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MrValentine
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Posted: 7th Aug 2015 11:31
Page, would be funny if Lee or Rick came on here and said FORUM

The Zoq2
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Posted: 7th Aug 2015 15:05
Quote: "I spent seven hours vividly hallucinating then I woke up and ate the meat of other animals for energy, now I'm going to do something I don’t want to for eight hours for pieces of paper."


Or for some bits to change in some bank server.

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Posted: 7th Aug 2015 17:34
It's funny how you can take something completely normal and put it out of perspective like that.

We live on a giant mass of molten iron hurtling through space at over 300000m/s. There's a giant glowing orb that passes over the sky every day and if you look at it it will burn your eyes.

I spent seven hours vividly hallucinating then I woke up and ate the meat of other animals for energy, now I'm going to do something I don’t want to for eight hours for pieces of paper.
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Posted: 7th Aug 2015 20:01
Quote: "I spent seven hours vividly hallucinating then I woke up and ate the meat of other animals for energy, now I'm going to do something I don’t want to for eight hours for pieces of paper."
This is quite lovely in a fine way.
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Posted: 7th Aug 2015 21:57
Quote: "We live on a giant mass of molten iron hurtling through space at over 300000m/s"


Relative to what?

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Posted: 7th Aug 2015 22:49
Relative to the CMB.

I spent seven hours vividly hallucinating then I woke up and ate the meat of other animals for energy, now I'm going to do something I don’t want to for eight hours for pieces of paper.
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Posted: 7th Aug 2015 22:50
Quote: "Relative to what?"
Umm, itself? Derr. Srsly.
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Posted: 8th Aug 2015 01:27
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Posted: 8th Aug 2015 02:05 Edited at: 8th Aug 2015 02:07
Quote: "Umm, itself? Derr. Srsly."


Without a point of reference how can you tell? Movement is all relative. Maybe the Earth is standing still but everything else moving instead.

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Posted: 8th Aug 2015 02:27
I have points of reference.

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Posted: 8th Aug 2015 04:58 Edited at: 8th Aug 2015 05:01
Quote: "Without a point of reference how can you tell?"
I definitely wasn't being sarcastic.

In all honesty, I have always wondered what the best thing to take reference from is. Depending on your frame of reference, the earth could be going thousands of miles per hour or be at a complete stand still.
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Posted: 8th Aug 2015 15:31
I wrote a short article on the things that annoy me the most about Windows 10.

I was bored, that's why.


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Posted: 8th Aug 2015 15:41
TheComet, I give up with your channel... far too much unnecessary screeching... just thought it was useful feedback at this point... and personally, that intro.......

On another note... I am loving Windows 10, aside from the semi finished nature of it... in time it will improve anyway... it is faster than 7 by a million miles regardless...

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Posted: 8th Aug 2015 20:43
Pretty nice article yoda. One thing I don't aggree with though is the whole last version of windows part. I believe that the reason they did that is because they don't want to be stuck with people using old versions and having to support them forever (like XP and probably 7). Instead they make one final version that automatically gets updated to the latest version.

Im not sure if I like it but I can defenitivley see the reason behind it. Other than that, I agree with most of what you wrote.

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Posted: 9th Aug 2015 01:05
Quote: "TheComet, I give up with your channel... far too much unnecessary screeching... just thought it was useful feedback at this point... and personally, that intro......."


wat?

According to the ircd logs you never joined, so I'm not sure what you're talking about.

I spent seven hours vividly hallucinating then I woke up and ate the meat of other animals for energy, now I'm going to do something I don’t want to for eight hours for pieces of paper.
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Posted: 9th Aug 2015 01:35
Woops lol 4K is a biatch... I meant to copy Clonkexs' name not yours lol

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Posted: 9th Aug 2015 03:30
Quote: "TheComet, I give up with your channel... far too much unnecessary screeching... just thought it was useful feedback at this point... and personally, that intro......."


lol so even when it doesn't deafen you the squeeling is annoying? Thought as much. I'm sure some people find it amusing, and since we can't get her to stop squeeling we're just embracing it

And yeah, the intro was a temporary hack until we could come up with a proper one. We've got a greenscreen and some awesome plans but right now we're struggling to find the time to sort it all out. It'll be better in the future, we promise!

Speaking of Windows 10, I've gotta go make Mum's computer upgrade so she can be the guinea pig

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If you're still into watching screechy Flash Buddies videos, our Friday video (which was released on Saturday due to delays) is now available!

We're playing Towerfall Ascension again, but this time we've got the latest version and the Darkworld expansion



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Posted: 9th Aug 2015 07:35
Played Towerfall Ascension tonight for several hours... aced it a lot but fatigue creeps up on you after 20 hours of being awake lol

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Posted: 9th Aug 2015 11:35
I want the points

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Posted: 9th Aug 2015 13:44
Quote: "Played Towerfall Ascension tonight for several hours... aced it a lot but fatigue creeps up on you after 20 hours of being awake lol "


Aye, I am feeling it myself...I got 5 hours straight of roleplaying last night with my roleplay group. Was good fun though, was only originally meant to last 2 hours but we got a little carried away.


Although new game I have picked up is ARK: Survival Evolved, which is a cool game. I don't really play survival games and I managed to just about manage to avoid Minecraft, though I did buy it and play it once. Not a big fan of it. Starbound is the only one I've played in any depth. But ARK is pretty fun, though still Early Access and feels a little unstable in places - had it crash once or twice, but it's a very good looking game and well designed and I like that it covers more ground with the survival side of things, you've got to keep warm/cool, you've gotta keep fed, you gotta keep hydrated and oh yeah dinosaurs, that's good be a great selling point. Being able to ride a dinosaur through the wilderness, that's gotta appeal to people?

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Posted: 9th Aug 2015 14:26
Quote: "oh yeah dinosaurs, that's good be a great selling point. Being able to ride a dinosaur through the wilderness, that's gotta appeal to people?"


Not me. I've never been a fan of dinosaurs. Makes me not want to play the game, just because dinosaurs are so... oh I don't know... overdone.

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Posted: 9th Aug 2015 17:57
@Yodaman

RE your article.

10. The interface is lovely. Flat is the best look right now. You get to chose the colour of your window borders in personalization settings.

7. I have noticed a significant performance upgrade when playing GTA, no more stuttering online. That was after an upgrade from Win7. There could be other factors.

6. Source please. DX11 is apparently backwards compatible with DX9.

3 and 1 I really don't see the issue with.
Yodaman Jer
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Posted: 10th Aug 2015 05:54
Quote: "10. The interface is lovely. Flat is the best look right now"


Like I said, it was an extremely nitpicky thing of me to write

Quote: "7. I have noticed a significant performance upgrade when playing GTA, no more stuttering online."


Really? Ooooh I might have to try this out tomorrow!

Quote: "6. Source please. DX11 is apparently backwards compatible with DX9."


I am going to have to change this point as it was apparently based on outdated information. Some friends were telling me that games that use DX9 didn't run properly under Windows 10. What they failed to mention was that it was an Tech Preview build they were running, which was bound to have compatibility issues. Although apparently some games do have some trouble, it will probably be fixed in future updates.

Quote: "3 and 1 I really don't see the issue with. "


There's no big issue with 3, I just find it funny that Microsoft are blatantly trying to copy Apple's model for naming/releasing OSes.

1, however, I have issues with just because I don't like my computer becoming bricked with an automatic update that can wreak havoc on a lot of things. Thankfully, I have read more about ways to prevent MS from updating graphics drivers and the like, so I've got that sorted on my system so that it will pretty much only download the necessary security updates.

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So I'm thinking about making a small game with AppGameKit that will be kind of Atari-looking in graphics (with a little more detail). The rooms/levels will be fixed sizes and the player will have to solve puzzles that will change if certain conditions aren't meant. I think it will be an interesting game and should be fairly easy to make. It will certainly entertain me making it!


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Posted: 10th Aug 2015 10:16
Quote: "10. The interface is lovely. Flat is the best look right now. You get to chose the colour of your window borders in personalization settings."


I mostly agree. I like the modern flat look, but I seriously hate the fact that everyone insists on removing dividers and borders!

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Posted: 10th Aug 2015 12:52
FREAKING HECK. WATCH THIS VIDEO IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE STAR CITIZEN IS GONNA BE AWESOME!

(Note that the first video is the press version. Watch it first, but be aware the framerate is awful. The second video is the live version and has the silky-smooth framerate but the worst cinematography ever and some livestream bugs.)





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I spent seven hours vividly hallucinating then I woke up and ate the meat of other animals for energy, now I'm going to do something I don’t want to for eight hours for pieces of paper.
Yodaman Jer
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Posted: 11th Aug 2015 05:52
So, some bad news regarding my mom. We got the pathology results today. It is, unfortunately, cancer.

However, here is the good news. It is not in her brain anymore and likely won't return there. It was a metastatic tumor, meaning it came from somewhere else in her body. Kind of bad but this is where it's also good. It's not anywhere in any major organs, like the liver, pancreas or lungs. The only place it seems to be? Her colon, of all places, and it's teeny-tiny. Treatments will start after the 1st of September and it should hopefully be fairly easy to remove.

So, it looks like the tumor in her head was sort of a blessing in disguise. Ah, universe, you sure have a way of making me scratch my head!

It's weird because our friends are freaking out about it, and we're... numb to it, at the moment, and of course we're concerned a little bit, but overall we have a lot of hope and it is by no means a terminal illness/death sentence at this point. So why fret over what it could be instead of focusing on what it is?

So yeah. That's what happened today!


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Posted: 11th Aug 2015 12:17
I would suggest your dad have a glass of Whiskey tonight...

Great news Yoda!

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Posted: 11th Aug 2015 14:17
Quote: "I spent seven hours vividly hallucinating then I woke up and ate the meat of other animals for energy, now I'm going to do something I don’t want to for eight hours for pieces of paper."


Pieces of plastic, in Australia. Paper money is a dumb idea.

Quote: "The only place it seems to be? Her colon, of all places, and it's teeny-tiny. Treatments will start after the 1st of September and it should hopefully be fairly easy to remove."


I guess if I had to have cancer I'd want to have it in an organ that they can just cut bits out of... Seems like mostly good, kinda bad news... so I'm optimistic

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I just found out Mission Impossible 5 (i.e. Rogue Nation) has been out since July. HOW DID I NOT KNOW THIS ALREADY??!

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Posted: 11th Aug 2015 14:28
TheComet sadly we now have to pay £79 a year to watch the imbeciles that made us smile from next year...

I hope they do sell the series' on other channels after being live on Amazon Video... which frankly is a pathetic service at the moment...

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Posted: 11th Aug 2015 20:06
Quote: "Seems like mostly good, kinda bad news"


Yes but it's pretty much exactly what we were expecting, and hoping for. We had known for at least two weeks that it was probably in her colon, because the doctors said they saw shadows in the MRI just on her colon and nowhere else. How it got to her brain is a mystery, but if it hadn't gone there it wouldn't have grown as quickly as it had, and it wouldn't have alerted us nearly as quickly, so it really is like her body said "THIS IS THE ONLY WAY TO GET YOUR ATTENTION!" and so it put it in her brain.

They studied the MRIs in-depth along with the pathology results and, like I said, it appears we have caught it incredibly early. Yes, it's scary, and we do have to consider every possible outcome, but so far the doctors are encouraged and have said a few times that as long as we can start treatments ASAP, her cancer could literally be gone in a relatively short time.

We know several cancer survivors who had it worse than my mom has it right now, so we're feeling very cautiously optimistic.


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Posted: 11th Aug 2015 22:59
How's your go fund me campaign doing? I'd suggest putting the link in your sig.

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Yodaman Jer
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Posted: 12th Aug 2015 03:26
Hmm not a bad idea, any mods give me permission to do that?

I suppose I will write to them and ask!

But it's doing well, much better than we ever dared to hope (we weren't expecting to reach over $2k in half a month). My sister is campaigning it all over Twitter still, if you look up the hashtag #EvictTimTumor you'll find probably hundreds of tweets, just from her!


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Posted: 12th Aug 2015 10:05
Pfffft Android, why is it that there are a multitude of apps on my phone that I will never use, and yet I can't uninstall them? Lame. Not as bad as Apple, but still.
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So I replaced a resistor in my breadboard circuit with a pot, reconnected the 9v again, and noticed the smell of burning after a couple of seconds. Oops, wrong polarity. The 555 chip I paid 4 euros for was fried. ;( But luckily I've found a good electronics parts site that does said chip for just 16 cents, so I'm stupid from ordering parts from Amazon anyway.

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Posted: 14th Aug 2015 13:11
Where has everybody been this week? This has got to be a record low for activity in any given week.


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Posted: 14th Aug 2015 15:16
Yea, it's been really quiet lately

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Posted: 14th Aug 2015 17:13
I'm at cccamp.

I spent seven hours vividly hallucinating then I woke up and ate the meat of other animals for energy, now I'm going to do something I don’t want to for eight hours for pieces of paper.
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Posted: 15th Aug 2015 05:35
I've been working lots during August because Father's Day is coming up and there's tonnes of orders coming in for custom mugs and stubbie coolers.

Also been setting up my new TV, surround sound system and second-hand Xbox 360 S. Also soft-modding our old PS2 with Free McBoot to be able to backup our old DQ8 and other saves

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Banner 83 is missing, I keep seeing broken image. I'm not sure which mod is in charge of that stuff, so I'm just leaving a comment here and hoping it magically finds its way to the right mod.

"Giraffe is soft, Gorilla is hard." - Phaelax
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Points 83 is missing, I keep seeing broken image. I'm not sure which mod is in charge of that stuff, so I'm just leaving a comment here and hoping it magically finds its way to the right mod.
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Posted: 16th Aug 2015 07:11 Edited at: 19th Aug 2015 07:13
Interesting pattern I have noticed -- posting activity on this thread has been incredibly slow lately. Contrary, this thread hit a million views just a couple months ago, and is already nearly a quarter of the way to the next million views. So viewing rate (appears to be) at an all time high, while posting rate might as well be at an all time low.

Or maybe we hit a million views a lot longer ago than I think?

My family is considering a houseboat trip to Lake Powell in a couple months; upon researching that, I came across this image from Google.



You can't make this stuff up! I'm sure the rentals really are high quality, but it's just funny that Google paired that description with this particular image.

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Yodaman Jer
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Posted: 19th Aug 2015 12:53
Lots of people have been online this week,they just aren't posting for some reason.

I would probably reconsider that trip to Lake Powell


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Posted: 19th Aug 2015 18:08


I spent seven hours vividly hallucinating then I woke up and ate the meat of other animals for energy, now I'm going to do something I don’t want to for eight hours for pieces of paper.
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Posted: 20th Aug 2015 06:45
Aye. A science/physics teacher I had a little over a year ago passed away this last weekend. He was definitely one of the best teachers the school had. Really is too bad.
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I spent seven hours vividly hallucinating then I woke up and ate the meat of other animals for energy, now I'm going to do something I don’t want to for eight hours for pieces of paper.
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I just found out Mission Impossible 5 (i.e. Rogue Nation) has been out since July. HOW DID I NOT KNOW THIS ALREADY?!!
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I just found out points have been available since 20th of august 15:04. HOW DID I NOT KNOW THIS ALREADY?!!

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