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Off Topic / relationship trouble
« on: December 10, 2004, 01:01:06 PM »
yeah, here comes the periodic relationship advice topic that really shouldn't be in a gaming forum but always seems to crop up. ;P

and the sad truth is I don't even know how to make myself look like the good guy.

my girlfriend is a decent guitarist, and she is just starting to play with a decent band - not one that just plays for fun in some garage, but one that's going to play famous clubs in NY and such.  the drummer was in a band that opened for no doubt, etc...

I'm having way too much trouble dealing with it.  logic dictates that I should be happy for her and supportive, but all I feel are negative things... the obvious ones like being threatened and jealous, for one thing... threatened because she doesn't have a history of being perfectly faithful, and her being in any sort of spotlight is more of an opportunity for her to screw me over... jealous because I don't do anything public like that... I used to want to be an actor, and I was pretty good at it, but I didn't pursue it because I was happy just to be with her instead...

which brings me to the third and biggest problem.  it's just a life goal thing... all I ever wanted was to be with her; when I found her I stopped wanting anything else but to start a family with her and be happy with her.  it really hurts me that she needs more than that.  I mean, I'm fine with her playing the guitar for fun with friends or whatever, we all have our hobbies, but she's taking it too far for me...

so yeah, I feel threatened, upstaged, marginalized... what would you guys do if you were me?  dump her and find someone with simpler wants and needs?  shut up and deal with it?  that's another thing - even if I COULD shut up and deal with it, I still wouldn't be happy about it, and I want her to be with someone who can be happy and proud about what she chooses to do with herself...

I love her a lot, and we've been through 6 years together, on and off... we've broken up over various things but always wind up back together... so if history says anything we'll probably still be together a month from now... but there HAVE been a lot of bad things in the relationship, and part of me says we should put the last nail in the coffin eventually, but we've never managed to do it...

I'm not a dumb guy and I'm definitely no chauvanist, but sometimes I wish I could just find a girl who's nice and quiet, who likes relaxed nights at home, going out with friends, etc, instead of one who feels the need to constantly be stirring up the muck on the bottom of this proverbial stream... and sometimes I feel she and I just stay together because we're scared of being alone...

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Off Topic / dual monitors
« on: November 27, 2004, 11:30:28 PM »
k I'm used to bothering NS.org off-topic with my tech support questions, but being that they're down, I'm turning here =D you guys prolly have more tech know-how anyway.  

just connected a 2nd monitor to my vid card, and I wanna know exactly what I can do with it... it's a radeon 9600 pro all-in-wonder fyi.

the biggest thing I want to do is be able to, like, browse the internet in monitor 2 while I play a game in monitor 1... get IMs in 2nd monitor, etc, without interrupting a full screen game... I guess this would either involve a 2nd keyboard or a way to switch which screen I want to type on...

anyway, c'est possible?  or is the most I can do have a bigger desktop? :*(

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Off Topic / that 'kill JFK' game causing a scandal
« on: November 24, 2004, 11:03:04 AM »
storeh

"In "JFK: Reloaded," the player views former President John F. Kennedy's fateful Dallas motorcade from the sixth-floor window of the Texas School Book Depository Building in which Lee Harvey Oswald sat and is charged with the mission of assassinating the president."

the company is trying to say it's 'historical' and a 'docu-game'.  of course people are pissed, esp. the Kennedys.  

I haven't played the game so I don't know how tasteless it is.  regardless, tasteless movies, articles, radio broadcasts, and stuff don't get nearly as much exposure.  everyone is DYING for more excuses to think video games are bad.  I'm sure it's just one of those $10 bargain bin games that expects to sell on the shock value alone.  like 30 such B-movies come out every year... Howard Stern's made a living out of saying tasteless things for what must be decades now (though he does get negative press too)...

just something to think about.

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Off Topic / Warezed Soundforge Files In Windows Media Player
« on: November 23, 2004, 08:11:49 AM »

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/13/0036243
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An anonymous reader writes "German PC-Welt magazine reports that Microsoft used an illegal copy of SoundForge 4.5 (Google translation) for editing Wave files shipped with Windows Media Player. You can check that yourself by opening any file in the [Windows location] \Help\Tours\WindowsMediaPlayer\Audio\Wav\ folder in notepad or other editors of your choice and looking at the last line. There you will find a reference to SoundForge 4.5 and also a user called 'Deepz0ne' who happens to be one of the founders of an audio software cracking group called Radium."

just found it funny. :p

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General / Post Your Ns:combat Setup
« on: March 25, 2004, 02:26:16 AM »
well, the first thing I"m curious about is how many people use motion tracking/scent of fear -- I never got em but I'm starting to think I'm in the minority.  as an alien I relied on hiding and listening to footsteps to figure out how many marines are where, and as marine, I feel like the stealthy aliens move too slowly and hide too well to be picked up on MT anyway, and the loud fast aliens are simply easy to spot.

here's my usual marine setup, if I expect the game to be long:

armor1>weap1>shotgun>resupply>armor2>jetpack>weap2>weap3

that's what I do if I expect the match to be long and drawn out, anyway -- designed purely for speedy hive destruction.  if we're getting overrun with superskulks, I may get mines; if we need repairs I'll get a welder, etc...

alien, I generally do focus>celerity>fade>adren>cara>regen>silence

unless I join late and we're getting raeped, in which case I'll just be a xeno whore, or if the hive needs heals I'll go battlegorge/umbralerk.

but yeah, I'm interested in tweaking my co_ layouts, so what do you pplz aim for?

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General / Worst Maps For Jetpacks
« on: March 18, 2004, 02:30:55 AM »
would just be helpful to see a list -- a few of the maps have really annoying low ceilings, with crossbeams to bump your head on that make it nigh impossible to glide straight down a hallway, essentially negating any function jetpacks might have in said maps...

so, which maps would you say are particularly bad for JPs?  bumpy, low ceilings, cramped hive rooms...

this post was inspired by my experiences with JPs in Ayumi.  It has to be the worst map for jetpacks, IMO.  I can't really think of a single part of the map you can comfortably navigate with a jp.  can't even fly high or far enough to evade a celerity onos on Ayumi <_<

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