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by Steve Gibson, Jul 24, 2004 11:29am PDTSaturday! I'm going to celebrate with eating enough Jujyfruits to throw up! I suggest you do the same! I think Catwoman will be the first comic based movie of recent years that looks so terrible that I just cant bring myself to watch it. I just cant do it. :(
Daily Filter: Sleeping Dogs, Transformers: Fall of Cybertron
Kingdoms of Amalur needed 3 million sales 'to break even,' RI governor says
Former Modern Warfare devs wanted to give Call of Duty series a 'rest'
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Over at Blue's this debate I find amusing started in the HalfLife Bug thread. (I post there as Crunch)
Basically my point is that Valve only ever did one full-fledged game and that was six years ago, and since then they have managed to be in the spotlight almost non-stop even though they haven't produced internally a single full game themselves (a couple mods for HL don't count -Ricochet was cool though) which is the first goal of a game developper. Sure they've done the Steam thing but that's not game development.
And suddenly one year ago HL2 is announced and Valve is now hailed as the only savior of PC gaming and of the whole universe. And I find that amazing..
I did like HL, and if it's sequel turns out to be cool i'll gladly play it, but I really don't understand what's all the hype about Valve...
Since the comparison started with Doom, if I look at id's recent history I feel they've maintained a much lower profile than in the Q3 days. Nowadays they have a very high visibility of course, but I find it's more about the game than about the company and its individuals (except John Carmack of course, but that'd deserve a whole article..)
Am I missing something? Am I mis-informed? am I just too much of an id fan?
Like.. what's up with this Valve hype?..
This is very much a problem of the Pc gaming 'scene' to over hype companies and games very easily. Much like cinema actually.
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Probably the best movie I have seen this summer, the entire movie just flow'd so damn well. I was pretty shocked at how well it was done.
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I'm pretty sure it all works cross browser etc (it's all valdiated for accessibility/code), and I'm about to not touch it ever again. If anyone feels like doing a quick once over of it and testing that it works, it'd be greatly appreciated. Also any comments or constructive criticism would be radical, too.
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HAVE AT IT PPLZ.
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There are 3 parts, so sit back and get ready to read:
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Windows Server running IIS w/ ftp installed and working. I have files that the server can read on an smb share and I would like to directly link that over my local network. So if you hit my ftp you can just do ftp://rosewood/gay_porn and it pulls off my machine and I dont have to copy my gay porn to the server.
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I wanted to try out Linux so I got Suse9.1 Pro because it was the 64bit edition for my Athlon64. This is my 3rd encounter with Linux and I am still thrown by then installation. All the different "packages" make my head spin. Even someone as Pc and Mac smart as myself dosnt know what half that stuff is but Im sure I dont need it. And as for the stuff I do need/want, there are like 3-5 different programs that all seem to do the same thing. I dont want 6 different CD-players, 8 image editors, 256 text editors....
Should I get a Linux for dummies book or are there any good Linux for n00bs websites?
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Love the shiny black finish and the simple fact I have cut the noise of my computer by at least 85%. Totally dig the side mounted hard drive bay with the vibration grommets as well as the fact the fans are all rubber mounted.
Love it, thanks fellas.
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One question for the old school players. Do you need to get up to a high level to beat the game? The strategy guide keeps mentioning how he leveled up to lvl 50 so I assume that is the max. But my characters are lvl 23 and already kick anyone's ass in my way. Plus I already have all the best magic, two orbs, and just need to get some better armor/weapons. So does anyone remember around what level they beat it at? I am power leveling now but if I went to lvl 50 it would take me 6+ hours of this at least.
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How noisy is the heatsink/fan combo? I've had the MB+CPU sitting on my desk for a week now, and I'm about to install it.
Does the hs/fan do a decent job of cooling it, or should I be looking into a 3rd party cooling solution?
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http://www.freeiPods.com/default.aspx?referer=7229295
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Does anyone have the Sapphire Redline tweak utility ? My radeon 9500 came without any cd or drivers, and i cannot find any link to download Redline utility.
Does anyone know any utility that can tell me the videocards temperature ?
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http://www.daionet.gr.jp/~masa/rthdribl/index.html
It's the Real-Time High Dynamic Range Image-Based Lighting demo. It looks cool as hell and I thought some of you might be interested in it. It's only for DirectX 9 cards that support Vertex Shader 2.0 and Pixel Shader 2.0.
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Revenge of the Sith
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I soiled myself. This looks frickin' amazing.
http://www.apple.co.jp/quicktime/trailers/casshern_large.html
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My new car:
http://home.rochester.rr.com/papaskot/jetta/car.JPG
I bought her friday, the dealer is going to replace the brakes and clean 'er up, then I get to pick her up monday. I cannot wait, it's better than christmas.
More pics:
http://home.rochester.rr.com/papaskot/jetta/
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So every so often I see people asking about metal music and wanting some recommendations, and Vantage doesn't happen to be around to jump all over it. Because I don't have anything else to talk about, I thought I'd repost the recommendations I posted a week ago, and encourage people to comment. So, long post (in two parts) in reply.
Hopefully there's at least one band in here you haven't heard.
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I have an extra 120GB western digital hard drive, rather than add to the heat and the noise, I want to mount this in a external case and turn it into a mirror backup of my system.
Any good recommendations of a firewire or usb 2.0 external case to house my EIDE hard drive?
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One of em just kinda popped off when I was moving stuff around inside my case.
Duct tape, rubber bands, jello?
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http://www.shackbattles.net/battles/view.php?battle_id=166
F7 F7?
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