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ChainsawAsh said:

Classic.

I wonder if whoever lives at my old place will get a creepy-ass letter from BadAssGhostbustingJanskeet like I did when he got banned as Janskeet.

Whoa! What did he write to you?

Totally off topic, but I have to say I love the MI3 ref., Bloodnose.

I am still all for it. Not too many people have expressed interest in it though, not even Warb (not sure if he has been on since then, or if he even checks the VG thread).

CP3S said:

Woooohooo!!! No get online RIGHT NOW and play!

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or don't.

 

It worked! I need to start harshly ordering people around more often! ;)

Ghostbusters said:

 I've seen that PBS documentary about that one dude who helped George Lucas write Star Wars...

Joseph Campbell co-wrote Star Wars? I didn't know that. ;)

Woooohooo!!! No get online RIGHT NOW and play!

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or don't.

Ghostbusters said:

Hello everybody, I'm back online, did you miss me?

You were gone? I am not even gone and I have been away waaaaaay longer than you. I think the same is true for most regular posters around here. Fink and Bingo are probably the only ones in the Off-Topic who are posting more frequently than you. No dig intended here... just saying.

doubleofive said:

Making of RotJ doesn't exist yet (they're 30th anniversary books) and Lucas did screw up the books by forcing SE images into them (though that is going to be fixed in future printings).

Another series of small errors occurred when the publisher replaced my screen grabs from the original ESB version on DVD with screen grabs from the Special Edition DVD; Del Rey regrets the error, too.

How do things like this always continue to happen? Are people really that stupid? Or is there some kind of a conspiracy? I imagine George Lucas and his followers and an Illuminati type organization that will kill you if you so much as talk about them, pulling strings from behind the scenes an-- ACK! Guys, I think they foun

Ghostbusters said:

But it looks like Adywan is paying a little less than what the states pay. Is this cable, DSL, or wifi Adywan?

That is relative, though. Like I said, when I lived in Europe (not the UK) I paid considerably more than I have ever paid for it in the States. And Adywan is paying a little more than the most I have ever paid in the States, and I have this really bad habit of moving around a lot so that is a fairly wide sample range, I have paid for internet in five different states over the last seven years.

Xhonzi, I am pretty lame when it comes to IT stuff, where you being serious? Is there that much of a difference?

ricardo said:

I miss C3PX.

Me too. :-(

Hope he is doing okay for himself... where ever he is.

doubleofive said:

xhonzi said:

More L4D2 DLC coming.  Better that than L4D3!

I could go for some L4D2... We need to get The Sacrifice. And one of the other DLC is the REST OF L4D1?! So. Awesome.

I am excited! The only thing I didn't like about the L4D2 No Mercy port was having the L4D2 special infected present. I think I would have preferred if they would have just used the original special infected. I felt they kind of changed the old dynamic I was used to (feature to turn them on or off would be nice. I do love having the melee weapons in it though. A pack of all the old levels would definitely be worth while, and new DLC is always welcome. I assume these will probably be a Fall release though... long way off. :(

I am with Mr. O'five on this, we definitely need to play sometime soon. Very soon!

adywan said:

I was paying £25 per month for an up to 8mb connection when it was supposed to be an unlimited usage connection until they changed it. You can get up to 24mb broadband now for around £6.99 per month if you take the providers phone package too, but you only get the cheaper faster service if you phone exchange has been enabled. If it hasn't then you are stuck with the slower more expensive providors

Thanks, Adywan.

Okay, so with the current exchange rate, 25 quid is $40.61 in US dollars. Six pounds ninety-nine would actually be just about exactly one third of what I pay, and 24mb is definitely faster. So looks like Ghostbuster is not only right, but spot on with the one third thing, at least for some parts of the UK.

Hmmm... I am at a loss of words... Putting myself in those shoes, McDonald's is always hiring and a low level minimum wage job is better than no job...

Xhonzi, you know what? You can just take your logic and shove it into Wal-Mart... right before we get rid of it! Wooooooooooooooooo!!!

ricardo said:

While we are at it, lets close down Walmart, too.

Hells yeah! Free markets be DAMNED!!! WOoOOOOOOoOOOO!!!

Wal-Mart sucks ass! I absolutely HATE getting things cheaper and being able to have my oil changed while I wait for a prescription while I shop for groceries, a new pair of work boots, shampoo, tools, light bulbs, the latest DVD I wanted to buy, and anything else I might need all in one stop. Saves way too much time! Who the hell wants to get an entire days worth of errands done in the course of an hour giving them more time to spend doing what they want with their extra free time while wasting less increasingly expensive gas driving all over town in the process? Ridiculous! Lets close that bitch DOWN! YEAH!

People in Europe pay a third what we pay for internet and their speeds are a lot faster.

Really? When I lived in Europe I paid a little more for it than I do now (a lot more if you divide up the $160 installation cost I had to pay over the time period I had it), and the speed was painful. I know not every European country will be the same, but in general, is it really cheaper and faster? Bingo? YIYF? Leonardo? Adywan? Anyone else from Europe that I left out, you guys care to confirm this?

I pay $35 a month for a supposedly "up to 10mbps" connection (usually clocks at about 3 -7mbps when I test it). If what Janskeet is saying is true, then that means you guys pay little more than $10 a month for a faster than 10mbps connection. I find that hard to swallow.

If I want to read about something or lookup something, I usually turn to the internet and that usually more than satisfies what I wanted to read. In the last 5 years the internet has really gotten diverse enough to feed most people's reading needs. It still is nice to have a book to read in bed though.

For information maybe, but you will still find more solid sources in real books, and literature is an entirely different matter. Unless you are stealing them, you still have to pay to read John Grisham's latest masterpiece in repetitive, meaningless story telling, or J. K. Rowling's latest hacked together piece of tripe. Sure, I can wiki "Christopher Hitchens" and read all about his life for free, but if I really want that deep insight into his life and mind that I could get from reading his autobiography, then I'd need to pay for an ebook copy of Hitch-22 or purchase a hard copy or check one out from the local library. Not sure if that really qualifies as serving "most people's reading needs"... unless of course you are talking about people buying books from amazon, then I'd probably have to concur.

Even if I did find something I liked, I would rarely buy it there because bookstores sell at premium retail prices and even with discounts are still cheaper online.

And that is exactly why Border's is going under. I do the same. I love spending time in B&N, Borders, Books-A-Million, and just about any other brick and mortar bookseller. I love books, and I love being able to pick them up and thumb through them, read a few pages, and decide whether it is worth my time and effort to purchase and read. Sadly for those bookstores, everybody loves a bargain... which to me personally usually equates to the brick and mortar store helping me make my decision by presenting the books to me tangibly and allowing me to spend some time reading it in a comfortable chair, just so I can return it to a shelf, go home, and log onto an online retailer and buy it for usually no more than 20-40% off the cover price.

Times they are A-changing, and sadly bookstores look as if they will be a casualty of this. Overhead costs are just too high to have a massive store filled with enough books to cover a broad range of interests and still be able to compete with something like amazon, which allows users to buy new, used, just released to out of print and anything that falls in between, and just about any book they could possible want in just about any language it has ever been published in.

Still sad to see them having trouble.

doubleofive said:

 

How much does one have to drink before thinking Warb would want to play an FPS? Isn't he antigun? ;-)

 

Well, I had about a shot glass' equivalent of wine, so not much. I have other friends who are anti-gun and enjoy a bit of Halo or COD. He has never complained about the depiction of firearms in film, or other entertainment media. Just the fact that a lot of people are killed every year by firearms.

So, in all seriousness, I am thinking a 360 could do Warb a lot of good. It can be really fun going online and interacting with people. Video games have traditionally been considered anti-social, but with things like Xbox LIVE and being able to chat with other players it is actually a far more enjoyable social experience to me than many things traditionally considered overly social, such as hanging out at bars, going to a ball game, watching televised sports on TV in group gatherings. I feel like there is far more interaction with others going on when I play with them online than I do when I am at a Super Bowl party or making small talk with some sad desperate woman at a bar.

So, yes, I am entirely serious in my "Buy Warb a 360" movement, and becoming more serious about it the more I think about it. If many of us as a community came to the conclusion that Dayv needed money because he was in a bad place, cancer or not, then I think Warbler needs a 360 just as much. For under $200 we could get him hooked up with a year of LIVE, a couple of games that he might like that we can play with him online, and of course an actual 360 itself. I think it could be a very positive thing for him, and still being one of the mass number of American who are unemployed at the moment, he obviously doesn't have money to buy one himself.

Wooooo! Had kind of a depressing bum day for no reason in particular. Could have gone out and bought a bottle of something to get my mind off (not really my way), but instead I used it as an excuse to waste that money that might have been spent on booze on the over priced First Strike map pack for Black Ops.

Warb, you should totally save up your alcohol money and buy an Xbox, buddy. I think many a good time could be had between the two of us. I just realized that none of my friends have been on LIVE all night and it made me slightly more depressed. You can grab used ones for $100 easily... maybe we should throw together an OT.com "Buy Warb a 360" thread. I'd totally chip in $20 or so.

Okay, maybe I have been drinking a little... ever so slightly...

"Iran Arrests Second Reform Leader"?

Maybe you should have linked to the article you are talking about instead of the article about the fallen statue that linked to your article. I don't see any of the "Most Popular" stories that might relate to this thread. Everything is about Iran, Egypt, and Mars simulations.

I demand WARBLER., INC.™©® re-opened! Or I want my money back...

Akwat Kbrana said:

On ChainsawAsh's recommendation, I checked out Sherlock. Bloody brilliant stuff; can't wait for series 2...

Just checked it out myself after reading about it on her. Absolutely loved it! So good. I usually watch things passively in the background while doing other things, Sherlock is the first thing I have watched in a very, very, very long time that has totally sucked in my undivided attention and made me want to dedicate time specifically to it.

luke.the.darkside.is.fun said:

CP3S said:

luke.the.darkside.is.fun said:

 can you hit me up with a link that shows one thats not to high?

If you are going for cheap, this one looks slightly more professional than the $12 dollar one, and it actually has a meter rather than just a green, yellow, or red light like the $12 one. It also makes noise when it gets a reading, which could sound quite impressive to spectators.

http://www.amazon.com/Gen-El-Gauss-Master/dp/B0004IR6J6/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1296771235&sr=8-3

 will power lines it set off?

It will get a reading from them. But any of the cheaper ones will, if you want one that doesn't it looks like you are looking in the $150 + range.

TheBoost said:

Don't talk that way about Sally! She'll punch you in the nose, like she did to local bully Bugs Meany!

Haha, didn't get the reference with the 25 cents a day plus expenses and Sally, but once you threw in Bugs Meany it snapped into place.

luke.the.darkside.is.fun said:

 can you hit me up with a link that shows one thats not to high?

If you are going for cheap, this one looks slightly more professional than the $12 dollar one, and it actually has a meter rather than just a green, yellow, or red light like the $12 one. It also makes noise when it gets a reading, which could sound quite impressive to spectators.

http://www.amazon.com/Gen-El-Gauss-Master/dp/B0004IR6J6/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1296771235&sr=8-3

I wouldn't quite my day job to do it. Not sure what the going rates are though. I'd shoot for a modest $20 - $50 to check a place out. Maybe for an extra $35 or so I'd even have my buddy Jorge mow their lawn for them.

luke. that $12 E.L.F. meter on amazon wouldn't really be good as much more than a safe distance meter. I could already tell you which parts of most houses would give you a red light with that thing. But it could be fun for convincing your friends that their TVs are haunted. :)

Yeah, but it honestly wouldn't take long to recover your expenses once you do a few jobs.

It is a Gaussmeter (sometimes called an EMF meter/detector), used for detecting electro magnetic fields. Modern ghost hunters believe ghosts leave traces of electro magnetism.

http://www.lessemf.com/ghost.html

This is where I have been scoping out my gear. Seems like a lot of it is higher end stuff, and the prices look to be a little lower than the link you posted, luke.the.darkside.is.fun.

Make sure you get a gaussmeter that ignores power lines, otherwise you could get a bunch of false readings.

Hahaha! That is really funny!