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P-NAS(Pyles Needs A Slut)Steve and I have decided that all Pyles needs to become a functioning part of society is a good slut. He is a bit too hyper and intellectually stimulated, so a good slut can do him great by calming him down and taking the energy away...so everyone dig into your pocket books and help this poor, misguided soul by donating to the P-NAS (pronounced 'penis') Foundation. Pyles Needs A Slut!!! | An EverQuest and Ultima Online Comparison: Here is my plea for Ultima Online:
1. Not Level-Based - much more realistic. You don't go from level one to level two, per se. Instead it is a gradual increase in skill that you gain from using it, not from killing stuff. Because in Ultima Online...
2. Killing Stuff is Not the Sole Purpose of the Game - in fact, many people make careers without having to go out into the wilderness and fight for themselves. You can make a living by tailoring clothes, smithing armor and weapons, tinkering neat little gadgets, brewing potions, or woodworking.
3. Easier to Play - easy point and click interface, keyboard is only required for chatting and macros. I hate in EverQuest having to stay sitting up with a mouse on my lap and a keyboard in front of me. In UO, I can lay down, which makes it a lot easier to hide it from my parents if they hear me in the middle of the night.
Of course, there are some points for EQ, which is why I have decided to play it as well:
1. I Get a Better Connection - UO has very laggy servers...so whenever I get sick of my guy moving two inches at a time, I switch to EQ. This is not an excuse for anyone with broadband.
2. Better Graphics - Whoop de doo...I really don't care, but it is true, so I might as well put it in here.
3. Friends - for one, you have to have an original name so you can look it up when your friends are on and know it's them. Not to mention nearly everyone I know that has a decent computer is on EQ.
Other than that, I don't see why everyone plays EverQuest and rules out Ultima Online, except that Pyles made the observation that Ultima Online is too realistic for his liking...which if you don't like realism...well, then you're fucking stupid...oh well.
Did I mention that you are not barred from certain races for not having all the expansions? Then again, UO doens't have races because it is more realistic, so I guess that is not a good argument.
| March 6, 2003Here is a cool game I made in computer class...play it, it's hella fun. You start out with a knight and you have to move him to every square on the chess board without hitting any square more than once...hehe...it's cool. I also made a program that solves the problem, but that would be cheating, so I won't post it, hehe. game.zip | So this guy pissed me off yesterday. And that's a bad thing. For me and him. I was at AMC....and this bastard had decided that he would take up all of one space, and half of another. Of course, I saw this as a personal insult. There was no other place close to the entrance to park. So I parked next to the greedy parking space stealer. I parked so close to him that nobody could have gotten in on the passenger side and I 'accidentally' hit his side with my door when I opened it. Inside I hoped that he would come out while we were in the theatre and think, "hey, maybe next time I shouldn't park in two spaces." But as probability would have it (we were dropping off an application, which took perhaps thirty seconds, and the other guy was probably watching a movie), he didn't come out while we were in the theatre. So I told my brother to piss on his car. He did. Then we left. | February 10, 2003Email from Yiyad@aol.comFor all of us who feel only the deepest love and affection for the way computers have enhanced our lives, read on.
At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated, "If GM had kept up with the technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25.00 cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon."
In response to Bill's comments, General Motors issued a press release stating: If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics:
1. For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash twice a day.
2. Every time they repainted the lines in the road, you would have to buy a new car.
3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason. You would have to pull over to the side of the road, close all of the windows, shut off the car, restart it, and reopen the windows before you could continue.
4. For some reason you would simply accept this.
5. Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine.
6. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast and twice as easy to drive -- but would run on only five percent of the roads.
7. The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would all be triggered by a single "This Car Has Performed An Illegal Operation" warning light.
8. The airbag system would ask "Are you sure?" before deploying.
9. Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key and grabbed hold of the radio antenna.
10. Every time a new car was introduced, car buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again, because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car.
11. You'd have to press the "Start" button to turn the engine off. | February 27, 2003We got into this debate today. It was about women's rights and nonconformists. It made everybody else in the class look stupid and me look like a fucking genius. We established that freaks are conforming non-conformists, meaning they conform with each other and conform only on the outside. Whereas a real nonconformist has different ideas and ways of thinking. And I pretty much asserted that I am one of the real nonconformists. They were talking about the women's rights movement, and I brought up a fascinating point. Women before rights: unable to vote; owned no property, therefore paid no taxes; no jobs; submitted to their family or husband. Modern youth: unable to vote; very narrow selection of jobs, if over 14, therefore no taxes; owned by parents. So why is it that every single minority group in the nation has been liberated EXCEPT for youth of America? This puzzles me. Everybody says that children shouldn't have equal rights. But so did people before women's rights. This has always happened when a group gains its rights. So I would look forward to youth being treated equally in the future, as soon as more of the children oppose their oppression. Some people made some stupid arguments. Like, children can't sustain themselves on their own. Well, dumbshit, if they had jobs, they would, and they would pay taxes, etc. But there are too many limits on jobs for kids. And no, I am not saying that children would live on their own. They would just not have to deal with the parents mandating everything that goes on in their life.
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