May 08, 2008
daily UTC chat log for Anywherebb (Postline 6.1.30)

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19:06, Lightning4> Nope, have had zero luck running it on Vista at all. I can't even run NICE on vista.
19:08, Lightning4> Rather ironic actually. Nice on Win98 complains about too little conventional memory. XP is just right. But Vista... it goes back to the lack of conventional memory error!
19:52, Megagun> WNICE should run perfectly though :P
21:08, Cryoburner> Yes, 'perfectly' as in crashing every 15 minutes. :P
21:11, Cryoburner whispers: Hey, where did Megagun go? :\
22:17, Deanfrz> Away from his crappy product?
22:17, Deanfrz> $jk jk
00:41, Tacogeddon hath arrived!
01:22, Cryoburner> FAIL!
02:44, Deanfrz> Where, I certainly dont see him. He must have risen unto heaven or something.
02:47, Deanfrz> excuse me, somewhere
02:54, Tacogeddon> Oh really now? :P
03:15, Tacogeddon> http://www.eurogamer.net/tv_video.php?playlist_id=8735&size=large Looks like quite a lot of fun!
03:29, Cryoburner> Looks cool. I like the dream-like colors.
03:30, Cryoburner> I thought it was a freerunning game until near the end.
03:31, Zjc92> Well, it's still largely based on Parkour.
03:31, Zjc92> It's also another great reason for me to buy a 360. :P
03:34, Zjc92> Woah, Doom 4 too. :o
03:36, Cryoburner> It will be on the PC and PS3 too.
03:37, Zjc92> Yeah, but I still have trouble running Doom 3 on my PC.
03:39, Raptorjedi> The camera is a bit disorienting at first. The way it moves around is realistic and all, but this might turn out to be one of those times where too much realism is a bad thing.
03:39, Cryoburner> At least you can see your feet. :P
03:41, Zjc92> If nothing else, the concept is revlutionary.
03:42, Cryoburner> Is that like Teh Revlutionary Wor?
03:42, Raptorjedi> It does look nice, but the bobbing and all that might make some people have motion sickness :P
03:42, Zjc92> YES.
03:43, Zjc92> Those are the people that bitched about Cloverfield. :P
03:43, Raptorjedi> And I'm sure that like me, most people don't want vomit on their Xbox.
03:43, Tacogeddon> Motion Sickness is just another layer of depth! :P
03:43, Zjc92> That's how I felt about Cloverfield, actually. xD
03:44, Raptorjedi> So, GTA IV has made Rockstar $500 million so far.
03:44, Zjc92> YOU VOMIT, AND IT'S THAT MUCH MORE IMMERSIVE.
03:45, Zjc92> You people need to shut about about your 360's and GTA IV.
03:46, Zjc92 meant: shut up
03:46, Raptorjedi> It's also the #1 played game on the Xbox 360. And on the first day there were 2 million GTA IV achievements unlocked by Xbox players.
03:46, Zjc92> Shit.
03:47, Cryoburner waits until the better version is released for the PC. :P
03:47, Cryoburner whispers: I bet it will have totally awesome DRM once EA buys Rockstar.
03:47, Zjc92> I will NEVER be able to run that. :P
03:48, Tacogeddon> Assuming you can run it with the snazzy graphics. :P
03:48, Zjc92> HAW! I BEAT JOO.
03:48, Tacogeddon> Yeah, but I said SNAZZY.
03:48, Zjc92> PFFFFT.
03:48, Cryoburner> Wait 5 years, buy the lowest end computer you can find, and you'll be able to run it just fine.
03:49, Zjc92> Oh yeah, THAT'S a good idea. :P
03:49, Zjc92> You'd never be able to find a copy of GTA IV by then. :P
03:49, Cryoburner> Preorder now!
03:50, Raptorjedi> Or I could just buy it for the 360 now and have a better experience :P
03:50, Cryoburner> How wouldn't you be able to find it? GTA:SA is $10 in jewel case packaging now.
03:51, Zjc92> But it's not 5 years old, is it?
03:51, Cryoburner> You can find pretty much any game available for sale online.
03:51, Zjc92> You could always find it used or something, I guess, but still.
03:52, Zjc92> Anyway, I'mma play GTA:SA.
03:53, Cryoburner> You can even find new copies of most games from the 90s pretty easily.
03:54, Cryoburner> I never did get around to unlocking Los Venturas yet. :P
03:57, Cryoburner> The story in GTA:SA could stand to be better.
03:58, Raptorjedi> I'm hoping that GTA IV will be the first GTA game I'll actually finish. I didn't play much of 3. I got about 75% of Vice City done, and about half of GTA:SA before I stopped.
04:00, Cryoburner> I don't really find the protagonist very likeable. Niko Bellic looks to be an improvement though.
04:00, Raptorjedi> I find myself liking Niko.
04:05, Cryoburner> One thing graphically missing in that Mirror's Edge video is proper reflections in the windows.
04:06, Cryoburner> I noticed that the very first time watching it. I think it's more noticeable since you can see your body.
04:10, Cryoburner> Also, the gun's trajectory looks like she'd be almost shooting through her leg. :)
04:18, Cryoburner> The mech combat does remind me a lot of Shogo. http://www.eurogamer.net/tv_video.php?playlist_id=8678
04:19, Deanfrz> Well, its like the Sims to me.
04:25, Cryoburner> Yeah, the mechs in The Sims were awesome.
08:16, Duskesko> gosh I love weebl http://cgi.4chan.org/f/src/A%2BWalk%2BIn%2BThe%2BWoods.swf
08:24, Cryoburner whispers: At least you provided a warning of what it was, so I don't inadvertently click the link. :)
08:28, Raptorjedi> The fact that it links to 4chan should probably be a good enough warning :P
08:35, Duskesko> its weebl... here i'll find it on the weebl and bob site and link to it there
08:35, Duskesko> http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/A+Walk+In+The+Woods/ there
08:52, Zjc92> Still pretty gross, though. :P
08:54, Starchaser> thats compleatly insane...
08:54, Starchaser> yet funni
08:58, Cryoburner> I'm still not clicking that link, because I'm awesome.
08:58, Duskesko> You're boring.
08:59, Cryoburner> No, I'm totally tubular.
09:05, Zjc92> That's rad, dude.
09:21, Raptorjedi hates Weebl and Bob.
09:23, Zjc92> It's ok.
09:24, Zjc92> On the bright side, I got a whole 'nother page done on the wargame project I'm working on. :D
09:27, Zjc92> Whatever I have done so far is in the Member's Projects section.
09:42, Zjc92> So everybody read it or I'll be sad that I wasted all my effort. :P
13:55, Ovatius> I need help
13:55, Ovatius> Anybody made Noctis work in Vista?
13:58, Buuks> Dual boot with XP
13:59, Ovatius> Ouch. Anything less troublesome to get done?
14:00, Buuks> Buy a new computer with XP
14:00, Buuks> At the moment there is no good solution to make Noctis work under Vista
14:01, Buuks> I tried myself, but I couldn't get the game going
14:03, Ovatius> Hm. found a guy on the forum who managed to get it working.
14:37, Zjc92> I'm with Buuks. Don't use Vista in the first place. :P
16:18, Kalliope> At least they still sell XP, last I checked...on the other hand, that check was a couple of months ago. Eep.
16:42, Megagun> 03:15, Tacogeddon> http://www.eurogamer.net/tv_video.php?playlist_id=8735&size=large Looks like quite a lot of fun!
16:42, Megagun> Looks neat. Not sure how fun it'll be, though, but it looks neat. :)
16:43, Megagun> I like the saturation of it. The vivid colours
16:43, Stargazer> From what I have heard, XP will no longer be supported or produced for anything but cheap budget machines after the 30th of June.
16:44, Megagun> 04:05, Cryoburner> One thing graphically missing in that Mirror's Edge video is proper reflections in the windows.
16:44, Megagun> Yeah, immediately noticed that, too... It's creepy... :P
16:46, Megagun> Not as creepy as Deus Ex's mirrors though... :P
16:50, Stargazer> Mirrors Edge looks fun on the paper, but I wonder how it will play. I still remember the sad disaster that was Trespasser, attempting to realsiticly simulate a human hand in an FPS game.
16:50, Stargazer meant: realisticly
16:52, Megagun> Yeah, well, but how many times can you actually see the playercharacter body?
16:52, Megagun> I'm not sure about recent games, but I personally think it'd be great to see wounds on yourself and base your 'HP' on that..
16:54, Stargazer remembers looking down on his breasts in Trespeasser to determine his health. That didn't work well. :P
16:57, Stargazer whispers: who the hell thought of that anyway? Looking down on the breats of the main protagonist after every fight in the game? What were they thinking?
16:58, Stargazer meant: breasts
16:59, Megagun> Well, who knows, Maybe Mirrors Edge isn't completely geared towards realism? I don't know!
16:59, Cryoburner> Well, I think they're handing it quite a bit differently than Tresspasser. :)
17:00, Cryoburner> I doubt they'll have comparable hand movement. :P
17:01, Cryoburner> It looks like you might control balance when running across narrow ledges, since the protagonist sways back and forth in the video.
17:02, Stargazer is certainly optimistic about Mirrors Edge, just so that's been said. Causious optimism, until I know more.
17:02, Cryoburner whispers: Cautious optimism as well. :P
17:07, Megagun whispers: I find it rather funny that it might be possible that pirating Spore might be more attractive than actually buying it..
17:10, Cryoburner> I'm doubting that. My guess is that you'll need a proper copy to exchange content.
17:10, Megagun whispers: Seeing as I would install it on two PCs, and perhaps three or four (NOTPOSSIBLE)..
17:11, Megagun> Spore can use content that's not on the official Spore pollination servers.
17:11, Cryoburner> Yes, it's possible. Buy three! :D