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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

I almost cried. I really have no words. The film just slapped my soul, I feel really bad for what happened. Shit, history is nothing compared to watching these films. What if the leaders of this world would have the innocence of these children. Ah, painful world...

Also, a comment on the young actor. His eyes are incredible. Everybody tells me what beautiful blue eyes I have but... they're nothing compared to his.

This feels like the chamber of confessions.

Well from what I saw there, it seems to be my modem( a 516v2 speedtouch).

If anybody knows what this data means, is it bad or worse? :Because somebody said that the number of errors is a bit high.

1280x1024 (A very low end resolution)

Since when 1280x1024 is a very low end resolution?

Also that raven city mod is nothing special. At least perhaps you're giving us bad examples. Please impress me.

That is a nice collection of sound tracks :).

emphasize speed.

The only thing they emphasize is the beam of light.

Runes of Magic. I'm just installing it. I thought of playing an MMORPG(never played one, just an MMORTS I'm addicted to, League of Legends) with a friends of mine. And read about lots of free MMORPGs there and I had to make some choices.
Initially I wanted "Perfect World", but the games is quite dated. The only special thing about it is the in-depth character customization.
Then I said I'll install Vindictus(which is on source engine). Unfortunately, after I installed it I discovered I can't play it yet because all Europe IPs are banned. From what I know it should be available starting this month sometime. It is the best-looking free MMORPG(and the single one to have physics) I've seen yet, so I will definitely install it when it will be available to play.
So my only real option is Runes of Magic, which is basically a wow clone(with lots of additions). But it has a truckload of content and best of all, there are no monthly fees.
Heh, just want to occupy my time with something in the holidays, lazy style :D.

Since I got into a gaming fever, I'll try more of them. I also installed NFS World just to see how it is. I'll probably progress a bit, out of curiosity, not that it is enjoying. I can already say it's not my genre.
The shitty graphics... and controls are disgusting, add to that the fact that you have to pay with real money for some bonuses and also that it gets really boring, since all you do is racing. Boring style. Ok, let's be honest, graphics are how they are because MMOs are intended to be played by a large mass of players, and not everyone has good graphics cards. I only have one complaint here though: since when NOS comes out from the rear lights?
But what about control? Yes, it's an MMO, but still, MMOs have to be addictive. It's only spiced up with very few power-ups and some "skills". I mean, put a 2 year old child in a race and it will probably be at least 3rd place if he\she is not retarded. Heck, I don't even know why they included accelerate and braking keys! The best lack of lazyness proof is the absence of cockpit view, of course.

Well, I just finished Metro 2033. Awesome game.

I'm playing League of Legends right now.

Make a huge box to the limits of what goldsource can do, add a really bright light and texture it with 0.5 scale. Done. Now give my medal.

What I noticed with high r_speeds is that they won't necessarily run better on higher performance pcs. I mean, I think there is a limit to what Goldsource can render. Yes, probably 5000 w_poly will somewhat run on a high performance actual pc, and if you take a pc from 2 years ago for example, it won't run as well. But I don't think adding 2000 more w_poly will still run better on a higher performance PC.
At least that is what I observed on my own computer.

It's too bad Issues: Source died. (Or so I assume, they never got back to recruiting)

They were recruiting on chatbear this spring\summer, and I know I joined too and started to do something. Never continued though and from what I know, chatbear is dead too. I'm not interested anymore in that project anyway.

C++ makes no sense to me.

C++ was designed keeping in mind that people who will use it know what they do.

Thought I'd share this with you, mainly for Soup Miner:
http://www.threadless.com/submission/311344/am_i_dreaming/from,tekolanisla

Also,

Even better, you can just search "church" on this site: http://www.cgtextures.com/. They have plenty of high-quality textures. The only thing left to do is to make them seamless and add them in a WAD or make them source textures.

And what specific problem should that be when all of my other games connect to the internet normally?

Go to church. Take a camera with you.

It stops at "Sending client info", then it either resets the modem either it stays frozen there and if I retry it says something like "Steam validation rejected". Tried deleting clientregistry.blob and it still doesn't work. HL1 works in mp though, it only does this withing the source engine.

Ok, after all that steam network bullshit, a new problem has arisen.

Basically, every time I want to connect to a source server( and by that I mean any server of any source-based game), my modem resets. Is there a solution to this? What can be causing such a problem?

Look at CryEngine 2 as well: massive landscapes with an obscene amount of graphical detail.

The CryEngine2 Sandbox gives you the ability to map with brushes also. Yes, there are plenty of models, prefabricates and stuff like that. But what do you do if you want to build, say, a power plant? Not much, other than using world brushes and the given models(if you aren't able make 3D models) combined with some tricks to give the impression of a big facility.

But then look at Metro 2033: a modern FPS, concentrated more on closed environments rather than open ones(although it displays them successfully).
How would one be able to map such closed environments without brush-based mapping?

video is a thousand pictures.

You are right. At a frame rate of, let's say, 30 fps, that would be a 33,4 seconds video.

If you don't want to take fraps, there is an alternative I think. It's called camstudio. But it records like crap. Your best solution would still be fraps.

How to totally dick-knob somebody:Genuine prank, I say.

Also, Repulsel

Sad Larry

it's got files from a lot of people

He sure does!

35 GB free out of 1TB on your HDD. Congratulations Ant, it seems you also win at the biggest porn collection(if not work files) on TWHL.

Btw, how many inches is your monitor?

I've been listening to DJ Fresh - Gold Dust (Flux Pavilion Remix) for about 20 minutes now(that's about 10 times) and I still didn't have enough

What happens when your head is about to will explode?Also, I lol'd at this:I wonder what type of trolling geniuses invent these things

Tek-One - Broken String
That chorus they call in dubsteb "drop", the definition for that in this track is:

0.o HOLY SHIT o.0

It's one of those episodes where he finds a dead animal and uses its body as a shelter. Awesome military style of surviving :crowbar:.

3 days earlier, hope you don't mind .Ugly 5:4 format is ugly. I just hope I can afford a 23inch monitor soon.

I lol'd:

3dmark06 is still a viable option.

Huntey, I'm sorry to inform you but you do not have 8 physical cores. Your CPU is a quadcore and has 8 threads. But not 8 cores.

[EDIT] Also, I posted on my blog about my upgrade. Some info, benchmarks ( from ~5000 to ~10000 in 3dmark06!!) and pictures:

http://sjackm.wordpress.com/2010/11/27/pc-upgrade/

Processor: AMD Mobile Sempron 3000+ Running at 1800 MHZ
PI calculation time: ~32 Seconds

Are you shitting me? A mobile sempron runs smoother than my old CPU? wtf!

Ellie Goulding - Under The Sheets (Jakwob Remix)

You gotta' love the fucking drums

Ruins are the modern day form of ancient structures

I just had a revelation. The forums of TWHL are ruined :(.

My apologies if I won't be able to map or something. I have semestrial tests until 15th december and mapping something historical is indeed a hard task for 1 month. The competition should have started one month earlier.

Satchmo, the official Gman of The Whole Half-Life mapping community.

No, nineteen point fifty one seconds. I'm used to using ',' instead of '.' because in mathematics at school that's what we use to define that point.

Update: new CPU(Intel Pentium E6500).

19,51 seconds.

Come on, does everybody play with cubes now? I thought we should be progressing to advanced graphics, like tesselation and high-quality particles and... ultra-realistic...wait. This does not sound fun.

Minecraft ftw!

That's the word! Thank you TJB.

Sorry, that's one of the terms in English I never know exactly about it. Every translator though gives me this "psychic" word, which I'm almost sure is not the right term. So, what is it anyway?

No joke. The movie is gritty and real. It's tough to watch, but I still recommend it.

I expect you to realize there are children on this forum. That film can badly influence the psychic of a child. So you can't recommend it to everyone :).

Today I watched Shutter Island. A genuine mindfuck.

i think that the problem could be inside registry, a key value is somehow connected with steam files and it is fucked up - clean up the registry

What do you mean "clean up" ? Like using a program like ASC or CCleaner?

[EDIT] Oh, I'm really sorry for double posting. I thought I was editing :).

[EDIT2] Problem solved.

Core i7-860 is also a good choice.

Hmm, I went at a friend upstairs who has the same ISP and asked him if I could install Steam to check for the connection. It seems I can connect.
It's probably my computer's fault, but what?
I'm so tired!

It's been 6 days and I still haven't got a response. How much do they take to answer? This is really frustrating, I can't access my fucking games.

Disconnect your network cable and start Steam. It should prompt you for offline mode. While in offline mode, change the download region, plug your network cable back in, Restart Steam and see what it does now.

I did this and it still tells me steam can't connect to the network. That's weird.

And umm... how do I do that if I can't enter steam?

I have a friend with who I play gmod or tf2 and he's from Romania too, but he doesn't have problems. How can I change the region?

It's been a week now since my steam stopped connecting to the network.
I have contacted steam 3 days ago I think, and I got no response yet.