Topic: I merged these two shitty threads together (Read 9819 times)

Dliessmgg · « **on:** 12 Jan 2010, 05:19 »

Nomination rules:

1. Don't nominate posts of yourself.
2. Don't nominate something that's already been nominated. (I'm too lazy to go through everything and sort that stuff out.)
3. Blah.

All nominated posts will be put into 16 groups where you vote for them. The best two of each group can go into the tournament. (I'm assuming here that we will have much more than 32 nominated posts.) The tournament is normal one on one until there is a winner. Those who are not happy with these rules should whine for themselves. I make the contest, I make the rules.

Lines · « **Reply #1 on:** 12 Jan 2010, 05:20 »

Huh? Are nominating people or posts?

Inlander · « **Reply #2 on:** 12 Jan 2010, 05:31 »

If I'd realised we were going to do this I would have held back my best posts until closer to the time of the ceremony.

But I've got an idea for a post that I've been working on for five years, and when I make that post this time next year it's going to blow all your minds. I'm talking some real paradigm shift stuff. They didn't even have the technology for me to make this post when I started thinking about it five years ago.

Dliessmgg · « **Reply #3 on:** 12 Jan 2010, 05:41 »

Quote from: Linds on 12 Jan 2010, 05:20

Huh? Are nominating people or posts?

Clarified (where I think there was carification needed).

jhocking · « **Reply #4 on:** 12 Jan 2010, 05:42 »

You expect me to remember posts from two weeks ago?

Also, shouldn't this be Post of the Year 2009? Bit early for 2010.

David_Dovey · « **Reply #5 on:** 12 Jan 2010, 05:51 »

No see this is good. We can use this thread throughout the year to nominate posts as they come up, instead of having to remember a year's worth of shit.

And/or we can get a headstart on not giving a shit about ranking the quality of posts on a forum

(guess which one I am doing)

David_Dovey · « **Reply #6 on:** 12 Jan 2010, 05:52 »

Pretend this post is by a joke account I made nominating the previous post for Best of 2010

David_Dovey · « **Reply #7 on:** 12 Jan 2010, 05:53 »

I also nominate any post using a variation on "{verb} the next seven {noun}s you see" made between now and 31st December 2010

Dliessmgg · « **Reply #8 on:** 12 Jan 2010, 06:05 »

Quote from: jhocking on 12 Jan 2010, 05:42

Also, shouldn't this be Post of the Year 2009? Bit early for 2010.

This is the nominations thread, which will be maintained throughout the year. Votes will be voted when the year has ended.

jhocking · « **Reply #9 on:** 12 Jan 2010, 07:23 »

You expect this thread to stay on people's minds for a whole year? What do you think this is, the Pointless thread?

Dliessmgg · « **Reply #10 on:** 12 Jan 2010, 08:03 »

I have my methods.

sean · « **Reply #11 on:** 12 Jan 2010, 10:34 »

theres probably only like one post a week though actually worth nominating though.

valley_parade · « **Reply #12 on:** 12 Jan 2010, 10:48 »

I'd go with the anti-Native post where Sean got called a faggot.

Scandanavian War Machine · « **Reply #13 on:** 12 Jan 2010, 11:11 »

I second that.

jhocking · « **Reply #14 on:** 12 Jan 2010, 11:13 »

Links people!

Scandanavian War Machine · « **Reply #15 on:** 12 Jan 2010, 11:14 »

Emaline · « **Reply #16 on:** 12 Jan 2010, 12:21 »

So, anybody else want to download that album after the rant?

MrBlu · « **Reply #17 on:** 12 Jan 2010, 12:30 »

I nominate and second the nomination of Dollface.

Cernunnos · « **Reply #18 on:** 12 Jan 2010, 12:56 »

Quote from: David_Dovey on 12 Jan 2010, 05:53

nominate the next seven posts you see

BlahBlah · « **Reply #19 on:** 12 Jan 2010, 13:03 »

Quote from: MrBlu on 12 Jan 2010, 12:30

I nominate and second the nomination of Dollface.

Nah. I mean, sometimes he comes out with amusing lines but I think anyone could replicate him by getting very drunk and posting in a second language about anal sex.

Blue Kitty · « **Reply #20 on:** 12 Jan 2010, 13:04 »

Wait, where's the awards for last year?

pwhodges · « **Reply #21 on:** 12 Jan 2010, 13:31 »

I stole them.

KvP · « **Reply #22 on:** 12 Jan 2010, 13:32 »

Inside baseballlll

KharBevNor · « **Reply #23 on:** 12 Jan 2010, 15:07 »

I anti-nominate Johnny C.

No returns!

Johnny C · « **Reply #24 on:** 13 Jan 2010, 08:31 »

That's sensible, Khar. It's the only way you'd stand a chance.

Johnny C · « **Reply #25 on:** 13 Jan 2010, 08:32 »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erOXE_L5amc

valley_parade · « **Reply #26 on:** 14 Jan 2010, 08:18 »

Quote from: Emaline on 12 Jan 2010, 12:21

So, anybody else want to download that album after the rant?

Oh, most of us did.

(actually, I like Native, so I downloaded it pre-rant)

David_Dovey · « **Reply #27 on:** 15 Jan 2010, 20:50 »

I did, it's flippin good.

JD · « **Reply #28 on:** 18 Jan 2010, 22:08 »

Quote from: Surgoshan on 18 Jan 2010, 15:01

Now I'm picturing a hill covered in some sort of vegan butter, with a whole bunch of hippies falling down. At the bottom of the hill? A bunch of dogs, fucking.

Nominating this. We discuss important things in DISCUSS!

Inlander · « **Reply #29 on:** 19 Jan 2010, 04:13 »

A year's a long time. Maybe we should do "post of the month" each month and then pit them against each other at the end of the year.

If we're really serious about this, that is.

scarred · « **Reply #30 on:** 19 Jan 2010, 16:24 »

either way this is going to win it all

Quote from: minus_the_david on 08 Jan 2010, 13:04

you must be one of those faggots i see at their shows being all gay and thinking they're amazing. i hope they break up and stop making music all together... and you must be the one eatting a chubby, and it's Native's chubby...shitty band. and minus the bear is about 200000000000 times better. seriously. and so are these arms are snakes...in closing, native sucks, they try to hard to be scene, and they all suck...i see them out around in Valpo, and i hate them!

post of the decade

LittleKey · « **Reply #31 on:** 27 Jan 2010, 17:56 »

I recently rediscovered this video, and I want to try it. I have a Wii, and it'd be pretty awesome to have that 3d effect, let alone being able to connect the remote to my computer. But my problem is that apparently you need a blue-tooth equipped computer, and I don't think mine is. So my question is: How can I get this to work? Are there bluetooth drivers of some kind that I could download? Do I need to buy a bluetooth usb adapter?

Also I know this should be in computers and video games, but how often is that forum checked anyway? Although if you do want to move it I understand.

jhocking · « **Reply #32 on:** 27 Jan 2010, 18:11 »

Rediscovered indeed. I got the hardware (ie. a wiimote and led safety glasses) to try this out years ago. He's since demoed this technique at a TED conference a couple years ago:
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/johnny_lee_demos_wii_remote_hacks.html

As for your question, get a Bluetooth USB dongle. You'll also need a bluetooth "stack" (stupid jargon that they use; that basically means a driver) for it to work. There are a bunch of different stacks available to download and not every one will work with the Wiimote, I forget which one exactly I used.

The glasses were easy too. Go to the hardware store and get safety glasses with LEDs on them. Then go to Radioshack to get IR LEDs to replace the bulbs with.

LittleKey · « **Reply #33 on:** 27 Jan 2010, 19:51 »

Awesome, thanks. Would this work?: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833156069&cm_re=bluetooth_adapter-_-33-156-069-_-Product.

Oh and i want to make sure... by connecting the wiimote to my computer, does that just enable it to work for that sample program with the targets, or can I actually use it as a cursor? Because I can imagine some Counterstrike: Source with a wiimote, and it is an amazing thought.

Joseph · « **Reply #34 on:** 27 Jan 2010, 22:06 »

Quote from: Johnny C on 13 Jan 2010, 08:31

That's sensible, Khar. It's the only way you'd stand a chance.

You split every good post into two or three parts, therefor rendering yourself unnominatable. Sorry.

Slick · « **Reply #35 on:** 27 Jan 2010, 22:26 »

I would have babies with Johnny Lee.

Slick · « **Reply #36 on:** 27 Jan 2010, 22:32 »

Maybe I would have babies with johnny cee. But for sure with johnny lee!

Patrick · « **Reply #37 on:** 28 Jan 2010, 00:06 »

My roommate back in Sitka showed me this video a few weeks ago. Completely fucked my mind. I started thinking about what would happen if somebody developed a new Call of Duty game or something using this nifty little innovation. I then proceeded to shit myself out of sheer amazement.

jhocking · « **Reply #38 on:** 28 Jan 2010, 05:18 »

Quote from: LittleKey on 27 Jan 2010, 19:51

Awesome, thanks. Would this work?: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833156069&cm_re=bluetooth_adapter-_-33-156-069-_-Product.

Oh and i want to make sure... by connecting the wiimote to my computer, does that just enable it to work for that sample program with the targets, or can I actually use it as a cursor? Because I can imagine some Counterstrike: Source with a wiimote, and it is an amazing thought.

That adapter looks fine. I mean, that's not the exact model I used and I'm not an expert in bluetooth hardware, but it looks like pretty much the same thing I got.

The program he provides only does the targets demonstration, but you can fine other wiimote programs to use it as a 3D mouse:
http://onakasuita.org/wii/index-e.html

Using the wiimote to play fps games is certainly a thought others have had:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zgq69DIVwbY

Patrick · « **Reply #39 on:** 28 Jan 2010, 11:55 »

It would be really awesome if you could refine the Duck Hunt aiming system and combine it with head tracking, instead of actually using the WiiMote to point and shoot. 'Cause at least on Duck Hunt you had something that looked like a gun that was relatively accurate.

Trollstormur · « **Reply #40 on:** 30 Jan 2010, 13:11 »

because it's funny to me

LittleKey · « **Reply #41 on:** 31 Jan 2010, 11:54 »

Oh okay, so that's where my thread went. I think I'll buy that adapter I found, try out that program Joe (the J does stand for Joe right?) linked to, and hopefully I'll be able to get it to work. Thanks everyone!

Ozymandias · « **Reply #42 on:** 31 Jan 2010, 11:56 »

Nominating Graham for worst mod

scarred · « **Reply #43 on:** 31 Jan 2010, 13:23 »

seconded

jhocking · « **Reply #44 on:** 31 Jan 2010, 14:49 »

Quote from: LittleKey on 31 Jan 2010, 11:54

(the J does stand for Joe right?)

The J stands for "juicy."

Patrick · « **Reply #45 on:** 31 Jan 2010, 18:14 »

You really should check your phlegm situation if that's the case dogg

LittleKey · « **Reply #46 on:** 08 Feb 2010, 19:41 »

Sorry to revive this a bit, but it's only been nine days and I have an on-topic question (If this thread even really has a topic anymore). I got my bluetooth adapter today, so I'm trying out connecting the wiimote to my computer. I told the bluetooth adapter to find new software, then pressed the red button on the back of my wiimote, and it found the device shown in the picture. However, as you can see, WiinRemote doesn't recognize it, leading me to believe I did something wrong. Does anyone know what to do?

jhocking · « **Reply #47 on:** 09 Feb 2010, 04:28 »

Did you download a bluetooth stack? I think I used one called Soleil.

LittleKey · « **Reply #48 on:** 09 Feb 2010, 17:28 »

Oh yeah, I forgot the stack! I think you're talking about BlueSoleil; I downloaded it and now I have this instead of the plain bluetooth menu in the first picture. I right click on the joystick icon and choose "Connect Bluetooth Human Interface Device" and then press the red button on the wiimote. It makes a connection and WiinRemote shows activity, but it disconnects once the signal caused by the red button stops transmitting. Do you know how I can make it stay connected? It seems to be working otherwise.

Jace · « **Reply #49 on:** 13 Feb 2010, 07:03 »

I think we can all agree that the AOE2 intro movie was fucking badass. If you think not, just get out right now.

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