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General / juicy info
« on: June 04, 2005, 02:30:59 PM »
Well, if anything, it'd make the world's most interesting ban ticket.
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Off Topic / Need smart-ish people
« on: June 02, 2005, 05:44:15 PM »
Interestingly after installing WinDVD trial, WMP still REFUSES to give me sound.
I'm on XP Pro.
AC3 filter??
I think the uninstall codec/reinstall method might be the best option. Thanks folks!!
I'm on XP Pro.
AC3 filter??
I think the uninstall codec/reinstall method might be the best option. Thanks folks!!
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Off Topic / Need smart-ish people
« on: June 01, 2005, 07:38:43 PM »
I find I'm spending more and more time at the PC, mostly listening to my music CDs, when I inserted the bonus music/dvd disc bundled with the ROTS soundtrack.
While the DVD played, there was no sound. At. All.
Curious, I've inserted several DVDs but for whatever reason I cant get any sound out of them!
I installed K Lite Codec pack. Didn't work.
Tried updating WMP, didnt work.
Downloaded SHERLOCK, which only found a problem with MMSWITCH.AX
Downloaded WinDVD, which of course WORKED PERFECTLY.
Can anyone tell me, where am I going wrong, why do my DVDs disrespect RealMedia and WMP but love WinDVD? Is there a way to fix my problem?
All help welcome!
While the DVD played, there was no sound. At. All.
Curious, I've inserted several DVDs but for whatever reason I cant get any sound out of them!
I installed K Lite Codec pack. Didn't work.
Tried updating WMP, didnt work.
Downloaded SHERLOCK, which only found a problem with MMSWITCH.AX
Downloaded WinDVD, which of course WORKED PERFECTLY.
Can anyone tell me, where am I going wrong, why do my DVDs disrespect RealMedia and WMP but love WinDVD? Is there a way to fix my problem?
All help welcome!
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General / Wee 3.0.4 out!
« on: June 01, 2005, 04:01:10 PM »
Increased gestation, nice, should stop those situations where aliens are stopping to gestate before rushing rines on the doorstep of the hive.
Doubling the ammo is good, I usually hang around to double my clip anyway, so this certainly saves on my startup. Interesting to see the decrease of adv arm research time, perhaps bigger guns faster? Not too sure about longer adv research times, tbh I cant get JPs fast enough in most games.
Siege damage will be a very popular change, especially since hives can be rendered immortal by two adrenheal gorges on top of it.
Doubling the ammo is good, I usually hang around to double my clip anyway, so this certainly saves on my startup. Interesting to see the decrease of adv arm research time, perhaps bigger guns faster? Not too sure about longer adv research times, tbh I cant get JPs fast enough in most games.
Siege damage will be a very popular change, especially since hives can be rendered immortal by two adrenheal gorges on top of it.
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Off Topic / The Cooking Thread..
« on: June 01, 2005, 12:12:25 PM »
Champ is a very, VERY basic country dish from Ireland. Largely favoured by the settlers and farmers, it consists of mashed potato with milk and scallions. You usually eat it hot with some butter to taste.
Champ was generally made AS a main meal - you would have it for breakfast and it would keep you ticking through to dinnertime when you came back from the field.
Interestingly both the spring onion and the HERETIC GARLIC are believed to be imported species from Spain, much like the potato is a foreigner to the shores!
A well made champ will fill you up like no other meal, and literally sit in the stomach for quite some time.
Potatoes and simple vegetables are easily grown here and form the basis for many simply dishes, such as potato and leek soup (very thick soup, tastes godlike), irish stew, and a variety of shepherds pie, cottage pie, etc.
The humble potato forms the basis for:
champ
colcannon (champ with kale, or cabbage, effectively)
boxty (which is a mix of grated and mashed potato boiled in water before being lightly fried)
a boxty varient that has some apple added for flavour
potato bread, aka potato farls or tatey farls (very flat mashed potato, butter, and flour cooked on a skillet with oil)
potato and leek soup (verrry thick and satisfying)
potato and onion soup (uses the spring onion bulb)
Not to mention the bog standard method of just boiling the little darlings. Mm, I love my spuds.
Champ was generally made AS a main meal - you would have it for breakfast and it would keep you ticking through to dinnertime when you came back from the field.
Interestingly both the spring onion and the HERETIC GARLIC are believed to be imported species from Spain, much like the potato is a foreigner to the shores!
A well made champ will fill you up like no other meal, and literally sit in the stomach for quite some time.
Potatoes and simple vegetables are easily grown here and form the basis for many simply dishes, such as potato and leek soup (very thick soup, tastes godlike), irish stew, and a variety of shepherds pie, cottage pie, etc.
The humble potato forms the basis for:
champ
colcannon (champ with kale, or cabbage, effectively)
boxty (which is a mix of grated and mashed potato boiled in water before being lightly fried)
a boxty varient that has some apple added for flavour
potato bread, aka potato farls or tatey farls (very flat mashed potato, butter, and flour cooked on a skillet with oil)
potato and leek soup (verrry thick and satisfying)
potato and onion soup (uses the spring onion bulb)
Not to mention the bog standard method of just boiling the little darlings. Mm, I love my spuds.
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Off Topic / The Cooking Thread..
« on: May 31, 2005, 05:36:35 PM »
Well I live here too, and I've not seen a home made champ yet that involves garlic. Only in restaurants. As I previously stated.
Now, I've got my home family recipe, I have the recipe I was taught in school, I have various other friends/relatives recipes, I've eaten it in a few restaurants (both here and in Scotland), and I've purchased it ready made from several supermarket establishments. The only places that add garlic have been restaurants - and even then not enough to be numerous.
In the local lingo, scallions are the stalky bits of your onion. You don't use the bulb, and truth be told I usually take the top of the stalk off too. That leaves you a nice, fairly uniform length to work with. I am not concerned with the "true" use of the word, but certainly over here everyone refers to the stalk as the scallion.
I don't believe its added for flavour (otherwise you'd be using the bulb), but its likely more for colour and texture. Knowing irish cooking, I imagine the bulb is used for something else. Likely a form of onion sauce for any beef dish (works well with Guinness too, oddly) or a more basic alternative is to use it in potato and onion soup.
So, from all the celtic peoples, it's HERESY MAN!! WRONG WRONG WRONG!! HEREEESSSYYYYY!!!!! BURN HIM BURN HIM BURN HIM!!!
:lol:
Seriously tho, if you want to eat it with garlic, like those Sassenachs do, then go right ahead. I really think thought that such a recipe really misses out on the point of simple Irish food. Bear in mind that adding cabbage effectively turns champ into colcannon, so adding garlic would almost certainly mean a name change from champ to something....... else.
Anyhow, lets not argue the logistics of champ any further in public, PM me if you wish to elucidate further, right now lets keep the thread on track and agree to disagree. Even if you are a heretic. XD
Now, I've got my home family recipe, I have the recipe I was taught in school, I have various other friends/relatives recipes, I've eaten it in a few restaurants (both here and in Scotland), and I've purchased it ready made from several supermarket establishments. The only places that add garlic have been restaurants - and even then not enough to be numerous.
In the local lingo, scallions are the stalky bits of your onion. You don't use the bulb, and truth be told I usually take the top of the stalk off too. That leaves you a nice, fairly uniform length to work with. I am not concerned with the "true" use of the word, but certainly over here everyone refers to the stalk as the scallion.
I don't believe its added for flavour (otherwise you'd be using the bulb), but its likely more for colour and texture. Knowing irish cooking, I imagine the bulb is used for something else. Likely a form of onion sauce for any beef dish (works well with Guinness too, oddly) or a more basic alternative is to use it in potato and onion soup.
So, from all the celtic peoples, it's HERESY MAN!! WRONG WRONG WRONG!! HEREEESSSYYYYY!!!!! BURN HIM BURN HIM BURN HIM!!!
:lol: Seriously tho, if you want to eat it with garlic, like those Sassenachs do, then go right ahead. I really think thought that such a recipe really misses out on the point of simple Irish food. Bear in mind that adding cabbage effectively turns champ into colcannon, so adding garlic would almost certainly mean a name change from champ to something....... else.
Anyhow, lets not argue the logistics of champ any further in public, PM me if you wish to elucidate further, right now lets keep the thread on track and agree to disagree. Even if you are a heretic. XD
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General / juicy info
« on: May 31, 2005, 04:13:33 PM »
I miss the old sparkgun, it was a weapon of fear.
Tho even now I resort to the sparkgun in CC if I have one. A knife is ok, but sparkgun has more class.
Tho even now I resort to the sparkgun in CC if I have one. A knife is ok, but sparkgun has more class.
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General / juicy info
« on: May 30, 2005, 07:26:24 AM »
Is that to SOLO weld a hive?
You know, with enough marines, it might be feasible.
You know, with enough marines, it might be feasible.
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Off Topic / The Cooking Thread..
« on: May 29, 2005, 06:46:34 PM »
Well, from the usual Garlic Mashed Potatoes recipe, I would image your garlic is finely chopped/minced and you would cook it in with the scallions and milk.
Don't get me wrong, garlic mashed potatoes are nice... BUT ITS JUST NOT GOOD PROPER CHAMP!! ARRRRG!!! DEATH DEATH DEATH!!!
XD
Don't get me wrong, garlic mashed potatoes are nice... BUT ITS JUST NOT GOOD PROPER CHAMP!! ARRRRG!!! DEATH DEATH DEATH!!!
XD
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General / the problem
« on: May 29, 2005, 06:39:55 PM »Quote
As already noted, Building hives will be warpable too in 3.1 weather or not the server is running FF.
Exactly my point. People are going to have to cope with not being able to use mines, or somehow suddenly become trustworthy enough to warrant support for a "no mines in BUILT hives" policy.
It may not be "confirmed" but if thats the way things are looking, then we should be using it as the basis for progress.
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General / the problem
« on: May 28, 2005, 07:16:07 PM »
That would be something for the admin team to comment on.
However, from purely LM experience, when the rules had been clarified and defined, people used the definitions as excuse for llama behaviour. "The rules didnt say that" or "The rules said not in the hive, and I wasnt in the hive, I was just outside looking in" or any one of a hundred variations on the above.
Hence, I imagine, why we went back to the tried and tested NO SPAWNCAMPING method. That way noone can really fiddle the system, and people behave theirselves a bit more.
MC rapid response is a problem, but one I think that the changing of FF should help.
Ultimately tho you have to consider that, from the sounds of it, MC are going to eventually allow transport anywhere, so best to stick with the current method because ultimately its going to end up the official one. If MCs were NOT going to allow you to transport to the building hive, then I would support a FF switch. If spawn positions were really truly random I would also support a "mines are ok" campaign. But the game isnt going to be that way, so everyone is going to have to learn to take hives without clogging them with autospawncampers.
However, from purely LM experience, when the rules had been clarified and defined, people used the definitions as excuse for llama behaviour. "The rules didnt say that" or "The rules said not in the hive, and I wasnt in the hive, I was just outside looking in" or any one of a hundred variations on the above.
Hence, I imagine, why we went back to the tried and tested NO SPAWNCAMPING method. That way noone can really fiddle the system, and people behave theirselves a bit more.
MC rapid response is a problem, but one I think that the changing of FF should help.
Ultimately tho you have to consider that, from the sounds of it, MC are going to eventually allow transport anywhere, so best to stick with the current method because ultimately its going to end up the official one. If MCs were NOT going to allow you to transport to the building hive, then I would support a FF switch. If spawn positions were really truly random I would also support a "mines are ok" campaign. But the game isnt going to be that way, so everyone is going to have to learn to take hives without clogging them with autospawncampers.
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General / the problem
« on: May 27, 2005, 08:15:11 PM »
I hate to break it to ya kids, but the grey area should ALWAYS favour the spirit of the rules.
The spirit of the rules are NO SPAWNCAMPING.
Therefore, any grey areas will ALWAYS favour NO SPAWNCAMPING.
Its rather unfortunate that IN THIS CASE it happens to favour aliens, but such is life.
Nodeblocks are a pain in the arse but are fairly infrequent, and certainly not as game damaging as spamming the spawn points with mines and shotgun wielding marines on spawncamp detail.
The spirit of the rules are NO SPAWNCAMPING.
Therefore, any grey areas will ALWAYS favour NO SPAWNCAMPING.
Its rather unfortunate that IN THIS CASE it happens to favour aliens, but such is life.
Nodeblocks are a pain in the arse but are fairly infrequent, and certainly not as game damaging as spamming the spawn points with mines and shotgun wielding marines on spawncamp detail.
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General / Pressure Control
« on: May 27, 2005, 08:11:03 PM »
See, what starts out as my sarcasm ends up as a useful insight. Soon I will be chief dev of NS, and we shall implement little bunny skulks because thats what the marines least expect. Then, the comfy chair!!
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General / NWN permanent worlds...
« on: May 27, 2005, 08:08:53 PM »
GW would cripple my pc.
Good new though because my wage is about to increase by 50% so will have plenty of cash for an upgrade, mwahaha.
Good new though because my wage is about to increase by 50% so will have plenty of cash for an upgrade, mwahaha.
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General / the problem
« on: May 25, 2005, 04:04:24 PM »
"the server blocks a valid strategy to counter a very powerful alien ability"
Yes, IIRC that was the same sort of discussion over the validity of CC blocking. I remember how that one ended too.
"but dying to a mine in an UNBUILT hive is just utter overkill."
If people could be trusted, you could consider rules like "mines are ok in an unbuilt hive" but the problem is people can't be trusted, they'll spam mines at the last possible minute, then whine about how their skills are being inhibited despite the fact they're trying to grasp an edge by unsporting means.
If I thought I could trust half the people who like spamming mines in a hive NOT to spam mines at the last minute, then I'd be more in favour of it. But the fact is they can't be trusted. It was the exact same thing with CC blocking, it was the exact same thing with ANY rule thats come into being. When we had a whole set of spawncamping rules, players still tried to wheedle their way into "legitimate" spawncamping. Forget the fact that the SPIRIT of the rules were "no spawncamping", noooo, the LETTER of the rules allowed spawncamping if you were very very dishonest and underhand.
I do not doubt for a second that if the mine rule was relaxed, we'd instantly see a slew of people spamming mines just before the hive pops, then saying "Oh I'm not spawncamping with mines, I dropped those a whole 2 seconds before the hive went up". If anyone tried to argue the point, they'd instantly complain about the rule and how unfair the admins are and etc etc all the usual rubbish we've come to expect.
Lot easier to just leave it as is, where there is no ambiguity, where people can make a quick call about whether or not a mine is in the hive, and where certain players will have no opportunity to throw a hissy fit because their attempt to sidestep the rules got caught.
Yes, IIRC that was the same sort of discussion over the validity of CC blocking. I remember how that one ended too.
"but dying to a mine in an UNBUILT hive is just utter overkill."
If people could be trusted, you could consider rules like "mines are ok in an unbuilt hive" but the problem is people can't be trusted, they'll spam mines at the last possible minute, then whine about how their skills are being inhibited despite the fact they're trying to grasp an edge by unsporting means.
If I thought I could trust half the people who like spamming mines in a hive NOT to spam mines at the last minute, then I'd be more in favour of it. But the fact is they can't be trusted. It was the exact same thing with CC blocking, it was the exact same thing with ANY rule thats come into being. When we had a whole set of spawncamping rules, players still tried to wheedle their way into "legitimate" spawncamping. Forget the fact that the SPIRIT of the rules were "no spawncamping", noooo, the LETTER of the rules allowed spawncamping if you were very very dishonest and underhand.
I do not doubt for a second that if the mine rule was relaxed, we'd instantly see a slew of people spamming mines just before the hive pops, then saying "Oh I'm not spawncamping with mines, I dropped those a whole 2 seconds before the hive went up". If anyone tried to argue the point, they'd instantly complain about the rule and how unfair the admins are and etc etc all the usual rubbish we've come to expect.
Lot easier to just leave it as is, where there is no ambiguity, where people can make a quick call about whether or not a mine is in the hive, and where certain players will have no opportunity to throw a hissy fit because their attempt to sidestep the rules got caught.
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Off Topic / The Cooking Thread..
« on: May 25, 2005, 03:55:34 PM »
Garlic is not an onion. Second, scallions are spring onions, noone calls them green onions (although its still a valid name. Its just noone uses it).
Whenever I make champ, I have unaccompanied. Maybe a little bit of butter if you're feeling extravagant.
Garlic, urg, such heresy. Only restaurants do that sort of silliness. Step away from the garlic man, people who LIVE in Eire and Northern Ireland don't use garlic.
Whenever I make champ, I have unaccompanied. Maybe a little bit of butter if you're feeling extravagant.
Garlic, urg, such heresy. Only restaurants do that sort of silliness. Step away from the garlic man, people who LIVE in Eire and Northern Ireland don't use garlic.
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General / the problem
« on: May 24, 2005, 05:16:07 PM »
Exact, maybe not, but pretty darned close is generally the order of the day.
I only speak from experience, where you blow up as you spawn. Thats a barrel of fun, right there.
I only speak from experience, where you blow up as you spawn. Thats a barrel of fun, right there.
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Off Topic / The Cooking Thread..
« on: May 24, 2005, 05:14:35 PM »
You dont put garlic in champ man, you use scallions.
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General / the problem
« on: May 24, 2005, 11:00:37 AM »
I dont think zunni said memorising the spawn points and spamming mines on them is legit either.
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General / Pressure Control
« on: May 23, 2005, 07:28:49 PM »
Well if its a map problem, why not make a thread asking for it to be taken out of the cycle? I mean, since its causing so much of a problem.