Here’s the new gfx set for the site. It’s only half finished and there’s not any accompanying css script for it, either. I struggled to get the buttons done tonight, but did get them completed for tomorrow’s traffic. Like the last set, this is optimized for resolutions between 800×600 and 1024×768; anything higher than 1024×768 will loop and clip the textures.

I wanna start recoding the Demoboard for the new Glossary Feature next weekend (got a project to work on for school this weekend). Initially, it should have more than 100 terms. Should be quite nice for you llamas (llama will be defined as well). 😛

Oh, and…shut the fuck up, Loog! 😡

Ok, just to clarify… yes, the BGs are replaced, and Fire is back… cause Snake got on MSN like 15seconds before I put this news up, and of course disapproved cause he’s an ass. He said he’ll “go all out” for the Christmas ones, but the “acidtrip” ones will be back up sometime. Go here to see how the site looked for that amazing half-hour… and them plz comment this post, telling me what u think.
[Editors Note: The only thing about that BG that has to do with an “acid trip” is what the hell you must have been on/experiencing when you upped that rubbish in the first place! Shazbot! 😛 ]
[AWM Note: Rubbish? Those bgs ain’t rubbish. They may not blend, but they’re pretty badass. And I wasn’t experimenting w/ anything. Oh well, I’m gonna make a new set, but the comments should tell bout these.]
P.S.: if u have IE6, or any other browser that does this, go to Tools>Internet Options>Advanced>Multimedia, and disable “Automatic Image Resizing”… if this is on, once the pic finishes loading, it’ll look like ass.

Well, as u can see, I redid the backgrounds for s–l! . I think they look quite good, and Omi agrees w/ me (only person on now who I could ask). He said it looks like “christmas on an acidtrip”, but whatever… fire was getting old.

What else… oh, my GF2 almost died! This morning, I awoke to see my screensaver, locked… so I restarted, and my PC speaker emitted damn 3 beeps (that means there’s a video problem)… so, I opened the Wad, and saw smoke coming from the back of the video card!!! Not much, but it was definitely smoke. So, I tried to turn it back on just to see, and it did turn on, but then I saw multicolor vertical lines on my screen, and what I think was a display error msg. So… after school, I just removed the fan, reapplied paste, put it back on, and added 2 RAMsinks I got from 2Cooltek™ today, and it turned on and worked fine… underclocked immediately though, to be safe. I also moved 2 fans around, and changed some fans’ connections around, using the new 3-pin y-adapter and 3-pin extensions I also got from 2Cooltek™. My temps have gone down a bit, but that’s mainly cause I have the case open. This is my interval log from like an hour ago.

In gaming news: Yes, I did beat Max Payne eventually… I’m not that much of a llama, I had some technical issues to deal w/ while playing; I got Red Faction (on Morpheus), and am about 60% through it. It’s extremely fun, and the physics are simply amazsting. I also got what I think is the full version of Startopia, but I’m not sure yet.

Once codename BeattheTechCloud starts up, we’ll get Windows XP Home version, and so we’ll also probably upgrade our own rigs to that.

And, a disturbing revelation I had: Snake and I have each had 3 different video cards (4 if u count the Dell and Supa GhEt 286): S3 Trio, S3 Virge; 3DFX Voodoo3 2000, S3 ViperII; GeForce2 GTS, GeForce2 Ultra… and every single time, Snake‘s card has had double the video memory. 2, 4; 16, 32; 32, 64… and, 2 of his had BIOSs, none of mine have.

That’s it.

In the last week, I have beaten Soldier of Fortune and Max Payne.

Soldier of Fortune was okay, but the gore gets sort of boring about half way through. Instead of blowing off specific body parts, I’d just blow their heads off to fly through the levels as quickly as possible. There was this one time that I had shot both of a guy’s legs off and he was lying on the ground screaming and just wouldn’t stop; so, I threw a knife in his head and that seemed to shut him up. That was pretty cool. Time to beat SoF: 13 Hours

Max Payne is something special, though. If you have the hardware, you owe it to yourself to somehow obtain and play this game. Personally, I have absolutely no trouble setting every option to High (except Geometry), even FSAA, and it looks amazing. The immersive story, the revolutionary graphics, and of course the exceptionally swooby bullet-time and dodging made me hooked on Max Payne for the entire last two days until I completed it at 11:00PM yesterday. Quite an experience. Time to beat Max Payne: 16 Hours. Loogie still isn’t done with it and he’s had a week longer to play…llama ding. Here’s some phat screenshots that aren’t about the game’s rats:

Yes, I like the Ingrams.

Quelog here in History class. In some computer lab researching for a research paper (go figure.) Ive been poking around the site some.. and.. uh.. im pretty bored. Snakes new Guardian thing has given me some problems, as Netscape doesnt allow scrolling on the mainpage. Ive got this pos Pentium Pro at 98% system resources. And.. uh… yea, if you have any profoundly useful internet resources concerning the effects of the industrial revolution on the poor in 1810-1860, hook me up.

Once again, check out my photo album for regular updates.. and i swear, Snake, im working on that column Rock on, Bitches!!

Earlier today, I put a new fan and heatsink in the Wad… I used some ASII paste and put the old heatsink from my GF2 on my SouthBridge chipset, and drilled 3 holes and put my PB POS 50mm fan on my back vents (still not secured totally, need a couple washers)… and for the first time ever, my SB temp went down 2°, & my NB temp went down 4… just look @ my Interval Log. This leads even more to the completion of the g-cock² (u’ll find out later)

Next, I made my own ghETTo Hardware MODs column… just look through
the Columns pages for it.

I’ve been gettin/recordin a lot of MP3s lately… I haven’t abandoned MODs, but Aimster is damn cool.

And…. Hollow Man is supa awesome.