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Off Topic / Do a barrel roll, Google-style!

« on: November 03, 2011, 06:21:21 PM »

1. Go to Google
2. Search for "do a barrel roll"
3. Amazement

No idea if I'm late on this or not, but one of my friends just told me about it and it's so cool.

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Off Topic / "PROTECT-IP / E-PARASITE Act" - Congress is at it again

« on: October 27, 2011, 11:27:55 PM »

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/10/disastrous-ip-legislation-back-%E2%80%93-and-it%E2%80%99s-worse-ever

The link basically explains it all, but for those of you with unhealthy amounts of laziness, I'll tl;dr this:

Senate bill "PROTECT-IP" has the overwhelming potential to shut down YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Google+, etc.

There's also a video you can watch, but it's over 26 minutes long. Reading the EFF article would be faster.

Go here to view and sign the petition form, and also to share this on Twitter and/or Facebook.

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Games / Would appreciate any help in identifying this game - resolved

« on: October 20, 2011, 11:12:50 PM »

When I was a lot younger, my parents bought a racing game for my PS2. I can't remember the name of the game and I've been racking my brain trying to think of it. Really the only way I can describe it is by describing a small portion of the gameplay, the powerups. There were quite a few of them. Ones I remember were Bomb, Nitro, Oil Slick, and the most powerful one, Tornado, that would only make itself available to you if you were in second-to-last or last place. I also remember a couple of the tracks. One of them was called "Gauntlet" and I think the shape of the track was either hexagonal or octagonal. Another one of which I cannot recall the name was shaped like a school track field, an oval shape, with the longer sides being parallel. It resembled a small coliseum.

Does this ring any bells for anyone? I can try to provide more info and details if needed.

EDIT: I also remember that some powerups could be fired forward or backward.

NEVERMIND:

Rumble Racing?

THANK YOU JUBEL <3

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Off Topic / Google/Samsung Galaxy Nexus

« on: October 19, 2011, 12:28:25 AM »

Google Blog post

Official website

LA Times article

I cannot loving wait for this phone, and once I can afford the data plan, I'm so getting one.

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Off Topic / Level up!

« on: September 24, 2011, 10:15:27 AM »

I normally don't make birthday topics but I felt it was necessary to make one for this specific birthday.

Level 18 acquired!

(If any of you would be so kind, I have a Steam wishlist that needs some loving. :) )

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Off Topic / Stocking, Lord Tony, or Skip (a.k.a. God)?

« on: September 23, 2011, 06:59:01 PM »

Who's the better person?

If you know what's good for you, you'll vote for the person who is also known as God, and who's name starts with an S and isn't Stocking.

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Creativity / Google Chrome Theme - "Immortal Shadow"

« on: September 20, 2011, 12:16:31 AM »

This is a theme for Google Chrome I recently created. I used Photoshop for the image elements and Notepad++ for the color elements and the rest of the manifest.json file.

It's my first theme, and I think it turned out decently. There's always room for improvement, after all.


Pictures:

Normal theme:



Incognito version:




If you want to download it, you can do so either here (Dropbox) or here (MediaFire).

Let me know what you think, and please give me any suggestions you can think of to possibly improve it.

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Off Topic / Tokyoflash Kisai Night Vision Wristwatch

« on: September 12, 2011, 11:29:40 PM »

http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/12/tokyoflash-reveals-kisai-night-vision-wristwatch-makes-telling/

Tokyoflash is on the loose once more, and this time it's introducing a concept that has been in the works for months on end. The Kisai Night Vision -- which was made official moments ago, first appeared on the company's blog as a mockup in August of 2010 -- and as they say, "what a difference a year makes." As of today, the LED wristwatch is up for grabs, constructed with black stainless steel, sub-surface LEDs, a hexagonal form factor and support for USB recharging. Despite your initial assumptions, it's actually capable of displaying both time and date, and there's even a built-in alarm with a "light-up animation." Fancy! It's available in black with blue, green or red LEDs, and if you order soon, you'll be able to snag one for $129 / £79 / €89; procrastinators will face a sticker of $149 / £91 / €103. Take a shufti in the gallery below.

Get the watch here: http://www.tokyoflash.com/en/watches/kisai/night_vision/

I so loving want one of these.

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Off Topic / Custom PC build, would like some feedback; updated list in OP

« on: September 08, 2011, 02:22:04 AM »

I'm building my first PC and would like to get some feedback on if:

a) All the components of my build are compatible with each other,
b) My build can run most modern games pretty well on high settings, and
c) I'm missing anything.

Here it is: http://secure.newegg.com/WishList/PublicWishDetail.aspx?WishListNumber=18498986

CPU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115074

GPU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814133380

PSU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817371044

HDD: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136769

Memory: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231190

Mobo: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128502

Case: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811129066

Monitor: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824009256

Keyboard + mouse combo: http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboDealDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.730597

Optical drive: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827135204

Price (without rebates): $892.91
Price (with rebates): $842.91

If there's anything I'm missing, because I know I'm probably missing something, and/or if anything on that list is incompatible with anything else, please let me know, and if you'd be so kind, give me a link to the item(s) that is/are compatible / the item(s) I'm missing. Thanks.

Oh, and my budget is under $1000.

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Off Topic / "Shock" Series

« on: August 17, 2011, 11:53:04 PM »

I'm fully aware that I may be really late on this, but Phil "Terkoiz" Lacanlale created this amazingly-animated Flash series called "Shock."

You can see all three episodes on stickpage.com, or just click on the following links:

Shock 1
Shock 2
Shock 3

Apparently they're also making a game out of this series, which will be awesome.

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Off Topic / Taioo

« on: July 23, 2011, 03:33:14 AM »

Taioo

This person is a loving genius, and a beautiful pianist. He creates his own arrangements of popular songs from video games and movies, such as Minecraft, Portal 2, TF2, Harry Potter, Inception, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Final Fantasy, Fallout: New Vegas, Assassin's Creed, Spider-Man, The Witcher 2, Skyrim and many, many more. Go check out his channel, you will not regret it.

Here are just a few of his amazing works.

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Off Topic / Grammar test

« on: July 22, 2011, 02:54:43 AM »

So, Blockland Forums, how good is your grammar?

Take this test to find out!

There are 50 questions total. Questions 1-34 test your raw grammar skills, while questions 35-50 test your usage skills.

Post your scores in this thread.

Here's my score:



Good luck!

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Off Topic / So apparently soccer = socialism

« on: July 20, 2011, 01:17:47 AM »

click

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Drama / Rugged - have a wild guess

« on: July 19, 2011, 12:39:51 AM »

k.



(sorry about any possible pagestretching)


case in point:

this guy = this guy = this guy.

Loopy is a good friend of mine, but he can be a bit of an idiot sometimes when it comes to the Internet. He wanted me to make this drama so I did. He has said time and time again that he's learned his lesson after getting banned, but time and time again he's shown the very opposite.

I don't really know what else to say. I could post things that would humiliate him and make this topic all the more interesting, but we're still great friends, so I'll refrain from doing so.

A note to Badspot, if he reads this: I, for one, don't care either way if you ban him again, all I can say is that he has told me:

So, do what you will, but just be aware that he may not learn anything from a third permanent ban.

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Off Topic / How does the forum date system work with regard to quotes?

« on: July 07, 2011, 03:02:27 AM »

I've always wondered this, like when I want to quote someone but the topic in which the post resides is too old, and therefore I cannot quote them simply by clicking the Quote button.

So how does the whole "[quote author=someone topic=some topic date=some numbers]" thing work?