Good Morning, 2010! The Princess' Diary Intarwebs Edition

[Bardiche]

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

Sunshine! Yes!!! No more cold! No more rain! No more SNOW! I've missed the sun so darn much! It's true what they say; sunshine is the source of happiness. :-)

[Grefter]

So, if you have a bunch of games you don't really play anymore lying around, I just found out that GameStop is giving 50% bonus credit on all trade-ins. I found this out when I traded in... nine? Games that I haven't played in four or more months (only three of which were what I would call "good") as I do about once a year, and got $123.15 in store credit. Which was nice.

No matter how pretty it is, still a horrible disgusting scam.

So yesterday about oooh 20 minutes after that last post about how my day was kind of shitty?  My PC shutdown again, so meh used to that these days.  20 minutes later, plug it back in start it up.  Smell plastic burning.  Unplug it.  Looks like I get to upgrade twice in nearly as many months.  Not sure if it was the CPU or the Mobo, maayybe the PSU but I don't think so (which is annoying because I was really sure it was the RAM that was causing the shutdowns).  Waiting until the weekend to find out when I can get Dad to look at it with voltmeter and whatnot to try and locate the point of failure.  So for now, Laptop gaming it is.  WoW runs fine so I get to keep my second job.  I will probably be doing more console stuff in my downtime, so expect some ranting about ToV soon.

If it is the Mobo that is fried I really couldn't be fucked getting all my shit back into that case again, it is a nice case, but is old enough to not really have some of the cooler new cable management techniques in place, so I might fork out a couple of hundred and get a full tower.  Not that I have anywhere near the hardrive to need it, I just want the space inside the damned thing for all the cabling and it should help with head distribution as well.  There is a pretty good Thermal Take case with no PSU for $200 AUS that I am eyeing up.  It has wanky fans and shit with LEDs and all the crap I don't care about, but it is a damn good price for a full tower with toolless bays and a decent cable management system.  I am normally pretty hard for my Lian Li cases, they do much better minimalist cases at a better price than Thermal Take, but availability and cost are a bitch and hey I can deal with an ugly computer again I guess.

Is an Element V for the half a person that is likely to give a fuck on these forums.

Edit - What I would give to have the money on hand to get a well designed Lian Li case like this.  Mmmmmm sexy sexy case, but $500 sexy is like the cost of a new CPU.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

* Jo'ou Ranbu got rickroll'd by his subconscious this night.

Goddammit internets.

[Idun]

Wait, you're getting Sunshine and warmth? We're finally having our sunnier days, but the cold still ensues. Case in point, classes were cancelled around 3PM yesterday because of snow in North Georgia. Funny, it didn't really affect Atlanta because once it hit, it melted and never stuck. However, GSU was probably listening to the complaints of students being afraid of making it home (*coughbullshitcough*) who live North of Georgia. I did not see school cancelled for those who lived south of Atlanta, but we got the most snow. *rollseyes* Snow isn't bad in GA. It's knowing that GA drivers can't drive in any sort of conditions . . .

and I digress.

Yes I want warmth too.

[Bardiche]

Not being cold does not a warm day make. It wasn't warm, but it wasn't cold either; somewhere inbetween, y'know?

Although I could still use a good cook so you can come stay here for the sunshine and waaarm~~

[Anthony Edward Stark]

So, if you have a bunch of games you don't really play anymore lying around, I just found out that GameStop is giving 50% bonus credit on all trade-ins. I found this out when I traded in... nine? Games that I haven't played in four or more months (only three of which were what I would call "good") as I do about once a year, and got $123.15 in store credit. Which was nice.

No matter how pretty it is, still a horrible disgusting scam.

Meh, only if you buy used games from them. And dude, they gave me $50 for Star Ocean 4. I'd say they got taken hard.

[Cotigo]

Mm.  Set up a phone interview with Interac.  Anxiety dictated that this means sanitizing my Facebook.

I wonder how far back I'll have to delete every offensive comment, every link to an offensive comment, and every jackass picture tagged of me before I stop being irrational and realize that since everything's set to private I probably don't need to take so many precautions.

Paranoia is kind of meditatively pleasant, on another note.

[DjinnAndTonic]

"What I've realized, recently, is that the skeleton of rules of the "game" of "life" is just too visible here in Japan, where multiple perfunctory sentences are required to start any conversation, where you can use a certain positive verb to soften the preconceived impact of a negative verb form, where you can prove mathematically that you are a good person by drinking alongside everyone else, by being the last to go home every day, by ritualistically screaming in the middle of the street after a company party. Oh no! You messed up today! The company lost money. BONUS ROUND: At least you get the opportunity to apologize to the boss. People who can apologize well are respected! Be sure to apologize every time you pick up the phone! Miss one, and you'll lose points! Your score in this game is represented by the balance of your bank account. When you reach the goal, you have earned the right to play a game with much simpler rules.

Man, life is like the world's most boring MMORPG. "

;_;

Kotaku nails its description of Japanese life.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Less emo, more ten-inch poisonous wasps. Chop-chop.

[Cmdr_King]

In the grim future there is only emo?

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Less emo, more ten-inch poisonous wasps. Chop-chop.

[Cmdr_King]

Also, I'm pretty sure that you're the one with that problem.  Djinn just has the ten foot poison centipedes.  They can't fly, so definitely less threatening.

[DjinnAndTonic]

They are also just as flammable as supers, so it's easy to hit weakness.

[Cotigo]

The downside is that since the beta RL has always had environmental damage, so you risk burning everything when you light the buggers on fire, I'm guessing.

[Idun]

Not being cold does not a warm day make. It wasn't warm, but it wasn't cold either; somewhere inbetween, y'know?

Although I could still use a good cook so you can come stay here for the sunshine and waaarm~~

Airfare, lodging and intro language classes included?

On another note, I saw


motherfucking


JOHN

BAINES

lecture at Emory university on Egyptian artists and architecture.

Fucking hell, I'm overloading in scholarly splendor this semester. Gay Robins, Melinda Hartwig (my professor), John Baines, Dr. Kimberly Wallace-Sanders, being stuffed between to grad student thesis presentations (I guess my paper was good, or was meant for people to think less as a break. Iono), upcoming High lectures.

Oooo heaven is a place on Earth~

British people satisfy my needs. I need wit. It's innate for them. C'moooon Alan Rickman. Granted, KWS was not British. Neither is Dr. Hartwig.

[Cotigo]

The good:  I've finally gotten back in the swing of things where going to the gym is enjoyable once more.

The bad:  While my friend never got drug tested going into Interac, I'd rather not botch this up because of a relatively harmless vice that everyone makes too big a deal of.  So Mary Jane and I are gonna have to break up.  This... won't be hard, but if other times where I've gone dry are any indication, I'm going to be a bit moody and over react to everything.  I always knew I'd have to face this eventually (be it for Interac or some other "real" job), but... sigh.

Man, this isn't even the vice I should be quitting.  Alcohol will bring the end of me way sooner than pot would.

Eh, at least it may be interesting to keep a journal of how my thought patterns change going from many times a day to none at all over the course of a few weeks.  For science.

[Anthony Edward Stark]

I'm so drunk I can't see. This is the best night so far this year.

[Cotigo]

Party.

[Grefter]

Woooo springbreak or something.

[DjinnAndTonic]

I'm so drunk I can't see. This is the best night so far this year.

Man, I am totally with you on this. Literally.. I'm having trouble seeing correctly, and it's great. Got a cute bartender's phone number, too~

Whoo~!

I predict we both have hangover posts tomorrow.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

I'm so drunk I can't see. This is the best night so far this year.

Man, I am totally with you on this. Literally.. I'm having trouble seeing correctly, and it's great. Got a cute bartender's phone number, too~

Whoo~!

I predict we both have hangover posts tomorrow.

Upon which you discover the bartender was actually Chiaki's cousin.

[Taishyr]

No, Snow. You are the bartender.

....

No, that doesn't make sense to me, either.

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first time today i've actually just been able to sit and relax, woo.

[Anthony Edward Stark]

I'm so drunk I can't see. This is the best night so far this year.

Man, I am totally with you on this. Literally.. I'm having trouble seeing correctly, and it's great. Got a cute bartender's phone number, too~

Whoo~!

I predict we both have hangover posts tomorrow.

I'm fine, by the way. But I'm a nigh-superhuman drinker, so don't feel bad.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

No, Snow. You are the bartender.

....

No, that doesn't make sense to me, either.

Like I'd give up on a committed relationship for Djinn of all people. >_>

EDIT: Well, no. Djinn would be leagues more probable than VSM. At least Djinn looks pretty hot.

[Cotigo]

So, when trying to get Mass Effect to work, I downloaded the newest NVIDIA drivers to try and get my graphics card working.  Turns out this was a stupid idea since the latest driver (196.75) has a little bug where it can't regulate fan speed, causing many graphics cards to just up and break.  Fortunately, I haven't tried to run ME since updating my drivers, and got a proper working update, but I figured I should let people here know about the problem.

IF YOU HAVE AN NVIDIA GRAPHICS CARD AND UPDATED YOUR DRIVERS TO 196.75, UNINSTALL THE DRIVERS AND DOWNLOAD 196.21 OR RISK HAVING YOUR CARD BREAK.[/color]