Parias

The intro movie to Independence War Deluxe! ------------------ Commodore. Parias ICV-Galatae, Sanctuary Storage Facility (Sygan) Balor Fleet ICQ 1293359 Staff member at HardNews

So, has anyone checked out SA's new feature? It's called Awfulmon, and is a Pokemon-styled game where you square off against various game designers and whatnot. Pretty entertaining, or at least a complete waste of time (most would vote for the latter). ..Anyways, after wasting a good 30 minutes of my life getting to the "last boss", I was rather surprised to find out who it was. I won't spoil it here, you'll have to play to find out. Or, if you're really impatient/wussy, you could always clicky. Glad to see that everyone's favorite person is getting so much popularity! ------------------ Commodore. Parias ICV-Galatae, Sanctuary Storage Facility (Sygan) Balor Fleet ICQ 1293359 Staff member at HardNews

Ahhh yes, nabbed that from the SomethingAwful.com forums a few days ago.. pure classical stuff! ------------------ Commodore. Parias ICV-Galatae, Sanctuary Storage Facility (Sygan) Balor Fleet ICQ 1293359 Staff member at HardNews

Happy new year everyone! ------------------ Commodore. Parias ICV-Galatae, Sanctuary Storage Facility (Sygan) Balor Fleet ICQ 1293359 Staff member at HardNews

Merry X-mas y'all! ------------------ Commodore. Parias ICV-Galatae, Sanctuary Storage Facility (Sygan) Balor Fleet ICQ 1293359 Staff member at HardNews

Good to see ya Tac! ------------------ Commodore. Parias ICV-Galatae, Sanctuary Storage Facility (Sygan) Balor Fleet ICQ 1293359 Staff member at HardNews

Tally-ho Echo! ------------------ Commodore. Parias ICV-Galatae, Sanctuary Storage Facility (Sygan) Balor Fleet ICQ 1293359 Staff member at HardNews

At least the war has finally ended.. I can't help but feel a bit disappointed though. Excuse me while I curl up in a corner and cuddle my Voodoo 1. ------------------ Commodore. Parias ICV-Galatae, Sanctuary Storage Facility (Sygan) Balor Fleet ICQ 1293359 Staff member at HardNews

Still waiting for my copy to arrive, but I'll drop you a line when it does ------------------ Commodore. Parias ICV-Galatae, Sanctuary Storage Facility (Sygan) Balor Fleet ICQ 1293359 Staff member at HardNews

Aside from scoring the latest DX8 drivers, I can't really think of what the problem would be... except for the fact that I generally associate "Onboard Video" with "Big fat stinking problem" Try heading to the official site of the makers of the monitor and scoring their drivers. Load 'em up and see what happens. ------------------ Commodore. Parias ICV-Galatae, Sanctuary Storage Facility (Sygan) Balor Fleet ICQ 1293359 Staff member at HardNews

If you're on AOL, you're asking for trouble. It's that simple. ------------------ Commodore. Parias ICV-Galatae, Sanctuary Storage Facility (Sygan) Balor Fleet ICQ 1293359 Staff member at HardNews

Agreed. Shove this entire thread in their faces and declare how much the card sucks ass compared to what you'll get with a Voodoo 3. Unless of course you're SATISFIED with the problems you'll have in all the different games, in which case, far be from me to stop you ------------------ Commodore. Parias ICV-Galatae, Sanctuary Storage Facility (Sygan) Balor Fleet ICQ 1293359 Staff member at HardNews

Nice article SC. ------------------ Commodore. Parias ICV-Galatae, Sanctuary Storage Facility (Sygan) Balor Fleet ICQ 1293359 Staff member at HardNews

Second agreement on the Voodoo 3 here. It's lasted me for an entire year and never gave me any trouble. ------------------ Commodore. Parias ICV-Galatae, Sanctuary Storage Facility (Sygan) Balor Fleet ICQ 1293359 Staff member at HardNews

Read it and weep. If my review copy shows up with these special "modifications" applied to it, you can be sure as hell I'll be mentioning it in my review. Maybe the boobies I can understand for younger people, but honestly, how hard can it be to program in a Parental Lock function that switches the loaded Reaper model from a non-edited to an edited one? *Waits to be smacked upside the head as the SC explains how hard it REALLY would be* And as for the blood, well, same thing. I find this sad and disturbing. ------------------ Commodore. Parias ICV-Galatae, Sanctuary Storage Facility (Sygan) Balor Fleet ICQ 1293359 Staff member at HardNews

Good news people! My Voodoo 5 5500 64 MB AGP arrived just dandy and installed great! Back in action, so if anyone wants to get their ass booted around in Mechwarrior 4, give me a yell and I'll gladly comply ------------------ Commodore. Parias ICV-Galatae, Sanctuary Storage Facility (Sygan) Balor Fleet ICQ 1293359 Staff member at HardNews

Well said Mike. ------------------ Commodore. Parias ICV-Galatae, Sanctuary Storage Facility (Sygan) Balor Fleet ICQ 1293359 Staff member at HardNews

Aye, I can't get to his site either! Hahah, figures... ------------------ Commodore. Parias ICV-Galatae, Sanctuary Storage Facility (Sygan) Balor Fleet ICQ 1293359 Staff member at HardNews

As I said in my review Silk, I make it a point to make any MadCat Mk.2 pilot's life miserable, so if we play, you'll be asking for severe punishment But aye, give me a yell on ICQ and we'll get set up with a game. I've just recently decided to drop the entire damn deal with the guy. We'll grab what we can, grab a refund on the defunct GeForce 2 card, and I'm gonna nab a Voodoo 5 5500. A-Power.com is selling it for only $289, and I'd prefer having something reliable, stable, and with FSAA. Akuma: LOL! But yeah, I've already begun contemplating many a fate for this person involving the broken GeForce card, his ass, sixteen radioactive garden gnomes, and a pink goat. Ain't a pretty sight, but I'm sure he'll catch on to my dis-satisfaction real quickie! Thanks for the support though everyone.. you don't realize how much a person can rely on 3d acceleration untill it's taken away from them. Argh, I HATE this ATI card! And it's even PCI for cripe's sake... ------------------ Commodore. Parias ICV-Galatae, Sanctuary Storage Facility (Sygan) Balor Fleet ICQ 1293359 Staff member at HardNews

Removed from his own company? Youch, that's gotta hoit! ------------------ Commodore. Parias ICV-Galatae, Sanctuary Storage Facility (Sygan) Balor Fleet ICQ 1293359 Staff member at HardNews

So the big question on everyone's mind at this very second is probably "Where the hell has Parias been?" Actually, the beta people are probably wondering when the next release will be out and the non-beta people are probably wondering what the hell BCM is like... but anyways. Recently, the family system (the one that everyone except me uses), the ever-reliable P233 we've had for 5-6 years now finally coughed up it's last volt of energy a couple of weeks ago. Went out with a bang.. fortunately, nothing else died, both HDs are fully functional, as is all the hardware (tested most of it on my personal gaming machine). Diagnosis is most likely that the power supply's buggered. Since the system was badly in need of an overhaul anyways, we figured now would be a great time to pick up a new system. And so we did. After spending some time checking around and finalizing the specs, we finally scored ourselves a custom-built P3/800mhz with 128 megs of RAM, a 52x CDROM drive, a 32x8x4 CD Writer, a Creative Labs SB Live! Value, 30 gig HD, and, most importantly to this little story, a GeForce 2 MX. Now, under normal circumstances we were going to get a Hercules 3d Prophet 2 board, but when we arrived to pick up the system (another story in itself... naturally we had a blizzard hit us on the very day we were going to pick up the comp) we found that instead we were getting a Gainward CARDEXpert GeForce 2 MX. Seeing as how the person we were working with was going on about how great the card was, I gave it a "What the hell?" and went with it. Although I've never even heard that this card existed before this week... Anyways, once we got home, the plan was for me to swap out the GeForce 2 card and give my family the Voodoo 3, since I'd get more use out of that sucker than they ever would, and vice versa with the V3. Made sure all references to the 3dfx card were gone, shut down my system, and set them both up. The other system booted up just fine with my Voodoo 3, no problems there. However, my system, on the other hand, suffered greatly. Upon booting up I was greeted with this charming view which clearly proved to me that all that time spent by my friends trying to convince me to get a NVidia card was CERTAINLY not for waste! *Cough* That's right, the card had some HORRENDOUS horizontal line issues and could only render at 640x480x4. Any higher and it simply hung while loading Windows. Fetching a small barf bag to contain my nausea, I pathetically attempted to navigate over to NVidia's site and load up the latest Detonator drivers. No change. Went to the official site of the actual card. Installed THEIR drivers. No change. Poked card repeatedly with screwdriver. No change. Cussed loudly at card. No change. Eventually I popped it into the system it was actually meant for and booted it up. The first thing I noticed was that the horizontal line issue showed up during the boot-up sequence (where it counts the RAM and detects drives and wahtnot). This was due to the fact that the startup screen is graphical in nature on my motherboard I'd imagine (the lines don't show up in a standard DOS view), but it clearly proved that drivers weren't the issue, since it hadn't even loaded any yet. That was enough proof for me, I shut down the system and popped my V3 back in, then put the GeForce card back in my personal machine to dick around some more After a few good hours I got fed up and finally salvaged the ATI Rage Pro II+ from my 233 and popped it in. It's slow, makes my eyes hurt at 1152x864, and can't render 3d worth a damn, but at least it actually renders above 640x480x4! Also just recently tried another test with the GeForce card.. it's completely dead, both mobos refuse to acknowledge the card is even in there anymore. Can't say I blame them.... So that's the primary reason I've spontaneously vanished lately.... been working on this issue and nothing else. Called the person who sold us this POS and he's working on getting us the card we actually wanted. I'm personally not expecting much progress untill next week, but untill then, I'm stuck with this POS ATI card. The good side is, now I don't retch uncontrollably when looking at my desktop! Hoorah! Just figured I'd let you all know what's up in my ever-exciting world. Things should return to normal soon, then I'll be back to pissing off the SC with my ever-annoying banter (assuming I haven't already ). Till then, I'll be gawking at the massive speed of the "family" system and playing "Catch the hammer" with the GeForce card. ------------------ Commodore. Parias ICV-Galatae, Sanctuary Storage Facility (Sygan) Balor Fleet ICQ 1293359 Staff member at HardNews

Aye, just got the ear-blasting ICQ greeting myself.. I really must change the default sounds Happy 2-day-early bday boss! ------------------ Commodore. Parias ICV-Galatae, Sanctuary Storage Facility (Sygan) Balor Fleet ICQ 1293359 Staff member at HardNews

quote:...and as for Supreme Cmdr, try being a professional, obviously you were wrong, DOH? Is that a professional term? You do realize he coulda said "Duh!" instead Michael.... and I can count with both hands and feet (and quite a few other people's) the number of developers who are "unprofessional" by your rather odd standards and yet still manage to kick much ass. I'd assume you've never read any of Jeff K's interviews (or "intarviews") with other developers? ..Bah, I'm ranting. Just cool off buddy. The last "professional" gaming-related person I heard of ended up cancelling the Babylon 5 game for crap like "Professional" (there's that damn word again) Bull Rider. I personally prefer SC the way he is, and I'm sure everyone else here does too. But anyways, lets not get too off-topic here, I just couldn't let this one slide. If I'm out of line, I'll be keeping the airlock pressurized ------------------ Commodore. Parias ICV-Galatae, Sanctuary Storage Facility (Sygan) Balor Fleet ICQ 1293359 Staff member at HardNews [This message has been edited by Parias (edited 11-12-2000).]

"All your base are belong to us!!" -Taken from the greatest thread on SomethingAwful.com ever to exist... post your contribution today! (Sorry, couldn't resist ) ------------------ Commodore. Parias ICV-Galatae, Sanctuary Storage Facility (Sygan) Balor Fleet ICQ 1293359 Staff member at HardNews

I was kinda surprised to hear that.. but according to Lancer Reactor, it was just CGW mucking around with their crappy PR skills again, or something. ------------------ Commodore. Parias ICV-Galatae, Sanctuary Storage Facility (Sygan) Balor Fleet ICQ 1293359 Staff member at HardNews