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Server teamspeak address

ILTKKen — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 03:42:06 -0400

Teamspeak IP: 173.199.64.246:9299

There's separate squad rooms, just pick an empty one and have your squad join up.

If you play regularly on the server, ask here and I can add a permanent room with a password for your squad.
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Welcome to the flight school BF3 server forums

ILTKKen — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 09:58:50 -0400

Welcome to the Battlefield 3 flight school server forum.

Suggestions, complaints or ban appeals can be voiced here.

Enjoy your stay and have fun!
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Epic thread I can't open?

SkaarjMaster — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 10:52:31 -0400

Can you take a look at this? For some odd reason I can't open the DM-Megane (WIP) thread about 12-15 threads down in this section. Any idea why this is the only thread I can't open? I can't open it logged in or logged out from Tampa or Sarasota. Thank you.
http://forums.epicgames.com/forums/335-User-Maps-amp-Mods
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UNBOXING REVIEWS FUCK OFF

ILTKKen — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 03:42:21 -0500

Ok, this is now pissing me off. Everytime I google some reviews because I', about to buy some hardware, almost 90% of videos are "unboxing" shit.

WHO THE FUCK CARES ABOUT A BOX THAT SOME SHIT CAME IN? KILL YOURSELF!

Seriously, wtf? OH LOOK AT THE PRETTY BOX (Rips shit open, throws away never to be seen again)

Also, if you're gonna be "reviewing" a mouse, don't review it from the point of a desktop user, what are you? stupid?

Here's my format for reviewing:

1) Rip shit open
2) Have a quick look at look and feel.
3) Customizations if any.
3) Software/macroing, what can be programmed, does it have states for up/down press. Can it repeat, can it latch, is there modes?

Performance. Don't ramble off some tech specs cause who gives a fuck. Place that shit down put it on low sens and rip that shit all over and see if it starts to flail around because the data rate is to low. A gajillion DPI OMG.. fuck off. Data rate is the most important, if the mouse can't handle low sens and large fast movements guess what? IT'S SHIT.

\Rant

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So i put up a 64 player battlefield 3 server..

ILTKKen — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:36:53 -0500

Because I fucking LOVE flying those choppers and wrecking havoc mwahahaha :evilsmile:

it's been pretty banging so far, since it got online I had pretty much 64 players on there every night, it's absolute CHAOS with that many people.

It's a practice server for newbies to learn to fly to because the choppers are beastly hard to control, but hey when theres 64 players it's pretty hard to control hehe so I just let people roll with it.

Come join us if you have the game, ingame nick KenNitro, if you get claymored or your tank gets its shit ruined by mortar rain there's a 99% chance it's me :D

Server address: 173.199.64.40:25200

Direct link to battlelog page

I also have a private passworded 16 player server, so if you can't fly to save your life or want to practice a bit without getting shot at give me a shout and I'll pm you the password.
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Just Cause 2 - Asshole simulator

ILTKKen — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 07:46:43 -0500

I'm on a bit of a games binges lately, and since so many was raving about it I got "Just Cause 2"

I was not getting it at first, it's a sandbox game of MASSIVE proportions and you get missions and bla bla bla the same old fps stuff, shoot bad guys complete objectives.

But then I got it - you just have to be a massive asshole and it turns from a nice game to absolutely FABULOUS fun.

There's the standard fps weapons, ton's of cars, planes, choppers, boats, rocket launchers, grenades and explosives. You can blow most things up and you get credits and money for causing chaos, the more the better.

But then there's your grappling hook and your always available parachute. You can use the grapple to get around and up on anything, buildings, trees whatever. You can also use the grapple to hook something and then hook the other end to something else, anything else and that's where the fun begins. Wait for a car to speed by, hook it and then hook the other end to some hapless person walking by, hook one end to a chopper and the others to something explosive, like a car and use it to wreck destruction.

You can also stunt jump on cars, pull the driver out and take it, then speed into a gas station, another car, buildings etc. and jump out and blow everything to hell.

The indigenous people are hilarious when you cause mayhem, then run away screaming in terror or call you an asshole for bumping/stealing their cars. Nothing is more fun than grappling some poor guy and hooking it to your car and driving off while he screams "oh god help, heeeeelp meeee ahhhhhh" behind you while laughing like a maniac.

You can also pull enemies from tall buildings so they plummet to their doom. At one point I had hooked some rubble onto my car and used it to fling some military police that was after me for being a dick into a gas station which then blew up raining cops and guts everywhere.

You can also ride any vehicle by grappling them and standing on top, cars, planes fighter jets, then grapple other vehicles nearby, pull the driver out and take it over, then ram it into whoever is after you.

There's also some great physics stuff. You can jump on say a gas bottle and shoot it and it will fly miles in the air and blow up, jump off just before it blows and hit your parachute and sail through the sky. Or just shoot it so it goes flying into a crowd of innocent bystanders. They fly totally randomly so you never know if it's going to fly into your face and what's gonna happen.

The AI is hilariously stupid sometimes which just adds to the fun, I was battling with an attack chopper on a huge tower and jumped off with my parachute, it then proceeded to fly after me right into the tower and got stuck while the pilot spouted expletives at me stuck in a wall.

Since the game is so advanced there's bound to be bugs, hillarious bugs that will have you laughing for hours.

Basically the bigger asshole you can be the more fun it becomes, total chaos it's glorious

Here's some clips to wet your appetite:

Message to games: YOU ARE NOT A CAMERA

ILTKKen — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 03:00:23 -0500

Can anyone tell me why games are trying to cram as many camera effects into a scene as possible?

Camera effects like motion blur and bloom are an artifact of the camera, lenses and sensor itself, it's NOT something you see in real life when walking around.

I'm trying to immerse myself in a game, and every time those effects kick in I'm taken out of the experience, because it's so unnatural, I'm not in a movie, I'm looking out of my characters eyes.

It's all "Ohh ahhh" look at what we can do now. Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.

How about you focus on gameplay and content instead?
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Saints Row 3 - You have GOT to try this game!

ILTKKen — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 03:33:34 -0500

This game is SO over the top that you can't not have fun.

Wanna club pedestrians with a giant purple dildo? Go right ahead Groin kick a hotdog stand vendor? Fly a figther jet and annihilate anything in it's path? Drive a pimping car mowing down a bunch of clowns, then do wheelies in front of some hookers while they cheer you on?

Wanna play as a giant hot-dog with a cannon that sucks up hookers and shoots them at unsuspecting people exploding in a fabulous rain of gore? Then crawl into said cannon and shoot yourself into the sky and land with a parachute raining shotgun fire at anything that moves, including that guy dressed as a furry? No problem!

Character creation is extremely advanced, you can create anything from a naked chick that looks exactly like any person you want, to a giant kitty or anything your imagination can come up with. You can also download other players creations.

Gameplay footage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eN2-WSyRuO0

Character creation, some guy recreating Lara Croft:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oI0PvEJ8z7g

Here she is in the game, you'd be hard pressed to know it's not actually Tomb Raider

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=BzMaB3B9h0E&lis...

(You can play every character naked if you so choose, but sadly with the funny bits blurred)

Then there's the taunts and moves. Moves can be strung together so you can make up entire dance moves with taunts, and of course save them and bind them to hotkeys:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlXNxmXWL_M&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9POSMflOuqM&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6-ELoS6gJc

How can you NOT want this game?
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Happy New year!

ILTKKen — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 14:18:36 -0500

Just wanted to wish everyone a happy new year, stay safe and don't blow of any appendages.

Gonna go veg out for a bit, we had an awesome dinner, Foie gras on toast with sage on rhubarb foam (Oh dear that was good, this is sex on a plate), a huge rib-eye steak cooked sous-vide and then seared to all hell on the gas grill, and finally Crème Brûlée for dessert.. yum!
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moving monitor,keyboard,mouse about 8 feet; leaving computer???

SkaarjMaster — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 17:03:33 -0500

OK, here's my problem......I want to move my monitor, mouse and keyboard for my old gaming Win98SE computer to another desk and give my wife her space back on her desk. I found extensions online for the monitor, mouse, keyboard and even my sound card for two speakers, but I'm having trouble figuring out the old 15-pin (8 row, 7 row) Microsoft game joystick/controller for the AudigyGamer card. Here's the thread at pcper.com:
http://forums.pcper.com/showthread.php?t=478193

It seems if that DB15 is the right one, then I just need to wait for it to become available again and then order everything at once. Any ideas? Thank you.
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resetting expire date

SkaarjMaster — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 13:35:49 -0500

Any chance I can trick the computer into thinking my demo game did not expire? I tried checking the install log and deleting registry keys and turning off my system restore and the obvious of uninstalling and then deleting all stuff by game name and pub/dev names. I also did the same with those names in as many places in the registry I could find as well as in Documents and Settings in WinXP. I really don't want to DL a crack, but thought I'd check here for any tricks I'm missing. The game is Elf Bowling Holiday Pack and it keeps the time played and subtracts each time you play until you use up the full 60 minutes of demo time. Either it's impossible or I'm missing some interesting trick. Let me know one way or the other either in here or by e-mail. Thanks.
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Topdocumentary - documentary MOTHERLOAD

ILTKKen — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 04:30:25 -0500

Holy crap, check this out.

Tons and tons of documentaries, free for all. I just LOVE me a good documentary.

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/all/

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It's christmas soon, how about some christmas biology lectures?

ILTKKen — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 06:00:55 -0500

Some people watch Disney cartoons for christmas, these lectures are pretty much standard viewing here in the household at this time.

It's a mind blowing awesome series of lectures, and don't worry about the screaming baby

Waking Up in the Universe - Growing Up in the Universe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHoxZF3ZgTo

Designed and Designoid Objects - Growing Up in the Universe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGyh1Qsw-Ak

Climbing Mount Improbable - Growing Up in the Universe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT1vXXMsYak

The Ultraviolet Garden - Growing Up in the Universe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_igTWNidwnk

The Genesis of Purpose - Growing Up in the Universe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qm-0Z0ceezQ
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The Four Horsemen free online - WATCH THIS!

ILTKKen — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 05:39:29 -0500

4 of the worlds most brilliant minds have a good old sitdown, some boze, cigs, and shoot the shit.

Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens (RIP)

Everyone knows how I feel about Dawkins (My hero), but I also love Christopher Hitchens, cranky old sod that he was, he told it like it was while inhaling some scotch and a ciggy.

If you you agree on their views or not, you should watch this. I have it on DVD, but it's really about what they say and the points brought up, besides, it's four old guys sitting around, don't need HD video for that

Hour 1: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-869630813464694890
Hour 2: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-225595257312538919
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Meet Nibbler

ILTKKen — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 02:32:19 -0500

I haven't really talked about it, but my wonderful Macaw died about a year ago. I felt like I lost my best buddy because we had been together for over 30 years and it was really hard losing him.

But, life goes on and it was getting quiet around here, so we needed some activity in the house.

Meet Nibbler, a Congo African Grey. I got him around a month and a half ago, he's 18 weeks now. He is hand reared, fully flighted and a blast. He's as tame as a puppy, he already talks a bit, mumbles a lot, and whistles some tunes I taught him. Greys are incredibly intelligent, learns not only to talk, but also knows what words mean so they frequently puts words together and comes up with sentences you didn't even say to them.

Here's a couple pics of the little featherduster.

Just hanging out:

Chillin':

More chillin':

Caught mid squark:

After his twice weekly bath:

I'm FLYING:

Look, I'm a flying parrot:

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Doug Stanhope - Good standup is still alive

ILTKKen — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 09:57:52 -0500

Doug standhope is quickly becomming my favorite comedian still alive now that we don't have greats such as Sam Kinison, Bill Hicks and Carlin anymore.

His timing and pacing is just so fucking dead on, even pissed off his gorge, pretty much mirrors my view of the world.

This is a short clip from "No Refunds", if you like this get that DVD, he just KILLS for hours on end.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsPDT5qHtZ4

Oh, the whole show is up, don't miss this!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxLom07uGFY&feature=related
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admin message pop-up?

SkaarjMaster — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 22:40:01 -0500

Any idea why I just got an admin message pop-up on the computer asking me to hit link to oppose the internet censorship bill going through the House and Senate in the US? Was it because maybe I was on wikipedia or google? Tried to search and can't seem to find anything on it.
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Louie - Sitcom with Louis C.K

ILTKKen — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 05:08:44 -0500

I just stumbled over the sitcom show starring Louis C.K called "Louie" because I love Louis C.K and was trying to find more standup by him.

Please note, this is NOT the older "Lucky Louie" show, but the new show, just called Louie.

IMDB Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1492966/

It started out as one of these very strange shows where you're not sure if it's good or not, but then all of a sudden it's over 45 mins has passed and time just stood still, like a lot of Woody Allen stuff for example.

Do yourself a favor and give it a try, it's absolutely brilliant, showing life as fucked up as it can be, dysfunctional family and screwed up romantic relationships, and extremely funny to boot.

It's been a long long time since I flat out laughed my ass off, most "funny" shows gets me a chuckle here and there, but the brutal honesty of this show just nails it for me.

NOT a family show, heed this warning please

Louis hanging out with a bunch of his comedian friends after a show.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-55wC5dEnc&feature=related

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cover site problems ?

SkaarjMaster — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 14:12:34 -0500

Any idea why when I download something over 833KB it stops at 833KB and I only get that much of the JPG file? I could understand random stops but always at 833KB seems a bit fishy to me. It doesn't happen all the time, but this started yesterday with a couple files and now again this afternoon with one file. It seems to also happen even when it's the only program running. Any ideas? Is it the site, my ISP, gremlins?

Here's the site link:
http://cover-paradise.to

Thanks.....maybe you already know and don't have to click on it.

EDIT: does the same on my wife's computer too! :bizarre:
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google and proxomitron

SkaarjMaster — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 20:10:01 -0500

OK, since these guys aren't saying anything, just wondered what you thought.
http://forums.pcper.com/showthread.php?t=477823

Looks like google does not like proxomitron anymore and it happened about a week ago. Did you notice anything different with other popup blockers? I'm using ask.com instead until I confirm WTF is happening with google. It seems it was working earlier today and now it's not but I'm not completely sure on that. Thanks man!
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Dennis Richie died - goodbye master :(

ILTKKen — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:04:08 -0400

Last week Dennis Ritchie, the co-creator of UNIX, died and hardly anyone covered it.

Dennis Ritchie was one of the creators of UNIX, but more importantly, the creator of the C programming language.

I owe my career in programming to Dennis. Back when I started programming I went through tons of books, they were all shit.

Then I found "The C Programming Language" by Kernighan and Ritchie, or "K&R C" as it is known by just about any C programmer out there and in a matter of weeks I was flying and aced my classes, got 11 (12 is the highest on the grading scale here in DK) in C and a nailed a 12 in C++ a year later.

Without "K&R C" I don't think I would have made it.

Thanks Dennis, you will be missed, R.I.P

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M.J.

SkaarjMaster — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 22:43:57 -0400

Now this is beautiful site until you read the story:
http://www.baynews9.com/article/news/2011/october/333386

This place is about 15 miles from my house............kinda sucks..............so much good stuff wasted.
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Rage

SkaarjMaster — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 20:17:33 -0400

Have you any plans to get this one?
http://www.rage.com

Let me know how it is, because it looks better than DNF.
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Nptelhrd - Video lecture MOTHERLOAD HOLY SHIT

ILTKKen — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 09:56:43 -0400

Just found this while searching for some lecture about boolean algebra.

This is a course list created for Indian universities shared for everyone to learn from. Almost every lecture is video and intricately explained in every detail. Every course have hours of video, all free.

Most of the teachers have a rather thick indian accent, but after a video or two you don't even notice it anymore. Don't let the fact that you see a woman in traditional indian clothes fool you, these people lay down the LAW in teaching.

http://nptel.iitm.ac.in/courses.php?disciplineId=108

Seriously, this is the most monstrous fountain of scientific knowledge I have ever found on the interweb, don't miss this!
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Anyone know any good electronics books?

ILTKKen — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 12:48:33 -0400

I'm working with the arduino platform and I need to learn some electronics to interface with other stuff like sensors, I can program the hell outa this thing no problem since it takes C code and that's my main programming language, but I know only the basics about electronics like ohms law, resistors, capacitors, in parallel/series etc.., but when it comes down to putting shit together I need some fancy book learnings.

Anyone know any good elementary books I can get that gets down to business wihtout to much fluff? I've gotten a few for my Kindle, but so far they've been a letdown, 10 pages waxing philosophic about some component, the history about the component, who made it first bla bla bla, to get the page count up and get more cash for the now 1000 page book, when I'm done with the topic I've forgot what hell it was about. 100 pages and 5 chapters about how to make a damn LED blink argh.

I'm looking for something in the format:

Here's what this component does, now do this test. Here's what another component does, and how you can use it with previous component, now put them together to solve this test etc...
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work really is going to suck now...

SkaarjMaster — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 14:30:36 -0400

...or just fade away. My boss died yesterday and I may not be wandering the Halls of Redemption anymore. Although, we're going to keep it going through the family as long as possible, but it's just me and 2 other people right now and the family doesn't know much about the business. He was 65-66 years old and I thought he had at least a few more years, but he had diabetes and had a minor heart attack (which I guess wasn't really minor in retrospect) on June 27th. The family told us to take today off, but it's back to work on Monday and at least the next couple weeks to a month will not be fun. If there ever was a time to win the Florida lottery.........now is the time.
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Like fractals? Explore fractals with Fractal lab in your browser

ILTKKen — Mon, 30 May 2011 03:50:29 -0400

Opera is my favorite browser but I had to install Chrome to play around with Fractal lab.

You can explore fractals and play around with tons of parameters in real time, then fly into them infinitely in 3d space.

Freakin AWESOME, download google chrome, then load the app and play around.

http://www.chromeexperiments.com/detail/fractal-lab/?f
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no anime child pron for you

SkaarjMaster — Tue, 24 May 2011 08:59:11 -0400

http://www.unrealplayground.com/forums/showthread.php?t=55951

I doubt either of us would actually ever really buy this game, but this was interesting anyway.
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I'm glad I'm not a woman

SkaarjMaster — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 19:17:48 -0400

This is a bunch of crap and I really fucking love it when assholes try to turn back time
http://www.baynews9.com/article/news/2011/april/238198/

At least the governor we had before this one had some sense. Florida is fucked anyway because most of the government reps, in fact a huge majority, are Republicans!

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Duke

SkaarjMaster — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 20:55:44 -0400

If there is one game that will get me to sign up for Steam, this is the one and I am extremely tempted to get it after seeing the trailer thing this past weekend.
http://www.dukenukemforever.com
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Building new system - Sandy Bridge i5 2500K

ILTKKen — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 02:53:45 -0400

So I've started getting more heavily into racing sims, I'm playing a sim called iRacing and to take full advantage of this sim you need 3 monitor eyefinity. 3 x Samsung at 1920x1200 proved to be to much for my aging Q6600, my Radeon HD5970 doesn't break a sweat though.

As far as I can tell, there's no point in going to the i7 2600K, every review I've seen says there's no point and the i5 2500K is both cheaper and overclocks in some cases up to 5ghz, with 4+ ghz being perfectly stable.

Here's what I've picked:
CASE: SilverStone Fortress 2 Silver
CPU: Intel Core i5 2500K Sandy Bridge
CPU Coler: Noctua NH-U12P SE2
PSU: Seasonic X-750 750W Gold (Modular)
MB: ASUS P8P67 Deluxe B3 Sandy Bridge
RAM: Corsair 4GB DDR3 1600MHz (2x2) XMS3

The motherboard is the B3 version, the preveious rev was the one that got recalled for some RAM error stuff. It does sata 600, USB3 and can do 3 card crossfire or sli if that's needed down the line. It's also heavily optimized for overclocking. It also has the new UEFI BIOS, that means no more 20 seconds BIOS boot crap at the startup while watching dos mode text fly by and graphical BIOS setup with mouse and lots of options like automatic overclocking. Yep, it tries all kinds of stuff and measures stability and temps, then sets it all up for you. You can even make more than one profile and have it switch to the overclocked profile when needed.

There's a great review of it here:
http://www.clunk.org.uk/reviews/asus-p8p67-deluxe-motherboard-review.htm... Check the damn UEFI BIOS, it's MASSIVE.

I've chosen a modular PSU so I only have to use the wires that's actually in use and not the normal huge 4 fists full of tangly mess, also helps with ventilation.

The Noctua NH-U12P SE2 cpu coler got some of the best reviews and looks pretty badass, huge heatsink, 2x180mm fans in a push pull config. I don't realy want to get into water cooling.

The case has a negative airflow config so it only blows outwards so no dust is sucked in. It has 6 180mm fans with dust removeable filters for each fan. It's a metal case but it's insulated to stop rattling (My wavemaster case is annoying with this) and 6 internal removeable drive bays so you can just plug new disks in/out with no screws or wires to deal with.

RAM is pretty standard, I'm thinking 4GB is plenty for a gaming system, I'm going to run win7 ultimate 64bit so I can use all 4 gigs fully.

Any faults in this config?
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ExtendTube, awesome opera extension

ILTKKen — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 04:48:15 -0400

The latest Opera is getting close to Firefox with the new extensions.

I just found this extension:

https://addons.opera.com/addons/extensions/details/extendtube/1.5/?displ...

One word: Amazing

It removes ads that pops up, you can set it to go widescreen and always pick the best quality, seeking and a download button.

GET IT!
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what Europeans think of each other

SkaarjMaster — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 11:31:24 -0400

I found this in a thread by Benfica at BUF and thought it was an interesting read:
http://forums.beyondunreal.com/showthread.php?t=195229

"This is a basic backgrounder for Americans, primarily, who might think Europeans do nothing all day but bitch about Americans. Don’t get me wrong—they do love bitching about Americans. But they also like bitching about each other, as well. Bordering countries, especially, have complex caricatures of each other, even when an outsider might think they’re more or less the same. The following is based on my numerous interactions with Europeans, having lived there for 4 years. Here’s a run down:

The French — Disliked by some Spanish (particularly the Catalonians), for being arrogant. One woman from Barcelona told me, “Come on¦who really likes the French? Nobody!” The Swiss don’t like the fact that they have contempt for authority and are lazy. The Brits, of course, have the most mixed feelings about the French, though. One half the country hates them, the other half loves them. Those that hate the French tend to like the Americans, and vice versa. In the UK, they’re considered stinky, rude (they never line/queue up like decent people), and a bit yellow, based on their tendency to not fend off invaders like the Nazis.The French, in turn, dislike the British, look down on Belgians for being stupid, and don’t have much to say, in my experience, about Spaniards or Germans (oddly).

The Italians — Most of the stereotypes are positive, but mostly because of the food. Northern Europeans consider them lazy and flaky, and maybe incapable of managing anything right (mostly because of the 50+ governments they’ve had since WW2). One Dutch professor I had dismissed another Italian one, saying, “All the Italians care about are pasta and mamma.”Italians, in turn, don’t have strong feelings about other Europeans, but within Italy, the north-south divide is pretty strong. Northern Italians continuously complain that Southerners are lazy and unproductive, while Southerners complain that Northerners are devoid of culture or joie de vivre.

The Germans — Germans are considered industrious but uptight and humorless, by just about all the other Europeans. They know WW2 is a sore spot for them, so other Europeans will often mercilessly tease them about it. As much as Germany is considered an economic powerhouse, the vast majority of Europeans don’t really want to learn German or study there (or send their kids there to study). The food is considered uninspired, too, and only Berlin has some cachet among younger Europeans for its vibrant underground club scene. The most anti-German sentiments are among the Dutch and Danish, who just hate them from invading their countries too often. When German ask for directions in Holland, they’re usually given directions to the shortest way out of the country, or told “Give us back our bikes!”, a reference to the fact that Germans confiscated Dutch bicycles during WW2.Danes hate it when you pronounce their capital as “ko-pen-HAH-gen”, because this is the German pronunciation. Either pronounce it the English way (with “HAY” instead), or the Danish way, which is literally impossible to put down here.Germans tend to like their Western neighbors far more than they are liked by them, but they look down on their Eastern neighbors, particularly Poles. They, oddly, have some mixed respect for the Czechs, who have resisted German aggression.

The Scandinavians — Widely respected by most other Europeans, because of their high standard of living …and blond hair and blue eyes. However, within Scandinavia there are some persistent stereotypes. The Norwegians, Danes and Finns all think the Swedes are stupid and uptight. Norwegians are considered racist. Danes are considered more blunt than the others, maybe a bit more cranky, and the Finns are oddly introverted, even by Scandinavian standards. Except for the Danes really disliking Germans, and Finns really disliking Russians, they don’t really have anything against other Europeans.

The Belgians — Considered idiots by both the Dutch and the French. Belgians, in turn, consider the Dutch to be a bunch of cranky assholes, and French stuck-up.
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The Spaniards — Honestly, very little antagonism against the Spanish or by the Spanish. No one really seems to dislike them, and they don’t seem to really dislike anyone else. (Yes, some Spaniards near the border to France don’t like the French very much) Not entirely sure why. However, God forbid you speak Spanish with a Latin American accent — there is still a lot of snobbery among Spaniards towards Latin Americans. Spaniards consider themselves white and European, and would be deeply insulted if you suggested they were Latin American of any kind.
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The British – About half of the British would be really angry at being called European, so that should provide an apt starting point. The main beef with the Brits is that they’re considered the lapdog of the U.S., and are anti-European because the U.S. tells them to be so. They are considered polite, but maybe a bit two-faced (hence “Janus Britain”) and snobby. The Scots and Welsh are tolerated and liked, inasmuch as that no one really knows too much about them outside the UK, but the English are those that bear the brunt of negative sentiments among other Europeans. After all, London is in England.
The English also have a poor reputation in tourist traps, such as Amsterdam and Ibiza, for being loud-mouthed, obnoxious drunks.
The English, in turn, really seem to hate everyone. This is because it’s pretty hard to find an Englishman that has even, at best, neutral opinions about other Europeans (or Americans, or other nationalities). Europe is full of English expats, and the longer they live abroad, the more they seem to hate their host country. And yet they never seem to want to move home.
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Wow, I guess this is 3 years old, but here's the original link with user comments:
http://dailycandor.com/what-europeans-think-of-each-other/
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Why gas is so expensive - amazing read

ILTKKen — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 03:46:31 -0400

Ok, everyone needs to read this. Yes it's long, but well worth the time and effort to gain an understanding of why things are getting so expensive these days.

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3396041

I wholeheartedly agree with the image in the conclusion.
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looks like no high-speed rail for Florida

SkaarjMaster — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 19:05:36 -0500

Rick Scott is just an a$$hole!!! I thought Florida was a somewhat progressive state, but I guess were just another backwoods redneck Southern state no matter how many snowbirds come down here from the north during the tourist season. We had a chance to show the country what Florida could do and become the very first in the country with high-speed rail, but it looks like New York or California will get it unless a miracle happens. Grrrrrrrrrr............
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Copenhagen in the news again!

SkaarjMaster — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 10:41:18 -0500

Danish government rules against hippie enclave
http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2011/02/19/danish_court...

First story link that came up in google.........is this good or bad for Copenhagen? At first thought, I'm thinking bad but I don't live there either. Thoughts?
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akinator, fucking amazing

ILTKKen — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 06:03:12 -0500

This thing is fucking amazing. You think of something and it guesses what you are thinking about by asking you a series of questions.

Sounds pretty trivial, but try it on some random shit and you'll be pretty amazed at how effective this thing is.

http://en.akinator.com/
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Nukes - Amazing physics lecture

ILTKKen — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 10:36:52 -0500

This is just an amazing lecture about the physics of nuclear bombs and reactors.

There's lots of other videos in this series that are all fantastic to watch and learn from.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BHdsjo-NR4

The world needs more teachers like this guy.

Oh, and that is the fucking coolest chalkboard EVER.
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Crazy snow comming down

ILTKKen — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 09:17:22 -0500

Holy crap it's snowing here in DK.

Over 3 meters of snow fell in the night. I was just out getting a 30 cm layer of snow of the greenhouse or it will collapse, now not 3 hours later there's just as much and it's starting to pick up even more, you can't see 2 meters in front of you. I could hardly get out the door for all the snow piled up in front of it.

If this keeps up I don't think I'll be able to go to sleep, I have to keep an eye on the snow lever falling on the damn greenhouse, or find some way to support the roof with some 4x4 wood.

The dog loves it, he was out tunneling though it having a ball. I could only see the tail coming out of the snow lol
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we can't even have...

SkaarjMaster — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 21:52:02 -0500

the fake stuff:

http://www.baynews9.com/article/news/2010/november/174488/

Yes, someone just went on a killing rampage, but you're more concerned about fucking fake pot. I feel safer already.

(yes, I edited in the "fucking")
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Internet blacklist bill being voted - Another dumb law that wont work

ILTKKen — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 09:46:15 -0500

I fucking love retards making laws to restrict technology they have no clue about.

Here's how you get around this fortress of stupid:

Buy 5$ VPS in non-retarded country. (Hint, they have windmills and dams)
Setup DNS server on VPS
Connect though your new VPS.

Or, if that's to much, just open up your interweb settings and change the DNS server to one of the multitudes of free ones in non-opresseed countries, that's how I get around the Danish block of the pirate bay.

What exactly does it do?

The bill creates a blacklists of Internet domain names which the Attorney General can add to with a court order. Internet service providers, financial transaction providers, and online ad vendors (everyone from Comcast to PayPal to Google AdSense) would be required to block any domains on the list.

(The bill used to also have a second list that the AG could add to without a court order, but public pressure has gotten it removed.)

What kind of domains can go on the list?

The list is for domains "dedicated to infringing activity," which is defined very broadly — any site where counterfeit goods or copyrighted material are "central to the activity of the Internet site" would be blocked.

What's so bad about that?

Well, it means sites like YouTube could get censored in the US. Copyright holders like Viacom argue that copyrighted material is central to activity of YouTube. But under current US law, YouTube is perfectly legal as long as they take down copyrighted material when they're informed about it -- which is why Viacom lost their case in court. If this bill passes, Viacom doesn't even need to prove YouTube is doing anything illegal -- as long as they can persuade a court that enough other people are using it for copyright infringement, that's enough to get the whole site censored.
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Isn't the word censored a little overheated?

Not at all. In the US, the way things work is that if you're using the Internet to do something illegal, you're brought to court and the courts can shut you down. This bill would bypass that whole system by forcing Internet service providers to block access to sites that are otherwise up. People in other countries could still get to them, but Internet users in the US would be blocked. This kind of Internet censorship is exactly the sort of thing the US government has been criticizing China and Iran for -- just the other day, Obama told the UN that "We will support a free and open Internet." Now it turns out we're going to start censoring the Internet ourselves.

But it's just limited to copyright!

How long do you think that will last? Once the Attorney General has a system set up for censoring the Internet, everyone who has a problem with a website will want to get in on it. How long before it's expanded to block Wikileaks, pornography, gambling, anarchists, supposed terrorists, and anybody else the Attorney General doesn't like that day? If people are doing something illegal, the government should take them to court and shut them down -- not try to bypass due process by blocking their domain name.

Won't Internet users just work around the blacklist?

Yes -- at the cost of a major blow to the United States. Currently the United States is the global hub of Internet traffic, but if this law passes Internet traffic will be reconfigured to route around it. Companies will move their US servers and domain names overseas, Internet users will route their traffic through other countries (just like Chinese citizens have to do now!), and software will have to be reconfigured to no longer trust answers from American servers.

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GT5 Release date 24 Nov FUCK YEAH

ILTKKen — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 10:12:56 -0500

Hell YEAH! Finally Sony got their fingers out.

Sooo exited, finally gonna be driving my favorite Caterham 7.

Carlist: http://www.gran-turismo.com/local/jp/data1/products/gt5/carlist_en.html
Tracklist: http://www.gran-turismo.com/local/jp/data1/products/gt5/courselist_en.ht...

Bit miffed Road Atlanta and Road America isn't in there, there's nothing better than taking "the kink" on Road America at 200mph in a Mosler MT900 knowing that taking the apex just 1cm wrong and you're dead. The kink has taken multiple lives IRL so far.

Oh well I'll live, just that I had hundreds of hours in Forza3 on those 2 tracks and about 1 sec from world record on them
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Awesome changing image

ILTKKen — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 08:05:19 -0400

Just came across this pic, first look at it close to the screen, Einstein... then move back a meter or so.

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rFactor thread

SkaarjMaster — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 12:26:09 -0400

Just thought I'd start a thread for rFactor. I will be getting it, but not sure when (I won't wait as long as I have for GRiD though). What's GTLegends those guys are talking about in that Porsche 911 link you posted in the UT3 section? They're saying you need it for that one mod.
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GT5 Delayed AGAIN FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

ILTKKen — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 07:14:19 -0400

Grand Turismo 5 has been delayed AGAIN

FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCKING FUCK

They announced the worldwide release date November 3'rd a while ago, I went and got a damn PS3 + preorder for this and now this SHIT.

If this is Sony trolling to stir up interest or some marketing shit to coincide with cristmass sales I'll kill KILL KILL

SONY
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Alaska!!!

SkaarjMaster — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 13:51:09 -0400

Just got back from a mega-vacation in Alaska a couple days ago and all I can say is WOW! Unbelievable scenery and wildlife. My wife and I took the 7-day Inside Passage cruise with Royal Caribbean and 3-day inland tour through Anchorage to Denali after for a total of 10 days. We even met my friend from Seattle in Vancouver the day before leaving for the cruise. We saw lots of mountains, glaciers and Mt. McKinley. I was also mega cost-wise and let's just say we dropped a lot especially going to the ship casino almost every night.

I'm back at work for the second day since being back and slowly getting back to reality.
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Figured out why my system was locking up

ILTKKen — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 08:13:44 -0400

Lately my system has been randomly locking up and I couldn't figure out what the hell was wrong.

Last time this happened was because my cpu fan cooling vent was filled with dust so it overheated. But this time there was no dust and the system was still running hot when this happened.

Then... I found the culprit.

Having no hair he likes to seek out hotspots around the house. He figured out that my ATI 5970 gfx card puts out a nice stream of hot air, so he parks his ass in front of the exhaust vents from the card, blocks the airflow and the card heats up and crashes my machine.

CATS GRRRR...
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Getting my TrackIR next month - woooooo

ILTKKen — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 11:54:30 -0400

Finally found a distributer here in DK.

What's a TrackIR you say?

http://www.naturalpoint.com/trackir/02-products/product-videos.html

Basically 100% fluid head tracking designed for games.

Watch the videos to see how awesome this thing is.

Can't wait to play Live For Speed, rFactor and ArmA with this thing.

Btw if you'r into racing sims, Live For Speed is amazing, allmost 100% realism. I got into Dirt 2 a little while ago but the arcade like physics annoys me LFS is like driving a real car. My Logitech G27 with TrackIR is gonna rock.
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Insane chinese gymnastics

ILTKKen — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 09:07:03 -0400

I'm at a loss for words, just watch this..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AXWLwf4K_s
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The 90s man, they're coming back - Mh eh eh heh hehe

ILTKKen — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 05:04:13 -0400

Beavis and Butt-Head is comming back

FUCK YESSS! I have allmost ALL the old episodes and I still crack up when watching them.

FROG BASEBALL

It will be the same format and lo-fi style.

I can't wait to hear them rip all this shit music on MTV a new asshole.

And if they make them politically correct, I will buy a ticket to the US and shit into Mike Judge neck.

http://www.digitaltrends.com/entertainment/mike-judge-to-bring-back-beav...

Now bring back Sifl and Olly and I will be in heaven. (ROCK, BUY MY NECK SLIMMER SUCKERS)
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Watch this for more than a minute with a straight face

ILTKKen — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 08:55:28 -0400

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/yt-dyMXYE_50Ts/retarded_running_horse/
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sniper maps

SkaarjMaster — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 00:05:23 -0400

I thought I'd post some maps to be considered for any sniper server. This is from a thread originally started here and maps added based on comments here and at BUF.

007Archives > could be interesting with snipers only
2ndSpaceBeacon
3rdSpaceBeacon
AlpineManor
Anachronism
Anarchy_Road
Anathema
Anubis
Baal
Bafford (Bafford's Manor)
Beholden
BIG_Castle
Bloodymouse
Brock
CasaLoma_Dusk
Chimeara
CityIntro
Cityzen
Cluster****
Colwell > different sort of look
Constructor
Constructor][ > both of these are good
CTC-Astral
CTC-DeadlyWorship > both part of CTC-UT-mappack-vol2.zip but might be found as separate downloads
CTC-The_Spinner > a map with crazy twists (part of CTC...vol1)
DarkCity
DarkCity][
DeCyberEscherUT (The House of Escher V2)
Dogtown
Dominis
Dunamis][
Escherland][ (Eschertown)
Falkenstein
Ferrea
FoT-Hian (Hian Water Pump) > part of Forts Of Time Vol 1 mappack
Grim-Fist
Hall_of_Legends (Legends)
Halls_of_Redemption][
Helleth
Helleth][
HyperBoreal
ILTK1-1on1-FunkyChicken_v1a
Industrial (Industrial Impact by Clay)
Infinitum
Ixus
Khalnora
Konosus][
Manor Farm
Morpheus
NaliCastle][
NalisAzure][ (The Village of Nalis Azure)
Norwich
Organic
Ottagono
Powerslave
Prong][
Q3DM17+ (\The Longest Yard+/)
ReconStarCruise
Rustamorai
RustyInc
SleepyTown
SpaceBeacon
SunTzu (Sun-Tzu's War Academy)
TimeCrash
TrainingGrounds
Ultimum][
Unreality][
UrbanArena][
UrbanHotZone
VeNN-Hellion
VerticalFactory
Vsys (winning character displayed as statue)
Warehouse][
Zahltag
ZeitkindPro_V11 (zeitkind_pro_repack.zip)
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good luck...

SkaarjMaster — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 19:26:56 -0400

...in the World Cup tomorrow!
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Help Skaarj, need UT maps can't find anything but shit

ILTKKen — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 04:06:05 -0400

I'm going back to my roots, Unreal Tournament baby. Getting sick and tired of all these new games where the server part SUCKS FUCKING DICK.

Now, I've forgot the names of all the cool maps. I tried browsing some map sites but there's an endless mess of 1337-woot-sniperbox-deathkiller boxes of shit and then when I finally find something promising the link is dead. arrrrgh.

If you have time, could you shoot me some names of good larger maps for sniping, Perhaps with links if you got em'?

I'm setting up the server with the new ut zeroping, sniperarena and perhaps some lowgraw.

btw, I re-installed the original UT (well duh hehe), game fucking STILL owns, after these many years it rocks and the interface stomps over everything.
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It's garden time again, what ya'll got going?

ILTKKen — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 09:18:35 -0400

It's summer again and most of my stuff is going great. Started most of the stuff inside some months ago.

I'm trying some new stuff this year.

Tomatoes:

Ananas noir, heirloom tomato that's purple, red, violet and green. Should grow huge and taste realy sweet. Great for salads.

Yellow marble. Small yellow cherry tomato. Amazing producer. This one we had last year and 2 plants were producing allmost more than we could keep up with. Sweet sour taste with a hint of some kinda tropical fruit.

Herbs:

The old faithfulls are still here, thyme, rosemary, esdragon etc.., can't live without those for stock and most dishes. But this year I got a ton of different Basils going. Anis, citrus, cinnamon and thai basil.

Also trying some new salads and as a fun experiment a plant called Stevia, it's about 20 times as sweet as sugar.

Then there's the chilis. Some chocolate habanero, a couple red savina and some assorted halapenos.

Last year my habaneros didn't want to kick in for some reason, but this year they are all looking good and strong, can't wait for some HEAT hehe. Ok I still have a ton of dried ones but nothing beats fresh ones for salads.

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Rush, ever seen them in concert?

SkaarjMaster — Fri, 28 May 2010 19:15:09 -0400

I have tix for October 1st! Had a chance in 1982 to see them and blew it and the timing has never been right until now.
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it was bound to happen...

SkaarjMaster — Thu, 13 May 2010 09:01:36 -0400

...eventually.

page 1 of Google search:
http://www.last.fm/user/Skaarjmaster

page 4 of Google search:
http://www.xfire.com/profile/skaarjmaster/

page 6 of Google search (I don't know WTF this is):
http://car-seat.kape.ok.pe/lasusury.html

Yes, no matter how unique I thought my name was, other people are using it but not spelled/capitalized the same way. I checked for fun about 2-4 years ago and no one was using it, which surprised me........so now I guess I'm not surprised.
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Come play some Left4Dead2

ILTKKen — Sat, 08 May 2010 08:14:09 -0400

I fucking love this game it's so much fun so I went and got an 8 slot server since it was extremely cheap (20 bucks a month + 10 slot ts server).

It's still being setup but should be done shortly, anyone wanna kill some zombie bastards come play.

94.75.248.127:27015

Don't if I'm going to set it for versus or some other gametype since I still suck ass at playing the infected, so I'm just gonna run campaign mode for now.

Some tips:

Go into the settings and enable developer console, bring it up with the tilde key.

To connect type in: connect 94.75.248.127:27015

Now you can also bind stuff easily.

bind "t" "say Wholy shit what a mess!"

Record demos:

record mydemo1

To playback demos:

demoui

hit load and select your demos.
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Gulf of Mexico oil spill

SkaarjMaster — Tue, 04 May 2010 09:26:00 -0400

I said oil the bitches, not the beaches assholes!!!
http://www.baynews9.com/content/36/2010/5/3/614579.html

I'm sure you heard the news by now, but it looks like the beautiful beaches of Florida are doomed to be fucked up for a while. Sarasota, where I grew up, has one of the most beautiful beaches in the world but probably not for very much longer. I'm disgusted but still hoping something will happen to stop this.
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Mass Effect 2 - mindblowingly awesome!

ILTKKen — Sat, 01 May 2010 04:46:38 -0400

Been playing this game for a while and it's without a doubt the best singleplayer rpg game I've played.

Don't be put of by the RPG part, it's basically missions you can go on depending on the outcome of your actions. Each mission is like a putting the same characters into a whole FPS new style game, every mission is so different it may as well be a new game with the same mechanics. There's almost no grinding for stats, it's all worked into the missions seamlessly. Theres only mining planets for minerals that can get tedious, but you soon get enough that you don't need to do that anymore and then it's all awesomeness.

Apart from that depending on playing as a male or female you pick up team members along the way, a couple of the opposite sex you can woo if you do the right things and get into their pants. If you happen to woo 2 girls for example they WILL find out sooner or later and bitch you out about it. If you go with one sooner or later you will have to choose and that will make the other one pretty much tell you to fuck off for the rest of the game. They also get into some pretty hillarious bitch fights over stupid shit that you have to break up, choose your words wisely when you do that hehe.

Not enough? Well how about your captains chambers having a goddamn fishtank? If you buy fish for it on some mission from a wendor you get nice fishies to look at. Remember to feed the little bastards or one day you enter your room and they are floating at the top belly up Or how about a space hamster?

From the start you can also customize your characters appearance, and I mean REALLY customize.

For example who does this fellow remind you of?

Still working on my Picard character, it's getting there hehe.

It's based on the Unreal 3 engine, I didn't think UE3 could look THIS good. Apart from the massive detailed vegetation it's up there with Crysis warhead. Sure shadows doesn't blur from start to end points and all that, but it looks fucking great for something made on the UE3 engine.

The character and voice acting is also some of the best i've heard and seen in any game, no weak voice acting anywhere.

Another thing is that it's also huge, with tons of shit to explore. I've clocked over 20 hours I think and I'm far from done.

Oh yeah, one of the major characters is Martin fucking Sheen, booyah!

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What's up?

Black Jesus — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 03:54:23 -0400

Hey Ken, how's it going? I had to search through my email to find the address to this site again... can never remember how-to-answers.com, haha.

Anyway, long time no talk. I'm still living out here in Portland, Oregon... it's so fuckin nice it's unbelievable. I have 2 big ass volcanos on the horizon (Mt. St. Helens and Mt. Hood), tons of green, huge trees, great weather, and the best weed I've ever smoked. Home groan Oregon pot is not joke man. People here really know how to grow.

I hope you're doing well.
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It's grilling season!

ILTKKen — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 08:06:42 -0400

Oh yeah, grilling season is here again.

I grill a bit in the winter but not as much as I hate freezing my ass off.

We recently got a Weber Q300 gas grill and it's just fantastic. I was a bit skeptic with gas instead of charcoal, but you just grill SO much more with gas because it's so easy, turn the gas on, hit the igniter and bam, 5 minutes later you'r grilling instead of getting a starter going and waiting 30 minutes, then the cleanup and mess. I think winter grilling will be more frequent to now that it's so fast to get started.

Any grill heads in here? We just did chicken with barbecue sauce last night and also added some smoking chips to get some smoke flavor and it was to die for. Next up will be salmon I think, best grilled fish ever.

Any American rub recipes? Can't ever have to many rubs on hand
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If anyone is on the fence about SSD drives..

ILTKKen — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 10:54:57 -0400

FUCKING DO IT!

Seriously, these things are fantastic.

I recently got an Intel G2 80GB SSD and everything is just so snappy now.

Loading games, and especially level loading is almost instant.

Need to restart the PC? Who cares, it takes like 8-10 seconds.

Bloated Firefox takes ages to load? Nope, it's up and running in 2-3 seconds, Opera is up before you can blink.

There's no program I can think of that takes longer to load than 2-4 seconds, even games like BFBC2 or Left4Dead2 is loaded in 5 seconds.

Platter hard drives is the last huge bottleneck holding your PC back, I feel like I bought a brand new machine.
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Battlefield Bad Company 2 - awesome game but..

ILTKKen — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 09:02:59 -0400

Why the fuck can't you strafe while running?

Apart from that I'm enjoying the shit out of this game.

Not only the graphics, but the sound is awesome. There's this feature that if something loud goes off near you the sound is muffled like you got temporary ear damage and if it's realy loud like a grenade you get this ringing sound for a short while.

Also playing crysis warhead, fuck me the graphics in that game is amazing. With the new HD5970 card I can play it at all settings to enthusiast and it's still smooth, it's gotta be seen to believe.
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Driving to work really...

SkaarjMaster — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 09:04:04 -0400

...sucks donkey balls! Our office is moving again and it will now be 5-15 minutes farther away depending on the time of day. It already takes 40-60 minutes to drive to work and now this on top of it.
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Kens Adventures of Windows 7

ILTKKen — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 04:45:16 -0400

Skaarj requested that I write about using windows 7 as I've just switched now.

Installation was less than stellar, there was a 10-15 minute wait before the system loaded and continued installation, leaving me to think something was wrong, it was just sitting there with a blue screen with a bird on it, no "please wait" or anything..

Ok, going forward since I was installing on an SSD I got a button below at one point that said "select drivers", I foolishly checked it out just to see if my SSD was in there. Shouldn't have done that, as there was no drivers, but once you click that button you HAVE to select something. There's a cancel button, but that only gives you an option to end the installation and start over, oh joy!

Start the installation over, wait 15 minutes at a blue screen with a bird, then continue, and this time I ain't touching nothing.

After about 40 minutes I'd guess the installation was over and windows7 was running. Unpacking files took ages.

There's a lot of worrying reboots, like the system reboots, then at the bios screen it stops for a second and then reboots again a couple times, oh oh somethings wrong I thought but no, it just did that for some reason.

So far I like it, there's some things I don't like though:

I use a tabbed browser, Opera. The new thing is that every application that spawns multiple windows will be contained inside the thumbnail in the taskbar. That means that when I have a million tabs open in Opera I get a huge list of previews when hovering over the thumbnail. I can just click the thumbnail on the taskbar to minimize or maximize an application once more than one window is open. There's a minimize maximize all windows button on the taskbar, but it's waaaaaay over by the clock area so I have to move my mouse to much.

Then there's a new cool feature called "libraries" Basically it's like the my documents folder, only you can include other folders in a library. Say you wanted all your TV episodes in one place you could create a library called TV and add the folders where your TV episodes are stored. Only it doesn't work with network drives, for that to work you have to select "make this folder available "offline" Great I thought, that's what I'll do. Big mistake because that makes windows 7 COPY ALL THE NETWORKED FILES TO A LOCAL CACHE. See, I have an SDD of 80GB so there's no fucking way I could do this for my 3 2 terrabyte mybook drives.

Looks pretty negative right now, but that will probably change once I get more used to windows 7

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I know now that...

SkaarjMaster — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:10:32 -0400

... I am definitely going to Hell. OK, so, I've been playing various UT games off and on and my son pops in every now and then and looks at what I'm doing and then leaves. Well, over the past couple months, he's been watching closer and staying longer and I know he's there and I just keep playing without telling him to go away or anything (of course, my wife's in the other room saying things like,"he shouldn't be watching that"). Last night, I said he could watch for a little bit (luckily it was UT3 and not the 'R' rated modified original UT I have installed with the custom voices and skins) and after a couple minutes, I decided it would be cool to show him the xloc. I did and he thought it was really cool. Unfortunately, right before I told him he needed to take a bath, I telefragged someone on instinct and he saw it. He asked me what happened and I tried to explain it away, but I think he knew; he's 5 and very smart. So, it looks like I have my ticket waiting for the Hell Express.
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FUCK "SUGAR TYPES" IN THE ASS

ILTKKen — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:56:59 -0400

So i've been feeling like shit the last couple of days, bloated as fuck and I couldn't figure out why because I watch anything with lactose in it like a hawk since I'm lactose intolerant.

Now diet coke has switched to "sugar types" as the sweetener instead of aspartam or whatever the hell the useuall artificial sweetener is called. 99% of the times when companies list the sweetener used as "sugar types" it means fucking lactose.

THANKS ASSHOLES
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Kens semi new system 2010

ILTKKen — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 08:53:28 -0400

Ok, so I relied on the availabillity assesment on the company page for my HF5970 so it would ship after the 1st this month, but the fuckers sent it last friday so it arriwed today along with my Intel X25m G2 SSD

I rip my system apart, vacuum and all that and the bloody thing is 32cm and NOT 31 like it said on the order page, for fucks sake..

I had to take a metal cutter thingy to the hard drive area to cut a snippet off to make room, booted and it worked, phew...

Now I'm trying to install windows 7 on the SSD but it just hangs after the initial text mode loading of various files.., then a blue wallpaper with a bird on just sits there and nothing happens.

God I love computers

I'm back on win xp for the moment, just installed the ati drivers and downloading that haven inigine demo before I do anything else..
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Ubisofts new DRM fucks them in the ass

ILTKKen — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:27:46 -0500

Ahahaha, I called it, and there we go..

http://forums.ubi.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/4721051016/m/7481010838/p/1

Sucks to be a paying customer I guess
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Eyefinity questions

ILTKKen — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 04:00:15 -0500

Anyone here tried eyefinity or know a little about it?

Since I'm getting a HD5970 I'd like at some point to run a 3 monitor eyefinity setup.

I have a 24" Samsung at the moment, I looked at 30" solutions but the price is stupid, I could use a HDTV but the resolution sucks for text, I run my media PC in the living room at 1900x1200 or something and the text still looks like ass at that res, not something I'd like to look at all day.

I was wondering how flexible eyefinity is? Could I run my 24" inch as the center screen, and 2 rotated 17" as the left and right screens? That would be ideal, 3 24" would just be way to large and expensive and I'd be moving my head to much for comfort.
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Running out of space on your main drive? Junction points baby!

ILTKKen — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 09:00:16 -0500

Why the fuck have I never heard about junction points?

If you don't know wtf either, a junction point is a directory you mount as a drive.

To try do this:

Create a directory on your main drive, call it something like "morespace"

Open a command prompt and navigate to the directory above the "morespace" folder.

Now type:

mountvol

This gives you a list of drive volumes you can mount.

Copy the name of the one you want without the last part that is the drive name

With the drive name (This wont work)
mountvol morespace \\?\Volume{2ce4089a-7981-11dc-b5f9-001a4d4ed6bb}\I:\

Without the drive name, this will work...
mountvol morespace \\?\Volume{2ce4089a-7981-11dc-b5f9-001a4d4ed6bb}\

Voila, now you have a folder that is actually your mounted drive, you have just expanded the space on your main drive with however large the drive you mounted is.

It will work exactly like you'd expect, install a game into morespace\mygame and the installer for the game won't know any difference.

Just DONT delete the folder you mounted, you have to unmount it if you want to remove it.

Here's how you unmount it:

mountvol morespace /D

NOW you can remove the morespace folder
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Anyone here have SSD drives?

ILTKKen — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 11:49:20 -0500

So I'm going to be giving up my trusty XP finally and going to Win7 to be able to get DX11 going to fully support my HD5970 GFX Card.

Win7 has full support for SSD drives so I'm thinking about getting an 80GB Intel or OCZ SSD generation 2 with TRIM support for the OS.

Anyone run with one of these yet? Boot times of around 6 seconds sounds awefully tempting
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Boxer text editor, holy shit

ILTKKen — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 04:56:29 -0500

So I checked in to see how my favourite old DOS text editor was doing with the windows version.

It has a billion options which I won't go into, the feature that blew me away was thier new version of Intellisense. If you don't know what that is, it's a feature of a lot of code editors where you type the first x letters of a word and it pops up a list of matches so you can be sure to spell them right, lots of function names in programming can be hard to remember.

They took this to another level. It can now also popup matches from the dictionary or thesaurus. When you type more than 3 letters of a word (Can be configured) a numbered list pops up, you can then just hit the number for the word in the list and it writes it out for you.

Not only does this make sure you spell correctly, but when you get used to quickly hitting the number for words, it speeds up your writing like crazy.

Try the demo, it sounds so simple but it's fucking amazing.

Oh yeah, it can be installed in USB mode, meaning that it will install on an USB stick and store it's config settings on the USB stick so you can always have your editor with you and setup just the way you like it.
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Moving FPS style in Google Earth?

ILTKKen — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 05:24:23 -0500

Been playing around with google earth lately since it beats the shit out of our local map sites.

I can't for the life of me figure out how to "walk" when you are on street level? It's annoying to have to click the little string of photo icons to move to that place and takes forever that way.

Anyone?
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ATI Radeon HD 5970 or nVidia GeForce GTX 295?

ILTKKen — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 04:47:04 -0500

I can't decide if it's worth the money to get the ATI Radeon HD 5970 when I'm not going to be running insane resolutions or multi monitor gaming setups.

I'm going to be running 1920x1200 so is any game comming out in a reasonable time even going to be able to max the GTX 295? In which case getting the 5970 is going to be total overkill seeing as it can run crysis in 2600x res on a dual monitor setup in 16xFSAA with with everything maxed to hell.

Anyone?
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Fun with javascript

ILTKKen — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:11:22 -0500

Remove the space between java and script below, load a page and paste that into the addressbar.

If you can manage to do this to someones browser when they're away even better

java script:R=0;
x1=.1; y1=.05; x2=.25; y2=.24; x3=1.6; y3=.24; x4=300; y4=200; x5=300; y5=200; DI=document.getElementsByTagName("img");
DIL=DI.length; function A(){for(i=0; i-DIL; i++){DIS=DI[ i ].style; DIS.position='absolute';
DIS.left=(Math.sin(R*x1+i*x2+x3)*x4+x5)+ "px"; DIS.top=(Math.cos(R*y1+i*y2+y3)*y4+y5)+" px"}R++}setInterval('A()',5);
void(0);
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Zeitkind and Zahltag?

SkaarjMaster — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:10:59 -0500

for UT3!!!
http://utforums.epicgames.com/showthread.php?t=713766

http://utforums.epicgames.com/showthread.php?t=705096

Almost makes you want to reinstall UT3 doesn't it?
I'll be trying them out sometime over the next 2 weeks.
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Heston Blumenthal is fucking crazy, and I love him

ILTKKen — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 03:22:50 -0500

As I've mentioned before, I cook using the sous-vide technique at home. One of the chefs evangelizing this technique is Heston Blumenthal of the Fat Duck (3 Michelin starred restaurant in England)

Here's Heston sous-vide cooking a whole damn pig in a hot tub using an endoscopy camera to position stuffing inside the pig.

http://www.eatmedaily.com/2009/03/the-trojan-hog-on-hestons-roman-feast-...

If you want to see more of Heston, grab the TV series "Kitchen Science" with Heston Blumenthal. I think there's even a couple episodes on youtube.
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More Opera awesomeness

ILTKKen — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 07:00:07 -0500

I've been doing this for a while so figured I'd share this..

Normal when you click on something to download it you then have to navigate to where you usually keep whatever file type it is your are downloading, like videos, mp3's, pdf files etc..

In Opera, you can have any filetype be automatically downloaded to a preset folder. After you set it up you just click on links and they are put right into whatever folder you want without having to do anything.

How to set this up:

Go to opera preferences.
Click on advanced.
Click on downloads.

Now you get a list of mime types, don't worry you don't need to know what a mime type is, just look at the extensions and select one, for example mp3, then click edit.

Put a checkmark in "save to disk" and "do not ask for folder, save directly to", then click on browse and select the folder you want.

Voila, that's it.

Now click on an mp3 download link and nothing happens, except it's downloaded and saved in your chosen folder just like that.

One thing I use this for is nzb files for downloading news. I have a program that looks for nzb files in a folder on my fileserver and then loads that to start a usenet download. I setup nzb files to be downloaded to that folder and now all I need to do is click an nzb file and my fileserver starts downloading a move, fucking awesome.
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The hunt for Gollum - awesome independent film

ILTKKen — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 06:31:06 -0500

Just found this little gem.

Made entirely by amateurs and volunteers and a budget of about 5000$

Little rough in color palette and lighting, but that's to be expected because pro level movie lighting rigs are outrageously fucking expensive. It doesn't deter much from the film which is great.

Watch the HD version if you have the bandwidth.

http://www.thehuntforgollum.com/updates.htm
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Battlefield Bad Company 2 - Anyone want to play?

GrimReaper3 — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:49:39 -0500

So after my disappointment with MW2 I am hoping that BC2 is going to fill that void. I have been waiting quite a while for a game that will involve organized tactics again and have the actual possibility of playing with people you know online. If you have ever played Battlefield 2 you will know that these tactics were present. I played with a group of people who had a map overlay program and we had strategy. If this game follows suit it could be a very fun game, much more than mw2. But I still have my real hope set out for BF3 which is PC ONLY and comes out sometime in the next 2 years .. but still.. worth looking into. I'm in the private beta through combattesting.com and its getting me physiqued to play in squads.
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Healthcare, do we want it or not fuckheads!

SkaarjMaster — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 12:04:27 -0500

Apparently, not.
State Legislation Opposing Certain Health Reforms, 2009-2010

States have an extensive and complicated shared power relationship with the federal government in regulating various aspects of the health insurance market and in enacting health reforms. As part of state-based responses to federal health reform legislation, individual members of at least 19 state legislatures are using the legislative process to seek to limit, alter or oppose selected state or federal actions, including single-payer provisions and mandates that would require purchase of insurance. In general the measures seek to make or keep health insurance optional, and allow people to purchase any type of coverage they may choose. The individual state language varies.

http://www.ncsl.org/?tabid=18906

WTF! I thought the system was fucked up! I thought people were fed up with it and wanted change! I guess I was just hallucinating the system getting worse and worse over the past 10-15 years and really need to get off the crack-laced LSD already I guess. Are they crazy? We need serious healthcare reform and the States are now going to use their powers to fuck it up and delay it in the name of individual fucking freedoms.......not that individuals shouldn't have the freedom to fuck. Oh, wait, back on track. Anyway, why don't we just break up the US of Fucking A into 50 little fucking little ass states and then let these little fucking powerless pieces of shit have fucking fun trying to get anywhere on the world stage. I do agree to a point that States should have their own rights, but for this healthcare reform to really work it has to be universal across all States and if it isn't then it's just a farce and a huge waste of time.

I hope all the Obama supporters come out and vote this shit down, but I doubt that will happen. People will probably vote it in within all the states it comes up and vote all the little motherfucking Republicans into office to screw up the Democratic majority in both the Senate and the House and then Obama won't get shit done after Nov. 2010 and then they'll vote another fucking Republican in office (maybe fucking Palin, wouldn't that be exciting) and screw up everything Obama has been trying to do to make this country stronger nationally, internationally and to get a little face back on the world stage that we lost over the previous 8 years. No wonder why there have been totalitarian regimes in the past and present because people are fucking idiots!!! Oh, and it figures my "glorious" state, Florida, is one of the fucking 19 pricks!!!
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Seagate sinks to a new low

ILTKKen — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:11:55 -0500

So I'm out of harddisk space again, (grrr) and looking for a 2 terrabyte drive and I come across

Seagate FreeAgent Desk 2TB

Only looking at the specs like I always do to check drive speed and connectivity before buying I see under capacity: 1000GB

Yep, lets call our new 1 Terrabyte drive 2TB to fool those suckers, you know, the customers that supports you.

And to add to this insult, it costs about the same as a wester digital 2 terrabyte drive.

Eat a fucking bowl of dicks seagate.
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Asses of the Caribbean

ILTKKen — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 04:24:33 -0500

Here's a documentary about Caribbean guys who are really into asses.

I should mention this is asses as in HEEEE-HAWWW asses.

Really fucking not safe for work.

http://www.vbs.tv/watch/the-vice-guide-to-sex/
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Win7 thread

SkaarjMaster — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:43:36 -0500

This is just a thread to talk about weird Win7 stuff and problems. I can't answer any of them, but if you notice stuff that is different from WinXP that could screw up some games and stuff, please point it out.
I'll start:
WTF does this mean?
"I get weird mouse acceleration on Win7 for no reason. Looks like my XP mousefix is not working"
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King Frost is kicking ass

ILTKKen — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 02:40:25 -0500

Damn, it's snowing like crazy today and the temp. dropped to -25C (-13F)

They are also predicting hard snowstorms all over, brrrrrr

Time to fire up the sauna me thinks
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Why Patrick Stewart rules... again.

ILTKKen — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 10:51:00 -0500

This, this right here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fg_cwI1Xj4M

So many quotes from that short scene.

"On the grass..."
"I've seen it all!"
"You're not married, you live alone, and you haven't seen star trek??"
"No"
"Good lord!"

And he just got knighted, that's SIR Patrick Steward now.

100% Deserved.
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Tobacco prices to be raised dramatically in 2010 in dk

ILTKKen — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 10:27:00 -0500

Haha, fucking great you dumbass politicians.

What's going to happen?

People will buy via illegal means. Meaning they will drive all over the fucking place in their cars to get much cheaper tobacco letting out a shitton of CO2 that we were trying to bring down in that big event you may remember THAT WE WERE THE HOST OF JUST A FUCKING MONTH AGO. More money will flow out of the country in an economic crises, gangs will jump all over this and offer cheap ass tobacco so tons more crime. Ass loads of money will be spent on "the war on tobacco" tying up the already undermanned police force and fill up the prisons.

OH YEAH NEWSFLASH... IN 1988 a pack of cigs were almost TWICE (counting in inflation) of what it will be after the new increase, and that was a one of the record years in the amount of smokers nationwide.

Wonderful.

Have they learned NOTHING from the past?

Happy fucking new year btw
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how not to do airport security

SkaarjMaster — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 20:41:55 -0500

Um, ok, so we now have to be there earlier, so we can go through the same process and then wait forever to get on our plane. Have they changed the security process? Probably not.
http://www.baynews9.com/content/36/2009/12/28/563733.html

What needs to be done is consult with Israel and see how they do it! Yes, maybe they profile a bit, but that's what needs to be done to prevent the terrorists from doing all this stuff. It's a simple solution to a simple problem, but we won't do it until thousands more die needlessly.
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Flies! wtf

ILTKKen — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 11:54:55 -0500

It's damn winter, freezing and snowing and there's like 10 houseflies around the house all of a sudden?

Where the hell did they come from?

On a positive note the cats are having a ball chasing them around.

merry Christmas btw
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How the mpaa convinces you to not pirate movies

ILTKKen — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 07:23:41 -0500

Straight from their own website:

- Movies that have yet to be released in theaters, or which are still out in theaters, generally are not be available in the DVD format. If very recent titles are being sold on an auction or other online retail sites, they are most likely pirated.

- Even if you are hoping to get your favorite movie titles at a discount, new or used, the extremely low prices offered on some Web sites might indicate pirated product.

- missing studio, publisher, and distributor logos on discs and packaging

- In addition, if anywhere on the package it reads that the disc is an "All-Region," "0-Region," or "No Region" product, it's highly likely that the DVD is pirated.

Yep that's a great way to discourage piracy, translation:

Pirated movies can be had sooner, without spam for studios that nobody cares about, you can buy them for cheap (lol buy pirated movies? wtf), even better you can buy them used for even cheaper, and on top of that you don't have to wait for an "official" version to come out months later in your country AND you can play them anywhere you want with no restrictions.

Yeppers, let me get my wallet!

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why siamese cats are awesome

ILTKKen — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 05:44:38 -0500

Only cats you can have entire conversations with.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHsb__t14iE&feature=related
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Copenhagen is in the news these days!

SkaarjMaster — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 23:17:14 -0500

Do you think it's all BS and we're all doomed or do you think the world leaders will finally do something about the environment?
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I'm getting an ebook reader right the fuck now

ILTKKen — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 07:40:11 -0500

I've been on the fence on the whole ebook reader deal, but not anymore, here's why..

Danish libraries are now offering most books as ebooks.

Yep, read that once more.

As long as I register a free library card, I can now browse from all libraries in DK and download ebooks of most titles right to an ebook reader, including audiobooks.

No more waiting for a book that's on loan to someone else, no more late fees.

Holy hot damn, awesome!
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Kens caramelized ginger snacks

ILTKKen — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 09:55:05 -0500

Here's an awesome sweet I make whenever I run out of it. caramelized ginger snacks!

Ingredients:
2 large ginger rhizomes.
Sugar.
Water.

Peel ginger rhizomes with a teaspoon, doesn't have to be perfect, just take most of it off as it can be bitter if the rhizomes are old.

Cut into thin slices.

Put in pot and add roughly equal amount of water and bring to a boil. Boil until water is reduced to at least half.

Add as much table sugar (or cane sugar if you wanna be fancy) as the original amount of sliced ginger and boil until the sugar starts to crystallize. Carefull to not burn, but it's ok and even good if it browns a bit.

Quickly spread out on a cake rack or cool plate.

When cool it goes completely dry, hack in smaller pieces if it clumped up a bit. Store in a plastic food container.

Fucking delish I tells ya! It's HOT, but not chilly hot, very warming.

This stuff has a million uses. In cakes, as a snack, over cereals (Godlike in homemade trailmix, excellent with coffee or tea etc..
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Food network.. What the fuck happened?

ILTKKen — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 06:06:07 -0500

So I've finally got food network again because we got cable layed down and the mega channel package was cheap.

What the fuck happened to food network? All I can find is shit shit shit. Ego tards blabbering speewing catchphrases and abhorrent food. None of the shows teaches shit, just recipe mongoloids and food I would'nt serve my cats.

Where's awesome stuff the likes of Alton Brown (Good eats), Two fat ladies, Anthony Bourdain, Jacque Pepin, Julia Child, Heston Blumenthal etc.. that actually taught you something AND made good food?

It's like a culinary wasteland now, all I want to do is spit at the TV screen show after show.
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COD Modern Warfare 2 - holy shit

ILTKKen — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 06:19:10 -0500

Just got COD MW2 a couple of days ago and damn is this a good game.

COD World at war was ok but got pretty meh after a while, just more of the same after a couple levels.

MW2's single player is amazing. Constantly something new that keeps it fresh.

I also like how it doesn't give a shit about being politically correct. Shoot up a couple hundred unarmed innocent civilian men woman and children? no problem, although it does nag you asking if you are real real sure you want to include that at install time. Heroes die etc.. love it.

Get this game.

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assholes

SkaarjMaster — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:10:34 -0500

I'm posting this here because some asshole or group of assholes caused trouble on the internet and cheated and, as a result, I need to change my password here. What's the maximum length of passwords? If it's a bad idea to post this type of thread anywhere on this forum, then go ahead and delete and send me an e-mail.
to the asshole(s) responsible.
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This is why you don't keep a chimpansee as a pet.

ILTKKen — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 08:36:32 -0500

Because this is what's probably going to happen sooner or later!

Nash was mauled by a 200-pound adult chimpanzee named Travis, owned by her friend and employer Sandra Herold. Paramedics responding to a 911 call said they found pieces of Nash's fingers strewn on the floor and her hands looked as though they had been through a meat grinder.

"The monkey had ripped off her entire upper jaw, had ripped off her nose, which as hanging by a thread," said Dr.Kevin Miller, who treated Nash when she taken to the emergency room. "We found extensive dirt, chimp fur, and chimp teeth implanted in her bone."
Nash is missing both hands, but had a thumb surgically replaced on her left hand. Doctors removed her eyes and grafted a piece of her leg to where her nose used to be.

"I'm not a candidate for a hands transplant because I have no eyesight. I hope somewhere along the way to get a face transplant and get a hand transplant at the same time," she said.

People look at the cute chimp and when they are told that this little guy that's half your size could easily RIP YOUR FUCKING ARM AND HANDS OFF they think it's a gross exageration.

No, it's not. Chimps are visious cunts, don't let that cute look fool you. Visious cunts strong enough to RIP LIMBS OF YOU as easy as you can snap your fingers.

Everytime I see some show with a cute chimp for laughs I cringe and what could _easily_ have happened.
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Anyone here make their own wine?

ILTKKen — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 04:28:28 -0500

I've been making my own wine for quite some time. Everyone should try it as it's so incredibly easy.

I mostly make fruit wine because good grape juice is hard to come by here in DK and it's to expensive, so I just look out for fruit juices on sale and buy a shitload when it's cheap. Just gotta buy the ones that say no preservatives and you'r good to go.

Did I mention that this is cheap? you can make fantastic fruit wines for less than a dollar a bottle!

All you need to get started is a 5 gallon container, plastic food grade is fine, no need for fancy glass carboys ask some store if you can have a couple of thier used containers, a hydrometer and a packet of yeast.

You can make do without the hydrometer but it's only like 10-15$ and it makes everything so much easier.

Total price under 30$ and that's a one time investment, after that it's just the fruit juice, sugar and yeast.

Here's my recipe that can be used for any type of fruit wine.

Buy 20 liters/5 gallons worth of whatever fruit juice you'd like.

Buy a packet of yeast of the type "Champagne", these are the hardiest and will kill off any other bacteria if present. Champagne yeast will also ferment to 18% alcohol if that's what you want (I do hehe)

Dump a liter of fruit juice in a bowl and stick your hydrometer in there. There's a scale on it that says "Potential Alcohol". Add enough sugar to the juice and dissolve it until it's at the alcohol % you'd like, make sure to weigh the sugar. I useually go for around 13% at this point, don't go to the full 18% because that will probably shock the yeast and could kill it. Now you know how much sugar to add for one liter, so just multiply that up for however many liters you make. I dissolve the total sugar in another liter of juice in a pot on the stove.

That first liter you used to measure how much sugar you need can be used to make a "starter" Dump the packet of yeast in it and DONT stir. Leave it someplace warm over night. If it starts to fizz up and make sort of a cake on top of the juice you got liftoff.

Dump the rest of the juice in your container, dump the sugar you mixed and swish it around, and finally dump the starter in there. Put on the airlock and you'r done. Total time an hour or so.

After about 7 days grab a sample and measure the potential alcohol %, it will have gone down now as all it's measuring realy is the sugar content. When it's at about 2% you can add some more sugar if you'r going for a high alcohol % or if you'r satisfied with 12-13% just syphon everything into another container making sure not to suck up the sludge at the botton (Dead yeast cells) and start drinking. The longer you leave it the more clear it becomes but the cloudiness is just some yeast cells so have at it D

Voila, knock you on your ass fruit wine

This is also great stuff if you'r throwing a party, cheap as chips. Just make sure to warn your guests that this is a lot more potent than it tastes. People that isn't used to it tend to chug it down like lemonade with hillarious consequences hehe.

EDIT: Forgot about the airlock. It's just a curved tube that costs about a dollar, you want that on the container you brew in as it will let CO2 out and no air back in.
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google, what happened?

SkaarjMaster — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:15:33 -0500

So google has been fine all this time and now I click on it and don't get the top part with Proxomitron on. Any idea why? Did they change the top part to Java? Did they make it a banner or pop up? Any ideas?
http://www.google.com

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Idiots on youtube

ILTKKen — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:22:59 -0500

Can someone tell me why the fuck you would upload a video tutorial that's just text slides?

This pisses me off like nothing else, you think the text in the preview is the intro, but noooo... some tard made another text slideshow.

Here's an idea, JUST TYPE THAT SHIT ON A PAGE.
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Sports I could watch: FUCKING BEAR HOCKEY

ILTKKen — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 05:02:35 -0400

Your guy yeah (Sorry been watching to much futurama) this, this right here is what sports is meant to be, bear hockey.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nah3nMStXV4&NR=1

The goalie kinda sucks though
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Photoshop CS5 Structural image editing - amazing new tech

ILTKKen — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 03:19:35 -0400

Check out this video of the new structural editing that's comming with CS5.

This new editing algoritm is just amazing. Retouch shit that used to take hours can be done in minutes now.

This is going to be a matte painters wet dream. Like content aware scale on crack.

http://cs5.org/?p=147
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Piece of shit petfood companies

ILTKKen — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:05:24 -0400

Ever since a kitten my siamese can't tolerate anything with duck, makes him puke.

This means I look at the cans of wetfood they get and make sure to stay away from the ones with chicken and duck.

He's been puking and not eating his food lately so I check out the cans.. and sure enough it's duck and chicken even though the label is blue and chicken and duck is yellow.

Yep, the scumbags have changed the colors. The colorscheme is clearly so you can grab the type you want, each can has a different color depending on what's in it.

I guarantee this is some shitbag marketing fuck that noticed the sales were down on duck and chicken and then flipped the colors, voila sales are up!

I wish these piece of shit companies would die in a fire in front of thier kids.

Same with this trend of putting out a new product. At first the quality is first rate and people notice and start buying. Then slowly the quality deteriorates, the markening shitbags are closely watching the sales, as soon as the sales start dropping they know they gone to far and up the quality back to last testresult. Slowly making the product cheap and shitty until the lab rats (us) notice.
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IT IS HERE FINALLY - 100mbit fiber weeeeeeeeeee!

ILTKKen — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 06:53:10 -0400

Oh yessssss... I've been talking about this for ages and it's finally here. I just got a letter that 100mbit fiber is available on our street and just called and ordered.

100mbit both up and down, no download caps. Last time I tried a 100mbit line at a server room I downed an entire season of a tv show in less than 5 minutes, I've had wet dreams about that ever since
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Optimus Maximus keyboard - OMG I WANT THIS

ILTKKen — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 05:47:03 -0400

Picture a normal 104 keyboard layout with the click buttons and durabillity of an IBM Model M.

Now picture every single button being a 48x48 pixel OLED display.

I give you: The Optimus Maximus keyboard

But eh, the price is kinda a turnoff
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Portugal decriminalized drugs. Drug usage down, crime rates down, HIV infections down. war on drugs my ASS!

ILTKKen — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 04:04:13 -0400

I've always been for decriminalization of drugs. Just look at what happened with alcohol prohibition. Alcohol illegal? Violent crimes, gangs etc. Alcohol legal again? All that shit went away again.

Some time ago Portugal decriminalized drugs and the results are in: War on drugs is a massive failure, decriminalization is vildly succesfull.

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1893946,00.html
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intestines suck!

SkaarjMaster — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:15:39 -0400

Hospitals suck! I was in one from Friday late afternoon (9-4-09) until Monday afternoon (9-7-09; worst Labor Day weekend ever). I had a serious infection (in lower abdomen) and possibly Crohn's disease; they'll know for sure in a couple weeks with more tests but there will be no surgery and there were no leaks. I'm back home and continuing my recovery and should be 100% or close to it on Thursday or Friday. Looks like I also have diverticulosis, but nothing inflammed, bleeding or nothing stuck in them. I guess I'll have to watch what I eat the rest of my life and the party's over.
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The Opera thread

SkaarjMaster — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 12:03:10 -0400

Just thought I'd start a thread on Opera questions.
Why are certain sites like this one displayed all the way over to the left and not correctly on my screen in Opera (blank space over most of the right side of the screen)?
http://www.carcomplaints.com
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Google Sketchup - awesome free 3D program thats dead easy to learn

ILTKKen — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 04:38:11 -0400

Wow, why didn't I find this program before now?

Basically it's a 3D sketching program that is DEAD easy to learn. Don't be intimidated if you never messed with 3D space before; Youøl be making all kinds of cool stuff in no time... and it's free.

Other 3D apps took me months to get proficennt in, this one I picked up in a day of messing around.

They even broke with the fucked up convention of other 3D programs that every movement is in reverse, so you want to move right? Move right. Not like in other 3D apps where you move left to move right, and move down to move up.. WTF is that about, it gives me motion sickness. (Looking at you UT editor, 30 mins editing... oh now I feel sick)

Oh yeah, it integrates with Google Earth. So you can move somewhere in google earth and click on get current view and it will be placed into Sketchup. Now build something and place it back into the real location in google earth and you can watch your creation sitting there in the real location and walk around in it.

Get it here: http://sketchup.google.com/

Wanna learn more?

http://download.sketchup.com/downloads/training/tutorials50/Sketchup%20V...
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=SketchUpVideo#play/all/E480605E31C66...
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XP Open All Users folder problem???

SkaarjMaster — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 21:05:21 -0400

For some odd reason, everytime I right-click on Start, then Open All Users, then double-click on Programs in the Start Menu to modify my start menu instead of just expanding the folder it brings up a separate search window even after uninstalling Windows Search 4.0. Anyone know how I can get it back to just expanding? It's OK within My Computer and Windows Explorer for some strange reason. Thank you.
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The Hurdy Gurdy, the most tortured sounding instrument.

ILTKKen — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 04:47:35 -0400

This instument is insanely hard to play, and this guy just wails on that thing.

All the rhytm is done via the handle that strokes the strings, realy realy hard. What makes it even harder to play is that its basically untempered so you can play in any crazy temperament not just western by presice control of how far you push in the keys.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZKQf-JIvRU
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THE BEST VERSION OF THE FINAL COUNTDOWN EVERRRRR!

ILTKKen — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 04:39:57 -0400

LMAO This is awesome in so many ways.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAg5KjnAhuU
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ILTK UT maps!

SkaarjMaster — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 21:54:04 -0400

I'm going through all my UT maps in my UT/maps subdir and making sure I have an original or otherwise zip file somewhere else. Apparently i deleted a lot of the original zips to make room on my old Win98SE when that was all I had. I have the Funky Chicken one, but these others I don't have:

DM-ILTK-AhMyGoddess
DM-ILTK-AlienDreams
DM-ILTK-IronFist
DM-ILTK-Stained

If all they contain is a UNR file, then I'll just zip them up myself but I was just wondering if you had them somewhere? Thank You.
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Ryan Church - Amazing Illustrator

ILTKKen — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 09:10:15 -0400

Just got myself some new traning DVDs to get more into painting than just the useual technical photoshop stuff and one of the titles is by a guy named Ryan Church.

He just makes these baddass detailed illustrations like its nothing.

Check out his work here, you will recognize much of it but hes just amazing. This is not computer generated whatsoever, 100 percent handdrawn.

http://www.ryanchurch.com/
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This is why people are getting fucking fat

ILTKKen — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 12:36:53 -0400

I say damn, DAMN.

And you wonder why you are so fat that your facial features have disappeared into some kind of distorted Michelin man horror so that when your face is seen in profile your nose can't be seen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4zw99VsoMA

I love how she's actuall wheezing from having to stirr the bowl a couple times, or maybe that's just the strain from the strenuous task of talking.

This does make me feel better about the gf's delicous pot stew though, I cringe when she adds a tablespoon of sugar. This hambeast uses a jar of condensed sweetened milk, a whole fucking CUP of sugar AND a whole jar of cheese spread or whatever the hell that is.

They should follow my diet that I learned from dear old George Carlin: When you can't see your dick when taking a piss, it's time to start evaluating your food intake.
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MS Bing search misleading users

ILTKKen — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 06:32:24 -0400

MS are getting really desperate.

First it was Live search sending fake search referrals in the form of one word faked visitors, then they switched to using Bing as domain name and the fake referrals started coming from Bing.

Now they have started to outright lie in the search engine results.

For example is you search for "How to make pasta" (Just an example) they will grab some results relevant to pasta, for example types of pasta. Then instead of showing the real title of a page that is really "The different types of pasta" they change the title of the page in the results and lists it as "How to make pasta" but then when you click on it, it's really a page with the title "The different types of pasta" that is not what the user searched for at all.

This makes it look to webmasters (and other checking out Bing) as Bing is sending lots of traffic, which they are. But the results the visitor gets is totally irrelevant to what they searched for so of course this traffic is useless and a visitor would leave right away when they didn't get the results they expected.

Go go Microsoft scam tactics...
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FUCKING CATS

ILTKKen — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 03:20:55 -0400

Wacom Intous3 A4 right out the window.

Fucking cat couldn't wait to be fed because OH NOES it was 5 minutes later than his useual feeding time so he figured he would get my attenttion by knocking over a coke bottle.. right over my Wacom tablet and now it's dead.

I can't live without a tablet anymore so now I have to get a new one. The Intous3 line is going out of production so I have to get the Intuos4 A4 instead that's twice the price. Another great thing is that the new pens is twice the pressure sensitivity at 2048 so the old pens won't work with the 4 version.

I love the little bastards, but sometimes GRRRRRRRR
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The 4400 - Awesome older scifi series

ILTKKen — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 09:05:48 -0400

Wow, just downloaded the pilot for this show. It's fucking great if the pilot is anything to judge by

A bunch of people disappear at random taken from different time periods. Then one day out of the blue a comet changes it's trajectory and heads towards earth. Much panic ensues but it turns out to be some alien lifeform. It dumps 4400 people on a beach and disappears.

The people are detained for a while but they are eventually let go and find out what happened to the world and their families. Slowly these people all turn out to have been given different powers.

The storytelling, music and cinematography is awesome, go watch the pilot and you'l see what I mean.
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The grrreatest image of the internet has been located

ILTKKen — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:52:57 -0400

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Reports Stating That Organic Farming to be Outlawed in U.S.A

ILTKKen — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:02:12 -0400

This has hippies all up in arms because now they can't take a shit in their fields and sell it as "organic"

Seriously, HACCP is a FUCKING GOOD THING. It's law here in DK for the food industry. It forces anyone dealing with food to document that they are acting responsibly and nobody has gone out of business because of it, well some has, the ones that were shitty and didn't want to comply. I, as a consumer is safer and better off.

We also have something in DK called the SMILY (Yes, really) for restaurants and other businesses that sells anything edible. It's quite simple. Every business is inspected at random intervals, they have to document that they follow HACCP and some other health stuff, their equipment used to measure things like temps., fridges, thermometers, scales, etc.. are also tested. If they pass they get a happy smily sticker, if they don't they get a frowny smily sticker. If they get a frowny they get a month to comply and are inspected again. 3 frownies and their license is revoked permanently. Inspectors are relocated all over the country so no inspector is likely to take bribes.

The smily is a huge sticker that MUST be stuck on the wall in plain view of customers, even if it's a green frowny smily telling everyone HEY, THIS HERE IS A SHITHOLE. Sucks to get a frowny so there's very little chance of that happening. I can go out and eat anywhere and be assured that the place is good and clean.

On February 4, 2009 Representative Rose DeLauro (D-CT) introduced the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009 HR 875 represents a tremendous expansion of federal power, particularly the power to regulate intrastate commerce. While the proposed legislation tries to address the many problems of the industrial food system, the impact on small farms if the bill becomes law would be substantial and not for the better. HR 875 is a major threat to sustainable farming and the local food movement. The bill would transfer the functions and resources of several divisions within the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), such as the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) and the Center for Veterinary Medicine into FSA. The National Marine Fisheries Service in the Department of Commerce would be transferred over to FSA as well.

If such a regulation does in fact call for a HACCP plan (Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point, ’Hass-sepp’), farmers will be required to do the following in developing a plan for their farming operation:
1. Conduct a hazard analysis (e.g., list the pathogens that could be present in the farming operation);
2. Determine the critical control points (e.g., identify points in the operation where pathogens would most likely be present or could be introduced);
3. Establish critical limits;
4. Establish monitoring procedures;
5. Establish corrective actions;
6. Establish verification procedures; and
7. Establish record-keeping and documentation procedures.

FSA’s rulemaking authority includes extensive power to regulate farming practices as well. HR 875 requires the agency to issue regulations that establish ”minimum standards related to fertilizer use, nutrients, hygiene, packaging, temperature controls, animal encroachment, and water” with respect to “growing, harvesting, sorting, and storage operations” [Section 206(c)(3)]; and, “with respect to animals raised for food”, the regulations are to establish “minimum standards related to the animal’s health, feed, and environment which bear on the safety of food for human consumption” [Section 206(c)(4)].

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And you thought _your_ friends were stupid?

ILTKKen — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 06:55:26 -0400

Well feast your eyes on THIS:

http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/
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Slim YOUR neck with the NECKLINE SLIMMER

ILTKKen — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 06:04:50 -0400

I just love absolute shit products that only exists to make stupid people part with their money.

https://www.buynecklineslimmer.com/Default.aspx?MID=556681

Yep, it's a plastic box with a spring inside and you bob your head up and down on it IT'S SCIENCE IT'S A RESISTANCE TONING SYSTEM (Box with spring inside)!

Hey ladies, I can let you bob your head up and down for free (No hambeasts need apply)

Also: Laughably bad photoshopped before and afters.
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UT3 online.....what a concept!

SkaarjMaster — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 10:27:26 -0400

Just played my first "real" online UT3 match with all the bells and whistles last night and it was fun! I was at FragBU and got my ass kicked, but got my licks in with well places flak grenades, shock combos, and a few "lucky" headshots. I might play tonight there. Seems the server is out of Chicago and my ping isn't too bad. I played DM and TDM, but got off the server after that. Believe it or not, my hand started to cramp up a bit (fucking old age crap). Hehe, I noticed in TDM that me getting fragged a lot was hurting my team, so I hid for a while until my team was ahead again; hey, it's a team game, right? We still lost, but it was because it was 3 vs 4 for a while and I was part of the 3 team.
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The AA-12 - fully automatic shotgun and fragmentation frag grenade launcer

ILTKKen — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:04:10 -0400

Holy shit, check this thing out, the aa-12 fully automatic SHOTGUN

Oh yeah, it can also use frag grenade bullets, so make that a fully automatic fragmentation grenade launcer with a range of 175 meters.

Quote: "Nothing in its path will live"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4ebtj1jR7c
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I want my fucking xloc, WHAT THE FUCK?!

SkaarjMaster — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 09:27:49 -0400

Um, so I got UT3 configured and I just noticed that the only game types the xloc now appears in by default without the ability to set it in the menu or possibly even the INI files is CTF and the classic DOM part of UT3DOM mutator (and as hoverboard in VCTF and WAR). What the fuck is up with that shit?! @#!@$#!@#%!@$#%$$##!@!!!@##*****

What.....the fucking server code is screwed up with the xloc and too many people are getting booted from servers because they have the xloc enabled when they were playing UT2004? WHO FUCKING CARES!? FUCK THEM AND FUCK EPIC!!!

It's not like I'll be using it that much in DM/TDM, but if I see something and want it now and it's out of reach it would be nice to grab it before a bot does. They nerfed it for CTF, so why don't they take the damn thing out completely. People need to stop whining about the cool things in this game so much in the forums, so that Epic will quit listening to them. Can you imagine how cool UT3 would be if it had all the functionality of the original UT and anything that was added (without changing something else) from UT2003 and UT2004?

It's nice to have a forum where I can express my true feelings. I had to be a little more civil over here:
http://forums.beyondunreal.com/showthread.php?t=186899

I know there is stuff to add it in with a mutator or something, but I really wanted it as an option in DM and TDM for Instant Action (offline) play. I wanted to explore any INI file changes first before I installed something extra. Any ideas?
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I cannot fucking wait for Windows 7

ILTKKen — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:59:29 -0400

There's so many little things that irritate me on a daily basis on xp, vista sucks but I'm hearing many positive things about windows 7 from the same bunch that hated on everything vista so that's a good sign.

Every day for some reason the xp taskbar refuses to hide like I have it set to, so it will just sit there obscuring part of other window on top of them. Only thing that works is pulling up task manager and killing the explorer process, then click new task and start explorer shell again, only now half the icons in he taskbar clock area disappears so I can't click on them, joy.

Copying files and finding out there's not enough room halfway? Yep, now you don't know what files were copied because it doesn't deselect each file after a successfull copy.

Ramdom annoying programs that figures they will just grab focus from whatever I'm doing even though I have powertools set to stop programs grabbing focus. I'm typing and all of a sudden im typing into whatever window grabbed the focus.

Here's to hoping windows 7 isn't a gigantic pile of shit.
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The Sultan Gaming Table - OMG WANT

ILTKKen — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 04:24:23 -0400

Why must I come across such things

The whole glass playing surface is underlitt.

WANT!

Video
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two girls and a cup?

SkaarjMaster — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 22:36:49 -0400

OK, so I never really knew the meaning of this until tonight. I looked it up and it's got to be worse than goatsee. YIKES!
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Here we go again... THE HEAT OMG THE HEAAAAT

ILTKKen — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:45:36 -0400

FFS, it's 30C in the shade (100F) and 80% humidity, I'm dying over here.

The aircon barely keeps up, I pray for rain in my fortres of misery
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Cat Cam - Awesome

ILTKKen — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 06:26:42 -0400

Some guy stuck a cam to his cat and let it roam.

Funny to see what they actually get up to.

http://www.mr-lee-catcam.de/pe_catcam1.htm
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OpenAL?

SkaarjMaster — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 18:07:07 -0400

Any thoughts on Hardware OpenAL in this game and crashing? It seems my old install works fine with OpenAL on, but my new one does not. I thought it was the Nvidia video drivers, but it's when I turn on Hardware OpenAL. I have XP SP2 and Audigy2 card with newer components.

EDIT: I fixed it by using the 409KB file wrap_oal.dll for its own file and also made a copy and called it OpenAL32.dll and the game works now. But the question still remains and it looks like I won't be trying the new Audigy2 sound drivers because my 2004 ones still work for all games.
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Phillips Cinema commercial - jaw dropping video

ILTKKen — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 14:48:14 -0400

Watch this, then pick up your jaw from the floor.

http://www.cinema.philips.com/
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Quake 4 bugs?

SkaarjMaster — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:59:00 -0400

I thought I'd see if anyone here has any clue on this; it keeps getting bumped down the queue with no responses on other forums. Also, UT3 will be my next game reinstall.

I have the latest patch (1.4.2) and have created an AutoExec.cfg as well as the original CFG file and still have these problems:

1. In Settings/Game Options/Gun Position >> it keeps defaulting back to Right and I want it Centered no matter how many times I change it. Is this command in the cfg file?

2. In System/Screen Size (on Ultra Quality Settings, aspect ratio 16:10) it keeps defaulting to 1440x900 and I want 1920x1200 as this is the native resolution of my LCD monitor.
EDIT: It's possible that it only shows this in the menu, but it is actually running at 1920x1200 (someone said this on the web somewhere and said he verified it; stupid fucking game bugs).

3. r_mode is set to "-1", but this sometimes is set back to "25" for some odd reason. Is it OK to make the Quake4Config.cfg file "read-only" because I'm not even sure it's reading the AutoExec.cfg like it should. I don't even know what a setting of 25 is supposed to do.

WTF gives with this? I tried making the config files "read-only" and that didn't as the game just changes it within the menu anyway.
EDIT: most likely another menu game bug.

4. Is it true that you can't make Quake4 config file read-only to be read-only and that they actually write to them anyway?
EDIT: Well, I just made my Quake4Config.cfg read-only and as many times as I go in and change the settings it does not change. AutoExec.cfg is not set to read-only and it doesn't change either like it should. Maybe the 1.4.2 patch eliminated the need for the AutoExec.cfg file.

Also, I've already checked with google searches and Quake forums, etc. with no luck. Maybe if I was asking 2-3 years ago, I'd get more of a response. Any ideas?
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Painkiller SE menu and Config.ini settings

SkaarjMaster — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:46:37 -0400

OK, I can't find shit on the net on these settings (Painkiller SE version 1.64). Any ideas?

MENU
1. I have 5.1 surround sound, so do I pick Surround or Five-One in the menu for sound options?
2. I have an Audigy2 sound card, should I pick DirectSound3D HW Support, CL EAX3, CL EAX2, CL EAX or Dolby Surround as my 3D Sound Provider?
3. Since i'm going to eventually enable AF, should I set the Texture Filtering to Anisotropic instead of Trilinear?

CONFIG (Config.ini)
4. Why when Character shadow is set to On in the menu does the Config.ini file show Cfg.CharacterShadow = "Off"?
5. same with Decals and Cfg.Decals = false?
6. The default mouse sensitivity shows 40 and Cfg.MouseSensitivity = 40 in the Config.ini, so what should it be? (Logitech MX518)
7. Why is this set to false, shouldn't it be true (Cfg.Projectors = false)?
8. Right now Cfg.FOV = 95 and Cfg.ZoomFOV = 50 (default settings for 4:3 aspect), but the widescreen gaming forum says these should be set to 105.275347504 and 58.4614994638 for no distortion with 16:10 aspect. I noticed in UT/UT2003/UT2004 that leaving FOV to 90 actually looks better and you don't feel like a short guy running around. Is it different for this game?

As usual, any help would be appreciated.
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Anyobe tried audiosurf? fun little game

ILTKKen — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 08:03:08 -0400

Just got a copy of audiosurf, addicting little music based game.

It's sort of like racing game meets advanced tetris.

You pick your favorite music tracks, and the game decodes it into a roadmap. You are then placed on a psychedelic road that changes to the beat and intensity of the music, beats makes bumps in the road. Along the road are colored blocks that you can stack in a grid 8x8 grid, when more than 3 same colored blocks touches in any grid configuration you score points based on the colors. The larger clumps of colored blocks you make touch the higher the score you get. The warmer the colors of the blocks the higher the score for blocks of these, the warmer colored blocks comes in higher intensity in the upbeat parts of the tracks you play.

There's other game modes, like you can pick up blocks and save for later, or you can move the whole grid to bump into blocks on the road instead of moving your car and lots of others I haven't gotten into yet. There's also bonus blocks, card blocks that will shuffle the colors in case you filled up the grid in a way that you are stuck. If you fill up one row with colors that you can't build 3's of you die and respawn. There's also gray blocks that takes points away if you hit them.

Quite relaxing and addicting, or intense based on how you choose to play.
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Amazing panoramic photos in full 360 views

ILTKKen — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 05:35:30 -0400

Check out these 360 photos, amazing

http://www.erikleeman.com/HTM/overview-english.htm
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Unreal Anthology problems? UT2004?

SkaarjMaster — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:44:29 -0400

Got some problems, maybe you (or anyone else) can help! Here's my thread from BuF:

"Ok, this is completely ridiculous and ludicrous! I installed Unreal and RTNP as well as UT-GOTY edition from Unreal Anthology and configured all these games, downloaded extra stuff I didn't already have and basically got each one up to the same as my previous installs or better, then I installed Quake3 (did same thing with updates), then installed UT2003 (did same thing with updates and extra stuff).

Now, tonight, I'm ready to install UT2004 from the Unreal Anthology disc and all it wants to do is uninstall everything. I can't get it to the screen where I choose to install UT2004 only right now. Why can't I install parts of this Anthology at anytime I want to and only everything at once or nothing at all? All I'm trying to do is install these games in the order of original release dates. Either I'm missing something obvious or it can't be done. Is it seeing my install of UT2003 and thinks it is UT2004 and trying to uninstall it? Is it seeing just Unreal Anthology in general and wanting to uninstall everything before reinstalling anything? I think someone really screwed the moose and missed the f-ing boat on this one.

Found this wonderful news as a con in a review of the game package at newegg:
"Be prepared to either install all 4 games included on the DVD at your first installation, or expect to uninstall ALL Unreal Anthology games if you decide to add another title from the DVD later on. If you insert the DVD later (and choose “install”) to add a title you missed the first time, it will say: "Do you want to completely remove the selected application and all of its features? =Yes= =No=". My suggestion: Install all 4 titles, but ONLY if you DON'T have any of those titles already installed. If you install duplicate titles (C:\UT2004 and C:\Unreal Anthology\UT2004) and try to remove one later, it deletes all keys from the Registry (Win XP) and neither title will boot."

There has got to be a way around this BS!

Also, they say the manual is on the disc in PDF format, but I can't seem to access it anymore.

I noticed there is a setup.ini file in the disk1 subdirectory. Is there any way to copy everything off the disc and move it to a blank partition on my HD, change something in that INI file and install from there? Or maybe a registry setting to change to trick the install in thinking nothing is installed, install UT2004 and then change them back?

If this is really not possible, then a warning should be posted in the Liandri Archives page for Unreal Anthology!

EDIT: just found this posted by GreatEmerald at the Epic games forums that might help:
'Fix it as follows
INSTALLSHIELD Error: if after clicking to install software by using the Install Shield Wizard, this error occurs, then go to c:\ program files \ common files \ and delete the following folder: InstallShield
After deleting the folder InstallShield, every program can be installed now.
However, after deleting the folder and installing the software, recopy it into the common files folder (i.e. the folder InstallShield is not deleted but just moved to another location and now moved back), everything is still be fine, software after that still can install as usual (I don’t know why). I RECOMMEND recopying the folder to its original location after installing the software; this can make some other software (some software already installed in your computer before) which requires Install Shield to install be able to run properly.
Move the folder to another location, install the software, then move back . Great !'

Another possibility is to change the count=1 to count=0 in the setup.ini within the correct section of C:\Program Files\InstallShield Installation Information\ subdirectory. That is, of course, if this count is the number of times Unreal Anthology has been installed.

Any comments on these things?"

SM back Live: Just to let you know, I do have the old DVD of UT2004 if I have to use it. But I would like to get this Unreal Anthology version installed and try to use it first before I give up.
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ILTK Sniper Arena for UT2003?

SkaarjMaster — Mon, 25 May 2009 23:25:12 -0400

He man, just wondering if the latest version of your Sniper Arena for UT2003 is v1a (or v1a) with date of the latest file in the zip of 1/23/2003. I'm reinstalling UT2003 now and would like to have the latest version.
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Nico Di Mattia, insane drawing skills

ILTKKen — Sun, 17 May 2009 06:09:34 -0400

Go watch this video of Nico Di Mattia painting Megan Fox, it's speed up so you can watch it from a couple lines all the way to finished in minutes.

Jaw dropping good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssOJQXdwmrI&annotation_id=annotation_5956...
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Youtube FINALLY added duration search filter

ILTKKen — Thu, 14 May 2009 08:17:46 -0400

YESSSSSSS fucking finally. On youtube, click the advanced options link, from there you can select "Duration"

Oh man, this is kick ass, now I can finally filter out shitty 30 second no-content clips uploaded by retards.
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Brilliant US senate bill would allow the internet to be shut down

ILTKKen — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:38:30 -0400

A recently proposed but little-noticed Senate bill would allow the federal government to shut down the Internet in times of declared emergency, and enables unprecedented federal oversight of private network administration.

Who the fuck comes up with shit like this?

Great idea numbskulls, there's a cyber-crisis (LOL) and you want to shut down the internet, effectively shutting down the economy of your whole damn country?

Source: http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Cybersecurity_Act_seeks_broad_powers_0413.html
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So piratebay got fucked...

ILTKKen — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 10:23:01 -0400

The Piratebay guys got 1 year and 30 million (Swedish kroner) in fines. It was only a matter of time before the swedish law got bought out.

They havent won shit though, all this will do is bring us a new even more secure and encrypted filesharing protocol. On top of this, this news is getting a shitton of attention and like idiots, ria/mpaa etc.. will scream about it at the top of thier lungs, so people that didn't know jack about bit torrent will be notofied about it and what it can do... great plan there.

I never used torrents anyway, fuck having to maintain ratios, Giganews "diamond" unlimited with SSL encryption and I can download as much as I want without owing anyone shit. Usenet is where it's at baby!

This months bandwidth useage from my newsreader from downloading uhhhh, linux ISO's, yeah i like ISO's can't you tell? hehe.

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Disney rips of... Disney?

ILTKKen — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 05:59:51 -0400

Check this video out.

It shows how Disney re-used animation scenes and basicly just replaced the characters, then slapped the scene into other movies.

The movie shows scenes and switches between the copies, no way this is all coincidences.

http://www.todaysbigthing.com/2009/04/07
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Interested to play in UT3 nwCTF Hosted Cup?

ReapeR — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:53:42 -0400

Hi,

I try to create a mixteam to play UT3 nwCTF Hosted Cup, I only need 1 more player but I have to signup in two days

If you are interested join #3xf @ QNet IRC and pm _ReapeR_

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Space is kinda big

ILTKKen — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 14:29:12 -0400

I fucking love this animated gif, watch it all the way. Can't even wrap my head around the scale.

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I realy hope the last frost is over soon

ILTKKen — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:45:16 -0400

I started germinating a bit early this year as I was a bit late last year.

Of course the last frost is late, look at this mess:

It can hardly fit in there anymore. Sorry about the shittly lighting, it's impossible to get a proper white balance when using High pressure sodium/Metal Halide lights.
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Espresso upgradeitis strikes again.. Meet Mazzer, my new grinder

ILTKKen — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 15:36:07 -0400

Well it's that time again sigh... Upgradeitis has struck again.

In case you don't know what upgradeitis is, it's a horrible affliction that anyone that comes to the dark side that is Espresso will catch sooner or later.

Anyways, here's a link to a pic of the new baby, she's on the way and should be here in her new home sometime next week (The waiting is AGONY )

http://www.wholelattelove.com/Mazzer/typeb.cfm

It has stepless grind settings, that's the main reason so I can adjust flow time to the second.

It's got huge 64mm grinding burrs so it can grind slower with same speed as smaller burr grinders and not heat up the beans as that ruins the delicate flavours of coffee.

My old grinder was getting on my nerves as it is a bit unpresize and is a stepped grinder, each step adds about 5-8 seconds to the flow time, not good enough anymore.

Some people get a new car, I get a new grinder, gotta have those priorities straight
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Half fish half alligator

ILTKKen — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 07:53:37 -0400

You gotta see this, some crazy grafted an alligator head onto a catfish, look closely and you can see the stitches.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=6ab_1238042451
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Create content - image gallery?

SkaarjMaster — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 08:30:44 -0400

Can I link to images in this gallery once I add them? Some people are asking for pics of my new rig, which isn't ready for pics yet but should be sometime next month.
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Awesome adaptation of H.M.S Pinafore

ILTKKen — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 08:18:17 -0400

For you theatre (And G&S) lovers, here's a great adaptation of "I am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General" from H.M.S Pinafore

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DJaNbD6R2s&feature=related

Great additions if you know the original, here's one that's more true to to original with George Rose absolutely kicking ASS as the general:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSGWoXDFM64&feature=related

And lol at the xylophone, listen to it GO! Awesome.

Another take by Tom Lehrer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYW50F42ss8&feature=related

I wish they would play it at some of the local theatres here, but noooo, all we get is shit like "Hairspray" ugh...
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Why is every new applience getting more and more crappy?

ILTKKen — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 08:41:36 -0400

Why is every new applience getting more and more crappy in the name of "Saving" and "Environment friendly and "Green" or whatever hippy bullshit term applied?

I had to get a fucking industrial dishwasher because every new dishwasher is underpowered to be "Green" and power saving. See, I don't want to wait 3 hours for a fucking dishwasher to get done. The old one that lasted like 40 years (Was on the house before I got it) and was done in like 20 min. - used boiling water and the motor was a fucking beast with power. The "consumer" dishwashers can't hardly clean a cup with some espresso dried on it.

This week I was redoing the toilets upstairs, but everyone was "Water saving" so even doing 2 full flushes it doens't properly get the water refreshed. On all of the "Home" models there's 2 stupid plastic buttons now, one for half the amount of water and one for full, even the "full" one doesn't flush properle with enough water. Even more shitty is that instead of the old system where you just pull and it flushes the tank, now you have to stand there like an idiot holding the button down, so you can stop flushing short of the full amount I presume, fucking stupid. Because of this I also had to get the redicoulous expensive "Industrial" way and get toilets made for public stalls. My poor wallet

Fuck you green hippies, right in your environment friendly asses

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Move over Ramsay, it's the Masaokis Cooking show

ILTKKen — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 07:54:32 -0400

Ok, this has got to be seen to be believed. Masaokis teaches cooking, sorta like a mix between a hardcore alcoholic and a raving mad hobo, Nouvelle cuisine for slobs if you will.

ENJOY!

OMELET FOR OBAMA:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=3C2F2D9A806FBD3A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRGYVDb2_xM

Part 2 is my favorite WHAT THE FUCK JUST HAPPENED? IT'S BURNING!!!

More here: http://www.youtube.com/user/masaokis
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Miro - Kickass video feed player with HD

ILTKKen — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:01:27 -0400

I just stumbled on this amazing opensource freeware app called Miro.

It collects all the video podcasts all over the net, allows you to subscribe to them and can automatically download new episodes of video podcasts.

It also puts everything into neat categories, like news, technology, science, food etc.., or you can search. Everything is rated by users so you can sort on most popular, highest rated etc.. to weed out garbage.

You can save any video with a single click, or just have it automatically download everything, or just new episodes.

No spyware, free, tons and tons of videos, searchable, basically like a Tivo for every high quality video on the net. Just add everythin you'r interested in, set them all to download new episodes and let er' rip, now you can plop down on the couch and allways have a ton of cool shit to watch, without commercials blaring at you every 10 mins.

Get it!

http://www.getmiro.com/

btw, it also has bittorrent built in, so you can download torrents and watch them right from Miro, weeee

Just great, I'm already over 300gig a month just from newsgroups, and with this... time to get a couple more 1tb drives
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Kens Guide to Using Usenet RAW headers and NBZ indexing sites

ILTKKen — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 17:35:05 -0400

There's been a lot of whining since the MPAA went after Newzbin, now they don't create reports for movies and shit anymore so people can't search and get a nice NZB file ready for download, big fucking deal, it's easy to do yourself...

Here's how:

I'm using newzbin as an example here, it's pretty much similar with other usenet indexing sites.

First do a search for what you want to download, in newzbin switch to NFO for where to search. The reason to search for NFO's instead of going straight to "usenet RAW" is that any release group worth anything will put out a NFO with details about the release.

Now lets say we searched for "Name of movie" you will get a list of matches, in there somewhere you will see something like this:

#DCvCD on irc.RIZON.net Presents:Name of movie DVDSCR DCvCD MVCD Read the NFO) - [01/44] - "Name.of.movie.DVDSCR.mVCD-DCvCD.nfo (1/1)" yEnc

This looks like it's going to work, lets copy a bit of the text, like this:

#DCvCD on irc.RIZON.net Presents:Name of movie DVDSCR DCvCD MVCD Read the NFO)

Now switch to "usenet RAW" and hit search.

Now you get a list of matches, this will be all the files needed for this release. Place a checkmark in front of all the matches and then click on "Create NZB"

TADAAAAAA... you created your first NZB file manually. This is the same process that editors on newzbin goes through so now you can get anything you like, and MPAA can't do shit about that.

On top of this, you are now your own "editor" so you don't have to rely on another editor person having created a report for you, you have access to ALL of usenet.
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I have finally found the BEST Jasmin rice in the world - Golden Lotus

ILTKKen — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 09:29:18 -0500

A couple of years ago I bought a bag of Jasmin rice, it was fucking amazing but I could not find it again, the store couldn't get it anymore

Since then I have tried hundreds of different brands to find that quality again, none came even close.

I finally found them by drilling my asian cuisine pusher and pestering him a couple times a month to see if he could find them and he finally came through.

They are exported from Thailand under the name "Golden Lotus"

http://www.kcrice.com/index.htm

Seems like it's crazy of me to care this much about some damn rice right?

All I can say is try them if you can get them, and you will see what I'm raving about.

When you open the bag your kitchen will fill with the most powerfull smell of Jasmin Rice, when you cook them the whole house will be filled for hours with this delicious sweet aroma, nothing like any other jasmine rice and the taste... oh mama!

Seriously, I could eat nothing but these rice all year round, they are that good.
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The greatest video on youtube has been found

ILTKKen — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 14:34:49 -0500

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Afz6oTHAbo&feature=related
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TED: Kids teach themselves - awesome project called hole in the wall

ILTKKen — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 09:04:13 -0500

A guy called Sugata Mitra tackles the problem of bad, or non-existent teachers in area with extreme poverty.

The test areas has a population of kids that don't know English, and the kids are mostly 100% illiterate and have never
seen or used a computer.

What he did was install a pretty nice PC in a hole in a wall connected with a touch-pad so it couldn't be stolen or damaged and just left it there without a word about it.

Random kid walks up, messes around with the touch pad and figures out how to browse the Internet in about 5-8 minutes. A couple days later tons of other kids are there teaching each other how to browse. They didn't know a lick of English, most couldn't even read.

3 months later without any supervision they have fucking installed games, are playing them, knows what a processor is because the current one was apparently to slow (lol) and they also wanted a better mouse, they are saving files, loading them again etc.. No teachers, no-one taught them shit, and they now had a roughly 200 word English vocabulary because they needed that to work the Internet and games.

The same amount of skills that they taught themselves would have taken several years of classes, all for the price of a PC and Internet connection.

This is seriously amazing, watch it!

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/sugata_mitra_shows_how_kids_teach_the...
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Proxomitron alternative?

SkaarjMaster — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:50:07 -0500

OK, so I'm going to be reinstalling WinXP Home SP2 on my new system and run that for at least a little while and waiting to see if anything other windows version is worth it. In the meantime, is there a good alternative to Proxomitron that doesn't require me to bypass it all the time to see certain web sites in IE or Opera? What are you using now?
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Tombraider Uderworld - Stunning!

ILTKKen — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 12:50:47 -0500

Just got TombRaider Underworld and wow is all I can say.

My system can handle it on high in 1920x1200 (Native res of my 24") and first there was the normal intro stuff with a bit of backstory, those are useually way way better looking than the game itself made by animators and not the game engine.

Then nothing happened, she just stood there, I was like what? did the game lock up? No, there's torches burning and then it hit me, this IS the game.

I've always used to joke with friends in past games with those overproduced cutscene movies between levels that there would come a day when the games would actually LOOK like that, this is the first time I was this impressed, the game looks like a damn movie.

That Ass, titties and body needs this level of detail
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Alison Carroll - New Lara Croft model - wow

ILTKKen — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 06:14:58 -0500

Here's a new Lara Croft lookalike, Alison Carroll.

Damn this girl is smooooking hot and way better at doing Lara's moves.

Watch these, drooool (wipes chin)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxrTkE39cro&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxrTkE39cro&feature=related
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Dumbass audiophiles are always good for a laugh

ILTKKen — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:16:25 -0500

I just read a huge thread about some comapany making 7000$ cables and all thier claims about the extreme frequencies these cable can carry.

Of course the dumbass "audiophiles" starts yammering on about how they have "golden ears" and how thier 50.000$ home stereos with 7000$ cables can reproduce bla bla bla bla.

Why do I laugh at them?

Go visit ANY recording studio, from normal demo studios to multi billion dollar Abby road level studios and you will see that the cables they use to record are your bog standard MAX 100$ pro audio XLR cables. Any frequencies these morons clain to be able hear with thier golden ears and 7000$ magic cables will already at the time of recording have passed through a bog standard XLR cable, so even if, (and that's an "if" so small that it's virtually non-existant) these cables could carry those claimed frequencies, these same frequencies will never have been recorded in the first place because the audio signal has passed though a normal cable.

While we're at it, even thier 50.000$ stereo would be a limiting factor. Take it apart and I'll guarantee you that the inside of them are using normal wiring, just like anything else, so there's another reason why these cables would never work, unless your stereo was also wired internally using these 7000$ magic cables then they would have no effect.

Sooo stupid, but I love hearing them trying to rationalize thier massive waste of money, most of them DO actually clue up when you tell them stuff like this, but they will of course deny it, because they feel absolutely idiotic about spending so much money. It's the same thing with Mac users, they claim superiority, but they know deep down inside that a pc system costing about 80% less owns thier Mac seven ways to sunday for way less, they will never admit this, because it makes them feel like idiots and they have bought tons of expensive programs they can't run without thier Macs.

Audiophile gear and Macs, it's a tax on on being gullible
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Damn cats

ILTKKen — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 08:55:58 -0500

My cats are experts at making my life hell.

I'm switching to a new even higher quality food for the little furballs. Of course one will have none of that and won't eat it.

I remove their dryfood or the picky eater will gorge himself on that, he doesn't drink as much as he should so letting him eat only dryfood would be an excellent way to get a huge vet bill from kidney stones..

This of course leeds him to lick the now empty foodbowl in the middle of the night with his raspy sandpaper tongue making the most annoying 'chalk on a blackboard' sound...

Rasp rasp rasp rasp rasp rasp rasp rasp rasp rasp rasp rasprasp rasp rasp rasp rasp rasprasp rasp rasp rasp rasp rasp

CUT IT THE FUCK OUT.

Rasp rasp rasp rasp rasp rasp rasp rasp rasp rasp rasp rasprasp rasp rasp rasp rasp rasprasp rasp rasp rasp rasp rasp.

I removed the bowl, now he will probably take revenge by shitting in my shoe or something...

I can see he's plotting it now, sitting high in his cattree giving me the stinkeye. He for some reason loves to stare at me when I sleep, he will sit on the table near the bed and just STARE at me, always watching... I open an eye and there he is... staring at me, plotting my doom.

He also found out a great trick to do at night. One of the closets in my bedroom has a door that's a little bit off when closed. He will wait until I'm asleep and will then take a running jump at it and flick off it, like a cat walldodge. It makes the loudest fucking bang, I almost pissed myself the first time he did it.

Furry terrors! I love em' dearly but damn...
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Why are most newer harddrives fucking shit?

ILTKKen — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 07:37:34 -0500

Ok, rant time...

One of my external drives has started making that "click", most will know this means it will die soon. This has happened to 3 drives in the last 2 years.

Then we have my old ass fileserver that lives in my closet. This thing is at least 8 years old, so are the 6 drives in it. This machine is on 24/7 and has been for all those years it only gets turned of when there's a power outage or when I do something stupid and blow a fuse in the same group it's on. The drives in it are pretty much constantly working, I fill my newsdownloader with 10 gigs worth of downloads every few days, at night it streams movies and tv series for a couple hours, and the whole day long it useually streams music, so these drives have been taking a constant beating for the last fucking 8 years.

Not a peep out of them, they just keep working? If it was one drive that had no problems it could be a lucky drive, but all 6?

My dad has an ancient machine, it's like 10 years old, every single piece of hardware in it works flawlessly, even the damn mouse which I seen to break every 6 months.

And most new drives will last maybe a couple years if they get any kind of harder use, what's wrong with this picture?
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So those with gardens, what are you growing this year?

ILTKKen — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:14:02 -0500

It's time to get ready for the garden this year

Here's what I'm growing this year:

Tomatoes:
San marzano (Allways)
Yellow marble
Japaneese Black trifele
Pineapple Noir

Chili:
Bolivian rainbow
Habanero Fatali
Habanero Chocolate
Mexican Chiltepin
Naga Jolokia
Naga Morich (Dorset naga) (Worlds hottest chili, around 1 million scoville, a hot normal jalapeno is around 6000)
Pimento
Red Savina Habanero
Scotch Bonnet
Tepin / Chiltepin

Yeah... I like chili, what of it?

White Diamond Bell Pebbers

Herbs:
Rosmary
Thyme
Oregano Italiensk
Basilikum, Thai
Basil - Spicy Globe
Basil - 'Lemon
Basil - Cinnamon
Basil - Anis

All that basil is just an experiment to find one I like btw, I'm not that crazy

And the stables, potatoes (Yukon gold), onions, rhubards, kale and some other assorted stuff that grows on it's own.
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It's been a while

vjm — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 12:35:26 -0500

Hi,

Im wondering if there's been any changes conserning that exploit which forced the tdm server down?
Scandi ppl desperately need a server vs middle european hit scanners

- vjm
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England takes one more step to 1984 - law will make it illegal to photograph police

ILTKKen — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:29:54 -0500

Wonderfull eh? If you think some cop won't abuse this law I got a bridge to sell you.

"a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism"

Could this be formulated to be any more vague?

And I shit you now, this is a recent poster from london i think.

The new set of rules, under section 76 of the 2008 Act and section 58A of the 2000 Act, will target anyone who 'elicits or attempts to elicit information about (members of armed forces) ... which is of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism'.

A person found guilty of this offence could be liable to imprisonment for up to 10 years, and to a fine.

Tallis, a London-based photographer, was covering the anti-BBC protest on Saturday 24 January when he was approached by a police officer. Tallis had just taken a picture of the officer, who then asked to see the picture. The photographer refused, arguing that, as a press photographer, he had a right to take pictures of police officers.

According to Tallis, the officer then tried to take the camera away. Before giving up, the officer said that Tallis 'shouldn't have taken that photo, you were intimidating me'. The incident was caught on camera by photojournalist Marc Vallee.

Source: http://www.bjp-online.com/public/showPage.html?page=836675
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SkaarjMaster's computer upgrade thread

SkaarjMaster — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 13:18:11 -0500

I'm updating my rig around Feb/Mar 2009 and was wondering about the ILTK-ACU community thoughts. I'll still be using XP Home, Lian-Li full-tower case, plenty of DVD-RAM/ROM drives, fans, fan controller, Audigy2 OEM sound card, floppy drive, 19" CRT monitor, Logitech Elite keyboard and probably new MX518 mouse (or the old MX500 until it dies). My old system will be 5 years old by then (which is just about now isn't it?). Here is the new stuff I'm thinking about getting (I'll insert links later if requested or if I have time as this thread progresses):

CPU: Intel Core2Duo E8600 Wolfdale (unless not available at order time)
MB: Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P (the X48-DS5 disappeared)
HS: Arctic Cooling Freezer XTREME (or Noctua NH-C12P)
RAM: Corsair 4GB(2x2GB) 240-pin DDR2 SDRAM 1066 (PC2 8500) TWIN2X4096-8500C5
VIDEO CARD: Nvidia GTX 280 (1GB) (or a GTX 285 if I so decide)
PSU: Enermax Revolution85+ ERV850EWT 850W
HD: Two (2) Western Digital Black WD1001FALS 1TB 7200rom 32MB cache SATA 3.0GB/s
EXTERNAL HD: some SATA type (1 TB of course)
DVD BURNER: Pioneer DVR-216D (only if I decide my BenQ 1655 is too old or it's staying in running old system for now; it's still burning great right now though)

I'm going to be using the system for games, but mostly to see UT3 better and maybe get some more games down the road. That's about the only thing that will stress my system at this point. I believe that does it for now. Any comments/suggestions? Thank you.
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UT3 locking up at beginning and in middle of maps?

SkaarjMaster — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:34:03 -0500

Any ideas what could be causing it? My system barely runs UT3 to begin with and it's locking up on custom maps CTF-Eurus and WAR-Tropico. Could it have something to do with free space on the partition down to 2.13GB? I'm not moving or uninstalling anything to free up space, so I may not be able to play it for about a month (new system build will happen next month). Any ideas?
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New patch! New bonus pack?

SkaarjMaster — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 12:05:18 -0500

Just in case you've been living under a log for the past 24-48 hours or so like me, it looks like a "mega-patch" and possibly a "mega-bonus pack" (Titan Pack) are coming soon for UT3.

Here's a BUF link that discusses the Patch:
http://forums.beyondunreal.com/showthread.php?t=183180

Here's a BUF link that discusses the Titan Pack:
http://forums.beyondunreal.com/showthread.php?t=183183

[b]Here are the major UT3 changes:[/b]
(...just the list, no comments by me at the end. I'll comment later in this thread. Also, cut and paste didn't work well with the list delimiters or whatever but I put an extra blank line between the major sections.)

SUMMARY OF MAJOR FEATURES:

Major enhancements to Server Browser
Visual and menu flow overhaul for improved useability of user interface.
Significant AI improvements, especially in vehicle gametypes.
Client-side demo recording support
Improved networking performance.
Midgame map, game type, and mutator voting support
Award system using Steam Achievements
Improved mod support
Improved Steam integration
Steam Achievement support for Steam installations of UT3.
Integrated Steam Authentication support.
57 achievements mark your progress and mastery of UT.
Progress screen shows which awards you have earned, and completion progress on all awards.

Server Browser:
Server Browser updates, expanded query filtering, clientside filters and a new UI option list.
Added mutator filtering to the server browser (filter by installed mutators, mutator classes and mutator names)
Now displays each servers IP in the server details box
Added 'Join IP' and 'Spectate IP' buttons to the join game menu
Added an 'Add IP' button to the favourites menu
Modified the main menu to return to the server browser after disconnecting
Added a new button to the midgame menu 'Add Favorite', and a new console command: AddServerToFavorites
Updated server browser code, so that custom gametypes are properly filtered.
Added a 'List All Game Modes' selection to the server filter menu.
Added more information to the server browser player list.
Fixed servers not being added to history, when following a friend to a server
You can now attempt to directly connect to offline servers in History and Favorites (even during master server downtimes).
Show "+" for player counts that are populated by bots.

UI:
Major visual and menu flow overhaul for improved useability.
Made the instant-action and host-game menus keep their settings.
Scoreboard double click functionality for kicking, messages to specific players.
Enabled gamepad stick sensitivity setting in UI.
Improved gamepad support on PC.
Added support for a whole mess of options on Advanced video settings page.
Easier to click buttons by fixing cases where mouse went just past them.
Max player counts always fit on all scoreboards.
Modifier cards should take display priority in toasts over character unlocks.
Improved voice command menu positioning and offsets.
Fixed showing as teleport destinations on map nodes which could not be teleported to.
Added tooltip while deployed in stealth vehicles to show drop deployable button.
Bot count UI changed from "Number of opponents" to "Number of combatants" to be less confusing.
Added support for showing top weapon user in end of match scoreboard. This shows which player got the most kills with a particular weapon. If a player was the leader with more than one weapon, it picks the weapon he or she got the most kills with.
Show beacon with name of enemies in DM if they are close enough.
Fixed ammo number on HUD pulsing on armor pick up instead of ammo pick up.
Third position for powernode beacon, when just looking at base.
Added speaking icon to player beacons.
Portraits shown for player speaking with VOIP.
Fixed onslaught teleporter tooltip not always displayed correctly.
fixed toasts that don't shut down properly popping up later unexpectedly
More delay before going back to ambient music from action.
Fixed text being obscured after removing a friend from the friends list
Fixed showing proper weapon icon on weapon bar for selected weapon when two weapons are in same slot.
Fixed issue where playercard and friend message screens were disappearing.
Reduced chat log spam.
Fixed rules for showing "change team" button.

Vehicles:
Increased radius/volume of Manta, Raptor, and Viper engines.
Fixed scavenger legs disappearing in kill volumes.
Force occupied manta to rise if underwater.
Added sound effect and recharge bar to SPMA to indicate when the weapon is ready to fire
Increased water damage taken by vehicles.
Increased Goliath health.
Fixed nightshade beam weapon accuracy.
Fixed spidermines confused about nightshade that switches teams.
Tank shell is always relevant, so you'll see it if it kills you from a hidden tank.
Leviathan shield doesn't stay around after death.
Fixed leviathan passenger beacon positioning.
Fixed hoverboard rooster tail positioning when traveling over shallow water.
Fixed flag positioning on tracked turrets.
Fixed flying Manta exploit.
Fixed boost exploit with Fury vehicle

Weapons:
Added burn trail for link gun beam.
Weapon pickups now disappear for the player who picked it up, until it can be picked up again (now works like weapon lockers).
Weapon throwing always enabled.
Improved force feedback for various weapon and pickup actions.
Simpler crosshair for instagib rifle.
Third person translocate sound.
Stinger now higher priority than flak cannon by default.
Back splatter decals for hits with sniper rifle, stinger, and enforcer.
Improved spidermine aiming help on console with hitscan weapons (enforcer, stinger, sniper).
Fixed enforcer anim problems when become dual during initial loading.
No ammo display for instagib rifle.
Improved spidermine herding with Avrils.
Improved redeemer blast screen shake.
Spidermines work properly in deathmatch.
Fixed translocator discs being able to get embedded in geometry with zero extent collision on but box collision off.
Fixed deployable exploit (run over deployable while firing weapon, get in vehicle while still firing, and never switch to deployable).
Fixed trans discs getting stuck on instigator's head.

AI:
Added Drop Flag/Orb command (accessible through voice menu) to get bot teammates to drop the flag they are carrying.
Improved bot handling of navigation failures, don't stay stuck.
Bots understand ducking under obstacles with the Darkwalker.
Bots understand getting off hoverboard to use a lift.
Adjusted bot new enemy acquistion speed.
Low skill bots don't slow down if carrying flag.
Bots understand how to effectively use Orbs in Warfare much better.
Bots use the hoverboard more effectively.
Improved bot AI for using Translocator.
Improved AI for picking best weapon to use.
Improved AI for Leviathan, including aiming with the leviathan, and navigating the Leviathan.
Improved AI for using the Hellfire SPMA.
Improved Scorpion AI for trying to run over enemy foot soldiers and self destruct into big vehicles. TTP #103637.
Improved Manta/Viper AI for trying to run over enemy foot soldiers.
Improved stealth vehicle deployment AI.
Improved bots yelling "same team" when player is actually trying to hit nearby enemy.
Fixed bots not able to get in Darkwalker secondary turret in some cases.
Fixed bot AI issues in secondary turrets.
Bots go after countdown nodes if core can't be attacked.
Fixed bots grabbing orb without getting all the way to orb spawner.
Improved AI for bots deciding whether to get out of vehicles and continue on foot.
Automatic fix for not letting bots in vehicles try to go into areas that are blocked for vehicles by turnaroundvolumes.
Bots are move aggressive about driving vehicles without slowing down too much for slight turns.
Bots fully understand kismet disabled nodes.
Improved bot AI for fighting enemies in Slow Fields.
Improved bot understanding of targeting occluded powernodes.

Demo Recording:
Added support for clientside demo recording.
Demo playback is now delayed until precaching completes.

Networking:
Fixed localization of certain networking messages received from different language server.
Improved dynamic netspeed system based on player counts.
Improved hoverboard smoothness in net games.
Friend following now attempts to place friends on the same team.
Added team balancing between matches.
Fixed reachspecs occasionally keeping level references across seamless travel, causing levels not to be properly unloaded.
Increased net priority of movers with viewer based on them. Reduces mover popping in large playercount games.
Networking bandwidth use optimizations.
Improved prioritization of actor replication.
Improved network pawn position update smoothing using mesh translation.
Tweaked finding floors for simulated falling pawns.
Yaw and pitch change smoothing for other players on clients.
Fixed character mesh not getting onto hoverboard right away in high player count games.
Improved turret replication in high player count games.
Fixed remaining cases where team color skins weren't being properly set.
Fixed clients auto-switching to better weapon when they stop firing.
Don't dynamically adjust listen server client netspeed above max client has requested (for modem clients).
Make sure all audio components get cleaned up on seamless travel.
Fixed various exploits.

Server Administration:
Removed download speed limitations, when hosting LAN servers.
Implemented auto-reconnect code for Gamespy uplink and advertising. Servers now continuously try to advertise to the master server upon failure.
Fixed buggy URL parsing function, which was breaking mutator advertising
Added code to recreate serveractors after seamless travel
Fixed case insensitivity issue with admin and game passwords
Added session banning, with the command: AdminSessionBan
Security fixes.
Added config variable 'SpawnProtectionTime' to UTGame.ini.
Optimized stats sending bandwidth.
Support `n as \n in MOTD.

Engine:
Collision Octree optimizations
Particle system optimizations
Safe handling of inversing nil matrices. Addresses rare ragdoll physics crashes.
Removed unnecessary profile saves, improved saving progress when player expects it.
Improved Garbage collection performance.
Optimized decals.
Teleporter portal rendering updates are now disabled by default, even for high end systems (for performance reasons).
To enable, add the following to your UTGame.ini file
[UTOnslaughtNodeTeleporter]
bRealtimeCapture=true

Game:
Option to allow for custom characters to load at all times (no default characters, but may get hitches when new players join).
CTF flag is hidden for player carrying it.
Can no longer teleport to node that is under attack.
Improved victim death messages (precise cause of death).
In game types using weaponlockers, players spawn with weapons from nearest weapon locker.
Fixed scoreboard issues during seamless travel.
Fixed lifts returning if you jump or get shot while on them.
Play taunts on upper body only for moving players.
Fixed black boxes on Leviathan shock balls.
Fixed lighting on first person spidermine death effect
Improved code for leaning players which are going around turns.
Reduced foot jittering on stairs.
No team change penalty for automatic swaps.
Improved lighting for characters.
Reduced mesh offsetting on slopes, removing exploit allowing players to hide.
Fixed winner pawn rotating after round ends.
Fixed sender not hearing autotaunts.
Fixed krall missing footstep sound notifies.
Fixed bots leaving game affecting TDM team score.
Fixed bad low LOD meshes (spiky when feigning or dead).

Mod support:
UTHUD now responsible for drawing player and vehicle beacons, making it easier to support custom beacons for custom game types.
Added support for stretching IK limbs (see SkelControlLimb.uc).
Merged PC version script functionality to PS3 to improve mod compatibility for mods on PS3.
Added spectator notification hooks to Mutator.uc:
- AllowBecomeActivePlayer: Allows mutators to prevent spectators from joining the game
- AllowBecomeSpectator: Allows mutators to block players from spectating (not fully implemented).
- NotifyBecomeActivePlayer: Notifies mutators when a spectator successfully becomes an active player
- NotifyBecomeSpectator: Notifies mutators when a player becomes a spectator (not fully implemented)
Added two new functions to Object.uc, 'IsNetScript' which returns true if the current code was remotely executed, and 'GetNetFuncName' which returns the name of the replicated function where script execution began
Added a new function flag, 'DemoRecording', which replicates the function into the demo file when recording demos NOTE: Implicitly flags the function as simulated
Added the ability for mods to specify custom settings scenes, through new values in UTUIDataProvider_GameModeInfo.uc:
- 'ModGameSettingsScene', allows mods to specify a custom settings scene which is accessible through a 'Mod Settings' button in the Instant Action and Host Game menus
- 'ModClientSettingsScene', allows mods to specify a custom settings scene which is accessible through the main menu settings
page, and the mid game menu settings - Added ClearConfig and StaticClearConfig functions to Object.uc
- Added team change notification hooks to Mutator.uc
- AllowChangeTeam: Allows mutators to prevent players from changing team
- NotifySetTeam: Notifies mutators when a player successfully changes team
Added bCanRagdoll flag to UTPawn for mod authors.
Added slight player glow support for darkmatch (maps with DARKMATCH at start of worldinfo name
Made UIObject 'ResolveStyles' function accessible to script.
Added support for loading a Splash.bmp in a mod directory.
Fixed server browser not being able to filter custom gametypes; in the gametype data provider, set 'GameSearchClass' to: UTGameSearchCustom
Added code to reinitialize ServerActors after seamless travel
Added editable 'MouseBounds' property to UIScene, which allows you to configure mouse boundaries for the current scene
- 'MouseBounds.BoundaryObject' is set through the 'Set Mouse Boundary' submenu in the UIEditor context menu
- Also added a selection to the UIEditor View menu, 'Mouse Boundaries Outline', for viewing the current mouse boundaries
- Mouse boundaries can be changed during runtime using 'UIScene::SetMouseBounds' and 'UIScene::ResetMouseBounds'

Level specific:
Fixed redeemers nopt able to damage power cores in Islander.
Don't allow disabling of fog volumes. Fixes VCTF-Sandstorm exploit.
Fixed collision issues in VCTF-Suspense and Suspense_Necris.
Fixed real-time teleporter portal updates in WAR-Avalanche.

Maplists
The old maplist system has been replaced with an entirely new one, which is configured through UTMapLists.ini, this allows mods using custom .ini files to have map cycles setup from the ingame menus
- To recover the old server maplist settings, you need to open UTGame.ini and go to the [UTGame.UTGame] section, then for each 'GameSpecificMapCycles' entry you need to find (or create) an entry in 'GameProfiles' under [UTGame.UTMapListManager] in UTMapLists.ini, which has a 'GameClass' value that matches the 'GameClassName' value in 'GameSpecificMapCycles'.
Then you need to find the maplist in UTMapLists.ini which is specified by 'MapListName' value in the 'GameProfiles' entry, (e.g: [DMMapList UTMapList]), and then you must manually transfer each map name in 'GameSpecificMapCycles' to the maplist in UTMapLists.ini.
For example, Maps=("DM-Arsenal","DM-Biohazard") in 'GameSpecificMapCycles' would become: [DMMapList UTMapList] Maps=(Map="DM-Arsenal") Maps=(Map="DM-Biohazard")
Configuration options for [UTGame.UTMapListManager]:
- GameProfiles: This is a list which is used to define custom game type settings (mainly for game voting), options include:
GameClass: The FULL class name of the gametype, including package name as well as class name (e.g. "UTGame.UTDeathMatch")
GameName: The name that is displayed on the vote menu when selecting a gametype (e.g. "Deathmatch", "Warfare - No Orbs")
MapListName: The name of the maplist that this game profile will use (e.g. "WARMapList")
Options: Additional URL options which are used when switching to this gametype (e.g. "?WarmupTime=60")
Mutators: Mutators to be loaded for this gametype (e.g. "UTGame.UTMutator_LowGrav,UTGame.UTMutator_Instagib")
ExcludedMuts: Mutators which are disallowed for this gametype (e.g. "UTMutator_Instagib,UTMutator_Slomo")
bIsTeamGame: Specifies whether or not the current gametype is a team game (used internally for game voting)
MapReplayLimit: The number of matches which must pass before any one map can be played again
ActiveGameProfileName: The 'GameProfiles' entry which is currently active; mainly used by the game during runtime
PlayIndex: A value used for keeping track of when maps were last played, represents the total number of games played
AutoStripOptions: A list of URL options which are automatically removed upon map change (e.g. "LinkSetup")
AutoEmptyOptions: The same as 'AutoStripOptions', except these options are given an empty value on the URL (e.g. "GoalScore,TimeLimit")

[*]Configuration options for [UTGame.UTMapList]:
- Maps: The list of maps used by the maplist, options:
Map: The filename of the map (minus the file extension)
ExtraData: An array of arbitrary data which can be associated with each maplist entry; mainly used by the game at runtime
AutoLoadPrefixes: Maps with the prefixes defined here will be automatically added to the maplist (e.g. AutoLoadPrefixes=CTF,VCTF)
LastActiveMapIndex: The index into the 'Maps' list which was last active; mainly used by the game during runtime

Voting:
Added support for midgame voting for maps, game types, and mutators.
All vote related variables have been moved to UTVote.ini
- To recover the old vote configuration values, you need to open UTGame.ini and go to the [UTGame.UTGame] section, then manually transfer the vote configuration values to the [UTGame.VoteCollector] section in UTVote.ini; the affected values are: 'bAllowMapVoting', 'VoteDuration' (now 'MapVoteDuration' and 'GameVoteDuration'), 'bMidGameMapVoting' (now 'bMidGameVoting'), 'MapVotePercentage' (now 'MidGameVotePercentage'), 'MinMapVotes' (now 'MinMidGameVotes'), and 'InitialVoteDelay'.
Added new configuration options 'InitialVoteTransferTime' and 'RushVoteTransferTime'; the first slows down the speed at which vote related data (e.g. maps, game info) is transferred, to spread out bandwidth usage and prevent lag; the second speeds up the remaining transfers, for when the client opens the vote menu
Added gametype voting, allowing players to vote in a different game type before voting for a map (if map voting is enabled). Gametype configuration is setup in UTMapLists.ini, through 'GameProfiles' under [UTGame.UTMapListManager]; configuration options in UTVote.ini:
- bAllowGameVoting: Enable/Disable gametype voting
Added mutator voting, allowing players to decide which mutators get enabled/disabled in the next match; configuration options:
bAllowMutatorVoting: Enable/Disable mutator voting
VotableMutators: The list used to determine which mutators should be votable, options include:
MutClass: The FULL class name of the mutator, include package name as well as class name (e.g. "UTGame.UTMutator_Slomo")
MutName: The name that is displayed on the vote menu for this mutator (e.g. "Instagib", "Low Gravity") N.B. When left blank, the game will attempt to set this automatically

[*]MutatorVotePercentage: The percentage of votes required to enable or disable a mutator; percentages are only checked at endgame[*]Added kick voting; configuration options:
- bAllowKickVoting: Enable/Disable kick voting
- bAnonymousKickVoting: If true, then the voters name is not shown when performing a kick vote (except to admins)
- MinKickVotes: The minimum number of votes required in order to kick a player
- KickVotePercentage: The percentage of votes required in order to kick a player

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Which was your favorite UT version?

ILTKKen — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 06:19:06 -0500

While I will always have fond memories of the first UT, I have to take the unpopular road and say UT2003 (before nerfing) hands down.

Stacking health, stacking shields, lightning fast weapon switch, boostdodges, insane shield jumping, trick jumping out the ass, easy to damage xlocs so you could hit it in the air with the LTG and get telefrags. Oh and telefragging that actually worked if you could aim.

The thing I miss most is the awesome amount of tricking you could do.

Anyone remember the tricks you could do back when the speed of your player didn't cancel when you translocated? Oh the tricks you could pull of with that. Like throwing your xloc on the flag, then immidiately stepping on a jump pad and translocating, you would come out right on the flag and because your velocity didn't cancel you'd go flying up in the air with the flag like a jack in the box. Defending against that was so much fun, never a safe moment hehe. Because the speed didn't cancel it also made it much harder to do xloc climbing, if your timing wasnt good you'd just go splat.

Also miss the dodge speed cancel, like you could do from say facing worlds, jump of and time a dodge against the side of the tower right before you hit the ground, the shit you could do with that was great. I used to practice shild dodge bosting from citadel and landing against the side of one of the bridge pillars, time it right and no damage.

Then came the nerfing, and slowly... ut died.
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UT2004 nwCTF Hosted Cup signups are open!

ReapeR — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 03:54:12 -0500

One more nwCTF cup for the good old UT2004! Check ClanBase Hosted Cups section. Already 15 clans registered, nice.

There are clans still looking for players... I'll go with MXS if they sign up but if not I have to find something else. I also noticed there is still some activity in the #ctf.pickup
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Age your own beef - no realy, do it!

ILTKKen — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 15:43:46 -0500

Being fucking fed up with the horrid excuse for beef here in DK that has all been pumped with water so you can't get a good crust because of all the water that drains off when you fry it, I started to age my own beef as an experiment to see how much better it would be and if it could be done at home.

All I can say is "Oh mama is this good"

If you wanna try it yourself here's how:

Buy a good cut of meat, doesn't have to be that expensive, but try to find something with good marbling, it helps. Not less than would get you 5-6 good sized steaks.

Check your fridge temp, has to be around 35F. Stick in one of these things that measures air humudity, you want something around 60 which you will probably have with a temp around 35F.

Wrap a kitchen towel around the meat, put meat on a cake rack or similar so any juice can drip off.

Check once a day and if the towel gets to damp from meat juice change it to a new one.

Go for around 6-7 days, you will lose a good 30% of weight. The meat will smell "good" for lack of a better term, and there will a slight sour note in the smell, this is fine, and indeed what you want. Any "bad" flavours is a bad sign, your nose will tell you, trust your nose.

When you'r ready to try it, cut of the ends if they got to dry and tough and fry some good sized steaks to no more than medium rare. The meat will have been broken down a lot more than fresh meat so even medium rare will be great even if you like medium.

The "beefyness" will have gone trough the roof, the crust you get from frying will be totally brown instead of just the normal pathetic crust you get from fresh meat.

I'm in the process of getting a spare used fridge just to have meat aging in there all the time, it's that much better.
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The Maze - hard and fun puzzle

ILTKKen — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:21:36 -0500

Dubbed the worlds most challenging puzzle. Read carefully, there's clues in both the text and images.

http://www.robbio.i12.com/Maze/index.htm
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Colorado guy makes an ass of himself

ILTKKen — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:10:40 -0500

A malfuntioning ski lift has unfortunate consequences.

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Beeeeeeeeeeef

ILTKKen — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 06:18:53 -0500

omg check out this meat storage room at Peter Luger

Money vault? Fuck that I want a meat vault.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/12/22/nyregion/20081222-rooms-pa...
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Why Gordon Ramsay fucking rules

ILTKKen — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 13:09:52 -0500

Watch this uncensored interview, the world needs more people like this:

"Politicians are glorified parking attendents"

Also LOL at mamas boy interviewer getting red faced and acting all upset when Gordon swears, fucking little sheltered twat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOX5XoW2EEI
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The people that wants to regulate the internet

ILTKKen — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 09:42:23 -0500

I know it's old by now, but if you never heard it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MArU35CklWo

This is the generel level of knowledge that politicians wanting to make laws regarding the internet has.
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Merry Xmass ya basterds! ;)

ILTKKen — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 17:39:49 -0500

Hope you get your wishes. Don't eat to much and be safe

Just finished stuffing myself with duck, good vine and rice-alamande.

I got the pro frialator that I realy wanted, frying goodness without waiting a year for shit to be done, awesome... hehe.

I bought myself a Bron mandolin slicer some time ago so french fries, waffle cuts and bloody fingers here we come.. (Nearly sliced my fingers of more than once, that fucker is dangerous)
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Strange mouse freak out

ILTKKen — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 14:05:35 -0500

Anyone even had thier mouse freak out once in a while and start flying randomly around the screen clicking and dragging and opening like 50 different programs that it happens to click on while going nuts?

It happens once every few days, last time it went berserk I quickly yanked the cord and it still keept flipping out for a while.

It's not a wireless and it's not because of the surface, I use the same surface I always had.

Apart from that the mouse works fine.

Whenever this happens, the mouse driver reverts to standard MS mouse after it stops flipping out, side buttons stops working and it reverts to standard mouse speed. Then if I click on the mouse control panel and bring up the logitech control panel, and just hit apply without changing anything it goes back to working fine again.

Realy fucking strange, scanned with a ton of anti-virus and found nothing. I'm using process guard so it's no surprise that this isn't a virus because PG locks down every process not on my whitelist.

I once had a motherboard keyboard port die on me and when it was starting to break it typed random letters, hope it's not the same thing happening just with my PS/2 port.

Funny thing is that this never happens when I'm booted into Linux.
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Sous-vide is a fucking miracle for cooking.

ILTKKen — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 12:46:58 -0500

Some of you may remember my Previous post on Sous-vide

I been using this technique for a while now and I can't begin to explain how much this has done for my cooking.

Good meat is off the chain expensive in DK, don't know how expensive it is in other countries. But for example a kilo of Filet Mignon is around 40 US dollars, most other meats is not worth buying unless you make stews out of it, tough as shoeleather, commercially brined to increase the water content so a kilo of meat will turn into half a kilo when cooked. Fucking bullshit. Impossible to get a reliably tender steak, it's a crap shoot and then you spend a lot of time and effort and sit down to eat and it's touch as an old shoe, grrr.

Sous-vide has allowed me to go out and buy just about any cheap cut of meat and it consistantly turns out to melt in my mouth. I recently found a good offer for flank steak and I tried cooking it normally, even at rare it was tough, even when pounded flat it was STILL tough.

Sous-vide cooked it, tender as filet mignon.

I've experimented a lot with Sous-vide to see if I could make it accessible for people that don't want to go total nerd on thier home cooking and yes, it realy is quite easy to get started and you DON'T need to turn your kitchen into a laboratory.

A rice cooker, a voltage regulator, and a decent thermometer and you can do it allmost as well as with expensive lab equipment. You may be a degree of here and there but it's still miles better than normal cooking of meat and fish. You don't realy need the vaccuum sealer, it works fine with ziplock bags, just squeeze the air out and close them up.

If anyone's interested in being able to buy cheap as shit meat and turn it into mouth watering, melt in your mouth goodness let me know and I'll write up some info on how to get started for under 50-80$ bucks, less if you allready have a rice cooker and a decent thermometer. It's NOT hard, try it once and you will be SOLD.

Here's a short easy and cheap version, sort of faux Sous-vide that you can try, just to see how amazingly Sous-vide works, it doesn't work for meats that needs to be cooked long and low to dissolve collagen into gelatin, like meats with lots of tough connective tissue, but for a steak or some other clump of meat that doesn't have tough connective tissie it works superbly well.

Grab your meat and a ziplock bag. cut of a slice of butter, salt and pepper the meat and place the butter slice on top. Now grab your digital meat thermometer and stick the probe into the midde of the meat lengthwise. Put the meat into the bottom of the ziplock bag, squeeze the bag so there's as little air in it as possible, best way is to zip the bag almost all the way, then sqeeze the air out and zip the last part.

Got your bag with the meat in it and the thermo wire sticking out of the bag?

Now heat a pot of water so it's just below boiling, we don't want any bubbles, just gently steam from the water. Put the bag into the pot so it floats, set your thermometer to go off at 60C or 140F.

When the beeper goes off remove the ziplock bag from the water. Heat a skillet to searing hot, in with a drop of oil, quickly sear both sides for 30 seconds.

Slice meat and marvel at the perfect color all the way, try a slice and taste just how good and tender the meat is. The meat is so tender because sous-vide doesn't need high heat to penetrate the meat fast, it just cooks the meat until the desired doneness is slowly reached so the outside becomes dry and the heat is not high enough that the fibers in the meat contracts.
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Flavour paring website - awesome for your cooking.

ILTKKen — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 10:02:22 -0500

Flavour paring can be used to substitute ingredients or put things together in interesting combinations for dishes that you would not have imagined otherwise.

By looking at the component flavour compounds in foodstuffs and finding more than 2 compounds they have in common we can mix them with each other and have them blend and work amazingly well, even when our instincts tells us that would not work, for example chocolate and cooked chicken? Sounds pretty ewwww right? But it works.

This has been something that for the home cook have been out of reach because you need to send shit in for expensive molecular analysis in order to find out what different ingredients have in common. There's a massively expensive database you can buy (20K+ $) that many high end restaurants buy that I have been lusting for, but fuck that price for home use.

Now theres a website with some heavy financial backing that have put a ton of these analysis online into a database format and you just pick from ingredients, the database looks up other ingredients with the same flavour compounds and displays them in a graphical tree showing you what can be mix or substituted.

Seriously, try some weird combos and be amazed that they actually work great together. It's miles of fun freaking out people by serving odd combinations. You also get a lot more mileage out of whatever you have laying around because you find that you can combine things that you normally wouldn't.

It's also fun to see combinations that you have tasted before and see that the reason they go so well together is because of matching flavour compounds. For example Chicken and sesame seeds.

http://www.foodpairing.be/
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Rouxbe online cooking school - fucking excellent

ILTKKen — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 12:10:42 -0500

I have been looking around for a while for a proper online cooking school to take my cooking up a notch.

Even if you have been cooking for a while thier cooking school is very very good, everything is video based with test/quizzes (If you choose to take them) and the quality is exceptional.

The site is pretty new, so they are still adding videos to the cooking school, it's real pro chefs courses from Vancouver culinary institute.

You can sign up for free and have access to everything for a month, plenty of time to learn some kick ass stuff.

http://rouxbe.com/
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no PS/2 mouse port on MBs. WTF!?

SkaarjMaster — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 15:44:35 -0500

I've been looking at motherboards for my system upgrade around Feb/Mar 2009 and some Asus boards have no PS/2 mouse port. WTF?! Right away I said screw those boards and moved on, but I thought I'd ask in this forum first since it's better to run all the UT games through a PS/2 mouse port. Thoughts? Not that this thread is directed at any one person.
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Now THIS is the kind of politics I'd like to se more on TV

ILTKKen — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:23:45 -0500

Fucking awesome. I'd watch politics all the time if there was a chance of something like this breaking out.

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=jkJwRGX8x0I
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=1xCn3ZYTU0Y
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=5IK7dgzb-xo
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What the fuck is going on with this site?

ILTKKen — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:08:38 -0500

I don't know, but I like it

http://www.bio-bak.nl/
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Cilantro - devil weed

ILTKKen — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 06:59:36 -0500

Ok so most of you know I love to cook. Lately Cilantro has been all the rage and we don't get it at many places over here but I found some and bought it.

I love koriander and Cilantro is the weed where koriander is the seed so I figure it would taste great.

I get home and try it.

HURRRRRRRL, what the fuck is this shit?

I eat pretty much everything, even bugs and shit when on vacations where they eat that but this shit is VILE, taste like puke, soap and that blue shit you use in the toiletbowl.

I see lots of cooking shows where they heap that shit on everything. I tried a small amount in a salad but even just a little fleck of it overpowers everything and the taste stick in your mouth even after several glasses of wine.

YUCK.

Anyone here like this stuff?
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Older games that kicks ass

ILTKKen — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:07:40 -0500

I been on a "try lots of games" binge lately and found some realy great games that still holds up.

Unreal of course, but I also tried Call of Duty 1 and 2 since I liked COD4 and if you haven't tried them they are great, especially COD2 is awesome and massively huge and you can probably get them for a couple bucks, well worth that.

What I don't like about never games is that they are getting so fucking short, I haven't tried any new games that I didn't finish in a couple days, the look great but are to short. Honestly with COD1 and 2 I didn't even realy notice any bad aging, they both look great even today.

Any other older games that you can recommend?
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Holy Black Jesus!;) Obama won!

SkaarjMaster — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 22:27:53 -0500

Woohoo!
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video game censorship at its suckiness, WTF?

SkaarjMaster — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:10:06 -0400

http://www.baynews9.com/content/36/2008/10/29/397359.html

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- Children in California who want to buy or rent a violent video game without a parent's permission could have that right taken away by a federal appeals panel, which heard arguments on the case Wednesday.

A state law passed in 2005 that tries to limit access to such games is under consideration by a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

The state law, which prohibits the sale or rental of the games to anyone under 18 and requires them to be clearly labeled, was struck down last year by a lower court. Video game manufacturers argued that it violates minors' First Amendment rights. Courts in several other states have struck down similar laws.

But California Deputy Attorney General Zackery Morazzini asked the federal appeals panel to uphold the law, saying violent games are just as obscene as the sexually explicit material limited from children by the U.S. Supreme Court.

He said states have every right to help parents who want to keep their children from playing violent video games.

The Video Software Dealers Association and Entertainment Software Association say imposing restrictions on video games could lead to states seeking limited access to other material under the guise of protecting children.

"Maybe a state will say we shouldn't let you sell, without a parent's permission, books about homosexuality or sex education or birth control," Paul Smith, the industry's attorney, told reporters after the hearing. "I think it's a very scary prospect."

The judges appeared to agree, saying that upholding California's law would mark an expansion of federally regulated materials and could open the door to other restrictions by state legislatures.

"Aren't you asking this court to go where no court has gone before?" Appellate Judge Consuelo Callahan asked Morazzini.

"Is there anything out of limits for the Legislature to prohibit to minors?" Judge Alex Kozinski said. "What about games where people eat unhealthy foods and get fat?"

When asked by Judge Sidney Thomas about any differences between a violent video game and a violent book, Morazzini argued that the games are interactive and required a child to participate in the violence.

In a statement released after the hearing, State Sen. Leland Yee, a child psychologist who wrote the 2005 law, cited studies that show violent games can be linked to aggression, anti-social behavior and desensitization to violence.

Yee said he hoped the panel would "empower parents with the ultimate decision over whether or not their children play in a world of violence and murder."

But the video game industry argued that California failed to prove there is a connection between such games and psychological or other harm to children.

Smith also said video game manufacturers already have a voluntary rating system for their games and should not be required to label them. Kozinski questioned why the industry should not be forced to label video games, saying parents could still choose to buy whatever games they wanted for their children.

"I don't see why this is a big censorship thing," Kozinski said.

The appeals court is expected to make its ruling in the next few months. The case ultimately could be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Anyone have any hopes or ideas for...

SkaarjMaster — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 22:40:08 -0400

...the new UT3 expansion/patch thingy? I'm hoping they fix a bunch of stuff we talked about in this forum section including crosshairs, the whole freakin' GUI and maybe add Skaarj to UT3 finally.
http://www.beyondunreal.com/view_story.php?id=12277

Holy shit! This thread has 435 comments and counting at BUF. WTF!
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What's up?

Black Jesus — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 05:29:18 -0400

Hey ken, I posted this in the cell forum but I guess you didn't see it, so I'm posting it here.

How's it going? It's been a while since I posted here so I thought I'd see how you're doing. I just moved all the way to the west coast to Portland, Oregon. We took a 4000 mile road trip across the country to get here, broke down in colorado and camped in the rocky mountains for 2 weeks, drove through the desert in nevada, stopped by San Francisco. Fucking awesome trip. Anyway, i hope things are going well. I see that your abbleton live fans site is gone. Did you just take it down or what happened? Later man.
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Good war simulators?

ILTKKen — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:05:48 -0400

I played the older Close Combat: First to Fight and liked it a whole lot. The whole "Ready Team Fire Assist" tactics and the way you have to lead your team tactically or you'r fucked, almost no health except for some very sparse medkits made the game experience a whole lot better than other single players. It was a bit to easy though but a great game.

Right now I'm playing Ghost Recon: Advanced War Fighter and oh boy, just what I was looking for.

It's hard as HELL and looks awesome. Even on easy you WILL get fucked if you don't play tactically. The levels are huuuge, UT war and onslaught seems tiny and it's all buildings and ruins and shit everywhere you have to think about where enemies can take you out. Damage is realistic so you won't live if you try to run and gun no matter how good your aim is.

Needs a beefy box to run though, I have a Q6600 Quadcore and Nvdia 8800 GTX and it's juuuust barely cutting it on high settings.

Anyone know of similar warsim games, heavy on tactical gameplay, no micromanegement shit, just staight war tactics with a small fire team?
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Guy plays WoW with 36 simultaneous accounts - massive levels of OCD ITT

ILTKKen — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:55:48 -0400

This has got to be the fucking saddest thing I have ever seen. OK maybe I practiced UT sometimes way to much but this is just fucking scary levels of obsessiveness

In what is perhaps the most shining example of obsession and geekiness I have ever seen, a fella by the name of Bradster has 36 World of WarCraft accounts that he plays on 11 computers simultaneously. He mainly seems to be doing it because he doesn’t like to rely on so many other people to get a raid going, which includes attacking the Alliance capital cities, and on that front I can totally see where he’s coming from.

I hate those Alliance douchebags too, but I’m not about to drop $5711 per year like Bradster is. The best way to get to them is to just live well, right? Well, Bradster doesn’t appear to be letting the Alliance off the hook so easily, as he plans on picking up 36 copies of Wrath of the Lich King on day one, spending around $1500, just so he can have a raid group of level 80 Shamans terrorizing Stormwind as soon as possible.

Read on to see how this crazy man manages to control all of these characters.

From the Bradster himself:

A lot have asked me, why create so many? The main reason is to invade Stormwind and Ironforge when they reach top level. I’m sure the Alliance will put up a big fight when that happens. We’ll see how it goes. If they don’t make level 70 before Wrath of the Lich King, then it will be at level 80. That is my main goal. That will probably happen after I’ve got some PvP gear from the battlegrounds. I’m also planning to do some 25 and 10 man raid instances but that is secondary to my PvP goal. Of course I’ll be doing arenas too to build up PvP gear but I’m not expecting to do that great there because I’m way behind in gear right now. I need to get to level 70 first, then level 80 and by then I will probably have all green gear while most others have been doing the battlegrounds and arenas.

It costs me exactly $5711 in subscription costs per year with 36 accounts on the 6 month pay schedule. Not bad considering I’m looking at it like it’s a hobby and there are more expensive hobbies out there than World of Warcraft.

32 of my shaman are level 61. One shaman that I had before I started the 32 is at level 70 along with 8 other level 70 classes that I had. My mage, priest and druid are in the center of the circle of shaman in the pictures but they are kind of hard to see. I’ve also got some mages and priests that I’m currently working on that are level 23. Once they are at level 31.9, I will stop working on them, get 16 of them to level 60 with the recruit-a-friend bonus levels and work on the shaman again.

When Wrath of the Lich King is released, I plan to be at the store when it opens and will purchase 36 copies of it. With tax, it should be about $1500 for all of them. Then the shaman are on their way to level 80 along with the priest, druid and mage.

By the way, I have 9 level 80 shaman created on the Murmur PvP realm in the Wrath of the Lich King beta. I mainly tried it out to see how well my computers would work as they are. With the exception of one my desktop computers, I should be fine with the hardware that I have.

I use 3 addons in the game. CT_MapMod is used to give me locations for quests, etc. ClassIcons is another addon that I use to show the class of the target. It helps for PvP encounters. Then the last addon I use is SSPVP2 which is excellent for displaying timers and other things while in the battlegrounds.

For my keys to send to all instances of WoW on my 11 computers, I use Octopus 1.3.2. Maximizer in Octopus allows me to start up all WoW instances at the same time or any individual instance such as if a WoW instance has crashed. It also allows me to shutdown all of the computers at the same time.

Some pics of said excessive wow OCD:

Damn dude, get out more.
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Sandboxie - run dubious programs with no fear

ILTKKen — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 10:33:56 -0400

Ever had to install something that you didn't trust 100% ? (*cough*)

Enter Sandboxie, it creates a small partition on any drive you specify and installs itself at the lowest OS level. If you install and run anything from this partition it is sandboxed and the program is tricked into thinking it runs like normal, but everything it does is contained to the sandbox partition. That means is there's spyware, virus etc.. in the program you run from the sandbox it can't do shit to the rest of your system.

One of the members of the Core release group gave a recommendation to use Sandboxie, that's good enough for me

http://www.sandboxie.com/
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Spore is OUT!

ILTKKen — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 07:48:53 -0400

Whao I just noticed spore is out, been waiting for this game for YEARS drooling.

I'm downloading now, but fucking hell that EA download manager is slow, nearly 2 hours for a couple gigs, I useually do that in 15 min from news servers.
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Some vague hope for the UT3 Linux client

ILTKKen — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 16:35:18 -0400

Looks like there is still some small hope that the linux ut3 client will be released someday.

These were taken from Ryans finger server so it's straight from the horses mouth.

Quote:

Unreal Tournament 3:

Seriously, there's no conspiracy.

...so stop sending me email suggesting that Microsoft is paying to block this.

--ryan.

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whoa whoa whoa, I have GOT to get me one of these

ILTKKen — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:24:15 -0400

Emotiv systems human computer interface. Detects facial expressions, mouth, hand and eye movement. Gyro system tracks head movement. All wireless.

Holy shit, if this doesn't turn out to be a flop I don't care what it's gonna cost, I'm getting one.

http://emotiv.com/INDS_2/inds_2_1.html

EDIT:

Damn they are already demoing it live.

Cost 299$

Yep, saving up begins now.
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UK’s first official sharia courts sanctioned

ILTKKen — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 07:22:41 -0400

What the fucking fuck?

sharia law? What the fucking fuck?
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Great, now these poor women that are getting abused will have even less help because they are raised to believe that not submitting to sharia law is against thier god.

How does this shit get approved?

I love british people, but I'm sorry, now I hate your country.

islamic law has been officially adopted in Britain, with sharia courts given powers to rule on muslim civil cases.

The government has quietly sanctioned the powers for sharia judges to rule on cases ranging from divorce and financial disputes to those involving domestic violence.

Rulings issued by a network of five sharia courts are enforceable with the full power of the judicial system, through the county courts or High Court.

Previously, the rulings of sharia courts in Britain could not be enforced, and depended on voluntary compliance among muslims.
...
Under the act, the sharia courts are classified as arbitration tribunals. The rulings of arbitration tribunals are binding in law, provided that both parties in the dispute agree to give it the power to rule on their case.

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Unable to connect to server.

Hunter — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 06:55:00 -0400

Hi, it's me again

Are servers down for maintenance or similar, they seem to be unavailable.

And if you would be so kind and update UTComp3 on TDM server again, it has clientside demorec enabled!!
http://files.filefront.com/UTCompIIIv3+beta2rar/;11660991;/fileinfo.html

Thanks.
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Now THATS what I call a spam attack

ILTKKen — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:42:46 -0400

Fucking hell, look at it all. If you'r gonna abandon a site take the code down so this shit doens't happen.

http://etherchan.org/dis/read.php/ec/1201428872/
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Lookit what I found

ILTKKen — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:29:02 -0400

Haha, awesome, remember those days Skaarj, anyone else remember ?

http://web.archive.org/web/*sr_1nr_10/http://einherjer.dynip.com/*

Been looking to see if I could find some of the other old clan forums but no luck yet, if you can find something post it here.

If anyone still remember the old domain names we had back when we were lowgraw/ilk mod could you please post it so I can see if there's anything archived.
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Better buy up all the herbs you can now!

SkaarjMaster — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:35:45 -0400

"It's starting in Canada
After 10,000 plus years of safe, effective, affordable botanical medicine, the federal governments of various countries have decided that enough is enough.
With the "encouragement" of the white collar criminals in the pharmaceutical industry, the white collar criminals in government are drafting new laws to "protect" the Canadian public from herbs and food supplements.
Herbs will be put in the same class and regulated the same way as pharmaceutical products. Estimates are this will result in 70% of currently available natural health products removed from the market.
And your backyard garden?
You may not be permitted to grow herbs for medicinal use any more. Too dangerous without government regulation to protect you, don't you know.
Impossible you say?
DuPont and others succeeded in turning a plant that provided an essential industrial raw material - hemp - into an outlaw in order to eliminate it as competition for its own products. The drug companies can do it to mint and camomile too."

http://www.healthycanadians.ca/pr-rp/billC-51_e.html

Looks like the pharm companies are at it again. The people don't need protection, they just need education. Darwin was right!
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Anyone want to help me test a new skin design for a site I'm working on?

ILTKKen — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:42:01 -0400

I'm working on a site and in the process of creating a new skin for it, still some small things to do like matching colors on some graphics to the background and some random font colors, but otherwise it's nearly done.

If anyone wants to take a look and see if there's anything horribly broken that'd be great.

http://www.internet-retards.com/vbulletin/

Thanks
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RAINBOWS - IT'S THE CHEMICALS IN THE WATER SUPPLY

ILTKKen — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:13:36 -0400

lmao, you have GOT to listen to this batshit crazy bitch ranting.

http://www.internet-retards.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=42

Skaarj I don't know the dialect but is she from Florida?
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UT3 Patch v1.3

Hunter — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:51:59 -0400

http://forums.epicgames.com/showthread.php?t=620465

would be nice to have latest patch on TDM pickup server. When you have time for it could you add latest UTComp too? It's UTComp3v2d.
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New retarded project I'm working on.

ILTKKen — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:11:17 -0400

I hooked up a new site for fucking around and doing whatever retarded stuff I/we want. I had a vbulletin license laying around, and that irritated me because they rape you for 180$ for it.

I installed a video and radio station section, there's a million videos and radio stations that you can listen to and create a favorite list of stations that you can access in one place.

Internet Retards

Easy name to remember eh?

NOTE: I only changed the nameservers yesterday so some nameservers will not have updated yet and you'l get the standard network solutions hijack page for a while, fucking basterds that they are.
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Anyone else getting garbage when loading this site?

ILTKKen — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 06:28:39 -0400

It's happened to me a couple times over the last week or so, I load the site and I get a ton of garbage characters instead of the site loading.
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Why you can't trust the media

ILTKKen — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:55:03 -0400

Anyone still trust anything they see in the news/media?

If you think a little about this you will know why everything you see and everything you read is controlled. If any news outlet actually tried to deliver real unfiltered news they'd be barred just like this guy.

You only see and read what they want you to see, what's the fucking point of watching the news anymore?

BAGHDAD — The case of a freelance photographer in Iraq who was barred from covering the Marines after he posted photos on the Internet of several of them dead has underscored what some journalists say is a growing effort by the American military to control graphic images from the war.

Zoriah Miller, the photographer who took images of marines killed in a June 26 suicide attack and posted them on his Web site, was subsequently forbidden to work in Marine Corps-controlled areas of the country. Maj. Gen. John Kelly, the Marine commander in Iraq, is now seeking to have Mr. Miller barred from all United States military facilities throughout the world. Mr. Miller has since left Iraq.

source: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/26/world/middleeast/26censor.html?_r=3&re...
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The Spore anticipation and discussion thread

ILTKKen — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:03:27 -0400

I can't be the only one being feeling the Spore hype tug at my gaming strings, so let's discuss.

One thing I haven't seen mentioned, but that would be extremely cool is your creature stats affecting the creature in the game.

Examples:

Evolve and build a creature that has predatory dinosaur eyes, then as long as another creature is standing still you won't see it.

Your creature has little tiny legs, then you can't move fast so you have to work on evolving stealth or becomming more dangerous.

Choose bad eyes and your hearing needs to be better, this should directly affect your screen, like being blurred or less bright, or if you select large nigh vision type eyes for nocturnal creatures then your screen should be uncomfortably bright so you need to seek shady areas and only be out at night.

Choose cat eyes, no color vision but better motion detection and night vision.

etc..

I know that if you behave violently and give your creature stats that points to aggresiveness then your fellow creatures will behave that way to. They will haze eachother, playfight and hit eachother in fun, hunt and use weapons more and so on. If you are a friendly creature then your fellow creatures will sit around and chat and be more intelligent in generel in the way they behave.

If you are a pack creature then if you get into trouble your fellow creatures will help you out, if you are a loner type creature then you'r on your own if you get into a fight.

Very fucking cool.
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Spore is going to be awesome

ILTKKen — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:02:37 -0400

And here's the proof

Spore is out in about a month, and the spore creature editor is available as free trial download NOW

ILTKKen — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 14:37:44 -0400

Get the creature editor, it's miles of fun, the full version is only 10$ so you have something to play with while waiting. Even the free trial is tons of fun.

http://www.spore.com/ftl

Don't know what the hell Spore is? Living under a rock are we?

Spore is a total universe creator.

You start out making the primordial soup creature that you will evolve (Sorry fundies, guess you don't get to have fun ehehehe)

After selecting some properties and graphically building your amoeba or whatever you spawn it and let it live. After a while, based on what it learns and what it can do with whatever stats you gave it you can upgrade. You get new building blocks of life, like arms legs eyes TONS of shit.

Then after evolving your creature becomes sentient, also based on its past, it can build somewhere to live, find mates, form a tribe.

It goes on to learn how to build cities, which you again build from various bulding blocks.

Now it gets interesting, if it wasn't before, because the game is an massive online SINGLE player. Your planet is populated by creatures other people made on the fly and these can be friendly, hostile, may try to take over your creatures cities, or they may be friendly and you can develop trade with them.

Now you can create vehicles, totalle free form like creating creatures and buildings so you can move around the planet.

You can import buildings, vehicles and cities from other players around the world, or creatures and see what they came up with and base your game around that.

Oh but it doens't stop there by a long shot.

Now you evolve to be able to fly into space. And guess what, space is filled with planets that you can terraform and start new worlds. You can fly to your own planet and grab a creature from there, either your own or ones other people created and drop them on the planet you formed and see what happens.

Planets can be land based or water worlds, you can make ocean creatures or land and flying creatures.

Other planets in the universe are also loaded from other players worlds so you can fly there and make relations with those planets or take your creature there and see if it can take over.

Oh you thought it stopped there, oh no, there's also galaxies, black holes and I don't know what the fuck else.

Here's the official youtube channel with tons of videos from the devs showing of the game.

http://www.youtube.com/user/Spore?ob=1

The full game is supposed to be out in about a month, and I can't WAIT.
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It's finally here, the cookbook of the masters!

ILTKKen — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:57:13 -0400

Fucking Finally, I have waited for my book pusher to bring home this treasure for ages.

"On food and Cooking" by Harold McGee.

900+ pages of pure, unadulterated, food science. No recipes, no step by step useless ingredient lists. Instead, this book teaches you the how and why of everything in the food we eat. Molecule by molecule, every piece of meat, dairy, vegetable, fruit and everything else used by cooks in the kitchen is broken down to its essential science and taught to you.

This book teaches you the essentials on how to make your own recipes, not just follow someone elses because you will know EVERYTHING about food.

There's even a basic chemistry primer included so you can make the most of the scientific data presented.

The original is from 1984 when it became the go-to book for every master chef around the world. The revised edition is even more staggering.

This is the book that taught chefs such as Heston Blumenthal, Ferran Adrià Acosta and many more, the science of cooking.

This book is so good, that there's a barrage of flame posts constantly needing deletion in the amazon book reviews from cristian fundies lambasting it for being "evolutionary indoctrination and propaganda" lmao, I shit you not, that only made me want it more.

Also every episode of Good Eats is probably based on something from this book, just without the puppets and sketches

I've had it on loan from our public library for ages and it's been a constant struggle between me and some Danish university on who got to have it the next loan period, now I finally have my own copy.

If you'r at all interested in food and cooking, get this book.
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TDM server down?

Hunter — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 09:34:03 -0400

Hello

I was wondering if there's maintenance on gameservers, they don't respond to ping requests nor can anyone connect to servers.

Cheers for hosting one of the best TDM servers for UT3!
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TRAIN HORN TERROR!

ILTKKen — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:11:42 -0400

Hahaha, some guy with a real fucking train horn hidden under his car hood randomly blasting it off and making people piss themselves.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jel6cOHYHDI

This one has a cat in it, fucking LOL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5szCF-1o00&feature=related

There's many many more vids at the user site.

Now THAT'S comedy
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And I thought WE had manipulative ads on TV

ILTKKen — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 14:22:40 -0400

But shit, we got nothing on the thai's

I can't decide if these ad people needs to be shot OR given a grammy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJRKiweYxgM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOuHaTt2XUw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkoRDFjBh44
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ll-bDmK3EA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rU44zfNxg20

And...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LR5mZqeDNtg
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Great tip for those annoying dvds that has 'skip block'

ILTKKen — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 06:52:41 -0400

You know those dvds that doesn't let you skip when and where you want it?

You could rip it, but that's not necessary.

Just open the dvd with windows explorer, go into the VIDEO_TS folder, sort by size and copy the 3-4 large VOB files somewhere, rename from VOB to mpeg and voila, now you can do whatever you want AND you don't have to wait for the annoying DVD menus, just click and they start. You don't need a special 'DVD player' either, they will play in anything that can play mp2
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Japanese kids band / or what the everliving fuck?

ILTKKen — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:08:15 -0400

Someone linked me this, some japanese kids playing music and I watched thinking it would be something along the levels of what thier age suggest.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYWxpTZH2Xc

Watch it all, I wish it wasn't fucked up by the horrible editing that just cut in the middle of playing.
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So Newszbin got lawyered by mpaa

ILTKKen — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:04:00 -0400

And what do you know, it made Newszbin better.

Since they are staying low and not posting any nbz's from movies the mpaa has anything to do with, now all kinds of fucking awesome foreign movies are being posted. No more cgi laden, story lacking, hollywood GARBAGE.

Awesome chinese, thai, indian etc.. movies and lots of the realy great english movies that never got any attention are posted.

I hope the mpaa fucked themselves in the ass with this when people see how good "foreign" movies can be, but I have little hope, since most people are mindless lemmings that don't like movies they have to think just slightly about.
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Lovely Pad Thai I made yesterday

ILTKKen — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 09:32:04 -0400

This was fucking yummy I tells ya. Man I love thai and chinese food.

Since I've been pigging out on deep fry dishes with thick tempura coating I thew my colosterol levels a bone and used a nice Tilapia fillet as the main protein.

Poach some julienned dikon radish, sliced ginder, a stalk of lemon grass, some Shiitake mushrooms and chopped scalion onions, stalk of celery, 1-2 large red mild chilis, and caremelised garlic cloves. Then heat your wok to jet engine hot and stir fry for 30 seconds and set aside in seperate bowls. If you want some more umph mash a couple garlic cloves with 2 "rat food" thai chilis in a mortar and brown that in some oil and blend in.

Slice a tilapia fillet into strips, dry of in dry flour so the batter will stick better, then coat in tempura mix, stir fry in lots of oil so hot it's about to combust into flames.

Combine all poached veggies, heat 2-4 tbs of grapeseed/peanut oil until smoking, dump in veggies, tip wok to reach flames and stir at the edges inwards into the wok to get flames, don't piss yourself, you want HUGE flames, keep it up as long as you can, when flames die tip the wok into the gass flame and use your spatula to sorta pull the flame into the wok and it should flame up again, keep doing that into the oil is gone and no more flames spark, this is what your thai/chinese are missing and why they never taste right, this is what's called "wok hei", the breath of the wok and it gives your dish this delicious smoky flavour, this is imperative to get that real restaurent taste. Now we want a little taste of cat food so sprinkle 2 tbs of fish sauce, don't worry about the smell of public urinary it won't show in the dish but add some lovely umani taste. If you absolutely can't stand fish sauce add some soya and a pinch or two of MSG salt. (No it won't kill you, it's produced by your body allready, without monosodium glutamate (MSG) in your body you will keel over and die, your taste receptors have cells specifically designed to taste MSG, MSG is present in vegetables like tomatos, in meat, in tofu, in soya, in mushrooms and lots of other things and you'r still alive, so tell the health hippies spouting of scaremonger shit to go kill themselves.)

Cook some jasmin rice and setup on serving plate, drizzle generours sprinkling of mung been sprouts, add a couple greem lemon slices and serve.

YUM!

For making easy tempura, just buy some premixed tempura flour. To prepare mix in water with a chopstick or end of a spoon, you don't want a smooth mix you want it lumpy and ugly as fuck about the density of pancake batter, those lumps will sweel up when fried and add extra crisp.
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What the fuck do we need organic food for?

ILTKKen — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:01:56 -0400

Something I was thinking about recently.

Organic foods are supposed to be more nutritious and contain more vitamins studies say.

People living on a normal vestern diet already take in WAY more vitamins than we need, not to mention nutrients in general, most people are to fucking fat anyway and excess vitamins are simply discarded by your body.

So what the fuck is the point of paying 200% more for food which supposedly contains more of what you don't need? Only malnutrioned people in 3rd world contries would benefit from it, but they sure as fuck can't afford it.

And no, "organic" food doesn't taste better, food that are grown properly, and animals that are taken care of properly taste better, it has nothing to do with being organic.
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Tweaked the site cache a bit, please report speedups and errors if any!

ILTKKen — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:57:38 -0400

I just tweaked the cache a bit, added css files and javascripts to the caching functions.

It shouldn't have any adverse effects, but please let me know if you notice page loading has gotten faster, or any bugs.

Also, I added an option so you can chose to hide the server status block on the frontpage. It's pulled from an external server status site which sometimes is slow to respond and slows down loading of the frontpage.

To hide it, go to your account, click edit and find the block configuration heading and uncheck the server status block.
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Badass food resource site

ILTKKen — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:51:55 -0400

I just stumbled over this site today and thought I'd share:

http://www.foodsubs.com/

Just an amazing resource for anyone interested in food.
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Good youtube downloader?

ILTKKen — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:54:57 -0400

Anyone know a good youtube downloader?

I'm tired of using the online ones, I'd preferrebly like one that has a queue system where I can load up as many videos as I like and just let it rip until finished so I can just run it on my fileserver machine and forget about it.
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Insane stock clarifying technique.

ILTKKen — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:13:54 -0400

Food freaks only!

I just found this technique, it's fucking amazing.

I like my stocks to be clear, crystal clear, but results have been dismal so far until I found this technique.

After your stock is done, strain it like normal to clear of large food particles.

Now add a few sheets of gelatin to the stock and disolve it, allow to cool to room temperature so the gelatin sets.

Now for the magic. Stuff it in the freezer until it's frozen solid.

Take it out, put in a sieve with a sheet of kitchen paper towel in the bottom of the seive and let it defrost.

Frezing gelatin breaks down the gelatin by a process called syneresis. What happens is the gelatin looses it's power to keep the liquid contained, it seeps out, leaving particles as small as 0.1 microns trapped in the geletin.

Result... Stock as clear as a glass of white wine.

You can use the techique for anything you want to clarify. For example tomato or carrot juice as clear as water but still tasting like it should.

You can use it for flavour extraction to. After you clarify just let the water evaporate and you have 99% pure flavours of whatever you clarified.

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So you can chop your veggies, but can you do THIS?

ILTKKen — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 09:04:53 -0400

Teppanyaki chefs are just so fucking entertaining, it's amazing to watch, beats the shit out of waiting long for your food at a normal restaurent.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9B1ohtX8SY

Some more here:

http://www.youtube.com/user/hardrockerjkt69

This girls is also great, not to many advanced moves but great control:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHnS8cpbNYE&feature=related

I wish more food places would get thier chefs out into the open, time goes by so much faster when you can wath the food being made even without a Teppanyaki chef.
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Building my own wok gas burner - keep your fingers crossed

ILTKKen — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 07:58:07 -0400

So I've searched high and low for a more powerfull gas burner for my wok cooking, but the most powerfull I could find so far is only about 20K BTU and it's not cutting it, need 60K BTU at least to get the elusive "wok-hey", or "spirit of the wok", that smoked taste all properly made wok food has. If you've ever eaten chinese takeout and tried making chinese/thai wok dishes at home and never made it taste as good, chances are almost 99% sure that you didn't have enough heat to get wok-hei, cooking in a wok with a kitchen gas stove or even worse, an electric plate is basically just cooking in a wok shaped pot. If the wok is not hot enough that the fumes from the food frequenly ignites into a huge fireball, it's not hot enough

I'm cooking outside of course, I don't think it's do-able inside unless you like to wash down your whole kitchen everytime you finish cooking, damn it's messy cooking, the whole garden outside is foggy from all the food oil smoke but it's fantastic fun and a bonus is that the huge fireballs scares the piss out of the neighboors little yapping shit dogs so they run inside.

I've made up plans for a home made gas burner that will put out around 180K BTU

Basically I'm going to be building something similar to this:

Looks fairly simple and staightforward to recreate.

Anyone has any knowledge of gas burners?
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sarcasm at its finest!

SkaarjMaster — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:06:52 -0400

http://www.imvotingrepublican.com/

just in case you haven't seen this yet.
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If every commercial was as funny as this, I wouldn't spew bile at the mere thought if them.

ILTKKen — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:34:46 -0400

This is how you do a commercial:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqBy6TgYxTU&feature=related
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Hillary Bitches! Fuck Off!

SkaarjMaster — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 22:36:00 -0400

To all the Hillary Clinton loving bitches that are willing to vote for McCain instead of Obama and switch parties. FUCK OFF!!! So let me get this straight, your bitch didn't win the Democratic primary, so you would rather vote for a Republican and fuck up this country even more than see Obama as President. Well, you cunt-loving bitches can just suck my fucking dick!

My little secret is I wanted Hillary to win also, but I'm still voting for Obama.
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What's with these fucking retarded "tutorial" sites?

ILTKKen — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 06:40:57 -0400

Like most people, whenever I need to figure something out I do some googlefu to see if someone else figured out what I need to know.

Then there's a fucking million "tutorial" sites that just lists a page from the application help page.

THE REASON I SEARCHED WAS TO FIND INFO, I CAN FUCKING HIT F1 TO GET THE STUPID HELP PAGE MYSELF ASSTARDS!

Sites like these are littering the search results, when I write a tuturial about something it's from my own experience and long and detailed and you know A TUTORIAL.

These sites needs to be fucking eradicated from google, it's to the point where you need to pull some serious googlefu to weed out all this shit and is takes ages.

DIE
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CTF-Vertebrae!!!

SkaarjMaster — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 23:11:42 -0400

OMG, I just finished playing this map for the first time and I have to say out of all the in-game CTFs and custom CTFs I downloaded, I believe this is my favorite. It has a huge layout with lots and lots of z-axis and a little mystery about where the fuck you are if you don't know the map, great AVA, and good weapon/item placement; my bots can actually defend also.
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Patch 3 Beta Changelist!

SkaarjMaster — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:25:22 -0400

Gameplay:
Fixed overlay mesh showing up on hidden sniper rifle when un-zoomed.
UTGame.bNoCustomCharacters is now globalconfig.
Now hear own auto-taunts.
Fix for Liandri bots riding high in vehicles.
Fixed mutators disappearing between matches.
Fixed up PC DLC screenshots and player counts.
Vipers can no longer be driven around underwater if entered while underwater - they pop up out of the water, even if deep in it.
Fixed announcements not playing properly in WAR-MarketDistrict during the campaign.
Fixed manta crouch exploit.
Fixed loaded RL switching away before releasing load on net clients.
Fixed occasionally getting stuck when getting up from ragdoll.
Fixed ending zoom when go into feign death.
Fixed giving proper stats credit for translocator telefrags.
Fixed giving proper suicide stat credit for certain environmental suicides.
Fixed Hoverboard foot placement when watching other client get on.
Improved the turret controls on the rail turret with analog controller.
Fixed friendly fire mutator showing up as option for Duel.
Fixed bug where second enforcer wouldn't show up if picked up while switching to enforcer.
Fixed shock/instagib beams which were grabbed from emitter pool sometimes incorrectly having DPG_Foreground set.
Fixed "missing required file for demo playback" error message.
Fixed redeemer explosion on client when shot down.
Fixed big head mutator head scaling popping out at distance.
End the match right away in duel if a player leaves.
Fixed not getting kismet node destroyed event when node captured by orb.
Fixed effect showing up for disabled weapon lockers.
Don't modify power core damage caused by kismet.
Fixed scavenger legs disappearing in kill volumes.
Deployables can no longer be deployed onto hover/flying vehicles.
Fixed Hoverboard script warnings and possible crash if hoverboard fails to spawn.
Fixed impact hammer impact camera shake for low gore clients.

Engine/Rendering:
Added motion blur menu option for PC (defaults to off).
Fixed zero extent collision bug in octree code (finding nodes in Z axis).
LOD Hysteresis / LOD Decision making bug fix.
Fixed default mesh not having proper LOD settings.
Fixed rare darkwalker physics crash.

User Interface:
Added player name list to server browser.
Added midgame map voting, with serverside config options in UTGame.ini:
bMidGameMapVoting: Enables/Disables midgame map voting
MapVotePercentage: The percentage of votes required to initiate a map switch, counts down based upon VoteDuration;
NOTE: When VoteDuration=0, votes for a single map must exceed this percentage, but when VoteDuration is not 0, the number of players voting must exceed this percentage
MinMapVotes: The minimum number of players that must vote in order to initiate a map switch.
InitialVoteDelay: Delays the enabling of map voting for this many seconds
Fixed History being saved for servers joined via cmdline and console.
Fixed leading vote count indicator when map voting underway.
Don't show muted talking player portraits on HUD.
Simple crosshair tweaks.
Added the number of files left to download to the package downloading message.
Fixed Krall portrait.
Fixed clipping vehicle HUD beacon when not visible.
Fixed endgame timer so that it isn't affected by changes in game speed (also fixes vote timer)
Fixed SPMA deploy icon offset.

Networking:
Always sort relevant actors by priority. Should fix the weird actors/properties never getting replicated issues.
Fixed gibs not showing for clients of listen server if the gibbed player wasn't visible to the server player.
Fixed gibs not showing for clients of low-gore listen server.
New dynamic netspeed adjustment system for listen servers. Improves network performance for listen servers which typically have limited upstream bandwidth by dividing available bandwidth between clients. Configurable through new properties in UTGame.ini:
TotalNetBandwidth=32000 (total upstream bandwidth to be apportioned)
MaxDynamicBandwidth=7000
MinDynamicBandwidth=4000
Fixed "you have lost the match" messages to spectators at end of duel match.
Fixed cases where GameSettings cache in the GameInfo wasn't properly getting NULL'd out on DestroyOnlineGame().
HTTP redirect with compression now falls back to the uncompressed case if the compressed file could not be found.
Fixed erroneous "connection failed" error when performing non-seamless travelling.
Fixed hoverboard link failure sound playing in the world and being replicated.
Fixed low gore clients seeing gibbed players as headless if playing on full gore server.
Increased tracked turret net priority.
Fixed Hoverboard networking replication issues (hoverboard now smoother in net games).

Server administration:
UWeb fixes for WebAdmin.
Fixed downloaded cooked maps not being loaded correctly in some cases when requested by the server at initial connect time.
Fixed net object count problem when using the conformed/cooked audio packages in PS3ModTools. Fixes some networking issues for custom maps.
Final fix for packagemap problem with going from DLC -> RTM maps.
Fixed properly showing number of players needed for match to start when minplayers is set and bots are enabled on the server.
Fixed bug with PlayerID being reused for bots after a seamless travel.

Mod support:
Added support for Interactions to have a PostRender call (to render to canvas).
Added support for Interactions to have exec functions be called on them.
Added cut/copy/paste support to the console.
Added Deproject() to canvas.
Fixed base InventoryManager implementation of GetWeaponRatingFor().
Fixed crash when placing a new UINumericEditBox in UI editor.
Fix for custom factions in the UI.
Added optional flag for ScriptedTextures to skip next clear so that a ScriptedTexture client doesn't need to draw every texel of the ST every update.
Added support for -mod commandline option so that a TC mod can have a .ini file "sandbox" - where they can have new content paths, new startup maps, etc..
Improved system for getting camera death effect.
Implemented fix from Aegia for an NxFluid crash.
Fixed beams not rendering in Cascade.
Fixed crash when updating a UIPrefab.

Map specific:
Fixed CTF-Searchlight black boxes before match starts.
Fixed CTF-Searchlight search lights.
Fixed CTF-Hydrosis collision issues.
Fixed DM-Morbias collision issues.
Fixed collision issue in DM-Deck.

AI improvements:
Fixed bots not using link gun beam on enemies.
Better bot celebration management.
Fixed bots doing multiple end of match celebration taunts.
Improved impact hammer AI.
Improved darkwalker AI support for crouching under obstacles.
Improved bot hoverboard AI.
Fixed bots sometimes not picking up flags/orbs they dropped.
Fixed bots never spawning in if initially not enough playerstarts.

OK, I just posted this real quick to get it in here so it's not pretty. I have no idea what the "simple crosshair tweaks" is all about though.
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Sous-vide cooking - a fucking culinary miracle

ILTKKen — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:59:44 -0400

I started learning this technique of cooking meat/fish some time ago from Heston Blumenthal (Science of Cooking) and it's a culinary miracle.

It's quite simple to get started, get yourself a vacuum pack device, they can be had quite cheap.

Now let's say you'r cooking a chunk of meat, if you want this to be tender and medium rare you traditionally cook it so the inside is medium and have the outer meat get's overcooked and dry.

With sous-vide, you drop whatever spices and salt pepper on the meat, then vacuum seal it. For medium rare meat you want to cook it to a temp. of 56C. So all you do now is heat a large bowl of water to 56C, drop in the vacuum sealed meat and let it cook for around 4-12 hours depending on the width of the meat. seal in your temperature probe inside the meat to monitor the internal temp, once it's reached your meat is done. If there's a lot of collogen (The white chewy stuff) then the meat needs 12 hours, it doesn't matter, as long as you hold the correct temp. you can cook it for days and it will be ok and it can't dry out because it's vacuum sealed.

After it's done you have a piece of meat that's the same pinkish color from the outside in, perfection.

We have a problem now, no browned layer outside so less flavour due to lack of Maillard reaction (The flavours comming from browning)

So grab a kitchen gass tourch and brown that fucker up good, there's your delicious outer crust.

I can go and buy any piece of meat now, cheap shit that would be as tender as a shoe and it will be tender enough that it almost falls apart.

If you want to go one extra step, brine the meat first, say a large chunk of meat you need to soak it in a 5% salt solution with some vinegar overnight, chicken and pork less time, around 4+6 hours, due to osmotic pressure the meat will reach equilibrium with the salt solution and will be perfectly salted all the way and not just lots of salt on the outside like normal salting, and the osmotic reaction will have drawn water inside the meat so it will be extra extra extra juicy and tender.

Yay for science!
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Another cool Opera trick

ILTKKen — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:09:20 -0400

You know the Opera search bar right?

Want to add some sites search engine so you can use it right from the search bar from now on?

Let's use wikipedia as an example:

Go to wikipedia, see the search button on the wikipedia side menu?

Right click in this textbox, on the popup menu you see now select "create search" and click OK.

That's it, now you can quickly search wikipedia from the Opera search bar.

Repeat for any other sites you use for research often.
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Crows are pretty smart

ILTKKen — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 09:44:35 -0400

Crows learn very quickly, most people knows this. Here's a guy that built a vending machine, conditioned the crows with peanuts and pennies so that they learn that putting a penny in the slot gets them a peanut. Then more conditioning and they figure out to look for dropped pennies all over so that they can get thier peanuts. Crows get food, guy gets money, neat little transaction.

Realy amazing, with this taken further, crows could be taught to clean up garbage of the street to get thier food for example.

http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/15322
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I dont get older people, do they enjoy being miserable?

ILTKKen — Sat, 31 May 2008 11:10:18 -0400

Example: My Parents.

It's fucking hot right now, they are walking around glistening with sweat like glased pigs, snapping and barking at eachother because they are suffereing from the heat.

They have plenty of money from a long life of hard work, they have a fine airconditioner, but do they turn it on?

HELL NO SON, THAT WOULD COST LIKE 10$ A MONTH!!

I don't get this, why the fuck work hard to have a bunch of money if you are not going to use it to improve quality of life?

Me, the first sign of the slightest discomfort from heat, and my airconditioners are turned on in my whole house so fast they be spinning.
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Dream Theatre is awesome, and not only for the music

ILTKKen — Mon, 26 May 2008 16:49:47 -0400

Read this, mind blowing amounts of work must have gone into making all this fit together.

http://dt.spatang.com/octavarium.php
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Puppy all grown up

ILTKKen — Wed, 21 May 2008 09:01:13 -0400

Anyone remember the pics I posted on the old forum of the new German Sheppard puppy I got?

He is All grown up now so here are some pics.

Puppy

Fuzzball all grown up

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XP SP3?

SkaarjMaster — Sun, 18 May 2008 20:56:26 -0400

So, what's the deal? I still haven't installed it on any computer yet, but I'm wondering if anyone has and any problems?
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Teacher makes toothpick disappear - fired on account of wizardry (Yes, this is in Florida)

ILTKKen — Wed, 07 May 2008 13:44:14 -0400

http://www.local6.com/news/16169506/detail.html

Realy? Wizardry?

What the fuck is going on over there?

Piculas does a magic trick where a toothpick disappears and then reappears.

Piculas recently did the 30-second trick in front of a classroom at Rushe Middle School in Land 'O Lakes.

Piculas said he then got a call from the supervisor of teachers, saying he'd been accused of wizardry.

"I get a call the middle of the day from head of supervisor of substitute teachers. He says, 'Jim, we have a huge issue, you can't take any more assignments you need to come in right away,'" he said.

Piculas said he did not know of any other accusations that would have led to the action.

The teacher said he is concerned that the incident may prevent him from getting future jobs.

"The teacher said he is concerned that the incident may prevent him from getting future jobs."

Maybe they can throw him in a lake, just to prove that he isn't a wizard?
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What's up?

Black Jesus — Mon, 05 May 2008 03:22:55 -0400

Hey guys, what's up? I haven't been around in a while... been working and hanging out with my girlfriend. Working, fucking and smoking, basically. I've been smoking on this really good hash that I got from a friend. One hit and I'm pretty fucking stoned for a couple of hours. One little chunck of it has lasted me almost 2 months.

I was just thinking about the old acu days. I can't believe it's been 5 years or so since all of that. Fun times, fun times. My other clan that I had been playing UT2k4 with has pretty much died out in the past year. Only a couple of people are still actively playing UT at all, and we haven't done shit as a clan since UT3 has been out. I was hoping that game would re-vitalize the community, but it seems to have just helped kill it even more. I haven't even played the game much myself. I've been playing through Crysis and I just got Grand Theft Auto 4 for xbox last week and can't stop playing the damn thing. Those games are so awesome, and this one is the best yet.

Anyway, so what's going on with you?

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FUCK YOU AND FUCK YOUR "REVIEW" SITE

ILTKKen — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:48:21 -0400

I'm getting SO pissed of by all the fucking sites in Google that comes up when you search for "productname review" and all they have is the same fucking description just copied and pasted from the original manufacturers site.

THAT'S NOT A FUCKING REVIEW YOU SHITEATING CUNTRAG.

fadfsdfsdfasdasdasf DIE!!1
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Awesome Opera tip

ILTKKen — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:17:15 -0400

Want to always save a certain filetype into a certain folder?

Go to preferences/advanced tab.

Click on "download"

Now you get a list of mime types.

Find the one you want to change by looking at the extension, make sure "hide file types opened with opera" is not checked. You can type in the extension in the "quick find" textbox to locate it.

Click on "edit" for the file type you located.

Now change the setting to:

Save to disk.
"Do not ask for bla bla, save directly to folder"

Now chose the folder and OK the changes.

From now on all you need to do is click on the file to download and it will be saved directly to your chosen location without doing anything else but clicking on the file.

If you don't see your preferred file type in the list, first click on a link to download that filetype, in the "save as" dialog that pops up put a checkmark in "always bla bla" and save the file. That will give you an entry in the download list that you can now change.

This is fucking awesome. For example I use newsbin to get nbz files that my automated newsdownloader will use to download shit, I hooked opera up now so it saves the nbz files across my network to my fileserver in the folder that my newsdownloader scans for nbz files, so now all I have to do is click on nbz files I want to doawnload and I don't have to do shit else.
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Program that shows keyboard combinations?

ILTKKen — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 08:25:48 -0400

I'm doing some screencast tutorials for advanced photoshop masking techniques and I spend hella time edting in all the shortcuts I use when I produce the screencast in Premiere (Adding small overlays using titles showing the shortcuts used)

Anyone know if there's some small program that pops up a window anytime you use a keyboard combination using modifiers? I've seen a few videos that displays shortcuts and it doesn't look like something they edited in because it misfires a couple times and who would edit that in on purpose?
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Oh lord, driverpacks.net is the best fucking thing ever!

ILTKKen — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:03:13 -0400

Go here: http://driverpacks.net/DriverPacks/

Download EVERY driverpack there is, then unpack it all into the same folder keeping the directories inside the archives.

Burn everything to a dvd.

Now whenever you need a driver for just about any fucking thing on this planet, plop in that dvd and point to the top folder you made when you install something and 90% of the time it will work.

Works for just about anything ever made.

DO THIS IT IS WORTH IT!
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Happy 420

GrimReaper3 — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 17:17:54 -0400

I don't know who celebrates but there's a lot of hype about it over here. There's this tv channel called G4 and they are having a 420 celebration all day long. They have special tv shows dedicated to some of the american history of it as well as tons of stuff on head shops bongs pipes and vaporizers. It's wonderful. I plan to sit here alll day.

G4 TV Website
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Recording output from monitor?

ILTKKen — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 13:03:37 -0400

Anyone know a way to simply record a stream directly from your videocard to video?

I'm gonna be creating some screencast tutorials and the current screencasting programs like Camtasia and Captivate are total shit, they record ok but the editing options are basically useless, audio editing almost non-existant so after recording I have to export to avi and then do my edits in Premiere which takes forever since it has to encode the video and THEN I can open it in Premiere so not only does it take more time, it also encodes 2 times degrading quality.

I'm a fish in water in Premiere, but there's no way do screenrecording straight from Premiere so I was thinking there was some program that could stream from the videocard and use that as a capture source in Premiere?
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Greatly improve the quality of youtube videos you watch!

ILTKKen — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 09:29:08 -0400

Youtube is rolling out a MUCH better quality of newly uploaded videos, in order to see this better quality you either need to have a youtube account so you can go to the preferences and turn the quality up...

You can add the following to the end of the video page url:

&fmt=6

WAY better quality now IF it's a newer video, the older videos are not re-encoded.
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So you thought the Danish muhammed drawings cased a shitstorm eh? get a load of this...

ILTKKen — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:31:03 -0400

Hehehe, this will not go down quietly.

Maybe they will go even more crazy this time and kill themselves while spampeeding the Dutch embassies like they did ours last time, showing us how they realy practice "the religion of peace"

http://skoften.net/index/item/fitna_the_movie

This is what happens when a bunch of fuckups try to live thier life according to a book written hundreds of years ago by backasswards mysoginystic insecure lunatics to control the sheepish masses and apply it ad verbatim to a modern society.

Any religion that has followers that wants to kill people if they are made fun of needs to be eradicated from this planet.
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And we are back - Thanks network solutions for randomly fucking up... again

ILTKKen — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:28:17 -0400

Network Solutions

For some reason auto renew on this domain was randomly turned off, it's the first thing I make sure is always turned ON for any domain I care even remotely about.

Luckely I also payed for domain protection for this domain, so it can't be snagged up until 3 months after it expires so it finally payed of shelling out those extra $$
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And so it starts... Virgin Media in talks with content providers to offer better service - Bye bye net neutrality

ILTKKen — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 05:32:30 -0400

Here we go, first company to fuck over net neutrality.

The new CEO of Virgin Media is putting his cards on the table early, branding net neutrality “a load of bollocks” and claiming he’s already doing deals to deliver some people’s content faster than others. If you aren’t prepared to cough up the extra cash, he says he’ll put you in the Internet “bus lane”.

What the fuck is wrong with people putting up with this? Here in Scandinavia ISPs are falling over themselves to offer faster and cheaper connections, no packet shaping, no bandwidth limitations, everything's flatrate. In the last couple years my ISP has DOUBLED my line speed without charging more, I started with 2mbit way back, then it was upped to 3, then 4 and around last year 8mbit and all that keepting the same price, hell it even got cheaper I think. Last month I downloaded (According to my newsreader) around 80 gigs, yes that's EIGHTY GIGABYTES and I have been doing around that pr. month the last 4 years at least, never heard a peep from my ISP, they just keep giving me more bandwidth, shit they even give us a free news server to leach from.

This is not only me, most of my friends do the same. Prices keep dropping, bandwidth keep increasing. What the fuck is wrong with the rest of the worlds ISPs that they constantly search for new ways to screw over thier own customers?

More here: http://torrentfreak.com/virgin-media-ceo-says-net-neutrality-is-a-load-o...

Also a good video explaining the situation here in case you are confused about what net neutrality is, and why this is important: http://stopvirgin.movielol.org/

If you can, please link the above site on as many places as you can, apparently youtube/google is in on this deal somehow because the videos about this on googlevideo and youtube are being marked as spam even when the video has over 30.000 subscribers by now, very fishy.
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Bill to bring US one step closer to 1984 - WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHT CRIMES CITIZEN?!!!

ILTKKen — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 04:24:08 -0400

Yep, now they want it to be illigal to LOOK at children.

Surely this bill that's about as vague as can be, won't cause trouble, no sirree.

"That man looks like a creep officer, and he LOOKED at my child ARREST HIM NOW!"

Next up, thought crimes, making it illigal to THINK about children or be within 100 feet of a child, that will surely make them safe.

Oh wait, many of the crimes are committed by people in the family circle, well shit, but now we have some more stupid laws at least taking up resources that could be used to fight real crimes, but my illusion of safety is enhanced, so that's something.

http://www.seacoastonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080406/NEWS/8...
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Anyone know how to get the language bar to remember the chosen language for a program?

ILTKKen — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 06:02:44 -0400

My main language in Windows XP is set to Danish, if not then I don't get our vierd moon language characters. However when I'm using programs such as Photoshop CS3 and others that rely heavily on shortcuts I need to switch to English from the language bar in the taskbar or else halv the shortcuts that uses stuff like brackets won't work and I don't want to recreate them all, in Photoshop alone there's like a thousand.

Everytime I start a program or if I task switch from a program, XP RESETS my language back to Danish.

Does anyone know if there's a way to make XP remember what language I choose for each program so it sticks? It's driving me INSANE.
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Warning for vctf server ops wanting to run custom maps

ILTKKen — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:09:34 -0400

Almost forgot after I found this out, here it is in case some other poor sap want's to spice it up for thier player community...

If you run a vctf server, be VERY carefull adding custom maps. Some bug that nobody can seem to figure out causes players to not be able to connect to and play that map after they load the map once, it's completely ramdom. The map will download and then they will be kicked off the server with some error about a_vehicle_whateverthefuck couldn't be downloaded, packages that are part of the CORE game.

What's more fun is, that after this bug happens they can't load any OTHER maps from your server either.

Wanna know what's even MORE fun?

This continues to happen even after you remove the map from the maplist, you have to COMPLETELY delete the map from the server map folder, if UT3 tries to load the maps to see if they are to be active in the rotation it happens.

Wanna know what's even MORE fun?

After you figure this out and completely delete the map so players can connect again, it will persists until the players that downloaded the map empties thier cache folder, most people don't know shit of course so they won't be able to connect to your server until thier cache expires.

Nearly killed the vctf server, but since it's popular because everyone get killer pings and it runs smooth as fuck, everyone jumped right back in as soon as they could.

Only happens with vctf for some reason.

EPIC FAILURE!
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For chili heads, here's my chili chutney crack recipe

ILTKKen — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 05:56:39 -0400

If there's any chili heads in here, this is a recipe I bumblingly stumpled upon creating while trying to recreate Chiracha, it's even better than Chiracha, my mouth is watering just thinking about it right now

Ken's Chili Crack Chutney
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This stuff is so delicious you will be addicted to it like crack. It's HOT, sweet and sour, and can be

used on almost anything you can imagine.

Ingredients:
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Garlic cloves, LOTS of garlic cloves.
4-5 searingly hot habaneros. Important, habaneros must be used. Red savina or scotch bonnets are good.
8-10 hot jalapenos, no wimp dick jalapenos that you can eat like bell peppers, must be HOT
Red vine vinegar.
Whole peppers mix. (White/black/red pepper corns)
Clove, about 5-8 whole cloves.
Juniper berries, about 5-8 whole berries.
Beauvais ketchup (Important, HAS to be Beauvais and NOT the sugar free shit)
1 tablespoon iodine free salt.

Get a picle jar that can hold about 1 liter.

Skin enough cloves of garlic that you can fill the jar about half up, yep that takes a hella time so put on some good music, it will be worth it, trust me.

After you get done with the garlic, dump the rest of the ingredients into the jar, minus the Ketchup.

Now fill the jar so it JUST covers the whole mess, not any higher, and put the jar somewhere in room temperature for a day or so.

If you did not use iodine free salt your garlic cloves will turn sickly green, it doens't matter that much as there's no taste difference, but it looks better.

Alright, one day or so has passed. Get your food processor out and dump everythin into it. Now pure everything to oblivion, you want it REALY smooth, and all the spices broken up.

Once your done pureing, dump everything back into the picle jar. Now squeze out enough Beauvais Ketchup to increase the volume about 15-20% and stirr it up real good.

You'r done, try it on anything, it sooooo damn good.

Warnings: This stuff is HOT, but it's the kind of hot that rips into you and then dissapates in a few minutes, that one of the things that makes this so addicting. This stuff REEKS something fierce.

You will smell if you eat this stuff, and if you leave plates out over night with a little bit of chutney on it your whole house will REEK of garlic.

Also remember to rinse your plates with water first if you have a dishwasher, I made the mistake the first time I made this to leave chutney on my plates and just chuck em' in the dishwasher, it STILL reeked of garlic after completing 4 loads.

Enjoy.
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Serverside demos

vjm — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 08:26:40 -0400

My friend played Eurocup game in the TDM server and im wondering if its possible to get the serverside demos from there?
Demos should be in UTGame\Demos folder and the names zaccu_vs_crowie_1(-3)

I don't know how big those are but maybe they could fit in email: vajaamieli@gmail.com

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p4h — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 14:12:11 -0400

Okay, I play on your server frequently, even though I have admin rights to all Epic servers. Reason: I love(d) your server with your previous setup. I have 2 griefs at the moment:

1. The change from 16 to 24 slot. Alot of the more competitive vCTF community loved your server for that sole reason. Anything over 16 slots get spammy and the amount of teamplay required to win falls drastically.

2. You put satellite on the server >.<. For me and I know alot others, it's a map that encourages spawnkilling, which is one of the worst problems vCTF on public face at the moment. I love custom maps, but Satellite imho is just not qualified as a decent map.

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Thanks Epic for releasing Facingworlds!

ILTKKen — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 09:48:23 -0400

I hate to admit it, but Face is at least getting servers active for normal weapons CTF. I put up a 16 player 24/7 face server and it's been pretty much packed all weekend long.

Maybe I can sneak in a similar map such as Citadel when the server has had more time to biuld up some regulars, there's a great port of it that plays very well, if that takes of maybe we can blow some life into CTF again.

You know what would be a SUPER idea for Epic? Release an updated version of the demo and put face in it as a ctf map, deck as the dm map, keep suspence for vctf and hell I don't know for warfare, pick the most popular one.

Here's to hoping my precious will make a comeback
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NEW Epic Bonuspack Released

ILTKKen — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:48:44 -0400

3 new maps:

CTF-FacingWorlds
CTF-SearchLight
DM-Morbias

Strange choice for the DM map, it's like the old one, a cyllinder with pillars and rocket launchers, bleh.

I hooked up a 24/7 Face server, yeah yeah I know, but I'm hoping it will pack some people, I'd rather play face than ctf-emptyserver2008

Look for: "[acu] In Yo Face! *100MBIT* (New Epic Bonuspack)" in the ctf server browser.

It's already packed full, even the 2 spec spots are taken lol.

Cum git sum: http://download.beyondunreal.com/fileworks.php/official/ut3/ut3bonuspack...
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New Epic Bonuspack for Unreal Tournament UT3

ILTKKen — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 07:16:20 -0400

Oh yeah, new bonuspack just released.

2 new CTF maps and a DM map

1 - Facing Worlds (CTF-FacingWorlds.ut3)
2 - SearchLight
3 - Morbias

I'm putting up a Face server to see if that will put some life back into CTF, look for "[acu] In Yo Face!" in the ctf server browser.

download the new Epic Bonuspack for Unreal Tournament UT3 here

http://download.beyondunreal.com/fileworks.php/official/ut3/ut3bonuspack...

Any Adobe premiere pro heads up in here?

ILTKKen — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:34:21 -0400

On the off chance there's an Premiere pro head in here..

Is there anyway to create splits between the in and out points?

For example say I mark a a section with the in and out markers, now I want to create a split at the in and out markers so I can lift that part to later create a sequence using the parts I clipped out.

It's annoying to have to select "move to in point/out point" and then clip 2 times, so if there's a way to just split at markers that would be great but the manual is no help.

I know I can work in the source view and drop markers there and then drag the clip to the timeline, but I don't like to work in the source view at all, I just drop the movie to the timeline and chop it from there because that allows me to turn on all the frames so I can work visually instead of scrolling in the source view.
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So I happen to glance at the vctf server stats...

ILTKKen — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 12:06:24 -0400

I don't play vctf, I just threw up a vctf server some time ago to burn some of the excess bandwidth I'm paying for and...

Wtf, it's 3rd most popular vctf server out of thousands?

hehe, maybe I should throw that server ads mutator on it and have it say: PLAY REAL CTF FFS!
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It's time to germinate this years chily selection

ILTKKen — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 14:18:51 -0400

Some if you may remember that I'm a chili hound, can't get enough, and it can never be hot enough.

This years selection for the greenhouse:

A few for the wimps that are over for a barbeque or wok dish: (Around 4-5 in hotness)

Jalapeño, the standard chili most people know, not to hot but still enough to put some hair on your chest if picked when ripe.

Bolivian rainbow, little hotter than Jalapeño but very small like a cherry and as they ripen they change to all the colors of the rainbow.

Weeding the men from the wimps... (From 6-9 hotness)

Pimento
Scotch Bonnet
Red Savina Habanero, this one was the world record hotness champ before...

AND finally available here in DK...

Dorset naga chili

To give an idea, a hot Jalapeño would be somewhere around 1500-2000 on the scoville hotness scale most people will take a small bite and then proceed to drink lots water, the Red Savina Habanero is around 350.000 scoville units, most people just putting thier tounge tip on a slice will spend an hour on the floor crying.

And finally the Dorset naga chili... One MILLION scoville units. It's rated as a poison in India heheh, that's a testement to just how hot this baby is. It is banned from ALL chily eating contests and eating one whole will send you for a trip to the hospital.

Tasting a single seed can cause blistering and hours of heartburn. A slice or two is enough to make a huge 10 liter pot of stew to hot for most people to handle.

Read a bit more about it here: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article700700.ece

I can't wait, I'm germinating the seeds now, just in time to be ready when the last frost is gone.

Any other chili lovers besides me here?
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KVM switches........

SkaarjMaster — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 23:27:00 -0400

......all right, I give up! Who makes good ones? Apparently, not Linksys or Belkin according to newegg. I don't want to have to have both computers on to use one or the other. Yes, I want two computers to share one PS/2 keyboard, one PS/2 mouse, one VGA CRT monitor, and one 2.1 speaker system.

This could be a possibility as long as I have no trouble switching both PS/2 mice to USB on the one end and then switching them back to PS/2 on the other end.........and both computers don't have to be on for the switch to work.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817399023

Here's the thread I got going at pcper:
http://forums.pcper.com/showthread.php?t=453137
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The nordic UT3 TDM pickup

vjm — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:32:34 -0400

If you haven't yet heard about the #geim in quakenet and you are interested in playing 4v4 nwTDM pickups you are welcome to join
The pickups has been running since ut2k3 and we are back in the action with UT3. The server for the games is located in Sweden and should be ok for all who live in scandinavia, tho I've seen some middle europeans there too :> My policy has been quality > quantity so there are no leavers and such lamers around, only weird scandi ppl .

http://geim.hopto.org/

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This is why the ut3 sniper seems hard to aim with!

ILTKKen — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:30:26 -0400

The hitbox is smaller when you move, looking at the code below, standing still makes the headshot hitbox almost DOUBLE in size.

Fucking pathetic.

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simulated function InstantHit( byte FiringMode, ImpactInfo Impact )
{
local float Scaling;
local int HeadDamage;

if( (Role == Role_Authority) && !bUsingAimingHelp )
{
if (Instigator == None || VSize(Instigator.Velocity) < Instigator.GroundSpeed * Instigator.CrouchedPct)
{
Scaling = SlowHeadshotScale;
}
else
{
Scaling = RunningHeadshotScale;
}

[ snip! ]
}

defaultproperties
{
[ snip! ]
SlowHeadshotScale=1.750000
RunningHeadshotScale=0.800000
[ snip! ]
}
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Amazing bigdog robot is back and more awesome than ever

ILTKKen — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:22:43 -0400

Some of you may remember that robot quadro quidra... four legged thing from way back.

Check it out now, that thing is fucking amazing.

http://gizmodo.com/368651/new-video-of-bigdog-quadruped-robot-is-so-stun...
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Anyone here use a reverse osmosis water softener?

ILTKKen — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:05:37 -0400

I just got a reverse osmosis filter for the house water intake so I don't have to descale my espresso and coffee machines and don't have to constantly scrub down the walls of the batchrooms and such (We have extremely hard water here, like 400+ TDS, have to wipe everything down or there's scale spots all over the place) and it's the type you have to charge/recharge with salt, maybe some of you know some tips on useage?

I know many cities in the US have hard/mineral rich water so anyone got any tips, like anything it's bad for?

All I know is that it's guaranteed to bring down the TDS of the water to around 10-20 but the store selling the system knows fuck all.
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Now this is what I call one FUCKED UP individual

ILTKKen — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 14:02:02 -0400

Holy $diety shit, I didn't think some (admittedly) graphic sentences could make me physically ill, but there you go.

I guess this article qualifies for this section of the forums

BME: Tell me a little about yourself.

I’m a fifty year old fag and a real whore for the tops that I worship. I have a preference for sperm, which I love to get from used condoms. I also like to drink nice gobs of spit, and I love to lick and eat hard turds, better yet when mixed with a dash of sperm.

BME: Tell me about your different body modifications?

I have a navel piercing and a frenum piercing that I wear a ring in. My breasts are gone, and I have “I LOVE AIDS” and the shape of a high heel branded inside my left thing. I have “PD” branded inside my right thigh. I’m a bit hairy and am sometimes shaved, and as you can see I have a pig face.

BME: Where does the name “Wandalaput” come from?

I chose the online pseudonym Wandalaput because I feel like a real whore (“pute”), though I’m not paid for it, and Wanda is the name of a sadist dominatrix I’ve played with a lot. So the name “Wanda La Pute” suited me well. I love suffering in order to make people cum, and I would love to show the world that real perverted masochistic wastes like me exist — we’re not just dreams.

BME: What were your first sexual experiences?

The first time I was fucked in the ass I was eight, in boarding school — almost immediately my biggest pleasure was to be a slave. I loved having my little schoolmates stamping on me, and especially licking their feet. Later I found out I enjoyed sucking cock, and even more, licking girls’ shoes and hurting myself with the spiked heels.

It was about twenty years ago that I really found what I wanted: to be a garbage, a public washroom, a toy for the most extreme sadists. Nothing can stop me — I want to degrade myself and eat human waste, especially men’s shit... it makes me cum. I love receiving mutilation orders, being humiliated, insulted and hurt, and then taking pictures and making videos to show everything I did. It is so good to think that perverts are masturbating while looking at my pictures and videos.

BME: Tell me more about your boarding school experiences — were you abused?

When I was in early boarding school I found two school mates jerking off together. I wanted to look a bit closer, and the strongest one got me on the ground by pressing hard on my belly with one foot, and putting the other foot in my mouth, while still stroking his friend’s cock. He insulted me, and invited his friend to do the same. The smell of dirty feet excited me and I let them continue. It was amazing to be used as a mat. In a boarding school where a lot of kids were homosexual, it wasn’t long before everybody knew there was a slut at their service.

What I liked most of all was being used as garbage while we were hidden in the church. I loved to lick my schoolmates’ feet while masturbating there. The excitement was even greater when many of them gathered to insult me. There, in church, is where I found out the joys of self-abuse.

In reality nobody “abused” me — I actually believe I’ve always enjoyed filthy love. As a child I loved sniffing and licking dirty underpants and any shoes I could find. When I was still very young I decided that my life would be a journey of bondage until the very end. I’ve always loved spike heels, because they are a symbol of the phallus, and also a symbol of the needle — both symbols of the depravity that lets me get mutilated, that lets me get down on the ground to be stamped on like a worm. If the shoes are dirty I’m in heaven. I also love wearing heels to really show I’m a slut without any dignity, and I love getting penetrated with them.

BME: What kind of sex acts do you enjoy?

I’m a real crap that needs to get fucked hard, and I’m looking to get impregnated with AIDS. I’ll suck your dick and drain out your balls, without a condom. The only time I like condoms is when they’re used and full of the sperm of strangers, which I empty into my mouth or inject into myself. I get fucked up the ass and I’ll suck any dirty dick.

With me you’ll cum hard because I don’t just suck hard, but I also swallow your cum, lick your dirty and unclean feet, and you can insult me, hit me, torture me, mutilate me, show me off, sell me, and keep the money. I know I’ve already made a lot of men cum while they were fucking me. The more excited I can get you, the more sperm you’ll make for me... yum!

BME: What is it about filth that does it?

It’s a big part of my worm and slave condition — I only permit myself to have contact with everything excreted by a man... his sperm, his spit, sweat, dirt from his feet, piss, and vomit. I love the role of garbage or toilet. I love to be treated as a shit and as a doormat. That’s why I also like to mutilate and torture myself.

I love used condoms with the taste and smell of sperm. I’ll swallow the contents of more than thirty condoms, one after the other, while I’m masturbating.

BME: Are the condoms in your pictures really full of strangers’ sperm?

What you see in the pictures is real unknown sperm — it’s not faked. Those condoms mostly come from the garbage of street prostitutes. I know one of them, who enjoys what I do and keeps them for me, taking care to not lose any of the content.

BME: Tell me about your interest in AIDS.

I am not HIV+ yet, but I want to be at any price. What could be better for a masochist like me than to achieve the mark of degradation of getting AIDS, which I worship? I want it desperately — I want my body to experience the same decay that I have in my mind... Just the idea of being impregnated with AIDS makes me very excited.

I am not like all those dreamers who post hard ads only when they want to wank. I’m a real pig at the service of vice. I love HIV and all sexually transmitted diseases, and I actually want to die this way — it would be the fulfillment of my life as a crap and I really want it. I accept everything, so don’t be shy — take advantage of it. It’s not everyday that you can use a garbage like me for free.

Wandalaput is a toy for very hard sadists.

BME: You really want to get AIDS that badly?

I am ready to pay for my AIDS impregnation, upon the presentation of an HIV+ status, proving that you are in fact infected. I’ll pay you either directly, or you can prostitute me and keep the profits. I also eat the shit of AIDS infected people, directly from their diapers, which I get from Rochefort Hospital’s terminal patients wing.

I also like to steal HIV+ patients’ shoes to lick the treads and mutilate myself with them... it’s really exciting.

BME: Are you sure this isn’t pushing the fantasy too far? Do you really want to die?

As I said, AIDS is the achievement of the worm life that I desire — I really do want to get impregnated with the virus. Externally I’m a real garbage who loves to get excited with the waste of men’s bodies which I worship (urine, shit, spits, sweat, barf, and of course sperm — in quantity), and I want to get AIDS, to have inside me this pleasure of being contaminated with the most beautiful man-waste. I don’t want to die per se, but of course I know I will die from it, and this will be my best achievement as a masochist. To live as long as possible with this in me, I’ll be an accomplished crap. I only want AIDS for me alone and I don’t want to give it to other people, although I would share it with other people like me.

BME: But... death?

For me, death means nothing. If I die from AIDS I would have accomplished my slut role until the end and I would be proud of it.

BME: Are pain and pleasure the same thing? Death as the fulfillment of life?

For me pain and pleasure go together. I love to mutilate myself a lot while I masturbate — I cum the most when I’m torturing myself on the orders of a sadist, or better yet when the sadist tortures me himself. Even better, I love it when he’s excited about the torture and the wounds he’s inflicted on me and comes on my injures — inside I feel a huge excitement and joy when this happens.

BME: Tell me about the damage to your chest? It looks quite intense.

My chest is a love story for a very sadistic couple — the woman dreamed about mutilating a man’s nipples. She was was gorgeous, and had razor-sharp high heels. She started jabbing needles into my nipples, using her heels as a hammer. Sometimes she would slip on purpose and stamp on my nipples. Her husband gave me Xylocaine injections, and Wanda, my dominatrix, started hitting my chest more and more. We were all very excited. Her husband fucked me in the ass and jerked me off, until Wanda literally cut my nipples off with a knife. I really loved that — even if I had to stay at the hospital for three weeks!

Ever since that night I worship high heels, and I always keep my toenails very long and varnished, as a tribute to Wanda and all the real sadists I worship.

I also spent ten years injecting paraffin oil into my breasts which forced me to get them totally removed. It’s a good thing though because now I can mutilate this part of my body in a much more extreme way, which gets the dominants very excited.

I’m a real whore, garbage, and proud of it.

BME: Where do you get the high heels you play with?

They’re the shoes of my friend, a prostitute who spends her days walking on old condoms.

BME: You said you used to love fucking in the church at school... Tell me about your religious views.

I worship the Antichrist, and I really like getting fucked and sucking dicks in sacred sites. It’s awesome to get fucked in a cemetery by a sadist, and I love to be mutilated there. If you’re a necrophile or Satanist and like to fuck in a church or a cemetary, call me! We’ll cum together, and with love I’ll drink your semen.

I love the Antichrist, Satanism, blasphemy, and necrophilic excitement. It is so good to masturbate in a church or on a coffin. My dream is to suck a corpse’s cock and get fisted with one of his feet. It’s also very exciting to get fucked with a crucifix. Sometimes at night I put on a garter belt, fishnet stockings, and high heels — nothing else — and then go into cemeteries to lie down on cold gravestones and masturbate slowly. I must admit those are really exciting moments, and it’s in a cemetery, in feminine panties, on all fours on a gravestone, that I would like to be sodomized by an HIV positive man and get AIDS...

But I worry this is just a dream.

BME: What kind of guys do you like?

I’ll get fucked by anybody, no matter what his race, his height, or the size of his cock. I prefer filthy men, but I’ll take everything that comes to me... I am a real crap.

BME: I’ve got to ask you one more time — is this really real? Or are you pulling my leg?

Everything you see and everything I do is real. I’m truly, extremely gay, although I do like women in certain situations, if they’re extremely sadistic dominants willing to torture me with their heels and let me lick their feet. I love all men’s shit... I realize that my sex life is extreme, but what I do is real, even though most of what you see on the Internet is just fantasy.

True sadists, please contact me.

Source: http://www.bmezine.com/news/pubring/20080227.html

PS: Don't watch the pics if you want to feel good.
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Best husband ever

ILTKKen — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 07:49:17 -0400

Finally and ad I actually liked.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilV-50ctqv0
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A educational vid about ironing

ILTKKen — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 07:46:43 -0400

It held my interest for sure

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OdXypjP1JE
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Why men shouldn't write advice columns

ILTKKen — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 07:40:36 -0400

Hehe, just found this one on another forums I read...

Dear Ted,

I hope you can help me here. The other day I set off for work leaving
my husband in the house watching the TV as usual. I hadn't gone more
than a mile down the road when my engine conked out and the car
shuddered to a halt.
I walked back home to get my husband's help. When I got home I
couldn't believe my eyes. He was in the bedroom with a neighbor lady
making mad passionate love to her. I am 32, my husband is 34 and we
have been married for twelve years.
When I confronted him, he tried to make out that he went into the back
yard and heard a lady scream, had come to her rescue but found her
unconscious. He'd carried the woman back to our house, laid her in
bed, and began CPR. When she awoke she immediately began thanking him
and kissing him and he was attempting to break free when I came back.
But when I asked him why neither of them had any clothes on, he broke
down and admitted that he'd been having an affair for the past six
months.
I told him to stop or I would leave him. He was let go from his job
six months ago and he says he has been feeling increasingly depressed
and worthless. I love him very much, but ever since I gave him the
ultimatum he has become increasingly distant. I don't feel I can get
through to him anymore.
Can you please help?

Sincerely,
Susie Fox

Dear Susie,

A car stalling after being driven a short distance can be caused by a
variety of faults. Start by checking that there is no debris in the
fuel line. If it is clear, check the clips holding the vacuum lines
onto the inlet manifold for air leaks. If none of these approaches
solves the problem, it could be that the fuel pump itself is faulty,
causing low delivery pressure to the carburetor float chamber .
I hope this helps.
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How to remove shopping sites from google searches in Opera

ILTKKen — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 05:00:03 -0500

Getting tired of shitty shopping sites crapping up your search results everytime you search because scum sites litter thier page text with words to hijack search results?

Close opera, go to the directory where opera is installed and open up the file "search.ini"

Find the section for google, useually under [search engine 1] and replace the URL= line with this:

URL=http://www.google.com/search?q=-comparisons -comparison -price -compare -buy -shop -shopping %s&sourceid=opera&num=%i&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

Save and do a google search from the opera search bar and it will now exclude all sites with common words in the results.
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XP Pro 64-bit OS...what drivers/games work and what don't?

SkaarjMaster — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:05:40 -0500

well, the title says it all. I'm thinking of going 64-bit with my next system, but I'm not sure if the driver hassle and trying to figure 5.1 sound switching to new card will be worth it. And then there's the which games will work and which won't issue (UT/UT2004/UT3/Q3/Q4/Doom3/Painkiller/Postal2/etc.)? Anything anoyone knows will be appreciated. I do know about the PlanetAMD64 site and the info there though. Thank you.
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Here come the spambots

ILTKKen — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 05:58:27 -0500

Looks like we finally got a high enough google score to make the spambots notice the scent. Lately if you look at the registrations lots of accounts have been created with random names.

Time to employ the spam buster plugins.

Update:

Spammers stopped dead, better go back to that job flipping burgers you scum.

TDM server updates

vjm — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 14:59:09 -0500

Hi,
could you update TDM servers old customut to UTCompIII

Link to UTComp3:
http://nikita.tnnet.fi/~vjm/UTCompIIIv2.rar

There are also new maps that are played in cups:
ftp://ftp.turtled.com/esl/ut3/DM-TempestX-B4.zip
ftp://ftp.turtled.com/esl/ut3/DM-Flustered-LE.rar
ftp://ftp.turtled.com/esl/ut3/DM-1on1-Penetrated-LE.rar
ftp://ftp.turtled.com/esl/ut3/DM-Deck-FPS.rar

Not sure if some of those are already there.

best regards
vjm

*update
- Faust just released new version of UTCompIII, the mutator needs to be loaded in the server startup script(with the logins and stuff) to allow voting to work. Also there are no need to load any other mutator anymore because the UTC can now handle weaponstay,friendlyfire,spawnprotection etc.
- Added new maps
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viewbot command

SkaarjMaster — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 22:09:51 -0500

I ran across part of a thread at BUF (quote by Anuban) and thought someone might be interested in what they had to say:

"While this is true it is also true that it is very very easy to set up "spectating" in UT3 for Instant Action. Many of you here know me and you know I don't play online and I used Spectator mode for testing tons of ONS and VCTF maps back in UT2K4. So yeah I was bothered at first as well and then someone told me about the "viewbot" command and bam it was all so clear. I just set up a the F6 key to use as my spectate bot/switch to a different bot key and I was all set.

So just into your Input.ini file and add that line and then when the game starts just press F6 and you will be in spectate mode and then further pressing F6 will switch to the next bot. You can feign death to prevent from being killed but it doesn't matter ... all that happens when your character gets killed is the camera shifts a bit and you just shift it back with your mouse and keep on spectating. It is such a good workaround that I think Epic feels that issue is really not as important as fixing other parts of the game. I have to say on this one I am 100% agreement. This method may not be perfect but it is really good and definitely gets the job done."

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SkaarjMaster's in-game settings and other questions

SkaarjMaster — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 23:52:07 -0500

Let me just quickly give my in-game/menu settings and ask a few questions about them and some other detailed settings and see if anyone can answer them. Bear in mind that I'm only playing with a P4 3.2GHz CPU adn ATI 9800Pro256MB card right now.

Video
Screen Resolution: 1280x960
Mode: Fullscreen
Brightness: 6
Post Processing: Default
Reduced Gore: Off
Subtitles: On
Hardware Physics: Off

Advanced Video
Screen %: 50
Texture Detail: 1
World Detail: 1
Enabled V-Sync: Off
Framerate Smoothing: Off
FOV: 90

Audio
Hardware OpenAL: On
SFX Volume: 6
Music Volume: 5
Voice Volume: 6
Ambience Volume: 5
Announcer Volume: 3
Announcement Type: Full
Automatic Taunts: On

Input
Invert Y: Off
Auto Aim: Off
Mouse Smoothing: Off
Mouse Sensitivity: 2500 (possibly showing 25.0 in file; will eventually change this)
Dodge DoubleClick Time: 0 (not sure what this should be here and in the file)
Enable Joystick: Off

Weapons
Crosshair Type: Simple
Weapon Switch on Pickup: On (but can't remember how I have it set in UT and UT2004)
Weapon Hand: Right (no center choice, but I think bCenteredWeapon takes care of that)
Small Weapons: Off
Display Weapon Bar: On
Only Show Available Weapons: On
Crosshair Scaling: 1

HUD
Zoomed Minimap: Off
Show Map: On
Show Clock: Off
Show Scoring: On
Show Leaderboard: Off
Show Vehicle Armor: On
Show Objective Paths: On

That's it for my in-game settings and please post any comments or suggestions. Now here are some more questions:

1. In the UTEngine.ini file, there are 3 settings I'm not sure about under [SystemSettings]. At FragOnSight, they suggest changing these to strip the high quality settings for struggling systems.
SkeletalMeshLODBias=0 (mine is set to 1 right now)
ParticleLODBias=0 (mine is bizarrely set to 2147483647 now for some odd reason)
ScreenPercentage=100.000000 (mine is set to 50.000000 now and I still am not sure what this setting means)

I guess just this one numbered question for now.
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Unreal Tournament 3 patch 2 download

ILTKKen — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 07:02:03 -0500

Download it here: http://www.epicgames.com/download/UT3Patch2.exe

My addiction to coffee is making me broke :(

ILTKKen — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 07:47:12 -0500

I had to exchange my La Pavoni to this beast today...

Beutifull isn't she? It's a la Vibiemme Domobar Super, weighs 75 pounds, nearly broke my back hauling it around to the car.

Got a kick ass offer on her so I had to jump on it, oh well porridge and noodles for the next 6 months.

Still tuning her, setting the correct pressure and temps and learning how she want's it, comming from a manual lever machine like the La Pavoni it's quite a change to a HX machine with E61 grouphead.

I did try to steam milk with it, the steam pressure on this thing is fucking crazy, I thought it was going to be a bitch steaming and frothing milk but you basically just stick the steam wand into the milk and let it rip and it's spinning the milk so fast it blends to perfect microfoam, almost takes the fun out of it, with the panovi and other machines it's like a fucking wizards ritual to froth milk.
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UT3 patch 1.2 is out soon download links should be available soon

ILTKKen — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 01:32:37 -0500

Unreal Tournament 3 patch v1.2 UT3 patch download

Aww they removed the links, fuckers and they set the forums so google doesn't cache them so I couldn't grab the links.

Gameplay:

- Increased UTGame MaxPlayersAllowed to 64.

- Fixed leviathan turret instant refire exploit.

- Fixed errant lock on warnings when no longer in vehicle.

- Fixed first person weapons in demo playback.

- Fixed translocator telefrag victim message.

- Fixed encouragement sounds not being randomly picked by bots.

- Implemented viewobjective spectating system for Warfare.

- Fixed berserk held by driver applying to all vehicle turrets.

- Only force low gore on German versions that were low gore only before being patched.

- Fix for unnecessary content staying in memory on seamless travel.

- Fixed shaped charge node exploit.

User Interface:

- Clicking on the settings tab goes to directly to the full settings menu.

- Added VOIP speaker portraits to HUD.

- Fixed character portraits sometimes not showing up on HUD or not staying up long enough.

- The Host server menus will no longer disable internet options if CheckNatTypeDisplayError returns true. It's just a warning now.

- Fixed the CD key always prompting when the user has no network card

- Added support for commandline log in -login=xxx -password=xxx. This also allows Gamespy comrade and other external applications to be used to launch network clients.

- Added UI option to hide objective paths (the white arrows).

- Added UI option to enable joystick support.

- Added JOIN to midgame menu when spectating.

- Added cancel button to "logging in" message box.

- Added support for auto-updating UI with new options.

- Improved language support for French, Spanish, Italian, and German.

- Joystick key bindings in UI display properly.

- Added game and UI support for customizing crosshair scaling.

- Added "Add Favorite" button to Server Browser server list tab.

- Fixed favorites Tab Page server details not updating.

- Improvements to voice menu. Added "status" section.

- Leave "Disconnect" and "Exit Game" on the mid game menu when seamlessly travelling so that players have a way to abort lengthy downloads

- Show "Change Team" button before the match has started.

- Added support for localized "single score needed" string.

- Tweaked some HUD message font sizes.

- Favorites/History lists list servers that are currently offline.

- Favorites/History lists don't stop working as the number of servers in them crosses max threshold for GS query.

- Fix for end of round scoreboard displaying extra "Player" bots.

- Fixed leviathan deploy icon positioning.

Networking:

- Added support for autodownloading packages while in gameplay or while travelling.

- Auto team re-balancing before map transition if bPlayersBalanceTeams is set.

- Fixed dedicated server memory leaks.

- Force client state synchronization when in spectating state. Fixes sporadic issues with players not being able to join games.

- Fixed sounds not being heard correctly by clients if the sound location is the Actor's location and the Actor is not relevant to that client.

- Fixed spectators being unable to move after a level transition.

- Fixed track turrets being in the wrong position on clients in some cases after being destroyed.

- ConnectionTimeout and InitialConnectTimeOut now both 60.0. Addresses both clients failing connection because they take too long to load a level, and initial connections staying open too long.

- Fixed HTTP download compression.

- Fixed a bug where download during seamless travel would break because the downloader was keeping a pointer into the package map's list, which is unsafe while the game is in progress because that list could have more items added to it (and thus the memory rearranged) at any time

- Fixed a bug where in rare cases packages would get downloaded twice.

- Fixed spectators able to enter as extra players in Duel.

- Fixed issue where CTF, vCTF, and WAR maps are listed in the server browers when searching for a DM game when server changed gametypes.

- Fixed bots not replicating their view pitch, so their animation looks better in net games.

- Strip OwningPlayerName= from the URL, as this is determined elsewhere and was breaking dedicated internet servers launched from the UI.

- Fixed package downloading not moving on to the next download method if it successfully downloads the file, but that file is not the version that the server is requesting.

- Fixed client crash if the user disconnects while downloading a file during a seamless travel.

Server administration:

- TCPLink and Webadmin functionality implemented.

- Banning is now based on CD key hash, so players can’t circumvent bans by creating a new profile.

- Fixed being unable to kickban players with | in their names.

- Added versioning information to the game settings

- Dedicated servers don't require DirectX shader model 2.0

- Fixed AdminForceTextMute and AdminForceTextUnmute.

- Restored the compress and decompress commandlets.

- Fixed AdminCmdOk() function not working properly if you were the listen server.

- Banned IDs readability improved.

- Added MaxClientTravelTime config option to GameInfo. If set, clients are kicked if they take longer than this many seconds to travel between maps.

Mod support:

- Added ScriptedTexture, a type of render to texture that gives Canvas access to script/C++ for rendering custom overlays.

- Added a version of DrawTile() to Canvas that takes a Texture instead of Texture2D so render to texture stuff like ScriptedTextures can more easily be used.

- Added Timestamp function to UObject, returns a string in the format YYYY/MM/DD - HH:MM:SS

- Weapons now take roll from player viewrotation.

- Fixed custom character DLC not applying until the next time the game is run because the default object was not updated after combining the .ini files.

- Added a ModFamilies array to UTCustomChar_Data to allow mod authors to add families to the list.

- Fixed Change Node Status Kismet action not working on fully constructed powernodes.

- Merged ageia particle fixes.

Map specific:

- Fixed DM-Deck get out of world exploit

- Fixed DM-Gateway portals sometimes sending you back to your starting point.

- Fixed CTF-Coret collision exploit.

- Fixed kismet spawned key vehicles not showing on host minimap. Fixes tank showing on host minimap in VCTF-Kargo.

AI improvements:

- New orb carrier strategy AI.

- Improved bot hoverboard use.

- Reduced bot orb spawner camping.

- Fixed bots stuck on orb spawner unable to grab flag.

- Low skill bots use artillery properly.

- Tweaked shooting at nodes vs shooting at enemies.

- No human bonus to threat value.

- Improved threat picking AI, taking into account effectiveness of bot's weapon.

- Tweaked bot AI for link gun, flak cannon, redeemer, and AVRiL.

- Bots tend to stay on same enemy more, and focus on key vehicles more.

- Tweaked campaign auto skill adjust.

- Possible safe fix for bot navigation issues with staticmeshcollections on console. Also a performance improvement on PC and console.

- Tweaked rules for whether to attack node or enemy first.

- Improved bot AI for defending nodes with an orb.

- Fixed pathing issues that were causing bots to get stuck in some places. When a move fails, force a route refresh. Add cost to reachspecs when bot fails repeatedly.

- Improved AI code for adjusting around obstacles. If adjust left and right fail, try moving to center of reachspec.

- If previous move failed, don't allow "advanced tactics" (serpentine, etc.) for next move.

- Added FailedMoveTarget and MoveFailureCount to controller to track movement failures.

- Added bForceNoDetours to UTBot. Don't allow detours when bot is approaching a neutral node (more important to touch node first).

- Fixed bots thinking they've reach the orb spawner without quite getting there and touching the orb.

- Fixed cases where bots could get stuck failing to translocate over and over - bots know to give up now.

- Adjusted bot reaction time to seeing new enemies.

- Improved bot AI for dealing with lifts and hoverboards.

- Bots taunt after winning a match.

- Bots now can be fooled by feign death.

- Sandstorm has more impact on bots being able to acquire/aim at enemies.

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Changes from v1.1 are also included. These changes are listed below:

Gameplay:

- Fixed scaling of certain player meshes (increased in size some human and robot meshes). Addresses meshes being smaller than collision box, as well as eyeheight issues.

- Fixed feigning death into/through ForcedDirVolumes.

- Fixed grenade effects in water.

- Increased hellbender rear turret damage.

- Reduced Goliath machine gun spread, plus slight damage increase.

- Fixed warfare scoring for locking down a prime node not called "prime node".

- Slightly increased momentum taken from damage by mantas and vipers.

- Flak, Rocket, and Shock do slightly more damage to manta and viper.

- Made sure Hellfire SPMA cannon can't fire through walls.

- Increased incoming SPMA fire sound radius.

- Fixed impact jumping with hoverboard.

- Fixed bot Pawns losing their PRI at the end of the match, causing them to, among other things, be invisible

- Fixed being able to switch away from the rocket launcher in the delay between the third rocket being loaded and the weapon autofiring.

- Players now stop moving when they fire the Redeemer guided warhead

- Fixed weapon crosshair incorrectly turning red when hit enemy on the client, but not on the server.

- Disabled attenuation/spatialization on mission briefing sounds.

- Fixed stats being recorded for spectators

AI:

- Improved bot AI with darkwalker.

- Tweaked bot voice message frequencies.

- Bot aiming tweaks.

- Fixed bots attacking friendly player in rare cases when that player recently stole an enemy vehicle.

- Fixed bots not handling the "Hold This Position" order correctly when the player giving the order is in a multi-person vehicle.

Demo playback:

- Fixed demo playback not ending/looping correctly when the demo ends due to the DemoRecSpectator being destroyed before the end of the file is reached.

- Demos can now be paused.

- By default, demo playback now runs at full speed and interpolates in between demo frames using the normal client simulation code. The old frame-locked method is still available by passing ?disallowinterp. Timedemos are unaffected by this change.

- Fixed demoplay URL parsing counting the options as part of the filename unless an extension was specified in the demo name

- Added a "Delete Demo" button to the demo playback menu.

- Demo playback now properly handles rotation when viewing a Pawn in first person.

- Fixed looking around while spectating a vehicle.

Server Browser:

- Implemented "Server History" tab page in server browser, with ability to "lock" favorites on that page.

- Added 'Join as spectator' feature.

- Server browser uses smaller font to display more servers.

- Fixed custom mutators not appearing in server browser.

- Fixed custom gametypes not displayed in server browser's window.

- Fixed server browser's listed MaxPlayers being incorrect.

- Added filter option for dedicated servers.

- Fixed server browser showing an incorrect goal score and time limit when the .ini values were used.

- Fixed incorrect mutators appearing in server browser details if client & server are not using the same language

User Interface:

- Can now save settings/progress even if have never created a profile.

- Added ping and connect time to scoreboard.

- Removed annoying confirmation menu when starting a game.

- Removed unnecessary top settings page (can use tabs at the top of the settings to navigate).

- Added a Messages tab to the mid game menu.

- Friends messages now saved until explicitly deleted.

- Finer control over mouse sensitivity, using an edit box instead of a slider.

- Added framerate smoothing and FOV options to the advanced video menu.

- Increased max players/bots in menus to 32.

- Fixed auto switching to vote menu at end of match.

- Improved mid game menu performance (don't render world behind it).

- Added version number to main menu.

- Fixed binding gamepad/joystick keys (you must set AllowJoystickInput=1 in the [WinDrv.WindowsClient] of your UTEngine.ini to enable gamepads/joysticks).

- Filter settings are now saved to the .ini file

- Pure and Locked filter options now default to "Any"

- Fixed flickering when downloading files

- Fixed up the GDF project for Vista

HUD:

- Added the killer weapon to victim messages.

- Fixed flag and orb scaling in minimap at high resolutions.

- Fixed node teleporter not showing "You can't teleport with orb" message on clients.

- Fixed situations where "get in vehicle" pictograph wouldn't work correctly.

- Still draw the clock on the scoreboard after the game is over.

- Fixed Duel HUD issues.

- - Added the ability to specify custom simple crosshair coordinates for weapons, with new config properties bUseCustomCoordinates and CustomCrosshairCoordinates.
To change the crosshair used for all weapons, add the following lines to the [utweapon] section of the UTWeapon.ini file:

bUseCustomCoordinates=true
CustomCrosshairCoordinates=(U=276,V=84,UL=22,VL=25 )

where the CustomCrosshairCoordinates have U and V as the offsets into the crosshair texture (UI_HUD.HUD.UTCrosshairs), and UL and VL specify the size of the texture area to use.
To use a different crosshair for a specific weapon, simply add those two lines to the appropriate weapon specific section in UTWeapon.ini.

Networking:

- Implemented STUN support (Simple Traversal of UDP Through Network Address Translators) to enable clients and servers to connect from behind a NAT.

- Fixed team scores very rarely not updating for a client.

- Fixed bot faction option when running a listen server.

- Fixed link setup not reset correctly when going from a map with a custom link setup to one using the default.

- Fixed a case where Duel would place an incoming player on the wrong team when some players were still travelling.

- Bullseye stats are now properly recorded.

- Fixed clients not travelling to downloaded maps correctly.

- Fixed the client and server getting into a loop sending each other close messages in some situations.

- Quick match incorporates player rating into search decision.

- Fixed issue where Vista clients would not receive all servers from a server browser search.

- Applied proper fix to suppressing voice on dedicated servers.

- Fixed issues with players not getting on right team in Duel and Duel+Survival if a player leaves in certain timing windows during map transitions.

- Fixed previous level PRIs showing up on the scoreboard/leaderboard after the client travels (making it look like players have already scored lots of points when those clients are in fact still loading)

- Fixed losing your custom character mesh after changing teams during a match.

- Fixed HTTP redirection for mod autodownloading

- Fixed autodownloaded mods not being loaded correctly in some cases

- Fixed orb rebuilding not being played correctly on clients if the orb was destroyed by an enemy player

- Implemented DUEL match stat reporting for gamespy ladder

- Fixed "open" console command not working when an Internet server address is specified

- Added "BecomeActive" exec to switch from spectator to player

Server Administration:

- Reduced tick rate for dedicated servers with no clients (saves CPU on idle servers).

- Dedicated servers do not require CD keys.

- Added -configsubdir= command line option to cause .ini files to be loaded/saved from the specified subdirectory of Game\Config\

- Added QueryPort configuration and command line option.

- Added an "AdminChangeOption [option] [value]" console command for server admins. This allows changing most simple .ini values (e.g. GoalScore) from the client. This command will not override URL options. The change will take effect after the next map change.

- Added an "AdminPublishMapList" console command for server admins. This overrides the server's map list for the current game type with the one on the client that used the command.

- Uses GameReplicationInfo.ServerName if set for the name of the server on the server browser.

- Added "AdminForceVoiceMute" and "AdminForceVoiceUnMute": Stops/Starts a player from sending voip to others

- Added "AdminForceTextMut" and "AdminForceTextUnMute": Stops/Starts a player from send text messages to others

- Updated AdminPlayerList to show the PlayerID of the players on the server.

- Updated Kick/Ban to allow for using either the player name or the id

- Fixed servers advertising as the wrong gametype if the gametype is changed without restarting the server

- Added new IdleServerTickRate property to IpDrv.TcpNetDriver. If not set, IdleServerTickRate defaults to MaxTickRate. Can be set to lower values to reduce server CPU utilization when 0 players. Reported ping will increase if set lower.

Map Specific

- Fixed WAR-Avalanche terrain LOD popping issue on high end PCs.

- Fixed bots rarely getting stuck in mid air in DM-Gateway in the city section.

- Fixed some VCTF-Suspense pathing issues.

- Fixed issues with circular lift on DM-Deimos.

- Fixed translucent mesh sorting issues in DM-Gateway.

- Fixed various map collision bugs

- Improved bot AI with Leviathan in Torlan

Campaign/Co-op:

- Fixed a bug that could cause too many bots to be added to co-op matches in some cases.

- Added support for seamless travel interrupting a travel to start another travel. This fixes single player breaking if the host selects the next mission before the clients have finished travelling to the mission selection level

- Fixed extra copy of a character when a human player leaves a co-op game at the right time.

- Changed network loss during single player to result in player signed in locally.

Modding:

- Added a SupportedGameTypes field to UTUIDataProvider_Mutator. If some entries are in this array, the mutator will only be visible in the menus if the selected gametype is found in the array.

- Fixed custom gametype midgame menus not being used correctly.

- Shipping script compiler now allows localized/config defaultproperties because otherwise autodownloaded mods have no way for their localized/config variables to work.

- Added Get/SetSpecialValue() stubs to Object to allow mods to expose values that can be modified without creating a dependancy.

- Added support for custom gametypes showing up on their own in the server browser. The game class needs to implement UpdateGameSettings() and call GameSettings.SetStringSettingValue() to set CONTEXT_GAME_MODE to CONTEXT_GAME_MODE_CUSTOM. Then, in the gametype's menu .ini data, set GameSearchClass to "UTGameSearchCustom".

- Fixed cooking a map sometimes deleting all other mod files in the Published directory

- Fixed bPostRenderIfNotVisible flag

some UT2004 settings

SkaarjMaster — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 21:16:29 -0500

As I started to tweak UT3 based on the suggestions in this forum, I realized I wanted to make sure UT2004 and UT had all the updated tweaks to make them run slightly better as well. I'm mostly concerned with mouse and crosshair settings to make my aim better, but some other ones creap in as well and some that are absent from my game files that some online tweak guides talk about will be mentioned also. I will mention what the setting is or ask questions or give what I think might be the answer if I have an idea. Let me know what you guys think. Let's start with UT2004 in this thread (I'll start another one for UT)!

IN-GAME MENU

DISPLAY
- why does brightness show about 80% full, contrast show about 70% full and gamma show about 20% full, but gamma in UT2004.ini show 80% (or 0.800000)?

AUDIO AND PLAYER SECTIONS SEEM FINE FOR NOW

GAME
- I have auto aim off already, so this should be fine.

INPUT
- let's not worry how I configured my controls for this one as it could get lengthy.
- mouse smoothing is on (I'm guessing this needs to be off)
- reduce mouse lag is on (I'm guessing this should be off)
- mouse sensitivity (game) - 3.00 (I'm guessing this should be 2 or same as menus)
- mouse sensitivity (menus) - 1.25
- mouse smoothing strength - 0.30 (I'm guessing this should be 0.00)
- mouse acceleration threshold - 0.00

WEAPONS
- custom weapon crosshairs is on (I'm guessing this needs to be off)
- crosshair set to cross(1) (I believe this needs to be on dot)
- red, green, blue and opacity are all set to 100% (this needs to be set like the UT3 suggestions to pink)

OTHER SECTIONS ARE FINE FOR NOW

UT2004.INI FILE

- same gamma setting problem linked to above question
- CaptureMouse=True (maybe this just gets your mouse settings, but not sure but I think it's fine)
- MouseXMultiplier=1.000000, MouseYMultiplier=1.000000 (I think these are OK)
- ReduceMouseLag=True (see above)

USER.INI FILE

[Engine.Input]
MouseX=Count bXAxis | Axis aMouseX Speed=2.0
MouseY=Count bYAxis | Axis aMouseY Speed=2.0
(these two settings are probably fine, wait for UT3 you said 1.2, what about UT2004?)

[Engine.PlayerController]
bAlwaysMouseLook=True (I believe this is fine)

[Engine.HUD]
bCrosshairShow=True (I always let the crosshairs show, it's just two hard without them but it's been done)
CrosshairScale=1.000000
CrosshairOpacity=1.000000
CrosshairStyle=0
CrossHairColor=(B=255,G=255,R=255,A=255)
- I believe these last 4 crosshair settings will have to change similar to the in-game menu settings above.

[Engine.PlayerInput]
MouseSamplingTime=+0.008333 (this command doesn't even show up in my section; in fact, the section is completely missing as well)

[UnrealGame.UnrealPawn]
bPlayOwnFootSteps=True (this might be cool for a couple matches, but I bet it gets irritating quickly; this command is not even listed in the section anyway).

Other questions:
- do we need to worry about custom coordinates for crosshairs in UT2004 as in UT3?
- is there a translocator toggle problem like UT3?
- do we need to worry about bCenteredWeaponFire in UT2004 like UT3?

That should do it for UT2004! Let me know what you guys think.

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Lookit my new baby - gene cafe coffee roaster

ILTKKen — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 09:16:34 -0500

I finally got tired of roasting my coffee using a wok and a heatgun or messing with popcorn poppers so I got myself a commercial grade home roaster, the Gene Cafe.

Been wanting one for ages but it's fucking expensive but I finally caved since when I roast with a heatgun I have to do it outside in a toolshed in the garden because of the smoke, and it's freakin cold right now.

Here's a couple pics:

Video of this beast in action: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-21754440054705737

Yeah, I like my Coffee, what of it?
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CTF Times you normally play

cbak0s — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 20:25:58 -0500

Hey there..this game is sick. The details are simply amazing (I still love being a shock whore) Still a little buggy. Learned the hard way when you have the auto login feature checked off and the logon server is down. This little shuttle can put up some huge FPS in full detail. What time do you all play normally? There does not seem to be nearly as many UT3 players as the old games were - hopefully it picks up.

New RIG:
Shuttle SP35P2-Pro
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Wolfdale 3.0GHz
EVGA 512-P3-N841-AR GeForce 8800GTS (G92) 512MB
Western Digital Raptor WD1500ADFD 150GB 10,000 RPM
CORSAIR 4GB(2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400)
WINDOZE Vista 64 Bit Premium

PS.. Ken you need to bring back that old mod that made you famous ;o)
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DM goal score?

SkaarjMaster — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 19:02:40 -0500

OK, I'm trying to change the default DM goal score to 15 so that any map I try offline the menu automatically comes up with a goal score of 15. Why isn't it working? I have this section now in both UTGame/Config/DefaultGame.ini and UTGame/Config/UTGame.ini now and it's not working:

[UTGame.UTDeathmatch]
bWarmupRound=False
bAllowMapVoting=False
bForceMidGameMenuAtStart=False
NetWait=15
ClientProcessingTimeout=30
WarmupTime=0
LateEntryLives=1
ResetTimeDelay=0
VoteDuration=45
MaxCustomChars=12
GoalScore=15
MaxLives=0
TimeLimit=20

As you may already know, the -nohomedir is still applied to the executables I click on as well. Oh yeh, it comes up as 20 all the time for some odd reason every time I exit the game and get back in.
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do my eyes deceive me?

SkaarjMaster — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 22:57:36 -0500

Do you actually have to now hit them twice in the head to frag them with the sniper rifle (lame)? Yes, and the flak delay sucks balls as well. Otherwise, not bad. I won in DM-Arsenal and DM-CarbonFire, but got my ass handed to me in DM-Sanctuary.
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They are digging up roads in my city - fiber here we come!

ILTKKen — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 22:10:45 -0500

Fucking finally!!!

They are in the process of laying down fiber in my city now, digging up shit everywhere.

When it's done everyone can order 100/100 Mbit fiber, I'm already signed up and have been waiting forever and now it's finnally very close to happning.

Yesssssss, I hope there's a sale on 10000 gig harddrives soon hehe cause these things will be filled up fast at that rate.
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I'm sure your server is fine, but.....

SkaarjMaster — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 19:27:19 -0500

......it figures the night I decide to finally run the game and the UT3 login server is down.
http://forums.beyondunreal.com/showthread.php?t=174358

Surely I can register and everything like that another way or do I have to wait for LameSpy to come back up? I read in the manual that they were using this and I knew there would be trouble.
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how do I get my sig up again?

SkaarjMaster — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 16:34:25 -0500

I think the subject says it all.
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Massive blow to Danish anti-pirating organization

ILTKKen — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:06:03 -0500

Danish IFPI was dealth a massive blow, thier law proposal which they have been lobbying heavily for in the past years that requires Danish ISPs to monitor traffic and cut of filesharers without a court trial was voted down with a staggering 29 against and only 1 for.

Bwaahaha, eat crow fuckers
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Oh noes - BLACKOUT!

ILTKKen — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:41:06 -0500

In about 30 mins there's going to be a 4 hour power out in DK as they are doing some work on oceanic powerlines or some shit, fucking 4 hours staring into darkness is going to be loads of fun

Already got books, candles, battery lights out and ready for the long haul, funny how reliant we are on having power eh? All I can think of doing is read some books, everything else I'm remotely interested in requires power and my laptop is redicously overpowered so batteries last like 20 min. on full charge.

Don't know if the servers are going down, they have UPS for 5 days but the power is out in all DK so that may kill the power to some larger connection point somewhere.
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Hi all

cbak0s — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 09:24:31 -0500

Hi Ken and company....I just stopped by a couple of days ago and saw the new site. I am in the process of building a new shuttle for ut3 since my old rig pucked this game up... Amazing how this new game takes some bigtime hardware to run but it was time for a killer upgrade. Too bad it doesn't support MAC yet. How have you all been? I have not played this game for the longest time since we moved to Florida in 04. I am glad to see you are all still playing and the game and I am sure you are Fata1ity like. I should have this thing built for the weekend and will stop by on your server and have you all kick my ass ;o) Talk to you soon - Bruce
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Toggle alt fire bind?

ILTKKen — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 13:00:01 -0500

When doing goo defense my right mouse finger starts to hurt after a while because of holding down alt fire to keep a goo ball loaded ready to lob at the at someone grabbing the flag, doing this a whole 20 min match kills my right mouse finger

Would be great if there was a way to make a bind that toggles between holding down alt fire and releasing it when you hit it again.
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Suicide, the new throw weapon :p

ILTKKen — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 19:40:59 -0500

Since we don't get no throwweapon keybind in ctf so we can throw a gun to get some ammo, bind a key to suicide.

Been practicing this for a while, once your down on ammo or health don't spend time getting health if your below 40 or only have say ammo left for a couple combos, go to the weapon spawn, pull out that gun, hit suicide and hurry up and go pick the weapon from the spawn + the gun you dropped when you hit suicide AFTER you get the spawn gun, bammo you'r back with tons of ammo, on most maps I can consistantly have 50 ammo for shock doing this allowing me to combo spam like a monkey on crack again.
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Drop flag keybind

ILTKKen — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 10:39:46 -0500

Here's how to create a dropflag keybind:

Bindings=(Name="KEY",Command="dropflag",Control=False,Shift=False,Alt=False)

Patch 2 underway!

ILTKKen — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:26:26 -0500

Weeeee, about fucking time

http://www.howto-answers.com/news/unreal-tournament-3-patch-2-soon-ready...
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ILTKKen — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:25:41 -0500

Yesss, webadmin finally about fucking time.

This is a kickass list of improvements, these are my favorites:

- Added UI option to hide objective paths (the white arrows).
- Clicking on the settings tab goes to directly to the full settings menu.
- Added JOIN to midgame menu when spectating.
- Added game and UI support for customizing crosshair scaling.
- Added "Add Favorite" button to Server Browser server list tab.
- Fixed favorites Tab Page server details not updating.
- Show "Change Team" button before the match has started.
- Favorites/History lists don't stop working as the number of servers in them crosses max threshold for GS query.
- Added support for autodownloading packages while in gameplay or while travelling.
- Auto team re-balancing before map transition if bPlayersBalanceTeams is set.
- Force client state synchronization when in spectating state. Fixes sporadic issues with players not being able to join games.
- Fixed spectators being unable to move after a level transition.
- Fixed HTTP download compression.
- Fixed a bug where download during seamless travel would break because the downloader was keeping a pointer into the package map's list, which is unsafe while the game is in progress because that list could have more items added to it (and thus the memory rearranged) at any time
- TCPLink and Webadmin functionality implemented.
- Banning is now based on CD key hash, so players can’t circumvent bans by creating a new profile.
- Fixed being unable to kickban players with | in their names.
- Restored the compress and decompress commandlets.
- Added support for auto-updating UI with new options.

Gameplay:

- Increased UTGame MaxPlayersAllowed to 64.

- Fixed leviathan turret instant refire exploit.

- Fixed errant lock on warnings when no longer in vehicle.

- Fixed first person weapons in demo playback.

- Fixed translocator telefrag victim message.

- Fixed encouragement sounds not being randomly picked by bots.

- Implemented viewobjective spectating system for Warfare.

- Fixed berserk held by driver applying to all vehicle turrets.

- Only force low gore on German versions that were low gore only before being patched.

User Interface:

- Clicking on the settings tab goes to directly to the full settings menu.

- Added VOIP speaker portraits to HUD.

- Fixed character portraits sometimes not showing up on HUD or not staying up long enough.

- The Host server menus will no longer disable internet options if CheckNatTypeDisplayError returns true. It's just a warning now.

- Fixed the CD key always prompting when the user has no network card

- Added support for commandline log in -login=xxx -password=xxx. This also allows Gamespy comrade and other external applications to be used to launch network clients.

- Added UI option to hide objective paths (the white arrows).

- Added UI option to enable joystick support.

- Added JOIN to midgame menu when spectating.

- Added cancel button to "logging in" message box.

- Added support for auto-updating UI with new options.

- Improved language support for French, Spanish, Italian, and German.

- Joystick key bindings in UI display properly.

- Added game and UI support for customizing crosshair scaling.

- Added "Add Favorite" button to Server Browser server list tab.

- Fixed favorites Tab Page server details not updating.

- Improvements to voice menu. Added "status" section.

- Leave "Disconnect" and "Exit Game" on the mid game menu when seamlessly travelling so that players have a way to abort lengthy downloads

- Show "Change Team" button before the match has started.

- Added support for localized "single score needed" string.

- Tweaked some HUD message font sizes.

- Favorites/History lists list servers that are currently offline.

- Favorites/History lists don't stop working as the number of servers in them crosses max threshold for GS query.

Networking:

- Added support for autodownloading packages while in gameplay or while travelling.

- Auto team re-balancing before map transition if bPlayersBalanceTeams is set.

- Fixed dedicated server memory leaks.

- Force client state synchronization when in spectating state. Fixes sporadic issues with players not being able to join games.

- Fixed sounds not being heard correctly by clients if the sound location is the Actor's location and the Actor is not relevant to that client.

- Fixed spectators being unable to move after a level transition.

- Fixed track turrets being in the wrong position on clients in some cases after being destroyed.

- ConnectionTimeout and InitialConnectTimeOut now both 60.0. Addresses both clients failing connection because they take too long to load a level, and initial connections staying open too long.

- Fixed HTTP download compression.

- Fixed a bug where download during seamless travel would break because the downloader was keeping a pointer into the package map's list, which is unsafe while the game is in progress because that list could have more items added to it (and thus the memory rearranged) at any time

- Fixed a bug where in rare cases packages would get downloaded twice.

- Fixed spectators able to enter as extra players in Duel.

- Fixed issue where CTF, vCTF, and WAR maps are listed in the server browers when searching for a DM game when server changed gametypes.

- Fixed bots not replicating their view pitch, so their animation looks better in net games.

- Strip OwningPlayerName= from the URL, as this is determined elsewhere and was breaking dedicated internet servers launched from the UI.

Server administration:

- TCPLink and Webadmin functionality implemented.

- Banning is now based on CD key hash, so players can’t circumvent bans by creating a new profile.

- Fixed being unable to kickban players with | in their names.

- Added versioning information to the game settings

- Dedicated servers don't require DirectX shader model 2.0

- Fixed AdminForceTextMute and AdminForceTextUnmute.

- Restored the compress and decompress commandlets.

- Fixed AdminCmdOk() function not working properly if you were the listen server.

- Banned IDs readability improved.

- Added MaxClientTravelTime config option to GameInfo. If set, clients are kicked if they take longer than this many seconds to travel between maps.

Mod support:

- Added ScriptedTexture, a type of render to texture that gives Canvas access to script/C++ for rendering custom overlays.

- Added a version of DrawTile() to Canvas that takes a Texture instead of Texture2D so render to texture stuff like ScriptedTextures can more easily be used.

- Added Timestamp function to UObject, returns a string in the format YYYY/MM/DD - HH:MM:SS

- Weapons now take roll from player viewrotation.

- Fixed custom character DLC not applying until the next time the game is run because the default object was not updated after combining the .ini files.

- Added a ModFamilies array to UTCustomChar_Data to allow mod authors to add families to the list.

- Fixed Change Node Status Kismet action not working on fully constructed powernodes.

Map specific:

- Fixed DM-Deck get out of world exploit

- Fixed DM-Gateway portals sometimes sending you back to your starting point.

AI improvements:

- New orb carrier strategy AI.

- Improved bot hoverboard use.

- Reduced bot orb spawner camping.

- Fixed bots stuck on orb spawner unable to grab flag.

- Low skill bots use artillery properly.

- Tweaked shooting at nodes vs shooting at enemies.

- No human bonus to threat value.

- Improved threat picking AI, taking into account effectiveness of bot's weapon.

- Tweaked bot AI for link gun, flak cannon, redeemer, and AVRiL.

- Bots tend to stay on same enemy more, and focus on key vehicles more.

- Tweaked campaign auto skill adjust.

- Possible safe fix for bot navigation issues with staticmeshcollections on console. Also a performance improvement on PC and console.

- Tweaked rules for whether to attack node or enemy first.

- Improved bot AI for defending nodes with an orb.

- Fixed pathing issues that were causing bots to get stuck in some places. When a move fails, force a route refresh. Add cost to reachspecs when bot fails repeatedly.

- Improved AI code for adjusting around obstacles. If adjust left and right fail, try moving to center of reachspec.

- If previous move failed, don't allow "advanced tactics" (serpentine, etc.) for next move.

- Added FailedMoveTarget and MoveFailureCount to controller to track movement failures.

- Added bForceNoDetours to UTBot. Don't allow detours when bot is approaching a neutral node (more important to touch node first).

- Fixed bots thinking they've reach the orb spawner without quite getting there and touching the orb.

- Fixed cases where bots could get stuck failing to translocate over and over - bots know to give up now.

- Adjusted bot reaction time to seeing new enemies.

- Improved bot AI for dealing with lifts and hoverboards.

- Bots taunt after winning a match.

Three Little Pigs: "too offensive"

ILTKKen — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:16:51 -0500

What the shit is this shit?

In my world, it's our fucking DUTY to offend people that gets pissy about stupid shit like an image.

PIG PIG PIG PIG PIG YUM YUM PIG IS GOOOOOOOOD!

A story based on the Three Little Pigs has been turned down from a government agency's annual awards because the subject matter could offend Muslims. The digital book, re-telling the classic fairy tale, was rejected by judges who warned that "the use of pigs raises cultural issues.

Becta, the government's educational technology agency, is a leading partner in running the annual award. The judges also attacked Three Little Cowboy Builders for offending builders.

Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7204635.stm
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Fix unreal tournament 3 server history

ILTKKen — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 11:51:26 -0500

WickeD at unrealNA found a way to get server history working once it eventually stops working.

open your UTGame.ini and search " GameSearchHistory " you will find some #'s that identify servers (your favorites is right under it).

History stops working cause epic was smart enough to not make it overwrite and when the slots run out it just stops working and displaying.... or some shit.

ANY WAY just delete all lines under
[UTGame.UTDataStore_GameSearchHistory]

Source: http://www.unrealna.com/forums/showthread.php?t=915

Hendrix at woodstock - 1 hour video

ILTKKen — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 19:18:11 -0500

Weee, lookit what I found, this rules look at them smelly hippies go! where's my bong?

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3981364972665945187&q=hendrix&h...
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Fake favorites

ILTKKen — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 14:26:27 -0500

ok, since favorites is fucked here's how you can at least get something...

Create a text file in the folder where ut3.exe is, name it after your favorite server, say acu.txt

in this text file enter:

open xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

Where X's are ip address.

Now when you wanna join server open console (F10) and type:

exec acu.txt

Crude, but easier than remembering the ip addresses of your favorite servers.
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Announcement lag

ILTKKen — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 13:22:54 -0500

This has been bugging me for a while, in ctf the flag taken/returned announcements are sometimes lagging way behind, enough that in fast paced matches on smaller maps like Reflection it becomes showstopping.

For example I hear someone taking my flag when I'm out getting a weapon, someone returns it and then someone immidiately takes it, I hear "flag taken, flag returned....(5 seconds pass).......flag taken" in the meantime I go "ok I still have time to go get that gun" but the "flag taken" after the last "flag returned" message comes after like 5 seconds or more so now the EFC is halfway to mid when I hear the "flag taken" announcement again, I run to base thinking he's still there, but he's in mid by now.

It's entirely random, sometimes it's lagged, sometimes not, if there's voice taunts they are also lagged at random, sometimes you hear "I have have the flag" AFTER the flag is returned, completely out of order.

It's not lag, my ping is like 22ms and not my machine I think (Q6600 Quadcore,8800gts,4gig ram)

Am I the only one getting this?
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What's your hit% in ut3?

ILTKKen — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 10:30:54 -0500

I'm slowly getting back up to my useuall 45% from UT2003/4, I'm around 36-40% at the moment with shock primary depending on the players, but it's been fucking hell trying to get my pew pew aim back, but it looks like once I'm back to 45% ut3 is going to be just as pew pew as UT2004 once we get some more custom maps that's a bit larger. I been getting a lot of the 3 hit shock primaries that used to piss a lot of people of back in 2k4.

Getting the MX518 again instead of the shit lazor g5 I had before has done wonders.
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Server Status

ILTKKen — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 13:01:47 -0500

REFRESH PAGE TO SEE CURRENT STATUS

Lotus discontinues work on CustomUT

ILTKKen — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 10:59:25 -0500

Well that blows, but he is releasing the source so anyone can pick up where he left.

Thanks to Lotus for his hard work on UTComp and CustomUT and GL/HF IRL.

http://unrealna.com/forums/showthread.php?t=895

Finally a good ctf night

ILTKKen — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:30:37 -0500

Played a ton of maps today and there were actually some players that could play ctf, mooneye was there to and kicking ass.

Only hydrosis blowed, but that's more because ALL 8 players on red stood in the base, I got like 6 megakills but never even got to the door of red base, I did get a hattrick and a combo king+rocket scientist so it's all good heheh
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Tom Cruise Rambles like a lunatic - youtube link inside

ILTKKen — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 10:38:46 -0500

Oh my, he's completely lost it now.

Hurry up and watch it, it's from a scientology insider video so you better belive it's going to be taken down soon once they unleash thier lawyer armies.

You can save it using http://keepvid.com/ just copy the url below and paste that into the keepvid textbox, that way you have a reference point to "batshit insane" when you need it.

This is like wathing an empty husk of a man, nothing inside anymore but a recording of crazy, listen to all the scientoloty bullshit abbreviations and buzzwords, all that's missing is seeing the strings of the puppetmaster.

If you want to make just a little sense out of his ramblings, here's a scio dictionary: http://www.xenu-directory.net/glossary/glossary_a.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxB2I934ZfY

So, have you met an SP? HAWHAWHAWHAWHAWHAHWHAHW -gasp for air- HAWAHHAWHAHWHWHWHW

The cruise missile is veering off course! Abandon ship!

This is where Will Smith is going to be in a couple years
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CTF-Reflection needs a fix

ILTKKen — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 08:41:59 -0500

Those meshes on top exit where the 2 ramps go from the base there's the colored string of lamps and that big bush that blocks the translocator and I keep htting the invisible hitbox around it when I'm chasing the efc trying to get him at the other side.

Also the sky is way to low, like 3 playerhights above the ground so you keep trying to throw the xloc all the way over the map and to do that you need to aim high, but then it ends up hitting the invisible sky.

It's a great map but it's marred by these things.
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Flak is pwning in this game.

ILTKKen — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:15:20 -0500

I been practising my flak since it's been a gun I rarely used in ut2kX and holy shit is it powerfull now.

Primary KILLS, no other single gun has given me this kill ratio and kill speed. It took some time to get down what with the stange firing delay it has but shit.

I still think it's balanced though because it's not easy to get good with.
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When the wind blows - watch this and kill yourself

ILTKKen — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 13:41:57 -0500

Well fuck me, I thought grave of the fireflies was depressing, this tops it.

Roger Waters music kicking in just nails it home.

I saw this when I was like 13 or so, never forgot it. Isn't it amazing how multi million dollar movies leaves you dead and a little low budget animation can be so powerfull?

http://youtube.com/results?search_query=When+the+Wind+Blows&search=Searc...

If you think you can handle it, watch "Threads" also:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2023790698427111488&q=threads&t...

Leave it to the brits to create 2 of the most depressing gutwrenching movies ever made on budgets less than what a single sitcom episode costs today.
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Must scientology ruin FUCKING EVERYTHING FOR ME?

ILTKKen — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:40:14 -0500

I can't hardly fucking watch anything I think is fun anymore as the killer cult has grabbed so many good people.

Can't watch Simpsons (Nancy Carthright), can't watch Seinfeld, can't listen to chick Corea, Beck, John Travolta, I don't even care about Tom "Fucking Nutcase" Cruise, but now they fucking got Will Smith to, ruining MIB, Fresh Prince, Independance Day, I am Legend and so much more.

Tom Cruise went fucking nutso after getting involved with them, don't think it will happen to Will?

Well have a read here then:

Will Smith has stunned the world by declaring that even Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler was essentially a "good" person.

The Men In Black star, 39, is determined to see the best in people, and is convinced the former German leader did not fully understand the extent of the pain and suffering his actions would cause during his time in power in the 1930s and '40s.

He says, "Even Hitler didn't wake up going, 'Let me do the most evil thing I can do today'.

"I think he woke up in the morning and using a twisted, backwards logic, he set out to do what he thought was 'good'. Stuff like that just needs reprogramming."

Hitler's totalitarian leadership as Fuhrer during 1934 until his eventual suicide in 1945 resulted in the persecution of an estimated six million Jews in the Holocaust, and his invasion of Poland in 1939 led to the start of the Second World War.

Note the word "reprogramming" a cult psycko babble word used a lot.

Fuck you killer cult, I swear, if you get anyone from Star Trek or Babylon 5 I'm gonna go postal.

HELL NAW, Welcome to earf (Punches a thetan in the mouth)

Hail Xenu!

http://theunfunnytruth.ytmnd.com/
http://www.clambake.org/

hi hello scientology server status ding dong this is a test.
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Mouse reviews @ esreality - MX500/518 pwns all

ILTKKen — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:18:30 -0500

I find this fucking funny, a mouse that's like 4 years old kicks the snot out of everything on the market, and rapes all the shit expensive lazor mice and you can get it for peanuts still.

http://www.esreality.com/?a=longpost&id=1265679&page=1

I was looking for a new mouse as my G5 is allready fucking up on me and since I gone down in sens. a bit it has tons of negative acceleration that fucks me up.

They say it's hard to get, but the local computer store list that they have 4 of them in stock...

Until tomorrow that is, then they will suddenly be sold out
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Swearing parrot

ILTKKen — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 19:05:57 -0500

This parrot cracks me up, watch some of these, great fun.

http://www.metacafe.com/channels/Nickchp
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Quick Links

ILTKKen — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 17:55:18 -0500

acu is recruiting for normal weapons CTF	Looking for a clan to play ut3 ctf?	IRC info	Server info
Match agenda	Matches played	Videos
Teamspeak Info	Setting up UT3 to kick ass	Newbie tutorial for UT3
Gameservers Status

Looking for a UT3 CTF clan to train you or just play with for fun?

ILTKKen — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 17:28:57 -0500

Getting tired of playing public servers with no teamwork and no communication?

acu is always looking for new friendly players to join us. While we do play competitively on ladders and in cups, you can join if you just want someone to play with that are organized and fun to hang out with, you can play with us for fun or practice with us and join us and play official matches if you want. All players will receive training if they want to get better. We also have a teamplay bible with tons of info on how to become a better player that all acu members will have access to.

acu is a friendly clan, we don't want players that talk trash and are unfriendly to others, we are all over 18 (lol understatement) so you should probably be to, but if you'r mature for your age give it a shot anyway.

You will need a headset and have teamspeak installed as we use that to communicate in game and it's load of fun to, especially when the Swedes are talking

So, if you'r interested in seeing how it's like to play with people that doesn't run around like headless chickens doing whatever in a team based game like ctf...

Join us today! ((((*hypnotic stare*))))

You can reply to this post, or join #acu on quakenet to get in touch with us, go on, we won't bite ya!

acu is recruiting for normal weapons CTF

ILTKKen — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 17:13:57 -0500

Due to lack of players that returned to UT3 from UT2004, we are in need af people to play with us on the clanbase ladders and cups.

Open Positions:

2 Attackers
2 Defenders

Most acu players has been playing unreal since ut99 demo days so we need experienced players that are used to playing positions and working as a team.

You must be able to play a couple trains a week, have IRC, TeamSpeak installed and a headset. You should also be able to speak english well enough to understand as we have players from Denmark, Sweden and Finland and who the hell understands those moonlanguages

NB: We don't want clan or cup hoppers that only plays with us for a cup, we want dedicated players with staying power that are in it for the long haul.

We have our own fast dedicated server for running the game and teamspeak.

BTW: If you are new to unreal tournament or just looking for a friendly clan to play organized matches with, feel free to join us, as we also play for fun and we will train you if you need it. We have a teamplay bible that new players will be given access to, so they can practice on thier own time and learn teamwork and how we play. Once you have moved up in skill and feel confident in your preferred position, you can of course play with us in cups and ladders, but if you only want a clan of friends to hang out with that's fine, the more the merrier.

You can reply to this message or join #acu on quakenet to get in touch with us.

CTF-BioReaktor sneak preview - new map I'm woking on

ILTKKen — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:54:40 -0500

Here's some preview pics of a new map I'm working on: CTF-BioReaktor.

Still needs lots of work, so if it looks to simple right now, to give an idea I'm going for the level of details I have in the pic of the corridoor with the glass windows so lots of mesh work to be done (Oh fun)

I'm purposely going for lots of colors, one of the things I loved about ut99 was the colorfull maps, now it's all gray and brown. Also one of the reasons I love the Babylon 5 series is the use of vibrant colors.

There's also very few shadows at the moment, I'm waiting with turning thos on for walls and meshes as it makes the light rebiuld times go though the roof.

Midfield reaktor, gonna have to wade though the reaktor coolant water so you move a little slow unless you find a way to trickjump over or use the top route out via jump boots, but that's gonna make you easier to kill with the flag, you can take this slow route and have an easy way for team makes to combo spam the chokepoints so you can't be followed.

Closeup, there' gonna be steam and shit belching out of those pipes once I have created an emitter that looks cool.:

Corridoors, these are one of the routes into the base:

Corridoor roof where you can see the outside (Which will be accessible):

Base view from level 1:

Base bio reaktor pit, don't go swimming here, you can get at the vials if you have the flag but it's easy to fall in and you don't want that

Closeup:

View from top of base levels, this will be one entrance, you can grab the flag and if you get the boots you can just make it up here in 3 jumps

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acu Server Info

ILTKKen — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 12:40:11 -0500

To check the status of the gameservers, go to the Gameserver Status page

Current Pickup servers password:

CTF: pickup

TDM: pickup

The pickup servers are free to use for the UT3 community for CTF and TDM pickups. They can also be used if you need a good low ping server for a ladder, cup or train match, just contact acuKen in #acu on quakenet or make a post in the forums in advance so you can get a non-public password for the match so nobody else can join by accident.

If the passwords does not seem to be working REFRESH THIS PAGE (Hit F5 or Control+F5)

You can find the servers by setting server browser settings to ANY for pure server and checkmark in "Locked" and they should show up under CTF or TDM.

Any problems, contact [acu]Ken in #acu @ quakenet or make a post in the forums.

Server name: [acu] Jonestown NW CTF *100MBIT*

Gametype: CTF
Player count: 16
Mutators: None
Max netspeed: 15000
Tickrate: 35
Server address: 86.58.130.7:7777

Server name: [acu] Pickup CTF - Password @ www.ut2k.com

Gametype: CTF
Player count: 10
Mutators: None
Max netspeed: 15000
Tickrate: 35
Server address: 86.58.130.7:9999

Server name: [acu] Pickup TDM - Password @ www.ut2k.com

Gametype: TDM
Player count: 10
Mutators: Friendly fire, Weapon Respawn, CustomUT, No Spawnprotection
Max netspeed: 15000
Tickrate: 35
Server address: 86.58.130.7:8888

Public Teamspeak server

Server address: 86.58.130.7:8767

The teamspeak server can be used by anyone when they are playing on the acu servers or just hanging out chatting with other members.

You can download teamspeak for free here download teamspeak

Select the client and install it. Then start teamspeak and click on "connection" menu item and then "connect". Right click on "servers" and add a new server. Type something like "acu teamspeak" as server name, fill in the server ip address (See above) enter a nickname and make sure "anonumous" is checked, enter the server password (See above) and click on connect and you are ready to start chatting it up.

If you have any problems feel free to make a post in our forums and we will help you out.

If you need a private channel for a match or pug contact [acu]Ken

Rules: Have fun and don't be a dick.

PS: Need a passworded lowping euro server for a match or pickup? Contact [acu]Ken

Rules of conduct for all gameservers:

We all play this game to have fun, and nobody likes a lot of rules, but unfortunately online anonymity brings out the worst in some people, so we have to have rules of conduct to make sure everyone has a good time.

First of all, this is a game where you blow the brains out of other players, killing them in a glorious rain of guts, blood and internal organs, so we don't care about swearing, but keep it lighthearted and fun.

If you can't tolerate a little cussing, you probably should not be playing a game like UT, perhaps "My little pink pony in the land of the sugarbunnies" is more your style.

What will get you kicked:

Chat or taunt spamming.

Voice server abuse, singing, screaming etc..

Map exploits.

Verbally harrassing other players.

Please note that repeated offenses will probably get you banned eventually.

What will earn you an instant ban:

Rasist remarks/nicknames.
Using any kind of cheat, aimbots etc...

Remember to be kind to newbies, if we want the community and playercounts to grow we have to treat them good or they will leave for other games. If you see a newbie getting raped ask if he/she would like a bit of help and teach him/her some shit.

Due to the creativity of certain individuals, these rules will probably be updated in the future, so drop by from time to time to read up on the current rules, thanks for reading and have fun!.

Join #acu on quakenet and lets play!

ILTKKen — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 19:00:26 -0500

acu is back on irc again on QuakeNet so get IRC installed and add #acu to your perform and idle in there so we can catch eachother for some games.

Want idlers for your channel? join #acu and let us know and we will idle in yours.

Also remember to join #UT3.ctf to play some great pickup games, there are hundreds of players in here.

New to IRC? Check these links out:

Setup mirc: http://www.ircbeginner.com/ircinfo/mirc.html

Commands: http://www.ircbeginner.com/ircinfo/ircc-commands.html
Tips: http://www.ircbeginner.com/ircinfo/ircc-tips.html
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Is your brush mover widget fucked up?

ILTKKen — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 09:18:32 -0500

Like this:

That's because you'r in world space mode, switch to local space and voila!

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Should we all install xfire so we know when others play?

ILTKKen — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 19:44:21 -0500

I realy want to start playing with you guys again so we could maybe all install xfire so we can hop online when others are playing.

Good idea?
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UT3 laggy for anyone else?

ILTKKen — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 19:31:02 -0500

I been noticing some strange lag in the game after playing a lot, it doesn't matter if it's online or offline.

Input lag:

Sometimes a dodge will cancel.

Sometimes a dodge will be delayed, like over a half second, especially walldodges.

Audio lag

Lots of times it takes seconds before I hear "flag taken", it's like audio events gets cued up and important events don't get priority, I hear shit like "double kill, multi kill, mega kill.........................flag taken" when "flag taken" is what's important not how many sprees I'm getting. Or someone grabs flag, gets killed and the flag is returned and someone immidiately grabs it again, it finishes saying "flag returned" ......seconds pause..... "flag taken"

This is realy bad because in fast games on small maps that event lag will mean the efc is out of the base before I hear "flag taken"

This is not because my system can't handle it, I'm getting like 150 fps average in these maps in a quadcore, 8800gts with 4 gig ram, it happens even on the "hardcore low poly" maps and I'm getting crazy fps like 500 average on those.
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acu-TroubledWaters for ut3 is done!

ILTKKen — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 15:47:06 -0500

I always liked TroubledWaters, so much action and chaos so I remade it for ut3.

You can find it along with my other maps here: http://hosted.filefront.com/ILTK/
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Red / Blue Team Icons, Flags, Materials and how to find them

ILTKKen — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 13:11:20 -0500

For Materials look under "UN_Team->Materials" & "CTF_Hydrosis->BSP->Materials"
For Static Meshes "UN_Team"
For Team Banners First get the Fog Mesh in "Engine_Volumetrics->Fogsheet->Mesh->S_EV_Fogsheet_01" Then use the 2 team materials "UN-Team->SM->Materials->M_UN_Team_Banner_Red_Inst" or "M_UN_Team_Banner_Red_Inst"

What about Team Lighting?

For Light Cones there is 1 mesh and a Red or Blue Material. Get the Mesh in "LT_Light->SM->Mesh->Lightcone_01" Then for the team Material use "VCTF_Sandstorm->Lightbeam->Instances-> there is your Blue or Red material.

Typical Blue Light Examples

B: 249 / 218 / 237 / 197
G: 146 / 184 / 152 / 197
R: 118 / 150 / 101 / 148

Typical Red Light Examples

B: 98 / 45 / 133 / 145
G: 109 / 65 / 136 / 148
R: 191 / 147 / 205 / 200

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CTF-DarkSide remake for Unreal Tournament 3 is here!

ILTKKen — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 16:06:51 -0500

Well I finally got done with it, so here's everyone's favorite DarkSide remade from scratch for Unreal Tournament 3

You can find it along with my other maps here: http://hosted.filefront.com/ILTK/

Please let me know what you think and report any problems.

Feel free to host this on your own servers.

CTF-DarkSide is comming back for unreal tournament 3! [Update: It's done!]

ILTKKen — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 10:08:05 -0500

Grim was going to do it but he kinda disappered, don't know if he's home from uni with no internet or something and I'm dying to play this map again so I've been working on it for a couple days now and should be finished soon.

I've keept it as close to the original as I could while spicing it up a little bit since it was pretty ugly, but all enhancements have been made so they don't get in the way of the original Darkside core play.

Only thing I can't figure out yet is how to do the xloc teleport thing behind the base where you shot your xloc and teleport from the spawn room and end up on the top ledge, but I don't think it's imperative since only a few players used it so I'm leaving it out for version 1 of the port.

Probably going to throw up a playtest version as soon as I get the last touches done.
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Happy New Year !!

ZwaniZ — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 11:11:47 -0500

Happy New Year to you all..

Be back and playing next year.
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Setting up UT3 to kick some ass!

ILTKKen — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 16:00:54 -0500

Here's a step by step list of things to do to fix aim so it feels like ut2004.

You need the lastest patch so go get it first from here:

http://download.beyondunreal.com/fileworks.php/official/ut3/patch1.exe

First of all you won't be able to aim for shit with a crap mouse. Currently almost ALL lazor mice are shit no matter if it has a bajillion DPI, it will have lots of negative acceleration even at highest DPI settings, and when you use a lower sensitivity they will skip around or stop randomly. So ditch your G5/9 razor 1337 ultra deathkiller or whatever the fuck it's called and go get a Logitech MX518. If you don't believe this, go here and read through it all.

http://www.esreality.com/?a=longpost&id=1265679&page=1

Go to the Logitech mouse control panel and set the sensitivity slider to 6 (Slider at middle) and acceleration to OFF.

The reason you want the sensitivity slider at 6 (Dead middle) is that this is the only setting where the mouse driver is not interpolating to make the speed slower or skipping pixels to make speed faster and you realy don't want software to try to guess what you have in mind.

Make sure you are using the PS/2 port and NOT USB, even though you can overclock the USB port it is CPU bound and it will behave erratically when your machine is overloaded. All MX518 comes with a little green adaptor you can use to turn the USB plug into a PS/2 plug.

Now go to the windows control panel, open the mouse control panel from there, click the "hardware" tab, and from there click the "properties" button. Another window opens, click the "advanced settings" tab and set the "sample rate to 200 reports/second" and you are done.

Now load up UT3 and open a map with no bots. Adjust your sensitivity so that you can comfortably flick 180, meaning you can flick it and turn so you are shoting backwards and NO more. Reason for this is that you can run and instantly flick to thow shit at someone behind you, but if you turn the sensitivity up more than this you will be fighting to keep a steady aim.

Once you have your settings, write them down and NEVER EVER change them. Contrary to what you may read, aim has got little to do with whatever sensitivity you are using as long as it's not excessively high, what's important is consistancy, if you keep changing your sensitivity you will never get what is called "muscle memory" You will see this soon enough if you keep playing, after a while you can instantly flick around and nail someone without even aiming, that's muscle memory and you will never build that if you are not consistant with your sensitivity, one of the reasons why using acceleration is the worst thing you can do to your aim.

Get your pink DOT crosshair:

C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\My Documents\My Games\Unreal Tournament 3\UTGame\Config\UTWeapon.ini

[UTGame.UTWeapon]
bUseCustomCoordinates=true
CustomCrosshairCoordinates=(U=408,V=26,UL=16,VL=14)
CrosshairColor=(R=255,G=0,B=255,A=255)

Fix your translocator so it doesn't toggle: (Horrible, Make sure you get this fixed)

C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\My Documents\My Games\Unreal Tournament 3\UTGame\Config\

Find:

Bindings=(Name="GBA_ToggleTranslocator",Command="ToggleTranslocator")

Change the line to:

Bindings=(Name="GBA_ToggleTranslocator",Command="switchweapon 0")

Always have a weapon:

C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\My Documents\My Games\Unreal Tournament 3\UTGame\ConfigUTInput.ini

Find the section named:

[Engine.PlayerInput]

Find the bindings for weapons from 3 to 9 and replace them with these:

Bindings=(Name="GBA_SwitchWeapon3",Command="Switchweapon 9 | Switchweapon 5 | Switchweapon 6 | Switchweapon 4 | Switchweapon 8 | Switchweapon 7 | Switchweapon 3")
Bindings=(Name="GBA_SwitchWeapon4",Command="Switchweapon 9 | Switchweapon 5 | Switchweapon 3 | Switchweapon 8 | Switchweapon 7 | Switchweapon 6 | Switchweapon 4")
Bindings=(Name="GBA_SwitchWeapon5",Command="Switchweapon 9 | Switchweapon 3 | Switchweapon 8 | Switchweapon 7 | Switchweapon 4 | Switchweapon 6 | Switchweapon 5")
Bindings=(Name="GBA_SwitchWeapon6",Command="Switchweapon 9 | Switchweapon 3 | Switchweapon 8 | Switchweapon 7 | Switchweapon 4 | Switchweapon 5 | Switchweapon 6")
Bindings=(Name="GBA_SwitchWeapon7",Command="Switchweapon 9 | Switchweapon 5 | Switchweapon 6 | Switchweapon 4 | Switchweapon 3 | Switchweapon 8 | Switchweapon 7")
Bindings=(Name="GBA_SwitchWeapon8",Command="Switchweapon 9 | Switchweapon 5 | Switchweapon 6 | Switchweapon 4 | Switchweapon 3 | Switchweapon 7 | Switchweapon 8")
Bindings=(Name="GBA_SwitchWeapon9",Command="Switchweapon 5 | Switchweapon 3 | Switchweapon 8 | Switchweapon 7 | Switchweapon 6 | Switchweapon 4 | Switchweapon 9")

This works basically like a bestweapon sequence for all your weapon keys, if you don't have the weapon you try to switch to, it will switch to one that's as close to it from best match to worst match, but it will make sure you ALLWAYS get at least something to defend yourself with. Don't dismiss this trick, it works VERY well, especially for fast paced games like CTF.

Uncap your fps:

C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\My Documents\My Games\Unreal Tournament 3\UTGame\UTEngine.ini

[Engine.GameEngine]
bSmoothFrameRate=false

Turn of Bloom and Depth of field crap:

C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\My Documents\My Games\Unreal Tournament 3\UTGame\UTEngine.ini

[SystemSettings]
MotionBlur=false
DepthOfField=false
Bloom=false
QualityBloom=false
Trilinear=false
UseVsync=false

Fix your aim:

C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\My Documents\My Games\Unreal Tournament 3\UTGame\UTInput.ini

Set these 2 lines like so:

bEnableMouseSmoothing=false
bViewAccelerationEnabled=false

Find:

NOTE: These lines are duplicated 2 times, once under the section [Engine.PlayerInput] and once under the section [UTGame.UTPlayerInput] so make sure you replace them BOTH.

LookRightScale=0.000000
LookUpScale=0.000000

Bindings=(Name="MouseX",

Replace whole line with:

Bindings=(Name="MouseX",Command="Count bXAxis | Axis aMouseX Speed=1.2",Control=False,Shift=False,Alt=False)

Find:

Bindings=(Name="MouseY"

Replace whole line with:

Bindings=(Name="MouseY",Command="Count bYAxis | Axis aMouseY Speed=1.2",Control=False,Shift=False,Alt=False)

C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\My Documents\My Games\Unreal Tournament 3\UTGame\UTGame.ini

Search for

bCenteredWeaponFire=

And make sure they are all set like this:

bCenteredWeaponFire=True

Voila, now fire up the game and play for a while, you will probably have gotten used to trying to compensate for the horrible aim that's default so you will probably miss a bit in the first game or so, after that you will notice a huge improvement in aim and things that require presicion like moving combos will improve a lot. Before I implemented all these tweaks I would frequently miss combos even when I was standing still, for no apparent reason even though I was aiming dead on to pop a combo I would miss, it was like my aim was jittery even when holding the mouse steady.

Since these edits takes some time, once you are done make a copy of your "config" folder and store it somewhere safe as the game sometimes resets everything, and you make make a mistake and hit the "defaults" button in the UI and lose everything.

Another reason that you should save your config files NOW, is that UT3 likes to reset all the stuff you can't change from the GUI that you just tweaked if you go into windowed mode by hitting alt+enter, yep that's right, if you do that you will lose half the settings you just fixed, this will also happen if you mess with any graphics settings in the game so leave the ingame settings alone from now on.
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Lots of tips for UT3 Mappers

ILTKKen — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 12:33:10 -0500

This was posted on INA by a guy named Zoo, hopefully it will help you find a cool timesaver.

I know this one saved me hella time:

"Want a brush already in your level to become your builder brush? Select the brush and hit "Ctrl+P"

----------------------------- START TIPS -----------------------------

If like most people you have turned this off in the editor and forgot about it here are all the tips and some are very handy.

Moving, Rotating, and Scaling actors often with the widget? Use the spacebar to cycle between modes.

Is that actor important to scripting? Hit "K" to toggle "Kismet References" in a viewport.
Any actor that is referenced in Kismet will have a green box or brackets around it (depending on if it belongs to the current level).
Right click on one any of those actors and you have the option to "Find Actor in Kismet" to see how it's being used.

What package is this asset in? Right click on an actor such as a mesh and select "Sync Generic Browser" to see that asset in the Generic Browser window.

Always swapping between browser tabs? Float it!
Select a frequently used browser tab such as "Actor Classes" and under the "Docking" menu select "Floating" to remove it from the main browser window.
This is great for resizing that window to better accommodate that type of data.

Got a floating object you want on the ground? Select it and press the "end" key to drop that object to the surface beneath it.

Don't forget to "Check map for errors" periodically under the editor's "Tool" menu.
This will show you all kinds of useful information. Double click on a warning entry to zoom to that actor's location for a quick fix.

Quickly add and subtract the builder brush from your level's BSP by using "Ctrl+A" and "Ctrl+S".

Making rows of duplicate objects? Select an actor and hold "Alt" before dragging the object to modify the object and leave a duplicate behind (release Alt between clones).

Need to place lots of a specific actor type? In the "Actor Classes" browser, select an object such as "PathNode".
Now hold the "A" key while clicking on surfaces in your preview window, this will drop an actor of the selected type with every mouse click.

Not a fan of the widget? Move an actor using Ctrl+LeftMouseDrag. Rotate an actor with Ctrl+RightMouseDrag.
The widget can be hidden with the "Show/Use the widget" icon in the main toolbar.

Need a specific sized builder brush? Right click on a brush icon such as the cube to enter numeric values.

In many numeric property fields you can input simple equations. Enter "512+1280-32" into a light's radius property for example.

Adjusting a radius? Skip the properties window and use the "scale" widget to adjust the radius visually.
If it's an object like a trigger, a quick "C" toggle will show its collision for a more precise scaling operation.

Want to select a brush itself, and not just the surface? Hold "Ctrl+Shift" when you click the brush's surface.

Want to see only your core BSP in a level? Use "H" to toggle visibility of everything except brushwork in a viewport.

I wish this actor lived in another sublevel!
Just select the actor(s) in question, right click on one, and select "Move Selected Actors To Current Level" to relocate the actors out of their previous sublevels and into the current sublevel.
Ctrl+M is the shortcut for this.

Want a brush already in your level to become your builder brush? Select the brush and hit "Ctrl+P".

Convert a mesh's simplified collision to a builder brush by right clicking on it, and under the "Convert" options you'll find the "Convert Collision Model To Brush" action.

Want to sort your sublevels in the level browser? Select a level and use the Up and Down keys to reorganize them.
This works is several other list-type browsers as well.

Need a quick measurement? Just drag with your middle mouse button in a viewport to pull up the in-editor ruler.

Box select objects by holding Ctrl+Shift when you left-drag your mouse, do the same with the right mouse button to box deselect and area.

Wish you knew all the hotkeys for hiding and showing different types of actors?
Above each viewport is a pulldown menu labeled "Toggle Show Flags".
Within that pulldown is a list of letters and what they correspond to in the viewport.

UnrealEd now has spinners to edit values. In most numeric property fields you can select the field, and spinner controls will appear next to the number, allowing you to adjust the value by clicking and dragging.

Want to rearrange a workspace such as kismet? Many workspaces now feature docking, allowing you to better customize your working area.
In Kismet, as one example, you can click on the title of a field such as "properties" and drag it around within the Kismet window.
It will lock to the sides of windows, and can even be completely removed from the original workspace.

Wish your builder brush or volume was a solid instead of wireframe?
The red icon in the top tool paned labeled "Toggle Brush Polys" will display the selected geometry filled with translucent polygons, allowing you better visualization of where your volume exists in the gamespace.

Don't forget you can change your camera's movement speed with the three blue icons in the main toolbar. This makes navigating large maps much easier.

Want to warp around your environment quickly? Place bookmarks.
In the tradition of many RTS games, you can hold Ctrl+ any number key to place a bookmark at that location.
Now just hit the number key again and the camera will return to the position stored. Drop bookmarks in your major areas and save yourself a load of repetitive dragging.

Organize large sets of actors into groups. Open the group browser, create a new group, name it, and everything you currently have selected will be part of that group.
You can add actors to it, take them away, and most importantly hide them easily. A duplicated object will have the same group properties as the object it was created from.

Want to see what your level will look like as you play? Use "G" to toggle visibility of all non-game actors.

Want a quick radiosity type bounce light? Hold "Ctrl+L" and click on a surface in the preview window.
A dim light will be created at that location, with the color preset to match the surface you clicked on.

Speed up your in editor navigation performance by toggling the "Unlit Movement" icon on your preview window.
When moving your camera, the view will be in the faster unlit mode. When you stop moving, the view will revert to full lighting.

Want to center your viewports on a selected object? Hit the "Home" key to focus on a selected actor or actors.

Lots of streaming submaps in your level? Right click on any actor and hit "M" to make the level containing that actor "current".

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Use additive worlds NOT substractive

ILTKKen — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 09:52:40 -0500

This was something I found out early on, using substractive mapping will shoot your light rebuild times though the fucking roof, a 2 room map with some static meshes will take minutes in substractive mode even on my quadcore, same map in additive mode takes seconds to build.

It's very easy to get used to additive, just start with a brush to stand on, add a light, then go to staticmeshes and open package UN_Sky, select one of the skydomes, add it to the middle of the world, hit space to get the rotation widget, hold down ALT to copy and rotate 180, rebuild and start adding shit to your world.
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So when do you guys normally play?

ILTKKen — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 19:36:42 -0500

Would be nice if we all knew when we were playing normally, I'm working from home as useual so I can be there whenever.

Throw some times around and lets see if we can catch a few games and maybe hang out on teamspeak and be retarded
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First version of TroubledWaters for UT3 - come and get it (Rings bell)

ILTKKen — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 16:33:02 -0500

Mostly the same as ut2004 version, with a bit of "skippers cove" look because I couldn't find enough coherent meshes, it seem that's the reason all custom maps lately are in that metal look, those are the only one there's enough trim and shit to have a coherent theme, there aren't even any crate textures, and we need CRATES AND BARRELS ffs

You can find it along with my other maps here: http://hosted.filefront.com/ILTK/

UT3 nwCTF pickup channel @ QuakeNet

ReapeR — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 17:17:45 -0500

UT3 nwCTF pickup channel @ QuakeNet

/join #UT3.ctf

Seems to be well crowded
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Super tip for entering numeric values for brush building and scaling

ILTKKen — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 11:17:46 -0500

I just found this out. In any field where you can enter numerical values, like the brush builder dialogs, you can enter equations, for example say you want to create a brush, the main room is 512, the wall is 32, enter 512+32 and hit enter and there's your number.

And don't forget about the measure tool it's a godsend. Click with the middle mouse button from where you want to measure, then drag and you get a line with a number that shows how many units the line you draw is.
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Anyone want to help test some maps?

ILTKKen — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 11:05:33 -0500

I'm in the process of redoing all the acu clan maps and I could use some help with floorplan testing.

I can't find the old ones and I don't have ut2004 installed, so I'm redoing from memory, not that hard since they were all simple bsp maps made with pub gameplay in mind.

Im working on ctf-acu-TroubledWaters right now, should have the floorplan done in about an hour or so.

All I need input about is basic stuff like distances, can you reach places with walldodges and trickjumps like in the old maps. Due to the new movement system it's tricky to get the scales right.
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Here's a new CTF map I created, a fast open space themed map.

ILTKKen — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 07:41:08 -0500

CTF-SometimesIFallDown.

Fast open oldschool space themed map for Unreal Tournament 3. It was based on an old ut2004 map I can't remember the name of, I created this one to get a feel for the new editor and changes to things like movers, doors and water.

Please play it and let me know what you think, comments and gameplay suggestions welcome.

There's botpathing and they play it well.

One thing to know about this map is that you WILL fall down, hence the name

You can find it along with my other maps here: http://hosted.filefront.com/ILTK/

Screenshots:

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WTF is with custom maps storing place? C drive?

SkaarjMaster — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 00:55:19 -0500

Just started downloading custom maps tonight and a lot of them say it has to be stored on the C: drive. WTF is with that and how do I change it?
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Name of ut2004 space map where you fell down all the time?

ILTKKen — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 18:03:54 -0500

Anyone remember the name of that map in space where you basically had about 5 platforms at different levels and ramps going up and down to the different levels, there was a big platform in the middle, and a smaller 2 level platform with ramps leading up to it from the bases.

It had an Egyptian theme.

I can't for the life of me remember the name, but I'm remaking it to get a feel for the new editor, doing bsp floorplans and static mesh pleacement and lighting, because the layout is so easy to re-create.

It was basically the map that accounted for the most falling deaths ever, and everyone loved it anyway.

So far I LOVE the new editor, it's so fucking fast and easy to work with once you get the basics down. I already learned how to do water, movers like lifts and teleporters. Most of the basics is like ut2004 editor, only now you can do visual scripting with Kismet and keyframe animation with Matineé, it's very easy to make complex shit, like triggers, traps and lots of other cool stuff.
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Mapping for UT3? - Get the Bonus Edition DVD

ILTKKen — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 07:27:05 -0500

The mapping tutorials are amazing and covers EVERYTHING in detail.

After watching I'm up and mapping in no time again. I was seriously rusty but the videos helped tremendously.

Watch out because TwistedThorns, TroubledWaters and Deathcamp are making a comeback soon

Also, the new editor has some many speed enhancing things it's a delight to work with.

Just an example, remember how much of a pain it is to position a spotlight? Will now you can turn the spotlight into a sort of camera so you'r looking out of the spotlight when positioning it, so fucking cool.

Get the edition with the tutorials, it's WORTH IT, there's over 10 hours of video tutorials showing everything you need to know.
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Oldschool Lowpoly Map Pack = Pure awesomeness!

ILTKKen — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 10:16:22 -0500

ok people, no more sad faces about your system not playing UT3 well, Hourences and other mappers come to save the day.

My system is getting 350 fps average on them, yes you read that right.. 350 fps, these maps should net you about the same fps as you did in ut2004

Oldschool Lowpoly Map Pack

Grab this map pack and play your asses off.
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Oldschool Lowpoly map pack will be out TODAY!

ILTKKen — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 12:25:02 -0500

Oh please please please, I'm so hurting for these maps

I mean, just LOOK at them!

EDIT: IT'S OUT - YAY!

http://forums.beyondunreal.com/showthread.php?p=2421719#post2421719

Damn my new system OWNS

ILTKKen — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 10:03:38 -0500

I just tried just to see how much this system can handle to set my resolution to 1600x1050 enabled everything, bloom, high quality, deepth of field etc.. and no matter what map I tried I couldn't get it to go below 70fps average.

I mean look at the attached screenshot, ut3 looks fucking crazy good.

BAH, they get resized when uploading, anyway just picture them at 1600x1050
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Unreal Tournament 3 Vehicle tips

ILTKKen — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 06:55:04 -0500

Here's some vehicle tips in case you didn't know them:

Hoverboard:

Press fire to grapple a vehicle, then crouch and hit back at the same time you will close the gap between you and the vehicle, makes you harder to hit and you don't fly around wildly as the vehicle changes directions.

Dodge forward to flip instead of dodge.

Hellbender:

The turret still powers up, but you just need to wait to let it charge full, if you keep firing it will do little damage, wait 3 secs and it will do lots more damage, one hit kills on players on foot.

Manta:

Crouch for manta is brakes on.

Viper:

Jump is brakes on.

Scorpion:

Press space for speed bost, then eject from vehicle and you will fly out and the scorpion will self destruct when hitting something causing 650 point of damage to whatever it hits.

The ball-launcher projectiles lock onto enemy mantas and vipers.

Dodge forward as you start the vehicle for speed boost.

Necris tank:

Crouch to increase speed. Jump the increase hight and weapon damage, but move slower.

Scavenger:

When you go into ball mode for a few seconds it will glow and do lots of damage to other vehicles.
The ball around it will do damage to whatever you fire at, hold the crosshair on a target to lock on.

Vehicle general:

Press number keys to change positions.

Bots

ZwaniZ — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:59:28 -0500

Idont know about the bots,, can you test one server without them and one with them . Or at least have two at each team. I dont remember how we had it before at 2k4time..
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Fix your goddamn mouse settings in this post

ILTKKen — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:54:16 -0500

First in UTInput.ini find:

bViewAccelerationEnabled=true

Set this to false.

Now in the same file find:

Bindings=(Name="MouseX",Command="Count bXAxis | Axis aMouseX")

Change it to this:

Bindings=(Name="MouseX",Command="Count bXAxis | Axis aMouseX Speed=1.2")

Then find:

Bindings=(Name="MouseY",Command="Count bYAxis | Axis aMouseY")

And change it to this:

Bindings=(Name="MouseY",Command="Count bYAxis | Axis aMouseY Speed=1.2")

Now go into the game and adjust your mouse speed as it will be a lot slower than before and watch your aim improve massively without the frame rate dependant mouse accelleration and butter smooth mouse movement.

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Fuck it, I'm getting a new graphics card right the fuck now

ILTKKen — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 07:35:16 -0500

I've had it with this laggy shit and graphics looking like quakeworld from 1990 running in 800X600 to maybe muster average 40fps on a Q66000 Quadcore

I'm going out RIGHT NOW and getting an Nividia 8800GTS

BBL
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Spy on peoples security cams

ILTKKen — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 18:45:51 -0500

Let's get this subforum cooking, there's hardly anything remotely disturbing in here

paste one of these lines into good old google and see what you get, post some good ones here.

Have fun

inurl:”ViewerFrame?Mode=
intitle:Axis 2400 video server
inurl:/view.shtml
intitle:”Live View / - AXIS” | inurl:view/view.shtml^
inurl:ViewerFrame?Mode=
inurl:ViewerFrame?Mode=Refresh
inurl:axis-cgi/jpg
inurl:axis-cgi/mjpg (motion-JPEG)
inurl:view/indexFrame.shtml
inurl:view/index.shtml
inurl:view/view.shtml
liveapplet
intitle:”live view” intitle:axis
intitle:liveapplet
allintitle:”Network Camera NetworkCamera”
intitle:axis intitle:”video server”
intitle:liveapplet inurl:LvAppl
intitle:”EvoCam” inurl:”webcam.html”
intitle:”Live NetSnap Cam-Server feed”
intitle:”Live View / - AXIS”
intitle:”Live View / - AXIS 206M”
intitle:”Live View / - AXIS 206W”
intitle:”Live View / - AXIS 210″
inurl:indexFrame.shtml Axis
inurl:”MultiCameraFrame?Mode=Motion”
intitle:start inurl:cgistart
intitle:”WJ-NT104 Main Page”
intext:”MOBOTIX M1″ intext:”Open Menu”
intext:”MOBOTIX M10″ intext:”Open Menu”
intext:”MOBOTIX D10″ intext:”Open Menu”
intitle:snc-z20 inurl:home/
intitle:snc-cs3 inurl:home/
intitle:snc-rz30 inurl:home/
intitle:”sony network camera snc-p1″
intitle:”sony network camera snc-m1″
site:.viewnetcam.com -www.viewnetcam.com
intitle:”Toshiba Network Camera” user login
intitle:”netcam live image”
intitle:”i-Catcher Console - Web Monitor”
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Can somebody vote for something else than suspence ffs

ILTKKen — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 13:17:44 -0500

Bloody mapvote, we have a full game now and everyone votes suspense demo map, I'm not to fond of vctf but blody hell, it's worse than face/deck with the constant voting.
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Holy shit the vctf server is packed

ILTKKen — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 10:48:31 -0500

It's been packed at #5 most played server since 5 minutes after I put it online.

Someone play some real ctf damnit, at least until I get my 8800gts
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I guess vctf is pretty popular :)

ILTKKen — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 10:17:07 -0500

lmao, about 5 minutes after I got the vehicle ctf server up and running it was packed.

What the fuck is up with the ping reported in the server browser?

ILTKKen — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 05:40:17 -0500

Almost ALL servers are reported as 2 times the ping as you get when you actually jump on that server and the pings are totally random.

For example the new acu servers, #1 shows as 45ms for me, then #2 which is eactly the same running on the same machine list as 80ms, then if you refresh the servers they are both around 25ms.

If I then jump on them and hit "stat net" I get a rock solid 20ms on them all?

This is the same for all servers listed in the server browser, I checked some US server that reported 500ms+ and I go on them and I get a solid 120 just like I always did?

wtf?
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The linux server is out, figures, right after I got the windows server installed

ILTKKen — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 05:34:13 -0500

But it's riddled with bugs, players getting kicked, way to high server cpu idle useage and lot's more so it's probably good that I didn't wait for it, at least the windows dedicated works except for map redirects getting "invalid url" errors, but it still redirects custom maps if you reconnect.
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[acu] Jonestown CTF Servers are online!

ILTKKen — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 16:14:10 -0500

Alright, the servers are up and running and should be found in the gamebrowser under standard ctf as dedicated pure servers.

For the public free for all servers look for:

[acu] Jonestown 100MBIT NW CTF
[acu] Jonestown 100MBIT NW DM
[acu] Jonestown 100MBIT NW VCTF

The servers will be running custom maps as soon as some good ones come out, the oldschool lowpoly map pack should be out this week and it will kick major ass!

I may raise the playercount on the pubs, the new server should be able to handle 50 players or more with no troubles.

I also setup a private match server which can be found as:

[acu] Jonestown - Match server

I put the match server pass up in the private forums.

I hooked up a 64 person teamspeak server since it takes almost no cpu and bandwith so the pub players can use it if they like, we have a private channel on it, pass is in the private forums.

I may also setup up a warfare server, right now I don't why, but the warfare server just keeps crashing with an error I don't know what the fuck is up with, but I will sqaush it when I got some sleep

To get the server IPs and teamspeak server info, please see the Game server page

Please let me know what pings you get (Press F10 and type stat net in the console ) and how the servers feel.

Have fun!
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The original Unreal Tournament Ripper is making a comeback

ILTKKen — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 09:10:28 -0500

Some screenshots of the Ripper, still in development so it still needs lots of work.

Brings back memories of spamming corridoors and getting random heatshots on pub servers, killing myself lots of times from backfiring flying blade chaos

http://forums.beyondunreal.com/showthread.php?t=193413

Installing the UT3 server now :)

ILTKKen — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 07:35:50 -0500

Weeee, finally everything's ready to rock.

I'm downloading the dedicated server now, should be done in 30 minutes (Slow ass file mirrors) and after that I just need to hook it up and open some ports on the server firewall and we should be ready to rock.

I'll post some more info when everything's ready.
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Read me first!

ILTKKen — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:52:11 -0500

Before reporting anything, please see the current server rules here

If reporting cheating or troublemaking on the servers you will need proof in the form of screenshots and link to the players stats so we can investigate further.

Please always report playername that the player used, time and day so we can look the player up in the server logs.

You can look up the playername at Enemy Down here

Thanks!

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Well we now have a proper domain name for the clan

ILTKKen — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 09:26:46 -0500

It's ours now: www.annihilation-cell-units.com

btw, when registering the new name, I found out that I forgot that the old domain www.ut2k.com is still mine since I forgot I turned on auto renew so erhm, we could use that to, it's a lot easier to type and remember especially since you can now use a domain name to connect to the ut server.

I need to keep the website here until the linux version comes out unfortunately, the new dedicated server is running windows since the linux server is not out, and the website software doesn't work on windows so there's plenty of time to think about which name to keep.
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Unreal Tournament 3 Linux server legal bullshit

ILTKKen — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 06:43:51 -0500

Well it fucking FIGURES that right after I order the dedicated Linux server for Unreal Tournament 3 that there's some legal bullshit that is holding up the port of the dedicated server to Linux.

Seems like it's either aegiea or whatever the fuck that useless graphics shit card is called that enables some useless falling walls physics that nobody cares about, OR it's gamespy because of some proprietary software that the server depends on so it can't be ported to Linux.

This means that I would have had to pay 100$ to get it converted to Windows, luckily the hosting company was cool about it and I didn't have to pay, but I WILL have to pay when the Linux server finally comes out because fuck running a windows server so I will need to convert it back to a proper Linux server.

Thanks Epic for fucking up yet ANOTHER thing for this allmost DOA game when you PROMISED that there would be a Linux server out when the game went gold.

If this was not enough, on the windows dedicated, the redirect is broken, so when switching to a custom map all players will need to reconnect in order to download the map and play.

If I didn't fucking LOVE this game I would have ditched it so fast it'd be spinning.

Crash

ZwaniZ — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 14:53:57 -0500

Iplayed a little tonight but the game crashed 3 times. Never done it before. Strange first time it crashed after just a few seconds but the last time after 10-15 min.
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Now you can add videos to your blog posts

ILTKKen — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 13:09:04 -0500

Just added a field to the blog so you can now add a video from youtube to your blog posts.

Have fun!

New theme, please help me test.

ILTKKen — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 11:40:20 -0500

I'm working on a new theme for the site, it's close to done so if you could check it out and tell me if there's any bugs or errors and what you think that would be great.

Right now the old theme is still set as default, so to enable the new theme go to your account, click edit and you should be able to select it by scrolling down a bit until you see screenshots of the 2 available themes.

I'm going for a "simple is cool" style here, easy on the eyes and light + fast loading.
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Just testing to see if I can fix a bug

ILTKKen — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 08:26:54 -0500

bla bla
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Pingtest please!

ILTKKen — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:29:22 -0500

Hey hey,

Everyone, please ping the IP below and report back on what you are getting.

86.58.155.246

This is the main webserver of the hosting company so it's probably going to be higher than the dedicated server, which incidentally, should be ready Monday. It would have been ready today, but the hosting is holding "Cristmass dinner" today (Direct Danish translation, Danish=Julefrokost. It's like a dinner with lots of boze that all scandinavian companies arrange for thier employees, a tradition if you will) today, so it will ready earliest on Monday.

I'm averaging 15ms
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CustomUT by Lotus updated to version 1a download link

ILTKKen — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 07:10:32 -0500

CustomUT by Lotus updated to version 1a to fix some small errors.

Most servers will be running this so you should update your version asap.

Changelog for CustomUT v1a:

-- A bug existed with certain nvidia cards that made the skins always blue up close, they should now change colors correctly.
-- Sniper zoom will now function properly in warmup.
-- Added gametype voting.
-- Warmup should now always remain enabled after a map change.
-- When a player joined the server, if force models was used, the model was re-loaded for each additional player causing hitching. Now it will only load once.
-- Shield belt will now change color to match the skins.
-- Added a few default crosshair components.
-- Removed the drop shadow from custom crosshairs.
-- Changing the color of a skin multiple times in the menus in short succession caused the skins to increase in brightness till the other players had died.
-- The scoreboard will now function in onslaught.
-- The TDM scoreboard is now properly aligned.
-- Under certain situations, a legitimate player couldn't vote. This should now be fixed.
-- The default value for a vote to pass was mistakenly set to 100% in the previous version, it is now 51%.
-- Added option for servers to allow weapon throwing even with weapon stay on.
-- Enforcer statistics will now display correctly.
-- Weapon statistics will now show on the scoreboard in vehicle ctf.
-- Warmup will now work in instant action.

Download link for CustomUT by Lotus: http://www.unrealna.com/customut.php

Refresh the page and check out the new addressbar icon!

ILTKKen — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 18:29:16 -0500

Pretty neat eh?

Oh, and I added an unreal logo to, don't know if that's going to look ok in internet crapola since they still don't support 24bit png (HELLO 21st CENTURY IS HERE Microsoft Opera and FF had it for 5 years now)
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WHISTLE CORE BITCHES!

ILTKKen — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 13:35:46 -0500

Oh man, long time since I laughed this hard, let it load and play it loud, you will thank me!

http://www.purevolume.com/whistlecore

Oldschool low poly map pack comming soon for Unreal Tournament 3

ILTKKen — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:15:58 -0500

A low poly oldschool map pack is underway. Being created by Hourences and other mappers and it looks absolutely AWESOME.

There's already 5 ctf maps in this map pack, can't wait to see some oldschool capture the flag maps.

These maps will help tremendously for people with slower systems, they have no bloom, no fog, no static meshes, no nothing that will bring down fps, only pure gameplay.

Check the attachments for examples.

Is it only me, or does these maps in all thier pure bsp glory look WAY better than the static mesh clutter fests that are in the default game? Maybe except dm-sentinel and ctf-Reflection. I'm just a sucker for the clean, sharp and crisp look of pure bsp levels.

Merriam-Webster votes W00T word of the year - what have we done :(

ILTKKen — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 14:50:41 -0500

oh what have we done, this is terrible

"Had Merriam-Webster asked me (they did not), the 2007 "word of the year" might have been git, huckster, or, possibly, toadeater. (My mechanic, he likes to pad the bill.) But Merriam-Webster asked the Internet, and the Internet chose "w00t," complete with two zeros. Welcome to the wisdom of crowds.

Yes, 2007's word of the year is "w00t," an expression so likely to die off in the near future that I can just about see its pallbearers lining up down the hall. Merriam-Webster offers this definition for those not quite l33t enough to spend their lives in online chatrooms: "expressing joy; similar in use to the word yay."

The word is not even included in the print version of the dictionary ("yet"), but that didn't stop voters from flooding the tubes with ballots. Perhaps they were interested only in seeing what sort of unintentional hilarity would result when the wordsmiths at Merriam-Webster tried to explain the genesis of w00t to the world at large. If so, their wishes were granted.

"This year's winning word first became popular in competitive online gaming forums as part of what is known as l33t ('leet,' or 'elite') speak-an esoteric computer hacker language in which numbers and symbols are put together to look like letters," said the company. "Although the double 'o' in the word is usually represented by double zeroes, the exclamation is also known to be an acronym for 'we owned the other team'—again stemming from the gaming community."

Thanks, gaming!

Still, it could have been worse; the other nine contenders this year include blamestorm, sardoodledom, and Pecksniffian.

In other news, Roflcopter and lollerskates were shut out. Again."

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071211-the-wisdom-of-crowds-w00t-...

Bad positional audio in Unreal Tournament 3 - use hardware openall

ILTKKen — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 13:37:11 -0500

For people having problems using audio clues to predict other players, turn on Hardware OpenALL under advanced audio settings in the game, fixes that shit right up!

What do you think about the sound seperation and audio clues in UT3?

ILTKKen — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 12:26:17 -0500

I been trying to work on my prediction, like only killing via prediction shots and listening to sound clues to know where to throw prediction shots, but I'm finding it VERY hard to hear if something is behind me to the left/right.

For example just try an offline game with one bot, stand somewhere and listen.. can you figure out when he's comming up behind you and how far he's away?

It's like the left and right speakers are just panned almost into the middle so you have no idea of left and right, maybe it's my sound card? I don't think so though, because I make music on this system to and there's no problem with stereo image then.

Right now I can only realy figure out where someone is because I know the map and where pickups and weapons/weapon packs are so I know where someone is after I know the map well, but I can't tell 100% just be hearing footsteps and where sound is comming from.

This was a problem in UT2003/4 to, not as much as in ut3, but in ut99 I could hear exactly where things was.

To get an idea of whats possible with just stereo, listen to this youtube video with headphones, MUST use headphones to hear it properly. That's how the ingame sound should work, it was like this in ut99

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUDTlvagjJA
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UT3 Server Ordered!

ILTKKen — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 10:49:08 -0500

Well, I figured I'd better get the server up and running before xmass, what with people getting the game, new computers and all so there's somewhere to play, there's like 2 decent servers in all of europe, the rest fucking blows. That and I need some time to memorize the new server commands from ssh console since we still don't have a web admin

Takes a day or two for the hosting to set the server up and config it, but hopefully I they get it done before the weekend.

Now if they can get off thier asses and release the linux ut3 server because there's no fucking way I'm running windows for a server.

Sever specs:
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Dualcore Xeon 2,13 GHz / 2 MB Cache
1066 MHz Front Side Bus
2 GB ECC RAM / 667 MHz
2x 250 GB SATA Hard Drive (7.200 rpm)
100/100 Mbit connection to jay.net backbone (Like the old acu server)
Super fast redirect for custom maps.
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Unreal Tournament 3 videos on demand from pwnage.tv

ILTKKen — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 12:18:13 -0500

Here's another great site to watch some nice Unreal Tournament 3 videos on demand from pwnage.tv

http://pwnage.tv/On-Demand/videodirectlink/UT3-Rise-to-Glory-1v1-Rythem-...

Unreal Tournament 3 patch 1 has been released

ILTKKen — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 11:45:57 -0500

Yehaw, the first patch for Unreal Tournament 3 has been released to the public.

You can download it from a list of mirror here:

http://download.beyondunreal.com/fileworks.php/official/ut3/patch1.exe

Do you still try to dodgejump?

ILTKKen — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 10:34:02 -0500

I only just now noticed I stopped doing it completely

Damn that was a hard habit to get rid of
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Download CustomUT By Lotus for Unreal Tournament 3

ILTKKen — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 08:29:36 -0500

In the last news post about CustomUT By Lotus for Unreal Tournament 3, I forgot to include a download link so everyone could easily download it so here it is:

http://www.unrealna.com/customut.php

CustomUT By Lotus for Unreal Tournament 3 needs beta1 patch 4 to work correctly so make sure you already have that installed before you download customut.

acu kickass public server comming back for UT3

ILTKKen — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 11:33:52 -0500

The acu public clan server is comming back with a vengeance for Unreal Tournament 3

Same location, same network, same kickass low pings ( 8ms dos ping from sweeden, 6ms dos ping from Denmark, remember that anyone )

Server will be going up after xmass as soon as the server company puts the server together.

Server specs:
Dualcore Xeon 2,13 GHz / 2 MB Cache
1066 MHz Front Side Bus
2 GB ECC RAM / 667 MHz
2x 250 GB SATA Hard Drive (7.200 rpm)
100/100 Mbit connection to jay.net backbone.
Super fast redirect for custom maps.

We will of course be running a 5on5 Normal Weapon CTF server for pub play with no mutators to keep it off the "pure server" blacklist, and a competetive 5on5 CTF server for ladder and pug games probably running the new CustomUT (UTComp for UT3) mutator and standard clanbase CTF ladder setup.

We still need to playtest this box to see what it can handle, maybe we can squeeze in a warfare server to run around drunk of our asses on, just for fun.

Please comment on settings and maplist suggestions, tickrate, netspeed etc...

CustomUT v1 the successor to UTComp by Lotus has been released

ILTKKen — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 09:35:30 -0500

From Unreal NA:

>An update was necessary due to various issues with compatibility.
>You can download the most recent version Here.
>
>CustomUT is a customization mutator for Unreal Tournament 3. CustomUT is all about making the game
>your own. You can change your skin colors, customize your crosshairs, play warmup till you're ready, and
>get the hit feedback you want. Just customize it!
>
>To get started, just load the mutator and press the menu key, f5 by default.

Source: http://unrealna.com/forums/showthread.php?t=647

Unreal Tournament Beta Patch 4 is out

ILTKKen — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 18:08:28 -0500

Unreal Tournament Beta Patch 4 is out , we are getting close now, I can feel it.

Gameplay:
- Fixed scaling of certain player meshes (increased in size some human and robot meshes). Addresses meshes being smaller than collision box, as well as eyeheight issues.
- Fixed feigning death into/through ForcedDirVolumes.
- Fixed grenade effects in water.
- Increased hellbender rear turret damage.
- Reduced Goliath machine gun spread, plus slight damage increase.
- Fixed warfare scoring for locking down a prime node not called "prime node".
- Slightly increased momentum taken for damage by mantas and vipers.
- Flak, Rocket, and Shock do slightly more damage to manta and viper.
- Made sure Hellfire SPMA cannon can't fire through walls.
- Increased incoming SPMA fire sound radius.
- Fixed impact jumping with hoverboard.
- Fixed bot Pawns losing their PRI at the end of the match, causing them to, among other things, be invisible
- Fixed being able to switch away from the rocket launcher in the delay between the third rocket being loaded and the weapon autofiring.
- Fixed weapon crosshair incorrectly turning red when hit enemy on the client, but not on the server.
- Disabled attenuation/spatialization on mission briefing sounds.

AI:
- Improved bot AI with darkwalker.
- Tweaked bot voice message frequencies.
- Bot aiming tweaks.
- Fixed bots attacking friendly player in rare cases when that player recently stole an enemy vehicle.
- Fixed bots not handling the "Hold This Position" order correctly when the player giving the order is in a multi-person vehicle.

Demo playback:
- Fixed demo playback not ending/looping correctly when the demo ends due to the DemoRecSpectator being destroyed before the end of the file is reached.
- Demos can now be paused.
- By default, demo playback now runs at full speed and interpolates in between demo frames using the normal client simulation code. The old frame-locked method is still available by passing ?disallowinterp. Timedemos are unaffected by this change.
- Fixed demoplay URL parsing counting the options as part of the filename unless an extension was specified in the demo name
- Added a "Delete Demo" button to the demo playback menu.
- Demo playback now properly handles rotation when viewing a Pawn in first person.
- Fixed looking around while spectating a vehicle.
- Fixed demo playback not working if the PlayerController didn't get recorded into the first frame

Server Browser:
- Implemented History tab page in server browser, with ability to "lock" favorites on that page.
- Implemented a Favorites tab page in the server browser.
- Added 'Join as spectator' feature.
- Server browser uses smaller font to display more servers.
- Fixed custom mutators not appearing in server browser.
- Fixed custom gametypes not displayed in server browser's window.
- Fixed server browser's listed MaxPlayers being incorrect.
- Added filter option for dedicated servers.
- Fixed server browser showing an incorrect goal score and time limit when the .ini values were used.
- Fixed incorrect mutators appearing in server browser details if client & server are not using the same language

User Interface:
- Can now save settings/progress even if have never created a profile.
- Added ping and connect time to scoreboard.
- Removed annoying confirmation menu when starting a game.
- Removed unnecessary top settings page (can use tabs at the top of the settings to navigate).
- Added a Messages tab to the mid game menu.
- Friends messages now saved until explicitly deleted.
- Finer control over mouse sensitivity, using an edit box instead of a slider.
- Added framerate smoothing and FOV options to the advanced video menu.
- Increased max players/bots in menus to 32.
- Fixed auto switching to vote menu at end of match.
- Improved mid game menu performance (don't render world behind it).
- Added version number to main menu.
- Fixed binding gamepad/joystick keys (you must set AllowJoystickInput=1 in the [WinDrv.WindowsClient] of your UTEngine.ini to enable gamepads/joysticks).
- Fixed up the GDF project for Vista

HUD:
- Added the killer weapon to victim messages.
- Fixed flag and orb scaling in minimap at high resolutions.
- Fixed node teleporter not showing "You can't teleport with orb" message on clients.
- Fixed situations where "get in vehicle" pictograph wouldn't work correctly.
- Still draw the clock on the scoreboard after the game is over.
- Fixed Duel HUD issues.

Networking:
- Implemented STUN support (Simple Traversal of UDP Through Network Address Translators) to enable clients and servers to connect from behind a NAT.
- Fixed "open" console command when connecting to Internet servers
- Fixed team scores very rarely not updating for a client.
- Fixed bot faction option when running a listen server.
- Fixed link setup not reset correctly when going from a map with a custom link setup to one using the default.
- Fixed a case where Duel would place an incoming player on the wrong team when some players were still travelling.
- Bullseye stats are now properly recorded.
- Fixed clients not travelling to downloaded maps correctly.
- Fixed the client and server getting into a loop sending each other close messages in some situations.
- Quick match incorporates player rating into search decision.
- Fixed issue where Vista clients would not receive all servers from a server browser search.
- Applied proper fix to suppressing voice on dedicated servers.
- Fixed issues with players not getting on right team in Duel and Duel+Survival if a player leaves in certain timing windows during map transitions.
- Fixed previous level PRIs showing up on the scoreboard/leaderboard after the client travels (making it look like players have already scored lots of points when those clients are in fact still loading)
- Fixed losing your custom character mesh after changing teams during a match.
- Implemented DUEL match stat reporting for gamespy ladder.
- Fixed bugs and exploits associated with ServerViewNextPlayer()/ServerViewPrevPlayer()/ServerViewSelf() being received after the server has already moved the PlayerController out of the spectating state
- Added "BecomeActive" exec to switch from spectator to player

Server Administration:
- Dedicated servers do not require CD keys.
- Added -configsubdir= command line option to cause .ini files to be loaded/saved from the specified subdirectory of Game\Config\
- Added QueryPort configuration and command line option.
- Added an "AdminChangeOption [option] [value]" console command for server admins. This allows changing most simple .ini values (e.g. GoalScore) from the client. This command will not override URL options. The change will take effect after the next map change.
- Added an "AdminPublishMapList" console command for server admins. This overrides the server's map list for the current game type with the one on the client that used the command.
- Uses GameReplicationInfo.ServerName if set for the name of the server on the server browser.
- Added "AdminForceVoiceMute" and "AdminForceVoiceUnMute": Stops/Starts a player from sending voip to others
- Added "AdminForceTextMut" and "AdminForceTextUnMute": Stops/Starts a player from send text messages to others
- Updated AdminPlayerList to show the PlayerID of the players on the server.
- Updated Kick/Ban to allow for using either the player name or the id
- Fixed servers advertising as the wrong gametype if the gametype is changed without restarting the server
- Fixed IP addresses being reported in host byte order instead of network byte order
- Added new IdleServerTickRate property to IpDrv.TcpNetDriver. If not set, IdleServerTickRate defaults to MaxTickRate. Can be set to lower values to reduce server CPU utilization when 0 players. Reported ping will increase if set lower.

Map Specific
- Fixed WAR-Avalanche terrain LOD popping issue on high end PCs.
- Fixed bots rarely getting stuck in mid air in DM-Gateway in the city section.
- Fixed some VCTF-Suspense pathing issues.
- Fixed issues with circular lift on DM-Deimos.
- Fixed translucent mesh sorting issues in DM-Gateway.
- Improved bot AI with Leviathan in Torlan.

Campaign/Co-op:
- Fixed a bug that could cause too many bots to be added to co-op matches in some cases.
- Added support for seamless travel interrupting a travel to start another travel. This fixes single player breaking if the host selects the next mission before the clients have finished travelling to the mission selection level
- Fixed extra copy of a character when a human player leaves a co-op game at the right time.
- Changed network loss during single player to result in player signed in locally.

Modding:
- Improved support for creating PS3 mods.
- Added a SupportedGameTypes field to UTUIDataProvider_Mutator. If some entries are in this array, the mutator will only be visible in the menus if the selected gametype is found in the array.
- Fixed custom gametype midgame menus not being used correctly.
- Shipping script compiler now allows localized/config defaultproperties because otherwise autodownloaded mods have no way for their localized/config variables to work.
- Added Get/SetSpecialValue() stubs to Object to allow mods to expose values that can be modified without creating a dependancy.

Anyone know server specs yet? like cpu load pr. player?

ILTKKen — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 11:15:29 -0500

Anyone seen any info about player load for servers?

The server I'm getting is a dual core 2.4 1 gig ram so it would be cool to know how much it will be able to handle.
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Added a book to add tutorials, tips and tricks for newbies

ILTKKen — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 11:09:43 -0500

I just added a new book under "wiki books" where anyone can add tips and tricks or perhaps a tutorial for newbies so please add anything you can think of, how to best use various weapons, translocator, trickjumps, teamplay tactics etc..

If we want the game to take off and have lots of new players we need to help them not get stomped on.

I for one, realy want to see ut3 take off and be what ut99 was with a large community, there's already some more activity going on as far as playercount is concerned, so take a moment to teach a newb something, even if it's just something like "hey dude, doubletap the direction buttons to dodge"

Once we have some tips and tricks up we can start directing newbies to the book where they can read and learn some stuff if they want.

When I get the new server hooked up, I'll see how much it can handle, we could have a 1on1 server running to take a newbie on and show them some shit maybe?.
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Unreal Tournament UT3 - online clientside demos demorec gone in patch

ILTKKen — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 10:34:16 -0500

For some reason I can't fathom, Epic removed online clientside demos

This just keeps getting better, now either the server has to run constant serverside demos, or there's no way to spot botters and tards tauntspamming or being asses in general as players can't do a quick demorec as evidence for the server admins.

Epic

EDIT: Apparently, it was never suppposed to work, they never wanted demorec to work online clientside.

http://forums.epicgames.com/showthread.php?t=590762&highlight=demorec

Unreal Tournament 3 Linux Server Package almost Here

ILTKKen — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 10:02:38 -0500

The Unreal Tournament 3 Linux Server Package is almost Here

> So....what I'm asking for is this: /some/ kind of indication.
> Something
> like: "at least a month" or "probably in the region of 1 to 3 months"
> or "pre-christmas is likely" or "pre-christmas is unlikely".

Very very soon for the server. We're ironing out last-minute things, and will probably ship in sync with the Windows patch.

--ryan.

Yay!

CTF-Grendelkeep in the works for Unreal Tournament 3

ILTKKen — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 13:24:15 -0500

Looks realy nice, can't wait to get a few more decent CTF maps, there's only 3 good ones in the default map list and CTF-Grendelkeep was always one of my favorite maps, can't wait to play this in Unreal Tournament 3

http://www.unrealna.com/forums/showthread.php?t=610

Unreal Tournament 3 Custom Crosshair designer

ILTKKen — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 12:17:25 -0500

You have to have unreal tournament 3 patch v1.1 Beta 3 to get the custom crosshair to work

Unreal Tournament 3 Custom Crosshair designer works perfectly in FireFox only.

http://jeppo.de/unreal/ut3_crosshair_designer/index.html

Just use the menubars to the sides to shape your custom crosshair out of the default ones, for example to get a dot make the size small and select only part of one of the deaults that has a dot.

After you have your custom crosshair how you want it, grab the code displayed under the editor and put it in like so in:

C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\My Documents\My Games\Unreal Tournament 3\UTGame\Config\UTWeapon.ini

[UTGame.UTWeapon]
bUseCustomCoordinates=true
CustomCrosshairCoordinates=(U=408,V=26,UL=16,VL=14)
CrosshairColor=(R=255,G=255,B=0,A=255)

Unreal Tournament 3 video on demand

ILTKKen — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 11:41:18 -0500

Here's a couple sites with great videos to watch:

http://pwnage.tv/On-Demand/UT3/
http://50calibre.net/forum/viewforum.php?f=19

Funkar det

ZwaniZ — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 10:15:53 -0500

Vill bara se om det funkar.
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Added some UT3 Related newsfeeds

ILTKKen — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 19:14:33 -0500

I just added 2 newsfeeds to the news aggregator.

Clanbase frontpage news
Google Unreal Tournament 3 news

Click the UT3 News link in the sidebar when you are logged in to read them.

They are updated once every 12 hours.
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Can't play on unreal tournament 3 demo servers with retail version - Another playercount killer

ILTKKen — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 11:04:01 -0500

I just read on the Ina forums that you can't play on unreal tournament 3 demo servers with retail version

Booo, that's another thing that will keep the playercounts low.

UT3 Patch 1.1 Beta 3 news

ILTKKen — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 10:34:36 -0500

Server Administration:
- Reduced tick rate for dedicated servers with no clients (saves CPU on idle servers).
- Dedicated servers do not require CD keys.
- Added -configsubdir= command line option to cause .ini files to be loaded/saved from the specified subdirectory of GameConfig
- Added QueryPort configuration and command line option.
- Added an "AdminChangeOption [option] [value]" console command for server admins. This allows changing most simple .ini values (e.g. GoalScore) from the client. This command will not override URL options. The change will take effect after the next map change.
- Added an "AdminPublishMapList" console command for server admins. This overrides the server's map list for the current game type with the one on the client that used the command.
- Uses GameReplicationInfo.ServerName if set for the name of the server on the server browser.
- Added "AdminForceVoiceMute" and "AdminForceVoiceUnMute": Stops/Starts a player from sending voip to others
- Added "AdminForceTextMut" and "AdminForceTextUnMute": Stops/Starts a player from send text messages to others
- Updated AdminPlayerList to show the PlayerID of the players on the server.
- Updated Kick/Ban to allow for using either the player name or the id
- Fixed servers advertising as the wrong gametype if the gametype is changed without restarting the server
- Fixed IP addresses being reported in host byte order instead of network byte order

Unreal Tournament 3 translocator xloc keybind - remove toggle

ILTKKen — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 10:22:51 -0500

Yay, I finally found a way to get rid of the translocator toggle in unreal tournament 3

"switchweapon 0" selects the translocator, but you can't bind it in the game UI

In UTInput.ini locate:

Bindings=(Name="GBA_ToggleTranslocator",Command="ToggleTranslocator")

Change the line to:

Bindings=(Name="GBA_ToggleTranslocator",Command="switchweapon 0")

Now the translocater will not toggle, it will stay no matter how many times you hit your translocator key so you won't stand there like an idiot when you accidentally hit the translocator keybind more than once and lose track of wheater you have a gun or the xloc.

Busted!

ILTKKen — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 16:49:18 -0500

http://www.prounreal.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=73329

Ouch.

Finally found a good danish host

ILTKKen — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 15:39:32 -0500

Weee, finally found a good danish host that doesn't cost an arm and a leg.

Dual opteron 2.2ghz

2 gig ram

160 gig harddrive

100 gig monthly transfer

Fedora core linux

Remote reboot port

24/7 phone support.

187$ month, I should be able to handle that after xmass.

Should be plenty to run a kickass ut3 ctf/ons server with redirect for custom maps.

Probably going to run something like daytime=ons or dm, nighttime=ctf or just multigame mapvote.

I just checked, and thier servers are hosted at Jay.net, that's where the old ut2004 server was hosted, I ping 6ms to it from dos hehe.

I just read that Lotus is back with UTComp so there's probably going to be newnet if we wanna password it and fuck around us+eurotrash for fun and games, it's good that ut3 is not so hitscan dominated because newnet was getting annoying with ut2004 being so hitscan dominated at the end for US players, it was never much of a problem for euro play because we play a lot more tight maps and not large boxes with stuff in them to break the monotomy The most popular maps were things like camperscrossing, ages, DeepSprinta, not going to get for doing the hitscan hero routine on these

Any suggestions on what to run, settings, map rotation etc..?
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Tip to statwhores - don't spectate ;)

ILTKKen — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 12:24:23 -0500

There's a bug that if you spectate, the game thinks your a player with 0 score and counts you as a normal player.

Whoups
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Member of defunct church guilty of rapes

ILTKKen — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 11:18:26 -0500

"Lamonica told the detectives that he drank cat blood and poured it on the bodies of his young victims."

This is one of the cases where the death penalty seems not quite enough.

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NEW ORLEANS - The first of seven members of a now-defunct church accused of raping children as part of a devil-worshipping ritual was found guilty of molesting his 2-year-old daughter and a boy. ADVERTISEMENT

A state district court jury in Amite on Monday convicted Austin "Trey" Bernard III in the rape of his daughter as well as the rape of a 12-year-old boy, prosecutor Scott Perrilloux said.

Bernard, 39, denied the charges, but three earlier confessions and a journal that seemed to detail the practices of the group were too much to overcome, said Al Bensabat, the public defender who represented him.

"Once the jury read that it was all over," Bensabat said Tuesday.

Bernard, who faces a mandatory life prison term without parole when he is sentenced on Jan. 12, was being held in jail on Tuesday.

No trial date has been set for the remaining six defendants. Perrilloux said he anticipates bringing the former minister of Hosanna Church, Louis Lamonica, to trial in early 2008. Lamonica has pleaded not guilty.

The allegations have rocked the small town of Ponchatoula, about 40 miles northwest of New Orleans.

The activities at the church became known when Lamonica walked into the Livingston Parish Sheriff's Department and asked to speak with a detective in 2005, Chief of Detectives Stan Carpenter said.

For almost two hours, Lamonica, 49, told investigators how he and other church members had molested children, and taught them to have sex with each other, as well as with a dog, authorities said.

Lamonica told the detectives that he drank cat blood and poured it on the bodies of his young victims.

"We were totally stunned," Carpenter said.

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071205/ap_on_re_us/church_sex_abuse
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Why are software developers stupid?

ILTKKen — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 09:21:23 -0500

On my two new systems I have built in cardreaders, the new motherboards can boot from these so when you have the system setup with the OS installed the first harddrive will be H:\

Over 80% of all software is to fucking stupid to realise this, so they try to load config or grapics from c:\ and fails, either crashes right away or constantly throws up errors, or tries by default to save into c:\my documents\etc..

There's system libraries for windows development you fucking dolts, USE THEM, if you use the system libraries, they will automatically tell you where the root of the program is, and you can then load configs or whatever relative to that path. This was something I learned in windows programming courses the first week, the system libraries (Windows DLLS) are there to abstract function calls so you don't have to think (and fuck up) the underlying implementations.
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So you thought UT was fast paced? ;)

ILTKKen — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 18:31:39 -0500

Check this Quakeworld match out, UT seems like watching still pictures in comparison

http://50calibre.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=153

Insane
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Testing smilies

ILTKKen — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 16:22:54 -0500

Bla bla bla

Ahh, much better
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First major unreal tournament 3 gamespy login failure - nobody can even login to the game

ILTKKen — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 13:35:38 -0500

Yep there we have it, this is why it's fucking retarded forcing gamespy logins on everyone even to play offline.

This is not the first time either, I don't want the ability to play a game I PAID for, to be based on some shit site I abhor staying up.

Right at the time most of europe are getting ready to play matches and ladder games.

Get rid of the gamespy login crap already, people only use thier horrible software because they are forced or stupid, that's because it SUCKS

[ Edit ] Hahahaha, you know what's going to happen now? People will be trying to login to thier favorite server via IP, and what happens then? That's right, all servers people try to "Open IP" to will die because of the current bug that causes servers to go into LAN mode when you connect via IP.

Pub CTF mutator idea

ILTKKen — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 07:50:19 -0500

An idea I had from since forever for public ctf games, kinda a social experiment thing.

Do away with individual scoring, the only scoring there will be is team scores.

No frag scores, only thing that will earn your team points will be flag related points, killing flagcarrier, capping, and assists.

No other changes.

This would mean that there's no point in someone running around fragging since there is no individual points, and frags don't earn team points. So players will need to defend, or cap/help flagrunner.

New players will not see themselves last on the scoreboard so they will probably have more fun = more newbies keep playing.

Good players can play this since this would not hurt them when going back to normal ctf as there is no weapon changes or gameplay changes.

Any comments?
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The Hammer Dodge jump

ILTKKen — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 17:33:35 -0500

In ut2003/4 the shieldgun dodge ruled for flagrunners, especially a backwards shieldgun dodge, and while Epic removed the shieldgun they gave back the hammer and fortunately, it's just as good for trickjumps.

While a normal hammer jump gives you height, the hammer dodge gives you speed which is much better for flagrunning, in many maps the normal hammer jump just makes you easy to hit and most of the stock maps are horrible where the skybox is only a couple units heigher than the highest platform so you end up just bouncing up into an invisible ceiling and falling down, the maps have clearly not been tested by players that can actually play ut ctf, fortunately the dodge hammer jump fixes this.

A normal hammer jump is loaded hammer (Based on how high you want to go) then jump and release at the same time.

The hammer dodge is similar, but instead of a jump you throw in a dodge, the instance you complete the second right or left keypress for the dodge you release the hammer and you go flying.

It's easy to tell the difference, hammer dodge makes you fly a LOT faster and you don't gain as much height.

The main thing to getting the hammer jump/dodge right is that you need to stare right into the ground or it won't work right.

My Switchweapon bindings!

ILTKKen — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 13:23:57 -0500

Don't want to ever run out of weapons to kill with?

You can make switchweapon priority for every gun, so if you try to switch to it and you don't have it, you at least get another one close to what you wanted.

Here's mine, stick em' into UTInput.ini instead of the current ones (Note I left out enforcer and impact so watch out if you copy paste to not select them.)

Now try it and notice your kill ratio go way up, especially in frantic ctf matches, you frequently get fucked over by the slow switch time if you make a mistake and switch to a gun you don't have, now that can't happen anymore.

Crosshair hitdetection is clientside

ILTKKen — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 10:34:01 -0500

Just a heads up in case anyone even uses this.

If you have even a smidgeon of ping, the xhair turning red thing is useless because it's clientside, the player you aim at when it goes red will not be where he is according to the server world.

Why the hell did they implement it this way? Ever since ut99 Epic has told everyone that they would never do zeroping netcode (Clientside) and now they do the crosshair hitdetection using exactly that.

Huh?

Piped weapon switch how to

ILTKKen — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 16:49:49 -0500

First create 2 binds like this:

Bindings=(Name="SniperShockA",Command="switchweapon 9 | setbind KEY SniperShockB")
Bindings=(Name="SniperShockB",Command="switchweapon 4 | setbind KEY SniperShockA")

The above will alternate between Sniper and Shock Rifle

Bindings=(Name="KEY",Command="SniperShockA")

Tada!

Smart keybinding for Unreal Tournament 3

ILTKKen — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 16:26:36 -0500

Most people know the "bestweapon" keybind, but did you know that you can setup ALL your weapons so if you don't have the weapon you switch to, you switch to another weapon, if you don't have that, it switches to the next and so on with full control over weapon priority, so IF you have the weapon you switch to, then that will be selected, if not, another is selected.

Here's an example to make it easy to understand:

Bindings=(Name="GBA_Switchweapon3", Command="Switchweapon 1 | Switchweapon 2 | Switchweapon 3")

The last weapon in this line is always the weapon that is selected IF you have it, else then previous is selected, if you don't have that, then the previous and so on.

The way to set this up for all weapons, is end the line with the weapon that SHOULD be the preferred on that key, the previous should be the weapon most similar to that and so on.

For example, say you hit your rocket launcher key, you don't have it, or it's out of ammo, then the flak because that's the most similar, if the flak is not there, then probably the bio rifle, and so on from most preffered to least preferred in the case you didn't have the weapon you tried to switch to.

Here's the weapon numbers you need:

1 - Impact hammer
2 - Enforcer
3 - Bio Rifle
4 - Shock Rifle
5 - Link Gun
6 - Stinger Minigun
7 - Flack Cannon
8 - Rocket launcher
9 - Sniper Rifle

Open your UTInput.ini located in:

H:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\My Documents\My Games\Unreal Tournament 3\UTGame\Config

Find the section named:

[Engine.PlayerInput]

Look for your current keybinds here and add the weapons in front of it in "most wanted" order

Bindings=(Name="GBA_Switchweapon1", Command="Switchweapon 1")

Bindings=(Name="GBA_Switchweapon1", Command="Switchweapon 2 | Switchweapon 1")

Do all 9 weapons in most wanted order for each gun in the same category, for example you go for the rockets = spam category, so if you switched to rockets you were probably close up so the most logical would be flak, if you don't have that, bio rifle, if you don't have that you'r probably fucked and got surprised so just throw in the next weapon that does most damage after the category you were going for have been exhausted, this way and you will never be without something to defend yourself with no matter what. You would be suprised how effective this is in FFA and especially frantic CTF matches where you are under constant pressure from the enemy rushing you so you don't have time to get your preferred guns, standing there switching to a gun you don't have is fatal in ctf because it's so fast, especially now with the slower switch times.

If you wanna try it out, you can plug in mine by replacing your current bindings with mine like below:

(Backup your ini first in case you don't like it)

Violent Radicalization & Homegrown Terrorism Prevention

ILTKKen — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 14:42:20 -0500

This is fucking scary:

"S 1959 EVISCERATES FREE SPEECH, and empowers the government to declare ANYTHING they deem an 'extremist belief system' to instantly make you a 'terrorist' and resulting in stripping of US citizenship, torture, and/or execution, with no habeas corpus rights, no ability to challenge even in the US Supreme Court."

Read more: http://rense.com/general79/rduh.htm
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Epic: Throw weapon is an exploit

ILTKKen — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:13:53 -0500

Quote from Mysterial:

"Throwing away a weapon to pick up a new one with more ammo is an exploit, plain and simple. It defeats much of the point of ammo management and encourages stationary camping. Even if we were to allow throwing with weapon stay on again (which is unlikely in itself), we'd do it in such a way as to prevent that exploit from being usable."

Epic put this feature in themselves, how can it now be a fucking exploit?

Are they fucking serious? I fucking KNEW it when Mysterial got hired by Epic that he would start to fuck up the game from inside, always been a massive arrogant douchebag that didn't know what the hell he was talking about, his maps were cluttered eyecandy shitfests that played like ass, and now he is making gameplay changing decisions.

Throw weapon has been a perfectly valid tactic since UT99 used by all competetive gamers and clans, has been allowed in all ladder games with no questions whatsoever.

He tries to get away with saying it was something only expert players knew and they exploited it for getting unlimited ammo by throwing thier weapon and picking a new one up from the base, if this was something they didn't intend, then explain to me why it was specifically coded so when you dropped your weapon, you could pick up a new one from the base, but you could NOT pick up the one you tossed, but you COULD pick up weapons others had dropped? This would require specific coding to get this functionallity, so how can it be an exploit when there was coding specifically to handle it AND it was a keybinding available in the weapon keyconfig in ut99, ut2003 and ut2004?

I absolutely don't get WHY they had to fuck with this? Everything else under the sun has been bitched and whined about, translocater charges, weapon balance, dodgejumping, shieldgun etc etc... but nobody has ever complained about weapon throw? Why the fuck mess with it then? The UT community does not take well to changes, so why change something that nobody has been complaining about just for the hell of it?

That's shooting yourself in the foot Epic.

This is how ctf will play out now:

Enemy attacks, gets killed off, they are now fresh of the spawn and can now get all new fully loaded weapons, but the defense used most or all of thier ammo during the previous attack, and before new ammo spawns the enemy is back in full force, only option is for defense to suicide right after they fend off an attack or else they won't have enough ammo left to defend = realy fucking stupid.

The other alternative is that mappers now needs to ad in a lot more weapon ammo for ctf to retain its fast pace.

Doesn't matter anyway, except on pubs, weapon throw will be modded back in for competetive play, well except for Epic sponsored tournaments and tournaments where money is involved where Epic according to thier eula will be able to force it off, and they also get to strongarm out it by not letting any mutator that adds it back to the pure server whitelist so any server running it will be dead.

Way to shit on the competetive community, this game is realy looking up, gg Epic!

How about fixing all the horrible shit that's currently wrong (lol at no zone location info in any maps) instead of actively trying to kill your own game?

Beta Patch 2 Changelog

ILTKKen — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 19:02:13 -0500

- filter settings are now saved to the .ini file.

- fixed UTUIComboBox's editbox and list getting out of sync (editbox text could end up not matching the list's selected item)

- fixed changing gametype via combobox on server browser tab causing filter settings to be clobbered

- changed default value for "Pure Server" and "Locked Server" filter options to be more lenient (show more servers by default)

- Fixed ping values shown in scoreboard

- Don't show ping for bots

- Fixed Miplevel spam when applying patch to dedicated server build.

- Fixed dedicated server getting removed from the master server list if the first player to join fails authentication.

- Bringing up the midgame menu now pauses demo playback.

- Players now stop moving if they fire the Redeemer altfire.

- Fixed joining a passworded server via the server history tab not prompting for the password.

- Fixed viper and scorpion self destruct death strings.

- Fixed when the player tries to cancel a "Delete Demo" the demo still gets deleted.

- Fixed HTTP redirection

- Fixed download cache clobbering files that had just been written in some cases

- Increased default download cache size

- Fixed FOV option when patching old .ini's

- Fixed crash when exiting the editor.

- Smaller/simpler simple crosshair.

- Added the ability to delete saved messages

- Implemented DUEL match stat reporting for gamespy ladder.

- Fixed an exploit in CTF-OmicronDawn that allowed players to get outside the world.

- Fix for hole in WAR-Islander where players could get stuck

- Fixed orb rebuilding not being played correctly on clients if the orb was destroyed by an enemy player.

- Fixed flickering when downloading files.

- Don't reduce tickrate when travelling with no players - fixes server hanging for long durations on EnvyEntry.

- Fixed custom characters not working correctly when playing back demos

- Added the ability to specify custom simple crosshair coordinates for weapons, with new config properties bUseCustomCoordinates and CustomCrosshairCoordinates.

To change the crosshair used for all weapons, add the following lines to the [utweapon] section of the UTWeapon.ini file:

bUseCustomCoordinates=true
CustomCrosshairCoordinates=(U=276,V=84,UL=22,VL=25 )

where the customcrosshaircoordinates have U and V as the offsets into the crosshair texture (UI_HUD.HUD.UTCrosshairs), and UL and VL specify the size of the texture area to use.

To use a different crosshair for a specific weapon, simply add those two lines to the appropriate weapon specific section in UTWeapon.ini.

wow goo defense rocks now.

ILTKKen — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:01:31 -0500

The biorifle is insane on ctf defence now.

The goo sticks for so long that as soon as you see someone going for the flag just lob a loaded goo ball onto the flagstand and you have like 10 seconds where they can't do shit, they can't xloc on the flagstand because as soon as the xloc touches it, it's dead, and if they try to grab it they touch the goo and they die instantly unless they are totally loaded.

I been practicing with that thing and it's almost always instakill, the trajectory on the goo ball is also perfect, very easy to predict longer shots, and even if you miss there's a good chance they get some on them anyway from the splash. Since it sticks so long it's also great for blocking cramped exits on the efc.
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Yo

Black Jesus — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:38:42 -0500

Hey, dropping in to say I got your message and here I am. I can't play UT yet because my computer is fucked (I had to downgrade because my mobo died), and I'm waiting until I get my taxes back (February) to build a new rig... so I'm pretty much sitting tight until then. Hopefully they'll have most of the bugs worked out by then as well.
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Don't use OPEN to connect to a server!

ILTKKen — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:08:01 -0500

lmao, here's the reason so many servers are dead.

If anyone connects to a server using the "OPEN IP" command from his game, the server will turn into a LAN server and stop responding to requests until it's rebooted.

So don't do that unless the operator is an ass

Hehe, I think we need a patch soon eh :/
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How to change the crosshair color in Unreal Tournament 3

ILTKKen — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 10:49:14 -0500

Open UTWeapon.ini from:

x:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\My Documents\My Games\Unreal Tournament 3\UTGame\Config

First section in that file is:

[UTGame.UTWeapon]

Locate: CrosshairColor=

These are simple RGB values, so now open an image editor like photoshop and use the color picker tool to setup the color you want, then get the RGB values from there and enter them into the CrosshairColor variable.

For example, this is pink:

CrosshairColor=(R=255,G=0,B=255,A=255)

Save the ini file and try it out.

Finally got the game!

ILTKKen — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 09:18:32 -0500

Yess, now excuse me I have to go install, good thing it's on dvd
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IT'S SNOWING YAY!

ILTKKen — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 08:58:33 -0500

Finally, let's hope it lasts, been like 3 years since we had good sticky snow for xmas.
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Annoying fucking neighbors!

ILTKKen — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 08:09:21 -0500

Seriously, my neighbor to the left spends most of his life either moving the lawn in the summer, or in the authum he's out there raking leaves, both of these activities makes horrible amounts of noise, how raking leaves can make noise is a mystery to me to.

All summer, every other day he's out there moving that lawn, and he doesn't use a motorized lawn mover like a normal person, oh no, this has to be done with a manual mover, so it's about 3 hours of "rllrlrlrlrlrlr whiiir, rlrlrlrlrrlr whiiiirrrr"

When he's done, it's time for the hedge trimming, a hedge grows about 1 fucking centimer a week, yet for some reason it HAS be be clipped with manual hedge trimmer every 2 days, funny that it useually coincides with me and the gf or friends sitting in the yard trying to have some quiet time enjoying a cup of Latte.

And it doesn't end there, they have 3 of these fucking rat dogs, little pieces of eternally yapping shits, I can't move a muscle without setting them off on another 1 hour yapping spree, they sound like 300 wats amplified chew toys, to give you an idea of how bad it is... Yesterday I had the window open, I was writing something and dropped my pen on the table making a little "click" sound YAP YAP YAP YAP YAP YAP YAP YAP YAP YAP YAP YAP YAP YAP YAP YAP YAP YAP YAP YAP YAP SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU LITTLE SHITS.

Maybe I'll have them killed and dropped in the ocean, I should get a symphaty discount from the hitman.
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Fix offline settings not saving for unreal tournament 3

ILTKKen — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 12:16:12 -0500

Here's how to get your Unreal Tournament 3 settings to save so you can setup your keybinds and settings and have the offline campain saved if you are one of the unlucky people that have the problem where UT3 wont save your settings and campain progress.

The solution os very simple.

Go to

C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\My Documents\My Games\Unreal Tournament 3\UTGame\SaveData

In this folder is a file called: Player.ue3profile

Make a copy of it, rename it to your player name, for example:

ken.ue3profile

Load the game, enter that name in the username field and whatever in the password field, now click on "offline"

Voila, your settings are now saved since the game thinks you have logged in, the game refuses to save settings because it thinks you never logged in because the playername.ue3profile is not created.

Am I the only one that misses the walldodge animations?

ILTKKen — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 07:33:50 -0500

You know like in 2k3/4 when using a character like Gorge, you do a walldodge and you would get a flip animation.

Made the game feel a lot more dynamic, I know it's just something graphic, but having someone walldodge in on you with a loaded cluster of rocks and seeing the flip animation just before getting nailed just looked awesome.

It also gave visual clues, for example seeing someone get up somewhere you hadn't though of, you could figure it out easier becasue you saw the animation and could defer that they used a walldodge combo.
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How do you disable the annoying animated arrows?

ILTKKen — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 08:48:53 -0500

You know those arrows that points to where you need to go. It's fucking annoying after the first few times on a map.
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Fixed my alt fire lag

ILTKKen — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 08:39:10 -0500

I been searching everywhere to fix my problem with the alt fire either not working or taking 5 seconds to react.

It finally clicked that since it was not mentioned by anyone anywhere that it must be something unique to my system and AHA

It was my mousegesture program StrokeIt that trapped the alt mouse button, I added an exception for UT3 so it's not affected by StrokeIt and now everything works.

Yessss!

On a side note, god damn do you feel handicapped playing ctf with no working xloc, good practice though since you realy need to know the maps well when you can't just xloc around anywhere.
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Unlock all Unreal Tournament 3 characters

ILTKKen — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 09:53:44 -0500

Here's how to unlock all the Unreal Tournament 3 characters.

Go to your my documents folder under Unreal Tournament3 and find the "UTCustomChar.ini" file.

Replace the all the "charaters" entries with the following:

Characters=(CharName="Lauren",Description="",CharID="A",bLocked="false",Faction="Ironguard",PreviewImageMarkup="",CharData=(FamilyID="IRNF",HeadID="A",TorsoID="A",ShoPadID="A",bHasLeftShoPad=true,bHasRightShoPad=true,ArmsID="A",ThighsID="A",BootsID="A"),AIData=(Tactics=1.0, StrafingAbility=1.0, Accuracy=0.5,FavoriteWeapon="UTGame.UTWeap_ShockRifle"))
Characters=(CharName="Barktooth",Description="",CharID="C",Faction="Ironguard",PreviewImageMarkup="",CharData=(FamilyID="IRNM",HeadID="B",TorsoID="A",ShoPadID="A",bHasLeftShoPad=true,bHasRightShoPad=true,ArmsID="B",ThighsID="A",BootsID="C"),AIData=(Aggressiveness=0.5,FavoriteWeapon="UTGame.UTWeap_FlakCannon"))
Characters=(CharName="Harlin",Description="",CharID="B",Faction="Ironguard",PreviewImageMarkup="",CharData=(FamilyID="IRNM",HeadID="A",TorsoID="B",ShoPadID="A",bHasLeftShoPad=true,bHasRightShoPad=true,ArmsID="A",ThighsID="A",BootsID="A"))
Characters=(CharName="Slain",Description="",CharID="D",Faction="Ironguard",PreviewImageMarkup="",CharData=(FamilyID="IRNM",HeadID="C",TorsoID="C",ShoPadID="C",bHasLeftShoPad=True,bHasRightShoPad=true,ArmsID="C",ThighsID="C",BootsID="C"))
Characters=(CharName="Cain",Description="",CharID="E",bLocked="true",Faction="Ironguard",PreviewImageMarkup="",CharData=(FamilyID="IRNM",HeadID="C",FacemaskID="A",TorsoID="C",ShoPadID="A",bHasLeftShoPad=false,bHasRightShoPad=false,ArmsID="A",ThighsID="A",BootsID="A"))
Characters=(CharName="Johnson",Description="",CharID="F",bLocked="true",Faction="Ironguard",PreviewImageMarkup="",CharData=(FamilyID="IRNM",HeadID="D",TorsoID="A",ShoPadID="B",bHasLeftShoPad=true,bHasRightShoPad=true,ArmsID="B",ThighsID="C",BootsID="C"))
Characters=(CharName="Karag",Description="",CharID="G",bLocked="true",Faction="Ironguard",PreviewImageMarkup="",CharData=(FamilyID="IRNM",HeadID="c",GogglesID="A",TorsoID="A",ShoPadID="A",bHasLeftShoPad=false,bHasRightShoPad=true,ArmsID="C",ThighsID="B",BootsID="A"))
Characters=(CharName="Wraith",Description="",CharID="H",bLocked="true",Faction="Ironguard",PreviewImageMarkup="",CharData=(FamilyID="IRNM",HeadID="c",HelmetID="C",GogglesID="A",TorsoID="A",ShoPadID="B",bHasLeftShoPad=true,bHasRightShoPad=true,ArmsID="A",ThighsID="B",BootsID="C"))
Characters=(CharName="Blain",Description="",CharID="K",bLocked="true",Faction="Ironguard",PreviewImageMarkup="",CharData=(FamilyID="IRNM",HeadID="B",GogglesID="A",HelmetID="A",TorsoID="C",ShoPadID="C",bHasLeftShoPad=false,bHasRightShoPad=true,ArmsID="C",ThighsID="A",BootsID="C"))
Characters=(CharName="Drake",Description="",CharID="L",bLocked="true",Faction="Ironguard",PreviewImageMarkup="",CharData=(FamilyID="IRNM",HeadID="C",HelmetID="D",TorsoID="C",ShoPadID="C",bHasLeftShoPad=True,bHasRightShoPad=true,ArmsID="C",ThighsID="C",BootsID="C"))
Characters=(CharName="Kregore",Description="",CharID="J",bLocked="true",Faction="Ironguard",PreviewImageMarkup="",CharData=(FamilyID="IRNM",HeadID="A",HelmetID="B",TorsoID="A",ShoPadID="A",bHasLeftShoPad=false,bHasRightShoPad=false,ArmsID="C",ThighsID="A",BootsID="A"))
Characters=(CharName="Talan",Description="",CharID="I",bLocked="true",Faction="Ironguard",PreviewImageMarkup="",CharData=(FamilyID="IRNM",HeadID="D",GogglesID="A",HelmetID="A",TorsoID="A",ShoPadID="A",bHasLeftShoPad=false,bHasRightShoPad=false,ArmsID="A",ThighsID="A",BootsID="C"))
Characters=(CharName="Ariel",Description="",CharID="P",bLocked="false",Faction="Ironguard",PreviewImageMarkup="",CharData=(FamilyID="IRNF",HeadID="B",TorsoID="B",ShoPadID="E",bHasLeftShoPad=true,bHasRightShoPad=true,ArmsID="B",ThighsID="B",BootsID="B"))
Characters=(CharName="Avalon",Description="",CharID="O",bLocked="true",Faction="Ironguard",PreviewImageMarkup="",CharData=(FamilyID="IRNF",HeadID="B",HelmetID="C",TorsoID="A",ShoPadID="A",bHasLeftShoPad=true,bHasRightShoPad=false,ArmsID="A",ThighsID="A",BootsID="A"))
Characters=(CharName="Blackjack",Description="",CharID="N",Faction="Ironguard",PreviewImageMarkup="",CharData=(FamilyID="IRNF",HeadID="C",TorsoID="B",ShoPadID="E",bHasLeftShoPad=true,bHasRightShoPad=true,ArmsID="B",ThighsID="B",BootsID="B"))
Characters=(CharName="Desiree",Description="",CharID="M",bLocked="true",Faction="Ironguard",bLocked=FALSE,PreviewImageMarkup="",CharData=(FamilyID="IRNF",HeadID="A",HelmetID="A",TorsoID="A",ShoPadID="B",bHasLeftShoPad=true,bHasRightShoPad=true,ArmsID="A",ThighsID="A",BootsID="A"))
Characters=(CharName="Reaper",Description="",CharID="A",Faction="TwinSouls",PreviewImageMarkup="",CharData=(FamilyID="TWIM",HeadID="C",TorsoID="C",ShoPadID="C",bHasLeftShoPad=true,bHasRightShoPad=true,ArmsID="C",ThighsID="C",BootsID="C"),AIData=(Accuracy=0.5,StrafingAbility=1.0,CombatStyle=0.5,FavoriteWeapon="UTGame.UTWeap_RocketLauncher"))
Characters=(CharName="Bishop",Description="",CharID="B",Faction="TwinSouls",PreviewImageMarkup="",CharData=(FamilyID="TWIM",HeadID="D",TorsoID="A",ShoPadID="A",bHasLeftShoPad=true,bHasRightShoPad=true,ArmsID="A",ThighsID="A",BootsID="A"),AIData=(FavoriteWeapon="UTGame.UTWeap_SniperRifle"))
Characters=(CharName="Othello",Description="",CharID="C",Faction="TwinSouls",PreviewImageMarkup="",CharData=(FamilyID="TWIM",HeadID="B",TorsoID="B",ShoPadID="B",bHasLeftShoPad=true,bHasRightShoPad=true,ArmsID="B",ThighsID="B",BootsID="B"),AIData=(Aggressiveness=0.6,CombatStyle=0.3,Tactics=0.3,FavoriteWeapon="UTGame.UTWeap_Stinger"))
Characters=(CharName="Jester",Description="",CharID="D",Faction="TwinSouls",PreviewImageMarkup="",CharData=(FamilyID="TWIF",HeadID="A",TorsoID="A",ShoPadID="A",bHasLeftShoPad=true,bHasRightShoPad=true,ArmsID="A",ThighsID="A",BootsID="A"),AIData=(Jumpiness=-0.4,StrafingAbility=-0.2,CombatStyle=0.5,FavoriteWeapon="UTGame.UTWeap_RocketLauncher"))
Characters=(CharName="Arashi",Description="",CharID="G",bLocked="true",Faction="TwinSouls",PreviewImageMarkup="",CharData=(FamilyID="TWIM",HeadID="B",HelmetID="E",FacemaskID="A",TorsoID="B",ShoPadID="F",bHasLeftShoPad=true,bHasRightShoPad=true,ArmsID="C",ThighsID="B",BootsID="C"))
Characters=(CharName="Kensai",Description="",CharID="F",bLocked="true",Faction="TwinSouls",PreviewImageMarkup="",CharData=(FamilyID="TWIM",HeadID="A",TorsoID="C",ShoPadID="E",bHasLeftShoPad=true,bHasRightShoPad=true,ArmsID="B",ThighsID="C",BootsID="D"))
Characters=(CharName="Rook",Description="",CharID="H",bLocked="true",Faction="TwinSouls",PreviewImageMarkup="",CharData=(FamilyID="TWIM",HeadID="B",HelmetID="C",TorsoID="B",ShoPadID="D",bHasLeftShoPad=true,bHasRightShoPad=true,ArmsID="A",ThighsID="A",BootsID="A"))
Characters=(CharName="Ushido",Description="",CharID="E",bLocked="true",Faction="TwinSouls",PreviewImageMarkup="",CharData=(FamilyID="TWIM",HeadID="B",HelmetID="D",TorsoID="C",ShoPadID="A",bHasLeftShoPad=false,bHasRightShoPad=false,ArmsID="D",ThighsID="A",BootsID="B"))
Characters=(CharName="Connor",Description="",CharID="J",bLocked="true",Faction="TwinSouls",PreviewImageMarkup="",CharData=(FamilyID="TWIM",HeadID="A",HelmetID="D",TorsoID="A",ShoPadID="D",bHasLeftShoPad=true,bHasRightShoPad=true,ArmsID="D",ThighsID="A",BootsID="D"))
Characters=(CharName="Harkin",Description="",CharID="K",bLocked="true",Faction="TwinSouls",PreviewImageMarkup="",CharData=(FamilyID="TWIM",HeadID="B",HelmetID="B",TorsoID="B",ShoPadID="A",bHasLeftShoPad=false,bHasRightShoPad=true,ArmsID="A",ThighsID="B",BootsID="B"))
Characters=(CharName="Hunter",Description="",CharID="I",bLocked="true",Faction="TwinSouls",PreviewImageMarkup="",CharData=(FamilyID="TWIM",HeadID="C",HelmetID="C",HelmetID="E",TorsoID="C",ShoPadID="E",bHasLeftShoPad=true,bHasRightShoPad=false,ArmsID="C",ThighsID="C",BootsID="D"))
Characters=(CharName="Cassidy",Description="",CharID="M",bLocked="true",Faction="TwinSouls",PreviewImageMarkup="",CharData=(FamilyID="TWIF",HeadID="B",HelmetID="B",TorsoID="A",ShoPadID="A",bHasLeftShoPad=true,bHasRightShoPad=true,ArmsID="B",ThighsID="A",BootsID="A"))
Characters=(CharName="Kira",Description="",CharID="O",bLocked="true",Faction="TwinSouls",PreviewImageMarkup="",CharData=(FamilyID="TWIF",HeadID="B",HelmetID="A",TorsoID="B",ShoPadID="B",bHasLeftShoPad=true,bHasRightShoPad=false,ArmsID="A",ThighsID="B",BootsID="A"))
Characters=(CharName="Kai",Description="",CharID="N",Faction="TwinSouls",PreviewImageMarkup="",CharData=(FamilyID="TWIF",HeadID="B",TorsoID="B",ShoPadID="A",bHasLeftShoPad=true,bHasRightShoPad=true,ArmsID="B",ThighsID="B",BootsID="B"))
Characters=(CharName="Metridia",Description="",CharID="L",bLocked="true",Faction="TwinSouls",PreviewImageMarkup="",CharData=(FamilyID="TWIF",HeadID="A",HelmetID="B",TorsoID="B",ShoPadID="B",bHasLeftShoPad=true,bHasRightShoPad=true,ArmsID="B",ThighsID="A",BootsID="B"))
Characters=(CharName="Scythe",Description="",CharID="A",bLocked="false",Faction="Krall",PreviewImageMarkup="",CharData=(FamilyID="KRAM",HeadID="B",HelmetID="A",TorsoID="B",ShoPadID="B",bHasLeftShoPad=true,bHasRightShoPad=false,ArmsID="D",BootsID="A",ThighsID="D"),AIData=(Accuracy=0.4,Jumpiness=0.5,StrafingAbility=0.5,Tactics=0.5,CombatStyle=-0.2,FavoriteWeapon="UTGame.UTWeap_LinkGun"))
Characters=(CharName="Cerberus",Description="",CharID="C",Faction="Krall",PreviewImageMarkup="",CharData=(FamilyID="KRAM",HeadID="C",TorsoID="C",ShoPadID="B",bHasLeftShoPad=false,bHasRightShoPad=true,ArmsID="C",ThighsID="C"))
Characters=(CharName="Gnasher",Description="",CharID="B",Faction="Krall",PreviewImageMarkup="",CharData=(FamilyID="KRAM",HeadID="A",HelmetID="A",TorsoID="A",ShoPadID="A",bHasLeftShoPad=False,bHasRightShoPad=False,ArmsID="E",ThighsID="D"))
Characters=(CharName="Scorn",Description="",CharID="D",Faction="Krall",PreviewImageMarkup="",CharData=(FamilyID="KRAM",HeadID="A",HelmetID="B",TorsoID="C",ShoPadID="B",bHasLeftShoPad=false,bHasRightShoPad=true,ArmsID="D",ThighsID="D"))
Characters=(CharName="Lockjaw",Description="",CharID="H",bLocked="true",Faction="Krall",PreviewImageMarkup="",CharData=(FamilyID="KRAM",HeadID="A",HelmetID="B",TorsoID="C",ShoPadID="B",bHasLeftShoPad=false,bHasRightShoPad=true,ArmsID="E",ThighsID="D"))
Characters=(CharName="Scar",Description="",CharID="E",bLocked="true",Faction="Krall",PreviewImageMarkup="",CharData=(FamilyID="KRAM",HeadID="A",TorsoID="A",ShoPadID="A",bHasLeftShoPad=False,bHasRightShoPad=False,ArmsID="E",ThighsID="D"))
Characters=(CharName="Sharptooth",Description="",CharID="F",bLocked="true",Faction="Krall",PreviewImageMarkup="",CharData=(FamilyID="KRAM",HeadID="B",HelmetID="B",TorsoID="B",ShoPadID="B",bHasLeftShoPad=false,bHasRightShoPad=true,ArmsID="B",ThighsID="B"),AIData=(Accuracy=0.25,Jumpiness=0.5,StrafingAbility=0.5,Tactics=0.5,CombatStyle=-0.2,FavoriteWeapon="UTGame.UTWeap_RocketLauncher"))
Characters=(CharName="Worg",Description="",CharID="G",bLocked="true",Faction="Krall",PreviewImageMarkup="",CharData=(FamilyID="KRAM",HeadID="C",TorsoID="C",ShoPadID="B",bHasLeftShoPad=true,bHasRightShoPad=true,ArmsID="C",ThighsID="C",BootsID="A"))
Characters=(CharName="Claw",Description="",CharID="J",bLocked="true",Faction="Krall",PreviewImageMarkup="",CharData=(FamilyID="KRAM",HeadID="B",TorsoID="A",ShoPadID="B",bHasLeftShoPad=false,bHasRightShoPad=true,ArmsID="D",ThighsID="E"))
Characters=(CharName="Bargest",Description="",CharID="K",bLocked="true",Faction="Krall",PreviewImageMarkup="",CharData=(FamilyID="KRAM",HeadID="C",TorsoID="C",ShoPadID="A",bHasLeftShoPad=true,bHasRightShoPad=true,ArmsID="C",ThighsID="C"))
Characters=(CharName="Blackfang",Description="",CharID="L",bLocked="true",Faction="Krall",PreviewImageMarkup="",CharData=(FamilyID="KRAM",HeadID="A",TorsoID="A",ShoPadID="B",bHasLeftShoPad=false,bHasRightShoPad=true,ArmsID="D",ThighsID="D",BootsID="A"))
Characters=(CharName="Hellhound",Description="",CharID="I",bLocked="true",Faction="Krall",PreviewImageMarkup="",CharData=(FamilyID="KRAM",HeadID="A",TorsoID="B",ShoPadID="A",bHasLeftShoPad=true,bHasRightShoPad=true,ArmsID="E",ThighsID="D"))
Characters=(CharName="Akasha",Description="",CharID="A",bLocked="false",Faction="Necris",PreviewImageMarkup="",CharData=(FamilyID="NECF",HeadID="A",TorsoID="A",ShoPadID="A",bHasLeftShoPad=true,bHasRightShoPad=true,ArmsID="A",ThighsID="A",BootsID="A"),AIData=(Accuracy=1.0,StrafingAbility=1.0,Tactics=1.0,Jumpiness=0.25,FavoriteWeapon="UTGame.UTWeap_ShockRifle"))
Characters=(CharName="Loque",Description="",CharID="B",bLocked="false",Faction="Necris",PreviewImageMarkup="",CharData=(FamilyID="NECM",HeadID="B",TorsoID="B",ShoPadID="B",bHasLeftShoPad=true,bHasRightShoPad=true,ArmsID="B",ThighsID="B",BootsID="B"),AIData=(Accuracy=1.0,StrafingAbility=0.5,Tactics=1.0,Jumpiness=-0.25,FavoriteWeapon="UTGame.UTWeap_SniperRifle"))
Characters=(CharName="Damian",Description="",CharID="C",bLocked="false",Faction="Necris",PreviewImageMarkup="",CharData=(FamilyID="NECM",HeadID="A",TorsoID="A",ShoPadID="A",bHasLeftShoPad=true,bHasRightShoPad=true,ArmsID="A",ThighsID="A",BootsID="A"))
Characters=(CharName="Kragoth",Description="",CharID="D",bLocked="false",Faction="Necris",PreviewImageMarkup="",CharData=(FamilyID="NECM",HeadID="C",TorsoID="A",ShoPadID="B",bHasLeftShoPad=True,bHasRightShoPad=true,ArmsID="B",ThighsID="A",BootsID="B"))
Characters=(CharName="Malakai",Description="",CharID="E",bLocked="false",Faction="Necris",PreviewImageMarkup="",CharData=(FamilyID="NECM",HeadID="C",FacemaskID="A",GogglesID="A",TorsoID="A",ShoPadID="A",bHasLeftShoPad=True,bHasRightShoPad=true,ArmsID="A",ThighsID="B",BootsID="B"))
Characters=(CharName="Grail",Description="",CharID="H",bLocked="true",Faction="Necris",PreviewImageMarkup="",CharData=(FamilyID="NECM",HeadID="C",FacemaskID="A",TorsoID="B",ShoPadID="A",bHasLeftShoPad=True,bHasRightShoPad=true,ArmsID="A",ThighsID="B",BootsID="B"))
Characters=(CharName="Judas",Description="",CharID="G",bLocked="true",Faction="Necris",PreviewImageMarkup="",CharData=(FamilyID="NECM",HeadID="A",TorsoID="B",ShoPadID="A",bHasLeftShoPad=false,bHasRightShoPad=false,ArmsID="C",ThighsID="B",BootsID="D"))
Characters=(CharName="Nocturne",Description="",CharID="F",bLocked="true",Faction="Necris",PreviewImageMarkup="",CharData=(FamilyID="NECM",HeadID="B",HelmetID="A",TorsoID="A",ShoPadID="B",bHasLeftShoPad=true,bHasRightShoPad=true,ArmsID="C",ThighsID="B",BootsID="A"))
Characters=(CharName="Samael",Description="",CharID="I",bLocked="true",Faction="Necris",PreviewImageMarkup="",CharData=(FamilyID="NECM",HeadID="C",HelmetID="C",TorsoID="A",ShoPadID="B",bHasLeftShoPad=false,bHasRightShoPad=false,ArmsID="A",ThighsID="A",BootsID="D"))
Characters=(CharName="Harbinger",Description="",CharID="J",bLocked="true",Faction="Necris",PreviewImageMarkup="",CharData=(FamilyID="NECM",HeadID="B",HelmetID="B",TorsoID="B",ShoPadID="B",bHasLeftShoPad=true,bHasRightShoPad=true,ArmsID="C",ThighsID="B",BootsID="A"))
Characters=(CharName="Pagan",Description="",CharID="K",bLocked="true",Faction="Necris",PreviewImageMarkup="",CharData=(FamilyID="NECM",HeadID="A",TorsoID="A",GogglesID="A",ShoPadID="A",bHasLeftShoPad=false,bHasRightShoPad=true,ArmsID="B",ThighsID="B",BootsID="C"))
Characters=(CharName="Thannis",Description="",CharID="L",bLocked="true",Faction="Necris",PreviewImageMarkup="",CharData=(FamilyID="NECM",HeadID="C",HelmetID="C",TorsoID="B",ShoPadID="A",bHasLeftShoPad=True,bHasRightShoPad=false,ArmsID="B",ThighsID="B",BootsID="D"))
Characters=(CharName="Alanna",Description="",CharID="N",bLocked="false",Faction="Necris",bLocked=FALSE,PreviewImageMarkup="",CharData=(FamilyID="NECF",HeadID="B",TorsoID="B",ShoPadID="B",bHasLeftShoPad=true,bHasRightShoPad=true,ArmsID="B",ThighsID="B",BootsID="B"))
Characters=(CharName="Arachne",Description="",CharID="S",bLocked="true",Faction="Necris",PreviewImageMarkup="",CharData=(FamilyID="NECF",HeadID="B",HelmetID="A",TorsoID="B",ShoPadID="A",bHasLeftShoPad=true,bHasRightShoPad=false,ArmsID="A",ThighsID="A",BootsID="B"))
Characters=(CharName="Freylis",Description="",CharID="O",bLocked="true",Faction="Necris",PreviewImageMarkup="",CharData=(FamilyID="NECF",HeadID="A",FacemaskID="A",TorsoID="A",ShoPadID="A",bHasLeftShoPad=false,bHasRightShoPad=false,ArmsID="B",ThighsID="B",BootsID="B"))
Characters=(CharName="Malise",Description="",CharID="P",bLocked="true",Faction="Necris",bLocked=FALSE,PreviewImageMarkup="",CharData=(FamilyID="NECF",HeadID="B",HelmetID="B",TorsoID="A",ShoPadID="A",bHasLeftShoPad=true,bHasRightShoPad=true,ArmsID="A",ThighsID="A",BootsID="A"))
Characters=(CharName="Raven",Description="",CharID="R",bLocked="true",Faction="Necris",PreviewImageMarkup="",CharData=(FamilyID="NECF",HeadID="B",FacemaskID="A";,TorsoID="A",ShoPadID="A",bHasLeftShoPad=false,bHasRightShoPad=false,ArmsID="A",ThighsID="B",BootsID="A"))
Characters=(CharName="Visse",Description="",CharID="Q",bLocked="true",Faction="Necris",bLocked=FALSE,PreviewImageMarkup="",CharData=(FamilyID="NECF",HeadID="A",TorsoID="A",ShoPadID="B",bHasLeftShoPad=true,bHasRightShoPad=true,ArmsID="B",ThighsID="B",BootsID="A"))
Characters=(CharName="Matrix",Description="",CharID="A",bLocked="false",Faction="Liandri",PreviewImageMarkup="",CharData=(FamilyID="LIAM",HeadID="D",FacemaskID="C",TorsoID="A",ShoPadID="A",bHasLeftShoPad=True,bHasRightShoPad=false,ArmsID="D",ThighsID="A",BootsID="D"),AIData=(Accuracy=0.4,StrafingAbility=1.0,Tactics=1.0,Jumpiness=0.25,FavoriteWeapon="UTGame.UTWeap_Stinger"))
Characters=(CharName="Aspect",Description="",CharID="C",Faction="Liandri",PreviewImageMarkup="",CharData=(FamilyID="LIAM",HeadID="B",TorsoID="B",ShoPadID="B",bHasLeftShoPad=True,bHasRightShoPad=true,ArmsID="B",ThighsID="B",BootsID="B"))
Characters=(CharName="Cathode",Description="",CharID="B",Faction="Liandri",PreviewImageMarkup="",CharData=(FamilyID="LIAM",HeadID="A",TorsoID="A",ShoPadID="A",bHasLeftShoPad=true,bHasRightShoPad=true,ArmsID="A",ThighsID="A",BootsID="A"))
Characters=(CharName="Enigma",Description="",CharID="D",Faction="Liandri",PreviewImageMarkup="",CharData=(FamilyID="LIAM",HeadID="C",TorsoID="B",ShoPadID="C",bHasLeftShoPad=true,bHasRightShoPad=true,ArmsID="C",ThighsID="B",BootsID="C"))
Characters=(CharName="Collossus",Description="",CharID="F",bLocked="true",Faction="Liandri",PreviewImageMarkup="",CharData=(FamilyID="LIAM",HeadID="B",FacemaskID="B",TorsoID="B",ShoPadID="B",bHasLeftShoPad=True,bHasRightShoPad=true,ArmsID="D",ThighsID="B",BootsID="B"))
Characters=(CharName="Entropy",Description="",CharID="I",bLocked="true",Faction="Liandri",PreviewImageMarkup="",CharData=(FamilyID="LIAM",HeadID="A",FacemaskID="C",TorsoID="A",ShoPadID="B",bHasLeftShoPad=true,bHasRightShoPad=true,ArmsID="B",ThighsID="A",BootsID="A"),AIData=(Aggressiveness=0.5,FavoriteWeapon="UTGame.UTWeap_FlakCannon"))
Characters=(CharName="Monarch",Description="",CharID="H",bLocked="true",Faction="Liandri",PreviewImageMarkup="",CharData=(FamilyID="LIAM",HeadID="D",FacemaskID="A",TorsoID="A",ShoPadID="C",bHasLeftShoPad=True,bHasRightShoPad=false,ArmsID="A",ThighsID="A",BootsID="D"))
Characters=(CharName="OSC",Description="",CharID="K",bLocked="true",Faction="Liandri",PreviewImageMarkup="",CharData=(FamilyID="LIAM",HeadID="C",TorsoID="A",ShoPadID="A",bHasLeftShoPad=true,bHasRightShoPad=False,ArmsID="D",ThighsID="A",BootsID="D"))
Characters=(CharName="Evolution",Description="",CharID="J",bLocked="true",Faction="Liandri",PreviewImageMarkup="",CharData=(FamilyID="LIAM",HeadID="B",FacemaskID="B",TorsoID="B",ShoPadID="A",bHasLeftShoPad=false,bHasRightShoPad=false,ArmsID="A",ThighsID="B",BootsID="B"))
Characters=(CharName="Mihr",Description="",CharID="G",bLocked="true",Faction="Liandri",PreviewImageMarkup="",CharData=(FamilyID="LIAM",HeadID="C",TorsoID="B",ShoPadID="B",bHasLeftShoPad=False,bHasRightShoPad=False,ArmsID="C",ThighsID="A",BootsID="A"))
Characters=(CharName="Raptor",Description="",CharID="E",bLocked="true",Faction="Liandri",PreviewImageMarkup="",CharData=(FamilyID="LIAM",HeadID="C",FacemaskID="C",TorsoID="B",ShoPadID="B",bHasLeftShoPad=true,bHasRightShoPad=true,ArmsID="A",ThighsID="A",BootsID="A"),AIData=(Aggressiveness=0.7,FavoriteWeapon="UTGame.UTWeap_Shockrifle"))
Characters=(CharName="Syntax",Description="",CharID="L",bLocked="true",Faction="Liandri",PreviewImageMarkup="",CharData=(FamilyID="LIAM",HeadID="D",TorsoID="A",ShoPadID="C",bHasLeftShoPad=True,bHasRightShoPad=false,ArmsID="A",ThighsID="A",BootsID="D"))
Characters=(CharName="Torque",Description="",CharID="M",bLocked="true",Faction="Liandri",PreviewImageMarkup="",CharData=(FamilyID="LIAM",HeadID="D",TorsoID="A",ShoPadID="C",bHasLeftShoPad=True,bHasRightShoPad=true,ArmsID="A",ThighsID="A",BootsID="B"))

If you want a few more parts for some of the chars add this at the end of the section where you found the "Characters" entries:

Parts=(Part=PART_Head,ObjectName="CH_Corrupt_Male.Mesh.SK_CH_Corrupt_Male_Head05",PartID="E",FamilyID="LIAM")
Characters=(CharName="Xan MI",Description="Xan MI is the first build ever made from Xan Kriegor.",CharID="N",bLocked="false",Faction="Liandri",PreviewImageMarkup="",CharData=(FamilyID="LIAM",HeadID="E",FacemaskID="C",TorsoID="A",ShoPadID="A",bHasLeftShoPad=True,bHasRightShoPad=false,ArmsID="D",ThighsID="A",BootsID="D"),AIData=(Accuracy=0.4,StrafingAbility=1.0,Tactics=1.0,Jumpiness=0.25,FavoriteWeapon="UTGame.UTWeap_Stinger"))
Parts=(Part=PART_ShoPad,ObjectName="CH_RTeam_Male.Mesh.SK_CH_RTeam_Male_XShoPad07",PartID="G",FamilyID="TWIM")
Parts=(Part=PART_Boots,ObjectName="CH_RTeam_Male.Mesh.SK_CH_RTeam_Male_Boots05",PartID="E",FamilyID="TWIM")
Parts=(Part=PART_Arms,ObjectName="CH_RTeam_Male.Mesh.SK_CH_RTeam_Male_Arms05",PartID="E",FamilyID="TWIM")
Characters=(CharName="Ryns",Description="Ryns is a strange person, not much is known about him.",CharID="P",bLocked="false",Faction="TwinSouls",PreviewImageMarkup="",CharData=(FamilyID="TWIM",HeadID="A",TorsoID="C",ShoPadID="G",bHasLeftShoPad=true,bHasRightShoPad=true,ArmsID="E",ThighsID="C",BootsID="E"))

First unreal tournament 3 patch on the way

ILTKKen — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 19:37:22 -0500

Hoo boy, loots of changes, whadda ya think?

Gameplay:
- Fixed scaling of certain player meshes (increased in size some human and robot meshes). Addresses meshes being smaller than collision box, as well as eyeheight issues.
- Fixed feigning death into/through ForcedDirVolumes.
- Fixed grenade effects in water.
- Increased hellbender rear turret damage.
- Reduced Goliath machine gun spread, plus slight damage increase.
- Fixed warfare scoring for locking down a prime node not called "prime node".
- Slightly increased momentum taken for damage by mantas and vipers.
- Flak, Rocket, and Shock do slightly more damage to manta and viper.
- Made sure Hellfire SPMA cannon can't fire through walls.
- Increased incoming SPMA fire sound radius.
- Fixed impact jumping with hoverboard.
- Fixed bot Pawns losing their PRI at the end of the match, causing them to,
among other things, be invisible
- Fixed being able to switch away from the rocket launcher in the delay
between the third rocket being loaded and the weapon autofiring.

AI:
- Improved bot AI with darkwalker.
- Tweaked bot voice message frequencies.
- Bot aiming tweaks.
- Fixed bots attacking friendly player in rare cases when that player recently stole an enemy vehicle.
- Fixed bots not handling the "Hold This Position" order correctly when the player giving the order is in a multi-person vehicle.

Demo playback:
- Fixed demo playback not ending/looping correctly when the demo ends due to the DemoRecSpectator being destroyed before the end of the file is reached.
- Demos can now be paused.
- By default, demo playback now runs at full speed and interpolates in between
demo frames using the normal client simulation code. The old frame-locked method is still available by passing ?disallowinterp. Timedemos are unaffected by this change.
- Fixed demoplay URL parsing counting the options as part of the filename unless an extension was specified in the demo name
- Added a "Delete Demo" button to the demo playback menu.
- Demo playback now properly handles rotation when viewing a Pawn in first person.
- Fixed looking around while spectating a vehicle.

Server Browser:
- Implemented "Server History" tab page in server browser, with ability to "lock" favorites on that page.
- Added 'Join as spectator' feature.
- Server browser uses smaller font to display more servers.
- Fixed custom mutators not appearing in server browser.
- Fixed custom gametypes not displayed in server browser's window.
- Fixed server browser's listed MaxPlayers being incorrect.
- Added filter option for dedicated servers.
- Fixed server browser showing an incorrect goal score and time limit when the .ini values were used.

User Interface:
- Can now save settings/progress even if have never created a profile.
- Added ping and connect time to scoreboard.
- Removed annoying confirmation menu when starting a game.
- Removed unnecessary top settings page (can use tabs at the top of the settings to navigate).
- Added a Messages tab to the mid game menu.
- Friends messages now saved until explicitly deleted.
- Finer control over mouse sensitivity, using an edit box instead of a slider.
- Added framerate smoothing and FOV options to the advanced video menu.
- Increased max players/bots in menus to 32.
- Fixed auto switching to vote menu at end of match.
- Improved mid game menu performance (don't render world behind it).
- Added version number to main menu.
- Fixed binding gamepad/joystick keys (you must set AllowJoystickInput=1 in the [WinDrv.WindowsClient] of your UTEngine.ini to enable gamepads/joysticks).

HUD:
- Added the killer weapon to victim messages.
- Fixed flag and orb scaling in minimap at high resolutions.
- Fixed node teleporter not showing "You can't teleport with orb" message on clients.
- Fixed situations where "get in vehicle" pictograph wouldn't work correctly.
- Still draw the clock on the scoreboard after the game is over.
- Fixed Duel HUD issues.

Networking:
- Implemented STUN support (Simple Traversal of UDP Through Network Address Translators) to enable clients and servers to connect from behind a NAT.
- Fixed team scores very rarely not updating for a client.
- Fixed bot faction option when running a listen server.
- Fixed link setup not reset correctly when going from a map with a custom link setup to one using the default.
- Fixed a case where Duel would place an incoming player on the wrong team when some players were still travelling.
- Bullseye stats are now properly recorded.
- Fixed clients not travelling to downloaded maps correctly.
- Fixed the client and server getting into a loop sending each other close messages in some situations.
- Quick match incorporates player rating into search decision.
- Fixed issue where Vista clients would not receive all servers from a server browser search.
- Applied proper fix to suppressing voice on dedicated servers.
- Fixed issues with players not getting on right team in Duel and Duel+Survival if a player leaves in certain timing windows during map transitions.
- Fixed previous level PRIs showing up on the scoreboard/leaderboard after the
client travels (making it look like players have already scored lots of points when those clients are in fact still loading)
- Fixed losing your custom character mesh after changing teams during a match.

Server Administration:
- Reduced tick rate for dedicated servers with no clients (saves CPU on idle servers).
- Dedicated servers do not require CD keys.
- Added -configsubdir= command line option to cause .ini files to be loaded/saved from the specified subdirectory of Game\Config\ - Added QueryPort configuration and command line option.
- Added an "AdminChangeOption [option] [value]" console command for server admins. This allows changing most simple .ini values (e.g. GoalScore) from the client. This command will not override URL options. The change will take effect after the next map change.
- Added an "AdminPublishMapList" console command for server admins. This overrides the server's map list for the current game type with the one on the client that used the command.
- Uses GameReplicationInfo.ServerName if set for the name of the server on the server browser.
- Added "AdminForceVoiceMute" and "AdminForceVoiceUnMute": Stops/Starts a player from sending voip to others
- Added "AdminForceTextMut" and "AdminForceTextUnMute": Stops/Starts a player from send text messages to others
- Updated AdminPlayerList to show the PlayerID of the players on the server.
- Updated Kick/Ban to allow for using either the player name or the id

Map Specific:
- Fixed WAR-Avalanche terrain LOD popping issue on high end PCs.
- Fixed bots rarely getting stuck in mid air in DM-Gateway in the city section.
- Fixed some VCTF-Suspense pathing issues.
- Fixed issues with circular lift on DM-Deimos.
- Fixed translucent mesh sorting issues in DM-Gateway.

Campaign/Co-op:
- Fixed a bug that could cause too many bots to be added to co-op matches in some cases.
- Added support for seamless travel interrupting a travel to start another travel. This fixes single player breaking if the host selects the next mission before the clients have finished travelling to the mission selection level
- Fixed extra copy of a character when a human player leaves a co-op game at the right time.
- Changed network loss during single player to result in player signed in locally.

Modding:
- Added a SupportedGameTypes field to UTUIDataProvider_Mutator. If some entries are in this array, the mutator will only be visible in the menus if the selected gametype is found in the array.
- Fixed custom gametype midgame menus not being used correctly.
- Shipping script compiler now allows localized/config defaultproperties because otherwise autodownloaded mods have no way for their localized/config variables to work.
- Added Get/SetSpecialValue() stubs to Object to allow mods to expose values that can be modified without creating a dependancy.

Hey hey!

ILTKKen — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 19:16:28 -0500

Hey everyone, were back. ( It there an echo in here? )

Let's get this shizzle back on the nizzle homedogs
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ILTKKen — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 17:32:29 -0400

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