This was great, I had to share this. The Geek hierarchywas pretty good, but this one if fan-fucking-tastic. This was lifted from Midaregami, I'm sure he doesn't mind.. I'm giving him credit and while I'm at it, The Brunching Shuuttlecocks copy of Lore Sjöberg's Geek Heirarchy.
I was trying to gauge where half of the people I know fit in there... and most of them are in there. ...and I have a T-Shirt that says so.
What an interesting phenomenon. Internet anonymity allows people with a guilty conscience or burdened soul to just unload it all on a unsuspecting total stranger. Halfway between a Church Confessional and a drunken ramble with a bartender, the concept is taxicab confessions without the web cam. I can't help but feel the whole Fight Club-Group Therapy vibe from the whole thing, only thing missing is Bob and his bitch tits.
This site amazes me. I continually reading it and try to bookmark where I leave off at work. This site has everything. I love the layout and design, the background, the minimalist construction and easy to read text. If I were going to confess it all, I would want to do it on this site...
And this site does have it all, from 13 year olds confessing crushes and first sexual acts to grown men wanting forgiveness for bullying the smaller kid. There is a lot of cheating and drug use brought up, a lot of teenage defiance. One really good one was a gay kid that had sex in his parents bed because the disapprove of his lifestyle, then felt remorseful after spooging on a pillow. Or the 20 something female that turned a good friend into a fuck buddy, she had a boyfriend and he has a girlfriend. They are such good friends that no one suspects and it has made the relationship weird, but apparently it’s not ending because he’s really good.
There are the house wives who secretly hate their children for following the footsteps of their spouse, The husband with the perfect wife but is bored and secretly finds solace going out on a date with a new woman, never to call the woman back and feeling sorry for the woman, his wife and himself.
Self-pity is an amazing and powerful thing…
...I need to get out of here. My financial, personal and spiritual life demand it. My manager said that this was an entry position and that I could move to a different department in about a year to further my career. 1 year, 6 months later; I'm in front of the same terminal doing the same thing. Only differences is that I get away with alot more cause I don't care as much and I'm everyone's 'buddy' here. Maybe I should liberate some high-end hardware, it might make me feel better. Hey babe, you want a Dual Xeon workstation, 2 GB of ram and a 250 GB HDD?
I'm going to go get a hot chocolate and feel better about myself.
-John
Mac OS X is damn sexy and you know it. If it wasn't the the kidney I would have to sell to et a comperable setup utilizing Apple hardware instead of stull I find on the floor, I would probably own one. Macs are in no sense gaming machines, but for web browsing, word processing, watching videos and just draging windows around to look cool OS X is top notch. Granted GNOME is a beautiful window manager as well I just don't feel like re-learning everything in linux.. oh and game support is half-assed, but better than mac. (Hell, anything is better than the nasty ass Luna theme from WinXP. Why couldn't they have stayed with Whistler's Watercolor theme... that was nice)Anyways I stray from the point. OSNews has a rather nice article with plenty of linkage and fun utils to download. Hit the article up here: Aquafying Windows I downloaded NexPlorer and I must say it's a rather nice explorer replacement... I think I'm going to reinstall geoShell ^_^
Silent Hill 4 is some scary scary shit. That being said, you must now obtain this game. When the US release comes out BUY IT, if your PS2 is modded and can play Jap games, BUY IT. I would drop kick your mom to the throat and not think twice about it for this game.I newsgroupped the import and will let you know it was not a wasted download. All the in game dialog is in english and with some changed on the config screen (which is 90% in english) you can make the game full english and swap the whole X-O button deal with Japanese games.
It must be mentioned that this game is a departure from the first three of the series, but everything it does different it gets right. The bosses have been removed, but don’t worry there is still plenty to back you into a corner and make your cry for mommy. The removal of the bosses has added to the overall fluidity of the game. It seems less like the structured chapter based plot and more like a constant downward spiraling nightmare. The puzzles are a bit more straight forward (not nearly as cryptic as some of the earlier puzzles) and the enemies have become a bit more organic. The skinned dogs are still roaming around but new enemies such as the creepy yeti-babies and ghost/zombies will defiantly keep you on your toes and loosing sleep. I considered the more human of the monsters to be the scariest (Pyramid Head, The Nurses, Blood Soaked Alessa) and this game capitalizes on this.
All of the aesthetic changes are well received like the new health bar and power gauge. The first being so you no longer have to guess at your health via limping or hemorrhaging and stop the game for a inventory check; the second is used for swinging weapons to charge from a moderate THUMP to a full blast body-hurling home-run style WHACK. Two of the biggest departures are the first person perspective mode and the limited inventory. Gone the way of the dodo is the Resident Evil rip-off inventory screen and introduced is the Resident Evil inspired limited inventory. This adds a whole new level to the game being that what items you carry now matter in the sense that you can no longer pick up any more if your inventory is full (and in some parts, what you carry affects the level). No need to worry being that the portal/hole system that traverses you from your room to different ‘worlds’ allows you to go back to your room and store unneeded items in a stylish ottoman/chest placed next to your possessed television. Also to please your inner voyeur, the first person view allows you to peek out your window to see into your neighbors’ apartments and to spy on the single white female living next to you.
Returning SH fans will find that this new addition has much to offer with it’s tentacles embedded in plot from all previous Silent Hill titles bringing new light to old events (What was the outcome of James Sunderland’s trip in SH 2, What really happened at the Wish House from SH3, etc.). New players stepping up to the challenge will not be disappointed with beautiful detailed graphics and a story line that drives you to dig deeper and deeper until it all makes sense. Konami once again has created an audio/visual attack on the sensed that is truly designed to scare the living crap out of you.
OK, Problem: A while ago I managed to obtained by all legal methods Sasha's (the DJ, not the Russian prostitute at Port Authority) new Involver mix teaser. I was amazed. I really really really liked it. The 20 minutes of audio were perfectly mixed and balanced and sounded incredible, I nearly attained orgasm by the middle of the 'These Days / What are you to me' crossover. Course, I'm a sucker for anything Sasha has done after Xpander, then Airdrawndagger and lets not forget his involvement with WipeOut 3 ^_^
I had already gotten my grubby hands on the UNKLE "In a State" mix done by Sasha and when I saw it on the new mix I thought it was a sign of good things to come, the teaser further proved that. The promo is a perfect stand alone mix, and I highly reccomend it as is serves well as good background or chill out music.
I dunno, it's why I keep the prerelease copy of Radiohead's "Hail to the thief" around. Some of the songs have a completely different tone when they are pre-production. It sometimes seems that the final products are overdone. I like my music a little pink in the center ... dunno, just more organic that way. Listen to the prerelease "Punch drunk at a wedding" vs the album version. Thom Yorke's voice in harmony with itself make me weak in the knees and fat in the pants, why did they take that out??
The final has some rough areas, but we can mix those out later. I must admit that it is still a very good mix, just why did it have to change around so much? I'm sure Brandon could have helped you with some nice downtempo filler if you really needed it...
^_^