Leslie Nielsen (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000558/) has left our world behind. He died today of complications from pneumonia, and left the world with far less laughter than before.

Leslie Nielsen (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000558/) has left our world behind. He died today of complications from pneumonia, and left the world with far less laughter than before.

So sad. That guy was awesome.

:( I never realised how old he was.

In honour of his career the thread title has been changed. Sad that the previous title and this one were both due to the passing of celebrities.

A sad day.

Boy this place has become depressing..
Perhaps the Deus Ex game design document (://xinart.net/files/Deus Ex 1312.doc) will cheer everybody up.. or at least serve as a brief distraction as I stealth my way out the back door of this place.

Boy this place has become depressing..
Perhaps the Deus Ex game design document (http://xinart.net/files/Deus Ex 1312.doc) will cheer everybody up.. or at least serve as a brief distraction as I stealth my way out the back door of this place.perhaps it would, but your link doesn't work.

edit: but I've apparently fixed it in my quote.

Ah yes, you have completed your first assignment agent Akuryou.

Ah yes, you have completed your first assignment agent Akuryou.I'll accept my payment in the form of Deus Ex. A game I have wanted to play for a long time. ;)

I'll accept my payment in the form of Deus Ex. A game I have wanted to play for a long time. ;)

It was on sale on Steam for pennies a few days ago. You should have bought it!

It was on sale on Steam for pennies a few days ago. You should have bought it!:eek: I didnt catch that sale. I was on vacation for a few days!

It was £3 for both DX and IW, £1.50 each (probably $2 and $4 US, you *******s with your cheapitude).

GAH! that's cheap! I curse myself for missing that sale!

Boy this place has become depressing..
Perhaps the Deus Ex game design document (xinart.net/files/Deus Ex 1312.doc) will cheer everybody up.. or at least serve as a brief distraction as I stealth my way out the back door of this place.
Wow! That's an interesting read.

I found several plot decision paths that I have not followed in all my of playthroughs.
Also, nano-augmented animals (rats, mandrills, dogs,...)? I haven't seen them in the game.

I really, really, really hope that the Eidos Montreal guys have this document, read it and understood it.
Otherwise, DX3 will be the same crap as DX2.
Shiny graphics, but dumbed-down gameplay, suffering from consolitis on all ends. :(

Wow! That's an interesting read.

I found several plot decision paths that I have not followed in all my of playthroughs.
Also, nano-augmented animals (rats, mandrills, dogs,...)? I haven't seen them in the game.

I really, really, really hope that the Eidos Montreal guys have this document, read it and understood it.
Otherwise, DX3 will be the same crap as DX2.
Shiny graphics, but dumbed-down gameplay, suffering from consolitis on all ends. :(

That reminds me, Epic Mickey is out.

According to reviews it did a really good job of making the player's actions affect the world, but it plays like a completely average 3D platformer.:p

I really, really, really hope that the Eidos Montreal guys have this document, read it and understood it.

Agreed.
In fact, I wish the designers of many RPGs got hold of that and read it. Even the lot at Bioware.

I wish Bioware just read their own documentation for the BG games when making anything post-ToB. It's all been disappointing! Some more than others, but still..

I'll accept my payment in the form of Deus Ex. A game I have wanted to play for a long time. ;)

It's 99 cents on Games for Windows Live right now.
http://www.gamesforwindows.com/en-US/Games/Deus-Ex--GotY/

BUY NOW! Daily Deal bargain price ends December 3, 2010 at 8:30 AM (PST).

It's 99 cents on Games for Windows Live right now.
http://www.gamesforwindows.com/en-US/Games/Deus-Ex--GotY/congratulations, mtl! you're my new best friend!

Epic fail: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-11942814

Person petrol bombs a pub, then runs into a lamp post while running away and gets caught by the police as a result

Man. I just screwed up pretty bad in Fallout 3. This is like a full-on Johnny Dangerpants here. Here I did my best to handle the Tenpenny's Tower situation in the most peaceful and diplomatic way possible, but I ended up with the "practically everybody is dead" outcome, my own hands so dirtied in the process that my healthy stock of Good karma got shot to Neutral in one night. I feel pretty bad. :(

I do have a backup save from right before I opened the pandora's box, but I think the spirit of the game demands that I roll with it.

I think the spirit of the game demands that I roll with it.
The spirit of the game demands that you from now on be a saint.
A saint that uses utmost force and violence to exterminate every last bit of evil in the wasteland.

The spirit of the game demands that you from now on be a saint.
A saint that uses utmost force and violence to exterminate every last bit of evil in the wasteland.Exactly.

words

http://www.humblebundle.com/

Got my karma up to Very Good with alarming efficiency, and also just turned my house into a kickass laboratory.

Lot of caps to spend on cosmetics, but why not.

Got my karma up to Very Good with alarming efficiency, and also just turned my house into a kickass laboratory.

Lot of caps to spend on cosmetics, but why not.
Oh, I think I need to install this game again.
And finally finish it.
And then DLC expansions.
And then Buy New Vegas.

I could not get into Fallout 3.
I think the retarded inventory system killed it for me.

I think my retarded pick-everything-up-compulsion killed me. :p

[spoiler] [spoiler] [spoiler] and [spoiler] then [spoiler] [spoiler] [spoiler] [spoiler] but [spoiler] [spoiler] and [spoiler] [spoiler]ed everywhere and [spoiler] [spoiler] battery [spoiler] so now [spoiler]. :(

:(:(

Huh?


.

[spoiler] [spoiler] [spoiler] and [spoiler] then [spoiler] [spoiler] [spoiler] [spoiler] but [spoiler] [spoiler] and [spoiler] [spoiler]ed everywhere and [spoiler] [spoiler] battery [spoiler] so now [spoiler]. :(

:(:(I know, right?

I think my retarded pick-everything-up-compulsion killed me. :p
Well, just drop one item and you can run as swiftly as a fox again.

Wow, I knew the US was lagging behind, but this much?
http://www.sweclockers.com/image/red/2010/12/16/Netspeed.jpg?t=articleFull&k=52f7cd76
(speedmatters.org)

Well, finally got round to getting my Advance Wars 2 Let's Play ready for archiving (I know a few people here have been waiting for this :p). It's not up on the Let's Play archive (http://lparchive.org/) yet, and probably won't be for a while: I only just sent it off, and there's a bit of a backlog for baldurk to work through, apparently). But here's a big ol' 113MB zip file for those who can't wait: http://www.mediafire.com/?rh3544fnhzji05t (click on the root index.html file to start reading).

I did quite a bit of editing: fixed all the broken images, natch, but also added in arrows on the missions where I didn't bother to first time round, and generally spruced up and remastered the whole thing.

Hope people enjoy it :)

Wow, I knew the US was lagging behind, but this much?
http://www.sweclockers.com/image/red/2010/12/16/Netspeed.jpg?t=articleFull&k=52f7cd76
(speedmatters.org)well the US is a much larger place than the ones listed. takes longer to roll out fiber networks.

but yeah. while you euros post about your 10+ MB/s connections, I'm sitting here thinking "good lord! i've never even heard of a 10MB connection offered here"

Yay!

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1077435179.png

****ing foreigners.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1077502012.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

With torrents still going. :D

Also, the humble bundle 2 can now be put into steam. Hooray!

Also, the humble bundle 2 can now be put into steam. Hooray!
Yeah, except for Cortex Command and Revenge of the Titans at the moment. They'll get added at a later time though.

Damn, I should have bought the first Bundle too, as that one could be redeemed on Steam too.
Although, now four of those games are open source and I have World of Goo on the Wii.

Yeah, except for Cortex Command and Revenge of the Titans at the moment. They'll get added at a later time though.

Damn, I should have bought the first Bundle too, as that one could be redeemed on Steam too.
Although, now four of those games are open source and I have World of Goo on the Wii.

Well yeah, but you register the bundle as a whole, so you won't have to check later.

I already owned RotT but buying it again in the bundle was worth it just to get it onto Steam. (Eventually - in the new year according to Puppygames.)

Wow, I knew the US was lagging behind, but this much?
http://www.sweclockers.com/image/red/2010/12/16/Netspeed.jpg?t=articleFull&k=52f7cd76
(speedmatters.org)

The US is still ahead of the UK though... we have painfully slow internet.

The US is still ahead of the UK though... we have painfully slow internet.
It's probably because I live in the privaleged south, but unless you live in the countryside this just isn't true at all!

I live in the midlands, in a reasonable sized "university" town. Where I'm currently living has an ADSL connection, and an 8Mbps package. The connection speed never goes above 2Mbit, irrespective of the time of day or other people online. The reasons for this are that the ancient telephone exchange is now overloaded and is grossly overdue for an overhaul, and that there is about 4 miles of copper cabling between me and the exchange.

At my parents old house (that was in the countryside) we got about 1.5Mbit max, because the exchange and 3 miles of copper wire were in an even poorer state. And there was no option of cable where we were because it wasn't financially viable for 5 houses spread over a mile. My current place could have cable, but the landlord's quite near the start of a 2-year contract that they can't get out of without massive penalties.


Some areas of the UK have very good internet access - mainly those with cable. The rest, that relies on ADSL and the crippled telephone exchange has very poor internet speeds.

Holy crap the new Steam sale is good. 39p for Winterbottom? Sign me up.

Also: ODDBOXX!

I live in the midlands, in a reasonable sized "university" town. Where I'm currently living has an ADSL connection, and an 8Mbps package. The connection speed never goes above 2Mbit, irrespective of the time of day or other people online. The reasons for this are that the ancient telephone exchange is now overloaded and is grossly overdue for an overhaul, and that there is about 4 miles of copper cabling between me and the exchange.

At my parents old house (that was in the countryside) we got about 1.5Mbit max, because the exchange and 3 miles of copper wire were in an even poorer state. And there was no option of cable where we were because it wasn't financially viable for 5 houses spread over a mile. My current place could have cable, but the landlord's quite near the start of a 2-year contract that they can't get out of without massive penalties.


Some areas of the UK have very good internet access - mainly those with cable. The rest, that relies on ADSL and the crippled telephone exchange has very poor internet speeds.

Yah boo sucks to be large portions of the country, I guess!
:cool:

Also: ODDBOXX!

Oh god yes! I've been waiting for this day for years.
Xbox exclusive my ass!

:p

Holy crap the new Steam sale is good. 39p for Winterbottom? Sign me up.

Also: ODDBOXX!sweet mother of mercy. there IS a god!

I hear that thing has the worst porting job in the history of ports, though.

Yeah, I've heard that too.

Bah, it's true. Started Munch's Oddysee and I tried using my 360 Controller and you can do everything except actually MOVE around. That's just not ok.
Game crashed after a few minutes of playing too. I hope Stranger runs better, newer game so I have more hope for it. Going to give Munch another try now.

Oh yeah, anybody got suggestions for soft drink name? Might make it into a texture :p

Edit: While on the topic of work.. It's been two months now since I began my internship at SuperSledge, which might not even be what the company ends up being called. We'll see. But so far it's a really nice place. Time is flying along a little too quickly, it feels like it's Friday every three days. And the game is coming along nicely, I can't believe how much progress has been made since I started. Anyway, four weeks ago we moved to new offices, and you really could not get much closer to the Globe area. Here are some crappy phone photos:
http://xinart.net/images/dump/IMAG0034.jpg (From my desk) http://xinart.net/images/dump/IMAG0047.jpg
Only negative side is that I have an hour of commuting (and an hour back) every day, so my free time is very limited. Hopefully I can move closer to town soon.

Game crashed after a few minutes of playing too.I also hear that this happens after almost exactly five minutes like clockwork.

CRAAAAAAAAAAAP! yesterday had 7 games on it that I wanted for a total of like $15! and I missed actually being able to purchase them! ><

oh my lord. check the catalogue manually rather than just looking at the featured page.

all the indie bundles that were sold earlier this month? they're all available at the same time right now, and all again for only $5.

Steam so frequently has sales it almost seems silly not to wait for price drops.
And it makes sense that they have them so often too, they make much more profit during the sales than any other time.

oh my lord. check the catalogue manually rather than just looking at the featured page.

all the indie bundles that were sold earlier this month? they're all available at the same time right now, and all again for only $5.
Yes.
Check out the bar below the feature page. Only the pink "Today's Deals" are limited. The packs, publisher catalogs and Mac stuff are the same everyday until 2nd of January.

Got this in my email inbox today:
A complimentary bundle inside your Humble Bundle #2
Dear Humble Indie Bundle customer, I would just like to personally thank you for your support in making the Humble Indie Bundle #2 even more successful than the first one. As thanks, I have added the Humble Indie Bundle #1 into your bundle.
As if they had telepathically read my mind (or my post):
Damn, I should have bought the first Bundle too, as that one could be redeemed on Steam too.
Although, now four of those games are open source and I have World of Goo on the Wii.
Also redeemable on Steam like the second one. Yay! :D

Awesome work, Humble Bundle!
I will from now on buy every future bundle, without even pondering for a second.

I hear that thing has the worst porting job in the history of ports, though.
I do love the screenshots people show me:
http://imgur.com/ma1Xp.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/CTtzF.jpg

I will from now on buy every future bundle, without even pondering for a second.and you're not the only one! that was awesome of them! unfortunately, however, I've played most of the first bundle now and they've sucked. looks like Penumbra and World of Goo are the only decent ones there.

and you're not the only one! that was awesome of them! unfortunately, however, I've played most of the first bundle now and they've sucked. looks like Penumbra and World of Goo are the only decent ones there.
Nah, Gish is a very innovative platformer. Has local 2-player modes too, which is quite rare in these days.

Samorost 2 is a nice little game too.

Nah, Gish is a very innovative platformer. Has local 2-player modes too, which is quite rare in these days.

Samorost 2 is a nice little game too.Gish's controls irked me beyond playing it further. Samorost I missed cause it didn't register with steam. I'm downloading it now.

Yeah the first indie bundle wasn't all that great. All together I enjoyed World of Goo, Cortex Command and Osmos.

I do love the screenshots people show me:
http://imgur.com/ma1Xp.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/CTtzF.jpgHa ha, wow. Seriously?

Merry Thingmas and a Happy New Doodad.

Merry Thingboat!

Forum bump. :p

Playing Gran Turismo 5 now. It's pretty rad.

Forum bump. :p

Playing Gran Turismo 5 now. It's pretty rad.

It is. I have 110 cars already. Photo mode is pretty damn awesome.

http://img713.imageshack.us/img713/9200/qpxk7z5wo25ohezway0.jpg

I'm currently suffering from withdrawal... stupid vacation. :c

On the plus side, I'm on a pretty lovely beach, and the view from the place I'm staying at is incredible. I can see the whole town/beach from here. :3

Photo mode is pretty damn awesome.
Oh damn. I need to start checking that out. Get some sweet shots of my gorgeous Golf GTI. :p

Happy 2011 OD people!

Yey, 2010 is finally dead and buried.

hurrah! hopefully the last traces of 09's suck will be gone for '11!

MmmmI didn't think that was such a bad year. Oh well, happy new thing!

MmmmI didn't think that was such a bad year. Oh well, happy new thing!YOU didn't go through what I did. took a year to recover, and now I only hope '11 is full of absolutely no reminders thereof.

Hit or miss year I suppose. Happy new one everybody!

YOU didn't go through what I did. took a year to recover, and now I only hope '11 is full of absolutely no reminders thereof.Sounds like everybody else's 2004. :p

2010 started pretty sucky for me but ended on a much better note than it started with. Here's to hoping that 2011 continues where 2010 left off! :p

2010 started pretty sucky for me but ended on a much better note than it started with. Here's to hoping that 2011 continues where 2010 left off! :p
Lift-off not left off. :)

Sounds like everybody else's 2004. :pwell I, for one, don't remember what happened in '04, aside from bush, and that was far more than a year of recovery :p

You weren't in OD at the time, but it was a pretty crappy year for quite a few of us.

At the moment, my desktop looks like this:

http://i928.photobucket.com/albums/ad129/GameJournos/desktop-1.jpg

It's nice and it's big but, importantly, it's empty. It's not supposed to be empty. There should be icons there. I keep "current" projects on my desktop - folders, screenplays, that sort of thing. THey're not there anymore.

They're supposed to be there, of course. And when I use Explorer to go to the desktop, I see this:

http://i928.photobucket.com/albums/ad129/GameJournos/desktop-2.jpg

So what's happened? Why isn't this stuff displaying on my desktop anymore?

So what's happened? Why isn't this stuff displaying on my desktop anymore?did you not just disable them? there's an option to do so under View when you right-click the desktop. perhaps you hit it by mistake at some point?

So what's happened? Why isn't this stuff displaying on my desktop anymore?
Maybe a problem with those apps you're using there (dock thing on the bottom, tabs on top).
Try disabling all of them and return to the default Windows desktop or even switch to the Windows classic style.

At the moment, my desktop looks like this:

http://i928.photobucket.com/albums/ad129/GameJournos/desktop-1.jpg

It's nice and it's big but, importantly, it's empty. It's not supposed to be empty. There should be icons there. I keep "current" projects on my desktop - folders, screenplays, that sort of thing. THey're not there anymore.

if that program up top is desktopx or something like it, it often hides the desktop just because it feels that way

Yeah it's probably one of your various desktop dohickeys that's hiding the standard Explorer stuff, disable them one by one and find out which.

I made a Zeortopia-themed playing card deck for PokerTH (http://www.pokerth.net/).

http://j.imagehost.org/0247/zeorcards.png

I wasn't too sure about them at first, but they've grown on me as I've gotten more used to them.

They're still not half as rad as the official Zeortopia race car for Trackmania, though.

http://j.imagehost.org/0163/457_racecar_trackmania_nations_zeortopia.png

Never got enough use out of that thing. Oh well, I'll probably get back to it at some point.

I don't know if it's just cos I saw the racecar and had it in my subconscious, but those cars kind of reminded me of a racecar anyway.

It wasn't one of my desktop doohickeys - Windows just decided it didn't want to show my icons anymore. Rightclick > View > Show desktop icons fixed it.

Bloody Microsoft.

It wasn't one of my desktop doohickeys - Windows just decided it didn't want to show my icons anymore. Rightclick > View > Show desktop icons fixed it.

Bloody Microsoft.

Na.. It probably was you're desktop doohickey, it may have decided a 'hide icons' was in order. Windows bugs are usually a lot stranger and harder to figure out. Like last week after visiting Recent Places, Windows decided to create a shortcut to Recent Places on my desktop that was impossible to delete. The only way you can remove the shortcut when this happens is to create a new shortcut on the desktop that replaces the old one, this new regular shortcut can then be deleted. Bloody Microsoft.

The only such app I have and use is ObjectDock Plus 2, and it doesn't hide desktop icons.

Also for the last few months all of my drop menus have opened up to the left, not the right. No idea why. Bloody Microsoft.

ObjectDock is running as your shell instead of explorer.exe - and explorer as the shell is the desktop _and_ taskbar.

To check this, open run (win key + r will work), type regedit, click ok. Browse to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\WinLogon\

There should be a "shell" entry in there - if it's not set to explorer.exe then write down/back up what it's set to, and then change it to explorer.exe. Restart your PC. If you have a desktop, hooray (although this will also restore your taskbar, which I assume you don't want - that's something ObjectDock need to fix I'm afraid).

If that _doesn't_ work then let me know and I'll actually research ObjectDock, but it's 2 AM and I'm not going to now. I'm going to sleep.

The problem was solved ages ago - it was Windows being sh*t, as Windows is want to do. Explorer is still my Shell, all ObjectDock Plus is add... well, a dock. Two docks, in fact.

Blimey, people. Occam's Razor.

Can't be all it does, as there's no start menu, so it's clearly messing around with explorer/shells somewhat!

Also, I didn't check post dates, so that's my excuse. >_>

Gnight!

Can't be all it does, as there's no start menu, so it's clearly messing around with explorer/shells somewhat!

No it isn't - the Start menu and taskbar are merely hidden. Windows lets you do that. Again, Occam's Razor.

It does? Wow. Last time I used ObjectDock etc. all you could do was autohide the taskbar (which left a very irritating little bar at the bottom showing it was still there). How times have changed!

It's a good thing internet people rarely commit to anything and update at completely arbitrary rates or I'd be done for!

Doug TenNapel, Earthworm Jim designer, does a webcomic: http://ratfist.com/

He's also a staunch Conservative and a Sarah Palin supporter.

Yeah.

Doug TenNapel, Earthworm Jim designer, does a webcomic: http://ratfist.com/

Thanks for this, I need more webcomics to follow. I only have a miserly 20 or so. :eek:

I'm at 17, but all of which update regularly. 83 is freaking nuts.

I just checked mine. I follow 8 that update daily (including M-F in that), 10 that update several times a week, 6 that update once a week, and 5 that update less often. 31 total. It was a lot more 2 months ago, but I pruned out all the uninteresting ones or ones that had just become offensive.

I follow... like two and a half I think.

I'm at 17, but all of which update regularly. 83 is freaking nuts.
I shouldn't tell you about the 342 webcomics in my to-do list then.

I shouldn't tell you about the 342 webcomics in my to-do list then.do you not have friends? or family? or sleep?

Sleep is for the weak.

I only follow three... one daily and two published 3 times a week.

*gets coat*

Sweet. Everything in my save survived perfectly.

http://i.imgur.com/M8g0z.jpg

I think I need to play The Sims 3 again. I want to erase my save and start over, though - where's it located?

I think I need to play The Sims 3 again. I want to erase my save and start over, though - where's it located?

You can delete it in-game. At the start, when you're selecting a household - that's the save. You can always start a second game but keep the original, of course. I seem to think there's a hard limit of 3 or 4 or something stupid, though.

Well things are just great back in the restored Whatever home! I can hardly imagine what could possibly go wrong!

http://i.imgur.com/JOFUN.jpg
Uh-oh.

http://i.imgur.com/XrlOx.jpg
Oh no : (

http://i.imgur.com/o8A29.jpg
THE KITTIES ARE SAD : ( : (

http://i.imgur.com/UcnOp.jpg
YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING ME

http://i.imgur.com/fGxig.jpg
Oh God

http://i.imgur.com/ewPta.jpg
OH GOD

http://i.imgur.com/t9QrR.jpg
oh man oh man

http://i.imgur.com/6s3JC.jpg
OH GOD!

It's getting a little hard to live around here.

I just created a new house containing a male supervillain named Professor Evilbad, and a female hero named Jet Girl. I gave Evilbad traits of Insane, Evil, Loner, Dickwad (or Mean-Spirited, or whatever), and Genius. Jet Girl is a Good, Athletic, Heroic somethingorother.

So far they seem to be getting along fine, but every now and then Evilbad will pop into the bathroom and sit on the toilet. Y'know, just for the alone time.

Cat Bonus

http://i.imgur.com/MU8u9.jpg
HOLY LORD he must've been holding that for a week

That reminds me, I still got dozens of pics of Plasma in his underpants to sort through.

...yeah. :p

I think I need to play The Sims 3 again. I want to erase my save and start over, though - where's it located?
Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\Saves

That reminds me, I still got dozens of pics of Plasma in his underpants to sort through.

That and you should probably organize your screenshots from The Sims 3.

Ar ar ar.

zzzzZZZZZZZZZZZIIIINNNNNNNNnnnnnnnnngggggggggg

That and you should probably organize your screenshots from The Sims 3.

Ar ar ar.This is Arkywotsit, and I approve this message.

http://i.imgur.com/t5W5B.jpg

:( Life is fleeting

http://web.archive.org/web/20071106080229/http://www.groundzerocomics.us/

Good Lord. I can't believe anybody ever liked this.

Some of the files still exist, but not all.

e: Too bad Bad Hair Day isn't there. I think that was my favorite. It was one of the few with decent writing throughout, whereas most of these things had horrid endings.

My favorite thing was the music. :p

The part I didn't even make, then. :p

Oh no, ghosties.

In other news, guess what I finally got round to remaking (http://tindeck.com/listen/jtsb).

Could probably still use some tinkering though.

e: now with a bit more tinkering!

Hot damn. I somehow cleared SSBB's 15-Minute Brawl on my first attempt, with Peach.

I wish I could get Theme Hospital to work under Windows 7 without it moaning.

I wish I could get Theme Hospital to work under Windows 7 without it moaning.

How's it moaning? I played the entire game through about six months ago on Win 7, but obviously there's a million variables that cound break it.

Also, if it really won't work, there is an attempt to write a new engine for it (that will work on modern OSes) - http://code.google.com/p/corsix-th/

It's only a beta at the moment, but works quite well. I found it _after_ I'd completed TH, but gave it a quick whirl and it was good then, and there's been many improvements since.

MICHAELBAMASPLOOM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AR23f08yBA#t=0m17s)

Dear Manly McNuts,

Okay, I'm not good at this kind of thing, but I feel like I have to give it a try. So, here goes:

I was hanging out the other night, listening to some old mp3s, and I was just overcome with memories of when we used to hang out all the time. Remember? You were an intrepid, fearless adventurer, and I was the free-to-play, fun-and-funny online role-playing game that won your heart. Do you still remember those good times? I can't stop thinking about them.

I mean, I know things got kind of messed up at the end, and believe me, I'm sorry. If I could take any of that back, I totally would. And I know people grow and change, and you're not the same person you were then, but hey -- I've changed, too! I thought and thought about how to win you back. I figured I'd make you a mix CD, but I couldn't decide what "our song" was. So I just concentrated on becoming a better game for you, and here's what I came up with:

Remember how much fun you used to have with your clan? Alternately, remember how you never joined a clan because you didn't see the point? Either way, clans now have clan dungeons, group zones where your whole clan can work together. Crawl through sewers to Hobopolis, a vast underground vagrant vacation vista! Slide into the slime tube, and stir-fry sassy slimes!

I know I wasn't the prettiest game when we were together, so I had some work done. Almost every interface got an interface-lift. You can even manage most of your inventory via chat commands! I also came up with a way for you to automate some of the things you don't love about the game, so you can spend more time with the parts you do love.

Not only that, but there are way more animated .gifs than there were before. Don't worry; I haven't lost that low-fi edginess you love, but I'm a lot easier to play with now.

You can also have a custom title now, just in case you didn't feel like I appreciated what made you unique as an individual.

I should also say
Haiku Dungeon's been revamped.
See what I did there?

Maybe you quit because you got sick of always adventuring above the water. I admit that seems unlikely, but I fixed that, too -- there are a bunch of underwater zones with new food, equipment, mechanics, and challenges.

And that's just the tip of the iceberg, trust me. I'm still the silly, clever, deceptively-complex game you fell in love with, only with about 95% more awesome.

So, I'm just sayin', if you can find it in your heart to give me another chance, I won't disappoint you.

If you don't drop by, I promise I won't bother you again. I just really felt like we deserved one more try.

Love,

The Kingdom of Loathing.
http://www.kingdomofloathing.com

I actually never managed to get into it, and I don't think it'll be any different now. It was a pretty amusing email nonetheless. :p

Haha, cool. I kinda want to get back into it, but eeehhh.

I actually never managed to get into it, and I don't think it'll be any different now. It was a pretty amusing email nonetheless. :pI got that too a while ago, fun stuff.

Also nice name. :p

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2Hu9k_umEQ

FINALLY.

D:

I am now officially dead inside....

I'm interested to note that my taste in colors seems to have undergone a substantial shift since the last time I was into SSB (not all that long ago). I'm favoring different costume colorations in which I was never interested before, i.e., white Link instead of the blue I had favored since like age 12 or something. I still think blue Link looks kickass as hell, mind, but for some reason, when it's me, I'd rather go with the white. Iunno. That and I'm actually starting to favor red more, which I guess is as it should be.

How's it moaning? I played the entire game through about six months ago on Win 7, but obviously there's a million variables that cound break it.

64-bit windows 7? the last time i tried to run theme hospital it was puking up all over the place. it only worked after i installed an older version of windows in a virtualization environment

Was on 32-bit then. On 64-bit now, but not having any issues with any other old games.

I wish I could get Theme Hospital to work under Windows 7 without it moaning.
You can always try installing the DOS version (game CD should include both DOS/Win) and running it through DOSBox, it plays the same though it'll be more CPU-intensive from emulation.

You can always try installing the DOS version (game CD should include both DOS/Win) and running it through DOSBox, it plays the same though it'll be more CPU-intensive from emulation.
Isn't it lo-res, though? Or does it have the 640x480 graphics as well?

Isn't it lo-res, though? Or does it have the 640x480 graphics as well?
It has 640x480 as well:

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/supsuper/doshospital1.png

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/supsuper/doshospital2.png

By the time DOS supported high-res, Windows 95 soon followed so it didn't get much use outside of these DOS-Win-transition games.

Whee, my Advance Wars 2 LP (http://lparchive.org/Advance-Wars-2/) is now archived :).

Well I've been playing SimCity 3000 Unlimited practically all weekend because I really missed it for a few reasons. Named my city Fillmore, as always. After the first city in Actraiser. Anyway. It's already the biggest city I've yet had, I think. Even though I had the bright friggin' idea to start all the way back in 1900 when nothing useful, like clean industry ordinances, buses, or nuclear power, yet existed, so I've got an interesting list of grievances, but overall things are going really well and my budget is surprisingly healthy.

Weathered disasters so far include:
A huge earthquake which did a lot of damage along a very distinct fault line, which required me to replace a few bridges over the river, but honestly, all of the terrain levelling I did to repair the upheaval left it in better shape than it was pre-quake.
A second fault line earthquake, but this time the fault line was far out of harm's way, and damage to the reinforced city was virtually nonexistent.
Three episodes of toxic rain, because the east side of the river is practically nothing but pollution factories -- acres of industrial zoning, four power plants and an incinerator. I'm rather at a loss on what to do about the pollution, because again, no pollution-related ordinances or cleaner power sources are available, and I already fill a lot of the empty space with trees.
Two fires, both of which were addressed before they made it to more than one building.
A tornado, which thankfully managed to miss town completely. So completely I didn't even get a report on it.
The news ticker made it sound a lot like a riot was getting ready to happen, but I think I nipped that in the bud when I built the second prison.

Good to be back, anyway. (http://i.imgur.com/gZmVK.jpg)

sc3k is quite rad

Tempted... but I don't think I have the CD with me.

Three episodes of toxic rain, because the east side of the river is practically nothing but pollution factories -- acres of industrial zoning, four power plants and an incinerator. I'm rather at a loss on what to do about the pollution, because again, no pollution-related ordinances or cleaner power sources are available, and I already fill a lot of the empty space with trees.
Reducing air pollution is pretty much the hardest, aside from ordinances the only other things you can do are:
- High education.
- Low traffic.
- Light spread-out industries (small thin light-density blocks instead of heavy clustered blocks). Mixing up zoning also helps (obviously you can't just put residences next to industries but you can mix it up with commerce and then residence for example, instead of having just one long industrial strip).
- Trees might have an impact but they'll easily burn up too.

Luckily acid rain isn't that harmful, and doesn't even exist in the original SC3K. :p

I'm tempted to bust out my copy of SC3K now.

Luckily acid rain isn't that harmful, and doesn't even exist in the original SC3K. :pYeah, it's basically a lot of complaining and a few rebuilt roads. :p

Didn't remember to sound the emergency alarm until the third time around, though. I didn't figure it was a huge enough problem to warrant telling the entire city to hit the deck, and I kinda thought the whole "either escape from the scalding rain or don't wander into it" thing would kind of explain itself, but then, let's remember that sims routinely forget how their dressers work if they're next to a bed and facing a certain direction.

Yeah, it's basically a lot of complaining and a few rebuilt roads. :P

Didn't remember to sound the emergency alarm until the third time around, though. I didn't figure it was a huge enough problem to warrant telling the entire city to hit the deck, and I kinda thought the whole "either escape from the scalding rain or don't wander into it" thing would kind of explain itself, but then, let's remember that sims routinely forget how their dressers work if they're next to a bed and facing a certain direction.I think the Whirlpool wins the "most pointless disaster" award. OH NO THERE'S A THING MESSING WITH BOATS AND REBUILDABLE PORTS, WHAT SHALL WE DOOOOOOOOOOO

Edit: Old city shots:
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/supsuper/th_sc3u_supertropolis.jpg (http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/supsuper/sc3u_supertropolis.jpg)
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/supsuper/th_sc3u_supertropolis2.jpg (http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/supsuper/sc3u_supertropolis2.jpg)
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/supsuper/th_sc3u_supertropolis3.jpg (http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/supsuper/sc3u_supertropolis3.jpg)
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/supsuper/th_sc3u_supertropolis4.jpg (http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/supsuper/sc3u_supertropolis4.jpg)
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/supsuper/th_sc3u_subway.jpg (http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y237/supsuper/sc3u_subway.jpg)

So now my computer sets itself back to the lowest possible desktop resolution whenever I turn it on. What the God?

Edit: Looks like Windows Update fixed it. Not going to say that makes sense, but whatever.

OH MAN I'm sitting here in the commuter lounge and I tried to pull a left-cheek sneak but there was a little more momentum behind it than I thought, for a second it sounded like somebody was ripping burlap

OH MAN I'm sitting here in the commuter lounge and I tried to pull a left-cheek sneak but there was a little more momentum behind it than I thought, for a second it sounded like somebody was ripping burlapthank you, zeor....thank you.....

http://www.boxcar2d.com/

http://www.boxcar2d.com/

I have wasted far too many hours on that :P

Setting it to one wheel and leaving it for ages was amusing. It got stuck for a while with simply tall shapes that fell forwards until a few began to roll a short way.

http://www.boxcar2d.com/
Yeah, I saw that a while back... it got boring after a while :p

Not a fun weekend

I can see the hate burning in your eyes.

Burning.

Strange electrical wiring.

Hey Futureworm, what's that in your sig?

Strange electrical wiring.
christmas lights
Hey Futureworm, what's that in your sig?
a comment that was on youtube for some reason

so i decided to fly out to boston to hang out with matt "pickleworm" jenkins. and no fun was had at all, the entire weekend

god ive never seen two douchebags hate each other so much

Look at me I'm the multipost king of dead OD

you're no king!

this takes no talent at all!

Treason!

6543

This thread needs the entire alphabet.


A

Bull**** it does. that's a silly waste of time.

Can it, you!

D'oh, I can't think of anything to pad this post out with...

Elongated fish hooks?

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFForget about it

Good grief.

How long can we keep this up for... and will we then do the greek alphabet afterwards? :p

In short, Beogh, the wrathful god of orcs, loves things that are orcish and hates things that aren't. Beogh will only accept orcs as worshippers, and it is prophesized among the cave orcs that a hill orc will one day appear and prove to be their messiah. Followers of Beogh are encouraged to use orcish equipment whenever possible, and fervent followers may harness Beogh's anger to smite dissenters. Followers must never harm friendly orcs, desecrate orcish remains, or deface orcish idols, and are expected to respectfully bless the bodies of fallen orcs by praying over them. Beogh may reward the true orc messiah by directly intervening to save his life at the critical moment, and with the ability to walk on water.

How long can we keep this up for... and will we then do the greek alphabet afterwards? :pJust let me know if we do. I'll have to leave :p

Kent keeps coming up with these amazing pictures of Superman and I'm all whaaaaaaat

Look, this is a stupid idea.

My humble opinion is to keep going as long as possible.

No, I think we should stop soon.

Oh dear I've gone and gotten myself hooked on Minecraft... Brilliant game, but dang.

Perhaps we should just give up.

Quite soon we'll run out of letters anyway.

Reaaaally?

Sucker Punch sucks, apparently. :c

Tempted beyond belief to ruin this at the last letter, but I'll fight the temptation.

Unfortunately I'm not very imaginative, so I won't be able to ruin it myself.

Very surely this is the highest post rate this thread has seen in weeks :P

Well that is to be expected.

Xom Xom Xom Xom Xom Xom

Y mst al gud tins com 2 n nd?

zEOERO SPELELOD

*spelelod*

and we now returned to your regularly scheduled utter silence.

Hmmm...

*resorts to usual plan for breaking silences*

Pub anyone?

Greek letters anyone? :p

*Runs from Aku*

Greek letters anyone?
Αctually, that would be a bit redundant, as more than half of those have the same uppercase as in the Latin alphabet.

AA meetings.

AAA batteries sure are a type of battery

AAAA... aa... I got nothin'

AAAA... aa... I got nothin'
AAAA batteries are even smaller than AAA ones.

BB pellets, rubber mallets, fans and dehumidfiers

Q

*OD 'splode*

OMG this is brilliant

http://observando.net/post/466525800

I used to have flaps of tape hanging off my cables so I could tape them to the side of my desk, but this has that beat 1000 times over.

You've probably all already seen this but oh well...

Yesterday YouTube released the top 5 viral videos from 1911 - not a lot has changed! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNm8ZCJ7Fx8

Finally, after Lord-knows how many years, I'm happy with the layout of my web browser.

http://www.alex.digitalpies.com/alexfirefox.png

What layout? There's nothing left but a bar. :p

milburn?! that's my sister's last name. (just found that amusing)

What layout? There's nothing left but a bar. :p

Exactly!

I just need Foobar to be FF4.0 compatible for slighly better searching than the Awesomebar does by default.

Also to figure out how to make ctrl+k go to the awesomebar and type a ?, Chrome-style.

OMG this is brilliant

http://observando.net/post/466525800

I used to have flaps of tape hanging off my cables so I could tape them to the side of my desk, but this has that beat 1000 times over.

This changes everything ;o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTwRxtmQ9IY

To be the biggest rocket since Apollo. :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTwRxtmQ9IY

To be the biggest rocket since Apollo. :D
That video's much cooler than anything NASA or ESA's ever produced!

I bet that SpaceX will end up like the Weyland-Yutani Corporation. :(
Or Mom’s Friendly Robot Company. :eek:

I spent a good several seconds just now looking for the "Like" button to like that comment. Facebook has gotten me into strange habits lol

the fartbook

I spent a good several seconds just now looking for the "Like" button to like that comment. Facebook has gotten me into strange habits lolgive it some time. either social networking will go open-source, or facebook will consume all the nonbelievers. either way, everything everywhere will be "like"able.

http://i.imgur.com/yeUaX.gif (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPRpC7CQFL0)

Vader (http://forum.team17.co.uk/member.php?u=2853) likes brains.

Vader (http://forum.team17.co.uk/member.php?u=2853) likes brains.*gasp* a wild stefan has appeared!

how's the face?

My face is fine, thanks. All healed up now.

I went to LEGOLAND yesterday. It was a Star Wars event day. Loads of UK Garrison (http://www.ukgarrison.co.uk/site/) guys there... I was tempted to get my face hurt again by starting on the scout troopers.

Killing Floor is the most British game ever. It's like everybody is the Weebl and Bob guy.

Killing Floor is the most British game ever. It's like everybody is the Weebl and Bob guy.
The trader always reminds me of Selena (played by Naomi Harris) from 28 Days Later.

The best zombie movie IMO and also British. Well, Shaun Of The Dead probably beats it. :D

Killing Floor is the most British game ever. It's like everybody is the Weebl and Bob guy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VGM0-hjyXQ&feature=related

My face is fine, thanks. All healed up now.

I went to LEGOLAND yesterday. It was a Star Wars event day. Loads of UK Garrison (http://www.ukgarrison.co.uk/site/) guys there... I was tempted to get my face hurt again by starting on the scout troopers.

Hello Vader!

I'm giving a talk about zombies and Dracula on Thursday. Hoorah!

Need any pointers? I can advise some good films which you've probably seen and I am an expert on the theme.

Dracula not so much.

Any of you playing LEGO Universe? I am. My main dude is called Zombie.

I'm not, ever since WoW ruined a few years of my life I've decided to keep away from MMOs.

Unfortunately I don't need tips. The subject I'm actually talking about is "communication through signs and symbolism" and so I'm using Dracula and zombies to portray the difference in horror (and as such, society) between the Victorian era and modern times.

Any excuse to include zombies!

zombies [..] horror [..] Victorian era
http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/965/9781594743344large.jpg

http://www.amazon.com/Pride-Prejudice-Zombies-Classic-Ultraviolent/dp/1594743347

Already have it!

(But it's only set in the Victorian era - it's not a Victorian novel, so Victorian morality doesn't really apply).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VGM0-hjyXQ&feature=relatedI... really generally don't at all condone cosplay but holy crap that power armor.

...but holy crap that power armor...

...looks like a really inconvenient way to do battle. :p

Well I think the idea is that the suit handles most of the actual exertion of movement for you, or something like that.

e:

Munkee says:
*now buying the potato pack gets you the potato hat, portal pin, and an as-yet unrevealed portal 2 skin
Zero says:
*lol2ol2olololol34kj32
*buy potatsooeeosefs
*pOTOETETAOTOSEUFGKTEJY53JHI4IETRJFE
*GET AL POLTATOET
*potatoes weren't funny to begin with
*there is no comedy in the potato
Munkee says:
*the potato ARG is the new Cake Is A Lie
*portal 2 isn't even ****ing out yet and it's generating viral ****
Zero says:
*it's like I mean
*take the tried and true banana
*it's a funny color and a funny shape and its skin does funny things if you leave it lying on race tracks
*potatoes are round and lumpy and brown and are barely edible until you bury them under their own weight in salt and butter

Portal 2.

Portal to.

POrTAl TO.

POTATO.

I hate packs. Half the games I already own and the other half are usually **** that forever corrupts my library.

In fact I did the math and I can either buy the pack for €34.47 or just the games I'm missing for €31.43. All this for Portal 2 that'd cost me another €34.19.

...I hate math. :p

I hate packs. Half the games I already own and the other half are usually **** that forever corrupts my library.

In fact I did the math and I can either buy the pack for €34.47 or just the games I'm missing for €31.43. All this for Portal 2 that'd cost me another €34.19.

...I hate math. :p
€34.19? On Steam?
Because I'll have to spend €40 for Portal 2 - and that's already with the -20% double-pack pre-order rebate. :p

I should buy the two pack with someone from the US. €27.58 each that way.

The fact that they've added whole new portal-themed levels to some of the better games in the pack just for the ARG is pretty cool.

Yeah the Aperture map in Killing Floor is pretty cool, and more importantly, replaces that godawfully annoying trader.

€34.19? On Steam?
Because I'll have to spend €40 for Portal 2 - and that's already with the -20% double-pack pre-order rebate. :p
There are two different Europe regions (http://www.steamprices.com/eu/faq#id-2). :p You can compare here (http://www.steamprices.com/eu/search?portal+2).

...I hate math. :p

My god you're sexy.

There are two different Europe regions (http://www.steamprices.com/eu/faq#id-2). :p You can compare here (http://www.steamprices.com/eu/search?portal+2).
Yeah, strange though that the Potato Sack has the same price you mentioned over here too.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1250945944.png

Yay!
I "downgraded" my ISP package and now pay less for a faster connection, more TV channels and telephone.
Tomorrow I'll upgrade to an even faster connection (up to 100Mbit), even more TV channels (including HD) and 8 hours of free land-line calls across Europe and will still pay less than I did before.

I hate you bonz. I recently switched my plan to a new one that pays the exact same as I did before, but now with 6 Mbps(up from 2, although it rarely goes above 5...), still around .5 upload, and the same amount of tv channels and the same old crappy phone service. :c

and now I'm curious....

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1251221156.png

sadly, this is the best I've had on a regular basis in my life. I hate all of you fancy people.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1251475957.png

I'm pretty similar to Bonz it seems, terrible upload speed though.

I also have a 40GB per month bandwidth limit but I doubt I'll ever get remotely close to hitting it.

I've uploaded 31GB of data on µTorrent in the last 90 minutes >_<

Shockingly, I don't really pirate, except for a few very old 60s/70s programmes that are not sold, distributed or broadcast in any way. The majority of that upload is perfectly legitimate.

Transferred 1.26TB in the past 31 days, it says. I'd die with a bandwidth cap.

Damn you all to hell!

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1251635582.png

You think that's bad? My connection at home barely reaches 2.0 Mb/s

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1252001392.png

That 82% really explains why I've been having so much success with the biggest, slowest gun in Call of duty.:cool:

I hate you all. Mine's too embarrassing to post!

My upload speed is deplorable. :p

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1252086160.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

Guess it's about time I tried this thing out.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1252148653.png

Shrug

I'm going to start banning anyone who has faster internet than me, this is depressing!

I'm going to start banning anyone who has faster internet than me, this is depressing!
That would definitely speed up the forum for you. :p

Mine's good partly because the exchange is literally outside my window. I can see it from my flat, so it doesn't have far to go.

When I lived at my Mum's house in the middle of nowhere, the internet was always going to be slow as hell regardless.

Can't be bothered to close down my (and the wife's) torrenting, but here's mine from last time.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/741797728.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

http://www.pingtest.net/result/12113205.png (http://www.pingtest.net)

Good grief:

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1253073143.png

(the irony is, when it comes to getting videos from Viddler I seem to be a lot faster than many people)

Holy smoligans, Sarge, here I was thinking I had the best upload speed. :p