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Comment Re:Wish they'd have thrown PCs a bone (Score 1) 152

Yes I just remember it was that magazine that taught me basic programming.

After typing in hundreds of game code line by line they had as their "centerfold" it seemed, hundreds of games, modding them and I got pretty perfect at it. Even won first place in 8th grade FBLA state programming competition with a program you did your taxes on, then roll the 1040/ez form into an okidata printer and it would print the form, do the math and only thing to do was sign it is what won first in 8th grade, I was only one in my region to do programming in 80s so I went straight to state and beat out other programs, I remember one was program that turned keyboard into musical keyboard, another mimicked an animated ball bouncing around the screen.

Loved that magazine, still got about 20 editions I saved, I'm 38 now, love reading ads for $2000 5 or 10 meg mfm hard drives and wanting one so bad...

My first modem was an acoustic coupler ;-) I think it was 300 baud

In ham radio I had a 1200 baud tnc for packet radio and at the moment was faster than my dialup modem was hehe

Comment Wish they'd have thrown PCs a bone (Score 1) 152

Last consoles I owned was Atari 2600 & original Nintendo.
I've been a PC gamer since.

Plating Ghostbusters & Chuck Yeager's Flight Simulator with joystick on a Tandy 1000 EX was fun, and all the free games in basic that came in the old magazine "Home and Office Computing" which became Family Computing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Computing)

Anyhow I've never been a fan of consoles and while that might make me in the minority I still wished they'd ported to PC.

Someone posted the entire last of us game with no commentary and all the cutscenes a perfect play through I enjoyed like a movie.

I did same for Beyond Two Souls, entire game posted as a movie in HD with zero commentary. 8 hours 41 minutes straight through.
http://youtu.be/9qolJTsmmWA

Comment Angry Video Game Nerd (Score 1) 179

He's gonna take you back to the past
To play the shitty games that suck ass
He'd rather have a buffallo
Take a diarrhea dump in his ear
He'd rather eat the rotten asshole
Of a road killed skunk and down it with beer
He's the angriest gamer you've ever heard
He's the Angry Nintendo Nerd
He's the Angry Atari Sega Nerd
He's the Angry Video Game Nerd

When you turn on the TV
Make sure it's tuned to channel three
He's got a nerdy shirt and a pocket pouch
Although I've never seen him write anything down
He's got a powerglove and a filthy mouth
Armed with his zapper he will tear these games down
He's the angriest gamer you've ever heard
He's the Angry Nintendo Nerd
He's the Angry Atari Sega Nerd
He's the Angry Video Game Nerd

He plays the worst games of all time
They're horrible abominations of mankind
They make him so mad he can spit
Or say cowabunga, Cowa-fuckin'-piece'a dog shit

They rip you off and don't care one bit
But this nerd, he doesn't forget it
Why can't a turtle swim? Why can't I land the plane?
They got a quick buck for this shitload of fuck
The characters names are wrong. Why's the password so long?
Why don't the weapons do anything?
He's the angriest gamer you've ever heard
These games suck so bad, he makes up his own words
He's the angriest most pissed off gaming nerd
He's the Angry...
Atari
Amiga
CDI
Colecovision
Intellivision
Sega
Neo Geo
Turbo Grafix 16
Odyssey
3DO
Commodore
Nintendo Nerd
He's The Angry Video Game Nerd

Comment Re:Awesome! (Score 1) 88

I dont zoom much with it, the sweet spot is macro shots which I love
http://www.flickr.com/photos/q...

Rarely use zoom, I wanted bridge camera for DSLR ability with a built in 3 in 1 lens, bridges have telephoto, wide angle, macro sweet spots. Without buying 3 separate lenses.

So for my budget I get a DSLR type camera in the bridge camera
Which I use for macro photography and local newspaper freelance

Comment Re:Awesome! (Score 3, Informative) 88

I use CHDK " Canon Hack Development Kit "
I opted for a bridge camera as I couldn't afford a full DSLR so the bridge gives me DSLR capability full manual, etc, and with chdk installed I get most all the toys magic lantern has plus ability to run 3rd party scripts in .lua or.bas, but without insane cost of lenses

I absolutely love my Canon Power shot SX40 HS with CHDK and shooting raw

Comment I cut cable in 1999 been DSL ever since (Score 1) 424

From ADSL to dsl2plus, now my phone company has upgraded to VDSL and its a small south east phone company that so far has never had usage caps or filters anything.

I've tormented 250-400 gigs per month which includes torrents as well as hosting a storage server for friends and family.

VDSL I have 22 megabit down / 2 megabit upload

I'll never switch to cable, one reason is in my town there is no cable alternative. The only cable TV is analog cable offered by city hall billed on utility bill, or satellite TV.

I chose neither my VDSL plus landline is $55/month. I dont own a cellphone as none of them will let me get one as I ruined credit when I was 18. I'm 37 and it strangely still follows me, sprint wanted $1500 deposit/ we dont have any AT&T towers nearby and verizon wanted $600 deposit.

But my town offers free 3 megabit wifi on 5 old cell towers so I use my nexus 7 and Skype for mobile calls, landline for all else.

I love VDSL and even if a cable provider came in town I'd still refuse to switch, as on VDSL I got 5 static IPS for 5/month and I've ran my own servers and connected my old ham radio repeater auto patch to my home phone to use as my own personal VoIP to landline service :-)

Comment Re:she (Score 3, Funny) 274

Yes, men do not fall for the trap. Women see it and start thinking of all the ways they can cook it in the kitchen. Women are obsessed with kitchens and all things food, look at Eve.

Men had it made, perfection, immortality, perfect body, great lawn, we could fart and scratch our balls on silky smooth perfect grass in Eden. But Eve comes along her "kitchen obsession" kicks in and she starts bringing back foods to feed Adam, fattening him up, she breaks the rules and Adam has to suffer consequences along side the woman.

I wouldn't be surprised if many many cavemen died, they returned home with fresh Sabertooth tiger meat, but the woman had tried foraging picking plants "as they do" and feeds caveman poison ivy/oak/sumac and wipes out all Neanderthals!

She's.... Yup damn she's

God created misogyny.

har har :-)

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