[Micky C]

 Hank, on Mar 13 2011, 05:51 AM, said:

Personne ne l'attendait ...
Mais a ça va changer!

Vraiment? Un autre groupe prêt à attendre quatorze ans?

Well let's hope it's not going to take that long

[The Commander]

I downloaded the trial version of Visual Studio 2010 Professional at the end of last year from the Microsoft site. It had a 30 day limit thing after which point you needed to purchase a product key. (As most programs do these days)

So here I was last night browsing the web and came across a key that was on a website that states that it works. So I tried starting up VS2010, put in the key and it worked.
I now have a fully registered version of VS2010, this seems rather odd and whack that their was no online check of the key to see if it had been used, fail on Microsoft's part?

I can now compile the eduke32 source with ease now.

[High Treason]

Oh dear, oh dear; http://karooforums.net/index.php/topic,165...2.html#msg21822

That is a topic I posted in, I really don't understand why people take such offense at me.

[The Commander]

From what I gather, "dunny" does not seem to think DNF is real or has not even seen the latest news/pictures/video.
I know there where some nice PC screens (not xbox shots) of DNF around somewhere that showed some great detail.
You could use them in your argument if you are going to carry it on.

[High Treason]

Hehe, maybe, the thread got locked anyway when he started throwing personal attacks around. He knows the game is real, he even made two threads about it once.

I was been slightly sarcastic in my previous post, I think it's hillarious to wind these people up - especially give that they seem to like arguing on subjects they know absolubtely nothing about.

[Hank]

 The Commander, on Mar 13 2011, 02:42 PM, said:

I can now compile the eduke32 source with ease now.

Welcome to the MS coder club. But .... remember this one?

http://forums.duke4.net/index.php?s=&s...ost&p=49234

Just a thought , and no I'm not in the market, wouldn't know where to start, to be honest

[High Treason]

Beh, the Keyboard (As in, musical keyboard - Synthesizer - this one) I was using as a controller has just about failed, right as I only have a few things left to do before I quit, there are loads of cheap controller keyboards out there (£40 - £60) but they are ALL USB! WTF! Who came up with such a stupid fucking idea, it isn't a MIDI Controller Keyboard if it doesn't have MIDI! How in the hell am I supposed to hook it up to my gear when it is USB? Someone needs to be dickslapped in the face for coming up with that idea!

[Green]

http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/03/the-new-p...ooks-different/

[Micky C]

Dear God... what have they done?

I guess now that 3DR don't have the rights to the game anymore, Human Head can pretty much do what they want (as mentioned in the article) but it looks like Prey's lost everything that made it stand out from other games, namely the player's personality and background. I bet the spirit realm thing won't even be spirit related anymore, it'd probably be some technology thing activated by that belt around his chest.

[Master Fibbles]

Can't make games 'bout Injuns no more.

[The Commander]

Hank, on Mar 15 2011, 02:03 PM, said:

Welcome to the MS coder club. But .... remember this one?

http://forums.duke4.net/index.php?s=&s...ost&p=49234

Just a thought , and no I'm not in the market, wouldn't know where to start, to be honest

Compiling the source in VS is not difficult, anyone could do it. But when it comes coding the source I am lost as such.
Although I can read the source code and have a fair idea of what it does.

Given more time I would learn.

[trencheel303]

High Treason, on Mar 13 2011, 12:12 PM, said:

Oh dear, oh dear; http://karooforums.net/index.php/topic,165...2.html#msg21822

That is a topic I posted in, I really don't understand why people take such offense at me.

I couldn't help but notice your avatar on that forum - hammer and sickle. are you a communist?

[blackharted]

Just finished Dead Space 2. Awesome game. Now re-starting Vanquish. FUCKING AMAZING GAME!!!!

[High Treason]

trencheel303, on Mar 16 2011, 12:49 PM, said:

I couldn't help but notice your avatar on that forum - hammer and sickle. are you a communist?

I'm not really anything, I have a lot of beliefs that match with the ideals of communism - though I know most of them do not work in practise - so people often assume I am a communist.

Anyway, I used to have "Der Führer's Face" as my avatar there and I'm half tempted to put it back - and I don't think he was into communism at all.


Was a bit better than that one, but that's what I had before, then it changed to Duke Nukem for a while before finally becoming the hammer and sickle. It is probably worth adding that I do not agree with Nazis at all, but nor do the rest of that forum, which is why the image was good to use there.

[Jimmy]

trencheel303, on Mar 16 2011, 08:49 AM, said:

I couldn't help but notice your avatar on that forum - hammer and sickle. are you a communist?

So what if he was?

[Master Fibbles]

We don't serve your kind here.

[High Treason]

Hmm... that would explain the strange feeling whenever I turned right. I've had the wheels of my 1937 Raleigh Tourist bicycle to put new tyres on, I decided to strip the axle out and clean up the bearings (A routine thing I like to do when I have taken a wheel off something.) - I started to unscrew the cones from the wheel, one of them was fine, the other... Well... See for yourself;


On the left is the cone I have been riding around on, out of the wheel, on the right is the way the cone should look... I've got loads of spare wheels so I just replaced the whole axle, cones and bearings, runs just like new, but just think what could have happened if my tyres didn't get here today - I was thinking of going to town at the weekend.

[Jimmy]

Looks like you dodged a bullet... or a car, in this case.

[Hank]

High Treason, on Mar 17 2011, 03:17 PM, said:

Hmm... that would explain the strange feeling whenever I turned right.

this made my day cheers mate

[High Treason]

Captain Awesome, on Mar 17 2011, 09:00 PM, said:

Looks like you dodged a bullet... or a car, in this case.

Hehe, it's usually busses that I seem to end up getting hit by, presumably because I share the bus lane with them, though I have had my right arm clipped by cars a lot, one guy did it to me more than once so I snapped the wing mirror off as he passed, he was not pleased - that was about 3 years back, but nontheless, I still get terrible road rage.

Hank, on Mar 18 2011, 02:05 AM, said:

this made my day cheers mate

It kinda made my day, because I'm amazed that after more than 70 years of use in the countryside by the farmer that owned the thing before I got it, the only real problems were worn tyres, worn brake blocks and a cracked cone (aside from some minor things like worn out saddle and dirt in the gear hub). They don't make them like they used to.

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- Ramble warning!

The whole incident reminds me of one time in 2008, I was riding a 1950's BSA over the bridge (well, one of many bridges) into town, the chain I was using had a tendency to split under heavy load and it did so, the rear "drop-outs" for the wheel were meant to be straight but there was the issue of the mildly bent frame loosening the wheel nuts and the wheel coming loose, usually the chain pulled it in on the right and it would grind on the left side of frame, thus warning me to get the wrench out of my backpack. It was all a recepie for disaster.

But on this occasion it seems the load that snapped the chain was enough to loosen the wheel, it all seemed to happen really slowly, first I felt the chain give way and heard the sound of it scraping on the floor, second I felt the balance of the bike change (I was leaning forward to get up the bridge) and finally I noticed, as I hit the front brake and turned into the side of the road, that there was a wheel overtaking me - I stupidly yelled "Hey, where's that wheel from? That would fit on here." and thinking I'd got a new wheel for free, assuming someone threw it at me (people often throw things at me in the street, sometimes large objects like TV's or they just drive their cars at me) - finally I remember feeling the back of the bike hit the ground and hearing a terrible scraping noise, a bus swerved to avoid me and almost hit a car at the other side of the road and I fell off the bike just as it stopped.

To make matters worse, I had only being going for a ride, so I had no lock, it also transpired that I didn't bring the wrench on this one occasion and it was around 5PM on a Sunday. I had to walk into one of the few stores that was open - an electronics store of all places - with the bike and buy a wrench, the cheapest they had was £12 and I didn't bother buying a hammer and punch for the chain, I just used the wrench. Hmm, I forgot until now, Raleigh bought BSA in 1957, this bike also had the problem with it's front wheel cone (On the same side as the Raleigh I have) - this could be a problem with Raleigh's unique cone design, still, if it takes between 50 - 80 years to happen, I wouldn't worry about it.

[OpenMaw]

Haven't posted in here in awhile. 'Oly crapola!

Here's something I just uploaded to YouTube:
http://www.youtube.c...o9EDVL_TIc&hd=1



Good God, that Prey 2 poster looks.... Wrong. Very wrong. Where is Tommy? That thing to me looks like it could be "any generic sci fi shooter type of thing." Yech.

[Micky C]

Commando Nukem, on Mar 18 2011, 05:38 PM, said:

Haven't posted in here in awhile. 'Oly crapola!

Here's something I just uploaded to YouTube:
http://www.youtube.c...o9EDVL_TIc&hd=1

I always thought somebody should do an edit of the second to last episode of Dr Who, the one where the Pandorica opens, which supposed imprisoned the "ultimate warrior" so that when it opens, Duke steps out and says "Geez, it feels like I've been in there forever, time to stop pissing around and get this big guy back into action." Then he pulls out the RPG and blows up the daleks

[trencheel303]

High Treason, on Mar 16 2011, 09:41 AM, said:

I'm not really anything, I have a lot of beliefs that match with the ideals of communism - though I know most of them do not work in practise - so people often assume I am a communist.

Interesting, I am very similar. I have some pretty strong views on it though, that a lot of people probably wouldn't approve of...

Captain Awesome, on Mar 16 2011, 05:26 PM, said:

So what if he was?

I was interested.

[Jeff]

Fringe looks like it's going to be set up for an awesome season finisher. I'm on episode 16, and it was totally awesome. No news on season 4 though.

[Micky C]

Sometimes it's better to stop a show while it's doing well than the alternative. Think about how shows like Scrubs and Stargate SG1 kept going, albeit with different main characters. Other shows like extras stopped early and are still remembered as being quality.

[Master Fibbles]

Jeff, on Mar 19 2011, 05:01 AM, said:

Fringe looks like it's going to be set up for an awesome season finisher. I'm on episode 16, and it was totally awesome. No news on season 4 though.

That was last week. It was quite good. The ending was epic with Bell showing up out of nowhere in Olivia's body. The one that was on last night (ep 17; The Stowaway) was pretty awesome. I really feel like Anna Torv is doing a great job of shifting her voice and taking on the role of William Bell possession Olivia's body. They are really approaching interesting topics in philosophy and science in this show.

They better have some news on season 4 soon...or I'll be out of shows to watch. Human Target is on the block and I've heard Chicago Code may not make it; they stopped The Good Guys which I really enjoyed. They can't leave me with just Bones and House. I need more than that.

[Jeff]

Micky C, on Mar 19 2011, 04:05 AM, said:

Sometimes it's better to stop a show while it's doing well than the alternative. Think about how shows like Scrubs and Stargate SG1 kept going, albeit with different main characters. Other shows like extras stopped early and are still remembered as being quality.

I actually didn't mind Colonel Mitchell, Vala or General Landry in SG-1, but some said they wouldn't watch it without Richard Dean Anderson. He does make a few appearances in seasons 9 and 10, but for the most part, he wasn't there.

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That was last week. It was quite good. The ending was epic with Bell showing up out of nowhere in Olivia's body. The one that was on last night (ep 17; The Stowaway) was pretty awesome. I really feel like Anna Torv is doing a great job of shifting her voice and taking on the role of William Bell possession Olivia's body. They are really approaching interesting topics in philosophy and science in this show.

I was kind of busy with stuff I kept forgetting to watch it.

[Micky C]

It wasn't so much the actors/characters I didn't like, it was just the bad scriptwriting. In the first 8 seasons, there were episodes where nothing much happened and yet they still managed to make it interesting. When they tried that in seasons 9 and 10, it was just tedious frustrating. Even the action sequences became dull.

[Master Fibbles]

I didn't mind the last few seasons of SG-1. I suppose things got repetitive or something but that is what the show was. Stargate Universe, on the other hand, hasn't really grabbed me much. I am trying to like it but I think the problem is that they are on that damn ship and have no where to go. Offworld is where it is at.

[Micky C]

The show will do fine as long as it's able to introduce new areas of the ship with mysterious and/or potentially dangerous functions. I.e first they did the ancient mind interface chair, then they introduced the bridge. Maybe some ancient labs will be the next big thing.