Category Archives: Miscellaneous

I finally reviewed a demo again!!! Snake said I should add some content to the site instead of going around fixing code like I have been. So, I reviewed Die Hard: Nakatomi Plaza… I’m not gonna bother showing the screens here, see for urself.

Also site-related, we’ve finally finished… uh, fixing code… and so, we’re almost ready to make our next column(s)! Snake had the idea to make another Best of Gaming, so expect to see that soon. We also may make a column w/ help of Quelog about our common GF2 upgrades.

Yesterday and today, I rearranged my room’s PC/TV corner… got printer-TV-DVD-VCR-Satellite cart on the left, eating tray behind it, trashcan under it, joysticks dangling on tray, and PC in front and to the right 8) . I think that beats the recent room upgrade Snake made.

The rest of my news comes from things I learned about on TechTV today. First, they were talking about a program that combines IM apps into one, but for the MAC… so then I learned about Trillian. U’ve probably heard about it, but it’s a very nicely made program (got 93% user satisfaction @ download.com) that does MSN/AIM/ICQ/IRC/Yahoo into one. It takes about 2 hours to completely set up though. Also, I can’t use it for AIM, because those fags at AOL are in some battle w/ Trillian to keep users off through it. This SS is using the Odigo III user-made skin, from their site. I had to resize my buddy list window a LOT to get this SS to fit w/out needing a bigger pic:

Finally, I found this from going off of something else TechTV said: they were doing a caller’s help thing about how to make ur Control Panel cascade on ur start menu (like llamas like Snake like to do), and they gave a link to annoyances.org, a site that tells you how to fix a collection of Windows things like that. I found one that lets you change the text and icon of ur start menu button! 😛 Since I hardly ever the start menu anyway (I use TopLaunch), I named my button something stupid. Here it is:

Oh, and be careful doing this.

Happy Presidents’ Day… or something.

Another day, another lackluster demo reviewed. Sid Meier’s SimGolf is the subject this time. Find the review here and enjoy the screenshot.

Now, off the topic of demos: Threewave. What is it? It is the end of traditional Quake3. Never again will I play the lameness of vanilla Q3A, it’s all about 3W. I’ve only begun to explore it, but so far I’ve been very impressed. Check out their website here and the screenage below.

I reviewed the Dark Planet demo, which is so new, I haven’t even seen any major sites that have it. Nevertheless, you can find it here.

Also, a new thing that I added with this review was the ability to add screenshots that work like the ones below. I really need some demo reviewers, too. If you play a lot of demos, you should sign up here and help make this resource better.

Ok, so… today, Snake and I did a LOT of minor-major changes to the site. Most noticeable is of course the nav u see to the left, which Snake finally made w/ Flash (get it if u don’t have it, and make sure u aren’t using a really old version of IE, or some other unsupported browser). It has sounds when u “tree” down, and sublinks. For the columns nav submenu, the 5 most popular are listed.

Also, I went through and made the editors page, the most recent archived news page, and all of the columns universal (w/ CSS, colors, backgrounds, etc.), and Snake made it so that now, whenever u go to a column in a whole browser, it hops inside the top and nav frames, to the main frame. Magic! Naw, just JavaScript. I updated my CS column, too.

This was all more complicated than it sounds, but once u finish doin all of it, it’s just the BOOM of the day 8) .

I found a link at [H]ardOCP a few hours ago to the Dumbass Database, a collection of stories about computer llamas. Some of these are insanely humorous, check it out here. Loogie and I added 2 stories, but his sucks. I think Que will probably enjoy my story. 😛

Gandalf and I went to see Black Hawk Down earlier today, and damn…this is great shit. I think it was better than Saving Private Ryan; of course, there weren’t any huge stars but who needs that, right? The best part is simply the lack of fluff. You know what I mean. In the beginning when they’re laying out the setting, there’s a little fluff, but then it’s non-stop war. Ridley Scott was the director, he also did the classic Aliens, and Hans Zimmer did the music, from the spectatular Gladiator. You can’t go wrong with this one, esp. if your a player of Ghost Recon, Delta Force, etc. If it’s still playing in your area, catch it.