Well I've ruined a keyboard by pissing on it. It was after a really drunken night at University, and not one of my proudest moments. I woke up and my desk was covered in a clear liquid that had saturated my keyboard. The computer made funny noises on bootup and there was no hope to recover the MS Internet Keyboard that had served me so well. I thought I had lost the Intellimouse too, but he pulled through.
Not the first time that I've gotten confused while drunk and needing to urinate. Other victims have been wardrobes (mine and a friend's) as well as my computer chair. God I need help...
Joking aside, I'm one of those people that can't type on anything that doesn't provide solid mechanical feedback. Laptop keyboards are bad enough, let alone rubbery keys that give no indication of being pressed properly; I just get frustrated. But then again I not that much of a typist anyway...
Over an even shorter span the kiddie disclaimers have become so much more specific and pathetic.
For example: 'Contains scenes of peril'
Oh my fucking God, please not PERIL. God forbid some kid sees a fictional character in danger, that's just mentally damaging material right there.
What next? 'Contains a scene where Jimbo trips and falls on his face, thus causing certain amounts of pain and distress'? Take your Newspeaking, politically correct, mollycoddling garbage and shove it.
Yes, redundant choice of wording, I know. I could have said '20 member LAN party discussion board for 12 year olds' or similar, but I just never really get the chance to use 'tin-pot operation' in everyday language, and I like that particular phrase.
You wouldn't accept a newspaper that duplicated articles on different pages would you? Yeah, you could say that a newspaper is paid for, but remember that we all pay for Slashdot in some way (subs, time, ad impressions etc.). If someone was surfing late at night, sees the 'Next story ready soon' blurb and decides to go to bed after reading it, it's a bit of a kick in the balls if they've read it a couple of hours ago.
It's not like Slashdot is some tin pot operation, it's a globally famous service approaching a million members. It's for these reasons, also including spelling mistakes in summaries and titles (yes, titles!) that people are irritated at every occurance. I never post these complaints myself, but I can sympathise with those who do.
How about this: we'll stop complaining when you can employ editors that can proofread and carry out a little research, ok?
Yes, 99 percent of the time you could substitute -1 Flamebait with +1 Truth. However, he might have avoided that moderation if he put his point across a little more eloquently.
As for the idea that Xbox controllers are designed exclusively for Halo, that's as much as a gross exaggeration as 'Halo is the only good game for the Xbox'. Yes, playing Halo with the Xbox feels bloody comfortable and natural, but I don't know how this equates to it being unusable for every other game, however. Come on, the differences between the three console controllers aren't that radical; look at which fingers are assigned to which buttons/pads/sticks and it's mostly spatial alignment and positioning that varies.
Funnily enough, I quite like the original Xbox controller and it's only second to the DC one.
As it's been about ten years since I played that game, could you remind me again what the vibration function was used for? I remember at some point putting the controller on the floor and it was 'magically moved' or something similar but beyond that pointless gimmick I can't remember.
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Yes, you are correct.
However, remember to extend this logic and not discount the quality of something just because it is popular. It's funny that a sibling post mentions The Da Vinci Code, because as soon as I had finished reading your post, I thought to myself "Someone's gonna say 'yeah like The Da Vinci code!'".
FWIW, I thought that The Da Vinci Code was a good book. Not because I believed that most of presented conspiracies and other 'facts' were true, but because, well, it's a damn good story, pure fiction or not. The current religious controversy is irrelevant as far as the story itself is concerned. Reading it was reminiscient of 'reading time' at junior school, when the teacher would relay a great adventure about a detective or similar character that was filled with excitement and danger. I read the book when it was popular yet still nothing out of the ordinary in terms of sales (i.e. before the sales explosion and the related newspaper articles, religious outcries etc.). It felt like reading a film script throughout, and I was not at all surprised when I heard Hollywood got its paws on it.
Sure, The 'Code is no Dickens, but then again I don't need to read the entire works of Shakespeare to validate my personal literary insecurities, like those cunts who love telling people that they've read War And Peace.
To regress back to the original point, people who automatically turn their noses up at popularity annoy me just as much as those who blindly follow it. Like everything in life, it's all about balance (see my sig). And to the AC sibling: I wasn't trying to make an accusation, if you read TDVC and genuinely thought it sucked, good for you.
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Quit trying to compare two vastly different situations just to bash the US
You know, not every negative observation about the United States is an attempt to jump on the 'US Bashing' bandwagon.
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Well I've ruined a keyboard by pissing on it. It was after a really drunken night at University, and not one of my proudest moments. I woke up and my desk was covered in a clear liquid that had saturated my keyboard. The computer made funny noises on bootup and there was no hope to recover the MS Internet Keyboard that had served me so well. I thought I had lost the Intellimouse too, but he pulled through.
Not the first time that I've gotten confused while drunk and needing to urinate. Other victims have been wardrobes (mine and a friend's) as well as my computer chair. God I need help...
Yeah but try typing on the thing...
Joking aside, I'm one of those people that can't type on anything that doesn't provide solid mechanical feedback. Laptop keyboards are bad enough, let alone rubbery keys that give no indication of being pressed properly; I just get frustrated. But then again I not that much of a typist anyway...
That's because we can't enter their mystical parallel realm...
Try updating the drivers.
Over an even shorter span the kiddie disclaimers have become so much more specific and pathetic.
For example: 'Contains scenes of peril'
Oh my fucking God, please not PERIL. God forbid some kid sees a fictional character in danger, that's just mentally damaging material right there.
What next? 'Contains a scene where Jimbo trips and falls on his face, thus causing certain amounts of pain and distress'? Take your Newspeaking, politically correct, mollycoddling garbage and shove it.
Never forget the first rule of Fight Club...
There's nothing like spending a cold winter's night curled up infront of the firewall...
When that thing catches fire, my irony meter will go through the roof:
A wall of firewalls, on fire. Something named after a method of fire prevention, on fire. Someone call the Brits, only they can handle this one...
Ebonic Pluralisation.
Yes, redundant choice of wording, I know. I could have said '20 member LAN party discussion board for 12 year olds' or similar, but I just never really get the chance to use 'tin-pot operation' in everyday language, and I like that particular phrase.
:)
Likewise, spelling mistakes are an implementation of RAID 0:
Random Ascii-character Insertion or Deletion
You wouldn't accept a newspaper that duplicated articles on different pages would you? Yeah, you could say that a newspaper is paid for, but remember that we all pay for Slashdot in some way (subs, time, ad impressions etc.). If someone was surfing late at night, sees the 'Next story ready soon' blurb and decides to go to bed after reading it, it's a bit of a kick in the balls if they've read it a couple of hours ago.
It's not like Slashdot is some tin pot operation, it's a globally famous service approaching a million members. It's for these reasons, also including spelling mistakes in summaries and titles (yes, titles!) that people are irritated at every occurance. I never post these complaints myself, but I can sympathise with those who do.
How about this: we'll stop complaining when you can employ editors that can proofread and carry out a little research, ok?
Is the truth now regarded as flamebait?
Yes, 99 percent of the time you could substitute -1 Flamebait with +1 Truth. However, he might have avoided that moderation if he put his point across a little more eloquently.
As for the idea that Xbox controllers are designed exclusively for Halo, that's as much as a gross exaggeration as 'Halo is the only good game for the Xbox'. Yes, playing Halo with the Xbox feels bloody comfortable and natural, but I don't know how this equates to it being unusable for every other game, however. Come on, the differences between the three console controllers aren't that radical; look at which fingers are assigned to which buttons/pads/sticks and it's mostly spatial alignment and positioning that varies.
Funnily enough, I quite like the original Xbox controller and it's only second to the DC one.
You forgot the 'yo'...
What about the even bigger news that 'Lexar Lawsuit' has been named as the villain in the upcoming Superman movie?
As it's been about ten years since I played that game, could you remind me again what the vibration function was used for? I remember at some point putting the controller on the floor and it was 'magically moved' or something similar but beyond that pointless gimmick I can't remember.
Yes, you are correct.
However, remember to extend this logic and not discount the quality of something just because it is popular. It's funny that a sibling post mentions The Da Vinci Code, because as soon as I had finished reading your post, I thought to myself "Someone's gonna say 'yeah like The Da Vinci code!'".
FWIW, I thought that The Da Vinci Code was a good book. Not because I believed that most of presented conspiracies and other 'facts' were true, but because, well, it's a damn good story, pure fiction or not. The current religious controversy is irrelevant as far as the story itself is concerned. Reading it was reminiscient of 'reading time' at junior school, when the teacher would relay a great adventure about a detective or similar character that was filled with excitement and danger. I read the book when it was popular yet still nothing out of the ordinary in terms of sales (i.e. before the sales explosion and the related newspaper articles, religious outcries etc.). It felt like reading a film script throughout, and I was not at all surprised when I heard Hollywood got its paws on it.
Sure, The 'Code is no Dickens, but then again I don't need to read the entire works of Shakespeare to validate my personal literary insecurities, like those cunts who love telling people that they've read War And Peace.
To regress back to the original point, people who automatically turn their noses up at popularity annoy me just as much as those who blindly follow it. Like everything in life, it's all about balance (see my sig). And to the AC sibling: I wasn't trying to make an accusation, if you read TDVC and genuinely thought it sucked, good for you.
Quit trying to compare two vastly different situations just to bash the US
You know, not every negative observation about the United States is an attempt to jump on the 'US Bashing' bandwagon.
Here is a picture of the suspect before being taken into custody.
If found guilty the Swede might be sentenced to death by gas chamber.
"playing doctor" "who's on first base"...
Sounds more like 4th grade to me.
It must be because the post preceding yours is about T-Rex DNA patents, but I read that as:
"if you stand perfectly still it won't sue you!"
It's Sony...just take the official spec and halve it.
Well, you don't waste Toy Story quality graphics on mere 2D flim-flammery.
Canada says no to DMC, eh?
Is hip-hop not popular over there or something?
Try this while drinking heavily:
:)
Please select joke subject.
You have selected 'Adult'.
Please select joke difficulty on a scale of one to ten.
You have selected 'Ten'.
Your randomly chosen joke is George Carlin's 'Seven Dirty Words' bit.
Might be quite interesting to watch, actually.