Useless Conversation

[hal]

We really need to get our respective heads together on the subject of "How do you wire this shit". theres a lot that can be done on interconnectivity. The various boxes have some interesting capabilities but how the hell do you take advantage of it?

[Oban]

[Sky]

[Sky]

Oddly the robot photo is the most pleasant I think I've seen him.

[bhodi]

I am angry that I cannot buy a fucking HDMI cable for anything but $40. That's up there with stupid expensive. I'm forced to buy online because retail assholes apparently decide price-fixing is easy, fun, and profitable.

[stray]

My cable company gives them to me for free.

Or, maybe not free exactly. I am paying for the cable service at least.

[bhodi]

It's for my PS3. Actually, it's for my cable box, since I stole that HDMI for the PS3.

[stray]

I, unfortunately, shelled out for a Sony one before I got hooked up with the free cable thing. I have several generic hdmi cables now.


Probably best to go with it anyhow. If you don't, it could void your warranty (that is, if you specifically tell Sony you're not using it).

[bhodi]

wait, WHAT? You can't void your warranty by not using a sony hdmi cable.

[stray]

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=789061


The warranty says this:

THIS WARRANTY SHALL NOT APPLY IF THIS PRODUCT IF [.....]

[2] THE PRODUCT IS USED WITH PRODUCTS NOT SOLD OR LICENSED BY SCEA (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, NON-LICENSED GAME ENHANCEMENT DEVICES, CONTROLLERS, ADAPTORS AND POWER SUPPLY DEVICES). YOU ASSUME ALL RISKS AND LIABILITIES ASSOCIATED WITH USE OF THIRD PARTY PRODUCTS.

Link

[Sky]

That's incredibly lame!

[Bunk]

Especial considering that if I get one (which I'm strongly considering) I would need to use an HDMI to DVI cable for my TV.

[bhodi]

Retarded and illegal; they're only getting away with it because people don't know their rights. The burden is on THEM to prove that 3rd party cables somehow damaged the console.

[Mortriden]

That really looks like an old school AGP video card stuck inside dick there...  Not sure about the size, but damn if that doesn't look like the AGP connection hanging out his chest.

[Sky]

You say that like the WWN has a decent photoshopper on staff.

[Yegolev]

I love the Weekly World News.

[Sky]

I love the Weekly World News.

I wallpapered my dorm room with WWN. It fucking pwned. Maybe if/when I get a house I should do my home studio in WWN...

[HaemishM]

I'd buy the WWN for the humor content if only it didn't cost $2. My bullshit value line is $1.

[Sky]

Another side-gem of my Vader hunting.

7. No one has yet explained why, if the idea was to hide Anikin Skywalker's child "where the agents of the Sith would never find him," the best place to do so was on Anikin's home world of Tatooine, with his brother's family, and under his actual given name of Luke Skywalker.

Jesus. You want to knock the Stormtroopers' marksmanship; but they seem to be better shots than the Imperial Intelligence Division are detectives.

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/083313.php

[Sky]

Also, rebels = terrorists; empire = usa!

http://chrenkoff.blogspot.com/2005/05/open-letter-to-george-lucas.html

[HaemishM]

Wow, someone with even less ability to see beyond black and white than George Lucas. ASTONISHING!

[Ironwood]

Check out the great CGI on Brokentoys and then ask why Lucas's Movies still sucked.

:)

[Ironwood]

Also, rebels = terrorists; empire = usa!

http://chrenkoff.blogspot.com/2005/05/open-letter-to-george-lucas.html

And now that I've read that :  When did Triforcer relocate to Aussie land ?

[Oban]

I finally found a Wii today while out with my daughter.  Every weekend since the Wii launched, I ask the checkout person if they have any Wiis.  Probably because it just sounds like such a nice thing to ask for in polite company.  Ma'am, do you have any Wiis?

They only had five left, hidden in some back room.  After about twenty femtoseconds of thought, I blurted out that I wanted to buy one.  While the salesman was in the back room, I picked up Super Paper Mario, Ice Age 2, Marble Mania and Elebits.

So the question now is, do I unbox the unit and start teaching my daughter the joys of indoor exercise or do I have to first perform the sacred ritual of NewConsole(tm) to ensure my Xbox360 does not eat the Wii?

[stray]

I'm not familiar with that ritual.

[Oban]

fuck...

Started to have fun with the Wii and forgot to perform the ritual.

About an hour in and the Wii stops responding.  I am assuming the remote has lost synch with the Wii.  Could have sworn I saw one of the 360's controllers flicker green for a second.  Gave up on the Wii for the night after pressing the red buttons in a semi-coherent manner.

Guess I will have to pop open the manual tomorrow.

God damn Microsoft sucks.

[schild]

They operate on different frequencies, as such, I don't know what you're talking about.

[Ironwood]

I'm finding that I've changed so much as a person in the last year that I no longer like myself very much.

Fatherhood has made a worrier out of me.  I hate people who worry.  I want to smash them in the face with a mallet.

It's causing some problems.

[Sky]

Do what you can, let the rest go.

Or smash yourself in the face with a mallet.

[Merusk]

I'm finding that I've changed so much as a person in the last year that I no longer like myself very much.

Fatherhood has made a worrier out of me.  I hate people who worry.  I want to smash them in the face with a mallet.

It's causing some problems.

'Round about the time they become ambulatory and talk you get over most of it.  There's always something there, but the majority of the "what if s/he... " isn't.

At least until they start dating.

[Yegolev]

Dealing with suddenly developing a strong father/protector instinct, to me, involves limiting the number of people and things I care about to basically my son, wife and self and the attendant duties to ensure happiness in basically that order.  I still worry a lot and it irritates the fuck out of me because I am certain that it will cause me to have an early heart attack one day.  It is an adjustment period, you will get used to it.  Then again, everyone that isn't my wife tells me that I work too much, so I may not be any sort of indicator.

My 360, PS3 and Wii do not fight, however I can't specifically recall having all three on at the same time.  Now, my son being the genius he is was somehow able to incapacitate both Wiimotes by performing some arcane button combo on just one of them.  It took me a little while to get them back; I did several things, such as take the batteries out, unplug the Wii, then do the red-sync-thing several times.  Eventually both started working again.

[Oban]

Finally had some free time this morning, turned the Wii on and everything worked.

Paper Mario sucks.

[Yegolev]

My son used my PC to play Jumpstart Artist this morning and now my mouse has some sort of sticky substance on it.  My Razer mouse.

[Furiously]

Perhaps it's cock sauce?

[schild]

My son used my PC to play Jumpstart Artist this morning and now my mouse has some sort of sticky substance on it.  My Razer mouse.

Get your kid his own PC. load it with emulators. and don't get him a new one til his bar mitzvah.