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Off Topic / 1 hour of songs

« on: February 04, 2005, 09:41:12 PM »

Sort of a corollary to rad's thread, but not really. Having a very late New Years Eve part with some close friends. Each of us has to make a cd of our favorite music. I'm sure i'm missing some really important ones. But these are the ones taht pop through my head, which are yours?

Rocket Man - Elton John
Sock It to Me - Missy Elliot
I'm the Only Gay Eskimo - Corky and the Juicepigs
Northwest Passage - Stan Rogers
Little Wing - Stevie Ray Vaughn
Wheat Kings - The Tragically Hip
Summer - Vivaldi
Under the Bridge - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Ave Maria - JS Bach - Luciano Pavarotti

I'll add more as I find them.

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Off Topic / Something I've long suspected

« on: January 31, 2005, 04:39:32 PM »

What do y'all think? Open Source Software really does seem to consistently push out some ATROCIOUS UI. The only OSS that I know of that isn't complete crap to work with is Firefox and T-bird. Are there any OSS that's acutally somewhat easy to learn/use?

Photoshop>Gimp
IntelliJ>Eclipse
Invision>phpBB

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General / Games I Enjoy

« on: January 31, 2005, 10:32:50 AM »

So I took over some fella, .. erh.. some comm, I didn't recognize. He did ok, but missed some key things, and we were up against some pretty ubar aliens. Needless to say, at one key point (it's my opinion there are 1 to say, 4 or 5 key points in games, that decide the whole game, most games only have 1) we got slaughtered, he just left.

So I take over, and attempt to salvage, we lasted a while. And ended up in our base, a2/w3 hmg LAs with 2 rts. This was at about.. oh.. 20 minutes or so. We proceeded to last until 47 mins, HMGing fades, oni (probably 10 in all), and anything else that dared enter our base.

We then moved out and sieged out skylight, capped it, capped topo. Teched up to a full on heavy train. Trained to overlook, pg, pg at base, baconed to take care of a fade or 2 owning base, chased down and killed 2 oni at topo, pg at overlook down. Train slowly whittled away. Oh, LOTS of fun ensued.

I've never heard so much laughing and screams over the mic in recent memory. And great msgs of "best. game. evar" from the rines. LC and zer were there, who else was on the marine team? Speak up? Anyhoo, much fun was had by the rine team as we tried to hold on. And of course, the aliums had fun because they eventually crushed us. And when the day of reckoning came, it came SUPER SUPER fast. like, 10 seconds.

Anyhoo, yes, veil does seem to have the greatest Holding OUt And Having Fun potential of any map i've ever commed (or taken over comming). GOOD TIMES!

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General / How do you like yer NS?

« on: January 21, 2005, 11:33:31 AM »

Vote!

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Off Topic / New Mouse

« on: January 16, 2005, 12:30:59 AM »

So I got the logitech MX500 for CHEAP at futureshop today (15 bucks until the 20th if you are near one, can't go wrong!

) . And hot DIGGITY, you can really tell the difference ! That and a snazzy mouse pad i've had for a while. It's actually.. hard to explain, it's a textured hardtop surface, really makes the mouse glide over the surface.

In short, I have no excuse for my crappy aim anymore, which sucks, but the mouse is more responsive, which is rad!

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Off Topic / CPU Fan issue

« on: January 10, 2005, 09:51:19 PM »

Ok, I installed this silent package dealy (MB, CPU fan, box fan), it's alright, it is quieter, and was on the cheap. Anyhoo, everytime it boots up, my box thinks that the CPU fan isn't running!! but it is! ARGH! Is there some setting i have to check in the bios or something?

TIA

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Off Topic / Pikachu is LIFE!

« on: January 06, 2005, 12:33:25 PM »

http://www.livejournal.com/users/pikabellechu/23238.html

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General / An NS Manual

« on: December 28, 2004, 02:51:52 PM »

I just realized I posted a link to a manual that is a WIP in RS. Feel free to peruse and correct. Or just have fun with the damage calculator.

http://manual.nsguides.org/

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Off Topic / speed demos!

« on: December 09, 2004, 09:36:35 AM »

http://www.planetquake.com/sda/

i never watch them myself, but some ppl like to.

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Off Topic / My Namesake, On The Silver Screen

« on: November 23, 2004, 02:19:09 PM »

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?t...storyID=6877982

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Off Topic / Samurize!

« on: November 18, 2004, 11:56:26 AM »

sooo, does anyone here use SAMURIZE?!
http://www.samurize.com/modules/news/

basically a lightweight desktop plugin that pulls of SOAP calls to external webservices. meaning you can get realtime updates on cool stuff, weather, RSS feeds, TV listings, etc. it takes a wee bit of haxing, but it's super cool! anyone else use it? have configs to share?

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Off Topic / Literally, Lol

« on: November 13, 2004, 12:31:59 AM »

http://rainbow.arch.scriptmania.com/rainbow_tv_episode.html

do NOT open this if there is anyone about who will think you are crazy for laughing at a computer screen.

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Off Topic / Dark, Dark Comics

« on: November 10, 2004, 01:55:43 PM »

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Off Topic / Ut2k4

« on: November 07, 2004, 11:47:57 PM »

what mods do you guys suggest i DL?
i've got or tried:
swarm
UT2k4 RPG
air buccaneers
law dogs
CS.. uh, i mean FragOps
Red Orchestra
Metaball
Duffers
Minispy

any other really neat an innovative games i should try out?

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General / How To Skulk Better!

« on: November 04, 2004, 01:39:43 PM »

seeing as i rarely skulk, and wouldn't consider myself a good skulker (average at best). i'll offer up what i know about skulking, and i'm SURE that the skulk experts will input what they know

-ambush
-use walk often
-if you MUST rush a marine, go on the walls, ceiling, over and around crates, ANYTHING but on the ground directly for them.
-vary vertical positioning as much as possible
-try and take the time to setup a bait and switch, or find the vent to flank them
-marines trying to take down ocs are extra tasty treat
-strafing around a marine as you are about to bite will help you live a bit longer, never run straight at them.
-try to attack in groups, from many different angles. 3 skulks running at marines from a corridor is not an effective group attack :/
-when marines are grouped up with heavy weapons is ESP a good time to hit them, ESP on LM, as the FF on will make them hesitant to open fire.
-when they are bundled up, they are the best attack and use for cover
-know when not to attack (a large open room, with marines spread out is just free RFK)

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General / 101 Video Cards Tested

« on: October 15, 2004, 09:53:59 AM »

http://www.ixbt-labs.com/articles2/over2k4/index.html

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Off Topic / D2 Lm Stylez

« on: October 15, 2004, 12:02:17 AM »

LOVE IT!!!

oh yeah!!

i'm thinking we get.. a buncha of us who play and play on BNET west, cuz west is where the hippies are. perhaps get one of each char so we don't fight over items

aaaand. i call sorceresss! :p

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Off Topic / If I Was Ever A Spiderman Doll

« on: September 01, 2004, 02:07:29 PM »

crayons.. of course.

that's WHAT I CALL ARTICULATION!!!!!

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Off Topic / Kids These Days!

« on: August 30, 2004, 11:34:55 AM »

YOU WOULDN"T LAST FIVE MINUTES!!

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Off Topic / Owlie's Monitor Freezing Up Time To Time

« on: August 25, 2004, 02:56:55 PM »

dont' know what happened. by my monitor, when doing anything except gaming (thank god), that is, browsing the intarweb, any sorta windows app. system will freeze very briefly, monitor will go blank, , then come back on, like it's resetting itself. this happens usually in response to a mouse movement, or window resizing, but WHEN it responds to aforementioned stimuli is random. i lose no data or anything after doing that.

some fixes i've tried
-shutting off steam and trillian
-did a trojan sweep with SwatIt (are there better programs out there?)
-ran AdAware
-ran SpyBot
-ran anti-virus (AVG)
-check power management, nothing weird there. all the options are off.
-de-install and reinstall the latest video driver
-check fragmentation, the puter tells me i don't need no stinking defragging done.

anything else i can try? i notice some of the 2D stuff in NS is sometimes totally borked.. like teh textures in bast (from time to time) or the CONSOLE text!

arrghh.. would a new video card fix it?! do you think my video card is fried? i got a .. wait for it.. GeForce 2 64 meg 440MMX (yeah, i know yer drooling).

if anyone nkows why this might be happeneing, i'd much appreciate.

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