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The Chatterbox => Random Chat => Topic started by: Malwyn on September 10, 2007, 01:37:39 AM
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I think a 'blah blah sucks blah blah h8' thread is in order, in much the same line as the old one.
Shall I start? I shall.
I bought a wireless pcmcia card on ebay. It cost me $40 with shipping. I sent the money as per instructions, and about a week later I get an email back in pigeon english, basically saying 'I might have received your money, can you send me the details of your payment so I can check'. No biggie, I'm pretty patient. I send him the information (a week's passed, I paid with a direct debit transfer- the money would have arrived within about three days tops), wait another week and am still sans a pcmcia card that I'd really have liked to use two weeks ago, minus $40 I could have spent on a cheaper, crappier pcmcia card and some booze, and minus any confirmation that the money's been found, the money HASN'T been found, or if the package has at all been sent. Two days ago I sent a miffed email to the guy politely saying hurry the fuck up.
This is what I get for buying a name brand pcmcia card that will quite likely work with linux natively or at least ndiswraps nicely, and won't arrive as several of my other packages have- either irreparably broken or a bunch of microchips superglued to a piece of cardboard spelling out 'LOL'.
I am not amused.
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Yeech... :( That sucks. Any idea where the thingie's getting shipped from? Also, if you don't get the product soon I'd turn the prick into eBay...open up a dispute and see if you could get your money back or at least get his account closed/crippled/whatever.
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I don't think he's run off with my money, I think he's just an idiot and/or his wife left him for a potato or something.
IIRC, it's being shipped from Sydney. About a thousand kilometres south.
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Well, if he does do something stupid, open a dispute and pwn that ass.
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ebay doesn't take this shit lightly.... hehehe...
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I don't think he's run off with my money, I think he's just an idiot and/or his wife left him for a potato or something.
What is it with you and potatoes?
Also, having to go to a booster meeting for band (a meeting where all the band parents get together and discuss logistics and fundraising and stuff) that I get NOTHING out of really blows. My mom usually wants me to take notes for her because she can't hear anything the other parents say but they never really say anything that she would be particularly interested. Sometimes there will be a date or something that I'll make a note of but she could just ask one of the other parents after the meeting. It's silly that I have to waste hours of my life going to these every month D:
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FUCK, metroid just got retardedly harder out of nowhere. It throws these waves of jet pack assholes at me that do a ton of damage and are way to hard to kill without using my overdrive thing that already takes health away. Also they throw down mines that hurt me about more then 3 quarters of a bar of health, and I only have five. I think I've did about 5 or 6 waves until I died and said fuck it.
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Trying to do Facility on 00 Agent in 2:05. WHAT THE CHRIST? How is that POSSIBLE?
Also, Archives on 00 Agent in 1:45. Equally impossible. What the hell.
(if you have insider strategies please share! i am desperate!)
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Yeah, goldeneye has some RETARDED difficulty levels. I was always more of a fan of multiplayer anyway.
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Playing Doom on nightmare is nearly as retarded :(
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Something that's somewhat peeling my potatoes at the moment is the fact that nobody either 1) has UT99 or 2) is willing to test out my DM beta map. I should probably remake the thread for it here, I nuked it in frustration about 2 minutes before Spectere locked it XD
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Playing Doom on nightmare is nearly as retarded :(
It's not too too terrible, you just have to pretty much ignore the monsters.
Something that's somewhat peeling my potatoes at the moment is the fact that nobody either 1) has UT99 or 2) is willing to test out my DM beta map. I should probably remake the thread for it here, I nuked it in frustration about 2 minutes before Spectere locked it XD
Yeah, uh, it would really help if you left the thread open for a while. I didn't have time to check it out before and when I did have a chance to do it you deleted the link. Now I'm not going to have a chance to look at it until after my trip so, uh...yeah.
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It's not too too terrible, you just have to pretty much ignore the monsters.
Yeah try that while you're playing Hell Revealed :U
One cannot simply ignore 35 revenants.
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What is it with you and potatoes?
I just think they're neat.
Also- Marvell, the networky company. Not only did windows XP not detect my network card, the fucking marvell website doesn't even have a windows driver listed for my wireless card.
Ordinarily I'd give a haughty laugh because both work in Linux (the network card works out of the box, as per usual), but this is just revolting.
Also, the fact that I have to run windows in order to do several assignments in my own home. SPSS did not like wine, and... grargh. Death. Angry. H8.
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Yeah try that while you're playing Hell Revealed :U
If you play HR on Nightmare, you deserve every bit of frustration that it throws at you. :P UV is bad enough (though still quite doable...I've beaten it before).
Also- Marvell, the networky company. Not only did windows XP not detect my network card, the fucking marvell website doesn't even have a windows driver listed for my wireless card.
Did Marvell actually make the card or did they just provide the chipset? If it's the latter you'll have to hunt down the specific set for that card.
Also, the fact that I have to run windows in order to do several assignments in my own home. SPSS did not like wine, and... grargh. Death. Angry. H8.
SPSS can go choke on a dick. I distinctly remember it being a royal bitch to roll out in images, too.
Sad when I have extreme malice toward it despite never actually using the program (well, for more than two minutes at a time, anyway).
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Ohhhh, new addition to the H8 list- ReiserFS. I tried it out because, hey, I may as well. I don't like using one thing for no reason when there are alternatives about. ReiserFS adds quite a bit of waiting to my boot process, it doesn't really integrate with other linux components (everything implementation I've seen has reiser plugging in to the kernel and everything else trying to work around it- specialised 'fsck'? what the fuck) and I never felt like changing because I was convinced that a hot linux geek could never kill his wife.
However, I've discovered that copying files to and/or from reiser across different filesystems sometimes results in corruption. Corruption, like, say, of SPSSinstaller.exe. A rather large download that I had to fucking install windows for, corrupted. Again, I am on 64/64 and this assignment was due *monday*. So far I've lost 20% and stand to lose 30% by the end of the day, when it'll finish downloading again. The installer probably wasn't even that corrupted, but it senses a change in the force, bitches, and refuses to install. Fuck. Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck.
I want to crawl into a hole and sob uncontrollably while typing up my resume until I get a job or spectere comes to rescue me and we make out in the ol' potato farm.
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I've never had corruption issues with ReiserFS. JFS...oh yeah, definitely had a LOT of problems with that, but never ReiserFS.
I'm using a mishmash of ReiserFS, ext2, and ext3 on my firewall system. I don't completely remember how I configured the partitions on that system (and considering it's 300 miles away right now it'll have to wait...especially since I managed to botch the firewall settings so I can't even SSH that box right now :() but I do remember that I used ReiserFS for /usr/portage because it is particularly efficient with storing many small files (seriously, /usr/portage is something like half the size on that system compared to the same data on my main desktop and laptop's ext3 partitions).
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When the people I don't like on my usual css server (cocky people, assholes, them kindah peoples) go 3 on 1 and flash me and try to knife me 5 rounds in a row. I did fake being blind once and put a 50 cal bullet into a guys face, which was fun.
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FUCK, metroid just got retardedly harder out of nowhere.
Wait, it was a lot easier then I thought it was. Apparently I could call in my ship for a bombing run.
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As it turns out, I was robbed on ebay. Woot. Also, since I paid by direct deposit because I didn't want to wait five weeks, I'm not covered. I'm down $40, a wireless card, and some dignity.
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... Well, I guess next time you'll pay in a way you're covered?
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Sorta. I ordered a wireless card from the store at the uni plaza. $49. I paid the $19 in cash and get to pay the rest and pick it up on Tuesday.
I've got an assignment due four days ago which will come to a 'fail' in an hour and another one due tonight. For the moment, while I'm banging my head against the desk to stop myself sobbing uncontrollably like the prissy fag I probably am, I think I'll be getting as drunk as I can on the shitty box wine I have left because I can't afford more. <3
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Lame :/ Well at least you have wine. PS: The term Box Wine always makes me laugh.
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there's like, half a glass left.
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As it turns out, I was robbed on ebay. Woot. Also, since I paid by direct deposit because I didn't want to wait five weeks, I'm not covered. I'm down $40, a wireless card, and some dignity.
So theirs no way you can get your money back/prove you payed and didn't get anything? I'd email ebay and throw a shit fit about it to see what they can do.
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Having all of our instruments set up outside in the bus parking lot and then it starting to rain.
Hauling our asses to get back inside with tens of thousands of dollars worth of instruments is no fun. Yay marching band.
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Kate turned me down yesterday. She gave a general "we should be friends" speech, as well as detailing how busy her life is and how she really didn't have time for a boyfriend. Now, if she had left it at that, I could handle it. However, after going through everything, she said, "If there wasn't so much crap going on, you're probably the only guy I would date."
I've been pissed off since she said that. I'm wondering why the hell anyone would tell someone that.
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Driving to school, to find out my class is canceled, which means I didn't go to class all this week. Also the round trip for driving to my school and back is 71 miles.
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Honestly, I think that's a good sign. She's saying that right now isn't a good time, but she's still willing sometime down the read.
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It's the "would" that pisses me off.
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i dunno. consider it a good thing. She's only interested in you, and nobody else. Given the circumstances, she can't make time to have a relationship. And relationships do take a lot of time... Maybe when her life calms down, see "wuts up"
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Exactly, if you care that much about her you can wait till her life calms down a bit, just let her know that you're willing to wait things out.
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My components aren't here yet >:O
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My entire family (parents and older sister) is sick, and I'm on the verge of getting it pretty badly. My sore throat has been escalating since Sunday.
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i dunno. consider it a good thing. She's only interested in you, and nobody else. Given the circumstances, she can't make time to have a relationship. And relationships do take a lot of time... Maybe when her life calms down, see "wuts up"
Sure, but in the last 3 years, every time I've tried to get close to someone, it's always blown up in my face. I don't really want to get my hopes up just yet. I really do like her, but I am (or was) fairly certain I was in the friend zone, at least until we got drunk and, after telling her I liked her, she told me that a few months ago, when I half-jokingly told her I'd probably end up liking her pretty soon, she seriously considered dating me. Now I don't know what to think, and because of that, I've been in a generally pissy mood all week. I hate being this uncertain.
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^ that's complicated. Hope that all gets worked out soon.
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I've had my share of being uncertain and such. One of my friends who I nearly ended up dating caused me quite a bit of teenage depression for quite some time. Right up until my current girlfriend. And she's not the only one who I ended up being depressed about (though the second one was me being stupid and not reading the signs).
Long story, I'll try to shorten it a little. The day Rebecca (girl #1) was going to ask me out, after 6 months of friendship, walking home together after school, talking about all sorts of stuff including really philosophical type stuff, I was working myself up to ask her out, considering she would by my second girlfriend, I had quite a lot of nervousness to try to work away, in any case, on that very day she was gonna ask me out, some guy named Eric, a real looser douche who was just trying to get down her pants, asked her out, and she said yes. Of course, that lasted about 2 weeks. I even ended up giving her some advice. I didn't know him well, but the way he was around her, I though he was just trying to get down her pants, and a friend confirmed it. Now, I tried hard to keep friends with her, I had classes with her, and saw her fairly often, though not quite as often as before. A couple months, and boyfriends later, I got an email saying telling me that she had planned on going out with me that day, which of course, made me depressed, considering that she was A) the only person who I just randomly went up to and said hey to, in all of high school; All my other friends I met through other friends, and B) one of the only girls I knew who wasn't from my old school and didn't make fun of me. Now, by this point she was going out with a guy named Ryan, who I didn't like at first, and didn't seem to really like me much, though that may have been my imagination. She ended up dating him for a long time, but he was a terrible influence on her, and she got really into heavy drinking, drugs, and partying. They were engaged for a time, but he was too possessive (understandably, considering she wanted to go to parties he wasn't at, and he didn't really trust her). In any case, she's completely changed now, and even that causes me frustration and pain because I constantly wonder what she would have been like if she hadn't gone out with him, if she'd gone out with me instead of Eric. If that would have made a difference.
Girl #2, Danielle, though I always called her Dan. Amazingly, we met on Lycos Chat. She randomly whispered me asking about where I lived and shit. I didn't really care, but said that my town was a pinprick place about 2 hours north of Toronto. She said go ahead, she may know the place, though I doubted it. I told her anyway, and she said she knew it. Turns out we went to the same school, and such. We began talking about teachers, what we were doing in school, and we RP'd (roleplayed through lycos chat) a lot. Eventually, we ended up meeting, and hanging out in person. This was when I was still really depressed and shit, and at the time, I wasn't looking for a girlfriend. We became good friends, despite her being 2 years older than me. (Which was kinda unusual, all things considered.) Well, after going to a number of movies together, getting rides home from school, and stuff like that, I ended up meeting my current girlfriend. I originally met her online, through a friend, and we talked about anime for a while, argued and such, but became good friends. I ended up asking her out in an email (yes, I'm that bad with girls), and I'm not sure whether I'd even met her in person at the time. Well, at the time, I hadn't realized that Dan was interested in me so much, so she was quite noticeably upset after hearing about it. She refused to talk to me and avidly avoided me for a long time, and it did take a while for me to figure out what she was unhappy about. This led to our friendship being destroyed, because a couple months later, she ended up going off to college. I still feel bad even now for this one because she was such a good friend. I really didn't think something like this would hit her so hard, but I really feel bad. It was especially awkward because I didn't really want to explain why I was depressed at the time to my girlfriend (who still barely knows the story), because it's kinda awkward to say "well, a good friend of mine isn't talking to me because I'm going out with someone other than her."
So yes, I've had my share of depressing problems relating to girls. Both of those still bother me, even now. I will always wonder how things might have turned out if I'd made a different decision. Both girls who liked me are out of my life, and for me, that's a big issue, because other than my girlfriend, and my childhood friend who I don't speak to any more, they were the only girls to actually like me.
This wasn't meant to be a "oh, you think your life sucks" post, but a "I sorta know what you mean" post. I just needed to get this out there, because you guys are about the only people who know the whole story.
All of this took place between early grade 9 (I met Rebecca in September of grade 9) till about April of grade 10.
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I got over my obvious nervousness (twitching and such) around the subject of dating girls toward the end of last year and I somehow grew some self-esteem over the summer, so I don't think Kate is viewing me the same way as last year.
I don't regret anything of high school so far. Since I overanalyze everything, I went over what could've happened over the past few years, and I'm pretty sure this is the best result. Now that all the depression and such is settled, I know I'm a better person.
Back to the thread's original subject, insomnia is killing me. Like, I can't function because I haven't been able to sleep well all week. I hate it.
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The forty-eight year old I was sleeping with left me for a seventeen-year-old because I wouldn't put out emotionally and/or perhaps he was lying about me not being kind of repulsive. He has the stability and emotional grace of a sixteen-year-old, and he's very likely going to die alone.
Insomnia sucks, but lately I've had the LETHARGY. D:
They're kinda the same thing but not. I mean, I wake up at twelve and I'm tired all day. I can't stand up without immense physical and mental effort. So uh... I FEELS UR PAIN, I guess.
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So yes, I've had my share of depressing problems relating to girls. Both of those still bother me, even now. I will always wonder how things might have turned out if I'd made a different decision. Both girls who liked me are out of my life, and for me, that's a big issue, because other than my girlfriend, and my childhood friend who I don't speak to any more, they were the only girls to actually like me.
Meh, I'm sure most people have regrets about things they didn't/did do in high school relationship wise. I know I do.
The forty-eight year old I was sleeping with left me for a seventeen-year-old because I wouldn't put out emotionally and/or perhaps he was lying about me not being kind of repulsive. He has the stability and emotional grace of a sixteen-year-old, and he's very likely going to die alone.
No offense, but why are you dating some 48 year old? and he sounds like some sort of scum bag by the way you described him.
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I don't have any relationship regrets just yet. Out of the 3 other girls I ever really liked, 3 of them turned out to be insane.
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Was it just me, or was everyone else's first real girlfriend an object of slight obsession to them?
Oh my god I have to call her oh my god this detail has to be perfect oh my god I have to pay for her everything oh my god it is my sole responsibility and duty to please her at all times. Yeeeeeah... I'm really cool.
I'm really paranoid about relationship stuff though. Like, with my new girlfriend (who I'm starting to like "a lot", and by "a lot" I mean a lot), whenever she doesn't seem happy I always like to assume that it's my fault or that she's mad at me. But she hasn't really... ever been mad at me before, and she doesn't really have a reason to, and most likely won't.
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No offense, but why are you dating some 48 year old?
Sleeping with, not dating. And I have low self esteem in that field. <.<
Basically he's not particularly hideous for a man well over twice my age and he got me a birthday card. I'm a sucker for a man without a torch and pitchfork. :P
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Was it just me, or was everyone else's first real girlfriend an object of slight obsession to them?
Lol, well, I was kinda obsessed about the fact that I'd had a crush on her for about 4 years before I asked her out, lmao.
But I'm a pretty practical guy. I'm concerned when my girlfriend is mad, but I don't always assume it's me. I'm not all that romantic, and I'll be the first to admit that I'm not as nice as I could be (I just got her to help pay for a CD I wanted out of her birthday money... And I still haven't payed her back :/ I never have money to buy her anything for all the occasions like birthdays and anniversaries.) But once I get a job, that's gonna change. I am a bit of an impulse buyer, but if it wasn't for that, I'd end up just spending my money on runs to the store for an energy drink and some chocolate bars.
All in all, I could be a better person, but I think it'll come in time. Once I get steady cash, I'll make sure I'm better at handling it, and maybe I'll spend on things that are nice, like sending her flowers once in a while and such. I never have money for that sort of thing, and I'm not overly romantic in the first place, so that would be a huge shocker.
Oh, and on topic to the original point of the thread: I ABSOLUTELY HATE having cravings for coke when there's none in the house. :/
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You don't believe in 7/11s?
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Well, there aren't any actual 7/11s in town (there are other places though, lol) but it's kinda hard when you have to scrounge around to get enough money. I've already gone out and bought a pop once tonight.
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Sucks for you man, I live across the street from 7/11, and right down the street from an asian-run convenience store called Slicks.
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I live within biking distance of 7-11, which is a big plus in this day and age. I love 7-11.
Also, Malwyn, what the christ, how old are you? For that matter, who are you? No offense or anything, I've just never seen you anywhere online, unless you posted on a0 under a different name or something.
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Hate having the same shitty sleep pattern from summer.
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He's Tox...
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I live within biking distance of 7-11, which is a big plus in this day and age. I love 7-11.
There's like two or three of them within five minutes (driving distance) from me in Maryland. In Ohio, I live five minutes (walking distance) from a Circle K.
It's awesome.
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There's like two or three of them within five minutes (driving distance) from me in Maryland. In Ohio, I live five minutes (walking distance) from a Circle K.
It's awesome.
Circle K doesn't even nearly compare to the greatness that is 7-11, though. The only thing Circle K has is those little quasi-frozen personal pizza things, that aren't even that good.
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There's no where within easy walking distance of my house, but that doesn't really matter, since I have a car.
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There's no where within easy walking distance of my house, but that doesn't really matter, since I have a car.
It's 15 minuet drive out of my "community". then it's just a Macdonald's, a gas station, and small shopping center with a publix and a Hollywood video.
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Circle K doesn't even nearly compare to the greatness that is 7-11, though. The only thing Circle K has is those little quasi-frozen personal pizza things, that aren't even that good.
I generally only go to convenience stores for snacks, drinks, etc, so that doesn't really matter to me. There's also no 7-Elevens anywhere near my parents' house, so yeah.
And besides, if I want food I'll go to Sheetz or Wawa. :D
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I live within biking distance of 7-11, which is a big plus in this day and age. I love 7-11.
Also, Malwyn, what the christ, how old are you? For that matter, who are you? No offense or anything, I've just never seen you anywhere online, unless you posted on a0 under a different name or something.
Nineteen, and 'tox', yeah. 'Tox' is the shorter form of 'Toxik' which I've been using since around 2001. 'Malwyn' is the combination of my first and second names, 'Mark Alwyn'.
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Malwyn be damned, you'll always be Toxi in my heart!
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Nineteen, and 'tox', yeah. 'Tox' is the shorter form of 'Toxik' which I've been using since around 2001. 'Malwyn' is the combination of my first and second names, 'Mark Alwyn'.
Oh, okay. sup.
Something that angers me? Having to go to a 9-hour band practice on Saturday. Hooray.
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Oh, okay. sup.
Something that angers me? Having to go to a 9-hour band practice on Saturday. Hooray.
Nine hours of band practice? Surely that's somehow illegal. o_o
If you play the piano or any form of string instrument I'm afraid I may have to hunt you down and probably molest you. (affectionately)
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In Texas, we're only legally allowed no more than 7 hours of marching practice a week, so that'd be illegal here. Of course, it's also always really hot here, so it makes sense.
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In Texas, we're only legally allowed no more than 7 hours of marching practice a week, so that'd be illegal here. Of course, it's also always really hot here, so it makes sense.
What the christ? Over the SUMMER, when Florida is at its HOTTEST, we had 40 hours of marching band practice over the course of 5 days. We affectionately refer to that as 'Hell Week'. 90-95 degrees and HUMID. Yeeeeeah...
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We had 8 hours 5 days a week the last 3 weeks of summer, but only 3 of the 8 hours were spent outside.
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Oh wait, I guess ours was only like 75% outside, but still, that's retarded >_>
I love being in the pit though. We only have to go outside like half the time, it's pretty great.
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Oh wait, I guess ours was only like 75% outside, but still, that's retarded >_>
I love being in the pit though. We only have to go outside like half the time, it's pretty great.
Fuck you, you don't even have to march. You just stand there.
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Yeah, but my girlfriend marches clarinet and I feel bad for her.
Moving a cart with four timpani on it around school is not a fun task though, I can assure you. That thing weighs a ton (well, maybe only a few hundred pounds) but god does it kill every part of your body.
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I may not play an instrument, but moving HEAVY risers around the school that take about 3 people isn't a fun task either. Nor is hauling amps around.
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The clarinet section leader in my school's band has crossed the line with me.
Story goes like this: The only reason she's the section leader is because Joey, the best candidate, was made ineligible because his French teacher turned into a bitch at the beginning of the second semester and he failed one of the 6 weeks. None of us really thought we needed a section leader except for the village idiot, Shannon. As such, she tried out and won because no one else did.
She's been a shitty section leader all year, but I wasn't completely bothered by it because she wasn't doing anything that personally pissed me off. That changed this morning.
She got pissed at me because I didn't always flip to whatever piece of music we were playing at the time because I had memorized it. I can understand some of the shit she's done in the past, but I draw the line at her getting pissed at me for not following a nonexistent rule.
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Ok, yes, that is retarded, and I would have told her to go fuck herself if she did that to me.
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Yeah, section leaders blow when they get powerhungry and just plain silly. I'm actually section leader of the pit this year, and probably next year, which is quite nice. I'm actually not too bad of a leader if I actually try to be one. I've been in the pit for a whole two years- this is my third year- and only two other people have been in marching band for a year, so I obviously have the most experience.
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Yeah, it's good to have someone with experience in a leadership role in bands. And yes, I was serious when I said I'd tell her to go fuck herself, lol. I've got a bad habit of not taking shit from retarded people, even when I get in shit for it, lol. I've told teachers to fuck off because they were telling me to stop talking to someone.
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My backpack smells like cat piss, nothing gets the smell of cat piss out easily.
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Dog piss? Cat crap! Cat crap is the most vile smell evar. Except possibly corriander.
MortifiedocAlot, those eyebrows are hypnotic.
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Dog piss? Cat crap! Cat crap is the most vile smell evar. Except possibly corriander.
"My" cat used to like to piss in my room. Also cat piss>cat doo doo feces.
Also I switched this avatar with this one on another forum so the eyes look at my poast.
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And yet everyone is still drawn to your eyes in spite of that. <3
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Yeah all I get is eyebrows out of that. Oh well.
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The fact that no one believe that this one kid is a hacker even tho he shot me in the head threw a wall several times, sprayed away at me and nail me in the head constantly, and then had me and another teammate rush him and had him spray and nail us both in the head without even emptying half of his clip. I guess playing the game for about 3 years makes you not able to tell when someone is hacking. Also the clan that the hacker in question is in got banned a while back but then got unblocked, so it's obviously not the first time they've had trouble with them.
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The fact that nobody knows how the GBA and nintendo DS implement their LZ77 routines, so I can't make a program that uses the exact same routines to de-compress the files I have. That, and the fact that I'm thinking more and more that they are compressed in a different variant of the LZ77 algorithm. This is seriously pissing me off.
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My eldest sister and two nieces have come to stay with us for the week.
Stay tuned for drunk and very, very irritated rantings.
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This sucks.
I can't find the droids I'm looking for.
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Taking naps, because it's the equivalent of wasting an afternoon.
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Japanese freaking homework.
I just spent 2 hours copying hiragana, and I know them no better :(
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bleh, you don't learn hem well just by copying them :/ combine that with stuff for recognition and such. I suggest using flash card programs or jwpce for recognition stuff. Unless you already know them by sight and just don't know how to write them, lol. (I'm like that).
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Reading journals. I'd rather just read a book than write down all my thoughts on it as well as read it.
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^ Truth.
Nothing I love more than having to constantly stop reading to do dumb assignments on things.
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I hate when people are overly sensitive about petty shit and, rather than simply ignoring the thing in question like a sane person, they proceed to bitch about it.
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I hate when people are overly sensitive about petty shit and, rather than simply ignoring the thing in question like a sane person, they proceed to bitch about it.
Why won't you return my messages! I've waited a day! You're such a bastard I hate you. =(((((
My sister's still here. grumble grumble.
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I hate when people are overly sensitive about petty shit and, rather than simply ignoring the thing in question like a sane person, they proceed to bitch about it.
I have a habit of doing those types of things when it comes to my girlfriend, and I know I shouldn't and I know I complain about when other people do but I really can't help it sometimes. I reeeeally need to work on the whole caring about things that matter/not caring about things that don't matter issue within myself.
ALSO, materialism blows. I hate it when girls obsess over presents and belongings and things. Seriously, I'd rather just enjoy myself on a holiday than get someone to buy me something expensive and "thoughtful".
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There are two main types of people who don't care what anyone thinks, and there are subtypes to both.
People who don't care what other people think
A) People who don't care if anyone thinks they're weird but not necessarily offensive
-1) Liars who claim to not care but really just love attention
-2) Legit people. These are rare.
B) People who don't care who gets offended
-1) People who don't care if they piss off anyone unreasonable
-2) People who don't care if they piss off anyone, regardless of how reasonable they are
My band director is a B2. I realized this today when he made a joke about the tubas sounding "bulemic". I've become relatively sensitive to stuff like this since my sister went into rehab, so after class I told him that I was personally offended because my sister's in rehab. He just said, "Ok, is that all?"
Fuck him.
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Fuck him.
Call him a nigger. Then tell him the jews caused 9/11.
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Why won't you return my messages! I've waited a day! You're such a bastard I hate you. =(((((
I'LL GET TO IT, NEGRO <3
To clarify, my rant is mainly aimed at people who stumble upon things on the Internet, get all pissy about them, and start flaming whoever uploaded it rather than (a) NOT reading it and (b) shutting the hell up. You know, people like Jack Thompson.
Aldrasio's band director is the type of person that seriously needs punched in the face. It's a lot harder to ignore people in real life and it's worse when they intentionally act like a jackass.
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My sister's still here. grumble grumble.
My sister just moved back in as well. I like my sister tho, just that the fact that my house now has 4 cats in it sucks hard.
To clarify, my rant is mainly aimed at people who stumble upon things on the Internet, get all pissy about them, and start flaming whoever uploaded it rather than (a) NOT reading it and (b) shutting the hell up. You know, people like Jack Thompson.
I do this sometimes, only if it's something that I think has a horrible view that a lot of people tend to agree with (main reason I started hating the PP forums, everyone had a dumb elitist attitude, and somehow the one prick who's every post was flame bait basically got everyone respect, go figure).
Also some prick brake checked me on the turnpike because my car tends to slow down when it goes up hill. Would have flashed my brights, but I didn't want to blind the traffic on the other side.
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HOLY SHIT, I ended up making a tiny little oversight on another forum (accidentally restating something that a user did in their post) and this is the reply I got:
Oh. So THAT's why I said that you could double click IN THE VERY NEXT LINE PAST THAT QUOTE. And here I though it was just a random peice of text that somehow slipped in there for no reason...
Wow. Apparently harmless redundancy is a huge deal to him.
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You know, people like Jack Thompson.
Agreed, those people need to shut up, and go to a different site. My policy on offensive material is usually: If you don't like it, you have the mouse, your browser has a back button, so GTFO and STFU.
Aldrasio's band director is the type of person that seriously needs punched in the face. It's a lot harder to ignore people in real life and it's worse when they intentionally act like a jackass.
Yeah, seriously, I tend to try to be the B1 type, because I'm willing to debate about sensitive topics and put my belief out there, but I try to make sure that I'm not really trying to offend people, though if someone unreasonable happens to be unable to deal with it without becoming offended, they can either A) moderate me, warn me, ban me, or whatever they want, if they have the power, or B) deal with it, unless they have an actual reason to be offended (which I will recognize, and apologize to the for, if it's a reasonable reason).
However, I have met jackasses before, and it's VERY hard not to hurt them... In class, even our teacher made fun of him for being an ass, lol (though most of it soared over his head, lmao).
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Double post for being seriously pissed.
My mom just made me take another computer to her office, and hook it all up, just to discover that neither computer has a working hard drive (oh, I did not see that coming when my dad thought the guy who used to work for him took out the bad drive, but wasn't completely sure...)
I suggested we take out the hard drive from computer 2, and swap it in the computer that was already there, because I know that it has to be a hard drive problem that's stopping it from booting. But no, my mom says it has to be a motherboard issue, completely disregarding the fact that a computer does a POST before the BIOS even shows up. So now we have 2 computers there with working mobos and neither of them has a working hard drive. Now I'm going to have to go back up there, swap one of the hard drives out with one of the ones my dad brought home from his office after testing them in this computer to see which ones work.
Fucking hell. Why can't she just let me do things my way? Why does she have to second guess me every time I tell her something when I obviously know more about computers than she does.
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http://www.pandatales.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=831
Dumb shit like this. I didn't even say shit to them even tho tim3 (server owner) treats a ton of people like shit.
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The crap? I'd just send them a nice big "Fuck you guys, I'm outa here."
Honestly, some people have real lives, but apparently, they don't.
Well, I may decide to bitch them out (and probably get banned really quickly for it, lol.) If I say anything, It'll be under the name TehMonkeyODoom.
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Meh, I just read it and now I kinda feel like a dick. I have missed almost everything their was to try to get into the clan, sept for one.
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so... no bitching them out?
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I would appreciate it if you didn't, thanks for the support anyways.
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Well, I could still bitch them out, if only to see how quickly I could get banned, lol.
(I'd try not to make it look like I was a friend supporting you, though, I'd just bitch them out for the sake of being a gigantic troll.)
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On the calculus test I took yesterday, the last question was free response. We were given 2 functions and had to make the line tangent to the parabola. Here are the functions:
f(x) = 4x + 13
g(x) = -2x^2 + kx + 5
We had to find a value for k that made the line tangent at an unspecified point. After writing down a lot of work (which is something I'm not used to doing), I got k = 4.
This morning, when I woke up, that problem came to mind. I redid it in my head and got the correct answer, which was k = -4. I knew exactly where my mistake was, too. I made f'(x) equal to g'(x), but I got the wrong x-value because I didn't make f(x) equal to g(x).
Because of that, I ended up with an 82 on that test.
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Bah, they took calculus out of high school classes in canada like, this year... Now if you take any calculus stuff, you have to learn all the calculus in college.
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The best my high school had was pre-calc, and only people who were in AP math since 8th grade could get into it. Since my school inexplicably dropped me from AP math (scheduling conflict or some bullshit) I wasn't able to take it.
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The fact that a birthday card costs 4 bucks, but a rose 2 bucks. What the christ?
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The fact that a birthday card costs 4 bucks, but a rose 2 bucks. What the christ?
Well you don't feel guilty about throwing away a rose after a few days.
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The best my high school had was pre-calc, and only people who were in AP math since 8th grade could get into it. Since my school inexplicably dropped me from AP math (scheduling conflict or some bullshit) I wasn't able to take it.
...what? That's fucking bullshit, on the school's part. Over here it's the fourth year of standard math (third for people who took algebra in 8th grade). It's somewhat of a mix between trigonometry and precalculus, from what I hear; I'm going to try and take it my second semester this year, since this albebra ii class seems like less than a semester's worth of review bullshit with barely any progress... with the amount of content we've managed to learn so far in this quarter, I'm sure I could most of it in a few after school sessions.
also they should separate the class levels for classes like this or something, there's a couple of senior jocks in this class that must be retarded or something and it gets frustrating and slows down the class even more, it doesn't help that the teacher treats the class like elementary schoolers anyway i dunno an "AlgeBRA FASF HUR HUR FOR RETARDZ!1" class or something so the people who want to learn don't have to deal with that shit? i bet classes like this would seriously only take a semester if that happened
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you can take calculus at my local high school. before, you needed to take algebra I in eighth grade to take it since the system is as such: (also, eighth is funny looking. eighth? wtf.)
Algebra Ia --> Algebra Ib --> Geometry Ia
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|-------------' Personal Finances
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Algebra I --> Geometry --> Algebra II --> Precalculus --> AP Calculus
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Geometry Ia ------' Statistics --> AP Statistics
Now, they have more classes due to a new scheduling system, so pretty much anyone can take Calculus or what have you by the end of schooling. a and b are the halves of the subject, 1a is the first half, 1b, the second. Geometry 1b was deprecated [a word you only find in programming] due to not enough students taking it. Also, Personal Finances is a class of it's own.. It's basically a class teaching you how to do your own taxes, manage a budget, manage a small business' finances, and other business business money stuff. There needs to be more classes like that... Also, a "home economics" on steroids should be required.. You wouldn't believe how many Americans there are that don't even know how to cook or do their own fucking laundry. XD
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Here's how mine was:
6th grade: Pre-pre-algebra (basically Pre-algebra, which is basically Algebra I)
7th grade: Pre-algebra (basically Algebra I)
8th grade: Algebra I (shitty teacher)
9th grade: Algebra I (again)
10th grade: Geometry (completely useless, I only learned the 3 basic trig functions, which are constantly reenforced in higher math classes, so I should've tested out of this instead of Algebra II)
11th grade: Algebra II (2 credit-by-exams = 1 full credit), Pre-calculus (actual class)
12th grade: BC Calculus
My state requires 7 math or science credits, so because I had 4 math credits and 3 science credits going into this year, I could've just skipped out on having either calculus or physics this year, but that would defeat the purpose of the CBE's I took.
Some of the people who came from a public middle school that didn't enforce conformity like the private one I came from got to take Algebra II their freshman year, which landed them in Calculus this year. Some of them are going to take Statistics next year, even though everyone knows the Stat teacher is a bitch.
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deprecated [a word you only find in programming]
And an awesome one at that. I love that word, it could be used more than it is in normal conversations.
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I hate math. Also I just woke up feeling sickand slightly hung over.
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I know what you mean...
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We have up to Calc 2 in our school, but you had to have taken MEGSSS in middle school (which means Algebra 1 in 7th and Geometry in 8th) and the middle school I went to didn't have that >_>
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You wouldn't believe how many Americans there are that don't even know how to cook or do their own fucking laundry. XD
And I read:
You wouldn't believe how many Americans there are that don't even know how to cook their own fucking laundry. XD
...go figure. Also I am a wee bit hungover and woke up sore from when I was falling over a lot last night. All my own fault, so not really complaining.
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I don't know how to do my own laundry, also too many of my friends are halofags. My one friend (not usually microsofts cock sucker, but someone who sold his xbox 360) basically said he didn't like TF2 because it had "cartoonish violence" and he said halo was awesome. I also hate how video games have become a formula. Nothing in any sequel now a days gets updated enough, they just tweak half of the game and people go nuts over it. Man I fucking hate the video game industry.
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Which is why I don't bother following it any more. I'm more interested in retro games, and such. And maybe some handheld games, like stuff for the DS, because a number of those games are pretty good.
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Which is why I don't bother following it any more. I'm more interested in retro games, and such. And maybe some handheld games, like stuff for the DS, because a number of those games are pretty good.
I'm the exact same way. I'd take Terranigma or Megaman X over tons of recent games. I can't even think of that many recent/new games I'd actually want to spend money on in the first place...
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Me and some friends got drunk again last night. I found out that Kate doesn't like me like that (which kills me) and that Chad does (which kills him).
I'm an angry sort of depressed right now.
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Which is why I don't bother following it any more. I'm more interested in retro games, and such. And maybe some handheld games, like stuff for the DS, because a number of those games are pretty good.
Theirs some good things out, orange box, new god of war, devil may cry and other games. So I wouldn't just forget everything new.
I'm the exact same way. I'd take Terranigma or Megaman X over tons of recent games. I can't even think of that many recent/new games I'd actually want to spend money on in the first place...
Megaman X was the shit. Some of the hardest games I've ever played, they just make games way to damn easy now. I guess that's why a lot of people look for multiplayers games now.
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X was the perfect megaman game. It was not too hard, and it wasn't too easy. And they didn't do any stupid shit like the new ones that are 3D and hardly a platformer any more.
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You guys forgot Guitar Hero 3.
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X was the perfect megaman game.
I loved X4 and X5 was okay. I can't believe they made it 3D, just like that contra after shattered soldier, and another case of "lol graphics" fucking up good games.
You guys forgot Guitar Hero 3.
Huh wut?
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Awesome games that are coming up.
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Man, GH3 Wii version, gonna be SO sweet. Cannot wait. Never owned the first or second but I've played the second quite a few times in various places, very entertaining.
Fishing in Contact. God that game is tedious sometimes.
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Angry bowels. :(
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Teenage girls and their inner confusion.
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The alcohol-induced drama going on among me, Kate, and Chad.
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Man, GH3 Wii version, gonna be SO sweet. Cannot wait.
Never really got into GH2, made my hand hurt after a few songs. I'll most likely check this one tho.
The alcohol-induced drama going on among me, Kate, and Chad.
My friends are going threw the same shit. A while ago my friend kissed my other friends girlfriend on the cheek, then she did the same to him when she got drunk (him and her are both amazingly goofy when drunk). Also the couple in question always argues and has been together for like 3+ years.
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I just lost my election for dorm dictator ;_;
Oh well, worse things have happened.
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The alcohol-induced drama going on among me, Kate, and Chad.
I think we're bad luck for each other, we both just, you know, had our relationships with our girlfriends die D:
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It's a little different. I like Kate, but she doesn't quite feel the same way. Chad likes me, but I'm unable to feel the same way.
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Yeah.. that's a pretty shitty position. Tt's hard to deal with that sort of drama when it involves your friends.
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Whoa, what the christ? A guy seriously likes you?
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Yes.
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The fact that I didn't do dishes (had homework due later that day) so my mom bitches me out about irrelevant shit.
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Blue0ctane is pissed that I have perfect pitch.
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Blue0ctane is pissed that I have perfect pitch.
Haha, what. Why would he get mad at you for that >_>
PS: I have pretty darn good pitch :D
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Haha, what. Why would he get mad at you for that >_>
Sheer jealousy makes the most sense.
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Sheer jealousy makes the most sense.
Yeah, I suppose.
Also, traffic grinds my gears. Goodness, I rather dislike it.
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when people cant pull their fucking
HEADS OUT OF THEIR ASS
AND WAKE THE FUCK UP
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Any particular scenario prompt that?
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Any particular scenario prompt that?
Yeah, what. You have some splainin' to do.
Also, getting yelled at for being late to a VERY short notice sectional today.
Also also, missing the Great Gatsby book discussion at the library because of aforementioned sectional. AGGGHHHHH.
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Linux never working right pisses me off. Every time I've tried, twice with yoper, once with gentoo, and once with debian a while ago, every single time, there were problems. Rather annoying ones.
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Fucking palidans, I would have killed this one about 5 times but he could bubble shield and block like 15 of my attacks then run to cover. At least I killed him and his hunter friend once in one life, then they did what all alliance do and got some 70 to help them.
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This guy added me on msn, and I find out that he's Tom. John's new boyfriend.
John is mister 48 year old who I've decided to hate muchly. And Tom is an eighteen year old who moved from Brisbane to Toowoomba to effectively become John's housewife. Although... Tom seems to be a bright enough guy, and he seems pretty nice.
I'm confuzzled. Normally I'd probably try to fuck up their relationship some more, because I hate John for some retarded reasons. But I think to ultimately grow up and learn how to deal with this sort of situation I should just leave them be.
I'm confused. I hate being confused. :(
People have relationships, and I sleep with a 48 year old and develop a one-sided sort of emotional attachment that's hastily severed with the arrival of an attractive and interesting and less screwed up youngerling. Heh... go figure. :/
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I'm not even sure how to respond to that one. Seriously. That's just messed up...
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Also if you're going to try linux and you hate setting things up or having to know how to fix things when they break, you're better off just going with a desktop distro like SuSE, Ubuntu or Fedora. Debian and Gentoo tend to rely on you knowing what you want out of the whole deal. You have to know where you're going and 'just dicking around' tends to be an unpleasant experience. They're great for refining a machine to do one or a handful of tasks and do them DAMNED WELL, but if you're just wanting to try the new shiny stuff that's coming out in droves lately, you're better off with the distros specifically compiled to dump a whole heap of useful stuff onto your hard drive and get everything working out of the box. I tried SuSE the other day, and it seemed pretty nicely polished. I didn't quite get used to YaST over the debian lot, but it made sense in the end and worked well. It was very... green. I haven't tried Fedora since Fedora Core 5, and I had fond memories about it being very pretty. I expect the next versions of each will bring forth some unparalleled awesome.
(Have you seen the compiz-fusion stuff Ubuntu's packing? :D)
Also assignments and university will be the death of me. So will my pining for Spec to answer my messages. >.>
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Well, I have tried debian, but it was a long time ago, and the computer I had it on had a wireless card that there were no linux drivers for. at all.
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Also assignments and university will be the death of me. So will my pining for Spec to answer my messages. >.>
Shit...sorry. :<
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Shit...sorry. :<
Eh, don't be. Being needy scares me a bit. o_o
I only form bizarre amorous attachments to very select people, see. <3
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Form bizarre attachments to me all you like, I don't have anything better to do.
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Haha, neither do I at the moment either :/ I really need a job.
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I still can't find those fucking droids
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being in debt.
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Ditto. I owe a friend $20 from last time we went out for a drink. Goddamn. At least he's in college about 4 hours away.
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I owe $130 to the bank. :\ I'd rather owe a friend than a corporation. At least friends can't ruin your credit.
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Ouch.
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Gah, homework. Good thing I only really have it like once a month.
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pms, amirite?
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pms, amirite?
QFT
I hate women
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I hate women
quoted for everlasting truth
>____>
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I hate fags. So... very, very much. I hate toowoomba and I hate wasting my life. Also I've been feeling sick for weeks, maybe months, and I can't mention it because BOWELS ARE TEH FAUX PAS.
You wanna try constipation and diaorhhea for a couple of months? IT'S NOT FREAKING PLEASANT.
Also yeah, fags should be kicked in the face or castrated or not allowed to exist.
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To be honest, M my bowels have been being rather annoying as well lately :/ And I have no idea why.
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I've been playing Guitar Hero II for the last 2 hours.
My right arm is about to fall off, and my left wrist is practically numb, but I still want to play. I hate loving this game.
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Lack of practice and sucking on songs I usually do good on has made me not want to play much recently. It needs more songs, and though the Rocks the 80's is a good game, and the charts are decently hard all the way through, there needs to be a wider range of stuff. I really need to play GH3.
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That's why I've started charting songs myself. I just need a fliptop to play them.
Plus, since I lost my copy of Guitar Hero II and am now borrowing it from a friend, I haven't gotten to play this list in a while.
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It's entirely possible that, like about half of my father's family and my sister, I'm gluten intolerant.
I think if that's the case I might have to KILL MYSELF.
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Sleeping in until 4 o clock and still feeling tiered when I wake up. I guess it's time for some sleeping pills.
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The reason you're tired is probably because you slept in.
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Yeah dude, getting too much sleep makes you sleepier. That's why naps are absolutely the devil, you wake up and you're more tired than you were before. It sucks :x
Also, I hate drama, as much as ever.
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It's not oversleeping that makes you tired, it's waking up in the middle of a sleep cycle that sucks.
And yes, drama does suck.
The assistant band director, Mr. Fowler, apparently heard of our drunken experiences at Kate's dad's house, but the only name mentioned was Thomas, the only person who wasn't there. If Mr. Fowler tries to investigate this further, it's just going to piss me off. A lot of the rest of the band does worse stuff than us more frequently, but they never get questioned about it. As long as it doesn't directly affect the band or directors personally, it's none of their damn business what we do on our own time.
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True, and if he does, say exactly that. I hate when people take crap like that from teachers. Just because they're a teacher doesn't give them a right to be a total jackass.
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I just got a call from Tyler. He's gotten more information about what the band directors know.
They are investigating deeper. They've "interrogated" 2 people already, Thomas and Tim. Tim goes out and drinks a lot, so it'd be easy to assume he'd be involved, but he wasn't there either.
We're assembling a story in which most people are exhausted from the contest and go to sleep early. Kate and Omar said they'd take the fall if it came down to it.
I don't even know if they can legally get this involved. God this pisses me off.
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Yeah, Personally, I'd talk to him, and just ask him why the hell they're involved in the first place, and what the fuck they're thinking. Then I'd tell them that my personal life is my personal life and that I would be charging them with harassment if they went any further (will full intention of doing so). Yeah, I'm not the sort of person who will take shit sitting down from teachers and such.
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I don't even know if they can legally get this involved. God this pisses me off.
Without evidence, no he can't really. He could call the parents but that's about it. Also this is weird, I've had teachers know about kids being stoned in class and not really care about it.
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God damn you fucking droids where the fuck did you go
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I cant get fucking TF2 to work. I can never get a connection with a server.
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I talked more with Joey and Tyler about this. Joey speculates that the only reason they're getting this involved (since the main directer never, ever gives a shit about our personal lives and openly accepts that half of the band smokes) is because there are rumors that drugs were involved. If that's the case, we're in the clear. They can't prove we did anything illegal. They can't even attempt to do so without any evidence.
Joey is generally a fairly calm, passive person that takes what life gives him in stride. If he has to, he's going to make a scene whenever they interrogate him. As for me, I'll answer the questions calmly. I will not incriminate anyone, which is what they're going for. If they threaten to tell my parents, I'll do it for them. They can't do anything past that.
God this pisses me off.
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That is retarded. I honestly hope that he does make a scene. Teachers need to be told that just because they're a teacher doesn't entitle them to become involved in people's personal lives unless they are breaking a law and the teacher has direct evidence (IE: catches kid with weed in his pocket.)
I'm sick of hearing about teachers being assholes and shit. There's just something about teachers that pisses me off sometimes. They think that just because they are there to teach you gives them the right to be an ass, grade people differently, get involved with people's personal lives, and all around boss people around, and I don't think they have a right to do most of that. Maybe it's because teachers has been douches to me in the past, but hearing about teachers being really retarded REALLY pisses me off.
My girlfriend was in the yearbook class last year. Unfortunately, the teacher who usually did the yearbook stuff left at the end of the year before. Now there's some dumb cunt who took a shitty little course who thinks she knows everything running the class. She hated my girlfriend, gave her bad marks, was an ass, kept doing stuff like deleting her pictures and messing with her spreads, and cutting most of them from the yearbook. And then she went as far as to remove my girlfriend form the credits in the yearook. How's that for a fucking cunt?
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My parents are teachers.
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Not every teacher I've had was bad, but there were quite a few douchebags.
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I cant get fucking TF2 to work. I can never get a connection with a server.
It might be you're steam friends that's fucking it up, not 100% sure tho.
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meh, I can't get this thing to work. I wish I could play it >:(. Tell me how TF2 plays.
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meh, I can't get this thing to work. I wish I could play it >:(. Tell me how TF2 plays.
Get it working, it's good. Class based shooter plus weird/awesome game types. Also I fucking hate people who can't argue right, My friend kept winning team battles in super smash, mostly because my teammate was just dicking around and using one move over and over, So he starts to brag about it. Then he brags about how he has the most kills, then I say "even if you have 100 kills, it's still not impressive if you have 500 deaths" and he said "I don't have 500 deaths" then I just called him retarded. After that we had an epic battle (got me 8 or so coins afterwards) and me and my teammate won, so I guess that made me fell a lot better about it.
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I'm not much of a coin battle person myself. I prefer a straight up death match. 5 lives, Any item rules, though I prefer more normal item rules. Pokeballs on very high is kinda stupid, lol.
And yes, people who don't know how to actually argue should have to go to court to argue to save themselves from being castrated. If they prove that they are smart enough to argue properly in that court, then they're fine. Otherwise, no more idiots polluting the gene pool.
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I'm not much of a coin battle person myself. I prefer a straight up death match. 5 lives, Any item rules, though I prefer more normal item rules. Pokeballs on very high is kinda stupid, lol.
I meant 8 continue/lottery coins. Also I usually use no items or have a pokeball hell hole.
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Lol, ok, yeah, 8 coins is quite a match.
I used to like 10 life matches, but once you get good at the game, 10 lives takes a long time to kill. I used to average about 8 minutes for a 1v2 team match against 2 lv 9s.
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Tv-links getting raided and the guy running it getting arrested.
What. The. Fuck.
Also people who don't care about stuff, or people who think the stuff I believe in oughtn't be cared about. Free speech, the internet, sane censorship... nah, who cares about all that stuff. Only geeks care about 'em anyway, look at women who are legally obliged to stay in the kitchen! Damn those bratz dolls, fuck those models and the whole 'let's be anorexic' industry.
I need more guy friends. Hell, I need a boyfriend. :|
Well not need, really. I hate sounding reliant on that and I fear that if I do I'll fall back to 2005/2006-era mark. But I would really like to have someone to make this whole Toowoomba experience slightly less awful.
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Tv-links getting raided and the guy running it getting arrested.
What. The. Fuck.
That's seriously fucked up. D:
Hey, I think spectere.net has links to Bemanistyle somewhere. There's plenty of songs being used illegally on that site! FUCK WE'RE GONNA GET SHUT DOWN AND IMMA GET ARRESTED.
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Tv-links getting raided and the guy running it getting arrested.
What. The. Fuck.
Same, also the fact that I might not get to see my friend this weekend and I might not get to see him again for a while. Also another one of my cats got this weird nerves system and can hardly walk right.
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You know what really pisses me off sometimes? People who can't spend the 10 extra seconds it takes to actually type something out properly. Seriously, there was a huge debate on the forums for a game called DarkEden recently about this (more of a flamewar, considering half the posts were the morons insulting the people who actually care about grammar). I mean, I suggested creating some sort of guild or group of people who are intelligent enough and mature enough to type properly ingame and have some sort of presence because of how much of a problem it can be when you get into a game and NOBODY seems to even make sense. For people like me, it's retarded to go play a game and be bombarded constantly by absolute morons who can't speak anything that even resembles proper english chatting about retarded shit like they're 10.
And yet, half the people who actually used proper grammar either said "It's the internet deal with it" or "why hate on those people, they're not actually stupid, they just don't type properly". I even went as far as to explain WHY bad grammar bugs me. I mean, games like this are WAY more fun when you have someone to talk to and shit, but it's hard to find people who are actually smart when all the chat is in fucking monkey english. I mean, these games just don't work if nobody can socialize with other people, and I don't know about you, but I just don't bother talking to idiots who can't make an effort to type properly. If that's all you ever hear in a game, then it's kinda hard to find someone you can actually talk to, and that just wrecks the game.
Fuck, why does nobody understand that monkey english is something that needs to be corrected.
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Oh, and in case you're wondering, monkey english is when idiots type and it looks like something that would come out if a monkey based it's head on the keyboard.
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r u wunt cyborz????????????????????????????????????///
its a pet peeve of mine too, im not remotely good at grammar, but at least i fucking try.
also, in my diablo infested mood, WHERES THE DIABLO THREE. i know its getting a sequel, but i don't want to wait till 2020 :(
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Superwaps like Moogy
lulz
Other than that, I hate it when I go to anonib.com and there's nothing new.
It does make me sad.
And black people.
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Vlad: See Mythos.
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10 v 10 and up matches in CSS. If you're a T trying to plant the bomb all you end up doing is get killed by randomly camping CTs.
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I'm in a really bad mood and have no idea why.
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Drama that I constantly keep hearing and interrogated about.
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I'm on SSH's site, but the server only allows one download at a time or else it 503's. I couldn't get wget to work on it, so I have to download each file individually.
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That blows, I could send you a torrent that happens to have SSH's CDs and such.. (and stuff only available on his site). I should still have the torrent laying around. It might take a long time, but I think there's more stuff in the torrent than available on his website.
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That would be nice.
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Gas prices. What the christ? I have to use 'Super Plus', so it costs even more than the regular gas does D:
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Gas prices. What the christ? I have to use 'Super Plus', so it costs even more than the regular gas does D:
Gas is about 3 dollars a gallon where I live, it's causing me to go broke quickly.
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GH3. My fucking PS2 can't handle it apparently, because the fucking thing lags. If you haven't read my other post, I'm posting here too because I'm quite pissed about it.
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Could be a disk problem? My friends GH3 on his PS2 works fine.
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I severely doubt it. If it was a disk issue, it would simply make loading slow and probably grind a lot. And maybe throw some errors at me occasionally.
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Fat or flat PS2?
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Gas is about 3 dollars a gallon where I live, it's causing me to go broke quickly.
Yeah, same. Regular is $2.95 and my lovely Super Plus grade gas was $3.05. :D
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Works well on my fat one.
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Fat or flat PS2?
Fat, I have a V4. Also, eww @ flat. Their hardware is utter crap.
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You mean the hardware that, performance-wise, is no different from the fat PS2s (besides the space-consuming legacy junk being left out)?
Yeah, it's crap alright. ::)
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Yet another trademark Spectere Post.
So compatibility issues due to different hardware, such as different ASICs, and lenses, as well as disk read issues that seem to plague the newer slimline PS2s don't count as hardware issues?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_2#Slim_case_design
Oh, and unifying the CPU and GPU into a combined chip doesn't count as different hardware either?
I'll admit that "utter crap" was a bad choice of words, but I think I'll stick to my fat PS2.
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Yet another trademark Spectere Post.
Oh?
/me turns the sarcasm knob up.
So compatibility issues due to different hardware, such as different ASICs, and lenses, as well as disk read issues that seem to plague the newer slimline PS2s don't count as hardware issues?
Read issues? You mean like the PS2s have always had? And it's kind of ironic how you're talking about the slim PS2's drive being crap when you have a v4.
I've dealt with many slim and fat PS2s in my day and, well, I've only seen one disc fail to play on a slim PS2. Thing is, that same disc didn't play on a fat one either, so that point is moot.
And naturally you're going to have some compatibility issues with new hardware. Given how many game programmers seem to refuse to stick to any sort of documented standard it's amazing more games don't fail between hardware revisions.
Oh, and unifying the CPU and GPU into a combined chip doesn't count as different hardware either?
Hence the reason I said "same-perfomance" rather than "same-chipset." Try to read more carefully next time, hmm?
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I have 2 fat PS2s and a slim one. I never get any DREs on either (save a copy of disk 1 of FF7, but it was scratched as hell), but my games frequently lock up on the slim one. Maybe it's just a crappy slim PS2, since it's the only one I've ever played, so I don't know.
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My PS2 is starting to fail on me (it's old, not sure how old tho). It froze on god of war 2, I couldn't get god of war to work, then today I got to "disc read error" on god hand, CONSPIRACY??
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Obviously your PS2 is an devout atheist.
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Obviously your PS2 is an devout atheist.
(http://www.spectere.net/graphics/med-facepalm.jpg)
Apologies for the overused macro, but I'm sure we can all agree that it had to be used right there. ;P
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I almost included that in my post, but I figured someone else could take care of it.
EDIT: I hate it when people ask why I don't like a certain song or find something annoying.
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Why? I like to know when someone doesn't happen to like something that I do. My girlfriend doesn't like Iced Earth's music, for example. She understands and sort of appreciates the music itself, but for some reason Matt Barlow's voice just doesn't work for her. I can't understand how she can not like his voice, but either way, I at least understand why she doesn't like something.
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I let them know that I don't like a song, but I generally don't have a fundamental reason other than that the song doesn't fit my taste (which, to me, is synonymous with "I don't like that song.")
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*shakes head* I can usually point out what parts of the song bother me...
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So I recently got my hands on ex-friend (and girl who dumped me 6 months ago)'s email account.
Apparently, when me, her, and the guy she went with were all on the couch watching a movie on May 1 (judging by the date of the email), she used her feet to jack him off under a blanket while I was literally less than an inch from her. She then waited 3 weeks to tell me that she was going with him.
I'm over liking her, but I'm not yet over this new information. She manipulated me. She led me on because she was too much of a coward to tell me the truth.
Granted, I didn't stop being friends with her after she rejected me. I stopped being friends with her when I realized that she has absolutely no ambition, she uses depression to get attention, she always whines about something, she's "somehow sick" all the time, and she is needier than I thought possible. Additionally, she's really manipulative. She pretends to be this nice, caring, fun person to harness guys in and then dumps all of her "problems" on them once she has them. I was indifferent of her until about an hour ago. Now I seriously think I hate her.
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I don't blame you. I know someone who is a total manipulative bitch too. She uses depression and stuff as a way to get attention. She has TERRIBLE choice in men, and is pretty much just in it for the sex. She's a total bitch to one of my friends for apparently no reason. They went out, had sex, and she dumped him for someone else about a week after that, and started coming to the lunch table just to harass him. She always claims her current partner's dick is the biggest she's seen, and all that, and starts insulting her ex's size, and all sorts of retarded shit. On top of it all she's a fucking idiot. Since she's on birth control, she doesn't think she should make him use a condom, and yet she doesn't know shit about birth control. (She recently had a period and asked my GF what was going on because she thought that you automatically didn't get a period at all when you're on birth control.)
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The fact that I ordered a Pineapple Dream instead of going with a Razzdango last night. Razzdangos are tried and truly awesome, so why did I try something new? It wasn't nearly as good :(
PS woo Denny's
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Apparently, when me, her, and the guy she went with were all on the couch watching a movie on May 1 (judging by the date of the email), she used her feet to jack him off under a blanket while I was literally less than an inch from her. She then waited 3 weeks to tell me that she was going with him.
Ummm wow, yeah I'd be pretty pissed about that, you should have cracked her in the jaw or something. Also at boobies, do you hang out with that girl? You should just call her fat until she leaves you alone.
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No, I don't hang out with her. I don't see her any more because I'm not in school, luckily. However, my GF, and other people still have to deal with her.
They don't bother saying shit to her face because they don't want to deal with her being more of a bitch to them, but everyone talks behind her back. A friend of mine saw a bed in the school for something (I forget why it was there), and said "Looks like she's bringing her work to school" when he saw it, lol.
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The fact that my copies of HL2: Episode 2, TF2 and Portal all don't work on my computer.
Stupid DirectX bug.
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Pet peeve: People putting long, obscure words in Wikipedia articles and then linking to the Wiktionary entry of that word because no one knows what it means (like "vicissitude"), when they could just as easily put a contextual synonym that everyone knows the meaning of (like "succession").
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Yeah, that's stupid. I can understand using them on occasion if they have a more proper connotation for the exact meaning you'd like to convey, but they should only be used when that is either necessary, or a very good idea (as in you are really trying to mark a difference between 2 similar ideas.)
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My assistant director in marching band. During practice today he told me to fix something that I was doing "incorrectly" when, in fact, I was doing it perfectly, as I always have done it. When I told him that he was probably just hearing things, he got all defensive as usual and then entirely stopped practice to lecture everyone on the importance of not talking back to him. Then he said that if anyone else talked back to him, they'd go sit out for a while or something. It was pretty silly... that guy is extremely good at overreacting to absolutely nothing at all.
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I'd talk back to him again just to piss him off, lol. Something along the lines of "So, you're yelling at us about not talking back to cover up for your incompetence and the fact that you're not always right?"
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I'd talk back to him again just to piss him off, lol. Something along the lines of "So, you're yelling at us about not talking back to cover up for your incompetence and the fact that you're not always right?"
Ah, if only. That would've been great.
Also, my mom keeps telling me that I look skinny, and I keep calling her crazy. Just now I jumped on a scale and it read 125. I weighed 133 over the summer and a year ago I was up to 144. I don't know what I'm doing but my mom thinks I'm quite literally anorexic. Which I'm not. It's very silly.
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Well, when I was going through my depression in grade 9, I weighed 160. After meeting my GF, I now tend gto weigh between 130 and 140. Usually closer to 130.
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My antidepressant is also an appetite suppressor, so I've lost about 6 pounds since I started taking it again.
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Shitty, unless you weigh too much... But I don't really think that applies to you....
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I realized this a while ago, but my friends like Avatar.
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Still can't get any of my Orange Box games to work. What the christ.
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The majority of the people on WoW. So I got in a group, tell them I'm fury, they want me to tank anyways. So in the instance our rouge keeps messing up his sap and aggros everything there, I usually get most of the enemies aggros but their's always one that attacks someone else and so about 2 or 3 of the people in my group die. The hunter leaves and we get another rouge, so we continue. Then our healer told me to pull this mob to the back of a room, the rouge runs forward and pulls them, yet my healer is in the middle of the room with an enemy, so I stay back thinking he would run back to safety with me and not aggro the whole room ahead yet he just sits there and fights him while our rouges randomly fight the un aggroed mobs. So we end up dying and he cries to me about it. Then he says "do ur job" to which I reasonably replied "shut your whore mouth" and he kicked me from the group. Then he whispers me saying I'm a bad tank and that he already had another group. So I said "cool, I already leveled and did my quest". He says "I hope you die" so I said "good luck have fun" and he ignores me. Then his friend whispered me (I knew it was his friend since he said his name and how he played halo 3 with him and how they pwned, who would have guessed) and told me I was a bad tank. I replied "I'm not a prot warrior and the healer shouldn't rush enemies". Then I made fun of his spelling mistakes and he says "sorry I don't cream myself when someone makes a type", then he points out one of my typos and calls me an idiot. He also tried to tell me that tanks should have good DPS (someone did a chart for damage+healing and I was still past the healer). Then our conversation broke down into how I like loli and he said he was going to show the cops our conversation, then he ignored me.
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WHERE THE FUCK ARE THE CORNER GAS TORRENTS
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Haha, that show is amazing.
Also, if you're expecting intelligent people on WoW, prepare to be looking for a long time. The ONLY, and I repeat ONLY good group of people I've found online to play with that are mature, intelligent, and know the game well, are my cousin, and his friends.
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WoW in general peels my potatoes with angry knives. Yech. I would never play that thing.
Also, what the hell? I spent an entire HOUR trying to get the Rolling Gizmo Galaxy star last night. Took me like 40 tries and grief counseling. It was TERRIBLE.
I'm not even going to TRY the other two green star galaxies yet, they both look ridiculously hard. I'm gonna go ahead and wait until I get reincarnated or something.
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WoW in general peels my potatoes with angry knives. Yech. I would never play that thing.
They apperently made the leveling difficulty from 40 to 60 a lot easier and quests give you more exp, so there is less grindan, so I'm seeing if I can get to 70.
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WoW in general peels my potatoes with angry knives. Yech. I would never play that thing.
Also, what the hell? I spent an entire HOUR trying to get the Rolling Gizmo Galaxy star last night. Took me like 40 tries and grief counseling. It was TERRIBLE.
I'm not even going to TRY the other two green star galaxies yet, they both look ridiculously hard. I'm gonna go ahead and wait until I get reincarnated or something.
That galaxy was flippin' annoying. I got it after like 5 tries though. You suck
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That galaxy was flippin' annoying. I got it after like 5 tries though. You suck
I know, I am pretty bad, rofl. A lot of other stuff I can miraculously get on my first try though, so it kinda balances out.
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... I put my cellphone through the washing machine on tuesday night :3
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Lol, nice work.
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Beowulf sucked. A lot.
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The new one? (That makes, what, 3 movies out of it? At Least.)
It looked like it had some promise from the clips I saw.
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No, it was terrible. I mean, visually it was pretty cool, but I didn't enjoy it. Also, it went way off from where the original story went.
Grendel's mother wasn't beheaded by a giant's sword, and instead seduced Beowulf and gave birth to the fire dragon. WTF
EDIT: So apparently there are 16777216 possible font colors on the SMF forum, and I just found the background color of the quote boxes.
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Not hard, you can always use the eyedropper tool to get it really quickly.
Also, that sucks ass. I HATE when movies change the plot for stuff like that. I wish for once they would leave things completely alone. Everyone always loves movies that are exactly the same as the book, so why don't they smarten up already?
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when people can't fucking keep plans
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when people can't fucking keep plans
Yeah, I really, really hate that. It's like, we made plans to do this at this time, why would you allow "something else" to come up and waste my time waiting for you to figure out what you're doing?
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The PS2 I'm using won't read CD-Roms, and my sister (it belongs to her) won't let me open it, clean out the dust bunnies, and adjust the laser.
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Didn't you know? Having broken hardware is trendy.
Also, Cobalt Flux is currently on my shitlist: http://spectere.livejournal.com/31688.html (http://spectere.livejournal.com/31688.html). All they've been doing is getting worse and worse since they released the v2 pads and this is the straw that broke the camel's back.
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Ouch, that sucks. I honestly don't get why companies do that shit? I mean, the price drop would be essentially null, but now they're also pissing off everyone who wants to play PIU. In a niche market like dance pads, pissing off a group of people like the PIU fans is definitely going to have an effect on sales and the overall reception that they get.
I really want to know why some companies are so retarded? Sometimes I think that I would be better suited to run these companies than half the people who currently are... You don't need to understand a single bit of economics to realize that pissing off a portion of the group of people who will buy your stuff is likely to lead to quite a hefty loss of profit, when compared to the couple cents worth of materials they are potentially saving by doing that.
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My little sister broke up with her boyfriend a few days ago, and now he's showing his utter inability to move on. He says he wants to be friends, but he really just wants to date her again. She just realized how much a relationship doesn't interest her. He wants to hang out with her a lot still, basically dating without the benefits of the title, which is meaningless.
What really bothers me is how he's treating this like the end of the world and making my little sister feel like shit for no reason.
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Make him understand your stance on it if it bugs you that much...
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Ugh. I hate these. I'm referring to the comments as well as the video.
Slow motion is rediculous. Drop a pencil on earth. Does it go in slow motion because it's lighter than you? Do cats on earth walk that way? They have 1/6 the grvity pulling on them as a human. Looks like the moon has an almost liquid atmosphere...LOL!
You're an idiot. The moon's acceleration due to gravity is 1/6 of the acceleration on Earth. That's what a gravitational field is.
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Cats have exactly the same GRAVITY pulling on them, they simply have less MASS. Go back to grade 8 science moron.
Lol.
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Cats have exactly the same GRAVITY pulling on them, they simply have less MASS. Go back to grade 8 science moron.
Haha, well played. XD
It does my heart good to know that I'm considerably smarter than a majority of the people on the Internet. Y'know, speaking of that, I kinda wonder what the average IQ for a s.netter is. We're all pretty brainy, I'd say.
Ouch, that sucks. I honestly don't get why companies do that shit? I mean, the price drop would be essentially null, but now they're also pissing off everyone who wants to play PIU. In a niche market like dance pads, pissing off a group of people like the PIU fans is definitely going to have an effect on sales and the overall reception that they get.
Oh yeah, I know. Not to mention that they falsely advertise that their control boxes support 11 buttons when in reality they only support 10. It's complete bullshit.
You don't need to understand a single bit of economics to realize that pissing off a portion of the group of people who will buy your stuff is likely to lead to quite a hefty loss of profit, when compared to the couple cents worth of materials they are potentially saving by doing that.
See, I don't even see how they're saving anything by doing that. It's a matter of connecting one pin to a board. The port that I'm using is basically like an Xbox controller, so they could have very easily assigned it to, say, the white or black button. I'll have to see how they have the thing wired up -- maybe there's an extra spot on the board that I can connect it to. I kind of doubt it, though.
So basically, if you own a CF, you have two choices: use a shitty control box that's known to commit suicide but gives you access to all of the buttons, or use their "better" control box and be happy playing four-panel dance for the rest of your pitiful days (I guess you could play 8-panel mode in PyDance, but PyDance is a piece of shit).
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You forgot Build your own in hopes that it will be better than both official ones.
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I figured that was a given. :P
If I do go that route I'm just going to see if I can find enough parts to let me build my own USB HID device...I think Imma do some Googling about that. Really, that would be far better than tearing apart some other random controller and hoping that it all works right.
Hmm...I wonder if something like that is available. I hope so. Hell, I'll be content if I can slap a bunch of wires together on a breadboard and have it work; it'd be a lot easier than stuffing everything in a box. :D
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Haha, well played. XD
It does my heart good to know that I'm considerably smarter than a majority of the people on the Internet. Y'know, speaking of that, I kinda wonder what the average IQ for a s.netter is. We're all pretty brainy, I'd say.
Yeah, this site has the benefit of none of its members being retarded, with the added bonus of us even being pretty darn smart. It's quite nice.
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hay guiz wats goin on her.
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hay guiz wats goin on her.
no u
;D :P :( :D :'( ;D ;D :) :( :o ??? ??? ??? ???
LOL
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I figured that was a given. :P
If I do go that route I'm just going to see if I can find enough parts to let me build my own USB HID device...I think Imma do some Googling about that. Really, that would be far better than tearing apart some other random controller and hoping that it all works right.
Hmm...I wonder if something like that is available. I hope so. Hell, I'll be content if I can slap a bunch of wires together on a breadboard and have it work; it'd be a lot easier than stuffing everything in a box. :D
Cool, if you find any good info about USB HIDs or other nifty electronics tutorials, send them my way. I'd love to read a but more on this stuff. I've actually come close to cannibalizing a controller to make my own serial or parallel interface for my pad to play stepmania, lol.
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Yeah, I intend to. If I find anything out and get something started I'll probably document my adventures in the Creation Station or something, haha.
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If you cannibalize something, it should be an extension cord (the only problem is getting those things open to figure out the wire -> pin layout, but all you need for that is an electrical current tester). Cannibalizing a controller is more expensive on your part, and makes the controller less versatile if you get it right (now you can only use it on a computer, Lollermaster, what if you want to use it on your PSX or NES again, huh, WHAT THEN). Also sometime I planned on doing this CORRECTLY with an NES extension cord, and also making something to allow me to use two light zappers simultaniously (haha, little ducks, how do you like my TWIN DUCKIE-SHOOTING SHOTGUNS HA HA HA HA!).
Also when you actually make the cord it comes between using shitty, computer-crashing software that's outdated and barely works anymore (refering to any program that has ever said that it supports home-made controller converters), and programming your own software (which would probably require designing your own pin layout and would be a major pain in the ass, likely).
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Thing is, it's not about just needing a cord, it's about needing an controller board. If PSX, Xbox, and USB devices worked on a simple pin->button system like the old PC gameports (don't bother suggesting that -- I could probably get that to work without much effort but my laptop doesn't have that kind of port) it would be easy peasy to wire it in, but they don't -- they encode a signal and send it out over a couple of pins. In the case of USB and Xbox controllers, they also have a chip identifying what kind of USB device it is, etc.
Long story short, in order to make a control box for a metal dance pad, you have to cannibalize a controller of some kind. Some converters don't require more than an extension cable (PSX and SNES are two examples) but that's a totally different thing.
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That blows :(
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Being forced to give people you don't like a ride home. Yech.
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Just driving threw Stuart, traffic is horrible and the roads are all weird.
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Yeah, see, if I do make my own PS2-PC converter, I'll be leaving the control box alone for my soft pad, and simply be creating a way to connect the PS2 controller pins to the computer, and I will likely be making my own driver for it too, unless I can find something that actually works properly. I'm still also not sure whether I should use a parallel port or a serial port if I try, since it would work on either one. I also might make it so that both my PS2 controllers and my SNES controllers will work.
I guess I have things easier than Spec does here :P
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I just tried the copy of Shadow Hearts I bought yesterday.
At the first battle scene, no sprites showed up. It was just the background and battle music. I tried wiping off the disk, but no luck.
It's a good thing I kept the receipt, and that Gamestop had better refund me tomorrow.
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friends who tell you that something you're doing is a waste of time.
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People thinking the Wii somehow killed "hardcore gaming".
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My mom being deaf.
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I actually really like deaf people. However, if it's your mom..yeah.
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People thinking the Wii somehow killed "hardcore gaming".
Haha wait what?
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Haha wait what?
I know it sounds retarded, but because Nintendo Wii is targeted at casual gamerzzz and it's succesfull people think it has killed "hardcore gamenn". Even tho PS/2 did sort of the same thing.
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Guy in my English class: "So who do you want to win tonight, Packers or Cowboys?"
Me: "I don't really care for football."
Guy: "Then what sports do you like?"
Me: "I'm not really interested in sports."
Guy: "Why?"
Me: "I don't need a reason to not like something."
Guy: "Yes you do."
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Anyone who's a real hardcore gamer doesn't care about PS2/Wii/Xbox anyway, all the TRUE hardcore gamers are playing their SNES, Genesis, NeoGeo and other assorted consoles :P (Anyone ever play on an old Texas Instruments game console? That is an obscure game system :P I've only ever heard anything about it because my grandmother had one in her basement. Sadly, that's gone too.)
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I disagree; I think that true hardcore gamers simply love games.
On that note, anyone who dismisses an old game simply because its graphics aren't up to 2008's standards shouldn't even call themselves a gamer.
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Hah, agreed with Spectere. To be a gamer is to like games. Not necessarily liking everything you've ever played, but being able to see past graphics or system. I used to play Mendel Palace a lot, and it's one of my favourites to date. (Click to play on nintendo8.com) (http://nintendo8.com/game/474/mendel_palace/). The basic premise is, your character is on a set of tiles you flip to A, find power-ups/stars, and B, smash things into walls. Great fun. :)
To get back on topic, I get really pissed off at people who curse for its own reason. They haven't picked up on this, but curse words are much more effective if the person using them doesn't use them all the time, and most of them think they're "fuckin' hXe and shit" 'cos of it. Guess what, no, replacing every "um" normal people say with "fuckin'..." doesn't make you cool. It makes you sound stupid and it diminishes the words' effectiveness.
Allow me to demonstrate my point. FUCK YOU.
Now, imagine someone who curses every other sentence doing the same thing.
Point taken?
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I was joking in that post.. I know full well that there are some excellent games out recently. There are still the trash games, but the SNES had those too.
On that note, anyone who dismisses an old game simply because its graphics aren't up to 2008's standards shouldn't even call themselves a gamer.
That is the whole point of my post, lol. Oldschool games can still be as fun, or more fun that new games. Think about Tetris. It is one of the simplest games ever made, and yet, it's still quite popular. Graphically, there's almost nothing you can do to make it all that good, really, you can only make the blocks look so good. Tetris is the perfect example of why graphics shouldn't matter. Because whether you're playing it on the NES, or on some newfangled uber-system, it's still Tetris, and it's still as addictive and fun as always. (Unless they messed up the program flow order and made it react stupidly. There are a lot of small things gameplay wise that you can mess up in Tetris, lol)
Oh, and I hate people who are offended when I say shit or fuck in the middle of a sentence. I understand if I was insulting someone, that they should be offended (because that was the point of saying it), but in normal speech, regardless of whether it's eloquent or not, shouldn't offend people. I can understand Mark's point about effectiveness and such, but when I swear casually, it's A) out of habit, and B) because even if their meaning is somewhat diminished, they bring to attention whatever you're talking about.
If I say something is fucking big, that means a bit more than if I said it was very big, or even huge. It shows that I'm somewhat beyond words in how to describe it, so I resort to modifying the meaning with fuck. If I can someone a fucking retard, it's relatively more insulting than calling them a retard.
I say this because I understand the other side, where people think cursing shouldn't be in regular speech and such, yet I curse in my own speech out of habit.
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On that note, anyone who dismisses an old game simply because its graphics aren't up to 2008's standards shouldn't even call themselves a gamer.
Meaning 85% of people who play games. Seriously, I was playing Cave Story, and one of the guys on my floor comes in and is like "wtf is this shit, mario? This game sucks". Idiots :<
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Point taken?
Yeah, it really dose get annoying when a rapper says the same curse word then makes songs about getting stoned or drunk. That's why I hate the Kotton mouth kings with a passion, everyone of their songs is "WE SMOKE WEED AND OCAISIONALY GET LAID LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL"
I disagree; I think that true hardcore gamers simply love games.
That would only make sense. Yet somehow people disagree if you like a few "casual" games (sports games, racing, etc).
Meaning 85% of people who play games. Seriously, I was playing Cave Story, and one of the guys on my floor comes in and is like "wtf is this shit, mario? This game sucks". Idiots :<
I would have just screamed nigger in that case.
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simcity societies
FUCK YOU
you crashing fucking fuck stupid fuck buggy fuck game
stupid fucking EA for releasing shit too early again
fuck.
What a waste of a torrent ;B
Fuck I need a good game to play =(
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When people don't listen to my advice and I end up being right.
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FUCK YOU
you crashing fucking fuck stupid fuck buggy fuck game
stupid fucking EA for releasing shit too early again
fuck.
EA fucks a lot of stuff up, and they own Valve and Pandemic and a ton of shit.
When people don't listen to my advice and I end up being right.
I'm exactly the type of person that would do that. Not sure why tho.
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...the fact that GameSpot fired one of their better reviewers because he gave a negative review of Kayne & Lynch: http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=1450 (http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=1450)
EA fucks a lot of stuff up, and they own Valve and Pandemic and a ton of shit.
EA doesn't own Valve, they just distribute their games. I'm guessing EA handles all of the retail box packages.
They don't own Pandemic just yet but they will in the beginning of 2008. =(
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Freakin' gamespot. >:(
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...the fact that GameSpot fired one of their better reviewers because he gave a negative review of Kayne & Lynch: http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=1450 (http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=1450)
Yeah, all bigger game review companies have to be like that tho. I honestly only listen to zero punctuation and reader reviews.
EA doesn't own Valve, they just distribute their games. I'm guessing EA handles all of the retail box packages.
They don't own Pandemic just yet but they will in the beginning of 2008. =(
I thought EA bought like 3 or 4 companies, including Valve.
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Yeah, all bigger game review companies have to be like that tho. I honestly only listen to zero punctuation and reader reviews.
Zero Punctuation is pretty good. And speaking of reader reviews, I happened to review them once (http://spectere.livejournal.com/26171.html) and let's just say that if I were writing a reader review, uh, review on GameSpot, I'd be fired.
I thought EA bought like 3 or 4 companies, including Valve.
Negative; Valve and EA are simply business partners. Thank goodness. You can read the specifics on the deal here: http://www.ea.com/redesign/editorial.jsp?src=valve_071805 (http://www.ea.com/redesign/editorial.jsp?src=valve_071805).
It almost reads like a marketing blurb (well, it is on EA's site) but all it basically states is that EA will help Valve's games get more exposure. Hence, a publishing deal.
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I saw the Penny Arcade comic about the Kayne & Lynch review but had no idea what it was talking about until reading this. That's pretty awful :/
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The general StepMania community. Now I remember why I stopped releasing my files in the first place.
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The general StepMania community. Now I remember why I stopped releasing my files in the first place.
Lol, did you ever spend time at the stepmaniaonline forums? That gave me a lot of insight into just how stupid the community is. And I quit by the time Izzy showed up! I've been back a couple times, and kinda laughed when I heard the forums were trashed, because of the complete stupidity of the people, and all the drama.
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Gas prices :x
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Gas prices :x
Hah, I was watching MST3K on my compy and saw 38 at a gas station and thought "....38 dollars?". Also people that think people with a low level in WoW are noobs.
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people that think people with a low level in WoW are noobs.
Agreed. I might be a lowbie, and not know much about how it works at higher levels, but I'm definitely not a newbie. I rarely ever consider myself a noob after the initial 5 minutes or so it takes me to learn how the game works. I pick up relatively quickly on how those games work, since I've played so damn many of them.
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That and once you go threw 15 you have gained most of the move sets for your class. Also leveling take no skill what so ever.
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That and once you go threw 15 you have gained most of the move sets for your class. Also leveling take no skill what so ever.
Yeah, just patience. I mean, there are some things you only get to experience at high level, like endgame raids, and the much larger dungeons and raids, but if you've played for a while and know how to use your character, you should be fine.
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World of Warcraft.
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How absurdly hideously nightmarishly complicated the d20 system rules are. ;_;
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Bleh, d20 isn't bad once you get used to it. Actually, D&D 3rd edition has TONS of flaws (and I do mean TONS.) but those aren't very apparent unless you're rather heavy into D&D. It looks like the upcoming 4th edition might fix a good number of those though. (I know most of this because of my friend who is essentially a D&D god.)
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At least you know what you're doing, I'm going to screw up and everyone's going to be like "lol it doesn't work like that, noob" ;_;
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lol, well, I know how the system works, but I have very little serious D&D experience. The most experience I have is from playing Neverwinter Nights with him. It's a D&D based game, but there are some differences. However, my friend is able to pretty much own everyone as far as powergaming goes in both real D&D and NWN. He could make characters who had like, 50+ AC and AB. He had one character who had 10 attacks per turn, and only lost 3 AB per attack, instead of 5, as well as having just over 50 AB to start with. On the server we played, there was almost nothing that he couldn't kill solo. (albeit it was a heavily customized persistent world.)
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Oh, and he found a flaw in the D&D 3rd edition rules that allows him to give an ability to a creature he commands that gives the creature the ability to give him any ability. Kinda confusing at first, but it makes him pretty much unstoppable, short of a god directly interfering.
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My internet was out for the day, felt like I was some sort of slave.
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How did you learn this before me!?
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How did you learn this before me!?
Cus I'm fucking smartcopy pasta.
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ATI.
I can't emphasize the name of that horrible company enough.
I just had SEVERE display corruption just now, in Windows, while using Audition to work on sPoop. It seems to me like whenever DirectDraw is utilized while Audition is running, the ATI drivers flips the fuck out when I switch back to Audition. It slows the system down to a CRAWL and draws junk all over the screen. Naturally, it doesn't happen on any of the systems I've used Audition on that have had nVidia or Intel GPUs, only ATI.
I've heard of someone replacing the X300 in the Inspiron 9300 with a GeForce Go 7800GTX. Maybe I'll look into doing that...this system would SCREAM if I did could manage that. It doesn't seem like it would be tough; I mean, the system is built to accommodate a number of different graphics cards so it probably just has a smaller PCI-E x16 slot inside.
Edit: And, per usual, I have to reboot my fucking computer to fix the problem. argh! Also, to clarify why this is definitely a driver issue, the problem doesn't only occur with Audition. I've seen it occur in Microsoft Office as well.
I swear, I'm never buying another ATI device for a computer ever again. I've given them FAR more chances than I should have:
- Strike one: The Rage 128 drivers for Windows 9x. I had to keep three drivers versions on my system at all times. FF7 needed one driver version because newer drivers broke palletized textures and never fixed them, Quake engine games required another driver because later ones broke whatever they used to render underwater objects (again, this went unfixed for several releases), and Quake 3 required a later driver because the game wouldn't start with the older versions. I brought this issue up to ATI and they actually told me to keep uninstalling/reinstalling drivers to play my games. What the hell kind of solution is that?
- Strike two: Failure to respond to my tech support inquiry. I don't remember which title I was having problems with, but due to driver issues I wasn't able to get one of my games to work AT ALL. They never responded to me.
- Strike three: The failure to deliver the promised Rage Fury MAXX drivers. After being a Windows 2000 user for a while I decided to upgrade my Rage Fury in favor of a twin-GPU Rage Fury MAXX (from what I've seen, I'm one of the few idiots who bought one of those). ATI had vehemently promised Windows 2000 drivers, going so far as to slap stickers on the box claiming that they'd be available. I trapped myself in my Win98 install, awaiting the promised drivers. They never arrived. Rather than fessing up to their mistake (by that, I mean admitting that they didn't do any research on how their implementation of dual GPUs wouldn't work properly on Windows NT 5) and offering the customers that they fucked over a refund, they made a very silent posting on their web site and let the matter drop. Way to go.
- Strike four: The ATI IGP320M is the shittiest northbridge in existence. My old piece of shit laptop (Compaq *shudder* Presario 2140US) had an AMD processor teamed up with an ATI bus. The processor (an Athlon XP Mobile 2200+, basically just the equivalent desktop processor with PowerNow attached to it) was speedy. It ran quite hot, but it got the job done. The ATI bus, on the other hand, pushed data around less efficiently than my old 486. Disk access was startlingly slow, memory access times were mediocre, and the system ran like shit because of it. The GPU was the most god-awful thing I've ever used. It did things like tell DirectX that it supported hardware T&L despite its "support" being horrible broken, causing games to slow to a crawl (in other words, calling itself a Radeon was a complete misnomer, given that the Radeon line is analogous to the GeForce in that regard as being their first GPUs with T&L support). As far as performance goes, I've read several articles that it was half as powerful as a Radeon 7000. The Radeon 7000 is a budget card. See why that's more than a little disappointing? I should consider the bus and GPU separate and give them two strikes, but I'll be nice and only consider it as one.
- Strike five, six, seven, eight, etc: Every single problem I've had with my current laptop. Between the initially poor Linux drivers, the display corruption issues, the occasional GPU resets that happen in mid-game, extreme compatibility issues (UT99-based games are unplayable in DirectX), blue screens (Call of Duty 4 causes my computer to BSOD, as does exiting ZZT -- a game made in 1991 -- without bringing it out of fullscreen mode), etc, well...really, I don't know what more to say. This is a great laptop, well constructed, solid design, great display, but it's marred by me being too cheap to put a GeForce in it. The only problems that I've had with this machine are related to ATI's shitty drivers.
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So you don't know the alt-codes?
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ATI.
Wow. That's retarded. Just. Wow.
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I have an ATI as well. I feel your pain man, I really do.
The first game I bought, RIGHT after I got my computer, was Neverwinter Nights. Neverfuckingwinter fucking Nights. And my Radeon 9600 couldn't run it. Well, it could run it to an extent. I had to blow through character selection as fast as possible because it would lock up after about a minute and a half, then when I got in-game it froze the computer every 10-15 minutes, requiring a hard reset.
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Ouch. My only problem is that you can still buy shit cards if you don't know what to look for in a GeForce card. Example: I had a GeForce FX 5600 256 MB. It was expensive when we got it, because they'd just come out with the FX line, and it was one of the first 256 MB cards out there. Unfortunately, the FX line was a disaster, and were slow as fuck. It was also kinda unstable in some games.
Luckily for me, even though I'm running ATI right now (ATI Radeon x550), I haven't had any major issues with it.
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My x800 held up really well, until just recently. Everything just started requiring shader 3.0, and the card was like "Wait, I don't have this. oshi-"
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Another thing about ATI is that their model lines are confusing as hell. nVidia has always done a good job giving customers an excellent idea of what they can expect from a certain card. For instance, you can tell at a glance that a 7800 is better than a 7600, and that it's an entire hardware revision up from a 6800. Let's just say that with ATI, the X300 and X800 are two completely different hardware revisions. And oh, that's not all! To make matters even more confusing, ATI released an X1050. It's based on the same basic GPU as the X300 is, is less powerful than the X800, yet is branded in such a way that would make you think that it's part of the R400 GPU family.
It's just so damn stupid.
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Agreed. How is the x550 related to the x300? And how decent (for $90) is the x550?
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The x550 is in the same chipset family as the x300.
Older mid-range GeForce cards (6600, 7600) tend to be around that price range and are a much better chipset across the board. The x550, for instance, doesn't support Shader Model 3.0 while my 6600GT (which only cost US$129 back in January 2007) does.
Also, going back to my rant, nVidia has much better and more stable drivers than ATI. I'd avoid ATI for that fact alone.
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I always did like NVidia better, lol. It was instinctual, but I just seemed to like NVidia's cards better all around, even though the FX series sucked balls.
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It's funny, because I remember back when Doom 3 was coming out, everyone was like "Dude, nVidia sucks, get an ATI card, Radeons are the shit!". I ended up getting an nVidia anyways, just to spite them :3
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I think the FX line was out when Doom 3 was coming out, so that could have been why.
The FX line was really only weak when it came to Pixel Shader 2.0. The only problem is that its greatest weakness was its primary new features. They also ran quite hot, from what I remember.
The lowest-end FX -- the 5200 -- was as powerful as a standard GeForce 3 when it came to doing normal graphics. Definitely not bad for a budget card, and right on par with how things should be. When PS2.0 was used, however, it was abysmally slow. I guess the FX 5950 Ultra was a pretty solid chipset, but I think the 6000 series was about out by the time that was released.
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Well, I had a FX 5600, and it was decent, but considering PS2.0 was so slow, most of the games my brother and I wanted to play that were kinda new used PS2.0, and so it kinda sucked. We had that card for quite a while, and only stopped using it when I got this computer.
Oh, and about them running hot: I'm not sure how hot mine ran, since they didn't have the hardware to check temperature, but my fan on my card died, and I had to buy a replacement for it. I began to get corruption, driver resets, and other bad issues (BSODs when it started to really overheat), and it wasn't until the fan completely failed that I noticed (As in, it didn't spin.) what happened was this: The fan uses magnets to spin it, and the part that the fins are attached to sits on a metal rod sticking out of the center. The plastic part that the fins are part of actually came right apart from that metal pin so that even though the mechanism should work, because it had nothing to spin on, it didn't move. That caused the card to overheat REALLY quickly. As in, about 2 minutes under load and I'd get garbage on the screen, and another minute or two and it would BSOD.
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This is all caps lock for fucking emphasis, so be warned.
I FUCKING HATE IT WHEN SOME ASSHOLE DECIDES "OH I CAN'T BEAT ANYBODYS SCORES ON ITG HERE, OH WAIT, I KNOW" AND FUCKING DELETE FUCKING EVERYTHING.
GOD DAMN IT. THE ONLY PROOF I HAD A QUAD STAR WAS ON THAT MACHINE. AND NOW IT'S GONE. FUCKING GONE!
YOU BLEW IT UP! DAMN YOU!!!! DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!!!!!!!!!!
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Why are they allowd to delete it? Seriously, that's just stupid to start with.
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I began to get corruption, driver resets, and other bad issues (BSODs when it started to really overheat), and it wasn't until the fan completely failed that I noticed (As in, it didn't spin.)
Oh, don't worry. If you do decide to go with ATI, you'll get things like that even when there aren't temperature issues. :D
Why are they allowd to delete it? Seriously, that's just stupid to start with.
In other words, they sucked up to one of the arcade operators enough to get them to clear the scoreboard.
Also, my condolences, A2P. :(
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Scene kids. Nothing more needs to be said.
You know, I actually like the way scene kids (well, moreso hardcore kids) look. There's a pretty good local hardcore scene right now, actually. Also, Grindcore is amazing music.
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In other words, they sucked up to one of the arcade operators enough to get them to clear the scoreboard.
Also, my condolences, A2P. :(
12/07/07...NEVER FORGET
PS It was more someone hacked a code to get into the operator menu and decided to be all like "let's delete the scores because this I dont like this girl and I can never be better than her!!!!!!!!" but same difference.
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PS It was more someone hacked a code to get into the operator menu and decided to be all like "let's delete the scores because this I dont like this girl and I can never be better than her!!!!!!!!" but same difference.
Or, if your machine is anything like the one in Boardman, they just pushed the coin return button into the machine and used a pool stick to hit the operator button. Heh.
That mentality is ridiculous. What makes them think that their shitty scores won't just be overwritten? It's like if I were to reset the scores on the ITG2 in Maryland; it would only be a matter of time before the board is almost completely filled with 99s and 100s again.
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Too bad our machine won't, because now the machine is getting pulled...
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Why? :(
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For the reason I stated earlier.
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Wait, the machine's getting pulled because one of the operators can't beat someone's high score? ???
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Wait, the machine's getting pulled because one of the operators can't beat someone's high score? ???
oh man. PMing story right now. Sorry, but I don't want my problems to take over this thread.
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M'kay. :>
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Requesting a copy of that PM.
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Everyone who contributed to the downfall of the local ITG machine. Someone fucked up hacking it and the machine ended up needing its backup hard drive, meaning all of the non-ITG songs went away. The manager, paranoid that this will happen again, is completely removing the USB slots. I doubt I'll ever play there again.
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That's retarded, as I said, he should just exercise his banhammar more often.
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Doublepost for toothache.
FUCK I hate toothaches :<
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Getting cat hair on black shirts. Argh.
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Ah, that's a pain. I don't even have a cat, and I have that issue :<
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Getting cut off in traffic, or having someone riding your ass regardless how fast or slow you're going.
Fuck that pisses me off so much.
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Yeah, damn, the drivers at my school all suck ass, and cut each other off and stuff. I loathe driving among them, which is why I usually get to school early and leave about a half hour late (to beat all of the godawful traffic)
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And another thing....the absolute dumbasses I have to deal with everyday at work.
"Wheres my start button?"
"I have no control panel"
"I never knew my e-mail had a password" <-----I get this one WAY to fucking much.
"Firewall? I have no idea." <---They ALWAYS have one installed too.
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There's some pretty dumb ones at Nielsen that we call, too. People that don't know their own zip codes, how to spell their address... it's quite sad.
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WOW, i'm on a call with a customer right now release/renewing their IP address.
me: "So go ahead and type ipconfig."
30 seconds later... them: "ok, then what"
me: "now press your space-bar, then the hifen/dash key up beside the zero (yes, I have to be that specific) then type release."
Them: Release...r-e-l-s-e.
Me: "...........................R-e-l-e-a-s-e" *mutes mic* "You FUCKING RETARD" *Un-mutes mic*
them: "ok, I did it, now what?"
me: ".......now press enter."
Them: ok, I did it.
Me: "....well what does it say now?"
Them: "It just sais C:/Windows/Documents and settings/*name*"
Me: Ok lets try it again. i-p-c-o-n-f-i-g SPACE DASH r-e-l-e-a-s-e.
them: ok, Now what, press enter?
Me: *mutes mic* what the FUCK do you think? *un-mutes mic* Yes, press enter"
them: ok, I did that, now what?
Me: Now what does it say?
Them: Ipconfig -release is not recognized as an internal or external command.
Me: ..............................(This goes on for several more minutes. Another thing that pisses me off with these STUPID FUCING PEOPLE THAT CAN'T EVEN SPELL SIMPLE WORDS, spelled out PHOENETICALLY for them. Pathetic.)
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I could never work in tech support because of things like that.
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I could never work in tech support because of things like that.
Ditto.
So mid-terms aren't until after winter break in my school's district because the first day was pushed back so far. Wonderful.
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I could never work in tech support because of things like that.
I could, but I don;t know shit about computers.
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I could never work in tech support because of things like that.
My sentiment exactly. I'd be the guy fired for not muting his mike when he said those things.
Also, I agree with your point about morons who ride your ass regardless. I think the first time that happens when I have my G2, I'm going to stop dead in the road and let them pass me like that.
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So mid-terms aren't until after winter break in my school's district because the first day was pushed back so far. Wonderful.
That's how it is this year here, too. It's really bald. At least we have a week of review before exams, though, otherwise I'd be boned.
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That's how it is this year here, too. It's really bald. At least we have a week of review before exams, though, otherwise I'd be boned.
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Why I am so bald, and piglike in appearance?
I c wut u did thar.
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That's what I thought. :U
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my potatoes get peeled when i hear people ttalking about how they get fucking all of their christmas presents on christmas eve. just wait one night faggots. the best part of christmas is the agonizing pain of not being able to sleep all night, waking up your parents at 5 in the morning, having to wait another 5 hours for them to decide to actually wake up, open your shit, play for a hour, then go to church/relative's house and have the pain of knowing all your cool new shit is sitting at home all lonely.
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Haha, my Mom's Finnish, and all that present stuff gets done on Christmas Eve over there, so that's what we do at my house. :3
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I know what you mean, we used to have to wait till all our relatives arrived and stuff too. Now we get to open our stockings when we wake up (if we even slept), and 1 small present. Then we have to wait. It's usually between 8 and 10 AM when we finally have everything open, then by about 2 or 3 we leave and have supper someplace and don't get back till 9 or 10, give or take.
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The tradition here has always been to open 1 small present on Christmas Eve, and then the stocking first when we wake up on Christmas, and then the rest of the presents.
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The tradition here has always been to open 1 small present on Christmas Eve,
Basically what I do, but I still wont wake up before 10 for Christmas usually.
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We started doing the one small gift thing last year too. My friend and each of his siblings got a zune and 300 apiece and all ther stuff last week and they're only leaving for vacation the day before christmas.
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I have a creeping suspicion that my parents got me Bose computer speakers. If they do, I'm going to shit a million bricks.
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I honestly have no idea what my parents got me. A few days ago, my mom kept pestering me about telling her what I wanted, so I got a gamestop gift guide and circled a few games. Got a package from Gamestop in the mail yesterday, but aside from that I have no idea.
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I have a creeping suspicion that my parents got me Bose computer speakers. If they do, I'm going to shit a million bricks.
...? this is a bad thing? Also I saw an actual magazine article about how "hardcore gaman" is dying ;_;.
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ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
Stuff that peels MY FUCKING potatoes with paring knives of ANGER:
Being able to beat a certain song on a music game, then going back to it and sucking complete fucking BALLS at it afterwards, no matter how many fucking times you try. So frustrated and angry right now. UGHH!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah, i'm talking about through the fire and flames for GH3. I'm gonna stop playing that for a while now before I kill someone.
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My video drivers are dead. Or something. Why does my brother break EVERYTHING he touches? I go to sleep for 13 hours, due to being tired as fuck, and kinda feeling sick, and I come back on the computer, and it acts like there are no drivers. You know, when scrolling has TERRIBLE tearing, and when moving windows around on the screen, they tear and lag like ass. The drivers are installed, and supposedly working, according to windows. I fucking hope this gets fixed by simply reinstalling them and rebooting, because if not, he's fucking banned from this computer forever.
EDIT: well, apparently it works BETTER now, but still not as fast as it should. Stepmania lags visually. Even if it says it's playing at max FPS, the arrows move in jerky motion, unlike how they used to. I'm going to fucking kill my brother. I can't play Stepmania like this.
Why does my brother fuck EVERYTHING up?
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Being able to beat a certain song on a music game, then going back to it and sucking complete fucking BALLS at it afterwards, no matter how many fucking times you try. So frustrated and angry right now. UGHH!!!!!!!!!!!
That's me in IIDX. Heh.
I've passed Summer Vacation [h] and Colors [h] a whopping one time each.
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Lol, that was me when I first passed Reality. It took me a long time to pass it again. Then it took a while to pass it when I switched to spread, because my drill speed dropped like a rock.
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Going to church. I can't stand going to church, agh.
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Same, lucky thing for me I only have to go if my school forced me, and I'm not in school any more.
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Going to church. I can't stand going to church, agh.
Thank god my family doesn't care. Also I can't stand some of the idiots on CSS. I was shooting at a guy, he throws a flash at me, I have about 24 health and I run for cover where I get knifed, then some idiot goes LOL PWNT. Since they had a bigger advantage then us (I was on a map kind of like assault, and we got slayed if we didn't get the hosties in time) I was trying to sit back and pick some of them off (my team was kind of god awful, and they camped a lot) and he bitched me out about it. Then we got more people and started to rush and flash, and he bitched about that. Then after 2 failed attempts at knifing me he throws a bitch fit, switches teams, says "GAY TEAM" and then leaves the server.
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w-o-w...this Nielsen job sucks monkey fuck. I've put more miles on my car in the last four days I've been working than I normally would in a month. Let's just say, on Wednesday alone I was in a car for nine hours (five in my own personal vehicle) and worked over 13 hours including transit. That was on my first day.
I really hope I can get into this local computer company. If I don't I might very well go insane.
Tomorrow I'm going to have to leave at 7:00a just to meet up with my trainer because he lives almost two hours from me. Long story short, I highly doubt I'm going to get home earlier than 7-9pm.
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w-o-w...this Nielsen job sucks monkey fuck. I've put more miles on my car in the last four days I've been working than I normally would in a month. Let's just say, on Wednesday alone I was in a car for nine hours (five in my own personal vehicle) and worked over 13 hours including transit. That was on my first day.
I really hope I can get into this local computer company. If I don't I might very well go insane.
Tomorrow I'm going to have to leave at 7:00a just to meet up with my trainer because he lives almost two hours from me. Long story short, I highly doubt I'm going to get home earlier than 7-9pm.
What on earth? Are you driving down to Kentucky for training or something? I thought you were coming to Tampa for training >_>
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No, this is pre-Tampa stuff. Field reps have to have at least two weeks of on-the-field experience before going to Tampa.
This is complete fucking ass.
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Wow, that seriously sucks ass. What do you DO as a field rep anyway?
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Basically, go into random peoples' homes and install and maintain the gear needed to monitor what they're watching to actually get the data for the Nielsen Ratings.
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Ahh, I never quite knew how they managed to get the ratings.. Sucks that you have to travel so much though.
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I have to call people and get them to accept our request to send a TV viewing diary to their home. Then once it arrives, they write down everything they watch in a one-week period and send it back to us.
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FUCK. I am never buying western digital again. (disclaimer: I might break this oath.)
Their support site sucks ass. Their forums are tiny, and apparently don't have a single person who actually works for WD or happens to know a lot about their stuff. Their email support is retarded. One person on the forum complained about being on the line for 40 minutes, and nothing, after sending repeated email requests for assistance. I can't find a single bit of help for my problem. My dad plans on going out today and buying a new router now because A) the NOS doesn't apparently work with our current one, and 2) our current one is almost as useless as a aerogel paperweight.
EDIT: Looks like there is some hope! I upgraded my router's firmware, checked the DHCP table again, and lo, it worked!
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Basically, go into random peoples' homes and install and maintain the gear needed to monitor what they're watching to actually get the data for the Nielsen Ratings.
One of my friends has that setup hah. She was all discreet about it, saying she couldn't tell me exactly what it did.
BUT NOW I KNOW! muahaha.
Man I would throw that shit out my window if I had to press that fucking button every 45 seconds or whatever it is.
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Man I would throw that shit out my window if I had to press that fucking button every 45 seconds or whatever it is.
45 minutes, and yes, I know what you mean. :o
also FOURTEEN HOUR WORK DAY TODAY. God fucking damn. It was dark when I left home and it was even darker when I came back. What the hell.
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also FOURTEEN HOUR WORK DAY TODAY. God fucking damn. It was dark when I left home and it was even darker when I came back. What the hell.
That's harsh, I would go insane working that much at full time.
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Yeah.
I'm trying to figure out how often this sort of thing happens. I've already worked two 12+ hour days and I just started there. If that happens too much then I'm definitely giving this thing a miss. If you factor in 8 hours for sleep and a 14 hour work day, that leaves 2 hours of personal time (and whaddaya know, yesterday I got home at 9:15pm and went to bed at 11:15pm...just woke up about a half hour ago, at 7:30am).
I don't mind working by any means, but holy crap.
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Jesus man, that's retarded. I hope you get some damn good pay for that shit.
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GOD FUCKING DAMNIT
I've waited 10 fucking days for my damn Swap Magic to arrive, when I was guaranteed 4-8days. There was no guarantee of arriving before christmas, but the delivery date was said to be 12/27 the latest.
Well, today is 12/27 and NO FUCKING SWAP MAGIC ARRIVED WHAT THE HELL.
The last bit of info I ever got from tracking via canadapost and usps was this:
2007/12/19 03:38 International shipment has arrived in the destination country
Meaning it's in customs, and that's the most recent info i've gotten. It shouldn't take this long first off and i'm pissed that I haven't even been notified of a delay in customs at least, instead waiting daily for it to come. If it's not here by saturday then fuck it i'm ordering fedex and paying $50 for it because i've been waiting forever for all the shit I need to import and i'm not gonna be fucking patient any longer after waiting since august with unexpected delays and other bullshit. I e-mailed canadapost and they better give me a response.
I feel like Cartman from Southpark right now waiting for the Wii. This fucking sucks and i'm so extremely pissed off right now you can't imagine.
Bobbias fuck your postal system...and fuck US customs.
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I don't mind working by any means, but holy crap.
I hope you at least stick it out, at least for a little bit longer.
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I've waited 10 fucking days for my damn Swap Magic to arrive, when I was guaranteed 4-8days. There was no guarantee of arriving before christmas, but the delivery date was said to be 12/27 the latest.
Christmas is a baaaaaad time to have things shipped. =(
Hope you get it soon!
I hope you at least stick it out, at least for a little bit longer.
Yeah, I'm definitely going to. Don't have much a choice, heh...damn student loans.
I don't think I'm bound to get more than 40-48 hours a week, but getting 12+ in one day is just a little daunting. Sure, a lot of that is driving (I drove for 3 hours on both yesterday and today) but still, it's time spent away from home.
I'll probably jump ship if a computer job opens up around here, just to get back into my field if anything. If not, well, Nielsen is a huge company. Who knows? Maybe I could wind up doing systems or programming work in the Tampa office some day.
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Bobbias fuck your postal system...and fuck US customs.
And a nice big fuck you too.
Anyway, my postal service isn't bad at all. I've never had any problems with my postal service, the only time I had any delay was going through customs... Customs sucks monkey balls.
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Yeah according to usps my package hasnt come to the us and canadapost says it has. The site I ordered from (modchip.ca, which is very reliable despite this) is doing an investigation on what happened to it.
Anyways if it's not here by next friday i'm reordering it.
It makes me sad that all I can do is look at my dd cs ;_;.
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And a nice big fuck you too.
Canadians are very protective of their postal services.
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Damn right, but yeah, packages sometimes get lost in customs. It sucks.
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Makes me wish I just paid for fedex in the end :/.
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Yeah, they're a lot more careful about that sort of thing.
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I swear 90% of the internet does NOT know how to throw together a proper argument. I was talking about why I didn't like GTA 4 (mostly because of it's mostly driving missions [oh hay grand theft auto] and the fact that the shooting and fighting is so incredibly shallow that they are of no use) and I'm quickly told to play some more JRPGs, since hating one western game makes me hate all western games. I guess I really don't see how this game keeps getting such mass appeal.
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I was talking about why I didn't like GTA 4
d00d u dont liek gta4 wtf UR FUKIN GHEY Y DONT U GO PLAY FINAL FANTASY U DUMFUK WEABOO FAGOT
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So i'm just gonna buy swap magic from this guy on bemanistyle. Lives in Arizona so it should ship to me fast. Gotta wait a few days for the money to get added to paypal.
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I swear 90% of the internet does NOT know how to throw together a proper argument.
Agreed. See my old post about getting into an internet argument for more proof.
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I swear 90% of the internet does NOT know how to throw together a proper argument.
Your mom doesn't know how to throw together a proper argument.
I wish less of my friends were in other states right now.
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I know how you feel, I come back for winter break, to find that all my high school friends are just on vacation for break, not at home. -_-
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Contra 4's difficulty level.
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Rocky Road in UR MR GAY.
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Rocky Road in UR MR GAY.
How so? I thought it was ridiculously easy. Also the purple coin challenge for the toy land (Luigi's purple coin is the name of the level) was insanely hard since about half the blocks disapered and my friend had to cross the entire fuck level just to get the star after he got the coins.
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How so? I thought it was ridiculously easy. Also the purple coin challenge for the toy land (Luigi's purple coin is the name of the level) was insanely hard since about half the blocks disapered and my friend had to cross the entire fuck level just to get the star after he got the coins.
Rocky Road was easy (relatively speaking). Just wait until you get to the Rolling Gizmo Galaxy and some of the Purple Coin stars in later galaxies. Oh god.
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Well, I haven't been able to get as much Wii time to myself as I want since it's mostly used for Wii Sports and Wii Play by the rest of my family. And Rocky Road pissed me off because of the physics on the moving platforms and how I couldn't tell where I was on the last stretch. Dunno, when I get better, I might go back and get that star, but for now, I'll just leave it unfinished.
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Being sick sucks monkey fuck. =(
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I'm not really "sick" but I feel for you.
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Being sick sucks Monkee fuck. =(
lolwhat dood
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Get well soon, dood. prinniez
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Being sick sucks monkey fuck. =(
Aye, it does. I was sick a few weeks ago, and had a relapse again yesterday and today. I feel like balls.
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Well, we can all feel better knowing that half of s.net is sick :P
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Dood thats crazy. Half the people I know have been getting sick. Theres something going around, and thank god I haven't caught it.
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My CD/DVD drive won't burn disks anymore. At least now I have a 4 GB flash drive, so I can use a different computer, but it's still crappy. Maybe I'll just have to swap drives with my mom's or sister's laptop.
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That's strange. Is it a hardware problem? Do you know? :s
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I had that problem with my old Sony POS DVD writer. It happens sometimes.
Fortunately, DVD writers are pretty cheap nowadays ($30-40 for a decent one).
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Hmm. It decided to work again. Strange. Maybe it was just the set of disks I was using.
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fuck, I finally ran out of weed. :'(
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fuck, I finally ran out of weed. :'(
Did you have a small island full for you to just run out now?
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nope, I buy my stuff in large quantities. It's much, much cheaper than buying it in smaller sacks. It's 200$ an ounce when I buy in bulk, but It would cost me over 400 to buy that same quantity in smaller sacks. I just muss it soo soo mucsh wen its goned.
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Yeah, it's always cheaper in bulk, but not everyone has the money to sink into bulk buys, lol. Or the places to hide it.
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The thing is I have a job and I really don't give a shit if my parents catch me with weed. I am that fucking cool
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What would they do? Anything?
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Yeah, a fundamental difference. My parents could kick me out, and I'd be screwed, plus, I have no job. So I'm kinda screwed on that front for now.
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What would they do? Anything?
They have found my various tools around my room on many different occasions. They only confronted me about it once and they told me that they didn't like me doing it. My dad has taken my stash once. The next day I walked down the stairs and smelt sweet ganja trees in his office, I lol'd.
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Yeah, a fundamental difference. My parents could kick me out, and I'd be screwed, plus, I have no job. So I'm kinda screwed on that front for now.
This will probably come out completely ignorant, but is weed and all illegal where you live? Also this motherfucking cunt in BWII disconnected on me. At first I had a bunch of subs/boats and had no clue which one was good for what so he destroyed my basses within the first minuet when the round was a 30 min round. Then I hold him off of my light house for a while but eventually his tanks rape it. Then my final flag (you need solders to pull the flag up, while doing this they are vulnerable) had both of us running across an island and I get lucky and my big tank respawns and gets his two tanks. Then while fighting for it his tanks respawn and it's me with one flame guy and about 4 or 5 grunts fighting a tank and his assault/grunts. So I select my flame guy, dodge all of his tanks attacks and burn everyone off of the flag until my big tank can respawn and blow his tank up, then with ten seconds left he disconnects. Fucker robbed me of my victory that I earned ;_;.
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Yeah, weed's illegal. Then again, so is filesharing. I mean, unless you have like, 1 ounce/28 grams of weed, it's a fairly minor offense. Plus, I haven't been caught, and neither has my friend/supplier. I'm not the kind of person to do something stupid enough to get caught anyway. When I smoke up, I like to just hang out someplace, maybe go for a short walk downtown and get some food or something, but usually it's pretty limited to smoking a couple bowls or a joint or 2 and hanging out playing video games. Damn, games are fun stoned.
In any case, I'm one of those people who believes that only some drugs should be illegal, and those would be things like heroin, methamphetamine, and such. The ones that are dangerously addictive, and dangerous to the user. Most hallucinogens are not dangerous as long as you have a sitter, and most other drugs are not dangerous unless you do something stupid. I would never drive stoned, ever.
As far as I see it, weed should be controlled like alcohol, just not necessarily controlled by the government in such a way that the government has the only supply. I mean, it's still legal to brew your own beer. It's relatively harmless, it seems to have no long lasting effects, aside from maybe messing with people's short term memory, but even then, it's not all that bad. Sure, it should be (and is) illegal to drive while stoned, but that doesn't mean it should be completely illegal to smoke up at all. The same goes for hallucinogens. They are not physically or mentally addictive, they are harmless as a chemical. There are certain risks, and I think people should know and understand those risks before trying any, but I don't believe they should be illegal.
EDIT: Jesus fuck, what the hell. I went to post this and next thing I knew I was fighting with my modem and router for 15 minutes trying to get it to actually connect. What the FUCK.
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That's basically exactly my view on drugs. Good job typing a rant for me :3
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http://ezquake.sourceforge.net/gallery/ (http://ezquake.sourceforge.net/gallery/)
UGH, please tell me I'm not the only one who thinks that every single one of these screenshots look a lot worse than standard Quake.
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You're not alone.. What the hell is that supposed to be, a rebuilt version or something?
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Is it a source port? Because I'm pretty sure Quakeworld basically trumps everything, in terms of preserving the gameplay. If it's like, a clone of it, then they best not change mechanics, or I'll freak out >:(
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Which brings me to an idea. Since Quake is easily come by, we could have some s.net QuakeWorld matches :P Oldschool games are so fun for that sort of thing.
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I prefer quake 3, and the demo's completely sufficient for that. I like quake and all, but the railgun is what makes it for me, rockets aren't really my cup of tea.
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Is it a source port?
Yes. I don't know if it includes the "awesome" high-resolution texture packs and high-def models or not, but it's definitely a source mod.
I don't think any source port in existence right now can hope to match the visual awesomeness of Dark Places. I think the problem is that a lot of the programmers (aside from the one(s) behind Dark Places) are delving into aesthetics too much for their (and our) own good. I mean, those screenshots are so bad that I think I'd rather play SNES Doom than that.
The sad part is that I'm not exaggerating. Normally I don't care too much about graphics, but when it gets to the point where the "enhancements" make it look worse than the original you really need to reevaluate your line of thinking (or, at the very least, bring some extra people onto the team to evaluate the presentation and/or provide some good art).
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Yeah, it's pretty much just like "HEY GUYS LOOK PARTICLE EFFECTS". Although I'm really impressed at the visual modifications that happen for Doom source ports, like Skulltag or GZDoom.
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While it's nice to see particle effects and such make it into the game, they need real graphics people to do that, not coders who may happen to know how to hack it into the code.
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The thing with a lot of that stuff is that the graphics people wouldn't have much control over things like that. A lot of that stuff has to be done via code.
Let me go through some of the pictures and say what I think is wrong with them.
http://ezquake.sourceforge.net/gallery/armor_battle.png (http://ezquake.sourceforge.net/gallery/armor_battle.png). horrible horrible HORRIBLE. The models are okay. The new spike looks quite nice. The trail behind the nail would definitely give it the illusion of fast motion. THE TEXTURES LOOK LIKE SHIT. The high-res textures are misaligned and just look very plain. The fire in the background looks like a poor Winamp visualization -- it has absolutely no "personality" to speak of (look at a lit candle -- the flame is flickering and dancing, not going straight up like a cone). 4/10
http://ezquake.sourceforge.net/gallery/surface_lava.jpg (http://ezquake.sourceforge.net/gallery/surface_lava.jpg). The lava looks like hot, uneven ground. The lighting is uneven (the room is red, the platform looks white-lit). The high-res textures on the walls look repetitive (I know that textures need to be tiled, but look at the ones in standard Quake -- they don't give the appearance of repeating). The orange fireballs? Weak. I don't know if this is an artifact of the scene or the player's gamma correction or brightness settings, but the entire scene looks muted and washed out. And what's with the white axe? I hope that isn't supposed to be a metallic color. The status bar text looks way too whimsical for a game like Quake. It would probably fit pretty well in, say, TF2, but not Quake. 2/10
http://ezquake.sourceforge.net/gallery/fog_fogsky_grenadetrail_flame.jpg (http://ezquake.sourceforge.net/gallery/fog_fogsky_grenadetrail_flame.jpg). HAY LOOK MY ENJIN HAS PHOG! Visibility: 2 feet. The brown texture (I guess it's supposed to be iron?) looks, quite literally, like shit. Most of the other high-res textures, again, give the look of being very repetitive, probably because they have little to no actual detail in them. Don't even get me started on the floor texture. 2/10
http://ezquake.sourceforge.net/gallery/surface_slime.jpg (http://ezquake.sourceforge.net/gallery/surface_slime.jpg). Oh god. Why are the slime fumes coming up out of the solid ground? Better yet, why do they look more like they should be in a c.1995 game? I'm pretty sure Heretic had a better smoke effect for when unlucky players swam in lava. What's with the slime texture? Did the Dimension of the Doomed suddenly get flooded with lime Jell-o? Look at that health kit in the hallway -- it looks sickly. I guess I really can't blame it. Also, why is the slime that wavy (left-center on the picture)? Are people repeatedly doing cannonballs from one of the ramps above? I don't know about you guys, but I've never seen liquid contained in a single room generate waves all by itself. Do I even need to mention the other textures? I think not. 1/10
http://ezquake.sourceforge.net/gallery/nailtrail_muzzleflash.jpg (http://ezquake.sourceforge.net/gallery/nailtrail_muzzleflash.jpg). Okay, first of all, the "muzzle flash" doesn't line up with the gun. Second, it suffers from the fire syndrome -- it's far too uniform. Also, WHY THE HELL IS IT SO BRIGHT? When was the last time you guys have seen a nailgun that has a larger muzzle flare than an LMG? The nail box on the path below just looks far too sterile to exist in the game world. The bolted metal texture looks too grainy and bold, the floor looks too flat, the water looks...bad. 2/10
I can't go on...ugh.
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Yeah, part of the original quake's atmosphere were these really dingy ugly pixelated textures that were just plain evil looking. You were too worried about the enemies to pay much attention to the textures, because the textures weren't the main focus.
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It's really difficult to make nice-looking high-resolution textures while still preserving the feel of the original, however. I think maybe a third of the stuff in that screenshot looks okay, but it's definately got hideous problems with lighting. Credit should be given for people actually making an attempt and all, but if it's just going to look bad, don't bother. There's similar debate with the project that's making high-res textures for Doom right now (Granted those look much better, if you ask me, albeit they don't preserve the original game's feel very well), people always feel that no matter what's done, it never really looks right. Either the texture artists are going to have to take creative license, which will probably piss people off, or they're going to have to have overly simplified textures, because there's only so much detail you can cram into a 128x128 flat (assuming that's what Quake uses, I haven't looked into it). Oversimplification almost always looks up ending like it belongs in a hospital, and while that sometimes works for the techbase-themed maps in Doom, Quake isn't supposed to look clean or nice at all.
Edit: That armor texture in the first screenshot, it looks like doomguy armor. The models just look fullbright in general in that screenshot, which, unless this is meant to be a comptetitive multiplayer mod, is ridiculous.
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Nine inch nails on my nail gun ammo box, i c wut u did thar.
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It's really difficult to make nice-looking high-resolution textures while still preserving the feel of the original, however.
See, I disagree. Someone who is talented in graphic design shouldn't have a problem making a dark, gringy, high-resolution tiled texture. I think most texture artists would squeal with delight at having the opportunity to make a more realistic-looking texture.
The problem here is that they used too many bright, sterile colors. People bitch about it a lot, but there's a good reason why Quake is full of brown, grey, and green -- it makes everything look dark, murky, and olden. The fact that id created such an environment using no more than 256 colors (only about 16 slots per color thanks to shading, I believe, with a few fullbright shades as well) and fairly small textures is commendable. There's no reason such a look can't be replicated with 16.7 million colors and hundreds of times the memory (Quake runs in 8MB of RAM, total -- video cards alone have 256MB+ on average nowadays).
There's similar debate with the project that's making high-res textures for Doom right now (Granted those look much better, if you ask me, albeit they don't preserve the original game's feel very well), people always feel that no matter what's done, it never really looks right.
I think that the main reason none of this looks right is because there are multiple people working on a single game, thus introducing multiple conflicting styles. Additionally, it doesn't seem as though any attempt is made to model the new textures after the old ones. The big brick textures in the screenshots that I critiqued looks overly modern, like something you'd find on a building made in the 2000s. It's simply not supposed to look like that. It looks far too uniform to be in an environment such as Quake.
Either the texture artists are going to have to take creative license, which will probably piss people off, or they're going to have to have overly simplified textures, because there's only so much detail you can cram into a 128x128 flat (assuming that's what Quake uses, I haven't looked into it).
Quake, like Doom, uses a variety of texture sizes.
The texture designers aren't really limited to 128x128 or 256x256 or whatever anyway. I think the way most enhanced ports work is that they will draw a larger textures and scale the image down (i.e. if they replace a 128x128 texture with a 512x512 texture, it maps the 512x512 into the same area that the 128x128 texture was in, increasing the level of detail when you walk up close to the wall) so they have more room to squeeze tiny details. As for the broad view of the texture, they have no less room than id had when they designed the originals. Limits have been broken, not added.
Nine inch nails on my nail gun ammo box, i c wut u did thar.
Quake always had that. The new nail box texture just removes the subtlety by making the box look like it just dropped off an assembly line.
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Yeah, as I said before, Quake's textures were based on being grimy, dingy, dark, and all around creepy and evil. These textures look WAY too modern, and WAY too light. They need to darken things down, and start making things like slime patched, irregular brick shapes, crumbling brick corners, and all that.
EDIT: oh, and is there some way to change how your mouse works in WinQuake? I'd like not to have to toggle something to be able to look up and down with it.
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Create or edit Quake\id1\autoexec.cfg, and put the line +mlook somewhere in the file.
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It appears I'm missing autoexec.cfg
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We should get a game of skulltag going : )
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There's a scab on my knee from a few weeks ago, and now that it's healing, there's a stabbing pain whenever I hit it on anything.
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Halo isn't a casual FPS. Not by a long shot. Play on Xbox Live a bit and you'll notice that there are quite a few hardcore players there. Perhaps you guys are quick to call it 'casual' because it's not a PC game with KB/M ? I'd say Serious Sam, or even Doom is better example of a casual FPS.
NEEEEERRRD RAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGE.
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Who said that? I have trouble believing it's not a troll.
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Ugh, I got like an eighty-five BILLION year old woman, needing me to help her install the Internet security suite offered by Roadrunner.
45 minutes later, shes still trying to install it. (We're as far as putting in the registration key.)
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I feel so sorry for you. That is why I could never do that. I would have literally told her that if she's too stupid to be able to install the fucking software in less than 30 minutes, she doesn't deserve to have a fucking computer. Jesus tap-dancing Christ.
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Who said that? I have trouble believing it's not a troll.
It was off of Joystiq,
http://www.joystiq.com/2008/01/10/ces-2008-conflict-denied-ops-aims-at-non-existent-casual-fps/
I mean I'm not trying to diss the game, but shit if there ever was a casual FPS it would be Halo. Really slow paced and a really slow learning curve. I mean smash is such a casual fight some people won't consider it a fight, but I still think it's fun.
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You mean really quick learning curve, right? Because you can pick up halo in about 3 seconds, if you've ever used a controller.
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It appears I'm missing autoexec.cfg
Then create it, like I said...
It's not there by default.
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I mean I'm not trying to diss the game, but shit if there ever was a casual FPS it would be Halo. Really slow paced and a really slow learning curve. I mean smash is such a casual fight some people won't consider it a fight, but I still think it's fun.
Have you SEEN a hardcore smash player? I have, it's insane. Absolutely insane. It defies reason.
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Yeah, but the thing about smash is anyone can pick up smash and get moderately proficient at it in a couple days. That's more than you can say for most games.
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Moderately proficient... Ok... I would consider myself "Moderately proficient" compared to a real pro, and would have to say that there's no way unless you're superhuman, than anyone could become as good as I am in a couple days. It took me months of work to get to be able to take a team of 2 lv 9's on. I know a few people better than me, and they are just plain fucking scary.
Do NOT underestimate how good people can get at that game. I EASILY beat every one of my friends and my brother's friends (by a fair margin, considering most games were 3 many free for alls involving 5 lives where I won with 3 lives left, and they tended to gang up on me) except one guy, who is about a match to me. He agrees that neither of us would have a chance against the guy I'm talking about. He regularly uses Wavedashing to move around/keep himself practically invulnerable.
(More info here http://faqs.ign.com/articles/627/627159p1.html)
It blows my mind that someone could be so good, but if you've ever seen that footage from the huge Street Fighter Championship, well, this guy is on the same level of skill as people who compete tin those sorts of things. He's miles beyond almost everyone, including my friend and I.
While smash may have been developed to allow for quick learning at first, that game has a HUGE depth of skill, you can always improve. There's always room to get better. It's absurd.
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You mean really quick learning curve, right? Because you can pick up halo in about 3 seconds, if you've ever used a controller.
Yeah, exactly. I was a bit tired when I wrote this. Also in about the 4 or 5 sittings that I've played Halo 3 I've gotten MVP about two or three times, so I would agree. It's also that the game has sticky cursers and most of the guns have little recoil, so core game play isn't even slightly hard to pick up. If it's one on one in an open field and you both have rifles and grenades, then it's simply who starts shooting the other guy first.
It blows my mind that someone could be so good, but if you've ever seen that footage from the huge Street Fighter Championship, well, this guy is on the same level of skill as people who compete tin those sorts of things. He's miles beyond almost everyone, including my friend and I.
While smash may have been developed to allow for quick learning at first, that game has a HUGE depth of skill, you can always improve. There's always room to get better. It's absurd.
That's one thing about smash, most people talk about glitch abusing for depth. I'm not sure if the core game play with or without wave dashing and all that stuff is really deep, but it really helps out depth wise.
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Well, Gunz is pretty much the same way, the original mechanics are really simple, but you can make it disgustingly complicated via glitches.
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Well, Wave Dashing was left in because it enhances gameplay. The devs found it and though it should stay. And plus, I play without it, and still find that there is a huge amount of gameplay depth in that game. I mean, it takes quite a bit of learning just to get from a noob to being able to take a lv9 easily, and then, it's a whole 'nother ball game when you team up 2 of them against you. And I still can't do 2 9's and a lower level on top of it. There is a lot of room for gameplay in that, because the mechanics allow for really complicated timing and such. I mean, timing marth's counter attack move just right so that you can catch your opponent when they least expect it takes good timing, because the move has such a slow beginning.
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I just lost my Windows partition.
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I just lost my Windows partition.
what =(
What happened?
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I tried to boot Wondows XP, but it told me a necessary boot file was missing. I booted Ubuntu to check, and there was nothing in that partition. It had been corrupted. I went ahead and formatted to make a dedicated partition to Ubuntu, so now it feels like someone very close to me died. I can find most of the stuff through torrents and run a lot of it using Wine, but all of my unreleased simfiles are completely gone, among other things.
On the less dim side, I have about 75 GB free now.
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You should have mentioned something about that earlier -- I might have been able to help out.
I ended up accidentally zapping my XP partition on this machine because I'm an idiot when it comes to using parted (three cheers for Linux fdisk for not doing anything until you type 'w') and I was able to get it back pretty easily with a little bit of voodoo magic.
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I know the woes of fucked up partitions, my computer is still weird. My Windows is on E:\ but I boot off my C:\ (both hard drives, each a different physical disk) because my E:\'s boot is all fucked up (asks for hal.dll. I know the file IS there, and loads, since it works when pointing to the same windows install with my C:\ instead of E:\, and it's not a boot.ini problem, because both boot.ini's are identical.)
In any case, yeah, losing stuff sucks ass. I posted some music on here before, well, that stuff is gone now. As well as a number of other things that are likely very hard to replace.
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Doublepost for unrelated question.
I've got autoexec.cfg with +mlook, but I want my mouse to also make me look side to side (you know, like modern games, wasd is forward back and sidestep, and the mouse is for looking, and turning.)
There any way to do that?
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Turn off lookstrafe in the options menu. It should be off by default...
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Sexual refractory periods.
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My college courses feel like high school, in a bad way.
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Damn people who hang up on me at work. I hate all of you. And you just might cost me my job in the very near future D:
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My college courses feel like high school, in a bad way.
Well at least there is a few girls in these classes, I still hate the fact that I have about 3 hours a day to wait for my night class to start.
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Damn people who hang up on me at work. I hate all of you.
Bastards. D:
So what branch do you work in? Customer service?
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Bastards. D:
So what branch do you work in? Customer service?
Agreed. I only hang up on telemarketers, and that's because they're annoying as fuck and don't shut up, and I don't care what they have to say. I'd never hang up on customer service unless they're actually being an ass. (I mean, like, disrespecting me, and crap that they should get fired for anyway.)
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No, it's not customer service. I'm one of the people who calls random numbers across the country to try and convince them to get a TV watching diary booklet sent to them. I don't sell anything D:
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Ah, okay. You're pushing the old sk00l, uh, "technology."
I'm all about the people meters, obviously. I could make a joke about my job being installing pens in peoples' hands but that would be way too easy and obvious.
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No, it's not customer service. I'm one of the people who calls random numbers across the country to try and convince them to get a TV watching diary booklet sent to them. I don't sell anything D:
You should call me sometime 8)
Also: Visual Basic Studio, jesus christ. I spent half an hour trying to work the damn program, in order just to write 8 or so lines of code, which took all of 30 seconds. >: |
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Haha, wow, that's bad.
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Having a class assignment that I have no damn clue how to do. It says on the paper "using items such as magazines, pictures, photographs, computer graphics, quotes, and real objects create a collage depicting what success means to you."
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Well, if success just meant making loads of money, and such, you could cut out stuff from magazines and such showing insanely rich people, gold (coins, ingots, or misc.), opulent settings, mansions, etc.
I'm not sure how you could tie in real objects, but everything else can be printed out on paper (or is already on paper)...
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I have to show how each one represent success to me tho, so far I have a house, Ireland and a picture of auto CAD.
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Lame.
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The fact that my black felt hat attracts cat hairs and various particles so easily. So hard and painfully annoying to remove all that garbage.
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I have a jacket that does the exact same thing. I suggest you get a lint brush.
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I have a jacket that does the exact same thing. I suggest you get a lint brush.
Is that one of the sticky, rolling brushes? We have one of those. Didn't really think to use it, rofl.
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The fact that my black felt hat attracts cat hairs and various particles so easily.
...and water droplets. Good lawd.
It's an awesome hat, though. :P
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...and water droplets. Good lawd.
It's an awesome hat, though. :P
Yeah, I love my hat. It's a lot better than my old hat. At that class I was at Saturday morning, someone told me that wearing hats like mine displayed self-confidence. I guess I am a pretty confident person >_>
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I guess I am a pretty confident person >_>
That's what happens when you stop being single.
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Very true.
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That's what happens when you stop being single.
huh? I don't get it, rofl.
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I don't either, but it happens. From what I've seen, people are more outgoing when they're dating someone.
I don't get how I can get showered by compliments from girls who have no interest in being more than just friends with me.
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Well, it boosts our self esteem. We feel better having a girlfriend, and because we feel better, we are more outgoing and willing to be nice and all that stuff.
I noticed I walked up straighter, and such after I started going out with Melissa. I also lost 30 lbs, which I had gained because I was depressed.
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ohyeah, almost forgot.
I can't stand ignorant shits. Someone mentioned that I'd bought a new digicam in my class today. A bunch of people asked me what I bought, and how much.
Apparently, 6.1 megapixel is "crap" for a $550 camera. Nevermind the fact that (1) cheap digital cameras aren't digital SLR, (2) megapixels are little more than a marketing term nowadays (http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/mpmyth.htm), and (3) while they're putzing along with their 3x optical, 2x digital zoom cameras, I can put any lens on mine that I want.
I guess it all boils down to this: if you don't know what you're talking about, quit fucking talking.
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Yeah... I absolutely hate people like that. Digital SLRs are WAY better than crappy digicams... The only time megapixels are really all that important is if you had some sort of setup that could print images at the same resolution that the images were originally saved on the camera at...
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My government teacher is probably the most extreme conservative I've ever met. The last time I disagreed with someone as strongly as I do him, it was with a white supremacist.
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Why would they put someone that biased into a teaching position? :/
Gah...dummies.
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Yeah, the school systems need to do better screening on teachers. They need to covertly watch the teachers now and again or something to make sure that they're not letting their personal views interfere with their work.
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My government teacher is probably the most extreme conservative I've ever met. The last time I disagreed with someone as strongly as I do him, it was with a white supremacist.
My teacher is the same exact way. He belives in some of the most obscure conservative ideas that I've ever heard.
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I swear that those people need to be placed in a seminar to help them understand that while they can believe those thing, it has no bearing on their class, and there should be some review system that allows them to locate and confront teachers who allow their ideas to come into the classroom.
Teachers in my school don't talk about their beliefs, religious, or political. There's only 1 teacher I've met who does share his ideas, and he makes it clear that he's talking as a person, not as a teacher. He's not trying to sway us, but simply explaining how he sees things. He also happens to be fairly liberal, if not socialist to some degree. And probably some libertarian ideas as well, lol. If you could ever fuse libertarianism and socialism in perfect harmony, he would likely believe in that.
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I had to watch my mom's boyfriend's kids for a few hours tonight. I thought that at 11:00, when he and my mom got home, they would leave and I'd get to have some friends over. Turns out they're actually spending the night, but I was never told this because my mom thought she had told me.
Generally, I hate it when people only provide partial information about stuff I need to know.
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Yes, that is VERY gay.
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Maaaaan, pounding headache. I had a metering test today and had a bunch of things happen. The box I was plugging everything into was being...weird, so I had to reset it like three times. Then I got zapped again (woo!), right ring finger this time. It didn't feel quite as weird afterwards this time, maybe because it was only a very brief contact on the most extreme, uh, extremity, but caused my hand to twitch for a few minutes afterwards, which made it a little difficult to work on anything precise. I barely made the time limit (I was literally finishing as he said "ZOMG TIEMZ UP") as a result of stuff like that.
Then I had to go and do something stupid to get docked 5 points. SAD FAEC. I really wanted that 100%. =(
So yeah, headache.
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That sucks about the headache, and partial electocution :x
Also, I really don't want to go to work tomorrow. Argh. And I'll be sad if my girlfriend doesn't wake up in time for us to go to the flea market.
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That's odd spec, they test you on an actual meter? Also I haet the css community now. Some servers are cool, but most boil down to idiots thinking they are top notch shit and that there somehow 10 year CAL professionals. Some guy had an M4, so me and a team mate rushed him and he sprays his clip empty and hit both of us in the head, then when he was reloading he died from my 3rd teammate rushing mid. So I reply "wow what luck" then he freaked out and type 4 lines of "how?" "how was that luck?" "Prove it", to which I explained that he sprayed us down and got 2 lucky head shots. Then he just said lol no, and pointed out that his score was better then mine (we where both top 2 on our teams, his kill death ratio was just much better). So I said "I'd might be positive, if my team wasn't running in circles trying to fuck it's own ass". Then he said "you're team has nothing to do with it" (funny how every one on his team was positive and everyone on mine was negative). So I just laughed at the fact that he said his teams performance has nothing to do with his, then he left the server.
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Midnight Club 2 is THE WORST racing game I've played in my entire life. Holy god.
That's odd spec, they test you on an actual meter?
No, they test us on how well we can meter TV sets and devices. Translated to non-Nielsenese, they make sure that we can install their equipment on devices properly.
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Midnight Club 2 is THE WORST racing game I've played in my entire life. Holy god.
Play Burnout Paradise. Your eyes will bleed tears of unbridled joy and jubilation.
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Midnight Club 2 is THE WORST racing game I've played in my entire life. Holy god.
You're forgetting that Street Luge game at Gameworks. The hell was that game called? I don't remember, but it was lulzily awful.
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I have these little white sores all over my tongue. Whenever I move my tongue the least bit it hurts like fuck, and fuck is a very strong word.
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Midnight Club 2 is THE WORST racing game I've played in my entire life. Holy god.
I'm pretty sure my friend is obsessed by Midnight club 2 dub edition, also completely obsesed with Halo 3, and back in the day he would play Mega man legends 1 and 2, the first Rayman, and Red Alert 2. so I guess his taste in games got more and more mainstream/crappy when he moved away from me.
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Play Burnout Paradise. Your eyes will bleed tears of unbridled joy and jubilation.
I was turned off when I realized that the demo was literally identical to that of Burnout 3. :/
You're forgetting that Street Luge game at Gameworks. The hell was that game called? I don't remember, but it was lulzily awful.
Yeah, but at least that game was hilariously bad (it had the B-movie appeal). Midnight Club 2 is just bad bad.
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Yeah, the keyword there being lulzily..
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DJ Max Portable 2 is a perfect example of Korean dick-wagging.
Every key chart above 11s and 12s are pretty much guaranteed to be complete fucking garbage. I could probably make a better chart by slamming my head against my keyboard repeatedly; no joke. They managed to make even 4-key mode unfun with the higher difficulty charts. They use patterns that are just flat-out awkward to hit on the PSP or, for that matter, use combinations like up-left and up-right, which are annoying to hit quickly with the PSP's flawed d-pad. They use combinations that don't make ANY sense given the platform, like circle, square, right, left, with annoying regularity. Generally, however, they just make the charts incredibly lame mash-fests.
Now note that this doesn't imply that the game is bad. No, most of the 10s and under are wicked fun! Seriously, this has to be one of the better PSP games in existence. The harder charts are just like Pump's. They have absolutely no value to them other than to exclaim "HAHA IM HARDER THEN JAP GAEM LOL." It's fucking lame.
Another thing that pisses me off is that they lock 8-key mode up tight. DJMP has a fairly fun 8-button mode, where the shoulder buttons are used in addition to the upper face buttons. There are two major problems. For one, you completely lose the ability to change the speed mod in mid-song (even in the pause menu, for some stupid reason). Secondly, and most horribly of all, in DJMP2 there is no obvious way to unlock 8-key mode in anything but hard mode. I know it's possible to play it in normal mode, but nobody seems to know how to unlock it. This kind of boggles the mind, really. Think about it; you have a mode that takes a ton of practice to be able to read and it's only available on the hardest mode of play. Makes no fucking sense.
You're probably thinking, "so?" at this point. I can totally understand this if you've never seen DJMP2 on hard mode. I didn't think it would be that bad, either, until I actually tried it. Hard mode is probably the second best example of dick-wagging present in this game. The timing feels tighter than IIDX. Yes, that's right. It's harder for me to get a 100% on a note than it is to get a just great in any IIDX game. It might not be so much that it's tighter, but that the songs aren't as well synced as they are in IIDX...not even close. In addition to this, getting a single miss takes something like a quarter of your lifebar away. I used items to increase the amount of life I have and it still takes about a sixth of it away WITH EVERY MISS. Is that enough?! Holy shit. And I'm supposed to learn how to play a new game mode like that? Fuck that.
It's rare that companies manage to do so much wrong to a game that does so much right. If they would have pulled their heads out of their asses they would have had a game that completely blew away its predecessor. Instead, you get a game with a better song selection (in my opinion, obviously), better lower-level keycharts, a crippled 8-key system, a hard mode that shouldn't exist, and hard charts that nobody in their right mind would make. Wow.
To elaborate on the "Korean dick-wagging" remark, this sort of thing reminds me of the more difficult PIU charts. Some of them are, quite literally, impossible, and the only reason they are in there is to say "LOL OUR GAEM IS HRDIST." Yeah. That's going to make me want to play. Give me something fun to play, not something I couldn't even bring myself to look at.
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Well, I haven't played the portable version, but I'm not a fan of the style of gameplay they use. With those MX (IIRC) and such charts where if you hit the wrong key along with the right ones, you still get docked and such. I just felt like the timing was tricky, and that the game felt "fat" on the screen. IIDX, by comparison, feels very thin and small, and DDR is kinda in between (though the feeling fluctuates in DDR/stepmania depending on the chart, for some reason). It just feels really awkward, especially since I'm so used to the way O2Jam looks. And some DJMAX charts are ridiculous, especially on that MX or whatever mode.
I haven't played any of those crazy charts in pump, but I get what you mean. I still find pump more fun than DDR on the machine though. The X parrern feels more natural to me.
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You don't get nailed for mashing in the PSP version, but they make up for it with the aforementioned awkward patterns.
Oh, when I was referring to bad PIU charts I was more referring to some of the Nightmare Anothers. Crazy mode is nothing compared to that. :P
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Lol, yeah, there's that, then there's also the joke songs that are meant to be retarded.
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Grr... my instructors in Indoor Percussion, mainly the director of it, Jeremy. He's really egotistical. Don't get me wrong, he knows what he's doing- he's a great instructor- but me and him clash on just about EVERYTHING, and I always get blamed or yelled at, even though a lot of times it's just a ridiculous misunderstanding. It's reeeeeally annoying. Doesn't make it any better when my friends either make fun of my "relationship" with Jeremy, or Jeremy preaches to the entire group about respecting him and the other instructors while making it perfectly clear he's directing his message to me.
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My Wednesday classes. I like the fact that It saves me gas to drive from my first campus to my secound, but the fact that I have night classes then morning classes is annoying. Also the 4 or so hour wait for my night class to start is annoying.
FUCKING AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
People who don't really get DMC4.
http://www.joystiq.com/2008/2/07/metareview-devil-may-cry-4-xbox-360-ps3/#comments
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http://www.joystiq.com/2008/02/07/thq-announces-band-mashups-wii-exclusive-rhythm-game-for-april/
150 songs.. Actually, only 30 licensed songs in 5 different styles.... Way to make a potential game a complete failure.
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That sounds like the worst idea in the universe. : |
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This project I'm supposed to be doing right now. It's pretty lame. We have to create a lifestyle where we try to live off of minimum wage for 6 months. I'm Slade Jefferson, an ex-CIA agent trying to forklift terrorism.
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Hahaha, sounds awesome, in the worst way possible.
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I hate when people get pissed at me for agreeing with them. Of course, it goes sort of like this:
Person: "God I feel stupid."
Me: "Yeah, you should."
Person: "Oh, fuck you."
So I hate it when people make statements about themselves solely because they expect someone around them to disagree.
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So I hate it when people make statements about themselves solely because they expect someone around them to disagree.
I can't stand that either, it irks me.
Also, I have some weird bug bite on the arch of my foot, and it makes my foot feel really weird when I stand or put it flat on the floor. It incites rancor in me.
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I to am bothered by people who make statements about themselves expecting disagreement, while iliciting agreement on my part due to the truth of their statement.
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Analog cable can lick my nuts.
After being used to using digital cable for so long using an STB with a wonderful menu, having to use the TV Guide lineup to get channel lineups sucks ass. What's worse is waiting five minutes for the listing to scroll through the channels, switching to the channel, and finding out that it's an episode of CSI:CI that I've already seen. Grr.
I love pressing the Guide button, paging through the list, pressing the Info button, and seeing exactly what episode is playing.
MFWOIPAMVPOFmgoramopma only three weeks until I go back to my parent's house with their awesome TV and DVR...
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Yeah, I have satellite and whenever I go to my GF's place, I hate having to sit and watch the guide for 5 minutes trying to find something good.
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Yeah, totally. Not to mention that I have the ability to record and time-shift shows so that I'm not stuck on a strict TV schedule (i.e. absolutely having to watch Family Guy at xx:xx AM, CSI:NY at xx:xx AM, etc). Also, House looks soooo much better in HD.
Apparently my dad wound up going all-out while I was away. My parents moved the living room into the next room over and my dad put a bunch of audio gear in that room. I can't wait to be able to watch the Matrix with 5.1 surround sound. :3
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You know what REALLY pisses me off? when I post a long rant someplace and the only responses I get are insulting or making fun of me.
Does nobody understand how to fucking read a post and actually think about what I'm saying?
I recently made a series of posts on a undisclosed forum talking about poor typing on the internet. I went out of my way to make it clear that I was not making any personal attacks, and yet what do I get in response? Insults.
Am I the only person on the fucking internet who understands the TRUE form of argument, informal logic, and logical statements? Seriously.
My post talked about how through the internet, written communication is pretty much the only communication that anyone engages in, and yet, so many people don't care about how they type. Nobody goes through that extra bit of effort to capitalize, and to spell check. Nobody seems to understand that the better your typing is, the more people will want to respect you. What would you think if a judge started talking like a teenager, and swearing every second word and all that? I doubt you'd have the same sort of respect, judge or not, that you would have for him if he talked the way a judge is supposed to talk. Similarly, the internet is perverting the English language, and nobody is stopping it. English is doing nothing, if not devolving back into the state it was in around the 1200's, where nobody seemed to know how to spell anything correctly.
I try to explain myself in a non-threatening way that is simply asking people to stop being lazy and make that small effort to capitalize, and use the spell checker, and yet every single response I get is an insult. Could these people be any more immature about this? Honestly, I hope to fucking god that there are more intelligent people than my experience of the internet has shown me, because if the whole world is the way the internet seems to me, then we are in big fucking trouble, because intelligence seems to be going right down the drain.
FUCK I HATE IDIOTS
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Damn, I don't think it would be possible for gcc (and glibc) to take any longer to build. Argh. Seriously, if this toolchain that I'm building isn't perfect I'm going to flip the fuck out.
I really need to set up a LiveUSB/LiveCD environment so I can use distcc on my work laptop.
You know what REALLY pisses me off? when I post a long rant someplace and the only responses I get are insulting or making fun of me.
d00d only like total morons make long posts on teh internet U MORON
That said, I completely understand what you're saying. The act of adding two extra letters and saying "you" rather than "u" (or "are" vs. "r") are enough to make me take a post more seriously. I made a whole rant about this in my LJ. It was more directed toward game reviews (see: user reviews on GameSpot) but it covered many of the same points.
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My post here was an EXTREMELY boiled down version of what I posted on the unnamed site, however, I managed to sum up a couple of my points pretty well there.
As far as I see it, this lack of respect for the English language and willful ignorance is everything I stand against. I believe in continuous learning, continuous improvement. The only way for society to evolve is for the individuals who make up society to evolve, to learn, and to improve themselves. By willfully ignoring the conventions of written communication in English as agreed upon by society, these people are in effect lowering the literacy rate of a large portion of society, and effectively devolving society. They are working directly against the evolution of society and the improvement of literacy rates, as well as overall intelligence and knowledge. This is a plague, as far as I see it, and a plague that must be stopped. The only way that the internet will improve is people like us banding together and making this known to others. I believe that it is necessary to attack this problem, not simply passively resist by not caving in and using the short forms, but by actively campaigning towards a more literate internet.
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You obviously were too verbose. Try this next time, maybe they'll be able to understand it:
EVERY TIME I READ YOUR POSTS A LITTLE PART OF ME DIES. LEARN TO FUCKING TYPE, LEARN TO FUCKING SPELL, AND FOR CRYING OUT LOUD, STOP ABBREVIATING TWO LETTER WORDS. YOU ARE ALL SHITHEADS AND I HATE EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU.
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That could be the problem, but I'd have to leave out the "YOU ARE ALL SHITHEADS AND I HATE EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU." Not all the people who can't type are actually morons, and if I said that, I'd basically have nobody to talk to on there. :/
I also made a point to tell them that any personal attacks wouldn't be tolerated and asked them to kindly Shut The Fuck Up
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That could be the problem, but I'd have to leave out the "YOU ARE ALL SHITHEADS AND I HATE EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU." Not all the people who can't type are actually morons, and if I said that, I'd basically have nobody to talk to on there. :/
Bah, way to not be adventurous. ;P
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Well, things have resolved themselves there, the thread was locked, and one person in particular responded very maturely to my post, so I thanked him. I admitted that he knew more grammar than I did, and said I'd be sure to try to learn from all the mistakes he pointed out in my post. So things have pretty much died out there, and I've got one person who may or may not become a friend thanks to the fact that he was about the only person to actually make a mature post in response to my rant.
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I hate hate HATE it when people try to use the fact that they have certifications to try and mask the fact that they don't know jack shit. There's a prime example from tonight in class. I was setting up a wireless network for our pieces of equipment to talk and was running into issues:
Dumbass: Ping tests don't work for wireless. You can have the wrong WEP key and still ping clients. It's like if someone's speaking Spanish and you only know English; you can see them talking but you don't know what they're saying.
Me: *blink blink* No, with a shared key system, you have to have the right key to even associate with access points. Even with open system authentication, all data gets encrypted, so even though you might be able to connect a ping still wouldn't go through.
Dumbass: Well, I only have XXX certification, so I obviously don't know what I'm talking about.
Me: I've noticed.
It's rare that I respond to sarcasm with sarcasm because I don't go out of my way to start fights, but this is one of those cases where I simply couldn't help myself. When you figure that this very person has accused other people of being arrogant, this has more than a little dash of irony, especially considering he was completely, irrefutably wrong. If I really wanted to blow a lot of money I could probably have several MCSE certs just from experience alone with a bit of freshening up, not to mention Cisco CCNA and A+ certifications without a whole lot of work. Tonight is proof that I probably wouldn't even need to crack open a book to get it. If that moron doesn't know that basic of a concept and he has a certification, I can sure as hell get one if I wanted to.
Is it any wonder this idiot isn't in the networking field?
Oh, also, proof that I'm right: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wired_Equivalent_Privacy#Authentication (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wired_Equivalent_Privacy#Authentication)
In Open System authentication, the WLAN client need not provide its credentials to the Access Point during authentication. Thus, any client, regardless of its WEP keys, can authenticate itself with the Access Point and then attempt to associate. In effect, no authentication (in the true sense of the term) occurs. After the authentication and association, WEP can be used for encrypting the data frames. At this point, the client needs to have the right keys.
In Shared Key authentication, WEP is used for authentication. A four-way challenge-response handshake is used:
I) The client station sends an authentication request to the Access Point.
II) The Access Point sends back a clear-text challenge.
III) The client has to encrypt the challenge text using the configured WEP key, and send it back in another authentication request.
IV) The Access Point decrypts the material, and compares it with the clear-text it had sent. Depending on the success of this comparison, the Access Point sends back a positive or negative response. After the authentication and association, WEP can be used for encrypting the data frames.
I'm seriously thinking about printing that out and having him read it when I get into class just because it pisses me off when people do that shit.
I put up with this one dumbass white trash slut when I went to ITT that did the same fucking thing. She kept going on and on about how she was MCSE certified for Windows 2003 Server, yadda yadda, but when it came to practice, GUESS WHO SHE ASKED ABOUT EVERY LITTLE THING. She knew absolutely nothing about Windows Server.
Jesus, I fucking hate people sometimes.
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Yeah, that is the sort of shit that makes me wish people just had a test they needed to pass when they went to work at a job that required that sort of knowledge. Then certifications wouldn't matter, because you'd need to actually do well on the test, instead of simply show them some paper you managed to get by cramming all the shit in your head 2 hours before the test and promptly forgetting it. Sure, people might do that then, but all they need to do is put a clause in saying "we can fire you if we think you know jack shit."
It's still not a perfect system, but it might work better than simply giving a certification and thinking that that little piece of paper means they actually know something. That is why I don't study for tests. I think that studying skews your true results, and creates a false score higher than you deserve, because you're going to forget most of what you just crammed for the test anyway. I figure if I can go into a test without having spent 1 second studying and do as well or better than people who spent hours, that speaks a lot about my retention, and my understanding of the problems. I think that comparing my mark to the inflated marks of others just serves to prove that I am smart.
Of course, that's how it would work in a world where it mattered how much you actually knew. At this point, as long as you get X score, the teachers don't care how you got there, and that is a problem
Ok, I'm gonna cut myself off here, because this is turning into yet another late night rant.
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Exactly. Certifications are little more than expensive tests to see how well you can regurgitate information. People flash them to compensate for their complete lack of knowledge or inability (or unwillingness) to actually get their hands dirty. To elaborate further on this, I've looked into getting my CCNA and quickly found that most of the information on there isn't used often in the field. For example, as far as routing protocols are concerned, OSPF and IS-IS are by far the most popular protocols used, with RIP probably still seeing heavy use. From what I've heard, however, Cisco drills test-takers on their proprietary IGRP/EIGRP protocols, which are not nearly as common. I've heard many CCNA certificate holders say that they've never run into that protocol in the field and I'm inclined to believe them.
Not to mention that it just winds up being a huge money soak for the companies. As technology changes it's only natural that certifications should change with it. However, expecting someone to throw down a hundred or two hundred dollars every other year to keep their certs up-to-date is insane, especially when they don't provide a firm test of competence.
Sure, if I were applying for IT jobs I'd probably look into getting a certification or two, but aside from making my resume look better I don't see much of a use for them.
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Really, the whole education system has turned into something where you get marks for regurgitating information, regardless of how well you actually know or understand it. If the work and tests were more geared towards actual knowledge and understanding of the problems at hand, I bet nearly 50% or more of classes right now would fail. Miserably. I've only met a coupe people at school who I think are actually intelligent, despite how many people get good marks. Half of the people who get good marks are simply good at memorizing things. If I were to have an in depth discussion about something and he underlying principles, I bet most of them would have no idea what I was talking about :/
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Yeah, I agree. Really, the only subjects that test one's capacity for critical thought are your math courses.
Science tends to require thought when it comes to hands-on work or the mathematics behind a certain thing, but a lot of that tends to be regurgitation. I've always been a fan of the practical elements of computer science, in general, because it opens up an extremely wide variety of problems to solve, whether it be operating software, tweaking hardware, or writing code. As for the theory behind it, it's generally pretty uninteresting or ties in so closely to the practical elements that I'd rather just do the hands-on work.
Really, when you think about it, what is the best way to learn how to use a program? Listen to someone talk about it for five hours and never touch it? Give me a break! That's all those certification exams do, generally. Now I heard that Microsoft has you actually perform the said steps for MCSE exams, but the problem with that is that it probably still limits you to set problems with a rigid way to go about solving them. The most fun I've had getting my degree was when my LAN teacher said, "okay, set up a network with Windows XP Pro workstations, two Windows 2003 servers, one Linux server, three routers, and two switches. Go!"
One class that can sort of go either way are your Language Arts classes. I've been in ones that test you with multiple choice answer sheets and ones that ask you to write about certain things in your own words. I tend to prefer the latter.
I was sort of unusual in high school because I actually enjoyed writing essays so long as they didn't have any stupid, arbitrary limits on them. The one thing that I didn't enjoy were having to stick with the rigid writing structure that teachers enforced. I generally write in two ways: (1) I prewrite using a stream of consciousness method, jotting down or typing whatever comes to mind, then go through it and write a proper essay based on that; or (2) I write the whole damn thing in one go then re-read it a few times, make corrections here and there, and turn it in.
All the way through middle and high school and into college I was stuck writing things the "proper" way, which simply didn't work for me, yet was enforced. Something that I could have finished in a day was drug out through two or three weeks simply because we had to follow all of the steps: prewriting, main idea, introductory paragraph, rough draft #1, rough draft #2, final draft.
One time I literally wrote the entire paper on the day that it was assigned. When it came time to turn in each of our "steps" I literally cut down the final draft into the pieces that I needed to turn in. I didn't make a single change from day 1 all the way up until the due date and I pulled a 100% on it.
I'm still in disbelief that I still had to do the same exact thing in college. You'd think that by that point they'd let the students do it the way that works for them, but no. Ah well. At least I'm done with all of that bullshit now.
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That sums things up pretty damn good.
I've always thought the "writing process" stuff that they forced you into was bullshit. I've never been all that good at essays, but that's due to a couple reasons: I'm not that good at expressing myself through written word, most of the stuff I had to work with was not an idea that I actually liked or wanted to do.
I'm sure there were a couple more reasons that came and went depending on the circumstances, but I wrote every single essay I've ever done in 1 run, except maybe the beginning paragraph. Usually it would take me about 2 hours. 1 hour of talking on MSN and occasionally writing something down, and 1 hour of writing stream of consciousness essay. I say that because I didn't do it in 2 phases like you described, but in 1. My subconscious mind was able to order things into a workable essay format, so I just wrote, start to finish, and made the occasional tweak.
Unfortunately, as I mentioned earlier, I'm not all that good at expressing my ideas when I have to write them down. I don't think in a straightforward way that most people do. I like to describe my thought patterns as in tangents. Most people work their way from the start to the finish of something in a straight line. I don't, I sort of spiral around it, eventually arriving at the goal. Thought patterns like this don't lend well to written communication. I work much better in an informal oral environment. When you have an actual discourse between people with regards to a subject, it allows you to revise your points and rethink things when presented with a response from the other party involved. However, you are not presented with that when you write something. The editing process gives us some semblance of input simulating an oral discourse, but fails to provide the same level of input, because it targets the words themselves, instead of the thoughts. I abandoned the editing system for a couple reasons: it only really edited from a grammatical standpoint I would lose my train of thought completely if I stopped working on it to let someone edit what I had; and when I was finished, I felt that it was as good as it was going to get, because most of my editing was done before I ever went to put the thought to words. Before I wrote a sentence, my subconscious mind would begin to form the sentence, and would catch itself if something felt wrong, or awkward, and anything that got through that self-editing process, could be changed right after I read it.
Anyway, I did much better on on-demand essays, because of the grading being different. I produced essays on about the same level whether I wrote them on-demand in class, or over a couple hours on my computer at home.
As for other classes, I think my favourite has to be the programming courses I went through. Sure, the teacher talked at the front of the class every now and then to try to explain things, but we usually had plenty of time in class to actually sit down and write code. I had a lot of fun there, and learned quite a bit from those classes (actually I already knew a good portion of what they taught in those classes, but they provided me with a way to make something that I could add on to and learn stuff beyond the scope of the class with.)
Unfortunately, the teacher I had for those classes barely knew anything beyond the scope of the class. We asked one time if it was possible to manipulate C++ pointers in a DLL file through visual basic, and he had NO idea what we were talking about..... That was kinda pathetic, really.
Anyway, I learned a lot of Java from the second year there. (I don't think I actually learned anything in the first year class, which was all in VB.)
I like what your teacher did there.. That must have been an interesting network.
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C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER
but high school fucking sucks.
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Yes, highschool does suck.
EDIT: jesus, this is my 13th post today. And I still only have 9.335 posts per day, lol.
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Unfortunately, the teacher I had for those classes barely knew anything beyond the scope of the class. We asked one time if it was possible to manipulate C++ pointers in a DLL file through visual basic, and he had NO idea what we were talking about..... That was kinda pathetic, really.
I've found that most programming teachers don't actually know how to program. It really bugs me. I've only been in one programming class (Data Structures) where the teacher actually knew more about programming in a given language than I did. It was the best programming class I'd ever been in for that reason alone.
As for your question, no, Visual Basic cannot manipulate pointers. :P
I like what your teacher did there.. That must have been an interesting network.
It was pretty nice. I wound up doing all of the Linux and networking work since I was the only person who really understood Linux in the class (and that's after two Linux classes...pathetic, I know -- those classes were some of the biggest travesties I'd ever seen) and because of my ability to configure a bank of Cisco routers in five minutes flat (compared to 45+ minutes for the next fastest person...no joke). I was basically the project leader, assigning everyone tasks and helping them out. Most fun I'd had in class in a long time.
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Well, we figured the pointer thing out on our own, lol. I forget how it reacted when we tried to get it to pass the memory location to us, but I know it didn't work as expected. We could receive the information the pointer was pointing to, but we couldn't get it to tell us the memory location we were pointing to.
Wow, 5 minutes vs 45... that's kinda sad. I think I could set up a router I've never touched before in somewhere around 10 minutes, depending on how user friendly the interface is, and I know I can set my router up from factory default about 3-5 minutes, lol.
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Yeah, VB isn't really a good language to choose if you want to directly manipulate memory. It's generally pretty good at what it's made for, though -- rapid application development.
No offense, but with no experience it would probably take you quite a while to configure one Cisco router from scratch. There is no friendly UI to speak of, just a command interface using a proprietary command interpreter (I think some of their gear uses Linux, but I've never seen it personally). The main reason that it took me five minutes to configure three routers is because I used my time more efficiently. I'd configure one router, dump the config, open it in a text editor, change the values, and just copy and paste the updated configurations into the other router. Most people there could configure a single router in 10 minutes, but would then follow the error-prone task of typing everything in manually. Blah.
For the record, here's how to just change the IP address (FYI, the command prompt is the host name followed by the mode that you're currently in):
Router>en
Router#conf t
Router(config)#int e0
Router(config-if)#ip addr 192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0
Router(config-if)#no shut
&LINK-3-UPDOWN: Interface Ethernet0, changed state to up
Router(config-if)#end
Router#
The first command, "en," puts the prompt into privileged mode. If there is a password set for it (THERE'D DAMN WELL BETTER BE) you'll be prompted for it.
"conf t," a shortcut for "configure terminal," tells the router to go into configuration mode, getting commands from the terminal. This is what you'd use to configure it most of the time.
"int e0" is a shortcut for "interface Ethernet0." There are numerous interfaces on Cisco routers; sometimes multiple banks of Ethernet ports (in which case they would be referred to as Ethernet0/0 -- bank/port). There are also FastEthernet ports (100mbps), Serial ports, etc; it all depends on the router and what cards you have installed in them.
"ip addr 192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0" is fairly obvious -- it sets the IP to 192.168.1.1 with a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0. The command itself is a shortcut for "ip address."
"no shut," a shortcut for "no shutdown," brings up the interface (sort of like "ifconfig interface up" in *nix).
"end" backs out of configuration mode, bringing you back into privileged mode.
Configuring Ethernet interfaces isn't hard at all. Serial interfaces tend to require a bit more TLC, mainly because you have to configure each end differently.
The part that confuses most people in assignments like that are static routing tables. That was another requirement of the assignment -- we needed to use them. Setups using RIP and OSPF are practically automatic -- you tell the routers what to use and they work it out amongst each other. When you configure a static table, you need to be fully aware of which devices can directly talk to each other as well and through what port. I was able to grasp it without much of a problem but most of the people in my class had problems with it. It's also one of those things where if you mess it up it can be a pain to debug, especially on larger setups; I typically got it right the first time.
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Well, aside from not knowing the commands themselves, I probably wouldn't have much trouble with setting one of those guys up. I understood a good portion of that, minus the "en" command, and it would have taken me a minute to figure out the "no shut" command, but I'm generally pretty good at learning that sort of stuff really quickly. I learned how to work linux in a console form in no time at all, coming from pretty much 0 experience in command line only situations. I did already know some DOS commands, and I knew that a couple (cd, among others) were aliased. If I have 2 of something to configure that I can use text files for, I likely would have done so myself (I've done that sort of thing on more than one occasion). The main advantage you have over me on those things is you've gone through the course and learned how to operate the console.
I wouldn't be surprised if they ran some sort of linux on those things though.
Static routing tables, however, might do me in on one of those with my 0 experience, lol. However, I probably wouldn't do bad for someone who's never touched one before. All I'd need for most things is quick access to a reference table on commands.
Oh, and what's the significance of using the "no shut" command in that instance? Is it quicker that way, or is there some other reason?
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Actually, I figured out much of what I know through experimentation, before the class officially learned it. I learn when I get bored. I do have the advantage of being able to play around with actual gear, though. I've used simulators (Boson NetSim, for one) but they aren't always exactly the same. Speaking of which, if you want to try playing with them, give NetSim a shot. It's the best one I've used.
I think the main reason that they don't use Linux on their basic routers is because it'd probably be a lot heavier than their own IOS software. Linux is considerably larger, requiring a larger EEPROM, takes a while to start up (compared to IOS, which starts up in maybe twenty seconds, including performing extensive hardware checks), and has more overhead. IOS also has a much more intuitive way of storing configuration data, setting up interfaces, etc, because it was built specifically for the task at hand. Linux would be nice for an all-in-one sort of device, but most places that would need higher-end routers probably wouldn't want a solution like that -- too much rolling on one device and all.
I dunno about the static routing thing. It would probably take a lot of trial and error if you haven't done it before; it's a little odd. There is a quick reference of sorts available in the IOS software (just key in a question mark after a command) but it is a little vague on a few things.
"no shut" is vital for the interface to actually start talking. IOS is like Windows or *nix in that every interface, by default, starts in a down state. Typing "no shutdown," or, as I abbreviated it, "no shut," brings up the interface.
I don't think I mentioned this in my previous post. IOS supports shortcut commands. The commands are pretty verbose by default (i.e. "enable," "configure terminal," "interface ethernet0/0", "ip address," etc. You can abbreviate the commands as much as you like, so long as the identifier is still unique. For example, instead of "interface ethernet0/0" you could type "int e0/0," since there is no ambiguity. You cannot use "in e0/0," however, because it would conflict with a command such as "invert rxclock."
It's quite nice, really. It's a fairly intuitive input system.
Edit: Ugh, building a toolchain for Linux can be a royal pain in the ass sometimes.
I'm building a i686-pc-linux-gnu toolchain for a project I'm working on (building a distro from scratch) and it's been an interesting ride. I basically used my Gentoo system to put together everything I'd need for a minimal system. I used portage to build binary packages of gcc 4.1.2, binutils 2.18-r1, and glibc 2.6.1, then built a busybox binary. I extracted the toolchain components to my empty directory, threw busybox in place, then chrooted into it. Awesome.
I then started gathering tools to rebuild the toolchain. When it finally got to the point where I'd be able to compile binutils, gcc, and glibc, I attempted it. gcc and glibc, surprisingly, went well, but binutils kept choking on build. I'd already fixed an issue related to texinfo (namely, binutils 2.18's configure script's inability to deal with versions higher than a certain number) but was completely stumped on this one. The solution? Build and install binutils 2.17, then link binutils 2.18 using those tools. WHAT THE FUCK? O.O Oh well, at least it works now, and aquamarine can now truly stand on its own two feet.
Insert obligatory "LOOK MA, I DID IT WITHOUT LFS (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/)" happiness here.
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Haha, oh wow, now that must have been one hell of a ride.
My MyBook runs off a busybox system, but I haven't bothered building all that stuff from scratch, it came pre-equipped with most of what I needed. Albeit, building PHP and MySQL from scratch was interesting. Especially since it's running a slow-ass ARM processor at 200 MHz. Took fucking forever to compile all that shit :/
I'll definitely check out Boson NetSim, though. I always like to learn more, and if I can do it without needing the hardware itself, then that's all the better.
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I would have definitely gotten a cross-compiling toolchain built for the MyBook in that case, haha. Gentoo, for one, makes it very simple (emerge crossdev; crossdev -s4 arm-unknown-linux-uclibc (or gnu, if you're using glibc)). I ended up setting up a cross-compiler on my laptop once so that I could compile PowerPC binaries faster (since G4s are slow as shit compared to x86 when it comes to compilation) and it didn't take much effort on my part.
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Software companies, politicians, etc. who use security as an excuse for control.
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I really do have a math disorder, and I have about 6 different sections of math I have to do tonight and IO hardly understand it.
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That sucks. I've been identified as slow with math. What takes someone like, a half a second, because it's instinctive, takes me like, anywhere between a couple seconds, to maybe a minute or more, depending. I get things right a lot, but it takes me a LOT longer. It's why I hate math work in school, I can do ti, but the amount they give me is overwhelming considering how much slower I am.
I also don't learn the same way they teach at school. I learn by understanding the relationships between numbers, not simply memorizing "this is how you do it". There are a million ways to do the same thing, they all boil down to doing the same thing, but some of them do it in a really different way.
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I really do have a math disorder, and I have about 6 different sections of math I have to do tonight and IO hardly understand it.
I need a calculator even for simple math, it's probably a combination of laziness and apathy with a pinch of dumbass 8)
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That sucks. I've been identified as slow with math. What takes someone like, a half a second, because it's instinctive, takes me like, anywhere between a couple seconds, to maybe a minute or more, depending. I get things right a lot, but it takes me a LOT longer. It's why I hate math work in school, I can do ti, but the amount they give me is overwhelming considering how much slower I am.
Same, I hardly know my times tables, and I can hardly do anything without a scrap piece of paper or a calculator.
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Well, I know some of the times tables, and I'm slowly getting faster with those, but I still have to work some of them out in my head. I've just been gettign faster at working some of them out, as well. I can do complicated stuff, I can do long division in my head (not multiple digits though, but I could do something that results in a really long string of numbers after the decimal), but it's really slow. With paper though, I can work pretty well.
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I'm the other way around. I'm excellent at math but not much else.
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Well, I'm good at math but slow. Once I learn something (actually learn it, not simply memorize it for school) I can do it really easily. Unfortunately, it does take a lot longer. I'm good, as long as I understand what's going on, but the teachers don't teach in a way that works well for me most of the time :/
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People who talk about shit they know nothing about as if they actually do.
Example: Joey's mom's old computer had an integrated video card. The video card got fried, so the motherboard went down with it. Since then, he's been telling people that HP "wires their motherboards in a way that if one component goes down, they all go down." He said that to me, so I responded.
Me: "Joey, that's only true for the video card because it's integrated."
Joey: "But the rest of the components are all on the same..."
Me: "Motherboard? You mean like all computers?"
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Oh, that's okay. I had someone at my school (when I went to ITT) try to tell me that Dell used proprietary memory just because the system that he worked on had DDR2 and he'd never seen it before. It went something like this:
Dumbass: Dell is complete shit. They don't even use standard memory or any components in their system.
Me: ...really.
Dumbass: Yeah, they use some weird memory with a lot more pins than normal memory.
Me: More pins...you mean like DDR2?
Dumbass: That's not standard memory!
Me: *facepalm*
There is nothing worse than people who try to feign knowledge when using computers.
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Agreed. My mom thinks that just because she's more tech-savvy than the people she works with, she can presume to tell me what's wrong with a computer. She can browse the net, do email, and she knows enough how to install things, and how to design a website with the help of a WYSIWYG editor, and she seems to think that she can tell me what's wrong with a computer. I've been fixing computers for about as long as I've owned one, and yet she thinks she can tell me what's wrong just because something is slow, or isn't acting right.
And then she blindly orders me to fix it when half the time I don't even know what's wrong. She claims one thing is wrong when it quite obviously isn't, because computers don't work that way, and refuses to listen when I try to explain why it can't be that, and then she blindly tells me to fix it.
Recently, my mom got a Blackberry Pearl. I noticed it had a facebook application in the menu, I opened it to see what it would do, and it brought me to some disclaimer and terms of use pages and such, and then I exited. After exiting, one of the icons got a white background and the orange circle that appears behind the icon wouldn't show up behind it. She then begins to rant about how I fucked it up, and shit like the thing is broken. It's a fucking graphical glitch. After some googling, I found that it's a fairly common problem that can only really be solved by reloading the operating system on it. She didn't seem to understand that A) just because a small graphical glitch happened doesn't mean anything will stop working right, B) if it happened that soon after she got it, and after such a small thing as opening one of the applications and exiting, that it was not likely something serious, and C) even if it was serious, tings like that can be reset and wiped clean anyway.
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Man, if you slip up and make a mistake with Linux you could wind up in a hell of a lot of trouble.
Let's just say, I screwed up a single bloody line in a shell script and I managed to bind /dev to /dev. It doesn't sound as bad as it is, believe me. Let's just say, I can't spawn a shell because every time I attempt to it goes into an infinite loop and I can't get rid of the bind because /dev is, obviously, in use. Methinks it's about time for a reboot!
Edit: Ooo, scratch that. Getting out of X (hence, killing the instances of Konsole that were no doubt waiting for a free TTY) and unmounting the /dev bind fixed everything without a reboot. I'M AWESOME.
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I've already had to reinstall Ubuntu twice due to my own screw-ups. Last time, it was because I fucked up my partitions, so I backed up anything really important (which took forever), loaded up a partitioner from the boot screen (which also took forever) and then deleted all of the partitions. After that, the computer went to the boot menu just fine, so I reinstalled Ubuntu.
I'm sure there was a less painful way to fix it, but since I had recently lost everything, anything on the hard drive was easily replaceable.
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Well, my linux experience pretty much consists of reinstalling 20 times, and still not getting things to work right, lol.
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I've pretty much been able to work out every issue I had, and every issue I've had with Gentoo was mostly my own fault.
There have been a few occasions where an update to a package broke binary compatibility. Gentoo's revdep-rebuild utility is generally good enough to do the job, but I did run into one case where two packages changed their ABI in one update and I was stuck in a sort of dependency hell. There are two choices at that point: work it out by manually (using the list of packages given to you by portage) or take the brute-force method ("emerge world", then leave your computer overnight so it can rebuild everything). I took the latter and the system was working perfectly by the next day with no need to reinstall the system. :P
That's one nice thing about the installation approach that Gentoo uses. One time I wound up hosing my system's includes during an LFS (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/) install, probably due to a type. No problem, "emerge gcc" fixed everything. One time I wound up uninstalling a dependency to something. No problem, "emerge -o package" pulls down any dependencies for that package that aren't on the system.
I love the fucking shit out of portage; it's by far the best package management system I've ever used.
Edit: Another way of fool-proofing a Linux install is to have it start in text mode. I use ATI's Linux drivers on my laptop and, to put it bluntly, they haven't exactly been known for their reliability (though, oddly enough, they appear to be more stable than their Windows drivers now...). If I ever wind up updating ati-drivers to a version that just doesn't like my laptop, all I have to do is reboot, mask the package, and pull the last working version.
Did I mention that I love portage? :)
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Well, the package manager that was installed in my MyBook is ipkg, and I'd never heard about it before, but it's actually a pretty decent system. It's lightweight, and all that, but it works well.
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People who can't take constructive criticism. I know a guy that owns a CS:S server and has grenades set up to do triple damage in triple the radius. So anyone who is on the offensive and moving towards a choke point would have a huge advantage compared to the person sitting there trying to guard a bomb site/hostage, which is what I told him. He told me it was more realistic and that there was tons of other servers without the mod, then he muted everyone.
Also people who think realism in EVERY game is a good thing. Garbage makes most games unbalanced.
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Portage is based on Python and it has everything but the kitchen sink (though I hear they're working on adding that to 2.2). In all srsness, it does a great job at...pretty much everything, and has a rich set of tools to help you get information about the packages. Plus, as I said before, it's fairly easy to bring your system back to life if you screw it up.
If worst comes to worst (i.e. you kill python, completely destroy the toolchain to the point where it can't do an initial compile on gcc, etc) you should be able to pull the utilities from a stage1 install, but it's never come to that for me.
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I wish I knew enough about linux not to be completely lost at every single discussion you guys have about it :s
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Well, ipkg is pretty robust, despite being a lightweight solution. It can do quite a bit.
I don't know how it stacks up against portage, since I've never used portage, but I have found ipkg to be better than the other package manager I used before, (which one it was, I've forgotten).
Here's a wiki entry about it: http://www.handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/Ipkg. I find it kinda funny, but because of the architecture of the MyBook, they use the NSLU2 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSLU2) package repository.
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It's missing some features that Portage provides, mainly in terms of unfucking the system. That said, such a thing is far more important in a source distribution rather than a binary one, so it's all good. One fairly large feature that I'm not seeing is a way to calculate reverse dependencies to get rid of unwanted dependencies. For something targeting embedded systems with minimal storage space this seems a bit odd to me.
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Good point. However, I'd think that most people running embedded systems probably know exactly what they want on there, and won't be dealing with unnecessary packages in the first place. Most default installs for embedded systems are going to be really barebones, and so you're not likely going to get into a situation where you have unwanted packages. It's still a possibility, but not nearly as common as on a desktop or other more dynamic systems. But yes, it would still be a useful feature for those times where you are dealing with unwanted packages, and limited space (thank god I can use all the space on the MyBook in the linux; I'd hate to be limited space-wise on that thing, lol).
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Holy fuck I want to kick the guy from Buck Cherry in the throat until his head explodes.
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Holy fuck I want to kick the guy from Buck Cherry in the throat until his head explodes.
I'd help hold him down. I hate that band with a passion.
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Jesus fucking christ. I get up at 1 PM, get on the computer for a while. Have a bath at 2:30 till 3:30. My brother gets on the computer. I let him on till 11, knowing that I'll be able to get on form 11:00 till whenever I want to go to bed, leaving me with, maybe 4 more hours on the computer. What happens? 11 rolls around and my mom tells me she wants the fucking computer because she's gonna do laundry and can't be going up and down the stairs all the time. So what do I get? Nothing. I get a fucking hour and a half on the computer all day.
Thanks for fucking nothing.
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Jesus fucking christ. I get up at 1 PM, get on the computer for a while. Have a bath at 2:30 till 3:30. My brother gets on the computer. I let him on till 11, knowing that I'll be able to get on form 11:00 till whenever I want to go to bed, leaving me with, maybe 4 more hours on the computer. What happens? 11 rolls around and my mom tells me she wants the fucking computer because she's gonna do laundry and can't be going up and down the stairs all the time. So what do I get? Nothing. I get a fucking hour and a half on the computer all day.
Thanks for fucking nothing.
rofl go play ps2 then
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I would, but my brother lent out GH2 and the fucking memory card (we never needed a second one, so it's the only one we have.) So PS2 is pretty much useless for me.
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Fucking A, some idiot is reeving their car and it's 12:30 in the morning. I'm surprised I haven't heard a gunshot yet.
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Fucking A, some idiot is reeving their car and it's 12:30 in the morning. I'm surprised I haven't heard a gunshot yet.
You know you live in the states when...
(or a large city, for that matter.)
I don't think I've ever heard an actual gunshot in town before...
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I live in a huge community that has small to decently sized houses on 1.5 to 3 acres of land. Basically a swamp that has canals dug threw it to keep it dry. Also he's like across the street from the house behind mine, so I know it's got to be loud as hell for his neighbors.
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Well, I live in a town of about 16 740 last I checked a sign, and we've got some pretty seedy places around here. Despite the appearance of a nice community (aside from some of the older run down places), we have an insane drug culture. It's ridiculous how much crack (and weed) is around here. I'm honestly quite surprised I've never heard a gunshot.
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I'm pretty sure all you need to do is find a way to get to BC. After that, its pretty fucking easy from what I've heard.
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FUCKKKKK
Venetian Snares has a show in Miami tomorrow and I DONT LIVE IN SOFLA ANYMORE.
Just one of the many downsides of moving :(.
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FUCKKKKK
Venetian Snares has a show in Miami tomorrow and I DONT LIVE IN SOFLA ANYMORE.
Just one of the many downsides of moving :(.
Oh wow, that's really balls. Fumble :x
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Is he touring? Or is it like, a random one-location show. Because if he's playing in Seattle, I'm so going. :U
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I'm pissed I didn't hear about that. Probably still not something any of my friends would like to see.
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I have a friend back in FL who might have been interested.
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Jesus Fucking Christ. I can't even express how much this is pissing me off. Every day, all I hear from my mom is bitching and yelling and screaming about my brother and I. We're having financial trouble right now, and neither my brother or I have a job. All I've been hearing for the past couple months is a steady stream of "get a job" lectures and the occasional time where my mom gets really pissed at us after we get to the point where we start talking back. What my mom doesn't seem to understand is that the more she pushes, bitches, screams and yells, the less I WANT to get a job. It sounds counter intuitive on both sides. She bitches more, and I want to get a job even less. She doesn't understand that.
If they were more willing to do stuff that would help, instead of simply bitching, I'd be a bit more receptive to it. But no, I simply get a bitchy lecture that boils down to "get a job". My dad occasionally hands me a newspaper with a job listing I might be interested in, but so far that's about it. The latest one wants me to go deliver my resume in person, but have I heard either of my parents offering to drive me there? Nope. I'm not fucking walking there either.
On top of that, I've gotta call my local college branch to see about getting a credit I need for the college program I want to enter, but now I don't want to call them, because the only stuff I've heard for damn near an hour straight is "call them". My mom somehow thinks that bitching loud and long enough at me is going to make me want to call them. I woke up this morning thinking "ok, I'll call them again". Now I don't really want to call them at all. I'd rather put on my coat, and leave. If it weren't for the fact that about the only place I could go is my GF's place, I would leave and ask to stay at a friend's place for a bit. (I don't really want to stay at my GF's place, because I don't really get along well with her dad).
Right now I'm about ready to feed my fist through a wall (or break it, if I hit a stud), but I'm not going to, because all that'll accomplish is give them yet another reason to bitch and yell.
On top of all that, my mom bitches about us staying up all night, and sleeping in. I'm only doing that because I'm not doing anything during the day. I'm perfectly capable of getting up early and staying up during the day and sleeping at night, but when I'm not going anything, I prefer nights. I'm not jobless because I stay up at night, I stay up at night because I don't have a job. If my parents said "get your resume together, we're taking you to X place to apply at 10 AM tomorrow", I'd be perfectly ready to get up then, and go. But my parents mindlessly saying "You need to quit staying up all night and sleeping all day, you're doing nothing" and bitching about it isn't going to make me get up at normal times, because it's not changing anything. All it's doing is antagonizing me and pissing me off so that I don't want to comply with them because I've had enough of them bitching at me giving mindless orders that don't change things on bit. For some strange reason my mom thinks that somehow making me get up at 8 AM and go to bed at 12 will somehow magically get me a job. I'd get a job just as easily if I brought a resume in at 10 AM, or if I brought it in at 2 or 3 PM. Staying up till 4 AM and sleeping till 1 won't make that much fucking difference.
I mean Fuck. My brother is in a considerably worse position than I am right now. The kid lies at pretty much every opportunity he gets. He gets caught by my parents pretty much every time, but he doesn't seem to get it. On top of that, he's dropped out of highschool, because he's too lazy to go to class, and lies to cover it up. He goes out job hunting when my parents bitch, but I don't think he's really trying much, since he's likely to lie about that, too. At least I have my fucking grade 12, and am planning on going to college for something that I can most likely get a job with. He's dropped out of high school, with no job, and plans to go to the Metalworks Institute for some live music sound stuff. I should mention that It costs about 20 000 for tuition to go to Metalworks, plus, they have no dorms or anything, so he either has to commute to Missisauga (part of Toronto) every day, or has to find a place to live there, and a job. On the other hand, my tuition will be probably something over 10 000 for a 3 year course with 3 co-op terms to help me get into it, plus my dad knows quite a few places he could try to get me into.
I'd say I have a rather better outlook right now than he does. But do I get any better treated? Nope. I get bitched at just as much as my brother does. At least I don't fucking lie every second word that comes out of my mouth. At least I stayed in school and got my grade 12. I'm not going to cost them as much to get an education, and I'm going into a field that is in high demand, and will likely make pretty good money right off the bat. And yet I get no preferential treatment over someone who seems to be slowly spiraling into living at a friend's place and working at McDonalds year after year. I won't be surprised if that's the sort of thing he does for the rest of his life, because he doesn't seem to give a rat's ass about education, or what's going to happen in his life.
This whole fucking thing pisses me off so fucking much, I can't even put it into words. If it weren't that I had nowhere else to go at the moment, I'd move out for the night, and stay someplace else.
I'm honestly reaching my limit of how much of this bullshit I can take. I'm getting to the point where I am very close to seriously considering moving out. I need support, not constant bitching and yelling. I know exactly why I'm in the position I am in. My social anxiety makes me not want to get a job because I hate getting into groups of people that I have little to nothing in common with except a job. I can honestly say that as stupid as it sounds, I'm afraid to get a job. because of my social anxiety, I can't stand anything like retail. Despite not being very strong, I'm more willing to do hard physical labor than deal with customers. And my social anxiety makes it hard for me to even go try to get a job, because I hate calling places. I hate automated calling systems, but I hate calling businesses in general. I never know what to say, and I get really nervous on the phone. I'm better in person than I am on the phone.
But despite being able to admit it online, and to myself, I can't admit that to my parents. They probably realize that's what's going on, but they're not exactly understanding of it. They don't seem to have any understanding of what it's like to be faced with something like that, when it bothers you so much. It's not something I simply don't like, for whatever reason. I get much more nervous than most people would, and they don't seem to understand. It's a lot easier to tell someone to face their fears than to be the one facing the fear, but they don't seem to have any sort of idea how hard this shit is for me. And all I get on top of it is yelling and bitching. I wish my parents would be more understanding and supportive. I wish my mom would learn to something more than simply yell at me, because she doesn't seem to understand it's not helping at all.
I seriously can't live with this much longer, and I don't know what I'm going to do when I finally hit my limit....
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sit down and write a letter. That usually works for me if I'm trying to get a point across. Please don't become an hero.
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I'm not going to become An Hero, but I honestly don't know how I'll respond when my parents finally push me too far. It helped, just to have a place to get that out, anyway.
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Not sure how the lawn service industry is up there, but you could try something like that. Wouldn't really need much interaction to do your job then.
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Well, it's not like a lawn service company has much work when there's a couple feet of snow on everyone's lawn. The place my dad wants me to go apply at right now is looking for warehouse guys, so it'll be heavy lifting, but I don't mind that stuff.
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Blagh, my arms (and knee) still hurt from the intense three-puck air hockey matches (seriously, between the two of us we probably blew $10 on that thing, haha) I had with TimJing the other day.
It was totally worth it, though, so I can't really say that I'm upset. :)
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Blagh, my arms (and knee) still hurt from the intense three-puck air hockey matches (seriously, between the two of us we probably blew $10 on that thing, haha) I had with TimJing the other day.
It was totally worth it, though, so I can't really say that I'm upset. :)
Hahaha, yeah, I still have bruises on my knuckles. That was the most fun I've ever had playing air hockey XD
AND WHAT WAS WITH THAT MUSIC?! doo dee doo doo doo dee doo
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I wish I would have managed to get a recording of that...seriously.
That machine was nothing short of amazing.
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I wish I would have managed to get a recording of that...seriously.
That machine was nothing short of amazing.
I will, someday. Next time I go there I'm gonna bring some recording device and record that music, hahaha.
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I absolutely hate my AP European History class.
The teacher's a fucking lazy shit that doesn't teach and forces us to read. He never even fucking lectures us, and when he does, half the time he tells us not to write it down.
Any college kids got any advice for AP classes?
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I will, someday. Next time I go there I'm gonna bring some recording device and record that music, hahaha.
Sweet. I'll be looking forward to it!
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So I'm fairly certain my laptop's hard drive is really close to failure. It takes forever to write to it, and when I was backing stuff up, transfers that would've normally taken no more than a few minutes were taking hours. At this point, the reading speed is so slow I can't even watch videos or listen to any music without it skipping once or twice every 5 minutes.
Still, at least I noticed it a couple of days ago, so I backed everything up via a flash drive and an old desktop with ~50 GB of free space. I just wish laptop hard drives were the same price as desktop ones.
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That sucks ass.
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I absolutely hate my AP European History class.
The teacher's a fucking lazy shit that doesn't teach and forces us to read. He never even fucking lectures us, and when he does, half the time he tells us not to write it down.
Any college kids got any advice for AP classes?
AP American History and AP English and Composition are the only AP classes I'm taking this year. Next year, I'll be taking 5: AP Calc, AP Environmental Science, AP English Literature, AP Psychology, and AP Micro and Macro Economics (which are actually 2 classes, hence, two AP credits. so 6 classes?)
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rofl I'm in ap u.s. this year and its such a different world from GATE world history last year.
k so last year my teacher was the wrestling coach. we spent so much time on wars it was amazing. we went into detail on every major battle. after we did the state testing, we took about 3 weeks and watched the entire series of band of brothers. i brought in my bootleg of 300 an we watched that.
this year, in ap u.s. history, my teacher is also head of the drama department. she is also a quaker(pacifist) and a feminist. when we are in a war era, she's like, "k so the north won such and such battle and it was bad for the south." what we have gone in depth on has been the women's/civil rights movements through American history and how things were going "at home" while the boys were off at war and how different minority and underprivileged groups such as women and blacks contributed. We watched cinderella man today in class. the point was because it clearly depicts the country's transition from the prosperity of the 20s to the great depression in the 30s or some shit. she skipped the fight scenes. my teacher last year would have been like "k fast forward they're rich and now they're poor k lets watch these two hairy apes beat the shit out of each other for the next hour"
I want the battles god damnit.
My english teacher is worse. She is the most liberal, feminist nazi i've ever met. Now i've heard college professors are very opinionated about their political views even if it doesn't relate to their subject, but we're in high school. keep your bullshit propaganda to yourself bitch. We just spent a month and a half reading feminist literature and writing pro-feminist essays. they weren't even opinion papers. they were papers defending given pro-feminist prompts.
another reason i hate that class and the education system in general: I am the best student in any of her AP English classes(she has 4). AP classes are supposed to be college level. I know some of you guys are in college. Do your professors assign vocabulary you have to define and write sentences for BY HAND?(yeah no computer) So I don't do definitions for three weeks because its bullshit. I get 100% on all three tests. not one question missed. a lot of the words I'd never seen but I'm good at that shit. guess what. I find out the fucking homework was worth more than the tests.
Another thing. So we're in this feminist shit chapter in english right? we have to write a 750-1000 word essay synthesizing feminist literature sources into it and talking about victorian era women or some shit. I write the most epic fucking essay in the history of essays. Perfect marks(the only person in any of her classes to get that). She writes all this shit on there about how great it is(stfu i only boast when i'm pissed off). I somehow managed to weave in my disgust for liberal feminism while still being witty and appealing to her political agenda enough for her not to care.
Point of the story. I have a 57% in that class. I know some may argue that it is hard work and not potential or god-given talent that make the grade, and normally i would agree. but under these circumstances, i would have to call bullshit. mindless busywork and pointless homework assignments do not fall under the category of "hard work" in my book. I have proven myself to be proficient in every test she has given me but I'm still failing because i didn't conform to her little "curriculum."
tl;dr: fuck retarded teachers and I really dont want to hear shit about how college is I'll cross that bridge when i get there
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Yeah, you know, that's the same sort of view that got me failed in so many classes. I completely agree that mindless crap doesn't count worth shit. I've even refused to do some work to a teacher's face, but it doesn't change how they mark things. So you have 2 options: Either, do the work, and suck it up, or don't do the work, and deal with the consequences. As much as it's retarded, and a gigantic pain in the ass, that's the reality of the situation.
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...I somehow managed to weave in my disgust for liberal feminism while still being witty and appealing to her political agenda enough for her not to care.
I'd do the same, except with a greater emphasis on elaborating on my disgust for the subject at hand. Or, if I were up for it I'd more or less answer the essay with a protest to her views; to rebel against her, while still answering the prompt.
I can't stand anyone with extreme and/or unreasonable views at all.
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I rip apart an ITG fanboy:
AHAHAHAH You're dumb. First off if you want a convincing argument learn to get across word filters.
Haven't we all forgotten where the fvck we live? We live in fvcking America! The land of freedom of speech and free this and free that! We all know that Konami has the rights to ITG now. Those stupid bastards!! I am beyond pissed right now because it has been 2 fvcking years and there hasnt even been anything about ITG anything!!!!!! Konami was so scarred because ITG was better than DDR and still is.
We also live in a land where there's laws and a government. Roxor releasing ITG is illegal. Konami releasing ITG will never happen because Kyle won't give Konami his songs and charts and licenses. Go to PIU Pro.
I have been playing DDR for 3 years and when ITG came out i was hooked. All the mods and all the new features. The future for ITG looked so bright! Way more advanced than DDR. When i went back to DDR i literally laughed at every song i played because they seem so simple now.
Fanboys are the worst. How many of those mods were even useful? Hell they technically weren't innovative because they ripped their mods from Stepmania. I'm pretty sure you didn't even get decent grades on the "easy" DDR songs anyways.
Well why dont we do something about this? Like I tell everyone! If people stopped going to the gas pumps for one day, you know how much money they would lose? They would have to lower gas prices.
Yeah the gas price thing didn't even work dumbass. If DDR stopped selling for one day Konami wouldn't care because they have other franchises they make money off of. Japan wouldn't care because they never had ITG and Europe wouldn't care because they're neglected DDR for the most part anyways. If it somehow MIRACULOUSLY worked, all that would happen is DDR would stop in America. ITG would be gone and we'd be deprived of 4 panel dance games. There's PIU but some people dont like the 5 panel feel. Good job ruining the last of dancing games in America.
So why don't we use this same concept and say fvck you Konami! If you want to take ITG from us, then go right a ahead. This means I WILL NEVER PLAY DDR AGAIN! Why can't we all man up and grow a fvcking pair of balls and fight this? If we all stop and refuse to play DDR until ITG comes back then so be it!!!
You don't even know why ITG was taken over. Not because it was better than DDR and Konami was scared or that it was like DDR. It's because roxor was dumb and used ITG1 upgrades on DDR machines because they didn't make cabinets. Same with ITG2 except they had cabinets this time. They just dug their own grave and it was bound to happen eventually.
I want ITG back! MARK YOUR CALENDAR! I HAVE STOPPED PLAYING DDR AS OF TODAY AND I THROW MY MIDDLE FINGER HIGH IN THE AIR TO KONAMI! YOU WILL NOT GET ANY OF MY MONEY ON YOUR poopy PAD MACHINES ANYMORE! BRING ITG BACK AND MAYBE WE WILL START PLAYING DDR AGAIN!
You do that because guess what? No one gives a shit. Not even ITGFreak or Bemanistyle or r21freak would care about your proposal because it's dumb and won't work. Everyone else is enjoying what they have, ITG2 r21/r23 and hacked machines, and you're being selfish. Stop whining and enjoy the game.
In the end your logic fails. Don't take me as a DDR fanboy either because I play and love both actively but I hate fanboys of either game.
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PWNT.
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The Most Psychotic Breakdown Ever part of Impulse in GH3. That part of the song is too ridiculous for words :(
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I rip apart an ITG fanboy:
Wow, what a dumbass. I like ITG more than DDR simply because it's possible and relatively easy to add your own songs. I don't care that they're not making any new cabinets because they'd only try to make it more difficult to hack.
The Most Psychotic Breakdown Ever part of Impulse in GH3. That part of the song is too ridiculous for words :(
Yeah, thats where I always lose my combo. I can't do the RO-GB chord change fast enough.
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I think I might have passed that song once, but jesus, it kicks so much ass. That is easily one of my favourite songs of all time. Plus, it kicks total ass to go up against someone on pro faceoff.
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Yeah, Impulse is really fun. I love the section titles the game gives it, like 'Indescribably Beautiful Solo'. Great stuff.
Also, my accursed mouse is on the fritz again. I need a new one desperately, any recommendations?
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Logitech. Even their cheap-ass stuff works well.
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My basketball hoop fell on my car last night, during really high winds. Cooooool. I can definitely afford to get that fixed right now. :-\
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How much damage did it do? Is it cosmetic, or serious? (Even cosmetic damage can really cost a lot to fix, but at least you can still drive it if it's only cosmetic.)
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How much damage did it do? Is it cosmetic, or serious? (Even cosmetic damage can really cost a lot to fix, but at least you can still drive it if it's only cosmetic.)
Cosmetic... a portion of the hood (by the windshield sprayers) crumbled, there are long scratches on my windshield and hood, and a dent the size of a half dollar on the left side of the car where it hit. It could've been a LOT worse, so I'm pretty thankful it wasn't. Still angers me though.
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Yeah, any damage to a vehicle tends to be something that pisses people off.
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That sucks. I've gotten some pretty viscious door dings, and that never fails to fill me with rage, so I can understand how you feel :|
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Yeah, I used to see people with like, a dinky scratch or something on their car, and think to myself "I wouldn't really care if that happened to my car" but now I really understand how much rancor that incites in people -_-
Also, the hell, I hate how a little nothing cup of sour cream costs $.89 at Aunt Chilada's. I can't stand all those little nothings that add up, and before you know it, your bill is like twice what it should be :<
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My basketball hoop fell on my car last night, during really high winds. Cooooool. I can definitely afford to get that fixed right now. :-\
D: That blows.
Logitech. Even their cheap-ass stuff works well.
Aye...stop right there or I'll start ranting about the horrid scroll wheel on my G5.
Everything about that mouse is awesome except for that (and I know it isn't just mine since my friend's has the same problem -- sometimes it'll trigger multiple times when you click it once).
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Lame. Still, everything else works fine. Nobody can make a perfect product every time...
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I wouldn't consider having the mouse scroll when I merely touch the scroll wheel "working fine." Also, given that it's marketed as a gaming mouse (an expensive mouse, at that) it's kind of inconvenient that the scroll wheel doesn't work right. I love going to change weapons and having it switch 2-3 weapons ahead sometimes. Very nice.
I wouldn't whine about it as loudly if I didn't pay like $50-60 for it. The fact that my cheap, $15 Microsoft laser mouse tracks almost as good and has a perfectly working scroll wheel (not to mention a forward button -- the G5 doesn't have one of those for some stupid reason) is nothing short of pathetic.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that if you want a good Logitech mouse, get a MX510 or MX518. Those are some of the best mice ever.
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I'd probably just end up going with a cheap, basic Microsoft laser mouse. That sounds like the most attractive option.
Also, I have to take the FCAT Science test tomorrow, which blows. FCAT is Florida's statewide standardized test that determines how well teachers are teaching and schools are doing. They're pointless and they suck, and I never have to take any form of them (Reading, Writing, Math, Science) after tomorrow. Hooray.
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Here's the cheap Microsoft mouse that I have (which is listed at $30...I must have gotten it at a discount or something): http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16826105183 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16826105183). It good.
If you're willing to spend a bit more ($40), the Logitech MX518 is an awesome mouse and doesn't suffer from the scroll wheel problems that my G5 has: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16826104178 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16826104178). It's not a laser mouse, but it's probably one of the best optical mice you can get.
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I didn't even realize they still made optical mice anymore D:
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I'd probably just end up going with a cheap, basic Microsoft laser mouse. That sounds like the most attractive option.
Also, I have to take the FCAT Science test tomorrow, which blows. FCAT is Florida's statewide standardized test that determines how well teachers are teaching and schools are doing. They're pointless and they suck, and I never have to take any form of them (Reading, Writing, Math, Science) after tomorrow. Hooray.
We have some government testing here that's supposed to show how the teachers are teaching and how we're learning... Of course, the government is manipulating the values by making it easier every year just to make it look like we're getting better every year. Just about everyone thinks it's the most useless and retarded thing the government's done with education.
Here's the cheap Microsoft mouse that I have (which is listed at $30...I must have gotten it at a discount or something): http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16826105183 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16826105183). It good.
If you're willing to spend a bit more ($40), the Logitech MX518 is an awesome mouse and doesn't suffer from the scroll wheel problems that my G5 has: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16826104178 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16826104178). It's not a laser mouse, but it's probably one of the best optical mice you can get.
I'm using a mouse like this http://images.tigerdirect.com/skuimages/large/M17-1751-main.jpg (mine's white with a cloudy white bottom part) right now, but I used to use one like this http://www.pandacomputer.com/online/images/p_lwom.jpg.
I can't find that model of mouse on the Logitech site, but I can tell you it was definitely one of the cheap mice. I never had any problems until it the scroll wheel mysteriously stopped working. My brother removed it and stuck in the Microsoft mouse (who's left click button no longer springs back, which is annoying), and after that, the Logitech didn't work at all. (I think something got fried when he hot-swapped it.)
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That $40 Logitech mouse looks delicious, I think I might invest in one.
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I have a logitech G5 and I love it. I've never had any real problems with the mouse.
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I used two of them, purchased at different times, that exhibited serious problems when scrolling occasionally. They might have updated the mouse since my friend and I bought them, though, or it could even be an issue from a certain manufacturing plant.
Other than that, I love it. I haven't seen a mouse that tracks as well as it does. It's also insanely useful for Photoshop, et al, due to its insane precision (2000 dpi liek wut). For as much as I use the scroll wheel, though, that design flaw (or whatever the hell it is) is enough to make me not use the mouse.
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Yeah, I'd go nuts if I didn't have a working scroll wheel.
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the mx518 is pretty tight, i use one. the clicking in the mouse can get a bit annoying (every few weeks it gets in an odd position where it takes effort to click, for some reason, took it apart and couldn't find anything) but i can't find a more comfy mouse to use.
not to mention the side buttons by the thumb are a fucking godsend. i mean, i didn't think i would use them, but they control forward and backward on internet browsers, so everytime i want to go forward or back i just use the thumb. its to the point where i simply can't stand browsing the internet without an mx518.
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Crazy. I never thought I'd use buttons like that myself. Though I started using the scroll wheel the second I had a mouse with it, lol. I can't STAND not having one on other things. Especially laptops without a mouse.
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Crazy. I never thought I'd use buttons like that myself. Though I started using the scroll wheel the second I had a mouse with it, lol. I can't STAND not having one on other things. Especially laptops without a mouse.
Agreeing like the fucking fist of north star. I feel retarded trying to use a Laptop's mouse pad.
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I actually prefer thumb sticks (though I don't know of any recently made laptops that use one).
The only problem with those is you need to get the sensitivity just right, otherwise they're impossible to use well, lol.
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I actually prefer thumb sticks (though I don't know of any recently made laptops that use one).
The Dell Latitudes still have them. I use the one on mine to scroll because I don't care much for track sticks -- they're too stiff. If laptops still had trackballs I'd definitely use that, but that would probably add a wee bit too much bulk for modern designs.
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MySpace 'goodnight guys' bulletins. Oh my god. I don't care when you're going to sleep. For the love of god, stop informing me of it.
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I hate those retards who pass on stupid things like "send this to all your myspace/facebook/email friends or your myspace/facebook/hotmail will be closed". Just once I wish someone would "accidentally" close every account that passed one of those on.
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why my sig no werk rite >:|
EDIT: nevar mnid my sig iz werk rite <:)
EDIT 2: butt itz ovar 300 characters, which iz limit on sum webersitez
by four
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characters
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Gah, I have like 6 swollen mosquito bites, two on either side of my face, and the other four on my arms and legs. Lame.
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So I just got the worst haircut ever.
Here's how it works: I go in, sit down, and tell the lady cutting my hair exactly this: "Cut it to the brow line and then even it out all the way around," which, somehow, sounded to her like, "Give me a mullet. I'm preparing for my temporal excursion back to the 1980's." When she finished, I told her again that I wanted it evened out all the way around. She tried for about 45 minutes (There was no clock, I'm just judging by the 14 songs played on the radio while this was going on), slowly trimming away at my hair. After I got fed up, I said "Ok, stop." Unfortunately, I lacked the complaining skills to not get charged for a lady butchering my hair.
I went to the phone store after that so I could get a new phone. I met my mom there, and after getting my phone, she demanded I go somewhere to fix my haircut. I agreed. We went to a barbershop that was heavily surrounded by road work, which made it a bitch to get into. While I was walking in, a bird crapped on my head. The barber there was pretty cool, though. He fixed my hair to look as decent as he could after what had happened, we joked about a few things, and he didn't charge anything because he said it "wasn't a real haircut."
So I need to have a bird's nest on my head for the next few weeks while my hair gets back to normal. Fun.
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Ouch. That blows. Right now I go to this one place called Vincent's Hair Salon and Spa (Vince IS italian). We started going there because my grandparents went to him, and were friends with him, so my parents go to him, and we'd go there when we needed a hair cut too. He's one of those guys who REALLY knows what he's doing. I mean, how many places will trim your beard with a straight razor (you know, a single razor blade with a handle)... He knows how to do shit like texturing your hair, and all sorts of crap most hair dressers never learn. Which means he actually knows how to cut hair like mine (really damn thick) and not make it look like shit.
It's a bit on the expensive side, but all things considered, I like getting a hair cut from him better than anyone else, because he actually knows how to cut it properly.
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My girlfriend and I scheduled appointments at the mall to get our haircut before prom. The guy who's going to cut our hair is extraordinarily gay (I mean he is ON FIRE) but he does a damn good job of it.
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Well, male hairdressers tend to either be flaming, or european, lol.
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So I'm gearing up for an ultra-fun 60 hour work week.
I love never being home.
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So I'm gearing up for an ultra-fun 60 hour work week.
Holy shit.
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Yeah, ouch :/
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Well, to be fair, it's "only" at 59 hours so far, including all of the scheduled work for the rest of the week:
(http://www.spectere.net/graphics/eek.png)
However, that doesn't include the paperwork I'm going to have to do tomorrow, etc, so it'll probably be right at 60 hours.
On the bright side, if they don't approve that excessive amount of overtime I'm not going to have to work for 11 hours working on Saturday (2.5 hour drive time each way, plus a 6+ hour install). If they do, well, my next paycheck is going to be nice.
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Lol, yeah, that's about the only positive thing about being swamped by work like that. You'll make a LOT of money. You'll just never have enough free time to spend it.
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I'm working a whole bunch this weekend too. Scheduled to only work Saturday evening but I picked up some extra shifts and now I'm also working from 1:15 to 9 Sunday. I've hardly worked for the past couple weeks so it's some much-needed and desired money.
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So there's some virus on my computer. I think it's just a registry hack, but whatever he case, explorer.exe will not stay open for more than 12 seconds. As a solution, I made a copy of explorer.exe using the command prompt and executed that. It would be fine, but all it opens is an explorer window, meaning no desktop or start menu, meaning nothing can be minimized.
I guess it's fine, seeing how I'm not using Windows so much anymore except for stuff that I can't run well in Wine, but it still pisses me off.
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Well, run hijackthis and send us a log. If it's a registry hack, then chances are HJT will pick it up.
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Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2
Scan saved at 1:30:51 AM, on 4/25/2008
Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 (7.00.6000.16608)
Boot mode: Normal
Running processes:
C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Apple\Mobile Device Support\bin\AppleMobileDeviceService.exe
C:\Program Files\Symantec\LiveUpdate\ALUSchedulerSvc.exe
C:\Program Files\IVT Corporation\BlueSoleil\BTNtService.exe
C:\Program Files\WIDCOMM\Bluetooth Software\bin\btwdins.exe
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\ccSetMgr.exe
C:\Program Files\ATI\Catalyst Media Center\Kernel\TV\CLCapSvc.exe
C:\Program Files\ATI\Catalyst Media Center\Kernel\CLML_NTService\CLMLServer.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe
C:\Program Files\Norton AntiVirus\navapsvc.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe
C:\Program Files\Norton AntiVirus\IWP\NPFMntor.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\nvsvc32.exe
C:\Program Files\Softex\OmniPass\Omniserv.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\SNDSrvc.exe
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\SPBBC\SPBBCSvc.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\CCPD-LC\symlcsvc.exe
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\ccEvtMgr.exe
C:\Program Files\ATI\Catalyst Media Center\Kernel\TV\CLSched.exe
C:\Program Files\Softex\OmniPass\OPXPApp.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\ctfmon.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\rundll32.exe
C:\Program Files\Logitech\SetPoint\SetPoint.exe
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Logishrd\KHAL2\KHALMNPR.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\system32\taskmgr.exe
C:\WINDOWS\explorer2.exe
C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe
C:\Documents and Settings\Kevin\Desktop\HiJackThis.exe
R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Search Bar = http://red.clientapps.yahoo.com/customize/ie/defaults/sb/sbcydsl/*http://www.yahoo.com/search/ie.html
R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Search Page = http://red.clientapps.yahoo.com/customize/ie/defaults/sp/sbcydsl/*http://www.yahoo.com
R1 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Default_Page_URL = http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=69157
R1 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Default_Search_URL = http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=54896
R1 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Search Bar = http://red.clientapps.yahoo.com/customize/ie/defaults/sb/sbcydsl/*http://www.yahoo.com/search/ie.html
R1 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Search Page = http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=54896
R0 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Start Page = http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=69157
R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchURL,(Default) = http://search.qsrch.com/
R3 - URLSearchHook: (no name) - {00A6FAF6-072E-44cf-8957-5838F569A31D} - C:\Program Files\MyWebSearch\SrchAstt\3.bin\MWSSRCAS.DLL
R3 - URLSearchHook: Yahoo! Toolbar - {EF99BD32-C1FB-11D2-892F-0090271D4F88} - C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Companion\Installs\cpn0\yt.dll
O3 - Toolbar: hp toolkit - {B2847E28-5D7D-4DEB-8B67-05D28BCF79F5} - C:\HP\EXPLOREBAR\HPTOOLKT.DLL
O3 - Toolbar: Norton AntiVirus - {42CDD1BF-3FFB-4238-8AD1-7859DF00B1D6} - C:\Program Files\Norton AntiVirus\NavShExt.dll
O3 - Toolbar: AIM Search - {40D41A8B-D79B-43d7-99A7-9EE0F344C385} - C:\Program Files\AIM Toolbar\AIMBar.dll
O3 - Toolbar: Quick! - {4E7BD74F-2B8D-469E-C0FF-FD67B79CAF2C} - C:\PROGRA~1\quickbar\quickbar.dll
O3 - Toolbar: Viewpoint Toolbar - {F8AD5AA5-D966-4667-9DAF-2561D68B2012} - C:\Program Files\Viewpoint\Viewpoint Toolbar\ViewBar.dll
O3 - Toolbar: Yahoo! Toolbar - {EF99BD32-C1FB-11D2-892F-0090271D4F88} - C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Companion\Installs\cpn0\yt.dll
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [NVIEW] rundll32.exe nview.dll,nViewLoadHook
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [ctfmon.exe] C:\WINDOWS\system32\ctfmon.exe
O4 - Global Startup: Logitech SetPoint.lnk = C:\Program Files\Logitech\SetPoint\SetPoint.exe
O8 - Extra context menu item: &Search - http://bar.mywebsearch.com/menusearch.html?p=ZCfox000
O8 - Extra context menu item: &Viewpoint Search - res://C:\Program Files\Viewpoint\Viewpoint Toolbar\ViewBar.dll/CXTSEARCH.HTML
O8 - Extra context menu item: E&xport to Microsoft Excel - res://C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~2\OFFICE11\EXCEL.EXE/3000
O8 - Extra context menu item: Send to &Bluetooth Device... - C:\Program Files\WIDCOMM\Bluetooth Software\btsendto_ie_ctx.htm
O9 - Extra button: (no name) - {08B0E5C0-4FCB-11CF-AAA5-00401C608501} - C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_03\bin\ssv.dll
O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: Sun Java Console - {08B0E5C0-4FCB-11CF-AAA5-00401C608501} - C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_03\bin\ssv.dll
O9 - Extra button: HP Clipbook - {58ECB495-38F0-49cb-A538-10282ABF65E7} - C:\Program Files\Hewlett-Packard\Smart Web Printing\hpswp_extensions.dll
O9 - Extra button: AT&T Yahoo! Services - {5BAB4B5B-68BC-4B02-94D6-2FC0DE4A7897} - C:\PROGRA~1\Yahoo!\common\yiesrvc.dll
O9 - Extra button: HP Smart Select - {700259D7-1666-479a-93B1-3250410481E8} - C:\Program Files\Hewlett-Packard\Smart Web Printing\hpswp_extensions.dll
O9 - Extra button: Research - {92780B25-18CC-41C8-B9BE-3C9C571A8263} - C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~2\OFFICE11\REFIEBAR.DLL
O9 - Extra button: Add to EverNote - {A5ABA0BB-F195-40d8-A5E9-0801153E6597} - C:\Program Files\EverNote\EverNote\enbar.dll
O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: Add to EverNote - {A5ABA0BB-F195-40d8-A5E9-0801153E6597} - C:\Program Files\EverNote\EverNote\enbar.dll
O9 - Extra button: AIM - {AC9E2541-2814-11d5-BC6D-00B0D0A1DE45} - C:\Program Files\AIM\aim.exe
O9 - Extra button: @btrez.dll,-4015 - {CCA281CA-C863-46ef-9331-5C8D4460577F} - C:\Program Files\WIDCOMM\Bluetooth Software\btsendto_ie.htm
O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: @btrez.dll,-12650 - {CCA281CA-C863-46ef-9331-5C8D4460577F} - C:\Program Files\WIDCOMM\Bluetooth Software\btsendto_ie.htm
O9 - Extra button: (no name) - {e2e2dd38-d088-4134-82b7-f2ba38496583} - C:\WINDOWS\Network Diagnostic\xpnetdiag.exe
O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: @xpsp3res.dll,-20001 - {e2e2dd38-d088-4134-82b7-f2ba38496583} - C:\WINDOWS\Network Diagnostic\xpnetdiag.exe
O9 - Extra button: Messenger - {FB5F1910-F110-11d2-BB9E-00C04F795683} - C:\Program Files\Messenger\msmsgs.exe
O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: Windows Messenger - {FB5F1910-F110-11d2-BB9E-00C04F795683} - C:\Program Files\Messenger\msmsgs.exe
O10 - Hijacked Internet access by New.Net
O12 - Plugin for .spop: C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\Plugins\NPDocBox.dll
O16 - DPF: {04E214E5-63AF-4236-83C6-A7ADCBF9BD02} (HouseCall Control) - http://housecall60.trendmicro.com/housecall/xscan60.cab
O16 - DPF: {20050325-D35A-4233-926E-2E801AE25949} (NMJPStarter15 Class) - http://www.netmarble.jp/_common/cab/NMStarterJP5.cab
O16 - DPF: {30528230-99f7-4bb4-88d8-fa1d4f56a2ab} (YInstStarter Class) - http://img.member.yahoo.com/dl/atty/yinst_current.cab
O16 - DPF: {48884C41-EFAC-433D-958A-9FADAC41408E} (EGamesPlugin Class) - https://www.e-games.com.my/com/EGamesPlugin.cab
O16 - DPF: {6414512B-B978-451D-A0D8-FCFDF33E833C} (WUWebControl Class) - http://v5.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/v5consumer/V5Controls/en/x86/client/wuweb_site.cab?1117680125015
O16 - DPF: {6FC19219-C47E-4880-9A79-D218A1C374F9} (NMJTransX Control) - http://file.netmarble.jp/Control/NMJTransX.cab
O16 - DPF: {9600F64D-755F-11D4-A47F-0001023E6D5A} (Shutterfly Picture Upload Plugin) - http://web1.shutterfly.com/downloads/Uploader.cab
O17 - HKLM\System\CCS\Services\Tcpip\..\{A8A8D78B-F859-4FF0-8045-28985AEF4690}: NameServer = 68.113.206.10,66.169.221.10
O23 - Service: Adobe LM Service - Adobe Systems - C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe Systems Shared\Service\Adobelmsvc.exe
O23 - Service: Apple Mobile Device - Apple, Inc. - C:\Program Files\Common Files\Apple\Mobile Device Support\bin\AppleMobileDeviceService.exe
O23 - Service: Automatic LiveUpdate Scheduler - Symantec Corporation - C:\Program Files\Symantec\LiveUpdate\ALUSchedulerSvc.exe
O23 - Service: BlueSoleil Hid Service - Unknown owner - C:\Program Files\IVT Corporation\BlueSoleil\BTNtService.exe
O23 - Service: Bluetooth Service (btwdins) - Broadcom Corporation. - C:\Program Files\WIDCOMM\Bluetooth Software\bin\btwdins.exe
O23 - Service: Symantec Event Manager (ccEvtMgr) - Symantec Corporation - C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\ccEvtMgr.exe
O23 - Service: Symantec Password Validation (ccPwdSvc) - Symantec Corporation - C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\ccPwdSvc.exe
O23 - Service: Symantec Settings Manager (ccSetMgr) - Symantec Corporation - C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\ccSetMgr.exe
O23 - Service: CyberLink Background Capture Service (CBCS) (CLCapSvc) - Unknown owner - C:\Program Files\ATI\Catalyst Media Center\Kernel\TV\CLCapSvc.exe
O23 - Service: CyberLink Task Scheduler (CTS) (CLSched) - Unknown owner - C:\Program Files\ATI\Catalyst Media Center\Kernel\TV\CLSched.exe
O23 - Service: CyberLink Media Library Service - Cyberlink - C:\Program Files\ATI\Catalyst Media Center\Kernel\CLML_NTService\CLMLServer.exe
O23 - Service: InstallDriver Table Manager (IDriverT) - Macrovision Corporation - C:\Program Files\Common Files\InstallShield\Driver\11\Intel 32\IDriverT.exe
O23 - Service: iPod Service - Apple Inc. - C:\Program Files\iPod\bin\iPodService.exe
O23 - Service: Logitech Bluetooth Service (LBTServ) - Logitech, Inc. - C:\Program Files\Common Files\Logishrd\Bluetooth\LBTServ.exe
O23 - Service: LiveUpdate - Symantec Corporation - C:\PROGRA~1\Symantec\LIVEUP~1\LUCOMS~1.EXE
O23 - Service: Macromedia Licensing Service - Unknown owner - C:\Program Files\Common Files\Macromedia Shared\Service\Macromedia Licensing.exe
O23 - Service: msdtcsvc - Unknown owner - C:\WINDOWS\msdtcsvc\dmgdrv32.exe (file missing)
O23 - Service: Norton AntiVirus Auto-Protect Service (navapsvc) - Symantec Corporation - C:\Program Files\Norton AntiVirus\navapsvc.exe
O23 - Service: Norton AntiVirus Firewall Monitor Service (NPFMntor) - Symantec Corporation - C:\Program Files\Norton AntiVirus\IWP\NPFMntor.exe
O23 - Service: NVIDIA Driver Helper Service (NVSvc) - NVIDIA Corporation - C:\WINDOWS\system32\nvsvc32.exe
O23 - Service: Softex OmniPass Service (omniserv) - Unknown owner - C:\Program Files\Softex\OmniPass\Omniserv.exe
O23 - Service: SAVScan - Symantec Corporation - C:\Program Files\Norton AntiVirus\SAVScan.exe
O23 - Service: ScriptBlocking Service (SBService) - Symantec Corporation - C:\PROGRA~1\COMMON~1\SYMANT~1\SCRIPT~1\SBServ.exe
O23 - Service: Symantec Network Drivers Service (SNDSrvc) - Symantec Corporation - C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\SNDSrvc.exe
O23 - Service: Symantec SPBBCSvc (SPBBCSvc) - Symantec Corporation - C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\SPBBC\SPBBCSvc.exe
O23 - Service: Symantec Core LC - Symantec Corporation - C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\CCPD-LC\symlcsvc.exe
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End of file - 11098 bytes
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C:\WINDOWS\explorer2.exe
R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchURL,(Default) = http://search.qsrch.com/
R3 - URLSearchHook: (no name) - {00A6FAF6-072E-44cf-8957-5838F569A31D} - C:\Program Files\MyWebSearch\SrchAstt\3.bin\MWSSRCAS.DLL
O3 - Toolbar: Quick! - {4E7BD74F-2B8D-469E-C0FF-FD67B79CAF2C} - C:\PROGRA~1\quickbar\quickbar.dll
O8 - Extra context menu item: &Search - http://bar.mywebsearch.com/menusearch.html?p=ZCfox000
O10 - Hijacked Internet access by New.Net
O23 - Service: msdtcsvc - Unknown owner - C:\WINDOWS\msdtcsvc\dmgdrv32.exe (file missing)
Kill all of these with fire -- they're either bad (explorer2.exe, most likely) or highly dubious (Quick!, etc).
Also, I noticed that you seem to have both ATI and nVidia drivers on your system. It's not a huge deal, but I'd highly recommend heading into the control panel and uninstalling what you don't need. If you have an ATI card, nView is just wasting resources in the background. Likewise, if you have an nVidia card, Catalyst is just taking up space.
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New.net is BAD. Trust me on that one. That stuff can really mess your internet up.
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The ATI driver is for a capture card I bought that was manufactured by ATI.
Also, explorer2.exe is the copy of explorer.exe that I made.
The rest I'll take care of as soon as I feel like it.
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I swear to GOD brawl has some rubber band A.I. at times. I was going against this pikachu and ALWAYS kicked his ass at the beginning, then he'd turn around, perfect block all my attacks, grab me and hit me.
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I picked up a piece of steel out of the forge today not knowing that it was super fucking hot. Now I have burns all over the inside of my left hand. NO MAMES WAY
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Wow, that sucks. How bad are the burns?
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I have blisters all over my pinky and ring finger, but they don't sting anymore. I have a tough leather hand now :-\
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In a way, it's kind of a good thing that you could feel it -- at least that way you know that they aren't third degree burns. Even so, fucking OUCH.
Just make sure to nurse those blisters. They should be mostly gone in a week or two, I think.
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My sister on our late-night 7-11 bike ride. She kept dropping my brand new bike lights on the pavement and acting like a kid (she's 24...) granted, she was drunk (off a combination of things) but I can't stand her when she's like that. Eeuurgh.
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Fuck you direct tv, fuck you MTv. Screwed me over. The guide says, as it does every tuesday, that A shot at love [tila tequila's "find me love" show] is on at 10pm. I turn it on, get ready to chat with my bro on xblive about it as it's on, and it's mtv's "the x effect" instead.
Son of a fucking bitch.
Now I'll have to acquire it in other manners.
Shit dick fucking ass god cunt FUCK
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Ummm, Veoh? Also I really can't stand her, go look up her "music".
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Wow, Partition Magic is horrible.
I'm trying to expand my NTFS partition and it suddenly started popping up with an error message about how my drives don't all have drive letters. Like hell! The only one that Windows can even do anything with has a letter (OBVIOUSLY) and the rest are Linux partitions. Besides, WHY THE HELL DOES IT NEED ALL PARTITIONS TO HAVE DRIVE LETTERS? Drive letters have exactly nothing to do with the partition table.
Oh, guess what the recommended solution is? CREATE A DOS BOOT DISK. Well, for starters, I don't have a floppy drive on this system (last time I used the one on my old system was...uh, let me get back to you on that). Secondly, how exactly is it going to be able to recognize my RAID array? Right, it's not. Nice.
Partition Magic has been completely useless to me thus far. The only bit of partitioning that I didn't do with free, GPL'd tools was create XP's NTFS partition. All of the other moving, shaping, sizing, and all of that was done using free, open source applications. It's gotten to the point now where products created by people in their spare time are considerably better than expensive commercial solutions. Thank goodness.
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Yeah, I've noticed that trend as well. It used to be that to get a decent program to do something, you needed to shell out money for one of the 2 or 3 (if there were that many) useful applications that did that. But after a while, people started thinking "why can't I make something that does that myself for free?" or "why do I have to be limited by what that program was meant to do, when you can really do a lot more?" and such. And since then, people have come out with quite a few different free solutions to problems that used to only be able to be solved with expensive software.
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Zakamiro's avatar.
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Also my fucking dad doesn't stop touching me. He says its his way of expressing his love. God damn is it annoying. Fuck Korean culture. This shit sucks. I wanna be white.
And people who post about double posters. Who gives a flying fuck. Are you going to fight someone over a fucking double post? No. Get over it.
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double posters.
THIS.
FOOL.
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THIS.
FOOL.
is taking its toll on me!
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"yay i killed my target, after a long hard mission, it has to be over now!"
THE FEDS ARE AFTER YOU, LOSE YOUR WANTED LEVEL
"DAMNIT, well at least i quickly found a car"
THE FEDS SHOT OUT YOUR TIRES (THEY ALWAYS SHOOT OUT MY TIRES)
"FOR FUCK SAKE"
and after that ill start yelling out more profanity's/inflicting self harm due to frustration
and on a non gta 4 note, these two words
"next gen"
why can't people say "current gen"
use it properly like "omg the next gen graphics on the ps4 are going to be awesome" rather than "WOW LOOK AT THE NEXT GEN GRAPHICS OF GEARS OF WAR!"
i mean its not even like dumb people are using it, its like everybody(game devs, game media) is using the term "next gen" for "current gen" stuff.
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Yeah, the systems are out, and it's time to start saying "current gen", next gen would be the NEXT stuff, next gen can never be what's out right now. It will always be the next stuff....
Next.
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Zakamiro's avatar.
what? Why?
and bobbias, this will probably piss you off as much as it did me: http://health.howstuffworks.com/marijuana.htm
Be sure to read the whole thing. >:\
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It's perfectly fine until about the end of page 4, where they explain about receptors, but fail to mention numerous things, such as the fact that anandamide is involved in working memory, and the fact that activating an canabinoid receptor it not always bad.
I'm actually impressed with the overall quality and depth of the article. while it is still somewhat biased, it does a good job of not becoming a gigantic scarefest bolstered by tons of BS stuff. The only thing I might want them to clarify is their information about it's affects in the brain, and a slightly more impartial view point, explaining the frequency and severity of the symptoms they mention, as well as explaining the high better. That, and some more evidence about the "over 400 chemicals" and possibly a list of many of those, and something indicating the danger of those chemicals, or a link to more info on them.
They also fail to mention that although a marijuana smoker does face many of the same dangers as a smoker does as far a lung based diseases and such, marijuana is devoid a a GREAT deal of chemicals in cigarettes, and the overall risk is less, because most people smoke less marijuana than they would tobacco.
Other than those issues, that is probably one fo the best articles I've found online so far about marijuana.
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So I'm playing cave story, trying to save Curly with out much guide help. Now she's stuck in a cabin and I can't get that charge weapon (already got the snake, it's disappointing) and I pretty much have to start over from the start after doing 3/4s of the game. Hot damn.
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I saw a Fox news report about how GTA teaches kids how to steal. Riiiight. Walk up to a car that's driving ~15 mph on the freeway, pull the driver out, and drive away in his car. Happens all the time.
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Re: Stuff that peels your potatoes with paring knives of ANGER.
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I saw a Fox news report about how GTA teaches kids how to steal. Riiiight. Walk up to a car that's driving ~15 mph on the freeway, pull the driver out, and drive away in his car. Happens all the time.
A decent amount of that hype basically made GTA popular. Funny how the game man hunt is much more worse then GTA yet they all still call GTA a "murder simulator".
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Walk up to a car that's driving ~15 mph on the freeway, pull the driver out, and drive away in his car. Happens all the time.
actually, in gta 4, i find it really difficult to jack nearly every car that isn't stopped at a red light. not to mention, you have to be aware of traffic when you run out in the road, ive been KILLED by cars that decided not to stop.
anyway this game is used to the media attention, the media will continue to be retarded, and the earth will continue to orbit the sun.
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anyway this game is used to the media attention, the media will continue to be retarded, and the earth will continue to orbit the sun.
Aw, how sweet. :> I like that sentence for some reason. idk. anyway, I friggin' hate trying to sleep, but not being tired, but needing to wake up early in the morning. FUCKING DITTO.
(http://faqsmedia.ign.com/faqs/image/ani132.gif)
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I fucking hate getting woken up at 8:25 being told I need to drive my brother to school for 8:40 or so.
Seriously. My mom was up, why the fuck couldn't she do it? My dad never said anything that morning, so I'd assumed I could actually sleep for once.
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game companies remodeling their fucking game consoles
i have multiple examples
1: i buy a game boy advance when it comes out, i play the gba games, but they are hard to see due to no backlight. about a year or so later, they release a new version with a backlight, that folds up to protect it from scratches.
i ended up turning in the old gba for an sp.
nintendo, fuck you.
2: same as 1 only with the ds, and me being smart and not getting a ds until the lights came out.
3: xbox 360
i got my xbox 360 back in july 2006, it doesn't have an hdmi port. now the "premium" package 360's come with hdmi ports(i got a "premium" package back in 06), so because i bought the thing a year early, i have inferior hardware, and no hdmi port to see a better picture on my tv. i mean, i wasted a decent bit of time looking at these hdmi ports, thought to myself "my 360 has no such port" then wikipedia tells me that microsoft hates me, and i have to deal with the component cables or buy a new system.
microsoft, fuck you.
4: ps3
i refuse to list the amount of facelifts this thing has had, but i will list the easiest one.
it was advertised to have backwards compatability, and it did, now it doesn't.
fuck you sony.
5: psp
same as number 2, save for me not owning a psp "slim" yet
sony, fuck you, again
lesson learned, so one must wait at least 2 to 3 years after said system comes out as to "hopefully" not get screwed over and get the "optimal" hardware.
i mean at least the wii isn't doing it (yet) and i don't yet own a tripple, or psp(yet).
to add
i bought ninja gaiden shortly after it came out for $50.00.
it is one of the best action games ever made, but later, they release a BETTER VERSION, for $20.00 CHEAPER.
so me, one of the customers who helped the game get successful in the first place, gets fucked over, and the people who didn't give a rats ass about playing the game while it was out the first year get rewarded.
the fuck kind of world is this.
remind me to never buy things within the year they came out. i mean, i fucking swear they will release a "GRAND THEFT AUTO FOUR SPECIAL EDITION FOR ONLY TWENTY US DOLLARS" next year because i typed this post.
i mean i should be able to redeem my current hardware/software for the new shit at a discounted price (like i did for the sp)
/end rant/i have 2 hdmi ports which will continue to go unused until i get a tripple to fill up one of the slots
RRRRRAAAAAAAAGGGGGGEEEEEEE
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Yeah, that is really gay.
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Indeed patients pays in more then one way.
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5: psp
same as number 2, save for me not owning a psp "slim" yet
The only advantage of having the PSP Slim is the additional battery life and the doubled memory.
From all other counts, I've heard that the Slim is built rather cheaply compared to the PSP Phat (which is kind of tank-like, in all honesty). Additionally, you miss out on some very awesome homebrew features, like the IR port and the ability to run firmware under version 3.60. You also cannot (at least last time I checked) run any homebrew designed for lower versions, like 1.50 (which is still, by far, the most common variety).
This is one of those rare cases where, if I do get a Slim, I'm going to keep the Phat. The only real compelling reason I'd have to get a Slim is the increased battery life and the fact that the display wouldn't be scratched to hell (I swear, whoever had my PSP before I did played baseball with it, using it as the ball).
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You can run apps designed for 1.50 and below on a slim. Not easily, but you can do it.
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Ah, yeah, I just looked into it and it looks like a complete and utter pain in the ass. I'll just keep my Phat.
Regardless, kudos to DaX for working out a solution.
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I
HATE
PLASTIC WRAP
OH MY GOD
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I missed my class. I was about 5 minuets late (from my avreage leaveing time) so I left in a hurry, only to realize that when I was about to the interstate I didn't have my paper to tell me which class I was supposed to go to. By the time I made it back, I would have been about 30 minuets late to class.
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Whoops.
If it's any consolation, I've done that a couple of times. ;_;
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Asthma angers me. Argh. Not being able to breathe = no good.
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Whoops.
If it's any consolation, I've done that a couple of times. ;_;
Yeah, I just hope they don't drop you if you miss the first class.
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They generally don't. They wait at least a week so that people who are on vacation, moving, etc, can get their life together. You shouldn't have any problems (aside from, perhaps, some heckling...no biggie :)).
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GameSpot and other professional game reviewers who have no clue (read: all of them) make me angry.
WHY THE HELL DID THEY GIVE ASSASSIN'S CREED A 9.0 (8.5 on PC)?!
It's good, but its controls are way too finicky and buggy to deserve that high of a rating. Especially the PC version. That deserves to be a full mark below the 360/PS3 versions, not half of a mark. The controls on the PC port are worse than life itself. Imagine mapping a 360 controller onto a keyboard and mouse (since that's precisely what the developers did -- set the mouse to be the right analog stick and set everything else to keys/buttons). WHY SHOULD I HAVE TO HOLD THREE BUTTONS DOWN TO RUN?! That makes sense in the context of a control pad, but they did absolutely nothing to make the control scheme remotely tolerable for the platform. Seriously, the game HUD is laid out in the exact same way, as if there is any significance to the diamond formation that they give the various actions. It's just awful.
As far as the gameplay goes, the player tries way too hard to show off. There have been numerous times where I've simply tried to sprint and he'll get distracted. "OOOH, A BUILDING! LEMME CLIMB IT!" And next thing I know my health has been sliced down to half because I had trouble getting the insanely finicky fight mode to actually turn itself on when my character's shenanigans caused him to get stuck in the middle of a platoon of guards.
The AI is just...bad. For one, the enemies generally have a line of sight shorter than Verne Troyer. This makes it quite a bit easier for the player when it comes to taking out simple lackies. Fighting the enemies is a bit of a chore. It's not really that hard. All you do is pretty much hold down the block button and watch as the enemies swing their swords into yours a few times, grab you, throw you a few feet, then rinse and repeat. Sometimes they don't even bother with the foreplay, they just toss you around like a little ball. During one fight with a lone guard I literally took my hands off the keyboard and mouse and watched him walk up to me, throw me, walk up to me again, throw me again, and so on and so on. This happened literally twenty times before I started fighting back. I'm not even going to go into how the Templars fight. If I did, there'd be enough swearing to make you guys beg me to turn the FARFULGA filter back on in the interests of good taste.
The voice acting ranges from bad to decent. Some of the characters sound very appropriate for the time period but others (like the character you control in the past, unfortunately) sound very...Two Worlds-esque. Thankfully, the dialogue itself is pretty decent and can never match the forsooth-ness of Two Worlds (a game so awful in every way that makes Team Fortress 2 look like Game of the Millennium material in my eyes). All in all, not bad. Subtitles would be nice, though, there are some cases where it's quite hard to hear people.
All in all, not too bad. I would like to say again: IT DOES NOT DESERVE A BLOODY 9.0. If I were to rate it, I would rate the console versions 7.5 -- generally fun gameplay, marred by control and AI issues. The PC version would get a somewhat lousier 6.5 for having some of the most confusing controls that I've ever dealt with in an action/platformer. They spend absolutely no effort making this game PC-friendly in this sense. Just because porting from PC to console generally involves dumbing down the controls doesn't mean that going the opposite way doesn't require any work.
Halo is a perfect example of how controls should be ported when going from console to PC. They took a game that controlled exceedingly fluently on the Xbox and adapted it to play like a standard FPS on a PC should play. Even Rainbox Six: Vegas 2, a game that still retains some control decisions from the console version (like having to hold reload to attach silencers, turn on laser sights, etc) turned out to be considerably better than Assassin's Creed. At least with R6V2 the only broken features are ones that you'd use prior to battle. With Assassin's Creed, the main game controls are confusing as hell.
Another thing that just popped into my head -- WALKING GETS REALLY ANNOYING REALLY QUICK IN THIS GAME. LE SIGH.
But anyway, I hope you enjoyed this rant-turned-mini-review. Going to try to sleep now. ;_;
OH YEAH, SPORADIC SLEEPING PATTERNS PISSES ME OFF. FUCK YOU, BODY. YOU TOO, BRAIN. GOOD NIGHT.
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OH YEAH, SPORADIC SLEEPING PATTERNS PISSES ME OFF. FUCK YOU, BODY. YOU TOO, BRAIN. GOOD NIGHT.
i am going to have to agree
the past few days
i woke up at 1am today
yesterday was 8pm to 2pm
the day before that was 6am to 8pm
i can not sleep when i am not tired, and that jews me over. but i have no real commitments at the moment, so i guess it isn't an issue. then again, if i did, my sleep pattern probably wouldn't be borked in the first place.
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I'm now sleeping 11-6:30.
That's when I'm supposed to be working. Luckily I'm not scheduled to work again till the 17th. However, that's still not a good thing, because sleeping during the time you're supposed to work is HARD to adjust back to sleeping after work.
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GameSpot and other professional game reviewers who have no clue (read: all of them) make me angry.
Seconded. Anyone who holds credibility to any major game review site is a faget. Anyone giving out actual reviews gets fired.
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Which makes it so hard to find a decent review of something :/
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My neckbeard. It irritates me so. I love shaving it off, but the thing just grows back in a few days :<
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My neckbeard. It irritates me so. I love shaving it off, but the thing just grows back in a few days :<
What he said.
What's worse is when you don't shave it off within a week or two it becomes insanely difficult to shave off. :<
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ffff
i shaved like two weeks ago and i barely got chin stuble
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Heh. One of my friends can go like three weeks before anything will even show. He rather likes that.
And then another one of my friends...sweet lord, I swear it's like three hours.
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Yep, I know 2 guys who can brow beads with the best of them.
I don't mind my neck beard, but shaving it IS a pain in the ass.
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my neckbeard gets pretty wild. it just takes 999999 years to get that way. sideburns too. not full, just messy.
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Yep, I know 2 guys who can brow beads with the best of them.
wat, also I haven't shaved in about 3 days and I've already got some noticeable noticeable stubble. Also my side burns are grown in hard core.
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dan can not shave for 3 days and look like a mexican/indian hybrid.
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The inverted Y-axis in Wind Waker and, subsequently, that boss that you can only beat by using arrows.
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that reminds me of ye ole days (back when I played halo and whatever other console fps games) where i COULD NOT play withOUT the inverted y axis. i guess it was because of the 10 minutes of star fox on the snes i played years prior, but i really couldn't get the hang of a standard y axis. but as years passed, and pc fpses have filled the void, and my skill in console fps controls gone to garbage, i can no longer play with an inverted y axis. anyway, thats that.
to add to the topic of ANGER, finding a job in my town is impossible.
wtb relocation.
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dan can not shave for 3 days and look like a mexican/indian hybrid.
Happens to me too, I only get a moustache, and it looks dumb. However, it looks like I might have the potential for bitchin' goatee eventually, so that's good. I'm still wierded out by the fact that I'm still gettin moar random facial hair, and I'm 18. I figured all this stuff was supposed to happen when you're like, 12.
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Seems to take quite a while for some people. For the last 2 years or so my beard has been SLOWLY getting thicker and such so that it doesn't look so scraggly any more when I grow it out.
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People who fault Obama because his middle name is Hussein. That's like faulting anyone with the last name "Boothe" or "Oswald."
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to add to the topic of ANGER, finding a job in my town is impossible.
wtb relocation.
My dad just said I should get an award for number of applications filed without receiving a job. I've literally done about 10 and haven't heard shit from anyone.
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People who fault Obama because his middle name is Hussein. That's like faulting anyone with the last name "Boothe" or "Oswald."
I'm SO fucking glad someone else has said that.
I fucking HATE when people do that.
I also hate when people call him some evil Muslim. He apparently went to 2 schools when he was young, before entering public school. One was Muslim, and the other Catholic. He also converted to that weird protestant denomination, thanks to that ridiculous priest people are always ragging about.
And even if he was Muslim, wouldn't people realize that if the US DID have a Muslim as their president, the Muslim parts of the world might not hate them quite so much?
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People who fault Obama because his middle name is Hussein. That's like faulting anyone with the last name "Boothe" or "Oswald."
Barack Hussein Obama
Barack Hussein Osama
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Saddam-- --Bin Laden
Barack Saddam Bin Laden in the heezy.
J/k, but really, voting for anyone named Oswald is a bad idea. (lol batman)
I'll prolly vote for obama, he seems like the.. ehmmm.. "best?" candidate.
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I would have to say that he is. I absolutely cannot stand Clinton, and well, the republicans... well... I don't think I'd ever be willing to vote for a republican. (well, Rudy Giuliani is an exception, since he's kinda the black sheep, lol. He's actually got some good ideas).
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Same, but I really need to look more into him/them, it's a somewhat of a big deal I guess.
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Just think, this election is pretty groundbreaking. if the democrats win, we'll either have the first female president (not bloody likely, by the looks of things, lol) or the first black one. Plus, maybe Obama might be able to salvage the US's international reputation. He's a black guy, and so he knows something of being part of a race that has been repressed and hated. He has a mentality better equipped to deal with other groups, and minorities, both in the US, and abroad.
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Probably, but they might hate you guys a LITTLE less for putting up a Muslim... Either that, or call him a heretic and calla jihad on him.
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I bought like 10 things of yogurt advertised as having 'strawberries on the bottom', but when I opened one of them up, it was all curdled and awful, and there were no strawberries =(
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That sucks ass.
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Waking up to my landlord blasting crazy frog and shitty basshunter remixes in the garage.
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Waking up to my landlord blasting crazy frog and shitty basshunter remixes in the garage.
crazy frog
KILL THAT NIGGER.
Or play a song with explicit lyrics and sing along loudly.
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it wouldnt have been so bad if I couldnt hear everything in my room vibrate and chatter. Also, the fact I could see my lamp shake didn't help much either. :[
2 10"'s and 2 15"'s. Fucking asshole.
being too broke to afford food. :\
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I had a shitty day today.
My first day working 11 to 7:30. I didn't get finished. I get told that I needed to be faster, or that "this might not be the job for me".
I still haven't got paid.
I feel like crap (I drank a 4 pack of Red Rain energy drinks over the night). My back is sore. If I get fired for being too slow, I'm going to be seriously fucked.
This is pretty much the only job available that I could actually get (and would actually be able to do, but apparently, I can't even do this properly.)
Well, I could do other jobs around town, but most of those either aren't hiring, or I can't get hired for. (Fucking Elcan)
FUCK.
I fucking hate when I feel like this.
Oh yeah, and my mom just got an email form our ISP telling us to stop downloading Assassin's Creed (which was finished before we got the email).
My mom wasn't too happy about that.
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so my right arm, whenever i move it a certain way, is CRACKING at the shoulder and it HURTS LIKE A BITCH when it does and I dont know how to make it quit ;O;
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So, I left a message on my girlfriend's msn saying to call me at 4, after she's out of school. I wake up at 8 tonight, and wonder why she hasn't called, I end up sleeping till 11 because I was still tired, and had no reason to get up now. I come down and complain that I wanted to do something with my girlfriend today, and that I told her to call at 4, and what does my mom say "well, she didn't want to wake you up".
For christ's sake, I fucking told her to call me, it's not like I was going to sleep expecting to sleep till 8 or 9 at night. I was expecting to get the call and wake up and do something. It's my night off, I don't need to sleep.
Goddamnit. I wanted to hang out with her because I was having a shitty day, this just makes it worse.
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I got fucking ringworm on the inside of my thigh. Ughhghghghghghghghghg pain in the ass. I sweat a lot so I was bound to get it.
FUCK
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Well according to wikipedia: Pyrithione zinc, found in Head & Shoulders shampoo, is a very effective treatment for ringworm on the scalp and can be used as a body wash to assist in overall treatment.
So if you have that available, you can use that until you can get something else to treat it.
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Well according to wikipedia: Pyrithione zinc, found in Head & Shoulders shampoo,
The fuck? I'm using head and shoulders on my back because I have "sun spots" and that apparently gets rid of it.
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Pyrithione zinc can do a LOT of things.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrithione_zinc
Zinc pyrithione is best known for its use in treating dandruff and seborrheic dermatitis. It also has antibacterial properties and is effective against many pathogens from the streptococcus and staphylococcus class. Its other medical applications include treatments of psoriasis, eczema, ringworm, fungus, athletes foot, dry skin, atypical dermatitis, tinea, and vitiligo.
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I need to stock up on that shit.
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Douchebags who see a cat crossing the road and SPEED UP.
Cocksuckers.
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Doctor told me to use that on my back for heat rash.
Douchebags who see a cat crossing the road and SPEED UP.
Cocksuckers.
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
haet more than the fire of a billion burning suns
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douchebags who SWERVE INTO ONCOMING TRAFFIC TO SAVE A SMALL ANIMAL
sorry, but a human life > a small animals life
fuck off pita
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I can understand swerving on an empty road, but yeah, if someone swerved into my lane to avoid a cat or something, I'd be pretty fucking npissed. If it was a moose or something, well, I wouldn't be so pissed, because well, cars do not fare well when hitting moose's.
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douchebags who SWERVE INTO ONCOMING TRAFFIC TO SAVE A SMALL ANIMAL
sorry, but a human life > a small animals life
fuck off pita
Lately, I've been feeling a lot more compassion for bugs and even plants than I do for most humans. We are a fucked up species, I tell ya.
But I agree that PETA is a ridiculous, hypocritical extremist organization.
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animals > humans
humans > peta
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Where does that leave some of those psychotic vegans that are running around?
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Where does that leave some of those psychotic vegans that are running around?
sniping people mowing their lawns
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Why the hell is my car so rickety? It's positively spastic at stop lights, and can't accelerate past 65 without shaking violently D:
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sniping people mowing their lawns
With a certified organic sniper and environmentally friendly ammo.
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Why the hell is my car so rickety? It's positively spastic at stop lights, and can't accelerate past 65 without shaking violently D:
Usually it's the tires in that case. Check the air pressure on them and, failing that, your tires might be damaged -- when I first got my company car it was riding really rough at 60-70mph, then this happened:
(http://files.spectere.net/pictures/photos/blammo.jpg)
I'd definitely take it easy until you know what's going on for sure. I was lucky when that happened...there wasn't much traffic, I wasn't on I-695 (in other words, going 80+ and still getting passed, heh), and it was a rear tire.
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Wow, I'd think something that bad might have some visual indications, like that band that it's split across being well, damaged?
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Negative. The tire looked perfectly normal before it blew out. I didn't hit anything on the road, so the tire was just bad when I got the car. My dad thinks that it had a bad belt.
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Wow, surprising. Most tire problems have some visual warning signs before they happen.
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Wow, surprising. Most tire problems have some visual warning signs before they happen.
source
not being able to sleep.
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Wow, surprising. Most tire problems have some visual warning signs before they happen.
source
Indeed.
Every single blowout I've seen has occurred with very little warning (mine had minor vibration which drastically worsened on the day it happened; the one that happened to Jinxie's car literally had ZERO warning prior Dan being nigh unable to get the car to turn when we were nearing a bend at 70mph). I guess you could consider leaks as being the most common kind of tire problem, but even then it's hard to tell that a tire is low on air unless it's significantly low (5-10psi under spec, depending on the size of the wheel; it's harder to tell when a tire is low when there's less rubber visible).
Now some time down the road you may see a bulge in a tire. If you do, CHANGE THE FUCKER because that's a sure sign that it's going to asplode soon.
But no, most major tire problems happen without any visual warning signs. My friend/roommate had two tires blow simultaneously on his old car when he was sitting still. Sometimes it just happens.
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Yeah, I should probably get that checked out. I think I need new brake pads, too, because my car squeals when I go a certain speed (not very fast).
Also, this incessant ringing in my ears. God. Make it go away.
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I think it's beyond "probably". If your brakes are squealing at certain speeds like that, you need to get them checked out, at the very least.
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Squealing brakes aren't much of an issue. Brakes will squeal when they are cold (which happens when you brake at lower speeds) or when it's wet. It's only natural.
Brake pads need replaced when they grind. That's when the metal wear tab starts grinding into your rotor. You should check your brakes every time you rotate the tires (pretty much every time you change your oil) just to be on the safe side, and replace the pads early to avoid damage to the rotors. If you have disc brakes all around it's a simple check. I'm not sure what's involved with checking drum brakes (from what I've seen on my dad's truck it doesn't look too hard).
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Well, unless they're wet or cold, but I think he was talking about driving at that speed, not braking. (that's what I got out of it anyway.)
because my car squeals when I go a certain speed (not very fast).
That sounds like he means driving at a slow speed, not braking at a slow speed.
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Why would he assume that he needs new brake pads if he isn't braking? Your brake pads don't touch the rotor if you're not braking.
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Why would he assume that he needs new brake pads if he isn't braking? Your brake pads don't touch the rotor if you're not braking.
Or at least, that's the expectation and hope! xD
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Well, naturally. :P My dad's late Caravan (may it rest in pieces) had some trouble with that. If you let off the gas the thing would quickly stop. The front passenger side brakes actually got so hot from that little issue that they melted the edge of the hubcap.
Of course, that's not exactly the fault of a brake pad, and it definitely wouldn't cause it to squeal (at least not for long, after it scuffs all the moisture off the rotor).
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Hahaha, what year was it? I've been driving a 1995 Dodge Caravan for a while, up until my landlord that had lent it to me asked me to pay $500 for smog, and to get the engine timing and transmission fluid leak all fixed-- or else give him back the key. Well, that would have been fine and all, except for the fact that it wasn't mine, the car was worth only $1,000, and I didn't have $500. As soon as he said that, I said in reply, (I quote) "Here Jorge, here's the key." and I took it off the keyring and gave it to him. I wasn't trying to be dramatic, but, oh well. (Did I already tell this story here? rofl I don't remember.. Anyway, there it was again just in case.)
(Also, I lol'd at "rest in pieces")
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'twas a 1993. He got it for free, put less than $500 of maintenance into it (not including oil). The thing had a bit of an appetite for oil (read: a leak) but otherwise seemed fine...
...UNTIL THE TRANSMISSION WENT ERRRRRRRRK AND THE THING WOULDN'T MOVE ANYMORE.
Oddly enough, here's a picture that I took on the very day that the van died, immediately before we hopped in and went on its last ride:
(http://files.spectere.net/pictures/photos/d40/other/rip_caravan.jpg)
Anyone ever read the Goosebumps book, "Say Cheese and Die"? Apparently, my camera is the reincarnation of that one.
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(http://www.spectere.net/smf/userav//avatar_18.png)
'Nuff said.
Hate 'em.
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disaster area
basically how my room has been since I moved in.
You guys should try working for Nielsen. They sent me so much shit that it's taking up more space in my room than my stuff is. It's complete and utter bullshit. Give me a fucking storage unit, damnit! This is ridiculous!
Don't mind me, I'm kind of cranky. My work hours yesterday/today were esssentially 7AM-1AM and then I have to start again at 8AM (yes, only an seven-hour cooldown period), What the bloody FUCK is the deal with that?!
Also, moved this post from lame replies to ANGER.
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Seriously this place is a fucking dump. I honestly have no idea how this man could have lived like this without contracting some sort of illness. ALL of our stuff from the old place is in the living room. I slee pn the floor, Alycia sleeps on the couch. My bedroom that I don't havey et is full of a whole bunch of music crap, smells like a dirty furnace and has mouse poop everywhere. The walls are yellow and should actually be white.
Its not as bad as it was though. The kitchen is finally clean and usable with some actually decent space to move around in. The cupboards need to be cleaned and the fridge to the dump and the floor replaced before its prefect though.
The only actual good thing about this place is that we don't have bills or rent to pay until the guy moves out. Because he's here, he pays for everything. Which is awesome so we can make the place look good once he's gone
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(http://www.spectere.net/smf/userav//avatar_18.png)
'Nuff said.
Hate 'em.
wait, wut, you hate me, or my avatar? =(
I hate these three MASSIVE, incredibly swollen mosquito bites on top of and around both of my elbows. The one on my left elbow is just one big bite that burns, and then I have two extraordinarily swollen ones on my right elbow. Wish I could take pictures, but it's too awkward of a place >_>
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so this morning i found out i had a flat. how'd i find out? after i drove it off to the point of separating from the rim.
JOY
because I totally have the cash for a new tire right now. :D
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because I totally have the cash for a new tire right now. :D
prostitution. seriously, it's the only way.
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Definitely.
I don't think you'll have any problem dressing Dan in drag and throwing him out on the corner. ;)
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Definitely.
I don't think you'll have any problem dressing Dan in drag and throwing him out on the corner. ;)
Strangely enough, no. You won't. :P
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This is true. Most of my clothes fit him anyways.
:D
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Yeah, I remember you guys cross-dressing all the time. It was hawt. ;P
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i require images as i am CURIOUS
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Haha, yes, I would actually like to see that. For the lulz......
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Haha, yes, I would actually like to see that. For the fappingz......
You watch your dirty language you dirty mouth!
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Ugh. When it comes to 64-bit computing nVidia is starting to turn into ATI.
I've had my system completely die twice today (in a spectacular fashion) because I made the mistake of -- wait for it -- playing a movie file. What the fucking fuck. I can play Crysis for hours on end and totally stress the system but HEAVEN FORBID I watch the AVGN while coding.
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Going from working 16 hours a week, to working 40 hours. I'm going to NEED drugs by the end of this week. And what's worse, my friends only drink on Fridays, and I KEEP getting scheduled for Friday. I mean, what the fuck is this: Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Wednesday Friday All 11 PM till 7:30 AM.
Fucking Tuesday Thursday off? That is the most retarded thing I've ever seen. Fuck.
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I just had a friend (well, girlfriends friend) say she'd rather burn to death alive then drown. Then I said not dying from smoke inhalation, but actual skin on fire and dying, and she still said she'd rather do that then drown.
Yeah.
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both are pretty fuckin intense. fire because of the mind-numbingly excruciating pain. Drowning because of the mind-numbing terror of knowing that in a few short minutes/seconds you are going to be dead, whaich is preety fuckin creepy. and drowning prolly hurts like a mofo too.
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Apparently drowning comes in 2 phases: the pain scared part, and a peaceful part where you just get tired and pass out peacefully.
I forget where I've heard mention of that, but I know that that's how it's supposed to be.
Same type of deal with dieing of hypothermia. You get the cold shivering part, the crazy thoughts and such part, and then a peaceful slow sleep.
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Apparently drowning comes in 2 phases: the pain scared part, and a peaceful part where you just get tired and pass out peacefully.
I forget where I've heard mention of that, but I know that that's how it's supposed to be.
Same type of deal with dieing of hypothermia. You get the cold shivering part, the crazy thoughts and such part, and then a peaceful slow sleep.
Not sure about drowning, but in hypothermia you'd start to feel slightly warmer due to your organs failing and then you pass out and die. I'd imagine you panicking, but not much physical pain in drowning (other then trying to get air and getting it into your lungs, which I've done and isn't that awful), where as fire would have same if not more panic and much much much much MUCH more physical pain.
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Well, I've been slightly hyopthermic before, I got to the point where I was thinking irrational thoughts and went from shivering strongly to slightly less. It was interesting, and I actually knew that I was slightly hypothermic, but I never got to the point where I went beyond being cold.
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If Ubuntu is so awesome and easy to use why did my video card driver get nuked after upgrading my system?
Yeah, Linux still has a ways to go...
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Subjective arguments.
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I got a photo album to put my paper money collection in, but it's barely too small, and about 2-3mm of the bills stick out of the side. Lame.
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My Alias MX in DJ Max Portable 2. It is, without a doubt, the WORST chart I've ever played in any commercially produced music game. It's not that it's just hard. Hard charts aren't bad. It's just that it's hard for all the wrong reasons. It's as if they didn't bother playing it before they released the game.
Here, let's make things a bit more visual. Pick up a PS2 controller or PSP (same difference, really). Now follow the table below. Column 1 is LEFT, column 2 is UP/DOWN, 3 is RIGHT, 4 is [], 5 is /\/X, 6 is O. The BPM is 110 and each line represents a sixteenth of a measure:
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Having fun yet? The patterns are like that through the ENTIRE SONG. There is variation, of course, but you're still looking at about two minutes of rocking your thumbs quickly back and forth. Try it. It's not fun, it's just incredibly tiring and it'll make you want to hit/kill something/someone/yourself. That would be like if I made a doubles chart for DDR/ITG where you just quickly alternate between the far left arrow and the far right arrow for two minutes. It would be incredibly stupid and hard and wouldn't give anyone any sense of enjoyment, but rather regret that they willingly played such a vile monstrosity.
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That. Is disgusting.
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Conservapedia carves my potatoes with knives of anger. Conservatives and fundies in general, actually.
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That. Is disgusting.
Oh, trust me, it's a lot more fun actually doing it. :P
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Conservapedia carves my potatoes with knives of anger. Conservatives and fundies in general, actually.
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Haha, that place is so fun to browse.
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FA is down, again, and its been down for like two days now.
FFFFFF
I WANNA CHECK OUT THE NEW ARTS G'DURNIT
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FA is down
WOW, I'M TOTALLY SURPRISED BY THIS FACT. ;P
<3
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Gah, I shaved my neckbeard again yesterday, and now it's REALLY irritated and getting really itchy bumps on it. This blows.
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I highly recommend Aqua Velva aftershave. You can't miss it -- clear glass flask, blue liquid. It has that initial burn of alcohol-based aftershaves, but leaves you with a very cool sensation afterward.
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WOW, I'M TOTALLY SURPRISED BY THIS FACT. ;P
<3
yeah it isn't much of a surprise, but its still annoying.
also, i couldn't even register from when i discovered the site, to like 4 months after that, and i think they closed it down about a few weeks after they opened em back up.
one of the few times i can bitch at 4chan for preventing me from getting my fap on.
*edit*
ohh, they be moving to better servers, so i guess thats aight.
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FUCKING NOSEBLEEDS.
Edit: It looks like I dipped a few tissues in red paint. GAH IT WON'T STOP =(
Edit 2: I should bottle this up and sell it to the Red Cross or something. I'm pretty sure if someone hooked a tube up to my fucking nose right now I could probably save the life of someone who lost 99.5% of their blood.
Edit 3: It stopped. Yay!
Edit 4: I was thinking about posting pix but then I realized how dickish that would be.
Edit 5: You're welcome.
Edit 6: Eww, tastes like blood. Somebody get me some mints, gum, or something.
Edit 7: ...anyone? Please?
Edit 8: Oh fine. I see how it is. FUCK you guys. =(
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Edit 4: I was thinking about posting pix but then I realized how dickish that would be.
not at all. camera phone pics work fine, too.
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Aww, but I already threw the ball of blood away.
DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMNNNN!!1
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this has been a sad moment.
wanting to talk to someone but everyone's asleep. :\
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I'm somewhere between the two...trying to get shit ready for work.
agh
It's absolutely insane how much shit I have to keep in my room for this damn job. I had to sleep in my chair because THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO ROOM IN MY BEDROOM.
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this is a good reason why people rent storage.
(actually, the idea is kind of funny.. Paying for a place away from where you live to put all of your extra shit)
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I was considering that, but it's already kinda hard to make ends meet. For less than the rent that I'm paying I could get a decent town house in Ohio, heh.
I might move back when the lease is up (end of July...though I've been thinking about doing it a bit sooner). The job's awful (I've literally been treated with more respect by my "superiors" at McDonald's and a grocery store, which is pathetic) and the area's too pricey. We'll see what happens, I suppose.
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yeah, basically. It's like.. For what I'm paying for rent on a bedroom in a house for rent here in California could get me a 2 bedroom apt in Ohio. blergh. also gas $4.40/gal
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Yeah, it's probably a lot worse over there than it is here.
And BOO to gas prices. They're "only" $4.05 over here but uh.
Oh, it's also been hot as fuck lately. It hit something like 105 yesterday and is supposed to be in the high 90s (and stormy!) today. Oh, humidity has also been 90-100%ish. And unfortunately, it seems like half of the households I have to go to for this job lack any sort of air conditioning.
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wanting to talk to someone but everyone's asleep. :\
Oddly, thanks to my bizarre sleeping times, and Spec's bizarre hours, My most active hour of the day is 5 AM. It's kinda scary.
Of course, that's changing now, 7 AM is closing in quickly, thanks to my job getting off at 7:30.
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the new youtube layout, i hated it, so i switched back to the old stuff.
now it kicks me back the the "new" layout, which wouldn't be too bad if it wouldn't randomly kick my subscriptions bar from the top randomly below recommended videos and featured videos, i never click that stuff.
unless theres a way to "lock" my subscriptions thing to always stay on the top, or if theres a way to switch it to the way it used to be, im going to rage everytime i go to the youtube home page(read OFTEN).
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Gas prices are hovering around $3.93 here, but I managed to find a place a few days ago with $3.79 (although I use plus, so it was $3.89 anyway)
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the new youtube layout, i hated it, so i switched back to the old stuff.
now it kicks me back the the "new" layout, which wouldn't be too bad if it wouldn't randomly kick my subscriptions bar from the top randomly below recommended videos and featured videos, i never click that stuff.
unless theres a way to "lock" my subscriptions thing to always stay on the top, or if theres a way to switch it to the way it used to be, im going to rage everytime i go to the youtube home page(read OFTEN).
they still send me mail in different languages sometimes. fucking wtf. Also a gear-grinder: having to walk 5 miles to work in 100+ degree heat.
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having to walk 5 miles to work in 100+ degree heat.
and im here bitching about 85 degree heat
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Damn, we might get 1 day a year that is 100+ (104 is 40 Celsius). However, we're pretty much always between 25 and 32 Celsius, (77 and 90). 85 for you guys is about 30 for us (29.44).
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I've come home from a lovely week at Chez du Vyhd only to find that my bedroom has been completely ransacked. My parents threw half of my stuff away and moved the rest of it to god knows where.
If this is some sign that they want me to move out, I'll take it. >> I've been wanting out of here for quite a while now anyways.
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Wow...that's just ridiculous. <_<
On the bright side, that means that you can slap your dad very soon.
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GAS COSTING OVER FOUR FUCKING DOLLARS A GALLON
everybody can rage at this
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Gas has gone up nearly 300% since I started driving. It makes me unhappy.
It costs more to fill up my teeny tiny Saturn with its 12-gallon tank than it used to cost to fill up my monstrous Toronado and its 21-gallon tank.
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Wow...that's just ridiculous. <_<
On the bright side, that means that you can slap your dad very soon.
And make him buy me another bottle of schnapps. :P The weiners either threw it away or drank it themselves.
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when people on call of duty are either a) too drunk or high to realize they're being dicks b) are too competitive or, c) they bring their entire fucking gang to play. meaning they've partied up and are in private team chat, and have a much increased chance of winning because of the fact they're actually communicating. It gives a huge disadvantage, when, for example, I'm stuck on a team in which NO ONE has their microphones/headsets plugged in. W.T.F.
They tried to remedy this fact by including a game mode 'mercenary deathmatch' but I've witnessed people still playing 'together' get on the same team, and it pisses me off. DM should be completely random skill wise. I don't need Infinity Ward deciding who is most closely matched with me. How are the shitty noobs gonna get better? by playing with others of the same caliber? no. by playing with gods. If you get your ass kicked enough, you'll learn how to play better, faster. Some might argue this fact [don't argue, this is just a rant, nothing else.] that, oh, well if they're playing with their own level, the learning curve is smoother. Right, but others could then say its more of a hindrance than anything because it takes longer to learn tricks and your style of play.
The maps are also horribly imbalanced. This post could also go in that imbalances thread, but I don't want to argue with anyone about this, because.. well I don't, and it's pointless. Anyway, the maps are either a) close quarters and just use semi/autos. or b) it's a long fuck map with a ton fuck of open space just asking for a WHO HAS A BIGGER SNIPER PENIS match, which I'm good at, because I just run around the map slaying idiots lost in their fucking scope.
Ugh I just was in a match that got me really pissed so I decided to let it out here and take a break.
FUCK
tl;dr:
CoD 4 has some shitty imbalances, not as bad as halo though.
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God, Ubuntu is so fucking shitty.
Seriously, why do Linux fanboys worship it? The video card drivers manage to always break during updates and I haven't even installed all that much on there. I thought that was the point of having a fucking package manager. You know, so that you can eliminate/reduce breakage? Fuck.
I think I'm going to upgrade my secondary computer to Gentoo. It might take longer to get set up but I'll be damned if I'm going to put up with this bullshit every time I upgrade my kernel (which, in the case of Ubuntu, is every other day).
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Why so often?
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I am exaggerating, of course, but they do push out minor versions constantly. It probably wouldn't be so bad if two things weren't true:
(1) If you run multiple distros on one machine and have your /boot partition organized, it cannot update GRUB's menu.lst automatically, which is annoying. Fortunately, it doesn't nuke it like other distros (*cough* Fedora *cough* SuSE *cough*) tend to do.
(2) HI I'M UBUNTU AND I'M BREAKING YOUR VIDEO CARD DRIVERS.
Number 2 is especially annoying, mainly because the nVidia driver installed by the package management system simply doesn't work. It stopped working during its last update and, despite the fact that it's a known issue and multiple people have experienced it, it doesn't seem like they have any intention to fix it (it's been like that for a couple of weeks now...meanwhile, my Gentoo box remains completely unbroken). What I had to do last time was download the drivers from nVidia's side and install them manually, which I should NOT have to do in this case. It's not like I threw in a brand new card in that system, no, it's running a GeForce 6600GT. Some of the other people complaining about it online have used even older cards which shouldn't be affected by the changes in the newer nVidia driver.
It's just bloody annoying. Here I was thinking that Ubuntu was supposed to be easier to use, yet it can't seem to touch Gentoo's "emerge -uDN world".
And, of course, now I have to waste a night installing a distro that doesn't break every five minutes when I wanted to start getting things done on my pet project. Go figure.
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That sucks ass.
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the shits
they can die
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That sucks ass.
ubuntu? yeah
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We already have a BAWWW about FPS imbalances thread, but yes that is a problem. It always bothered me when one team would be made out of all clan members, and the other would be average/crappy players, and the clanned side wouldn't do shit to even it up.
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I paid for my gas with cash today. I put down $50 and then another $4 (in two $2 bills), totalling $54, because that's how much I estimated I was going to spend to fill up my tank.
It ends up being $52, I go back in and specifically ask for one of my twos back. And not even 3 minutes later, they had ALREADY sent it off back to the bank because all stores univerally loathe $2 bills. What the hell. So she gave me back two ones. At least she was nice about it, but still, the lack of acceptance for the $2 really, REALLY irks me. I love that thing, it's got the best design out of any bill we have, yet everyone shuns it. Urgh.
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the back of the bills are awesome. :]
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It ends up being $52, I go back in and specifically ask for one of my twos back. And not even 3 minutes later, they had ALREADY sent it off back to the bank because all stores univerally loathe $2 bills. What the hell. So she gave me back two ones. At least she was nice about it, but still, the lack of acceptance for the $2 really, REALLY irks me. I love that thing, it's got the best design out of any bill we have, yet everyone shuns it. Urgh.
Damn... :(
Y'know, it's not fair. The Canadians have those damn Toonies ($2 coins), why can't we have more $2 bills floating around? It wouldn't be so bad if most things nowadays weren't just over $1 (bottles of pop/soda, for instance, range from $1.29 to $1.59 depending on the size...$2 bills would be very convenient for purchasing those).
BAAAAAAAAAWWWWW
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i have like 9 two dollar bills
not that i spend them or anything...they aren't exactly "common"
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I would spend them right away. Fuck 2 dollar bills.
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Damn... :(
Y'know, it's not fair. The Canadians have those damn Toonies ($2 coins), why can't we have more $2 bills floating around? It wouldn't be so bad if most things nowadays weren't just over $1 (bottles of pop/soda, for instance, range from $1.29 to $1.59 depending on the size...$2 bills would be very convenient for purchasing those).
BAAAAAAAAAWWWWW
We used to have $2 bills. Then we phased them out, because paper money doesn't last as well as coin money. Not to mention it's a lot harder to get the equipment required to make fake coinage, as well as the fact that it's never going to make you any money to forge it in the first place, and we have ways to check if the composition of a coin is what it needs to be (magnetically, by weight and such) so that it's pretty much useless.
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Damn... :(
Y'know, it's not fair. The Canadians have those damn Toonies ($2 coins), why can't we have more $2 bills floating around? It wouldn't be so bad if most things nowadays weren't just over $1 (bottles of pop/soda, for instance, range from $1.29 to $1.59 depending on the size...$2 bills would be very convenient for purchasing those).
BAAAAAAAAAWWWWW
It's not just Canada, either. There are 2 pound and euro coins, too.
On a related note, I don't really like how the sales tax system is set up here. Like, I was in Paris for 3 days, and the lowest value coin I ever got in change was a dime because all of the prices I saw - all of them - were in increments of 10 cents. Granted, everything there was really fucking expensive, but it was nice that they didn't have the weird prices we have here that require you to get weighed down in change when all you have initially are bills.
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well IF they decide to take the penny out of circulation, things should be a little bit better for us.
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well IF they decide to take the penny out of circulation, things should be a little bit better for us.
I really, really, really hope and pray they take pennies out of circulation.
I'm about to invest almost $2000 in rare pennies and their value will SKYROCKET in the future.
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The fuck.
I was laying in bed, awake. Partly because at that moment, the dog was barking like fuck, so any attempt at sleeping would have been in vain.
Apparently someone was at the door for me. My mom, dog in hand, comes to my door and says there's someone for me. I ask "Who?", for some reason she thinks I'm moaning or something and tells them I'm asleep. By the time I realize what just happened, they're already gone down the street or something.
Fuck. Argh. I fucking hate fuck.
So, a friend drops by, and my mom tells them I'm sleeping, all because she's fucking deaf, and now I can't figure out who it even was or how to contact them, because my mom couldn't even describe them well enough. Not to mention I was awake, and really wanted to hang out with someone before I had to go to work again.
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bobbias, this is why I invested in a cellular phone. It's also harder to get mad at yourself than at someone else.
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Yeah, well, up until now I didn't have any steady income, so I couldn't afford one, not to mention I still don't want to fucking pay money to talk to someone. It wasn't any of my friends that I usually hang out with much, otherwise my mom would have known who it was. I think I know who it was, and if it's who I think it was, he was likely in the neighborhood and just decided to drop by unannounced. I don't even know if he has a cell phone anyway.
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parents gone for the bahamas, and its me here with the dog.
and my god, i swear my dog listens to my chemical romance and cuts himself because he is EMO. dealing with an emo dog for a week not a happy vladgd make.
not to mention, sleep at 4am, wake up at 8 to let dog out, sleep...wake up at 9 to let him in...sleep...wake up at 10 to let him out...sleep..wake up at 11 to let him in...sleep...let him out, keep him out, and stay the fuck awake because im not getting any more sleep.
*edit*
i guess to add, say i type up iidx, and click on a video. seeing arguements in the comments abou guitar hero vs guitar freaks....and over 100 comments. for fuck sake, its a video of some guy getting a AA on AA[a] not a video about guitar hero, or guitar freaks, or even rock band, shut your whore mouth.
i guess that isn't saying much considering youtube has always been like this, but at least keep with the content of the video.
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I feel like eating something, and want to, but know I shouldn't and won't let myself.
Gah, I hate that feeling. It's like... hunger purgatory.
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While I'm not angry per se, this is fucking annoying: After 2 days of doing shit all at work, we got destroyed. We got an order of 2000 cases.
Our normal order is say, between 800 and 1100 or so, give or take. Everyone had 300+ cases. That is absurd. I am so sore right now :/
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Some prick started following me in his car (he looked young too), got me to stop, then asked me to get out. I asked who he was, then he asked again, then I basically said fuck off and he drove away. What the fuck is wrong with people.
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Some prick started following me in his car (he looked young too), got me to stop, then asked me to get out. I asked who he was, then he asked again, then I basically said fuck off and he drove away. What the fuck is wrong with people.
Weirdos today.
Also, I hydroplaned while going about 60 and came amazingly close to hitting another car. It was probably the single most terrifying moment of my life.
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it's even scarier on a bicycle.
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Weirdos today.
Also, I hydroplaned while going about 60 and came amazingly close to hitting another car. It was probably the single most terrifying moment of my life.
wow, my friend just told me about his dad spinning his car on the interstate, while doing 70 (he drives a newer corvette). It must be a trend to get into near auto accidents these days.
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25322638/>1=43001 (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25322638/>1=43001)
Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.... :'(
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george carlin was brilliant. I doubt we'll see another like him in our generation.
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he was an old man, so it isn't really "tragic"
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Old man or not, it sucks to see someone like that go.
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I hate that I never hear about awesome comedians until after they die.
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I was surprised when I saw it scroll by on the newsticker this morning on my break.. I'm gonna miss him, he was the best. If you never heard of him, the best thing I've heard is his Aristocrats joke.. :p well they're all fucking disgusting and funny, which is what he was as a whole haha. He was never afraid to cross the line. He looked for the line, and then deliberately crossed it..
<3
RIP
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There's a daddy longlegs sleeping on my faucet.
Mocking me.
Scaring the crap out of me.
:(
*cower*
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There's a daddy longlegs sleeping on my faucet.
I have about 10 of those in my current bath room. Niggas aint shit.
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I have about 10 of those in my current bath room. Niggas aint shit.
time to clean.
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Tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiired...so much stuff to doooooooooooooo.....
/me collapses.
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Apparently I have a half sister in Cali.
Rewind for a sec :
About 9/10 years ago, my dad and mom were married, and we lived in Mesa, AZ in an apartment. I was 8 or 9 i think at the time, so my memory is fuzzy.
Shit went down like this:
Dad = alcoholic/druggie
Dad came home with 'x' drugs
Mom got pissed, flushed down toilet
Dad got pissed, flipped the kitchen table over/across the apartment
Me and mom went to her parents' house.
Divorce.
A few years pass, mom meets guy.
we move in with guy
happily ever after. my stepdad, and my only real father.
edit while typing: I just had a long ass convo with him, and apparently it was cocaine and meth, and my mom caught him with spoon/lighter. AWESOME childhood story, eh? sweet.
So my 'dad' lives in cali, has a girlfriend, and a baby WITH her. 5 months old. he is in a 90 day recurring program, and she is apparently in rehab AS WELL.
fuckin' a.
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Apparently I have a half sister in Cali.
Rewind for a sec :
About 9/10 years ago, my dad and mom were married, and we lived in Mesa, AZ in an apartment. I was 8 or 9 i think at the time, so my memory is fuzzy.
Shit went down like this:
Dad = alcoholic/druggie
Dad came home with 'x' drugs
Mom got pissed, flushed down toilet
Dad got pissed, flipped the kitchen table over/across the apartment
Me and mom went to her parents' house.
Divorce.
A few years pass, mom meets guy.
we move in with guy
happily ever after. my stepdad, and my only real father.
edit while typing: I just had a long ass convo with him, and apparently it was cocaine and meth, and my mom caught him with spoon/lighter. AWESOME childhood story, eh? sweet.
So my 'dad' lives in cali, has a girlfriend, and a baby WITH her. 5 months old. he is in a 90 day recurring program, and she is apparently in rehab AS WELL.
fuckin' a.
:/ wow...
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Thats some crazy shit, mang.
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Thread/ruined
i win :D
lol
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I absolutely hate the 360 generation of gamers. Reading the announcement for Diablo 3 and then seeing comments like, "hay is this a AAA title? I never herd of it b4." or "Diablo so old. just another REHASH." And then seeing comments for the new 2D, beautiful Wario platformer coming out AND the DS re-release of Kirby Super Star and seeing, "ANOTHER MARIO game ENUF NINTENDO I ARE SO HARDCOORREEEE" or "wuts Kirby?"
niggas need to read some Malstrom.
Also I hate the word fucen. Is there some inside joke with that phrase I'm missing? Just use the regular word.
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I absolutely hate the 360 generation of gamers. Reading the announcement for Diablo 3 and then seeing comments like, "hay is this a AAA title? I never herd of it b4." or "Diablo so old. just another REHASH." And then seeing comments for the new 2D, beautiful Wario platformer coming out AND the DS re-release of Kirby Super Star and seeing, "ANOTHER MARIO game ENUF NINTENDO I ARE SO HARDCOORREEEE" or "wuts Kirby?"
Seconded. It seems like fanboys/general ignorance about any game (looking at a game, and if it's not one of the 2 generas of games they play it sucks) have spread like crazy this generation. Also the term rehash gets tossed around a lot, must be because the only succesful game franchises are sequels, which really says something bad about the general gaming audience. It's sad that it's not even kids that do this, there are a lot of older guys (because girls don't play video games) who say the same shit as well. Also everyone became a graphics whore, EVERYONE. It's just sad, game play became a secondary somewhere down the line.
Also for the rage part, my friend got an N64 recently and we where playing some games, I said we really needed golden eye. So my friend who loves halo (I've had several friends say to him "*blank* FPS game is better then halo" and his only reply would be "lol no", what great debate skills) said that goldeneye was a shitty game, all because he couldn't control it well (well, he didn;t say that exactly, he just said he like newer FPS games because of the ease of control. I'd still pick 007 over halo). Same friend also stated that FPS on a console is better then FPS on a PC.
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Same friend also stated that FPS on a console is better then FPS on a PC.
Wow. I totally forgot PC gamers play with controllers. :\
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So I let someone use my laptop for fifteen minutes today. When I go back on it, I find malware on it. WHAT THE FUCKING SHIT. I swear, some people can't use a computer for ten seconds without infecting it. Jesus Christ.
It wasn't hard to remove (boot to Gentoo, emerge ntfs3g, mount volume, delete all traces of it...) but that was still ten minutes that I shouldn't have had to spend on it.
Shit, people wonder why I never give up my computers. It's not greediness, it's just that I can't trust anyone not to fuck it up. Maybe if I do that next time I'll boot it into Linux, slap them into a no-privilege account that can't do anything but run a stripped down version of lynx.
Also I hate the word fucen. Is there some inside joke with that phrase I'm missing? Just use the regular word.
I seriously rage whenever I read that word. It looks stupid as hell.
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Agreed, and yeah, that's the biggest reason I don't usually let people on my computer. Hell, I can run the computer without firewall or AV of any kind for 6+ months without a single infection, and yet some people can't go for 10 minutes without getting infected. It really bothers me that people can be that clueless about that kind of shit.
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i was going to my friends place to play some lan d2. originally i was going to use a laptop there, but another guy would be joining, so they wanted me to bring my desktop.
its a bitch unhooking my rig, throwing it in the van, driving there, unloading it, re hooking it up...."play d2" unhook it, load it, drive, unload it, and hook it back up.
i would only mildly bitch, but the guy that would be using the laptop DIDNT FUCKING COME, so what so i get? an aching back for doing all of this in the first place.
also, ib4 "olol get a laptop"
if you say this, buy me one, i would rather enjoy one.
/rant
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/me would rather not have one*
Yes, I'm rather biased against laptops. Hell, I'm biased against anything other than assembling your own computer, because it will always cost less to buy the pieces than to buy a pre-packaged computer. Even barebone kits cost more than the individual pieces.
You pay more for getting less hardware. Sure, it's more portable, but honestly, my setup is not that hard to unhook. I can have the computer unhooked and ready to move in probably 2 or 3 minutes. LCD screens weigh WAY less than CRTs, and my computer isn't THAT heavy.
Though if I was getting a computer that was semi-portable, I'd get one of those mini towers, instead of a full size one.
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im all for having a nice desktop over a laptop.
i would rather have a bag with my mouse, laptop charger, and laptop. rather than dragging my tower, monitor, mouse, keyboard, power cord, fan (its my setup, i need the fan), screwing both sides of my monitor back on for transport, surge protector, extension cord, blablabla.
(note my message was longer, but id rather not keep this "rant" going(as whats the point in arguing opinions, plus both of our setups are different), so im keeping it at this and withdrawing from the conversation)
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It's the middle of summer, my car's out of freon, and I can't take care of it until Monday.
Also, holy FUCK at how hard it is to find music by onoken.
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Yum....potato cakes.
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fuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCK
So I'm in the process of finding a home to rent in Santa Cruz. Two days ago I went to a open house, and I had a really good chance of getting the home. It was a really nice apartment for the price it was listed. When I talked to the guy he seemed interested in renting to me because I was a student and my father was going to pay the rent every month. I had this shit in the bag. He calls me back today and says some people offered him 500 more dollars a month to live there, and unless I can match that, these fuckers get the apartment. :'( Imma go hit up my punching bag and cry.
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It's the middle of summer, my car's out of freon, and I can't take care of it until Monday.
Also, holy FUCK at how hard it is to find music by onoken.
He has a muzie...
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He has a muzie...
You sure? I tried searching that site, but every time I clicked on a link that was supposed to go to his profile, I was redirected to the home page.
I mean, I found his website, and I got some tracks off of BMS, but after all that I only had 21 full tracks.
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Sounds difficult.
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You sure? I tried searching that site, but every time I clicked on a link that was supposed to go to his profile, I was redirected to the home page.
I mean, I found his website, and I got some tracks off of BMS, but after all that I only had 21 full tracks.
Well, I found his muzie a while ago. Maybe since then things have changed.
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i was going to my friends place to play some lan d2. originally i was going to use a laptop there, but another guy would be joining, so they wanted me to bring my desktop.
I hauled my rig to Armegeddon's to do some more intense gaming last weekend, since his second system isn't particularly powerful. Luckily, he does have a keyboard, mouse, and keyboard, so I only had to bring the tower (hauling my 17" aperture grill CRT or my television LCD would have probably been even more annoying), but I still don't plan to do that again for a while...ugh. Unhooking the 360 and boxing up Rock Band is annoying enough.
Oh, speaking of Rock Band, my kick pedal is cracking. Argh. I'm going to RMA it so that they put a box in the post, play until it breaks (it's really close -- the left side is slightly cracked and the right side is badly cracked, with a split running through half of the pedal), and when I get the replacement I plan to attach a nice metal plate available. My dad thinks that he has some diamond plating available from when he covered the running boards on his truck; that would look pretty nice.
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Whenever I'm typing something for school, and I put my courser between 2 things of text to type something, yet it just deletes the text and types what I'm currently typing over the existing text. Really, is there some sort of button I'm hitting that causes this?
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"Insert", the most useless key on the planet. Seriously, what the hell. :( That haunted me, too, until I figured out what was causing it.
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I... Hate... Insert.
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"This means that a rough estimated time of FA comeback is 25'th of July."
FFFFFFFFFFFFfffffffFfffffFFFFFFFFFfffffffffffffffffffffffffffffFFFFFFFFFFff
FA is one of those things like diabloiii.net, or youtube, or urbandead, that i check about once every day, and its been down for about a week now.
I NEED MAH FA FIX!
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FA?
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nothing you would be interested in.
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http://www.furaffinity.net/
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awe schnap
basically deviantart for furreh stuff, there's a lot of hella(like hella hella) good artists there.
anyway IB4 RAYGE!
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Actually, I'm happy that they have a site, next thing is for all the furries should stop polluting DA with their art.
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actually a good bit of em have DA accounts(miu, jay axer, jolly jack for three) they post half of their works on. so don't rest easy bobbias.
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Well, they shouldn't. The next step is to make a site that will clear out all those fucking morons who can't draw worth shit, and only draw shitty anime crap.
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Oh hush, they can post whatever they want.
If I'm allowed to post stuff, anyone should be.
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Well, they shouldn't.
Why not, exactly
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My wrist hurts more everyday, and it does this randomly for a week or so, and during this week I can;t really put any pressure on it. Also the person I usually play in brawl with online bitched me out about using Kirby's triple A combo, then today he used Diddy's triple A constantly in one round. Like, more so then I ever used Kirby's before he bitched me out. Also he somehow determined he was better then me.
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Well, they shouldn't. The next step is to make a site that will clear out all those fucking morons who can't draw worth shit, and only draw shitty anime crap.
If you don't like it, don't look at it. How difficult is that?
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Seems pretty simple to me.
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If you don't like it, don't look at it. How difficult is that?
I'd REALLY rather not have to wade my way through 900000000000 terribly drawn pictures in a search just to find 1 single well done one. It makes me angry to see people getting all this encouragement when they suck ass, aren't funny, and have no hope in hell of ever improving. IMO Deviantart should be for artists with actual skill, not retarded weeaboos who only draw terribly drawn anime style pictures that make me want to gag. Jesus fuck, some of those people draw like a fucking 4 year old.
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Calm down. It's a silly little website on the internet. It's like mommy's refrigerator, except you don't have to hold up the fingerpaintings with alphabet magnets.
It ain't the Louvre. :P
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oh my god, im about to climax. im fapping to some internet drama.
JC Penney corporate. "GET A BRIAN, YOU MORANS"
Seriously, everything they do makes no sense. I can't tell you how much we bitch in the store about how badly corporate sucks.
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you know, when i posted RAYGE in its silly giant font and underline, i expected it to be taken with a grain of salt. i was wrong, anyway, enough dragging that on.
can't really say anything, had kind of a good day.
well i guess i got one.
fallout isn't installing, it tells me i need this direct x, i install it "well it doesn't install, but it tells me i have it installed, since i have the recent direct x, and the one it wants to install is like direct x 3a or something" and well yeah. i click install again, and it tells me i need directx3a (going off memory) and i click no now, and a black "setup"(it doesn't say setup, but thats what it is) screen pops up, and then doesn't respond.
anyway, till i can figure that out, no fallout for me.
*edit*
Calm down. It's a silly little website on the internet. It's like mommy's refrigerator, except you don't have to hold up the fingerpaintings with alphabet magnets.
this
*edit*
well i went to explore on the cd, clicked setup, it started installing SLOWLY, got an error on the master.exe, but it apparently installed. i was "forced (nothing would close out of it)" into watching a planescape torment trailer. back to desktop, c drive, program files, interplay, fallout, fallout.exe.....nothing
so what gives? bum copy? most likley.
*edit*
same with fallout 2. great, i get both disks, "hey im going to play some fallout, yeah!"
"both don't work, no fallout for me, FUCK!"
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I had a Demonoid invite code saved in a text file that I just deleted.
Reason: A couple of weeks ago, my friend gave me the invite code from my computer. I told him emailing it to me would be unnecessary, so he saved it in a text file so I could use it later. I tried it a few hours later, and it said I couldn't use it from the same IP address. I thought, "Ok, my address is dynamic, I'll just wait for it to change." I forgot about the text file and it was among several icons I just cleaned off my desktop.
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Why didn't you just ask one of us for one?
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Why didn't you just ask one of us for one?
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Because I don't think of these things after being awake for 26 hours. D:
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So my car was hit yesterday. I wasn't in it though, and neither was the owner of the other car.
I'd parked up against a curb, and he in the middle of the lot. He was in neutral, didn't have a parking break on, and had a truck club (the one that goes over your wheel) propped against his driver seat pushing his break pedal down.
Well, apparently it didn't work too well.
But now the asshole has a towed car and an insurance ticket. Just my luck to get hit be a roving, unmanned vehicle.
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I dunno about the laws there, but here it's illegal not to have a working parking brake, and if he was using something to prop his brake pedal down, I'd assume he didn't have a working parking brake (either that, or he was a fucking retard, and I hope his car was totaled, as much as that doesn't sound likely).
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*Dun Dun Dun*
Another one rides the bus.
*Dun Dun Dun*
Another one rides the bus.
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Assholes with cars
Idk if it's illegal here but he didn't get fined for it. All that happened is he has to pay for my car. It hit my car so hard it was pushed up onto the curb and busted the bottom front frame. I figure I'll go to a junk yard and get a reflector, pocket the rest and call it a day. The rest is just cosmetic anyway.
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Need to save a few bucks the bone yard is the way to go.
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I hate the phrase
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I hate the phrase
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Yeah, I hate it too, but sometimes, I totally agree with it. For instance, commenting on youtube videos.
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I get what you're saying, but sometimes the "If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all" line is indeed useful. It's kept me from tearing a few people brand new orifices lately, and as a result, I've just been a lot less pissed off lately. ^_^
It can be fun to do that to people...considering if you make them cry.
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I can't say that I really enjoy making people cry. Might be the human in me, I dunno.
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I can't say that I really enjoy making people cry. Might be the human in me, I dunno.
If people deserve a new one ripped for them then go for it. You will feel better if you do so because then they feel horrible of what they done.
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Hell, even when I told off my fellow club officer after several months of him not doing his damn job, I still felt bad.
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Hell, even when I told off my fellow club officer after several months of him not doing his damn job, I still felt bad.
To quote my friend Stefan: "Thats a damn shame."
Who care you needed to get whats off your mind and you did...don't get regrets about it later. Being cut thaot at times is the way to be.
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It's always so damn hot in my house when I get home, my dad always has the AC at 79. It has to be 78 or lower for me to live.
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It's always so damn hot in my house when I get home, my dad always has the AC at 79. It has to be 78 or lower for me to live.
Why does he have AnthroCon set to 79?
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I will throw you through the fire and the flames, and you shall scorch. Like cock scorch party.
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It's always so damn hot in my house when I get home, my dad always has the AC at 79. It has to be 78 or lower for me to live.
That's rather shitty, but my parents will keep it at 80 at night. I don't mind it during the day, but I like it being at least near the mid 70s when I'm trying to sleep. I brake into a damn sweat when I have half of my blanket covering me, and to top it off the central air is the farthest away from my room, so it's hotter by several degrees in my room then in the rest of the house.
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That's rather shitty, but my parents will keep it at 80 at night. I don't mind it during the day, but I like it being at least near the mid 70s when I'm trying to sleep. I brake into a damn sweat when I have half of my blanket covering me, and to top it off the central air is the farthest away from my room, so it's hotter by several degrees in my room then in the rest of the house.
You should tell them it's much better to be chilly at night than too warm. :3
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You should tell them it's much better to be chilly at night than too warm. :3
They would say something along the lines of "you don't pay the electric bill" and hit me in the jaw. They have been gone for about a week tho, and I must say it's been rather nice.
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when it gets too hot, i sleep in the basement.
with my fan setup this year, this has only happened about 5 or so times so far. but i do find it funny how my ceiling fan is ALWAYS on from around may to mid september.
anyway, 50-60 is a nice temp zone for me. 60-70 isn't bad. 70-80 tolerable. 80-90 gay. 90+ BRB SLEEPING IN THE SHOWER WITH COLD WATER ON.
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I just got fired... (technically, I voluntarily resigned, but it was that, or get fired, and voluntary resignations don't show up as getting fired would on my record.) Can't say I didn't see it coming though.... I just couldn't work fast enough. Of course, it doesn't help that my previous store is the fastest superstore in Canada. They have the fastest average time stocking the shelves. However, the minimum speed was averaging 1 case per minute, and I couldn't even keep up to that.
Fuck. I'm not even angry at this point, just really disappointed and depressed.
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I just got fired... (technically, I voluntarily resigned, but it was that, or get fired, and voluntary resignations don't show up as getting fired would on my record.) Can't say I didn't see it coming though.... I just couldn't work fast enough. Of course, it doesn't help that my previous store is the fastest superstore in Canada. They have the fastest average time stocking the shelves. However, the minimum speed was averaging 1 case per minute, and I couldn't even keep up to that.
Fuck. I'm not even angry at this point, just really disappointed and depressed.
Shitty deals. But if they need to be that fast, they should have more people working so that when they hire new people its not a shock for them when they are trying to keep up, but that starting to make too much sense for a company like that.
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I consistently discover more and more bug bites all over my body, with no idea how or when I get them. I just know I'm itchy. Weird.
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Well, my store was the fastest superstore in Canada, and the second fastest out of every store owned by Loblaws chains in Canad because of having so few people doing so much.
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I consistently discover more and more bug bites all over my body, with no idea how or when I get them. I just know I'm itchy. Weird.
2 possiblities:
Your blood is naturally sweet
-or-
You eat a lot of bannanas.
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My dad right now, for the following reasons (and I realise some of these are pedantic):
-Leaves the fridge door ajar because he doesn't make sure it's closed, ignores subsequent frantic fridge beeping
-Doesn't take a half-second to click pens closed (about 40% of our pens are actually usable)
-Doesn't reset the timer on the microwave after ending something early
-Dozes in the living room in front of the TV instead of just going to sleep
-Leaving the top light and end-table light on while dozing
-Leaving lights on in general, EXCEPT the garage light (which we want on)
-Restarts the computer whenever he has a problem with the browser
-Uses the bathroom, leaves the door open, doesn't flush, DOES NOT WASH HANDS WTF
This stuff grates on you after a while, I think.
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ajar
not to pick on you, but this.
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Not being able to sleep at night.
This is almost worse than last year. x.x
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-Leaves the fridge door ajar because he doesn't make sure it's closed, ignores subsequent frantic fridge beeping
-Doesn't reset the timer on the microwave after ending something early
-Restarts the computer whenever he has a problem with the browser
That stuff bugs me too. Only in my case, it's people leaving the freezer door down here open slightly, allowing things to thaw out and get wrecked.
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For me it is my want to be wigger brother. He leaves any electrical applience on and doens't shut it off or disregards it.
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My brother will turn on the huge amp we have to play Bass/Guitar/play with the MicroKorg, and leave it running. This is a tube amp. We ply it at somewhere between 1 and 2 on the volume, and I can hear it upstairs. It eats electricity like made, and gets hot, heating up the basement, as well.
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-Doesn't reset the timer on the microwave after ending something early
-Dozes in the living room in front of the TV instead of just going to sleep
-Leaving lights on in general, EXCEPT the garage light (which we want on)
-Uses the bathroom, leaves the door open, doesn't flush, DOES NOT WASH HANDS WTF
Those things sound like my dad... he preaches about saving electricity but leaves almost every light on in his office EVERY NIGHT.
And my dad does that last thing pretty often, too, haha. Bleh.
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My brother will turn on the huge amp [...] and leave it running. This is a tube amp.
Wow.
Here's an idea: when he inevitably burns out a tube by doing that, make him pay to replace it.
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-Doesn't take a half-second to click pens closed (about 40% of our pens are actually usable)
-Doesn't reset the timer on the microwave after ending something early
-Dozes in the living room in front of the TV instead of just going to sleep
My parents do that constantly, and I have room ADD so I leave lights, the wall unit AC, and my TV on randomly for hours.
Wow.
Here's an idea: when he inevitably burns out a tube by doing that, make him pay to replace it.
Hell, my friend's dog pissed on his tube amp and broke it, so he kicked the dog out of his room for several months.
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I was browsing Wikipedia, and I came across this on the "Where's Wally?" page: "Where's Waldo is listed by the American Library Association on the List of most commonly challenged books in the U.S. The most common reason for banning is that, in one picture, located on a beach, a female sunbather is seen with exposed breasts."
Book challenging/banning in America = Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat.
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I was browsing Wikipedia, and I came across this on the "Where's Wally?" page: "Where's Waldo is listed by the American Library Association on the List of most commonly challenged books in the U.S. The most common reason for banning is that, in one picture, located on a beach, a female sunbather is seen with exposed breasts."
Book challenging/banning in America = Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat.
So what...the current comming generation are more exposed to that kind of stuff then I was growing up.
Talk about double standard...well to some extent.
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Ok, challenging a book for showing exposed breasts that are probably about as hard to find as Waldo himself is pretty dumb, if you ask me.
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Ok, challenging a book for showing exposed breasts that are probably about as hard to find as Waldo himself is pretty dumb, if you ask me.
I concer.
Besides it more then likely the artist(s) sense of humor. Just to some people it rubs them the wrong way.
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Bah, if we can even FIND a tube to replace it. This amp is 20+ years old, and amazingly, still runs quite well. It's pretty wicked for concerts and shit, since we don't need to get a stack+head setup, which is harder to carry around. However, this thing weighs a ton (well, something like 100+ lbs)
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Bah, if we can even FIND a tube to replace it. This amp is 20+ years old, and amazingly, still runs quite well. It's pretty wicked for concerts and shit, since we don't need to get a stack+head setup, which is harder to carry around. However, this thing weighs a ton (well, something like 100+ lbs)
"We need to pump *claps hands and points at you* you up."
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Ok, challenging a book for showing exposed breasts that are probably about as hard to find as Waldo himself is pretty dumb, if you ask me.
It's really easy to find tits.
I'm sure if you dressed Waldo in a titty suit, he'd be really easy to find.
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It's really easy to find tits.
I'm sure if you dressed Waldo in a titty suit, he'd be really easy to find.
This is cut from the page in question:
(http://media.collegepublisher.com/media/paper304/stills/h14n3835.jpg)
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Fapping at the speed of light.
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This is cut from the page in question:
(http://media.collegepublisher.com/media/paper304/stills/h14n3835.jpg)
That dosen't even show much.
I bet a new mother who is brest feeding in public would get harrassed for just feeding her kid.
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That dosen't even show much.
I bet a new mother who is brest feeding in public would get harrassed for just feeding her kid.
Yeah, in general, that's what happens.
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I can't find my disc for Crysis.
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blizzard shut down darknest
its getting harder to fap by the day
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I can't find my disc for Crysis.
0.0;
For shame Mort.
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So I now have WoW: Burning Crusades. Installation went smoothly, then I tried to run it.
First off, since the patches I had from before only worked their magic on the regular game's data, it had to install them again. No big deal -- they're still on my hard drive.
So I get up to version 2.4.2 when, uh oh, somehow some data was corrupted. I ran the repair tool and found out that the corruption was "serious." When WoW suffers from "serious" corruption, it rolls the game back to BC.0. Long story short, I'm currently waiting for 2.3.0 to install. Argh!
I have one of those sinking feelings, too, like it's going to do that again. Now I'm glad I kept the WoW installer around...
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So I now have WoW: Burning Crusades. Installation went smoothly, then I tried to run it.
First off, since the patches I had from before only worked their magic on the regular game's data, it had to install them again. No big deal -- they're still on my hard drive.
So I get up to version 2.4.2 when, uh oh, somehow some data was corrupted. I ran the repair tool and found out that the corruption was "serious." When WoW suffers from "serious" corruption, it rolls the game back to BC.0. Long story short, I'm currently waiting for 2.3.0 to install. Argh!
I have one of those sinking feelings, too, like it's going to do that again. Now I'm glad I kept the WoW installer around...
Odd...Blizzard type stuff doesn't usually do that Spec.
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It takes a lot more patches to keep MMOs "healthy," if you will. It's not too surprising that there's a conflict given the way Blizzard rolls out patches. What didn't help in my case was that installing the expansion pack -- which is at 2.0.0 -- over my fully-patched standard version -- 2.4.3 -- seemed to be what caused everything to get mucked up.
I'm completely reinstalling the game from scratch now. That should take care of it. I was hoping to be able to get a few hours in tonight, but I don't know if I'm going to be able to...depends on how smoothly it goes from here.
EVE still beats WoW hands down as far as patching goes. The fact that the client installer on their site is always up-to-date makes me even happier.
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@Omni: For future reference, there is no need to quote the post directly above you. It's generally implied, and just takes up space otherwise. :)
I installed VirtualBox yesterday, for the heck of it. Got a functional tinyXP installation, too. Everything works except hardware-accelerated graphics (expected) and sound (UNEXPECTED D:). I need to mess with it some more, methinks...the ALSA driver isn't working, so I guess I'll have to play with the OSS driver. It could potentially be a conflict, too (though I'm generally careful to keep aRTs in its place).
Actually, this isn't the thing that annoys me. The thing that's annoying is I'm at a friend's and I'm not going to be able to fix this until Saturday night. >:(
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@Vyhd: Not caring.
Also hopefully re-installing WoW from stratch will help. I would play WoW but I have a shitty laptop and I wish wine was nice and I would play Diablo 2:LOD and StarCraft.
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I got the Portal: Flash Version map pack for Portal. Some of them are just pure annoyance.
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I installed VirtualBox yesterday, for the heck of it. Got a functional tinyXP installation, too. Everything works except hardware-accelerated graphics (expected) and sound (UNEXPECTED D:).
If Windows isn't picking up a sound card then it's TinyXP's fault. A lot of those small XP installs remove the legacy drivers, which would cause VirtualBox's emulated SB16 not to get picked up at all.
The SB16 isn't a plug-and-play soundcard, either (unless VirtualBox is emulating the PCI version, but I kind of doubt it), so if that's what's happening you'll have to select a driver manually. If you have a Windows XP CD lying around, you should be able to bring up the add new hardware wizard, select "have disk," and point it to the XP disc. I'm not positive (read: I've never tried it) but that should bring up a list of all the devices that are supported by XP.
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Ugh. I finally got WoW updated. I'm not sure exactly what was going on, but my solution was this:
1) Uninstall everything.
2) Download the 2.0.X => 2.4.0 patch manually from FileFront.
3) Install aforementioned patch.
4) Allow WoW to automatically patch itself up to 2.4.3.
The only thing that I can think of is that the 2.3.0 patch that I'd downloaded when I first started playing was somehow corrupted in a way where it only had issues if you applied it over WoW:BC. Seeing as I tried redownloading all of the other patches before I took this road (since they are pretty small) that's the only thing that I could think of that would cause this to happen.
On another note, I'm kind of confused as to why WoW's automatic updater goes from 2.0.0 => 2.3.0 => 2.4.0 instead of going from 2.0.0 directly to 2.4.0. Ah well.
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I remember trying to install WoW on this thing. It actually wasn't so bad. Didn't really take all that long.
...and then the patches came. I went to go play GTA: San Andreas while everything was downloading/installing, and I swear I got in and out of one of the cities while it was doing all of that. I was so incredibly far behind on the patches. Haha...
And then I played the game all of like twice, so I never bothered to put it back on after the great crash of November 2007.
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Yeah, WoW's patching is annoying. I wish they came out with a few more full patches, instead of a whole boatload of incremental patches. Or hell, a special file server that would allow you to select a patch like 2.x.y => 2.a.b type deal. It wouldn't be that hard to make a program to create a bunch of files that combined different incremental patches into 1 mega patch. I mean, seriously, not everyone is still running dial up. We can deal with a file several hundred megs in size without spending 10 hours waiting for it to download.
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Or hell, a special file server that would allow you to select a patch like 2.x.y => 2.a.b type deal.
They have one of thems, it's just a pain to get to. You have to go to the support site for Blizzard Downloader. From there, it's buried in the last question of the FAQ. That's how I found that 2.4.0 patch.
Alternatively, FileFront looks like it has all of the packages that Blizzard offers (they're an official mirror).
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uhh what did you get the burning crusade for if you don't have a 60? i mean, most of the content introduced is for people ready for outland. unless you wanted to play one of the new starting zones (both are really well done, and the preferred place to get from 1-20) or a new race.
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Why wait?
Also, the Draenei are pretty much the only Alliance race I'm at all interested in. And the feature set is pretty impressive, overall.
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Also, the Draenei are pretty much the only Alliance race I'm at all interested in.
i like you
also the draenei starting area is possibly the easiest and fastest way to get from level 1-20.
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Classes are going to be starting up again soon, which means, of COURSE that the local Port Authority is threatening to go on strike again. ::)
Silly children.
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WoW seems cool and all but aI wish they had a Mohawk Night Elf.
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the next expansion brings the ability to change your hairdo, so i don't see why you couldn't have a night elf mohawk.
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God, we'll be seeing mohawks everywhere.
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God, we'll be seeing mohawks everywhere.
"Maybe Mr. T hacked the server. Maybe Mr. T knows something about computers."
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One of my local ITG2 cabs is dead. >:(
A whole bunch of us (read: four people, including myself) went to go totally party at the North Park Clubhouse last week. Our hopes and dreams of partying were heartlessly dashed by a little white piece of paper that read "Out Of Order."
We lamented our sorrows to the arcade attendant, who informed us not only why the machine was officially "Out Of Order," but he also told us of his complete and utter sense of delight due to its death. He has a severe grudge with Hannah Montana, who insisted on giving a concert consisting of one song several times a day to a small little Asian boy named Kevin.
You see, while the attendant didn't want to admit it, he was VERY jealous of Kevin. He wanted Hannah Montana so badly, but he couldn't say anything; for Hannah Montana is what we consider to be "jailbait." And as many men featured on Dateline NBC have learned - Jailbait is a bad thing.
So the attendant covered his love for Ms. Montana the only way he knew how -- by showing pure, utter hatred for her.
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Disappointed by the lack of an ITG machine to play on that night, the four of us set out to a corner pizza shop not far from Jupi's house. Sunset Pizza. Quite possibly the best pizza any of us had ever tasted before.
So while the clan's initial plans had fallen through, things were considerably compensated for by the piping hot, gooey, tasty pizza. <3
Hopefully though, the ITG2 cab at the North Park Clubhouse will be functioning again sometime relatively soon. Otherwise, Jupi is going to have to do some serious work in her basement, which is soon-to-be, as the children say, "Bitchin'."
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Yeah I went there tuesday and it was busted (I did text Spectere about it).
However because of that I played House of the Dead 4 and beat it. I was ranked 8. Damn I am good at shooters.
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hot ex girlfriend + "theres like three dudes i like, and i don't know which one to pick" + saying that to me on msn = RAGE
then again shes one of the better exes ive had, (ie not a drunken party whore, making it possible to continue a platonic friendship) so i guess the rage is mild.
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I don't talk to any of my exes.
Also love love love your furry avatar Vlad
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well i mean, i generally don't either, but this one isn't bad. its just, i don't care to hear about "ohh these three dudes want me, and i want them, but i don't know what one i should go after" or stuff like
"ask me how i am"
ok, how are you?
"horny"
i don't really think its a good idea to tell a male friend who is attracted to you that you are "horny" ESPECIALLY when he has had a taste already.
i mean im over her and shit, but id lie if i said i wouldn't tap it.
but uhh, even with what i am posting, it's not bad, but i just figured i post something along this topic since i never really touch apon it. i mean, ive been with the girlies, i just generally don't talk about it.
also diago drew the picture in my avatar (cropped, of course) so check his page for the full version
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Who wouln't tap an ex-girlfriend that is hot and is horny.
Hell if one of mine did I would get on top of that.
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I just had a filling come loose. It wasn't a vital one, only a cosmetic one, but it's still really annoying.
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people starting a conversation in messenger with one word
"blah"
I AM NOT GOING TO FUCKING REPLY TO THAT, I WILL EXIT OUT OF THE WINDOW, IF YOU HAVE SOMETHING INTERESTING TO SAY THAN SAY IT
FUCK!
*edit*
hell ill even take
"oman"
"mr oman"
both as alternatives as to saying "whats up" or something, thats OK
but "blah" thats just basically telling me "i am bored, please entertain me, i have nothing to say to you, but please, entertain me"
fuck off
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another thing
people that say "ohh ill be over around 9-10"
when in reality they mean "ill be over sometime (could be 30 minutes, could be TWO HOURS) after 10"
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
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I usually arrive on time or a bit early unless something distracts me.
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i can add to this
a friend calling me the few times in the day i am doing something (i have 23 hours of the day im with my phone, when im downstairs putting away stuff IS NOT THE TIME TO CALL ME) to tell me we have a game in a few hours, that he neglected to tell me a day or two in advance, and i have to tell him that i am busy, because I AM BUSY WHEN THAT GAME IS TO START.
im not going to ditch my previous plans to make new plans because of your error of failing to call me beforehand. even though "the other people are going to college and this could be the last game we have till next summer" SORRY.
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Proprietary media formats. They are so god-damned pointless.
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Eh? Could you please explain annon...I am every so slightly computer dumb and very buzzed.
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I got some FirstOn anti-itch stuff from Albertson's and it doesn't work very well :(
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Proprietary media formats. They are so god-damned pointless.
Augh, yeah. Proprietary media formats are generally good examples of failed vendor lock-in. My personal favourite has to be the Universal Media Disc, which is at least 66.6% inaccurate.
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pseudogeeks
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Script kiddies who try to pass as 1337 h4x0rz.
I was playing TF2, and there was some little kid on teamspeak (I'm not sure how old he was, but his voice hadn't started changing yet) talking about how he was a hacker and whatnot. Then, after pretentiously telling the people without mics to type properly (using big, unnecessary words), he actually said, "Hacking isn't hard, you just install a few scripts." I muted him after hearing that. I think the funniest part is that he didn't realize he was on a VAC-secured server.
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The belief that because Dr. Phil recently got divorced, all of his relationship advice is useless because he can't even handle his own marriage.
What the hell says his wife didn't cheat on him or something that would've given him no wiggle room to not get divorced? Not saying that's the case, but damn, nobody knows anything.
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Script kiddies who try to pass as 1337 h4x0rz.
Hah, really. I would have started a vote ban the instant he said "lol hakkan is just downloadan shit". Really, real men delete the bullet packets before it hits them.
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this post is like if bobbias had a clone, and merged with him, making SUPERBOBBIAS, and therefore this is a huge tldr. basically rage, and venting, and editing. so if you are bored, feel free to read, but its nothing at all important, feel free to skip.
i have 6 energy tanks, made it to mother brains room...the place is really annoying, by that, i mean probably the most annoying thing to do in any videogame ever, i die at mother brain
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30 health, 6 empty energy tanks, half of my missiles
im not beating metroid, ill play an easy game, like super c
i mean it would be one thing if i could load up my password and try it again, but no, its not like that. i start out with 30 out of 600 health, and most of my missiles gone due to the clusterfuck of what the last gauntlet is. so what am i supposed to do, farm metroids for an hour trying to get max health, then trying again, only to die, and farm metroids for another hour for another attempt? the fuck.
next time i attempt this game, its on an actual nes, so i can actually farm max health and ammo, and be at tourain, then do the 2player thing to get my code with my current health and ammo, so i can legitly beat this game.
and i mean it wouldn't be so bad if the last part was just hard, but fun hard. no, its HEY IM GOING TO BE SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED TO ANNOY AND PISS YOU OFF hard.
like contra, thats fun hard. die? whatever, you spawn back where you died, no big deal, your default pea shooter gun isn't that bad.
metroid, die? well have fun getting your health back up for the next 45 minutes.
EVEN THE SAME FUCKING THING IN METROID ZERO MISSION, OR EVEN SUPER METROID, ITS NOT THAT BAD BECAUSE YOU CAN RETRY SHORTLY AFTER YOU DIE.
i am really really raging right now. i just don't want to do anything, its just..lame. you know, fuck what i said about beating all of the metroid games. ill try beating metroid 2, maby fusion. but the end of prime is bullshit, and prime 2 is basically impossible. and id rather not punch a hole in my nice hdtv, so ill do something else, like uhh anything other than play those games.
i mean i even did this on an emulator, but i used a password, and used save states, so no, im not going to count that, any jackass can do that. i mean its just that one thing, and even on the nes copy, i could do the player 2 thing, load up my pass with health and ammo that I EARNED, but no, i have to had played it on my copy of zero mission.
you know, i hate it when people call the first contra hard. fuck them, its one of the easiest nes games out there, good controls, its not cheap, its short, you can learn the levels fairly quickly, its not too hard to beat the game with the standard peashooter, its fun, you don't rage when you die, even when you are out of continues, its a good game.
i could try playing mega man, but i never really caught on to it, i don't really like the "shoot horizontal" "kill enemies to gain powers" blablabla. not my cup of tea.
replaying super metroid could be fun, but ive beat it before, and id like to add new things to the "list of games ive beaten list [shut up, im a nerd]"
ill think of something.
anyway, tldr, and rage, and fuck metroid, and stick a giant dildo in its urethra.
i guess add this to the list of games i got to the final boss, and quit because of said final boss.
-metroid
-threads of fate
-panzer dragoon orta
-luigi's mansion (no comment)
*edit*
err yeah...not so red in the face right now. but uhh, been a while since a game has pissed me off to that extent.
*edit*
im going to try this son'bitch again later. instead of being retarded and rush rush rush, it shouldn't be too hard running through the end when i figure out the proper spots to stand as to not get hit by the turrets, while being VERY PATIENT and freezing all 3 orb things like im supposed too (which i did try on the first playthrough, its just motherbrain takes a lot of shots...so trying to unload is a VERY BAD IDEA). its not like i need to "farm all 6 energy tanks", i should have "enough" health killing all metroids in my path on the way there if none of them grab me.
*edit*
i should keep a blog with the stupid amount of times i edit nearly every single one of my posts, as most of the time i think of something, i have the urge to type it.
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http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/moslive/article-1033832/The-Dirty-Secret-Your-NHS.html
Holy fuck, this is horrible. It's just sick. I can't even... damn, it just pisses me off.
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Jesus christ. That is absolutely terrible.
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Yeah, that IS awful. Wow.
Also, something that angers me: I had work on Saturday. Last Saturday. Didn't know until a few minutes ago, when I called to check my schedule. My own damn company does a terrible job of informing me of when I'm supposed to work. Either that, or my dad does a terrible job of giving me messages. Either way, makes me mad... I think I get two no-shows and I'm fired? Something ridiculous like that.
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Ouch, that sucks. I ended up showing up on the wrong day to work before.
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http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/moslive/article-1033832/The-Dirty-Secret-Your-NHS.html
Holy fuck, this is horrible. It's just sick. I can't even... damn, it just pisses me off.
That is incredibly fucked up. I've heard somewhere that several of Americas larger companies use slave labor but it's still a shock when you hear about it. Also if they cleaned that up and stopped the flow of trash, where would those children work?
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Somewhere less polluted by toxic chemicals?
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Somewhere less polluted by toxic chemicals?
There probably isn't a place like that that exists. In all honesty the more I think abut this the angrier I am. Like the third world really needs the modern world shitting on it and stabbing it in the heart.
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There probably isn't a place like that that exists. In all honesty the more I think abut this the angrier I am. Like the third world really needs the modern world shitting on it and stabbing it in the heart.
The same way a heroin addict needs heroin.
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TLDR: I'm a jackass.
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/moslive/article-1033832/The-Dirty-Secret-Your-NHS.html
Authors that try way too hard to be dramatic. At first I thought the article was a joke. Snippets:
- We arrive shortly after the fight. The boy had grovelled in the dirt for mercy, whimpering as blood dripped from his cracked skull. With the computer monitor that had been broken over his head lying on the ground nearby, filthy children with glassy-eyed stares and twisted smirks had stood over him.
- We pressed on. Shortly afterwards, we arrived in a poisonous, post-apocalyptic hell - a sprawling, toxic dumping ground stretching for a mile or two. This is the final resting place for your old TV, computer or mobile phone.
- Piles of cracked computer monitors sit in rancid pools of noxious green slime.
- Fights over the spoils of trashed computers break out hourly.
I also hate the word pretentious. Despite how useful the word may be, it's not commonly said and as a result makes you pretentious for using it. (oh, the irony)
I also hate customers that bicker for about ten minutes over something worth less than two dollars.
Oh, and my coworker today bragged in the break room to other coworkers about how he had a website, yet it was hosted on angelfire and he had no idea what FTP was. Awesome.
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Oh, and my coworker today bragged in the break room to other coworkers about how he had a website, yet it was hosted on angelfire and he had no idea what FTP was. Awesome.
I had a SpacePorts site once...
...like, back in 1997.
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About the only thing I ever used any of those things for is image storage, before image storage sites came around.
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Shaving. I need to shave today, but don't feel like it D:
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Ping spikes FOR NO APPARENT REASON. Also my connection already sucks due to my rather ghetto "recommended" wireless USB connection.
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checking up on job applications
i feel like an annoying jackass when i go in to do this "fairly often" and its the only possible way to get a jerb.
"yeah, i just wanted to check up on my application" they look at it, say stuff, you leave
go in again, rince repeat, till they aren't hiring anymore because 305435308 other people want the job and are more qualified than i am
ohh it would be easier to get a job if i had already had job experience, or lived in a better town.
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i completely understand how that goes, vlad. It completely sucks ass, but with a shitty economy like now, it's basically the only way to land a job when there's an opening.
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checking up on job applications
i feel like an annoying jackass when i go in to do this "fairly often" and its the only possible way to get a jerb.
"yeah, i just wanted to check up on my application" they look at it, say stuff, you leave
go in again, rince repeat, till they aren't hiring anymore because 305435308 other people want the job and are more qualified than i am
ohh it would be easier to get a job if i had already had job experience, or lived in a better town.
What he said.
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My downstairs TV sucks. Bright area distort and become wide, making it appear as though the section of picture to the right of them is being pushed away from a bulge, over saturated colors look like absolute shit (gamecube does this a lot), it's a 32 inch TV, but it only has mono sound, and the only input is coaxial, which means I need RF adapters for everything, and consiquently need to spend more money on systems, as well as deal with shittier graphics/sound on top of my TV sucking ass.
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Some what relating to what Bobbias is saying:
I have a 19" tube up in my room with mono sound but it has the AV adapters which is nice but still sucks because it is mono-sound.
Younger brother (being the douch bag of the family) took the old speaker system from my dad's old computer (which I intend to buy) stole the sound system for him self (thus robbing me of my old but still kick ass speaker system).
Should I steal it back?
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Well, was it actually yours? If you payed for it, or it was given only to you, or something like that, then go right ahead.
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Internet writers.
http://blog.wired.com/cars/2008/08/study-confirms.html
Fuck them.
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He kinda killed it after the first couple times, but overall that article was well written.
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Internet writers.
http://blog.wired.com/cars/2008/08/study-confirms.html
You have a problem with many writing styles, might I suggest you stop reading, it's what I do. Also it is a bit annoying to take my time to try and see what the hell he is trying to say, when the joke wasn't funny to start with.
Also my friend texts and drives.
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so im listening to a podcast, in the pitch dark, while trying to cut a capri sun straw in half with a serrated knife (like the long way), so i slip and hit my thumb.
now i have a nice little slit in my thumb.
lol
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Bah, people can be too picky about writing. I really shouldn't be talking, since I'm such an insane grammar nazi, and I primarily chose my books by locating writers who are above and beyond normal writers in their genre. (well, except for high fantasy, most of those authors who are actually successful are worth reading, keyword, most.)
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Exactly, it's not even funny from the start... Not to mention completely impractical contractions from the start... "GetN..." Does anyone know how difficult it is to override capitalization? Or that would just be easier to say "getn" or even "getin"? Or even typing correctly to not sound like a total idiot?
Basically, it's like.. I want to read the info, not get kicks on the writers wit to make the entire article a joke by shittying it up by making play on the subject and needing to decode the words as I read them. Anyone can do something like that, it's not cute or original-- only annoying.
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sm theme's metrics.ini = ANGURRRRRRRR
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Noob, everyone knows their way around metrics.ini ::)
Anyways, my Eee's wi-fi suddenly stopped working and I have no idea why. Apparently no one at eeeuser does either.
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sm theme's metrics.ini = ANGURRRRRRRR
All I've done is add custom C mods, and a while ago I bypassed one of the screens (IIRC it was the difficulty select screen).
Exactly, it's not even funny from the start...
I was referring to you guys bitching about him. Sure, he was trying to make fun of them, and failed, big deal, read what the hel he has to say and quit bitching.
I was saying that yeah, I shouldn't be the one to be saying this, considering I'm rather picky about my writers, but a news article is different than a book, or even a person posting on a forum.
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Exactly, I read news articles for their information, not for entertainment value. With that in mind, it's just even more annoying when you have to decode what the author wrote because he was too caught up trying to make it cute.
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My friend just pretty much fucked over my sleep schedule. He couldn't sleep at a friends house, so at 5:30 in the morning he just says "I'm leaving" and being my only ride home I had to go. So I show up at my house at 7 in the morning, slightly stoned and really tired, say hello to my parents and then pass out until now.
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You'll recover.
I'm supposed to get drunk sometime soon with my friends, however one of my friends has his msn on away, and the nickname "Out", and his cell phone is unreachable, another isn't online, and I don't know his phone number, and another is at work. So, I can't really contact any of them until either my friends gets back form work (and hopefully finds the wallet he lost yesterday), or my other friends turns his damned phone on.
Oh, and why do they sound so damn happy when they're saying "The cellular customer you are calling is unable to receive your call"?
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Oh, and why do they sound so damn happy when they're saying "The cellular customer you are calling is unable to receive your call"?
I've always wondered the same thing and I think I finally have the answer: because they're douche bags who want nothing more than to see us suffer. FUCK THE SYSTEM.
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I've always wondered the same thing and I think I finally have the answer: because they're douche bags who want nothing more than to see us suffer. FUCK THE SYSTEM.
Fuck the system and fuck the man.
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I've always wondered the same thing and I think I finally have the answer: because they're douche bags who want nothing more than to see us suffer. FUCK THE SYSTEM.
Well, they could have Gilbert Gottfried's voice in the recording.
I remember for a while back when James Earl Jones was the voice of Verizon/Bell Atlantic, if you didn't record your own greeting for your voice mail, the caller was greeted with his voice.
It was soothingly infuriating. <3
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Just bought a copy of Wipeout (because my brothers ruined the one my dad bought when it was first released) and I have a bid going for Legend of Legaia (which is an awesome RPG) and I hope I can win it.
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Holy shit, I haven't heard of Legia in AGES. That game did kick ass.
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and I have a bid going for Legend of Legaia (which is an awesome RPG) and I hope I can win it.
My friends loved that game, and it seemed pretty damn fun. Also they hated RPGs really, which was the odd part. Also that stupid 1 on 1 battle was retarded as fuck.
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My friends loved that game, and it seemed pretty damn fun. Also they hated RPGs really, which was the odd part. Also that stupid 1 on 1 battle was retarded as fuck.
Yeah I hated that 3 part boss battle...considering I took a good 3 hours to level cap my charaters for that area and those guys where a cake walk after wards.
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Lulz...People keep messing with the ITG2 machine at CMU. The power cord has been stolen again for at least the 12th time, and now I'm being told that the speakers are dead. As in someone might have messed with 'em. :/
So now that machine is ill, and the machine at the clubhouse is dead for the time being...
Now, the nearest working machine is at least a half an hour (usually more) from me, instead of 15 minutes.
Thank goodness I've got my setup in the basement working again. :P
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Lulz...People keep messing with the ITG2 machine at CMU. The power cord has been stolen again for at least the 12th time, and now I'm being told that the speakers are dead. As in someone might have messed with 'em. :/
So now that machine is ill, and the machine at the clubhouse is dead for the time being...
Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with some people... >_<
Now, the nearest working machine is at least a half an hour (usually more) from me, instead of 15 minutes.
Tilt, I presume?
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Spectere we need to "fix" the machine in our area...last I check part of 170 was closed for road work...because now it seems the BVM is the only working one.
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BALLS
I pulled something inside of my left ribcage... some muscle. Hurts like hell to lift now. Which isn't particularly cool, because I plan on taking $400 worth of nickels to the bank tomorrow to cash in (88 lbs of ass weight)
COCK
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How did you manage to hurt your self?
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How did you manage to hurt your self?
Dude, I don't even know. What the christ. I was laying down with my girlfriend watching TV today and I got up a bit to do something or other, and I felt this weird pain shoot into my left ribcage. I was like, oh god. Unpleasant.
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Sounds like you might have stretched a tendon or strained a muscle...I would go see a doctor if the pain worsen. For now I suggest heat and pain killers to help it out.
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Sounds like you might have stretched a tendon or strained a muscle...I would go see a doctor if the pain worsen. For now I suggest heat and pain killers to help it out.
Yeah, sounds good. Took some drugs. I might take a hot bath tomorrow... I can only imagine how good that'll feel :>
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Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with some people... >_<
Tilt, I presume?
Yup! Tilt! Back when it was an ITG1 machine, it was the best machine I'd ever played on.
When I played on it last week, and a few weeks prior to that, it was still the best machine I'd ever played on. <3
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http://img183.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc00112zp6.jpg
ZOMG!
It's an OmegaOmni with short hair!
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It's an OmegaOmni with short hair!
I DON'T KNOW YOU ANYMORE.
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It looks nice though...don't worry the long hair will come back but it will be a bit...in the mean time I can now Cos play as Future Trunks.
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http://img183.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc00112zp6.jpg
y u do dat
nah jk dogg, you look cute. :D
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When threads get derailed. lawl jk. BUT SERIOUSLY.
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Damn tropical storm didn't even come NEAR me. What the CHRIST. It's like, slightly breezy outside. 20 mph winds maybe? We get that from regular old storms all the time!
I want something INTERESTING already. I want to get hit by a category 2 or something.
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I want something INTERESTING already. I want to get hit by a category 2 or something.
Be careful what you wish for.
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Damn tropical storm didn't even come NEAR me. What the CHRIST. It's like, slightly breezy outside. 20 mph winds maybe? We get that from regular old storms all the time!
I want something INTERESTING already. I want to get hit by a category 2 or something.
It just rained here, and it wasn't even windy. It was rather boring, I'm surprised my power even went out.
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Be careful what you wish for.
Yeah, you're probably right. Dammit. Now that's srsly gonna come true in a few months :x
Okay, I really meant I want to be directly hit by a strong tropical storm/weak category 1. Got that, mother nature?
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Be careful what you wish for.
Funny, last I heard it was picking up strength.
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Funny, last I heard it was picking up strength.
Yeah, barely. It's kinda just farting westward across florida now, we got a band of rain earlier but that's it. If the storm goes any farther south while drifting slowly westward we'll get raped by rain as it passes to our north. At least for a little while.
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That sound so lovely...I hope that it just goes over mexico and out the other side.
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My PS2 STILL wont read discs. After I opened it and spent about an hour adjusting the lazer so I could AT LEAST read PS2 games. God damn, I'm never buying an early-ish Sony product (I think is a second year PS2 anyways).
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Is the laser reader wire loose for it?
Sometimes tapping it down with elctrical tape works. (It worked for my 1st PS2 and my original PSX).
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My PS2 STILL wont read discs. After I opened it and spent about an hour adjusting the lazer so I could AT LEAST read PS2 games. God damn, I'm never buying an early-ish Sony product (I think is a second year PS2 anyways).
I've got a V4 PS2, and those are pretty old now. It still works fine.
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i put 6 various coins in a little treasure chest which i filled with olive oil.
a year later i found the chest and the olive oil had turned to blue slime. WHAT THE HELL. so the stuff disintegrated the exposed sides of the coin, and no matter how much i clean the coins, they're all slimy.
edit: hee hee, i took pics.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v682/IceBlasphemy/100_2362.jpg)
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That's a pretty terrible picture, you know.
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What kind of wood is the box made out of?
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i put 6 various coins in a little treasure chest which i filled with olive oil.
...THE FUCK WHY?
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I hate my dogs.
One of the little bastards tried to kill my oldest cat...she fucked him up. His face is all strached up.
My dad wanted me to get her out of his and my mom's room but I told him it's not get clawed in the face and loosing my eye sight over. The dog that did try to kill her not only got his face stratched up but he got a few good punches as well...damn dog is lucky I didn't punt him.
I know it seem like animal abuse what I did but it's not worth having my cat killed when I have had her for so long.
So for punishment all three dogs are in their kennles with muzzles and shock training collars...that should teach them don't fuck with my cat.
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That's a pretty terrible picture, you know.
I know my camera sucks huge black cock. I can't do any better.
What kind of wood is the box made out of?
It's actually plastic. Clear plastic with brown plastic corners. It's a neat little thing... I'm pretty sure when I bought it it came with some little chocolate gold doubloons.
...THE FUCK WHY?
Because olive oil works very well at removing grime and dirt from the surfaces of coins. So does pure acetone and WD-40, the latter of which I've tried before (I need to try acetone, from what I hear it works best on silver coins though).
You can also use muriatic acid (pool chlorine) to temporarily see the date on a dateless Buffalo nickel (one that has had the date worn entirely off). It's pretty cool, tried that a year or so ago.
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Acetone is a very useful solvent. It can clean a lot of things up really well.
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When your keys get stuck in a keyring on your keys. ARGH.
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McCain also stated that Americans are supporting the "brave little nation" of Georgia against Russia's military attacks. [150] McCain spoke with President Mikhail Saakashvili of Georgia, and told him "I know I speak for every American when I say, 'Today, we are all Georgians'."[151] "Russia should immediately and unconditionally cease its military operations and withdraw all forces from sovereign Georgian territory. What is most critical now is to avoid further confrontation between Russian and Georgian military forces," McCain said on August 8, 2008.[152]
The fact that most western news stations bent the truth about the Georgia-Ossetia-Russia conflict to make it look like Georgia wasn't at fault, and the fact that McCain took advantage of that.
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Squealing children on a bus. :(
Made worse by their mothers cackling at a deafening volume on their cellphones.
Never before have I wanted to punch a baby.
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Acetone is a very useful solvent. It can clean a lot of things up really well.
No duh.
Acetone is a Ketone.
Ketones have a composition of a cabohydrate group (ie. Hexane, octane) but end in an OH group. Basicly good for disolving Organic compounds (non-polar for those of you in curently in Gen. Chem) and ionic compounds (polar bonds or ionic bound).
Hey I am a chem major I do know this stuff.
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See, I'm not a chem major, though I knew it was a Ketone, I didn't know much about the actual composition and reactivity stuff that has to do with the exact composition.
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I think the damn coin-counting machine at my bank shorted me a few bucks. What the cock.
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I think the damn coin-counting machine at my bank shorted me a few bucks. What the cock.
Well there is always the sledge hammer method.
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I think the damn coin-counting machine at my bank shorted me a few bucks. What the cock.
"If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself."
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"If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself."
I can't possibly calculate the amount of time it would've taken me to individually count and roll the ~$3000 worth of coins I've gone through in the past month :x
I think using that machine, even if it shorts me a few bucks, is far better than the amount of time that would've disappeared from my life counting those coins.
Also, angers me that I went through another $1000 in half dollars today and found absolutely NO silver. Gigantic ballsack, that last bag.
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I can't possibly calculate the amount of time it would've taken me to individually count and roll the ~$3000 worth of coins I've gone through in the past month :x
I think using that machine, even if it shorts me a few bucks, is far better than the amount of time that would've disappeared from my life counting those coins.
Also, angers me that I went through another $1000 in half dollars today and found absolutely NO silver. Gigantic ballsack, that last bag.
Damn I wish I had that much.
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this friend i have, this is why he rages me. ive had him blocked for about two weeks now, till he does what i want him to do.
-21 years old, closing in on 22
-lives at parents house (which is ok, depending on your financial situation, but im adding it still)
-not making any attempts to get drivers license
-not making any attempts to get another job (quit his old job)
-HORRIBLY ADDICTED TO WOW (his WoW friends literally give him codes to keep playing...)
so we have this short fat balding 21 year old kid who sits at home playing WoW all day with no job or license.
all i ask is he go out driving every other day using the permet he got two months ago (like his 4th permit) THATS ALL
do that for about a month, get comfy with driving, get license, look for job. but no, he doesn't even put forth the small effort it takes to get comfortable driving.
i was similar, only i had my license, and i was actively looking for a job, which i got. but this guy isn't even trying, and thats what matters.
AINT GOING TO GO ANYWHERE IN LIFE IF YOU DON'T EVEN PUT FORTH ANY EFFORT AT ALL.
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I understand that he is a friend and all Vlad but if he ruins his own life...thats his damn problem.
Unless he is aware of what he is doing he will not change at all.
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I'm not exaggerating when I say that I probably killed 50 fucking fruit flies tonight. Argh, those things are annoying.
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At the Canfield Fair I take it?
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No, they're just getting through the screens on my windows. They're those little buggers that seem to like to hump computer monitors while you use them.
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Well maybe you shouldn't use banana scented glass cleaner to clean your monitor Spec :P
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i wouldn't be surprised if ive eaten 20 or so fruit flies...nasally...
inhale too quick, they get sucked right in, you don't notice it.
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The mosquitoes around here suck whenever there's water around. Like, during marching, I've inhaled a few mosquitoes while taking a breath (one at a time, of course, but English can be ambiguous). Also, oftentimes, frisbee games are cut short due to people getting eaten by mosquitoes. At least they'll be gone come winter.
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I can't possibly calculate the amount of time it would've taken me to individually count and roll the ~$3000 worth of coins I've gone through in the past month :x
Don't they make automatic change sorters/wrappers for home use? I dont imagine one costing too much.
I've inhaled a few mosquitoes when taking breaths.
I wonder if that's a better way to word it
Why the hell does SMF use an author=name attribute in the [quote] tag instead of author=userID ? =<
or how about being to use either? Now that would make some fucking sense. If you used the user id #, the page could be rewritten with the users current display name if they change it, instead of the username of the user at the posted time.
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I wonder if that's a better way to word it
I don't think there is a better way. Probably a more lengthy but less ambiguous way, like "On several occasions I've inhaled a mosquito while taking a breath." Actually, that wasn't so bad.
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RAGE
Vlad, I have to agree that that guy really needs to change things. Unfortunately, the only person who can change things is him (and possibly his parents, if they kick him out and force him to find someplace else to live).
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ok, the last 3 times the word "vlad" was used, it was incorrectly capitalized.
Sorry. just pointing it out.
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Don't they make automatic change sorters/wrappers for home use? I dont imagine one costing too much.
They don't, but then I'd have to buy rolls and the machine itself, and still take them to the same bank anyway just because that's my dump bank. It's entirely impractical.
The fact that I can't get ahold of Sears' coin shop in any way, shape or form without physically driving down there. What the hell.
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Once again YSU fails at life.
Here is why:
Katie: this one person i talked to said that YSU had a choice of different systems to choose from. one of the systems many people told them not to go with. that just so happens to be the one they decided on simply b/c of the fact that it was cheaper than all the better one
Hence why I got screwed over majorly for school this semester and not only me but others as well. The didn't even get my loan stuff when I did it and I sent it.
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My dog keeps licking her damn stitches.
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Oh yeah, I wanted to post this yesterday: People who spend the entire course of the lecture complaining about how they don't understand the material. Yesterday in Physics, the professor was showing us applications of the basic formula for electromagnetic force. He was going somewhat fast, but a couple of people on my left and I were following. There were 2 people to my right, and 2 more in front of them, who spent the entire lecture complaining to each other about how difficult it was and how the professor was going too fast.
I really hope they drop that course and switch majors, because it's the beginning of the semester and it's only going to get more complex.
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I never took physics in high school. Nor do I really want to take it in college. I'm really not a physical person.
I'm mental. :3
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*Badum cha*
YSU physics department=shitty teachers
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Chartiers valley high school physics department = an old lady named Dottie.
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This guy seems like a good teacher. He knows what he's talking about, he's just talking fast and being rather presumptuous with common sense. I don't fault him for that, though, because not everyone should be majoring in physics/engineering, and it's a tactic to weed people out.
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My god damned school e mail is not letting me access it, so I have no clue what books I need, which means I'm going to be far behind in my shit. FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK.
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FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK.
*Sung in the "Hot Pocket" tune.* Fuckpocket.
My god damned school e mail is not letting me access it, so I have no clue what books I need, which means I'm going to be far behind in my shit.
That's some bull shit nigga.
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See, my school at least got that part right, I can access my book list, my course registration, and a bunch of other stuff right away by logging into their "Banner" system. Unfortunately, their online system for online courses and all that sort of stuff, Blackboard, is apparently a gigantic pile of shit.
Physics is really cool, however, I failed it in highschool because I HATE labs. It's like "do some stupid little experiment, then make some huge retarded writeup that goes into way more depth than necessary to explain something you probably already understood thanks to encountering it every single day of your life".
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Ugh! Blackboard. I'm so glad only one or two of my professors ever used that.
My Java prof doesn't even bother with it. <3
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My god damned school e mail is not letting me access it, so I have no clue what books I need, which means I'm going to be far behind in my shit. FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK.
Huh. My college email account just redirects to my gmail account. I wonder why more schools don't do that.
The only online course tool thing I have to use is MasteringPhysics, which isn't bad, but I wish my prof assigned more problems in variables and less that required a calculator.
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Fucking jackass campers.
Jesus christ. Last night I wasn't sure when I was supposed to work until. I signed out at 4 AM because ever since 11 PM the place was quiet. There was 1 fire going in one of the sections, and another section was completely asleep (no fires, nobody up, nothing). The place was SILENT. There were a couple seasonal sites still up, but after the party was broke up at 11, there was nothing going on.
So anyway, I leave, and apparently after that a bunch of fucking jackasses decide to light off fireworks, and party at fucking 5 AM. What the fuck. It's 5 Fucking AM, why the fuck are they still awake, let alone partying? It's a campground/trailor park, not a fucking party site. We do have people who rent sites just to pitch a tent and sleep.
So yeah, apparently the guy who runs the place (my boss, and the only other guy to be on the security now), ended up doing security after I left, because of those jackasses.
Fuck.
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After I get everything established and stuff I plan to save up for a new laptop. I still love my Inspiron but it's a bit dated, to be honest. After all, I've had it for about three years now...not too surprising that it'd be a bit outdated.
I was considering picking up a MacBook. After looking through the Apple store, I quickly reconsidered. Seriously, what is up with their prices? It's extortion! It's precisely why my next laptop is going to be another Dell.
A high-resolution, UWXGA 17" display is an absolute must for me. Apple's only model with a 17" display costs a whopping $2800, plus another $100 upgrade is required to bring it up to UWXGA (normally, its resolution is only 1680x1050...reasonably high, yes, but not high enough for how I work). Just as a reference, the system had a 2.5GHz Core 2 Duo, 2GB of RAM, a 5400rpm 200GB hard drive, a DVD writer, and a GeForce 8600M GT. Not bad.
I went right over to Dell after headdesking over the price and came to the conclusion that I could get a system with the same processor, the same memory size and speed, a faster, 7200rpm hard drive, the UWXGA display and, wait for it, dual GeForce 8700M GT cards -- A FAR BETTER SYSTEM in overall performance -- for something like $400 cheaper. Wow.
I can't wait until the novelty of Apple wears off and they actually have to start trying to be competitive.
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Wow that's awesome Spec.
Yeah Apple overprices EVERYTHING they sell. Thats why if I do get an MP3 player it is going to be a Zune or a Zen.
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Konsole. Or at least the Konsole that came with this Mandriva installation. Look, when I type in "rm -R *", it means "Get rid of absolutely everything in the current directory." It does not mean "Ask me before deleting each file." THERE ARE OVER 500 FILES IN OVER 25 SUBDIRECTORIES. THERE'S A REASON I USED A *. So YES. YES IT'S OK TO DESCEND INTO THAT DIRECTORY, AND YES, IT'S OK TO DELETE THAT FILE. STOP ASKING AND DO IT. FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
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That doesn't have anything to do with Konsole, it all depends on how your aliases are set up in bash.
Most distros have rm set up to automatically pass the -f argument (or, at least, not to pass the -i argument). If -f is passed, rm never asks you for permission to delete any files.
There are two solutions to this problem:
1) Use rm -f when deleting a large number of files.
2) echo "alias rm='rm -f'" >> ~/.bashrc ...then log out and log back in
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Oh. Thanks for that.
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No sweat. :)
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I ate my soup too fast; now I have a tummy ache. :(
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When people, primarily girls, vaguely advertise how they feel about some situation using their Facebook status. Like, when you see "<name> hates guys." or "<name> doesn't know how to take this." or "<name> hopes this friendship won't be broken." or "<name> wonders how this is going to eventually turn out." If you're going to be that vague, don't put it in your Facebook status; keep it to yourself or between whoever you have the issue with and yourself. It's that simple. Either be specific or, if that's too embarrassing/revealing for you, don't update your status.
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I like having status wars.
"x is not going to take this"
"y is definitely not going to take this"
"x is sure as hell not going to take this anymore"
"y wonders how y is going to get through this"
"x doesn't even know how x could take it in the first place"
"y says x should take it in the butt."
"x ..."
"y says "OWNED, BITCH!""
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My brother keeps fucking drinking my Disaronno. Next time I catch him drinking my booze, he's never getting on this computer again, and fuck what my parents say. I payed $35 for that bottle, and he keeps drinking more of it.
Fucking asshole.
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My brother keeps fucking drinking my Disaronno. Next time I catch him drinking my booze, he's never getting on this computer again, and fuck what my parents say. I payed $35 for that bottle, and he keeps drinking more of it.
Fucking asshole.
My brother does similar thing but with food.
For example my dad will make an apple crisp one night and I will be at work until close.
I try to get some the next day and it is gone.
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VLC on my Eee keeps crashing because of the codec my Welcom to the NHK! contains. They're all .mkv, but they have stability issues with the version of VLC I have installed. I prefer watching subtitled anime on a laptop, so it really bothers me that I can't watch Welcone to the NHK!, especiall since it seems like it's worth watching.
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Hint: VLC is not the be all and end all of video players, try MPC or Zoom player (providing the codecs are registered, I forget of VLC's codecs are available to other players or not).
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What peels my potatoes? The fact that I'm now three weeks into the semester, and my psych class has yet to teach me anything new. It's so incredibly BORING. Gah.
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Welcome to school. Every time you start a new class, I can pretty much guarantee that if you've even "touched on" a subject in an earlier class, 3/4 of what the course will "teach" you has already been covered.
Also, my new laptop. whoever decided that it would be a good idea to have the "pre-installed" programs to come in a recovery partition, which was to be used to recover them, and then a annoying "Preparing your system" window that comes up every time I log in with no warning or indication of progress, aside from the periodical reboots it preforms (with no indication as to whether the process is finished).
In short, I want to strangle whoever designed this ridiculous "recover" process. For fuck's sake, just give me a CD with all the programs and let me install them manually, considering I'm probably never going to use 3/4ths of what it installs, and may even delete/uninstall a number of them :/
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Welcome to school. Every time you start a new class, I can pretty much guarantee that if you've even "touched on" a subject in an earlier class, 3/4 of what the course will "teach" you has already been covered.
Yeah, I know. x.x I expect it to get worse as I continue to take psych courses. I've already gone through four, if you include the one I took in high school.
I'm experiencing a similar situation in my piano II class, but it's not quite as bad, as our professor has finally decided to let people move ahead in the book if they want to.
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lucky for me, I don't have much to do for my classes, my psych class has 1 assignment and 3 tests. My math class has a number of tests, but they have a re-test for each module that if I do well enough on, can be used as my mark for that test, so I don't have to re-learn all that crap again. Most of my classes seem to be mostly just tests with a couple assignments, and tests being worth a lot more than the assignments in most cases.
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My back and a large portion of my body are hideously sore from use today at Adventure Island, an awesome busch gardens waterpark I went to with some friends.
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Still don't have my books or know what supplies need for 2 classes. Have no clue if I should hand draft (I can't draw for shit, it's really that bad) or try and learn architectural auto cad quickly so I can use it. So I'm worried about school, and I can't get sleep.
That and my parents leave the AC on 80 constantly, and my room is the last in line to get central air. My room is also small and has a big TV and a big PC on in it almost constantly at night, so my room is basicly 85 to 90 degrees at night. Really, I'm sitting in my chair with my shirt off and I was starting to sweat a little, yet my parents flip out when I turn down the AC to 75.
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two of the best tracks in bionic commando rearmed, the final boss fight, and the escape music, not on the fucking soundtrack.
if you know of any link whatsoever or something that has them, id be very pleased. id rather not try and rip it myself, it would be a lot of work for just two mp3's
and no spektur, its not illegal warez stuff, its not on the OST, therefore not really available unless i play those parts of the game.
this is the best i can get to listening to the music, and i have machine gun fire, rockets exploding lasers, hitler screaming, ect covering it up.
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ARGH, Vista makes sharing files between vista and XP a pain in the ass. That's one major thing I hate about vista. I like a lot of stuff with it, but that one thing is fucking retarded. I go to vista's help file to find out if it has anything to say about my XP computer not showing up. It does, and redirects me to a download for XP. I go download the XP fix, go to run it, but it turns out my SP3 is too new for this fix, so I can't even get the network discovery stuff installed so vista can see XP.
Fuck you Microsoft.
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That and my parents leave the AC on 80 constantly, and my room is the last in line to get central air. My room is also small and has a big TV and a big PC on in it almost constantly at night, so my room is basicly 85 to 90 degrees at night. Really, I'm sitting in my chair with my shirt off and I was starting to sweat a little, yet my parents flip out when I turn down the AC to 75.
I have almost the same situation- my dad leaves it on 80 or 82 and my room is always the hottest in the entire house. If it weren't for the floor fan pointed straight at my open doorway, my air would become evil and stagnant.
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The SimTower installer is 16-bit. I'm using Vista 64. I also couldn't get the installer working with my Eee's wine. I can only hope that I can instal it on a 32-bit and then copy the files over. I remember playing this game 12 years ago and enjoying it all too much. Now that I got it for free, I HAVE TO PLAY IT.
EDIT: I seem to have found a free download of a 32-bit port disguised as a sequel. Problem solved.
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Never got to play it. I'll have to look into that...
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I found it at abandonia, but to get the port (Yoot Tower (??)), I had to go somewhere else and install some cursor plugin for IE before downloading, which I didn't really mind too much, since I never use it.
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I'm sick.
I have to be up in four hours.
I can't fall asleep to save my fucking life.
I have to remain at school until 4pm at the earliest. (I'm done with class at 2, but I've got to stay for a meeting.)
I've got a test tomorrow.
I feel like shit.
I can't see very well.
So many peeled potatoes.
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I'm sick.
I have to be up in four hours.
I can't fall asleep to save my fucking life.
I have to remain at school until 4pm at the earliest. (I'm done with class at 2, but I've got to stay for a meeting.)
I've got a test tomorrow.
I feel like shit.
I can't see very well.
So many peeled potatoes.
Damn potatos and damn cooties Jupi >_<
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Those awful restaraunt eggs that taste like iron and rubber. You know what I'm talking about. Those little, flat egg pancake-looking monstrosities. Oh god, yuck.
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ARGH, Vista makes sharing files between vista and XP a pain in the ass. That's one major thing I hate about vista. I like a lot of stuff with it, but that one thing is fucking retarded. I go to vista's help file to find out if it has anything to say about my XP computer not showing up. It does, and redirects me to a download for XP. I go download the XP fix, go to run it, but it turns out my SP3 is too new for this fix, so I can't even get the network discovery stuff installed so vista can see XP.
Fuck you Microsoft.
My mom's laptop and my computer are both running Vista. My system has UAC and firewall disabled, hers has both on. We have had precisely zero problems connecting to any XP (SP2 and SP3) or Linux machine, and vice versa, without changing anything. All I did was enable file sharing in the network and sharing center and everything worked without any additional configuration.
The SimTower installer is 16-bit. I'm using Vista 64. I also couldn't get the installer working with my Eee's wine. I can only hope that I can instal it on a 32-bit and then copy the files over. I remember playing this game 12 years ago and enjoying it all too much. Now that I got it for free, I HAVE TO PLAY IT.
SimTower is bloody amazing.
If you still like a bunch of Win16 games, look into installing Virtual PC or some other virtualization solution, and installing a copy of 32-bit Windows. If you want to keep the size of the image down, trim it down with nLite (http://www.nliteos.com/).
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Well, I dunno what it was, but something worked. I could see the samba share on my MyBook right from the start (I mapped it as a drive as one of the first things I did on here).
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secret challenge rooms in bionic commando
normally i wouldn't rage, they are secrets, and its fine for them to be boarderline impossible.
but actually ATTEMPTING TO BEAT some of them.
MY BLOOD IS BOILING FUCK YOU CHALLENGE ROOM 3 AND "ohh ill only take 4 seconds to beat" BURN IN FIRE
YOU AND THE ONLY 15 PEOPLE ON THE LEADERBOARDS TO BEAT YOU OVNBKBomrinbmdkorgjoprhdfohpkpdohkfh
wtb proper arcade stick, good d-pad (i use analog because of this), or even keyboard controlls. else this shit ain't going to happen.
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The fact that I'm still sick
I STILL don't have normal electricity back in my house. We're closing in on a week of this shit. I'm on a friend's laptop right now because I really miss the internet. :(
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My dog just had surgery on one of her back legs, and now the other leg is starting to have problems, and we pretty much don't have the money to deal with this now.
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:( I'm so sorry. It's tough watching someone go through that.
Give your doggie lots of soft hugs. <3
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Idiots that put up the letters on the sign in front of my school spelled Florida wrong. Christ.
CONGRATULATIONS TO
JOYCE SVABEK
TOP 100 MATH TEACHERS
IN FLORDIA
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Apparently not the top 100 english teachers
OH PIE
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Apparently not the top 100 english teachers
OH PIE
Hahahaha, that's exactly what I thought when I saw it.
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- my power was out all of last week
- I was quite sick for the majority of last week as well, and ended up missing two days of classes. It would've been three, but all of Monday's classes were canceled due to the school not having power either.
- Sunday night, as I was working on/saving my java assignment for the week, my power went out. File went kaput.
- Since I missed class on Wednesday, I missed what turned out to be a rather important lecture and explanation of a test scheduled for today.
I show up to class this morning
- Can't turn in my assignment even if it hadn't gone kaput. Despite my being sick and having no electricity, he wouldn't take it. I was kinda miffed, but really, I understood. At that moment, I figured I could recover from one missed assignment without much trouble.
- I then find out we're having a test that day - all on stuff that I missed last week. We were allowed to use our notes and stuffs, but since I missed class, I didn't even have any notes.
So not only did I miss out on the one assignment, I quite likely failed my test; as I HIGHLY doubt what I was able to turn in would constitute as passing.
I think I could just kill my friend Joe for getting me sick. Grr.
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Wow, that sucks ass.
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You bet your sweet bippy it does. ><
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Yeah, that really does. What a cock situation.
I meant to go in for extra Calculus help after school today cause I was confused about a few problems, but totally forgot to. D'oh.
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Yay, I got a 45/100 on that test... ><
Still, it's better than I thought...-.-
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Delivered some more phone books around my area so for extra money for my mom.
When going around to different houses I noticed that almost 60% of the houses had Ohio State merchandice.
Here is my gripe: They are not Ohio State fans, they are Jim Tressel fans.
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I just took my first physics exam. When I got to the room, I realized that I forgot my calculator. It was multiple choice, but the majority of the questions used really complex constants, so all I could do is work out the problem with everything being a power of 10 to narrow the answers down.
In short, I fucked up. Bad.
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Ouch, that sucks. I don't even have a calculator right now, though, lol. I've been using my laptop.
I lost my books for my Communications course... Fuck, those things aren't cheap.
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I meant to go in for extra Calculus help after school today cause I was confused about a few problems, but totally forgot to. D'oh.
I got a 56/100 on said test today.
My first failed Calculus test! Yay. Barely managed a B for the grading period though :>
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Man, it throws me off when people talk about 5x/100 being a fail, lol.
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Man, it throws me off when people talk about 5x/100 being a fail, lol.
How, do you fail tests blow 70 or 40 or something? Or were you just a smarty-pants :P
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Here 50 is the passing grade, so getting a 5x% on something is still a pass. Mind you some courses in college require more than 50% to get the credit, but getting the credit and passing are 2 (slightly) different things in that sense. But in highschool, if you have a 50% overall score, you still pass.
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Fucking Canada
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Fucking Canada
^^^^^^^
Also, the Sam's Club we went to just now didn't have the Sour Punch Straws I usually buy, which really blows, because they were cheap and wonderful sellers. I had to settle for weird, individually wrapped, expensive Sour Punch Straw Twists that I'm not sure will sell as well. Ah, fie.
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It's sixty-seven fucking degrees outside.
And yet my mom insists on running the fucking air conditioner. She claims she's not cold, yet she's lying around with a thick comforter wrapped around her.
Fucking hell. ><
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Silly Americans.
You're an American, too. A North American. <3
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In health class, we're doing a unit on drugs and alcohol, of which the teachers are using scare tactics and blatant lies to try and stop kids from using them (esp. marijuana). Also, the sex ed. unit is abstinence-only.
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Well I have a nice wound thanks to the ticket poker at work...hurts like hell.
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In health class, we're doing a unit on drugs and alcohol, of which the teachers are using scare tactics and blatant lies to try and stop kids from using them (esp. marijuana). Also, the sex ed. unit is abstinence-only.
Wow really? They were really pretty condom positive in my school. Hell, I remember them telling us you could still contract AIDS with a condom on.
Also MARIJUANA IS A GATE WAY DRUG HURRR DURRRR.
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In health class, we're doing a unit on drugs and alcohol, of which the teachers are using scare tactics and blatant lies to try and stop kids from using them (esp. marijuana). Also, the sex ed. unit is abstinence-only.
Argh, shit like that REALLY pisses me off. You know what you should do? Go do some research (using stuff like pubmed for reliable sources) and call out the teacher's lies.
Also, if a teacher told me that abstinence was the only way I'd tell them to go fuck themselves, thank them for contributing to teen pregnancy, and misinforming the public, and walk out.
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My dad is a moron.
Okay I am actually watching TV while eating dinner and a commercial comes up for Obama and I hear my dad calls him a facist, communistic, marx socialist nigger who will just be the worst canidate for next president. You know that pissed me off because there is more then enough evidence to show all the bullshit that Bush and his Forbes 500 buddies have done to screw over this country.
I told him to actually look into the Marx way of thought and he said it is Obama.
THAT JUSTIFIES NOTHING!
I heard that Mcain wants to re-enstate the draft which means if he wins I will tell my parents not to come to my funeral.
I have peeled many potatos, cut them, deep fried them, and are being served for everyone on S.Net.
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Well, McCain can't directly reinstate the draft, but does believe that "...we nations of like values and principles and belief in democracy and freedom should make efforts to modify the behavior of other nations." Meaning that he most likely supports us invading Iraq to tell them how to run their country and thinks we should do that to more countries.
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Which is absolute bullshit.
I'm not even an American citizen, and I want to fucking vote :/
But seriously, it's people like him that make me want to round up all the fucking racist, bigoted morons and kick them the fuck out of the continent. Just toss them on a big fucking ship without any engines or steering.
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Yeah, I hate McCain for his foreign policy, which most people tend to not pay attention to. I notice this when I tell them why I'm voting for Obama.
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Yeah, and Obama's running mate (I can never remember his name) seems to have pretty decent foreign policy, from the little bit I know (which is likely his only redeeming factor, considering he has a pretty oppressive view of technology/the internet.)
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I have a canker sore in my mouth that I've had for a week now and just won't go away. Arrrrrghhh...
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I'm really hoping that my thoughts can just be attributed to my general mood as of late.
I'm just ready to give up on all of this. I'm too damn stupid to handle my classes, I'm too damn stupid to handle my father and his asshattery...I can't seem to do anything right lately. Hell, I've managed to get into the same argument three times with my music professor, because he can't seem to understand when I'm playing something in 6/8. I'm normally not one to be all "I'm right, they're wrong;" but I AM freakin' right for once. If he would actually let me play the damn stuff for more than two seconds before stopping me while shouting "WRONG!" I don't think I'd be rather tempted to pick up the keyboard and throw it at him. x.x
(Think about the loud guy from "2 Stupid Dogs." Yesterday he came REALLY close to saying the guy's catchphrase. He said "Wow, that sounded really nice...But it's WRONG!"
What I want/need is a near complete change of scenery. I want to get the hell out of my house...Things could certainly be a lot worse there, yeah, but the way my parents are is NOT helping my situation. I also want to go to a different school. Even if I go into debt, just about anything has got to be better than this college I'm in right now.
Obviously, getting the hell out of my house requires a job, because I gave pretty much all of my savings to my dad last year. He insisted he'd be able to pay me back all at once four months later, but I guess I shouldn't have expected that to actually happen. It turned out to take more than eight months, and I've only been getting it back in $50/$100 increments, and I haven't been able to save that.
Unfortunately, I can't even handle my freakin' classes right now, so there's pretty much no way I'd be able to handle both them and a job. :/ Part of me thinks I should take a year or so off and just work so I can save money/get out of my house; but at the same time, I'm afraid that once I get out of school I won't want to go back in, considering how miserable I've been since I started here.
I think I'll move to Australia. :P
[/emo-woe-is-me-rant] I know what several solutions to my problems would be. I'm just afraid to go through with any of them. -_-
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So the jackass I mentioned in the quotes thread stole my clarinet as retaliation for stealing his hot pot (which I didn't actually do). I got it back after yelling at him. I've been thinking of several retaliations, including:
- Making brownies with laxatives in them
- Making brownies with pubic hair in them
- Making brownies with semen in them
- Making brownies with all of the above in them
- Removing the hard drive and ram from his computer and setting them on top with a screwdriver
- Renaming his Windows folder in his computer and then not fixing it
- Starting a torrent in the background of his computer so his internet gets shut off and he has to pay $45 to get it working again
- Stealing his bible
- Stealing a piece of his ROTC uniform
- Stealing his toothbrush
- Stealing his alarm clock
- Stealing his CD's
- Stealing his mailbox key
- Stealing his school ID
- Telling his roommate that he stole his car to make a Taco Bell run while his roommate was asleep and got a ticket for running a red light
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Even better steal the Bible and replace it with a copy of the Koran.
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Semen would be easy to hide in a batch of brownies. He would probably miss it.
Also I can semi relate to the whole school thing Jupi. I have a shit TON of school work to do (a whole house blue print, a 3D model, and a I have to read about 20 chapters for a damn test). Also, I hate that feeling you get when everyone else in the class seems much more competent.
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I've got a little less than a month to try and salvage my grades. :/ October 29th is the last day I can drop anything without it affecting my GPA.
I'm somewhat convinced I can recover in Java. I just let it get ahead of me.
As for Trig, I don't know what in fuck's name is wrong with me. I freakin' know this stuff, but I can't fuckin' spit it out for the tests.
I've got music again tomorrow morning. Can't wait to see how well that goes. -_-...
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I'd go for laxatives, if you can be relatively sure nobody else will eat them too.
Also, stealing the bible would be cool, replacing it with the koran would be even cooler.
Doing something stupid to fuck his computer up would be awesome. I vote for the background torrent thing. It can't be that hard to hide a torrent program from him.
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I think the torrent starting is about the only one that won't get you into XBOX HUEG amounts of trouble if you're caught, so go with that.
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Yeah, while I really understand that you'd want to do something to horse around with that guy, messing with people's food is srs business to the cops.
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I almost got in trouble by my parents.
My younger brother misplaced his phone and accused my youngest brother that he took it (which he didn't). So he attacks my youngest brother and I being in the room playing 360 interjected and stopped him from doing so.
Then he decides to attack me which in the ongoing stuggle (more like me trying to hit him while he runs like a little bitch) a pack of cigs come out of his hoodie pocket. He runs away I pick them up and anounce to my dad that I found smokes that where his. He tries to play it off, saying the cigs are mine and tries to get me trouble. Dad didn't believe him. HOwever when my mom got home he almost manipulated her that they where mine.
I hate him so much.
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Wow, that's ridiculous.
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Whats worse my moom is now in a pissy mood and is ballin' downstairs pissed off at me because she is sick of the fighting.
I don't start fights with my younger brother, I just end them as fast as I possibly can.
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Ugh, I hate when crap like that happens. Luckily, in my case, my mom is the type to be really angry and just stop listening and refuse to hear anything, but that essentially puts me in the same situation of being unable to explain things or to try to resolve the whole issue instead of just letting things sit.
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Some one do me a favor and get me a strong drink please.
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Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right. Also, for this country, that our leaders, our national leaders, are sending [US soldiers] out on a task that is from God. That's what we have to make sure that we're praying for, that there is a plan and that that plan is God's plan.
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God's will has to be done in unifying people and companies to get that gas line built.
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God has sent me, from underneath the umbrella of this church, throughout the state.
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My jaw dropped when I read that, and I still haven't closed my mouth.
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This is one reason why I refuse to re-convert to monotheisim.
!Edit!
I watched a little bit of the Vice- Prez canidate debate and I could not stand it. My dad (being a Rpublican) kept enterjecting how Obama is wrong and the libarals are gay ect ect...I just left the living room for my own sake. Just as I was walking up the steps I heard something about the Fight in Iraq was done in "god's" name.
There you go folks it's the god damn Crusaides all over agian.
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Dude, it's the fucking republicans. The way I see it, every republican except for the few moderates that somehow manage to survive there, is a mentally retarded creationist religious zealot who's brain is surely a miracle, since it's impossible for someone who subscribes to rational thought to actually believe all that bullshit.
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A small peeve: Filename inconsistencies in TV shows/anime. I'm watching Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni, and some of the episodes have [wind] in front of the title but the rest have it after. It's pretty annoying, since 5 random episodes are before the actual first episode if they're sorted by name (and they're ALWAYS sorted by name).
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Yeah, I can't stand stuff like that.
I also hate when people make torrents of entire series of anime, and use multiple fansub groups. The only time I will accept that is when a group only did part of the series and dropped it or something, and another group took their place, and I still can't stand when that happens.
Also, when translation groups drop a project just because it was licensed in the US.
Sorry guys, but it's illegal both ways, and as far as I'm concerned, those translation companies don't deserve my money either way, so either I watch my anime fansubbed, or I don't watch it at all, and I much prefer watching it to not.
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So I just went to a birthday dinner for my section leader. A lot of the clarinet section was there and so were a few of her friends. There were about 25 people total.
The waiter didn't give us separate checks.
Half of us didn't have any cash on us because we expected to pay with a card when we got our separate checks.
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Oh wow, that's really silly. Couldn't you have gotten him to reprint the receipts?
Also, the girlfriend is already saying she ruined Homecoming (which is tonight). Awesome.
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He didn't know who ordered what, so that wasn't possible.
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The same exact thing happened to me last night when I went out for dinner. Two couples and the guy didn't think to split the bill. What a dumbass. We didn't tip him too much :x
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due to my fuckedass financial situation, my folks pretty much had me pack up all my 360 stuff to ebay it at some point. Iwill let you guys know what lot#/link it is when It's posted, because I'd rather someone from here get it that I know will at least treat it all nicely.
Warning: I have a ton of shit, and it will all be in one lot. Everything.
That's alright though. I still have muh ps2 w/ flip top and my beatmania, so if I feel the need to game, I have those.
I just need to focus on gettin like 2 part time jobs or something to dilute this strain.
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Ouch, that blows. Care to explain any further?
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People who genuinely believe that allowing gay marriage is genocide because it discourages heterosexuals to get married and have kids.
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People who genuinely believe that allowing gay marriage is genocide because it discourages heterosexuals to get married and have kids.
If I were someone that was against gay marriage I'd want to have as many heterosexual marriages as possible! It'd be like a contest.
"SHIT SON! Those gays just married another five couples today!"
"Well shucks howdy! We've gotta marry SIX couples today!"
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I went on an awesome bike ride just now, stepped in my house and had a terrible panic attack. Then I call my girlfriend to find out her mom doesn't want us to see each other as much anymore so she can focus on school. Wonderful.
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What's with the panic attack?
And why can't your girlfriend tell her parents to go fuck themselves and stop managing her life like she's a child?
Seriously, I don't get what goes through parents minds when they decide that they want their child to stop going out with someone in order to focus on school. If their kid is focusing more on the person they're going out with than on school, then i think there's a pretty big problem there, and the kid needs to really rethink things.
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What's with the panic attack?
I don't know. I hadn't had any for a good number of years (4?ish) until I had a really, really terrible one a month or two ago. Bad to the point where I had to lay down on the bathroom floor and lie down in a cold sweat for 15 minutes or so, before I could regain my senses. The one today only lasted a few minutes. I must be stressed or something. Oh wait.
Also, angers me to death that this GODDAMN CANKER SORE WON'T GO AWAY. CHRIST. I got one two weeks ago, finally healed up YESTERDAY and a few days through the first one's life cycle I got another one, twice the size, which I still have (hasn't healed one bit) and hurts like A BITCH. ARRRGHGGHH
What's with the panic attack?
And why can't your girlfriend tell her parents to go fuck themselves and stop managing her life like she's a child?
Seriously, I don't get what goes through parents minds when they decide that they want their child to stop going out with someone in order to focus on school. If their kid is focusing more on the person they're going out with than on school, then i think there's a pretty big problem there, and the kid needs to really rethink things.
It's not that she's focusing more on me (well at times she is) but that she just isn't focused period. She can't focus on a damn thing, and her parents are somewhat (mostly) blaming it on me and our relationship. I can definitely see why this is, but it still frustrates me, because I feel like I'm being punished for something that I didn't even do. GAH. Whatever. It's for the better, anyway. I hope. If all of my insanity towards her and our relationship lately is in vain, I'm not going to be a happy camper for quite some time.
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I just slipped and almost fell to the floor, but I caught a desk. However, I was holding a paperclip, and that paperclip got jammed about 1/8 inch under my thumbnail. It's not bleeding anymore, but it FUCKING HURTS.
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due to my fuckedass financial situation, my folks pretty much had me pack up all my 360 stuff to ebay it at some point. Iwill let you guys know what lot#/link it is when It's posted, because I'd rather someone from here get it that I know will at least treat it all nicely.
That's awful, hopefully you can buy most/some of it back when you become financially secure.
People who genuinely believe that allowing gay marriage is genocide because it discourages heterosexuals to get married and have kids.
What the fuck? How is that even remotely comparable? Plus the world is overpopulated like crazy, a slight decline in the population wouldn't do harm at all.
I was holding a paperclip, and that paperclip got jammed about 1/8 inch under my thumbnail.
Jesus fuck, that's medieval.
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It's not that she's focusing more on me (well at times she is) but that she just isn't focused period. She can't focus on a damn thing, and her parents are somewhat (mostly) blaming it on me and our relationship. I can definitely see why this is, but it still frustrates me, because I feel like I'm being punished for something that I didn't even do. GAH. Whatever. It's for the better, anyway. I hope. If all of my insanity towards her and our relationship lately is in vain, I'm not going to be a happy camper for quite some time.
Shitty.
Understandable, in that case, but really shitty.
I hate when other people get blamed for shit that's nobody else's fault but person who's problem it is.
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This belongs both in Happy and this one because:
Spec and I got my puter all fixed and now it is home with me but silly Spectere and I forgot the most important cable for it...my power supply cable.
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ARG. PEOPLE ARE FUCKING STUPID.
WARNING: RANT AHEAD
Seriously, am I the only one who actually learned anything in highschool?
My math class apparently didn't know that our electricity runs at 60Hz. They also didn't understand that Hz are inverse seconds.
How can people be so fucking dense? I knew what Hz were (cycles per second, I didn't know what inverse meant back then) and that our electricity ran at 60Hz in GRADE FUCKING 9!
How on earth can people be so dense and actually pass classes?
Oh, I know how: They fucking cram before every test, and forget it all after the test.
This is why I hate our fucking education. I absolutely refuse to cram for a test, or even bother trying to remember when they are, because I believe that a test should be a TRUE TEST OF WHAT YOU'VE LEARNED. Not just another chance to fool the system into thinking you know more than you do by artificially increasing your test score and forgetting it all afterwards.
And on a related note: God I hate having to sit in class and listen to a teacher explain something 4 or 5 times, just because some of the people are too lazy to pay attention the first 3 times. If they are that lazy and dense, they deserve to fail. And yet our system rewards them for fumbling their way through stupid projects that you'd never realistically do, and cramming for tests.
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None of that stuff was ever taught in any of my classes. :/
Then again, my high school mostly just taught us well enough so we could do well on the state-wide assessment exams. If we did well enough, the school would get more grant money.
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Then again, my high school mostly just taught us well enough so we could do well on the state-wide assessment exams. If we did well enough, the school would get more grant money.
Pretty much how my school is.
Although there are a lot of teachers that are actually halfway decent/good.
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Why does my brother have to call my parents every hour? I swear, he calls every time he leaves a building.
"Hey, I'm going to work."
"Hey, I'm leaving work."
"Hey, I'm going to get some pizza."
"Hey, I'm going to bed."
"Hey, I just woke up in the middle of the night and thought you all deserved to wake up as well."
He moved out LAST fucking SUMMER.
He has seriously called our house at least nine times today. If there's a football game on, and both him and my parents are watching it, he'll call every time someone scores.
Ack. ><
Edit: Make that thirteen times he's called today.
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Why does my brother have to call my parents every hour? I swear, he calls every time he leaves a building.
"Hey, I'm going to work."
"Hey, I'm leaving work."
"Hey, I'm going to get some pizza."
"Hey, I'm going to bed."
"Hey, I just woke up in the middle of the night and thought you all deserved to wake up as well."
He moved out LAST fucking SUMMER.
He has seriously called our house at least nine times today. If there's a football game on, and both him and my parents are watching it, he'll call every time someone scores.
Ack. ><
Edit: Make that thirteen times he's called today.
What the crap? My GF just moved out for college, and she was always telling me how nervous she was about moving out, and she only calls her parents to let them know she's coming back into town.
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Hell, if he were college-age, I might not mind as much. But he's 26.
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Jesus, that's ridiculous.
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When people run out of valid reasons to hate someone and either make up reasons or cite invalid ones. If they're that much of an asshole, you shouldn't need to make up reasons to hate them.
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Jesus, that's ridiculous.
Basically, yeah. And when I move out of my house, I'm probably either going to be receiving that many phone calls a day, or I'll be expected to make that many to my parents. I'm all for staying connected with your parents if you don't hate 'em and stuffs, but cripes!
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People who try and justify pirating.
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People who aren't open minded.
Not just about one subject, but about anything at all. (god knows I've seen lots of people who are open minded about something, but at the same time, are practically obsessed with something else being only one way).
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People who aren't open minded.
I'm pretty sure you said this one a few times before. ;)
Not that it's a bad thing, of course. It irks me when people are closed minded about everything.
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but an open mind is like a fortress with it's gates unbarrred and ungaurded.
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People who aren't open minded.
which is me
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which is me
How odd a close minded furry.
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but im not a furry
fursuits creep me the fuck out to be honest
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but an open mind is like a fortress with it's gates unbarrred and ungaurded.
I SEE WHAT YOU'VE DONE HERE
Also, calculus. I like my teacher, but the work sucks.
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How in the fucking hell did Metroid Prime: Hunters receive such stellar reviews all over the place?
Seriously. That game has probably the most finicky controls I've ever seen, and the fact that I'm currently running into places that insta-kill me is ludicrous. Aiming and shooting is good, jumping is a little finicky (it works 90% of the time for me), but the morph ball is damn near unusable and you wind up having to use it far too often for it to be like that. The fact that I can barely get boost to work on areas where I absolutely need it (the aforementioned insta-kill parts) completely destroys any notion of the game being good for me.
I'd give it a 6/10, no higher. Fuck everyone who gave it a perfect 10 -- you are the reason why game reviewers are considered a joke nowadays.
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Also, calculus. I like my teacher, but the work sucks.
:ditto:
I've started staying for an hour or so after school every day to do my homework and get help from my teacher. I'm learning the material a LOT better now than I was a few weeks ago, which is awesome.
Angry-making: i studied a whole bunch, and was really prepared for my last calc test... but some of the questions raped me and I blanked out. Ended up getting a 79, and all my friends got 96's, hundred's, 113s. wtf. Lame~
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I know what that feels like. I blanked out on one of my tests. I NEVER blank out for tests :/
I passed, but with a shitty mark (I forget what it was), but it was something like a mid 60, I think.
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The fact that Twix only come in 36-count boxes and not the MASSIVE (and cheaper, relatively speaking) 72-count boxes like Reese's and Kit Kats do.
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working from 3pm-10pm on saturday, and 10am-4pm on sunday
weekends can die
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I'm pretty sure my dad's fucking up my chances of getting a job.
I'm trying to turn in resumes and cover letters when he runs in and randomly starts bitching at me. I'm so goddamn flustered that I almost overlooked a glaring run-on sentence in my cover sheet, you know the first goddamn thing that employers read. I'm going to have to have my mom take a look over it just to be sure that I don't look like a complete fucking idiot to a potential employer.
Jesus fucking Christ, I hate that. I swear he's bipolar or something.
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People who blare their headphones on the bus. Personally, I don't care, I can easily tune it out; but how can someone be so inconsiderate of other people? The bus driver, especially, is affected by it. They need to concentrate so they don't drive the several-ton bus off a bridge and kill everyone because someone wants everyone to know what kind of music they listen to, and that they don't give a shit about anyone else.
Last night, on the way back from a class, some douchebag was playing a radio of some kind. It wasn't from headphones, it was literally a coming from a speaker meant for hearing from a distance, and he was just playing it like he was in his own fucking room.
In conclusion, people who don't consider other people's feelings are what peel my potatoes with paring knives of anger.
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Gentoo-wiki is down arrrrrrrgggggghhhhhhhhhh.
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People who blare their headphones on the bus.
I do that, but it's because everyone else talks TOO LOUD. I hate people.
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We started triple integration today in calc. I don't mind it too much, but I do mind when we have to do things that waste time because there are much faster ways to do it. Best example: Today, the prof was gone and a sub was there. She was showing us an example where we had to find the volume of an elliptic cylinder cut in half diagonally. Before she had finished setting up the integral, I already knew the answer (4π) because of the ridiculously simple method I remembered from 10th grade. I mean, why evaluate this:
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...when you could just plug the values into this:
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Seriously, she spent 10 minutes evaluating that triple integral, even after I suggested my method, which she shot down based on the fact that the cut was diagonal (which made absolutely no difference, since it was a flat, linear cut, but I decided to just not argue).
My high school calc teacher always told us, "Don't forget what you already know." He was the best teacher I've ever had.
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haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa *boom* I like your formula; at least I can actually understand it. D:
I know what you mean about teachers that overcomplicate things, though. Welcome to every programming class I've ever been in. I'm glad I only went to them for the class credit. :x
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I like your formula; at least I can actually understand it. D:
Furthering my point: You don't need to have had 2 and a half semesters of calculus to know how to take the volume of a sliced cylinder. There was no point in bringing in that complicated triple integral. I mean, if she wanted to prove that formula, I'd be fine with it, but she didn't.
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I still need to learn integrals period, lol. I never did take a calculus course in highschool, and even though my math class is supposed to be math and calculus, we haven't done any calculus yet.
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Nor have I. Hell, I'm damn near math illiterate.
Also I have no fucking clue why the cod4 community is so bad, I've NEVER had a problem with anyone on CSS, and so far I've had like 4 or 5 people randomly bitch me out about random shit (I'll complain about one single thing, and someone completely random will go off and freak out). I remember saying something, I think I was bitching about hit detection like usual, and then two people pop up and type and 5 lines each calling me dumb and telling me to leave, when none of what I said was even remotely related to them.
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My girlfriend needs a bigger bed :/
She has one of those air mattresses for camping that comes with a frame and such. Unfortunately, those things are TINY. Not to mention they buckle in the middle so badly that they become even smaller. I slept over at her place last night (she's renting with a couple friends in one of her friend's grandmother's basement in Barrie, where our college is.) and I ended up not getting to bed till I moved to the small couch that is not nearly long enough for me. I didn't get to sleep till 5 Am, and got woke up at 7:30 when her friends were waking up.
I'm skipping my DC Fundamentals class today to go home and sleep.
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When I shave my balls and get hair all over my wash cloth.
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That's uh...one pointy washcloth you've got there.
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When I shave my balls and get hair all over my wash cloth.
How exactly do you shave your balls? I use Nair for men which works wonderfully, and it just washes right off the cloth in the shower.
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I hate that everyday that I'm off of work someone who is working that day calls out and they fucking call me to see if I can come in for them...I am off for a reason, to enjoy my day AWAY from work, not go in and have to deal with the stupidity of everyday people. I mean c'mon, how many times do I have to tell you that peanut butter is where the bread is and I'm not in produce, I'm in Dairy and produce is on the total opposite end of the store, ask them, not me.
Another thing is when the store manager comes up to you at the beginning of your shift and starts to tell you what you need to work on...in my head my reply goes something like this, "I know you fucking moron, I've been doing this for a couple monthes now and I think I have the hang of it so stop fucking douchebagging around telling people who already know what to do what to do." But out of my mouth comes, "Yes, uh huh, sure, I know that." ajslkdjfa;sdhfauipo wyewfqhsvduijwbdsavucijbfweqsvuhjibnk fewqdsvklm. Just to get it back to the ANGER portion of this thread.
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This this this a million times this: http://www.spectere.net/smf/index.php?topic=902.0 (http://www.spectere.net/smf/index.php?topic=902.0)
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How exactly do you shave your balls? I use Nair for men which works wonderfully, and it just washes right off the cloth in the shower.
With a razor, and carefully.
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Getting slightly annoyed about my regular WoW crashes in the Barrens. It doesn't help that one of the techs on the forums is hell bent on blaming my hardware: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=11829539279 (http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=11829539279)
*sigh*
I know he's just trying to help, but c'mon...if others weren't having the exact same problem I'd be a bit more apt to blame something on my end.
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Yeah, that sucks. I've never bothered to attempt to use the forums to fix my problem. I either went through all the hoops of trying to fix my install, and if that failed, wait for a patch and avoid wherever crashed my game like the plague. But that's not always very easy. And corpse hopping around is NOT a fun way to get through high level areas, lol.
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I only use forums when I've exhausted all other possibilities. All it takes is a quick read through that thread to see why.
Fortunately, my laptop isn't affected by that WoW bug (yes, I said it) so I can actually *gasp* fly through the Barrens without the game crashing. Can you believe my toon (who is now lv.32) was nearly killed by a lv.14 wolf today because the game kept crashing the instant I signed in with that stupid error? I had something like 200 hp left by the time I gave up and just used my laptop.
I should try to get it working under Wine. Getting games to work properly in full screen under Linux with a dual monitor setup is always a pain in the dick, though. :/ I keep multiple screen layouts available for just such a purpose, but it's still far more of a hassle than it should be.
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It doesn't help that one of the techs on the forums is hell bent on blaming my hardware:
*sigh*
Did you tell him your PC was made in the last 10 years?
Also THE FEEL OF SAND PAPER JESUS FUCK. I can't STAND it, I already have a slight headache after doing a few pieces of foam. Also I hope my teacher extends the time I have to do my other project, shit's not getting done any time soon.
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Did you tell him your PC was made in the last 10 years?
Heh. Basically, yeah.
He was trying to say that my RAID controller somehow didn't like that one file (as if that were even remotely possible), then after I disproved that by attempting to run the game off my USB hard drive and running into the same issue he tried to pin it on my chipset or RAM.
The fact that WoW broke itself on the 3.0.2 patch and that others are having the same exact problem must have completely went over his head. Not to mention the fact that I don't have any problems with other, far more intense games and software (if my RAM were at fault, I'm pretty sure that at some point I would have noticed).
Oh well, at least I can play that particular section with my laptop until that crap gets fixed. Also, I really don't have any business in that area right now (I'm questing and farming in Desolace right now and doing my auction house stuff in Thunder Bluff), so I think I'm good for now on this rig.
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Woke up feeling like shit, wanting to just stay at home from class today. But my club has a bake sale today. x.x
However, everything I made for the sale somehow managed to turn out really truly awful. I've no idea how it happened either. It all just tastes terrible. So I got to throw all that away.
Since I no longer had stuff to bring to the bake sale, I concluded that I could just stay home.
So thus far, this day kinda sucks.
Upside: My parents are going away for the weekend.
Downside: Despite the fact that I'm 21, my parents still saw it fit for my uncle to come over each day. x.x I want this place to myself, dammit. haha.
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Lame, 2 years ago, my parents might have gotten someone to check on my brother and I or something if they went away, but now I doubt they would (I'm 20, my brother is nearly 19)
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At least he won't be staying the night or anything. I don't think he is, anyways.
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So my car is starting to shit on itself. There is something wrong with the clutch, and if you put it in gear and leave the clutch pushed all the way down it will slowly start to catch and move. The front left head light is out. My back left time is half out of air as we speak. I already bought oil, and I'm not really sure if I need it anymore, considering my oil light has yet to gone off. Oh, and I lost my gas cap.
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Ouch, that blows.
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Xbox 360's bullshit system where silver members have to wait for game demos. More here: http://www.spectere.net/blog/2008/11/exclusive-dlc-part-deux/ (http://www.spectere.net/blog/2008/11/exclusive-dlc-part-deux/)
Viva la PSN! At least Sony don't charge for earlier access to free content.
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I'm a little over a month away from a performance, and neither of my clarinets work very well at all. Joy. x.x
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Have food poisining and barfed 6 times at work today and they didn't send me home...god damn fuckers.
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Jesus christ, that sucks.
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Have food poisining and barfed 6 times at work today and they didn't send me home...god damn fuckers.
...remind me never to eat there. O.o
Hope you feel better soon.
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The Ruby Dragon in FF8. Specifically its Breath attack. It's fine if you give a powerful enemy a one-hit kill, so long as it's used as either a counterattack or just a rare move. It's not fine if that move hits the entire party and makes a game over no matter what.
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It's fine if you give a powerful enemy a one-hit kill, so long as it's used as either a counterattack or just a rare move. It's not fine if that move hits the entire party and makes a game over no matter what.
This times a very large number to the power of infinity. I hate when games punish you for playing them.
That kind of like how Omega Weapon casts lv.5 Death on all party members right off the bat. Since most people who face them probably have their party up to lv.100, it's nothing more than a cheap way to get people to waste a status defense junction on Death, not to mention blowing all the time to get 100 Deaths so that they don't even have a chance of getting killed by it.
At least there's a way to defend against that, though. If I remember correctly you don't have that luxury with Ruby Dragon's attack (correct or not-so-correct? I haven't played FF8 past disc 1 in a long time).
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Yeah, you actually aren't supposed to ever level in FF8 because junctioning strong magic gives you the same strength as being at L100, but since enemies stay on your level, their stats are much much lower.
Basically, they added draw because they eliminated leveling. And even then, GF abilities let you completely bypass doing either of them anyway.
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FF8 really is messed up in a lot of ways. :s I dunno, I still have fun with it despite its numerous flaws. At least drawing to 100 doesn't take as long as mastering materia. Ugh.
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Don't remind me of materia mastering...fucking Knights of the Round.
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As far as I know, the only way to defend against that attack is by preemptively using a Hero, Holy War, or Invincible Moon (one of Rinoa's limit breaks), making at least one character on your team invincible.
As for the Lv5 Death thing, I usually have 100 Deaths on each of my party members, and if they have St.Atk-J, I junction it to their status attack. You'd be surprised how many bosses are vulnerable to Death.
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You'd be surprised how many bosses are vulnerable to Death.
Not at all.
I always made a note to keep it off of St.Atk-J because it made half of the boss fights ludicrously easy. :x
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Locating driver updates for laptops is absolute hell......
I'm trying to see if there is an update for my drivers for my video card.
Unfortunately, the ATI website is useless (the Radeon mobile 3100 isn't even on their list at all) and I can't seem to locate the right specific model on the Toshiba website, because apparently knowing that it's a Satellite Pro L300D means nothing, since there are 6 different sub-models of that.
And clicking the button that's supposed to expand your search to all applicable models in the Satellite Pro series and limiting it to graphics drivers for Vista brings up nothing.
Arg.
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It's really hard to find drivers for Toshiba laptops. My dad and I acquired one with a broken screen and have been using it as a media center and, well, it's proven to be a challenge.
Also, most laptops can't support drivers on ATI's site due to some bizarre thing about each laptop having their own tweaked hardware. I don't really buy that, since the Omega drivers work and the Linux drivers don't have such arbitrary restrictions, but that's what ATI's claimed for years.
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Well damn. I guess that's the first count against Toshiba... I haven't really had many other issues with this laptop, other than the time I accidentally hard-reset in the middle of windows updates being installed, resulting in me having to chkdsk my drive, and finding 4k of bad sectors.
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Yeah, Toshiba makes some really solid hardware but it seems like they have way too many submodels for anyone's good.
From what my dad said after his driver hunting experience, they don't even provide a good way of pulling up your system specs (Dell's service tag system is AWESOME).
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My laptop's SD card reader doesn't work. The Sony(tm) Memory Stick(c) reader does. They're on the same device. Wut.
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One of the pins could have gotten disconnected for the SD card port. That happened to one of my memory card readers. :x
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Yeah, that's what I'd think. :/
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WHY did they put that additive into that cleaning air in a can that makes it taste awful. I sprayed something in my PC and I must have sprayed some on my hand, I to to bite my nail and I get the fucking awful taste in my mouth for all of a half hour. Good god.
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To discourage people from getting high off of it. Same goes for cough syrup.
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Another one of my art professors died yesterday (the other died a year and a half ago). He was doing yard work and just had a massive heart attack.
He was one hell of a guy. -.-
And now one of my friends is being an immature little twat because someone else is upset over the professor's death. Throwing stuff at her face, yelling at her. What the fuck? -.-
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Smack him. Hard.
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He apparently apologized now. So I don't think I will, unless he does it again..
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To discourage people from getting high off of it. Same goes for cough syrup.
They should just let them die instead of inconveniencing me, god damn.
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I think I've caught the flu.
Joy. Bliss. Not.... *thud*
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D:
Get better soon!
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It wouldn't be so bad if every muscle in my body weren't all "yarrrrr I'm gonna hurt like hell!"
Oh well. At least my dogs seem concerned about me. They've been following me around for the past few hours.
Or perhaps nobody gave them their dinner yet and they're just hungry...haha
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Fucking myspace got rid of my account that I made yesterday and there was no explanation why it was done so...*sigh* back to making a new one some how...ugh
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People who don't think they should fight for something if it doesn't affect them directly. That's why Proposition 8 passed in California.
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People who don't think they should fight for something if it doesn't affect them directly. That's why Proposition 8 passed in California.
Shit, I didn't know it passed... Goddamn. This sort of shit really pisses me off.
At least the wording of the amendment doesn't specifically nullify all same-sex marriages made before the amendment.
I'm not sure how that works in the US, but Canada actually has a section of the constitution that says that nobody can be prosecuted for something that was legal when they did it, but is no longer legal. That would be pretty good protection for those marriages if that had gone through in Canada.
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People who don't think they should fight for something if it doesn't affect them directly. That's why Proposition 8 passed in California.
By "marriage", they mean two people being wed in a sacramental ceremony in a church, right? If so, then Proposition 8 not being passed would be unfair to them; it's wrong for the government to force someone or a group to do something they feel is wrong, even if it's seemingly unfair. Don't think I'm a an everything you hate, though; I definitely think that same-sex civil unions should be recognized and performed by the government, and the government should give those couples the same rights they'd give a heterosexual couple.
I don't think the word "marriage" should be redefined, nor should any word in any language just to please a group of people. People who would want to redefine a word to please themselves should choose a different word to use altogether.
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No, they do not mean as a sacramental ceremony in church. They mean marriage as they sign a piece of paper and the government recognizes them as being married.
And sorry, but throughout history, words are redefined all the time. Either the meaning changes slowly in everyday speech, or some event redefines a certain meaning or use of a word.
Prop 8 wasn't about forcing a church to marry same-sex couples. It was about the ridiculous archaic belief that the word marriage should only apply to heterosexual couples. As far as I'm concerned, the word "marriage" (and the root "marry") is just as applicable to same-sex couples as heterosexual couples. The word "marry" can and is used for denoting that 2 substances/ideas/objects/whatever are somehow joined.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/marry
6. to combine, connect, or join so as to make more efficient, attractive, or profitable: The latest cameras marry automatic and manual features. A recent merger marries two of the nation's largest corporations.
7. Nautical.
a. to lay together (the unlaid strands of two ropes) to be spliced.
b. to seize (two ropes) together end to end for use as a single line.
c. to seize (parallel ropes) together at intervals.
10. (of two or more foods, wines, etc.) to combine suitably or agreeably; blend: This wine and the strong cheese just don't marry.
Prop 8 was all about homophobic jackasses trying to use the word of the law against homosexual people. It was all about leaning too heavily on the specific wording of the law fore the purpose of denying homosexual people the right to marry.
There's a reason for the constitutional amendments: to deal with new issues that may come up that weren't foreseen when the original constitution was drawn up, and this is one of them.
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I am sick once again and I have a bad chest cold. My breathing is so bad that I can only take a fourth of my full breathing capasity...god it fucking sucks.
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God damnit, I keep having to recompile PHP because I forget about one single freaking USE flag. It only takes about 10 minutes (edit: actually, it takes 9 minutes and 47 seconds) to compile on my laptop (which is where my test server is running) but seeing as I've already done it three times it's starting to add up. Gentoo's only real downside loves to bite me in the ass like this from time to time (but at least I'm man enough to admit that my choice distros have flaws, unlike 95% of the Ubuntu and Mac OS whores :P).
First, I forgot to have it build the Apache module. Then, I forgot to enable mysqli and gd support. Finally, I forgot to enable ctype support, which phpMyAdmin seems to need. Buhhhhhhh, this always happens when I do this kind of crap.
Oh well, it should be up and running in about...five minutes.
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Lol, better than having to do that on my "server" AKA my NAS.
It's running a cellphone ARM processor at about 333 MHz and takes about 45 minutes to recompile PHP.
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45 minutes? Pah, that's probably faster than my goddamn Mac can do it. After attempting to use it the other day I can see why I stopped trying to use that computer.
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Cold wind.
<_<
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Still sick. (Or perhaps sick again - my symptoms have completely changed since Monday.)
Lost my flash drive. Not much on there that I'm really really going to miss, other than my ITG2 data. x.x Whoever finds it is going to get some LEGITIMATELY ACQUIRED programs too. Muwahahah.... >_>
I want it back. ;_;
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Still sick. (Or perhaps sick again - my symptoms have completely changed since Monday.)
Exact same here. I couldn't even get to sleep last night and I was exhausted. Hell, I laid around until 3:30 today because I didn't feel like moving.
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Aw, I'm sorry you're sick too. :(
I'm glad I'm getting sick now though. It means there's a good chance I won't be sick for my finals in a few weeks. :3
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So while I was trying to play the L4D demo online with a friend last night, something weird started happening with the menus while starting the game. I managed to quit the game, and when I opened up a browser to try and troubleshoot, I got redirected to CSU's Housing & Dining page telling me that my internet had been restricted because it had too many connections going out. That "too many" was 133/minute. I did the math, and that means that I now can't play an online game with a ping lower than 450ms, essentially meaning I can't play any game that requires real-time interaction with players. This is completely new, and really pisses me off.
Their block list gets reset automatically at 10:00am every morning, but the page told me that I could call the H&D tech desk and get it reactivated. Of course, the page failed to inform me that the desk is only in operation between 8:00am-5:00pm Monday-Friday.
I'm really pissed that I'm getting punished for doing something perfectly legal.
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Also I have about 1 week left to finish my project, and I didn't do anything today, and it's not getting done on time.
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I left my mouse for my laptop at my girlfriend's place. And she's going to be gone tomorrow. I HATE using the laptop for any extended period of time without the mouse :/
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Well friend gave me a pass for TF2 and I go join a server and select the team I am on and my computer restarts. OMGWTFBBQ gun I need it now!
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I think my phone's finally croaked. It just turns off randomly now. What the hell.
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My old one did that! Haha.
You push a button on it - it turns off.
You hold it at the wrong angle - it turns off.
You close it - it turns off.
You look at it the wrong way - it turns off.
You try to turn it off - it fucking stays on.
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I think my phone's finally croaked. It just turns off randomly now. What the hell.
Mine does that randomly while texting. Is yours also a Nokia 6555?
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I loathe petty arguments over nothing. Here's the situation, and here's how it went down.
I'm in an AIM chat with some friends. There's me, Lito, and Robby, and then there's Kailey and Nikki. Kailey went out on a date with someone from her school the previous day. Earlier, I IMed her to ask her how it was, and she said, "It went really well. He's really buff because he's an acrobat." This is acceptable.
So, inside the AIM chat, Nikki and Kailey started fantasizing and raving about this guy out of nowhere, while Robby, Lito, and I were sitting there silently. I'll quote one of the things Nikki said: "OMGOMGOMG LUST LUST LUST LUST HE'S A HUNK HOLY SHIT"
As you could imagine, this wasn't going over very well with the three guys. Nobody likes hearing raves about people of the same sex from people of the opposite sex (if that made any sense; I know it was worded terribly). I decided to speak up. I said, verbatim, "You know, this isn't helping our self-esteem very much. :P" I was referring to Robby, Lito, and I. I was also being a bit sarcastic and teasing, as you could tell by the :P face. I went on to explain about how I hated it when girls I talked to would make comments like that about other guys. Robby and Lito both agreed with me.
Somehow, this was misconstrued by Kailey and Nikki as a sexist, generalizing statement saying that all women were obsessed with guys. Kailey said that we shouldn't be hypocrites because she knew that all three of us boasted about girls we've hooked up with or lusted after to her and Nikki. I can't speak for Lito and Robby, but I know that I've never done this. I know how it feels to be jealous over relationships, so I go out of my way to make sure that my friends don't feel the same way. Nikki decided that I was blatantly and openly lying about this and decided to call me out. I challenged her to prove where I've said something like "OMG THAT GIRL IS SO FUCKING HOT I WANT HER" before. She couldn't produce, instead choosing to get angry, call me a "retard", and cite examples [sic] of "remember that one time a few months ago". Yeah.
So Nikki, after making some more threats, rage-quit from the chatroom. I delivered a low blow and said, "She tends to have random mood swings." This was in reference to the fact that she takes comments seriously and gets upset easily. Once again, I know that it was a low blow, but I was pissed at this point. Kailey, seeing this comment, decided to take the initiative and started insulting me, calling me a generalizing hypocrite for making a comment about all women like that.
All women? What?
That's right. Kailey decided that my comment about Nikki's tendency to take things seriously was a sexist remark saying that all women had random mood swings due to their periods.
I can't make this stuff up.
So apparently Kailey messaged this to Nikki because Nikki came back into the chat and started bitching me out, making idiotic assumptions about how I'm sexist and generalizing and oversimplifying and a misogynist and whatnot. I started getting extremely angry at this point because she had absolutely no basis for these claims except for her own, overactive imagination.
It was around when Nikki started spamming "UR A RETARD" into the chat that I decided to man up and apologize. I'll be the first to admit that this argument was my fault. I started almost every facet of it. I admitted that it was a waste of time, that I overreacted, and that nobody was wrong. Guess what that did? Nothing. It elicited another "retard" comment from Nikki, but for some reason I just didn't care.
I'd like to think that I'm not very biased in this situation. Sure, this is coming from my side, and Kailey and Nikki have completely different stories, but I have the chatlog. If you read through that, you'll find exactly what I said. Even more reason as to why I feel that Nikki is so incorrect in this - a couple other people joined the chat shortly after this feud started, and they basically said that Nikki was acting like a fucking bimbo.
The end. I hate shit like this. >_>
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Well...um...Girls are crazy? :/ Haha.
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Hahaha. BITCHES BE CRAZY. I'm not actually expecting anyone to read that; I just needed to get it out.
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Basically, yeah. Bitches be crazy. I don't really like most of the other females that I meet. heh.
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Oh hey it's blueoctane
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Girls + Internet = Ugh*
Except for Jupi. She's cool. ;)
*Note: Not always the case, of course, but glancing at your average teenaged girls' MySpace page is proof of why they should be required to be thoroughly tested before being allowed to post anything.
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*Note: Not always the case, of course, but glancing at your average teenaged girls' MySpace page is proof of why they should be required to be thoroughly tested before being allowed to post anything.
Agreed. Requiring some sort of test like that would drastically reduce the gigantic waste of space that they tend to be, as well as get rid of 98% of the most garish, blinding, disgusting website designs ever released to the general populace. I swear you could use some of those layouts/color themes as a weapon in war...
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Basically, yeah. Bitches be crazy. I don't really like most of the other females that I meet. heh.
I'm honestly a bit surprised by the amount of females I hear that say this. Really, I get along with the average guy, even if he comes off as a complete dick/huge nerd/what have you.
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Oh I get along with just about everyone I meet. It's just that I wouldn't want to meet a lot of them again. I really have to know you pretty well before I'll start a fight with you. :P
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I'm honestly a bit surprised by the amount of females I hear that say this. Really, I get along with the average guy, even if he comes off as a complete dick/huge nerd/what have you.
Well, girls seem to have a problem dealing with other girls if the other girls do anything that bugs them. It's just like how when guys fight, we confront eachother, we make a scene, have a fight/whatever and it's over with. Girls however, are non-confrontational, even at the expense of making the issue last much longer, and make it drawn out and hell for them. It's just how they work. It doesn't apply to everyone, but it is definitely a common thing.
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Not that I'm ignoring the other posts in here but I gotta do this for myself.
Anyone on the MGD forum had to have read the one topic in which I got flamed like the pile of crap on someone's front doorstep. It was about the song or group Kraftwerk.
It went a little something like this:
"Zombie Nation plz"
another made fun of him by pointing out his stupidity.
"Aerodynamik is fucking awesome."
I, just to take the making fun of the other guy further posted with a quote to Aerodynamik, "Just to stick with the theme of saying different things different things...Daft Punk."
Then the flaming started and I just had to reply because I find it a hard time to piss me off but apparently most of the people on those forums can do it quite easily.
"What the fuck does Daft Punk have to do with Kraftwerk?
Jesus HOW STUPID ARE ALL OF YOU PEOPLE!? CHRIST GODDAMN SHIT MOTHERFUCKER."
"If you read my post then you'd know...I was just making fun of the second post in this thread because it was too outlandish so I just had to put something out just like that...Kraftwerk is to Zombie Nation as Aerodynamik is to Daft Punk...no relation at all and I just wanted to point out that stupidity with another form of stupidity."
but things only get worse after that.
"I honestly can't tell if you've figured this out already or not, but THIS IS WHY YOU'RE IN THE GOOF TROOP. JESUS MOTHERFUCKING CHRIST YOU'RE ALL SO FUCKING STUPID, STOP DERAILING THIS GODDAMN THREAD BECAUSE YOU THINK IT'S FUNNY, UGH.
Seriously, can a mod/admin clean up this thread so we can get back on track?"
"Yet, if someone else that wasn't in GT08 posted the same thing they would probably get laughs and not get flamed by douchbag as fuck comments like this."
then there was a little more but it was just calling him a moron because he's just a jackass...in my opinion. Although I don't like him, I find that if you need to ask something he is one of the more helpful people so I don't totally hate him...just in this aspect.
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Anyone on the MGD forum
IN THIS FORUM, EVERY SECTION IS NOW THE POP'N BANNER FORUM. NO EXCEPTIONS.
I decided to pretty much stop going there after I realized that I found myself raging after every time I went through the posts because of how dumb half of them were. :/
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IN THIS FORUM, EVERY SECTION IS NOW THE POP'N BANNER FORUM. NO EXCEPTIONS.
I decided to pretty much stop going there after I realized that I found myself raging after every time I went through the posts because of how dumb half of them were. :/
Well at least someone here knows what I go through and has sort of the same type of personality.
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Dude, this is why I am not a member of any other forums, except for the occasional post on places like ragezone, or any other forum that may help me solve a problem. Or I get the urge to tell people to quit typing like a 2 year old, and spend that extra little bit to sound like they actually have a functioning brain.
Also: Zombie Nation isn't even a song :/ It's an Electronic Artist (can never remember if it's 1 person or a group).
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I fucking hate my phone. It keeps turning itself off without warning, often during texting. Apparently this is a common problem, because Google searching "Nokia 6555b" gets me several angry posts about their phones turning off.
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Well at least someone here knows what I go through and has sort of the same type of personality.
Yeah, I think those forums really started going downhill. You seriously can't start a thread and have it be about anything anymore. I used to be able to tolerate it but then people started ignoring the fact that there were different sections.
Screw that.
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ignoring the fact that there were different sections.
That is why there are many upon many moved topics and I just don't know why people don't read the different sections. Granted I'm guilty of a couple of misplaced topics but that is usually because I had a reason...like the AVGN topic here. So, I really just go there now for topics I'm interested in...and the occasional feeling of, "I must do it." type of thing.
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I just go there 'cause it's fun to type "furries" into my address bar and have that board come up instead of a rather confused google.
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Yet another rant that I don't expect people to read. Once again, I just need to let out steam. Copied and pasted from AIM, obviously.
8:08:40 PM blue0ctane: FUCK THIS.
8:08:48 PM blue0ctane: My idiot 11, soon to be 12 year old sister makes me want to leave this family.
8:09:00 PM blue0ctane: She's been a total bitch for as long as I can remember. Today was the final straw.
8:09:12 PM blue0ctane: I'm getting dinner, when she comes up and grabs a fucking handful of my dinner right from the bowl!
8:09:16 PM blue0ctane: She stayed home sick yesterday.
8:09:22 PM blue0ctane: So I say, "Learn basic hygeine and manners."
8:09:30 PM blue0ctane: She goes, "At least I wash my face more than once a month!"
8:09:40 PM blue0ctane: So I basically fucking SCREAM at her, because I've had to deal with her bullshit for years, and this was the final straw.
8:09:48 PM blue0ctane: And I go into my room and slam the door shaking.
8:10:31 PM blue0ctane: My parents, of course, REFUSE to listen to my side of the story. They yell at ME, even though it's her fault for doing such a rude action and making such a rude comment.
8:10:38 PM blue0ctane: So she ends up crying hysterically in her room about how nobody loves her.
8:10:45 PM blue0ctane: Maybe people would love you if you weren't such a fucking bitch.
8:10:58 PM blue0ctane: Honestly, I think that she's trying to get me sick so I can't get surgery on Friday, because Friday is her birthday.
8:11:35 PM blue0ctane: And she's the biggest attention whore ever. OH MY GOD IF 100% OF THE ATTENTION ISN'T ON ME ON MY BIRTHDAY I'M GOING TO BE SO MAD, IT'S MY BIRTHDAY EVERYONE SHOULD CATER TO ME, IT'S NOT FAIR THAT MAX HAS TO GET SURGERY WAAAAAHHHHHH
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It's shit like that that makes me thank god I have a brother, because I have a friend who's sister is the same way.
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I'm glad neither of my sisters are like that.
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I'm glad I'm an only child.
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I think I'm glad you're an only child too. If there were more people like you, this world would quite possibly be too awesome.
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Wait, too awesome? That is physically impossible.
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Oh, it's quite possible.
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No, I don't believe it is. See, awesomeness is relative, therefore if there were more of him, he would simply cease to be so awesome. Sure, in a sense, the world would become too awesome, but really, it would simply mean that everyone became less awesome.
:O PARADOX!
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Hmm, Bobbias has a good point...
TOUGH NUT TO CRACK, THIS IS.
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I'm definitely sick because of my stupid sleeping habits the last few days, ended up sleeping through two classes. Not too big a deal, I'm just annoyed with myself. Also, I think a guy on our dorm floor may have a crush on me. <_<;
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I'm going to fail a class, and probably get bad grades in my other ones. Shit's awful.
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Failed my last math test pretty poorly. Got an 11 out of 25... All my other tests were like, 15/25, and better, so this kinda sucked. Maybe if I had spent the time and did the last question, I might have made a couple marks, but with 5 marks a question, and the teacher seeming to take quite a few marks even if I got the right idea, I don't think I'd have done much better.
It's a good thing we get to rewrite our worst test.
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I really hate it when reviewers give numerical scores that seem to differ from what the text says. Seriously, Gamespot's review of Last Remnant is ridiculous. They go on and on about how the story is great, the art direction is fantastic, music fantastic, voice acting is good, battle system is deep and great and then the game has what they describe as terrible frame rate and texture pop-in (from what I've seen, it's no worse than Mass Effect or other UE3 games). The score? 6.5. What?
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when somebody can't be assed to refer to a song by its name when talking about it, even after they've been told what it is
my mom: "Have you heard of that Numa Numa song?"
me: "You mean Dragostea Din Tei?"
my mom: "Yeah, you know what it is?"
me: "...yes."
my mom: "Well, these people on Runescape were just talking about that Numa Numa song."
me: "You mean Dragostea Din Tei?"
my mom: "Whatever."
it's like persistantly calling What is Love "that Baby Don't Hurt Me song" or calling Hide and Seek "that MMM Whatcha Say song"
and for whatever reason, it boils my blood
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when somebody can't be assed to refer to a song by its name when talking about it, even after they've been told what it is
it's like persistantly calling What is Love "that Baby Don't Hurt Me song" or calling Hide and Seek "that MMM Whatcha Say song"
and for whatever reason, it boils my blood
AGREED.
God, I hate that crap. I knew Dragostea Din Tei before "Numa Numa" even existed.
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So I was driving home, and one the way some guy in front of me starts going between 45 to 50 in a 55 MPH zone. Then after he passes my little community he gets into the the U turn lane, but drives past it into the turning lane that follows (it's solid pavement all the way through to the turn lane, and a lot of people do it) which basically forces me out of the turning lane, so I have to go to the next road and turn around.
God it pissed me off.
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I'm in an incredible amount of pain right now. x.x I think I've got a pinched nerve or something. Totally thought this went away the other night, but I guess I was wrong. I'm gonna give this a day or so before I go see someone about it though. :/ But I'll say I was about ten minutes from going to the ER, what with how bad it was before. The only word to describe how I felt an hour and a half ago is "vomitrocious."
Edit: I wish to find whomever invented Aleve and make sweet sweet love to them. God. Still hurts a lot, but it's at least bearable now.
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Edit: I wish to find whomever invented Aleve and make sweet sweet love to them.
"The connection between NSAIDs and the COX pathway was made in the early 1970s, when John Vane proposed that NSAIDs mediate their anti-inflammatory effects by inhibiting the enzymatic activity of COX110
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Been really depressed and frustrated the last few day and I have no idea why...grrr...damn ambigious stuffs.
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Commercial corruptions of classic Christmas carols.
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Christmas carols in general piss me off. In fact, I can't stand the "holiday season" in general...
I like Christmas, but I hate everything leading up to it.
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Hate christmas in general.
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Hate christmas in general.
Why do you hate christmas? I just hate the whole "everyone has to be extra happy" crap, and the whole "let's listen to shitty music about christmas" crap.
If christmas music was actually good, I wouldn't mind it quite as much.
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Right now, I want little more than to go outside and shout "buttfuckers" as loudly as I possibly can.
But my damn mom is still awake, and will want an explanation as to why I'm going outside at this hour.
Curses! She would never understand why I want to go shout an obscenity at the top of my lungs at two in the morning.
...Neither would I, actually.
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I just hate the whole "everyone has to be extra happy" crap, and the whole "let's listen to shitty music about christmas" crap.
If christmas music was actually good, I wouldn't mind it quite as much.
qft
edit: and yeah the only christmas related song I can really stand listening to at the moment is I <3 XMAS by Tommy Heavenly6
because I like JPOP and because I can't actually understand most of the words
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qft
edit: and yeah the only christmas related song I can really stand listening to at the moment is I <3 XMAS by Tommy Heavenly6
because I like JPOP and because I can't actually understand most of the words
lawl jpop
I used to listen to JPOP, but I never liked anything sun in Japanese by guys. Well, nothing except metal anyway. And Japanese rap is cool.
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lawl jpop
I used to listen to JPOP, but I never liked anything sun in Japanese by guys. Well, nothing except metal anyway. And Japanese rap is cool.
yeah, I don't like very many songs by guys in japanese
tommy heavenly6 is a girl btw
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I just watched part of a 10-minute video about the Growing Earth Theory. I facepalmed several times over and stopped watching around the time the guy said that there was no seafloor 70-80 million years ago.
For those of you who don't know, the Growing Earth Theory is the theory that earth used to be much smaller and was nearly all land, but it expanded and oceans formed. It's up there with Intelligent Design on a scale of 1 to scientifically ignorant.
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I facepalmed several times over and stopped watching around the time the guy said that there was no seafloor 70-80 million years ago.
Wait whoa what? How would you do this? You mean there was no sea or there was a sea but it never ended? Wouldn't you need water to start life in the first place?
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Wait whoa what? How would you do this? You mean there was no sea or there was a sea but it never ended? Wouldn't you need water to start life in the first place?
YES. YES YOU WOULD. Apparently, there were small lakes and stuff, but no large oceans. That stuff just formed, and the Earth's mass somehow increased eightfold.
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YES. YES YOU WOULD. Apparently, there were small lakes and stuff, but no large oceans. That stuff just formed, and the Earth's mass somehow increased eightfold.
The earth is apparently a snowball going down hill. Also wouldn't a pond be too small for life to start it?
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The earth is apparently a snowball going down hill. Also wouldn't a pond be too small for life to start it?
Like I said, this theory is up there with Intelligent Design.
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That makes my brain hurt just reading about it. If someone started spewing this crap at me I think I'd have a fit, and have no respect for them at all :/
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The fact that people say that there is a god....and at the same time they say there is no god.
Information that I've come accross:
1) The Universe used to be this big ____
/ \
\____/
2) If god exists then why isn't there any intervening of any kind for anything?
3) If god doesn't exist then how did we come to be?
4) If the universe really was this small ^^^^ then how the hell did it get to be this big and what was here before the ball exploded into the universe as we know it?
5) How big is this universe and when may it end?
In full conclusion I really think that we are just a universe that is inside of an endless loop of universes that just is here because everything as we know it cannot come to full fruition without having something else to depend on which means that there HAS to be something else other than this universe...and if so, if it is just like a giant giant giant space like a galaxy only much bigger, then what is past the quasars?
Note: The Andromedda Galaxy and the Milky Way Galaxy are speeding toward each other at 5,000,000 miles per hour or something like that so in about 500 more years.....BAM!!!!
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The fact that people say that there is a god....and at the same time they say there is no god.
Information that I've come accross:
1) The Universe used to be this big ____
/ \
\____/
2) If god exists then why isn't there any intervening of any kind for anything?
3) If god doesn't exist then how did we come to be?
4) If the universe really was this small ^^^^ then how the hell did it get to be this big and what was here before the ball exploded into the universe as we know it?
5) How big is this universe and when may it end?
In full conclusion I really think that we are just a universe that is inside of an endless loop of universes that just is here because everything as we know it cannot come to full fruition without having something else to depend on which means that there HAS to be something else other than this universe...and if so, if it is just like a giant giant giant space like a galaxy only much bigger, then what is past the quasars?
Note: The Andromedda Galaxy and the Milky Way Galaxy are speeding toward each other at 5,000,000 miles per hour or something like that so in about 500 more years.....BAM!!!!
1) A singularity, mathematically, it means the universe had 0 size, and was infinitely dense.
2) Have you ever thought that maybe god is intervening, but doing it in a way that makes sure nobody can tell that he/she/it/them/whatever is? (Then arises the question of whether it matters whether god does exist or not, because if god exists, and is actively intervening in the universe, but doing it in such a way that it is completely and totally undetectable, then does it really matter?)
3) Evolution, pure fucking luck. You could just as easily ask why anything at all exists. Why are atoms made up of sub-atomic particles? Why do the laws of physics exist? etc.
4) There are some weird mathematical things that happen in quantum physics that could account for that. I am not entirely sure myself what the exact ideas about what could have set off the big bang are, but I think one of them has to do with the fact that even things in a perfectly stable state occasionally break down into a different state. Normally, they are in equilibrium, with all the energies accounted for and are in a stable state, but sometimes something just spontaneously breaks down.
5) According to wikipedia: Astronomical observations indicate that the universe is 13.73
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2) Have you ever thought that maybe god is intervening, but doing it in a way that makes sure nobody can tell that he/she/it/them/whatever is? (Then arises the question of whether it matters whether god does exist or not, because if god exists, and is actively intervening in the universe, but doing it in such a way that it is completely and totally undetectable, then does it really matter?)
FUTURAMAAAAAAA!
3) Evolution, pure fucking luck. You could just as easily ask why anything at all exists. Why are atoms made up of sub-atomic particles? Why do the laws of physics exist? etc.
5) According to wikipedia:
Oh, and if we subscribe to Kantian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanuel_Kant) views, the universe is really completely random, and time doesn't actually exist. According to his views, everything really happens at the exact same time, but our brains cannot process that, so the create time, and constrain the universe to having to exist in that time.
If that were true, we could still be a gravitational singularity. Or anything else at that, since the universe's actual physical state would have nothing at all to do with what we perceive it as.
You really have to question our existence along with our view on it. In reality (what would dictate reality now?) we could all be some over complex single being that has to break down his own mental state in order to cope with it, or whatever else I can make up. Really tho, evolution works out fairly nicely. Also that whole "everything happening at the same time" thing reminds me of the vortigons from HL2 (there was one hidden one that explains how he can still see Gordon in black mesa killing the other vorts. along with him thanking Gordon for killing the boss from the first game. Then another person says something along the lines of one vort. picking up a dictionary and it translated the english language for their hive mind, which explains why they all have such a colorful use for the english language).
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I can't find my nail clipper and I am FURIOUS
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YAY FLU!
*throws up all over s.net*
Thankfully, the worst of it is already over. Now I'm just kind of headachy and occasionally dizzy. :x
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I have a rash that just broke out really bad for some unknown reason. I was itchy as hell and it's really annoying.
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YAY FLU!
*throws up all over s.net*
Thankfully, the worst of it is already over. Now I'm just kind of headachy and occasionally dizzy. :x
;_; Get betterer!
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No one wished me the I hope I got better when I was sick...jerks :*(
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My DS's L and R buttons don't work anymore. D:
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nobody cares about my NAIL CLIPPERS
I DESPISE YOU ALL HUMANS
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My DS's L and R buttons don't work anymore. D:
Are they sticking? If so, then just open your DS, remove the buttons and clean it with Q-tips and rubbing alcohol. Or replace the rubber connectors if that doesn't work, and if the DS uses them.
Also, ugh, migraines. Need an aspirin.
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If so, then just open your DS, remove the buttons and clean it with Q-tips and rubbing alcohol.
If you have a DS Lite just accidentally spill a small amount of rubbing alcohol on the lid of the DS.
I did that with mine and isopropyl alcohol was literally coming out of every crack of the DS. Somehow it even got in the battery compartment, literally coating everything but the positive and negative contacts (and definitely voiding the warranty that I probably haven't had in a while since the moisture indicator got pwned). How the hell is that even possible? :|
In its defense, after popping out the battery and wiping the entire unit down (including the insides of both cartridge ports and the stylus holder, which were all soaked for some reason) it worked without a problem (it's been about two weeks since that happened, too, so it's definitely fine). Cheaply made? Definitely. Reliable and durable? No doubt.
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They're not sticking, they're just not reading.
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They're not sticking, they're just not reading.
Then the circuit board for those particular buttons may be cracked in those spots or broken somewhere...I'm just guessing though.
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I ordered a tri-wing screwdriver, so I'm going to check it out myself.
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Post pics if you can. I'm curious to see what the DS's innards look like. :)
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Post pics if you can. I'm curious to see what the DS's innards look like. :)
Same here.
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Will do.
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Post pics if you can. I'm curious to see what the DS's innards look like. :)
DS performs ancient Japanese ritual just for fun.
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The Flat-Earth Society. (http://theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=11211.0)
Maybe I should just stop visiting badastronomy and learning about these stupid pseudoscience organizations.
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The Flat-Earth Society. (http://theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=11211.0)
Maybe I should just stop visiting badastronomy and learning about these stupid pseudoscience organizations.
I almost shat bricks when I saw "505789 Posts in 16845 Topics by 16417 Members."
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Q: "Why do the all the world Governments say the Earth is round?"
A: It's a conspiracy
Q: "What about NASA? Don't they have photos to prove that the Earth is round?"
A: NASA is part of the conspiracy too. The photos are faked.
Q: "Why has no-one taken a photo of the Earth that proves it is flat?"
A: The government prevents people from getting close enough to the Ice Wall to take a picture.
Q: "How did NASA create these images with the computer technology available at the time?"
A: Since NASA did not send rockets into space, they instead spent the money on developing advanced computers and imaging software instead
You must really REALLY believe in the competence of the world governments to believe this. Also wat.
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I almost shat bricks when I saw "505789 Posts in 16845 Topics by 16417 Members."
You must really REALLY believe in the competence of the world governments to believe this. Also wat.
Not even, this shit is just pathetic. Also, drunk poast.
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How do people like that exist? Holy assballs. I hate everyone on that site now.
go die :D
...or just jump of the SIDE OF THE EARTH! :OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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...or just jump of the SIDE OF THE EARTH! :OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
BUT THE GOVERNMENT IS BLOCKING THE GREAT ICE WALL DDDDDDDDDD:
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Giez stop makin' fun of mah belives.
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The Flat-Earth Society. (http://theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=11211.0)
My first thought (hope?) was that it was a huge joke. Seeing somebody (a global moderator, no less) on that forum describe the reason that ships disappear over a horizon to be "bendy light" kind of fueled that belief.
Then I did a bit more research and realized that it was real. My jaw about hit the floor.
Hay guyz, I'm going to travel west to get to Australia. Wait, can't do that...I'd fall off the Earth. I'd better travel east to be on the safe side.
My blood boiled a bit when I realized that those jokers were using SMF. I'm changing forum software simply because I don't want to have anything in common with those idiots.
One part of this post is a joke. I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to determine which.
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People who choose to vomit in the hall's water fountain. It's RIGHT NEXT TO THE BATHROOM. There are THREE SHOWERS, FOUR TOILETS, and FIVE SINKS TO CHOOSE FROM, ALL OF WHICH DRAIN BETTER THAN A WATER FOUNTAIN.
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The L and R buttons on my DS don't work either. They haven't for about a year. I believe it has to do with them getting jacked up after keeping your DS in your pocket.
I found my first gray hair yesterday. This makes me sad.
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No food at my house and I can't go to the bank because bank is closed and I work tomorrow from 10-4 which means as soon as I get off my bank closes..wooo starvation!
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No food at my house and I can't go to the bank because bank is closed and I work tomorrow from 10-4 which means as soon as I get off my bank closes..wooo starvation!
I know what this is like...I never have food around and am always working (at a supermarket no less) and even though I can cash my checks right at work I'm not the one who shops for the food (mom and dad, yes, I am 18 and I live with them) but they never have time themselves to get anything.
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Cannot for the life of me bring myself to study calculus for my final in 12 hours. Argh.
Good news is that we have 5 hours to complete it, so I think I'll manage most of it. :/
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Good luck! <3
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When people whore the DDR supernova2 machine because the pads actually respond.
:(
oh well.
wookie wookie in the kitchen!
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When people whore the DDR supernova2 machine because the pads actually respond and games are only a nickel a piece
Those bastards!
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Acid reflux. Yech.
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When people mimic/say what you say in an annoying voice and say it louder then you do while you're talking or in an argument. Not sure why, but it is ONE of the things that just drives me murder rampage crazy. Just had some guy do it to me/another person in CSS when we made one mistake. I HONESTLY can't see how someone past 12 should be doing this, it is so fucking childish.
Hell, this was the reason I stopped hanging with a friend, because he would do it constantly whenever we got into an argument.
Also I messed with my in game resolution in CSS and it crashed. Now whenever I get into the start screen for CSS my screens color is all messed up and I can't seem to move my mouse, halp.
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It's been a while since I encountered someone like that, whether online or in real life.
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IT'S BEEN A WHILE SINCE I ENCOUNTERED SOMEONE LIKE THAT NEENERNEENER BLAH BLAH TITS.
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When people mimic/say what you say in an annoying voice and say it louder then you do while you're talking or in an argument.
My dad does this a lot. Pretty much every time, I've had to stop myself from punching him in the face.
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When people mimic/say what you say in an annoying voice and say it louder then you do while you're talking or in an argument. Not sure why, but it is ONE of the things that just drives me murder rampage crazy. Just had some guy do it to me/another person in CSS when we made one mistake. I HONESTLY can't see how someone past 12 should be doing this, it is so fucking childish.
Hell, this was the reason I stopped hanging with a friend, because he would do it constantly whenever we got into an argument.
Also I messed with my in game resolution in CSS and it crashed. Now whenever I get into the start screen for CSS my screens color is all messed up and I can't seem to move my mouse, halp.
If there's an ini file somewhere in the CSS folders for settings, just open it and change it. I don't really know because I don't have CSS, but someone who does should be able to direct you better.
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Doublepost for shit that really pisses me off.
Winter.
Fuck winter. Seriously, I hate the cold, and I hate the shitty weather even more. Thanks to the weather being shitty, I can't go see my girlfriend today, which means that between Monday and Saturday, the only days I'll be able to see her are Thursday and Saturday, and only for a short time on Thursday.
I don't know if anyone else has had something similar happen, but my girlfriend and I are used to seeing each other more often than this, and it's really frustrating when so much shit works against us.
Normally, I'd be in Barrie every day this week, and be able to see her for an hour or 2 most days. However, Monday and Tuesday, I have no classes, Wednesday I'll be at school most of the day in class, so I won't likely see her, and Thursday, I have my final test for psychology, which starts at 6, which means I'll have from whenever I finish my test till about 11 or so, before I need to be going home. Friday is the official last day of class this semester, but I have no class then either and she works at the college Saturday till about 4, or 4:30.
I fucking hate when crap seems to be conspiring just to fuck with you.
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The price of almost all sorts of candy went up since the last time I bought any about two months ago. Less profit = ;_;
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I kinda miss my hair. :'(
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FUCK WET SNOW
Agreed. This shit fucking blows. I swear that there is 4 feet of snow outside my back door right now.
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Fedora sucks.
Fedora sucks.
Fedora sucks.
Fedora sucks.
Fedora sucks.
Fedora fucking sucks.
Expect a rant on my blog after I use it some more (provided I can stay sane long enough to do a decent writeup on why it fails at EVERYTHING).
Let's just say I had a hard time getting that damn thing to configure a network interface. Durrr. Don't even bother offering a GUI if it's horribly broken! Seriously. No matter what I did it tried to set my subnet mask to 192.168.1.1 which, for obvious reasons, broke everything. I had to manually find and edit the configuration file which completely defeats the purpose of having a GUI. Then I had to jump through a few hoops to make the OS realize that the network was, in fact, connected (the "ohey thar's a network!" icon broke when I edited the file and issued an "ifdown eth0; ifup eth0").
Then there's the issue where the system absolutely refuses to update itself or install any other software, leaving me stuck either dealing with a totally stock install with no compilation tools or using yum and grabbing the packages manually. Wow. I'm glad that it's actually gotten worse since I've used Fedora Core 6-ish (where attempting to start samba resulted in a segfault EVERY TIME).
In the mean time, I hopped over to another VM and started installing Debian 4.0 and it works perfectly. Not too surprising; Debian's always kicked ass. Oddly enough, I also switched to Debian when Fedora fucked me last time (best part: my experience with Samba was in the middle of a final project in my WAN class. Had I not been there, everyone would have failed the Linux section because we couldn't get Fedora properly on any machine and nobody else knew a damn thing about Linux despite having two shitty classes dedicated to it).
Also, yay for having entire paragraphs in parenthesis. :)
Edit because I almost forgot this: :x
Also I messed with my in game resolution in CSS and it crashed. Now whenever I get into the start screen for CSS my screens color is all messed up and I can't seem to move my mouse, halp.
In the Steam games list, right-click on CSS and click Properties. Make sure that the "General" tab is selected, the click "set launch options." Type "-width X -height Y" (sans quotes) in the box, replacing X with the desired horizontal resolution and Y with the vertical. I'd use a safe value (like 800x600) and then change it from in-game. After you change it in-game, be sure to remove that line from the launch options box, otherwise it'll start in the reduced resolution every time.
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Don't worry about it, it seemed to fix itself.
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My girlfriend is getting stoned without me. Fuck. I haven't been stoned in over 2 years (probably more like 2 1/2 years).
Goddamn fucking distance. She's living 30-45 minutes away (on a good day, 1 hour or more on a bad day). Of all fucking shitty timing on earth. This is her last night before she comes home for the winter break between semesters, and the only reason she's not with me tonight is because she works tomorrow. Fuck.
I dunno about you guys, but I see my girlfriend a LOT. I'm used to doing everything with her (or close to it). I don't mind her drinking without me, because I do that without her as well, but fuck. FUCK. Yes, I'm getting pissed off about this, but that's because I've wanted to get fucking stoned a LOT more than she has, and of course, just my luck, the one night we almost definitely would have stayed the night, if the rules hadn't changed, they get fucking stoned. GODDAMNIT.
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I have a cold. D:D:D:
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I've gone through thousands of dollars in $5s and STILL haven't found a SINGLE star note. WHAT THE HELL.
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I have to pull out $800 tomorrow so I can register for my spring classes...fuck!
I hate having to pay my way for college...the only good thing is that I DO have the money...for now.
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My mother and my brother seem to have developed a lovely habit of sitting and watching rather loud videos on their laptops where other people are trying to watch TV in the living room.
It's really rather annoying.
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My phone is possibly water damaged and will not turn on...great now I have to get a new phone >:o
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My mother and my brother seem to have developed a lovely habit of sitting and watching rather loud videos on their laptops where other people are trying to watch TV in the living room.
It's really rather annoying.
Should keep turning up the TV until they notice and ask you to keep it down...then tell them to keep theirs down or turn it off...that's what I would do anyway.
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Digging my car out of its parking space only to have the snowplow d00d come by twice. I felt like a character in a sitcom.
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What is this snow you speak of? Also it's not cold down here. It's a bit brisk, but nothing you can't handle with a short sleeve shirt (a thin one at that) and a pair of shorts. I remember needing long pants/a jacket for at least half of a month, then it went back to normal weather, now it has hardly changed. God damned global warming.
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What is this snow you speak of? Also it's not cold down here. It's a bit brisk, but nothing you can't handle with a short sleeve shirt (a thin one at that) and a pair of shorts. I remember needing long pants/a jacket for at least half of a month, then it went back to normal weather, now it has hardly changed. God damned global warming.
If I can get a half decent picture to illustrate how much snow I have, I'll post it. But at the moment, the snow banks on either side of my driveway are about as tall as I am. And the stuff on our lawn is about 2.5-3 feet, I think....
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Sounds like hell.
Also on an unrelated note, FUCK TANKS on expert mode of Left 4 Dead. On the average level it isn't a huge problem because we can set them on fire and run away, but at the end of the level there really isn't that much room to run, so we have to run in these small circles while other boss zombies come after us along with a massive horde rush that happens secounds after the tank dies.
That, and he can OUT RUN YOU REGARDLESS OF YOUR HEALTH. Plus their rocks NEVER miss, shit is rage inducing.
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That, and he can OUT RUN YOU REGARDLESS OF YOUR HEALTH.
Yeah, I wasn't too fond of that. Granted, my experience of L4D is fairly limited (my cousin has it, but we prefer playing Gears), but as far as I can tell they're almost impossible to dodge. You pretty much have to depend on other players pissing it off if you don't want it to obliterate you.
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I'm somewhat certain I've managed to break one of my toes somewhere in the past few hours. Ow.
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I'm somewhat certain I've managed to break one of my toes somewhere in the past few hours. Ow.
T_T
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I'm somewhat certain I've managed to break one of my toes somewhere in the past few hours. Ow.
Christ, go get it checked. I remember when I sprained my foot, I walked on it for about a week.
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My space bar is cracking. MY FUCKING SPACE BAR IS CRACKING.
I'd like to take this time and take back almost every good thing I've ever said about the Saitek Eclipse II. This keyboard has great feeling keys, but it's been the biggest piece of shit I've ever typed on since my old Acer keyboard. Seriously, I've had to jam cut down q-tips into some of the keys just to get them to properly push on the plunger. Literally, random keys will just stop responding reliably and I'll have to do that. So far, '6,' 'P,' and the up arrow are all ghetto rigged.
/2 wtb new kbd pst
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Not to pry into your personal life xxxxx, but that's a rather backstabbing thing to do.
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Well xxxxx there is one thing to do...BLOOD BLOOD BLOOD!!!
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BLOOD BLOOD BLOOD!!!
STAB STAB STAB!!!
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One of my friends from high school died last night/this morning. He apparently killed himself.
Joy. :'(
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Wow...sorry to hear that. :(
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Yeah, just found out he definitely killed himself. Cripes. <<
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Yeah, just found out he definitely killed himself. Cripes. <<
Ouch, sorry to hear that,
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I'm fucking tired, but I'm stuck at school till 5, i just want to go home and sleep. Why the fuck did I have to stay up all last night?
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Ick. I hate when that happens.
I just try to imagine how sweet sleep is going to feel that night.
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I forgot to bring change to school today, so I couldn't break $20s and $10s like I usually can when selling candy. Hate that feeling >_<
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Well, it's not so much anger but:
The one thing I looked forward to today was seeing my GF. I'd told her that I had a class at 4, and that I wanted to hang out after class today, and when I get outside her house, standing in the cold, holding my laptop with 1 hand and typing with the other, she's in the other side of town, with her phone set to vibrate (which is practically useless when I send messages). So I ended up driving home, calling her once I got home, only to find out that after her class ended, her and a couple friends decided to hang out in the south end, and lost track of time...
You know, this could have been avoided if she'd sent me a message when she left saying that she'd be in the south side, unless she sent another saying she was home....
I admit, I did get out of class an hour earlier, but by the sound of things when I'd called, that wouldn't have made a difference either.
Fuck, I hate when this stupid shit happens. Now I don't think I'll get to see her until monday at the earliest, and if then, only for about an hour at lunch time. Other than that, wednesday is probably the most likely day I'll get to hang out with her. I'm not used to seeing her this little and I fucking hate it.
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That really, really blows. I HATE it when things like that happen. Especially when it comes to plans that were, you know, already made. I get pretty upset when I wanna see my woman and don't get to because she doesn't feel like it or screws up or whatever.
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World war bro. (Also we have a similar taste in games).
Speaking of which, my Fallout 3 keeps crashing to Desktop when I try to load any of my saves and I have no clue what to do.
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I'm broke. And I mean BROKE. I have $0.67 in my bank account, and my parents don't know yet. And I need $10 in gas money to get to school today. And I need to leave the house by 7 AM at the latest (Fucking early classes), but my dad may not even be awake by then...
If my mom finds out I'm broke, she'll freak. If my dad finds out, he'll be annoyed, but instead of yelling and bitching the whole time, he'll be more willing to give me the money I need. That if, If he can (We've been going through financial trouble lately, thanks to the sorry state of the car industry, which gives my dad most of his work).
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Microsoft.
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It's -30C (-22F) outside right now. Fuck.
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o.o damn son that is cold!
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It's -30C (-22F) outside right now. Fuck.
This is why I live in Florida. It was so nice last night.
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This is why I live in Florida.
You know what, you and TimJing can GFY. <3
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While it's definitely not as cold here as it is where sir Bobbias is, it's definitely gonna get pretty miserable here. x.x
It wouldn't have sucked as much had two friends of mine not stopped me while I was walking to my bus, causing me to miss it by about three seconds. ><; Standing outside for half an hour whilst being sopping wet isn't too pleasant. Ick.
And then the road crews around here decide to salt all of the nice flat roads, but leave all the steep windy hills more slippery than tentacle rape victim. Twas bad enough that my bus had to detour through half of its route. xD
But now I'm home with my pups and kitty. About to obtain some hot noms, so life should be getting better quite shortly. <3
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You know what, you and TimJing can GFY. <3
Will do, also I'm starting to get hot, better open my window for a nice cool breeze.
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Yeah driving to work and back and picking up a co-worker from the Y-town south side is a fun one. What is even better is that many around here still don't know how to drive in the snow *sigh*
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Yeah driving to work and back and picking up a co-worker from the Y-town south side is a fun one. What is even better is that many around here still don't know how to drive in the snow *sigh*
All I'm going to say is that the 400 Series highways (400 is north/south from toronto up quite a bit north, 401, 403 and a bunch of others are east/west in toronto (well, the GTA, which is all of those cities that melded together) and one more north/south) are some of the worst highways in the world for accidents. On my way back from bringing a friend to get some back piercings today, we saw 3 accidents before we left toronto.
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Yeah driving to work and back and picking up a co-worker from the Y-town south side is a fun one.
Pfft, Youngstown never even bothers to plow their roads. Boardman isn't much better.
Struthers, Poland, Canfield they're pretty good most of the time. Anywhere else around here, forget it.
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dobble poast
It really annoys the hell out of me when Steam says that something in the games list is, and I quote, "100% - Ready," then, after I double-click on it to run it it suddenly decides to spend five minutes updating it. Protip: If it's not up-to-date, don't fucking say that it's up-to-date.
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What is worse is that sometimes you will be in a Steam game and when you press shift tab it will say you are offline. It happened to me last night playing TF2 and I really need to use my flare gun to dick with snipers...fucking Steam >_<
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I think my old computer might have died yesterday. I can't get it to POST.
This sucks, I was using that thing for my dance game stuff and the entire setup couldn't have possibly been better. God fucking damnit.
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I hate -30'C weather. Shut up Bobbias, for once Toronto's in the shitter for weather.
Maybe now it is, I think you're getting what we got a couple days ago.
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Related: Youngstown State closed today because it's -20 F with wind chill here. Wut.
The school has cancelled entire days of classes three times in recent history, and the usual criteria for it is "must suffer at least a foot of snow, must be Valentine's Day".
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Heh, yeah. I was listening to Y-103 (local classic rock station) this morning and, apparently, every single school in their listening area is closed.
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Related: Youngstown State closed today because it's -20 F with wind chill here. Wut.
The school has cancelled entire days of classes three times in recent history, and the usual criteria for it is "must suffer at least a foot of snow, must be Valentine's Day".
I remember those two days.
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Related: Youngstown State closed today because it's -20 F with wind chill here. Wut.
The school has cancelled entire days of classes three times in recent history, and the usual criteria for it is "must suffer at least a foot of snow, must be Valentine's Day".
Lucky, even when it was -30 here, Georgian still didn't close. Mind you, we weren't getting much snow along with it, but I think we'd need like, 3 feet of snow in a day for them to close :/ Places here are too used to getting ridiculous weather that they only close for the very worst.
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My sister has been talking with an upward inflection after she finishes a sentence. She's never done this before and I swear she picked it up off of someone at work. Christ, my head hurts after talking with her.
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ZOMG, SHE'S A CANADIAN IN DISGUISE!
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I got thrown out of Best Buy for trying to see what happened to a computer someone else fucked up. I didn't put in a flash drive or reboot or anything, I was just told to leave because it looked like I fucked it up.
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ZOMG, SHE'S A CANADIAN IN DISGUISE!
...wut? They do that in the states you now.
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lul. My school was still open despite the -20ish wind chill.
We were one of the, if not the only schools still open.
gahDAYUM was it cold out. x.x;
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Handsome JET, of Bemani fame, died eight months ago: http://zenius-i-vanisher.com/v5/viewthread.php?threadid=1960&page=1 (http://zenius-i-vanisher.com/v5/viewthread.php?threadid=1960&page=1)
Fuuuuuuuuuckk... :'(
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8 months later. Thanks NEWS from japan. Ashes to ashes, etc. it's always bad when this world loses any good creative mind.
on a lighter note, DDR X wtf? :D
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Handsome Jet was apparently extremely secretive, which is why no one knew about him being dead outside of the authorities and his family/friends. Konami didn't even know until the friend that he was with at the time of the fatal accident actually went and told them.
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The fact that the Guilty Gear XX Accent Core doesn't have a complete list of the moves for the fighters. So for I've found about 3 different attacks on accident, and one of them is a rather awesome throw.
Also good fighter is good.
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It's FRIGID outside.
52 degrees Fahrenheit.
I'm all bundled up and etc.
::)
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It's FRIGID outside.
52 degrees Fahrenheit.
I'm all bundled up and etc.
::)
LAWL, I wish it was that warm here. It dropped back down to like, -20C(-4F) this morning
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Oh yeah, when I got back to Fort Collins, it was warmer than it was when I left Fort Worth. That's not supposed to happen.
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It's FRIGID outside.
52 degrees Fahrenheit.
GO EAT A DICK
<3
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Hey, TimJing has a point, it's Florida's coldest day in about 6 years today. So chilly I almost had to put a shirt on.
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Minnesota's in a heat wave for the week. We're up to 25 degrees!
...but we're back down to -10 F this weekend so oh well.
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Oh snap, we're actually above freezing!
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Minnesota's in a heat wave for the week. We're up to 25 degrees!
...but we're back down to -10 F this weekend so oh well.
Ouch, yeah, we're warm today, but I dunno how things look for the next while. I haven't been paying attention to the forecast.
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Yeah the weather is suppost to get in the single digits for the next 10 days T_T.
Any member of s.net that lives in a warmer climate and bitches about it being cold and it is 50 degrees I have this to say:
SUCK MY DICK!
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It's 26 here.
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Yeah the weather is suppost to get in the single digits for the next 10 days T_T.
Any member of s.net that lives in a warmer climate and bitches about it being cold and it is 50 degrees I have this to say:
Normally I'd agree with your rage, but really, if you think about it; to some people 50 degrees is REALLY cold.
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Normally I'd agree with your rage, but really, if you think about it; to some people 50 degrees is REALLY cold.
Yeah, and to some people, -20 is balmy (just go up north to one of the territories).
I'm still gonna bitch and tell people further south than I am to go suck a cock when they complain about their weather, lol.
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To some people, 110 is not so bad.
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This always makes me RAGE inside:
Using OITG to play stepfiles and my Expert 11 scores are better then my Expert 10 scores. Now mind you I am okay at these type of games and on pad I cannot beat an 11 but for some odd reason my 11's are better on keyboard. WHATTHEFUCKISTHEMATTERWITHME?
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The fact that I NEED MS Word for my computer so I can do my class but I can't find it anywhere that is in my price range, and online it is unable to be bought because no one in my family has a credit card!!! This really sucks for me so I'm either going to have to drop my class or fail...I really don't want to do that but I just may have to.
Also, I don't have a car or credit card....I hate that!!!
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My puppy ate one of my internet cables. So I don't have internet on my computer.
We've still got wireless in the house though. But my computer isn't currently capable of picking it up. Grr.
*steals mom's laptop*
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The fact that I NEED MS Word for my computer so I can do my class but I can't find it anywhere that is in my price range, and online it is unable to be bought because no one in my family has a credit card!!! This really sucks for me so I'm either going to have to drop my class or fail...I really don't want to do that but I just may have to.
Also, I don't have a car or credit card....I hate that!!!
Can you use OpenOffice? My teachers don't mind what program I use as long as they get the files in the right format (OOO can save Word 2000 doc files. The only format it can't deal with is the new docx files).
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The fact that my internet connection seems to drop from a perfect ping to 999 while I'm playing TF2. I can't even think of a reason why, it just does.
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The Common Cold.
Blow me, you virus motherfucker.
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Can you use OpenOffice? My teachers don't mind what program I use as long as they get the files in the right format (OOO can save Word 2000 doc files. The only format it can't deal with is the new docx files).
No, the project we are going to be working on and since we have to send it over the internet can only be supported by MS Word.
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OpenOffice has pretty good compatibility with Word documents, though. As in, you can save a Word document from within OpenOffice to send to others. I've even done PowerPoint presentations using OpenOffice Impress.
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OpenOffice has pretty good compatibility with Word documents, though. As in, you can save a Word document from within OpenOffice to send to others. I've even done PowerPoint presentations using OpenOffice Impress.
Yeah, OOO was kinda designed to replace Micro$oft Office for free, as well as be available on many platforms that no real commercial office suite was able to run on (since it's written in Java). On top of that, it's open source and heavily supported by Sun.
I've never had any issues with using OOO for word documents (minus the lack of docx support, which is likely coming soon).
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So apparently several people I work with found out about when my birthday is...FUCK.
As a note: I HATE MY BIRTHDAY!!!!
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As a note: I HATE MY BIRTHDAY!!!!
The fuck why?
Also this whole rampant trend of girls using a RIDICULOUS amount of eye make up.
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As a note: I HATE MY BIRTHDAY!!!!
That is definitely the first time I've heard anyone say that.
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I just use my birthday as an excuse to gather as many of my friends together as possible. :D
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That is definitely the first time I've heard anyone say that.
I have had more bad experiences then good ones on my birthday.
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I have had more bad experiences then good ones on my birthday.
That seriously blows.
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We might not get to go to Epcot for German club like we do every year this year. Apparently there's some asinine rule that 'no Pinellas county student may ride a theme park ride during school hours on a school day.' What the hell? What a retarded rule. The club met after school to try and find a loophole, but seriously... so homosexual. We've raised hundreds of dollars in candy sales already, to pay for the trip... what are we supposed to do with all of that money if we can't go? buy acid?
wait, that might be more fun than going to epcot
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That's really weird. I'm not quite sure why they just wouldn't say no student can go into a theme park during school hours.
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Micro$oft
Please don't do that again. If you do, I might have to drive up to Midland and strangle you. :)
I've never had any issues with using OOO for word documents (minus the lack of docx support, which is likely coming soon).
I've had it nuke margins on me before. Not a very pleasant surprise when you go to print stuff. :x
That said, it's only happened once or twice, so it was probably just an oddity with the margins that I had to use on those particular documents. Overall, I was very impressed with it. I was pleasantly surprised, in particular, with its handling of PowerPoint presentations. While it doesn't seem to support all of Office XP's features it still supports more than enough to handle just about any PowerPoint presentation.
All in all, my biggest complaints are with the interface. It's not even a deal with familiarity -- I almost never use WordPerfect and I can switch to that pretty easily. OpenOffice Writer just makes no goddamn sense to me at all. I remember having to look several minutes for a particular feature, only to find it in a completely illogical place. I like to call this "GIMP syndrome." It's usable, you can certainly get used to it with a lot of time, but it's far from being ideal or even remotely good.
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Please don't do that again. If you do, I might have to drive up to Midland and strangle you. :)
Well, there's no symbol to add in Apple somewhere to denote that they also cost a lot of money.
Plus, other than the odd compatibility issue, and the fact that some features are hard to locate at first, OOO pretty much matches word.
I will admit that the new Word that uses those Ribbons kicks ass, but I'm poor as fuck, and I haven't found a method to obtain a PERFECTLY LEGITIMATE copy that actually works.
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Well, there's no symbol to add in Apple somewhere to denote that they also cost a lot of money.
A₱₱
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Pretty clever yo. Also the movie Crank, after watching it with my friends I really don't see any redeeming factors. The whole movie is a big suicide rush to get the people that screwed you over, but it's still full of plot holes and an overabundance of pop culture bullshit. That and the fact that most people say the sex scene is awesome, when really it's nothing special and rather dumb. All he does his start to hump her, she over acts, then he walks away.
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A₱₱
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Pretty clever yo. Also the movie Crank, after watching it with my friends I really don't see any redeeming factors. The whole movie is a big suicide rush to get the people that screwed you over, but it's still full of plot holes and an overabundance of pop culture bullshit. That and the fact that most people say the sex scene is awesome, when really it's nothing special and rather dumb. All he does his start to hump her, she over acts, then he walks away.
I loved that movie. It was all really unrealistic nuts but it was a thrill ride for sure. And who the hell thought that sex scene was awesome? I've never heard that before. I love Amy Smart but that sex scene was subpar at best.
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I just tried the demo of the iPhone DDR App and, well, it's pretty horrid.
It's extremely smooth, the sound quality is great, and the multitap works amazingly well. The problem is that the sync is probably off by a good half a second. Seriously? Nobody noticed that when they were testing that? Sheesh. :s
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I just feel like the movie was trying way to hard to be liked. Yeah, it had good parts to it but the plot was all over the place and the overuse of "dramatic" camera angles gets annoying. Then again, the elevator scene near the end was rather bad ass.
Also my friend tells me that he wants a tattoo, I ask him what of and he says he doesn't know. So I say don't get any sort of Japanese lettering or something tribal and he replies with "I was thinking of getting a tribal symbol" and I lolwut'ed instantly. I'm like 60% sure he only wants one because his girlfriend is getting one, that and he really has NO idea what he wants other then "generic tattoo idea number 134".
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My damn bus home is getting detoured tomorrow, but the bloomin' port authority website won't tell me to WHERE it's getting detoured. Grr.
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Make a phone call and speak to whoever picks up. If they can't answer your question, ask nicely to speak to their supervisor. Etc etc. Websites are not as reliable for that kind of quick info as the detouring route of a bus
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Actually, despite their website typically being pretty useless, they're actually pretty fast with posting detour information.
Ah hell. It's only going to be kicked around for two hours for the Steeler parade. I might as well go kill some time in the South Side until proper service is restored.
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In Platinum, I'm trying to catch a Farfetch'd that's holding a "Stick," which increases Farfetch'd's critical hit ratio. A wild one has a 5% chance of holding one. I've caught 43 so far and none of them have been holding it.
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Phone died somewhere between Baltimore and Ohio, and apparently at random. We're hoping to get a new one this week.
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That uberly sucks good sir.
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The fact that we are only a few posts away from page 100.
Not really, but.
I hate the fact that I always seem to be working when I have other things to do but never have work when I don't have anything to do.
Also the fact that I have great game ideas but I don't know how to program or anything...let alone know what programs do what.
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You could take a shot at learning Flash.
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You could take a shot at learning Flash.
Coming from a programmer: Flash scripting sucks. Seriously.
If you want to learn some basic programming concepts, I would suggest starting on something simple, like the scripting system in rpg maker 2000 or something. Then you can move up to learning a language that can do more, but requires you to type it's commands out and such.
Personally, I would suggest that if you want to learn to program, you go through some tutorials on visual basic or something. Once you've learned the basic concepts of how something works, you can apply them to any language. I've learned a whole bunch of languages thanks to originally learning the concepts of programming from C++.
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rpg maker 2000
I have RPG Maker 3 for the PS2 and I have made a game that maxed out the memory capacity for the game...so I know how to do events and stuff like that...what I want to do is CREATE the effects such as shaking the screen, not just put it into the event.
Also, I'm pissed off that I haven't worked on my SM pack for a long time because of so many different reasons.
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I have RPG Maker 3 for the PS2 and I have made a game that maxed out the memory capacity for the game...so I know how to do events and stuff like that...what I want to do is CREATE the effects such as shaking the screen, not just put it into the event.
Also, I'm pissed off that I haven't worked on my SM pack for a long time because of so many different reasons.
gamedev.net is a great place to learn about actual game programming, and they don't have articles on just one language. They are a great place to go to learn about game programming stuff. However, to learn to do some of the more advanced stuff, you need to know how to program in a language in the first place.
For instance, if you were drawing a tile based game, and you wanted to shake the screen, there are 2 main ways you could go about it. You could take the screen's contents and shake that back and forth, which will cause black bars on the side when the screen moves away from that side of the visible screen. The other way of doing it is essentially moving the camera back and forth and actually drawing what's to the side of the current screen when it moves. That one requires you to get all the tiles on that side of the screen that would be visible and draw them. Not only that, but both of them require you to be able to draw your tiles on locations that they normally wouldn't be drawn on (say they're 16 pixels square, now you'd be drawing them in places like pixel 7 [counting form the left of the screen] instead of on 0, 15, etc.)
It's good that you understand how to make events and such, because that gives you a solid foundation to learn a programming language, but working with RPG makers and such really hides the complex internals required in making a game.
Personally, if you're planning on seriously learning to program, I would say to not bother learning some stupid language like VB, which though it's good for teaching, is a retarded language to write in, and go straight to Java or C# (I would suggest learning C#, because it has an awesome IDE from Microsoft freely available with stuff like code completion).
Here's the page you can download the C# IDE from Microsoft.
http://www.microsoft.com/express/vcsharp/
Here's a link to the hello world program on the MSDN in C#
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms173060(VS.80).aspx
If you're gonna learn C#, I highly suggest learning how to navigate/locate information about stuff on the MSDN website. That site KICKS ASS for learning how to do stuff in C# or any of the visual studio languages.
And again, Gamedev.net is a great resource for finding out how to make things work. They might not always supply source code, but that's what programming is about: learning how something works, and then trying to write code that does it.
http://www.gamedev.net/reference/
http://www.gamedev.net/reference/start_here/
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I finished and submitted my Java homework, not due until next Friday, 2 days ago. The instructor updated the assignment since then. She grades using a script. Have you ever heard of a course where you get points off for finishing early?
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I finished and submitted my Java homework, not due until next Friday, 2 days ago. The instructor updated the assignment since then. She grades using a script. Have you ever heard of a course where you get points off for finishing early?
Scream in her face, also what's your major?
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Officially undeclared, but I'm working towards CS. I'll have to ask her about it. I made it exactly according to the original guidelines. She hasn't and won't grade it for another week and a half. If I do get points off, I'll be pissed.
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My dog Annie is inexplicably hacking up a lung several times an hour. :/ We've made an appointment for her at the vet tomorrow.
Other than the coughing, she doesn't really seem to be sick. She's still eating, she's in a good mood, playing with our puppy until she starts to cough...But still, I'm worried. ;_;
I'm thinking she might have something stuck in her throat, namely some fuzz off of one of the tennis balls we've got lying around. But I can't say for certain.
She just keeps giving me this look as if to say "What's wrong with me? ;___; " and it's breaking my heart.
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The waves of inactivity that hit these forums lol
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The fact I am still at my current job.
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The waves of inactivity that hit these forums lol
I couldn't agree more, lol.
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I couldn't agree more, lol.
What they said, then again I have nothing to talk about.
Oh yeah and FUUUUUUCK I NEED A JOB GODDAMN.
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The fact I am still at my current job.
Props for getting the 100GET
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Check what page we're on...
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Check what page we're on...
He was making a Bemani reference , you silly Canuck. ;)
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Yay I am sick because of NE Ohio's lovely weather changes :(
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I'm sick of Ohio's lovely weather changes. Fortunately, it seems like I've already done my time as far as sickness goes.
/me knocks on wood.
Edit: Fucking spambots! Seriously, last time I purged the member list of spam bots was before work this morning. SIX OF THEM REGISTERED IN JUST OVER 12 HOURS. What the hell is the bloody point?
This is why I fucking cheer when I hear about spammers getting long jail sentences. Fuck 'em, they can rot for the rest of their miserable lives for all I care.
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raeg
*hug?*
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I'm sick of Ohio's lovely weather changes. Fortunately, it seems like I've already done my time as far as sickness goes.
/me knocks on wood.
Edit: Fucking spambots! Seriously, last time I purged the member list of spam bots was before work this morning. SIX OF THEM REGISTERED IN JUST OVER 12 HOURS. What the hell is the bloody point?
This is why I fucking cheer when I hear about spammers getting long jail sentences. Fuck 'em, they can rot for the rest of their miserable lives for all I care.
Yeah, I've been wondering what's happened, in the last month or so, we've seen a HUGE increase in spam bots registering. It's getting ridiculous.
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So the exhaust pipe on my car finally completely went, and while I know that it needed to be replaced for a while (since early winter), I was trying to get it to last until April, when (1) I have more money and (2) it's warmer. Now I get to replace it in the cold (I live in the same town as bobbias) when I have little money to spare or lose hearing and/or get it pulled off the road because it's just too loud.
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The fact that my memory is so shot. I hate it, I just was thinking about something somewhat important and I just completely forgot.
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:3
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When programs don't ask before making themselves the default file extension handler.
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I hate it when people you've known for years suddenly don't have time to talk to you anymore
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Fucking hate trying to use the gamecube controllers for GG. When I get near the end in arcade mode I have to fight the god damned controller more then I do the other player, it's crazy how hard it is to find an appropriate controller for a fighter. That and my big hands don't help the analog stick situation.
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The fact that my memory is so shot. I hate it, I just was thinking about something somewhat important and I just completely forgot.
sleep moar
But seriously, you're probably either not getting enough sleep daily and/or are on too many stimulants. My thought processes improved drastically after I started getting a steady 6 hours a night. Lowering my caffeine intake helped, too.
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It might be the caffeine, but I usually get a LOT of sleep (I got near 9 hours last night, if my math is AT ALL correct).
Also I think my PC is overheating, I've had 2 instances were I'll be playing a game then out of nowhere the textures go crazy and even when I switch games it still does the same thing. It's odd, but my PC doesn't feel all that hot (this is a rough estimate).
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sleep moar
But seriously, you're probably either not getting enough sleep daily and/or are on too many stimulants. My thought processes improved drastically after I started getting a steady 6 hours a night. Lowering my caffeine intake helped, too.
6 hours still leaves you considerably worse off than a steady 8 hours.
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6 hours still leaves you considerably worse off than a steady 8 hours.
It depends on the person. My dad and I both have a hard time waking up and functioning after 8 hours of sleep. My mom, on the other hand, needs around 8 hours of sleep per night.
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It depends on the person. My dad and I both have a hard time waking up and functioning after 8 hours of sleep. My mom, on the other hand, needs around 8 hours of sleep per night.
I wish I had a link, but a medical study showed that even people who felt normal/thought they functioned properly on 6 hours sleep learned worse than those who had 8 hours of sleep, and we're not talking about over 1 night, but over a prolonged time period. The purpose of the study was to determine whether or not people who slept less but still slept the same amount were worse off or not.
Sure, some people can function with less sleep. Not everyone needs the full 8 hours, but that is much less common than most people think, because even if you feel well rested, you may not be performing at your full potential.
I'm sure if I got a steady 8 hours every single night at the same time every night, I'd learn quicker/better than I do right now.
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I need around 10 hours of sleep per night to feel fully awake and function at my full potential, however usually get much less.
By the way, isn't it true that sleeping too much has adverse effects as well?
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I get by fine if I get around 6-7 hours of sleep in a given day, though it's usually not all at once. I have a midday nap for an hour or so.
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So I'm like...more than 3/4 of the way to getting a music degree at my school. I'll be taking a bit longer than the program really "should" be, but I haven't really been fully concentrating on music until this term. Mostly due to my parents pretty much not allowing me until now. But eh, I'm finally getting to study what I want, bitch about the past later, etc etc...
So I'll just bitch about the present! :D
My dad seems to have gotten the idea that this current semester is my last one at my school. I think I've told him at least ten times now that I've still got six or seven classes left to take as of the end of this term, two of which I'll be able to take this summer. So based on the availability of the remaining courses in the fall (most likely, the remaining four or five won't be offered in the same term) it looks as if I've got two full semesters left in addition to the 6-week summer term I'm going to be in.
Not that bad to me, considering I only really started at this stuff this year. Especially since *zomgz* I'm at the local community college, so shit has been dirt cheap.
He sees absolutely no value in my getting a degree from here, (meanwhile I think it'd be fucking idiotic of me to NOT get one considering how long I've put up with being here) and somehow thinks that I'm ready to audition for an actual music school.
I have no idea where this supposed confidence in me is coming from. Three weeks ago, he was still lecturing me every day on how all these music classes are worthless bullshit and I'll never get anywhere with them...and now he thinks that six weeks of lessons have fully prepared me for a real music school. Ugh...
In no. Fucking. Way. am I anywhere near ready. gawd.
If only I were interested in something he wanted me to go into. I've have gotten to go to a real college three years ago, and I'd probably be almost done by now. >_>
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Why can't I find a half decently easy way to generate only every 3rd number in the fibonacci sequence?
And why doesn't C++ have a native 2 way rounding function... I don't like having to write my own (not hard, just kinda stupid that I'd have to...)
Bonus points to anyone who understands why this is bugging me.
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I remember a couple of years ago trying to get my calculator to generate the Fibonacci sequence only to stop after I realized the int() function was just a floor function. I could've probably made a 2-way rounding function even using the TI-83's BASIC, but I didn't feel like it.
EDIT: So it turns out the function (phi^x - (1 - phi)^x)/((5)^1/2) always gives an integer as the Fibonacci value. I tried it in Java and I got rounding errors, so I still had to int the results, but it worked.
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If only I were interested in something he wanted me to go into. I've have gotten to go to a real college three years ago, and I'd probably be almost done by now. >_>
Meh, it would be hard to get a job in that industry, but you have to try for something you want.
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Pretty much, yeah.. :/
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I remember a couple of years ago trying to get my calculator to generate the Fibonacci sequence only to stop after I realized the int() function was just a floor function. I could've probably made a 2-way rounding function even using the TI-83's BASIC, but I didn't feel like it.
EDIT: So it turns out the function (phi^x - (1 - phi)^x)/((5)^1/2) always gives an integer as the Fibonacci value. I tried it in Java and I got rounding errors, so I still had to int the results, but it worked.
A) Java has a rounding function other than floor and ceiling...
B) I was hoping for a way to not have to round, lol. I tried doing the function in MATLAB but the answer I'm looking for is WAY too huge for MATLAB to give me all the results. It's something or other x1042 or so, IIRC.
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A) I've been barely using Java for about 4 weeks now. I haven't bothered looking much into the documentation other than what's necessary for my assignments.
B) That way I posted is a way to do it without having to round aside from possible rounding errors. Here's the function in a clearer form:
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/math/7/7/6/77647e3ad07067327bda11d4fd8803f4.png)
I plugged that into my TI-83 and got integers every time.
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A) I've been barely using Java for about 4 weeks now. I haven't bothered looking much into the documentation other than what's necessary for my assignments.
B) That way I posted is a way to do it without having to round aside from possible rounding errors. Here's the function in a clearer form:
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/math/7/7/6/77647e3ad07067327bda11d4fd8803f4.png)
I plugged that into my TI-83 and got integers every time.
I'll have to check that out. Mind you, C++ doesn't have the golden ratio defined, and I'm not a fan of deriving my own irrational numbers in programming, lol.
Also, working with big numbers sucks. MATLAB just doesn't do anything larger than a double can properly express. And for some answers, 15 decimal places really isn't accurate enough.
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At least phi is easy to calculate.
EDIT: Never is it more clear how long compiling takes than when installing Gentoo from the command line.
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At least phi is easy to calculate.
EDIT: Never is it more clear how long compiling takes than when installing Gentoo from the command line.
Lol, how about compiling PHP+MySQL on a mybook... 3 times. Over SSH.
It took me 45 minutes each time to compile PHP and MySQL....
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So I tried booting up the system (I had been in a livecd iso doing everything from command line) and I got a kernel panic. I'll look up the specifics of this error tomorrow, when I have more free time. I've had this VBox window open all day, leaving it to compile things whenever I went to class.
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I'm still unemployed and my car is fairly fucked up so I can't go driving around for jobs. That and it might cost me big to repair my car, THIS SHOULD BE FUN.
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I woke up at two this morning with what is either a cold or the flu.
Balls.
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My parents consistently remind me of everything I already know, and then don't mention anything I don't. Specifically, I'm referring to the fact that I had a band practice out in Cincinnati on Sunday and I was supposed to send in an audition tape quite a while ago.
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Freakin' scout update screwed up the already fixed Natasha and now if a Spy crits with his revolver it crashes the damn server....way to go Valve!
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I just sat at the same table as a couple of girls peer reviewing each other's papers for what sounded like an economics class. They didn't know that Russia's economy isn't communist anymore. I could've corrected them, but I opted to leave instead.
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if a Spy crits with his revolver it crashes the damn server....way to go Valve!
They probably put in that "feature" to quell the people bitching about the spies being nerfed. Now they have the power to kill everyone with one good hit!
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Did spies really need a nerf? I mean the most I've done in a single life as a spy was kill 2 engineers, 2 sentries, a demo and a dispenser and THEN they found me. What happened to him anyways? I've been avoiding TF2 until they fix the patch up.
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Hard mode in Wario's Woods. I'm pretty sure I'm level 9 and the CPU is level 3 on this stage. What the hell?
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I'm thoroughly disgusted. I believe I just got done with a game of L4D that had a hacker in it. It started out with a well organized enemy team just beating us rather badly in versus. Then while I was a hunter he turns around and head shots me while in a mid air ponce with dual pistols, which just striked me as lucky (and I'm still not 100% sure if he was or not, it just seems SO unlikely to have someone hack in L4D...) but later, nearing the roof of the hospital we have a smoker set up so he can choke people when they stick their heads out from a relatively safe distance. So, he gets one and messes him up a bit, then a molotov from the bottom of the ladder flies up and lands RIGHT on the small building the smoker was on and sets him on fire. Now either this guy is a god is grenades in L4D or he's using some sort of exploit/hack.
I honestly thought he wasn't hacking at all until I saw that, also a teammate said he was aiming at him through a wall and when he stuck his head out it got blown off, so I suppose he was.
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Did spies really need a nerf? I mean the most I've done in a single life as a spy was kill 2 engineers, 2 sentries, a demo and a dispenser and THEN they found me. What happened to him anyways? I've been avoiding TF2 until they fix the patch up.
My best as a spy is a 2 sentries, 2 dispensers, a solider, a heavy, a medic and 3 snipers....but not playing as spy for a few days in making me batty
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I hate when games rub failure in your face.
Case in point: Rock Band 2. It's annoying as fuck working to pass one of the harder expert guitar/drum songs in the game only to require you to sit through 10 second of booing and...well, OVERALL NOTHINGNESS. Seriously, I can press start and restart at any time during the song, why can't I just do that and skip the stupid cinematics. What, is the booing supposed to make me feel bad or something? Well...no, it's not. It's unnecessary and it pisses me off.
I also love how, despite never playing at any difficulty under expert on guitar/bass with my profile, it still defaults to medium. What the hell is that shit? How hard it is to save that kind of crap?
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I hate when games rub failure in your face.
Quoted for goddamn titfucking truth -- unless it's done in an epic or hilarious fashion (I Wanna Be The Guy, but even those death scenes are quick and skipable; also Disgaea has some pretty awesome Permanent Game Overs), and then I'll let it slide... BARELY. >=(
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I just did 40 push ups and a hundred crunches then took a shower, after that I took a sleeping pill and about an hour later I'm still not that tired. The hell is wrong with me.
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FUCKING 600 GOD DAMMIT
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Quoted for goddamn titfucking truth -- unless it's done in an epic or hilarious fashion (I Wanna Be The Guy, but even those death scenes are quick and skipable; also Disgaea has some pretty awesome Permanent Game Overs), and then I'll let it slide... BARELY. >=(
Exactly. I don't care as long as it can be easily skipped. With IWBTG all you have to do is press a key. Rock Band artificially prevents you from pressing start to get out of that bullshit. If you press start it should bring you to the menu or just skip the whole "ZOMG U SUK" screen because it's nothing more than a waste of 10-15 seconds that you're going to see a lot of whenever you want to challenge yourself. It's nothing but a completely unnecessary annoyance.
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I just spent the last 8 hours writing a paper that I'm likely going to get a terrible grade on. At least now I know not to wait until the last minute to write a paper.
Related: I drank 3 Sobe Adrenaline Rushes in the last 8 hours, and am completely wired for absolutely nothing. I hope I crash soon.
EDIT2: Crashed around 6 AM. Woke up at 7:30 feeling completely rested.
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Last night, I went to bed at about 4am, and woke up at 7:30am unable to go back to sleep. As the day went by, I became tired, naturally, but didn't want to sleep and fuck up my sleep schedule again. Plus I had a 10 man naxx undying raid (which was successful). I was really tired before and during the raid, but now after it's over, I'm not really tired anymore...
On another note, my brother took my car this morning to do a job with his dad (half brother from a different father in case you're wondering), and still hasn't returned thirteen hours later. I didn't plan on driving anywhere or anything, but it just pisses me off that he is gone with my car, and I have no idea where the hell he is. I'm sure he's not still working at this time.
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f0k I'm tired. Spent too much time at work today. =(
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Ouch Skor, that suck. I always tell my parents where I'm going with their car...
Mid you, I have a car, it's just in dire need of some repairs before I can get insurance and all the rest of the crap I need :/
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Just kind of a pet peeve: When there's a section of a song where one of the stereo channels goes completely silent, but the other doesn't. It makes me very aware of my headphones and feels weird.
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Just kind of a pet peeve: When there's a section of a song where one of the stereo channels goes completely silent, but the other doesn't. It makes me very aware of my headphones and feels weird.
Yeah, it physically throws me off-balance. I've actually fallen over once because of that. haha.
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The coen brothers
assholes.
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Microwave blew a fuse.
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Hit a bad part of sidewalk on my bike today and BOTH tires blew. What the hell is that? Had to wait an hour or so to get my friend to pick me up with his mom's van, got sunburned in the process. Oh well. Ride was fun up until then anyway.
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That blows, also Microwaves have fuses?
Also lag. I know it's a completely bullshit thing to be mad at but it bothers me to no end. In Left 4 Dead I had a guy pushed up against a wall in a closet and I was the tank. I swing at him about 4 to 5 times and ALL of them miss while he crouches there and melee's me back. Also after that I start to play TF2 and I'm trying to get the intelligence on a CTF map and this Scout keeps killing me. I fire a sniper shot directly at him while he's charging me head on and it misses and he kills me. Now this doesn't bother me but the fact that he constantly taunts me after each kill it driving the nail into my skull. After all of this I switch to engineer and try to do some defending. I set up a sentry across my base and go to check out our intelegence. When I get there the same scout runs in and takes it. He constantly double jumps while running, that added with his lag makes him invincible.
Also on a more important topic, my friends are only down for spring break for about a week when I thought they had about 2 weeks. What the hell kind of break it a week, goddamn.
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Also on a more important topic, my friends are only down for spring break for about a week when I thought they had about 2 weeks. What the hell kind of break it a week, goddamn.
Are you kidding? Haha. My break is a week long. And it doesn't even occur for about a month. <<;
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"wtf are you all fagets talking about? Isis is not for all, its just for smart people, go and listen comercial shit that your limited brain can understand. A band that was on tour with TOOL deserve a lot of respect bitches."
ffffffffffffffff
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Isis is cool and all, but crap like that pisses me off. Seriously, I hate morons who think that just because a band does like to do something out of the ordinary, it gives them an excuse to be a complete douchebag.
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I know. I hate pretentious fuckwits who think musical tastes have anything to do with intelligence.
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So a good majority of most bands? Whenever I say I'm not really into a bad, the only reply I get back is "You just don't understand". I remember when my friend was all into Smile Empty Soul and he kept trying to tell me the lyrics were deep when they just seemed amazingly angsty.
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Hahaha, yeah, I hate that. If you don't like a band, you don't like a band, and why should anyone else try to convince you otherwise? It's much the same as religion >_>
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The occasional hiccup that causes a movie on Youtube to take longer to load than the duration, meaning you can't watch while it's loading.
EDIT: Also, I was looking forward to spending spring break at home with my friends, but now I'm going on a trip to Florida with my mom and sisters so we can see some extended family and hang out at the beach. I fucking hate the beach.
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You can always hang out with me, as long as you're near the Jupiter area.
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I'll be in Miami. Does ~60 miles count as near?
EDIT: When a search result on google is the search in another search engine.
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Baahahaha...A friend of mine gave me about three weeks (now two weeks - she did this last Saturday) to come up with $300+ to buy a dress so I can be in her wedding this fall.
I can't even get angry about it! The idea of me being able to come up with that on such short notice is hilarious. :D
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There are three major things about Rock Band 2 that peel my potatoes with paring knives of ANGER:
(1) The UI design. How does something that horrible make it out of QA? I don't know what's worse, the ninety minute, Trance Machina-esque, "we're going to lock up your controls until you see the WHOLE ANIMATION" tweens, the stupidly long loading times to get back to the, uh, MAIN MENU, or the fact that you have to hit the red button about fifty gazillion times to go back to the main menu from every screen.
(2) Harmonix's concept of individual user preferences (or lack thereof). Why should I have to pick "EXPERT" for the instruments every single goddamn time I start playing? Is it really that hard to say "Oh, Spectere84 last played expert drums and expert guitar/bass...maybe we should save this so that he doesn't accidentally select medium guitar and be bored out of his mind for four minutes." Also, why should I have to go through the menu every single time and select "breakneck speed?" Furthermore, why can't I pick breakneck speed while my friends, y'know, play at normal speed? And finally, who's bright idea was it to set the note scroll speed to that of the player with the lowest difficulty? When my friend is playing easy drums and I'm playing expert guitar, it's almost impossible to read any song rated 5 and up. Is it that big of a deal if my notes scroll faster than his? Seriously, that's complete bullshit and horrible game design. It either winds up alienating the good players (i.e. I can't play on Expert because of an unnecessary game limitation) or the newbies (my friend either plays an instrument that he's good at or is forced to use breakneck speed to make my chart readable).
What pisses me off the most is that this kind of stuff is nothing new. How long as DDR allowed individual players to select different difficulty levels and speed mods again? Since 2001? There's absolutely no excuse.
(3) The shitty instruments. Oh. God. Seriously, who designed that shit? Between my friend and I we've had to return several instruments, some that had issues right out of the box. I bought a wireless guitar controller for the original Rock Band, went through three of them, then finally gave up on it and got as much money back on it as I could. I've had issues with both of my drum kits dropping hits, I've had the bass pedal on my RB1 set snap. My RB2 guitar has very shaky solo buttons on it; sometimes they just stop responding altogether. About the only good thing is the mic. Let's not forget the guitar's nasty tendency of either not activating overdrive or activating it at inopportune times.
I know it's not impossible. I own a second-hand Xplorer GH2 guitar that works beautifully. The buttons are very responsive and the strum bar is fantastic. There is absolutely no reason for the instruments to be so unbelievably awful. What did I pay almost $200 for again?
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Being horny when all of your options are out of town on spring break sucks.
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Be happy you HAS options? haha :D
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Being horny when all of your options are out of town on spring break sucks.
You mean both your hands went on spring break without you?
BAWWWWWWWWWWWWW
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You mean both your hands went on spring break without you?
Daaaaaang.
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My internet connection is complete garbage and I don't know why. It's basically dropped by half and now everything loads slow as hell. Really hating this connector, everything about it is slow.
Also the fact that you can't clean a keyboard without getting accusations. Because I really put the head of my dick in the middle of my keyboard and let lose.
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You sick bastard! D:
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My internet connection is complete garbage and I don't know why. It's basically dropped by half and now everything loads slow as hell. Really hating this connector, everything about it is slow.
Welcome to my world.
We upgraded our DSL to the next level and, while the upload rates saw a slight spike (though it's only up to ~620kbps, not ~768kbps like it should be) the download rate is still the same old 3mbps (it should be 6mbps/768kbps). Time to call AT&T. *sigh*
Also the fact that you can't clean a keyboard without getting accusations. Because I really put the head of my dick in the middle of my keyboard and let lose.
I lol'd.
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Yeah, but this is uncalled for considering my sister gets about 2 bars most of the time.
(http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l94/mortifiedocalot/fuckmyinternet.jpg)
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Main problem: it's a USB adapter. Those things suck balls.
The internal PCI cards (especially the ones with a long antenna or dual antennae) and laptop mini-PCI cards (i.e. the "built in" ones that use the display as an aerial) are way better. If you want to use wi-fi for anything serious.
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My computer has been down for almost 2 weeks. I am posting on my PS3.
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I just realized that I have no way of accessing my 1 TB NAS. I forgot to change it's settings prior to switching to the new router we have, and now it still thinks it's statically routed as 192.168.1.11 when my new router wants to run everything on the 192.168.0.0 space.
Spec, I don't know enough about routing to figure out why my router won't statically route that IP address....
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It's because it's not technically a part of your network. The subnet mask establishes which part of the IP address contains network bits. For example, a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0 means that the first three octets indicate what network you're in. Since your computer is in the 192.168.0.0 network, your NAS is in the 192.168.1.0 network, and you're plugged into the switch section (the router only routes packets between the WAN port and the switch ports) you are unable to talk to the NAS.
The easiest way to solve the problem would be to set your computer's IP to 192.168.1.something, set the IP of the NAS to something in the 192.168.0.0 network, and change your computer back to what it was originally set for.
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I fixed that error not long ago. I changed my router to 192.168.1.1. I thought i had to redo the static routing as well, but apparently it mysteriously worked once I switched subnets. All my other computers are on dhcp right now, so my NAS was the only one that I had statically routed before.
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There's nothing mysterious about it -- the NAS was on a different network than the switched devices. Since the switch ports on the router are simple layer 2 devices it is impossible to break outside of your current network without some silly subnet mask hackery.
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What was mysterious is that on my old router i had to manually do the static routing, on this one, it simply worked once I switched subnets.
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How much the context affects what μ represents in physics. It makes it really ambiguous.
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What was mysterious is that on my old router i had to manually do the static routing, on this one, it simply worked once I switched subnets.
You didn't have to do anything because no routing was being done. The switch ports on the routers are incapable of doing any sort of routing. The only layer 3 routing that gets done is between the WAN and LAN ports. This is why a router can be completely crashed and still switch packets -- home "routers" are just four port switches with routing software and an additional interface.
Subnets, networks, all of them act as barriers. When you're dealing with a device that's strictly layer 2, it has no way of knowing how to do any layer 3 switching.
The order that data is pushed about in a standard networking device is defined by the OSI model as follows: (1) physical, (2) data link, (3) network, (4) transport, (5) session, (6) presentation, (7) application. Applications are at the highest level and physical is at the lowest. Whenever you initiate communications between two devices, it'll move down the layers on the source computer and up the layers on the second computer. Encapsulation occurs in this order.
The bits that actually make up the packet are generally contained in the application, transport, network, and data link layers, in that order (there are some additional complexities thrown in, such as packet size limits, but for this example let's just assume that everything is contained in one packet). The application data is surrounded by the network layer data, which is surrounded by the data link layer data, which is sent via the physical layer. Let's say you want to get to initiate a file transfer between your computer and the NAS and we'll assume that your computer has an IP address of 192.168.0.200 and a MAC address of 00-01-23-45-67-89 and your NAS has an IP of 192.168.1.11 and a MAC address of 00-FE-DC-BA-98-76.
At this point, we have the data that you want to send. The data would get wrapped in a TCP packet (transport layer, I believe), to provide the necessary port numbers and other information, then an IP packet (network layer), giving the source and destination IP addresses among other things.
From there, our humble little TCP/IP packet is wrapped up in a frame, the units used in layer 2, the data link layer. This is the layer that the switch works in and is the sole reason that you cannot cross IP networks using a normal switch. The frame consists of the source and destination MAC addresses. Layer 2 devices don't care how data gets from point A to point B -- they just look at the MAC address and figure out how to pass the information from device to device.
This is where the hang-up is happening in your case. Since 192.168.1.11 is part of the 192.168.1.0 network and not the 192.168.0.0 network that your computer is in (since your subnet mask indicates that all three octets represent the network), your computer (correctly) assumes that the device isn't in your network. Since your gateway is set to your router's IP -- no doubt something like 192.168.0.1 -- it directs the frame to that device. Now, our frame is at the router. Since the destination MAC address matches that of the router it grabs and starts unwinding the packet. When it checks layer 3 it would see that the destination address is, indeed, outside of its network. Since it only does routing between the WAN port and the internal switch, it would attempt to find the 192.168.1.0 network using the WAN port. Since that network doesn't exist on the Internet it would simply time out, preventing you from accessing the NAS.
If the NAS were on your network (let's say its address is 192.168.0.11 instead) your computer would recognize that it was on your network right away. Instead of sending it to the default gateway it would first discover the MAC address of the NAS using ARP (address resolution protocol -- a means to get a MAC address when only the IP is known) and when the frame is created it would set the destination MAC address to be the NAS. When the switch receives the frame it would look at the destination address, recognize it, and send the packet off on the appropriate port, getting it straight to the NAS without the layer 3 software even touching it.
See? I told you there was nothing complicated or mysterious about it. :P
I love networking, can't you tell?
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I meant that before I had to make sure my router was aware of the statically allocated IP address, if that clears things up a bit more...
Also, I tried using the Static Routing part and setting my subnet mask to 255.255.0.0, but it was giving me the error "Please input the valid IP address" or something to that effect.
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The router doesn't have to be made aware of a static IP at any point. If all of the devices on the network are plugged in on the switch side no routing is done.
Setting the subnet mask to 255.255.0.0 is invalid since 192.x.x.x is a class C address. Class A addresses (first octet being 1-127) uses 255.0.0.0, class B addresses (first octet being 128-191) use 255.255.0.0, and class C (192-223) uses 255.255.255.0. Subnets are used from there to further segment the network.
I'm at work now and can't really explain subnetting in greater detail, but this site has quite a bit of handy information and tutorials if you want to learn more: http://www.learntosubnet.com/ (http://www.learntosubnet.com/)
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http://www.learntosubnet.com/ (http://www.learntosubnet.com/)
Too bad the site wants to force me into using IE.
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Bus to downtown didn't show.
Torrential downpour.
Lack of umbrella.
/haiku
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Too bad the site wants to force me into using IE.
It uses Media Player, and considering how well the WMP control works in Firefox 3, uh...yeah.
If you managed to get it installed, click cancel like everyone else does.
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lol, I use chrome, so all I got was some weird image about some presentation program thingie.
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I just LOVE going through a bunch of crap to ascertain that I make it to a job interview in time (re-arranging my piano lessons, getting a ride home from my dad when he was working over an hour away, and then hitching onto another bus) only to find out that the only person who can tell me whether I've actually got a job or not isn't even in the store. >_<
I pretty much saw it coming though.
So now I get to wait until the end of the week. Whoo.
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I just LOVE going through a bunch of crap to ascertain that I make it to a job interview in time (re-arranging my piano lessons, getting a ride home from my dad when he was working over an hour away, and then hitching onto another bus) only to find out that the only person who can tell me whether I've actually got a job or not isn't even in the store. >_<
I pretty much saw it coming though.
So now I get to wait until the end of the week. Whoo.
I really don't miss the good old days when I couldn't drive lol
good luck with the job though
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Thanks. :3
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We are such an angry forum, lol.
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We are such an angry forum, lol.
SHUT the FUCK UP.
GOD DAMN CANADIANS.
JESUS.
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FUUUUUUCK!!!
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It's a minor annoyance, but I hate achievement whores as far as games are concerned. My friend beat Resident Evil and he's grinding (grinding, in resident evil?) the levels for more money so he can upgrade all his guns. So, I noticed he had enough money to buy a mini gun and I suggested he should, because it's a mini gun. He says no because he wants to upgrade his guns to get an achievement first, he's literally not having fun and grinding in a game JUST to get an achievement that means nothing.
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It's a minor annoyance, but I hate achievement whores as far as games are concerned. My friend beat Resident Evil and he's grinding (grinding, in resident evil?) the levels for more money so he can upgrade all his guns. So, I noticed he had enough money to buy a mini gun and I suggested he should, because it's a mini gun. He says no because he wants to upgrade his guns to get an achievement first, he's literally not having fun and grinding in a game JUST to get an achievement that means nothing.
http://www.illwillpress.com/ACH22.html
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JewTube is peeling my potatoes an awful lot.
Why are they removing like half of every their entire database?
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Why are they removing like half of every their entire database?
'Cuz nigs be suin' dem. >:(
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One of my Line Rider videos is blocked in a few countries for having a song by Bond in it thanks to copyright stuffs.
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One of my Line Rider videos is blocked in a few countries for having a song by Bond in it thanks to copyright stuffs.
Only blocked? I'm surprised it wasn't just removed.
Also, Bond is awesome.
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Yeah, they gave me a list of where it wasn't blocked:
As a result, your video is blocked everywhere except in these locations:
American Samoa, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Cuba, Fiji, France, Germany, Guam, Heard Island and McDonald Islands, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kiribati, Mexico, Nauru, Netherlands, New Zealand, Niue, Norfolk Island, Northern Mariana Islands, Papua New Guinea, Puerto Rico, Solomon Islands, South Korea, Spain, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, United Kingdom, United States, United States Virgin Islands, Vanuatu
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lol, well, that is still a decent list. It's not like they blocked it in every major country. It would suck if the list was just a collection of tiny countries.
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I find it a little strange that Sweden isn't on the list.
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and McDonald Islands
lolwut?
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(http://keetsa.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/mcdonalds1.jpg)
edit: That road looks a lot less like water now than when I first saw the image. :-(
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I just remembered that I had a copy of MvC2 and I either lost it or gave it to a friend, and the game currently sells for like 100 bucks online.
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I saw one of those christian bible game cartridges (similar to the one mentioned in the AVGN's video) at a gaming shop (full of oldschool game systems and shit)... For $23, lol.
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I play a game called ogame, which is a rts broswer space age civilation time game. In which, it is apparently not only possible, but there are players that attack another player that is 700+ ranks below them ( He is rank 14 with 3,979,346 points and I'm rank 750 with 5,062 points ((aka I can't even scratch him let alone be of any sort of threat)) ) and still feel justified in taking all the resources that he possibly could. Is it just me that has some sense of right to not attack (and otherwise destroy) someone that far below me?
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I play a game called ogame, which is a rts broswer space age civilation time game.
lolwut? Sounds rather awesome.
Also you MUST have never played WoW on a PVP server. I've been at level 40 and I've had level 70 players (the cap at the time) kill me and CAMP my corpse (when you die in WoW, you can either spawn on your corpse or spawn at a grave yard and take 25% damage to your equipment), which was close enough to the graveyard that he could have spotted me and chased me down and killed me. Really, a lot of the high level people in that game are huge dicks and love to waste hours camping you.
The bad thing about WoW on a PVP server is that there's NO WAY you are beating someone that has a 10 level gap between you and them, that and he had an epic mount so I couldn't outrun or outfight the guy.
It's sometimes fun, I had a guy about my level camp my friend who was about 10 or so levels under him, so I ran up to him and my friend resurrected and helped me drop him and we camped and killed him about 10 times in a row until his level 70 buddy came.
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Yes, but WoW has optional PvE srevers.this game has no enemies for a PvE scenario. It's all players. And on top of that, due to the way the fighting works, Nekros didn't even kill a single enemy ship in the battle. Plus, after losing the battle, he also lost a bunch of resources as well, so he couldn't build up his defenses again.
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Wow, so what could you do in defense of this?
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You couldn't do anything really. They have rules about attacking someone too often, but nothing about attacking someone who is effectively defenseless to your huge fleet.
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I saw one of those christian bible game cartridges (similar to the one mentioned in the AVGN's video) at a gaming shop (full of oldschool game systems and shit)... For $23, lol.
Huge ripoff. I found multiple copies of Bible Adventures for like $3 each at this one shop here in Colorado, where it seems like oldschool gaming never existed. Needless to say, it's on my shelf right now.
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You couldn't do anything really. They have rules about attacking someone too often, but nothing about attacking someone who is effectively defenseless to your huge fleet.
Huge and/or more advanced. The ships I was attacked with I'm not even close to unlocking yet, and they easily out match anything I had. Given this fact though, most high ranked players don't attack someone so low like that because it's just cruel in that they own you first, then leave you open to players around your level while you try and rebuild.
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Huge ripoff. I found multiple copies of Bible Adventures for like $3 each at this one shop here in Colorado, where it seems like oldschool gaming never existed. Needless to say, it's on my shelf right now.
Lol, well, there are a number of different bible games, so maybe the one there was rarer than the one you have... Could be a ripoff though, I don't really know much about how much they should cost, or how rare they are. (They must be relatively rare, considering they are an unlicensed release)
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Bible Adventures for the NES is currently valued at around $7. Sauce: http://www.videogamepricecharts.com/game/nes/bible-adventures
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Bible Adventures for the NES is currently valued at around $7. Sauce: http://www.videogamepricecharts.com/game/nes/bible-adventures
Wow holy christ what a great website.
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EYE SEE WUT U DID THURR.
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Bible Adventures for the NES is currently valued at around $7. Sauce: http://www.videogamepricecharts.com/game/nes/bible-adventures
That's only one of them though. I would assume the others are similarly priced, but the one I saw was in a grey cartridge, not the blue one mentioned in the video. I forget what exactly it was called, but I'm reasonably sure it was made by the same people.
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I know it's an extremely minor thing, but I hate the fact that my friend is extremely argumentative when he's not even that sure that he's right. We were playing Brawl, and somehow this discussion about Peach being the "top tier" (not his words, but it's what he was inferring) when I said "No, it was definitely Fox" because anyone with a basic knowledge of the melee tourney scene knows this. He instantly disagrees with me in a loud voice, which is honestly the most annoying part of the deal. My friends girlfriend already does this over minor bullshit (She wouldn't SHUT THE FUCK UP about that Cheeto's super bowl commercial all because her boyfriend thought an eagle was on Chester's arm) and it annoys the ever loving fuck out of me. So after him yelling loudly "NO SHE DEFINITELY IS" I tell him to head to head to smash boards or to look it up, and he complains about his internet being off.
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I know it's an extremely minor thing, but I hate the fact that my friend is extremely argumentative when he's not even that sure that he's right. We were playing Brawl, and somehow this discussion about Peach being the "top tier" (not his words, but it's what he was inferring) when I said "No, it was definitely Fox" because anyone with a basic knowledge of the melee tourney scene knows this. He instantly disagrees with me in a loud voice, which is honestly the most annoying part of the deal. My friends girlfriend already does this over minor bullshit (She wouldn't SHUT THE FUCK UP about that Cheeto's super bowl commercial all because her boyfriend thought an eagle was on Chester's arm) and it annoys the ever loving fuck out of me. So after him yelling loudly "NO SHE DEFINITELY IS" I tell him to head to head to smash boards or to look it up, and he complains about his internet being off.
Top tier in brawl, or melee? There were quite a few changes between the two, though I don't know enough to say how that would have affected them. I know that peach is at least relatively high up there (I've had some discussions while playing Brawl+ with a friend of mine who has gotten fairly competitive in it.) But I know fox is easily one of the best characters in the game.
Also: I both love and hate the pensive feeling I get after finishing a particularly good book/series. I feel very philosophic, but I also feel like I can't possibly put that thought or feeling to paper or even to words, so it gets really aggravating. I just finished Speaker for The Dead, which is an amazing book, and now I can't sleep. On top of that, I have a retake for a failed test in my AC Fundamentals class later today. I am not going to have a good day today. I also have a test in my Sociology class. Which means I'm stuck at school from 8 AM till 6, or close to it, despite having practically nothing to do except those tests.
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So, it looks like I'm failing 2 classes this semester, and I've got practically no chance of getting a co-op this summer either. Fuck.
I got to retake my AC fundamentals 3rd test today, and ended up with a 5/25 instead of a 4/25. Partly thanks to sleeping in and missing the first day he introduced fucking transformers. Somehow I managed to pretty much pathetically fail every single question on the test, despite having gone to the "help" class, which turned out to be almost entirely useless because my teacher barely even went over how to do the questions.
He was a great teacher for math, but for some reason he expects everyone to be really damn good at electric fundamentals right off the bat and hardly explains things. Plus, the stuff we were doing is pretty much impossible to find any help on from the internet. Sure, I can get bits and pieces of things, but nothing that was enough to help me properly answer a question.
Yeah, I'm not exactly in a good mood now, and I'm stuck in school all day till 5 or 6 depending on when my gen-ed goes, which is a test as well.
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I was talking about melee.
Also that's a huge fucking bummer.
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Well, turns out my teacher basically decided to give me a 50, pass me, and said he'd be really hard on me in electronics next year.
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Pet abolitionists, people who think animals shouldn't be regarded as property. I can get behind animal rights, but there's a limit.
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Heh. I actually do find something kind of odd about people "owning" animals. I've got nothing wrong with people having them in their house. Hell, I've got three dogs and a cat in my house right now. It's just the thought of owning another living thing (aside from a plant) that kind of irks me. haha.
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Yeah, it's just the legal implications that really bug me.
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What's wrong with owning animals? Also it depends on your definition of own I suppose.
Also time for nerd rage, all the TF2 jazz really bothers me. Also Muramasa lost it's American publisher and is in the gray area for now.
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I just have a hard time seeing them as property. I doubt I'd ever raise a stink over it, it's just something I've thought for a while. ^^
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i developed a gut
took 3 years of heavily eating junkfood, but i finally got some fat.
though it means i have a gut, I GOTTA EXERCISE THAT SONBITCH OFFFFFFFFFFFffUuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
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I hate it when you're having an argument and then they say
"Alright, I understand/Okay/Fine/etc. But still."
(http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e152/ComradePetroluem/FFFFFFFFFFF.jpg)
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I hate it when you're doing something and you fart really bad but can't get away for whatever reason and you're stuck in it
I believe they call it "hoist by your own petard."
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*picture*
Accurate.
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It was 27'C outside today and I was fucking grounded for being drunk last night.
goddamn fuck
You get grounded for being drunk? shitty.
PS: I'm drunk right now. Slightly.
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ken + fierce shoryuken
RAGE
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My main compy is still down...fucking hard drive died so I am back to my shitty but relible lappy which is older then "your mom" jokes.
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At least your lappy is reliable. My old lappy always had something new wrong everytime I used it. Unfortunately, the last thing to go was the power cord and/or connection and being as old as it is (it's min 5 years old, probably a little more) I just went out and got a new lappy instead.
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I know a group of kids who constantly spout old memes or doing it wrong while breaking rules 1 and 2.
Makes me ashamed to be on the internet, I tell you what.
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I know a group of kids who constantly spout old memes or doing it wrong while breaking rules 1 and 2.
I hope you don't mean in real life. Also if you consider "Epic" or "Fail" a meme then yeah my friends tend to do that bullshit.
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I hope you don't mean in real life.
Oh, I do. They say shit like "I'm so /b/!"
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I am so goddamn sick of the Rickroll. Why can't they just use a different video for trolling? It's not hard. Youtube has millions of them. At this point, "Fredroll" sounds appealing.
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Just pick one of the many variations of rickrolling that are up on the ed article for rickroll.
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Guys...
I have a 1TB external coming in the mail.
So happy newegg now ships to Canada :D
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Guys...
I have a 1TB external coming in the mail.
So happy newegg now ships to Canada :D
Nice, I've got a 1TB NAS hooked up on my network. It's nice having tons of space for crap.
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Oh I bet! Now I just need a TB worth of crap.
TV shows here I come!
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I just realized your canadian, lol. Woo, go canada.
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It's official, The Duke is dead.
:'(
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It's official, The Duke is dead.
:'(
Yeah, that sucks.
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My hall's laundry system.
Here's how it goes: The machines are $1.00 to use, but they don't take cash. You have to use this cash card in a machine in the room that's connected to the washers and dryers, but the machine to put the cash on the card is in a different room. So when you run out of cash on the card (which happens often, since people rarely put more than $10 on it at a time) and that machine stops working (also happens often, because it's shit), your only hope is to find other people with cash on their cards. It's even worse if you pay for a machine and then you end up being the person writing the "OUT OF ORDER" sign.
I'm so glad this is the last time I'll be using it.
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I just realized your canadian, lol. Woo, go canada.
Damn right high five!
And public laundry sucks. If ya wanna swing by Winnipeg I know a guy who deals used washing machines. Kinda like drugs.
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Damn right high five!
And public laundry sucks. If ya wanna swing by Winnipeg I know a guy who deals used washing machines. Kinda like drugs.
If we get another canadian or 2 we could have a canadian s.net hook up :P
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If we get another canadian or 2 we could have a canadian s.net hook up :P
Winnipeg is a little far though, 22 hours and 45 minutes for us bobbias :P (according to google maps), the sad part is about 95% of the driving is just in ontario
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OmegaOmni is no longer allowed anywhere near my computer.
The "loldeadharddrive" vibes that he carries moved to my computer.
Baaahaha.
Pro: Might get a new computer.
Con: BAAAH.
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Winnipeg is a little far though, 22 hours and 45 minutes for us bobbias :P (according to google maps), the sad part is about 95% of the driving is just in ontario
Lol, well, ontario dwarfs most states.
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Lol, well, ontario dwarfs most states.
dwarfs? ontario has a border with like 5 states:new york, pennsylvania, ohio, michigan and minnesota (ohio and pennsylvania are water borders; the borders with them are actually in lake ontario). Wikipedia says that the only state that actually has more area than ontario is alaska http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_area (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_area). The sad part is that ontario is actually only the 4th largest province/territory in canada http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Canadian_provinces_and_territories_by_area (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Canadian_provinces_and_territories_by_area)
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That was my point, dwarfs, as in, makes them seem insignificant, in size.
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can't deny that ontario is still pretty damn big. but i mean, it's because canada isn't split up into a billion different territories like the US is. also, closest ive been to canada was seeing ontario from across a river in sault ste marie (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sault_Ste._Marie,_Michigan).
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Man, I didn't realize that the american city there was so small. It's around the same size as my town (population wise anyway, I'm not gonna bother checking actual size).
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lol, the funny part is that it's dwarfed by the canadian version for both population and sizehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sault_Ste._Marie,_Ontario (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sault_Ste._Marie,_Ontario)
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the only things people go there for is the college there, and the soo locks...that's about it. also, cold as shit up there in january, goddamn, i guess i have it good down here being warmed by the great lakes.
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I can't get ePSXe to work because of this consistent error claiming I have don't have zlib.dll and I have the file I'm just not sure WHERE i should stick it. My PSX emulator is either messing up a few of my games or I'm just getting bad roms (Tomba 2 has texture problems that are making it almost unplayable, Parasite Eve and Strider 2 won't even start).
Also I'm having a lot of trouble getting my eBaying career off the ground.
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You need to either place the dll in the folder with the epsxe.exe, or place it in either C:\windows or C:\windows\system32. When searching for a DLL that a program needs, these are the 3 places windows automatically looks for them. (I'm pretty sure just sticking it in the windows folder works).
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What peels my potatoes?
My dad going on a ten minute rant about adverts for herpes medication while I'm trying to watch The Golden Girls!
GAH! @_@
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shining force 2 freezes when you enter combat on my psp.
kind of gay, kind of gay.
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I feel really dumb for letting this happen, but I overcharged my checking account while buying school books.
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I feel really dumb for letting this happen, but I overcharged my checking account while buying school books.
Ouch. Sucks. :/
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My ePSXe Memory cards are all messed up.
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having obligations and responsibilities -_-
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Sunburn and lots of it...ouch >_<
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The fact that my laptop can't decode 720p video files at full speed :/ I'm actually resorting to transcoding a 720p file down to a smaller size so I can watch it :/
Plus, as far as I know, the video card in this thing doesn't support hardware acceleration for video decoding :/
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I think I've been eating less, because I can see my ribs somewhat better now. I hate it.
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I think I've been eating less, because I can see my ribs somewhat better now. I hate it.
the seeing ribs thing is normal for me, I can count all of mine lol
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Same, but it seems to have gotten a bit worse.
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Even though I can see see my ribs I still weigh about 190 when my usual weight is about 180...wtf!?
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I told you dingus, I can see my freakin' ribs too, and I weigh a hell of a lot more than you.
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So they're closing VJA.
Oh well.
http://vjarmy.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=6491&st=0&start=0
goodnight sweet price
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Damn. It always sucks to hear that a community like that is going down.
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Doublepost for haet.
My brother made me sick.
fuck :/ i feel like ass
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They're not really closing VJArmy. Well, they are, but the whole community and score tracker is being migrated over to solidstatesquad.com
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Well, I didn't see any mention of that when I skimmed. I figured something like that would happen, but with all community moves like that, it's not gonna be the same.
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Doublepost for apparently my boss is ready to can me for calling in sick when I was actually sick.
I'm sorry, but If I have a fever, mild chills, a sore throat, a headache, heartburn, aches, particularly in my knees, making walking rather difficult, maybe I shouldn't go in to work. Especially when work happens to be outside in 5 degree weather at night. I'm sorry if my health means more than a bit of money for one night.
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Triplepost for I'm fucking pissed.
I lost my job because my boss is a fucking prick. I called in sick once. One day. One single time. And I get fired. And he goes on about how instead of working a 16 hour day, they had to work 20. It was fucking dead that weekend, they didn't NEED to do the security job. There was hardly anyone there to break the rules in the first place. He mentioned going to work despite the fact that he's been in the emergency room twice, and has been sick for the past 3 weeks, but it's a little different when this is your career, and you pretty much single handedly run the place. I'm a student, working a summer job. As a student, I should have the luxury of being able to call in sick when I am legitimately sick. I'm not a manager, nor an owner. I don't live on site, either. I'm sorry if viral infections can't count the days, and I'm not about to torture myself by going to work when I can barely walk. My knees are still bugging the fuck out of me, and I'm more or less recovered now. What use is a fucking security guard if they can't even walk? Seriously, this is fucking retarded.
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Triplepost for I'm fucking pissed.
I lost my job because my boss is a fucking prick. I called in sick once. One day. One single time. And I get fired. And he goes on about how instead of working a 16 hour day, they had to work 20. It was fucking dead that weekend, they didn't NEED to do the security job. There was hardly anyone there to break the rules in the first place. He mentioned going to work despite the fact that he's been in the emergency room twice, and has been sick for the past 3 weeks, but it's a little different when this is your career, and you pretty much single handedly run the place. I'm a student, working a summer job. As a student, I should have the luxury of being able to call in sick when I am legitimately sick. I'm not a manager, nor an owner. I don't live on site, either. I'm sorry if viral infections can't count the days, and I'm not about to torture myself by going to work when I can barely walk. My knees are still bugging the fuck out of me, and I'm more or less recovered now. What use is a fucking security guard if they can't even walk? Seriously, this is fucking retarded.
Shitty.
A well, work 20 hours straight is only legal if the person consents to it. No job can make you 20 hours straight, (except the military because well, you volunteered yourself to do whatever the hell the tell you to do) so he could have said "fuck it I'm going home", or hired on more people for the job from the start.
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Basically, he handled it like a fucking douchebag. It's not my fault that I got sick. It's not my fault that most jobs don't want you going to work if you'd be completely useless. I mean fuck, I called at like, 2 PM. That was enough time to try to arrange something...
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My music prof claims to have perfect pitch (and harps on about it on a daily basis.)
Despite the fact that he mentions it daily, I usually don't mind it. It's something I've come to expect from him, as well as him saying "That kind of thing" at least thirty times a day.
But for someone that claims to have perfect pitch... One would think he'd be able to tell when I'm playing a major chord and when I'm playing a minor chord.
He tells me to play a major chord.
I oblige.
He yells that I'm wrong and goes on for another two or three minutes about how I'll never make it in the music business if I keep "screwing up like that."
It's one thing to just tell me that I did something wrong. That's no problem at all. If you don't freakin' tell me when I'm messing up and I don't realize it, I'm never going to fix it. Common sense, yo. Even if I DO mess up, it doesn't require yelling at someone for three minutes about it. It's just a waste of time and has a tendency to REALLY piss off the person you're yelling at.
And then when you go and do something as silly as scream at someone when they haven't even done anything wrong, you just piss them off even more because they're sick of being yelled at day after day.
I freakin' signed up for summer classes so I could be out of the house more because my dad likes to yell at me for little to no reason too. (Seriously? You're going to scream at me because the cable bill is so high? What in fuck's name do I have to do with that? You're the genius that didn't read the itemized list in the bill for two years. I looked at it and showed you how to reduce the bill by at least $30 in about five minutes. Don't yell at me. ;-; I want to at least deserve it if I'm going to get screamed at.)
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Well, perfect pitch doesn't necessarily include being able to pick out chords so well, since they are more complex than a single note. However, if you played any chord, I could probably tell you if it was major, minor, diminished, or augmented. I might mix diminished and augmented once in a while, maybe, but honestly, I don't have anything close to perfect pitch, and telling between major and minor is pretty damn easy.
Also, for some reason, I'm attuned to Gs. If there's any note or chord I'm most likely to be able to name by ear, it's a G, for some strange reason.
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The way this guy talks, he's god's gift to music or something. >>
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The Jonas Brothers. >=(
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You should go write on his whiteboard:
HINT:
MAJOR = HAPPY
MINOR = SAD
YOUR FACE = MAKES ME SICK
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Also, for some reason, I'm attuned to Gs.
Funny you say that, because I'm a straight G.
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You should go write on his whiteboard:
HINT:
MAJOR = HAPPY
MINOR = SAD
YOUR FACE = MAKES ME SICK
Don't forget jupi you can also right locrian=DEVIL MUSIC!!! (basicly starts with the 7th tone)
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i got panzer dragoon orta, it's a good game.
i remember getting to the final boss and quitting...and i also remember i played it on easy, and it was a tough ass game.
i decide to play normal, game is pretty fucking tough. last save was at the beginning of level 3, played for roughly an hour and got to level 6, decided to do something else so i quit.
APPARENTLY I HIT THE QUIT BUTTON AND NOT THE SAVE AND QUIT BUTTON SO NOW IM BACK AT THE BEGINNING OF LEVEL 3. IN CASE YOU DON'T KNOW, LEVEL 3 IS HARD, LEVEL 4 IS HARD, AND LEVEL 5 IS HARD. OSAFNRHOJDHDOTMhbodmvomohinsmdfasf
going to restart and play on easy, then move on up to normal, figure i need to play for 10 hours to unlock everything anyway so i may as well get most of that over with in an easy playthrough and move on to normal once ive got a grasp of the game.
anywho, panzer dragoon is awesome, shouldn't be too much problems finding it on amazon. $30.00 for a new copy of the game, and it works fine on the 360, yes, this obscure ass game is compatible with the 360.
but still i mean, FUCUCCcckkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkucufckfuffffffffffffffffffffff
seriously,
menu option 1
menu option 2
menu option 3
menu option 4
menu option 5
save & quit
quit
WHY DOES THAT EXIST WHY SMILEBIT WHY DID YOU DO THATttttttttttttttttttttt
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I just saw an ad on TV about Scientology. It wasn't a negative ad.
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I just saw an ad on TV about Scientology. It wasn't a negative ad.
FFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-
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When there's a link in a wiki article that redirects to the same article.
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I remember this page, before being organised, used to do that constantly just to hammer the point home. (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment) Annoys me too >=(
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That high-maintenance people tend to gravitate towards me and expect me to be able to help them and then don't leave me alone after I tell them over and over that I can't help them with their personal problems.
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I got completely fucked as far as high school education went. I'm doing factoring in one of my prep classes for college math and it's literally the first time I've seen it and I'm half way into the chapter, and I have no idea what to do.
I'm basically fucked as far as my class goes now, I already have a bad grade from bombing the last two tests and I have no fucking clue how to do the work that's at hand, I doubt I'll even bother showing up.
I also think I have some sort of brain damage, because I've done the homework from the beginning of the chapter and I know I did it right, and I honestly cannot remember how I did it. It's like EVERYTHING he's trying to teach me just stays in my brain for a couple days, then instantly disappears.
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and I have no idea what to do.
For factoring, easy thing to do is FOIL.
First
outside
inside
last
This works for your basic 2 grouping factoring, when you are trying to multiply it out to get an equation like (x + 2)(x - 3)
would be the factor of..
x * x = x^2
-3 * x = -3x
2 * x = 2x
2 * -3 = -6
now slap it all together
x^2 -3x + 2x -6
x^2 -x -6
mmm factoring is fun
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I can understand that, but I'm getting into stuff like
6x squared + -13x + 6.
I know the whole multiply the front by the back deal and how it's supposed to be a set of numbers that add up to the middle number, but I'm drawing a major blank after that.
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Ok, I'm not sure if this is any help, but I'll try to run you through how I would solve that one.
6x^2 - 13x + 6
First thing we notice: We have a negative in the second section. And we notice that the last section is positive. That means the 2 last numbers are both negative. Multiply a negative by a negative, and you get a positive. Add a positive * a negative to a positive * a negative, you get a negative, which satisfies the middle.
the 6x^2 can be broken down a number of ways. That means that you may have 6x * 1x for that part of the factored answer. Or you might have 2x * 3x (and they could be in either order).
So now we know that our factored result could be any of:
(1x - ?)(6x - ?)
(6x - ?)(1x - ?)
(2x - ?)(3x - ?)
(3x - ?)(2x - ?)
With a - sign or 2 somewhere in there.
Now we have to think about the -13x. we know that the second section is created by adding the product of the inside numbers to the product of the outside numbers. We have to think, can 13 be made by multiples of 1 and 6? Yes, so can it be made with multiples of 2 and 3? Also yes. Unfortunately, we can't rule out any combination yet, because of this. Which means we have a bit of a guessing game, sorta.
Say you pick a combination at random to examine, and it happens to be (2x + ?)(3x + ?) (the correct choice, for the sake of not taking all day for me to run through everything). We know that 2x * 3x = 6x^2, so that works. Now, here's a bit of a trick for finding the last 2. If you ignore the middle number, the -13x for a second, you'll realize that the last part, +6 must be the product of the 2 missing numbers. So, how many combinations make 6?
We have:
1, 6
6, 1
2, 3
3, 2
But because there is a -13 and a +6, we need to assume that these numbers have to both be negative. So, let's chose the 1, 6, (2x - 1)(3x - 6) and see if that works... but we get -15 instead of -13, so that's a no go. Try it in reverse, (2x -6)(3x - 1) and you get -20 in the middle, even further away.
So we know it's not either 1, 6 or 6, 1. Now we try 2, 3 then 3, 2:
(2x -2)(3x - 3) = 6 x^2-12 x+6
(2x -3)(3x - 2) = 6 x^2-13 x+6
So after trial and error, we know that the answer must be (2x -3)(3x - 2).
This is the slow method for figuring things out, but it works. I forget all the crap you can do to speed things up, because I haven't had to factor for quite some time.
Basically, you figure out all the combinations that could work, and try to rule a bunch of them out early, then do trial and error to figure out which answer fits.
This page seems to be a good read: http://fp.academic.venturacollege.edu/rbrunner/hints_7.2.htm
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Damn, I use to be able to do something like that no problem, but I've dropped out like a year and a half ago and haven't used it in the real world really (go figure)
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Yeah, even in college I haven't had to do any of that.
There is another way of doing things, that takes less time, but is more involved.
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Well, I JUST found out that my roommate is moving out by the end of the week. Luckily he's not here right now otherwise he would be 6 feet under at this point.
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Unclogging a toilet with a used tampon in it.
BRB suicide.
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Why do girls flush those? ;-;
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Because they don't want to be embarrassed about throwing away all their potental babies.
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My 22 year old cousin died of a stroke Sunday night/Monday morning. His autopsy showed that and his having an enlarged heart that nobody knew about. Ugh.
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Sorry to hear about your loss.
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Fucking Charter and its internet downtime. I tried to post this last time it was up, but the connection dropped as I hit "Post."
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DP for the guy in front of me at the Taco Bell drive-thru who held up the line by trying to get the girl worker's number.
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apparently I have no financial aid.
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Oh yay my screen cracked on my phone ><
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God damn it. One of Jupichan's sources told me that our usual hang out spot was suppost to open yesterday and now it opens on monday...I just wasted 3 hours of my life. Damn Jupi's information sources to hell!!!!
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Double Post. I can't find the fucking drivers to put shit on my phone via Computer. I now have a love/hate relationship with my phone.
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Sometimes I think my brother is a retard. I've been up all night, I have been trying to sleep, without success for the past half hour or so. I finally decide to go get some melatonin to help me sleep, I open the door to my room, and the entire house is full of smoke.
My brother apparently made himself some bacon. Unfortunately, he seemed to have forgotten to turn the burner off, leaving the frying pan, full of grease on fucking the burner.
It was hot enough to singe the fucking counter top. I just hope we can air out the house before my mom wakes up and gets pissed because my brother could ave burned the house down.... Again.
This is not the first time he's left the burner on. It's just the most serious one.
And no, the smoke did not smell like bacon. It had been left on the burner for like, half an hour or so, according to him.
If this happens a couple more times, I'm going to tell our parents not to let him cook at all.
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Srsly, how old is your brother?
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/cookfail
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A website I frequent just got hacked and turned into a gay porn site.
Bobbias: your brother shouldn't be allowed near a kitchen :(
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Srsly, how old is your brother?
19 :/
I really wish my parents would do more than yell loudly talk at him, considering he could have started a fucking grease fire.
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I have left my oven on once or twice, but never a stove.
Also a broom fell of a work truck, bounced into my lane (he was in front of me and one lane over) and popped my back rear tire. Fucking god damn mexicans. The part that annoys me the most is that I don't remember the company the truck belonged too.
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Oh my god, someone (this foolie character) makes an ACTUALLY WELL THOUGHT OUT ARGUMENT ABOUT THEM OVERREACTING TO A GAME and instead of a smart and well thought out reply they just go "LOL FEMINISTS ARE STILL IMPORTANT LOOK WE'RE STILL BEING MADE FUN OF IN MINOR GAMES ON THE PS3 THAT'S MAINSTREAM ENOUGH TO CONSTITUTE MY RAGE RIGHT?"
Yeah, I guess it's still a sign that the acceptance of a fat woman is far from accepted by society, but how exactly are they being oppressed? Not finding a date and not having sex? OH HEY I'M A FAT CHICK THEN.
ugh....it's like anyone who won't conform to their exact train of thought is wrong, how anyone could see the world in such a black and white way is beyond me. Like the whole thing about him saying feminism has definitely diminished a LOT compared to what it was to the last generation, and they all say "FEMINISM DIDN'T DISAPPEAR, IT'S STILL HERE LOOK" when that's not the point he's trying to make.
Also look at all the fanboys (fangirls? whatever) that post after said post mocking it and not actually trying to think of an counter argument annoy me the most. That and they REALLY have no idea what a troll is. Someone who believes what they're typing =/= a troll, but hey if you're an elitist and you don't personally feel the need to explain yourself to someone then by all means go for it.
Also yeah, this whole acceptance of fat people thing annoys me. Not sure why, I have no problem with them, but what great discrimination to they face?
FedUP 07/23/2008 04:03 PM
I'm having trouble justifying the term "fat-hating." It implies that the obese are to be protected for something they could fix if they had the initiative, something grossly unhealthy for the body. You guys would rather have media that puts obesity and general bad health in a positive light?
Unscrupulous eating and laziness lead to obesity. The game shows that. What everyone should be complaining about is that it doesn't show a princess who diets and exercises, and is thereby able to run away from the opposing team when they arrive because she's so physically fit. That's what children should be learning to do.
Esme 07/23/2008 04:05 PM
Ok, FedUp, guess what? You just stepped on my last nerve.
Shut up. You're being stupid, and trying to justify being an asshole. Shut up.
wut.
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Christ. That reminds me of why spectere.net is the only forum I go to. The people here actually have functioning brains.
I'm so used to being the person in the position of FedUP. I've made numerous posts on other places in an attempt to get some sort of intelligent debate (notice Intelligent, as in using your brain, and Debate, as in an attempt to justify WHY you believe something without it becoming a personal attack on someone because you disagree with them). I would say pretty much every single time I've tried that, I'd be making posts that are thought out, try to actually justify my viewpoint, and try to make it painfully obvious that I've got nothing against (well, sometimes) the people who disagree with me. And within a post or two, it breaks down into people calling me names, and refusing to apparently read what I'm typing. Sometimes I wonder how these people passed classes in school, since their comprehension of what I would type is somewhere within the range of nonexistent.
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Also yeah, this whole acceptance of fat people thing annoys me. Not sure why, I have no problem with them, but what great discrimination to they face?
The only roles I can get when I audition for commercials are minivans.
I've totally lost enough weight to play a Volkswagen now. <_<
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You're a transformer?
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Yup!
Secret's out.
Now you must die. <3
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The people here actually have functioning brains.
not when im here
i ain't fraid to call someone a bitch
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The people here actually have functioning brains.
Except me. I need scissors! Sixty-one!
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Some guy ran into a local gym (local as in approximately a mile from my house) and shot a bunch of people down. Reports are that at least ten people got hit, four are dead so far, including the shooter.
:'(
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Jesus christ, that's amazingly shitty.
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I know far too many people that go to that damn gym. ><
I've heard from a few of them so far, at least.
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Jesus.
It makes me wonder. If people are that far at the end of the rope, why don't they just blow their own fucking head off and call it a day? No need to involve other people in your "waaah life is so tough I can't take it anymore" bullshit.
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The guy apparently DID blow his head off.
I've been hearing the whole thing is centered around some love triangle. >>
:-\ One of my HS friends was shot in the leg during all of this. Ugh.
Still haven't heard about any of the other victims yet though.
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I spent at least an hour cleaning my room, and I didn't find the flash drive with my website's latest backup. :(
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The guy apparently DID blow his head off.
No, I mean just blowing his head off, not taking anyone with him.
Also, here's something that my boss found regarding it, written by the shooter himself:
http://www.georgesodini.com/20090804.htm (http://www.georgesodini.com/20090804.htm)
He killed several people because he couldn't get laid. Seriously.
Also, here's something embedded in the comments there:
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At the gym I saw a woman I like. I see her at the park and ride sometimes, so she isn't a stranger. Occationaly she makes good eye contact and smiles, etc. She is maybe 40ish, and attractive to me. I made brief conversation to her and a younger woman she was with today. To get a friend like her (and for night time action) I would cancel this plan, or put on hold, at least for a while.<BR>
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I just spent at least an hour cleaning more of my room, and I still haven't found my flash drive with my website's latest backup >:(
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No, I mean just blowing his head off, not taking anyone with him.
Well, I figured that. :P
Also, here's something that my boss found regarding it, written by the shooter himself:
http://www.georgesodini.com/20090804.htm (http://www.georgesodini.com/20090804.htm)
Tis down, unsurprisingly.
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I've just cleaned out the better part of the area under my desk, and still haven't found that flash drive. Also, it was really gross from when I had long hair :'(
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Be sure to keep us updated on this flash drive fiasco.
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Wow, I fucking can't stand when people go through my fucking room and use my shit without permission.
I walked in to find half of my Xbox 360 shit lying on the floor, programs shut down on my computer (meaning I should probably do a malware scan because I don't know anyone else as paranoid or careful as I am), the works. I'm seriously ready to put a fucking lock on my door. I can't stand that bullshit.
Tis down, unsurprisingly.
I saved it at work. Perhaps I'll repost it.
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(meaning I should probably do a malware scan because I don't know anyone else as paranoid or careful as I am)
so im not the only one
if anything fishy goes on with my computing, i get paranoid
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I had someone infect my laptop last year. I don't like anyone touching my systems without me standing over their shoulders.
What makes it worse on my end is that I don't use any sort of active virus protection, so if something were to get on my computer it'd have a field day. Of course, that's not an issue when I'm using it since every scan I've run has come up clean (aside from ZOMG TRACKING COOKIES) but that turns into a big issue when other people fuck around with my stuff.
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http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/tech/Cal-State-Student-Faces-10-Year-Prison-Term-for-Playing-with-Video-Games-52386872.html
Fucking wow, just fucking wow.
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One of my classes got canned this morning due to low enrollment. :-\ I'm not sure why they couldn't have waited the last two weeks until the semester began before they canned it, but eh.
And of course, I'm already taking all the courses relevant to my major that are being offered this term. So now I get to spend money on a course I don't bloomin' need just so I can maintain full-time status. Grr.
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Bought and installed WotLK.
Now repatching. SUCK MY BALLS, BLIZZARD.
It shot me back to like 3.0.2 for some fuckshit reason. GG, GUYZ
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Except me. I need scissors! Sixty-one!
Hari Kari Rock?
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Engineering Math 2 final tomorrow bleh.
I severely dislike power series, differential equations, and laplace transforms as of right now.
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Forrest Griffin's performance at UFC 101 against Anderson Silva.
edit: lol 700 poasts
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He got paunched in the face and he fell lol.
Really, UFC, just like boxing, is going to decrease in popularity due to the fights being nothing but a few good well placed punches or just 3 round of nothing but ground fighting. I think that's why people like Kimbo, he doesn't care if he gets hit and all he does is swing.
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God damn it. One of Jupichan's sources told me that our usual hang out spot was suppost to open yesterday and now it opens on monday...I just wasted 3 hours of my life. Damn Jupi's information sources to hell!!!!
Eh, don't blame them. It was changed at the last minute.
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The problem that boxing faces is that no one advertises it anymore. No one has a personality. No one's selling these people. The closest thing boxing has right now is Manny Pacquiao.
&feature=related
He's also goddamn adorable, on top of being a killing machine.
Try to ask if anyone on the street knows who the current heavyweight champion is and you'll just be met with blank stares. It also doesn't help that the current heavyweight champion is Valuev, the most boring boxer ever and the only reason people like watching him is because he's 7ft tall. Klitschko's super awesome, but he's also pretty old in boxing terms (38) and he's mostly a boring guy (although he's technically never straight up lost a match. He's never been knocked down and his two losses are because he tore a rotator cup during a match and in his loss to Lennox Lewis, he was ahead on every scorecard and was totally killing him but the doctor stopped the match because of a large cut above one of Klitschko's eyes). There's no outspokenness to anyone out there anymore though.
Hell, Sugar Shane Mosley's the only American champion in the entire WBA and he's 37. I mean, yeah, his regaining the Welterweight super title back in January was insane because no one thought he'd have a chance but still, he's older, and there are a lot of guys who are just better than he is.
It also doesn't help publicity that boxing matches need to be held really far apart just due to the nature of the fights and the training involved.
Boxing's really gone downhill and that makes me mad.
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That also seems like a pretty huge factor (hell, I didn't even know the heavyweight champions name). Also the whole drama of the fights is gone, and the whole ordeal with Mayweather and Golden boy seemed tacked on.
but yeah, Pacquiao is a straight monster, and he's so damn humble about it.
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My car's gas tank has a hole in it. lolrage.
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Bought and installed WotLK.
Now repatching. SUCK MY BALLS, BLIZZARD.
It shot me back to like 3.0.2 for some fuckshit reason. GG, GUYZ
It has to. There's no way it can patch the new Northrend content and changes without them actually being there. It should have the previous patches saved from before. That should at least spare you the download time.
It could be worse -- I can't install any major WoW patches with my computer. The patch utility has a bug that causes it to incorrectly patch on certain systems and mine happens to be one of them. Whenever a big WoW patch comes out I have to bust out my laptop or risk having the patch fail (which is preferred to the latter option, believe me) or have the client crash intermittently down the road. I dare say it's a bigger load of bullshit than the overloaded instances.
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I still can't find my fucking flash drive, which wouldn't even be a problem if somebody had given me FTP access
four months ago. :/
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Oh don't even start that crap. I *own* this site and I don't have FTP access.
Blame IIS for being hard to set up, because I've tried to get it working repeatedly and haven't had any success. Do you honestly think I haven't been trying? I wouldn't be using fucking Imageshack if I could get it working right.
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Sorry if I came off as trying to start something; my distaste was directed at spending the better part of my free time for the past few days digging through shit and not finding what should have been present. I really don't know anything about setting up FTP or anything, and my comment was unnecessary. I have a habit of saying retarded crap even at the slightest annoyance, even at people who I shouldn't be directing tasteless complaints at. Simply out of curiousity, how hard is it to set up?
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I'll forgive you but JUST THIS ONCE.
Setting up FTP with IIS is something that seems like it would be easy, feels like it would be easy, but when you actually try to use it, it just doesn't work. I've had it set up here for a while now but it ends up doing either one of two things (depending on which configuration settings you use):
1) Sometimes I can get it to ask for a username and password. Immediately after authenticating it displays a welcome message and promptly disconnects.
2) Sometimes it'll just disconnect you immediately without prompting for a username and password.
To make matters even dumber, in some cases I can get it to work on the server end (like, I'll connect to the server remotely, tell it to FTP to itself, and it'll work) but it will fail hard on any other box.
It's just absolutely bizarre. I've even gone so far as to look up guides and such, and even compare it to some other FTP roots that are set up and working normally. Everything checks out just fine but it won't friggin' work.
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Oh, wow. I suppose Apache isn't an option, is it?
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Ouch, sounds like the kind of crap I end up dealing with when my computer decides it hates me. Only thing is that in my case, there's usually some explanation, but I just don't know what the hell it is.
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No, for two reasons. First off, the server is already pretty well loaded down, so installing yet another service would be a bad idea (MySQL and MSSQL are quite a load in and of themselves). Second, Apache is only a web server and doesn't provide FTP access (the Apache foundation provides an FTP server, but it's a separate project). IIS does just fine as a web server here; it's been serving this site for a while now.
I don't really know of any other good, secure FTP servers designed for Windows. Most of the good ones are designed for Unix/Linux-based systems. Even if I did know of one that didn't need to run under an environment like Cygwin, there's still the server resources issue.
All in all, it sucks.
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Yeah, I don't know of any good secure FTP for windows either. Sometimes running a server in windows can be more of a pain than in linux/unix, lol. At least the *nixes are pretty much guaranteed that whatever you need is available, and free.
Also, I've been wondering how secure IIS is... I've seen numerous mentioned throughout the years about security holes in it, and so-on and thought it was something to stay away from...
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the avoid player function of xbox live does not work, why is it even there if i keep playing people i avoid?
there's a ryu on sf2, he's about my skill level, and hes' an annoying bitch with hurricane kicks. that's fine, we have some good games, but i avoid him because well, losing to a guy named "ultimatemale420" is about as embarrassing as losing to an akuma named "sephiroth2245". so i have him avoided, and who do i fight? the same guy...over and over in ranked matches.
i mean, if i mark someone as AVOID i mean i never want to see him play me in any of the random matches EVER, not some of the time, i mean ALL OF THE TIME. so why is this "feature" even here if it doesn't work. i mean, im wasting time going through the 10 seconds it takes to do in the first place thinking it will work...when it doesn't.
i had this fellow avoided for about two weeks now, and thus far, ive fought him moreso than any other player i can recall.
i guess on the good side, if im patient, i can beat him with t-hawk, which i did, 3-1 recently (iirc we are about 50/50 in the win/loss ratio)...problem being i don't want to fight the fucker again, so the ONLY solution for ranked matches i know...turn off the 360 and play another game because i don't want to play player matches with strangers without mics.
you think "ohh that's retarded, wanting to not fight someone just because of a retarded name" well yes. you are a random joe, i don't like your name, id rather not see it if i avoid you. if you have a mic and you are a cool person, that's fine, ill tolerate the dumb name, but who the fuck uses mics in ranked games? kind of a waste in my opinion.
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Also, I've been wondering how secure IIS is... I've seen numerous mentioned throughout the years about security holes in it, and so-on and thought it was something to stay away from...
Most of the people that say that are FOSS fantards who compare the latest and greatest Apache to an unpatched IIS.
IIS's security and performance have been picked up dramatically since IIS6, to where I daresay it rivals Apache. It's the second most popular web server out there, with a 23% market share (and growing). If it sucked people wouldn't stick with it and they certainly wouldn't keep flocking to it.
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Since we're still on the topic of this; since I can't, Spectere, is it possible that you could go through my main directory, find the PHP file with a pseudo-random name or whatever, and rename it to "index.php" ? Or, even, is there a quick way you could get a list of all of the files in my directory and PM the list to me? No rush or anything, and if you can't, that's cool too; I renamed index.php back in February or March for whatever reason (I probably did it at school to keep some obnoxious people out of my website temporarily), and never got around to renaming it. Thanks <3
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If it sucked people wouldn't stick with it
Except IE, right?
But yeah, I really wasn't sure how the newest versions of IIS were. I will say that I've come across quite a few sites that run it (knowing that by the distinctly microsoft styled error pages).
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If it sucked people wouldn't stick with it and they certainly wouldn't keep flocking to it.
Too bad most people a dumb and lazy.
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Since we're still on the topic of this; since I can't, Spectere, is it possible that you could go through my main directory, find the PHP file with a pseudo-random name or whatever, and rename it to "index.php" ?
Done. :3
Except IE, right?
IE8 is a perfectly good web browser. I find myself using it somewhat often because it works far better with dual monitors than Firefox does (Firefox gets wonky when it comes to saving window positions) and it's rendering engine has matured considerably.
Too bad most people a dumb and lazy.
We're talking about network administrators here. Corporations would not use IIS if it were nearly as insecure as a select minority like to claim it is.
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Done. :3
Merci beaucoup. :-*
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We're talking about network administrators here. Corporations would not use IIS if it were nearly as insecure as a select minority like to claim it is.
huh? I was mostly stating that just because something is popular doesn't make it a quality product. Sorry, kinda jumping in on conversations.
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IE8 is a perfectly good web browser. I find myself using it somewhat often because it works far better with dual monitors than Firefox does (Firefox gets wonky when it comes to saving window positions) and it's rendering engine has matured considerably.
I'll give them that. IE8 is much better than previous versions. Too bad they don't force everyone to upgrade. If they just released IE8 as a mandatory/highly-recommended windows update, we'd see a sudden drop off in virus infections, lol.
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huh? I was mostly stating that just because something is popular doesn't make it a quality product. Sorry, kinda jumping in on conversations.
Like I said, we're talking two different groups of people here. Had it been a piece of consumer software I would have agreed.
I'll give them that. IE8 is much better than previous versions. Too bad they don't force everyone to upgrade. If they just released IE8 as a mandatory/highly-recommended windows update, we'd see a sudden drop off in virus infections, lol.
It's been listed as a critical update for a few months now. Thank goodness.
That said, you'd be amazed at how few people actually do updates.
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That is true, unfortunately.
Also, to contribute to the rage:
Fallout 3 appears to be unplayable in my current save. I went as far as to go back to an earlier point (but not much earlier) to see if replaying it would help, and nothing.
What happens is that when your escaping project purity after the enclave take over, I can get into the tunnel perfectly fine. I tell the scientists to wait, and let me scout. I go into the room with the numerous enclave soldiers, and kill them. After killing the final soldier, the game freezes (with the experience indicator still on the screen).
It's not a crash to desktop, but an out and out freeze, looping a small sample of whatever background music was playing at the time (though other samples, such as speech, sound effects, etc. aren't looped).
I tried earlier to do this, and got as far as getting past that locked door (I couldn't hack the terminal myself though, Dr. Li did it) and moved into the open area there. I proceeded to get close to the bend, where we were attacked by 2 feral ghouls and a reaver. And the game froze. When I loaded the closest autosave (it was after getting past the room with the enclave) it would freeze just as Dr. Li was saying something. I didn't even have a chance to walk an inch before it would freeze.
So yeah, I'm fucking pissed. I've got about 26 logged hours in the file, not including all the time I've spent looking crap up online and dealing with re-opening it every time I want to check something out online. I've probably spent more like 40+ hours on it.
I really do not want to start a new character.
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Fallout 3 appears to be unplayable in my current save. I went as far as to go back to an earlier point (but not much earlier) to see if replaying it would help, and nothing.
It's a Bethesda game. It's going to take them the community at least five more years before the game becomes stable.
But in all seriousness, I don't think Bethesda knows how to make a stable game. A friend of mine wound up having to abandon his Oblivion save because the quests got broken and the game became impossible to complete.
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My friends all went to Mayhem fest ( http://www.mayhemfest.com/index.php ) and no one really told me.
Well, they told me at like the start of summer but I completely forgot within that time frame. Meh, I'm bored.
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I am mad that the Rock Band Mayhem Pack contains the bands from the Hot Topic stage and then Slayer and Marilyn Manson, but not Trivium, the one band out of them that I actually think would be fun to play in Rock Band.
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and on another related note, I just got the shit trolled out of me by a Sagat player in SF4. He idled over Sagat until the character timer ran out and then he proceeded to run away and spam fireballs against my Abel until I died. Something about fireballs seems to shut Abel right down (yeah I know, I'm horrible), and that match up against Zangief is fucking laughable.
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pretty sure if gief does lariat, you get to command throw him for free.
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It's a Bethesda game. It's going to take them the community at least five more years before the game becomes stable.
But in all seriousness, I don't think Bethesda knows how to make a stable game. A friend of mine wound up having to abandon his Oblivion save because the quests got broken and the game became impossible to complete.
I saw a post where some guy said he and his university comp-sci department did a bunch of testing, and determined that there were a bunch of memory leaks (some VERY big) and pointed about 5 separate issues about the game.
Some other guy posted saying that after doing some mucking around with the inis, he found that multithreading was the culprit of a good portion of his crashes. I even changed my ini, hoping that that was the case. No change.
My friends all went to Mayhem fest ( http://www.mayhemfest.com/index.php ) and no one really told me.
Well, they told me at like the start of summer but I completely forgot within that time frame. Meh, I'm bored.
Seriously, that blows. Also, Mayhem Fest this year had a fucking shit lineup compared to last year.
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pretty sure if gief does lariat, you get to command throw him for free.
Wouldn't it just hit me if I'm standing? Also every time I roll I end up eating a lariat or getting grabbed mid roll.
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god we should just get a subforum for Street Fighter 4 or rename the website Spectere Fighter 4 Dot Net
I jest
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I saw a post where some guy said he and his university comp-sci department did a bunch of testing, and determined that there were a bunch of memory leaks (some VERY big) and pointed about 5 separate issues about the game.
Some other guy posted saying that after doing some mucking around with the inis, he found that multithreading was the culprit of a good portion of his crashes. I even changed my ini, hoping that that was the case. No change.
Yeah, memory leaks typically happen after an extended period of time and aren't particularly easy to reproduce in most cases. Your issue is most likely a bug in the game. Given that it's Bethesda that we're talking about, I wouldn't hold your breath waiting for a patch. Oblivion is still horribly fucked up and that game came out in 2006.
Speaking of Oblivion, I think it's really fucked up how poorly the game runs on high performance machines. Several people I know, including myself, have attempted to play Oblivion on hardware that absolutely destroys the top of the line gear that was available when Oblivion first came out and it still runs poorly. It's just like how Morrowind runs poorly on systems greatly exceeding its recommended requirements.
Sadly, I think Fallout 3 is Bethesda's best engine work, and it's still piss poor. It really says a lot when my computer can handle Fallout 3 (and even the likes of Crysis, Far Cry 2, and FEAR 2) far better than it can handle Oblivion. They need to just give up and license id Tech, Unreal Engine, or something like that, because they couldn't program a fast, reliable engine to save their lives.
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Yeah. I mean, the mechanics of the engine are good. But the execution itself is terrible. It's nice when the games actually play half decently well, but that is such a rare occasion that it doesn't matter.
And when I say very big memory leaks, I mean on the level of about 50-60 MB/s leaking.
They also said that removing the DRM resulted in about a 60% decrease in crashes. But then they said that it was not an acceptable fix, because it needs to be in there to not void the EULA.
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Double post because I'm fucking pissed:
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/08/12/bell-crtc-internet-usage.html
Seriously. What the fuck. Fucking bell. Fucking CRTC.
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Yeah. I mean, the mechanics of the engine are good. But the execution itself is terrible. It's nice when the games actually play half decently well, but that is such a rare occasion that it doesn't matter.
Except Oblivion. That game would be boring and shallow regardless of how good the engine is.
And when I say very big memory leaks, I mean on the level of about 50-60 MB/s leaking.
I'm assuming that only happens in specific circumstances, because that would mean that it would be guaranteed to crash on my system in under a minute.
They also said that removing the DRM resulted in about a 60% decrease in crashes.
If only they could use that excuse for Oblivion. Oblivion has no DRM (you can copy the game with friggin' Nero and it'll just work) and it's still a buggy, unstable piece of shit.
I could definitely believe that Fallout 3 would have issues, however. Expecting a company who can't get their engine alone running well to bolt on SecuROM properly would be kind of like me trying to fix a car -- there's no way it possibly could end well.
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I could definitely believe that Fallout 3 would have issues, however. Expecting a company who can't get their engine alone running well to bolt on SecuROM properly would be kind of like me trying to fix a car -- there's no way it possibly could end well.
Lol, agreed. I'm really disappointed that they can't get their engine working properly. If they did, there would be one more decent game company in a field full of crap.
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Judge Bars Sale Of Microsoft Word For Patent Infringement (Though It Won't Stick): http://techdirt.com/articles/20090811/2330285852.shtml (http://techdirt.com/articles/20090811/2330285852.shtml)
Why are people there acting like it's a good thing that this is happening just because Microsoft is the first one to get sued? If i4i wins this case, everyone is fucked. Why can't these people realize that? If this patent idiocy goes through, OpenOffice.org isn't going to get pardoned just because it was released under the GPL. No, i4i would go likely go after Sun Microsystems because they back the project.
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Seriously, what the fuck, there. Microsol had better win this :-(
Wait, who uses anything besides a basic Notepad clone like Notepad++ to edit XML and XHTML, anyway?
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Lol, well, I like slightly richer environments for editing stuff like that (not that I really work with XML stuff). I think I'd end up using one of the Microsoft visual studio IDEs for it.
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Didn't happen to me, but my friend was supposed to go to the coast for an event or something, and his ride was gonna pick him up but never came. The coast is about 2 days from here.
Gay.
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So my mom is being a fucking bitch to me. Yesterday I just had one cig in my room to relax and had my fan on to blow out the smoke out side. Some how the scent got down stairs and my mom was like "Were you smoking?" Me be honest replied yes and then she got into a huge fit about it. Just this morning I was eating a bowl of cereal and she said to me in a bitchy way "You better feed the cat, you did nothing yesterday!" When I told her I took out the dogs upon
demand request of my parents. Apparently she did not see this as being good enough. Her response "You should do it automatic, we shouldn't have to tell you."
Look I am 22 and yes I still look for my parents. I am trying to find my own place to live and GTFO here but I can't find a second job in my area. I should not have to do things automatically because I did not have a childhood what-so-ever, I did my due and deserve to relax from doing chores unless I am asked to do so. It is now up to my brothers to pick up the slack where I am not doing it, which one tries to do but the other one just goes off and gets off with jack shit. I am tired of parents who treat me like a fucking 16 year old and threaten to shut off my internet when I do something that they don't like. Seriously this really is Stuff that peels my potatoes with paring knives of ANGER.
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There is NO CINNAMON TOAST CRUNCH.
*rage*
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Wait, who uses anything besides a basic Notepad clone like Notepad++ to edit XML and XHTML, anyway?
The patent is based around word processors that use XML to store their document data. Both ODF (OpenDocument, used by OpenOffice.org) and DOCX (used by Word) are just ZIP containers that contain XML data as well as any binary files that might be included (videos, pictures, etc). So, yeah, Word 2007 and OpenOffice.org Writer are essentially graphical XML editors.
The thing that people don't seem to realize is that OpenOffice.org isn't safe from this either. Technically speaking, it violates this patent as badly as Word does. Like I said, if Microsoft loses this we're all screwed.
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Oh, I never realised that :x
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so i bought a new 360. there goes $230.00. (i got the two year warranty....because it WILL die, just a matter of when)
so yeah, $230 i no longer have, pretty sure that's warranted as on topic for this thread. 360 is more expensive than the tripple for me(and many many others) anyway.
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so i bought a new 360. there goes $230.00. (i got the two year warranty....because it WILL die, just a matter of when)
Ooh, I probably wouldn't have gotten the warranty. Remember, the 360 has a three year RRoD warranty included, beginning with the purchase date. Unless the two year warranty stacks on top of that (unlikely, as the three year extended warranty covers only a very specific issue), I think you might have wasted your money on it.
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ohh well, what's $20 spent on potentially $200 in the future saved.
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There is NO CINNAMON TOAST CRUNCH.
*rage*
But can you see why you enjoy the taste of cinnamon toast crunch?
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Yes, actually. It's the most fuckin' delicious cereal I've ever put in my mouth.
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Hoooo boy...the person who built the Windows port for qemu 0.9.1 is a complete fucking moron.
First of all, it doesn't accept paths with backslashes, not even when you quote the string (FYI, the quote method works with, oh, EVERY OTHER *NIX PORT I'VE USED). Considering qemu isn't something you manually pass arguments to every single time, this is horribly convenient as it forces me to hard-code the path to the ISO that I want to test in my cmd script, requiring me to write a script for every single goddamn image I want to test.
Sadly, that's isn't the worst part about it. Oh no. The worst crime that he committed was hard coding the fucking BIOS paths in the executable. WHY IN THE FUCKING HELL WOULD YOU DO THAT?! If anything, it should default to the directory that the application is in. That would actually make logical sense! qemu is effectively a portable application, why the fuck would I unzip it into Program Files?
Oh, did I mention that it crashed the second I actually managed to start it? I probably should. qemu crashed the second I tried to start it. On both of my computers. Way to go.
Looks like I'm going to have to stick with 0.9.0. At least the person who ported that is competent. It's a shame he stopped working on the ports (even if he, also, hard coded the goddamn BIOS paths! Seriously, that's just...dumb. On the bright side, his port actually works perfectly with backslashes).
GRajifpdsmalfew.
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Wow... This is the sort of thing that makes me think that if I ever completed a programing project, I'd be a halfway competent programmer. I'm dismal at debugging stuff, but my code is usually readable, and avoids crap like hardcoding stuff like that :/
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I was adding some custom teaxtures to SF4 and I messed with the files a bit to make it so the default colors were the ones that were changed and now the game crashed when I pick Gief or Sakura. Shit sucks.
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tried the killer b flavor of monster nitrous
do you like sweet lemoney tea? if so, you will enjoy this.
if you start to vomit thinking of the taste of sweet lemoney tea...you will hate it.
i can't even finish this thing. ohh well, 2 out of 3 flavors is pretty good, but 3/3 would have been better.
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so guys i heard that spaghetti was pretty cool
would you prefer penne? linguini? fettuccine?
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anything that's not spaghetti :'(
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Another instance of going through a cave full of enemies, thoroughly exploring it, and then having to fight 2 different sets of enemies. God damn, Mother 3 has some real ball breaking parts.
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Not really anger more like Petting my Peeves with an Irate Wombat: I get home from work and the kitchen sink is over full of dishes that need to be done. I then look at the kitchen trash can, it is overflowing. Now I know my parents will
demand ask me to do the dishes and empty the trash. The dishes I will wash but take out the trash hell nah. It was empty when I left for work earlier yesterday and I come home and it is overfull...no way in fucking hell. Are they that fucking lazy that they can't do it them selves?
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get used to it mang, free rent, just take the trash out lol. its better if you just happen to do things without them havin to ask you to do it.
its the cycle of family life. when (if) you have kids, you'll have them do chores, including takin the trash out, dishes, etc.
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Wow, I love when console games play out as though players have a quicksave button.
I was playing through Mass Effect and forgot to save around every corner. A krogan two-shotted me before I could do a damn thing (WHAT THE FUCK?! how does shit like that pass testing?!) and I wound up losing twenty minutes of progress. Fuck that shit.
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i never really had a problem with it, i save liberally in any game i play, ESPECIALLY games where death is around the corner.
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I save liberally as well, but manually saving in console games is enough of a pain that sometimes I don't want to do it, especially if the objective seems easy enough.
The part that angers me more than the fact that saving often is tedious at best is the fact that I was two-shotted by an enemy. I mean, seriously? I've run into numerous situations in Mass Effect where the enemy would hit me with an incapacitating attack the second I appeared, then a few goons would kill me. I wouldn't have the opportunity to do anything during the encounter, I'd just be immediately killed (and then I'd be subjected to thirty seconds of load times, not to mention the time wasted making up for lost ground).
It's a major annoyance that seriously hurts an otherwise good game.
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I save liberally as well, but manually saving in console games is enough of a pain that sometimes I don't want to do it, especially if the objective seems easy enough.
The part that angers me more than the fact that saving often is tedious at best is the fact that I was two-shotted by an enemy. I mean, seriously? I've run into numerous situations in Mass Effect where the enemy would hit me with an incapacitating attack the second I appeared, then a few goons would kill me. I wouldn't have the opportunity to do anything during the encounter, I'd just be immediately killed (and then I'd be subjected to thirty seconds of load times, not to mention the time wasted making up for lost ground).
It's a major annoyance that seriously hurts an otherwise good game.
PRESS X TO DIE!!!!!
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the fact that no one has posted today
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IT'S OVER 900 THOUSAND! (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22your+an+idiot%22+-you%27re+-ur+-youre)
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I made this in larger font because I know everyone, or most everyone can agree to this story.
I fucking HATE it when people call your phone, and you JUST miss it, so you call them back...
AND THEY DONT' FUCKING PICK UP.
Seriously, like, what could they possibly be doing during that 10 second timeframe that makes them not pick up the phone.
"oh brb guys inconveniently running five miles right now" <_<
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yeah mayne
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Broke Ubuntu on my Eee so now I have to reinstall it aaisopufhwipajfbvanoimoeifamfgma
Rather, I don't HAVE to reinstall it, but it would be easier than fixing it. I can still access the main partition, so I can get my shit off of there, but still aaisopufhwipajfbvanoimoeifamfgma
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yeah mayne
wut
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yeah mayne
yea dawg i feel u too
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yeah mayne
A new person!
*sniff*
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Old members are old. If that's the real hayden, we demand hayden face
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ahahaha what
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Old members are old. If that's the real hayden, we demand hayden face
(http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/3797/haydn.jpg)
Hayden face makes me angry. Because it is angry.
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A new person!
*sniff*
If only. :p
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My oh my oh my oh my.
And old person.
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Q) What's the opposite of Christopher Walken
A) Flaffl
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I think back sweat is extremely inconvenient.
PS, are you saying I end my sentences normally?
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HOLY FUCK HOW DID YOU MANAGE THAT AVATAR.
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HOLY FUCK HOW DID YOU MANAGE THAT AVATAR.
I don't think GD is installed on this server, so it has no means to automatically resize it.
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FUCK FALLOUT 3 AND BETHESDA MAKING A SHITTY FUCKING INSTALL
fuckers.
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FUCK FALLOUT 3 AND BETHESDA MAKING A SHITTY FUCKING INSTALL
lol
What are you having problems with?
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Crashes to desktop. When I click New Game > YES!. It goes to the 1st loading screen then shits out.
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Perfect Cherry Blossom crawls through the startup screen and then crashes when it gets to the menu on my laptop. :x
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Crashes to desktop. When I click New Game > YES!. It goes to the 1st loading screen then shits out.
Ouch.
Are your video card drivers up to date? When I first installed FO3 I ran into that issue and updating my drivers fixed it. If they are at the latest version, try installing the next oldest version. Sometimes new drivers have issues with certain games, necessitating a downgrade.
Perfect Cherry Blossom crawls through the startup screen and then crashes when it gets to the menu on my laptop. :x
Try installing the Asian language pack. I've had a couple of games crash on me without that being installed.
It should be under Control Panel -> Regional and Language Options (might be listed differently on XP, I don't remember). In one of the tabs there should be a checkbox for east Asian language support -- check it, click OK, and reboot. You might need your XP CD handy in order to install the fonts.
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I had to change my system locale to Japanese to even get the installer to work. That would also be under Regional and Language settings.
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Ouch.
Are your video card drivers up to date? When I first installed FO3 I ran into that issue and updating my drivers fixed it. If they are at the latest version, try installing the next oldest version. Sometimes new drivers have issues with certain games, necessitating a downgrade.
Yeaaaaa my laptop has some non-crappy (as non crappy as they can be) Intel integrated video memory. I can run Hl2 at full... so I'm all confused and shit haha
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Yeaaaaa my laptop has some non-crappy (as non crappy as they can be) Intel integrated video memory. I can run Hl2 at full... so I'm all confused and shit haha
HL2 isn't nearly as top-heavy as, well, any Bethesda game ever made, so that might have something to do with it. It might also be because the video chipset doesn't support something that FO3 absolutely requires. Intel's chips are still pretty low-end and their video chipset drivers aren't the greatest things in the world.
Your best bet would probably be to mess with a couple of different driver versions to see if that makes a difference. Failing that, I'd probably start Googling your specific video chipset model to see if anyone else ran into that issue and if they were able to fix it. Generally, the Intel ones are better for productivity work and usually kind of suck for gaming, but you might be able to get it working with some hackery at least.
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I had to change my system locale to Japanese to even get the installer to work. That would also be under Regional and Language settings.
What?? It works fine for me. Sure, I have the asian language support, but thanks to them assuming it's only going to work in japan, I still see the random crap, since the text is in fucking s-jis.
I've had it work in both XP and Vista perfectly fine, though not readable.
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Maybe it's a Vista x64 thing, I don't know. All I know is that the installer crashed because it couldn't find a certain file whenever the locale was American, but it found that file when it was Japanese.
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Maybe, but it sounds like one of those stupid random things that works for some people and just doesn't work right for others.
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Jim Breuer is doing commercials for Pizza Hut and he keeps screaming "JACKPOT" like it's his catchphrase. It's just sad.
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I have the Japanese Language Pack installed, silly. I got it from a torrent (I must construct additional funds before I can buy it) and it's already extracted from the installer. I'm trying to run it in Applocale, which does the exact same thing as changing the system locale, but only for the programs you run through it and any programs that are executed as a result of that. It worked with the Embodiment of Scarlet Devil until I installed the English patch (which generates a second executable that is to be run without Applocale). I actually probably should have tried the English patch for Perfect Cherry Blossom, but the school's Wi-Fi was broken today and I'm too lazy right now. :u
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Jim Breuer is doing commercials for Pizza Hut and he keeps screaming "JACKPOT" like it's his catchphrase. It's just sad.
I KNEW it was him.
H
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I have the Japanese Language Pack installed, silly. I got it from a torrent (I must construct additional funds before I can buy it) and it's already extracted from the installer. I'm trying to run it in Applocale, which does the exact same thing as changing the system locale, but only for the programs you run through it and any programs that are executed as a result of that. It worked with the Embodiment of Scarlet Devil until I installed the English patch (which generates a second executable that is to be run without Applocale). I actually probably should have tried the English patch for Perfect Cherry Blossom, but the school's Wi-Fi was broken today and I'm too lazy right now. :u
I honestly haven't had a shred of trouble dealing with PCB (minus not being able to read the mojibake in the settings program and installers). I don't have the english patch installed, and got mine from a torrent (involving practically all Touhou games).
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I honestly haven't had a shred of trouble dealing with PCB (minus not being able to read the mojibake in the settings program and installers). I don't have the english patch installed, and got mine from a torrent (involving practically all Touhou games).
My torrent had all of them up through 9, I think (1-5 were in their own zip, and the rest were separately .RARed or something). None of them have installers as far as I know. It might be my laptop's hardware or something (ACER Aspire One Netbook).
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My torrent had all of them up through 9, I think (1-5 were in their own zip, and the rest were separately .RARed or something). None of them have installers as far as I know. It might be my laptop's hardware or something (ACER Aspire One Netbook).
Probably the same torrent I have, actually. And yeah, its likely some stupid obscure setting or something.
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I'm pretty sure it's my laptop's drivers -- I tried to use my external drive with it today, and it fucked up until I installed Windows 98SE drivers on it (it's running XP). It hasn't done that with *any* other computer I've plugged it into. Still haven't had the free time to get PCB working, yet. I probably will tomorrow evening, though.
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My car keys have completely vanished. I don't take them out of my dorm room unless I'm taking my car somewhere, but I've torn up the entire room and there's nothing to be found. :/ Good news is that my parents aren't going to be justified if they get upset with me, seeing as they lost the spares well over a year ago and haven't really looked for them. It still sucks, though.
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Ouch, that sucks ass. At my place, we need the spares because I may drive either of my parents cars, because my car is currently not quite able to be driven yet (needs brake lines done, needs a license plate and insurance). And since I have no income, and my parents don't have enough to cover me till I do, it's not going anywhere.
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I haven't been really sick in well over a year now. Well, until this week at least.
Just in time for the bake sale I've got to cook for (My school's GSA club asked me to make a seven-layer rainbow cake), club recruitment day, alumni band rehearsal on Thursday, a busy meeting on Friday, rehearsal Saturday morning and the performance that evening.
Ugh. I feel like butt.
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This doesn't piss me off too much, but apparently my girlfriend forgot to mention she was going down to toronto today to buy a bunch of art supplies. Kinda sucks considering I've got from 11 till 2 free, and nothing to do.
I only found out that she was down there because I sent her a text form my laptop and she told me :/
I really wish she'd remember to tell me when she's doing things. I'm not trying to be controlling or anything, but I do like to know when she's going to be busy during my breaks.
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(My school's GSA club asked me to make a seven-layer rainbow cake)
Oh god what, I want some bad now.
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internet decided to die for a day. so i took refuge at a friends place with internet, and played some banjo...for the day. came at like 6pm, left at 4am. when i got back home with some donnalds breakfast...it's still fucking down, so i watched some cartoons (ie the only thing that isn't an infomercial) and that was my day. also, i wasn't aware that the oblongs wasn't intended for children. seeing some of the content of that show made me realize i overlooked it's cover. it's not too bad...but id still rather watch boondocks.
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Oh god what, I want some bad now.
Haha! I never got to make it. Didn't think it was such a good idea to go handling baked goods when I'm probably more contagious than the Macarena circa 1995.
But once I make it, I'll get some pictures at least. :3
Cootie update: Can now breathe somewhat better than I could yesterday. But now I'm coughing up several lungs an hour. What fun. Fairly certain I saw my sense of humor in a kleenex.
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also, i wasn't aware that the oblongs wasn't intended for children. seeing some of the content of that show made me realize i overlooked it's cover. it's not too bad...but id still rather watch boondocks.
Haha, I really enjoyed that show. They did a good job of disguising it a bit, while still making some pretty overt jokes.
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My mom calls browsing the internet "playing games".
What the fuck...
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The. Fuck.
Seriously, does she know anything at all about computers? Christ.
I'd correct her by reading a newspaper online and asking her if that counts as playing a game...
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aion is avalible to play tomorrow
i work
DISREGARD THE FACT THAT IT'S A 4 HOUR SHIFT AND SUNDAYS ARE DEAD MEANING PROBABLY LESS THAN 4 HOUR SHIFT
i still want to play dat aion :<
friend im playing with gets out at 9, i get out at 8, going to try and make a deal with the manager to have us both out at 8:30, since we want to play the first 10 levels together...before i use the fact i have more free time than he does to outlevel him entirely. it could be worse, said game could be diablo 3. fuck, if i knew the release date for diablo 3, im calling some days off.
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So, my laptop's ac adapter cord is about to break. I have it taped to try to reduce stress on the end, but I actually need to use something to keep the wire bent downward a bit right not to keep power. If I don't, the connection breaks.
And it's like $90 for a fucking replacement.
And it just started chirping when I plugged it in a couple minutes ago... When I bent the power cord going out so my laptop was actually getting power, the chirping stopped, but that is NOT a good sign.
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So, today the cord broke. I'm lucky enough that my laptop was fully charged this morning, but now I'm pissed, because I need a replacement, and those are not cheap.
I've been considering 2 things: trying to fix it myself, and ordering a replacement. Thing is, the cord is coaxial (basically, stranded wire core, plastic seperator, stranded wire around that, then the outer rubber cord), and I've got no fucking clue how to deal with the outer wire. The last coaxial cord I fixed, the outer wire was simply a shielding, so it didn't need to be perfect, and the job I did only lasted a very short time anyway. Of course, this time I'd be using those heat shrink things as well, but even those can't last forever.
I've been considering getting this (http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834999554) or this (http://www.cellularfactory.com/laptop/TOSHIBA/4/34748/250161/) as a replacement. My current AC adapter is a 19V 4.47A 90W supply, and according to the few toshiba pages I've seen with the info on it, it should cost about $90-100 to replace (with a 120W supply, since none of their 90W supplies are 19V any more). Sure, I'd prefer to have the toshiba adapter, so I'd know that it would fit properly, and work, but I don't really have the luxury of paying full price for everything, since my parents are the ones going to pay for it, and they aren't exactly making much money.
So yeah, I'm pissed about this.
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My sleep schedule.
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Update on my adapter issues: So, I went out and bought a pack of 4 shrinking butt splices with solder. Basically, they have a ring of solder inside a heat-shrink sleeve, and when you heat it up, the solder melts, the plastic shrinks, and connects the wires. I used 2 of them to connect my cord. Sure, the power cord was technically coaxial, but I just spliced them individually, rather than try to do something similar to coax (since it's not actually acting as shielding, it's not necessarily to keep it as coax). So I've got a short section where the wires are connected beside eachother, and then they go back into the old cord, which is still coaxial.
So far, it seems to be working, and the heat shrink solder things only cost $6 for a 4 pack. Much better than the $90 for a toshiba replacement, or even $35 or $40 for aftermarket replacements.
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Marching band is devouring all of my Saturdays! :[
And I just read a negative review of one of Andy Weir's webcomics. I like his stuff :[
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Much better than the $90 for a toshiba replacement, or even $35 or $40 for aftermarket replacements.
ya i no rite
Trust me, those aftermarket replacements aren't worth the plastic they're contained in. Seriously, avoid them. While I've never seen them cause system failure or anything dramatic like that, they fail like crazy. In the life of the laptop you'd easily wind up putting more money into replacing them than you would buying a first-party component.
Speaking of that, here's hoping that my Dell adapter holds up. It has one tiny break in the sheathing -- nothing a bit of electrical tape couldn't fix -- so I think it'll probably last as long as the laptop. We'll see. Strange, even though my laptop is four years old I think it's still worth putting money into. That computer's been really good to me. The fact that it has the best sound system I've heard on a sub-$2000 laptop helps. 8)
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akuma and any game he is in
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ya i no rite
Trust me, those aftermarket replacements aren't worth the plastic they're contained in. Seriously, avoid them. While I've never seen them cause system failure or anything dramatic like that, they fail like crazy. In the life of the laptop you'd easily wind up putting more money into replacing them than you would buying a first-party component.
Speaking of that, here's hoping that my Dell adapter holds up. It has one tiny break in the sheathing -- nothing a bit of electrical tape couldn't fix -- so I think it'll probably last as long as the laptop. We'll see. Strange, even though my laptop is four years old I think it's still worth putting money into. That computer's been really good to me. The fact that it has the best sound system I've heard on a sub-$2000 laptop helps. 8)
Nice, my sound system has about 0 bass (somewhat important to me :/). But hey, it seems that the little but of work I put into it seems to be keeping. It looks ugly as fuck, because I don't have a heat gun, so I had to use a lighter, which kinda burned some of the plastic. And I still need to sheath it in something so it doesn't have wires out in the open, but regardless, it's nice that I could fix it for cheap as fuck.
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I have to learn how to play this (http://www.all-about-beethoven.com/pdf/vivaldi/winter-solo.pdf) in 15 days. :-[
edit: for clarification, I only have to play Allegro non Molto. It has a challenge rating of 5.
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Oh wow.
Best of luck to you on that. :-*
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Fuck, that solo is scary. Hell, all of winter is pretty damn scary, actually.
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It seriously makes me wonder what a difficulty 6 solo looks like :o
I've actually found out that the first page isn't quite as bad if you remember the order of fifths, and the second page is just a bunch of F minor scaley stuff until the OMGWTF section from 32 to 38, but still, I don't know if I'll have this up to the proper tempo in two weeks.
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We believe in you!
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Still pretty crazy though.
Also, that is some nice looking sheet music. Most sheet music I find online is nowhere near that quality, even if it is in a PDF.
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he's talking about tekken, but it's one of the reasons im not a fan of blazblue. kind of not related since im not RED HOT RAGING, but kind of related as well since he anyway, agrees with me.
"ohh im in a combo....la de la "whistles" uhh, can i play yet?"
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You can't really continuously combo people in BlazBlue like that. Yeah, there are long combos here and there but they take skill to do at least. It's nowhere near Tekken's level at the very least.
I will tell you why I dislike BlazBlue though. The people playing it quit out on me during my winning pose. This guy turns on the upload replay video option so I did too and I ended up beating him and he quit.
I really like how he starts to put Virtua Fighter in with everything else but then stops and separates. Because yes, the community for it IS much more humble. They have to be or else they scare everyone away from it. Now, if only Sega would bring the newest revision to anywhere other than Japan.
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im going to take a forced one week brake from fighters. only so much "ken does fierce dragon punch" OK TIME TO SPD, I TIMED IT PERFECTLY AS NORMAL "ken throws me" "ken does fierce dragon punch again, how predictible, time to punish his black ass" I INPUT THE COMMAND AS PERFECT AS A HUMAN BEING CAN EXECUTE A 360 AND A PUNCH BUTTON AT THE PROPER TIME "ken decides to throw you instead"
it has to be lag, that kind of shit shouldn't happen. i mean, if it isn't lag, or player error (dead fucking serious, ive done this a million times, it can't be poor execution, i know when i fuck up) and kens standard throw overrides my command throw, i quit, ill sell my fighting stick, and quit, because that isn't acceptable. but yeah, a week off is probably what i need, ive been playing too much. and when i get angry, i can't play right, especially at 6am when apparently only evo pro champions play. i even beat said ken with honda, and it still didn't feel good, so i mean, if that can't cure the rage, a brake will. while breaking, i should reconsider my main. i mean, i love sf2 gief to death, but there is nothing, i mean, nothing, more frustrating than being zoned out the entire game...and having people send you messages mocking you for it.
rant aside, this stick kicks ass, i even move it aside when bruising my right leg with my fist since i got mad at videogames on the internet. i don't normally get so worked up, but when people INSULT YOU because they are doing something reletavley easy(how to fight gief as bison, use standing forward and roundhouse kick, since it's nearly impossible for gief to counterpoke you, congratulations you win, now go rub it in his face that you kicked his ass), and my job is REALLY HARD, i don't have the willpower to just push it aside like it's nothing.
(http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/6183/img1497o.jpg)
(http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/1527/img1498.jpg)
i need to quit posting, goddamn, every post is tldr, and half of it is bitching of some sort. ill take a break from this forum while im at it. id also take a brake from the internet as well...but that's impossible.
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long ass rant
Actually, here's one thing I can agree with you on. I know the feeling of knowing that you input something perfectly and seeing something that is obviously not because of you happen. And I know when I get pissed at something, it's usually best to take a break.
Though I have to say that the whole "well, your opponent happened to pick someone you can't even touch, your fucked" stuff is stupid. (another reason I probably wouldn't like the SF series.... since I fucking hate when the game does something to fuck you over, since there's kinda no way around that, aside from modifying the actual game mechanics).
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the thing with bison is, if i get in, i can basically spam gief's body splash and pretty much just win.
any bison worth his salt however, doesn't let that happen. anyway, srs now, im gone for a week.
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One of my very closest friends passed away this morning. She had had stomach cancer for about three years now, and it was just starting to get a lot worse (It either had or it was very close to reaching Stage 4, I believe). She started radiation therapy just about two weeks ago, and while she, myself, and the few others that knew did our best to keep our spirits up for everyone's sake, we knew she didn't have a whole lot of time left here.
We, even she, all thought that she had at least several months left, maybe a bit more than a year, depending on how things would go. But she left us so suddenly...it wasn't expected by anybody. I'm not certain exactly how she died, but odds are it was related to the cancer in at least some way.
It was like out of some chick flick. I had talked with her no more than 15 hours before she died, and she was fine. Feeling a bit ill, but that's to be expected, given the situation.
She has a lot of friends though. I saw at least twenty other people in person that were completely devastated by this, and I spoke to another ten or so people over the phone about it. She was one of the most loving, giving people anybody could ever meet. I could say she was a sister to the whole lot of us, but with the way she helped us all through tough times, she was practically a mother. Hell, several of us in my club called her the Den Mother.
She'd been through so much hell in life. She was almost too nice, that the "right" people would take advantage of her quite frequently...Other health problems, living on the streets for a year or two...And yet she'd always help anybody that ever needed it, no matter what her situation was. She was a paramedic, she worked in a women's shelter, she was the President of my school's GSA club, a social worker...Just an amazing person.
There's at least two "bright" sides to this, at least. The obvious one being that she's no longer sick or suffering through illness or the whims of the assholes of the world that'd take advantage of her. And the other, while it's a more personal thing, I'm so glad it happened. Yesterday, just before I left my school to go meet up with another set of friends, I said what (obviously) turned out to be my last words to her, and they were "I love you so much."
I'm sure she knew it even if I hadn't said it yesterday afternoon, but still. I'm glad I said it.
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It's good to hear that you at least got to tell her you loved her. So many people never get the chance.
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Wow, kind of at a loss for words after that. I suppose it couldn't have ended better, considering the circumstances.
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It's good to hear that you at least got to tell her you loved her. So many people never get the chance.
Very much so. I'm so incredibly grateful I got to tell her that.
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So I have been raging over a week because my dad fucked over my money supply...now I have only about $10 ( I had to use about 15 for gas) and my kitties have no food...my dad is lucky I haven't taken my baseball bat to his face yet.
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What the hell did he do?
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Why, exactly, was Obama given the Nobel Peace Prize? Seriously...
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What the hell did he do?
He played his classic game of "pass the buck" and made me pay a bill when he was suppost to pay it.
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Why, exactly, was Obama given the Nobel Peace Prize? Seriously...
I thought that was weird too. I mean, were there just no other candidates?
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Mom asked him to pay it...the bill was hers but she was in Arizona for my Aunt's funeral.
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He played his classic game of "pass the buck" and made me pay a bill when he was suppost to pay it.
Mom asked him to pay it...the bill was hers but she was in Arizona for my Aunt's funeral.
That's fucking stupid. I mean, sometimes it's almost understandable when parents do that, but THAT is just retarded.
I thought that was weird too. I mean, were there just no other candidates?
No, there were quite a few. I think the main reason behind it is his attempts at repairing US relations with the Muslim community. I still find it a bit crazy, considering he really hasn't done all that much yet, but I will give him some credit for at least trying to repair the US's image.
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Why, exactly, was Obama given the Nobel Peace Prize? Seriously...
Even as a supporter of his presidency, I still dont understand why he got the NPP either....
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Because he's black obviously.
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So I got a new iPod battery because it only lasted like an hour. This battery was advertised as lasting for 26 hours, and it lasts about four. nnnnngh
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This battery was advertised as lasting for 26 hours, and it lasts about four. nnnnngh
Sounds like they just marketed the battery's idle time. :x
Speaking of iPod/iPhone batteries, it seems like my work iPhone is dying a HELL of a lot quicker after one of the latest updates. It literally went from a full charge to 33% in a mere eight hours of sitting mostly-idle.
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BSP trees are a pain in the ass (albeit a necessary one).
At least in a lot of modern engines you can generally get them to play nice. In Doom, if the BSP utility doesn't do a perfect job you wind up with artifacts that could very well cause you to have to rearrange your level.
Hilariously enough, some of id's own Doom maps have BSP issues. E1M1, for one, has a slime trail which is, appropriately enough, at the entrance to the slime room. This slime trail is even visible on the Xbox 360 release. Hurray for unresolved map issues!
Edit: Forgot to post this: my second hard drive is failing. Naturally, it had to happen right as I was preparing to install Windows 7.
Oh well, at least I was able to get all of the data off of it (aside from one easily-rippable ISO). I'm probably going to bring it into work to get an idea as to the extent of the damage, but I'm thinking I'm going to replace it even if the damage seems minor. CRC errors on a hard drive are nothing to sneeze at.
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Canadians have a card that give them health?
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It's a card given to us by the ministry of health that is used for various things, such as billing, proof of identity (healthcare related only), and such. I believe it's also tied to your records so that healthcare places can instantly pull up all your info.
I've been to the hospital before without one, but clinics are different than hospitals.
Also, interestingly enough, the new version of the health card is a photo card (which now has an expiry date). Thing is, even though it is valid, government issued photo-ID, most places cannot ask for it when they need to ask for ID (buying smokes, or beer, etc.). Thing is, even though they cannot ask for it, they CAN accept it, if offered. The reason being that there is a law that says that it cannot be expressly asked for as ID by anyone except for the purposes of healthcare related business and such (for billing, for your records, etc. by doctors' offices and hospitals and clinics and such).
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I have a "very probably case" of swine flu, the day before two midterms, Halloween weekend, and hanging out with some girl I just started seeing.
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-
That fucking blows.
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Doublepost for fucking shit.
So, I just bumped someone in a parking lot. Very little damage to either vehicle, but now I don't think it's a good idea to ask to have the car to drive to a party in Barrie. FUCK.
Basically, I left my parking spot, and began to drive out of the row of parked cars, I wasn't paying much attention, my brother said something, I looked forward, saw a van, SLAMED on the brakes, and just sorta bumped her. Because I slammed on the brakes, I was practically stopped before we hit, and it was just a little bump. The only real damage was on my mom's car, and it's basically just a couple scratches on the front bumper, near the license plate and a really bent license plate. The vehicle I bumped into was a van, with one of those plastic step things to help get into it (not that it was really necessary), and the front of my mom's car bumped into the step thing.
I think she was going a bit faster than she should have been, because I wasn't looking the other way for very long, and she seemed to appear out of nowhere. But I will admit that I wasn't entirely paying attention.
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A series of unfortunate events: forgetting to bring the tenor sax I've been borrowing to band practice for my friend. I ran back all the way to my dorm to get it, ran back to the field (as much as I could carrying a tenor sax case), got locked out of the field because of an unscheduled football practice, did some marching back and forth, went back to my dorm room to rest, and got a migraine about half an hour before the dedication ceremony I'd volunteered to play in, which happened to be in a position where we were directly facing the sun, in a stuffy room, in full uniform (sans hats/gloves). The medicine didn't do shit even though I took it no more than 2 minutes after onset. At least the four-hour sleep afterward seems to have cleared it up.
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So apparently, I was riding my bike home and I fell over and hit my head, and got a concussion
this sucks
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So apparently, I was riding my bike home and I fell over and hit my head, and got a concussion
this sucks
Shit, man. You okay?
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Apparently :x
I mean, I haven't noticed any permanent issues yet.
Wait, who are you, again? :-*
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Wait, who are you, again? :-*
I'm yo daddy, bitch.
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I <3 u Daddy :3
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I <3 u Daddy :3
Aww. How sweetly creepy.
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The single player in Modern Warfare 2 takes the bullshit level of the original Modern Warfare and somehow manages to double it. It's seriously infuriating how many times you'll just die out of nowhere, even on the easier difficulties. That, coupled with all of the other crap that they pulled with the PC port, is leading me to believe that Infinity Ward is somehow growing less competent with every release. I guess the multiplayer is okay (though I don't plan to play it simply because taking out dedicated servers was nothing short of fucking retarded), but the single player is just getting worse and worse. It's sad that I can't think of a single redeeming factor of the last few hours that I wasted beating it.
Even the storyline, which I thought was quite good in MW1, took a turn for the idiotic. MW2's story is so implausible and incoherent that it was impossible for me to suspend my disbelief for a second.
Lastly, the PC version feels like a terrible port. There are horrible performance issues (which affect both gaming PCs in my house), where the game will come to a complete stop for a second or two. Some of the menu controls are flat-out bizarre, and IW, against all logic, decided that allowing PC users to access the options menu in a sane way before the game starts was a bad idea. If you want to change the resolution from 1024x768 or (heaven forbid!) rebind your keys, you either have to completely start the game or jump into the Special Ops menu and enter the options screen like that.
Here's a hint: if you don't plan to make the PC port of your shitty game sane, don't fucking bother with it at all. I'm sick of being jacked over by asshole developers who can't spend a few days making the game comfortable to play (all eyes on you, Gearbox. Borderlands is even more of a goddamn mess) yet don't hesitate to release a shoddy port and screw PC gamers out of $50 (or $60, in MW2's case).
Long story short: I want the last few hours of my life back.
Another thing that is peeling my potatoes: the keyboard stand (i.e. the little clips that raise the back of the keyboard by a few centimeters) on my G15 broke. I should have known that Logitech couldn't get that shit right. From what I heard, they don't even offer replacement parts to customers, even though their shit has a tendency to break on pretty much every keyboard that they make. I'm glad you idiots couldn't even put durable parts on a $100 keyboard. Thanks a lot, assholes.
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Agreed about MW2...also don't get me started on EA and L4D2.
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I honestly wouldn't have a problem with the PC version of Borderlands, outside of the fact that they went out of their way to say stuff like "LOL HAY THIS ISN'T JUST A PC PORT HERE" when it's obvious it is.
Meh, good thing I spent only 35 bucks on it.
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You know, I'm beginning to get the feeling that terrible control issues, and bad PC ports are becoming the norm, rather than something that stands out as particularly bad... This does not bode well for PC gaming :/
It wasn't so bad when it came to consoles releasing terrible PC-Console ports, because it was pretty easy to tell if something was going to be a bad port (Anyone here ever try Starcraft 64?) Now it's getting to the point where consoles outpower most PCs by a rather large margin, and the companies can't seem to get it in their heads that porting a console game now takes more than simply making sure the code executes without errors.
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I honestly wouldn't have a problem with the PC version of Borderlands, outside of the fact that they went out of their way to say stuff like "LOL HAY THIS ISN'T JUST A PC PORT HERE" when it's obvious it is.
See, even if they didn't spout that bullshit I would still have problems with it.
It's so bleeding obvious that the PC port didn't get two seconds of QA that it's simply ridiculous. The fact that you can use the mousewheel to scroll through SOME things but not others is probably the most blatant thing. The inability to disable the crouch toggle "feature" and enable an iron sights toggle is also stupid. The fact that the mouse sensitivity settings are simply broken is also inexcusable. Let's not even get into the nightmare of actually getting a game going. Being forced to forward ports is so 2006. UPnP -- learn it.
Now it's getting to the point where consoles outpower most PCs by a rather large margin
If you're in the group that would buy a game like Modern Warfare 2 or Borderlands, this is false. Most PCs used by PC gamers outpower consoles by a large margin. Modern Warfare 1 runs maxed out on my PC at 1200p at 60fps (vsync) with 4x AA. It runs at 600p on both the Xbox 360 and PS3, with anti-aliasing off (IIRC). Even when the two HD consoles came out their hardware was at least one generation behind compared to PC hardware.
Sure, consoles offer more graphical performance compared to your average PCs, but when we're talking about gamers we're not talking about average PCs.
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Well, I'm talking about average PCs, because as much as I would like to have a tricked out gaming PC, I don't. And I LEGITIMATELY ACQUIRE my games, so I do play those games on occasion. I've got a LOT of experience playing demanding games on low end systems (oblivion running about 4 FPS on my POS when it first came out)
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Agreed about MW2...also don't get me started on EA and L4D2.
Whoa wait what?
Also I hear rumors about MW2 being pay to play for PC in the see able future, and I also hear that there are people trying to get dedicated servers running.
Oh yeah, and me and the guy I bought Borderlands with tried to get my ports forwarded and I still can't host a game. Ugh, I also hate how 2DF does this shit too.
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Well, I'm talking about average PCs, because as much as I would like to have a tricked out gaming PC, I don't. And I LEGITIMATELY ACQUIRE my games, so I do play those games on occasion. I've got a LOT of experience playing demanding games on low end systems (oblivion running about 4 FPS on my POS when it first came out)
Like I said: the target audience does not have an average PC (and very few games call for one, aside from games like the Sims or World of Warcraft, though the latter is far less friendly on older hardware than it used to be...woo 0.5fps city raids... *vomit*). Most games can scale down to run acceptably on older hardware, but the recommended requirements are typically what's required to run it about as well as a modern console would, and those specs usually call for hardware that's as old, if not older, than the console. I'm still seeing the Pentium 4 being marked as "recommended" on boxes, for crying out loud. I don't think Intel even makes that awful chip anymore (and if they still do, they should stop, stat).
And speaking of Oblivion, you have to be a pretty awful engine programmer to create a game that doesn't look all that outstanding (I, for one, blame the shader programmer for how HORRID the faces look under the tiniest bit of lighting) and manages to stutter on PCs that can eat Crysis for breakfast.
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Whoa wait what?
Also I hear rumors about MW2 being pay to play for PC in the see able future, and I also hear that there are people trying to get dedicated servers running.
Oh yeah, and me and the guy I bought Borderlands with tried to get my ports forwarded and I still can't host a game. Ugh, I also hate how 2DF does this shit too.
Basicly L4D is a great multiplayer game...L4D2 could be even better then L4D if it wasn't for the fact that EA wanted another game of L4D because of all the DLC for L4D for PC gamers. EA is just a money grabbing whore that won't let a decent company like valve take their time with another awesome game.
Hell because of L4D2 there won't be any more class updates until 2010 >:|
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EA is just a money grabbing whore that won't let a decent company like valve take their time with another awesome game.
Valve does a lot more than just "take their time" on games. Half-Life 2: Episode 3 is a perfect example. So much for episodic content.
And I really don't think that EA has anything to do with Valve releasing L4D2. Given the way things are working out, it seems like it was something that Valve intended to make a follow-up to. Besides, EA only really handles getting Valve's retail box products into stores. Valve pretty much does their own thing for the most part. If anything, the reason they're pushing other projects behind is because they're stretching themselves too thin (for a relatively small developer they have quite a few projects in the works).
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True 'dat.
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I randomly came across a link and ended up reading about Shanda Sharer. Everytime I read about what happened to her, I lose a little faith in humanity.
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I randomly came across a link and ended up reading about Shanda Sharer. Everytime I read about what happened to her, I lose a little faith in humanity.
I have next to no hope in humanity...we are nothing more then parasites on this planet.
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wut.
Well shit, when you come from a house that's that broken I suppose it's possible to be a deranged sociopath. Not saying she's in any way justified, but damn. If only I had a time machine and a large chainsaw.
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i bought the 360 versions of modern warfare 2 and borderlands for a reason. pc ports of "console" games FTL.
that said, this is the rage thread. i think im done with modern warefare 2. seems like i have to sit around and camp to get a decent kill to death ratio. i mean, if i don't camp, i just die over and over and over and over. not to mention the bullshit deaths due to killstreak rewards are starting to get old. i mean, spawning, getting killed from a random killstreak reward as i spawn...multiple times, not exactly what i call fun.
i stopped playing the first modern warfare around level 43, i am level 41 in mw2. i think that's round the time i start getting sick of the game. i mean, yeah, i should start camping. but the kicker is, that's not fun. on the flip side, neither is going 4-30, multiple times...
back to street fighter for me...though also related to rage
GIEF HAET KUMA
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Well, me not being a very decent FPS gamer in the first place, I find the only way to get kills close to deaths is for me to camp and hide, but my friend who actually owns it doesn't need to camp and crap. And if you find yourself getting killed over and over by killstreak rewards, that's a sign that either your team sucks balls, or the opponent team is wiping the floor with your team (assuming you are on teams).
We play mercenary team deathmatch for the most part, and the only time I've seen my friend get killed over and over by killstreak rewards is when he's on a stupid small team, or there's someone on the other team that is completely wiping his team single handedly.
But I've never seen a time where someone who is actually skilled at the game is actually required to simply camp the whole game due to killstreak rewards... I mean, the choppers ARE killable. In fact, they are pretty easy to take out.
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either way you slice it, mw2 rewards camping like sf4 rewards turtling.
*edit*
ok, the moment i turn my privacy settings for voice/text to "everybody" i join an sf2 player match. some blanka kicks my ass, then sends me a message "LOL U SUX @ SUPER TURBO" from a guy with an SRK tag no less. i guess not all of them are friendly and helpful fightan game nerds.
so you can see, i have my voice/text set to "FRIENDS ONLY" for a reason. i don't need people taunting me when im just trying to have a good time. i mean, what's the point anyway? i can see doing it to a ragequitter, but for a casual game, why would you scare people away from playing your game? it only makes for less people you are going to play online.
but i turned it to EVERYBODY so i could call the akuma who ragequit on me after supering him twice a bitch. there's a difference between,
"HAY HAPPY FUN CASUAL MATCHES YOU BEAT MY ASS BUT THAT WAS OK BECAUSE I NEED WORK ON THE BLANKA GIEF MATCHUP LETS PLAY ANOTHER MABY YOU CAN GIVE ME SOME ADVICE FOR SAID MATCHUP" and then "YOU'RE A PUNK BITCH THAT SUCKS AT THIS GAME OLOL"
and
"FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFIMGOINTOLEAVEATTHEENDOFTHEGAMESOHEDOESNTGETAWINBECAUSEIMMADATTHATBULLSHIT" and then "STUPID FUCKIN CUNT RAGEQUITTER"
tldr- the internet
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Both Borderlands and STALKER have crashed on me now, and I'm not sure I'll even be able to continue STALKER.
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HACKINTOSH: GO.
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Another one of my friends died rather suddenly today. I wasn't nearly as close to him as I was to my friend that died in October, but still. I've got several friends that were rather close to him.
And all because he didn't take his damn medications. ._. Could have been prevented...bleh.
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Both Borderlands and STALKER have crashed on me now, and I'm not sure I'll even be able to continue STALKER.
This sounds like hardware problems or something @_@
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And all because he didn't take his damn medications. ._. Could have been prevented...bleh.
Wow, not to start any accusations or anything but was he suicidal at all? That seems a bit crazy to forget something like that.
Also Ulti, the problem fixed itself but Borderlands now crashes on the main menu (well, it goes unresponsive).
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I don't think he was, no.
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My girlfriend probably has a stomach ulcer from singing for 2 days straight
it makes her bitchy
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I'd probably be a little bitch too if I had to sing for two full days.
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yeess.. myspace.com/sydneysprague
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A hinge on my laptop broke or stuck or something, I'm not sure. It was a bitch to find service manuals for the thing, and the manual diverges from the actual laptop in how to get the keyboard off: since it's one huge piece of plastic that looks to be kept down by the hinges, I've got no way of disconnecting it. I can't take the LCD out without either breaking the plastic around it or pulling the wires that are buried in the body.
Now, this sounds bad enough, sure, but I also got it over a year ago and so it's out of warranty. The hinge problem is a known defect in a majority of VAIO models and Sony refuses to acknowledge it. Furthermore, since it's not under warranty, Sony unconditionally charges $120 for shipping the laptop and to diagnose, and an additional $170 to actually fix it (assuming it was considered 'cosmetic' and not 'minor repair', otherwise it'd be $280). I can get a replacement laptop for the amount of money they would charge to repair it.
So, long story short, stay away from Sony computers, advise people you know to do the same, and fuck Sony. (Also, if anyone has experience with taking apart a VGN-AR605E, specifically getting the keyboard off, it would be greatly appreciated.)
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man that'd be a whole disassembly starting from the bottom I'd guess. I would never want to take a laptop apart.. well, one that I used personally, anyway. if it was junk and 'for fun' I wouldn't mind just to learn, but yea. those hinges are a bitch to get at, good luck to you. maybe you can back all your stuff up first then start tearing into it?
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That sucks. But yeah, some laptops are pretty much designed so that you can get so far in disassembling them, and after that, you need to start "breaking" things, or be VERY fucking careful to get things apart without actually damaging them, because the manufacturer doesn't expect you to actually disassemble them that far.
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I know it's dumb of me to get mad at this, but the comments are just a bit much for a game that looks like a completely generic shooter that also shows no actual game play.
http://www.joystiq.com/2009/12/13/spec-ops-the-line-vga-trailer-is-serious-business/
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Well, you don't need all the huds up to show off the in-game graphics... then again, if that video was all in game footage, i think I'd have to buy it just because of the graphics quality...
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Well, Portishead as a soundtrack for that trailer was pretty cool, and you're right, it is very pretty... However I know nothing about that game from the trailer except that it's a first person shooter! Hooray!
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Was that Portishead? I thought that was Bjork singing...
And I really don't get why people bitch so much about so many FPS's being released... What would you rather? Another sub-par RPG that feels like a waste of 20 hours, or maybe one of the many sports games that are so much the same that I can hardly tell the difference between a 2008 and a 2010 version of them, except the graphics.....
Maybe you'd rather yet another unimaginative movie-game conversion?
Really, at least they've managed to make a science out of FPS creation. The genre is actually mature for the time being, meaning that the major differences between games are the actual gameplay mechanics, and aesthetics.
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And I really don't get why people bitch so much about so many FPS's being released... What would you rather?
A new fighting game IP that could possibly change things up, or a survival horror game that generally tried to set up an atmospheric game instead of jump scares and nothing but action, or a new stealth game (speaking of which, how is Assassins Creed 2 as far as stealth games go?) instead of generally shallow shooters that are praised for their online. I'm just sick of shooters, and this is REALLY brown and looks fairly generic. I just hope they throw in a decent story with the location, and I must admit I do like what happened when the rocket hit the guys cover.
Also speaking of shooters, I can't stand the Dead Ringer in TF2. All it does is prolong every spy encounter by a stupid amount of time and gives him the ability to ignore damage and to shrug off fire.
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Double post because my cat wont stop pissing on counter tops.
Also my GBA emulator keeps crashing when I start it...
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Cat piss :[
My boss is a fucking retard. I've never met anyone so ridiculously forgetful and absent minded.
Example: Yesterday he was pouring himself some hot water for tea out of our water cooler, and he pulled the cup away and just walked into his office. There was no attempt made to turn the water off, and it was still gushing out onto the floor so I had to run over there and turn it off. And out of the 6 or so cups of tea he pours himself throughout the day, only about 1 or 2 of them will be drank. I occasionally do a sweep of the office for untouched cups of tea and will find 4 or 5 before the day is over.
Another example: He will pull out a pen to use it for a short time, set it down RIGHT NEXT to the pen holder and leave. And if that wasn't bad enough, he'll come back to the same spot, with the pen still laying there, and grab another pen out of the pen holder, and set it down. Aside from that I'm always finding random paper and garbage and his phone and car keys and shit just laying around. I am a tidy person and need things around me to be neat and organized and he's a sloppy piece of shit. I seriously feel like I'm taking care of a child sometimes.
I have tons of examples, and I get a new one every day, but I am feeling the rage well up inside of me just talking about it >:[
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He sounds like a child. Put him in the corner.
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Nah, he would just find some way to screw it up too.
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Hm. Perhaps next time he leaves a cup of tea sitting about, you should just stick his face in it and shout "NO! BAD BOSS. NO TEA. BAD."
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There's a chance that I will then lose my job :/
Although that would probably do me some good. I've never had a more stressful job, and it's all because of my boss. The work is easy, but cleaning up after a man-child is more frustration than it's worth. It's too bad because he's relatively nice... just dumb as shit.
Another example: In most filing systems you know how you usually reverse the first and last name for alphabetizing? Well there is one patient whose name is Haley Scott, so when it's reversed it looks like Scott, Haley. He's been treating this patient for months, and EVERY TIME he sees it written as "Scott, Haley" he'll have no idea who it is until I tell him it's "Haley Scott".
:|
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That sucks. It's always bad when a good job is ruined just because of something like that.
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Goody gumdrops. My boss has now decided that I need more responsibilities because I don't already do every god damn thing in this stupid office, so he is now having me take over his annoying Chinese wife's work because he doesn't like having her around. Frankly, neither do I, but I've never done what she does, and only got two days of "training" for what I do. I'm going to apply somewhere else tonight because I've definitely put up with this shit long enough.
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That sucks some serious balls. On the plus side, you can fuck with him when you find a new job. I mean, since you do so much for them, you can just willingly fuck everything up and see how much it fucks them all up.
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Just me leaving will fuck everything up. My boss has absolutely no business sense and doesn't know how to do anything that I do. When I got this job I didn't realize I was jumping into such a huge mess, and I've done a lot of good here, but all of that will turn to shit when left up to him. When I leave, this place will fall apart like it has every time his assistants leave. I've only been here almost 4 months and I've lasted longer than anyone who has worked for him in over twenty years.
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Holy shit.
I suggest simply shitting on his desk then, lol.
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Holy shit.
I suggest simply shitting on his desk then, lol.
LIKE A BOSS?
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Thing is, he's also my best friend's dad and my landlord so that probably wouldn't be a good idea :/
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Somebody swiped my small supply of vicodin. :/ I had three pills left, which I have been saving for nights when my mouth hurts like hell (such as tonight).
The only other person in the house that'd even be remotely interested in it is my mom. And she's got her own supply. Fortunately, she let me take some of hers since we had the same dosage and whatnot.
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LIKE A BOSS?
I. Love. You.
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So it snowed here today. In Texas, it snows only once or twice a year. Because of this, the city is rarely prepared for anything. It snowed all day, though we only got about an inch. There was no effort made to clear or salt the roads, so there's ice everywhere. It is impossible to get anywhere. I mean, is it that hard to get salt to the roads? They salt the bridges every time it gets below freezing, so they're obviously capable of salting some places. Except today, the bridges didn't even get salt. Nowhere did. There's no excuse. Sure, it's Christmas Eve, but I was always under the impression that safety outweighed holidays.
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See, it's funny for me to see people complain that they don't salt the roads when I've had it so cold that salt no longer does anything.
We've got some 5-6 foot drifts out here now and it's still snowing. And it's going to keep snowing all weekend. But that's actually good because if it's snowing, that means it's still warm enough for it to be snowing in the first place. I'd rather have some sticky snow than -45.
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See, it's funny for me to see people complain that they don't salt the roads when I've had it so cold that salt no longer does anything.
When it's that cold it's almost worse when they do salt the roads. At least you can get some traction on snow. If the snow melts and immediately freezes it's far worse.
So it snowed here today. In Texas, it snows only once or twice a year. Because of this, the city is rarely prepared for anything. It snowed all day, though we only got about an inch. There was no effort made to clear or salt the roads, so there's ice everywhere. It is impossible to get anywhere. I mean, is it that hard to get salt to the roads?
Oh, that's okay. Here in Ohio it snows every year without fail (though we had a bit of a reprieve this year -- it JUST STARTED SNOWING in late December, which is weird as hell) and the glorious city of Youngstown neglects to ever plow or salt the roads. There were literally times that I-680 (a stub of I-80 that cuts through Youngstown and eventually connects to the Ohio turnpike -- certainly not a minor road) was so packed with snow and ice that the maximum speed you could go without crashing is 25mph. On a freeway.
I just love driving through Youngstown...like I love a root canal.
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Well, the other problem in southern areas that only snow occasionally is that nobody knows fuck all about driving in snow. It's called drive slower, pay more attention, and don't slam on the brakes. Knowing that much can keep you from crashing into shit. Too bad most people seem to neglect to use their brains when confronted by something they rarely see.
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You'd be surprised. In general, southerners tend to drive better in the winter here than Ohioans do.
My theory is that most of them area afraid of the idea of sliding. Ohioans, on the other hand, appear to consider snow to be "no big deal" and tend to do more reckless things.
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Well, here we consider snow to be no big deal, as long as you know how to drive on it, and what to be careful of. If you never learn what to do when you start sliding, and never learn how your car handles, it's very easy to fuck up and hit something. However, considering that we drive on snow a lot, we also like to be a little crazy. My friends occasionally enjoy drifting around corners when it's nice and slippery. Hell, even I drift around some corners. But a couple people I know have ended up in ditches because of drifting, lol.
There's a big difference in driving on snow rather than on dry pavement, and if you don't realize how big a difference it makes, you can easily lose control.
I was driving on highway 400 (the big north-south highway in ontario that goes south to toronto) coming home from college in Barrie, and the roads were kinda weird. There was a lot of slushy sections, and some sections where it was wheel bare. I got up to about 120km/h (somewhat fast, and speeding, since the limit is 100). I was in the fast lane, and I hit a rather large patch of slush.... It's a god thing that I wasn't on a corner, or trying to move into the other lane, because I'd have been fucked. I hit the patch of slush, hydroplaned on it and dropped down to 100km/h because the wheels were no longer touching the road, and sliding in the slush, and the back end of the car drifted a bit to the right. That was scary as hell, and a good example of what happens when you don't pay attention to the conditions. If I had been on a corner or changing lanes, I would have gone off the road easily. I can easily picture someone from the south who doesn't know jack about how snow affects driving trying something like that. Hell, I still see people in the ditches and such when there are conditions like that, and most of those people are likely local drives anyway, lol.
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Really, the ice itself isn't the main problem. Since it seldom snows, no one here can drive on it. So every driver here is a hazard to every other driver whenever the roads are icy.
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Well, yeah. The point was that because icy conditions are different (though not necessarily that different) if you don't know how to drive on it, you can easily do something stupid (or if you know how to drive on it, you just ignore the fact that it's stupid in my case)
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It didn't bother me so much that I slid around on the road a bit. Hit a few patches of ice, but I was able to deal with it without too much of a problem.
What DID bother me, is that ten seconds later, when I'm going down a steep hill, some douche decides that it's appropriate to drive no further than a foot from my rear bumper, while honking his horn a few times for good measure.
I mean come on, like hell I'm going to speed down the hill when there's ice all around.
Dork.
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I am honestly tired of fucking getting 3d3 errors after L4D2 crashes...I have updated my drivers but fucking nothing. I end up uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers.
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It didn't bother me so much that I slid around on the road a bit. Hit a few patches of ice, but I was able to deal with it without too much of a problem.
What DID bother me, is that ten seconds later, when I'm going down a steep hill, some douche decides that it's appropriate to drive no further than a foot from my rear bumper, while honking his horn a few times for good measure.
I mean come on, like hell I'm going to speed down the hill when there's ice all around.
Dork.
That is the kind of driver I'm talking about. Ignorant and/or stupid fuckers who drive like dicks in bad conditions.
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More rage comming from my end. So I finally got my mp3 player that I wanted and installed the drivers needed to make the damn thing usable but I keep getting a damn "failed to regester MTP" and a NPI error...what the fuck. I don't know if I need new drivers or I need to get a real copy of windows xp instead of using tiny xp or get windows 7...gah this is pissing me off
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That is the kind of driver I'm talking about. Ignorant and/or stupid fuckers who drive like dicks in bad conditions.
Basically, yeah. With many areas around here, I can very much understand why someone would want to drive above the speed limit. My county has low speed limits just about everywhere.
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Well, i wouldn't say the speed limits here are slow. But basically people see a speed "limit" as a minimum, rather than a maximum here, lol.
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Yeah, that's how most people here take them too. I tend to get tailgated if I'm not going at least five above. haha.
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I always drive at exactly the posted speed limit. I make it a game to try to keep the speedometer as steady as possible. It's a lot of fun to make people try to change lanes around me on freeways. I've had no less than four people spin out while trying to go around me in just the last month. I never bother to stop because they're doing it to themselves.
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Haha, I've never had someone spin out trying to pass me, but I do piss people off sometimes. If the speed limit is 100, and I'm in the fast lane doing 120, I usually refuse to move over for people going faster, which means that if it's busy, and they cant pass on the other side, I really piss some people off, lol. However, I can't say I usually drive the limit :/
Normally, I stay within 10 km over on anything up to about 80 km/h. After that, I usually keep within 20 (so, I don't usually go faster than 120). There are times I will go faster, but I haven't done any faster than 160, and that was one time that I'm never going to repeat.
If I do go faster than 120, I'm in a hurry, and I'll do about 130. But that's as fast as I'll go.
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Totally unrelated, but worthy of this thread. I think I may have separated my lowest left rib from the cartilidge it's supposed to be attached to. I rolled over with a blanket balled up underneath me really hard and felt something crack a bit. Now my side hurts off and on, is really tender and such, and the rib physically feels out of place.
:<
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Edit: I'm really starting to loathe Windows XP. It feels like so much of a step down in almost every way compared to Vista, 7, and OS X, no matter what I try to do with it. Wireless networking is painful and occasionally unreliable, the UI is dated, Explorer is a pain in the ass (STOP OVERWRITING WHAT I TYPE IN THE ADDRESS BAR YOU STUPID FUCK) and can get completely locked up for two minutes by inaccessible network shares, the new start menu, once novel, is showing its age with the lack of search, argghhhh. Its only saving grace at this point is that it is light enough to run on any computer made in the last decade and has the rock-solid stability of any post-4.0 NT-based OS (100 day uptimes are far from unreasonable).
I almost want to upgrade my laptop to Windows 7, but I don't think it would be worth buying a new OS for a 4+ year old system. Windows 7 RC ran well enough for me to consider it, but I don't really want to put too much more money into this sucker.
I've had no less than four people spin out while trying to go around me in just the last month. I never bother to stop because they're doing it to themselves.
I had someone (someone with the infamous "idiot in a truck" complex that seems to affect 95% of all pickup truck owners) pass me earlier, going at least 15 over the speed limit. They proved that their vehicle was rear-wheel drive by fishtailing down a straightaway when they went to change lanes. They slid around a lot, nearly barreling off the road and down a hill.
I was completely bewildered when the same person passed me about five minutes later, again going well over the speed limit in icy conditions. This time they smashed into the railing on the side of the road. My only regret was that I didn't actually see the crash happen.
More rage comming from my end. So I finally got my mp3 player that I wanted and installed the drivers needed to make the damn thing usable but I keep getting a damn "failed to regester MTP" and a NPI error...what the fuck. I don't know if I need new drivers or I need to get a real copy of windows xp instead of using tiny xp or get windows 7...gah this is pissing me off
Tiny XP leaves out a lot of things that are unnecessary for daily use. At the same time, it leaves out a lot of things that are essential for shiny gadgets to work.
Your best bet is to either manually strip the XP disc using nLite (only taking out what you absolutely don't need, like the drivers for 15-year-old video cards) or to just use the fully blown install disc.
Totally unrelated, but worthy of this thread. I think I may have separated my lowest left rib from the cartilidge it's supposed to be attached to. I rolled over with a blanket balled up underneath me really hard and felt something crack a bit. Now my side hurts off and on, is really tender and such, and the rib physically feels out of place.
Holy shit. I hope it's nothing serious.
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Holy shit. I hope it's nothing serious.
For my sake, I do to. It's not the most comfortable thing in the world. And yeah, if you got my ingame mail, I've joined a corp, since you barely have time to get ingame, and I really need help getting this pilot started. We're the Caldari Prime Defense Grid. I can ask if you can join the alliance if you want, by the looks of it, they don't mind being allied with small corps (we've got 3 corps in the Alliance, and one of them has about 4 members, IIRC).
If you do get in the alliance, since we're primarily a PvP corp that does missions and plexes as well, and are centered around low-sec for now, we can probably provide some protection.
Also, apparently we just got declared war on last night because some guys were can flipping us and we killed them for it, lol.
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My friend is dumb. I've only got a handful of friends I live around that I usually play video games with, and two of them basically only play Halo and refuse to play anything I like. Still, I play Halo because it's an okay game and they still bitch at me for not being as good as them.
Then today my two friends and me were casually playing and he would always go for the sniper, and I make a comment about the sniper having a massive advantage being in this massive field that looked like giant alley and that we had no real counter on him. He replied we could shoot him and he'd unscope, to which I replied no scoping in Halo is stupidly easy. He retorted with a quick "NO IT'S NOT" (I'm not even exaggerating here, he raises his voice over the smallest shit and so does a different friends girlfriend, which is ANNOYING AS FUCK) and I replied "you still have a cross hair" and he says "so do all games" so I tell him CSS and Neotokyo don't. Then later he no scopes and melees me and my friend for 3 kills with a sniper and he wants to tell me it's balanced?
Shit, if I could effectively noscope people with a scout in CSS to death he should be able to hit someone in the body twice with a sniper in Halo 3.
At least I got him back at one point. I asked him to headshot me with a sniper and he nails my body once and I reply "nice headshot" and then I chase him into a corner and blew him up via brute shot and grenade.
Yeah, nerd rage indeed.
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fuck steam.
hey, STALKER, i want to play that, i buy it.
DOESNT FUCKING WORK, crashes when i click on the icon, no answer to get the damn thing to work on the forum.
HEY FULL SPECTRUM WARRIOR, sure, it's apart of the thq ultimate no games fucking work pack, lets play that
runs like absolute shit (4-5 fps), solotuion? literally unplug my internet from my computer, runs fine.
HEY BIOSHOCK I HAVE POSTPONED BUYING IT FOREVER, CERTAINLY $5.00 ISNT MUCH FOR THIS GAME
guess fucking what, CRASHES ON STARTUP
fuck this shit, im not falling for these goddamn steam sales anymore. i don't like paying money for wasted time in downloading a game, and more wasted time in boring myself into trying to get a game to work that won't work. it's like paying your employer to go to work, that's not cool.
if anybody has a NON TLDR SOLUTION to getting bioshock to work on a windows vista 64 bit machine, please, let me know. but if the answer is going to be a tldr like this post, fuck it. i would rather spend $5.00 to several little kids to fight eachother for my own entertainment.
im literally afraid to install other games i have purchased because i am afraid of wasting time my internet would be better suited elsewhere, like streaming video or playing online vidya.
steam should at least have something to tell you "HEY DONT FUCKING WASTE MONEY ON THIS FUCKING GAME BECAUSE IT WONT FUCKING WORK"
sure it's only $5.00. then theres $50 for thq nothing works pack, and what do you want to bet jade empire wants to randomly not fucking work? im starting to side on consoles, not because i prefer them, but when i buy a game, it goddamn works when i put it in.
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Yeah, that shit is always annoying.
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i buy it. ... DOESNT FUCKING WORK
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HEY FULL SPECTRUM WARRIOR ... runs like absolute shit (4-5 fps)
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HEY BIOSHOCK ... CRASHES ON STARTUP
Dontcha just love how developers are treating PC gamers nowadays? Fucking love it.
It seems to be 50/50 when it comes to success on BioShock. I haven't seen a single definite solution to the launch problems, just that some people have them and some people can run the game fine.
It's sad that you can run DOS games from 1992 more reliably in 2010 than you can run games that came out in 2007.
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pc isn't where the money is at anymore, which is sad.
still, dragon age ran quite beautifully, one of the least buggiest wrpg's ive ever played. props to biowares QA department on that one.
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I think it's mainly because developers are pissing off and alienating the PC gamers so badly that they're jumping ship. The only reason I'm thinking of upgrading my system is to get away from the piece of shit mobo chipset that I got stuck with, not to make it run horrible console ports better.
Here's a few examples:
- SecuROM's Internet activation (because activating your operating system apparently isn't enough) and malware-esque behavior. Fuck that shit.
- HORRENDOUS performance on modern titles. My system is no slouch, but you wouldn't realize that if you tried to play Modern Warfare 2. Seriously, your shit is broke -- fix it.
- Developers seem to be trying to piss us off. Modern Warfare 2's PC multiplayer is a joke. The last time I used a listen server was when I played fucking Doom over a serial link. Infinity Ward seems to act like it's no big deal. Infinity Ward needs to get a goddamn clue.
- HORRENDOUS controls. Borderlands is the perfect example. Outside of aiming and shooting, the PC version is complete and utter joke. The mousewheel works for some screens, but not others? We need to use the keyboard to scroll through the otherwise mouse-driven interface? What the hell is your QA team doing, Gearbox? Assassin's Creed was guilty of this as well. Rather than trying to adapt the controls logically to the PC port they decided to simply map the control directly to the keyboard. I don't think I have to explain why you shouldn't do that. When you have to hold upwards of three and four buttons to move around and attack there is a serious problem with your control setup. Sure, you can plug in an Xbox 360 controller and play it as intended, but there's no reason one should be forced to buy an overpriced peripheral to fix something that's broken.
-Compatibility issues up the wazoo. I understand that developers find developing for multiple configurations to be annoying. As many graphics engine programmers have lamented, there seems to be no way of ensuring that a game will look the same on ATI and nVidia without extensive testing. That, however, isn't the problem I'm referring to. I'm referring to games that appear to be future-proof. Not the good type of future-proof, either, more like the kind where you can rest assured that you'll never be able to get the game to so much as take a breath a few years down the road. This is especially pathetic, considering that games that were vilified as being bug-fests at the time (hello there, Final Fantasy VII for PC) will happily run on Windows operating systems as new as Windows 7 (albeit, in FF7's case, with a few patches to fix some of the more egregious errors). I tend to have less issues with DOS and earlier Windows games than titles that came out in the past couple of years. That...is bullshit.
-Intel keeps releasing their wonderful "Extreme Graphics" IGPs. Give it up, Intel. You'll never outperform ATI and nVidia's entry-level chipsets. License the shit and stop causing people who might not know better to buy PC games and wonder why they can't play them. I've witnessed laypeople blaming game developers for your hopelessly broken drivers and OpenGL implementation. When my old-ass Mobility RADEON X300 (which was a low-end GPU when it was released!) both performs better and more reliably than your best modern "solution" on the market there's a serious problem.
Whew, that was cathartic. I feel much better now.
Edit: Ditched all of the "li" BBCode. I hate how it shoves everything into one hard-to-read block.
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At least you have chicken though Spectere.
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This time I am pissed: I went to go check one of my email accounts and apparently Blizzard decided they were going to gold dig my fucking pay pal for a month subscription of WoW. I checked further back to see if they did it any other time they did not. So either someone has hacked my WoW account or blizzard just feels inclined to just take my money with out me knowing it...fucking cunts.
*Edit*
I have been trying to access my account in order to cancel it but I forgot how big of a fucking faggot I mean asshole battlenet can be...so in turn I cannot access my account at all to cancel the $15 a month from coming out of my checking account...looks like I have to call them and if they tell me the same fucking thing I will raise a lot of hell and tell them how they fail compared to Steam and Valve.
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Unless you specifically buy a time card it works on a subscription basis and will charge your account for the specified amount at the end of every pay period. It says that pretty clearly on the site...
In any case, it's incredibly easy to cancel the subscription. Log on to Battle.net, click "manage game" under World of Warcraft, and click the "Cancel Subscription" link. If you don't know your password, use the reset tool. If that doesn't work, call billing at 1-800-592-5499 between 8 AM and 8 PM PST (5 AM and 5 PM EST).
There are plenty of ways to do it. Rather than getting upset and acting completely irrationally (Blizzard isn't taking $15 because they "feel like it," you gave them authorization at some point), try taking a quick look around the support site. None of this info was hard to find at all.
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Yeah, it's pretty easy to cancel that stuff. Just calm down a bit, and you'll be able to do it. It's harder to do stuff when you're all pissed off.
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It's harder to do stuff when you're all pissed off.
Agreed. You tend to miss things or not think of things when your angry.
I canceled my account with them quite a while ago and never had any trouble with it. It was on my parents credit card, and they decided it was an extra expense they didnt want to waste money on (my brother and I were supposed to owe them for it, but they quickly forgot about it, lol), and we had no trouble canceling it online (of course, that was before the battle.net centralized stuff, but either way).
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Ouch.
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Well, that blows.
On the bright side, at least they were pretty quick about catching it. Good luck getting that resolved. :/
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I sent them a message on the support site shortly after that happened to me....
Then I got this:
Hi.
Thank you for contacting EVE-Online customer support.
One of your petitions has recently been closed and we would greatly appreciate your input on how well it was handled so we can continue to improve our services.
To do so, please follow this link, select the closed petition and fill in the survey.
Best regards
The EVE-online Customer Support team
That's it. No response by a person, no response period, actually, barring this email. And The page it links me to about the survey requires me to log in... But since I'm still banned, I can't even tell them they fucking suck in the survey. Seriously, this is getting really annoying.
Step 2: send them a second petition telling them that I payed for the fucking month and activation fee, and want some sort of human response to this issue. It's one thing to have my account banned for being compromised (if it was indeed compromised), but getting essentially no response from them, and no real explanation of what happened, or what I can do to get my account back, that is really beginning to piss me off.
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Wow, that's horrific. For a game with that many subscribers you'd think their support system would be a little better.
I find it kind of sad how I can get more of a human response from a game with 12 million players worldwide.
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Agrered. I've also created another trial account, and sent a petition ingame with it (I mentioned the issue to the IDS in rookie help and they said I should probably make another petition, so I figured it wouldn't hurt to try).
Still no response on the second web petition I created, and I logged in just after the server came up this morning to check if there was a response to the ingame one, and nothing there either.
From what I've seen on the forums, and other eve related places, it looks like it might take weeks to get my count back. This does not please me. They damn well better reimburse me for the time it takes them to fuck around and get their shit together. I'm also not exactly happy about losing all this training time. I've already gotten to the point where things are gonna take a while to train to the next level (like, minimum 9 hours on the x1 stuff; even with LOTS of learning skills trained. I had 12 willpower and 11 perception), so missing a week or 2 is going to really put me behind in what I want.
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let me try this again
uninstall mw2
unsubscribe from all mw2 related people on youtube
STOP PLAYING MW2
look for somebody locally to sell copy of mw2 too
i hate this game, i want to stop playing it, i hate it.
you could go "ohh but you played it so much you don't really hate it"
yes i do, it's called being addicted, and it's easy when all of your friends play. i do not like playing games in which i am angry 100% of the time even when i am doing good, this is one of those games.
what's going to happen is im probably going to reinstall and keep playing, but what i hope happens is selling it to a bro whos xbox scratched up his copy, taking away my ability to play anymore.
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yes i do, it's called being addicted, and it's easy when all of your friends play. i do not like playing games in which i am angry 100% of the time even when i am doing good, this is one of those games.
Sounds a lot like me and SF4, minus the addiction (well I did like it for a while).
I can sympathize, there seems to be a TON of rage inducing things in this game, which is one reason I didn't buy it.
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If I had a 360, I'd make you an offer, but the only next gen here is a tripple, and it's my brothers.
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I can sympathize, there seems to be a TON of rage inducing things in this game, which is one reason I didn't buy it.
The PC port in and of itself is rage inducing, which is why I didn't buy it.
Not to say I haven't played it. Considering the main fun that I have with CoD is in single player, I can't say I'm missing out by not getting Modern Warfare 2.
If I want to play a game with unbalanced perks, strange weapon balance, and the knack for severely crippling losing teams (hello bombers and helicopters...thank you for repeatedly killing me the second I spawn, and thank you, retarded kill cam, for rubbing that bullshit death in my face every time) -- not to mention a number of bugs that seem to randomly cause the file that contains your multiplayer level to get corrupted -- I'll play Modern Warfare 1.
At the very least, MW1 was a competent PC port with mostly-good multiplayer support (aside from the aforementioned issue which forced me to start from level 1 at least four times) and a decent single-player campaign. MW2 runs like complete shit on the PC in pretty much every way, has crippled multiplayer*, and has one of the stupidest, most half-baked stories I've ever seen in a game that tries to take itself seriously.
*No mods? Low per-server player caps? No dedicated servers? Are you fucking kidding me? Aside from customizations, there are plenty of reasons that people have dedicated servers. One being that residential connections simply don't do well with very many players, especially with bling like voice chat enabled. Two being that being hosted at a server farm is a little bit better than the aforementioned connection. Three being that no one player will have a 0ms ping. Four being that listen servers are basically only good if you trust the person you're playing with. Five being that servers in GOOD multiplayer games tend to be little communities, not unlike a forum. Six being that kicking and banning douchebags and cheaters is trivial, not something that's put up to a vote. Seven being that the host rage quitting doesn't bring the match to a standstill. Eight being that players can come and go at will.
Fuck it, do I really need to go on? Infinity Ward, do everyone a favor and get your console-inspired bullshit off the PC. There's a good reason things are the way they are -- because they've been working great since 1996. Your listen server bullshit has been around for just as long and, guess what, people don't use it unless they're just playing with friends.
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http://www.somebodythinkofthechildren.com/australia-bans-small-breasts/
How does Australia get away with this shit?
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Glad I don't live DOWN UNDAH.
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Well, there's one country whose adult film industry I can't enter.
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So I'm on steam, doing fine, and then suddenly it drops me and asks me to sign back up.Fun.
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So I'm on steam, doing fine, and then suddenly it drops me and asks me to sign back up.Fun.
Its been doing that all damn day...I had some good kpd in TF2 and then I got killed due to Steam fucking up then my load out was gone so I had to restart Steam.
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I sent them an e-mail about how I needed a new password AND new email, so hopefully they get that sorted out quickly.
Also the ratings on their customer help page are fairly pathetic.
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Today my debit card has been acting stupid. I've got like, $550+ in my account, yet when I pay, I get messages like "declined", "insufficient funds" or some other stupid message. But it worked once, when I payed for my parking when I went to get my headphones.
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Police officers that abuse their power or can't be bothered to do what the little people do (e.g. not using turn signals, weaving between lanes, speeding, blazing through red lights). I'm going to start taking down license numbers and reporting them, because they don't deserve any more leeway than the people who didn't choose a career in law enforcement. (Here's for hoping that actually does something...)
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Man, you do not want to piss off the police. They can make your life hell (a friend's dad tried to do the same sort of thing, and the police basically harassed him and tried to get him for any possible law they could. It was bad.)
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Today my debit card has been acting stupid. I've got like, $550+ in my account, yet when I pay, I get messages like "declined", "insufficient funds" or some other stupid message.
That happens to me occasionally. When that happens, using the card as debit rather than credit (i.e. where you have to punch in your pin) generally works, but banks typically charge a fee for using it like that. Really annoying.
Police officers that abuse their power or can't be bothered to do what the little people do (e.g. not using turn signals, weaving between lanes, speeding, blazing through red lights). I'm going to start taking down license numbers and reporting them, because they don't deserve any more leeway than the people who didn't choose a career in law enforcement. (Here's for hoping that actually does something...)
They usually have a good reason for doing that. If they're responding to a silent alarm or trying to sneak up on someone they can't put their sirens on or they'd risk (especially in the case of silent alarms) alerting the people that they're trying to surprise.
I guarantee you, I know a few cops and they certainly don't run red lights because they feel like it.
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That happens to me occasionally. When that happens, using the card as debit rather than credit (i.e. where you have to punch in your pin) generally works, but banks typically charge a fee for using it like that. Really annoying.
I think you misread what I said, I said debit card. As in bank card, as in, I still don't have any form of credit whatsoever. I always have to punch in my pin.
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I think you misread what I said, I said debit card. As in bank card, as in, I still don't have any form of credit whatsoever. I always have to punch in my pin.
No, I didn't misread it. Many debit cards allow you to use them as credit (they'll typically have Visa or MasterCard logos on them). Mine is one of them, and in the rare case that it has trouble when used as credit (preferred, since no additional fee will apply, and it prevents me from having to punch in my pin) it will generally work when used as debit.
If yours isn't one of those cards then...poop.
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No, it isn't because I have been avoiding getting credit. I'd rather not end up with debut if it's at all avoidable. Unlike most of the people I know, between the help that my parents are giving me to pay for tuition and such, the money I manage to save from work, and the fact that I'm trying to do things as cheaply as possible, I've been avoiding every sort of credit, loans, etc. Practically everyone I know has some sort of debut, whether it's student loans, or credit cards that they maxed (or simply put a bunch of crap on and have to pay off over time). And because of that, I know how much of a pain in the ass it is. My girlfriend will owe the government something like $60,000 by the end of her college/university (since her plan is to take a 3 year college art program and then transfer some of the credits from that to a university art program, and try to become an art teacher), my friend richard dropped out of military funded university because pure engineering is fucking hard, and owes close to $30,000, and my friend mike has credit cards, and owes the government some money for his student loans because his marks dropped far enough that his sponsorship from the native group wouldn't pay his tuition partway through (he also has a shitty jeep that's costing him a lot).
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You're either not reading my posts or not understanding what I'm saying.
Some debit cards have the option of using them as credit cards. This doesn't magically make them into credit cards. All it does it make it so that they are read as credit cards. With some debit cards, you can use them wherever Visa (or whatever) is accepted. Again, this doesn't make them credit cards, it just means that you can use them in more places without incurring withdrawl fees.
Understand now?
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I didn't realize that's how they worked. I've just got the standard issue card, which now happens to have a chip in it along with the regular strip.
Though apparently my banks cards are notorious for being crappy.
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Today I learned what it feels like to have a syringe put into my dick.
And now you're a real man.
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....wut
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feels good man
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Today I learned what it feels like to have a syringe put into my dick.
The hell for? I think I'd punch the doctor in the face before I let them do that, and I'm not a violent person.
Update on the card thing: Apparently I've got $200 cash back on ATM deposits. But when that $200 gets used up, the rest is on hold for 6 days :/ Talked to them today and managed to get them to release the hold, even though it was gonna be up tomorrow.
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MY NOSE WON'T STOP RUNNING!
God I hate being sick. Doesn't happen often.
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Not to sound like a dick, but you're REALLY going to complain about a runny nose after someone had a syringe in their dick?
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Not to sound like a dick, but you're REALLY going to complain about a runny nose after someone had a syringe in their dick?
why not?
it's annoying when i can say something like "ohh i slipped with the knife and cut my hand real bad" and then a response would be "that's nothing, i broke my arm last summer in a skateboarding accident"
one may be worse than the other, but who the fuck cares? ill bitch because im fucking tired after work, your job may be harder than mine, but that doesn't make me any less tired.
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Having to manually remove a virus that AVG missed after 3 hours of scanning in Safe Mode.
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Not to sound like a dick, but you're REALLY going to complain about a runny nose after someone had a syringe in their dick?
I'm not complaining it's just annoying. I know it pales in comparison.
I appreciate the support there vlad. This thread isn't post something worse than the last thing right? Just things that make you angry.
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well this is a thread about bitching, and i like bitching :>
topic for today is netflix. while i am still enjoying the streaming service it's like they continually like not having what few things i want to see.
i would like to watch mad max and terminator. they have the sequels, but i want to start with the first, ohh, they don't flemming have the first movies for stream.
sniper 1, sniper 3, but not sniper 2. FFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
after im done with farscape, i would like to continue to get my sci fi on with some babylon 5...ohh wait, no stream for you. that and pretty much ALL star trek isn't on there. AND AND AND season 4 of farscape isn't on there, so im probably going to amazon that bitch up (60 fucking dollars for all 4 seasons, god damn fuck yes, but that's for the happy thread).
it's a good service, but i don't want to be fiddling around with dvd's and the mail, i just want my shit ready for stream whenever i want. problem is they only have pieces of what i want if at all. i mean come on, i want to watch kids in the hall, right fucking now, not have a dvd sent to me.
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http://kotaku.com/5467320/pirate-ordered-to-pay-nintendo-15-million
This.
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im done with street fighter 2.
remove akuma, and i will GLADLY play again, but until then, im fucking done.
don't ban him in fucking tournaments and let him be allowed in ranked matches at the same time, he's obviously fucking broken.
im fine with admitting somebody is better than me, but when i have to play 9-1 matchups every third game, im not playing anymore. sure, i hate shotos, ryu/ken/sagat, whatever. they don't have raging fucking i win demon, or air i win fireball do they?
i don't even know if i will pick up SSFIV now, the amount of time you have to put into a fighting game to get it down is ludicrous. it's like you have to play several hours a day or else you can't compete online, and when you can't compete online, you aren't having fun.
im going to limit myself to playing with people i know irl/internet only. meaning i basically won't play at all since nobody i knows likes this stuff.
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http://kotaku.com/5467320/pirate-ordered-to-pay-nintendo-15-million
This.
It's really sad that everyone's condemning Nintendo over that like they're the only company that would ever sue someone over that. Nevermind what Sony did to Lik-sang or other import sites or all sorts of other legitimate businesses or Microsoft's attempts to stop piracy. They just take shots at Nintendo because it's the "cool" thing to do now.
I've gotten really angry with Modern Warfare 2 lately but I just keep playing. Certain maps are very clearly totally unbalanced in Domination though, which is really annoying because I end up playing Domination a lot since Ground War's one of the few game types that accepts party chat. WHY can't I use party chat everywhere. I can use party chat in free-for-all so they clearly don't care if people cheat like that.
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Not that I hate Nintendo, but this is hardly fucking justifiable. Plus the whole "making an example of someone" thing disgusts me.
Also a could more things. My internet connection is hardly stable. MOST of the time I can only read webpages of text and pictures, that and I need to download autoCAD and I'm amazingly tight on space right now.
Plus this FUCKING part in STALKER CS is completely impossible. It didn't use to bother me THAT much that enemies had grenades in this game, but the angle you're forced to approach them at (oh boy, let's make a linear stalker game because that's a smart idea) with the fact that there's practically no cover makes this a bitch and a half.
It's set up like this, you're basically forced to to fight through this construction site that's up hill and only has one viable opening. I'm trying to use my sniper to pick a few people at the higher levels off (there's this rather big wall surrounding the site) and advanced but if I don't move grenades will sporadically rain down on me. These grenades are basically not dodge-able and come down in voles of 3 or 4 directly on top of me. So staying back is not an option and rushing forward isn't one either.
and now my SotC soundtrack won't be open able due to a password.
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It's entirely justifiable. Mostly because he won't actually ever pay that. The sentence will commute to a prison sentence for piracy, which will be much shorter than having to pay it off. People need to understand that piracy of anything has consequences. It is a crime and it has a real punishment.
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So I'm gonna start legitimately acquiring Nintendo games for personal use once I've got my Wii. I'm saying this now so there's evidence that I never intended to buy them, i.e. the "lost sale" argument and "making available" arguments are void, so I can't be sued for damages.
A little more seriously, I'm amazed they would do something that stupid. The best thing they can do is try to change peoples' minds on what constitutes 'stealing'; the worst possible is to make disproportionate examples out of ordinary people. The RIAA decided to start suing people for downloading songs, and the main result of that was ushering in a new age where piracy is more morally justifiable than purchasing items. Who would want to support a company that's focusing on bankrupting and imprisoning people over making data available on the Internet?
Yes, I know companies are facing the threat of people not buying their content if that's the case. Studies have shown that the amount of pirating someone does tends to be proportional to their buying habits (i.e. pirates buy a lot of stuff, usually more than the average). The pirates that don't buy stuff pirate because they're unable to. In neither case does the company really face that much lost money, especially compared to the PR disaster of suing someone when they have to put all that money and effort into court, more people are made aware that they can simply pirate data, and another person immediately pops up to take the place of whoever was put out of commission.
tl;dr pirating is the new age and companies have to adapt
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It's too bad the whole thing is honestly a sham and they settled out of court for a very small amount of money and the guy's basically now a celebrity in Australia.
There is no such thing as morally justifiable theft. Ever.
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DON'T GIVE ME A GODDAMN MISSION IN A FUCKING GAME WHICH REQUIRES YOU TO SIT BACK AND TAKE COVER IN A PART WHERE YOU ARE FORCED OUT OF COVER ON A MAP WITH NOWHERE TO RUN AGAINST MULTIPLE HARD HITTING ENEMIES WHICH RANDOMLY FUCKING SPAWN WHICH RUN RIGHT AT YOU AS OTHER HARD HITTING ENEMIES WHO TAKE MINUTES TO KILL ARE IMPRACTICAL TO KILL BECAUSE IN THE FUCKING TIME IT WOULD TAKE TO KILL ONE GODDAMN SCION TO HALF HEALTH YOU ARE LOOKING AT THE GODDAMN GAMEOVER SCREEN FOR THE 50TH FUCKING TIME BECAUSE A HARBINGER SPAMS ROCKETS AT YOU BUT GOD FUCKING FORBID YOU TRY KILLING THE HARBINGERS FIRST BECAUSE THEY WILL SIMPLY GET IN YOUR GRILL WITH NOWHERE TO RUN DUE TO THE SCIONS MAKING ALL OTHER COVER USELESS I FUCKING SWEAR BIOWARE YOU SHOULD HAVE MADE THE SENTINAL CLASS BLURRED OUT FOR INSANITY DIFFICULTY BECAUSE THEY DO NOT HAVE THE FIREPOWER TO GET PAST THIS JOKE YOU CALL POSSIBLE GAMEPLAY FOR FUCK SAKE EVEN WHEN I AM SOMEHOW DOING GOOD YOU LIKE TO GRAB ME BY THE BALLS AND RIP THEM OFF AND I TRY AGAIN AND AGAIN AGAIN AND AGAIN AGAIN AND AGAIN AGAIN AND AGAIN AGAIN AND AGAIN AGAIN AND AGAIN AGAIN AND AGAIN AGAIN AND AGAIN AGAIN AND AGAIN AGAIN AND AGAIN AGAIN AND AGAIN AGAIN AND AGAIN FAILING WHICH IS VERY FUNNY BECAUSE I WILL NEVER BEAT THIS FUCKING ENCOUNTER GOD DAMN I HAVE NEVER BEEN SO ANGRY AT A GAME IN MY ENTIRE LIFE
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even looking at youtube, it's not a sentinal doing the fighting, and for some fucking reason their team mates fair better than mine.
the thing is, there's one place to take cover. when a harbinger gets in your face, you die. i do not have the firepower to kill a harbinger before he closes ground when both of my team mates are dead. i could revive my team mates but that blows a cooldown i need for tech armor which is always down because i am always blasted out of cover and if i don't blow my tech armor cooldown i will simply die.
i could also place my team mates in a place where they are out of harms way...
HAHAHAHAHA
wait, there is no safe haven, unless i kill the floating scion.
but what? to kill the scion, im not killing the grunt collectors.
when im not killing the grunt collectors, harbinger shows up.
i believe i have explained what harbinger can do to kill you.
i have tried my collector laser canon, still not enough damage to get the job done.
did i mention there's a second scion later in the fight? yeah, two attacks consistantly going at you which drain all of your shields, or if you have no health, all of your health. THAT'S FUN RIGHT!
the game has been difficult thus far, and yeah, ive bitched, but it was never anything that after going back to the game, playing a try or two, that i couldn't eventually pass.
this part is a fucking joke.
the ONLY possible way i can see to beating this encounter is literally banging my fucking head against it over and over and over until the general AI of the game plays in such a way to where i have the slightest advantage to completing the encounter.
ive gotten near the end of the encounter to have "harbinger right in front of my cover, rocket blast, i am out of cover, SPAM Y SPAM Y (hotkey for tech armor), die while in rocket stun because of scion OR collector fire OR harbinger simply rocketing me again"
im open for advice, this encounter has made me all sorts of angry to inflicting physical harm to myself (fucked up my hand) to being tempted into running my controller over with my van, to wanting to stab myself with the nearest pocket knife to literal tears coming out of my eyes.
ggsgnfhgnfbefyjdhb
i wish i was one of those people who could play this encounter, understand it's impossibility and look at me not understanding how i could feel the way i do. but im not, and i rage like a motherfucker, i get violent (though never really breaking anything save for...my hand).
it's like i could walk away, but the encounter isn't going to beat itself. if i walk away, it's still on my mind. im NOT giving up on this insanity playthrough, the more im not playing, the more of this insanity i have to endure. at the same time, my mental state can't handle playing anymore.
i need to get laid.
/end rage tldr
now that's what you call bitching volume 10!
*edit*
alright, ive cooled down. going to chill with mw2 tonight. try a limited number of times tomorrow, if i fail, take a breather and try again the next day.
thinking maby ill get some attempts on video, should be entertaining.
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Holy shit.
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That was amazing
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I laughed. Also sounds like me and STALKER CS assuming I had the patients to constantly die from grenades. Then again I did play COD4.
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i need to get laid.
I agree. That always helps.
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Oh fucking hell, they cancelled the PC port of Dead Space 2. I am going to mail EA like, a thousand bombs or something. :[
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Seconding. Shit harsh considering I just bought an EA game not long ago...
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this one is less ragey
ohh boy i finished me2 on insanity, time for some good ole mw2. i read on destruction that there's a patch today fixing the infinite care package glitch.
disconnected from xbla, patching. ohh boy it's the patch.
groundwar, domination on karachi
enemy care package incoming
enemy care package incoming
enemy care package incoming
enemy care package incoming
enemy apache approaching
harriers
preditors
nonstop crap all the time, leave a building and kiss your ass goodbye
guess ill be playing my mass effect 2 adept now, since the patch didn't do shit.
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I didn't have a single problem with the game tonight. And all I play is Ground War.
I did get a Sentry Gun/Attack Helicopter/Chopper Gunner on Estate one round and ended 34-2-3 which was satisfying. I just think it's hilarious that people still try to run with the care package like it actually does something when it clearly doesn't.
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So I put a staple into my pinky finger Friday night at work trying to fix the damn stapler. I needed to pull on the inside part with pliers because it was stuck and sure enough I put enough muscle into it that it comes out and brings the rest of the top with it. My pinky was directly under the part that ejects staples.
It surprisingly didn't hurt at all initially, however typing right now trying to use my pinky hurts like a bitch. Everytime I removed my finger from under the water while washing it at work blood just kept pouring out, it's amazing how much can come out of a staple sized hole.
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Cuts on fingers seem to bleed out like crazy. I have a scar on my middle finger from a cut that almost bleed through a paper towel.
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Despite the shitty road conditions this morning, I had to go to class. Peh. Also, a friend of mine is going to pay for an awesome sushi lunch for another friend and I. So overall, worth the trip.
I walk the temporary annoying distance to my car. (I have to park at the police station near my house because my car can't get through the snow and ice on my driveway. Annoying, yes. But I've got a place to park my car. It only really sucks when I have to carry my and my friend's bowling equipment.)
I get about halfway through clearing the snow and ice off my car when my ice scraper breaks. It's not completely useless now, it just takes longer. Whatev.
I drive through the not-very-well cleared roads. Mildly irritating, but at least nobody was being a jerk.
Despite the roads, I arrive at campus about twenty minutes before the student lounge opens. So I trudge through the snow again to get some awesome coffee. I even got the coffee at a bit of a discount, because the clerk and I are like totally BFFs. Very nice. Very tasty coffee too. So, happy.
I get to the lounge, and hang around for until it's time to walk to my class. Since I had my laptop, it's not bad at all. For some reason, the "good" wireless connection is continuing to refuse to let me log on, so I get stuck on the slow connection. Eh, it's ok. I was one of three people on it, so it really wasn't too bad.
Time to go to class! I schlep up the steep icy hill, and up the multiple flights of steps to my class. Only sucks because my knees really hate stairs.
I arrive at class, sign in, and my professor tells us we're not going to have class today. We were supposed to have a test, but what with all the hubbub with the snow last week, he was hardly able to get any of his own work done, so he decides that us students probably had just as hard a time doing any actual work or studying. Mildly infuriating, because that was my only class today, and I would have shown up later to meet my friends for lunch had I known we didn't have class. But I guess I got credit for attending, since we had to sign in and all.
I call my friend to tell him I got out of class early, and he tells me that he's not coming out for lunch. Grr.
So I go back to the lounge to find my friend who is supposed to help me coordinate the video game tournament I'm running for my club. It has to be postponed for a while because it turns out I and another officer in the club are going to be going out of town while everything is going to be happening. Since most of the equipment is mine, and I am NOT willing to leave it with someone else (I doubt anyone else would be willing to take it anyways), I'm just going to push the date forward a few weeks.
But, of course, the guy is nowhere to be found.
So I head back over to the parking lot so I can get my car and go home. There's nothing else keeping me on campus, so hell, I might as well go home.
Turns out some jerk has decided to improvise a parking space five feet behind my car. And someone else is waiting to get my parking spot. She, at least, is patient with my efforts to get my car out of there. I finally manage to get my car out with maybe an inch of space to spare before hitting the douchebag's car (but at that point, I wasn't certain just how much I cared. That "spot" where he parked is blocked off for a reason. It makes getting out of the REAL parking spots along the wall a real pain in the ass.)
So I get to driving home. It's fairly uneventful until some guy decides to run a stop sign and nearly smashes into me.
I get to the hill that's about five minutes from my house. Cool beans. Almost home! And then some fellow decides to get onto the wrong side of the road to pass me because apparently, going 25 when the speed limit is 25 (and the roads are shit) isnt' fast enough. But of course, when he does that, some oncoming traffic driving on the proper side of the road comes along, and the guy who thinks he's in the UK has to freak back over to my lane. But he hasn't managed to pass me yet. Still, he jams back over. I'd scoot to my right into the shoulder, or y'know, brake, but I can't. There is no shoulder because there's four feet of snow piled in it, and I've got someone else right behind me.
Somehow, he managed not to kill me.
A few minutes later, I'm on the home stretch. And all this time, I've been driving with my window open because my windows like to fog up, and my defroster doesn't work well enough for my liking. No big deal, I don't get cold very easily. It's almost never a problem unless it's raining very hard.
Today, it turned out to be a problem when someone speeds through a huge puddle of muddy slush, getting it alllll over me and the interior of my car.
I make it to the parking lot of the police station. Walk up the first hill, and across the access road to the back of my driveway.
Somehow, I managed to make it into my house without killing myself.
I think I might rage.
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Wow. Talk about a shitty day. Well, one of those days where everything just seems to go wrong. And I was about to complain about the jackass who nearly ended up hitting me head on when we were both driving at east 80-90 km/h :/ Well, I'm going to anyway...
Basically, the road had a stretch of 3 lanes, 2 lanes going my way, 1 their way. And absolutely no passing on the other side while the road is 3 lanes, so the only opertunity to pass someone going the other direction is pass them before the other lane on my side ends/begins. For some reason this particular jackass didn't think things through quite right. From my perspective, this is what happened: I moved over to the middle lane a bit before the outside lane ended, because I think it's kinda stupid to stay in a lane that's about to end, and be forced to merge when the lane ends. Well, next thing I see (and by this point, the right hand lane is gone, though the oncoming lane is still not supposed to pass anyone there) is some jackass heading right for me, and I've got nowhere to go (there's a bit of shoulder, but if I tried to move that far over I can guarantee I'd end up in a snowbank (not fun). On top of that, I wasn't completely paying attention, so he was damned close when I finally noticed him (I honestly have no idea how I didn't see him earlier though). So I was scared shitless because I came about 3 feet from a head on collision with some fuckhead.
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The "baby voice".
It doesn't matter if it's a baby or a puppy or whatever, but when people see a cute animal of some kind and "talk" to it in that high-pitched, speech impeded child voice I want to slap them in the mouth.
I'm not saying humans should talk to lesser-beings the same way we talk to each other, and a little cuddly animal talk is okay but when people get WAY too into it I cringe and want to die.
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Averaged 162 at bowling practice on Wednesday.
Had a match yesterday.
Averaged 122.
Dammit dammit dammit.
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The "baby voice".
My mom does this ALL the time to my pets, shit's funny.
Also that's a bitch.
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mw2, knife/commando.
why put hip fire in the game? why put steady aim in the game?
"ohh im entering a close quarters scenario, let me whip out my akimbo g18's"
"ohh, an enemy, let me shoot my dual machine pistols all up in dat ass"
"wait wait wait, did you mean that in the range optimal for an akimbo g18, they can just fucking knife you, which is an instant kill?"
"why the fuck do i even bother, back to every class having stopping power AND commando"
fuck mw2
while im at it. my first game in 3 days, spawn, 2 seconds later, preditor missile death.
fuck mw2
it's unbelievable how much bullshit this game contains, and yet im fucking retarded enough to keep on playing, i must hate myself.
seriously though, if you have a gun, you are most likely doing "scavenger, stopping power, commando" it's just dumb. scavenger for "more nades please" in my case claymores and general ammo. stopping power is retarded not to have on most guns. commando for the reason there's nothing really better, steady aim, sure, but commando rapes scenarios needed for hip fire unless the guy gets the jump on you.
i need a different "go to" multiplayer game. ill try starcraft when i can get a few local bros to play with me. like i mean, sometimes a man doesn't feel like doing anything, and wants a game to jump on and have fun for a few minutes to an hour. sf2hdr has akuma, im done with that shit. sf4 has no characters i want to main plus ssf4 is coming in a few months. IIDX...my skill is long fucking gone, plus it's not online and multiplayer i guess. i mean a couple bros online with the voice chat just talking about random shit playing some vidya, it's good fuckin' times...just the only game people 'round these parts (assuming most other parts as well) is that mw2.
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For mw2 it depends on the time of day/week for good results. In example, I'm usually off work and school in the middle of the week, when I hop online for a few hours, and I do good. Recently, I came down with some upper respiratory infection, so I called out of work and ended up playing on friday night/saturday. I did HORRIBLE all day. Seriously, barely any positive KDR matches. I do agree knives are BS and should at the max maybe knock someone down into a last stand kind of thing, because in real life, if I fucking shoot you 3 times in the chest, you're not going to be able to run 8 feet and stab me in the heart. fuck that shit.
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I do agree knives are BS and should at the max maybe knock someone down into a last stand kind of thing, because in real life, if I fucking shoot you 3 times in the chest, you're not going to be able to run 8 feet and stab me in the heart. fuck that shit.
That's a really shitty justification. I can't stand the whole pseudo realism as a way to justify things in games, it just doesn't work unless you want the game to be as realistic as possible, which most people don't actually want.
They just need to balance it out somehow, like take out the goofy lunge and make it do a bit less damage and stun or something.
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I'm not trying to justify it to real life, maybe I should rephrase in that, some of the things are not as realistic as their in-game counter parts are made/designed/coded to be. The balance is hiding somewhere. If I shoot you in the FACE with a striker from 3 feet away and you stab at me, I'm dead, and you win, and that's bullshit.
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I think half the problem with the game balancing is how many people take advantage of the obviously insta-win crap. I still have lots of fun playing with friends and shit, because none of my friends abuse any of that stuff. Sure, it's there, and it could be use, but none of us care to rely on stupid tactics like that. We have our own things we like to do. My friend richard has his LSW with something like stopping power, steady aim, fmj and grip, and akimbo pp2000's (IIRC) and has proven that that can be a deadly combination. Basically, point and shoot. No aiming, just point and shoot.
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I don't even use the noob tube for a 'regular' attachment on any of my weapons, and only use it to get the 20(?) or so kills to get the XP points to level faster. And I still feel dirty killing someone with it.
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I'm not trying to justify it to real life, maybe I should rephrase in that, some of the things are not as realistic as their in-game counter parts are made/designed/coded to be.
...who cares? If they did make them as realistic as their in game counterparts then they'd obviously have one gun be obviously superior to all of the other ones.
I think half the problem with the game balancing is how many people take advantage of the obviously insta-win crap. I still have lots of fun playing with friends and shit, because none of my friends abuse any of that stuff.
Just play better games then. A well balanced game doesn't have "cheap" tactics or broken guns/items/whatever. Or if the game permits, disable it. That's why I usually disable the smashballs in Brawl. I once went something like 9 kills and 2 deaths in a free for all because of them.
And I still feel dirty killing someone with it.
Fuck it, it's in he game as a non glitch so it's fair game. Plus noob tube isn't really that bad, the real OPed weapons in COD4 and I'm assuming MW2 are the assault rifles. That and if they hate it so much they should play on a server that bans noob tu-oh wait...
This also pisses me off considering I was administering on a CSS server that had no AWPs, Autos, limited Scouts, infinite cash every round, custom maps, AND a system that prevented camping and no one plays there despite it being one of the few servers to bother addressing with a lot of the bitching the CSS community does. Good thing there's awlays a full 24/7 Dust 2 server...
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(http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/7981/fprotoss.jpg)
the fuck is the mass appeal of protoss? are they the easiest race to use? less units but more power? the way they warp in buildings? the look?
may as fuckin well take out terran and zerg since nobody is playing them.
OHH ROACHES ARE OVERPOWERED says the protoss
faggot didn't build an immortal, immortals rape the overpowered roach. seriously, immortals have 20 attack with a PLUS THIRTY vs armored units, they can cut through a siege tank like it's armor was butter.
terrans can bitch though, they are probably the weakest race at the moment.
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Just play better games then. A well balanced game doesn't have "cheap" tactics or broken guns/items/whatever. Or if the game permits, disable it. That's why I usually disable the smashballs in Brawl. I once went something like 9 kills and 2 deaths in a free for all because of them.
Why? I don't own MW2, I play with friends, or I play very occasionally online at a friend's place. I don't get into the game enough to care about that enough for it to bother me.
I completely understand why you guys bitch, because if I got that into the game I'd likely bitch about how overpowered and cheap some shit is too.
But I'd also like to point out that playing with friends (and only with friends) is one way to avoid (unless your friends are a bunch of douchebags) most of the shit that's wrong with the game. At the expense of playing with fewer people anyway.
But yes, like I said before, I understand why you guys bitch, because there are definitely problems with the game that need to be addressed and obviously are not.
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(unless your friends are a bunch of douchebags).
Yeah basically. Not like I spam projectiles in SF4 when my friend was first getting into fighting games, but when they have an advantage at a game (like when they obviously play the game more, but they just don't let up. Like getting a sniper in Halo and NEVER letting it go, even on that one map that's a giant field and the fact that we already agreed to not use vehicles it's like they feel the need to withhold a title of "Best at Halo" with their friends for some dumb reason) they never let up. They're assholes about this too, I remember my friend asking me NOT to play Halo online with them because we would lose considering I suck at the game yet when we play smash brothers with teams, items, and any stage and we take the two best players and split them to different teams they still bitch and cry about losing.
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There certainly are a LOT of problems with the game, but it's still perfectly fun....until you run into the people who only want to exploit garbage to camp impossible locations or shoot through the goddamn riot shield or use care package glitches or somehow have FMJ through cement blocks when it's normally impossible.
Really, most of my problems with the game would be fixed just by dedicated servers. The difference in rounds between a 3 bar connection and 4 is staggering. I go from something like 6-18 to 41-7. The only reason people spam grenades and rockets is because at least with those, connection doesn't especially matter because the splash damage is big enough to kill you no matter what.
I want sniping gone. Completely. From every game ever. I am so so so so so so SO tired of walking out and being hit by 6 sniper shots from 6 different directions, all from a goddamn 50 cal with a thermal scope. The game becomes extremely boring when all you do is hunt them down over and over. And they just keep running back to the same spots! It's like they're so set on their retarded little happy place that they need to come back for revenge any time someone desecrates it. Every little shit just thinks they're so cool that they're laying on some building in their little leaf suits shooting some "retard" from half way across the map, never realizing that someone's actually laying directly behind them, about to stab them in the ass because they're too dumb to pay attention. And it's even worse in MW2 because most of the maps encourage that shit.
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Ahh, yeah, I do have one friend like that, but usually there's enough of us to gang up on him when he's being a dick that we can counter that, lol. That, and in Halo 1 I out sniped him with a pistol.
And eggman, I really enjoy trying to outsnipe people. While I do hate getting pwned by some one with a sniper from the other end of the map, I doubt I'd get as many kills without it. Aside from the times that I end up knifing a bunch of people, sniping is usually where I get half decent kill counts. Barring, of course, when there's someone who can snipe me out. When that happens, I'm kinda fucked. Basically, as much as it can be frustrating, I'd rather have it in, than out.
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vlad wants to try STALKER but it no work. i was thinking about re downloading it, but i don't see the point since the last update for the game was in 2007.
(http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/9089/1266844307751.png)
I WANT TO BE A CRAZY NECKBEARD MAN :<
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What happens when you try to start it up? MAYBE if you download a mod it might unfuck whatever it is you're trying to do.
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the stalker logo thing comes up implying it's about to load into a window...and it doesn't, it just stays there and i have to task manager close that bitch.
ive tried booting it up on all of the different os modes available with no real progress. i mean i heard stalker hates vista anyway, but even running it under windows xp compatability mode, nothin.
it could be my reletavley obscure radeon 4850x2 video card, but even i kind of doubt that. i mean it's two regular fairly common cards, on one pcb.
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Yeah I have no idea what is wrong with it, you might want to try posting on the steam or GSC forums, people in the STALKER community tend to be pretty helpful about that kind of stuff. I've had no problems running CoP, CS, or SoC on Vista x64, so I don't know if that's the problem. :S
Edit: I just found out that Girl Talk show I just learned about today is already sold out. fml :(
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I was supposed to go to a "Sex With Sue" show at the college last night with my girlfriend. I forgot. Fuck :/
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randomly typing on a forum as a spammer adds you to msn and you hit enter at the same time during your typing and add said spammer to your friends list only to have to look for it and delete/block/report said person
no punctuation because of anger man these people have been annoying the past month or so with adding me to msn i seriously block/report every single person to add me on msn so if you are a person who would like to talk to me on msn please tell me before hand and let me know the email or you will be reported and blocked for assumption of being a spamming whore who needs to die in a fire
if there is an option to block all requests to add on msn please let me know because i am tired of these spammers giving me popups of hay sexxygurl03@hotmail.com would like to be your friend would you like to add her to your friends list
its annoying
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Agreed, I've been getting a bunch of those lately as well. They are beginnig to piss me off.
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I swear if procrastination was a disease I would have it. I CANNOT FOR THE FUCKING LIFE OF ME get a decently productive day in.
Ugh. I hate it, I'm not even sure if I'm behind in my one class but I probably am.
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i backed my van into my cousins truck.
isn't it a bitch when you know there's a vehicle there, you see it when walking to your vehicle...you back out forgetting it was there.
damage could be worse, nothing broken on my vehicle though dented pretty good, and a dented bumper/broken light on the cousins truck, hopefully insurance will pull through.
still, feels pretty shitty.
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still, feels pretty shitty.
Yep. The accident I had felt bad too, even though there was even less damage (I fucked up the license plate on my car, and maybe did some damage to the other, but if I did, there wasn't much, and certainly nothing overly visible).
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Today is going to be a fucking terrible day. Thought I was going to have all weekend to read my book, but I only had half of sunday and even then I got nothing done. So now I've got like 3 or so hours to read 14 chapters and get ready for an exam.
Oh yeah, and out of nowhere I got sick and I missed my math class.
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i believe i have said on multiple occasions that i don't give a shit about characters/story.
why the fuck did early season 3 of farscape get me PRETTY DAMN CLOSE to literal bawwing, fuck, vlad got real teary.
WHY DID "i won't spoil it for you" HAVE TO DIE !? :<
i refuse to watch this show with other people, gotta pretend im a MAN!
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hey this is joey, i just called to tell you that this was joey, bye.
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http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2010/03/teabaggers-barney-you-faggot.html
I'm sort of speechless. What kind of human being could call someone who worked along with Martin Luther King jr. a nigger?
I really don't see how people who read the news every day don't go on a shooting spree with all the dumb shit that's happening now a days.
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Keepvid isn't a free download site anymore. Instead they have a program you have to pay $20.00 to use. I mean, if they only asked for like 3 or 4 dollars I might pay, but 20? No.
I've already found another downloader, but it still bothers me because I don't like things that are different D:
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Keepvid isn't a free download site anymore. Instead they have a program you have to pay $20.00 to use. I mean, if they only asked for like 3 or 4 dollars I might pay, but 20? No.
that's fucking gay
GAY GAY GAY GAY
GAY GAY GAY GAY
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So, I's my 6 years anniversary with my girlfriend. Know where she is? about a 45 minute drive away, sitting in isolation at a hospital she's been in since 9 this morning.
She's been having trouble breathing and her friends finally convinced her to go to the hospital, thinking it would be relatively quick. She's been in isolation since 10:30. She has no TV, no portable game systems, no books, absolutely nothing to amuse herself with in there. And no idea what's happening or when she might get out.
I think I might have some harsh words for her friends. I know they likely didn't realize it was our anniversary, but this is NOT something I want to deal with on the day that I just want to spend with her.
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I think I might have some harsh words for her friends. I know they likely didn't realize it was our anniversary, but this is NOT something I want to deal with on the day that I just want to spend with her.
Calling you out on that attitude. Her friends are worried about her because she's having trouble breathing, the hospital doesn't seem to think it's trivial, and you don't "want to deal with" it? Alternately, being annoyed at her friends because the hospital might take longer than a simple checkup (and would thus be the hospital's fault). Alternately, being less worried about your girlfriend than spending time with her. It strikes me as a douche attitude no matter how you look at it.
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Alternately, being less worried about your girlfriend than spending time with her. It strikes me as a douche attitude no matter how you look at it.
This, basically.
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Hurrr, so I left my cellphone charger at my apartment over spring break, so I was basically trapped at home with shit all to do for a week. Oh well, back now, problem solved. :V!
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Well, she spent from 9:30 till 6:00 in the hospital, all to find out that she has inflamed cartilage in her sternum, which occasionally makes it a bit harder to breathe. A good part of the reason she spent that much time there was because just after she got into isolation, a bunch of ambulances arrived and she got pushed back. The condition is minor, chronic, and permanent, and likely stress related. Basically, they told her to take an Advil a day, and it would be easier to breathe.
I had a lot more to say here, but I was just beginning to ramble. I came off sounding like an ass because I've been around here, and I know that although she was breathing a bit hard, if it could last as long as it did without being addressed, it could likely wait another day or so. I was frustrated. I was concerned for her. It really bothered me that I got no warning until she was already in the hospital, and that had been there for hours.
I think part of what bothered me is that I was essentially treated like I had nothing to do with it, even though I'm her boyfriend. And of all days to have wasted, it was our anniversary. We don't usually make a big deal of anniversaries, but we do plan to spend time together on them; and having that interrupted by someone who has only been her friend for the time she's been in college kinda bothered me. Yes, that's kinda petty, but it's the truth.
I haven't talked to her friend yet, and if I do, I'm not gonna be a dick. I still feel better knowing what the problem is. I just wish It could have happened on a different day.
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Seems justified that you'd be upset. I mean, it's not like she was in a life threatening situation and it really could have been treated outside of a hospital.
Oh yeah, and on topic, I can't stand people who enjoy movies simply because they look impressive. Then again, genuinely good movies don't seem to be made frequently. Probably explains why I stopped giving a fuck about movies.
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Seems justified that you'd be upset. I mean, it's not like she was in a life threatening situation and it really could have been treated outside of a hospital.
Oh yeah, and on topic, I can't stand people who enjoy movies simply because they look impressive. Then again, genuinely good movies don't seem to be made frequently. Probably explains why I stopped giving a fuck about movies.
Well, to be fair, breathing problems are never good, and the doctors don't actually have a way to directly test for her condition. What happened was that all the tests the did do (including a soft-tissue x-ray) came back fine. They diagnosed it by eliminating most other possibilities, and by the fact that the symptoms she described matched up more than most people's even do. So technically, they can't be completely sure that's what it is, but since everything came back fine, there's not much else it could be. So until all the testing was done, there was no way to be sure it wasn't something serious.
But yes, the timing kinda really pissed me off and kinda ruined a day that I thought should have been time for her and I to spend together.
As for the movies comment, I try to take movies for what they are. Sure, there are plenty of movies I call absolute shit (anything by Uwe Bole, etc.) but I think it's kinda ridiculous to simply stop caring about movies. I mean, I just saw the Boondock Saints 2, and loved it. It was as much over the top as the original, and what's more, they didn't try to just remake the first one over again, they tried to actually do something with it (and also set it up for another sequel, lol). Sure, it's not gonna win any awards, and was even a straight to DVD release, but I enjoyed it. It was fun. Sure it's not really believable, but since when did every movie have to be realistic, or the perfect representation of some author's world? I say try to take every movie for what it is, and get as much enjoyment as you can out of them. I still hate crap like "Disaster Movie" and all the mindless drivel that gets dredged up for the sole purpose of making money, but I don't let that stop me from deriving any enjoyment I can out of the movies I feel are worth watching.
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B^U
Well yeah, I suppose it's all dependent on how impaired her breathing is.
Also I'm not saying ALL movies need to be Citizen Kain quality, but there's so many garbage movies that aren't worth anyone time that it's just plain hard to care.
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Well, I never said I go to the theater very often, lol. A good portion of what is released is total crap, but I don't feel it's worth it to just stop caring about movies for the sake of avoiding shit.
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i typed two tldrs, not going to post them.
soulcalibur is a bad fighting game, i hate it, it's not worth getting those online achievements.
button mashing, the game. unless you have all of the frame data in your head, it will continue to be just button mashing.
also, don't respond to this, you won't sway my opinion by defending your game. i did spend some 60 hours playing it when i got it.
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Haven't the recent Soul Calibur games always been a bit shitty?
but yeah, everything for some reason is seeming to piss me off.
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DJs that think the louder they play their music, the higher their DJ-ing skill is.
Ugh. I've been out of the place for over an hour now, and my ears still hurt.
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http://www.joystiq.com/2010/04/03/the-ant-farm-talks-successes-of-modern-warfare-2-marketing/
This entire web site seems to have such a viscous hive mind mentality that I can't stand it. I remember when MW2 was coming/came out and it had nothing but positive posts, but now that the overall hype for the game has died and the overall opinion of the game has shifted everyone has gone into hate mode.
Also my friend is acting just dumb. He thought that because of the South Park episode and what sounds like a sarcastic reaction from a female friend that chicks dig big balls. That and he kept trying to defend anime despite not seeing or knowing much.
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Drivers who do any of the following:
- Poke along an onramp, especially when traffic is flying (we only have so much time to match speed and you're wasting it for all of us)
- Don't use turn signals, or don't let them click at least twice before switching lanes (a signal is no use if you're already in the lane/someone's car)
- Use their brakes on a highway without a damn good reason (people like you cause traffic jams, learn to keep pace or get off the highway)
- Start an intersection in one lane and end it in another (turning right on red is legal, but you people make it hazardous)
- Speed up when you're trying to pass them (learn to cruise control/keep a steady speed, not have an inferiority complex, or both)
I realise there's been a lot said about bad drivers already, but these are the things that frustrate me more than anything else. I'm used to bad drivers, but all of the above require a special kind of negligence and I hope every driver who regularly does them gets their license suspended. It's not gonna happen, but imagine what a wonderful world it would be if it did~
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It's not gonna happen, but imagine what a wonderful world it would be if it did~
There would be so fewer drivers on the road.
Though that's not necessarily a bad thing.
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Drivers who do any of the following:
I agree completely. Not to mention people who drive slow in the fast lane and people who create a damn road block (all going the same speed in each lane so no one can pass). That and people who don't pay attention to people coming onto the highway. Practically got ran off the road become some cock with a trailer.
Oh yeah, and wall jumping in Metroid. Goddamn it has like 3 frames of animation for you to act on.
MODIFIED FOR MORE RAGE.
My friend said she changed her boyfriend (a guy I've known since elementary school, and much longer then she's known him) from an asshole to a nice guy. I REALLY can't stand that mentality in the slightest, it's like they need to mold some random asshole to make them feel good, then they're SHOCKED when they keep acting the same.
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The real question is whether or not he actually is an asshole, lol. Some girls see to have a warped sense of what a nice guy and an asshole actually are.
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Not at all. He's always seemed generally nice and independent, no idea how anyone could consider him a dick.
Also people that make assumptions (not directed towards you or anyone here) always piss me off. It amazes me how little information/unreliable information people need in order to spread said information.
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I hate it when girls lead you on.
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I hate it when girls lead you on.
(edited to be less self-centered douchey)
People are very susceptible to confirmation bias when it comes to attraction, i.e. reading into everything the other person does as a sign of romantic interest, even when that's not actually the case. I've been accused of leading people on simply by talking to pass 15 minutes while a washer was being fixed in the dorms, for one of the more ridiculous cases. While I don't know the exact situation (assuming this is actually about a single situation), I'm very doubtful you were actually being led on. If you were, feel free to rant in more detail.
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Vyhd does have a point. A surprising amount of what people seem to pick up on are things that are misinterpreted and are usually just characteristics of specific people.
Then again, there are a LOT of people who act flirty with people they have no actual interest in being with a person.
Like, a shocking amount of females do this because they just enjoy flirting.
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I hate it when girls lead you on.
Seriously.
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I'm probably going to fail all my classes, I have no money, I have no idea what I want to do with my life and I'm not really happy with what I'm doing now, and I'm fairly sure I'll have an incredibly hard time finding work due to my lack of experience and my horrible hand writing (at least those are my assumptions, I've filled out tons of applications and about 90% of the time I hear nothing back).
Oh yeah, and some cum guzzling nigger faggot in a Hummer wouldn't let me and the truck in front of me over while we both had turn signals on, instead he felt it was a better idea to speed past us ALL THE WAY to the red light that was just about 40 or so feet infront of us. Oh yeah, and me and the black truck couldn't get to the u turn lane because of this waste of goddamn space and his horrible ugly big yellow small cock compensating car just HAD to get to that red light faster.
Oh yeah, and
Honestly, I liked how different Dead Rising felt from other games. The only thing it could benefit from is a more realistic save system
http://www.joystiq.com/2010/04/12/capcom-first-dead-rising-felt-too-japanese/
This makes me lol, but the upvotes really piss me off.
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(edited to be less self-centered douchey)
People are very susceptible to confirmation bias when it comes to attraction, i.e. reading into everything the other person does as a sign of romantic interest, even when that's not actually the case. I've been accused of leading people on simply by talking to pass 15 minutes while a washer was being fixed in the dorms, for one of the more ridiculous cases. While I don't know the exact situation (assuming this is actually about a single situation), I'm very doubtful you were actually being led on. If you were, feel free to rant in more detail.
No. it's different. COMPLETELY different than that. When you've been going out on dates for about a month and a half, holding hands, cuddling, and on one of the most memorable nights of your entire pubescent life (pram) she tells you that she's not into you anymore? Fuck that shit man. THAT is leading on at its finest. There was LEGIT mutual attraction, not some subtle bullshit like "oh teehee she laughs when i try to be funny" or "look we made eye contact."
FUCK THIS SHIT SERIOUSLY
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people that ask questions like this
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AriVbbNy4MYqp.6iVSyf94YGxgt.;_ylv=3?qid=20100413184427AAv0w7U
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It also angers me that nobody responded saying "your a fucking retard".... I mean, You would quite likely die very quickly with any substantial amount of orange juice directly injected into your blood stream.
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You'd think injecting almost anything into your bloodstream every hour would be horrible for your health....
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No. it's different. COMPLETELY different than that. When you've been going out on dates for about a month and a half, holding hands, cuddling, and on one of the most memorable nights of your entire pubescent life (pram) she tells you that she's not into you anymore? Fuck that shit man. THAT is leading on at its finest. There was LEGIT mutual attraction, not some subtle bullshit like "oh teehee she laughs when i try to be funny" or "look we made eye contact."
FUCK THIS SHIT SERIOUSLY
I can really empathize with you here. The most traumatic experience in my recent life was very similar to this. Since I don't have the time to type an essay about the situation, I can summarize. Basically I thought she was my dream girl, and I her dream guy (as is what she told me herself). And things were going awesome and we got to the point of exchanging "I love you"'s even, until one day she just disappeared. For a month. Without communication of any kind. I couldn't go to her place because she lived in a private condo and I called somewhere close to 200 times within the first week without being answered. I can't fully convey the horrible things I felt, and it has left marks which I still deal with these days (this all happened about four years ago). The punchline of the story is that I found out on FACEBOOK of all fucking places that she was now with a guy she was working with, and had been for the last few weeks of our relationship. That was the first time I realized what people meant when they were heartbroken.
Since that happened, I've had big issues with being led on. Any time a girl shows interest in me now, my first reaction is that she's just suddenly going to stop liking me, and then move on to the next guy. It's an automatic feeling, and regardless of how irrational I KNOW it is, it's always there.
My point (yes I do have a point) is that I don't think anyone should ever feel this way, and so if it makes any difference to you, don't let this affect you the way it did me. Don't sit there and question what it was about YOU that made her change her mind, because it wasn't you, it was her. Seriously. BUT I want to also say not to expect it to happen every time, because it WILL interfere with any future relationships if you do. And this is something I have to reassure myself every day: a girl who can change her mind about you at the drop of a hat is not a girl you want to be with in the first place. She might seem like the most awesome girl ever in other aspects, but the mere fact that she is like that should be a sign for you to stay away.
I should also mention that most girls in high school are just that: girls. They're indecisive as fuck, promiscuous, emotionally immature and just confused about what they want (this could easily go for high school guys, too). I'm not saying they're all like that, and I'm not saying all the ones who are get better with age, but having been out of high school for 6 years, and now meeting girls in my age range, I can say that it gets better, and much less dramatic.
I know that there's no way you want to wait half a decade to meet someone who won't fuck with you, so all I can say is just KEEP ON TRUCKIN.
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shitty stuff
That prompted one of your internet disappearances didn't it? I know you've left the net a couple times over really shit happening.
But regardless, that's fucking horrible. I really hope you find someone that doesn't just fuck with you.
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That prompted one of your internet disappearances didn't it? I know you've left the net a couple times over really shit happening.
But regardless, that's fucking horrible. I really hope you find someone that doesn't just fuck with you.
I pretty much disappeared from the world during that time. I dealt with it horribly and I'm paying the consequences. Which is why I would never want anyone to feel the same way.
And thank you :] There is currently an absolutely amazing girl I'm really into who just happens to like me back, and if something happens there it could be a great relationship. But the fact that I like this girl so much is also causing me stress because I'm still afraid she will change her mind and leave me with a destroyed ego again. On the other hand, I feel bad thinking about her like this because she is nothing like that other girl, and it's an insult to her for me to compare them. It's been like this for the few girls I've liked in the few years after that incident (I haven't had a real relationship since) but this girl is worth fighting the torturous feelings of abandonment for.
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That's great.
Every time something shitty to do with relationships happens to someone I know, I'm always so thankful that I've managed to avoid that bullshit.
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when i got my new HDD for the 360 i had to manually transfer everything manually since it did not come with a transfer cable.
i forgot my gamer pictures, no big deal, but sometimes i want to change em.
months later, i decide to go back to the old hdd to throw em on there, no big deal right? here is the process.
-swap hdd's
-recover gamertag
-get innerupted, forced xbox update (i am typing this post as it is downloading)
-type in email and passwords with the xbox pad (very tedious)
-log on
-manually transfer each individual gamer picture
-log out turn off console
-switch hdd's back
-recover gamertag
-type in email and passwords with the xbox pad
-log on
-manually transfer each individual gamer picture to my hdd
wellp, the update is finished, off to do that work, thanks microsoft for making this a quick and easy process.
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MY SHITTY FUCKING INTERNET FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK
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Lack of communication in the work-place.
My boss has his wife come in on off days to do some extra accounts receivable work. She's been working on this case with another person for a couple weeks, which I was happy to have her take care of it because I've got enough shit to do as it is. But now my boss and his wife are getting divorced and she won't be working on the case anymore. Apparently, the other person was led to believe that I had been kept updated on all the work that's been going on between them, while I haven't heard a single word or been given any clue as to what's going on. So now I have two weeks of AR bullshit to go over while this other person I'm working with has a deadline to make, and I've already got tons of tasks backed up to take care of.
I have no problem doing my job. Whatever I'm asked to do, I will do it without complaint because that's what a job is for. What bothers me is when people expect me to do my job when they're not holding up their end of it. Being the only person who knows what the fuck is going on or how to even do the most basic things is not easy. I've never had a job where the work was challenging. The only difficulties I've really had trouble with at work are my co-workers' and superiors' incompetence.
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People who refuse to admit they are wrong, despite an overwhelming amount of evidence showing them that they are. I'm not like a master of fighting games, but I've been playing them for a decent while longer than my friend. I say xbox controllers aren't good for fighting games, he disagrees and tries to argue that I need to get used to it.
This is the same kid that tried so goddamn hard to argue about anime being not mostly shit, despite me being the person to get him into it to start with and introduced him to like 3 different shows. He now wants me to watch bleach.
Also I have a different friend who acts incredibly stubborn. We were playing MW2 at my friends house on his xbox, I'm not really a fan of MW2 and I don't care for console shooters. We play this for like a couple hours, then my one friend stops and wants to play some SF4 with me. Right then a different friend gets up and says "I'm leaving then" and we ask "why?". He says he hates street fighter, we ask why and he says because it's the same damn fighting game every time. So he leaves and we enjoy some SF4.
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Tried to fix my 360; still doesn't work after hours and hours of tweaking everything. Fuck Fuck Fuck, good thing I have a PS3, which doesn't get RRoD every time I try to play anything from its vast library of 360 ports.
Actually, when I first removed the thermal compound of the GPUs and CPU, I only cleaned the stuff off the chips and not the solder points, which I imagine was stupid. I'ma try it once again; if it doesn't work I'm gonna give up.
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Just got a ticket for going 30 over on the highway. Fucking $180+ ticket. Fuck.
It's my first ticket ever.
Biggest problem is that I don't have my full license yet. Meaning anything that carries demerit points means I'm fucked. And this does.
Yeah, I'm not in a good mood right now.
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Open manholes in an early morning rainstorm.
Not cool.
Damn thing could have eaten my car. haha.
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My radiator on my car cracked I have to wait until Thursday to take it into the shop...FUCK!
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So, my ticket is for 31km/h over. At that speed, the fine should be around $217, and 4 demerit points (at 6 points, they can call me in to have an interview to see whether they should give me a 30 day license suspension). I can ask for a court date, and ask them to reduce it, and even if I only get it reduced to 29 over, they would bring the ticket down to $130.50, or so, and drop some of the demerit points....
This is my first speeding ticket, and it feel like fucking ass. I haven't told my parents yet because all they'll likely do is yell at me.
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Well, I wouldn't go about hiding that for very long. Won't go well in the long run. :/
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I hate to be this American, but what's 31 km/h converted to mp/h?
Also, a few minor annoyances. People who get mad over asking a question, even if it's a fairly unoffensive question, and people don't do anything to control their dogs, and get mad when you try to.
Not sure why, but this always bothers me.
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http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=31+km/h+to+mi/h&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=
or
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=31+km/h+to+mi/h
aka 31 km/h = 19.262507 mi/h
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That's pretty bad, cops down here will usually go for you if your over 8 MPH. Good luck on that tho.
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my friends suck.
some people get mad because their friends ditch them to play world of warcraft.
i get mad because my friends ditch me to play modern warfare 2.
i want to get outside and get a little easy exercise, nobody is down for it, no wonder they are so damn fat.
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A couple of things. I wanted to change my oil, I was just going to take it to some place about a week ago but my friend tried to convince me several times that we should do it. Later I saw him and he got all bitchy that we weren't changing it, so I said "fine, we'll set something up". So a week later and we've missed several opportunities and I figure he won't pull through, I ask my Dad (about Friday) when we should do it. He says we can do it Sunday, and today I wake him up and ask him about it and he basically forgot.
That, and over the past week or so my power has gone out and screwed with my internet, I finally got it back today screwing with it for a while but it's less then a quarter of the speed it normally is. I can't stand this shit. I'll have hard work all next week and I really don't have time to fuck around with my oil, and I might not even have cash to get to work.
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So, my ticket is for 31km/h over. At that speed, the fine should be around $217, and 4 demerit points (at 6 points, they can call me in to have an interview to see whether they should give me a 30 day license suspension). I can ask for a court date, and ask them to reduce it, and even if I only get it reduced to 29 over, they would bring the ticket down to $130.50, or so, and drop some of the demerit points....
This is my first speeding ticket, and it feel like fucking ass. I haven't told my parents yet because all they'll likely do is yell at me.
I got a red light violation around Thanksgiving (which was bullshit, and in retrospect, I probably could've fought and won), and when I got back, showed it to my mom. Her reaction was "...eh, I can't say anything". My sister made fun of me, and not a week later got a speeding ticket of her own. I think this is a little late, but karma seems to smile on confessing it.
Also, no matter where you are, going 31 kph over the speed limit is a fucking stupid idea. If traffic's moving quickly, you move with traffic. Otherwise, keep to the speed limit, or within 10 kph of it. Going over that is asking for - and usually getting - trouble. I don't care for arbtirarily set speed limits, but getting tickets isn't going to change anything, it'll just reinforce the "everyone's going dangerously fast so let's slow them down" mentality.
As for annoyances, my dad. Particularly as a driver, but also in general. Saying "BRAKES PLEASE" from the back of the car isn't funny, it doesn't help, it is fucking INFURIATING. I know how to drive, I can guarantee my senses as a 20-year-old are better than yours at 57, stop treating me like I don't know what I'm doing.
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As I said in another thread, I got put into the tenor section in my voice class. That doesn't peel my potatoes. Confuses them slightly, maybe. But not peel.
Here's a few measures of one of the songs we're singing. It's not the actual song, obviously. I just plopped the notes into Finale.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v34/Jupichan/rageface.png)
That D right before the end? That seems to be the bottom of my range. And the C immediately following it is THE lowest note the tenors have in the whole damn song.
ONE fucking note that I can't hit. Hit well, at least. Right now, I can get it to come out, but it sounds like butt.
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Also, no matter where you are, going 31 kph over the speed limit is a fucking stupid idea. If traffic's moving quickly, you move with traffic. Otherwise, keep to the speed limit, or within 10 kph of it.
I generally would agree. However, I have been late, and ended up going 130 or so to get to class on time before. It's saved my ass. also, I actually was going about the speed of traffic in the fast lane, which is why I wasn't paying enough attention to what speed I was actually going. Also, going 110 on the 400 is being an asshole who drives slow. No joke, most of the cars go either 100, and piss everyone off, or 120, and actually know how to drive. I see the odd asshole going 130-140, and generally making an ass of themselves (tailgating, etc.), and there's the odd person doing 110ish, but the majority of drivers either do 100, or 120.
In town, I go no more than 60, absolute max. On an 80, I'll go maybe 90, 100 if I'm REALLY in a hurry, but on the 400, I usually do 120, unless there's either a need to go faster, or I'm being lazy.
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Today I found out I have a 60.58% in English. God Damn.
At least I have AP Calculus and AP Physics to balance out me being in remedial English next year.
re: cars: I'm the asshole that drives 20 miles under the speed limit. I'm way too hesitant in acceleration and I really need to work on it. In town, I go no more than 20 m/h (~32 km/h), and around 50 m/hr on the highway (~80 km/h). Also, I never turn right on red because I'm scared shitless that someone'll come out of nowhere and collide with me.
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Today I found out I have a 60.58% in English. God Damn.
At least I have AP Calculus and AP Physics to balance out me being in remedial English next year.
re: cars: I'm the asshole that drives 20 miles under the speed limit. I'm way too hesitant in acceleration and I really need to work on it. In town, I go no more than 20 m/h (~32 km/h), and around 50 m/hr on the highway (~80 km/h). Also, I never turn right on red because I'm scared shitless that someone'll come out of nowhere and collide with me.
Sucks about English. :/
I'm a bit hesitant with acceleration myself. In residential areas, I generally won't speed at all. Not on purpose, at least. Fortunately, when I accidentally speed, it's usually only by about 5mph. On the highway, it mostly depends on how comfortable I am at the time. If it's raining, or has just begun to rain, I'm more likely to go 5 under if anything. Or, if I'm on a route I'm unfamiliar with, and I know I'm going to be making an exit soon, I'll probably be going 5 under then as well. Mostly so as to give me an "Oh shit, there's my exit!" buffer.
As for going right on red, it depends completely on where I am. I've noticed that I'm more likely to go right on red if I'm relatively close to my house. If I'm in downtown Pittsburgh, no fucking way. There's something about downtown that makes people drive like complete and utter morons (as well as cross the street when/where they shouldn't), so I'll pretty much never go right on red.
Also, I really, REALLY hate this one intersection near my house. It's right by a ball field, so any time there's a game, there's cars parked all over the sides of the street, and the people seem to completely ignore the fact that one is not to park RIGHT on the intersection. It makes it damn near impossible for me to see if anyone is coming up any of the hills around it. Not without pulling out almost completely into the intersection anyway.
And the people there. Ugh. They LOVE jumping out from in between cars. So really, if one is going down my street when there's a game, one had best not go over 10mph, lest you want to play pinball with the little children.
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Re "the asshole who drives slow", re-read the part you quoted. My statement is that matching general traffic speed is more important than the speed limit (and the fast lane is not 'general'), but past that, the speed limit is the final authority. I've driven on the QEW and parts of 401, so I'm pretty sure I know what kind of traffic you're talking about, and I've still never gone past 120 kph or so.
(On that note, the drivers in Canada are worse than I've seen in the U.S. - saying they "actually know how to drive" is a slanderous statement towards people who actually do. I've got anecdotes, if you're so inclined. tl;dr zipping everywhere, applying brakes randomly, no turn signals at all)
As a general tip, driving safely is more important than anything you have to worry about being late for. If you get somewhere late, make a note to leave earlier next time. It's not worth "saving your ass" by speeding if you run the risk of getting expensive speeding tickets and, over time, your driving privileges revoked. Please keep some perspective on "arriving at class a few minutes late" versus "2000 kg of flying death at 130 kph".
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I've driven a small part of the QEW (going to Mississauga), and driven the 401 before (a couple times anyway), as well as driving the 400 all the way down there to get to those. The 401 is considered one of the worst highways in the entire world. It is actually worse than many huge highways in the US.
The 401 and QEW are entirely different beasts than the 400. Thy are EXTREMELY crowded except late at night, and in most cases during the day you can't do more than about 60 km/h on them anyway.
I've also driven down town Toronto (Dundass, Bloor, Queen, etc.) and THAT is scary driving. Compared the the occasional asshole you see in somewhere like midland or Barrie it's scary shit. I've seen cars move into the right lane without signaling (for a block that doesn't happen to have cars down the entire right line parked) step on it, and drive about 70 km/h for the block, and then slam on the brakes, and (without signaling again) cut someone off before they smack into a parked car. I've been honked at angrily for not cutting people off when I make a left. I've had someone go completely around me, cut me off, and make the left, cutting someone else off that was going down the street. Not to mention there's always construction, people run across the roads all the time with no warning, and there are the most fucked up rules about making turns I've ever seen. There are literally roads that say "No left turns between 7AM and 6PM mon-fri, no right turns except on holidays" and fucked up crap like that. I think I've pretty much seen the worst driving this country has to offer, and survived it. I take it better than my friends, too, who usually get really pissed, either at the huge traffic, or the asshole drivers.
I drive a lot differently in situations like those than I do on the 400 and in Midland and Barrie.
But I do usually keep up with the general speed. If I were to be the asshole driving slow in Toronto, I'd be WAY more likely to be hit, maybe even just to spite me, than I would if I just drive like everyone else.
My statement is that matching general traffic speed is more important than the speed limit (and the fast lane is not 'general'), but past that, the speed limit is the final authority. I've driven on the QEW and parts of 401, so I'm pretty sure I know what kind of traffic you're talking about, and I've still never gone past 120 kph or so.
As a general tip, driving safely is more important than anything you have to worry about being late for. If you get somewhere late, make a note to leave earlier next time. It's not worth "saving your ass" by speeding if you run the risk of getting expensive speeding tickets and, over time, your driving privileges revoked. Please keep some perspective on "arriving at class a few minutes late" versus "2000 kg of flying death at 130 kph".
I definitely agree with you. However, some of my teachers will absolutely NOT let you in if you are even 1 minute late (as in, they lock the doors), and if you miss that class, you may end up really far behind. And in all honesty, I think that I'm a lot safer than most other people at a comparable speed on the highway. I always give the person in front of me way more space than anyone else I see. Too many people now tailgate and ride right up someone's ass. I've been tempted to just slam on the brakes and let them rear end me, just to spite them. Any time there's a car in front of me, I've got more than enough space between me and them, no matter what speed I'm going (and the faster I go, the more space I give them). And I almost never pass on the right of someone, except if they are doing something like going 100 in the fast lane and refuse to move over.
I'm not trying to say I'm some miracle driver, but I know I don't have some of the bad habits that separate the horrible drivers (who shouldn't even have a license) from those who are acceptably bad.
tl;dr: I've driven in much worse than the 400, and can say that the 400 isn't nearly that bad. I agree that safety is important, so I'm nowhere near as bad as those assholes who are a crash waiting to happen, even if I'm not perfect.
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Oh joy. Tornado warning. Whoo!
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Jesus, hit the deck.
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fucking street fighter man. i stop playing for a few days, go back to play against chums i can hold my own against...and now im totally free.
if i don't consistently practice, it's like ill never improve. pisses me off. i would like to play and have fun, but it's hard to have fun when you get obliterated every round.
*edit*
that, combined with the horribly depressing ending of red dead redemption, GAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
FUCK WHY U SO SAD ROCKSTAR, WY U SO SAD!
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This comes somewhere between depression and anger, so I guess it fits here.
I just got into an accident today. I was parallel parked, was trying to get out, waiting for cars to either let me out, or stop coming. I thought all the cars had gone past me, and that I had an opening to pull out before the next vehicle get there. Apparently, someone was right beside me. The front driver side corner of my car hit the front passenger side of their car. Both vehicles have dents on the quarter panels in front of the door, and the driver side door of the car I was driving is dented a bit as well.
And on top of that, I get a ticket for being at fault, which comes up to another 110 that I can't afford to pay. I've got just over $400 in the bank. That's probably not even going to be enough to pay first and last for my insurance now, let alone pay for gas to get back and forth between school, AND pay the ticket.
Right now about the only thing I want to do is drink enough beer and smoke enough weed to forget this entire fucking day. Oh wait, I can't even afford to do that either.
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That's incredibly shitty.
and now I'm going to bitch about something less shitty. My friends seem to not want to even try Guilty Gear, despite only really playing SSF4. I've had one say that he thinks the controls would be too hard to do, despite the inputs in GG being simpler then SSF4 inputs. Another thinks BlazBlue and Guilty Gear are the same game, despite me telling him several times that they aren't (he can be borderline retarded some times, and I think he's getting worse).
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That's incredibly shitty.
and now I'm going to bitch about something less shitty. My friends seem to not want to even try Guilty Gear, despite only really playing SSF4. I've had one say that he thinks the controls would be too hard to do, despite the inputs in GG being simpler then SSF4 inputs. Another thinks BlazBlue and Guilty Gear are the same game, despite me telling him several times that they aren't (he can be borderline retarded some times, and I think he's getting worse).
I think sometimes people not being interested in GG is because they've never heard of it before, the way they've heard of SF... But either way, that still sucks.
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I think sometimes people not being interested in GG is because they've never heard of it before, the way they've heard of SF... But either way, that still sucks.
Yeah, more then likely. I KNOW they all got into SSF4/SF4 because of the hype and the fact that it had the SF name on it. Not that I dislike SF, but when you haven't ever really played a SF game and you go and buy the next two major installments, it's obvious what happened.
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Yeah, more then likely. I KNOW they all got into SSF4/SF4 because of the hype and the fact that it had the SF name on it. Not that I dislike SF, but when you haven't ever really played a SF game and you go and buy the next two major installments, it's obvious what happened.
To be completely honest, I've never been a SF fan. There's something about the games that just bothers me. I think one of the reasons is the whole "look at me, all I have to do is spam the hell out of move X, and your fucked unless you know the one and only counter your character has against it". Then again, I haven't really given any of the SFs a chance, so I'm not really in a position to talk about the actual mechanics. Regardless, there's something that bothers me about SF, and I can't really pinpoint what it is.
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im going to stop playing peace walker for a while, because this is bullshit.
helicopter boss.
im doing my thing, taking on all of his fucking soldiers with cqc/tranq pistol. that's going ok, im defeating them. i run out of fultons on the "last" guy, so i just c4 the guy i put to sleep (since as far as i know, you can't snap necks, you have no knife to kill people, you need a "weapon" to kill people), i didn't hear a noise of man getting killed, but he was gone.
so it's me, some 15 minutes wasted, and a helicopter. the only weapons i have is c4, tranq pistol, tranq sniper rifle. when you finish dealing with all of the guards, the commander of the vehicle should pop out for you to kill/tranq.
15 minutes later, no more soldiers, the commander is still flying around in the safety of the chopper. I CAN NOT DO ANY DAMAGE TO THE CHOPPER WITH MY SETUP, I RELY ON HIM POPPING HIS HEAD OUT SO I CAN FINISH THE MISSION, AS HARD AS IT IS TO EVEN SHOOT HIM IN THE FIRST PLACE FROM THE COCKPIT, I CAN NOT DO SO.
he will continue attacking me from the chopper, and i can't attack back. since the commander isn't popping his head out, i can't win.
do you understand how much of a slap in the face fighting a battle for over 30 minutes is, only to realize you can't win because something has glitched (the commander not popping out when the soldiers are gone)?
this fucking sucks, and i do not want to try it again. i got my moneys worth out of the game with what i have played thus far, i kind of want to stop. i mean that's 30 minutes (maby 40) of VERY CAREFULLY taking out wave after wave of guard, and half of that was being extremely careful to line a sniper shot with psp controls, on a moving chopper, to realize that MY BULLETS DO FUCKING NOTHING!
im not even letting this thing kill me, im just exiting the mission, and putting my psp away.
man, this pisses me off because bosses aside, this is one of the best metal gear games out there. the bad psp controls can get through missions just fine, but not when it comes to bosses. "but wait, there's co-op for those" yeah, do you know anybody that lives in my area with a psp, and a copy of the game that would like to play with me? no? there you go. make that shit optional, not mandatory. it's just like a metroid game. fucking awesome all the way through, you get to the end and it's the most infuriating experience you have ever had in a videogame (mother brain in the first metroid, fuck that's annoying). if the entire experience was just bad, fine, but it's not, and i want to continue enjoying it, but these parts just force me to stop playing.
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To be completely honest, I've never been a SF fan. There's something about the games that just bothers me. I think one of the reasons is the whole "look at me, all I have to do is spam the hell out of move X, and your fucked unless you know the one and only counter your character has against it". Then again, I haven't really given any of the SFs a chance, so I'm not really in a position to talk about the actual mechanics. Regardless, there's something that bothers me about SF, and I can't really pinpoint what it is.
I can see why'd you like GG a bit more then, the whole universal options and movement ability sort of take away that aspect of the game.
Also I've grinded and I've finally gotten my Barroth gear (all Barroth everything nigger). Now I just need to grind in Earth Bound until I can survive those fucking starmen and grind my hunter ranking up for online.
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>get out of work
>it's puzzle quest 2's release date
>go to walmart
>it's not there
fuck it, im getting it on xbla
>go on xbla
>don't see it
>re check release date
>ds- june 22
>xbla- june 30
ok bros, you don't want me to buy your game, you could have been blunt about it.
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Patience.
Also constant fucking thunderstorms are causing my wifi to hardly work. It's really starting to annoy me.
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i have finished farscape, as in season 1-4, as there is no more.
now due to circumstances of the last 60 seconds of the last episode, i pretty much need to watch this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farscape:_The_Peacekeeper_Wars). which i do have, i just can't invest 3 hours into watching that right now.
im just going to say, without going all crazy like i usually do. this show is fucking cruel.
*edit*
having seen the peacekeeper wars, i take that back. i understand the ending of the 4th season as they intended on doing a 5th, which did not happen. the peacekeeper wars wraps shit up in ways i am very happy with. im going to end this by calling farscape my favorite tv series.
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going to continuously bitch about my friends being fanboys. In short, they basically praised Kinect while knowing no games for it. They then said controller was superior for FPS (one bitched about mouse being shit and "too fast and accurate". His whole argument against it was just so shit, he couldn't argue a point to save his life). Then they said that say PC shooters are laggy, and went on to say that xbox live is not peer to peer.
Also one has told me over and over to buy an xbox so we could play online, I told him to get GGPO and he said he was sticking to xbox live instead. Then when he was kicked from live, I told him again to get GGPO and he just won't.
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fucking uruguay. FUCKING URUGUAY.
and lee dong gook. MISS OF THE FUCKING YEAR
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Dammit, since yesterday whenever I go to Youtube I've been getting error messages on any video that isn't featured.
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i don't get called or talked to too often, but people contact me when i am unable to respond, the SMALL TIME OF THE DAY I CANT RESPOND IS THE ONLY TIME WHEN PEOPLE THINK ITS OK TO CONTACT ME.
via phone, im downstairs for 5 minutes making something to eat.
messenger, i decide to play a fullscreen game on my pc for 30 minutes.
it's annoying. ohh, and when you do contact them back "they aren't available"
this happen to you guys?
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this happen to you guys?
I get contacted when I'm either not in the mood to chat or am a little busy.
Let's take WoW for example. It's pretty much guaranteed that if I sign on for a minute to check my auctions I'll wind up getting whispers up the wazoo from everyone on my friends list. Raiding is a bad thing for me, too, apparently. When my old guild and I were in the midst of our first Putricide kill I wound up getting about three whispers from people from my old, old guild. Multiple whispers per person, too, as if DBM's whisper response wasn't clear enough.
Then there are nights where I'll be bored and feel like running BGs or something with people and nobody will be on. It's mind boggling.
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Fucking Gigginox and the fact that I can't make this awesome weapon until I can high rank fight Qurupeco.
Gigginox is a cheap as all hell monster. He's stretchy so you can't really tell when you're within safe range, he has a poisonous projectile that lingers around were it lands, and a fucking MASSIVE body slam that creates a huge mist of poison around him that also lingers. That, and if poison hits, it will take over half your health untreated.
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i hate making these angry posts, but stuff just pushes me to doing it.
why is it some games at the VERY END OF THE GAME, think it's "fun" to COMPLETELY change the flow of the game. i don't give a fuck, please don't do that.
trine, awesome game, i would highly recommend it. pretty nice puzzle/platformer, a game where you can just take your time and get through it.
i got to the final level, tried it about 6 times, deleted the game im not playing this piece of shit again.
take a nice relaxing "go at your own pace" game. turn the final boss into HURRY CLIMB THE TOWER LAVA IS FLOWING UP, THERES INFINITELY SPAWNING ENEMIES, IF YOU DON'T PLATFORM PERFECTLY YOU WILL START FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE LEVEL, THE BOSS SPAWNS SHIT IN YOUR WAY SO IF YOU LOSE ONE CHARACTER JUST RESTART THE ENTIRE LEVEL BECAUSE GOOD LUCK DOING IT WITH ONE OR TWO OF YOUR CHARACTERS.
yeah, that's fun. i got my $4.00 worth out of the game, i don't care about not beating it, im not subjecting myself to an unfun bullshit level because the game designers are assholes.
this is just another game on my increasingly large list of "games i really liked, until the end of the game when i flat out quit"
now if you excuse me, i have to take a shower because of how dirty i feel after having played that.
and no i didn't quit because i was "dying alot", the level prior i had a blast playing and i got the "die over 25 times" achievement.
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Sprained thumb :(
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Man, like 100 pixels on my monitor decided to die in sync >:(
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Wow, that really sucks ass. At least it still works though.
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NVIDIA just lost a customer today.
Between the ridiculous problems that I've been having with the defective-by-nature nForce 7 and the egregious driver issues that I've been having for quite some time now, they're basically dead to me right now. This is exactly the reason that I moved away from ATI a decade ago and, hilariously enough, the tables have completely turned. GG, NVIDIA.
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So last night I was about to go to bed because I had an early shift at work tomorrow ( I gave up my day off today for someone else to have a day off to do stuff) and my friend tells me "You are not hanging out or we aren't friends anymore." So I responded that we aren't friends any more and I told him that I had work in the morning.
Well he has my camera and thretened to break it...god damn fucker.
So I went over pissed (because I was tired from playing DDR a with Jupi and Vyhd [which I had a very fun time :D] and I had to be at work early) and he kept saying "Why you mad bro?" and told him multiple times why. So because he didn't listen to my words I did action or should I say inaction to some extent. Ironic thing was EVERYONE else there knew I was pissed because I wanted to be at home sleeping and EVERYONE knew that I had work in the morning..
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So about an hour he bitches me out saying "We don't hang out as often anymore" yadda yadda yadda QQ shit.
Really I don't care. My other friends know if I have work and they want to do something I tell them "Hey guys rain check we will do something another time." and s'all good.
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Pet peeve: when you're explaining something to somebody who enthusiastically "confirms" every three words you speak with stuff like, "uh-huh.... okay.... uh-huh.. sure.... yeah.... uh-huh, uh-huh... okay" etc. I won't talk to someone who does that, or I will straight up tell them to stop because it's infuriating.
Oh and when people talk to other people's babies for too long. I might have mentioned that one already, but it really gets to me for some reason cause the parent is obviously like, "wtf get you're own baby"
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2 things.
First thing is that GGPO is a shit program. I know for a fact that I JUST set up my ports correctly, and when I hit login it still won't let me on. there's a ton of posts on the forum complaining about this, and it seems like no one has answered them.
Second would be Mass Effect, and how the audio files are so goddamn screwy. The background noise in this game is so loud that I can't even hear the characters talking, and the audio files for cutscenes are missing or something, because half of them don't play (jenkins gets shot, it's silent outside of the background noise and his grunt of pain).
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Well, I HAD two jobs.
I've still got one, thankfully. But the manager at the second one decided to hire his friend's kid in my place. Jerk. :-\
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That's basically how I got my job. Shit's rough out there.
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Yeah. Around here if you don't have a job by now, your fucked.
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(http://www.speedtest.net/result/880160940.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)
Wow. Nice job, AT&T.
Now, to show how truly pathetic this is, here's what I got from AT&T's cellular network:
(http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/7518/img0017o.png)
And here's the final blow. T-Mobile's 3G network is quite new in my area and here's what I got from it:
(http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/2408/snap20100715011932.png)
I could tether my fucking cell phone and not see an appreciable drop in speed. And good luck getting tech support to do anything about it (note: it's been on and off like this for over a week now and they refuse to do anything despite us ruling out all of our equipment).
I think it's about time to switch back to cable.
Edit: Wow, CyanogenMod 6 runs baaaaaaadly on my G1. Looks like I'm jumping back to Eclair. but omg now i cant use flash on my underpowered android phone oh no. At least downgrading is actually possible on this thing without jumping through hoops, unlike that piece of shit that most people refer to as an "iPhone." Protip: if you have an iPhone 3G, DON'T FUCKING INSTALL iOS 4. EVER. APPLE WILL MAKE YOU REGRET IT. Picture installing Vista on a system with 512MB and trying to use it to do serious work. That's about how slowly it runs. I'm not kidding, it's intolerably slow. I'm almost willing to risk downgrading it using, um, non-Apple-approved methods and just buying the phone from my boss if it becomes a brick. It's that awful.
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JESUS.
Safari is sucking up 25% of my Mac's CPU just by downloading a goddamn file. My Mac is certainly not a new system (hailing from 2002) but fuck that shit.
Incidentally, the file that I'm downloading is Opera 10.60. Considering how much success I've had with running that on older systems (i.e. Windows 95/98 boxes with Pentium IIs and 64MB of RAM) I think I'll be alright. I'd much rather use Chrome, but that doesn't run on Tiger, nor would I want to attempt to run Leopard on my G4 again. Once was enough. :|
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So, it looks like my Creative Zen has died. Not cool man, not cool.
I had it in class, and I was using it as a portable SD card reader, so I could store my school files on it, and use it to transfer from home and shit. I had it in class, working. A little while later, I took it out of my pocket to plug into my mom's car to listen to music, and it refused to turn on. No power at all. No splash screen then off, just nothing. I've plugged it into my computer, I've held down the power button and pressed the reset button, and still nothing.
Sure, it's lasted me a good while, but fuck, I can't afford another.
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>500kbps downstream. Gee, glad we're paying for 6mbps DSL.
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funny, my zen died months ago. something tells me that those things aren't made to last.
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I'm pretty sure most things aren't made to last. In fact, it makes more business sense for them not to. A product is created that the companies know people "can't live without" with some kind of known inherent flaw(s) so that it has a shortened lifespan. That not only saves them money on materials and/or development, but makes them more money because they're playing on the fact that they know people need (or think they need) their product, and they will more than likely get another rather than go through the trouble and expense of getting it fixed, or get the newer version of whatever it is. This is definitely something that peels my potatoes.
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Basically forced to delete and re-download mass effect now. I was messing with the audio stuff, and somehow several unrelated command lines/whatever got deleted.
also opposing force on hard is probably one of the hardest shooters I've played. I'm now stuck on this part were black ops can kill me within seconds if I'm out of cover and they spam grenades when I'm behind cover. Not to mention the spies that run around.
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>500kbps downstream. Gee, glad we're paying for 6mbps DSL.
How about 1mbps when I can't break 600kbps
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I'm on 3mbit down... Which actually looks like 2 mbits to most speed tests, and nets me about 300 kb/s when I'm REALLY lucky.
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http://www.hottopic.com/hottopic/WhatsNew/Apparel/Major-League-Gaming-Umad-TShirt-187643.jsp
http://www.hottopic.com/hottopic/Apparel/TShirts/NoveltyTees/Major-League-Gaming-Salty-TShirt-2XL-147863.jsp
yup.
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so like i had a bad hangnail on my big toe. ripped that sucker out, blood, skin, not pretty. but whatever.
now it's infected.
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
can't recall the last time i had something infected, it's like a bad blister you can't knife without an amount of pain i am too wimpy to tolerate.
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My slow ass internet, the fact that I cannot sleep, and the Reddit community as a whole.
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maby it's possible i could tolerate arizona heat, as much as i hate heat.
i say that because fuck humidity, it's not super hot, but it's hot enough, and it's stupidly humid.
that means misery, SUCKSSKSKSKSKSKSsssssssss
WINTER PLEASE GRACE ME WITH YOUR COLD TOUCH I REALLY COULD USE SOME SNOW RIGHT NOW
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i say that because fuck humidity, it's not super hot, but it's hot enough, and it's stupidly humid.
that means misery, SUCKSSKSKSKSKSKSsssssssss
Yeah, we've been having a REALLY humid summer here too. Shit's been terrible. I love summer compared to winter, but fuck, this is enough to make me miserable. It doesn't help that my room's the hottest one in the house, either.
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People who think they are exceptions to the rules piss me off. This applies to any aspect of life in which sensible rules have been enacted by some form of authority.
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PHP is the worst fucking language ever invented.
Seriously. My god, is it awful. Even as late as 5.2 it is obvious that the language wasn't designed, it was merely spawned from the depths of Hell itself. Sure, you could throw a project together in it pretty easily, but if want to hope to have a large project with any semblance of structure and rationality you pretty much have to completely reinvent the wheel with every goddamn thing you do if you want it to actually work. The best analogue I can think of is comparing it to an unstable Jenga tower. Push it the wrong way and the whole thing collapses. The only difference between the two is that with PHP you find yourself scratching your head and wondering what went wrong because the language is so damn abstract.
I just love how it handles scope. Every serious language I've used maintains scope as you move deeper into blocks. Not PHP, oh no. If you make the mistake of using functions, the function has its own scope. You need to specifically specify if you want to use a global inside of a function. That's just bloody stupid.
Oh, let's not forget how you have to cross your fingers every time you do a variable comparison. Even though it's supposed to do everything for the developer, I still can't help but worry that during one of my excursions 0 is going to be greater than 9 because it does something royally stupid like attempt to compare a character to an integer. Or, hell, a character with another character rather than an integer with an integer. I love languages that force you to cast a variable so that it works in a predictable fashion.
And I'd be remiss in my duties if I didn't bring up the aft-complained-about "feature" of PHP: the fact that it uses every form of function naming in existence. I suppose that in the effort to not offend developers they figured that combining the camelCase, words_seperated_by_underscores, and clusterfuckfunctionnames into one humongous function list would be the best solution. I'm surprised they don't throw in some good ol' Hungarian notation for shits and giggles. Consistency and sanity are for pussies! Viva PHP!
If I had the choice to use just about anything else I'd do it in a heartbeat. God.
Edit: ACTUAL ERROR OUTPUT FROM PHP:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ',', expecting T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM in /var/www/redacted/i_hate.php on line 60
WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT SUPPOSED TO MEAN? JESUS.
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Maybe it took offense to the filename?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scope_resolution_operator
lawl
Seriously, that is fucking ridiculous.
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Why don't you have the choice to not use PHP?
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When people claim to want to hang out, and even plan a specific day, but then don't follow through or even communicate with me on the day is fucking stupid.
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Why don't you have the choice to not use PHP?
Because that's one of the project requirements, and the server that the project is going on only supports PHP.
Believe me, I'd love to be able to use ASP.NET.
Maybe it took offense to the filename?
Nah, I redacted that and the path name. If anything it probably took offense to the names that I was calling it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scope_resolution_operator
lawl
Seriously, that is fucking ridiculous.
Yeah, that was one of the results that I ran into when I was trying to figure out what the hell that message meant. It kind of proves the point that the language was never actually designed.
See, I can very well understand having scope operators. It's essential when you're working with namespaces, for one. I can understand actually having scope as well, for obvious reasons.
The problem is that PHP decided to replace the tried-and-true "inherit-from-parent-function" concept with its own logically flawed model. For instance, the following PHP "code":
$b = "sucks.";
function fuckMeSilly($a) {
echo "$a $b";
}
function rogerMeSenseless() {
fuckMeSilly("PHP");
}
rogerMeSenseless();
Will produce the output: "PHP ". Forget the fact that $b is clearly a global variable, not to mention that it's in a block that's a parent of the said function.
The "proper" way to write the code is as follows:
$b = "sucks.";
function fuckMeSilly($a) {
global $b;
echo "$a $b";
}
function rogerMeSenseless() {
fuckMeSilly("PHP");
}
rogerMeSenseless();
To make matters worse, the project that I'm working on is partially implemented as a Joomla module. This is where PHP's function "design" really falls apart. The second code example that I posted still does not work in this environment, because I'm technically already working as a function of the Joomla code (and yes, PHP does, in fact, support sub-functions...it's just bizarre). The "proper" way to implement this function is to add another global tag to the top, as follows:
global $b;
$b = "sucks.";
function fuckMeSilly($a) {
global $b;
echo "$a $b";
}
function rogerMeSenseless() {
fuckMeSilly("PHP");
}
rogerMeSenseless();
And, finally, our Joomla (or Jumi, since I've been using that for some things as well) module will finally print the intended and exceedingly true message: "PHP sucks."
Wow. Really, the code above makes absolutely no sense. And yes, that is exactly what you have to do: declare the variable as global, then declare that it's a global again inside of the parent function. It just blows my mind how incompetent this behavior is. It is so incredibly awkward to use that I don't understand who thought that it was a good idea to make it like that.
To make matters worse, this is apparently how PHP classes have to access the class variables. And here I was thinking that the reason for classes was to create a big, unified object with the ability to have limited exposure to the outside code. I've never seen another language that requires so much voodoo magic just to access class variables.
Ugh. It's just painful to think about. I fucking hate it.
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The fuck is a sub-function? I don't even think Functional programming languages have sub-functions, lol.
Also, must learn haskell. That language is cool as shit, and can make some otherwise complex algorithms a piece of cake to write.
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Yes, sub-functions. While I haven't tried it myself, according to the PHP documentation, the following is valid PHP:
function stupidFunction($text) {
global $display;
$display = $text;
function stupidSubFunction() {
global $display;
echo $display;
}
stupidSubFunction();
}
stupidFunction("Hello world!");
Presumably, trying to call stupidSubFunction() from within the main code block will fail. I don't really care to try it, though. Frankly, I think the whole thing is just a really bad idea.
And yeah, I've heard that Haskell is pretty neat-o. I'll have to give it a shot one of these days when I'm feeling spunky.
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I haven't done too much reading on Haskell, but functional languages in general are pretty different beasts.
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Oh yeah, I do realize that. It's a major change from procedural programming languages and, depending on what you're doing, that could be a good or a bad thing.
Definitely something that I need to try out, though.
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For some reason it really annoys me when someone makes a really bad joke and then laughs more than anyone they're telling it to (who are only laughing to be nice in the first place).
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My useless wireless router. I need to throw this shit away and buy something that can actually send a fucking wireless signal, because this is fucking horrible. I've been downloading the same steam game for a week+ now because of how slow and shit my connection is.
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Some busta got into my email account through a mobile phone, as Bobbias can confirm. Nothing in my account settings was changed, fortunately, and I changed to a password around 10000000x more powerful than my previous one, but I was searching around with google and apparently the bustas who hijack email accounts through GMail Mobile don't even need to crack your password.
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Some busta got into my email account through a mobile phone, as Bobbias can confirm. Nothing in my account settings was changed, fortunately, and I changed to a password around 10000000x more powerful than my previous one, but I was searching around with google and apparently the bustas who hijack email accounts through GMail Mobile don't even need to crack your password.
How the hell is that supposed to work?
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Maybe there's a security hole that makes a cookie easy to obtain or something. Whatever the case, I'm not using Gmail Mobile now.
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How the hell is that supposed to work?
Some busta got into my email account through a mobile phone, as Bobbias can confirm. Nothing in my account settings was changed, fortunately, and I changed to a password around 10000000x more powerful than my previous one, but I was searching around with google and apparently the bustas who hijack email accounts through GMail Mobile don't even need to crack your password.
ahahahaha
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Maybe there's a security hole that makes a cookie easy to obtain or something. Whatever the case, I'm not using Gmail Mobile now.
Or a security issue with the mobile phone itself.
You're basically inside of a massive NAT'd network when you're connected to data. That's why changing the root password on jailbroken iPhones or rooted Android phones is essential if you use SSH. There was already a worm (http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/181697/first_iphone_worm_spreads_rick_astley_wallpaper.html) that spread due to people keeping the root password on jailbroken iPhone as the default "alpine". If you've ever seen the filesystem on an iPhone or iPod Touch, you have access to everything. Every single thing that's stored on the phone can be read. SMS messages, e-mails (for all of the security that Exchange-enabled devices typically have, I was able to read all of the cached data, practically in plaintext), my phonebook...literally, everything.
With phones nowadays being based on their own operating system, this is going to get worse before it gets betters. The services that run on your typical Linux and BSD systems are no strangers to remote exploits, and the proprietary phone software will undoubtedly have their own share of flaws (such as the recent PDF exploit in iOS). It's important to use the same disciplines for mobile phones that you do for desktop computers and then some, due to the ease of stealing a phone and the fact that you are far more open.
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losing in starcraft
makes me FURIOUS
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ahahahaha
What? I could confirm that it was mobile, and that I received a spam email, but I still don't know the details on how they could do that. My "How the hell" post was in reference to the mobile service/actual access.
The email:
http://7wevrzt33sl.nuhmytru.com
After a couple back and forth:
My account access log says:
Mobile Saudi Arabia (79.172.178.233) Aug 28 (18 hours ago)
Definitely not good. A quick googling pulled up nothing for that IP, aside from what look like DNS records, and IP block allocation records.
Some investigation by google searching lead me to a page that talked about Google's mobile email service being incredibly unsecure, to the point that hackers can get into certain email accounts with little effort. :S
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Sorry
The way Mr. Alice said it I thought he meant you knew everything about how it worked.
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Not "Mr."
And for future reference, my Google search was something like "gmail hijacked from mobile phone saudi arabia" followed by "gmail hijacked from mobile phone -china" when the first one didn't give me any information.
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* Unfortunately, Truth In Television (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TruthInTelevision): suicide pacts (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SuicidePact).
** It's unfortunately only if they already bred.
Shit like this.
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I am going to attempt to express my feelings for Just Cause 2 in a short paragraph:
The controls are bad and, worst yet, inconsistent (the function of X changes to several contradictory things -- including some things that O is specifically designated for). The gameplay is awful. The story is...well, nonexistent (why doesn't the game explain anything?). The characters are unlikeable (hey, look, there's the "protagonist" who thinks he's some sort of grade A tough guy, there's the drunken Spaniard, and there's the helpful-yet-always-late lady in a chopper).
I wish I could ask for a partial refund of my GameFly subscription because this game is That. Bad. How does shit like this make it to the market in the first place, let alone get good reviews? Seriously, Mercenaries 2 is a more fun and solid game with considerably more charm and that game was never even finished.
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spending way too much goddamn time getting this beta to work, then it does, but random textures fucking everywhere and i don't want to play it this way when i can hardly see where im going.
this picture is what i have to deal with. look playable from that image? yeah, but some textures block out the whole goddamn screen, or most of it, so you can see how annoying it could be. ohh, and they are everywhere, even in cutscenes. only place they are missing is the character creation/selection screens before you log onto the server.
(http://img842.imageshack.us/img842/1268/ffxivglitcheseses.jpg)
im not about to admit how much time i have invested in getting this far, and failing at fixing this graphic problem, but it's enough to piss someone off.
back to fear effect 2 with me. it's a nice game because i put in the disc, turn on the console, and unlike pc shit most of the goddamn time, it works.
ib4 BUT ITS A BETA ITS SPOSED TO BE BUGGY, not aware if this is a problem on my end, or the games end, but regardless of beta or not, this is annoying and if i can't get it working before the beta ends, this could very well finalize my decision to not buy the game
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As posted on my tumblr:
Why in the hell do people cling to Windows XP? Yeah, I used to like 2000 and XP back in the day, but that day was almost a bloody decade ago. I can't even stand using it part-time in a VM nowadays because of its, uh, "intricacies" (to put it politely).
It sucks. Upgrade to either Windows 7 or Mac OS X already! I'm running Windows 7 perfectly fine on a five year old laptop. If your machine can't handle it, you're due for a system upgrade.
Posted because I'm having a horrendous time with its "secure" file sharing. I'm not putting a fucking password on my iTunes VM. That would just be stupid. And I don't want to couple a password with automatic logon just to satisfy some lame kludge that "enhances security" (protip from a former network admin: it fucking doesn't; all it does is annoy administrators and people who just want their fucking anonymous shares to work).
It's a good thing I have XP Pro running in my VM, since XP Home is much more guarded about its group policies for some reason (which, again, makes no fucking sense! Group policies cannot be fully utilized because you can't join domains, so the only reason you'd want them is to disable stupid fucking handholding features...thank goodness for Microsoft getting a damned clue with Vista and keeping that -- and the graphical ACL editor -- unlocked in the home editions).
it's a nice game because i put in the disc, turn on the console, and unlike pc shit most of the goddamn time, it works.
Eh, Steam did make things a tad better.
I was particularly impressed with Mafia II for PC. I was literally able to start the game up and click play. In the case of both my system and my dad's system (my dad's system resembling my old one, only with a faster dual core CPU rather than a slower quad core), it automatically picked display options that provided an excellent mixture of performance and quality. The game both looks nice and plays smoothly. I haven't seen a game do quite as good of a job as that before; usually they wind up dramatically underestimating your computing power, even if your system is from the same era as the game.
Of course, there's no telling how it's going to handle systems that are newer than it, but from what I've seen of it, it probably has the best set of optimized settings I've seen for the computers of now.
That being said, I really hate the way developers are treating the PC, and not just in control sets. In particular, I'm kind of angsty at the way game developers treat ATI owners. Almost every fucking time I see a "Designed for nVidia" logo on a game, it seems to be broken on ATI cards in some way (with Mafia II being one notable exception). Usually the excuse is that "wahhh ATI has buggy drivers lol." Right. In that case, explain why companies that hire competent -- sometimes world-renowned programmers -- like id Software and Epic Games, don't seem to have any issue supporting everything out of the box with their engines. Say what you will about Unreal Tournament 3, but that game can play at an extremely playable framerate on my laptop, and the only thing that its video card can beat nowadays are Intel's chips (though it can play a mean game of Doom 3 and FEAR).
Also, I really, really doubt that "driver bugs" are really the issue here. Batman: Arkham Asylum is a particularly notorious example, as it locks out (or used to, at any rate) anti-aliasing on ATI cards. Needless to say, the game has a "designed for nVidia" logo, and when anti-aliasing is hacked on it works perfectly fine on ATI cards. Even if there were driver bugs, you'd think that they would work around some of the "bugs," considering ATI has roughly 50% of the market share for discreet video chipsets. You know, the thing that developers usually do when certain video card driver releases have bugs.
Don't even get me started on all of the PhysX bullshit. Between them choosing to use the slowest possible x86 instructions to do math to cripple operation on CPUs, limiting support to nVidia cards, and preventing people from using a hybrid configuration (i.e. nVidia GPU for physics processing and an ATI GPU for rendering), I don't think I really need to say anything. I could understand nVidia limiting support to, well, nVidia cards, but the other two issues are just inexcusable.
The long and short of it: nVidia makes some rockin' hardware, but the company itself is worse than Microsoft in the late 90s. Fuck 'em.
...wow, that was quite a tangent.
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People complaining about the operating systems that other people use sucks. As does Mac OS X, fuck you Apple~
Also what the fuck can somebody resize vlad's gifuckingnormous image or link it instead of uuuuuuuuuuugh
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People complaining about the operating systems that other people use sucks.
No, I'm complaining about an operating system that I'm using because I don't have a license to use anything better in my VM. The fact that I use it for nothing but syncing my iPhone and can still find things to bitch about should be indication enough that something is seriously wrong with the way it does things.
My rant was mainly directed toward the general populous because I have to support that shit and try to hack it into behaving rationally at least once a week. Supporting XP is a grating experience because Vista and 7 just handle networking that much better.
Trying to get XP to network in an anonymous workgroup environment nicely sucks ass compared to literally anything else (including "classic" Windows and pre-SP2 XP). That is a simple fact, and it's all thanks to Microsoft's placebo "security model" that they introduced in SP2.
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Also what the fuck can somebody resize vlad's gifuckingnormous image or link it instead of uuuuuuuuuuugh
looks like someone needs a bigger monitor
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looks like someone needs a bigger monitor
Lawl, my display is 1920x1200 and I still have to scroll to see it all.
At least SMF doesn't destroy the page layouts.
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At least SMF doesn't destroy the page layouts.
that's actually one of the things i like about php over smf. big image? middle click scroll, very easy. big image on smf? you have to scroll down and move the slider then scroll up to see the image, pretty annoying.
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that's actually one of the things i like about php over smf. big image? middle click scroll, very easy. big image on smf? you have to scroll down and move the slider then scroll up to see the image, pretty annoying.
Yeah, but phpBB breaks the entire page layout, affecting all posts on the page.
Also, at least in Chrome, you can middle-click inside of the post affected and the autoscroll will still work fine. I do it all the time.
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If nobody's going to make it not annoying then I will ping pong reply everything I see until we're on the next page D:
Also, I still use Windows XP on my desktops, because I'm broke and my computers are old, but at least I bothered to learn how to fix shit when it breaks, unlike most people apparently :V
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Also, I still use Windows XP on my desktops, because I'm broke and my computers are old, but at least I bothered to learn how to fix shit when it breaks, unlike most people apparently :V
What, are you taking my rants personally again? And I hope you're seriously not trying to imply that I don't learn to fix things when they break. Do you realize what I do for a living? And believe me, my XP knowledge far from lacking. I'm just sick and tired of dealing with its shit, because it is incredibly ass-backwards. Hence my rant. Honestly, I could give a shit less which operating system you use. If you use it and like it, good for you. It was a rant. It wasn't meant to be taken literally.
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I use Windows 3.1.
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Windows 3.11 with PB Entertainment Pack, thank you very much
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Macintosh System 0.97.
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I really hate people with ridiculous senses of entitlement. You cannot have expectations for something that is free. You can't "set a bar" for how good a free object can be. It's free. It has no value and you do nothing for it. If I walk into a grocery store and they give me a free tote bag just for walking in the door, I cannot turn to them and say, "How dare you try to give me such a shoddy bag! It needs to be at least THIS nice for me to take!" Unless you're just a total waste of space I guess.
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It's really annoying how few programs are designed with keyboard input in mind. I mean, yeech...it's just pitiful. Considering how bloody easy it is to do when you're writing Windows software, there's really no excuse for it.
That said, when it comes to keyboard accessibility, Windows is an absolute work of art; absolutely nothing compares to it. Anything that you would do with a mouse can be done with a keyboard and usability has only improved since the older versions. Can I get a woot? Woot.
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I just posted an issue about chrome's keyboard accessibility. Apparently in 7.0.517.0 dev and 7.0.503.0 dev (at least, if not some older releases too) the keyboard shortcuts in the context menu aren't working. Typing a T no longer opens a link in a new tab, etc. It sucks when I don't have my mouse hooked up.
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I just posted an issue about chrome's keyboard accessibility. Apparently in 7.0.517.0 dev and 7.0.503.0 dev (at least, if not some older releases too) the keyboard shortcuts in the context menu aren't working. Typing a T no longer opens a link in a new tab, etc. It sucks when I don't have my mouse hooked up.
CTRL-T works just fine over here, as do CTRL-N and CTRL-SHIFT-N (the three most common shortcuts that I use, tee hee), but that's most likely because I'm running 6.0.472.55 stable.
I'm not sure if it's just because I don't know how to do it, but Chrome doesn't feel too keyboard-friendly. The keyboard shortcuts work well (at least on version 6) but page navigation doesn't seem to be particularly intuitive. In Firefox, it's quite easy to hit slash and start typing to select a link or text near a graphical link, but Chrome's find feature just doesn't work the same way. That said, I never really looked up to see if there was anything special that you could do to make it more intuitive, so I could be Doing It Wrong(TM). I don't really care enough to find out; if I really need to browse the Web with a keyboard, I'll happily use lynx/[e]links.
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I don't mean the CTRL+ commands, I mean you open a context menu (like right clicking something) and then try to type T, to get it to open that link in a new tab. It doesn't work for me, and has been broken in the last couple builds (well, at least the ones I've mentioned). Up and down still work, as well as hitting enter when you've highlighted a menu item, but if I'm browsing someplace (say 4chan) and I want to download an image (with no mouse), I usually use my touchpad to move the curser over it, right click, and then type k then enter, and then CTRL+W (if it was in a new tab, like i have a habit of doing for downloading tons of images). Then rinse and repeat.
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Ah yeah, that's happening on my stable build as well. Looks like they didn't assign any accelerators to those keys.
Really odd and, in all honesty, kind of sloppy.
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Yeah. It used to work, too. And they still have the underlines on the keys, too.
It could have simply been something that got blasted when someone merged some code into the trunk or something. Regardless, I've opened an issue on their buglist.
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Argh, one of the solder joints connections broke on my Ransainami Pop'n controller (it's a Ransai Pop'n controller with a Konami mini Pop'n controller board stuffed inside to replace the original, which failed in a spectacular fashion) while I was fixing its microswitches (some of the buttons were rapid-firing, so I took the switches completely apart, rebowed the springs, and put it all back together again -- usually buys me a few more months before I have to do it again...it's kept me from having to buy replacement switches for it, at any rate).
Shit sucks. I hate soldering.
It could have simply been something that got blasted when someone merged some code into the trunk or something. Regardless, I've opened an issue on their buglist.
Yeah, probably. Seems like it was a new feature with the dev branch, since none of the stable versions that I've used (5 and 6, most notably the latter) have that feature.
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Well, considering that the dev tree is now at version 7, , and IIRC 6 came out not too long ago for stable, there are TONS of changes between dev and stable. I like seeing the changes they make to the dev tree.
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Woo...moving things from a LAMP test server to a WAMP production server is a pain in the ass.
Honestly, it wouldn't be so bad if Joomla extension developers had a fucking clue and realized that some operating systems use a backslash as a path separator, NOT AS AN ESCAPE CHARACTER. Ugh. At least it's over.
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Woo...moving things from a LAMP test server to a WAMP production server is a pain in the ass.
Honestly, it wouldn't be so bad if Joomla extension developers had a fucking clue and realized that some operating systems use a backslash as a path separator, NOT AS AN ESCAPE CHARACTER. Ugh. At least it's over.
That doesn't sound fun at all... Why the switch?
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The Linux box is just a test server. We host several sites that rely on ASP, so Windows is an absolute must.
Most huge PHP projects, like Joomla, phpBB, etc, will properly function on whatever you throw them on. It's the add-ons that always manage to fuck something up. In this case, the offender is Jumi, a Joomla extension that allows you to insert arbitrary code in Joomla pages (or make your own pages with relative ease).
PHP has rather good path support. You can use forward and backslashes on any operating system that you run it on in order to make it truly OS agnostic. Of course, due to how PHP handles backslashes when you're using double quoted strings, using forward slashes for everything is more definitely recommended. Good so far, eh? The fact that "C:/wwwroot/site" is perfectly valid is fantastic, and I actually have to give the PHP team credit for making that work, since it's far more readable than "C:\\wwwroot\\site".
However, Jumi royally fucks all of that up. For one, it treats backslashes as escape characters. That is a relatively minor offense, as you can work around it. However, it gets worse. It doesn't even do it right! Part of is it bad luck, since the site directory name that we use for this particular site starts with an 'n'. Jumi interprets this (names redacted, of course):
"C:\\wwwroot\\new_site"
As this:
"C:\\wwwroot\
ew_site"
HOW DO YOU EVEN FUCKING DO THAT?! Seriously, if you use PHP with double quotes, it'll parse that correctly, transforming the double backslashes to single backslashes as it should. I can't even imagine why Jumi would ignore the double backslashes yet incorrectly translate "\n" into a newline. The only reason I can see why that would happen is because it uses its own half-baked escaping system, but even that wouldn't make any sense simply because there's no reason for it to have to do such a thing! I even checked the database to make sure that MySQL wasn't mangling the string. It wasn't, of course, because that's not a database's job. The issue was definitely with Jumi, as Joomla happily accepts paths both ways, and even ensures that strings with single backslashes are parsed properly.
To make matters even more headdeskish, attempting to put in the path with forward slashes, such as "C:/wwwroot/new_site" failed miserably, instantly throwing an HTTP 500 when I would go anywhere on the site, even to a non-Jumi page.
It's really, really fucked up, yet we're so reliant on Jumi that I simply had to Make It Work(TM). What I wound up having to do was leave the Jumi root blank (which causes Jumi to correctly pick up Joomla's root directory without fail, displaying it with backslashes just to add insult to injury) and use relative paths for every single one of the Jumi pages. Fortunately, I coded a "$jumi_prefix" variable into the config file for the site. If I hadn't done that and depended on Jumi to set its root path properly, things would have been much worse.
Oh well, at least I don't have to add another bad mark against PHP because of all of this.
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Wow... Is there any chance that complaining to whoever handles Jumi would get any sort of results? That's beyond bad coding, as far as I'm concerned that falls into the "bugs that actually NEED to be fixed" category of coding fuck ups.
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I very much doubt it. Jumi hasn't been updated in about nine months. :/
Honestly, it works very well aside from that. It's just blatantly obvious that it was developed under Linux and that absolutely no consideration was given for other platforms.
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Wow, Google. Was it really necessary to make Android 2.1/2.2 automatically download your old apps from the Market without fucking asking?
Granted, I'm not technically supposed to be running Android on my G1, but that stupid "feature" is dragging my phone down so badly that I don't think any phone would be able to handle the onslaught of downloading every single downloaded app simultaneously (I wish I were joking). I also pity people who have very limited data plans.
Once again, it's made even more "awesome" by the fact that you can't opt out of that "feature." If your phone isn't one of the top of the line ones, you literally have no way of even canceling the downloads because the number of simultaneous downloads and installs effectively gridlock your phone. What a pile of garbage. What's worse is that it's literally restoring all of my apps, regardless of whether I want them or not. I don't use Advanced Task Manager because it doesn't work well with CyanogenMod. I haven't used PicSay since Android 1.6 or so because Photoshop Express is way better. Why the FUCK did you force me to download and install them?
And to think that Android fagtards whine about iOS not giving users any choice. It's funny how they seem to think that their phones automatically installing applications without prompting is acceptable behavior. Android has certainly improved over time, but this behavior is completely unacceptable.
Edit: 30 simultaneous application downloads and installs. Seriously, that's just stupid. If one of Apple's devices did that sort of anti-user behavior, every time I reset my iPhone it would automatically start downloading 80-100 apps over 3G. Good thing Apple isn't completely fucking stupid.
Also, I literally had to open up a dev shell on my phone to kill the market process in order to make my phone usable at all. Sadly, the only reason I did that was to enable wi-fi so that it wouldn't have to pull all of that over 3G. What a load of shit.
What's worse is that I was desperately trying to get this fucking thing set up and configured by midnight. At the rate it's going, it's going to be downloading shitty application that I don't want all night. God, this is annoying.
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Well damn, that is pretty terrible. I'm all for android forcing apple to realize it actually has competition (and giving people a choice about their smartphones...) but regardless, that is retarded.
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Android is pushing Apple pretty hard. After the G1 was released, Apple literally put every feature that it had that the iPhone didn't into the 3GS (compass, auto-focusing 3 megapixel camera, video recording, additional RAM, and a faster ARM processor, off the top of my head). As far as major operating system features go, they're about equal. Each OS is better at certain things, of course -- Apple's mail client is much better, Android's Maps application is better, etc -- but there's not as much disparity as there used to be.
But yeah, that feature was a major turn-off. Regardless of whether or not a phone's CPU is enough to handle the stress, downloading upwards of 30 programs simultaneously over a cellular connection is just stupid. Ugh.
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This has bothered me for a while, but it's nothing really relevant to me.
I always hated how people assumed sword fighting was somehow more noble and more skilled then our current form of warfare. Sword fighting has basically always been brutal and uncivil. Knights wore armor and rode on horses just stabbing people who didn't have the money for either, and they didn't stop doing that until long bows came into play. The only time people try and fight civil is when they have the massive advantage.
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I don't consider any form of killing each other to be "noble" in any sense, personally. Warfare is a joke no matter how you do it.
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From my Tumblr:
I think I had a glimpse of Hell earlier today. I was behind a school bus that proceeded to literally stop four times in a tenth of a mile before (thankfully) turning off of that street.
Funny, I thought school buses existed as a convenience for students whose parents cannot give them a ride to school but live too "far" away to walk. I didn't realize it was a fucking chauffeur service. And it's not the driver was doing that for safety reasons; no, these were high school students that were being dropped off.
Here's an idea: pick one section of each block, perhaps between the houses on the route. At this point, turn on the flashers, stop the bus, and let them walk twenty feet to their house. Across the street, same side, doesn't matter, traffic in both lanes is at a standstill anyway. That sure beats the rage and frustration that's going to build in the driver behind you because you stopped four fucking times in a tiny fraction of a mile.
What next, are they going to pull into their driveways so that school kids don't have to make such an arduous journey to their front door?
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Man, you'd have hated my bus driver in the 7th grade. He insisted on dropping me off right at my driveway. It isn't so bad if you're not coming from the west (the shopping centre near my house.) But that year, I was the first stop. So we WERE coming from the west. You'd think he'd just turn left, and y'know - pull OUT of the intersection. But no, this guy insisted upon stopping halfway in the intersection.
Tis better than the time he wanted to go up my driveway though, 'cause he thought it was an actual street.
THAT was funny.
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Man, you'd have hated my bus driver in the 7th grade. He insisted on dropping me off right at my driveway. It isn't so bad if you're not coming from the west (the shopping centre near my house.) But that year, I was the first stop. So we WERE coming from the west. You'd think he'd just turn left, and y'know - pull OUT of the intersection. But no, this guy insisted upon stopping halfway in the intersection.
RAGE.
Tis better than the time he wanted to go up my driveway though, 'cause he thought it was an actual street.
THAT was funny.
O.o
Dare I ask how that went?
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I've come to the sad realization that there will PROBABLY never be a new Darkstalkers/vampire savior game due to the fact that they don't want to add venom into MvC3 because making all his crazy moves 3D animated would be too hard.
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O.o
Dare I ask how that went?
"Man, this stupid town doesn't do jack to maintain the roads anymore!"
"Sir, this is my driveway you're trying to climb. You probably shouldn't do that."
"Really?"
"Really."
*opens door* "Get off the bus."
*Ooooooookay."
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I wanted to set up a study meeting for a math class I'm going to take next semester, I get there and after a short conversation with the lady at the front desk realizes I'm not in the class that current semester, and I loosely mentioned that I want to take the placement test prior to see if I can't get placed in a higher math class, and she constantly states that I can't get a tutor for the placement test and I can't get one for my class because I don't have it that semester, despite my counselor telling me that I should study up for it prior to starting next semester. She literally talked to me and told me like 10 fucking times that I could get a tutor for the placement test despite me explaining I wanted it for my class next semester.
So basically I wanted to get a tutor, and all I got was a way too long lecture from someone telling me I can't do what I already have been doing and have been instructed to do.
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It seems like every time I turn on my Xbox 360 I slowly start to become more of a PS3 fanboy.
This time, the Li-Ion battery pack I had (note: had) for my 360 controller completely died after four months of use. Four bloody months.
Looks like it's back to AAs, which is probably for the best. Considering how long those last (20-30 hours, IIRC) two sets will probably last me longer than the cheap Li-Ion pack did.
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Salad bars are like a huge sign that reads "HEY! PEOPLE PUT LOTS OF WORK INTO THIS! MESS IT ALL UP! It's cool! Mix the cheeses, dump fruit in the lettuce, and hell! Even throw a pair of socks in there too! It's all good!"
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Since my laptop has a broken hinge and won't travel, I borrowed my roommate's Toshiba tablet since using it last year for linear algebra was one of the most enjoyable tech experiences of my life. Unfortunately, I forgot how he treats all his belongings, which is to say, like shit. Now, this keyboard has no Enter key and about a third of the keys don't work at all. It's so bad that it's easier to write into the handwriting recognition and correct parts than to type partly on the keyboard and partly onscreen. (This was entirely written out.)
Also, Glenn Beck and my dad's fascination with him. Fuck that noise merchant.
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That's sad to hear, I'm glad my family is fairly apathetic when it comes to political dickery.
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I think Glenn Beck is hilarious. He thinks he's so goddamn important, but he's not doing anything historically or politically significant. He's just an ass.
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I so dearly want to punch Glenn Beck in the dick it's not even funny. :(
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I'd say Annon has the right idea, he's just a moron chanting to a fairly vocal and racist minority.
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I don't think you realize the magnitude of the situation at hand. Glenn Beck is nothing short of a monster; a wretched human being summoned to the earth by Lucifer himself in order to lead the American people en masse to slaughter. He is racist because he doesn't say or do anything racist and I hate him. He is racist.
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Problem, Glenn Beck fan?
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It's really slow in here
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It's really slow in here
starting to get dangerously meta
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Wow, that is one shitty day.
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What he said, that's real shitty.
Also TF2 is running at a horrible frame rate, and I'm unsure why. BFBC2 runs fine (at least I'm assuming, no noticeable frame rate issues while I play and I'm unsure how to get it to display frame rates. still, it's noticeable in TF2).
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I fucking hate Hell espically fucking hell forge. I died about 4 times and had next to no money...I got through it by using throwing weapons that droped and very shitty armor. Man fucking hell minons are just insane.
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Why can't HP just include a CD with nothing more than drivers for their printers? I don't need any of your shitty software, I just need a printer that prints what I tell it to.
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Yeah. That's what I like about my Brother laser printer -- no bloated drivers. Just a small driver package that will happily fit on a single 1.44MB floppy.
HP's only real saving grace is that their software isn't as bad as its competitors'. Lexmark is particularly bad in that it installs a system service that the Windows print spooler is dependent on. If your Lexmark drivers are having problems (which is alarmingly often) you are literally unable to print to anything. Yeah, it's awesome.
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For a dual-monitor setup, is there any way to make my computer not minimize a full-screen game on the primary monitor if I click on the secondary monitor?
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Punkbuster. How the fuck do I deal with this? I keep getting kicked by Punkbuster, and I downloaded the updater, installed it, and ran it and I'm still getting kicked. Oh, and it saved to my desktop and I cannot delete it despite moving it to my documents. Fuck.
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The election results. What the FUCK. This country is filled to the brim with retarded people that shouldn't be allowed to vote.
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What's wrong with the election results? So far everyone I wanted to win has won.
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My vidya card has fried >:(
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What's wrong with the election results? So far everyone I wanted to win has won.
http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/breaking/106693488.html
guhehe
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Oh, I thought you were a Republican.
Also, related to the thread, people in general are morons. "BAWW THIS POLITICAL PARTY MADE THINGS BAD, VOTE FOR THE OTHER. BAWW THINGS ARE STILL BAD VOTE FOR THE OLD PARTY."
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Oh, I thought you were a Republican.
I strongly dislike both "main" parties, but I cheer for the Dems more easily as I am not Christian. And then...
"BAWW THIS POLITICAL PARTY MADE THINGS BAD, VOTE FOR THE OTHER. BAWW THINGS ARE STILL BAD VOTE FOR THE OLD PARTY."
...this is why I dislike politics as a whole, not just the two-party system.
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I agree on both parts. Really hate the whole two party system.
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Indeed. I also hate the attitudes from most of the people who vote. People play the "IF YOU DON'T FEEL LIKE ME, YOU'RE A MORON" far too much.
That said, it's always amusing watching trade chat in WoW when it gets close to election time. 14-year-old are hilarious.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11766494
What the everloving fuck are they thinking?
Also, this has to be the first time a 44 year old man has actually been encouraged to pretend to be a 16 year old girl... Does that disturb you guys as much as it does me?
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Does that disturb you guys as much as it does me?
You're looking way too much into it. I do wish she was a lezzie, though, because then I'd actually read it. So no, it doesn't disturb me.
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I was joking, and referring to the 44 year old getting to pose as her on twitter... That is just plain weird.
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NIGGERS
don't get me wrong. i love black people. but niggers piss me the fuck off.
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Clarification.
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more like:
Also, that album kicks ass.
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Why is it that whenever anyone mentions "centrifugal force", there's always some smartass who feels the need to chime in with "you know, centrifugal force isn't a real force"? Hey asshole, do you know what a non-inertial reference frame is? Do you even know what "fictitious force" means in the context of mechanics? No? Then shut up. We get it, you took a science class in middle school. You don't sound smart when you correct someone with information that they already know. You sound like a prick. Fuck off. Normally something like this wouldn't bother me, but I see it fucking everywhere and every time I see it I lose a little patience.
One consequence of the internet is that anyone is capable of becoming an expert in anything, given the time. Another consequence is that a large number of people already think they are.
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A lot of things have just been bothering me today. People making vast assumptions, I've been fairly busy (working on two papers and studying for a test) and my Dad still assumes I do nothing all day because he's a moron.
Also a majority of the people in Bad Company 2 are morons. I got spawn camped on a 3 point map for about half the game (it was a short game considering how fast we were dying and we had no points) and the enemy team just said "LOL U GUIES BAD" and "QQ MORE". Then when that game ended and the next started (they kept spawn camping) and admin messaged me not to use racial slurs. So I get yelled at for using bad words in a game were the soldiers curse constantly while the enemy team was making it impossible to counter them.
I really don't see how Dice managed such an oversight when they made the maps. I could have easily been avoided by making it impossible for people to walk into the opposing teams spawn and for there to be more then one exit from spawn.
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I really, really am not shooting for pity in this post, I actually feel this way:
I honestly don't think I will ever really be good at or excel at anything.
I'm just half-ass okay with most stuff.
I WANT TO BE GOOD AT SOMETHING (that matters)
so yeah that's kinda been pissing me off
also wanting to move from our piece of shit apartment with the worst management ever but it's hard when the people you live with don't seem to give a shit when cockroaches start to take over your kitchen and it's a crapshoot if you have hot water, not to mention the sewer backs up when you're on vacation and the management couldn't give a shit less and/or won't help the cleanup
also, women. but that's not new. lol
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I honestly don't think I will ever really be good at or excel at anything.
I'm just half-ass okay with most stuff.
I WANT TO BE GOOD AT SOMETHING (that matters)
so yeah that's kinda been pissing me off
I feel like that a lot too... But I say fuck it, at least I can try.
also wanting to move from our piece of shit apartment with the worst management ever but it's hard when the people you live with don't seem to give a shit when cockroaches start to take over your kitchen and it's a crapshoot if you have hot water, not to mention the sewer backs up when you're on vacation and the management couldn't give a shit less and/or won't help the cleanup
That's horrible. I don't get how anyone could not care about cockroaches in the kitchen :S And the hot water thing sucks ass too, I'd go nuts if I wanted hot water and didn't get any.
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WHAT THE FUCK IS THE USEFULNESS OF COMPLETELY SILENT MODE FOR PHONES
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Maybe you don't own a watch, but you also don't want notice that you've received a call/text?
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Being polite in a quiet area without having to actually turn your phone off?
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yeah, I use silent mode all the time.
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I keep mine on vibrate all the time. I hate my ringtone (all the defaults suck), and i cant add others (no net, not even for ringtones, and cant hack them in on this kind, thanks to built in security in the OS).
Also, was cutting ice with a butter knife (dont ask) and cut the palm of my hand open :x fucker hurts like a bastard.
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Flaffl's post just now is like, the first time I've ever looked for a "Vote Down" button on this website ever
Bobbias: Ouch! I cut the tip of my finger open with a paring knife a few months ago while trying to open a bag of rice and I couldn't find the scissors. xP
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Say you hate niggers, no one really cares. Say you hate cellphones on silent, everyone wants you dead.
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Flaffl's post just now is like, the first time I've ever looked for a "Vote Down" button on this website ever
Bobbias: Ouch! I cut the tip of my finger open with a paring knife a few months ago while trying to open a bag of rice and I couldn't find the scissors. xP
Yeah, paring knives can be quite dangerous, lol. But man, a fucking blunt-ass butter knife :/
I basically just put some ice on it for a bit to numb it and stop it from bleeding, then just held it on my knee with pressure till it stopped bleeding. But it hurt like a bitch when it first happened :/ I think thats actully the first time I've cut myself on a butter knife.
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Say you hate niggers, no one really cares. Say you hate cellphones on silent, everyone wants you dead.
You're goddamn right.
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Yeah, paring knives can be quite dangerous, lol. But man, a fucking blunt-ass butter knife :/
I basically just put some ice on it for a bit to numb it and stop it from bleeding, then just held it on my knee with pressure till it stopped bleeding. But it hurt like a bitch when it first happened :/ I think thats actully the first time I've cut myself on a butter knife.
I think that's the first time I've heard of somebody cutting themselves on a butter knife :X
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This.
Also Best Korea makes me angry.
west korea is best korea
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I think you meant to spell that as Corea.
Also I hate people that doubt you over trivial bullshit. My friend was talking about the anti-matter, and he said we were only able to trap it for a few seconds, to which I replied that it was actually for a while, and then explained the process. He just disagreed, and asked me where I read the article.
I guess I just hate it when people swear they're right, when they have no real proof and are just working off of an assumptions.
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Yeah, we've been able to trap antimatter for short periods of time for a good while now, but not for any sort of extended time till recently.
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I guess I just hate it when people swear they're right, when they have no real proof and are just working off of an assumptions.
This. So hard. Especially when they're clearly wrong but won't budge. Last week I went out drinking with my roommate and some of his friends from his high school. One of them said he had a mild cold, but he figured drinking would help because "alcohol kills things." I said, "Well, yeah, but you can't really kill a virus because viruses aren't really alive in the first place." He said, "Sure they are." I explained how viruses work. What followed was a long argument about the definition of biological life that concluded with me realizing that he didn't know the difference between viruses and infectious bacteria. And he was so damn sure he was right, too.
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So yeah, the Western World
it pisses me off
a lot
Looking forward to the Asian Century
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but I don't like eating dogs.
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Keep your sweatshops out of 'murica
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Ahh, sharp pains in my right shoulder joint. I can tell that winter is finally here!
Maybe if the family doctor I had 14 years ago knew what strep throat looked like, I wouldn't be having arthritis pain (which seems to be getting worse every year...turning 40 is going to suck, I think) right now. Not that I'm bitter or anything.
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strep throat
arthritis
what
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Untreated strep throat can lead to rheumatic fever (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rheumatic_fever), which manifests itself in quite a few different ways. It seems as though I was lucky enough to avoid the whole heart failure and possibility of death thing, only developing a leaky aortic valve which, according to my cardiologist, healed.
I don't know if the winter pains can still be called arthritis, but they've been happening every year since that happened without fail.
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Untreated strep throat can lead to rheumatic fever (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rheumatic_fever), which manifests itself in quite a few different ways. It seems as though I was lucky enough to avoid the whole heart failure and possibility of death thing, only developing a leaky aortic valve which, according to my cardiologist, healed.
I don't know if the winter pains can still be called arthritis, but they've been happening every year since that happened without fail.
Wow, that sucks ass. I'm lucky enough that my joint pains seem to be somewhat random, but I definitely sympathize with you about turning 40, lol.
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Lawl, yeah, it's probably not going to be fun.
It feels a lot better today, but, then again, it wasn't as chilly today. It usually happens on seasonal changes and when it gets below freezing. Aspirin usually helps, though I've generally found that it's better in the long run to just deal with pain than to try and minimize it. I hate taking OTC medication unless I absolutely need to.
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Meh, good to know that the AI in Gran Turismo 5 is still as fucking terrible as it always was. I love having to restart races because I get pushed off of the course.
What's worse is that GT5 introduces some events (I think GT4 had them as well, just not as many of them) where you can get disqualified for coming into contact with the AI drivers. I say "coming into contact with" because they can slam into you and you'll be the one that gets fucked. It's infuriating.
The worst part is that the only way to get enough money to buy some of the cars that you need to get through the beginning races is to do some of those awful special events. Ugh. Just let me fucking race and quit with the esoteric bullshit, already!
Let's not even get into the abortion that is the painting system. You have to literally buy cars of a particular color, get a "paint item" from them, and use those "paint items" to color your other cars. What the shit? That would be like if buying a red card earned you a license to buy red paint. If you wanted to paint another car red, you'd have to trade in the license for the paint. It doesn't make any sense and is stupid as hell.
I think I'm just going to stick with a wait and see attitude on GT from now on. As far as I'm concerned Forza Motorsport is still a must-buy game, though. With each release of Forza it's taken strides to cut the bullshit and just let the player race, rewarding players for willingly increasing the difficulty. I can deal with the license exams in Gran Turismo (I don't think they should be required, but I like that they're there), but most of the other random bullshit -- like a horrendously slow and painful race with 12 Volkswagen Buses (I'm not shitting you) -- just needs to die.
Oh, almost forgot. GT5 ripped off the driver leveling system of Forza and made it shitty. Instead of unlocking races, it unlocks the privilege of buying certain cars. It's like the arbitrary car unlock system in Forza 1 and 2, only worse because it will quite literally throw cars in your face that you cannot get. I don't remember which car I was vying for, but on my first trip into the used car dealership at the start of the game I saw a car that I really wanted to start out with. I was even able to afford it. Oops, too bad, I needed to be driver level 2 and I was driver level 0. What's worse is that I had to buy a car to even get into the license exams, so I couldn't just go in, take a few exams, hit level 2, and hope that the car was still listed. Nope, I got fucked out of it.
Don't even get me started on the load times. For a game that installs 6.5GB to the hard drive, the load times are as slow as Forza 3, which loads off of the disc for the most part. Ugh.
I really want to like it but it clearly hates me.
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I hate how seeing women as sexually attractive makes me a sexist pig. I could easily see how trying to start a relationship with a girl for the soul purpose of just wanting sex makes you an asshole, but wanting to have sex with a female because you find her attractive doesn't make you a scumbag, it makes you straight.
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I agree.
Related: I hate when I mention someone as attractive (actress, model, whatever) and people look at me weird. Yeah, I've got my own taste, and it happens to be slightly different than what 95% of people seem to agree on. I rarely voice my opinion because I generally go for what people simply consider "cute", rather than what people will say is hot (I've actually had someone say that someone I said was attractive was cute, rather than hot). To me "hot" is people trying too hard, people that are only considered hot because they conform to the industry standard :/.
tl;dr people are stupid when they somehow think that you can categorize the entirety of human attraction into a single definition.
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Meh, good to know that the AI in Gran Turismo 5 is still as fucking terrible as it always was. I love having to restart races because I get pushed off of the course.
What's worse is that GT5 introduces some events (I think GT4 had them as well, just not as many of them) where you can get disqualified for coming into contact with the AI drivers. I say "coming into contact with" because they can slam into you and you'll be the one that gets fucked. It's infuriating.
The worst part is that the only way to get enough money to buy some of the cars that you need to get through the beginning races is to do some of those awful special events. Ugh. Just let me fucking race and quit with the esoteric bullshit, already!
Let's not even get into the abortion that is the painting system. You have to literally buy cars of a particular color, get a "paint item" from them, and use those "paint items" to color your other cars. What the shit? That would be like if buying a red card earned you a license to buy red paint. If you wanted to paint another car red, you'd have to trade in the license for the paint. It doesn't make any sense and is stupid as hell.
I think I'm just going to stick with a wait and see attitude on GT from now on. As far as I'm concerned Forza Motorsport is still a must-buy game, though. With each release of Forza it's taken strides to cut the bullshit and just let the player race, rewarding players for willingly increasing the difficulty. I can deal with the license exams in Gran Turismo (I don't think they should be required, but I like that they're there), but most of the other random bullshit -- like a horrendously slow and painful race with 12 Volkswagen Buses (I'm not shitting you) -- just needs to die.
Oh, almost forgot. GT5 ripped off the driver leveling system of Forza and made it shitty. Instead of unlocking races, it unlocks the privilege of buying certain cars. It's like the arbitrary car unlock system in Forza 1 and 2, only worse because it will quite literally throw cars in your face that you cannot get. I don't remember which car I was vying for, but on my first trip into the used car dealership at the start of the game I saw a car that I really wanted to start out with. I was even able to afford it. Oops, too bad, I needed to be driver level 2 and I was driver level 0. What's worse is that I had to buy a car to even get into the license exams, so I couldn't just go in, take a few exams, hit level 2, and hope that the car was still listed. Nope, I got fucked out of it.
Don't even get me started on the load times. For a game that installs 6.5GB to the hard drive, the load times are as slow as Forza 3, which loads off of the disc for the most part. Ugh.
I really want to like it but it clearly hates me.
1. The AI is there to be an obstacle. It's a driving simulator, not a racing simulator. The entire point of the game is to see if you can overcome the challenge of correctly passing people who hold to correct driving lines for the most part. Complaining that you can't pass them without running into them means you're bad. Get better at it.
2. The events where you can be disqualified for hitting them is the same. If they run into you, you don't get DQ'd. This is guaranteed as I've spun out and been T-boned by one of them and gotten no DQ. You have to be the one to hit them and it has to be enough to do damage to them. This is just like in real racing where doing so gets you DQ'd and kicked off the track.
Also Forza is a terrible game and always has been.
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I agree. I agree massively (to bobbies). I cannot stand the whole tan/fake tan with blond hair look. Who thinks that looks good? Also basically ALL fake breasts look bad. I really don't see an appeal in large tits to begin with. That and I've never found pale to be gross, and can actually make the right girl look A LOT better.
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I can agree what what you added as well. My girlfriend happens to have some rather large breasts, and I certainly do love them, but I don't love them because they're large, I love them because they're hers. And Pale skin + good complexion can be quite good on the eyes...
Also eggman, I' pretty sure that it would be considered a racing simulator, since the whole point of the game is to WIN RACES.
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1. The AI is there to be an obstacle. It's a driving simulator, not a racing simulator. The entire point of the game is to see if you can overcome the challenge of correctly passing people who hold to correct driving lines for the most part. Complaining that you can't pass them without running into them means you're bad. Get better at it.
That would hold up if they didn't ram the rear end of my vehicle and send me careening into the walls when I drive parallel to them.
Also, saying that it's a "driving simulator" rather than a "racing simulator" is probably the worst, most fanboyish excuse I've ever read. From the back of the DVD case:
- Customize, race, and upgrade over 1,000 detailed cars, including NASCAR, rally, kart, and drift.
- Race on 20+ tracks with 70+ layouts, or create your own with Course Maker.
- Race online or socialize with frients in the new custom race olounge for the ultimate track day.
- A revolution in racing
- Gran Turismo returns with the most realistic and complete racing experience.
I don't argue that it's not a "driving simulator," as experiencing the cars is a major part of the game. But, as all of the marketing material and gameplay clearly shows, the meat of the game is racing.
And what's with the hostility? If I want people to take unwarranted jabs at me I'll start posting my rants in trade chat on select WoW servers. If your only purpose for being here now is to insult me over my rants, of all things, then I suggest you take your attitude elsewhere because it's not welcome here.
2. The events where you can be disqualified for hitting them is the same. If they run into you, you don't get DQ'd. This is guaranteed as I've spun out and been T-boned by one of them and gotten no DQ. You have to be the one to hit them and it has to be enough to do damage to them. This is just like in real racing where doing so gets you DQ'd and kicked off the track.
It depends on how they hit you. If they hit you in such a way that it causes your front end to hit a car, then yes, you do get DQ'd through no fault of your own.
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My girlfriend happens to have some rather large breasts
pix plz
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gt5 rant
This really saddens me to hear all that shit. I LOVED all the previous GT's and was waiting on the edge of my chair this whole time for 5 to come out so i could buy a ps3. Alas, the things I've heard already make it very unappealing to me. It seems they were right when it comes to odd numbered sequels, there is just something about them that is unlucky. (I heard this from a GT team member interviewed on GT5, back when GT4 was the shit)
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pix plz
This.
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This really saddens me to hear all that shit. I LOVED all the previous GT's and was waiting on the edge of my chair this whole time for 5 to come out so i could buy a ps3. Alas, the things I've heard already make it very unappealing to me.
It's still a great game. I pretty much just touched on some of the bad parts. Despite some things about it being annoying I've still had a lot of fun with it.
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Nothing worth buying a ps3 just for that, I was a hard fanboy of all the previous ones.. Guess I'm just a 360 guy now lol. none of my friends game online with a ps3. And the ones that do, don't do it as much as the ones that have XBL. hm.
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Yeah, if you don't already have the PS3 I wouldn't rush out to get one just for it.
If you haven't already, give the Forza series a shot. Most of the world disagrees with Eggman in regards to its quality.
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pix plz
nvm
I feel so lied to (http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/7106/99458502.jpg)
Unless they're much bigger than they look, in which case I apologize
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They're like, a 36 or 38 D, IIRC. They certainly aren't massive, but they are nowhere near small. Also, good job facebook creeping :P Also, that shirt really covers her a lot. I can't post any of the other pictures of her, because the ones that show enough would get me killed for posting on here (there's a reason she's not tagged in them).
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Missing packages make me a sad Jupi.
I had a present for a friend delivered to my house, since we're giving them out at a little shindig later in the month. UPS states that it was delivered yesterday, but there's no sign of it. If it actually was delivered, I doubt someone took it, 'cause my driveway isn't exactly something you schlep up and down just for a kick.
I'm gonna go around and ask some of the neighbours if they got it, as everyone but the mail carrier seems to confuse my house (340) for the one next door (314.)
This makes me real confident about the other package I should be receiving soon. Same service too. hahah.
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Also, good job facebook creeping :P
dass how I do
and while 38D is certainly larger than average, it barely perks my breast fetish.
the ones that show enough would get me killed for posting on here
pix plz
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I was waiting at a green light because there was traffic just on the other side, and you're not supposed to block traffic. So I sit there for a decent while, and this oldy lady behind me tosses her hands up, and when room finally opens up, her and the guy behind her use the turning lane to pass me and pull up. Goddamn old cunt.
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pix plz
I'm not suicidal. And, they are not on my or her FB.
Also, I never said they were huge. I don't have a fetish for large breasts (actually, her breasts are just on the edge of being slightly too large, considering she's only 5'2". Her breasts ARE larger than any of her friends' (that I know of))
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I'm not suicidal. And, they are not on my or her FB.
Q_Q
I don't have a fetish for large breasts
BUT I DO
brb looking for secret sex tape
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brb looking for secret sex tape
Good luck, lol. Also, they were a lot smaller when I met her, lawl. Which reminds me, I can't believe it's been over 6 years.
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Which reminds me, I can't believe it's been over 6 years.
Damn, nice. :D
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Yeah, neither of us can see it ending any time soon, either. Though this should be in the happy thread, not this one.
Keeping in with the original topic of this thread: Her grandmother passed away last monday :< It was very sudden, and I never got to see her before she died (I knew her fairly well, because usually every year we'd go up to her trailer at least once, and hang out). She was the first person in my girlfriend's family that really treated me like family...
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Wow, sorry to hear that. :'(
For what it's worth, at least it doesn't sound like she suffered much. My grandmother died slowly from ovarian cancer about six years ago; that was really hard to watch.
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Well, she was diagnosed with Addison's disease (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addison's_disease) a while ago (maybe a year ago or something like that), and she had gotten sick once or twice after that (enough to stay in the hospital a couple days) and suddenly she got sick again, and we got the call that the doctors gave her 48 hours to live. I went and picked Melissa up and brought her back to midland, waited a day, and then on monday, I told Melissa that if they were going to see her, I wanted to go with them, and about an hour later, Melissa messaged me on msn and said she'd died. Right around the time I messaged her, too.
She wasn't all that old though, she was only about 62 or 63, though she looked somewhat older.
It felt like it was incredibly sudden, but at the same time, I wasn't all that surprised. I'm not as depressed as I thought I would be, but it's still hard when I remember that I'll never get to see her again. I had so much fun hanging out at her trailer with Melissa, drinking and stuff. (yes, we drank with my girlfriend's grandmother)... She used to be a trucker before, and would match you dirty joke for dirty joke.
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Addison's Disease definitely doesn't look like it'd be pleasant to deal with, particularly in the later stages. Kinda scary how an much an imbalance like that could affect your body.
It felt like it was incredibly sudden, but at the same time, I wasn't all that surprised. I'm not as depressed as I thought I would be, but it's still hard when I remember that I'll never get to see her again.
Yeah, that's always the hardest part. It gets easier to handle as time goes on, but man...it really sucks for a while.
When my grandma died, the toughest thing was seeing how it affected my dad (she was my grandmother on his side). I think that's the only time I've ever seen him cry. It's really weird looking back on it.
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:/
Yeah, it was weird to see my dad cry, though what really made me sad is seeing my Nan before she died. She deteriorated pretty quickly, she was normal 10 days before and looking like she was gonna come home and then she just kind of go sick really quickly, by the end when I saw her she couldn't speak or see or move.
All I can imagine now is that Christmas is going to be very weird.
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I tripped on a snow drift walking to a friend's today and landed on my left knee, it is purple and swollen, even worse my other knee is messed up from a skiing injury. Now both of them will suck forever.
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NO MORE CANADA?!
Traitors.
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Found out my family is moving to San Jose in March.
:< no s.net canada meetup?
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I thought Dan would stay in Canada since he be an adult now, yo
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My friend is doing this currently, but he has a decent reason to, yet I'm going to bitch about it regardless. I hate when people post constant facebook messages about a minor inconvenience they had. I just read like 3 or 4 different updates about how cops were useless and wasting their time because they gave someone a parking ticket. Why are you shocked you got ticketed when you're breaking the law?
In fact, I hate people who live in well policed areas, run into minor trouble with the cops, and then go "man fuck the cops". It's just retarded, there are people out there who actually do nothing and get completely FUCKED by shithead cops who just don't like them.
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In fact, I hate people who live in well policed areas, run into minor trouble with the cops, and then go "man fuck the cops". It's just retarded, there are people out there who actually do nothing and get completely FUCKED by shithead cops who just don't like them.
It's not always that cut and dry. My dad and I both got tickets in "well policed areas" for doing things that we simply didn't do (interestingly enough, it was the same thing -- going about 20 over in a 25mph zone). You can't fight that kind of shit, either -- it's your word against theirs. In the defense of the cop that pulled me over, I was speeding, but I sure as hell wasn't going that fast (that cop literally almost turned a speeding ticket into a reckless endangerment citation with his fucking lies). I was actually going about 35 in a 25. My dad was following the speed limit and going 25 and still got ticketed for going 45 because...what the hell? Why not.
Then there was the time that my dad got pulled over for driving down a side street on his way to work. That still perplexes me. Sure, it was early in the morning (my dad is a baker, so he typically goes into work between 1-3AM), but that's a really shoddy reason to pull someone over. No citations or anything like that, just general idiocy.
Edit: I also had a nice, long talk with an insurance agent tonight and found out that my insurance company royally fucked me twice in a year (I suspected it, but this basically proves it). First, I found out that them trying to pin a percentage of liability on me for the damage to my '95 Saturn when some inattentive fuckwit backed into me in mid-2009 was unheard of in the insurance world. Second, I found out that them only offering $1000 for a total instead of the car's appraised value -- $2300 -- is simply illegal.
With the '02 Saturn, they did not allow me to pick a body shop, instead telling me specifically which one to take it to. I found out that insurance companies can have approved body shops, but they cannot force you to take it to a specific one. They also charged me for car storage, despite me attempting to call my claim adjuster and ask where I should keep the car (I called early on one day and she didn't return my call until much later...more on this later). Not a cool thing to do to someone who just got fucked out of a car by an uninsured twat. Lastly, the body shop said that the damage wasn't extensive and that the insurance company more than likely wouldn't total it. They totaled it anyway. According to the agent that I talked to, that almost never happens.
The only reason that they got away with tacking on all of those extra fees is because I was under my parents' policy and my dad seems to lack a spine when it comes to dealing with businesses. The second I started getting difficult to deal with (a.k.a. asking too many questions to a fraud of a company) the claims adjuster went behind my back and started calling my dad about everything, which he nodded his head to for some reason. Aside from having to pay the deductible (which I was perfectly fine with) I was stuck paying a ton of extra money on things that the insurance company just tacked on, setting me back around $400-500. With a $500 deductible, I was basically a grand in the red and didn't have a car. Lovely.
That's not even the worst issue. When I was about 6-7 the roof of our house was struck by lightning. I talked to my mom about the "insurance" company that we were using and she said that when the house was hit, the insurance company tried to get my dad to repair the damage. What. The. Fuck. If that were me, I'd have let the claim go through, had the roof repaired by professionals, then left that sham of a company.
The moral of the story is, never ever use Grange Insurance if you're in one of the areas that they operate in. They are a joke of a company and will completely and utterly fuck you if you have to make a claim. Both of the claim adjusters that I personally dealt with were rude and manipulative. If you start probing too much they'll try to circumvent you in order to get their way. You're better off paying more and getting a better service than trying to deal with their bullshit.
As soon as I save up enough for six months of coverage, I'm getting my Saturn (the old one, since you can't have nice things in the Youngstown area without some bitch wrecking it) titled in my name again and switching to a reputable company.
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We have grange Spectere I will tell my folk what they did to you.
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I just got the e74 message on my xbox.
Heart = broken
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Not to be a dick, but you're surprised about that?
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No, otherwise I would probably have said something along the lines of WHAT THE FUCK. I knew it was coming. I got my 360 in August 2007 and its lasted me more than the 3 years I thought it would. Warranty is void after the 3... and of course it happens now.
I'm more sad than angry. I have the Halo 3 edition box:
(http://media.teamxbox.com/dailyposts/halo3xbox360.jpg)
Which means that even if I do send it back to Microsoft, and I do pay the $150 they want to fix it after warranty, and I do wait the 2 months to get it fixed, I probably won't get that one back; I'll get a refurbed white one instead.
I guess I'm more upset that this was a special edition... and that there is probably no way of fixing it, which means losing what made it special. The girlfriend says we can use her white arcade, but it just wouldn't be the same. I would rather have my own brand new one.
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Shit man, that sucks. D: Sorry to hear about that.
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PS3 1, 360 0
PS I'm sorry for your loss
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PS3 1, 360 0
Yellow Light of Death.
It's definitely not as common as having a 360 die on you, but the PS3 does have a semi-common issue with the system spontaneously dying. I think the ratio of PS3s that tend to get affected are one in ten (which is still pretty damned high, really), versus one in four 360s.
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WII WINS AGAIN, QUICK, TO THE WAGGLE MACHINE.
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WII WINS AGAIN, QUICK, TO THE WAGGLE MACHINE.
NINTENDIUM. IT'S THE STRONGEST MATERIAL ON THE PLANET.
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I wish my dick was more accurate.
Also my mother saw that I have a single pair of socks that have holes in them, and she decides to give me two different packages of socks to replace them.
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I wish my dick was more accurate.
I have a single pair of socks that have holes in them
More like too accurate
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AWWWWWWWWWW SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT
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Was so sick last night :/ When I was laying on the couch with my GF and watching inception, I could barely breathe and i was so weak by the end of the movie I almost couldn't sit up, let alone walk around... The breathing was from laying down, and the weakness was from not making for like, 2 and a half hours, but god was that terrible. I'm feeling a bit better today, but I've still got a lot of body aches and a bit of the chills :/
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Shouldn't you go to a doctor?
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For what? Most if has passed. I feel pretty much back to normal today. I knew what cased my problems (the way I was laying, and the fact that I pretty much didn't move for 2 and a half hours) and I had more or less done what I could (taken some acetaminophen and coldfx). But like I said, I'm pretty much back to normal today. I was still kinda feeling crappy when I posted that, but since then I've begun feeling more normal.
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Shouldn't you go to a doctor?
Meh, all that happens if you go to a doctor with a virus (and that sounds like a flu to me) is risk infecting other people in the waiting room and having the doctor say, "Yep, it's the flu, alright! Stay home and get some rest."
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I've never been that severally sick before, and not being able to move sounds like a major concern. Well, I was sicker then that one time, but I was vomiting and shitting liquid every half hour or so so I wasn't entering a vehicle for an hour + trip.
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Well, it was definitely different from the usual flu, but I'm pretty sure that's what it was (fever, body aches, headache (still got a bit of that), upset stomach, chills). The weakness was mostly from the fact that I had 2 large blankets wrapped around me while I watched the movie, and probably from the position I was laying in as well. I felt some weakness before as well, and that does normally accompany the flu on occasion too, though not to that level. I was definitely weirded out a bit by it, but like spectere said, the doctor generally just confirms what it is, and tells you to go home before you infect someone else.
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I don't usually get sick very often, but when I do I usually get really sick. I've had a lot of the symptoms that you've mentioned before as part of the flu.
I caught the worst flu that I ever had when I was around ten. I had a high fever, extremely sensitive skin, weakness, and -- best of all -- I actually had hallucinations. I distinctly remember seeing the TV set that was in my bedroom sitting in the closet. It was so vivid and real that I actually asked my mom why she moved the TV when I was watching it. I also had a severe feeling of vertigo when I tried to watch something on TV and nothing was going on.
The last head flu that I remember having left me in a semi-catatonic state, sitting in front of my computer and playing Final Fantasy VIII for literally twelve hours straight. It's amazing how much progress you can make on that game if you play it for half a day straight.
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Wow, that's intense.
And yeah, while I don't usually get quite that bad, I do generally get pretty bad if I do get sick, because aside form the usual type of stuff (getting stuffed up, etc.) I generally don't get sick very often too.
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Damn, sounds terrible. but Spectere is 100% right, unless you pass out or you have a fever that's really high you shouldn't see a doctor. but more on topic.
I hate people who say they aren't cold while wearing a jacket or some sort of cold weather gear. Wearing a jacket usually means you weren't comfortable prior to wearing it, which means you do think it's cold.
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I don't usually get sick very often, but when I do I usually get really sick. I've had a lot of the symptoms that you've mentioned before as part of the flu.
I caught the worst flu that I ever had when I was around ten. I had a high fever, extremely sensitive skin, weakness, and -- best of all -- I actually had hallucinations. I distinctly remember seeing the TV set that was in my bedroom sitting in the closet. It was so vivid and real that I actually asked my mom why she moved the TV when I was watching it. I also had a severe feeling of vertigo when I tried to watch something on TV and nothing was going on.
The last head flu that I remember having left me in a semi-catatonic state, sitting in front of my computer and playing Final Fantasy VIII for literally twelve hours straight. It's amazing how much progress you can make on that game if you play it for half a day straight.
Yeah I get the same way Spec...get better soon man :/
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Damn, sounds terrible. but Spectere is 100% right, unless you pass out or you have a fever that's really high you shouldn't see a doctor. but more on topic.
But wait...you said...uh...
Shouldn't you go to a doctor?
gwwwaaahHHDHHYGLSAMKFSL:AM:M<L:!!
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I changed my mind, I'm a fickle girl.
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S'okay, I'll forgive you. :)
Also, I wound up getting Rhythm Zone on Steam today as part of one of the Indie packs and fuck my ass is it bad. Seriously, I think the only "rhythm action" game that I've played that was worse is Dance Factory. I should make a video with assist ticks (just clicks indicating where the game thinks that there's a beat-worthy sound) just for laughs.
I wound up doing Never by Son of Rust since the music is very clear. Everything lines up nicely on sixteenth notes, the bass kick is pretty clear, and the lead synth is easy to follow (I should know, it was probably the easiest-to-write simfile that I ever did!). Putting it on expert lead to a completely incoherent chart, as if someone just loaded up StepMania's editor, put in a random BPM, hit CTRL-R, and had a seizure on a DDR pad.
Why is it that AutoBPM, a dinky little freeware program, can do such a fine job determining a song's BPM while programs that claim to have perfect beat detection don't even come remotely close?
Edit: Hammerfight, on the other hand, is the worst fucking game I've ever played in my life.
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Okay, take a look at the following two pictures:
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1124870113.png) (http://www.speedtest.net) (http://www.speedtest.net/result/1124872276.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)
Am I the only one who thinks that those results are more than a little fucked up?
Then again, AT&T isn't exactly known for having a good network...ever. They're turning their once-solid DSL service into an extension of their shitty cellular network. The Speedtest result also doesn't show the insane lag spikes that I've been getting all night in WoW, or the fact that the speeds went from 0.5mbps to 5.0mbps all night. Or, for that matter, how incredibly slowly everything is loading. Can anyone say "massive packet loss?"
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(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1124911670.png)
... \o/
A little more on topic, Armstrong blocks all ports < 1024 for residential connections, which is basically bullshit. I've got HTTP up on port 8080 and SSH on port 2222, so I guess it's just a minor annoyance in my interim server setup, but I'm still pissed about it.
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(http://www.speedtest.net/result/1124911670.png)
... \o/
A little more on topic, Armstrong blocks all ports < 1024 for residential connections, which is basically bullshit. I've got HTTP up on port 8080 and SSH on port 2222, so I guess it's just a minor annoyance in my interim server setup, but I'm still pissed about it.
AKA: Armstrong think people are dumb.
Of course, when you want to host a website at home and port 80 is blocked, it's a pain to get people to actually rmember to add the :8080 on the url :/
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AKA: Armstrong think people are dumb.
Well yeah, almost all residential users are dumb, or at least ignorant.
In other news, I tethered my cell phone to my desktop computer for all of my Internet browsing tonight and T-Mobile's network handled it like a champ. I played WoW, streamed video, and Skyped. About the only thing that was a little bit worse was my latency, which ranged from 300-400ms. Then again, AT&T was randomly spiking at 1-2 seconds at points, so that was actually an improvement as far as tonight is concerned. It's kind of amazing how far we've come.
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The reckless use of the word "better". It always bothers me when someone claims something is better without specifying how or why. It's just sad how the generic term "this is better" can fly now a days.
Also update, but Facebook in general. The whole "Like" system is borderline ironic, you hardly have to show any genuine interest in something, nor do you need to say anything of merit, you just need to click a goddamn button. That and no one seems to post or say anything that interesting, it just seems like everyone is trying to win some sort of popularity contest by posting and talking about shit other people made.
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The reckless use of the word "better". It always bothers me when someone claims something is better without specifying how or why. It's just sad how the generic term "this is better" can fly now a days.
Also update, but Facebook in general. The whole "Like" system is borderline ironic, you hardly have to show any genuine interest in something, nor do you need to say anything of merit, you just need to click a goddamn button. That and no one seems to post or say anything that interesting, it just seems like everyone is trying to win some sort of popularity contest by posting and talking about shit other people made.
Man, that basically sums up the entire aspect of "social media"...
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Also update, but Facebook in general. The whole "Like" system is borderline ironic, you hardly have to show any genuine interest in something, nor do you need to say anything of merit, you just need to click a goddamn button. That and no one seems to post or say anything that interesting, it just seems like everyone is trying to win some sort of popularity contest by posting and talking about shit other people made.
I think they should change "Like" to "Approve." Really, that term is closer to what people actually use the button for.
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Uganda
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My PC copy of Guilty Gear Reloaded has gave me a headache at how terribly fucked up button mapping is. I have written down what each input is SUPPOSED to be, and how I mapped them, and with that info I almost had the controls set up right, but I had two buttons mapped to the wrong spots. So I go back into options, switch them around, and put them back. When I got back to the game EVERYTHING was wrong, and I had somehow mapped Dust attack to a button, and Dust FORWARD to taunt.
How is this even possible.
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Weird... I've never had any trouble with input mapping in GG#R
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I had a friend send me his save data so I could use Justice and Kliff, and it jumbled everything. I got it sorted out now (my god Justice is easy to use, but she feels really weak) so I'm happy about that.
Also what is the deal with L4D2 players? The majority of the ones playing versus are beyond stupid. This one kid kept asking how to improve his connection for L4D2 and kept doing stupid things as a survivor. I had one asked me if I had a mic (I don't) and he called me a faggot repeatedly and yelled fail. Then for the rest of that game he didn't relay a single piece of useful information over the mic, I even pointed it out in a situation where he was pounced and waiting to be saved. So yeah, if you play L4D2 here let me know, I hate playing with randoms.
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My roommate snores so fucking loud. He also doesn't do shit about it when I've asked him multiple times to find something from walmart or something to fix the problem. I'm going to choke a bitch.
PS It's come to the point where I bought earplugs. They still don't completely block out the terror.
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So yeah, if you play L4D2 here let me know, I hate playing with randoms.
PC, I'm guessing?
I only have the original L4D, not the second. If enough people here have it and want to play, I'll spring for it. I'd love to do some 4-player zombie hunting. The AI is so braindead that playing single-player is practically infeasible and even 2-players can be a chore.
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Argh, why can't people write! I'm part of this online course called Understanding Science (not that I don't understand, I need the credit for my degree and it the only science class) and part of the course is a disscussion board where we're forced to talk about a science based radio show each week. Now I have some non-canadians in my class who have english as a second language and I know that their writing will probably be bad so I'll give them that, but so many others don't spell check (the board we use doesn't have spell check so you have to do it yourself) or even read their post before submitting it and it makes them sound so stupid. I cringe everytime I have to reply to someone as a requirement to pass because I have to do it in a way without making them feel stupid even if their question was clearly stated in the radio show and answered.
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The best part about that is when people get all defensive and spout shit like, "its teh intrnet u dont ned perfect gramar u fukin nazi lol," when you call them out on stuff like that.
I can see taking shortcuts. I don't mind it when people simply ignore the shift key. Hell, I do that all the time when I'm playing online games. What slays me is when people think that murdering the English language is somehow acceptable, and that people can simply look past it throughout the course of communication. No. The purpose of language is to communicate. What you are doing is not communicating. Learn to grammar!
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Learn to grammar!
dont you mean lrn2grammar?
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:( I'm sorry, man.
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Sorry to hear that, man. :(
Any chance of reconciliation, or is it definitely over?
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I don't know what the other reasons are, but I wouldn't write it off primarily because of that. I know it's not the same, but you could always try video/voice chat to keep yourselves connected to one another. When both of you are in Europe, seeing each other really wouldn't be out of the question if you were both on holiday. A flight from Germany to Scotland would only take a few hours.
In the long run it's your call, but don't rule anything out yet. You guys were together for a year and a half and -- given how you said that there was no shitstorm -- broke it off amicably. I'd try to make it work.
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When Sony Vegas Pro decides to not encode only ONE of my AVI files in a project, and leaves a black screen with the audio after rendering it.
fucking shit balls
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I don't know what the other reasons are, but I wouldn't write it off primarily because of that. I know it's not the same, but you could always try video/voice chat to keep yourselves connected to one another. When both of you are in Europe, seeing each other really wouldn't be out of the question if you were both on holiday. A flight from Germany to Scotland would only take a few hours.
In the long run it's your call, but don't rule anything out yet. You guys were together for a year and a half and -- given how you said that there was no shitstorm -- broke it off amicably. I'd try to make it work.
I agree. It's hard enough finding a good GF that when you do, you should make some effort to keep her, especially if you've been together a year and a half...
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Had a rather shit day today. I found my phone in my car with the outside screen broken. Then when I got out of class I dropped it (tried to catch it, but it was open and fell all of a foot and the flipping open part broke). So on the way to my next class I was driving next to a cop, we were going down a bridge and he was in a right turn only lane and wanted to get over, so I tried hard and was able to speed up enough for him to just barely get into the left lane. He instantly pulls me over and asks why I didn't switch into the other lane, I was saying because I was going to school and was going to make a right soon but he decided to mock what I say and then lecture me. When I tried to apologies he threw a little bitch fit and walked back to his car, so I just drove away.
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Had a rather shit day today. I found my phone in my car with the outside screen broken. Then when I got out of class I dropped it (tried to catch it, but it was open and fell all of a foot and the flipping open part broke). So on the way to my next class I was driving next to a cop, we were going down a bridge and he was in a right turn only lane and wanted to get over, so I tried hard and was able to speed up enough for him to just barely get into the left lane. He instantly pulls me over and asks why I didn't switch into the other lane, I was saying because I was going to school and was going to make a right soon but he decided to mock what I say and then lecture me. When I tried to apologies he threw a little bitch fit and walked back to his car, so I just drove away.
LIKE A BOSS
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It has taken me 3 attempts and a whole day to download this stalker mod and I still don't have it. If I had limited internet I would go on a shooting spree.
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It has taken me 3 attempts and a whole day to download this stalker mod and I still don't have it. If I had limited internet I would go on a shooting spree.
Which mod, eh?
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Super mod for Shadow of Chernobyl. It adds a ton of guns to OL from my understanding, and I figured I might as well give it a shot because I really liked OL.
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Nifty. I'll have to look that one up. I've been meaning to play through Stalker again and a weapon mod is definitely relevant to my interests!
If I can get it to install, anyway. :x
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You start with a Mosin Nagat and some pistol, and I've already run into a 100 AK variants.
Also I went with a friend to a third parties house to buy weed, and the whole experience was sort of awkward, and the seller seemed to come off with this pot head elitist douche-baggery.
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The worst part about guys like that is that they tend to have the best weed, and they know it. I've had to put up with a few people like that. Smoking with them is worse because for the first hour or so all they do is complain that the weed sucks and they're not feeling anything.
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Blew a tire tonight.
Fuck you, Niles road department.
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Woke up this morning freezing, even though my new house is super nice we have a problem with the gas furnace in which its safety mechanism can't see that there's a flame and turns it off so the house doesn't fill with gas. But sadly if its dirty or broken it will not see a flame even if there is one and shut off. I can't get it to light so cold house for me yay, its like 15C which isn't that bad but kinda chilly.
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I can't get it to light so cold house for me yay, its like 15C which isn't that bad but kinda chilly.
I'd say more than kinda chilly.
At my workplace we have a ton of issues with our landlords being lazy about turning on the A/C and heat, so at the start of Winter I wind up having to deal with those temperatures. Typing with cold hands != fun.
That being said, I don't know what's worse -- 15C at the start of Winter or 30C at the beginning of Summer.
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I don't know what the tenant laws are in the U.S. but if that was happening to me I make an anonymous call to the housing inspector because thats technically illegal.
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Oh yeah, no doubt.
My boss just refused to pay rent for a couple of months. That seemed to have done the trick.
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The two month old hard drive in my laptop is failing. Oh joy.
Better yet, I can't afford the cost of advance replacement, and hard drive manufacturers are so damned anal about the packaging that you use for RMAs most of the time that I pretty much have to use what they give me. Not to mention that they almost always give you a refurbished drive instead of giving you a proper replacement.
Yeah, I have a feeling this is going to be a pain in the dick.
Oh well. On the bright side, it was just a S.M.A.R.T. alert, albeit a fairly important one. At least I didn't lose any data...yet.
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I wonder how long it'll last now...
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I actually had one RMA replacement that I did through work where the replacement was dead out of the box. I think it was a Seagate.
I do plan to run this through a nice drive test before committing any of my data to it. I actually did that to the drive that's in the lappy now, so it was just early failure in this case. This is only the first or second time that's happened to me in years and years, so I can't complain much, I guess.
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Yeah, but drive failure always sucks. Replacing a drive is money that could easily have been put to use somewhere else.
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Nah, it's not going to cost anything. Western Digital covers their drives for five years against failures like this. It doesn't really cost anything for the advanced replacement, but they do put a hold for the value of the drive on a charge account just in case you don't send the old drive back.
Fortunately, my dad was kind enough to let me borrow his credit card, so I should be sorted within a week.
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Oh, that's cool, I've never gone through the replacement stuff for a drive before.
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Was supposed to be at class, but I fell asleep sometime at 9 in the morning and evidently turned off my alarm half asleep and continued sleeping until 4.
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Was supposed to be at class, but I fell asleep sometime at 9 in the morning and evidently turned off my alarm half asleep and continued sleeping until 4.
That's never good :/ I've done stuff like that before too. Never slept in that late though.
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What makes me angry? AT&T buying T-Mobile. To quote Mr. Horse, "No sir, I don't like it."
Hmm, let me count the ways. First of all, I rather enjoy having stable service, almost zero dropped calls after spending the better half of a decade with their service, blistering fast data (faster than my DSL connection which, amusingly enough, is provided by AT&T...and we're planning to dump it because after AT&T bought SBC it turned into an increasingly unreliable piece of fucking garbage), amazing customer support, and extremely affordable plans. AT&T literally offers none of that. Not a single fucking thing that I listed is offered by AT&T. That's not speculation nor is it heresay; my work phone is on AT&T's network, and I've experienced no shortage of data stalls and dropped calls. A quick glance on their web site shows that their high prices are rivaled only by Verizon, and the experiences that my boss and I had with their customer "support" shows that they don't give a flying fuck about their customers. To add to that: AT&T happily outsources. I have yet to encounter a Canadian accent when calling T-Mobile. About the only thing that AT&T had T-Mobile clearly beat on is North American 3G coverage, and AT&T's service actually becomes increasingly reliable the further away you go from a populated area.
The higher-ups at AT&T also gleefully stated that T-Mobile users will have to buy a new phone to use AT&T's "network." On the bright side, he admitted that the changeover would take several years, implying that T-Mobile's frequencies would stay active (though he did not say to which degree that they would -- expect a vitriol-laced rant if my phone suddenly won't connect to anything but EDGE). Gee, thanks. I just bought a fucking phone and I'm actually happy with it, you miserable twat; I don't want to already have to consider my next upgrade!
Fuck AT&T.
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The moment I heard about that online, I absolutely knew there was gonna be an angry rant showing up here sooner or later. I don't even live in the states and I know about that. Then again, being canadian, we have no shortage of complaints about our cellular service (as in, everything is fucking expensive, there are huge swaths of the country which have absolutely NO reception, even in fairly populated areas, bell's customer service is rather pathetic, and rogers fucks up everyone's billing every single time...), but I can certainly understand when something is a bad idea, and that merger is definitely one of those.
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Oh man, I've heard horror stories about both Bell and Rogers. You guys have my sincerest condolences.
The best part about the T-Mo buyout is AT&T's reasoning behind it: T-Mobile has the strongest 4G LTE network in the states and AT&T doesn't feel like putting their own 4G network together. Kinda like how their voice and data is still crippled by rabid iPhone users, almost four years after the handset's release. All they're going to do is take a great network and let it devolve into pure shit.
The exact same thing happened when they bought out SBC. DSL service in my area used to kick ass. It stayed consistently good, the speeds were nice, they delivered rates close to the ones that you were paying for (which tends to be a big problem with DSL due to how it works), and their uptimes were amazing. Now, I'm getting a 1 Mbps deviation between the actual downstream speed and what we're paying for, 256 kbps deviation on upstream, and higher latencies. One night, the network was running so poorly that WoW was unplayable. And you know as well as I how little bandwidth games use. 128 kbps downstream is generally more than enough as long as your latency is okay.
Jumping briefly back to T-Mobile, I'm not joking when I say that it's a viable broadband replacement in areas with good 3G reception. I tethered my phone and managed to get over 6 Mbps down (which is faster than my DSL's theoretical maximum speed), 512 kbps up, and was able to play WoW (not just play, but tank effectively), watch streaming videos, and chat on Skype at the same time. That's incredible.
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People who cannot argue properly, and believe that throwing lines of insults at you is a proper way for them to defend something.
Also the pedophile hunt that has been going on for a while, and he been perpetrated by shows like LAw and Order SVU. It just makes people assume the worst of others and makes them that much more likely to toss labels on people who are completely innocent.
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...Which can discourage people from doing genuinely nice things because they think other people will assume they've got ulterior motives. Shit really sucks. Yeah, there are pedophiles, but they're a small minority of people.
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That's a part of it, but once an innocent person gets the label of Pedophile they are basically fucked. It's basically irremovable and people are willing to toss it at anyone with reckless regard.
When people insist they are right despite having no knowledge of what they are talking about. I cannot tell you how many times I've said a CSS server had a lot of choke, only to get "BUY A BETTER CONNECTION" as a response (basically every sing time I mention it, also because everyone knows CSS has amazing hitboxes).
Also when I think about/about to do something and then I instantly cannot remember what it was I was doing/thinking. Drives me mad.
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I cannot tell you how many times I've said a CSS server had a lot of choke, only to get "BUY A BETTER CONNECTION" as a response (basically every sing time I mention it, also because everyone knows CSS has amazing hitboxes).
I especially love that, because modern games don't even come close to utilizing a modern broadband connection. You can have the lowest tier DSL plan and the only way it's going to affect you is if you were to try and run a server.
But no, try telling people that bandwidth doesn't result in lower latency in and of itself and they try to use their computer "knowledge" (which generally consists of knowing how to log in) on you.
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I love it when I'm on a Gmod server and some dude will spawn some really complex wiremod contraption that doesn't use Expression gates, then when we tell him the server's lagging because of that contraption, he'll deny it because the contraption didn't lag when he made it offline.
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Nah, there's no way he could be causing the lag. Even though the server was running perfectly well for everyone before he spawned the contraption, it's clearly someone else's problem.
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Political cartoons. Fuck em.
People who believe Anarchy is a viable system of "government". Just people who are pro anarchy in general. I once saw a girl spray the anarchy sign on a bridge, and then say something along the lines of people living peacefully without any sort of government.
Also people who believe they are being/trying hard to be offensive or edgy are annoying. Like the whole "OH FAMILY GUY IS SO CONTROVERSIAL" crowd.
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Anarchists amuse me.
They're kidding themselves if they think that banishing government will allow people to live freely. As a social animal, humans will naturally form packs, and these packs will naturally have a power hierarchy. This isn't just a human thing, either. Look at any social animal specie and you'll see the same basic social structure -- a leader and a whole mass of followers. If anything, certain government types prevent a single person from having absolute power.
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Anarchy's one of those things that only works well with like 10 people or less.
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I'm normally not one to complain about such things, but the new Google Chrome icon is absolutely dreadful. I think I'm going to extract the icon from Chrome 10 before I update it at home and use that, because...ugh!
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Ew, yeah. If they're going to make it more abstract, they could at least use better color contrast.
EDIT: The Chrome update keeps the older version of Chrome, so it wasn't too hard to replace the icon sets.
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Yep, that's one of my main complaints. It's too flat and just blends in with everything.
Let's do a little bit of comparing and contrasting:
(http://i.imgur.com/3NjsH.png)
(http://i.imgur.com/GbnqZ.png)
At the bottom we have the Firefox icon. Bold, vibrant, and stands out well, even against my brownish-colored taskbar. It looks dimensional, appearing to pop out at you. Hard to miss.
Above that is the IE9 icon: modern, vibrant, bold, and colorful. Even though the logo itself is pretty bright, the dark edges around the 'e' ensure that the main part of the logo will stand out, and the swoosh helps draw attention to the icon.
Not pictured is the Opera icon. Simple and elegant, but it stands out thanks to the strong bevels and shadowing.
At the top is the classic Chrome icon. There is a strong 3D effect on the icon, making it jump right out, and the Google colors are effectively portrayed. It's not as stylish as the IE icon and not as vibrant as the Firefox icon, but it works very well in the confines of an icon-sized picture.
And last but not least, the new logo. It looks passable at very large sizes, but it just looks amateurish and doesn't really stand out at all, especially if it has focus and is highlighted. The middle also looks aliased. Ugh.
Like you said, it's a good thing that it keeps the older versions available.
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My roommate has this tendency to cook eggs for breakfast some mornings and then leave all of his dirty dishes in the kitchen sink for days. Normally I don't really mind since I don't cook, but today I was trying to wash a plate and all of his crap was in the way, which is really annoying since the sink doesn't have a detachable head. So I went and asked him if he could clean those dishes.
Me: "Hey, you think you could clean those dishes you left in the kitchen sink? They're kind of in the way."
Him: "Why haven't you vacuumed the living room yet?"
Me: "...Because it doesn't need vacuuming? This isn't about chores. This is you leaving your dishes in the sink and making it unusable."
Him: "It's just that if you want me to clean up, you should do your part too."
Me: "Fine, whatever."
Just 3 more weeks before I move out...
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Icon stuff
Indeed, the 3D effect and highlighting in the original makes a world of difference.
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When you have an argument, and someone just repeats the same point, or has some sort of circular logic.
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This. (http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fyourlife.usatoday.com%2Fhealth%2Fmedical%2Fstory%2F2011%2F05%2FUS-on-track-for-most-measles-cases-in-a-decade%2F46836958%2F1&h=08fe9)
The anti-vaccine movement has always pissed me off because it spreads misinformation that prevents children from receiving adequate medical care, but now the movement's negative impact on disease control is starting to show. Way to fucking go.
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Agreed, that shit is fucking retarded. If anyone tells me I shouldn't give my kids vaccinations I might punch them in the face...
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I'm almost willing to bet that most of the people who are anti-vaccine have never suffered through polio.
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Smoke. After spending a few nights with an entire group of people that smoke in a bar that shit gets annoying. I don't mind it at all during the fact, but the day afterwards I always feel a bit out.
My tires are worn to shit and I have basically no money to replace them.
Also GGPO hates me and refuses to properly update.
Started using IDM to download the Witcher 2 off of Gog, since regular downloading a really slow download of 2 gigs uninterrupted is impossible. Every time I try to resume downloading on the second part it just shuts the program down. I have massive headache from this now.
AND ANOTHER THING. My friend is acting like a huge douche when it comes to shows. Basically I got him into to anime with sharing him a link to GitS, he loved it and went on a tangent by looking for similar shows (and by similar shows, I mean anything from Japan). So he gets hooked to Bleach because a lot of his friends in college watch it. I basically mention that most anime is bad, and he gets into a hissy fit with me over this, despite me basically getting him into it and watching the stuff years before him.
So yeah, a while after all this we are at a friends house and they recommend watching Firefly (these people seemed to have a pretty big knowledge on the whole entertainment front, and had a ton of recommendable shows that seemed pretty good) and my friend tried talking to them about shows, and in a real basic way the politely disagreed with his opinions (he said something about some show surpassing DBZ, someone else said that wouldn't be hard to do, everyone else agreed) then on the ride home he got all mad that other people disagreed with him even when he does the same shit (he stated that he can't watch firefly because it's too short, and he only wants shows that are like 300+ episodes long, which I'm sure is him referring to Bleach again).
Oh yeah, I recommended my friend watch Berserk and he said he wasn't into medieval shows, then another friend sent him a video of it and he said he loved the show.
TL;DR: friend won't admit when he might not know what he's talking about, has some sort of weird ego that only allows him to seriously take info that he experiences first hand (isn't concerned about the effects of smoking because he doesn't know anyone who has died from it) and he gets really upset when people disagree with him, but more so when people use logic to do so.
ALSO ALSO I have another friend who compulsively makes shit up, and another that makes vast assumptions and then sticks to them like facts.
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Less angry, more or less just wanting to rant about something.
From what I can tell, the major argument against gay marriage is that it's stated in the bible that two men cannot be married. I'm wondering how this is even a viable argument considering we have a separation of church and state.
I remembered the whole outcry panic people had when we had cafeteria food made kosher, but Muslim kosher, and how sharia law was seeing its way into America, yet no one seems to acknowledge how our right of a separation of church and state is being violated constantly. Every time someone claims this is a christian nation or that Obama is a secret muslim (not so much because I love him, but the fact that him being a muslim would be a negative) it makes me cringe. HOW can people misinterpretation a separation of church and state? They do these insane mental gymnastics so they can say they meant not taxing churches, but our legal system should clearly be based on their specific gods words.
The way I see it, people just pick up a religion they can loosely see eye to eye with, then they pick and choose which parts of said religion they want to follow and then they ignore the rest, but they will throw a fucking fit if you don't agree with whatever parts they like.
I also really get mad black and female religious people. The bible blatantly states that slavery is A OK and that women are second to men, yet they still follow along with it. I can see why black people would turn to religion (sort of stereotyping at this point, but whatever) but that fact still bothers me endlessly.
unsure if anyone reads my rants, but typing things out helps me think for some reason.
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It really gets on my tits when I'm in the middle of doing something mentally involving and someone just walks up to me and starts conversing with me. True to form, it's usually a non-programmer or someone who doesn't understand how easily focus can be broken (not to be elitist, but there's a lot of people that don't realize how involving that can be -- they just see someone sitting in a chair and try to insist that it's "not real work") and how time it takes to recover from a one minute query.
I was (emphasis on the word "was") working on documenting the save format for Torchlight since nobody seems to have done it in any great detail to this point for some reason. True to form, as soon as I get on a fucking roll I get hassled for five minutes. Now I'm pissed off and, to top it off, I'll undoubtedly have to waste ten minutes trying to figure out where I left off. I'm taking notes while I work, but when I get interrupted in the middle of a goddamn structure it's hard to recover from, especially since this is all serialized data (i.e. the file has a liquid structure -- you can't simply jump to a particular point and know what you're looking at without a lot of backtracking).
Is it really that hard to not fuck with someone when they have a hex editor running fullscreen? Jesus.
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Oh, damn, yeah that sucks.
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I just realized something. I think when my alarm goes off, I wake up half asleep, hit my alarm off, then go back to sleep as if nothing happened.
My school life is now falling apart. I'm doing fucking awful in one class because I can't finish in class writing assignments and I just missed my group project midterm in another due to me not getting up. Fuck.
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Shit, that happened to me today, actually. My mom woke me up about 20 minutes before class.... It's at least a 30 minute drive there, let alone finding a parking spot, and getting ready to leave home.... And the class was a lab, which is scheduled for 2 hours but usually lasts half that t most.... There's no way in hell I was making it to class today :<
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I now see why my friend uses multiple alarms, I'm totally going to do the same.
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If only my alarm clock had multiple alarms...
Mind you, I only usually sleep through the alarm if I was REALLY tired when I went to sleep, and that night I basically got no sleep until 6 or 7 AM Monday morning.... I had class at 12, so I could have gotten away with it, but for some reason my body decided to sleep in (normally I'd be fine)
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I have mine go off every 3 minutes for an hour when I want to wake up, and I keep it across the room. I don't sleep through it, and I don't half-consciously turn it off either.
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Hell, I don't usually get woke up by my alarm, I usually wake up earlier than it's set... But I sometimes really sleep in if I stay up ridiculously late the night before.
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I now see why my friend uses multiple alarms, I'm totally going to do the same.
I use two cell phones -- my work iPhone 3G and my SIM-less G1. If I *really* need to wake up, I set my alarm sound to my ringtone. The urgency of an phone call has miraculous "get your ass up" abilities (of course, I don't use that as my daily alarm; that would dampen the effect for when I really need it).
One advantage of using a cell phone as a main, or even backup, alarm is that you don't have to worry about a surprise power outage killing your alarm settings.
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I use two cell phones -- my work iPhone 3G and my SIM-less G1. If I *really* need to wake up, I set my alarm sound to my ringtone. The urgency of an phone call has miraculous "get your ass up" abilities (of course, I don't use that as my daily alarm; that would dampen the effect for when I really need it).
True shit. That always forces me out of bed.
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Laptop GPU is dying. Way to fucking go, NVIDIA. This is yet another reason why I'm not buying your shit. Best part about all of this is that the laptop has one of the "fixed" 7900 GS Go chips (you know, from when NVIDIA fucked up 3 whole generations of mobile GPUs) and it still died. I've officially dealt with more dead NVIDIA GPUs than I have RRoDs because of the design flaw in the 6-8 series chips. No joke.
I think I'm going to try to cook it when it stops firing up entirely. I definitely can't afford a laptop right now.
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I use multiple alarms and have for a while, but my main Clock/radio one has 2 on it that blast the local hard rock station. When the first one of those goes off, its across the room so i have to get up, but my body has muscle-memory on how to turn off the 2nd alarm on that device. Then, I lay back down and have my ipod/phone go off as well a little bit later to get me fully awake haha. l
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I semi-fixed my laptop's GPU. I was able to boot it into Windows a couple of times, but games would cause it to crash out pretty quickly. It's showing graphical corruption again, so it's back to its old tricks. At least I have a chance of getting it to work again, at least for a while (perhaps until I can afford to replace it).
My "solution" was to blast it with a heatgun. I got it hot enough that the plastic covering the bottom of the heatsink bracket looked like this:
(http://i.imgur.com/iSBXTl.jpg) (http://i.imgur.com/iSBXT.jpg)
Looking back, wearing some kind of mask would have probably been a good idea. Or, perhaps, getting that plastic off first.
I have to give Dell a ton of credit for that particular laptop design. I've taken apart quite a few laptops, but I've never worked on one as intuitive as that one. I don't know about the 15" models (not going to take apart my mom's E1505 unless I have a good reason to; I don't want her to have to be without the comforts of Peggle and Plants vs. Zombies ;)) but the two 17" models that I own (the Inspiron 9300 and the E1705) are absolutely incredible machines to work on. Need to replace the keyboard? Pop off the bezel, unscrew the keyboard, unplug the keyboard, put the new one in. I've seen some designs -- I believe Sony was notorious for this -- that required you to strip the system to the motherboard just to replace the damn keyboard.
The best part is how easy it is to replace the CMOS battery if you need to. This is something that escapes many laptop manufacturers, and is something that Dell made incredibly difficult on systems such as the Inspiron 1520 line (the 1520 and 1521 are pieces of shit, by the way -- that's when Dell decided that the Studio line would fill the role of the high-end Inspirons of yore). In the case of the 9300 and E1705, all you have to do is lift up the keyboard and it's right effing there. In most cases you have to physically remove the motherboard from the case. Bizarre, really.
But anyway, that was a hell of a tangent. I'm going to bed now.
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Incredibly self righteously people. Maybe I'm being a hypocrite, but I've asked like 5 or so different people and they've all agreed with me.
Long story short, me and my friends watched a drunk girl and guy fight, the guy was obviously more sober and when he exits the gas station the girl slaps him in the face and he reacts by pushing her and her falling because she's drunk (she didn't seem hurt). He then man handles her back to his car and drives off.
A female friend there said we should have intervened and called her a taxi or possibly get into a fight with the guy. Everyone else (both male and female) said we were better off not getting involved and just letting him take her home to sober up. She still argued that we should have done something despite this, while talking over her boyfriend who she told to describe the story (she did most of this).
She also has this habit of sort of talking down to me (was talking on the phone with her, she made this comment that I used a big word when it was really a pretty normal one. I also used Mozambique to describe a place and she asked if I even knew were that was). Then again she did pay my way through this event we went to, which was pretty awesome.
Suppose most people aren't actually "bad". It's just easy to only see one side to a person and not see anything else. At least for me, fuck I hate being a cynic.
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Let peoples do wha peoples is gawn'a do man
But yea if a bitch is drunk its probably her fault
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Why in the fuck do I need to answer a 100+ question quiz in order to apply for a job? What sort of bullshit pseudo science are they even using to dictate who could do a better job and an already simple as shit minimum wage job? Fuck, it's goddamn annoying. Also the fact that "entry level" positions require some sort of work experience (working at a shoe store required like 3 years of prior work experience doing the same job, what the shit).
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No, XP, I don't want to fucking restart my system. I'm using my damn computer (well, trying to...it's kinda hard with the restart prompt nagging me every five minutes)! Why the fuck do you install updates while I'm bloody using my computer in the first place?
This OS is filled to the brim with this annoying bullshit, enough that it's almost impossible to remember to turn it all off until you run into it, in which case it turns into a massive waste of time. Why the hell do people still like XP?
The worst part is that some people actually try to act like XP's many hand-holding features were never an issue. But, no, inconsistent setups (the post-setup procedures for two XP discs could potentially be drastically different), a million settings that nobody likes or uses (desktop cleanup wizard), features that can easily cause you to lose data if you're away from the machine (automatic updates), and a complete lack of modern security features (too many to list!) are absolutely not a good thing. Ditch this shit.
Speaking of which, I need to get 7 installed on this sucker again. I thought I'd be able to make do until I got another laptop to replace my E1705, but my patience with this decade-old OS is wearing very thin.
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'cuz it doesn't need more space than is available on the OS/programs drive in my main desktop
For this drive I usually use the smallest drive I have laying around because an OS shouldn't need to use 20GB and I don't install a whole lot of programs... games usually get installed to my secondary internal drive, which is where the rest of my stuff is that isn't on my external drives
This has the downfall of me having to clean Opera's cache every goddamn week if I watch too many online videos so I'll probably replace it soon anyway
If the board doesn't catch the capacitor plague first like its two identical sister desktops I got with it did :)
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Putting a hard disk space cap on how much space an OS should or shouldn't use is always going to lead to misery. Unless you're running a very specific workload, that figure is going to balloon quickly as the OS takes on features and grows more capable. I've seen customers who ran out of space on their OS partition with XP because they only gave it 20GB. There's so many factors at work that it's hard to say how much space that it should or shouldn't take.
If you're limited on space (and/or funds), XP will probably serve you better than 7 would. I just really don't think that it aged well. Most of the features and concepts that it has were still in their early stages when it was developed and wind up being far more annoying than they are practical. From a security standpoint, it's essentially from the last century. Aside from SP2 changing some of the defaults, its model is almost the same as that from Windows 2000, making it a pain to run as a limited user. Even if you are willing to invest the time and effort required to do so, it's still not as secure (Vista and 7 have the ability to run programs at an even lower privilege level; IE runs in this mode by default). Considering how many virus infections can be avoided in this manner, it's no wonder that I wind up seeing far more infected XP machines despite it having a similar marketshare to 7 now.
Plus, XP's mere existence is greatly limited the Windows platform. It simply can't support many of the latest technologies (without a complete overhaul, anyway), so the adoption of some very useful technologies built into Vista and 7 have been drastically slowed. Vista's shaky launch can definitely share some of the blame for this (though much of what made Vista bad was ironed out in SP1 and SP2), but there are simply a lot of people out there that drag their feet when they see any sort of upgrade. Some newer software is dropping support for XP, so we'll see if that makes more people jump to 7.
If the board doesn't catch the capacitor plague first like its two identical sister desktops I got with it did :)
The capacitor problem is enough to make anyone angry. I still see systems occasionally that have been hit with that issue. :(
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I've seen customers who ran out of space on their OS partition with XP because they only gave it 20GB.
How'd they manage to do that? (Besides the cleaning out the Opera cache thing) I've rarely had space issues with my setup.
The capacitor problem is enough to make anyone angry. I still see systems occasionally that have been hit with that issue. :(
Yeah. What sucks the most is that I know it's going to happen any time, now :(
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How'd they manage to do that? (Besides the cleaning out the Opera cache thing) I've rarely had space issues with my setup.
I think it's mostly because they kept the same XP installation for years and years and years and years and years and years. Just installing updates can take a crapload of space if you let it, since it makes a backup of the original files in every instance.
Yeah. What sucks the most is that I know it's going to happen any time, now :(
Were the boards all purchased at the same time? If the one that you're using is newer it might have a different batch of capacitors. Hopefully.
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I think so. They're all HP xw4100 Workstations that were donated to my school at the same time and had the same specs. Nobody used them so I ended up getting three.
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Yeah, that looks like a widely affected model. Very ouch. :(
Sometimes you'll get lucky and get a system that had a warranty replacement done or be lucky enough for the company to give a shit. (a local college here that I worked at had a ton of affected IBM machines that they sent out to get replaced -- IBM did a free, out-of-warranty replacement of the motherboards). As for the latter, though, considering how "well" HP's handled what should have been a recall-level condition involving several laptop motherboards with a worse-than-Xbox 360 failure rate (the dv1000, dv6000, and dv9000 are all pretty much guaranteed to fail), I don't think the latter would be an option. It would be worth a shot if your last system goes, I guess.
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Oh wow :( I'll probably just end up getting a new desktop eventually, though (this one can't even run Mass Effect). Depends on how well The Apartment Hunt goes.
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Fortunately, you can build decent systems fairly cheaply now. And you can always use your precious XP while you save up for a real OS. <3
Let me know if you need some help getting something together or picking anything out when you're ready for that.
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Man, it always impresses me how willing you are to help us out with computer stuff.
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Capcom.
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Man, it always impresses me how willing you are to help us out with computer stuff.
I ARE PRETTY AWESOME. ;D
But yeah...I like you guys, so there you go.
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Seconding what Bobbias said, I'm surprised to tolerate me at all.
I am going fucking ape shit trying to navigate the GNC website so I can get a job. First of all, the fucking "careers" section isn't even accessible via the front page, you NEED to google "GNC careers" in order to even reach the page. Then it forces you to start an account with the sight, which I do, but it's evidently NOT the right account.
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I hate how it's socially unacceptable to not want to chug a beer. I have a fucking awful stomach (can't eat breakfast because my stomach usually hurts too much by then, I'm rarely hungry because of it) so if I try to drink ANYTHING too fast it will upset it.
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So my Wiimote just failed. Sometimes the lights will blink. Sometimes one or two of the lights will be on solid, other times a single light will be lit at half brightness, but it won't turn on and sync with the system.
Seriously, Nintendo, what the fuck? I have controllers that are older than me that still work perfectly. The originally controller for my Xbox 360 -- the granddaddy of hardware failure -- still works perfectly. One of my PS2 controllers went through considerable abuse and it still works great. Even my N64 has two controllers that work well, and those are known to have crappy analog sticks.
So, again, what the flying fuck? It wouldn't be so bad if the Wiimotes weren't the most expensive console controllers in this generation. Glad they seem to be the least reliable ones as well (judging from how many relevant results that "broken wiimote" seems to generate, mixed in with some anger-fueled hyperbole).
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Those things are seriously more expensive than they should be :/
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Pretty much all of the controllers are. It's unreal.
With the Wiimote, in particular, the added cost of batteries is just insane. I killed a pair of AAs in about 8 hours of playing Trauma Team. In contrast, I'm probably over the 30 hour mark on my 360 controller. The Wiimote gets more life in certain games that don't use all of its features, but considering how long the PS3 controller lasts on a small Li-Ion pack with many of the same features (the only thing that a Wiimote has that a DualShock 3 doesn't have is an infrared LED...oooh, what a power drain those things are!) it seems kind of ridiculous to me.
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Well, Li-ion batteries have better Specific Energy than Ni-Cd or other common batteries for that sort of thing, which means that with the same amount of material in the battery, it will last considerably longer than a Ni-Cd would (Wikipedia says that Li-Ion batteries have a Specific Energy between 100-250 W.h/kg, while Ni-Cd batteries have between 40-60 W.h/kg)
Which is why a lot of electronics use the Li-ion batteries.
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The thing is, controllers should not have a high current draw. Alkaline cells should work far better than Li-Ions or NiMH batteries in that sort of use. In the Xbox 360 controller, for example, using alkaline AA batteries will last twice as long as a Li-Ion battery pack will. The PS3 controller uses an internal Li-Ion pack and it doesn't last nearly long as a Xbox 360 controller with alkaline AAs.
If Li-Ion or NiMH batteries last longer in the Wiimote than alkalines, Nintendo is doing something horribly, horrible wrong. Controllers simply should not have that high of a current draw. If they do, using alkalines shouldn't even be an option.
There are other signs to indicate that Nintendo is doing something horribly, horribly wrong even aside from that. Wiimotes do a good job of draining batteries even when they're off.
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The thing is, controllers should not have a high current draw. Alkaline cells should work far better than Li-Ions or NiMH batteries in that sort of use. In the Xbox 360 controller, for example, using alkaline AA batteries will last twice as long as a Li-Ion battery pack will. The PS3 controller uses an internal Li-Ion pack and it doesn't last nearly long as a Xbox 360 controller with alkaline AAs.
If Li-Ion or NiMH batteries last longer in the Wiimote than alkalines, Nintendo is doing something horribly, horrible wrong. Controllers simply should not have that high of a current draw. If they do, using alkalines shouldn't even be an option.
There are other signs to indicate that Nintendo is doing something horribly, horribly wrong even aside from that. Wiimotes do a good job of draining batteries even when they're off.
How that is possible I don't even know but yeah that is all kinds of fail.
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There's always going to be a little bit of a trickle discharge when it comes to any electronics, particularly more "intelligent" ones. For instance, the Wiimote, X360, and PS3 controllers all have circuitry that has to sense whether the user is holding the power button.
The problem is that, out of the three, the Wiimote seems to draw an unnecessarily large amount of power for that simple check. In my experience, I can keep batteries in my second Xbox 360 controller for months without an issue. If my Wiimote (well, back when it f'ing worked) had a set of batteries in it for a few months they would be nearly dead, if not completely dead.
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(judging from how many relevant results that "broken wiimote" seems to generate, mixed in with some anger-fueled hyperbole).
You have to acknowledge all the assholes tossing their controllers into walls, but yeah those things are not solid at all. After the N64 sticks nothing shocks me. My god did those things suck.
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Most of that was from when the Wii first came out. If you search for that, you'll see a lot of posts about strange issues, most notably accelerometer issues. Particularly disturbing is the fact that the accelerometer issues can be resolved by -- get this -- setting the Wiimote on a table and smacking it.
Yeah, that's quality right there!
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I loled pretty hard. I suppose the Nintendium mines are running dry.
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You have to acknowledge all the assholes tossing their controllers into walls, but yeah those things are not solid at all. After the N64 sticks nothing shocks me. My god did those things suck.
Agreed, it made me sad that they died so quickly since the N64 had quite a few fun games.
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I managed to get very lucky and get an N64 controller that was barely used (in ~2005, no less!). The analog stick was amazingly tight on it. My second controller isn't quite as good, but it's far from the worst one I've used.
Similarly, I managed to get a Genesis controller (once again, around 2005) that had every appearance of being new. There were zero signs of wear on it.
Not too shabby. It seems like I'm lucky with previous generation systems. Not so much with the newer ones. :x
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Yeah sound like a partial short with the wii-mote Spec (oh yay for electronics stuffs I can understands :D [Next Block of tech school is Power Supplies as an off topic thing])
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Can't be a "partial" short, either there's a short or there isn't, and honestly, if there was a short, the thing would likely just not work at all.
It's probably nintendo using cheaper parts that draw more current...
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I'm just pissed at almost everything. I've yet to hear from any place that I've applied too and no one is hiring. I'm praying I can get a seasonal job, if not I'm going to go fucking insane.
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Apple's iOS performance cycle is kind of annoying.
I have an iPod touch 4th gen that's currently running iOS 5.0. It went from being a silky-smooth device with iOS 4 to lagging a bit. Scrolling is noticably choppier in most cases, sometimes the SpringBoard performs less-than-adequately. Sometimes, when I go to unlock the device with the home button, it thinks that I'm double-tapping the button and brings up the iPod controls and camera button. Nice. Then I remembered going from iPhone OS 2 to 3 on my old company iPhone 3G. Same deal: more lag (though iOS 5 at least feels like a more feature-packed update than iPhone OS 3).
So, it looks like Apple supports devices through two updates. If the iPhone 3G is any indication, iOS 6 is going to make my iPod unusably slow. Oh well, being able to keep a device updated for 2-3 years really isn't too bad. It's about what I'd expect. I still love my little Pod. :p
On another note, my Windows Phone keeps getting faster and smoother. It was always silky smooth, but now software that used to be laggy (like the official Twitter app...ugh) now runs well, and all apps come back from sleep mode almost instantly now. I suspect that they've made substantial improvements to the .NET runtimes in the OS. But, still, it kicks ass that running a phone OS update adds a ton of features to the standard software without affecting how the phone performs while at the same time improving the performance of third-party applications.
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I wants a smartphone T.T
Also, i just noticed something weird about how the forum is rendering in my chrome:
(http://i.imgur.com/ompPcl.png) (http://imgur.com/ompPc)
If you look at the post writing area, it's really wide, and overflows into the right side of the page... I know chrome can drag multiline text areas larger, but I never touched it, and when I type long lines, it "breaks" SMF and doesn't wrap my text...
(http://i.imgur.com/9cg7Xl.png) (http://imgur.com/9cg7X)
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yeah, I'm getting that too.
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D: SPECTERE BROKE SMF!
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Oh no!
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Yeah, that's happening on IE9 as well. Really weird.
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Okay, so I'm driving home and I'm in my small community, I look down and see a wasp on my lap, so I reach for the towel on my back seat. During this I forgot that the road curves slightly and I ended up hitting a mailbox, said mailbox was actually a group of them and they smashed my rear view mirror, my passenger side window, and my rear passenger side window.
I just sat there and cursed for a while afterwards.
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Shit, sorry to hear that. That blows. :(
Did it do any major body damage outside of the rear-view mirror (you can pick those up relatively cheaply at a junkyard, as long as you can get them off fairly easily)? Replacing the glass is far easier than trying to make a smashed door panel look right.
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I mean it's a side Mirror, so I hope I can find. I'm more worried about the windows, especially the back side (It's an odd window, I KNEW the second I saw them they would be a bitch to replace, so it's time to find out).
Man, I really hope I land that job so I can unfuck my car (it also needs an oil change, new breaks, and a new tire).
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I'm sure you can find it. It's amazing what kind of gems you can uncover at the junkyard, especially if it's a fairly common model. What kind of car do you drive?
My car seems to sense when I'm trying to save up for stuff. The exhaust just broke on it the other day. My dad busted out the flux welder to mend the pipe (AGAIN; this is the third time that's happened...but at least the pipe wasn't dragging on the ground this time) but I'm going to need to replace the entire system. Hopefully the catalytic converter can be salvaged. I also need new tires. I was riding on a shoddy suspension (as in, the car would bottom out if you pushed down on the rear bumper) for a while and that wrecked my already-bad tires. I had two good tires on it, but they both got destroyed by potholes, so I'm riding on a couple of junkyard specials in the front. I just need it to last through winter, until I can afford a decent down payment on another car. After that, if it still has some life in it, it would be kinda nice to find a racetrack with an open track day and take it for a spin. That car's cornering abilities still amaze me (1995 Saturn SC2, by the way).
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However, the keys won't stay unbusted >:[
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I can't believe what is going on in this country...everything I wanted to not believe is coming true...I know this belongs to the youtube page but this honestly scares the shit out of me.
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It does make me very very very angry.
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We do actually have some really terrible laws in place and we've given up a lot of rights in order to stay "safe". I honestly don't like the direction our country is heading, and it seems like a hopeless situation.
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I can't believe what is going on in this country...everything I wanted to not believe is coming true...I know this belongs to the youtube page but this honestly scares the shit out of me.
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It does make me very very very angry.
I heard there was an addendum that explicitly says that it doesn't apply to citizens, unlike SOPA or PROTECT IP...
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Are you sure about that? I thought it blatantly stated that they could.
http://www.salon.com/2011/12/15/obama_to_sign_indefinite_detention_bill_into_law/singleton/
this isn't clear about it, but it does seem that way.
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Just had to restart my PC like 5 times so I could get my internet working and get itunes running (which refuse to run at first, and when I tried to delete the process it refused to stop) so that was a pain.
Also I need a recommendation for a wireless card now, my current set up is a joke I can no longer stand, but I don't know where to start.
It pisses me off how common drunk driving is in my friends circle/with people I know. I have no real problem with people having a couple beers and driving, but there's a shocking amount of people who just get arguable drunk and then drive. I mean, it doesn't happen that often but as of now I have 6 friends that I can think off of the top of my head who have gotten into accidents (3 of them totaled their cars, but no one else was involved or hurt too badly) and it just pisses me off how casual people are over it. I also hate how I feel sort of preachy about it, and I'm sure as hell guilty of getting a bit too drunk and driving, but I feel the need to vent about it.
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I totally agree. I've nearly gotten run off the road by drunken idiots who decided to get behind the wheel a few times.
I wonder if those morons get charged for manslaughter if they kill someone while they drive under the influence? Because, if not, they fucking should.
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I think they typically get charged with vehicular manslaughter, yeah. Though there's history in at least California of drunk drivers getting charged with murder after they've killed someone.
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Depends on the situation, but yeah they generally frown pretty heavily on it and will charge the drunk driver for anyone he hurts. There was a case where a really wealthy guy killed a kid and ended up barely doing time, but that's a rarity.
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I think they typically get charged with vehicular manslaughter, yeah.
Good.
There was a case where a really wealthy guy killed a kid and ended up barely doing time, but that's a rarity.
Don't even get me started on that "buying your way out of prison" crap. Do the crime, do the time. Just like the rest of us.
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Sad but true, wealthy people do easily get away with crimes.
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Single again...girlfriend wanted to be with someone she knew for years...did the right thing and we broke up...really hurt at the moment.
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:( I'm sorry, man.
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:( I'm sorry, man.
Thanks jupi
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Yeah, that's really shitty, sorry man.
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Single again...girlfriend wanted to be with someone she knew for years...did the right thing and we broke up...really hurt at the moment.
Damn :(
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Sorry to hear that, Nick. :(
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Tried to remove the keycaps on my laptop to clean some crud out from the mechanism... Apparently broke the mechanism on S and F.... Anyone know where I can get replacement mechanisms? This is REALLY annoying already.
Found http://www.laptopkey.com/ and ordered some replacements. They'd better arrive quickly.
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Scissor switches are fairly durable, but the way that they're held on can strip off the pegs easily if you try to remove them. I went through that with my first Dell laptop keyboard -- I tried to pull one of the keycaps to get something out of the keyboard and it never went on right again.
Many thanks for that site, by the way! I actually know someone who needs new keycaps right now.
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Well what happened was that I seem to have wrecked the small plastic flange thing covering the middle spot where the pivot point is supposed to be, so the whole mechanism is mesed up. Happened to 2 of the 3 keys I popped off, and the one it didnt happen to (D) still broke a little bit (one of the small pegs that the key cap connects to broke off... But the cap is still held on fine)
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I don't think I've ever had that happen. I guess it all depends on how you get the key off, really. Regardless, it's highly annoying.
On my original keyboard I lost two of the pegs on one of the keys, so it stayed on but kinda flopped around until I finally snagged it and accidentally broke it off.
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http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/onplj/feds_shut_down_megaupload/
Fucking MPAA and all that.
I think this means the MPAA isn't going to back off without one hell of a fight.
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Just fucking great. My new keys come... The S is had to hit and barely registers, and one of the little metal tabs that holds the mechanism in place for the F key broke off entirely, leaving the F permanently fucked. Looks like I've gotta order a whole new fucking keyboard.
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The people who have beaten "you mad?" into the ground. I know how this already sounds "hurr durr you sound mad" but it's honestly just sad at this point. I've been playing Tribes Ascend a lot, and in one game I had two people constantly asking each other if they mad. Like, the conversation was literally "u mad? no, are you mad?" for like 10 lines of text. I spammed the Quite command until they just stopped talking.
Then today I had a guy who was playing tech (a class that can set up a stationary turret, used largely for defense) who had been killing me a lot since I was making a lot of attempts at trying to get our flag back from the enemy (we had each others flags and each team went incredibly heavy on defense). This went on for quite a while and eventually this pretty good guy on our team managed to help me wrestle the flag free and finally cap it. We then cap again and win that match, and the guy playing tech asks me for the next few matches if I'm upset.
The saying has lost all meaning now. It was funny for a short while when used right, now people just spam it because they are not very clever.
Oh yeah, and something else unrelated. A while ago I was playing bad company 2 and this guy would charge me with a knife, so I would shoot him to death. He did this several times and would laugh in this awkward passive aggressive way after every failed attempt. Basically the mentality of "if I lose who cares I'm dicking around, and if I win then you're terrible" just makes me rage.
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My one friend is really starting to piss me off to the point I want to fucking scream at her. She has been avoiding me and not really talking to me when another friend of mine is getting sick of her bullshit.
My friend's thoughts:
She used me when she came out to see me.
She's using her current boyfriend.
She is a fake.
Honestly I want to tell it to her face but at the same time I want it all to crash down on her.
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Missed my test today. :/ This is going to fuck me up hard. I hope I can figure out a way to salvage this class because if I can't, I'm in huge trouble.
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My apartment got broken into tonight while I was out drinking with some friends. Now I'm out a laptop and a few DVD's, although everything else is as it was. So that's pretty awesome.
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My one friend is really starting to piss me off to the point I want to fucking scream at her. She has been avoiding me and not really talking to me when another friend of mine is getting sick of her bullshit.
Not that I'm huge into distancing yourself from other people, but you should either talk to her about it or just walk away. People like that can be a liability.
Also over the past two days I went in for a job interview and evidently failed the personality test for the second time at the same place. Then this sunday I drove all the way across Florida to a salvage yard that was closed when we got there. It was about a 7-8 hour drive each way. Finally got a ton of sleep and honestly feel better though.
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Not that I'm huge into distancing yourself from other people, but you should either talk to her about it or just walk away. People like that can be a liability.
Noted and considering she has been talking shit and bitching about me behind my back fuck it I am done with her. I went through 8 months of training to get myself to operational Air Force and don't have time for her little fucking games.
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Man, been there, done that.
Seriously, fuck her. If she tries to apologize just do yourself a favor and tell her to fuck off. People like that never change.
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She won't Ian. What I have noticed from her is that she is in her own little happy world and thinks she can do what ever the hell she wants to.
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Let her. People like that always get their eventually, whether it be their entire world crashing on them, everyone abandoning them, etc.
It'll definitely happen.
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UGH. I'm in the Chicago area for a business trip, and what happens? I start vomiting uncontrollably at 4 AM. Had to push everything back half a day, so now I'm going to wind up getting home 4-5 hours later than anticipated.
I think it was something I ate, as everything pretty much stopped after my stomach was completely empty, and after taking a short nap to make up for missing sleep it looks like my face has some color again, and my lips don't look tan anymore.
I still have zero appetite and am VERY food shy right now, but at least I can keep fluids down.
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UGH. I'm in the Chicago area for a business trip, and what happens? I start vomiting uncontrollably at 4 AM. Had to push everything back half a day, so now I'm going to wind up getting home 4-5 hours later than anticipated.
I think it was something I ate, as everything pretty much stopped after my stomach was completely empty, and after taking a short nap to make up for missing sleep it looks like my face has some color again, and my lips don't look tan anymore.
I still have zero appetite and am VERY food shy right now, but at least I can keep fluids down.
:<
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Indeed. Oh well, I'm at home now and my appetite has (somewhat) returned.
On the "bright" side, I lost about 12 pounds in two days. Yeah, that's probably not healthy.
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It's not uncommon at all for people to lose weight after being sick. You'll more then likely gain most of it back.
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Yeah, I know, I've experienced that before. A lot of what is lost is water, really.
And believe me, having to work a few hours after vomiting like that isn't fun. After a while I wound up getting dizzy from dehydration. Fortunately, I had bought a 6-pack of water the night before that happened, so after about four of those suckers I was fine.
Then I lost my voice.
But that's back now. Thank goodness.
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Well try not to die, we still need you to keep paying for the domain :P
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Thanks for the kind words. xD
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My dad has basically been driving my truck around in 4th gear on the interstate because he didn't want to put it into overdrive, and he was surprised when it was overheating.
Christ my truck is literally going to die soon.
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My dad has basically been driving my truck around in 4th gear on the interstate because he didn't want to put it into overdrive, and he was surprised when it was overheating.
Christ my truck is literally going to die soon.
Smack him in his stupid bromechanical face.
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My dad has basically been driving my truck around in 4th gear on the interstate because he didn't want to put it into overdrive, and he was surprised when it was overheating.
uhhh WHY?!
What possible reason could he have for not putting it in overdrive?
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EDIT: I've talked with my teacher and I still have a chance to pick things up and hopefully pass. Although I may still end up with a suspension. If that is the case I will be talking with the dean in order to try to resolve things.
I'm probably fucked in one of my classes now.
I've got the final test today, but that's not what's bothering me.
Basically, we have 12 labs for the class.
1-10 are small, worth 10 marks each. I didn't hand a bunch of them in because I've been having some trouble with motivation and such. Lab 11 is just there as pre-calculations for lab 12. Lab 12 is worth 100 marks by itself, because it combines everything you learn in labs 1-10 as well as stuff from the lectures.
I misunderstood how you were supposed to do some stuff for lab 12 and now I'm fucked because I can't write a proper analysis report for it. My analysis is due today at noon, right before my final test. I've been up all night trying to figure things out, but I don't think I'm going to be able to finish it.
I wouldn't be so pissed though if all that would result from that was failing the class. Unfortunately if I fail this class I'm in a LOT of trouble with the school. I'm on academic probation right now and if I fail any class or achieve less than a 60 average, they tell me not to come back for 2 semesters. I can't afford to have that happen. I'm in a 3 year program, I'm in my second semester of my 4th year. If I don't finish things by the 5th year I have to re-apply. That means that any courses that have changed too much won't be a transferable credit and despite having passed them once, I'll have to do a bunch of classes over again. Not to mention the cost of having to take them over again.
I'm pissed because I don't think I can convince my teacher, who also happens to be the course coordinator, to give me a chance to bring my mark up to a pass. And on top of that I just found out that my final mark in the one class I was relying on to keep my average is not high enough to save me if both of my other marks are 50's.
Looks like I'm going to be talking to the dean sometime about all of this. I'm feeling somewhere between freaking out and breaking things right now.
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Well, that was resolved.
Now apparently my grandfather has cancer. Bowel cancer that's moved to his liver.
:/
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Triplepost. My grandfather died in... I think January 2013. Also, I just (probably, still gotta hear from insurance) totaled my mom's car :<
Went out for coffee, decided to keep driving around because I didn't want to go home after getting coffee. Hit a bad patch on the road and spun out. I'm fine though.
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I just had to explain variable scope to an "experienced programmer."
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Somewhere between anger and amusement, but spambots.
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Somewhere between anger and amusement, but spambots.
+1.0e10000
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I fucking hate Arch Linux. I fucking hate systemd. Thanks to a mixture of the two of them (systemd for being shit and Arch for using it in the first place) this site just went down for about fifteen minutes.
I need to restart that little project where I switch this site over to a non-systemd Gentoo install.
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Well, on the bright side, I don't think anyone was using the site when it went down... :<
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BUT WE'LL NEVER KNOW, NOW WILL WE?
But yeah, you're probably right.
Edit: Also, this is kind of belated, but sorry about your grandfather. I didn't see that until now. :x
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Thanks. I was in a bad place for a while, but I've gotten past that now.
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I just got my ps4!
Why am I in the angry thread?
No psone classics available on this thing? Really? Not even joking, it was one of the bigger reasons I wanted to get this thing. Well, 95% of the reason I got it is for street fighter 5, but the other 5% was psone games. Yeah, yeah, I have a working ps2, AND working classic fat ps1, but damnit, would be nice to have some of those games on the ps4.
Not really enraged, just disappointed.
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hi
i'm angry that this thread has 30 more pages than the other thread
i'm also always angry in general
how are you, ASSHOLES
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The music group I've been playing with is falling apart because the original founder -- who has been on an indefinite hiatus -- suddenly showed up at a planning meeting, took it over, then basically shat on the progress we've made and told us we were doing things her way or no way at all. Her behaviour is actually even shittier than just that, but I'm glossing over a lot of politics. Chances are pretty good it will cease to exist entirely.
Suffice it to say, I'm kind of sick of having good things in my life ruined by narcissists.
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The music group I've been playing with is falling apart because the original founder -- who has been on an indefinite hiatus -- suddenly showed up at a planning meeting, took it over, then basically shat on the progress we've made and told us we were doing things her way or no way at all. Her behaviour is actually even shittier than just that, but I'm glossing over a lot of politics. Chances are pretty good it will cease to exist entirely.
Suffice it to say, I'm kind of sick of having good things in my life ruined by narcissists.
I would have told her to fuck off.
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Back Pain.
I went to a walk in clinic yesterday, and the ER today since nothing got better and I'd like to be able to work.
They gave me cyclobenzaprine, narproxen yesterday, and they gave me valium and hydrocodon (vicodin), today.
I don't like popping pills, but goddamnit, I want to be able to do regular people stuff like, standing up without being in agony, or walking without falling down from pain, or iunno, sit in a chair without pain.
Both the clinic and the ER people didn't give me a clearcut answer as to what the issue was, but both didn't recommend an xray, so, im hoping this fucker goes away soon. I don't like missing work, and I don't like popping pills.
All of this, from sleeping funny? I don't know, I did no physical activity that could have done this to my back.
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Until today (well, yesterday evening, technically) I've never punched a wall in anger before. Fucking ouch.
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Until today (well, yesterday evening, technically) I've never punched a wall in anger before. Fucking ouch.
...did you not play Halo 2 back in the day?
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I did. Most of the people that play that just make me roll my eyes.
I legit don't think I've ever been as furious as I was yesterday. Stupid work stuff.
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I skipped over H3 and played Reach and Halo 4. Not religiously like I did back in High School with H2. I just reeeeeally enjoyed forge. It's a great creative outlet IMO and a lot of fun with friends.
Guessing you got in trouble for something stupid?
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I've more or less skipped over every Halo after 2, haha (in competitive multiplayer, anyway; the only campaign I haven't played yet is 5, but I hear I'm not missing much).
I have played some Destiny, which--let's be honest--might as well be Halo. And man, it's so much easier to dominate the leaderboards on console than it is on PC.
As for my rage, it's pretty much a culmination of dealing with years of incompetence, bad management, double standards, being blamed for other people's shortcomings, getting a significant amount of projects dumped on me all at once, and having almost no time off (I get a whopping two weeks vacation for a high stress job, no paid overtime, and no comp time for the dozens of extra hours I work per week).
And yeah, I completely lost my shit last night. Like, it was so bad that it honestly doesn't even feel like it really happened. I've never had that happen before.
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Reserved for a wall of text. Life hit me hard this week.
Ok, so a bit of background. My mom's been going through a lot of troubles with the health care system. She's got a lot of health problems (enough that she stopped working because of them), but most of the doctors she's seen have basically treated her like a drug addict. Beyond that, some of them even lied in her medical records. So after years of this she's starting to get to the point where she thinks people are out to get her and stuff. It's bad enough that she should really be seeing someone about it.
When I got back home last Sunday, my parents informed me that my brother had a fight with my mom and left. He hasn't even been back to pick up his stuff. On top of that, the fucking assholes at my parents insurance decided that I don't qualify for my parents rates or whatever (I've been on their insurance because I dont have my own vehicle), so they made my parents sign something basically saying I can't drive any of their vehicles now. So I can't legally drive myself to work any more. (Remember, Canada, insurance is mandatory.)
My girlfriend and I were planning on moving in together when my GF's lease is up in june, and I was planning on buying my dad's car off him then so I had a vehicle. Now everything's been forced to happen quite a bit earlier than expected. I'm gonna have to figure out what my dad's car should be worth so I can pay him a reasonable price (he needs the money), I'll have to get insurance so I can actualy drive the thing, and it looks like I'm gonna be looking for a place to stay with my brother for a while (he's been looking for 1 bedrooms, but hasn't had any luck so far).
To put things in perspective, I've never moved in my life, and this is not exactly how I wanted to move out. I've got a few k saved up, but I'm pretty sure that the car will pretty much eat all that. I haven't been budgeting, and I've been eating out for basically every meal (I work 3:45pm to midnight, so my parents are in bed by the time I get home, and there's usually nothing I can just throw into a bag for a lunch... and I don't cook either, so lunch is fast food too).
Why the fuck did all this shit have to happen now? I had shit planned out for june, not feb/march :/
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Just move here. We have a spare bedroom, I'm selling my car, and I know a few places that are hiring!
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Well the job is the one thing that isn't changing. I got pretty lucky as far as factory jobs go. Unionized, pays well, and not obsessed with hitting a quota. I'm planning on staying there for a while.
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What level does my technomancy have to be in order to competently use linux?
People shit on Windows Vista, but I had no issues with it personally. Windows 10 is fucking cancer and it's gotten so deep it's preventing me from even installing my physical copy of Windows 7.
I'm in an endless loop of installing updates, restarting, updates failing, uninstalling updates NEW UPDATES RESTARTING, and its driving me nuts. However it is preventing me from installing win 7 from the desktop, or going into the bios and booting to update it fails, or FORMATTING MY DRIVE FAILS SO I CANT FRESH INSTALL. I've tried multiple things to fix the problem, the automatic tool doesn't work (i dont think any microsoft tool has ever helped me in my entire life tbh), and ive tried things involving going into the .cmd, which didn't work.
The only solution I can think of is to physically remove my SSD, to remove the cancer from my computer, install a brand fucking new SSD and install win7 fresh on that thing.
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Let me just say that there is a very good reason that people make "Oh, THIS will be the Year of the Linux Desktop" jokes year after year. The Linux desktop ecosystem feels flakier to me now than it did in 2005. There are too many geeky alpha males vying for dominance right now for me to recommend that option to anyone (sysvinit vs systemd, Xorg vs Wayland vs Mir, and both of those are absolutely HUGE parts of the user experience and OS). If all you want to do is browse the web, grab a Chromebook (Linux-based, but it's a very tightly designed system). If not, and you still want to move away from Windows, look into getting a Mac.
If you're trying to do anything from within Windows 10 itself it's definitely not going to work. You can't format the OS drive in any version of Windows while the system is running since that would lead to Critical Existence Failure of the environment that's currently loaded. You also won't be able to initiate the Windows 7 install from within Windows 10, as in-place downgrades aren't supported (and even if they are, they'd be a very bad idea--I'm even skeptical about in-place upgrades).
That certainly doesn't mean that Windows 10 is preventing you from installing an operating system. It's a safety measure. Trying to install an older version of Windows over a newer one can cause a ton of problems. There are a lot of subtle things that can change regarding the disk layout and filesystem that can cause the older, outdated Windows 7 tools to not work properly against newer installations.
To install an older system, your best bet is to boot directly from disc, clear the system of all partitions (not just formatting, as that will keep the newer, likely incompatible boot and recovery partitions intact) and reinstall from scratch.
First and foremost, make a backup of any data that you care about.
Next, to actually wipe the partition table and more or less start from scratch, you'll have to boot from the Windows 7 media. Your system will probably have a key, such as F12, that you can press to get a boot menu. Failing that, you can rearrange the drive order in the BIOS config so that your optical drive is above your SSD in the boot process. When the disc starts to boot, tap a key to boot from the disc.
When the setup program loads, do a custom install. When you get to the section where you configure your partitions, click on the "Drive Options (Advanced)" text. This will add some additional buttons that allow you to add and remove partitions. Click on each partition on your system disk, click Delete, and accept the prompt. If you're at all uncomfortable about this step and are worried about deleting the wrong ones, power your system off and disconnect your other hard drives or SSDs.
When you're done, the only item that should be left for that specific disk is "Unallocated Space." As long as that is selected, Windows will take care of everything else when you click the Next button. You won't have to create or format the partition manually. After that's finished, you'll have a fresh drive and a new Windows 7 install.
One thing to bear in mind is that Windows 7 is no longer receiving mainstream support--it's currently in an extended support window until January 14, 2020. It will continue to receive security updates during this time, but feature updates are not guaranteed.
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Well they aren't exactly giving me a choice, ive tried multiple attempts at fixing this "updates failed uninstalling updates" problem. Only thing I can think of that "should" work is reinstalling the OS. It won't even let me reset the pc.
I'm also aware they're going to cut support for win7, but that's years off and by then maybe they'll have an operating system that works. Seeing how win8 turned out and went to win10, I'll probably have to learn linux by then.
Anyway what you're saying is
(http://i.imgur.com/qcLm6AF.png)
This little partition needs to be removed before I can install win7? All of the stuff I care about is on my other two drives so I have no issue wiping the C drive clean, just need to reinstall drivers and a media player or two.
I'd take another option if I had it. Might look for another solution or two to this windows update problem, but I haven't had any luck. I have had some error when I go to shut down (because win 10 won't let me use sleep mode LOL) it gives me an error "the exception breakpoint has been reached blablabla" that i have to click out of before it'll shut down. Perhaps that's the root of all of these problems?
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It's really not a matter of learning Linux, it's a matter of waiting for people to figure out what the hell they're trying to make it into. That could take decades. It looked like things were starting to stabilize in the late 00's, but good god. It's more of a fucking mess now than it ever was. The only reason that I even run it is because I have the choice to use a more advanced distribution (Gentoo) that doesn't chain me to any particular thing and gives me the flexibility to move back and forth.
If Gentoo (and similar distributions) didn't exist, I wouldn't touch Linux with a 100 foot pole--I'd be using BSD for what I currently use Linux for. This is from someone who used it on my oft-used laptop exclusively for a few years around 2005-2006.
And yeah, I'm kind of a cynic about it now. I've already documented a little bit of my experiences with systemd (https://spectere.net/forums/index.php?topic=1877.0) (a staple of so-called "modern" Linux) in one of the news posts on this site.
I wouldn't completely discount Microsoft, either. They've been making rapid improvements to Windows 10 since its inception. The Anniversary Update installer was problematic (I experienced moderate to severe performance issues on two of four machines, but a clean install fixed them entirely), but every update I've installed beyond that has been solid. Crossing my fingers that the Creators Update installs without much hassle. It seems like it's legitimately getting better with every update. If you used the original Windows 10 build and have been following it through since the beginning, you might still be seeing echoes of the Anniversary Update's wonkiness. A reinstall may very well permanently resolve the update issue (if you decide to do that instead, use Microsoft's Media Creation Tool (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10) to either burn a disk or build a bootable USB stick).
Regarding the sleep mode situation, the number 1 reason that Windows has issues going to sleep is because of 1) drivers and 2) software. The OS doesn't really have much to do with that. All it basically does is go through the installed drivers (just about all of which are of varying quality, written by third-parties) and tell each driver to put the hardware that it controls to sleep. If the driver says LOL NOPE, Windows can't safely put the system to sleep. For example, at one point I was foolish enough to buy and install a Creative X-Fi in my last PC. The Creative Audio driver consistently prevented my PC from falling asleep. It was perfectly fine before that.
It goes beyond that, too. I've fixed countless PCs and can say that with my experience in the NT line (which includes 2000 all the way through 10), almost all of the major issues I've seen have been caused by either hardware failure or by third-parties (whether it be software, a crappy default OS install, or drivers). Inevitably, Microsoft always get blamed for it. It's just like when the exploding battery debacle happened around 2006-2007. Sony didn't get blamed for producing faulty cells, Dell got blamed for performing due diligence and being the first (of many, mind you) to recall the unsafe product.
If you do decide to stick with 7 then yeah, wipe out both of those partitions. Windows 7 won't understand what the Recovery Partition is (that was introduced as an OS feature in Windows 8) so it's basically pointless to have, and wiping out the system partition is always a good idea when reinstalling just to make sure that the old system is completely wiped out.
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Well I've been randomly trying these fixes involving command prompt, and sometimes something different will happen, but the result is always the same. OOPS COULDNT INSTALL UNINSTALLING LOL WANNA RESTART SO WE CAN FAIL AGAIN RESTARTING! Like it'll find corrupt stuff, but it never fixes everything, and every time I try it with whatever, command prompt stuff or ccleaner, it finds things, but then goes "oops didn't get it all captain, you're still fucked, hope you know what we didnt fix!" Which I don't because im not exactly that savvy, but no solutions on the internet seem to work either.
I'm to the point where on my next paycheck, im just going to buy a physical copy of win10 and install that thing fresh. Considering my computer seems to be so fucked right now that win10 refuses to even system restore or restart the pc, im literally afraid a fresh reboot with a new fresh physical copy won't work.
Should I even bother, or do you think its worth digging for an actual solution? If I blow $100.00 and it doesn't want to work, I'm going to live off the grid without internet or electricity or something.
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I wouldn't recommend dropping $100 on it. If you're having trouble with the media creation tool, I can always prep a memory stick or DVD when I get back to Ohio (currently vacationing in Texas, will be back this Saturday) and mail it to you. You already have the license and the media is going to be identical regardless.
If you specifically don't trust running the tool due to the state that your install is in, there is an option to have it just download an ISO image for you so that you can burn it with another utility. You also have the option of running it on another computer and prepping the media from there. I believe the only requirement is that the computer that you run the utility on has to be running Windows 7 or newer.
When things get too finicky, I tend to lean towards reinstalling as opposed to trying to fix it. Modern operating systems, regardless of what they are, are complex to the point that major issues tend to be terminal in one way or another. The fact that both Windows and macOS have been heavily emphasizing in-place upgrades lately is a large part of why things tend to go sour, I believe.
We're a lot better off now than we used to be. In my experience, I can get back up and running within an hour or two if I start from scratch. Windows, in particular, just isn't as much of a pain in the neck to get back to a usable state than it used to be in the XP era.
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So as long as I have my windows 7 disc/key im good? Because I have that.
But yeah, if you could send stuff over I'd super appreciate it. Send me a PM whenever you get back and I'll give you the address, and send me your paypal so I can compensate any cost to you.
No rush, I've been getting used to it, but watching videos on malware and shit had me concerned about my security not having had any updates in months and all.
In the past when I have a big problem, I just reinstall windows. Problem this time, windows forced me into upgrading to a new windows, so my old option was taken from me.
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Yeah, you'd use your Windows 7 key to activate Windows 10. My work laptop shipped with Windows 7 and I was able to just use that key to activate 10 when I did my last full reinstall. You won't need the disc at any point.
Also, I'm back home. PM sent! :D
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(http://i.imgur.com/wxViwNR.png)
FINALLY
speccy-poo you're a lifesaver. I didn't even do anything crazy, just installed windows, kept all files, and the updates (at least as of now, cant say for tomorrow or the next day) worked.
One final thing, my windows.old folder, anything I should dig up on that fucker before I delete it for using up too much space on my small SSD? I want to say 95% of my important stuff is on my other HDD's, but there's random stuff that saves to C, and im unsure if certain things like drivers and whatnot are lurking on that folder or just omitted from that move and stayed where they originally were.
*edit*
found a little quirk, nothing major though. I have 3 drives, one SSD where I put my os and drivers, and two HDD's. So, C, D, E, drives. I went to boot up ye ole battle.net and noticed heroes and overwatch needed to be installed, and then figured out my D drive was missing. Not a hard fix, went into disc management and re-scanned discs, and it just started working instantly, but how odd it would lose my D drive but my E drive was fine?
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Woo! Glad to hear that everything went well. ;D I wouldn't bother trying to keep anything from Windows.old, unless you have a bunch of custom fonts that you want to keep. Drivers require too much TLC to try to extract from a dead install that it's hardly worth it in my experience.
When you delete it, however, I'd highly recommend using the Disk Cleanup tool (go into My Computer, right-click your OS drive, click Properties, then click Disk Cleanup--you'll need to also click the "Clean up system files" button). If you try to delete it from Explorer, you'll run into a ton of permissions issues, since a bunch of those folders and files are using security IDs from the old install. You can clean it up manually, but it's much easier to just let Windows take care of it.
I can't say for sure what happened with the drive assignments, but my best guess is that your DVD drive took over the D mapping during install and the drive was simply never reassigned after the controller drivers were reinstalled. I have seen that happen before, but it's so easy to fix that I haven't bothered to nail down the exact cause of it.
(Also, sorry about the super-grubby CD case. I was pressed for time since I had to get to work, so I grabbed the first empty one I found on my shelf :P)
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Well my Sensei Raw mouse decided to call it quits today. Fucking unplugged my keyboard and suddenly the light started flashing and it just stopped working. I love being able to just say "fuck it" and buy a new mouse without thinking too much about the price, but still. I ended up buying the Sensei wireless because why not.
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I feel ya. My old SteelSeries 6Gv2 keyboard died a few days after its warranty expired. :/ My old WoW Cataclysm mouse (also by SteelSeries) seemed to have been made with extremely cheap microswitches. Considering I used it for one game (since it was way too big and heavy to comfortably use as a full-time mouse) there's no reason most of the switches should have died or started misfiring after a year of ownership.
I just wound up switching back to Logitech (mostly because of how long my Logitech Elite keyboard lasted despite it getting the absolute shit beat out of it). Currently using the G710+ keyboard and a G600 MMO mouse. No regrets, and both of those were both cheaper and more comfortable than the equivalent Razer/SteelSeries devices.
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873041237074366468[/tweet]]I had a bad time tonight. (http://[tweet)
But at least I'm in one piece at my destination now!
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Holy shit, you out trumped trump with that twitter rant. Also, wow, that IS some shitty UX design.
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Yeaaaaaaaaaaaah. I'm actually surprised at how good the routing is. In my experience it sometimes even picks better and/or more logical routes than Google Maps. However, the UX actually makes it unsafe to use on the road. Makes perfect sense.
On the way home I'm going to try out the iOS version of Google Maps. It may not integrate as well, but hopefully it'll be a better user experience. It sure as hell couldn't get worse.
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I've never used an iPhone, so unfortunately I can't give any input on how google maps might work out on it. I haven't had much of a problem with google maps on android, but who knows how it works on ios.
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It worked exceptionally well! Tight, concise UI and just enough options. I particularly like the ability to only enable voice for alerts, as I strongly dislike the constant yapping that many GPS implementations like to do. I generally know where I'm going--the main reason I like to use a GPS for trips is so that I can sneak around traffic jams and heavy construction--so hearing "continue on I-80 East" over and over again drives me up the wall.
The lane indicators are a helpful feature that Apple Maps is sorely missing. It's not quite as visible as the split-screen view that Garmin devices display, but it's easy enough for me to read.
I imagine it probably works much the same on iOS as it does on Android. I like it.
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I HAVE NO FUCKING INCOME FUCK
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Apologies if anyone tried to access this site while it was down today. I made the unholy mistake of updating the installed packages on freyr (the spectere.net web server) and systemd then proceeded to refuse to start or restart any services (though I could stop them). I couldn't figure out how to fix it, so I rebooted the server and now it's running smoothly once again.
Oh, this is the anger thread, isn't it? Alright. Here we go.
Clearly, the "developers" of systemd are trying to recreate the days of Windows 95, where error messages were unhelpful and obscure, and problems were too cryptic to be solved by any means other than rebooting your fucking production server. Fuck them, fuck their shitty software, and fuck the majority of Linux distributions for kowtowing to Red Hat and practically making it a standard.
If it didn't cost twice as much for *BSD-based VPSs, I'd switch over in a heartbeat. In the meantime, I'm considering just paying more and once again considering switching everything over to Gentoo. The shitty little Core 2 Duo system in my basement has been running the same Gentoo installation for 6 years and I haven't had a hint of trouble with it. It's almost as if a simpler init system (sysvinit/OpenRC) is a better choice than a terribly implemented, poor man's imitation of the Windows service manager, containing all of said product's complexity (and then some) with none of the its benefits.
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Locked, per this news post (https://spectere.net/forums/index.php/topic,1913.0.html). Please create new topics instead. This will better facilitate the flow of conversation. Please be sure use the Angry ((https://spectere.net/forums/Themes/default/images/post/angry.gif)) message icon to convey your emotions. ;D