Pirandello

Speaking of procrastination, I'm indulging in it right now. Assignments and homework go untouched. Except the easy homework. I always do the easy homework.

Yeah, I hate the spiders, too. Maybe Notch should put in pungi sticks or barbed wire for the top of my walls or something that can deter spiders from doing that.

Oh, man. For me, it doesn't apply to my roommate, but rather, my entire dorm hall. 1. The bathroom is a fucking mess. These guys can't pick up their own shit even if it was sitting on top of their own damn face. The bathroom literally has crap lying all over at any given time. On top of that, they never flush when they piss, and when they piss on the toilet, they spray it all over the damn seat. 2. The hallway is a fucking mess. Ever like seeing trash and the wall posters laying all around the floor? Yeah. 3. They are fucking loud, annoying, and stupid. They are loud because they like to be loud because they think they're all that and nobody can stop them; they play music that you can hear through the walls 4 rooms down in the middle of the day, and run down the hall hammering the doors at night. They are annoying because they are all stupid little shits with grandiose amounts of self-entitlement and absolutely no knowledge of the word 'respect' or 'silence'. They are stupid because most of them engage in the college's bum-level majors: sociology and psychology. tl;dr: They should replace dorms with farmhouses that have plumbing. More cost-effective and the residents will fit right in. ========== In fact, I have a little story to tell of what happened just this past Thursday/Friday. By this time, it's the third and last quarter of my freshman year of university. The hallmates, in the course of an entire week, ended up permanently on my shitlist. Every single night (LATE night, I might add, usually between the 1/2/3 AM period), the idiots always seemed to like to pick up their noise levels to absurdly stupid amounts befitting those who watch the culturally-degenerative trash known as MTV. It just so happens that in this particular night they left for somewhere which I don't particularly give two craps about, and then returned at around 2 AM, and then proceeded with their loud habits as usual. Me, however, having put up with this shit for four days straight right about now, simply opened the door, and said, in a very pissed-off voice: "Can you please be quiet?" Now, note this is a tone of voice that anyone who isn't my immediate family has ever seen me speaking. This is a voice that, if you're not stupid, is the kind of voice that means that shit's about to go down. Because I so rarely use this voice, that when I do, I expect someone to pay the price in blood with their pathetic mortal blood for forcing me to use such a lordly tone of voice against such useless worms. A tone of voice that means 100% business, and if you knew what was right, you'd shut the hell up and never say anything again. So they stared at me for all of 5 seconds, gaping at the new side of this person they knew little about in sheer shock, before their MTV-educated bullshit started kicking in. Now, note again that this is at 2 AM in the morning, and they were pulling noise levels that would have woken up even a bear from it's hibernation. So they started calling me names, like 'faggot' and 'asshole', and saying that 'it's none of my damn business'. They were a group of about 8, so it's easy how one can actually feel tough when they have the numbers on their side. Me, I don't give two shits about it. Californians, especially those brought up in today's society, are often too acclimated to the niceties of luxury to the point where they would never risk a physical engagement. Sucks for them, because that wasn't what I was going for. Words from losers like them only made me laugh, because I knew that I would finally get my chance at revenge. So I took the proper precautions, contacted the RAs on duty (who came up to investigate the noise claims, and, as usual, the hallmates scrambled like rats and then regrouped after the RA left), emailed my hall's RA about the situation (he isn't too fond of it, either), and we will be having a hall meeting next week to sort the issue out. I will not be adhering to my usual social status as the silent bystander this time around. Anything the hallmates do as retaliation to me will only make their situation worse. As my roommate put it: "It's time to crush them with bureaucracy." I don't go out of my way to be a jerk to people; I stay respectful. Cross the line, and you will never go back. Trust and respect are much easier to lose than they are to gain. You should all take that to heart. tl;dr: Hallmates made the grave mistake of fucking with my sleep, now I won't stop with my payback until I run them into the fucking ground. P.S. There are four things you never fuck with when it comes to me: my food, my videogames, my money, and my sleep.

The gameplay trailer in itself is sound porn. Seriously.

THE best April Fool's yet. Absolutely brilliant.

You're missing bacon. You can't go wrong with bacon. And remember: You either like bacon, or you're WRONG.

Spy Shepard says "I was never really on your side!"

I honestly don't visit the site anymore. Closest I come to going there is looking at screencaps other people post.

Well, for those of you who like the Mechwarrior-style combat... there's, uh, that reboot of Mechwarrior, and the Mechwarrior 4 free version. I like the gameplay, it's fast and hectic, with no one-shot kills. Actually brings back memories of the Quake 3 Arena days, and it just might well become the next one. The trailers were both extremely high quality. Not bad for a game put together over 9 months by some dudes.

So it's made by the guys who made SOCOM? Great, now I'm hoping it plays like SOCOM, but with a zombie twist.

I remember reading somewhere that solar panels actually have a very high cost of maintenance, and an even larger cost of replacement should one actually be damaged. The cost of maintenance and cost of replacement are almost the same thing in this case since they have so few parts. Maintenance is really just cleaning them unless it's damaged and then you'll have to replace either the entire section of panel (IIRC, depending on the tech, the number of PV panels within the panel can vary anywhere from 4-16 for a full size panel.) Depending on how and where it's mounted can also effect the cost. Either way the big problems are the materials needed definitely aren't environmentally friendly yet (and i'm talking your every day panel, not something advanced you read about on giz or engadget or another tech site) and they're not very efficient. Those two aspects are being worked on, and making them more durable goes along with that. In a local aspect, I had a history teacher who actually had 4 solar panels installed on the roof of his house (though, for $4,000 a pop, so definitely not cheap). It paid off in the long run in that now he actually doesn't consume any power, and that he actually produces more power than he can use, so now the power company actually pays him to take some electricity off his hands.

I throw in the original Deus Ex. I thought it was pretty good. Especially Paul. Never mind the fact that he also plays as JC (who is deadpan as hell).

It's probably for the best that you actually finished EVERYTHING you possibly could before picking up the IFF. I made the mistake of not doing so in my first playthrough and people died. Did it right in my second playthrough as Vanguard, though.

I remember reading somewhere that solar panels actually have a very high cost of maintenance, and an even larger cost of replacement should one actually be damaged.

The guy who made the original video could have held still for one freaking minute so we could get a better look at the uber-high-res-realistic crap. But, no, he just had to run around like a 12-year-old hopped up on sugar with ADHD. EDIT: I liked the song, though.

Hey! I just bought the game today on Steam. So here's a picture of a dead guy, courtesy of Steam screenshots: A dead guy in an awkward pose

I read an article yesterday about how the devs were thinking of putting in a Dead Space-style UI in for Mass Effect 3. I think it could work. Just gotta find that link now. EDIT: Here ya go. Linky

"All controllers are also armed with, Hyperesponse™ action buttons, PC compatibility, and a 15 foot cable for the ultimate pleasure in Xbox gaming." Thank you. Does the D-pad actually work well? I've seen the picture of it and it looks like a D-pad/thumbstick hybrid.

This might seem like a dumb question, but is it PC-compatible?