Life pauses for a week so most of you losers can get drunk every night, but at S&L, we code every night. 8)

Wednesday, I reviewed the suprisingly good WWII combat flight-simulation IL-2 Sturmovik.

Thursday, I bucked on most of school. 😉

Friday, I watched Star Trek: Next Generation, Lethal Weapon, and Midway. Then, I was about to code some shit and instead fell asleep. 😕

Today, I made a autogenerated sitemap, found here. It builds itself every time you go to the page, so it’s always current. Also, Loogie and I are reorganizing the news directory structure. So, if some news pics don’t show up, that’s why.

Earlier in the week, I was fucking around with Ghost Recon (after beating it for the 4th time) and found that it’s extremely easy to mod to your liking. Just about all the information is in ascii format. I changed all the kits, names, and some of the weapon properties. A silenced L96A1…pure sweetness.

The Windows98 Tweak Guide has been updated again…you owe it to your llama computer to check it out. Well, back to work.

In Snake‘s absence (grounded from Net for interim History grades 😛 ), I have completed the project he started… the Win98 Tweak Guide column.

There are 17 tweaks in it, plus some other assorted boom features. Read it here, or via the Columns index 8) .

I learned a couple of boom tricks for CS today and yesterday… actually, they’re the same trick, just in different maps.

Due to Half-Life’s amazingly old and unfixed engine, sometimes when a roof is too thin, you can jump through it. This is the case in parts of cs_assault, cs_italy, and de_aztec, and it can be very useful for popping up to unsuspecting llamas above and goin 1337 on em. All you have to do is get someone else to crouch, you duck-jump on them, and then they stand up. Look at the SSs of them below, and be sure to read the alt text and info for the enlarged pic to see where the areas are in the map.

And plz notice that I have another news post below this 8) .

I hain’t posted in a while… so, what has been going on aside from video game character personality tests?

For one, Snake finally fixed the links section. Before, links clicked opened in the same frame; now, they open in a new window so as to not take you away from s–l 😛 . Also, more categories, and sub-cats, have been made, as well as a couple of interface changes. There are 51 links currently 8) .

Yes, I did get a GF4… it’s an MX 420… and, however much of a little upgrade I thought it would be, it really isn’t. I can now do decent 4x AA, there’s double the RAM, and w/ NVMax, tweaking is really easy. I’ve fixed all problems I’ve had w/ it, including a blinking problem in CS (probably due to VSync frames rendered ahead). As w/ all GF4s, it has a boom S-Video out… I’ll probably find something else to say about it later.

A couple new versions of things are out: MBM and nVidia Detonator drivers.

MBM v5.107
Win98 & XP Dets v28.23
I noticed three things w/ the new MBM: a thing called “SysLog”, an option to “enable RD2Pro support”, and the ability to resize the dashboard’s “meter size” from 44-68… but strangely, my FTP uploads of my temp for the topframe don’t work anymore (this may or may not be cause of the new version). Look @ nVidia’s site for the full specs on the dets, but one major thing they did for me and my GF4 was fixing a toolbar-resizing problem when alt-tabbing out of CS.

Watching TechTV today caused me to go searching for a new tweak tool. I found a program called Exit Killer that supposedly eliminates all IE popups, but I… can’t obtain it 😕 . There is a program, though, that I think is THE BEST non-bare-registry-hacking Windows tweaking tool there is. It combines everything I’ve found from TweakUI, TweakI, and more. It’s called Xteq’s X-Setup. Get it here. The most useful features are changing the background color of Explorer toolbars, making files w/ unknown extensions all open w/ the same program, changing MSN’s BG color, changing the BG and text colors of BSODs, and adding right-click options of “move to folder” and “copy to folder” for all files… quite int indeed.

I guess that’s it… oh… AZs, update ur CTTs 😡 .

I am a Breakout Bat. I am an abstract sort of creature, who dislikes any sort of restraint. If you try to pigeonhole me, I’ll break the box, and come back for more. I don’t have any particular ambitions, I just drift, but I am adept at keeping life going along. What Video Game Character Are You?

Just thought Gandalf would get in on the fun. For some odd reason, Gandalf is the weirdest character i think i’ve seen. A Pong bat, I mean wtf? And Why the fuck is Gandalf referring to himself in third person? Anyways, other than some Starband problems,which are now semi-resolved, and the fact that my cds are missing, all 60-70 of them, Gandalf is doing fine, for all two of you that care.

I am Kung Fu Master. I like to be in control of myself. I dislike crowds, especially crowds containing people trying to kill me. Even though I always win, I prefer to avoid fights if possible. What Video Game Character Are You?

…In case you don’t know what that is; it’s my result from a short little personality test that you can take here.

Snake‘s result:

I am Kong. Strong and passionate, I tend to be misunderstood, sometimes even feared. I don’t want to fight, I don’t want to cause trouble, all I ask is a little love, and a little peace. If I don’t get what I want, I get angry, and throw barrels and flaming oil at whatever’s stopping me. What Video Game Character Are You?

Loogie’s result:

I am a Scorched Earth Tank. When I have a mission, it consumes me; I will not be satisfied until the job is done. I have a strong sense of duty, and a strong sense of direction. Changes in the tide don’t phase me – I always know which way the wind blows, and I know how to compensate for it. I get on poorly with people like myself. What Video Game Character Are You?