The World Health Organisation defines depression as a 'disorder that presents with depressed mood, loss of interest or pleasure, feelings of guilt or low self-worth, disturbed sleep or appetite, low energy, and poor concentration'.
example: Yankee living down in the South.
If it is not caused by pathogens, how can it spread?
Uhhh, we eventually wisen up and move back to a better place, and like exposure to anything harmful/infectious...some of it always tags along.
After suffering with a low grade infection for almost 2 years (was 1/2 time, odd hours, collected paycheck and thought it was a lack of motivation, IMO) that culminated in sinus pain that was a 9 on the Richter scale.
The point is it took a while to recover to the point of feeling human again, much less alive/better.
Gaming has declined greatly in the past few years, and I'm considering picking it back up very heavily again.
Here's why, in a nutshell:.edu/college, you'd thing intelligent, attractive, hetero(hell, even bi) and single women would abound. Sorta...pick one or two at most. Like the intelligent and attractive lady I met who eventually mentioned her fiancee...though oh, well, and then I hear the pronoun "she" in relation to the fiancee. I then thought, "oh, shit". It got better when we found out we had the same weakness for red-headed women.
Worked in the sch of social work, and let me say that teaching women gurellia warfare of the mind is a bad idea (tm). I'd rather jump into a chicken-wire hammock face first than date those looney toons. Strangely, the married, engaged and gay women were nice and well grounded (big suprise).
Wonderful girl that I talked to for over 2 hours and said "husband"...Bwaaah-ha? Oh, yeah, married with the god damned ring on a necklace nicely tucked in her shirt. Grrrr.
One place, the longest time a girl was single was ~ 2wks, shortest was 3 days. Uh-huh.
One young lady all but jumped on me to get my attention. Sadly, it wasn't until I started coming out of the fog and I was figuring out WTH was going on until 3 months later. Yeah, that's how bad it was. dammit. Smart, cute and single. And I was brain-dead at the time.
"LEAVE THE FUCKING BASEMENT!"
Uh-huh. I'm smart, I'm funny, I'm charming, I've got my own house (one reason for staying), good job, excellent boss and all that.
Would I drop gaming for a GF? Yup?
Vice versa? Oh, hell no.
Can I win for losing? see v/v.
You've got a good point and sources, but situation, location and circumstance have a *LOT* to do with it.
Lets face it, a bug report can be anything from a misspelled error message to a gaping sa/root/admin (whatever oracle calls it) compromise.
If that is the case, oracle's mgmt tools heavy reliance not only on java, but *specific* version of java w/o updates I'm aware of, would explain a lot.
off the top of my head: Input fields that don't register the first key press, menu item that don't redraw for some reason, refreshes and connection errors that require exit/relaunch.
Other frustrations like that, that aren't oracle's "fault" per se, but don't help the spec/check sheet for bugs.
Didn't RTFA (yet), but are those counted as bugs? I'd like to know.
I had the displeasure of trying to pull up some mp3's I'd ripped a few years ago (2000/2001) that was likely done on a cendyne cd burner at a max of 4X on imation media.
Put it in a DVD-/+RW DL and...and...zip, zilch, nada...unreadable.
Oh, FSCK!
Fired up son's computer with a (boo!) Sony dvd-rom...and, there it is (yea!).
So, IMO/E 100+ years is nothing, how about 10?
Hardware, software, os, format, media as variables to b0rken along the way?
And to the game dev: Amen! fat32 (maybe ntfs) borked tomb raider and a few other games for a while, 2k was rough at first, Heretic2 has a 25% chance of working under XP and very few have figred out why (but works flawlessly under 2k).
Upgrade-itis drives even the most stoic of IT lemmings over the cliff with data one step behind.
Microsoft's OS is partly to blame, but Linux ain't so innocent, either (think breaking wordperfect 8, which I am still sad about).
New, improved, faster and shiny and with blinkin' lights (ooooh)...but will it last?
Crap shoot, russian roulette, IMO, and the current stand on virtulazation by MS says about how much of a flying fsck at a rolling doughnut they care.
MS is looking to hurt the pc enthusiasts who for all intensive purposes helped them create such a vast "empire"?
Clippy: "It looks like you're fucking up the english language!!11oneoneone Did you mean: a) Intents and purposes b) intensive porpoises c) insensitive poopy-faces?
I may not excercise much beyond walking the mutt around the block, but playing games that up the adrenalin levels and has even forced a girlfriend or two to leave the room, saying "Too much testosterone for me".
So deathmatch may not be a full contact sport, but the chemical effects are similar. Guys being guys; talking smack, killing their friends virtually and having a blast being assholes. Good times.
Quote:I leave it to you all to draw your conclusions about this, but I still wonder what my hours of laptop-fu does to me.
I'd ask two questions:
When was the last time you did something that made you say "Hell, yeah" or do/say something non-PC or trash talk.
When was the last time you used a chainsaw (doom 1/2/3 sorta counts, electric chainsaws don't) or any power tool?
If it's been more than a month or so, LAN party and make some noise, buy a fucking overpowered tool for your needs, go to a gun range, paintball war, BB gun and shoot *SOMETHING*, FFS.
Or, hell, if that's too much, too soon and you're worried your missing your favorite cooking show or some shit, at least go out an BBQ something. Men don't cook unless there is fire or danger involved, eh? Plates, knives and forks and eat. If you are worried about place settings or matching whateverthefuck... it's hopeless, so just take one of those Sony batteries that needs a recall, short the contacts and place down your trousers where your balls might be located and wait. It'll all be over soon.
With all the Flap(TM) over Vista's licensing changes (*coff*ahem*'clarifications'*coff*) and the "single reinstall/change...no! Wait! we meant up to 10! or maybe it goes up to 11, even!!11oneone", I'm forced to wonder if this would be the best "acid test" for Vista's license.
If Vista allows for one "transfer/reinstall/leg-pulling-legalese-of-choice ", then where would that have left people who got bit if it happened a second time before being patched/fixed?
I'd guess up shit's creek between a rock and a hard place getting paddled by Mr Bill and his pet Monkey-boy.
"Buy a new $400 copy" they'd say "But *your* bug..." we'd start to say "Is forcing you to buy a new copy" they'd finish for us.
Yeah, ah well, but the Schadenfreud Lover in all of us would have *looooved* to watch the fireworks.
Vista should have "Heart of Glass" by Blondie, or perhaps "Welcome to My Nitemare" by Alice Cooper.
Either way.
I read the cheers and jibes of the Mac-heads at the bottom of the article, and IME each "update" to OS X was faster if you installed over the previous, but a wipe and reload reached the "OMG, wow!" threshold. The key is "on the same hardware".
Vista, OTOH, needs massive upgrades to be run at full speed with all the bells and whistles active from some of the reading I've done (boss asked about it even tho 2k3 works very well, as do our Linux servers).
I'll hold out as long as possible and likely use 2k3 in a workstation config as a stop-gap, unless XP SP3 does materialize (unlikely considering the pattern of "new SP coming soon. Psych!! New OS is the SP and we can't back-port, sorry (insert Cheshire Cat like grinning)").
I just hope when the "sound of inevitability" comes around, that the next machine I build (not buy from $oem) will come with several license of Vista for each disk in the array I plan on putting in. So when Vista_license#1 craps out, insert different DVD and get on with life.
"There were problems with the audio and video. We could not get back on."
Non-signed, certified codecs, eh? BAD DEV! No intraweb for YOU!
A Microsoft spokesman explained the crash was due to "technical problems" and an extra briefing would be set for Monday
Vista on an Xbox 360 using Xbox Live for Net Meetings is not recommended, apparently.
'Alex Eckelberry.. said.. participants signed on as presenters. "Which, if you've ever used Live Meeting, is an invitation to chaos".'
Did the users actually sign on as 'presenters' and how would this crash Live Meeting?
How, I'd imagine some sort of buffer overflow or fatal exception because if you have many 'presenters' and one 'attendee', that is either an attack, ambush or intervention.
(dons tinfoil hat: Maybe everyone's WGA check failed and disconnected all baaaaad sheeple!)
Descent 1/2/3. Open levels, mass driver (rail gun) 5K zoom or even close quarters. whadda rush.
UT2004: buncha bots, friends or mix and steady mayhem with some cool weapons/combos.
Quake3: same as above, only more twitch/reflex. Granted, not playing either for a while put me back in the "n00bish" feeling.
Serious sam 1 or 1.5...2 is ok, but a lot of "Meh". SS2 lost the right "oh, shit" factor. The first two games had it big time with "Oh, shit, look at all those critters. This is gonna hurt (but be fun)", SS2 was more of "Oh, shit, not this again!"
Max Payne2's "Dead Man Walking": Imagine ignoring this for a year, then giving it a try on the nagging advice/insistance of a friend. Tried it, on the first level "Manor Yard" (iirc) it wasn't long after a month or so I got a time-score of 40:57:54. Anyone who has played, knows that breaking 15mins is hard, breaking 20 or so is very hard, 30 is seemingly impossible, if not downright astounding.
Imagine not playing for 6months and picking it back up, and seeing that score? Ouch.
Well, a little Az peach flavored ice tea, rum, and some warm-up go crazy rounds, I said "ok, one more, WTH".
Good decision, IMO, because after 43:41:18 of play, I'd hit a new record. Even better to hit the "construction site" and come within 20 seconds of my almost 14min score on the first try.
Descent 1 and 2, IMO, the improvements were fantastic despite some wierd bugs that were patched quickly. The weapons, the AI, the game play were all improved. D3 rolled around and the Grfx were fantastic, and the play was excellent still.
Max Payne 1 and 2: Good story, good action and neat gimmics and 2 made it even more thrilling. Improved bullet-time, fantastic play and effects of two made me wish to play the first under the MP2 engine.
Not many games I can think of that made me say that, besides Carmageddon 1 or 2 (the 3rd one never happened, twas just a horrible nitemare...so I tell myself).
Samsung managed to get the video pulled so easily.
I'm amazed too, considering Samsung still can't make a proper fast-foward on their DVD players.
ANY of their DVD players. Bought an LG DVD/Divx player even tho the Samsung was "better" with more in/out puts and capability/upgradable, lack of intelligent designed remotes/behaviour was the killer. Take TV shows on DVD (BSG/Hulk/etc) where the "chapters" seem random and you try to rewind back, and "oops, you only pressed the button for 2.99999 seconds instead of 3.00001 and skip back 35 minutes.
So, forgive me if I don't quite believe Samsung...The design was likely meant for the the thing to flex, but considering how inept their equipment seems (IME, that is) it likely is supposed to break first and then flex after 3.00001 seconds. (SEG)
Most new players would like to be at the level of the "god-like" players, or be able to hold their own in game but not put in the time.
Take Descent 2, for instance: some hacks were subtle such as shields > 200 (max, IIRC). I'd asked someone who should have been "dead" if he had 1000 shields or something. His reply was "no, 10,000". Oye. Yeah, he got ganged up on, but did not seem to mind, and he wasn't kicked, IIRC.
The blatant one's were those that attached "earthshaker" missles to the "machinegun"... in the days of 56K, made it like a 300 baud connection. Kick/ban was the order of the day.
Many fans were put at arm's lenghts by the expense of the game and online play was viable via "Kali", but the game enabler (IPX to IP) soon fell to disuse (In my, and several other cases) because in an attempt to curb cheating no cd.exe's were not allowed but could be worked around with setup, swap exe's, get on with life, to the thing became so slow and annoying as it checked every startup/game launch.
Heck, most had moved on/back to FPS's like Kingpin where cheaters were banned w/o mercy and usually (just like in the mob, i'd wager) your skills/status/referrences meant more than any thing else.
Heck, even with *less than min specs* I could still hold my own. Example one: I'd invited to medium skill players to a 2v1 match, they agreed, and after they'd had enough, I was asked my system specs. The one who got the worst beating, was taunted by his friend on the same lan because they were both running dual p3's 1/2G of mem and TNT cards. I was running a p200 (p2 233/266 was min spec) with a whopping 64M of mem and an 8M voodoo2.
Tables turned when one particular player out of a group of a dozen was quite the challenge for me and *repeatedly* would get the better of me 90% of the time. What was even funnier was a heated battle where other players *watched for about a minute or more* while we slugged it out. I'd died, and did not bother respawning while taking a break, and sat the round out while watching stats as he owned the map. System specs thing came up in conversation, as usual and after reading what I wrote "Dude, you need a better computer and vid card. You could wipe the floor with me if you did".
Poetic justice was having a few of that group around when one called me a cheater, and would not shut up about it until the dude above said, and I quote: "he's not a cheater, he's just *that* good. Don't make me embarass you (other player) by telling you his system specs, then you'll truely feel sorry! My reply: Uh, thanks, I think.
People are gonna cheat. Brazenly if they don't care, subtley if the do (being caught/admitting is another issue) because they don't have the time, skill or respect for other players.
The "TR47" anamorphic bootleg releases are the best DVD's of the originals ever produced.
Agreed, whole-hearteldly.
Thanks to the miracle of/. I'd d/l'ed a them from/. and was very pleased as compared to other torrents I'd tried.
Close enuf for gubm'int work applies.
(bear in mind poster, re: me, is hammered): The TR release replicates my experience from 1977, and being 7 yro and watching in a drive in is quite niclely replicated on a 16x9 plasma screen.
It is decent quality, jumps a smidge in transition scenes, dark environment and all things play out as I recall w/o the BS that GL inserted after the fact.
What more could I ask for?
Nothing.
FSCK Lucas and his revisionist history/movie butchering.
Asshole.
(now my old ass has to go to bed and I'll prolly wind up watching the *original* LD rips again just to say "up yours, Lucas" *BECAUSE I CAN*. This post brought to you by 151, peach tea and no other reason I cna think of).
It is fairly well known that in Oblivion mods and thru play that the horse "Shadowmere" is unkillable, yet, despite that fact people pay to put armor on her.
Uh-huh.
Not only that, but darned if something goes wrong on pc or xbox, you are screwed either way, because you can not "summon" the armored version (IIRC) and the xbox user just winds up being screwed all over due to lack of console.
Simply put: the oblivion community is doing more to make Oblivion a better game than Bethesda could ever dream, like Obscuro Oblivion overhaul (OOO), the mod that fixes all of the messed up quests (Unofficial Oblivion Patch) and there is even a mod in the making to expand the realms (forgot link, but the elderscrolls.com forum has it in the mod section).
Not only that, but a fix for the spell and animation bug that occurs at 200 or so hours was fixed by the *community* and not Bethesda.
Bethesda usually said "defrag and scandisk and uninstall mods" to queries to the bug even when *OFFICIAL* plugins were the only things installed, and blamed the mods.
So, of course, B*soft doesn't put any stock in anything that they would release. (G)
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The World Health Organisation defines depression as a 'disorder that presents with depressed mood, loss of interest or pleasure, feelings of guilt or low self-worth, disturbed sleep or appetite, low energy, and poor concentration'.
.edu/college, you'd thing intelligent, attractive, hetero(hell, even bi) and single women would abound. Sorta...pick one or two at most. Like the intelligent and attractive lady I met who eventually
example: Yankee living down in the South.
If it is not caused by pathogens, how can it spread?
Uhhh, we eventually wisen up and move back to a better place, and like exposure to anything harmful/infectious...some of it always tags along.
After suffering with a low grade infection for almost 2 years (was 1/2 time, odd hours, collected
paycheck and thought it was a lack of motivation, IMO) that culminated in sinus pain that was a 9 on the Richter scale.
The point is it took a while to recover to the point of feeling human again, much less alive/better.
Gaming has declined greatly in the past few years, and I'm considering picking it back up
very heavily again.
Here's why, in a nutshell:
mentioned her fiancee...though oh, well, and then I hear the pronoun "she" in relation to the fiancee. I then thought, "oh, shit". It got better when we found out we had the same weakness
for red-headed women.
Worked in the sch of social work, and let me say that teaching women gurellia warfare of the mind is a bad idea (tm). I'd rather jump into a chicken-wire hammock face first than date those looney toons. Strangely, the married, engaged and gay women were nice and well grounded (big suprise).
Wonderful girl that I talked to for over 2 hours and said "husband"...Bwaaah-ha? Oh, yeah, married with the god damned ring on a necklace nicely tucked in her shirt. Grrrr.
One place, the longest time a girl was single was ~ 2wks, shortest was 3 days. Uh-huh.
One young lady all but jumped on me to get my attention. Sadly, it wasn't until I started coming out of the fog and I was figuring out WTH was going on until 3 months later. Yeah, that's how bad it was. dammit. Smart, cute and single. And I was brain-dead at the time.
"LEAVE THE FUCKING BASEMENT!"
Uh-huh. I'm smart, I'm funny, I'm charming, I've got my own house (one reason for staying), good job, excellent boss and all that.
Would I drop gaming for a GF? Yup?
Vice versa? Oh, hell no.
Can I win for losing? see v/v.
You've got a good point and sources, but situation, location and circumstance have a *LOT* to do with it.
Lets face it, a bug report can be anything from a misspelled error message to a gaping sa/root/admin (whatever oracle calls it) compromise.
If that is the case, oracle's mgmt tools heavy reliance not only on java, but *specific* version of java
w/o updates I'm aware of, would explain a lot.
off the top of my head:
Input fields that don't register the first key press, menu item that don't redraw for some reason, refreshes and connection errors that require exit/relaunch.
Other frustrations like that, that aren't oracle's "fault" per se, but don't help the spec/check sheet for bugs.
Didn't RTFA (yet), but are those counted as bugs? I'd like to know.
I had the displeasure of trying to pull up some mp3's I'd ripped a few years ago (2000/2001)
that was likely done on a cendyne cd burner at a max of 4X on imation media.
Put it in a DVD-/+RW DL and...and...zip, zilch, nada...unreadable.
Oh, FSCK!
Fired up son's computer with a (boo!) Sony dvd-rom...and, there it is (yea!).
So, IMO/E 100+ years is nothing, how about 10?
Hardware, software, os, format, media as variables to b0rken along the way?
And to the game dev: Amen! fat32 (maybe ntfs) borked tomb raider and a few other games
for a while, 2k was rough at first, Heretic2 has a 25% chance of working under XP and very
few have figred out why (but works flawlessly under 2k).
Upgrade-itis drives even the most stoic of IT lemmings over the cliff with data one step
behind.
Microsoft's OS is partly to blame, but Linux ain't so innocent, either (think breaking wordperfect 8, which I am still sad about).
New, improved, faster and shiny and with blinkin' lights (ooooh)...but will it last?
Crap shoot, russian roulette, IMO, and the current stand on virtulazation by MS says about how
much of a flying fsck at a rolling doughnut they care.
SUSE, putting the 'sue' and 'use' in opensource since the MS merger.
With 'US' caught in the middle.
It's as if they gave up on Slashdot.
/.'ers: traffic volumes so high, 50/50 chance of surviving.
/.'ers: Server off line within minutes, wires and routers glowing and then smoking.
/.'ers: Did you just hear several "bangs" a moment ago?
Hummm, Let me guess:
bored
excited/curious
Pissed off
I wonder why...
One thing I think that helps is that all adults have to vote - not even silly rules about stripping citizenship from convicted felons.
(Tounge in cheek)
Yeah, once the Brits did it, there was no point after that, eh?
(gah, yeah, I'm gonna say it)
I for one welcome our new Gm'muttail (pronounced Gum-mutt tail) overlords.
VLC's controls are the best, you can zip around with CTRL, ALT, or SHIFT- arrow keys to skip one minute, ten seconds, or ....
It must of been created for users that only have one free hand available - watching porno comes to mind.
(typing with one hand)
R e a l l y?
F A P^H...errr...N T A S T I C.
MS is looking to hurt the pc enthusiasts who for all intensive purposes helped them create such a vast "empire"?
Clippy:
"It looks like you're fucking up the english language!!11oneoneone
Did you mean:
a) Intents and purposes
b) intensive porpoises
c) insensitive poopy-faces?
Then I realised a few things:
I may not excercise much beyond walking the mutt around the block, but playing
games that up the adrenalin levels and has even forced a girlfriend or two to
leave the room, saying "Too much testosterone for me".
So deathmatch may not be a full contact sport, but the chemical effects are similar.
Guys being guys; talking smack, killing their friends virtually and having a blast being
assholes. Good times.
Quote:I leave it to you all to draw your conclusions about this, but I still wonder what my hours of laptop-fu does to me.
I'd ask two questions:
When was the last time you did something that made you say "Hell, yeah" or do/say something non-PC or trash talk.
When was the last time you used a chainsaw (doom 1/2/3 sorta counts, electric chainsaws don't) or any power tool?
If it's been more than a month or so, LAN party and make some noise, buy a fucking overpowered tool for your needs, go to a gun range, paintball war, BB gun and shoot *SOMETHING*, FFS.
Or, hell, if that's too much, too soon and you're worried your missing your favorite cooking
show or some shit, at least go out an BBQ something. Men don't cook unless there is fire or danger involved, eh? Plates, knives and forks and eat.
If you are worried about place settings or matching whateverthefuck... it's hopeless, so just take one of those Sony batteries that needs a recall, short the contacts and place down your trousers where your balls might be located and wait. It'll all be over soon.
...but I honestly wish this bug wasn't caught.
e ", then where would that
Put the flame-thrower down, hear me out:
With all the Flap(TM) over Vista's licensing changes (*coff*ahem*'clarifications'*coff*) and
the "single reinstall/change...no! Wait! we meant up to 10! or maybe it goes up to 11, even!!11oneone",
I'm forced to wonder if this would be the best "acid test" for Vista's license.
If Vista allows for one "transfer/reinstall/leg-pulling-legalese-of-choic
have left people who got bit if it happened a second time before being patched/fixed?
I'd guess up shit's creek between a rock and a hard place getting paddled by Mr Bill and his pet Monkey-boy.
"Buy a new $400 copy" they'd say "But *your* bug..." we'd start to say "Is forcing you to buy a new copy"
they'd finish for us.
Yeah, ah well, but the Schadenfreud Lover in all of us would have *looooved* to watch the fireworks.
When Stallman's ATTACK!
Bad boy, bad boy, whatchoo gonna do when they come for GNU?
(cups hand to ear and hears a Gomer Pyle voice "You're gonna burn in hell for that one!")
95 had "Start Me Up" by the Rolling Stones.
Vista should have "Heart of Glass" by Blondie, or perhaps "Welcome to My Nitemare" by Alice Cooper.
Either way.
I read the cheers and jibes of the Mac-heads at the bottom of the article, and IME each "update"
to OS X was faster if you installed over the previous, but a wipe and reload reached the "OMG, wow!"
threshold. The key is "on the same hardware".
Vista, OTOH, needs massive upgrades to be run at full speed with all the bells and whistles active
from some of the reading I've done (boss asked about it even tho 2k3 works very well, as do our
Linux servers).
I'll hold out as long as possible and likely use 2k3 in a workstation config as a stop-gap, unless
XP SP3 does materialize (unlikely considering the pattern of "new SP coming soon. Psych!! New OS is
the SP and we can't back-port, sorry (insert Cheshire Cat like grinning)").
I just hope when the "sound of inevitability" comes around, that the next machine I build (not buy
from $oem) will come with several license of Vista for each disk in the array I plan on putting
in. So when Vista_license#1 craps out, insert different DVD and get on with life.
"There were problems with the audio and video. We could not get back on."
.. said .. participants signed on as presenters. "Which, if you've ever used Live Meeting, is an invitation to chaos".'
Non-signed, certified codecs, eh? BAD DEV! No intraweb for YOU!
A Microsoft spokesman explained the crash was due to "technical problems" and an extra briefing would be set for Monday
Vista on an Xbox 360 using Xbox Live for Net Meetings is not recommended, apparently.
'Alex Eckelberry
Did the users actually sign on as 'presenters' and how would this crash Live Meeting?
How, I'd imagine some sort of buffer overflow or fatal exception because if you have many 'presenters' and one 'attendee', that is either an attack, ambush or intervention.
(dons tinfoil hat: Maybe everyone's WGA check failed and disconnected all baaaaad sheeple!)
My top 5, so far:
Descent 1/2/3. Open levels, mass driver (rail gun) 5K zoom or even close quarters. whadda rush.
UT2004: buncha bots, friends or mix and steady mayhem with some cool weapons/combos.
Quake3: same as above, only more twitch/reflex. Granted, not playing either for a while put me back in the "n00bish" feeling.
Serious sam 1 or 1.5...2 is ok, but a lot of "Meh". SS2 lost the right "oh, shit" factor. The first two games
had it big time with "Oh, shit, look at all those critters. This is gonna hurt (but be fun)", SS2 was more of "Oh, shit, not this again!"
Max Payne2's "Dead Man Walking": Imagine ignoring this for a year, then giving it a try on the nagging
advice/insistance of a friend. Tried it, on the first level "Manor Yard" (iirc) it wasn't long after a
month or so I got a time-score of 40:57:54. Anyone who has played, knows that breaking 15mins is hard,
breaking 20 or so is very hard, 30 is seemingly impossible, if not downright astounding.
Imagine not playing for 6months and picking it back up, and seeing that score? Ouch.
Well, a little Az peach flavored ice tea, rum, and some warm-up go crazy rounds, I said "ok, one more, WTH".
Good decision, IMO, because after 43:41:18 of play, I'd hit a new record. Even better to hit the "construction site" and come within 20 seconds of my almost 14min score on the first try.
the sequels are better than the original.
Two off the top of my head:
Descent 1 and 2, IMO, the improvements were fantastic despite some wierd bugs that
were patched quickly. The weapons, the AI, the game play were all improved.
D3 rolled around and the Grfx were fantastic, and the play was excellent still.
Max Payne 1 and 2: Good story, good action and neat gimmics and 2 made it even more
thrilling. Improved bullet-time, fantastic play and effects of two made me wish to
play the first under the MP2 engine.
Not many games I can think of that made me say that, besides Carmageddon 1 or 2 (the 3rd one never happened, twas just a horrible nitemare...so I tell myself).
Makes for a classic joke:
(insert Abbot and Costello routine)
A: who?
C: Dr.
A: Who
C: Dr.
A: Why?
C: Beclause.
Both: First place.
Heh.
(this post brought to you by 151 and Arizona peach tea, aka Son of a Peach)
All 80 cores will still be pegged rendering flash/java in a browser?
More things change, et al.
A dancing Ballmer silhouette.
and the theme song should be: Skid Row - "Monkey Business".
(aw, crap, now I've got that song stuck in my head....ah, well, better than the image, I suppose)
Samsung managed to get the video pulled so easily.
I'm amazed too, considering Samsung still can't make a proper fast-foward on their DVD players.
ANY of their DVD players. Bought an LG DVD/Divx player even tho the Samsung was "better" with
more in/out puts and capability/upgradable, lack of intelligent designed remotes/behaviour was
the killer. Take TV shows on DVD (BSG/Hulk/etc) where the "chapters" seem random and you try
to rewind back, and "oops, you only pressed the button for 2.99999 seconds instead of 3.00001 and
skip back 35 minutes.
So, forgive me if I don't quite believe Samsung...The design was likely meant for the the thing to
flex, but considering how inept their equipment seems (IME, that is) it likely is supposed to break
first and then flex after 3.00001 seconds. (SEG)
Most new players would like to be at the level of the "god-like" players, or be able to hold
.exe's were not allowed but could be worked around with setup, swap exe's, get on with life, to the thing became so slow and annoying as it checked every startup/game launch.
their own in game but not put in the time.
Take Descent 2, for instance: some hacks were subtle such as shields > 200 (max, IIRC).
I'd asked someone who should have been "dead" if he had 1000 shields or something. His reply was "no, 10,000".
Oye.
Yeah, he got ganged up on, but did not seem to mind, and he wasn't kicked, IIRC.
The blatant one's were those that attached "earthshaker" missles to the "machinegun"... in the days of 56K, made it
like a 300 baud connection. Kick/ban was the order of the day.
Many fans were put at arm's lenghts by the expense of the game and online play was viable via "Kali", but the game enabler (IPX to IP) soon fell to disuse (In my, and several other cases) because in an attempt to curb cheating no cd
Heck, most had moved on/back to FPS's like Kingpin where cheaters were banned w/o mercy and usually (just like in the mob, i'd wager) your skills/status/referrences meant more than any thing else.
Heck, even with *less than min specs* I could still hold my own.
Example one:
I'd invited to medium skill players to a 2v1 match, they agreed, and after they'd had enough, I was asked my
system specs. The one who got the worst beating, was taunted by his friend on the same lan because they
were both running dual p3's 1/2G of mem and TNT cards. I was running a p200 (p2 233/266 was min spec) with a whopping 64M of mem and an 8M voodoo2.
Tables turned when one particular player out of a group of a dozen was quite the challenge for me and *repeatedly*
would get the better of me 90% of the time. What was even funnier was a heated battle where other players *watched for about a minute or more* while we slugged it out. I'd died, and did not bother respawning while taking a break, and sat the round out while watching stats as he owned the map.
System specs thing came up in conversation, as usual and after reading what I wrote "Dude, you need a better computer and vid card. You could wipe the floor with me if you did".
Poetic justice was having a few of that group around when one called me a cheater, and would not shut up about
it until the dude above said, and I quote:
"he's not a cheater, he's just *that* good. Don't make me embarass you (other player) by telling you his system
specs, then you'll truely feel sorry!
My reply: Uh, thanks, I think.
People are gonna cheat. Brazenly if they don't care, subtley if the do (being caught/admitting is another issue) because they don't have the time, skill or respect for other players.
Ah, well, same in life, eh?
The "TR47" anamorphic bootleg releases are the best DVD's of the originals ever produced.
/. I'd d/l'ed a them from /. and was very pleased as compared to
Agreed, whole-hearteldly.
Thanks to the miracle of
other torrents I'd tried.
Close enuf for gubm'int work applies.
(bear in mind poster, re: me, is hammered):
The TR release replicates my experience from 1977, and being 7 yro and watching in a drive in
is quite niclely replicated on a 16x9 plasma screen.
It is decent quality, jumps a smidge in transition scenes, dark environment and all things play out as I recall w/o the BS that GL inserted after the fact.
What more could I ask for?
Nothing.
FSCK Lucas and his revisionist history/movie butchering.
Asshole.
(now my old ass has to go to bed and I'll prolly wind up watching the *original* LD rips
again just to say "up yours, Lucas" *BECAUSE I CAN*.
This post brought to you by 151, peach tea and no other reason I cna think of).
'Moose.
It is fairly well known that in Oblivion mods and thru play that the horse "Shadowmere" is
unkillable, yet, despite that fact people pay to put armor on her.
Uh-huh.
Not only that, but darned if something goes wrong on pc or xbox, you are screwed
either way, because you can not "summon" the armored version (IIRC) and the xbox
user just winds up being screwed all over due to lack of console.
Simply put: the oblivion community is doing more to make Oblivion a better game than
Bethesda could ever dream, like Obscuro Oblivion overhaul (OOO), the mod that fixes
all of the messed up quests (Unofficial Oblivion Patch) and there is even a mod
in the making to expand the realms (forgot link, but the elderscrolls.com forum has it
in the mod section).
Not only that, but a fix for the spell and animation bug that occurs at 200 or so
hours was fixed by the *community* and not Bethesda.
Bethesda usually said "defrag and scandisk and uninstall mods" to queries to the
bug even when *OFFICIAL* plugins were the only things installed, and blamed the
mods.
So, of course, B*soft doesn't put any stock in anything that they would release. (G)
who thinks that finder looks completely unusable?
I do, but then again anything with "Brushed Metal" should be banned.
C'mon, Steve, you touted "Aqua" as the interface for OSX, but WTF is up with brushed metal?
"It makes it look professional" or some such was what I recalled hearing.
No, quite frankly, brushed metal makes me think of fast food kitches, pee troughs at a stadium
or the brushed metal toilets in your average jail cell.
Real good choice there, dude.
Clutter + Fugly in the midst of Aqua and BSD.
(shakes head)
Essentiall GTA in the Old West...somewhere between GTA III and SA.
Heck, if they really wanted to piss of RockStar, et al, the could have
called it GTE:SA (Grand Theft Equine: San Antonio).