The Trash Heap of the Heapers' Hangout

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  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    ah

    that is far too cold
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
  • Tachyon said:

    ah

    that is far too cold

    Yep. I would play it upstairs, but it's 6 in the morning here and the rest of the family is still sleeping.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    can you plug headphones into your TV?
  • Tachyon said:

    can you plug headphones into your TV?

    Nah, mom sleeps on a futon in the living room and she uses the noise from the TV to help her sleep. Plus she just feels my presence when I'm there, even if I'm just sitting there quietly.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    this will seem random, but responding to a conversation from ages back

    i tend to notice bad kerning and bad supermarket aisle conditioning, but neither particularly fazes me, unless the badly-kerned lettering is on something particularly important to me, or i'm working in the store with the bad aisle conditioning

    is that weird?
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    No...
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    ok, that's good

    you're still up?
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Yeah...bedtime now though!
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    good night!
  • edited 2014-01-23 08:51:44
    “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    Sitting in the attic spaced out and tired and feeling kind of lame and bad but still not sleeping for some reason. Watched a bunch of Adventure Time episodes and that was cool, so I feel a lot less emotionally drained, but I physically feel like I've already not slept for a day, which is funny because...

    Wait, haven't I only been awake fifteen hours? Eh...
  • 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
    Tachyon said:
    I can't help but think Phoebe's being kinda dumb here

    She doesn't HAVE to use a laptop keep a journal; if she had to have it digitally that badly she could have written it down on a piece of paper and typed it out later

    I know, Rule of Funny, but still
  • Tachyon said:

    EoSD will completely destroy me, but it seemed like a logical place to start

    also it has characters and music that i like

    Friendly Recommendation: Perfect Cherry Blossom and Mountain of Faith are probably the best jumping-on points. They're both relatively easy, and Mountain of Faith is kind of a soft reset on the series, so you don't really need to know everything about what came before it.

    Just...stay away from Subterranean Animism and UFO.

  • Mountain of Faith is the only game in which I've made it to the 5th stage. 

    With EoSD, I usually get killed halfway through the fourth boss fight. Same with PCB. It's been a while since I've touched IN, but I'm pretty sure I can make it past Keine.

    I know I've never made it past the third boss in SA or UFO.
  • Time is an illusion, and so is death.

    ~puts on handpuppets of death and time~

  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch

    Mountain of Faith is the only game in which I've made it to the 5th stage. 


    With EoSD, I usually get killed halfway through the fourth boss fight. Same with PCB. It's been a while since I've touched IN, but I'm pretty sure I can make it past Keine.

    I know I've never made it past the third boss in SA or UFO.
    ...ah

    this is rather daunting

    especially when i still die all the time on relatively easy games like Mario
  • edited 2014-01-23 10:35:05
    “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    A WILD BEAR BECAME TRAPPED IN THIS MANSTRUCTURE.
     
    BEARS WILL OFTEN VENTURE INTO MANLAND, INVADING MANSTRUCTURE, OBTAINING MANFOOD. 
    THE BEARS MAY WEAVE WEBS. THE BEARS MAY CLAIM THE MANSTRUCTURE AS THEIR OWN. 
    IT SINKS SLOWLY BENEATH THE GROUND. ANOTHER BEARHOLE. 

    BEARS ARE ALSO DISGUSTING

    I don't think that Bearzine is the weirdest thing that Cate Wurtz has ever done—Extraordinarily High Quality Amazing is still a Grade A Imperial-class mind-fuck—but it is one of the silliest.
  • For once, or maybe twice, I was in my prime.

    Maybe I'm more willing to say that I found pop music unusually blah last year because I feel like the potential for subversive things to slither into the mainstream that was there to my mind the year before felt curtailed.

    The pop scene in general has a way of taking a unique artist (like Switchfoot, or any of the members of fun.) and grinding their uniqueness away. I'm not sure if it's a cause or an effect.
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    Still find it weird that I found out about the existence of fun. and Have A Nice Life from the same guy, but I digress...

    Yes. It's kind of part and parcel to the whole Situationist notion of the power of the Spectacle to consume and incorporate or destroy all serious threats to the status quo. While I do not agree with everything that that group posited, that notion has always compelled and unnerved me.
  • More people have said that and been killed than there are thorium decay products.
    @Tachyon

    There is a page on buying the games here; however, I will personally recommend either Akiba-Hobby or Tokyo Shmups.

    The wiki has a page containing everything you need to play the games in English, found here.

    You can use a controller or whatever, but the default keyboard controls for these games are:
    arrow keys - move
    Shift - slow movement speed and switch attacks (DO NOT FORGET ABOUT THIS. New players often forget they can change speeds, which results in their frequent and untimely deaths.)
    Z - shoot
    X - spell/bomb (use these!!)
    Esc - pause menu

    That's it. :3 Touhou is a fairly simple shmup.

    Here is a nice (and very brief) beginner's guide  to playing these games. Everything in it is useful and accurate information that I endorse.

    And finally, here is a comprehensive guide to the game mechanics of EoSD. You will want at least a cursory knowledge of the game mechanics; the game will not tutor you or hold your hand. ^_^

    EoSD is actually one of the easiest games in the series, overall, and also does not have all the refinements or polish that later games have due to this one being Team Shanghai Alice's first, so if this game isn't everything you hope for, don't abandon Touhou completely. :)
  • is Mojave music around because 2:50 in this video sounds like sample gold to my ears


    (my admittedly untrained ears)
  • sunn wolf said:

    is Mojave music around because 2:50 in this video sounds like sample gold to my ears



    (my admittedly untrained ears)

  • 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
    You know what conservative meme got old fast?

    "You're on [ food stamps | welfare | disability | other government assistance] but you can afford a smartphone??"

    Yes, because astonishingly, poor people also have a need to communicate with others

    And it's not like this is fucking 2008 where you have to pay $500 out of pocket for a smartphone; any decent cell phone plan nowadays will include a decent phone, especially if you're willing to settle for last year's model
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    @Miko Thank you very much!  That's very helpful. :)
  • edited 2014-01-23 12:37:15
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch

    You know what conservative meme got old fast?


    "You're on [ food stamps | welfare | disability | other government assistance] but you can afford a smartphone??"

    Yes, because astonishingly, poor people also have a need to communicate with others

    And it's not like this is fucking 2008 where you have to pay $500 out of pocket for a smartphone; any decent cell phone plan nowadays will include a decent phone, especially if you're willing to settle for last year's model
    i wasn't aware that was a meme, or a thing people said

    i confess that it kind of puzzles me how everyone seems to have a smartphone these days... maybe they're cheaper now than i realize

    i don't see what's wrong with a regular phone; so long as it can make calls and send texts, everything else is a bonus
  • You know what conservative meme got old fast?


    "You're on [ food stamps | welfare | disability | other government assistance] but you can afford a smartphone??"

    Yes, because astonishingly, poor people also have a need to communicate with others

    And it's not like this is fucking 2008 where you have to pay $500 out of pocket for a smartphone; any decent cell phone plan nowadays will include a decent phone, especially if you're willing to settle for last year's model
    also because generally people dont have a landline any more, and a phone costs less than a computer, and a smartphone will do both of those things at once

    and you need the internet/a phone to even have a hope of getting a job.

    there's this ridiculous attitude of 'well if you're poor you can sell everything you own off until you are no longer poor', and that''s like, well, great, now i can buy food and heat my house for a week,but i have no appliances to cook my food, no way to contact anyone who might give me a job, and no way of storing my food so it all doesn't go off, oops!!

    this is even ignoring the fact that the resale value of a lot of these technologies is completely terrible
  • edited 2014-01-23 12:39:22
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    sunn wolf said:

    a phone costs less than a computer


    i'm a derp.  why didn't this occur to me?

    because i'm privileged enough to own a computer, i guess
  • 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
    I dunno, I paid $50 for my phone back in October, because I needed to replace my old phone and getting an older smartphone (the Galaxy S3, a 2012 model) didn't cost much more than getting a decently reliable "plain" phone would have
  • edited 2014-01-23 12:43:21
    “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    *runs into courtyard, self-immolates, belts out chorus to Car Seat Headrest's "Boxing Day"*

    I'm getting HAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUNNNNNTEEEED!

    *explodes*
  • i am considering getting a smartphone myself. i mean technically i have a smartphone already but it's terrible and only cost £50 and literally nothing works with it

    + they are easy to buy when you consider a lot of companies let you pay monthly for them instead of having to splash out £400. that's the only reason i could buy it. it's only, like, £10 a month less money to spend for a while, it's not so bad when you put it like that
  • i mean fuck it im going to get a smartphone, i'm paying £10 a month on a singularly bad contract that ive had for years and my phone is really not very smart. it's running a version of android so old i dont even know what version it is
  • 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
    My phone is running the latest version of Android (KitKat 4.4.2) but that's because I installed CyanogenMod on it

    The latest official release for this phone is Jelly Bean 4.3, at least in the US
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    my LG KP235 still works fine

    if something happens to it i guess £50 seems like a reasonable price to pay for a replacement... it's probably considerably less than this one cost when it was new
  • i mean i could get a sony xperia m, which is, like, new, even if i put the cost of the phone and contract together, for £15 a month, pay nothing up front, and get 1gb internet, 500 minutes, and unlimited texts

    imo that sounds good. even if not good its miles better than being on a really bad pay as you go.
  • I need to go to class. Later Wallygators.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    bye mo
  • 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
    Basically what happened is that I saw in the Best Buy circular that they had the Galaxy S3 for $49.99 with a two-year contract, and it was time for my contract to be renewed anyway, so I jumped on it because my old phone was dying a slow and horrible death and needed replaced
  • 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
    I've been calling CN "Canada National" for months now when it actually stands for "Canadian National"

    I totally blame our resident Canadians for not correcting me on this :P
  • 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
    Heh.
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”

    image

    a present before I depart.

    If this actually exists then I am a happy mustelid-person.
  • 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
    image

    Ohai WINNT directory. Haven't seen you in about...13 years?

    I believe it was XP that first renamed "WINNT" to "WINDOWS" to match the old non-NT releases, since from XP onward Windows NT was the only Windows there was...
  • edited 2014-01-23 13:33:10
    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
    Time for a table that I'm sure Vanilla will mangle horribly!

    (NT releases in italics)










    Marketing nameYearVersion
    Windows 9519954.0
    Windows NT 4.019964.0
    Windows 9819984.1
    Windows 200020005.0
    Windows Me20004.9
    Windows XP20015.1
    Windows Vista20066.0
    Windows 720096.1
    Windows 820126.2
    Windows 8.120136.3
  • 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
    #uselessthingscentie'smemorized
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    good afternoon
  • 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
    Hi Imi

    Random thought: Princesses Celestia and Luna must be roughly the same age as Marceline

    Thought ought to start some kind of Thousand Years Old Club
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    I just watched "Evicted!" again today, actually.

    Marcelline got a lot less overtly psycho as the show went on.
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
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