
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I was just thinking about this, but shouldn't there be a new Lamest Thread I mean its 2011 now.
Not until 100 pages. There was a discussion about this somewhere in the thread.
pokemon is too americanized now.
lol no it's not
Unless you're comparing popular recognition, in which case I would agree with you. But trust me: Nintendo makes Pokemon for the Japanese market first, and everywhere else second.
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Unless you're comparing popular recognition, in which case I would agree with you. But trust me: Nintendo makes Pokemon for the Japanese market first, and everywhere else second.
Yeah, that's very true.
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Yeah I posted with out thinking about it, You know when someone speaks with out thinking, I just did that forum style.
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Holy shit, a new person. I gotta post here more often.
EDIT: Upon reading your intro thread, you aren't really THAT new, but I never said "Hi".
Hi.
Commence post war vs Boobies
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I WANT TO TAKE THAT CLASS.
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I WANT TO TAKE THAT CLASS.
http://manoa.hawaii.edu/admissions/undergrad/transfer.html
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Not until 100 pages. There was a discussion about this somewhere in the thread.
^ This.
It's my way of punishing you punks for not posting. ;)
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I'm so 2008, you so 2000 LATE.
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I'm so 2008, you so 2000 LATE.
PUNK.
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POSTWHORE HO!
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was that a pun?
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POSTWHORE HO!
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deleted my tumblr woops
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Good, that's the first step.
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Anyone here happen to be familiar with brake pads and brands? My brake pads have definitely had it, thanks to this fucking idiot who came to a dead stop at a flashing yellow light to yield the right of way for someone at a red light.
Ahem.
I've been eyeing up some Akebono ceramic brake pads (specifically these (http://www.tirerack.com/brakes/brakes.jsp?make=Akebono&model=Street+Performance+Pads&group=Street+Performance+Pads&autoMake=Chevrolet&autoModel=Cavalier+Coupe+LS&autoYear=2004&autoModClar=)) and wanted to know if I should run away in fear or if these should be a good buy.
EDIT: also shoutouts to OmegaOmni for helping me move (part) of a huge and unwieldy arcade machine, as well as witnessing the above and going to Pizza Hut afterward for delicious fooding.
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Heh thanks Vyhd. I help out my friends when I can.
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Anyone here happen to be familiar with brake pads and brands? My brake pads have definitely had it, thanks to this fucking idiot who came to a dead stop at a flashing yellow light to yield the right of way for someone at a red light.
Did your pedal start going to the floor after that? If so, it's not the pads, it's your lines. Having to slam on the brakes once shouldn't do your pads in, not by a long shot.
If they just started squealing then yeah, they definitely need replaced.
I've been eyeing up some Akebono ceramic brake pads (specifically these (http://www.tirerack.com/brakes/brakes.jsp?make=Akebono&model=Street+Performance+Pads&group=Street+Performance+Pads&autoMake=Chevrolet&autoModel=Cavalier+Coupe+LS&autoYear=2004&autoModClar=)) and wanted to know if I should run away in fear or if these should be a good buy.
My dad put ceramic brakes on his truck. They're more expensive but they're supposed to last longer and be a bit cleaner. I think it's more meant for people with aluminum/chrome wheels, but I imagine they'd be nice if you didn't want to replace the pads as often (never a bad thing). They're supposed to perform better, but in my experience your tires tend to dictate how well you can stop more than your brakes do (as I'm sure you felt when your ABS no doubt responded to you slamming on the brakes due to Youngstown drivers).
EDIT: also shoutouts to OmegaOmni for helping me move (part) of a huge and unwieldy arcade machine, as well as witnessing the above and going to Pizza Hut afterward for delicious fooding.
Maybe I'd help if you didn't specifically plan things on days that I'm not free. XD Seriously, there were about three weekends where I sat at home for the most part, and the one weekend where my schedule is booked you decide to move part of a huge and unwieldly arcade machine. :p
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Maybe I'd help if you didn't specifically plan things on days that I'm not free. XD Seriously, there were about three weekends where I sat at home for the most part, and the one weekend where my schedule is booked you decide to move part of a huge and unwieldly arcade machine. :p
Maybe if SOMEONE didn't take two weeks to get back to people about boy scout orgies, then this problem wouldn't exist!
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Maybe if SOMEONE didn't take two weeks to get back to people about boy scout orgies, then this problem wouldn't exist!
Maybe if SOMEONE would send me PMs about the boy scout orgies in a timely manner, the problem that led to our original problem wouldn't exist!
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Maybe if SOMEONE would send me PMs about the boy scout orgies in a timely manner, the problem that led to our original problem wouldn't exist!
Maybe if SOMEONE would stop eating all the boy scouts, then we wouldn't have to have orgies to build their numbers!
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foo
Nah, it isn't going to the floor. I'd know if the brake lines were leaking. :P After that stop, the pads have ceased to really 'bite' (not that they were ever great. but you could feel when they made contact). They've been through no fewer than four emergency stops (that I can name offhand), and they were crappy Monro Muffler brake pads to begin with. (I've sworn off the chain after horrible experiences with the East Liverpool branch and reviews of other shops with the same thing - tl;dr they tried to charge me $460 to replace a wheel bearing + hub assembly and used craptastic parts in previous 'repairs')
They aren't squealing, but they're definitely giving too much leeway for my comfort, so they're going ASAP.
Maybe I'd help if you didn't specifically plan things on days that I'm not free. XD Seriously, there were about three weekends where I sat at home for the most part, and the one weekend where my schedule is booked you decide to move part of a huge and unwieldly arcade machine. :p
You're welcome to contact us as well about hanging out or whatever. For the past <long period of time>, it's only been me asking you about stuff and I never have any idea what your schedule is like :-X
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They've been through no fewer than four emergency stops (that I can name offhand), and they were crappy Monro Muffler brake pads to begin with. (I've sworn off the chain after horrible experiences with the East Liverpool branch and reviews of other shops with the same thing - tl;dr they tried to charge me $460 to replace a wheel bearing + hub assembly and used craptastic parts in previous 'repairs')
Oh joy. Nothing is quite as wonderful as having a bunch of jokers work on your car.
One of my mom's coworkers ended up going to a Chevy dealership for an oil change and they forgot to put the bolt back into the oil pan. The oil leaked and...blown engine! She took the car back to them and they actually laughed at her. Needless to say, after the recent bailout, that dealership had to pretty much do an entire staff changeover to avoid the axe.
As for decent car repair places around here, most of my family takes it to Macejko's near downtown Struthers. It's basically right down the street from where I live. I haven't taken it there myself (I usually try to save money and do everything myself...with my dad's help) but my aunt almost always takes her cars there and I don't think she's ever had a bad experience with them.
They aren't squealing, but they're definitely giving too much leeway for my comfort, so they're going ASAP.
Do you feel a bit of vibration or grinding on the pedal when you slow down?
Just want to make sure it's the pads and not the calipers or anything like that. :p
You're welcome to contact us as well about hanging out or whatever. For the past <long period of time>, it's only been me asking you about stuff and I never have any idea what your schedule is like :-X
Basically, my schedule works like this: I work on weekdays and whenever you ask me about weekend plans I'm busy. It never fails. :x
But seriously, we need to get together for an FFA trip or something one of these weekends when I get a bit more moolah in the bank. I'm a bit on the dry side at the moment.
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http://hejibits.com/comics/2010-12-20-ddr-dad.gif
I figured you gents would enjoy this.
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Haha, that's awesome!
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But seriously, we need to get together for an FFA trip or something one of these weekends when I get a bit more moolah in the bank. I'm a bit on the dry side at the moment.
"or something", yeah. I love FFA, but I'm not gonna get back into playing dancey stuff until I have something to stop the migraines I get when playing. A trip up on one of their nickel nights or something would be cool, though.
EDIT: so what're you doing the rest of the weekends this month? I think Jeff should be here the weekend of the 28th - 31st, if you want to hang out at the house. (Bring Rock Band.)
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I think Jeff should be here the weekend of the 28th - 31st, if you want to hang out at the house. (Bring Rock Band.)
I vote for this. :3 I'll make awesome food, and y'all sing your hearts out.
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I've been growing my pinky nail out, in an attempt to look like a coke addict. I'm unsure why, but this seems like a good idea.
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That doesn't really sound like a good idea...
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"or something", yeah. I love FFA, but I'm not gonna get back into playing dancey stuff until I have something to stop the migraines I get when playing. A trip up on one of their nickel nights or something would be cool, though.
EDIT: so what're you doing the rest of the weekends this month? I think Jeff should be here the weekend of the 28th - 31st, if you want to hang out at the house. (Bring Rock Band.)
I work that Saturday but I am off Sunday.
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I've been growing my pinky nail out, in an attempt to look like a coke addict. I'm unsure why, but this seems like a good idea.
I grew my thumbnail out like that once. My longest was about a half-inch before it broke off at an arcade while redeeming ticket prizes. And yes it IS a good idea.
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I'm like addicted to biting my nails, and I really want to bite it.
Also I'm tempted to buy Splinter Cell Chaos Theory and Hitman Blood Money, I really liked them and I got them without paying, which feels like a dick move now.
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So do we have a gamertag thread? I'm going to get MvC3 when it comes out, and I was hoping maybe some people would like to play. It doesn't have to be for that game either, I have others.
I just don't have anyone to play with... :-[
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The contact info thread? I'm not too sure.
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So do we have a gamertag thread?
You can set your gamertag in your profile now. :]
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My crotch hurts. My cat has developed a habit of climbing onto my TV (which is right behind my chair) peering over my shoulder, and then jumping right into my groin.
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You may want to invest in a spiked codpiece.
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You may want to invest in a spiked codpiece.
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Like this?
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Like this?
Brutal.
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Hi.
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Hi.
Christ, stop disappearing man.
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I'm always around. I'm on Skype all the time, and I swing past the forums at LEAST once a day. I just don't talk much. Been pretty busy, sort of. A looooooooooooooooot of things have changed.
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BAH, why does everyone here change names?! ]:<
Anyway, it's been a while since you've said anything, so I'm happy you decided to contribute, the site's been dieing a slow painful death over the last couple years, and long times of not posting like that kinda contributes to the lack of activity here...
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I just don't talk much. Been pretty busy, sort of. A looooooooooooooooot of things have changed.
Good enough for me. Its not like I've posted much either.
Welcome back?
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Like this?
That's the most metal thing I've ever seen.
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the site's been dieing a slow painful death over the last couple years
the site's been half dead since it opened
fixed
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oh hey look at what I found
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fixed
Don't say that ;_;
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I leave for BMT (basic military training) on June 14.
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College, work, temporary psuedo-homelessness, family issues, crushing depression, eating disorder, mysterious illness, not-actually-relationship, money problems, a friend dying. Kinda tough to muster up the give-a-damn to talk when life keeps kicking you when you're down. My bad.
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College, work, temporary psuedo-homelessness, family issues, crushing depression, eating disorder, mysterious illness, not-actually-relationship, money problems, a friend dying. Kinda tough to muster up the give-a-damn to talk when life keeps kicking you when you're down. My bad.
And here I was, about to post a doctored quote of you. I feel better that I didn't.
Don't say that ;_;
What's wrong with the truth?
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Like this?
but then she'll die.
What's wrong with the truth?
It's sad and hard to face.
stuff
That's a real goddamn bummer. At least you could vent about it here.
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That's a real goddamn bummer. At least you could vent about it here.
A short summary, then.
My life at home was horrible. Mom is an abusive alcoholic, dad is gone most of the time and refuses to see problems beyond me being disrespectful. Found a girl, threw myself into it wholeheartedly as a distraction to my home life. Thought I had a relationship, turns out I didn't, got a huge run-around and drove myself crazy over it at the time. Became extraordinarily sick, and the doctors couldn't figure out why. Became extremely depressed. Stopped sleeping, stopped eating, convinced myself I was going to die. Had a breakdown. Bottomed out. Contemplated suicide.
Left my work because the assistant manager was threatening me and I was continually getting fucked over, plus I wasn't making shit. New job changed my hire date so I couldn't get insurance, put me at a store an hour away, and lots of other things, so I quit. Had my college lie to me several times about payment things, almost got screwed out of it. Teacher's mistake caused me to fail an easy class so I'm on academic probation. Need to transfer to a real college in a couple of semesters, but money problems mean I'll have to take out a student loan and be in debt for years.
Moved in with a friend. He's useless and tried to get me kicked out. Get a call from my old job, a good friend died and now they have a position open. I have the position but I'm going to have to leave it because it won't pay enough and the at-work abuse will start again. Can't afford to drive from where I live now and I don't want to be here anyway, but I can't deal with the psychological abuse of living with my parents. So starting on Friday, I'm living out of my car and couch-surfing when I can, until I can find a full-time or a second part-time that will work around my schedule as a full-time student. The convention I volunteer for and am already committed to this year is being far too demanding.
I have $12 in my wallet. I have $5 in my bank account. I have a $20/month gym payment that I can't cancel without paying a $60 fee. I have two weeks to figure out how to get another $15 in there. I've sold hundreds of dollars of stuff online to afford food and gas. My trunk lock is drilled out, I need an oil change and a tune-up, my check engine comes on every time I start my car for 15-20 minutes, and I'm praying to nothing in particular that my car doesn't die. My best friend just got back together with her ex who is absolutely horrible for her and she keeps around solely because she enjoys the abuse.
There are days when it's all I can do to pull myself out of bed. I'm on the verge of losing it regularly. I feel sick frequently. I'm on edge all of the time. Sometimes I stress so much I hallucinate.
I don't generally care to vent. I just lie to myself and pretend it doesn't exist.
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But you're still fuckin SHARDE. Just about the coolest goddamn thing ever.
I can't really say "I feel for you" or anything like that. I honestly can't imagine what you have gone through on an emotional level. How much gas you got?
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About half a tank.
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What if you took that old job for a few weeks and paid for a full tank? Then GTFO and start somewhere fresh?
I guess its easy for me to sit here and "help" but I feel like I gotta do something anyways :-\
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Already paid for this semester of college, I'd like to see it through. Don't think I haven't considered it, though.
I'm actively looking for other jobs. My school schedule isn't that awful, Mon-Wed-Fri from approx. 9 until 1, two online classes I can do whenever. If I'm not at a friend's house or work I'll probably spend time on campus, since they have free wireless and, you know, heat. But I need either a full-time or two part-times to afford half of a two-bedroom. If I luck into a good full-time I know where a nice, cheap one-bedroom is, but that's a big if.
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stuff
Christ, that is goddamn horrible.
If you need any money for food I'll be glad to paypal you some cash.
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College, work, temporary psuedo-homelessness, family issues, crushing depression, eating disorder, mysterious illness, not-actually-relationship, money problems, a friend dying. Kinda tough to muster up the give-a-damn to talk when life keeps kicking you when you're down. My bad.
Ouch, I see what you mean :/
I think I'd probably have posted here with all that going on, because I'd need an outlet, but I know everyone deals with shit differently, so I don't blame you for not posting with all that going on :S
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stuff
craigslist.org
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Not sure where to start, but I feel like my life is completely stuck. I'm getting nowhere in school because I only take a few classes at a time and I make no money while doing so, so I'm stuck at home doing jack shit most of the time. I'm tempted to join some armed force so I can get a GI bill and possibly get a decent education, but I really have no clue what the fuck I even want to study, let alone being able to.
So yeah, I've been on my ass for too long and I feel like I've accomplished very little these past years and I'm tempted to make some dramatic changes.
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Aye, as true as that may be, we are all still quite young and have a lot of time to repair any holes in our lives. Things take time and it does not matter how many bends there are in a road, you always get to your destination in the end. I feel you on the whole sitting on you Keester and doing nothing because I am sure that along with myself, and maybe some others here on these forums, have that same background. As far as the armed forces and the GI bill...as soon as I hit those words, i read it as Gastrointestinal Bleed. Go figure.
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I'm tempted to join some armed force so I can get a GI bill and possibly get a decent education
"Hey man, I heard you're 2 years away from graduating"
"Yeah bro, I'm going to join the military for 2 years so I can interrupt my education, push back my graduation date, and risk my life just for free schooling!"
BEST PLAN EVER
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I'm more then two years off from getting an AA, and even then I'd need to go to a real college to get anything worthwhile. (and from what everyone says, even two year degrees from decent colleges are meaning less and less).
As far as the armed forces and the GI bill...as soon as I hit those words, i read it as Gastrointestinal Bleed. Go figure.
Are you calling me butthurt? Either way, I'll probably search for local employment and think about this for a long time.
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I'm more then two years off from getting an AA
Ah. I thought you were attending a four-year (and even if you weren't, I thought it would be going faster than that.
Don't you only have to take like 5 classes a semester for 2 years to get an AA?
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Don't you only have to take like 5 classes a semester for 2 years to get an AA?
I have no clue, and I'm only taking two this semester, which is why I have no real beef about spending 4 years on something.
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I have no clue
And there's the problem
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How would I know? I pay for classes out of my pocket at the moment and there's no guarantee that I'll have cash to take more or less at a time.
but on an unrelated note (since s.net is my personal journal/request forum) anyone here program or 3D model at all? I was going to goof around in this forever ago, and I'd like to possibly get a handle of it and maybe learn some CAD so my education doesn't go completely to waste.
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what (http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/breaking/115436329.html)
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what (http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/breaking/115436329.html)
Haha, good find, lol.
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THIS SITE IS DEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAD.
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Yeah :(
But I was just thinkin' about this site and decided to wander in and say hi.
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My face is dead
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THIS SITE IS DEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAD.
Agreed... I actually think I almost miss Vlad's constant annoying posts, because at least he kept the site more active.
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dMZX is deader :(
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Agreed... I actually think I almost miss Vlad's constant annoying posts, because at least he kept the site more active.
I feel like I was the only person who had no problem with him. Also workin our way to page 100.
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I feel like I was the only person who had no problem with him. Also workin our way to page 100.
Naw, I had no real issue with the guy.
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So a girl I grew to resent in high school told me, in her words, that she "wouldn't mind if the two of us had sex." Not sure how I feel about that, mostly because I still don't trust her.
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Don't do it man, bitches will always be bitches.
and by bitches I mean women
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Never stick your dick in crazy.
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Never stick your dick in crazy.
Sound advice.
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hey u east coasters
today would have been my 6th anniversary at a0
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I feel like I was the only person who had no problem with him. Also workin our way to page 100.
I really didn't want to have a problem with him, but he basically just acted like a dick to me when I decided I disagreed with him on something :/ By then end I just got tired of it. When I came over here and he was one of the posters I knew from a0, I thought he was a pretty cool guy, but he slowly ended up turning into a dick over the time he was posting here.
By the end the only reason he was posting here was basically to troll and rant.
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Page 100?
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Nope, you fail.
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Anyone who uses the words "epic", "win", and "fail" is a gigantic faggot
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Really? A gigantic one?
Not even just a normal-sized one? :V
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not a normal sized one
a gigantic one
one so flaming you can see it from space
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Ohhhhhh. Orbit fags.
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Hi.
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Never stick your dick in crazy.
I disagree with this.
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Now the question is: will the next topic reach 100 pages?
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Fucking finally. XD