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GTA:IV-ever
April 28th 2008, 21:28 CEST by CheesyPoof Talk, play, bitch, whatever. The game is getting A+'s and 10/10 all over the place, including the tight wads at EuroGamer. We must also strike while the iron is hot to organize any PC play sessions, 360 only, sorry Bob. And doubly sorry to PC only gamers (sorry Dum). |
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Which original, Dark Forces? Or Jedi Knight: DKII? Both of those games were arguably revolutionary games important for their times, and I'll grant you JK2 didn't achieve that status, but was that your requirement for JK2? I just remember it as fun with all the sabering and force powers, it certainly gave me more than just throwing people off of ledges. Eh well, to each their own. "You can produce nuclear reactions directly through ultra high electric field initiated photodisintegration."
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All the Dark Forces/Jedi Knight games were fun. Game Developers: Don't forget the zombie monkeys.
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Desann. |
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Only Dark Forces was fun. "The best experiences are generative experiences. The best stories are player stories." - Will Wright
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I liked the original Dark Forces and I never played any of the sequels. |
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The Raven ones weren't too good. <Hugin_len> Basically, cheesy doesn't have awful taste in music, he's simply very white.
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The series got progressively worse with each sequel, but it's nearly impossible to appreciate the earlier games if you didn't play them at the time. That said, I miss playing JK2 multiplayer. And the huge levels of JK1. |
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JK1 was great. Only Star Wars game where I played the dark side path as well as the light side. Never finished JK2 though. It just didn't grab me. So I turned 30 today. I don't know how I should feel. Feels weird. The protruding upper halves of the letters now appear, in the local language, to read “Go stick your head in a pig”, and are no longer illuminated, except at times of special celebration.
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Don't worry too much, you're male, you get to act childish forever. Old isn't before 40 anyway ;-) "You can produce nuclear reactions directly through ultra high electric field initiated photodisintegration."
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Happy Birthday TreeFrog. I also turn 30 in a couple of days. Hooray for being middling! |
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Damn kids. Game Developers: Don't forget the zombie monkeys.
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I've now seen five superhero movies this year. What a great summer for comic book nerds around the world. Dark Knight>Iron Man>Hellboy II>Hulk>Hancock. |
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It actually works okay to have a Planetcrap web-clip dashboard widget. Hit a key to see the part of the page that displays new posts, and just click the yellow icon if it's there. Brilliant! "You can produce nuclear reactions directly through ultra high electric field initiated photodisintegration."
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#2517 by gaggle It actually works okay to have a Planetcrap web-clip dashboard widget. Hit a key to see the part of the page that displays new posts, and just click the yellow icon if it's there. Brilliant! Say what? |
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You know the web clip dashboard widget? I just used it to cut out a piece of the PC archive page. I'll take a screenshot when I'm back with it. Saves me from constantly visiting the site. "You can produce nuclear reactions directly through ultra high electric field initiated photodisintegration."
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Also, I meant to say "hit the dashboard key to see part of the blah blah blah". "You can produce nuclear reactions directly through ultra high electric field initiated photodisintegration."
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A screenshot. Of course it's not showing any posts because none of you are actually posting, yer bastards. Btw, how long is a Macbook Pro battery supposed to last? I've had this odd feeling that I've been plugging it in constantly, and sure enough now that I look at the estimated time remaining it says an hour and a half. And that's basically from a full charge?! Any hints on what I'm doing wrong? I've just disabled Bluetooth and dimmed the screen and keyboard backlight to minimum, so maybe that'll help a little. I guess I could shut down Airport as well but that's a tad extreme. I should be expecting more like four hours right? "You can produce nuclear reactions directly through ultra high electric field initiated photodisintegration."
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#2521 by gaggle Btw, how long is a Macbook Pro battery supposed to last? I've had this odd feeling that I've been plugging it in constantly, and sure enough now that I look at the estimated time remaining it says an hour and a half. And that's basically from a full charge?! On my macbook I run a program called "Coconut Battery" every now and again. It tells you how degraded your battery is from a full new fresh one. There's also a rather long process for "calibrating" your battery that I remember doing once. Won't make your battery last longer, but might make the reporting of how much longer it has more accurate: Calibration process |
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Yeah I did briefly come across the calibration thing. Hmm, maybe I need to do that. For whatever its worth Coconut Battery claims the battery is perfectly fine, 99% comparable to the original battery charge· "You can produce nuclear reactions directly through ultra high electric field initiated photodisintegration."
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Macbooks just use a lot of energy. |
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This from a random google on the subject: Using Apple's recommended settings of normal power usage, wireless turned on, and half screen brightness, I netted better than expected battery life in the exact same conditions. The test system lasted for 4 hours and 54 minutes, or about 4.9 hours, of average web browsing. So based on that I'll continue the search for more than an hour and a half worth of energy. "You can produce nuclear reactions directly through ultra high electric field initiated photodisintegration."
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If I'm surfing and reading email, my year-old MBP battery lasts about 3.5 hours. If I have Lightroom and iPhoto open, that goes down to 2. You're not supposed to leave it plugged in all the time, but it's kind of a pain to remember to unplug it after it's charged. |
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I did the recalibration thing during the night, left it charging all day, just unpluged the wire, and now it says.. 1:55. No, 1:44 now. Hmm, guess I'm going to the shop with this, bleh. "You can produce nuclear reactions directly through ultra high electric field initiated photodisintegration."
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How do ya'll use iPhoto? I find I have images that don't really fit the Events paradigm so easily. Out of my ten thousand images most of them are reference shots I've gotten off the Interwebs. Say a hundred images of planes. I can't just make them all a "Plane" event because some of them are of cockpits, ailerons, speed brakes or any number of other details. I'm used to a tagging system from Vista Gallery, it worked pretty well except it didn't place the files automatically. Can I get something similar out of iPhoto though? Or should I be looking into Aparature or something? "You can produce nuclear reactions directly through ultra high electric field initiated photodisintegration."
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Run parallels coherence and use Vista Gallery. |
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If you use keywords (tags) in iPhoto you can make folders based on those keywords. So you could tag a photo with cockpit and plane and the photos would be in both of those folders. It's like using smart playlists in iTunes if you've done that. |
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And it places al those photos automatically unlike Vista Gallery (which I think sucks). Iphoto does get a little unmanagable once you go over 10,000 photos, I'm at 13,000 and thinking of switching to Aperture or Lightroom (which I've been using for cropping touch-ups anyway). |
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Aperture is kind of overkill if you're just trying to manage pics that you've downloaded off the net. And sure, we all believe that they're pictures of planes. The question is, what's "aileron" a euphemism for in your twisted porn sorting system? |
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Well ailerons are flaps, right? MP3 Of The Week: as not sung by Camptown ladies.
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Oh right, image porn, what a quaint idea deadlock. Good one. jj that sounds awesome, I looked through Help and figured out how to add keywords. But can you explain your solution a bit slower? It feels like I'm missing something. You're saying I should add all the, in this case, planes as a single airplane event, and then add keywords to differentiate the subgroups? I don't quite have a solid grasp at events vs. keywords yet.. "You can produce nuclear reactions directly through ultra high electric field initiated photodisintegration."
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You're getting hung up on the term "events". Just think of "events" as "folders" and work from there. |
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First of all screw events. They're worthless and take up too much time, I haven't found them to be helpful at all. Just use keywords and smart folders. Create smart folders called "planes", "cockpits" "breasts" "ATM" etc. When creating the smart folder have it gather pictures by keyword. Then add keywords to each photo. One photo might have keywords of "cockpit" "plane" and "F-15". This photo would be gathered into three different smart folders for each of those keywords. You can add star ratings to the mix as well. Add a five star rating to your best reference pictures that goes to a "best folder". Add a single star to pictures that you haven't sorted yet so it goes to a folder for pictures you're still working on. Here's how I use it. I take a photo of my mother-in-law reading to my son. It's the greatest photo ever taken, and I probably want to post it on my site for everyone but Gabe to enjoy. So I tag it with the keywords "wyatt" "jolinn" "holbrook"(mother-in-laws last name) and "*****". Then it automatically goes into individual folders that use those keywords. Also if I'm looking for something more exact, I can create a smart folder that uses the keywords "wyatt" "jolinn" and "*****" That folder will give me only the photos that have both of those people, and are the photos I consider the very best. It makes things easy for my wife. She scrapbooks and she know that if she's looking for pictures of my daughter from age 4, she can just create a smart folder that has the keywords "sidney" and only includes photos from 2005. You can also make it specific by saying I only want pictures of "wings", and not pictures of "tails", then you only get the specific pictures of that one thing. It takes a while to get it up and running, but then as long as you keep it up to date it's pretty simple. It's one thing that's holding me back from transfering to Lightroom, last time I tried I couldn't get the keywords to transfer and I don't want to redo 13,00 photos. I'm typing this on a PC, so if something isn't right I apologize. I don't read PC at home on my Mac much, so if you need something more specific, email my name at gmail and I'll post something from home that's more in depth. |
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No no that's.. that's quite impressive help jj. Thanks a lot! I've started to tag my photos and just leaving them all under one big Reference event. "You can produce nuclear reactions directly through ultra high electric field initiated photodisintegration."
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I think my photos are automatically put into events based on the date they were taken, I guess that's good enough. I look at the events so little I can't remember if that's right. |
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Yeah that's whats happening to my regular photos as well. So you must end up with a shitload of keywords then? I love how easy it is to to tag images though, with the dynamic shortcuts thing. Feels very sweet. "You can produce nuclear reactions directly through ultra high electric field initiated photodisintegration."
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#2539 by gaggle Yeah that's whats happening to my regular photos as well. So you must end up with a shitload of keywords then? I love how easy it is to to tag images though, with the dynamic shortcuts thing. Feels very sweet. Well I only stick to the keywords I know I'll search for, so I have less than 20. Usually people's names or things like Vacation, Holiday or Fun (for my attempts at actual artistic stuff). |
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I ended up spending some time with Events, letting iPhoto auto-split things. And it did a surprisingly good job, I didn't even know but most of my (non-reference) images are properly dated via EXIF data so all kinds of interesting events emerged. Sweet. </rant> "You can produce nuclear reactions directly through ultra high electric field initiated photodisintegration."
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I once came across some codec-pack for Quicktime, so it'd play a bunch of useful formats. Like, right now I can't watch basic .avi files of the (I assume) divx variant or whatever. Can't seem to find it again though. Anyone got a suggestion? "You can produce nuclear reactions directly through ultra high electric field initiated photodisintegration."
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#2542 by gaggle I once came across some codec-pack for Quicktime, so it'd play a bunch of useful formats. Like, right now I can't watch basic .avi files of the (I assume) divx variant or whatever. Can't seem to find it again though. Anyone got a suggestion? You can use flip4mac to play WMV in quicktime. As for Divx/AVI's I'm not sure. I just use VLC for everything. |
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VLC is my app of choice on both my Mac and Vista machine. |
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#2544 by jjohnsen VLC is my app of choice on both my Mac and Vista machine. I remember those dark times before I had VLC, video codecs, audio de-muxers... What a boring shit nightmare. VLC is pretty great software. |
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I used VLC until GOM Player hit, and I had to switch because I liked it better. Plus if you're missing a codec, it gives you a link so you can install it. (I've only had to do this once or twice with GOM.) \"Making love to a woman is like working on an assembly line. No matter how good you are at it, you\'ll eventually be replaced by a foreigner or a machine.\"
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Okay, thanks, guess I'll go with VLC. From googling I came across Perian, which is probably the pack I found all those months ago. Dunno exactly what it is yet though, I might give it a chance as well. "You can produce nuclear reactions directly through ultra high electric field initiated photodisintegration."
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Heh. How do you, like, unrar stuff? Any specific good programs for that? I'm so delightfully lost in this Mac universe. "You can produce nuclear reactions directly through ultra high electric field initiated photodisintegration."
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There's a Unix command-line version of unrar; I'd be surprised if there isn't a build for the Mac. Fink is possibly a good place to start though I generally avoid anything that requires me to install Fink or DarwinPorts first. Or anything that doesn't run as a native CLI or Quartz app (i.e., anything that requires the X server in order to run). |
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Ew, yeah. It has to have an appealing website and behave like a proper osx application, otherwise what's the point? :) "You can produce nuclear reactions directly through ultra high electric field initiated photodisintegration."
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What about StuffIt? I remember that name from the Macs in my highschool's computer labs. "You can produce nuclear reactions directly through ultra high electric field initiated photodisintegration."
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It sucks. |
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Go on. "GUY WHO OUTRANKS YOU: Take Superfly here and reconfooble the energymotron."
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Balls. |
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