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almightyramtha: DID I HIRE YOU TO TELL ME I’M DOING THE CQC I...

Fri, 24 May 2013 22:40:13 -0500

almightyramtha:

DID I HIRE YOU TO TELL ME I’M DOING THE CQC I BASICALLY INVENTED WRONG??!?!?!
THE ANSWER IS YOU’RE FIRED.

intergalactikdisko: Thomas Bangalter: Lotus F1 Team

Fri, 24 May 2013 22:09:07 -0500

intergalactikdisko:

Thomas Bangalter: Lotus F1 Team

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Fri, 24 May 2013 21:54:47 -0500

nepetaquest: angelfire93: Alright, if you’re a consumer and...

Fri, 24 May 2013 21:39:17 -0500

nepetaquest:

angelfire93:

Alright, if you’re a consumer and you’re considering picking up the new Xbox One console, then please, take a moment to listen to me. Before we begin, no, I am not a fanboy or a hater. I have no console Bias. I have a PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, and a Gaming PC. Each has their pros and cons but now onto business.

DO NOT BUY AN XBOX ONE. Why? See the reasons below:

Xbox Requires an internet connection. Here’s how it works: Every 24 hours your Xbox will try to connect to Microsoft’s servers for verification. If it is unable to connect, sucks to be you. You’re blocked from playing even single player games until it can connect.

Source: http://kotaku.com/xbox-one-does-require-internet-connection-cant-play-o-509164109

Do you like renting games, lending them to a friend, or even borrowing them from a friend? No longer possible. Every Xbox One game you get must be registered to your Xbox live account to be played. After that point it will only work for you. No one else can use it unless they pay a fee. Essentially it works like this. You pick up a used Xbox One game from somewhere or someone, pop it into your console. The system verifies it’s been registered to your account. Uh-oh, it isn’t! In order to play it, you have to pay Microsoft a fee, which is currently slated to be full retail price. Doesn’t matter how scratched up it is or how cheap you got it at gamestop or from a friend. You aren’t just buying the physical copies anymore. You’re paying Microsoft for a LICENSE to be allowed to play that game.

It is worth mentioning Microsoft is exploring ways for you to trade in and resell your used games. This is rumored to mean that you can sell your digital license to play the game (registration) back to microsoft, likely for microsoft points. You can then trade in the game at gamespot for some cash if you like. Either way, as it currently stands, the new owner would still have to pay a fee on top of the price of actually buying the physical copy.

Source: http://www.technobuffalo.com/2013/05/21/xbox-one-fee-for-buying-used-games-full-retail-price/

Is it worth mentioning that Microsoft if shafting Indie Developers as well? Where as on Playstation Network or (whatever the Wii has) Indie Developers can self publish their content easily. Playstation even encourages this. Microsoft however forces these Indie Devs to enter publishing deals with them to be allowed to market their content. You don’t go through them, you don’t get to sell what you developed.

Source: http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/05/22/indie-devs-cant-self-publish-on-xbox-one

I’m not quite done yet! Now, I’m sure you heard a lot about “TV TV TV TV SPORTS TV TV SPORTS SPORTS TV.” Yes, the Xbox is slated to be able to stream live tv, live sports, etc. So let me ask you this. You obviously already have something like cable or DirecTV. Do you really want to shell out hundreds of dollars more and pay a monthly subscription fee to have another television provider? Yes, I said hundreds of dollars, and I don’t mean the cost of the console. To view live TV from the Xbox you are required to purchase ANOTHER separate device for it to work. Why would you even consider shelling out more money for something you already have anyway? Even if you didn’t, DirecTV is cheaper. Or you could even subscribe you Hulu.com and watch live tv on your computer. FOR MUCH CHEAPER. You essentially have to buy another cable box if you don’t have one. And if you do… what do you need the Xbox One for?

Source: http://www.vg247.com/2013/05/21/xbox-one-live-tv-available-in-us-only-at-launch-requires-separate-device/

So far we’ve discovered that the Xbox One is not really a gaming console, at least… not a consumer friendly gaming console. It’s being marketed as an all-in-one home entertainment system. Something to replace all of the other devices in your house. But there are drawbacks even to that. Put on your tin foil hats for this part folks. Take from it what you will, all I’ll say is… possibilities…

The Xbox One’s features will not function unless the Kinect is plugged in and active. This is not an optional piece anymore.

Source: http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/05/21/xbox-one-will-not-function-without-kinect-attached

So imagine your Kinect piece breaks? Tough luck, no more Xbox for you. But you know what’s worse?

Pay attention, because this is important. The Kinect is always watching. Always listening. Even when the system is off.

Yes. One of the ways to turn the system on is to audibly say: “Xbox On” while the system is off. The Kinect, which is always on, hears you and turns it on. Now this might seem like a cool feature, but did you know Microsoft patented a feature that would allow the Kinect’s camera (It’s no longer just a sensor, but a camera) to spy on you for the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America?) While they may not actually do this, it is actually possible for them to do this now. It has a camera, and a microphone. The Kinect is always on. It is ALWAYS listening, ALWAYS watching.

An idea has been tossed around that by using this feature, it will allows game developers and movie produces to set a limited amount of how many people can be allowed to view the entertainment. So as a hypothetical example, you and three friends are watching a movie, which is the maximum allowed. A fourth friend enters the room and the Kinect’s sensor registers the fourth individual. The movie stops and you a prompted to pay a fee so that the extra individual may also view the film. Again, that is NOT currently the case, but these are the ideas currently being tossed around with the system’s current capabilities.

Source for listening: http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/21/4352596/the-xbox-one-is-always-listening

Source of spying: http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/139706-microsofts-new-kinect-patent-goes-big-brother-will-spy-on-you-for-the-mpaa

Now, just two more things and I’ll be done here!

This isn’t really a good or bad thing, but it’s annoying. It also explains how they can prevent you from playing a used game if you didn’t pay their fee. Xbox one no longer plays games off the discs, you HAVE to install them to the hard-drive in order to play them. I believe PS3 also has you do this (on a number of games but not always it seems), except that PS3 isn’t trying to Nickle and Dime you at every corner. It also seems according to this article there is something related to the Online portion at the beginning of this post. The option is there for Developers to require the Xbox to always be online to play their particular game. Well, it seems PC gamers and console gamers have one thing in common now… DRM.

(At least pirates on PC can bypass DRM easily. Not an option for Consoles.)

Source: http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/21/4352314/xbox-one-hard-drive-game-installs

And last but not least, another annoyance… Xbox One will not be compatible with any and all current headsets. Nope, companies will either have to make new headsets altogether specifically for the Xbox One, and they have to adhere to what Microsoft wants. Look forward to price gouging.

Source: http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/05/22/xbox-one-incompatible-with-current-gaming-headsets

Oh, one more thing… If you have an Xbox 360, don’t get rid of it. Why? Well if you want to keep playing your old 360 games you’ll need it. The Xbox One isn’t backwards compatible. At all. Not only that, but President of Microsoft’s Xbox Division Don Mattrick insults the very notion of backwards compatibility! He calls it: “Backwards thinking.”

Source: http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/21/4350662/new-xbox-has-no-backwards-compatibilty

Source of insult: http://www.polygon.com/2013/5/22/4355984/xbox-one-backward-compatibility-backwards-thinking-don-mattrick

That is all I have to say currently folks, and I hope you took the time to read this far. I’ll conclude with the following… please… PLEASE do not buy this console. Paying for this supports greedy and anti-consumer business practices. Speak with your wallet, and pass up the Xbox One. No matter what games it might have that you want, even if they are exclusive. Do the right thing and make a statement. Refuse to be nickle and dimed like this. Refuse to be seen as a mindless consumer who will buy anything tossed to them.

We won’t know much else until after E3, but as it stands now, the PS4 or a decent gaming PC is the best way to go.

If you are willing to do so, please spread this post around. Liking is not even remotely necessary, but do please share it if you agree with and acknowledge what you’ve read here. The more people know, the fewer of them waste their money.

Thank you, kindly.

~Dylan Jordan

(Originally posted on Facebook by one of my friends. He brings up many valid points. Mind you, I haven’t been a fan of Xbox in a long time and I will most likely get a PS4. But this confirms further for me that I won’t be getting an Xbox one any time in the foreseeable future.)

TL;DR —The XBOX One is going to be a piece of shit and you really shouldn’t even remotely think about getting one.

Alright, I'm still awake...

Fri, 24 May 2013 08:51:00 -0500

but I swear I’m doing something fucking productive with my time.

Why I Don't Have to Worry About Having Kids:

Fri, 24 May 2013 05:47:00 -0500

Because the only people I would have any fucking THOUGHT towards giving permission to impregnate me, to further their genes, aren’t real! 8D

PROBLEM SOLVED!

Gonna go lay down, and probably have nightmares of being pregnant. Great. Thanks a whole bunch anon.

Night all the rest of you guys.

Anons sure do ask some disturbing things at five in the morning (although I’m fairly sure I...

Fri, 24 May 2013 05:39:23 -0500

Anons sure do ask some disturbing things at five in the morning (although I’m fairly sure I know who this anon was). Still feel very awake for some odd reason. Dunno when I’ll go to sleep. Probably need to soon.

when are you going to have kids of your own? At your age you must think about it :3

Fri, 24 May 2013 05:28:00 -0500

A rather strange question posed, but I will humor it.

I have thought about it several times, and I would be lying if I were to say I wasn’t. It occurs when that very disturbing maternal instinct that is hard-wired into us activates but logic quickly over-rules that fast enough.

I am on birth control, I have been for a few years now. If it were feasibly cheaper for me to have a hysterectomy without horribly mutilating what little sex drive I have that is being destroyed, as it is, with the testosterone-binding gluben that comes as a side effect with most birth control, I would do such. Since that is not possible, and most doctors would rather you have two children, as young as I am, before having such an operation, I will stick with my birth control.

Children require an enormous investment of at least eighteen years, I have read that it takes over 200,000 dollars to raise one child, and my nature is very analytical and cold, I don’t really see any benefit of having one for the child or myself. I lead a very busy life, and have no time for children in my schedule.

The thirteen-year-old that I look after, and my brothers that I helped, for all intentions purpose, raise since I was seven years old is a sufficient amount of time spent with children for me to realize that I don’t want any.

I also find children annoying, the process of creating them, by shooting DNA around, disturbing and the idea of having something growing in me like a tumor or a parasite rather disturbing in every sense of the fashion on a logical level. Essentially a child is a parasite until it is born. It feeds off of all of the mothers resources and what a lot of people don’t realize is its also one of the most dangerous things a woman can undertake.

You risk not only this this child’s life, but you risk running complications of the thing dying inside of you inducing sepsis and essentially poisoning your body because its decaying inside you. Everyone always sees the positive things of having children but completely tune out the negative facts.

In short I don’t see enough benefit to undertake the risk on my life and whatever future I may have by being anchored to some drooling infant. I prefer to remain as independent as possible in that sense.

So at this point I believe I’ve answered both questions and stated how disturbing this topic is to me. Good day.

Favorite video game of all time → Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake...

Fri, 24 May 2013 05:09:47 -0500

Favorite video game of all time → Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater

supraventricular: hypocriticalasshole: wildcrisis: hypocriticalasshole: So Okay…. Raiden has a...

Fri, 24 May 2013 03:40:35 -0500

supraventricular:

hypocriticalasshole:

wildcrisis:

hypocriticalasshole:

So Okay…. Raiden has a desperado reskin, a snide in-canon allusion of an AU where he joins up just like Sam did…..

So…. Instead of trying to help Kevin and Sunny find the right girl, he’d be offering his misguided matchmaking expertise to Monsoon and Sundowner.

A WOMAN FOR SUNDOWNER. REALLY. I mean, I guess he wouldn’t be hard to please; just feed him fried chicken and mashed potatoes.. but finding a woman that could stand his presence for more than a few minutes would be the real miracle.

Monsoon … I’m afraid to even touch that one.. How do you find a wife for a man like Monsoon..? Would she have to be overly into philosophy. ?

RAIDEN IS THE BRAVEST MAN ON THE PLANET.

Wait…..wait for it………

………………………………………………………………..

ARMSTRONG………

(you think armstrong is married? God that’s so weird….~~.claytronics~~)

What kind of woman would armstrong be into?

Sundowner I feel like is easier than most….. he’d totally go for a turduken making, apron wearing, sweet tea pouring, okra frying southern gal.

Monsoon….. I’m truly baffled there….. he’s attractive (pun intended), but….he seems really detached and in over his head in abstraction………… a gaggle of new age girls into his philosophy? I feel like Monsoon would be less into romance and into having FANS. They could all huddle around and each cuddle a slice……..Unlike the desparado grunts… they actually listen in rapt attention. He had to demote that one guy that keeps wandering off on his longer tirades……..Raiden started out trying to hook him up with a nice girl, but he’s starting to feel poorly about this now that Monsoon has 17…………this was not what he had in mind, when he first brought up relationships with Monsoon.

what I learned from this post:

MONSOON IS A FUCKING SWINGER I WILL DIE WITH THIS HEADCANON (AND I MEAN THE GROSS KIND OF SWINGER THAT TELLS DISJOINTED STORIES AND IS INTO EVERY KINK UNDER THE SUN)

*turducken

I more or less support this fucking headcanon…if I were a proper southern girl (I live in MIssissippi) and found Sundowner even mildly appealing in any aspect I have some creepy notion that I’d ship someone like myself with him but I think I’d rather him chop me in half with his machetes before that. I’d rather die with some dignity.

As I said, I’m strange. I’m in no way a prime example of this backwards moronic culture where I live. I proudly say I live in Bumfuck, Mississippi.

I’ll stick with oggling Monsoon, because as poster above stated and I much agree that he is rather attractive and I enjoy his quirky personality. When I say I’m not your typical southern girl I’d probably be more into…Monsoons philosophies in life. I have a love/hate relationship with the human race in general and can completely see where he’s coming from growing up.

As a child, I was bullied and harassed all the time since I am fairly tall for a girl and am built like a fucking tank (or so I feel like I do). I was just…strange in general. I was strictly a loner in school but clung to the strangest of the strange kids that huddled in a group, however, I knew I was primarily on my own. I also lack a lot of common beliefs in life and when I first heard him talk about how “Free will is a myth, Religion a joke.” I was like good god this man speaks my fucking language.

I’d also like to enter into this conversation that I think that in an alternate universe, if he hadn’t of been cyberized and had lived in the same conditions that I could oddly enough see him as a grumpy teacher with how he likes to teach philosophy so much. More or less a college professor. He seems rather intelligent. I also see him being rather patient, for the most part, so maybe if he were to teach even high school kids a history teacher?

zodiacchic: What phase was the moon on the day you were born? ...

Fri, 24 May 2013 02:09:52 -0500

zodiacchic:

What phase was the moon on the day you were born? Find out right here. Click here!

amazingatheist: Natural selection produces intelligence. Intelligence produces...

Fri, 24 May 2013 02:03:01 -0500

amazingatheist:

Natural selection produces intelligence.

Intelligence produces technology.

Technology destroys natural selection.

The lack of natural selection destroys intelligence.

pudding-: So I saw this earlier and it compelled me to draw it...

Fri, 24 May 2013 02:02:12 -0500

pudding-:

So I saw this earlier and it compelled me to draw it ;^; Sorry for the suuuuper long post!!

nosebro: sometimes i just want to doodle what i think patriots...

Fri, 24 May 2013 01:59:48 -0500

nosebro:

sometimes i just want to doodle what i think patriots hq was like alright

ocelot bought that clock

krisp-attitude: Nice fan art of Zeck Peacecraft and the...

Fri, 24 May 2013 01:16:26 -0500

krisp-attitude:

Nice fan art of Zeck Peacecraft and the Tallgeese

by StuartHughe (deviantart.com)

This was an evening of ragequit. Pure and simple. This was...

Fri, 24 May 2013 00:03:58 -0500

This was an evening of ragequit. Pure and simple. This was taken a while ago. I’m lazy and don’t upload video like I should.

So I had been wanting to post this for some time even though its...

Thu, 23 May 2013 23:46:05 -0500

So I had been wanting to post this for some time even though its been a little while now. I took this when Richard was in the ER after the liquid pain killer they shot into him wore off.

Well then: So apparently, Metal Gear Rising-

Thu, 23 May 2013 23:24:59 -0500

Well then: So apparently, Metal Gear Rising-:

spoileralart:

SO apparently a lot of people dislike Metal Gear Rising because its more actiony and apparently sillier than the earlier metal gear games.

Keep in mind this is a series that has had:

*Poison Hampsters.

*Tricking a guard into falling asleep by having an Owl Hoot from an egg…

waywardhumanoid: Give life back to music!

Thu, 23 May 2013 23:11:18 -0500

waywardhumanoid:

Give life back to music!

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Thu, 23 May 2013 21:59:03 -0500