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Off Topic / Eeeeeeeeee...

« on: November 09, 2004, 04:02:56 AM »

okaaay.  Story time.


once, there was a little boy.  he heard about this great game to play, called WOW.  It was even going to be in an OPEN BETA, so he could try it for himself.

So.  the day came around that the open beta was to take place. he knew it would be that day, from a newsbulletin that had gotten put up.  So he waited.  And then, it HAPPENED!  there would be an open beta today, YAY!  quickly, he went off to fileplanet to start downloading before everyone else.  He got in line nice and early, about 2pm.  the file started.  everything was looking good.

5 1/2 hours later, the whoooole 2.5GB file finished.  He had the WOW beta client on his computer!  Oh boy was he exited.  So he tried to unzip it with his friendly winrar unzipper.  uh oh.  turns out that doesn't work.  luckily, he remembered something about needing WinZip 9.0.  So he went and got that.  Uh oh, turns out his install file is corrupt.  Also, the install file offers him tea and biscuits.

So, our hero thinks, "hey, i'll be smart, and check the tech support forums on the blizzard site!"  Uh oh.  looks like the WOW site is down.  Oh hell.  But he doesn't get too discouraged, and keeps checking it.  YAY, it came back up!  he can now check the tech support forums.  Ooo, there's even a stickied post by a blizzard employee about HIS specific problem, a corrupted fileplanet d/l!  So our hero reads it.  he reads it carefully.  Then he goes to work.

He does what the post says.   He dilligently unzips the file into his C: drive, and renames the folder to the correct name.  Then he starts up the blizzard downloader, and points it towards the file.  Uh oh.  It finds 35mb of an approximatly 2500MB file, and proceeds to start d/ling the rest.  Oh .  The installer just decided to baek a caek for our hero! But our hero says "i'm strong!  i'll fix it somehow!"  Poor, stupid hero, he has no idea what's in for him...

So he heads off to the tech forum.  he thinks "maybe i missed something, maybe i didnt' do it quite right."  So he starts trying different things.  Things that the Blizzard tech guy "might" have meant.  They don't seem to make one damn bit of a difference.  Uh oh.  The install file decided it wants a piece of our hero's pai, and it wants it NOW.

Well, he thinks, "maybe i can re-d/l the whole damn thing from fileplanet?"  Seems that fileplanet isn't going to save our hero now, cuz it won't let him get in line for the file anymore.  What the ?!?  Uh oh.  Looks like our hero just got served the freshly baek'd caek.

But our hero says, "I'm strong!  i can do this!"  And heads back off to the tech support forum, to get some answers.  So our hero heads into the tech support forums.  He tries to post. Oh, he doesn't have an account.  well, that's an easy fix.  he heads off and creates one.  Uh oh.  The install file just picked up it's bottle of champaigne. Want a glass?

He heads bach to the Tech support forum.  He tries to post.  What the HELL?  RESTRICTED ACCESS?!?  What the IS THIS ^^!  oh HOLY !  Uh oh.  Looks like the install file just pried open the champaigne bottle with it's "magic bottle opener."  

So he tries the general Tech support forum, instead of the special post.  oh jesus, you're got to be ^^TING ME!  RESTRICTED ACCESS HERE TOO?!?  how the HELL am i supposed to post my problems then?!?  OH GOD WHY DOES IT BURN!!!  Uh oh.  Looks like the install file's really going at it.

He tries the general forums.  WHAT THE HELL RESTRICTED HERE TOO?!?  Uh oh.  The install file just took out the expensive silver cutlery and is cutting a nice slice of turkey for our hero. Mmm, so tasty turkey.




install file: 1, our hero: 0

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General / Idea!

« on: October 16, 2004, 03:14:33 AM »

All right.  As i think everyone knows, the hand grenade upgrade sucks.  It's hardly ever used, and it's pretty much redundant.  So here's my idea.

Incendiary hand grenades.

You remember when you first played NS, and you no doubt though to yourself, "gee, a flamethrower would be awesome here."  The idea of a flamethrow is on the "do not suggest" list in the I&S because it's so cool.

Now, if i recall correctly, the reason that a flamethrower isn't in NS is because they couldn't make one that was both good looking, effected by the area around it, AND easy on the processor.  When i say effected by the area around it, i mean that in a big room, the flame spreads out, and doesn't last as long.  In a small area, such as a vent, the flame would project much more, and and keep burning longer.

I don't have a whole lot of programming knowledge so please correct me if i'm wrong here.  If you are shooting a stream of fire, and you want it to alter it's behavior according to it's surroundings, then it has to re-calculate it's rate of expansion constantly, throughout the entire stream.  That would be very processor intensive, and it's understandable that a flamethrower isn't in the halflife engine.

But, if you had a hand grenade spew fire everywhere, it'd only have to calculate once.  That'd take a lot less resources.  Then it would satisfy all conditions set by the NS team, since it'd look good, be "real-time" fire, and be low-usage.

And really, would you miss the current hand grenade?  When is the last time you used one, anyway?  The gl does the same job, except it's better.  True, hand grenades are sooner on the tech tree, but only if your resources aren't tight, and you aren't researching an advanced armory.  In early game, before you have an advance armory, your res is tight, and if you're not upgrading you armory then you should be.



Okay, so those are all the reasons for changing hand grenades to incendiary hand grenades.  I'm suggesting this here, instead of the I&S, for two reasons.  First, meaning no disrespect to the forum mods, but i think the community here is much better.  Second, i remember a thread about a new idea for the fade's blink.  I also remember a lot of feedback on that thread, because there was a mod of it, a clear example.  Since i don't have the programming knowledge or tools to make an incendiary grenade, i thought i might throw the idea out, and see if someone can whip up an example, THEN we take it over to the I&S and hold it up for all to see (just to prove how cool TLM is.)



Plus, how cool would it be to should "BURN, FATTY!!! and throw your fire grenade onto the gorge hiding behind the oc's.  Then you'd get to watch him scream in agony, as his life withers away before his very eyes.  Poor gorgie.

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Off Topic / I'm Nub...

« on: October 13, 2004, 01:55:54 PM »

Um, what's irc, (i know it's a chat client of sorts, but could you be more descriptive?)
how do i get it?


lurve...

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General / Clear Rules Is Good!

« on: October 08, 2004, 02:37:58 AM »

I just wanted to say that i have a habit of reading the "banned" forum.  From what i've seen recently, the clearer the rules, the better.

so, good job to who ever decided to make the rules clear.  I was wondering how you were going to resolve things.  way to go on finding a good way.


(if this is for any reason a closed topic, or innapropriate, then plz enjoy deleting this.  thx.)

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Off Topic / This Made Me Think Of Some People Here

« on: August 08, 2004, 04:11:38 PM »

Nodwick

enjoy...