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At 11/14/04 06:55 PM, LadyGrace wrote: It's my birthday today. I'm 21. You are all getting spanked... wut?

I love your logic, I really do... "It's my birthday so I'm going to beat the snot out of you for a change!!"

Note to teh Funkay one;

I used the same microphone in all four of my audio submissions (a cheap Labtec mic). On the first two submissions, I had the microphone aimed at the soundhole of my guitar, or somewhere in that general vicinity. On the most recent two, I placed the microphone inside two doubled over tube socks and stuffed the whole mess inside the body of my acoustic guitar, ala Christopher Parkening.

Quite the sound difference, isn't it?

Thanks guys. *humps you all*

At 11/14/04 07:18 PM, Proteas wrote: Note to teh Funkay one;

I used the same microphone in all four of my audio submissions (a cheap Labtec mic). On the first two submissions, I had the microphone aimed at the soundhole of my guitar, or somewhere in that general vicinity.

I'm assuming you used your sound card to do this. Did you have to adapt from XLR to 1/8"? That would create an unbalanced line that could recieve a lot of RF interference from your computer monitor. Needless to say, a crappy soundcard or bad conversion software can cause the same results. Had you used a higher quality mic, this should have worked just fine, though.

CRT's are notoriously "loud" interference wise,

On the most recent two, I placed the microphone inside two doubled over tube socks and stuffed the whole mess inside the body of my acoustic guitar, ala Christopher Parkening.

Quite the sound difference, isn't it?

OMG! TEH 1337 M0Dz0r!!!!

Another trick is to make a paper cone around the mic to help focus the tone. Generally I only resort to socks when I'm dealing with a vocalist, but it's hard to compete with the kind of direct tone you can get with an internal mic. That foam they put on top of mattresses in hospitals and whatnot works pretty damn well too. I knew a bluegrass group that used a similar technique on their upright bass. A great trick for pulling harmonics out of an acoustic is to put the mike at the primary harmonic fret (exactly half way between bridge and nut, or on most guitars the second double dot)

That's about as well as I could do with the budget your under. Other than just playing louder to drown out the fuzz, there's not really much more you can do.

At 11/14/04 07:28 PM, LadyGrace wrote: Thanks guys. *humps you all*

Now that your good and drunk, is now a good time you ask you to bend over and spell "run"?

BTW, my reply is already: "Not yet, give me a second to pull it out"

So I told work I was sick and I really did throw up but I forgot to leave my parents the present so they would know. I called work on Friday and they called my house that night for some unfathomable reason. My father told them I was in New York. Now I'm fucking screwed and to top it all off I'm still sick so my emotions are out of wack and I'm crying like some emo kid. My stomach is in knots and I'm probably going to drink a ton of water and force myself to throw up in the morning even though it's not going to matter because my boss won't believe me after this whole debacle. I just want them to fire me and have done with it. But I really need the job.

Anyone have any advice? Keep in mind that my boss is already angry with me and goes out of his way to intimidate me.

All that and I don't know if I have to work tomorrow, nor will I be checking.

Wraith, thank's so much. It's due tomorrow and I hadn't checked since Friday so I've been wicked scared about it.

Well to make matters worse I don't know when I'm working next, my boss left a message on my answering machine, and this may have counted as three separate incidents which is supposed to result in termination (we have two new hires and the woman with the broken pelvis is back so it's possible now). The stupid thing is that Friday I was supposed to have my six month review. If they don't terminate me I'm declining a pay raise.

At 11/14/04 09:06 PM, FatherVenom wrote: If they don't terminate me I'm declining a pay raise.

That's fucking retarded.

At 11/14/04 09:30 PM, TheShrike wrote:

At 11/14/04 09:06 PM, FatherVenom wrote: If they don't terminate me I'm declining a pay raise.

That's fucking retarded.

Thanks for making a bad feeling worse and offering nothing useful. Jerk =P

Current idea if I can get my stomach to cooperate and not throw up all over my boss. I'm just going to go up to him and say punish me but don't give me a speech. I know what happened and even if you don't believe me and punish me for it just get it over with.

(He's far too intimidating for this so I'm wicked screwed.)

Why would you turn down a raise?

To try to make ammends. It's not like I deserve it.

Actually I might deserve it, but my boss is the one who makes the decision and he isn't impressed with me. Couple of weeks ago he blamed me for a co-worker's ineptness. Threatened to have a warning put on my record until I complained right back at him. That's the only time I've ever been able to stand up to him.

He only sees me working at the deceptively slow pace that actually conserves energy so that when others would start slacking off I'm still going of course he doesn't see it that way. I don't know what's wrong. Everyone else in the department vouches for me.

At 11/14/04 09:06 PM, FatherVenom wrote: Well to make matters worse I don't know when I'm working next, my boss left a message on my answering machine, and this may have counted as three separate incidents which is supposed to result in termination (we have two new hires and the woman with the broken pelvis is back so it's possible now).

So um... break her pelvis?

But seriously Venom, start considering a new job. I'm suggesting this because your best bet is to just be straight-foward with your boss and let him know what happened. If he terminates you because of it, at least you're already on the look for another job, right? And I mean c'mon dude, you're a smart, young, energetic (probably at your age) individual; you couldn't have a problem finding another job aye? If worse comes to worse you can start workin' the corners >.> show em' some leg, you know? I'm just kidding about that last bit of course -.-

At 11/14/04 11:24 AM, FatherVenom wrote: From what I understand Piconjo is a good artist who's had some good flash blammed because he doesn't have fan boys so he resents the artists that do. So he started making flash thinking that he'd be giving them the finger but he gained some fan boys (as evidenced by his recent daily fourth place pos) for flash that doesn't deserve it.

-.- sounds like he's got issues. No wait... he does have issues. But yeah, recently his flash has been some serious POS (not "point of sale") I vote to blam him every chance I get... mainly because every movie I see is a candidate for Turd of the Week.

I don't mind him reacting to feeling bad as much as I'm pissed that he's taking it out on the NG community. Stupid noobs see his flash and think, "Wow I can be a shitty artist and still get stuff to pass if I'm lucky." So they never put the effort into improving.

-.- tsk tsk, when will they ever learn? That's exactly why their movies will never make it to the top 50 list. In the course of there ever being a sort of n00b rebellion on NG, I think Tom and Wade should take it upon themselves to take all of the high-ranking movies and put them in an un-blammable hall of fame.

The other thing that riles me is that he's so immature about the whole thing. "Piconjo luffs joo" is not a healthy statement to hide behind and it really irritates me that he has this lack of respect for people who are trying to help him to deal with how immature he's being.

He's hurting on the inside :'( like your stomach will be tomorrow at work >.>

Which leads me to my next ranting point: The fact that this is a flash forum. Why is it that artists are always saying, "You haven't submitted anything so you're an idiot," or some other innane comment. Yeah there's a lot of programming that goes on behind the scenes, but anyone who's watched a tutorial knows that it doesn't take that much effort to tween a sitck figure. This is a forum and just like any other forum you have spectators and performers.

I had to cut that rant short for space-sake, however, I understand where you're coming from 100%. Some idiot by the name of ATF_Cartoons (or something like that) criticized me with some bullshit, in a reply to a review I gave his shitty movie, saying "Movies by me 9, movies by you, 0." I went on to chase him down to the Genral BBS and flame him for a post or two, and get a topic he had recently made, locked by CaptainBob. I had to shove it in that idiot ATF's face that he had never won any sort of award, and that at least more than half of his movies had gotten blammed or had deplorable scores. The argument he tried to make in defense of his shitty movie was horrible, it's like telling Ebert & Roper to make a better movie... they're not directors, they're critics and spectators, it's what they do.

At 11/14/04 03:36 PM, BeFell wrote: My computer keeps telling me crash imminent, but it won't tell me it there is anything I can do about it.>=(

Go Democrat? Maybe that'll cheer it up :D

At 11/14/04 06:03 PM, BeFell wrote:

At 11/14/04 06:01 PM, BeFell wrote: Other than that, YAY

Maybe I should look at the picture names rather than the thumbnails...

It should be the other way around in that pic bro... the republicans keep the democrats down. You can't say they don't, Bush won.

At 11/14/04 06:56 PM, TheShrike wrote:

At 11/14/04 06:55 PM, LadyGrace wrote: It's my birthday today. I'm 21. You are all getting spanked... wut?

:/ ok, but I get to spank you back next, and my right hands are insensitive to stinging pain :D

Oh, and perhaps you could treat me to a bottle of Patron afterwards? Hmm? *Bats eyelashes, all lovey-dovey*.

At 11/14/04 07:28 PM, LadyGrace wrote: Thanks guys. *humps you all*

:/ You know, I'm only about 3 hours away from Vegas, right? Driving how I drive... I'd say I could make it before midnight. You lusty wench you.

I don't think there will be any reasoning with your boss because he seems to have figured out how to be exceptionally good at what he does. He has manged to make you, a good employee, work your ass off even harder than you would otherwise because he has convinced you that you are right on the brink of being fired. When you think about it this is really brilliant because as long as he makes you think that he doesn't think you're doing a good job then he doesn't have to reward you and on the rare occasions when you do screw up he can make it seem doubly worse because he won't acknowledge any good you have done to compare it to. He has fucked with you so much that you are thinking about giving up a raise that you deserve. It'll probably make him cum in his pants if you do that because that is exactly the sort of thing he has been trying to program into you. If you know that you are good worker who does a good job then I can pretty much guarntee that he knows it too. However if he were to say anything to the effect how would you justify treating you like shit? Think about it, if you were really as bad as he claims you are, wouldn't you have been fired by now?

Ok, I would like to put aside all Mac vs PC arguing aside for a moment. What is the difference between Firefox browser and the Mozilla browser, and which is better.

Venom, quit your job, damnit!

Anyone have Halo 2? I got it from a friend who beat it in the first two days. He hated it, so he passed it to me. I think it is one of the worst games ever made, and I'm not saying that to piss people off. I really think the game doesn't do FPS's justice. Honestly, what's with the monks? I doesn't look like I'm in a monastery... why are they singing?!

Remember Perfect Dark? That game had a better plot, better graphics (for it's time), better music (which, I hold in high regards overall); it was a great game. If the made Perfect Dark Zero (or whatever), and it came out at the same time as Halo 2, I guarantee that it would crush Halo 2.

Lady Grace is the sexz0r

At 11/14/04 10:39 PM, -Gooie- wrote: Remember Perfect Dark? That game had a better plot, better graphics (for it's time), better music (which, I hold in high regards overall); it was a great game.

It was good, but Goldeneye was still better. Although multiplayer was better on PD.

At 11/14/04 10:37 PM, RugbyDAGDaddy wrote: Ok, I would like to put aside all Mac vs PC arguing aside for a moment. What is the difference between Firefox browser and the Mozilla browser, and which is better.

Alls I knows with me teeny brain is that teh mozilla werks with them apple com-pu-tars and not them varmint firefox.

Oh, and I discovered german hip hop. Fettes Brot is suprisingly good, now If I could only figure out what the hell they're saying.

At 11/14/04 10:34 PM, BeFell wrote:

:If you know that you are good worker who does a good job then I can pretty much guarntee that he knows it too. However if he were to say anything to the effect how would you justify treating you like shit? Think about it, if you were really as bad as he claims you are, wouldn't you have been fired by now?

That's why I suggested that Venom just be straight-foward with his boss and let him know the situation right off the bat. If his boss knows he's a good employee as you say he may, then Venom might have nothing to fear, however, you can't rule out the possibility of being terminated, which is why I also suggested looking for another job possibility, just in case.

At 11/14/04 10:37 PM, RugbyDAGDaddy wrote: Ok, I would like to put aside all Mac vs PC arguing aside for a moment. What is the difference between Firefox browser and the Mozilla browser, and which is better.

At the risk of sounding stupid-er.... one is Firefox, and the other is Mozilla >.>

At 11/14/04 10:39 PM, -Gooie- wrote: Venom, quit your job, damnit!

No, don't. Unless you're very unhappy with it and you know for sure you can land another one in no time to cover for the loss of hours.

About Halo 2 Googie: I like it so far. I won't go the way of the Flash Bros and say that almost every new game or sequel put out is crap, but I will tell you that the storyline is pretty interesting, how the Covenant commander is branded a heretic and a shame to his race, while the Master Chief is labeled a hero and commended for his actions. As for the singing monks :/ I don't know, perhaps the construction of the Halo(s) had some sort of religious reference, especially since a halo is a sort of religious symbol.

I never played Perfect Dark but my friends that owned it, said that it pwned, and their opinion is just as good as any other magazine reviewer.

Lady Grace is the sexz0r

I thought you hated people who stated the obvious?

For the job thing, confront your boss and tell him exactly everything that happenned in a calm, respectful manner. He'll either let you keep your job or give you a good reference for keeping your cool over stupid shit. Happenned to me.

At 11/14/04 10:42 PM, RugbyDAGDaddy wrote: It was good, but Goldeneye was still better.

Goldeneye was amazing.

Although multiplayer was better on PD.

Ehh, to a degree. The bots were good to have.

Jetforce Gemini was somehow a really fun game. I never really like SSB. If I had to pick between those two, I'd pick Jetforce. Starfox 64 was the first game I got. I loved that game. Come to think of it, I loved N64. Mischief Makers was so hard, yet astonishing. Mario 64 is still better than Super Mario Sunshine.

I'm gunna have a hard time picking between GB DS and PSP. If PSP has Final Fantasy VII (or any of them), that might close the deal. Then again, I don't have time for video games, and I'm rather bored by the whole thing. I'd rather be bowling, or teaching for that matter.

At 11/14/04 10:47 PM, EnragedSephiroth wrote: About Halo 2 Googie:

I'm tempted to change my name to "googie"

The storyline is pretty broken. Play it some more.

Is it just me, or is that game too easy?

Lady Grace is the sexz0r

I thought you hated people who stated the obvious?

Yeah, only because it's my job >:(

Goldeneye was definitely a ground breaker. Even though the graphics just look horrible nowadays, it's still the official multiplayer game of the 64, well maybe just a tad before smash brothers.

Also, Jet Force Gemini was an incredibly underrated game. It was original, somewhat funny and really good. It had lots of neat features, a nice setting and pretty decent gameplay. I'd say JFG was definitely one of the better games out there, regardless of technologie.

At 11/14/04 10:37 PM, RugbyDAGDaddy wrote: What is the difference between Firefox browser and the Mozilla browser, and which is better.

Mozilla is a Mail client, an IRC client, a WYSIWYG webpage editor, and a Web Browser. Firefox is Mozilla without all the extra shit. It's just a web browser.

Which is better? Depends on what functionality you desire. As far as the web-browser part is concerned, they use the same html & css rendering engine, Gecko.

At 11/14/04 11:09 PM, TheShrike wrote:
WYSIWYG webpage editor, and a Web Browser

If it didn't come from you, I couldv'e sworn you pulled that word/acronym? out of your ass.

At 11/14/04 10:30 PM, EnragedSephiroth wrote: So um... break her pelvis?

She fell while putting up a picture.

I'm weighing in on the GoldenEye/PD multi question. I'd have to say Golden Eye. I'm biased though. I played GoldenEye more often and I got really good at it. Nothing beats a strafe around the corner run through the corpse that's just starting to fall from a knife between the eyes without the opponent being able to react.

At 11/14/04 11:02 PM, mrpopenfresh wrote: Goldeneye was definitely a ground breaker. Even though the graphics just look horrible nowadays, it's still the official multiplayer game of the 64, well maybe just a tad before smash brothers.

No the official N64 multiplayer list goes
1. Goldeneye
2. Mario Kart
Then an assortment of other games. Those are the top two though.

Jo Anna Dark is hotter than James Bond. Problem solved.

Remember that level when the bottom half of her dress got torn off and she was running around killing aliens and showing off those legs?

At 11/14/04 10:54 PM, -Gooie- wrote:

At 11/14/04 10:42 PM, RugbyDAGDaddy wrote: It was good, but Goldeneye was still better.

Goldeneye was amazing.

Although multiplayer was better on PD.

Hmm, and the multiplayer in Goldeneye was some of the best I've ever seen. If PD's is better, that's saying something. But does PD have remote mines in the tiny Facility stage like Goldeneye did?! :D:D:D wheee I think I'm gonna go play that soon and catch some fool trying to crawl through ventilation shaft.

Jetforce Gemini was somehow a really fun game. I never really like SSB. If I had to pick between those two, I'd pick Jetforce. Starfox 64 was the first game I got. I loved that game. Come to think of it, I loved N64. Mischief Makers was so hard, yet astonishing. Mario 64 is still better than Super Mario Sunshine.

D'oh bad memories :( I pwned starfox64 to no end, but I had some sort of faulty memory in my cartridge. I tried so hard to get 100 kills in Sector Z so I could get a medal, and I'd always be off by about 1 kill :'( then when I finally got it, the game auto-deleted itself >.< oh woe is me. Mischief Makers... *sniffles* Enix has always managed to make me happy (and stressed out trying to get S-class rankings), one way or another... with that game, Tales of Phantasia, Star Ocean 2 & 3... thank God for Enix.

Jet Force Jemini was kick-ass good, especially the bit when you run up in the ant-club with the guns blazing, good times, good times. Mario Sunshine was ok, but I have to admit Mario 64 was truly bliss, in one word: revolutionizing. I hear tell from many game magazines that Paper Mario 2 is better than Sunshine also, I'll let you know when I pop my brand new copy into the GC :D

I'm gunna have a hard time picking between GB DS and PSP. If PSP has Final Fantasy VII (or any of them), that might close the deal. Then again, I don't have time for video games, and I'm rather bored by the whole thing. I'd rather be bowling, or teaching for that matter.

Well from what I hear, the PSP is giving out a free dvd copy of Advent Children, however, that's for pre-ordered PSP's. Guess I'll have to see that movie some other way. There is a new pre-Final Fantasy VII game coming out, that involves the turks, Zack, Cloud, and Sephiroth, before the whole world-saving/world-destroying thing in VII, but that's only for the N-Gage, and... really need I say more? It's the N-Gage :/

At 11/14/04 10:47 PM, EnragedSephiroth wrote: About Halo 2 Googie:

I'm tempted to change my name to "googie"

The storyline is pretty broken. Play it some more.

Is it just me, or is that game too easy?

So far... pretty simple... I didn't get killed until those heavy blue Juggernaut covenant guys shot me with some huge green stream of plasma while I wasn't paying attention trying to shoot another between the eyes. Yes, it's a n00b-ish mistake by my part Googie. :/ sounds like a baby word... lol. If the storyline is broken though, that is probably because they leave open spots to plug in other plotlines in Halo 3.

Lady Grace is the sexz0r

I thought you hated people who stated the obvious?

Yeah, only because it's my job >:(

Can't blame ya... Goobie? Gosh' there's thousands of spin-offs for your name.

At 11/14/04 11:48 PM, RugbyDAGDaddy wrote:

At 11/14/04 11:02 PM, mrpopenfresh wrote: Goldeneye was definitely a ground breaker. Even though the graphics just look horrible nowadays, it's still the official multiplayer game of the 64, well maybe just a tad before smash brothers.

No the official N64 multiplayer list goes
1. Goldeneye
2. Mario Kart
Then an assortment of other games. Those are the top two though.

I beg to differ... Zelda: Ocarina of Time is on the top for me. Followed by Mario 64, and then maybe Mario Kart, or Superman64.... <.< yeah I said it. Just to make you gasp, that's all.

At 11/14/04 11:42 PM, FatherVenom wrote:

At 11/14/04 10:30 PM, EnragedSephiroth wrote: So um... break her pelvis?

She fell while putting up a picture.

So make her put up a plasma tv next time :D I'm not trying to be mean or anything, just trying to make sure you keep your job. >.>

I'm weighing in on the GoldenEye/PD multi question. I'd have to say Golden Eye. I'm biased though. I played GoldenEye more often and I got really good at it. Nothing beats a strafe around the corner run through the corpse that's just starting to fall from a knife between the eyes without the opponent being able to react.

You used knives? Gh3y :P j/p I respect that weapon if you can master it. It was nothing but power weapons for me. Yep, just magnum-totin', shotgun-shootin', RCP90-mincin', grenade-launcher.... launchin' asskickin' yeehaw!

At 11/14/04 11:28 PM, mrpopenfresh wrote:

At 11/14/04 11:09 PM, TheShrike wrote: WYSIWYG webpage editor, and a Web Browser

If it didn't come from you, I couldv'e sworn you pulled that word/acronym? out of your ass.

What You See Is What You Get

At 11/15/04 12:30 AM, TheShrike wrote: What You See Is What You Get

FIrst thing I see when I click: "An acronym for what you see is what you get. The Macintosh provides a WYSIWYG screen display. What you see on the screen is what you will get on printed output, as accurately as the screen can render it. "

If I didn't know any better, I'd say Shrike is getting some Apple money somehwere <.<