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Nov 15, 2009 - 03:35 PM
Oh, hi.
What's new, Gamingforce?


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Aug 20, 2008 - 07:20 PM
The REAL origin of mass disses
Response to: Origin of the mass disses by Scarletdeath

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2:05:28 PM tails: maximum daily post ratings reached what the fuck blah
2:05:40 PM mervburger: I, for one, am content with closing the margin between props and disses
2:05:55 PM ramoth@irc.psigenix.net: Yeah, what kind of IDIOT put in a max
2:06:02 PM bigblah: I told CHz to remove it
2:06:04 PM bigblah: blame him :(
2:06:13 PM ramoth@irc.psigenix.net: I will hound him about it.
2:06:34 PM tails: haha passing the buck
2:06:37 PM bigblah: actually i will remove it now for lulz
and then later

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2:10:37 PM bigblah: o btw
2:10:46 PM bigblah: you may now prop or diss the same post multiple times
2:10:51 PM bigblah: unlimited times, in fact
2:10:53 PM ramoth@irc.psigenix.net: YES
2:10:55 PM tails: LMAO
2:11:06 PM bigblah: ANARCHY FOR ALL
2:11:28 PM ramoth@irc.psigenix.net: DYIN
2:11:47 PM tails: hahahaha
2:11:50 PM tails: look at the list
2:11:58 PM tails: http://www.gamingforce.org/forums/propdiss.php?view=all
2:12:24 PM tails: hahaha ramoth
2:12:30 PM tails: dissing like the fist of the north star
2:13:06 PM ramoth@irc.psigenix.net: Check it now.
2:13:16 PM tails: ahahahah
2:13:19 PM Taco: lmao merv
2:13:19 PM tails: dying over here
2:13:32 PM mervburger: ahahahaha MASS OF DISSES
Yeah, we were talking about dissing you, ScarletD. So what? You're acting like Elixir -- no insult goes unanswered, and every single thing said about you on the internet is a personal attack.

Christ, you got angry because I didn't respond to a PM you sent me. How high school is that? Please, relax and try to have a little fun.


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Aug 18, 2008 - 05:06 PM
What's New in My Life (or: How To Work at Home and Get Away With It)
Well, I've moved to San Francisco. Specifically, a district known as the Mission. It's really nice here, and living in a city definitely has advantages. Like the awesome American Chinese place half a block from my house.

Aside from wanting to escape the Suburban Wastes the main reason for moving up here was to move in with my lovely girlfriend Anne. It's been roughly six months now and it's awesome. Having someone special in my life is a great feeling. I've found that I always undergo a lot of personal growth during a relationship especially at the beginning. I want to improve myself, to be a better person.

Speaking of being a better person, I know I wrote about this before but since this is a recap journal entry anyway I'll mention it again. I no longer work at Mozilla. I left there in January under less than ideal circumstances. I doubt I'll be contributing much back to the community after leaving, which is probably a good idea anyway -- doing something for free that you used to get paid to do is a weird and unsettling feeling, and thinking about it seems to only dredge up bad memories of my time there.

Don't worry though, I'm not jobless. The 6 months or so I was contracting at another Silicon Valley company on an iPhone client for them. NOw that I'm free from that entanglement I'm in the process of setting up my own consulting business. For those who aren't in the computer industry, a software consultant does the same job as a normal software engineer, but instead of being essentially at the mercy of your employer for job security, you can work with multiple companies at once, keeping your income stream secure. Also, because of the way tax law works, companies cannot tell an independent contractor (another name for a consultant) how to do their job -- only what to do. They can't control when or where you work or really anything else about how you get the job done. This is obviously pretty nice, because I can work from home and work pretty much whenever I want.

There are downsides to all this though. Because I'm self employed, I don't get health insurance through my job, I need to go out and find it. There are some resources for that, but all that's really boring, complicated and expensive so I'll spare you. Being self employed also makes filing your taxes crazy difficult. Finding a good accountant is a must. The other problem with this arrangement is that writing and negotiating contracts is both really annoying and really time consuming. You have to expend a significant amount of time and energy determining what a client needs and estimating (roughly) how long you'll need to complete it. It's boring and tedious work that you don't get paid a red cent for.

I think it's worth it though. I've had a lot of clashes in the past with my employers over things like work hours and other scheduling decisions. It's nice to be able to say "Fuck off, don't tell me how to do my job," but in a nice way, where I remind them about the part where there are big penalties for claiming an employee is an independent contractor on your tax forms (they don't handle any of my deductions or tax preparation, so they'd owe all that money, for starters). I'm hoping this will be a good fit for me. Plus, getting better at estimating how long a task will take me as well as scheduling my time will be a good thing. It's sink or swim time.


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May 25, 2008 - 11:14 PM
Movie Review - Woman in the Dunes
Woman in the Dunes (1964)



In Japanese, Suna no onna.

I watched this movie a couple weeks ago, and honestly I'm still creeped out every time I see sand. I obviously won't spoil the plot, but after a bug collector has a chance encounter with some locals, he winds up getting a lot more than he bargained for.

The whole movie made me feel incredibly claustrophobic and uncomfortable. I wanted to shower afterwards but was intensely afraid of sand coming out of the shower head.

I highly, highly recommend this movie. It's shot in beautiful black & white and is as unsettling as (in some ways more than) a David Lynch film.


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Apr 17, 2008 - 12:11 AM
ITE: laser, chargin, etc



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Apr 14, 2008 - 01:14 PM
What I did this weekend [VIDEO ENTRY]
It's not on Youtube (because youtube sucks ass), so I can't embed it, but here's the link to vimeo, which is infinitely superior and more web2.0:

Cherry Blossom Festival: Japantown, San Francisco
"In which we sample San Francisco's cultural offerings, exchange awkward small talk with cosplayers, and encounter a whole lot of crazy."

Had a pretty awesome time, really enjoying my Flip camcorder (see entry below this). Let me know what you think of the video (Anne did the editing).


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Apr 12, 2008 - 12:04 PM
Introducing: The Flip Ultra (or, ITE I buy a camcorder)


I'll be picking one of these up this weekend. I've seen video from it and both the video and sound quality are pretty damn good for something so small.

Expect home movies and shit, Gamingforce.


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Apr 8, 2008 - 08:06 PM
Twin Peaks


Twin Peaks. You will like this if you like David Lynch. You may like this if you like The X Files (which ripped off a lot of the atmosphere). It's freaky and creepy and funny and oh so very early 90s.

But overall the show is flawed. After the Laura Palmer story wraps up in the middle of the second season the show enters sideplot hell. I give the writers the benefit of the doubt -- Lynch apparently told them shitall about what to do next so they floundered around. Windom Earle entertains but the show is finished by this point. You have ceased to care about pretty mch anybody on the show, even the heroic proto Fox Mulder Dale Cooper, who is totally ruined by his love for Heather Graham's character ("Where's Annie? Where's Annie?"). I did watch the last episode (obviously) which was freaky beyond belief. The episodes Lynch directs are afrigginmaizing.

The main reason Twin Peaks doesn't work, I've heard suggested, is that Lynch's techniques do not work on TV every week -- it get predictable and you cease to be freaked out and scared. I would have to agree wholeheartedly. It's mentally draining and exhausting to marathon a number of Twin Peaks episodes, but you get sucked in anyway and keep watching. Some form of crazy nerd masochism? Likely.

Still, if you have not seen Twin Peaks I would recommend it. It was a phenomenon and a lot of cultural memes came from it (tying a cherry stem in a knot with your tongue, e.g.). This is nerdfotainment at its greatest.


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Apr 8, 2008 - 07:05 PM
San Franscisco International Film Festival!
Alright! SFIFF08 is finally here.

I went through the list and picked out these films:

Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson - Hunter S Thompson dick suck session
Shampoo - That hair. Warren Beatty. How can you not want to go?
The Wackness - Mary Kate Olsen and Ben Kingsley make out (also it sounds good but not the point)
1000 Journals - I still have the community journal. :x Also, basically the only documentary I chose. fuck those things....
Mock Up on Mu - Hoping that this guy isn't jumping the shark with this film.
Big Man Japan - The japanese acknowledge that their dicks are small - but they become the hardest of any race. I am not making this up.
Timecrimes - Opening mouth, insert time travel movie and/or dongs.
Black Belt - "dazzling establishing shots of the lush greenery of Kyushu"
Glasses - Was lukewarm until I watched the trailer when japanophile mode engaged hardcore.
Go Go Tales - Willem DaFoe owns a strip club. Lulzomometer is going crazy.
Leave Her To Heaven - This restoration looks phenomenal -- I think I will be pulling a Paul Reubens.
The Man From London - How could you not want to go? HOW COULD YOU NOT WANT TO GO?
Redbelt - Here's hoping Tim Allen gets punched in the throat (oh how I want to).
Linger - Apparently they have sex. Hoping it is ghost sex. Hot, hot, ectoplasm. Uhn.
Wonderful Town - Sounds like it might be friggin' beautiful. Might also be friggin' boring.
The Toe Tactic - Going just to listen to some Yo La Tengo and look at cartoons. Aloof and ironic... ::adjusts scarf and leans back::
Sleep Dealer - "Node job" eh? Tell me more...
Secret - Opening mouth, insert time travel movie and/or dongs. (Again).
Shadows in the Palace - Maybe this will be good. Maybe there will be tits. Not betting on both.
La Zona - To be honest, peer pressure since it won at Venice.
Huling Balyan ng Buhi (or The Woven Stories of the Other) - Hoping for beautiful scenery. Also hoping that the person who did the write up sucks and the film isn't that boring.
Frozen - Look, all I'm saying is that you should at least consider passing out apricot Pop-Tarts with the movie.
Flower in the Pocket - This one is for Taco. Two adorable boys.
The Art of Negative Thinking - "cigar-sized reefers". I need say no more.
All is Forgiven - Peer pressure, again. Would like to note how ridiculous "west coast premiere" is. Who else is going to play it besides LA? "FIRST PLAYED IN BEND, OREGON, MOTHERFUCKERS! TAKE THAT SAN FRANGAYSCO! HA HAAAAA!"
Still Life - in before Three Gorges Dam film porn.
You, The Living - Fixed frame. Nonprofessional actors. Tuba. Genuinely interested.

Of course I'm not going to be able to see ALL of them, but thanks to Festival Fanatic, I can let a computer do the thinking for me! Hurray!

Advice on films to see and avoid GREATLY appreciated.

Expect a huge drop of reviews when this all goes down.



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Apr 4, 2008 - 10:58 PM
Movie Review: Ping Pong
ALERT I finally fucking answered my truth hurts questions god you guys

Just a short one. Going to try and review all the stuff I watch on Netflix.

Ping Pong

Originally Posted by imdb
The film traces the growth and friendship of 2 very different high school ping pong players. "Peco" Hoshino is a brash, arrogant player, determined to turn "pro". He taught his quiet, nerdy childhood friend, "Smile" Tsukimoto. "Smile" frustrates his coach and rivals who recognize his talent for the game since it is just a game to him. To teach him, his high school coach learns that coaching is more than just training the students to be good ping pong players. Ironically, as "Smile" begins to develop his game, "Peco" undergoes a severe crisis after his defeat by rival players. "Peco" is unable to play well until he rediscovers the original reasons why he plays ping pong.
The real theme of this film is talent, and if it exists. "There are some thing only hacks know." I think no matter your ability at what you do, you'll get something out of this film. There are characters who everything comes easily to, characters who prosper through hard work, and characters who can't catch a break no matter how hard they work.

Certainly not a work of art, but it's definitely a good movie. Although it is a bit like Prince of Tennis, but I guess that's expected since it's a manga adaption.



Netflix has it, I'd recommend adding it to your queue.


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