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Everything looks cooler in sepia.

Don't you agree?

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I have a Wacom Intuos2 with Grip Pen and I pulled it back out recently to start doodling in flash a bit. I noticed the cursor however was freaking out, and I'm not sure why.

I can draw straight lines along the x an y perfectly, but whenever I do any kind of diagonal lines it does some weird wave... curve thing. I've googled for hours and found like 2 people with this same problem.

I get a bunch of bs like "intereference" from CRTs and speakers but that isn't my problem because it sometimes goes away. I also read one thread where the guy said replacing the pen did the trick. I was about to do that but with the pens costing about $60 I don't want to be out that much money and still have a fucked up tablet.

Does anyone have any idea what could be causing the problem?

What I've Tried:
1. Reinstalling Drivers (also it's a fresh install of windows if that helps)
2. Moving away from "interference"
3. Different programs (it happens even in windows when I drag around)
4. Crying quietly to myself.

Example: I used a straight edge to draw the vertical and horizontal lines, the other ones were drawn with the same straight edge, but this came out.

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Got my packaged today. Or, I got my empty box today in which I'll send my xbox away to be "repaired" and sent back probably in a month or something lame.

I also can't think of a whole lot that has happened in the past two days. Alex pointed out that I had messed up my card arrangement, meaning I had to move the remainer 45 pages of cards (9 pockets each) back by one. Which sucked :(

Also it has come to my attention many nerds out there don't know what nerdcore is. This saddens me. It's nerd rap and it's fucking awesome. YTcracker is my favorite so far, mainly because he is a big poster over at the forums I always hang out at. He releases most (I think all) of his work for free (as do most nerdcore artists) and it's worth taking a glance at even if you think you don't like rap.

MP3 Time!

YTcracker - Meganerd

If you enjoy it then you can find the full album for free over at his site: http://www.ytcracker.com/free-music/

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(Not booze this time!)

I pre-ordered a box of boosters from the new WoW TCG set "Fires of Outlands". It's not shipping until Aug. 27th or something, but I wanted to get a cheap pre-order in before they were all sold out.

On eBay sniffing around I also found some guy who was selling his rares and epics for really cheap - as well as awesome shipping prices. I ended up buying about 30 or so cards and only had to pay like $25.

Now the real test is to see if they actually send me the cards :D

(You can see the cards in the extended entry - don't want to spam my front page with pictures of nerd shit)

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Jamiroquai - High Times Singles 1992 - 2006

Sorry I didn't get it posted last night. Also for anyone else interested this is the CD from Jamiroquai that has on it (among other fun songs) the dance song from Napoleon Dynamite that I posted a while ago and couldn't get out of my head.

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I took some pictures a while ago before I went to Shannon's wedding and I just now got them off of my roommate's camera. Upon reviewing them I'm very surprised at just how BORED I can manage to look when I'm not smiling. I get this a lot however, whenever I'm just "neutral" I look annoyed or depressed. I don't know if this is something wrong with my face - or maybe I'm just always smiling so when I'm not people know something is wrong~

I hope it's the later because I like my face.

Also I'm tired of my hair. It's short and there isn't anything to do with it. So I got some gel, cut my sideburns down and did something. I think I like it but I don't know.

Also this picture gets funnier the more I look at it.

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Last night I tried to update my iTunes. Not for any reason - I was just getting tired of it asking me to update. So I download and tear into the installer only to find out that the "Windows Installer Service" wasn't working - which is odd.

Also for the past few weeks 2 windows updates would fail every time - and I'm still not even sure why. So after getting home last night around 2am I decided I'll just spend a quick hour or two working out the problem so the next day won't be plagued by any craptastic errors.

2 hours pass quickly and I'm NO closer to figuring out what the hell went wrong. Retiring to bed I awake the next morning (today) and try to fix it. I find many errors and ways to fix it, each one leaving me no answers and nothing happening. So I decide I'll just reinstall windows. I do this every few months - and I have my important stuff split off onto my other drives just for this occasion.

I get the installer going and head off to play some Xbox 360, Guilty Gear XX #Reload was recently updated to play on the 360 - meaning I can FINALLY play it on my big screen in all it's pretty glory. I get into the game and the first attack I throw gets countered, making this cool explosion which seems to freeze the game up and mess up my TV.

Then a second passes and I realize it's not the game - my Xbox is borked. I get up and restart the thing, watching the little circle around the power button - I like it's power on dance.

But instead of the fun little circle of green I'm met with something much worse. After calling up tech support and giving them my info and whatnot they agree to send me the shipping box to send it back in.

Upside: New Xbox. Free month of live. No cost to me.
Downside: Fucking broken Xbox.

So up until about 30 minutes ago when Windows FINALLY finished installing I was just sitting around watching the installer screen tick by, and staring at my dead xbox. I tried playing a few emulated games on the old xbox, but nothing was doing it for me.

I guess it's back to Fallout.

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I just finished Fallout 2 about a week ago. I really can't imagine why such a good game never got another sequel. I know Fallout 3 is on it's way, but after seeing the way the new company dealt with Oblivion I'm very afraid for how Fallout 3 will play.

I also just bought a little device that allows me to hook up my xbox 360 controller to my computer, so I've been trying to find new games I can play using only my controller.

First one up is a little Geometry Wars remake called Grid Wars 2. I'm still trying to figure out if I can fix the deadzone on my second analog to not be so hairtrigger but other than that the game looks pretty and is a pretty fun game. Think of it as asteroids on speed with the controls of SmashTV.

Grid Wars 2

A friend from around the area came over and showed me Ragnarok Battle Offline. At first I was a little skeptical because of how horrible RO sounded. Once I actually started to play the game however it was a blast. You get to pick from 10 different classes and go through a side scrolling almost double dragon style beat-em-up game. The fun part is you still level, get to pick special moves, "spec" yourself many different ways. And with the controller it plays like a cool arcade game.

The only "downside" is that it's completely in a foreign language so you'll need to either get certain patches to get it to work or just learn what it does. (Also it doesn't work for me while I have my SLI enabled - odd)

Ragnarok Battle Offline

The last game I've tried with a controller so far is Psychonauts. I haven't played a lot of it yet but so far it's a really really solid platformer with awesome design behind it. You're just small kid trying to become a "Psychonaut" - a psychic soldier of sorts. It's one of those rave sleeper hits that's amazingly fun but the critics and the world just passed over it. Like ICO or Shadow of the Colossus.

It's available on steam if you wanna find it easy.

Psychonauts

We are also looking into finding another roommate. Alex has met a friend he seems to "really" (see: gaaaay) like and wants him to move in. Right now it's months off but hopefully we will get his ass in here - it's more fun with more people in here, and the added bonus of making HIM pay for some stuff is always awesome. I don't know him much and I think Bryan knows him even less but I trust Alex wouldn't bring in a loser to live with us.

I'm not exactly sure where he'll sleep and stuff (Alex assures me his room) but what I'm most worried about is finding places for his computer and stuff - even though it is a laptop. I don't think it will be too crowded, and if all continues to go to plan we should be getting a bigger place / our own condo next year around this time. Hard to tell though.

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