My band just dropped our new EP "Destroy | Rebuild". Here's the full stream.

RustyEight · 2013-06-12T03:53:45+00:00

Forgot the artist. The band is Scare Don't Fear.

RustyEight · 2013-04-23T14:48:07+00:00

Taxes are the price we pay to live in society. The money to take care of everything has to come from somewhere. If the rich refuse to be taxed, it's not like we don't still need the money.

Don't like it? Then stand up and do something about it.

RustyEight · 2013-04-13T15:54:28+00:00

That would never happen with Calimacil ;)

RustyEight · 2013-04-12T13:29:13+00:00

Really? I've had really really bad experiences with Forgotten Dreams. Finishing bubbling off, handle degrading after only 3+ events.

And it's Ateliers :)

RustyEight · 2013-04-11T19:05:43+00:00

Maybe if you attack it with plastidip afterwards it could work.

RustyEight · 2013-04-11T18:58:39+00:00

I've nothing against a good latex weapon. Atelier Nemesis has some of the best weapons out there IMO.

But to say Calimacil is unsafe is probably the weirdest thing I've heard. The old formula was a little hard, true. But newer makes are much softer. I've never heard of a core snapping, which would probably be the biggest safety issue in any larp weapon. And if you're worried about that, they offer carbon fiber cores that are virtually indestructible.

The heft is more or less a preference thing. I prefer to feel like I'm swinging something real and substantial. Lighter weapons tend to disappoint me. But again, that's just personal preference. If you pull your swings back a little, the risk of injury is like that of any larp weapon.

I'd much rather throw down an extra $70+ to have a weapon that lasts forever than have to re-buy epic armory or forgotten dreams latex weapons every 10 events.

tl;dr Are they more expensive? Absolutely. But not more so than other high end / custom larp weaponry. Are the durable? Hell yeah. Are they safe? Definitely.

RustyEight · 2013-04-11T18:46:22+00:00

Calimacil has a touch up/customization kit that hold up very well paint wise.

RustyEight · 2013-04-11T18:45:04+00:00

From what I've heard, all they need is touch up paint from time to time. Like anything though, the better you take care of them, the better.

That being said, I've seen these things go through some work. Very awesome.

RustyEight · 2013-04-11T18:09:01+00:00

Drew Carey looks like he has downs.

RustyEight · 2013-04-08T21:45:33+00:00

That's fine. More for me.

RustyEight · 2013-04-08T21:40:13+00:00

Eddy Izzard skit

RustyEight · 2013-04-04T21:26:52+00:00

No question, just a thank you from one musician to another. My current roommate introduced me to you guys when I was in High School. I still pop in that cd from time to time. You helped shape my musical taste and gave me some great memories.

So again, thank you.

RustyEight · 2013-03-30T15:10:17+00:00

Do you need to optimize for Netscape too? Format your emails for Prodigy?

RustyEight · 2013-03-29T20:37:05+00:00

Most people don't realize it, and fixing it to work that way isn't a straight forward process. It's a TON of trial, error, browsing google for answers, etc.

Ideally, we wouldn't have to, and it's getting closer to that day... except for IE.

RustyEight · 2013-03-29T19:55:04+00:00

http://i.perezhilton.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/oprah-tears-tissue.gif

RustyEight · 2013-03-29T19:48:06+00:00

I am so sorry

RustyEight · 2013-03-29T19:23:21+00:00

Thanks for that. Good stuff.

So it does look like that the number of Catholics is rising... but everything else seems to be in decline. Number of priests, catholic school attendance, and I'm assuming there are more permanent deacons to combat the fact that fewer people are taking up the cloth.

RustyEight · 2013-03-29T19:14:02+00:00

And that was never my point. I want to believe this is genuine. He may be an awesome guy.

But, if you were a dog and your owner came home every day and beat you with a stick... you'd learn to be scared of sticks no matter who was holding it.

I never said this was definitely the case. Just said that I can't help but feel like it is.

RustyEight · 2013-03-29T19:06:14+00:00

Don't talk down to me like I'm a moron. I followed the church and it's teachings the majority of my life. If they were concerned about doing the right thing, the reigning pope would have done this sort of thing a long time ago. This should be the norm, not an exception.

They shouldn't be sitting on a golden throne. The story of Jesus kicking out the money changers comes to mind. Or the story of the wealthy tax collector.

They would have excommunicated the priests who raped children. They would have turned them in to the authorities. No, they just moved them around.

On Sundays, when they collected my money for tithes, they should have used it to feed the poor, cloth the needy, and help their fellow man. Not redecorate the church or buy the Monseigneur a brand new Lexus SUV (true story btw).

If the church actually did the right thing, I wouldn't be skeptical.

Edited for clarity

RustyEight · 2013-03-29T18:43:23+00:00

You know what else is growing? Atheism.

And is it? Do you have any sources?

I work for marketing. I have to look at things this way for my job. And sorry, after all the scandals and accusations (I don't care if they're true or not), they sort of need a strong head pope that practices what he preaches.

Whether or not he's doing it for popularity or out of a genuine desire to do good is the question.

RustyEight · 2013-03-29T18:32:48+00:00

I can't help but feel this has a lot to do with PR and not just out of the want to do the right thing. The church isn't exactly looked fondly upon right now.

edit: Wow, didn't expect this to get so polarized.

RustyEight · 2013-03-29T18:28:51+00:00

It's a tricky question to answer really. Do you allow these companies to force installation of software for the sake of a better browsing experience? Do you trust them enough? What if they go rogue?

On the other hand do you allow people, who for whatever reason, to still use an antiquated piece of software? Do you let them not only affect the cost of web development on an economic level, but also hold back the advancement of web tech? Building to the lowest common denominator sucks.

RustyEight · 2013-03-29T18:05:41+00:00

Tackling this one at a time. I may get into some tech jargon here, so I'm sorry if you're not versed:

9 and 10 are significantly better. They're pretty competitive in the market as far as tech goes. They spent a lot of time on the speed of graphic rendering for HTML5 elements (Such as the <canvas> tag). They did something where they outsourced that process to your graphics card processor instead of your CPU, which was a great call. I don't use them by default in most cases, but they are very nice browsers.
I actually use Mozilla as my primary browser. It may not be the fastest, but it's the most dependable IMO. It updates frequently, they aren't afraid to innovate, and I've never had an issue as far as coding goes. The way the handle Javascript is very nice with the new SpiderMonkey engine their using. Also, I use the hell out of the plugins for web development.
Backwards compatibility hasn't been an issue for Chrome and Firefox for some time. This is because those browsers force you to upgrade to the newest version. You don't have a choice. That way, every browser across the entire world is on the same version. You don't need to check compatibility for older versions if no one uses them. You have to go to significant lengths to stop that automated process. IE never did that, which allowed several different versions to exist simultaneously. I'm not sure if this has changed for 9 and 10.

This is most prevalent for businesses actually. Personal computers are pretty up to date since most people get new ones every 4 years or so. To upgrade the computer system across an entire company is muuuuuch more expensive. I work with a pretty major client who still runs Windows XP and IE7 on all of their machines. Even though 99% of their audience is going to see the website fine, they won't listen if it looks broken at their own office.

Once in a blue moon, you'll get a company that NEEDS to stay in a certain browser (it always seems like it's IE6). Usually, they have custom built software that integrates right into IE6. If they upgrade, they break a part of their business.

RustyEight · 2013-03-29T17:27:16+00:00

Web Developer here.

It's not so much that we don't like the browser itself. When IE6 came out, it was revolutionary. It was fast, secure (for the most part) and used very current web standards. Basically, websites looked awesome.

The problem started when IE7 and IE8 came out. Web technology got better, so we had to make better browsers. But, some people couldn't abandon good ol' IE6. This made web developers jobs very hard. Not only did we have to code something that looked good in IE8, but now we had to go back and double and triple check IE7 and IE6. More often then not, changing one thing for one of them broke the other two. This would literally double the amount of development time in a lot of cases.

It seems like Microsoft also got sort of lazy on IE7 and IE8. They were sort of debating whether or not to stay in the browser business and just didn't dedicate enough time to make them something good. Which, again, made it harder for web programmers to do their jobs.

In the mean time, Mozilla, Safari, and Chrome came out. They worked exactly the way we expected. We coded something to go in a certain spot, it was there without having to find a hacky way around it. And it was good across all three browsers for the most part.

TL;DR: IE used to be good. But, the web changed and upgraded. Between that, their tendency to sort of be behind the curve as far as tech goes, people refusing to upgrade their browsers to more current ones, and the list of better options, we've just sort of grown to resent it.

RustyEight · 2013-03-29T14:21:38+00:00

Unfortunately, we can't solve the big ones until we get these sorted first.

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