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[IndispensablePeaGuy]

?????

Some troll admirer, mate.

[Tanith]

Damn.

MP3 players are being banned at work. Wanna know what helps me stay alert, awake and productive while I'm busy doing the same thing 400+ times a night (I scrub database records)? Music.

Wanna know the supposed solution to no longer allowing MP3 players? We can listen to internet radio. Oh joy! Sign me up! That's especially helpful since we're also not allowed to install Flash, isn't it?

It also means I need to buy an extension for my headphones, since the box is almost on the floor. If anyone knows of an internet radio site that allows users to select their own playlists without installing a program, do tell! Otherwise, I think I'm going to create some playlists in YouTube and just minimize the window.

As someone who has very high standards in audio quality, a part of me is mourning the loss of being able to take my iPod to work now.

[BenoitRen]

There's a Sonic-themed Internet radio channel that sometimes plays Phantasy Star music. Try it.

[Semix]

The Inbetweeners was epic tonight. If you dont know what it is, its a British Comedy about Sixth formers who aren't nerds, nor popular.

[Tanith]

There's a Sonic-themed Internet radio channel that sometimes plays Phantasy Star music. Try it.

Interesting. I'll give it a whirl. Besides, I like Sonic music, too (the original games, anyway).

[Zucca]

PSIV debug mode is a fun tool to play: http://zelan.zapto.org/~zucca/PSIV_dm.jpg

[Wing-0]

I ate meat for a change. I'm sick of drinking liquids like mad, but it has helped me in controlling the damn virus (a flu) that was messing with my health. The throat infection that spread to my inner ears has also weakened considerably. By the way I was feeling yesterday, I would have gone to school and work, but I preferred not to. There is a limit to being reckless like I usually am. Best to play things safe.

Sonic Adventure was released on the PSN... I didn't know it was going to be so soon... Bah...

I've been so disconnected from the internet (except for here, CC and the PSN), that some people were leaving messages asking what had happened, since I just dropped from the world. The fact that once I get really sick I place myself in quarantine inside my room also doesn't help. The only times I have left my room are for going to the bathroom, get medicines and feed the cats.

[Tanith]

Sorry about your health, Wing-0. I have an inner ear condition, so I know all about how unpleasant it is to have nature mess with it. Sounds like you have a whole host of other ailments on top of it, though. Get better soon.

[Zucca]

I got flu too.
Lying on bed atm. :|

"I got a fever...
And the only prescription is
MORE COWBELL"

[Wing-0]

Tanith: Well, the infection is dying a painful penicillin induced death, while I dance in joy, watching (more like feeling) it suffer. The virus is practically dead, but I still keep the large quantity of liquids and Vitamins regimen. I'm seeing this as my revenge against both of them for making me lose my damned weekend in feverish pain.

Zucca: I know how you feel, man. I really do.

Since I'm in a good mood because of the improvement of my health, I'll post here a dream I wrote down in my blog... Yes, I actually have a blog where I whine and reflect on silly things.

This dream was originally posted in segments because I was posting from the PS3 since I was in my self imposed quarantine. I was still feeling ill, so if you see LOTS of typos, you know the reason.

My dream...

Part 1:

In my feverish nightmare, before I drank an analgesic to help me cope with it, I had a crazy dream. Oddly enough, it was in the three languages I'm most used to. Spanish, English and Japanese. It was like a bunch of non sequitur segments. Proof I have been playing games too much because I just cant 'do anything else.
So I was sitting on a field of flowers. Out of nowhere, came a cat, smoking a pipe. The cat asked me in a low voice in Spanish: "Excuse me, what time is it?"
Unsurprised, I replied: "9:30 AM"
The cat nodded and said "Gracias"
And jumped into a hole... in the air.
I stared at the hole, and then got sucked by it. I fell and landed on the same field of flowers, only at night.
A bat came flying and asked in English: "Dude, do you have mosquitoes flying around?"
Unsurprised, I replied "No. Can't you tell?"
The bat frowned and sat on a big flower and replied: "Nah, I'm deaf."
"Then how can you respond to me?" I asked.
"I can read your lips, dude." As he said, a river started flowing...


Part 2:

A river started flowing through the field. A small ship came sailing and the bat got off the flower and got in it, sailing away.
I just sat there, confused, until a black cat came walking and purring. The cat asked me in a female Japanese voice: "They say a cat is fine too. What do you think?"
Not even out of my confusion, I replied "No way"
"Not even a little?" She asked.
Starting to feel annoyed, I replied in a low voice: "No, I'm not a zoophile."
"And if I change into a human?" the cat said as she turned into a woman with long, jet black hair and a nice body.
Still not surprised, I said: "Then things change."
"Yes. Things change. They always change." she said as she slithered away like a snake... Yes, slithered like a snake, even while having a human form.


Part 3:

I sat there, and the field of flowers withered in an instant and snow started falling. Winter had come. A very pale woman walked and sat beside me. "Do you know what time is it today?" she asked.
"No", I replied.
"It is the day I woke up on the mountain."
"And?" I asked. "What does that have to do with me?"
She sighed. "Nothing. Just thought you'd like to know."
I stood up, looked around and then sat again. "No, not really."
"Oh. I see... Are you going somewhere?" She asked.
"I want to go to the bathroom, to be honest."
The woman scratched her neck and then said:"Count to 1000 in three exponential intervals." Then she turned into smoke.
I sat there thinking. Then figured out what she meant. "Starting from 1, 10, 100, 1000."
Then I appeared on a grassy field. A Jamaican man with dreadlocks was distributing tissue papers with an inscription I couldn't read.
"What does this say?" I asked.
"It is how to win the lottery, mon" He replied.
"But lottery is a matter of probability." I replied.
"Not here, mon."...


Part 4:

"Not here, mon... You just drop a pig and get a prize."
"What kind of prize?" I asked, having developed an interest.
"You win, you get to screw my sister."
A pig appeared at my feet. The animal had wings, so as soon as I picked it up and dropped it, it started flying instead of falling to the ground.
"Oooooh, that's too bad, mon. You don't get to screw my sister."
Suddenly, Silvester Stallone came by, dressed as Rocky, only with the US flag as a robe. "ADRIAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNN!!" He screamed.
"That is my sister, mon."
"WHAT!? ROCKY IS YOUR SISTER!?" I asked susprised and quite honestly, freaking out.
"Oh, you're one of those that get freaked out by muscles, right?"
I just walked away and found myself in a dead forest. All threes were withered and in the middle, a witch with a cauldron cackling maniacally.


Part 5:

I approached the witch and saw her decrepit, greenish face.
"Aaaah, yes, yesh, yes. You've finally come."
"Were you expecting me?"
"Yesh, yes, yesh. You are the one who wants to let it go."
Confused, I stood there and said nothing.
"What? Don't stare at me like that. I know everything, yes, yesh, yes." The witch said.
"Let what go?"
The witch took out a large spoon and submerged it into the liquid she was brewing in the cauldron. Smelled it, then took a sip. "Aaaaah, this tea is delishush, yesh, yes, yesh."
Annoyed at being ignored, I asked: "Let what go?"
The witch lifted her robe and showed me her disgusting, greenish, flabby lady parts and started urinating in front of me, putting out the fire below the cauldron.
"Oh shit! I didn't want to see that!" I exclaimed as I walked away.
I got out of the forest and into the same flower field from the start of the dream. A large fish came flying over my head. It looked like a gigantic carp.


Part 6:

"Excuse me, what time is it?" The fish asked me with a singing tenor voice.
"Uhhh... I dunno. I don't have a watch. Why do you want to know?"
The giant fish, floating above my head scratched its chin, or what passed for it and said "Well, my friend. I don't know about you, but..."
"But what?
The fish started grinning "You drank so much tea last night that you'd best wake up and go to the bathroom, or you will wet your bed! NOW GO!!" And he laughed in a singing, crazy voice.
Everything turned black and I opened my eyes. The familiar red and green LEDs in front of me told me I was in my room. I quickly got up and went to the bathroom to relieve myself. Feeling better, I came back and slept again.

And so it went.

The dream had actually many videogame inspirations, although all of them invariably twisted and adapted by my subconscious to appear in a single sequence. Some of the characters were direct insertions of characters, but others were partial fabrications.

[BenoitRen]

I'm surprised you were able to remember all of that. That's a very weird dream.

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So, Phantasy Star Portable 2 is out, and I still don't have a PSP. I've looked at the prices, and it's still a bit expensive. It's about 170 euros. 150 euros is the maximum amount I'm willing to shell out for a portable gaming system.

[Wing-0]

My memory is actually very, very good. Its big failings are, though, remembering names of people I don't interact much with and its excessive processing of parallel processes like counting, looking for "images stored in my brain". constant replay of events and imagining of different angles. For example, what I ate, how I ate it and comparing with my brother's.

I can remember events, voices, the modulation of said voices, faces and images with ease.

Regarding the PSP, it's worth it. The price you pay for the system will slowly start "paying itself" over the course of months because of the multiple uses the system has. However, if you get it hacked, the price will pay itself immediately because of the extra applications you can use it for.

The PSP is an expensive piece of hardware, that's for sure. But the advantage in it is that it has extra functions that allow to some degree of freedom in usage if unhacked and a much superior advantage if hacked with a few losses that become unimportant in the long run.

[Dorrinal]

People still post here?

[Wing-0]

No, you're hallucinating. But if you want to ontribute to your hallucinations, by all means, do! =)

[Wing-0]

Well, I was resting nicely (for a change) and my cousin from Arizona came by. It turns there was a family reunion (my family is a gregarious one). I went along to my aunt's house and saw that my other cousin had been playing Guilty Gear Accent Core Plus (a fighting game I know well) and left his two sons in front of the console (uh-oh).

In that game appears as an extra, a boss character named Justice, which is exactly this one:



I picked her (is is a she! really!) and made mincemeat with my uh... the sons of this other cousin, I dunno what they're called, so I'll just call them "the kids". In any case, my cousin from Arizona showed up and brought his 15 years old daughter.

She asked me "Hey. Why does that robot have a huge erection?"

I was silent for a minute and replied: "Well... That's actually not a robot, that's supposed to be an armor, and... There's actually a female inside of that thing."

"Huh... So that's a futanari?" She asked.

I had heard the term before, but I didn't quite pay attention, so I went to the nearest computer and googled it...

The kids, curious and sticky like chewing gum, followed me and lo and behold! They walked away with a new word in their vocabulary... That their mother didn't wait to scold me for. To which I replied "They're 13 and 11. Believe me, your cute little babies will come home in a few months with crazier shit for you to have a heart attack with." My cousin came by and laughed his ass off and went to have another beer while I returned to the game and then got my ass kicked.