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October 12th, 2009
04:07 pm - 'This End Up' be damned
My Sega Dreamcast running the vertical shmup game 'Ikaruga'. The game uses a vertically oriented monitor and the DC port supports turning the image 90 degrees if you have an appropriate monitor. I didn't, but I had a couple of 21" Trinitron tubes that are entirely structured with a 1.5mm thick steel faraday cage under the ABS plastic shell.
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Though the other one was left upright for pinball. :D
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October 8th, 2009
10:13 pm - Xbox 360
Well I got an Xbox 360 for $149.99 though it did come with a bit of hastle. :3 Last week, Best Buy had a sale, $80 off the regular $229 price of Xbox 360 Arcade units. And they sold out on the last day... But they gave me a rain check, which means the price was guarinteed I just needed to wait for them to restock. Tuesday they restocked. I'm being paid $125 to do video games for Naru2U, and by 'being paid' I mean 'was paid in advance because I didn't trust them to pay me after the fact'. The Arcade ships with no pack in games however so I picked up Pinball Hall Of Fame The Williams Collection for Xbox 360.
I played this all the time on the PSP and the Xbox 360 and PS3 port is an improvement. It has three new tables circa 1995-1997, No Good Gofers, Medieval Madness and Arabian Nights. They are pretty awesome tables with animated dot matrix displays unlike the older generation tables. It's a sweet game, as close to pinball as you can get without owning a real machine. It's just awesome and looks great in high resolution, a lot clearer than on my tiny PSP screen. :D And it was only $39.99!
So yeah, that's my aquisitions for the week. He he
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October 3rd, 2009
09:08 pm - Holy Jebus, Sega is making a new Daytona USA game!
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3514/3953920398_fa6afe22e1_b.jpg
Apparently this is taken from the series of leaked documents between Sega and Sony that got out a few weeks ago detailing numerous projects and now a poster is out. This looks to be an arcade game as the bottom of the poster features the 'RingWide' logo which is a Sega arcade platform.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Sega_arcade_system_boards#Sega_Ring_series
If it is, it's not a super graphics game but more streamlined and affordable. The RingEdge platform is much more powerful while the RingWide is cheaper and more affordable.
I sure hope we'll see a home console port. There hasn't been a home console Daytona USA port since the Dreamcast and it was problematic. The physics wern't anything like at the arcade.
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September 28th, 2009
08:29 pm - Score! Hori Fighting Stick!
I picked this up from UsedOttawa.com tonight. Actually it was an ad for the Hori Soul Calibur II PS2 fighting stick and an EMS LCD TopGun light gun. All for $25. Now, you may all be in shock at this, but I feel that I own enough light guns. Also the TopGun has construction quality issues and I just didn't need it. In exchange for driving me out to pick it up, I gave the gun to Ian Barclay for free. This guy would refuse to sell them seperate but $25 it was still a steal. We got there and he says that $20 would be fine.
Now, lemme review, this arcade stick in good condition sell at $40-$100 on it's own. This is made by Hori the same company that makes the Street Fighter IV fighting sticks and other stuff. They use REAL arcade components for the buttons and joysticks, so they are top quality. It is built like a tank. It's about 4lbs and the baseplate is made of steel. This is no flex or cheapness in this. It's awesome and I got it for almost nothing. :3
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August 28th, 2009
04:03 am - Fried. :D
Years ago my family had a deep fryer, I remembered home made french fries and the like but then we stopped using it and that was in like 1994 or 1995 at the latest. All I remember after that is it being in a cupboard somewhere and never used agian. I recently asked my parents about it and it was never thrown away, they still have it. So they're giving it to me. :D Having sat idle for at least 15 years I'm a little concerned that maybe the temperature sensor has broke which is important. I've gone far to educate myself on how to deal with a greese fire. Namely, I just have to cover it and let it cool it it should self-extinguish. ...Or I can spash water onto it and it'll explode into a fireball that'll reach the ceiling.
Anyway, I should have it in a couple weeks and I'm pretty stoked. Home made french fries and fish and chips? Or chicken strips? Chicken bites? Wings? :D There's a lot of stuff I could do and make for cheap using it. ^^ Good stuff that's never as good bought frozen and cooked in the oven either. Fish and chips is first on my to fry list. God, real, honest, home made fish and chips. Booyah. Wings sounds good too, I just need to find a nice batter to use. I even found a good garlic parmesan sauce recipie to whip up to sauce the wings up good in. :D
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August 23rd, 2009
03:53 am - 60hz
60hz is the lowest typically used frequency for computer video output. In the case of a CRT monitor, that's also how fast the electron gun strikes and reenergizes the phosphores for any given pixel. Without being hit with the electron gun, those pixels will go 'black' basicly. So between each pass of the electron gun the pixels are rapidly dimming untill hit agian, this causes flickering which bothers some people and not others. The faster the refresh rate, the less noticable the flicker is and can become inperceptable. On my current desktop I'm at 85hz and it's entirely comfortable, even in dim lighting.
Everything I did used to be at 60hz and I never had a problem with it. 486, P200, P3@500, I was using a 14" and later a 17" monitor, both of which could only hit their highest resolutions by dropping to 60hz. I gamed in Half-Life 1 and Counter-Strike for hours and hours on end t 60hz. I never noticed a thing.
Now it's different. I dunno if it's because I'm older or because I'm sitting behind a pair of 21" CRT monitors now, but the few times I'm at 60hz, I feel like something is slowly drilling into my eyeballs. In safe mode the video is all at 60hz and 60hz is also the refresh rate used for my Sega Dreamcast which I connect over VGA. (Dreamcast, 640x480, pure RGB on a 21" Sony Trinitron Tube; SEXY) Especially on fields of white on the screens, at 60hz it's literally painful.
Basicly I need to run at 85hz to feel comfortable viewing my own computer. I just find that interesting as I never needed before.
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August 13th, 2009
June 17th, 2009
08:58 am - What? :)
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June 3rd, 2009
05:36 pm - No wonder my lego cities had dirt roads.
I have just done the math and apparently hardwood and stone tile flooring is cheaper peer square foot than lego road plates.
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May 29th, 2009
04:21 am - Being mistaken for a girl can lead to problems
I'm gay, I'm male, and because of my voice, behavour and choice in clothing people routinely mistake me for a girl. ...Maybe me shaving my legs and wear daisy dukes in the summer doesn't help things. Anyway, this typically leads to HUMOROUS situations. Confused boys as I walk out of a public restroom, argueing with the bank that I'm not some chick that's stolen my identity or other shoujo manga inspired hilarity.
Tonight was just creepy as all hell. I decide to make a 3am two block walk to the corner store for a sammich and strawberry milk. I don't even look cute at 3am, it's pissing rain, my hair needs to be washed and I'm wearing a dingy knock off GAP hoodie.
Some mid 30's at least arab guy is going to the store at the same time. We had to wait outside for a moment cause the door was locked and the clerk had to come around to open it. This is when he starts talking, all reeeeeeal friendly like. Talking about how I'm a cute girl and blah blah blah. This goes on the entire time I'm in the store. Then he decides he needs to walk me home and start asking questions. Goes on about how he's an artist back in Egypt, how good looking I am, real creepy stuff. Finally he asks if I live alone. I don't, but I live with a 5'1" girl who's about as brutal as a kitten. So naturally, I lied and said I live with my boyfriend which I don't even really have.
This whole time i'm like 'Oh man, he totally thinks I'm a chick...' It's easy to go 'No, it's a trap' to the fanboys I deal with in everyday life, but they spineless wussies who arn't likely to go all gay panic defense on you. This is when he finally starts to let up a little, saying that maybe he shouldn't come all the way to the apartment (Thank GOD) but asks if I have any firends he'd like to meet. The last question he asks is what my boyfriend lies, being the captain of bullshit that I am, I immediately blurt out that he's a an RCMP officer in 'A' Division. (Yes, my pretend anti-rapist boyfriend is part of the division that protects the Prime Minister. I get to have an INTERESTING antirapist fantasy life, right?)
This guy is finally gonna leave me alone and go back to his own apartment, which was in the OTHER DIRECTION no less. He asks for a hug. Oh he squeezes tight and even kisses me on the cheek. I was literally trying to both not burst out laughing and to not scream.
@_______________________@ Creeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeepy. Screw you creepy arab guys. :X
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May 3rd, 2009
07:11 am - Vita Dulsis: Chapter Two
Do you knnow how easily I could write this with human characters? I have fun with the animal traits, especially the clear difference between species which makes Aubrey stand out amongst the rest of his little family but I could so easily just shift this into human characters. Really, furry is okay in text but ultimately it's a style of character that thrives more in a graphical realm.
The psych scene was suprisingly fun to write. Why do I only have the most fun with the first scenes?
Vita Dulcis
Chapter Two:
The walls of the room Mathew sat in were light blue, posters of mental health information and clichéd motivational posters were hung up. The teenaged wolf sat amongst one group of chairs on one side of a desk while a man sat in an armed chair on the other side. This was a doctor’s office; he was meeting with his psychologist as he had been every two weeks for a few months now.
The doctor was a ring tailed cat, which isn’t a cat at all but a procyon, the same taxonomic family as the raccoon. With black and brown fur, he had a black and white ringed tail that was obscured behind the desk and he was dressed in slacks and an unbuttoned dress shirt. Overall, he looked casual rather than uptight or analytical. “So, your parents tell me that you’ve been arguing with your step father again. You stay away from the family and spend most of your time in your room.”
Slouching in his chair and looking disinterested, Mathew kept his arms crossed over his chest with head turned away. “Yeah, and?”
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April 13th, 2009
05:40 am - Vita Dulcis: Chapter One
I think I just like the opening scene to this. Furry characters discussing the word 'Human' in a way that I've not seen done in the fandom. Dispite the fact that the idea I've employed is hardly clever at all, I've seen never seen it done.
But yes, this is more of what happened in Dulcis Domus only it's ten years later and the story will primarily focus on the children who are now teenager and in high school. I sorta had these ideas in my head before I finished Dulcis Domus; probably because I just couldn't stop seeing Mathew as a hostile and frustrated teenager.
I hated the original title, I felt the use of Latin was lame... Yet I've continued the theme, why? >_<
4000 words for chapter one... Well, this won't nearly be 19 chapters at least. @_@
Vita Dulcis
Chapter One
2018. Dressed in slacks and a dress shirt, a twenty-nine year old Aubrey Mitchel stood in front of a high school classroom with a black marker in his fingers. The soft featured snow leopard still featured a short stature and his hair had been cut back since his youth, now tied back with only a couple of inches to spare but his bangs went to his eyes. He looked at his class of furred faces that sat in the rows of desks, some looking on in interest, others bored and slouched or hunched in their seats. “This is going to seem a bit elementary for you but in a historical sense it really isn’t.” He turned to the white board at the end of the class and wrote out five letters. ‘HUMAN’ is what he wrote in large black capital letters. “What does this word mean?”
“People.” said a girl seated in the middle of room; she was one of four foxes in the class.
“Yes.” Aubrey replaced the cap of his marker. “That’s the easy answer. What else does it mean? Where does it come from?” The question was answered only with blank stares from his students. “We use ‘human’ to define every ‘intelligent’ being on earth. We use words like ‘humanity’ to describe us, we put that word on probes that we sent into space. When people hurt each other we say it’s ‘inhumane’. It’s the word we use to define ourselves as something different from the animals; it certainly does mean ‘people’. The class still only offered silence and idle movements. “’Humain’, where ‘human’ comes from meant ‘that of mankind’.”
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March 30th, 2009
07:03 pm
http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&item=270365387523 I won this on eBay, all THREE that the guy had.
http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&item=220384045570
Also got Point Blank 3, meaning my Point Blank collection is ligit.
Yes, yes I DO need six light guns of the same model! Cause I'm prepaired to defend my home. What would YOU do if a duck came into your house, trying to kill your family and all the dog did was laugh at you!?
Light Guns; Protect What's Important
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March 1st, 2009
05:56 am - It could work.
I think I'm actually gonna try to post decent writing to FA and see what happens.
And I'm gonna give a thumbnail to each image that says 'Warning: This work of fiction contains plot and no sex scenes. This may make it offensive and confusing to most furries' cause that might ACTUALLY attract some attentiont to it.
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January 6th, 2009
04:58 pm
Four years and $2713.92 later, my Inspiron 600m is paid off. Yes, the laptop itself cost like $1400, but ya know, 28% interest for four years and all that.
Okay, I got SCREWED, I know. But my credit rating is apparently AWESOME as a result so it's not all bad.
She was a good laptop for the first three years, but then she started coming apart. Now? The ethernet port doesn't always work. Microfractures in the motherboard make it tricky to turn on unless I press down on the keyboard in the right area. Some superficial cracks. The primary battery won't charge past 99%, so it keeps TRYING to charge it, resulting in it sometimes ignoring the secondary battery. Oh, and the thingy that recognises when the laptop is closed doesn't register anymore.
It was solid for three years though. :)
Anyway, I'm not gonna get a new one immediatly. It still KINDA works. I'm gonna wait till my taxes are done, get one of them $500-$600 dealies, pay off half of it right away and just finance the rest of it and finance it for a MUCH shorter time.
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December 15th, 2008
04:09 pm - It's not Christmas until you've torrented A Muppet Family Christmas
Not only A Muppet Family Christmas but a DVD grade copy of the 47mins 1987 broadcast copy. For copyright reasons, the DVD versions released in the US were infact cut down to 42mins! :(
Yes, it's Christmas now.
So I got my new pants, yes, I mixed and matched them with some other clothes and it's worked out well. They go great with my mesh t-shirt and a blue cami and could go great with any other t-shirt.
I got some other blue stuff. He he. Blue pants go well with blue nail polish and I wanna try blue lipstick but I dunno how well that'll fly but worth a shot. The pants however absolutely don't match my hair. I think I'll dye it blue next time I'm at the salon. Like crazy electric blue. ^^ Yes, I'm slowly turning into a poser mall goth. :O Damn vampire kids!
I've been tinkering with a Sega Model 2 emulator and emulating Daytona USA. The color pallets arn't quite right but apparnetly the WIP version of the emulator fixes this. It can actually fully emulate the games network features on multiple machines by emulating a token ring over common LAN. I'm considdering doing a setup for this at the next con or major event cause the CPU load isn't that high, my Athlon 64 3200+ can emulate the game reliably at 60fps at 1600x1200 and only 20ms CPU lag in the emulation, We could get some identical machines and do 2, 4, 6 or even 8 player setups. Granted getting sets of game wheels could be tricky. :)
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December 12th, 2008
12:38 am - New Pants
http://us.st12.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/villagestreetwear_2032_424924084
Full on bondage pants with black and blue straps, studs and needless zippers. I feel like a Final Fantasy character. I actually like this way of style better. Often when going the girly boy route I've looked really plain and boring. I just looked, well, like the flat chested girl next door! The mesh and the bondage pants have attracted some attention and I also like how they have extra details. I can still be the cute and fem boy but a bit more 'bad ass' seperating from the sorta 'sissy' look more plain stuff comes with.
For hair, I want to play with my hair more. The ironic bit is, I've found that my hair looks best in pigtails. It makes my hair look thicker and fuller than it is and it's a perky look too. Normally boys with long hair dont' do much. It's either 'tied back' or 'not tied back'. BORING! I don't wanna be boring. So boys can do pigtails if they wanna be cute right? Yeah, someone's reading this and thinking "You SURE you don't wanna be a girl?" Nyah! :P
I wanna go out. See some night life. I want a date to go clubbing but all the boys I know are boring losers not even worth asking! :/
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November 30th, 2008
04:31 am - Dulcis Domis: Chapter 19
It's done. I mean, it's really done. I finished it. I set out and worked on something in the long term and I finished it. It's not perfect and I think that the story likely peaked from the Christmas arc but this is where I went with it.
I still need to redo chapters 1 and 2 from scratch, there are parts I just don't like about how I went into them first meeting each other and the initial stage of their relationship. The first chapters also felt rushed... And Aubrey said 'Fuck' too much. ^^;
Chapter 19
2001. “Mom.” A twelve year old Aubrey followed his mother around their busy home. Four boys were a handful to look after, especially with three of them teenagers and the youngest was being ignored as he chased her around. “Mom!”
“Just a second, honey.” Mrs. Ramsden dismissed Aubrey for the moment and came down the stairs into the den where Chris and Wesley sat at a computer. The two were arguing over usage, namely that Wes had dominated the time on it and Chris was threatening to unplug it. She stood in the doorway to the end and looked up, uttering a stressed groan before barking out orders. “Boys, stop it. Wesley, you’ve been on that thing all day, play on the Xbox or god forbid, go outside. Chris, finish your English essay before you go online.” She seemed pleased with the submissive nods of acknowledgement. “Where’s your brother?”
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October 24th, 2008
05:50 am - Dulcis Domus: Chapter 18
My laptop like DIED when this was two thirds done. I left it, kept trying it for five days, no luck. The story was safe, but I had no means to extract data from a 2.5" IDE HDD with my desktop. Eventually I disassembled the ENTIRE laptop, got it working and reassembled it.
Anyway, I'm starting to feel that my prose is weaking or maybe it was weak from the start. I think I need to go back when this is done and make some signifigant changes. Just to the discription of things and such. I mean, hell, I didn't even go into anyone's hair color but Aubrey's I think. That's pretty cheap of me, isn't it?
So, this is the second last chapter. It really is. 19 is the last. It ends. Funny, I have various shorts I could write later on their lives, but this is where Dulcis Domus itself is about to end. With that, I have one question to pose. One male character is going to end up in a dress in Chapter 19... Who do you think it will be? :)
Chapter 18
It was only a few days before the wedding and Ramsden house was alive and crowded again. It was early August in the evening, the air was warm and the sky filled with orange as sunset approached. Aubrey and Eric were in fact the last ones to arrive at the house, they stood with the children in the front of the house and looking in to see everyone inside.
“I’m sorry, we’re late, I got caught up on some stuff for school registration.” Aubrey apologized and entered the living room. The first to catch his eye was Chris sitting on the couch with his daughter Abby in his lap. She was a toddler now and trying to crawl away. “Oh wow, she got so big! She’s like twice as big.” He exclaimed.
“It’s weird, actually.” said Chris as he held the girl up on his lap with his hands under her arms. “We don’t even notice her growing, but then we look at older pictures and it’s hard to believe how small she was only four, eight or twelve months ago.”
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October 21st, 2008
02:24 pm - I shouldn't like Vampire Knight
Vampire Knight is basicly a shoujo anime that I shouldn't like. It is about some sorta psudo modern-gothic world of humans and vampires. The setting is an academy with a day class and an night class, the day class are humans, the night class are vampires. The day class has no idea the night class are vampires, but thinks they are hot as hell and they all fangirl over the night class. This is part of some grand experiment to foster peace between the humans and the vampires. ...Not that most of the humans have any idea what's going on.
The two main characters are Yuuki and Zero, who's job it is to keep shit from going crazy on the school. Those crazy sexy vampires are ALWAYS up to something and wanting to EAT SOMEONE. Of course Yuuki loves the head of the night class, the pure bred vampire Kaname.
So, this setting is crap and the main character, Yuuki, is an absolute Mary Sue.
...And I fangirl over every episode.
I sware, this anime gives me gay blood doll fantasies even.
I sware, I know this is crap, but I'm like 'Eeeeeeee!!! :D' over every episode. The plot doesn't even make sense but... ...But... Oh god, the sexy bishounen vampires!
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