Wow. Crying from laughing. Don't be put off by the intro, get to pictures and enjoy.
LINKY
Saturday, January 26, 2008
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Gas Additives
Ah yes the magic snake oil of cars. Just like some of the ridiculous speaker cable "snake oil" products. Buy our "$100+ a foot" (No joke) speaker cable and you will notice significant acoustic quality gains.
If gas additives were effective for performance/efficiency gains, much like other products of its type, the product would not be lurking in the dark corners of the market looking for buyers, but would instead be in your gas already or regularly sold to every customer at the gas stations. If it sounds too good to be true, it is. When in doubt research the hell out of it.
eLzar: Yeah some times I get nostalgic for the old Couches of Death, the coffee table with the Sphere/Pyramid/Cube that we often played Epic on, and the warm sleepy afternoons in that room. I also truly miss a more spartan style. The special lady friend likes clutter and our apartment reflects that.
D>M>
If gas additives were effective for performance/efficiency gains, much like other products of its type, the product would not be lurking in the dark corners of the market looking for buyers, but would instead be in your gas already or regularly sold to every customer at the gas stations. If it sounds too good to be true, it is. When in doubt research the hell out of it.
eLzar: Yeah some times I get nostalgic for the old Couches of Death, the coffee table with the Sphere/Pyramid/Cube that we often played Epic on, and the warm sleepy afternoons in that room. I also truly miss a more spartan style. The special lady friend likes clutter and our apartment reflects that.
D>M>
Friday, January 25, 2008
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Ethos FR
Feeback? Anyone tried? Gas Additive?
makes your car go cleaner and faster?
Thoughts?
There were some contradictory views on the net regarding the product. In 2006, channel 7 and another channel did a consumer segment review and rated it fairly positive and a good buy. But on the net, if you search under opinions, it's touted poorly as another additive scheme and that it's peddled through MLM schemes, and it's not really all that effective. Also there's a rumor that Ethos FR is a pirated version of OMSTAR D1280X... But then why did the news tout the product? It's very likely that the news stations are wrong also, happens.
So just wondering if any of you has any opinions on the subject, hopefully with some solid knowledge.
February, i'm planning a trip to meet my mom and brother in Hong Kong! Coincidentally my friend Melanie will join a few days after my family leaves so I'll be hanging out with her as well. You guys should come to the Philippines~! I got some room and sleeping bag. Philippine Con 2008, sweet game cherry pie.
makes your car go cleaner and faster?
Thoughts?
There were some contradictory views on the net regarding the product. In 2006, channel 7 and another channel did a consumer segment review and rated it fairly positive and a good buy. But on the net, if you search under opinions, it's touted poorly as another additive scheme and that it's peddled through MLM schemes, and it's not really all that effective. Also there's a rumor that Ethos FR is a pirated version of OMSTAR D1280X... But then why did the news tout the product? It's very likely that the news stations are wrong also, happens.
So just wondering if any of you has any opinions on the subject, hopefully with some solid knowledge.
February, i'm planning a trip to meet my mom and brother in Hong Kong! Coincidentally my friend Melanie will join a few days after my family leaves so I'll be hanging out with her as well. You guys should come to the Philippines~! I got some room and sleeping bag. Philippine Con 2008, sweet game cherry pie.
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Hmmm, let's see here:
- SO, I hocked my Les Paul and half-stack for a straight swap for a mighty fine electronic drum kit. I should get it on monday or tuesday, and I am fired up! I still have some credit left over and need to get a seat, or THRONE as it is called apparently, and a kick pedal... I am leaning towards one of their fine used double-kick pedals, cause come on, if I am gonna do this, I might as well do it right! For my next lesson I am supposed to learn to the best of my abilities 21st Century Digital Boy, Just Like Heaven, and Watching the Detectives....
- I will miss the warm orange glow of the Blue Voodoo tubes, but I just don't see loud guitar playing in my future. Quiet drums in the garage however.....
- Denis?
- I am going to a massive Flames of War mini's game this saturday at the BGG guy's house. There will be some six odd WWII mini gamers there, maybe there will be 1) some guys who also want to play ASL, or 2) someone younger than 50. Will keep you posted.
- The free xbla game this week, Undertow, is a piece of doo-doo. Not fun at all. No Fun At All.
- Nice pics Enron! I peeked at your xmas photos this year and was hit with a nice sense of nostalgia. Much the same way as you probably fondly remember some of your formative high school years spent at my house, some of those same years were spent at your house and seeing your dads style just takes me back! Sparse, museum-like, artsy, architectural, unique, totally clean and separate, yet whole. Weird. Anyway, I was nostalgic for the bullet hole car door, the glass tables, and some Epic when I saw those pics.
- ASL is so good.
- Nothing much else to say, I guess.
- I will miss the warm orange glow of the Blue Voodoo tubes, but I just don't see loud guitar playing in my future. Quiet drums in the garage however.....
- Denis?
- I am going to a massive Flames of War mini's game this saturday at the BGG guy's house. There will be some six odd WWII mini gamers there, maybe there will be 1) some guys who also want to play ASL, or 2) someone younger than 50. Will keep you posted.
- The free xbla game this week, Undertow, is a piece of doo-doo. Not fun at all. No Fun At All.
- Nice pics Enron! I peeked at your xmas photos this year and was hit with a nice sense of nostalgia. Much the same way as you probably fondly remember some of your formative high school years spent at my house, some of those same years were spent at your house and seeing your dads style just takes me back! Sparse, museum-like, artsy, architectural, unique, totally clean and separate, yet whole. Weird. Anyway, I was nostalgic for the bullet hole car door, the glass tables, and some Epic when I saw those pics.
- ASL is so good.
- Nothing much else to say, I guess.
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
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Barkley Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden
Have you guys heard of this game? I just d/l'd it, gonna give it a whirl in a bit. Getting good reviews, supposed to be pretty funny and awesome. Get it here: LINK
Saturday, January 19, 2008
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Actionshots
And so Theactionshots site has risen from the ashes, better than ever. I am still working on adding more images, but at least this method is a lot less time intensive to update and raw files are available. To protect the innocent, and by innocent I do not mean you jArks, I have password protected the Actionteam images.
To visit, go to: http://polychromatic.smugmug.com/ and select on the section for "The Actionteam". The password is the answer to this riddle: Something Batman punched the joker into. Hint: Two words with no spaces in between, no caps. Still having issues? Let me know and I will email it.
I went and saw No Country for Old Men last night. I enjoyed it fairly well. I really liked the characters, the time period and the location the film was set in. I would definitely recommend it to most ActionJacksonTeam members, but be forewarned it is a bit grim. Sort of a darker, southwestern version of Fargo.
jr0n: I would totally rock some rpg if you busted it out. Do IT!
D>M>
To visit, go to: http://polychromatic.smugmug.com/ and select on the section for "The Actionteam". The password is the answer to this riddle: Something Batman punched the joker into. Hint: Two words with no spaces in between, no caps. Still having issues? Let me know and I will email it.
I went and saw No Country for Old Men last night. I enjoyed it fairly well. I really liked the characters, the time period and the location the film was set in. I would definitely recommend it to most ActionJacksonTeam members, but be forewarned it is a bit grim. Sort of a darker, southwestern version of Fargo.
jr0n: I would totally rock some rpg if you busted it out. Do IT!
D>M>
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Drumz Pleaze
eLzar: h4Xor away on your drums.
I think my TiVo is getting sick. The HD is having occasional spurts of heavy bearing whine. Sounds like the bearings are coming to their end of life. Booo... I really don't want to have to play with the guts on that thing, but I may have no choice.
Hooty McTired
I think my TiVo is getting sick. The HD is having occasional spurts of heavy bearing whine. Sounds like the bearings are coming to their end of life. Booo... I really don't want to have to play with the guts on that thing, but I may have no choice.
Hooty McTired
Your post made me laugh. I'm disappointed you didn't memorize the whole list... I bet you don't even remember whether Outlaw Golf: 9 More Holes of X-mas is on there. (Here's a hint: it is.)
About the Bioware games, Mass Effect is a lot more ambitious but Jade Empire is tighter and more assured. It's kind of like comparing the music we made in the JP Can't Come Over era, when it was really fuckin' improvisational and deep and shit, and we'd do things like wear a clown mask and a crayola outfit just because we fucking had the inspiration to do it, but maybe sometimes it was sloppy, versus the plastic, corporate bullshit we soft-served out into neat little piles in the Holophrastics.
Another good comparison would be comparing an ambitious but sloppy rock opera by The Who to one by Queensryche. (Note to research assistant: is this a valid comparison? Rudy likes music, so, I need this paragraph, fucking, rock-solid.)
Or another way of phrasing it, that isn't retarded, is that some of the issues with ME are due to things that Jade Empire doesn't implement, namely the inventory system and sidequest system that are the weak points of ME simply have no equivalent in Jade Empire. So in Mass Effect they're trying some different things that don't always quite work but when they do work they're really good. Jade Empire the experience is a little flatter.
I could go on.
About the Bioware games, Mass Effect is a lot more ambitious but Jade Empire is tighter and more assured. It's kind of like comparing the music we made in the JP Can't Come Over era, when it was really fuckin' improvisational and deep and shit, and we'd do things like wear a clown mask and a crayola outfit just because we fucking had the inspiration to do it, but maybe sometimes it was sloppy, versus the plastic, corporate bullshit we soft-served out into neat little piles in the Holophrastics.
Another good comparison would be comparing an ambitious but sloppy rock opera by The Who to one by Queensryche. (Note to research assistant: is this a valid comparison? Rudy likes music, so, I need this paragraph, fucking, rock-solid.)
Or another way of phrasing it, that isn't retarded, is that some of the issues with ME are due to things that Jade Empire doesn't implement, namely the inventory system and sidequest system that are the weak points of ME simply have no equivalent in Jade Empire. So in Mass Effect they're trying some different things that don't always quite work but when they do work they're really good. Jade Empire the experience is a little flatter.
I could go on.
Friday, January 18, 2008
I DID read the list of games you suggested, but I failed to commit the xbox compatibility chart to memory. Basically I was browsing for Ninja Gaiden (and that fucker still sells used for like $25 kongbucks, so um, no.) and saw other games you suggested. GREAT FUCKING SUGGESTION, THANKS.
Yeah, Jade Empire has been pretty fun. I'm about 2/3rds through I think the second chapter. It had 3 big parts from what I can tell, and all I have left to do is get a wind map. But this is seriously better than Mass Effect!? Hmmm. It's definately WORDY as hell, which I've heard M.E. is too.
Oh yeah, don't forget we all get the XBLA game "Undertow" for free "beginning next Wednesday, 2:00 a.m. PST through Sunday, 11:59 p.m. PST" for all the Live outages and fuckups stemming from xmas time. It's usually 800 points, and I checked out the demo, it was alright. I guess its good when you get 16 ppl playing it online. Anyways, dl that shit free next week you dicks.
Yeah, Jade Empire has been pretty fun. I'm about 2/3rds through I think the second chapter. It had 3 big parts from what I can tell, and all I have left to do is get a wind map. But this is seriously better than Mass Effect!? Hmmm. It's definately WORDY as hell, which I've heard M.E. is too.
Oh yeah, don't forget we all get the XBLA game "Undertow" for free "beginning next Wednesday, 2:00 a.m. PST through Sunday, 11:59 p.m. PST" for all the Live outages and fuckups stemming from xmas time. It's usually 800 points, and I checked out the demo, it was alright. I guess its good when you get 16 ppl playing it online. Anyways, dl that shit free next week you dicks.
To quickly wrap up this matter...
I didn't shout "Charlie Murphy," but I did shout a stream of imprecations.
Why the situation didn't lead to a fight? I'm still not 100% sure but I believe it was a combination of four factors.
1. Perhaps the guy realized that he had erred.
2. Perhaps I was acting so out-of-character crazy that he was stunned.
3. Maybe he didn't want to get in a fight at work for fear of his job.
4. He probably figured he would kill me if we did fight. <-- the most likely situation
As for why it didn't go to HR:
1. For better or worse, that's kinda not how QA rolls (working in QA generally being like working with a bunch of precocious 14-year-olds, who are in the Mafia).
2. Mutual friends of ours immediately worked to calm the situation down in the subsequent days.
3. Although my actions were indubitably wrong, his behavior in the weeks and months leading to my flipping out was traceably bad as well, and a likely result of reporting the situation would have been a Pyrrhic double-firing.
4. Similar to #2, our immediate supervisor acted to chill the situation out. For a lot of reasons... one of which certainly being that if it did come to light, she would have been at the very least severely chewed out for allowing the situation to develop that far. Also that both of us were pretty invaluable to the project and losing either would've been really bad.
It was all really lame, immature and embarassing.
Anyway Rude, yeah Chronicles of Riddick is NOT on the back compat list. I should've been clearer about that. Or, maybe you should have read what I wrote? (Just kidding dude! I'm cool.) Actually, that game is GOOD... it's almost worth borrowing somebody's xbox to play! Or buying the 360 version when it comes out later this year, with better graphics, at a mere twelve times the price you paid!
Game stuff I'm excited about:
1. I haven't played Warmachine in a while (playing my first game in some time against Mike tomorrow, in fact), but suddenly I'm all excited about painting warjacks again! I hate painting infantry (and have the shelf of half- or unpainted infantry to show for it) but love painting warjacks! I believe that from now on I will refrain from painting anything that is not either a warjack, or something with boobs.
2. The Warhammer 40K role-playing game (featuring the players as Inquisitors) comes out later this month. I've read a bunch about it and am totally into running it! In fact, I'm declaring that I'm doing it at the next EricCon/AaronCon. If you're getting it, don't read the adventures Aeryk!!! I don't have time to write my own anymore!
3. I picked up a neat set of rules for fantasy miniatures wargaming called "Song of Blades and Heroes" (terrible name) that I am excited to try. Basically it's a VERY fast playing game (30-45 minutes) with stats for all kinds of generic fantasy beastors. It seems great to play with D&D minis and/or the old Chainmail minis sitting on my shelf.
4. I dug out Jade Empire and am playing through it again. Actually, it's really good and in a lot of ways it's just as good or slightly better than Mass Effect. I'm also itching to play Rock Band against once my shoulder finishes healing, which shouldn't be long now.
I didn't shout "Charlie Murphy," but I did shout a stream of imprecations.
Why the situation didn't lead to a fight? I'm still not 100% sure but I believe it was a combination of four factors.
1. Perhaps the guy realized that he had erred.
2. Perhaps I was acting so out-of-character crazy that he was stunned.
3. Maybe he didn't want to get in a fight at work for fear of his job.
4. He probably figured he would kill me if we did fight. <-- the most likely situation
As for why it didn't go to HR:
1. For better or worse, that's kinda not how QA rolls (working in QA generally being like working with a bunch of precocious 14-year-olds, who are in the Mafia).
2. Mutual friends of ours immediately worked to calm the situation down in the subsequent days.
3. Although my actions were indubitably wrong, his behavior in the weeks and months leading to my flipping out was traceably bad as well, and a likely result of reporting the situation would have been a Pyrrhic double-firing.
4. Similar to #2, our immediate supervisor acted to chill the situation out. For a lot of reasons... one of which certainly being that if it did come to light, she would have been at the very least severely chewed out for allowing the situation to develop that far. Also that both of us were pretty invaluable to the project and losing either would've been really bad.
It was all really lame, immature and embarassing.
Anyway Rude, yeah Chronicles of Riddick is NOT on the back compat list. I should've been clearer about that. Or, maybe you should have read what I wrote? (Just kidding dude! I'm cool.) Actually, that game is GOOD... it's almost worth borrowing somebody's xbox to play! Or buying the 360 version when it comes out later this year, with better graphics, at a mere twelve times the price you paid!
Game stuff I'm excited about:
1. I haven't played Warmachine in a while (playing my first game in some time against Mike tomorrow, in fact), but suddenly I'm all excited about painting warjacks again! I hate painting infantry (and have the shelf of half- or unpainted infantry to show for it) but love painting warjacks! I believe that from now on I will refrain from painting anything that is not either a warjack, or something with boobs.
2. The Warhammer 40K role-playing game (featuring the players as Inquisitors) comes out later this month. I've read a bunch about it and am totally into running it! In fact, I'm declaring that I'm doing it at the next EricCon/AaronCon. If you're getting it, don't read the adventures Aeryk!!! I don't have time to write my own anymore!
3. I picked up a neat set of rules for fantasy miniatures wargaming called "Song of Blades and Heroes" (terrible name) that I am excited to try. Basically it's a VERY fast playing game (30-45 minutes) with stats for all kinds of generic fantasy beastors. It seems great to play with D&D minis and/or the old Chainmail minis sitting on my shelf.
4. I dug out Jade Empire and am playing through it again. Actually, it's really good and in a lot of ways it's just as good or slightly better than Mass Effect. I'm also itching to play Rock Band against once my shoulder finishes healing, which shouldn't be long now.
Speaking of Rock Band, I still don't have the $160ish to drop on it (maybe down the road) but some guys in the neighborhood got it, so almost everyday when I'm getting home from work and walking up to my pad I can hear horrible 80's music and the clack clack of the drums and usually some asshole singing to boot. It's pretty funny.
Oh yeah Eric, for goonskate you need to get yourself an FLV downloader (i'm using a shareware one HERE) and then upload your vids to ea skate reel site. Then when you go to a page to view one of your videos, view page source, [find] "flv" and then copy that location (usually something like "http://download.ea.smokesacock/bighairydingdong.flv") and you download it using that program. Then it's easy to just upload the flv onto goonskate. You only can have 3 videos at a time on the ea site so gotta rotate em out. SO cool to d/l em even to just keep on your computer yourself. (I have another random freeware flv player from when I would rip stuff from youtube etc.)
The directions for goonskate in a clearer way are the 2nd post in the Skate thread on SA here: click
Oh yeah Eric, for goonskate you need to get yourself an FLV downloader (i'm using a shareware one HERE) and then upload your vids to ea skate reel site. Then when you go to a page to view one of your videos, view page source, [find] "flv" and then copy that location (usually something like "http://download.ea.smokesacock/bighairydingdong.flv") and you download it using that program. Then it's easy to just upload the flv onto goonskate. You only can have 3 videos at a time on the ea site so gotta rotate em out. SO cool to d/l em even to just keep on your computer yourself. (I have another random freeware flv player from when I would rip stuff from youtube etc.)
The directions for goonskate in a clearer way are the 2nd post in the Skate thread on SA here: click
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