 | | Testing (aka Fuck hackers) | | .....Jeff Walters.....Sun, Sep 11, 2005 • 2:23:27 am | comments: 14287 | | write comment |
I guess this is what happens when you don't update the news for a few months, you get hacked. Standby as we work out how to fix everything the morons broke.
In the meantime, dance with Speak.
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 | | My hand has shipped. | | .....Arb.....Wed, Apr 13, 2005 • 12:38:22 pm | comments: 322 | | write comment |
I received an e-mail from Nintendo today informing me that my mannequin hand has shipped.
Hahahahaha.
Ha.
...ha?
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| | | Shall we play a game? | | .....Arb.....Fri, Apr 8, 2005 • 8:14:34 am | comments: 55 | | write comment |
I'm a sucker for alternate reality gaming, and I know Speak is too.
According to Kotaku, a gaming blog from which I steal all the news I post here related to video games, MS has one set up for X-Box 360.
The site's all kinds of buggy, but you should go and sign up and join the CantinaCloud colony (password 82745424), because this will give me something to do during the day, even if it is just a giant ad for Microsoft.
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 | | I can see my house from here...and yours, too, actually... | | .....Arb.....Thu, Apr 7, 2005 • 12:07:05 pm | comments: 57 | | write comment |
Google Maps uses satellite photos instead of drawn maps to show you the location of places. I think this is a new feature, as the last time I saw a map from Google, it was telling me that to drive to Buffalo we needed to drive through Lake Erie. It also placed Buffalo somewhere in the vicinity of a Canadian island. It's better than that now.
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| | | What if an online petition actually meant something? | | .....Arb.....Fri, Apr 1, 2005 • 6:38:30 pm | comments: 985 | | write comment |
When the network that airs a TV show in danger of being cancelled hosts an online petition to save the show, does that make it credible?
I guess it does.
Fox has launched a campaign encouraging people to "Get Arrested", in order to keep Arrested Development on the air.
I can assure you that the show is much better than this particular lame advertising motto, but you should still go sign the petition.
Rob and Ram, I'm looking at you. WITH MY EYES.
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 | | Guild Wars interview | | .....Arb.....Fri, Apr 1, 2005 • 1:35:13 pm | comments: 332 | | write comment |
CVG has posted an interview with Jeff Strain, producer of Guild Wars. It looks like they have some interesting stuff planned (how well it's executed still remains to be seen, obviously). Here's something NEW that I learned from the article:
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| When you create your account you pick a home world, like the European world, the US world, the Korean world and so on. That dictates the people you are normally surrounded by when you play the game, but at any time you can go to international districts and play with anyone you want from around the world. But the other thing that means is that when you field teams in the International PvP Tournament the home world of that team is very important. If they fight to the top of the Tournament they open up content for everyone else in their home world.
We do this by having crumbling, ancient statues of the Gods in each world that open up otherwise inaccessible portals to unique areas and missions, which in turn contain unique items, skills and charmable creatures you won't find anywhere else. That only happens in the world whose team holds the top spot in the International Tournament, so obviously there are a lot of kudos attached. It gives you a reason to root for your people in the Tournament, or a reason to be extremely proud if you're in the team!
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Sounds like the kind of nerdy-cool that an MMORPG should contain, rather than the nerdy-"cool" that requires ten hours of bunny-killing. Or the kind that depends on massive database manipulation of numbers to simulate space battles.
Not that there's anything wrong with Planetarion. No, really.
(Note: when I clicked the link on the Guild Wars website, it took me right to the interview, but it appears there may be registration required to view the article. I apologize for this and heartily denounce required registration for reading content online. It goes against the spirit of free information/communism.)
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 | | Nintendo is mailing me a hand. | | .....Arb.....Thu, Mar 31, 2005 • 2:46:46 pm | comments: 2 | | write comment |
It looks like Nintendo is shifting away from their "nostalgia" marketing angle and focusing more on the "batshit insane" angle. They are running a contest (on a website with a very disturbing domain name) with a first prize of $1000, a DS, and four games.
You sign up and they mail you a mannequin hand, which you then take a picture or video of in a WACKY place and provide them with some homebrew marketing.
I may or may not enter the actual contest, but there is no way I am passing up the chance to be mailed a hand - even if I do have to go to a website whose URL screams "Pedophile ring".
Edit (4-1-05, 7:32AM) - Fixed the link above so it actually goes to http://www.touchingisgood.com
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| | | Speak is not the only one who receives random text messages | | .....Arb.....Thu, Mar 31, 2005 • 2:26:54 pm | comments: 8088 | | write comment |
Although the one I received today was not nearly as angry or antisemitic as his.
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| Please call me when possible... I need help making urgent payments... $500 to Verizon, $500 to MBNA, $1500 to Regent, $1200 to Edgar, etc. |
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And now I owe $.02 to Verizon. Why do the lame scams always come after me?
Don't answer that.
Oh, wait, you can't respond to this!
Or can you? Does this script support commenting? I don't remember and am too lazy to check.
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| | | Room for one more... | | .....Arb.....Wed, Feb 16, 2005 • 7:59:08 am | comments: 2767 | | write comment |
Happy birthday, Speak! You are old. BUT NOT AS OLD AS JEFF.
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 | | Hug a Manbear today! | | .....Speak.....Tue, Feb 15, 2005 • 5:48:24 am | comments: 3 | | write comment |
Happy birthday to Arby!
PS: REDBEAR is coming.
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| | | Happy.... | | .....Arby.....Mon, Feb 14, 2005 • 6:32:46 am | comments: 2 | | write comment |
1. Valentine's Day?
2. Birthday to Thren
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 | | Today is not just Groundhog Day... | | .....Arby.....Wed, Feb 2, 2005 • 6:19:50 am | comments: 9 | | write comment |
but it is also p3's birthday.
Happy birthday, p3.
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 | | Happy Birthday to............................... | | .....Arby.....Tue, Jan 25, 2005 • 4:36:50 pm | write comment |
Drac/Siglo/your MOM?
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| | | Random TXT Message hoedown! | | .....Speak.....Mon, Jan 3, 2005 • 4:48:25 pm | comments: 128 | | write comment |
I'm not sure if it's just me, but I get *lots* of random TXT messages on my cellphone from people I don't know. I'm not sure if the network misdirects, or if there's someone who pisses off a lot of people with a number slightly different from mine. It's mostly annoying, but occasionally entertaining. Some choice hits from the past few months before I purge my phone:
I'm so glad he likes me:
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| 5162207608@vtext.com: I never meant it more than now, i trust you and i love you. Go nuts tonight! xxx me! - Rob |
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Cute nickname:
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| 9169957025@vtext.com: I am out of Roseville 4 the holiday pussycat. Call me Friday. Please please. Suzanne |
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Intelligent discussion about a children's movie:
Somebody interested in porn-viewing habits, apparently:
Angry:
And my personal favorite, the angriest TXT message ever:
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| 9542707390@vtext.comDONT U EVER SPEAK OF MY MOTHER OR BRING HER N 2 THIS U FUKN JEWISH CUNT DONT EVER CALL ME OR COME C ME AGAIN |
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Have no fear, 9542707390@vtext.com, i never plan on calling or seeing you once, let alone AGAIN. And I'm Irish, not Jewish.
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| | | Merry Christmas! | | .....Jeff Walters.....Fri, Dec 24, 2004 • 5:12:51 pm | write comment |
Well, it is the 25th over here in Aussieland - you other freaks have to wait a few more hours.
Ha ha.
I think we should take a moment to appreciate the true meaning of Christmas, some people often forget that it's all about....materialism and eating till you pass out in a pool of vomited turkey and other butchered poultry. So don't you forget that, ever.
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| | | It's that time of year again... | | .....Arby.....Sat, Dec 11, 2004 • 7:15:28 pm | write comment |
Finals week. When, instead of writing papers, I write news posts with lame icons like the one you see at left.
There is no news.
None.
Now I'm going to go academically describe different ways you can interact with a video game.
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 | | I did have a news post written... | | .....Arby.....Tue, Nov 30, 2004 • 11:01:24 pm | comments: 319 | | write comment |
...but then my browser lost it.
Instead of retyping it, I will first provide you with a sentence that I spent several minutes crafting:
Slug has moved into a new apartment and discovered cable pornography, which has removen his primary motivation for computer-usage and subsequently resulted in an extended Cantinabsence.
Here is a summary of the rest of the rest of the post:
A bunch of people had birthdays but never received birthday news posts, Speak proposed (although there's already a vague post about that below) to Speakbeth, Omne's apartment burned down, Gonk's disappeared into World of Warcraft, Jeff's found out more about his back problem and started the next Cantina Postcard Send, and the release date for Serenity has been pushed back to September 30th, 2005 due to heavy competition for a similar demographic in the spring (read: Nerds who only see one movie will be saving their money for Revenge of the Sith).
That's all I feel like writing. I do not understand how people fill blog posts day after day.
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 | | The Election | | .....Greven.....Wed, Nov 3, 2004 • 1:31:10 pm | comments: 57 | | write comment |
Kerry has conceded defeat to Bush.
President Bush will have another four years in office.
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| | | :D | | .....Juz.....Tue, Nov 2, 2004 • 11:43:52 am | comments: 94 | | write comment |
Speaky! Grats! Yaya! Woohoo! Lots of woohoo! Someone else post a better one of these!
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