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And now for something totally un-joystick related..

Tim — Sun, 11 May 2008 19:11:11 GMT

Anybody else ever play those text-only telnet games? I rather like them for these various 'downtimes' when the current cool games don't really hold my attention. Plus they are free. How do you beat that price?

Just curious who else is still stuck in the 80's multi-player game world. :D

Anyone notice the new lightbox for attachments?

Jump — Fri, 09 May 2008 10:07:58 GMT

Cool beans

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5k/month to lay in bed? Hell I do that all the time for free

netburnr — Thu, 08 May 2008 13:39:28 GMT

NASA Offers $5000 a Month For You to Lie in Bed | Wired Science from Wired.com

Medical test before hand aside....

Sounds like a dream job

Rixxy RANT: Eff you WoW! EFF YOUUU

Rix — Thu, 08 May 2008 06:51:08 GMT

Graaggh what a joke of a game! They call this crap balanced? Arenas? E-Sport? LOL. What the hell is an esport? A bunch of fat slobs sitting infront of a computer where the most strenuous exercise is to lift another handful of cheetos to their cakehole?

I'll tell ya, if you haven't ever experienced the PURE FKING JOY that is shaman PVP in wow... don't bother. Okay, so I'm never one to back away from 'hard mode' and pick the easy (read:overpowered) way out. But frak man. At least in Jumpgate you could MAKE a ship work if you were good enough?

The esport garbage I'm attempting to play now? Class > Gear > Skill. If I could think of more things to put between gear and skill I would. Oh snap, I outplay this dude 100% but I still get to lose because buddy is a no-life 12-hours a day raider, or he win-traded his way up to a +2000 rating and got his full PVP set.

What the hell is this shit! Garbage is what it is yo.

HURRY UP Jumpgate Evolution, I CAN'T TAKE ANYMORE OF THIS.

I want to win because I'm better, and lose because I screwed up bigtime. How hard is that? Fk the useless mouth breathers that can't aim and think "WOW IM AWESOME my gear is so much better, that means I'm just a better player!"

Dont even get me started on the "community". Bahahah.. state of the world now I guess.

F*** YOUUUUUUU
PS Blizzard you can go to hell if you think I'm buying another one of your games. Back in the day you were a sweet game company, and now you're just another money-sucking corporate bitch who sells out the warcraft universe for arenas and esports.

THE END.

PPS BUFF SHAMANS :(

Glad I didn't install XP SP3

netburnr — Thu, 08 May 2008 03:23:40 GMT

Well auto update popped up for XP3 a few days ago and I told it now thinking I should read about it first.

Well today I did, and I'm sure glad I didn't let it install

Quote:

More dubious is the Windows Product Activation update, which makes the XP installation process more Vista-like. This means you�ll no longer be forced to input your Windows product activation key during installation (although you�ll still have to do so within 30 days or your OS will stop working).
However, it also means Windows XP will be tracking your hardware configuration in much the same way that Vista does, which could lead to your computer being disabled in the event that you change out fundamental components such as your motherboard or processor.
All things considered, Windows XP Service Pack 3 proves to be a fairly anticlimactic final release in the XP service pack line. It won�t blow up your computer, but it won�t make it very much better, either.

Today @ PC World Windows XP SP3: First Impressions
:tmbsdown:

Farcry 2 Trailer

Jump — Wed, 07 May 2008 20:59:01 GMT

These days we seem to enjoy games more before they come out and complain more after they are actually released. So before it is released and everyone starts screaming about this or that that is bugged or nerfed, enjoy the this trailer.

YouTube - Farcry 2 Trailer-tl-bb.com

I like the whole free roam thing.

Social Groups

GrimGriz — Wed, 07 May 2008 20:00:23 GMT

If you joint the 'Lowered Expectations' social group, not only will you have lower expectations, but your taxes will be lowered as well!

Macgyver movie!

Hornet — Tue, 06 May 2008 13:47:57 GMT

Haha sweet!

Holy Crap: MacGyver Blockbuster Film Coming!

10 Golden Rules of Anti-Video Game Lobbying

netburnr — Tue, 06 May 2008 08:25:16 GMT

Ten Golden Rules of the anti-videogames lobby. Destructoid offers reviews, previews, trailers, cheats, and more.

:lol:

New feature idea?

netburnr — Tue, 06 May 2008 05:49:53 GMT

So its all getting pretty stale with the feature ideas these days....

Has it all been discussed to death? I dunno, perhaps.

But I've been thinking, there has to be a good idea out there that we haven't all wrapped our heads around, a feature that is not just directly stolen from some other MMORPG....

How about, mini games for while our automining happens, err wait, scratch that, been done.

Ok, serious now. I propose a "wish list" and "bug report" system in game. An easy way for people to ask for features, that can be tallied and decided on for future patches, and a bug report system that allows people to submit a report, get a response, and even see when the next patch will fix it.

Cool? Stupid? Let me know, lolcats are appreciated as is serious discussion as well.

Put your bets in...

netburnr — Tue, 06 May 2008 05:44:12 GMT

When do YOU think Jumpgate Evolution will be released to the buying public? (please pick at least a month and year, exact days and even hours and minutes are acceptable as well)

I'm going with Feb 09

Big Bang Theory

netburnr — Tue, 06 May 2008 05:41:38 GMT

Please tell me you nerds are watching this...

If not, your missing out.

Here, stream it if you have to...I use torrents though.

Big Bang Theory Video: The Shiksa Indeterminacy - CBS.com

Well shit.

netburnr — Tue, 06 May 2008 05:38:07 GMT

Not sure if the censor got the title or not, but pretty much I'm kinda disappointed right now...

Last night I was laying in bed watching TV on the laptop...long story short I needed to replace season 1 from my torrent drive to my media drive.

Well it wasn't showing up as a network share, so I decided I'd wait till today to figure out why.

So I came home, and sure enough the Western Digital MyBook 1TB drive I have was in its 'sleep/"der der der"' mode. Ok, it done that no big deal. Pull the power, power back up.

Ok, its now showing coolness. Ok, lets replace this low quality season 1 with the new high res version.

Copy, copy copy, 5 minutes remaining, copy copy copy copy copy, still 5 minutes wtf its been 10.

Maybe I need to restart, ok lets shut down the apps that are open... WTF do you mean not responding, *random key bashing here*

So now I sit here, waiting through the longest check disk in the history of computers, phase 4, 1 bar of many many bars in the progress area.....

I'm gonna be royally pissed if this RAID1 array is some how not really as good of a "safe" backup plan as I expected. Hopefully if for some reason 1 of the drives has failed I can pull it out and get the data off...

Better yet, hopefully the scan disk will complete some time this year, tell me everything is roses and I won't have to buy yet more hard drives....

On top of all that, now I can't play video games cause I'm busy doing this checkdisk....

I need a hug :pi_cry:

Nifty eye gizmo hardware thing

Tim — Mon, 05 May 2008 21:07:24 GMT

Ok.. two things I can't stand: YouTube and World Of Warcraft

still, this is kinda nifty, if you are into it:

YouTube - Eye Gaze Interaction with World of...

(i have no idea how to do the nifty inline youtube thing, but somebody smarter than me will clean it up I bet)

edit: holy crap.. the forum itself is smarter than me. Dang. back to second grade, i guess..

Profiles

Jump — Sat, 03 May 2008 18:41:44 GMT

I need a new thread to talk about profiles. These are new and raw so don't bombard me with all the things they don't do. I am only interested in what I can make them do without touching the existing code. I'm sure jelsoft will be changing them as they get all the complaints in. So don't think I don't listen just because I won't do anything about it. I am also over there putting my two cents in with all the other owners of vBulletin. I can guarantee you that.

Anyway, I figured out how to capture the click event for the tabs without touching their code. So I am going to add your Jumpgate data as an AJAX update when someone clicks the tab. It will probably check the age of the cash before it runs off to JOSSH to get the data though. Don't want happy clickers pissing off Istvan.

I think this time the data will stay for historical reference when a pilot goes TRI-C. Maybe tag it as archive data when that happens. It will also know when the owner of the account is viewing it so I may add AJAX calls in there to check statistics and evaluate progress. Thus eliminating the need for the pilot lister.

Things I don't like about the profiles.

The background image set up is rather simple.
The profile image album is public. Why?
All the user CSS is in the page causing the pages to load slower. I may develop a hack to save this as files for each user. If someone doesn't beat me to it.

Now that vBulletin 3.70 is Gold there will be lot's of mods coming out for the profiles. Hopefully something useful for us. I am already half finished with one to swap out the IM and status icons for custom styles. I just have to figure out how to change the one by the user name up top without touching the code.

My biggest challenge right now is coming up with a pilot data template that works for the data but still works with the user customizations. Anyone want to design the page to insert in there?

So any ideas? Complaints? Likes? PIE?