Link to this » Install this now. It let's you do webcam and voice chat through your browser in Gmail. It's awesome. It's all flash and the speed is better than I've seen on most chat programs. I always dread having to install some huge bloated awful chat program just to chat with a webcam, and now I can delete all traces of such terribleware from my computers. You should do the same! :D
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I recently went up a neckbeard size by doing such tasks as decyphering nerdspeak across the web and installing Perl to achieve my dream of updating all my IM statuses from anywhere, with the added bonus of updating Facebook as well. It all begins with a pidgin.
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Let's pretend you are a web developer (if you aren't) and then let's pretend you are getting a ie6 javascript error on a web site and it's the client's fault because of their malformed ad tags. So you'd want to copy this error and give it to them, but oh no, you can't copy it from ie6. Take a look:
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I just found a roll of "Mentos Energy" my friend Carolino brought me back from Germany in the year 200X. Unholy god of shit these things are terrible. "1 ROLLE" of these "CHEWY DAAGEES" is equivalent to "2 KAFFEE". Personally, I can hardly choke down one of these chewy doggies, let alone half a package.
Oh god why
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Waiting on my bike at Olive & Ross, a hobo walks across the street in front of me. Ensuing conversation:
"Bahvah clah dfah gedah?"
"What?"
"Bahvah clah dfah gedah clah dfah?"
"I'm sorry?"
"Bahvah clah dfah," and then what I think sounded like "You'll find it."
At which point, the dude in the car next to me rolls down his window and says, "You better listen to him man."
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Well Sony doesn't deserve much slack. Sony had a completely undeserved success with the original Playstation, beating out fighting games dream system, the Sega Saturn. Then they beat out the inarguably superior rival N64, for reasons beyond man's grasp. With intolerable load times, laughably bad 3D graphics, and the worst controller since the Intellivision, they managed to snag the untapped "Madden Chucklehead " demographic that had long eluded their predecessors. Nintendo was right about cartridges, disks weren't ready for the mainstream. But that didn't stop the mainstream from lapping up one turd after another, and ignoring the irony that the best part of the Ridge Racer was playing Galaxian while waiting for the damnable thing to load.
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In the late 90's around Dallas a group I hung out with began throwing around the word "spare" to describe people who tended not to show up to hang or do stuff or whatever. Bailing on a party early or cancelling was "sparing out" of the event. It always sounded like bowling talk to me but that didn't really make sense. I was thinking about it recently because a buddy from New York had never heard the term, and I can't say I'm surprised. My friend Jimmy claims it's from some sports talk thing on the radio.
So I did some research on "spare" slang and mostly I get British slang. There's stuff from going mad ("to spare"), describing an available and/or "loose" woman ("a bit of a spare"), to the phrase "like a spare prick at a wedding". I was thinking spare came from the latter but then I found this: Spare is slang for idle, loafing. This sounds more like the way the word was used in that circle, though it would be used as a noun, adjective or verb: "That spare-ass spare spared out again."
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As someone aptly put it: "Rick, you are, literally, a control freak." I'm not going to argue this. For me, controls make or break a game. I don't care what it looks like at all, but the content has to be pretty much solid gold for me to put up with assy controls. That's why I consider it insulting at worst, and lazy at best when developers fail to provide custom button mapping in console games. Nintendo may be the worst offender here, but I've noticed an alarming trend in console games on the whole offering less and less in the way of customizing the control scheme. Back in the day you had a few presets. This was fine because your controller probably had all of 3 buttons. But now things are far more complex.
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