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  2. Posted

    Yeah, i saw this, he's got good stuff.

    I'm guessing then that this setup is out of necessity as using one piece of track with a booster in each direction would be much simpler.

    I just don't like the whole south west rule thing. Its so jenky and I wish to avoid it. Guess I'll be widening my bridge/tunnel system to accommodate 2 tracks then.

  3. Posted

    Awesome!

    Now what happens when you go the wrong way through a booster? The reason I ask is because I'm planning to use one facing in each direction in the same track section. Does it slow you down?

    Sorry I'm asking so many questions, I have no Iron yet as I've been too busy making sweet hideouts to go too far below sea level. I guess I'm kinda putting the cart before the horse as I've already built a lengthy bridge connecting two places together with the intention of tracking it later.

  4. Posted

    Can you experiment with that more? Does it make any difference if you only use one booster?

    Also, I have to stop goofing off at the surface and go spelunking for some iron, I'm way overdue on this whole minecart thing.

  5. Posted

    Twig, your stuff is awesome. I've been following your progress on NeoGAF, where sadly, I am helpless but to lurk.

    I got this two weekends ago. Loving it. I'm having terrific fun building my home into the natural lay of the land. Haven't dug too deep yet because the mobs are scary. Here's a little youtube tour of the premises.

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

    My work filter completely cock blocks anything to do with minecraft.net, so I fiddle with the skin editor when I have down time. Here's a preview of the Captain Falcon I made along with the texture:

    picture.php?albumid=9&pictureid=32picture.php?albumid=9&pictureid=31

    And here's something I threw together in Blender on my lunch break:

    picture.php?albumid=9&pictureid=29

    Unfortunately, I cannot break obsidian in one click with this skin. Oh well.

  8. Posted

    For some reason I don't have this yet. I chalk it up to school. I have a gift card to cover the purchase too.

    I can't add anything to the conversation yet, really, but I can say that a few really negative reviews haven't made much difference to me. The game has always had me excited from the very first Flippy-McTwist-Kick trailer at that one E3. The whole critical reception to me is just a classic case of 'you can't please everyone'.

    Should Samus talk or not?

    Should games in a series use completely new mechanics or just refine old familiar ones?

    Should Samus lose her powers at the beginning of the game or be authorized to use them?

    About the motion controls, isn't there some motion? Miffy, can you jump in morph ball mode with a controller shake a la Prime 3/Trilogy? Or do you just press the jump button?

    Also, I've read about dodging out of first person view, which gives you a full charge shot. Now the info I've seen about how exactly to do that is conflicting, do you shake the controller for that, or merely move the pointer off screen at the right moment? This seems to be the toughest thing to grasp in the game.

  10. Posted

    Seriously, the good podcasts have really been drying up lately.

    Anyway, a while ago I made a No More Heroes 2 thread around the U.S. release. It wasn't a very active thread and it looks like it got purged. I didn't think anything of it, this forum is pretty PC gaming centric as well as being pretty European in its membership. I guess the game actually just recently released over there. I also just assumed the guys from the 'cast weren't interested in the series.

    That brings me to this episode. I guess I had forgotten or missed it originally, but I had no idea Chris was such a fan of the first game and apparently looking forward to NMH2.

    I personally loved the sequel, flaws and all, much like the first. I felt it was a great follow up in that it improved on a lot of the good stuff without being an exact retread. I also know a few people who were really let down by the bits that were missing and perhaps that it didn't feel as 'new'. So I'm interested to hear opinions about the game from you guys or if you guys have even had a chance to play.

  15. Posted

    Ok, I'll stop spamming the thread with my technical woes now.

    No, no, don't worry. Isn't that what this thread is for?

    So you made a sim link. Which means that it looks like a regular folder on your internal HD (no little alias arrow badge in the corner) but when you click into it you are magically looking at a directory on your external HD. Is that right?

    And what you're saying is that steam has taken this path:

    /Volumes/NAMEofEXTERNALHD/Steam Content/

    made it all lowercase and created a new path on your internal HD:

    /volumes/nameofexternalhd/steam content/

    Holy heck is my head spinnin'

    It's always annoyed me how I could name a fat32 volume on my mac and then it comes back all caps after mounting it on a Windows machine. Does windows 7 still use the whole drive letter thing?

    Back OT. I assume you know the difference, I've only read about it before, but is there any chance that you need a hard link as opposed to a symlink?

    I'm actually off to brush up on what the difference is now. Very cobwebby up there lately.

  16. Posted

    Mine are in User/Documents/Steam Content

    I don't think I had an Applications folder in my user folder before I installed Steam...I've used Mac for years and I still don't understand the system structure.

    Yeah, its a curious thing. If you go in your home folder and make a new folder, then give it the name "Applications" it automatically gets the default Applications folder icon, and then any program that you install in there is available for that user only. And by install I mean drag and drop.

    It is kind of weird that the games go in the documents folder. I guess I'm gonna have to do some digging to figure out where to put all of my config files from TF2 when that comes out.

  17. Posted

    Good thing they finally got it released. Now, why the fuck is my HDD root full of folders such as friends, graphics, package, public, resource, servers and steam? This is horrible.

    EDIT: OK, so I just removed them. So far so good.

    Didn't notice those yet.

    I use an Applications folder in my home folder instead of the common one, I found it nice that it created my application shortcuts in the same folder and they didn't hard code it to put stuff in the /Applications folder.

    So app shortcuts are just tiny <1/2MB applications that launch the actual executables. Seems nice, just wonder where said executables are. I guess they could be in Application Support, but it seems strange to have programs in there. I wonder if they're not actually in the Steam.app application bundle.

  18. Posted

    You're right, I remember that there was a limit now. I think the engine weight that was made for me was just at the limit or barely below it. I don't remember ever spending a lot of time thinking about the lubricant, so maybe that was my problem.

    Was graphic lock lubricant legal? If that's the same stuff I bought a few months ago for a lawnmower, it really stinks.

    I have no idea if it was allowed or not, but I didn't tell anyone about it then. :shifty:

  19. Posted

    I remember the pinewood derby at least. My dad had gotten one of his friends to weld me this awesome looking engine weight. It had little exhaust pipes coming out of the side. I then painted flames on the side of the car. It moved like shit and lost every race I think due to it being too heavy, but it was still really awesome to me.

    Oh, those derbies were the best. Those were some sweet father son moments. I remember there being a weight limit in ours though, it would seem that being heavy would be an advantage. Regardless, we had our little trick, graphite lock lubricant. All over the axels. Greased lightning I tells ya.

    I'm really sorry about Qix.

  20. Posted

    I never made it past cub scouts.

    I remember going on a camping trip where we were told to bring water pistols. I was crouching there refilling my pump actuated replica shotgun water pistol at the well and some twit comes over and unloads a good shot of this scummy undrinkable pond water point blank in my ear. I scurried to get my gun together and retaliate with a good soaking, but I never saw who it was.

    Then my stupid cheap gun ended up not working at all. It only got worse from there, as I got a fierce ear infection that kept me bed ridden the rest of that weekend. I'm talking horrendous pain all down the left nasal ductwork and throat every time I swallowed. That ear's still funny to this day. If I could quantum leap back into my younger self, I'd totally lay that little brat out for what he put me through.

    Scott Bacula.

    I'm a nice well adjusted dude, honest. Anyway, um, that was my last summer as a cub scout.

    I'll tell you what though, pinewood derbies and regattas were the effin' bomb. I also seem to remember something about an aircraft type thing with a prop that slid along a string. I wonder what other kind of new stuff they've got nowadays.

    Man, I need to start buggin' the ol' lady for a son soon.

  22. Posted

    I remember that when I was in school they wouldn't let you bring cds or usb drives for turning in assignments, but they would let you bring floppies. That was odd.

    I used to have a bunch that I never use but for some reason they mysteriously disappear.

    You know what's funny is how these things have outlived the ZIP drive. Remember those finicky pieces of junk. I was going through a graphic design degree when those became popular, about 1997. We were required to use those for everything, and people who didn't understand disk drives at all would leave them mounted and work off of them. I swear, someone was crying about losing one of those suckers at least once a week.

    And today I can store the contents of 1,422 floppy disks on a Micro SD card that's the size of my littlest fingernail. Insane.

  23. Posted

    You should always get an 'on the bone' cut of meat. It's much healthier for your colon because they haven't buggered about with it so much (much of the deli ham etc is reformed crap)

    Everything at the super markets around me is heavily processed and vacuum sealed. I think I'm gonna snoop around and see if I can find 'on the bone' meats at an area Italian market or farm market.

    I was once at this place called Illg's Meats wherein I witnessed the marvel that is tongue cheese. Needless to say, I have never been in there since. But I imagine I'd be able to get on the bone cuts there.

  25. Posted

    Its 10 AM here and I'm already gettin' hungry...

    So what's your favorite cold cut?

    Personally, I'm partial to Oven Gold Turkey at about a 2 thickness, 0 being chipped and 5 being thick. When I get bored of that I switch to a Blackforest Ham at a 1 thickness. Like Kramer says, there's nowhere for the flavor to hide.

    As far as brands go, I stick with Boar's Head. I have a grocery store that I could walk to in five minutes if I wanted to, instead I hop in my car and shop about 10 miles away because the closer place doesn't carry Boar's Head.

    image.php?u=2256&dateline=1270825588Good cold cuts are high on my list.