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Burn After Reading mini-review [21 Sep 2008|03:08pm] [ mood | awake ] This time it's Firefox 3 that busted my layout. Ugh. So, anyone out there got any layout suggestions, premade layouts, whatever? I'm willing to switch it up a bit if it means it will stop bloody breaking on me. I saw Burn After Reading last night. It was entertaining, to say the least. The whole theater cracked up on several occasions, which is always nice. The acting was, of course, pulled off very well. The music was awesome. I want to get the soundtrack, I think, just for kicks. The only thing I have a problem with is the fact that I have no idea where those two hours of my life went. The plot is not what the trailer or the summary would have you think. The CIA does play a role, but not what you would expect. No, this is mostly a bunch of normal people getting themselves into semi-compromising situations all revolving around each other in a series of crazy coincidences, messed-up relationships and bizarre circumstances that leave you going, "... That makes sense. I don't know how, but that actually makes sense." Needless to say, I don't know what happened. The first thing all four of us said after getting out of that movie was, verbatim, "What the hell did I just see?" It really was a good movie, though. You will enjoy yourself if you go see it, unless you have no patience for dramatic irony. Basically, The Coen brothers are back in full force with this one. I plan to pick up the DVD when it comes out. Oh, and go with a group. Don't go alone, you won't enjoy it nearly as much. You'll want someone there with you so you can "WTF?!" in tandem. Oh, and don't take the kids. If they're under sixteen, leave 'em at home. I'm not kidding. Not. Kidding. End mini-review of sorts. Enjoy the rest of your Sunday, everyone~ never strikes twice

Ah, computers. [12 Sep 2008|11:09am] [ mood | tired ] I am of the opinion that every single mouse attached to a campus computer is nothing but a piece of crap that they bought for 1/2 off at some hole-in-the-wall computer store because it was the best and cheapest deal they could find. I am so serious. What kind of mouse won't go left unless you pick it up and roll the ball yourself? ... Moving on. I don't necessarily need a new laptop, but I want one and I'm pretty sure I have the funds (of my own money, thank you) to get one. The thing is, I want to build my own. I'm tired of pre-built Dells that only do so much for me. I highly doubt it, but do any of you know where/how I could get started with this? I'm thinking it could be a winter break project or something... Also, anyone know any decent ways of getting a network to work better for you? I don't even care if it's illegal at this point~ ♥ 4 struck •never strikes twice

Okay, seriously. What? [04 Sep 2008|12:20am] ..... Does my IJ layout destroy itself as retaliation for me not signing on? Christ... Uh. Not much to say here, other than life goes on. And it's currently kicking my ass, but I'm biding my time for round two... Yep. That's about it. .... You are dismissed. ::SHOT:: 2 struck •never strikes twice

She's looking for the answers... [10 Aug 2008|12:33am] [ mood | contemplative ] How did I manage to go an entire month without updating this thing? Back now, though. Anyway... Just a little thought dump that's been building for a while. I realize that I apologize too much. I have tried to change this, and I really have been much better about it. I know that saying something so often means it loses its value a little. I hate it, but it's true and I acknowledge that. However, I don't feel that gives someone the right to tag my apologies as meaningless. It really hurts, especially when all I'm doing is expressing my sympathy. "He dumped me." "I'm sorry..." "Whatever, Maggie. Stop." (Actual conversation) I mean, is it really that offensive? Did I really kill the sentiment that much during high school that now, after a conscious (and successful, in my opinion) effort to grow up a bit and fix it, I'm still not allowed to say it? I haven't heard "It's alright," "It's okay," or "You're forgiven," as a response in a very long time. Maybe there's a reason for that. I always just get "Not your fault." Or, if they're in enough of a bad mood, I get snapped at. And, I'm talking about legitimate apologies. I say something out of line, I get called on it... so I apologize. Just an "I really shouldn't have gone that far. I'm really sorry." Simple, right? ... Come on, people, I'm trying here. What needs to happen? I don't want to be the kind of person who takes this too far to the other extreme, who never takes responsibility for anything, even when they're clearly at fault. Useless thought dump, I realize, but sometimes... you just have to get things out. I really do have a long road ahead of me, I guess, when it comes to fixing things. 3 struck •never strikes twice

The things people whine about, I swear... [29 Jun 2008|06:17pm] [ mood | irate ] [ music | Sci-fi channel in the background. Har. ] Because it's been a while since I've messed with layout-ing, I think I'm gonna give it another shot. I just need to think of something to center it on... Anyone got any ideas? ♥ See This? This is the kind of thing that really just drives me up the wall. Let me fully explain myself. Yes, it irks me that people blame M-rated video games for violence. Yes, it irks me that they're not cracking down on TV and movies like they are video games. But when people are throwing tantrums because someone keeps blaming video games... doesn't that sort of make it worse for your case? People don't listen to whiners. Sadly, they hardly listen to honest debates, either, so I really don't know what to do about it. Just... not this. This article just gives me the impression of people getting mad at people for getting mad at other people who are mad at other people who think video games are Satan's spawn. I am tired of reading all of this he-said-she-said. In the long run? All I want is for video games to have the same sort of mature treatment as film and TV. You get carded to go into R-rated movies, at least here in my state. If that means showing an ID to get an M-rated game? I am all for it. If a parent wants to get their kid this M-rated game? Then let them. But when they turn around and blame the video game industry for exposing their child to "such horrible atrocities," I want someone to turn around and say, "You bought the game. You were warned. There's a sticker on the box. It's your problem." Stop taking these sue-happy adults seriously, world. It's what the movies have done. Why can't video game companies do it, too? I read something else at some point where someone tried to buy... What was it, Metal Gear Solid? It was at Best Buy, and they wouldn't give it to him because his little brother was there and they were suspicious he was buying the game for his minor. As it turns out, the kid had no idea what was going on. Best Buy still gave him trouble, though, and ultimately never gave him the game. On the one hand? Good for Best Buy for picking up on it. On the other hand? Give the man his game after he's explained himself. Don't be dicks about it. .... Wow, my argument is going all over the place with no coherent breakdown. And I'm probably contradicting myself some, too. My bad. Let me get off of my soap box now, lest I destroy something or devalue my own rant. Before I do, though? Just to summarize? M-rated games aren't the root of the problem. I'll buy that they don't help the problem, but neither do violent movies. If you're going to give one flack, why not the other? I'm a firm believer that it rests with the parents to teach their kids what's right and wrong. And if the kid can't separate fact from fiction later in life? I think you did something wrong in your attempt to raise them. And stop wanking about wankers who are wanking about wank. No matter the medium. Por favor. 3 struck •never strikes twice

[02 Jun 2008|09:58pm] Has anyone else tried the new Sierra Mist Undercover stuff? It's really, really weird... Anyway. So, my layout totally killed itself here. Which is why I haven't wanted to update. I'm discouraged. Bawww, whine moar, Alkaid! Geez. XD I'll get back into the swing of this thing when I figure out what happened to the damn thing. :x never strikes twice

IJ, why must you die? [11 Apr 2008|12:09am] [ mood | aggravated ] [ music | "Summersong" - The Decemberists ] Yoinked from pretty much everyone. Crossposted to my LiveJournal. Roleplayer's Meme: 1. Copy and paste this survey into your journal 2. Answer the questions 3. Place your answers behind a cut It ain't that long. Deal. 1. What was the first organized game you ever played? Some strange D&D blatant rip-off that I don't even remember the name of. That was... seventh grade. 2. What forms of roleplay have you done? Damn. AIM, LJ, forums-based, text-based (Imperian, anyone?), pencil/pen-and-paper, tabletop, LARP, actual 'playing in MMOs... heh. ^^; 3. How many years have you been roleplaying? Seventh grade. That makes it... eight years, roughly. Perhaps longer. 4. Did you ever date someone you played with? Yep~ 5. How much time do you devote to role-play? Ahahaha. Uh. A lot. ♥ 6. Would you name your kids after a character in one of your games? Yep~ XD! 7. Has roleplay ever interfered with real life? HAR. Yes. 8. What games are you currently playing? paradisa, dragonsoffate, roadscrossed 9. Any games you might be interested in playing in the future? B.E.S.M. It's pen-and-paper, anime-based. Might get started in on that. Also, may start going to a tabletop one that meets up in Summerville every other weekend or so. 10. Overall, has roleplay been a positive or negative experience for you? Positive, by far. Self-discovery, therapy, way to meet some really freakin' kick-ass individuals... Sure, it makes time-management that much harder (or in my case, nonexistent, lol), but that's okay. ♥ I'm happy. never strikes twice

Drama happens after 2 AM. [31 Mar 2008|11:19am] [ mood | confused ] Oh dear God, the roleplaying wank. We're going to be glad that I slept through that, because otherwise, I'm going to angst over being out of the loop again. In reality news, I'm taking a senior level Chemistry course next semester. ... I'm going to die. Other than that, I can't think of much to say. Apologies for the useless update. Good luck with everything, everyone. 5 struck •never strikes twice

Decisions... [24 Mar 2008|10:39am] [ mood | stressed ] God help me, I just got the sudden urge to get back on Second Life. ::cries:: I've finally decided... I think I'm going to use this journal for fiction -- fan or original. I'll probably post some of my icons, too, every now and then. We'll see. But, since I have nothing to offer for right now... I shall take my leave and do the schoolwork that's been hounding me for a while now. Joy. never strikes twice

Foresight, or weird luck? [16 Mar 2008|09:04pm] [ mood | accomplished ] Last night, I sat down and I told myself, "Self, tomorrow, you are going to reformat your computer. You have been putting it off, and now, you no longer have an excuse. You will do it. Back up everything right the heck now." And so, I did. Woke up this morning, turned on my computer, and the poor dear gives me the Blue Screen of Death at startup. At. Startup. Either I have some weird form of psychic ability that lets me see into the near future, or that was just dumb, dumb luck. And I don't even know if I should call it good luck or bad luck, because even though I did back everything up, it still killed itself. The other theory is that my computer heard me plotting a reformat and realized she no longer had to keep trying, so she finally just gave into her slowly dying harddrive. ::hugs:: Poor thing, I will never let you get that messed up again. never strikes twice

Look at me still talking when there's science to do! [21 Feb 2008|02:04pm] [ mood | calm ] [ music | "Remember The Name" - Fort Minor feat. Styles of Beyond ] I went down to the waterfront to see the lunar eclipse last night. I must say, it was quite beautiful... when I actually got a chance to see it. It figures that the year the east coast + Texas has the best view of it, the entire stretch of coast + Texas is overcast. Blah. It showed up every few moments or so. In the meanwhile, my friends and I entertained ourselves with a camera, a blanket, and the fact that we're all so very, incredibly immature when bored after dark. It was aided by the fact that blankets can be tied around one's neck to look like a cape. .... You do the math. .... "Whoooooosssshhh~" ::AHEM:: Moving on. I think this happens once every three years. And assuming I did my research right, the next full solar eclipse isn't going to happen until I'm like... seventy, or something. Oh well, maybe I'll be alive at that point. In gaming news, Audiosurf is working on getting support at Last.FM. I think that would be awesome -- I would love for any of the tracks I play in the game to be scrobbled on my Last.FM page. They're also improving their methods of keeping tracks/artists straight, which is another plus. Speaking of, next time I'm on my own computer, I have a log of ID3 tags that I need to go in and fix. I think there's a site somewhere that has a free program to do it for me...? I'll have to look again. It's been a while since I've reminded myself that this needs doing. Know what? I'll add that to my List of Computer Things that Need Doing Over Spring Break. So far, that's: Complete reformat Make sure defrag/chkdsk actually freakin' works after reformat ID3 tags fixed Create some sort of semblance of order for my documents/pictures KILL OUTLOOK EXPRESS. KILL IT DEAD. WITH FIRE. Let's hope it actually goes as planned, shall we? never strikes twice

Stores closing, and Audiosurf obsessions [17 Feb 2008|02:54pm] [ mood | competitive ] [ music | "Heart of Crimson" - Chikayo Fukuda ] The Game Stop on Calhoun Street closed down yesterday. I just happened to be right there when they were taking final inventory, and I was able to take something off of their hands: It's now hanging above my door. Good times. Audiosurf released on Friday, and I've been playing it like crazy ever since. I had some screenshots, but they're not all that great, so I think I'm going to hold off. There will be plenty of Audiosurf posts later, I assure you. In the meanwhile, though, I decided to be an absolute dork and make a livejournal community for the game. I'll probably advertise it on the Steam forums and the official forums when I rack up a few more posts in each. Obsessed? What's that? You compete with people from all over the place for each song. There are scoreboards for everything, it's insane. Know what the kicker is? When someone knocks you off of your high score? THEY E-MAIL YOU: Audiosurf scoreboard alert - Dethroned! You used to have the worldwide best score for: blue by a perfect circle Now the Audiosurf player 'Ryoken Ryagnaroth' has beaten you. Get back in the game and reclaim the top spot! View High Scores for blue by a perfect circle Needless to say, I quickly remedied that and now have the top score for "Blue" once again, but still, you should have heard me yelling at the computer, "EXCUSE ME?! WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?! I DON'T FUCKING THINK SO!" My roommate came in, gave me a hug, laughed and thanked me for entertaining her. ♥ 6 struck •never strikes twice

Nostalgia, much? [14 Feb 2008|11:10am] [ mood | nostalgic ] [ music | "Comedown" - Bush ] Because I sincerely miss my Phantasy Star Universe days, I'm going to babble on about that for a bit. Don't mind me. I thought I had more screenshots of the Valentine's Day '07 Decorations they had up, but I guess not. Either way, here's the best shot I could manage of the ship's lobby: ( big images. Sorry about that, folks~ ) I'm really tempted to start it back up, but I don't know that I feel like paying $10 a month for the subscription and SEGA of America has really crappy customer service. I may lurk through the official forums some, just to get a feel for how things are going. I think my characters still exist, though, which is a definite plus. Regardless, Happy Valentine's Day to everyone. ♥ 1 struck •never strikes twice

Gaming woes [13 Feb 2008|12:34pm] [ mood | bored ] [ music | "Paris in Flames" - Thursday ] I'm considering either getting back into Ragnarok Online or finding a different free game/free server. PSO:BB is nice, too, I just can't connect because the internet at my school is pretty terrible. Seriously. Even the gameroom, which is optimized for the public Xbox 360 and PS3 is absolute shit. I was playing Halo 3 with Ito and one moment, we were fine. The next moment, I was dead and my apparent assailant was already casually walking off. You have no idea how much that pisses me off. On a more public matter, I'm still trying to decide what to do here. Crossposting seems retarded, so... well, who knows. 3 struck •never strikes twice

First post is always a test. [10 Feb 2008|10:54am] [ mood | awake ] [ music | "Fiction (Dreams in Digital)" - Orgy ] What's up? This is the obligatory test post so that I can, you know, make my journal look nice. Bold text, italicized text, strikethrough text, linkage, all that good stuff. And this is where I start going on and on about nothing in hopes that the text will wrap and go down a few lines. I'm sure there's an easier way to do this, like a massive copy-paste, but word dumps are just so much more fun that that, you know? Anyway, I still can't believe I caved and made an IJ when I still have no idea what I'm going to use it for. Public entries, maybe? I probably should have a public blog somewhere, just because. Makes me feel less pressured to make all of my entries super-meaningful so that I can justify friends-locking them. Not too sure I like the layout of the IJ homepage. Wonder if I can change it... Hmm. I'll look into that. You know, that should be enough... I hope... EDIT: CHRIST, this is a blast from the past! I haven't had to use overrides since LJ decided it was too good for overrides! Too bad I don't still have my layout saved in a notepad file somewhere. Oh well. :/ 1 struck •never strikes twice

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