The Gamer's Quarter

ryan · . Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 999

Have you ever had to use SPSS? I was just told "It's simple!" by the professor, and that was it. I go in today to find one of the blandest interfaces - circa 1992 - hiding a database program with analysis features hidden in all kinds of regular and sub menus. I have three data sets to enter, which I did, but beyond that - how to do anything else - gave me flashbacks to my DOS days.
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dhex · Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 1:31 pm Post subject:

i have indeed used spss. once you get the hang of it things go pretty smoothly until you get into crazyland territory.

the key, outside of using a tutorial to start (which i highly recommend) is figuring out how you're going to lay out and separate your variables, and what you're going to be testing for in terms of relationships.

edit: i am going to be sending you a review tonight for stalker.
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dhex · Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 2:44 pm Post subject:

http://www.nameyourfear.com/

ok this is not a good sign. i really want the sequel to be good. really.
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ryan · . Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 999

Yeah, I tried going through them but about 10 screens in the university's network blocked the content - something about ActiveX. So now I'm confused as to how to get results from 3 columns of data.

Great! Looking forward to it.
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dhex · Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 8:20 pm Post subject:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/6711895.stm
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dhex · Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 11:10 am Post subject:

ryan - that frucking sucks. i assume it's running the app from a network drive? i can send you my student version of spss if you're going to be encoding less than 50 separate variable sets.
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dhex · Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 1:47 pm Post subject:

i think i'm going to go home and play doom today. why? i have no frigging idea.
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ryan · . Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 999

Thanks for the offer, but I think I'm dropping the class. It turns out that it's so tight of a schedule that the 3 or so days I'll need after having my bottom wisdom teeth removed will put me too far behind. Oh, summer classes! You can be so much fun!
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dhex · Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 1:59 pm Post subject:

shit dude, well, if you ever need it just say so. at least you'll get some percocets or whatever.

also, i just realized i don't know if i still have ultimate doom in my house. and of course now i'm actually interested in doom. fark.
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dhex · Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 2:21 pm Post subject:

THIS IS WHAT WEB 2.0 LOOKS LIKE

love text

i had no idea that the myspace generation (aka guido fuckstick brigade) had so many helper apps.
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dhex · Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 7:19 pm Post subject:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10822914

fuck yeah.
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dhex · Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 9:05 pm Post subject:

http://www.reason.com/blog/show/120626.html

gee yet another swat raid gone bad.

shocking.
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dhex · Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2007 8:56 am Post subject:

from a soon to be a doctor type i know, i do not vouch for the veracity of this story but it is funny:

dhex · Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2007 9:26 am Post subject:

when cathy young isn't doing the on the one hand, but on the other routine, she does some good stuff.

For the second year in a row, gay activists in Moscow have tried to hold a parade to mark the anniversary of the decriminalization of homosexuality in Russia. This choice of date was rich with irony: the outcome was a powerful reminder that decriminalization does not equal tolerance. Once again, as in 2006, the parade was banned by the city authorities, and the people who attempted to protest the ban found themselves on the receiving end of brutality both from a gay-bashing mob and from the police. Alas, this ugly incident is all too typical of the treatment of gays in many post-Communist countries.
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dhex · Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2007 9:30 am Post subject:

ooooh the realist is being archived on the web, neato.

FUCK YEAH:

http://www.ep.tc/realist/41/05.html
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dhex · Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2007 9:41 am Post subject:

super fuck yeah
http://www.ep.tc/realist/41/25.html
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Swimmy · . Joined: 16 Sep 2005 Posts: 990 Location: Fairfax, VA

dhex · Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2007 11:06 am Post subject:

yeah, well, you know, cops. protect and serve, etc.

i've done a bit of reading on the whole wikipedia "controversy" and wow, people need to get laid/killed/fucked/whatever.
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Scratchmonkey · . Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 1439

Expand on that, if you don't mind.

dhex · Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2007 1:22 pm Post subject:

http://www.wikitruth.info/index.php?title=Main_Page

http://wikipediabias.com/

etc.
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Swimmy · . Joined: 16 Sep 2005 Posts: 990 Location: Fairfax, VA

Scratchmonkey · . Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 1439

Or Jack Chick, king of rhetorical formatting.

extrabastardformula · . Joined: 08 Feb 2007 Posts: 295

Lifecycle of Wikipedia

1. An idea
2. Pretty good idea
3. Good idea with ok execution
4. It seemed like a good idea at the time
5. Why did anyone think this was a good idea
6. If you have better idea why don't you try to compete, and no fair using words like externality

dhex · Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 1:19 pm Post subject:

well, wikipedia is good for what it is.

i was just struck by what a bunch of whining bitches the naysayer brigades are.
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dhex · Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2007 10:58 am Post subject:

man i hate the beatles but this still made me laugh.
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seryogin · Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2007 9:48 pm Post subject:

dhex · Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 8:51 am Post subject:

well my portfolio is finally finished for now. i had some db issues for a while but things are back on track. i just have to format the rest of the site so it makes some kinda sense. then hopefully i am outta here like nuttin'.

http://conchobar.org/portfolio
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ryan · . Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 999

I couldn't get Ultima 7 to calm down when I played it - the controls are too jittery. I think I need to mess with the settings some more. A friend of mine that absolutely loves the series was incapable of understanding how anything could lessen one's enjoyment of 7. I think a fist could come out of his monitor and punch him in the balls and he would still love it.

What kind of industry are you most interested in? I see graphic design and public relations, is there one you focus on more? I get job offers or questions for positions that I can't fill/don't have anyone in mind at the time, so if it's something in gaming I can pass your name along. Are you willing to relocate? I recently got a call from an EA recruiter wanting someone to head up EA/Mythic and a senior PR manager for Spore, but the only PR folk I knew at the time that weren't with a firm were happy on their own (with one or two medium clients being all they needed).
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dhex · Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 9:34 am Post subject:

sadly, i cannot relocate for at least another 2.5 years, until the wife finishes the phd.

my experience is more on the marketing/design side of things - as well as special events - but i'd like to move closer to the pr side of things. i've done media calls, babysitting camera crews, sitting in on shoots and some television training sessions for our docs, but not a whole lot of it. and crisis communications stuff, which i actually enjoy quite a bit. but i don't have a rolodex filled with contacts on that side of things, which is obstacle #1 in this case.

i mean, i believe i would be helpful at the very least for a game company in terms of media handling and helping get the word out there, but that doesn't mean they would necessarily agree.

oh i'm going to reedit the stalker thing and get it back to you this afternoon.
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ryan · . Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 999

Do you want me to see if there are any openings in New York?

I can't move for about 4 years. I have 1.5 left on my MBA and then my girlfriend is getting her masters in library science (2 years) after I finish mine. I would've loved to have tried out Virginia for a while. Up until one of our more recent projects, I didn't think I had enough management experience to handle myself, but I think I could now go at least a month or two before being overwhelmed. Thanks, Russia!

Stalker will be a shining beacon in the midst of spider-man and shrek crap.
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dhex · Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 9:52 am Post subject:

edit sent!

but yeah if you see anything in nyc i would be more than interested.
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ryan · . Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 999

oh, do you happen to use LinkedIn?

and I'll be putting stalker up today/tomorrow. weeee!
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dhex · Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 10:11 am Post subject:

no i'd never even heard of it until i googled it. myspace for professionals?

i have a membership to media bistro, which has given me a few jobs to apply for, but i've mostly been disappointed with their focus (which is largely freelance magazine writers who want to make it to the bigger leagues).

i did apply for a communications asst. director job at a local law school, but i don't know if i'll get that or if the money will be good or whatever. hopefully, of course, but who knows.
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ryan · . Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 999

There are some people who do get into the community aspect of LinkedIn, but most people just use it as a handy filter. We now work with 3 companies because of LinkedIn. One contact from a then current client allowed a message to go through her to one, but the other two were essentially cold calls using the system. It's very handy.

I asked the recruiter if positions are still open, and if there are any in your area, so I'll let you know how that goes. And it's actually how she got in touch with me - found me through common connections in LinkedIn.
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dhex · Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 7:15 am Post subject:

whooooaa!

i'm buying tickets later this week so if anyone in the city wants to come watch me crap myself in joy should give me a heads up.

dhex · Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 8:40 am Post subject:

i'm all for pointing out that collectivism is just another term for theft and slaughter, but why the living fuck are they building this thing in DC?

i had a dream once that i was on the board of directors for a history of slavery museum to be built in alabama. i've never been to alabama but the group of 20 or so people drank a lot of lemonade (i hate lemonade) and were all wearing white linen suits and dresses. it descended into a hellhole of screaming and corncob pipe tossing (don't ask) over whether ot include slavery in other places etc etc and the usual stuff.

still, i think it would be a worthwhile project in dc. more worthwhile than a victims of communism memorial. don't get me wrong, nothing has destroyed more lives in human history in such a short period of time than state communism, but it didn't happen here. at least slavery would be historically relevant, beyond the socio-political cues it would send out.

it would probably also rekindle the bombastic - if ultimately silly - reparations "debate." (you cannot win them all)

but back on point: all of my dreams are stupid. i had one the other day where i had to help a harem do its taxes. one, that's stupid because why would the harem pay taxes? and two, its not like i was all slathered in the naked ladyness, but instead dealt with some twerp who was trying to convince me that pillows should be written off as a business expense. why the fuck can't i even get some side boob in my dreams?
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dhex · Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 9:29 am Post subject:

here's a wacky one from the reason archives. a little bit too polemical in parts for my tastes, but otherwise interesting.

dhex · Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 10:29 am Post subject:

WHAT IN THE LIVING FUCK???

not the video, but the first comment!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNF_P281Uu4

Isfet · . Joined: 27 Oct 2006 Posts: 107 Location: A New York

hahaha oh man. maybe this guy is just going to every single video that has something to do with Japan?

hahaha http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCeK0Trz9E0 oh man

(taken from that individual's youtube profile)

dhex · Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 12:02 pm Post subject:

ok i know it's kotaku but still i have a new hero in life:

http://kotaku.com/gaming/real-life-beat-em-up/more-on-otaku-hunting-267904.php

dhex · Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 12:28 pm Post subject:

dhex · Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 1:16 pm Post subject:

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

what
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Swimmy · . Joined: 16 Sep 2005 Posts: 990 Location: Fairfax, VA

Hint: check the source.
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"Ayn Rand fans are the old school version of Xenogears fanboys."
-seryogin

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

aha
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SuperWes · Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 10:37 am Post subject:

Your thoughts?

-Wes
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dhex · Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 12:21 pm Post subject:

first off spong should remove that background forever.

secondly, whatevs. the AMA also thinks gun crimes are a public health issue.

other than that, whatever form of hillarycare we're going to get in the next ten years or so will, in another 20, be very topheavy with a lot of RSI-related illnesses. (one of the many reasons i gotta get my ass into a management position)

unrelated: an ad i designed will be going into new york magazine (well, a supplement) so hoo-ray for me.
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SuperWes · Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 12:23 pm Post subject:

dhex · Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 1:02 pm Post subject:

i've got some time coming up so sure.
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dhex · Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 2:45 pm Post subject:

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