Author Archives: Snake

The saying “No news is good news” doesn’t ever apply here. It’s more like “No news is lazy ass editors”. Que actually did some stuff; however he’s on summer break. 😕

As you can tell from the subject, I has a good deal to discuss. First off, I extracted two remarks from the newest PCG that I found int.

We were impressed, too, by how much Bridge Commander’s Lt. Felix Savali resembles The Rock.

As you may know from my Bridge Commander demo review, I also (very intelligently 😛 ) noticed the similarity.

Also, what’s the deal with the tactical officer looking like The Rock???

The second remark was by TheVede in a special Hard Stuff FAQ. He said that early in gaming when people were struggling to get playable fps, overclocking made sense, but with today’s hardware and games, it just doesn’t make clear sense. The P4 and Athlon XP with a GF3 or newer video card made it obvious that overclocking isn’t worth the stability problems. (Those are Greg’s general thoughts but I reworded it). For now, the hardware may be more advanced than the games but sooner or later, everyone will have to OC (unless you’re a spoiled fuck or have a good job) to maintain every precious frame.

Speaking of games, Jedi Knight 2 is amazing. I’m having trouble getting over the stale first five SP levels, but the MP is solid fun. Just like as I stated in my review, the lightsaber battles are absolutely brilliant. The multiplayer mode called Duel is my current favorite. At first, I started with giving the bots maximum available force powers but my ass got owned too much (it’s hard to concentrate on all the force powers when you still have to wield the saber). Now, I’m content with fighting Padawan bots that merely have Force Jump. It’s like you’re actually a jedi in training, having to master your lightsaber before mastering the force. Truly a unique gaming experience.

I remember that good old Morpheus. It was like taking candy from a baby (only you have to be careful, because sometimes it not really candy[those damn babies! 😕 ]). Anyways, KaZaA is 99% of what the old Morph was like. It’s almost funny how similar they look and function. Anyways, if you haven’t converted from Morph to KaZ, yet, then you should take my advice and get it soon.

Loog has a job. 😮 Yeh, I know, when Gr-Dragon heard, he said that the world must be coming to an end. But with this job, Loog has managed to (through common use of his mastery mooch ability 😛 ) obtain $350 for a new (Abit? Leadtek? [SenEd’s Note: Abit!]) GF4 [SenEd’s Note: Ti4600!]. Also, he bought a Netgear FS108 8-Port Switch for the next Surge event.

And Furthermore, us lead editors have 9 days left of the utter waste of good energy that you common llamas call school. What’s worse is we can’t buck anymore for these cocksucking 😮 truancy laws. 😡

Being the master of all things that I am 😉 , I’ve done some graphics by heavily filtering/mixing the very colorful glue-swirl.jpg, seen here. It’s quite amazing how different hues totally change an image. You’re welcome to use them as wallpapers, but be warned that they lost some quality when going to the JPEG format.

The first image is a lot of mixing hues (HSL) with a textured block pattern over it. Looks really sweet, albeit a bit busy. The second image is a merged differance layer of glue-swirl and the first image. Simple, but a great effect. The final image is my favorite. It’s themed to Nine Inch Nails’ song, Downward Spiral. It’s mostly a hue mix of the second image (Biometric Distortion) with a veiny wrinkle-like texture; looks like a heap of dead/bruised flesh. Then, I started with some specific effects, the center is a luminance layer with light effects. Also on that layer were the parallel slivers, text, and the tiny little hole and fluids “spilling out of my head”. 😮

Gotta love NIN. Enjoy the wallpapers.

Starting Sunday night, Loog and I have been investigating the tricks to the MSN Messenger Protocol. Loogie came across a site called Mess with MSN Messenger and that’s pretty much all it is, everything from customizations to malicious secrets and even a list of blocked words for MSN display names. It doesn’t particularly matter that the name is blocked, though, because Heavy K’s Nick Changer can change it to anything you want. That’s right…impress your friends by logging on as “Fuck MSN Penis”. Or, confuse your friends and later fuck the hell outta them with “&#xxx;”. This mischievous string causes all sorts of problems to some users, but most notibly causes the person named &#xxx; to be unblockable.

Loogie turned himself into the unblockable superpower Sunday night. It really is a nightmare knowing that you can’t block him if needed; therefore, I was on the trail of a fix immediately. 😡 I found the needed commands to be able to remedy the problem at Heavy K’s, but no way to issue them. Then, I found two other sites that had the needed base source code and additional commands, here and here. I went about making a VB6 program just to battle this evil unblockable superpower, and the product of that can be found here. Screenage:

I’ve coded another CGI script for the top frame that pulls the three most recent reviews from the Demoboard database, which now makes posting News about new reviews unnecessary. Also, I have removed the auto-refresh from the top frame (temporarily?) and tweaked with other aspects that should improve load times for returning visitors. And…that’s it.

I scanned some of my old analog art, retouched it a little, and put it in my section of the Photo Album. There’s something for everyone in there, including a very old conceptual comic that I called “Grubo & Worm”. Enjoy here.

Jedi Knight 2 is amazing. The demo is available for download, so get it now! Or, you can read my review here if you need convincing. 😉