Posts by Duff-e

you know why it's a better machine? cause in nyc I can go to 3 different stores and have virtually any part of my laptop fixed for free in about 15 minutes while getting to check out dozens of gorgeous mac owning fashion models.

I don't get people when it comes to the PC/mac thing. Everything else in the world people pay a premium for design because they appreciate the aesthetic appeal and it's not a problem. Also, final cut pro and logic are two pieces of world class software for their respective professions. Seeing as how the future is "in the cloud" I don't understand why you WOULDN'T buy a mac. So you can play the latest game at 60 FPS with max settings? Have fun with your 13 lbs and 2 hours of battery. Did I mention any mac can flawlessly dual boot windows with bootcamp (preinstalled) anyway?

I don't even have a macbook anymore, I use my main pc as mac pro and I love it. It's so much more straight forward. When I was working as a network administrator I was responsible for 2 all mac/xserver environments. Best. experience. ever. Seriously that whole office had maybe 1 problem a month, everything else was just adding new users. At least half the point of owning a mac is the OS itself, not that you can get 2.8 ghz instead of 2.4 for $300 less. The entire filesystem and the way you can see, move, install, remove ANYTHING and not have to worry about dll's, registry entries, shortcuts is just amazing. Everything is exactly where you would expect it to be. What windows user profiles with documents and settings tries to be is what mac IS. I don't think I ever had to go outside of a users home directory to fix an issue. Unlike windows where I now have 40 command line strings memorized to do what cant be done through the GUI in 2009. I could really go on and on about this point...dashboard, spaces, stacks, so many things that are not only intuitive but are just downright cool.

But then I guess if people can't type ping -t http://www.google.com at the command line they wont feel like 12 year old hackers and be able impress their friends

hahaha I showed this to someone a while back and they started tearing up

pansy

damn. indentation, bullet points, numbering, structure. you need to work it out.

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firearms was fun

what was that HL mod where you could slow down time with powerups? was that specialists? that was cool for a bit.

MBTI relies a lot on confirmation bias IMO

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias

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I think I remember SOF2 multiplayer being pretty decent too...but yeah you can't beat those exploding limbs

I can kinda see where barrakid is coming from. I can't wait till 70 years from now when NYC connects with its "cultural diversity" and intentionally skins the train cars with graffiti.

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haha mazy thats awesome

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playstation was my first REAL console...where I just played every game I could possibly get my hands on...subscribed to magazines and got free sampler cd's etc..I had SNES and genesis when they came out but I think I was too young to have discriminating taste

jurassic park lost work WAS awesome...good memories

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was fun, don't know if it was underrated...but I was the only person I knew playing it

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I was looking for a different car game where you could crash into anything and the more you destroyed the more points you got. the cover had a yellow pickup truck with black pinstripes. anyway, this came up and brought back good memories, though definitely not underrated. I probably spent more time driving in the wrong direction in this game than any other.

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not underrated but definitely under-appreciated I think. I've yet to talk to a single "video game buff" irl who heard of shenmue. maybe cause it was on dreamcast?

while I agree that in a very general sort of way it seems to make sense, the myers-briggs type indicator is very iffy. check out http://%7boption%7d and http://%7boption%7d. They're both awesome blogs about personality and rationality bias. If you search them for MBTI you get a lot of good articles with interesting comments.

edit: oh and I'm ENTJ ;D...about 2 years ago some students were doing free analysis in the hall and I volunteered

it's definitely ugly but you can't say those kids don't have balls of steel.

I have those headphones. Aural sex for real.

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I also think its funny how you dig into the media hype now about his death (what is there to not believe btw?) but claim that he probably molested kids (like that wasnt a media frenzy/hype).

lol he's been a popular solo artist since the early 1970's. I think 40 years is a respectable time period to become a pop icon.

You should really read what you're writing. No one is telling you to like MJ....but to suggest that the death of the 4th highest selling act in the world of all time is some "media fad" is pretty ridiculous.

The guy is versatile enough to let a 4 year old dance to and be on a GTA soundtrack. You don't think people think of ABBA the way you do of MJ? It's just preference deal with it.

http://%7boption%7d I mean come on.

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Without the big show, costumes and dancing he never would have had that huge impact on pop culture.

lol...cause you didn't just describe abba right there...and I agree MJ is much bigger than ABBA

steppenwolf obviously you don't like his music but I think you need to step back and read what you're writing. MJ pretty much ran a decade of mainstream culture. we're not talking britney spears mainstream culture which is 16 and under or kanye west which has a pretty specific audience/demographic. think about how diverse the pool of artists that cite MJ as an influence are.

not your style, fine, but come on.

shitting on pop music is fine but I don't think MJ falls into that same generic pop genre...dude was a force...even if you don't like his music, videos like thriller and beat it are hard to top.

I mean who watches beat it and doesn't want a leather jacket, baseball bat or butterfly knife for christmas.

wow I never even heard of this game before but...

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