The Official Happiness Thread

bcnipod · Post by **bcnipod** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 5:09 pm

G.I.R. wrote:
bcnipod wrote:
G.I.R. wrote:
sneakyn8 wrote:ive been reading the sequels to the hitch hikers guide to the galaxy and i really think there should be a movie made
No.
Happiness post: I read the HGTTG series before they started making the **** movie based off the books.
Happiness post: I was able to watch the original BBC TV episodes of HGTTG.
;-; I want to sees them, but I'm too cheap to buy them (that is, if they're available for purchase in the first place...)

I got them from my local library.

shadowkhas · Post by **shadowkhas** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 5:35 pm

G.I.R. wrote:;-; I want to sees them, but I'm too cheap to buy them (that is, if they're available for purchase in the first place...)

Yep, library for me too. They're really amusing because they're so badly done. They stay pretty accurate to the book/radio, though.

G.I.R. wrote:Leather bound unabridged edition FTW.

o hi

G.I.R. wrote:Happiness post: I read the HGTTG series before they started making the **** movie based off the books.

I liked the movie. :/ Adams meant for it to not follow the books, and have its own original offshoots, if I recall correctly.

G.I.R. · Post by **G.I.R.** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 6:03 pm

shadowkhas wrote:They're really amusing because they're so badly done. They stay pretty accurate to the book/radio, though.

I had heard as much.

Guess I'll have to check mah libary.

shadowkhas wrote:o hi

o dats kewl (i haz da same one)

shadowkhas wrote:Adams meant for it to not follow the books, and have its own original offshoots, if I recall correctly.

Well then they still did it wrong, because it seems like they made it too accurate to the books then, if it was supposed to have it's own offshoots. So either way they failed. I wish Douglas Adams hadn't died. :\

metkillerjoe · Post by **metkillerjoe** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 6:50 pm

Got my Eagle Rank today. Very very happy about that.

Veegie · Post by **Veegie** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 7:32 pm

Left 4 Dead

Aumaan Anubis · Post by **Aumaan Anubis** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 7:37 pm

Is it that kind of intense game where everyone's screaming, "SHI- WATCH YOUR ******** SIDE! HOLY MOTHER OF GOD THEY'RE EVERYWHERE!" over the headsets?

Because that's the kind of game I want when I decide to rent it.

Veegie · Post by **Veegie** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 7:39 pm

Ragdoll · Post by **Ragdoll** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 7:57 pm

Veegie wrote:Left 4 Dead

This.

Trulife8342 · Post by **Trulife8342** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 7:59 pm

Tural wrote:The disc is not accessed for content of the game. The games content is copied, in its entirety, to the console. The dashboard, the software on the console itself, has methods with which it verifies the disc in the tray. The disc is not used for content, the console merely checks that the disc exists. It does not do this through content files on the disc, per se. It checks the title information on the disc, not the content in the game. Without the dashboard check, the game would run just as it would with it. No content is missing in the hard drive copy, and that is what he was saying. The game does not require the disc, as you say; the dashboard requires the disc simply to check for presence.

If you'd like to dispute this, feel free to provide the specific file names which the console does not copy. However, as far as I have seen and understood, there is not a single file that the game requires that isn't copied. The executables and all content gets copied, and that is what the game needs to run.

Then the microsoft rep at work that showed up to replace our gamestop's xbox is a liar. Which I highly doubt that.

Veegie · Post by **Veegie** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 8:59 pm

He is wrong.

guysullavin · Post by **guysullavin** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 9:13 pm

think of the CD being a key, but instead the feature is just to make it so it runs quieter and colder than with a disc

Veegie · Post by **Veegie** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 9:19 pm

guysullavin wrote:think of the CD being a key, but instead the feature is just to make it so it runs quieter and colder than with a disc

i.e. what everyone has said repeatedly when trying to explain this very very simple concept that needn't metaphorical extrapolation.

guysullavin · Post by **guysullavin** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 9:51 pm

Veegie wrote:
guysullavin wrote:think of the CD being a key, but instead the feature is just to make it so it runs quieter and colder than with a disc
i.e. what everyone has said repeatedly when trying to explain this very very simple concept that needn't metaphorical extrapolation.

exactly

Veegie · Post by **Veegie** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 9:53 pm

Thanks for confirming the useless label I gave your post.

guysullavin · Post by **guysullavin** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 11:11 pm

no problem

ScottyGEE · Post by **ScottyGEE** » Fri Nov 21, 2008 5:01 am

Trulife8342 wrote:Then the microsoft rep at work that showed up to replace our gamestop's xbox is a liar. Which I highly doubt that.

I'm not very willing to believe that someone high up enough/One of the developers to know how the system works would also be the person that drops off xboxs at GameStop.

But anyway, I don't really care. I just know it makes Fable 2 better

shadowkhas · Post by **shadowkhas** » Fri Nov 21, 2008 5:11 am

Robert Frost is a cool guy.

bibbit · Post by **bibbit** » Fri Nov 21, 2008 6:53 am

Never heard of him.

My brother is home for the weekend.

Altimit01 · Post by **Altimit01** » Fri Nov 21, 2008 9:10 am

shadowkhas wrote:Robert Frost is a cool guy.

I think Robert Frost is a pretty cool guy, eh takes the road less traveled doesn't afraid of anything.

I finally finished a piece of code involving volume textures that I was dreading.

shadowkhas · Post by **shadowkhas** » Fri Nov 21, 2008 11:43 am

Altimit01 wrote:I think Robert Frost is a pretty cool guy, eh takes the road less traveled doesn't afraid of anything.

That was bad.

I was thinking more about "Fire and Ice," though.