The Gamer's Quarter

dhex · Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2008 2:20 pm Post subject:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/18/opinion/18thu1.html?_r=1&hp

sure i'd love to see some indictments. i'd also love to give rachel ray a backrub. neither of those things are going to happen.
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dhex · Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 8:55 am Post subject:

http://www.juliansanchez.com/2008/12/15/orwell-in-bailoutland/
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dhex · Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 10:53 am Post subject:

http://www.reason.com/blog/show/130661.html

i don't quite see the cognitive dissonance here. if you venn diagram the idea of "people" in this person's head, "pedophile" doesn't fit inside the circle.

now the bumper sticker, on the other hand, actually hurts to look at:

i feel like they're violating the NAP just by making it so flipping ugly.
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dhex · Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 2:22 pm Post subject:

well it didn't say it'd be a good radio tribute.

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extrabastardformula · . Joined: 08 Feb 2007 Posts: 295

I had a sticker on my ford of Calvin kneeling before a cross asking the lord to forgive him for peeing on everything. When the car died I couldn't find the sticker again and gave up on those stickers in general.
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dhex · Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2008 7:10 pm Post subject:

dhex · Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 8:26 am Post subject:

http://www.timesargus.com/article/20081221/NEWS01/812210295/1002/NEWS01

i'm trying to imagine what i could drop 23 grand on, even across two years. much less across four cards.

seriously, fuck these people. i know they're 80% of the country, but fuck them anyway. did you really need 30 copies of baby einstein?

edit: i am put in mind of some of my wife's friends, who as late as last year were giving us lectures on how to handle (read: spend) money. i've been banging the credit apocalypse drum since early 2004, when i watched two people i know do tenaciously stupid things to buy houses. (i.e. cash in their 401k plans, get ARMs, etc) like an austrian, i've been right about 10 of the last 7 recessions, one could say...but on the other hand it doesn't take a psychic to know that if "x" is your yearly income and your yearly expenditures is x + 1, you're over budget. and if that little +1 is subject to interest penalties, well...we've just entered the land of synergy.

most of the people who were backhand insulting me for the last three years or so have gotten completely skullfucked. i'd be lying if i said that didn't fill me with tremendous happiness, the kind of glee only germans have bothered to name. good for them and their massive credit debt and insane living expenditures. i hope all those vacations and club nights and other stupid (in)discretionary spending was worth it.

i know it was for me.
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extrabastardformula · . Joined: 08 Feb 2007 Posts: 295

On the flipside my eight grand line of credit was recently cancelled for "lack of exercise" so I'm going to say the credit companies fucking deserve the sort of customers they are keeping.
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dhex · Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 10:43 pm Post subject:

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dhex · Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 8:13 am Post subject:

yeah, the deadbeats thing popped up in the frontline history of the credit card. of course, it's mostly going on ben stein's word in that doc, but it's not too surprising.

personal credit is really, truly useful. it's just not useful enough to pay 20-30% for.
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dhex · Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 8:02 am Post subject:

mass effect? more like mass crash!

naw it hates all nvidia drivers past 175.19 apparently. also, weird console porty issues like the incredibly blotchy shadows. film grain is an interesting idea - probably takes less power than anti-aliasing with a similar effect. very 1940s bloomy light source effect, though. sort of neat, though actual anti-aliasing would have been neater.

voice acting is pretty good, though. way too much of it.
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dhex · Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 1:15 pm Post subject:

naw crash effect was too obvious. though everytime i see mass effect i think erect mass and that's not really right either.

yeah the voice acting is good in that it sounds like people are saying things that are meant to be said, but maybe that's just a hangover from fallout 3. sort of like beer goggles for your ears. ear goggles, even.

the combat is kind of annoying, mostly. it almost makes me miss kotor. there's really not much strategy going on, especially in close quarters.
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dhex · Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2009 2:43 pm Post subject:

ok so i finished mass effect. durn that was short. the good the bad and the neutral, minus the neutral position. kotor 2.5. etc.
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dhex · Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2009 10:34 pm Post subject:

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/01/03/police_balk_at_ticketing_marijuana_offenders/

hmmm.
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dhex · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 9:16 am Post subject:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/dining/07squirrel.html

oh no racism
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dhex · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 10:20 am Post subject:

smoking weed and driving just seems like a stone cold terrible way to do things.
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ryan · . Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 999

Ha, yeah, but what he runs into most of the time are people in their early 20s that have it on them but aren't partaking. The ones who do smoke tend to be older folk who tend to be speeding from just being shitty drivers - a whole lot of plant workers. I know a few guys who smoke pot like cigarettes, and it's gotten to the point to where they do it to avoid the depression from withdrawal than anything else. Of course, if someone's fucking around on the road and smoking pot, they are handled appropriately, but more often than not it's minor possession.

An awkward night was when one of the heavy smokers dropped by my place, but the two troopers were over. We all went to high school together and they all know each other, but the smoker refused to come inside; instead, he would just scream shit at my front door. After a while, they were wondering what was wrong with him, so I finally had to go to him and ask why he was being so weird. He was afraid they would arrest him. Like he's kept his smoking a super secret and they would finally see through it all when he came inside with bloodshot eyes and smelling like an asshole. The pillow he had in his backpack during school (never a book), the giant gallon of water he had in his car, nor the steady supply of snack cakes he always had on him would ever give it away. All they did was laugh at him, told him he smelled, and had him stay over for a while. Friendship: Pass it on.
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dhex · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 12:30 pm Post subject:

man that's just wacky.

not as wacky as the obama tax cuts, though; five year get out of jail free card for automakers, homebuilders and banks.

thank god we avoided that moral hazard.
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ryan · . Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 999

Beautiful segway. I've graduated three times now, and each time it's been during a downturn. I would like to enjoy them just a little. I'm not asking for much, just a month before it went to shit would've been nice. And to my great grandchildren: HAHAHAH, enjoy debt! I'm also spending all of my money, so screw your parents too.
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dhex · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 7:51 pm Post subject:

i'm two for two myself.

no where to go but up, presuming that's where one wants to go.
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dhex · Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 9:32 am Post subject:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/01/07/BA2N155CN1.DTL

i'm sure we've all seen the original video. can't wait to hear what the official explanation ends up being.
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Scratchmonkey · . Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 1439

Yeah, the shooting was either the work of somebody who was incredibly stupid or crazy.

The riot was pretty stupid too though.

Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

http://www.flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/sets/72157612263444209/
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ryan · . Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 999

What happens if it's your car that's burned or beaten to hell? I'm not sure how you could claim that on insurance.
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dhex · Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 6:10 pm Post subject:

does a riot count as an act of god?

or would it just be vandalism?

vandalism is covered, no? (i've never insured a car.)
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Scratchmonkey · . Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 1439

It would be vandalism. It would be covered by comprehensive car insurance, not by collision (less the deductible, of course). No idea what the percentages are in terms of people having comprehensive and collision vs. just collision.

dhex · Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 9:18 am Post subject:

gotcha. danke!

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/10/us/10mob.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=mob%20museum&st=cse

hummmm.
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dhex · Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 8:32 am Post subject:

dhex · Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 10:57 am Post subject:

http://kdrv.com/news/national/80058

about fucking time.
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dhex · Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 1:40 pm Post subject:

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/502-Tomb-Raider-Underworld

"torso fritters"
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dhex · Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 9:53 am Post subject:

http://bloggingheads.tv/diavlogs/17092

radley lays down the law.
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dhex · Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 10:41 am Post subject:

http://scobleizer.com/2009/01/14/you-are-an-idiot-if-you-sell-your-apple-stock-tomorrow/

ignoring his hilarious picture (ok don't ignore it, it's fucking awesome) he's an idiot.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/cbuilder?ticker1=AAPL%3AUS

you were a "genius" if you sold apple back in early may, presuming you bought it on the cheap(er).

i would never invest in a company's stock simply because i liked one of their products. that's solipsism as an investment strategy.
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