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BUGS and HELP (Hex brand only) / Sun Map - regions
« on: September 07, 2013, 09:27:58 PM »
Peace--

I know I remember using regions in the Sun map before, but tried to create a new game and regions defaulted to 0 and there was no way to change it...

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General Discussion / Re: New Dawn goes literary!
« on: September 07, 2013, 05:32:55 AM »
Hated it.

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General Discussion / Re: New Dawn goes literary!
« on: July 11, 2013, 03:16:32 AM »
Yeah, that Badwater ultramarathon or whatever... In-freaking-sane.

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General Discussion / Re: New Dawn goes literary!
« on: July 09, 2013, 06:36:42 AM »
And, fwiw, on the completely uninteresting topic of weather, today is one of the great type of southern California days of summer weather... it was hot today, but not exactly blistering... got up into the mid 90s maybe, but then it just never really cooled down... driving home from work at 730pm it was still 91F and even now, 1130 pm, is still in the mid80s, with just a little gust of warm wind every now and then... sitting on the back patio, getting some work done, slipping into the pool every hour or so to cool off for a bit... yeah, this is the kind of day that only happens a few times every year...

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General Discussion / Re: New Dawn goes literary!
« on: July 09, 2013, 03:59:15 AM »
Death Valley ain't that far from my house.... three hours, maybe four...

Highest recorded temperature ever: 57C, 134F... During the heat wave that produced that record, there were five consecutive days over 129F...

In 2001, it reached at least 100F there for 154 consecutive days.

On July 12, 2012, the lowest recorded temperature of the day was 107F or 42C!

The average high in July in Death Valley is 116 (47F) with the average low of 88 (31C).

Now that's hot.

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General Discussion / Re: New Dawn goes literary!
« on: July 06, 2013, 03:17:32 AM »
Yeah, it's been hot here, but no moreso than normal... We usually have a mild June and then the very end of June into July the temps jump big time... Last Sunday it was 113 out at my dad's house out towards the desert... that was fun...

The Krakauer one is a nonfiction book that was turned into a movie of the same name...

And yes, Death of a Salesman is a play... I'd rather see the play than read it, but reading a play is fun, especially with all the stage direction included by the playwright, so you get to envision the action in your mind...

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General Discussion / Re: New Dawn goes literary!
« on: June 29, 2013, 04:01:57 AM »
Neuromancer was a good one...

My recent reads:

Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller
American Pastoral - Philip Roth - highly, highly recommended
Into the Wild - John Krakauer - perhaps even more highly recommended...

Now a quick stopover with Che Guevara's Motorcycle Diaries, then onto either Anna Karenina, or if I haven't worked up the courage for that, a Timothy Leary biography.

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General Discussion / Re: New Dawn goes literary!
« on: June 06, 2013, 06:10:55 AM »
Stranger in a Strange Land is, aside from being one of the best classic SciFi books, a foundational 1960s counterculture book... Of course, by the time Manson came around, this thing hit a little too close to home.

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General Discussion / Re: New Dawn goes literary!
« on: March 13, 2013, 06:53:07 AM »
Anna Karenina, eh? I've never gotten around to that one. Maybe this summer.

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Members Supporting Members / Re: Technology Help (ask about all things computer, tech gadgets, and related)
« on: February 10, 2013, 09:48:56 AM »
6TB is a conservative guess. But then again, I don't really do MP3, so you gotta take that into account. WAV files are non-lossy and generally significantly larger (by an order of 5 or so?) than MP3. But still, according to winamp which houses maybe 1/3 of my music library, I've got 132.7 days worth of music in that database.

Oh, and some of that music library includes video files. Maybe 1-2TB in video alone.

And. And.. And... I, until very recently, had a Vista machine too. It was my media server/DVR connected to my main TV and it just died a couple weeks back. RIP Vista. Terrible OS, but nowhere near as bad as its reputation. Which ain't saying much.

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General Discussion / Re: Beyonce and 'Lip-sync-gate'
« on: February 10, 2013, 09:38:34 AM »
Too close to the truth to be funny...

But, on the Beyonce topic, I don't think I had ever heard her sing a single song prior to the Super Bowl halftime show and.... now I hope I never hear her sing another. Good god. She is/was awful. At one point I commented: "maybe she has a cold or something." And as bad as her voice is, the songs she chooses to sing? Good god. She's supposed to be like a pop singer or something and there aren't even any hooks in there.

I'm not quick to criticize pop singers because, like, I'm not their target audience by any stretch of the imagination. But, I've heard plenty of other pop singers belt out absolute swill that is at least catchy. This one, she can't sing and she can't even pick halfway decent songs.

The wife says the only thing that is important is that the chick singer be hot. Um. Sorry. Strike three lady.

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General Discussion / Re: Beyonce and 'Lip-sync-gate'
« on: February 03, 2013, 05:19:57 AM »
You wouldn't have to pay much.. The price of a couple beers, maybe...

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General Discussion / Re: Beyonce and 'Lip-sync-gate'
« on: January 29, 2013, 03:42:32 AM »
I'm proud to say I have no idea what you're talking about.

But then again, I've given up on even paying attention to "important" issues.

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General Discussion / Re: There is hope for you americans too now
« on: January 10, 2013, 07:07:42 AM »
And while we're at it, I would like it to rain strawberry lemonade.

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General Discussion / Re: So How is you christmas 'competition' going SOoT?
« on: January 06, 2013, 03:16:22 AM »
Heh, yeah, I had actually put something in my post about how NYE is really no more of an event that the 11/11/11, 12/12/12 nonsense.

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