What made you smile today?

[Animeniax]

Who's Nailin' Paylin?

BWHAHAHAHAHHA! That is too funny. Really takes to task how many people say they want to vote for McCain because Palin is "hot". I've actually heard this older guy say that shit too.

I work for this 45-ish year old guy who reads and writes at a 2nd grade level. He sends me email with no punctuation, shitty grammar, and the vocabulary and sentence structure that would make an ESL student go back to his own country in shame.

So I get an email from him today trying to discipline me and call me out for some nonsense or other. I reply in one long sentence with very little punctuation and multiple subject/verb ambiguities so you can't tell who is who and what's going on where and CC our manager even after he asked me to communicate directly with him if I have an issue with him even though he did it to me first by replying to my email and cc'ing our manager and my subordinate who is the root of the problem anyway. I'm waiting eagerly for his reply with a big smile on my face.

[Buffalobiian]

My mom sent me a picture she took in our back yard when she was out for a walk. I love the vibrant autumn of Ontario. Maybe next year I'll be home for thanksgiving.

Wow, I wish I had a backyard like that. It's interesting how much it contrasts with the Spring scenes we've got at Uni. It's more impressive in real life though.

[Sapphire]

WTF!!!!! So beautiful.... I would love to go to those places.

[Psyke]

Look at what was caught on Singapore roads this morning. Note that he's also in a bus only lane, hence the lack of traffic. Amazing what people do these days.

[animus]

That's Psyke!

[The Heretic Azazel]

It would be funny if Psyke's wife was sitting behind him on that thing.

Take a rickshaw next time!

[darkshadow]

there are actually quite a few of those little bikes here, dont let their size deceive you, they are pretty fast! >_>
But always funny to see one.

[Psyke]

That's Psyke!

Seriously, I'd love to have one of these bikes too.

[darkshadow]

Now I just need to order the other volumes, too bad the get released so sloooow, vol 4 wont be out till like february <_<

[darkshadow]

Dopplepost >_>

Yes those games are suprisingly hard to get in this country ( pretty much only one store ), so i'm very happy

[Xelbair]

Is there Warriors Orochi 2 on ps3 too?
also i envy your armored core :]

[darkshadow]

suprisingly warriors orochi1 and 2 are not available on ps3, but if your ps3 is backward compatible, you can always get the ( cheaper ) ps2 version.

[animus]

I'm surprised Koei still pumps those games out. Do those games actually sell that well for them to keep making these renditions?

[darkshadow]

Heh sell well? These games sell fantastic and have an equally fantastic userbase. Its like asking if madden sells well >_>, cept the Warriors games are pretty unique in what they do.

[animus]

Really? I haven't played any of those games since Dynasty Warriors 3, though I have played demos on PSN or XBL. I find them too repetitive, and not worth forking out another 60 bucks for each iteration just for a few extra characters and a Siege Mode. I played like the first 5 minutes of Gundam Musou demo and thought, yeah this is just DW with Gundams and Gundam VA's.

[darkshadow]

Well to be honest, dw2-5 are pretty much the same, the games were just getting better.
Then samurai warriors, sw2 was a huge improvement of the overall formula, I can't really go back to dw5 since samurai warriors 2XL, it's just that much better.
Then Gundam Musou and Orochi warriors arrived, both of which are far better then dw5 aswell, since they were based on sw2.
Then DW6, which is pretty much a turning point in the series, cause there is one camp that hates it and one camp that loves it ( like me). It's still employs the same army style battles, but with a complete redesign of the battle system and every character.

So yeah, if the last game you played was DW3, Gundam musou prolly seemed indentical to you from memory, but if you would play em side by side, the differences are quite significant from samurai warriors and onwards.

Oh and the not worth forking over 60 bucks is pretty true, I skipped sw1 and ow1 for those reasons, i also skip the empires type games, though SW2XL, DWG, DW6 and WO2 were really worth it IMO. I'll prolly be getting the upcoming SW3 and DWG2 aswell ;3.

[Buffalobiian]

iTunes visualiser.

Having not used it for a good 6 months at least, I decided to flick it on on a whim, and was met with a new, improved version with disco balls/planets and glowing lights.

I've always like iTunes visualiser better than WMP simply because it's not locked to a crappy resolution. Now they just improved it with something even more visually pleasing.

By sheer coincidence, I was listening to Macross Frontier OST2, which made it rather appropriate.

[Xelbair]

Oh damn, my ps3 is not backwards compatible - those vers sold out in January this year.

[Psyke]

Oh damn, my ps3 is not backwards compatible - those vers sold out in January this year.

And that made you smile?

[Assertn]

iTunes visualiser.

Having not used it for a good 6 months at least, I decided to flick it on on a whim, and was met with a new, improved version with disco balls/planets and glowing lights.

I've always like iTunes visualiser better than WMP simply because it's not locked to a crappy resolution. Now they just improved it with something even more visually pleasing.

By sheer coincidence, I was listening to Macross Frontier OST2, which made it rather appropriate.

Not bad, not bad...I'd have to say the magnetosphere visualizer still blows it (by far) out of the water.

Hmm....although....from looking at the barbarian group's site, perhaps that new iTunes visualizer is the one they took from magnetosphere. That sucks, its so much inferior its not even funny

Also, for frame of reference, here's some procedurally-generated videos the creator made using his engine:
http://www.flight404.com/_videos/mag...ere/index.html
http://www.flight404.com/_videos/mag...seIsThere.html
http://www.flight404.com/_videos/mag.../royksopp.html
http://www.flight404.com/blog/?p=48

Actually here's a place with mirrors for the original version :
http://gizmodo.com/5048237/how-to-ge...izer-in-itunes