kano
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https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/06/27/troy_george_skinner_new_zealand_shot_by_mom/
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Can't forget about that guy who forced Doom 3 to run on 2 3DFX Voodoo 2 cards, equipment which was WAY below the baseline specs. The frame rate was pretty good, 30 or so, but obviously there was no lighting. Everything was the same bright level. Imagine how tough TDM would be like that!
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The first time I played Thief, it was on a video card without proper drivers. All of the walls were white, and for a short time, I thought it was supposed to look that way. 0_0 Also, can't forget this!
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I use WFC to block all games(and other applications) I play so they don't get access to the internet.
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The trouble is that most (all?) games require admin privs to install and play on Windows, at least if you install the official way. At that point, they can do whatever they like to your system. Security needs a redo on the PC, where programs are prohibited from tampering with each other by compartmentalization in the OS.
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ESO is mentioned as one of the games which had RedShell. I noticed a quick update which isn't mentioned in the patch notes, so it's got to be RedShell removal.
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Thief sound at 5:04.
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On that note, many of the desk lamps in the mod make no sound when toggled on/off. I think they should make a click like a light switch does.
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You can always give Android-x86 a shot. I did, it is nice, but there are some bugs on my device. But what's great is that it doesn't come with a colossal collection of crapware, like a store-purchased Android phone (or Windows 10) device does. That means more free memory and better performance. http://www.android-x86.org/ Of course, don't mess with this unless you know what you're doing (and how to fix Windows if it doesn't work out for you).
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One thing I really wish I figured out sooner in life is that the more I support the assholes in the content industry, the worse this shit will get. I think this realization finally hit me with the Xbox One introduction. https://kotaku.com/xbox-one-needs-to-connect-to-the-internet-every-24-hour-511751949 If I could go back in time and give every dime that I gave to these guys to an alcoholic instead, I would do so. It'd be going to a better (as in less harmful to society) cause. If only 14-year-old me knew that supporting tyrants only leads to more tyranny...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYhvmvX9p18 That's one n00b scammer who got thoroughly pwn'd. EDIT: And don't ever do what this guy did. Average people could get sent to the slammer for the rest of their natural life for deploying malware like in the video. Governments and corporations seem to be a different story, though, as one makes the laws, and the other is generally above the laws. Example: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/pamzqk/fs-labs-flight-simulator-password-malware-drm
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Lowend Challege: Get TDM 2.06+ running on the oldest and slowest hardware
kano replied to nbohr1more's topic in The Dark Mod
Latest build is a small form factor with a GTX750TI. Not particularly slow or old, but definitely a budget card. I find that the game runs great at 720p with soft shadow quality at 40. If you don't want soft shadows, you can use 1080p. But soft shadows and 1080p tend to slow things down. -
Wonder how long until this is taken down. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/04/19/chap_fixes_microsofts_windows_7_and_8_update_block_on_new_cpus/
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The biggest mistake the "Microsoft support" scammers made, was giving me their phone number. Oh, the simple joys of wasting their time and annoying them. If enough people did this, these scams would collapse under the sheer number of failures.
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The longer we keep them on the line, the less they can actually rip people off. The other day I asked one to fix my Linux computer. Boy, did that get him mad! At that point you're making it obvious that you're just toying with them.
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I don't think so.
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Ordinary workers on a wage have no guilt.
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One of my favorite things to do in Doom 3 was punch the light on the chain and watch the shadows dance around. How come the dangling candles/chandeliers in TDM are immovable?
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Anyone else see an HOM effect in the sky of Return to the City?
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More sites are refusing to let us read them unless we switch off the ad blocker. But switching off Javascript gets us around that!
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Ads were getting too intrusive and annoying even before adblockers were mainstream. The advertisers brought it upon themselves by making their ads so annoying. Hell the only reason I started using an adblocker is because a Flash add on DeviantArt was destroying my single-core PC at the time.
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And don't forget the 8 other "download now" buttons that you find on file sharing websites which will download anything except what you are actually expecting...
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NoScript is my friend with websites where 1 tab takes 500MB ram. It also adds the options to choose which scripts to allow, so I block google-analytics, facebook.net, etc. While allowing some trusted website.
Also consider blocking all cookies by default and allowing only a few trusted ones through.
Apparently, (Threat of) DMCA was used to remove some servers from easylist which the adblockers use, last year: https://torrentfreak.com/dmca-used-to-remove-ad-server-url-from-easylist-a...
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Probably Doom 1/2. Games will never wear out. This is the case for any game with custom levels, but Doom is even more special because levels are so easy to make, and so many people (still) crank them out like nobody's business. Also, Brutal Doom!
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I used to play this game online a lot. That's how I found some of the bugs. We played co-op mostly. Sometimes people would cause trouble, like standing and blocking lifts or doors. The game didn't have the feature of banning people and I didn't know how to use a firewall to accomplish that, so I would change the physics of their class so that they were assigned -999 gravity. This would cause them to float up to the top of the area. Then I would set the gravity to 999999 so that they would smash into the ground at the speed of sound. There is another bug in the game where (if you do this) it leaves their display spinning and twitching like crazy until they disconnect and join again. Even respawning won't fix it! You can edit the physics of things while the game is running with console commands, such as changing the gravity, jump height, weapon momentum when someone is hit, etc. Other fun things to do were set the weapons to fire many times per second, change the projectiles so that they sent entities flying etc. Of course, all this requires you to be the server administrator.
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https://www.kiro7.com/www.kiro7.com/news/local/woman-says-her-amazon-device-recorded-private-conversation-sent-it-out-to-random-contact/755507974 Woman says her Amazon device recorded private conversation, sent it out to random contact (acknowledged by Amazon!)
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This game was pretty amazing when it came out. The graphics were unmatched, the sound was on a whole new level to that of Quake, the weapons were actually innovative (not just pistol... shotgun... again), the AI was pretty tough (though there are fewer of them). The soundtrack is also great, along with that of UT99. I had fun discovering the bugs in this game. There are some places where you can walk over a cliff and float in the air as long as you continue to hold down the crouch button. And on the beginning of the SunSpire map, there is a book in the little hut. If you shoot the book and then start jumping on it, it will gib you. You can also use books to fly way up in the air. Just spawn one (or move one) into an outdoor environment, stand on it, and start blasting it. You'll fly up, up and away! Just hope that you don't fall off the book while doing this, because gravity is still the unkind force that it usually is, and as long as the book contacts the ground beneath you, it absorbs the falling damage and you take none.
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Microsoft Under Fire for Re-Installing Windows 10 Bloatware After Every Update https://news.softpedia.com/news/microsoft-under-fire-for-re-installing-windows-10-bloatware-after-every-update-521102.shtml
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That moment when you see 16GB of memory costing $200, more than half as much as a computer. Crime does pay when you're a mega-corporation colluding to inflate prices! But oh no, soon they'll need to pay a fine that's a tiny fraction of the profiteering.
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Litigation is now being brought against the memory cartels. Maybe we'll see prices drop around the time the miners get done with the graphics cards, and then we can pick both of them up on the cheap.
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Graphics card are already way cheaper. In fact, I got myself a half-year-old used GTX 1070 for 360€ the other day.
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I dunno, the price tag tends to come and go on a whim. If the demand is high, so it also tends to skyrocket for the prices. Capitalism at it's finest I do say.
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One time I was sparring on the training mission. One of the guards got all stretched out around the waste. Thing is though, he continued to fight me as though nothing was wrong. Never laughed so hard. Another favorite of mine is when you blackjack a sleeping AI and they partially clip into the bed. Then they start violently flopping around and usually die a minute or so later.
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This reminds me of GTA San Andreas. On the last mission, I managed to sprint up to the boss of the game and blast him with an RPG before he got in the car and the end-chase ensued. Imagine my surprise when he and his car shrugged it off! Well hey, if the game is allowed to cheat, then so am I!
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It was a scam because the 970 cards were advertised as featuring 4GB of memory that runs at a specified bandwidth, but the final segment does not meet this specification. This has been shown to impact Blender rendering, where (when scene complexity spills into the slow region of memory), the 970 loses out to older cards that it shouldn't in rendering speed. You ordered a video card with 4GB of 256-bit memory at whatever specified bandwidth, so that's exactly what you should be getting. If we let NVidia cut corners like this, things will only get worse. As far as dual GPUs on one board and memory usage, I'm not experienced with this type of card, but in theory, you could run a game on one GPU and use the other GPU to do Blender rendering or be the graphics head to a Qemu or something, at which point you could actually make use of the full 12 GB of the dual GPUs, since game data isn't duplicated between them and they're doing separate tasks. But nothing you do to a GTX970 will make it perform like a real 4GB card. And if people knew what they were getting with the 970 wasn't really 4GB of 256-bit memory, they would have probably chosen a different product. Video memory is important, and it only becomes more and more so as the card ages. Once games really start to tax 4GB cards, this will become more of an issue.
