All this time I thought it was just my imagination that the system was running slower! I figured I was just getting less patient in my old age.
Turns out it WASN'T all in my head. That's a relief...
So, Microsoft introduced something which really slows down the system. And all this time I thought it was called Office...
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I think it's safe to say the appeal is diverse... I personally loathe "renting" items.
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That's what demos are for though. As a hardcore gamer myself though, I tend to flit from title to title. (Can't remember the last game I completed. Probably Half Life. Most games I like don't have definite endings though, like sports games etc...) So not having to shell out full price for a game I may only play for 10 hours or so would be cool.
Though for casual gamers I guess it's a good idea. But casual gamers generally only play one title for a while, at least the casual gamers I know anyway. (My wife is a casual gamer. She's played nothing but Neverwinter for months.)
I don't know. I agree with the headline story. It's too early I think.
That's the big problem with this legislation. ANY legislation against spam actually. It's utterly useless with spam outside the US. Most spam I get seems to come from Korea, Taiwan etc... While I admire the fact that laws are finally coming into play to get rid of this menance, how can an act in California stop some scumbag in Taiwan sending you spam? (And yes, I know a lot of it is simply routed via there, but a lot also originates from that region.)
Still, baby steps I guess.
I look forward to the first death penalty handed down to a spammer:)
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Oh yes... MUST tape the war. Fucking idiot. You're a sick fuck.
As for the US news being objective... BWAHAHAHA! That's the funniest thing I've heard in ages! If you trust the US media to report the truth, then not only are you a sick fuck, you're a naive one at that.
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War criminal? Do some research into this "war" instead of being a sheep that believes what the media tell him. Saddam has
A) Never done anything to the US. The attack is unprovoked. (Do the research. Bush admitted last week that there was absolutely no connection between 9/11 and Iraq.) Unprovoked attack=War crime in my book.
B) The chemical weapons that Saddam allegedly used on his own people were, in fact, from Iran, and it was during Iran/Iraq war. There is no evidence that Saddam gassed his own people.
C) How do the US know he has these weapons? They checked the receipts. UK and US are who sold them to him. It seems the US sell arms to countries, and then blow the shit out of them for having the arms they sold them.
D) The attack is without UN backing. End result: Either the UN dissolves, or boots the US from it. The US have no place in the UN when they don't follow the rules.
But then why am I wasting my breath, you're just another sheep who believes what the mass media (who admit they've been hamstrung by Bush) tells you.
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No, he's a nutjob. If he thought killing someone would further the cause, he strikes as being the kinda person that would do it.
There's passionate, and then WAY beyond that is overzealous nutcase. That's RMS.
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While he may have done good works over the years, the guy is a nutjob! He was on Tech TV a few months back and Leo Laporte (himself an obseqious little git) looked embarassed as RMS ranted on about free software.
So happy birthday RMS. May age mellow your demeanour.
I was working when Bungie.net died, which really saddened me as I'd like to have been there. Somewhere I have a screenshot of the last comments made on there. Very sad day. (Bought a tear to the eye.)
Myth 3 is awful. It lacks all of the class of Myth 2. (never played TFL). Your description is pretty much right on.
Interesting about "Braveheart" (the movie, not the piss poor game). Never knew that was actually the main inspiration. Figured it was a factor, and always made the connection when playing, but didn't know it was the main one. God bless them for that!
Radio Shack, at least in Canada, has often had Myth 2 for $10 or less (often times less than $5). I have the Linux version. A friend gave me his Windows version. Very glad he did with all these updates coming.
Far from the only addon that does that. Jinn does too. As does Bushido. As does Civil War. As does Wild West. As does WW2.
The amount of addons for Myth 2 is staggering. I have every single player addon made, whether it be a minor hack, map pack or full on huge beast like Seventh God. Not got many multiplayer ones since it's hard to find people willing to play anything other than the original maps and bloody WW2.
1) Scrolling around the map was totally hosed if you had a certain XP powertoy running (I forget which one. Task something or other). Kill the powertoy, that fixes it.
2) The mouse pointer would flicker, and weird things happened below it. Bits of other parts of the screen appeared below it, clicking was unresponsive.
Number 2 is definitely fixed. Mouse seems to move a little slower now, but it works properly.
WW2 ruined the online game IMO. It was unbalanced and tedious. Very little skill involved.
Single player though, it's laugh with the WW2 plugin. The lego one cracks me up too. There's a few crap ones (there was a sci-fi one which was awful), but most of the unit plugins add an interesting dimension. Like the one that makes archers fire exploding dwarves:)
Myth II v1.3.2 will support films from 1.3, however, due to all the fixes in unit pathfinding and AI, old films will be incompatible with version 1.4.
ARGHH! Say it ain't so Joe! I have over a thousand films... That's irritating that they can't make it backward compatible without having the game installed twice! ARGH! All my movies of completing the game on legendary, gone...
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Don't be a l*mer...
Re:What is this Myth game all about?
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RTS without the tedious resource gathering. Actually inventive levels rather than "build this base from scratch, defend it... Lather rinse repeat" that so many other games do.
How many games from the last 18 months or so will be around in 5 years time to boast of the same? Not many would be my guess.
Myth 2 is my favourite game of all time, and I loved it even WITH the glitches in XP. This new patch is great and fixes it. The upcoming update has me really excited. Not just another patch and a load of fixes, but piles of new content are on the way too.
Of course, Myth 2 has one of the finest communities going (bar one or two members I've encountered who were complete cunts), and the number of quality addon's is phenomenal.
Proof? Go to The Mill and look for the *AWESOME* "Groups of Coops 2" map pack. Over 40 new QUALITY maps. And that's just an extremely small part of the community.
Exactly. The fact is though, IRC is *NOT* that big a source of trojans from what I know. Now download warez off Kazaa... Trojan City... Population: YOU!
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All this time I thought it was just my imagination that the system was running slower! I figured I was just getting less patient in my old age.
Turns out it WASN'T all in my head. That's a relief...
So, Microsoft introduced something which really slows down the system. And all this time I thought it was called Office...
I think it's safe to say the appeal is diverse... I personally loathe "renting" items.
That's what demos are for though. As a hardcore gamer myself though, I tend to flit from title to title. (Can't remember the last game I completed. Probably Half Life. Most games I like don't have definite endings though, like sports games etc...) So not having to shell out full price for a game I may only play for 10 hours or so would be cool.
Though for casual gamers I guess it's a good idea. But casual gamers generally only play one title for a while, at least the casual gamers I know anyway. (My wife is a casual gamer. She's played nothing but Neverwinter for months.)
I don't know. I agree with the headline story. It's too early I think.
That's the big problem with this legislation. ANY legislation against spam actually. It's utterly useless with spam outside the US. Most spam I get seems to come from Korea, Taiwan etc... While I admire the fact that laws are finally coming into play to get rid of this menance, how can an act in California stop some scumbag in Taiwan sending you spam? (And yes, I know a lot of it is simply routed via there, but a lot also originates from that region.)
Still, baby steps I guess.
I look forward to the first death penalty handed down to a spammer:)
Oh yes... MUST tape the war. Fucking idiot. You're a sick fuck.
As for the US news being objective... BWAHAHAHA! That's the funniest thing I've heard in ages! If you trust the US media to report the truth, then not only are you a sick fuck, you're a naive one at that.
War criminal? Do some research into this "war" instead of being a sheep that believes what the media tell him. Saddam has
A) Never done anything to the US. The attack is unprovoked. (Do the research. Bush admitted last week that there was absolutely no connection between 9/11 and Iraq.) Unprovoked attack=War crime in my book.
B) The chemical weapons that Saddam allegedly used on his own people were, in fact, from Iran, and it was during Iran/Iraq war. There is no evidence that Saddam gassed his own people.
C) How do the US know he has these weapons? They checked the receipts. UK and US are who sold them to him. It seems the US sell arms to countries, and then blow the shit out of them for having the arms they sold them.
D) The attack is without UN backing. End result: Either the UN dissolves, or boots the US from it. The US have no place in the UN when they don't follow the rules.
But then why am I wasting my breath, you're just another sheep who believes what the mass media (who admit they've been hamstrung by Bush) tells you.
No, he's a nutjob. If he thought killing someone would further the cause, he strikes as being the kinda person that would do it.
There's passionate, and then WAY beyond that is overzealous nutcase. That's RMS.
While he may have done good works over the years, the guy is a nutjob! He was on Tech TV a few months back and Leo Laporte (himself an obseqious little git) looked embarassed as RMS ranted on about free software.
So happy birthday RMS. May age mellow your demeanour.
UncleChuckle is my screen name.
I was working when Bungie.net died, which really saddened me as I'd like to have been there. Somewhere I have a screenshot of the last comments made on there. Very sad day. (Bought a tear to the eye.)
Myth 3 is awful. It lacks all of the class of Myth 2. (never played TFL). Your description is pretty much right on.
Crap... Yes. You're right. Playmyth is definitely off the source though.
Marius: Probably because it's for Myth: TFL, not Myth 2 I would imagine.
Regardless, awesome project.
If you wrote that yourself: Great work
If you cut and pasted: Nice find!
Interesting about "Braveheart" (the movie, not the piss poor game). Never knew that was actually the main inspiration. Figured it was a factor, and always made the connection when playing, but didn't know it was the main one. God bless them for that!
Radio Shack, at least in Canada, has often had Myth 2 for $10 or less (often times less than $5). I have the Linux version. A friend gave me his Windows version. Very glad he did with all these updates coming.
Myth 3 is hideous.
Far from the only addon that does that. Jinn does too. As does Bushido. As does Civil War. As does Wild West. As does WW2.
The amount of addons for Myth 2 is staggering. I have every single player addon made, whether it be a minor hack, map pack or full on huge beast like Seventh God. Not got many multiplayer ones since it's hard to find people willing to play anything other than the original maps and bloody WW2.
I found two bigs bugs when playing on XP.
1) Scrolling around the map was totally hosed if you had a certain XP powertoy running (I forget which one. Task something or other). Kill the powertoy, that fixes it.
2) The mouse pointer would flicker, and weird things happened below it. Bits of other parts of the screen appeared below it, clicking was unresponsive.
Number 2 is definitely fixed. Mouse seems to move a little slower now, but it works properly.
I would *LOVE* to play that again. That was such a fun game.
It should be pointed out that when this happened, the source code for the server was released, hence you can play Marius and Playmyth.
WW2 ruined the online game IMO. It was unbalanced and tedious. Very little skill involved.
Single player though, it's laugh with the WW2 plugin. The lego one cracks me up too. There's a few crap ones (there was a sci-fi one which was awful), but most of the unit plugins add an interesting dimension. Like the one that makes archers fire exploding dwarves:)
Myth II v1.3.2 will support films from 1.3, however, due to all the fixes in unit pathfinding and AI, old films will be incompatible with version 1.4.
ARGHH! Say it ain't so Joe! I have over a thousand films... That's irritating that they can't make it backward compatible without having the game installed twice! ARGH! All my movies of completing the game on legendary, gone...
Don't be a l*mer...
RTS without the tedious resource gathering. Actually inventive levels rather than "build this base from scratch, defend it... Lather rinse repeat" that so many other games do.
Yeah, well, those people are wrong and can piss off back to their crappy Command and Conquer games with the other boys.
How many games from the last 18 months or so will be around in 5 years time to boast of the same? Not many would be my guess.
Myth 2 is my favourite game of all time, and I loved it even WITH the glitches in XP. This new patch is great and fixes it. The upcoming update has me really excited. Not just another patch and a load of fixes, but piles of new content are on the way too.
Of course, Myth 2 has one of the finest communities going (bar one or two members I've encountered who were complete cunts), and the number of quality addon's is phenomenal.
Proof? Go to The Mill and look for the *AWESOME* "Groups of Coops 2" map pack. Over 40 new QUALITY maps. And that's just an extremely small part of the community.
Or just buy the Windows version for about $5. Played both. Linux version sucks ass compared to Windows (even more so now this fix has been released).
That's what firewalls are for...
And I don't mean the built in XP one.
Exactly. The fact is though, IRC is *NOT* that big a source of trojans from what I know. Now download warez off Kazaa... Trojan City... Population: YOU!
Truth = Flamebait...
Hmm...