Does platinum describe the content disaster created by combining long winded factless lunacy with meticulously archived stock bbs responses?

It pisses me off that I ran Finsternis off right before Tdarcos got back, thereby destroying any possibility of a JC BBS PLATINUM AGE.

I piss me the hell off!!

Finsternis wrote:Wow, I'm back on another BBS with TDR. It's like... No Exit, man.

Maybe it's more like Waiting For Godot. Oh hold on, was that by Sartre too?

Of course there's always "Five Characters in Search of an Exit", an episode of the Twilight Zone.

Worm wrote:You can run steam offline.

Uh, no, you can't. I tried it again a couple of weeks ago, when I had no Internet connectivity. None of the Orange Box games or add-ons - HL2, HL2 Ep1, HL2 Ep2, Garry's Mod or Portal will operate without internet connectivity. If you don't have Internet none of these will work. (I exclude Counter Strike and Team Fortress; they're generally intended for use in a multi-player environment and thus it is expected you'd use them that way, but the others can and are used as single player apps.)

Worm wrote:EDIT: What a retard. I mean there were issues with steam's offline mode awhile back, but not anymore. I have steam on my older brother's computer in a constant offline mode so he can play my version of Civilization 4 Beyond the Sword.

I made a comment.

Well, when I try to operate without an Internet connection it tells me the game is unavailable at this time and to try later. Enable Internet and they immediately work.

Wow, I'm back on another BBS with TDR. It's like... No Exit, man.

Ask him what "Tdarcos" means.

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:You and Worm can rip on each other all you want, that's fine with me. I encourage this behavior.

Have you even read any of the threads here dating from 2005 back? The only time this place has been interesting, has been when everyone attacked eachother and created a sort of structured enviroment out of it.

The last decent thread by Jolt Country standards was Pinback's car thread, and you essentially attacked Jack Straw for being an ass when he was just being himself, and Pinback was forced to defend... Then ATTACK.

I mean, this place was run by trolls for trolls. The only aspect keeping it sane was a very large touch of "good humor" that had everyone playing along.

You and Worm can rip on each other all you want, that's fine with me. I encourage this behavior.

Heh, worm said "jacked in". Sounds like my college roommate reading neuromancer and bitching about lawnmower man. Geek.

Tdarcos wrote:Well, the funny thing was the instant my Internet connection worked, Steam worked again. So perhaps at the time I created the video, Steam would not allow me to run it off-line. That this might have changed since then does not negate the point that it would not work at that time.

Yeah, I'm constantly jacked in so I really don't have room for comparison. It could have been orange box only, but I just remember this whole "NO OFFLINE" debacle from awhile ago and have my older brother playing a load of my steam games in offline mode so he doesn't have to purchase them.

Vitriola wrote:Fuck me.

Whenever, wherever, whichever orifice, babe.

But I think Robb might be a little upset.

Bruce

Draal Ranger wrote:Its always funny watching people become riled about some item, idea, or substance.

You've limited yourself to what other people do, and have created a universe where you must continually analyze and critique their responses and in so doing, have straddled yourself to their wheel; their pace of thought and innovation.

I completely agree with you! And since you post these little 'critiques' of your own on this board bi-weekly at least, does this mean our little wheel tumbles with you alongside?

Shit, did I just make a 'what does that make YOU' comment?
Fuck me.

I'm just looking for time management advice. Between my two jobs and the demanding chick, I can't imagine maintaining a system to manage and organize relevant quotes to contribute when posting to forums. It would sure help drive traffic to my nonexistent blog if I did though.

I'd really appreciate it if people didn't try to run off every single new poster that comes to this site. It's going on in another thread Paul posted to as well so I'm not trying to single anyone out. It happens EVERY FUCKING TIME someone new drops by this place and I'm sick of it. You guys know I'm sick of it, but don't have enough respect for me to refrain from doing it anyway.

Its always funny watching people become riled about some item, idea, or substance. Even funnier watching groups form around said thing, and as the individuals usually do, create an environment where their own opinions and thoughts become magically endowed with "Great Reason." Oddly, they basically scream for five minutes about how horrible something is, and then they want everyone to read about how horrible said thing is, while then wanting everyone to be aware of said horrible thing so they can have a point of reference to bitch about.

Always humorous to hear this, when basically only those who made say, an oft criticize game or novel actually have any idea about the process involved (but then only when confronted and forced into a corner to give a "story"), then it is just a few people who don't have anything else to expand themselves except picking over details and propagating their own ideas so they can somehow feel justified in pretending to be experts because their version has "Become Truth."

So... Ha-ha... Blogs... The internet... Congratulations everyone and Mr. Robinson; instead of becoming a creator, inspiring and being a person of thought and consideration who stood aside and brought about something great and grand, you've just boiled down your existence to bitching about a service/product/thought/idea that you had no hand in, that you only use in a general sense, and can only influence if those who create it actually listen to your bitching.

You've limited yourself to what other people do, and have created a universe where you must continually analyze and critique their responses and in so doing, have straddled yourself to their wheel; their pace of thought and innovation.

Now everyone; KEEP POSTING!

Hey Paul, just want to say it's good to have you posting here. I look forward to hearing your opinions on new and old topics.

Worm wrote:You can run steam offline.

No you could not. I tried. More than once. Every time I tried to run anything from the Orange Box, it informed me that the game was busy and could not run.

Worm wrote: EDIT: What a retard. I mean there were issues with steam's offline mode awhile back, but not anymore. I have steam on my older brother's computer in a constant offline mode so he can play my version of Civilization 4 Beyond the Sword.

I made a comment.

Well, the funny thing was the instant my Internet connection worked, Steam worked again. So perhaps at the time I created the video, Steam would not allow me to run it off-line. That this might have changed since then does not negate the point that it would not work at that time.
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Paul Robinson - paul@paul-robinson.us - My Blog

Jack Straw wrote:Good points, sure, but instead of going through all the time of making the video, posting it, and transcribing the whole thing on his "blog", he could have been playing Orange Box on Xbox (which does not require you to be connected to the internet)

And I'm supposed to pay yet another $300 for a game system I'm not interested in and has no games I want to play on it?

Jack Straw wrote:how does he even play ANY game (oops I mean "utilize any computer program") with eyes that look in two different directions?

I happen to be blind in one eye, and was born that way. I happen to have a drivers' license - and have had one for thirty-one years - so my vision must be at least adequate to drive.
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Paul Robinson - paul@paul-robinson.us - My Blog

I see your vomit orc, and raise you this:

http://www.weebls-stuff.com/wab/paper/

Courtesy the Milker:

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I got a 360 last month and have been playing the Orange Box games, and what can I say, the Half-Life games have made a complete Valve fanboy out of me. I did not expect to enjoy these games as much as I did (I always thought the first Half-Life was sort of atmospherically dry).