The Gamer's Quarter

dhex · Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 7:28 am Post subject:

i feel you 100% on that, +/- 3%

condemned was a really great idea that just didn't do it for me at all.
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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

Shaper, the rest of Thief games are all in first person and far, far better than the third one.

dark steve · . Joined: 17 Jun 2005 Posts: 1110

yeah good luck if your processor is less than two and half years old, though
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Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

guys seriously i played through thief 1 and 2 last month on my dual processor super duper computer running vista. it's really not that hard to get them running.
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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

yeah dark steve stop being rubbish

either way, it doesn't stop them from being momentously good games for smart people!

i mean you can run system shock on your comp now too
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dhex · Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 8:51 pm Post subject:

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN0952458820080511

what the hell was he thinking?
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Redeye · . Joined: 02 Oct 2006 Posts: 986 Location: filth

dhex · Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 7:39 am Post subject:

there's kool aid and there's throwing a calculator out the window.

i've never played a thief game. i know i should.
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dhex · Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 10:57 am Post subject:

on monday i was thinking to myself, you know, since i got my teeth (mostly) fixed i haven't gotten sick at all. this is neat!

tuesday said ha ha ha constant nausea and joint pain for you, asshole!

fuck me.
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dhex · Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 10:39 am Post subject:

today's experiment is twofold:

1) will cleaning the house make me appreciate estradasphere?
2) why did i buy assassin's creed yesterday?
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Scratchmonkey · . Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 1439

Depends on which Estradasphere. I'm going to be a total punk and say that their early, mostly live stuff was much better (they were one of the local bands when I was in college and the guitar player was in my Electronic Music program).

dhex · Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 12:04 pm Post subject:

the only one i have is "it's understood" which is, i mean, i dunno. i know they feel like they have to show they know how to play every genre of music, but do they have to do it in every single song?

so i put on some secret chiefs and felt better.
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Scratchmonkey · . Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 1439

Yeah, they do kind of fall into that trap. Part of their appeal was their stage show, which usually involved at least half-a-dozen extraneous people, including Reading Guy, who did nothing but sit on stage on a bar stool and read a book while wearing giant orange construction-style ear protectors, Mono Man*, a tweaked-out pale guy in a speedo and cape who ran around in the crowd trying to kiss people and an acquaintance of mine who danced in a gorilla suit.

Also, I don't think they ever recorded their Tuvan-throatsinging/beatbox song.

* - Who's actually the dude on the front of It's Understood with some sort of fake-y rubber head bald thing.

Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

dhex · Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 12:19 pm Post subject:

it was raining very heavily.
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dhex · Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 12:27 pm Post subject:

so estradasphere didn't help but secret chiefs looks like it'll carry me through the next few hours of cleaning and whatnot. plus i was able to extract a small pcb from a dead external drive so i can practice soldering and desoldering before the big mpc fix next week sometime.

whee.
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dhex · Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 1:28 pm Post subject:

i know we all have tastes and all that but a friend of mine recently sent me a link to a mcsweeneys piece that was "rather amusing" and i have no idea how to tell him i can't speak to him anymore.

Sad

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dhex · Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 1:31 pm Post subject:

huh. i just sold my copy of muslimgauze's first 7" for about 10x what i paid for it. huh.

what a fuckin' day!
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

Hey, if I pick Fallout 1 back up should I try to finish the game from where I left off, or should I start a new one?

I'm pretty sure I botched the entire thing while I was there anyways. Though, maybe not. I can't really remember.
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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

How long ago has it been since you last played it? I'd say start a new game.
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

It's been probably about 8 months. I was pretty hard up for what to do next anyways, so a new game may be exactly what I need.
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dhex · Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 2:50 pm Post subject:

yeah, start over.
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Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

confession: i've never finished fallout but i've started a new game about six times.
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seryogin · Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 11:48 pm Post subject:

kirkjerk · . Joined: 12 Apr 2006 Posts: 1227

I think you guys have too much negative feeling about something that is sometimes funny.

Plus their print publication, at least their comics annual, was pretty good.
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dhex · Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 1:00 pm Post subject:

man, even their layout isn't funny.

now i gotta find a lake big enough to row my friend out on.

where the fuck am i going to find a lake that big?
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kirkjerk · . Joined: 12 Apr 2006 Posts: 1227

I'm trying to figure out what are the main crimes of the site.
I'd say insufficiently funny, but way too impressed with its own cleverness.
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dhex · Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 3:49 pm Post subject:

like a zombie new yorker cartoon that won't stay dead.

a million years of "that's what she said" while a guy in a bird costume talks to his friend, arms spread in wonderment. it's funny cause the guy is in the bird costume and yet doesn't know what the issue is with his wife or significant other. you know? cause he's got a bird costume on.

funny.
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Cocaine Socialist · . Joined: 18 May 2008 Posts: 8

I'll admit McSweeney's is the death of American literature, but i'd be lying if I said that I didn't laugh at this http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2008/2/1ryan.html

helicopterp · . Joined: 13 May 2006 Posts: 1435 Location: Philadelphia

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Cocaine Socialist · . Joined: 18 May 2008 Posts: 8

Also, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiiHkuVH9OI

Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

guys i like this one i am sorry: http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2006/10/10bryan.html
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dhex · Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 7:56 am Post subject:

the indiana jones one is what was sent to me.

ginos on youtube should be its own channel. perhaps we need an indira gandhi to rise up and forcibly sterilize them?

unrelated:
http://anthropology.net/2008/05/07/the-sexiness-of-facial-symmetry-across-cultures-and-species/

i always find this stuff weird and fascinating. it makes sense, of course, but it's still slightly creepy.
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dhex · Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 8:23 am Post subject:

man this may be my new favorite blog.

http://anthropology.net/2008/04/23/the-social-brain-hypothesis-are-our-brains-hardwired-to-deal-with-social-hierarchies/

perhaps this goes some way to explaining immaterial social battles online - where there's nothing at stake but a nebulous sense of status within a nonphysical community - because it keeps pressing the button in our brains that wants to measure/match/exceed.
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dhex · Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 8:50 am Post subject:

i see his point, but it's sort of beside the point.

such a backlash was going to happen regardless. and it's not like the state is getting out of the marriage business anytime soon.
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dhex · Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 9:22 am Post subject:

kirkjerk · . Joined: 12 Apr 2006 Posts: 1227

dhex · Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 10:33 am Post subject:

god's vengeance is fickle thing.

in that sense it's a lot like democracy!

(also fearful and totalizing)
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dhex · Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 12:00 pm Post subject:

well, no; more like people may react badly to good ideas pushed in a way that annoys them. which is a point i see, i just think it's beside the point in this case.

he makes sense from a tactical point of view, or at least a stab at a reasonable argument. it's just not as applicable on the state level as it would be on the federal level.

standard libertoid disclaimer: obviously, subsidizing marriage for anyone is a moral wrong and it should not be the purvey of the state (or a state), constitutionally or otherwise. etc etc and so forth.
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seryogin · Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 12:41 pm Post subject:

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dhex · Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 1:32 pm Post subject:

that is an interesting look into the local level; it explains a lot. if i were a pol i'd want to kick it to the (i'm presuming popularly-elected) judges too.

sergei: the grad level english program is not only quite good, it has a good rep. plus she's gotten into a bunch of conferences and whatnot, and she's helping run the woolf conference next year at fordham, etc. so it works out.
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seryogin · Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 3:23 pm Post subject:

Scratchmonkey · . Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 1439

Note: At many schools, the grad program and the undergraduate program may as well be separate entities. Can't speak for Fordham; I know it's definitely true elsewhere.

ryan · . Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 999

Yeah, I know it is where I go, mainly because of accreditation. The bread and butter is the undergraduate and the reputation bit is from the graduate.
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dhex · Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 4:08 pm Post subject:

yeah, i mean, undergrad has gone from the sort of training for the elite that it used to be to something a bit more democratic. such is life.

i have some friends and family who work with undergrads. i've learned some interesting things and heard a lot of "oh shit" type stories.

but what i learned most is twofold:

1) no one knows the difference between irony and sarcasm.
2) "generation veal" expects the world to kiss their ass for not knowing the difference between irony and sarcasm.

but yeah expecting any school to really change your life in the way you expect it to is a sucker's bet. if it changes anything, it will change it in ways you never saw coming.

edit: re grad school, i got my ma from a joint where the part time MBA program is one of the highest rated in the country, and the full time MBA program is, like, shitty.

why? part time MBA = working for a living.
full time MBA = someone else is working for their living.

whenever possible, stick with the commuters and two-jobs types.
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