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Said my last goodbye to my three closest pals before leaving. Spent the last few hours with them playing a proxy M:tG deck and dominating them in Monopoly.
;_;
Just started watching Daybreakers.
So, it's a high-concept vampire sci-fi movie, where vampires are actually vampires and act like vampires, and the main character is named Edward.
I feel like the original pitch went "fuck Twilight. This is what a vampire is."
Which is silly, because vampires aren't real and lore about them has always been contradictory and mostly stupid.
That said, Daybreakers is a really fun movie and I liked it a lot.
That's true, but the stuff in Twilight is even more contradictory and stupid than normal.
>First action sequence
Damn. This is the funnest movie I've seen in awhile.
Yeah, Daybreakers is great.
is that a crossbow shotgun
IS THAT A CROSSBOW SHOTGUN
This movie is awesome.
blah blah blah core concepts blah blah blah
also i got my first overtly (as opposed to subtly) racist call today. I feel like I have graduated or something.
I never got the chance to watch it when it came out and I've wanted to ever since. I should check to see if it's available to Netflix-stream...
It is. That's how I'm watching it.
How is MS Paint such a bad image editor that it can't even resize images properly?
Define resize properly.
Without it looking like shit. That said, I'm not getting as bad results right now even though I'm doing the same thing, so I don't know what the problem was really. Still,
this:
does still look a bit worse than this:
But that is just due to lack of options for scaling algorithms I guess.
Well, that scaling up there does like shit.
I just spent all night reading about Islamophobia, now I'm both depressed and extremely tired.
Goodness Firefox Spell-check bigotry against and fear of of Muslims is not the same as the bigotry against/fear of Homosexuals!
Finished Daybreakers. Damn. That was a good movie.
For resizing images, I recommend GIMP.
@All Nines: I know that feel, bro.
Personally, I use Fast Stone. GIMP is apparently good for other purposes, but I could never learn how to use the damn thing.
Learn the features one by one.
I only know how to do a few things there, and I learned them one by one.
First, ask someone who knows the program to teach you how to resize. It's actually quite simple; you load an image into GIMP, then from the Image menu find the resize or "change size" or something option, then pick one of four algorithms for resizing (they make the result look slightly different depending on which you pick) and then save the result in your format of choice.
Then once you've gotten the hang of that, ask someone to each you something else, such as adding a border, or cropping, or using multiple layers.
Good news: I can go home after it.
Bad news: I don't know how long it's going to be.
Jooooooooy.
>find a bunch of D&D books in the library, including the Player's Handbook, the Monster Manual, and the Dungeon Master's Guide
yessss
> they're all 4e
noooooo
Every time I consider getting back into Dark Souls, the PS3 controller is missing. I think the universe is trying to tell me something.
To stop misplacing your controllers?
That I should stop playing the PS3, obviously.
So now I'm going home.
I can't say that I'm not overjoyed at this prospect.
Is it time off, or has your involuntary military service come to an end?
I just get the night off. I'll sleep here at home and go back in the morning.
My term ends next February, actually.
Godspeed to that, then.
On an unrelated note, I found this video just now:
It's a new African sword art reconstructed from traditional stick fighting styles, which strikes me as completely legitimate given how closely swords and staves relate. This is the first video in the series, and so far, I think the best showcase of the art is in the third video. Currently, I've only seen single sword stuff, but that's not unusual; it was only really the Europeans and the Japanese who made a big deal out of two-handed swords, so this fits the more general theme among most cultures of emphasising the one-handed sword.
To say the least, I think this is pretty cool. Cultures all over the world are rediscovering and reconstructing their native forms of swordsmanship, and Africa is something of a "missing link" case because of the lack of both unbroken martial lineages and the shortage of written material on the matter. Most cultures have at least one, and the lucky ones (such as the Chinese) have both. Africa, as far as I know, has neither, but reconstruction via traditional stick fighting methods is easily the most legitimate and effective way of going about it.
This is so fucking exciting I don't even know how to computer anymore. Now I'm just waiting for filmmakers and game designers to get with the program and showcase this kind of stuff, since we essentially have styles from every major region in the world that met and passed the Iron Age.
Man what is it with horrible shows having great soundtracks.
Look at BSG ferchrissakes.