Oh WInstonfield - gotta love the understated racism (man-child), the hyperbole (radicals), the blanket portrayals of Europeans as poverty-stricken communists (aren't they happier, healthier, and better educated than Americans?), and the rhetorical attacks on Obama (how's his polling these days? Isn't there majority support for Health Care reform? Isn't there still majority support for a Public Option?).

Talk about hardcore dyed-in-the-wool partisans and ideologues eh?>> ^Winstonfield_Pennypacker:

I think ridicule is the best way to destroy nonsensical groups like the Tea Party
Ah yes. A page right out of the Man Child's favorite neolib catechism, "Rules for Radicals".
It is hard to tell if the neolib left is being incredibly devious or incredibly stupid when it comes to the Tea Party. The TP is just a large group of regular folks who believe that the largest obstacle to American prosperity is America's own government. And they have a solid point. Big Government, Big Labor, Big Pensions have castrated the European economy for decades. Even Britain has come to realize that it can't keep the gravy train rolling. But at the time Europe is pulling back on leftist economics, the Man-Child and the neolib left are desperately trying to double-down on it. And the vast majority of the American public don't like it and don't want it.
Poll after poll shows that the neolib agenda is rejected wholesale by all but the most leftist, dyed-in-the-wool groups of hardcore Democrats. The agenda is totally out of step with the public. The Tea Party is nothing more than a group of people who protest the neolib left's advancement of their unpopular agenda against the will of the people. It's that simple.
And the neolibs know all too well they are on the losing side of the vote. The data is clear as a bell. The more they push their radicalism, the more the people object. And so comes the sideshow & circus of accusing the TP of racism, and all the other Rules for Radicals tactics that the Man-Child learned at teats of his communist & totalitarian mentors.
But - like GWB - when you try to advance an agenda against the will of the people then you WILL lose. I still have faith in that. Bush pushed Iraq when the people didn't understand it and didn't like it. He lost the PR war, and then Congress. Obama is pushing radical leftist policy when the people don't like it. He is losing the PR war, and then he'll lose Congress. And then he'll get tossed out of office. Hopefully someone with Tea Party mentality replaces him and undoes everything the Man-Child accomplished. Nothing would make America happier than to repeal every law passed by this out of step, radical congress of neolib idiots.

I think ridicule is the best way to destroy nonsensical groups like the Tea Party

Ah yes. A page right out of the Man Child's favorite neolib catechism, "Rules for Radicals".

It is hard to tell if the neolib left is being incredibly devious or incredibly stupid when it comes to the Tea Party. The TP is just a large group of regular folks who believe that the largest obstacle to American prosperity is America's own government. And they have a solid point. Big Government, Big Labor, Big Pensions have castrated the European economy for decades. Even Britain has come to realize that it can't keep the gravy train rolling. But at the time Europe is pulling back on leftist economics, the Man-Child and the neolib left are desperately trying to double-down on it. And the vast majority of the American public don't like it and don't want it.

Poll after poll shows that the neolib agenda is rejected wholesale by all but the most leftist, dyed-in-the-wool groups of hardcore Democrats. The agenda is totally out of step with the public. The Tea Party is nothing more than a group of people who protest the neolib left's advancement of their unpopular agenda against the will of the people. It's that simple.

And the neolibs know all too well they are on the losing side of the vote. The data is clear as a bell. The more they push their radicalism, the more the people object. And so comes the sideshow & circus of accusing the TP of racism, and all the other Rules for Radicals tactics that the Man-Child learned at teats of his communist & totalitarian mentors.

But - like GWB - when you try to advance an agenda against the will of the people then you WILL lose. I still have faith in that. Bush pushed Iraq when the people didn't understand it and didn't like it. He lost the PR war, and then Congress. Obama is pushing radical leftist policy when the people don't like it. He is losing the PR war, and then he'll lose Congress. And then he'll get tossed out of office. Hopefully someone with Tea Party mentality replaces him and undoes everything the Man-Child accomplished. Nothing would make America happier than to repeal every law passed by this out of step, radical congress of neolib idiots.

>> ^EDD:

Exploded ass gravy! Bird num nums! Poopie! Cat farts!
--blankfist


That's "birdie num nums".

Exploded ass gravy! Bird num nums! Poopie! Cat farts!
--blankfist

You'd have to cover it in gravy, ranch dressing and serve it in a bucket to get an American to eat something that nutritious.

>> ^jimnms:

I had to look up what a Scotch Egg was. A hard boiled egg, wrapped in meat and deep fried! That sounds like something we'd eat over here in the States.

Yes for the absolute best in PC sound card quality the Gravis was certainly it, especially if you were into the midi crowd (which I somewhat was myself). But for gaming the Aureal topped them all. Two fantastic cards for two fantastic specialties.

And yes Shponglefan, it did have actual 3D and once my LAN friends found that out (both through me killing them from seemingly 'out of nowhere' to them testing it out as well. Even the hard core Creative fan had to think twice. He never took the plunge with Aureal but even with 4.0 system he had, he knew he was outmatched sound-wise when it came to gaming.

The Gravis Ultrasound was the best sound card of all time (in relative terms of course). It also, unfortunately, taught me a lasting lesson in computer hardware. Even though it was comparatively cheap, and was at least three or four years head of its competition, I ended up switching from the GUS to a far inferior Sound Blaster 16. The lesson: it doesn't matter how cool your hardware is, if there isn't software to support it, it amounts to nothing. You're better off just buying whatever is the mainstream most of the time. (Hands up if the phrase "SBOS installed." rings a bell).

It did ultimately become reasonably well supported though after a few years, once Miles Sound System supported it and became pretty much the standard for DOS games audio.

The Roland cards in this video weren't really consumer cards (they were more for musicians) and they were terrible for games, unless you only used it for music and had another card for sound effects.

Pffft for Adlib. It was surpassed very quickly in sound quality. The Gravis Ultrasound and the like were far superior in sound.

It's not like games don't use iMuse like systems today, they do... I can't remember examples, but I do notice it from time to time. I do remember back though and remember what a huge deal it was that the iMuse system dynamically changed things, it was huge at the time.

Minot, ND, but no Casper, WY? Too bad, because I could command my legions to the theater if it were here. But I can't get them to North Dakota, bro. You can't get ANYONE to North Dakota. Death by ass gravy would be preferable.

I am using your Maybe, Perhaps, Sometimes method to split the votes on my next poll. Genius.

Should rottenseed eat a bucket of special blankfist gravy?
()Yes!
()Don't know
()Possibly no
()Probably no
()Decidedly no
()Absolutely no

Wait, are you saying you'd pay for ass gravy if you didn't have videosift?

>> ^burdturgler:

I do it for the free ass gravy.

"You doctors have been telling us to drink 8 glasses of gravy a day for years!" - Homer Simpson

I do it for the free ass gravy.

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

No gravy?


Ass Gravy?

No gravy?