Category Archives: Miscellaneous

Seems that its been quite awhile since I’ve made a news post!

I’ve been having problems with Bastards lately.. such as with that Bastard game Medal of Honor. Don’t get me wrong.. its a great game. But it took me, like, days to get a site with good bandwidth for download (like, above 3k/s,) and even then i accidentally got the Multiplayer one instead of the Single Player one. So after i finally got the SP version, the goddamn thing crashed on startup every time. So i reinstalled it, and it was loading… sorta. It still crashed most of the time during loads, and kept on doing this thing where it didn’t let you use mouseaim because it kept the windows mouse in the game (it was a bug, you couldn’t move the cursor or anything,) and without the mouse, you cant quit… so it was always a restart (ctrl+alt+del didn’t work with the damn thing.) I cant exactly review it if it barely runs.. but ill give it a shot. That is, as soon as i can view Thumbnails on this site. Yep, that’s where the second Bastards come from… Sectorlink, our host, is a bunch of bastards. I get this error message from them about how i cant view thumbs because S&L is stealing bandwidth…. which it isn’t. So even after i go to the horrific process of registering for their forums, i cant even post for help! No permissions! Finally, i emailed them… and they didn’t ever fucking reply!!! Just like Bastard set number three, ocie.com, the site i got my GF2 from. As you may remember from a previous post, they were supposed to contact UPS about how i got ripped off for shipping cost… they replied only to tell me that was supposed to email a different address (at their same domain.) Bastards never replied.. even though i complained over and over.

Anyways, once i get this thumbnail thing worked out, ill be able to make posts with pics.. i plan on a ghet intake fan (no, not a copy of Snake‘s; mine is ghetto because it will use a fan i “liberated” from a school computer) and do those reviews im supposed to do.

And we played a clan TFC game the other night… Snake was laggin out so he quit, then i sent Gr to tell him that we were just gonna mess and not play seriously, but i had unwittingly locked him (Gr) out by activating password mode (it was an accident.. besides, its his own fault for not knowing the PW.) So me and loog hung out.. it was pretty lame, because he didn’t get any of what i was trying to do and say.

Rock on, my loyal bitches!!

8) I have 4 CD-ROM drives…sorta. I’ve been experimenting with this highly int app called DAEMON Tools 3.02 and what it does is emulates (pretends to be) a CD-ROM drive. You can have up to 4 of these “virtual drives” that can only run CD images. Of course, you make images with another nifty app, such as CloneCD. Then, you’re just boom. 😮 I’ve played music from an image, opened cd-check games with an image (AOK), played movies fron an image, and more. It’s quite swifty and I’m sure it would come in handy often; especially when I’m reinstalling app/game downloads from backup cds. I can merely write the whole disc to the HDD in 5mins and use the image whenever I need to install something. It’s also 10 times faster from the HDD.

Not to mention, this app has illegal purposes, such as opening downloaded image files from apps like Morpheus. I wouldn’t have any experience with these illegal uses, though, because I don’t have the bandwidth to be downloading 600MB images. Also, I pay for all my software! 😀 eeeeeeehehehehehe!!! Check it:

Linkage: http://www.daemon-tools.net

Earlier today, I went through and fixed the individual download description pages… they were quite outdated, and the backgrounds were even linked to the old S&L @ geocities! 😮 Also, I added my latest work, Loogie‘s Cyber RS Revision. Look for it by clicking “Downloads” on the nav to the left, of course.

Also, I would like to bring to your attention 2 things in gaming: there’s a new 7-map Rats CS pack out @ Planet Half-Life; also, Threewave is pretty cool. Snake bitched about me getting it all week… well, I haven’t played it much but I saw it @ his house. I like the menu system, and Coral CTF’s a great-looking map. And while I’m on the topic of tech news, Intel announced that it will no longer be using RDRAM (RAMBUS) in their motherboards. DDR all the way now 8) .

Finally… in the past couple of months or so, Snake and I have been getting songs w/ Audiogalaxy instead of Aimster, and here’s the main groups we (or either of us) get(s) now:

BT | Future Sound of London | Enigma | Adam F.
Tourach | NIN | Metallica

A funny thing happened to me the other day… my nearly new Visiontek GeForce2 GTS died! I’ve been having problems w/ this for a while now, but it is now officially dead. Here’s the story: about 3 weeks ago, while I was playin CS, I started getting artifacts everywhere. Closing and reopening Half-Life didn’t fix this, nor underclocking. Here’s what then happened, it’s quite funny:

So after that, things were fine, but yesterday, I started to get the same problem, in Windows. I restarted, then I was in standard display mode. Removed GF2, applied new paste, put back in, still standard display mode… then I hear the “BEEP, BEEP BEEP BEEP” when I turn on my rig… in other words, it’s dead. I thought there was a problem w/ my AGP slot, but anyway… now I’m using Snake‘s old Viper II (read his article on Viper II and VT6X4 tweaking here, or our article about our first video card upgrades here). I got the 9007 drivers, and I love it. I had some problems at first, but aside from the cursor, I think it’s just as good as my GF2, and it should do for a little while. [Chief’s Note: LOL, have fun with that POS! 😛 ]

Secondly and lastly, I trashed my IE HotBar, and got the Google Toolbar. It’s very useful for quick searching, rating pages, highlighting, and searching the site u’re on. Here’s an SS of it:

I just reviewed my second demo review in the past year or so… StarTopia. Yeh, u may remember Snake reviewing that at one time… well, we lost that review, so I redid it. Read it here.

Also, I added 3 quotes to the topframe. Find em by double-clicking the text over and over… and over 😛 .

I reviewed two very sweet demos today, Zombie Smasher X and Comanche 4. 8) Also, I’ve redone the way we rate demos. The ratings basically follow an earlier outline that I created in an unfinshed Column about demos, as seen here. The inclusion of more screenshots can also be seen.

It’s hard to find good demos sometimes, even good retail games can have shitty demos…which is why we gave the world the DemoBoard.