I'm going to assume that differences in pronunciation explain why SRAW thinks they sound similar. Sprinkles said flatmate sounded Scottish, you're right, it isn't particularly.

In You guys HAVE to try this out by Down Rodeo:

But 20q does *everything*. Not just 'slebs. And no information is put into 20q, all you need to do is play and if there's something that is wrong it will gradually be changed by your answers. Neural networks are awesome.

In Explosives by Down Rodeo:

I see.

In I am now... by Down Rodeo:

Non-existent, at the moment.

In Explosives by Down Rodeo:

This truck makes no sense. What are you asking?

In Cyberoam by Down Rodeo:

No idea what Cyberoam is or what's happening to you.

In COUNTAR STRIEK SERVAR by Down Rodeo:

Mello has it: the best thing to do is go to your router's webpage, as it will have the IP it is currently using prominently displayed somewhere. For instance, in this flat I go to http://o2wirelessbox/ which redirects to the config pages for the router. You can get there via an IP - it begins with 192, but I can't remember what it is for most routers :p

In train by Down Rodeo:

func_train is your friend.

In Map won't load by Down Rodeo:

No idea - if something's wrong with a cracked version, there's really not a whole lot that can be done, AFAIK. Can you not just use your version in work by signing onto Steam there?

In I am now... by Down Rodeo:

SuperForumComJer always excites and pleases me.

That's a lie.

In .NAV , .RES ??? by Down Rodeo:

Eh, probably a file left over from compressing the map. Probably.

"The ZTMP file type is primarily associated with 'Steam' by Valve Corporation. When a Steam client downloads a resource from a Steam game server (like a .BSP map), the resource is first compressed to save bandwidth. An associated .ZTMP file is stored on the server so the resource won't need to be compressed again the next time a client requests it. If you change the resource you need to delete the associated .ZTMP file so that the next person who downloads is doesn't get the old copy instead of the changed resource file (Steam does not detect changed game resource files and recreate the .ZTMP file automatically.)"
Says a file extension website.

In .NAV , .RES ??? by Down Rodeo:

.nav is for the AI, it tells them how to move around the map. The .res is a resource file and points to certain things used by the map, I think... someone will likely correct me. The .nav file is automatically generated by the way.

In I am now... by Down Rodeo:

You're the devious bastard, with your... clauses!

In I am now... by Down Rodeo:

He means hyperbolic sinned.

Eh, on Cracked recently there was a column about how to become a minister. I wondered if the two were linked.

So when are you marrying AJ and me?

In I am now... by Down Rodeo:

melloyellow582 said:

An ordained minister. I can marry you, divorce you, baptize you and absolve you of your sins.

Have you been reading Cracked, or am I reading too much into this?

In Moonbase Alpha by Down Rodeo:

Ooo, this is free on Steam, isn't it? I saw a writeup, apparently it was a bit of a larf.

In soccerjam by Down Rodeo:

I had forgotten that American "Football", largely spent holding onto the ball, has to stop every time something interesting might happen. It's not soccer, it's called football, and you are all silly for not liking it.

Yes, I am presuming you don't like it.

ALSO "We're not in England here"? I ought to slap you.

In i cum when i listen to this song by Down Rodeo:

Ke$ha is not a very good example of a human being. She looks... dirty. Not dirty as in kinky but dirty as in unwashed.

In This or That? by Down Rodeo:

Mingin'! There's an appropriate one.

In This or That? by Down Rodeo:

Hoors, wankshaft, dipshit, bawbag,

These are all just insults. Eh... I'm sure I can think of something that's not profane... probably... thing is, I probably don't even recognise it as dialect, so it's difficult for me to think of it deliberately. Remind me to try again later.

In This or That? by Down Rodeo:

Both, if I can wangle it.

In You guys HAVE to try this out by Down Rodeo:

It's totally moodily. Gets me hot, anyway...

In There is Always a Problem With Sound in HL by Down Rodeo:

Bad connections, file missing on server, disabled uploading/downloading of sounds...?

In textures by Down Rodeo:

Killer-Duck said:

SRAW said:

HALFLIFE.WAD YOU SILLY NOOB
AND DOES MY BIG TEXT SCARE YOU?? CAUSE IF IT DOES YOUR A PUSSY

In You guys HAVE to try this out by Down Rodeo:

Conceivably. I could be sneaky and say that there are possibly multiple users of this account. Though this is of course true of everyone.

We did try to convince Havokk that there were only two real users of the forum, him and one other person, being all of us.

AJ, do you use that "staring moodily" photo everywhere?

In The Official Omegle� Truck by Down Rodeo:

That is rather amusing.

In You guys HAVE to try this out by Down Rodeo:

buq25 said:

Down Rodeo said:

I reckon there'd be more than you think. Though obviously since everyone lies it's impossible to tell.

I was going to say that *I* might even be female, sadly Jake?! and Sprinkles know this to be highly unlikely. Ah well.

Well, none of you know me. I could be of the female gender.

We heard you on AS, remember?

In You guys HAVE to try this out by Down Rodeo:

Numbers please.

In You guys HAVE to try this out by Down Rodeo:

I like the implicit assumption that anyone looking at these photographs is male.

In can you read this by Down Rodeo:

Ten sounds about right, maybe more ;)

In a question.. by Down Rodeo:

I think your next step should be to try Googling these questions as there are many tutorials and forum posts about CS mapping on these great Internets.

In You guys HAVE to try this out by Down Rodeo:

http://20q.net/ is better.

In a question.. by Down Rodeo:

You've not enabled file extensions, the tutorial tells you how.

Well, maybe. The tutorial also tells you how to save it as a bat, properly, by selecting "All files" when you choose to "Save as".

In a question.. by Down Rodeo:

Highlight the file, F2, you know the rest.

In a question.. by Down Rodeo:

Select the file in explorer, press F2 then delete the bit that says .txt, it will warn you about doing this, just accept it :)

In a question.. by Down Rodeo:

nob491 said:

"C:\Users\Triin\Downloads\ZHLT compile tools\cookie.bat.txt"

Down Rodeo said:

or your text file is named incorrectly (like catpee.bat.txt)

There's the problem - rename it, dropping the txt from the end.

In a question.. by Down Rodeo:

Can you copy exactly what you have in your batch file please?

In a question.. by Down Rodeo:

cd means "change directory". That line is very important but it will "just work", if you know what I mean.

The other error... I think you've misnamed a file somewhere, or your text file is named incorrectly (like catpee.bat.txt). Don't call the map catpee.

In Teh Hammer by Down Rodeo:

Well, best of luck ;)

I suppose that does most of the stuff for you... I was always surprised using Java when things like that happened. Like, trying to do a comparison loop and then realising I could just use a TreeSet. Glory!

In Feeling older by Down Rodeo:

I'm well aware AJ - but then you've maybe not seen the newspaper stories about the 14-year-olds nipping vodka in class.

No, I don't get drunk on SuperJer.com, not any more.

In Teh Hammer by Down Rodeo:

sprinkles said:

Down Rodeo said:

sprinkles said:

Oh, by the way, the main point is I'm going to make something

Hah hah hah hah hah hah.

The original SUCKS.

Are you ready for what you are about to undertake? Required: a good knowledge of C/C++, Windows programming, vector maths, OpenGL and parsers. Also being able to write all your data into a file.

In Feeling older by Down Rodeo:

Yes, I am 21 now. It's much the same as 20, except I can now do things in America that I have been doing here for like three years.

In Teh Hammer by Down Rodeo:

sprinkles said:

Oh, by the way, the main point is I'm going to make something better than Hammer.

Hah hah hah hah hah hah.

The original is much better, kthx.

In is html a dead language? by Down Rodeo:

the_cloud_system said:

php?

PHP writes HTML, for lack of a better phrase.

Websites not using HTML... I was making an allowance for XHTML and the like, but I suppose they're virtually the same.

In Sprinkles by Down Rodeo:

Bit of a face off between Adobe and Apple right now! Sadly, I want them both to lose :(

In is html a dead language? by Down Rodeo:

I second SuperJer for this. Html is pretty much the language of all websites. HTML 5 is the newest version. It adds, among other things, the <video> tag.

In My Final Project. by Down Rodeo:

JESUS CHRIST, do you guys not know Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet?

In Sprinkles by Down Rodeo:

Adobe are stupid. This further confirms it.

In is html a dead language? by Down Rodeo:

This is why we stay away from the internet after smoking, yes?

In textures by Down Rodeo:

Oh, you might have to use it via the command line. Try searching for posts with "textract" in them by Superjer.

In Moar forum issues by Down Rodeo:

See if you wind back a few million years (I mean closer to a billion) then the really interesting stuff happens. Like, supercontinents and that sort of thing. Those were the days :(

In textures by Down Rodeo:

http://www.superjer.com/files/textract.zip

You made me find it. Happy? :p

In Moar forum issues by Down Rodeo:

Jake?! said:

smaller than a continent

I've never like Merriam Webster's dictionary, paper or otherwise, and this merely confirms my prejudiced and unjustified dislike.

It appears I am disagreeing with the world. Fine, world, you're just an island too :(

I mean, it says "Earth Sciences" next to the definition. I'm sure Earth Sciences are better than Biology, for example, but that's really scraping the barrel.

In textures by Down Rodeo:

Is it not there? Uh, search the forum for textract, it's linked here somewhere, I just can't remember where.

In textures by Down Rodeo:

FAQ has both.

In Beta Testing Party! [Tonight] by Down Rodeo:

So, 4 am or thereabouts :p

In mechanical engineering projects by Down Rodeo:

Did you just put an apostrophe on the end of the plural of apostrophe?

In Problem compiling by Down Rodeo:

Which file specified? As in, what's it looking for but not finding?

In Moar forum issues by Down Rodeo:

Do you know what was going on with the post edit thingy?

In Warning: === LEAK in hull 0 === by Down Rodeo:

(0,0,0) is a Cartesian coordinate. Your one means 0 x units, -256 y and whatever it was in the z direction. z is up-and down, x is left right and y is backwards and forwards. Kind of. The viewports in hammer tell you which plane they're looking at (e.g. x/y).

In Moar forum issues by Down Rodeo:

It's the one about the size of the map not being bigger than 4096.

In Problem compiling by Down Rodeo:

Killer-Duck said:

Don't compile from Hammer, use a batch-file like superjers tutorial tells you.

He has been, I assume he tried the VHE method to see if it worked instead.

In Moar forum issues by Down Rodeo:

Yes, but so is America; it's just bigger.

In Moar forum issues by Down Rodeo:

I was trying to edit one of my posts in the Hammer FAQ but it won't let me. There's a funny character in there somewhere and I was going to delete it but when I click edit the textbox is empty. Any thoughts?

In Problem compiling by Down Rodeo:

Have you checked all your paths, like definitely? Sometimes it gets a bit fussy. I'm trying to remember what advice is written in the FAQ, too...

It doesn't say much. Uh... something. Guys! Help!

In My pictures by Down Rodeo:

I've not given it away, though I have made a horrible pun.

In My pictures by Down Rodeo:

Lol, I see.

In My pictures by Down Rodeo:

I quite literally cannot glean any kind of sense from your post. I feel confused and alone

In My pictures by Down Rodeo:

Which game? Antialiasing plox!

In My Final Project. by Down Rodeo:

Oh, I see how you've done it, it's not an overlay it's a different image altogether... well, it works now, so :)

In My Final Project. by Down Rodeo:

Awesome, but it has to download it for each button, so you get this funny pause before it happens. I imagine you could get it to use the same thing for every button and only download it once.

In -69!!!!!!!! by Down Rodeo:

The Racquet Man has it!

In Yellow tinted screen? by Down Rodeo:

Being fair it is mostly VGA :)

This has been a really techy discussion! Quite cool, really. One advantage LCD has over CRT is flatness; LCD screens are easy to make flat, CRT less so. Another is power consumption, I think.

In Yellow tinted screen? by Down Rodeo:

If it's big and bulky, it's CRT (Cathode Ray *Tube*). If it's very thin, like the kind you get on laptops, it's an LCD type. Is it still in warranty?

In -69!!!!!!!! by Down Rodeo:

We could pull a Viacom and ask Youtube for everyone's IPs. Hah.

In Teamspeak Server by Down Rodeo:

I've never seen them, but I hope so. I do know that BF:BC2 calls suicide and "epic fail".

http://angband.oook.cz/artifacts.php?q=The+Phial+of+Galadriel

In This is for superjer by Down Rodeo:

I choose to believe that your middle initial is 251.

In Teamspeak Server by Down Rodeo:

fedex _ said:

Down Rodeo said:

Epic fial.

and you laugh at me...

lol

I laugh at you because you frequently misunderstand jokes. Ruminate on this for a while.

In new Animation. Days Of Yore by Down Rodeo:

It makes sense, as I'd probably have difficulty telling where in America you came from. But then I would still have expected better from a voice actor. They're supposed to know what they're doing! And it's not just accents, it was word choice. I mean, "boyo"? Irish? REALLY?

In fact, I call bullshit on that. While I've been asked if I'm Irish before I have never been confused by a Welshman. That's something totally other.

In Teamspeak Server by Down Rodeo:

I imagine you can tweak both to obtain nice rates. Like I have said, I like Mumble; it has really low latency and a high-enough encoding rate that it's virtually artifact-free; however if you need lower bandwidth usage you can tweak it downwards too.

Two semi-colons in one sentence? Epic fial.

In new Animation. Days Of Yore by Down Rodeo:

He's Father Jackie O'Connell from the Dr Ned expansion. Just turns up in a couple of the voice thingies.

In new Animation. Days Of Yore by Down Rodeo:

This is very funny. However, it reminds me of a character in Borderlands who uses Welsh modes of speech in an Irish accent with occasional forays into dulcet Scottish tones. Though this is for the main part "Scottish".

In I think sprinkles should be banned by Down Rodeo:

We've all seen it.

In I think sprinkles should be banned by Down Rodeo:

This is getting far too meta. The truck ought to be nuked and all instances of the word "troll" replaced with "I HAVE NO FUCKING IDEA WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT".

In I'll just leave this queer... by Down Rodeo:

jrkookid just disappeared without giving notice I thought... and fedex_, he was quite obviously not a fan of the video. I can tell that and I've not watched it.

In NEW GAME AGAIN! Ebul! by Down Rodeo:

It's quite a clever idea. Performance was balls for some reason. I got up to the bit with the red dudes then gave up because I am busy.

In cloud system by Down Rodeo:

jrkookid said:

It's been awhile since I was a dick.

Exactly, see?

SRAW: Not all of them. I was gifted Mass Effect and I believe Codename: Gordon is in there, which is free. The rest... probably? Well technically, I was gifted DoW, but I paid the guy for them. Like I said my Paypal is currently inaccessible.

In Alien Swarm Mod Errors by Down Rodeo:

One of the very first things I did, but forgot.

In i need some help by Down Rodeo:

Your ISP is shit?

In SUCK IT ROCKBOMB by Down Rodeo:

I have a folder in my e-mail inbox of Audiosurf scoreboard alerts. Never managed to get any of them back...

In This is for superjer by Down Rodeo:

So you're not trying to pay Steam through Paypal? I don't understand. Or have you linked this gift card to Paypal? And exactly what happens when you try to pay?

In What would you pay for a domain? by Down Rodeo:

He'll be looking to make back the money he's spent on it so far, so it might be something like that.

In What would you pay for a domain? by Down Rodeo:

Pretty much, though it's not going to make him any money if he can't sell it for more. I suppose, all you need to do is keep making low offers while he has it, because if no-one else is buying then he has the option of selling to you or keeping it for himself. Assuming, like I said, that no-one else makes an offer.

In SRAW by Down Rodeo:

Recently you've been more than tolerable. In the past, presumably when you were rather younger, you were a dick.

In I'll just leave this queer... by Down Rodeo:

fedex _ said:

rockbomb thats gay man , i dont know what u see in this gay video

You bring joy into my life because I can laugh at your constant misunderstanding.

In What would you pay for a domain? by Down Rodeo:

I reckon that he thinks the domain is worth a fair amount on the basis that it spells infectious. Which is a word. You will find that some domains are worth more than others, even if websites don't necessarily say so. www.proflat.co.uk is like £15 for two years, for instance.

In This is for superjer by Down Rodeo:

SO CONTACT STEAM SUPPORT

In achievements by Down Rodeo:

That works

In SUCK IT ROCKBOMB by Down Rodeo:

jrkookid said:

I just find SRAW stupid and pointless.

In I think sprinkles should be banned by Down Rodeo:

I'm racist too. I thought we all were!

In achievements by Down Rodeo:

Almost certainly. Aw, you might be off by now! Damn!

In This is for superjer by Down Rodeo:

You should contact Steam support, they can help with payment issues. From Superjer's point of view, if you can't pay Steam through Paypal then you might not be able to pay him.

In achievements by Down Rodeo:

9 PM PST... that'd be... 6 am. You might not see me that often :p

In Why isn't Sraw Banned Yet? by Down Rodeo:

His name used to be sdaw, but aaronjer saw only rockets.

In achievements by Down Rodeo:

jrkookid said:

to really say

...

You guys should use mumble, because that's what I have installed, and then I could join you and annoy you. 100% of Superjerforumites agree I have a sexy voice.

In Chrome sucks! by Down Rodeo:

Actually, the individual page threads might not need access to files. If you were being really strict you could just have them get data from the internet and display it. Possibly access to some areas of memory so that they could access a cache. But I'm no computer scientist man.

In Well.. by Down Rodeo:

Rockbomb's glasses are shinier. I don't have anywhere to go to until September!

In Irony? by Down Rodeo:

No, it's not irony. Interesting story though.

In Alien Swurm SDK by Down Rodeo:

Ach, since I'm here anyway...

Create a file called mp3settings.txt in yourmod\resource\. It should read

  code
settings
{
}

For some reason it won't write automatically. I might try to fix that, who knows.

In Chrome sucks! by Down Rodeo:

There's nothing OS about it! It's just a web-browser where there's one master thread and a few worker threads (obviously one per tab). That's it! No memory or device management, no process control, no... just go and look up what kernels do - Chrome doesn't. Because it's a browser, not an OS.

Am I really answering this question? Oh, I got the mp3 almost working, as in, it displayed something in-game. Had to quit at that point, I might get another look tomorrow. There are no changes you need to make to the code, you just need to add a couple of files to resource/. I'll tell you later, but bonus points if you work it out yourself :)

In achievements by Down Rodeo:

aaronjer said:

on my own

THE FUCK

More seriously, how did you do this?

In achievements by Down Rodeo:

That is one hell of a bug. I got the 15-second pound as the game ended once because we'd incapacitated all the survivors. I only just got it before the game restarted :)

I assume you have "Still got Something to Prove" and "The Real Deal" then AJ?

In The Official Omegle� Truck by Down Rodeo:

That was overall good, but I loved the drycleaning one.

In Looking at new guitar by Down Rodeo:

I choose to interpret that as foie gras.

In Chrome sucks! by Down Rodeo:

sprinkles said:

Basically, Chrome is like its own mini OS.

I disagree with some of your points, but this is the one that I disagree with the most :p

In achievements by Down Rodeo:

If you'd bought it for the PC, you could have played with us (that's me and whoever else I play with)! You know, time differences and the horrifying ping aside.

In Chrome sucks! by Down Rodeo:

It's not "holding things up", it's just that Internet Explorer is a pile of shit. It's actually proven by SCIENCE. Trust me, I study SCIENCE at university.

I mean... looking over the years at the total lack of compliance in Internet Explorer, and the sheer number of exploits that were regularly discovered... Being fair Firefox has had quite a few over the years as well. But at least the code's available for anyone to see and fix :p

In achievements by Down Rodeo:

Wait, so you actually do that? Poor show. Like really.

Did you know Microsoft limit the number of achievements (or rather the total gamerpoints value of the achievements) based on how much you plan to charge for your game? And, as such, The Passing for Xbox 360 cost money because the achievements added to the gamerpoints total. The Passing was free on PC.

To be fair, I'm sure there were other pressures, because they could have not included the achievements. But yeah, that's enough words.

In Alien Swurm SDK by Down Rodeo:

Client/mp3.

In Chrome sucks! by Down Rodeo:

Rockbomb said:

you know why the tabs are so close to the top? Cuz there isn't 5million different toolbars wasting space like there is in most other browsers... thats one of the main things l=I love about chrome

On my FireFox I have the address bar and that's it. It's a matter of what you choose to install :p

Also, _fedex signature fail.

In Stereoscopic images by Down Rodeo:

I'll try again when my eyes stop watering. :p

In Stereoscopic images by Down Rodeo:

FUCKING HELL THAT IS AWESOME

I'm going to try your picture right now.

Yours is a lot more difficult, somehow.

In Stereoscopic images by Down Rodeo:

When I cross my eyes it goes out of focus. This must be why I never got those funky images, where you have to semi-focus on them to see a dinosaur or something.

In Alien Swurm SDK by Down Rodeo:

Ha, they have actually included an mp3 player as an example. Oh well!

In Alien Swurm SDK by Down Rodeo:

It's a good idea... Source has an mp3 player of sorts built in so it shouldn't be too difficult to expose that. Getting music from the drive might be more so. I really wish that there was some kind of reference page, like the Java API. Except for Source.

In Alien Swurm SDK by Down Rodeo:

What code? If you mean my local copy of the SDK it's out of date because Valve have since released updates and the one change I've saved was to correct a comment which had a misplaced space. I've done fuck all!

In failbook by Down Rodeo:

With GIFs you can define one colour to be transparent. Thusly the pixel can be either transparent or not; PNGs support multiple-level transparency so you can have gradients and the like.

In failbook by Down Rodeo:

Oh - well RockBomb is doing it in a very boring way. Best thing to do would be to use transparency :)

In Alien Swurm SDK by Down Rodeo:

Oh, so another proprietary voice chat system to stick in here. I'd rather stick to Mumble to be honest. OR STEAM.

In Looking at new guitar by Down Rodeo:

What, an MMO?

In Alien Swurm SDK by Down Rodeo:

Well, I rarely use anything else, and we're definitely not using Facebook. In fact I might have deleted Windows Live Messenger...

In failbook by Down Rodeo:

Firstly, there is a truck in which it is discussed how to make these signatures.

Secondly, it is not that difficult to work out. I'll give you a hint: it involves transparency.

In Looking at new guitar by Down Rodeo:

SolidKAYOS said:

But..hold on ill continue this post in a minute i gotta take a dump.

SolidKAYOS said:

Ok anyways..:relief:

Where was i...

EPIC

In Inception! by Down Rodeo:

I agree - it's smart, but I think I got it. Need to go see it again likes.

In Alien Swurm SDK by Down Rodeo:

Rockbomb said:

You expect to make a mod for a game that uses steam, and not use steam?

That's kind of the point. You can't even start the SDK without Steam! Though, I guess that's the joke.

In .gif by Down Rodeo:

Wait, there are other kinds?

In Looking at new guitar by Down Rodeo:

e-peen contests.

In Looking at new guitar by Down Rodeo:

I'm not sure it's so much that as SRAW being praised for something (you saying "congratulations" for trolling me in another truck) and now attempting to troll more in order to get acceptance and praise again. Obviously as has been pointed out his attempts are made of fail.

SRAW I feel slightly sorry for you because you are pretty young but... just let it go, man.

In .gif by Down Rodeo:

superjer said:

Personally, I'd use GIMP.

I think this about covers it: www.gimp.org/tutorials/Simple_Animations/

(And I know I'm the only person on the planet who likes GIMP so WHATEVER.)

I like GIMP too! /sheep

In Alien Swurm SDK by Down Rodeo:

Well, I told it the link was a URL... maybe it didn't believe me. I mean, the second one works. In fact I did tell it there was a URL, all that happened was it flashed blue when I put the cursor on it. Second one works though. Definitely.

Sprinkles: surely Steam would be the easiest thing to chat through :p

In Looking at new guitar by Down Rodeo:

SRAW said:

You have been successfully trolled! That's all

This is what I was afraid would happen.

In Alien Swurm SDK by Down Rodeo:

Depends what you want to do, really. I'll chat more about this tomorrow.

In Alien Swurm SDK by Down Rodeo:

I think you have stopped winning trucks and have moved onto fora.

In Alien Swurm SDK by Down Rodeo:

How many internet-culture references are you aiming for, Rockbomb?

In Alien Swurm SDK by Down Rodeo:

sprinkles said:

My role will be to tell people what to do. :)

It's a classic. "I'm the idea man!"

Actually, the VDW sums it up best as "OK guyz i hav dis gret idea 4 a mod, all i ned is a mapper, c0der, anim/models guy, mayb sum1 4 textures kthx"

In Alien Swurm SDK by Down Rodeo:

Believe it or not, I've started to look at the code. I have plans, in this area. A game I'd wanted to try to make for a little while... what I like is that AS makes it essentially quite easy, already having the viewpoint, the structure, the sexy graphics engine, the assets... I will explain more later, after I do a little more poking around. But I can get it to compile correctly, so that's something.

In Alien Swurm SDK by Down Rodeo:

Apparently so. I've not used Hammer for YEARS.

In Alien Swurm SDK by Down Rodeo:

You open it though the "tools" menu. You then have access to Hammer, the Faceposer, some documentation, example maps, and gain the ability to copy the source to a directory to make your own mod.

In Alien Swurm SDK by Down Rodeo:

All you do is click on it. Assuming Steam is installed properly and your web browser knows to forward links like this to Steam it should just install it.

In Alien Swurm SDK by Down Rodeo:

steam://install/640 ought to do it. I'm a smart cookie.

Dammit, Supererer! Hmmm.

This maybe?

In Alien Swurm SDK by Down Rodeo:

Who's been using it? :)

In Sorry, but its Epic! by Down Rodeo:

I'm voting for "Not Rocket Man" as the new title.

In Portal File Missing Error by Down Rodeo:

As I proved when watching Sherlock Holmes last night by predicting dialogue, not just plot points or events, I am a genius. You may bask.

In on a lighter note by Down Rodeo:

That's quite funny actually.

In Portal File Missing Error by Down Rodeo:

Rockbomb: that error means that for some reason, one of the compiling tools exited early. hlvis needs certain files to operate on; one of those (mapname.prt) is created by an earlier tool. So that file missing could even be caused by simply not running one of the compile programs beforehand. Or there could be some other horrendous problem that we've never seen before causing hlbsp to fail. Who knows.

In Portal File Missing Error by Down Rodeo:

Well, you're doing something wrong. And we won't know what's wrong until you post the log. It's like... say your car won't start. You tell the mechanic over the phone, and he says right can you bring the car in, and you say no, so he can only give you general advice like put petrol in, make sure the battery's not flat... but really, that's probably not the problem. But he can't fix it because you've not shown him the car.

That's a messy analogy, but I think it brings across the key points.

In Portal File Missing Error by Down Rodeo:

Like it says, post the contents of the log file.

In i got games :D by Down Rodeo:

I know. My point was: either you meant that the consoles had less first-party content, which was unlikely as I'd seen no differences, or you meant mods. Which you did.

In Metallica is $13.37? by Down Rodeo:

When I said around then I was talking to myself, because in my head I had already said ~1990. So GIFs were written around then. Yes.

In PLEASE HELP ME !!!! by Down Rodeo:

You've done something very funky. You'll have to delete the brushes that are affected - the FAQ has some information on this.

In i got games :D by Down Rodeo:

Down Rodeo said:

Also, mods. Seriously missing out there.

In Sorry, but its Epic! by Down Rodeo:

I plan to live forever, so really I'm being selfish.

In Brush properties by Down Rodeo:

Or write to an area of memory it's not allowed to, or cause a run-time exception of some sort, or cause demons to come out of your nose.

In Metallica is $13.37? by Down Rodeo:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple-image_Network_Graphics

The reason for the last-millennium thing was that GIFs were written around then and the first release of MNG was in 2001, so the joke was not only funny but accurate!

In Alien Swarm by Down Rodeo:

You sound like a Cyberman. According to my Steam you were last online three hours ago; three hours ago I was in town. Presumably we are just feeling the time-zone effectification.

In Metallica is $13.37? by Down Rodeo:

Really? I thought very few people even *knew* about MNGs, because no-one uses them. I guess that's because it'll take another decade for IE to support them, if it ever does :D

In i got games :D by Down Rodeo:

What Aaronjer's saying is that because you are playing on a console your game is significantly crippled. I have no sources on this; I played Fallout 3 very briefly on my computer and have seen my flatmates play it lots on the Xbox. To me it looks pretty much the same but honestly I wouldn't know :)
One disadvantage that is definite and for sure is the is lack of RAM. What is it on the PS3? 256 graphics and 256 RAM? Or is it twice that for each? It's ridiculous, given how cheap memory is nowadays.

Also, mods. Seriously missing out there.

In Sorry, but its Epic! by Down Rodeo:

Reading threads like that makes me depressed. Honestly. There are 6 billion people in the world; if we all lived like the average American then we'd need three planet Earths. Therefore the world population should be 2 billion, assuming we all live like Americans; if we all lived in tiny cubes and never travelled more than ten miles I'm certain we could get 10 billion.

What I'm trying to say is that some people live unnecessary lives and I wish they'd try to improve them :)

In Metallica is $13.37? by Down Rodeo:

Everyone should use MNG, GIFs are so last millenium.

In failbook by Down Rodeo:

Obvious joke is obvious?

In Alien Swarm by Down Rodeo:

I've just accepted you, but I'm going out now, so I will see you online in the next little while I don't doubt. Good times ahead!

In i got games :D by Down Rodeo:

Give me a minute, I'll think of something. Mass Effect 2 deviates slightly from this in that it's not specifically about improving yourself and your team; it's actually about creating it. And... (time passes)

Jade Empire: it's more a revenge-type story, which ends with you freeing the Empire from an evil emperor's grip. Or not, depending on player choice. The bad thing has already happened. I appreciate these are not great examples... I'll keep trying.

Alpha Protocol's probably my best offer.

In Alien Swarm by Down Rodeo:

As RockPaperShotgun reminded me, it is important to keep your Aliens Warm.

Did I already post that here?

In Brush properties by Down Rodeo:

Either Sprinkles means a breakpoint or a really bad function that will just make the program die, somehow.

SRAW: I always took the lack of questions as a sign that the FAQ was working, though from many of the questions you get here you clearly know it isn't :p

In i got games :D by Down Rodeo:

It's the whole expectation around the games now, the aesthetic, the way it plays, the character design, even the story - you say they're different but it really boils down to "world in danger from massive threat" and eventually you grow stronger and beat it. Dropping the name would be a step on the path to recovery and some new, possibly interesting games :p

In Alien Swarm by Down Rodeo:

Yeah, go ahead. I occasionally get random requests, presumably through this forum, so you'll have to say you've added me :) otherwise you might end up in the "ignore/block" list :D

And I'll happily run from aliens with you, Jake?!

In Portal 2 by Down Rodeo:

It looks pretty awesome. Purportedly the core you carry around had a placeholder voice we see in these videos but people liked it so much he'll be the actual voice :)

In lols! by Down Rodeo:

SRAW said:

Conspiracy?

No.

In failbook by Down Rodeo:

I guess the people using Facebook in 2000 were so ahead of the curve they were using it four years before it was created :)

In Alien Swarm by Down Rodeo:

It is rather. We did a hard run tonight :) it ended up with one guy running to the Bloodhound, Aliens... well... swarming around him. Good times. If you like, I can try to help with your errors, because I've spent quite a while around Source. And it's quite stable :)

Connection issues will either be: your firewall, not allowing the game in/out. This probably isn't your problem on Windows 7. It could be because the person's internet you're playing on is quite slow, in which case, there's not a huge amount you can do. It could be that their firewall is blocking Alien Swurm (yes Swurm) so you can ask them to fix that... Dunno what else. Some of my friends and I might rent a server, it's so much better when you don't have a half-second lag going down :p

Tell you what, if you can find my Steam name on this site, and can put up with HORRIFIC connections because you're a few thousand miles away, we'll play with you. Probably not worth it for you, eh? :p

In i got games :D by Down Rodeo:

the_cloud_system said:

its i got it for ps3 and not enough slomo time to kill em unless i get strate headshots with a shotgun

Which is really what you should be doing. Of course the problem is you're using a controller, so headshots are a little rarer, I think ;)

buq: I didn't actually play, I watched my flatmate play through it. I can't remember how many he managed; there was one bastard of a room though where he took multiple attempts and eventually beasted it in slo-mo I think. It was quite harsh for the man nearest the door - every time he reloaded, BANG! Headshot with the HV Penetrator. But I can't remember how many he took out. D'you know, it always annoyed me that the first guy you shot took lots of damage, but as soon as he died, all his friends knew you were there SO TOOK LESS DAMAGE. That doesn't make sense, Monolith!

In i got games :D by Down Rodeo:

I find it odd that you haven't managed to kill four people in slow motion. That's the main way you kill people in FEAR... unless gameplay changed drastically from the first one :p

A nade's more difficult, but doable, in the right situation. I feel I should ask, are you playing on the Xbox?

In lols! by Down Rodeo:

You'll have been reading the IRC archive, then.

In i got games :D by Down Rodeo:

Final Fantasy needs to die. They can even make the same game, just call it a different name! Christ.

In i got games :D by Down Rodeo:

I was thinking of buying that today, the shop I was in had 2 for £25, but I think I can get it more cheaply online.

In Inception! by Down Rodeo:

Predators looks like it will suck. The Last Airbender is directed by M Night Shamalayan... He sucks at making movies.

In Inception! by Down Rodeo:

But this means I cannot discuss! Well, all I can say is you need to watch the shit out of that movie. I might go watch it again, my mum wants to see it. Argh the mindfuckery!

In Metallica is $13.37? by Down Rodeo:

'gash' generally means not good in the context I'm using it. The dictionary definition is a slit or hole; you can guess the other slang meaning from that, really.

In Warning: Lots of dicks! by Down Rodeo:

This is ~~hilarious~~ it's not hilarious. I make a joke about having a problem with homosexuality, changing the meaning from taking issue with those who are gay to implying that you yourself are attracted to people of your own gender, and you have all hit the roof! Christ, what kind of backwards types are you? I mean really. Is there actually a problem with it?

It's the completely the over-the-top reaction that I expected but did not hope to find. There is this huge tendency among men to react to any suggestion of homosexuality with complete denial and

screw it, this is a post for another time.

In Inception! by Down Rodeo:

I posted this a while ago. I can't sleep. I might already be sleeping! Fortunately there's no-one around, so they're probably not my personas.

Holy shit, the "Dream Time" truck just got TERRIFYING.

In Inception! by Down Rodeo:

Wow.

In Metallica is $13.37? by Down Rodeo:

I have Kill 'em All. It's pretty decent, but some of it's pretty gash. My flatmate's picked up two of their albums recently.

In I broke it :S by Down Rodeo:

Sprinkles, when will you learn? The internet is anger!

In Program muter? by Down Rodeo:

This is assuming you are using Vista or 7, XP is more limited, I think.

In Alien Swarm by Down Rodeo:

The main problem is that there are no, or at least very few dedicated servers, so you end up with a bunch of people local hosting, and that's bad times. I was getting ~280 - 400 ms sometimes! Which is obviously dreadful.

In Digital cartography by Down Rodeo:

Rockbomb said:

You're in your final year of engineering and you don't have autocad?

I'm beyond the stage of asking :p

In Alien Swarm by Down Rodeo:

I meant to make this post last night :)

I've played through the campaign on normal, which actually took a while, but it is lots of fun. Source looks properly nice again! I am now browsing the SDK docs, because I have ideas. Sadly it appears it will not work with VS2010, and since I'd have to download one fresh I'd probably go the most recent.

In Digital cartography by Down Rodeo:

http://www.blender.org/ is one of the best free tools, there are lots of other paid ones.

In Warning: Lots of dicks! by Down Rodeo:

Maybe you shouldn't consider it a problem, and just accept it as a part of who you are.

In Warning: Lots of dicks! by Down Rodeo:

So you guys have a problem with homosexuality?

In Brush properties by Down Rodeo:

func_breakable, oddly.

In Warning: Lots of dicks! by Down Rodeo:

The one where they say they like to puch the weak around but I'll be damned if I can name it. Bubbles? I dunno. It's been a long time :p

In Digital cartography by Down Rodeo:

Not sure what you mean by 3d Digital Cartography, have any links?

In Window startup error by Down Rodeo:

Sounds to me like the best thing for your box would be to reinstall Windows. There are all these core components that are failing!

In yay by Down Rodeo:

Happy birthday, you are one step closer.

In Warning: Lots of dicks! by Down Rodeo:

Well, t'ain't me, wouldn't be cloud unless he ran it through a spellchecker first... I mean, there are mistakes, but they're not *his* mistakes :P

I have no idea. Maybe, just maybe mello or CornJer. Or maybe it is just someone random who's been lurking here for however long. Welcome! Welcome, to ~~City 17~~ SuperJerForumsCom.

In Glass by Down Rodeo:

How to read FAQ?

In De-compilation problem by Down Rodeo:

/truck, rockbomb wins.

In hana cards! by Down Rodeo:

Every day man.

In I have no name ): by Down Rodeo:

...yeah, alright.

In Dream Time by Down Rodeo:

:D quality stuff, as per.

In too many errors by Down Rodeo:

You will have to find the affected brush and delete it, so that might get rid of a few at a time.

In De-compilation problem by Down Rodeo:

Why do you want to decompile these maps? I will never understand the vast majority of people's desire to do this.

In Dream Time by Down Rodeo:

As regards taking what I could get, I guess so, were I to go out with a woman I would not place too much of a focus on how large her chest was.

I love California, I don't think I could live there, but I definitely want to holiday there again.

In I have no name ): by Down Rodeo:

It'd be pretty funny if the chat replaced all 'e's with '3's. THat sort of thing.

SRAW, I was beginning to tolerate your presence on this truck depot. But you're just a giant bellend.

In I have no name ): by Down Rodeo:

It's a reference to how left-handed people would write a smiley in a text message. It's a bit of an old joke, that's all.

In Dream Time by Down Rodeo:

You want like a good handfull, not too much though.

In I have no name ): by Down Rodeo:

It is a sad face... just left-handed.

In Check out the BUSCAT, how awesome is THAT!? by Down Rodeo:

Many many dead cats and lots of experiments. In other news it appears my phone does not properly support gifs.

In I have no name ): by Down Rodeo:

SRAW is a h4xz0r.

In TRADE WITH ME PLEASE by Down Rodeo:

Portal was free for about a week. And modern warfare is very pricey and not very good.

In Dream Time by Down Rodeo:

Superjer you are a total hero.

In ok i have a personal request by Down Rodeo:

xXJigsaw23Xx said:

we always made it random

Then what's the point of providing the questions in the first place? Also, have you ever accessed the account on a PC?

In ok i have a personal request by Down Rodeo:

Password recovery questions?

In ok i have a personal request by Down Rodeo:

I would probably ask your brother. I assume you've moved Xboxes recently then? Normally you won't need the password.

In failbook.com by Down Rodeo:

It happens. You just have to learn to capitalise on these opportunities.

In Dream Time by Down Rodeo:

Even just </br>.

In Dream Time by Down Rodeo:

Ohmigod, superjer should totally include support for columns.

In Check out the BUSCAT, how awesome is THAT!? by Down Rodeo:

I KNOW THE FACE OF TERROR

In AOTHER NEW ANIMATION, BUTTMUNCH! by Down Rodeo:

I watched it yesterday and found it to be verynice, Ilike.

In Chupacabras killed in Texas! by Down Rodeo:

Good, I never like her.

In Wont let me set up by Down Rodeo:

obiiob said:

And sprinkles why do you always have to be a bitch? this forum is for people with QUESTIONS not where you can bitch at the people who dont know much about technology you asshole.

BURN

Sprinkles is totally a bitch, he's left us for another forum, but still comes crawling back here. I CAN'T LOVE YOU LIKE I USED TO SPRINKLES

In Logging in by Down Rodeo:

We should all notify Superjar of this truck's existence.

In I removed a virus without using a antivirus!! by Down Rodeo:

Suicide is the only option. I can't believe you did this to me us!

In I removed a virus without using a antivirus!! by Down Rodeo:

Sprinkles, you've been a bit quiet recently. You're not cheating on us with another forum, are you?

In hlvis: Error: Portal file 'test.prt' error by Down Rodeo:

Wait, what? I thought it was working now. Anyway, the FAQ tells you how you can merge textures into a custom WAD, though you should try to use widely-available WADs, rather than making this huge monolithic WAD. If you know what I mean.

In hlvis: Error: Portal file 'test.prt' error by Down Rodeo:

Probably about 8, hence why I said it. The FAQ has some information on this.

In hlvis: Error: Portal file 'test.prt' error by Down Rodeo:

I'd say use fewer than eight and try again.

In hlvis: Error: Portal file 'test.prt' error by Down Rodeo:

the_cloud_system said:

2. is everey thing there

Not the same thing - the file was there but it's empty.

In hlvis: Error: Portal file 'test.prt' error by Down Rodeo:

Well caught Sraw.

In Wont let me set up by Down Rodeo:

God knows. They started it with Vista - well, maybe they do it on XP x64, I dunno. Perhaps it is to ensure that old programs - i.e. 32-bit ones - break even more on 64-bit when you have to force () into the installer as has happened here :)

I have so very few 64-bit programs. It hardly seems worth it.

In Wont let me set up by Down Rodeo:

the_cloud_system said:

id like to take this time to point out that
ALL. COMPUTERS. SUCK. EQUALITY

I'm going to go ahead and assume that you mean exactly what you have written, as it is a far better sentence than it might have turned out to be. Also, computers =/= operating systems.

<3

In Wont let me set up by Down Rodeo:

If I were on a rant, I would say this is why open-source is better, because you could recompile most things for x64. Of course I'd run into problems when posting using my open-source 32-bit browser. Ah well.

In Wont let me set up by Down Rodeo:

QFT?

In Wont let me set up by Down Rodeo:

Rockbomb said:

Install it in the 32bit program files rather than the 64bit, and it'll work.

Actually, Program Files (x86) is the 32-bit folder, that's why it's trying to put the 32-bit hammer program in there. The folder C:\Program Files\ is for 63-bit, but this is all a minor point :)

In confusing shiznat by Down Rodeo:

Down Rodeo said:

You'd possibly have to make the entire area the terrorist could be in a teleporter entrance and have it activated by the counter terrorist's teleporter. It's a bit of a setup challenge anyway.

I've not changed my answer, I think this is how you should do it. I think it is possible to trigger both teleports at once by using a trigger_multiple. Like, a trigger multiple in the same place as the CT's teleporter, which turns on both the CT and T teleporter. See?

In confusing shiznat by Down Rodeo:

You'd possibly have to make the entire area the terrorist could be in a teleporter entrance and have it activated by the counter terrorist's teleporter. It's a bit of a setup challenge anyway.

In Dream Time by Down Rodeo:

You always end up having to kill everyone when you are an assassin, it's a bit gutting.

In Dream Time by Down Rodeo:

I just had another dream about a girl! Wtf is this!?

In New swear word by Down Rodeo:

aaronjer said:

Maybe that's why you have a problem, DR.

Nah, there are many reasons.

In I removed a virus without using a antivirus!! by Down Rodeo:

aaronjer said:

You appeared to take his virus story seriously. As in, you believed he had a virus at some point.

As much is this is the internet on which disbelief should be the natural instinct, there was nothing particularly strange about his story. winlogon is often targeted by viruses, SRAW appears to download material which could be infected with viruses... Then "fixes" it by doing

HOLY SHIT was this some attempt to troll me right now?! You're so meta!

In SUBADAR FORA?? by Down Rodeo:

n33ds moar h4x

In I removed a virus without using a antivirus!! by Down Rodeo:

I'm probably quite easy to troll, I imagine, but have I just been?

In SUBADAR FORA?? by Down Rodeo:

It's been mentioned in the chat long ago.

In I removed a virus without using a antivirus!! by Down Rodeo:

I wouldn't be so sure that it is fixed: winlogon is a critical component. I imagine that originally the virus will have infected winlogon.exe and has now backed itself up to another part of the drive. Because if you have deleted all copies of winlogon, your computer won't start :p

In See through floors and quick drown water by Down Rodeo:

Rockbomb said:

Kotohunter said:

How would you make the top null and the bottom normal?

Use a null texture on top and a regular texture on bottom?

It's almost like SRAW said you should use a null on top and normal on the bottom.

In New swear word by Down Rodeo:

It really doesn't sound offensive to me as I see it like "Bridget minus an 'r'", which, you know. Bridgets are rarely offensive.

In my counter strike problem by Down Rodeo:

I think the problem is you're playing Counter-Strike. If you didn't play, you wouldn't have these problems.

In Facepalm button? by Down Rodeo:

Because he's no longer Subries or any of the other myriad names our mutual has had over the years.

In by Down Rodeo:

YES WE GOT IT

Jesus, we could have let this thing die, but nooooooo.

In how to convert a .bsp file to .map file. by Down Rodeo:

See, KD, this is what I was trying to avoid :p

In cs_office... by Down Rodeo:

Saying that, Googling reveals only decompiles... Perhaps the originals aren't available - that would make sense, kind of.

In how to convert a .bsp file to .map file. by Down Rodeo:

Like I said in the other truck, there isn't a program that will reliably do this for you.

In cs_office... by Down Rodeo:

I think the main problem is you're using bing.

In Happy 4th of July. by Down Rodeo:

Yes, and th' call went unanswered.

In Windows 7 by Down Rodeo:

The most important difference lies in the amount of memory your computer can address. 32-bit tops out at 4 GB, with a maximum of 2 GB for any given program. If you have less than 4 GB ram there is very little reason for you to get 64 as at the moment most programs only have a 32-bit incarnation anyway :)

Taskbar: I dunno.

In cloud system by Down Rodeo:

Thought so - my Steam says I have 89 games. My oh my.

In by Down Rodeo:

That's a hard fail there.

Let's just say, you can't. Sorry :(

In Mod/Map help please by Down Rodeo:

I was about to make a joke then I realised you were talking about "play for a half minute then stop" American football. Eugh.

In VICS by Down Rodeo:

And the VICS. I might text-vom those on here later.

You, meantime, have discussed none. Get to it!

As a final edit: how can you misspell condiments when it is right there on the page? I think you do it to annoy me. Bastard.

In VICS by Down Rodeo:

ISS drops out of space, flaming wreck destroys Godzilla. Always bagels. As evidenced by first answer, blowing shit up is ideal, regardless of circumstance.

In I think sprinkles should be banned by Down Rodeo:

aaronjer said:

That is the only reason you aren't ALL BANNED. MOTHERFUCKERS.

That's totally metal :D

In HOT TO DEATH by Down Rodeo:

Y'know, all that makes sense!

In HOT TO DEATH by Down Rodeo:

Y'know, that makes sense!

In I think sprinkles should be banned by Down Rodeo:

These forums don't ban for ignorance, sadly.

In Lightswitch by Down Rodeo:

It could well be a bug - there are many of them. You could try setting them to start on then triggering the light switch to turn it off, maybe? I've heard about funny things like this happening from time to time.

Triggering it to turn the lights back off when the round starts, for instance. Sorry.

In Lightswitch by Down Rodeo:

There might be a way to do it with some funny advanced brushes. And no, it was because you answered your own question :D

In Lightswitch by Down Rodeo:

This is possibly the bet help post I have ever ~~read~~ skimmed. :)

In Dream Time by Down Rodeo:

Something more like this. Mostly this is me just playing on my phone now, I was wondering how easy it would be to link to stuff. In short: less easy than a PC, but more awesome. And it was a very hot dream. Something is making me think we were following a man though I can't really remember now...

In Dream Time by Down Rodeo:

You know what I meant. Like... ugh. You know. The only reason I posted this is because I wanted to share the crushing disappointment of waking up and that not being my reality :-(

In Dream Time by Down Rodeo:

So, a dream: this one was pretty awesome. It starts quite oddly, I might have been in some kind of school. The bit I definitely remember is that 5 of the rather more overweight girls in the class, if that's what it was, had decided to put on some kind of show that involved lots of dancing and suchlike. There were a few of us watching this (the show now of course being rather irrelevant to the dream) including a very nice looking girl who shifted position slightly; this must have been a couple of minutes in. I made some joke like, "You better watch you don't lie on top of me," smooth operator that I am. Showing that I completely do not know how women or indeed people work she did proceed to lie somewhat on my chest. I feel I should mention that when she moved originally she bumped me slightly which was the prompt for the comment. What can I say, we watched Top Gun last night. And it was awesome.

So anyway this bit gets somewhat fuzzy because I've been awake for a little while now and am forgetting things but the gist is we hit it off. The next section is actually rather inspired aesthetically by Assassin's Creed, I've been playing quite a lot of it recently. We appear to be climbing across rooftops and the like, it's quiet, moonlit, beautiful, all that nonsense. I am showing off somehow - I know this much because my new ladyfriend is very impressed. In fact, we kiss, the conversation turns to... other things, and I hear someone stomping down the stairs of the close presumably on their way to work. I know I was right in the middle of that bloody dream when I woke too! Bastards.

Of course this dream is about wish fulfilment, pure and simple, but I was enjoying it! It was a very nice dream to be part of.

Also, to try to save time to remember as much is possible, I am typing this on my sexy new phone from bed :D
Yes, I called the phone sexy but not the girl. What of it?

In HOT TO DEATH by Down Rodeo:

Any time anyone says that, I think George Clooney.

In Maps wont Run by Down Rodeo:

Like it says though - just because it worked last time doesn't mean it will work this time. Once we've eliminated the easy stuff, the obvious, we can move onwards and downwards into the murky innards of your map.

In Deathrun Creating by Down Rodeo:

Rockbomb said:

thank you captain obvious.

In achievement_all_v4 TF2 map by Down Rodeo:

Fuck me that's hilarious.

In Need help! by Down Rodeo:

Well, in that case I can't help you. Unless you are into some slightly dangerous and potentially illegal sexual practices. Ahem.

In Need help! by Down Rodeo:

Awesome, I'm half-way through a list. This is going to be so cool!

In Need help! by Down Rodeo:

...anything?

In Need help! by Down Rodeo:

How come all you people are getting file read errors? What are you doing?

In paypal by Down Rodeo:

Forgot you could do that :D

In paypal by Down Rodeo:

Yeah, you need a bank account and that sort of thing. Ofc my Paypal is fucked right now :(

In wierd error! by Down Rodeo:

Because you've told it to look in the wrong place, presumably. Make sure all the paths are correct.

In Textures are Blurry by Down Rodeo:

Looks like it might be a low-resolution preview. Generally it means the original texture was not a high-enough resolution so some kind of interpolation is going on. When it looks like that?

In Finished map. by Down Rodeo:

Also, if you are not using them, you should remove them.

In questions by Down Rodeo:

Could be a temporary file from compiling, like ZHLTtemp, if you know what I mean.

In Need fast help with this error ! by Down Rodeo:

Well, in that case you're screwed.

In Finished map. by Down Rodeo:

That was an example, not a thing. Thingy. Not a thing to do. It was only an example.

In Finished map. by Down Rodeo:

I'm telling you I don't know but they are the ones that are there when you first install CounterStrike. So wads that match the name of the maps that come with the game, for instance. And Half-Life.wad, that sort of thing.

In Finished map. by Down Rodeo:

Anything that is present in the wads that come with Half-Life/CounterStrike. Those are wads, incidentally, that you don't need to include in the map. To choose exactly which wads you include you can use the command

-wadinclude whatever.wad

Instead of -nowadtextures. I hope that makes sense.

In Mega 64 VERSION 3 by Down Rodeo:

Did Aaronjer get over there?

In Finished map. by Down Rodeo:

You're using a lot of custom textures, then. Might be best to try to stick to defaults - because 80-odd meg for a CS map is a lot.

In Made a New Video by Down Rodeo:

Fo' sho': http://www.danah.org/papers/talks/PDF2009.html

Though this is me remembering it from quite a while ago so I would say that I could be misremembering. But it's probably mostly accurate.

In Made a New Video by Down Rodeo:

Actually, someone did a study on the demographic split of social networking and it currently looks like rich white American kids use Facebook and see MySpace as being for black poor people. Interesting stuff. MySpace, for me, has too much going on, and music that plays the instant you go on a site is like, totally awesome. Who doesn't love it?!

In Member Pics by Down Rodeo:

Kayos is a lovely man, I'm sure he wouldn't.

In Soccer ball. by Down Rodeo:

So how do you know it's even possible?

In Soccer ball. by Down Rodeo:

Let me guess - this is one of those things you have seen on another map, yes?

In meh speed cloud system by Down Rodeo:

Argh Superjer you biatch! I don't think you can get speeds like that anywhere in Scotland short of being a business!

In aaronjer called me??? by Down Rodeo:

That's really nice, but I'm assuming this should be preceded by "I had a dream where"

In Website as Graph by Down Rodeo:

At the risk of severe retribution, I'll bet they didn't affect the mood either :)

In WILLING TO TRADE by Down Rodeo:

That's what I assume he's done. Generally you get VAC banned for a reason - ofc we have heard the horror stories where it's made a wrong decision. My Steam tells me I am good at standing.

In Your web hosting provider? by Down Rodeo:

0zas said:

I apologize for the possible off-topic.

It's ok, this is your truck :p

Sprinkles, what are you on aboot?

In I iz win? by Down Rodeo:

Hey, I resent that! I am perfectly bisexual.

In I iz win? by Down Rodeo:

ASCII does it for me! I can't help it!

In Different colors on Mac/Windows by Down Rodeo:

Well, the IE renderer is always going to remain closed :p

Theoretically, this is what standards are for. But I'm not even sure if it's a browser issue - all browsers use standard libraries for the images and things. It sounds like a really weird problem!

In I iz win? by Down Rodeo:

It's not awkward, it's arousing.

In Different colors on Mac/Windows by Down Rodeo:

Yes, Webkit fully complies, which means Safari gets 100 as well. AFAIR the latest builds of FireFox end up at 96 and IE 8 *shudder* hits the sixties, maybe.

And Presto by Opera gets 100.

In Different colors on Mac/Windows by Down Rodeo:

Rockbomb has a point, as we're sure you know GIFs are limited to 256 colours. At some point, IE did not do PNGs properly either.

In Different colors on Mac/Windows by Down Rodeo:

So you have a picture which has different tones when displayed on Windows and when displayed on Mac? Not sure I unnerstan'.

In Source to Goldsource? by Down Rodeo:

They are still BSPs. I don't know if there are tools to decompile those.

In Tell me this isn't gay by Down Rodeo:

It sometimes happens. Maybe GamersGate experienced high load. Maybe a server quietly died. Maybe lots of people went on the internet. Maybe your ISP practices peak-time throttling. Maybe lots of things.

In BF2 doesn't work in windows 7... by Down Rodeo:

AaronJer, you crazy.

In Wad merge. by Down Rodeo:

Sushi said:

I thought this forum was to help us about VHE?

What happen? Useless site now?

Well, not really. It's more like Superjer's online ego.

In Setting Up a Server by Down Rodeo:

Well, let me know, and mebbes I'd get my shit together enough to start writing code again ;)

In My Shity Graphics Card by Down Rodeo:

That doesn't sound right... Try changing the graphics renderer. If it's OpenGL try DirectX and vice versa.

In The LHC Rap by Down Rodeo:

Oh God, from reading the description, I might have seen him around campus. Good Lord!

In superjer, Hey! by Down Rodeo:

Or where he is or went to or why he won't come back.

In Setting Up a Server by Down Rodeo:

Ah, but are teh adminz, and can read it. :p Not that I necessarily distrust you. But y'know.

In My Shity Graphics Card by Down Rodeo:

Or stay away from laptops for gaming. </hypocrisy>

In Setting Up a Server by Down Rodeo:

Ah, but see personal, it'd be mainly for convenience :p

But thank you, I imagine it could be quite useful. :)

In BF2 doesn't work in windows 7... by Down Rodeo:

Try running it in compatibility.

In Yahoo Image Search Surprise. by Down Rodeo:

I think I don't get that because I am a UK type person thing.

In Yahoo Image Search Surprise. by Down Rodeo:

World of Isaac?

In windoes i5 and shit by Down Rodeo:

i5s are pretty nice.

In stupid question by Down Rodeo:

You're just like that Sushi guy. Christ, it's not difficult!

In by Down Rodeo:

In Degrees? by Down Rodeo:

Oh, not that I know of. Maybe I misunderstand you though.

In Degrees? by Down Rodeo:

What?

In 1337th post! by Down Rodeo:

In CS 1.6 spray! by Down Rodeo:

In that case I would either recommend giving up or finding an image editing program, such as the GIMP, or whatever you want to use, there are lots, and reading through some basic tutorials for this program, then reading up on the section on transparency and copying and pasting, and you will be sorted. Please, I am certain you can do this entirely for yourself with very little effort. I'm not trying to be a dick just this once, it's more that I (many years ago) worked out things like this from the internet. It's only become a bigger resource in the meantime so I am sure that a few minutes with Google, maybe a couple of hours with the results, will net you what you want. Besides, won't it feel better when you manage to do it yourself? I know I get a feeling of accomplishment.

In This is hard to explain... Seriously... by Down Rodeo:

I think I understand what you mean but do not necessarily know why they're doing it. Are there any properties that allow you to change their orientation, that sort of thing?

In CS 1.6 spray! by Down Rodeo:

You'll work it out when you're older, son.

Sushi - although it's a bit hard to decipher cloudy has actually told you how. Like the nice man says you only need to get the outline of the CT and copy that many times. At this stage you ought to be able to find out how to do that by yourself - seriously.

In Did you know? by Down Rodeo:

He's everywhere! How was your break?

In superjer, Hey! by Down Rodeo:

SRAW is speaking from experience here; it's just the way things happen 'round here.

In :f: by Down Rodeo:

Fiver bet Killer-Chicken has a sphere casting a shadow as an avatar in a few days.

In :f: by Down Rodeo:

I'd probably bow to Killer-Duck's superior knowledge on this one.

In ned sum halp by Down Rodeo:

There were rules?

In ned sum halp by Down Rodeo:

Yeah, I had meant to say, insulting Pantera is about the one and only way to get banned from these flora.

In ned sum halp by Down Rodeo:

SRAW said:

and Pantera ROCK

Fixed.

In Well .... by Down Rodeo:

I hope so!

In ned sum halp by Down Rodeo:

I came.

In Leak Problem. by Down Rodeo:

No, it's still the leak. The FAQ should have something that says why.

In Well .... by Down Rodeo:

fedex _ said:

down rodeo - dick head lol

I'm proud of that.

In WhiteBird by Down Rodeo:

Shitzan giggles. Learning? Experience? Working up to doing work on other browsers?

How does Whitebird do on the Acid tests?

In pin code by Down Rodeo:

Actually, fedex_, I'm pretty sure I understood what he meant, which was what you said. We're not 'tarded.

In pin code by Down Rodeo:

Well, I'm sure if you gave me a second I could think of an example. It's the fact that to get it right it would need to store some kind of data and have a conditional or have some kind of branching, which seems a little too complicated to me. Sounds kind of javascripty, which of course can be done with CS. Is that right? It can be done in CS:S. I assume it can in 1.6...

In pin code by Down Rodeo:

Why not try to work it out yourself? I don't know the HL entities well enough to think it through... you might need a serverside mod to do it even!

In pin code by Down Rodeo:

I think SRAW is a bitch-ass noob, or, if you will, a bitch ass-noob.

In Stupid Kodak by Down Rodeo:

sadface

In Battle.net Captcha by Down Rodeo:

Who's going the Boomer?

In Severe keyboard failure by Down Rodeo:

Could be. It did the funny T'm-too-hot-turning-off-now-thing again today. The CPU seems to be hitting 373 K.

In Im new to Superjer and ill start off by by Down Rodeo:

Well, you deserve

actually, this is the internet, I can't say that sort of thing. Damn :(

In Im new to Superjer and ill start off by by Down Rodeo:

The "EXCEED_MAX_FACES" error, I think. You can put it in yourself if you promise to format it nicely - either that or Sprinkles can stick his post in there. We need an admin to clean it up though... I miss Edan :(

In Threading by Down Rodeo:

Supes has a point.

In Severe keyboard failure by Down Rodeo:

So last night I was playing Supreme Commander 2 (I managed to get it for £13, how awesome is that!) and at a certain stage my laptop must have overheated or something because it turned itself off. Completely. I was somewhat disappointed and restarted, becoming somewhat surprised when it transpired that my keyboard no longer worked. So, hard restart again, still nothing, loads Ubuntu by default. I've forgotten all my Linux know-how so I restart this time with a flatmate's keyboard plugged in. Windows doesn't get anything from it either but tells me that the driver thinks it is working fine - clearly not the case. This morning I was going to an interview; I had one last check - nothing. Just coming in a few minutes ago I tried turning it on without turning on the power supply, i.e. run the thing on battery. And it works. I don't know why. I don't know why it stopped working.

Conclusion: I find that sometimes I hate computers.

In Threading by Down Rodeo:

Fancy posting form.cs? I don't know enough about your implementation to say whether it's thread safe of even sensible yet! How much have you looked at threading?

In Threading by Down Rodeo:

My advice then is to read the documentation on the thread type you're using. It seems to me that the method does most of the work for you (not trying to suggest you're in some way lacking), so when you start it up it does its thing then goes, and you're not being given much choice over how to do it. So, see if the docs tell you how to stop that/do it properly.

In Insert Latin Here. by Down Rodeo:

I see :)

In Insert Latin Here. by Down Rodeo:

Said "Fuckin' Imageshack. Pile of crap :("

In Insert Latin Here. by Down Rodeo:

I did, what of it?

In Insert Latin Here. by Down Rodeo:

Fuckin' Imageshack. Pile of crap :(

In Threading by Down Rodeo:

Presumably you're calling some thread exit code then, no?

In I have failed! by Down Rodeo:

Well, if they're both wrong you could in fact argue that it's not yours :p

In i do bleave this will work by Down Rodeo:

Linux - might be helpful, probably not a necessity. As for seeing your data, probably not, unless you've deliberately shared it.

In Midget Stripper by Down Rodeo:

fedex_ neglects to mention bumping a year-old truck just today. Poor show.

In Setting Up a Server by Down Rodeo:

Perhaps sprinkles wants it for his own use. I know I'd like my own personal svn/git/mercurial...

In Rock's cpp truck. by Down Rodeo:

Cheers Jer!

In Medals by Down Rodeo:

Not asking for medals helps.

In Rock's cpp truck. by Down Rodeo:

Remember, lines with a hash in front of them are preprocessor directives. See my post about what #include does, for instance. It literally deposits all the text from the file "whatever.h" at the top of yours (which is how you are able to use the various builtin functions). So no, you don't need the hash sign. There are other tutorials that break functions in a bit more gently... perhaps it is still best to think of functions as being similar to variables - declare before use!

In Rock's cpp truck. by Down Rodeo:

You don't need the brackets around the 0, you can do it like
return 0;

Also you have to declare the function before you use it, just like variables. So at the top of your file you can have one line like "int test()" then later on you can define it. This is what header files are mainly used for.

In Rock's cpp truck. by Down Rodeo:

Yes. As I'm sure you know the first bit is the return type, the second bit the name and the bit in the brackets is where you place the arguments. Or parameters if you will.

In Rock's cpp truck. by Down Rodeo:

http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/iostream/istream/ignore/

It appears that it ignores 1000 characters. So that it doesn't mess with your actual input. I dunno.

In Rock's cpp truck. by Down Rodeo:

Put it before you ever intend to use them. It's like... the preprocessor basically substitutes whatever happens after

Screw it, example time:

#define 1 2

Means that wherever the preprocessor sees '1' in the source it replaces it with '2'. So, #defines should go at the top of the source. The #ifdef and #ifndef are like small if-else constructs but again are only followed by the preprocessor. It's like asking "what platform am I on?" One final thing to note is that #include is just the same - it is only used by the preprocessor. All it does is dump the entire contents of the header file you specify at the top of your file (at least it does in C, but what does #include <cstdlib> mean in that sense? Is it still a header? Jer, help me!)

In Superjer Chat, Broken? by Down Rodeo:

Happened to me as well Jer McJerJer, though as mentioned I'm on Firefox. No screens from me though :(

In I thought you ought to know. by Down Rodeo:

You have two legs, don't you?!

In Superjer Chat, Broken? by Down Rodeo:

Yes, I use Firefox 3.6. It started happening a little while ago - three weeks maximum I'd say.

In Superjer Chat, Broken? by Down Rodeo:

Sprinkles' idea was that when the chat-update coincides with the user sending a message it checks twice effectively, somehow making your server sending the "new" message again.

In help makig server by Down Rodeo:

Ah, she is very French, and romantic. I bet she was smoking a gauloises as she wrote it.

In help makig server by Down Rodeo:

If that's her, she was 18 not too long ago, mentioned something about lost time and has studied photography for quite a few years. I then stopped reading as I was really getting lost :s

In Ok guys i have like 3 days by Down Rodeo:

The inverse of exponentiation, if you want to think of it like that. It's the slowest-growing function.

In McDiddy's Game / SPARToR by Down Rodeo:

Confirmed. The same happens when looking up or down. I'm impressed btw! Sounds like a really great idea for an engine :D

In McDiddy's Game / SPARToR by Down Rodeo:

It works with Xbox gamepads. Thing is it detects even the smallest displacement so you can go scooting off to either side when really you want to be standing still (so, either have analogue movement or ignore the first little bit of signal). It's nice that it works out-of-the-box too :) I'd love to help with this seeing as I have a summer of nothing coming up, I'm going to hit the git repo now :)

In Programming Languages by Down Rodeo:

Although you can make a distinction between compiled and interpreted languages most of them can be one or the other. For instance, Python is 'normally' an interpreted language. However, since a couple of years ago, .py files can be compiled into .pyc files.

In superjer.com/forum/ Questions by Down Rodeo:

This was released a little over two years ago, no? I remember joining when it was the old-style forumses.

In Title Scene by Down Rodeo:

Ooh, pretty :)

In Title Scene by Down Rodeo:

Not available :D

In Programming Languages by Down Rodeo:

As far as I'm aware they're actually in the same state, no?

In .swf by Down Rodeo:

Not really? Not sure what would happen if you tried to run "run". Right, investigation time: nuthin'. It'd be cool if it was like the bash bash thing. Running multiple levels of bash, or csh, or ksh, or sh, or whatever.

In Find the Hole Party! by Down Rodeo:

I'd be excited too. It was good fun last time, but I missed one of the games by 20 mins.

In Programming Languages by Down Rodeo:

Privet like the hedge :)

I'd agree with SRAW on Python and Haskell; they both use whitespace to delineate blocks of code, like functions or class bodies or whatever. You can do this with tabs but can also do it with spaces. Beyond that... APL and J, maybe? I'm not sure as I've not properly used them.

In .swf by Down Rodeo:

It doesn't have one, it's like a builtin.

In Programming Languages by Down Rodeo:

When you ask your question what exactly do you mean? Like, recognise? I don't understand.

In Halo Reach Beta by Down Rodeo:

And we have a winner?

In .swf by Down Rodeo:

swf is Shockwave Flash. So, the flash player. Open the files in your browser, it ought to work :)

In Ok guys i have like 3 days by Down Rodeo:

We have a winner!

In Private Maps by Down Rodeo:

It's like putting copy protection on music. Sure, you're protecting the file, but you have given the user the data, they will have some way of getting it even if you don't want them to. Hell, they could even copy it by eyeballing, you know?

In Desktop Dungeons by Down Rodeo:

Yeah, the graphics aren't fantastic. But Derek Yu (he of Spelunky) has made an alternative tileset, I didn't bother downloading though.

In The compilator! by Down Rodeo:

I doubt it as I've never seen it mentioned on these boards. What's wrong with the batch file method? It works well enough.

In Desktop Dungeons by Down Rodeo:

Not so useless after all... I thought, how about maximising the priest's Good Health bonus? This is what happened. One of my highest scores as well I think, 41140.

In Desktop Dungeons by Down Rodeo:

My first run on normal was as the priest. I was a dwarf, nothing could kill me by the end. But I guess he'd be less useful now...

In Desktop Dungeons by Down Rodeo:

I unlocked the vampire! By the end of that run I was doing ~ 140 damage. I found the Glowing Guardian :D

In Uncovering Dirt by Down Rodeo:

Oh dear oh dear. I'm pretty certain this counts as abuse; anything more than this and it's paedophilia :D

In Super Mario Brothers - Frustration by Down Rodeo:

I've seen these videos, they're pretty hilarious. He does other ones, right? I also saw some made a kind of... mash up of all his attempts. So you see lots of Marios run towards the next section, most of them die, but a few continue on. It's very interesting to watch.

In Desktop Dungeons by Down Rodeo:

I see. Well done though! :) That's a good idea, leaving high-level armours dotted around...

In Desktop Dungeons by Down Rodeo:

Ah, that's a good point. I've rarely come up against the goat. In fact, I don't think I've ever beaten it... Have you managed any other runs? I'm wondering if the best way to do the wizard one is to get as many shops, gold piles, loot bonuses and best shop stock as you can by playing other runs...

In Private Maps by Down Rodeo:

In Soviet Russia, patent protects you?

In Help me come up with a name? by Down Rodeo:

I'd say the second, the first is a lot like the Motherboard company and the third sounds a little... meh.

In Halo Reach Beta by Down Rodeo:

No, you're the only person in the world.

In Desktop Dungeons by Down Rodeo:

The factory is really easy with the sorcerer unsurprisingly. And yes, Iron Man makes wizards into a pasty mess; so would it be useful to go a human so you can damage him? Me no know. Have you unlocked most of the other bits aye? Well yes or you wouldn't be on the factory :D

It took me ages to get the warlord. Not a fan of his glyph - if it stacked I'd use it lots more.

I've never had the Glowing Guardian with my assassin runs, did have him with a priest though. That was just messy... I also had a really good run with a monk in the library. I chose Taurog as my god, mashed everything. I did well over 100 damage at the end...

In Private Maps by Down Rodeo:

Ah, me being a dick, good times.

In Desktop Dungeons by Down Rodeo:

Yes, the vampire is very very easy. Sadly I've not unlocked it yet! I can't beat the crypt with the assassin. I've a feeling I should try with the orc again. Or maybe just stick with human.

Also, I've never had it crash on me. What are you doing to it?!

In Help me come up with a name? by Down Rodeo:

The one latin phrase my dad can remember being taught is "Where is the girl? The girl is in the field". But I can't remember any of the words from that :D

In Desktop Dungeons by Down Rodeo:

Occasionally because it's a random layout you will be screwed, OTOH the games are short and you lose nothing really by restarting. You should try a Human Priest as your first playthrough, Priests are really powerful against undead. I'm sure you've worked out the mechanics, but you gain health and mana by exploring, monsters of a higher level hit you first, same levels means combat happens at the same time and being a higher level means you go first. You get experience equal to the level of the monster PLUS a bonus when you kill a monster that is a higher level than you (for instance, killing a level 9 when you are level 1 boosts you to level 6 instantly). I'm not sure what my win rate is like - probably not very high as I went on a losing streak with the warlord when I was trying to unlock something - but I can still win a moderate amount of time.

In Desktop Dungeons by Down Rodeo:

That's OK, it's because you're mentally impaired. Besides, don't apologise to me, apologise to the person who put his SOUL into this game. Or don't, the experience is subjective. Some people (most people?) won't enjoy this.

In Desktop Dungeons by Down Rodeo:

Can't believe I haven't posted about this before likes! The game is called Desktop Dungeons. It's genius. Very simple, very clever, surprisingly deep, short, addictive. And, at the moment, slightly unbalanced. Go play: http://www.qcfdesign.com/?cat=20

In Compiling by Down Rodeo:

Perhaps you should try making a new folder, making the absolute simplest room you can, and try compiling that. No advanced features, everything the brick texture, just nice and easy. Because it's getting weird that it's not working :D

In Rock's cpp truck. by Down Rodeo:

Well, of course you can middle click on them. They are objects that accept inputs. And stuff.

In Rock's cpp truck. by Down Rodeo:

WHAT BUTTANS

In ram, why is it so high by Down Rodeo:

I've heard it said that it's not really worth the time. It's largely the same as Bioshock with story that adds little to Bioshock 1 and has none of the whole philosophy thing (I played it on PC so in no way did I enjoy it for the shooting. I've yet to see a game that has such a bad mouselook system, I didn't know it was possible to make it that broken!)

In Rockbomb by Down Rodeo:

I'd say it's more like; when you explain a joke, it is no longer funny. But I didn't get that either :D

In ram, why is it so high by Down Rodeo:

Bioshock is an Unreal engine 3 game so will run on most hardware. Oblivion's kind of old now :D

I'm not sure what kind of framerates I got playing Bioshock, but they were fairly solid.

In ram, why is it so high by Down Rodeo:

GTA 4 is a pretty shoddy console port.

In Compiling by Down Rodeo:

Why can't you?

In Error: "outside world" and "plane with no normal" by Down Rodeo:

I'm not sure where I saw it, actually. Or where I first heard it. It is good though :D

In Error: "outside world" and "plane with no normal" by Down Rodeo:

I think in my FAQ post I talk about an exploderised brush, if I don't, I should :D

In Rock's cpp truck. by Down Rodeo:

Mate de Vita is right. Remember - modulo 100 will always return a number less than 100 but greater than or equal to 0. So you can get any number in any range by doing modulo x + y, you'll end up with [y,x+y).

In Whats IS pole socking? by Down Rodeo:

I miss Edan :(

In McDiddy's Game / SPARToR by Down Rodeo:

I tried emacs but I'm really not a fan. All those modifiers...

In Midget Stripper by Down Rodeo:

You got me all excited there, not cool.

In McDiddy's Game / SPARToR by Down Rodeo:

Vim? Impressive! I generally stick to Gedit because I'm boring.

In hateris by Down Rodeo:

Maybe I'm thinking of another tetris that hates you but the guy developing it said you can make it give you anything. Now that you mention it though, I don't think I ever got a T.

In First unread post thoughts by Down Rodeo:

I also meant to say, I understand you are busy with SPARToR blah blah blah.

In Rock's cpp truck. by Down Rodeo:

Only problem with switch/case is it often doesn't allow for complex statements or logical expressions, necessitating nested ifs. I can kind of see why most languages do that - for starters, it's easier; secondly the ifs give you so much more control.

In First unread post thoughts by Down Rodeo:

I was thinking about the "first unread post" thing discussed earlier in another truck. You could reduce the load on your poor server by only implementing it for certain users - e.g. having a certain post threshold after being active for a certain amount of time, say 150 posts after a month. This would allow you to move users that only post a couple of times in the hammer truck into an "inactive" state and then possibly move them on from there, i.e. deletion, if you feel it's necessary.

Also it means that people who are now "regular" users have the functionality and would now be around often enough that the lists of "last seen" wouldn't be too large. Pathologic cases: Cornjer and jigsaw. Various admins. Solution: whenever the list of posts gets "too big", say, 15 trucks per user, either stop adding new ones or fall back to the previous where the truck just goes red. Or if someone doesn't log in for too long wipe the list. Tsimple!

In hateris by Down Rodeo:

Fair enough. The last time I played it it gave me all the different pieces. There is a way to do that; it just involves screwing your game completely. As in, if you have a "trench" that is 4 deep, waiting for a line piece, it will give you one of those line pieces as soon as you close over the top. That sort of thing :)

In hateris by Down Rodeo:

I saw this ages ago, why has it now popped up on RPS and here? What's going on?!

In Loch Ness, Fun read by Down Rodeo:

Dammit... I'm sorry guys, I apologise. Admittedly not all the people mentioned in that report are Scottish but I apologise unreservedly on the part of those that are. Jesus! Some people is dum.

In McDiddy's Game / SPARToR by Down Rodeo:

Cool! I'm determined that, at some point, I will understand your game. It will be useful for me :)

In McDiddy's Game / SPARToR by Down Rodeo:

There is absolutely everything right with that picture. My God.

In Rock's cpp truck. by Down Rodeo:

If you are going to keep this up, PLEASE, FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY, type either "you are" or "you're" when you mean "you are". I'm not going to put up with "your" any longer, it is hurting my head. AaronJer or Superjer will of course nuke this post but I don't care, you're getting on my tits.

And yes, Visual Studio + errors = XML vomit. Have fun

In Rock's cpp truck. by Down Rodeo:

Exactly - its design choices really impact performance. Both Java and JS are object-oriented languages with verbose syntax though! They are slightly similar (obviously excluding the whole compilation thing). I'm at a position where I'm kind of happy with Java. I've been doing proper Javastuff for well over a year now and I'm at the stage where, although we have our differences, some things still piss me off immensely and sometimes it makes me sad, I can live with it. I accept it for what it is and use it accordingly :)

In I have no name :( by Down Rodeo:

Yes, we have no bananas!

In Rock's cpp truck. by Down Rodeo:

Actually, I infinitely prefer Java to Javascript. Javascript makes me cry.

In best cs movie EVER by Down Rodeo:

No, not at all really, I tried watching earlier, but had to give up...

In Rock's cpp truck. by Down Rodeo:

Not only does it have try {} catch {}, it almost FORCES you to use them, all the damn time. For instance:

Java code

class Main
{
    public static void main(String args[])
    {
        BufferedReader input = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
        input.readLine();
        input.close();
        System.exit();
    }
}

Will not compile. You either have to declare that the method 'main' throws an exception, like:

Java code

class Main
{
    public static void main(String args[]) throws IOException
    {
        BufferedReader input = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
        input.readLine();
        input.close();
        System.exit();
    }
}

or wrap it in a try {} catch {}. Bloody annoying so it is; sometimes you just want a quick 'n' dirty input.

Admission: sometimes, if a method or code block is small, I will occasionally stick everything on one line, like

Java code

class ObjectWithStringRepresentation
{
    ...
    toString() { return thisClassAsAString; }
}

but I don't do it often.

In Rock's cpp truck. by Down Rodeo:

Yes, it's called "nested ifs". You can do the same with select...case (it's switch...case in Java, think it's select in C++).

And sprinkles is right, formatting is very important. Good to see someone else using that style - I'm not a fan of the K&R/Java style:

Java code

try {
    do {
        something()
    } while (something_else() )
}
catch (Exception e) {
    ohshit!()
}

Not for me likes.

In Emulators by Down Rodeo:

I typed "nintendo ds emulator" into the Firefox awesome bar and got this: http://www.ndsemulator.com/

You kids these days! So lazy! Bear in mind, while it is perfectly legal and OK to use the emulator (providing those that develop it aren't up to any shenanigans) using the data files for games you don't already own is not and the DMCA could be very bad for you. Consider yourself warned; I'm also not going to provide links to the actual ROM files. Not that I know where they are anyway.

Have fun! Not that I know why you'd want to do this anyway...

In Emulators by Down Rodeo:

Google. No, seriously. Besides, emulators for what exactly? There are arcade machine emulators, N64, PS1, even Gamecubes...

In sj, how much do you pay to get this site a hostname? by Down Rodeo:

Usually - try buying google.com :D

In Starcraft2 Beta by Down Rodeo:

Yah. Looks like my next purchase might be SupCom2 though; either that or DoW II, because it looks rather fun. We'll see, exams and money permitting :D

I still want Mass Effect and Dragon Age and ... and and and and so on.

In Starcraft2 Beta by Down Rodeo:

I remember the good times of Starcraft. I was so young when I played that! I'm too scared to get this one, I'd be kicked online consistently.

In Error by Down Rodeo:

There's an error in the actual map-file somehow, what exactly are you doing? Following the jer's tutorial to the letter means no problems but somehow you are giving the wrong type of file to hlcsg.

In Splatter Mario by Down Rodeo:

I just had no idea what you meant.

In Medic's Revue by Down Rodeo:

sprinkles said:

**BAD VIDEO**
**BAD IMAGE**

  code

Quote:

What are you even trying to do?!

In Medic's Revue by Down Rodeo:

So, some medics from Edinburgh starred in the yearly revue. It's very very funny, some of it's a bit medic-y and some is a bit British, I suppose. But all the vidjas can be found here.

In A window of hope by Down Rodeo:

Consider changing IP then :p

In A window of hope by Down Rodeo:

I cannot help you with dyndns, so don't do anything hasty ;) Really, I'm not sure why these ports haven't been opened. What is it your ISP is saying again?

In A window of hope by Down Rodeo:

Ddosing you would be difficult as I can't even make a connection! www.dyndns.com is another service, it's one that I've actually heard of :)

In both my moniters by Down Rodeo:

If you buggered around with settings enough, maybe.

In I'll just leave this here... by Down Rodeo:

It's oooold, I saw it a while back :o

In BFBC2 by Down Rodeo:

It seems like fun, dunno if I'll but it - mainly because I have not enough internet-moneys.

In ATTN: molkman by Down Rodeo:

I gave up using them, I am now a Facebooker. Don't look at me like that!

In malaysia will win the next dota tournament again?? by Down Rodeo:

What do you think of the game that's being released soon, uh, I can't remember what it's called, but it's the same idea as DoTA.

In Gears of War 3!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! by Down Rodeo:

There's no way Epic have modelled those things as being 7 mm. Just look at them!

In Gears of War 3!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! by Down Rodeo:

Icky. Play an interesting game sometime! Not "everything can be solved with bullets the size of grapefruits" Marcus and Dom...

In Project Euler by Down Rodeo:

Essentially, yes.

In Project Euler by Down Rodeo:

Not at all, I've not been on for years. Well, it's timed in the sense that if you try to submit too many answers too quickly it won't let you.

In Project Euler by Down Rodeo:

So I'm resurrecting this because Sprinkles has turned up. You should take a look, I'd like to get into this again.

In Music I Created! by Down Rodeo:

Depends what kind of wav it is - it could be undersampled. I know that FLAC can suffer from the same problems ;)

In Sticky water for CSS? by Down Rodeo:

So long as water is over 6 inches deep players won't get hurt, I think.

In Music I Created! by Down Rodeo:

Free lossless audio codec YAY

In Setting up a server. by Down Rodeo:

The resulting blowjob might be a surprise but it'll probably be worth it.

In PHP generate color by Down Rodeo:

Superjer's avatar is pretty old, too. TITS OR GTFO

In Setting up a server. by Down Rodeo:

You'll only have a static IP if you ISP gives you one, I think. Perhaps you should speak to them, see if they have a "professional" level service or something. You know, higher upload speeds, that sort of thing. And static IPs.

In Setting up a server. by Down Rodeo:

Ah, well there we go :)

In Setting up a server. by Down Rodeo:

I've no idea what NO-IP is. You could sign up for dynamic DNS, though this is where my knowledge gets sketchy...

In Setting up a server. by Down Rodeo:

Eh, if you tell your router to forward all data to one device you should be able to connect to the internet through that one device. Without NAT. I think. Why is NAT so bad again?

In both my moniters by Down Rodeo:

Eh, is this 7, yah? I think it's the same. Control panel -> display settings. Then Muck around with the stuff there :)

In PHP generate color by Down Rodeo:

Superjer needs to get on it more often then - think about how often we've nearly run out of punctuation entirely1

Dammit, see/

In Setting up a server. by Down Rodeo:

I've not, no. I'll install it when it's out, I had to revert to 9.04 for OpenCL support (it's crazy insane).

In Ipod Software by Down Rodeo:

Well Apple are even bigger wankshafts than I'd thought. And yes, at the time, I got it for a good price. You don't even know how I got it! Plus it's lasted four years - admittedly I have taken very good care of it but I know many people whose music players have lasted a rather less time.

In Setting up a server. by Down Rodeo:

The hint's in the name - it's year.month, with releases every half-year.

Rockbomb: you're limited by those you see, they are called "top-level" domains. Currently ones exist for most countries (hence 'us') but there are things like info, com, org, net, the usual ones we know and loev.

In Setting up a server. by Down Rodeo:

Wait for Ubuntu 10.04, it'll be out soon. The router we have has an option to point directly to a certain network device should you want it to. We also have a static IP :)

In Ipod Software by Down Rodeo:

xXJigsaw23Xx said:

well anyways.. yeah it costs money xP 4.95 so yeah i dont wanna pay it

Show us where this is!

In Ipod Software by Down Rodeo:

At the time it was one of very few that did videos. It's a decent size and I could get it at a competitive price. I don't like Apple products mainly but I also don't really like flash.

In Ipod Software by Down Rodeo:

The way I get it to turn off is to put it on hold for a second or two. Then it works, generally. I'm amazed that mine still works, it was narrowly saved from being washed once! Even the battery is mostly all good :)

In Ipod Software by Down Rodeo:

Bugfixing. My 4-year-old video iPod still has a bug where it won't switch off sometimes.

In PHP generate color by Down Rodeo:

I'm pretty certain SuperJer's server selects from a preset list of colours as you'll notice certain colours don't turn up and some users have the same colour. Either that or the generating method only creates a few colours by choice of algorithm.

In Ipod Software by Down Rodeo:

But updates have always been free on iPods... What kind have you got? Normally all you need to do is plug it into your computer while iTunes is running.

In Vista and caching by Down Rodeo:

Yeah I realise why they do it. I'm not complaining too much, it was just that we'd had that discussion in the other truck and I couldn't be bothered finding it. I also can't find the option to turn it off - not that I necessarily would, just that I can't see it!

In Ipod Software by Down Rodeo:

Isn't it free anyway?

In McDiddy's Game / SPARToR by Down Rodeo:

Uff, I suppose I might be able to get a wired 360 controller soon, maybe. Possibly even within the next couple of weeks!

In Vista and caching by Down Rodeo:

The reason it was grinding is at that stage it was filling my RAM with the cached data, it brought it down to about 50. Yes, I watched it go from ~250. So yes, the harddrive was making noises because Vista was filling it at that stage. I'm not sure that I've noticed a speedup... who knows, maybe I have.

In help makig server by Down Rodeo:

If they told you that you can't then it seems likely you can't.

In Vista and caching by Down Rodeo:

So I was looking at task manager today in an effort to find out why my HD was grinding like a horny teen. Turns out this is why:

As you can see there's about 50 MB of RAM currently empty and something of the order 3000 MB used as 'cache'. So there we have it! Vista caches your files transparently; it appears as free memory in task manager, my guess is when you memalloc() or whatever the OS checks that the cached stuff isn't about to be in use then pisses all over it :D

For the record I don't agree with that style of caching, I'd like to know which 3 GB of data it thinks I might use, for the moment all it does for me is slow my current usage down because of the constant i/o. That and shorten the life of the drive :(

EDIT: to the attention of Superererererer and cloudy :)

In Video Recommend! by Down Rodeo:

Huh, I hadn't seen this truck before.

EDIT: Obviously you all needed to know that. I'm strongly tempted to bring it to your attention.

In Splatter Mario by Down Rodeo:

Yer wot?

In Superjer's server by Down Rodeo:

Like Superer said, a few hundred dollars. Cheap motherboard, case, the processor will be dirt cheap, a bit of ram... you can get 2 gigs of fast enough RAM for $40 ish. Which would be more than enough.

In McDiddy's Game / SPARToR by Down Rodeo:

I see

In JavaScript Engines by Down Rodeo:

I see - so we have some funky different approaches... Personally, I think ECMA script is horrible anyway.

In McDiddy's Game / SPARToR by Down Rodeo:

Controversial! Do they even have C# bindings?

In McDiddy's Game / SPARToR by Down Rodeo:

Damn, I meant to say "Sprinkels". I am disappoint.

In JavaScript Engines by Down Rodeo:

SJ - I think it's the code they choose to compile that determines how fast it can go. If V8 compiles everything for large JS files that'll take a while; comparatively doing very little means the whole code runs slowly. Of course this is the idea behind what I was saying earlier, with the compilation of loops. I suppose it's like putting assembly in critical loops in other code.

In McDiddy's Game / SPARToR by Down Rodeo:

I assume Sprikels means the Javascript engine in Chrome.

In JavaScript Engines by Down Rodeo:

It's interesting actually, I was reading a post by the Firefox developers about their JS engine... essentially Spidermonkey, or whatever this one's called, is shit hot at loops but has problems with branching because it doesn't run branched code through the JIT. Loops do however. I don't like Opera, I feel they bring very little as compared to the other browsers - they're essentially a closed-source alternative to IE which don't sit right with me. Same reason I'm not fond of Safari, but it's based on Webkit, maybe?

So yes, the Firefox engine, it's going to be improved soon to deal better with branching code.

In McDiddy's Game / SPARToR by Down Rodeo:

Is it right that the bullets move along the bottom of the screen, killing any and all slugs? When you aim down, that is.

In Whoa superjer is Changing Everything! by Down Rodeo:

Good thinkin'.

In Logging in by Down Rodeo:

You could try eating all your cookies, I suppose.

In Wow by Down Rodeo:

I clicked it earlier and it worked. It was slightly funny.

In Logging in by Down Rodeo:

Same story here; for as long as I log in stylishly there are no issues.

In Whoa superjer is Changing Everything! by Down Rodeo:

Wow, that's awesome :)

In Wow by Down Rodeo:

Real marksmen shoot the person so hard they're not even born.

In The end. by Down Rodeo:

superjer said:

Oh you kids these days.

Quite. I am disappoint.

In Whoa superjer is Changing Everything! by Down Rodeo:

They manage it on PHPBB :) on the other hand their boards are pretty slow. You don't need the unread function, it's OK.

A link to the pages in the truck would be nice though, I can keep track of which pages I've seen. It might also save some of your bandwidth. :p

In How to program; Me = Stupid + 2 by Down Rodeo:

Something like K&R C would do you well, perhaps. Or... I'd say reading through Java introductions maybe? I dunno. I started with True BASIC way back when but that was a taught course. Good times. Yeah, could be that a BASIC language is the best start. Keeps things simple and you get results *very* quickly.

In The end. by Down Rodeo:

You're still weird and exemplify the problem most of the world has. Instead of trying to survive some kind of fictitious and incredibly unlikely war, why not try to avert it? Who is it going to be between, anyway?

In Wow by Down Rodeo:

Also, no he didn't.

In Splatter Mario by Down Rodeo:

Sounds like you need classes son!

Seriously, that would simplify everything SO MUCH. Make yourself some kind of Sprite class, the extend it for the player character and so on. Does C# have multiple inheritance? Some half-remembered thought says "no!" but I don't trust it

In say... by Down Rodeo:

This might take a while, I have many pictures and games and not much in terms of screen real estate...

These have been meticulously cropped to fit the < 1 MB limit they have :D

I feel I should mention, as I typed my name and password into Photobucket Windows popped up a dialog box saying "Restart now" which meant that when I pressed enter the damn thing restarted... Furious, I had to walk away to calm down only to return and see that it was already booting into Linux as is its default option. Windows

The damn update it was for was to plug more holes in the useless PoS that is IE 8 as well! Bloody hell.

In The end. by Down Rodeo:

You guys are either mental, or joking. I seriously hope (mostly for my own sanity) that it is the latter.

In Whoa superjer is Changing Everything! by Down Rodeo:

I'd want something more than that because there are edge cases, like really busy trucks, that'd need you to move back one page if you clicked that link. Ideally there'd be a link to the first unread post but I don't think your cookies work like that :)

In Binary Space Paritioning by Down Rodeo:

You could use either a grid to define which objects are where and whether any of them can intersect or you could use some kind of bounding area hierarchy (though that would probably be complicated and not as useful).

In Tha new servar by Down Rodeo:

Could be because I'm at home. To be honest there's been snow and all sorts of weather, I know some people's connections were dropping so maybe ours took a dip. The lights have certainly been doing that :D

In Tha new servar by Down Rodeo:

I've noticed that occasionally on loading up the main page at Supernet.forumsjer that it says "could not make connection". I don't think it's my internet connection, at least I'm moderately certain it isn't, and "Try again" always works. Anyone else got this?

In Have some awesome porn! by Down Rodeo:

That's frickin' hilarious.

In McDiddy's Game / SPARToR by Down Rodeo:

Wherever SRAW goes retarded and troll-like comments will surely follow. Now that there are ban functions and stuff you'd think he'd be a bit more careful...

In Doors by Down Rodeo:

Admins are allowed to see them :)

In Doors by Down Rodeo:

Oh dear children. Someone should check those guys' IPs.

In One side is invisible. by Down Rodeo:

So you actually mean invisible. It was just you said the two different things in the post and in the title :p

In Whoa superjer is Changing Everything! by Down Rodeo:

See while changes are being made? How difficult would it be to add page numbers to the forum section? Like, for instance, being able to click through to the last page of the monster "Dream Truck" without first loading the first page, that sort of thing.

In ram, why is it so high by Down Rodeo:

I'd say mostly because at some stage ATi, for instance, really screwed their OpenGL support. Not that I'm suggesting that this is what happened to you; this was relatively recently, but you get the idea. If it happened once it could easily have happened before...

In One side is invisible. by Down Rodeo:

Invincible or invisible?

In ram, why is it so high by Down Rodeo:

I changed the renderer, sorry. I think I went D3D -> OGL but honestly can't remember. This was all so I could find the hole, of course :)

In all honesty, that paragraph went through several rewrites for clarity, so that must have slipped through the cracks.

In Graphics Renderers by Down Rodeo:

Actually, Valve do think OpenGl is a good idea, because Steam and all their games are becoming Macintosh'd.

In ram, why is it so high by Down Rodeo:

My old laptop had horrifying lag when playing Half-Life when some kind of effect fired, I changed it and then it played better.

Then I tried CS:S on lowest settings and got something like 18 fps max, 2-3 worst. Similarly for HL2 :D

This one, however, can play Crysis. Not brilliantly but it manages at native resolution...

The thing I meant to say was that Vista and 7 are memory-heavy anyway, so a lot of that would be the OS. And AFAIK Vista and 7 both do caching, but at startup, then don't tell you that it's in use. Kinda transparent-like.

In down rodeo... by Down Rodeo:

Yes.

In Why is Everything Forbidden on This 'New' Server? by Down Rodeo:

Ah, I see.

In Why is Everything Forbidden on This 'New' Server? by Down Rodeo:

One Step Beyond?

In Why is Everything Forbidden on This 'New' Server? by Down Rodeo:

Close enough, I've not listened to it for a little while now. Anyone else want to take a guess or do I move on to the next song?

In Why is Everything Forbidden on This 'New' Server? by Down Rodeo:

Eh, they look right to me...

In Why is Everything Forbidden on This 'New' Server? by Down Rodeo:

Oh, so you know what it is then?

In bmp to jpg by Down Rodeo:

Actually, I disagree.

In bmp to jpg by Down Rodeo:

There's a lot of research in a field called AI you know, and since the messages you're reading are in text form already... could be you're just a sophisticated parser with a 'tude.

In Map crashing the server. by Down Rodeo:

But what happens when *you* try to run it?

In Why is Everything Forbidden on This 'New' Server? by Down Rodeo:

Someone will get this lyric, eventually. I'm convinced of it. Mate noticed that the last one was an Elbow song (a great Elbow song) but this one is a tad more obscure. Googling is cheating, yes.

In Map crashing the server. by Down Rodeo:

Could be lots of things I guess. What happens when you try to run it?

In Why is Everything Forbidden on This 'New' Server? by Down Rodeo:

Because them's the default settings on Apache I believe.

In Cannot execute specified program by Down Rodeo:

He might not have access too the computer he was compiling on, be fair.

In How do i Change teh Background color? by Down Rodeo:

He's one of CornJer's friends. How comes he doesn't post here any more?

In bmp to jpg by Down Rodeo:

SRAW said:

nice insult asshole

Do you even think?

In bmp to jpg by Down Rodeo:

This ~~truck~~ ~~thread~~ truck has been made awesome.

In How do i Change teh Background color? by Down Rodeo:

Wasn't it Mr Sticks?

In How do i Change teh Background color? by Down Rodeo:

No, you don't get what you ask for. Ask the last person that wanted their colour changed, or those that wanted medals.

In How do i Change teh Background color? by Down Rodeo:

Because this is Superjer, and that's what happens.

In Civilization v by Down Rodeo:

Many reviews point it to being a bit sucky. Personally I don't know why they changed the format of what is essentially the last game so much...

In Made a New Video by Down Rodeo:

It's interesting but does seem a little too... artificial. It's the fact that it's signposted all the way through and sure enough, it happens. Subtlety can be good too :p though the effect certainly works well enough. :)

(This is me talking about the first version)

In Be a Video Game Character by Down Rodeo:

I think in Europe Windows 7 doesn't have Sound Recorder, actually.

In Dream Time by Down Rodeo:

Houston is my hometown.

In RWJ by Down Rodeo:

What can I say? Physics is my subject.

Which, thinking about it, makes it incredibly odd for me to be writing a program that takes arbitrary DNA sequences and visualises them in an illuminating way. Why am I doing this? Sometimes, I get very confused.

Also, as an addendum, it's because most LCD monitors are view-dependent, i.e. if you look at them from funny angles the colours tend to go strange, unlike CRT. I can't remember why they do this. And cannot really find out why, but I imagine it will be something like a reason. I have to go get tea now then PUB QUIZ over at the RMS. Oh my God I'm blogging.

That wouldn't work, I don't think. The Doppler equation relates the the frequency an observer moving relative to some wavelike source measures compared to the frequency at the source. You end up with... tell you what, I'll post when I revise the waves section of my course come April, late April, whatever. I'm sure you'd all love that.

In RWJ by Down Rodeo:

Eh, no, not at all like the Doppler effect. And the Doppler effect *is* with colours (it's called redshift, wiki it).

In is there a way i can do cool stuff on vista by Down Rodeo:

Yes - be careful though, if you give admin permission to a program there is a certain time in which you are authenticated as root afterwards. It's not that long, but be careful. It doesn't authenticate you as root if it detects a period of inactivity, e.g. the screensaver coming on.

You should try something like Arch Linux, or Gentoo! They'd be fun. I was considering them but there was a serious likelihood of me fucking up horribly.

In RWJ by Down Rodeo:

To be fair, I noticed this, and I think it's to do with the angle you see the colour at. For instance if my post is at the bottom of the screen it appears to be more saturated than it does at the top. It's something like that anyway. Because I can still hide text like this!

In is there a way i can do cool stuff on vista by Down Rodeo:

Why not get Ubuntu? Having used a few, it's one of the better. I've got a 9.04 partition on my laptop, I downgraded to fuck around with OpenCL, but will probably got for a 10.04 install at some point.

In RWJ by Down Rodeo:

I always mean everything.

In RWJ by Down Rodeo:

I don't bother watching videos recommended by you guys any more.

In WhiteBird by Down Rodeo:

Well, in some sense you already are, no? Because if you are using IE 6 as your base renderer then surely you'd have no qualms about swapping it out for something, well, better. Frankly. Internet Explorer is a very poorly-written piece of sh- software.

In WhiteBird by Down Rodeo:

Absolutely. OTOH you could use something like Webkit or Gecko at the moment, if you felt like it. Steam's moved to Webkit :)

In email this guy! spam him! by Down Rodeo:

Eh, probably, but given the worldwide nature of the worldwide webernet, I assume some similarity. I'll ask him again.

In WhiteBird by Down Rodeo:

sprinkles said:

WhiteBird is based off ... essentially, IE 6

ARGH OH GOD

In email this guy! spam him! by Down Rodeo:

Well, prepare to be informed:
So long as the mail you send this person is not for commercial gain, e.g. penis extenders, that sort of thing, then it's perfectly legal. However, your ISP can and does monitor your usage and the mail you send in order to comply with this legislation. They might not like you sending lots of spam e-mail and if they've written that into the contract you signed when joining their service they might decide to cut you off, but that's unlikely.

In McDiddy's Game / SPARToR by Down Rodeo:

What was the renderer before? Custom? Shurely not :p

In email this guy! spam him! by Down Rodeo:

Rockbomb said:

There are no laws stating its illegal to spam, unless it interrupts somebody's business

Are you sure about that? Intriguing. I'm going to ask my flatmate, he does law, and is doing a semester of digital law-stuff.

In AntonFifty Your Map by Down Rodeo:

That is one of the biggest image phails I have ever seen. The correct way to use the tag is to put the link to the image inside the tags, like [ img ] http://www.example.com/path/to/image.ext [ /img ]

In What? by Down Rodeo:

I've just spent a lot of time reading the chat logs there, happened across one of the larger chats I've had with AJ and Edan. Good times, actually.

In email this guy! spam him! by Down Rodeo:

Well maybe I like beating. Bushes.

In email this guy! spam him! by Down Rodeo:

There are laws against spamming they have to comply with. Some of those include spamming. They also wouldn't charge you unless, say, you somehow sent enough *upstream* to break their limits, bearing in mind you are sending easily-compressible text files. What I'm trying to say is "this truck is stupid".

In email this guy! spam him! by Down Rodeo:

In no way will your internet service provider notice. At all.

In What? by Down Rodeo:

Perhaps it's because of the server migration.

In leak problem by Down Rodeo:

You made someone cry on the internet!

In Digital by Down Rodeo:

http://www.scoutshonour.com/digital/

This is a lovely game. It has kept me awake for... well, a little over an hour and a half now. But I need to be awake in a few short hours. To bed! You should play this! But bed!

In so me and my girlfrend where bord... by Down Rodeo:

Is... is that a lightbulb? Dear oh dear. At least this explains many of the posts our dear cloudy comes out wi'.

In error while creating big map by Down Rodeo:

To be fair I did that last year with my old laptop, it ruined the battery. So now I don't.

In Russian Singer by Down Rodeo:

THE FUCK

In Russian Singer by Down Rodeo:

It's pretty boring. Was it on Eurovision? If not it ought to have been.

In New Server! by Down Rodeo:

Ooh, sexy. I was thinking of making a wee server. Seems that the web address I'd want is only like £10 for two years, and we already have a static IP... the rest is difficult, but I reckon I could do it. I'd mainly do it for the convenience of having a Linux box on the web (ssh ahoy!).

In fedex _ IS BACK by Down Rodeo:

Down Rodeo said:

I don't understand.

In error while creating big map by Down Rodeo:

You look at the menu options to see if it does what you want it to do. Or click things until it happens.

In help needed:zombified: by Down Rodeo:

You need to make sure the compile tools cannot find the WAD halflife.wad. Make sure it is in the proper directory you have said it is. Also, I'd seriously advise against using more than eight wadfiles, as that could also be suspect.

In fedex _ IS BACK by Down Rodeo:

I don't understand.

In Just got a special something. by Down Rodeo:

No I'm telling him he is.

In Just got a special something. by Down Rodeo:

...if you live in America.

In fedex _ IS BACK by Down Rodeo:

I can see fedex_ reading Aaron's post and being like the guy in his avatar.

In Where do i download? by Down Rodeo:

These crazy crazy people. Who let the bots in?! Or not bots, whatevs.

In Aaronjer by Down Rodeo:

AJ tits or gtfo

In McDiddy's Game / SPARToR by Down Rodeo:

It's odd that it deletes them. They normally hang around...

In McDiddy's Game / SPARToR by Down Rodeo:

You talk slowly.

In somebody wanna help by Down Rodeo:

It's called Wikipedia.

In somebody wanna help by Down Rodeo:

You could try the argument that since any surface can be approximated by any number of triangles, and when you take the limit of this surface, you have an exact representation. So triangles are a shape, we'd have nothing? Ugh, this is a stupid question. The question doesn't even make sense. Ask her to more closely define 'shape'.

In Why players die by Down Rodeo:

They'll be spawning on top of each other which the game doesn't like. Make sure you have enough space between each of the players and that there are enough spawns at each spawn area, maybe about 6-7 per side. More if you reckon there will be more than that in a team.

In Can't end my map - don't got the launching file? by Down Rodeo:

amseboy said:

----- END hlcsg -----

hlvis v2.5.3 rel Custom Build 1.7 (Dec 9 2002)

It should go in between there.

In Aaronjer by Down Rodeo:

I... but... I didn't say...

It's probably a command-line application, you give it a hash, it cracks it for you, or something like that.

In Aaronjer by Down Rodeo:

Ah AJ, never change.

Also, this is stupid. You are working FOR PORN, when you are on the INTERNET. And I'm not trying to funny but I don't know that many young women with a sufficient knowledge of webhosting to have a hash-based link-counting system on the go. I mean I know it's not difficult if you know what you're doing, but really?

In Anyone know how to make a map that no can join it by Down Rodeo:

bigmac said:

Sadly how can you say that lol.

Quite easily.

bigmac said:

you do not even know me

That's what you think.

Uff, I'm outta this ~~thread~~ truck.

In Anyone know how to make a map that no can join it by Down Rodeo:

bigmac said:

LOL no... i mean is there any entities where if you fu#@ up the properties on it... it will either lag the server a hole lot or just crash completely... i can do that because i know how to make plugins and i would know which entity to remove
Example of an Entity

entity "light"
Name "badlight"
Target ""
Brightness "255 255 255 9999999"
Appearance ""
Custom Appearance ""
...

All i have to do is create a plugin that will remove that when i load that map then it wont be lag for the server im trying to put it... i tried the light all ready and didn't work but im sure theres entities that if you mess up it will crashs
o.O never mind i got on
hehe
it you want to know how to mess it up so no can steal your map just let me know...

You're weird, stop it. Sadly BSP files are "binary space partition files" are binary files, not easily-editable text files. Look, why do you want people to play this map on one server only? Besides, you're also placing quite a lot on people *liking* your map enough. You've just started, I can't see it being that likely.

In Boredem.. by Down Rodeo:

I use the word love so much people don't love me.

In Help. Non Hammer question by Down Rodeo:

Perhaps you have a virus, perhaps it's just a random bug with Windows - who knows.

In Superjer Broke by Down Rodeo:

Your favicon isn't popping up now.

In Helping you to help me. by Down Rodeo:

Kinky.

In Fuck Mozilla by Down Rodeo:

I really don't know what you're doing to it. I abuse my laptop all the time and it's rocksteady :)

In Fuck Mozilla by Down Rodeo:

Ah, now, see you say you closed a tab where Silverlight was running - I think I see the issue.

In Fuck Mozilla by Down Rodeo:

Chrome was a big pile of "meh" for me, they said they would do this that and the other with it but have done nothing and moved onto the latest project. And Mozilla rarely crashes for me. What did you do? Also remember there are a lot of people who work on Firefox *for free*, that's not only rude but is a more than a little stupid. If you don't want it to crash, why not try to help them understand why it did? (I am aware there are those fully paid-up but the Mozilla Foundation as well.)

In wackey religens by Down Rodeo:

Pretty certain there are other religions more prevalent than Christianity.

In We need... by Down Rodeo:

Damn, I thought there would be some effects but sleep sleeping is too much. I'm out.

In Rockbomb by Down Rodeo:

Screengrab'd :p

In Rockbomb by Down Rodeo:

You fucked that one up Jigsaw and I saw it.

In I have no name :( by Down Rodeo:

I guess you have the Steam version of Counter-Strike then?

In compiling by Down Rodeo:

No, that's not the problem. The problem is it's old and slow. AMD processors are just as good as Intel ones. Even if Intel is currently throwing out some brilliant cores at the moment.

In I have no name :( by Down Rodeo:

If you can tell me what -1.#J means, please, do :)

So yes, I think it is a problem :D

In hlvis: Error: Portal file 'TEST.prt' does not exist, cannot vis by Down Rodeo:

Magic and a fair knowledge of how these fora work.

In I have no name :( by Down Rodeo:

Uff, you're annoying me now.

In hlvis: Error: Portal file 'TEST.prt' does not exist, cannot vis by Down Rodeo:

Sprinkles, this is the same guy as the no-name truck.

In I have no name :( by Down Rodeo:

What?

In I have no name :( by Down Rodeo:

I am wondering why you have -1.#J percent of your map covered in textures. I'm also moderately impressed.

In New PixelMachine by Down Rodeo:

There are binaries, actually. Which is good for me because to be honest, I hate trying to set up 'projects' in Visual Studio. I just want a command-line application!

In How do I make my program transparent? by Down Rodeo:

Na!

In Geometry Help by Down Rodeo:

That'd be for a cube. Surface area is easy, just add the areas of the faces. The volume of a cone... I'd need to think. Technically you can do it by volume integration but I think your best bet is wikipedia.

In Player start entity help???? by Down Rodeo:

You must be putting the player_start in the wrong bit.

In Solium Infernum by Down Rodeo:

I've had it pull a couple of script errors on me. Oddly enough it actually managed to recover from one of them, but otherwise, it's been fine. YMMV is once again the story it seems.

In Invisible Wall? by Down Rodeo:

You tried Google, yet did not try Ye Righteous FAQ. Sadly Edan, the next coming of Christ, is not here to smite ye.

In Solium Infernum by Down Rodeo:

Well, a flatmate and I bought it, �10 each. It's quite good fun. We've both won a game or two, which was entertaining. The AI really hates you. As it happens I really hate the AI.

In What the hell... by Down Rodeo:

FFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!

In thingey that i dont want to link by Down Rodeo:

Hey, I was just being funny. There's something of an old-schooler in me that doesn't like the size of applications nowadays, with all the classes running upwards. Like, when a Java program has a runtime error? Jesus, there are so many classes it runs backwards through, and this is for something command-line. Same idea for C# but in the software for IKEA it's WORSE. Which I didn't think was possible.

In Teleport ain't working by Down Rodeo:

Euh, best guess is you have the American dictionary on.

In thingey that i dont want to link by Down Rodeo:

Sprinkles, stop giving him bad ideas about what programming is!

In IO Exception by Down Rodeo:

There are a few ways you can open a file for writing. One is 'append', where the data is stuck on the end. Rather than the current erase and start over thingy.

In Most Recent Fav Song? by Down Rodeo:

Ah, fair enough :)

In Teleport ain't working by Down Rodeo:

sprinkles said:

By the way, you are on an ENGLISH forum. Thusly, I will bitch as much as I want about anyones grammar or spelling here. Furthermore, due to my seniority, I am allowed to bitch at your spelling, grammar, and you being a dumb-ass. If you happen to obtain more posts than me, or are on this forum longer than me then you will be allowed to tell me when I am and am not allowed to bitch at you. Lastly, I wasn't bitching at you, I was merely comment on the origin of the word ain't.

And, now thanks to you, I need a chew.

I now laugh at you when I need to laugh. Well done.

In Most Recent Fav Song? by Down Rodeo:

Mykonos is great, but I am disappointed it was not on the album release.

In Jud, the great. by Down Rodeo:

I don't get that.

In Dream Time by Down Rodeo:

Ah, fair enough. That makes a kind of sense.

In Dream Time by Down Rodeo:

Sure you weren't partaking the weed, no? :p

In chat infamus lines by Down Rodeo:

To be fair, that Whitebird site is pretty funny. It's good satire.

In Kayos' Very Merry Kiss This Christmas Special by Down Rodeo:

I take offence because you're Asian.

In HEEELLPP... "couldn't open to.wad" by Down Rodeo:

tijuta said:

HAHAHAHA well that's so nice of you guys, making fun of someone new, just because he didn't use the correct word, well sorry for not being perfect.

but I'm not angry for that :P

I suppose it's fair to say "Don't bite the newbies" but here at SJCOM we bite the newbies.

In WHAT TIME IS IT? by Down Rodeo:

What the shit was that.

In ChopWinding? :S by Down Rodeo:

Google, it's all on there. Seriously, I just looked.

In Solium Infernum by Down Rodeo:

The last one's up now, for those as haven't seen. Brilliant conclusion.

In Face of Mankind by Down Rodeo:

You are wrong, but it's OK.

In Solium Infernum by Down Rodeo:

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/tag/gameboys-from-hell/

In Solium Infernum by Down Rodeo:

I'm reading some diaries about this at the moment, it sounds utterly genius. It's a turn-based PBEM game where the central premise is Satan's fucked off and the demons in hell are fighting to be come the new High Heidyin. It is slightly clunky but the stories are genius. I can provide links for the faithful.

In vista n' general by Down Rodeo:

NatureJay said:

Also, for everyone else's benefit... Fun fact: when you install Windows 7 on your computer, very often it will assume that your touchpad is an actual physical mouse. This can be problematic because it means it operates like a fucking macbook, except worse, because it's more sensitive. So, as you're typing it will start to think that you've clicked elsewhere on the screen by tapping the pad (even when you have not) and the text will start up anew wherever your cursor was. This is frustrating, to say the least. You'll have to re-install the touchpad back to the factory settings (if compatible) before you can reconfigure it to behave normally. You know, where you click to click.

See, I did this by myself. I was ripping out as much crap as I could from Vista and it now does this, mainly when I hit the pad accidentally with the base of my left thumb. It's very annoying. When I say ripping out crap, I mean uninstalling everything, including drivers I saw as being... superfluous.

As far as screens of death are concerned, this laptop (bought in August) has never done anything bad to me. I call this surprising. OTOH my other, older laptop, when booted into Vista, will crash after roughly twenty minutes. It also bluescreened in the first four hours of my using it. The error is KERNEL_INPAGE_DATA_ERROR, Google is proving useless because it's returning tech-help sites filled with retards that break keyboards by dribbling on them, but it seems I need to reinstall Vista on it. Of course I only have a 64-bit install disk for Vista! Of course!

In Does Superjer have a youtube account? by Down Rodeo:

the_cloud_system said:

why would a web page have a youtube account?

Well the page is named after a person. See also IGN's Youtube account.

In Infinite errors :O by Down Rodeo:

while(bar < 100)
increment
displaybox()

In Arrays by Down Rodeo:

You seem to be swapping out what is in the textbox quite a lot. If I wanted to search for something in an array and get its index I'd do

  code
for j in sizeofarray
    if array[j] == whatwewant
        print array[j],j

Funnily enough not only is that pseudocode it is also Python. Just about.

In Arrays by Down Rodeo:

What's INmain?

In Anti Virus by Down Rodeo:

I think each company keeps their own but as far as I'm aware there is one open site that has an index of all viruses, could be wrong though.

In vista n' general by Down Rodeo:

Rockbomb said:

the_cloud_system said:

i heard that vista is a resource hog

Then you should slice it up and have tasty resource bacon

Quoted for ingenuity.

Enjay, we all have bad internet browsing habits. They include SJ.com! I like how Google made most of a browser, said "we'll update it and open-source it later, when it's done", and have already moved onto the next shiny new project.

In Arrays by Down Rodeo:

They are. As far as I can tell you're taking a string, turning it into an array and then back into a string, I think. You'll need to call toString on each individual element of the array. If that's what you want to do. What do you want to do?

In hamer suxs with vista by Down Rodeo:

On your laptop I'd guess that D3D would actually be the best. Seriously.

In Arrays by Down Rodeo:

I don't know Basic well enough to know what you're doing. Arrays are kind of easy, no? Well not easy, but yeah, they kind of are.

In my new labtop by cloud by Down Rodeo:

Roughly. I can't remember exactly where to find it. I could look I suppose... Control Panel -> Appearance and Personalization -> Folder Options. It's in the second tab.

In Spinning Fans by Down Rodeo:

Decompilation doesn't produce great results. It's good for finding out entity work but geometry is f'd.

In d2lod help by Down Rodeo:

the_cloud_system said:

i have the cd key generate for it but it doesint work on-line so i dont put it on my labtop

there is no revaluation setting on the menu

Revaluation, lol. Also, how do you manage to say "labtop" consistently? You confuse me.

In expert.fgd by Down Rodeo:

We don't really do Source here. Perhaps the Valve Developer Wiki would be the best place for you.

In C Puzzle #2! "-1--2--3--4--5--6--7--8-" by Down Rodeo:

  code
main()int i=0;for(;i<9;printf("-%d-",++i));

This is 42! Glory! I really want to try this out but have no compiler.

Of course it doesn't work. AGH

  code
main(){int i=0;for(;i<9;printf("-%d-",++i));}

does.

In C Puzzle! by Down Rodeo:

Ah, clever. Well done :) zero evaluates to false, all other values are true, I think.

In Member Pics by Down Rodeo:

Mate, you've pulled.

In meh speed cloud system by Down Rodeo:

4 megs upstream is nice :)

In Member Pics by Down Rodeo:

Not quite, kayos has no earring. Not that I'm looking *that* closely. But Rockbomb! You look so young! Man, I feel like a paedophile.

In Anti Virus by Down Rodeo:

It's tough to know just by looking, does it not have any documentation?

In I Made a New Movie by Down Rodeo:

It's kind of funny. I'm impressed you got your parents in on it.

In hamer suxs with vista by Down Rodeo:

Pun?

In hamer suxs with vista by Down Rodeo:

When you say hair, do you mean messy bits of people?

In Anti Virus by Down Rodeo:

An md5 sum folds all the data in a file into a hex string. My list explains everything!

In Anti Virus by Down Rodeo:

LIST GET GO NAO

1. Create new file for user - say there's been an update, or whatever.

2. Run this file through an MD5 hash, record the filesize and a magic number or something easily identifiable about the file.

3. Open a secure channel with the user, send file to them.

4. When user receives file, take MD5 hash of this file, compare to serverside hash, they should be the same. Also compare filesize, whatever other data you took.

This method should ensure that there have been no file download errors and that the file wasn't interfered with, to a fairly high certainty. I think.

Also drop the Mandarin characters, or whatever they are, we don't need to see them. All it means is the program is trying to interpret the data in the encrypted file as Unicode and surprise surprise, all the hex strings are in the high ranges :)

In New PixelMachine by Down Rodeo:

It is fast. My plan had been to take an additional #DEFINE for the number of sun samples and one for the sun size (which I was probably going to have to ask you about, i.e. what's a good value) then approximate like crazy. I was going to assume that the sun could be approximated by a plane normal to the direction between the actual sun position and the hit point on the heightmap surface. I'd then split this plane into the number of sun-sample sections squared (i.e. along the x and y planes), jitter them to introduce a bit of smoothness into the shadow, then trace each one individually to change the shading. Of course because I don't know exactly how you do the shading I gave up, but had I known that it should have been easy enough to do, I think. It would fit nicely in the shadow-test loop as far as I can see.

And yes, it is crazy-fast.

In Dream Time by Down Rodeo:

Took me like two hours after you asked man. And before that, I forgot.

In Anti Virus by Down Rodeo:

The method I'm talking about is not encryption, it is pretty much just checking to see if the file's OK.

In Anti Virus by Down Rodeo:

Probably not. And when I say high-security, I mean, banking programs, large programs, that sort of thing. Making a one-time md5 hash of a file to check you've downloaded the right one is not exactly what I meant. The algorithm is good enough that a small change to the file produces a different md5. In fact, probably any change is enough. If an attacker knew the md5 to create he could create a file with those characteristics but it would likely have many other noticeable differences to the original.

In Anti Virus by Down Rodeo:

sprinkles said:

Sure paranoia never leads to schizophrenia.

That's what they want you to think.

sprinkles said:

And, you could have jus' said encryption algorithm.
Also...
US-CERT of the U. S. Department of Homeland Security said MD5 "should be considered cryptographically broken and unsuitable for further use,"[7]

Why say the simple thing? I said md5 because it's well-known and while it is not useful for high-security applications it's probably sufficiently nontrivial to be of use to check that a downloaded file is the right one. Combine that with filesize, magic numbers... it's probably ok.

In Dream Time by Down Rodeo:

Yeah, why not.

I ought to have written things down for this dream because I've forgotten a lot of it. But from what I can remember, I was at my grandparent's house, in the dining room. I was being friendly with David Tennant as the Doctor, but things go hazy, and I somehow remember the Doctor being kidnapped. Well anyway, obviously I felt I had to go rescue him, and as I was leaving, this Richard Dawkins fellow turns up. I say RD but he was very very healthy looking, like quite tanned as well. I'm not describing this well. Anyway, I immediately didn't trust him, for whatever reason. I set off to find Casanova but my suspicions were confirmed as I saw this character attempting to ... eat one of the people at the table. Think something slightly like the T-1000, except I can only describe him as being 'hollow'. He was bending over the person at the table, with his mouth enlarging to become very big and circular. My response to this was to run inside and beat him with a golf club, telling him that I'd warned him. I'm sorry, I've realised this isn't very good and is fairly incomplete, I can't even remember what happens next. Perhaps I wake up.