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Quick poll: Who owns Spore, who wanted their money back after having it DRM their ass, who was put off because of the DRM, and who didn't care in the first place?

At 9/14/08 02:28 PM, D2Kvirus wrote: Quick poll: Who owns Spore, who wanted their money back after having it DRM their ass, who was put off because of the DRM, and who didn't care in the first place?

I got it and I don't know whatcha talking 'bout.

I HAS TEH GALACTIC EMPIREZ MUAHAHAHAHA.

At 9/14/08 12:27 AM, Proteas wrote: As more and his blasted $1.42 a gallon for gas pointed out, not really an option for us country folk. Car pooling would be more economical, but I don't have any co-workers who live on my way to work. So, meh.

Actually More is in Canada, so he pays per litre, which would make his price per gallon $5.38

also, there is no bus around here for me. The school has a bus which travels around the town, but the distance it goes from the athletic building to the main campus is less than a mile and not worth parking there than the campus, because if I take the non highway route campus is closer than the extra parking lots.

And I don't think anyone lives in my town. It seems most students live on campus at my school

I really should go to one of the Canadian NG meets, but I can't drive and I'm underage. :(

Hey, Rav and Impy, wanna get together sometime? :D

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Tropic Thunder was even better in theaters. :)

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At 9/14/08 08:08 PM, reviewer-general wrote: I really should go to one of the Canadian NG meets, but I can't drive and I'm underage. :(

Hey, Rav and Impy, wanna get together sometime? :D

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Tropic Thunder was even better in theaters. :)

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You're back! (Hugs)

Yep. Too bad you don't live closer to the west coast. :(

At 9/14/08 08:10 PM, BrianEtrius wrote: You're back! (Hugs)

Aww, you noticed? :3

Yep. Too bad you don't live closer to the west coast. :(

Could hardly be further from it. =P

ANYONE WHO READS THIS AND CAN GET TO MICHIGAN: MY FATHER WILL BE GONE FOR TEN DAYS STARTING THE 18TH. BRING YOUR OWN BOOZE.

PARTAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYY.

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At 9/14/08 01:08 PM, BrianEtrius wrote: Okay, fli, got them dates.

How about Saturday November 10? That's before Thanksgiving Weekend, so people should be here. You want it to be a huge or small meet up?

Do you mean the 15th?
Because the 10th is a Monday... which is fine because I don't have a lot of stuff on Mondays. Tuesdays and Thursdays are my busiest for these next 3 months... everything else is usually very pleasently slow and somber.

I'll look into the metro and see what events they have on that day, if any. If not, we could just do a pleasent talk at a cafe... I won't be bringing a car, so we'll do public transit. Which is okay, because parking in SF usually sucks anyways.

At 9/14/08 10:00 PM, fli wrote:

At 9/14/08 01:08 PM, BrianEtrius wrote: Okay, fli, got them dates.

Do you mean the 15th?
Because the 10th is a Monday... which is fine because I don't have a lot of stuff on Mondays. Tuesdays and Thursdays are my busiest for these next 3 months... everything else is usually very pleasently slow and somber.

I'll look into the metro and see what events they have on that day, if any. If not, we could just do a pleasent talk at a cafe... I won't be bringing a car, so we'll do public transit. Which is okay, because parking in SF usually sucks anyways.

Yeah, smaller the better.

Let's see........how about the 13th? It's a Saturday. I don't know your schedule, but I got things during the week. Weekends work better.

Who wants to be the first one to open the betting pot on: Who were never going to see again after this weekend in California?

You can get more details if you want, will Fli become Buffalo Bill, will Brian E become a lamp. Who knows.

At 9/14/08 08:08 PM, reviewer-general wrote: I really should go to one of the Canadian NG meets, but I can't drive and I'm underage. :(

Hey, Rav and Impy, wanna get together sometime? :D

Blah... I'd be down for a vacation if I had time... but as it is I can barely find the time to scratch my ass (and I'm not even em-fucking-ployed right now). <rant>Fuck Michigan's job market... fuck it right in the ear </rant>.

Holy fucking shit.

So I write for my university's comedy paper, and I end up writing a three-page exposé on the only serious story that we've ever done.

I need to get to bed, but the gist of it is that the student government left a shitload of people's (i.e. more than one hundred) employment forms (with names, signatures, addresses, birthdates, social insurance numbers, and voided cheques) in a big ol' box in a hallway with "PAYROLL" written on the side in big letters. Some anonymous tipster sent us a package of them (presumably because the "real" university paper is a service run by the student government, while we are not) with a note on where to find the boxes. There were also five other boxes with tons of information that people shouldn't be able to get at.

Pretty much the worst mismanagement of sensitive information I've ever seen.

To their credit, someone from their office did move the boxes after we told them about it, but that doesn't make up for it at all.

At 9/14/08 11:45 PM, MortifiedPenguins wrote: You can get more details if you want, will Fli become Buffalo Bill, will Brian E become a lamp. Who knows.

Meh--
I'm not the artsey-craftey sort of guy... absolutely no vision, no creativity. I mean, I don't even know how to do my own hair, let alone gurl-friend's hair.

Everything I see around early November seems to be not-free... which sucks.
Well, of course...it's gonna be raining by that time! And super cold...

I did see a few runs of a new musical called Spring Awakening that seems pretty good. But... tickets are expensive. I think I can score some free ones, and we could go to that. The theater/art/cultural scenes is amazing at SF.

All the free concerts and stuff are during the warm months...
I think Santa Cruz has a few late night concerts at the beach... but-- I'm not taking a car. But... who knows.

As I said. Cafe talk is a good stand-by...

This is the kind of stuff that MAKES my day.

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wtf, that was the most racist and sexist post i've ever seen u motherfucker.

My bass player is acting like a jealous boyfriend, probably because his girlfriend isn't giving him any because he doesn't understand that noone wants to put up with his childish possessive attitude.

I'M YOUR DRUMMER, NOT YOUR FUCKING GIRLFRIEND. I'LL DO WHAT I WANT, WHEN I WANT, AND IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT FIND ANOTHER FUCKING DRUMMER

Harumph.

Being irreplacabley talented has it's downsides. Last night I had to slam my vocalist against the hood of my car and choke him until he tapped out, because he... was drunk? I don't fucking know. I dented the shit out of my fender with his ass, though. I think he was trying to prove if me and Steve got into a fight, he could kick both our asses. Maybe he could kick STEVE'S ass, but I got hit by a CAR once and wasn't too bothered, so I'm not really scared of what some skin head punk with a head pierced by more wire than an industrial power supply can do.

But... but... my defense against the guillotine choke was fundamentally sound in form! I totally did a popcorn seed escape by turning my throat into the breathing crevice in his elbow, picked him up off the ground, slammed him on my hood, used that shock to get my head free, reversed into a hammerlock, asked politely for the tap, didn't get it, then took advantage of having his back to slap on a belly-to back guillotine. I even got the back arch elevation, so his feet weren't even on the ground for all this. He said he tried to call me gay... but couldn't, because I was pinching his windpipe shut and shaking his skinny punk ass around like a rag doll. When that sank in, he FINALLY gave me the tap.

Submission is the only real way to win a fight. Unless you can knock a guy out in one punch, punching in a real fight is just stupid, because it doesn't incapacitate and they'll just punch you back. There's no fighting back from a choke hold or armbar though. You have to ADMIT you lost to keep from getting choked out or getting your arm snapped, something that you don't have to do with a black eye and bloody nose.
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On a lighter note, I headlined a pretty sweet gig friday night with Inches from Falling, ie, not the band Steve is in with me. Torn Apart showed up and razzed me for playing in a pop band, but in my defense at least I had the dignity not to show my face and wear a mask. Plus all their girlfriends thought we were the shit.

So Inches from Falling is a band for girls. So what? I like girls. I'm tired of hanging out with sweaty dudes at metal shows. Just because I CAN play like Lamb of God and Slipknot doesn't mean that kind of music is going to take me anywhere. I'm a pro, and I'll play whatever music draws the biggest crowd. If that makes me a sell-out, then yeah, I'm a fucking sell-out, and you know what? Anybody who's as good as me is a sell-out too. So I compromised my musical integrity to make a crowd of attractive women happy. Isn't the phrase "musical integrity" and oxymoron anyways? There's nothing fucking noble about thrash metal, damnit.

this rant has been brought to you by the FUNKbrs Corporation.
FUNKbrs: "Integrity. What's that?"

Funk, maybe you guys could just take fucking Acid or valium and be happy or calm or not fucking crazy.

And for your bassist, just replace him. He's a bassist, there always replaceable, nobody ever remembers who the bassists of bands are.

At 9/15/08 10:14 AM, FUNKbrs wrote: But... but... my defense against the guillotine choke was fundamentally sound in form! I totally did a popcorn seed escape by turning my throat into the breathing crevice in his elbow, picked him up off the ground, slammed him on my hood, used that shock to get my head free, reversed into a hammerlock, asked politely for the tap, didn't get it, then took advantage of having his back to slap on a belly-to back guillotine. I even got the back arch elevation, so his feet weren't even on the ground for all this. He said he tried to call me gay... but couldn't, because I was pinching his windpipe shut and shaking his skinny punk ass around like a rag doll. When that sank in, he FINALLY gave me the tap.

Uh... for those of us who DON'T get into fights on a regular basis, you're going to have to explain some of these moves for us.

Inches from Falling

Do they have a myspace? I looked, and found Inches in Falling, is this the same band?

So I compromised my musical integrity to make a crowd of attractive women happy. Isn't the phrase "musical integrity" and oxymoron anyways? There's nothing fucking noble about thrash metal, damnit.

That's the thing I don't think a lot of musicians take into account when they start a band; which do you value more, your artistic integrity, or your ability to pay your bills? Not every band that sounds like Slipknot and Lamb of God makes it big, and while I'm sure it's fun to play music in that style, I don't see killing yourself to sound like someone who's already made it big.

At 9/15/08 11:39 AM, MortifiedPenguins wrote: And for your bassist, just replace him. He's a bassist, there always replaceable, nobody ever remembers who the bassists of bands are.

This is the way it goes; guitarists are a dime a dozen, (good) bass players are hard to find, and drummers are even harder to find. Because what instrument does everyone want to play? Guitar. Everyone wants to be a guitar hero after they first hear Smoke on the Water or Stairway to Heaven, therefore, more guitar players than anything.

At 9/15/08 12:55 PM, Proteas wrote: Uh... for those of us who DON'T get into fights on a regular basis, you're going to have to explain some of these moves for us.

So I'm in a traditional side choke/head lock, bent over while my opponent is standing straight up with my body towards his back and my head through the crook of his arm, getting my head squeezed almost schoolyard style. Because I'm crouched and he's standing and both my arms are free, it's really easy to hook under his legs and pick him up off the ground just as long as I can breathe. This choke hold has a weakness in that the inside of the arm isn't throat shaped, so all I have to do to breathe is turn my head to where my throat has more room.

It's a standard choke defense, because once you pick your opponent up, you can slam them which if you do it hard enough will knock them loose. Once I was loose, it was easy for me to push on his elbow and shoulder to give my head room, so my head squirted out of his arm like a greasy popcorn seed when you squeeze it between your fingers (if you've never done it, pinch a buttery popcorn seed as hard as you can. It shoots across the room like a bullet). Ie, that's why it's the "popcorn seed" defence.

Now I'm behind him, and I have him pinned to my car, almost like I'm a cop arresting him. I grab his left arm and use the "cop lock" or hammer lock, where you basically twist your opponent's arm up behind his back like you're putting hand cuffs on him. That hand is the only one that could possibly stop me from reaching around his throat with my left and choking the daylights out of him, so the hammerlock is very important in my setup for the guillotine choke. The guillotine choke, btw, is when you pull one arm around their throat and use the other arm to anchor their head in place. Chuck Norris used it alot; it's also a text book millitary manuever.

Do they have a myspace? I looked, and found Inches in Falling, is this the same band?

http://www.myspace.com/inchesfromfalling

I'm not on the recorded tracks; that's their old drummer. Technically I'm just doing session work with them. The new drums to the songs are worthy of FUNK, though.

That's the thing I don't think a lot of musicians take into account when they start a band; which do you value more, your artistic integrity, or your ability to pay your bills? Not every band that sounds like Slipknot and Lamb of God makes it big, and while I'm sure it's fun to play music in that style, I don't see killing yourself to sound like someone who's already made it big.

Amen, brother. The new music is SUPER easy to play, but people really like it, unlike a lot of other music that's a lot more challenging. There comes a certain point where the music gets too complicated and your standard music fan just can't understand it anymore. This is why guys like Steve Vai aren't #1 on the billboard charts, even though he leaves more talent in the toilet every morning than most musicians have in their entire body.

This is the way it goes; guitarists are a dime a dozen, (good) bass players are hard to find, and drummers are even harder to find. Because what instrument does everyone want to play? Guitar. Everyone wants to be a guitar hero after they first hear Smoke on the Water or Stairway to Heaven, therefore, more guitar players than anything.

Fundamentally true. However, any guitar player can be forced to play bass as long as the bass lines are SUPER simple, which bass lines normally are, because 1, you don't have to chord a bass, and 2 you're mainly just hitting the root note in time with the bass drum. Once you get so good at the bass, though, most bassists try to become guitarists WHICH IS THE DUMBEST SHIT EVER. Steve's trying to play guitar for us, and it's a fucking joke, because in the world of bass players he's much in demand, but in the world of guitar player's he's third rate.

Steve's really fucked up over it, because he's never had a decent guitar player so he just normally made the guitar player follow HIM with power chords. It was functional, but not pretty or impressive. When we got my old guitar player Al back (I have a lot of old recorded tracks with him that are pretty good, btw) Steve was fucked, because he'd never learned to follow a guitar player. He was just trying to play exactly the same thing on the bass as the guitar player, which he wasn't physically capable of doing.

As a really good drummer, I'm in CRAZY demand, AND I KNOW THIS. You can't have a band at all without a really good drummer, because drums are super hard to play, especially now that the common musical fan base is used to listening to super complicated layers techno rhythms. Drummers can't cheese like they used to in the 80's and 90's anymore, so drummers HAVE to play super complicated all the time even for stupid audiences.

So Steve went from being the most important guy in the band (lead singers are superfluous in any fast or gritty music project; you can normally barely hear or understand them) to being dead last on the totem pole, with me being at the top, Al being second, Lucky third, and steve bringing up the rear. I'm certain it's a big ego shock for the guy, but whatever.

With Inches from Falling, I learned eight songs in two weeks. I'm that kind of good, mainly because I already was proficient at most of the types of beats and riffs they wanted and had been for years. Why should I put up with Steve's bullshit when I'm already in another much more successful band, and furthermore, could pretty much join ANY band I want to, because not only am I good, I've also got a great work ethic, am easy to get along with, and own a ton of equipment like mics, cables, a really nice mixer, a direct in CD recorder, a vintage bass stack, and a multipurpose keyboard stack with three simultaneous inputs including a mic jack. I'm any shitty garage band's dream, while Steve is most bands nightmare.

So basically, my options are:

1: Drop Strangled Blue. Fuckit. I'm already in a good gigging band, and I don't need the drama.
2: Keep Al and Lucky and replace Steve in my side project.
3: Placate Steve by dropping out of Inches from Falling (this idea is RETARDED)
4: Go on hiatus and attempt to start my own project from scratch (also probably retarded)
5: Retire.

i haven't had band practice in so long :(.

I'm just starting to notice the grain on movies from the 90's when they're on tv. Is it possible this effect is being imposed on them to get people to switch to hi def? I remember watching some of these at the time and just thinking the people looked like peopl;e, naturally. Only now is this happening. I suppose it would be easy enough to not broadcast them in as high resolution as possible without too many people noticing anything other than the movie being a few years old.
Now that the conspiricy chatter is over, back to the fights. I don't get into fights but like most guys I'd kind of like to just to see if I could handle myself. It's part of all of us, don't deny it. In our rational selves we know about things like the possiblity of getting murdered or jail but we all have an inner ass kicker just waiting for witnesses who can say we were defending ourselves.

I never been in a fight, but I'm taking tae kwon do in collage, so if I ever do get involved in a fight I will be able to handle it.

At 9/15/08 06:14 PM, LordJaric wrote: I never been in a fight, but I'm taking tae kwon do in collage, so if I ever do get involved in a fight I will be able to handle it.

I'm not saying this to insult you because I'm in the same boat. It's impossible to predict how you'll react to an actual fight if you haven't been in one. No matter how much training or how physically capable you might be someone actually out to hurt you can be a huge mind fuck.

At 9/15/08 06:21 PM, stafffighter wrote: I'm not saying this to insult you because I'm in the same boat. It's impossible to predict how you'll react to an actual fight if you haven't been in one. No matter how much training or how physically capable you might be someone actually out to hurt you can be a huge mind fuck.

Agreed

Fuck paying some asian to teach me how to dance like a fruit, I go out every night and pick fights with any guy who looks larger than me I see on the street.

My training regiment is so that I pick a bigger guy each night.

At 9/15/08 06:27 PM, Malachy wrote: My training regiment is so that I pick a bigger guy each night.

The bigger they are the hard they fall, eh.

At 9/15/08 06:30 PM, LordJaric wrote:

At 9/15/08 06:27 PM, Malachy wrote: My training regiment is so that I pick a bigger guy each night.

The bigger they are the hard they fall, eh.

it was a bick awkward when I met up with a midget who tried picking a fight with me, apparently he had been at the same technique for 2 years (hiiii oooo)

I'd rather have a French guy teach me savate(French kickboxing style) except I'm very aware that I don't have a kickboxing body type.

i collage some kind of inside joke i am unaware of?

At 9/15/08 06:38 PM, stafffighter wrote: I'd rather have a French guy teach me savate(French kickboxing style) except I'm very aware that I don't have a kickboxing body type.

just because you insist on being in a wheel chair just so you can over emphasize your upper body, while only working out your upper body... doesn't mean you can't kick box.

So, how easy is it to walk on your hands instead of your feet?

At 9/14/08 11:45 PM, MortifiedPenguins wrote:

You can get more details if you want, will Fli become Buffalo Bill, will Brian E become a lamp. Who knows.

Not cool. Not cool at all. :(

At 9/15/08 06:53 PM, Malachy wrote:

At 9/15/08 06:38 PM, stafffighter wrote: I'd rather have a French guy teach me savate(French kickboxing style) except I'm very aware that I don't have a kickboxing body type.

just because you insist on being in a wheel chair just so you can over emphasize your upper body, while only working out your upper body... doesn't mean you can't kick box.

You're an athletic instructor so you know there are builds better for some things than others. I don't have the long limbs and flexability that kind of style nessesitates. Could I gain flexablity? concievably, but my legs aren't getting any longer.

So, how easy is it to walk on your hands instead of your feet?

Once you learn to fight the instinct to gain momentum, only kinda.