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#1 SHEATH013
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This is not exactly a new aquisition, but I just finished designing and building a two foot deep six foot tall cabinet on wheels for all of my consoles plus my HTPC and a flat sceen 27" SDTV (expandable to 32").  It is a totally enclosed cabinet with one hole in the back to let out just enough wires for power and a connection to the HDTV and Surround Sound Tuner.  I'm pretty happy with the results, and as a friend has already called it the Cabinet of Awesome I'm sticking with that.

 

 

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[QUOTE="waflerevolution"]

hey, matrix makes way more sence if you've seen animatrix. also, "Brave New World" was involved in my speach as well. where do you think I gave said presentation SHEATH?


Where it was presented doesn't matter as much to me as what sources are backing it and what purpose it was given for.  That also could sum up my point fairly concisely.
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[QUOTE="waflerevolution"]meanwhile a Capitilist society is doomed to fail while in a Democratic Republic state. all "freedoms" will be temporrarry as the will of man is to take awayand destroy. Those that come from hunting and killing can not and will not change. spreding like a bacteria, parasite or mixture of the two destroying that which it inhabits. that is the country; ney, world we live in. ~ waflerevolution 2004 my origional speach and presentation included comparisions to how money destroys culture and media destroys money while being used to influence culture. I also had some stuff that showd buisness groth charts and predictions that basically showed the future being only a few corperate super-powers ruling the world with more power and money then any government. I also had some really neat stuff like references to books like "1984", "the Giver" and more. my faveorite part was getting to insult the president in public with visual and audio media (clips, quotes and un-doctored pictures) to back it up.



Wafler, these are sayings that sound nice and are easy to use to dismiss our civic responsibilities, but they are virtually impossible to back up with facts.  By "responsibility" I mean that should we wish to help preserve our society for more generations than our own (societies *have* fallen in less than one generation) we are obligated to do what we can.  As gimmicky as "higher" education is, it will expose you to ideas and teachings that are far more complex than your own (at the start).  You can then choose to use this to help those you influence. 

One thing people will not even tolerate, much less recieve, is rhetoric that sounds like anarchist/marxist propoganda.  The more I learn about past societies while working for my masters in history, the more I find myself wanting to remain silent in these hot-headed political debates and cursary predictions about the future.  Hype can skew our perceptions in almost any walk of life, and a great counter-balance is a personal commitment to back up our statements with facts and careful analysis (not just examples).  I recommend at the least to read about the origins of the ideas presented in The Matrix and the book 1984, specifically the lives of the people who originated them.
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that is the sad case with all popular games... the media TELLS people what the like and don't like and people have officially lost the ability to decide for themselves... it works with movies, games, books, TV, medication, food, internet, cars, cameras... whatever really... free will is dead, soon thinking will be illeagal.waflerevolution


     I suppose if it's not the media it's the marketing telling them, and they do like to be told what to think, but only in the format they've become accustomed to.  I'm not even a marxist, but I am sure seeing a lot of bad things with our "free" capitalist state.
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I thought I was the only one getting uber-stuck in bugs on gears...waflerevolution


Nope, I've had the problem frequently but unreplicatably. That's why I pointed it out, the game is winning awards even while it has a variety of fatal bugs in the code, just because of popularity and ambiguous declarations of "fun". Don't get me wrong I like the game a lot, I even got a 360 this month so I could play it on Live with friends. I just don't feel the need to blow its merits out of proportion.
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[QUOTE="waflerevolution"][QUOTE="aspro73"]Sheath013, nice set-up, very organized. What is the white system in your main set-up under the XBOX and Gamecube? aspro73
same question.

Also, the black SNES, was that a custom job or did it come like that? I have a second one that is pretty damaged by smoke (bought used) that I think a flat black application would look good on.



Ack, sorry guys, I got caught up in other projects and neglected this thread.  The white system is a DUO/R region modded by Dean at www.multimods.com (now defunct?) with a purple LED over the drive access light.  I am particularly pleased with the Composite video quality of the DUO/R, as the original DUO's quality was pretty shoddy in comparison to the Genesis and SNES.  The DUO/R's quality is slightly better than a CDX or X'Eye, and can fool the eye into thinking it is an S-video signal.  Very nice.    The SNES I painted with black spray paint for plastic from Walmart, the only complication was getting the necessary screw bit to take the shell apart for the painting.
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I've not posted too much on this topic (actually I don't think I have at all) but this one really bugged me. The Sonic the Hedgehog reviews. For the 360 the game got a 4.4. Clearly, he didn't like the game. Now that the PS3 version is out, he has posted another review. The PS3 version got a 4.2 As it is now almost three months out fromt the 360 release I figured there would be some comparisions to the 360 title or something. But after reading the review and then looking back at the 360 review I wondered if he played the PS3 version at all or if he just did a nice copy paste job. I ran a text compare and found that his PS3 review add the following, "Compounding the issue is a very sketchy frame rate that slows the entire game down at seemingly random intervals. Considering the main appeal of Sonic is that he's supposed to be able to run fast, all the sluggishness really takes away from the game's already ugly presentation." This line I am guessing is responsible for knocking .2 off of the Sonic score for the PS3.

There are two things that really bug me about the Sonic reviews. First, the score on the You Say section is 6.7, that's a pretty big difference. Makes me wonder about his Sonic review in general. Second, there is absolutely no comparision between the two systems that the game is on. Usually mulitplatform games have a section where the control schemes and graphics between the systems are compared, but for this we get nothing. Anyway, I was a little disappointed with the lack of effort that was given to the PS3 review of Sonic and felt this was a good place to share it.

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Sonic The Hedgehog on the 360 is really a surprising mess of complications.  I went back today and edited my review to point out that Gerstmann's complaints are at least true.  There are double loads in the missions, the camera twists do cause control problems, etc.  I was interested to see if the PS3 having an HDD in both units would fix the double loads but Gerstmann didn't even bother to mention that he was reviewing the PS3 version.  With his poor track record of fact listing, I feel the need to play the PS3 version just to see if the load times are the same as the 360 version. 

Regardless of that, the scores are way off, listing a few flaws in the game does not qualify calling it "broken".  I've run into glitches in Gears of War nearly every time I have played it, even to the point of having to start a section over.  If quirky game aspects weighed as heavily as Gerstmann implies Gears of War would not even approach an 8/10, much less the 9+ score and all of the awards it keeps getting.  That's just listing the glitches, I could complain about the limitations of the camera view in 3rd person view (which Gerstmann does with the *optional* view in Outtrigger), the quirks of replacing weapons due to the relatively small icons, the ease of mistaking a "Grub" for a teamate because of the color schemes, and the stupid AI on Normal difficulty. 

Most of these complaints would be intrinsic to all shooters though, and since shooters are popular reviewers would be seen as "whining" if they pointed them out.  Sonic's speed in a 3D action game  has not been attempted by anybody but Sega, so reviewers like Gerstmann get to blow the game's *limitations* into glaring flaws and then pat themselves on the back.  Hooray for crowd rules.
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[QUOTE="waflerevolution"]I found [url=http://www.gamespot.com/xbox/action/spyvsspy/review.html]this one[/url] to be unfair, inacurate and somewhat untrue.



Oh, yeah, that's basically the same way he based TJ&E 3. "It's not fun" seems to be one of Gerstmann's best defenses. It's too bad that he never even tries to qualify his opinion, and then expects us to accept it as fact.
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The newsgroup rec.games.video.sega is just a newsgroup that has been around since the late 80s (when Usenet was the Internet).  It isn't a corporate thing, most of the guys there just don't like to think about what might have been or what is wrong with the Industry today.  I am not even convinced that talking about this stuff makes a difference, or that reviews influence sales of titles.  Pointing out Gerstmann's bias and lack of gaming competance was just something amusingly easy to do.  He's got way too much clout with this website to ever get fired, but maybe he'll leave like all of his buddies are. 

Another really good reviewer to read is DailyRadar's Dan Eggar.  Check his stuff out on archive.org sometime if you're bored.
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I actually didn't, most of his reviews contradict themselves so all I had to do was quote them.  What I thought I needed to do was give a detailed gameplay analysis for each game that proves Gerstmann wrong, but that may not have been necessary for this group.  Rec.games.video.sega didn't even want to read this stuff, so you are among gamers who are more concerned about the Industry.