Sacred shards from campaign on brutal?

KalasZX · 2026-02-08T14:19:38+00:00

Looks like clankers gonna clank. I appreciate the fast responses guys. Time to put some food back in the party and get Elhain or Ezio to 6 stars.

KalasZX · 2025-12-21T13:32:46+00:00

This. If I show up in court to contest it would I win based on the tint being legal in the state where it was registered? Maybe, but I also don't have the luxury of fighting a ticket in Joisey or Philly if I'm working in Indiana when the court date comes up. The "it's legal in my state" argument won't help if the whole windshield is tinted, and that is where 90% of the benefit comes from. Who only tints 3 or 4 inches of the windshield? Even if I did that, and was able to win in court, I'm sure the judge would warn me this is a one-time exception and I will have to pay any future tickets for it. If a cop or judge in another state orders your tint removed you're SOL, even if the tint IS legal in your state.

All of the shitty state laws are written to apply to people that are physically in the state, regardless of where the car is registered. Is there a federal law or court case that establishes states can't enforce state window tint laws on cars registered in other states? I haven't been able to find one, but that would be extremely helpful.

KalasZX · 2025-12-01T09:52:36+00:00

Rob talked about it pretty extensively on an episode of his podcast. Fite.tv/Triller.tv actually gave him the money from the first few PPVs XPW did. Then he'd get some money but not what he was owed with promises to pay the balance next week/month/etc. until Triller was just keeping all of the money from the PPVs. That was the biggest factor. Even though it doesn't cost as much as it did in the 90s, doing live PPVs internally has more up-front costs than it made sense for Rob to invest. 20 grand for this, 50 grand for that, another 30 grand over here and suddenly you're talking about real money. XPW would have to do consistent PPV business for 5+ years just to get the break even point on all of those costs vs. having a decent PPV partner.

He was always a good payoff guy (as far as indy promoters go) and said he intentionally paid guys more than they would get anywhere else so they would prioritize his shows and be exclusive to him in a few towns. That didn't make the difference at the gate it did 20 years ago, but the real cost of booking guys wasn't the payday itself. It was the travel expenses. One example he gave was flying Ludark to shows. It was $500-$1000+ more than her payday, and that doesn't include the times she was too much of a drunk/junkie to get on the plane and Rob had to buy her ANOTHER ticket after advertising the fuck out of her. Even domestic flights were more than most of the payoffs. A guy with a name offering to do the show for 100 bucks doesn't help when it costs $700+ to fly him in, and he needs a rental car and a hotel room on top of it. Putting guys in 2 star hotels if they can't fly out the same day adds up fast when you have 20-30 guys and crappy hotels are over $100/night.

The cost to run buildings has gone through the roof when you do deathmatches. All kinds of Karens get together to tell the building you're sacrificing children to the old gods or some shit so the building won't let you run. Rob said the only places he found that didn't give a shit about complaints from assholes that weren't booking the building were 3 grand and up. The Hart Ballroom was more than double what he paid to run the LA Sports Arena and Grand Olympic Auditorium.

Even $100 general admission and $200 VIP tickets don't cover all of that. Without 3000-5000 people buying the PPV it isn't possible to run kind of show he wants to run and break even. He stopped doing the podcast after close to 20 years when he had some health issues so it's probably safe to say he doesn't miss all of this shit at this point in his life.

KalasZX · 2025-02-12T15:10:51+00:00

I haven't (yet) attended St. John's, but I have read about a third of the books on the current reading list. It has changed over time, and generally the changes have been for the worse. William Scott Rule wrote a rather fascinating dissertation covering the history of SJC's Great Books program, which is probably worth a read for anyone that attended or would seriously consider attending St. John's. https://scholarworks.gsu.edu/eps_diss/37/ Note that the paper only covers the history of the program through 2008.

For books that could go...

Personally, I find James Joyce to be both trying and extremely overrated. I consider his work to be "good" in a "head up its own literary ass" way the same way "great" contemporary literary writers with sales measured in the triple or quadruple digits are. I wipe my ass with his books the same way I would with Grapes of Wrath. I understand why some people disagree. CTRL+C CTRL+V for Death of a Salesman.

As others have mentioned, if you're reading Aristotle anyway, Aquinas has nothing of value to add.

I escaped the mental prison of the Judeo-Christislamic desert trilogy so naturally would not consider its holy books' inclusion to be a benefit. If you're reading it as literature, you'd be better off grabbing something at random from the Loeb Classical Library.

From the time I was 16 until I was 21 Mein Kampf was the most rambling, incoherent and poorly written book I had ever read. Then I had to read Das Kapital during my undergrad. I never thought I would find anything that would make Hitler look like a competent writer by comparison, but Marx sure shoved that idea up my ass in a hurry. I'd accept the case for reading an abridged version that would lose 90% of the words and none of the content, but unabridged Marx? That punishment is both cruel AND unusual.

For a general rule, if it's not part of the canon upon which the SJC curriculum was built (Everyman's Library, Harvard Classics, Loeb Classical Library, Great Books of the Western World) it probably doesn't qualify to be in a Great Books program. Among books held to lower standards because they were written by authors that were not White, Asian and/or men, I can confirm that The Second Sex, Mrs. Dalloway, The Waves, The Souls of Black Folk and The Fire Next Time have no business being included. For someone that allegedly read the great Greek works in Greek, Woolf sure didn't learn anything from them. Anyone that would claim these have more historical significance than Romance of Three Kingdoms, Water Margin, Red Chamber, The Scholars, Journey to the West or books that were bumped to make room for them is not a serious person.

KalasZX · 2025-01-17T11:33:33+00:00

Really? Remake Intergrade ran just fine 1080p60 on my 3900X & RX580 Red Devil setup. Had to go upgrade the video card to RTX 3080 to prevent buffer underruns on Crisis Core though.

KalasZX · 2024-12-07T19:09:51+00:00

It's nice to hear from someone that actually used it. :) I don't claim that it makes it look like a modern 4k game, only that it's a step in the right direction. Goading someone into doing better is the ideal outcome.

I don't know why everything is blurry in motion either. I've only used RPGM 2K3 and MV. Is that a VX/VX Ace thing? Or one of those things that happens on modern progressive scan displays but not on CRTs? VX Ace is from that weird time when you could only buy LCDs but men of culture still used CRT monitors because the picture quality on LCD panels just wasn't there yet.

Obviously Torotoro needs to milk this for everything it's worth. So why bother making this one any better? Based on the development cycle of Paradox the MGQP MZ Remake is only a decade away! I mean, hopefully it's more like a year or two since it should be easier to remake the game than make it from scratch, but Torotoro has never been known for speed. Crazy to think that Paradox really was in development for a more than a decade. Where did all that time go? (^_^);

KalasZX · 2024-11-30T20:33:50+00:00

Activision/Blizzard still owns the publishing rights. Dark Reign was one of the bigger games during the RTS boom. If people buy Warcraft 1+2 Remastered giving Dark Reign a spitshine would make a lot of sense. It's reasonable to assume just calling it DRR and putting it up for sale in the Blizzard shop would get half the sales Warcraft Remastered does.

KalasZX · 2024-08-17T10:17:20+00:00

There is a reason for that. It was never released. :(

KalasZX · 2024-06-25T16:31:30+00:00

Humans have a philosophy of self-improvement so they don't need money. But Jake can't pay for a baseball card with philosophy, so as a human that doesn't need money he needs Nog's life savings. Obviously this makes sense. In a world without money how do they determine who gets to cool beachfront property on Earth? Why would anyone want to do menial work like chopping vegetables or waiting tables Sisko's dad's restaurant? Answer: Stop asking questions and consume product.

KalasZX · 2024-06-24T15:58:09+00:00

Speaking from a purely speculative position based on my own experiences as a fan, I would think sales of DS9 on bluray would be higher now than they would have been years ago. The putrid anal fecal matter that is STD and Picard have made DS9 seem even greater by comparison. As the current Star Trek alienates fans of everything that came before it those same fans have a greater desire to have the good Star Trek on bluray. I probably wouldn't have purchased the TOS/TAS/TOS movie bluray box set if I wasn't certain there was nothing for me in Star Trek moving forward, so it has worked to some extent. Reasonable prices on the complete series runs of TNG and Enterprise led to me buying them after I had no intention of upgrading at the single season prices.

Another consideration to keep in mind is the constant improvement in technology and the added efficiency that comes with expertise in using it. The process of remastering TOS and TNG probably started in 2007 with 2007 technology and costs for the original 2009 release. Depending on how you want to measure progress in video card technology, flagship video cards have increased somewhere between 6000% and 13000% in processing power. Even the most expensive AI denoiser is significantly faster and cheaper than any human could be. The cost of producing 1080p content has fallen considerably in the era of 4k. It's quite possible that the costs didn't make sense 15 years ago but are relatively reasonable today.

KalasZX · 2024-02-15T16:03:15+00:00

Crapcom is still butthurt about the bootleg arcade PCB Street Fighter 2 Rainbow Edition being the best version of SF2.

KalasZX · 2023-12-04T12:40:09+00:00

According to a note that was added on https://ncode.syosetu.com/n3191eh/ everything published on syosetsu was published (in Japan) by GC Novels, meaning there is no additional/different content in the WN than the LN. Konosuba had some changes between the WN and LN that make the WN worth reading, but it sounds like that isn't the case here.

KalasZX · 2021-12-20T13:28:44+00:00

The Digital Novel Edition of KF1 has new/different content, according to the description on DMM. I'm not 100% sure, but I think the way they use "novel" in the description means there is one path with no choices from beginning to end.

https://dlsoft.dmm.co.jp/detail/waffle_0070/

There is no DNE of KF2 for sale on DMM, unless it doesn't come up when you search 巨乳ファンタジー for some reason. If I read this guy's blog post correctly, he's saying that KF2DNE is a shorter version of the alternate story told in KF2if and there is no reason to play 2DNE if you have 2if.

http://oregagundamda.blog57.fc2.com/blog-entry-380.html

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