microtrash ([info]microtrash) wrote,
@ 2006-01-29 22:20:00
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Current mood:white water crafting

don't let the error messages raz your spirits! this is fun!
oh dear god, i got the world of warcraft guestpass and i've been playing it in bed, and that was like three days ago. i think i may be in a video game coma. i'm a hunter. level seven. been killing bears. i can't wait till i'm like dr. doolittle, an army of creatures around me, a soundtrack with b2k on it.

i actually did leave the monastery a few times, to look at furniture i'll never buy, to go sit in the dark and watch my friends swim around on stage for laughs, for energy. my day to day became less and less about comics and movies. as the good movies were few and far between. and comics, well i should hold back i think... but i feel literally addicted. like i'm 10 and it's dick tracy. and it's fourties. fifties?

daily adventures are now all about what am i gonna eat, where am i gonna go to eat. i've tried a bunch of different things. gray's papaya in nyc is basically the only food i can trust (and cheap.) that and terriyaki chicken at a sushi place (expensive.) i just went into the store a few hours ago and i felt like i was going camping. i'll need this and this, because the game would require me to not really... you know... move. i was seriously buying soda and candy bars like the apocalypse was coming. my laptop's a little glitchy, so john and i have discussed an upgrade. i mean this dvd isn't gonna make itself.

i've been watching a lot of the footage from the shows. it's amazing how many different places we'd been. i wish i woulda watched footage sooner, i would've tightened things up in so many ways. if i get to tour again i hope to really improve upon what i've done thus far. i had a writing teacher that hated archaic language like that. upon. thus. i don't quite know what kinda movie it's gonna be. i'm glad i have all the footage, i regret ever being in a bad mood on tour because it just blows my mind, that that many people would come out and see my show.

i've kinda hit a little bit of brick wall creatively. and it's not just the game. i really want the weather to make up it's mind (and choose spring) as i feel a little bit locked in. i know it all come out when it's supposed to, but i look at each song like, are you worth working on? i'm jumping back and forth between five different songs, nothing's really getting me excited. i haven't heard beats yet though so, who knows.

i charge through the snow covered valleys, transparent and blue. i'm dead, i'm a ghost, killed by another wendigo for trespassing. and i'm trying to get back to my body. but the sound of pines, and the absence of life, the empty valley. it's got me walking to my destination when at first i ran.

ps. oh and i forgot why i made this post. to say that i'm gonna lose this contest, as the vote is almost 50/50. i'd hate to keep asking everyone to vote a million times, but you know... please, vote, a million times!!! we gotta at least win round one. it's a little suspicious as demander doesn't have a message board and i talked to them about it a while back, and they didn't seem to care really. so, being the paranoid little hermit i suspect foulplay and no good trickery. don't let the bad guys win! spin.com/bandoftheyear




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[info]hokaiso
2006-01-30 03:50 am UTC (link)
if i wanted to send you a valentine...
where would i send it to? :P

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[info]libster_77
2006-01-30 04:01 am UTC (link)
WoW is frighteningly addictive. My husband bought me a copy with a new computer for christmas, and I swore i'd only play once a week. But when i'm not playing, i'm thinking about playing. It's SICK. (But really fuckin fun)

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[info]kores_rabbit
2006-01-30 04:02 am UTC (link)
I played WoW for a few months. Now, my computer can't handle it (old/new computer).
Vote a bazillion times. A trizillion! It's called disabling your cookies. Oh, did I write that out loud?

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[info]_coke
2006-01-30 04:26 am UTC (link)
it would make voting a lot easier if you just provided a hyperlink...

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[info]raefuun
2006-01-30 04:35 am UTC (link)
he wrote it in his last post:
spin.com/bandoftheyear
you just gotta find his name on the bottom-left (it's under UNDERGROUND - Round 1) and click the link vote.

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[info]uglinessman
2006-01-30 02:24 pm UTC (link)
But that's not a hyperlink, it's a URL

URL: spin.com/bandoftheyear
Hyperlink: spin.com/bandoftheyear

I've always maintained that if someone wants me to visit a web page upon reading an LJ entry, using a simple HREF tag is the least they can do to eliminate a step or two on my end (I did this one manually because it's a good cause, but I don't make exceptions often).

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[info]raefuun
2006-01-30 09:02 pm UTC (link)
dude, it's called copy and paste. if they are too lazy to do that, then i am too lazy to write out the html for a link. and i KNOW the difference between a hyperlink and a url. don't snap on people that are just trying to help others. all you do is come across as pompous and obsessive-compulsive. it's not like you can directly link to the page anyway, seeing as a it's a pop-up. and before you get technical on me, you CAN link to it, it just takes more effort than i feel like exerting, okay? so take your hate elsewhere.

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[info]uglinessman
2006-01-31 11:29 am UTC (link)
It's hard to tell since tone of voice is absent from text conversations, but you appear to have "snapped" way more than I did. Someone mentioned that a hyperlink might be a good idea, you said that a hyperlink was already there, and I disagreed. And why is it okay for one person to be "lazy" by not bothering to format a link using a simple tag, but not okay for someone reading it to resent having to copy and paste it? Think about it for a second, one person takes the time to utilize the most basic and fundamental of all HTML tags, thus preventing the necessity of all the people who are going to read it having to take the extra steps of copying and pasting. That doesn't seem "pompous" or "obsessive-compulsive" to me, I'd call it efficient and effective.

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[info]moloa
2006-01-31 02:47 pm UTC (link)
Sure, hyperlink's are convenient. They're also the quickest way to get things like free sample/contest url's shut down. They can track where traffic is coming from a hyperlink. If they see that 90+% of their visitors are from a certain url you can bet they will shut it down within a day.

It takes me 3 seconds to copy/paste into the address bar. Much less time than it took for me to consider typing out this response or for you to put all those quotation marks in yours. I consider myself to be really lazy, but I don't expect someone to walk in my room and start clicking my mouse for me out of efficiency or effectiveness (you know that's next). So it makes you think and actually do something. Just think of it as geek exercise or something and move on with your life.

I really don't think spin.com should worry about where their votes are coming from. It's just a popularity contest where people can cheat and vote as many times as they want. From looking at demander's 400+ friends on myspace and mc chris' 10000+ you would think it'd be obvious who has more fans on the internet. They really should fix the voting system so it atleast does one vote per ip.

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[info]uglinessman
2006-01-31 03:30 pm UTC (link)
Sure, hyperlink's are convenient. They're also the quickest way to get things like free sample/contest url's shut down. They can track where traffic is coming from a hyperlink. If they see that 90+% of their visitors are from a certain url you can bet they will shut it down within a day.

Obviously, we're having two entirely different conversations. I'm not talking about someone attempting to utilize their l337 hax0r ski11z to generate a URL that will automatically register a certain vote. If that's what the original commenter was asking for, then I understand your ire, but I'm only talking about "spin.com/bandoftheyear" vs "spin.com/bandoftheyear. There's nothing underhanded or suspicious about that, someone's asking their friends to go to that page and place a vote.

but I don't expect someone to walk in my room and start clicking my mouse for me out of efficiency or effectiveness (you know that's next).

How the fuck is that next? What planet do you live on where that leap makes any sense at all? That's like saying if someone wants to get pizza delivered instead of cooking a meal, the next logical step would be to get someone to chew their food for them and feed it to them with a spoon.

If this was a usenet post, it would be a moot point, but when using a format that supports basic html, such as LJ posts, providing someone with a link to click on as opposed to a cold URL is a simple little courtesy, not some grand gesture comparable to doing other people's work for them.

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[info]moloa
2006-02-01 03:49 am UTC (link)
If you want pizza you just type /pizza ingame and have it delivered.
I suppose we could have someone regurgitate food into our mouths as well. That'd be yummy.

Yet again, my sarcasm has been taken literally. Damn you internets!!!

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[info]raefuun
2006-02-03 03:02 am UTC (link)
uglinessman: and i call it snapping, not being efficient. if you wanted to help the guy out more than i did by leaving a link, then only post the link and not some spiteful comment. i helped him the way I help people. Just because you think that my way is the wrong way doesn't mean i am not doing him a "courtesy". and besides, not everyone sits and reads EVRERY COMMENT like you do. i only saw his comment because it was the first one above the comment box, and i noticed it while typing my reply. so before you make some bombastic crack on my HTML skills, go check yourself. as far as i am concerned, this conversation is over because all it seems like you are doing is instigating and picking a fight in order to get noticed.

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[info]raefuun
2006-01-30 04:32 am UTC (link)
don't worry about the lack of creativity. a while back they did some study and found that people tend to be more depressed/more vegetative/less creative in the transaction of winter to spring. they also found that suicide rates are higher. oh, the use of tax dollars! that would account for your WoW obsession and all that jazz.

ps: you should make an event of it and come down and visit me. my friend is obsessed with WoW (he just bought it too) and has been urging me to buy it. you two could sit and pwn that game while i cry over the facts that a) i've got dial-up and b) MMORPGs suck if you've got dial-up.

oh and a random something to make your day: my mom yelled at me after i refused her offer on a Steely Dan concert ticket. I told her i wanted to save my first concert for my favorite singer -- MC CHRIS. <3 so yeah. hope it makes your day that at least one of your fans loves you like i do.


haha, ok i'm gonna stop before this gets obsessively long.

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[info]glamourous_envy
2006-01-30 04:37 am UTC (link)
world of warcraft stole my EX boyfriend (hence why he IS my ex-boyfriend)

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[info]nitallica
2006-01-30 04:53 am UTC (link)
LOL, I've heard that from several of my friends (and/or their girlfriends). My husband played for about a year then finally grew tired of it ... It's the new EverCrack.

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Reminded me of this.
[info]surye
2006-01-30 04:14 pm UTC (link)

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[info]nitallica
2006-01-30 04:53 am UTC (link)
"i'm gonna lose this contest, as the vote is almost 50/50."

How odd, you were leading by a good bit when I looked at it earlier. Mind if I pimp the link in my blog? I have a few friends who could help boost the num's a little. :)

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[info]causticstorm
2006-01-30 05:15 am UTC (link)
Ah Jeez, Watch out for World of Warcrack.

I've lost many friends to it. Now they only drool and hit themselves in the face for yes and no questions.

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[info]laughinkoala
2006-01-30 05:24 am UTC (link)
/agree with the rest of the crowd, jsut stopped playing it (after a year and two lvl 60's) stuff is worse than sniffing glue.

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[info]dracherdp
2006-01-30 05:37 am UTC (link)
Go to Tichondrius on the 30th and join there. I think its probably the largest, and I'm switching to Tichondrius from Azlagor soon. I'd help you level...if you aren't the alliance and are part of the undead in my area.

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[info]a_sad_beauty
2006-01-30 05:48 am UTC (link)
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/videos/pokemon-master.html

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[info]sexualninja
2006-01-30 05:53 am UTC (link)
Silkroad is just as bad as WoW/EQ for me. Worse because its free. And because it's Korean, so there's REALLY bad Engrish in a lot of places, and that amuses me, because I am silly.

Site seems to be down for me, but i'll check tomorrow and vote eleventy billion times. One for each way mc chris rocks.

And maybe a couple times for dj John. DJs dont get any love.

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WORLD OF WARCRAFT =-O
[info]syntheticwastes
2006-01-30 06:34 am UTC (link)
hey chris yea man i voted like a bazillion times, and so did my sister, and like alot of people even this one kid named alan who doesnt like you but i told him if he didnt i wouldnt help him in math anymore.

i cant believe you play world of warcraft that game is super addicting i played till i got vampires bloodlines and then that sucked me in. well hit me up sometime, i need a chat buddy its boring in the winter.

John

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Re: WORLD OF WARCRAFT =-O
[info]nitallica
2006-01-30 04:45 pm UTC (link)
Bloodlines rocks ... wish they had an online multiplayer in this one like Redemption did.

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Re: WORLD OF WARCRAFT =-O
[info]syntheticwastes
2006-01-31 01:02 am UTC (link)
i totally agree it would be so much awesomer with multiplayer :-D. but then i wouldnt wanna get star wars and play that online. i wish they all werent so expensive to play online though.

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Re: WORLD OF WARCRAFT =-O
[info]nitallica
2006-01-31 05:45 pm UTC (link)
heh, yeah, but I'm so easily addicted to those things ... it hit me hard when my 8 yr old daughter told me that she wished she were old enough to play so she could spend more time with me. :(

Besides, I get in enough LANs, and as long as UT is free to play online I'm cool. :) PLUS I can turn off the mature taunts and gore for my little one ... she's getting pretty good too. (That's my girl! *g*)

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Re: WORLD OF WARCRAFT =-O
[info]csection
2006-01-30 04:49 pm UTC (link)
thats so cute, that you used education as a proverbial "arm twisted behind the back", how the hell do you vote multiple times??

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Re: WORLD OF WARCRAFT =-O
(Anonymous)
2006-01-30 05:20 pm UTC (link)
disable your cookies!!! and vote a gazillion times! mc HAS to win, he deserves it way more than the demander cheaters!

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[info]mr_mxyzptlk
2006-01-30 06:56 am UTC (link)
...I hadn't noticed til you pointed out your suspicions, the vote count was dead still for like an hour then it started climbing a few hundred votes per 10second refresh intervals infavor of whoever the hell it is you are up against. I think there is a Glitch in the Matrix.

You gotta stay in there so I can see you go head to head with Smoosh... seriously... I wanna see that poll's results.
Smoosh.
Hah.

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[info]kalyandra
2006-01-30 09:48 am UTC (link)
WoW is fun, but take great care. It can suck your whole life away.

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someone's cheating
[info]jessbkpkgotjets
2006-01-30 11:34 am UTC (link)
You were at 70% yesterday. The only other band that was even remotely close to how many votes you have was the upwelling. Somehow demander got 63,000 votes over night. This sucks, cause you should totally win.

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Re: someone's cheating
[info]sexualninja
2006-01-30 03:44 pm UTC (link)
maybe spin is fluffing votes to keep interest in this thing. Without the 63,000 votes, not only would mc have this thing in the bag, but we'd all (in theory) stop voting till next time, and they'd lose ad money.

Also, it keeps the interest in non-fans higher. If mc were winning 90%-10%, odds are someone who might be interested in Demander probably wouldn't check them (him? her?) out, simply because they are getting trounced so bad.

Either way it's pretty low tactics for spin, especially because if they tried it in a higher bracket the fluffed votes might cause someone to win a bracket they would otherwise lose.

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Re: someone's cheating
[info]nitallica
2006-01-30 06:13 pm UTC (link)
"and they'd lose ad money"

I use Firefox with Adblock ... what ads? :)

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Utterly Ridiculous
[info]wacarnolds
2006-01-30 03:13 pm UTC (link)
A pox on Demander.

'The SPIN.com Band of the Year competition has become a beastly thing. Somehow our match up is the killer of the bunch... a fierce little band with amazing fans vs. white rapper with TV ads. How's TV underground?'

I cut this directly out of their bastard web page, only because I wanted everyone else that's on your side to see this garbage. Incite the masses!! Get out there and fight!!

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Re: Utterly Ridiculous
[info]4dunceand4all
2006-01-31 02:00 pm UTC (link)
Hmmm....that's not very sportsman like of them. Me thinks me smells a rat.
This "fierce little band with amazing fans" doesn't seem to know about the fierce little man and his rabid fans...

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[info]daimyofury
2006-01-30 03:29 pm UTC (link)
What server are you playin' on, man? My computer went the way of the dodo so I can't play anymore, but my GF (Who wants to give the whitest rapper on the block mad sex) is all about WoW too, and wants to know...

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[info]pezmaster
2006-01-30 04:04 pm UTC (link)
You know mc some fans might have some footage before or after the show. Hit us up if we got it I'm sure they are more then willing to share. Sadly I have none cuase avoided us in West Virginia. :( Oh well hopefully you will be around next tour.

PEZ

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[info]as_i_look_back
2006-01-31 02:09 am UTC (link)
indeed hopefully he will. maybe the charleston/huntington area. hmmm

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[info]ab4dd0n
2006-01-30 06:33 pm UTC (link)
If the spin website would actually load correctly, it'd be a lot easier to vote. I'll go along with the foulplay thought, doesn't seem right.

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[info]xgunshymartyrx
2006-01-30 07:02 pm UTC (link)
dude i am having a problem with the spin page loading too.
i keep getting error messages.
something is definitely not right.
i was voting like mad when mc was at 75% and then next time i checked he was down to 69% and with each refresh there would be a 50+ jump in votes.

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Damn Skippy!
[info]wacarnolds
2006-01-31 02:28 pm UTC (link)
Seriously! The other day I voted, no problem. Now all of a sudden the voting is disabled because the site is down for "special maintenance". How about "special maintenance" for their crossed-up grills? Think they'd like that??

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[info]megamanfan
2006-01-30 10:03 pm UTC (link)
The system, is down. It won't let me vote.

Not to worry, I put some of your lyrics on OHHLA today, and I'm going to plug the voting with a link shortly. Gotta refresh my iPod first.

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[info]pantherx
2006-01-31 04:42 am UTC (link)
Yes... WoW has sucked me back in as well... Hunter. Level 19 I think. I have a pet bear. :-D

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Bitches get stitches
(Anonymous)
2006-01-31 06:56 pm UTC (link)
Chirs i love you . And i hope u win cuz if u don`t the fate of the world will lie in shambles SHAMBLES i tell u !!!!!


xoxo amanda

i really do love ya

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[info]sybill777
2006-02-17 07:14 pm UTC (link)

The game feeds on social lives and (arguably) the virginity of young males. Some cool things come out of it though..like the term "douchebaggery".

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