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Let's play a... game?
April 25th 2008, 02:36 CEST by bishop After spending several months not giving a damn, I finally got around to purchasing the orange box and I am now getting into playing Team Fortress 2 on a regular basis. This feels like a game that most of us have, and could probably get into organizing game nights around. So why not? Gabe's already going through the initial steps on server setup! Maybe it's a horrible idea doomed to failure (this topic sure seems like that!) but when was the last time all of us got together to play something? Enemy Territory? Bombing Run? And just think, there are no pants for me to steal! I've never made a topic before. I have no idea what I am doing. |
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Well, I've reached my battlefield murder quota for the evening, let's go to gabe's! |
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I do the same as McBain. Also, while everyone was treating Px like dirt, I called him a prince. |
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I also kept the faith. I know which side of the compound fence I want to be on when Peak Oil comes. |
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"Middle Eastern Ambient" LOLOL!!!! The sound of knees scootching across concrete while the theme from "Deliverance" is played via recorder and cobra. Where do I sign? |
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Playing as scout is fun, but switching from scout to anything else is a lot less. You go so sloooooow. Love is sneaking into their base as an engineer and setting up a dispenser, turret, and teleporter in their control room. And then catching their winning flag running group completely off guard and slaughtering them to the last man, while a scout zips in through the telly and ends up winning the game off of that capture. |
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Windows Media Player has built-in "find this song in a gigantic database, then rename and move the file to its proper folders and make the ID3 tags all correct" feature. I don't really care if you're using WMP, iTunes, Winamp or whatever to play your music, I just wanna point out that one hugely awesome feature in WMP. It's the one thing that has coherently sorted my entire music collection, I just do it album for album every so often. Oh, and yes, it also downloads album art. Teee-rrific "the accusations are such nonsense that I have found it difficult to treat them with the contempt that they deserve." - Clarke
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Also, gunpoint didn't mention how gabe had the best damn response to g-man's trolling (thanks crapsift, thanksgabe). Good times, that one. "the accusations are such nonsense that I have found it difficult to treat them with the contempt that they deserve." - Clarke
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Gaggle, iTunes does the same. There's really no reason to not use iTunes, Windows Media Player, or even Foobar (with the appropriate plugins). |
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Oh, wait, iTunes does that? With the database searching I mean? I only figured out that I could manually rename a song to its proper name and then use some rightclick option to get iTunes to download the album art. Which is good, but maybe my song collection tends to be a little more spastic than what iTunes expect, because often I won't even know which album the song is part of. I'd have to manually google for that, whereas WMP's search feature usually lists the appropriate songs (when its part of multiple albums) and I just click whichever cover-art I like the best and everything else is handled automagically. "the accusations are such nonsense that I have found it difficult to treat them with the contempt that they deserve." - Clarke
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How does iTunes handle folder and song names full of shit like {Singer} - [song_title_ripped_by_whoever]? "Action stars of two decades ago shot .44 bullets out of their cocks. Honestly, if me and Charles Bronson were in the same room I'd kill myself just to make sure he didn't hurt me."
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I misunderstood your post. No, iTunes doesn't automagically tag stuff for you. It does download album art, but for obscure/indie music it fails. I just retag my albums as I add them. Ten seconds of work for all the benefits of the smart playlists. |
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Format, with tags. If the tags are right, the filename can be whatever the hell it wants. |
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I prefer my musicapplication to rename my files for me, forcing consistency everywhere. But that's just my preference, I can see how not everyone cares about their exact filestructure. With iTunes its not like you ever have to deal with it, just drag and drop music onto the player and everything is automatic from there on out. Pretty clever system. As it looks now I'll miss WMP once I go Mac, though I assume I'll learn to appreciate its advantages over time. "the accusations are such nonsense that I have found it difficult to treat them with the contempt that they deserve." - Clarke
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It does rename/re-organize the folder structure. It just doesn't auto-fill tags. I'm sure there is an Applescript or freeware app to do it, though. |
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Ah. Okay, clever. I still have one little pedantic detail to complain/ask about, if you'll indulge me :). Did I do something wrong or does iTunes rename files without using the full name? Like if the song or album's full name is too long it cuts it off? Not that you'd notice from within iTunes, it shows all the proper names there, but my filestructure got pretty mangled. Or it could be a Windows iTunes thing I suppose. "the accusations are such nonsense that I have found it difficult to treat them with the contempt that they deserve." - Clarke
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I think mine sets the name as follows: Folder for artist, folder for album, actual mp3. The mp3 only has the track number and song title in it. It may truncate long file names, yes. |
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Yeah that's how WMP does it as well (minus the truncation) Don't Stay a Virgin - protect net neutrality and get laid. God bless the Interwebs. "the accusations are such nonsense that I have found it difficult to treat them with the contempt that they deserve." - Clarke
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I never forsake Ray. "Testiculos habet et bene pendentes" - "He has testicles, and they dangle nicely."
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I can't remember if I forsook him or not, but I stand by whatever I said, assuming I said anything. MP3 Of The Week: Elbow - The Fix.mp3 (?)
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There were a few snarky comments about me that I vanity-searched and found. No biggie. I still love this hive of scum and villainy. |
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Someone please point me to subs for the new Galactica episode, there's still nothing on Opensubtitles. I'd watch it now but my wife's English is not THAT great (she too loves the show)... "Action stars of two decades ago shot .44 bullets out of their cocks. Honestly, if me and Charles Bronson were in the same room I'd kill myself just to make sure he didn't hurt me."
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And I still mix up the apostrophe :( "Action stars of two decades ago shot .44 bullets out of their cocks. Honestly, if me and Charles Bronson were in the same room I'd kill myself just to make sure he didn't hurt me."
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Did I outright profess love for Ray or how did that work? I might've come on a little strong. "the accusations are such nonsense that I have found it difficult to treat them with the contempt that they deserve." - Clarke
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I got your I want to suck you off e-card. |
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Nope, not too strong at all then. Fan-tastic. "the accusations are such nonsense that I have found it difficult to treat them with the contempt that they deserve." - Clarke
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Haha. |
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Still working in games? |
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Actually, FoRMat was the only person who ripped Ray for being Ray. Everybody else just criticized the Vegan incident. Everybody Loves Ray. |
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I ain't got no tissue paper feelings. We're good. Even Format. Though he does annoy me a little in general. I imagine that annoyance goes both ways which led to the comments he made. No biggie. |
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So how's the wife, homie? I tried calling you, but I don't think the number I have for you is valid anymore. |
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And FoRMaT annoys everyone here as well, but I think he's finally accepted that and so now things are all good. |
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630 234 3380 Good, good. The wife's business is doing even better than mine. How're the family? Still working for the school district? |
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Yeah, in fact, on Thursday, I just received an Excellence in Education Award. I got a plaque and $500. Family's good, too. Son's still in college, and the 5 year old is doing great in Kindergarten. |
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That's great, dude. How about the video editing side dealie? |
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Going good. I'm right in the middle of a $5000 commission awards ceremony deal. It's all corporate now. I haven't done a wedding in over 2 years. |
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Awesome. Dealing with brides sounds like a nightmare anyhow. |
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Is that your actual phone number? G-Man, I need a profile! And, I am human and I need to be loved. Just like everybody else does. Ray, if you can forgive me my annoyingness and insults, I'm looking forward to a fresh start. (How cheesy did that sound?) "Action stars of two decades ago shot .44 bullets out of their cocks. Honestly, if me and Charles Bronson were in the same room I'd kill myself just to make sure he didn't hurt me."
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It's not even fresh start worthy. Like I said, no biggie. My number is all over my portfolio, so it's really no hardship to post it here. |
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:) "Action stars of two decades ago shot .44 bullets out of their cocks. Honestly, if me and Charles Bronson were in the same room I'd kill myself just to make sure he didn't hurt me."
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I love smart playlists. I have one that gives me all the music I've never listened too, one that has the 100 songs I've listened to the least and one that has my 5 star songs. I never have to mess around with my iPod to get stuff, I just plug it in and iTunes fills those playlists for me. I always have my favorite songs and the stuff I haven't heard for a while, so it's always a good variety. And I never hated Ray, just got a little sad about the Vegan incident. Remember back when we were complaining about PC and Macs communicating, and just complaining about networks in general? Well that Vista machine I absolutely could not see with either of my Macs just appeared on my network list on both Macs this morning, after I made zero changes to either computer or my network. Great for me, but wtf? |
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Your Mac just decided to lower its standards! |
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Maybe one of the machines downloaded an update. Is there such a thing as "Windows Update" on Macs? (And please don't say "they just work!") "Action stars of two decades ago shot .44 bullets out of their cocks. Honestly, if me and Charles Bronson were in the same room I'd kill myself just to make sure he didn't hurt me."
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At this point is it even worth it to suggest we try playing today / tonight or am I just going to spend all day on some random 24/7 ctf server? |
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Jeremy- I see the same thing with my MacBook and my Windows network. To force them to show, I mapped a share on the Mac at logon. |
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Cheesy: Hells yeah. Mo meta mo bettah! So I just got back from work (it's about noon here) trying to push this doubleclick upgrade live. Fucking balls our current hosting company sucks. They lost servers in their lab. Compaq Servers, the ones that will suddenly rave out on you when you use the findme function in the compaq administrator suite. Or even the old fashioned trick of telling the box to eject its CD and play a game of find the cupholder. I brought in portal and beat it from start to finish before they were able to find the fucking servers.Then at 8 am I get to write a tool to fix and update DSN entries on boxes, as we finish writing the doubleclick installer. Did I mention it took a month to install their product on our test lab, even flying out DC employees twice to assist us? They charge a million a year for an enterprise liscense, 250k for full support, and 20 grand to fly an employee of theirs up for consulting. They build their product on vc6 and java 1.3, which was the hot shit when I graduated high school. Xml was not a part of java in 1.3. This make making a website based on that technology very... interesting. Their WSDLs are non conformant in over 213 ways. Fucking brilliant. Unless the function returns a boolean they tell you nothing. If it does return a boolean, they helpfully add that a boolean can be true or false. Thanks. Ameteurs. Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
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Nice to see you back, Ray! And I never hated Ray, just got a little sad about the Vegan incident. Oh, I hate him, I hate him alot. but watching changes every fact
and your curves are best described by mathematical approximation anyway so I use fingertips to trace our play |
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Our new ad agency is a DoubleClick user. They gave me a login. Holy balls, what a clusterfuck of an app. Won't even open in Firefox or Opera, and trying to construct a query in IE crashes the app. LOSE. |
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I hate you too, mgns! Howdy! |
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And their query tree is only 3 layers deep. The inventory engine we are writing is unbounded and 20X faster. I can't wait for this code to go out the door. Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
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Ray! Good to see you back. So what's with switching logins halfway through your triumphant return? Witnesses in the house heard Jones say "why did you pee on me Pooh Bear?" A few moments later, the witness heard the son say "Mama you done stabbed me."
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