By Frank on July 30, 2008
One of the best things about being a forum moderator is that you get the most delicious and awesome love notes. Sure, more often than not they usually say “assface” when they really mean “great mod”, and maybe when they’re saying that thing about your mom being great in the sack it isn’t quite a [...]
Posted in Internet | Tagged Fantastic Forums, Gaming, guilds, Internet
By Frank on July 30, 2008
So thanks to Eating Bees, I have something that I just had to talk about today. New PSN game Fat Princess is taking a lot of heat because of the fact that some people think it makes fat people look bad. With the object of the Capture-The-Flag variant being to make it harder to score [...]
Posted in Gaming | Tagged Gaming
By Frank on July 29, 2008
So out of Games Radar comes a story about the women of video games that don’t quite make the cut. And by cut, I mean not making the cut necessary to show off their cleavage, their legs, or something else you’d probably not consider “safe for work”. From Pauline to Jennifer Mui to Kate McReary, [...]
Posted in Gaming | Tagged Gaming
By Frank on July 27, 2008
With this weekend being the geek orgy event that is Comic Con, I’m starting to see from my highly comfortable yet envious seat back here in the Midwest that there are a bunch of people who are first-time celebrities to Comic Con. Either they’ve become famous in the past year or so, or they’re heading [...]
Posted in Conventions | Tagged comic con, Conventions
By Frank on July 25, 2008
Now, this isn’t just because I’m a Sysadmin myself and have gotten showered with a few random gifts already, oh no. But today, for those of you who don’t remember, is SysAdmin Day.
What’s SysAdmin Day? Heck, what’s a SysAdmin? Aside from “that weenie who is antisocial and who is repsonsible for email”, they are the [...]
Posted in Computers | Tagged Computers, information technology, sysadmin
By Frank on July 24, 2008
I work in the field of Information Technology when I’m not messing with my productivity by blogging to people about cheering up about their meaningless, empty, sexless lives. By the way, light is at the end of the tunnel, friends!
So with the obligatory motivation out of the way, I’d like to talk about one of [...]
Posted in Computers | Tagged computing, os, upgrade
By Frank on July 23, 2008
Perhaps the greatest masochists on the Internet happen to be those that take on the task of overlooking forums. I’m one of these people. We love to have to deal with two people posting pictures ofSome ex their balls in an attempt to outdo each other. We adore having to look at a 25 page [...]
Posted in Internet | Tagged ban, Fantastic Forums, Internet, moderators
By Frank on July 22, 2008
Those of you who have had the joy and somewhat disturbing feeling of playing one of those MMORPG games for 12 hours or more of your day have certainly come upon some PvP, or “Player vs. Player” combat. PvP, in its purest, ideal form, is a spirited competition of skills, teamwork, and good clean fun. [...]
Posted in Gaming | Tagged Gaming, ganking, mmo, mmorpg
By Frank on July 21, 2008
Here at Overly Positive, we’re all about making sure that our readers not only approach the lemons in life with a cool pitcher of “homemade” lemonade. That includes when they find themselves in the most terrible of situations, whether it’s a computer failure on the night when your guild is killing the Uber Boss of [...]
Posted in Worst Case Geek Scenarios | Tagged Internet, wcgs
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The YouTube Gallery
By Frank on July 21, 2008
If you ever wanted to get a slice of what people on the Internet like to say, look no further than the peanut gallery of a Youtube video. Those of you not in the know require very little explanation – Youtube videos have a comments section in which users can leave impressions of whatever they’re [...]
Posted in Internet | Tagged comments, Internet, youtube | Leave a response