Yes that is true, I used to set my cellphone right beneath my screen and it would go blurry in the right corner where the phone was at before it would ring.
When I would have people over I used to try to freak them out that I was psychic. Screen would go blurry and I would say "I sense that someone is going to try to call you" *ring* *ring*. The girls were always more gullable than the guys.
Hehe, you could see the Russian general pull on his collar when they aborted probably thinking "Gorbachev is gonna have my balls pinned to the walls for this on".
I wonder how effective this system really is when you are breaking the sound barrier, if it is safe to do.
You know they invented this thing on video cards called 'TV Out', you really should look into that and a 14' dual video/audio cable. Shouldn't be trivial for any geek and video cards are dirt cheap.
The BF2142 situation got blown out of proportion. Remember the first Slashdot articles about it were basically that they collect your personal information and give it to the advertisers, it was not true and the developers came out to even discuss. Of course Slashdot never had the followup article and allow the team to answer some of those points, so they were backed into a corner and the fud had already tainted the game. It was more fear mongering with the privacy info that got everybody worked up and a lot decided that the ads would be annoying, even though they never played the game.
I played BF2142 and still do sometimes, it is everything that BF2 should have had with the commander and squad system the way it was setup. The ads if you played the game well you wouldn't have even noticed them the boards were spread out so far on the huge maps. Not only that but the developers even said they made the images on the board to look a little worn and blend in with the environment. All in all none of the ads have changed in the game since BF2142 was released and it is an even better game with the following patches, I think the real gamers complained more about the lag in the Titan servers than than some of the outside trolls who were just coming back to get back at EA the company. Others might have a different opinion of what 'sticks out like a sore thumb' but I think you really should view the in-game screenshots/videos of gameplay showing one of the billboards in the background, you really don't even notice it when you have a hovering tank and a Walker(think Star Wars) chasing you down on your speeder. Game was as close to Star Wars as you are gonna get with the full Battlefield feel of the game.
Cable DVR's are some of the simplest functioning and POS you can get.
The thing which makes me like TIVO is that it automatically skips the commercials, that was the deal breaker right there that made me want to get it. Although I never did and stuck with the DVR, I have no problem having to manually fastforward about 4 times in a show only takes me 3 seconds.
VOD(Video On Demand) is the real TIVO killer for me though, cable has got the advantage on this one and unfortunately Sat users cannot have the 'true VOD'. The VOD library that TWC has for me is huge, the shows begin to show up in the library the very next day with no commercials at all with them. Each month they change the lineup so you get maybe all of Season 1 that month and season 2 next month; newscast are put up there within an hour and many other free VOD channels for all your favorite channels. Seriously VOD killed the hard drive, the music video will be out anytime soon on MTV(errrr Youtube).
Unfortunately they will soon begin to integrate the advertisements into the actual show while you are watching it, fuck give me a break.
The timescales on these movements are so large that it is ridiculous, there are probably far worse things to worry about like weather patterns and drought than the old joke of Southern California sliding off into the Pacific. Actually you can walk down to the cliffs along all of California and witness/touch the erosion of the cliffs, although at a rate of an inch or so every 10 years it will likely be hundreds of thousands of years before we see any remarkable geological shift(Nuclear waste might be safe by than). I think we will witness a massive tsunami wave first before we watch the coast slide off.
How cool would that be if your fridge could tell you when you need something, how much you eat of certain foods and make a list of stuff you need already at the store on a visual screen on the shopping cart.
Think of it you can of jelly has an rfid tag on it and every time you pull it out of the fridge, it will register that. The trays could even be equipped with weigh machines that tell how heavy it is, so that when you take out something it registers it with rfid and than when you put it back in the tray will weigh how much you used of that. With dieting big these days I can see that happening as a selling point and the convenience of having a grocery list already made out.
I am sure someone has already put the ultimate fridge together, I just probably missed it on an episode of MTV Cribs.
So you decide for others how they like the game and whether they had fun. There are hundreds of people I have come across in life that are perfectly happy to play the sports game. When I decide to socialize with my friends we get together for weekend football games, beer pong, fantasy talk and in between we get to play a NFL/NCAA game for fun. People have fun managing their own teams and customizing them, not looking at poor model collisions and really square
Why the hell would I want to play '97 madden for the next 11 years, I want to play with the latest players, teams and recruit high school kids for my team. The facts speak for themselves and show that people continually come back to buy the game because it is fun, some of the biggest sales are in the first couple days.
Stop with the *shiny* references as if they are dumber people who have no good choice. Blitz and Gretzky have gotten shinier over the years if you haven't noticed.
Does it not basically come down to FPS and compatibility?
If the game runs smooth and gets good FPS than nothing else matters
I have Vista and it runs fine but not at the release, but I choose to run XP to get that extra 10-15 fps even though it barely feels different. I am a PC gamer and was there for the fiasco that Vista was, with punkbuster never working right, bad drivers, slow fps and overall incompatibility with certain hardware. I can tell you as a real gamer and not the Tux Racing gamers around here that vast majority of the problems have been solved. It is very simple, hardware gets cheaper and over time the specs will catch up to Vista; I loathe the expensive Vista laptops my buddies have because it runs great but I am not gonna spend that kind of money until it gets cheaper like anything.
Go to Fatwallet.com/Slickdeals.net to look for a good gaming rig and get an honest opinion on what you get for your money, these guys are the experts at bang per buck. Your best bet for a good gaming rig that is cheap is to wait for a deal to popup checking everyday, sometimes it is a price mistake you might get a $400 laptop or other price matches.
Go visit any gaming forum and you would have seen the massive problems with Vista and games in the beginning, over time these complaints have dissipated and things are running normally again. The hardware makers and gaming companies took notice to the complaints over Vista and stepped it up with more support.
The article is kind of crap as it describes to use 64bit Vista but any gamer knows that is a stupid move right now for majority of games, also the gaming site is from.AU and no offense to the Australians but they have the most draconian prices for hardware, software, ISP and everything around there goes against Silicon Valley(whatever that means); not very credible.
Yah except that Blu-Ray has sold far more units than LaserDisc, has the backing of every major studio and has clearly demonstrated its dominance over HD-DVD.
Also I don't remember LaserDisc being on display for sale in the front of Walmart, Fry's, Best Buy and every known store or even commercials like "get this movie on DVD and Blu-Ray today!!". Comparison to LaserDisc doesn't stand.
What movie buffs? You mean the people that have gotten sick of going to the theater to cough out $50 by the end of the night. The movie theaters are moving into our living rooms and there have been countless experts predicting that HDTV sales will rise this season although by only single digit percentages.
The hardware gets cheaper and so do the movies over time, it is very simple. Listen bookmark this post and look back at it in 5 years, when majority of people and Blockbuster(if they don't go bankrupt by than) only stocks Blu-Ray. History repeating itself, other than that it is more of 'put your money where your mouth is' if you think that product will take over Blu-Ray. I doubt customers/investors will trust Samsung as much anymore since they have lost faith in their HD-DVD product and screwed over a lot of buyers, stocks of HD-DVDs are not replenished with Netflix.
Until HDTV with 36"-42" get within the $500 range than I might buy, they are getting pretty damn close and compared with having to pay for movies/gas/candy/parking/crowds than the alternative home theater is looking more appealing. I don't own either a Blu-Ray or HDTV but my friends do and that is where we all wanna go to have a good time or watch sports games/movies. Your formula fails basic economics and social understanding.
No TWC will not be implementing a cap, at least not in California and that is a pretty huge population there. It was a test run in a Florida county/neighborhood and corporate was not interested in further runs because of FIOS competition in a lot of areas.
I have downloaded well over 1TB before and more recently accidentally left my computer uploading and went something uploaded of 70GB in a couple days.
We have 15/2 here in Southern California so we are pretty good and the pings are far superior than others with something in the 10-25ms consantly whether it is websites/hosts or game servers.
Right now I am not totally worried about getting massive speed upgrades because it is not going to change my life and the industry is not screaming at me to upgrade, it usually only takes under 10 minutes for a TV show and 15 for a movie. Right now America(Hollywood) produces majority of the content the world watches and has the most creative minds, so unless there is some incentive like maybe Youtube/NBC/ABC upgrading to HD videos there will not be the demand as streaming works fine.
I think that is where they draw the line and people automatically hear 'unlimited' they think bandwidth. Pretty damn sure they say in the commercials "We will deliver you Unlimited service", hence they are providing you a service but not specified amount.
You should really watch all the 'Behind the Music' on VH1 oh how the artist came who they are and why they crashed hard. The Motley Crue one is just fucking intense and read some quotes from Nikki Stix biography book amazed me they are still alive. Ozzy Osbourne I think it was who sniffed the line of ants.
I think Tom Petty rips the hardest on the guitar and he is constantly stoned, hell he will have a joint in his mouth while playing. Hell Jimmy Hendrix always playing high or on LSD, Janice Joplin I think it was playing in front of Germans on heroin wasn't the greatest example "who won the war!!!". Still a lot of great artist have died because of drugs and they had so much more potential, but at the same time they were making some of their greatest music while partying and getting high.
Speed/heroin seemed to be a lot bigger in the 80's and was casual to use for a lot of people, although they all regret it later on from mostly guys in their late 30's now.
Some goof ball here in Southern California tried to trick the Fast Track system and maybe some other cameras around the city by using white out on his license plate. He whited out some of the number '8' to make it look like a nine and some other things, he got fined big time not only by Fast Trak but by the city also.
You try to drive by with a duplicate one it would automatically tip off the operator stationed at the booth and dispatch the CHP officer who is always parked at the entrance to the special Fast Trak lane where the sensor detects it. Some goof balls would reach out the back of their car and block their license plate with a book or hand everytime driving by, they got through about 25 times but finally got caught after their faces were caught on camera and compared later.
I love dumb criminals and the people caught trying to fool these systems should be punished rightfully for trying to create civil chaos. You name it and they have done it out here in California, just ask a CHP the dumbest criminal thing he has seen on the freeway and those guys will go on for hours of the most hilarious shit you will ever hear.
I was watching some of the highlights of the 'Mexican Summit on Kidnappings and other rising crimes'.
The politicians were criticized hard for not doing anything and that the college students could do a better job, that was from a dad whos son was kidnapped and killed.
The Mexican politicians promised the people two main things is to cut down on the corruption by stronger police forces and better security. Also they talked about how the judicial system will be improved and the corruption will be tackled a lot harder.
They also talked about building special prisons just for kidnappers.
Giving the citizens guns will not help unfortunately when most of these guys have AK-47 and other high power guns. Guns can help though just make sure they are licensed right.
The Mexican father who had his son kidnapped from a University but later killed found out that a arrested police officer was involved with the kidnapping along with others.
They even have something setup there for video bloggers to submit their solutions. Of course nobody from around here will provide a solution, they will just provide some more whine with cheese.
During WW2 the Mexicans had a chance to have a road paved all the way from the North Tijuana all the way down to Cabo. They refused to allow us to build the road and I think that has prevented their economy from expanding.
Think of it, a road from Mexico City to Los Angeles and Houston.
So what is your solution to help solve some of the kidnappings?
I know it is trendy to criticize things here on Slashdot and right after not provide a solution to the problem.
In fact somebody has been paying attention and the reason they made these.
I always thought that would be a good idea to put a radio tag implanted in them randomly if they were a high opportunity target and than fly over the city with a helicopter until you get close to it after the kidnapping. Like tracking a bear in the wild or something.
Kidnappings in Mexico are on the rise and they are even trying to kidnap people in Arizona across the border. There really are no other solid solutions to this problem, although I can see limbs being chopped off because they think theres a radio transmitter.
I am not worried about the Govt. wanting to probe me up the ass because I have one of these, I would be more worried about the kidnappers trying to get me.
I just hope the Mexicans have higher standards and will not tolerate this crap like what they do down in South America. Good thing they have brought the military into Tijuana and other states around there to clamp down on some of the drug cartels and kidnappings.
The Rainz' murder of the character Lord British who was supposed to be invincible in the game, though it was during a stress test after the server had crashed in which he forgot to set his invincibility flag on the character.
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Yes that is true, I used to set my cellphone right beneath my screen and it would go blurry in the right corner where the phone was at before it would ring.
When I would have people over I used to try to freak them out that I was psychic.
Screen would go blurry and I would say "I sense that someone is going to try to call you" *ring* *ring*.
The girls were always more gullable than the guys.
Here is the video of both of them
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyFF4cpMVag
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyoBHBOnscY&feature=related
Hehe, you could see the Russian general pull on his collar when they aborted probably thinking "Gorbachev is gonna have my balls pinned to the walls for this on".
I wonder how effective this system really is when you are breaking the sound barrier, if it is safe to do.
You know they invented this thing on video cards called 'TV Out', you really should look into that and a 14' dual video/audio cable. Shouldn't be trivial for any geek and video cards are dirt cheap.
Loosing all my family photos?
Well than I just have to defrag what it spread out in between, thankfully I have auto-defrag on.
The BF2142 situation got blown out of proportion.
Remember the first Slashdot articles about it were basically that they collect your personal information and give it to the advertisers, it was not true and the developers came out to even discuss. Of course Slashdot never had the followup article and allow the team to answer some of those points, so they were backed into a corner and the fud had already tainted the game. It was more fear mongering with the privacy info that got everybody worked up and a lot decided that the ads would be annoying, even though they never played the game.
I played BF2142 and still do sometimes, it is everything that BF2 should have had with the commander and squad system the way it was setup. The ads if you played the game well you wouldn't have even noticed them the boards were spread out so far on the huge maps. Not only that but the developers even said they made the images on the board to look a little worn and blend in with the environment. All in all none of the ads have changed in the game since BF2142 was released and it is an even better game with the following patches, I think the real gamers complained more about the lag in the Titan servers than than some of the outside trolls who were just coming back to get back at EA the company.
Others might have a different opinion of what 'sticks out like a sore thumb' but I think you really should view the in-game screenshots/videos of gameplay showing one of the billboards in the background, you really don't even notice it when you have a hovering tank and a Walker(think Star Wars) chasing you down on your speeder. Game was as close to Star Wars as you are gonna get with the full Battlefield feel of the game.
Cable DVR's are some of the simplest functioning and POS you can get.
The thing which makes me like TIVO is that it automatically skips the commercials, that was the deal breaker right there that made me want to get it. Although I never did and stuck with the DVR, I have no problem having to manually fastforward about 4 times in a show only takes me 3 seconds.
VOD(Video On Demand) is the real TIVO killer for me though, cable has got the advantage on this one and unfortunately Sat users cannot have the 'true VOD'. The VOD library that TWC has for me is huge, the shows begin to show up in the library the very next day with no commercials at all with them. Each month they change the lineup so you get maybe all of Season 1 that month and season 2 next month; newscast are put up there within an hour and many other free VOD channels for all your favorite channels. Seriously VOD killed the hard drive, the music video will be out anytime soon on MTV(errrr Youtube).
Unfortunately they will soon begin to integrate the advertisements into the actual show while you are watching it, fuck give me a break.
The timescales on these movements are so large that it is ridiculous, there are probably far worse things to worry about like weather patterns and drought than the old joke of Southern California sliding off into the Pacific.
Actually you can walk down to the cliffs along all of California and witness/touch the erosion of the cliffs, although at a rate of an inch or so every 10 years it will likely be hundreds of thousands of years before we see any remarkable geological shift(Nuclear waste might be safe by than). I think we will witness a massive tsunami wave first before we watch the coast slide off.
Plus there are hundreds of free Ultima Online servers running, google it.
How cool would that be if your fridge could tell you when you need something, how much you eat of certain foods and make a list of stuff you need already at the store on a visual screen on the shopping cart.
Think of it you can of jelly has an rfid tag on it and every time you pull it out of the fridge, it will register that.
The trays could even be equipped with weigh machines that tell how heavy it is, so that when you take out something it registers it with rfid and than when you put it back in the tray will weigh how much you used of that. With dieting big these days I can see that happening as a selling point and the convenience of having a grocery list already made out.
I am sure someone has already put the ultimate fridge together, I just probably missed it on an episode of MTV Cribs.
So you decide for others how they like the game and whether they had fun.
There are hundreds of people I have come across in life that are perfectly happy to play the sports game. When I decide to socialize with my friends we get together for weekend football games, beer pong, fantasy talk and in between we get to play a NFL/NCAA game for fun.
People have fun managing their own teams and customizing them, not looking at poor model collisions and really square
Why the hell would I want to play '97 madden for the next 11 years, I want to play with the latest players, teams and recruit high school kids for my team.
The facts speak for themselves and show that people continually come back to buy the game because it is fun, some of the biggest sales are in the first couple days.
Stop with the *shiny* references as if they are dumber people who have no good choice. Blitz and Gretzky have gotten shinier over the years if you haven't noticed.
Does it not basically come down to FPS and compatibility?
If the game runs smooth and gets good FPS than nothing else matters
I have Vista and it runs fine but not at the release, but I choose to run XP to get that extra 10-15 fps even though it barely feels different. I am a PC gamer and was there for the fiasco that Vista was, with punkbuster never working right, bad drivers, slow fps and overall incompatibility with certain hardware. I can tell you as a real gamer and not the Tux Racing gamers around here that vast majority of the problems have been solved. It is very simple, hardware gets cheaper and over time the specs will catch up to Vista; I loathe the expensive Vista laptops my buddies have because it runs great but I am not gonna spend that kind of money until it gets cheaper like anything.
Go to Fatwallet.com/Slickdeals.net to look for a good gaming rig and get an honest opinion on what you get for your money, these guys are the experts at bang per buck. Your best bet for a good gaming rig that is cheap is to wait for a deal to popup checking everyday, sometimes it is a price mistake you might get a $400 laptop or other price matches.
Go visit any gaming forum and you would have seen the massive problems with Vista and games in the beginning, over time these complaints have dissipated and things are running normally again. The hardware makers and gaming companies took notice to the complaints over Vista and stepped it up with more support.
The article is kind of crap as it describes to use 64bit Vista but any gamer knows that is a stupid move right now for majority of games, also the gaming site is from .AU and no offense to the Australians but they have the most draconian prices for hardware, software, ISP and everything around there goes against Silicon Valley(whatever that means); not very credible.
I believe they are owned by ABC and usually it is before the 9pm slot, so families galore.
Yah except that Blu-Ray has sold far more units than LaserDisc, has the backing of every major studio and has clearly demonstrated its dominance over HD-DVD.
Also I don't remember LaserDisc being on display for sale in the front of Walmart, Fry's, Best Buy and every known store or even commercials like "get this movie on DVD and Blu-Ray today!!". Comparison to LaserDisc doesn't stand.
What movie buffs?
You mean the people that have gotten sick of going to the theater to cough out $50 by the end of the night. The movie theaters are moving into our living rooms and there have been countless experts predicting that HDTV sales will rise this season although by only single digit percentages.
The hardware gets cheaper and so do the movies over time, it is very simple. Listen bookmark this post and look back at it in 5 years, when majority of people and Blockbuster(if they don't go bankrupt by than) only stocks Blu-Ray. History repeating itself, other than that it is more of 'put your money where your mouth is' if you think that product will take over Blu-Ray. I doubt customers/investors will trust Samsung as much anymore since they have lost faith in their HD-DVD product and screwed over a lot of buyers, stocks of HD-DVDs are not replenished with Netflix.
Until HDTV with 36"-42" get within the $500 range than I might buy, they are getting pretty damn close and compared with having to pay for movies/gas/candy/parking/crowds than the alternative home theater is looking more appealing. I don't own either a Blu-Ray or HDTV but my friends do and that is where we all wanna go to have a good time or watch sports games/movies.
Your formula fails basic economics and social understanding.
Did you walk the valley of death?
No TWC will not be implementing a cap, at least not in California and that is a pretty huge population there. It was a test run in a Florida county/neighborhood and corporate was not interested in further runs because of FIOS competition in a lot of areas.
I have downloaded well over 1TB before and more recently accidentally left my computer uploading and went something uploaded of 70GB in a couple days.
We have 15/2 here in Southern California so we are pretty good and the pings are far superior than others with something in the 10-25ms consantly whether it is websites/hosts or game servers.
Right now I am not totally worried about getting massive speed upgrades because it is not going to change my life and the industry is not screaming at me to upgrade, it usually only takes under 10 minutes for a TV show and 15 for a movie. Right now America(Hollywood) produces majority of the content the world watches and has the most creative minds, so unless there is some incentive like maybe Youtube/NBC/ABC upgrading to HD videos there will not be the demand as streaming works fine.
Unlimited Service
Unlimited Bandwidth
I think that is where they draw the line and people automatically hear 'unlimited' they think bandwidth. Pretty damn sure they say in the commercials "We will deliver you Unlimited service", hence they are providing you a service but not specified amount.
You should really watch all the 'Behind the Music' on VH1 oh how the artist came who they are and why they crashed hard.
The Motley Crue one is just fucking intense and read some quotes from Nikki Stix biography book amazed me they are still alive.
Ozzy Osbourne I think it was who sniffed the line of ants.
I think Tom Petty rips the hardest on the guitar and he is constantly stoned, hell he will have a joint in his mouth while playing. Hell Jimmy Hendrix always playing high or on LSD, Janice Joplin I think it was playing in front of Germans on heroin wasn't the greatest example "who won the war!!!". Still a lot of great artist have died because of drugs and they had so much more potential, but at the same time they were making some of their greatest music while partying and getting high.
Speed/heroin seemed to be a lot bigger in the 80's and was casual to use for a lot of people, although they all regret it later on from mostly guys in their late 30's now.
Some goof ball here in Southern California tried to trick the Fast Track system and maybe some other cameras around the city by using white out on his license plate.
He whited out some of the number '8' to make it look like a nine and some other things, he got fined big time not only by Fast Trak but by the city also.
You try to drive by with a duplicate one it would automatically tip off the operator stationed at the booth and dispatch the CHP officer who is always parked at the entrance to the special Fast Trak lane where the sensor detects it.
Some goof balls would reach out the back of their car and block their license plate with a book or hand everytime driving by, they got through about 25 times but finally got caught after their faces were caught on camera and compared later.
I love dumb criminals and the people caught trying to fool these systems should be punished rightfully for trying to create civil chaos. You name it and they have done it out here in California, just ask a CHP the dumbest criminal thing he has seen on the freeway and those guys will go on for hours of the most hilarious shit you will ever hear.
I was watching some of the highlights of the 'Mexican Summit on Kidnappings and other rising crimes'.
The politicians were criticized hard for not doing anything and that the college students could do a better job, that was from a dad whos son was kidnapped and killed.
The Mexican politicians promised the people two main things is to cut down on the corruption by stronger police forces and better security. Also they talked about how the judicial system will be improved and the corruption will be tackled a lot harder.
They also talked about building special prisons just for kidnappers.
Giving the citizens guns will not help unfortunately when most of these guys have AK-47 and other high power guns. Guns can help though just make sure they are licensed right.
The Mexican father who had his son kidnapped from a University but later killed found out that a arrested police officer was involved with the kidnapping along with others.
Oh and add to it today the Mexican government had a summit on the rising kidnappings, something like 700+ in 2007.
Mexico now surpasses Columbia and Iraq for kidnappings.
http://www.beurs.nl/nieuws/artikel.php?id=269380&taal=US
http://www.silobreaker.com/DocumentClusterReader.aspx?Item=16_893954563
They even have something setup there for video bloggers to submit their solutions. Of course nobody from around here will provide a solution, they will just provide some more whine with cheese.
During WW2 the Mexicans had a chance to have a road paved all the way from the North Tijuana all the way down to Cabo.
They refused to allow us to build the road and I think that has prevented their economy from expanding.
Think of it, a road from Mexico City to Los Angeles and Houston.
So what is your solution to help solve some of the kidnappings?
I know it is trendy to criticize things here on Slashdot and right after not provide a solution to the problem.
In fact somebody has been paying attention and the reason they made these.
I always thought that would be a good idea to put a radio tag implanted in them randomly if they were a high opportunity target and than fly over the city with a helicopter until you get close to it after the kidnapping. Like tracking a bear in the wild or something.
Kidnappings in Mexico are on the rise and they are even trying to kidnap people in Arizona across the border. There really are no other solid solutions to this problem, although I can see limbs being chopped off because they think theres a radio transmitter.
I am not worried about the Govt. wanting to probe me up the ass because I have one of these, I would be more worried about the kidnappers trying to get me.
I just hope the Mexicans have higher standards and will not tolerate this crap like what they do down in South America. Good thing they have brought the military into Tijuana and other states around there to clamp down on some of the drug cartels and kidnappings.
Japanese attrocities
http://images.google.com/images?q=japanese%20attrocities
The President.... of the Michael Jackson Fan Club
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/54/UO_LB_assasination.jpg
The Rainz' murder of the character Lord British who was supposed to be invincible in the game, though it was during a stress test after the server had crashed in which he forgot to set his invincibility flag on the character.