Wow, that is wicked lame. But hey, atleast you know all the training paid off!

"Hmm, the forward struct thing is a little weird. If you have a dynamic array or pointer to the struct then it doesn't complain. I'd say this is a bug. I'm surprised that it wasn't responded to. I'd post again."

That is an interesting one. Better than my last, anyway. Both are actually loosely related, though.


P.S. Mr. Burke, could you throw an e-mail my way? I don't think anything I've sent has gone through.

Oh, that explains it. I haven't had HBO for a couple years now. Too bad.

Never heard of it.

I saw an episode of "King of Queens" the other night, that was a really funny show.

Wait... The old Counter-Strike works with the new Half-Life?

import SDL;
import std.string;
import std.stdio;

import video;
import sprite;
import input;
import output;

You're lucky, it could have been a really big chunk

Wow, that sounds wicked.

While your plugins sound nice (the JavaScript one especially), Mouse Gestures rules. After a bit of redesign on how it works, I run as follows:

Middle Mouse = open link in new Tab (a Firefox default)
Hold down RMB and move mouse up = next tab
Hold down RMB and move mouse up, then down = close tab

Those features right there allow me to open a bunch of interesting links in the background while I'm reading a news page or something, then just move the mouse to go to and close the additional tabs.

That does sound really cool. I guess my question is this: Is Mouse Gestures not compatible with the extension I posted, or something?

A nice little plugin, but I'll stick with Adblock and Mouse Gestures (both available on the main Extension link inside your browser). I haven't visited any pages that are non-IE only which need to be spoofed by something like this.

I never even use the spoofer. I use

Images Checkbox
Colors Checkbox (ALOT, man is this thing nice to have)
JavaScript Checkbox (You think you're resizing my window? I don't)
Popups
New Tab Button
Kill Flash Button

I love being able to turn all that stuff on and off so easily. I dunno, maybe Mouse Gestures lets you do all that stuff to?

this one is also hand for those times when I HAVE to use IE
http://update.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=35&vid=156&category=Page%20Display

Oh spit. I forgot I'd replied to this. (Sorry)

Well, no sense in my adding anything. You guys have seemed to work everything out.

It looks like the consensus is that Mozilla Firefox is indeed king of compliance.  Glad to hear there hasn't been a regression. I still work with CSS and Javascript and all that on occasion, but I haven't really followed the W3 or the browser war for a while.

BTW, Firefox/Mozilla users, you should get this badboy: http://prefbar.mozdev.org/ Bloody brilliant little extension.

Soul Blazer owns. I still play that one once in a while.

but since Mozilla doesn't even follow the w3 HTML / CSS requirements, it starts out as flawed.

You can't be serious. Two years ago when I was still in the W3 support "loop" Mozilla was owning IE as far as standards compliancy goes. Not only did it implement more standard features than IE, itimplemented most of them correctly)

I find it hard to believe that anything NEW from Mozilla is less compliant than older Mozilla technology (let alone IE).

EDIT: P.S. Not saying it isn't possible, but I do find it rather hard to swallow.

As it stands I'm using both Firefox and IE6 / w SP2 and can balance out what I need. It's workable, but not ideal.

You have to use IE sometimes. Too many sites use IE's proprietary "extensions", and/or "legacy"(read: bad) "code".

I'm sitting with 1gig on a 3.0Ghz 800fsb P4 and an ATI 9800pro (128MB,not 256). Unpacking the pk4 files and changing the one cache to 256MB makes the Ultra @1024 playable with the occasional hiccup. runs at a solid 30fps and upwards of 60, depending on the action.

On Ultra? Very cool.

There is some inventive stuff in the game and the detail is amazing, but the game itself isn't worth the price tag at this point. (hence the mod comment earlier).

Yeah, I'm gonna wait for the price to drop to the high 30s/mid 40s. I never pay 50+ dollars for a  game (before tax, I mean)

I think I'd prefer playing co-op mode.

The mods. Once they start coming you'll remember why you went with the PC version

Personally I am very happy to have a (hopefully) solid single player game. If I want multiplayer I have UT2k4. I am always terrified that everything will become multiplayer only.

My sentiments exactly. Besides if UT2K4 isn't your thing, Ravensoft is working on Quake 4, surely that will have a bigger focus on Multiplayer

I knew that 2GB of RAM would come in handy sooner or later!

Muahahahaha! I only have one gig, but judging by the posts that should be more than enough. Hell I could probably spare 512MB.


Many thanks for the link, Mr. Burke.

LoTR: The Third Age is a very different beast. It is an RPG and EGM's cover story this month on it actually got me pretty excited to see the game in action. This is not a straight action game.

That does change things a bit. Honestly, though, I can't really get excited by much of anything EA outputs.

You forgot some other sequels from Sony: Sly 2, Jak 3 and Ratchet and Clank 3. I think it would difficult to say those won't be of a higher quality than your standard sequel.

Sly Cooper 2: fairly interested.
R&C: Abstain. Never played the first two.
Jak III: For the love of God, no more.

VJ2 - I kind of agree. It is really too soon for a sequel to this. I had a blast with the first, but I'd like a little more time to start itching for a second.

PoP2 - Absolutely agree. Way I see it, they should just hand this franchise off to RockStar  :roll:  I can't tell you how disappointed I am in this game so far.

LotR: TTA - Agreed. I've had my fill of EA's LotR hack-and-slash/

MP2 - Disagree. I really like the story of the first MP and I'm very much looking forward to the new additions in story and especially gameplay.

It's also depressing to see that of the 20 or so holiday titles that I'm mildly to strongly interested in, only two of them aren't sequels or licensed properties (Phantom Brave and Fable). Hopefully this isn't a portent of the future of the video game industry.

Phantom Brave is a sequel. Unless you don't consider each Final Fantasy a sequel the one before.

FFX, bah. Square lost their imagination and simple 'awe' of playing a FF game at number 6, personally. They regained some things in my eyes with FF9, but other than that, I haven't been impressed at all with a Final Fantasy title in ages.

Amen, brutha.

I seem to remember the DS always having four face buttons.  :idea:

I knew they were going to make some changes, but I never expected such a huge change. It looks really sexy.

Yeah, but in Phoenix at least you have a dry heat.

Until you start sweating and becomes your own personal humid heat.

Oh, co-op on Live only, eh? PC for me then.

I'm torn... I was sure I would get it for PC initially, but the coop is tempting... on the other hand user mods are just as tempting.

I can't justify buying it twice, though. Hehe.

Nope, that is world wide kids...huzzah!

Huzzah! This is gonna be sweet. I just hope I have enough horsepower.

The original DOOM still makes me jump, I better put all my extra points into constitution

Can't wait to see some user mods come out, that should be quite interesting. I'd like to see a game like Wheel of Time running on the DOOM III engine, too.

DOOM III is due out in a matter of days? Or is that just for you reviewer types?

I believe corn husks were once used as toilet-paper.

AgtFox,

Thanks for the info =)

WoW has basically taken over my PC time, as it's absolutely nothing like a level-grind like ALL the other MMOs I've played (EQ, DAoC, AO, SB, SWG), as there's so much to do other than just killing for experience (crafting, herb collecting, fishing, general chatting, wandering).

...

Man, it is sounding more and more promising. I wish I could have gotten in on the Beta Test =D

The guy who created SDL is working on this game. He is really cool too, I see him helping people with SDL all the time on the SDL NG.

WoW is the first MMO game I've ever been interested in. Blizzard and its Battle.net have been nearly flawless, so I expect great things from WoW, and judging by this short preview it is going to deliver.

Mr. Burke, do you, by any chance, know what the monthly fee is going to be?

Belgedin knows what I'd do if there were no video games, I'd go back to teaching Martial Arts.

Hehe, I still remember the kicking drills you ran. Those were great, except on Mondays when there were only little kids to work with. Nothing like having to kick below knee level  :lol:

I wonder if I'm the only one that wanted to rip somones spine out after sparring and intone, "Fatality" ... ::coughs::

As odd as it sounds, I actually miss reading. I used to read so much more, but with so many distractions it's difficult to stick with it. It's hard to pull away for some quiet reading time. I still read, but I have such a backlog I doubt I will ever catch up. I simply need to prioritize better...

I do a ton of technical reading... I think it has been a good seven months since I read any sci-fi or fantasy =\ Last book I read was Fire Bringer by David-Clement Davies. Great book.

I'd invent video games.

Yeah, I'd forgotten about that.

Yeah it is worth $50. And I can only play single-player, right now.

Trust me, they are delicious, they compliment the patoes really well. They are really sweet and flavorful. And if you don't like them they shouldn't affect the flavor of anything else in the pot.

Man, all this talk of corned beef. I need make some now. God I love that stuff.

Anyway, congratulations on the cooking thing, sounds like your first experience was quite satisfactory

P.S. I hope you shared with the cat

I love corned beef! I can't believe you're not having Rutebegas, though, man those are tasty! You've got everything else, you just needed rutebegas.

I imagine airport metal detectors become fun, too.

"Miss, you're gonna have to step into the back-room and undress..."

Mozilla rules!

How about Catwoman? Purrfection or hairball?

Can't possibly be worse than DareDevil.

They set up the ending for a retelling of the Phoenix/Dark Phoenix saga,

Oh man, I know! I'm such a dork, I was jumping around in all my nerd-know-it-all glory yelling, "Look, everyone, it is Phoenix! They're are gonna do Phoenix next! I wonder if they'll focus on Dark Phoenix!?"

Then they threw me out of the theatre. And... I saw this guy outside and I said to him, "Did you see? That premonition of PHOENIX?! DUDE, thye're gonna do PHOENIX!" Then he stabbed me in a neck.

Oh, indeed, indeed. Daredevil is a cool superhero, I always liked him; not my favorite hero, but pretty cool. I never liked the Hulk, his back story was neat at the time but I thought he was crappy character.

Daredevil was raped in that movie, it should never have been made. I think Maddox put it quite nicely...

http://maddox.xmission.com/dare_devil.html

Do also check out his reviews of Matrix 2 and 3  :lol:

and even Daredevil

Ok, you went too far with that one. Daredevil is definitely worse than the Hulk, which is itself and abomination mind you.

Daredevil is not only the worst superhero movie ever created, it is one of the worst movies ever created.

I feel the same way about Fable. Do you have anything specific on your mind?

I don't know, when it was first announced and the first videos and stuff were shown I thought, "Wow, that looks like an epic adventure." Now, though, it seems so stripped down, atleast what I've seen and heard so far does;  this includes the character development you mentioned; I was never terribly excited about it, but it sounded interesting enough.

I think the problem was this: the game promised the world, now it is only going to deliver Istanbul (or something) Basically, it shot too high and promised too much too early in development, now it is just gonna give us another D&D RPG it seems.


Oh yeah, and I still have my eye on Kameo, it looks fairly clever.

Hmmm, just Halo 2, I guess. I'm really not looking foward to Fable anymore, though, I'll still have my eye on it.


I'm looking forward to DOOM III and Half-Life 2 on the PC, even if I have to upgrade. Even if the games aren't great I'll still have user mods to look forward to.