Random thread: Where's your postcount now, (tpd) bitch

[Naylzie]

HOLY SHIT I TOTALLY WENT TO BED TOO EARLY LAST NIGHT BECAUSE THINGS HAPPENED!

WELCOME BACK, IZ!

Also, be aware that because we have been referring to you as IZ while pondering our search strategies, I may feel compelled to call you Zim.  Just fair warning.

Freak - sucks about your internet, dude.  Is it possible that he was just hoarding the bandwidth?  When I downloaded the trial for Rift, the Beloved couldn't even play Minecraft.  MINECRAFT.  It's 8 bit lego silliness and he couldn't play.  So it might have been fine for him with his big whomping download and browsing and whathaveyou, but there was just nothing left for you 

[amputee]

To be fair, minecraft has to be one of the strangest/worst coded games ever. Between memory leaks, bug updates that create almost as many bugs as they fix, and no real qa support, it might be laggy just because.

That said, yeah, bandwidth divvying can be a bitch too.

[individualzero]

HOLY SHIT I TOTALLY WENT TO BED TOO EARLY LAST NIGHT BECAUSE THINGS HAPPENED!

WELCOME BACK, IZ!

Also, be aware that because we have been referring to you as IZ while pondering our search strategies, I may feel compelled to call you Zim.  Just fair warning.

Thank you! How've you been doing?

Zim is an AWESOME nickname, BTW. I could totally dig being called Zim.

Hell, I'll even rig up an alt account so no one knows it's me, call it GIRnoise, and steal threat's photos in spite of her watermarks and call my little brother my son while pretending I'm a 20-something year old starving artist. No, wait, that sounds too familiar...

[Naylzie]

To be fair, minecraft has to be one of the strangest/worst coded games ever. Between memory leaks, bug updates that create almost as many bugs as they fix, and no real qa support, it might be laggy just because.

That said, yeah, bandwidth divvying can be a bitch too.

Prone to memory leaks, you say?  That's very good to know.  He was complaining that it was lagging "for no reason" when he went to bed last night, so that could well have been the cause.  Closing the game out and reopening it should fix it, right?  Or is this one of those that's so bad that you have to reboot your computer to kill the leak?

Thank you! How've you been doing?

Zim is an AWESOME nickname, BTW. I could totally dig being called Zim.

Hell, I'll even rig up an alt account so no one knows it's me, call it GIRnoise, and steal threat's photos in spite of her watermarks and call my little brother my son while pretending I'm a 20-something year old starving artist. No, wait, that sounds too familiar...

I've been good.  Finally actually working for something approaching real wages doing what I want to do, still not actually married because school-finances-stepchildren craziness, but the engagement is still on...  and I think that about covers it.  Life is admittedly a little dull.

What about you?  We've now seen the great lengths Ted had to go to to stalk  track you down, what've you been up to?

[individualzero]

re: memory leaks
Closing the application down and rebooting it ought to fix the memory leak issue. You shouldn't need to reboot the whole computer.



@Nayl: Real wages (or approaching close to them) is better than what a lot of people have right now, so that's great news. It's awesome that your engagement is still on! Please take copious amounts of photos at the wedding, yeah?

As for me, I've been gaming and... well, the biggest news in my life right now is thus - early June means the move. We're moving further west through Maryland to a smallish town of 5000 (marginally smaller by about 1250 people out of 6500). This is big news because we're moving into a big, big HOUSE, as in not a 4-room trailer.

The home we have/will have had is weird. It's got a half-bath/half-bedroom molded into one sorta-room, a kitchen/living/dining room molded room, and a master bedroom and half-bath. It was built in the late 1960s and is a total piece of shit, but it was a roof over my head, so...

Interestingly enough, there's like four bars / restaurants within walking distance of the house we're moving in to. I might get a job as a waiter or cook or something. Money is nice.

[Naylzie]

Woo house!  That's amazing!  That's become another big debate recently for us; do we move first or do we get married first?  We've been living for close to 5 years in an apartment that sounds to be comparable in size to the place you'll be leaving, maybe a bit smaller, and we've come to rather hate the city.  Granted, could we afford a place on the East Side, I'm sure it would be better.  The East Side has trees, and yards, and less crime, and all the benefits that living among the monied brings.  Right now we're in the south end of Providence where it takes weeks just to get the police to properly investigate a break-in.  But, as with setting the wedding date, it largely comes down to being able to afford it.

So moving into a house is totally awesome, smallish towns are nice (though the gossip is brutal  ), and I hope the moving process goes smoothly!

[amputee]

re: memory leaks
Closing the application down and rebooting it ought to fix the memory leak issue. You shouldn't need to reboot the whole computer.

Yep. Also, if you're running a 64-bit os you have to find the correct 64-bit version of java (which isnt the default installer) and that helps. Also also, the game is practically unplayable right now because of the updating going on. Servers with mismatched versions wont work at all, and both single and multi player have HORRIBLE 100% cpu usage problems that haven't been fixed. Really, the game is hardly playable at all to anyone right now.

BUT MOVING ON!

I found this link earlier, the top 10 easter eggs on famous albums. Usually these lists are pretty tame, but a few of these are downright amazing.

[TPD]

No, wait, that sounds too familiar...

ha

[tim]

Anyone who wants to see photos of very sweet kids holding very serious placards should check my twitterfeed. (And there's plenty more where that came from.)

[threatsicle]

I've a habit of picking up the most random hitchhikers. And they've all left me with great food for thought.

Life has been treating me better lately. That seems to always be the case when you carry a more positive energy. I needed a better light to focus on -- and plenty of it came. I'm grateful.

[kristin]

I totally hear that. When I make an effort to be more positive, I feel better and better things happen to me. My problem is that I am NOT a positive person by nature, so it takes a conscious effort to think that way.

[libertine]

That's become another big debate recently for us; do we move first or do we get married first? 

Move.

[Naylzie]

Move.

That's where I'm leaning too, Lib.  Can I ask why you say so?

I just want to point out something that's been amusing me for a few days now...  I don't think it was even mentioned here, but Ol' Gloomy's birthday is the day that we had the most people on the board at the same time.

[TPD]

MOVE IN WITH ME AND THEN KICK YOUR BOI TO THE CURB.
I'M STARTING UP A NEW PI CHICK COMMUNE AND YOU'LL BE MY QUEEN.*



*pi chick commune queen negotiable. accepting offers, bribes, and pics. decision not final. whole commune idea not final. offer void in nevada.

[dee]

Can't you get hitched via justice of the peace? And I dunno how he did it, but Ric just picked a random, non-denominational pastor out of the phonebook one morning. Very inexpensive, he was available that afternoon and was a lot of fun.

@ Teddykins