The Official Rant Thread

[Grimdoomer]

My parents are disgusted by my pattern of my leaving things to the last minute.

I, on the other hand, am amazed at my ability to get myself out of these situations.

They are not impressed.

I know what you mean, I do the same thing.

[Dragonfire]

Entity 1.4 BSP Viewer doesnt work with 64bit

[Remnant Samurai]

Right click the program go to advanced and run as windows xp it might help?

[Dragonfire]

hmmm, lemme try that

the reason i didnt was bc usually for 64bit, most 32bit stuff works just fine. If it doesnt, that means theres a 64bit installer for it

EDIT: Nope, same shit Someone make a ported Entity for 64bit, or maybe a 32+64bit Soffish

[Eaton]

Saving changes in that BSP Viewer will break your map.

[socrates]

....That has got to suck.... but shit it'll run just about anything else you need D-Fire lol

[Dragonfire]

Maybe ill just go bk to 32bit, im only gonna lose .75GB of ram, not that big of a deal

[Gary]

ouch, .75, that's going to hurt a little.

[Dragonfire]

not when u have 4GB to start

[OwnZ joO]

Maybe ill just go bk to 32bit, im only gonna lose .75GB of ram, not that big of a deal

You could create another partition and dual boot.

[Dragonfire]

I installed WinMCE 2005 just yesterday on a 50GB partition

So if needed, i could always boot from that

[Aumaan Anubis]

I can't Print Screen movies on VLC, and Windows Media Player is so damn confusing.

[XZodia]

you cant print screen movies with any player as far as I'm aware...

[Aumaan Anubis]

Huh... weird... I was unaware.
That's quite unfortunate.

Is there any simple explanation as to why that's not possible?

[OwnZ joO]

I'm pretty sure there was a fix to stop people from doing that because there were apps built to continually call printscreen while watching copy protected dvd's along with recording audio and create a copy of the movie.

[Dragonfire]

There is a snapshot option in VLC media player, just make sure u set the right stuff so ya now where it gets stored

[xxpenguinxx]

I goto set the multiplier higher for my cpu (standard is x13) but I can't manually set it higher then 12.5. WTF? And I tried setting it at x12 and i think it runs faster. I had this same thing happen when I was using my old radeon 550x. It doesn't make sense.

[Aumaan Anubis]

Possible mega teen angst ahead. Read at your own risk.

I just went to the Happiness thread, and decided to post something in my life that made me significantly happy. Like, something really good that I was excited about.
"I'm going to sit here and think about something that made me significantly happy, and then post it, because I haven't posted in the Happiness thread, enough."
^ Basically my thoughts at the time.

I failed.

I'm on the verge of change.

I use to have three best friends.
- The first one I've lost, and I've detailed the story greatly, on this site.
- The second moved to the Philippines, claimed he would be back in two years. You know what? It's been almost three. I doubt that he will return. Nor will he be the same person I once knew.
- The third friend I've known, for longer than I've known any other non-family member. I don't consider it over. But we don't talk or hang out anymore. It's been like that for about 6 months, maybe. But, he contacted me maybe two months ago, we talked on AIM for a few hours, and got caught up. So I really don't know how the friendship will turn out.
Childhood is bliss. It is.

At my school, there are "groups" of people, not quite cliques, just people you are most comfortable with. I'm more comfortable with people from my past, people from my middle school. We use to be a group of 8.
- The other friends that left the group now hang out with other people, and I don't see them that much.
- The first two weren't that bad, but we began "losing" people that actually meant something to me.
- In the remaining members, we aren't as dedicated to each other anymore. There are four of us. The other three are rather, "tight." They live near each other and share classes. I've always taken higher classes, so I only see them at lunch. They're interested in Football, sports, they're own classes. There's never been much I could contribute to the conversation. I just feel on the "outs," sorta' speak. I feel like the group is on the edge of splitting altogether.
I value loyalty and trust over almost anything else. So this is especially hard for me, someone who wants to be so loyal to a group of people that hardly associate with each other anymore.
Memories hurt.

I have many friends that aren't in my specified, "group." So many of them. And I enjoy hanging out with a lot of different people. I've really branched out this year. But, oh wait, why the hell would God want to stick with the status quo? Let's split everyone up to go to different colleges! There's a chance that I may see one person from my past, if we magically decide to go to the same college.
So, yes. The dozens of people of people I've come to value and care about, and I'll see one, possibly!
Oh, what a perfect lifestyle that's been laid out for me.

So I'm off to college, to start this whole fucking process over again. To specialize in some field of whatever I'm interested in. To lose my friendships. To lose the people I care about. To lose my siblings to their own families and lifestyles. To lose my parents to old age. To start my own freakin' happy family. To have kids that go through the same fucking things that I am.

What malicious deity has decided to structure life in such a way? Why am I seemingly alone in this feeling? Does no one else realize or feel like they're whole life is about to crash? That we're going through such an unnecessary process that we're actually in hell?
Why has my life just seemingly plummeted since she broke off the friendship?
I don't want everything to change.

I feel like I'm freakin' bipolar. Happy one moment, then I start thinking about the future, and everything seems futile. I can't type a paragraph of this long post without breaking down from thoughts of my future.

I mean, look at my signature. "Accomplish your dreams! The meaning, the true meaning of life, is that we are meant to be happy!"
When the hell was I optimistic enough to type something like that? Certainly not now.
So, what's going to happen? My friendships shot down? My happiness shot down? What next? My dreams? My goals in life? Has God decided to sentence me to the torturous endless questioning of my life? Why has he done this? AM I GOING TO GET SOME FUCKING ANSWERS?

Edit:

Oh, and hell yes. I just did 13 excruciatingly long math problems that came from the wrong page.
Awesome...

[OwnZ joO]

I mean, look at my signature. "Accomplish your dreams! The meaning, the true meaning of life, is that we are meant to be happy!"
When the hell was I optimistic enough to type something like that? Certainly not now.
So, what's going to happen? My friendships shot down? My happiness shot down? What next? My dreams? My goals in life? Has God decided to sentence me to the torturous endless questioning of my life? Why has he done this? AM I GOING TO GET SOME FUCKING ANSWERS?

A lot of times people grow away from their friends when they become interested in different things, that's just a normal thing. Take comfort in knowing that it is not just happening to you, most of the time you still have a friendship, but it's not active, you don't have as tight of a bond as you once did. Trust me, this is not the worst thing that can happen, you will have good things come to you if you wait for them, stay positive, and keep your eyes open and be ready to act on them. Stoic philosophers believe that true happiness comes from within. They would argue that it's not your friends growing apart that makes you unhappy, it's how you react to it. Just as somebody stealing something of yours does not make you upset, how you react does. Something to keep in mind, although it is easier to say than do.

[DoorM4n]

I was zooming down my street on a skateboard going as fast as I could at 9:30pm last night and hit a pile of dirt from a construction zone, then flew off my board exactly 12 feet in mid-air then skid across about 4 feet on my hip and leg, on pure asphault. I limped back to my house. I woke up this morning and collapsed cause of the grapefruit-sized colorless bruise on my hip couldn't support me. I can hardly walk, but man, I am so thankful I didn't hit my face.

[Grimdoomer]

I was zooming down my street on a skateboard going as fast as I could at 9:30pm last night and hit a pile of dirt from a construction zone, then flew off my board exactly 12 feet in mid-air then skid across about 4 feet on my hip and leg, on pure asphault. I limped back to my house. I woke up this morning and collapsed cause of the grapefruit-sized colorless bruise on my hip couldn't support me. I can hardly walk, but man, I am so thankful I didn't hit my face.

I feel your pain, I've gotten hurt soo many times skating.

[NotZachary82]

I have to redo my essay because I rushed it way too much ...

[socrates]

DoorM4n- i got a friend that has been hit by eight cars skating...various numbers of broken\fractured bones maybe two of these injuries i was with him at the time, i myself do not skate..i BMX i haven't been hit by a car (nearly but not quite) and i haven't had any serious injury as of yet..not that i try to jump everything i see or wheelie down every huge hill or anything... but yea...i know the feeling...I'm sure your parents\friends feel for you too


Aumaan- i feel you too...i am still in high school but it seems that every semester i can feel my own little group drifting apart...theres never enough room for us to sit together at lunch and the table next to part of "the group" is usually taken by some damn freshmen group...lol... i too am in the higher classes than most of my friends...most of them are in lower classes and barely passing... i only have one "good" friend that i feel like we will be friends past high school and maybe college...of course he dropped out... so i cant see him much and he lives a city away... but once out of two weekends i go over there to his house or vice versa on our bikes lol (long tiring ride) anyway...people these days are lucky to get one "good" friend that they can be friends with for a long time... I'm sure eventually in your life you will run into some of your old friends and realize how different you were anyway... but yea..again i feel you and hope it works out for you.

[DoorM4n]

Halloween was just another day of bad luck for me.

However, I did carve the face of Ron Paul in a pumpkin and I did enjoy watching the new Indiana Jones.

[Aumaan Anubis]

Rawr.

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