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The Chatterbox => Random Chat => Topic started by: Spectere on August 29, 2008, 01:54:56 PM
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(well, uh, Renard might get it :x)
Anyway, start talking, everyone.
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first reply
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Second.
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I hate you spectere.
I was waiting for more people to post so we could make it to 101, but you losers all went to bed.
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I was waiting for more people to post so we could make it to 101, but you losers all went to bed.
Bobbiowned. :)
Also, I always have a contingency plan in mind in case you guys ever have the nerve to do such a thing.
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generic "ohh mah gah paige von" post
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We're watching Freakazoid in my anime/video game club.
Yes, I know it doesn't fall into either category. But it's awesome.
Candleja----oh shi.
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Posting in a sticky.
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ND FUCKING LEE
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I just gotsta get on the first page nukka.
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Holy shit balls a new Lame Reply Thread....kick ass niggas
!Edit!
Also *looks at post count*
300 combos...?
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Yeah, so I've been biking pretty much everywhere all the last 2 weeks, and I'm getting acclimated to the altitude here (going from 653 to 5,000 feet), and I learned today how to drift turn on my bike.
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Yeah, so I've been biking pretty much everywhere all the last 2 weeks, and I'm getting acclimated to the altitude here (going from 653 to 5,000 feet), and I learned today how to drift turn on my bike.
Oh I remember those days...so much fun doing that on a bike.
I need to get a bike while playing "Bicycle Race" by Queen on a boom box.
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Quick someone do the Truffle Shuffle!
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(http://sleepangry.overspun.com/images/FamilyGuy.TruffleShuffle.jpg)
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y'know, i think as a tripfag, im not hated on /v/
like ive had multiple positive coments, plus
"WELCOME TO /b/ PURPLE. GREETINGS TO YOUR /v/ BROTHERS AS WELL!"
purpledrink !sSerh.cv7k
interesting how suddenly having a name, makes me post less retarded.
even though /v/ is a cesspool, its a rather nice place to lurl/post when you get used to how things run there. most of it is trollan, but you'd be surprised at how much ACTUAL DECENTLY INTELLIGENT VIDYA DISCUSSION goes on there.
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fuck yeah, page 1! I winnnn.
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fuck yeah, page 1! I winnnn.
oop-c, i tink u not do it rite =(
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HEEEY YOUS GUYS!
Also thanks for the picture post Sneaky I rofl'ed when I saw it.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autogynephilia
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oop-c, i tink u not do it rite =(
Oh. =(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autogynephilia
i think everyone's curious about what it'd be like to be the opposite sex, but I guess it depends on just how much.
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NB FUCKING RANGER
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I've been on hold for the past 15 minutes. Dammit, Sears. Do better.
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is /v/ for Vore
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is /v/ for Vore
surprisingly, not my cup of tea
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I like tea.
My favorite kind is loose green tea.
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I like english black teas myself. 8)
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You sir have good taste.
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surprisingly, not my cup of tea
Seconded at full force. Really, I somewhat understand the thought process behind vore and I still find it retarded.
even though /v/ is a cesspool, its a rather nice place to lurl/post when you get used to how things run there. most of it is trollan, but you'd be surprised at how much ACTUAL DECENTLY INTELLIGENT VIDYA DISCUSSION goes on there.
MAYBE at 2 in the morning. The overall quality has gone down hill so fast it's amazing. I must say, the streaming music some people do is rather awesome.
but enough circle jerking.
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but enough circle jerking.
Yes I would like to take my blind fold off now. KTHXBAI
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I just worked an eleven-hour shift!
I can't tell if my job really, seriously likes me or hates me and wants me to die.
Either way, the gallon of Dr. Pepper I drank just stopped working, so I am going to go crash now.
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I just worked an eleven-hour shift!
My condolences. :( Pretty much anything over 8 hours blows balls and anything over 10 hours is just painful to think about.
Either way, the gallon of Dr. Pepper I drank just stopped working, so I am going to go crash now.
Good grief. :o
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I just worked an eleven-hour shift!
I can't tell if my job really, seriously likes me or hates me and wants me to die.
Either way, the gallon of Dr. Pepper I drank just stopped working, so I am going to go crash now.
Jeezes man hope you get plenty of rest.
My condolences. :( Pretty much anything over 8 hours blows balls and anything over 10 hours is just painful to think about.
Don't remind me I have worked almost a full open and close shift where I work with out a break...I was about to go all crazy.
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While this is potato-related, I'm not sure which one it goes in. I'm infatuated with someone that I'm not dating and didn't know until a week ago. Agh, emotions suck. :-[
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Either way, the gallon of Dr. Pepper I drank just stopped working, so I am going to go crash now.
Wait, you use regular pop to get caffeine? That's... Very useless. The levels of caffeine in regular pop are so appallingly low that I could probably drink 2 or 3 gallons (yes, Gallons) of regular pop and not even notice any change, aside from having to piss more than I've ever pissed before.
If you really need energy, use energy drinks, or even better, use those 5 hour energy things. Because they are pretty much all B vitamins in those little things, they work wonders, even to people who are addicted to energy drinks.
BRB, chugging a bunch of NOS (God this stuff tastes great, and also has more caffeine than any other drink available here.)
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ND FUCKING LEE
THE BEST BLACK MUSIC COMPOSER
i agree with djmax portable 2
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While this is potato-related, I'm not sure which one it goes in. I'm infatuated with someone that I'm not dating and didn't know until a week ago. Agh, emotions suck. :-[
Stick with you are "dating" and kill the infatuation (at least the feeling not the person). All is good, no messy drama.
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but enough circle jerking.
Seriously now. This thread is already stickied. We don't need to make it worse.
My condolences. :( Pretty much anything over 8 hours blows balls and anything over 10 hours is just painful to think about.
I agree. I think about my old shifts when I worked at Eat-n-Park, and my knees start to cry. 14 straight hours is no fun. Especially when you have to do it again the next day.
But I's no longer workin' there. So yay. ^^
And the job I'm looking at getting... I really can't see how they could possibly keep me forever. :D They're only open from 7am to 3pm. That shift's nothing.
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Wait, you use regular pop to get caffeine? That's... Very useless. The levels of caffeine in regular pop are so appallingly low that I could probably drink 2 or 3 gallons (yes, Gallons) of regular pop and not even notice any change, aside from having to piss more than I've ever pissed before.
If you really need energy, use energy drinks, or even better, use those 5 hour energy things. Because they are pretty much all B vitamins in those little things, they work wonders, even to people who are addicted to energy drinks.
BRB, chugging a bunch of NOS (God this stuff tastes great, and also has more caffeine than any other drink available here.)
Nah, I wanted to try my best to avoid energy drinks and coffee if at all possible. Soda for me is more of a sugar rush than anything else. If nothing else, it's dirt cheap at the job; fifty cents for a 32 oz cup. It keeps me running long enough to get through a long day's work, so that's enough for me.
I'm surprised that I woke up refreshed, though. Two more Labor Day shifts and this is all over!
I swear, if school didn't let us off tomorrow, I wouldn't get ANY homework done.
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I have just gained a whole new sort of respect for my dad.
Yesterday, he and my mother went to the Pitt football game. For one reason or another, they had lines set up to search people. Pat downs, searching bags, etc. Unbeknownst to my dad, they had lines for men, and lines for women. And he was in the women's line.
He gets to the front of the line, and the girl who was friskin' people says "Sir, I cannot pat you down. You're a man."
And my dad responds with "It's okay, I'm a transsexual. Just go ahead and pat me down!"
I think it might be better than the time he was at Kennywood, yelling at a bunch of kids to go ahead and get on the Thunderbolt. He wasn't trying to be nasty, he just wanted to get on the ride, and none of them were moving.
Turns out, the whole group of kids was deaf. He stood around yelling at a group of deaf kids. Lulz.
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I have just gained a whole new sort of respect for my dad.
Yesterday, he and my mother went to the Pitt football game. For one reason or another, they had lines set up to search people. Pat downs, searching bags, etc. Unbeknownst to my dad, they had lines for men, and lines for women. And he was in the women's line.
He gets to the front of the line, and the girl who was friskin' people says "Sir, I cannot pat you down. You're a man."
And my dad responds with "It's okay, I'm a transsexual. Just go ahead and pat me down!"
WIN
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I've often wondered where I got the hutzpah to say some of the things I do in public.
Now I know. o.o;;
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Yesturday I worked from Noon to 11 pm. It sucked more cock then Richard Simmons. It didn't help that we were busy as all hell (which makes no sence to me considering there was a county fair going on up the street...fucking dumb asses).
I also help close out the bar last night as well (off the clock mind you) but free tasty drinks where my reward :D.
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Did an astounding nothing today. It was rosy. School tomorrow, should be a joke. Yay.
Also, my license plate expired yesterday, which means as I drive to school, I'll be breaking the law.
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Well it's bad enough you have 5 stars my friend...just try to out run the FBI as best you can XD
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I just got my hair cut, it's really short and out of my eyes now. Also my PERFECTLY LEGITIMATE copy of Dawn of war: the dark crusade finished, and it is rather awesome. The medium enemies are hard as hell (I just realized how to up my team, so that doesn't help) and I've already got an hour long battle with one.
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Holy shitting dicks this game is hard. I can hardly gather an army and take points without having an enemy get 2 relics and punching my damn base.
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.
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start the jerb in about...13.5 ish hours
shouldn't be too bad, i waste most of my free time anyway, best make use of that wasted time making moneys.
like today, i played metroid prime for about 2 hours. the rest, INTERNET WASTE TIME THEFUCKkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk. the idea of spending about an hour(well...more...but i really don't know at the moment) on the internet a day is surprisingly awesome, give my wrist a break from using the damn mouse 24/7. should be an effective method of cracking internet addiction. though, if anything comes up, i leave the internets ASAP, im not that addicted to the stuff.
anyway, i could sleep now, but LAZEYyyyyyyyyyy maby in an hour.
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Holy shitting dick nipples
Fixed.
start the jerb in about...13.5 ish hours
Best of luck to ye. Be sure to sign on and bitch about it when you get off work (or wake up from your post-work nap). :)
like today, i played metroid prime for about 2 hours.
Do you have the 0-0 version (original release) or the 0-2 version (the Gamer's Choice or whatever version)? If you have the former, exploit the shit out of the game's bugs. It's fun! :D If you have the latter, you can still bug the hell out of it, just not as badly.
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i have the original, i got the game shortly after it came out. as for exploitan, i feel its more of a thing i do after beating the game once. even though ive played through start-after omega pirate, i never completed it. new file, and up to gravity suit, we'll see how far i make it this time.
as for the jerb, if its not much more than what i experienced, shouldn't be too bad. from what i hear from the friends that i have who are working there, beats the hell out of fast food, way easier.
shit, and i get to make myself crazy bread...and POUR ON THE GARLIC STUFF. don't you hate it when you get breads and they have close to none of that stuff on it? ILL BE LIBERAL WITH THE STUFF COME TO ALMA LITTLE CAESERS Y'ALL!
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Woo.
It's raining cellphones.
And I likely have a new job. Whoo.
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I've been using the bash shell so much in the past few days that the thinking is starting to make its way into my real life.
First example: When I opened up the side pouch in my clarinet case to find reeds and my ligature a few days ago, I had to do some digging. I thought to type "mv <reed> <hand>", but then I realized I didn't know what they'd be called. Then I realized that I wasn't in a terminal.
Second example: Yesterday, I went to eat with a couple of people from the clarinet section at this one place on campus that had pretty much everything. I thought to type "ls" before realizing where I wasn't.
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Cashed in $2000 worth of halves today at my bank... took almost two hours. Had to wait an age and a half cause the machine kept breaking :<
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Cashed in $2000 worth of halves today at my bank...
Holy...crap...
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Yeah, damn.
Also, I just bought $660 worth of books for school :<
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Yeah, damn.
Also, I just bought $660 worth of books for school :<
What a cock. Books blow ;_;
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Woo.
It's raining cellphones.
And I likely have a new job. Whoo.
Congrats...don't work to hard now.
Cashed in $2000 worth of halves today at my bank... took almost two hours. Had to wait an age and a half cause the machine kept breaking :<
Holy hell...how did you get that many in the first place.
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Congrats...don't work to hard now.
I didn't plan on it. There's a ton of Mexicans there.
There's lots of hardworking people there.
I'm working with Dumple. He'll be my bitch. <3
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Yeah, so me getting Mandriva onto my Eee has a funny story behind it. The eeeUser wiki gave me a few options:
- Use a network connection to download all necessary packages for installation while leaving the 11MB installer on a small flash drive/SD card. I couldn't do that because of how the network is set up here (I need a browser to log in)
- Use an 8GB+ flash drive and put the DVD ISO on that, then put the 11MB installer on a small flash drive/SD card. I don't have an 8GB+ flash drive
- Use an external DVD drive. I couldn't get my SATA DVD drive to work with my SATA-USB converter which I ripped out of an external HDD.
So I made my own option: I downloaded the DVD ISO, put it at the root of my Windows partition on my desktop, then shut down the computer, took out the hard drive, and connected it to the SATA-USB converter. It worked, but I couldn't use either of my computers for about 4 hours.
Luckily, I could hang out with people in my hall, and a lot of us watched Transporter 2 in HD on a 40" TV that someone got from his brother, so that was pretty cool.
Once the installation finished, when I booted up I noticed Debian and Vista in the GRUB menu. At first I thought the installer fucked up, then I realized that it picked up the OS's that my desktop uses while it was installing.
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twasn't too bad
the manager who got me all settled up was some dude in my grade in high school, pretty cool guy.
then two of my friends came in a while after, and it was makan pizza, and sitting around.
pretty good first day.
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I'm working with Dumple. He'll be my bitch. <3
Wasn't he already? :P
Tell him I said hello and this:
LEEEROOOY JIIIIIINKENS!
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Man, I got the BEST ice cream from Coldstone the other day... strawberry and cake flavored ice cream mixed together, with cranberry vanilla granola and chopped almonds. I got something similar a few weeks ago, with mint and cookie dough ice cream, and almonds and honey granola, which was almost as good. :>
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Man, I got the BEST ice cream from Coldstone the other day... strawberry and cake flavored ice cream mixed together, with cranberry vanilla granola and chopped almonds. I got something similar a few weeks ago, with mint and cookie dough ice cream, and almonds and honey granola, which was almost as good. :>
That sounds good.
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So, I'm done with working at the State Fair. 155 total hours of work over 12 days. I hurt a lot.
Also, I need to start going to the local IHOP much much more. I went with my parents tonight as a sort of celebration for my finishing such hard work and even they agreed that the cute waitress was totally hitting on me. I'm 100% sure I am open to that. I can't say no to a cute girl with super red hair and hot glasses.
Also, Rock Band now has Skullcrusher Mountain by Jonathon Coulton. I recommend that, if you do not know the song, that you look it up. It's pretty much the greatest vocals song in the game.
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I feel like getting some booze and a couple Black and Milds. Think I should go for it folks?
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What Uni/College are you going to, Bobbias?
The Barrie Campus of Georgian College.
Man, we've got some people who flew all the way from India (a 18 hour trip) to go here for orientation.
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Holy shitting dicks this game is hard. I can hardly gather an army and take points without having an enemy get 2 relics and punching my damn base.
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.
STANDARD ENEMY CRUSHED FUCK YEAR. I was playing as the imperial guard and I ran my enemy the fuck over with my baneblade (basically a tank as big as a building, and one of the strongest units in the game [that game being DoW:Dark crusade]). God damn, I feel like a man now.
The Barrie Campus of Georgian College.
Man, we've got some people who flew all the way from India (a 18 hour trip) to go here for orientation.
Congrats.
I feel like getting some booze and a couple Black and Milds. Think I should go for it folks?
Might as well, I probably would if I had the cash money and was one year older (other then the cigarettes).
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what the fuck when did Don LaFontaine die
whats up with all the cool people dying? LAME LAME LAME LAME
also, considering selling my blood plasma weekly for some money. a friend of mine does this, and well, it just sounds good.
i want to build a new pc. my current pc is good, but its pretty dated now. so crunch time. if i give my blood plasma, they give me $60.00. once a week, thats $240.00 a month for blood plasma. add on the $50.00 or so id part from each paycheck, i get every two weeks, and thats $340.00 a month to put away for building a new pc. 5 months of this, and i have $1700.00 i can use to build a pc, if i get one that pricey that is. id probably put a list of parts for around $1200, then add more expensive parts to where i am comfortable with.
so uhh, yeah, that would be cool. like assuming i get roughly $300.00 a paycheck, thats $600 a month., ill put away some $400.00 of that for college money, use $100.00 for general "im spendin this" money, and the other $100.00 for "im putting this away for something pricey that i want" money.
it will be a few weeks before i get my shit together on this, but what i just said sounds pretty good. if all goes to plan, i should be building a new pc in early 2009. after that...i guess id be selling plasma for more money to put away for college.
but shit, that's not bad, i mean, $240.00 a month just for going in, having a needle stuck in you for an hour, and leaving once a week. id be retarded not to do this, easy money brah.
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I would do it but I have a huge fear of needles.
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I would do it but I have a huge fear of needles.
so do i, but if you wave $60.00 in my face, poke me with that sonbitch, just make sure im looking the other way...
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Then you fear is better than mine is. Pretty much ever recent needle I've had has required me to have valium/a relaxant before hand.
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so do i, but if you wave $60.00 in my face, poke me with that sonbitch, just make sure im looking the other way...
I agree with this lol
I used to be terrified of needles.. like SUPER DEEEE DUPER FUCKING HELL BAWWW CRYFEST scared of needles til my sophomore year of high school when GLASS SHARDS WENT THROUGH MY HAND.
I had to not only get stitched (honestly I should have gone to a better than a tiny podunk lil' town hospital for this cause the wound needed flushed but alas) but beforehand anesthetized by tiny li'l syringe n' needle for all the little areas they stitched (around 6, my arms were pretty shredded up too).
And then I needed a tetanus shot, and got the rest of my hepatitis vaccines at the same time.
I'm still not fond of them in any way, but after that it doesn't really phase me all that much anymore.
Oh yeah after that I had to get blood taken like 5 times.
WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
NOTE: IF YOU DRINK LIKE A LITER OF MOUNTAIN DEW AND THEN ARE LOCKED OUT OF A HOUSE IN THE COUNTRY JUST SUCK IT UP AND POP A SQUAT IF YOU NEED TO PISS, DON'T TRY TO FORCE THE DOOR OPEN (AND PUSH ON THE WINDOW PART) CAUSE IT WILL BREAK AND KILL YOU
OR YOUR HAND
on topic, how often can you donate plasma?
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i believe the most is twice a week, but i think once a week would be better for anyone health wise.
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I remember one time I had to get blood drawn.
That was funny. :3 I completely spazzed.
And then a few hours later, I completely forgot that I had several vials of blood taken from me, and I went to go play didder.
Yeaaah. The world changed colors and I hit the floor rather hard. lulz.
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http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=911
Best MST3K reference ever!
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Jupi's hair changed color. o.O
(Pardon the obvious lack of brushing - it's still a bit wet despite my having washed it four hours ago, and I don't like brushing it while it's wet.)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v34/Jupichan/DSCN9596.jpg)
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SO SOMETHING HAPPENED TODAY AND IT WAS FUN
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v115/SneakyMu/IMG00332.jpg)
SO MUCH FUN.
/fail. Some fucker ran a red light and the guy in front of me slammed on his brakes, causing me to slam on my brakes. Rear ended a 99 honda accord. oh so much fun.
D:
medically I'm okay.
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:( *hug*
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At least it didn't crack my windshield, I just replaced that. lolz.
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good point. :3
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That sucks Sneaky...at least your okay.
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Yea I had moved my lucky rabbit's foot from my rear view to my trunk [hanging from the trunk door support rod] soo I'll be hanging on to that foot, because chances are if that guy wasn't there to stop me I would've either hit or BEEN hit by the cross traffic mother fucker, which would have been a much more worse wreck.
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So, is rear ending someone over there your fault, like it is over here? The traffic laws in Canada say that basically, anyone who rear ends someone else, regardless of reason, is at fault for the accident.
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My dick is so big that the airlines are making me pay 15 extra bucks to take it with me.
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So, is rear ending someone over there your fault, like it is over here? The traffic laws in Canada say that basically, anyone who rear ends someone else, regardless of reason, is at fault for the accident.
Yep. No matter what, pretty much.
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if you have a few friends, a 360, and a few controllers. i believe it should be illegal not to have castle crashers.
GOD DAMN ITS AWESOME
though, don't do what i did and max magic without really putting points into health...ITS A GOOD WAY TO DIE A LOT. though, me and two friends of mine got up to around level 17, which im max magic, and 1/3 up the health stat.
but uhh yeah,
-good
-co-op
-replayable
-fairly lengthy (played for about 4 hours to hit level 17, the max level is 99...i can assume the game is AT LEAST 10 hours long)
-lots of unlockable characters
-FUN
-a boss, who is a corn cob
-$15.00
-if you buy 2000 points, you can get that and bionic commando rearmed
ibsnfoanfsdhodngohndh (i also got bionic commando rearmed, but haven't played much single player, did beat it co-op a few weeks ago though)
but yeah, i owe said friend $25.00 (for buying 2000 points), because i have no money, and we wanted to play, in a few weeks when i get an actual paycheck, with actual money, he will be PAID CASH MONEY DAWG.
blablabla, bionic commando is awesome, castle crashers is awesome, and my job doesn't suck. ALL IS WELL IN VLADGD LAND!
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I wish my friends who owned 360s weren't mindless halo fans. Really, I love 2D beat em ups (that's pretty much what this game is, right?).
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I love 2D beat em ups (that's pretty much what this game is, right?).
2d beat em up, different characters, rpg style leveling, you can get pet token things which buff you in some way (example, giraffe lets you level faster, the ram will randomly ram enemies knocking them down), and you can find/buy items and weapons. not to mention magic doesn't suck, and it regenerates fairly quickly so you can use it as a main weapon if you like. id say if you have multiple people playing you would want a magic guy, and a melee guy, because certain parts tend to favor melee or magic.
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Halo=meh
It was an intresting concept but honestly its FUCKING OVERRATED!
I prefer Q3 or Q4 online or Unreal Tourney.
But castle smashers does sound fun.
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ok, nevermind, i guess we made it about 2/3 through the game after checking a faq. i guess the higher levels comes with using higher level characters on insane mode.
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CC's kinda really broken though. Online barely works right now for most people and it's an awful game single player. It's also way too easy to lose yourself in the background. And it's WAY too easy to cheese your level to 99.
Considering how I still have friends who play Guardian Heroes (forever and always the greatest beat'em up of all time), I'll just stick with that.
Once they actually patch CC, it'll be more worth it. I'm a little disappointed by how rough around the edges it is though, considering it took them 3 years to make.
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Wasn't sure, I don't know how many Canadian laws are pretty much the same as the US ones and whatnot, especially since the states have so much more control over their own laws than the provinces do.
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i can't seem to get much sleep on the days i work. ill try sleeping at say 4am, and it won't be till around 8am when i roughly fall asleep...when i wake up at 1:30pm
surprising though, how after being at work for 30 or so minutes, and i don't even notice the lack of sleep for most of the day.
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So a friend of mine was arrested, maced and detained without really any legal rights protesting the RNC in St. Paul a few days ago. Christ I was shocked to hear about it.
Dat's fucked up son D:
I hope he can sue them, sue them for all that they're worth
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So a friend of mine was arrested, maced and detained without really any legal rights protesting the RNC in St. Paul a few days ago. Christ I was shocked to hear about it.
Nearly all of the protesters were very very very dumb. They couldn't even get close enough to the building for anyone there to actually care. Without news programs talking about it all, the people actually at the RNC didn't even know most of it was happening.
But yeah, there was a riot apparently that involved some horses getting all riled up and people getting detained for obviously unlawful actions and not so peaceful protesting. There's no way anyone could actually sue over that.
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Yeah, the cops are pretty fucking good at knowing when they can detain people. Plus, they need to figure out who the ringleaders were to go after them.
On top of that, I do believe the cops can detain you for a certain amount of time without charging you with anything.
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i can't seem to get much sleep on the days i work. ill try sleeping at say 4am, and it won't be till around 8am when i roughly fall asleep...when i wake up at 1:30pm
That's basically how I am, yet last night I fell asleep at around 4 and woke up at like 3, way too much fucking sleep.
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Would file transfers made over IRC look similar to P2P transfers?
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Oh shit, I started something (http://zetorux.livejournal.com/19725.html).
Twas just an innocent note we left. D:
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Invested $200 in candy for selling at school yesterday. 13 boxes of it from Sam's. Should sell by the end of the month.
Also, riding a bike before the sun comes up is very, very fun.
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Haha, nice, how much will that stuff net you?
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I haven't had a shower, or brushed my teeth all weekend until just now. Damn I feel clean. Also I still don't understand how people can have poor dental hygiene, it's so damn easy to take care of your teeth.
Also OH GOD wasn't Piccolo green?
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Actually it's in my other pants pocket
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I think something in me just died.
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I still haven't shaved. It's been about 3 weeks now.
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Seeing Sonata Arctica live again was so amazing. Nothing like sitting in the cellar of a bar with one of your favorite bands and with all of the people there being real true fans, and not just a bunch of yuppie folk who happened to be at the bar when it started.
I also made out with a completely unknown girl. Or rather, she made out since I had no say in the matter. They started playing 8th Commandment and she just went for it. Guess I picked the right person to stand next to.
It's been a good week.
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Haha, nice on Eggman, I'd love to see Sonata Arctica.
Also, It's been quite a bit longer than 3 weeks since my last shave. I think my last one was somewhere around the start of summer, lol.
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After getting my ass beat repeatedly in cod4, I finally got a good score. It was just barely braking a 2 to 1 KDR, but damn it I was happy. It didn't save when I hit print screen too.
Also this weekend was so damn boring.
Also what happened to Ulti? Did he change names and I missed it or what...
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so im playing bionic commando before i go to work right, i get to the boss with two lives left.
this boss isn't really hard...but i die anyway, and now i feel like i suck at vidya. guess ill give it another attempt after work. because GETTING TO HIM is the hard part, fighting him, and escaping is the easy part.
ILL KILL YOU AFTER WORK HITLER! THE LEADER!
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My forum colors changed :o
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so im playing bionic commando before i go to work right, i get to the boss with two lives left.
this boss isn't really hard...but i die anyway, and now i feel like i suck at vidya. guess ill give it another attempt after work. because GETTING TO HIM is the hard part, fighting him, and escaping is the easy part.
ILL KILL YOU AFTER WORK HITLER! THE LEADER!
Try beating the game on Super Hard. I did it co-op with a friend (who has done it solo as well) and dear god it is so frustrating. That one section outside the Albatross is like wtf. And then the part right after that is even harder. The sound of two people who really know how to grapple super fast and all the tricks to get through stuff is deafening though haha. All you hear is CHIKCHIKCHIKCHIKCHIKCHIKCHIKCHIK oops I'm dead CHIKCHIKCHIKCHIKCHIK
So now that I have my shirt from the Sonata concert, now I'm thinking I need to buy up some more band shirts. Get something of Mastodon, maybe a Trivium shirt, something from Offspring, something from Muse, etc etc. Sometimes I wish people made shirts for musical artists that are fantastic but have no way of being represented. I know I'd rock out a Stan Getz shirt. I just have too many plain color shirts.
Also I really like the new forum colors.
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Dragonball movie :(
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New colours? mine are the same.
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Mine too, but probably because I'm not using the default colors.
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I'm back.
Fucking ground wire disconected our interblag.
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think im too retarded to work the computer register thingy at caesars.
hopefully i can get that fucker down on wednesday, after i get that down, the job will be easy and boring, WHICH IS HOW I LIKE IT.
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At least with food, you don't have to ring 3 returns, 2 of which the person wants on a gift card for store credit and the last one is an exchange for a book of equal value, but the equal value replacement he picks is part of a 2 for 1 sale but then he also would like to use his borders rewards money but hey, can he also get this book delivered to a friend, gift-wrapped? Oh and he wants to pay partially with cash and partially by credit.
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Gawd I remember those days when I worked at Giant Eagle.
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well i know i have the easy end of the bargain when it comes to this stuff, its pizza. its not fast food which could be many things. basically all i got is
-bread
-hot n ready
-"insert whatever custom pizza here and the buttons i need to push to set it up"
-soda
-sauce
its just a matter of me getting the know how of where everything is and what to push.
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k so after you beat bionic commando, and have that final level down. the game is basically easy. so i tried hard mode, SFFASFAOFNEOFWGFOESG the first area kicked my ass, and so did the second. i beat them both, and i look forward to playing the next. (also super hard, olol i died at least 6 times trying to get to the first com tower on the first level....HAHAHAHAhahalaolaoalw)
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I just watched Vantage Point. It was a good movie.
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Yeah, vantage point was pretty awesome.
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Computer short-circuited, motherboard got fried, got a new computer. Luckily everything from the old hard drive was transferred onto the new one (in the sense that everything is exactly as it was on our old computer) so everything's a-ok.
Intel Pentium Dual-Core processor @ 2.00 GHz
2 GBs RAM
250 GB HDD
Don't know the graphics card I have...........
Custom build
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Got a massage done at a spa today with my girlfriend. It was pretty good, but my ribs still hurt like hell... they've been killing me for the past 4 or 5 days. What the christ.
Also, home alone until friday :x
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I just realized that I've been transferring the same copy of Photoshop CS2 from computer to computer for over 3 years.
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I got to play WoW last night...love the game.
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I got to play WoW last night...love the game.
No, you don't.
Take that back.
TAKE IT BACK
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I like the game though it's really fun.
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We've lost him :(
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We've lost him :(
*lowers flag to half mast*
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I like the game though it's really fun.
no
Also, what should I do for dinner tonight? Frozen dinner, frozen pizza, or fast food?
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Taco Bell rox. Ever tried a Grilled Stuft Burrito?
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the 869's (http://www.comfilon.com/catalogoptights.asp?SID=926BE189-8EF8-4788-A775-11CD4AE24D5D) for casual wear/doing nothing, ehh, kind of uncomfortable. but wearing them at work, surprisingly nice.
probably buy another pair when my current pair wears out.
also the feeling of the fabric on my toes is awesome, probably buy some socks just for that.
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Vlad, I hope you wear pants with that. Also: from some random admin on 4chan.
I'm going to go ahead and use this thread to explain some things.
First off, we public ban all the time. Especially ever since moot hinted at it in his most recent news post, it has been all over the site. The thing is, the threads usually only live a short time after the ban is issued, and only a few posters catch wind of it each time. So every time it happens, it is a shitstorm.
The reason I have taken this opportunity to issue a public ban after issuing a hundred or so b&'s in the past 8 hours is because I am bored with it. I wish /b/ would work so the bullshit would stay there and I could just fuck around on 4chan instead of not being able to get through a thread anywhere on the site without some stupid shit going on. I'm hoping by making this really obvious, at least the /v/ crowd will calm the fuck down
tl;dr - you're all newfags
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yeah i totally wear nothing but tights and a shirt to work :o. but uhh, underneath jeans, its just something to make my legs feel good since im on em all day.
and yeah, hopefully that sticky will reduce the amount of "ATHEIST GAMER" threads and other bullshit on /v/
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http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/
:)
Looks like we're OK for now.
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yeah i totally wear nothing but tights and a shirt to work :o. but uhh, underneath jeans, its just something to make my legs feel good since im on em all day.
seems like you would be hot in them, or just overall uncomfortable
Also related:
(http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l94/mortifiedocalot/realhalflife.jpg)
We have our savior.
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well if i was outside in the heat, yeah i would be. but in a nice air conditioned building, its not bad. main reason i haven't touched em since winter.
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Holy shit Mort...so that what G-Man did to Gordan!
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AC/DC is coming to phoenix 12/10 YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES FUCK YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
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Apparently G-Man has been sighted at the LHC too D:
too lazy to link pix
DO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS?
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Free pancakes at IHOP for everyone?
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Sweet!
I <3 IHOP.
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No, it means that I'm apparently An Hero Member now D:>
owait my bad, free pancakes too! I didn't read the fine print closely enough D:
but much less importantly, there's going to be black holes and shit at the LHC, but who honestly cares
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So I went to Wikipedia, looked at the Star Wars timeline, which goes back to the Big Bang, then compared it to our model of the Big Bang and did some conversions to make their years into ours.
Apparently Star Wars took place 2 billion years ago.
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Yeah I saw the timeline myself...good gods I have never seen such a long ass time line for a piece of fictional work.
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Anyone know who does the song called "Starring down eternity" from Barley's shut up and jam: Gaiden. The only thing it says on the file name is "jesus christ the guy from deep purple sang this".
Also I highly recommend this game, it is hilarious and fun.
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DO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS?
The world really is going to end?
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I just watched Star Wars Episode IV. I forgot how good this movie was.
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Indeedy.
I prefer eps. IV, V, VI.
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The world really is going to end?
Yeah, there's going to be black holes and shit everywhere. Probably headcrabs too
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I like the lightsaber fights in I, II, and III, but IV, V, and VI are better in every other aspect.
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Yeah, there's going to be black holes and shit everywhere. Probably headcrabs too
I hate those buggers...now I need to get my crowbar.
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so yeah...
what up d00ds.
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Nothing much.
What up with you?
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so yeah...
what up d00ds.
oh hai.
I like the lightsaber fights in I, II, and III, but IV, V, and VI are better in every other aspect.
They really couldn't have done that when the originals came out, that's why they where like that.
Also back from a friends house, and I tried demos for castle crasher and the force unleashed. Castle crashers rather fun, I love the infinite air combos you can do. Also the forced seemed A LOT like psi ops, which I like. I'll probably rent it, but the fact that it has a god of war-ish take down at the end was kind of lame.
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I know why they couldn't have done that. At least, not easily. It was feasible, but it required more time to choreograph them, and the movies weren't near as popular in 1977 than they were in 1999, when Episode I came out.
Regardless, the lightsaber fights in the prequel trilogy, were really the only point they had over in the original trilogy. My main complaint about the prequels is that I didn't like how melodramatic the characters almost always were (though Ewan McGregor did a fantastic job as Obi-Wan IMO).
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What I heard from some friends who are big Star Wars fans that the concept of the light saber was supost to be like the futurustic version of a bastard sword or double handed broad sword...being heavy and all.
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So an old friend of mine who graduated last year decided to pull a prank on a bunch of people I know by having his friend spread word that he killed himself.
First it got my girlfriend, who is friends with him. She cried for quite some time. Then found out that they were messing with her, and she told me she's not going to talk to them anymore because they're bastards.
Then I got to school yesterday and my friend Christine comes up to me and is like, I don't know if you heard, but, uh, JJ killed himself two days ago... everyone's upset and stuff, we just found out ourselves. I looked her straight in the face and told her it was a humongous spineless prank, and that I'd tell the other band kids the news, that it was bogus.
Turns out two of the INSTRUCTORS recieved emails from JJ's friend with the news, who passed it on to a bunch of people in band. Jesus christ. So I had to get in front of everyone and intervene, hey uh, by the way, they're douches and decided it would be a cool prank, resume daily lives now.
People are reeeeally cooooool sometimes :-\
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I don't know what crack those guys were smoking, but lightsabers are sorta designed specifically to be light. Speaking from the canonical position in the movies/other canonical media, the only weight that you have when you're using a light saber is the weight of the handle itself. I mean, lightsabers are made out of focused energy, and last time I checked, energy has no mass (unless it passes through a Higgs Boson...). Maybe originally they had thought about the lightsabers being equivalent to those big weapons, but that idea, if they did have it, was scrapped before the first movie, considering the construction of lightsabers and the "physics" behind them.
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Lightsabers pass through everything except Beskar Iron/Mandalorian Iron and some other substance I forget. In the case of Beskar, it can actually absorb multiple blows and even hold a lightsaber, causing it to dissipate with enough force. So going by that, a lightsaber technicaly does have mass of some sort or else it would have absolutely no resistance from anything.
So yeah, I don't know, they don't really ever explain exactly what the blade of a lightsaber is made of.
Aha, the other substance is cortosis fiber, which apparently causes a feedback loop within the lightsaber's hilt, causing it to shut down. Beskar still works differently though. Jagged Fel uses gauntlets made of the stuff against Jaina Solo while training and he does actually grab the blade and squeeze, causing it to shut off.
Yes I'm a massive Star Wars nerd.
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Who cares, everyone here is some type of huge nerd.
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Ahh, I didn't know about that stuff. I've completely forgotten about the Young Jedi stuff, lol (I've got 2 or 3 books of that here somewhere).
I can understand the feedback loop part, because that sounds perfectly feasible, providing that lightsabers would be technologically feasible in the first place.
And now that I think about it, I can partially explain how it could be "held", as well. Solar sails get their momentum from photons colliding with the atoms of the material the sail is made out of, so energy can make some effects on particles with mass despite being massless. That effect could also be the foundation for why Beskar Iron can be at least partially able to block light sabers. The only part that's missing is what would cause the blade to act as though it was ridged, rather than simply a focused beam of energy like it is more or less explained as (I happen to have one of those star wars encyclopedia books, though god knows where it is, which is why I know as much as I do).
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strange working yesterday, then working a longer shift today (only 6 hours, but im not used to work), playing/beating bionic commando co-op with a friend right after that, AND i have a star wars game tomorrow.
im rather tired (read REALLY tired) but "emotionally" im doing pretty fucking good. less time me sitting on my ass doing nothing, more time making money.
only shitty thing going on (which isn't really shitty at all, just a minor annoyance) is i get my paycheck two days after WAR comes out. probably bub the money from my sister and pay her back 48 hours later....wait...no, that would be retarded to do on her BIRTHDAY.
i can suck it up and wait.
uhh and i guess ill end with something i think is retarded.
the socks from the site i got mah tights from are only like $2.00 cheaper than the full legwear, fuck that. if it was like maby $7.00 for a pair, sure, but i ain't payin' no $14.00 for a pair of thin nylon/spandex socks, unless they happen to be both indestructible and the most comfortable socks ever...well fuck i guess id pay a bit more than that if they were like that. uhh and im trying to wear out the pair i got last october by wearing em to work every day. fuckers are surprisingly durable, and i guess the price (little over $20.00 including shipping) wasn't bad considering the nice durability.
ohh, and my wrists, legs, back, forearms, are tired.
LANDING PIZZA, CUTTING PIZZA, MAKING DOUGH, OHH MY (more physically tiring than i assumed, you just try doing some 200+ dough balls and tell me your hand's aren't a little tired) but all is good since the job is awesome, easy, and not at all stressful.
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One would think that you of all people would not have a hard time kneading balls all day long.
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just because im highly experienced in touching balls doesn't mean my arms don't get tired after a hard day of ball kneading.
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Obviously you need more practice playing with balls.
Play with mine. :o
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Ahh, I didn't know about that stuff. I've completely forgotten about the Young Jedi stuff, lol (I've got 2 or 3 books of that here somewhere).
I can understand the feedback loop part, because that sounds perfectly feasible, providing that lightsabers would be technologically feasible in the first place.
And now that I think about it, I can partially explain how it could be "held", as well. Solar sails get their momentum from photons colliding with the atoms of the material the sail is made out of, so energy can make some effects on particles with mass despite being massless. That effect could also be the foundation for why Beskar Iron can be at least partially able to block light sabers. The only part that's missing is what would cause the blade to act as though it was ridged, rather than simply a focused beam of energy like it is more or less explained as (I happen to have one of those star wars encyclopedia books, though god knows where it is, which is why I know as much as I do).
Yeah. You should read up a bit on what's happened. The newest series takes place almost 20 years after the YJK series. Aside from Troy Denning's obnoxious writing style, it's pretty good, and they've really changed a lot of characters. Also some of them are dead. But that was back during New Jedi Order. Those were pretty much all great.
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So someone on my hall who plays DDR said that he didn't like ITG because it seemed like the chart makers were focuser=d on making it hard and it hardly went with the music. I showed him some of my charts, and told him that these were on at least one ITG machine, and he was surprised to see that they were on beat.
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Christ, he says ITG doesn't follow the music? That has been my number 1 complaint about DDR steps pretty much since I began playing the officials, lol.
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Well, ho probably only saw some of C. Foy's charts or something.
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think i can consistently beat the albatross without dying now. its to the point where i literally find the docks to be a harder level.
IF they decide to make a 2d sequel (note, the 2d, i know of the 3d sequel) i hope they make more levels like that, because its just fun going through even though its pretty easy now.
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(http://www.mindspill.org/980/enclosure/albatross.jpg)
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O RLY
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God, I still need to get a new mouse, after like, two years of having a crappy mouse whose click detector is severely bruised and ALWAYS double- or triple-clicks.
Why haven't I gotten a new mouse yet?!
Oh yeah, spec, which mouse should I get? :P
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logitech mx518
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So I've been watching this show on the history channel called "102 minuets that changed history" and it's about 9/11. It's all footage from pedestrians and with this really creepy minimalistic music. It was really intense, it showed someone standing about 3 blocks from the WTC and the second plane crashing just over his head into a tower, then it showed people jumping from the towers along with a lot of horrified screams from pedestrians. It was a crazy show, I honestly had trouble watching it.
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Soooooo, I'm officially a trendwhore. I just signed up to Twitter: http://twitter.com/Spectere/ (http://twitter.com/Spectere/)
Feel free to follow me on thar. :o
Oh yeah, spec, which mouse should I get? :P
What vlad said: a Logitech MX518. :P
Failing that, I rather like my Microsoft Laser Mouse 6000.
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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16826104178
if you don't mind spending $40.00 on a kickass mouse
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16826105024
if you want a cheap, simple (no extra buttons), effective mouse.
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Woo, just re-Lunick'd my former "router." I love my little Dell.
I also love that it happens to have a TNT2 in it. Definitely beats trying to use the integrated i810. It's pretty flexible for a small desktop system, overall. Two hard drives and a CD? Perfect. I don't need no stinkin' floppy drive.
I kind of doubt that it could boot off of the memory stick, but I can't really blame it considering its age. How many systems from around 2000 have a nice boot menu and four USB (albeit USB 1.1) ports? Even my USB-dependent PowerMac only has two (very fucking STUPID design decision on Apple's part), and that system is from 2002.
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Logitech MX518. K. I'm GOING TO GET THAT. Srsly this time. Like, no joke.
Also, my girlfriend and I have been taking care of two baby squirrels we found in my backyard the past few days, but one died yesterday and the second one just now died. I made them a coffin :'(
Poor guys. I feel so bad.
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that sux :'(
RIP BABBY SQUIRRELS
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I should get Spore. The only criticism I've heard is the DRM, but cracking the game is possible, so I might do that if it gets too bad.
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I am so fucking busy, this is the only post I can contribute to s.net because homework is fucking me in the butt. My course load right now is PreCal/Trig, English 1A, and some java script class. I have like no time to relax anymore because either after or before all of my classes I have either water polo practice, swim practice or weight lifting. I'm going to Cabrillo College BTW. Any free time I have I spend with a math tutor, and the very short amount of time I have between 2 of my classes I get my English readings done somehow. ITS SLEEPY TIME BITCHES.
Ill update moar in my java script class, I get to use a computer there.
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I seriously hate my wireless connection. It keeps dropping signal strength for no reason, and it does it most often when I'm fapping. It's a conspiracy.
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So I've been watching this show on the history channel called "102 minuets that changed history" and it's about 9/11. It's all footage from pedestrians and with this really creepy minimalistic music. It was really intense, it showed someone standing about 3 blocks from the WTC and the second plane crashing just over his head into a tower, then it showed people jumping from the towers along with a lot of horrified screams from pedestrians. It was a crazy show, I honestly had trouble watching it.
Totally caught the last half of that last night.. freaky stuff..
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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824001268
brb fapping
*edit*
im back and i came
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824001273
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Logitech MX518. K. I'm GOING TO GET THAT. Srsly this time. Like, no joke.
LIES.
Also, my girlfriend and I have been taking care of two baby squirrels we found in my backyard the past few days, but one died yesterday and the second one just now died. I made them a coffin :'(
:'(
I should get Spore. The only criticism I've heard is the DRM, but cracking the game is possible, so I might do that if it gets too bad.
It was waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay overhyped. :/ It got really boring after a while.
Speaking of the DRM, I'm not going to encourage EA by paying $50 for a rental. Fuck that shit. I'd go through two out of three installations right off the bat (desktop, lappy) and I'm not willing to call those assholes about getting more activations. I've activated my copies of Windows and Office two and three times a month without incident. There's no reason why a game should be more restricted than an operating system and a high-end productivity package. NONE.
What's more ridiculous is that people who acquire PERFECTLY LEGITIMATE copies have a much easier time with it than paying customers. That's complete and utter horse shit. I can deal with inserting a CD, but I'm not going to hold myself hostage to whether my Internet connection or EA's activation servers happen to be up on the day I want to install it.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824001268
brb fapping
More like http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824001264 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824001264) amirite. :)
brb humping my monitor
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technology is totally fappable
my last newegg link for the day
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227360
if i had money to blow on stuff like this, id get one of those. could throw my os on it, some high spec games, and from the looks of it, you can use it as an external HDD with the usb port and all.
SSD = NO MOVING PARTS, NO NOISE, NO HEAT, MORE SECURE DATA, SEXxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxXXXXXXXXXXXxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxYYYyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
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technology is totally fappable
my last newegg link for the day
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227360
if i had money to blow on stuff like this, id get one of those. could throw my os on it, some high spec games, and from the looks of it, you can use it as an external HDD with the usb port and all.
SSD = NO MOVING PARTS, NO NOISE, NO HEAT, MORE SECURE DATA, SEXxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxXXXXXXXXXXXxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxYYYyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
Yeah, truecrypt dat thang then get the $60.00 rebate.
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Hey guys I am back...again.
First off internet was unplugged thanks to my dad (what an ass hole)
Second because of Ike I lost power for over 24 hours and there are still areas with out power.
Jupi told me that she has half power which is odd.
LunarKeys (who lives in Texas) I have no idea what his situation is and I hope he and his family is okay.
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LunarKeys (who lives in Texas) I have no idea what his situation is and I hope he and his family is okay.
Oh wow, hopefully he was away from the coast.
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Yeah, hopefully he's okay. Luckily I think Ike could've been a LOT worse. It was horrible but it wasn't a cat 5 with 185 mph winds and pressure below 900 mb.
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Spectere got lucky and his power didn't go out.
The damage around the general area where I lived went from leaves and twigs to HOLY SHIT LOTS OF UPROOTED TREES!
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I dropped my 5x5x5 Rubik's cube on the ground, and it landed weird and completely came apart. No parts broke, it just exploded. It took me a while to get all 92 pieces together and reassemble it.
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92 pieces? damn, I didn't know those things had so many.
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so im downloading the WAR beta client, which should patch to the retail client, and maby i can play for an hour or two before the headstart ends(a guildie o mine gave me a preorder code, so i get some preorder ingame items, a title, and access to the headstart) and i have to wait further for stores to open on thursday for me to buy the game.
the only place to download from is fileplanet...and its only giving me like 220kb/s for the 9gb file,
lets see, ill be sleeping in a few hours...when i wake up and shower, i may have an hour to play before work if everything goes well. and i get out of work at 9pm so i could get a little over 2 hours before the headstart ends thursday (which im hoping doesn't boot me out of game, because id have to wait for the stores to open before frickin playing) BLABLABLA IM PLAYING THIS GAME THURSDAY ANYWAY IM JUST SEEING IF I CAN PLAY A LITTLE BIT BEFORE THAT.
i got thursday off, ITS WAR TIME!
though, rune priest or ironbreaker
MIND STILL ISN'T MADE UP
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I had a dream today where I was driving to Weirton, only it wasn't there, and I ended up in a cheap toy shop that had roads running through it. This shop had Pokemon ripoffs, and their powers actually worked, though they were pretty unimpressive (i.e., Bubblebeam was just a few bubbles floating around). So, they were being attacked by some bizarre monsters, so an unnamed s.net member and I fought them off with these crappy Pokemon toys. Then that member ended up infatuated with me and we went back to my place and made out and stuff and then I woke up.
It's not anyone you think it is. If you think it's you, you're wrong. (http://www.spectere.net/smf/Themes/dilbermc/images/groups/awesome.gif)
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If everyone sees that and thinks it's them, then obviously someone's wrong, unless it's one of those s.net members that signs up for an account and lurks, or simply abandons the place.
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If everyone sees that and thinks it's them, then obviously someone's wrong, unless it's one of those s.net members that signs up for an account and lurks, or simply abandons the place.
So are you flamming those who do lurk only because they have nothing to say because they have nothing to say where as you open you big mouth and shit comes out if it?
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It's not anyone you think it is. If you think it's you, you're wrong. (http://www.spectere.net/smf/Themes/dilbermc/images/groups/awesome.gif)
It was me.
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Man, why is Forrest Gump such a great movie?
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the irony of the retarded guy living a happy life, meeting important people, and doing famous stuff while the normal person has an unhappy life full of drugs and abuse?
I love Forrest Gump
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the irony of the retarded guy living a happy life, meeting important people, and doing famous stuff while the normal person has an unhappy life full of drugs and abuse?
I love Forrest Gump
Yeah, basically. I also love the whole obvious/not obvious historical references that come one after another throughout the movie. And Tom Hanks. <3
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So CSU's band is hosting a high school marching band competition next Saturday and I get to work as the "DVD runner". I'm not exactly sure what I do with this job, but it was the last available job that wasn't parking, so I might get to see some of the bands while I'm working. I always love watching marching bands.
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Sounds like fun dude.
Enjoy it!
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warhammer tomorrow, day off tomorrow
if wal mart doesn't have this fucker, im going to be pissed, get on the freeway and take it to the next town, to to gamestop, and buy it.
anyway, my job is awesome. hang out with my friends/other people who are cool while making pizza and goofing off.
only problem, BRING A DRINK, get thirsty up in there...thankfully there's a dollar store next door which sells cheap drink.
AND AND AND playing sphongle, pendulum, j5, mf doom, REZ soundtrack, whatever on the radio in there is awesome.
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Yeah, basically. I also love the whole obvious/not obvious historical references that come one after another throughout the movie. And Tom Hanks. <3
Yeah, Forest Gump is amazing. I've seen that movie like, 4, maybe 5 times now, and I still love it. The story, and the acting are absolutely fantastic. Also, Lt. Dan is awesome, anyone else notice that it's Gary Sinise, IE. Mac Taylor from CSI:NY?
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Shit, didn't outlaw star used to show on adult swim? I remember seeing an episode, but I CANNOT remember where from.
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Shit, didn't outlaw star used to show on adult swim? I remember seeing an episode, but I CANNOT remember where from.
It used to be on old school Toonami...I have not seen it on AS.
http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=538
^My cats act similar on Catnip.
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So I shopped my most recent photo to freak my friend out. He read about the "Black Eyed Kids," so I decided to try something out. I personally don't like how the image turned out, but he was freaked out.
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v253/annonymous/?action=view¤t=Untitled-1-1.jpg
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Whoa, that picture is creepy.
And yeah, I knew Gary Sinise cause he was George in Of Mice and Men, which was also a good movie.
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Whoa, that picture is creepy.
And yeah, I knew Gary Sinise cause he was George in Of Mice and Men, which was also a good movie.
Yeah, that was an awesome movie, I forgot he was in that too. Gary Sinise is one of those guys who never really gets mentioned much, but happens to be a damn good actor.
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So I was looking back at the older pictures in my photobucket account (which I made in July of '04), and it's like looking through a time machine.
Example:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v253/annonymous/aliceicon.gif)
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lol, yeah, I have been AAing this song forever:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v227/Bobbias/screen00041.jpg
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From megaman.
Albert Wily
Albert Einstein
Thomas Light
Thomas Edison
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Albert Wily
Albert Einstein
Thomas Light
Thomas Edison
Bricks have been shat.
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But shiting bricks would be painful. Also I think you would die after you got done.
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So I'm seeing Sigur Ros on Monday with my uncle because he works for the record label they belong too. Free tickets, second row seats. Chyeahhhh.
Fuck you. :<
I think I am radiating enough envy to turn the people around me green right now.
Seriously, if you can arrange it, I would fucking LOVE to be able to see them. Sigur Ros is easily one of my favourite bands ever.
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Man, I miss playing Gunz and being really awesome at it.
I'm probably a very small minority :<
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From megaman.
Albert Wily
Albert Einstein
Thomas Light
Thomas Edison
WHAT COULD THIS MEAN D:
BUSTA IS RITE
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I'm probably a very small minority :<
Well, I kinda miss the good parts of the game, and being almost half decent at it, but at the skill level I was at, I was kinda screwed, I wasn't good enough to play with the guys that were actually good at it, but I was too good for the guys who sucked at it. So either I got no kills, or I dominated noobs and got called a hacker.
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I'm probably a very small minority :<
Hey, I got to a point were I could reliably slash shot with my revolvers, but yeah, you were damn good.
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(note, i do not care if you had worse, im not accustomed to working hard and im not comparing myself to you)
work 7 hours on a busy day, 4 hours sleep, another 7 hours on a VERY BUSY day, im fucking tired. i have my day off tomorrow, and im playing WAR the rest of today, and tomorrow.
got my paycheck....
250 - tax = 225
225 - owing a friend for 2000 microsoft points = 200
200- owing my mom for being awesome and giving me money to get WAR on release = 150
150 goes towards my pc
not as much as i would like, but less hours due to starting out, and owing $75.00. next one should be better.
anyway, im tired, but emotionally, im quite happy. life is good.
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Yep, getting a job feels good for a while. Until the shitty parts of the job outweigh the good parts, and you begin to hate work :/
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Work was actually pretty nice for me last night- went through about $60 in nickels, which kept me busy for the first two hours of my 3.5-hour shift, or until break. It was so slow that they told a lot of us to go home for the night early though, so I only got 3 hours, which is slightly a cock. I can't wait for work to pick up, when I can actually get, like, real, decent hours, and up to 30 hours a week instead of 3 >_>
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I'm using my Wii remote and nunchuck as mouse right now. It's interesting.
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I'm using my Wii remote and nunchuck as mouse right now. It's interesting.
Or so I've herd. I need to get a bluetooth thingy for my computer so I can try that out (and also a few infrared leds so I don't have to hax my sensor bar).
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I need to do some hardware hacking... bleh.
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I need to hard wear hack...a few bottles of beer.
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I just spent a few hours doing my sister's homework- really easy but time consuming lessons for her online Keyboarding class. At least she's paying me for it, stuff was SO boring.
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How much was she paying? I wouldn't charge anything less than like, $9 an hour. And that would be subject to any other charges, like frustration tax :P
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I want to work on a USB I/O board, but I'm not sure where I can get microcontrollers and the utilities necessary to program them. If I had that much, I think I could pull off a decent one. :)
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Well, there are a number of USB controllers out there, but they aren't cheap, from what I've seen. And getting the stuff necessary to program then is probably quite a bit harder than finding the controller itself. However, if I can find a half decent one, I think I might hack up a PS2 to USB adapter (and nobody go on about how I can buy those, because money isn't the issue here, it's the fact that I could actually make one myself).
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How much was she paying? I wouldn't charge anything less than like, $9 an hour. And that would be subject to any other charges, like frustration tax :P
She gave me $20. I figured it took me 2 hours to do the lessons and another half hour of trying to get everything installed and working right. So, $20's about right.
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I bought one from liksang before they went byebye :(
ps HAPPY BIRFDAY TO MEEE LOL IM TWENTY
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Already congradumalated you :P
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Yay! Frabjous day! Let us celebrate.
:booze:
oh wait
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Haha, yeah, I made mention of that on twitter.
20 is kinda a shitty age. In the US, you can't drink yet, and in Canada, you can do anything you want, in fact, you've been able to do so for a year, and now all birthdays do is make you feel older.
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ps HAPPY BIRFDAY TO MEEE LOL IM TWENTY
I could have swore you were older then me. Ah well, happy B day.
Also due to car overheating I miss school today :D.
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Water pump blow on you or something?
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I've gotten back into the old Wolfenstein 3D that's a year younger than I am. Such a great game.
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Water pump blow on you or something?
Nah, the temp gauge would go way into the red tho. That and when I stopped and opened the hood I could instantly feel the heat from it. I had to stop twice just to make a 30 minuet trip home.
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So I just accidentally drop-kicked my bluetooth dongle while it was plugged imto my computer, breaking the plastic cover and bending everything past the plug down at about a 45 degree angle. It still works fine, though, so I'm not complaining.
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I'm curious about how you managed to dropkick your dongle....
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It was plugged into the USB slot at the front-top of my tower. I was resting my foot on my tower, but it slipped and hit the dongle.
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lol, maybe resting your foot on your computer isn't the best idea.
Also, I'm such an Uber-Nerd. I just installed MATLAB.
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Homecoming is coming up in like 10 days. Still need to buy tickets, I should probably do that sometime soon.
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Ah Homecomming I remember that day...I worked then went to go see a movie.
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I never really understood homecoming.
All it ever was in my high school was a giant opportunity to vote someone in the senior class "Most popular."
No one came home. :/
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Just got an optical audio cable for my 360 [can be used elsewhere, I just chose to put it here]. First impression from a music file: nice. Noticeably more clear and crisp sounding than regular red/white connectors [composite, right?]. I'll poast moar when I get into some sound intensive games and shiz. So far I'm enjoying it.
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I have so much school work, and it's just starting to dawn on me.
Also I don't think I ever went to one of my high school dances.
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I went to one. I was at least half a foot taller than my date, so he wouldn't even dance with me. Haha.
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I have so much school work, and it's just starting to dawn on me.
Also I don't think I ever went to one of my high school dances.
Never went to one nor did I care because school dances=LAME!
Granted I got made fun alot because I didn't go but I did defend my position on it very well and made a good majority of my fellow class mates STFU.
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Also I don't think I ever went to one of my high school dances.
I only went to my school's prom, and even then me and my date left early to go to a bookstore.
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Granted I got made fun alot because I didn't go but I did defend my position on it very well and made a good majority of my fellow class mates STFU.
Hell, my friend who doesn't go to high school thought it was a better idea to go out and party rather than go to a prom.
I only went to my school's prom, and even then me and my date left early to go to a bookstore.
I think my friends did the exact same thing.
Also I can;t find the games you look forward to thread for the life of me, and I don;t want to lose track of this. Despite it being a freeware game.
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ps
http://www.spectere.net/smf/index.php?topic=370.0
<3
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Never went to one nor did I care because school dances=LAME!
Granted I got made fun alot because I didn't go but I did defend my position on it very well and made a good majority of my fellow class mates STFU.
Yeah, same sort of thing here.
Wow, that looks awesome. In the mean time, I've been looking for a new MMORPG to try, and it looks like I'll check out Mabinogi.
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I painted my senior parking spot today. I painted it Uboa from Yume Nikki.
this guy:
(http://p-userpic.livejournal.com/73755463/460379)
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Does anyone happen to know that Bemani - based PERFECTLY LEGITIMATE GETTING site.. all it lists are torrents of bemani related things.
halp? plskthx
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Wish I knew. Unfortunately, I'm banned, because I couldn't upload enough to save my ratio, and I couldn't keep my torrent on 24/7.
Also, Capitan Black's Sweet Cherry = amazing.
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Someone just made the most amazing list for things messing with gaming.
1)"Realism"
2) Conglomeration
3) Appeal to the lowest common denominator
4) Innovation stagnation
5) Innovation that simply does not work
I guess it could be improved, but my god it's amazing.
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I have to agree 100%.
I could post a huge rant on this, but I'm way too tired, so tl;dr I agree with that, as well as pretty much every argument eggman has ever had as to way older games are better than many newer games.
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My roommate just beat KOTOR2. He got the game on Saturday or Sunday. He's been playing pretty much all week.
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I have to agree 100%.
I could post a huge rant on this, but I'm way too tired, so tl;dr I agree with that, as well as pretty much every argument eggman has ever had as to way older games are better than many newer games.
Haha awesome.
I've been playing Mega Man 9. It is hard and is pretty much everything I could want from a new 8bit MM game.
I'm also waiting on Wario Land: Shake It! to get here. Apparently the biggest negative for it in reviews is that it plays like a platformer from the 90s and does little to add in the way of innovation, aside from a few motion-controlled shakes here and there. Sounds great to me.
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I really need to get MM9. Hell, I should probably pick up the X collection as well. Can;t you buy Wii points from a store?
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Yeah, they have Wii Point Cards. They can be fairly hard to find sometimes though. Probably not so much these days.
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First grading period's already over at school. Should be getting 4 A's, 2 B's. Sweet.
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You know what? I enjoyed playing TF2 last night [orange box for my sex box]. I tried a few classes on the Two Forts map, playing the CTF game. I ended up playing medic for a few full rounds, and I like it over the more offensive ones. I've yet to try engineer, but we had a lot of them on our team.
Also I'll probably be enlisting in the Marines due to my home situation. And I'm perfectly fine with it. I'd rather make a career out of something than struggle through this bullshit at my house.
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So star wars battle front is a ton of fun. I just got done playing it with a few friends (for about a few hours) and in the last game me and one friend kept force pushing the other for about 2 minuets straight.
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Also I'll probably be enlisting in the Marines due to my home situation. And I'm perfectly fine with it. I'd rather make a career out of something than struggle through this bullshit at my house.
Oh wow, I hope you can manage it. A friend of mine was going for engineering in the navy here, and he ended dropping out. And he barely did any of the training crap, that was just going to university.
EDIT: make that no more. 3333 GET lol.
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Yeah, the marines sound tough but better than the other branches. I can't see myself ever enlisting in the military -_-
Also, Bobbias, one more post for 3333! Celebrate! Woo~~
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haha yep. I hope it isn't easy.. I mean I know it won't be, but I looking forward to being broken down and rebuilt into something better for myself and those I associate with
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As I said, hope it goes well.
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I need to dust out my PC, but I don't have any air-in-a-can.
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I need to dust out my PC, but I don't have any air-in-a-can.
I always found it funny how you have to be 18 in order to buy it.
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It's because stupid kids used to abuse that stuff.
Kinda a stupid restriction, but definitely understandable.
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I always found it funny how you have to be 18 in order to buy it.
Blame that on the kids who huffed it to get a cheap high and wound up dying. :/
Edit: Fuck, ninja'd by da boobies. :)
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See, this is an example of why I'm so much more active in the middle of the night.
We've got a boatload of people online right now.
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I'm due for a vaccination tomorrow. :(
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Eeew. Have fun getting poked. :/
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It's because stupid kids used to abuse that stuff.
I know why, because I've done it.
I still find it funny.
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I've never done that, but getting the NO2 from cans of whipped cream can definitely be fun.
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I'm due for a vaccination tomorrow. :(
God damn it Vyhd...stop befriending the raccons!
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God damn it Vyhd...stop befriending the raccons!
It's not raccoon this time, it's chipmunks.
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No, he means raccon.
A raccoon. With a fucking gun. You'd better stay clear of him, rumor is he'd kill his mother for a nickel.
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Damn what a nasty little bugger.
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I cannot find my Otaclock, I've ran a search for it and still nothing.
Also, how would I go about opening a binary file?
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Short answer: With whatever it was designed to be opened with.
Long answer: A binary file can be anything. What sort of binary file are we talking about? Lots of things can use or be distributed in .bins. I've seen CDs distributed as bin/cue files, I've seen games using .bin files to store all their data, and I've seen plenty of other uses. A binary file has no set format. Anything at all can be stored in one.
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I went rock climbing today in an old converted warehouse-type place. It was pretty neat, but my arms are damn tired.
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It's a game file. I've been looking online for something to open it, but I've seen nothing, and every time I run the setup it doesn't work. Also it's in a bin with a cue file.
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I went rock climbing today in an old converted warehouse-type place. It was pretty neat, but my arms are damn tired.
Climbing rock walls are fun!
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It's a game file. I've been looking online for something to open it, but I've seen nothing, and every time I run the setup it doesn't work. Also it's in a bin with a cue file.
So, the bin/cue was an image of the CD, and you're trying to open a bin that the installer is supposed to use?
I'd say that unless that bin is in a very basic format, you're screwed. Most installers have the data they're installing compressed to save space for the installer, but they also have them packed into their own format (though most installers now use cabinet files).
The best thing you can try is to locate a forum or something for that game and try to figure out why the game won't install, or how to open the bin.
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Climbing rock walls are fun!
Yeah, it was really fun. When I was there I felt kinda awkward at times but after I left I really wanted to go back again. Like, in the distant future. I'm still tired as balls all over.
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I would do it more often but my feat are too big.
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Does anyone remember the name of an artist that sq3r posted one day a long time ago?
She had an Asian name, and drew a whole bunch of really awesome pictures, then colored and touched them up on PC. Her name was her website. She had a whole bunch, very abstract, very very well done.
This is a couple years ago, so I wouldn't be surprised if no one remembers, but if someone finds it, you get a free "kudos."
I've been trying to remember the past couple days, and I just can't. I really want to catch up on her stuff.
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Nintendo just announced a ton of new awesome games and a new DS with no GBA slot but now with an SD card slot for its own Virtual Console, music (in AAC form) and it has a 3 megapixel camera.
One of the ne games is Punch-Out!! Yaaaaaay
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From what I've heard, this: PUNCH OUT, Sin and Punishment 2, Monster Hunter 3, and a new "Tales of" game.
Meh, Sin and punishment 2 intrigues me slightly, but I'm dying to see something about MH3. Apperently it has online, which I'm glad came through considering I never got to play the playstation game/games.
Also what is this I hear of a Kalona port?
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I wonder how much homebrew stuff is going to pop up for that thing? With a card slot I'm thinking that people may find a way to pirate games on those cards. Maybe even find a way to hack it to play GBA games from the cards, lol.
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I eat the muscles of dead animals
Animals
Animals
Animals
ANIMALS!!!!!!
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it's a madhouse!
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Well when the going gets tough, the tough gets drugs!
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For some reason my avatar hasn't changed.
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Yes it has. Your cache probably hasn't cleared yet.
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Yes it has. Your cache probably hasn't cleared yet.
Yeah, I figured it might be something along those lines, thanks.
Also Bubba burgers (if that's how they're spelled) are amazing.
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what the hell is your avatar from D:
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what the hell is your avatar from D:
Dawn of war. It's the Ork War Boss committing date rape on a force commander. Also why is battalion wars 2 so underrated?
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Man, homecoming rocked. It was better than I thought it would be. I saw a ton of people there that I knew and got to meet some people that I hadn't ever really talked to before.
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Dawn of war. It's the Ork War Boss committing date rape on a force commander.
lawl
wait hasn't A0.com been dead and buried for like forever
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wait hasn't A0.com been dead and buried for like forever
...wut?
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Yeah, what? I don't see how that comment related to Dawn of War >_> maybe I'm crazy haha
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I think we're all missing something here...
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I think we're all missing something here...
MortifedocAlot's signature
how can you be a moderator at A0.com if it's been dead since 2006
GRAAAAAAAHGHFGHDFH HEAD EXPLODE DOES NOT COMPUTE
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You need to be more explicit when you talk about things like that, lol. I have a habit of doing that sort of thing too, but it's usually when I'm talking in person. It's really confusing to the other people around me.
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how can you be a moderator at A0.com if it's been dead since 2006
GRAAAAAAAHGHFGHDFH HEAD EXPLODE DOES NOT COMPUTE
I started A0, that's why.
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I have a habit of doing that sort of thing too, but it's usually when I'm talking in person. It's really confusing to the other people around me.
Wow...are you sure we aren't the same guy??? I just seem to do that too...In fact, I'm going to be making a profession out of it...lawyer.
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I started A0, that's why.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooo...
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I just ordered this shirt: http://shop.neatorama.com/product-info.php?i-survived-the-large-hadron-collider-t-shirt-pid104.html
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Wow...are you sure we aren't the same guy??? I just seem to do that too...In fact, I'm going to be making a profession out of it...lawyer.
Lol, well, my mom and I both have a habit of talking a conversation and then switching to something else out of nowhere. What happens is that we'll be thinking of something else while we're talking, and then just start talking about the new topic without making anyone else aware of what we're talking about. It confuses a lot of people when we do it.
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Lol, well, my mom and I both have a habit of talking a conversation and then switching to something else out of nowhere. What happens is that we'll be thinking of something else while we're talking, and then just start talking about the new topic without making anyone else aware of what we're talking about. It confuses a lot of people when we do it.
Like the Republican Party!!!
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Lol, well, my mom and I both have a habit of talking a conversation and then switching to something else out of nowhere. What happens is that we'll be thinking of something else while we're talking, and then just start talking about the new topic without making anyone else aware of what we're talking about. It confuses a lot of people when we do it.
That happens with my mom, too. Also, sometimes she'll bring back up a conversation topic from hours or sometimes days ago as if we were just talking about it and I follow completely without thought. My mom's pretty scatterbrained.
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So, life has been a depressing cycle of 'go to work, come home, go to bed, wake up, go to school, come home, get changed, go back to work, come home, go to bed...'
I decided to compensate by spending a boatload of cash on a shiny new PSP, a hojillion games, and Kirby Super Star Ultra for DS.
Ahh, video games. The workingman's solace in a harsh, terrible world. <3
The PSP is still getting hax0red, so I'm playing KSSU at the moment. Excellent remake!
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In another week I'm gonna need to look for a new job. Fucking seasonal jobs :/
However, once the semester ends, and I get to do my co-op, I'll make up for the shitty money I've been making lately.
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I envy your Japanese Class.
I can take a class at my college, but it's a non-credit course, and a shitty introduction course, and costs $180 to join.
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I had taken a Jap class in my senior year in high school so I know a little bit....just Hiragana and a few Kanji.
Jyuhasai desu.
Bensalem ni sun demasu.
Bideogaemu ga daisuki desu.
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Just a hint, most people capitalize loanwords/katakana. It makes it stand out more, just like katakana does in the middle of hiragana.
I know a decent amount of grammar, but I'm absolutely miserable at learning the kanji (and only marginally better at learning the readings).
I'd love to get into a classroom environment that teaches Japanese, because I'd be able to learn more words that way, and learn in structured order, rather than all over the place.
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I eat the souls of the damned!
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Do I want Linux?
I'm sort of interested in using it. I've never used it before, and I dunno if it would be too far over my head. I don't program anything so I dunno if experience in that is needed or anything.
But I hear its super customizable and awesome and free. I'd like to try it out.
Do I need any experience with anything? Is it pretty cool or what?
Tell me about it (in layman's terms) because I might like to try it.
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It's fun to mess around with, I've tried Fedora and Ubuntu [pretty user friendly]. Which one you get depends on how tech-ey you want/are comfortable getting with it. Some builds require more knowledge of linux, others, like ubuntu, let you experience linux with little to know previous knowledge of it. Still fun though.
Spektur and boobies know more than I do about it.
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It's fun to mess around with, I've tried Fedora and Ubuntu [pretty user friendly]. Which one you get depends on how tech-ey you want/are comfortable getting with it. Some builds require more knowledge of linux, others, like ubuntu, let you experience linux with little to know previous knowledge of it. Still fun though.
Spektur and boobies know more than I do about it.
Vyhd has alot of knowledge about Linux as well.
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I've figured that if someone's going to start Linux, they should use something like Fedora or Ubuntu at first. If they're not satisfied with either of them because of the restrictions for the sake of user-friendliness, then they should move to a less user-friendly one. Which one they switch to is up to them, because if they want to switch, typically they'll be willing to research what to switch to.
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Still learning the hiragana. And luckily it's worth a high school credit.
I found that hiragana and katakana were pretty easy to learn, mind you I didn't get forced to do stupid stuff to learn it, like you inevitably will be/have been forced to do.
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itt weeaboos
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Learning Japanese can actually be rather useful in business fields. Any company that deals with Japanese companies, or has Japanese parts could use someone who knows Japanese as a translator, or representative...
And from a linguistic view, Japanese is a very interesting language.
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So I had this weird dream last night. I don't remember too many details, but I remember that I felt like I had to pee the entire time and there was a bathroom in a deli that I went to in the dream. I woke up, and while I was barely awake, I thought "I need to pee. I think I'll use that deli's restroom." So I went back into the dream, and right when I was about to pee, I thought "WAAAAIT." Then I woke up again and went to an actual bathroom.
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I also just had a really bizarre dream. It was another one where I kept having trouble controlling my body and I'd end up falling down and having a ton of trouble getting up (or over, or I would just have trouble getting up). There was a lot going on, but that was the only thing that remained consistent.
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I never remember my dreams (at all).
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I had a dream that there was a completely new NX2 GX in this building just across from the BP a few miles away. They also had a second machine being assembled, except the pads weren't done. I got to play for free and got quite a bit of the way through WorldMax. :D
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Learning Japanese can actually be rather useful in business fields.
lol
Any company that deals with Japanese companies, or has Japanese parts could use someone who knows Japanese as a translator, or representative...
READ: human trafficking
And from a linguistic view, Japanese is a very interesting language.
中出し希望 is very interesting I'm sure
But fuck Japanese, I'm going to be eating fish vagina:
Keroro's keepin it durrty (http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/2773/1007081646go3.jpg)
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I really don't want to listen to this debate nonsense again. Gahhhhhh...
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中出し希望 is very interesting I'm sure
The japanese seem to be good at making porn with that in it...
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I really don't want to listen to this debate nonsense again. Gahhhhhh...
Oh god not the purple elephants agian!
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I really don't want to listen to this debate nonsense again. Gahhhhhh...
Heh, I listened but it felt like they made NO progress. Then at the end when they examened it the just said shit like "oh look, Obama is relaxed, he won" like the issues don't even matter. I suppose they're trying to be unbiased, but what the fuck is this shit.
Also I think my dream was about inadequacy in school, or some such noise. I've kind of been going threw hell trying to keep up with my work, and none of my drawings seem as good as ANY of my class mates.
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Tom Brokaw is a Nazi.
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Heh, I listened but it felt like they made NO progress. Then at the end when they examened it the just said shit like "oh look, Obama is relaxed, he won" like the issues don't even matter. I suppose they're trying to be unbiased, but what the fuck is this shit.
Ahahaha, nicely put.
Speaking of Tom Brokaw, I'm going to go kill some nazis. Yay Wolfenstein 3D!
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Why is Moral Oral so fucked up? They just had a 2 part episode were his dad got drunk, acted like a total asshole, tried to get Oral to kill something despite him not wanting too (which eventually happened and made him seem a but traumatized) then he shot him and waited several hours to take him to the hospital.
I'm pissed that show got canceled.
Also fuck sleeping.
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I just realized something: Chatlogs are probably the worst form of evidence there is for the FBI to check out because they're faked more easily than pretty much anything else.
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I just realized something: Chatlogs are probably the worst form of evidence there is for the FBI to check out because they're faked more easily than pretty much anything else.
So very true, however, most people aren't even aware of half the programs logging them, let alone the knowledge that they can edit them, or how to locate and edit them.
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So very true, however, most people aren't even aware of half the programs logging them, let alone the knowledge that they can edit them, or how to locate and edit them.
And those who are can play it off like they aren't.
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(http://www.speedtest.net/result/336931637.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)
Why is my internet so slow? It should be 864 Kbits/sec by 160 Kbits/sec. T_T
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At my grandparents house
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/337068164.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)
hmm
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Oooh! Dickswing! <3
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/337070656.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)
Errgh, wtf? I picked a random location halfway across the continent instead of the closest possible...
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/337071416.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)
moar
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/337072267.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)
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A winner is me.
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/337076915.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)
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Oooh! Dickswing! <3
Yeah, except for Comcast's "lawl artificially boost teh benchmarks" technology, aka PowerBoost.
When I was in Maryland I supposedly had a "16mbps connection." It's funny how quickly that drops after 10MBs of consecutive transfer.
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Yeah, except for Comcast's "lawl artificially boost teh benchmarks" technology, aka PowerBoost.
When I was in Maryland I supposedly had a "16mbps connection." It's funny how quickly that drops after 10MBs of consecutive transfer.
orly? Hm.
I will say that that reading is a lot faster than I usually get. :P Ah well.
Big numbers are fun.
Unless the number is for dead people.
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(http://www.speedtest.net/result/337366814.png) (http://www.speedtest.net)
Meh. Not too bad.
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If I flag my PSP's mem stick for boot, should I be able to boot from my PSP via USB?
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Found out last night that a friend of mine died on Saturday from Leukemia. Fuck.
Ouch. Fuck, that blows. I don't even know what to say... :/
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If I flag my PSP's mem stick for boot, should I be able to boot from my PSP via USB?
It depends on how complete the PSP's mass storage driver is and whether Memory Sticks allow you to change the boot sectors. I can't boot from my phone (a RAZR V3x, which has a microSD slot and a very buggy USB mass storage driver), I know that much. :x I haven't tried my PSP...yet.
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It depends on how complete the PSP's mass storage driver is and whether Memory Sticks allow you to change the boot sectors. I can't boot from my phone (a RAZR V3x, which has a microSD slot and a very buggy USB mass storage driver), I know that much. :x I haven't tried my PSP...yet.
I know that my Eee's boot selector displayed it as "Sony "PSP" MS", so it might work.
Also, does anyone know where I could get a good black trenchcoat?
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Found out last night that a friend of mine died on Saturday from Leukemia. Fuck.
That's really awful, I don't know what to say, other then he's probably in a better place.
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I know that my Eee's boot selector displayed it as "Sony "PSP" MS", so it might work.
If it appeared in the boot selector then it fares better than my phone.
The only question at this point is whether you can write your own boot sector to the memory stick. If you can you're good to go.
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I have started creating my own language, and it's actually really fun.
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Cool, any description of the language? I'm very interested in linguistics, and I'd sorta like to see what linguistic aspects you've included in your language.
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Well it's called Tlet, and "tl" is kind of like "ch" or "sh" in that it makes a new sound out of two letters. It uses the English alphabet, but is only twenty letters. I went through the alphabet and kicked out the ones I decided were unnecessary. The Tlet alphabet doesn't use i, j, q, u, v, or x. I also have an alternate set of characters for each letter that I've drawn out.
As for grammar rules and such, I haven't gotten too far into it, but the language so far is basically a simplified version of English with some traits of Spanish, Japanese and Latin (and yeah I know that English and Spanish were derived from Latin but 'tevah), and a few extra sounds thrown in. I'm just getting down the basic parts of speech like conjunctions and prepositions, then I'll start to work on how conjugations are gonna work. I haven't thought much past that. So far these are the words I have translated:
The - Ed
If - Zets
And - En
Or - Ebt
But - Her
I don't feel like describing how you'd pronounce them, but it's a little different than how they look phonetically.
I'll take a picture of the alphabet I worked out for it later.
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I'm watching a recording of the most recent debate right now. I'm an hour in, and it seems all McCain has talked about is taxes.
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I'd suggest learning the IPA. It's a lot easier to define pronunciation by simply providing an IPA symbol to define it's pronunciation. Plus, the IPA provides symbols for pretty much any pronunciation possible. Sure, pronunciation can differ a LITTLE bit from the exact defined pronunciation for the symbol, but because they define the sounds in a systematic approach, defining them by things such as how open they are, or where the tongue is, they have basically created a set of symbols that can approximate every sound we can make.
Oh, and linguistically, English is a Germanic language, hence why some grammatical rules are different. Compare Spanish and English, then compare Spanish and French, and you can see a lot of similarities between French and Spanish that English doesn't contain.
However, I've seen it somewhere that somewhere around 60% of modern English language traces it's roots back to Latin.
English is kinda a unique language, in the sense that I don't think any other language has diverged so far from it's roots that it actually has more in common with an entirely different linguistic tree.
I'd like to make a language myself sometime that does away with many of the problematic portions of English. Because really, English is a terrible language.
Sure, we've done away with some of the dumber parts of languages (in my opinion) by basically removing word gender differentiation, and a host of other complicating factors, but we shot ourselves in the foot linguistically by making grammatical rules, and then making exception for pretty much every one of them.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto
Unu solvaĵo estas paroli Esperanton, sed antaŭjuĝo ekzistas kontraŭ la lingvon. Estas ĉar ĝi estas "nenaturan" kaj homoj ne volas lerniĝi, malgraŭ ĝi estando facile lerni kaj regula. Homoj estas stultaj. >_>;
Se vi volas lerniĝi, aŭ nure ekrigardi al la lingvon, iru al http://www.lernu.net/ - ili havas multaj gvidoj por lerni la gramatiko kaj la vortaro de Esperanto, kaj vi paroeblas en la komunumo tie. Havu amuzo. :)
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One solution is to speak Esperanto, but prejudice exists against the language, because the language is "unnatural" and people don't want to learn anything, despite the language's ease of learning and regularity. People are stupid. >_>;
If you want to learn, or even just glance at the language, go to http://www.lernu.net/ - they have many guides with which to learn the grammar and the vocabulary of Esperanto, and you can talk with the community there. Have fun. :)
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I've seen Esperanto, but I'm not exactly a fan of the ridiculous use of accents. It makes typing it a pain, and I really think it's unnecessary. I've never understood why they used accents.
I just saw something for Ek! and out of curiocity, I want to know how accurate my translation of this fragment is (taken from Ek!'s main page)
EK estas programo, kiu permesas tajpi esperantajn ĉapelitajn literojn
EK is a program that allows typing Esperanto capital letters
Note: I have not formally learned a single word of Esperanto, lol.
Anyway, I'm curous how well I did translating that fragment.
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Accents are used to denote separate letters, so that one sound always maps to one letter and vice versa. The "x-convention" is usually used to type accents online, since Esperanto doesn't use 'x' in any other context - it looks very weird, however. For example, the following:
Estas ĉar ĝi estas "nenaturan" kaj homoj ne volas lerniĝi, malgraŭ ĝi estando facile lerni kaj regula.
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Estas cxar gxi estas "nenaturan" kaj homoj ne volas lernigxi, malgraux gxi estando facile lerni kaj regula.
Your translation is very close, and a speaker would understand your point, but there are a few mistakes. None of them are actually with grammar - it's all word choice.
The "ki-" part of a correlative denotes an interrogative tense, and "-u" refers to individuals (living things), so "kiu" roughly means "who" as a question, e.g. "kiu ke?/who is that?". "Tio" would be more appropriate, as "ti-" indicates a demonstrative tense and "-o" refers to an object.
I'm not sure about "cxapelito" - "cxapelo" means cap, usually in terms of a hat, so while "cxapelita" would be "previously capped", it'd work better (in a metaphorical sense) for accented characters. If you want to specify capital letters, you could use "literegojn" (-eg- being augmentative, so translated closely to 'large letter') or "majusklo" (this is a special word for 'capital letter' - try to avoid specific words unless necessary).
My translation of it would be less literal, in order to better get the main idea across (and I prefer Spanish-style adjectives, but that's entirely a personal choice):
"EK estas programo, tio asistas tajpi literegojn esperantajn."
Which translates more closely to:
"EK is a program that helps typing Esperanto capital letters."
You seem to have a grasp of the basic grammar, which is definitely a good start. When the grammar is mastered,
all you need to know are morphemes, suffixes, and affixes. :)
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Well, because I've learned random words from the romance languages (or simply the Latin roots for things), or I'm able to see the similar roots between English words and words in another language, I can usually surmise at least part of a sentence. And since I've been exposed to French and Spanish (though mostly French), I've got a decent concept of sentence structure in romance languages (along with knowledge of many of the articles such as "the" "and" and other small words like that).
cxapelita in this case likely refers to letters that have the circumflex (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumflex) accent meaning "capped" as we would refer to the letter as having the "cap" previously added.
I'm a very quick study for grammar, but learning vocabulary is a different matter. I'm terribly slow at learning actual vocabulary.
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I bricked my PSP by messing with some system files while trying to install a plugin, so now I have to make another pandora's battery. Opening up the battery is a pain in the ass.
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So I watched the happening, it was awful. Like, really really really bad, to the point where it was funny.
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sup. I got in a bike accident on oct 6th. they wanted to call for a helicopter, but my girlfriend convinced them not to. I was doing about 25-30 mph and my sweatshirt that was under my arm got caught in the spoke of the front wheel and I flipped the bike. It will cost over $12,000 in bills, but I'm technically living in poverty, so I'll luckily be able to write it all off. I've moved back in with my folks, as they're willing to charge me half of my original rent at my old house and when im in college, pay for everything, including food, rent, and tuition. Sweet. Anyway, hi again. I'll give more details if anyone's interested.
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sup. I got in a bike accident on oct 6th. they wanted to call for a helicopter, but my girlfriend convinced them not to. I was doing about 25-30 mph and my sweatshirt that was under my arm got caught in the spoke of the front wheel and I flipped the bike.
Holy shit. D: You alright?
I've moved back in with my folks, as they're willing to charge me half of my original rent at my old house and when im in college, pay for everything, including food, rent, and tuition. Sweet.
Good to hear.
I can't even imagine living alone and trying to afford college expenses. Living expenses alone would be painful, especially in a place like California.
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Jesus christ nigger. Good to hear you're okay, that's awful.
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sup. I got in a bike accident on oct 6th. they wanted to call for a helicopter, but my girlfriend convinced them not to. I was doing about 25-30 mph and my sweatshirt that was under my arm got caught in the spoke of the front wheel and I flipped the bike. It will cost over $12,000 in bills, but I'm technically living in poverty, so I'll luckily be able to write it all off. I've moved back in with my folks, as they're willing to charge me half of my original rent at my old house and when im in college, pay for everything, including food, rent, and tuition. Sweet. Anyway, hi again. I'll give more details if anyone's interested.
Damn bro. o_O; I'm glad you're okay. And your silly butt only told me of the laundry.
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Shit, hope everything's alright there.
Sounds like this could turn out to have some better results though, lol.
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I found one of those THE MAN (up arrow) The Legend. (down arrow) shirts
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I found out that my dad, who's almost always voted republican, is supporting Obama. Weird. Note: He's only fiscally conservative. He's very socially liberal and tolerant of most everyone. He's just been voting republican because of their financial plans. This really says something about the McCain campaign.
Also, I ordered a pre-modded pandora's battery instead of opening mine up, because it's cheaper than a new PSP battery in the event that I fuck up my only battery.
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wake up at 1pm, work at 4pm, come home at 10pm, wake up at 8am, work at 10am, come home at 4pm.
WAR account inactive since the free month expired, waiting on my debit card to arrive so i can get another month.
also, i can't seem to leave this site regardless how much i disslike (insert number here) members here. im not good at this, better luck next time i guess. though, im probably going to be more blunt/jackass, it's cool though since im fucking awesome and i have a huge penis. and if for some reason my jackassery leads to a ban, its win/win for all of us. I DON'T LIKE YOU, AND YOU DON'T LIKE ME!
to show my awesome powers
little caesers, instead of getting a large italian cheese bread which is overpriced (FUCKING TASTEY)garbage, order this.
cheese pizza, no sauce, butter, parmesan, and the spices (whatever its called, its green stuff)
will cost the same as a hot and ready, also if you want it to be more like an italian cheese bread, ask em to double cut it like a thin crust or something and it will be squares and stuff.
i mean, you aren't getting the butter which is kind of in the crust of the italian cheese bread (we butter the pans the deep dishes and cheese bread comes in, not the pans for round pizzas) which does kind of knock the taste, but its still basically the same, and you save money.
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ur still gay
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ur still gay
for rio
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Can anyone explain to me why the FUCK math higher than algebra is required for us to learn in school? For the degree I'm going for, I have to take THREE GOD DAMN math classes in order to get to the one that will actually count toward it. Will I ever come across a situation in my life where I think, "Gee it was a good thing I learned how to divide polynomials!" I know it's an old worn out complaint, but this shit is absolutely useless to me. I'm not going to be a physicist or a mathematician or an accountant. If I decide to be one of those later in my life, I'll learn it then, because I'm just going to forget it all in a month. All I need to know is how to add, subtract, multiply and divide regular numbers, not x's and y's. The book tries to come up with "every day" uses for negative exponents to make it seem like this isn't a total waste of time, but fails horribly. If there comes a time when I need to know the volume of a pyramid or how long the shadow of a thirty foot tree is at 2pm I'll look it up; but making it a requirement is just stupid.
okay back to math
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Despite majoring in a field that requires lots of high mathematics, I very much agree with you. Hell, a lot of the crap you learn from algebra to precalculus isn't even implemented within mathematics. Seriously, aside from calc my senior year, math classes in high school were a waste of my time.
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I will tell you right now that about the only field that uses imaginary numbers is electrical stuff. That, and some of the crazy things like quantum physics, and those esoteric things.
I agree for the most part, but I'm not as opposed as some people are, because I actually find some of those things somewhat useful once in a while.
Mind you, I'm not exactly a normal person.
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How do you retrieve a folder previously Hidden? I'm an idiot, haha.
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tools > folder options > view > show hidden files and folders > apply
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thank you, kind sir.
things have been really weird lately. haha. started working a lot again. double plus unfun.
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So Barak Obama is going to my school, but I wont get to see him. In fact a friend woke me up telling me that he was coming, it was a really REALLY last second thing too.
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Well damn, why can't you see him?
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Whoa, yeah, that's really cool. You should totally ditch whatever class or whatever will allow you to go.
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I think it's safe to say that Microsoft's CodePlex (http://www.codeplex.com/) is way better than SourceForge (http://www.sourceforge.net/) ever was and ever will be. SourceForge was fine until they started chasing the dollar signs. After they un-OSS'd and started charging for licensing they turned to complete shit. They didn't do jack shit to their site and they eventually switched to their current layout, which is just mind-numbingly horrible.
CodePlex doesn't seem to offer hosting space but it makes up for it with a ridiculously clean layout. Not to mention that it requires a product to have some output within thirty days or they'll shit can it right there, something that SourceForge doesn't have (well, technically it does, but it seems to have more of a four year timeout period, which is just dumb).
The only "fault" that I can really find is that it has its own source control method. However, that's pretty much completely negated because there's a bridge for Subversion available (the development of which was started by Microsoft themselves).
It has so much more going for it than SF has in the past few years. If I ever start a project it's going to be hard deciding between that and Google Code, methinks.
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He was there early in the morning, my classes were at night. That, and he announced that he was comming pretty randomly, and tickets to see him were sold out within 10 minuets.
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He was there early in the morning, my classes were at night. That, and he announced that he was comming pretty randomly, and tickets to see him were sold out within 10 minuets.
oh my god, 10 minuets? Any Bach?
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I like to cut myself...when I am doing minor repairs on my car :P
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oh my god, 10 minuets? Any Bach?
Hahaha, nice one.
I will tell you right now that about the only field that uses imaginary numbers is electrical stuff. That, and some of the crazy things like quantum physics, and those esoteric things.
Speaking of which, my calc class got into a discussion about quantum physics and stuff for a few minutes today. It was pretty cool, and I felt awesome knowing what Schroedinger's Cat was. 8)
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Speaking of which, my calc class got into a discussion about quantum physics and stuff for a few minutes today. It was pretty cool, and I felt awesome knowing what Schroedinger's Cat was. 8)
Lol, well, that's a pretty basic thought experiment. But it's amazing how few people know what it is, or understand the idea behind it. When you start learning about things like how annihilation works, which gives rise to the theory of hawking radiation, and other in depth issues like quantum tunneling, it gets real interesting, lol.
On a quantum level, things are MUCH different most people would think.
But it is a very fascinating field.
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oh my god, 10 minuets? Any Bach?
oic wut u did der
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oic wut u did der
I'm lost...
Also I just watched like 5 episodes of captain N today. Shit is the funniest thing I've ever watched. I still have no clue why Simon Belmont was a blond tan guy wearing a blue winter jacket and why megaman was a 3 foot tall green guy who was abnormal strong and punched more often then shot.
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If McCain is elected president my friends and I are moving to Canada.
And then I'll be back in America once the border is removed :[
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:/
Well, you could come up and hang out with me, lol.
Also, Canada's not in a much better situation right now, the Conservatives are in power, and that is never a good thing. They aren't even the real conservatives anyway. The Progressive Conservatives were actually half-decently moderate. These Conservatives are basically the fucking reform party, which is damn near as conservative as the damned Republicans...
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Yeah, it's so hard to keep track of considering you guys have 48390280 major parties. :P
All of us North Americans tend to almost always suffer together anyway. The one compelling reason that I'd have to move to Canada is that I probably have more friends up there than down here. :P
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Actually, we only have a couple that anyone even hears about.
The Green, NDP and Liberal parties are the left wing parties (in order from craziest to most moderate) and on the right we have the Bloc Quebecois (national party, but you can only vote for them in Quebec, and they are seperatist) We used to have the Progressive Conservatives, but they broke up and the Reform party took their place, and the Reform/Conservative party, a bunch of crazies like your Republicans. (Once again, ordered from the most central out to the crazies).
Now, only the Liberal and Conservative parties have ever been in power (well, the PC had power, and when they broke up, the Reform took their place and changed names to just the Conservative party). NDP is the next party likely to ever get in, if the rest of Canada smartens up, but I still think it's a long way off. And the green party, well, they're a bunch of pot smoking environmentalist hippies, lol.
In Canada, more often than not, we don't vote for a party, we vote against one we don't like, lol. And every now and again a party manages to get involved in some sort of scandal, and then they get voted out for a couple years until the other party fucks up.
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Yeah, it's so hard to keep track of considering you guys have 48390280 major parties. :P
All of us North Americans tend to almost always suffer together anyway. The one compelling reason that I'd have to move to Canada is that I probably have more friends up there than down here. :P
WAAH Spektur doesn't love me anymore T____T
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I'm supporting John McCain.
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I pity whomever becomes president.
They'll be expected to clean up the financial mess, the immigration mess, and the mess of foreign policy, and the public has no patience for any. Unless they pull a miracle out of their ass (and they won't), then they'll be criticized and hated for years to come because they couldn't fulfill the impossible tasks set out for them.
Though what's bothered me the most about the election is that both candidates have done so well at sidestepping questions for so long, it makes me wonder if either is able to make a decision once in office. >_>
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Well, there is a reason Obama chose his running mate.
He recognized that he had no experience on foreign policy, and so decided to get someone who he knew was really good with foreign policy. So, if he does get in, the American public will be seen as finally willing to vote in a black man, as well as the fact that they will have someone in the vice-presidential position that actually knows something about foreign policy. Maybe Obama will be able to do some good on one of the issues at hand.
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I may vote for Obama, after looking into his vice prez guy. Before, I was just set out to pick none of the above and go with Nader or Bob Barr. John Mcain is bush, and obama is inexperienced as a dungeon master's penis. Hopefully with some guidance obama can actually help a little.
Can we go get clinton back please [bill]
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I may vote for Obama, after looking into his vice prez guy. Before, I was just set out to pick none of the above and go with Nader or Bob Barr. John Mcain is bush, and obama is inexperienced as a dungeon master's penis. Hopefully with some guidance obama can actually help a little.
Yeah this would be true.
Hell yeah...when he lied all he got was a blowjob and we had a decent economy.
Another thing that bothers me is how McGay and his transexual running mate say that what they are doing is all part of "god's" will. Now I use quotations around "god" because which one: Allah, Shiva, Brahmin, Buddah (even though techanically he is not a god), Zeus, Odin, Baal (Pursion or Babolyonian god of fertility for those of you who don't know)?
First off isn't there a CONSTITUIONAL Law against what they are doing? I have no religion. If I had to define myself with belief I would say I am an agnostic-animist. I have done a lot of reading of different religions and I HATE how they think that their religion, their "god" supports attacking the Muslims who are very peaceful people (Islam in itself means peace) and how women are nothing more then broodmares. First off its a woman's body and it is her choice. Second I DO support the right for privet citizens to bare arms for protection. ANY animal instinct when in danger is to kill or be killed. Humans are no different because we are just advanced apes.
Some critics of Obama say that he will have big government and we will go into a world of 1984. Guess what we have been in a world like that since 9/11. The current administration has bipassed more federal and constituional laws more then Dick Chaney and his bi-passes.
What America needs is a rebellion. A massive rebellion against this bullshit democracy that exists...oh wait it's not a democracy its a buecarcy.
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They'll be expected to clean up the financial mess, the immigration mess, and the mess of foreign policy, and the public has no patience for any. Unless they pull a miracle out of their ass (and they won't), then they'll be criticized and hated for years to come because they couldn't fulfill the impossible tasks set out for them.
This country keeps becoming more and more like Idiocracy :D
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Idiocracy
Yo man...we need to use Brawndo to help keep the plants alive.
Why?
Becuase its got what plants need.
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(Islam in itself means peace)
No, Islam means submission to god. Most of the religion revolves around the idea that our only purpose on earth is to do god's will and that we must submit ourselves to his command.
However, I think that like most religions, nearly nobody truly follows the real message of the Islamic faith any more.
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Frankly, I think religion starts being detrimental to society when people start disagreeing with the teachings, which doesn't take long. I think religion should never rear its ugly head into politics. Ever.
Also, someone spraypainted this on the ground in the plaza: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v253/annonymous/Image005.jpg
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Yo man...we need to use Brawndo to help keep the plants alive.
Why?
Becuase its got what plants need.
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It's got electrolytes.
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Also, someone spraypainted this on the ground in the plaza: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v253/annonymous/Image005.jpg
No sir, I don't like it.
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Well, I just got back from the Obama rally. I didn't get a good look at him, since it was crowded beyond belief, but it was still amazing and I'm glad I went.
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Ugh. Reinstalling World of Warcrack and all of the patches now. I forgot how long it takes to do this. Hopefully when this finishes I'll actually be able to travel through the Barrens without the game crashing. :|
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Lawl, barrens chat. Welcome to WoW hell.
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I never really had any trouble with the Barrens aside from the game shitting itself randomly when I'm in it. It only started doing that when I upgraded to 3.0.2 so I dunno. Fortunately, I've already done pretty much all the Barrens quests (not including the ones in Ratchet) for my level so it only happens occasionally when I travel somewhere.
It even did that after I reinstalled, so wtf. D: I tried doing another troubleshooting thing (i.e. delete patch.mpq and run the repair tool) but I'm not sure if that fixed it. I'm not even going to bother playing until that stupid zombie bullshit is over with.
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I know how much of a pain reinstalling and such can be, because I've had my WoW install take a shit on me like that too, but I'm surprised you haven't experienced Barrens chat. The barrens is notorious for being populated by all the morons who are too casual a player to level any further than that and apparently spend their time running once-relatively-funny jokes into the ground for about a year after the joke is no longer funny.
Goddamn I hate chuck norris jokes.
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I've actually partook in Barrens chat in my realm; it's fairly sane on Stormrage, it seems. Thunder Bluff trade chat is a bit more hit-or-miss.
Also, INFECTION WAS APPARENTLY OVER AT NOON PST (which equals VERY SOON for my realms). FUCK YES. Now I can actually go back to leveling and gold farming tonight.
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haha, world of warcraft. :P
it feels so very great outside today. it's perfectly sunny, cool, breezy. florida weather in the fall beats anything.
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It's cold out here today. D: Yay Ohio. Boo for me not being able to skip out on a good chunk of winter like I did last year. That Florida weather was niiiiice.
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My new laptop compiles OITG (from start to finish) in just under 12 minutes with make -j 2. <3
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Yeah dude. Come back down here and visit for a while :>
Also, my girlfriend's brother had a halloween costume party tonight. 'twas fun. I dressed up as Quailman from Doug (aka Doug's super-hero alter-ego). Upload pix when I take them tomorrow, for I shall trick or treat as quailman with friends.
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Yeah dude. Come back down here and visit for a while :>
Also, my girlfriend's brother had a halloween costume party tonight. 'twas fun. I dressed up as Quailman from Doug (aka Doug's super-hero alter-ego). Upload pix when I take them tomorrow, for I shall trick or treat as quailman with friends.
Copybeaver. D:
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Yeah dude. Come back down here and visit for a while :>
I'd go down there just to play EXTREME TRIPLE PUCK AIR HOCKEY WITH ELEVATOR MUSIC again. :P Damn that was fun.
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Happy Halloween bitches!
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Ugh, such a boring night.
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Ugh, such a boring night.
^ This.
I don't know why, either. It was pretty much the ideal Halloween night and nobody was out trick or treating. On the bright side, we have a shit ton of candy left over. On the down side, I'm probably going to wind up gaining 20 pounds by next week. Chocolate is too yummy for my own good.
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I'm so glad I never really had trick or treaters. I think I've seen at most a total of ten in the 21 years I've lived here.
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I swear, kids MUST be scared to come up to my house. I know a few (very little come around here, considering most houses sit on an acre and a half of land) are out here. Just had a few friends over, and one of them gave me his left over liquor, so I suppose I come out even.
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Haha.
My halloween basically involved driving up to my girlfriend's place with a friend (it's a 45 minute drive) and hanging out with my GF,m and the two friends she's living with. We ended up driving around Barrie (which is the first city between my place and Toronto, 125k people) and stopping at a 24 hour wall mart.
And my friend is apparently getting along a little too well with the other girl that's living with my GF, lol.
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So I have acquired a copy of Diablo 2 IN A PERFECTLY LEGITIMATE FASHION, and I mount the Diablo play disc.iso in Daemon tools, yet it still tells me that I need to put the CD in the drive. WHAT DO I DO?
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ISOs don't support any form of real copy protection.
But it doesn't matter, really. Upgrade to the latest patch, they completely disabled the CD check in that.
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Never mind, I figured it out. Apparently I'm playing an expansion now, and even if I click the Diablo 2 icon it launches the expansion, so I'm not sure how to play vanilla Diablo 2. Also this game is amazingly addictive for some really odd reason.
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Just make a character that is marked as non expansion. when you create a new character, you can select whether they're an expansion char or not.
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Okeydokey. Also, I'be made a Necromance because he seemed kawaii, should I just dump all of my skills nto one skill tree? Also what stats should I build up?
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Who should I vote for? I'm afraid I've fallen into the liberal machine to have a clear view on it.
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Obama!
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http://www.ontheissues.org/ - go educate yourself, be quick about it, and vote based on your ideals, not party line. It's really not something you should treat lightly, but people seem to take it for granted quite a bit.
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It's really not something you should treat lightly, but people seem to take it for granted quite a bit.
Damn it, I've been looking for something like this for a while.
Next person to compliment me gets to pick my vote.
Well, Obama seems better for schools and crime, and I agree on his standpoints for abortion and gay rights, so I suppose I will support him. I really have no clue who would be better for the economy, but I suppose a change from what has been going on can't be as bad as what we currently have.
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VOTE NADER
Fuck the Democrats, and fuck the Republicans.
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VOTE NADER
Fuck the Democrats, and fuck the Republicans.
That means a vote for McCain, and that'd put us one step closer to dissolving the country. VERY NO. Definitely Obama on this one.
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vote for Brian Holland, the best candidate of them all
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That means a vote for McCain, and that'd put us one step closer to dissolving the country. VERY NO. Definitely Obama on this one.
Awhile ago I read Obama's platform about the internet and he believes in net neutrality.
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Unfortunately, he and Joe Biden disagree on that one.
http://gizmodo.com/5041044/vp-candidate-biden-is-no-friend-to-file-sharing-net-neutrality-protection-or-online-privacy
http://tech.yahoo.com/news/cnet/20080824/tc_cnet/83011357831002416338
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=joe+biden+net+neutrality&btnG=Google+Search&meta=
Yeah, Hopefully Barack keeps Biden's attention rooted on international affairs.
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Also, if it wasn't for Nader, Bush likely wouldn't have won the electoral vote in 2000.
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Yeah, Hopefully Barack keeps Biden's attention rooted on international affairs.
Indeed.
Also I voted lul.
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That means a vote for McCain, and that'd put us one step closer to dissolving the country. VERY NO. Definitely Obama on this one.
Also, if it wasn't for Nader, Bush likely wouldn't have won the electoral vote in 2000.
Is that all Democrats know how to say? "OMG NADER RUINED GORE'S CHANCES WAHHHHHHHH"
Whatever, I sort of hope McCain would win just so you Democrats would cry more.
GOGO NADER, show America a true liberal!
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I'm not saying I disagree with Nader. In fact, I like Nader a lot more than I like Obama. But I like Obama a lot more than I like McCain, and I'll vote to keep McCain out of office, just as I would've voted to keep Bush out of office.
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Whatever, I sort of hope McCain would win just so you Democrats would cry more.
me too, except definitely hope so
also, I'd vote for McCain just to keep Obama out of office
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me too, except definitely hope so
also, I'd vote for McCain just to keep Obama out of office
says the rich, white, suburban kid
:)
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Yeah I am poor...not to mention Republicans are suppost to keep a SMALL government but which party almost made this country like 1984...not the liberals my friends not the liberals.
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The votes have been tallied
and
for
the
first
time
in
history
a fictional character is president
(http://www.passionwii.com/img/LINK%20ZELDA%20TP.jpg)
He doesn't need to say anything...that way he never messes up.
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McCain won, true story.
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McCain won, true story.
I saw that. I'm disappointed.
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Is that all Democrats know how to say? "OMG NADER RUINED GORE'S CHANCES WAHHHHHHHH"
Whatever, I sort of hope McCain would win just so you Democrats would cry more.
Stop being a dick. There's kind of a rule against it on these forums (http://www.spectere.net/smf/index.php?topic=2.0) (rule number 1, in fact).
If you want to argue your points I suggest doing it in a mature way, not pulling the "WAHH CRY SOME MORE" card because you can't think of anything to back up your argument.
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I can back up my points. (http://www.prorev.com/green2000.htm)
I just don't need to prove jack shit to anyone here.
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I'm not saying I disagree with Nader. In fact, I like Nader a lot more than I like Obama. But I like Obama a lot more than I like McCain, and I'll vote to keep McCain out of office, just as I would've voted to keep Bush out of office.
Now you're thinking like a Canadian!
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I can back up my points. (http://www.prorev.com/green2000.htm)
Ah, ok. My bad.
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I can back up my points. (http://www.prorev.com/green2000.htm)
My point still stands. Or did that completely go over your head?
I just don't need to prove jack shit to anyone here.
Yeah, yeah, big Internet tough guy, I know. internet == srs business and all that overused bullshit.
Look. If you can't participate in a serious argument with a reasonable level of maturity, I'd advise against starting one. Responding to a comment with some smartass, inflammatory remark rather than attempting to have an intelligent debate just makes you look dumb.
Long story short: either drop that tough guy "I don't have to prove anything to you" bullshit and argue your points intelligently and maturely or find another place to vent.
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Last night ended up being pretty interesting for me.
I had to go get my girlfriend's sister and her boyfriend in Ajax. http://maps.google.ca/maps?rlz=1C1CHMG_en-USCA291&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=from:midland,ontario+to:ajax,ontario&um=1&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&resnum=1&ct=title
(can't seem to force it to directly display the route, but oh well). Spec edit: Fixed (had to manually tweak the URL...blah)
Apparently some bitch who's claiming the boyfriend is the father of her kid got his license pulled and they needed a ride back into town. So I ended up picking up a friend of mine (who can drive standard, because the boyfriend's car is standard) and my girlfriend, and drove down, and then my friend drove the boyfriend's car back, and I drove my girlfriend and her sister back.
For someone who hasn't driven beyond Barrie, that is certainly a hell of a drive.
Not to mention I had a bunch of rush hour traffic on the way there, got lost once getting there (ended up in Whitby, instead of Ajax) and ended up taking a detour through part of Toronto, because they closed the lane in the exit to get from the express lanes to the collectors.
My back is totally fucked now. I can't even bend forward at all.
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Heh, yeah, hour plus drives are a real pain when you first do them. I remember the first time I started driving to Pennsylvania to play DDR/ITG -- my first few hour-long drives made my ankle burn like hell.
Sadly, I've gotten so used to long drives that I can drive six hours straight without an issue. :x Driving back and forth between Maryland and Ohio about ten times will do that to you.
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Ouch.
But yeah, the drive was supposed to be something like 2 hours each way. I think it was more like, 2:30 to 3 each way.
Considering driving to Barrie is supposed to be 30-45 minutes, there's quite a bit difference. Along with the fact that I'm not used to driving on large highways.
Also, I tried changing the URL a bit, but I didn't know the exact necessary changes, since simply searching "Midland Ontario to Ajax Ontario" will give you the route.
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http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/books/11/05/obit.crichton/index.html
These people need to stop dying, dammit. D:
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http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/books/11/05/obit.crichton/index.html
These people need to stop dying, dammit. D:
Yes, yes they do. Fuck.
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Its only 5 and a half hours to get to Vegas from me ;o ;o ;o ;o
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Its only 5 and a half hours to get to Vegas from me ;o ;o ;o ;o
Yeah, well it takes 6 hours to get to my friend's college (and this is still in Ontario).
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I have no idea what is going on here so I reply with bananas bananas bananas.
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But yeah, the drive was supposed to be something like 2 hours each way. I think it was more like, 2:30 to 3 each way.
Considering driving to Barrie is supposed to be 30-45 minutes, there's quite a bit difference. Along with the fact that I'm not used to driving on large highways.
Yeah, it does take a while to get used to it. I've been on so many long road trips that I've pretty much grown very accustomed to it.
Nothing is quite as awful as the one time my family and I drove almost non-stop from Dallas, Texas back to Struthers (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=from:Dallas,TX+to:Struthers,OH&sll=41.055849,-80.60922&sspn=0.007233,0.016522&g=502+Elm+St,+Struthers,+OH+44471&ie=UTF8&t=h&z=6). Holy shit. Nothing quite like sitting in a car for about 20-21 hours. That was probably one of the worst experiences in my life.
Also, I tried changing the URL a bit, but I didn't know the exact necessary changes, since simply searching "Midland Ontario to Ajax Ontario" will give you the route.
You pretty much have to take the URL and put the from: and to: tags directly in it (i.e. from:midland,ontario+to:ajax,ontario). For whatever reason it strips those out when it gives you the route.
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Well, just typing something like "midland, ontario to ajax, ontario" will give you a route. But searching that from the URL apparently won't.
And somehow chrome was able to remember my waypoints and such when I told it to save the pages and re-open them when I opened it again. But there was no change to the search string (Hell, that URL I posted was the one for my page that had the waypoints.)
And yeah, I was in scouts, and went to PEI for a jamboree in 2001, and that took something like, 22 hours of driving total, over 2 days, so I have some idea of how bad that must have been.
Also:
Walking directions to Struthers, OH
1,207 mi
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walking directions from:
Anchorage, Alaska
to
Glace Bay, Nova Scotia
5,153 Miles
67 days, 19 hours
:D
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Holy shit. Nothing quite like sitting in a car for about 20-21 hours. That was probably one of the worst experiences in my life.
Hah, that's nuts. I would scream non stop for those last 4 hours, that sounds so horrific.
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Nothing quite like sitting in a car for about 20-21 hours.
Except maybe sitting on a crowded bus for 28 hours. My church's youth group went on a ski trip, and the trip back was 28 hours. There was no one I wanted to talk to, my laptop's battery ran out 5 hours in, my DS's battery ran out 10 hours in, it was too loud to read, I couldn't do my Rubik's cube in peace, and I couldn't sleep. After this, my mom finally stopped bugging me about going to church. At least for the most part.
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Christ, I'd murder someone.
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There was no one I wanted to talk to, my laptop's battery ran out 5 hours in, my DS's battery ran out 10 hours in, it was too loud to read, I couldn't do my Rubik's cube in peace, and I couldn't sleep.
At least you had something to do.
I didn't have a laptop at the time. All I had for entertainment was an original GBA with no lights for it (making it completely impossible to use). Didn't have any books with me. The seats in that particular car were also leather and the it didn't have working A/C so the leather seats stuck to my sweaty skin, making movements painful. It was also incredibly humid during the whole trip back.
We also ran out of snacks very early on in the trip. By the time we got back we were ready to eat our own appendages.
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Why the jesus fuck did you keep driving?
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The car was a little messed up. It has a nasty tendency of not starting if you turned it off on a warm day. We suspect that the car's key security system (it was one of the first cars that had security chips on the keys) was working against us.
Even besides that, it is a good thing we kept going. The area that we were originally going to stop at was hit by a horrible tornado the day that we would have left.
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Wow. I guess that's one of the situations you kinda have mixed feelings about. The drive sucked total ass, but you weren't hit by a tornado...
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Wow, that does suck hard. At least the bus was a decent temperature.
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Sup kids. Been busy as balls lately, but luckily tonight is the last night I have work for at least a few weeks. Yay seasonal jobs. I also got a raise, up 45 cents to $10.45/hr now. Sweeeet.
I also got a haircut of epic proportions. It hasn't been this short since middle school, I like it so much more though. It doesn't annoy me anymore. I'll post pix later.
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I also got a haircut of epic proportions.
WHAAAAAAAAT. Yikes.
I ended up getting a haircut today, actually. :x I feel aerodynamic again.
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WHAAAAAAAAT. Yikes.
I ended up getting a haircut today, actually. :x I feel aerodynamic again.
You're always aerodynamic buddy...allllright!
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I have a "new" myspace profile if you btiches want to be added to friends list. http://www.myspace.com/finalomegaomni
There it is. It is a privet profile so you need to get friend request thingy going on.
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OpenGL is awesome.
(http://files.spectere.net/pictures/glawesome.png)
;)
It amazes me how easy it is to use and understand after you get the initial scene set up. I can see why so many people use it.
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I also got a haircut of epic proportions. It hasn't been this short since middle school, I like it so much more though. It doesn't annoy me anymore. I'll post pix later.
Wow, yeah, that's the FIRST thing you notice when you but your hair (especially when you drive a car with the windows down). I still miss being able to tie my hair back.
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;)
Please, please please please animate this and make it your avatar. That would be the coolest thing I've ever seen, ever.
(Or you could send me your program and I'll do it. :))
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Please, please please please animate this and make it your avatar. That would be the coolest thing I've ever seen, ever.
I agree. Do it. Plz?
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Please, please please please animate this and make it your avatar.
Maybe after I go through the lighting tutorial. ;)
(Or you could send me your program and I'll do it. :))
The program and Windows are pretty much married. I didn't bother making it cross-platform in the slightest since I'm just trying to learn the API at this point. :x It pretty much relies on the Windows API to do things.
That said, I really should migrate the base code to SDL. SDL is easier than pie to use and using it would make the code a hell of a lot cleaner.
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Isn't rotating things in OGL mind numbingly easy?
I looked through those tutorials ages ago just to see what was required, and get some idea of how the code works, and I'm pretty sure that the code to rotate that thing was fucking easy (like, issuing a Rotate(stuffs) call type thing).
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The program and Windows are pretty much married.
HOLY SHIT NO WAY REALLY
My laptop dual-boots Windows and Linux, so it's not an issue. :P
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Isn't rotating things in OGL mind numbingly easy?
Pretty much everything about OGL is easy, haha.
HOLY SHIT NO WAY REALLY
Eh, an SDL app looks exactly the same as that but it'll compile and run under Linux with no code changes.
The NeHe tutorials for Windows goes over using the Windows API, rather than a cross-platform solution (hi SDL), to create the application window. Rectifying that would prove to be a Good Thing(TM) in the long run, if I get unlazy enough to do so.
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WRATH GET...at midnight Thursday.
My mom said I can get it when it comes out, but she won't let me take days off to play :(
I'll be at 149th and Concourse if you're there for some reason
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Lol, I just put TightVNC on a guy down the hall's computer. Specifically the guy who stole my clarinet that one day. Now I can do anything to his computer.
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Lol, I just put TightVNC on a guy down the hall's computer. Specifically the guy who stole my clarinet that one day. Now I can do anything to his computer.
Nice. A fitting punishment for those who grab other's horns and blow them without permission. >:(
shit I was at CSU on Thursday, I should have posted something
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He didn't use it, it was retaliation for something I didn't do.
And yeah, you should've. It would've been cool to finally meet someone from this site.
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Reinstalled OS X 10.4 on my Mac. Holy fucking shit this machine is slow.
I'm pretty sure that the Apple fanboys that claim OS X 10.4 runs fast and well on G3s are lying. I have a 733MHz G4 with 768MB of RAM and a GeForce 3 and even the version that shipped with this damn thing runs like ass. Ugh.
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Well, either they're lying, or they haven't use any other system....
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Mmm, that's a good point seeing as most Mac-obsessed anti-M$ people can only seem to bring up flaws in Windows that were a problem in Windows 95.
OS X runs fine on G5s and all of the Intel-powered systems that I've used it on. Every G4 and under that I've seen run it, however, is slow as dirt. My processor is a pretty stripped down model; it's basically the Celeron-equivalent for the year that I bought the system (January 2002) with less cache, but it's still better than any G3, and even early G4, on the market.
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Ouch :/
And yeah, what ARE the anti M$ arguments mac fanboys point out, I haven't encountered a true mac fanboy in a LONG time.
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He didn't use it, it was retaliation for something I didn't do.
And yeah, you should've. It would've been cool to finally meet someone from this site.
were you anywhere around the Lori Student Center before 2:00, you may have seen me
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And yeah, what ARE the anti M$ arguments mac fanboys point out, I haven't encountered a true mac fanboy in a LONG time.
Eh, they're all hiding in the corner bashing Vista now (despite Leopard being even more demanding on the system). They're not even entertaining trolls, they're all just idiots. Anyone who is that devoted to a computer manufacturer or operating system shouldn't be allowed to use a computer.
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were you anywhere around the Lori Student Center before 2:00, you may have seen me
Nah, I have class from 11:00 to 2:00 that day. Even if I did see you, I probably wouldn't have noticed, since there are so many people here.
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the best recipe ever has manifested itself on the today show this morning
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/27648622/
everyone please go make this
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So I just got a free Java Monster. There was a Monster truck right outside the student center and they were handing out 16oz. cans. I don't drink energy drinks, but it was free, so I took one.
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Java Monster is good. Hell, all the coffee energy drinks are.
Also, I got quite a bit of free Rockstar when I went to the Mayhemfest concert. They had 4x4s driving around with big tubs full of Rockstar, and just handed out like, 2 cans to everyone in the line.
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Damn, I thought Mirror's Edge was coming out for PC this month, but I read it's not coming until January.
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Eh, they're all hiding in the corner bashing Vista now (despite Leopard being even more demanding on the system). They're not even entertaining trolls, they're all just idiots. Anyone who is that devoted to a computer manufacturer or operating system shouldn't be allowed to use a computer.
What you just said should be applied to the gaming industry as well.
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http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Movies/11/12/batman.turkey.movie/index.html?eref=rss_latest
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Damn, I thought Mirror's Edge was coming out for PC this month, but I read it's not coming until January.
Indeed. How much are you willing to bet that EA is going to blame its relative lack of sales on piracy rather than the fact that there's such a long delay between the releases (and the fact that they're probably going to package the worst DRM imaginable with it).
What you just said should be applied to the gaming industry as well.
It can be applied to pretty much any industry, really. But yeah, I agree, the gaming industry is notorious for fanboyism.
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What you just said should be applied to the gaming industry as well.
So much worse then OS whores. I have a friend who thinks anything apple is "beast", thinks the xbox is gods gift to gaming, thinks shooters are better with 2 joy sticks, thinks halo is one of the best games made, and probably plays WoW on his (I think) windows XP run laptop.
Indeed. How much are you willing to bet that EA is going to blame its relative lack of sales on piracy rather than the fact that there's such a long delay between the releases (and the fact that they're probably going to package the worst DRM imaginable with it).
Hey, you'd be surprised what piracy can do.
http://kotaku.com/5085915/90-of-world-of-goo-installs-are-pirated
If I was selling a game, I'd DRM the shit out of it.
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I have a friend who thinks anything apple is "beast", thinks the xbox is gods gift to gaming
That's an extremely odd combination...
If I was selling a game, I'd DRM the shit out of it.
That would be a really foolish move. The DRM in Spore, et al, spurred far more legitimate customers to pirate than it encouraged pirates to go straight.
Here's the deal. The DRM that EA's been using isn't removable via standard means (it utilizes null registry keys, or something of the like, that cannot be removed with regedit), has been known to cause system instability, and is a potential security issue due to it requiring a privileged service to run at all times. Another issue is that the SecuROM system in use is that it requires you to be online when you install the game. Additionally, you are only allowed to install it a limited number of times. If you can't do a proper uninstall, you lose an install. If you run out of installations you have to call EA, 2K, or whoever, and convince them that you're not a pirate. What if the activation servers are shut down in five years? You can't properly install the game. Furthermore, the system simply doesn't work.
Spore received harsh criticism for its use of SecuROM's online activation system. However, despite the extremely harsh (to legit consumers, that is) DRM employed, the game was still released, fully uncracked, several days before it was slated to be released. Since EA had numerous problems keeping their activation servers up and running, many paying customers were unable to play the game. Meanwhile, the pirates were happily playing their copies of the game.
This is far from an issue with just Spore, too. Every game that was released with that nasty form of DRM -- such as Mass Effect and Bioshock -- experienced similar problems at launch. Paying customers got the shaft while the pirates can download, install, and play the game with zero hassle and without worrying that their copy will be invalidated after a few years or if EA happens to feel like revoking your key (which they claim they won't do, but who knows what'll happen down the line?).
Even if DRM had a small effect on piracy (unlikely) it wouldn't be worth the bad PR. Look at the extreme backlash that Spore received (namely, thousands upon thousands of one-star reviews), not to mention all of the negative press.
PC gaming is killing itself...pirates have nothing to do with it. Piracy is no worse now than it was during the shareware era in the early 90s.
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I don't know if I'd go that far. The current generation is far more used to pirating things and having emulators already there for people. They take it for granted that all the work and methods exist and for the most part, don't seem to have any idea as to what they're actually doing to smaller developers.
It's pretty telling that a game like World of Goo has a pretty long demo available, but the amount of people saying, "I wanted to try the game, so I just downloaded it," is huge.
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The situation really hasn't changed, though. It was actually easier to copy games in the early 90s because there was absolutely zero protection on them. There was protection on a lot of games in the 80s but that fell out of favor for a variety of reasons.
The real thing that companies need to protect against is casual copying. Pirates aren't going to stop what they do regardless of what kind of barriers you throw up at them. Additionally, throwing up more barriers isn't going to do anything but deter people who intend to buy the game. The thing is, the better your game is, the more people are going to want to play it. The kids who don't have any source of income and the people that thing that they're above buying games are going to pirate it and the people who think that the game is worth it are going to buy it.
There are plenty of things that developers and publishers can do to prevent piracy without hurting legitimate customers. Companies just have to start actually getting creative with their packaging, sort of like what Infocom did during their glory days.
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That would be a really foolish move. The DRM in Spore, et al, spurred far more legitimate customers to pirate than it encouraged pirates to go straight.
Here's the deal. The DRM that EA's been using isn't removable via standard means (it utilizes null registry keys, or something of the like, that cannot be removed with regedit), has been known to cause system instability, and is a potential security issue due to it requiring a privileged service to run at all times. Another issue is that the SecuROM system in use is that it requires you to be online when you install the game. Additionally, you are only allowed to install it a limited number of times. If you can't do a proper uninstall, you lose an install. If you run out of installations you have to call EA, 2K, or whoever, and convince them that you're not a pirate. What if the activation servers are shut down in five years? You can't properly install the game. Furthermore, the system simply doesn't work.
Spore received harsh criticism for its use of SecuROM's online activation system. However, despite the extremely harsh (to legit consumers, that is) DRM employed, the game was still released, fully uncracked, several days before it was slated to be released. Since EA had numerous problems keeping their activation servers up and running, many paying customers were unable to play the game. Meanwhile, the pirates were happily playing their copies of the game.
This is far from an issue with just Spore, too. Every game that was released with that nasty form of DRM -- such as Mass Effect and Bioshock -- experienced similar problems at launch. Paying customers got the shaft while the pirates can download, install, and play the game with zero hassle and without worrying that their copy will be invalidated after a few years or if EA happens to feel like revoking your key (which they claim they won't do, but who knows what'll happen down the line?).
Even if DRM had a small effect on piracy (unlikely) it wouldn't be worth the bad PR. Look at the extreme backlash that Spore received (namely, thousands upon thousands of one-star reviews), not to mention all of the negative press.
PC gaming is killing itself...pirates have nothing to do with it. Piracy is no worse now than it was during the shareware era in the early 90s.
This. A million times, THIS.
I could not have said that better.
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There are plenty of things that developers and publishers can do to prevent piracy without hurting legitimate customers. Companies just have to start actually getting creative with their packaging, sort of like what Infocom did during their glory days.
I agree that DRM is a horrible way to secure your game, but it's better then absolutely nothing. If you can slightly harm a pirate it would make some of them buy the game just to not deal with all the hassle.
but fuck damn, a 90% piracy rate on an indie game is basicly the definition of shooting the gaming industry right in the legs.
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I agree that 90% piracy is beyond terrible, but I can understand how that happens.
It's much more of a hassle to some people to have to pay for stuff online and such. If they don't see it on a shelf, or it doesn't get any attention on TV, people tend to dismiss it and simply pirate it instead of actually finding a way to pay for it.
I think they need to standardize online payment systems so that it works for everyone, because in my case, I have a paypal, but no other way of directly paying for stuff online. If something doesn't accept paypal, I'm fucked.
And personally, I'd rather pay for Indie games than commercial games at the moment, since most commercial games I've seen tend to be pretty poor in the gameplay area. Even Spore is pretty crappy as far as gameplay goes (though it certainly brought game development into a next generation).
And DRMing something just makes me want to pirate it for the sake of defeating DRM. I hate DRM in general. When I buy a game, I want the right to do whatever the fuck I want with it, within limits (such as hacking for the purpose of beating other players, and other stuff like that). I'm not paying to get locked out of it at the whim of the game's creators. Nor am I paying for a fucking piece of plastic, or some stupid little number that lets me install it. Nor am I paying for a program to install itself into my computer and fuck things up. When I pay for a game, I'm fucking paying for a GAME, end of story. And if the company decides that I am not paying for the game, but for some obscure license, or activation scheme, or malware and system instability, or a piece of plastic, I'm not going to pay.
Sure, I'd like to support the guys who make games. Unfortunately, you usually can't donate directly to the programmers (except in indie games). So you're stuck paying for the DRM, the license, the piece of plastic, the packaging, possible system instability, and all the rest.
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And DRMing something just makes me want to pirate it for the sake of defeating DRM. I hate DRM in general. When I buy a game, I want the right to do whatever the fuck I want with it, within limits (such as hacking for the purpose of beating other players, and other stuff like that).
DRM typically doesn't encrypt the game content, only the executable.
The thing that I mainly have a problem with is that the DRM essentially acts as malware. SecuROM is a perfect example. If you can't fully remove a program using the tools available with Windows (namely, regedit and Windows Explorer) then it's malware, hands down. The fact that it runs in ring 0 at all times is unacceptable and horrifically insecure.
Valve and Stardock have the right idea, I think. The DRM included in Impulse and Steam aren't particularly intrusive compared to what SecuROM does. Additionally, it manages to protect the content relatively well without doing anything stupid like limiting the number of installations a person uses. If I buy a game on Steam, my dad and I can play the game (albeit not at the same time) if he logs in as me. I wouldn't have to worry about using up too many of my installations.
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Valve and Stardock have the right idea, I think. The DRM included in Impulse and Steam aren't particularly intrusive compared to what SecuROM does. Additionally, it manages to protect the content relatively well without doing anything stupid like limiting the number of installations a person uses. If I buy a game on Steam, my dad and I can play the game (albeit not at the same time) if he logs in as me. I wouldn't have to worry about using up too many of my installations.
Seconded.
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I'm picking up drawing; got a sketchbook and am advancing at a seemingly good pace!
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Ohai guize.
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wtf are you doing here? :P
Buy srsly, long time no see. How are things?
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wtf are you doing here? :P
Quit stealing my posts.
In other news,
wtf are you doing here? :P
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It feels soooo nice outside. 58 degrees, breezy, and sunny. Absolutely delicious.
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It feels soooo nice outside. 58 degrees, breezy, and sunny. Absolutely delicious.
It snowed last night :/ I was gonna go drinking for the second night in a row with one of my friends, but I bailed because I didn't want to walk home drunk through the fucking snow.
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Spectere - I've been good. I've matured a lot, which is always good. I kind of forgot about Spectere.net since I've been busy with far too many AP classes right now. I'm currently doing AP Macroeconomics homework right now. >_> Procrastination for the win.
Jupichan - long story short, I got really bored because I stayed up until 6 AM last night, and I remembered about how awesome this site is.
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Damn right this place is awesome.
*pounds chest*
...ow.
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Spectere - I've been good. I've matured a lot, which is always good. I kind of forgot about Spectere.net since I've been busy with far too many AP classes right now. I'm currently doing AP Macroeconomics homework right now. >_> Procrastination for the win.
lawl, economics. Best sleep I ever got in a college classroom. <_<
But yeah, I definitely can't blame you for wanting to focus on school stuff. I was in a few AP classes in high school and they were pretty demanding.
Good to have you back. :)
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Thank you.
Ugh, yeah, sometimes I wish I didn't care about my future so much. I had to give up sports this year because of school. I barely even have enough time to see friends. Right now, I have to read half a chapter of AP World and a chapter of AP Bio for tomorrow, both of which are demanding texts. So here I am, sitting shirtless with a blanket, typing out an outline on Islam's effect on South Asia. Wonderful.
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Damn, how many AP classes do you have?
I dunno, if it's stressing you out it might be a good idea to drop one or two of them. On one hand, it's great for getting you ready for a college-level workload, but if it's interfering with your personal life that much it might be wise to cut back a little bit.
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I'm taking three right now (which have been listed), and I'll be adding in a fourth next semester (AP Microeconomics).
Even if I wanted to drop them, it's too late now. And I mean, I still see friends, just not as much.
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Well damn that sounds like a painful workload.
Also, I think I'd go insane if I had to take an economics class. Even the little bit of economics stuff I've seen no wikipedia made my head hurt just seeing it.
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What surprised me is that it's pretty simple when you break it down into basic macroeconomic concepts. The course I'm taking only contains an iota of math; the rest is just applying concepts to scenarios. Obviously once you start getting into modeling real life situations instead of just predicting general trends, it becomes hard as fuck.
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Well, Macroeconomics seems like it would be easier than microeconomics, anyway.
But I've seen stuff like tracking the Velocity of money and stuff, and that is pretty crazy, especially if you are dealing with large quantities of money and people spending that money.
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Oh Jesus, the thought of that scares me to death. I'm really glad that we only spent about a quarter of a class period on money velocity, and it was only mentioned in passing.
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Lol, well, that's what I meant about going insane if I had to do economics.
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My biggest problem with economics is that I got stuck with an incredibly boring teacher. The other problem was that his voice was almost soothing.
I found the subject matter itself to be fairly easy to grasp. Then again, it was just a basic college class. Probably about as hard as a regular economics class in high school.
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Ohai guize.
Oh lok at dis jew. Glad to see you're doing well in school.
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Why thank you.
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My biggest problem with economics is that I got stuck with an incredibly boring teacher. The other problem was that his voice was almost soothing.
I found the subject matter itself to be fairly easy to grasp. Then again, it was just a basic college class. Probably about as hard as a regular economics class in high school.
Lol, well, I think the fundamental aspects of economics is likely pretty easy. Then again, I also think many of the fundamental aspects of physics are pretty simple.
But yeah I've noticed that the AP classes you guys have seem to be insanely difficult compared to academic/university classes in our highschools. Here, academic/university classes are considered more or less the normal classes, and the applied/college classes are for the dumber or lazier kids who don't care about getting a decent education.
Mind you, there is a pretty big difference between our classes, it's just that the applied/college classes are so much easier.
Note: The reason I use 2 names is that in grade 9 and 10, they are called Applied and Academic, an in grade 11 and 12, they are called College and University. We also have Open classes, which are kinda in between (And really only for classes like Religion, or Art where they're not really "academic" anyway), and then we also have the workplace classes, which are basically there so that kids who just want to graduate and go right into the workforce can get a class that covers the bare minimum of essential knowledge to get out and work.
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I couldn't find a "post pictures of yourself" topic, so here are a few random pictures from last night.
I'm in the NOFX shirt. (http://photos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v371/229/63/1346932156/n1346932156_135520_2110.jpg)
Gosh, I'm always texting. (http://photos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v371/229/63/1346932156/n1346932156_135522_3396.jpg)
See, I won both games of bowling because I'm awesome. (http://photos-g.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v371/229/63/1346932156/n1346932156_135534_8807.jpg)
Look at that perfect technique. (http://photos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v371/229/63/1346932156/n1346932156_135535_9469.jpg)
Oh yes. (http://photos-f.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v371/229/63/1346932156/n1346932156_135541_6549.jpg)
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I just found out in Opera that if you press the Left Mouse Button and then the Right Mouse Button, you go forward a page, and if you press the Right Mouse Button and then the Left Mouse Button, you go back a page. Crazy :o
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So I just made the opening song from Elfen Lied my ring tone and I'm not sure if I'm wap enough to use it. At least the song itself is in Latin.
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I'd probably just use the music box version as a text tone.
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So I just made the opening song from Elfen Lied my ring tone and I'm not sure if I'm wap enough to use it. At least the song itself is in Latin.
wouldn't it be too quiet as a ring tone? :~O
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Have you heard how loud some phones get :S
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wouldn't it be too quiet as a ring tone? :~O
Meh, it's quiet but it isn't that bad. I can still hear it in my pocket with my TV on so it works. Honestly when it gets too loud (My megaman 2 opening theme) it starts to sound awful.
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they're after u, busta
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http://www.peta.org/cooking-mama/index.asp ahahahahaha
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http://www.peta.org/cooking-mama/index.asp ahahahahaha
WHAT. HAHA
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I like how at the end it's like "NOW THAT YOU'VE SEEN HOW GROSS IT IS TO KILL A TURKEY..." but it was already dead when you started :o
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I've been playing this, also BLEEDING EGGS GOD DAMN.
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http://www.peta.org/cooking-mama/index.asp ahahahahaha
That made my day, I'm sending this to my GF, lmao. She loves the Cooking Mama games :P
Also, I wonder if peta will get sued over this... I certainly hope so. lol.
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Heh, so I thought I only had about a page and a half of a 3-page paper done, then I changed the margins from .79" to 1" (the assignment was for 1" margins), and now I'm 2 pages in. Awesome.
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Lol, yeah, margins are awesome for that.
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Have I mentioned how much i love iidx? I really do.
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Have I mentioned I hate you for having more IIDX than I do?
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Playin the earlier styles makes me appreciate how pretty the post-10 style's really are. Timing/graphics/song choice and all that. At least they've been improving with each style :D
Also I am happy I get to play solid gold finally [7th]
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Actually, if you could send me a PERFECTLY LEGITIMATE copy of those (actual DVDs) I would be eternally grateful...
Also, IIDX Empress makes me question konami's marketing/design guys...
However, I am definitely intrigued by the GH arcade game.
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GH arcade?? fucking awesome. I agree empress is... well maybe they're trying to.. reach.. out? We don't know how it is over in japan, maybe there are a lot of girls that'd be interested in this game..
Yea I'd be happy to do send you some offsite backups of the PERFECTLY LEGITIMATE [actual dvds], I just need some time to check all of them, and the time to rip said isos/burn at 8/6/4x whatever. I use Sony DVDs for all my PERFECTLY LEGITIMATE backups, as did the guy I traded with from Vjarmy's forums.
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GH arcade?? fucking awesome. I agree empress is... well maybe they're trying to.. reach.. out? We don't know how it is over in japan, maybe there are a lot of girls that'd be interested in this game..
Yea I'd be happy to do send you some offsite backups of the PERFECTLY LEGITIMATE [actual dvds], I just need some time to check all of them, and the time to rip said isos/burn at 8/6/4x whatever. I use Sony DVDs for all my PERFECTLY LEGITIMATE backups, as did the guy I traded with from Vjarmy's forums.
That would be awesome, since I'm banned from sows, thanks to being unable to seed indefinitely :/
And yeah, the GH arcade could be good, but it depends on which version of GH it's based on, and the gameplay mechanics.
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Guitar Hero Arcade is based on GH3 and will be terrible. From what I've seen, it's going to 1 credit = 1 song and I really hate GH3's timing in general. The fact that Konami's making the cabinets is pretty funny though. At least the guitars should be near-indestructible.
Empress is so far amazing. Music-wise, it's better to me than Troopers was by quite a bit.
I have to say though, I've been turned off from the series since 10th Style. From 6th-10th, the music and everything was so amazing and after that, a lot of artists started leaving and getting replaced and I'm not sure what's happened but I'm just not as excited by the game as I used to be.
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Guitar Hero Arcade is based on GH3 and will be terrible. From what I've seen, it's going to 1 credit = 1 song and I really hate GH3's timing in general. The fact that Konami's making the cabinets is pretty funny though. At least the guitars should be near-indestructible.
If they're manufactured by Konami, yes. If they're made by Betson, I predict ultimate hilarity.
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It's by Konami proper. Betson has zero to do with it.
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DM Ashura what
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Guitar Hero Arcade is based on GH3 and will be terrible. From what I've seen, it's going to 1 credit = 1 song and I really hate GH3's timing in general. The fact that Konami's making the cabinets is pretty funny though. At least the guitars should be near-indestructible.
Empress is so far amazing. Music-wise, it's better to me than Troopers was by quite a bit.
I have to say though, I've been turned off from the series since 10th Style. From 6th-10th, the music and everything was so amazing and after that, a lot of artists started leaving and getting replaced and I'm not sure what's happened but I'm just not as excited by the game as I used to be.
Well, I haven't seen any of the tracks in Empress yet... But I was more or less just taking a crack at the ridiculous theme...
And I am not a HUGE fan of GH3's timing, since it feels so loose, but I will admit that is is nice to get saved by those insanely easy hammer ons when you're about to fail something :P
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I dunno, I liked GH2's engine where you didn't have to look for hammer-ons or pull-offs, you just got used to them being there based on note spacing.
Also, a couple of weeks ago, me and 5 other people in the hall got caught drinking. Since we were nice and cooperative, we each got a slap on the wrist which consisted of an online alcohol awareness seminar and a 2-3 page paper about goals or something. I managed to do both in one sitting just now.
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Also, a couple of weeks ago, me and 5 other people in the hall got caught drinking. Since we were nice and cooperative, we each got a slap on the wrist which consisted of an online alcohol awareness seminar and a 2-3 page paper about goals or something. I managed to do both in one sitting just now.
You're lucky, my friend got caught drinking and he got probation.
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(http://www.amanosworld.com/html/images/moorcock3.jpg)
This is the (Japanese or international?) cover of a Michael Moorcock book, illustrated by Yoshitaka Amano.
But I can't find out which book! >:(
Does anybody know which it's from? ???
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I think I JUST saw a humming bird, but it was dark and I couldn't see shit. It seemed to only be about 3 or so inches long, but it flew just like a humming bird and it was flying face first to some flowers. I don't think I've EVER seen one down here, what gives?
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(http://www.amanosworld.com/html/images/moorcock3.jpg)
This is the (Japanese or international?) cover of a Michael Moorcock book, illustrated by Yoshitaka Amano.
But I can't find out which book! >:(
Does anybody know which it's from? ???
That would be the Japanese edition cover of Michael Moorcock's Elric Saga, one of my favorite series of all time. Amano also did cover art for a Corum book and some other books in the Eternal Champion series. That cover in particular is of Elric though. If you can find copies of the compiled Elric Saga (it's now no longer published), I really really recommend it.
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That would be the Japanese edition cover of Michael Moorcock's Elric Saga, one of my favorite series of all time. Amano also did cover art for a Corum book and some other books in the Eternal Champion series. That cover in particular is of Elric though. If you can find copies of the compiled Elric Saga (it's now no longer published), I really really recommend it.
Awesome, thanks, I'll try to find it - did it get reprinted in english with the Japanese cover, like some of Moorcock's other books apparently were? If I can get it in english with an Amano cover, that's Double Win.
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My parents had their 25th anniversary party on Saturday. We had around 70 people over, it was ridiculous, but fun. Still recovering.
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So the TFC playing is going well and I am starting to get on par with others who have been playing the game since it came out 0.0
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I've started to learn to type on the Dvorak Keyboard :O
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Leaving for my semi-formal in five mins. Should be...moderately fun?
Never went to mine, lol. Kinda a waste of money, and I've never had much fun at crap like that.
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My friend bought an old broken Dell Notebook from some guy on craigslist who had bought the broken laptop from someone else on craigslist (owner -> guy -> friend). I used its hard drive to get my old laptop working again. It turns out the hard drive belonged to a girl who graduated from my high school 3 years ago. I also found out that my prom date's older sister knows the previous owner of this hard drive, all after looking through her Facebook using the saved passwords in her Firefox. I also found her Paypal password, but I didn't do anything. I was just curious about whose hard drive this was.
Anyways, I realized I could use this laptop to get past the torrent ban at my school by leaving it at home, torrenting there, then transferring the files directly to my rig at school all using remote desktop. Sure, it'd be slow, but it'd still work.
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My friend bought an old broken Dell Notebook from some guy on craigslist who had bought the broken laptop from someone else on craigslist (owner -> guy -> friend). I used its hard drive to get my old laptop working again. It turns out the hard drive belonged to a girl who graduated from my high school 3 years ago. I also found out that my prom date's older sister knows the previous owner of this hard drive, all after looking through her Facebook using the saved passwords in her Firefox. I also found her Paypal password, but I didn't do anything. I was just curious about whose hard drive this was.
Anyways, I realized I could use this laptop to get past the torrent ban at my school by leaving it at home, torrenting there, then transferring the files directly to my rig at school all using remote desktop. Sure, it'd be slow, but it'd still work.
Or, you could set up a SSH tunnel to your hoe computer, which has the benefit of being encrypted by the SSH connection (I've been planning on bypassing my college's network this way).
Basically, you set up a SSH server at home, and make it listen on a certain port, then you set up a connection on your computer in a way that basically connects it to the port your torrent program is running on, and have it connected to your server at home.
Something like that anyway, I haven't read too much on it yet.
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Just got back from my short vacation trip. Was a lot of fun, even if it was only 2 days. Either way, now I get a long vacation.
Ugh, someone JUST reminded me of Samurai Jack, and I NEED to rewatch it. Also FL CL is a lot more interesting if you "understand" it.
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Also FL CL is a lot more interesting if you "understand" it.
ITT someone trying to show anime has a meaning
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Or, you could set up a SSH tunnel to your hoe computer
(http://www.spectere.net/smf/Themes/dilbermc/images/groups/awesome.gif)
5:30 AM: Early enough to catch it, late enough to find it hilarious.
I've been transferring all sorts of stuff from my home computer to my laptop through scp. Mostly just movies and music, usual stuff. It's slow, but it works fine, and you won't be frustrated by copying times if you set it through the night and log on after classes. :)
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(http://www.spectere.net/smf/Themes/dilbermc/images/groups/awesome.gif)
5:30 AM: Early enough to catch it, late enough to find it hilarious.
I've been transferring all sorts of stuff from my home computer to my laptop through scp. Mostly just movies and music, usual stuff. It's slow, but it works fine, and you won't be frustrated by copying times if you set it through the night and log on after classes. :)
lol, glad to see someone else still up.
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I've been working on OITG stuff, which is about the norm. Y usted?
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ITT someone trying to show anime has a meaning
It doesn't have a deep meaning or anything, but once you realize it's just a show about a kid growing up it's a lot more enjoyable.
Evangelion on the other hand lol jay kay dawgs
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Evangelion on the other hand
Is about some depressed looser who can't grow up, and likely spontaneously grew a vagina somewhere during the show.
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Is about some depressed looser who can't grow up, and likely spontaneously grew a vagina somewhere during the show.
He did masturbate to an unconscious girls chest. Seems pretty cool to me.
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God I hate Eva.
I found my tigger pajama pants and now I'm unbelievably comfortable all the time. I'm tempted to just wear them to the store haha
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tigger?
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It's always somewhat awkward when you overhear one side of an RA's phone conversation with another about a student.
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It's always somewhat awkward when you overhear one side of an RA's phone conversation with another about a student.
care to give up a paraphrased one sided log?
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Well, it ended up being about kitchen knives, so it lost a lot of awkwardness. The RA was basically saying that other girls on the hall felt somewhat threatened by the knives. The owner actually cooks and uses the knives for cooking, but since they're knives, they're viewed as lethal weapons first and cooking utensils second. I think it's pretty stupid, but that's a rant for another time.
Also, although I had to drastically reduce the quality of the MP3 to get it under 1MB, I managed to send Still Alive to one of my friends using PrankDialer.
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eww, mp3 @ low bitrate sounds like utter shit.
Would that by any chance support AAC+? Because 24kbps AAC+ sounds marginally better than 96kbps mp3...
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Well, school finals are rolling around, and most everyone is panicking. I have one last speech I need to make for my Speech class tomorrow, and then I am effectively done (I have one final, which is a cakewalk). We are supposed to give a five-to-seven-minute presentation where we attempt to sell something to the class.
When given the project, I immediately asked one thing:
'Do we have to be serious?'
'Uh...no.'
Therefore, I am selling the Titan Missile Base (http://www.themissilebase.com/). I will be marketing to the class as if they were beginning their careers as evil overlords and are in need of a headquarters to conquer the world from.
This will be glorious.
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Three words Keys: Best Speech Ever!
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HAHA, awesome website.
That kicks ass.
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eww, mp3 @ low bitrate sounds like utter shit.
Would that by any chance support AAC+? Because 24kbps AAC+ sounds marginally better than 96kbps mp3...
As far as I know, it's only mp3. It did sound like shit, but considering it's going through a phone, I doubt it would sound much better on his end if it was higher quality.
Also, I got an old trenchcoat for $40 from an army surplus shop over Thanksgiving break. It's really warm.
And LunarKeys, please record and post that speech.
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I spent more than $150 at a local video game store within the past two weeks. How the hell did this happen and how the hell did I get this much money?
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As far as I know, it's only mp3. It did sound like shit, but considering it's going through a phone, I doubt it would sound much better on his end if it was higher quality.
Also, I got an old trenchcoat for $40 from an army surplus shop over Thanksgiving break. It's really warm.
And LunarKeys, please record and post that speech.
Well, phone digital encoding for speech is generally gonna mangle music anyway, but mp3s REALLY suffer from artifacts at high compression ratios. the GSM Full Rate standard used in mobile phones is 13kb/s, but have you ever heard music over a phone? It doesn't sound half bad. Not to mention it isn't destroyed by the distortion mp3s have :/
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Within the last 2 weeks I've dodged a rabbit and 2 possums while driving, I'm getting rather good at it.
Also I thought I was free from school, but I have make up work, a project and 2 exams. I really REALLY hope I get at least decent grades in 2 classes, because I know one of them is going to be a flat out F.
Also I'm thinking about dicking around with modding/coding/what have you (but I'm completely lost as far as that goes).
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Also I'm thinking about dicking around with modding/coding/what have you (but I'm completely lost as far as that goes).
What game(s) were you thinking of modding?
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Probably something from the source engine, but I hear I can take ACAD models and put them into the source engine and I'm going to have a CAD class soon.
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You can take pretty much anything and convert it into anything else, so the engine won't really be a big stop for that. Do keep in mind that there is a lot more to models than just the polygons nowadays. For instance, I don't believe that Autocad has a system for constructing bones in a model since it's really not intended to do character modeling.
I'd look into a program like Milkshape (http://chumbalum.swissquake.ch/) if you seriously wanted to do that sort of stuff. It's designed for low-poly work, can export to numerous game formats, is easy to use, and can be had very cheaply (only $35).
Another thing to consider is the programming side of things. Unreal engine games have their own scripting language which is (arguably) easier to learn than C++, which is required by several modern engines -- including Source, id Tech 4 (Doom 3, Quake 4, etc), and more -- yet is capable of the same degree of game modification. Even the C++ based ones can have some pretty major differences between them, most notably the number of services that the developers provide via libraries, not to mention the level of documentation.
All of that said, Source and Unreal Engine would probably be your best bet. From what I've seem of the Doom 3 SDK it looks to be incredibly well-organized, but it has the disadvantage of having the fewest players.
Kind of a tough call, really. :x
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I know CAD wont have the skeletal system, but I was just wanting to dick around with it to get better at it. I might make a small untextured map or prop or something. Honestly a small map just to dick around with in CSS would be fun.
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Or, you could go the route of trying stuff like Diablo2, lol.
For some things, that game takes some pretty crazy skills to mod. The most popular mod systems use DLL injection to hack the game's actual hardcoded stuff, like increasing the types of items that can be equipped on your hireling (that requires new graphics, as well as replacing the code for equipping your hireling entirely, plus, it also requires modifying the save file format by adding space for the extra items, and replacing the save and load functions for save files to deal with the extra stuff.)
Yeah, D2 can be a REAL PAIN to mod :P I know, because I've been looking into modding it lately, but most of the mods are currently not compatible with 1.12, because every time they release a new versions, the locations of those functions in the official files change.
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Honestly a small map just to dick around with in CSS would be fun.
You don't need any sort of high-end CAD to build maps. Grab the Source SDK through Steam and use Hammer. It's a pretty easy-to-use map editor (built off of one of the best Quake map editors, Worldcraft) that'll let you build levels to your heart's content.
Check this link on Valve's developer site for more info: http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Category:Level_Design (http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Category:Level_Design). There's an unbelievable amount of information on that wiki with both general Source mapping information as well as specific game modes.
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I think a lot of people in my old CSS "clan" used hammer for map making, maybe I'll ask them about it.
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I think it's pretty much the only thing available for making Source engine maps. The map editor utility community seemed to have died down considerably after Quake.
Irrelevant Edit: My Portal video on YouTube exceeded 40K views recently. XD
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Irrelevant Edit: My Portal video on YouTube exceeded 40K views recently. XD
Mine's nearing, uh, 40.
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IT'S OVER 40 THO- *gunshot*
...*thud*
I'm retarded. D:
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OMG Spektur failz epicly D:
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My SSBM video on Youtube has 137,869 views
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(Finally) Finished my review for Classic Doom 3 for Doom 3: http://www.spectere.net/blog/2008/12/mod-review-classic-doom-3-for-doom-3/ (http://www.spectere.net/blog/2008/12/mod-review-classic-doom-3-for-doom-3/)
Enjoy! :)
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I can't wait for Christmas break. My god.
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I don't have to go to class next week except wednesday and thursday.
And then I'm out of school for winter break.
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ATTN
I have a StepMania question. I accidentally put it on Free Play and now it won't let me access the options or any menus, I can only play songs and it's retarded.
How do I fixed game?
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ATTN
I have a StepMania question. I accidentally put it on Free Play and now it won't let me access the options or any menus, I can only play songs and it's retarded.
How do I fixed game?
Unless you changed it, scroll lock should bring you to the options menu (it's the default "operator" key.)
You can change it from there back to free play.
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Unless you changed it, scroll lock should bring you to the options menu (it's the default "operator" key.)
This.
There's also a way to do it via the debug menu (F3) but that depends heavily on what version you're running.
OH, SIR STEVE (or SIR ANYONE ELSE WHO HAS BLUR), send me blur plz. <3
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bluuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuur (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=599WA0L2)
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lawl, blur. If it wasn't for the ridiculous jump jacks, I think I could pass that. (either that, or there's another section that would kill me)
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bluuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuur (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=599WA0L2)
Danke. :)
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lawl, blur. If it wasn't for the ridiculous jump jacks, I think I could pass that. (either that, or there's another section that would kill me)
I passed it once, but I switched to spread at that part and mashed like hell. The rest of it isn't bad if you can hit 16ths at 240.
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I passed it once, but I switched to spread at that part and mashed like hell. The rest of it isn't bad if you can hit 16ths at 240.
I can't mash that stuff worth anything, and I play spread. Part of it is that my left hand is so much slower than my right :/ If I can find a way to make a video of myself without FRAPS making it nearly unplayable, I'll try to see what I can get.
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bluuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuur (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=599WA0L2)
........It's like playing Arch0wl's Let Them Move or Stabwound...only awesomer!!!!
I passed it once, but I switched to spread at that part and mashed like hell. The rest of it isn't bad if you can hit 16ths at 240.
This isn't too hard if you practice on strangeprogram for a little while then attempt...with a beyond abilities chaser.
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I can BS 16ths at 240, but I couldn't pass jump jack 16ths at 180, for very long, let alone 240. (I could survive a really short burst, but nothing as long as the BS in blur).
Also, if you are a true glutton for punishment, go look for blur speedy mix or whatever it's called.
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Haha, blur. My friend got banned for posting Blur back on a0.com. Good times.
Also, thanks for the help. Works fine now.
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I just got Spec's Portal vid in my "Recommended for You". O_o
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Leavin for the AC/DC concert soon. Pix later.
<3
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I just got Spec's Portal vid in my "Recommended for You". O_o
I've had his max 300 one for a little while...but I don't think I've gotten this one yet...I've watched it so maybe that's why.
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So I'm running DSLinux on my DS. It's all right, but I haven't configured everything to my liking yet so I'll see. It has a VPN client so I might be able to get on my school's Wi-Fi once I figure it out, though I probably won't be able to do anything practical other than IRC.
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What about hacking the network? lol
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I'll see what it's capable of with 20MB of RAM.
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I'll see what it's capable of with 20MB of RAM.
Sorry but you must be a level 55 computer nerd to use that ability.
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Got retainers today. What totally sucks in that they are uncomfortable to talk with and you have to clean them off every day is totally made up for in that they FUCKING GLOW IN THE DARK \m/
I stood in front of a mirror for like five minutes with my mouth open so I could look at my glowing retainers =D
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Sorry but you must be a level 55 computer nerd to use that ability.
Wrong. The Research ability is one obtained automatically after Internet becomes available.
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Uploaded another sim (find it in my thread right here on s.net!)
Got Call of Duty 5 for free... dunno how it is, I'll play it this afternoon.
Got Super Mario Bros. for my DS...
Still have a bed to myself...
Have nothing to do these days...
Thats my update.
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I can't wake up earlier then 4 in the afternoon, it's rather annoying. I hope my mom picks upsome sleeping pills or something soon.
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Thanks to this new cartridge I got for DS homebrew, I can play ROMs directly on my DS. Since my DS is in such horrible condition, I think I'm going to sell it and a few games on craigslist and use the money to get a DS that's not in awful condition.
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I can't wake up earlier then 4 in the afternoon, it's rather annoying. I hope my mom picks upsome sleeping pills or something soon.
Have you tried just staying up for a day or so? I'll do that when my sleep clock gets borked.
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Every time I try that I just fall asleep sometime during the next day, and I just repeat the cycle.
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I can't wake up earlier then 4 in the afternoon, it's rather annoying. I hope my mom picks upsome sleeping pills or something soon.
get melatonin, that shit works well, and is non addictive. It's actually a natural part of your body's sleep cycle.
Have you tried just staying up for a day or so? I'll do that when my sleep clock gets borked.
I do the same, lol. It works for me.
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Every time I try that I just fall asleep sometime during the next day, and I just repeat the cycle.
Yeah, that happens to me a lot too. When I can manage to stay awake until 9pm or so, it works well though.
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I just watched Sega Fantasy VI for the first time in over a year. I forgot how awesome it was.
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Hey guys, I haven't been on in a while.
Whats up :)
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Our dog died the other day. :(
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;_;
*e-hug*
I sorries.
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Aww. Sowwy Spec. :(
I absolutely cannot decide whether I should get a 16gb Zune or a 120gb Zune. Obviously, the 16gb is smaller, sexier, but a lot less space. I'm going to use my new Zune to listen to at school and on bike rides.
Should I just go with the 120gb one just cause it's hueger and I won't ever have to worry about taking things off of it? Or should I aim for being sexy and get the 16gb one?
edit: nvm gonna go wit da 120gb one. talked to my mom and she thought i was nuts for wanting the 16gb one just cause it was smaller and sexier. kthx
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That's a bummer spec, how old was she/he?
Also I finished my first final, and it was damn easy. Now I've got my hard one and I have to finnish a project within 2 days, SHOULD BE FUN.
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Aww. Sowwy Spec. :(
I absolutely cannot decide whether I should get a 16gb Zune or a 120gb Zune. Obviously, the 16gb is smaller, sexier, but a lot less space. I'm going to use my new Zune to listen to at school and on bike rides.
Should I just go with the 120gb one just cause it's hueger and I won't ever have to worry about taking things off of it? Or should I aim for being sexy and get the 16gb one?
edit: nvm gonna go wit da 120gb one. talked to my mom and she thought i was nuts for wanting the 16gb one just cause it was smaller and sexier. kthx
Lol, your mom is cool, mine would be like "what the fuck, why the fuck are you wasting your money on that shit". The last iPod I got was a shuffle. a 2GB IIRC. But by now, the difference between an 8 GB Nano and a 120 GB classic is $100. For that price, it's retarded not to go for the 120, unless you really can't afford the 120.
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"what the fuck, why the fuck are you wasting your money on that shit"
bobbias' mom +1
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bobbias' mom +1
Why? iPods kick ass. My mom would just be opposed to the whole "I'm gonna spend the extra to get something worth the money that's a bit more than I need, rather than pay for a somewhat overpriced thing I'll totally fill up in a couple months".
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because of the excessive swearing
+2
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So I JUST saw Iron Man, other then completely being set up for a sequel it was rather enjoyable.
I wake up and notice there are about 5 cameo jackets on the small couch in my room, and I have no clue where they came from, and they all smell like cigar smoke. Perhaps it's a sign I should raise a militia, I don't know.
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That's a bummer spec, how old was she/he?
She and...not really sure. She was supposedly three when we got her, which would have put her at around 14, but we don't really know for sure.
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Damn, I thought my 10-year-old dog was old.
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This place is too slow during the holidays. Also I had a great day today.
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Has anyone ever noticed that Robo's theme from Chrono Trigger sounds a lot like Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Astly?
Also, my names for my Chrono Trigger characters are as follows:
Chrono--Kevin (me)
Marle--Nadia
Lucca--Bulma
Frog--Gero
Robo--Andro
Haven't decided what Ayla and the other one's name will be yet but I will come up with something.
Also, This place really is going slow lately because of all the holiday stuff. Jeff fuh fuh....Dunhaaaamm....dot coooom!
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Oh god, I started watching old Nick shows. I want to see Hey Dude, Salute Your Shorts, Ren and Stimpy, and Hey Arnold. So far I've caught a few episodes of Pete and Pete, Doug, and Are You Afraid of the Dark.
It's also disgusting how I can still remember everything that happens in these shows.
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I've been spending most of this time drinking and/or shooting pool and/or having "fun" with my GF. Tonight we decided to get as far as we could playing halo 3 co-op with 3 people on system link on legendary... fuck that shit is hard.
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Salute Your Shorts
Zeke the Plumber
Also, I wish I could be Pinsky. Seriously, food in the football for life.
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the other one's name
annihilate this punk
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I've been spending most of this time drinking and/or shooting pool and/or having "fun" with my GF. Tonight we decided to get as far as we could playing halo 3 co-op with 3 people on system link on legendary... fuck that shit is hard.
It is. Hell I find Halo 3's heroic much harder then the "General" (very hard) difficulty on Quake 4.
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annihilate this punk
What do you mean??? I haven't even gotten to the part where you can find it out so that is why I put the other one instead of the characters name...because I don't know it yet. But yeah, Ayla is going to be either "chi 2" because you can't put 6 letters, or "Liz" because of what you fight in that time period pretty much.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamwow
Apparently the guy that sells shamwow did a movie, in which he ran aro8und with a bat and he hit people. HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.
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What do you mean???
You dare forget the name of the great MAGUS
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You dare forget the name of the great MAGUS
I never got to him, so how could I forget?
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so it was totally my birthday yesterday and I got a shirt that says "Every time you can has, God kills a lolcat." and a 8GB iPod nano. \m/
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No shit, my friends birthday was yesterday. So how old that that make you now?
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I have been the master of my domain for about a week and a half now, despite harrowing circumstances. Boo-yah.
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Man, I really, really suck at Gradius III. I think it's because I just plain haven't been playing many video games lately (like for the past year or two :x) but I keep dying, even on easy! It's depressing...
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http://www.mediafire.com/?xxbbgeowiwz
A pong game based off "liquid" movements that you influence. Also has a fun and trippy sandbox mode were you can mess with the different effects and filters, merry Christmas.
I can't figure out why the scroll function on my mouse would stop. I've been looking for patches, but I can't seem to find anything and I don't know the model of my mouse, just that it's a logitec mouse.
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v115/SneakyMu/tat2.jpg)
my new tat design
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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v115/SneakyMu/tat2.jpg
my new tat design
The letters look pretty fuzzy :/Hopefully if you get that, the letters will look better.
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Well yea I used photoshop and i had to use warp to get it to fit the banner. This is just a start so the tat artist can put his/her ingenuity into the piece as well, and I'm sure they won't make the letters fuzzy on my arm.
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Tonight we decided to get as far as we could playing halo 3 co-op with 3 people on system link on legendary... fuck that shit is hard.
wat
Maybe my friend and I are just good at the Halo 3 campaign, but we blew through it on legendary like it was nothing.
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So last night I was helping my mom's boyfriend assemble a lego set for one of his kids while his kids were playing Rock Band. They're 8 and 10. We thought we'd lost a piece, so we were looking around. I checked between the couch cushion, but I found something else.
There are few things more awkward than finding a birth control pill dispenser in the presence of your mom, her boyfriend, and his 2 kids, and having no idea whose it is.
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So it's 62F outside right now.
Seriously, what the fuck. It was below freezing like two days ago. :|
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Maybe my friend and I are just good at the Halo 3 campaign, but we blew through it on legendary like it was nothing.
It's not that bad if you realize most of the enemies won't advance on you (at least they wouldn't in H2).
Also FUCK Left 4 Dead on expert. Me and a few guys got to the end of Dead Air with little trouble (The second to last one was hard because of the massive open zone and the parking garage near the end, you get a horde rush out there and you're damn near fucked) and when we got to the end we would almost ALWAYS die off on the first tank.
There isn't a ton of room to run, he can OUT RUN YOU EVEN WHEN YOU HAVE FULL HEALTH, he has a metric fuckton of health (like near twice what he has in normal) and he has other boss zombies spawn when he's around. So basically you and your team have to run in small circles together while constantly shooting the tank and watching for boss zombies.
I probably wouldn't have trouble with this other then the fact that boss zombies spawn and your team almost always splits up, and boss zombie + team split up = a quickly dead team.
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So it's 62F outside right now.
Seriously, what the fuck. It was below freezing like two days ago. :|
Yeah, it's 23 right now, which is pretty much the Minnesota equivalent of 62 and it's crazy. It was -40 windchills last week.
I'm going to be pretty bored for the next week. Starting Monday I'm the only one here until January 4th or 5th so I'm pretty much going to spend New Year's alone.
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Also FUCK Left 4 Dead on expert. Me and a few guys got to the end of Dead Air with little trouble (The second to last one was hard because of the massive open zone and the parking garage near the end, you get a horde rush out there and you're damn near fucked) and when we got to the end we would almost ALWAYS die off on the first tank.
Fuck Dead Air in general, especially the end.
Also, fuck the AI for constantly shooting at cars with alarms or just doing anything in their power to get a horde rush in general. I'm almost willing to bet that they intentionally programmed the AI to be griefers.
It was -40 windchills last week.
Yikes.
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Work is selling off six arcade machines and needs to replace them with shiny new moneymakers.
I'm presenting a proposal for a shiny new PIU NX2 today!
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Yikes.
We just got hit by 2 days of wind storm reaching up to 100km/h or more :/
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We just got hit by 2 days of wind storm reaching up to 100km/h or more :/
Hey, same here. The wind was so strong and loud that it woke me up numerous times the other day, and I'm a decently heavy sleeper.
Speaking of us having the same weather, I did a quick check and found out that I'm actually further north than you (by less than one degree). Funny how that works.
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Haha, wow, I didn't even realize that. But yes, Ontario is kinda the most southern province in Canada, as well as having a rather large population living in it's southern area.
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Haha, yeah, I didn't even think to look it up until I realized that we literally get the same exact weather conditions.
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omg!! u 2 r weather buddies!!!1
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I've pretty much come to the conclusion that airstrikes and helicopter runs in CoD4 are perhaps the stupidest thing to ever find their way into a multiplayer game. Honestly, if you get an airstrike you pretty much have an automatic helicopter call because it's basically an instant kill for everyone even remotely close to the call point. It might not be so bad if the game didn't always seem to respawn players right under where the airstrike was taking place. Seriously, what the fuck. How to know you fucked up your game design: when players regularly spawn dead.
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Well yeah, I don't play Team DM or DM (so boring, can't stand it) but the spawn points in Domination seem off. Once you get pushed into a corner you can only spawn there and you haveto charge head first into enemy fire to make it out, chances are you won't.
As for the air strikes and choppers, it all depends on the map. FF cuts down somewhat on the airstrikes, but choppers on overgrown almost always get at least 5 kills.
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I don't think I've ever had a problem with air strikes in the 360 version. If anything, they're almost completely useless. I get maybe one kill with them. Helicopters though, depending on the map, can be automatic wins. Creek (I think it is?) and Overgrown especially.
I'd rather have the Helicopter than the retarded dogs from CoD:WaW though. Hey yeah let's have the reward for the biggest kill streak be a pack of dogs that are fairly slow and easy to kill and give the other team points for every dog they kill which means that they could actually win because of them. Hell, the balance of WaW is completely off in every possible way.
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Hah, yeah, that's why I'm not bothering to pick up WaW, everyone tells me it's like cod4 with worse balance.
Also I find it funny that TF2 has more depth then CoD4. I mean, shit, Cod4 is really shallow and I never really realized it until I remembered the maps. I hate how they are forced to make games accessible by making them shallow.
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I don't think I've ever had a problem with air strikes in the 360 version. If anything, they're almost completely useless.
Assuming it works in a similar way, having a mouse makes it ridiculously easy. Have someone throw up a UAV, bring up the airstrike map, and click on the open area with the most dots. You're practically guaranteed a helicopter. After I get a five kill streak I can rest assured that I'll probably get another quick 5 kills at least.
I really don't think they should have had airstrikes in the game at all. At least you can do something about helicopters.
Hell, the balance of WaW is completely off in every possible way.
I lost interest right when I heard that Treyarch was developing it. My interest waned even further when I heard that it was based on WW2...again.
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ZOMG Spektur lives!!!!!!1
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ZOMG Spektur lives!!!!!!1
Yeah, he was away for quite a while there.
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Assuming it works in a similar way, having a mouse makes it ridiculously easy. Have someone throw up a UAV, bring up the airstrike map, and click on the open area with the most dots. You're practically guaranteed a helicopter. After I get a five kill streak I can rest assured that I'll probably get another quick 5 kills at least.
90% of the time, everyone's already in-doors when it happens or so spread out that you can't get more than one kill. Maybe two tops. People on 360 don't move as a team. Sometimes you'll catch the people that are really bad and just go to the same place over and over again so you know where to airstrike to get them but it doesn't work out very well. Also, no one holds onto UAV's for airstikes. They just use them right away and then run off to go get kills by themselves so it's impossible to time.
So I guess the difference is that, if you actually have teamwork, airstrikes work really well but on 360, that's so rare that they're just not worth using.
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Ah, I see what you mean. On the servers that I've played on people cling together, usually in groups of 3-5. Since airstrikes are practically an instant kill, you're guaranteed to have a helicopter if you take out one group (which is absurdly easy, especially when the game tends to spawn people under the effected area...I've had that happen to me countless times).
The only levels that airstrikes aren't particularly effective on are ones with a lot of buildings. Pretty much any of the urban areas, really. People generally advance along the sidewalks or through buildings so that they don't get wiped out.
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I'm seeing if I can fit a 3rd-party GC controller into a Dualshock.
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So I just went to my old high school and attended the Whiz Quiz practice. I walked in while they were deciding team names and I sarcastically said "How about the Resistance versus the Combine?" forgetting that the teacher in charge was a rather large video game nerd and would get it. I was on the Resistance team.
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I loled.
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i've been on an incense burning craze lately
my room always smells like it now. it's pretty cool, but i'll probably get sick of it after a while. :x
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I got back into Magic: The Gathering again!
I'd post a thread as such but I'm pretty sure nobody (okay, so maybe one or two other people) play.
Also, picked up parental bribery check. (parents got sick of my 'poor' grades of Bs and Cs, and thus promised $500 per A, $200 per B for the semester.) $1,400 more towards a car! ($5,000+ to go =p)
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Oh snap that's a big cheque. :O
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wtf I never got anything like that for doing well. If my parents ever gave me that much for work that I had to do anyway, we wouldn't have been able to eat for a month.
I actually asked if I could have some reward for doing well and my dad asked how I was doing and I said A's and B's and he said, "Congratulations you're not retarded," and that was the end of that.
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That is rather insane Lunar. Also Eggman, my friends mom used to say something similar, but it went like "I don't want you pumping gas for a living and having to come home to have us support you when you're 30".
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I got back into Magic: The Gathering again!
I'd post a thread as such but I'm pretty sure nobody (okay, so maybe one or two other people) play.
Also, picked up parental bribery check. (parents got sick of my 'poor' grades of Bs and Cs, and thus promised $500 per A, $200 per B for the semester.) $1,400 more towards a car! ($5,000+ to go =p)
You bastard :/
Also, I used to play Magic, but if you started listing off cards you have, I'd have no fucking clue what they are because I know jack shit about the new stuff, for the most part.
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http://hyyttaa.livejournal.com/156561.html
I used to wonder why I never got anything specifically related to doing well in school...
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Nyeh, I'd guess the check comes as a nice 'make up gift', since they sent my sister off to the University of Texas at Austin on their dollar, whereas I just want enough to pick up an Associate's. (Compare $10k college cost total for me to $50k for her...) Though yeah, come to think of it, maybe I should've kept my mouth shut. >_>
Bobbias - I actually don't play with modern cards (none too fond of a lot of the new stuff and the new Mythic Rare idea, which only comes one to every eight packs as opposed to their usual rarity system), so you're more likely to understand the kind of crap I'm playing with. (Elves, Dark Ritual + Hypnotic Specter/Duress/Hymn to Tourach, Burn, etc, etc.)
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I much prefer the oldschool days where you pretty much had to use spell cards in combination with your creatures. It made the game a lot more interesting. Nowdays they are beefing the creatures up so much and adding so many abilities that you could create creature deck by itself.
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I much prefer the oldschool days where you pretty much had to use spell cards in combination with your creatures. It made the game a lot more interesting. Nowdays they are beefing the creatures up so much and adding so many abilities that you could create creature deck by itself.
Welll...the creatures may be big and tough, but only a few can't be killed. Everything still dies to Wrath of God (Or Damnation - they made a black version of Wrath) or Swords to Plowshares. Or Smother, Diabolic Edict, Terror, Cataclysm, Wildfire, Obliteration, Mutiliate...okay, you get the idea. XD Sorceries and Instants are still a huge deal, and one of the decks I'm building can win tournaments without playing a single creature.
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Yeah, it's true that there are still cards capable of taking out cards, but I've seen WAY too many decks today revolve around getting some bigass monsters out, or getting out monsters wit useful abilities. I liked back when most creatures didn't have skills. It made it more difficult to get away with a creatures only deck, and made you rely a little more on having diverse decks, instead of concentrating on creatures only. Mind you, control decks have always been a pain in the ass, lol.
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fuck I always forget about this place.
What's up with the blog lol
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fuck I always forget about this place.
What's up with the blog lol
It's spectere's attempt to host a blog that he updatea as regularly as possible. Of course, he's been failing at the updating part lately :P
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Of course, he's been failing at the updating part lately :P
HUSH. :p
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I did some work around the house and my dad said I could take $20 from his wallet and I took $60. I feel dirty.
But I'm going to slip it back next week.
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I did some work around the house and my dad said I could take $20 from his wallet and I took $60. I feel dirty.
Yeah, I'd slip that back like...now.
Seriously, your dad trusted you enough to let you go through his wallet and get it yourself. Don't make him regret that.
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Yeah, I'd slip that back like...now.
Seriously, your dad trusted you enough to let you go through his wallet and get it yourself. Don't make him regret that.
Basically this..
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I just shaved my beard completely off. Pics in a minute.
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Good lord. You've been growing it since you got to Uni, right?
Yes, and it's had a good run.
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Yeah, I'd slip that back like...now.
Seriously, your dad trusted you enough to let you go through his wallet and get it yourself. Don't make him regret that.
Alright, done.
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I was thinking about this earlier- what kind of kid ever would not accept money given to them by their parents? like, i make tons of money selling candy at school, but my parents still usually give me $10 or $20 a week for food and gas and the like. i always accept it and all, and sometimes i feel bad cause i know i have a bunch of money, but i know they know i have monies too, so they're just helping out with my daily expenses i guess. i dunno.
i pulled a holden caulfield and went nowhere with that :x
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Alright, done.
Good for you. :)
/me hobbles back to his rocking chair.
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Alright, done.
You've gained karma.
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I need a new hat, but I don't know what to get. The one I wear now is an old Intel hat I found sitting next to a computer at a Fry's Electronics store (which was ironic because the computer it was sitting next to had an AMD CPU and an ATI GPU). I think I might go with a Google hat if I can't find anything else.
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I need a new hat, but I don't know what to get.
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/hats-ties/98bf/ (http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/hats-ties/98bf/)
Yarrrrr!
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i think i'm gonna ask for this for my birthday:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/hoodies/79e3/?cpg=ab
ahahaha
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Needs more cymbal: http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/interactive/ac0b/ (http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/interactive/ac0b/)
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Needs more cymbal: http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/interactive/ac0b/ (http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/interactive/ac0b/)
Oh dear. Happy birthday, Jupi? :o
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That's actually pretty cool.
Also I feel like I'm starting to slip into a NEET lifestyle. My classes just got dropped, and I can't retake the one I failed until next year. So now I have to look for work, but I've already applied at a ton with no success on ANY of them.
Also it hasn't been a great day.
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/01/15/MNBR15ADEC.DTL (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/01/15/MNBR15ADEC.DTL)
KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN! =(
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http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/944/944828p1.html
Top 10 things killing gaming.
Interesting, I just don't feel like making a thread for it.
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Some of their examples are really really bad. Mario Kart Wii as tacked on motion control what? I've maxed out my skill online playing with that and I've never had a problem. Tenchu being a big offender on sequelitis? Uhhh no.
Also, casual games will in no way kill off any other part of the industry...mostly because the overall idea doesn't actually exist. There are certainly simpler games, which a person may play casually, but you'd be pretty hard pressed to really tell me that a person can't play something like Peggle with a seriously "hardcore" mindset. Simpler games and minigame compilations and things like that have always existed. Stuff like Pacman, Donkey Kong, Joust, etc are basically now considered "casual" games and they pretty much created the entire industry.
The ones I agree on are that companies are really taking the lower production costs on the Wii for granted and that UE3 is pretty much making every game it's used on look exactly the same. Their examples of games that look great that use it don't even actually use the normal UE3. Mirror's Edge and Bioshock use a very much changed version of the engine.
Planned trilogies are certainly annoying but I wouldn't say they're ruining anything. Dud scripts are really hard to complain about when you don't hire writers that are actually good. Most of the people writing games are very much amateurs. Women in gaming are really nothing to complain about and it's been like that since...like at least a full decade. The whole promises thing is pretty dumb though. You circumvent that just by not paying attention to hype and showing interest only in what you find for yourself and not all the bullshit companies spew out at you.
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I have to say that I'm getting REALLY tired of companies hiring the greenest writers they can. Dud scripts have been pissing me off for a long time.
The other one in that list that really makes sense to me is the Wii shovelware issue. It's not so much about "casual" games, versus "hardcore" games, but more about the fact that a quarter of the Wii's catalog definitively blows, according to IGN. I'd have to say that from what I've seen on shelves, I've gotta agree with that number as a minimum. Too much of the stuff being released on the Wii just screams shovelware, and that crap dilutes the market, making it hard to even find a decent game sometimes.
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Tenchu being a big offender on sequelitis? Uhhh no.
The fact that he didn't say Madden or any other generic EA sports game is a big mistake.
That and the overall definition for casual comes off as drastically different from person to person. Some people would consider Rock band casual (myself really) and others wouldn't. that and games overall have been getting easier so they can appeal to a broader audience (Normal is the new easy basically).
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Well, the thing is that the industry doesn't really make the difference really defined. Most games, you can still play seriously, like a hardcore gamer. My personal definition of a casual game is one that they didn't put enough depth into to allow you to play competitively; games that they just made too easy to master, or didn't do enough to add the needed depth to.
I find it hard to see fighters like Streetfighter being in the same category as some of the fighters out there. I'd almost say Soul Calibur, but there is still a fair bit of depth to that game. They just make it easy to be really cheap.
In any case, you compare something like Smash Brothers to something like, hell half the stuff released for the Wii, and you will see the huge difference in depth.
So it's less about the category, really, and more about the real quality of the game, and the fact that most low quality games lack the depth of production that separates good games from bad ones.
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/01/15/MNBR15ADEC.DTL (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/01/15/MNBR15ADEC.DTL)
KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN! =(
where do you keep your nuclear wessels
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where do you keep your nuclear wessels
I actually watched the fourth movie a couple of weeks ago. I still get a kick out of when Scotty tries to talk to the Mac.
"Double dumbass on you!"
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I find it hard to see fighters like Streetfighter being in the same category as some of the fighters out there. I'd almost say Soul Calibur, but there is still a fair bit of depth to that game. They just make it easy to be really cheap.
I agree, the thing is most games out today have very little depth (See CoD4, Halo, well most new shooters). I think that's the one thing holding back fighters compared to their shooter counterpart, they usually have a bit more overall depth and when you can't pick something up after a few hours of game play it annoys a lot of people.
This is the thing that annoys me most about modern games, at least a few are still big name games that have depth to them.
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It is honestly pretty funny to see so many complain about casual games ruining gaming when most of those people got into gaming because of Halo, which is the very essence of casual social gaming.
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It is honestly pretty funny to see so many complain about casual games ruining gaming when most of those people got into gaming because of Halo, which is the very essence of casual social gaming.
At least I can say I'm not one of those, though I do enjoy playing Halo.
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Lol, I just had to go up to the front desk of my dorm in a towel because I locked myself out of my room when I went to take a shower. This semester's off to a flying start.
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Lol, I just had to go up to the front desk of my dorm in a towel because I locked myself out of my room when I went to take a shower. This semester's off to a flying start.
Think of it this way: if you start off badly, things can only get better!
Also, you'll have a great story to tell your kids some day.
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Lol, I just had to go up to the front desk of my dorm in a towel because I locked myself out of my room when I went to take a shower. This semester's off to a flying start.
My roommate had to do that. :V
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I just lawled.
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wtf is this shit a music clip (http://kuroneko.spectere.net/music/1-19-09.mp3)
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wtf is this shit a complete (but not final) version (http://kuroneko.spectere.net/music/1-19-09b.mp3)
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So I started playing S4 League recently (two days ago) thanks to tehngion. He basically forced me to try it, but it's more fun than I was expecting and play it quasi-regularly now. It's effectively Gunz without K-styling faggotry, which is the Gunz I had always dreamed of (and worked towards establishing. Didn't happen).
In related news, I hope everyone got their 20 cent tacos from Taco Hell today. Hooray Customer Appreciation day (which I didn't even know about until last period today when someone told me). I bought the maximum, 10 tacos, which brought me to a total of $2.14 (including tax, of course.) I ate four when I got home and gave the rest to my parents so my mom wouldn't have to cook. Everyone wins!
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We had a 13 cent burger day (on a friday the 13th, no less) at mcdonalds a couple years back. The max was 5 burgers, but I couldn't eat that many anyway. But the place was absolutely PACKED beyond anything I could have even imagined. If it was a walmart or something, someone would have been trampled.
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So I started playing S4 League recently (two days ago) thanks to tehngion. He basically forced me to try it, but it's more fun than I was expecting and play it quasi-regularly now. It's effectively Gunz without K-styling faggotry, which is the Gunz I had always dreamed of (and worked towards establishing. Didn't happen).
Hell, even Gunz with the glitching doesn't have as much depth as S4, even with all of the glitching. You have xfire or something Tim? I'd like to start playing again.
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Holy christ, why did nobody mention this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJ_Max_Portable_Clazziquai_Edition
I'm pretty sure I've mentioned how much I love Clazziquai before on here, lol.
Not that it matters, since I don't have a PSP, but I'm still amazed that I didn't know that there was a version named after Clazziquai.
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If we have that here, they keep it under wraps or something, I've never heard of that here.
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Holy christ, why did nobody mention this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJ_Max_Portable_Clazziquai_Edition
I forgot. Sorry. :p
It's much easier than the other DJ MAX Portable games, but it's very fun with a lot of good music and a shiny new engine.
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Not to mention Clazziquai is the best korean music ever produced :P
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I just saw Defiance. Altogether it was alright, but the pacing was horrible and made a 2-hour film seem like 3. Because of that, I probably wouldn't see it again.
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So I got that hat Spec posted a couple of weeks ago.
Also, my physics professor this semester is from Argentina. He has a pretty thick accent, but it's understandable. He seems like a pretty cool guy. Whenever he draws a sketch of the earth, he draws it Antarctica up, like most southern hemisphere maps.
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I saw a bum today, he had a sign that said "bet you a dollar you read this sign". I gave him a buck.
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You're a good person.
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I saw a bum today, he had a sign that said "bet you a dollar you read this sign". I gave him a buck.
If I had a dollar I could spare, I would too. That is an awesome sign.
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I saw a bum today, he had a sign that said "bet you a dollar you read this sign". I gave him a buck.
Haha, I saw that guy before. ;D
I would have probably given him something but he never made it to my car. D:
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http://content.imagesocket.com/images/egp37l2lgdh63bw9dx19f73.jpg
I want this shirt
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That's awesome, but I'd find it hard to find a place to wear it.
Also I just killed my first animal via vehicle tonight. A possum was sleeping in the road and I moved to the right to dodge him, right when I was near him he woke up and ran right and my front left completely nailed him. Kind of a bummer, but at least he didn't feel any pain.
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http://content.imagesocket.com/images/egp37l2lgdh63bw9dx19f73.jpg
I want this shirt
dude
wear it around your mom
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I think it'd be great if a girl wore that shirt to a con or something.
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I just saw Wanted for the first time. And now I get Milk's sig. Movie = pure win.
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yea its pretty cool
So my mom kinda broke my toe today. Sucks I have to miss school tomorrow i've already missed 4-5 days from schedule shenanigans and a chest cold so i'd prefer not to miss anymore this quarter...but oh well.
And im on antibiotics for my toe and I JUST finished the antibiotics for my cold this morning >_>.
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So apparently I have two great-uncles who both share the same birthday as me (January 25). Crazy.
Also yeah I'm 18 now 8)
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Yay for 18!
I remember when I turned 18, it was a few months after I joined arch0wl.com. I made a thread about it, asking whether or not anything changed for people who had already turned 18.
Also, I have been heavily addicted to Spore recently. I feel the nagging urge to conquer the universe every day, these days.
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HOLY SHIT TIME
when I registered at a0 I was like 3 months away from turning 13 :O
Now I'm like 3 months away from turning 17 wtf
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I forget exactly when I joined A0 :/
Also, lawl at a0 nostalgia stuff.
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I joined like.. freshman year of highschool. and now I'm 20. 21 in september.
D:
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My Neopets(lulz) account says I joined in May 2001. Bahaha.
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My Neopets(lulz) account says I joined in May 2001. Bahaha.
:<
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Hey, when you're 14 years old, it's quite fun.
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I joined a0 in mid-2005. I was 15. I joined DDR Freak about a year before that. Wow.
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I joined like.. freshman year of highschool. and now I'm 20. 21 in september.
I think I joined pre high school. Yeah, that was a while ago.
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Joined a0.com November 2004, so I was 13. 8)
I'm heavily addicted to Wario's Woods for the SNES now. I can't stop playing it. Agghhhhh... such a fun game...~~
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I joined a0.com in August 2003. I was 18 holy shit.
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Did y'all have to walk uphill both ways in the snow with no shoes and a boner to register? :o
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August 04 for me. But I didn't post til around the end of 05
Also:
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jW0fHcfb-L4/SNrWs8Vcd2I/AAAAAAAAF_g/uoYL_JuVgcA/s400/rubiks_mirror_cube2.jpg)
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jW0fHcfb-L4/SNrWsufXXwI/AAAAAAAAF_Y/ByEuCoHrSpY/s400/rubiks_mirror_cube.jpg)
I want one. (http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/09/22/new-mirror-rubiks-cube-to-stump-another-generation/)
EDIT: And now I'm getting one.
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Holy shit. Just when you think they'll have trouble coming out with something genuinely cool for a while, they come out with this thing.
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Why isn't my .gif moving, file size issues?
Edit, but POSTING LIKE IT'S 1990.
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I just realized how many posts I have. I didn't even realize that I was getting this high, lol.
But my post rate has apparently dropped considerably. I remember my maximum was about 10 posts a day. I'm down to 7.3 a day.
Is this a good thing?
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I just realized how many posts I have. I didn't even realize that I was getting this high, lol.
But my post rate has apparently dropped considerably. I remember my maximum was about 10 posts a day. I'm down to 7.3 a day.
Is this a good thing?
It means you're actually having some sort of real life outside of the internet. I don't know whether thats good though lol
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So I hear lolicon and shotacon are illegal in Canada.
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So I hear lolicon and shotacon are illegal in Canada.
Apparently. Mind you, there are many laws in Canada that hardly ever actually get used, and I bet that other than when they catch a pedophile with cp and loli, that law pretty much won't be used (except maybe if someone's trying to have some lolicon shipped to them).
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So it's a harsh hellish ice wasteland that's also devoid of loli? Sounds unlivable.
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Its not devoid of loli, just frowned upon lol
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Its not devoid of loli, just frowned upon lol
Very true.
I did hear something about some guy facing charges for trying to import a loli manga from japan. But in general, that law isn't likely going to be much of an issue.
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Awesome, I got a Trackmania car model of Tak's Toyota: http://www.trackmania-carpark.com/car.php?id=1123
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Just PERFECTLY LEGITIMATELY acquired this movie (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1038988/), which is the original version of Quarantine, which apparently both blew and sucked donkey ass. More later.
ps its only in spanish so make sure and get the engrish subs.
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Oh, and loli can be illegal in the US, as well. http://www.cbldf.org/pr/archives/000372.shtml
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Wow, when did I hit 1000 posts?
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About 75 posts ago.
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Oh, and loli can be illegal in the US, as well. http://www.cbldf.org/pr/archives/000372.shtml
Oh wow, never heard of that. Then again, sodomy is illegal in Texas.
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So Guillermo Del Toro is the best director ever.
(see: El Espinazo del Diablo and Pan's Labyrinth)
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So Guillermo Del Toro is the best director ever.
(see: El Espinazo del Diablo and Pan's Labyrinth)
Agreed
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AND HELL BOY 2
Also my sister made a comment about my desktop (wish is a female with a rather large ass) which was something along the lines of "wow, her ass is almost as big as mine". Ugh, I hate her.
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lol fail, new desktop
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Also my sister made a comment about my desktop (wish is a female with a rather large ass) which was something along the lines of "wow, her ass is almost as big as mine". Ugh, I hate her.
pix
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Of my sister? That'll cost $3.50.
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pix of the girl, your sister would be a bonus
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http://s94.photobucket.com/albums/l94/mortifiedocalot/?action=view¤t=AlineBatistel4.jpg
Link'd because it's not what one would call work safe.
Which reminds me, I'm rather fond of my new desktop, let me bump the other thread.
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that's not a big ass, liar
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ಠ_ಠ
Go look up some of her other stuff.
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http://youfailit.net/?p=93 (http://youfailit.net/?p=93)
Oh dear...
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I started a project recently to do two things: to bring global hotkeys to iTunes (since it's sorely lacking them) and to make my G15 sing. The former was pretty easy and I finished it before beddie time last night. The latter was realized today:
(http://files.spectere.net/projects/logitunes/logitunes-01.jpg)
Project Logitunes has officially began (and, knowing me, just ended). It'll probably work with non-G15s (actually, I'm going to make sure that it does; I need the global hotkeys feature for my laptop) but it'll definitely target this keyboard.
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Triple post for awesome:
(http://files.spectere.net/projects/logitunes/logitunes-02.jpg)
Whee, iTunes is actually usable now! ;D Now I just need to make a tray icon that doesn't look awful.
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What?
Also I just had the longest 2 days ever, and I was basically stuck as a third wheel while my friend drove a friend of a friend around to different places, and I missed my friend who was only in town this weekend...
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What?
What in reference to what?
...that was confusing. Here's a rundown, I guess:
1) Global hotkeys. iTunes supports the play/pause/stop/previous/next buttons on multimedia keyboard natively, but only when the application is up and in focus. Using its SDK I added global hotkeys support for it, allowing you to control it when it's in the background. There are other programs that do this but many of them are needlessly convoluted.
2) The actual LCD display. Logitech's G15 software has a media display but it doesn't seem to support iTunes for whatever reason. I have another thread running in the global hotkeys program that displays the current track, artist, song position, and state (i.e. playing or stopped) on the G15's LCD. I'm going to extend its functionality a bit to provide more information by utilizing the four soft buttons that the G15 has under the display (visible in the second picture).
3) The tray icon. Just something to let the user (i.e. me) know that it's running and to provide an "exit" option. And, hoo boy, it looks terrible. Here's what it looks like at 16x magnification:
(http://files.spectere.net/projects/logitunes/tray-01.png)
I basically just scribbled LogiTunes on a blank image. When I ran out of space I started putting the letters in other parts of the image.
And no, that is not the final icon. :P
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I am failing at this 'not lurking' thing.
I quit my job and went back into business for myself. Now I get to say to my friends with pride that I'm an entrepreneur!
(of course, much facepalming ensues after they ask what that word even means, and then even more so when they mock me for what I do: I sell trading cards.)
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I just made the Trackmania data on my computer not-easily-accessible because I've been playing that game far too much lately.
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Oh, now i c wut u did thur spectere. That's rather handy.
Also I think this is amazingly dick of me, but I think my friend's stupidity is getting worse and it's really starting to piss me off. It's like the way he usually acts and his actions are never thought out and he just goes on whim and just tries not to piss anyone off. He said he was going to quit weed because of his military drug test and he got stoned several times today, then when I said I "needed" (I was really just tired of dicking around and doing nothing around people I didn't know/seemed like he exact kind of person I would avoid) to go home he got drunk and stoned to the point were he needed to sober up before he could drive.
I don't know, maybe the military will help him in the long run, if he survives...
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I'm gonna jailbreak my ipod touch 2g soon.
yay
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I'm gonna jailbreak my ipod touch 2g soon.
Sweet. Let us know how that goes. :)
It's a shame that my iPhone isn't technically mine, otherwise it would definitely get that treatment. Oh well.
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Just finished now.. Followed this (http://alltechrelated.wordpress.com/2009/02/13/hd-video-tutorial-of-how-to-jailbreak-your-ipod-touch-2nd-generation-semi-tethered-jailbreak/) video guide, it's still semi-tethered, so you need to use DFU mode and an exe every time you reboot it, which shouldn't be much effort anyway.
edit: my little excited nerd video
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LOL NOOB U MISSTATED A PROCESSOR OR SOMETHING
But yeah, awesome. I love the one-handed Gradius attempt. Now I really wish I could do that with my iPhone.
As for the whole "two hours to imitate a ten minute video thing," I know the feeling. It took me a while to originally awesomize my PSP, mostly due to me quadruple checking every step out of paranoia.
Edit: As it turns out, the Logitech LCD software does support iTunes, it's just really finicky about when you start iTunes (i.e. if you start up the Media Display after iTunes is already running it doesn't work). It also provides the global hotkeys. Whatever, I much prefer the way that mine displays the information so I'm just going to keep developing it.
The only thing that I have to work out now is a good way to handle iTunes shutting down and starting up. The iTunes COM control is really badly designed (i.e. it completely closes the COM connection when iTunes shuts down, which wouldn't be so bad if it reliably fired events...my code is a try-catch nightmare because it's just not firing events and I'm trying to prevent my own app from simply crashing) and it's very poorly documented to boot. Way to go, Apple.
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The only thing that I have to work out now is a good way to handle iTunes shutting down and starting up. The iTunes COM control is really badly designed (i.e. it completely closes the COM connection when iTunes shuts down, which wouldn't be so bad if it reliably fired events...my code is a try-catch nightmare because it's just not firing events and I'm trying to prevent my own app from simply crashing) and it's very poorly documented to boot. Way to go, Apple.
Well, it certainly doesn't help that COM is confusing as fuck by itself, does it?
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COM isn't so bad when you're using it with either a managed .NET language or VB6. It's only really annoying and confusing when you're using unmanaged C/C++.
The problem with the iTunes COM library is that it's just awful. Like I said, the events simply aren't firing (and I know I have that part right...it's not easy to screw that up), the COM interface kills the connection when iTunes quits, causing exceptions up the ass if you try to do anything. Probably the most annoying feature is how it automatically starts iTunes when you create a new iTunesApp class. Seriously, ARGH. Why should I have to check to see if iTunes is running before I try to connect to it? Shouldn't the external COM object take care of that?
I don't even want to get into the documentation. If you're morbidly curious, check it out here: http://developer.apple.com/sdk/itunescomsdk.html (http://developer.apple.com/sdk/itunescomsdk.html). It's a small download. Just open it up in WinRAR or whatever and check the CHM. Good luck trying to figure out what the hell is going on with the COM object using just that.
The whole thing is just...bad. I'd rather deal with a fully blown SDK (ala Winamp or foobar) than that crap. But oh well, I'm kind of determined to hack around it and make it work at this point.
If nothing else, this should serve as a perfect example of code that has to be made convoluted and inelegant to wrap itself around something far nastier. Do take note. :)
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can u jailbrake one of those new iPod Nanos
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@spec
I believe you can successfully JB the iPhone/Pod, then just restore it thru itunes incase you need to return it for damage/button malfunction or [knock on wood] job loss. I'd read up some more on it, because if that's the case, then no harm no foul, you JB your iphone, have awesome sexy time with it, then in the future when you quit/move on [or not] you can just restore it to it's factory firmware and everything without anyone knowing anything :D
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Last night I dreamt that a0 was still up all this time, but that nobody had gone in three to five years. It was very strange. I distinctly remember seeing a post of mine asking where everyone had gone in the "most recent post box" and it was dated sometime 2006. STRANGE STUFF.
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I wonder if I should do anything special with my 666th post
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You should start a new thread in General and call it Satanic post day. Anyone that has any combination of 666, 999, or like 1666 or 6661 posts etc, will post what they want when then get it.
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So it would be just like this thread? I remember when I hit 666 too, WHAT A WASTE.
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can u jailbrake one of those new iPod Nanos
If anyone ever works out how the firmware on the new iPod Classic/Nanos is encrypted you'll be able to flash it with something speshul. Otherwise, no. It's also not going to be "jailbroken" like an iPhone/iPod Touch would be (i.e. Apple OS with the ability to use unencrypted content), it's going to be all-new firmware.
Long story short: not really. :s
I believe you can successfully JB the iPhone/Pod, then just restore it thru itunes incase you need to return it for damage/button malfunction or [knock on wood] job loss. I'd read up some more on it, because if that's the case, then no harm no foul, you JB your iphone, have awesome sexy time with it, then in the future when you quit/move on [or not] you can just restore it to it's factory firmware and everything without anyone knowing anything :D
Oh yeah, I have no doubts that that's possible. The PSP works in pretty much the same way -- you can bring a hacked PSP back to factory spec without much trouble.
The only thing that I worry about is if the thing spontaneously stops working or something like that, they bring it in, and they tell my boss that they can't replace it because the warranty is void. If it were my device it would be a different story, but since I don't technically own it I don't want to take any risks.
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If nothing else, this should serve as a perfect example of code that has to be made convoluted and inelegant to wrap itself around something far nastier. Do take note. :)
Yes, there are the odd times where you need to hack something together, but in all honesty, you can still make mostly elegant code for some things. I mean, you can always do some nice exception handling and so-on so things don't just explode when the exception does arise.... However, once you hit something that is actually nasty enough to require some hacking (proper use of the term :P), the situation is bad enough to make elegant solutions for the rest of it almost impossible, or at least not worth it enough.
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Throwing in exception handling doesn't make the code more elegant or better. In cases like this where the control itself is flawed you have to put exception blocks around things that shouldn't need exception blocks (we're talking entire chunks of code here, not just a few lines here and there relating to connecting/disconnecting and such). It makes the code a gigantic mess.
So yes, the base or interface is as important, if not more important, than the new code.
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Well, exception handling by itself doesn't make code more elegant, but the ways you handle exceptions (such as maybe trying to silently fix things, or giving the user the option to try to fix something, or to leave, and using them to clean things up that might need to be cleaned in the case of something being broken etc.) can certainly make it easier to work with the bad code.
However, there is only so much you can do in a case like this where the COM object just plain sucks.
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Wow, so I just found out that the 2 Ethernet ports in my motherboard have individual MAC addresses, meaning when my network use is restricted (happens a lot because of how many programs I have accessing the internet at any given moment), I can just switch where the cable is plugged in.
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So I sent my Touch in to apple for repair [the home button wasn't operating correctly]. I reformat/restored it to 'regular' status, as it was previously jailbroken, and sent it in. Now, it's on 'step 3' of 3 steps on their repair page. 1: request and receipt of ipod. 2: service/issue identified.
step 3: "product replacement pending"
my question and point of this post is, does that mean they're giving me a new one/couldn't repair it? or replacement as in they're sending it back to me.
The way it is written I'd like to think the former..
thoughts?
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So I have a story. My friend a while ago had this female call his phone several times at 5:30 on the morning for some reason, not completely sure. So, he gets pissed and my friend get's this rather clever idea, with the phone number they made this.
https://post.craigslist.org/manage/1047986687/wrm7h
He made a new e-mail account and so far he has had about 5 takers. This has to be the smartest thing we've done for revenge.
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Haha, wow, nice work!
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Ehh, it's alright, but could've brought forth so much more lulz to be honest.
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So yeah, I just IMed who I thought was OmegaOmni. In my usual silly manner, I started off the conversation with "You whore! Get your ass over here!"
Turns out that it was his dad on his computer. Not Nick.
Whoops.
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Ehh, it's alright, but could've brought forth so much more lulz to be honest.
How so? It's not like we have her home address, and she lives in a different county from my friend that made the article.
Also the Onion gave the new Lamb of God Album a 100, lolwut.
http://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/lambofgod/wrath
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home address wouldn't be important, really. Do this http://images.encyclopediadramatica.com/images/b/b8/CL-jewish.JPG next time.
Also LoG sux
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I'm more or less commenting on the fact that it's the Onion. That and Music is all personal opinion, so I'm not going to debate whether a band is enjoyable or not
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Also LoG sux
A) There's a music thread already B) If you ARE going to diss a band, you'd better be prepared to do your homework on why they suck (and not turn things personal, since everyone has an opinion, and rarely do people see eye to eye on something like music), and C) There does happen to be a no flaming rule on the music discussion thread for a reason.
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LoG sux
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A) There's a music thread already B) If you ARE going to diss a band, you'd better be prepared to do your homework on why they suck (and not turn things personal, since everyone has an opinion, and rarely do people see eye to eye on something like music), and C) There does happen to be a no flaming rule on the music discussion thread for a reason.
...I'm fairly certain the use of "sux" indicated that he was kidding.
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LoG are a bunch of cumdumpsters
and they sux
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A) There's a music thread already
srs business
B) If you ARE going to diss a band, you'd better be prepared to do your homework on why they suck (and not turn things personal, since everyone has an opinion, and rarely do people see eye to eye on something like music)
1) Riffs are bland and generic, despite that they are more complex than what other shit bands deploy.
2) Vocalist is not classically trained, nor does he make an attempt to sing diverse notes. Furthermore, when he attempts to sound like he's doing a "death growl", it comes out only slightly raspy while maintaining what I dislike about his normal singing.
3) Verse-chorus-verse-chorus, generic.
4) Pretentious attitudes; this obviously does not affect their music, but it would at least strengthen my dislike for them. They say things like "we're the new Slayer!" Slayer also sux.
C) There does happen to be a no flaming rule on the music discussion thread for a reason.
srs business
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1) Riffs are bland and generic, despite that they are more complex than what other shit bands deploy.
2) Vocalist is not classically trained, nor does he make an attempt to sing diverse notes. Furthermore, when he attempts to sound like he's doing a "death growl", it comes out only slightly raspy while maintaining what I dislike about his normal singing.
3) Verse-chorus-verse-chorus, generic.
4) Pretentious attitudes; this obviously does not affect their music, but it would at least strengthen my dislike for them. They say things like "we're the new Slayer!" Slayer also sux.
I can at least respect that.
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LoG are a bunch of cumdumpsters
and they sux
srs business
srs business
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Also general chat is the new BAM! you're all Zebras.
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You are now noticing that she cannot properly wink.
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so i'm pulling an all-nighter just for funsies, even though i have to leave for school in four hours.
ahhh, good times.
I've been busy as tits lately, working 6 days a week (the most they can legally make me work while i'm still attending high school) and being very very active (both physically and socially).
things should slow down next week, which will be verrrry nice.
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So I thought I was fucked when I saw that I'd scored a 35 on my history exam's essay, then I found out it was out of 40 points, not 100.
EDIT: I wonder if putting my Twitter's RSS feed into Twitterfeed would cause recursion...
EDIT2: Damn, it wouldn't let me.
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i caught up on my sleep this weekend
felt soooooooo nice. 8)
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I finally got Ubuntu working on my system.
If your first reaction to that line is "wtf, Ubuntu ain't hard" then you've never tried installing it on a system with a RAID 0+1 or 1+0 configuration. Sure, the alternate install CD picks up RAID0/1/5 without an issue, but it completely crashes and burns on raid10. I had to jump through about a hundred thousand hoops just to get the installer to do its thing (including recompiling some system libraries to skate around a raid10-related bug in Debian/Ubuntu's patch set for libparted). I also had to go without a swap partition because due to the way my array was being listed after I applied the workaround (the whole array was listed three times, in addition to each of my partitions being listed as separate disks) it couldn't properly format the swap space. Speaking of that, I should probably make a swap space and enable it before I forget again, shouldn't I?
Getting the system to actually boot was just as much of a hassle and required me to write an initramfs script.
But, whatever. It works (for now).
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Jesus christ, that is a lot of work just because of one small detail about your system.
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My friend is the most paranoid man alive. We were at a fairly small party that was just a few cars pulled around a keg along the back of a canal. So we head back to this power sub station for the hell of it, and on the way back we see a car. So, my paranoid friend says "hey, lets go exploring" in an almost panicky voice, my other friend who was somewhat sober said "wait, hold on" to which he replied "no really, I feel like exploring" and he started motioning backwards. After a bit my friend gets a call and it's just some other kids leaving. I've never seen someone act that way after so little, I mean I'm not exactly the type of person who would get stoned and then go out to eat somewhere but he flipped out about a car.
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Heh, that happened to one of my friends after he had about a third as much as me. He was going like 20 mines an hour and was ridiculously paranoid because the person behind him was following so close.
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You need to talk to those guys when they're not stoned and try to see if you can get them to try to ignore the paranoia. I had a moment or 2 of paranoia, but once I realized that it was the weed making me paranoid, I was able to ignore it.
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It only happened the first time. It was really funny.
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Jesus christ, that is a lot of work just because of one small detail about your system.
I don't know if I'd call it a small detail, but yeah, it was kind of a pain. That said, I'm not at all sorry for having to do it. It was a good opportunity to learn about Ubuntu's init system and what makes it tick.
From a user's standpoint, however, I'm incredibly disappointed with its abysmal support for RAID. Then again, I can't really fault Ubuntu specifically for that. Linux in general is very RAID-unfriendly (it doesn't help that GRUB has no effing clue what RAID is, either), some distros are just less friendly than others.
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My friend got a tattoo yesterday. Check it:
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Fuck you, I can't get that out of my fucking skull now (I've been watching the 10 minuet loop of it, so yeah). Also that guy is terrifying.
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For serial?
For serial. He's been wanting that tattoo for years now, and he recently turned 18, so he went and got it.
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I dont get it
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It's the caffeine molecule.
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One of my friends is going to be getting Ohm's law as a tattoo (specifically, the form where it shows V over I x R)
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But Ohm's law sucks. I remember my professor calling it a "pretty shitty law" (which, by the way, sounded hilarious in an Argentinian accent) because R is a function of resistivity, which itself is a function of temperature. So Ohm's law is really more like I = V/R(α(T)).
Also, if I was gay, I would definitely get this shirt: http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TO&Product_Code=QC-LGBT-BLACK&Category_Code=QC-SHIRTS
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We're in Electrical Engineering, so we use Ohm's law pretty much every day. And unless it really matters that much, we don't bother with the temperature coefficient stuff because for most purposes, it just doesn't figure in.
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I made ~$2 yesterday, without even trying!
:D
EDIT: Make that $2500!
:D :D
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lolwut :o
GG. How'd you pull that off?
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lolwut :o
GG. How'd you pull that off?
By gettin' someone else off! :D
I mean... Prostitution!
...No wait. I mean...uh...
Yeah, he's a whore. :/
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When my grandmother died, amongst other things, I was left their 4-wheeler. I'm not sure why, since I've never had an interest in it, and have no particular use for it. So my uncle made me an offer for it. In 5-6 days, I'll be $2500 richer.
Soon enough, I'll be mobile!
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...Your grandmother has a 4wheeler? That's odd, also sorry for the loss. Also is there an easy and free way to transfer media (in this case a picture folder that's up to 70 images, or near that) across the internets that's free? My friend has a friend who's girlfriend cheated on him, and he has some rather nude pictures of her and he wants to spread them around. I figure rapidshare would frown upon hosting pornographic material and I don't think a torrent would work all that well.
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Rapidshit isn't going to care.
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I figure rapidshare would frown upon hosting pornographic material and I don't think a torrent would work all that well.
You are naive sir
also, http://www.badongo.com/
EDIT: what that kid said^
Although I dislike his use of memes
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Well, rapidshare IS shit. Practically every other legitimate file storage website is better (I kinda dislike needing to wait sometimes 400+ minutes just to download a second file from rapidshare... Especially if it's a multipart file...)
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There's a speedcubing competition coming up at the Colorado School of Mines, and I'll most likely be able to go. It should be interesting, since I've never been to a competition. It'll be cool meeting some people I've only ever talked to on IRC.
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Oddly enough, I was playing WoW on a private server earlier tonight and one of the guys I was talking to apparently is going for a major there.
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So I OBTAINED and watched Requiem for a Dream last night.
what the FUCK.
mind; blown.
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That is one of those movies that everyone must see.
Also, best movie theme ever written. Kronos Quartet kicks SERIOUS ass.
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Also, best movie theme ever written. Kronos Quartet kicks SERIOUS ass.
You sound like one of those metal nerds who say x is awesome, FUCK YEAH x
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You sound like one of those metal nerds who say x is awesome, FUCK YEAH x
Are you lookin' for a fight, BECAUSE I CAN PROVIDE NIGGA.
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Regardless, Kronos Quartet has some absolutely amazing music. They've done al sorts of awesome things.
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I just figured out how to access this site from my phone. \o/
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Wicked Captcha idea: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10198703-1.html?tag=nl.e703
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I suggest we have a serious discussion forum pls.
rofl this coming from me rofl
No, but in all seriousness, Iantere, make dis forums por favor.
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I don't think we're aloud to have a debate section again.
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Iantere
Lawl.
But yikes, you're suggesting that I make the polar opposite of the zebra forum? Hmm, I'll have to consider that.
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I'm thinking of writing a Twitter client. We'll see what comes of that idea. :)
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in that case, i'll be masturbating 24/7 from twitter statuses
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I'm thinking of writing a Twitter client. We'll see what comes of that idea. :)
Twitter update: I came.
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Don't be premature (after all, the ladies hate that). I didn't write a single line of code yet. :p
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Heh, I was trying to boot my Eee, but it was getting hung up before even going to grub. It couldn't get past the USB devices. After trying plugging multiple things into it, it ended up being the SD/microSD converter in its SD card slot. There was no microSD in the converter, so the Eee got confused. To my Eee, the converter is Schrodinger's SD card.
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That's odd. My laptop completely ignores my microSD converter. Must just be something about the way the Eee detects the presence of SD cards.
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I just signed up for three Summer classes. Each of them are six weeks long, two days a week, and four hours per session.
Mondays and Wednesdays, I have eight straight hours of class. No break in between the two. Bahaha... I'm gonna want to kill myself by the third week, I just know it.
At least it's almost a full semesters' worth of stuff. Just six weeks instead of eighteen.
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lol i trol u.png.
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Man I never post here anymore I should I bet everyone has forgot about me (not like anyone cared in the first place 8)).
Uhh nothing much 9 weeks left till I graduate and I went to Sadies (dance where girl asks the guy out) at my school last night it was good cept for the annoying 3rd wheel who was jealous cause they liked the girl I was with but that's just selfish and bs but thats another story.
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Hah, I keep forgetting you're younger then me damn. Also graduating high school is overrated, people think you'll remember it but it's nothing important.
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I'm taking my GED in like 6 weeks too omg
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Hah, I keep forgetting you're younger then me damn. Also graduating high school is overrated, people think you'll remember it but it's nothing important.
So true.
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So today I ran into someone on my bike, fell over, scraped my face on concrete, and learned how much the eyebrow is capable of swelling.
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Ouch, that blows.
Also, I completely missed my own 4k get, lol.
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Feels good, man.
Just bought some Gonesh Sandalwood incense/incense holder. How good-smelling and therapeutic.
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Where I come from they call it the Hibbity Dibbity
i said a hip hop a hippie to the hippie to the hip hip hop, you dont stop a rockin to the bang bang boogy say upchuck the boogy, to the rhythm of the boogie, the beat.
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I just noticed that Random Chat and Gaming have the same number of threads.
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Got unlazy and passed my driver's test, I'm finally slightly closer to being a productive member of society.
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Got unlazy and passed my driver's test
gg ;D
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I should probably get around to doing that some day.
It's pretty hard to take a driver's test when you're alone for two months straight and then, once people are around, they're off getting stenosis done, thus needing me to take care of them. And considering my uncle's dying of melanoma and honestly, asking them to not go visit him so they can help me would be pretty douchebaggy. My mom lost one brother before his time already and she's been taking care of her mother (why I was alone for two months so it's hitting her pretty hard.
I'm thinking of starting up medical transcription training. The training doesn't take especially long, doesn't cost all that much ($1300 I think?), it requires an excellent memory and fast typing skills (two things I have in spades) and you can do it from home and work as much as you want. And it's in pretty high demand considering how there are always new medical reports/patient documents to transcribe.
I just need to find the startup money.
Oh, I also turned 24 on the 17th. Worthless birthday.
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I didn't really have that many excuses. I took my first test a long time ago, and a small mistake coupled with a terrible instructor meant I failed. I had scheduled a test a few weeks after that, but then our car got repo'd, since we were driving my at-the-time recently dead grandmother's car, and they decided that despite the fact that we were making payments, we never refinanced it into our name so it was a liability. Then my learner's permit expired, and I got a new one, and then just never did anything. The car we have now is a Magnum, and it's an awkwardly shaped, god-awful piece of shit and I hate driving it so I wouldn't go test in it, so we rented a Cobalt, which is like one step above a Matchbox car.
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Lol, really? The cobalt is practically th Pontiac G5, and last I checked, my mom's G5 is rather roomy for being a small 4 door.
Unless it was a 2 door that you had. Those would likely be fucking tiny.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/27/vince-shlomi-shamwow-pitc_n_180210.html
Apparently Vince beat a whore, and her name was Sasha. His life really is a sad twisted parallel universe of TF2.
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Ouch, that blows.
I've never been in a real crash, but one of my friends has. He decided to pull off the road to answer his phone last winter, and because it was winter, there wasn't much room to the side of the road. Well, somebody in a van managed to hit him on the driver side back corner completely taking out his lights, and smashing the entire driver side of the car he was in. The car was about 6 inches smaller (and totaled) after the crash. And they needed to cut him out with the jaws of life...
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Christ, that sucks ass. At least no one was hurt, it could have easily been worse.
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So I didn't notice this until recently, but I think my bike fall did some damage to my left eye, because it's not focusing as well as my right anymore. It's not enough to warrant a contact lens or something, but it's still a little unnerving.
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You should probably get that checked out. It could be a sign of more damage.
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So I got it checked out. It's most likely just some corneal swelling that'll go down in a few days.
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Ouch, that blows.
I've never been in a real crash, but one of my friends has. He decided to pull off the road to answer his phone last winter, and because it was winter, there wasn't much room to the side of the road. Well, somebody in a van managed to hit him on the driver side back corner completely taking out his lights, and smashing the entire driver side of the car he was in. The car was about 6 inches smaller (and totaled) after the crash. And they needed to cut him out with the jaws of life...
Thats not as bad as my other crash there bobbias, the one where I was on a bike and crashed into a car that was making a left when he shouldn't have. Long story short for everyone that doesn't know, I was biking along, guy in the opposite lane makes a left in front of me because he wasn't looking, and I crash into him breaking a figure and putting a nice size dent in his passengers side, which also resulted in him getting a long list of charges, cause he was high, drunk, in possession of drugs and had no insurance or liscence on top of not wielding the right of way(which I had). And of course, it happens 2 weeks before I go to school, and the finger broken is on my writing hand.
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haha, I didn't hear about all those charges. That's kinda hilarious.
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After watching a certain video on Youtube, I've now decided to obtain as many old TV theme songs as I can and re-arrange them so they're less than 30 seconds long, so as to fit in with the "proper" song length of today.
Why? I dunno.
Perhaps I really like the theme to Laverne and Shirley.
Perhaps the Happy Days were too fucking happy, so they need to be shorter.
...And then there's Maude.
Fucking old cunt.
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Why is Adult Swim showing censored soft core porn? I'm assuming this is some sort of joke, but REALLY?
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Lol, Youtube is upside-down today.
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Oh shit guys, get offline you're gonna get a bad virus and the world is going to come crashing down.
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My mom fell for that >_<
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I don't know when the local Gamestop switched from having a bunch of really annoying male workers to a couple of really attractive female workers, but I'm happy about it. I'm thinking of asking one of them to lunch tomorrow when I go to pick up my DSi.
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So I had an interesting night last night. Around 7:30 I left my dorm and walked down the street to a sandwich place for dinner. Afterwards (almost 8:00), I decided to check out a gaming place that was across the street from the sandwich place, since I'd never been inside. I went in and asked a guy who worked there what was up. He told me the payment details and that there was going to be a lock-in until 8:00 the next morning, starting in 2 hours. Normally new members only get one free hour, but he let me have 2 leading up to the lock-in. 12 hours later, after lots of L4D, Gmod, COD4, and Guitar Hero, I went back to my dorm. I left to get food last night and got back more than 12 hours later than I'd planned.
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Went to a couple of parties, both of them were rather boring outside of seeing a few people I hadn't seen in forever and completely devoid of alcohol. The cool thing was, at this one chicks house she had an indoor slide and a small kids playpen built into the house, so me and all my friends climbed inside and got on it.
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So Friday night i saw bruce springsteen basically 3rd row [general admission front section], and his show was 3 hours. 830 to 1130pm. I work at 4am, so I have to get up around 3am. Last night, I went to go see Cheap Trick at a bike rally for 20 bucks [????? !!!!!] from 9 to around 1040. Still have to work in about 20 mins :D
Lack of sleep < Best experiences of my life.
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(http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/3562/ianfiles.png)
*blink*
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You've uh... got a lot of stuff there.
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Hah, ohshi.
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Posting from a fresh Vista installation. ;D
I dismantled my RAID 1+0. It was causing too many problems with Linux to make it usable, not to mention that the amount of space that I lose made it very impractical. I opted for taking two of my hard drives off the RAID and just using a RAID1 for the other two, giving me a total of 2.25TB of space (up from 1.5TB) and drastically reducing the number of headaches that I get when I try to do any *nix stuff.
I'd been meaning to reinstall Vista at the very least for quite some time. The partition layout that I had was far from ideal. I originally had XP on my 1TB partition -- the first partition after /boot -- and Vista on a smaller, 250GB partition immediately following the XP partition. When I decided to make Vista my full-time Windows OS it was still left in that small, upper partition.
Now begins the agonizing process of getting myself fully functional. :x I'm just glad my boss was nice enough to loan me a 1.5TB drive to back all of my junk up to, otherwise this process would have been a lot more painful.
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:/ Finally, someone on here has more space than me :P
That is a lot of crap man.
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Note to self: The right-hand rule of vector multiplication does not work on the left hand.
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Note to self: The right-hand rule of vector multiplication does not work on the left hand.
Sure it does, just turn your hand around
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Note to self: The right-hand rule of vector multiplication does not work on the left hand.
Note to self: Vector calculators beat all. (Except when you can't remember how to solve the damn question :<)
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So, I'm hoping Muramasa: The Demon Blade and Monster Hunter 3 come out this summer, because I think I might buy and play them, then sell my Wii. I'm having a hard time gathering information on any HD consoles outside of price (300 for a tree siddy and 400 for Pe Es Triple, mid range of course) and I'm not sure if this whole transaction will be worth it considering how competent my PC is and how a lot (well, some of them) of the games on said console go multiplat with a PC counterpart. That and I'm a little tired of Nintendo's bullshit (Fatal Frame 4, Crisis day of disaster, Fragile, and Capcom Versus somethingIcan'tSpell all not coming to north America).
I suppose I have time to think it over (also any input from here might be listened to).
On a less nerdy note I've been having trouble finding music within a file type that I can read, and it's getting annoying.
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On a less nerdy note I've been having trouble finding music within a file type that I can read, and it's getting annoying.
What do you mean?
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What do you mean?
I mean I keep searching for specific albums, and when I find one it's usually in some odd file type that I can't read.
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So, I'm hoping Muramasa: The Demon Blade and Monster Hunter 3 come out this summer, because I think I might buy and play them, then sell my Wii. I'm having a hard time gathering information on any HD consoles outside of price (300 for a tree siddy and 400 for Pe Es Triple, mid range of course) and I'm not sure if this whole transaction will be worth it considering how competent my PC is and how a lot (well, some of them) of the games on said console go multiplat with a PC counterpart. That and I'm a little tired of Nintendo's bullshit (Fatal Frame 4, Crisis day of disaster, Fragile, and Capcom Versus somethingIcan'tSpell all not coming to north America).
I suppose I have time to think it over (also any input from here might be listened to).
On a less nerdy note I've been having trouble finding music within a file type that I can read, and it's getting annoying.
Nintendo has nothing to do with Tatsunoko vs Capcom or Fragile coming out here. And last I checked, XSeed Games was working on getting out Little King's Story so that they could put out Muramasa so they could then get out Arc Rise Fantasia so that they could then focus on Fragile. Capcom's been working on TvC coming to the US but honestly, there are so many companies to deal with for the rights to all the various characters that it isn't easy.
Trust me, don't sell it. You will regret it. I can guarantee it. Also, Punch-Out is next month, Excitebots looks super fun, and there are a bunch of other games to look forward to and try out. I have more games on my list from the Wii than any other system this year.
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I mean I keep searching for specific albums, and when I find one it's usually in some odd file type that I can't read.
Well, if you are using anything other than WMP you can get plugins to deal with most formats. If you are, I highly suggest using something better (yes, I know WMP kinda looks nice, but honestly, it hogs everything, and makes playback of many files nigh on impossible without some real hacking).
Plus, honestly, mp3 is severely outdated and kinda lacks audio quality compared to nearly everything else. Even 320 kb/s is only considered transparent to some people, where most other formats are somewhat lower. (Well, IIRC AAC is actually a bit worse than mp3 at the high bitrate end, but it was basically designed to be better for streaming anyway. di.fm's 24kb/s AAC+ streams sound almost as good as their 92kb/s (with customized encoding) mp3 streams)
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this year.
Highlighted for emphasis. There are still a lot of games from previous years that I want (Metal Gears Solid, Devil May Cry, and Resident Evil 5 to name a few), but you do have a point with the next year looks not so great for the 360. Also Blazblue is only coming to the HD consoles and that game looks AWESOME, not to mention King of Fighters.
Still, I'm not going to do anything too soon.
Well, if you are using anything other than WMP you can get plugins to deal with most formats. If you are, I highly suggest using something better (yes, I know WMP kinda looks nice, but honestly, it hogs everything, and makes playback of many files nigh on impossible without some real hacking).
I'm using iTunes, in all that I do is put the songs into my iTunes folder and then try to play them because they won't show up unless you actively play them from the folder.
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Well, since last time I used iTunes it used quicktime to play it's files as sort of an addin type thing (well, they tried to make it seem seamless), I would suggest trying to look for quicktime plugins for those file types. Or find an alternate media player.
I know iTunes is great for organizing/keeping track of all that stuff, but quicktime is not exactly that great for media files, honestly.
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smoking is bad for you
but it feels nice lol
Djarums <3
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s.net is DEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD.
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Yep, and unfortunately, it's during the most boring day I've had in ages. I'm actually beginning to want class or work almost every day that doesn't involve being able to go to my friend's place and drink :/
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s.net is DEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD.
Yeah, what the hell happened?
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Yep, and unfortunately, it's during the most boring day I've had in ages. I'm actually beginning to want class or work almost every day that doesn't involve being able to go to my friend's place and drink :/
Hell, I haven't even left my house in the past 3 or so days. The only time I really have a social life is when my friends come down from college since everyone seems to be going up there.
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Yeah, but it's different when you're used to going to college every day and having to spend most of your day actually doing stuff, and then all of a sudden you have nothing to do, and you can't even really see your friends.
My GF lives near the college which is about 30-45 minutes away, and my other friend works till 4:30, and usually doesn't hang out after work on a weekday. and the rest of my friends are unreachable, or 6 hours away.
And I don't have a car to drive up to see my GF whenever I want, either, right now.
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All of my friends live on the south side of Cities from me (a good half hour away during not rush hour) and I have no job and I've played through every game I have.
I really wish I could get a job but the bank teller job I tried for wouldn't hire me despite having experience with money-handling/customer service/everything they wanted. Except I wasn't a busty young lass, which appears to be some sort of prerequisite for working as a bank teller for some reason.
I do really want to get out and do stuff though, which is why I've started running. Sort of a training thing just to get back in shape. I figure I'll do a sort of ramping up type thing where I'll run two miles for two weeks, three miles for three weeks, four miles for four weeks and then once I'm at five, I think that's an entire run around the nearby lake so it should be fine to stay there. I plan on running three times/week. So at the very least I'll get some sun and lose some weight while I keep trying for jobs. I'm still interested in doing medical transcription training too, although it costs a bit and so I need to find ways to get that money that won't throw me into debt.
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I started watching Doctor Who (I only have a few seasons of the newest version, none of the older ones), and I think it's a fairly interesting show.
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What happened to that one Spectere what's-his-face :o
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I dunno lol.
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What happened to that one Spectere what's-his-face :o
According to his twitter he's been sick for the last little while. It seems he's been out of commission for a while because of it.
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Oh snap. GET WELL SOON DUDE :(
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That's a bummer.
Also my PERFECTLY LEGITIMATE copy of Lost Planet is installed and when I try to mount the only .iso that came with it it says it's the wrong disc. wut is dis shit.
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could be copy protection. some games can tell they're mounted on a virtual drive.
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I think you might be right, and the only way to bypass that would be to mount it on a burned DVD? Either way I am not amused.
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oh god it came out last week (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonball_Evolution)
Anybody planning on seeing this movie?
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I think you might be right, and the only way to bypass that would be to mount it on a burned DVD? Either way I am not amused.
Well, you can try Anti-Blaxx to mask your virtual drive from being found out as a virtual drive. Doesn't always seem to work, but it's worth a shot: http://www.dvhardware.net/software/3006
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oh god it came out last week (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonball_Evolution)
Anybody planning on seeing this movie?
The movie was on Youtube for a bit, it seemed to have next to NO connection to anything Dragon ball related.
Also it still blocked that bobbies, maybe I should just obtain a legitimate copy of the damn thing.
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Well, you could always burn a copy and see if that works, but in my experience, if it doesn't accept the virtual mounted version, you're not gonna get anywhere with the burned disk. Anyway, there are other programs out there like Anti-blaxx. I've ha success with one or 2 of them, but it's kinda a toss up between them.
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oh god it came out last week (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonball_Evolution)
Anybody planning on seeing this movie?
I want to see that as much as I want to see the new street fighter. which is NEVER
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You'll be glad to hear that Rottentomatoes has currently given it a rating of 14%... That's 1% better than confessions of shopaholic....
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confessions of shopaholic....
I thought that movie was just an urban legend.
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I really wish I could get a job but the bank teller job I tried for wouldn't hire me despite having experience with money-handling/customer service/everything they wanted. Except I wasn't a busty young lass, which appears to be some sort of prerequisite for working as a bank teller for some reason.
Well, to be fair, consider their point of view.
Personally, I would rather have my money handled by an attractive, comforting person like (http://i39.tinypic.com/29psn7n.jpg), then a man who has been linked to both double niggers and shitting in chimneys, like (http://i43.tinypic.com/2qldhrr.gif).
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Yeah, I probably shouldn't have told them that I really looked forward to handling any Chaos Emeralds that the bank may have.
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Or your abnormal hatred of hedgehogs.
Also what the fuck is THIS shit
Added the ability for players to permanently delete items from their inventory using the new Backpack menu. This does not reset achievements. Once an item has been deleted it can never be re-earned
http://store.steampowered.com/news/?appids=440
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What the hell is the point of that? Do you fill your backpack up quickly, or is this just one of those utterly useless "features"...
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Apparently they radically changed the gameplay.
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diablo random item system + tf2 = a reason for me to redownload tf2
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Yeah it's been compared to diablo. That and now headgear is a selectable item.
Also wut.
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yo
one time i sucked 6 in a row
one time i sucked 6 dirty dicks in a row
one time i got my kicks with joe and i sucked his dick and 5 of his friends in a row
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SUCK MY DOOOOOOGS DICKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK
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did this site die while i was gone or something? looking at the stats, seems to be a ghost town as of recent.
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It -has- been quiet since you left...haha
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guess i need to start trolling again
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37 I sucked 37 dicks.
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It's been sloooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow.
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It's been sloooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow.
Much to my postcount's dismay :P
But yes, it has been quite slow lately :/
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Demigod is such a phenomenal game, you should all buy and/or acquire it.
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Demigod is such a phenomenal game, you should all buy and/or acquire it.
but i already have wc3 dota, and well, im not too fond of that.
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Demigod is such a phenomenal game, you should all buy and/or acquire it.
Really? I might check it out then, Stardock seems like a solid company.
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Really? I might check it out then, Stardock seems like a solid company.
I've played one of their games, and it was pretty awesome, I'm definitely gonna check Demigod out.
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guess i need to start trolling again
GOGOGOGO
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Why would you raid a small community? Also BWHA?
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to make my big e penis BIGGER
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GOGOGOGO
HOLY SHIT IT'S ZAK
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GOGOGOGO
GASH DURNIT SON WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN
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GASH DURNIT SON WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN
Not here... Mind you, he messages me now and again on MSN.
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he messages me now and again on MSN.
He messages me
Not Mort.
I see how it is.
Also in unrelated news I got SF third strike working and I'm liking it a lot. I'm not used to games having three different degrees of punches (then again I hardly play fighters) and the parry system goes agaisnt every instinct I have in a fighting game.
I also bought some nice new Nikes today, and they're literally called Nike Skeet.
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kind of want to hack my psp. it would be fucking kickass to rip my ps1 games to play on that sonbitch.
any bros here proficient in the hackery of the psp (2000 model version 4.01)
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I've been screwing around with homebrew on my PSP 2000 for over a year. http://www.pspslimhacks.com/ has pretty much everything you'll need to know about hacking it and more.
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well that's bullshit. apparently out of like 7 different motherboards for the psp slim, i have the only version which isn't hackable.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220441
is looking better every day, but not even that can emulate "portable game console version of a ps1"
basically im mad. ps1 is the best fucking console out there, and i want a portable version of that nigger.
lets hope the "psp2" will have a majority of the good ps1 games avalible on the psn store. because it sure as hell isn't that way now for the current psp. non japs can get like, crash bandicoot...and jet moto. tomba 2 portable please.
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That really sucks. They've been trying to hack that motherboard for months and haven't made much progress.
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What is it that makes that board harder to hack than the others? Seriously...
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There's a different encryption. It can't go into service mode as easily as everything before it.
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http://www.udonentertainment.com/darkstalkerstribute/
i want it, but i don't want it $80.00 bad. looks like im waiting for the softcover book (like the street fighter one, and that was a good'n)
also the guy who drew felicia in the preview images there did my avatar, it's basically awesome.
also wtb remake or new darkstalkers game for 360 (since i have a 360 stick...unable to play 2d fightans with a controller). vlad wants to try out that mummy dude since he looks fucking awesome.
anywho, got out of 90 minutes early. who would have thunk a pizza place would be dead on a friday from 11-2:30. guess that means street fighter time, FUCK YEAR!
*edit for nerdom*
of the 6 preview images, 3 of the artists i happen to be watching on that there deviantart.
top left. http://jayaxer.deviantart.com/
bottom middle. http://gueuzav.deviantart.com/
bottom right. http://cookingpeach.deviantart.com/
third link kind of has some nsfw thumbnail in the newest category if it scares you so, figured id mention it.
*vlad never makes one post without editing, editing is the shit*
working on 3 hours of sleep FTW
ohh and this was one of the many awesome izmagez in the street fighter book, so im assuming more kickass stuff like this in the darkstalkers book.
(http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/7749/dontburnyourdsguile.jpg)
and yes, "super street fighter II turbo HD remix" made me into a street fighter fan, fucking loving it mang.
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Hey I'm not dead :V
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Hi! ^^
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Vlad, Zak and Ulti joining s.net again
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angryish face
That explains why the site has been so slow lately.
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Hey guys. :]
I've always been on meebo, (msn, yahoo, aim, gtalk, icq, etc) so those who wanted to get a hold of me always could... :P And not to bust bobbias's bubble, but I suppose once or twice a month can constitute "here and again".
They sell Nike skeets at my work. When we got them, it was very lulzy.
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Lol, well, you talk to me more than any other s.net member I have on msn.
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i unblocked you nigger zakermeraio(i blocked everyone to lessen the chance id come back), and i haven't seen you on since. (several days)
and im a tool. i bought a "pepsi throwback" basically "pepsi classic".
wellp, it's better than regular pepsi. since it basically tastes like pepsi, but pepsi er. not a big cola drinker, but i do enjoy variety from dr pepper/faygo orange.
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No posts in one whole day. WHAT THE FUCK
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Rofl, sorry, I've been busy with school and such. Also lol at my post count considering like, a year plus of inactivity.
Edit- PAGEGRAB and lol the exact same threads that were active before I left are still going. :V
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No posts in one whole day. WHAT THE FUCK
Yeah, I think that has to be the first time in a long time that it's had a day without any posting.
Rofl, sorry, I've been busy with school and such. Also lol at my post count considering like, a year plus of inactivity.
Edit- PAGEGRAB and lol the exact same threads that were active before I left are still going. :V
Yep, s.net hardly changes :P
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No posts in one whole day. WHAT THE FUCK
because of that i kind of removed the site from my bookmarks so i won't check it as often. why bother checking it several times a day if...there's nothing new.
anywho, i have a hankerin for a new harvest moon game. the only games ive played are the n64 game, and minorly the gbc game. anything kind of similar to the n64 game (preferably with longer days....days in that game come and go before you can blink)
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I'll post then.
Why are there no good online communities based around games? I said in a post on Joystiq that playing MvC2 could be horrible due to the game balance and projectile spam and a community willing to do anything to win (I was agreeing to a previous poster saying that the game was basically broken) and me and him got down voted for basically stating a fact.I was even called bad at street fighter because I said "if you think projectile spam in SF4 is bad this game will make you cry". It's like half the internet lacks reading comprehension.
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projectile spam in street fighter 4 is nonexistent in comparison to 2.
also, like if you have problems with it, fucking deal with it, or play as a character that can projectile spam. playing keepaway is a legit strategy, that i personally find harder than playing catch up. kind of why nobody plays seth or dhalsim, because their entire game is keepaway, and if they fuck up, they are as good as dead.
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A game where nobody plays a character due to them being too risky or useless needs to be rebalanced. I realize that it's impossible to completely balance a larger number of characters (the more characters, the harder to balance), but at the time time, no character should be considered useless. I realize that most console games don't get rebalanced once they've been released, but in time, thanks to all the next gen consoles being internet capable, I hope that patching and re-balancing games on consoles becomes more common, for this exact reason.
I'm not necessarily all that good at most fighting games (nor have I played most of them for more than a couple matches), but that said, it doesn't mean I can't comment on the theory side of game making. It's useless to include a useless character, so why go through the trouble? Because they don't expect people to gravitate towards one particular style and essentially force that style upon the rest of the community.
also, like if you have problems with it, fucking deal with it, or play as a character that can projectile spam.
He's just pointing out the fact that it can occcasionally suck, because some dickweed decides to projectile spam you. Just because some people do something annoying like that, doesn't mean you should become one of those people who essentially plays into the game's flaw, instead of around it. It's the same thinking of "Just because there's a cheat available, why should I use it?". It's possible to cheat in lots of games (practically every MMO has some sort of cheating community), but many more people ignore the cheat and try to play legitimately. Just because the programmers/creators messed up, doesn't mean you need to take advantage of it. And frankly, I see poor balancing/broken games as a screw up on the part of the creators.
Great example: A friend of mine is so good at DnD that in 3rd edition, he actually figured out how you could create a character powerful enough to single handedly beat the game's official gods. He found a part in the game that was terribly broken and calculated what stats he would have, what feats he would need, etc. That is a balancing problem, just the same as overpowering some move, or just poorly balancing things.
Why do you think people came out with the Brawl+ hack for Brawl? Because of poor gameplay changes and balancing on the part of the creators. Sure, there's still a tier set for the characters, but it's a bit better balanced for more competitive gameplay.
tl;dr:
Poor balancing should not force someone to have to take advantage of something overpowered just to be able to compete with the rest of the people who play. It's a fuck up on the creator's end and should ideally be fixed.
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what's the flaw in people doing projectile spam?
it's a legitimate strategy, and it has legitimate counters. it's no different than people say zangief who essentially tries to get close and piledrive you. is it cheap? no. if it was, and it bothers you so, use the same tactic, try and counter it, or play a different game.
also, third edition is fucking broken. theres a differance between "OMFG BROKEN MY GOD" and "hey sagat is god tier, but he isn't imba" (ironically sagat is my easiest fight in sf4)
im basically only talking about fireball spam here. having played the giefster online in HDREMIX, you deal with it, and it feels good to fuck those bitches up. never played mvc2, and the fireball spam in sf4 is nothing, it's almost too easy to close the gap with any character, unless its' a gouken who can read your mind. i even have people too afraid to throw fireballs against my bison, and im on the other side of the screen...(though like i guess they are smart because headstomp fucks up fireballs)
tldr im playing final fantasy 8...AGAIN ololol
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Is there any way to make the backspace key not randomly function as a "back" button in browsers?
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A game where nobody plays a character due to them being too risky or useless needs to be rebalanced.
Useless, perhaps, unless they're a joke character. But fully one quarter of the characters in Samurai Shodown: Tenka are high-risk, high-reward characters that take a large degree of skill to play at all, let alone on a competent level.
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Well, it's not so much an issue about high risk high reward, but when NOBODY plays them, it's kinda stupid. As I said, I haven't exactly played many fighters, so I can't really comment on individual characters or games, but in general, I think that there needs to be more attention paid to properly balancing console games.
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projectile spam in street fighter 4 is nonexistent in comparison to 2.
I've never played SF4, BUT I have seen people bitch about projectile spamming. I was honestly just trying to get a common reference for the type of projectiles that can go down in MvC2. Not that I'm against a specific play type, but playing to win in MvC2 is not going to be fun because of how poorly balanced the game is. That and from what I hear the game is riddled with infinites, which is disgusting.
Also what's wrong with SF Third Strike?
He's just pointing out the fact that it can occcasionally suck, because some dickweed decides to projectile spam you. Just because some people do something annoying like that, doesn't mean you should become one of those people who essentially plays into the game's flaw, instead of around it. It's the same thinking of "Just because there's a cheat available, why should I use it?".
If you're not using every available option then you're not really playing to win. If a game has a game braking glitch that hasn't been patched or is unbalanced to the point where competitive play needs to have a large portion of the game cut out (See CoD4 [I'm honestly not that sure how unbalanced the game is, but it does seem rather shallow], Halo, lol Melee) then you really shouldn't be wasting your time trying to play said game competitively.
Like people who bitch about K-Style in gunz, it's completely viable and can easily be countered yet people still cry and ask for it to be patched. At this point it's like patching bunny hopping in Quake.
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Is there any way to make the backspace key not randomly function as a "back" button in browsers?
Sweet lord, I hate when that happens.
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Like people who bitch about K-Style in gunz, it's completely viable and can easily be countered yet people still cry and ask for it to be patched. At this point it's like patching bunny hopping in Quake.
Well, until k-styling appeared in it, everyone just sprayed and prayed, lol. That is less about being unbalanced, and more about using the game's inner workings to your advantage. Actually, as far as skill is concerned, k-styling is probably more difficult than other gameplay styles.
I'm talking about when people abuse something that really shouldn't be there, or shouldn't work that way. For example, say that they decided that a fireball would cancel most physical attacks in a fighter. All of a sudden, as long as someone knows that your going to physically attack them, and has the time to throw a fireball, unless you can counter it somehow, or get away from it, your toast. If there was a readily available system to counter people who abuse the fireball, that wouldn't be so bad, but if there isn't, that is kinda getting broken. Alternately, they could underpower the fireball to the point where it becomes defensive, rather than offensive, but even that is a little extreme because it still breaks most attacks, and does damage.
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That and from what I hear the game is riddled with infinites, which is disgusting
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SvC has an infinite for every character. MvC2 just has 4 characters that are completely broken.
Not having communities in a game like MvC2 will ruin online just like Mario Kart DS with snaking. You'll have people playing random matches where one person just wants to use whoever looks cool and the other is using Magneto/Storm/Sentinel. They'll get destroyed and have no idea why, much like how snakers would go into random races and snake, padding their wins by playing people that might normally be good, but can't compete with what is basically cheating.
There's a difference between strategy and using characters that are so much better than everyone else that there might as well only be those characters.
Also, Brawl+ fags exist because they can't handle not having their precious Melee. Normal Brawl has better balance.
Fireball spam in SF4 is solved largely by Focus Attacks. Just absorb and back dash and if they continue, just keep doing it for free Ultra bar. Most characters have ways to run right through fireballs too. Or leap them faster than the fireball thrower can recover.
The only annoying spam in SF4 is ultra defensive. You get a lot of Ken fags who just squat in a corner and do uppercuts only. You can say that's a viable strategy but it doesn't make it any less stupid or boring. Especially when that shows up in Player Matches.
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Also, Brawl+ fags exist because they can't handle not having their precious Melee. Normal Brawl has better balance.
I don't know too much about the differences between Brawl and Brawl+, aside from the ones I've noticed playing my friend in a bunch of 1 on 1 matches. I do prefer the feel of Brawl+, having played Melee and normal Brawl before. I just found Brawl too boring, and slow, and overall didn't like the feeling it had. Mind you, some of the hitboxes in Brawl+ seem buggy, or just overly large (Kirby's feet come to mind...). That, and some attacks break right through shields (likely due to programming glitches).
I dunno, it's a pretty subjective thing for me, since I don't know the tier lists, and don't know a lot of specifics on damage and such.
After reading the Brawl+ announcement, I found out about the buffering system Brawl uses.. That's probably why Brawl feels so much more sluggish than Melee does to me...
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Sweet lord, I hate when that happens.
Ditto. It makes me want to shit a brick.
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SCOOPS, SCOOPS HAGEN DAZ.
Not having communities in a game like MvC2 will ruin online just like Mario Kart DS with snaking. You'll have people playing random matches where one person just wants to use whoever looks cool and the other is using Magneto/Storm/Sentinel. They'll get destroyed and have no idea why, much like how snakers would go into random races and snake, padding their wins by playing people that might normally be good, but can't compete with what is basically cheating.
THIS, THIS is what I was trying to tell the kid on Joystiq. Thank you.
As for Brawl, they would honestly need to build a new game from the ground up to be geared towards tournament play IMO.
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Ditto. It makes me want to shit a brick.
I have no idea how many times that has messed me up. I'm all for keyboard controls, but I'd like to be able to turn some of them off sometimes.
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I think my point with Brawl is that it plays perfectly fine and is extremely fast-paced if you don't play the usual hit-and-run garbage that you see at tournaments. The people who play it and then go to Brawl+ completely missed the point of the game. Brawl is better than Melee in literally EVERY as far as the original intent of the series goes.
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this is relevant
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I think my point with Brawl is that it plays perfectly fine and is extremely fast-paced if you don't play the usual hit-and-run garbage that you see at tournaments. The people who play it and then go to Brawl+ completely missed the point of the game. Brawl is better than Melee in literally EVERY as far as the original intent of the series goes.
I've never played a 4 player game (though I've played some 3 player games) in Brawl, but it feels a lot slower pace than Melee. It may simply be the different play styles, but I honestly feel that Melee was faster paced.
I will acknowledge that brawl is more fast paced than I originally felt it was, but personally, I like many of the modifications in Brawl+. I just wish it was less buggy.
All of this said, I don't own a Wii, and I've only played 2 other people in Brawl and Brawl+, and spent much more time in Brawl+ thna I have in regular brawl. However, my friend who plays Brawl+ is relatively competitive, and happens to know the game rather well (to the point where he knows how much damage you can inflict before someone can finally recover using certain moves, and so-on). So I'm rather inclined to believe him when he talks about which characters have become usable competitively, and which ones got nerfed, etc.
I'm not trying to say that Brawl+ is overall better, though I prefer it. I'm just trying to say that with the experience I've had, and the changes I've noticed in how the game feels to me, I prefer Brawl+. To be honest the biggest issue I have with Brawl is the damned buffer. 10 frames is significant, compared to almost immediate reaction in Melee.
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Sorry for the lame question guys...but did Sir Spectere change the layout of the place recently? It look much different then what I remember.
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spectere hasn't been ONLINE recently
also like, i will never go into championship mode or fight random people with characters i do not know how to use ever again.
i was so angry yesterday like...
A, inflict physical harm to self
B, back my van into my 360 and hori stick
i decided to choose A since it was cheaper, that combined with a nights sleep...im better now.
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Finally got a new computer. Just waiting for the video card to show up. Got a Radeon HD4650 since it's affordable and should run Diablo 3/Starcraft 2 just fine whenever they come out. I got a 23" widescreen 1080p monitor too, which I am currently using with my 360. Apparently it has little to no lag too since my Rock Band 2 calibration is set to CRT and I have no timing problems. Not sure if I want to switch the HDMI cable between PC and 360 every time I switch or if I just want to use DVI for the PC.
Ha, I'm dumb. DVI-D and HDMI are equal quality for picture. Solves that right quick.
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Finally got a new computer. Just waiting for the video card to show up. Got a Radeon HD4650 since it's affordable and should run Diablo 3/Starcraft 2 just fine whenever they come out.
should do you fine, sc2/d3 shouldn't be too taxing on a semi current machine. if anything, im going to bet crysis on medium settings will most likely have higher requirements, and a 4650 shouldn't have a problem doing even that with decent fps.
also like going from a 19 inch monitor to a 22 inch widescreen...
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grats on the gear
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while im here, anyone have recommendations for comic novels or whatever to read? im new to the comic thing, and i dig the whole superhero/supervillain shindig. from as far as i remember, comics are short, so like, id be interested in buying a graphic novel (like the watchmen...only im not interested in reading the watchmen) with the whole superpowers and whatnot going for it. fuck if like there's a novel with dr doom in it, im totally all ears to what it's called so i can order it.
tldr, vlad wants comic novel but hes too nub to comics to know where to start. AND AND AND, i don't like wolverine, or spiderman.
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You have some really weird choices on what to leave out and what you'd like.
I'd recommend you start reading everything from Dark Reign and then catch up on that because it has Doom and a bunch of other people but Spiderman and Wolverine are both involved. Mighty Avengers currently has Dr. Strange looking for a replacement as Sorceror Supreme and Dr. Doom is one of the possibles. That's the Avengers team with W and S though. Dark Avengers has Dr. Doom and Norman Osbourne (as the Iron Patriot) pulled into the past by Morgana le Fay so that's a possibility. They're going to put out a non-canon miniseries called Doctor Doom and the Masters of Evil so I don't know what that'll have in it but that's a good choice probably.
Secret Warriors I guess? That just started not too long ago and will probably work Doom into things later on. It's basically Nick Fury and a team of unknown supers that he's found because they're all totally off the map and how there's a bunch of weird espionage and spy stuff happening in the Marvel Universe.
There are really very few miniseries that've been put together into graphic novels that deal with Doom. They're pretty much all parts of actual series and are just smaller story arcs. Books of Doom is the only one I can think of really.
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yeah...as i said, pretty new to the comics thing. but books of doom, i may have to check that out.
http://www.amazon.com/Fantastic-Four-Books-Graphic-Novels/dp/0785117040/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1241411110&sr=8-1
get that with
http://www.amazon.com/Doom-TPB-Chuck-Dixon/dp/0785108351/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_b
to start out with i guess.
may also check out some DC stuff, but i figure ive heard of more of the marvel stuff so it's best to start there. i mean, the only DC i can think of off the top of my head, superman, batman, some other guy...bizarro...
wanted to check out captain america, but i think im a little too late for that. he's dead...so KIND OF FIGURE THERE ISN'T MUCH CURRENT STUFF OF HIM AROUND.
to add, i guess wolverine is tolerable, but i just plain don't like spiderman at all.
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What about Deadpool? I don't know much about his comics, but if Ultimate Alliance is any indication, he may be pretty amusing.
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forgot about him, deadpool is cool in my book.
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Deadpool's book recently got a revamp and I recommend checking it out because it's still pretty great. I really miss his old series where his story was actually serious though.
Captain America is still going quite strong. In fact, the book might be better than ever since his death. You could easily start from Captain America #25 (his death) and go from there. Bucky, Cap's original sidekick, picks up the mantle, even though he doesn't believe himself worthy of the name and he was also used as a Soviet Assassin during the Cold War. That entire book is just super solid.
The only thing in the DC Universe that's really worth reading ends up being Green Lantern. Geoff Johns is an absolute genius with that book. You'd have to find the Secret Origins, Sinestro Corps War and probably some other books and then get most of the current issues to understand what's happening though. Blackest Night (the upcoming event story arc) is going to be one of the biggest DC's had.
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I skimmed over the plot behind the death, and wow. That stuff is intense.
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Bought Dead Rising for Wii. It's interesting. Instead of the engine they used for the original on the 360, it uses the RE4 system, and has a decidedly heavier focus on gunplay instead of piles and piles of melee weaponry. It's not bad, but I prefer the original.
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The only thing in the DC Universe that's really worth reading ends up being Green Lantern.
i was talking to a friend about comics, and he told me that his favorite comics ended up being green lantern. now i guess i have to check that out.
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Bought Dead Rising for Wii. It's interesting.
Heh really? I thought it looked rather gimped compared to its 360 counterpart.
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i require a comic series based off from this episode
and if any of y'all can find more clips of said episode, i would be much obliged. THE FOREIGNER BELT! I DON'T NEED AN INSTRUCTION MANUAL TO KNOW HOW TO ROCK!
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How to easily get more followers on Twitter:
10 PRINT ALL POPULAR SEARCHES
20 WAIT 30000
30 GOTO 10
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OR, be Oprah.
And anyway, why would you want a ton of followers on your personal twitter :/
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nobody told me you can air buffer 360's and 720's in super turbo
now maby i can actually LAND THE SUPER(it does like 70% of the players health in damage....you basically always win when it lands) in an actual game now.
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OR, be Oprah.
And anyway, why would you want a ton of followers on your personal twitter :/
No reason, just wanted to see how easy it would be. It's like getting friends in Facebook.
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Speaking of Oprah:
http://media.oprah.com/sterm/KFC_Coupon_OprahWebsite.pdf
Thank you, Oprah.
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lol niggers.
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No reason, just wanted to see how easy it would be. It's like getting friends in Facebook.
Which I've also never understood. Sure, I have friends on facebook I never talk to, but I still actually want to follow them and see what they're up to. I hate the whole "I have more friend than you" crap that people feel the need to use to validate their petty ego. I didn't have a facebook account for quite some time, and I still have no plans on ever having a myspace page.
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well i got space invaders extreme for the 360
shit's fun for the first 3 levels, then decides to go "k remember we are an oldschool game at heart, heres some HARD for you"
if you aren't getting powerups all the time, you may as well not play, because you will die.
ill try the co-op when i get a friend over, hopefully that's fun.
i normally don't bitch about difficulty, but fuck, apparently the only games ive been playing recently are games that obliterate me. it would be nice to uhh, win for once.
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http://www.viddler.com/explore/Phiggle/videos/25/
...this game is EQUALLY as fucked up as killer 7, and that's saying something.
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got the third fallout 3 dlc (not the first two) the ending still sucks, but at least it isn't "fawkes: naw bro, im immune to radiation, but it's your destiny to die" and rather "fawkes: hmm, sure bro, you changed my destiny so it's only fitting that i change yours" which feels very tacked on, but it's passable. anywho, ill be doing a good chunk of the stuff i didn't bother doing last time i played, now i have a 30 level cap, so i reckon i may as well get working at it. EVEN THOUGH....i can one shot deathclaws at level 15....leveling up is always fun, new perks are always awesome.
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so im in the deathclaw sanctuary. im sneaking around with my dart gun (makes deathclaws cry) with my light off....but i need to turn it on, because it's pitch fucking black, doesn't help the flashlight doesnt let you see farther than 3 feet ahead.
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My girl Daisy died this morning. We think she was between 17 and 19 years old, but we just took her birthday to be on Good Friday, since we rescued her that day in 1999. So she lived a little bit past her last birthday. :3 Best dog ever.
(http://photos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs029.snc1/3178_169123590620_509560620_6694467_8279944_n.jpg)
(http://photos-f.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-sf2p/v45/129/80/509560620/n509560620_5949_836.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v34/Jupichan/WEEE.jpg?t=1241803530)
1992-3 - May 8th, 2009
I can't say much for the first few years of her life. She was probably living in a puppy mill, and she was found on the streets of Wilkinsburg (a pretty fucking lousy neighborhood). But after my family and I adopted her from a shelter near there, she had a damn good life. Always getting into little bits of trouble (for example, doing a flying leap into a cake that I had made, or dumping a jug of vegetable oil all around the house.)
When I found her this morning, it looked as if she had died in her sleep, and that's pretty much exactly what my parents and I had been hoping for once we noticed she had started to slow down. She was surrounded by my other two dogs when I found her too. So she wasn't even alone. :)
Best dog ever.
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Sorry to hear that. At least she had a peaceful death.
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Yup. ^^
Of all the dogs and cats I've had, she's the only one I've had to just go in her sleep. She deserved to go peacefully like that.
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Wow, my cat needed to be put down. Ironically, she was living longer than she should have, really. She was barely able to get up and down the stairs, and that was while we were giving her half a painkiller broken up into her food. By the end, she was beginning to loose control of her bowels, and she knew that the time was near. Her personality made a huge change near the end. Normally, she was a bit of a loner, and only allowed up to give her a little attention before leaving, but by the end, she was following us around the house, making noise and trying to get us to give her as much attention as she could get. She did live a long time though. She was older than me, and when we had her put down, she was a couple months past her 21st birthday.
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Yeah, I've had a cat make it well past 22 years before. She still has technically lived longer than I have.
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so at work today like, my sister came in, blablabla, she left...so i ran back where i was making dough.
i ran really fast...and floor was unexpectedly slippery. kind of cracked my head against the floor, so like. my neck muscles feel week, and my elbow hurts. FOR SOME REASON MY HEAD DOESN'T HURT even with the giant goose egg sticking right out there. think i only had a minor concussion (if that) and some whiplash. still, kind of funny, ain't every day you get the wind knocked out of you, feel really dizzy, and can't hear too well from a fall.
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New tattoo. Pic:
(http://i41.tinypic.com/1zw1d8l.jpg)
It looks much better in person, it was taken with my cellphone.
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still, kind of funny, ain't every day you get the wind knocked out of you, feel really dizzy, and can't hear too well from a fall.
Good god, you sure you shouldn't get that checked out?
Her personality made a huge change near the end. Normally, she was a bit of a loner, and only allowed up to give her a little attention before leaving, but by the end, she was following us around the house, making noise and trying to get us to give her as much attention as she could get.
Oh god, stop talking. My dog isn't going to keep going much longer and she's been acting like this. Then again she used to act like this when she was younger.
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Well, my cat was kinda crazy before. She saw her mother get hit by a car and killed when she was a couple months old, and after that she was really unfriendly. She would let my father and I pet her a bit, but even us, she would bite at if we tried petting her too much. She was very much a loner, and we all considered her to have a bit of a crazy personality, so after so many years of being like that, wanting attention to the point of following us and meowing at us and such was a VERY unusual change in her personality.
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Good god, you sure you shouldn't get that checked out?
well i feel fine, was fine enough to finish my shift at work. and my sister says im aight, so considering she works at that there hospital, i guess im aight.
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Oh god, stop talking. My dog isn't going to keep going much longer and she's been acting like this. Then again she used to act like this when she was younger.
Just make sure your dog is happy and comfortable. :) That's what we did for our Daisy.
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vlad: Looks like they managed to make a homebrew loader for your model of PSP: http://pspslimhacks.com/chickhen-r2-for-frimware-503-released/
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Stupid fucking Comcast. My internet and cable went down Thursday morning, and they only JUST came out to fix it this morning. Apparently someone came down here for routine maintenance or some such bullshit and they messed up something in the pole, and we had no signal coming to our house for two days because some incompetent ass made a mistake, and they don't want to credit us for the downtime.
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vlad: Looks like they managed to make a homebrew loader for your model of PSP: http://pspslimhacks.com/chickhen-r2-for-frimware-503-released/
im definitely going to check that out when i have the patients to go around and get something working later today. if it works...portable ps1/snes/genesis...
JOY
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first things first, im an idiot when it comes to this stuff. so the link gave me a download for the standard 5.03 firmware i need to have to get the hack installed. i downloaded it...and i get an eboot.pbp. problem, how do i make that file...work...
they kind of just assume i know what to do with it.
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Put it in /PSP/GAME/UPDATE/
Then, go to your Game menu on the PSP and go to Memory Stick. It should be there.
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hot damn, it's workin. will edit this post if i need assistance getting the CFW on there.
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strange. i have the bin file where it should be at the root of the stick...you know right at the start. the slim images are in PSP/PHOTO/THE FOLDERS NAME
i go to the folder with the images as it says...freezes...turns black...i can turn the psp back on and it works, but the update didn't happen.
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fucking strange. i was reading a bunch of comments on the page. one said to put more random images in the folder...didn't work. then some guy said put 3, then scroll down somewhat, and do nothing...
screen flashed in some weird colors, rebooted...now i have it on the psp. strange how shit that sounds like it wouldn't work...ends up working.
now to get homebrew working on this thing. which i may need help with.
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WAIT WAIT WAIT...i have to do the reboot every time i turn on the psp? since i had the update...now i don't...this is annoying since i only got the update to work one time. DAMN YOU TRIAL AND ERROR.
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ok, whatever i did, i almost think i know what im doing. playing contra 3 for the snes...on my psp. slightly laggy really laggy, but playablenot playable. also, shining force 2, FUCK YES NIGREO!
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SNES games that heavily use Mode7, like Contra 3, will have horrendous slowdown on the PSP. It just really can't do Mode7. Genesis/SegaCD/GBA/GBC/NES games work beautifully though.
I saw Star Trek. Absolutely fantastic.
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figure id try nes as well. tried ripping my copy of brave fencer musashi to eboot, took long enough to figure out....and sucked harder when i figured this hack can't play ps1 games. doesn't help that it's literally random when it wants to work, since you need to do it every time you turn off the system. BUT AT LEAST IT WORKS AT ALL. i mean, if i was REALLY hurting for a portable emulation machine, id get a netbook.
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Yeah, the method is pretty much brand new, so you might want to check back frequently for updates.
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so I went to the moveys yesterday, and Star Trek is a pretty awesome movie
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I really wanted to see it on opening night, but alas, I'm rather poor.
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figure id try nes as well. tried ripping my copy of brave fencer musashi to eboot, took long enough to figure out....and sucked harder when i figured this hack can't play ps1 games. doesn't help that it's literally random when it wants to work, since you need to do it every time you turn off the system. BUT AT LEAST IT WORKS AT ALL. i mean, if i was REALLY hurting for a portable emulation machine, id get a netbook.
Musashi doesn't work anyway. The game has massive problems on every system. The only known eboot that works is the one you can purchase through the Japanese PSN. I don't know why that one's different though. Could just be whatever coding difference there is in the US version wrecks it.
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I really wanted to see it on opening night, but alas, I'm rather poor.
lol, I'm poor too, so I'm going cheap night tuesday :p
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I'm seeing it again tomorrow :D
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Where'd spectere go <=O
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Still sick?
Also I'm a bit bummed, my parents went to some party that I thought was for someone they knew as a friend and it was actually for one of my distant relative and I rarely see that side of my family. Then I missed going to see my grandma on mother's day. I did get to met a few cute chicks in the process, but I'm still bummed I missed seeing them all.
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Still sick?
Last what Jupi told me he has been insanely busy with work...the worse thing is that he lives 7 minutes from me and I can't even get into contact with him where as Vyhd and Jupi I talk to them every day and they live an hour away.
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If you would stop riding that goddamn crocodile to my house, I wouldn't live an hour away.
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Yeah, spec seems pretty busy with work. He's even hardly updating his twitter, and that thing takes practically no effort or time to update :/
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Also I stepped on a sea urchin today (It was small, but my big toe knocked off some of it's spikes) and my friend got one stuck into his arm and I was always told the things were lethal. I would have messed with them a lot more if I knew they weren't lethal, goddamn.
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thinking about buying some spandex pants, though, not under armour(well...maby). shit's expensive. i take it that im the only person here who is interested, but if anyone knows of any good brands, im up for suggestions.
TO AMAZON!
also since im retarded, if i were to say start reading green lantern, what would be an easy thing to start with? figure i can get comics AND spandex pants in one order here.
anywho, im down with the whole "i wear shorts, and have spandex pants on underneath it" thing. so i may as well go and do it, since like, i have the money, and im no longer really embarrassed about going about it anymore. like, that stuff is damn comfortable, yet so are baggy shorts/pants. so like BOTH AT THE SAME TIME = best of both worlds.
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Get Secret Origins I guess. It is basically a retelling of Hal Jordan becoming a Green Lantern with a bunch of new stuff put in. And then find Sinestro Corps Vol. 1 and then Vol. 2 when that comes out and then...I'm not entirely sure. Try to find as many issues of Green Lantern Corps from the same time period as you can. Both Green Lantern and Green Lantern Corps are part of Blackest Night.
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Does anyone know of an online store where I can buy solder, switches, rainbow ribbon cable wire, ect? Radioshack didn't have any.........
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wutcha makin?
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Does anyone know of an online store where I can buy solder, switches, rainbow ribbon cable wire, ect? Radioshack didn't have any.........
solder can be found in any sort of hardware store, like canadian tire... (I'm pretty sure they also carry electrical folder, along with the regular stuff, but normal solder still works). Electrical components have codes you can order them by, and those codes will generally lead you in the right direction as to where you can order them (I bet radio shack does have them, but they're just hard to find).
I haven't really put anything together, but I've considered trying a project or 2, and I have soldered some stuff back together (I fixed an old RF adapter by re-soldering the cord when the damn thing frayed and stopped working.. that was one ghetto fix)
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Does anyone know of an online store where I can buy solder, switches, rainbow ribbon cable wire, ect? Radioshack didn't have any.........
probably want to check the home depot, bet they have most of what you need...save for the ribbon cable wire. call em up to save yourself a trip.
also later(several weeks...a month, no idea), im going to need to add an image to the "i want nudes" thread. I LOOK THE SAME BUT DIFFERENT OGMF!
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ok, amazon shopping for no reason
http://www.amazon.com/Ultimates-Vol-1-Mark-Millar/dp/0785110828/ref=pd_rhf_shvl_31
i may be orderin that among a few other things. from what i read (lolapedia) it's like ""You have to approach it as though nothing has happened before and tell the story fresh from the start.... We had to get to the core of who these people were and build outwards"
meaning, i know nothing, omfg something that fits for me knowing nothing prior. kind of the hardest thing about comics in my opinion, finding something that gets you quickly caught up to speed, or something with no "years and years and years of comics of history" behind it that you should probably know before jumping in...unless it doesn't work that way.
also like, under armour heatgear looks good. i find spending money is an excellent motivation to get me to do something because it's like "i spend $x.xx to do this...i may as well fucking do this" in this case, it's warming up, summertime, get some summer clothing to go out jogging and whatnot...lessens the chance i will get lazy and not jog because i put some money into it.
http://www.underarmour.com/shop/us/en/mens/apparel/bottoms/heatgear/pid1201167-Men-s-UA-HeatGear-Legging/1201167-001
http://www.underarmour.com/shop/us/en/mens/apparel/tops/heatgear/pid1201163-Men-s-HeatGear-Longsleeve/1201163-301
im a nerd btw, and lol spandex, it's probably creepy that im typing that.
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Yeah, the Ultimates stuff was great for people that really wanted to get into comics but didn't want to deal with all of the continuity.
It helps that Vol. 1 and 2 of the Ultimates are extremely good books. Vol. 3 not so much.
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I'll check out Home Depot, definitely, and Radioshack again or a different one; the one I went to was pretty small and had a limited selection.
I'm makin' a Sega Genesis md2/32x hybrid (http://www.longhornengineer.com/DIY/Neptunehowto) and adding region switches to my Saturn.
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I'll check out Home Depot, definitely, and Radioshack again or a different one; the one I went to was pretty small and had a limited selection.
I'm makin' a Sega Genesis md2/32x hybrid (http://www.longhornengineer.com/DIY/Neptunehowto) and adding region switches to my Saturn.
Cool, also, your not likely going to find too many electrical supplies in stock at any general store, but if you know the code, you can order it online and radio shack will ship it.
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Could anyone bother to explain port forwarding on windows XP?
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As long as windows firewall is on/active, then go to the properties page of your active connection, advanced tab, click 'settings' button.
Should be a tab called 'exceptions', this is windows' way of saying 'let this program communicate to the internet' be it a game, utorrent, what-have-you. There is a button under the exceptions list labeled 'add port'. give it a name, port number, and TCP/UDP. You have opened/forwarded a port. yay
although I am unsure if the term forward is only from Router -> PC, because the Router is a hard firewall, and windows is software, thus saying 'opening' a port rather than forwarding it from router to pc. <-- this paragraph says the same thing twice :D I'm tired, excuse me
HOAP EYE HALP'D
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I'll try that, I'm trying to get it so I can host a fight on 2DF, but it seems like that should work.
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if you can uhh let me know how to get third strike working on that thing, id be willing to play.
my stick works with pc, mainly the reason why i would play, i can't play a 2d fighter with anything else to be honest.
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Download all the stuff for 2DF on the front page. Then you need to download sfiiin.zip and sfiii.zip, don't extract them and just place it in a file. Then go into the settings tab on the 2DF program and set your rom path the the folder holding them.
properties page of your active connection
I cannot find this D:. I'm assuming I could find it from the control panel but I don't see anything for a properties page for my connection, and out of what I do see (windows firewall, Internet Options, Network Connections) I'm still not seeing anything that looks like it will let me do that.
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well if you can get to the configuration page of windows firewall, that's what we're going for here.
properties page of your active connection, i mean going to network connections, finding which one connects you to the internet, right clicking, then going to properties.
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so i ordered some of dem dere pants. i just hope they are durable, because i spent fiddy dollers on em. though, the last pair of similar leggings i got lasted a good while, so i can't worry...and they were only like $20. so i figure, whatever, wear em to jog and should get me a ways. now i need some gym shorts, running shoes, and im good to go.
skater shoes (vans are fucking comfortable ok) and carpenter jeans DO NOT MAKE A GOOD JOGGING EXPERIENCE. kind of sucks ass to be honest.
anywho.
-fiddy for the leggings
-foady for gasoline
-tweny for random shit at wal mart (razor..toothpaste...shaving cream...shredded potato...)
done spending today.
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http://www.teamfortress.com/spyupdate/
Fucking awesome. The watch that drops a corpse and keeps you hidden for about 8 more secounds seems AMAZING for small maps.
WHY CAN'T I PLAY PARAPPA THE RAPPER? I MEAN THE TIMING IN THE GAME IS INSANE, THEY EXPECT ME TO BE A FUCKING MACHINE.
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RAZOR BURN SUCKS GODDAMN I REGRET WHAT I JUST DID FUUUUuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
guess ill live as a gorilla from now on
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Might start lurking again.
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RAZOR BURN SUCKS GODDAMN I REGRET WHAT I JUST DID FUUUUuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
guess ill live as a gorilla from now on
You burned your balls, didn't you?
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more like my legs
my balls are immune to razor burn
but fuck, the smooth feeling is awesome, the razor burn...isn't. not to mention, if it was say a weekly thing...id better get quicker at it, since it takes me fucking forever, and i still don't hit everything.
lemme guess, it's because im a man that im bad at this.
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Shit son, I'm bad at it myself. << Doesn't help that I can't see shit.
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doesn't help that you can't see most of the small spots you missed till after you are out and dry.
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Yeah, really now.
I once tried Nair or Veet or something like it. Followed the directions, did a little test spot somewhere - hair came off, didn't set me on fire or anything.
So later I did my legs. They didn't stop burning for over a week. x.x; And they were still hairier than an 11th grade boys' neck.
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Whoa whoa whoa....I have no idea what is going on.
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sure you do.
and i was thinking of getting nair, but ive basically heard things what you said, the shit can burn. ohh well, ill get better EVENTUALLY! (maby....)
anything else to add? uhh...
JUICY
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Just wear pants.
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that has nothing to do with anything ma'am
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Go for the French look?
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Go for the French look?
The French don't shave.
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The French don't shave.
that was the point
anywho, hair that isn't on the head shouldn't exist, we ain't cavemen no mo.
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*flings confetti*
Happy birthday!
that was the point
anywho, hair that isn't on the head shouldn't exist, we ain't cavemen no mo.
I can't help bein' a hairy Jupi. ;-;
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ironically enough, i want a beard. TOO BAD I CAN'T GROW ONE!
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Heh...I hate shaving my face considering my razor blade is dull as hell and I nick myself when I shave.
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Sharpen it, foo'
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I can't. It is not possible.
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I can't. It is not possible.
Then get a new one
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Then get a new one
This. :3
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I found this while searching for info about Pepsi bottles with short caps
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Haha, I love that image. I use it as an avatar at a few places.
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Then get a new one
this
decent razor is like $10.00(though the blade packs...they cost mucho(25-30...)...you won't need them till later though), and even then you can get a bunch of disposables.
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Good god just buy a cheap razor. I have rather sensitive messed up skin and my Gillette razor works fine.
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(http://www.repmanblog.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/09/13/gillette.jpg)
That's what I use.
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Silly nub you should use a gaming razor.
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That's what I use.
dem ain't bad, served me well at least.
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I tried a disposable once and I had a horrible out break...besides a 4 pack of blades for me costs about $15 plus tax.
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That's what I use.
That looks like mine
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Clearly the solution is to set one's legs on fire.
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pubefire.wmv
fix't
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You're more than welcome to do what my friend did a few years ago. Sprayed axe on his crotch, applied a flame, and ensued the lolz.
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SPIDERGIRL
(http://fc08.deviantart.com/fs44/i/2009/093/e/c/Method_Actress_by_phantom_inker.png)
it's awesome
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That really good art work but at the same time very very creepy
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That really good art work but at the same time very very creepy
Agreed, lol.
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guess y'all wouldn't like this one then.
technically worksafe but the top is kind of like felecia if you know what im saying so it's a bit boarderline. thus, LINK.
http://genzoman.deviantart.com/art/Spider-Witch-99605242
after hunting them down, ive only found several good arachne images, ahh well. anywho, check out the dudes other art, all of it is fucking fantastic.
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I used this one when i first started needing to shave, schick quattro midnight
(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/5/7798564_460c1eccca.jpg)
and now I've moved to this, my forever favorite.
(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/21/96362366_ce5785bd31.jpg)
the gillette fusion with trimmer blade on the back (shown)
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Shit's advanced son.
Also I just saw Videodrome, if you're looking for a movie where you can't POSSIBLY guess the ending then you should watch it.
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Ahaha, hell yes, Videodrome is great. I really, really like Cronenberg's films. You should track down Dead Ringers, that movie is super crazy.
Also - I just finished Cryostatsis, and my mind is completely blown. Like, oh my god I felt like I just read an epic poem or something, there was so much to its plot D:
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I didn't understand Videodrome at all, it was crazy but it all seemed meh as far as the plot was concerned.
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Will check out later for movie...right now moar
tentical rape torrents....er I mean Anime Torrents.
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freaky spider girls aside, anyone play 40k?
been trying to think of an army to go for. and all i know thus far is what i DON'T want. space marines, chaos space marines, imperial guard, dark eldar, orks (i wanted to like them...but i just can't handle their playstyle), im assuming tyranid since as far as i know they play similar to orks.
basically thinking of tau, or necrons, or whatever else there is (id rather not eldar, but if they are fun...maby). almost got a necron battleforce + codex today, but then realized that would be about $100 for something i may not enjoy playing, i had to stop myself. RESEARCH MUST BE DONE!
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freaky spider girls aside, anyone play 40k?
been trying to think of an army to go for. and all i know thus far is what i DON'T want. space marines, chaos space marines, imperial guard, dark eldar, orks (i wanted to like them...but i just can't handle their playstyle), im assuming tyranid since as far as i know they play similar to orks.
basically thinking of tau, or necrons, or whatever else there is (id rather not eldar, but if they are fun...maby). almost got a necron battleforce + codex today, but then realized that would be about $100 for something i may not enjoy playing, i had to stop myself. RESEARCH MUST BE DONE!
Hey I do 40k. I play dark eldar (yes they are one of the harder races to play, but very rewarding if you can play right). I have a basic understanding of how the different armies play, which go as follows:
Space Marines - the superhuman enhanced soldiers of the empire. mid-high cost per unit, however, they are a fairly good race in terms of versatility. They are just as good in an advance as they are on defense. And the 3+ armour save is fairly forgiving for a basic marine.
Imperial Guard - basically humans, they make up the bulk of the empire's fighting force, mid-low points cost per unit, the guard can be divided into 3 parts : the infantry (human with flak jacket and lasgun), the armour (tanks and the like) and ordnance (both vehical and troops with mortars). Best when at least the infantry and one other part is used in concert to weaken the enemy before the infantry reaches the enemy, however beware of heavy fire, as it does take out both troops and tanks, and without one, you can be screwed.
Sisters of battle - the sword of the empire's church, the sisters excel at assault combat. Sitting between the marines and the guard for armor, they make great use of flamers, very niche race however, as they can be a hard race to balance between ranged and melee.
Grey knights and the demon hunters - a branch of the inquisition which deals with demons and the human contacts, grey knights are essentially space marines, however the addition of the inquisition and taking away some of the marines gear and personal give the demon hunters a very different feel from the regular marines.
chaos space marines - the corrupted brothers of the space marines, if you think that chaos and regular marines have the same play style is a very sad notation. Chaos has many units which are comparable to the marines, however, the gifts of chaos, as well as some units that are unique to chaos make the chaos marines a better attacking force. This being said, they are still fairly versatile and the addition of demons can make the army look great.
chaos demons - an army based solely around the chaos demons, I don't know much about this army as it is a new army, came out just before the 4th edition came out.
Eldar - space faring alien race, very old and very separate from most races, the eldar army is an army of choice. most units are infantry, however they all have different styles of fighting, choose the wrong combination of styles and you are screwed. However the right combination of styles, and you own the battle field.
Dark eldar - the corrupted side of the eldars, they live in an eternally dusk city of death, the dark eldar make use of 2 skills: speed and the desire to kill. A very straightforward army in way of choices, the dark eldar army always attack and never defend. however the dark eldar are fragile, and when the dark eldar heavy fire fails to take care of the enemies tanks and heavy weapons, and when the army itself is used incorrectly (ie a head on attack) they crumble and fall.
Tau - a young alien race whose society revolves around the idea of the greater good, the tau are completely range. high advance technology makes for wargear that allows them to make good use of their ranged weapons. If you like melee, this is not your race, as the only units any good at melee are auxiliary units (ie other races that the tau race has accepted/absorbed into their society).
Necrons - ancient, powerful and near unstoppable in large forces, a very costly race for points. The necrons greatest boast is their "we'll be back" rule which gives most fallen necrons a chance of returning to the battlefield. Excellent firepower, and possessing the single largest "tank/transport", without going into the giant war walkers (they are part of expanded/extended play, not for regular play, extremely costly), the monolith. However extremely small range of special characters (2 characters).
Tyranids - the only obviously alien race which makes use of a hive mind and completely biological weapons, armor, wargear and units. The tyranids are the attack en mass army, and excellent in close combat (aside from a few select units). most units are customizable which leads to wide variety of different tyranids, and don't forget your carnifex(es), they are walking tanks.
Orks - don't ask how their technology works, no one really knows, it just works. Extremely crude and warring society, the orks work best with the attack en mass tactic in mind, however they are not as good as the tyranids. You also have to make good use of their different units and skills (as few and far between as they are). orks are excellent in close combat (they usually attack second, but they have a toughness that allows them to more often than not, make it to their attack.)
This is just from what I know, as I only have a basic understanding of the different armies. But believe me, unless you are skilled with hit and run, counter attacking or flanking tactics, as a dark eldar player, I advise you against playing dark eldar.
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wut
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im probably going to have to go to the local 40k playing place and ask vets there. bit confusing.
and sneaky, this image should answer questions.
(http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/3029/1242804553284.jpg)
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I played the demo for Dawn of War 2 and thought it was pretty fun. Does that count?
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40k's really fun if you take the time to learn how to play it well, but it's also pretty expensive. I'd like to get into it if I had like, a spare 400 dollars and a lot of time to paint them up all nice, though.
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The game honestly doesn't seem worth it. Also I like the 40k fluff and I wish more there were more games based on it, awesome how the people fighting demons are basically space Nazis.
Also I've gotten lazy lately. So far I just started a math class and I'm already a bit lost in it, I've stopped working out and I rarely brush floss and mouth wash now a days. As of now I'm going to try and get all three up to speed.
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I played the demo for Dawn of War 2 and thought it was pretty fun. Does that count?
no, the dawn of war series uses completely different game mechanics compared to tabletop 40k. The dark eldars got nerfed because of the game play. The whole building units and buildings and attacking and defending, that nerfs my (and the dark eldars as a whole) style of play.
wut
yes I know, its a lot to digest in a short amount of time :P, but that's just scratching the surface.
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I found my dad's old slide rule in my garage, and I just figured out how to use it for multiplication, division, and logarithms. I have no idea how the trigonometry works, though.
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under armour pants are fucking comfy. using them as jammies at the moment, beats walking around in my boxers. thus far, worth the money, vlad recommends them.
GODDAMN ITS HOT TODAY ODMGGMDOHMFHFJNFM
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It wasn't that bad it was only 30oC (which is about 86oF) up here :P with the humidity
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that's miserable weather bro
bring it down to 40-50f and we are at comfort.
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It was 103 degrees while standing on the black top (97 just in the sun) yesterday. In Minnesota. In May. Do you understand how messed up that is?
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considering MN is colder than MI, yes, i understand.
again, MI would be similar if it weren't for the great lakes, they tend to make us a bit cooler (yet fucking humid, but not florida humid) in the summer, and a bit warmer in the winter.
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Damn it, I'm just getting over being super-sick with some sort of hybrid AIDS-SARS-Swine Flu monstrosity and now my throat and back/stomach area mysteriously hurt.
Also, Twix.
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Also, Twix.
this
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Nekros where do you live.
I wish more cool people lived in Canada
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SHUT UP.
HEY.
STOP STEALING MY HOCKEY, EH?!
The phoenix coyotes are moving to ontario or some shit up north. Oh well.
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Nekros where do you live.
I wish more cool people lived in Canada
I live in Midland, Ontario lol
SHUT UP.
HEY.
STOP STEALING MY HOCKEY, EH?!
The phoenix coyotes are moving to ontario or some shit up north. Oh well.
lol, actually, we're just taking it back. Besides, it'll make more money up here
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i live CLOSE to canada, does that count? about a 3-4 hour drive and BAM im in ontario.
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no, no it doesn't, cause there is a defined line between canada and the states lol
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I've visited canada.. :( Victoria. went to Butchart gardens and sea fishing in puget sound.
AM I KEWL
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Yea Victoria doesn't count because its a tourist trap. It also doesn't count because thats where I'm originally from and can't remember it being that cool a place. OH WELL.
lol Saskatchewan ftl
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SHUT UP.
HEY.
STOP STEALING MY HOCKEY, EH?!
The phoenix coyotes are moving to ontario or some shit up north. Oh well.
GO PENS!
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Also yeah Phoenix is from Winnipeg I believe... shouldn't have left in the first place. Jets were awesome. Its where Khabibulin came to be in the NHL, IIRC
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INTERESTING. Wikipedia, thank you, I did not know that. you can have your hockey back
"Despite strong fan support, several attempts to keep the team in Winnipeg ultimately fell through. In the spring of 1996, Phoenix businessmen Steven Gluckstern and Richard Burke along with a local investor group bought the team with plans to move it to Phoenix for the 1996
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Gay.
And Winnipeg was actually a really good team, its just upsetting to think of them gone now.
A guy came in to work today wearing their jersey. I almost cried :-[
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So I'm watching the Deadliest Warrior on spike, and I must say it's completely retarded. They just had a Ninja fight a Spartan and the Ninja didn't use stealth, or I'm assuming they didn't factor that into the equation.
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So I'm watching the Deadliest Warrior on spike, and I must say it's completely retarded. They just had a Ninja fight a Spartan and the Ninja didn't use stealth, or I'm assuming they didn't factor that into the equation.
Yeah, a friend and I discussed that. Didn't the guy taking the ninja's side say something along the lines of "but in real warfare, I'd just walk in and kill you in your sleep"? (I never actually saw the episode, but my friend and I had a pretty good discussion about it after he mentioned it).
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Yeah, a friend and I discussed that. Didn't the guy taking the ninja's side say something along the lines of "but in real warfare, I'd just walk in and kill you in your sleep"? (I never actually saw the episode, but my friend and I had a pretty good discussion about it after he mentioned it).
Yeah, I would think that a ninja would get anyone when he least expected it
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Ninja are the shit!
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Yeah, a friend and I discussed that. Didn't the guy taking the ninja's side say something along the lines of "but in real warfare, I'd just walk in and kill you in your sleep"? (I never actually saw the episode, but my friend and I had a pretty good discussion about it after he mentioned it).
He said something like "The ninja would see the spartan and run away, only to come back and kill him in his sleep" which would make more sense for an assassin.
Also weren't Spartans only that great in a group?
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He said something like "The ninja would see the spartan and run away, only to come back and kill him in his sleep" which would make more sense for an assassin.
Also weren't Spartans only that great in a group?
Spartans were best in groups, however in individual combat, they could still hold their ground.
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i subscribed to the following on youtube
im probably gayer than even i think i am
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Anyone here still use last.fm? I have no friends and it doesn't seem all that useful without them.
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Anyone here still use last.fm? I have no friends and it doesn't seem all that useful without them.
I stopped using last.fm like 3 years ago >_>
and yeah vlad you're definitely really gay for that haha
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im probably gayer than even i think i am
That is oddly hypnotizing.
Jesus tits that's supposed to be a LIGHT amount of makeup? What the dick man.
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vlad just wants to be pretty :-[
im a lesbian in a mans body that isn't true yes it is
and i also stopped using last.fm, never really liked it.
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Spartans were best in groups, however in individual combat, they could still hold their ground.
Thing is, the fighting style they practiced was not very conductive to fighting anything other than other warriors fighting in the greek style.. Pretty much all greek warriors fought in the same style. The spartans were simply better than the rest.
Up against a ninja, who is practiced in the arts of not being seen, killing silently, and ranged weaponry, a spartan is not bloody likely to be able to do much. Plus, a spartan isn't likely to have heavy enough armor to protect them from some of the weapons that the ninja would carry.
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Holy shit, what kind of horrible mutating super-virus do I have?
Ok, e-doctors, let's see if you can solve this one. I went to bed Sunday night, feeling incredibly crappy. I had an extreme headache, to the point I could hardly see straight, and my whole body ached. I had the chills so bad that even in summer-esque weather I went to sleep wearing a shirt, a sweater, long pants, and socks. I attributed it to the alcohol and lack of sleep Saturday night catching up with me. The next day I woke up and felt just as bad; the headache had the edge taken off of it at least, but if I walked too quickly or did anything even remotely strenuous then it came back. Additionally, my throat started to get a little sore. It continued Wednesday, though less so, and by Thursday I was finally free of aches and soreness. However, my throat continued to get increasingly worse; by Thursday is wasn't just painful to swallow, it was just actively hurting, and was visibly swollen. Friday stayed about the same, as did Saturday. My eye started to bother me like it had something in it, so I rubbed it a bit to try to get it out, then flushed it with water. When I woke up Sunday morning, my eye had crusted over and I couldn't open it without rubbing the stuff off of it. Today I had the same issue, with both eyes. They don't hurt, but they're extremely red and bloodshot. I also seem to be producing snot at like twice the normal rate I should.
tl;dr, went from headache/body aches/chills to super-sore throat to wtf eyes.
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Maybe you somehow managed to catch more than one thing, and they're taking turns?
Either way, that sounds absolutely terrible. Hope you get better soon, man.
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Jesus christ man, go drink a gallon of Nyquil or something. That sound horrific, sorry about your whole condition.
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you should like get your hair done, followed by a manicure and whatever fashion terms there are out there.
or like go to a real doctor.
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you should like get your hair done, followed by a manicure and whatever fashion terms there are out there.
or like go to a real doctor.
Other than treating the symptoms, unless he has somehow come down with some really evil virus or something, there's not likely anything a real doctor can do. Mind you, even just treating the symptoms is better than doing nothing.
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Other than treating the symptoms, unless he has somehow come down with some really evil virus or something, there's not likely anything a real doctor can do. Mind you, even just treating the symptoms is better than doing nothing.
or he can see a midland quack, I mean doctor
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or he can see a midland quack, I mean doctor
And they would just treat the symptoms... Or, try to anyway...
Yeah, midland doctors are fucking useless, for the most part. There's only 1 or 2 of them that are any good :/
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And they would just treat the symptoms... Or, try to anyway...
Yeah, midland doctors are fucking useless, for the most part. There's only 1 or 2 of them that are any good :/
and the 1 or 2 that are any good dont look like they'd be any good
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look beewbies
(.)(.)
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i lanned diablo 2 with a few friends today. was wearing shorts and dat under armour, and one of my friends commented i looked like micky mouse, found that kind of funny.
but uhh yeah, hauling my coolermaster HAF case....not fun not fun not fun. to play d2 with some bros, totally fucking worth it.
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look beewbies
(.)(.)
wut
Also in place of words like Cool I'm going to try and start saying Contra.
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holy gay
I turned 17 earlier this month
and uh
taking my GED, SAT, and my road test on the same week :| (June 1, 6, and 4th, respectively)
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Brutal. Also, where the hell have you been?
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GED is laughably easy. If you aren't completely retarded you'll ace it. I had to help my dad study for it like 7 years ago, as sad as that is, and going off of what was on the practice exam (which is the same as the regular, 'cept for the numbers) I could've passed my GED in 6th grade.
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haha, i never asked my brother how his was, but he recently took his GED too.
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Brutal. Also, where the hell have you been?
around
GED is laughably easy. If you aren't completely retarded you'll ace it. I had to help my dad study for it like 7 years ago, as sad as that is, and going off of what was on the practice exam (which is the same as the regular, 'cept for the numbers) I could've passed my GED in 6th grade.
I am aware of how easy it is. I get 800s (read: a perfect score) on multiple sections.
haha, i never asked my brother how his was, but he recently took his GED too.
Until now, I thought Canadians taking the GED was naught but a rumor (according to Wikipedia barely anyone up there takes it wtf)
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i hate amazon
"omghf panzer dragoon orta, new, $30....stock 1!?....BUY BUY BUY...while im here i may as well get that new (lol 2007) melt banana album....and fucking tron while im at it"
$60, no shipping(finally, 3 different items all shipped from amazon rather than random people who rack up shipping costs). guess it's not too bad really, been wanting panzer dragoon orta ever since i rented it way back when in 2003. yay for it being backwards compatible with the 360.
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Until now, I thought Canadians taking the GED was naught but a rumor (according to Wikipedia barely anyone up there takes it wtf)
Around here, the GED is basically seen as something just for adults who never got their grade 12, but have a hard time getting a job because of it. And stuff like that.
It's not seen as a viable option instead of finishing highschool most of the time. It's basically seen as an absolute last resort.
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Yeah there was no mention of the GED in high school out here. One or two people knew of it but no one had to take it because it was never part of the system. Like Boobies said, it was really only for adult education centers out west. And even then some adult colleges and what not don't have them.
ps hai 2 veemon
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wuzzup, keepin it real in tha cornfields yo
I realized how unpopular it was when I thought about going to a Canadian university and almost no one accepted it instead of a high school diploma lol
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Currently bidding on FFTA2...I hope I win it :3
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I realized how unpopular it was when I thought about going to a Canadian university and almost no one accepted it instead of a high school diploma lol
lolwut
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Basically, in Canada, the GED is not considered to be truly equivalent. It's mostly there for the adults who can't get a job due to not having their grade 12, so most colleges or universities (because there's a difference here) won't likely accept someone with a GED through the normal system. You'd likely need to apply as a mature student, which is a completely different application system.
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lolwut
if the lolwut was for me, it's because I've been looking for an excuse to migrate to Canada for the past 2 years or so
it's like they discriminate against us more than they do random Asians in terms of immigration policy, AND I DON'T LIKE THAT
also, Canadian football is awesome
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&feature=related
this looks like something that i could get into over 40k, though, it isn't out yet.
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So I got my hands on Dead Space with a friend. It's literally a better RE game then RE5 was.
Also I've missed out on a lot of good current gen games, anyone mind dropping a few names? It has to be either a PC or an xbox game, but it can literally be anything.
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super street fighter II turbo hd remix
bionic commando rearmed
castle crashers
banjo kazooie
downloadable games that beat the shit out of any retail game in 2008-current
if you want "bigger" games, i guess gta 4 was fun, same with fallout 3. if you haven't played mass effect, fucking get it, best game ive played in years, i beat it 10 times thus far nigga.
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Yeah, I'm getting ME soon. I want to get my copy of Lost Planet working and it's pissing me off.
Also, I'm not sure why, but I can't get into any of my PS one games recently. The fact that I started a few only to have the data get fucked kind of pisses me off, but I still just don't feel like playing them.
Oh yeah, and I forgot, Wii games as well.
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lol wii
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Mass Effect truly is fuckmazing. I can't wait for two D:
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lol wii
You're making me hate you man.
I really really hate all the negativity around the Wii. There are a LOT of good games for it. They aren't that hard to find.
Punch-Out!! just came out, Excitebots is amazing, Munchables is like Pac-man + Katamari, Marble Saga: Kororinpa is excellent, Klonoa is amazing, Broken Sword is a fantastic remake of the old PC Adventure game with some new stuff that really adds to the story, Rune Factory Frontier is like Harvest Moon + actual fighting, MadWorld needs to be played by everyone, House of the Dead: Overkill is the best lightgun game in years, the Tenchu game for the Wii was done by the team behind the first two games and is pretty good. And that's just within the last 2 months.
Coming soon, you've got Let's Tap, The Conduit, the new Overlord, Little King's Story, Phantom Brave if you never played that on PS2 and like Disgaea, Cursed Mountain, Muramasa, A Boy and His Blob, Dead Space: Extraction, Arc Rise Fantasia, Fragile, Trauma Team, Tatsunoko vs Capcom and whatever the hell else Nintendo puts out by itself this year. I know Sin & Punishment 2 is still coming.
As far as I'm concerned, the 360 can go fuck itself this year. It had Street Fighter 4 and Star Ocean 4 and then nothing really until Bayonetta.
And my overall feeling towards Mass Effect was that the game was fun to play (obviously, I played through 3 times) but the RPG parts of the game are just really lackluster.
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Eggman has a point, I haven't seen anything from Microsoft (not trying to incite a console war) and Punch Out looks awesome. BlazBlue and MGS4 are going to damn near force me to get a triple, but I still want to play Monster Hunter, the new No More Heroes, and Murumasi bad. Good god I will shit a brick if BlazBlue has no PC port.
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You're making me hate you man.
it's fine, you can hate me for my opinion towards a video game console, you are just a guy on the internet. it has games on it you want to play, good, it doesn't for me, so ill spend my money elsewhere. the only wii game you mentioned that sparks interest is monster hunter, and i would knock the controls, but it's classic controller supported so fuck yes. ONE YOU DIDN'T MENTION was the new contra wii ware game, which, fuck, looks awesome. as for the tripple, if they keep up releasing kickass looking games like infamous, uncharted 2, NOBI NOBI BOY, i may have to pick one up one of these days.
anywho, dragon age, mass effect 2, and if blizzard releases anything, im definitely getting. kind of interested in KOF12, but i may have to rent to see if i dig the 3 on 3 fighting, i did not like it in capcom v snk, so hopefully it will change my mind. as for blazblue, worth trying out, but not sure ill enjoy the style of play.
to end, E3 IS SOON, SHOW ME MASS EFFECT 2 STUFF BIOWARE, I NEED MAH TALI SECKSSsssssssssssssssssssss
TO DOUBLE END i don't pick sides towards this "console war" i buy a machine that has shit i want to play, and play that shit i want to play, that is all(i spent $1600 on a pc so i know i will be able to run sc2 and d3 maxed out at 1680x1050). no need to get pissy if i didn't choose your side bro, different strokes for different folks.
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The one thing that I don't like to see is people hating on the PS3 because it has less multiplatform titles and fewer games in general. Sony takes a completely different approach to hardware than nintendo or microsoft. And they have since they came up with the PS2.
People fail to realize that the PS3 is not intended to directly compete with the Wii and 360 over the same time frame. It's designed so that the games that are developed for it slowly increase in quality over the year, much like the PS2 games did. Nobody would have guessed that there would be games that looked as good as the newer games do when the PS2 first came out. FFX shocked most people when they saw how good the graphics looked.
And it's not just about graphics, but the capabilities of the entire system. As developers become more and more familiar with the system, they'll be more and more capable of taking advantage of the system's capabilities, and making games that are quite likely beyond any of the competitors' abilities.
Compare the PS2 with the Gamecube, or the Xbox. Nobody is releasing games for either the xbox or the gamecube now. Yet there are still a few releases coming out on the PS2.
It pisses me off when people just basically give up on the PS3 before it's even started, because I understand Sony's approach, and most people don't seem to. I know it'd be better if there were more games worth having on it, and more games in general, but honestly, if I were to buy any of the next gen consoles, I think the PS3 would be my first.
I'm not trying to be a Sony fanboy, I do like Nintendo quite a bit, and I will admit there are quite a few good games for the xbox systems. I just think that the PS3 is likely going to be next gen console with the longest shelf life and highest potential, due to it's massive hardware.
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I just think that the PS3 is likely going to be next gen console with the longest shelf life and highest potential, due to it's massive hardware.
this is most likely going to be true, each year im getting closer to getting a tripple, only a matter of time.
also, i can't fathom how the opinion of others for a piece of video game entertainment hardware can make a person angry, chill pills man. if you like it, play it, have fun, enjoy what you have, don't let others rain on your parade.
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I'd have to agree with bobbias about the ps3's potential. I have a 360 and a wii, both are fun to play for the games that I play on them, and as soon as I get a high def tv, I'll seriously consider getting a ps3 myself, because I think it's starting to come into it's own.
as a side note, I still do use my ps2 quite a bit, so if they made the ps3 to have the same sorta lifespan, I'm definitely getting one because it will be so worth it. (as I've had my ps2 now for like 6 or 7 years, still runs great and still enjoyable to play if you're playing the right games)
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Vlad, we all want people to agree with us. It's just human nature, and when we think we are right about something, we always want people to change their minds and agree with us. It's just how people are. Some people can be above it, but many people can't get past the fact that someone actually disagrees with them.
Anyway, I just saw the movie Up. It was pretty good. I'm kinda annoyed that I basically just killed what was left of my bank account, but oh well, it was a fun night, and I got to hang out with a friend that I hadn't seen in ages, as well as a friend from highschool that happened to be there that I hadn't seen in forever.
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I think my problem with the PS3 is that whenever an exclusive does come out, it gets heralded as some massive new coming of Jesus. I tried the demo for inFamous and didn't like it at all (mostly because the powers make no goddamn sense than anything else). Try and tell that to anyone that owns a PS3 though and oh lord wait for the explosion. Or while looking at a video for inFamous, the first comment was literally "Prototype sux." So basically, inFamous is better than a somewhat similar game that's even multiplatform and isn't even out yet and they know this because....it's on PS3 only? Or like when Devil May Cry 4 went multiplatform and there were actual petitions asking Capcom to basically not make money. It's all the people.
And vlad, it's okay that you dislike something, but you gotta admit man,just saying "lol wii" which would usually be taken as "wow it's garbage no one would buy that" in current internet speak everywhere is pretty bad.
Other than that, yeah, the PS3 was basically made to be future-proof, which sounds like a solid plan but it's really really hurting them a lot right now, and by the time Microsoft and Nintendo go with either Bluray or even just full downloadable everything or some other magic solution, they'll have eaten a huge chunk of loss while the others get in for a lot cheaper. It takes a lot to pioneer technology.
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Yes, I will admit that the PS3 is taking a mighty fine beating right now. And yes, there are certainly lots of fanboys out there (that applies to all consoles though).
But I definitely respect Sony for their decision to stick with the idea of essentially designing a system that is say, half a generation ahead of the others, as far as hardware is concerned, lol.
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3 hours sleep, full shift of work, hauling my HEAVY AND HUEG pc over to some bros place to play some d2...then hauling it back after completion and re hooking it up.
im kind of fucking tired.
and yes me saying "lol wii" expresses my general opinion of the console, it's my opinion, mine. also, nobody can say "no one would buy that" because apparently people love the thing. double also, every console gets bad rap "LOL CASUALS, LOL NO GAEMS, LOL RROD" the wii isn't an isolated case, if anything the tripple gets the most flak. i can continue talking, if it generates posts, i reckon it beats nothing.
anywho, console wars was so middle school, and me continuing to comment on comments isn't helping much. diablo 3 looks fan fucking tastic, blizzard needs to give me moar infoooooooooooooo
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Just sayin man, going out of your way to make fun of something you have no interest sounds a bit "middle school" to me.
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that's fine, im not mature, and i contradict myself all the time. in fact, i said that(that as in the "lol wii" post) knowing you would post(pretty predictable, it's like saying JRPGS SUCK, you are pretty much obligated by law to respond), thus generating a "discussion" thus generating posts, thus allowing me to post more, thus entertaining me, and hopefully other people giggling at the posts, or rage, i post on /v/ a lot.
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Guys no more please.
It had Street Fighter 4 and Star Ocean 4 and then nothing really until Bayonetta.
FINALLY. Someone else who is looking forward to it.
I bring it up at work and people say "whats that" or online and people say "oh that looks cool" when they are secretly not watching the trailers or screens at all thanks.
For the Wii, the Conduit looks way cool. Finally, a shooter that might work. That isn't to say Metroid doesn't deserve anything, as it was one of the first, and still pretty neato to play.
And I know we're all flamboyant about a topic we all love to talk about, but I'm gonna have to switch it up a bit here and mention that sitting in a hospital for 3 hours just so your girlfriend can get 1 needle kinda blows when you forget your iPod.
Also does anyone have any half decent, ridiculous easy recipes for salmon? I picked one up the other day (please don't laugh at me if I seem ignorant about it. It was at safeway buy one get one free for 14 bucks and this is honest to god the first time I ever bought/cooked a fish).
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i heard bayonetta gets like naked or something, so obviously ill keep my eye out for the game. though i heard it plays like DMC, which is kind of a turn off, bit too clunky for my ninja gaiden origins. anywho, like gun shoes, sure bro.
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And I know we're all flamboyant about a topic we all love to talk about, but I'm gonna have to switch it up a bit here and mention that sitting in a hospital for 3 hours just so your girlfriend can get 1 needle kinda blows when you forget your iPod.
Ouch. Mind you, around here, if it's for a needle, god knows how long it'll take. Sometimes you'll wait 6+hours for stuff that should NOT take that long, EVER. It's ridiculous. And on top of that, most of the doctors here are fucking useless. It's sad when the damned east indian doctors are better than the local doctors, and they do everything EXACTLY BY THE BOOK.
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good god microsoft is turning into nintendo
on the plus side, sc2 is coming out this year, and square released an actual fucking release date for ff13.
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square released an actual fucking release date for ff13.
That's good, I was worried it would take up DNF's legacy.
I just got the connection between "Did not finish" and "Duke Nukem Forever".
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As in being the GREATEST GAME never made?
Also I'm watching a recording of someone playing the Wii game Muscle March and all I can say is wut. It's sad that something like this would never sell in America, but also kind of comforting.
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I'd like a Wii, looks like fun, and the playability towards 'non-gamers' would make it more easy for other people I'd like to include in my gaming fun. Like my parents or friends that just never got into it.
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so i seen clerks 1 a while back (estimating a month or so) on some dude i follow on youtube for lp's....on his youstream, and well he was playing movies and well, sure why not. anywho, i ended up liking it, so a few days ago in the movie bin in wal mart i picked up clerks 2, and i just seen that.
pretty good, good amount of fucked up stuff, good amount of funny stuff, the ending is basically pretty damn sweet having seen the first movie, and yeah, worth the $5.00 i payed for it. now if only i could find the first movie in the movie bin....may have to hit up amazon the next time i go online buyan....or hit up best buy next time im up there.
AND, about 12 hours ago (like breakfast time, get mc donnalds, watch movie while eating before sleeping) i popped in another movie i got that day, running man. been forever since ive seen it, and well, it's good. but it raised one question, does arnold use puns in all of his movies? i don't remember seeing many movies with arnold in it, but i remember batman and robin, with mr freeze, and he was all about the puns.
not that it's a bad thing, i tend to get a laugh out of it.
one last more note i totally realized at the end of running man. the samples from THIS UGRESS SONG (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5u8Nmgbjls) is from the announcer guy from the running man tv show in said movie. pretty interesting trivia bit.
so yeah, i don't watch many movies, but i do have things i enjoy watching. next three ill end up watching are the three i haven't yet seen again having bought, tron, the fifth element, robin hood men in tights.
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@ vlad
if you're gonna watch clerks and clerks 2,
you have to watch
Mallrats
Chasing Amy
Dogma
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
unrelated but still relative: Zack and Miri Make a porno
that is all.
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ive seen
Dogma
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
and im not interested in Zack and Miri Make a porno
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Tron and the Fifth Element are AWESOME. Definitely good buys
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if you're gonna watch [awesome],
you have to watch
[more awesome]
Fifth Element [is] AWESOME. Definitely good buy
QUOTED FOR TRUTH
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unrelated but still relative: Zack and Miri Make a porno
Lol, first time I've seen anyone mention that with the rest of those. But yeah, that is an awesome movie.
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So, that new 89 cent chicken burrito with that avocado ranch sauce from Taco Bell is worth 89 cents. Not groundbreaking or anything, but it's a decent size and it tastes pretty decent, for Taco Bell fare.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8083479.stm
Bad news people.
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Lol, first time I've seen anyone mention that with the rest of those. But yeah, that is an awesome movie.
yea I guess in the terms of 'its a kevin smith movie' it has to be mentioned, even if it's out of the Askewneverse that is Clerks. Although it has randall and jay [and others if i forgot], as different characters. Also it has hockey in it towards the end, which was a staple of the new jersey clerks.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8083479.stm
Bad news people.
:<
first bernie mac, now this guy.
actors i actually like be going down.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8083479.stm
Bad news people.
I heard about that. Sux. :-(
Seems like we'll need a "POST RECENTLY DECEASED ACTORS HERE" Thread if this keeps up.
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So, that new 89 cent chicken burrito with that avocado ranch sauce from Taco Bell is worth 89 cents. Not groundbreaking or anything, but it's a decent size and it tastes pretty decent, for Taco Bell fare.
I have had that before 'tis rather tasty.
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Bought 4 12-packs of GAME FUEL today. It's finally back out. <3
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http://www.redlinerush.com/
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Bought 4 12-packs of GAME FUEL today. It's finally back out. <3
It's already gone too. At least the 12 packs are. Saw them at Target on Saturday, decided to just get 20oz bottles since I didn't know if I'd like it (I hate regular Mountain Dew) and when I went to the store today, no place had it aside froma gas station, which only had 3 packs of each way off in one corner.
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http://www.redlinerush.com/
Looks amazingly unhealthy. AlsoI had a guy try to sell me weed at McDonalds today, it was somewhat awkward.
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Did you ask him if you could Super-Size the order?
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What the fuck? Burn Notice has Bruce Campbell in it? Is that show any good?
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Pretty much every original series on USA is really good. Burn Notice, Monk, Psych, I don't know much about In Plain Sight but I assume it's good too.
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Gimme some sugar, baby
MUH BOOMSHTICK
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so actually i only watched the latter half of the fifth element years ago, so i basically didn't remember a thing about it save for milla jovovich being really hot. so i watched it a little bit ago.
yeah...enters my top 5 favorite movies, easily.
and what i remember about milla still holds, and damn bruce willis gets payed to do all that love stuff to her, FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFffffffffff
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and what i remember about milla still holds, and damn bruce willis gets payed to do all that love stuff to her, FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFffffffffff
THIS :(
The Fifth Element was pretty great. I think the same director also directed L
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I like shorts, they are comfy and easy to wear.
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Tired as balls...yay 11 hours of work *drops dead*
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jesus christ where is your avatar from
the new metroid game nintendo announced
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the new metroid game nintendo announced
REMEMBER ME?
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REMEMBER ME?
uhh, the guy in your avatar looks strangley similar to the host of the sony press conference.
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but he was white.
Also I got the Green Day's greatest hits album for free today, because my friends mom found it and didn't want it. Good night, considering the fact that the cops crashed the party I was at.
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i bought the pc version of cod4 a while back. expected to like it. hated what i played of the single player, GRENADESGRENADESGRENADESGRENADESGRENADESGRENADESGRENADESGRENADESGRENADESGRENADESGRENADESGRENADESGRENADESGRENADESGRENADESGRENADESGRENADESGRENADESGRENADESGRENADESGRENADESGRENADESGRENADESGRENADESGRENADESGRENADESGRENADESGRENADESGRENADESGRENADESGRENADESGRENADESGRENADESGRENADESGRENADESGRENADESGRENADESGRENADESGRENADESGRENADESGRENADESGRENADESGRENADESGRENADESGRENADESGRENADESGRENADESGRENADESGRENADESGRENADESGRENADES
so i try the multiplayer. "you need punkbuster installed on your computer, we won't install it, nor will we tell you how" so wikipedia, trial and error, and an hour later i have it installed (and if i was to reinstall the game..i would need to do it again, because i forgot" go online....
GRENADESGRENADESGRENADESGRENADESGRENADESGRENADESGRENADESGRENADESGRENADESGRENADESGRENADESGRENADESGRENADESGRENADES
i killed someone, yay! GRENADESGRENADESGRENADESGRENADESGRENADESGRENADESGRENADESGRENADESGRENADESGRENADESGRENADESGRENADESfromthecorpse
how is this game fun?
had some friends over today, they enjoy cod4 on the 360, so i figured it must be better somehow, i play some 3 player deathmatch with them offline.
GRENADES GRENADES knife knife GRENADES "im going to snipe this guy....SLOW TURNING...GRENADESGRENADESGRENADESGRENADESGRENADESGRENADESGRENADESGRENADESGRENADESGRENADESGRENADES"
basically the same, but with shittier controls, and fuck slow turning(but if it's too fast, how do you control that on a controller?), so you better be oriented towards your enemy or you basically die.
please, someone, tell me how this game is fun? i really fucking liked call of duty 1, and 2, skipped 3 because it was console only, and 4 isn't fun. setting isn't relevant because ww2 is a boring (for a game, irl it's quite interesting) setting, but i loved the fuck out of those games, and i even enjoyed the multiplayer, especially in 2. maby it's just inaccessible, but like (albiet a different genre) street fighter 2 only hosts GOD FUCKING MODE players online and i rather enjoy playing. fuck like even HALO of all games has shit slow turning, but for some reason you can go a blastin and at least have some mindless fun even if you suck.
blablabla, i want to know what it is about cod4 that people like, because i want to like it like i did the first 2 games.
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Eventually you learn were the grenades come from or are commonly tossed. That and avoid Team death match/death match, shit sucks hard.
Really, I hate it as much as you do but the game is still fun once you figure the small tricks to avoid grenade spam (I play on an FF server, it tends to cut down on it a bit, makes domination game types a LOT of fun). Really, the 3x grenade perk is the worst fucking thing in this game, at least with the grenade launcher you HAVE to aim, with 3x grenades you just spam them in the general direction of the enemy and get points.
but yeah, try FF games and people will be less retarded with it.
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I don't think anyone really bothers with grenades in CoD4 on 360 anymore. Last time I played, I didn't get a single one thrown at me.
You really can't play the game mindlessly though. You WILL die if you try running and gunning.
Sad to say, but it sounds like you think 4 is bad because you're bad at it.
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Well, it's certainly not fun to walk into a game and simply get completely blown away... I don't play many FPS games because I'm honestly crap at them. I just don't find them very fun, for the most part (co-op is a different matter, as is multiplayer in many).
But yeah, thinking a game is poorly made because you don't like it is stupid.
I haven't played it yet, so I can't really form any sort of opinion on CoD4.
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But yeah, thinking a game is poorly made because you don't like it is stupid.
i hope that wasn't directed at me, because i said nothing of the sort.
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I thought the point of CoD4 was Nazi Zombies. <_<
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Nazi Zombies is CoD world at war. Number 4 just has vs on live.
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I don't think anyone really bothers with grenades in CoD4 on 360 anymore. Last time I played, I didn't get a single one thrown at me.
Those people are fucking retarded then. Grenades in the right hands are completely un-counter able, given you surprised/suppressed the enemy.
I thought the point of CoD4 was Nazi Zombies. <_<
Nigga you gay.
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Oh. I never really played any of those games, I get them confused. It seems like they come out with a new one every six months. D:
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Yeah, World at War came out like, barley a year after Modern Warfare. It was made on the same engine too.
Also on a slightly related note, WHY does it hurt so much when I shave my arm pits? Like, even my coin pouch doesn't hurt when I shave it and still my pits are on FIRE.
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I have no idea. I tried it once, and it was so ungodly itchy, I never did it again. D:
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I have no idea. I tried it once, and it was so ungodly itchy, I never did it again. D:
exactly this, the itch is terrible.
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Mine don't itch when I shave them. ur all nuts!!!1
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You're gonna LOVE my nuts
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Well, my ISP just sent a letter about "unauthorized information transfer" here, as a warning. Looks like I'd better force encryption.
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i just spent the last few hours listening to fujiya & miyagi and playing Hell of Sand. what is my summer coming to...?
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Well, my ISP just sent a letter about "unauthorized information transfer" here, as a warning. Looks like I'd better force encryption.
Ouch, we got a letter from our ISP a while back about downloading an unauthorized copy of some movie (I forget what it was) long after my brother had finished downloading and watched it, and I think deleted it... But I live in canada, where the current law kinda protects us.... Sorta...
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i just spent the last few hours listening to fujiya & miyagi and playing Hell of Sand. what is my summer coming to...?
And I have been doing nothing for most of the day today except sitting in town and chatting on RO. How sad our lives are... ;_;
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im trembling right now, just beat a G2 championship on sf4. (it's a big deal because of my shit 30something % win ratio)
g3 is 3 rounds, g4 is 4 rounds, so basically 4 wins in a row.
r1 was balrog, wasn't too bad. r2, able, again, not too bad. r3 was a ken doing basic high priority bullshit "JUMP IN HK, CR HK" and being ken, that shit is easy to land, so i had problems with him. then some 8000gp (a fuck lot basically, i have 2200 and it took me a while to get) sagat for r4...too fucking close. he wins one, i won one, and the last round was like, we both at low health, but i had slightly more...so i turtled it (and stupidly he did too) to get a time out victory. and out of my 1000 or so games online, that's my first time out victory, so like, i got the achievement for getting all of the different kinds of medals...as well as the 109 gp reward from winning the championship.
and i did it with chun-li, alt costume, pink color, FUCK YEAR!
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lmao, nice job man.
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Good god, I know I'm a nerd when a story like that amazes me.
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it's just intimidating fighting sagat in general though. he does more damage than me, he is better at distance than me, his up close moves hurt, and he has more health than me, and landing his ultra is easy...which does a lot of damage. so good sagat players are fucking scarey, thankfully this guy was at my skill level(honestly, with his bp, probably better, if not more persistent than me), and i barely managed to take him out.
but uhh, i came to the conclusion today, that i do not like gears of war. i beat it years back, but coming back to it (co op mind you, the only way to play really) it's too fucking slow and clunky, i can not tolerate this, it is not fun. epic, make another unreal game, or fuck, redo 99 or 2k4 with better graphics and new maps, people will buy those, i will.
i remember calling halo a slow game (you know, because back then i played ut99) but JESUS CHRIST HALO IS LITERALLY 300% FASTER THAN GEARS OF WAR, so me and the friend decided to play some co op legendary halo, and it was fun. i should pick up the third game, recall beating it legendary last year and enjoying it. don't think i will ever enjoy multiplayer console fps in terms of non co op, but fighting through the campaign is always fun regardless the controls.
*edit*
while vaguely on the topic of street fighter, i got this bad habit. ill play sf2 ranked matches (only because you can make a game...someone will join quickly, and you can get on playing quickly) and say i have a decent win streak (maby two games, 3-0, something like that), ill want to stop playing, because i always like ending on a good note. so even though im having a good time (save for some guy laughing at me for losing...a 2-3 close game, ignoring the fact i beat him in a 3-2 game several minutes ago, with a perfect in there on my side. it's like, he's good, we have close games, , fun to fight against, id reccomend him, but i had to give him the thumbs down for avoided player due to him being a jackass.) going roughly 50/50 ill be compelled to stop. ahh well, i guess that's what playing against someone else in the same room is for, too damn bad i don't know anybody who enjoys themselves some sf2. still, how the fuck does fei long get in to dee jay? i was fighting one, and i kind of felt bad. ill keep him at bay with fireballs, he can use his arc kick to get past them, but i can just st medium punch him out of the air. kind of like gief vs a good guile, if the guile knows what hes doing, gief may as well not play because he aint geting in. not saying im leet, but i don't see how a fei can get into me if im on the ball. also, after fighting a good chun, i now appreciate how fucking awesome de jay's st medium punch is, use it when you know your up kicks won't connect, works every time, and the range is awesome.
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now that i think of it fei spams a lot of crap, thus building his super. the guy i was fighting just needed to find an opportunity where he was close enough to hit me with the super as i was throwing a fireball to go through said fireball and get in. he caught me with two supers in one game, but that i was being retarded doing a slide.
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Debating if I should get Gmod soon. Any takers?
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Debating if I should get Gmod soon. Any takers?
You definitely should. I got Gmod 10 about a year ago and I'm still using it. Go to garrysmod.org for a lot of addons and such to keep the game interesting.
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It's fun to blow things up
and mess with physics
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/v/ - video games
no longer exists
it's now
/v/ - the vidya
it's more accurate this new way if i do say so myself
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found this on /v/ and i figured id post it. tasteless is a commentator for professional starcraft games, he has commentated at blizzcon and commentates the starcraft games on http://www.gomtv.net/
to be a good commentator it's probably best you are a good player of the game you are commentating on. like the warcraft 3 games, one of the dudes that i know of anyway is ToD, a very fucking good humans player. so it's interesting for him to commentate on games, and he has beaten one or both of said players he is commentating on in tournaments in the past.
Tasteless:
I was teaching another top rts player from another rts game how to play starcraft, and I was showing him protoss vs protoss.
And I was like
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Haha, yeah, starcraft is quite likely the best RTS ever made. The amount of skill and all the tactics involved make it so great for high level competition. Since then most games have been dumbed down significantly, making them easier to be good at, and requiring less skill and tactics and more "I've got more resources than you, I'm gonna build a huge army and wipe you out".
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The reason being it alienates a LOT of the general gaming audience. You can't really market tournament play, it's just something that has always had a small following and a very dedicated fanbase. Really, I hate it when they dumb down multiplayer games so their is no room for higher level play, it's just something that I never see as okay.
Oh yeah, and I'm god awful at RTS games. Never been able to figure out why, but the only one I was ever mediocre at was Red Alert 2.
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Haha, yeah, I'm pretty bad, but I think it's mostly due to lack of practice. I played through the campaign, but I hated it (especially the whole "i'm going to limit you to this tech level" crap.) I always played the custom maps online.
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I pretty bad at rts as well, probably because I never have gotten into them (which is caused by me not having a computer good enough to play them on)
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i was only ever good at starcraft, fastest map, 7v1 comp stomp AND BACKSTABBING EVERYBODY
on the otherhand, i WAS, SOMEWHAT DECENT at warcraft 3. but it was so damn long ago i don't even remember my race. though my first ever wc3 game online was a 4 player ffa and i won with humans(probably the hardest race to use imo, but easiest for the new player, being me at the time, to understand).
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Shia LeBeef hates the Wii.
http://news.bigdownload.com/2009/06/18/interview-transformers-shia-labeouf-loves-civilization-iv/
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Lol, some person just literally drove UP a fence and landed on top of it. They were sitting there, then just gave a big boost of gas, went up the fence; it was a van, and it was almost at a 90 degree angle up the fence before it fell on top of it and completely destroyed it. One of the thick poles is conpletely squashed and bent to shit. Lol, it was hilarious.
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YAY I GOT TROOPERS! FIANLLY!
Now its time to get serious about some scores ma brothas.
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i go on in sf4 saying "ohh ryu is easy to play, ohh sagat is easy to play, ohh blanka is easy to play, ohh ken is easy to play" and i rarely if ever play any of those characters.
so i decided to.
out of those 4, i would say in terms of ease to difficulty (yes, they are still among the easiest characters to play in the game) i would have to go
blanka, ken, sagat, ryu
can't really say anything with ryu, since he's ken...but his srk's aren't as beefy as kens, which, a fierce srk with ken is easy to land and does mucho damage. i put sagat between ken and ryu because well, he's a slow son of a bitch, he has MASSIVE POWER, and damn good health, but with ken i can kind of just fuck around with the joystick and win games, sagat can't really jump in as easy as ken can from what ive played, but he sure as fuck can turtle better, which since im not the best at turtling, for me, he's a bit harder to play as then ken.
blanka...
charge down back like most charge characters, wait for opponent to do something, then do something about it. they jump? BALL! they move forward? BALL jumping on you? ELECTRICITY! fireball? well you have that crouch move down and all 3 punches, you can slide forward underneath it (good at closer range) a bit riskier you can do an air ball, but they generally throw me when i do that so be careful, EX FORWARD BALL generally lands. if you mix it up with blanka, it's god fucking impossible to predict and counter what he's going to do unless you have reflexes faster than lightning.
i think that was my third or fourth time playing blanka in sf4, i would most likely have a higher winrate overall if i used the four characters talked about instead of chun-li. but it's more of "im only going to play these characters just to fuck around and throw some taunts in there while im at it because being an ass is fun after a 15 game losing streak with chun-li." ill "play to win" with characters i deem worthy to play. and you can go "but you are a faget for not using characters because they are easy to play" no, im not, i use zangief, and in case you didn't know, gief is up there with "LOloMASH BUTAN TO Winnnnnnnn" characters in this game, only playing catch up actually takes a bit of skill, and his bad matchups (blanka, sagat, akuma) are literally impossible to beat if they know how to keep you away.
wtb actual friends to play said game so blood pressure will go down, random internet people with no voices may as well be AI, and i rage hard when i lose to AI.
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Well if you want, tell me a time to go on, and i'll play you....But I use Blanka....
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holy shit. I've been way too busy lately. I missed you guise. :[
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holy shit. I've been way too busy lately. I missed you guise. :[
You better. Also supposedly Ulti should pop in more AND I just got in contact with an old CSS buddy.
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Well if you want, tell me a time to go on, and i'll play you....But I use Blanka....
i play randomly so ill hit you up with a game invite whenever we happen to be on at the same time. in order to beat blanka, i need to fight more blanka, pretty basic math.
*edit*
http://www.starcraft2.com/features/battlereports/3.xml
i hate watching zerg lose to filthy protoss, but still, an entertaining watch.
*edit*
and i decided to pick this up
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic%27s_Ultimate_Genesis_Collection
wouldn't have bothered, even though there's a nice amount of good games on there, but shining force II basically made it a mandatory buy. that game alone is worth $30 imo.
and is it me, or is comix zone impossible? from what ive played, i got to level 2. you health doesn't refill from level to level (save for the first item in the game i haven't seen any health recovery items) and when you die you are greeted by the title screen...
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If all goes well, I should be moving out on Saturday. I finally get to be out of this shithole of a house.
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lol how old are you again
also grats, where you movin'?
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http://www.starcraft2.com/features/battlereports/3.xml
i hate watching zerg lose to filthy protoss, but still, an entertaining watch.
Well, they certainly put up an awesome fight. If it wasn't for the huge resource income that the toss had, that would easily been a zerg win.
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lol how old are you again
also grats, where you movin'?
21. Not moving far, staying at my cousin's house for a couple of weeks while I get some stuff in order, and then me and a couple of my friends are getting a house together.
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Nice, hopefully you can stand living with them. My GF had a roommate she hated living with last year for college... He was fine to hang out with, but living with him, not so fine.
Hopefully none of the guys you move in with end up being hard to live with.
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I can't play Mega man games anymore. I'm trying to make progress in Mega man and Bass and Mega man Zero 2, but both of them are surprisingly hard and I've yet to beat any of the bosses. I guess it's because I've only been playing shooters and fighting games for so long, but platformers are just eluding me.
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MAN MAN MAN MAN
http://www.amazon.com/Street-Fighter-FightStick-Tournament-Playstation-3/dp/B001M22WN8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1245899810&sr=8-1
randomly checked this today, seen NEW, $150, and ONE LEFT IN STOCK
click click BAM, finally got myself one of these bad mammajammas, can't wait till it arrives.
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So I just saw Transformers 2. I'm amazed that they managed to fit that much action into 140 minutes.
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So I just saw Transformers 2. I'm amazed that they managed to fit that much action into 140 minutes.
Hint: It's Michael Bay......
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So I just saw Transformers 2. I'm amazed that they managed to fit that much action into 140 minutes.
So, is it worth the watch?
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So, is it worth the watch?
Ches.
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Michael Jackson is dead.
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So is Farrah Faucett. Also, Square-Enix got sued, and so did Midway. And a truck driver got shot at a KFC. And Duke Nukem Forever is still in production.
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And a truck driver got shot at a KFC. And Duke Nukem Forever is still in production.
SLOW THE FUCK DOWN, what are you talking about?
Michael Jackson is DEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD.
Fix'd.
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Duke Nukem has been canned.
Why was DquareEnix sued lol
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Duke Nukem has been canned.
Actually, I heard someone was trying to get the rights to it so they could continue production. Also, it;s not so much that it was canned, and more that they finally went bankrupt.
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Also is Jeff Goldblum dead too. I heard he fell
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Also is Jeff Goldblum dead too. I heard he fell
false. also harrison ford too.
methinks the Chan had something to do with those.
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http://kotaku.com/5300592/duke-nukem-forever-still-in-development
http://criousgamer.com/duke-nukem-forever-still-in-production
http://kotaku.com/5302333/square-enix-sued-for-5-million
http://redwolf.newsvine.com/_news/2009/06/25/2969366-truck-driver-dead-after-kfc-shoot-out
If I was really making this shit up, I'd have posted it in the Zebras forum
edit: I vote the next Lame Post Thread's name to be "Lame Posts Episode IV: A New Reply" or something similar.
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I see. Cool. He ain't dead (Harrison Ford I mean)
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edit: I vote the next Lame Post Thread's name to be "Lame Posts Episode IV: A New Reply" or something similar.
It'd be the 5th incarnation, so "The Lame Replies Strike Back".
Also why was Midway sued?
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It'd be the 5th incarnation, so "The Lame Replies Strike Back".
Also why was Midway sued?
wait what * looks * FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU- that's good too. :D
http://kotaku.com/5302530/film-producer-sues-midway-over-mortal-kombat-rights
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Lmfao what a fucked up day for my graduation.
I graduated today too
omg
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Wow you guys have late graduations.
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that's shitty, round these parts mid june is REALLY REALLY LATE to get out. least in my days it was.
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Dunno about v33mon, but most Canadian schools get out at the end of June.
Yeah. Back years ago, we would get out around early June (like, grade 4, maybe) and it slowly got pushed back year after year, and no we get out near the end of june. But unlike some US schools, we don't start until September, after Labor Day.
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Back when I was a wee Jupi, I think we got out of school in mid to late June. But we went BACK after Labor Day.
Now what I usually see is getting out well before June 10th, and going back to school August 20th or so.
I remember one year when the teachers went on strike. :o We didn't get out of school until... July 28th or something. And then we went back to school August 15th. Haha.
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i eat cereal with a fork
true story
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Michael Jackson is dead.
http://jacksonoozinator.ytmnd.com/
Relevant.
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Most schools around here get out in late May to early June. I remember my graduation last year was on June 8.
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went to my friends 21st birthday bonfire thing
bad idea, i hate all of my friends, they can die
/anger
this post is rhetorical, do not respond.
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this post is rhetorical, do not respond.
I'm gonna.
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its k
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my college classes are set up now
welp
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I've decided that I'm going to try and read the Twilight series. I feel like challenging myself. Plus I don't think it's fair to bash something without trying it myself.
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Plus I don't think it's fair to bash something without trying it myself.
What kind of American are you? Also good luck with that, I don't think I'd be able to contain my rage.
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Minnesota starts school the day after Labor Day (because the Minnesota State Fair runs through Labor Day), and the end of the school year is usually the first week of June. However, they were trying to get them to change the start date this year to start the week before Labor Day because Labor Day's as late as it can get this year (Sept. 8th). I can't remember if they ever figured that out. It'd make the State Fair a lot easier to work if I didn't have 30,000 kids walking around each day. And then of course I'd be missing the parents of all of those kids so attendance would probably be effectively halved. Yeah, I'm betting that the state didn't allow that.
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I've decided that I'm going to try and read the Twilight series. I feel like challenging myself. Plus I don't think it's fair to bash something without trying it myself.
Heh, I was going to try a similar thing. I got about a paragraph in (but I did watch the Movey). :(
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Dunno about v33mon, but most Canadian schools get out at the end of June.
Here in New York, the last day of school is always the last/next to last week of June.
New York sucks large amounts of dick anyway though, I'm going out west in a few months
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Heh, I was going to try a similar thing. I got about a paragraph in (but I did watch the Movey). :(
I think I'd rather read the book than watch the movie. I can quit at any time reading a book, a movie at least requires the effort of turning it off and/or walking out. Mind you, my standards for fantasy writing are such that the very plot concept of twilight makes me cringe.
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ill probably be trying EVE again next week, going to actually try and get a corp this time, and i know what im doing now, training up to mining barges. sure im not a fan of solo mining, but who knows, maby low sec group mining may be fun, plus, i like making money, and mining, i hear it rakes in the isk.
figure they sent me an e-mail AT THE MOST CONVENIENT TIME (seriously, i was planning on playing on my next paycheck in like 10 days) that i can get 5 days of free playtime, so hell yea, ill take that before paying for another month.
going to drop my skill training for the rifter and go working on mining stuff. i already have an osprey with tech 2 mining lasers, seems to be doing good so far.
http://wiki.eveonline.com/wiki/Osprey
http://wiki.eveonline.com/wiki/Wreathe
and for hauling, i think i have two of these from the beginner missions, not the best but certainly not bad when you put some cargo extenders on it.
go to asteroid belt, park right on there, shoot the laser at the space rock, cargohold fills up, JETTISON CARGO INTO JETCAN, name said jetcan, and bookmark it's location. continue to remove ore from your cargohold and place it in the can until the can is as full as your hauler's cargohold. warp to the station, get in your hauler, warp to your bookmark, take cargo, warp back to station, and bam, ore.
anywho, anybody interested in shooting lasers at space rocks in internet space ships should click this
http://wiki.eveonline.com/wiki/Advanced_mining
but i mean, i figure for a beginner, it's always good to have a non dangerious easy way to make money. im retarded and thus, missions in my rifter don't work too well (the rifter is like the best t1 frigate in the game, maby i just don't have it fit properly)
after i get my mining stuff situated, i may work more skills towards the rifter (since they are cheap and whatnot...the fittings literally cost more than the ship) or get myself a vexor, since im not concerned with staying minmatar, and vexor's look cool, why wouldn't you want one?
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They're testing the DJMAX arcade machine like 4 miles from my house
too bad I'm too lazy to go lol
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Heh, I was going to try a similar thing. I got about a paragraph in (but I did watch the Movey). :(
I just watched the first 30 minutes of the movie and then turned it off. Maybe I'll start it again later.
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I found my old 7th grade notebook with an entry dated March 9, 2005. I wrote "ahi se ven" in it.
I was awesome back then too
EDIT: I apparently wrote "I'M A PORN STAR" in my notebook, too. I guess I was also really fucked up
EDIT2: I also wrote "BRING YOUR OWN BOMB", as in the SOAD song. I don't remember being a SOAD fan, but if I was I should have been shot right there
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So Billy Mays died.
Fuck this week.
Yeah really, what the fuck.
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[size=8]HEY GUYS I HAVE XBOX LIVE NOW ADD ME MILKCHAN816[/size]
Current games I have:
Guitar Hero 3
The orange box
Left 4 dead
GTA IV
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get super street fighter II turbo hd remix
NOW
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Milk Chan what is that signature from
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Milk Chan what is that signature from
The curvey bullets movie... uh..
Wanted!
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The curvey bullets movie... uh..
The ONLY reason people remember that movie.
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get super street fighter II turbo hd remix
NOW
I need more microsoft points.
Also add me again on MSN D:
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Spectere still isn't around
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Spectere still isn't around
DUN DUN DUNNNNN
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Wat happened to him :-(
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I heard that spectere hates us and he doesn't want to talk to us anymore.
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Oh lawd, not this again
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back to comics, judge dredd looks interesting
and fuck, i need to see falling down
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So I just watched Altered States. It was extremely weird.
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Wat happened to him :-(
From what I can tell, it's been a mixture of not having the time, not having the motivation, and other crap. He posts occasionally on twitter (http://www.twitter.com/Spectere).
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Hey guys, guess what?
AMERICA, FUCK YEAH.
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more like gay because im workan this day
and working on "holiday" always sucks due to the mass influx of people coming in
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i guess it was dead today, i overestimate non christmas holidays
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They must have been busy BEING AMERICAN.
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It wasn't dead today in my pants
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btw, i was fighting a ken on sf2 under the gamertag "ILOVESMASHBROS"
he was beating me 2 to 1 and well it would have been an embarrassing loss...till i was about to win the next round bringing it even to 2 to 2...and he leaves.
thanks for sparing me the potential embarrassment bro.
OHH AND AND AND PRON RELATED
so i was on the internets fappin to pron on one of those youtube style majiggers and i sumbled apon something which interested me to turn on the volume, and stop fappan.
twas some documentary/interview thing with the guy behind house of gord, and one of the models. it was frankly pretty interesting, and a good watch. id link er to anybody interested in ye ole BSDM but the adds on said site are nsfw so i reckon id just not post it unless theres an interest. the guy basically literally has the best job ever. but yeah, it's interesting seeing what goes behind all of the madness and machinery, and how much co-operation is required to get shit done, and get it done safely.
and nobody talks about pron and whatnot so i figured id do it in as worksafe of a tone as possible. YAY PEOPLE GETTING TIED UP!
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Hey guys, guess what?
AMERICA, FUCK YEAH.
Goin' again to save the mother fucking day yeah!
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FOR THE CONFEDERACY!
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double posting to state DA TRUF
i rant A LOT
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I rant a lot in my pants.
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lolGEDisfornoobs
I got a score of 3410 out of 4000, the equivalent of scoring in the top 2% of the country. In Reading and Mathematics I got in the top 1%.
I demand instant scholarships/ass-kissing, too bad I won't get any
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I remember the mini kerfluffle in my head after I got my scores from Pennsylvania's standardized tests. I got a perfect score on the verbal part, and missed maybe four questions on the math bit.
Most of the kids in the school's gifted program got small scholarships. I got nothing. Haha.
I just take a wee bit of pride (since I can't get money, lulz) that I beat all of their gifted asses. <3
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Fuck gifted kids...they need to get a life.
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Most of them have pretty decent lives. :P
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Just got back from AnthroCon, hahaha furries. It was awesome and about the only thing missing was ALL MY MONEY.
Staying at my girlfriend's for a week before heading back to Pittsburgh to visit a zillion people.
Okay back to lurking.
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The show Anthony Bourdain's No reservations is surprisingly good.
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Okay back to lurking.
OUTTA NO WHERE
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The show Anthony Bourdain's No reservations is surprisingly good.
I love that show. <3 So so much better than that travesty he had on the Food Network.
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wat
Furries.
EVERYWHERE.
And for some reason, one of them had a giant Oreo plushie. Obviously, the only logical thing to do was for me to run up and steal it.
There's nothing quite like getting chased by a small herd of furries.
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Thats when you call the pound.
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There's nothing quite like getting chased by a small herd of furries.
that literally sounds terrifying.
i mean i enjoy the artwork, but i don't think id be comfortable at a con like that.
anywho, monster hunter freedom unite is pretty good if you enjoyed mhf2....since it's literally the same game with faster load times (believe me, this is worth half the price of admission alone) and pretty much everything else at the end, so if you didn't play for 200-300 hours prior and transfer your character, you won't see much new.
which while unfortunate, it got me to play again, and well, it's been fun playing with friends.
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I'm hoping the Wii version of Monster Hunter is good, because I've been dying to try the game.
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im hoping it sucks, because if it does suck, i don't need to buy a wii.
they seem to be getting rid of a lot of weapons from the information currently avalible.
dual swords
gunlance
hunting horn
bow
there's only "bowgun" now, not two seperate "heavy" and "light" varieties
hammer (VERY surprising since hammer was widely popular due to it basically having the highest damage over time in the game)
because of this, im kind of angered the nub weapon "longsword" is still in there. at least lances are there, and the new weapon "slash axe" kind of a pole arm thing looks interesting.
and i used to think negatively about greatswords, but no. use one and you see they are damn powerful, but to get that power takes a good degree of skill and knowlege when to strike. and you walk fucking slow when they are out (like lance slow...without the shield). i mean, it ain't easy getting a full charged strike to land, but when you can start getting those to connect, it's very gratifying.
currently "maining" lances, but for now im going to dabble building up a greatsword, and sword n shield. lances are kind of difficult to use, but that's probably because i don't have the skills for it, like guard + would be really nice but im not far enough to get the materials for the jewels for said skill.
tldr, the game is like crack when played with others. seriously, im 20 hours in this file and id say im not far at all. i mean i JUST hit hunter rank 2, and the monster required for that is a pain in the ass "blagonga", SUPER MOBILE SNOW MONKEY...and im SUPER SLOW LANCE SHIELD WOMAN!...yeah...my partner uses light/heavy (currently indecisive) bowguns so, when the fucker's on me, he's a being gunned down.
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im hoping it sucks, because if it does suck, i don't need to buy a wii.
Now you know how I feel about Metal Gear Solid and BlazBlue. Still am really tempted to sell my Wii and books in order to get the cash to get at least a 360 for some BB.
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i uhh tried a clove cigarette today, i don't smoke cigarettes due to the me not wanting to inhale the smoke in my lungs...so i smoked it like a cigar instead rather. taste was ok, kind of like smoking candy, but if i bought some smokes, id rather just get a pack of black and mild cigarillos. not sure if they have them without the plastic tips though, i hate those things.
*edit*
scratch the lack of hammers in monster hunter 3, i just seen a screen on the site of a dude with a hammer.
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Djarum Blacks <3
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Agreed good sir.
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that literally sounds terrifying.
i mean i enjoy the artwork, but i don't think id be comfortable at a con like that.
It was actually quite hilarious.
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Djarum Blacks <3
even if you don't smoke em, the paper leaves a good taste on the lips.
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So yeah, today was a horrifically shitty day and I still can't sleep at night.
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i see mr renard had somebody at that there AC draw him something
(olool FA)
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http://www.igotnextmovie.com/about.html
basically it's effing awesome
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Wasn't there another similar movie floating around? Also what games does it touch down on?
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if it's anything, i believe it would be bang the machine and that was like 9 years ago covering third strike (and possibly other stuff, i haven't seen it)
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I believe there were movies about people trying to break the highest scores in Pac-Man and Donkey Kong. The Donkey Kong one is called "King of Kong" or something.
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Wow, that sounds awesome.
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there may be, but i was talking specifically about fighting games.
while im at it, one of my co-workers came over to play some sf4, just starting so he decides to be sagat until he gets the basics down. so i decide to play some characters he would have an easier time with, and stumbled apon seth.
shit damage, shit health, but goddamn is he fun to use. tripple dragon punch, dhalsim like punches, wall jump, SPD, chun's headstomps, dhalsims teleport but ground only. fun stuff to dick around with i say.
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He's supposedly OPed, according to Capcom. Hell, I think he's gone up a decent amount in the tourney scene tiers.
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from play and just seeing him played, he doesn't seem OP at all.
how to kill seth, sneeze on him, or near him and he basically dies.
you want OP, STHD's akuma, or even more OP akuma before they nerfed him for STHD.
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I believe there were movies about people trying to break the highest scores in Pac-Man and Donkey Kong. The Donkey Kong one is called "King of Kong" or something.
Yes, awesome flick, I watched it on G4 when it was released. Just shows you how much people can get attached to their scores and what they'll do to redeem it. The final 'record breaker' guy is a DOUCHE- BAG. end of story, he doesn't deserve to play any video game, ever.
On a movie note, I went to see The Hurt Locker yesterday, it's in limited release. I highly recommend it. at a bit over 2 hours, it covers the story of an Army EOD unit. Lots of action, drama, suspense, etc. Fucking amazing movie. I'll see it again and actually BUY the DVD.
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On a movie note, I went to see The Hurt Locker yesterday, it's in limited release. I highly recommend it. at a bit over 2 hours, it covers the story of an Army EOD unit. Lots of action, drama, suspense, etc. Fucking amazing movie. I'll see it again and actually BUY the DVD.
Sounds good. It definitely looks interesting.
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making a post about whenever im not lazy, ill make a new dwarf fortress thread. been wanting to play it, but TOO DAMN LAZY REALLY TO START.
i need a group of joes to talk about the game and maby that will motivate me to get dorfin.
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I have some major rage going on for no good reason ><
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(http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/2033/1247215327273.jpg)
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Oh my god no I just found out that the Arctic Monkeys are doing a live show here in mid-September and tickets are going on-sale today and I have no money and no one I know will go with me and help me cover the ticket (which I will pay back) so I can't goooooo
And Sonata Arctica is coming to Minnesota again and I am for SURE going to go to that. They're actually an opener for Dragonforce, which I don't especially care about seeing since I've heard they're not very good live but whatever, Sonata's a billion times better and they have amazing live shows.
But agggh I want to go to both shows.
Ahhh and I just found out Dream Theater has a live show at the end of August but I'm pretty sure I can't go to it because that's when the State Fair starts and I'm working the whole time but it doesn't matter anyway because the sort of tickets available for it now are still like $60 but they're all for waaaaaay in the back and screw that.
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And Sonata Arctica is coming to Minnesota again and I am for SURE going to go to that. They're actually an opener for Dragonforce, which I don't especially care about seeing since I've heard they're not very good live but whatever, Sonata's a billion times better and they have amazing live shows.
Awesome. I'd love to see Sonata Arctica live. I saw Dragonforce live at the Mayhem fest, and I thout they sounded great. Fucking loud as shit, but great. (By loud as shit, I mean they fucking blew away every other band before them)
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so im watching EVO and like, good matches so far. seeing fuerte winning, seeing dhalsims winning...even seen a rose v guile, NEVER have i even seen that match played.
but now im posting this because this is the second ryuryu mirror match, and frankly, shotos can die. but i guess all the matches can't be unique. i mean, as much as i hate fighting fuerte, i like seeing him kick peoples asses.
*edit*
holy shit, i am inspired to give guile an honest try now. also, where the hell did all the good dhalsims come from? it's like i never see him play anywhere unless it's a major tournament. but i guess EVO is THE tournament.
just watch it, it's live do what you see depends on when you watch
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/evochampionship
right now as i post this is SAKURA v ZANGIEF WHERE SAKURA WINS, WHAT THE FUCK THATS ACTUALLY RATHER AWESOME
sakura and dan are exempt from my shoto hate, as well as gouken, if you consider him one.
*gendit*
gen v ryu
good god, most amazing sf4 match i have seen thus far, that gen player was AMAZING. player name was yeb.
**E**DDg
GUILE MIRROR
FIRST IVE EVER SEEN, EVERRR
8**9
EVO day 1, lots of damn good matches played, this shit should be on tv.
*DAY2*
hdremix
sirlin winning with fei long
graham wolfe beating diago
afrolegends beating valle
good shit so far
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double post because it was spectacular
sf4 regionals, wildcard v socal
saber (sakura) v alex valle (ryu)
ive seen about 20 or so hours of evo footage and thus far that was the best sf4 match i have ever seen
good fucking god, saber has shown that sakura is a force to be reckon with
WHY AM I NOT IN VEGAS WATCHING THESE GAMES IN PERSON!?
and team wildcard(essentially a random team of no specific region) made it to the finals, jesus
still, ain't nothing like seeing it live, this shit is great
*edit*
ok, east coast won, marn while a total tool, played a mean viper for the win. ill take that over norcal/socal any day.
4 hours sleep, work, home, 12 hours EVO STREAM WATCHAN, im going to bed.
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I jumped in pretty much just as BBH beat Valle in HDR. I stopped watching before SF4 semis ended though. Super disappointed that the only Cammy I saw got completely hosed. Super happy that most of the Sagats I saw got wrecked.
I need to make sure I watch the Tekken 6 finals because I want to know what higher level play looks like compared to what I know it as from T5. Hopefully it looks good. It's no Virtua Fighter 5R but it might be okay as a substitute.
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id rather a sagat win than a ryu or akuma
also, cammy was doing surprisingly alright overall, sure she got dominated in a few rounds, but there were a couple fights where she destroyed.
also, el fuerte, guile, gen, sakura got a good few fights to shine...especially fuerte, been seeing a lot of him.
rose, fei, claw, gouken, ken, seemed to have gotten the shaft in "PEOPLE JUST PICK ME FOR ONCE" department. i mean i guess i seen a rose, but she got obliterated...same with gouken only the gouken player switched to ryu after he lost unlike the rose who had the cajones to stick with her.
*edit*
the mvc2 finals kicked ass, and i haven't even played that game. sanford v jwong
VERY close shit
[spoiler]sanford won[/spoiler]
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What's with people in the SF scene playing MvC2? I mean, it's just so odd.
Also the BB final was a bit boring, just one VERY weeaboo Noel player raping everyone to death, then everyone in chat starting crying that BB was broken because it has juggles and combos over 6 hits.
the SF4 final was amazing, god damn I was rooting for JWong but he got what he deserved.
Oh yeah, and the guy that won BB has a blog, PREPARE YOURSELF.
http://arcanaheartnana.blogspot.com/
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I was suuuuper disappointed by the BB exhibitions. I swear I could beat that Noel.
That's my favorite match of EVO2k9. INSTANT CANNON STRIKE
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I was wondering when you would post that, but yeah, easily one of the better fights.
Also from what I hear the BB competitive scene is just forming in American, which would explain the piss poor quality.
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right so i watched the stream long enough to catch the hdremix finals, which, not too bad. wish sirlin got farther, but he did good, and he won with multiple characters (fei, cammy, dic), but afrolegends winning = hot, and person using zangief = really hot. good shit overall.
missed the sf4 finals because i was playing monster hunter with a friend of mine, so i youtubed the finals...unsurprisingly diago v jwong
the outcome was the same predictable disappointment, i had more fun watching the pools/semis. though, sanford schooling dan the man from im kicking everybodys ass because i play ryu was pretty damn impressive.
also mortified, lots of people are playing sf4, people from different games are playing sf4. as for sanford, he's with jwong, and they play multiple games...so that explains that.
i guess to end, i seen the sc4 finals (well i got bored near the last 3 matches so i don't know the outcome) and well, never new till now how retarded hilde is. she actually looked pretty fucking broken from what ive seen. "hey you, yeah, you fucked up one time? WELL EAT MY STUPID LONG RANGED RING OUT COMBO(that's apparently safe with autoparry or someshit i don't' understand)! didn't get ring outed from it(rare), ohh well, enjoy the stupid amount of damage it did, because you aren't surviving another"
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Yeah, but that was why the finals in SC4 were so great. All of the Hildes got defeated. And one guy was using Zasalamel, who is normally considered very bottom. Anyway, the ring out move starts on a change of stance that includes an autoparry so it'll always deflect any high attack into the free combo, which is why she's so broken. Virtua Fighter 5 has a few characters that can do stuff like autoparry but it's always really obvious at least and it pretty much always just resets position instead of launching you into the air for a free ring out haha
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well yeah, that part of it was nice, i enjoyed seeing the french ivy player work down some hildes as well.
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And one guy was using Zasalamel, who is normally considered very bottom.
I'm terrible at playing him, but one of my friends is surprisingly good with him, and for some reason I cannot fighting him. I always get my ass kicked by him :/ I dunno whether it's just a bad matchup for characters, (I prefer to use Cassandra) or I just suck at playing against a Zasalamel.
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I'm so tempted to get SF4. I'll play Third Strike forever until I come to a conclusion.
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rent it
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I wish I had sc4, my brother has it and I played it a little bit. Made for a decent Zasalamel player, but anyone that really knew their character could beat me (probably just from my lack of experience with playing the game in general)
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rent it
Can't rent PC games.
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I wish I had sc4, my brother has it and I played it a little bit. Made for a decent Zasalamel player, but anyone that really knew their character could beat me (probably just from my lack of experience with playing the game in general)
Except that I've always had trouble fighting Zasalamel, lol.
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well, it is hard for someone who doesn't play a lot to gauge his range properly lol.
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Which is probably the biggest issue I have with him. Well, that and I'm terrible at blocking, which, had I been good at, would probably be the difference between dieing and surviving the round.
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Can't rent PC games.
you need a konsole boi
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you need a konsole boi
I'm in the same sort of predicament. I've got a PS2, which is the most recent console I own, but it's kinda missing an RF adapter and a power cord, thanks to my parents loosing them.
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you need a konsole boi
Hey mang, I have a Wii. That, and I'll probably pick up one of the other consoles when they're late in life.
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your problem
anywho, fought gravios today...failed due to TIME OUT
seriously, 50 minute time limit...failed to kill him.
I--I
I--------------------------------I
the first line is about how big you are
the second is about how big he is...yeah...
got my tigrex lance though, first blue sharpness weapon, yay.
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I need a better microphone :-(
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Hi this is Vince with slap chop chop chop chopppppp.
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<Lachesis> if anything pisses me off more than those Evony ads (and Spectere ignoring my PMs :[) it's those fucking geek 2 geek ads
Are these pissing anybody else off here, or is it just me? (http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001286.html)
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Evony, thanks for showing us what it means to take advertising on the internet to the absolute rock bottom ... then dig a sub-basement under that, and keep on digging until you reach the white-hot molten core of the Earth. I've always wondered what that would be like. I guess now I know.
It's funny, because it's true.
Also yeah, those have always made me laugh. That and "pay for actually good items" games are horrible games.
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Was looking through my photobucket for the first time in like 3 years.
I figured someone would remember this (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/HerrDrFunkenstein/hurrah.jpg?t=1248431641)
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haha, what the fuck man. I don't actually remember that, but still, what the fuck?
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it was from a0
you weren't there when that was posted, but goddamn was it funny
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Ahh, well, a0's been a while ago now, and though I lurked quite a while before I posted, there's still lots that either I missed, or just forgot.
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Def. a snowc pic. Back when he first started. Real old haha.
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Haha, yeah, I remember that too. Oh, nostalgia. ;_;
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it was funny how lame snowc was when he first started posting. didn't he get banned during that time?
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No, it took a good few months to get banned. Now hes really respected, FFR loves him, ODI loves him and hes actually grown up. Hes a pretty cool guy.
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how is the ffr/odi scene anyway?
i basically only posted at a0...and OCCASIONALLY bemanistyle, never really got into the ffr stuff, and i think im kind of out of the retardation (yet i still go to 4chan, IM A HYPOCRITE, obviously) for ODI. however if they had more of that gigasweed stuff id be down for reading it, the stuff moogy (i think it was him) wrote was pretty damn funny.
i really only post here, but this place is basically a ghost town(which for a forum with about 5 active people is expected). and i guess bluntlogic which be my mmo place for the people i play the mmos with (WoW, WAR, and when it comes out THE OLD REPUBLIC), not counting /v/ because it's a bit "different" than your average forum.
what i really need is a gaming blog, but since i can't really write worth shit it would be a failed endeavor, it would cut down on my TLDR posts though. but frankly, i enjoy telling internet peoples on how my gaming life is doing.
*editforlulz*
(http://img188.imageshack.us/img188/2988/1248310377shin0r0zol109.jpg)
FLYING GIGABUSTERRRRRRRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
i give the man credit for making them(there's a cammy, and i think a ryu but he removed that one for some reason) look pretty damn close to the source material
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Furry SF4
Tread carefully Vlad, for you tread on my dreams.
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Tread carefully Vlad, for you tread on my dreams.
what was that?
(http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/3695/1201547139490.jpg)
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lmao, Capitan Falcon was really gay to begin with.
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I forget who said it, but they said "FFR is a bunch of dumb people pretending to be smart, and ODI is a bunch of smart people pretending to be dumb" or something like that. Basically that FFR is trying to hard, and ODI doesn't need to.
Theres plenty of retardation at both sites, the only difference is that ODI's retardation is really fuckin' funny.
Also, you aren't cool unless you play Solo Stepmania. And now that I've actually tried it, its really fuckin' fun. But if no one has tried it on s.net thats okay I still love you :)
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One time when I first started SM I tried solo, but I didn't like it. but I was pretty terrible. Maybe if I can get a button combo that works, and a couple solo sims, I'll try it out, but i think If I want 6-7 key gameplay, I'll just play some o2jam or something.
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Blast from 2005.
holy shit i wrote that HURRAH in there. :O i totally remember that hayden face era
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solo sm =/= fun
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Solo SM...as in one handed?
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6 button. It's really dumb.
And ODI is just retarded. There's no smart part to it.
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I remember talking to snowc on AIM back when everyone hated him. I thought he was pretty cool then.
We're nearing 100 pages, almost time for a thread renewal.
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6 button. It's really dumb.
Well, it could be interesting, however, knowing ODI's simfile style, I'm not sure if any sims are worth playing that style. I enjoyed o2jam and to a lesser extent, djmax (i hated the mx stuff that screwed you for mashing), so I'm familiar with 6/7 button play.
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lmao, Capitan Falcon was really gay to begin with.
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edit: I won :o
edit 2: I changed my nick again to piss people off ;D
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It'd be the 5th incarnation, so "The Lame Replies Strike Back".
Is this the title of the next thread, or are we going with something different =U
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holy shit i wrote that HURRAH in there. :O i totally remember that hayden face era
don't think I forgot you either (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/HerrDrFunkenstein/durr.jpg)
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Ahahahaha, I laughed like a bitch at that. Oh... nostalgia. Again. :x
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HAHAHAH FANTASTIC!
:D :D :D oh damn. how long have we been a community? D: I started posting on a0 back in.. 2003? Jesus christ, 6 fucking years.
I <3 u gyz
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I started in mid 2005 IIRC. Seems like so long ago.
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o hai 100 pages