Have you thought about it, what if they're right and you're wrong and you do make everything mostly worse and offensive and most people don't actually think it's fun, but are unafraid to say since they might themselves become targets?

Just saying that *what if*, I don't really believe the above is an accurate description of reality.

And the other way round too of course...

I don't know what it's called, passive aggressive tactics or something, first irritate someone until they get worked up, then blame them for that.

There's a possibility that things could be different and better.

If you look at societies, some places people die at the age of 50, are sick alcoholists and get murdered by masses and abused, yet in the neighbouring country most things are fine and people are friendly and trusting towards each other.
Yet the starting points and physical conditions like natural resources of the two societies could be quite similar.
The problem could be called lack of social capital in the first society.
Acting in the miserable society as if it was inevitable and unchangeable that it was so would be very foolish. 

You do talk a load of shite sometimes though. 

#16145 - possibly, but if they're right they're the minority*, this community has worked for a lot of the rest of, FFS many of us have been here for a decade.

* - or, if not, it's a silent majority, if that's the case, if enough people speak up, then yeah things might change....if they need to.

To be honest, and blunt, I have been amazed by the reactions of some ppl these days, I find the sensitivity a bit hard to grasp - god knows what would have happened in the bad old days of on-line gaming flame wars...


#16146 - exactly, it's my job here now :). 

i'm often surprised when someone posts an angry reply to something that seemed like just a joke or whatever. i think some people just have really thin skin for an internet board.

just my opinion of course, feel free to discard. 

It is important to realise that many of the old-timers here have known each other for 10 years or so at this point.

Shambler #16147: I share your amazement. 

remove n00bs out of the way! 

"It is important to realise that many of the old-timers here have known each other for 10 years or so at this point. "

Fair point. But maybe some consideration could come the other way as well and remember that -I- don't know -THEM-. Text on the internet is sometimes hard to interpret as light hearted ribbing or fuck-you insults. 

That's what I was trying to make clear in my post. -You- are welcome aboard. You are a good mapper and an interesting commentator on the gaming/mapping scene. I respect you and think you're cool in the usual non-balls-touching kinda way. Same with Ricky and Trinca and pretty much everyone else. So take it for granted that it just banter...

If I have beef with anyone I'll raise that in a boring and sensible way. If I have serious beef than I will completely ignore them. 

I'll beat my nickname if you beat yours 

I regularly decide not to press Submit after writing a post here. Or delete most of it.

I'm not saying there are hundreds of people who do this, just some :-/

I'll regret this post soon, but part of me doesn't want to shut up. 

I was really surprised by one of the comments I read in this toppic, something like first they beat you with their knowledge, then they harrish you with their experience.

For me it was a sort of scorn I really could compare with as it made me feel what most of the reaktions had done with true reliability(forgive me the word), as it was something I felt since beginning reflecting in a toppic.

On this board I can't say there's something like a moderator that bans you after screwing up things and talking bullshit. But I must agree there were times I really felt pissed off after my intends to answer in the for me commen right way.

Almost like seeing a long post about pishing and knowing that in the end I'll only feel weird and that most toppics are just posted in the sense of the moment. Or as gb writes, there are times I just throw away all before comitting, as it makes me feel a dumbass, trying to answer the candle. 

Its snowing like hell over here for once! :D 

i know man. What do we do? 

as practically no one in my street is at work, and all the kids aren't at school :) 

just set off in his car to Lanarkshire.

I wonder if I will ever see him again!??! 

We just had our snowpocalypse a few weeks back. It rarely snows here and then, WHAM!, 6 inches in one day. The entire area was incapacitated - closed schools, snow day off from work, etc. It melted a few days later and now we're back to normal. 

all your snow talk.. like you guys are the snow masters. I know how to handle it, but what about new guys? Why can't we be a less snow talking bunch of guys?

Talk like this just reeks of an imminent community meltdown, at least if they're allowed to go by unmediated. Every community has its snowtalkers and I'm sure they consider themselves to be highly cold and fresh, but ultimately it's them, rather than the outside trolls, the ad bots or the idle members that will always ruin things simply out of boredom [i.e. the lack of enough intelligence to think of something more warming to do].

This may seem like harmless fun to some, but it might very well be enough to turn some talented mappers [regardless of whether they have a snow on their lawns or not] away, simply because most people have seen exactly the same shit ruin other websites. It's not new. It's not making the snow melt. Nor are its perpetrators.

In the end it only makes you all look like children who haven't yet learned to control their snowshovel and everybody else gets sick of it pretty quickly. :( 

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/525-Gears-of-War-2 

 

Megaman 

I have missed out on and some of peoples levels, and thinking of sifting though all of the ones I have missed could be a pain in the neck because of all of the filenames and stuff so:

Someone (not me because I suck) could make a tool which will sequence levels say in a mod/maps folder to run one after another by editing the entities lump to change the trigger_changelevels map key in each map so that they play through one after the other.....

OK, its maybe a silly idea for lazy people, but I'd use a tool like that. 

"triple cunted hooker" lol. 

*grabs megaman, removes from keyboard, takes outside and buries head-first in nearest snow-drift* 

P4 2gig, Asus MB, ATI 9700 Pro, wireless card, DVD x 2, HDD x 2, 350W PSU

Everything has been plodding along nicely. I am playing starkmon and just as I get into the first room the computer shuts down instantly (bad map, very naughty map. But no...)

Restart and the MB tells me it is "now booting from Operating System" in her MA accent and the system just hangs with the HDD light on.

Try again, same deal. Disconnect the power from DVD x 2 and HDD x 1 (obviously not the OS HDD) and it boots up OK. One by one I try all of the power supplly plugs and it is apparent that they all have power but as soon as I connect two or more drives it will not boot.

So, this suggests that the PSU is failing to supply enough power when trying to serve more than one device.

What tests can I do to prove/disprove a failing PSU? I don't have a multimeter so cannot actually test the output at each stage. Could one of the devices be drawing too much power for some reason that then affects the overall amount of power available to the HDDs?

I don't have a spare PSU so cannot check that way. I don't have spare cash just to buy another PSU just to check.

I have brown paper, string, paper-clips, bluetac etc.

Over to you guys.

(FMB-BDG, the probable ultimate ending of the possible final finale was vising in the background and was about 20 hours into a 200+ hours vis) 

my map blew Mikes computer :(

Asus mobo - my asus mobo switches off when the CPU overheats. could be that? Try CPUZ or whatever its called to see your processor temp when runing vis + Quake

Although that doesnt explain why it happens when you attatch all your drives....

hmmm.

Incidentally I was looking in the side of my computer the other day when I noticed that my PSU says "ATX 750" on the side. Which is weird cause I only paid for a 450w PSU (!) and they gave me an extra 300w without even telling me! Just a shame they fucked up the simple process of attatching the stock intel heat sink to the mobo. Then ran 3dmark06, gave the computer a really crappy score and shipped it anyway (what a bunch of weird computer builders they must be :)

Anyway sorry about that mike, im sure my stroy just adds insult to injury :(