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Feb 14.2005 - Just a quick update

posted by: Marauder icq# 12419781 - 10:30

A few pieces of Rune news today. First off, his good friends in Iran are playing with nukes. Woohoo Nuclear Weapons! :) Secondly, there's apparently a more powerfull explosive force in the universe than Pappy on beer and pickled egg night. (I know, it's hard to imagine.) Apparently I should start breaking into more parked cars in Toronto. Some cops got themselves some sweet gear for their private collections. :)

I've had a few people sending in photos of their new Thermal Take fanless power supplies. I was considering getting one.. But they're hideous beyond all belief. I'm liking the look of the Antec unit, I don't like the huge fins and crap that stick out of the Thermal Take.

I got me a sweet new Saitek keyboard.. and.. wow. Other than looking awesome, it's also the more comfortable keyboard I've ever used before. I'm very very impressed with it. Review coming soon. :)

 

Jan 26.2005 - All n00bs pl3as3 r3ad

posted by: Marauder icq# 12419781 - 10:30

Nolman makes me laugh.

Good news everyone. ASUS has come up with what I honestly think is the most hideous computer evar. Wow. I mean, it's... Well. check it out for yourself.

 

Jan 24.2005 - Dear Winter.....

posted by: Marauder icq# 12419781 - 17:30

Just a few quick things today. First off: Dear winter.... So so very sick of you this year.

Rune sends in some pretty darned cool Tornado photos.

 

Jan 21.2005 - Wow time flies.

posted by: Marauder icq# 12419781 - 09:00

As I've noted on some of the other sites I work on.... Time truly does fly. I've been so swamped by work I've not really had time to update the site. I really have to get working on art and writing, as I do really enjoy doing it, but never seem to have enough time. I have a bunch of ICQ madness stuff to get up, as well as working on the review of the Logitech MX 1000 mouse, which has been gracing my desk with it's presence for the last few months and is.... Well, it's taken over from the MX700 as the new Ubermouse, hands down. If you've been reading this site for a while, you'll recall that the search for the True Ubermouse was first begun by the SS during World War II, on the orders of Hitler himself. (Operation Ubermousen)

Luckily they failed, and so were defeated by the allies and the world was saved from the horrors of tight leather pants and goofy looking feathered hats. I took up the search in way back in the late 1990s, and it continues to this day. Will the MX1000 continue to hold the crown and allow me to defeat the French? Well, we'll see what Logitech and Microsoft (and Karna?) bring out next, cause you know I'll be trying them. As for the French... Well.. I don't really need a mouse to beat them, but hey, whatever works.

Rune sent me a rather amusing read about the brand new AMD 666 CPUs. All of my Intel worshiping friends were right it seems. AMD is indeed the devil. And where the heck WILL I find goat blood to cool it? :( Also from Rune, and the guys from Slashdot, if you're a Starwars fan scroll down and read all the comments from the trolls. Some of them are pretty damned funny. And... what Rune aspires to do in his spare time. Quite possibly the funniest webcam video evar.

Are you an engineer? Sick of waffles and icecream? Help is here! Thanks Barzoule :) Also, for nerds and engineers: How to fold a shirt. In Japan at least. Me I just wad them up and throw them into a corner untill I need them. Thanks Chisel. :)

Microsoft has done something seemingly right! Microsoft Antispyware Beta. Seems to be actually quite decent from our recent testing on some really, really vile computers. I was a little leary of it, but it seems that it's actually a product from a company they've gone and purchased. Thus far I'm quite impressed. Go MS!

I can't remember if I posted Rockfish, I know I sent it out to quite a few people. Check it out, one hell of a cool rendered movie.

HEY! The Screenshots finally got updated. Pic of the day? More like decade sometimes it seems.

 

Dec 24.2004 - Merry Christmas Everyone!

posted by: Marauder icq# 12419781 - 21:00

A very merry Christmas to everyone, and a happy New Year as well. Got a few little Christmas links for you all to enjoy:

It's a wonderfull life in 30 seconds (With bunnies!)

and

What IS Santa up to the rest of the year?! (Thanks Tumult)

 

Nov 30.2004 - Flatspace and more!

posted by: Marauder icq# 12419781 - 11:10

Still trying to get the review of Flatspace done, but haven't had much time to play it in the last little while. I still highly recomend downloading the demo and giving it a try. They've just released a new version with a few bug fixes, 1.07.

Rune sent in a rather entertaining link. I think I'd sue someone for destroying my career too. :)

 

Nov 27.2004 - World of Warcraft

posted by: Marauder icq# 12419781 - 11:10

WOW is good. Very good actually. It's not as pretty as EverQuest 2... Heck, not even close. But it's a great deal of fun, the races are cool and the missions kick ass. I normally don't like MMPRGs, as I find they get boring very quickly and I simply don't have the time to play them. We'll see how long this one lasts before I wander off into the sunset and play something else. For the moment however I'm quite entertained. A little rough on the launch, with lag and servers going up and down, but certainly no worse than any other MMPORG, and quite a bit better than many of them. It will be interesting to see what Blizzard does with WOW in the future, have to keep an eye on them. Hopefully they can resolve the lag and waiting times soon.

Intel's been fancy dancing around the 64 bit issue for a while now, and rumors have been floating around that they've scrapped their Itanium and reverse engineered the AMD solution for 32/64 bit processors. Rune's sent in a few articles that made me giggle. Suck it down Intel. :)

My good friend Magic has way too much time on his hands.

 

Nov 24.2004 - of (logitech) mice and men.

posted by: Marauder icq# 12419781 - 15:50

I like Logitech mice. I am now the proud owner of a Logitech MX1000 Laser mouse. You may all bow before the might of the new Ubermouse. Review to follow.

Rune news: An idiot got Doom3 working on a Voodoo2. Woohoo for him. It's sort of cool I guess, but I think I'll stick to my Radeon 9800 Pro. I find it amusing that 3Dfxzone has a banner to find "New & Used 3Dfx Voodoo" stuff on ebay. Wow. And vooodoo dolls too. ;)

 

Nov 13.2004 - Ultra 500 watt Review

posted by: Marauder icq# 12419781 - 15:50

Review posted for the uber cool new Ultra 500 Watt MODULAR power supply. Woohoo!

 

Nov 11.2004 - Rememberance Day.

posted by: Marauder icq# 12419781 - 09:20


"Please wear a poppy," the lady said
And held one forth, but I shook my head.
Then I stopped and watched as she offered them there,
And her face was old and lined with care;
But beneath the scars the years had made
There remained a smile that refused to fade.

A boy came whistling down the street,
Bouncing along on care-free feet.
His smile was full of joy and fun,
"Lady," said he, "may I have one?"
When she's pinned in on he turned to say,
"Why do we wear a poppy today?"

The lady smiled in her wistful way
And answered, "This is Remembrance Day,
And the poppy there is the symbol for
The gallant men who died in war.
And because they did, you and I are free -
That's why we wear a poppy, you see.

"I had a boy about your size,
With golden hair and big blue eyes.
He loved to play and jump and shout,
Free as a bird he would race about.
As the years went by he learned and grew
and became a man - as you will, too.

"He was fine and strong, with a boyish smile,
But he'd seemed with us such a little while
When war broke out and he went away.
I still remember his face that day
When he smiled at me and said, Goodbye,
I'll be back soon, Mom, so please don't cry.

"But the war went on and he had to stay,
And all I could do was wait and pray.
His letters told of the awful fight,
(I can see it still in my dreams at night),
With the tanks and guns and cruel barbed wire,
And the mines and bullets, the bombs and fire.

"Till at last, at last, the war was won -
And that's why we wear a poppy son."
The small boy turned as if to go,
Then said, "Thanks, lady, I'm glad to know.
That sure did sound like an awful fight,
But your son - did he come back all right?"

A tear rolled down each faded check;
She shook her head, but didn't speak.
I slunk away in a sort of shame,
And if you were me you'd have done the same;
For our thanks, in giving, if oft delayed,
Thought our freedom was bought - and thousands paid!

And so when we see a poppy worn,
Let us reflect on the burden borne,
By those who gave their very all
When asked to answer their country's call
That we at home in peace might live.
Then wear a poppy! Remember - and give!

~~By Don Crawford.~~

 

Nov 3 .2004 - World of Warcraft and more

posted by: Marauder icq# 12419781 - 08:10

Just unziping the World Of Warcraft beta onto my precious hard drives now. I can't wait to see it for real. :) I don't even want to fight, I just want to run around and check out the landscapes. :D Heck, I don't even really have time to play it but I'm going to do my best. I've loved Warcraft, ever since I picked up the first one at Compusmart here in town many many years ago on a whim 'cause it looked different. Wow. It's hard to believe it's been 10 years.

I've been checking out a few Indie games lately... and... Wow. There's some really, really good games out there from small publishers. An excellent example of this is Flatspace, a very open eneded space trading/combat game that's sort of like Wing Commander: Privateer meets Starscape meets Star Command 2. The developer (Mark Sheeky) sent me a copy for review, so we're checking it out right now and man it's adictive! Download the demo and try for yourself. He also runs a little review site call Bytten that reviews independent games. Check it out!

 

Oct 31.2004 - Happy All Hallow's Eve everyone!

posted by: Marauder icq# 12419781 - 19:10

How do people who play an MMPORG for 20 hours a day have time to do this? That's all I want to know. :) Happy Halloween all! Thanks for the link Chisel. If you happen to get bored tonight, have a read on this. It's interesting, if you're into history. ;)

 

Oct 30.2004 - StarWars: Battlefront review posted

posted by: Marauder icq# 12419781 - 19:25

Review posted for StarWars: Battlefront. It's actually quite a good game.

 

Oct 15.2004 - Ultra PSU gooood

posted by: Marauder icq# 12419781 - 2:25

Got one of the 500 watts Ultra Modular PSUs to install into my hot little gaming comp. Very nice, very neat. Hell of a good idea. Review shortly.

Proving Grounds is gone. One of my favorite ladders of all time is toast, as of yesterday. Damned shame really, they ran out of money and that was that. It's always sad to see something like that happen to such a great community.

In Rune news, looks like Intel has finally clued in that.... Gigahertz really doesn't matter all that much, there's many other ways to speed computers up. *sigh* Finally. Ironic that they're now saying "Those are the sort of things where you get more capability out of a processor by designing specific silicon solutions as opposed to just keep turning the clock faster," when they've spent so many years hammering into people's heads that it's just clock speed that makes a computer fast.

Google now has a search engine for your computer. Check it out, very cool. Thanks Dman!

New games for review (when I get around to it) Tribes: Vengance, Battlefront, and Full Spectrum Warrior. Need more time.....

I like the looks of Destroy All Humans. But sadly it's not coming out for my PC from the looks of it.

 

Sept 29.2004 - Phear the french.

posted by: Marauder icq# 12419781 - 11:15

Hey! Rune's sent in a picture of the new $20 canadian bill. On the front you can see the Queen of England, and on the back you can see the French running away.

I've always wondered what evil would look like if you disassembled it down to it's component parts. Chisel has provided us with the answer, and it is grape. Evil. Evil I tell you. Naked evil.

Some people have way, way too much time on their hands, and Goshwin once again provides us with proof of this fact... Behold.... My Little Pony of Borg! I think Gosh is just jealous and I shudder to think of the experiments he's conducting in that basement lab of his if he finds that so fascinating.

I was cruising around the big ol' interweb the other day looking for movies, and I found the site for "Exorcist: The begining" which is actually very cool. No idea how the movie is, but I like the site. :)

In other Rune related news, he can't seem to get a date. I think he's just using the wrong pickup lines, and frankly he needs to take a page from my buddy Killer's book and learn some sweet new moves to get the hotties.

I don't think I mentioned this before, my Battlefield team got honored on the Proving Grounds ladder site with their Spotlight On Award!

I like quiet PCs. I used to have machines that sounded like DC10s leaving the runway, many years ago. And it was cool. But over time I've figured out that loud sucks. Really sucks. Quiet is truly golden, as grandma used to say around the kitchen table. I'd love to get a little mini pc like this I think... But I need speed too. Gah. I wish I didn't game......Thanks for the linkage Dman.

 

Sept 27.2004 - Still very evil.

posted by: Marauder icq# 12419781 - 10:15

The Evil Genius demo is indeed pretty good, I think I'll be buying it as soon as I can find it in a store. The final objective is to gloat over the enemy agent once you capture him. Bwhahahah.

Protocal and myself spent 3 hours on saturday night playing Full Spectrum Warrior. What an adictive little game. Gah. It's interesting, it's sort of an RTS, but not really. I do regret that I can't hop into one of my guys bodies to let the enemy have it.

 

Sept 22.2004 - I'm very evil, thank you.

posted by: Marauder icq# 12419781 - 10:59

At long last, the demo for Evil Genius is out! WHahahha. I hope it doesn't suck, I've been looking forward to it for quite some time, and frankly it's the sort of game that holds imense apeal for me. I loved Dungeon Keeper. :) There's just something so delicious about playing the bad guy.

 

Sept 14.2004 - Very busy at work

posted by: Marauder icq# 12419781 - 12:45

Wow. I just realised how long it's been since I posted anything. My appologies to everyone, I've been uber busy at work, building my business and doing renovations, working on websites, fixing people's computers etc. I've been doing a little thinking on the FRAGtopia site, and I've been debating just calling it quits. In the past I had a few people to help me out, but in the last year or so, no one. I've had lots of people say they can give me a hand with the site, write a review now and again, or even just post some news, but nothing ever comes of it. Sooooooooo......... I don't know. As mentioned I've been really busy the last little while, and I might have a new project coming up that's going to take up the spare time I try to devote to the FRAGtopia site. I'd like to keep working on it, and maybe get more posts done.. After all, we get somewhere in the area of 15 -> 20,000 hits a month, even when I'm not doing that much work on updating the site..... To me, for something that just gets done in spare time, that's quite a few hits. We'll have to see what happens this winter I guess, when there's nothing else to do outside. I really do love this little site, and there's been so, so much work put into it since I put the first news post up November 26th of 1999.

 

Aug 20.2004 - Wow. x800xt is fast

posted by: Marauder icq# 12419781 - 14:00

Supplier finally got ONE piece of the MSI Radeon x800xt in stock. $830 CDN retail, but this bad boy smokes. 3DMark 2003 results: Radeon 9800 Pro: 5,600. Radeon x800xt: 11,500. That's quite a diference, eh? (Athlon64 3200+) Doom 3 in ultra mode (timedemo1) Radeon 9800 Pro: 34.6. Radeon x800xt: 51.9. Dunno if I'll keep it, that's a hell of a pile of cash to spend on a video card.. But it is nice.

Speaking of Doom3, finding it a little choppy? Our local CS master, Protocal sends over a little tweaking guide that may help you out.

Chisel wants us all to know that there's ducttape in Doom3! Personally I find the game WAY to dark, and I'm getting pissed off having to walk around with my flashlight out all the time, then switching to my guns. Gah. This will put a flashlight on your shotgun and assault rifle.

 

Aug 10.2004 - Thermal Take Tsunami is gooood

posted by: Marauder icq# 12419781 -22:00

Just got a review of the new Thermal Take Tsunami case posted. What a sweet sweet case.

 

Aug 4.2004 - Holy crap

posted by: Marauder icq# 12419781 -11:00

Almost a month since I've posted everything? Wow that's hard to believe. Well. I'm back. Just looking to get a copy of Doom3 into my grubby little hands. Kingpin has had it for a few days and thinks it's quite a bit like Half Life, at least near the intro. Pappy had one of his buddies from the USA hand deliver a copy yesterday apparently, but he has yet to reveal his opinion as of yet. Nor I note has anything been said on Planetquake. I find his silence... Disturbing. It's like there's a big, Pappy shaped hole in the universe.

Still have to get the review of the Thermal Take Skull done that I started 2 months ago too. Regretably the Skull suffered a collision with a car door, like most of my cases, and the cheap plastic hinges broke. *sigh*

 

July 10.2004 - Must.. Have.... New... Nforce.... Motherboard....

posted by: Marauder icq# 12419781 -11:00

More tasty PCI Expres goodness.... Must have new Nforce board....

Good news everyone! Canada is way ahead of the USA! In software piracy rates! CANADA! CANADA! GOOOOOO CANADA! :)

Speaking of the US, It was nice to have my buddy Magic up to visit for a few days.
We've been playing games online together since... 1997 I think, but we've never met. That was most excellent.

People have been telling me that Joint Ops is the Battlefield killer. I'm not so sure about that, but I did download the demo to try it out. Hopefully we'll give it a go in the next few days and report back on how it went. I checked out the demo movie, looks impressive.

 

June 30.2004 - Stilll waiting...

posted by: Marauder icq# 12419781 - 15:00

I really want to get an Athlon 64. In fact, AMD said they were sending me one to test a few weeks ago. Nice of them, but thus far... No CPU has arrived into my hot little hands.... But the problem is.. No 64 bit OS that works thus far, (Well, 'cept for Linux, and in my opinion there's just no point running that for the moment, except for servers.) no 64 bit apps and games, and of course, no PCI express motherboard for it yet. *sigh* I just hope when Windows 64 comes out, it's not insanely expensive because it's a "professional" operating system. Nice to see that AMD has finally standardized on one socket though, that should make life a little easier in the very near future.

Hitman lately seems to be all about A Tale In The Desert. I downloaded it, but haven't had time to try it out. Anyone else have anything to say about it?

The good 'ol boys in the south finally figured out how to use this here "interweb" thang! And the first thing they did was send in yet another reason for Dopper to dislike using Internet Explorer. Thanks VA_Killer!

Rune sez there's nothing quite as fine as seeing Tanya Harding take a hard right to the face. Looks good on her. :P Long way from figure skating to boxing. I think I'd be checking that she didn't have a tire iron or horseshoes in her gloves.

Ohhhhhh..... Pappy sends in tender juicy news regarding nVidia sli... Ohhhhh.....Must... Have.........

 

June 25.2004 - Breed Sucks

posted by: Marauder icq# 12419781 - 21:00

Thinking about buying Breed? I played it for an hour or so a few days ago, and my general feeling about it so far.... It sucks. It's pretty and there's some interesting stuff in there, but it's not worth buying. I got killed in a cutscene for petesakes... That's NEVER EVER happened before. The game kept going, the enemies advancing, and when the cutscene was over, my carefully horded health was at one pixel, and a bullet was in the air and headed for me. That's just such bad scripting on the part of the dev team. I think I got ahead of where they expected me to be.

I'm really, really busy at work today, no time to get long winded, so here's one very cool site. Classic Amiga Game Music! (woot)

 

June 22.2004 - Hey! Hey! 16k!

posted by: Marauder icq# 12419781 - 10:15

This is a classic internet flash advert, someone sent it in ages ago, and unfortunately for me, I stumbled into it again a few days ago and now the stupid song is stuck in my head... that and a bunch of squirells in a pink cadilac. It's so bad it just rattles around in your brain like an acorn in a pumpkin.

Dman sent me a fun link. I wondered when the army or navy was finally going to get some railgun technology underway. Looks like they're working on it. Should be interesting to have a gun with 250 miles range, able to punch a hole 10' wide and deep, and penetrate 40' into solid ground. Gotta get me some of that action, baby!

In another Dman submitted link: I've been looking forward to Windows XP SP2.... Buuuut.... I'm sorta worried what it's going to break, and so are other people apparently. I guess it's better in the long run though, if it prevents these very nasty massive virus infections we've seen in the last little while. (Ex. Blaster and Netsky.)

Just heard from my computer supplier that MSI PCI Express motherboards will be avaliable next week. I'm quite excited about PCI Express, as I've been complaining for years that the industry needs to get off their duffs and do something with the bus speeds rather than concentrating on things that quite frankly really don't matter, and are getting to the point of diminishing returns, such as CPU ghz. It's about time! Regretably, they'll only be avaliable for Intel chips for a bit apparently, and since there aren't any video cards right now, with onboard video only. Hopefully those two things change within the next little while and we'll be able to see just how fast this new bus is.

 

June 14.2004 - IBM Remake Project

posted by: Marauder icq# 12419781 - 21:00

Just a little project I've been working on. Rune calls it.. Zappy reborn! We turned an IBM into something that didn't suck. Check 'er out.

 

June 9.2004 -William who?

posted by: Marauder icq# 12419781 - 08:00

Just watched the William Hung "She Bangs" music video. I don't know if he's actually the worse singer in the world or not, but I'm thinking that Guiness should be looking into it.... Either the book, or the beer, don't care which. It is however a funny video that just proves the age old adage. Add accent, get humor. Add wacky oriental poor grasp of english, get sensational new supahstah.

Rune sent me a list of the top internet fads... The rest I'd heard of... But not this lad. Wow. If dorks ran the galaxy, Jay here would be the Emporer of the Known Universe. I've actually found myself unable to even really make fun of this guy with my usual repetoir of insults, mostly I think because after viewing these pictures, there's really no where down to go.

Beta signups are open for Tribes: Vengance. Thanks for the linkage, Messiah, your tribes junkie you. Ironically enough the aformentioned Messiah is a rabid tribes fan.... But only started with Tribes2. Most of the Tribes clerics started with #1 and hated #2......

 

May 23.2004 - What, no ants?

posted by: Marauder icq# 12419781 - 09:30

Anytime Chisel sends in a piece of news I know it's going to be something highly entertaining, or something so technical that only he and Stephen Hawking can understand it. In this case, anyone can! Giant Magnifying Glasses! Woohoo! I love the comment about how they'd be able to melt more things, but the sidewalk in front of their house is to fragile to take the heat. :) Now they just need some giant steel ants to try it on. (I don't think your normal ant would stand up to well to this one.)

New ICQ madness. Computer tech support becomes a drinking game! When you think modem, take a drink!

 

May 21.2004 - PAINTBALLLLLL!!!!!

posted by: Marauder icq# 12419781 - 13:30

Paintball weekend! Going up to Wasaga Beach Paintball Adventures here in Ontario on the morning of Friday July the 23rd and coming home on the evening of the 25th. Anyone interested in 3 days of camping and paintball, please let me know asap.

 

May 17.2004 - Wow. It's been almost a month....

posted by: Marauder icq# 12419781 - 11:30

Since I last posted anything here. How time flies. Sorry for the lack of posts guys, I've been very busy, getting seperated, moving etc. I'll do my bestest to try and get more postings done soon. Thanks to all my friends and family for their support and help and understanding. :)

Hitman is all about A Tale in The Desert lately. I've downloaded it but really haven't had a chance to check it out yet. Looks very pretty though.

Huh. I've been hearing a few people talking about the new VIA powered PC based game handheld. Interesting. Checked it out, looks pretty spiffy. I'd actually like to get my hands on one and take it for a test drive. I wonder though which of my games will run well on it. I really can't see it running Battlefield: Vietnam or UT2004 very well, especially considering it's rather low CPU speed. I'd also like to know what the price is on it. It will be very interesting to see how it works out. Somehow I get the feeling that we won't be hearing much from them shortly, but then again I said the same thing about the french and bellbottom jeans.

My friend Dustbunny is in Florida on vacation, and apparently got chased around by a frog according to Skeezix. I hope it wasn't one of these guys!

More soon, I hope!

 

Apr 26.2004 - Remember... Your kids pick your retirement home....

posted by: Marauder icq# 12419781 - 17:45

Ever wonder who invented the oh-so-famous 3 Finger Salute? (and no, we're not talking about the online comic strip.) Thanks to Dman, we now know!

Saw that Gamespy had an interview and a release announcement for Battlefield 2.... Interestingly enough I read this one a while ago and I wonder if they're related?

It's nice to know the english are goofy. But they're forward looking goofy people. They're trendy before the word was ever invented. I love people who give their kids stupid names. I hope they enjoy the retirment home their bitter and resentfull children pick for them. (Thanks Rune.)

Has anyone had a chance to check out Soldner? I downloaded it, and played it for approximately 30 seconds. I'd like to here opinions on it. It was pretty, but I didn't have a chance to even figure out the keys, as of yet.

 

Apr 21.2004 - Whoa. Now that's a case mod!

posted by: Marauder icq# 12419781 - 17:45

Generator 256 sends in... The Half Life 2 case mod! Uh. Wow. Scroll to the bottom of the thread for the pics.

Heard about this one on the radio the other day. Then Rune sent it to me. There's nothing like giving orders to a chicken. Go ahead, give it a try.

 
Apr 16.2004 - Stupid PS/2 Users!
posted by: Marauder icq# 12419781 - 17:41

Just a few little pieces of news in from Rune today. First off, PS/2s suck. Where the hell is my persisitant online sort of universe thing for my Battlefield? I've given DICE a few hundred dollars over the last year and a bit.... Where's my stuff? Stupid PS/2.

Rune also sent over a link to a video camera'd Unreal 3.0 engine demo. Uh wow. Now THAT'S architecture!

Looking for a new video card? Got a stupid amount of money to spend? I feel sorry for everyone who just picked up a Radeon 9800XT, they're going to be pissed.

Heading to Pappy's tomorrow for LAN. Talk to y'all soon. Who knows, I might get that darned review for Vietnam up soon.

 
Apr 15.2004 - Holy crap
posted by: Marauder icq# 12419781 - 16:15

Uh wow. The guys at Theprodukkt (Fabarausch) again blow my mind. A complete shooter beta in 96k. (Yes, 96 KILOBYTES). The AI is Doom1, but the graphics and music are actually pretty darned good. These guys just totally amaze me with the stuff they can do.

In Rune related news, the DAOC nerds will soon be emerging from the darkness of their safe basements, nosing around computer shops like rats going through the trash behind a restaurant.... Looking for the new expansion pack before scurrying back to their lairs with said prize in their grubby, cheetos stained paws.

Skeezix sends a rather entertaining flash animation. Just move your mouse over his face and watch the show. :) He also sent in something that's both extremely interesting a disturbing. A ride though Chernobyl. Very interesting photos and commentary. Really hits you when they make the comment that people can move back into the area in 200-300 years. Wow.

Remember the Sea Monkeys from your old superman comics? Well, yah can now get your very own Sea Monkey Boxer clothing. Yes. Yes you can. (Goshwin is wearing a pair of Sea Monkey boxers and watching Star Trek reruns in his basement right now.)

 
Apr 11.2004 - So, so very tired
posted by: Marauder icq# 12419781 - 15:15

An excellent day of paintball up at Wasga Beach yesterday. 532 people attended the season opener, and it was a gorgeous day for paintball. Welll.. Not that I've ever actually seen a BAD day for paintball, but it was unusually nice. Quite a number of our local gamers showed up including Cable, Rune, Zombie, Kingpin, Hessian and his buddy John, Dragon and Brendon or Brendan or whatever it is. :) Thanks for all the fun guys.

Ever re-do your Windows and suddenly it won't allow you to access some of your previous files? Try this (XP Users) and see if it works out for you. Ran into it on a customer's computer last week, and it seemed to solve the problem.

Praetorian sent me a most interesting link. A DVD full of demo scene stuff! Niiiice :)

 
Apr 3.2004 - Paintbaaaaaaalllllll!!
posted by: Marauder icq# 12419781 - 08:30

Got up this morning, stepped out the front door and took a deep breath. It's spring ya'all! AND IT'S PAINTBALL SEASON!!!!! Well. It will be in a few days anyhows. Myself and a pile of my fellow nerds will be hitting Wasga Beach Paintball Adventures on saturday April the 10th for their season opener. It's .6c paint and cheap rentals, no charge to play for gun owners. There's usually a couple of hundred guys and gals up there, and it's going to be a hell of a good day. I've already got the car full, but if you're going to make it up there, drop me a line and let me know.

Heard back from my buddy Zombie on Universal Combat:

Hi dave, Mike MacPherson here. FYI: i found the full version of universal combat in a bargain bin for 12 bucks. The full game is actually visually more appealing but still looks like everquest done as a shooter, the ground combat just sucks. it is fun however to fly down and bomb the crap out of people when they are fighting on the ground or just plain do a little orbital bombardment. If you'd like to borrow the full version it does actually run provided you have a vertex shader. :)
Regards

I might borrow it. I'm still not sure if it's even worth an install on my hard drive.... But I'll think about it for a while.

Interesting little read about helmet laws in Tennessee and other places. I've had this discussion with Skeezix a few times, and I dunno. Personally if I was riding I'd keep my helmet on, I'd regard it sort of like playing paintball without proper eye protection, or riding in a car without a seatbelt.

My favorite current demo group, Farbrausch has some very very cool new demos out that need a good downloading and watching. Especially the Breakpoint 04 demo, it's got some wicked footage of the party with the same name. Thanks to Dman for the heads up. Always something new from those crazy euro bastards.

Invader Tim sends in a very, VERY cool little case mod. There's nothing like a Jelly Bean car!

I can't remember if I mentioned this or not, so I will now. There's an Internet Cafe/LAN place in my home town of Orangeville, Ontario now! (woot!) Internet Zone Cafe opened up just a few days ago in the little Mac's Milk stripmall at First st and Fifth Ave. Drop by and check it out, nice place, phat pipe. (519) 943-1134 for more information.

 

 


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