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General / Whats up with LB?

« on: August 26, 2005, 04:53:50 AM »

just been knowticing a lack of LB's presence around recently...  If he's just bored of hanging around that's cool, but there's a few things he should have probably delt with first, I know lowcrawler would think so.  I like devnull running things, he's a great guy, just kindof made me wonder why I haven't seen LB around in a good forever...

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Off Topic / Swifts Music Spectacular!

« on: June 09, 2005, 02:20:37 AM »

Most of you probably had no clue whatsoever, but a few of you might know that I've been into digital mixing for music for quite some time... now I kind of feel I need to apologize, you've probably seen me reeming people out for bad sample choices and use of crappy synths in the past yet have never seen me post any of my work to back my statements.  I didn't really want to get back into the "OLO FREE MP3 HOST FOR YOU!!!" thing ever since internetDJ went down the tubes and started making people pay for accounts, so I just never hosted the stuff, and thus none of you ever heard it.  Yesterday Legion offerend me some hosting to post my stuff, thanks a million man  <3  <3  <3.  Anyways, here is a small sampling, which pretty much consists of all my work that I considered good enough to share from the last 2 years (I'm a hobbist, this isn't my job and I'm not that hardcore).  Most of it is made with Fruityloops and one song made with Reason.  For future referance I wouldn't recommend Fruityloops to any aspiring mixers. FL is a VERY bare bones sound suite... when you run into something that doesn't sound right in a FL song you basicly say to yourself "how the hell am I going to fix this?" when you run into something in reason you say "which of these many many options am I going to use to fix this?".  Takes longer to learn, but overall reason is a MUCH nicer sound suite.  Downloads and listenings of awesome music free for all!

BeachSideCoffee:
Probably my oldest song in this series, nice mellow sound, some nice light synths and good sound effect samples in the background.  I hit a lucky note on this one, as it probably turned out better then most of the other stuff here in the end.  Made with Fruityloops.

Sonar Espionage:
Intersting sound, catchy tune, not very mainstream stuff...  Sounds to me like a video game mix or something, hear for yourself, it's a little hard to explain...  Made with Fruityloops.

TharBeDragons!:
A little more of a mystical sound, something that might be used in a FF style MMORPG or something, hence the "thar be"ing of "dragons".  Made with Fruityloops.

TravellersRythem:
I think I spelled something in the title wrong :P...  Either way, This is the last Fruityloops song I ever made, you can hear that it's a little cleaner and more professional sounding...  much more relyant on the groove of the melody then a strong beat to pull the listener into the song... I get bored of this song after a little while, but it would be decent background music for something.

Journy (VsB remix):
I came up with the original melody and beat for this song and then abandoned it because it originally sounded really really crappy.  My brother picked it up though and resampled everything and I'm really quite pleased with the result.  VsB stands for Voodoo steam Boat... he hasn't used that nickname in forever but I think it's still his DJ handle...  My brother is hardcore, and has pumped a fair few techno tracks out of fruity loops that I personally think leave some of the better professional artists in the dust.  I've learned a fair bit from going through his sources and seeing how he does stuff.  Made and remixed in fruityloops.

Shreads:
My most recent peice, and probably the most catchy of all these songs.  Some of the stuff I did with the synths going through a scream machine just gives this a really hard edge that makes it impossible to avoid getting sucked into the melody.  It's all synths and samples arranged digiatally, even though some of it sounds alot like intrumentals, which really aids the sound I was going for.  Made with Reason.

Enjoy and critique!

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Off Topic / Source did THAT?

« on: April 26, 2005, 02:08:13 PM »

I don't know how old this is, but it's worth widely publicizing anyways...

HL2 Lost coast video teaser:
http://www.3dgamers.com/dlselect/games/hal...st_q01.zip.html

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General / A short story.

« on: April 08, 2005, 08:10:17 AM »

Why Swiftspear Should Never Be Left Alone On Your Server:
[size=8]By: SwiftSpear[/size]


One day swiftspear was bored, and therefore swiftspear decided to entertain himself.  Swiftspear logged onto NS and joined a server playing NS_hera.  Swiftspear still was not ammused by NS_hera, so he turned on sv_cheats and looked for good gaps to jump.  Finding that he had already jumped all the gaps on hera many times, swiftspear pursued other forms of entertainment.  The walls under the cargo elevator seemed bland, swiftspear decided to paint!
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The art was to pretty, but something was missing!  EXPLOZIONS!
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WALL GO BEWM, SERVER GO OWIE!  SWIFT GO YAY ^_^!

End result
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General / Newborns elec RT Strat.

« on: March 21, 2005, 11:06:21 PM »

This thing is evil!  Aliens are supposed to be overpowered in 3.0f and newborn has switched it totally around on us!

Although this has REALLY helped liven up the marine game on LM, it really needs to be fixed for 3.1.  But the public isn't going to quickly belive that this thing even exists.  As per this thread people clearly don't belive that rushing and electrifying RTs can possibly result in a better marine game then the more conventional fast upgrades and hive rushes.  Thus I plea to this comunity, whenever you go play classic on any other server, jump in the chair and make this happen!  The public must be made aware that this strat exists, or nothing will ever be changed and LM will remain brutally unbalanced forever (or at least until we ban anyone whos name starts with newb or noob  :p )

Newborn you should be proud of yourself that you discovered this thing, but honestly, it is only fun to play against as an alien so many times before it gets old.

[edit] wow, hyperlinks really don't stand out much with the new forum setup.

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General / Rant Of hatered!

« on: March 19, 2005, 01:44:02 AM »

ARG, I just had the most frustrating game as a comm EVER.  Playing caged I got my team to RL to double and started bunkering it down.  At that point I ordered everyone to go out and get res for the midgame cappage.  EVERY BLOOMING NODE I GOT SOMEONE WOULD ASK ME TO ELECTRIFY!  YOU CAN NOT ELECTRIFY NODES OFF OF AN RL, YOU DO NOT HAVE ENOUGH RES!  So I got 2 obs up while the whole time someone was whining that we didn't have obs while I was pining them (aliens went sensory first) and got my arms lab up with armor one, so focus bites weren't a one hit kill.  Then I just tryed to get my marines to grab as many nodes as possible under ping while I rushed for HA (since HA/HMG absolutly WASTE sensory life forms since they are left lagging in the late game).  At some point some of my marines got a pg up in shipping tunnel, and I decided to try for a shotgun rush instead of rushing for weapons ups 2, but all but maby 2 of the shotguns I dropped ramboed off without phasing, so I decided I wasn't going to waste any more res worring about a failed pg rush, expecially since I don't remember even seeing one single shotgun kill for about 5 dropped shotties.

FOR THE REST OF THE GAME I HAD SOME MORON COMPLAINING THAT I DID NOT ELEC THE SHIPPING NODE SO WE COULD HOLD THAT LOCATION.  WELL GUESS WHAT?  I DON'T CARE! WE HAVE WELDABLES TO BOTH VENT AND SEWER!

So around this time my armory was finished upgrading the proto lab was finished and HA was upgrading.  Someone asked for a GL so clear out some lame somewhere, I don't really remember where, maby MS, since I remember that location kindof going back and forth all game.  I don't really know if that GL ever went to use, I don't remember seeing any GL kills or seeing nade explotions, but 2 minutes later they had lost it somewhere, and no one reported its down location.  Anyways, I had now finished upgrading HA and was ready to rush.  I dropped 2 ha shotties jsut to pressure the aliens and about a minute later I had the res for a big march.  I dropped 5 HA/HMGs, no one picked them up... I dropped one more... still no one picks them up.  I literally had people spawning and ramboing out of base without touching the HA, after I told them to get them.  On top of that someone is whining that HA/HMG are useless because I didn't get them high weapons ups.  WELL GUESS WHAT, THE ALIENS WENT SENSORY FIRST AND YOU HAVE 6 HA/HMG ON THE GROUND IN DOUBLE RES, THE CENTER OF THE FRIGGING MAP!

So I beacon the marines and drop a PG in rine start.  If they are going to be rambos, then I am going to beacon them.  Of course everyone started whining about being beaconed from thier AWESOME NINJA HIDING SPOTS... THAT I DON'T FRIGGING CARE ABOUT BECAUSE ALL THE HIVES ARE A 30 SECOND MARCH FROM OUR BASE!  eventually they get the pg up and pick up the HA, and then proceed to all run off in totally different directions.  I heard from the aliens later that the largest group of HA that stuck together was 3, half is not a good ratio on an RL tech rush IMHO.  The HA that did stick together headed off towards the northernmost hive (don't remember what it is called).  I don't know why they decided not to weld to sews or vent, but I wouldn't really have been so annoyed by it if they had stuck together and made progress rather then ramboing off anyways.

So about 3 minutes later all my HA are dead AND I HAVE 2-3 PLAYERS ON MY TEAM BLAMING ME FOR LOSING THE GAME FOR THEM.  THEY EVEN TRYED TO VOTE EJECT ME AND I WAS CALLED A NUB COMMANDER ABOUT 300 TIMES!  I swear I had never been so pissed off in my life.  I let the game go to the finish, recycled everything but the ips hoping for a lucky RL ninja, but none of them lived that long.  I probably ranted in game about it for about 5 minutes before I realized that I was too mad to play and was just wasting the slot, so I left and decided to make this post to vent.

Sorry if I offended anyone, unless you were the FRIGGING JERK NUB WHO WAS CALLING ME A NOOB COMMANDER AND PRESSING THE EJECT BUTTON, THEN I HOPE YOU ARE VERY OFFENDED AND CHOKE ON A FORK AND DIE!!!

Ok... *breaths* seriouly, sorry if I offended anyone, just had to get this out of my system, and honestly posting helped alot.  Anyways, enjoy this violent and generally out of character post because I probably won't be making alot like it any time soon.

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Off Topic / Every man's tragic story

« on: March 12, 2005, 01:14:44 AM »

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/224204

Lets all take a moment to mourn this tragic loss.

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General / NSlearn Comunity tourny

« on: March 08, 2005, 10:38:56 PM »

Link

Came across this browsing around some of firewaters links and what not, seems like the thing is pretty much just starting up.  I know we've had some problems with firewater in the past, and this is definitely not a request to let him be unbanned or whatever, but I don't see why we have to avoid events involving the NS comunity just because people who have been banned from this server are involved.  I mean it isn't fair to expect everyone to have an easy time playing by LMs strict rules.

Anyways, I was just wondering what you guys would feel about maby getting involved in this... I mean we do have some above average players here, maby this is a bit of an oppertunity to show off the stuff top of the line pubbers are acctually capable of... I mean I'm pretty close to low mid level clan skill and some of you guys still ponce me.

Anyways, I'd understand if we decided agianst this, but I really don't see the harm in it.  If anyone disagrees I'd like to know why, but if there are really no obejections I'd like to ask LB to sign us up!  

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General / 3.0 opinions

« on: March 05, 2005, 04:11:38 PM »

So, what are your thoughts about 3.0 while the NS forums are down (and probably will be down for quite a while the way that usually works out)?

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Mapping / NS Map pack

« on: March 04, 2005, 03:56:52 AM »

http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index....showtopic=89434

Drop by and throw in your support!

Next time make your thread and topic at least reasonably relevant to the real topic

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General / My I&S thread of doom!

« on: March 01, 2005, 11:37:28 AM »

http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index....opic=89205&st=0

I'm trying to get some good imput on what aspect of the game general NS players feel is most broken at the moment...  Unfortunately, generally your average NS player avoides the I&S forums by repution in frustration.

Please drop by and leave your opinions, just so I can get more of a gauge of what experianced players feel is most wrong with the game.

Thanks

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General / NS advance

« on: February 28, 2005, 12:23:13 AM »

Came across this while I was lerking the NS public beta forums.  The initial obvious problem is that it will unbalance the game in favor of the aliens, as they would have the ability to lay all the chambers right off the bat, but I still think with a proper counterplugin this could be really fun to play with.

The only thing I see massivly unbalancing this would be the fact that the aliens can drop all three chambers right off the bat. The incremental res cost of the upgrades should keep the alien rate of progress averaged until the extreamly late game, and if it came to the point where fades/onos had all upgrades, I really don't see how the marines could survive...

On hyperlarge/slow moving maps such as seige where both sides generally tend to reach thier full potential fairly fast, and epic long lasting games are fairly common, the game would quicly unbalance however.

To counter the disadvantage of both counts, I think a counter plugin should be made that allows the marines to upgrade more of thier structures (armory and observatory emidiately come to mind) as a counter for the more powerful earlygame WOLs and potentially deadly early superskulks, and also extra upgrades, perhaps to level ten, should be added at an astronomical cost for the hyper high end level upgrades.

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Off Topic / I can waste your time!

« on: February 23, 2005, 10:12:11 PM »

Click "Watch This Movie" and prepare to be amazed!

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Off Topic / GRRRRRR!

« on: January 08, 2005, 02:19:35 PM »

Since I first tryed today at 2 I haven't been able to access the NS forums and the NS site isn't displaying properly.

All the pictures and selectables and backgrounds display ok but the relevent text all says "uweConnectDB(): Could not connect do database: Can't connect to MySQL server on 'localhost' (10061)"

The forums just bring up notification that they couldn't be connected too, with a bunch of code, and ask me if I want to contact an admin.

Anyone else haveing problems at the moment?

[edit] if I try to log in it tells me my profile_handle is not found, which I know for a fact is not my fault as there is only so many ways you can type swiftspear.

[edit2]  attempt1, resetting all cookies and histories, failed.

[edit3] attempt2, opening with interent explorer rather than fire fox, failed.

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Off Topic / WTF is going on here?

« on: January 03, 2005, 11:53:34 PM »

A normal image X?  nope.  This thing is formatted as a gif but change the file name to .rar and open in winrar and you will find a hidden image within (the hidden image is lame, don't worry about it).   Basicly I'm have this image and the worst directions the world has ever conceived on how to create it from here  (one of the posts from the guy who is using the X as his avatar) and I'm trying to figure out how this is done...  :huh:

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Off Topic / I need a favor,

« on: December 18, 2004, 04:26:16 PM »

Hey, I'm back at home!

Anyways, the computer over here doesn't have a copy of natural selection for our HL copy, which normally wouldn't be a problem except that right now the NS website is down, and thus I can't download a copy of B5.  If someone could host a copy for a few hours or send me one somehow it would be much appreciated...

If it isn't going to happen don't worry about it, but if it isn't too much trouble then great.

I'll be on later or you can always email me at my screename at gmail.com

Awesome caeks!

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General / Beta 6 changelog

« on: December 17, 2004, 05:20:10 AM »

New Announcement on NS page: just incase you are curious

THE CHANGELOG!!! for those of you without the patience to go through 2 links...

Discuss!

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Off Topic / THE HORROR

« on: December 16, 2004, 05:55:43 AM »

One fateful night (tonight) I decided to do a google search of my name, just to see if it was cool or not or something...  I don't know, honestly that is beside the point.

To this point in time I have never heard of another internet persona who used my particual handel, until today.  The head admin of this atrociously discusting forum has blatantly insulted me with the lifting of my gloriously conceived name and I will not rest until this wrong is righted.  Not only am I enduring these discusting insults, but to make matters worse this "hazel swiftspear" is aparently but a mere 11 year old female human... who writes fanfic style RPG quests no less! and aparently has something against people knowing her location.

At least I can claim definitively that I have been using the title first, as my name first appears on the NS forums october 2003, which is a long long time ago...  But still, this is a mockery to my good name! whatever shall I do?!?

Gasp the horror

I will update as soon as there is any relevent news (ya right, I'm not going to harrass a 12 year old over a handle  :p) but as it stands right now, my horror shall never be lived down!




If you enjoyed my pain and suffering then screw you, you sick puppy!

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Off Topic / Is It Just Me,

« on: October 26, 2004, 09:27:22 PM »

I was browsing the thermaltake website, like I always to because I am a huge nerd with nothing else to do, when I knowticed a feature they have implimented that I never remembered being so stupid before.  As some of you have probably knowticed, thermal take uses a logo system so the features of thier products are easy to recognize, but on further inspection you will realize that these logos are a FRIGGIN BUNCH OF CRAP.  Not that they are ugly or anything, its just that there is like a million logos, with each new product getting at least 4 new logos being made for it, so you might as well just read a spec list since the logos are compleatly and utterly unessicary anyways.  

For instance here is one of the logos for thier new case:

Clearly you can tell what that is, can't you? well let me tell you, it is a 'shark logo' which is obviously compleatly nessicary, because when you first catch a glimpse of the logo you haven't read the name of the case or looked at a picture of the case yet have you?

For another example:

This is the '12025 Fan' logo, and this

is the 'LED fan' logo, it is obviously crystal clear what the difference is just by looking at the logo is it not?

Here is some more logos:
The 'USB 2.0' Logo

the 'preformance' logo

the 'Universal' logo

the 'four in one cooler' logo.

The stupidest thing about all these logos? you would be hard pressed to find some of them used more then once, on the entire site, ever, SO WHAT IS THE FRIGGIN POINT?  Personally I just think they like thier costomers to feel patronized.

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Off Topic / My Sad And Terrible Story

« on: September 24, 2004, 08:24:23 PM »

This is a story of terrible terror and horror, uncomparable to any horror any person has ever seen in thier life before.

So I come to my new university, everything is peachy and nice, sure the internet is a little slow, but its workable, so I sit back and chill for a while, absolutly unaware of the terrors that aproache me.  Day by day, things get worse and worse, the internet starts freezing up now and then, but it still works most of the time, I figure they are just changing network setting around and that things will be back to normal soon.  Well they didn't go back to normal, they didn't go back to normal at all, and one day I join LM and I find that my ping is jumping wildly between 300-600.  Dispite my best attempts to play, it really wasn't fair to any one, my character would teleport around and I really couldn't get a good idea of what the heck I was doing, expecially as marine, I would be dead 80% of the time before I even saw the skulk, and when I did see him, lets just say that lag compensation wasn't exactly king to me.  So I begin my quest to find out WTHBBQ is going on.  On talking to some of the tech guys, I come to the understanding that my entire universtity is aparently running on 3 DSL lines split by a series of 8-10 switches to provide internet access for roughtly 300 computers (all the lab computers and residence computer combined, NOES) and basicly they are running so bandwidth heavy that after the first two weeks they were forced to put several (and I mean SEVERAL) bandwith filters in place.  So, right now, my internet loads at about 1/8th full speed, steam doesn't really like opening at all (and when it does, online games are out of the question), P2P downloads crawl at about the same speed that early dial up lines averaged, but somehow, HTML downloads run fine at about 50KBps.  Basicly, I am screwed, and I won't be able to play NS really at all until christmas break (unless we set up a lan party at some point, which is acctually quite likely) and after that I have to wait until summer to play again.  I hate my life  :angry: