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Accelerating Future
Brian Kelly
Daylight Atheism
Games Aren't Numbers
Kill The Mode
Less Wrong
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Respectful Insolence
TorrentFreak
Jaykc made a new version of the RPG.
I hope I receive one of these, just so I can mess around with them.
I went to the zoo:
Koz made a wallpaper. SIX HUNDRED KB!
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WHY DO YOU HAVE TO BE SUCH A NAZI!
Rock Paper Scissors Fight
Salad Fingers
Salad Fingers 2
IRV WHITE
Unorthodox wanted to be on the update.
Also, Azumanga Daioh is stupid and annoying.
This week has been HELL. COMPLETE AND ABSOLUTE HELL. I have never experienced so much frustration, anger, boredom, depression, and INSANE RAGE in my life. I swear, the whole funeral concept exists only to cause more pain for more people. TWO-DAY WAKE: Stand by your dead grandmother's corpse for SEVEN HOURS STRAIGHT, say hello to people you don't even know and probably won't see for years, and try to keep from bursting into tears in front of everyone. Then, DO IT AGAIN THE NEXT DAY! And then, on the day of the funeral, listen to really sad organ music while sitting there for 45 minutes looking at your dead grandmother. Then, go to the church, and try to sing even though you're all choked up. Then, the long procession to the cemetery by the smelly Argo factory. Say some prayers, cry some more, and leave. AND THEN GO TO A RESTAURANT WITH ALL THE PEOPLE YOU BARELY KNOW! EAT, DRINK, BE MERRY! I have no idea who the hell came up with the whole wake/funeral concept. Its only reason for existence seems to be just to cause FUCKING CRUELTY. You can tell that NOBODY wants to be there. Everyone is sad. Everyone is bored. Everything about the whole situation is SHITTY. If Grandma was alive, she probably would have told us to go home.
WHAT THE FUCK IS THE DEAL WITH CANCER!? What the hell kind of parasite kills its host? Grandma never drank, never smoked, ate healthy and always went to church. And yet she STILL died, for NO REASON. Cancer isn't even a method of natural selection, there is NO REASON FOR IT TO EXIST!
My uncle Joe's new wife Diane had to turn the second day of the wake into one big bullshit festival. They were taking pictures of everyone in groups, telling them to smile. "SOMEONE YOU ALL LOVED IS DEAD, SMILE FOR THE CAMERA!" What the hell. And then they were showing everyone the photo album from their recent trip to Cancun. So recent, in fact, that they were all playing at the beach while my grandmother was in pain, dying. Included in the photo album were pictures of Diane's 13 year old daughter Brittany. In a bikini. On the beach. "Posing." That was just wrong.
On top of all this, my sister was being a stupid, self-centered, disrespectful little brat, and generally pissing us all off. She wouldn't stop hitting me and I'm not allowed to hit her back. And I had to go to uncle Joe's house, and I'm so allergic to their damn Golden Retriever. That thing shed all over my clothes.
After this week, I am completely sick of going places, I am completely sick of doing things, I am completely sick of people. I'm just so tired. And I'm out of Pepsi. I want to scream. I want to scream, and scream, and keep screaming. I want to hit my bedpost with a metal pipe, even though Mom told me not to do that anymore. When I die, I want my organs to be harvested, then I want to be cremated, then I want my ashes to just be thrown off a hill. No big to-do.
I just can't believe I'm never going to see Grandma again.
Grandma died yesterday, at 3:40 AM. She always said she wanted to live to see me graduate. I feel awful.
VLC is a really, really, really good media player. It comes with lots of codecs preinstalled. I recommend it.
Jaykc released a demo version of the EMPTV RPG. In ALL CAPS. A GAME. Where you PLAY ROLES. Because it is a ROLE PLAYING GAME. The full version should be out in a month or two. I'm not really familiar with RPGs, but I appreciate his effort. Seb made the title screen. And yes, we all know the fight against the 3 guards is unreasonably difficult.
Yeah, I haven't updated in a little while. Not too much going on. My grandma's going to die soon, likely in the next couple of days. There's nothing sadder than the look on somebody's face when they know they're going to die, and have completely given up on living.
We had quite a bit of activity here last night. Z decided to be an idiot, pretend to be John Titor on ABS, and then make the ABS members think I was coming back (never going to happen). In the thread Z posted, Meglo decided to be an idiot and post a link to Framework. Obviously, I don't want thousands of morons knowing about our little slice of utopia. A poll was created in Framework to ban Meglo, at which point he created several accounts in a (futile) attempt to sway the vote. He was banned, and his extra accounts were removed. He then began to tell people in the ABS IRC channel about Framework. This may be continuing, but I don't really care. I'm just sick of him messing around, annoying people, and trying to ruin everything. His IP is 69.144.180.63 and his email is bitdeviant@yahoo.com. I'm considering reporting him to his ISP for abuse. At the same time as Meglo's repeated advertising of Framework, the server hosting EMPTV received a severe DDoS attack from what appeared to be a Korean botnet. At the time, we believed it was Meglo's doing, until logs showed that this had been going on since the 4th. Sinner, with the help of PortSentry, was able to block the attack after a couple of hours. Sinner, you rock. Cyber_Cowboy compiled the PortSentry logs into this list of attacking IPs. Blocking them would probably be in your best interest. Cyber_Cowboy, you also rock. Things seemed to have calmed down now, although matttheguy noticed that Meglo seems to be a bit of a "cyberstalker" who follows him from IRC network to network. I'll keep updating as the situation changes.
Also, Jaketeck bought me an SA Forums account in exchange for web design. SA is an awesome place, it's the highest quality forum I've ever seen. Thanks, Jaketeck!
Thanks to Z and appLe for the new themes.
The Conet Project is interesting, and more than a little creepy. Give it a listen, I think this one is pretty scary.
RealmMaster wrote a rant:
"So I go outside a week or so ago to check the mail, and see something laying on my porch. I go to it and it seems to be a small phone book. This isn't unusual, as we usually get this other little one to compete with the bigger guys. I go and pick it up and its the "Hispanic Yellow Pages", and I nearly toss this bad boy into the street. Now, don't get me wrong, I think it's AWESOME that these people are coming to America (legally, I'm not for any illegal entry). I mean, we're a good country, which is shown by the fact that people WANT to come here. Now, my philosophy is that if you are going to visit a country, you should at least know a little of their language, and if you are moving there, you should have it down packed pretty much before you get there, or learn it right away when you do. How else are you going to interact with its citizens. Expect us to change everything to your language? That's not really fair now is it? This goes for Americans going to other countries too. Sure there are Americans that go to other countries and expect them to speak English, but they are just as ignorant as those that come here and do the same. My deal is: Wanna visit? Know what you need to get by. Wanna live here? Learn the language. Period."
DC++ is a great program if you can find good hubs.
idown wanted me to post this:
"I recently bought a book called "X-treme Latin" by Henry Beard. I recommend everyone get it becaue of the sheer fact that it teaches you to say "Linge bacillum glycyrrhizae meum" which is roughly translated to "Lick my licorice stick", along with "Liguri lacertam quae sub toga mea vivit" that translates to "Lollipop my toga lizard". Here are more great latin insults and statements.
"Lege labris volumen inguinale mihi - Lip-read my trouser scroll
"Impone vectigalia pauperibus! - Tax the poor
"Oppetite mortem lumine amplificato stimulata emissione radiorum, cimices extraterrestriales foedi - Taste laser death alien insect scum
"Defrauda nationes minores in tua civitate - Screw minorities
"NIsi mecum concubueris, phobistae vicerint - If you don't sleep with me, the terrorists have won
"Solve lora infernis - Unleash Hell
"And of course there's the great bumper sticker: Te amat Iesus, ceteri te putant irrumatorem - Jesus loves you, everyone else thinks you're an asshole
"Quagis - Wassup
"Em, ichneumon, tempus est sufflamina temptare - Okay tailgater, time for a brake check
"And as a final note: Futae te ipsum - Go fuck yourself."
Oh, and CASH wants you all to know that he was drunk last night. We're proud of you, buddy!
<~rmuser> http://emptv.com/fuckingkoreans.php
<~rmuser> I love the filename
<+Cyber_Cowboy> rmuser
<~rmuser> Cyber_Cowboy
<+Cyber_Cowboy> My site reads off of a sql db
<+Cyber_Cowboy> and I named the table 'fucking_koreans'
<~rmuser> HAHAHAHAHA
This is one hell of a story!
Well, the move seems to have gone just fine. Now there's more bandwidth, webstats, I have SSH access, and, thanks to the services of ZoneEdit, you can access the IRC channel by connecting to irc.emptv.com. I think I've fixed most of the problems, but if you notice anything wrong, please tell me. Strangely, this is the 200th update since the site's original creation.
I recently obtained a Gmail account, emptvz@gmail.com. It's better than any other webmail service I've used. For one thing, it outlines replies into an easy-to-follow layout, much like a conversation. Also, it lets you see full headers for every message. And unlike other free webmail providers, which usually disable your account if you don't log in for a month or two, Gmail won't disable your account for nine months. There's also a feature where you can "star" messages to mark them as important. Another useful feature is that display of external images in email is turned off by default, although you can click a link on the message to display the external images. It seems that emails are immediately indexed for the email search, unlike the delay of the web search. The advertisements are unobtrusive, and I actually havn't seen them on any of my emails besides Google's introductory email. Also, there are no advertisements for Gmail appended to emails you send, unlike Yahoo and Hotmail. And, one of the best features of all, any email sent to youraddress+whatever@gmail.com gets sent to youraddress@gmail.com. This has great potential. Messages can be filtered by what address they were sent to. You can use a custom address to register for a website, and if that address gets any spam, you'll know where it came from. Likewise, if you're banned from a forum, you can re-register with a seemingly new address. However, it would be easy to incorporate code into registration forms that checks for an email address containing @gmail.com and +, and then strips the + and everything after it up to the @, recreating the original address. I've noticed a few issues. Emails from other Gmail members are missing a lot of header information, including X-Originating-IP. However, emails frm Gmail members sent to non-Gmail accounts have all the headers. Also, email with HTML in it seems to take a long time to arrive, long time meaning three hours in some cases. Attachments are limited to 10MB, so you can forget about sending warez. In conclusion, Gmail is pretty cool, but I'm not about to rely on it for anything serious. Thanks to Deadman for inviting me. I do not have any invites right now, and nobody really knows how they're distributed. Try #gmail on EFnet, that's how I got mine.
Gmail FAQ
Rash is a very good bash.org clone, currently in use at qwnts.luniticfringe.net.
I saw Dodgeball the other day. It was okay, but I wouldn't bother seeing it again.
"Charlie the Chainsaw wants to play!"
Also, Coca Cola C2 tastes awful.
This is going to be the most insane movie ever. Although this may already be the most insane movie ever.
