Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Apr 19, 2002 5:44pm PDTNothing quite as fun as getting a letter from your bank saying "oh.. you remember that bank account you closed 6 months ago? Yeah uh... we're sorry we didnt actually close it, and here's a bunch of penalties you need to pay". So I told the lady it was a load of poo and got all the charges removed, but I've still gotta deal with some more dumb paperwork. Good news of the day, the E3 folks actually recognized Shacknews as "qualified media" today. Haha! Here's the stuff to take you into the weekend:
- Story about EA & WorldCup - iMacs slow on the web - Amazon is working on slimming down - Google is just doing all kinds of crazy stuff - Thanks to the planets, world peace! - Kyle @ HOCP did a little infrastructure article here and here. - PayPal may be getting the shaft from MastercardLastly, some newfangled technology to make rebooting a thing of the past!
Kingdoms of Amalur needed 3 million sales 'to break even,' RI governor says
Former Modern Warfare devs wanted to give Call of Duty series a 'rest'
Konami accused of bank loan fraud over Def Jam Rapstar
Capcom aims to shorten development cycle
Steel Battalion, Sleeping Dogs - Shacknews Daily: May 24, 2012
A)be a JEDI
b)be a NINJA
c)be SUPARMAN
d)be a rock star
personally, I'd be a jedi and pursue a career in music!
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Yes yes, we know what day this is! Here, let me get it out of yall's systems for ya.
DUDE 420 SMOKE A BOWL DUDE _\|/_ DUDE WEED DUDE 420 420 420 _\|/_ 420 420 420
There! Just link back to this post as neccessary!
I love being a cynic!
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follow the instructions if you want to be added to the list!
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Radeon 8500
Athlon XP 1800+
MSI KT266a mobo
Tried the latest drivers, updated the 4 in 1's
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I had an uncomfortable moment though when they showed the preview to Undercover Brother, which is a very racial stereotype kind of film. It's a comedy that has a black guy with an afro and a very 70's kind of manner, but it had some pretty funny gags. The thing that made me uncomfortable though was there was a black family sitting next to us in the theatre and I couldn't help but wonder if that was annoying to them. I'm not racist in the least, and they lauged at some of the gags in the trailer, although it was different gags than me, but.. ah, yeah.. well I dunno that was just odd.
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(this could be long)
Am I the only person who is annoyed at the state of the anime industry? Maybe I shouldn't be quite so annoyed since I have really only started watching anime since last August and haven't been around to see it slowly decline to it's present state.
I started off with the first anime I ever watched being Ghost in the Shell. It caused me to think that maybe anime wasn't just silly stuff like sailor moon or dragon ball z. After that I watched Akira which was also very good. Then I went onto Neon Genesis Evangelion and, despite the bad ending (which is a whole other discussion), was very good.
After that I went onto 4 other great series, FLCL, Trigun, Cowboy Bebop, and Escaflowne (a little to "dramaish" for my tastes at times, but still good).
But since then (and this was back in Oct or so), I've only see a very few really good anime movies and series since then. Everything seems to be a copy of something else with your basic mechs, magical powers, and cliched love stories. Not to mention that they make every single females breast at least DD (even the 14 year olds) to try and sell the show to boys.
So, I'm wondering. What else is there on the hoirzon that could redeem this seemingly dying genre? I know Hellsing was good, but that's over now. Almost every Miyazaki movie is good as well, but he is going to stop making movies soon.
What else is there? Maybe it is time to find a new medium for some thought provoking or entertaining storytelling.
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I have my own spyamp now!
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P4 2 GIGAHERTZ
ASUS P4B266 MOBO (LATEST BIOS)
1024 MEGS DDR
NVIDIA G FORCE 3 TI 200 (LATEST DRIVERS
WESTERN DIG (SCSI DR)
WESTERN DIG (SCSI DR)
PLEXTOR (SCSI CD ROM)
YAMAHA (IDE BURNER)
ZIP AND FLOPPY
RUNNING WIN 98 SE
NOW I KEEP GETTING A VITUAL MEMORY ERROR WHEN I TRY RUNNING ANY DOS BASED PROGRAMS
im thinking win 98 is just a pile and is really not able to handle all the new hardware ...do you think upgrading to 2000 is going to cure this or am i missing somthing. ive tried just about eveything and cant figure out what is eating up my recources
feedback please..thnks in advance
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maybe I'll take four sticks with me and go "you want this pair or that pair, it's all CAS2 PC133!"
uhhh
w00t w00t
Thinks I'd done and where I've been
Sleep in sweat the mirrors cold
See my face it's growing old
Scared to death no reason why
Do whatever to get me by
Think about the things I said
Read the page it's cold and dead
Take me home
RIP Layne Staley :(
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Dave Brubeck Quartet - Take Five
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You might notice the entire thing is missing because my HOME DIRECTORY GOT DELETED AGAIN.
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/Memtest86's the dimms
I never realised how HOT ram could get when you thrash it
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That's 180 people playing at any given time on just the shack servers >:(
/ V
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I didn't know New York could have an earthquake. When was their last one?
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Exciting huh?
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Whoever the little brother brat character is makes it almost unbearable, if not for also.....
The wierd homoerotic dance singer in the first half of the movie. Jesus christ, what is that doing in there.
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IT'S DRAAAAAAAAAAFT DAAAAAAAAY!
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