The Trash Heap of the Heapers' Hangout

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  • Not a hybrid rabbit-skink spirit
    Which quest is this again
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    *uses Princess Magic to make next poster The Angriest Gamer You've Ever Heard*
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Well, Princess Magic sure did work.
  • Does Princess Magic work retroactively? 
  • Not a hybrid rabbit-skink spirit
    Ah yes, that

    I never even tried that quest
  • How good at it were you?
  • Not a hybrid rabbit-skink spirit
    What, Runescape?

    Well I mean, it's kind of hard to be bad at clicking the same spot for hours on end

    tedious, yes, but not hard
  • Not a hybrid rabbit-skink spirit
    Also I just got a mini sex-ed lecture in a video game

    damn I love my life
  • I mean how far did you get and all that?
  • Not a hybrid rabbit-skink spirit
    A lot of my skills were in the mid-50ish range

    I believe I'm just 5 levels away from being able to enter the Warrior's Guild
  • Not worth it. All you get there is an opportunity to get off-hand daggers.


  • sounds good so far

    Slaughter of the Soul is probably one of the best Melodic death metal records ever put out, along with The Gallery (Dark Tranquility), The Jester Race (In Flames) and Heartwork (Carcass).
    what IS this garbage you're watching, I want to watch the NEWS
    This IS the news!
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    "Melodic death metal" always sounded like a contradiction to me, but yeah, it's a good album.
  • Not a hybrid rabbit-skink spirit
    Kexruct said:

    Not worth it. All you get there is an opportunity to get off-hand daggers.

    I just played Runescape for fun, man. And I wanted to enter the Warrior's Guild because I could.

    Besides, that was supposed to give you a glimpse into my combat stats. Kinda.
  • THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS
    AU: Yeah, Flame Thrower does seem like kind of a weak package. 

    What freaks me out is just how many of the IDs I remember hearing on Q94 from December 1990 to August 1992 are much older than that. They're mostly from Warp Factor and Skywave, and those are from 1985 and 1988, respectively. (The talent shout-outs were from Hot KIIS, which is even older!)
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Problems I need to correct before I get old: not being Pinkie Pie
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    Okie Dokie Lokie!
  • Doctor Who reference in Pokemon B2W2? Headcanon accepted.
    I play SW: The Old Republic every now and again

    for an MMO it's not that bad, but it's certainly not expansive like a Star Wars game should be. You get a quest to go fuck up a bunch of storm troopers and they're like 50 meters away from the Imperial officer who's giving you the quest
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Things it took me too long to realize: The reason the AVGN used the top-loader NES in his "Bible Games 2" video is that most of the games were those unlicensed cartridges that used all sorts of fiddly tricks to try to bypass the 10NES chip, so they'll play more reliably in the top-loader because it had no 10NES to begin with.
  • Doctor Who reference in Pokemon B2W2? Headcanon accepted.
    I think for those Color Dreams/Wisdom Tree games, they used a trick to zap and disable the 10NES chip to bypass it. 

    Years ago in a Christian bookstore in Nashville, they had Super Noah's 3D Ark in a discount bin and I just rolled my eyes and walked on. I had no idea that they'd be worth so much later
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    For some reason it vaguely creeps me out that this thing was in my NES and I never knew

    image

    why?
  • "Melodic death metal" always sounded like a contradiction to me, but yeah, it's a good album.

    I suppose. The name always made sense to me, what with combining the riffing and gutteral vocals of death metal with the melodic style and harmony guitars of NWOBHM.

    For some reason it vaguely creeps me out that this thing was in my NES and I never knew

    image

    why?

    Not sure what that's supposed to be or why it would be creepy.
  • edited 2013-01-05 00:15:55
    Touch the cow. Do it now.
    The 10NES chip, which was designed to keep unlicensed games from being playable.

    It seems vaguely Orwellian to me but that's probably just because of my oversensitivity to such things
  • Doctor Who reference in Pokemon B2W2? Headcanon accepted.
    It's because Nintendo saw how the glut of shitty, unlicensed games contributed to the fall of Atari and they weren't going to allow that to happen to their system. Which is also why they limited 3rd parties to releasing only a set, small number of games per year. It was actually a pretty smart move on their part and good for the game industry as a whole, but after a while it stopped being so and took a court order to remove that shit. 


  • the best dnb tune of all time hands down
  • edited 2013-01-05 00:18:03

    holy shit



    This is the best youtube channel
  • THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS
    AU: Also, while looking for another cut Q94 used (as their news sounder), I seem to have stumbled on the answer to another question I had: What package was WMAL-AM using in November 1981? This is it right here: Focal Point.
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Something about those "workhorse" cuts sounds somewhat PAMS-esque to me
  • THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS
    Yeah, the older JAM packages sound very PAMS-ish in general.
  • edited 2013-01-05 00:38:54
    THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS
    HOLY FUCKING SHIT

    The entire clean :30 TV commercial bed from the November 1981 TV spot is in here around the 15 minute mark, and after that, right toward the end of the demo, is ONE OF THE SOUNDERS I WAS LOOKING FOR. I remember hearing it on Q94 one morning, right before they launched into a weekend public-affairs program, and it scared the crap out of me. 

    This must mean WRVA (Q94's news/talk sister station) must have used Focal Point or The Number 1 Voice at some point. :D
  • edited 2013-01-05 00:39:03



    the completely out of sync ride cymbals made me lose it
  • THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS
    O holy crap, uh something something soooooomething: 


    I've suspected for a while that the old CBS Radio News sounder was Siday/Identitones, but this is the first confirmation I've had of it.
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    time
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    warner
  • So I made a mixtape for a friend of mine's birthday with teh indie musics.

    T'was fun. I also drew a few doodles for it and made a Stucky newspaper thing.

    (The handwritten part at the top is a thinly veiled Homestuck reference, as are the diamonds I put on the page.)
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    time warner? don't make me laugh
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    That video Lee posted is very Time-y
  • I'm back from work.

    Our cardboard bailer was broken, so I had to go outside and put my cardboard in the dumpster every time I needed to get rid of it. -_-

  • edited 2013-01-05 01:29:50
    Doctor Who reference in Pokemon B2W2? Headcanon accepted.
    Here's some guy's article on how he gave up on his iPhone for the Nexus. Not that I'd care, I think all phones are terrible because they let people call you and bother you. Anyway, I was reading until I got to this point:

    "Before you read on, it's important to emphasize that I'm a pro user.

    I'm not the average smartphone owner, who makes just a couple of calls every now and then or runs an app once in a while. By the nature of my job and out of curiosity, I deal a lot with social media outlets, social networks and constantly try new services. With that said, my judgement might not be suitable for everyone. In case you consider yourself being a demanding power user, though, you might find this helpful."


    Stand back, everybody, we got ourselves someone who can switch between a phone call and Angry Birds like nobody's business. His opinions on the matter are so mind-blowing that it might just rock your whole damn world. And to top it off, he's a
    power user, too!

    Throughout the years, I've heard this whole "I'm a power user" line from just about everybody imaginable (mostly those irritating *nix advocates, though.) What the hell is a "power user", anyway? My guess is it's someone who thinks that they need all the available CPU and RAM and whatever they can get, when all they really do is emboss everything they see in Photoshop or they recompile a kernel or two because that's what power users do with their free time I guess. Or maybe it's just some bullshit, retarded term that kids (and smartphone critics) toss around to try to impress other people.
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.

    Not that I'd care, I think all phones are terrible because they let people call you and bother you.

    Well I can't really argue with that
  • Not a hybrid rabbit-skink spirit
    I'm deciding to spend my evening watching Extra Credits.

    I feel like I'm gaining a lot of insight into gaming as a medium.
  • THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS
    People have been bandying about "power user" since the late 1980s. I'm still not sure what it's supposed to mean, myself; it's really vague. Do they push their hardware to the limit? Do they actually do a lot of paying work on their machine and need it to compile or finish quickly? What's the deal, man? 

    Especially considering that when I first heard the term, DOS was still considered an acceptable workstation OS for most people, NT didn't exist yet, and Unix was still for mainframes and "if you have to ask, you can't afford it" minicomputers.
  • Doctor Who reference in Pokemon B2W2? Headcanon accepted.
    Yeah, calling one's self a "power user" is just another form of dick-waving. The only thing I can think of that really taxes the shit out of a computer system (other than a video game or mining bitcoins) is crunching numbers in a math lab, especially floating point and other high-precision shit. 
  • edited 2013-01-05 02:43:51
    Doctor Who reference in Pokemon B2W2? Headcanon accepted.
  • edited 2013-01-05 02:43:46
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    To me, "power user" brings to mind the kind of person who makes all their Microsoft Office toolbars the smallest possible size, never stopping to think that this makes the buttons take longer to access because they're smaller targets. Or, more generally, the kind of person who thinks they're special because they use things like batch files or scripts or bookmarklets to make their frequent tasks easier and doesn't realize that everybody takes shortcuts like that.

    ...Heh, I guess that gives y'all a rough idea of what era of computing I grew up in.
  • Doctor Who reference in Pokemon B2W2? Headcanon accepted.
    I'm not the average Speak n' Spell user, who learns a few monosyllabic words every now and then. By the very nature of my brilliance, I'm not afraid to crank the levels up to four entire syllables to where you can hear the integrated circuitry under the plastic audibly grinding under duress. I'm what you might call a power user. 
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