Just thought we might as well acknowledge the holidays here at the Pit. I personally have had a severely trying month, (The worst being my having to put my dachshund "Sugar" down from a debillitating back injury), but all that aside, it is the season of joy.

So to all you Pitters out there I say "Happy Holidays!" and may all your holiday wishes come true!

2006 was a very bad year for me.

May 2007 be better all around.

I do miss the Christmas Snarks though.

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This has been quite possibly the worst year of my life. I've been in and out of jobs, and on multiple anti-depressants, none of which seem to help much. I've been suicidal, I've tried to hurt myself. I've been f**ked over and betrayed by people I thought were my friends. I have no direction, no purpose, and no reason to think anything is going to get any better. Happy f**king New Year.

Which is probably why I'm back to mapping. Anything to distract me from Real Life is good right now :/

Jinx said:
I've been f**ked over and betrayed by people I thought were my friends. I have no direction, no purpose, and no reason to think anything is going to get any better.

Sounds like Ohio to me bud.

Stick around. You have s**tloads of friends here... pseudo-friends perhaps, but still friends.

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Yeah, there's a reason I quit DJing and going to the club, and started getting back in touch with all my old mapping & gaming friends :/

Happy holidays everyone. Let's hope 2007 is good to us all. :smile: <br style="font-family: Verdana;">

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i'll drink to that :beerchug:
i just want to be accepted to drury and get payed lots of scholarship money, that's top right now

OtZman said:
Happy holidays everyone. Let's hope 2007 is good to us all. :smile: <BR style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">

I think we should just skip 2006 and go straight on to 2007... Or do a groundhog day and redo 2006 till we gett'er right. :heee:

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I think we should just skip 2006 and go straight on to 2007... Or do a groundhog day and redo 2006 till we gett'er right. :heee:

Let's just get past 2006. This year sucked.

I'll hop on the 'I hated '06' bandwagon. I got kicked out of my house a few times, fistfights with my dad, family problems etc.

I'm waitin on '07 for a change...

I don't even want to get started on how crappy 2006 was, and i'm afraid 2007 will be just as crappy for me, if not worse. I have a series of extremely nasty exams in June, so I guess my holiday wishes go towards passing those. At least us joining the EU next week is something to look forward to. :biggrin:

Really sorry to hear that some of you have had a bad year - here's hoping 2007 is a more likeable fellow :smile: Enjoy the holidays the best you can folks, and don't forget to knock back a drink or two in honour of our fine 'pit :wink:

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The good news is, we are around still to bitch about it. The alternative is very bad indeed.

I feel kinda bad to hijack Juims well intended thread so...

Merry Christmas to all my Snarkpit brethren. Its not always been the best of times here, but it has always been the most interesting.

My fondness for this site grows with each passing year. My depression grows with each missing member, but I am comforted to know that they are doing well in the rare occasions that they return to update us on their lives.

A few of you kids have grown up to be quite respectable. A very few, have kids of your own now.

/me is proud of you all.

XXXOOOXXX

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I'm with the 2006 haters..my parents got divorced..after 25 years wtf.

So yea, let's hope 2007 gets better.

Happy holidays everyone.

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Jinx said:
Yeah, there's a reason I quit DJing and going to the club, and started getting back in touch with all my old mapping & gaming friends :/

You're a DJ too? what style you play?

Orpheus said:
Merry Christmas to all my Snarkpit brethren

dito !

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I'm with the 2006 haters..my parents got divorced..after 25 years wtf.

Happened to my parents last year. They've been non-stop having a war for the past year and a half.

I almost forgot that 2006 probably wasn't the best year of my life, either :/ Must have been some cloud of evilness floating around.

Anyway, merry Christmas and may you all get what you wish for.

Hot punch for everyone!

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reaper47 said:
Hot punch for everyone!

They do tend to burn a little bit if your knuckles connect just the right way. :biggrin:

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Blister: mostly electro-industrial & EBM. a little goth, powernoise, etc. as well.

I have some setlists etc. up on my MySpace site:
http://www.myspace.com/cryotank

I'm not some uber-dj doing mixing and whatnot, but I know the music, which is more than I can say for the current resident DJs here in Cleveland :/

I wish updates were helpful and that Hammer wouldn't crash as much.

I wish updates were helpful and that Hammer wouldn't crash as much.

That's one reason I got fed up mapping for HL2... :/

Merry christmas to you all! :smile:

Sad to hear so many bad things happened this year. Let's hope next year goes better, but also that we learn to deal with crap when it happens. I lost a good friend earlier this year, but even through that loss I've seen how God was really with us this year.

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Mmm, looking up already. My Christmas Eve presents total $300 dollars and some sick new sweaters.

That's 500 dollars towards my guitar... booyakasha!

what kind you getting?

i haven't opened anything yet, but im getting money for scuba equipment so i'm happy about that

I haven't had any money, so I haven't seriously sought out the guitar I want. I'm looking at a sweet Ibanez at the local Long and McQuade that's ~800 bucks, but that's subject to, and very likely to, change.

Merry crimbo all!

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I tried sniffing coke, but the ice cubes kept getting stuck in my nose.
http://www.dimebowl.com

man....i almost feel guilty for some reason, but i had a damn good year...cmon '07....wooo hooo! ....and i promise to try to lighten up on the smartassedness :razz: , and contribute again in a mapping capacity soon.....***new years quest....anyway, merry whatever it is you celebrate, and have a great '07 if thats the calendar you adhere to....

Peace

Doc Brasso.. :dodgy:

<DIV class=quote>
<DIV class=quotetitle>? quoting Dr Brasso</DIV>
<DIV class=quotetext>....and i promise to try to lighten up on the smartasses

Peace

Doc Brasso.. :dodgy:

</DIV></DIV>
/Me fixes for you Doc. Those self deprecating posts often get confused with the defecating kind.

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<div style="text-align: center;">Merry Christmas! And Happy New Year for the whole 'Pit!
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''Everyone wades in s**t until they're competent enough to walk on it. Jesus style.''
Dystopia - Empires

Eesh, that overlapping text had me reading "Merry Christmas and Happy New Year for the Whore Pit". I need to get some sleep.

Well, Christmas turned out quite nicely. My wife got me this:

http://www.viewsonic.com/products/desktopdisplays/lcddisplays/xseries/vx2235wm/

Along with the complete Star Trek animated series DVD's and I also got some great sweaters and jackets from family, and friends at work. So, not a total loss for 06!. Man what a diffrence 7ms response time makes in a game! (My old monitor had a 12ms response time).

Juim, keep me appraised as to any issues with a monitor like this. I am hopeful that a nice LCD screen will help me with my eye issue. I have tried every tweak I can find but a crt monitor just won't work anymore.

Its gotten to where I can even look at my monitor for but minutes now and I am hoping that the new monitors will alleviate my woes.

Anywho, you now own my next dream item for my PC. Hope all goes well. :smile:

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Well Orph, It seems as though the technology has obviously gotten more affordable, as my last monitor cost me 1200 dollars in 2003. The image is crisp, the in game blur is almost non-existent to my eye anyway, and the 1600 x 1050 resolution seems to work well with all of the applications I have tried so far. As for the price, well, under 400 including tax, so I guess you could call it a steal comparatively.

Ya know, my cousin all of a sudden started getting motion sickness and such when playing Half Life2. Never before though, and then his wife got him an LCD with the 1900 x 1200 resolution.He does'nt seem to have the problem as much. This just might be a sign of age. :razz: (Or a problem with the crt type monitors)

/methinks its age really because I used to play Doom II marathons over serial modems for 36 hours straight.

Prolly burned out something maybe. :sad:

Anywho, if your cousin has good luck, mayhap so will I.

Good luck with your new toy.

XXXOOOXXX

[edit] after re-reading, you already mentioned price. My bad.

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thanx for the grammatical "non-error" correction big jon... :razz:

quote*
/methinks its age really because I used to play Doom II marathons over serial modems for 36 hours straight.

Prolly burned out something maybe. :sad:

yeah..... drugs, booze, religion, doom....whatever yer poison, cant escape the inevitable can we??...///runs... :biggrin:

Doc B... :dodgy:

list of loot:

1 BC (Buoyancy Compensator)
1 Wet Suit
New mouse for laptop
Noise Canceling headphones (headache canceling so i can drum again)
subscription to Scuba Diving magazine
Need for Speed: Most Wanted
some t-shirts
a jimmy cliff cd
$200 for a new snorkel and mask

all in all a good haul
yay
Merry Christmas to all

Book - Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space, by Carl Sagan
CD - Led Zeppelin IV
A new office chair
Microsoft Habu mouse (was a pain to get set up, but it's sweet)
A big mousepad, 36"x18" (~91x45cm)
A wooden shape "puzzle" (quotations because there are no actual puzzles, just different shapes of wooden tiles)
A few other knicknacks and toys
A big turkey dinner
and a visit from a friend I haven't seen in more than 6 years.

A pretty good xmas imho

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Olympus FE-140 digital camera and 1 gig XD card.
Gears of War for Xbox 360.
1 gig Kingston Thumbdrive.

It beats the hell out that one year I got School Supplies
for my birthday.

...cough I got a wii...and its awsome.....that is all.

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For monitors try Sceptre, it appears to be a new division/name for Komodo monitors. You can get a 16:10 Widescreen, 20.1" for $199 through Costco. (It's also an HD monitor, it claims to go up to 1080i, but that's not possible since the maximum resolution is 1680 x 1050)

In any case, all LCDs pretty much max out at 60 Hz refresh rate. I don't think it will help with motion sickness in any means. I personally got this monitor a little while ago, it's pretty nice, and the first thing I noticed is that its extremely bright (with the brightness turned down) It's pretty solid, in any case.

I got some nice stuff, some books (ABSOLUTE KINGDOM COME and MARVELS HB!!) As well as the HL2 book that I've neglectfully haven't gotten until now (along with the Expansion for HL2).

No DoD though ... I'll have to grab that myself as well as Okami and Onimusha 4. Oh and one other obscurity that I had NO idea anyone would even imagine looking for: Nanostray and Trauma Center for the DS.

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• Aforementioned money
• Guitar tuner that sticks to the headstock
• new capo
• 20 picks
• subscription to Guitar Player magazine
• Led Zeppelin Rare Concert Footage DVD
• 2 sweaters
• Candy
• BF2: Special Forces
• Tickets to the last Blue Man Group show in Toronto
• Assorted other small items

Probably missed some tooo....

More presents on the 27th! God I love having a billion relatives....

• About 100E cold hard cash.
• Several T-Shirts.
• A tome of intermediate and advanced japanese grammar.
• The same thing for german.
• Several philosophy books (gonna need em for the exams I mentioned earlier)
• Lots of diabetes-inducing sweets.

<DIV class=quote>
<DIV class=quotetitle>? quoting Jinx</DIV>
<DIV class=quotetext>Blister: mostly electro-industrial & EBM. a little goth, powernoise, etc. as well.

I have some setlists etc. up on my MySpace site:
http://www.myspace.com/cryotank

I'm not some uber-dj doing mixing and whatnot, but I know the music, which is more than I can say for the current resident DJs here in Cleveland :/</DIV></DIV>

Nice. We spin both mainstream Electro/house or Trance, depending if it's for a student party or not. Our motto is to keep everybody dancing all night :wink: We try to mix decently, but track selection is the most important thing indeed.

http://www.myspace.com/moistureandgarden Check out our own productions on there, too, or one of them in this video :smile:

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Belated Christmas greetings all.

Most notably scored:

• complete series of Angel on DVD

• complete series of Hornblower on DVD

• season 1 of The Chasers War on Everything

Plus the other usual stuff. I figure with the DVD's mentioned above I
should have no worries getting through what's shaping up to be the
worst summer non-ratings period on TV ever.

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'Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!'

After buying my new car,(which looks very,very similar to this one.) I was pretty much strapped for Christmas cash. Was truly sad about my truck.

Apart for the usual "Socks, undergarments and pants" this was the most unusual gift I got this year. Its pretty snazzy and replaces that stupid USB cable I keep losing. It fits directly into my camera case.

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Got a new laptop, but its hard drive completely failed after 3 days :/ At least it has a warranty. Hope everyone here had a great christmas, and an even greater 2007 :smile:

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"If you talk at all during this lesson, you have detention. Do you understand?"

• My yr11 Economics teacher

I see this year as a either unsteady or pleasing year. I'm trying to
get into tv/film post production, so i'm trying to get a job as a
runner. I'm starting to hand out letter's to companies so all I can do is wait for an interview.

Mmm, '07 is already looking good. Kickin it off with a massive party... I can't wait...

I got night vision goggles and bought my father an iPod nano. Christmas is getting more and more high-tech :smile:

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Why did you want night vision goggles?

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Boo f**king Hoo