[Lunick]

Micky C, on 01 September 2012 - 05:29 PM, said:

Anybody else here seen the new Dr Who episode, Asylum of the Daleks?

I liked it, enjoyed it. Felt kind of lacking at times but yeah, good start to the new series. I've read too many spoilers already though :X

[Radar]

I just tried typing in that "www.jonglers.ru" URL. It's.... SAMSUNG! Huh?

Wait a minute, I get it! It's an advertisement! People will go to that link expecting to see more crazy GIF images, and then are directed to the Samsung page. Wow, that is actually BRILLIANT advertising.

[Micky C]

High Treason, on 01 September 2012 - 06:34 PM, said:

Nope, I stopped watching Dr. Who after Billie Piper left and to be honest, I wanted to stop watching since Christopher Eccleston left, because every doctor since him has been a total ponce, as summed up here (Around 51 seconds in);
http://www.youtube.c...h?v=35uYgSYXtfA

I agree, Christopher Eccleston's doctor was dark and edgy with a real possibility of death and defeat, and evil/greedy enemies. All the bad guys in subsequent seasons all seemed to be based on 'misunderstandings' that could often be talked into a solution and everyone lives happily ever after. Or, if people do tend to die, the doctor spends 5 minutes saying "oh, I'm so, so sorry." And there's WAY too much running away from the threat rather than actually confronting it, usually followed by one of those situations where all the bad guy has to do to win is shoot the doctor but for some reason they get into a conversation.

However I eventually grew to like David Tennant (would still be nice to have more Eccleston episodes), and I have a feeling that once they get rid of the Doctor's current companions (a young couple who keep making a big deal about how much they love each other every episode ), I'm going to like the current guy a bit more, especially if he stops acting so childish.

I'd love to see the guy who plays Sherlock Holmes in the new Sherlock show to play the next doctor (yes I'm aware the shows are written by the same guys). It'll either be him or a woman (they've been hinting at the possibility of regenerating into a woman for ages.)

[Master Fibbles]

Anyone else been looking at the games on Steam Greenlight? Some of them seem pretty neat looking.

[CruX]

[OpenMaw]

EmericaSkater, on 03 September 2012 - 05:17 AM, said:

Perfect for home defense.

Mr.Flibble, on 01 September 2012 - 07:07 PM, said:

If my brother who had gone as MrFilbble was posting as this impostor, I'd know it, I'd recognize him. Yes, I'm elitist and overly educated, but my brother is equally overly educated and I also know that what little time he has to play games these days, he spends playing new games, not old classics through dosbox or something.

The poster formerly known as MrFilbble on 3DR is long gone...this pretender will be taken care of shortly.

Are you so sure? HMMM...?





So, I totally refurbished an old video of mine and uploaded it. One of my first cracks at Machinima.

[Micky C]

Apparently they were working on Command and Conquer Generals 2, but it got changed into a Free to Play online game spanning the entire Command and Conquer franchise. That makes both the Command and Conquer, and Age of Empires series of RTS games online only. What the fuck! Was I the only guy who enjoyed singleplayer RTS campaigns? This FTP stuff must be pretty profitable if all the publishers are switching to it, but I'll never pick up that crap.

[OpenMaw]

Micky C, on 04 September 2012 - 03:11 AM, said:

Apparently they were working on Command and Conquer Generals 2, but it got changed into a Free to Play online game spanning the entire Command and Conquer franchise. That makes both the Command and Conquer, and Age of Empires series of RTS games online only. What the fuck! Was I the only guy who enjoyed singleplayer RTS campaigns? This FTP stuff must be pretty profitable if all the publishers are switching to it, but I'll never pick up that crap.

Single player RTS is good, of course, but the one thing you often lose is LAN play. My brother and I loved to botstop in Generals and ZH. Two on Six? Hell yeah! Not to mention making custom missions and skirmish maps.

Ah... Good stuff. I'm sure there will be another full on AAA CnC game to come down the pipes. There are TWO F2P CNC games. The one formerly known as Generals 2 doesn't actually look too bad.

[Micky C]

So I fire up CnC generals and play the Generals Challenge. A few missions in, I set up some defenses, capture a building that gives me free tanks every minute or two, make some pads that slowly generate unlimited income. I go away for badminton for a bit over two hours, come back, find everything's intact, I have like 15 million dollars, and 70 tanks at a glance. Then I had a brilliant idea, alt-tab out, open up fraps and take a screenshot! So I do that, and find out that Generals stopped responding when I tried to get back in. So no photos, and I don't get to completely own the enemy with my ridiculous army.

Yet another reason we need newer games of old franchises (that preferably stay true to their roots).

[rasmus thorup]

EmericaSkater, on 03 September 2012 - 05:17 AM, said:

Awww, why are fat dogs always so cute.

[OpenMaw]

Micky C, on 06 September 2012 - 04:33 AM, said:

So I fire up CnC generals and play the Generals Challenge. A few missions in, I set up some defenses, capture a building that gives me free tanks every minute or two, make some pads that slowly generate unlimited income. I go away for badminton for a bit over two hours, come back, find everything's intact, I have like 15 million dollars, and 70 tanks at a glance. Then I had a brilliant idea, alt-tab out, open up fraps and take a screenshot! So I do that, and find out that Generals stopped responding when I tried to get back in. So no photos, and I don't get to completely own the enemy with my ridiculous army.

Yet another reason we need newer games of old franchises (that preferably stay true to their roots).

I'd blame FRAPS for that before i'd blame Generals. FRAPS can kill some games when its being loaded after a game has been loaded. (Had it happen to me with Eduke, Crysis, Doom 3, Day of Defeat Source, to name a few.)

[Jeff]

My mom is planning on getting a cat this weekend. Or maybe it's was in a few weeks. I forget. Anyways, I'm going out to pick it out with her.

[Micky C]

Commando Nukem, on 06 September 2012 - 07:09 AM, said:

I'd blame FRAPS for that before i'd blame Generals. FRAPS can kill some games when its being loaded after a game has been loaded. (Had it happen to me with Eduke, Crysis, Doom 3, Day of Defeat Source, to name a few.)

Oh, thanks for telling me that. That never happened to me and I started it while in eduke several times. When I tried alt tabbing again in Generals it worked.

[High Treason]

I decided to build a hydrogen reactor today... It went well, for the most part anyway. I decided to use my best screwdriver as an electrode (it's days of driving screws are over ) and then forgot I had it running, so I discovered it with a full tank of hydrogen that I have no real use for and figured I would light that, as a result I now have no hair on my right hand and the kitchen (where I was running my experiment) now smells of singed hair.

Aside from the inefficiency of the device, I deffinitely believe I shall rethink my setup before playing with it again.

On another note, I have also been playing with a mini-fridge that relies on a 12V 45W Peltier Device to operate, it was free (and broken, now works, it's still pink with white polka-dots though, that plastikote will be coming out methinks) so I'm happy with it, but the device has shown me their potential for use in a computer, my initial thought was to shove one between the CPU and Waterblock in a future machine (as many others have done it seems), but I think that probably won't happen. I do, however, have a hard time cooling the drive bays without wasting a whole bay with a cooler, with a Peltier, I can now use all bays and mount the peltier to the side of the caddy with a heatsink on the other side. Potentially making it hard to get the drives out is no problem as I don't buy rubbish drives and so they don't fail often. I also will have room for this in the case I plan to buy for my next rig (remember that Xigmatek? That's not sticking around, never liked it anyway. ).

[OpenMaw]

Jeff, on 06 September 2012 - 10:36 PM, said:

My mom is planning on getting a cat this weekend. Or maybe it's was in a few weeks. I forget. Anyways, I'm going out to pick it out with her.

Bleh! Get a ferret. Ferret's are way better than cats.

High Treason, on 07 September 2012 - 01:56 PM, said:

I decided to build a hydrogen reactor today... It went well, for the most part anyway. I decided to use my best screwdriver as an electrode (it's days of driving screws are over ) and then forgot I had it running, so I discovered it with a full tank of hydrogen that I have no real use for and figured I would light that, as a result I now have no hair on my right hand and the kitchen (where I was running my experiment) now smells of singed hair.

Aside from the inefficiency of the device, I deffinitely believe I shall rethink my setup before playing with it again.

On another note, I have also been playing with a mini-fridge that relies on a 12V 45W Peltier Device to operate, it was free (and broken, now works, it's still pink with white polka-dots though, that plastikote will be coming out methinks) so I'm happy with it, but the device has shown me their potential for use in a computer, my initial thought was to shove one between the CPU and Waterblock in a future machine (as many others have done it seems), but I think that probably won't happen. I do, however, have a hard time cooling the drive bays without wasting a whole bay with a cooler, with a Peltier, I can now use all bays and mount the peltier to the side of the caddy with a heatsink on the other side. Potentially making it hard to get the drives out is no problem as I don't buy rubbish drives and so they don't fail often. I also will have room for this in the case I plan to buy for my next rig (remember that Xigmatek? That's not sticking around, never liked it anyway. ).

You should post pictures. For great justice.





More movie magic. Fiddled around with Half-Life today, for a couple hours anyway, with the possibility of it being used for makin' Machinima movies.

[Hendricks266]

Commando Nukem, on 08 September 2012 - 05:45 PM, said:

Bleh! Get a ferret. Ferret's are way better than cats.

Except when they crawl up your ass.

Commando Nukem, on 08 September 2012 - 05:45 PM, said:

More movie magic. Fiddled around with Half-Life today, for a couple hours anyway, with the possibility of it being used for makin' Machinima movies.

GoldSrc Filmmaker?

[Kathy]

High Treason, on 07 September 2012 - 01:56 PM, said:

so I discovered it with a full tank of hydrogen that I have no real use for and figured I would light that, as a result I now have no hair on my right hand and the kitchen (where I was running my experiment) now smells of singed hair.

Why am I not surprised? Come on, dude...

[Sangman]

I would almost call High Treason an intelligent inventor who isn't afraid to try new things - the only problem is he pulls and says retarded shit like that almost all the time.

[Jeff]

I'm starting to think my brother may be indoctrinated. He doesn't question anything and just believes what he's told. I tried to bring up the idea of a 20 hour work week because as technology advances that we won't have to work as much. Heck I read somewhere that stores would be automated in the next 20 years, so the job I have now would be obsolete. They won't even have cashiers or price checkers. You just walk through a scanner, and it automatically pays for your stuff out of your bank account. For example, in the early 1900s, people worked 60 hours a week, now they work 40 hours a week. He still thinks people are going to be working 40 hours a week in 50 years because that's what he's been brought up to believe. He's never questioned it.

[Jimmy]

I don't dig the idea of automatic paying, but self-check-out rules.

[Jeff]

Captain Awesome, on 09 September 2012 - 07:31 PM, said:

I don't dig the idea of automatic paying, but self-check-out rules.

In the short term (2012-2017 or so), that's their plan. Basically turn every checkout lane into a self check out where you would scan the items yourself instead of having a cashier do it. Although where I work, you still have a cashier who fixes errors that come up when scanning. Unless that can be automated too.

[Micky C]

Yeah at my local supermarket there are self checkout areas with at least one person overseeing everything; making sure the line is flowing smoothly, and helping out when you do something like accidentally scan an item twice and he/she can delete the duplicate for you.

[OpenMaw]

I'm against automated check outs. Lazy fucking corporations that do not want to pay an employee base.

I want a clerk there to check my food out. I came to this store to pick up goods and to pay for said goods, and a service. The service of being checked out.

Any time I see an automatic check out, and I see a clerk working? I go to the clerk working.

[Jimmy]

I like self check out because most people don't use it. A lot of cashiers (at least around here) are usually unfriendly. Not that I blame them, most customers are assholes.

[Kathy]

Less people to deal with the better.

[Micky C]

It's a tad less awkward buying things like condoms at the automated checkout..

[Kathy]

I thought it was awkward to buy condoms only the first time.

[Micky C]

Maybe that's the case, I've always used the automated checkout anyway.

[High Treason]

Not sure wether those would be on the age restricted list... I don't think they would be, but if they were it would surely ruin your plan.

I personally dislike automated check-outs, they always break down and are not large enough for me to pack a whole weeks shopping on the end, of course, if I put that on the ground to make room for more, the whole system locks and yells that I am stealing stuff which makes the bloke watching it angry after the third or fourth time.

They used to be OK for one thing though, back in my College days, the Tesco Self-Serve didn't have anyone watching it during those hours and they had not implemented any age restrictions yet (basically, the machine locks and asks for the guy watching to put his key in to confirm the age of the person the machine is serving) so it was possible to purchase alcohol. Only thing was, that was several miles away and it wasn't always easy to get my bike there and back within the hour.

[Micky C]

Nope, they're not. The only thing in that store that would be is (you guessed it) alcohol. In Australia you're not allowed to sell alcohol in supermarkets like you can in Europe (not sure about the U.S), but this franchise got around it by having a store-within-a-store that sells it. Never tried buying alcohol from there though, I find it easier and cheaper at the large dedicated shops and there's one about 5 minutes' walk from my house