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Off Topic / Hey FarmVille, I don't give a stuff if someone found a lost dog on their farm

« on: December 18, 2009, 01:43:00 AM »

God-loving-damnit, I am sick and tired of seeing this FarmVille stuff saturating my Facebook home page so much that I have to loving go back like 5 pages just to find actual interesting stuff. I am also going to incapacitate the next assmunch person who sends me an invite to this pointless app. [/rage]

Does anyone know how to turn it the forget off?

inb4umad

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Off Topic / Bitch just tried to spam me

« on: December 17, 2009, 11:54:55 PM »

Some starfish just attempted to launch a DoS on my network. Luckily I have McAfee and it recognized the attack instantly, blocking it. McAfee also auto-traced the IP it came from and displayed it for me to copy down. It's now sitting on my desk, waiting to be turned in to the police. Hopefully it's not dynamic.

Post times when you've gotten a virus, whether you successfully deleted it or not.

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Drama / kakes 411 - What the forget?

« on: December 17, 2009, 08:38:28 PM »

His recent posts, two of which are periods. He also I'm not even going to bother explaining, just read his posts. I have to say, he's on the verge of being banned for spamming, for those two "." posts alone.

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Off Topic / Sick of these killer half-hour nose bleeds

« on: December 17, 2009, 12:24:34 AM »

So as I was in the shower a little while ago washing my face, I noticed there was blood on my hands. I washed it off and tried to see where it was coming from. Sure enough, it was my nose. Again. The shower lasted 5 minutes and I got out of it about 20 minutes ago. The nose bleed only just stopped a few moments ago.

20 minutes
+5 minutes
25 minutes

Anyone have any good tips on how to prevent/stop nose bleeds?

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Off Topic / Winter Break, yay

« on: December 16, 2009, 07:50:33 PM »

Two (well technically one and a half) more days until I'm on Winter Break. Four days until I'm in Cozumel, scuba diving in +80 degree water. Hell yes.

Post what you're doing over the break.

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Off Topic / Adobe CS4 Master Collection :D

« on: December 15, 2009, 12:50:36 AM »

I just got Adobe CS4 Master Collection today. I found it for a great price (originally $2500, got it for $950) on a website with such products for students at greatly discounted prices and it arrived today. This includes every program in the Creative Suite 4 family, plus a couple third-party ones. Here's a list of the major programs:

-InDesign 
-Photoshop
-Illustrator 
-Flash
-Dreamweaver
-Fireworks
-Contribute
-After Effects 
-Premiere Pro 
-Soundbooth
-OnLocation
-Encore

Needless to say, I'm insanely happy right now. :D             

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Off Topic / TF2 in Real Life

« on: December 14, 2009, 01:39:17 AM »

Yeah you saw that correctly.

TF2, IN REAL LIFE

My friend came up with this idea a while ago, but it didn't really go anywhere, so he decided to drop it until he could work on it more. Well, he's found the time to
work on it more, and now even has a Facebook group dedicated to TF2 IRL. Just about everything in TF2 that's possible to recreate in real life is going to be included in this, such as:

• CTFs
• King of the Hill
• Capture Points
• Hostage
• And many more to come

Currently, as far as we know, our town here in Colorado is the first and only place to do this, but we're sure we're not the first ones to think of this. We're currently trying to spread the word and get others to participate in TF2 IRL, so tell your friends about it. It's a great way to hang out with your friends, get some exercise, and enjoy the outdoors.

Please, share your thoughts on this. We're looking for any feedback/suggestions/themes to add, so please discuss!

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Off Topic / Dubstep - It's loving awesome

« on: December 12, 2009, 02:01:39 AM »

One of my friends told me about this genre of music I had never heard of before today called dubstep. It's extremely heavily vamped electronica with amazing bass synth riffs. Have a listen to a couple songs:

Amirah by Chasing Shadows-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAbY2TVy7xQ
Ill by Chasing Shadows-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzX5FlXVbx4
Dr Sin by Chasing Shadows-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezpiHsAK3LA
Night by Benga-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMR5K2QWfJk

Gimme a minute, I'll get a couple more examples.

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Creativity / Digital Art & Design

« on: December 10, 2009, 01:30:30 AM »

Hey everyone, it's come time for the end of first semester of my school year and our final project in my Digital Art & Design class is a slideshow combining all of the works we've done throughout the semester. Every image in the video was created/edited in Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator CS3/CS4 (although I have more images that I've made, I didn't feel like including them in the slideshow due to the fact that they need work/are not finished yet).

Digital Art & Design

Also, yes, that is me in a few pictures, and I couldn't care less what you think of my appearance, so don't bother saying anything along the lines of "You're ugly" because F.Y.I., I have a girlfriend, we've been together for a little over a year now. And yes, if you weren't looking hard enough to see my name in the first picture, that is my name. Not gonna repeat it here because that would be redundant.

Otherwise, please, enjoy the video, and remember, probably 95% of these are school assignments so they may not look freaking amazing, they were mostly practical assignments (photo retouching, pop art, self portraits, etc.). If you have any questions pertaining to the video or my Digital Art & Design class, do not hesitate to ask.

EDIT: Before people start giving me suggestions for how to improve these, do not. They are done and I do not plan to edit them any further. This thread is only to display my work and for comments.

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Off Topic / Kids who think they know everything

« on: December 09, 2009, 01:34:22 AM »

If I had [insert amount of money here] for every time some stupid, know-it-all kid(s) do something completely handicapped and then laugh about it, I'd be swimming in money right now. For example, (not to sound tribal, because I'm not) it makes me want to punch a baby (loldanecook) when Hispanic kids think they're the center of attention. Like today in my Geometry class, this one Hispanic kid thinks he's so damn cool, or, "the stuff," as they say, because he barely ever does his homework and then when the teacher comes around to collect said homework, the kid laughs about it. This kind of person also:

-Talks constantly
-Disrupts the class, making the teacher go on 5-10 minute rants about how not to talk while they're teaching/texting during class/etc., and then we never get anything done
-Wears their pants around their ass, which, in my personal opinion, makes it look like they have a colossal stuff in their pants
-Blocks the entire damn hallway to talk to their friends during passing period (this I absolutely cannot stand, and usually end up forcefully shoving my way through)
-Arrives late to class
-You get the point.

tl;dr - Kids who don't give a stuff about school (or how they dress) really piss me off. But hey, what the hell am I gonna do about it, eh?

[/rage]

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Off Topic / What the hell happened to my "Reply" button?

« on: December 04, 2009, 06:09:10 PM »

I was just checking my personal messages, one of which was new, and when I went to click "Reply," the button wasn't there. I tried reloading the page and it still wasn't there. What happened? Am I banned from sending messages?

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Off Topic / Computer Woes

« on: December 03, 2009, 01:46:05 AM »

This video I just found on YouTube I thought to be pretty funny. Post times when you've just wanted to destroy technology. Or just talk about the video.

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Off Topic / Oxymora

« on: December 01, 2009, 11:52:31 PM »

Post your favorite oxymora (singular "oxymoron"). Here's a few of my favorites:

- Military intelligence
- Tough stuff
- Accurate horoscope
- Accidentally on purpose
- Affordable housing
- Bipartisan cooperation
- Birth control
- Degradeable plastic
- Peoples' Republic of China

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Off Topic / What kind of computer do you have?

« on: November 30, 2009, 02:35:10 AM »

Desktop or laptop? PC or Mac? Linux or Windows? Intel processor or AMD? NVIDIA or ATI? And so on and so forth. I know I forgot a bunch, just list them if you want.

I'll start:

• Desktop or laptop? - Desktop (Dell Dimension 9100)
• PC or Mac? - PC
• Operating system? - Windows XP 32-bit
• Processor? - Intel Pentium D 32-bit
• Graphics/video? - ATI RADEON 850
• RAM? - 1GB
• How well does it run Blockland? - Fairly
• Custom built or pre-assembled? - Pre-assembled
• Price tag? - ~$3000, back when we actually got it (which was around 4 years ago, back when it was a really damn good computer)
  

You can even copy and edit that list for yourself. I'm basically making this thread because I'm looking for a new computer and was wondering what computers other Blocklanders use.

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Off Topic / Pranks

« on: November 26, 2009, 02:19:36 AM »

Post pranks that you've pulled or pranks that've been pulled on you. I'll start.

So today as I was talking to my friend on the phone, my doorbell rang. I went to answer it. I open the door and what do you know, there's a brown paper bag, set on fire, sitting on my front porch. I wrench the door open and (right here I should've recalled the scene from Disturbia where the two kids leave the flaming paper bag full of dog stuff on his porch) I stomp it out. But wait, what's that in the bag? Oh yeah, dog stuff. So now I have dog stuff all over my good Vans, there's dog stuff all over my front porch, and to top it off, I didn't see who the kids were; they booked it before I opened the door. Damn kids.

inb4yougotpunk'd