Parias

Hmm, perhaps it's time I started ragging Blizzard for a review copy... ------------------ Cmdr. Parias Spectre Fleet Chief Engineer, Starstation Destiny ICV-Galatae ICQ:1293359 Staff member at HardNews "Next time you're passing by and feel like dropping in, keep passing by untill you get to a river, and THEN drop in." -Jake Logan

Damn, this movie downloaded like even my cable connection was wanting to see it! 120k/second was the speed, and it finished within a few mere seconds. And I've gotta say, that's a quite pretty sight! Of course, one we Insurgents will probably very rarely see, but nice all the same ------------------ Cmdr. Parias Spectre Fleet Chief Engineer, Starstation Destiny ICV-Galatae ICQ:1293359 Staff member at HardNews "Next time you're passing by and feel like dropping in, keep passing by untill you get to a river, and THEN drop in." -Jake Logan

*Sniff* Brings a tear to me eye..... such a beautiful picture.. *Gets glared at by fellow Insurgents* Uh, I mean, NO! Horrible picture, ICKY ICKY! My eyes hurt from it! GAH! *Screams and leaps out the window, plunging to his doom* ------------------ Cmdr. Parias Spectre Fleet Chief Engineer, Starstation Destiny ICV-Galatae ICQ:1293359 Staff member at HardNews "Next time you're passing by and feel like dropping in, keep passing by untill you get to a river, and THEN drop in." -Jake Logan

Utilizing my dark arts of necromancy, I'm resurrecting this old thread for a good purpose I got a few good emails in response to my first post here, but didn't manage to score any actual people. Presently that's cool, we've pretty much got content covered, but as it stands, I'm the only one doing news, and with all the other stuff I've also gotta do, it's getting more and more difficult to do alone.. heh. So I need news people. Dedicated, funny, and willing. Definately willing, because my radioactive garden gnomes always get a kick out of breaking people's will p- er, I didn't say that Think you have what it takes to sit on your arse for an hour or two each day and post a bunch of hardware and gaming news? Give me a ring via email or ICQ (both easily accessable through this thread, if you've got a smidgen of intellect, you can find them) and we'll chat from there. Remember: I need good, dedicated and funny people, and you've gotta be willing to work for free for the moment. Well, not exactly free, you can put down "Worked on super hilarious kick-ass best-page-in-existence-period site" on your resume.. did I mention that ass-kissing is a nice quality too? Kidding So, I'll await any responses that might come flooding in. Thanks for any help you can provide guys, it's appreciated. Oh, and I hope you don't mind the blatant self-plugging here SC, but we really need some more guys here ------------------ Cmdr. Parias Spectre Fleet Chief Engineer, Starstation Destiny ICV-Galatae ICQ:1293359 Staff member at HardNews "Next time you're passing by and feel like dropping in, keep passing by untill you get to a river, and THEN drop in." -Jake Logan [This message has been edited by Parias (edited 06-27-2000).]

Gallion, I might be a 3dfx fanboy, but alas, I must do this.. *Whips out patented big fat laser gun and waves it around the room* Tell me where the hell you found a GeForce 2 for $50! Or the walls get it! The walls I tell you! UWA HAHAHAHA! Erm, seriously though, where DID you find a GeForce 2 for such a cheap price? Or is that just a typo? ------------------ Cmdr. Parias Spectre Fleet Chief Engineer, Starstation Destiny ICV-Galatae ICQ:1293359 Staff member at HardNews "Next time you're passing by and feel like dropping in, keep passing by untill you get to a river, and THEN drop in." -Jake Logan [This message has been edited by Parias (edited 06-27-2000).]

Thanks SC, I thought I'd be stuck watching that damn Halo E3 video over and over and over again forever.. about time I had something else to check out ------------------ Cmdr. Parias Spectre Fleet Chief Engineer, Starstation Destiny ICV-Galatae ICQ:1293359 Staff member at HardNews "Next time you're passing by and feel like dropping in, keep passing by untill you get to a river, and THEN drop in." -Jake Logan

I agree with Eclipse ------------------ Cmdr. Parias Spectre Fleet Chief Engineer, Starstation Destiny ICV-Galatae ICQ:1293359 Staff member at HardNews "Next time you're passing by and feel like dropping in, keep passing by untill you get to a river, and THEN drop in." -Jake Logan

Hoo hoo BABY! Those are some nice pics to rock by... ooooh yeah.. *Starts foaming at the mouth* Hee hee, BIG MISSILES! ------------------ Cmdr. Parias Spectre Fleet Chief Engineer, Starstation Destiny ICV-Galatae ICQ:1293359 Staff member at HardNews "Next time you're passing by and feel like dropping in, keep passing by untill you get to a river, and THEN drop in." -Jake Logan

4 new pictures look pretty hot, but the thumbnails are broken ------------------ Cmdr. Parias Spectre Fleet Chief Engineer, Starstation Destiny ICV-Galatae ICQ:1293359 Staff member at HardNews "Next time you're passing by and feel like dropping in, keep passing by untill you get to a river, and THEN drop in." -Jake Logan

Cute I was a bit surprised when they showed me that they could read my desktop, untill I checked the link.. it just opens the "desktop" folder as a local file on your system, they don't actually know anything... hilarious though! I'm gonna bookmark it and send it to my paranoid friends for laughs. ------------------ Cmdr. Parias Spectre Fleet Chief Engineer, Starstation Destiny ICV-Galatae ICQ:1293359 Staff member at HardNews "Next time you're passing by and feel like dropping in, keep passing by untill you get to a river, and THEN drop in." -Jake Logan

This is perhaps the l33t-est set of pics I've seen yet. Jeff K. would be damn proud! ------------------ Cmdr. Parias Spectre Fleet Chief Engineer, Starstation Destiny ICV-Galatae ICQ:1293359 Staff member at HardNews "Next time you're passing by and feel like dropping in, keep passing by untill you get to a river, and THEN drop in." -Jake Logan

Heh, assuming I don't get punted out an airlock for it, I'll be sure to shamelessly plug my review once it's posted Just waiting for the Fed Ex guy to show up.. ------------------ Cmdr. Parias Spectre Fleet Chief Engineer, Starstation Destiny ICV-Galatae ICQ:1293359 Staff member at HardNews "Next time you're passing by and feel like dropping in, keep passing by untill you get to a river, and THEN drop in." -Jake Logan

The term "Beggar's Canyon" ring a bell? Them Gams better watch out, because first thing, I'm heading for their planet ------------------ Cmdr. Parias Spectre Fleet Chief Engineer, Starstation Destiny ICV-Galatae ICQ:1293359 Staff member at HardNews "Next time you're passing by and feel like dropping in, keep passing by untill you get to a river, and THEN drop in." -Jake Logan

If you think Terminus looks better than BCM, you've REALLY got a screw loose. Hell, even the original Freespace looks better than Terminus does. Sheesh! Oh well, lets get back on topic before someone decides to steal my radioactive garden gnomes ------------------ Cmdr. Parias Spectre Fleet Chief Engineer, Starstation Destiny ICV-Galatae ICQ:1293359 Staff member at HardNews "Next time you're passing by and feel like dropping in, keep passing by untill you get to a river, and THEN drop in." -Jake Logan

Deus Ex baby. All the way. ------------------ Cmdr. Parias Spectre Fleet Chief Engineer, Starstation Destiny ICV-Galatae ICQ:1293359 Staff member at HardNews "Next time you're passing by and feel like dropping in, keep passing by untill you get to a river, and THEN drop in." -Jake Logan

I don't even know who the hell "loserman" even really is, but I figured I'd jump in there and contribute anyways ------------------ Cmdr. Parias Spectre Fleet Chief Engineer, Starstation Destiny ICV-Galatae ICQ:1293359 Staff member at HardNews "Next time you're passing by and feel like dropping in, keep passing by untill you get to a river, and THEN drop in." -Jake Logan

Probably a bar or rest room of some sort ------------------ Cmdr. Parias Spectre Fleet Chief Engineer, Starstation Destiny ICV-Galatae ICQ:1293359 Staff member at HardNews "Next time you're passing by and feel like dropping in, keep passing by untill you get to a river, and THEN drop in." -Jake Logan

Actually I was hoping to lead them on into expecting which tactics to use, so that they'd adapt to them, then we could slip under and use something completely unothodox.. like the old "random delivery shipment of Vagrants" routine Aha, now they must be scratching their heads.. "Does he want us to think that he's tricking us, or is he tricking us right now?" they must be asking themselves.. enough to ream their heads into walls and possibly render them unconscious! UWA HAHAHAHAHAHHAH! *Cough* Er, where'd I keep my space suit again? ------------------ Cmdr. Parias Spectre Fleet Chief Engineer, Starstation Destiny ICV-Galatae ICQ:1293359 Staff member at HardNews "Next time you're passing by and feel like dropping in, keep passing by untill you get to a river, and THEN drop in." -Jake Logan

True point Dark, but as I say, if you're gonna put it in there, at least try and do a good job.. heh. ------------------ Cmdr. Parias Spectre Fleet Chief Engineer, Starstation Destiny ICV-Galatae ICQ:1293359 Staff member at HardNews "Next time you're passing by and feel like dropping in, keep passing by untill you get to a river, and THEN drop in." -Jake Logan

Well, since this is starting to turn into a "rate Terminus demo" thread, I may as well post my 0.02 After devouring massive loads of crack, I decided it would be a good idea to re-install it again and maybe get a look at how good it really was (yeah, after what just happened, I'm still crazy enough to re-install it). And thus far, all I can say that even _I_ could probably throw together better voice acting with my $2 microphone from Radio Shack! And those graphics need some serious work... man! ------------------ Cmdr. Parias Spectre Fleet Chief Engineer, Starstation Destiny ICV-Galatae ICQ:1293359 Staff member at HardNews "Next time you're passing by and feel like dropping in, keep passing by untill you get to a river, and THEN drop in." -Jake Logan

Thanks for your help everyone.. fortunately, I believe I've managed to fix the problem. Unfortunately, I now need to re-install just about every program I use on a normal basis.. bleh! SC: Thanks for the link, I'm gonna nab that program shortly and keep it handy. As for posting it here, I know how well you guys all are with trouble shooting, so.. hehe. Although I AM presently throwing together a hefty complaint to post on their forums.. if this is just what the demo did, I'm afraid to install the full version! Of course, it could have just been some critical failure resulting from my blatantly overloaded registry that somehow collapsed everything after loading just ONE more program in there.. but either way, I managed to fix it by re-installing Win98 over my present installation, so I'm back and kicking now. Thanks for all your assistance everyone! ...Now to start razzing for that CD burner so I can back up everything... I've only got 400 megs free on this 10 gig HD! Sad, I know ... Lock the thread if you desire, I'll store all the responses I got here just in-case this happens again, which I'm hoping it won't ------------------ Cmdr. Parias Spectre Fleet Chief Engineer, Starstation Destiny ICV-Galatae ICQ:1293359 Staff member at HardNews "Next time you're passing by and feel like dropping in, keep passing by untill you get to a river, and THEN drop in." -Jake Logan [This message has been edited by Parias (edited 06-19-2000).]

Well, either this was co-incidental with a regular Windows 98 SE fu**-up (pardon the bluntness, I'm a tad pissy) or Vicarious Visions just set themselves up to recieve an earful from me... either way, here's my problem. Nabbed the Terminus demo that was released this morning.. just finished downloading as of 30 minutes ago, so I installed it, configured it, and ran it. Went through a self-playing demo for a bit... then crashed mysteriously at the end with first an illegal op in the program itself, then an error in Kernel32.dll (module User.Dll or something if I remember right). No problem, happens occasionally, reboot right? Wrong. Restarted my comp, and it brought up the startup listing (the thing that pops up when you hit F8 when it says "Starting Windows 98...") stating at the bottom that there was an error detected in my registry/configuration and to boot up from the Command prompt and run scanreg.exe. This was where I started to get a tad concerned. Hit "Normal Startup", let it load.. then it informed me that "Registry Services will be inoperative". My "WTF?" synapses were firing.. and then they went into overload as Windows proudly informed me the following: "While initializing device VKD: Windows Protection Error. You need to restart your computer. Error: Could not execute SBECFG.EXE Press any key to continue...." Pressing any key resulted in my computer switching itself off. Upon rebooting a second time, it gave me the same error on the startup menu. I hit "Command Prompt Only" this time, booted into DOS, and ran Scanreg per it asking. I ran through the process (which seemed to consist of little more than backing up my configuration, which doesn't help me because my current configuration is classified as "completely fux0red") and then dumped me at a prompt again. Shrugging, I rebooted for a third time. Gave me the same startup menu error yet AGAIN. Hit "Normal", and this time it ran Scanreg on it's own, and proceeded to fail to boot up again with the same errors. GARGH! This is really cheesing me off, because I've got all my important crap on there, and being unable to even get into Windows via Safe mode (tried it) isn't very good for my day. I also tried manually booting up from my Windows 98 CD (you can tell it to boot from the CD in your BIOS on a lot of systems), no go. I've tried a boot disk, didn't do anything.. since it boots me into DOS. I'm considering just re-installing over top of my current installation, but that's a last resort presently.. I'm not exactly up to wanting to corrupt something important and being forced to format my HD or something.... heh. So, I turn to you guys. My resident "Can fix anything I damn want to" tech expert is out at the moment, and I'd really like to get back and going with this system.. I'm presently typing from my older P233, with my mom's Ergonomic keyboard that's stressing my hands to hell and back again Not to mention the lack of a Razer Boomslang 2000 is just plain nuts! So, anyways, I'll await your replies.. hopefully someone can offer something helpful.. heh. Do it for me guys! Do it for the Insurgency! Yes, even if you're Galcom... *evil psychotic laughter* Thanks. Oh, and apologies if I sound a tad incoherent, but it's not every day that your best friend in the whole world suddenly "stops working" Edit: Oh, before I forget, SBECFG.Exe is a part of the DOS driver for my SB Live! Value. ------------------ Cmdr. Parias Spectre Fleet Chief Engineer, Starstation Destiny ICV-Galatae ICQ:1293359 Staff member at HardNews "Next time you're passing by and feel like dropping in, keep passing by untill you get to a river, and THEN drop in." -Jake Logan [This message has been edited by Parias (edited 06-19-2000).]

Well, should we ever fall under siege, you can be sure I'll be there to back everyone up and follow orders like a good soldier Come on guys, who's with me? Are you all man, no, Insurgent enough to keep your cool and follow orders from the higher-ups in the midst of combat? As in, if you're asked to move to a given waypoint that will help cut off the enemy flanking maneuvers around New America, you'll go "how fast?", not "I'm too heavily engaged!", correct? Because even if there's about 40 Vagrants closing in, if someone wants me in a certain position, damnit, I'll move there, even if all I have left is a burning hulk when I arrive! ....Wait, that wouldn't actually be too useful... but, you get my point Discipline is everything guys, rogue commanders in the midst of battle doesn't help us at all. ------------------ Cmdr. Parias Spectre Fleet Chief Engineer, Starstation Destiny ICV-Galatae ICQ:1293359 Staff member at HardNews "Next time you're passing by and feel like dropping in, keep passing by untill you get to a river, and THEN drop in." -Jake Logan

I just came back from the theatres myself after seeing it (also after screaming loudly "Ahhh! The light, the light!" when first going outside) and I personally give it my "L33t liek Jeff K." award, truely a prestigous honor! Hell, from the previews I saw it almost looked like it was anime.. do yourself a favor people and go check it out, even if it means you have to step out under the cursed thing in the sky known as "the sun" ------------------ Cmdr. Parias Spectre Fleet Chief Engineer, Starstation Destiny ICV-Galatae ICQ:1293359 Staff member at HardNews "Next time you're passing by and feel like dropping in, keep passing by untill you get to a river, and THEN drop in." -Jake Logan

They're small enough to be mistaken as postage stamps, but they're pictures, so I'm happy Thanks Rattler! ------------------ Cmdr. Parias Spectre Fleet Chief Engineer, Starstation Destiny ICV-Galatae ICQ:1293359 Staff member at HardNews "Next time you're passing by and feel like dropping in, keep passing by untill you get to a river, and THEN drop in." -Jake Logan