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  1. Alkorin

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    +1. What a disappointment, Microsoft.
  2. Alkorin

    The Authoritative Final Fantasy & Bravely Default thread

    True enough. Although FFXIV looks "better" the second time around.
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    The Authoritative Final Fantasy & Bravely Default thread

    SqEnix is like Japan's Blizzard. They release when they're good and ready.
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    The Authoritative Final Fantasy & Bravely Default thread

    Can't hear you guys over the sound of your impending infractions.
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    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    Right, so, the question is, where am I earning this income? It's not an investment, because I'm not actually investing money in a Bitcoin exchange. I'm using my computer to mine coins. The exchange I deposit to is in Japan, so is this a foreign investment? Is it foreign income if the pool itself...
  6. Alkorin

    IRC Info: irc.uberguilds.org #swampdonkey

    Servers go down, it happens.
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    IRC Info: irc.uberguilds.org #swampdonkey

    FYI, uberguilds is back up.
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    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    They can't tax a Bitcoin. A Bitcoin is not a US Dollar, and therefore none of their damned business, especially when it's being mined by someone who isn't American and traded through an exchange that runs in Japan. Stopping Mt.Gox from trading through Dwolla is no problem. That wasn't entirely...
  9. Alkorin

    Member Inventory Survey

    Oh, why not. Voting before inevitable Rickshaw.
  10. Alkorin

    Your Own Photography

    Thanks! That shot was from the top of the belfry tower in the central square in Bruges. Hell of a view from up there, but man, what a narrow climb.
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    Your Own Photography

    Heh, just noticed 106.9 The Bear in those shots. I guess Drek's from Ottawa, too!
  12. Alkorin

    Laptop Computers

    Sounds fairly... underwhelming to me. If you read the comments, I'm not the only one, either. A lot of ifs, ands, buts and maybes in there as well.
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    Your Own Photography

    And here are a few from a tour we took of Ieper / Ypres. The first is the town itself, the second is one of the entrances to Langemarck cemetary (a German cemetary where soldiers were buried during the occupation), and the third is from the Canadian memorial at St-Juliaan.
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    Your Own Photography

    Here are a few I took on my last trip to Belgium. Size reduced so as to not be spammy. Clicky for full size. These are from Brugge / Bruges. If you've seen the movie "In Bruges", the third picture is one of the hotel that was used for the movie, taken from the canal while we were on a boat tour.
  15. Alkorin

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    No issues at this point. Just a piece of advice: Beware of hidden wire fees. Their bank (in Japan) charges 2,000 JPY (about $20) for the outgoing wire, and my bank charges an additional $20 for receipt of the wire.
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    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    Kinda glad I was forced to use a wire transfer at this point, since there is no other (remotely easy) alternative to get money to a Canadian bank from Mt.Gox. Sure, there's a fee, but it's been reliable so far.
  17. Alkorin

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    Arative, you get those ASICs yet?
  18. Alkorin

    Pregnancy Thread

    Good to hear that he's doing well. He's clearly a fighter. Congrats!
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    NHL 2012-13 - Half Season Thread

    Entirely not enough people betting on Ottawa in this thread. We got this, yo. Only Canadian team left in the running.
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    Windows 8

    Didn't say that. I said that I don't see why I'd need any of them, probably because I've never bothered to look. Can you point me at a few good ones?
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    Windows 8

    Haven't bought ModernMix yet. I don't see why I'd need any Metro app, really. What do you use it for, Wolfen?
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    Windows 8

    WINE is pretty amazing these days, but it still doesn't do quite enough for me. I ran Mint for most of my browsing needs for a while, though.
  23. Alkorin

    Spring 2013 Anime Thread

    After the disappointment that was Index s1 I can't bring myself to catch up enough, or to watch Railgun s1 in order to then watch Railgun S. Is it really worth it?
  24. Alkorin

    The King Henry Tapes (By Me!)

    And purchased, thanks for the link!
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    The King Henry Tapes (By Me!)

    Nice. At this point, I don't even care if I still have a book and a half to read -- I'll buy it just because the first half of the first book is awesome.
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    The King Henry Tapes (By Me!)

    No iTunes? Really enjoying the first book, this is good stuff.
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    Backwards Compatibility - Is it really that important?

    Voted yes for a simple reason: I've invested a bunch of money into media (both games and movies). If I can buy a system that's backwards compatible (e.g. 1st gen PS3), I will do it every single time. It saves me having to hook up one of everything to play games/movies/whatever. I won't off...
  28. Alkorin

    Parent Thread

    My wife's first mother's day present was a night of my parents looking after the baby so that we could get a whole night to sleep. What does she do? Get frustrated that the baby isn't there. I'm almost ready to give up... but at least I got some sleep!
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    Pregnancy Thread

    Whoa. Everything okay? That's crazy early.
  30. Alkorin

    Cloud services

    Ever consider combining something like DropBox with something like CrashPlan, that does an unlimited backup of a folder structure forever? That way, you could keep your files backed up there, and never worry about having to mess with DropBox recovery. Just use CrashPlan to get whatever is...
  31. Alkorin

    Laptop Computers

    +1. As has been stated a number of times in this thread, you can't go wrong with the G75VW.
  32. Alkorin

    Pebble Watch

    RunKeeper updated to work with Pebble, both iOS and Android. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...506b2d67211a77
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    Well, now what?

    If you want an objective in Second Life, make yourself an objective. That's what sandboxes are, no?
  34. Alkorin

    The Matrix (1999)

    Oh, hell. What have I done? You realize he didn't get his way, in the end, right?
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    The Matrix (1999)

    How did I not get that one?
  36. Alkorin

    The Matrix (1999)

    Raes is The Architect. Argues like him, too. Not sure who The Edge would be... someone help me out here.
  37. Alkorin

    Torrents

    Dumb or not, absolutely ridiculous of them to assume that because I gave some forum people invites, I'm trading invites for something. I didn't. They're just asshats.
  38. Alkorin

    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    Cashed out 7BTC at $116.34. I'm done playing for now. I'll keep mining as long as it's profitable, but at this point, I think the journey is largely over for me.
  39. Alkorin

    Spring 2013 Anime Thread

    WHAT THE FUX, SHINGEKI. That is all.
  40. Alkorin

    EQ - The Sleeper

    Why? Details plx.