The Gamer's Quarter

seryogin · Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 3:32 pm Post subject:

Man, mike's links are the ground zero of intellectual bankruptcy...

Speaking of which, I found The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged for a quarter over in the Strand and am debating on whether to actually read them... I like Bioshock's aesthetic and the character of Andrew Ryan... so I'm going to give this a shot.

Edit: I read that again. Man, what the fuck.

Also, hex, what's the crux of that argument? I mean, is some fool arguing that you he's got some inate right to pirate media and that's perfectly fine? Why are you getting riled up in the first place? I sometimes wonder why you bother arguing at all.
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seryogin · Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 3:42 pm Post subject:

Man, mike, look outside your window. The moon totally looks like it belongs in a Samurai Shodown background.
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dhex · Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 11:00 am Post subject:

that was a good moon last night.

the whole "i can't afford it but i want it so i'll take it and it's not even really real anyway cause you can't hug it" thing really bothers me. the downside to the adbusterian current, as it were, is that it encourages an excruciating kind of stupidity.

also i think it would be a neat art project to steal someone's shoes in the name of freely distributing information. after all, the shoes are just a collection of arc, arches, curves, straight lines, weights and other mathematical measurements. i.e. they are information.

and information should be free!

Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

Oh right, I thought I mentioned Hickman in the past, though that may have been on SB. I figure that he'd be up your alley: The Nightly News, which is available in trade, is about a cult-like group of people who have all been wronged in some way or another by mainstream journalism, and are at war with the media. It's Network and Gatto and a whole host of other influences. Pax Romana is brought up in the interview, and the first issue is due December 28th. Hickman is generally clever, a natural writer and a very interesting artist, what with his graphic design pedigree.

There are 5-page previews for both. Here's his site: http://www.pronea.com/

I figured as far as new talent in comics goes, you might want to give him a look. He strikes me as the sort of person/writer you'd find agreeable.

This webcomic isn't bad either, though in a different vein altogether: http://shootingwar.com/
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seryogin · Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 1:52 pm Post subject:

Explain the ad busterian current. I don't understand what you mean. I've seen the magazine and it looks like another one of those not-really-hip anti-Globalization magazines. It seemed kind of lame.

Also, mike, have you heard about The Shock Doctrine. It looks fairly interesting, though I know nothing about economics, so I wouldn't be the best judge of that (other than being a big fan of the welfare state; I like doing nothing).
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dhex · Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 2:50 pm Post subject:

naomi klein = bill o'reilly
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seryogin · Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 2:52 pm Post subject:

Are you saying that just because she said that Milton Friedman is gay?
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dhex · Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 8:46 pm Post subject:

no i've been saying that since 2000.

which is generally translated into well he must think the world bank is peachy but such is the nature of life.

long story short, fuck everyone.
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seryogin · Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 8:55 pm Post subject:

You know, I was really down today - long story, but nothing's been going my way all week - so I bought my first pack of cigarettes in two weeks and I imaged what would happen if the Fallout scenario went down, though I somehow survive. I figured that I'd drag my girlfriend to the country that you'd run, but then I figured that you wouldn't really be running a country... that doesn't seem like your style... so I imagined that there'd be some kind of association of villagers formed and everyone would be equal... but then who'd we protect ourselves against the bandit hordes?.. wouldn't that demand some sort of common sense of community outside of respect for personal property... and if the community thing gets shoved back into the forefront... then wouldn't that just be perpetuating what caused the nuclear war in the first place?

And then I realized that I needed to think about more important things.

But then I couldn't, so the question still stands.

So, yeah, like how would you run a post-nuclear village?
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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

crop rotation for extra exp.
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dhex · Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 9:06 pm Post subject:

Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

hi guys

http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.php?id=1233
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dhex · Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 12:38 am Post subject:

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=7646107
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Scratchmonkey · . Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 1439

The first episode of Connections has a pretty good spiel on how we'd all do in an apocalypse.

SPOILARZ: Not too hot, although it's just a lead-up to the fact that 99% of the people in developed societies wouldn't know what the fuck to do with a plow, including most farmers.

Redeye · . Joined: 02 Oct 2006 Posts: 986 Location: filth

Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

A certain Peter Watkins made a docufiction on this sort of subject back in 1965: The War Game.

Essential viewing, by the by. Spare three quarters of an hour for it, will you?

Threads did a similar thing too, especially with its ending.
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dhex · Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 12:22 pm Post subject:

dhex · Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 9:36 pm Post subject:

man i heard some bad public speaking tonight in class. people were just stone cold unprepared to present their cases (we're doing mock circuit court cases) and holy shit folks do not know how to argue without getting flustered.

also had a great saturday night with some libertizzles at grassroots:

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seryogin · Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 9:58 pm Post subject:

Dirty Jersey, bitch...
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dhex · Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 3:12 pm Post subject:

http://reason.tv/roughcut/show/175.html

i have no explanation.
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seryogin · Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 4:51 pm Post subject:

I am totally for Paul blimp.
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dhex · Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 10:28 am Post subject:

yet another reason ubisoft pussed.

oops.
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seryogin · Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 10:46 am Post subject:

http://www.wired.com/gaming/hardware/news/2007/06/soviet_games

Man, I remember this shit from my childhood. I can't believe all of it is gone now.
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dhex · Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 8:09 pm Post subject:

all things turn to dust.

even love?

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dhex · Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2007 2:09 pm Post subject:

there's a new orb album out and i'm excited to hear it.

sometime in december or january i'm going to organize a great record store hike across frozen lands when all this shit is over and it will be good.
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dhex · Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2007 12:01 am Post subject:

i'm going to have a 7800gt in good condition for sale shortly, if my gts arrives without hiccups. just fyi.
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Pink Teddy Bear · . Joined: 24 Aug 2007 Posts: 180

I got this recently, http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150197

Just showing for reference, cause this card is glorious. I don't know what your target price range is or anything, but that's pretty cheap considering what you're getting.

dhex · Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2007 12:50 pm Post subject:

i picked up an 8800gts ssc for 314 after rebates and whatnot.
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Pink Teddy Bear · . Joined: 24 Aug 2007 Posts: 180

Completely mis-read your post preceding mine! I thought you said you were getting the 7800gt. I need to remember to read carefully next time.

dhex · Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2007 1:32 pm Post subject:

yeah the issue now is what to do with said 7800gt.
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dhex · Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2007 3:09 pm Post subject:

man as i wrap up this very last take home final i think thank zogness i'm not going to be doing this again for a while.

admittedly, making up fake cross cultural business examples is kinda fun. my fake company is gescom, a maker of high end effects and more recently budget fx pedals, trying to adapt to the phenomenon of their low end line's use in street parties in Fabricatistan. it's kinda neat.
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Scratchmonkey · . Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 1439

Yesssss dude, homestretch, with the promise of lovely PC gaming on the other side.

Pink Teddy Bear · . Joined: 24 Aug 2007 Posts: 180

Hell yeah! Only two more weeks for me, and then it's glorious, glorious FREEDOM! Freedom for a long time too, a well deserved freedom! I didn't do any of that waiting after high school before going to college, I went right into that bad boy. So I'm one of those guys who's had the first chunk of their lives blurred, distorted, and misshapen by a non-stop barrage of school.

A well deserved freedom indeed.

Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

I hate you, Pink Teddy Bear. Sad

I'm still stuck on my MA and all I want to do is get out, get a job and live among people I give a fuck about.
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dhex · Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 10:58 am Post subject:

word up to my man the bouncer once again.

dhex · Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 11:34 am Post subject:

random joke from a friend:

dhex · Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 2:09 pm Post subject:

in slightly better news chavez's president for life thing was narrowly defeated.
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seryogin · Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 6:11 pm Post subject:

dhex · Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 9:52 pm Post subject:

well, i laughed, setting back russo-american relations farther than rocky 4.

one thing i will miss about school? powerpoint presentations. people make that face (that face you just made right now reading that) when i tell them i liken it to buddhist sand painting.
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seryogin · Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 10:55 pm Post subject:

The thing that gets me though is that I spent five minutes bitterly telling my mother of how the elections were a complete farce, while they were showing cheering Putin fascists on Russian TV, who had come out "to support the fair and free elections against radicals" and even had a section where a really annoying-looking girl said that "we know the enemies of the people. People with Russian passports, but who bow to foreign lords: Kasparov, Limonov, etc."

I was surprised that Limonov was listed as second. I had assumed that he'd been utterly marginalized by now.

Anyway, I made sure to point out that all of these people were paid -- I have friends in Russia tell me that they sign up for the Putin fascist club because of the free dough and other, more-shaven-headed, friends tell me of how they used to get paid to beat up Limonov supporters -- and told my Mother that she wasted her time going to the Russian consulate to vote for United Russia, since it was going to win anyway. Well, she said she wanted to show her support for the government. I told her that the government's doing just fine without her support.

On the other hand, though, I don't by the Putin as fascist thing, as well as the Putin as mini-Stalin thing. Mostly, because all of the things that Putin put into place existed in some form during the Yelstin era and back then the West didn't give a shit about it. Russia had this "whole emerging middle-class" that I kinda didn't see too often and was all about demoracy, especially when Yelstin was shelling the partliament.

I guess my primary criticism of the Putin-fascism thing is that it's just another Western propaganda tool for the most part, that ignores what it's like on the ground in Russia, where people largely don't give a fuck about politics.
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Scratchmonkey · . Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 1439

Well, you might feel like The Economist might be part of the whole Putin-facist crowd; at least they had an article on Limonov earlier this year.

Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

Why'd you get the GTS over the GT?
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dhex · Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 8:44 am Post subject:

1) gt isn't available really except brands i don't know (i.e. i wanted evga)
2) gts ssc has a little more ram and a second slot cooler.
3) it was basically the same price as a mid line gt
4) the performance is the same or better; the only real advantage the gt has is lower power consumption.
5) a lot of evga branded gt cards are having artifacting issues which seem to be a manufacturing error or some kind of overclock damage.
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dhex · Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 10:05 am Post subject:

it seems to be a thing with the gt series in general - the fan speed is locked at 30% and needs to be increased via rivatuner:

http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.asp?m=149429
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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

Hey, Sergei, one urban myth about the Spetsnaz speaks of them, in reaction to a hostage situation, kidnapping the hostage-takers own families and sending body parts to the terrorists. Can you confirm if this a true story, and if so, when and where it happened?
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dhex · Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 12:20 pm Post subject:

man i gotta get his book

see also:
http://www.10zenmonkeys.com/excerpts-from-chemical-warfare-secrets-almost-forgotten/
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seryogin · Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 12:46 pm Post subject:

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dhex · Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 3:38 pm Post subject:

wait i just realized what you mean:

rivatuner actually edits your registry so you only have to set it once. i thought you meant you wanted to monitor temperatures (using the logging function) or whatever. naw just reboot that shit and it should autoload.
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dhex · Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 5:09 pm Post subject:

http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=3952036&affil=wjla

ron paul was on the fucking view

ok yeah that was basically clubbing baby seals but still.
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