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  1. I've seen this before but I still think it's amazing. I would definitely get this is if was on the market. It could be revolutionary. People could bring their tiny affordable computers to school and the schools would only need to provide monitors, keyboards, mice and possibly networking. I suppose if smartphones can operate at the complexity they do (but at substantially higher costs) than a tiny computer like this shouldn't be a surprise, but it's still amazing and exciting.
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    Rage

    I always though it was a silly/ironic face.
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    Rage

    Q3A was the one ID game I never played I almost think that ID should stop trying to get ahead of the competition in terms of engines and focus more on developing their franchises. Apparently Doom 4 will have 3x the level of detail of rage, so I guess if any ID game will have 'good' textures it should be that game. But we will have to wait and see.
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    Rage

    I don't know what's with ID, they've been doing this for years. Even when Doom3 first came out this was the same thing I noticed about the textures. From a distance they looked great, get up close and cringe. Old habits die hard I suppose.
  5. I must see this poo pants map o_o

  6. From my impressions I'd give it 6/10 so far:
  7. I'm working with spiders and need some help. Hopefully someone knows how to do this stuff. I want to speed up some of them, but I know they use a hole range of different animations which would be needed to be accelerated within their paramters. When experimenting with Wolfbeast I discovered one parameter would speed him up while he was neutral, but if he saw me he would randomly slow then speed up. So I need a list of all the Spider movements which would be required to be adjusted to make a spider move 2x faster (not the attacks though). Also does anyone know how to stick these buggers on the roofs? IIRC it is possible, but I haven't found any documentation on how to do it.
  8. So I've updated to 11.6. Whenever I have any post processing in view now, I go down to 2 or less FPS if Catalyst is turned on. I also get lots of random slow downs which drop me to 2 or less fps. It used to be that the drivers would just make the sky and water look funny, but the ATI drivers are getting worse and worse for me. Upon disabling though, everything appears to run great.
  9. This is something I've only experienced in 1.6. I'm not sure if it's just my end or what but the \ key is bound to quit. If this is default it should be changed because backspace is default for delete selection and \ is right under it. I've exited a couple times by accident.
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    Rage

    I'm waiting until I get a new PC to give this game a go. It looks really fun from what I've seen on youtube. I'm not sure you played the right game. Rage looks amazing from what I've seen.
  11. Hmmmmmmm... This is concerning. Malloc errors are when the Doom3 engine runs out of space, but with 8 gb of ram you shouldn't have any difficult playing the game My only guess would be an issue with the 64 bit O/S. Does anyone know any 64 bit related issues with D3? IIRC the source code comes out next month. I can't wait till the team can dive in and find the problems behind these IDT4 issues.
  12. My little brother had a PSP and I'm almost 100% sure he didn't hack it, but he had doom1 and 2 on it. If he did hack it I'm sure it would be very easy:
  13. Well it depends. I liked stalker because the firefights were fun, exploring was fun and the atmosphere was great. LURK builds on all these things adding tons of highly polished weapons, AI that shoots at you from far away, blow outs, better AI, better graphics, more atmosphere, and it adds much more difficulty, and some new items to find. But it's pretty much the same game just with completely new mechanics. You will still need to do the same missions over again etc. So if you liked the original, I'd say yes, if not, I'd say you probably will find this mod more frustrating because it's much more difficult.
  14. Very cool, does it come in English too? @Glyph: I remember playing Afraid of Monsters it was pretty good. The thing I loved about the old HL1 engine was everything was low quality, textures models etc, but the consistency made it easy to get into the game. I've posted this before, but just encase someone missed it: STALKER-LURK Better than Oblivion Lost imo http://www.moddb.com/mods/lurk GTA IV iCEnhancer Mod *google for DL links*
  15. If this was the case you should just let the thread die rather than bumping it.
  16. Lol, I thought maybe it was French but Google Translate says no. That's very odd...
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    Hobbies

    Cool! I'm glad I posted here, sounds like I saved some good stuff from the dump
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    Hobbies

    I've checked the derailleurs and other components and they are XT brand. The frame is 'Chrome moly' (I think, that's the only sticker on it). There's a tiny switch you can flip to enable or disable clicking the rear gears gear to gear. I've never seen that before I thought it was pretty interesting. The wheels are Weinmanns and Joy-tech axles. I had a nasty fall yesterday when my front wheel hit some invisible object and threw me over the handlebars. I couldn't figure out what I hit. Now I got road rash on my left leg
  19. Great to hear! I'm really impressed they took the time to make the highlighting and such optional too. I may be purchasing it now
  20. Oh I didn't know that. It seems to be a pretty good game, maybe not amazing thought. Gamespot gave it 8.5/10. http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/deus-ex-human-revolution/review.html?tag=topslot;thumb;1 I forgot to mention PC gamer magazine also complained about the boss fights like gamespot does.
  21. Hmm I'm not sure what you mean. I'm not aware of any differences between what they may put in a magazine and what may be official. However this is the first game magazine I've purchased in years. But it was a 6 page article by Tom Francis under reviews. It also had PC Gamer's editor's choice award. @Midnight I got Section 8 prejudice and all it's DLCs for 8 dollars off steam! It is a pretty good game except for it's integration with Windows Live.
  22. I just read a review of the game in a PC Gamer magazine I bought on a whim. Apparently it's really good (94/100. The only downfalls according to the review is that there's a lack of feeling in maps that you are in a big world due to a lack of mission including the ability to walk around outside the areas before you decide to enter as well as a lack of emphasis on using clever tactics to overcome obstacles. The editor said it was the best game he'd played in 4 years, then later said it was the game of the decade.
  23. That's pretty awesome with that GPU. If I remember running doom3 off my integrated a long time ago and I got about .3 fps
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    Hobbies

    @ Glyph Seeker: That's cool, I've always admired people with the ability to make tiny detailed models. I've tried before and I don't have the hand control to do so. I think maybe drinking coffee so long has resulted in permanently shaky hands for me @ Baddcog Cool pics! You have a great eye the front suspension is Suntour SR from 2002ish But when you lift up the dustboots on the front fork you can see springs. I've never seen anything like it before and asked the guy at the shop if he had and he said no. I'll take a pic later! I looked up the name of the crank, it's a Shimano Biopace. I can't find anything about them being titanium so I think you are right. I'll go out and check the rest of the components when I get home. The frame is a steel alloy IIRC. Those trails look excellent! I'll have to take some pics for you of the ones I go on. It will be hard though because they tend to be in valleys with lots of turns and trees. @Sotha Cool! What type of boxing do you do? I trained with my dad for fun for about a year in Kick Boxing but gave it up because of other priorities (school and work).
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    Hobbies

    Hey everyone. I just finished a project in one of my hobbies (other than TDM) and thought I'd share it with everyone here at TDM. I'm really into mountain biking. I did a lot of mountain biking in high school but then around grade 10 I stopped. Fast forward a couple years and now for the last two years I've gotten back into it. Apart from going down dangerous trails at stupid speeds (and breaking ribs), I've also been learning a lot about bike maintenance. I learned to adjust my parents department store bikes which was an okay experience (at least I don't have to pay 40 bucks to have some guy do it now). However I recently rebuilt a bike completely! One day I was helping a friend move and I noticed he still had a bike that my father had owned, which we gave to him about 3-4 years previous. I had given it as a gift because my dad was going to throw it out. I asked if he uses it and he said he hasn't used it ever, so I asked if I could take it home with me and fix it up. He agreed. The bike is a 1988 Schwinn mountain bike. The type of Schwinn it is, is unknown to me because it had no visible product name or number on it. When speaking to my father about the bike he informed me that when he got it in 1988 it was $1,400 and was specially designed to race. The bike had loads of rust on it, a horrible black paint job covering up the original blue paintjob and rusted out components. When I had it opened up the amount of rust on the inners of the components was astounding. Some pieces were literally just red and brown blocks. For the most part you cannot purchase Schwinns in Canada anymore. I looked up dealers within Canada and there is only a handful scattered across the nation. Compare that with popular brands like Kona and Specialized bikes which you can get easily anywhere. The bike was in awful condition. So I set off to fix it up, here's what I did: Two days using iron wool to remove all the rust. Three days sanding the old paint off by hand. Three days priming, painting and clear coating it. Two days repairing the brakes which required me to fabricate my own bolt. One day adding the cables, housing and chain. One day finding suitable stickers and vinyl so it didn't look so plain. I didn't have enough foresight to take a before shot, but this was the closest I could find to one on my hard drive from before we gave it away (it was worse when I got it back): Here it is after all my work: Some things I learnt about it while working on it was the components were made of titanium which was interesting to me, the handing is really sensitive and tight, and the front fork which was added in 2002 weighs 2x more than the rest of the bike! It is also operated by springs which exist on the outside of the suspension which is very odd, the center of gravity is further back than any mountain bike I've used before and it accelerates much faster and has a much higher maximum speed than anything I've used before. I'd would have liked to get some Schwinn graphics for it, but I couldn't find any affordable ones anywhere (Ebay). It also needs a new seat seeing as how the current one feels like a cement block between your legs. I took it out for a couple hours today on the mountains today and it performed great! It's too bad they didn't make full suspension bikes back then Does anyone else have some hobbies they'd like to share?
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