Saturday, July 31, 2004

Ummm..
Why the leg humping O Rugs?

Well I am sure most of you are aware, but Doom3 comes out on the 3rd of August. They also just released the final trailer. Man does it look good. Stiff requirements though. I make them by a bit, but not a lot. If you dont have 1.5Ghz or a Radeon8500/Geforce3, your not going to make the cut. If you want to see what they are in more detail and how your rig will perform, they have a pretty rigerous set of tests at HardOCP. They also have a lot of screenshots of different quality settings.

Rude: Sweet deal on the comp action. You'll have to give us a shout when yours is released. I still listen to Lab Classics in the car. Good stuff.

Anyway I am off to see Napoleon Dynamite.

I Like Green

Friday, July 30, 2004

By the way.. forget to mention it previously.. the ^random title pictures^ are in a word..

Rad.

*humps Aaron's leg*


A few nuggets of happiness that I must drop into your collective day:

http://www.liquidgeneration.com/quiz/villain_quiz.asp




Ok, so this one is pretty bad.. but the first few are amusing, as is simultaneously hitting more than one for some COMBOS:

http://www.joshellison.com/screwball/fartATron.swf


..and if for some reason you haven't been spammed by this one yet, verrah nice:

http://atomfilms.shockwave.com/af/content/this_land_af



Late,

O-Rugs
Cop the album Sept 1 !!!

Hey guys. First thing first, check this out:

clICK!

I'm track 10 on this comp. My full-length should come out around Jan!

Religion:

I haven't studied it too much, but I find it pretty interesting. As cheesy as the Dan Brown books are (Da Vinci Code & Angels/Daemons) they bring up some pretty interesting things about the creation of the catholic church and all that shit. I haven't followed up any of the stuff in those books with any research, but ya - it makes sense.

I've read and listened to a lot of Alan Watts lectures, and he has some really interesting insight/perspectives on religion. You can grab a lot of em on Kazza - they used to play him on KPFK, but I don't think they do anymore.

"It's like that Slayer album..."


Well, At least he didnt eat the goblins

You know I really am not good at flowing descriptive writing. I mean, I can put together some words and have the general meaning of what I am trying to say impressed in someone's head, but I am not a writer by trade. Yet, somehow I have been roped into writing a lot of the content for Pat's book. Blah... Jon where are you. I need a writing prostitute right now.

Elrock: That American Hardcore book is like finding Uranium 238 in the grocery store. Damn. Every time I am at a book store I look around for it, and well a lot of places have it in their DB, they dont have any in stock. I even found a place that said they had one in stock, but it was MIA. I guess I am going to have to break down and order the fugger.

O Rugs: You know I have come to this conclusion about religion: It is almost all recycled and unoriginal. There is a good reason so many of the religious beliefs practiced today have so many similarities. They all ultimately root to the same base religion... Power and those who chose to wield it to their own gains. Organized religious doctrine is just too self serving to those with ulterior motives. What is ironic is that over the millenia, many religious leaders probably did not even realize the pervasive perversion and truly felt that what they believed in was a righteous cause. In steps the crusades, jihads, etc... Yet at some point in the past someone uses these religions for their own gains or too save their own ass, even though they did not care for the religion itself. Say hello to the Romans. It is possible that maybe even those who fabricated the religions originally may have had less than altruistic intentions. Those creators and early leaders who didnt have ill intentions probably would watch in horror if they saw how their teachings had been perverted over the many years by those who did have bad intentions or poor judgements. I think religious teachings, to be true, must be passive, yet it is the aggressive active teachings that stick, because those are the conquerors and the 'creators' of history. Besides many of the religions are just to rigid to adjust to the multiude of changes to society that have come in the past two centuries. Hell Law has the same issue. So my point is, that should you believe in some form of a diety, you should worship in your own manner and not impose your ideas on others. Besides I think organized religion is a dated concept. It was really just a way to force morality on others so that society had a cohesive set of common mores. Now we have the fine institution of law. Oh wait, that sucks too. Oh well. That's what education and parents are for. Oh wait Bush gutted that. Well that leaves parents. Hahaha.. And I have said too much...

How's that for flame bait. I guess I am a bit ornary this afternoon.

Yo Momma
I'd just like to add that due to my love of juvenile, bathroom humor, I also find this amazingly funny:



 

http://www.bettybowers.com/graphics/bushdig.gif

Edit v2.0:  Think I've got a handle on the proper code-use.. (man, am I a tech-stoopid noobie!)   Would it kill folks to just have one universal "language" for this?  I know, I know.. STFU NOOB!

=]

Best,

O-Rugs



Thursday, July 29, 2004

On a related note..

I found out today that the commonly accepted explanation/history of the term "Rule of Thumb" that applied to a husband only being able to beat his wife with a stick/switch no wider than the width of this thumb is aparently a bit of an exaggeration and/or the result of perpetuated misinterpretations and a mix of outright falsehoods.

Interesting.

If people aren't opposed to rooting through some of the religious/political issues in the world (as long as folks are willing to do so without getting their panties in a bunch.. it just isn't worth that kind of drama to me), I think it might be fun to kick around some ideas and try to learn more about the world we live in.  I'm always open for better/more information and an honest exchange of knowledge.

My recent interest and exploration of religion was spurred by a string of conversations I had with some other folks that began with a delving into the origins of Christmas and Easter, being largely pagan celebratory rituals that were more or less absorbed into early Christianity in a (successful) attempt to assimilate the pagan masses.  The celebration of Christ's Mass was originally targeted for a lesser pagan celebration at the beginning of December but was moved, boldly, to try to take on the largest pagan ritual, the week-long Winter Solstice celebration (Saturnalia).   Easter is similar in that the bunnies, eggs and Spring-renewal elements are largely taken from the ancient belief in a pagan goddess of Spring (known by a TON of names), Eoastre, etc. 

From there, I got into questions about the origins of words in religion and the establishment of modern religious institutions, beginning back at the Council of Nicea with Constantine (a HUGE pagan guy) leading the goings-on and infusing so much pagan nomeclature, symbology and terminology into "Christianity" that if you were to remove all the pagan references, iconology and influences you'd not have much else left today.  Even the words Jesus (of Zues), Holy (Halo, Helo, all are direct sun-god references) and Amen (Pagan God, "Amen" being substituted for original word, "Amein") are ALL pagan in origin.  The original names of the guy known as "Jesus" and the supreme fella Himself "God" have been modified/removed from all the texts by Constantine & Co.

From there, you get as deep down the rabbit hole as you wanna go.   You've got the original Christian church, the Roman Catholic Church deleting one of the ten commandments and splitting another in half to keep the number at ten.. arbitrarily changing the day of sabbath just because they could, which was aparently supposed to be on Saturday (Saturnalia-day, ironically).

Anyway.. I'll stop rambling for now and get back to work.

=]

Late,

O-Rugs

Wednesday, July 28, 2004

From the official Arby's website:

So, in the words of Forrest, "We came up with Arby's, which stands for R.B., the initials of Raffel Brothers, although I guess customers might think the initials stand for roast beef."
 
Heh - see dude, you're not alone in thinking it stands for roast beefs.  :)
Oh fuck!  LOL! 

Are you serious?  That's AWESOME.

Haha!!  GREAT find!


Now I feel bad about two things:

1)  Being a total dumbass.  (But, damn.. ROAST BEEF, man!  LOL!)

2)  I have created an army of ignorant Arby's History mutants roaming the streets of this country.  What have I done?  I HAVE BECOME DEATH, THE DESTROYER OF WORLDS!

 
Hehe..   I'm still laughing about that.  Haha!  Too good! 

Wow.   Guess my mission in life is now to spread the truth to repent of my heretic R-B history.
I was just reading about Arby's, and the restraunt was started by two brothers, Forrest and Leroy Raffel.  They went with the name Arby's, which like art said stands for R.B.'s, which stands for Raffel Brothers.  Hazzah!

 
Hey guys...

Remember that Art guy. What a jerk.

I never picked up the Roast Beef reference. Way to go, make me feel bad. Just wait until the spelling/grammer nazi gets a hold of you (Jon). Ahh nevermind, I miss a lot of those word plays.

Seriously, every so often a little shit stirring is good here. Stir away. Besides political and philisophical topics are more fun.

Flibby Jibbit
Speaking of interesting word-associations.. I've been finding it funny lately that most people don't see/get the "hidden" meaning behind Arby's name.  For some reason it's always just made sense to me and I figured everyone "got it" until recently when I had to explain it to someone and then through subsequent investigation/questioning have kinda discovered that a LOT of people don't get it or just haven't ever really thought about it.

Then again, I think I heard about the place a lot growing up but never actually ate there until much later in life (I don't even remember seeing Arby's in the South Bay.. am I losing my mind?) so perhaps I worked it out on the auditory-level where most people see "Arby's" the name and don't get into the phonics of it.  I just always associated Roast Beef with "Arby's" as R & B..  It's funny though,  how little things like that are hiding in plain sight. 

Edit:  Man, re-read this and all that sure sounded like a big load of superior arrogant asshole-talk, didn't it?  LOL.  Sorry.  Unintentional, promise.. I'm a dumbass!

Maybe I'm just paying too much attention to the stupid minutia (sp?)  in life that no one else cares about.. hehe.. equally as possible I guess!

Actually, I've being going through a lot of realizations about this kind of stuff lately.  In large part, a lot of searching, reading and discovery about the origins and manifestation of organized religion and specifically about the massive changes/obfuscations and hidden meanings of words, people, places and things in post Council of Nicea era Christianity.  But, being the new fish here, I ain't about to go stirring the blog's political/religious crock pot when I'm still cutting my teeth and dunno if that's approved topica or not.

Apologies in advance if not.  Feel free to mock my Rainbow Squad mercilessly as punishment.

=/

Hehe..

Adios!


O-Rugs.




Tuesday, July 27, 2004

Well aside from mu

I found something pretty cool for those PS2 users in the group. There is this program that you can buy on DVD called HDLoader. It enables you to copy the game data from your PS2 game DVDs onto a hard drive connected to the network adapter on the PS2. The program is $35, the network adapter (The official Sony one) is $30 and most any old ATA IDE drive can be used. Check out the review and the HDLoader site. Besides the obvious piracy pluses, this set up makes games load much faster, both on startup and between levels. Unfortunately, this product is probably not long for life. Once Sony finds out, I am sure they will send out a cease and desist letter.

Bortz

Speaking of Mu, my new external Hard Drive meows every 10 minutes. Sweet...
Mu - the 12th letter in the Greek Alphabet, made popular by the film, Revenge of the Nerds with the serority Omega Mu.

Nerds!

are dub.
moot
adj.
Subject to debate; arguable: a moot question.
Law. Without legal significance, through having been previously decided or settled.
Of no practical importance; irrelevant.

Sounds sorta close to MU.  That's some rad shit - I gotta ask some of my pals that question about the bus and the pedofiles.  Heh.

Edit: 4 minutes too fucking late!

PS:  Dictionary.com REALLY needs to redo their website.  FUGLY!
That's interesting. I'd heard of the word "mu" in the context of a koan. I believe it was actually the answer to the sound of one hand clapping. I don't think it's a formal Japanese word with a strict meaning. It's just kind of a nonsense word.

According to some online etymological dictionary, "moot" comes from law school jargon for a discussion of a hypothetical case circa 1531, which in turn derives from an Ol' English word, "gemot," meaning a meeting to discuss justice or community affairs.

I needs me a subscription to the Oxford English Dictionary. Donations?
If you were on a bus full of naked boys and pedophiles, would you get off? 
 
MUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!! 
 
Hehe.. 

Edit:  Actually.. you think maybe that's where the english "moot" comes from, or at least is semi-related?  Dunno.  But, food for thought in any case.

Late,

O-Rugs
Word of the Day: Mu

from Dictionary.com mu 2. /moo/ The correct answer to the classic trick question "Have you stopped beating your wife yet?". Assuming that you have no wife or you have never beaten your wife, the answer "yes" is wrong because it implies that you used to beat your wife and then stopped, but "no" is worse because it suggests that you have one and are still beating her. According to various Discordians and Douglas Hofstadter the correct answer is usually "mu", a Japanese word alleged to mean "Your question cannot be answered because it depends on incorrect assumptions".

Bortz
Music Namus

"I'll Take the Rear"
HP Lovecraft
Guuuuuurpps
10 gold pieces
Tavern Wench
Dwarven Ale
Dispel Magic
What can I git fo' 10 gold pieces?  everything?  EVERYTHING... UH   me so horny.. Me love you long time. 

liger...  that was kinda funny.. I just saw the previews on netflix and it didn't look thaaaat horrible.  Might be worth a look-see.

 

Monday, July 26, 2004

Names:

Saving Throw
Party of Five.. Skeletons
When Gelatanous Cubes Attack
Natural Twenty
Dee-Six
Modified Charisma

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Manditory Riiich-themed names:

MAGIC BRIDGE! (An Ode to Riiich)
No Axe Max (Extended Riiich remix)
Dude, I Owe You... Get Away, Riiich!  (Instrumental)

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Ironically, on a semi-related note.. I dug into a box that my mom brought up to WA from Vegas when she moved here full of my old stuff and what did I find?  Among other things, all my dwarven miniatures and some kind of semi-porn mag from a strip club or something.  (Dude, where the hell did THAT come from?)   Which, by itself was no big deal until I realized that my mother packed it in that box amongst my childhood model battleships, coloring books and remote control vehicles... which I found a bit disturbing on more than one level.

On a positive note, I just found out that I'm going to be published on a combat flight-sim website in a series of articles.  Should be fun and I'm looking forward to writing the "tutorial" and/or reference style articles.  I'll let y'all know if/when that winds up becoming a reality.

Best,

O-Rug.

More names...

Cure Light Wounds
"Ahhh.. You find two sunblades" or "Ahhh.. Black Gloves"
Cthulhu Saves or Koo-ta-Loo
Chaotic Good
Glaive Glaive Guisarme
Find/Remove Traps: 35%
Armor Class 3
(Cleric) Healing Bitch
Magic Missle
The Hand of Vecna
Major or Minor Gorgon?
polyhedron/hexahedron/icosahedron
THAC0
Exotic Weapon Proficency: Sword, Bastard
Dex Check
Sanity save roll

Rudy: Yeah Six Feet Under is great. I just finished the second season with Aimey. We were watch an average of two shows a night from the Net Flix DVDs.

Bortz


Ohh - good ideas.  I'm feeling Experience Points, Vorpal Blade, and Critical Hit!  Rad names.  (I hate Paladins, so I can't use that one - unless I hate that particular song, hmm.)

I'm watching Six Feet Under from Netflix, and that show is the shit!  Dead and Lovin' It!

Ya, haven't seen Napoleon Dynamite yet, but it looks rad.  Gonna see it soon...

With All My Ideas, You Could Have An Album!

 - Not the Healing Kind of Cleric
 - Super-Kraken
 - Vorpal Blade
 - +5 Holy Avenger
 - Spell Component
 - Critical Hit or Fumble
 - 10d6
 - Deck of Many Things
 - Save vs. Dragon Breath (or wands, or rods, or death, or disintegration)
 - Tiamat
 - Experience Points
 - Liger*

*see Napoleon Dynamite if you already haven't.  It is teh funniest movie.  I'm not sure Johnny will like it, I just have a hunch, but everyone else SEE IT!!!!!


Level Four Paladin.
suggestions plz thx
 
I wanna name one of the songs on my new album something way rpg'd out - you guys got any funny/cool suggestions?  i don't even have a particular beat in mind, but the naming of these songs is pretty random anyhow, so it's not biggie.  Random Ecounter is what I'm feeling right now - thx palz.

Also, Advance Wars for GBA is hella fun.  Just got into that lately.

PS: I just discovered a really cool feature in VisualBoyAdvance (the GBA emulator) - you can record sound from the game and save it as a wav file.  I used a cool pacman sound in one of my old beats, but I lost the original sound.  I was able to load up a pacman game on the gba and get the same sound again.  Nice one rude!



 

What did the mama milk say to the baby milk when he soiled himself?

SPOIL-ER!

har har har..

dude, that's what you get for reading 100 pages in 1 month (from jun 8th).  Read read read read.  I'm gonna go buy the second book today.  More spoilers to come.

From
-Teh Jerk 

 
just kidding!
Way to go Johnny

Spoiler!

In other news: Spielbergo is working on a live action movie of the Transformers. That's right, you heard me. LIVE ACTION. Appearently no CGI or animation. I hope that is not true, that just sound awlful. Or maybe I hope they do such a bad job they use obfiscate alla Wampyre style during the movie. Anyway while we are on the subject here is a 3d video/audio mix of break dancing Transformers by some random guys.

Bortz

Sunday, July 25, 2004

I like gaming!

We finished off the 50 Fathoms mini-campaign I've been running today and it was a good time, with the final big encounter going completely differently than I'd thought. Basically, the players had a pirate ship full of ill-gotten loot. Another, bigger pirate ship had caught up to them. Meanwhile, one of the pieces of ill-gotten loot was the Hand of Vek-Na.

What I anticipated was that the two ships would duke it out, with the players having a dramatic chase/getaway and the NPC pirates possibly boarding the ship; meanwhile, the Hand had taken control of one of the PC's crew, and, for reasons of its own, would try to hinder the PCs getaway and try to have the NPCs board.

Instead, this happened:

1. In the first round of cannonfire, Eric rolled the best attack/damage roll I've ever seen. If you roll the max on a damage die, you get to roll again and add. He did that about 5 or 6 times on his damage roll of 3d6 with a huge bonus from his awesome attack roll. So, on a 3d6+3, he ended up doing over 40 points of damage. That one shot was enough for him to destroy the pirate ship outright.

2. The Hand, suddenly robbed of options, panicked. It started scampering around the deck trying to get control of someone so it could control the ship. It had all these spells and could raise dead and everything! If it could've gotten to a PC it could've done some serious damage. Instead, in the second round of combat, Laurie made an amazing spellcasting roll and rolled over double what she needed to kill it. Oops.

They killed 45 fierce pirates and an undead terror with two rolls. Brilliant!
Attention All Spoilers

I am still plodding along, and am on 375, so please no more (Eddard's death) spoilers from those who are further than I!!!!!  Please please please!!!!

BTW. who is Eddard?

 

 

j/k
Elf gnome shoes... LOL

Jon, youre weird.  but you shouldn't put that dream to waste.  Write a book on it.  Mary shelley created Frankenstein through a vision in her dreams. As for ice and swords,  I thought Eddard dies in the first novel, so how can his chapters still be in the next two books? 

The Ancient Monks says:  Wercom O-riental jugs!   Wise man say, For 5 bucks aaron will probably let you slap more than his tender meat.  Betta deal dan vegas hooka.  ba dum dum!

The weather is pretty hot lately.  I'm gonna go swimming.

Jael

Ja -El!

Check your email. I think I left my phone at your place last night. I can not seem to call either your phone or mine. They both go straight to v-mail. You must be in the cell phone dead zone again.

Boobs-a-lot, boobs-a-lot, you gotta like boobs-a-lot

PS Another reason to hate the RIAA dicks... Check it out