Well, except for "'wolfenshteen' if you're pedantic"... :| 

Listening to him talk reminded me of my early feelings about Doom and Quake and what drew me to them so strongly. Nice memory walk... 

Yeah went over good stuff. His analysis of Half-Life is a bit off though imo. I agree with the stuff about Alyx (good character by not being a bad one), but as comments point out he doesn't place HL1 into the context of shooters at the time, nor does he appear to particularly like variety or the adventure elements, which is one of the reasons I find HL doesn't get boring compared to stuff like CoD etc. 

http://uk.ign.com/videos/2011/12/27/star-wars-the-old-republic-space-combat-impressions?show=HD

.....and they still give it 9 out of 10.

The first part of the written review also, talks about how they player doesn't get many character customization options, and that the tutorial element is severely lacking.

..... and they still give it a 9 out of 10.

Unbelievable. 

 

They gave Halo3 10 out of 10
..... and you still pay attention to review ratings.

Unbelievable. 

Good demo! 

Part 2 of my Cornered analysis http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4b6QR1jbUGg 

just found this delightful directory on my web domain :(

http://isoterra.co.uk/hangun/

how do you protect yourself against that kind of shit? is it just a case of changing password regularly? 

http://www.daz3d.com/i/0/0?

How weird. 

Grc.com has a couple of great ways to generate near impossible to brute force passwords. 

Something long and easy to remember is usually best. I wish them the best of luck at brute forcing something like:

"iwishpeoplewouldstoptryingtohackmysite" 

Thanks message board! Anyway, you get the idea... 

Hm, something ate my post.

That is NOT a secure password. A combination of words is not secure unless the service restricts login attempts. Even more so if they are all lower case.

A secure password has various symbols in it, is not readable like that. Use characters like !"�$%&/()=?`*'_:;

Everyone should really use something like http://www.keepassx.org/ (not some online service for heaven's sake) to generate and maintain your passwords. I do not know 10% of my passwords, I only copy and paste them. 

thanks for that link spirit. looks useful

interestingly i tried my old password on this page and the 'online attack scenario' reported a time of 46.68 centuries. i suspect brute force isn't the only way of getting in... 

1.38 thousand trillion trillion centuries 

So not TOO long then. 

Spirit

I use a password program and generator as well but the idea behind the long string of words IS a solid one. Words strung together without spaces is just as good as anything with random symbols and crap sprinkled through it. Just as hard to crack and easier to remember. 

rj make sure you check your logs and or contact your host to actually know what happened. 

and it turns out they got in with zero failed login attempts which pretty much rules brute force out of it, after all that (unless there's some way of downloading the login info and doing it offline)

i can't rule out possible malware on a past windows install though. in which case i'd be at fault for keeping the same password for ~6 years, regardless of how hard it would have been to crack :)

morals learnt, etc 

Never use your luggage combination as your password... 

I'd be willing to bet that very few "hacks" these days are done by brute forcing passwords. It's generally done via database leaks and/or malware and/or social engineering. 

Here's an interesting quote from teh Carmack from last summer's E3, regarding Quake 5. I imagine this is old for those of you who follow the news more closely than I do, but it's the first I've heard of it:

"We went from the Quake 2 and the Quake 4 Strogg universe. We are at least tossing around the possibilities of going back to the bizarre, mixed up Cthulhu-ish Quake 1 world and rebooting that direction.

"We think that would be a more interesting direction than doing more Strogg stuff after Quake 4.

"We certainly have strong factions internally that want to go do this.

"But we could do something pretty grand like that, that still tweaks the memory right in all of those ways, but is actually cohesive and plays with all of the strengths of the level we're at right now."

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-06-23-john-carmack-recounts-quake

I have to admit the idea of this rumples my pantaloons in the best possible way. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2TsUWTEeVk

pewpew! 

another one of the greats.