As an artist, who has had experience with art theft, I found this outrageous. And here's the kicker, in the NPR interview, they asked Mr. Fariey why he didn't even bother to acknowledge the original photographer of the famous Obama photo taken by Mannie Garcia, in his artwork, he replied, "I really didn't know who took the photo at the time, I just liked it. So I took it." and latter added, "and, I'm a fucking lazy ass art thief plagiarizing fucker, who's too lazy to do my research or credit people where credit is due." Ok, I added the last part, but here's my point.....
This is the same guy who did the Andre the Giant ‘Obey’ posters..... And then fucking littered the city with them! That's right, he's got a record. He's nothing more than a criminal vagrant, and I don't like him.
I hope the A.P makes him pay out the ass, until his balls bleed of bad checks.
Happy birthday you misery and despair machine, while your cutting your self just remember this.....
[HAPPYBDAY]She's hotter than you....[/HAPPYBDAY]
And loves Zelda.... But...
You may have been dumped and cheated on and had a hard time, and you may be calibrating your birthday alone with a razor blade, a bottle of jack and a glass of broken dreams..
But her vagina smells of rotten sailer and at least you don't have to admit to that... Right? No stinky vag for Lazy. Right??? I mean you wash it once and while at least, don't you? Right?!?
It's gross isn't it? Ok.... Well
Happy birthday.......
Posted by: Dark Jaguar - 21st February 2009, 10:23 AM - Forum: Tendo City
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Ever since my last update to my computer, I have been unable to use Windows 98 for my retro needs. The hardware is simply too modern and a lot of components lack 9x drivers, namely my sound card. So, I've had to scrap that. I had few alternatives. For some time I was considering digging up the components to make a really old computer specifically for this task. After making a number of changes to DOSBox, I don't think I'll need to any more. The biggest change was realizing I could install Windows 3.11 in the latest version of DOSBox :D. So I've got that working now, with old drivers for the S3 graphics card and SoundBlaster 16 which DOSBox emulates, and after installing some needed components in it, like Windows Video, I've got access to the full King's Quest collection in glitch free mode. Yes, I could play the DOS versions of them, but in the case of KQ5, the music is aweful, just aweful, and in KQ6, the character portraits are in VGA instead of SVGA resolution and don't look nearly as nice (plus the starting and ending movie files are much lower quality). Plus, after finally getting extended midi support working in my emulated 3.11 experience, the music in KQ5 6 and 7 were even better than what DOS could offer. In the case of KQ7, the DOS and Windows versions are identical (In windows it doesn't even have the title bar) so I may just go with DOS for that one for simplicity. Windows 3.11 starts basically instantly so it's not like there's any wait. Oh, ABF you have noted the "larger black bars" around KQ5 and 6 before and I never quite got why they would be like that. I get it now though. Nothing is cut off the screen. It's just that there's a different aspect ratio. Since Windows 3.11 is locked in a 640x480 resolution, and those old KQ games are in 320x200, something had to give. Displaying it in DOS just means using that exact resolution, but in Windows they had to "double" it to fill the screen space, which works except it's then 640x400. In other words, nothing's been cut off, it's just in a pseudo wide screen mode. Since the aspect difference is so negligable, I never really noticed it before, but as that's how I originally played them, I prefer it that way, and in the case of KQ6, it was actually designed around that aspect ratio so it works better. I prefer smaller more accurate cursors to larger ones too, so the cursors being black and white doesn't bother me either.
There is one last thing to deal with. For some reason KQ7 under 3.11 has issues with it's cursor. Whenever it animates, which is often in KQ7, it blinks away and back in, making it hard to see sometimes. I may just go with the DOS version after all for that.
Oh yes, The Dagger of Amon Ra works flawlessly now! It works better than it did in 9x in fact. That one ONLY has a Windows version so DOS wasn't even an option there. Running a true DOS game under 3.11 under DOSBox under Windows XP seems to be a step too far though, as they glitch like crazy in that environment (and the characters wax too philosophical about their world within a world, nope guys, I'm at the top), but that's fine as I just set up a standard DosBox environment for them, and heck, the earliest KQ games using the AGI interpreter still work perfectly under XP anyway.
Firstly, it's odd no one seemed to notice this in RE4. Secondly, I'm not sure how much of a problem racism is in Japan, at least compared to xenophobia. At any rate, I at least recognize that Africa is the "setting" where the original zombie story came from, and wouldn't you know it, a lot of people are black there. That doesn't help too much to cover up the sting of seeing an upstanding white guy shooting down the savage blackie though, considering certain... historic precedent.
At least there's also savage white people thrown in the mix now.
Robot and mantis shall never dwell together in peace...
You've probably all seen those sci-fi shows where someone wipes away bad memories, and then some moral about how that's bad follows. Well, it seems there's a much better way to go about it. Instead of deleting a bad memory, just delete the bad part and keep the memory. If you have a scary memory of being stalked, you can keep all the details of being stalked and get rid of the fear you experience recalling it, so it's just bland.
Seems they conditioned people to fear images of spiders by shocking them after showing an image of a spider. Then, afterwards they injected this drug, and due to how memories are rebuilt, they remembered the spider image, they remembered that shocks come later, but it didn't scare them any more.
This sounds like a great way to treat post tramatic stress disorder.
I've said "marketers are idiots" before, but I think now I actually believe it. These people are morons! Either that, or they make a regular habbit of lying just to maintain the illusion that they are in any way needed.
Some products can sell themselves. I'm pretty sure if I ever invented teleportation, all I'd need to do is make a website and pass a crumpled note along to one person and within a month I'd be a trillionaire. Then some fool kid would come along and go through while concious... Oh the lawsuits...
(And incidentally I think the new logo is kinda dumb looking anyway, but then again I suppose the target audience was marketting executives so it must just fly over my head.)
Okay what gets me is that all this time I thought yeah I think it's dumb but they've got samples of test audiences confirming this. You know, like regardless of my own opinion on those test audiences, the numbers don't lie. No, just this nonsense! That's all they did! They don't even need the kinda badly gathered evidence of a badly picked test sample any more, they just make this stuff up!
I really can become a marketter if I wanted to! I bet they came up with the logo first and then ran around trying to tie as much deep philosophical stuff into it as they could to give the illusion that those millions were spent well. Is this all there is to maretting? If so, I could do it, but unfortunatly my moral standing against bull prevents me from doing so, just like becoming an astrologer or psychic or any other scam artist.
Explorer 2.0!
This is a little programing project I've been working on for 2 days. I rewrote Explorer.exe!
I'm running the new interface on WindowsXP SP2.
The screen shot shows some of my new features....
Such as the clutter less task bar (Which is a drop down now)
Cool new interface, with window shadows
And the new folder icon which shows it's contents right in the icon!
Everyone let me know what you think...
PS. I'll make this a free download as soon as I'm satisfied it's stable.
Had a chance to play it today. Very nice graphics, controls are great with the Wii Wheel (great accessory... :)), lots of tracks, remakes of a lot of classic Mario Kart courses, lots of characters to choose from... great stuff, an amazingly large improvement over Double Dash. Of the Mario Kart games I've played (that is, all but the DS one) only Mario Kart 64 compares... I'd need to own it and play it more to decide which I like more, but it's clear it's a great game. :)
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I got bored in between acts...
