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Que’s most likely tired of seeing the old news, because he tells me today how many days it’s been since that news. So, mainly, we’ve all been pretty busy ending school, working, and I particularly have been having an affair with another non-website programming language. As you can tell from the title, that’s Visual Basic. 😮 I’m currently working on a little winsock driven chat/file sharing program. I made it specifically for chatting at LAN Parties, because obviously you can’t do that normally (unless everyone at the party is also connected to the internet). So far it detects your IP, connects to multiple hosts, and allows chat sessions. Not enough functionality (not to mention bugs) to release a beta just yet, but in time…every LAN Party won’t be without it. 😛

Speaking of LAN Parties, we had Surge 2.5 this weekend. For a full debriefing on that, head to the Surge Site. There’s news, pics, and scores from our favorite gaming event.

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. 😡

Be sure to be on the lookout for the Klez worm. I wont go into detail about what this virus does, because im sure you can imagine it, but just remember to keep your Antivirus software up to date and not to open any emails that are not from specifically known persons. Find out more about it from Mcafee.

Theyre saying that this is even worse than SirCam, so its gotta be a real nasty bitch. Anyways, just be careful…

Yes, you heard me right. I have fallen victim to the vicious lop.com! Incase you don’t know what it is, it’s this pay-by-click company’s thing that gets into your system and sets up new favorites, favorites folders, links all over your system, adds a bar to your browser, changes your home page to their site, adds their search page to the DNS error page, and a myriad of other annoying things. It’s sort of a bitch to get rid of, but I had an online guide, so it was okay. I got it from cracks.am whilst i was there… um… searching for something legal. I.. uh.. got redirected.

Anyways, what a boring story, eh? Maybe you’ve noticed mine and Gr-Dragon’s demotions to Contributing Editors, and the subsequent removal of our CTTs. Didn’t really bother me though, because now I feel less obligated to do anything. I’ve been way busy lately with some personal things, but over summer, maybe ill redeem myself.

Anyways, I’m out of school in a week and all of my nerdy schoolwork and attendance has gotten me exempt from all of my exams… ahh, it’s movie day for the rest of the year for me! Rock on, bitches… and make sure to resist your school fascists, though, because a friend of mine got suspended for the last two weeks of school for having a picture on his website that mocked a member of the administration. We have to wear tags on campus, and you cant go anywhere (like, to the library before school to sit down) without a pass. Don’t let it happen to you too!

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: