The Official Happiness Thread

[Gary]

My dad finally agreed to play one of our Xbox game. Though MW2 is a big leap from DOOM(1/2), as there isn't even vert. aiming in DOOM,

[Click16]

A: 4.0 or Greater
B: 3.0 - 3.9
C: 2.0 - 2.9
D: 1.0 - 1.9
F: 0 or Lower

Final Grades are as shown:

Algebra 1: A (4.7)
Integrated Science 9b: B (3.8)
History 9b: C (2.9)
English 9b: Unknown

The other classes don't really matter. Health and world language can bite my ass. I hate how its required.

[xxpenguinxx]

Slow day at work
Edit: Ran out of things to do... So I set up a virtual live linux pc

[Grimdoomer]

I found the vertex, index, and sound data for the xbox 1 bios. Also found the decompression functions, the xbe public rsa key, the flash RC4 key and the parallel port output/input functions.

[OwnZ joO]

Is that puppy linux? I like Linux Mint right now, it's a derivative of Ubuntu which is pretty decent also.

[Grimdoomer]

Finally found the god dam animation decompression code. It's not pretty though. Not one bit.

[xxpenguinxx]

Now I have no compatability issues. Vista 32bit on machine one, XP 64-bit with XP 32-bit on machine 2.

[DemonicSandwich]

Modern Warfare 2
Assassin's Creed 2
I just some more money so I think Forza 3 is next on my list. Either than or a new controller.....nah, a new controller can wait.
Then Mass Effect 2 just next year.

Quite a few great games have been coming out. Pretty good year for the gaming industry.

[Dragonfire]

Battlefield Bad Company 2 in March

[DemonicSandwich]

My family has had plans for moving for some time.(years) But only now are those plans actually being acted upon.
Sometime between now and 2 weeks I need to have most of my room packed.

I have a shitload of stuff that I do not care for and thus will be trashed. That includes: my bed, most of the material under it, most of the shit in my closet, and most of the shit already in storage containers.
Over the years I've been too lazy to clean the room and sort through the stuff I picked up. So instead I just dumped all the shit into a storage container and shove it into a corner and stacked other containers on top.

The plan is:

• Destination: Somewhere in the middle of the south. Swapping a half-barrio, half-deserted suburb for a deep south one.
  Not sure if I win or lose on that one.
• My mother, father and middle brother will drive there with the Uhaul and all the shit from the house, minus my shit.
• Myself, yungest brother, and dog stay behind for a week while they look for a house, and get the services setup.(utilites, DirectTV, an ISP, etc.)
• My dad flies back, I pack the remaining shit into the truck, and we drive there.

Basically they leave us with with two TV's, my game consoles, my PC and equipment, and my mini fridge and we sleep on the couch for a week.
So at least I can mod on one TV for that week while my bother watches movies on the other. Then I'll be offline for that following week while we drive to the south.

[NotZachary82]

Come to Texas.

[XZodia]

The south, land of the religious...

[DemonicSandwich]

The south, land of the religious...

Oh yea. Ok, I lose.

[Gary]

Ah, whats your belief?

[xxpenguinxx]

NOTHING!

[DemonicSandwich]

Ah, whats your belief?

Atheist. It's not that it's a mostly religious state that annoys me, it's the hardcore believers that annoy me.

[Gary]

Same here and one of my other friends is Atheist and lives in Texas... many people look down on her because of it, really is sad.

[DoorM4n]

Here is a little something I have been working on. Let me know if it makes you want to change something or if you are bored through it please. Be honest too! :p


To sum up my reason for this decision, I have decided to close my account because there are things more joyous and mind provoking than even bothering with this--all of this. I don't spend a lot of time on here, but I have ties with this website; I have ties with all of this, and the distraction always exists. And moderating my time here isn't the issue. We find it difficult and down-right crazy imagining disconnecting ourselves from these social networking websites--these thoughts are ridiculous. For 99.999% of our existence on this planet we spent our time without the internet: who is to say we can't live without it now? At the peak of our lifetimes, we may question where our time went. We may end up stating this exact phrase: "Time has flown by so quickly!" When time is been spent wondering what "Bob" did last night at a get-together on facebook, we could be learning that instrument we always wanted to learn--managing our time more productively. We could all be spending our time enriching ourselves with the positive vibes of the world such as music or art or books or writing or meeting professors or meeting people or physically networking--the options are infinite. Friends will always come and go in our lives, and this phenomenon is natural. It is inevitable. Some of the weakest, physical ties we have with people are the strongest most influential segments of networking. If you want to build a network of friends and keep in contact with them, one should physically make an effort to talk and meet with them; otherwise, we drop the friends of those who are not as significant. It is a typical process. Facebook creates artificial friends. I bet you could only ask friendly favors of 1/10 of the friends on your Facebook. The rest are artificial friends. It is not a bad thing but a unique and time-wasting element of our lives. It is distracting us from the more benevolent systems of our communities. Now, these are my reasons for leaving Facebook. You do what you would like with your time. I warn you, however, to remember that life is on a timer...all of our lives. You don't know when the timer will run out, so take advantage of your world.

[XZodia]

To quote a friend of a friend on Facebook, "apparently if you want to have any kind of social life you must have facebook lol. just learn to accept it, I have "
I read that weeks ago but I remembered it because its true. If you want to keep up with whats happening around you, these days you need Facebook.

[xxpenguinxx]

I only have a facebook because... um...

You know what, I'm deleting mine.

Edit: My god how did I leave out a word?

[DoorM4n]

What's your facebook Xzodia?

[Grimdoomer]

Facebook is so pathetic.

[DoorM4n]

TOO PATHETIC.

[Gary]

Overreacting much? If you don't like facebook, then don't use it. If you like facebook, then use it.

I have one because my friends wanted to keep in contact with me, I don't have any "online" friends on it.

[Aumaan Anubis]

Seriously, though, DoorM4n. Don't you have any high-school friends that you want to keep in contact with after you went to college?
Or maybe a way to keep in contact and recognize changes in lives of your relatives?
Possibly even middle school friends that had an impact on your life. Maybe you don't talk to them much, but the memory of them is something nice to remember. And maybe Facebook gives you the chance to see what's going on in their own life.

Dependence on a social-networking site is a problem when it becomes a dependence. When it's absolutely necessary to be online at all times; that is a problem. When you make constant status updates because you want the validation you feel when someone comments on it. It's not bad to want to talk to people, or maybe even vent anger online; it's a problem when it becomes part of your life.

Our generation's characteristic of near-constant online communication isn't a weakness. It's a strength.