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Media & Art / Re: CleanX X-Fire Skin - SPANKED
« on: Monday, December 14, 2009, 03:48:15 AM »
Good find, I had that disabled. I also noticed that the Friends Offline is grey, not white as the Online are, however come to think of it, maybe they should be a slightly darker grey... Oh well, all text in that area is now white. Updated link in first post.

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Miscellaneous / Re: Windows bashing
« on: Monday, December 14, 2009, 03:42:32 AM »
no no, that's all wrong. Computers are more like heaters, they can't do their job with windows open.

 :-\ Would have been more funny if it was original.

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The Lounge / Re: Global Warming - What's your opinion?
« on: Monday, December 14, 2009, 03:41:43 AM »
In a perfect world, people would give up some "luxuries" in order to help this situation. Fact is Americans are a lot of the problem. Other developing nations see what we have and will go to any length to have it themselves, no matter the cost and I'm not talking money. We need to lead by example. I don't know what the answer is to vehicles. Ethanol is a time waster and we'll have fuel for our cars but no food on the table. Hydrogen is easily made by natural gas and still too expensive to readily implement. Hybrids may be a start but they have a hell of a long way to go before they'll do anything. I saw a hybrid Suburban (full-size SUV for those who don't know) that the electric motor only went up to 17mph. I can imagine it cutting down on emissions since it takes a lot of energy to change the state of any object but 17mph? That's ridiculous. Couldn't the engineers gotten it to maybe 20 or 25 for people driving in residential areas? I mean... come on. Ill-purposed residential/commute vehicles aside (SUV's, Trucks), there have been several fully electric cars that were produced both by companies and individual parties. If they can make them happen then what's the problem? Vehicles that run further than the average suburban (not car) work commute that have 0 emissions (from the car, electricity production will be covered later) that you can charge at home? Maybe the government could offer a tax break for businesses to install charging stations in the parking lot.

Electricity production (told you I'd get to it :D) is another hard subject. We all over-use electricity when we don't have to and I believe that problem should be solved before trying to get an alternative source of electricity because I believe we can reduce oil/coal/nuclear usage more by reducing our usage than researching or implementing an alternative form of electricity.

I'm kinda spent as far as providing an argument on this subject right now and would like to see others getting involved so I'll sit back a few posts.

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The Lounge / Global Warming - What's your opinion?
« on: Monday, December 14, 2009, 03:13:51 AM »
The below is a friendly conversation between me and Delta. It's not meant to start an argument over who knows more or what thoughts/opinions/facts are real or not. It simply is here to make you think and get involved and to voice your opinion. No bashing or hate please, otherwise I'll have to start a bash thread for something you are passionate about.

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[23:51] delta: I can't believe Google is taking part in this stuff
[23:51] delta: http://www.google.com/landing/cop15/
[23:51] Spanky: cuz it's all bs
[23:52] delta: yeah, and it's going to be really bad for all of use if these guys get what they want
[23:52] Spanky: we've been through this and im not gonna discuss it again unless you want to be enlightened
[23:52] delta: us*
[23:52] delta: Did you say you support it?
[23:53] Spanky: you're going to have to be a little more clear about what it is
[23:53] delta: I guess in this case it's global warming
[23:53] Spanky: do you really want to discuss it with me?
[23:54] delta: I just want to know if you support it
[23:55] Spanky: im not a scientist nor do i have the time, knowledge nor money to research it for myself to determine if i believe in it or not
[23:55] Spanky: im on the fence with "global warming"
[23:56] Spanky: i do know for a fact that we manufacture, use, eat, and waste un-necessary amounts of various pollutants that are harmful to the environment
[23:56] Spanky: i really don't care about global warming, i may not be alive to see it happen if it does. i just simply don't want to eat or breathe pollutants
[23:57] delta: Right, I agree with you there. but to go as far as to say it's heating the world up, and if we keep it up we'll all die is a little wrong
[23:59] Spanky: is it? a lot of scientists believe that they have real evidence. who's to say they do or dont? you don't have evidence in god and our whole country is surrounded by religous beliefs yet i don't think that's wrong
[23:59] Spanky: well... i kinda fubar'd that last statement
[00:00] Spanky: i do think it's wrong but here's the thing: i don't tell people they're wrong and try to bash it or publically attempt to prove that it's wrong
[00:01] Spanky: think of global warming as an excuse deadline. lets get rid of the pollutants asap regaurdless if global warming is going to happen or not. our habits need to change asap
[00:02] delta: right, but at what cost? we just can't change everything over night
[00:03] delta: what would we change to?
[00:03] delta: if there was something better out there we would be using it
[00:04] Spanky: at what cost is a valid point except i'm going to twist it. we don't have a choice in the air we breathe or really the food we eat, for most of us it's out of our hands. we need to put money aside, granted things can cost a lot but the reasons we're using oil so much is that we're used to it and it's cheap. does that make it valid for us to poison ourselves in various ways?

What do you think?

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Miscellaneous / Windows bashing
« on: Monday, December 14, 2009, 02:19:00 AM »
I just came across this signature of this guy:

Computers are like air conditioners - They can't do their job properly if you open windows.

I smiled :)

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Media & Art / Where to get nice free application icons?
« on: Monday, December 14, 2009, 01:53:25 AM »
Blueblaster, I know you know this :D You've shown me 100 times.

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Media & Art / CleanX X-Fire Skin - SPANKED
« on: Monday, December 14, 2009, 00:59:32 AM »
So the default X-Fire skin annoys me, it doesn't fit with anything else on my desktop. A look at the X-Fire skin forums shows that the X-Fire devs don't give a crap about the skinners doing free work for the community and constantly break/update stuff and thus skinning is hard to document and work on. A while back I used to like the old CleanX skin, it emulated Vista and looked... clean. Lots of stuff has since been added to X-Fire to break that skin but a new version was released called CleanX Dark. This skin suits my desktop properly except it has orange. So, I modded it :D Changed some of the annoying orange stuff to a pleasant blue to match the rest of my desktop. I got it working alright and decided I would share the first version:

v.2:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/464376/headshot/CleanX_dark_v.2_Spanked.7z




On Windows 7 (and probably Vista) the subfolders and .ini's go here:
C:\ProgramData\Xfire\Skins\CleanX dark
On XP:
C:\Program Files\Xfire\Skins\CleanX dark\

I will try to make more changes in the future and possibly remove the annoying ad.

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Miscellaneous / Windows 7 Alternative Theme
« on: Sunday, December 13, 2009, 22:38:46 PM »
Very close to the original but much more appealing to the eye with softer tones and more gradients:
http://ap-graphik.deviantart.com/art/Soft7-1-8-for-Windows-7-144948406

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Miscellaneous / Windows 7 Artwork/Graphics
« on: Sunday, December 13, 2009, 22:37:39 PM »
Interesting story on the guy that made them and how they came to be:
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2009/11/ask-the-artist-how-windows-7s-iconic-home-screen-evolved/

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Game Reviews / Re: Half-Life 2 with FakeFactory's Cinematic Mod 10
« on: Saturday, December 12, 2009, 14:39:29 PM »
links don't work, it says no hotlinking.

Crapshit. See the original post. I downloaded them to my Dropbox, they should be uploaded in a minute or two.

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Game Reviews / Re: Half-Life 2 with FakeFactory's Cinematic Mod 10
« on: Saturday, December 12, 2009, 14:03:42 PM »
It's hard having to do Print Screen to take screenshots of what you think are good moments. I basically wanted to show that it IS actually like that in-game. Here's some before and after screenshots from the site and from playing it as far as I have with the mod, I can vouch for each and every one of them to be exactly what you see in-game.

*EDIT* See original post.

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Game Reviews / Half-Life 2 with FakeFactory's Cinematic Mod 10 [Nudity Warning 18+]
« on: Saturday, December 12, 2009, 03:37:22 AM »
http://www.cinematicmod.com/

Half-Life 2 was an epic story loved by tons of gamers. Combine that with CM10 and you truly have an unforgettable experience. CM10 pushes the Source engine to the limits with high-res textures, models, effects and scenery. FakeFactory modified all episodes of Half-Life 2 to run on the newest version of the Source engine for the best performance, stability and effects. Best of all: It's free! (though you must own The Orange Box for PC)

This does come at a cost though, in system requirements.
High-end dual core CPU, 4GB of RAM, 64-Bit OS and just over 30GB of hard drive space. There is a LE version but it is stripped down to run on less-powerful hardware.

Couple of real in-game screenshots: (I would have more variety but FRAPS crashes the game for some reason)
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/464376/GameShots/hl2cm10_1.png
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/464376/GameShots/hl2cm10_2.png
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/464376/GameShots/hl2cm10_3.png

Comparison shots done by FakeFactory:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/464376/GameShots/cm_10_01.jpg
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/464376/GameShots/cm_10_07.jpg
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/464376/GameShots/cm_10_06.jpg
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/464376/GameShots/cm_10_08.jpg

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Games & Programming / Re: I am about to throw this computer off a cliff
« on: Friday, December 11, 2009, 17:43:22 PM »

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Games & Programming / Re: I am about to throw this computer off a cliff
« on: Friday, December 11, 2009, 03:41:20 AM »
BF2 is picky, you can do a command line switch and see the error. It's not about the developers being lazy fucktards it's about people spending money for games but not their own computer :) The fact is, why would you want to play a game such as BF2 on lower-end graphics cards and integrated chipsets? (Rhetorical question) BF2 maxed out my 7300GS pretty easily so that may tell ya something :)

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Media & Art / Re: Format to use?
« on: Thursday, December 10, 2009, 19:44:29 PM »
Ok so here's my process that I worked out. I scan with VueScan at 600 DPI, save as TIFF into a "Originals" folder, edit in Photoshop (levels, despeckle, crop, etc...), save as PNG. This way I have an archived TIFF and a fixed up PNG of each image. You can view a sample image below from a photo class I had wayyy back.

Keep in mind this image was shot, developed and printed by me (poorly as I was a novice), stored for over 4 years in various unsafe spots and now scanned:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/464376/Scan-091210-0003.jpg

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