Actually, I do: Check out this awesome flash browser puzzle-game.

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Wow, that game gets hard. Good find.

I found out how boring work is on Friday. I'm going to see if I can spend the hours I'll be putting in tomorrow in a zombie-daze that will constitute as sleeping.

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Also change the texture of the dock. Docks are rarely tile. -Facepunch
As I Lay Dying

found out www.deezer.com pretty nice ofr at work :smile: if you have an office where you can put up some tunes :smile:

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(not so) Recently found: I hate nearly all of the music that's popular now. No feeling in it, just soulless, money-minded, regurgitated radio tunes and failed attempts thereof.

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There's a Beta going on with Crysis (A private beta with a digital NDA!) through fileplanet.

They're on the third batch of keys out of four, so hurry if you want in.

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ya, I tried to get in, but you have to be an official subscriber to File Planet which means you're paying an annual fee, so count me out. :sad:

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(not so) Recently found: I hate nearly all of the music that's popular now. No feeling in it, just soulless, money-minded, regurgitated radio tunes and failed attempts thereof.

I'm so on the same level of thought here, nearly 100% of todays music is uninspired crap that's musically actually way to simple and boring to be of any interest to me, or covers of old songs, and with covers i mean litterally covering ,not adjusting anything to make it a unique cover, or more interesting, but just plain playing of the same tune 'that other good band' played year ago.

If it was up to me the top100 would be filled wit thrilling ,exciting music, that's inspiring to listen to and not just some brain dead rapper going off at his friends or talkingabout his penis size.

Classical music for instance, where has this gone? Where's jazz? Where's blues? Where's jazz fusion? Where's math music?

It's underground, and i think it wil stay there, because every major record label only endorses (is that the irght word?) simple and boring music that all sounds the same.

on topic:

recently found: fretboard oil rules, and is cheap, f**k why didn't i get that like 3 years ago??

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http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/20/strider-virginia-techs-creepy-three-legged-bot/

I wonder if this is wear Valve got the idea. Or possibly the other way around.

EDIT:
I say this because the article also refers to another robot at another campus and i have no idea when they were built.

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Bangai-O for the DS!
It looks like it has multiplayer too (awesome) with a level editor.

If you never played Bangai-O on the Dreamcast (I think there was an N64 version in Japan too), then you are a sad little man and I pity you.

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ooh an even better music streaming site: www.projectplaylist.com :wink:

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http://crave.cnet.co.uk/0,39029477,49292857-2,00.htm

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O god! I couldn't even finish it.

If they wanted to inform kids that they could copy games and add them to other computers, you think they could have done it with a little class. Its insulting to their intelligence to think the couldn't remember to copy games with out the jingle.

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No. Not 20 or 30 people. That's like the whole game industry! Then I wouldn't be able to play amazing games like ... the Oregon Trail ... and ... NeverWinter Nights ... wait.

Tetris doesn't count, the original creator was completely cut out of the property and never saw any revenue.

The early 90s does not contain pleasant memories, there were far too many of these type of things.

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start scribbling!

http://www.skrbl.com - cool site I just found.

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RedWood said:
O god! I couldn't even finish it.

If they wanted to inform kids that they could copy games and add them to other computers, you think they could have done it with a little class. Its insulting to their intelligence to think the couldn't remember to copy games with out the jingle.

I couldn't finish it either, but I did notice that it was telling people not to copy games. I guess the jingle (don't copy that floppy) didn't really work on you then. :rolleyes:

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lol

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Enemy Territory: Quake Wars demo on Steam.
I would have gotten it before, except for the fact that I hate fileplanet with a passion. I'm downloading it now even though my backup video card is below minimum spec (ATI 9600). RMAs take too long =[

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You could have downloaded it through any number of sources (including nVidia).

I, quite literally, cannot use FilePlanet, whenever I press the "log in" link, it just refreshes the page.

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I downloaded it last night over steam, but when I tried to play it all I got was "this game is unavailable atm, try again later". I've tried again, several times, and I keep getting the same message.

I've exited and restarted both steam and my own computer too, which normally fixes that ^.

/whining

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Yea, I downloaded it through Steam and I would get the same error message, so I waited in line and downloaded it at File front. The graphics didn't impress me, and the game felt like battlefield 2.

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I had a quick look through the steam forums, and found this thread. Apparently it's something to do with different versions of something called Microsoft.VC80.CRT, which is part of microsoft's visual c++ redistributable package.

If you constantly get the "game not currently available" message, then it seems that installing this will fix it. It did for me and everyone else in the other thread that was having problems.

Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 SP1 Redistributable Package (x86)<BR minmax_bound="true">Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 SP1 Redistributable Package (x64)

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Awesome site about starship dimenstions.

PS: it got Halo stuff, too!

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The "greys" supposedly come from the binary star system Zeta Reticuli, specifically the fourth planet of Zeta 2 Reticuli (this is according to a star map drawn by an "abductee" under hypnosis). Some ufologists claim the greys use "gravity amplification" devices for propulsion, and because gravity propagates through space 10 billion times faster than light it allows them to traverse the 40 light years between our stars much faster than would be possible by conventional propulsion, riding on a wave of gravity.

Sounds like a load of bunk, but doesn't that stir the imagination? :smile:

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The "greys" supposedly come from the binary star system Zeta Reticuli, specifically the fourth planet of Zeta 2 Reticuli (this is according to a star map drawn by an "abductee" under hypnosis). Some ufologists claim the greys use "gravity amplification" devices for propulsion, and because gravity propagates through space 10 billion times faster than light it allows them to traverse the 40 light years between our stars much faster than would be possible by conventional propulsion, riding on a wave of gravity.

Sounds like a load of bunk, but doesn't that stir the imagination? :smile:

Well at least somebody has found the graviton particle and began manipulating it.
It still wouldn't excuse you from how everything else works ... unless you did some trickery.

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Too bad gravity only moves at the speed of light. (they think)
If that were true it be easer to conceive how we could some day we could travel star to star. Our fastest moving probe wont reach the closest star to us (only 1 light year away) for another 75000 years. :sad:

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Kikizo interview with Gabe:

Kikizo: Have you considered introducing a four dimensional time element in Portal? Well I guess portals themselves as a concept are four dimensional if you look at the math.

Gabe: Sure, just in general you can think of it as applying a transformation; like you can have two spaces that are connected by portals, but they're reverse with respect to each other, or there's some temporal shift, or use your mouse wheel to expand or contract the size of the portal which determines your size when you exit. I don't know if you remember the fixed version of that in Mario 64 where as you go through space through the tubes that change your size, except for making it dynamic. So I think you're on to something as to the direction to go with moving that gameplay forward.

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What the f**k?

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Half way through i started laughing and didn't stop until it was over.

WOW! The way things are marketed compared to only 15 years ago is baffling. If you replaced that windows with visa and aired it, i imagine you would get the same reaction if u tried to sell baby otter burgers to vegans.

Thanks Crono. That was good.

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Hah! It's from the early 90's, but it wants to be 1986.

The "greys" supposedly come from the binary star system Zeta Reticuli, specifically the fourth planet of Zeta 2 Reticuli (this is according to a star map drawn by an "abductee" under hypnosis). Some ufologists claim the greys use "gravity amplification" devices for propulsion, and because gravity propagates through space 10 billion times faster than light it allows them to traverse the 40 light years between our stars much faster than would be possible by conventional propulsion, riding on a wave of gravity.

Sounds like a load of bunk, but doesn't that stir the imagination? :smile:

Listen up you stinking maggots
It seems you just don't get it
Well, I've been appointed to inform ya
Your days are numbered
You would cry, you would scream
If you knew half the things I'd seen
Please, please just do as I say
Repent and leave your evil ways
..Meanwhile, planes drop from the sky
People disappear and bullets fly
Little grey men are coming our way
"Tastes just like chicken" they say
Actually they're all around
Secret bunkers underground
Round em up, skin em alive
Rollin' rollin' rollin' rawhide

Couldn't give a damn about JFK
Everything's conspiracy
Wouldn't be surprised if they have their way
"Tastes just like chicken" they say
I know it's hard to swallow
It must sound too far fetched
But you can bet your bottom dollar
I ain't going with the rest!

On the nytimes page, when reading an article, double-clicking a marked word leads to a detailed word definition. It doesn't work on the front page, though.

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Jericho looks pretty awesome.

Demo

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The Crysis Beta has been opened to all FilePlanet members.

Go here.

Tell them you have pretty nice specs (otherwise they wont let you in the Beta)
Give you email address and birth date (only pieces of information required)
Download the client and get a nice beta key :smile:

There's currently a 40 minute wait for the client to download, though. But it'll be awesome.

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Crono said:
The Crysis Beta has been opened to all FilePlanet members.

closed again :sad:

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Some of the reviews aren't so enthusiastic. Farcry-like bugs and physics errors, 8800 graphics card can't handle the high settings (with "very high" not even being available). They say we should wait for the SP and there's a lot of optimization being done. But I'm skeptical.

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Well, I was able to get in, and got it and installed it. -Yes, even played it (briefly)

I have an 8800, and the "very high" settings are blocked off, and I also hear even though that anti-Aliasing is available, it doesn't enable in this beta.

Actually, in all honesty, it looks pretty good, but nothing to run home screaming about, at least not in my opinion. It is cool however to blow trees up and stuff, and I believe that they threw the motion blur WAY out of proportion. You simply walk, and the effect occurs. So much so, that it annoyed me. I had to play an online match in order to check out a level, so while everyone else was sending radio messages across and blowing their heads off, I was standing in the stream looking at trees.

They do have some really cool effects though, but the "feel" just "felt" real jumpy. Like BF2 or something. As if you weren't solidly on the ground, though that may have been just my latency. I think It will be a good game, it has a lot of features in it, but I agree, people can wait. -or at least I can.

-In other news, if you have bought the orange box already, Portal is ready for pre-loading! I am soo checking out the GCF for that!!!

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Portal is ready for pre-loading! I am soo checking out the GCF for that

It's encrypted, looks like we're just gonna have to wait another week to fiddle with the portal maps. =/

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Ah man, I found this awesome free tool for those texture maniacs out there. It's called CrazyBump and it's better than the Nvidia normal map filter plugin for Photoshop. It will read .psd files, so if you wish to take the control in Photoshop first you can, and then open it up in CrazyBump, and it will give you more "down-to-earth" options. And it can make some extreme normal maps, almost as good as some parallax maps I've seen. So give it a try, it's totally free, and no sign-up!

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And it can make some extreme normal maps, almost as good as some parallax maps I've seen.

Until you get close to it or look at it in any sort of angle.
(chances are, most implementations of Parallax mapping do regular bump mapping at far distances for efficiency purposes)

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Crazybump is a sweet program, very little hassle to get some fairly high quality normal maps. Looks like the preview and adjustment controls have been improved since I last used it as well.

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Been looking for a prog like that for ages. The PS plugin doesn't work for me (or at least didn't the one time I tried).

PS: Japanese FPS comedy

They're always ahead.

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Thanks for the Crazybump referral, Riven. Now I can have HL1 textures in HL2 and have them looking at least half decent.

Why would you want hl1 textures in hl2 :S ?

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Because the textures in HL2 are unversatile and they suck

Not that I wouldn't agree with the unversatile part, but they'll stand out horribly from the other, sharper textures. :/

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Not if you don't use the HL2 materials (except for rt and water textures). In theory, it will look like HL1 but with physics, normal mapping, render targets etc.

They did that with HL1:S and it looks horrible. (I still wish someone would give that a game a face lift)

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How does Black Mesa: Source compare with Half-Life: Source?

Black Mesa (they had to take source off the name) has nothing to do with Half-Life: Source.

I think they're just using base HL2 stuff and creating everything else themselves (to above HL2 quality from the look of the screenshots)

However, I can't say for certain because the thing isn't out.

You can see for yourself here. (It looks like the reference shots are from HL1:S too)
Hmm, I didn't know they were re-doing the multiplayer as well.

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Man, I started watching The Office (UK) and Extras... I have completely fallen in love with Ricky Gervais.