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YouWinGameOver said:

That isn’t what I said. I am not going to defend myself on this one because you all have very different views on the subject matter than I do. You will all also bash what ever I have to say so on that note consider this my response.

That’s a bull*edited* answer and you know it. If you can defend that position in front of people who lost family members during the attack why is it so hard to defend it here? I would think this would be the less biased and more open minded of the two venues. The truth is that after all the smoke and dust settled, there is no sane reason to believe that we caused the attack. Some of the same people pushing that garbage out are the ones that later claimed the Bush was behind the attacks himself.

 

Southpark was dead on. “1/4 of the population is retarded.” Unfortunately that numbers seems to get larger every day.

 

As far as teachers go, they are getting EXACTLY what they deserve. I know it’s harsh but hear me out. No matter what market or industry it is, a union kills any hint or shred of fairness. Teachers don’t care because they don’t get paid to care. If teachers were paid based on their performance, instead of based on passing percentage and years “of service” you’d see alot more teachers trying to help their students to succeed by any means necessary. Yes the problem is usually the student, you can’t argue against that, but saying that poor schools are suffering because they can’t afford good teachers is stupid. They all get paid the same, the union ensures that. Throwing more money at schools doesn’t fix anything, I know this because I watched another high school where I live get tons of money and still not beat my high school in gratuation rates or EoC scores. They had more AP classes, some really nice labs, and even offered a Cisco certification class but parents still sent their kids to my school because our teachers were better. They kept increasing their budget until they realized money wasn’t the solution and redrew the district lines to send a sizable portion of public housing to my already 120% capacity school to “balance the opportunities and test scores of the county”. Oddly enough though sending them to the poorer school actually helped the students.

 

Four years later, the richer school still has declining scores while my school has about peaked at well above state and national averages.

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torankusu said:

I wasn’t even talking to you. The reason why you think I ignored your point is because I was talking to sticky. I was talking about why lockem would be in there.

 

Thanks for trying to be a jerk, as usual (and if this is not your intent, sorry, but you certainly come off as one), but I was actually supporting your stance on the issue. I admit that I should’ve quoted sticky — sorry about that — but don’t come off as so confrontational. You didn’t really here, but you do, well, pretty much all the time.

Your post directly answered mine and was arguing against the point I was trying to make. If you weren’t talking to me you sure hid it well.

 

If you were trying to support my stance it sure didn’t look like it. It looked alot like you were backing up sticky’s sentiment.

 

As to that last part, idk what to say. First you thank me for being a jerk, then apologize for not making your post clearer, then say that I wasn’t a jerk, then tell me not to be so confrontational, then admit that I wasn’t confrontational this time. Wtf man?

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YahooEarth said:

I hate you…

It’s dropped a sizeable portion almost every time I’ve played it and it always gets with 2-3 people of RTV’ing off it. The other maps pick up a few people to offset the losses but havana doesn’t seem to do that.

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torankusu said:

Not everyone is willing to take the time to sit in an empty server and wait for others to join.

Did you ignore my point on purpose? He was IN the server and TRYING to populate it and sticky demeaned him for it.

 

If people arn’t willing to play in the server simply because it’s low on people you’ve got some foundational issues you need to sort out. Every day at 6AM the server starts with 0 people and every day a handful join and wait for it to fill. If you run those handful off or make them feel stupid there’s only one logical outcome.

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d2.sticky-icky said:

Why are you even in the server? 3 people in the server…c’mon now…lol

So you’d rather the server be empty?

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Bitey said:

This date will not be changed again under any circumstances.

I won’t be there but thanks for setting it in stone like that. It’s the only way to get it done.

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Come up with the basic equations and then do a full breakdown for each combination of stocks, IE 100% A with 0% B, 99% A with 1% B, all the way up to 0% A with 100% B. The risks for each combination should also be part of an equation. In excel, once you get one item working it should be easy to get everything else going.

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Audyo said:

Now Mitch must hack the 360 to use Mouse and Keyboard for gaming.

I use it mainly for Windows Live but tied the XBOX gamertag to my live account before PCs could use the system, back around 2005. I assumed I would own an XBOX one day and it was really easy to get the gamertag I wanted back then.

 

I’ll probably be picking an XBOX360 up in the next year.

 

And yes, the first task on my agenda is getting a keyboard/mouse setup going. It’d almost be like cheating. lol

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OMG winrar idea.

 

Kaizo Mario speedruns. Winner gets something worthy of the difficulty of the game.

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Name: Mitchell Pate

Handle: MasterP

XBL GT: Mitchpate

XBC:

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yousillyGoose said:

Heh, my friend just bought 4 of them actually. The seller has super high feedback. The fans are a bit loud which is the only drawback so far.

I can’t find the manufacturer’s website. That’s usually a bad sign.

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NoDice said:

I would advise mid week. Set a date and be firm with it no matter what. the harm is to great when we “cry wolf” and ppl will just not waist their time ever coming to them… strictly voicing my opinion.

 

I’m afraid if we rush things and only a handful of students to show up, its going to be detrimental to the club. Please look at the big picture.

I can’t believe it but I agree 100% with this.

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Item Specifics – Item Condition

Condition: Used

Brand : Monarch

lol?

 

For that cheap there’s got to be a catch.

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Lemm said:

I would like to say that I’m starting to be more attractive because I can kill again…

Lemm why are you here? You don’t meet the posting requirements.

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Liam said:

Especially considering I figured out the point slapper.

Right now it only subtracts 1000 points but it can easily be adjusted to subtract 100,000 points per slap.

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Falcon said:

Due to snow and a collection of other circumstances (all qualified reasons for not convening) there was no meeting… and ppl are angry with Bitey?… and we’re trying to figure out why no new recruits…

 

yeah, snow and other things mentioned definitely do happen, and get in the way. +1 to the Club if the meeting were to be rescheduled.

 

ppl are angry with Bitey about no meeting, or something of that nature? c’mon people, life happens from time to time, and mother nature gets cranky sometimes too. I think that should be a non-topic for anger

 

and no new recruits….

*thinks*

People are angry because this was the 2nd cancelled meeting. If we don’t have one LIKE NOW, there won’t be enough time to properly advertise and get sponsors lined up.

 

I don’t think this is entirely Bitey’s fault but we could have had the meeting and LAN dates set before the break.

 

Is Jill the ONLY person that can give us a room and if so can we get somewhere else? Central and Norton both have rooms large enough for us and anything is better than nothing.

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YahooEarth said:

and if anyone was wondering…his point *edited*ing has not ceased…

We didn’t really expect it to but there are ways for admins to discourage it.

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NoDice said:

Anyone even know if this even possible?

I’ve done it before but it’s extremely touchy-feely. I think it took me 2 hours to get the network sharing settings right and when I tried again a few weeks later I had to do something different to make it work. The big problem here though is the security policy networking has on the switches.

 

Microsoft has a network discovery addon to WinXP that’s supposed to make it easier to interact with Vista. You might try installing it. If nothing else they’ll be able to see each other in Network Places. This is, of course, completely dependent upon planetary alignment.

 

EDIT: One thing you might try is to use Remote Desktop to log into the XP machine from the Vista machines and have it use your Vista hard drive in the session. The option should be under the “More” button on the “Local Resources” options tab. When you get into XP, open My Computer and your all your lettered Vista drives should show up at the bottom of the list.

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Maybe the CL should check the logs.

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Chateu is using all default settings with the exception of the 2.5 minute roundtime and the 15 minute timelimit.

 

EDIT: Liam beat me to it.

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Kaz-Ka said:

Mitch are you kidding me? The only game I hear people still talking about for the 360 is Gears of War II and Fable II, thats it! So to say that the 360 is so much better than the PS3 is an understatement! Over the past few months for the PS3 however, people have been playing LittleBigPlanet, MGS4, and Resistance 2. So to say their lineup is lacking compared to the 360, come on, that’s an insane statement

Over the entire lifetime of both so far, which has had more? I try to keep up with the Console War but from what I’ve been seeing until recently the *good* exclusive releases have been pretty one sided. They may have as many or more good ones now but how long did they go without any at all?

 

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And to even try to compare the Wii to either the 360 or PS3 is sad. Have you read reviews on MANY of these Wii games that make it so much better? Well to put it shortly, Nintendo has, as of late, been trying to garner to the casual gamer, and in the process, been making mostly *edited* games. I mean hell, I own a Wii but I play my PS3 more because the gaming selection is so much better. And this proves that comparing the sales of a system to how well it is compared to others is a bull*edited* argument.

My comparison with the Wii was mainly to point out that even the “weakest” console can do many of the extra things that the PS3 gets so much publicity for. I won’t even try to defend it gameplay wise because it’s only had about a dozen games that are worth the disc they’re burned on. You have to admit though, for as garbage as the games are, they seem to be doing something right to still be the top seller. You can mock it for marketing to casual gamers all you want but until they can get another batch of good games out it’s the only smart way to stay in business.

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Audyo said:

Well all positions should be up for election, including President. I’m curious to see who will step up to the call. I know talk of me and Nickname running for President popped up at some point, but I’m only here for this semester. Plus I don’t want to have to deal with all the drama that position has to deal with sometimes. We’ll see how it goes at the meeting.

That’s the problem, for all the drama you see on the outside there’s usually twice that going on beneath it in one way or another. Less so the past few months. And no I don’t cause hardly any of that drama.

 

The executive meeting the other day about decided a good way to go through this and pass the leadership to the “next generation”. I’m not sure how much Bitey wants to reveal so I’ll go no further.

 

I will say that Kaz-ka’s name came up.

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josrocket said:

im not even gonna go into all the things that are wrong with what you said…i dont have time for this….if you want to be stupid then so be it…and do some research before you start explaining why things are the way they are…like MGS4 and everything else…why do you argue things you dont understand and know absolutly nothing about.

That’s not the best argument deflection I’ve ever seen but it’s certainly not the worst. You can’t prop something up and then call someone stupid and run away from the discussion when they point out otherwise. It’s not how this argument/debate thing is supposed to work.

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josrocket said:

Also Mitch the ps3 can do anything my PC does. Im not even talking about with linux installed….hell i go on it and write papers and print them out!!!!!

The Wii can do everything the PC can too but no one makes a big stink about it. I can go toss a word processor on it, plug a keyboard up, and type away if I wanted, or stream video, or play music, or host an FTP or webserver from it. You could load a 1TB hard drive up with movies and music and the Wii would play from it without any issues. Hell with a 3rd party add-on you could hook the Gamecube up to a computer and use it as a media center or use a custom gamedisc and stream video to it over a network. That whole concept is nothing new and isn’t an exclusive to one brand or another. The PS3 can’t do anything *useful* that the others can’t. And by useful I mean how the hell is remotely accessing a game console helpful? Compared to the PC I can’t imagine why you’d pick it to remote into at all.

 

My point was, if the PS3 is so great a system and is the wave of the future, why isn’t it blowing us away after 2 years? If you take away MGS4 it’s barely been above par when compared to XBOX360 and PC. I’ve heard the same “it’s futureproof”, “we’ve got tons of SUPER AWESOME exclusives coming SOON”, and “it’s so much better than everything else” for almost 4 years now. The excuse around launch date was that “programming for the cell processor is hard and no one know hows yet but just wait it’ll be great in a year”. Well, we’re there. It’s about that time where you put up or shut up because right now both of your competitors have outsole you 2:1, the Wii almost 3:1. Hell the Wii sold more last November and December than the PS3 sold for the entirety of 2008. I don’t know how much longer the fanboys are willing to wait, but anyone who is waiting for a super exclusive to make the purchase *immediately* worthwhile isn’t going to wait forever. I almost bought one on release week but had a nagging feeling that there was too much hype for it to be worth getting, so far I can’t say I’m disappointed with my decision.

 

Also, a 50GB game really doesn’t mean anything. All that says is that it’s either got a insane amount of cinematics or really poor encoding on the video and audio. From what I hear, there’s about as many cutscenes as there are action scenes and when you take a 1GB game with nothing but action and compare it to a 50GB game with some action and tons of boring cinematics I can tell you with a fair degree of certainty which one real gamers are going to want. Back in the golden age of PC gaming there was a game called Klingon Academy, a fairly fast paced space-based (obviously) flight sim that came on a whopping 6 CDs. Most games at the time barely used 200MB but this *edited* thing took up 100% of 6 CDs. The catch is that if you removed the cinematics it was about 300MB big. The cinematics weren’t a deal breaker because you could hit that nifty ESC key and go back to venting people into space but it’s a concept I haven’t seen since in PC gaming. Most gamers really don’t care who loves who or wants to kill who, they just want to sit down and shoot the *edited* out of something and putting delays between the shooting doesn’t warrant medals or acolades. If a PC game pulled a stunt like that, I certainly wouldn’t be bragging about it.

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NoDice said:

that answered my question. thanks

WTF? I helped you? It was a trap!

 

Liam, please delete any shred of evidence. This can’t get out…

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LuckySeven said:

How many mistakes have yall made bout people hacking and then looked at the demo and said the person wasnt hacking lol. I can name a few rq people for that matter. They got banned and then yall looked at the demo and said nope they arent hacking.

Correction: there wasn’t enough to prove hacks without *ANY* doubt. On almost all the rQ bans it has been a split vote and on a handful there have actually been more people who felt they were cheating than not.

 

If we cleared out every ban we didn’t take a demo for, we’d have to delete about 3/4 of our very large ban file. Do you people really like blatant hackers so much that you’d force admins to let them back on the server and then let the ones who join stay until “proper evidence” is taken? I believe that would make us about the only server where admins would be able to see hackers and not take action.

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What gets me is he went off on a rage in-game and then got *edited*ed when an admin dealt with the only side he could could see. If players are having problems, TALK TO THE ADMINS. Believe it or not, they WILL help you if you explain your problem and ask nicely. Had Cookiecutter told Ex that people were harrassing him over voice I can’t imagine Ex ignoring it.

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Audyo said:

You can link your Xbox with the PC for entertainment purposes, meaning you can watch videos, listen to music, browse through pictures that are on your PC with the help of either the latest WMP or Zune’s software.

With Vista, the XBOX360 is considered a “windows media extender” and should integrate directly with Windows itself over the network. I haven’t had the chance to play with those features but I imagine they’d make the XBOX a media powerhouse when combined with itunes or peer-to-peer.

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d2.sticky-icky said:

Woah Herbal proposed a 27 map rotation? LOL He’s crazy. I like the variety but that rotation is way too long. What’s up with the server crashing so much this month? Maybe the server needs some loving…

It was down earlier today for the monthly maintenance restart.

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rainefardreamer said:

so it’s being discussed?

that’s cool. so what do you discuss? whether you think the guy is hacking? i would think that a discussion would be most useful if there was something for them to look at. Memory, at least mine, isn’t really good enough and carries individual bias from perception.

 

but whatever, it’s in the super-secret executive level so it’s not like us grunt admins who haven’t grinded enough to level up, or can’t due to regulations achieve a position in the executive level

In the absence of a demo, other things such as his record on the server and prior bans are taken into consideration along with how they feel his gameplay was when they played him last. Believe it or not, every exec that’s voted so far has played with Lawlrence (except major, idk about him). You also have to consider the fact that this is not his first time being on the chopping block. Considering this is the fourth time he has been banned, yeah I think it’s safe to say the executive staff is familiar with him and what he brings to the server.

 

It’s “super secret” because it’s a discussion and vote amoung the executive staff. This is exactly what Lawlrence asked for when appealed the ban to the executive staff.

 

Soon regular admins will start getting perks for doing a good job but beyond that there’s nothing more you can do. None of the executive staff in office now created that rule. Also, it’s hard enough having executive members living off campus, there’s no way it would work it they lived hours away.

 

 

Lemm said:

I’m not defending lawlrence, because making direct attacks on execs is not the smartest thing to do… even if you do have a point however big or small it is.

 

It’s important for people to know that they should PM Master P if they have a problem. This saves a whole lot of bureaucratic bs because he is actually a nice guy.

Feel free to defend him without fear of punishment or censorship, that’s not how we run the club. It’s quite possible to defend someone and not flame someone else while doing it, it’s just that no one has figured out how to in this thread so far.

 

I’m not some evil, maniacal, scheming, smacktard. Anyone who knows me or has played with me for longer an hour knows that bolded statement is true.

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