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Saturday, April 11, 2009

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Yes, that is Hotel California, and yes it is real.

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MA17 said...: BET is showing The Matrix Reloaded as part of their "Black Buster Movies" feature. Naturally I tuned in to see what all of this was about, given that The Matrix Reloaded is not, say, The Color Purple. After it came back from the commercial break, the first thing they show is Niobe talking to Link about the whereabouts of Morpheus. You win this round, BET.; April 5, 2009 at 1:09 AM
_J_ said...: The squids represent AIDS and Zion represents the African Continent.; April 5, 2009 at 1:13 AM
_J_ said...: Someone in D&D had a baby today. They posted a picture.

We decided that we need to sacrifice this baby to further humankind's knowledge.

First up? Is the baby a blank slate or does it have some fundamental programming?

Then we're going to test to see if it understands a priori concepts.; April 5, 2009 at 1:16 AM
MA17 said...: You guys should be the ones without a chat thread, not G&T. Listen to you all in there with your baby sacrifices.

We just posted ben affleck autobots and BAM we're kicked out.; April 5, 2009 at 1:47 AM
_J_ said...: That's cause G&T is serious business whereas D&D is all about exploring new possibilities.; April 5, 2009 at 2:23 AM
Roscoe said...: man.. I'm reading this shortly after waking and I'm all thinking Gin and Tonics ARE serious Business!

Dungeons and Dragons is all about min/maxing, though.; April 5, 2009 at 1:27 PM
_J_ said...: Debate and Discourse, homes; April 5, 2009 at 6:10 PM
Unknown said...: Man, I avoid the PA forums like a cokehead stripper with leprosy, and I understood what G&T and D&D meant in this context... jeez.; April 5, 2009 at 6:32 PM
Unknown said...: To clarify my simile, I avoid the PA forums like I would avoid cokehead strippers with leprosy. Not as could also be understood, I avoid the PA forums like a cokehead stripper would avoid the PA forums. That is all, please continue.; April 5, 2009 at 6:34 PM
Unknown said...: Once more comment on my simile, it could be possible that I also avoid the PA forums like cokehead strippers with leprosy avoid the PA forums. I think I may do some research to see if cokehead strippers with leprosy avoid the PA forums, and how prevalent the trend may or may not be, to decide if both possible interpretations are correct.; April 5, 2009 at 6:36 PM
Roscoe said...: ... Kyle, Have you been working the the Gentleman's Bars to make ends meet?; April 5, 2009 at 8:07 PM
_J_ said...: "I think I may do some research to see if cokehead strippers with leprosy avoid the PA forums"

Well, given the content of the philosophy of Mind thread in D&D, I would have to conclude that cokehead strippers with leprosy do, in fact, frequent the PA forums.; April 5, 2009 at 9:25 PM
Mike Lewis said...: new episode of Kings was great -
but i fear next week, for the stunt casting is about the begin.; April 5, 2009 at 11:24 PM
Roscoe said...: So.. I'm playing Suik DS, right?

And.. I'm enjoying it.. it's a bit simplified from console Suiks, but not badly so, and it's got some charm to it.

But I hit the point where I feel like I want to at least reasonably outfit my army. And, so I trade-routed up things. There's no GameFAQs trade route list up yet, so I broke out Excel.

Which is where I learned to hate this game. See, as you sell trade goods, more goods open up. Sell enough Wool Thread, and Wool Cloth starts selling. Which plays havoc w/ the spreadsheet, but.. okay.. managable.. except...

As you sell enough trade goods, newer, costlier weapons and armor show up for sale in your base... while you were in the middle of outfitting your army.

and I'm not talking a couple hundred gold more.. but a couple hundred K gold more. per item. Per member. And like all good Suik games, I'll eventually have 108 folks, 3/4s of which wear armor.

I mean.. we're talking gear that costs more than I've earned trade routing so far. And I'm about to break 7 digits, and had nearly outfit my people when I noticed the new gear.; April 6, 2009 at 12:14 AM
MA17 said...: I kind of like selling lots of little worthless items to make actually useful items appear in stores. I hate feeling like I've just bought something when I should have waited instead. Then again, I kind of like having ridiculously expensive items to look forward to.

Didn't Suikoden stop being good a few years ago?; April 6, 2009 at 9:28 PM
MA17 said...: So I'm giving this 6teen thing on CN a chance, because fuck, I'm a fair guy. It's flash animation about how teenagers have to deal with THINGS. And then BAM it's a Weapon of Choice video homage that runs for like the entire length of the Fatboy Slim video and is pretty much exactly the same thing. I figure, the people in this show are 16, which means that the people watching it are < 16. This means they were born in 1994 or later. This means they were...what...at most seven years old when this video was making its rounds?

Also, apparently this series was made a few years ago. That could close the age gap a little, and justify the Weapon of Choice thing, but still.; April 6, 2009 at 9:58 PM
Roscoe said...: 6teen's from the same prod. company who did Total Drama Island, right?

God, what terrible show that I saw too much of.

as for Suik.. well.. I'm a sucker for the games, and I know it.. but.. it's fairly charming on the DS. The story's one about a series of alternate worlds.. that.. as far as I can tell... start collapsing into one another.

and it's gotten better, once I built a fair sized stockpile of cash to begin buying the lower priced of the goods between two towns, and just moving between each other, buying out one side and selling to the other... basically economic grinding.

less troublesome than moving from each city to the next, buying their cheaps and selling their highs.; April 6, 2009 at 10:15 PM
MA17 said...: Ugh, you're pretty correct about the 6teen / Total Drama Island overlap of staff. I knew there was at least a target audience similarity, but man... how do you look back at your years in animation and say "I have made mediocre tween genre crap"?

I can't be too hard on Suikoden. I played about an hour of IV before I decided that I had had exactly enough of that shit. And then V came in with poor reviews from people I trust.

YOu know what I didn't think would get overexposed in the US was Persona / Shin Megami Tensei. But damn, that shit is all manner of over and done with due to the carpet bombing of new editions of the same old same old.

This is to say nothing of Tales of. Used to be we only got less than half of that series, then they started putting one out every time you turned around. This is the sixth year without Breath of Fire, and this is the first console generation since the NES to not have one. What is the hold up?; April 6, 2009 at 10:28 PM
MA17 said...: I forgot to mention where Suikoden 2 and 3 were pretty good. Those ones were pretty good. Especially 2.; April 6, 2009 at 10:29 PM
Roscoe said...: Suik 2 is Gold Standard.

I dunno about 5.. I kinda like it, but it takes for goddamn ever to get underway.

The less said about Suik. Tactics the better, I fear.; April 7, 2009 at 11:57 AM
_J_ said...: Question for Mikey:

So, you basically do literary criticism. What do you think of everyone's best friend Derrida?

There is a class on Derrida offered for the fall...and I'm to decide whether or not it would kill me.; April 7, 2009 at 3:38 PM
_J_ said...: New PSP Design

Jesus Jackrabbit Fuck that is pretty! And look at how prominently they place the screen. It cannot wait to be scratched.

Fucking Sony. They really need to start designing products which are meant to be used rather than placed upon a sanctified mound and worshipped.; April 7, 2009 at 3:48 PM
MA17 said...: Isn't that the uncorroborated, theoretical maybe-design that's been around?; April 7, 2009 at 6:05 PM
_J_ said...: Yeah. But it might be real.; April 7, 2009 at 11:37 PM
_J_ said...: tone matrix

gin + tone matrix = wheee; April 8, 2009 at 2:01 AM
_J_ said...: I think i need to stop being a pussy.; April 8, 2009 at 4:15 AM
_J_ said...: Unskippable: With Yahtzee

Is it funny? I am undecided.; April 8, 2009 at 5:32 PM
MA17 said...: That was pretty funny. Properly applied MST3K formula is gold, and these guys are pretty good at making it work, I think.; April 8, 2009 at 9:12 PM
_J_ said...: Breakdown of current WoW Arena Tournament Team Composition

For those if you who hate WoW you may still enjoy the graphs.; April 9, 2009 at 1:28 PM
_J_ said...: "Properly applied MST3K formula is gold"

I think that properly applied MST3K formula by parts of the MST3K crew is gold.

When non-MST3K people do it, though, I am compelled to pause and consider its merits.; April 9, 2009 at 1:30 PM
_J_ said...: I'm either going to take Derrida or Puritanism.

I think in the end I'm going to pussy out of Derrida. But if I want to do continental...but maybe I don't want to do continental...

GAH; April 9, 2009 at 3:36 PM
MA17 said...: I'm intending "properly applied" to mean that it's funny, and not just a bunch of guys finishing everyone's sentences with COCKS DICKS LOL. Or I mean that it at least skews towards the funny side of that continuum.; April 9, 2009 at 5:55 PM
MA17 said...: Could there possibly be any reason that it's necessary to manually enter the information from my W-2 onto a 1040? Information goes from computer to computer to computer, then to a printer, then through the mail, then to me, and then I put it back into a computer. I see an inefficient and error-prone step there.; April 9, 2009 at 6:15 PM
Caleb said...: You can take Derrida -- just remember to punch in the gut, then sweep the leg.; April 9, 2009 at 11:00 PM
Mike Lewis said...: Glenn Beck has totally lost is mind.; April 10, 2009 at 11:26 AM
Mike Lewis said...: Derrida would be a more useful class in the long run

lots of people talk about Derrida but most people don't understand what the fuck he was talking about.

Knowing what the fuck he is talking about is key to doing anything little-p philosophy related at this point; April 10, 2009 at 2:52 PM
_J_ said...: Yeah. Derrida scares me...but...I think it would look better on a transcript and behoove me.

It's just that it's being taught by the hardass professor. So Derrida + hardass professor...is scary.; April 10, 2009 at 6:14 PM
_J_ said...: I want Glenn Beck's job.; April 10, 2009 at 6:23 PM
_J_ said...: Rifftrax did Eragon!; April 10, 2009 at 6:41 PM
Mike Lewis said...: jay - suck it up
you are in grad school now; April 10, 2009 at 6:59 PM
MA17 said...: I would watch Rifftrax Eragon.

Also, someone needs to read Eragon and report whether or not it is super-shitty.; April 10, 2009 at 7:35 PM
_J_ said...: Sucking it up would be a thing to do. That's why I signed up for the class.; April 11, 2009 at 1:55 AM
Roscoe said...: I love this new transformed Glenn Beck, Naked Showman.

Because.. while he ABSOLUTELY terrrifies me.. he knows his damn game, and plays it to the hilt.; April 11, 2009 at 1:22 PM
_J_ said...: I wish I had Glenn Beck's job.; April 11, 2009 at 6:02 PM

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