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Off Topic / So What's Ipb?

« on: October 17, 2004, 10:54:20 PM »

As far as I understand it is free to use forum software, but it displays its own ads at the top of each window. If you pay for it, the ads are stripped off. I don't think they provide webspace, but they may do that as a seperate deal.

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General / Disappearing Favorites List

« on: October 15, 2004, 08:29:43 PM »

Try adding it, then closing steam, then restarting steam. Sometimes it just won't stick if you don't do this. I think steam saves your changes when you turn it off, and if you just shut your PC down normally, it doesn't do this. Chalk up another wise programming decision to valve.

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Off Topic / Omg Teh Esuna

« on: October 15, 2004, 08:14:17 AM »

Happy birthday you slutty piece of eurotrash.  

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Off Topic / Unbanned From Naturalselection.org Forums

« on: October 13, 2004, 10:24:59 AM »

Yeah, very classy posts those were. But at least appreciate the fact that they were quickly locked after being posted. Even though most people on the forums like to spam "IBTL!!!!" on every stupid post. I think we need more LM style postcount-- for spamming.

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General / Ze Nu Eye-konz

« on: October 12, 2004, 12:17:19 PM »

I have somehow ended up with what I can only assume is Archi's icon (little blue-white squid thingy). Take it away, it is scareh!!!

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General / Ns Troubleshooting

« on: October 12, 2004, 12:14:03 PM »

Too much detail? What sort of cpu and video card are you running on? NS is especially CPU intesive compared to a lot of other mods. The maps have three times the entities of a map for any other mod, and then you stack all the entities for team structures and dropped items on top of that.

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General / Worst Map Ever...

« on: October 12, 2004, 12:12:32 PM »

For what it's worth, I've just seen a recent build of altair by KFDM and my main complaint about it: TOO BRIGHT! So it's really going through a lot of changes. He's definitely trying to fix up the lighting and make it as playable and enjoyable as possible. In fact, I don't think I can recall seeing a mapper this involved and active in improving their map.

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Off Topic / Unbanned From Naturalselection.org Forums

« on: October 11, 2004, 11:37:34 PM »

Well it's the difference between the implications in:

I don't quite see a reason to want to be unbanned in the NS boards...

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And the clear, well thought out point of view presented in:

There have always been too many people ready to jump on the negativity bandwagon and complain sooner than discuss maturely. Someone would make a thread about a game they've been playing and would like to recommend, or a game they're looking forward to, and people post in the thread just to say "That game sux, why would you ever play it?" and never respond again, or, in a worse situation, come back to bash the topic even more. That on top of how many people make small posts just to get their postcount up, not adding anything constructive to a thread at all.

You're preaching to the choir when you bring up the sig and avatar limits around me. As someone who's been around on different forums, I like the limited size that the NS and LM boards have. People often put whatever random image they have into a sig just to have a sig, but with the limits there is less random junk in a sig and it adds more of a challenge for someone who likes to make sigs; I have less room to work with to make something that looks cool without being annoying or an eyesore.

I never said that the NS forums were bad, I never said the moderators weren't doing their jobs; I was merely expressing the fact that I can only handle a certain amount of general lameness that a lot of the members display. For a long while, I really enjoyed being part of a community, communicating with people that had shared similar interests. But eventually, all of the little things that annoyed me, the postcount whores, the general asshats, and did what I tell other people to do: leave. I didn't like the atmosphere, I didn't like the annoyances, so instead of remaining and turning into an angry troll, I left.

I have recently begun reading the boards again, usually in my free time in class. There are a lot of intelligent individuals on the boards, a lot more people that are able to say "Hey, that isn't cool" to people who are being rude or inconsiderate, and people that do a very nice job presenting a topic they enjoy and want to share with others, such as the threads about the Nintendo DS for example. There are more people that I can identify with and express my ideas without worrying so much about someone posting "That idea is stupid" and running off.

That gives us the difference between understanding, and assumption based merely on the tone of a one line post.

So next time, at least make an attempt to understand my reasoning before going off and scold me. I'm not just some young "teenangster" who goes around hating things for no real good purpose.

Now who's reading into something?  :p Don't worry grimm, I'm not accusing you of anything as horrible as teenangsterhood. I respect you for the intelligent poster that you are. Let's kiss and make up.

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Off Topic / Unbanned From Naturalselection.org Forums

« on: October 11, 2004, 12:54:44 PM »

Well the work sort of seems to fall to whoever wants it, and whoever is on at the time. Although some people take more care of certain areas than others. Like delarosa pretty much has the whole customization forum and all its subforums. And mapping is usually handled by tyr and greedo386, although I hang out there a lot also, so I'm doing some of that too. And I&S is of course Zunni's baby, although I'm Zunni's evil henchman in there too. General and O/T are the usual places where junk threads will end up, and just about everyone watches those.

What an exciting look into the world of modding eh? (and by the way, hasn't THIS thread gone horribly off topic?)  :p

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Off Topic / Unbanned From Naturalselection.org Forums

« on: October 11, 2004, 10:22:22 AM »

I more or less meant something like 'to make them the worthwhile place that they are' but that's more of a semantic silliness than anything else. My point is that I find them very good forums, and moreso now that I've seen a little bit of the work that goes into keeping worthless crap off of them... You have no idea how often people just try to spam junk in perfectly good threads, or turn something into a sudden flame war, or just generally post a thread insulting everyone and their dog. Even the sig and avatar limits. You don't think about rules like that having any effect, until you go to a forum with no limits and everyone has HUGE sigs that break the forum tables and take 20 minutes to load because they consist of an entire 5 minute clip from the Matrix... geesh. Give me the ns forums and their tiny fast loading sigs any day.

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Off Topic / Unbanned From Naturalselection.org Forums

« on: October 11, 2004, 10:12:00 AM »

I don't quite see a reason to want to be unbanned in the NS boards...

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Go compare the ns forums to the cs forums or the steampowered forums. The ns.org forums are pretty damned good for gamer forums that tend to have a lot of kids and teenangsters frequenting them. Off-topic is usually interesting and full of worthwhile chatter, and the Discussions section is something that you won't find anywhere else. Sorry if you personally have decided to dislike them, but some people are working pretty hard to make them worthwhile.

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General / Worst Map Ever...

« on: October 11, 2004, 09:57:05 AM »

Ns_Altair is getting better though. KFDM is doing a lot of work on it and we'll likely have a MUCH better version for b6.  

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Off Topic / New Hl2 Mod In The Works!

« on: October 09, 2004, 10:46:54 PM »

Helo is this ther ight place to post ideas for teh pit mod? Cuz I have an idear where you can get teh rokwet lancher and kill teh bus while yu fallin teh pit.

(Modz plz don't lok this cuz it's good idea)

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General / Is This Spawncamping?

« on: October 09, 2004, 01:36:12 AM »

I would think it was fine. You had a clear goal to accomplish, you obviously were focused on accomplishing it, since it took only one clip to finish it off. It's a grayish area, but no rule is perfect, they all require human intervention to intellegently apply them to any given situation.

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Off Topic / Unbanned From Naturalselection.org Forums

« on: October 08, 2004, 02:50:54 PM »

Nah that was different, according to the ban ticket it was for making fun of Beast. I don't think I'll ever be able to apologize for that though

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Word it correctly. There's a difference between saying "I was wrong and beast was right and didn't deserve my insults." and saying "The way I phrased myself was poorly chosen and I intend to keep my personal thoughts to myself in the future." I wouldn't see anything wrong with that. And it's not like we can ask anyone not to have opinions. Just not sharing those opinions when all they'll do is lead to a flamey mess is all we ask.

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Mapping / Ns_richmond

« on: October 08, 2004, 02:47:36 PM »

Excellent, can't wait for new PT.  

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Off Topic / Bob Is An Ns Forum Mod!

« on: October 07, 2004, 08:44:35 PM »

Bob it would be a honor to be bant in the ns.org forums by you!!!11111

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YES SIR!  

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Off Topic / I Own Hl2

« on: October 07, 2004, 05:33:27 PM »

Curse you people and your money having ways. I'll be getting it soon as I can afford it. No great hurry though, since all you get at the moment is CS:S. Which is still nice, but not the main thing I want it for.

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General / Favorite Map?

« on: October 07, 2004, 11:58:17 AM »

Lies, ayumi is pretty. It's just pain on fades and JPs because of all the little details. And it's a bit alien sided. Needs to be updated and have the silly gorges hideout res node removed.

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General / Favorite Map?

« on: October 07, 2004, 09:06:08 AM »

Yeah, eclipse is good, but too bad they didn't take out the do doors like they promised.

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Blame Mr.Ben for not making a version that compiled right early enough for it to be released with b5. And if you see him on IRC, be sure to harass him about fixing the vents in veil to be big enough for skulks to fit in. I'm sure he doesn't know about it and would appreciate you pointing it out to him.