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

Time to look into that EVE free trial.

If there is a free starter ship that you get every time you die, those babies are going to get some kamikaze testing.

lulz
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dhex · Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 10:50 pm Post subject:

the eve stuff at least sounds far more interesting in the kill lord british sort of way.

unrelated to anything ever:
http://home.i1.net/~bytor/WW2112.html
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dhex · Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 9:16 am Post subject:

A lawsuit from a gaggle of gun rights groups and citizens got some love from the California Court of Appeals, which decided this month that the city of San Francisco's ban on almost all handgun ownership and on any sale of guns or ammunition (known as Proposition H, passed in 2005) doesn't jibe with existing state law and is pre-empted by that state law.
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Redeye · . Joined: 02 Oct 2006 Posts: 986 Location: filth

A step closer to being able to legally shoot hippies.
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dhex · Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 12:01 pm Post subject:

from your lips to god's ears.
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Redeye · . Joined: 02 Oct 2006 Posts: 986 Location: filth

dhex · Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 12:46 pm Post subject:

intercession is a full time job.
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dhex · Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 9:38 am Post subject:

don't use ebay without a license, kids!

i love how this is justified as consumer protection rather than "providing income for the state of pennsylvania from a private service they neither fund nor support."
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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

How likely is such a licensing bill to pass?
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dhex · Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 10:05 am Post subject:

according to folks in pa, pretty likely, actually.

in the meantime they can spend their days harassing stay at home moms and their sick children.
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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

The 7 Most Awful Wastes of US Taxpayer Money.
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dhex · Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 12:42 pm Post subject:

oh man peep this shit:

http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2008/pdf/history/HB/HB0282.xml
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dhex · Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 1:26 pm Post subject:

i don't know if i'll like this guy's game, but i do admire his rage:

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/?p=1028

someone should show this to jon blow and say "see? this is how you do angry, alienated artiste-jerk."
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dhex · Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 1:51 pm Post subject:

Scratchmonkey · . Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 1439

I'm pretty interested in that Romapocolyptic game now.

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

The medieval/etc. PA thingy is actually not unique.

I wish it was.

The two examples that come to mind are idiotic.

I'm sure the 4E crap from Bioware will be even more awful than the NWN2 I forked over cash to be infuriated by. (Shoulda known better, but I was bored and I thought I could just have fun breaking it/playing wrong. I was wrong.)

D&D Forgotten Realms 4th Edition is PA. And lame.

Everquest 2 is also PA-ish. And lame.

Hatepower ftw
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dhex · Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 2:52 pm Post subject:

what's "PA"?

unrelated: we had tickets to see joanna newsom at BAM tonight. and liz got food poisoning last night. she was so jazzed about this, even moreso than chromeo (which she at least got to see).
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Redeye · . Joined: 02 Oct 2006 Posts: 986 Location: filth

PA = "Post Apocalyptic"
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elvis.shrugged · . Joined: 10 Jan 2006 Posts: 108 Location: Stratford, CT

dhex, I have a friend in NJ who was going to that concert! Small world.

I hope Liz gets better.

Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

dhex · Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 11:19 am Post subject:

i'm actually surprised at the decent conversation that grew out of what might have otherwise been a "fuck me? no fuck you!" ad nauseum type routine.
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Swimmy · . Joined: 16 Sep 2005 Posts: 990 Location: Fairfax, VA

Tim Harford on Colbert. This is classic.
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dhex · Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 3:47 pm Post subject:

confession: i find colbert and the daily show painfully stupid.

that was awesome though.
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Redeye · . Joined: 02 Oct 2006 Posts: 986 Location: filth

dhex · Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 8:36 am Post subject:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18482794

i got this in like 30 emails today.

the age of the timmy is indeed upon us. hail timmy! hail!

edit: rps posted a link to this counter point:
http://news.filefront.com/editorial-beware-the-child-man/

dear filefront: don't bother. it's ok. it's just an op-ed. it can't hurt you. it is not legislation. it is not force.

the rps sunday papers bit is worth checking out because you get stories like this one:
http://www.edge.org/q2006/q06_9.html#miller

long story short: aliens haven't found us because they're too busy buying things.
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extrabastardformula · . Joined: 08 Feb 2007 Posts: 295

Funny how neither side picks up on readily available birth control as a reason people aren't having kids at 21 while they were fifty years ago.
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Redeye · . Joined: 02 Oct 2006 Posts: 986 Location: filth

"...the MIT graduates apply to do computer game design for Electronics Arts, rather than rocket science for NASA."

Where, pray tell, are these Rocket Science jobs?

You can't just decide to "do Rocket Science".

We don't have a real space program, we have the shuttle farce.
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dhex · Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 1:27 pm Post subject:

of course it also presumes nasa isn't a pointless anachronism from the cold war as well.
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dhex · Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 9:50 am Post subject:

man this was pretty chilling:
http://www.laurelzimmer.com/2008/01/11/citizen-arm-thyself/
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dhex · Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 1:31 pm Post subject:

using the nine inch nails remix tracks i recently did a reasonable impression of a gescom track from 1997.
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Redeye · . Joined: 02 Oct 2006 Posts: 986 Location: filth

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Coil, the game
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dhex · Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 2:50 pm Post subject:

redeye: yeah, it's stuff like that which makes me put more stock in gary kleck's defensive gun usage (DGU) statistics.

aw shapes you got my hopes up. a lot.

i have to say i really sort of dislike these quirky games. i can just stare at milkdrop2 if i want to look at something pretty.*

velociraptor safari aside, but that's not even quirky, it's just carmageddon with reptiles.

* which i'm beginning to think is related to a nascent allergy i'm developing towards the "artistic temperment." this came up earlier today in a conversation with someone:

dhex · Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 3:15 pm Post subject:

while i might want to agree with this review in many parts, he's glossing over the sexism to a tremendous degree. unless the translation really is a butchered as has been claimed, in which case maybe we're missing out on some kind of weird winking irony of the main character as a sterile cad.

still, i don't see the point in rolling about in it either.
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seryogin · Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 3:17 pm Post subject:

NOOOO!!!

When I worked at a right wing publisher, my boss was a hardcore Barzunian. I'm sympathetic to the European right and all, but, man, meeting a fan in person...

The funny thing about so-called artistic temperament is that most of the people who had such a temperament would've gladly got rid of it. I mean, being an irreponsible fuck-up does not feel good, despite posterity leading you to believe otherwise.

The other funny thing is that the most succesful artists were, like a lot people who make it to the top of their fields, got there by being insane workaholic pragmatics. The classic American example is... Jack London. Wallace Stevens comes to mind.

The Japanese example that I always enviously remember is Mishima, who dressed like a succesful banker and kept a similiar work ethic.
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Scratchmonkey · . Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 1439

Well, the question is whether Mike is a Barzunian in the existing sense or somebody who feels some sort of agreement with Barzun's writings -- it seems to me that most of the former are on the same level as the Objectivists, that is, decrying modernity/relativity because of some sort of weird desire to uphold "discarded values", as some mark of social status because They Get It and then get to look down upon the poor deluded masses.

Which I don't think is part and parcel of thinking that the dude had some good points.

seryogin · Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 5:07 pm Post subject:

Well, what would those ideas be? I'm not mocking, mind you, since I'd like you to suggest a book for me. To be honest, my image of Barzun is a slightly more annoying image of the one I have of my former boss (which was too good).

I mean, I'll add that I adore the French Right: Celine, Houellebecq, and the other one, but Barzun seems like he's heavily into America-suckery.
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dhex · Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 5:46 pm Post subject:

barzun is weird.

but he has this whole thing about the artistic temperment and how the position of artist is a socially difficult one. and he's got a point - it's more about one's role in society than what they produce. if everyone's an artist, then we have problems.

sergei, have you read julius evola?

seryogin · Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 8:22 pm Post subject:

Evola is on my list of philosophers to serious get into this year. I'm familiar with many of his basic concepts. I was first introduced to him by Limonov, who wrote an essay about him called "The Marx of Traditionalism." I don't really know much, but I must say that I found this print on the NBP web site to be pretty fucking badass

Oterwise, where does one start with Evola. I hear that

Revolt Against the Modern World, and Riding the Tiger are the essentials. Anything else you'd recommend?
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Scratchmonkey · . Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 1439

Wow, just reading up on Evola makes him sound like a complete fuckshit. Was he a wink-wink Laibach-esque performance artist or is there something compelling that I'm missing? I mean, "TEH JOOOOOOZZZZ", really?

dhex · Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 8:58 am Post subject:

evola did later call his younger antisemitism "foolish" and frankly, that's not the really weird bits of his work. he's a complete headfuck, and rather than being a marx he's far more like a mystical version of spengler. i like reading him because every third page i look up and go "what the living fuck is he going on about?"

i would say read revolt against the modern world. the only other book of his that's really interesting is his work on tibetan tantra, because it's a transcendental political analysis, which seems silly on the surface but quite appropriate for analyzing a theocratic slave state.

regarding barzun, i think of his critique of certain aspects of modernism as being completely on point. and he's a very smart dude, which helps. some of the other stuff i give a wholehearted "whatevs" but it struck me his writings about the rise of the social position of "artist" from marginal/limnal vision-creator to a class of qualified layabouts isn't necessarily off point at all, but instead eerily prescient.
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dhex · Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 12:58 pm Post subject:

for those of you who weren't into malcolm gladwell, here's some ammunition:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080131-tipped-over-social-influence-tipping-point-theory-debunked.html
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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

Keep in mind: This is the guy's defence.
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dhex · Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 9:11 am Post subject:

she was dead when i ejaculated, i swear.

Although Bruni was seated in the audience, Kissinger politely offered her a seat on his face so he could get a better look at the only place a French leader has successfully invaded since Lombardy.
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dhex · Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 9:33 pm Post subject:

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dhex · Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 11:18 am Post subject:

my fun jerkass question of the day:

whose rehabilitation is more ridiculous?

heath ledger as tragic demigod hero?

or

benazir bhutto as mother of freedom and democracy?
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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

The latter.

Imagine if The Dark Knight ends up sucking!
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dhex · Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 11:34 am Post subject:

yeah if i ran a fascist utopia (of one) after i was done shooting the furries and launching star trek fans into space, i'd probably start burning comic books and films right after that.

i would be the best world bully ever.
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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

You should write a comic book about that.
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dhex · Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 11:49 am Post subject:

it was a little odd to hear people say "at least they finished filming." like, girls and everything.

very weird.

edit: this final root canal bit did a number on my head so yes yes i know women read comic books and go to comic themed movies but i guess i mean to say "attractive women."

yes, that's exactly what i meant to say.
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