Let me leave this here.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/a1h73dsa2kbmbd5/MeatLoaf-Star_Spangled_Banner.mp3

There was a Youtube video but the link is dead.

I'll leave this here.

http://www.theonion.com/video/gays-too-precious-to-risk-in-combat-says-general,14158/

Due to recent developments, I finally bought a PS3. On the network for media center purposes, but blocked at the router from actually connecting to the internet and updating itself. The lack of going online won't bother me, online gaming with strangers is unappealing anymore thanks to the 4chan generation.

While I already had a 360 that barely got used, the lack of things like bluray, wireless, and HDMI was rather an annoyance. I'm not really sure what the point of Windows Media Center is unless your entire collection of media is in WMV format. There is transcoding software that remedies this to the point. TVersity looked nice, until I found out you had to sell your soul to Satan to get MKV to work, and then suck his dick to get subtitles to work after that. PS3 Media Server had some 360 support back then, but after the fact it wasn't worth the effort, and my PC remained next to my TV.

If these consoles will never support MKV format, then it's more a limitation of the PC side to get things to work like I want. I managed to watch a 720 episode without any stuttering, but it was a rather low motion ep, so encoding would be easy. The real test is my 1080 copy of Eva 2.0.

There is a bright side, movies without subtitles can just be remuxed as a MP4 stream without any reencoding, so as long as I'm pirating American movies I can stay with full HD. Joy.

I'd like to have my house looking decent by the end of the year, that means moving all my computer crap to another room. As long as I can get the media center crap working, this can actually happen.

So, I actually got it, unable to resist the pull. Unlike every other PC game I've avoided, Starcraft won't die until SC3 comes out in another 14 years, so I might as well get started on it. Even after playing WoW so long, I've never actually played Warcraft 3 (I know the entire storyline so I'm not really drawn into playing it now) nor even finished WC2, but I'm actually enjoying the single player campaign of this one. The graphics are amazing and the plot is more than just a text mission briefing before and after a mission.

I'm resisting this Real ID shit as long as I can, but my basic user info is as follows.
Character: Taloon
Friend code: 296

Tags: starcraft
Current Mood: drunk

An OLD video from the ancient days of the 08 election, but it bears repeating due to recent events!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27650743/ns/msnbc_tv-countdown_with_keith_olbermann/20498061

Tags: lessthanthree, love

We are under siege by lesbian environmentalists who are trampling on our values so they can eradicate capitalism, just like Saddam Hussein tried to do when he attacked us on 9/11.


Those darn lesbians, always up to no good!

http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/bl-glenn-beck-conspiracy.htm

Tags: politics
Current Mood: tired

@dosetsu

"A new Rasmussen survey in West Virginia finds Gov. Joe Manchin (D) is the early leader in a special election to be held later this year to fill the late Sen. Robert Byrd's seat.

Manchin leads Rep. Shelley Moore Capito (R), 53% to 39%, and tops Secretary of State Betty Ireland (R), 65% to 26%.

Key finding: 77% of the state's voters approve of the job Manchin is doing as governor"

The real question is who will be the sacrificial lamb to run against him. Capito might try to ride in an anti Obama wave in 2012, but he'll be an incumbent by then her House seat is pretty safe at the moment. Or she might run for Governor. I don't pay much attention to local politics, but we've been in the national news lately.

Tags: comics, pennyarcade