I don't really give a shit about Google+. It's just one more trendy thing to try and keep up with and I just don't have the energy. Facebook is fine and I've never worried about privacy issues because I never provide anything I would be worried about being compromised.
Everyone keeps saying that parents thing. So what? Isn't the whole lure of google+ that you could block them out of it anyways?
Except in all likelihood it will actually work on G+
I never added my mom to my Facebook out of principle since that's a circle in my life I don't really think needs to intersect with the others. But despite the fact that we both had our profiles set to the most ludicrously secretive settings, we still have free access to each other's profile information for no reason. And nothing we did would change it. No wonder I've been inundated with AIM spambots.
Facebook is useful at the moment but it's also kind of a huge crock of shit as it turns out!
Aghhh not having a social life outside of work sucks when the work dries up.
Now that I have some free time I think I might start going to therapy again (I probably shouldn't have ever stopped but...), if for no other reason than it'd give me a chance to talk to someone in person once a week.
See, if you lived near me, I would hang out with you. We could go see movies or go to museums. Then, we could talk about boxes for HOURS!
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As for Google Plus, I dont really care for it, but I need to keep up with trends, as it is a part of my job. I have no issues with Facebook though, its a good way to keep in touch with friends across the world. But, I wish my mom would stop correcting my friends grammar.
Just lost a Facebook friend. Wasn't really a friend, was a girl my friend was trying to shag. She keeps using and using and using peoples art as her facebook photo and she TAKES the credit off. Like she fucking either photoshops it out of the bottom or crops it off. Finally I lost my shit on her today, whether or not it would be cockblocking my friend. She even fucking used one of wakkas mermaids in her ~indie movies~ kickstarter video (Which she got funded because one guy donated 10k, and someone else gave her 10k, and she is still asking for more funding and is all BLUH IT IS SO HARD MAKING MOVIES I CAN'T GET A BREAK)
Anyways shes all, "Sweet, thanks for the link! I've been trying to find out who did these. I'd love to contact her about possibly doing some promo art work for the pilot I'm working on." and "We contact artists whenever possible but if we can't find it and it's on something like tumblr with no source given there's only so much we can do. For things like profile pictures where we clearly aren't making any money from them all we can do when we do find out whose property it is and ask to use it retrospectively. "
bullshit i can tell exactly where you cut it off ALL MY MIDDLE FINGERS FUCKYOU AND YOU KNOW WHAT, if you can't find their names/contact info (Which you cut off) HOW ABOUT YOU DON'T USE THEIR ART.
fucking indie hipster trashbags. Yes, you are really supporting artists by taking their names off their art. Thumbbbsss upppp
edit: : "Sorry if it offends you but honestly, its just a profile picture that I saw on tumblr that I liked. I'm not claiming it as anything else. "
ffuucckk yoouu, whenever someone asks if you drew that/or if it is a drawing of you, you don't reply. I hate all of this bullshit, fucking dskjlfdjlkfd ~Sorry it offends you~
Interesting google+ tos thing which doesn't matter as long as you don't post good photos or art. I don't have friends to google+ with though http://www.google.com/accounts/TOS
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Where you are walking down an impossibly dark hallway with a torch at the end
And the silhouette of an inhuman monstrosity suddenly rounds the corner ahead, and the knees on your character give out and all he can do is turn and hobble away painfully slowly in complete terror
Never before have I been convinced a game has reached into my brain and manifested a more pure 1:1 reaction with my virtual avatar
The worst scare I had in that game was where you have to go into this cellar that's has like... magic darkness. It's not like the regular darkness, where your character's eyes adjust, its like TOTAL black darkness. And you have to go around lighting torches to get rid of the magical-ness. The cellar had like, a dozen off-rooms that I had to go into, and I KNEW there was a monster somewhere.
So I creeeeek open the first door... no monster.
I creeeeek open the second door.... no monster.
I creek open the third door.... no monster.
I fling open the fourth door! no monster.
Pft, ok. I fling open the fifth door! HOLY JESUS FUCK MONSTER MONSTER MONSTER IT TURNED AROUND AND LOOKED INTO MY SOUL! FUCKING HELL RUN!
Never has a game kicked in my fight/flight response like that.
Playing the ALIENS conversion of DOOM, and they changed those flaming skull things that would come at you really fast into face huggers.
So I'm in the dark, already all tense walking through this tiny enclosed air duct, when all of a sudden KABLAMMO FACEHUGGER ATTACK JUMPING FROM SEAT SMASH RETRACTABLE KEYBOARD TRAY WITH LIMBS BROKEN DESK WOOPS
Ive always been terrified to watch the movie Gremlins, so playing Silent Hill for the first time on the PlayStation was horrible. I got to the school and quickly turned off the console because it was way too scary.
Playing the ALIENS conversion of DOOM, and they changed those flaming skull things that would come at you really fast into face huggers.
So I'm in the dark, already all tense walking through this tiny enclosed air duct, when all of a sudden KABLAMMO FACEHUGGER ATTACK JUMPING FROM SEAT SMASH RETRACTABLE KEYBOARD TRAY WITH LIMBS BROKEN DESK WOOPS
Playing the ALIENS conversion of DOOM, and they changed those flaming skull things that would come at you really fast into face huggers.
So I'm in the dark, already all tense walking through this tiny enclosed air duct, when all of a sudden KABLAMMO FACEHUGGER ATTACK JUMPING FROM SEAT SMASH RETRACTABLE KEYBOARD TRAY WITH LIMBS BROKEN DESK WOOPS
That's my favourite gaming moment.
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Um, I got it off this CD-ROM I bought at the mall which was like SUPER DOOM: THE MOST AWESOME DOOM EXPANSIONS FOR DOOM, DOOM II, DOOM DOOM, D.O.O.M., AND MOOD : BACKWARDS WORLD.
It was basically a few directories of .wad files people on the internet made, some .bat's to install them and a .txt file. Pretty sure I paid about $25 for it.
I really loved and fondly remember Silent Hill 3. Haven't played a good horror game since then.
I expected big things from Resident Evil 5, but...no. Still a great game, but not what I was hoping for.
I was reading somewhere that apparently capcom wants RE series to get back to the horror feel as opposed to the suspense shoot em up it's kinda turned into. So here's hoping RE6 will actually be scary.
one of the main reasons me and an ex girlfriend stayed together during a long distance relationship was because i would livestream me playing Amnesia to her and she would either enjoy it ala scary movie or laugh her ass off at me whimpering and standing around going "no no no i do not want to go in that door goddamnit theres totally fuck monsters and fuck fuck fuck no no no i cant do this what am i supposed to do ffffffffffffff"
I hate horror movies but love horror games. Something about the experience compared to lame gorefest slasher bullcrap.
Still need Amnesia though.
I loathe horror movies because in 99% of them, the plot is driven by pure character stupidity. It's not scary because those people are fucking morons, and who the hell would do that in that stuation anyway?
Horror games you are the stupid character, so instead of yelling "NO DON'T GO IN THERE!", you go in there of your own volition. And because the game progression demands it. Damn sadistic level designers.
It looks like there are two places to plug in a mini display cord. Does anyone know if this means I can have three monitors? Or am I just being greedy?
So apparently Massive Black marked down all their video tutorial downloads to $8, which compared to how expensive most of them were previously is a pretty good deal.
So apparently Massive Black marked down all their video tutorial downloads to $8, which compared to how expensive most of them were previously is a pretty good deal.
They should have been that price all along. Ive seen them make some of them and they dont put a whole lot of planning into it. They are still good.. its just, you will be frustrated with the laid back approach used. Most of them are done in just one take...
dunno.. Ive come to the conclusion that unless you are interested in a specific technique being demonstrated.. You can get more coherent and better structured information from books, and then its just putting in the hours.
This is really funny you guys are talking about this - today at work I was talking about how as a kid, a simple 2D sidescroller would kick in my adrenaline, when monsters would materialize. Hocus Pocus, specifically, was one of these games.
I love horror films, I've never played a horror-genre game, though. I wonder how I'd feel playing one. This intrigues me
So here is a very broad question. I want to play a game, one that is currently released, a blockbuster must play for the PC and I must not have played it before.(Preferably a lengthy RPG)
Here's a list of games that I own/have played for PC (to the best of my knowlege)
+ = favorite
Shooters:
UT 99/2k3/2k4/3
CS 1.6/Source
HL2/Chapter 1/2+
Borderlands+
Battlefield (various)
Crysis/2
Call of Duty (various)
Portal/2
Brink
TF 2
Dead Space
L4d
Mirrors Edge
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Yeah, though I might move back to CA in the fairly near future, just to be closer to where the jobs are.
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This.
Except in all likelihood it will actually work on G+
I never added my mom to my Facebook out of principle since that's a circle in my life I don't really think needs to intersect with the others. But despite the fact that we both had our profiles set to the most ludicrously secretive settings, we still have free access to each other's profile information for no reason. And nothing we did would change it. No wonder I've been inundated with AIM spambots.
Facebook is useful at the moment but it's also kind of a huge crock of shit as it turns out!
See, if you lived near me, I would hang out with you. We could go see movies or go to museums. Then, we could talk about boxes for HOURS!
Edit:
As for Google Plus, I dont really care for it, but I need to keep up with trends, as it is a part of my job. I have no issues with Facebook though, its a good way to keep in touch with friends across the world. But, I wish my mom would stop correcting my friends grammar.
Anyways shes all, "Sweet, thanks for the link! I've been trying to find out who did these. I'd love to contact her about possibly doing some promo art work for the pilot I'm working on." and "We contact artists whenever possible but if we can't find it and it's on something like tumblr with no source given there's only so much we can do. For things like profile pictures where we clearly aren't making any money from them all we can do when we do find out whose property it is and ask to use it retrospectively. "
bullshit i can tell exactly where you cut it off ALL MY MIDDLE FINGERS FUCKYOU AND YOU KNOW WHAT, if you can't find their names/contact info (Which you cut off) HOW ABOUT YOU DON'T USE THEIR ART.
fucking indie hipster trashbags. Yes, you are really supporting artists by taking their names off their art. Thumbbbsss upppp
edit: : "Sorry if it offends you but honestly, its just a profile picture that I saw on tumblr that I liked. I'm not claiming it as anything else. "
ffuucckk yoouu, whenever someone asks if you drew that/or if it is a drawing of you, you don't reply. I hate all of this bullshit, fucking dskjlfdjlkfd ~Sorry it offends you~
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I would be
so
happy
No fuck it I can't do this
I am at a part where I have to go into a morgue and I am afraid of this videogame
It's scaewy.
Where you are walking down an impossibly dark hallway with a torch at the end
And the silhouette of an inhuman monstrosity suddenly rounds the corner ahead, and the knees on your character give out and all he can do is turn and hobble away painfully slowly in complete terror
Never before have I been convinced a game has reached into my brain and manifested a more pure 1:1 reaction with my virtual avatar
So I creeeeek open the first door... no monster.
I creeeeek open the second door.... no monster.
I creek open the third door.... no monster.
I fling open the fourth door! no monster.
Pft, ok. I fling open the fifth door! HOLY JESUS FUCK MONSTER MONSTER MONSTER IT TURNED AROUND AND LOOKED INTO MY SOUL! FUCKING HELL RUN!
Never has a game kicked in my fight/flight response like that.
So I'm in the dark, already all tense walking through this tiny enclosed air duct, when all of a sudden KABLAMMO FACEHUGGER ATTACK JUMPING FROM SEAT SMASH RETRACTABLE KEYBOARD TRAY WITH LIMBS BROKEN DESK WOOPS
That's my favourite gaming moment.
wherecanigetthis
Um, I got it off this CD-ROM I bought at the mall which was like SUPER DOOM: THE MOST AWESOME DOOM EXPANSIONS FOR DOOM, DOOM II, DOOM DOOM, D.O.O.M., AND MOOD : BACKWARDS WORLD.
It was basically a few directories of .wad files people on the internet made, some .bat's to install them and a .txt file. Pretty sure I paid about $25 for it.
Well. My mother did.
somehow, nothing has ever scared me quite as much as this
Still need Amnesia though.
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I expected big things from Resident Evil 5, but...no. Still a great game, but not what I was hoping for.
I was reading somewhere that apparently capcom wants RE series to get back to the horror feel as opposed to the suspense shoot em up it's kinda turned into. So here's hoping RE6 will actually be scary.
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it scared me.
I loathe horror movies because in 99% of them, the plot is driven by pure character stupidity. It's not scary because those people are fucking morons, and who the hell would do that in that stuation anyway?
Horror games you are the stupid character, so instead of yelling "NO DON'T GO IN THERE!", you go in there of your own volition. And because the game progression demands it. Damn sadistic level designers.
It looks like there are two places to plug in a mini display cord. Does anyone know if this means I can have three monitors? Or am I just being greedy?
What's best? Do they make mini display to hdmi?
They do, order it online though. Most stores inflate the prices hugely.
http://www.engadget.com/2011/07/10/hdmi-group-reportedly-putting-a-stop-to-mini-displayport-to-hdmi/
edit: sounds like you could still get an adapter though.
http://theartdepartment.org/downloads
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They should have been that price all along. Ive seen them make some of them and they dont put a whole lot of planning into it. They are still good.. its just, you will be frustrated with the laid back approach used. Most of them are done in just one take...
dunno.. Ive come to the conclusion that unless you are interested in a specific technique being demonstrated.. You can get more coherent and better structured information from books, and then its just putting in the hours.
I love horror films, I've never played a horror-genre game, though. I wonder how I'd feel playing one. This intrigues me
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Here's a list of games that I own/have played for PC (to the best of my knowlege)
Shooters:
UT 99/2k3/2k4/3
CS 1.6/Source
HL2/Chapter 1/2+
Borderlands+
Battlefield (various)
Crysis/2
Call of Duty (various)
Portal/2
Brink
TF 2
Dead Space
L4d
Mirrors Edge
RPG's
MORROWIND+++
Mass Effect/2++
Kotor++
Jade Empire
Baulders Gate 1/2
Neverwinter nights 2
Dragon Age:Origins
Diablo 2
Oblivion
Fallout 3
Torchlight (meh, needed coop)
LoL HoN DoTA
MMO's
WoW+
WAR
EVE++
Conan
Aion
SW Galaxies
RTS
SC/SCII
Supreme Commander
Command and Conquer (various)
Civ IV/V
Age of Empires II/III
Rome:Total War
Also, I hate Fable so that doesn't count.