I never told anyone but I can see the future.
Today I predict that Dave will get his ass handed to him in smash bros. I furthermore predict that this will cause Dave to stop playing smash bros. and he will quit playing modern video games all together, forcing him to play only MDuel and Snood until he dies.
korea is notorious for its relationship with internet explorer, specifically, IEv6. it's horrible, it display's code in a way not supported by the w3 consortium. also, it requires the user to click on a flash movie before it starts working, meaning that i have to use a javascript workaround every time.
and i found out why.
korea has a really strong pc cafe culture, which means the owners have to buy a lot of computers, so obviously the person will look for the cheapest method. many computer builders will build a computer and use a cracked version of windows, so that you dont have to pay the extra 150 or something. thing is, windows (xp anyway) wont automatically update to IE7 if you have a cracked version. and because of that, my sites sometimes look different on otherp eoples computers here and its really annoying(!)
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yesterday a client of mine at a newspaper invited me to a movie premiere, and a fashion show plus the after party. so me and 2 friends went and had a great time. the movie premiere had free food and drink, the fashion show had free unlimited champagne, and the afterparty had free unlimited cocktails. so like, im pretty sure when we see celebritys and wonder how they support theyr crazy lifestyle, im pretty sure its because they just get to do alot of stuff for free(!)
John of the Cross experienced a period in his life where he took no joy during his spiritual practices, a phenomenon he referred to as the Dark Night of the Soul. As you can imagine, as a monk, this amounted to a personal crisis - I have been experiencing a similar period in my own life, but not in my relationship with God, but in my relationship with one of the most important things that defines me as a dork - namely, video games.
Why do video games suck balls these days?
Seriously, does everything have to be flashy, 3d, and commercialized to the point of hilarity?
Mr. T doing WOW commercials?
You can't blow up children in the new Fallout title?
RPGs, even from the Great Square (Square-Enix, w/e) have been bullshit for close to a decade now.
I have a pretty damn powerful PC, and I've been a gamer since the early 80's, so why am I playing Final Fantasy VI for the fiftieth time, this time at 1600/1200 res?
Where have all the bright minds that made video games so popular gone? Did you guys all collectively forget how to make something, pay attention now, DIFFERENT!?
This brings me to another point. What does it even mean to be a dork any more?
To me being a dork is all about dealing with social anxieties in a medium that boasts a level playing field, be it books, music, movies, art, video games, whatever? so why is it impossible for me to enjoy playing Call of Duty 4 online? Isn't the internet a dork's wet dream?
Children have obviously seen Mr T's famous TV spot. They litter the net nade whoring and picking up mindless achievements, the new term for points - But who the fuck ever played video games for points!?
Losers! That's who! Losers who have lost the ability to creatively exploit games the way we did back when games were designed, marketed, and released without the need of fifty patches or five expansion packs all costing the same price as the original game!
What the fuck is going on!? What the fuck is an expansion pack good for anyway!? Release your fucking games when they are complete! Stop raping us!
Well, money is power, and absolute power, well you know.
To the software development companies, you can take Liam Neeson's voice talent and shove it deep and wide up your lubricated ass crack and give me exploding children! Mr T, well he can return to technically advising the remake of the A-Team and get the fuck off of the tube, Square-Enix, fuck Enix, and to the American teenager especially: Fuck you, achievements are for homos, I'll still kick your chubby little ass in Street Fighter IV, even though I've never played it.
-Unfortunately John of the Cross only had one solution to the Dark Night of the Soul, grinding through it, and so I shall, so we shall, but goddamnit if I'm not going to make some noise in the meantime.
I feel just a little better now.
This book has been a religious experience. I recommend it to anyone and everyone.
"Throughout his life, whenever he became convinced that a course of action was right, the desire to follow it had come automatically. What was happening to him-- he wondered. The impossible conflict of feeling reluctance to do that which was right-- wasn't it the basic formula of moral corruption? To recognize one's guilt, yet feel nothing but the coldest, most profound indifference-- wasn't it a betrayal of that which had been the motor of his life-course and of his pride?"
-one of Rearden's internal monologues
Sometimes a great story has a few stunning epiphany moments. This story is composed of them. Bravo, Rand. Well done.
I was at a lan party a few weeks ago and I was introduced to a cooperative first person shooter called Left For Dead.
It's the only game I've ever played where all four players have to work as a team in order to succeed, and by succeed I mean survive from one safe house to another in a post apocalyptic world overwhelmed by hordes of zombies and various other mutants who all have special abilities that are designed to confuse and separate you.
I don't throw this word around a lot, but the game is brilliant.
I haven't played a video game this consistently with this much intensity since some of the early S-gen Final Fantasy games.
Everyone should play. Mad props to Valve.
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