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by masteen
June 20, 2012, 11:12 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Off to Sweden in August!
Replies: 21
Views: 7636

Re: Off to Sweden in August!

So what are the odds that this Nordic succubus keeps you in thrall for the rest of your natural life?

I'm betting you never return, but die a very happy, if chilly, man.
by masteen
June 20, 2012, 11:10 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: North Carolina in attempt at legislating reality away
Replies: 3
Views: 1206

Re: North Carolina in attempt at legislating reality away

This sort of Luddite crap is celebrated. And people wonder why I've abandoned the GOP.
by masteen
June 13, 2012, 2:11 pm
Forum: Movies/DVD/TV
Topic: Band of Brothers
Replies: 27
Views: 5540

Re: Band of Brothers

This series is pretty much the gold standard for cable. The Pacific was good, but I felt that BoB was so fantastic in every aspect. I ended up buying the bluray version even though I already had the metal-box DVD version. Ron Livingston and Neil McDonough(sp) were so damn great in every episode, no...
by masteen
June 13, 2012, 2:08 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: Ivy Bridge Upgrade Thread
Replies: 66
Views: 28935

Re: Ivy Bridge Upgrade Thread

I recently added another Crucial SSD, this time a 128GB C4. I moved my steam games and swtor folder, and I'm not sure if it's the extra space on the OS drive or if the C4 is just that much faster, but my game load times do seem smaller. Thinking about adding THIS to bulk up my storage space for less...
by masteen
June 13, 2012, 12:27 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Holy Fucking Shit! Almost 10 Years For VV!
Replies: 33
Views: 8447

Re: Holy Fucking Shit! Almost 10 Years For VV!

Fucking griffins.
by masteen
June 12, 2012, 12:45 pm
Forum: Video Game General Discussion
Topic: Star Wars The Old Republic Coordination Station
Replies: 138
Views: 23618

Re: Star Wars The Old Republic Coordination Station

So server xfers have gone live, but are very limited right now. Given that two of the early destination servers are The Fatman and Jedi Council, it appears that they are going to try to consolidate into relatively few, very high population servers. Which is exactly what the game needs, but they need...
by masteen
June 11, 2012, 12:20 pm
Forum: Sports
Topic: Euro 2012
Replies: 19
Views: 8296

Re: Euro 2012

Watched a little of this (because Czech strippers like it), and man, the fucking Portugese take diving to a whole other level.
by masteen
June 6, 2012, 3:29 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Transit of Venus
Replies: 3
Views: 1254

Re: Transit of Venus

We've spent less on the entire life of NASA than we did on the bank bailouts. Those are some seriously fucked priorities.
by masteen
June 5, 2012, 11:15 pm
Forum: Video Game General Discussion
Topic: Star Wars The Old Republic Coordination Station
Replies: 138
Views: 23618

Re: Star Wars The Old Republic Coordination Station

At least you know ArenaNet is motivated to put out quality expansions because they need the box sales.
by masteen
June 5, 2012, 11:12 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Transit of Venus
Replies: 3
Views: 1254

Transit of Venus

NASA is putting a new pic of this taken from the SDO every 15 minutes.

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/

Also a related site that's putting together little movies as it happens.

http://venustransit.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Not bad for less than a half a penny from every tax buck.
by masteen
June 3, 2012, 7:34 pm
Forum: Video Game General Discussion
Topic: E3 2012 Chatter
Replies: 25
Views: 4957

Re: E3 2012 Chatter

I'm wondering if Nintendo is accepting their niche status. 720p might be fine if your target audience is the TV most kids have in their bedroom. My admittedly small sample population of my friends' kids have mostly ~22" TVs.
by masteen
June 1, 2012, 6:58 pm
Forum: Movies/DVD/TV
Topic: Game of Thrones - Season 2
Replies: 60
Views: 12011

Re: Game of Thrones - Season 2

What do we say to the cup full of cinnamon?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdqLY9357DQ


Not today.
by masteen
May 31, 2012, 2:40 pm
Forum: Movies/DVD/TV
Topic: Game of Thrones - Season 2
Replies: 60
Views: 12011

Re: Game of Thrones - Season 2

Hopefully Crows and the first half of Dragons is one fucking episode.
by masteen
May 31, 2012, 2:34 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: WTF GAYNGER! GRATS Kids
Replies: 3
Views: 1791

Re: WTF GAYNGER! GRATS Kids

Somewhere Azian is crying salty rangertears.
by masteen
May 30, 2012, 6:37 pm
Forum: Video Game General Discussion
Topic: Spate - my new game
Replies: 10
Views: 2300

Re: Spate - my new game

Sparty got a job. I'm so proud of him.

Yeah, let's rob that nigga.
by masteen
May 25, 2012, 7:25 pm
Forum: Video Game General Discussion
Topic: Star Wars The Old Republic Coordination Station
Replies: 138
Views: 23618

Re: Star Wars The Old Republic Coordination Station

If they're running virtual servers on a UCS cluster setup, the only labor required is one or two hundred mouse clicks. Naw, the bottleneck here is probably related to saving face. How does letting the game implode save face? Maybe we should have one of the guys at Square give them a call and tell t...
by masteen
May 25, 2012, 10:47 am
Forum: Video Game General Discussion
Topic: Star Wars The Old Republic Coordination Station
Replies: 138
Views: 23618

Re: Star Wars The Old Republic Coordination Station

214 servers to WoW's 222 and WoW has 10x more people. Consolidate those severs EA! For fucking real. This should have happened months ago. Life on Canderous Ordo and the Fatman is fucking orders of magnitude better than the ghost servers. Fleet on both sides is over 100 during prime time pretty muc...
by masteen
May 25, 2012, 10:36 am
Forum: Video Game General Discussion
Topic: Kingdoms of Amalur - Reckoning
Replies: 16
Views: 3935

Re: Kingdoms of Amalur - Reckoning

It's a fun, polished hack and slash RPG. It is not a game onto which you pin the future of an entire company. Feel bad for the drones who've been working for free for a month. The more I read about the deal RI cut, the more I wonder how such utter dumbfucks get into positions of power in government.
by masteen
May 24, 2012, 8:37 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: To the Moon
Replies: 63
Views: 17885

Re: To the Moon

Because paying for the F-35 Shitbird is more important to all the fine gentlemen who regularly bribe our elected leaders?
by masteen
May 18, 2012, 10:40 pm
Forum: Consoles
Topic: Borderlands
Replies: 195
Views: 40309

Re: Borderlands

I played this when I crashed at my friends house a couple months ago after a cert exam, had never heard of it before. Had a fucking blast. I was also drunk as fuck, but I'm buying 2 on the assumption that it's at least a little fun sober.
by masteen
May 18, 2012, 2:59 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Boxing Lessons w/ Eric Kelly
Replies: 4
Views: 1445

Re: Boxing Lessons w/ Eric Kelly

Wouldn't it be awesome if we had a thread in which to put awesome Youtube videos?
by masteen
May 18, 2012, 2:57 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Obama...the arrogant douchebag of the century
Replies: 21
Views: 3421

Re: Obama...the arrogant douchebag of the century

Sadly, the generation that gave us FDR's famous first inaugural speech also gave us the most fearful bunch of pussies ever: the boomers. Sometimes I want to vote for Romney just so they can truly taste the fruits of unmitigated corporatism and experience the end-game of supply-side economic policy.
by masteen
May 18, 2012, 1:52 pm
Forum: Video Game General Discussion
Topic: Diablo 3!!
Replies: 288
Views: 79215

Re: Diablo 3!!

I was watching a friend dork around on this last night, and I asked him what the biggest improvement in D3 was, and he thought for a minute and his answer was "Well, you can zoom in on your character." And then he got disconnected and lost like 40 minutes of progression. It seems like most...
by masteen
May 15, 2012, 7:07 pm
Forum: Video Game General Discussion
Topic: Diablo 3!!
Replies: 288
Views: 79215

Re: Diablo 3!!

kyoukan wrote:I dunno what people were expecting. It took about 12 hours to beat Diablo 2 on normal. Normal is a stepping stone. The game isn't even interesting until Hell I bet.
I was expecting that, but if the bosses don't evolve with the difficulty, will that really be the case?
by masteen
May 15, 2012, 12:15 pm
Forum: Video Game General Discussion
Topic: Diablo 3!!
Replies: 288
Views: 79215

Re: Diablo 3!!

Beta took me under an hour, because the dialog bored me. Which is strange, because I love it in swtor.
by masteen
May 15, 2012, 11:28 am
Forum: Video Game General Discussion
Topic: Diablo 3!!
Replies: 288
Views: 79215

Re: Diablo 3!!

So the single player game is ~6 hours long? And apparently some Koreans are already on Nightmare Act 3.

Rumor is that the bosses don't gain any new abilities as the difficulty rises. Which begs the question, why would anyone fucking bother playing the exact same game again?
by masteen
May 10, 2012, 7:17 pm
Forum: Movies/DVD/TV
Topic: The Avengers
Replies: 125
Views: 66831

Re: The Avengers

Antman and Wasp were lame. Scarlet Witch would have been awesome, but the next Avenger is Spiderman.
by masteen
May 10, 2012, 7:06 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: To the Moon
Replies: 63
Views: 17885

Re: To the Moon

No, the earf is speachal.
by masteen
May 10, 2012, 10:09 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: President Obama Enters the 21st Century
Replies: 21
Views: 2912

Re: President Obama Enters the 21st Century

I don't even know why this is anything more than even a tertiary issue. What is wrong with your country? Your whole way of life is burning to the ground and you natter about whether or not you should allow people basic liberties. It's because the political party most responsible for destroying that...
by masteen
May 9, 2012, 11:39 pm
Forum: Video Game General Discussion
Topic: Star Wars The Old Republic Coordination Station
Replies: 138
Views: 23618

Re: Star Wars The Old Republic Coordination Station

Merging servers might help in the short term bleeding, because the big servers seem pretty healthy. Sometimes I get roped into groups as an agent healer just bouncing back to fleet to dump a load in the AH. And fresh quality content can fix anything, we haven't haven't seen it from the devs yet. Too...
by masteen
May 9, 2012, 11:23 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: President Obama Enters the 21st Century
Replies: 21
Views: 2912

Re: President Obama Enters the 21st Century

Spurred unfortunately by the bible beaters in North Kackalakee passing an amendment to their state constitution banning it.
by masteen
May 9, 2012, 11:20 pm
Forum: Movies/DVD/TV
Topic: Game of Thrones - Season 2
Replies: 60
Views: 12011

Re: Game of Thrones - Season 2

Most surprising way the series differs from the books, and I assure you no spoilers, is that I like Tywin Lannister. He's definitely a merciless bastard, but doesn't come off as pettily cruel as in the books. Charles Dance is doing good work in this series, behind only the Imp, and his scenes with M...
by masteen
May 7, 2012, 5:29 pm
Forum: Movies/DVD/TV
Topic: Game of Thrones - Season 2
Replies: 60
Views: 12011

Re: Game of Thrones - Season 2

So I channeled my inner Winnow and stoled season 1 last week. Despite my vow not to send another dime to that fat fuck, I had to buy a direwolf shirt from the HBO store. Assuming His Fatness is able to finish the books and HBO doesn't lose their collective mind and cancel this, it's an easy day 1 bl...
by masteen
May 7, 2012, 5:23 pm
Forum: Movies/DVD/TV
Topic: The Avengers
Replies: 125
Views: 66831

Re: The Avengers

Time for a Buffy/Angel/Firefly/Dollhouse crossover movie! :lol:
by masteen
May 4, 2012, 5:26 pm
Forum: Sports
Topic: NFL News 2012
Replies: 62
Views: 26211

Re: NFL News 2012

Pretty happy with the Stillers and Tampa Bay... Miami not so much.

Talking about a guy who threw tons of picks and couldn't take his team above .500 in the worst Big 12 I've ever seen as having "teh intangibles" really blew my mind. Intangibles win you more than 6 games in college.
by masteen
May 2, 2012, 1:30 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Holy Fucking Shit! Almost 10 Years For VV!
Replies: 33
Views: 8447

Re: Holy Fucking Shit! Almost 10 Years For VV!

Wasn't the camera angle or trail location wonky as well? I think they fixed that at some point in Velious, along with UI improvements, because I remember using 3rd person a lot more then.
by masteen
May 2, 2012, 1:28 pm
Forum: Video Game General Discussion
Topic: Spate - my new game
Replies: 10
Views: 2300

Re: Spate - my new game

Better be a baseball to find in this motherfucker.
by masteen
May 2, 2012, 1:20 pm
Forum: Movies/DVD/TV
Topic: Atlas Shrugged
Replies: 25
Views: 5538

Re: Atlas Shrugged

There are only 2 possible ways to deal with the massive population of stupid people:
Bring slavery back
or
Educate ALL the childrens, even the brown ones.

This book takes neither path, and thus is self-indulgent trash that becomes LESS relevant as time goes on.
by masteen
April 19, 2012, 2:50 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: 80+ Shot dead in Norway and no post?
Replies: 147
Views: 27265

Re: 80+ Shot dead in Norway and no post?

I love how pro death penalty retards still support it even when the convicted are begging for it as a means of suicide. IT'S NOT A DETERRENT; IT'S NOT EFFECTIVE PUNISHMENT; IT COSTS MORE TO EXECUTE SOMEONE THAN IT DOES TO IMPRISON THEM FOR LIFE. Whackos like this guy want to die to fulfill their ma...
by masteen
April 18, 2012, 10:03 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: 80+ Shot dead in Norway and no post?
Replies: 147
Views: 27265

Re: 80+ Shot dead in Norway and no post?

Nothing about million dollar niggers, so probably not.
by masteen
April 12, 2012, 6:30 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: We need more kids like this
Replies: 9
Views: 2203

Re: We need more kids like this

All we need is a little plutonium...
by masteen
April 11, 2012, 12:19 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: 80+ Shot dead in Norway and no post?
Replies: 147
Views: 27265

Re: 80+ Shot dead in Norway and no post?

So where does revenge stop? How about the killer's mom? Does she get her revenge against the guy who pulled the switch or the governor who signs the death warrant? And then their families?

Ask the Sicilians how well vendetta is working out for them.
by masteen
April 11, 2012, 12:11 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Batshit Insane 2012
Replies: 257
Views: 45959

Re: Batshit Insane 2012

How is a man supposed to lead unless he's being guided by the invisible voice of the magical sky king?
by masteen
April 5, 2012, 10:19 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Holy cow the forum thingy says I havent logged in since 08
Replies: 18
Views: 3641

Re: Holy cow the forum thingy says I havent logged in since 08

Untouchable? You're not aware we've started assassinating America citizens?
by masteen
April 5, 2012, 10:15 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Strip Searches
Replies: 1
Views: 963

Re: Strip Searches

It's been so long since I've gotten any action, I'm thinking about getting arrested on purpose now!
by masteen
March 30, 2012, 7:29 pm
Forum: Video Game General Discussion
Topic: MMORPG: Secret World
Replies: 62
Views: 19696

Re: MMORPG: Secret World

Wow, didn't hear shit about beta for this. Did they not have one?
by masteen
March 30, 2012, 7:18 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Supreme Court rules Chicago Handgun Ban unconstitutional
Replies: 60
Views: 13465

Re: Supreme Court rules Chicago Handgun Ban unconstitutional

I worked weekends at the Gainesville Skeet and Trap Club for a while back when I was in college, and this one super hot girl used to shoot pretty much every Saturday. Was talking to her a little bit, and come to find out she was 13 and the niece of the owner. That next weekend I found myself consign...
by masteen
March 29, 2012, 11:01 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Facebook PW Privacy Motion Blocked by House Republicans
Replies: 4
Views: 1305

Re: Facebook PW Privacy Motion Blocked by House Republicans

Well, it's got nothing in it affirming that fact that Christians are beautiful and special or smashing the rights of women to be anything more than chattel, so why would Republicans support it?
by masteen
March 27, 2012, 5:07 pm
Forum: Sports
Topic: NFL News/Discussion 2011
Replies: 506
Views: 192157

Re: NFL News/Discussion 2011

For the third time, those stats are NOT for fantasy football. O-line does not exist in fantasy. And hey LOOK another article about fatbodies. Wonder where they rank Slowsky McTurnstile?
by masteen
March 26, 2012, 5:56 pm
Forum: Sports
Topic: NFL News/Discussion 2011
Replies: 506
Views: 192157

Re: NFL News/Discussion 2011

Saturday may be a little old, but what he lacked in explosiveness and brute strinth (heehee), he more than made up for in technique and situational awareness.