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Morning Discussion
by Chris Faylor, Jan 20, 2009 7:21am PSTHey, new president day! I think it's a fairly safe bet that your social interactions today will be filled with possibly inappropriate jokes regarding the lineage of our soon-to-be new president. You may feel bad for laughing, but you'll laugh all the same. Admit it.
Switching gears, I played some of that Max Payne 2 mod Mona: The Assassin last night, and came away impressed. There's some cool scripting in the opening moments, and I like explosions. Definitely gonna keep playing. I really want a new Max Payne :(
O_O
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Nice assortment of goodies!
Photos up soon after i get home from school.
(skizl what the hell is on the CD that had a label like a music CD? Its stuck in my MBP and wont come out and is making hella racket)
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I'm getting the fuck out of this place.
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fucking nearly broke my leg. hurts like shit. luckily it's not the ankle that i busted a few months ago that's still tender
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Just to make sure: anytime I startup my desktop it posts, the windows loading screen appears, a blue screen flashes, and my pc restarts itself. Everything internal is fine, all fans working. No plug problems, ect. I've only got 1 two gig stick of ram so I can't switch it out without spending 40 bucks to get another 2 gigs.
So barring my ram I'm proposing to boot from something else to try and recover my windows installation. What would be the best way to do this?
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Three new tracks!
http://www.reverbnation.com/totesnoco
The top three are new, Who?, Niche Bitch, and Phat Sausage. Please give them a listen and tell me what you think! Your input is greatly appreciated.
Thanks, Shack.
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If you're a fan of GTA or open-world games, and have yet to play Saints Row 2: You are missing out! Reviews for this Saints Row 2 seem to judge it too harshly for being so similar to the Grand Theft Auto series. There is a massive volume of gameplay and features in Saints Row 2 that were done well, whereas GTA4 neglected the FUN in favor of realism. Just the car physics alone is reason enough to play this game.
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Let's lift up the name our glorious leader in praise and song to celebr-*Record Scratch*
WTF politics. lets just play some TF2, what say you?
first map we will chose teams.
other maps will be done with 3x scramble (or until the RS players are evenly distributed).
IP is in my profile, shackmessage me for password if you dont already know it.
make your map selections here:
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NewDataSet.WriteXml("lobjDataSet.xml", XmlWriteMode.WriteSchema);
The above C# code writes on the second line of the XML file:
<_x0038_500file>
I know 38 is hexidecimal for 56, and 56 is the ascii value of the character "8".. but why is it doing it that way? I know I can put a character like "v" in front of it and it does not try to escape it as a hexidecimal value, but.. is there a way to override that behavior? Make it so that it does not escape the first character as a hex value no matter what?
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Trying to do something, eat a little of something, shake it off but it's an effort just to sit. It's going to boil my brain if it doesn't stop soon.
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The DOW2 beta headstart for Soulstorm owners has apparently just started. Soulstorm has also just been put on sale on Steam for $7.50.
I'm too weak to resist. :[
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http://secure.newegg.com/WishList/PublicWishDetail.aspx?WishListNumber=6016789
Replacing a X2 4400+/7800 GTX system. Don't make fun of Raptors in RAID 0; that'll stay. Can't really afford i7 setup. $1200 was my original budget but I pushed it up to $1500 when I made the build.
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It was pink and the total amount was about 10 mL.
A girl came over to me and asked, Oh that's pretty.....are you making a cup cake?
I said, no......it's about 10mL.
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anyway, last night i was playing fable II. i just started played this weekend, i'm maybe 3 hours in, and i'm booting around, getting the hang of it, exploring in a meandering fashion, whatever. i'm not in it for any goal or to be efficient, just to fuck around.
around 11 or so, i get a message on live from the aforementioned shacker asking if i wanted to join up. i vaguely knew that there was a sort of coop in fable II, but seeing that he had almost all the achievements in the game, i decided not to try this feature out. the game seems kind of single-player to me, and i wanted to continue dawdling about without having to worry about boring anyone else.
so a whilte later, i'm standing there woodchopping, and then suddenly this blue eyeball with an xbox-green glow around it floats up behind me and startles me so much i fuck up my awesome woodchopping chain. i realize it's that same shacker, and while it's quite unnerving to have a huge eyeball right behind me, i figure that's his character, in his own game, cutting wood or something.
...until the eyeball kind of starts moving back and forth.
so i can't keep my concentration, and run away from woodchopping. yes, i ran away from the floating eyeball.
for the next two or five minutes, i beebopped around town, farting on villagers and the like, but in the distance, that goddamned eyeball kept darting in and out of view. and then sometimes it would be RIGHT FUCKING THERE next to me.
now i have no idea whether drzettl just really wanted to play, or if he was freaked out by what i suppose was me, in eyeball form, in his town, but in the end, i stopped playing fable II and went and read a book.
luckily i have learned you can turn that shit off in options, so i won't be eyeball stalked tonight.
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What is a good LCD Monitor for gaming? I know jack squat about LCD monitors. Do you have to run your games in the native resolution? I heard if you don't, it doesn't look that good or something. I still have a rather large trinitron CRT monitor and I figure I should look for another one before my CRT blows up, it's about 5 years old or more...
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Does this mean I can stick 1GB in each slot?
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I'm probably reaching here, but does anyone here have experience with bifocals and using a computer?
Yes, I know. lol
I let the sales lady talk me into no-line bifocals. The top half of the lens is for distance vision and the bottom half is multi-focal (for reading). I specifically mentioned that I spend all day in front of a computer and have to be able to see the screen easily and comfortably. She swore up and down on baby Jesus that they would be perfect for this, so I went with it.
Well, I got the glasses today. Unless I sit with my head 2 feet higher than the monitor I have to have my head tilted back in order to focus on the screen. Even when I am focused on the screen, the focal area is incredibly small, and the rest of the screen is fuzzy and bowed. There's no way I can write code all day with these damned glasses.
Am I doing something wrong or will I adapt to them? I'm thinking about returning them and getting a set of normal prescription glasses and a 2nd set of prescription reading glasses. I'd wanted to avoid toting a 2nd set of glasses around, but these bifocals just aren't doing it for me.
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