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Rydain |
 Ropa Blaze Phoenix Runs With the Dragon Within Level: 42  Posts: 484/738 EXP: 490056 For next: 31306 Since: 03-15-04 From: State College, PA Since last post: 6 days Last activity: 8 hours
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More Lego fun! Weeeeeee! |
Henry Lim's sculptures, including some photographic-looking portraits The Brick Testament Eric Harshbarger, professional Lego sculptor
Rydain |
Ropa Blaze Phoenix Runs With the Dragon Within Level: 42 Posts: 485/738 EXP: 490056 For next: 31306 Since: 03-15-04 From: State College, PA Since last post: 6 days Last activity: 8 hours
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I knew it was going to snow several inches overnight, and I was worried that the roads would be craptacular in the morning. But lo and behold...our street was not only plowed, but pretty clear down to the pavement, and some guys with shovels and a snow blower were going door to door looking for work. Fifteen minutes and $30 later, they cleared my entire driveway, sidewalk, and front walkway, which would have taken me at least an hour and I wouldn't have scraped it as clean as they did. I even got to work on time. There have been snowfalls where the plows didn't get to my street until well after morning and I couldn't get out before then and had to come in late, so I'm happy that they did a good job this time. |
Rydain |
Ropa Blaze Phoenix Runs With the Dragon Within Level: 42 Posts: 486/738 EXP: 490056 For next: 31306 Since: 03-15-04 From: State College, PA Since last post: 6 days Last activity: 8 hours
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I don't ever have to transport data from my computer to another one that isn't hooked up to our home network or available via other means (e.g. FTP), so I don't use any sort of removable storage. |
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Rydain |
Ropa Blaze Phoenix Runs With the Dragon Within Level: 42 Posts: 488/738 EXP: 490056 For next: 31306 Since: 03-15-04 From: State College, PA Since last post: 6 days Last activity: 8 hours
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That looks a lot like the source of some spam page I came across a long time ago. I don't think View Selection Source was available then (or I would have used it), but I was able to get the code by decoding the stuff within eval() and replacing the call to document.write with an alert. It's funny...that guy probably spent hours writing all that obfuscated JavaScript, and it's now even more pointless thanks to modern browsers' features... |
Rydain |
Ropa Blaze Phoenix Runs With the Dragon Within Level: 42 Posts: 489/738 EXP: 490056 For next: 31306 Since: 03-15-04 From: State College, PA Since last post: 6 days Last activity: 8 hours
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Whoa...I didn't notice that the harpsichord was playable. |
 The grandfather clock on Eric Harshbarger's site actually works, too. And all I ever managed to do with Legos was make ugly rectangular buildings.  I remember being fascinated by the clear ones.
Rydain |
Ropa Blaze Phoenix Runs With the Dragon Within Level: 42 Posts: 490/738 EXP: 490056 For next: 31306 Since: 03-15-04 From: State College, PA Since last post: 6 days Last activity: 8 hours
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Oh...I can't believe I forgot to find and post this one... |
...it's Lego porn! The series are scenes like the Brick Testament, and they don't have anything that resembles human nudity, but they do use plastic rods to simulate XXX action, so you might not want to look at them at school or when your parents are around.
Rydain |
Ropa Blaze Phoenix Runs With the Dragon Within Level: 42 Posts: 491/738 EXP: 490056 For next: 31306 Since: 03-15-04 From: State College, PA Since last post: 6 days Last activity: 8 hours
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I'm curious about this game. We have the first one and it seemed like a lot of fun if you got good at controlling Dante, but I didn't do very well with it because the controls were just...weird to me (jumping mapped to the triangle button? Bleh), but from what I'm reading, the controls in DMC3 are easier to use, and you can customize the control scheme as well. I like the idea of replaying missions to orb farm and level up your skills. I worry about the difficulty level, which is supposedly badly balanced (by that, I mean they throw really tough crap at you really early on and then randomly follow it up with something easy) and insane at times, but I've heard that the ability to build up your character and redo missions mitigates the challenge-related frustration. It makes sense to me - if a mission is too difficult, make more money, buy more skills and items, and practice your moves some more, and you'll have more of a chance next time. I would like to develop more fast-twitch / thinking in 3D skills so I can play harder games. All of my best eye-hand coordination applies to 2D platformers (I beat some crazy shit back in the day), but when it comes to challenging 3D action, I'm like DEHHHHH. I mean, stuff like Spyro is right up my alley...but I can forget about getting anywhere in something like Resident Evil. Thank heavens that the Silent Hill games have an easy mode. It would be nifty to fight the tougher monsters of normal and hard without, say, an unlimited submachine gun to help me out, though. |
But I'm getting way off-topic. Eh, I should just buy the game...if all else fails, I can have fun loading it up and busting on enemies in the first board over and over and over again.
Rydain |
Ropa Blaze Phoenix Runs With the Dragon Within Level: 42 Posts: 492/738 EXP: 490056 For next: 31306 Since: 03-15-04 From: State College, PA Since last post: 6 days Last activity: 8 hours
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Originally posted by neotransotakuThat's a bummer. The Silent Hill play novel intrigued me because I'm a fan of the series and I've always enjoyed choose your own adventure books. I downloaded the ROM and managed to beat the first boss, but I didn't really get much out of it because I don't read Japanese. I wish someone would make a translation patch or script for that game...and it would of course be ideal if Konami would translate it into English and give me some way to buy it...
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Ropa Blaze Phoenix Runs With the Dragon Within Level: 42 Posts: 493/738 EXP: 490056 For next: 31306 Since: 03-15-04 From: State College, PA Since last post: 6 days Last activity: 8 hours
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Randy and I got cell phones back in October. They're nifty because they give one of us a surefire way of getting in touch with the other when either of us is out, and they're also a must-have at anime conventions when you're trying to find cell phone-enabled friends. The free long distance is a bonus as well. We have Motorola v400 phones, which seem pretty nice to me. (I only ever use the address book and play Bejeweled once in a while - I've never had a need to get online when out and about - but the interface is fine and I like being able to put a cute picture of Cookie on as my wallpaper and use a custom MIDI or mp3 as a ringtone. Randy got some sort of phone management software that lets you dump a song file to the phone for that software, so I don't have to pay some bullshit ridiculous price to get a song onto the phone. I switch between The Raven, an original composition, and a MIDI of the Goonies theme song. |
 ) I dropped mine at least once and it still works. w00t.
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Ropa Blaze Phoenix Runs With the Dragon Within Level: 42 Posts: 494/738 EXP: 490056 For next: 31306 Since: 03-15-04 From: State College, PA Since last post: 6 days Last activity: 8 hours
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Minesweeper r0x0rz. I'm not quite as good as you are (though I can beat expert mode)...but... |
I have a B.S. in computer science from Penn State (main campus). During my schooling, I took differential equations for fun. I got A's in all of my calculus courses, multivariate calculus included. I've been cosplaying (dressing up as anime and video game characters) since 2002. The workmanship on my first costume wasn't great, but I have been improving my skills and getting insanely anal about my craftsmanship and material choices. My current projects are costumes from Dynasty Warriors 4 for myself and my husband (Zhang He for me, Xiahou Dun for him), and I'm making fiberglass weapons and real riveted metal armor. It may seem insane to spend all this time and money for costumes that are only worn to conventions that take place once a year, but it is important to me. Once upon a time when I was between jobs, I worked on an editor for Milon's Secret Castle, written in C++ with a GTK GUI. Too bad I became employed again before it could actually save anything...but i was proud of what I accomplished. I've seen the first Addams Family movie about 50 times, probably still know the entire script, and have a very long list of merchandise and collectibles from it...including autographed pictures of Christina Ricci (Wednesday) and Jimmy Workman (Pugsley). Hooray for random fandom. I run Linux (Debian unstable) on my home computer...and I like it kthx.
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Ropa Blaze Phoenix Runs With the Dragon Within Level: 42 Posts: 495/738 EXP: 490056 For next: 31306 Since: 03-15-04 From: State College, PA Since last post: 6 days Last activity: 8 hours
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Originally posted by MathOnNapkinsWhat can I say...he's my favorite. When I first started playing Dynasty Warriors 3, I picked Zhang He because he looked like Vega from the Street Fighter games, and then I discovered that he kicks all kinds of ass in battle, and his effeminate traits amused me. I'm tall, broad-shouldered, pretty small-boobed, and more muscular than an average woman, and like you said, Zhang He is feminine (he has rather soft facial features and no facial hair), so I think I'll pull him off pretty well. I can even sound like him as long as I speak in my lower register. "I...defeated an OFficer!" I would like to cosplay Zhu Rong at some point in the future because she's fricking badass and her outfits are w00t. I'd never be able to convince Randy to be Meng Huo along with me, though. He's not wide enough and he doesn't want to run around in a loincloth as a character whose most well-known line is "My wife's gonna kill me!" Trapster - It's going to be a while until it's done, but I put up pictures in my cosplay.com photo gallery as I get various aspects of the costume into a progressed enough state to show off, so just keep checking there every couple of weeks or so for updates. A pic of the wig, which I had commissioned (though I made the butterfly accessory myself) should be up this month. I'm working on the mold for the weapons right now, and I'll also post that, but I won't actually be able to make the real weapons until it gets warm enough to lay fiberglass outside.
Rydain |
Ropa Blaze Phoenix Runs With the Dragon Within Level: 42 Posts: 496/738 EXP: 490056 For next: 31306 Since: 03-15-04 From: State College, PA Since last post: 6 days Last activity: 8 hours
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My husband and I are 26, and our game collection isn't going anywhere anytime soon. We have other friends who are 30 or almost there who still game as well. If it's fun, why give it up? |
Rydain |
Ropa Blaze Phoenix Runs With the Dragon Within Level: 42 Posts: 497/738 EXP: 490056 For next: 31306 Since: 03-15-04 From: State College, PA Since last post: 6 days Last activity: 8 hours
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Well...we got it and I spent a couple of hours playing earlier tonight. It took me a few tries to beat the first mission on Normal, but I unlocked Easy in the process and decided to use that from now on (without the automatic setting, though...it's better to do your own combos). I'm currently stuck on mission 3 because I keep getting pwned by the boss. OMFG I LIKEWISE FAIL IT. I can get the boss' health down below the halfway mark, but then it keeps throwing a certain attack at me and I'm no good at avoiding it yet. And for some reason, I was devolving into button mashing and couldn't get past a fight earlier in the level to go and take another crack at the boss, so I figured it was time to put the game down for the night. |
The challenge is satisfying thus far, though. It's interesting how you begin to pick up the enemies' signals and movements after getting repeatedly schooled although you may not realize it consciously. You just seem to get magically better at knowing where to dodge. The mission 2 boss wiped the floor with me when I first got there, but I quickly learned that a certain blue flash meant that I needed to duck out of the way ASAP, and now, weirdly enough, what happens between the flash and your getting hurt if you're standing there no longer seems instantaneous. It's fast, but I can actually see it. Maybe I can learn this fast-twitch action stuff after all... 
Rydain |
Ropa Blaze Phoenix Runs With the Dragon Within Level: 42 Posts: 498/738 EXP: 490056 For next: 31306 Since: 03-15-04 From: State College, PA Since last post: 6 days Last activity: 8 hours
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I always hated it when that happened. I remember Googling Minesweeper a while back and coming across somebody's idea for a board populating algorithm that would never produce such ambiguous cases, but I don't know if any games were developed that implemented it (or if the algorithm was even finished to begin with). That would indeed be nifty, though. |
At least Gnomine (a Minesweeper clone for Gnome) doesn't suck royally like it used to. When I first played it, it didn't even have that feature that would guarantee that your first click would land on an empty square, so you'd oftentimes die before you even started playing. Thankfully they fixed that stupid bug a while ago.
Rydain |
Ropa Blaze Phoenix Runs With the Dragon Within Level: 42 Posts: 499/738 EXP: 490056 For next: 31306 Since: 03-15-04 From: State College, PA Since last post: 6 days Last activity: 8 hours
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In middle school, some guy Nathan (who I remember because he said he watched Spaceballs 80+ times until the tape broke...and I thought I'd seen my favorite movies a lot |
 ) wrote "Live long and perspire" in my yearbook. I didn't get the joke at the time, but it was still funny.
Rydain |
Ropa Blaze Phoenix Runs With the Dragon Within Level: 42 Posts: 500/738 EXP: 490056 For next: 31306 Since: 03-15-04 From: State College, PA Since last post: 6 days Last activity: 8 hours
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I'm playing Devil May Cry 3. I am not good at fast-twitch 3D action and I knew it was a difficult game, but because it's set up so you can work your way through it and its style of combat looks like an absolute blast once you figure it out, I just had to get it. The first five missions were a satisfying challenge, but now it's starting to turn into a clusterfuck. I'm currently stuck on this stupid room in mission 7 where I always get creamed because there are WAY too many fast enemies around. I finally got pissed off enough to chuck the controller today (more than once, too). But I keep coming back for more because I know I'll get it eventually... |
Rydain |
Ropa Blaze Phoenix Runs With the Dragon Within Level: 42 Posts: 501/738 EXP: 490056 For next: 31306 Since: 03-15-04 From: State College, PA Since last post: 6 days Last activity: 8 hours
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Penn State's spring break was this week, and as a result, many places kept shorter hours or closed down entirely. We wanted to order Pita Pit the other night, but they were closed, which was quite annoying. I know the students are a major component of this town's population, but it chafes me that some things have to shut down over breaks because they don't get enough business from the locals. People around here need to get out more. |
Rydain |
Ropa Blaze Phoenix Runs With the Dragon Within Level: 42 Posts: 502/738 EXP: 490056 For next: 31306 Since: 03-15-04 From: State College, PA Since last post: 6 days Last activity: 8 hours
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Originally posted by Gavin You could try making hop skip, which requires cheap swill in order to taste good. My office mate has consumed quite a bit of this stuff, and he says it just doesn't work if you try making it with quality alcohol. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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