Owowwowowowowowow, my *thumb*. As usual after playing Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction, it is weary and verging on blister, fruits of making the Hulk perform massive leap after massive leap, while targeting, charge-throwing stuff, etc.
And it just got a particularly intense workout, in the form of the final boss battle. Yep, I beat the game...though not without failing repeatedly first. Still, each failure was closer...
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And it just got a particularly intense workout, in the form of the final boss battle. Yep, I beat the game...though not without failing repeatedly first. Still, each failure was closer...
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Man. Today I had, like, the Nightmare on Elm Street of dreams. I dreamed that I was dreaming that my teeth were falling to pieces and I was plucking out the pieces until most of my teeth were lying in bits on the floor. (something along these lines is, unfortunately, a quasi-common nightmare for me.) And then I noticed some weird greenish stuff in my...
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All right. It goes like this: back in...some class or other, in high school, we were made to read Mark Mathabane's memoir Kaffir Boy. As my mom was generous about these things, I was purchased a copy of said book. I kept it thereafter, like I do with most've the books school makes me read, because generally they've been pretty good. And it's been assigned...
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Another lovely Friday evening full of gaming. Particularly of note was a little John Kovalic illustrated game called Dungeonville. Play involved assembling a small party of adventurers, each having a class, a color, a rating, and skills in each of the five dungeons. The lower the rating relative to the other adventurers available for recruitment, the more expensive. Low rating wins party vs. party combat....
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I continue to be amazed by early Fantastic Four comics. Apparently, Reed Richards is a brilliant inventor who makes millions in patent sales..and still stupid enough to invest ALL of their money in the stock market. Badly, too, apparently, since it was all lost. So how do they make the money back? Why, hitchhiking to Hollywood (since they had to sell their HQ and toys),...
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Got to love computers. I received the PSU I was waiting on, swapped it in...and the computer still won't turn on. At least, it won't turn on all the way. What it does *now* is light up for a few seconds, make a weird grinding sort of noise that I do not like at all, and shut off. It won't repeat the process unless I...
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More Steamband play. Tried running a French Gentleman, wasn't doing *too* badly, but got gangbanged by a bunch of too-fast-breeding Daddy Longlegs that managed to surround me. Tried a couple of Old One Dashing Hussars. First one went all right. The constant exp drain is the single factor around which an Old One character revolves. I managed to gain one level by triggering a Giant...
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Heh. Old comics are fun. Reading the first "Essential Fantastic Four" collection, (which is to say, the first twenty issues and annual of the original Fantastic Four comic). Some interesting tendencies that modern comics tend not to exhibit, like the way they break every issue up into 5 or 6 minichapters. And the way every single issue so far has found it necessary to spend...
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I should have known better. Bragging about your Angband character, no matter the variant, invites swift death. (So does drinking unidentified potions.) In this case, I lost my last wound point, putting me inches away from death. So I drank a potion in the hopes that it was curative...and, no, it was an Emetic and caused me to puke my guts out and die of...
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I've been addicted to Roguelikes off and on, starting on my family's Macintosh Performa several years ago, with Moria. After a while I switched to Angband. Then more recently I discovered Angband variants like ZAngband and the like. I never really cottoned to ZAngband, though. I don't want a wilderness, or quests, or special levels. Not really. And while some of the new classes/races...
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I've been addicted to Roguelikes off and on, starting on my family's Macintosh Performa several years ago, with Moria. After a while I switched to Angband. Then more recently I discovered Angband variants like ZAngband and the like. I never really cottoned to ZAngband, though. I don't want a wilderness, or quests, or special levels. Not really. And while some of the new classes/races...
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Ordered a replacement power supply today. *PLEASE* let this fix the problem. I can't afford to spend 60 bucks on something that I can't use. Nor can I afford to spend much more money fixing the computer. I've got other things I need to be buying, like a bus ticket to see my family for Christmas, maybe some presents..paying the school their stupid 40 dollar...
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I find it terribly funny that a guy who's complaining in an immigration thread about how non-English speakers are fucking up US society is an ardent fan of Rammstein...who sing only in German.
I suppose he'd worry more if they moved to the US.
I suppose he'd worry more if they moved to the US.
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kevinski:
I agree about the tone of my first post on the issue. I realize that it started off well enough, but eventually turned into more of a rant. In either case, I'll check out OOMPH and see what I think. I listen to plenty of foreign music, ironically (mostly German/Russian), so I'm sure that I'll enjoy it.
kevinski:
I don't purchase CD's too much anymore, as I usually end up ripping the tracks to my hard drive, anyway. I find that http://www.allofmp3.com/ has a great selection of foreign music, and it typically only costs around $.15 per song if you choose to encode at 192kbps.
I preferred http://delit.net/ for a long time, but their "instant" credit card payment typically takes 2 or more days to affect your account's balance. However, I prefer this site for Russian music, as they actually make an effort to translate the Russian characters to their respective English characters, which makes it so much easier for me to find the one I'm looking for in my playlist.
Naturally, downloading Russian music from peer-to-peer services isn't much of an option, as it's typically very difficult to find many users with Russian music who actually stay connected for very long.
If you actually want the physical discs, however, you may want to try Coconuts Music (if you have those in your area), as they can typically order imports for you. That's how I managed to get one of Megaherz's albums, so I'd certainly give that a look.
I preferred http://delit.net/ for a long time, but their "instant" credit card payment typically takes 2 or more days to affect your account's balance. However, I prefer this site for Russian music, as they actually make an effort to translate the Russian characters to their respective English characters, which makes it so much easier for me to find the one I'm looking for in my playlist.
Naturally, downloading Russian music from peer-to-peer services isn't much of an option, as it's typically very difficult to find many users with Russian music who actually stay connected for very long.
If you actually want the physical discs, however, you may want to try Coconuts Music (if you have those in your area), as they can typically order imports for you. That's how I managed to get one of Megaherz's albums, so I'd certainly give that a look.