The diary entries of a little girl who is now 30! ~ Part 2 - Page 371

YEEEAAAAAHHHHH!!!

 

http://www.redmondpie.com/jailbreak-ios-6.1-on-iphone-5-and-other-devices-untethered-using-evasi0n-how-to-tutorial/

thrak - interesting. I can't recall the last time I'd xcoded some HD files. I thought it was in 2011, though now I doubt it.

Bone crack-a-lackin veritable force of nature Tony Jaa? I'll take it. Shame about Ong Bak 3 though, Jaa should really just stick to acting and dispensing butt whoopings

Hey, if you've got any palatable suggestions, I'm all ears. In truth, I still lurk those "year's best in anime" threads over at another forum (GAF) to seek out potential gems from all the rubbish. Every so often, the "cream of the crop" yields something enjoyable. It saves me the potential disappointment of investing myself into a series that's destined for less. Such as... Oh, I dunno, Kids on the Slope? Man was Watanabe trolling the hell out of everyone. He knew we'd all be slobbering in anticipation over the thought of a jazz oriented project (with Yoko Kanno no less) set in the nostalgic 60's and all we got was a soporific, half baked, coming of age story with hilariously transparent, and pandering homo erotica. It's as if the (source's) author really wanted to tell a love story about Kaoru and Sentaro but didn't have the stones to do it. I get it Japan, a subset of your anime fans love this stuff, but we're in the 21st century now, enough with the *wink wink* *nudge nudge* Shinji X Kaoru BS. Either go all out or go home. 

Praise the sun! I'm so glad the world didn't end in 20-doz cause 20-thirt is so awesome 
You and I share the same pedigree in horror gaming it would seem. I would also recommend Fatal Frame if you haven't checked it out already. I think it's a very clever game and forces the player to confront horrific specters in first person in order to deal damage. I don't want to say too much about it in the event you're familiar with it since that would be redundant. 

As for Silent Hill, it's definitely gotten worse over the years, but I blame that on the vast exodus of all the key members that made the series special in the first place. I've never considered SH "scary" outside of the first one (I was 15 at the time), but SH 1-3 had this knack for subverting the player's expectations and a terrific sense of ambience. The slow burn of dread was what I most liked about it. Downpour makes for a decent horror game, but a disappointing Silent Hill. I recently hit the Centennial building and I'm liking how the game is opening up, but the one time the game had me on edge was when I was exploring a house for a side quest. Otherwise, I'm entirely too comfortable, which disappoints me. 

I think something worth noting is that the series creator originally envisioned SH as an episodic series wherein none of the chapters were linked to one another, sort of like The Twilight Zone I suppose. Since SH2 however, they've latched onto the town of Silent Hill and seem to be content on expanding its mythos. Worst still, every attempt after The Room has been team after team trying to emulate the original trilogy instead of providing a different riff on the formula. 

That aside, a title you might want to keep an eye on, however, is The Last of Us. It's recently garnered some incredibly positive reactions from the press as, "pants ****tingly scary", when compared to modern horror games. I think the visceral and very personal nature of the confrontations coupled with incredible animation and seemingly cunning AI really help sell how gruesome and perilous it is. The fact that you're continually scavenging for resources in a very deprived world also heightens anxiety. When a scant few bullets give you significant leverage over your foes, you've got to be efficient at managing your resources in a way that few games have managed In recent memory 

Take a looksie here (screens, interviews, excerpts and media): http://m.neogaf.com/showpost.php?p=47280192
Sessler was great. Very levelheaded and composed in deflecting very loaded questions. David Jaffe recently went off on this tirade on CNN correspondent Erin Burnett. Hilarious read cause it's Jaffe being Jaffe, but likely to fly over quite a few heads due to his trademark inflammatory rhetoric 

MF - Yuck at those FitEars. I'm not exactly a fan of the original's bulbous form factor, but the shiny shiny sure helped mitigate its shortcomings in the looks department. That tacky texture on the faceplate reminds me of the combo dial on a Masterlock. Disappointing, cause I was considering pickin up a pair at some point 

eke - YEAAYEAHHH, SBsettings at long last
Edited by Idsynchrono_24 - 2/4/13 at 11:05am

They look okay to me. Not as pretty as some, but certainly decent. If you were going to go for pricey and butt-ugly IEMs surely the UMX series, original AS-1(and ASG-1) and the entire ACS range in clear deserve a mention?

@idsynch, i'll PM you when I get back home in..... 25 hours-ish time. Oh and I can't relate with Kids on the Slope since I haven't watched it yet :-P

The kind of stuff my wife buys. hahaha





http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/cf9b/?cpg=cj&ref=&CJURL=&CJID=3363563#tabs

 

(Warning: controversial pov ahead ;-) Here's my 2c, from a holistic listener and avid concert-goer, who's getting a bit lazy lately and wants to relive his favorite (mostly classical, but also jazz) concerts at home. Note: many classical albums are live recordings, so I'm not talking about trying to surrogate a live concert experience with a studio recording. So, here's the catch: for me, to get a reasonably realistic feel with IEMs, the best achievable illusion of sitting in an audience, things must not sound too close, separated and detailed. Here's an older post from the EX1000 thread, in which I've tried to explain my take on listening to Anaxilus and Inks:

 

 

Of course I'm not kidding myself into thinking that I'm a serious audiophile. For that, I'd rather need to lust for something like this.

 

 

 

 

X2, Slowdive and Ride, in my case.

 

when explained like that, it makes more sense.

 

To get the most out of that HDCD, you have to have one of these: http://www.pearcable.com/sub_products_anjou_sc.htm

That's why they call you the magic man 

 

 

Indeed. She loves anything Harry Potter, the flotsam around here based on that series is staggering.

Watching HBO right now... GREAT documentary airing right now:

 

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/mea_maxima_culpa_silence_in_the_house_of_god/reviews/?type=top_critics

 

Holy.... this is just... I mean, you kind of have an idea with what goes on (especially if you are catholic), but... daaaaaaayyuuummm!!

I'm such a Geek.

 

Everyone say hi to Jingles

 

 

Meet the new expanded tribe

Were you cafe side with Jingles? Your mobile stack looks pleasing...