Sybarite Paladin AxL

Silent Strike is a dude from my country I stumbled upon about a month ago. Awesome stuff he does. http://www.myspace.com/ststrike "Silent Strike (Ioan Titu) is a 26 years old electronic music composer and sound designer from Bacau, Romania." Sample track: V4TWY41pvlo Sample track 2: http://www.last.fm/music/Silent+Strike/_/Asian+Paper+Circus Same deal with the previous post and all future music updates. You want it, I'll share it.

Recently discovered this dubstep/dnb outfit named Burial. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burial_(musician) "Burial is an English dubstep producer. His eponymous debut album was released in 2006 to critical acclaim. The Wire magazine named it their album of the year, along with achieving fifth place in the Mixmag 2006 Album of the Year list, and eighteenth in the best of the year list of The Observer music monthly supplement." Sample track: KoAbMfg9_Uk I might download his works, if anyone is interested, give a shout out and I'll upload them for you guys. I'll be making this a standard practice over the following "Aural ebb and flow" updates. I'll probably limit updates to two per week or so, depending on my schedule and the status of my waffles.fm and what.cd share ratios. The above mentioned sites are the only two music sources I'll be using to share music with y'all, so you guys know the quality is good. I'll be limiting my grabs to mp3 V0 only however. Naturally, those with accounts to those sites can just go grab the music themselves.

Poker + cigars. Game, set and match.

Actually, dude, we saw the first two as you intended them to be and not flock. At least that's what I'm reading.

I make it my goal in life to beat the living shit out of any dead horse I see. I call it the "Mojo Jojo Syndrome". Thanks for the laughs. I love you too Wizzie. Posting this in the lounge has to do with my wishing for this to be a discussion since it concerns all the users of this site, not just the readers of my blog. Also, the pinned topic is closed apparently. As for replying to your message Hera, AkihiroZi already did a far more excellent job at supporting my views and I feel the same way he does. Exactly why the option to enable or disable the word filter based on user preference would be the best solution as I see it. People that find certain words offensive will not be bothered by them if they enable it, and the rest of us can speak how we choose to. And time-consuming? Hehe, no, it wouldn't be. It would be the same as when someone sets their regional time settings. Just makes the site show you different stuff based on what you need. A very easily implementable option that should not take more than 5 minutes of coding.

Ok... what?edit: Nevermind, I get it. Nope, sorry, try harder.

This basically sums up my feelings about the word filter: http://www.1emulation.com/forums/index.php...p;showentry=515

After venting in my previous post, I'll try and rationalize as to why the word filter put in place on the 1emulation forum and blogs (and wherever else) is essentially a bad, useless feature. Purpose: As far as I can gather, the intended use of the word filter is to protect younger 1emulation from words deemed harmful to their fragile minds and psyche. Dismantling rationale: While this may all be fine and dandy in theory, understanding that kids aged 10+ already have a relatively firm grasp on curse words in today's society is paramount to exemplifying why such a measure is largely useless. Children are already largely exposed to such words to a much higher degree from their normal everyday environment. Places like their household and school and their friends already teach them all they need to know about such words. Based on that, it is erroneous to think that a simple word filter will: 1. lessen their chances of picking up curse words and 2. discouraging them from the usage of said expletives. Being that emulation is a relatively minuscule niche when taking into account their gaming habits, almost close to non-existent the younger they are, the impact of the word filter is not only absolutely 0, but also presents a much more severe negative side. Censorship: As any of my fellow opponents of all things created for the purpose of serving censorship will agree, the word filter is dangerous, harmful and completely undesirable. It sets an alarming precedent and a very bad example to other sites, and such a behavior should never be tolerated. It is an infringement of free speech, and is ironically being promoted by a site based in the Land of Freedom. If we factor in the fact that it is a forced feature and in no way an option for the users of this site, the matter becomes worse. Flaws of implementation: Considering that it acts by changing letters found in a word or by changing the word considered to be offensive to a different one, it may also be considered that it promotes bad grammar and spelling. The end result is also defeating it's purpose, as often times words either synonymous or simply unchanged enough to make any visible difference. The original meaning and intent of the message containing curse words will still be largely unaffected. Other: Also adding to the fact that the word filter is unwanted is my experience throughout my membership as a 1emulation user that no one actually enjoys this feature at all. This may be speculative at best, but I figured it would be worth to include it as I doubt no one will challenge me on this premise. Conclusion: I'd like to point out a possible solution to this. As the administrators of this site seem unwilling to completely remove it, I propose a change to make it an option in each user's account settings, thereby enabling other users who do not wish to view such words to benefit from the option, and also giving back the right of free speech to people who do not wish to be censored. As such, for the first group of people, words considered harmful should appear as a series of asterisk marks (*) that have the same length as the original word. I believe this to be the optimal solution to our current quandary.

Issues: my laptop broke, my iPod broke, my relationship with my parents broke, my girlfriend and I hardly see each other, I haven't had sex in a month; all the money I have is being spent on weed and alcohol, my second university venture is failing miserably, I live in a crappy basement, I'm getting fatter and fatter, I can't quit smoking these fu<king cigarettes, I'm losing friends at the rate of 2 per year and I feel like crap in general. You wouldn't normally notice this because I'm a very optimistic, upbeat, carefree type of guy. This is not the fucking life I wanted. And I wish you would just remove the god-fucking damn word fucking filter, GC! Seriously, what the flying fuck?! Why am I being censored on my god-forsaken blog?! It's the most useless annoying thing about this entire site! venting... 1 2 3 done.

Things this year haven't really been too gaming friendly for me. I quit World of Warcraft (for good this time... I hope). Then my laptop blew up. I don't have any rig I can still play stuff on and I mostly just doodle with my PSP nowadays. Too lazy to look up 360 hackings so I can pirate me some 360 games and there's little point since I don't have a hard drive for it or a second controller. I gave my NDS to a friend so he could cheat some exams but then he left on a voyage for what seems like ages now and I can't get it back. He also took the memory card from it so even if I would get it back, it'd be useless without another one. Due in part to my former WoW addiction, which disabled my interest in everything else, and due to my laptop flocking up I really have no dedicated gaming rig. My emulation habits have all gone down hill. Then there's real life severely prohibiting me from playing much as well. Then there's boredom that kills whatever I want to do. What I'm trying to say is, I really miss having a personal computer and playing crap on it. It's been hard, and it's not affecting just my gaming but also my manic downloading and music. Hopefully things will get better although I really doubt it, at least this year. One of my biggest gaming issues was that due to the year and country I was born in ('88, Romania) I generally really missed out on all the great games of old, both PC and consoles. I first got a PC in '97 and back then internet was a dream for 90% of households at that time, and you could only get very expensive 56k dial-up connections. At least in that period, due to lack of internets, I wasn't feeling so bad about all the games I was missing out on. Then came my first gaming magazines and the realization that I've really been behind on the gaming times hit me. Throughout the years, things have really only worsened. crap started to get better in 2005 when I first got some reliable internet but then crap went really downhill because of World of Warcraft. Good internet was around in the major cities, but for the better part of my life, I've lived in a small secluded town far away from the bustling city. It affected my socializing too, as I could not go out to the city because I had no place to sleep. I'm not saying I tried my best but it was still hard. Us folk had to rely on cheaply pirated CDs sold by gypsies in the most secluded of places, and back then when the habit of ripping games to shreds so they could fit more on a single disk was at an all time high, the gaming quality was really crappy. For instance, I can't recall any single time I actually played Duke Nukem 3D. My parents very rarely bought games for me and they were often times bad. I had to contend with demos from gaming mag CDs or if managed to scrounge up the cash, the pirated disks above mentioned. Yes, they were sold, sure, the price was 1/10 of the original, but that money really mattered back then, especially for a kid like me. My most fun gaming days back then were when me and my friends hit the local gaming halls (by that I mean some small basement rooms filled with PCs that were mostly used for gaming, you went there, paid by the hour and played, they usually had all the nice, semi-latest games). Not to mention the fact that due to my very bad academic achievements throughout the years, I rarely had access to my computer, and when I did, it was usually during the weekends. To this day, this problem has never really left my mind and it bugs me on a daily basis. It's severely annoying and I wish I could just take a year off every god damn thing, be given enough money to do what I want with it, be given a place of my own with a really nice, high-end gaming rig and awesome internets and be left there. That would really be a dream come true. Alas, that would never happen, and I've reached an age where I'm expected to sort my life out. I've already dropped out of one university, and my current one is going way downhill fast as well. I wish I knew what to do...

Personally I don't see the need for Kaillera. All efforts should be concentrated on 2P p2p for now imo, and once that's stable, add in 3 and 4p. I figure since GBA netplay wouldn't be as popular as arcade netplay for example, games would only be limited to a very limited amount of people, like friends or a forum like this.

That is why Gamesurge fared so much better. Apart from the occasional Gamesurge flock up we had it going pretty well. Then pressure came to us so that we moved to EFnet and I was like, no. Then it went way downhill and EFnet 1emu screwed up as well. Now the revitalized gamesurge 1emu needs support so you guys should really come in and say hi. It's working great.

Does it handle any sort of linkage?

The 1emu chan needs more support. There's only 5-6 people coming in, which is ok but at it's highpoint we had like 20 so we still have a ways to go. C'mon peeps do not be shy.

The above sites won't load. Was fairly curious as to the status of this emulator. Would be wonderful to know how you guys are handling the online part.

Trust me, you wouldn't have missed out. My friend removed them. He's planning on trying to come up with something better, and to that end he bought lights and is using better programs for video and sound editing. He's also asked a friend of ours (hot blonde chick) to do the presenting of the reviews. I got kinda bored so I'll be doing almost none of the work except the rest of the presenting with him anyway. As I don't see this as going anywhere anyhow, I'd advise you to not expect that much.

Too bad they won't ever unite with South Korea anymore. I hate seeing countries divided like that. But then again, none or the other are any different. One's a military dictatorship living on torture and live human experiments and the other is a capitalist fanboy seething with corruption and cartels in every possible industry.

Those are boring and too overly repetitive. Also the "nuts" bit gets old too fast.

THat was pure awesome slapping chop!

You'll be surprised to find out that the KoF plot is pretty substantially fleshed out. As it spans 3 different sagas throughout all it's games. Sure, you'll need to do some digging but it's all there, and none of it is fan fiction. The games themselves offer a little more story than your regular fighter anyway.

I lie shitloads but it's usually just to cover my ass if I screwed up beforehand. Two of my friends are pathological liars and I always call them out but they keep doing it. It's gotten to the point where I just shrug it off and chuckle at their ineptitude.

LIES, IT'S THE SECOND ONE! Raking in 21 fuked up years in November, kthx. I'm a raging, self-obsessed drunkard, drug addict and manic gamer. Bitches do know 'bout mah skyhigh pylon. Respect to y'all 1emu'ers, keeping it emulated since 2001!

That video was almost painful to watch. My heart died inside ten times over when I read the plot....

iPhones lol... useless crap.

World: Hey, yeah, remember that nuclear disaster that you guys had with that train and all? N.K.: Nope, never happened. They're asking for it.