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emcee Red Super Koopa                   Since: 11-20-05 Last post: 6322 days Last view: 6322 days |
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| Yeah, I had one of those P880s, if I recall it was pretty good. Not sure what I did with it though. Logitech still makes decent gampads though. Not sure how sturdy, but I don't normally take out failures in the game on the gamepad. Nice solid control though, and a good price, $20 for 9 button with two analog sticks and a D-pad, and $10 without the sticks. It has those big bloated programs, but they're seperate from the driver, so you don't have to install it, actually the $10 one runs fine off default Windows drivers.
I've had one Gravis pad though. It seemed very sturdy and perfectly designed for my freakiously long thumbs, but it came "precalibrated" and there was no option to calibrate it. Trouble was the calibration was just slightly off so it was impossible to walk in a straight line. Plus there seemed to be another little quirk, where from time to time you would command a simple action such as "walk forward", and instead it would do something like "run around in circles then leap into the nearest pit". Back, on topic, a little over a year ago outpost.com had crazy deals on there motherboards and cpu combos. I bought a retail box (with warranty, fan, and heatsink) Sempron 2500+ with an ECS mb for $75 and two Duron 1.6Ghz (OEM) with PCChips board combos for $40 each. This is a pretty good deal now, it was crazy then. I kept one Duron combo and the Sempron combo, and sold the other Duron combo on eBay for $64. About the same time I got a 160 gb external hd on eBay for $21.50. The only hitch was it was missing it power cord, and it was some crazy proprietary deal. No problem, though, I just opened it up an like most external hard drives there was a perfectly good internal IDE drive inside. I plugged it into my ECS board with my Sempron, and they're both still running to this day as part of my MythTv system. I tell you, if cheapness was an Olympic event they'd be testing me for steriods. |
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emcee Red Super Koopa Since: 11-20-05 Last post: 6322 days Last view: 6322 days |
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| That bug in Windows that's been since 95, wherein tooltips for icons in the tray appear behind the taskbar. And other times they just refuse to come up at all. I hate that.
Also, when I'm on a website and I see a link, that looks completely normal, as if just to another web page, similar to the one I'm on, with no indication otherwise. I click it and my entire browser freezes up and for a few seconds I wondering whats going on, and I suddenly realise what I've done seconds before I see the Adobe Acrobat Reader splash screen appear. And by that time its too late, I might as well go make a sandwich or something while I wait for my browser to unfreeze and load a pdf that always seems to turn out to not be what I was looking for after all. |
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emcee Red Super Koopa Since: 11-20-05 Last post: 6322 days Last view: 6322 days |
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| You know, it's entirely possible he has a passion for both. Hence being undecided. | |||
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emcee Red Super Koopa Since: 11-20-05 Last post: 6322 days Last view: 6322 days |
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| Well, I knew it was only a matter of time before this thread would be closed, and probably be only a matter of time before its closed again, but for the time being, I'm glad its back (although it could probably be unstickied now) because I didn't seem to be getting my point acrossed, so I'm thinking maybe I wasn't being clear.
First of all, yes, I know I said basically the same thing in my last two posts, but that is but that's because normally in this type of discussion, I will try to make a point, and someone will make a counter argument, and I will refute that, and etc, etc. You know, a debate. But the thing is, someone actually has to refute the point I made. But this didn't happen, the reply was related to the importance of the discussion itself. I'm fully aware that its not really that important. But if you look through the topics being discussed in this forum most of them are fairly important (Iraq, world hunger, domestic spying, religion and state, etc). But we can argue these topics for the next year and even if a miracle occurs and someone actually convinces another person of something, we'll all still be a bunch of random people on some unknown message board, with no real influence on the issues we're debating, in a debate which outcome (if there ever is one) will make absolutely no difference in the grand scheme of things. So why are we having these debates? Because that's why the forum is here. At least with this particular debate if a miracle does occur and someone's mind is changed it will make a diiference. So anyway, the condensed version of the above rant (the point, I guess) is that simply saying the issue being debated isn't important, or saying that its not up to the people giving their opinions anyway, isn't a way of winning the debate, mainly because it has nothing to do with the actual debate. If you don't feel a debate is worth having, you should simply not involve yourself in it. Originally posted by Grey Yeah, you see, this is basically what I'm talking about. To be honest I'm not exactly sure what Rom Manic was trying to say in much of his first post, but I know exactly what I was trying to say, and I know this quote above has nothing to do with it. I wasn't saying that the issue was incredibly important, I wasn't saying that the there's anything wrong with the rules, or saying that they are too vague. This is what I'm saying: 1) Many of the people here who are supposed to be enforcing the rules (mods and admins) are actually breaking them as much, or even more than anyone else. 2) There is alot more people here (many of them mods) being rude an obnoxious (flaming), than simply being "stupid". To make this more clear, I would give an example but then I would be making a personal attack rather than a general statement, so instead I'll give a generic example. Lets say some guy decides to make a layout, and they show it off in the modern art forum, and well, its just not very good. First, let me say that making a bad layout doesn't make you stupid, I've known many intelligent people with no concept of aesthetics, even in situations that would seem like common sense to others. Anyway, in this situation, there are two possible ways a person could reply. They could point out problem areas and explain the problems and give suggestions on how to make it better, or they could go off in a rant about the person's lack common sense, lack of effort, or general stupidity, and throw in a few annoying cliche phrases such "my eyes!", or "you fail", or maybe even tell the person to kill themself. The difference between these two approaches is that the first would likely yield a decent layout whereas the most that could come out of the second is a flamewar. Sure maybe humor could come out of the second, but more often then not, it isn't even funny because it just uses a bunch of annoying cliches. Seeing as how the second reply is completely pointless, its not only flaming, its also spamming. And even if they did throw a few layout making pointers between insults, the person they're insult will probably either just leave the board, or flame back, resulting in a flamewar that would likely get someone banned. The shame is it would likely be the person who just came there to show off their layout, not the person who flamed them for no reason, atleast partly because they're likely "on staff". (edited by emcee on 03-22-06 05:25 AM) |
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emcee Red Super Koopa Since: 11-20-05 Last post: 6322 days Last view: 6322 days |
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| Haven't any of you seen Seinfeld?
I don't think it was that bad of idea, there's really no reason why it couldn't have worked, its just an issue of taking it out soon enough. |
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emcee Red Super Koopa Since: 11-20-05 Last post: 6322 days Last view: 6322 days |
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| Photoshop is gay, remember that scene in Pulp Fiction....Oh, wait no, I'm thinking of The GIMP. | |||
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emcee Red Super Koopa Since: 11-20-05 Last post: 6322 days Last view: 6322 days |
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| Everybody makes mistakes in life. Picking up smoking is one of them. Its not stupidity or anything, just a mistake. The fact that cigarettes are highly addictive just makes it very hard to recover from that mistake. | |||
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emcee Red Super Koopa Since: 11-20-05 Last post: 6322 days Last view: 6322 days |
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Originally posted by VyperOriginally posted by emceeOk, that post has officially made ZERO sense (although Pulp Fiction was rather good). It will make sense the next time you watch Pulp Fiction. |
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emcee Red Super Koopa  Since: 11-20-05 Last post: 6322 days Last view: 6322 days |
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| Well, by that definition pot isn't a drug, but THC is. | |||
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emcee Red Super Koopa Since: 11-20-05 Last post: 6322 days Last view: 6322 days |
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Originally posted by Sniper Skydude Well aspirin is the chemical that has the desired effects, the rest of the stuff in a pill is just filler. By that definition, though the entire pill isn't a drug since it's not a chemical, as-in, it was probably created just by mixing stuff together, rather than a chemical process. Just as a plant, isn't a chemical either, and by that definition isn't a drug. |
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emcee Red Super Koopa Since: 11-20-05 Last post: 6322 days Last view: 6322 days |
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Originally posted by HyperMackerel Now all we need is a source of 1.21 "jigga"watts of electricity. I like though that they're actually looking to get it out later this year, normally when you read one of these articles about some new breakthrough technology, they make it sound like it's pretty much ready through the whole article, then at the end they say something like 5 years away. Then you normally never hear of it again. I also like the little inside the prototype video they had on their site, it reminded me of one of those ads you see in movies for some futuristic evil corporation. They also seemed to be hinting at DRM in that video too, but I guess at this point that's to be expected. |
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emcee Red Super Koopa Since: 11-20-05 Last post: 6322 days Last view: 6322 days |
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| I don't know, some of the episodes of Walker: Texas Ranger we just about as ridiculous. | |||
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emcee Red Super Koopa Since: 11-20-05 Last post: 6322 days Last view: 6322 days |
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| Ah, Dr. Phil style advice, obvious and unhelpful. | |||
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emcee Red Super Koopa Since: 11-20-05 Last post: 6322 days Last view: 6322 days |
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Originally posted by Keitaro Maybe his style has changed since the last time I saw his show. Last time I watched, his "straight-forward no nonsense" style amounted to restating people's problems back to them, while randomly insulting them. For instance, if someone had an over eating problem his advice would basically be stop eating so much. |
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emcee Red Super Koopa Since: 11-20-05 Last post: 6322 days Last view: 6322 days |
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Originally posted by RydainOriginally posted by emceeHeh...I wonder if that's on anywhere. I think USA still runs it in the morning. I watched half an episode a few days ago. There was this guy holding people hostage at some sort of fancy dinner, and he went over and beat up some old man (that seems to happen alot in that show), then he stabbed the old man, and he falls on the ground and lays there for a while, apparently not dying. Later on, Walker's sidekick runs and see the old man on the floor and grabs a phone from a random spot off camera (that clearly didn't have a phone a moment ago, and not a cell phone either, one with a cord and everything), and yells "We need an paramedic here, quick!", and hangs up, never dialing or mentioning where "here" is. Meanwhile, Walker chases the bad guy through the building, which basically was a shot of the bad guy running, a shot of Walker running down a hallway, a shot the bad guy runnning, a shot of Walker turning a corner in the hallway, a shot of the bad guy running, a shot of Walker running down the exact same hallway he was in a moment ago...etc, etc for 5 solid minutes. It was like a Tom and Jerry cartoon, where you see the same lamp and window go by 15 times. Finally the the bad guy goes into a room where for whatever reason, there's a manhole in the middle of the floor. He climbs down the hole, and then Walker runs into the room, looks at the manhole for a few seconds, then goes and pushes on the walk for a little bit, then looks down the hole, and then finds a cabinet with a flashlight in it, and finally goes down the hole. I have no idea why he was pushing on the wall. So I flipped to something else for a while, and flipped back and now the bad guy was dressed up like an old man, a Walker was beating him up. |
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emcee Red Super Koopa Since: 11-20-05 Last post: 6322 days Last view: 6322 days |
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| Charentais
An heirloom variety of French melon of the subspecies cantalupensis. Making it a "true cantaloupe", rather than a muskmelon (of the subspecies reticulatus). In a sentence: Those people with their fancy Charentais melons sure are uppity. |
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emcee Red Super Koopa Since: 11-20-05 Last post: 6322 days Last view: 6322 days |
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| Ooh, Ooh I know:
Hey, Acmlm, post your address and I send you a check for $1000. Ah, I guess that would only work if he believed me. |
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emcee Red Super Koopa Since: 11-20-05 Last post: 6322 days Last view: 6322 days |
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| So why do you show them to the masses? | |||
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emcee Red Super Koopa Since: 11-20-05 Last post: 6322 days Last view: 6322 days |
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Originally posted by Silvershield No, some may be argue about issues of impregnantion by rape, but I think the general arguement is for it to be the woman's choice reguardless of the situation. But that's not really an issue, I mean you can't say that its ok to use flawed logic because others use while pointing out that its flawed logic. Drinking or being high while driving is a seperate issue than just drinking or being high, one is a victimless crime (well nothing's a completely victimless crime, but those are pretty close), while the other isn't. |
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