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tastyspleen.net / Re: Who's going to take over now that quadz has stepped down??

« on: April 03, 2008, 08:12:09 AM »

it would be very dissapointing if you stepped down.

kind of like Bush getting elected again

 

That's assuming that he was actually elected the last time, which is still pretty debatable.

A third term of Bush.... yargh!!! I'd rather repeatedly slam my balls in a car door!

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art, music, etc. / Re: LIST YOUR TOP 10 METAL BANDS

« on: April 03, 2008, 08:00:46 AM »

Looks like a Lamborghini Diablo fucked a Gremlin!

475 HP!?! My ex's vibrator had more torque than that!

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art, music, etc. / Re: LIST YOUR TOP 10 METAL BANDS

« on: April 03, 2008, 07:57:03 AM »

Metal. Not Metalcore.

So by that logic... you're saying that death metal isn't "metal" either?

As of lately I've been having a real problem with metalcore bands. I feel like it's turning into butt rock. They need to stop bleeding out their 'vadges' and start shoving knives up 'vadges'

My point was basically if it's too hard to just be considered "hard rock", then it falls into the catch-all "metal" category. It's getting hard to classify though. I guess I'd lump a band like Soundgarden into hard rock, even though quite a bit of their music was pretty metal. The "grunge" category tends to do that. The way I see it, grunge and alternative borrowed (or STOLE and PERVERTED, *grumble grumble, fuckin' bastards, grumble grumble*) the heavily distorted guitars of the metal genre, subtracted the evil and dark subject matter of most metal, and called it something new. Nirvana for example. With that guitar tone, you could easily play a minor scale riff pattern and get metal. I haven't kept up with the metal sub-genre classifications as of late, I probably wouldn't know what metalcore is if I heard it. Describe it and give a few bands that exemplify that description.

I left out Pantera yet included Down. Doesn't mean I don't appreciate their music, I just find Down's style and sound a little more aesthetically appealing.

 

Down II wasn't the same kind of metal that Pantera always brought. It was more like stoner-metal. They included a lot of different unconventional instruments on that album, lap steel guitars, organs, acoustic guitars. Some of it had a bayou blues feel to it, even a few elements of jazz fusion. Just made for some interesting and expressive songs. That album came on the heels of Phil Anselmo getting clean from heroin, I thought he put a lot of soul into those songs, some his best lyrical work ever in my opinion. I've heard a little bit from the latest Down III, but I've yet to buy it. From what I've heard, it's a little different from II, and still pretty progressive.

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art, music, etc. / Re: LIST YOUR TOP 10 METAL BANDS

« on: April 03, 2008, 04:00:57 AM »

A Dark Halo
Airway
Blinded Colony
Bullet For My Valentine
Caliban
Goddass
In Flames
Ofearia
Sonic Syndicate
Manowar

 

Metal. Not Metalcore.

So by that logic... you're saying that death metal isn't "metal" either?

how could anyone leave out Pantera

 

Eh, I left out Pantera yet included Down. Doesn't mean I don't appreciate their music, I just find Down's style and sound a little more aesthetically appealing. But Superjoint Ritual.... hmmm... seemed like all the songs sounded the same on the first album. The second album was a slight improvement, but still didn't break any ground that I found to be overly interesting like Down II.

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General Ownage / Re: Highest FFA score?

« on: March 28, 2008, 04:15:56 AM »

I ain't complaining about it. Apparently that's the point of that of that particular map (although I hesitate to qualify that "map" as such by using the word map   ) I would assume the only way to stop a person in that position would be to either crowd them as they fire to cause them to take damage or fire a quick shot at the button on the wall that makes the spiked ceiling lower. Once you stopped, I figured I'd try the same strategy, but wasnt able to collect more ammo. 

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General Ownage / Re: Highest FFA score?

« on: March 27, 2008, 09:05:51 PM »

LMAO, yeah, I was Serpent Christ. It was just a little tiny room with a hodge-podge of weapons. You managed to get the BFG and fire it in perfect time to where when anyone spawned you instantly popped them like a grape and picked up more ammo and health for the next shot. A shit map for sure.

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/dev/random / Re: Whatcha Look Like?

« on: March 26, 2008, 07:50:38 PM »

On the topic of crappy light domestic beers:

Another homemade demotivational poster....

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Trouble Shooting / Re: Q2 Sound Problem

« on: March 25, 2008, 06:22:43 AM »

Are you noticing this at ALL TIMES? I've noticed I have choppy sound from time to time on the mutant server. It hasn't happened enough to be a real problem, but I've noticed occasionally that the sound goes a little choppy when I or someone else nearby is using either the hyperblaster or machine gun. It'll seem to play a few shots, then miss a couple, then play, then miss, etc, etc. Does it happen in single player mode, or have you only noticed it when playing multiplayer?

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/dev/random / Re: Whatcha Look Like?

« on: March 14, 2008, 06:02:34 PM »

I'd say it really is him. Notice that he's holding a Milluakee's Best Ice Light. 

Awsome shorts. Do they say "HOTTIE" across the ass? 

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art, music, etc. / Re: I remember when the 90's rocked...

« on: March 14, 2008, 04:39:41 PM »

it bothers me to because my mom is going threw a mid life crisis and is into beyonce (sp?)  and justin timberlake LOL and all that retarded music.     And she is always trying to make me listen to a song because "I'd like it"   

not into jazz but do like the blues and instrumental

LMAO!!! Sounds like my aunt. She's tried to get my mom into shit like NSYNC. If I was in a boy band (and someone please ASSASSINATE ME if I ever go that route), I would be HORRIFIED to see these 50-something old bags in the front row showing me their hooters.

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/dev/random / Re: The end is Nigh

« on: March 14, 2008, 04:20:06 PM »

The comments on that page are about as caustic as the ones in THIS community, lol.

"I think that's going to be our line for a long time. :-) We cannot perfect artificial intelligence until we perfect artificial stupidity."

Posted by esmith512, 15/03/2008 9:12:40 AM

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""You're a moron!""

Posted by Jason Marini, 15/03/2008 8:26:03 AM

Personally, I welcome the creation of artificial human companions. Since slavery is outlawed, there's noBODY to oppress by making a human looking cyborg do your chores. Why waste your time arguing with humans you don't like when you could have a bunch of cyborg friends custom tailored to be aesthetically pleasing in every way?

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art, music, etc. / Re: I remember when the 90's rocked...

« on: March 14, 2008, 09:10:49 AM »

Grunge.

I grew up in that age... so that was my music at the time. Then I finally found Slayer and grunge was dead to me.

  *beats chest* SLAYER GOOOOOD!! UG! UG! I RARELY listen to the first album. I listen to the second album a little LESS rarely, it was better. With every album, the music became progressively better. I like Christ Illusion, but after having Paul Bostaph as a drummer, they kind of reverted to their same ole same ole sound that they had certainly managed to progress past with God Hates Us All. God Hates Us All had a more furious hateful sound to it, in part due to the different drum patterns and style of drumming that Paul Bostaph used on that album, but also because (for the most part) Tom Araya abandoned the idea of really having any tune for the vocals, he simply blasted you with his evil blood-curdling gravelled snarly screams. Their choice of words for the lyrics has always lent itself to a feel of anger and rage, which fits the music perfectly, but without Tom Araya's particular voice to deliver them, the lyrics would not pack the same punch.

But...

Alice In Chains is one of the only bands to come out of the grunge scene that I really appreciated. Pearl Jam was just horrible. They have a good band, but vocalist Eddie Vedder was always a half-assed singer in my opinion. He always looked like a retarded person in the throes of a 2 week heroin binge on stage and in his videos. His vocals we sloppy, much of it sounded like mindless mumbling. The thing is, he has a fairly decent ability to hit notes accurately, but his delivery is so lazy and sloppy that you can't understand a thing he says, drives me bonkers. Alice In Chains always had a more metal feel to them. I would certainly call their music BETTER than the majority of "grunge", they had a knack for harmony and melody which is easily recognized in the vocals alone. My favorite lineup that Ozzy ever had was from the No More Tears days when he had Mike Inez as bassist. There aren't that many truly good fretless bass players in the rock world. Layne Staley put a little balls behind his singing too. Same for Soundgarden, they were a damn good band all around. Chris Cornell had some of the ballsiest sounding vocals ever. Kim Thayil was a damn good guitarist. I've always thought he was a genius when it comes to utilizing effects processing and multitracking to it's maximum potential in the studio. Like on the song Rusty Cage, the beginning riff (and maybe the main riff) was actually recorded in reverse. He was an excellent song writer too, the way he fit all his music together was beautiful.

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Trouble Shooting / Re: Need basic graphics advice (vert. sync, antialiasing etc.) for performance

« on: March 14, 2008, 08:57:02 AM »

Hmm, good point. I thought that could be one possible cause since it seemed to do the same thing with a wireless AND wired mouse. The desk I'm using is a cheapy particle board desk with a slightly laminated (I guess) sheet of woograin looking covering all over it. I was thinking maybe the woodgrain lines could be what was causing the optics to freak out. But I don't think I can stand to play on a mousepad though. Oh well, guess I'll have to live with it.

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art, music, etc. / Re: Stevie Ray Vaughan Interview

« on: March 13, 2008, 10:37:25 AM »

Lol, yeah. I pretty much play by ear, I can't read standard sheet music at all. I do know TAB though. When I started out, that's how I learned the basics, power chords and a few scales. Everything else I learned from listening and translating the sounds to the fretboard, as well as trial and error involved in moving those chords and scales around the fretboard. I'm sure if I had the patience and attention span to get a few books and actually LEARN the complete lessons in them, I'd be a hundred times better by now. Any time I ever got one of those books, I breezed through it and never really got much out of them other than basic ideas. I learned the first part of SRV's Little Wing with a tab book which helped in learning the basics of that style that Hendrix used where he'd play a 2 note or 3 note chord and shift one of the notes around. After I realized what was going on in the song, I stopped and translated that style to other songs. For example, I used that particular style of playing to play Mountain's "Nantucket Sleighride", which sounded really cool.

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Trouble Shooting / Re: Need basic graphics advice (vert. sync, antialiasing etc.) for performance

« on: March 13, 2008, 10:17:42 AM »

3) Is my optical mouse the problem? Do I have to revert to a rollerball mouse?

GOD NO! Testicle mice are USELESS. You might notice that occassionally you'll get this black gunk on the mouse buttons. That oxidation from the oil on your fingertips. That same crap will deposit on the wheels inside the mouse that the testicle rolls against to detect movement, then you'll have to clean that crap off every day or so. If you don't, the wheels could get stuck in a certain position when you move the mouse, which is VERY annoying when playing games. I used a rollerball mouse on my old 500mhz machine for years. I've scraped the shit off the wheels with a pocket knife so many times that it's actually shaved the surface of the wheels down making the mouse ALWAYS have sticking problems even when the wheels are clean.

But since I'm on the subject of mice, I have a little problem myself, maybe someone knows why I'm having it.

I used to have a wireless infared mouse and keyboard hooked up. I was having an annoying problem with the mouse freaking out and causing the positioning of it to shoot up to the top lefthand side of the screen for apprently no reason at all. When playing Q2, I would often for no reason look stright up and start spinning around and around until I jerked the mouse around frantically on the desk to get it to work again. I figured maybe it was some kind of wireless signal interference. I've since switched the mouse to a corded USB infared mouse, but I still use the wireless keyboard. I seem to have less occurances of this, but it still happens. I mentioned the problem to DeanRW one day on TS:Railz and he said that it's the sensor getting ready to crap out. I don't think that's the problem though, both of these mice are pretty new. I was thinking maybe it had something to do with the video card. I had problems sometimes running Return to Castle Wolfenstein, the graphics would sometimes lock up. Sometimes after several minutes it would unfreeze and continue, but usually it would cause the system to reboot after several minutes. I also have the mouse problem when I'm not in games, I'll be browsing the web and the mouse position will shoot up to the upper left corner until I move the mouse in a clockwise circle a few times. My graphics card is an nVidia 7600GT. Sometimes I unhook the infared corded mouse and use it on my old machine and then use the wireless mouse on this one, so normally I always leave the wireless keyboard AND mouse ps2 inputs plugged in from the wireless receiver, I'm gonna try unplugging the wireless mouse ps2 input while using the USB mouse to see if that cures it, but I doubt it will. Any ideas anyone?