At 7/13/09 11:37 PM, CrucifiedEmperor wrote: Drive-thru anyone?

Psh, only if you just want food.

Oh hey, I got it.

At 7/13/09 11:29 PM, firemaker60 wrote: Yeah, I had that exact same problem with my old sig before. Your sig will display fine to Windows users, it's just that the Mac's color palette (and in turn, PS CS3's default palette) that makes it seem darker.

For example, below is my old sig. It'll look fine to people using a Windows or Adobe palette, but it'll look darker to a Mac palette.

Yeah, I had to tweak some settings in CS3, then I opened the image once again with different settings. I think the file size was then reduced, so I was able to save without lowering image quality. I have no idea how that all worked though...

At 7/13/09 11:21 PM, Veranan wrote: just make the image of the NG background the size of the sig.

That's what I have essentially been doing, but whenever it's uploaded, the image becomes darker. The image on my computer is the right color, whereas once uploaded it becomes darker.

At 7/13/09 11:23 PM, AngryCat wrote: What format are you saving in?

.jpg. Also, I have to bring the quality down to 11 (rather than 12) so that it meets the 40kb cap. Could this be the problem?

At 7/13/09 11:26 PM, michelinman wrote: i'm sorry dude, i just can't take you serious with chumbawumba as a name. haha. it reminds me too much of being a little douchy preteen runnin around my house wearing nothin but underwear like tom cruise in risky business screamin "I GET KNOCKED DOWN! BUTIGEDDUPAGAIN!!"

Fair enough. :p

I'm trying to create a sig, giving the illusion of transparency without too great of a loss of quality. Attached is an image with the two color discrepancies--on top is the normal BBS background with the color code 25272d, while on the bottom is my attempted recreation with the color code 1c1d21.

I use the eyedropper tool to copy the color of the background, then add it to my sig, but whenever uploaded, the color becomes significantly darker.

I'm using Photoshop CS3 on a Mac, if that's relevant.

Damn, I thought I had a fighting chance to get into the top 5 with my +740. What was I, 6th?

Rarest I have may be Silent Hill for the Playstation, but I don't know shit about vidya game value.

At 7/10/09 10:50 PM, starownage3 wrote: The bible will remain unchanged. Its the only book that never needs to be revised cuz its right

You have much to learn about the force, my child.

At 7/10/09 10:51 PM, WhooKidd wrote: so has anyone else got a weird message from image shack. says somethignabout spyware or something

Yeah, saw that on another forum. Just a bunch of people who think too highly of themselves.

Oh shit, and the hardest achievement I have is Stomach Upset for Left 4 Dead. I had so many close calls, and finally got it last month.

At 6/23/09 06:15 PM, xscoot wrote: One Man Army was easy. Just go in a boat, and drive around for a while. Actually, that doesn't work too well, you'd lose your stars to quickly. That's what happened to me the first time around

The sure fire way to get One Man Army is to hide out in the subway system between islands, though you probably can only do that earlier on (which is what I did). It pisses the army off, instant six stars when you try to go through, and they never bother you. In the meantime, you can have a nice cold pint, and wait for it all to blow over.

At 7/9/09 11:23 AM, warshark wrote: Try to find someway to actually connect your 360 to the internet so you can download the patch properly. See if that works.

Agreed, you can easily do that with a USB cable and computer.

Is there some reason you don't want to hook the Xbox up to Live?

At 7/8/09 12:34 AM, squidly wrote: Think it could actually boost sales?

Everyone who wants a Wii most likely already has one. Nintendo is way behind in the game with this release. If they'd done this much earlier on, they would have been much better off.

At 7/6/09 10:43 PM, snowy556 wrote: Personally, my favorite noise is the crack that you hear while splitting wood with an axe, and the wood splits.

Oooh, that's a nice one. Similar to the crackling of a fire, but still a unique pleasure.

Unfortunately I can't think of anything original, but I do love to hear the sound of leaves rustling in the wind at night. To me it means sleep, summer, and tranquility.

All my friends like them except me. Same goes for Modest Mouse. Does this make me a bad person?

At 7/5/09 04:10 PM, xscoot wrote:

At 7/5/09 03:18 AM, blakedatch wrote: I bought the accessory a while back

It's not out yet. Whatever you bought was some third-party knockoff.

It has been out for almost a month now. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wii_MotionP lus

I definitely saw one in Wal-Mart a few weeks ago, nothing third-party.

So if I get this game without having played Halo 3 beforehand, would I understand the plot entirely? I know its a prequel to Halo 3, but is there anything pertaining to the story I should know before playing ODST?

At 6/18/09 01:09 PM, SlipperyMooseCakes wrote: A special edition "Collector's Pack" has been confirmed, containing the game and a special ODST wireless Xbox 360 Controller.

Looks badass, and the Collector's Pack seems like a good deal. $100 for a $60 game + $50 controller. Not that I need another controller, since I have two and so far have only needed two, but I could always put one out of commission.

At 7/4/09 04:38 AM, dmansland wrote: Yeah there is also a rumor for a firmware update that will give all PS3 backwards compatibility with PS2 without that one chip that name escapes me at the moment in a couple of weeks. Interesting how rumors start and sometimes don't come true, though I pray to God the PS3 backwards compatibility is true. I own a newer PS3 with no chip.

That'd be nice, since backwards compatibility is a big buying point for me. Will it be able to play original PlayStation games as well?

Here's another image of the alleged PS3 Slim I found here. It's rather small, but does look like a smaller PS3 separated into pieces.

At 7/3/09 11:53 PM, scetch00 wrote: A july release? Tell me what month we are in right now?

That's what makes me skeptical about the rumor, but there are articles which write it off as being plausible.

The only reason I have any curiousity is because BestBuy is giving great new 80 GB bundles to get rid of stock for what could be the next new PS3.

That's a sign something may happen. Just like how the 360 20GB Pro dropped $100 so they could make way for the more high-end versions.

Yeah, the PS3 price cut rumors have been active for years now, but some recent hub-bub has stated that Sony plans on dropping the price of the original model to make way for its release of the PS3 Slim in the fall. Some sites speculate the release of the PS3 slim to be this month, but that seems too sudden.

Here's an article speculating a July release of the PS3 Slim. Apparently Sony has given two Taiwanese companies the green light to manufacture the new model.

Personally I'm not putting any trust into these rumors as so many PS3 rumors have been a let-down, but if it happens, great.

Sounds like abuse. You should call the cops.

Wade Fulp figurines

At 6/30/09 11:37 PM, Chumbawamba wrote: I know there used to be a way to check if auto renewal was on or not on the Xbox website, but it looks like they got rid of that ability with the new site revamp.

Scratch that, I found it. Should be under "Membership Level". I'm assuming yours looks something like this:

Membership Level
------------------------
1 Month Gold

Gold Member since: 4/xx/2009

End date: N/A

Automatic renewal: ON

If you bought Gold on either your Xbox or PC (using a debit/credit card), automatic renewal is on by default. The only way to turn it off is to call Xbox Support, which can be reached at 1-800-469-9269. Tell them you want the feature off. It took me about a half-hour, most of that time I was on hold... Shitty service.

I know there used to be a way to check if auto renewal was on or not on the Xbox website, but it looks like they got rid of that ability with the new site revamp. Not like you could turn it off anyway. Again, shitty service.

At 6/29/09 04:41 PM, YeOldeSierra wrote: The graphics look like a PS2 game, yeah.

PS2? The graphics are considerably better than that.

At 6/29/09 09:01 PM, BananaBreadMuffin wrote: Naw, £17 for the R4, and it came with a 2GB Micro SD card. Compared to the R4 vanilla from the same site, that's £4, which is approx what I'd expect to pay, given P&P.

I paid a pretty hefty sum for my CycloDS Evolution, though it came with a 4GB microSD. I still feel like I could've gotten essentially the same thing by getting the R4 or Acekard, but that's in the past.

OP: I'm almost certain all storage devices you can buy for the DS do not have a homebrew application pre-installed that would play media files. I'd suggest Moonshell, which can play videos, music, and display images. Here's a guide on how to install it to a flash cart.

I heard the Conduit didn't need friend codes, but perhaps that was some other game...

Fallout 3 also sucked for me at first. Instead of going to Megaton initially, I went to the school, where I was killed by Raiders numerous times, then went to the Supermarket, where once again I was killed by lots of Raiders.

If I recall correctly, you don't even have to find Three Dog, though that does make the game a lot easier to navigate. Just look around the Capital Wastelands. You're aiming to go to Rivet City, the area located in the most south-eastern point on the map. That will bring you closer to your dad.

Raiders can be a bitch, especially if you assign everything to an attribute you rarely use. If you use small guns a lot (which you do in the beginning of the game especially), give like 7 points to agility. You'll have to start over, of course, but you're not that far in the game now anyway.

The game is very rewarding in the long run. Once you get the hang of things, it's very good fun.

There has been a history of pretty major glitches with recent Fallout 3 DLC, so I'll shy away from downloading it now, if I ever do. I'd kinda like to move on from Fallout 3, but if it's an awesome addition, I'll get it.

So yeah, report back d00d.

At 6/20/09 10:16 PM, ughanation wrote: Or downloading stuff from your computer?

I believe you can link the Xbox to a Windows computer, and you can transfer stuff like music other media from the PC to the Xbox using Windows Media Center. Here's what it says on the Xbox:

"Play music, videos, pictures, TV, and more from your PC. All you need is a Windows Media Center PC and a home network."

Makes me think you're interested in making games for mobile devices... specifically the iPhone.