Happy new year!

To all the pitters, your friends and your families: A very happy 2006!

Enjoy, have fun, stay safe, and my best wishes to all of you... I love you all :smile:

woOt merry 4 july you too. but it's not new xmas here yet. it's 2:03pm right now.

9 and a half more hours.

For fraggard, it was 2006 two hours ago.

12:34 pm in Los Angeles still.

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"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return." -- Toulouse-Lautre, Moulin Rouge

43 minutes to go :smile:

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11 hours to go still, has the apocalypse occured in the other locations yet?

Happy, HAPPY new year! :biggrin:

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Happy New Year, I suppose, I'm waiting for my ride to come bring me to a dang party. And I better have a dang ride, 'cause I really want to play some poker and take advantage of drunk girls.

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One day you'll know what you're talking about, I can hardly imagine

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<<< For the New Year Comes a New Avatar made by PEGS. Thanks PEGS, and Happy New Year to everyone.

hehe , got a date right on new years ;D . Happy new years to ye all!

Oh btw moneyshot XP you can only shoot one bullet at a time on Clone Invaders, but still one of the sweeter avatars i've seen.

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.else /me ~kill you
www.arclan.net

11 hours into 2006, nothing has exploded yet.

Hope 2006 is a great year for everyone, and hope it is to Source mapping what 2003 was to HL1 mapping (which we all know wont happen, but it would be nice).

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"If you talk at all during this lesson, you have detention. Do you understand?"

• My yr11 Economics teacher

3 hours and 47 minutes till new years and I have absolutely nothing to do

but happy new years to the all of you

More than 4 hours after new year... :smile:

Happy new year to all of you and your families! :smile:

WHAT!! It's New Years already!!

I've missplaced so much time trying to defeat the 5th boss in
Xenosaga. Curse you Namco for making me waste 2 weeks of my life ON ONE BOSS!

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You know, I've actually got nothing to say

best wishes for 2006, folks.

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i eat paint

Happy Birthday Planet Earth

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Breaking the laws of mapping since 2003 and doing a damn fine job at it

Still got a few more hours before Los Angeles rings in 2006.

Us West Coast people are the last ones on Earth to celebrate the new year.

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"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return." -- Toulouse-Lautre, Moulin Rouge

Yeah, just ignore the pacific islanders, they're not people like you and me. :razz:

I believe they're two hours behind us WestCoastians.

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Blame it on Microsoft, God does.

YAY!!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!! -English for All you special americans

'EY 'APPY NEW YEA', MATE!!! -British for the UK'ers

FELIZ NUEVO A?O! -Spanish for Asterix Vader

С новым годом!!! -Russian for me and my lady

GL?CKLICHES NEUJAHR!!! -German For Crapceeper

FERICIT NOU AN!!! -Romanian just for you Andrei

Glad Ny?ren!!! -Swedish for Otzman, Azelito, etc...

Heldig Nyt?r!!! -Danish for that one dude...

Glad Ny ?r! !!!!! -Norwegian for Kissmet!

'n ddedwydd 'n Grai Blwyddyn!!! -Welsh for Gwil!!!

明けましておめでとうございます!!! -Japanese for all you Anime guys

Gauisus Novus Annus!!! -Latin for the doctor Satchmo (I dont know how to do Chinese for you, old buddy)

Yup. -Arkansas for Orpheus!!!

Cool thing is that I knew a whole bunch of these without having to look them up. Anyway, All have a GREAT new year, I hope everything goes well for all of you. Even you, Hugh.

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I tried sniffing coke, but the ice cubes kept getting stuck in my nose.
http://www.dimebowl.com

Well, technically G, it is an arbitrary point of reference from which to measure time, decided when the calendar we use was created. Note that different cultures have started their year at different times (Chinese New Year, April Fool's Day). The actual moment of birth of Earth would be impossible to determine to 24-hour precision, and such a thing must be defined anyway (was Earth born when the first particles clumped together to form its core, or when it reached its present mass?). Since that time, the length of one year has changed, which complicates matters.

Aanyway, currently its 7:30AM GMT, hence everyone in and behind GMT -8h is still in 2005. This includes the western United States and Canada, and Pacific islands east of the International Date Line. The last to celebrate the new year will be those in GMT -12h. This includes ships at sea, and the uninhabited Baker and Howard islands.

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"If you talk at all during this lesson, you have detention. Do you understand?"

• My yr11 Economics teacher

wil5on said:
Since that time, the length of one year has changed, which complicates matters.

Thanks, Doctor Killjoy.... :rolleyes:

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I tried sniffing coke, but the ice cubes kept getting stuck in my nose.
http://www.dimebowl.com

Novus Annus

Wow! That sounds kinky.

just ignore the pacific islanders...

But there are no islander mappers.

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"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return." -- Toulouse-Lautre, Moulin Rouge

satchmo said:
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<DIV class=quotetitle>? quote:</DIV>
<DIV class=quotetext>Novus Annus

Wow! That sounds kinky.

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Lol, of all the sophomoric... heh... yeah it kinda does... :biggrin:

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I tried sniffing coke, but the ice cubes kept getting stuck in my nose.
http://www.dimebowl.com

just ignore the pacific islanders...

But there are no islander mappers.

They're silent because of bigotry like this!

Happy new year, everyone. (ten minutes to go here)

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Blame it on Microsoft, God does.

YAY!!!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!! -English for All you special americans

'EY 'APPY NEW YEA', MATE!!! -British for the UK'ers

FELIZ NUEVO A?O! -Spanish for Asterix Vader

С новым годом!!! -Russian for me and my lady

GL?CKLICHES NEUJAHR!!! -German For Crapceeper

FERICIT NOU AN!!! -Romanian just for you Andrei

Glad Ny?ren!!! -Swedish for Otzman, Azelito, etc...

Heldig Nyt?r!!! -Danish for that one dude...

Glad Ny ?r! !!!!! -Norwegian for Kissmet!

'n ddedwydd 'n Grai Blwyddyn!!! -Welsh for Gwil!!!

明けましておめでとうございます!!! -Japanese for all you Anime guys

Gauisus Novus Annus!!! -Latin for the doctor Satchmo (I dont know how to do Chinese for you, old buddy)

Yup. -Arkansas for Orpheus!!!

Cool thing is that I knew a whole bunch of these
without having to look them up. Anyway, All have a GREAT new year, I
hope everything goes well for all of you. Even you, Hugh.

So this is what cosying up with America and sending our boys to Iraq gets us! Not even a Happy f**king New Year!

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'Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!'

Glad Ny?ren!!! -Swedish for Otzman, Azelito, etc...

Sorry nickel, slightly incorrect. Supposed to be "Gott nytt ?r". :wink:

And happy new year everyone! I spent my new years eve at a party, was ok.

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What the Snarkpitters listen to!

"[color=white]'n ddedwydd 'n Grai Blwyddyn!!!"

[size=13]This is how my conversation with God on the great white
telephone sounded last night :razz: That's why I wasn't overly responsive,
Nickel. Also, the list made me realise - we don't have any French
members?

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Happy new year guys, hope you all had a good night and have a great year :smile:

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Designer @ Haiku Interactive | ReNo-vation.net

Heh, I crashed at 12:10 :smile:

Yeah, someone screwed up the countdown on the station I was
watching. It said 45 seconds left in the corner, and all of a
sudden it started going 10 9 8 7 so... yeah.

By the way... don't you love it when you're at someone elses house but their neighbours have unprotected wireless?

? posted by <b style="color: yellow;">French Toast</b>

By the way... don't you love it when you're at someone elses house but their neighbours have unprotected wireless?

Yeah, I like it when people leave their routers unprotected, too.
I never get much time on the routers because they always figure out
someone other than them were surfin the web. I wish more people
were like my uncle and cousin's who believe in sharing leaving
themselves open to let others surf the net.

By the way, how in the world do ya'll post a Re:post box, I can never seem to figure it out.

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You know, I've actually got nothing to say

"[color=white]'n ddedwydd 'n Grai Blwyddyn!!!"

[size=13]This is how my conversation with God on the great white
telephone sounded last night :razz: That's why I wasn't overly responsive,
Nickel. Also, the list made me realise - we don't have any French
members?

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The only French member I've ever seen, and he didn't happen to be a
pitter ( :sad: ) was someone called "superlama". Trust me, he was a
lama...

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Agent Smith said:
So this is what cosying up with America and sending our boys to Iraq gets us! Not even a Happy f**king New Year!

I was saving the best for last, and my internet got cut off at the last moment. :rolleyes:

what i meant to put was:

Happy New Year!!!!! -Regular speech for all our wonderful Australians!!!!

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I tried sniffing coke, but the ice cubes kept getting stuck in my nose.
http://www.dimebowl.com

fraggard said:
... I love you all :smile:

Funny, till now I thought I was the only one who felt this compulsion.

XXXOOOXXX Fragman.

Happy 2006 guys.

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The best things in life, aren't things.

I can't even remember what I used to do with my spare time before I found the SnarkPit. Without you guys, there would be a big hole in my life.

I hope the new year will bring new joy for everyone at the Pit. As for old bickers, let bygones be bygones. After all, this is a gaming forum, and we shouldn't take things too seriously.

Putting things in perspective, I just saw a 8 year old girl who had most of her bones in her leg removed because of bone cancer. We should remind ourselves how fortunate we all are and be thankful for the things we have.

Just imagine, if Valve never existed, our lives would never intersect.

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"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return." -- Toulouse-Lautre, Moulin Rouge

Just imagine, if Valve never existed, our lives would never intersect.

Oh yes they would've. Except this would have been a quake site called The Stroggpit. :smile:

I wouldn't be here, because I've never played any of the Quakes (except for a Quake 2 demo).

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"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return." -- Toulouse-Lautre, Moulin Rouge

Hmmmmm.... Stroggpit eh? And just like Snarkpit, the site would have deteriated with the release of the newer game...

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-[Better to be Honest than Kind]-

Myrk- said:
Hmmmmm.... Stroggpit eh? And just like Snarkpit, the site would have deteriated with the release of the newer game...

Takes blanket to the laundry. The constant exposure to the moisture could ruin the stitching

You are one of the main reasons I remain Myrk. Promise me you'll remain till I am really old, OK?

Notice: Old by my standards, not the consensus of old age.

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The best things in life, aren't things.

quote***

Old by my standards, not the consensus of old age.

alas my friend, they are but one in the same..... ****runs

Doc B... :dodgy:

btw....happy new year all.... :smile:

My affection is growing as we speak Doc. I think I care about you more than a "1" now. :heee:

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The best things in life, aren't things.

Oww, I'm late...

Happy newyear anyway! :smile:

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Create-ivity - a game development blog

[color=white][size=13] Also, the list made me realise - we don't have any French
members?

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i think Koko5ovar is french

anyway, well put satchmo. my thoughts are similar.

again, happy newyear all :smile:

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satchmo said:
I wouldn't be here, because I've never played any of the Quakes (except for a Quake 2 demo).

Funny, I finished them all. In fact I finished everything before HL1, and nothing except Unreal 2 since.

I really need to dig these games out and complete them before the graphics gets so ugly that I refuse to simply because they are ugly. (which wasn't the case upon purchasing)

In modern times only Unreal 2 failed to set off my vertigo problem. Playing and puking is not fun to say the least but somehow Unreal 2 was so smooth that it didn't trigger any unpleasant reactions. I did ease through the game however because I didn't want to chance it but I did finish.

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The best things in life, aren't things.

I'm telling you it's the refresh rate you're using. Make sure your refresh rate and you're light bulb's frequencies are the same. You shouldn't get sick that way.

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Blame it on Microsoft, God does.

Well my friend, herein lies the problem then. My CRT refreshes at 85 and light bulbs do so at? 120?

Perhaps a better quality monitor would solve my issues.

On that note, would a flatscreen LCD/TFT type have a refresh issue since its not ray generated images?

I noticed that 19" lcd's are down to around 200 bucks now for a 12ns delay screen. Thats pretty good methinks.

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The best things in life, aren't things.

Light bulbs refresh at 50-60 hz.

Um. No, Orph is right, lights run at about 110 or 120 Hz. If you have a motor with some string to make a wave, if you get the thing running at 110-120 Hz, you'll see a standing wave, which is very bizarre, to say the least. You can do the same thing with a strobe light. Since those have larger ranges.

You want to choose a frequency that the light frequency is a multiple of (if not the same frequency), since the entire point is to have the wavelengths be multiples of each other. Right now they're not, so you puke from motion sickness. There's some other things you can do too, like turning the brightness of the monitor down.

Try 60 Hz when playing games and see if there's a difference.

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Blame it on Microsoft, God does.

I am almost certain all alternating current generated for regular use in America runs 110-120 volts at 50-60 hz.

Funny, I always heard that florescent lighting strobed at 120.

Well A/C is 60 it seems.

RS6 gets the prize I guess.

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The best things in life, aren't things.

It is 60 Hz, however, in each cycle there is zero current at 2 points, when the current goes positive->negative, and when it goes negative->positive. Hence your light is off 120 times per second instead of 60.

I get the prize :biggrin:

edit: On the topic of LCD/TFT screens, they would probably help. They dont refresh so many times a second like a CRT, so you dont get the strobe effect.

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"If you talk at all during this lesson, you have detention. Do you understand?"

• My yr11 Economics teacher