Hepcat, now you've made me go and make a Burton list!!! Obviously this is personal opinion, but I wanted to see if my analysis was correct. For sake of simplicity, I'm only listing feature-length movies Burton directed.

Title-Date-Depp Factor-Good/Sucked

ahem

1985 Pee-Wee's Big Adventure  No Depp  Good

so.. PS4 _won't_ have 'paid online play'?

Pretty sure it's $5/month if you want to play online multiplayer on the PS4.

that was in reference to the gif, which was implying the PS4 would not have paid online multiplayer

so.. PS4 _won't_ have 'paid online play'?

(and everything i've read states that Ouya is significantly more 'consumer friendly' than Sony ever has been)

i've been (finally!) learning Java the past eleven months. what i've mostly learned is that i really* don't like being back at school trying to chase grades again - especially on the back of working full-time - but i think it's been a worthwhile experience. i'm on the third-to-last assignment in the final 'Advanced Topics in Java' class, and i can look back at the hours i've invested over the past year and know i've accomplished something (trying as it has been, at times).

my biggest complaint with Java is that the examples skew heavily towards server and 'middleware solutions', which is a bit yawnsville for me. so to bring the fun back, i've been eyeing Atari 2600 development (!), and think i'll move onto that when classes are done. talk about low-level...
http://atariage.com/2600/programming/

they're going to have to chip apart the tons of concrete that was mixed in with the dumped material... i would be surprised if they got anything worth salvaging from this, but i'm hoping it won't all be for nothing.

i grew up in a town that currently falls under her jurisdiction.  i have no words.

i think it was Astroblast for the Atari 2600, from the Kay-Bee Toys $0.99 bin. (it's a port of Intellivision's Astrosmash)

i'm pretty sure i've never been able to listen to the whole record all the way through. i should try it now...

(technically, my parents paid, as at the time i was too young to get much of an allowance)

i used to be against the idea back in the 90s/00s, but i've come around to thinking this is now a good law to enact (on several levels, even).

so it looks like upgrading the processor with the current socket wouldn't make much of a difference; good to know.

i didn't expect AM3 to be 'obsoleted' so quickly, tho...

i'm looking into upgrading my machine to handle a larger, higher-resolution monitor - the one i'm using right now is a 17" Samsung SyncMaster 170MP from 2003. originally i thought i would just switch out the video card... then i thought that the processor might bottle-neck the graphics performance, so then i'd need a new one of those... but my motherboard is AM3 and has no update for AM3+.

questions are:

1) would my machine's performance be bottle-necked by a decent ATi video card? and if so,
2) is the best possible AM3 processor really going to make much of a difference over my current one? (if not, then swapping out motherboard and RAM and reinstalling OSes becomes necessary.... which i'd rather not do, at this point.)

system specs:
8GB (4x2GB) A-DATA Gaming Series 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM 1600 (running at 1333 speed)
AMD Phenom II X4 925 Deneb 2.8GHz Socket AM3 95W Quad-Core Processor
GIGABYTE GA-770TA-UD3 AMD 770 AM3
Socket AM3 PC3-10600 (DDR3-1333) ATX Motherboard Retail
HIS Radeon HD 5770 1GB GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16
1.5TB Seagate Barracuda 7200 HD
SilverStone ST50F 500W PSU

maybe a longshot, but would anyone want to trade?

my gf would've been interested, if she hadn't already purchased ME3. (but still hasn't started on it, yet)

and you're not supposed to bring pets on many beaches as well, right?

Revengeance 2: The Revengeancing

does Amazon have XCOM thrown in now as well?

Seattle has done the same. i'd been toting around mesh/canvas bags with me for some years prior, so it works out.

OTA TV works for me. 70's Dr. Who reruns on Tacoma public television Saturday nights!

True sign of age is getting more exciting reading about your furnace purchase than your gaming PC purchase. 

i dunno... had i gone into the trades, "HVAC" would have been my second choice after "electrician". i'm fascinated by cooling systems!

'no' for several reasons.

I brought myself out of my doldrums yesterday after rediscovering the greatness that is Half Man Half Biscuit.  I dare anyone to be grumpy after listening to even one of their songs.  With song titles like "Fuckin' 'Ell, It's Fred Titmus!", "Lord Hereford's Knob" and the above linked "Took Problem Chimp to Ideal Home Show", simply reading their song list makes me laugh.

If you’re going to quote from the Book of Revelation
Don’t keep calling it the Book of Revelations
There’s no “s”, it’s the Book of Revelation
As revealed to St John the Divine
See also Mary Hopkin
She must despair
You’ve got a shit arm, and that’s a bad tattoo
You’ve got a shit arm, and that’s a bad tattoo

Authentic celtic band…

there is also the greatness of Stump

best moment: finally getting to play Katamari Damacy and quickly realizing it was better than i had hoped it would be.  still one of the best capital-"G" Games of the past decade and one of my all-time favorites.

-Playing the demo for Metal Gear Solid 2 which came with Z.O.E. games

GOOD GOD THIS WAS TWELVE YEARS AGO

My gf would like to trade Skyrim for XCOM.

Adventures of Lolo is one of the all-time greats on the NES

you can make a twitter account specifically for the purpose of entering contests. use a spam email address and pseudonym in account setup. (that's what i did...)

i was just remembering this game this week! good to finally get it.

[Fatal error]

Fatal error:  Allowed memory size of 157286400 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 64 bytes) in /home/gtroot/public_html/openx-2.8.7/lib/pear/PEAR.php on line 868

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 21:05:21 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.22 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.22 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 mod_bwlimited/1.4
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.3.16
Pragma: no-cache
Cache-Control: private
Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT
Content-Encoding: gzip
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Last-Modified: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 21:05:22 GMT
Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=97
Connection: Keep-Alive
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1

get some Tony Allen for that child ASAP

Beastwars.

this is the working name of the game i was working on for my Java class!



i listened to the first track of that album and to me, the vocalist kinda sounded from the same place as Jaz Coleman (Killing Joke)

i still haven't seen anyone using or own a Vita in the wild, much less gotten a chance to try one. lots of mobile phones (and 3DS systems) tho.

saw this last night - i think it was good for some of the casting experiments (though i noticed there are no white people playing black people, only asians... that's kind of a cop-out!) and the overall theme, but it really didn't hang together otherwise. the original story probably works better. also, ... i think i haven't really formulated my thoughts on it. the Wachowskis are weird in that their films have Hollywood-y trappings, but i don't hate them like i would with those.

for medicinal uses, smoking the plant is the worst, most unhealthy way to ingest THC. eat or vaporize the oil instead.

i'm on it!

Silent Storm is still too much fun.

for modern games, King's Bounty series.

on PSP, i have to mention Jeanne D'arc...

also happens when changing resolution, once in a while. this is only a 'sometimes' problem, but when it happens, it will occur several times in a row. powering off and then powering on the monitor will display the graphics properly again.

suspecting a monitor or video card issue... mmmmaybe even power supply. has this ever happened to anyone?

Samsung SyncMaster 170MP monitor
HIS Radeon HD 5770
Gigabyte GA-770TA-UD3 Mobo
AMD Phenom II X4 925 CPU

i have the first iControlPad, and it's a neat device. it still gets firmware updates, a year and a half after its release. this new one has a keyboard in addition to the analog and digital controls.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1703567677/icontrolpad-2-the-open-source-controller

so the stupid nub kept falling off, until the socket finally split. i attempted to glue it back onto the PSP, but all i managed to do was dent the surface of the analog controller mechanism and now it doesn't work correctly. it looks like the replacement is simple, but i'm wary of buying an inferior component - what are the best places to order from? i don't mind spending a few more dollars if i can be assured of getting a quality or OEM replacement.

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/374794/20120817/electronic-arts-ea-games-sale.htm

no official word yet, but this is probably a natural development for several (perhaps... many) reasons...

thought about it, but the UBI DRM is not one i want to support.

DOG MODE