| FYI |
[Nov. 7th, 2009|10:23 am] |
I may be in sporadic contact over the next couple/few days. Death may have come for my hard drive, and I don't think I can win his game.
First my glasses, now this. Ugh. |
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| Kill all sons of bitches. |
[Oct. 22nd, 2009|04:31 pm] |
I'll be honest. I was planning on waiting unless I could find someone who wanted to get in on a four pack deal. But after watching -that-? Damn. |
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| In which a thrash band sings about Citan |
[Oct. 21st, 2009|06:20 am] |
After finally finishing that new OCRemix Xenogears album, I'm pretty satisfied with it. I like the whole dichotomy approach to it. The first half contains some really nice, soft, and as stated, human pieces. Lots of guitar and orchestral, and exotic sounds. The second half is more typical OCremix fair (faire?), metallic/synthetic, hyper at times, and sometimes weird. (the aforementioned "Shit on Citan"). Edit: Did I mention the polka-ish version of "The Sky, The Clouds, and You"? Well, I have now.
All in all, I like it. I think this was the first OCR album I've actually downloaded since Voices of the Lifestream. I don't remember any others that interested me after that one until now. In total, I've downloaded Relics of the Chozo, Hedgehog Heaven, Chrono Symphonic, Voices, and now this.
Oh, and I think there's a Pokemon album coming up. At least, it's been advertised when I've been playing on the OCR TF2 server.
Edit the second:
Video preview trailer for the album, check it out:
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| SGU |
[Oct. 10th, 2009|02:00 am] |
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Spoiler alert.
So wait, what happened to those two that went to one of the locked-out worlds? Besides being left behind of course. Did I miss something or skip past it by accident?
Also, WTF at that ship at the end.
MUST HAVE MOAR. |
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| Behold the power of Sandvich |
[Oct. 2nd, 2009|04:04 am] |
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The OCR TF2 server is just awesome.
Everything was normal until... Sandvich Heavy came. He decended upon the land, showing Red and Blu alike with the glory of Sandvich. He was kredit to both teams!
Slowly, people came to learn of his Sandvich ways and to entertain him... Soldiers juggled for him, Pyros air-guitared most humbly, and Medics regaled him with the soft sounds of Ubersaw.
So inspired were we that we had a boxing match of Heavies, to honor our king of the Sandvich.
Later, we played Bat Wars on Well, and it was glorious. We attempted to homerun each other into the train, played catch with the Sandman, and tried to stop the train with a dispenser and an ubered spy.
All thanks to the gift of Sandvich. OM NOM NOM, my friends. OM NOM NOM. |
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| Make a funny and roll to credits |
[Sep. 27th, 2009|02:05 am] |
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I was remarking on how my tastes have changed and matured with regard to TV (and other things). I've been rewatching the first season of Knight Rider, and I constantly cringe at the production values, the pratically mandatory "get the girl" bits, and the also mandatory "AHAHAHAHAHAHAH" moments at the end of every episode. It's like, if it doesn't end on a joke, then it's just not 80's TV.
In regards to production values, it's understandable. At the time, the show was a risk, I think. Still, when KITT's appearance can change from one scene to another for no real story-related reason, it can be offputting. For instance, one scene, the car's got a bar under the front end, probably used for towing during "looking through the front windshield" scenes. In other, the bar's gone, and the hood is misaligned with the headlights and sensor bar light thingy. In another, the bumper lights are there, but covered, and then suddenly the front end's a solid piece. Let's not talk about silly things like KITT being horribly dirty and then suddenly clean as new. (Perhaps the Molecular Bonded Shell is delayed-action teflon? :P)
A lot of this can be attributed to the fact that they had multiple cars to use for different purposes. There was the general use one, one for turbo boosts that had different suspension and no internal bits, and I think another for stunt driving use.
Beyond all that, another instance that came to mind is when KITT gets mauled by Goliath in season... 2 was it? Anyway, back when I was a kid, I was dumbfounded at this moment. How could my hero, the seemingly invincible combo of KITT and Michael Knight, be rendered asunder with such careless abandon? Now, in TV shows, I don't think I could enjoy a show where the protagonist is nigh perfect and always wins the day.
80's show's aren't the only ones. Take SeaQuest for example. Gratuitous reuse of (then quite new) CGI scenes, somewhat hokey storylines at least in the second season on, and near the end of the second season, a glut of "which popular sci fi movie will we rip off today?" stories. In the span of a few episodes we have a Thing -and- a Predator ripoff. It can be hard to stomach after the likes of Stargate, Battlestar Galactica, and other more modern Sci-Fi. And even they fell into some tropes.
Anyway, I blame the nostalgia-tinted glasses. Or not. I still like 'em, they just have moments of WTF that makes me wonder why I do. |
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| This is Three-Dog *AROOOOOOOOOOOO* with your Fallout 3 Crash update! |
[Jun. 24th, 2009|10:26 pm] |
Good news! I got some more ram, and so far it seems to be helping immensely! *knock on wood* I have 4GB now, though I'm still running XP 32-bit so only 3.25 of it shows up. Still, that should be more than enough for the games I have currently, and I can always upgrade in the future.
I was really worried my video card was failing, or had too little ram to effectively run Fallout 3, but I guess that wasn't the case. At least on medium settings. |
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| Fallout 3 and assorted other nonsense |
[Jun. 19th, 2009|04:59 am] |
Tried a few more things today to try to get Fallout 3 to stop crashing. None really did anything, sadly, and a few broke other things on the computer (easily remedied, thankfully). I guess I'm out of luck short of someone giving me their 360 F3, me finding a sale on it, or Point Lookout coming with a patch that magically fixes the crashing issues (without invalidating my save games plzkthx!).
Today wasn't a total wash though. After finally getting tired of the stock ATT TouchFlo3D theme on my ATT/HTC Fuze/Touch Pro/Raphael, I found out how to properly reskin it, and now it uses a nice minimalistic black theme, similar to the original theme the phone comes with unbranded (minus the somewhat garish green selection color). It involves a mishmash of several cab files, but it works (phew). And best of all, my home screen's wallpaper is Mega Man standing on top of the building from the title screen of Mega Man 2. All thanks to CurlehMustache at the Capcom Unity blog.
IT'S SO PRINGLES. |
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| Home is where the file cabinet is |
[Jun. 18th, 2009|01:36 am] |
So far, I've had fewer crashes than before. Probably some combination of the defragging, tweaking the page file, and such. But essentially, I'm down to one crash every two hours or so. Which is much more managable than every five bloody minutes. Still, I'm quicksaving like crazy because I never know when it's going to happen again.
Edit: Looks like I jinxed it, it's crashing a bunch again. Sigh. And just when I was enjoying fighting off fire spewing ants. |
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