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Posted by Gold Prognosticus Oct 28 2012 13:51 GMT
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If I had to pay I would probably just stick with Windows 7, but my Uni has access to a whole bunch of free Microsoft stuff so I can get it for free if I choose to, so I've been putting more thought into it. What are your thoughts - do I bother, or do I stick with what I've got?

Linkshot
A Christian could go to hell for free, too.
Gold Prognosticus

Either way, installing it is going to have to wait until Microsoft decide to fix the bug I've been having on Dreamspark that consistently prevents me from redeeming the product. Never mind, it's working now.


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Posted by Gold Prognosticus Oct 12 2012 20:00 GMT
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I love how there are so many haters in the comments that think a 20% finished game should be absolutely flawless and that every game ever is supposed to have SUPAH DUPAH NEXT-GEN HD GRAPHIX.

Super-Claus
>notch
I expect bare bones multiplayer functionality
Gold Prognosticus
@Nas: Closest I can describe it is a first person FTL crossed with EVE Online plus a programmable onboard computer.
@Shadoo: This is the correct response to not liking the game, I can respect that.

Posted by Gold Prognosticus Oct 08 2012 20:11 GMT
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Super-Claus
how are the pokemon battles better animated in this than actual pokemon games?
Nastasia
yeah, that joke is in this game
probably the worst of peta's crimes

Posted by Gold Prognosticus Sep 30 2012 15:03 GMT
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Halo 4 plays quite nicely, Assassin's Creed 3 is very entertaining as well (actually got two single player levels instead of a multiplayer booth this year). Played a bunch of Indie games that were all interesting to try out, and played a round of Dust 514 - the gameplay itself is similar to other FPSes, but I'm interested how it'll link up to EVE Online (not that I can afford a subscription to either at present). Borderlands 2 and Dishonored queues were too long for me to get a shot in. Probably played a bunch of other stuff that I've forgotten about too.

Spent a couple of hours trialing the various games in the WiiU section (excluding ZombiU, which had an independent, 1hr 30min queue). The gamepad is far less clunky than I had expected, and the NintendoLand games (while my reaction upon the original announcement was of skepticism at the gimmicky-ness of it) are actually very entertaining to play, particularly the 4vs1 games. Entered a competition to win a WiiU, given that it took me over an hour to play the required 5 games for entry and that there were fewer NintendoLand demo pods than there were games the odds are slightly higher than a limitation-free raffle (not to say I have any chance of winning though :P).

No pictures, since I forgot to turn my phone off the previous night and I had to keep it off most of the time to save what little power it had left. Sam got a couple of pictures though, he may or may not upload them later. All in all, it was a very entertaining trip and I am most likely going to buy tickets for 2013 as well!

Super-Claus
neato. too bad Virginia got no games cons

Posted by Gold Prognosticus Jun 02 2010 18:03 GMT
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Enjoy.

Fallen Shade
Neato
Fallen Shade
I remember building the glass thing, but then of course it got griefed to death and never fixed

Posted by Gold Prognosticus Aug 31 2012 17:19 GMT
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Each of those circuits would be contained inside a 'block' which can then be linked up to other blocks through the fixed inputs and outputs to make more complex circuits.

Then take this system and set it inside a multiplayer environment in which all the players are building in the same area, and can link their blocks to one another. Would it be chaos? Would a coherent program emerge, built from the various ideas of players working either in tandem or independently?

This has been a gameplay experiment ramble, brought to you by Gold Prognosticus.

Super-Claus
sooo its like minecraft meets that one laser puzzle mechanic in metroid prime 3?
Gold Prognosticus
Close to it. If any of you have played the decades-old PC game Widget Workshop, the programs inside each block look kinda like that.
Posted by Gold Prognosticus Aug 10 2012 16:20 GMT
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Super-Claus
ummmm... when did you leave
Gold Prognosticus
I left at around 10-11am GMT last Friday.

Posted by Gold Prognosticus Aug 03 2012 08:44 GMT
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Going down to Dartmouth today, and I'll be back next Friday. I have my mobile with me so I might be able to lurk very occassionally, but don't expect to see me much until then. See you in a week!

Nastasia
have fun
(we wont miss you) we'll miss you so much (well ok only the assholes of the group wont miss you)
Super-Claus

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmDYXaaT9sA

Have fun visiting colleges


Posted by Gold Prognosticus Jul 27 2012 09:08 GMT
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Been a while since I touched this thing.

Viddd
ah the good ol' days
i wonder if i'm the only one who still remembers how to unlock franish
Fortran
I can't get passed the first boss :(

Posted by Gold Prognosticus Jul 20 2012 13:37 GMT
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Current totals stand at 12 dead and 50 admitted to hospital. Police have arrested a suspect and the FBI are climbing into his apartment through the window because he told them there were bombs inside.

Doopliss

I read somewhere that the sick bastard was dressed as Bane

MM
Icream scraping XBOX vitamin niggerette reviewers resin erected this thread from theddepsDICKS

Posted by Gold Prognosticus Jun 19 2012 12:45 GMT
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It's never really discussed in the mainstream media - exactly how do toxic nuclear power plants whose cores will stay radioactive for 25,000 years - actually get planning permission for construction??? After all, do YOU want a nuclear power station built in your backyard? The team at Feed Your Brain Magazine have been sifting through the planning applications of many of the United Kingdom's most toxic Nuclear Plants - and we discovered that most of them are built and given consent by Her MAJESTY QUEEN ELIZABETH! We have uncovered in our report that not only does the CROWN ESTATES supply the land for the nuclear plants, but there is a sophisticated ESCAPE PLAN ready to whisk the Royal Family off in case any of their Uranium-Nuclear investments turn into another Three Mile Island or Chernobyl...
Jets flown by pilots from BRIZE NORTON airfield standby 24-7 to shuttle the Royals out of the UK to safety. The pilots are deliberately told not to listen to the radio or watch television once a nuclear strike/accident has happened. All government employees - eg; doctors, nurses, policemen, firemen, etc., who are not employed in the armed services, are off the pay-roll the moment an 'Alpha Rated Nuclear Event' is declared in Britain.
Since 1974, the Royals’ Nuclear Escape Plan, has been known around the Palace as the 'Lucan Agenda’. Lord Lucan is a British aristocrat who was framed for murdering a woman in his London home. Lord Lucan fled to Botswana. His whereabouts have been known to the police for many many years - but because he has ‘secrets’ about a COUP which was planned in the 1970s - which would have made the Duke of Edinburgh the ‘President’ of the United Kingdom and dissolve Harold Wilson’s parliament - Her Majesty’s metropolitan police have been told to leave Lord Lucan in his hideaway. Lord Lucan's reputation as a brilliant escape artist has thus inspired the name for the Lucan Agenda escape plan...

It's no secret that Queen Elizabeth makes millions from her shares in the Uranium Yellow Cake mining and purification business fronted by RTZ and Bank of England Nominees Ltd. We investigated the Royal investment portfolio, and found that not only Her Majesty, but also members of the Swedish Royal Family have long-standing investments in the nuclear industry...
In fact, there is historical evidence from the great novella epics of the Indian sub-continent that ancient Kings & QUeens possessed Nuclear Weapons. In the Libyan desert, hundreds of acres of sand have been cooked under immense heat into glass, and in the Sudan, the entire tops of mountains have been blasted off, leaving black soot over a huge area. Clearly, the super-wealthy elite have always had an interest in vast destructive forces... And in today's world, the leading nvestors in nuclear technologies are the Swedish Royal family and the British Royal Family...
Her Majesty’s CROWN ESTATES actually own 55% of the foreshore of the UNITED KINGDOM - this is where you will find most of the British NUCLEAR FACILITIES. Reactors are located next to Seas and Lakes (such as the newly proposed EDF reactors which will be built in the Lake District) because billions of gallons of water are needed to be pumped around the radioactive core - this water is turned into steam - the steam drives turbine-dynamos and is then released into the environment via cooling towers. A small amount of latent radioactivity is released in this steam from all reactor buildings which have been standing for more than 5 years. A HEAD OF STATE who had COMPASSION for their subjects - compassion for the PEOPLE - would NEVER EVER allow the environment to be polluted in this manner...
Uranium ore itself is a source of income for the RTZ conglomerate whose most high profile shareholder is Her Majesty the Queen. Secondly, the uranium enrichment process is also a profitable business, where nuclear reactor owners (usually nation state governments) pay to have the ore purified in centrifugal apparatus. Thirdly, electricity (though not as much electricity as one is told by the media) is produced in the reactors and sold onto the national grids of countries. Fourthly, the resulting plutonium and enriched uranium are loaded into cruise missiles and warheads which are sold on the international arms market - it is not unusual for the price tag of a single cruise missile to exceed $1.2million dollars. And then the fifth - and as yet - unrealised profit centre in this toxic and dangerous nuclear industry - is the transmutation of spent fuel rods and other metallic nuclear waste being converted into gigantic stocks of precious metals... Though this final stage has not yet so far paid any dividends - and at the nuclear plants on British beaches there are dozens of swimming pools stacked full of nuclear waste awaiting this final phase of 'atomic alchemy'. This waste dates back to the 1950s and the gamma rays are gradually making some of these pools crack.
Radiation contamination is extraordinarily difficult and expensive to control and is unacceptable to all parties - the toxic properties of radioactive ore were known to people in the ancient world. In modern times, the United States, has permanently contaminated the Middle East and parts of the Balkans in Eastern Europe with thousands of tons of depleted uranium munitions which use Uranium 238 as well as plutonium and enriched uranium 234, 235, 236, and 238.
WELCOME TO SCOTLAND... Each building at Dounreay & Sellafield and all the other facilities built on the CROWN ESTATES Foreshore of the UK will take at least ten years to demolish using hideously expensive robotic equipment. The taxpayer will be made to pay hundreds of billions for "making safe" the Sellafield site. I visited and took the pubblic tour (my name is Chris Everard) and the PR people actually admit that 50% of the buildings in the old Sellafield/Windscale site are now classed as 'RadioActive Waste'!!! The hundreds of billions of pounds going straight into nuclear bosses’ pockets could have been used to develop safe-power-systems after Three Mile island, Fukushima & Chernobyl PROVED that the RISK of Nuclear Power is NOT WORTH IT. A sign on the beach at Dounreay says “Radioactive Particles Are Being Found on the Beach”.
The Evil Genie is out of the bottle and he's not going back in. Radioactive pollution knows no bounds. It is carried in the air and the water. We eat it, drink it, and breathe it. Bribed government ministers and crooks in the House of Lords are following a plan proscribed by the Royal Elite - they are blindly supporting a devilish and nihilistic agenda - first committing financial suicide by leaving future generations with a TOXIC MOUNTAIN of waste - and potentially risking all life on earth - and secondly, they are funding dangerous particle-accelerator experiments in a quest to transmute nuclear waste into platinum group metals...
No compassionate monarch would have ever done this - no morally good person would have ever inflicted blood cancer on the beachfront communities of Sellafield - but Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth has no respect for the People - and provably has no compassion for the environment. You can read my full report (send me a friend request if you like - facebook.com/
ChristopherEverard) - FEED YOUR BRAIN MAGAZINE refuses all big business corporate advertising and our investigations are funded by our readers' subscriptions - which gives us the kind of editorial freedom which the BBC just simply does not have... After all, did YOU really know that the Nuclear Wastelands on British beaches were on soil owned by the CROWN ESTATES...? You can get a free copy of FEED YOUR BRAIN MAGAZINE by visiting The Enigma Channel at http://www.EnigmaTV.com/

Super-Claus
Good thing Virginia takes pride into a lot of it's land and will do anything possible to preserve it and the people in it. Hell just look at the Chesapeak Bay, nearly destroyed by hundreds of years of settlers not caring, but then within the past three decades we've cleaned up nearly half of the entire thing AND put a ton of restrictions on the types of fuel that can be used in it, what can be dumped there, hours of trash clean up, et cetera.
Fallen Shade
h

Posted by Gold Prognosticus Jun 19 2012 18:55 GMT
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  1. Are there any games a enough of us play regularly to warrant a 24/7 server?
  2. Is it worth purchasing a dedicated server running said game/s for this community?
  3. If a dedicated server was set up, would people be willing to donate to support the server or would the owner be paying for all of it (I have some money but it won't last for ever, and I'd only pay while there is a consistant demand for the server)?
Ph1r3 App Inventor for Android's visual block language
i don't think so
probably not
definitely no
Fallen Shade
h

Posted by Gold Prognosticus May 25 2012 20:07 GMT
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IP is 70.186.194.171, port is 7777.

Gold Prognosticus
Down for tonight, it'll be back up tomorrow (possibly slightly earlier).
Slim
rip

Posted by Gold Prognosticus Jun 08 2012 16:05 GMT
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The address is pipistrellus.dynalias.net, same schedule as the Terraria server applies.

Gold Prognosticus
Down because my computer sucks and apparently can't handle a server and a client at the same time.

Posted by Gold Prognosticus Jun 05 2012 17:13 GMT
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Is the removal of the cbox permanent or just for E3?

Francis
I made a last minute change, probably broke something. cbox is back.

Posted by Gold Prognosticus May 25 2012 18:22 GMT
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AKA how fast can we make Gold's computer overheat edition.

The address is 93.96.201.18. Have fun.

Gold Prognosticus
Running through Hamachi now, ID is Digibutter Minecraft, password is nerr.
Gold Prognosticus
Disregard, will try again tomorrow.

Posted by Gold Prognosticus May 25 2012 15:56 GMT
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Assuming anyone here still plays Minecraft.

Nastasia
well there is a new version of creative you know
but i'd prefer survival anyway
Doopliss

But you spawn next to a guide, who exists for the sole purpose of telling you what to do

If anyone wanted to start playing it again I'd be happy to make a server


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Posted by Gold Prognosticus May 18 2012 19:03 GMT
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Fallen Shade
Americans are actually like this too
Fallen Shade
Americans do that as well

Posted by Gold Prognosticus May 17 2012 19:07 GMT
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*inb4gphasaterribletasteinfilms*

Nastasia
generic obsessive crossover movie poster/wishing REALLY hard fanfic type of thing
seen it
surprised they didnt' tie in supernatural somehow

Posted by Gold Prognosticus May 16 2012 14:24 GMT
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Linkshot
Thank you for letting me know how adults talk in the real world, Herald!
Nastasia
yawn

Posted by Gold Prognosticus May 07 2012 10:54 GMT
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No idea of the cause.


Posted by Gold Prognosticus May 01 2012 19:52 GMT
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Is there some kind of point being made by this? Feels like the creator misunderstands the purpose of Captchas somewhat.

Fallen Shade
lol /b/
Fortran
I put in "ponies" for obvious reasons. Also this is old as shit.

Posted by Gold Prognosticus May 01 2012 15:21 GMT
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Ah well, I prefer Demonoid anyway.

Fortran
Hahaha oh wow. UK is the daycare of countries.
Super-Claus

Shadoo, it's a European government, they're stupider than American governments when it comes to dealing with new technology and issues in ways that don't involve their 20th century ideals.


Posted by Gold Prognosticus Apr 29 2012 21:54 GMT
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Super-Claus
Oh god it's the donkey kong 3D cartoon all over again
Fallen Shade
Thats alot of chomp puns

Posted by Gold Prognosticus Apr 27 2012 14:33 GMT
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Super-Claus
shit man I gotta get out of this country
Manpersonguything
fuk the police man
govermnet trying to opres us man
shit son they hindin chemicals and shit
something about weed
I'm so cool

Posted by Gold Prognosticus Apr 27 2012 15:35 GMT
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Fallen Shade
A beautiful instance of anti-climax
Super-Claus
yeah wait what was that

Posted by Gold Prognosticus Apr 24 2012 17:12 GMT
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This is either the second or third time this has happened now.

Fortran
Send them pictures of Mike Dawson in protest.
Super-Claus
my school blocks anything more than 100 students log into
sharepoint(the student file database) gets blocked on a daily basis. The city is too lazy to fix it. Instead they took $40,000 of the school systems money and built an animal shelter and a rec center, and due to budget cuts we had to get rid of the varsity team and the eco student association ironically.

Posted by Gold Prognosticus Mar 25 2012 14:51 GMT
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Lots of free stuff today.

Super-Claus
have fun
Slim
cow

Posted by Gold Prognosticus Mar 03 2012 17:01 GMT
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RIP :(


Posted by Gold Prognosticus Mar 01 2012 20:52 GMT
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I get the feeling a lot of people are going to be unhappy about this.

Fortran
This is what you get for using domain names instead of using god-tier IP addresses.