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Oxymoron wrote:Unrelated, but do any of you know where or how I can legally procure myself a copy of Worms Armaggeddon that'd work on Win7 without me having to tinker with DosBox ? It's the only title in the whole series that seems worth playing, and it is neither on Steam, Impulse/Gamestop or GOG.com.

Worms 2 is better

armageddon removes a lot of cool stuff from 2 and adds the ability to get sick from farts

dooey jo have you had any luck running it on win7?

i'm thinking perhaps i should set up a winxp smell-u-later but that's a huge hassle for just a game


BTW worms 2 does work on linux w/ wine lol. but my laptop is win7 and i don't often have ppl around to play on the desktop

theres a thing to run linux programs in windows
maybe you can run wine in that and run worms in wine

BWOOOOOONG

adr wrote:dooey jo have you had any luck running it on win7?

i'm thinking perhaps i should set up a winxp smell-u-later but that's a huge hassle for just a game

sorry, i think the last time i actually played it was before vista came out

guess the "compatibility mode" is as useless as ever

weird though because it's using directX so what the christ can it be doing that doesn't work on newer system...

vista dropped support for 16-bit programs
you could always use the PS1 version in an emulator

death to firefox: i hate the way they put some hover info... over the content

before if you hover over the link, there was a dedicated little bar at hte bottom of the screen that would show it

but now that bar is gone. yet the info is still showed in the same place, now covering up part of the stuff



same with the moronic save password. before it would push the content down so it wasn't covered

now it covers it and any click makes the thing go away, so if you wanted to use it after finishing something, too late



fucking idiots

evilsoup wrote:vista dropped support for 16-bit programs
you could always use the PS1 version in an emulator

pretty sure it's not a 16-bit program as it requires both win95 and directx 5

plus apparently others can run it on win7

whoa lol the cybershadow guy on team 17

i know him (from another part of the internet)

small world

But IE9 does the same thing?

bad ideas have a way of spreading among browser developers like disease

there's probably an add-on or something to change that back

Straha wrote:Name me three revolutionary moments of change in human history over the past two centuries that were achieved non violently or didn't have an active violent beginning or component to them.

Feminism?

I mean I don't remember much in the way of violent terrorism and stuff happening with that one.

I'm reminded of a guy on the internet who said something like the backlash against it is hilarious because it was basically the nicest revolutionary movement ever.

feminism had violent aspects to it
In the UK the suffragettes firebombed the prime minister's house
but obviously that wasn't the effective stuff

feminism was and is primarily reformatory, not revolutionary

no real efforts were made to topple patriarchy all at once

instead individual goals were worked on to alter society step by step

Sometimes when I realise how fucked up our society is, I wish there was a violent sidekick to Occupy. But then I realise that the US government would just go apeshit.

And the only violent movement likely to start would be by the right wing.

I wish something could change without it but...ah fuck it.

Phantasee wrote:But IE9 does the same thing?

At least you can turn the status bar back on in IE9. Does Firefox let you do that?

edit: on fourth thought i take it all back. i can't even agree with myself tonight

fuck it

anywho on a lighter note i've now seen most the episodes of disnep channel's new show GRAVITY FALLS

and i gotta tell you. it's actually pretty good. i understand it is the current winner of the key 9-13 demographic and it deserves that and a lot more

i like the characters, i like the acting, i like the stories, i like the jokes, i evne like the theme song and opening animation.

in fact i can't name anything i really dislike about it, which is amazing coming out of the disnep channel. i mean it is kinda hard to believe that dipper can be how he is (fairly mature, witty, having a full grown man as a voice actor, etc) and yet only be 12 years old, but the stories are good and i like the character.... so you know what, i'll willingly suspend my disbelief



now if you've been an avid reader of my tumblr you'll know that i like a number of kids shows. WORD GIRL on pbs and THE FRESH BEAT BAND on nick jr have got me singing praise, among others

on the other end of the spectrum of awful though is such trash like DORA THE EXPLORER and virtually the entire lineup out of disnep, regardless of the age group

for the younger children they produce pure annoyance. putrid shit like MICKEY MOUSE CLUBHOUSE makes me want to fucking vomit into a pile of diarrhea. it is extremely repetitive, chock full of disgusting branding, and void of any artistic value whatsoever

little einsteins, special agent oso, jake and the neverland pirates and whatever else they have on teh godawful disnep junior are slightly better, but still generally fucking awful. trite references to better works amidst a sea of annoying repetition


if you move up to the competing shows with gravity falls you see another annoying trait come out: all the characters are FUCKING LOADED

pair of kings follows a pair of "kings"
hannah montana follows a rich music star
the suite life of zach and cody follows two spoiled rich kids at first living in an upscale hotel, and later on a cruise ship, and their rich "friends" who all skate through life

the list goes on. the image the disnep channel puts out to our children is, first and foremost, "BUY OUR SHIT", and secondly "YOU SHOULD EMULATE THESE VAPID, STUPID, RICH ASSHOLES"


and its disgusting, just fucking disgusting.



but to get back to praising gravity falls, it isn't like that. its characters are fairly ordinary. very quirky, of course, but they aren't rich, they aren't destined to be kings. they aren't geniuses. that's refreshing

the one rich kid is a spoiled meany who sometimes gets whats coming to her. good. and they don't overplay this either, better.


the setting, again, very very bizarre, but it isn't a disgusting exclusive thing designed to get kids to say "i wish i lived on a cruise ship!!!!!"



really the show, it just works. i expected to loathe it, being something isabella likes on the god damned disnep channel, but i was very pleasently surprised and i haven't been this surprised by a show's quality since the excellent GILMORE GIRLS which i also expected to hate but ended up loving... kinda for the same reasons too. likeable, quirky characters and setting, amusing yet gripping plots and arcs, etc.


bottom line: i look forward to watching more of this show. the disnep channel finally has a WINNER.

Aaron wrote:Sometimes when I realise how fucked up our society is, I wish there was a violent sidekick to Occupy. But then I realise that the US government would just go apeshit.

And the only violent movement likely to start would be by the right wing.

I wish something could change without it but...ah fuck it.

Have there been successful non-violent revolutions?

Obviously advocating violence is the reasonable solution to America's problems.

Darth Fanboy wrote:Obviously advocating violence is the reasonable solution to America's problems.

Of course that isn't the desired solution.

Knubble tov wrote:Have there been successful non-violent revolutions?

India?
Egypt?
Sorta?

i would consider the bolivarian revolution by hugo chavez to be one. he was convinced to try democracy... and it worked. he's changed a lot of things in venezuela as president, including the constitution, so i'm pretty sure it fits the definition of a successful revolution, and it was done with elections and politics and shit, no coups, no wars

Ugh. Talked to my dad again today about me getting my own gun, since I don't just want to keep mooching off my friends' collections when we go to the range, and he's subtly implied that he'll stop helping me pay for college if I try to buy my own rifle. I don't know why he's so freaked out over it. I don't want to get a CPL, I don't want to carry it around, I just want a rifle (probably one like I fired last weekend, either an AR-15 or a Bolt-action Mosin. Allan says those are cheap.) to take to the range with my friends.