social topic

2005-10-24 12:29:09 am

in the name of justice!

Quote from MegaMyke:

I hate to ask for a way to get around school filters. But I'm asking.

My school has a filter called Sentinel. I think. And in most cases you can get around it by viewing websites in frames. Any body got any ideas. I figured out how last year but I forgot >_<

Hahahaha, my school uses a filter called Bess. The irony never ends around there. MySpace is blocked by the filter, but there was a big huge article about how great/crappy it was in the school newspaper recently, and you can filter bypass most sites by putting them in IE trusted sites. Wait, what the heck? The last one doesn't have jack to do with the first two. Damnit!

Okay, I realize there might not be a good answer to this question, but...

Are rare old games going to get more expensive any time soon? Basically, I bought Castlevania:AoS recently for my GBA and I'm totally digging it. But SotN is supposed to be really sweet...and rare...as I found validated when it didn't exist at any of the nearby used game stores (I actually found a new one today-where I wouldn't have had to harass the guy at the store every three days to get my SNES...but anyway). I checked eBay, although...
1. I don't own a PS1.
2. I'm STILL saving for my DS so I'm not going to pay for a PS1 and one game.
3. I can't buy games on eBay-I don't have an account and my mom sure as hell won't help me get them
The game is about $40. I'm basically wondering if this game is likely to get more expensive in the relatively near future. I guess the main thing I'm asking is if games like Zelda 1, Final Fantasy II/III, SotN, etc. have ever been cheaper than they are now, because if they haven't, then I don't have much to worry about. If they have, well, there's still probably nothing to worry about, since even next summer I'll probably have a shot at this.

Actually, I'm not sure why I'm asking this question, but hey. I guess there's not much I can do anyway. But if I should be trying to save $5 by getting it now rather than in nine months, I suppose I want to know that.

[quote="MegaMyke"]I hate to ask for a way to get around school filters.  But I'm asking.

My school has a filter called Sentinel.  I think.  And in most cases you can get around it by viewing websites in frames.  Any body got any ideas.  I figured out how last year but I forgot >_<[/quote]
Hahahaha, my school uses a filter called Bess.  The irony never ends around there.  MySpace is blocked by the filter, but there was a big huge article about how great/crappy it was in the school newspaper recently, and you can filter bypass most sites by putting them in IE trusted sites.  Wait, what the heck?  The last one doesn't have jack to do with the first two.  Damnit!

Okay, I realize there might not be a good answer to this question, but...

Are rare old games going to get more expensive any time soon?  Basically, I bought Castlevania:AoS recently for my GBA and I'm totally digging it.  But SotN is supposed to be really sweet...and rare...as I found validated when it didn't exist at any of the nearby used game stores (I actually found a new one today-where I wouldn't have had to harass the guy at the store every three days to get my SNES...but anyway).  I checked eBay, although...
1. I don't own a PS1.
2. I'm STILL saving for my DS so I'm not going to pay for a PS1 and one game.
3. I can't buy games on eBay-I don't have an account and my mom sure as hell won't help me get them
The game is about $40.  I'm basically wondering if this game is likely to get more expensive in the relatively near future.  I guess the main thing I'm asking is if games like Zelda 1, Final Fantasy II/III, SotN, etc. have ever been cheaper than they are now, because if they haven't, then I don't have much to worry about.  If they have, well, there's still probably nothing to worry about, since even next summer I'll probably have a shot at this.

Actually, I'm not sure why I'm asking this question, but hey.  I guess there's not much I can do anyway.  But if I should be trying to save $5 by getting it now rather than in nine months, I suppose I want to know that.

LifeMega

2005-10-24 12:44:14 am

You can use an emulator called ePSXe to play PSX games on your computer. But you need to find the PSX BIOS somewhere.

SABERinBLUE

2005-10-24 12:49:26 am

Cook of the Sea

See, even if I end up buying SotN, I won't want to play it on the PS1 that I own because then I'd have to use a TV screen, and I hate playing games on the TV in my dorm room because it's a confined space and me and my roommate have to share it and I can't really enjoy a game knowing it might be pissing him off. He'd never say it was pissing him off either, even if it was. So if I buy a copy of it, I'd just want to dump the ROM onto my comp and play it there.

Chanoire

2005-10-24 03:39:54 am

Oh, you have a roommate? My mom was suggesting that if you do you should ask him to lean his head back so you can observe the lines and shadows of his neck, for use in page 4. I showed her most of the comic last night (and some of your other stuff) and she felt that the problem with the neck shadow was that the lighting didn't make sense with it, that you'd only see the V from the skin and tendons (?) shadowing rather than this big triangle of shadow, since he's lit from the front. Which I should have noticed. :P

Regarding games, I don't know how good a comparison you can make between Zelda 1's pricing and SotN's because Zelda 1 has been rereleased so many times (and was in such huge quantities to begin with). I know nothing about Castlevania, so I don't know how the numbers compare, but it can't have had as many releases as Zelda.

Hm, I wonder what the record is for number of times the same game has been released with essentially no changes.

Do you have an actual PS1, Saber (as opposed to a gray PS)? Have you considered the screen?

Oh, you have a roommate?  My mom was suggesting that if you do you should ask him to lean his head back so you can observe the lines and shadows of his neck, for use in page 4.  I showed her most of the comic last night (and some of your other stuff) and she felt that the problem with the neck shadow was that the lighting didn't make sense with it, that you'd only see the V from the skin and tendons (?) shadowing rather than this big triangle of shadow, since he's lit from the front.  Which I should have noticed. :P

Regarding games, I don't know how good a comparison you can make between Zelda 1's pricing and SotN's because Zelda 1 has been rereleased so many times (and was in such huge quantities to begin with).  I know nothing about Castlevania, so I don't know how the numbers compare, but it can't have had as many releases as Zelda.

Hm, I wonder what the record is for number of times the same game has been released with essentially no changes.

Do you have an actual PS1, Saber (as opposed to a gray PS)?  Have you considered the screen?

SABERinBLUE

2005-10-24 09:35:03 am

Cook of the Sea

Huh, now that's an idea about the shadows. Your mom rocks my socks. Oh, and the large V of the neck is actually muscles. There are some exposed tendons near the base of it. (blue girl's construction has blue in places where there is muscle, and black in places where there isn't, give or take a little artistic license)

Oh, and yeah, it's one of them small jobs. I have thought about a screen, but there's the other consideration that all Sony first-party controllers hurt my hands and my third-party PS2 controller isn't compatible with a PS1, and I don't own a PS2. (The PS2 controller is for PC games) Just my luck...

spineshark

2005-10-24 10:04:47 am

in the name of justice!

Quote from Chanoire:

Regarding games, I don't know how good a comparison you can make between Zelda 1's pricing and SotN's because Zelda 1 has been rereleased so many times (and was in such huge quantities to begin with). I know nothing about Castlevania, so I don't know how the numbers compare, but it can't have had as many releases as Zelda.

Well, that's true, but I don't think that the rereleases have cheapened Zelda 1 carts for the NES. Still, they're much cheaper than some of the other games I mentioned...

Quote from LifeMega:

You can use an emulator called ePSXe to play PSX games on your computer. But you need to find the PSX BIOS somewhere.

Ugh, emulators. That's even worse than buying a Playstation.

I don't think it'd run on my comp anyway. I tried to use VBA once, and it would struggle to go at 45%.

SABERinBLUE

2005-10-24 10:11:47 am

Cook of the Sea

On the other hand, it's likely that SotN will get rereleased for the PSP, and when that happens the price of PS1 copies should go up.

spineshark

2005-10-24 10:20:38 am

in the name of justice!

I won't even try to ask how that works...

SamuraiSamus

2005-10-24 11:22:49 pm

Beware: off duty ninja

well I finally went to where nobody I know has gone. . . to a new OS. despite the fact that the linux I'm using is booted off my dvd drive it's running faster than my windows XP. which scares me . . .. as my box is fast, but even still, it's scary fast o.O;;

anyways, just wondering about anybody who may happen to run linux here: how is it? (I can tell from what I've been doing so far as I said above that my computer is running much faster than normal) seeing as I still need to learn this OS from the ground up with almost no help, as the people I know either have limited computer knowledge or choose to remain ignorant about the computers they do use. . >.<

Ekarderif

2005-10-25 12:52:49 am

I hated Red Hat but enjoyed Slackware. Then I installed Gentoo and promptly turned away from Linux. Looks like it's a permanent thing now.

DJGrenola

2005-10-25 02:27:58 am

Quote from Ekarderif:

I hated Red Hat but enjoyed Slackware. Then I installed Gentoo and promptly turned away from Linux. Looks like it's a permanent thing now.

I'm not surprised with those distros. :P

distros worth running:
debian (for servers)
ubuntu (for desktops)
arch (for either)

distros not worth running:
slackware
gentoo
mandrake
red hat

i like linux a lot, but I'm still not convinced it's the right choice for 99% of computer users. as an operating system that is still essentially written by enthusiasts for enthusiasts, it lacks the professional polish of windows and is frustratingly hard to get to grips with. as an enthusiast myself, though, i love the fact that all the software is free; that i can change any part of the system that i dislike at will; that the development tools are comprehensive and well maintained; that the whole system is an order of magnitude more secure than windows thanks to proper split user permissions; and of course the unbelievable power of the bash shell. Linux (or FreeBSD, or one of the other open operating system kernels) quite simply provides the best possible way to learn how computers and operating systems work.

just a point of information: you get nearly all of that with Mac OS X too, but with the added bonus that it is a professional product with a corresponding level of polish and ease of use.

[quote="Ekarderif"]I hated Red Hat but enjoyed Slackware. Then I installed Gentoo and promptly turned away from Linux. Looks like it's a permanent thing now.[/quote]

I'm not surprised with those distros. :P

[b]distros worth running:[/b]
debian (for servers)
ubuntu (for desktops)
arch (for either)

[b]distros not worth running:[/b]
slackware
gentoo
mandrake
red hat

i like linux a lot, but I'm still not convinced it's the right choice for 99% of computer users. as an operating system that is still essentially written by enthusiasts for enthusiasts, it lacks the professional polish of windows and is frustratingly hard to get to grips with. as an enthusiast myself, though, i love the fact that all the software is free; that i can change any part of the system that i dislike at will; that the development tools are comprehensive and well maintained; that the whole system is an order of magnitude more secure than windows thanks to proper split user permissions; and of course the unbelievable power of the bash shell. Linux (or FreeBSD, or one of the other open operating system kernels) quite simply provides the best possible way to learn how computers and operating systems work.

just a point of information: you get nearly all of that with Mac OS X too, but with the added bonus that it is a professional product with a corresponding level of polish and ease of use.

Ekarderif

2005-10-25 07:43:07 am

At first, I believed Gentoo was great due to its source-based setup. Then I actually used it and found out it to be extremely messy... I'd try Debian, but I'm addicted to the ports collection among other things. And BSD doesn't tend to have evangelists like Linux :P.

JaggerG

2005-10-25 09:20:33 am

Shifty Leader

That M2k2 guy

In checking through logs, I discovered a question that wasn't answered within 5 lines of it that I wanted to know the answer to. Why is the A capital, yet the j remains lower case?

SABERinBLUE

2005-10-25 10:32:41 am

Cook of the Sea

I've been trying to get up the guts to back up my harddrive, repartition that motherflickerbatter, and install the Debian I've got on an iso somewhere. I've always wanted to try Linux, because from what I've heard about it I think it suits my personality the best. Meh, I'll just leap up and do it on some Saturday...

Ekarderif

2005-10-25 01:48:25 pm

After reading some of Debians philosophies, I feel does apply to my tastes. The development team adheres to the Unix philosophy quite well and not Linus's and defintely not GNU's (thank God).

In my opinion, Mac OS X is a double-edged sword. The system is beautiful (far better than any X11 setup... or Windows for that matter), and I really appreciate Apple's contributions into free software. But it still remains a largely proprietary system. Personally, I love what Mr. Jobs has done: helping out the community.

SABERinBLUE

2005-10-25 01:57:19 pm

Cook of the Sea

Yeah, I mean the only Mac I've ever owned was the old old one with 7.5.5 on it, so it was hair-pulling to work with, and it had a ludicrous amount of things it simply could not do, like run Java (I spent hours one night combing Apple.com's archives for a Java plugin for an OS that old, and when I finally found it, it barely worked at all), run Shockwave, view forums correctly, and the list goes on. However, when I use my friend's oldish machine (an iMac of some non-current make) that nonetheless is running Tiger, my racial tendencies remain when the machine runs Tiger sluggishly--I still lay curses upon the Mac and not the actual processor or memory--but honestly, the only things that are frustrating are simply little details like how to do things, like do I click over here or over there, not anything special. The system itself is extremely user-friendly, and I always accomplish what I need to on it very efficiently.

nate

2005-10-25 02:25:48 pm

saber, you should go here and type waco, tx into the thing and find a location to go check out a g5 (power mac or imac, shouldn't matter really). a man does not understand os x unless he has seen it run on a ridiculously fast cpu with a ridiculously huge monitor at a ridiculously high resolution. do not leave without seeing a 30 incher.

SABERinBLUE

2005-10-25 02:42:51 pm

Cook of the Sea

Our Best Buy is incredible at least as far as the staff is concerned (the head sales rep discussed different buying options for my laptop with me and my dad for about an hour, and then reccomended that we get it from Office Depot since it was slightly cheaper there in the end) and I'm pretty sure they've got a g5 on display, I'll have to check it out.

Snytbaggen

2005-10-26 09:57:42 am

Just saw this in th MP glitches thread!

(it's DeathNoble's sig)

attachment:

funny.PNG

JaggerG

2005-10-26 10:33:56 am

Shifty Leader

That M2k2 guy

that is awesomely convenient.

AstDerek

2005-10-26 12:04:24 pm

XD

I don't see that kind of things with rand sigs & avatars (maybe that is not random sig, but gotta say it anyway), since my conn is slow, I don't like FireFox reloading a page a thousand times...

Yoshi348

2005-10-26 01:49:18 pm

PAGE BREAKER

Ready and willing.

Had a hard time finding the right article for this... there's quite a few of them out there but this is just about the only one that simply gives the story straight.

http://news.webindia123.com/news/showdetails.asp?id=141345&cat=Entertainment

Shocked

JaggerG

2005-10-26 02:13:32 pm

Shifty Leader

That M2k2 guy

About damn time someone figured out how that worked. Does this mean we're gonna have a new religion running around sacrificing goatse and such?

trh

2005-10-26 02:18:27 pm

Quote from JaggerG:

About damn time someone figured out how that worked. Does this mean we're gonna have a new religion running around sacrificing goatse and such?

Sacrificing.. goatse?

JaggerG

2005-10-26 02:37:01 pm

Shifty Leader

That M2k2 guy

That's how we do in the 21st century, yo. Them crazy beasts need to get martyrized (or needlessly slaughtered in the name of all that is physically impossible).