Everything posted by samm
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The Music Thread
Pendulum - Granite sounds good imo. Also got me listening to Machinae Supremacy again, thanks to low tech synthie sounds Vast - Dirty Hole
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The Music Thread
Massive Attack - Risingson
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Computer cooling
A brush is good too, but it must be of a material that doesnt get statically charged.
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Computer cooling
Gorgon, regarding "asthmatically pleasing": Great! Walsingham: Clean it. Use an air-spray (can of compressed air? not sure how to call this thing in English) to get dust out of the case and all coolers (be aware though that you will have to clean your room afterwards of that fine layer of dust...) Install a fan that sucks air into the case in the front bay of your case, one at the back that blows it out again, if those aren't present yet. Consider a watercooling-solution for your cpu, mainboard and graphics card. And one more thing: While this will reduce the warmth of your components, it will not really affect the amount of heat that gets into your room because the components still change the same amount of current into heat. If you have some device that uses heat energy to change it into some other form of energy, I recommend to use that
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Quest for Glory II: Trial by Fire out Tomorrow! (Aug 24)
Wow yes, the music (and funny accents) are what I remember about the game Hm, I'll have to look for a way to extract the music from that cd...
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Romantic drivel
Rosbjerg: Didn't all these groups also have a different outlook on romance? And didn't they push you into the "I'm not in a group"-group, because they knew you were in other groups too? And thx for taking me into your group No, I actually think it takes a bit until someone realizes how he/she really is, and in the end this is individual, with smaller or larger parts inside a norm. The same is true for a concept like romance. There is a norm, being what a majority accepts as part of the concept. Then there's what an individual thinks is romantic, part of which is likely to be in the norm concept, but part of which is outside of it. I would be interested in that. Anyone finding going to a fastfood restaurant and sharing a doughnut is romantic? Is having birds at home and caring for them romantic? Or is it just and strictly a consensus on e.g. "sharing something" or "caring for something" that hits the romantic vein? Is only watching sunsets in the arms of the beloved romantic, or is a eating alone at home not minding the sunset while listening to the favourite band romantic too? GuardDog: Well, it's a teenie-thing that's going on right now. What I've seen from it so far: The prejudice-following Emo has an exterior compareable to some (neon) goth, (dark) punk or similar, a hairstyle compareable to Visual Kei, listens to screamy music, has self destructive tendencies because of his uncontrolled emotions, says "I'm not Emo", and calls "EMO!!!" after others while pointing with his finger, all the while being mobbed at school (there have also been progrom-like mobs chasing the teens in the street in Turkey iirc). In the end, they will grow out of it when their not youths anymore, or evolve into something serious, part of which goth has become. Then there are also those who know what emo actually is, but they're an intellectual and music savvy minority
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Romantic drivel
OT, therefore in spoilertags
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What you did today
Woops, it's falling to the right
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Romantic drivel
Just a phase? Attracted to beach bums? Man, you haven't met goth chicks [edit]Realizing you're a bit older than me, that was probably at a time where there was a youth culture that has matured since, and I only know it from that current perspective. What you met must have been members of what is called Emo today. Moatilliatta: I'm not going to point the arguments out that were already uttered, because it would be more work than I'm willing to spend. Just look for all posts that say "girls", "all", "always", "men", "one of the", "xs are y", "xs think y" etc. without saying "most of... I've met", "there was one", "some of" or more specific restrictions, explicit links to personal experience etc.
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The Music Thread
Fields of the Nephilim - Psychonaut Yeah, at that time my father thought the first time about acquiring a cd player and I was listening to kids singinging on mcd or when I felt a daring boy probably the tamer ones of the beatles' songs... on vinyl
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Romantic drivel
Moatilla: It's just that imo we all should apply more critical thinking (thanks for bringing it up! THE one thing against prejudice ) before posting. Perhaps that's only because I'm online way too often currently so I expect people here to communicate the way I prefer them in RL
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Romantic drivel
Correction: Boring is boring. Stupidity has a lot to do with being boring. Being nice doesn't correlate with being stupid, and not directly with being boring. Also, confidence isn't necessarily tied to arrogance. Often it's shyness that's is misinterpreted as arrogance. I can totally see that, but what do those numbers mean? Please explain :
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Romantic drivel
qt: Why would an intelligent girl be interested in guys interested in dumb girls? If you think about it, the guys interested in good looking but stupid girls aren't worth it anyway, can't be taken seriously, and trusted even less. Be glad you didn't catch their attention *shrug* The generalizations in this thread, that I contibuted to as well, about "the pretty", "the dumb", "women" and "men" are beginning to make me sick. I can identify with parts of the stereotypes represented herein, and some of the conclusions and other parts of the stereotypes are so totally off that I don't recommend anyone really looking for advice and/or opinions to read this thread.
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Romantic drivel
That's because looks is all she has. I wonder what the dumb and ugly girl has... Dumbness is bad for romance, because then the only thing that will be accepted as "romantic" are clich
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The Music Thread
Rotersand - Rushing (club recut) Too... clubby to listen to while surfing.
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What you did today
Sure, let me know when you do I always wonder how similar to their avatar people really are
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What you did today
I don't think you're missing out much (except me probably ). It's just a city. There are no roman ruins in it, and it isn't in the mountains. You can see mountains in the distance however, and there's a river and a lake, some kind of split old town, shopping for the rich, shopping for the alternative, way too expensive pubs and clubs.
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The Music Thread
Jim Carrey - I am the walrus Hm, but imho he doesn't get the "goo goo ga joob"-things right Well, it's hard to like covers anyway if you like the original.
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The Music Thread
Samael - Heliopolis Now a long way from Black Metal, and I really like it
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The Music Thread
While the band's name sounds like a german Schlager singer, it's actually very good and swedish.
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The Music Thread
Vast - Don't Take Your Love Away
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The Music Thread
I'm more sorry for **** and his name, don't know about his music. The Mountain Goats - Up the wolves
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Quad Core or Dual Core
Both are reference designs*, so I'd take the cheaper one. The datasheet page says that it has a TV out as well, but look for some reviews to see whether that's true. (I think it is judging from the picture: that black round thing between the DVI exits). *the Asus one has Alone in the dark bundled, probably that's why the price is higher.
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What you did today
Speaking of bison: I'm badly hung over right now, thanks to three different vodkas we tried yesterday. On of them had a single "bison grass" in it, and it was actually the first vodka I liked the way it was. I was sorry for that today, spent four hours on the toilet hoping I wouldn't get sick again. On the bright side, I looked really cool for some time, like a zombie. Totally blood red eyes, face so pale you could see all the veins, and shadows around the eyes I couldn't have drawn better if I tried