Received my new power supply this afternoon…  I’m back up and running.  Hopefully there isn’t anything else wrong with my machine.

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Greta Christina’s Blog |  Wealthy, Handsome, Strong, and with Endless Hard-Ons: Is Masculinity Impossible?

Imagine that…  The media’s ideal image of masculinity is no more realistic or attainable than their ideal image of femininity.

Incarna 1.0.1 has been deployed…  Big list of fixes, but nothing that’ll really affect me.  My game was working pretty well to start with.

Of course the update doesn’t remove the NEX, or the CQ, so there’s still people screaming.  They’d like CCP to completely roll-back the Incarna update.  Yeah…  I can see that happening…

Threw together a Hurricane to run some L3 missions last night.  Grabbed a fitting off BattleClinic…  Tweaked it a bit to meet my needs…  Then undocked for my maiden flight.

It was kind of weird using projectile weapons…  Had to get much closer – I was fighting between 10 and 20 km.  Seems like a melee after lobbing missiles from 60+ km away.  And projectiles aren’t very showy…  No big explosions like missiles, no glowy light trails like lasers.  But they are effective.

Of course, I’ve got no idea what kind of ammo I should be using…  So I’m probably losing DPS there.  I’m sure if I loaded up the right ammo I’d be killing things quicker.

I’ve also got a couple light missile launchers fitted, to take care of the smaller ships.  Things like frigates.  It’s much easier to take those down with missiles than with guns – at least with my skills where they are.

So, I ran that first mission, then headed back to the station to turn it in.  And before I was able to do anything else, my PSU died.

I’m not sure if my PSU fan was unhappy in addition to my case fan…  Or if it just suddenly decided to die…  Or if the heat from the dead case fan killed it…  But it’s dead.

Unfortunately, I live in the ass-end of nowhere, so I can’t just buy one off-the-shelf around here.  Well, I could…  If I wanted to pay about twice what I should be.  Staples has a 500w PSU for $100.  Best buy has a 600w PSU for $90.  And, while the 600w is certainly a better deal…  It’s still about twice what it should be.

So, I’ve ordered one from Amazon…  And my computer is dead until it arrives.

Slashdot | US Supreme Court: Video Games Qualify For First Amendment

The United States Supreme Court threw out a California law prohibiting the sale of violent video games to minors. Notable in the opinion is a historical review of the condemnation of “unworthy” material that would tend to corrupt children, starting with penny-novels and up through comic books and music lyrics. The opinion is also notable for the odd lineup of Justices that defies normal ideological lines, with one conservative and one liberal jurist dissenting on entirely different grounds. In the process, they continue the broad rule that the First Amendment does not vary with the technological means used: ‘Video games qualify for First Amendment protection. Like protected books, plays, and movies, they communicate ideas through familiar literary devices and features distinctive to the medium. And the basic principles of freedom of speech… do not vary with a new and different communication medium.’

Absolutely awesome.  It’s about time.