HalcyonSpirit

Thank you. I needed a good laugh tonight.

Mentioned this to my mom and got told that I sound like a "radical leftist" for making a big deal about the issue. That hurt, in more ways than one...

Voting period has begun! Got a bunch of last-minuters this time: Unnamed Limerick by Mirby Unnamed Poem by A-RoN Spellbound by evory Monochrome by AlmightyArceus (Lack of) Original Thought by Jax Mandrake Get your votes in by the end of the 30th. I mean it. You submitted, so vote, dagnabbit!

Mojang-related: A trailer for the alpha of Mojang's new game, Cobalt, . I'm... tempted. We shall see once I have a few spare bucks.

So what's the direct IP address of OCR? As I understand it, the bill only provides means of removing the DNS entry from your internet service, not removing the site itself, so getting to a site by the IP address would still work. I've taken to gathering up IP addresses for many of my frequented sites just in case. What's OCR's?

No, but you only have a few days left to submit if you're going to. Submission ends on the 14th, and only because I don't want to see this competition wither and die; it should've ended on Nov. 30th. Regardless, we need two more submissions to even have a vote this round, and I'm too bogged down in job applications to even think about something to write. Not that I write poetry, anyway.

Not like that hasn't already been enabled by most people since day one... What I'd like to see is larger amounts. They know the game is going to get modded to hell for years to come, which is what will give the game its longevity, and having that extra RAM available beyond just 4GB would help that along immensely.

Is anyone actually planning on submitting this round, or should we move on to the next?

Out of curiosity (since I likely won't be able to get the game for a while and I have a Wii to play it on), do you think it would play well on a Quad-core 2.83 GHz with a GeForce 9800 GTX? I know next to nothing about Dolphin and I'm not sure where to look to get a straight answer (main project page doesn't say much).

Oh god I just nostalgia'd. I see Gundam 00 on there. If you liked that, you may like Gundam Wing (another show in that Toonami commercial). Similar feel to Gundam 00 in that it's got more emphasis on action than most other Gundam series (still recommend those, as well), and the plots a quite similar, too. I personally feel that Wing and 00 weren't as strong as those other Gundam series, but I tend to focus less on action and more on the characters, so you can somewhat base your decisions regarding the various Gundam series on that. EDIT: If you're liking Bleach and One Piece, then shows like Trigun, Yu Yu Hakusho, Outlaw Star and Rurouni Kenshin are probably right up your alley.

What have you watched? I can't remember if you've seen some of these or not. Anyway... Of the things in the image, I can personally vouch for Kenshin (up through the second season; the rest beyond that is... um... yeah.), Outlaw Star, Slayers, Gundam 08th MS Team, Black Lagoon, Azumanga Daioh, Suzumiya Haruhi, FLCL, and Big O. Slayers, Azumanga and Haruhi may not be everyone's cup of tea, but they're generally good. I've heard good things about Zeta Gundam, Ghost in the Shell, Trigun, Sword in the Stranger, and Ergo Proxy, but I haven't gotten around to watching them yet. As far as things not on that image, Yu Yu Hakusho is a classic Shonen anime that has many cliches from the time period but is quite well done. I hear Gundam 0080 is good, and I'm currently watching Gundam 0083, which so far is good (if a bit odd with pacing at times). Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 is a really good one. Finally, Bubblegum Crisis and Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040 are pretty good in my opinion, though they don't stand out in any particular way.

Daniel and James are currently doing a Q&A on the Desert Bus for Hope charity stream. Check it out!

Of course you aren't. Minecraft 1.0.0 has been officially released. If you're planning on playing on one of the servers here, though, don't update until the server has been updated; we'll tell you when that happens.

It's because if you have more than two cores, the computer can essentially completely dedicate two cores to the game and use the rest for anything else running on the computer, including the OS. If you only have two cores, then some of at least one core will be taken up by those processes, leaving less for the game to use.

Yeah, that part is bothering me as well. I lack money, but it's going to be hard to avoid purchasing this game at launch. I'm going to attempt it by watching someone else play it on launch day for charity instead. Of course, that will probably just backfire on me anyway, but hey, it's for charity!

The November 2011 Poetry Competition has begun. All submitters, start your pencils!

Results are in for the September 2011 Short Story Competition! 1st Place: Savanna Dream by Simplicity Runner-Up: NOBODY by Jax Mandrake The vote tally: Savanna Dream by Simplicity - 10 NOBODY by Jax Mandrake - 6 Bobert's Boredom by Mirby - 2 Good job, all, and I hope to see more submissions in the future! Tomorrow starts the November 2011 Poetry Competition! Also, NaNoWriMo 2011 is starting again tomorrow! Feel free to post what you write here.

My desktop meets everything on the Recommended front EXCEPT the graphics. On that, it's only Minimum... Dammit. I'd be upgrading immediately if I had any money to do so.

Shame. Was considering getting on tonight after not being on for... what, two weeks?

The voting period starts now*! We have three** entries: Bobert's Boredom by Mirby NOBODY by Jax Mandrake Savanna Dream by Simplicity Voting period ends on the 29th. Please, if you read this thread, do everyone a favor and vote. * Would have been earlier... like, a week ago, but... yeah, I have no excuse besides bad memory. ** Would have been four, but I 'completed' my entry just a little while ago, well after the deadline. Le sigh...

One year ago, today, I bought Minecraft. Crazy.

The submissions stage has been extended, but I want to know if there's anyone even considering participating. I haven't heard a thing from anyone.

I'd like to make a quick request that anyone playing on the server to try to avoid generating new chunks on the main world (the one we've been on since October) until after we have 1.9 running. The terrain generator is going to be changed again with that update, so I think we can all agree that we'd probably prefer having only one set of chunk discontinuities on the map, not two.

After much delay, Bukkit is released for Minecraft 1.8! ... Jeb releases the Minecraft 1.9 pre-release a few hours later. At this point, why even update the server to 1.8 at all? I think we should just wait for 1.9.