MrHoatzin

My favourite pastime when sitting before a new mac is to press the eject button and be fascinated by the way the cd tray decides to pop out. A $1300 parlor trick! Yay!

Yeah, yeah, yeah, eunuchs are people too even though they have no balls.

It sure would be revolutionary.

I've been watching my roommie play Metal Gear Solid 2 on the PS in the living room and I have to say that the controls are fucking atrocious -- so much so that they make a minor nuisance of his playing style: he tries to play a sneaker by shooting everything in his fucking line of sight and then wonders why the enemies do a radio check and send in a dozen reinforcements with Kevlar shields (to my ample annoyance and copious consternation). Looking around, aiming, shooting, walking, crouching, crawling -- all basic forms of being in this goddamn game are chores worthy of separate mentions -- except maybe hiding in a cardboard box, which is kinda cool. To mind also comes Metroid Prime which also had some fucked up all awkward-like controls. And just as a token Xbox mention, Halo sucks control-wise as well, though not as much as the other two. PC controls for a game like this could hardly be as convoluted. If there only was some more ergonomic left hand key pad as a stand in for the wasd, ~ through 0, tab, shift, alt, zxc, q, ert, fgh, space, esc through F12, [, ], Enter, et cetera, I don't think any controller eugenicists would complain. Right now I am sitting in a comfortable chair, with my keyboard in my lap, with the optical mouse on my right knee (I use the area of denim a little under my right pocket as a mousepad). Later I may play some NOLFSIHARMW and I would not lament the lack of desk as you don't need a desk for this setup. I might as well be in my living room. So, I don't buy the controller works without a desk school of console adulation (which may or may not have been brought up in this thread).

I'm going to strangle you one of these days.

That's the spirit!

Deadworm, why don't you decide if you really want to say something before you say it instead of deleting every other post?

Mellisak! Awesome!

I think we should have sex.

This wasn't funny at all. You need to fine-tune your obnoxiousness a tad, or I'll tune it for you. Who are you anyway, punk?! This place is big enough for only one expert joker. You allege that you're the joke master while I've been certified time and again as the King's Jester. Don't make me open one of these:

HAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHHHA!!!

Well, pardon me for not being around like 80 billion years ago, ya eunuch jelly thou!

The only way this movie could ever be taken out of the gutter is with Bruce Campbell playing The Marine.

That is phonetic spelling right there. Hillllarrious. The tongue needs to do a little dance in your mouth: with the first hil it does a little backflip against the palate, with the lar it tumbles down and rolls --- and with the final ious it takes a bow.

I find it hillarious, darling.

You're afraid to leech the little animated gif?Also it is Mongolian clusterfuck; without the Mongolian qualifier the whole clusterfuck is not as savory.

Only one line?

No it wouldn't.

Though Yufster is the epitome of foxiness, I too am freaked out by her universal appeal.

Irish folk music reminds me of lightsaber fights as I listened to that while playing Jedi Outcast. Southish of my house in Belgrade, in a small street that I seldom passed by (at times I had to take that way when going to catch a certain bus that went to my mother's work), almost an access lane for a bigger street, there is a no stopping sign. For years every, but every time I passed by that particular no stopping sign I would think of horses because when I was seven or eight, somebody was driving me that way and we were talking about horses as I carelessly looked through the window and espied that no stopping sign.

And Cremo himself is almost single-handedly to blame for them.

Now this is vaguely on topic: my father bouht a new, top of the line vacuum cleaner for 70 dollars a few weeks ago over ebay. Apparently it wasn't working. It wasn't working because a simple pipe in an important place was missing and whoever initially purchased it lacked the sense to realize that a simple five dollar trip to Sears would solve the problem. The missing piece simply slid into place without any tools at all. Under normal circumstances that kind of vacuum cleaner runs around 250 bucks or something. The moral of this story is that people are stupid in the US as well.

Calvin and Hobbes: the two most annoying and deplorable philosophers in the history of the modern Western World, as portrayed in a charming cartoon. Am I the only one bothered by this? Could a cartoon called Tammy Faye and Machiavelli or Franco and Mussolini be ever considered a quaint children's cartoon?

Many a time.