Splad

i dunno if anyone is moving storms around, all you gotz to do is blow up some levies at the right time and you can really screw over some poor people tho

my grandmother was eaten by vegetarians....of course i told them it was only a vegan chili i had prepared.

best rts EVER

hmmm, how come this doesn't come up from a forum search for eve online or eve-online? oh well. it's true that the servers have had some problems when over 400 people got together in 1 system to shoot at eachother, but i play on a daily basis with an average of 11,000 other people and only once have i ever run into lag which actually caused me any sort of grief. splad recalls his memories of playing WoW for a short time....always falling into that pit in ironforge because of lag.

don't know if it helps, but i had a similar problem. i have 2 cd drives. i installed from the bottom and when i went to run it it said cannot find cd, so i switched the cd to the top drive and it works fine. unfortunatly it's working from the top drive so i'm far to lazy to look into it any more top drive: dvd bottom: cd/rw EDIT: both of my hard drives are IDE [ 02-09-2004, 07:40 PM: Message edited by: Splad ]

it's ironic actually, i was having troubles with the whole avatar thing because i wasn't sure what would best define me as a person, and then all of a sudden i saw this. well, it didn't quite define me as a person, but it's just as good because it looks exactly like me. what luck that it just happened to be sitting there in front of me the whole time.

kinda late i know, but fox canned firefly to replace it with joe millionaire...those bastards

sorry to double post, but i forgot to mention that my american government textbook is currently covered with a scratch and sniff advertisement for whomen's deoderant. see, we have to cover the books to keep the covers from getting damaged (if they have covers) so i guess it's more cost effective for the schools to get book covers with ads on them because big corporations will just give the things away, hey free advertisement right? it's funny though, the same teacher who handed out these scratch and sniff book covers while telling us to cover our books was also the teacher who told us that (technically)legally he is not allowed to wear clothes that have corporate logos on them, like a nike symbol for instance. apparently the logic behind this is that if we are forced to go to school, then it is unfair to make us look at such advertisements as a nike logo on our teacher's shirt all day. makes sense.

i'm not griping, i just think it's funny. i've sat in classrooms my entire life and never really expected to learn anything in them. my senior english teacher has us draw pictures as group projects and my social studies teacher from last year had twister in his back room hmmmm. i don't think that the public school system is designed to make people dumb and compliant, that's what the media is for, the only reason that the public school systems are so bad is because the road to hell is indeed paved with good intentions and when you get paid as much as a teacher does in california, you must have to live off of good intentions. anyways, i said i'm free in 5 months because i'm still disallusioned into thinking that college will be better, so if you would please not burst my bubble so soon, thx

wait, nevermind, i've got that backwords, if reformatting fixes it, then it must be software. whatever it is, you must be installing it every time you reformat. i don't want to imply anything, but if you have your os or any of your basic software that you install every time on a burned cd (as in you're not sure where the files came from) you might wanna try installing from a different cd just to make sure there isn't anything imbedded in a ms office installer (for instance) that could be doing it.

if he's been reformatting, i don't see how it could be a software thing

hahaha!! i have no sympathy for you silly georgian, you think your public school system is going in the ****ter. i live in california, san mateo county (san francisco peninsula), my school has an inflated technology budget, and nothing else. we have unused computers everywhere, and my english teacher assignes (as homework) assignments which must be turned in in manilla folders. he never looks at these papers, so you wonder why he might ask for such an assignment. simple, he doesn't have money to buy manilla folders, or a stapler for that matter. admittedly we do have 3 computers in that classroom, they have never once been turned on by a student, and i have been yelled at for toutching them. well, so long as the people on the school board can drive mercedes' i'm happy, because i only got 5 more months of highschool, and then i'm free.

quote:Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr: Anyway, FWIW, I liked what little I played of X2 but until they address the joystick controls issue and revise the AI dogfighting somewhat, I'm probably not touching it again. I can't imagine how they could possibly botch something as important in a sim, as flight controls. Boggles the mind really. I haven't tried the 1.2 patch yet. aah ha! i knew i was invisible.

the 1.2 patch is out and it completely removes the control issues relating to joystick sensitivity. suddenly i feel like doing loops around my space station.

woo! my favorite topic. here, this stuff should keep you guys interested for hours. it's a sort of a skeptical encyclopedia where they list the facts about things in relation to september 11th and let you decide for yourself. link it's split into 3 sections: 1. topics 2. people 3. places here's an excerpt from one of my favorites under "arbusto" the name of bush's first oil company: "According to a 1976 trust agreement, the history behind George W. Bush's first company Arbusto, started with Salem bin Laden, who appointed James Bath (->) as his business representative in Houston..." you can read the rest here

no fair, this thread died long before i got to it...oh well: if you're under 18 don't watch these, not because they're in any way bad, but because now i'm not liable. enjoy yatta derek smart's desktop commander bitterfilms: rejected that's my 2 cents, but as usual, it'll probably end up being in canadian money. (everything i ever post ends up being old news no matter how much research i do )

yep, 2012, that's when i'm planning for the end of the world, and i'm going to just have to keep reminding myself of that or i'll never make it until then.

i dunno, i think i kinda like the idea. maybe if they make a fool proof box like that that can actually play pc games, then more average joes will get into pc games and that would mean more $$$ for our favorite industry. it would allow people to play pc games without needing to know what type of ram to build into their ultimate gaming machine. my question is going to be: how in the pants of a living badger are they ever going to get the thing to run pc games like that without support from the game's original developers? first thing that struck me was their video chipset, what happens if it's incompatable with a game? i also wonder how the "drop and play" software would get past copyright protection on cds. i'd tell them good luck on their project, but somehow i doubt they're reading this.

the internet was more fun when most people didn't know how to use it

well it's obvious you don't plan on using it, but from how you reacted i thought that maybe i wasn't the first person to bug you about it. also, when you told me to use the search feature i thought that meant it was old news (as is usually the case) and i could just go read about it and have a grand ol time and be done with it. anyhow, i think i'll just siddown now. also, maybe i'll use speed tree some day

no fair, it's your web site, of course you knew that was there. cheater. i only read that list llike 8 times, you'd think i would know that was there by now sorry in my defence i only got my own thread from the search (i searched all open forums) does this mean that's the only one or does it mean they need to be reindexed? either way i'd like to read some thoughts on the matter from the battlecruiser community. if there is an old thread out there i guess i can go dredging for it later, because right now i'm off to work to cover for no good coworkers who got stuck in the mountains skiing

don't know if you've heard of this before, but this is pretty neat. http://www.idvinc.com/index.htm especially under the products page: SpeedTreeRT, is a hunk of C++ code that is designed to export speedtree data for real time interactive applications.[not a quote] $6000! I bought a car for more than that (my own money), and i'm only in highschool! I downloaded and ran the demo on my p4 1.7GHz with 64MB GeForce 3 and it ran very smoothly at 1024x768 (bump mapping and dynamic shadows and all) i have to say it looks amazing, best trees i've ever seen my computer render in realtime (or any other computer for that matter) i also downloaded a demo of an earlier version of speed tree that renders up to 600 square miles of trees at a time. although you should probably check it out for yourself i have to say that the LOD engine is great, you can't even hardly see the transition from sprite to full detail modle.

does anyone here remember what halo was supposed to be before microsoft came in and canned the whole thing to make their consol version? anyone? no? ok...

do the creators of this game have a website that you know of?

i can almost assure you that osama will be convieniently "forgotten" by the media, and in turn by the people of america. there will be no next for him.