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Chico s Groove 1998 12 03
. . . : ; C h i c o ' s G r o o v e ; : . . .
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. . . : ; eviftytnewt - december 3 1998
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. . . : ; http://www.disobey.com/
. . . : ; The "KICK-ASS" Notice
Ok. It's only for Macintosh, but perhaps they'll port it some day. The
most kick ass PONG variant to come out in quite a while: "Blood Pong".
This software gets it inspiration from the Mortal Kombat series of games,
and is incredibly awesome in its detail... right down to Fatalities and
normal character moves. This thing is a must download, even if you have
to get some emulator to play it on your Wintel.
. . . : ; The "CONTEST-WINNER" Notice
Fun things to do for Christmas: Buy Morbus a new chair. Yes, that's
right, folks: my once comfy chair of five years has bitten the dust,
satisfying my ass with a nice hard piece of wood instead of the bunny
like softness I'm used to. So if you have any warmth and kindness toward
Disobey, buy me a new chair for Christmas, and um... a QuickCam for Macs
so that you can see my ugly mug holding up a carton of milk.
. . . : ; ANNOUNCEMENTS and the dawn of a new day...
NETSLAVES RELEASED: This December 1, Disobey released NetSlaves to the
public... and the first review we know of has come in: "Having had the
privilege of reading a preview issue I can tell you that it is a
thoroughly engrossing zine. Go there, subscribe. You'll be glad you
did." I think that sums it up quite nicely.
NEW DEVIL SHAT (#FortyOne): In a pathetic attempt to inter-relate
everything within his life, Morbus publishes a Manifesto of the Futurist
Programmer, written by a couple of programmers and some old Italian guy
or something. It's pretty nifty.
LOW HIGHWIDTH: Rather minor updates this time around... just added all
of the archives as usual. Been quite busy with the release of NetSlaves
along with the programming (see below).
ZERO: Added a new song ("Gear"... it's _really_ good) as well as two new
reviews concerning Method Man (yay, he's back. whoopee.) and the new Ice
Cube album.
LEVEL FOUR: All of the sections of Disobey are eventually going to move
into "Level Four". Zero and NetSlaves already have (and by default, the
Text section). What does this mean? Well, they pass the HTML 4.0
Transitional standard with no errors. This is important only if you're
an anal webmaster as you'll see no difference in the display of the pages.
HALTING OF IDEAS: Disobey has more than enough ideas to make about three
more of itself, all filled with different sections and experiments. The
problem is time and people. One: I have no time. Two: I'm one person. As
such, there will be no more new sections of Disobey for quite a long
time. With ten unique and individual section as it is, there is plenty
for us (and you) to do and read. At the earliest, we plan for the next
section of Disobey to appear on October 31, 1999. Be prepared. It'll be
our largest site yet.
WELP. DAMMIT: You see above where it said there is a halting of ideas on
Disobey? Well, true. But you can also read about the new section which
will be released next year. In our research for an essential piece of
software for that section, we have found that there is none that we're
happy with. Meaning that we have to program one. Dammit. We'll be
porting it to both Macintosh, with initial development starting on the
PC. Initial development meaning "reprogramming the wheel".
MINOR UPDATES: We went crazy and did loads of tiny updates these past
couple of weeks (so be prepared to be bored): Removed the counter from
the secret page, mainly because it was incredibly pointless, and wasn't
an accurate measure of anything (just look at the bottom of the main
page if you care how many accesses we've gotten). Also corrected some
paths concerning CGI-BIN (working at your ISP does have it's benefits).
Many more corrections came because of getting a chance to look at our
error-logs from the server (see aforementioned ISP benefit)... one of
the major changes being filenames in Low Bandwidth having apostrophes
and other upper ASCII characters. They have since been removed.
. . . : ; EVERYTHING else and my elbow has a rash...
320K EVIL: The worse thing I can imagine is going to a website and
noticing that you are only "1% of 320k" downloaded. 320k for one page?
What the hell? 320k on one page is just plain aggravating. And then some
people get the smart idea to take their 320k image, and divide it into
10 little images ("it'll load faster, yeah, that's it"). Um, that
doesn't work either... as a matter of fact, it makes the page SLOOOWEER.
Damn people. Suck.
SIGS: I have 14 signatures now, made by me and contributions from the
Peanut Gallery and The Annihilation Fountain. Don't ask me why I think
this is some sort of accomplishment, but I decided to tell you about it.
Do you feel fulfilled?
. . . : ; BLAHBLAHS OF THE WEEK: ( november 20th - december 3rd )
[Bad-Ass-Movie-of-the-Week]-= I STILL KNOW BLOWS ALL SUMMER
---And I'm not talking about "bad ass good", I'm talking about "bad
---ass from a 300 pound woman with wrinkles and cancer spots
---all over it bad". I STILL KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER sucked
---horribly. Thank the lord I didn't pay for this shit. Do not let
---them think they did a good job. Do not go see this.
[New-Toys-of-the-Week]-= McFarlane's Movie Maniacs
---Well, between John and I we have all of the Movie Maniacs besides
---the female Species toy. Eventually, I'm sure we'll have two sets
---as they are much too cool to have at only one person's house.
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