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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?

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Tech Junkie Lounge / Re: It 'tis time.

« on: March 13, 2008, 09:12:25 AM »

myspace is a waste of bandwitdh

Wow... I actually... agree with that.

On the whole, it's not only a waste of bandwidth, but a waste of time. So many people insist on blogging about the stupid boring intricacies of their life that are more or less better left unsaid. People talk about their personal problems way too damn much. Anyone and everyone can read it, especially those who have no business having any kind of insight into one's personal life. Remember the good old days when teenage girls would keep their diaries LOCKED and inside a locked fireproof safe under their bed with more chains and padlocks around THAT for extra measure? From the few times I've actually seen a myspace page, the idiots had 40,000 little flash images and other little do-dads that caused the page to take 15 minutes to completely load, even with broadband.

DIE, MYSPACE!

But hey, if you can cash in on the trend somehow, I'm all for fleecing the flock. More power to you. Viva capitalista!

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art, music, etc. / Re: See you later, Jeff

« on: March 11, 2008, 05:09:22 AM »

first time i noticed this style of playing on the lap was Ben Harper, interesting to know how it came about.

Ohhhhhhh. Nah, it goes wayyyyyy back. I can't remember the guys name off the top of my head, (perhaps Blind Lemon Jefferson or someone else) but there's been a few old black blues and folk guitarists from the early 1900's who played across their lap. Steel guitars like the famed National Resophonic's are intended to be played across the lap with a slide, which is why the fretboards aren't radiused like other guitars.

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tastyspleen.net / Re: Focalor's Pak Item Archive

« on: March 11, 2008, 04:52:04 AM »

Search engines and text-mode browsers just see a bunch of linked images, with no indication of what they're linked to (except by deciphering the URL).  At the very least you could turn this:

Code: [Select]

<img src="http://focalor.tastyspleen.net/images/FocalorSigil.gif">
into this:

Code: [Select]

<img src="http://focalor.tastyspleen.net/images/FocalorSigil.gif" alt="Sigil of Focalor (enter site)">
and likewise add alt text to the menu images:

Code: [Select]

<a href="http://focalor.tastyspleen.net/news.html"><image border="0" id='button1'
src="http://focalor.tastyspleen.net/images/buttons/news1.png" alt="News"
onmouseover = 'document.getElementById("button1").src = "http://focalor.tastyspleen.net/images/buttons/news2.png"'
onmouseout =  'document.getElementById("button1").src = "http://focalor.tastyspleen.net/images/buttons/news1.png"'
></a>


If I'm thinking correctly about what you're saying concerning "alt text", doesn't that cause a little dialogue box to appear when you rollover an image? Since I have the button images coded to change upon rollover, that would just look like shit in my opinion. A lot of people have a pet peeve about allowing the target for a link to be displayed in the status bar along the bottom of the browser. I for one like to know that what I'm clicking on isn't going to direct me somewhere I'm not wanting to go. If someone can't read the buttons, they can read the status bar, the page names are pretty self explanatory.

Also, I can't seem to find the <image> element in either HTML 4 or XHTML 1, although it works fine on both browsers I tested... I'd recommend changing it to <img>.

Uhhhhhhhh..................greek! Like I said, I'm an HTML noob, you'll have to explain that one a little more. What purpose would that serve, an example of how to do it, etc.

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art, music, etc. / See you later, Jeff

« on: March 08, 2008, 10:38:04 PM »

Blind blues guitarist/singer Jeff Healey dies of cancer at age 41.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/04/arts/music/04healey.html

You probably remember him from his role in the movie Road House starring Patrick Swayze. The fact that he was blind caused him to have to play with the guitar across his lap which lent itself to a very unique style of playing, almost like playing a slide lap steel guitar, but I never see a slide.

Jeff Healey - While My Guitar Gently Weeps:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJh3KaIKDAw&feature=related
Pay no mind to the mullet. HEY, he was blind, he had no idea how bad it looked.

Jeff Healey Band - "Roadhouse Blues":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIZywo3PBTE
Scares the shit out of me to watch him get up and start hopping around the stage, I'm afraid any second I'm going to see him fall over the monitors on the front of the stage and do a faceplant in the audience.

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tastyspleen.net / Re: Focalor's Pak Item Archive

« on: March 05, 2008, 03:30:45 PM »

Sweet!  Now my screen can stay somewhat readable even on those painfully bright JUMP maps (and apparently PakScape works great under WINE, too).

If you're talking about the console characters with black backings, yes, I highly recommend using those. I don't currently have them in my own pak file, I'm planning on making a Focalor'sPak v2.0 which will include them. Presently, I use the stock conchars. I don't like them. When taking screenshots of the scoreboard at the end of a game, the conchars with black backings prevent the similar colors on the map from obscuring the text.

I included a download of PakScape because PakExplorer is pointless and useless. With the version of PakExplorer I had (I'm not sure if there are any others), the installer was all in fucking german or bosnian or some shit. *click* *click* "Hmm.....ok..... well, I hope this ain't malware, .....let's find out." *click* All it seemed to do was merely display what was contained in the file, it wouldn't let me add or delete anything.

I'd recommend removing the splash page (as cool as it looks, it'll slow down users as well as confuse search engines and text browsers), and adding some alt text for the menu images.  The button font could be a bit more readable, too, although many browsers will display alt text when the cursor hovers over an image.

Splash page? Do you mean the entrance page (index)? Eh, I can't get rid of that, my parole officer requires it. 

Confuse search engines? How so? I could probably add some text in black at the bottom (to make it invisible) with certain search keywords. I think there's a way to encode that into the page another way, but I don't know how to do it. I'm just an html-noob.

If you don't like how normal single colored brightskins look so incredibly unrealistic and flat, you might like these.

That's like saying
<--- this smiley looks more realistic than this smiley --->

In many of the pak files I have, they contain brightskins that are nothing more than one color spread over the PCX skin file. Elysium's brightskins are like the normal skins having contour shading and suit details, but with a neon color for the suit, while keeping the original heads and arms. Personally, I don't like the appearance of the single colored skins. They just look crappy. I thought Elysium's skins looked better than anything else I had ever seen, so I included them. Both of those are the only pak files I personally use. My custom pak is "pak8", I have the brightskins named "pak9" so that I can easily remove them if I don't want to use them.

By the way... Elysium, I never asked your permission to post those even though I did give you authoring credit for them, if you read this and would like me to remove those skins from my page, I will do so.

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THE NOCLIP 1 BOARD / Re: Jump sub forum <<<?

« on: March 05, 2008, 09:33:46 AM »

 

 

 

 BREAD BREAD w/  -D

Spam sammitch with sunny D


  , that was anti-

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Tech Junkie Lounge / Re: Open Source Licenses

« on: March 04, 2008, 06:14:06 PM »

You know, it's really all relative, the idea of property began when some cowboy saw a piece of land, made a fence around it and called it "private property".  But I'm not against making money, just fucking greed. 

Greed is just one of many sins, all of which lead to physical, mental, and emotional gratification. Preach your haughty moral dogma and worthless gospel of socialism to someone else, my heaven is here on earth RIGHT NOW.

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/dev/random / Re: I WIN!

« on: March 04, 2008, 12:39:24 PM »

 



Congratulations, you are now a black man! 

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Tech Junkie Lounge / Re: Open Source Licenses

« on: March 04, 2008, 12:02:52 PM »

GPL is also used by companies like id to ensure that no one is gonna take their source code and make a propietary program with it, without shelling over a few hundred thousand greenbacks first.

 

God damn capitalists. How dare they make a profit off of something they created.

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1v1 and TDM Demos / Re: [EoM]5killz talking shit after get owned.

« on: March 04, 2008, 12:00:00 PM »

Ok faggot, whats ur problem with me now?

Why do u keep taking shit when i
stoped talking shit about ur fucking clan?

Did i talk shit to u now?

Explain for me.

 

Oh, my bad, are we "friends" now? How do I know that you've quit shit-talking me behind my back, you've done it before, I can only assume you'd continue to do so. At least I say what I have to say out in the open where you can witness it too. If you're tired of the shit-slinging, fine, I'll stop.  I expect you to do the same though.

*drops the wad of shit*

Ok, The End. Live and let die.

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Quake / Re: MONSTERKILL 500. March 9th!

« on: March 04, 2008, 11:35:55 AM »

I just bet that from ALL THE WAY THE FUCK IN BUMBLEFUCK PERU.... you'll have a killer ping, dude. Pardon me whilst I search for my ass, I seemed to have laughed it off.

I tell you what. Show up and play. Get a screenshot of you with the player name "zndkw1n" in FIRST place when all is said and done, and I promise that I will WALK all the way to your front door, get on my knees, and kiss your ass.