sgtcrispy

Congrats, man... Five laps ahead of me and still running proud. Just be sure not to sidestrafe when running those laps - we run fast enough as it is when it comes to reaching that final destination.

It's 2 in the morning and I probably should be asleep, but screw it: have a speedmap. Happy birthday dude. :)

Obsidian said:

It's 2 in the morning and I probably should be asleep, but screw it: have a speedmap. Happy birthday dude. :)

Yay! \^_^/
Tough little map, I love it!

EDIT: I just noticed you used my avatar as the exit flat, hehe kick ass!

I'm happy with that actually. So my mind just envisions a few stationary player gun turret and aiming the turret at things. I see the crosshairs now. This could work.

Are there points? I think a game like this needs points and a time. You completed the stage / wave in 30 seconds can you beat your time? Even Doom had percentage :-)

I'll give this a whirl when it becomes available.

geo said:

Are there points? I think a game like this needs points and a time. You completed the stage / wave in 30 seconds can you beat your time? Even Doom had percentage :-)

Currently there is a wave progression type mode and an endless mode among the three stages and you will be able to choose between the fixed and moving "cannon".
Points and achievements as well.
There would have been four stages but in the sake of hoping for a release before halloween, it's at three. Future updates will bring more stuff in of course.

Now the Plants are zombies too? I can't even begin to fully realize the horror.

I'm sorry for your loss. :(

AndrewB said:

Based on what you wrote, you're obscenely overcharging for this.

It's on the Apple store. If anything, he's obscenely undercharging for this, and robbing the customers from their true money-spending experience.

Rename it iDuckRush and treble the price, so that it is more worthy of being an app for an Apple platform.

An android version won't be possible since I lack an android phone. Hell, I don't even have an iphone for that matter. $10 Trac-phone for the win!
Just a 3rd and 4th gen ipod touch and an ipad 1.

It was originally made in about week with Stencyl, which says leaps about ones coding skills. But you have to start again somewhere. Doesn't matter anyway, I've jumped off the ship and swam over to gamemaker and learning real languages as well.

As far as putting on Cydia or whatever there is now, no thanks. For me anyway jailbreaking offers me nothing I want or need. For that matter neither does having a android or iphone either. Just more bills and headaches I'd rather not deal with.

This was a testing of the app store process more than anything, so I'm not worried about what platforms it is on. Besides, why not?

And yes if you want your stuff to be on and stay on the app store it's $100 a year.
Unless there is some magical way that I've never heard of. :P

If you want to give to a free look see anyway here's a few promo codes.

FJTEYAE4K7F7
P3A6RTAWHNAF
4KHTFTYRNTHF

Looks cool, I think my kid will like this.

OK, so I just ponied up the ¥85 to DL it. Is there any chance you can do an update with a "kid mode"? Where everything is really slow?

Obsidian said:

Hehe, get an admin to put the Post Hell theme on the forum. X-D

I second this. But you know, only for the day.

Obsidian said:

Hehe, get an admin to put the Post Hell theme on the forum. X-D

ONLY IF THEY BRING BACK PICARD AND NOT USE THIS ICE CREAM SONG!

that cake...

Oh it's not a bad thing so don't get me wrong.

I'm just still processing/numb/whatever this information.

I just got a new niece a few weeks ago. It's not really a big deal. It's fun during the cute years.

DoomUK said:

Do you have any siblings or half-siblings? That might narrow down the search a little.

Obviously I looked through my sister and my cousins.

Can't find them in my collection, maybe Grazza will have better luck.

Okey dokey...

I was looking for someone at a camp (Fandango!!!!) and wandered into the bar they had set up and kinda crashed there for a hour or so. When one of the bartenders was at the bar, I asked if so-and-so had arrived yet, he didn't know so I got a drink and chilled for a bit while he continued talking to another patron.

I can't remember the conversation that had drawn me over to them but we started chatting about what they did and the bartender (Matt) mentioned he had worked in the games industry for a bit and then the person he was talking too said he was in the industry. We asked what he had worked on and he said "doom and quake"

Ok, so now my eyes grew wide as tires and then I asked his name and had to turn around and take a breath to avoid hyperventilating. I tried my best not to go all fanboy on him.

I won't repeat the story he told about Trent and John, but it involved a party and beautiful woman.

He did say he was working a new version of Karateka, and talked about some of the things were were doing with it and it sounded damn cool.

Then a stable tightly packed dust devil formed outside the camp and Matt and Dave giddily ran out to stand inside in arms waving like kids. I never saw him again, but I assume he used his super powers to ride the cyclone off to another part of the playa.

Now if I had only taken a picture with him.... ARAARGH!!!!

Matt did take a couple pictures which might pop up sooner or later.

Very interesting and laid back guy.

Also by good year I meant it was a good burn. my bad.

Deathbringer said:
Isn't that like some cod-religious rave where they burn a big wicker man as a vaguely "pagan" guesture "because that right thurs mah dang cult-yoo-ral HYURR-tage y'all" while stoned and all jabber about how it was "intense, man"?[/B]

p_p

Danarchy said:

It used to be such. Now it's just a very commercialized version of that, if you can believe the ramblings you hear on the internet.

Not even close...

deathbringer said:

they burn a big wicker man

Wait wait wait... let me PM you something about ipod. It has anti theft.

geo said:

Wait wait wait... let me PM you something about ipod. It has anti theft.

Thanks man! :)

Hey any time, hope I helped in some way. The community helps me :-)

That's how your mom like to grip it.

sgtcrispy said:

human cloning isn't NEAR. it's already HERE.

It's been around forever.

heh

/me mumbles to himself "Flickr account dingus..."

Here's some pics of the setup.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/7147893@N04/4098912391/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/7147893@N04/4098913323/

hehe I just realized my ipod was in the shots too...

/me cries

I have a semi-similar setup, except I use a computer monitor as my television in that I have all of my major game consoles hooked up to it. I've got a 21" Samsung SyncMaster with both VGA and DVI inputs on it.

For the most part it's a pretty pain-free setup. My 360 is hooked up using the official VGA cable Microsoft has been ever so kind to supply, and my PS3 and computer hooked up via DVI. The PS3 was a tad bit complicated to get working, as I had to ghetto-rig a custom setup as Sony is too lame to supply a VGA/DVI cable for the damn system. I use a DVI-HDMI converter for the video, and then I have to keep the standard composite audio/video cable hooked up to the PS3 solely for sound, which I then route to the audio-in jack on my computer (so I can have my speakers work with my PC and PS3 at the same time without having to switch cables or anything) using a RCA-3.5mm converter. Works great, as my monitor displays 1080p just fine.

On a semi-related note, the PS3 kicks some major ass for a media center setup. The ability to actually copy music and video over from a network computer (something I had hoped for but was lacking in the 360) is totally awesome. I've never found streaming to be particularly good on either console (always get lag and random dropouts in playback), so it's awesome that the PS3 allows you to copy media directly to the playstation. My only problem is the relatively cumbersome way of actually organizing stuff once you've copied it over. Other than that, it's pretty great.

I have tried to do that, but with a PS2.

My 24" SyncMaster has VGA, DVI and HDMI inputs. The idea being that I can use my PC on the DVI, and my PS2 on the VGA via an RCA-to-VGA converter box I'd previously been using when I had two 17" LCDs. However something about the VGA signaling doesn't agree with this monitor, so anything going thru the converter box ends up skipping and unwatchable. Fail.

I guess if I ever bought a Wii/360/PS3 I could use the HDMI input, as I have an old-school standard def CRT TV hooked up to an XBMC-Box for watching TV shows, and no desire to upgrade TV.

One of the dudes at work has a PS3 and PSP. He rates highly the fact that you can stream media from the PS3 to the portable, even when away from home, as long as you have wifi.

For me, when something as open and simple as XBMC comes along, I'll have a reason to buy some new hardware. The poor little XBox finds it hard to keep up with modern HD formats. I think my best option at the moment is an LCD TV with DVI-in, a Mac Mini with Windows and XBMC on it and a USB remote control.

They come in 11.6" and 1366x768 versions now.

I honestly don't know too much about netbooks, but I thought the whole appeal was with the 3G stuff. How easy is it to get a normal laptop to connect to it? Is it as easy as just putting in a card?

Plus, having a little computer to troll forums with on the run sounds cool to me.

DuckReconMajor said:

I honestly don't know too much about netbooks, but I thought the whole appeal was with the 3G stuff. How easy is it to get a normal laptop to connect to it? Is it as easy as just putting in a card?

Some netbooks have a spot for a simcard, other laptops and PCs will accept a USB dongle which holds a simcard and has a 3G radio modem in it. Often these days, the USB 3G modem has a storage component (like a USB thumb drive) which stores some Windows software to get it working. The software may also come on a CD. Either way, your provider gives you an application in which you click "Connect" and you're on.

I configure these things in routers for a job, so I could waffle about technical specs but that's essentially it. Plug in USB, install software, click Connect. Instant internets anywhere.

myk said:

To think that my keyboard is 20...

Is it one of those heavy as shit IBM keyboards? Those were pretty bitchin', even though they were kinda loud.


I'm gonna be 20 this June.

Kyka said:

On the other hand, I did find this. It has nothing to do with birthdays whatsoever, but I did find it during the birthday search I just undertook, so it will just have to do.

they're sweet

I should play through MM2 sometime. I've played through about half of it, but I can't remember most of the levels and I often get it confused with the first MM.

IIRC, one of them was really not very good at all and the other one I remember enjoying. I don't think I've played them since around the time the wad came out, though. I should give them a run through some time over winter break.

It seems to have stopped choking and hacking for the moment. All good. :)

Hmm, what's this image restoration option do....

OMG, it's all clear and crisp(y) again.

I've had this thing for how long and didn't even notice that option???

Use3D said:
the phosphorus layer in my crt has been slowly burning out for a couple years now. doomworld is completely black and games like doom3 are pretty much unplayable even though gamma is maxed out. I even had to download the adobe gamma manager cause my nvidia panel can't go up anymore without washing out everything. I'll be retiring it soon.

I've been there, and back then I didn't even have a means of brightening it through the graphics card. At best what I could do was use a hacked COLORMAP to make DOOM more or less playable (outside engines that allow very high gamma settings). Eventually it also started getting blurry, which was intolerable.

I have one dead subpixel(red one) in my LCD. I tried fixing it, but it's totally dead.

Mmmm...nectarine...

What an idiot.

Mancubus II said:

Indeed. If you're going to run something serious, you best damn well keep backups, otherwise the whole "service" just seems like one gigantic joke.

I too am not sure what this actually was nor have I heard of it until now.

Yeah a bit of "dur..." of them not to have some back ups. Oh well I guess.

Oh and it's just the best old school amiga, c64, demo music streaming site out there. imho.

Duh. :)

Salvia is a helluva drug?

Danarchy said:

Salvia is a helluva drug?

Yes it is. But not there, you wouldn't need it.

Danarchy said:

Spoken like a true AA member.

But I don't drink! :)

Don't forget a berserk pack. Comes in handy.

Shouldn't this be on the 5th of May?

Years before Red Bull got involved with this, there was footage from one on Blue Peter (Brit general interest/news/hobbies kids show thats been going for decades). The winning team's contraption was basically just a hang-glider, which i thought was cheating surely... but i suppose if they built it themselves it'd count. Then you get the endless "joke" teams that are never going to win anyway, like a drag queen in a pram flapping some 'fans' out each side which drops like a stone (then again going on the brain power of the average drag queen they probably did expect such a method to result in flight)

Bucket said:
Plus it's so goddamn slow, and I want my RAM back.

Besides it's less stable and breaks compatibility with many existing add-ons (such as programs and codecs). The former evidently because it's new, the latter, partly because it's different and partly because it's designed to disallow programs from functioning (where it's quick to link you to a page where you can buy recommended programs, if some desired function isn't working).

myk said:

Besides it's less stable and breaks compatibility with many existing add-ons (such as programs and codecs). The former evidently because it's new, the latter, partly because it's different and partly because it's designed to disallow programs from functioning (where it's quick to link you to a page where you can buy recommended programs, if some desired function isn't working).

Main issues I have with it:

*Doesn't remember network passwords, despite clicking 'Remember my password'.
*The volume control now only shows the app using the sound - no 'Wave', 'Synth', 'CD'. A complete bastard when using 5.1 speakers and you need to change specific speaker levels.
*No support for windows help files:

The bastards hijacked the help api, so taking winhlp32 from XP and associating with hlp files doesn't work.
*Poor UI design, with everything assuming I'm a dumbass and need giant wizards/dialogs.

Urgh. The list could go on and on. I would use Ubuntu, but like XP, it lacks drivers for sound/video.

Planky said:

it lacks drivers for crappy sound and crappy video.

fixed

I'll get back to this in 25 years when I've gotten tired of the 10 or so pre-2000 games I currently play.

Fredrik said:
I'll get back to this in 25 years when I've gotten tired of the 10 or so pre-2000 games I currently play.

Cool, let me know what you think about it, if it's good enough that you play it for ten years at least, and it's still worth it then; I think I'll think about trying it, perhaps if I've retired, and if browsing porn doesn't do it for me anymore.

Damn, and I just bought an Atari 2600!

Speaking of that, I wonder if they'll port Atari classics to the XBOX360.

I had the bad experience of spicy sushi. NEVER AGAIN.

Sushi stinks.

Every time you eat sushi you support the Unification Church you fucking bunch of Moonies