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  1. quote:Other than the occasional Eminem download for the girlfriend, is there anything else you need? That any of us can provide? That's legal? Well, quite simply, I don't think the "That's legal?" part of that statement is really necessary. If Derek pointed to a nuclear silo and said "Get many bombs", we'd probably trip over each other in our mad rush to be the first to aquire what he desires (I'm kidding) Anyways, how about a bag of Roofles Derek? Not only are they quite edible, they can be used to inspire hilarity at any given moment! Perfect for crunch time! Here: ------------------ Commodore. Parias ICV-Galatae, Sanctuary Storage Facility (Sygan) Balor Fleet ICQ 1293359 Staff member at HardNews
  2. VoodooExtreme is having a poll on their site to see, and I quote, "If the following game designers were locked into a secret underground military complex and were forced to fight it out to the death by any means necessary, who do you think would be the sole survivor?" Be sure to go and vote for everyone's favorite chief-of-security-on-Voyager-lookalike ------------------ Commodore. Parias ICV-Galatae, Sanctuary Storage Facility (Sygan) Balor Fleet ICQ 1293359 Staff member at HardNews
  3. Lol! Good one SC ------------------ Commodore. Parias ICV-Galatae, Sanctuary Storage Facility (Sygan) Balor Fleet ICQ 1293359 Staff member at HardNews
  4. In a move that truely shocked everyone within 500 kilometers of my house, Westwood announced their latest upcoming game, "Earth and Beyond". Some of you have probably already heard a thing or two about this (the name rings a vague bell for me), but for the uninitiated, I'll let your jaws drop on the floor from the features listing: quote: Earth and Beyond will feature: Three major player professions (trader, explorer and warrior) and nine variations. Hundreds of areas to explore, including planets, moons, nebulas, starports, Star Gates, black holes, capital ships and many more. The ability to not only explore space, but to land on and explore planets, all built in glorious 3D. Hundreds of missions designed for each profession. Missions will range from 30 minute quick tasks to quests that could take several weeks. How about that folks? I mean, landing on planets in full 3d? Exploring an entire galaxy online? An entire three major player professions?! Holy uneducated garden gnome Batman, I can hardly contain my excitement! This game is truely the single most incredible, original, and creative game idea to come along in years! And that, my friend, is the absolute truth. Period. The game's website is expected to go live later today. ------------------ Commodore. Parias ICV-Galatae, Sanctuary Storage Facility (Sygan) Balor Fleet ICQ 1293359 Staff member at HardNews
  5. I'll just start laughing evily for no apparent reason. ------------------ Commodore. Parias ICV-Galatae, Sanctuary Storage Facility (Sygan) Balor Fleet ICQ 1293359 Staff member at HardNews
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  7. That was entertaining indeed.. a pity DS9 came on right as the chat started, I could've hung around more to spread "teh funney", rather than just be running back and forth between comp and keyboard during the commercials ------------------ Commodore. Parias ICV-Galatae, Sanctuary Storage Facility (Sygan) Balor Fleet ICQ 1293359 Staff member at HardNews
  8. Hot damn is this sucker looking sweet! Very nice preview, I'm killing myself eagerly awaiting the new terrain. Eggcellent. ------------------ Commodore. Parias ICV-Galatae, Sanctuary Storage Facility (Sygan) Balor Fleet ICQ 1293359 Staff member at HardNews
  9. Aye, I've seen people post magazine scans all the time. No worries ------------------ Commodore. Parias ICV-Galatae, Sanctuary Storage Facility (Sygan) Balor Fleet ICQ 1293359 Staff member at HardNews
  10. Famous last words of Cmdr Parias on first patrol mission: "What's this button do?" ------------------ Commodore. Parias ICV-Galatae, Sanctuary Storage Facility (Sygan) Balor Fleet ICQ 1293359 Staff member at HardNews
  11. Pardon if this has been suggested already, I haven't read through much of the thread yet, but very recently I upgraded to an AMD Thunderbird 1.1Ghz with an ABIT KT7-RAID and had a problem of my comp randomly rebooting after the CPU was grinding away at a game for 40-odd minutes straight. The eventual solution was to pick up a fresh PSU (I had a 250 watter at the time, picked up a 300Watt). If nothing else works, consider that. ------------------ Commodore. Parias ICV-Galatae, Sanctuary Storage Facility (Sygan) Balor Fleet ICQ 1293359 Staff member at HardNews [This message has been edited by Parias (edited 02-23-2001).]
  12. Bwa haha, I'm saving that, thanks Gryphon! ------------------ Commodore. Parias ICV-Galatae, Sanctuary Storage Facility (Sygan) Balor Fleet ICQ 1293359 Staff member at HardNews
  13. Welcome aboard Gallion! A rather.. interesting turn of events. ------------------ Commodore. Parias ICV-Galatae, Sanctuary Storage Facility (Sygan) Balor Fleet ICQ 1293359 Staff member at HardNews
  14. I discovered BCM before I even had a dinky 28.8k connection to the internet... got an issue of PCGamer in with a review of Battlecruiser 3000AD. I showed off one of their comments about how one of the crash dialogues should be a screenshot on the box to my mom, thinking it was "teh funney". Of course, it wasn't untill many weeks later that I got to find out what was REALLY going on... A bit of time later, I remembered the game existed and decided to give it another shot. I hunted around for a demo, and came across this site. The download was 50 megs (hefty, seeing as how I was on a 28.8 and had only 100 hours of ISP time), but I was highly intruiged by the options that this "demo" (actually the full release at the time.. congrats to the SC for releasing 1.7 for free) could provide, and the game sounded damn cool. So I started the download and plopped around on the forums for information. Warstories, tech issues I should know about, tips, etc. Eventually the download finished, I played the game for awhile, and liked it. This was when the "old" forums were still up For the next few months I just kinda vanished, then came back again, found the new forums, and got into the game again. Eventually I learned that 1.7 wasn't the only version available, but everyone was playing this nifty 2.x version, with nifty stuff like Fleet C&C, the lack of crashing every 5 minutes, and a lot of other kewlies. Unfortunately, I couldn't find a copy of the game in my area... so, on my birthday, the SC stepped in and sent me a free copy I've been a loyal follower ever since. Steve: Nice! ------------------ Commodore. Parias ICV-Galatae, Sanctuary Storage Facility (Sygan) Balor Fleet ICQ 1293359 Staff member at HardNews
  15. Either Lum from Urusei Yatsura, or Washu from Tenchi Muyo (hey, I could do with someone capable of overclocking my computer without making it explode!). Of course, rumor places that Ranma chick at being pretty nice too... ------------------ Commodore. Parias ICV-Galatae, Sanctuary Storage Facility (Sygan) Balor Fleet ICQ 1293359 Staff member at HardNews
  16. Heh, yeah, that link's been spread all over the SomethingAwful.com forums... and beyond ------------------ Commodore. Parias ICV-Galatae, Sanctuary Storage Facility (Sygan) Balor Fleet ICQ 1293359 Staff member at HardNews
  17. Why you throw chip?? (I'd post the image directly, but someone might object to the foul language ) ------------------ Commodore. Parias ICV-Galatae, Sanctuary Storage Facility (Sygan) Balor Fleet ICQ 1293359 Staff member at HardNews
  18. Good news people! The 300W power supply went in today, and I'm a happy man, the rebooting has stopped! Thanks for the advice everyone ------------------ Commodore. Parias ICV-Galatae, Sanctuary Storage Facility (Sygan) Balor Fleet ICQ 1293359 Staff member at HardNews
  19. A merry Mechwarrior 4 birtday to you! (Okay, so it's wacky.. it was originally intended for the SomethingAwful.com forums ) ------------------ Commodore. Parias ICV-Galatae, Sanctuary Storage Facility (Sygan) Balor Fleet ICQ 1293359 Staff member at HardNews
  20. That's "Parias!" I'd ask you not to think me as being french. ------------------ Commodore. Parias ICV-Galatae, Sanctuary Storage Facility (Sygan) Balor Fleet ICQ 1293359 Staff member at HardNews
  21. Yeesh! I'm surprised your head didn't explode after that one SC! Heh, last month when I formatted my HD, WinMe created a partition for the D: drive and allocated 7 megs to it, while passing off the rest of the room to drive C:. Go figure. ------------------ Commodore. Parias ICV-Galatae, Sanctuary Storage Facility (Sygan) Balor Fleet ICQ 1293359 Staff member at HardNews
  22. Um, okay, now I wake up this morning, reboot my machine, and find that I'm stuck in the same situation that I had before, ALA Terminus. Another reboot, system disk load, and scanreg /restore fixed the problem, but that's the second time my registry has gone bonkers in the past 2 days. Most odd... At least I was able to fix the problem this time without getting another heart attack ------------------ Commodore. Parias ICV-Galatae, Sanctuary Storage Facility (Sygan) Balor Fleet ICQ 1293359 Staff member at HardNews
  23. Aye, that's what I was thinking Akira. I've recently gotten my temp to stay down around 45 degrees when it's working hard (goes up to 51 if it works REALLY hard.. it's good, since even my 433 used to do that) and yet it still reboots. Average temp while doing very little-to-nothing in Windows (with ICQ, Motherboard Monitor, 2 IE windows, Outlook Express, and one or two other things running) is around 33 degrees. Aye, the Chrome Orb has been modded a bit. Out of all the motherboards, I had to get the one with the capacitors super-close to the CPU. Only had to file down a small portion of the lower area (in retrospect, maybe I should have grabbed a mini chrome orb). Anyways, I just recently read somewhere that, for my particular processor, the +5V channel should have at least 22Amps on it. Defying the laws of physics (and nearly breaking my neck in the process), I was able to squeeze around my case and determine that my PSU has only 13Amps on the +5V channel. Perhaps as the processor gets hotter, it draws more power, hence leading to the eventually rebooting difficulty denying me from all but the most simple of functions? That would explain why I can't reboot properly once my system reboots itself, just simply go into the BIOS or load Windows in Safe Mode. Otherwise I have to wait for the processor to start cooling down. I'm working to see if I can score myself a 300 watt power supply. Any chance this might solve my "1 second complete hang every 7 seconds for the next 40 seconds after initially loading a game" problem as well? ------------------ Commodore. Parias ICV-Galatae, Sanctuary Storage Facility (Sygan) Balor Fleet ICQ 1293359 Staff member at HardNews
  24. Parias

    hola

    Nice to hear frm you again Cruis.In ------------------ Commodore. Parias ICV-Galatae, Sanctuary Storage Facility (Sygan) Balor Fleet ICQ 1293359 Staff member at HardNews
  25. Owie, that's gotta suck Jaguar! Hehe, thanks for sharing everyone. Wold: I think I like the idea of a new PSU better than being told to get a new heat sink... before I got this Chrome Orb, I heard nothing but good reviews about it, but now that I finally have it in, everyone's telling me I should have gotten the GlobalWin. GAH! But the PSU would make sense, seeing as how I have a friend who runs at similar temps without any problems... I'll see if I can pick up a 300 watt-er later on... and then hope like hell that this fixes the issue, because I'm really getting tired of buying more and more stuff This was just supposed to be a simple upgrade! Of course, true hardware enthusasts know never to use "simple" and "upgrade" in the same sentence... ------------------ Commodore. Parias ICV-Galatae, Sanctuary Storage Facility (Sygan) Balor Fleet ICQ 1293359 Staff member at HardNews
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