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- the only part I don't like is that god-awful red at the top -- nm - decline Oct 26, 11:08
- disagree. the 9x9 grid is heavy on links to actual news stories, and the left hand column of the top block has lots more news links -- nm - Beryllium Oct 26, 11:05 2
  - 2/3 of the top grouping is video / poll crap. Thankfully they ain't hiding they're not much a news presence anymore. -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 26, 11:06 1
    - the newspulse stuff is at least news-related, thouh -- nm - Beryllium Oct 26, 11:08
Bery I love the new banner, it's so fresh -- nm - Hotkiss Oct 26, 11:02 3
- It actually is not new. Fresh, maybe. But not new. -- nm - Spawn Oct 26, 11:04 1
  - it's new as of a week or so ago -- nm - Beryllium Oct 26, 11:04
- thanks :) -- nm - Beryllium Oct 26, 11:03
ST Short Notice Poll: I need a ridiculous/ not very PC outfit for halloween (i.e. my 6'1'' gay coworker is going as a boyscout) -- nm - MDH Oct 26, 11:02 6
- get a box - cut holes for arms and neck - paint it like a cereal box and carry a (fake) knife = Cereal Killer -- nm - JenBro Oct 26, 12:00
- John C. Reilly from Cirque du Freak -- nm - Max Oct 26, 11:06
- Be his scout master, duh -- nm - con_calabazas Oct 26, 11:05 1
  - that's what I meant. Scout Master Michael Jackson. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 26, 11:06
- Girl Scout selling "cookies". -- nm - TWuG Oct 26, 11:05
- michael jackson -- nm - Beryllium Oct 26, 11:03
I can work our sound board @ church pretty well but I don't know much about it technically. Anyone here good with that stuff and can explain to me -- (link) - kilboooo! Oct 26, 10:57 5
- try asking Jim - con_calabazas Oct 26, 11:00
- it has lots of buttons? - Danedukenuuk Oct 26, 10:59
- I have always wanted to learn about those things. -- nm - Bloody AxeSean Oct 26, 10:58 2
  - We're going to need to, to mix the sound on the ST movie -- nm - con_calabazas Oct 26, 11:01 1
    - I'm hiring Colin for video and sound mixing. -- nm - Bloody AxeSean Oct 26, 11:06
"If mom calls, tell her I'm shitting... Son, marriage is about not having to lie about taking a shit." -- nm - kilboooo! Oct 26, 10:54 1
- tangent: was last week's The Office two curses the firsts for that show? - Bloody AxeSean Oct 26, 10:57
Owning Mahowny (B+) spoils - CQ Oct 26, 10:54
that EX screen in AMC 24 in theatre 7 says the movies it shows on the screen are 8X HD - lkf Oct 26, 10:49 1
- Close. It probably projects in 4k, which is 9437184 pixels. 1080p is 2073600 pixels. So more like... - Mop (232 lbs) Oct 26, 11:03
Poll: How much storage do you have in your home for the following: CDs/DVDs/Books/Clothing -- nm - Andie Oct 26, 10:48 19
- Let's see.....2 1080 DVD cases....3 720 DVD cases...and 3 5shelf bookcases. -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 26, 11:08
- I have 2 small dvd cabinets (glass front) on either side of my tv (150ish dvd's). Don't have CD's anymore. - decline Oct 26, 11:07
- "Not enough?" Books, CD's, video games and DVD movies are the worst organized parts of our house. -- nm - Bloody AxeSean Oct 26, 10:59
- A walk-in for clothes in the MB, Daughter has a closet for her clothes, Guest closet with some overflow, hall closet for coats. Walk-in dedicated to - TWuG Oct 26, 10:54
- I use three drawers of an antique dressed for DVDs. I sold hundreds when I moved. I don't buy them much anymore. - amanda Oct 26, 10:54 4
  - (and I turned my spare bedroom into a closet and have clothes lining the walls of my bedroom and in every actual closet. max can testify. - amanda Oct 26, 10:55 3
    - Everyone should have a room full of clothes racks, but that closet attendant is scary the first time you see her. -- nm - Max Oct 26, 11:08
    - never mind you'r clothes, tell us more about why max has been in you'r bedroom! - Danedukenuuk Oct 26, 10:58 1
      - I was sleuthing out her lightbulb problem. A stray lightbulb in a shoe crate was not out of the realm of possible locations. -- nm - Max Oct 26, 11:09
- minimal, minimal, average, inadequate. -- nm - znufrii Oct 26, 10:54
- CDs and DVDs are all in boxes from the move still. One big wall of books, one dresser and one closet of clothes. - Reagen Oct 26, 10:53
- rough mental calculation, I'm using 110+ feet of bookshelf space for books and only 12 feet for video and audio. -- nm - Max Oct 26, 10:52
- CDs - one shelf, i got rid of most of them. DVDs - i own maybe 20 now. Books - Two Ikea Billy cases. Clothing -one large closet, two dressers - Andie Oct 26, 10:50
- CDs are in 2 wire floor racks and 2 large books. DVDs are in 5 wire floor racks. Books are primarily on 2 wooden shelving units. - TFox Oct 26, 10:50
- i have a bookshelf, and 4 200 dvd binders (not full, yet). one dressers, and a closet. -- nm - tRuMaN Oct 26, 10:50
- 3x Ikea shelves for CDs/DVDs (and they can store something like 77 DVDs each) ... one bookshelf (plus two boxes) ... a walk-in closet ... - Beryllium Oct 26, 10:49
- a whole basement, an unused bedroom, single car garage with shelves -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 26, 10:49
- Plenty -- nm - CQ Oct 26, 10:49 1
  - a small box for dvd's and cds. (we don't collect that stuff) the books we give to our local library, and a small closet is all I need for clothing. -- nm - CQ Oct 26, 10:52
So, downside to the window cubes: the heating vents are along the windows, and so these cubes are warm to the point of sapping concentration. - TFox Oct 26, 10:46
I *TRY* so hard to avoid crap about the Gosselins, but "Jon Gosselin says he returned $180K in joint funds" -- (link) - Mop (232 lbs) Oct 26, 10:45 1
- or $230K Canadian like it says on yahoo.ca -- nm - lkf Oct 26, 10:47
Warren Buffett: Crisis, what crisis? -- (link) - Danedukenuuk Oct 26, 10:42 1
- That graph is scary. -- nm - Mop (232 lbs) Oct 26, 10:56
Hee, I'm watching SyFy. Odysseus: Voyage to the Underworld -- nm - CQ Oct 26, 10:41
hehe xkcd. -- nm - tRuMaN Oct 26, 10:41
when was blu-ray declared the winner of the format wars? are any HD DVDs still available? (did anyone here make that mistake?) -- nm - amanda Oct 26, 10:37 32
- thanks pumpkins! -- nm - amanda Oct 26, 10:49 4
  - btw, at the moment, Tim Horton's up here are selling pumpkin spice doughnuts that are mega-yummy -- nm - zork Oct 26, 10:51 3
    - amanda rejected the pumpkin spice Tim's donut. - Andie Oct 26, 10:51 2
      - too sweet! -- nm - lkf Oct 26, 10:52 1
        
        but you can taste the pumpkininess! it's like pumpkin pie in doughnut form. -- nm - zork Oct 26, 10:53
- Warner Bros announced it was giving up HD Jan 4, 2008, and I put a note on my calendar Feb 19, 2008 as the end of the format war. -- nm - Max Oct 26, 10:43 2
  - wow, so it hasn't even been two years? -- nm - Andie Oct 26, 10:47 1
    - interesting how long it took to catch on. according to wikipedia, the first consumer BR device was Apr 2003, but the first titles were out Jun 2006. -- nm - Max Oct 26, 10:54
- Warner announced they'd be dropping HD DVD (pretty much killing the format) at CES in January. - Mop (232 lbs) Oct 26, 10:42 12
  - My brother's girlfriend's parents still have a working Betamax player. They just will not give up on that thing. -- nm - Ender Oct 26, 10:52
  - The format is fine. Unfortunately, I don't think any new stuff is being pressed for it .. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 26, 10:45
  - Eventually? -- nm - TFox Oct 26, 10:44 8
    - Got something that does better than 1080p/60? -- nm - Mop (232 lbs) Oct 26, 10:46 7
      - really it's just a placeholder until we get true HD streaming. -- nm - znufrii Oct 26, 10:47 2
        
        There will always be a market (albeit diminishing) for physical media. Although "packaged" digital media (like the iTunes Album) may kill even that. -- nm - Mop (232 lbs) Oct 26, 10:53 1
        
        I don't disagree. There will always be a standard that can only be met with the data capacity of physical media. - znufrii Oct 26, 10:57
      - 32000p! woo! -- nm - Beryllium Oct 26, 10:47 2
        
        3k, 5k... won't be long. 5 years, max. Once HDTVs hit a certain market penetration, the electronics manufacturers will need something new. - Mop (232 lbs) Oct 26, 10:55 1
        
        "3k" and "5k" should actually be "2k" and "4k". I always get those mixed up. -- nm - Mop (232 lbs) Oct 26, 11:04
      - I have something that is getting produced, that makes the hardware worthwhile. -- nm - TFox Oct 26, 10:47
  - January... 2008. -- nm - Mop (232 lbs) Oct 26, 10:43
- i still haven't got a blu-ray player. but i never buy discs, and regular dvd is fine for me. (i am SO not using my tv like it's meant to be used.) - Andie Oct 26, 10:42 1
  - you say that until you see CBC Battle of the Blades on hi-def tv - lkf Oct 26, 10:45
- I got a dual-player and picked up a few dozen HD-DVDs when they were on clearance after Blu-Ray won. -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 26, 10:39 2
  - LG still makes dual Blu-ray/HD DVD players (specifically for computers). - Mop (232 lbs) Oct 26, 10:47
  - so you're the one snagging them away from me! -- nm - lkf Oct 26, 10:40
- just bought Lost in Translation and Casablanca on HD - lkf Oct 26, 10:39
- when all the hddvd studios jumped on the bluray bandwagon (no idea on the date). umm, not sure.. probably. -- nm - tRuMaN Oct 26, 10:38 1
  - What do you mean, I have no internal dialo.... ohhhhhh. -- nm - truman si Oct 26, 10:39
- in the spring IIRC -- nm - Danedukenuuk Oct 26, 10:38
- Mop was the HD-DVD adopter here I think. HD-DVD is no longer being produced AFAIK but you may find existing inventory. Bluray won when Toshiba - kilboooo! Oct 26, 10:38 1
  - inetvideo still has a healthy and affordable stock of HD DVD's. -- nm - Mop (232 lbs) Oct 26, 10:43
It is amazing to me that I'm managing to eat 1200 calories or so a day and not be starving. There have been days where I'm choosing to add a desert - kilboooo! Oct 26, 10:35 5
- be careful with all that desert - lkf Oct 26, 10:40
- 1200 cal = 3600 joules well thats not amazingly low - Danedukenuuk Oct 26, 10:37 1
  - I've spotted an Aware -- nm - Agent Oct 26, 10:38
- yeah -- nm - tRuMaN Oct 26, 10:36
- It's really odd, isn't it? Blew my mind when I was on NS. -- nm - TFox Oct 26, 10:36
Speaking of HotKiss's drunkenest ever weekend (early morning board,sssh not so loud) has anybody heard from Loosi and her free mini=bar week in MX? -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 26, 10:30 3
- Judging by her FB posts she's having a lot of fun! -- nm - MonsterMeg Oct 26, 10:54
- HotKiss is the new JackDawson -- nm - kilboooo! Oct 26, 10:32 1
  - Jack Dawson's looks have improved! -- nm - Danedukenuuk Oct 26, 10:34
Actually, come to think of it, parts of Halo: ODST could technically be called second-person (although technically they are first-person graphics) -- nm - Beryllium Oct 26, 10:30 8
- actually a lot of the text games or Leisure Suit Larry types would be second person - lkf Oct 26, 10:43 2
  - but to be 2nd person, you would have to be seeing it through the eyes - tRuMaN Oct 26, 10:49 1
    - but the game is talking to you as the second person -- nm - lkf Oct 26, 10:51
- out of body through the eyes experience ? -- nm - lkf Oct 26, 10:35
- (You play one character, but through flashbacks, you interact with the experiences of other characters) -- nm - Beryllium Oct 26, 10:33 3
  - sorry, you are wrong berry -- nm - tRuMaN Oct 26, 10:35 2
    - It uses the first-person experience as a second-person narrative -- nm - Beryllium Oct 26, 10:37 1
      - but its not 2nd person gameplay. -- nm - tRuMaN Oct 26, 10:37
Can someone simplify what the difference between first, second, and third-person shooter means? -- nm - Bloody AxeSean Oct 26, 10:26 27
- Thanks. -- nm - Bloody AxeSean Oct 26, 10:31
- I thought the term FPS came about to differentiate them from side scrollers back in the day. Also, I have never heard of the latter two terms. -- nm - con_calabazas Oct 26, 10:31
- first = Halo. third = Contra. second = theoretical non-existant (for all intents and purposes). -- nm - TFox Oct 26, 10:28
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- Well, first person means you're view is that of the shooter, like classic games: Doom, Quake, etc. 3rd person must refer to the cinematic style like - kilboooo! Oct 26, 10:27
- First=makes me sick. Second=probably makes me sick. Third=does not make me sick. -- nm - Callisto Oct 26, 10:27 8
  - I wonder what a second-person game would be like -- nm - Beryllium Oct 26, 10:28 6
    - Like a FPS, but with a veteran character actor providing vocal commentary. Steve Buscemi, for example. -- nm - con_calabazas Oct 26, 10:32
    - It's when the character shoots out of the game and kills the player. -- nm - secretslacker Oct 26, 10:30 3
      - well, you would be in control of the guns, but would be seeing the action from the viewpoint of what is being shot. -- nm - tRuMaN Oct 26, 10:31 2
        
        I've done this before, but I forget what game it was. It was hilarious. - Beryllium Oct 26, 10:32 1
        
        I bet. - tRuMaN Oct 26, 10:33
    - A disturbing statement on violence, no doubt. -- nm - Reagen Oct 26, 10:29
  - but which do you watch like its a movie? - tRuMaN Oct 26, 10:28
- FPS: It looks like you're holding the gun. TPS: It looks like a character on the screen is holding the gun. -- nm - nubby Oct 26, 10:27
- first is where you are looking out of their eyes (ie halo) third is where you see them from above/behind (ie, god of war). -- nm - tRuMaN Oct 26, 10:27 3
  - Halo turns into third-person when you're driving a vehicle or if you've gained control of an abnormaly large weapon -- nm - Beryllium Oct 26, 10:28 2
    - so does that make it a second-person shooter? -- nm - tRuMaN Oct 26, 10:28 1
      - a one-and-one-third person shooter -- nm - Beryllium Oct 26, 10:29
- all I know is you never play halo. - groiny Oct 26, 10:27 2
  - I absolutely suck (at Halo). -- nm - Bloody AxeSean Oct 26, 10:31 1
    - so does groiny. -- nm - tRuMaN Oct 26, 10:31
- Heh. It'd be fun (though confusing) to play a second-person shooter game. -- nm - nubby Oct 26, 10:27 4
  - Actually I think you can say that some views in games like Grand Theft Auto offer 2nd person viewpoint - Max Oct 26, 10:33
  - You could play the annoying side character that has to be escorted somewhere and is always getting in the way of the hero's shooting. -- nm - Ender Oct 26, 10:29 1
    - I'm sure there will be lines around the block for Robin: Arkham Asylum. - TFox Oct 26, 10:30
  - "AHHH! I'm coming right for him!" -- nm - Reagen Oct 26, 10:28
~inside the coffee we make a nest, and for this gift I feel like a pest~ -- nm - Ant Nirvana Oct 26, 10:26
more borderlands talk - tRuMaN Oct 26, 10:24 1
- not to be confused with CBC The Border -- nm - lkf Oct 26, 10:25
JenBro have you ever been to the Footnotes of Mad Men website? You might like. It connects items in the show with real ads etc of the time period. Be - The Legend of Sleepy Hdn Oct 26, 10:23 1
- I must have missed that on the site - thanks! I will check it out ... I'm one of those odd people that enjoys advertising & marketing - I love - JenBro Oct 26, 10:32
Poor Pop. He did *not* want to be hopped on! -- nm - Reagen Oct 26, 10:22 4
- Kitty! -- nm - lkf Oct 26, 10:34
- 30 pounds of toddler on your stomach packs more of a wallop than you might think. nm - ralph wiggum Oct 26, 10:29 2
  - wait until you try missionary! -- nm - Max Oct 26, 10:34 1
    - Cappie? -- nm - kilboooo! Oct 26, 10:36
oooooooo - lkf Oct 26, 10:22 1
- this was meant to go under the Help Me! line below -- nm - lkf Oct 26, 10:23
JenBro - I sort of excuse the calculator - Reagen Oct 26, 10:21 5
- good point - I forgot about the switches -- nm - JenBro Oct 26, 10:33
- I just loved the fact that they thought to ask for one while the others just floundered -- nm - kilboooo! Oct 26, 10:24
- yep - spoils - Roger More Oct 26, 10:23
- agreed. I would have been all over that math one. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 26, 10:21 1
  - (And, for the record, I'm terrible at long division... but their first answer was over 5,000 ... so I'm not *that* bad) -- nm - Beryllium Oct 26, 10:22
Lindros! -- nm - lkf Oct 26, 10:21
HELP ME! HELP ME! -- nm - kilboooo! Oct 26, 10:20 4
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- *attaches floaties to nubby's arms* -- nm - Beryllium Oct 26, 10:20 2
  - this is making me giggle uncontrollably -- nm - JenBro Oct 26, 10:30
  - oh, dangit, that was kilbo. me == not awake yet -- nm - Beryllium Oct 26, 10:21

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