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Off Topic / I Took My Blood Pressure Yesterday At Work...
« on: February 26, 2004, 11:37:12 PM »
I hope you get hit by a bus.
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Off Topic / I Took My Blood Pressure Yesterday At Work...
« on: February 25, 2004, 07:45:14 AM »
Yeah... y'know what sucks? Dave *doesn't* do anything, and hasn't gained a pound... he's skinny like a twig.
I join swim team, do some biking every so often, walk a lot, hell, I'm playing broomball, and I just keep gaining pounds.
DARN YOU AND YOUR METABOLISM!
I join swim team, do some biking every so often, walk a lot, hell, I'm playing broomball, and I just keep gaining pounds.
DARN YOU AND YOUR METABOLISM!
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Off Topic / I Took My Blood Pressure Yesterday At Work...
« on: February 23, 2004, 11:47:23 PM »
You're back working at Ace... only the Colorado variety Ace which are equipped for every bombmaker's needs?
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Off Topic / Mc Hawking
« on: February 23, 2004, 11:44:50 PM »
Uranium, you're just telling them about this now? Way to keep them behind the times, dude. ~_^
*digs Drive-By as well*
*digs Drive-By as well*
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Off Topic / Wireless Mice
« on: February 17, 2004, 12:25:00 PM »
I will never get a wireless mouse and/or keyboard for gaming. Given my luck, the batteries would fail right when I'd have the chance for the best kill in the game.
However, wireless is very good for casual use, when timing isn't necessary and if a battery fails, it's no big deal to go replace it.
My girlfriend Nikkie has wireless both (Logitech), and it's really fun to just sit on her bed and type and chat with friends online while surfing.
However, I need to go to my laptop and its 2 year old opitcal corded mouse (touchpads can burn) when I want to play. I'm too paranoid to use the wireless mouse and keyboard when I care about the integrity of my Soviet base or my rushing Marines (I'm an avid Red Alert 2, Civilization III, StarCraft fan).
And yes, yell at me for having a laptop and wanting to game on it. I don't care. It may have been more expensive than a desktop of the same features, but the ability to just up and move it with no effort is key to me in a college setting. I wouldn't want to try the same with a desktop.
However, wireless is very good for casual use, when timing isn't necessary and if a battery fails, it's no big deal to go replace it.
My girlfriend Nikkie has wireless both (Logitech), and it's really fun to just sit on her bed and type and chat with friends online while surfing.
However, I need to go to my laptop and its 2 year old opitcal corded mouse (touchpads can burn) when I want to play. I'm too paranoid to use the wireless mouse and keyboard when I care about the integrity of my Soviet base or my rushing Marines (I'm an avid Red Alert 2, Civilization III, StarCraft fan).
And yes, yell at me for having a laptop and wanting to game on it. I don't care. It may have been more expensive than a desktop of the same features, but the ability to just up and move it with no effort is key to me in a college setting. I wouldn't want to try the same with a desktop.
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Off Topic / Mozilla Firefox 0.9 Released
« on: February 13, 2004, 07:16:14 AM »
Yeah... I mostly only use the mouse to click on hyperlinks or highlighting text. Everything else I do through keyboard shortcuts.
It's really disturbing when you're telling your GUI-oriented user friend to Cut and Paste some text off a website and then watch them use the Edit menu.
It's really disturbing when you're telling your GUI-oriented user friend to Cut and Paste some text off a website and then watch them use the Edit menu.
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Off Topic / For Uranium
« on: February 08, 2004, 07:23:05 PM »
I'm going to say something that might confuse some people, especially if they've read my prior posts.
I partially agree with the comic on the first page.
Now that I've given you all a chance to let that sink in, let me explain why:
What I hate is the insane popularization of it, how it's becoming basically a "pop culture" type deal. Where if something has anime, the clueless consumer goes out and buys it regardless of what it's actually like.
Two examples:
T-Mobile anime-inspired ads for their messaging celly.
Cartoon Network's "Teen Titans".
Now, the first, I was kind of actually interested in, because of a) the animation of the ad, and b) how anime had actually became something of a popular enough thing that business was now using it as a way of advertising products.
But the more I thought about reason B, the more I realized how much I didn't like the ad. They were using the appeal of anime to try and lure in consumers who are just interested in the anime aspect of it. They were using one of my pasttimes as a marketing ploy (I know the reason sounds stupid, but that's my opinion of why I didn't like it. Feel free to put up tons of more examples, asking why I don't agree with those. Chances are I actually will, but for now, whatever. This is an anime thread).
For "Teen Titans", I just saw the show last night, and dear GOD I was disturbed out of my mind. Now, I did some research, and I found out that the producer of this show was actually Japanese, and was inspired by anime to do it, but I think WB might have been egging him on to over-anime-ize it. In no anime have I seen (and that's a fair deal, young children's cartoons included) have so many anime-type gimmicks (the anime smilies, blushing, sweatdrops, bubbles around the mouth for sickness, etc etc) occured in such a bloody hecking short time! I'm talking seconds here! In the anime I remember watching, they might have something like that every other minute or so... but not second! >_<
Honestly, I make it a point to know about the anime series, either through personal prior viewings, or through reliable friend's comments about the series, before I go out and purchase stuff from it (unless it's a gift for someone else who I know enjoys the stuff I'm buying).
For instance, there's no way in hell I'd buy anything "Goldenboy" or "Ping Pong Club" related, same with "Dragonball Z". I've seen all those, and was seriously disturbed (even though they're anime. Not every anime fan have to like all aspects of it, nor does every Japan-hater have to hate it all). I won't touch those with a 50 and a half foot long pole.
I guess you couldn't technically call me an otaku, per se, and I'm not fanatically loyal to all anime. I mean, I will support it on measures, but if I see someone who's going ga-ga over any little Japanese-related thing, I'll back away slowly, and then run.
I partially agree with the comic on the first page.
Now that I've given you all a chance to let that sink in, let me explain why:
What I hate is the insane popularization of it, how it's becoming basically a "pop culture" type deal. Where if something has anime, the clueless consumer goes out and buys it regardless of what it's actually like.
Two examples:
T-Mobile anime-inspired ads for their messaging celly.
Cartoon Network's "Teen Titans".
Now, the first, I was kind of actually interested in, because of a) the animation of the ad, and b) how anime had actually became something of a popular enough thing that business was now using it as a way of advertising products.
But the more I thought about reason B, the more I realized how much I didn't like the ad. They were using the appeal of anime to try and lure in consumers who are just interested in the anime aspect of it. They were using one of my pasttimes as a marketing ploy (I know the reason sounds stupid, but that's my opinion of why I didn't like it. Feel free to put up tons of more examples, asking why I don't agree with those. Chances are I actually will, but for now, whatever. This is an anime thread).
For "Teen Titans", I just saw the show last night, and dear GOD I was disturbed out of my mind. Now, I did some research, and I found out that the producer of this show was actually Japanese, and was inspired by anime to do it, but I think WB might have been egging him on to over-anime-ize it. In no anime have I seen (and that's a fair deal, young children's cartoons included) have so many anime-type gimmicks (the anime smilies, blushing, sweatdrops, bubbles around the mouth for sickness, etc etc) occured in such a bloody hecking short time! I'm talking seconds here! In the anime I remember watching, they might have something like that every other minute or so... but not second! >_<
Honestly, I make it a point to know about the anime series, either through personal prior viewings, or through reliable friend's comments about the series, before I go out and purchase stuff from it (unless it's a gift for someone else who I know enjoys the stuff I'm buying).
For instance, there's no way in hell I'd buy anything "Goldenboy" or "Ping Pong Club" related, same with "Dragonball Z". I've seen all those, and was seriously disturbed (even though they're anime. Not every anime fan have to like all aspects of it, nor does every Japan-hater have to hate it all). I won't touch those with a 50 and a half foot long pole.
I guess you couldn't technically call me an otaku, per se, and I'm not fanatically loyal to all anime. I mean, I will support it on measures, but if I see someone who's going ga-ga over any little Japanese-related thing, I'll back away slowly, and then run.
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Anime I possess atm:
Cowboy Bebop (series and movie)
Neon Genesis Evangelion (series and movies)
His and Her Circumstances
Animatrix
Spirited Away
Berserk
Boys Be
Bubblegum Crisis 2032
Bubblegum Crisis 2040
Chobits
Di Gi Charat
Escaflowne (OVA and movie)
Excel Saga
FLCL
Fruits Basket
Full Metal Panic
Fullmetal Alchemist
Gravitation
.Hack//SIGN
Inu Yasha
Love Hina
Mahoromatic
Martian Successor Nadesico
Naruto
Oh My Goddess (series and movie)
Perfect Blue
Princess Mononoke
Ranma 1/2 (series and movie)
Read or Die
Record of Lodoss War
Star Ocean
Tenchi Muyo! GXP
Tokyo Mew Mew
Trigun
Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust
Cowboy Bebop (series and movie)
Neon Genesis Evangelion (series and movies)
His and Her Circumstances
Animatrix
Spirited Away
Berserk
Boys Be
Bubblegum Crisis 2032
Bubblegum Crisis 2040
Chobits
Di Gi Charat
Escaflowne (OVA and movie)
Excel Saga
FLCL
Fruits Basket
Full Metal Panic
Fullmetal Alchemist
Gravitation
.Hack//SIGN
Inu Yasha
Love Hina
Mahoromatic
Martian Successor Nadesico
Naruto
Oh My Goddess (series and movie)
Perfect Blue
Princess Mononoke
Ranma 1/2 (series and movie)
Read or Die
Record of Lodoss War
Star Ocean
Tenchi Muyo! GXP
Tokyo Mew Mew
Trigun
Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust
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Off Topic / Total War Rome
« on: February 04, 2004, 10:57:57 PM »
Um, I kinda said I *couldn't* charge my army across them. It was more like "5 horsemen... then another 5... and so on. LIVE YOU BASTARDS!"
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General / Geek Rites Of Passage
« on: February 04, 2004, 10:55:38 PM »
21, but that was with guessing. So I'm assuming more like 15 or something, since I sincerely doubt I'm that close to Uranium in terms of score. (Gamma)
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Off Topic / Total War Rome
« on: February 04, 2004, 10:35:32 PM »
Yeah, I wish you could set up individual battles where the units were pretty much on top of each other already, but I guess it's a little more epic and realistic to give each army a chance to maneuver into position.
My only complaint were the bridge maps, and all of those complaints come from the realistic fact that I would not be able to charge the enemy across a bridge and under a hail of arrows... but boy, when I got to hold the bridge! ^^
My only complaint were the bridge maps, and all of those complaints come from the realistic fact that I would not be able to charge the enemy across a bridge and under a hail of arrows... but boy, when I got to hold the bridge! ^^
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Off Topic / For Uranium
« on: February 04, 2004, 10:28:12 PM »
Uranium's just upset because someone else has the keys to his underwear drawer.
~_^
Leaderz0rz, you're doing a great job. Just hope you don't give up like I did long ago... Gem's got a point... arguing with Uranium about this topic is like trying to convince the rock to roll. (You just gotta push it off a cliff and hope no one dies in the process ~_^)
~_^
Leaderz0rz, you're doing a great job. Just hope you don't give up like I did long ago... Gem's got a point... arguing with Uranium about this topic is like trying to convince the rock to roll. (You just gotta push it off a cliff and hope no one dies in the process ~_^)
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Off Topic / For Uranium
« on: February 03, 2004, 10:48:07 PM »
Sorry, there ain't a catbus nor some fancy bling bling, but Cowboy Bebop Episode 17, Mushroom Samba, has some black dudes (and a dudette) in it.
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Wow... I can't believe people forgot the following:
Slayers. Think of D&D and all your tabletop misadventures you've had with your buddies... then put it in anime format. Seriously, this is pretty much all the stereotypical archetypes that gamers play... the dumb warrior, innocent and good for all cleric, brash sorceress, etc etc, with the silly OOC side comments kept in for good measure! Great laughs, fun time.
Lupin III - Just as much a hit now, it's an oldie and a goodie. International thievery with comedic hijinks to boot.
His and Her Circumstances - My only complaint was that the ending seemed a little anti-climactic... however, the entire series is pretty much a year of high school. It's a romantic comedy, and I really liked it because it was cute, with occaisonal bouts of randomness. Uranium, watch this because the characters in the series have realistic hair colors. There's still the different from plain black, but judging from what my friend has sent back of what the modern teenage crowd is doing, these characters could fit more or less right in.
And I must say I loved Perfect Blue... of course, mindf_cks are my kind of thing, I like being messed with, and having it all come together at the end.
Mouse, my gf is addicted to Fullmetal Alchemist, and I must say I enjoy it too, although not as much as shoujo ^_^;;
Slayers. Think of D&D and all your tabletop misadventures you've had with your buddies... then put it in anime format. Seriously, this is pretty much all the stereotypical archetypes that gamers play... the dumb warrior, innocent and good for all cleric, brash sorceress, etc etc, with the silly OOC side comments kept in for good measure! Great laughs, fun time.
Lupin III - Just as much a hit now, it's an oldie and a goodie. International thievery with comedic hijinks to boot.
His and Her Circumstances - My only complaint was that the ending seemed a little anti-climactic... however, the entire series is pretty much a year of high school. It's a romantic comedy, and I really liked it because it was cute, with occaisonal bouts of randomness. Uranium, watch this because the characters in the series have realistic hair colors. There's still the different from plain black, but judging from what my friend has sent back of what the modern teenage crowd is doing, these characters could fit more or less right in.
And I must say I loved Perfect Blue... of course, mindf_cks are my kind of thing, I like being messed with, and having it all come together at the end.
Mouse, my gf is addicted to Fullmetal Alchemist, and I must say I enjoy it too, although not as much as shoujo ^_^;;
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Off Topic / Eee! Look What I Bought =d
« on: February 03, 2004, 10:31:32 PM »
*is jealous. Is very very very very jealous*
Lucky peeps and their arcade-like action at home...
Oh, Mitsurugi (or whatever that character is) Japan is fun to play in a hakama... you know, those really loose Japanese pants that you wear for martial arts practice? You can really get low in them and it's so fun just to do it all just two feet above the pad...
Lucky peeps and their arcade-like action at home...
Oh, Mitsurugi (or whatever that character is) Japan is fun to play in a hakama... you know, those really loose Japanese pants that you wear for martial arts practice? You can really get low in them and it's so fun just to do it all just two feet above the pad...
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Off Topic / Meandering from the Pic thread
« on: February 03, 2004, 10:24:02 PM »
Dude, Uranium... what kind of forum won't let you post a dynamic link in img tags?
Just click here instead for the Evil Flower Piccie of Dooooooooooooom!
Just click here instead for the Evil Flower Piccie of Dooooooooooooom!
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Off Topic / Things You Miss About Aol
« on: February 03, 2004, 10:11:26 PM »
I never understood why Geocities (back when it was a good free webpage place) and numerous other perfectly fine sites on the whole was blocked, even on the slot just below Full Access or whatnot.
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Off Topic / Total War Rome
« on: February 03, 2004, 10:07:02 PM »
Shogun was a sweet game. It combined TBS and RTS, and made them huge battles! I dug that tons!
*loved watching his samurai cavalry armies slaughter the gunpowder weilding shogun as they were caught unawares and downhill*
*loved watching his samurai cavalry armies slaughter the gunpowder weilding shogun as they were caught unawares and downhill*
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Off Topic / For Uranium
« on: February 03, 2004, 10:03:16 PM »
Uranium, just to reiterate what I've told you time and time again:
For the hair, it makes character recognition a helluva lot easier, and the eyes display emotion a lot easier and cause less strain for the artists.
For the hair, it makes character recognition a helluva lot easier, and the eyes display emotion a lot easier and cause less strain for the artists.
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