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| ilivas | Oct 29 2012, 01:50 PM Post #1241 |
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It did become a bundle game after awhile, but before that, it was one of the best, and most popular games out. It was the game that made me go out, and buy a joystick for my PC. I think it was an atari like joystick. There were no controllers yet. |
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| sn00zie | Oct 29 2012, 01:54 PM Post #1242 |
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HOLY SHIT STEAM SALE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and hey i just sold one of these gaming PCs ahahah |
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| Tommyb | Oct 30 2012, 09:19 AM Post #1243 |
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fuuuuuu.....so my GF had to be in court really early today to represent somebody for something, and she didn't want to take a chance on the bus coming late so I drove her into downtown. I was coming back going north on Lake Shore drive and a wave slammed against the sea wall, went about 20 feet in the air, over the 20ish foot wide walkway, then over another wall before the street and bashed right into my car. Completely out of nowhere. scared the hell out of me and I couldn't see anything for a few seconds because my wipers weren't on at the time. Waves are crazy because of the wind from Sandy. They closed down the sidewalks all along the lake because they are currently getting 25ft waves crashing into the retaining walls. This picture isn't from today, but it's just about where I was when I got hit. This area always gets hit pretty bad when the waves are high just because of the geography of the lake/roads, but you can see how far the water went before it hit me to give you an idea of how crazy it is. I'm def going to try and get out there at my lunch hour to snap some pics of it.
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| sn00zie | Oct 30 2012, 09:28 AM Post #1244 |
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that looks like pretty normal storm surge. but your story makes me think of you driving.... then this happens out of nowhere http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FI7BHSOVtMs |
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| Tommyb | Oct 30 2012, 09:52 AM Post #1245 |
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The waves today are actually a lot bigger than in that pic, but yeah it's nothing insane. I'm sure you see waves like this all the time out on the east coast. The thing that makes it bad is that we don't get waves like this all too often, so the structures of the city aren't built to deal with it and actually cause it to be a lot more dangerous than it actually is. 95% of the lake shore is pretty safe tho, we have break walls a few hundred yards out in a lot of places, and where there are no break walls, the retaining walls are built up to be large enough to where the waves crash against them, but just go straight up in the air so there's no real danger unless your dumb enough to get right up close to them. The reason its so bad around that particular area is just the angle of the shore, plus the low walls, and the fact it's on a curve so the waves come in from two angles and crash into eachother. |
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| sn00zie | Oct 30 2012, 10:17 AM Post #1246 |
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yea we don't even miss work for a cat 1 yet the north east will fall into chaos ? what is that shit made of up there? it turns into a total disaster area from the slightest amount of wind and rain... massive flooding... washed out roads... power loss...downed everything..... I don't get it at all. |
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| Tommyb | Oct 30 2012, 10:33 AM Post #1247 |
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haaa
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| Tommyb | Oct 30 2012, 10:42 AM Post #1248 |
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haha slight rain and wind? There's like multiple feet of water being dumped on a huge area that hasn't seen a storm like this is 100 years. The infrastructure isn't designed to handle stuff like this. Have you seen any of the pictures? New York City is completely under multiple feet of water. I think they're estimating about 5-8 feet when its all said and done. Another shitty part is that it's getting really cold at the northern part of the storm and someplace are expecting 2-3 feet of snow...which is insane. I was watching the weather channel about this last night and they were actually going over why this is so much worse than a regular hurricane, and they said because a hurricane usually sweeps in, and goes over once and keeps on moving so a place really only gets hit by the brute of the storm for a little while and then it moves on. This came up and because of the"perfect storm" conditions of the 2 massive storms colliding and feeding off each other, that it stopped and the whole storm is just sitting there swirling around for much longer than a hurricane. That, along with the high tides of the moon really make it a shit storm. but yeah, things are just built differently up north and they arent meant to withstand this type of thing. If NYC was magically transported to Florida, I bet you would see similar effects for every hurricane. Edited by Tommyb, Oct 30 2012, 10:44 AM.
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| sn00zie | Oct 30 2012, 10:59 AM Post #1249 |
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yea i've seen the pictures.... we got hit with a storm this year that dropped multiple feet of water on us this year... my internet didn't even go down. we did have some "your house is to close to the water" flooding but that is shit everyone expects because.....DUH I know NYC is flooded out which is to be expected but... uh waoh. Things on the east coast should be built to handle this stuff... cause if you are on the east coast you GET WEATHER, stuff flying around in the ocean every year.. if a storm makes landfall in the carolinas it heads right up new englands ass.. they just get lucky cause its really weak by the time it reaches them... but they have so many close calls you'd think they start ramping stuff up cause you can't count on "luck" forever. and we do have NYC in florida... its called Miami, its not the same but kinda is. |
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| Tommyb | Oct 30 2012, 12:07 PM Post #1250 |
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http://www.downtownexpress.com/de_150/downtownfloodplans.html Haha...I guess sp00ke thinks like other scientists. Apparently NYC has been warned of stuff like this for a while and choose to do nothing about it. Although it is NYC and a dramatic change in infrastructure would be really time consuming and suuuuuper fucking expensive, it's not like getting new carpet. I'd imagine to pull off something like that, you would need super support from a lot of backers and the towns people, and they usually dont do anything unless they are forced. Lets see if this changes their minds haha. |
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| sn00zie | Oct 30 2012, 12:53 PM Post #1251 |
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its what happend in NOLA when that cat 5 ran up there ass.... hey fix the levees... years and years of money to fix those levees... gov wasted the money on other pointless projects. And this is in the gulf, where you are almost 100% sure to have some kind of storm make landfall every year. they could have been working on the ocean walls or SOMETHING, but yea its hard to do anything major in a city like that... my wife bitches about the subways in NYC cause htey are old and stuff and HK are all new and clean... I tell her what do you want them to do? shut down the subway for a while and remodel it? BAH you can't do that. |
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| Tommyb | Oct 30 2012, 03:31 PM Post #1252 |
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Everyone waits until it's too late, that's just how we operate. We are a hindsight society for the most part. But anyway, their destruction has brought some cool photo ops for Chicago. I've been swamped at work so I haven't had a chance to really go around with my camera, but I got a few cool sunset pics last night, and took a walk across the street by the lake on my lunch break. I'm hoping to get out there again after work but im not sure if there will be enough light. gnarly sunset as the edge of Sandy rolls out towards the suburbs ![]() ![]() This is the calm part of the lake...I havn't had a chance to go by the larger ones yet ![]() ![]() I know those waves don't look like much, but on a normal day, this part of the lake is pretty calm and its about a 10ft drop from the edge of the sidewalk to the water. |
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| Tommyb | Oct 30 2012, 07:00 PM Post #1253 |
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geeeeezzzzz Holy shiiiiiit Sandy done fucked up that place. Idk sp00ke....even if they had taken the advise and started changing things around and building up their defenses against this kind of stuff, Im not sure it would have mattered all that much. |
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| sn00zie | Oct 30 2012, 07:55 PM Post #1254 |
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time to reevaluate building codes up there. im still in total shock that a cat 1 just ass pounded that city that bad... thats like NOLA cat 5 bad. Edited by sn00zie, Oct 30 2012, 07:57 PM.
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| sn00zie | Oct 30 2012, 08:07 PM Post #1255 |
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holy shit 2 disk failures in less then 1 month, what kinda shit is this.. secondary drive 1st. no big deal replace move shit over keep going. then today 4:45 main disk totaly shits its pants, its been operation ever since then, ghost nope... only hope, an image restore from 1 month ago. im going to start imaging this bitch every 3 days now. |
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| ilivas | Oct 30 2012, 08:26 PM Post #1256 |
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It's crazy that it did that much damage... It was really windy, and snowing over here. |
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| ilivas | Oct 30 2012, 08:27 PM Post #1257 |
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http://www.g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/729244/microsoft-surface-tablet-verdict-from-attack-of-the-show/ It doesn't look too bad. |
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| sn00zie | Oct 30 2012, 10:51 PM Post #1258 |
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ARM? blah i don't want an RT only device... its gota be x86 |
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| ilivas | Oct 31 2012, 12:48 AM Post #1259 |
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When you start asking for things like that, things like portability, size, and battery life start to suffer. You might as well just buy a notebook if you're going to need that. Edited by ilivas, Oct 31 2012, 01:01 AM.
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| sn00zie | Oct 31 2012, 01:52 AM Post #1260 |
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intel has some power sipping x86 stuff |
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