malkav11

So. Primus.

What the fuck?

So as I may have said, I'm looking for full-time employment right now. Which is unpleasant, to say the least. I've been poking around on Monster.com, but I seriously need to expand my searching because Monster is turning up fuck-all in the way of suitable no-experience-necessary jobs. ('cause I don't got experience. What I have is an associate's degree. Or will at the end of...
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Since the NDA has been lifted, I will now brag that I am in the Lord of the Rings Online closed beta. That's all, really. Well, okay, a little about the game. It's probably the prettiest MMO I've played. Lots of gorgeous high-system-req rendering. Game-wise...well, for one thing, I think basing it on Tolkien's work kinda holds it back. I'm not really getting a huge...
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It's tax return season which means in turn it's "upgrade malkav11's gaming setup" season. I was contemplating a 360, but the painful truth of the matter is that I spend far more time on my computers than on any of my four consoles. The 360 has some nice games, admittedly - I'm particularly interested by the prospect of Gears of War and Dead Rising -...
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Windows is all reinstalled. I was hoping I could recover some of the contents of the old hard drive as it hadn't died completely, just had some corrupt files that screwed my Windows install. But no, as per usual the filesystem had completely collapsed and all that was left were a few folders with gibberish names. So I reformatted it. It's still in but I...
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My main gaming PC had the main hard drive (with Windows on it) fail roughly a week ago. I got the replacement, a 400GB SATAII Seagate drive on Thursday but it was OEM and I discovered that I didn't have a second SATA cable, so it took until tonight to actually get installed. I am now reinstalling Windows, a joyous process which makes me want...
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So I finally managed to get ahold of my advisor, and she says that I have taken classes that should count for all four of the classes that the registrars listed as being left for me to take before graduation. I need to go down there tomorrow and talk to them and pass this along, and confirm everything's correct, but...

I think I just graduated....
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So I got paid yesterday, and today I spent something like 80% of the paycheck on Amazon in a last ditch use of my shortly-expiring free Prime membership. I bought:

Alan Moore's The Lost Girls (slightly less than $50!)
Devil May Cry 5th Anniversary Collection (Okay, so granted, I have the first one already, but it wasn't really much more than DMC3 Special Edition on...
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What a wonderful Christmas present Blizzard has given me.

Some background: I ceased playing World of Warcraft in September of 2005. Late this November, a friend of mine offered to pay to have my character transferred to the server they play on with several of their other friends. As lack of company was one of my main reasons for quitting, I decided to take them...
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So I'm taking a web development class (it's required), and the final project is to build a website of our own. As one might expect. There are specific sorts of things we have to include, I assume to demonstrate that we know how. For the most part this isn't a big deal, but honestly my site would not have included tables or multimedia if they...
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Something to try, if you own a PS2 and a memory card (and who doesn't?).

I'm sure you will have already noticed that every game's saves have their own icon or sometimes icons. Some of these are quite crazy and interesting, but that's not the thing to try. What I've noticed is that some of them...not all of them, far from it....but some have separate...
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What I'm currently playing:

Neverwinter Nights - I really don't know what it is with me and this game. I hate the engine, which is ugly, clunky, and full of extremely repetitive areas. I don't like having to use henchmen instead of fully controllable party members. I don't think they adapted the D&D 3.0 rules at all well, and not enough of the information is...
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