No problems here.

A splitter works fine for me as well-  and I have the very first model Tivo (HDR114, or something)

To the left, to the left:

No vote
No vote
Wing Commander 3
Ultima VII
Thief: The Dark Project
Half-Life
No vote
Wing Commander
The Secret of Monkey Island
No vote
Quake 3
Pharaoh
Outlaws
Diablo
No One Lives Forever
Ultima Underworld


To the right, to the right:

Freespace 2
Unreal Tournament 2004
The Longest Journey
System Shock 2
Diablo 2
Quake
No vote
Grim Fandango
Rollercoaster Tycoon
Starcraft
Command & Conquer Red Alert 2
Knights of the Old Republic
Gabriel Knight 2
Deus Ex
No vote
Starsiege: Tribes

I got off SSRIs once and for all this summer - since I started on Zoloft (and later switching to Lexapro), I packed on the pounds.... my doctor swore that it was due to my diet and aging, but ever since I stopped I've lost a good 15 pounds or so.  

I started taking Zoloft because I was basically turning into a hypochondriac (after seeing several family members die of cancer, it was a constant worry)... but I also had a bit of the social anxiety thing going on as well.  It helped with the fear of cancer, but never really did anything for dealing with other people - I never felt like the "life of the party" or anything like that.

I don't really need it anymore, thankfully... ironically my fears of getting cancer were well justified, but now that I've actually gone through the experience of cancer and chemotherapy, I don't worry about it nearly as much anymore (funny how that works).  So I weaned myself off the Lexapro this year, after talking to my doctor.

These days my "lows" tend to be lower, but it's nothing I can't handle.  Losing the weight I put on with the SSRIs is definitely worth it (it's better to look good than to feel good )

I don't know if this helps any - just relating my experience.  

These are all PC CD-ROM titles, disc only (I may have the manual for some of these, but they're not at my apartment ATM):

Critical Path
Dragon's Lair (Readysoft DOS version)
Iron Helix
The Journeyman Project Turbo
Mechwarrior 3
Quantum Gate
Superbike World Championship

+1 to warning for the great Atari stuff.

Saw it last night.  It was D-U-M, dumb.  Not remotely scary, nor did it make a lick of sense.

I'd rather have someone get me drunk and put it in my butt than watch that again.

Is there a company Ombudsperson?

HR isn't always known to be neutral where as the Ombudsperson is.

"Ombudsperson"?

Good grief...

Isn't he dead?  (Tupac)

Da Makaveli will lives forevah, yo!

He knows sign language?  Awesome!

Is there anything resembling a release date yet?

I'm just questioning the sort of environment you guys are expecting here, I suppose I was just assuming we were all working towards a mature message board that frowns on moronic threads and posts that add absolutely no insight to the subject.

Tell me then so I can get this straight: I can go into every thread if I feel like it, and just say "fuck [the topic]" randomly at will? If thats the case fine, I'll lower my expectations when making a thread, understanding that there is infact no level of maturity or quality required, and I'll act the same if I feel like being an asshole. I don't very much like GTA: San Andreas, I'm gonna go into all the threads posted on it and reply "fuck GTA: San Andreas"... (not really going to do it but I suppose I could without breaking the rules?) That would really attract intelligent discussions or even members from development teams, wouldn't it?

:Sigh: I guess I just had my own lofty expectations coming from GoneGold.

I saw it in Best Buy today.  Didn't pick it up though - I've had enough "Action RPGs" for a while.

I'm not a big fan of handhelds, but that price certainly makes it much more attractive to me.

[Freddie Mercury]

Who do folks here think was/is the greatest, most entertaining lead singer of a rock band?  For me, even in a field that has Robert Plant, Roger Daltrey, Mick Jagger, there can be only one:

Freddie Mercury

Good call.  Whatever that current commercial is that uses "I Want To Break Free" has got me listening to Queen again - particularly their live shows - and he is a brilliant frontman.  His musical/vocal talent and undeniable showmanship just put him a notch above just about everyone else.

Are you F#$%ing kidding me ???? !!!!

No, Halo sucked, both on the XBox and the PC..

This from the guy that also hates KOTOR, another well-loved game

What were you saying about counter-culture backlash, again?

Edit: Devil beat me to it - nice to know I'm not the only one seeing the contradiction.

Anyway, to stay on topic...

I really have no interest in GTA:SA - the previous games were mildly entertaining, but I never got into them like everyone else.  So I'll take a pass, go back to the Xbox double pack and see if I can figure out what I'm missing

Swing yer partner to and 'fro
Make sure she don't hit de do'

Toyota Avensis!

Too bad you can't get it in North America! Europe and Japan only for this bad boy.

(Thank God for small miracles)

I mean, congrats!  

Yep, I voted this past Saturday - went really quickly, actually.  I was probably in there all of ten minutes, and that was including an address change.

7. Star Wars

Distinguishing Characteristics: Overweight, casually strolling into the center of the room, and then when you least expect it, bursting into a blinding Jedi combat storm with a golf ball retriever.

Ghyslain Raza, where are you in our time of need?

I think she deserves merciless mocking simply for spelling her name "Ashlee"

You'd think at 32 I'd have this stuff down, but the majority of my dating life prior to this year has been with girls I already knew well - friends, friends of friends, etc... people I already had a rapport with.  But this year I've been dating a lot of people that I barely know, which makes calling them up a bit tricky - particularly at the very beginning.  Once you've gone out with someone and said "yeah, I'd like to pursue this", how often should you call?  Of course the trick is calling often enough to show interest, without calling so often that you come off as clingy.... I'm just not sure where that line is - calls would be as far apart as possible in my perfect world, as I hate using the telephone, but chicks like to, y'know, TALK and crap like that...

Thoughts from the peanut gallery?

(And Matrix (if you're around), just shut yer word hole - I know what your answer is  :twisted: )

Yeah, she's pretty fine, but that's about the most unattractive photo of her I've seen.

http://www.zinckiwi.com/pix/flat/IMG_0284.jpg

What kind of desk is that zinckiwi?

NA
NA
NA
NA
Wing Commander 3
NA
NA
Ultima VII
Thief: The Dark Project
Sam & Max Hit the Road
Doom
Half-Life
NA
Lands of Lore
Wing Commander
Warcraft II
The Secret of Monkey Island 2
NA
Tomb Raider
Quake 2
Doom 2
Quake 3
Call of Duty
NA
Outlaws
NA
Ultima IV
Diablo
No One Lives Forever
Magic Carpet
Ultima Underworld
Might and Magic 6

Thankfully, a lot on that list don't really appeal to me.  

Preordered:
MoH:PA
Halo 2

Will buy:
Half-Life 2
Call of Duty Finest Hour

Might buy:
Prince of Persia - Warrior Within
Goldeneye
Metroid Prime 2
Pirates
Killzone

Everything else gets a pass.

What's with the bugzapper between the monitors?

I have SWON, but have never played it.  I had (past tense) Wings of War, and in my not-so-humble opinion, it blows.

Is it an external hard drive? Because, yeah, a Mac can read an external Windows formatted hard drive (at least, in my experience). Of course, the system disk has to be HFS+.

Macs can't write to NTFS drives (unless something has changed).  So, if you want your external drive to be read/writable by both OSX and Windows, you either have to stick with FAT32 (yuck), or buy a copy of MacDrive (better)

And April Ravine.  Whatsupwithdat?

Is that all the jump move is for?  Getting a better view?

That's why Caller ID is the bestest invention of the century - if I don't recognize the number, I don't answer it.

I thought dune 2 came out after Warcraft....

I remeber playing it after, lol....

Nope - Dune 2 was released in 92, Warcraft was released in 94.

Both the Ultima V and VI projects still seems to be alive and kicking:

http://www.u5lazarus.com/

http://www.planetdungeonsiege.com/archon/

For those of you who might not know Carmark is the guy who did the original castle wolfenstein and then all the Doom's including Doom 3.

Carmack did Wolfenstein 3D.  Silas Warner did the original Castle Wolfenstein:

http://www.wolf3d.co.uk/castlewolfenstein.php



/pedantry off   :twisted:

Personally, I don't think it is.  There's nothing wrong with OS X, but it's certainly not the computing nirvana that the Macolytes claim.  It does some things better than Windows, and it does some things worse than Windows.  Some people will point to the lack of viruses and spyware, but honestly they're not a problem on my Windows machines either.  And if there ever is a serious OS X virus, it's going to tear through Mac systems like tissue paper because no one is protected.

That's unlikely. By default, every Mac system is protected because it has inherently more security, due to the very tight Unix permissions model. Most Windows users run in the equivalent of Root mode, which is not an active option in Mac OS X. There is no way a virus on your Mac could actually damage the Mac OS without you giving it explicit permission to do so, and even then the damage it could do would be very limited.

And that's precisely the attitude I'm talking about.  

So you're saying there are no holes anywhere that can be exploited?  The dozen or so security updates I've installed this year seem to say otherwise.  Not running as root doesn't guarantee anything.  Yes, it's *more* secure, but it's not foolproof.

Pride goeth before the fall, and all that.

One problem you'll have as a newbie is that people have been playing CS for damn near 7 years now.

Que?  Half Life is barely 6 years old at this point, and Counterstrike didn't show up until at least a six months later.

Yeah - I need to clean up a bit.

I had the same urges last year, and I ended up getting an iBook... which I think was a wise decision.  It was a relatively small cash outlay compared to the rest of the Apple line ($1099), it gave me a good feel for the OS X environment, and the cost was easily recoupable... Mac laptops tend to hold their value much better than the desktop models.  While there was still some warranty left on it, I sold it for $850 on ePay, and put it towards the price of a new Powerbook.

Another reason I'd recommend the iBook - Apple *today* refreshed their iBook line, and the 12" iBook is now only $999 with a 1.2Ghz processor, 256MB and built-in wireless support.  A great bargain anyway you slice it, and if you decide it's not for you, you're not out $2000 or more, or stuck with a 50lbs boat anchor (the eMac)

I've been exposed to vague statements like, "Macs rock," "OS X is light years ahead of anything else," "Once you go Mac you'll never go back". Is that crap true?

Personally, I don't think it is.  There's nothing wrong with OS X, but it's certainly not the computing nirvana that the Macolytes claim.  It does some things better than Windows, and it does some things worse than Windows.  Some people will point to the lack of viruses and spyware, but honestly they're not a problem on my Windows machines either.  And if there ever is a serious OS X virus, it's going to tear through Mac systems like tissue paper because no one is protected.

I use my Mac for video production mostly.  Which it does very well, at a relatively low cost.  But I don't ever see it replacing my Windows PC as my primary computer.