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Off Topic / Killing The Gaming Habit

« on: September 21, 2004, 06:08:40 AM »

bob, buy a truck!

everyone else, go outside and explore the world sometimes, and i'm talking more then 50k (dunno in miles) from your home... get some scars, get some stories, get a life.

n chicks dig scars.




i used to miss days/weeks in highschool just because i was stuck in some god forsaken mud hole 3 miles from nowhere... just me, my truck, my beer, my gun.

n did i mension chicks dig 4x4's and scars... strange though i'm still single, funny world eh?




/edit i ment a REAL truck not so panzi grocery getter soccer mom SUV crap

see, www.bc4x4.com for details. wewt go BC!

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And this, ladies and gentlemen, is enough reason to stay in school, study hard, go to college, get a degree, get a good job and live a happy life rather than being some neanderthal redneck who'll be found dead in a gutter and nobody will give a ^^.

Thank you and goodnight.

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Media / Website/forum Skin Submission Thread

« on: August 29, 2004, 02:52:49 PM »

Pointless post: I fixed the image of my design, for some reason it was screwed, heh.

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Media / Photoshop Question

« on: August 27, 2004, 06:49:53 AM »

The way I know of doing it is make a new blank layer below the one you want rasterized, then use merge down (ctrl+e).

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Pretty much, although, a better way to do it is to create a new blank layer above the one with all the blending effects, link the two layers together, then merge down. The way ABS suggested might work, but other times might not work.

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Off Topic / Whats The Best Pci Graphics Card I Can Get..

« on: August 22, 2004, 09:59:49 PM »

Hold out a little while longer for mobos with PCI-X slots. AGP is about to go the way of the dodo. It's not the best time to invest in a new board and new expensive AGP card, trust me.

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I don't much reckon that PCI-E will be a standard in every computer until at least this time next year, so really, there's still a year's worth of time where a moderately priced AGP card (say 9600-9800) running on a relatively cheap motherboard with AGP 8x (my board cost ~£40, works perfectly) just to bide your time until "true" PCI-E cards are released and the cost of new technology drops.

PCI-X is completly useless at the momment.  AGP will not be replaced for at least 2-3 years.  We barely even use AGP 8X now.

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PCI-E is running great as it is, and yes, 8x AGP is being used. What you're talking of is the fact that graphics cards are not utilising PCI-E slots to their full potential. That's true. Right now i don't think there is a "true" PCI-E video card on the market, i could well be wrong, but cards such as the 6800 are "bridged" PCI-E, which is basically just a cheap hack and offers little to no gain over it's AGP counterpart. The reason for the bridging is so you can buy a motherboard with PCI-E, which won't have AGP, and still be able to run a graphics card.

Yeah, the PCI Express cards aren't improving much over the regular AGP ones right now. But like Bob said, they will later.

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Bingo.

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Off Topic / Teh Funny Bannar

« on: August 17, 2004, 09:09:25 PM »

Man, it's so funny that such a great actor died. Seriously. I'm laughing my arse off right now because such a great person is now dead.

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Off Topic / Niteowl's List Of 100 Essential Games

« on: August 17, 2004, 03:03:44 PM »

can't believe no one mentioned shadow warrior. great game, one of the first to use jump crouch and secondary fire (if not the first) and climbing. also, blood. hilarious and great freaking game.

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Shadow Warrior, as much as i really like that game, was released far too late. The Build engine was already dead by it's release, and it looked dated as hell. Blood was pretty good too, but got boring as it went on.

And jefe, as far as i'm concerned, Doom 3 is a classic in my eyes, i really love that game, and as for the Tony Hawk games, those things have kept me and my friends entertained for more hours than i'd care to count. I'd say that barring HL and FFVII, the tony hawk games have kept me entertained longer than anything else.

And finally, my opinion > yours. XD

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Off Topic / Niteowl's List Of 100 Essential Games

« on: August 17, 2004, 12:51:58 PM »

Well, i feel i should, since my opinion is more important than anyone else's. In no particular order:

• Doom 3
• Final Fantasy 6, 7
• Silent Hill 1, 2, 3
• Mafia
• Super Probotector / Contra 3
• Super Mario 3
• Duck Hunt
• Shadowrun
• Actraiser
• Grand Theft Auto 1, 2, 3, Vice City
• Morrowind
• Baldur's Gate 1, 2
• Fallout 1, 2
• Fatal Frame 1-2 / Project Zero 1-2
• Civillisation
• Warcraft 2
• Dune 2
• Elite
• X
• Descent
• Quake, Quake 2
• Zelda 3: A Link To The Past
• Zelda 4: Er, that one with the egg on the mountain
• Need For Speed Underground
• Sensible Soccer
• Screamer
• Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3, 4, 5
• R-Type
• Tapper
• Cannon Fodder
• NARC
• Blake Stone
• X-Wing Vs Tie Fighter
• Duke Nukem 3D
• Alone In The Dark
• Blade Runner
• Command & Conquer
• Bionic Commando
• Mario Kart
• F-Zero
• Sonic
• Police Quest 1, 2
• King's Quest 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
• Leisure Suit Larry 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7
• Monkey Island 1, 2, 3, 4
• Mechwarrior 2, MW2 Mercenaries
• Grim Fandango
• Space Quest 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
• I'm bored now
• Thief 1, 2, 3 /  Deadly Shadows

All classics, and if you've not played them all, you suck.

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Off Topic / Pixel Parodies

« on: August 11, 2004, 07:47:30 AM »

I just closed it on the music. Stupid stupid music.

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Off Topic / Omg U245 Can Now Get Legally Hammed?

« on: August 11, 2004, 07:31:06 AM »

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Off Topic / Another(?) Apology

« on: July 30, 2004, 08:13:00 AM »

Well, just felt i should apologise. Some people supported me in my views, other people didn't. I pissed off a lot of people with that thread, i was in a ^^ty mood, and i had absolutely no right to take it out on anyone.

So, Ness, Vinnie, fo0l, ebnar, dev, and whoever else got pissed off by my inane ramblings, i'm sorry.

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Off Topic / Rant: I, Robot

« on: July 29, 2004, 10:10:14 AM »

Hmm, i was in a bookstore this morning, i only noticed the original Asimov. But then again, i don't think I, Robot has even come out in the cinema over here.

On the note of the movie, if you put the title behind you, it is really an excellent movie, Will Smith is fantastic.

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General / Minor Rule Changes

« on: July 20, 2004, 08:38:41 PM »

Not a whine really, just a few thoughts on existing rules.

1) Lerk Lift:
Some people seem that it's fun to just pick up a gorge at will and try and fly him wherever they feel like. This is not fun. I just had a lerk attempt to pick me up 3 times in the space of 20 seconds to try and fly me off. Is there some way that "Don't abuse lerk lift" or similar can be added to the rules.

2) Team Damage / TK:
One thing that struck me as odd from another game i just played tonight is that team damaging as an Onos is prohibited. I'm not saying just walking up to a friendly player and attacking him for no reason should be justified, but if you need to escape and a friendly skulk or gorge is blocking your way, i really see no reason why attacking him to get him to move is bad. To put it this way, is a 75 res fade of a 10 or 2 res gorge or skulk more important. While i find team damaging etc to be bad form, given the circumstance, i feel that team damaging is justified, especially due to the Onos's ability to throw any unit 50m back with knockback.

Anyways, just some thoughts.

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General / Hldm Server Up

« on: July 19, 2004, 11:42:26 AM »

With an uptime of what, an hour or two or so, the banhammer has struck it's first target!

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General / [mrel] Papagorge

« on: July 15, 2004, 11:18:57 AM »

DOWNLOAD IT YOU HEATHENS!

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Off Topic / Edited Spidey Comics

« on: July 12, 2004, 06:09:29 AM »

Hafx3

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Media / Teh Ell Ehm Comic

« on: July 06, 2004, 12:51:05 PM »

**NUKED** Do not evade the swear filter like that again.

This post has been edited by Sonic on Jul 6 2004, 6:44 PM

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Media / Teh Ell Ehm Comic

« on: July 06, 2004, 12:45:02 PM »

**NUKED**

This post has been edited by Sonic on Jul 6 2004, 6:38 PM

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Off Topic / Eating Big Before Sleeping

« on: June 30, 2004, 02:32:34 PM »

I've heard if you eat acid before going to bed, you're quite likely to have weird dreams.  Maybe it's a myth.

I've exper..... heard that if you take acid while you're awake you have weird waking dreams.

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General / Running Away At The Start Of The Game

« on: June 22, 2004, 06:50:10 PM »

I thought comms liked it when a person left at the beginning to get RTs...

I'm not talking 1 person. I'm talking the whole team.

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General / Running Away At The Start Of The Game

« on: June 22, 2004, 12:35:02 PM »

At the start of the marine game, can people not rambo off straight off the bat, expecting people to comm, do you know why?

If you happen to have me and Sonic on your team, rather than having a comm bowing to your almighty need, you'll find two english guys taking turns and having a laugh. We've never won in our dual-comming, and we're unlikely ever to win. So unless you want two english guys splitting it, don't run off.