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  1. just got a call from the tech support scammers. I acted as if I was doing what they wanted, but I occasionally acted pissed because "my computer spontaneously turned off". Then they waited with me as I "started it" again.

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    2. SeriousToni

      SeriousToni

      O_O That's a very honorable thought :)

    3. Xarg

      Xarg

      Perhaps, but it's drops in an ocean.. there's a vast sea of gullible and ignorant people who "don't have time for that nerd shit", and they'll keep getting suckered for their $500 (or equivalent in bitcoin, I've seen that too). Until the average user's computer literacy vastly improves, this won't go away. By all means, feel good that you've spared one grandmother, maybe 2, each time you screw the scammer around, but tomorrow's another day and there are more grandmothers and illiterates to scam.

    4. Diego

      Diego

      I never heard of those before. In Brazil we have a lot of kidnap call scam. Most of these calls come from jails (yeah, they have cellphones in there). My dad got one of these, the man told him they had me and my car, but I don't have a car so he knew it was a scam immediately (they even had someone in the back yelling 'help me! help me dad'. Can you imagine what a call like this does to a person? this people should be put to jail! oh wait...

  2. We're still being ignored... Is there some particular reason for this? http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTM0NTE

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    2. zergrush

      zergrush

      He also ignored the amazing Hexen mod which is still in development and actually released a new teaser very recently:

       

    3. stumpy

      stumpy

      they only seem to be interested in ioquake3 projects and sources on github

    4. zergrush

      zergrush

      http://freegamer.blogspot.pt/2013/04/some-idtech4-games-progress.html

       

      Apparently we're on Freegamer, btw. Some people DO care, after all.

  3. Got banned from a game server for "using aimbot/wallhack", even though I NEVER have. It underscores the fact these anti-cheat systems are worthless.

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    2. demagogue

      demagogue

      The coolest recent MP games IMO have been Left 4 Dead (that name always reminds me of Baddcog's FM lol) &

      NeoTokyo (HL2

      mod), which is like a cyberpunk counterstrike that sadly doesn't have players anymore. I like MP IL-2 too. Yeah they're fun, just this one thing that can be annoying.

    3. demagogue

      demagogue

      Also of course if you haven't played T2 FMs coop style you really ought to. It really adds to an FM to play it with a friend.

    4. lost_soul

      lost_soul

      but against bots, you never get the thrill of chasing them all the way across the level while they frantically try to get away from you. :) I've actually seen some servers where "chasing" is against the rules.

  4. Ever find a player in an online game where the two of you cooperate and (as a result) win every SINGLE time? You stick around and help them build a base, then the two of you gang up on the enemy, box them in, and finish them. This is unusual for public games; usually people just do their personal thing even when it is a team game

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    2. lost_soul

      lost_soul

      Yep. It used to be _very_ popular. Some people forked it and are making a version with a new engine/better graphics. It will be interesting to see what else they change, because I do not believe you can take an old game, just improve graphics, and expect it to return to its former popularity. Game play/levels must be changed to make the experience new again... like TDM did.

    3. lost_soul

      lost_soul

      I also recommended TDM to somebody else while playing Tremulous. They said they were going to check it out. I told them about how many missions there are.

    4. jysk

      jysk

      I dont know this Tremulous, but it looks very similar to Natural selection (2), which you maybe should try out. ;)

  5. Its funny how the AI in most games are idiots when it comes to throwing grenades. They frequently blow themselves up instead of the target. Today in Deus Ex though, I was impressed when an AI chucked a LAM right into my hiding position.

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    2. Lux
    3. Xarg

      Xarg

      Clear Sky on Master difficulty meant bandit pack = roving grenade launcher squad. Constant accurate grenade spam.

    4. Obsttorte

      Obsttorte

      When playing CS 1.6 against ZBot's, I always forbid them to use grenades. Can't count how often I was killed by my own teammates who "thought" it would be a good idea to throw some he-grenades at the starting point 8-|

  6. How to hard-lock a Linux box: step 1. Insert a scratched or dirty CD. Step 2, try to advance through songs. We have made 0 progress since the early 90s. Even the mouse pointer stops moving and you can't switch to a console!

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    2. Tels

      Tels

      Thank god no body uses CDs anymore :P

    3. Xarg

      Xarg

      I'm surprised the technology doesn't seem to really have improved much from DVD to Bluray, other than raw storage space, given how insistent some organisations have been on staying purely in the physical realm. Download speeds are a solid argument against using physical media, but having the option to back your downloads up is important too

    4. lost_soul

      lost_soul

      Well, they did make an optical drive that has multiple lasers and multiple read-assemblies. This gives a greater read rate, while not spinning the disk so fast that it explodes from the force. I wonder if anybody has tried making a hard drive with two read-arms, one on each side. This would give faster performance without spinning the disk faster too.

  7. Holy crap batman! Its like some sort of spam-bomb went off in the off-topic forum... Why isn't there a restriction on the number of topics you can create as a new user?

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    2. Bikerdude

      Bikerdude

      Springs and Modetwo have been PM'd on this matter. And on the subject the spammers was using multiple IPs.

    3. jaxa

      jaxa

      make me admin ploz

    4. Springheel

      Springheel

      modetwo has disabled new registrations for the moment.

  8. x-girlfriend called me FIVE times yesterday, and already once this morning (8AM). She wants to get back together. I have lost track of how many times she has changed her mind in the past. She's older than I am, and yet she still hasn't figured out that this whole thing is a joke.

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    2. Bikerdude

      Bikerdude

      Life is too short, but if the shit you break up over, and over again is trivial

    3. lost_soul

      lost_soul

      You've gotta be joking. Tonight she wrote me and said "that's fine, but is it okay if I tell people we're together?" This is kinda sad. I don't really care what she does, but it is sad... If you like somebody that much, why the hell do you break up with them so many times, or is it that you have to have a boyfriend to "fit in" or "feel important"?

    4. Obsttorte

      Obsttorte

      If you have nothing else ...

  9. What to do with an 8 *megabyte* SD card? (besides laugh at it)

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    2. jaxa

      jaxa

      I think you're 3 orders of magnitude off Biker.

    3. Bikerdude

      Bikerdude

      My fully installed T1/2/3 folders are just over 9GB, so compressed they would fit on said card.

    4. jaxa

      jaxa

      its megabytes not gigabytes. unless you've invented 1125x compression!

  10. Broken Geforce 9800GT + heat gun = ... working 9800GT!

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    2. lost_soul

      lost_soul

      Well, I stuck another fan in the side of the case and it brought the card down by 10 C. It idles at 60 now. Guess all we can do is try to keep it cool.

    3. DeTeEff

      DeTeEff

      I put mine 8800 in the oven a few months ago. Still runs smoothly :)

    4. Bikerdude

      Bikerdude

      heh, well done that man :-D

  11. Lost_soul introduces The Dark Drive: A USB flash drive with both TDM and a bootable installation of Linux on it. Even if the hard drive dies in the PC, you can still play TDM!

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    2. jaxa

      jaxa

      32 GB is as low as $8 though (US Black Friday)

    3. lost_soul

      lost_soul

      Yeah, but some of the lowest-end drives can be extremely slow. This is a problem if you're gonna run an entire session off of them. I can't post an "iso" of this for a wide variety of reasons, sorry... but anybody can do a Lubuntu install to a flash drive, install their video drivers, and load up TDM.

    4. jaxa

      jaxa

      That's a well known problem with a known solution: you spend more money. You can have an anybrand 32 GB USB 2.0 stick for $8, or you can get something like Sandisk Extreme for about $1/GB with high sequential and random speeds.

       

      http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/usb-3.0-thumb-drive-review,3477.html

       

      Model in review is 64 GB, 16 and 32 GB versions are available on Newegg.

  12. Pretty sad when a 3.5 GHz CPU loses to a 3.3 GHz CPU in a race... especially when the 3.5 GHZ CPU is a couple years newer! The older chip rendered a scene in 3:05 and the newer one took 3:55!

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    2. Bikerdude

      Bikerdude

      Didnt I read somewhere you can offload Blender cycles to the GPU..?

    3. lost_soul

      lost_soul

      Yep, but there are restrictions. The entire scene must fit in VRAM, and if you render hair with the GPU, it is very slow.

    4. jaxa

      jaxa

      Buy an i5 next time

  13. Started cleaning another Vista machine, expired AV, still using IE7, no updates being installed, Acrobat 7, p2p software. This is how malware spreads... The new virus scanner started showing threats before I even began scanning. lol

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    2. GameDevGoro

      GameDevGoro

      SeriousToni, you don't know what the problem is? People click online ads... on pornsites... on internet explorer...

    3. SeriousToni

      SeriousToni

      There must be a way we can make money with this... *___*

    4. Sonosuke

      Sonosuke

      Dont forget to update flashplayer and java... ^^

  14. "snd_sewer", or "snd_keep", which is more awesome? They are both so great! "snd_commons" is used a bit too frequently though...

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    2. Xarg

      Xarg

      Is there any way the console could display that? For example, "playing snd_sewer (sewer.ogg)"?

    3. demagogue

      demagogue

      I think/hope so. Instead of printing out newAmbient, it'd print out getKey("newAmbient"). I'll try it for 2.02. There's a reason the mapper has to use a local name BTW, even though it's annoying, because the engine likes sounds to be pre-loaded in their speaker with a local name linked to the track... Otherwise I'd have just gotten the tracks directly from their markers.

    4. demagogue

      demagogue

      Update: Done. That was easy. Hopefully it gets into 2.01 even.

  15. I walked to get dinner. I got back and tried to sneak in without allerting the dog. All the windows were shut and yet I heard it moving around before I even reached the door! Do they have ESP? How did it detect me?!

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    2. Obsttorte
    3. Sir Taffsalot

      Sir Taffsalot

      My cat can be in someone elses garden but as soon as I open the fridge door she runs into my flat within seconds screaming for milk. Most animals have superior hearing to humans

    4. SeriousToni
  16. I'm about two seconds from taking my $150 Blu-ray drive outside and introducing it to a bat. The thing produces nothing but coasters on both Windows and Linux. If I do, I will record it.

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    2. stumpy

      stumpy

      maybe its a bad batch of disks, I had 30 disks that wouldn't burn all out of the same stack. On close inspection they all had the same twist defect in the plastic surface.

    3. lost_soul

      lost_soul

      I solved it by using another burning program: CDBurnerXP. I recommend it! I was nurvous about looking for free burning apps, but this was recommended by humans on a forum, rather than one of those sleezy download sites.

    4. lost_soul

      lost_soul

      It accomplishes the task without nagging you to order an upgrade, verifies the disk, and writes DVDs/Blu-rays too.

  17. You ordered a package. The tracking system says it was delivered, but it is nowhere to be found. You call the office, but they CAN NOT even radio the driver to find out what he did, because that would be too ****ing simple. They want to contact the shipper, as though he can do jack about it. Welcome to the US, where everything is inefficiant, expensive, and more complicated than it needs to be.

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    2. Bikerdude

      Bikerdude

      Its the same in the UK. But if the item goes missing its the person/company that shipped it responsibility.

    3. grayman

      grayman

      My neighbors and I are constantly delivering misdirected packages and mail to each other.

    4. stumpy

      stumpy

      i constantly find my mail in the dustbin outside that's gone to the wrong address.

  18. A user has a machine that won't boot Windows anymore. I stick in a cheap thumb drive and up comes an accelerated 3d Desktop, with sound, networking, wifi, etc. User is amazed. They can even play their games on Facebook and watch Youtube. Everybody should have these in case of emergencies...

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    2. lost_soul

      lost_soul

      As long as it will POST and *attempt* to boot from something, (CD, USB, hard drive, Floppy) sure! You don't even need a hard drive in the machine.

    3. lost_soul

      lost_soul

      ... and I fixed her machine by repairing the MBR. Before I did this, she had another guy look at it and he charged her $50 without solving the problem.

    4. ERH+

      ERH+

      There are always specialists like "you need to buy new motherboard".

  19. What OS for a 1999 laptop, Win98 or Linux?

  20. I frequently hear people street racing in the middle of the night. Last night, I'm laying there at about 2 AM. I hear somebody go racing by again... but then I hear a siren blare and another engine rev up after them. All I was able to do was laugh. I hope the guy got busted...

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    2. Lux

      Lux

      Dawin will get them! :o

       

      Better watch out! :9

    3. Sir Taffsalot

      Sir Taffsalot

      I don't care if someone who drives carelessly kills themselves. Their life, their choice, deal with the consequences. What I do care about is some innocent who gets in their way and has to pay for someone elses carelesness.

    4. lost_soul

      lost_soul

      On the subject of Darwinism, my brother lives on a huge hill. There are winding roads heading up and NO guardrails at all! I told him, "at least you don't have to worry about drunk drivers up here because they wouldn't make it this far". lol

  21. So, did you guys expect to become so popular today? I haven't been able to access thedarkmod.com all day! Hopefully we will be seeing (even more) new people around here. Welcome to all the new members.

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    2. SeriousToni

      SeriousToni

      Awesome! Congrats :D

    3. Diego

      Diego

      Yeah, this place is crowded :)

    4. Springheel

      Springheel

      I can't wait to hear more feedback.

  22. Its funny how great even old games like Unreal look on a 32 in monitor in 1080P.

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    2. Glyph Seeker

      Glyph Seeker

      You're making me want to dig out Clive Barker's Undying again!

    3. Glyph Seeker

      Glyph Seeker

      You're making me want to dig out Clive Barker's Undying again!

    4. MoroseTroll

      MoroseTroll

      Alas, the Undying's textures are not as perfect as the Unreal's ones, but, of course, Undying is a perfect game for me.

  23. So... is anybody making any scary missions for Halloween?

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    2. MacD11

      MacD11

      I would if I could.

    3. Sir Taffsalot

      Sir Taffsalot

      I plan to do a haunted manor FM once the final part of the Vengeance trilogy is complete. So maybe next years Halloween.

    4. PranQster

      PranQster

      I was going to, but siegeshop took up my time. Then I thought of upgrading my p.o.s. Samhain map, but decided to leave that quirky little mission alone. Next year, I suppose. Maybe an 'Garreth goes to Hel' type mission, inspired a bit by the game 'Rune', mixed with the strangeness of the "Constantine" mansion.

  24. I didn't really care too much for System Shock 2... until I reached the recreation deck. The environment just wasn't that interesting. Then it got all dark and scary, with enemies attacking in interesting ways and now I'm really enjoying it.

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    2. lost_soul

      lost_soul

      I'm at the Rickenbacker now... Also, I did try the SS1 demo a wile ago, but it hasn't aged as well as SS2 has. I'm not talking about graphics, but the engine in general. That would have been extremely impressive when it came out though.

    3. skacky

      skacky

      There's a mouselook mod that makes it easier to play, though when you're familiar with the UI and all it becomes very fluid and natural.

    4. lost_soul

      lost_soul

      Its funny hearing the voices of "Thief guards" as the crew of the ship.

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