At 10/30/09 08:15 AM, Jimp wrote: I dont want to be facing downtime or anything but it looks like most of the basic packages are very similar. Shall I just pick someone reliable that I like the look of and go for it?

uptime is always a problem and it's one of the thing that matters the most (if you want to retain visitors). If you go with a huge hosting company the chances of downtime causing any major problems are small, but the chance of server problems because of a large amount of customers is increased, but if you go with a smaller company then you're risking them disappearing or not having the funds to put into action server switches if the server you're on does die.

I would personally recommend you try hostgator, they're a very good company (form what I've heard review wise) and have minimal downtime and they're not going anywhere soon.

At 10/30/09 08:11 AM, gumOnShoe wrote: Your invite never went through D:

For you? It says on my account:

People you've nominated:

k------@gmail.com

:(

I've been using it a bit, not too sure if I'll ever end up using it properly, but I can see it being very helpful in a corporate environment. citricsquid@gmail.com if you want to add me to your network thingy.

At 10/29/09 01:22 PM, Rustygames wrote: Unlike most of you, I don't worship the man...

good to see you're consistently a dick. I don't worship him, but I recognise he has lots of valuable experience and information that is relevant to lots of us and I'm pretty sure others feel the same way.

I posted about AMA a few pages back, after weebl and edmund did one, well now fulpy is! ask him anything!

At 10/28/09 03:21 PM, Deadclever23 wrote: Because you can't just say someone's wrong without any evidence. You've provided evidence but with this statement you've provided no new evidence. Evidence strengthens this statements point, without it you seem like an illogical douchebag.

apparently you're too incapable of using the internet properly, so I'll link you to the information just so you can check yourself. here you go.

It depends massively on what you want to achieve. If it was down to me I'd go with a cheapish company like dreamhost with a view to move onto something more suited to the needs of a large flash site if it went well. Personally, what you have right now and goals make perfect sense to be ran from dreamhost or a similar company, but you need to make sure you've got the money and time to quickly upgrade. This is the problem with the internet, traffic is never guaranteed, your site can be hugely popular one day and the next it's gone.

I would personally recommend you go with dreamhost or hostpapa and take a look at a dedicated server provider (or vps with cdn) for the future in case it goes well, if it does then make sure you've got the understanding to quickly take a hold of it, if your site goes down for more than a day then you're going to lose your traffic, because the flash game site market really isn't a market that has loyalty, people will come and go as they please. You're not providing a unique service. (speaking from experience).

At 10/28/09 03:06 PM, liaaaam wrote: They did, ages ago. Counter Strike isn't a console game - the only game play element is multiplayer and even that isn't anything special. It was released (on console) at a time when multiplayer wasn't huge, so it didn't do very well. I think that was on original Xbox.

Really? heh, didn't know that :D

Well, see, PC gamers are using a PC.. console gamers are using a console. The 360 doesn't even have a web browser so there is absolutely no way or reason for Xbox owners to go onto the L4D forums without having to go to their PC, in which case they might as well buy the superior (and better supported) PC version.

unless my brother (as outlined a few posts back) is a magical case, I don't see how that's an issue. They're entirely different, the majority of xbox players use a computer also so if they care about the game enough to play it lots they care about it enough to discuss it online. Maybe it's different, but in my experience that's the case.

At 10/28/09 01:46 PM, citricsquid wrote:

Call of Duty 4 wasn't long but it was definitely over 3 hours - about 7, maybe 5 on the second play through. The online was the killer for both those games (though I'm not a fan of CoD5). I've spent over 20 days on Call of Duty 4, that's game time so about 500 hours. I totally respect your opinion on L4D, I just wasn't a fan of the style of the game.. the gameplay gets boring mid-campaign for me, though I do enjoy Versus I just wish there was more to it.. some reason to play. I never play now, only ever really did with friends (I've probably also spent about 50-100 hours also in that respect) but even then I was just playing it because my friends were. I always saw it's flaws (the uninteresting campaigns, the shit weapons, etc).

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/sh owthread.php?t=1001772 ;)

At 10/28/09 03:06 PM, Deadclever23 wrote: What a mature way of arguing.

I think now I should say "No your wrong, and you smell".

Please explain how it's immature. He presented his side of the argument, I countered it with my disagreement and explained what I meant, he countered, I countered he then said "let's just agree to disagree". That's the biggest cop-out for an argument, ever, if you can't or aren't willing to argue your side or admit you're wrong, what's the point? if I go into an argument I expect to either: be right and persuade the other person I am, or be wrong and be persuaded I am wrong. I don't expect the other person to go "actually, I'm probably wrong, but I won't bother arguing so let's just agree that we have a different opinion!". We're arguing fact, we both can't be right.

At 10/28/09 02:58 PM, Rustygames wrote: Like I said, I don't want to argue because you're getting close to insulting my intelligence, so let's just agree to disagree.

but you're wrong.

At 10/28/09 02:52 PM, Rustygames wrote: Fucking hell I've struck a nerve. Fine you're right, people spend more time / money playing PC games

No, I just find it hilarious that you're saying xbox matters to valve more than PC and we're freeloading off you. L4D sold ~700,000 copies on xbox, over 2.3MILLION on PC and that's retail, that doesn't include steam sales which is most likely also into the millions. The evidence points to PC making more money for valve through gaming, not xbox. You also totally ignored my points about microsoft being the ones to charge for DLC, not valve, but I guess I'll ignore that as you clearly don't have a clue about what you're saying.

also arguing no more because Luis will get angry.

At 10/28/09 02:23 PM, Deadclever23 wrote: PC gamers are on computers. Forums are on computers.
Console gamers are on consoles. Forums can be on consoles but no-one really goes on forums on their console.

Average laziness of gamers > Effort to walk to computer, log on to forum and ask "Haii guyz, let's kill zombehs!!!".

My brother is an xbox 360 user, he plays on his xbox 360. He doesn't play on his PC, he plays on his xbox 360. Okay, got that, he's an Xbox 360 player. Now what does he do when he wants to discuss the games that he plays? He goes onto his computer and uses forums for those games. Are you trying to imply that someone who plays xbox 360 games never uses the internet for forums? That's a stupid argument, I quite clearly see Liam who is posting here plays xbox 360 and uh, this is a forum, isn't it?

Reg lounge invade, sorry Luis :(

At 10/28/09 02:09 PM, Rustygames wrote: Valve must care about consoles since it's where the majority of their L4D profit is coming from. Bottom line is Xbox users ARE paying for this thing to be made, if the game wasn't on the consoles it wouldn't be as popular and L4D2 probably wouldn't have been made so fast or maybe not at all.

oh god you must be trying to annoy me, you must be. Please show me where you get these figures from, Valve are only doing xbox games "because they can", they could stop when they liked and they would lose fuck all. Xbox does not account for any substantial amount of their profits. Valve are and always will be and always have been a computer company, consoles are "eh, whatever, we can't lose out if we try". How many people are on L4D right now on xbox? 16k playing on PC right now. Their steam platform right now has 1.64MILLION users logged in, as in, their accounts are logged in.

Their game counter strike source has 80,817 players IN GAME right now, if xbox was where their profit came from why didn't they port that over? The steam forums, which are also the valve forums, have a section for the game on xbox and a section for the game on PC. The xbox section has 18,000 posts in total, the PC section has 890,000. I'd love to see you explain how that works.

I hope to god you're trying to troll (although that word sucks) because otherwise you have no idea, you really don't. Valve will never care enough about consoles to make them their primary source of income.

At 10/28/09 01:59 PM, Rustygames wrote: First of all, LOL you think COD4 only has 3 hours of gameplay. I'm guessing you havn't played it.

Played it, completed it, it was okay but far from super duper fun.

I'm by no means boycotting L4D2, but I must just point out a few things which have really pissed me off about L4D. First of all, PC users get it cheaper and get all DLC for free. This to me is utter bullshit. Console users have to pay all the bills and PC users get a free ride, I don't see how that's fair in the slightest. I'm of course reffering to this Crash Course DLC, which is very shit, but costs Xbox users a few quid. Bullshit.

FYI Valve are primarily a computer game company, they don't focus on consoles. Furthermore, it's microsoft who set the pricing, microsoft don't let them release free DLC for the xbox, so uh, blame them not Valve.

I'd also like to point out that due to PC users hacking the game, a lot of dev time is spent fixing things which only affect the PC version, and yet they still pay less...

once again, valve is a computer company. The majority of their success is down to the freedom we computer gamers have, I mean take a look at any of their games and the modding community is massive, gmod is a perfect example.

L4D2, as far as I can see, is a major inprovement on the first, so it's by no means not worth the cash, the problem I have with it is the fact that PC users will continue to freeload off Xbox users. Bottom line is, it makes me angry when we have to pay for the DLC and PC users get it free, and if I buy L4D2 then I'm going to feel that anger again whether I like it or not, and believe it or not, I don't like being angry.

So that's the only reason I'd think twice before buying it

I assume either you're joking or you're.... I don't know. Valve don't give a shit about consoles, it means nothing to them, seriously, they're doing it because they're wanted to. Gabe has said he hates consoles for development and they refuse to develop for the ps3 after the massive failure of the orange box on that (IIRC).

We're not freeloading of you, we made Valve the company that they are. Furthermore, LOLFPSONCONSOLE. Enjoy subpar gaming.

I have a L4D2 Demo server live, London. If anyone wants to join in, sure thing! Just got to wait 2 hours and 16 mins! The demo is pretty good apparently, the new infected etc. are great.

Regarding the L4D/L4D2 situation, I disagree entirely. Sure, L4D could have been better but it was most definitely a full game. I played well over 100 hours of it and I base value on enjoyment, price and time had from it. I paid £25 for L4D, if I can get 25 hours for £25 that's a brilliant deal, there are a huge amount of shit games right now that cost >£30 and play for about 3 hours, Call of duty 4/5 being perfect examples.

A company has to make money, they can't spend an entire year building a brand new game only to release it as free downloadable content because a small group of whiney gamers can't handle a couple of extra £. The entire L4D2 boycott was ridiculous and I'm glad the people who ran it realised it and ended it.

At 10/28/09 10:58 AM, FallingTears wrote: I'm working on them everyday. I really want to make the perfect E-mail regex, because I want any e-mail to be validated by it. It's just hard to imagine all the possibilities.

http://code.google.com/p/php-email-addre ss-validation/

You could work what this does into a single regular expression, maybe.

At 10/28/09 06:32 AM, REDSPADES wrote: I'd believe it if it didn't come from an Obscure internet blog, especially since he didn't sign his reply by which law states he must.

Obscure blog? It's the official paper for san Francisco website bro.

Holy shit this is amazing, so Schwarzenegger had to sign some thing and he refused adding a paragraph (or 2) at the end and sending it, so anyway, look what it spells:

story

http://www.newgrounds.com/network/

They show here. Every inbound click = +1, they do not need to register.

At 10/27/09 01:41 PM, BoMToons wrote: I grafixed a new game:
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/51 6016

"okay, the starting screen is good, but what the fuck?"
"uh, wtf do I do?"
"okay, I'll just stick stuff here and click the boom button"
"oh okay, I get it, that is pretty awesome!".

THOUGHT PROCESS. I don't want to play more because I know I'll get addicted, but, it is fun... fuck it, I'll play it.

At 10/27/09 01:22 PM, Hybrid-Of-Souls wrote: 'splain, please.

Logged in as deleted.

England, could be better, but it's nice.

made $0.23, wtf. 960 impressions, $0.24 eCPM.

At 10/27/09 10:30 AM, Jerrid22 wrote: Colour :) america and canada have diffrent spelling for it, canada's is colour, america's is Color :)

There are more places than Canada and America in the world.

At 10/27/09 06:58 AM, Depredation wrote: L4D2 DEMO

Anyone getting it tonight (preorder)? If so add depredation06 to steam if you want to katana some zombies.

I'm about to go out shopping for supplies, coke and haribo! I've added you! Been waiting for at least a week, IT COULD NOT COME SOONER. 5 HOURS AND 51 MINUTES!

your steam name is gay lol

At 10/26/09 11:43 PM, PenguinKommando wrote: There was a story of 4 kids in Connecticut or somewhere breaking into a house and murdering the occupants for fun, and then posting about it on facebook which is the only reason they got caught. They chose this house because it was in the wilderness and they knew they had a low chance of the police getting there in time. The kids all used knives, and I think in this case a gun would have been a great deterrent, although yeah I guess it could have gone awry, but I don't think the children would have tried to overpower someone pointing a gun at them, if they are only equipped with knives.

In this case, potentially a gun could have saved the homeowners. This assumes that they knew this was going to happen, let's say the homeowners did own a gun and did "protect" themselves, how could the intent of the people breaking in be proven? If you give people guns they're going to use them in a heated situation, police/army are trained to understand when to use a gun, the general public aren't. What if those kids had just been playing? For whatever reason they went into the house, okay sure they broke the law, but did they deserve to die?

In my mind there are so many more chances of it being a bad idea than a good idea. How many people every year break into someone's house with the intent of killing them? How many people break into houses with the intent of just stealing stuff?

At 10/26/09 10:46 PM, Frank-The-Hedgehog wrote: I'm not even an American, I live in a nation without guns and I just simply love the idea of owning guns after having my home broken into a few times because the police simply couldn't get here until an half an hour later.

So what would you have done? These people who broke into your home, did they threaten you physically? You seem pretty alive to me right now, so you didn't need to kill them, did you? Giving peoples guns and saying "protect yourself" is ridiculous, some people think a person entering their home is going to kill them. The purpose of a gun is to kill, you didn't need a gun.

At 10/26/09 10:33 PM, Frank-The-Hedgehog wrote: Yes, and let's not build shelters because it is not raining, lets not collect food because we are not hungry.

Lets not protect ourselves when we can just... don't, right?

Let's not fight for the right to bare arms because we can and have no need to and then ridicule and imply any other nation that doesn't is asking to be buttfucked over their lack of rights to do so.

Silly americans.

At 10/26/09 10:18 PM, TrippingBallsYo wrote: Pahaha, oh wow.

It was a joke you uneducated fuck.

The only countries I can even think of that need any kind of laws close to that would be a place like Somalia or Liberia.

See above

So you're pretty much a captive in your own country. That or it's the massive herds of Muslims invading your land and threatening to kill anyone who even speaks out about their religion.

See above

I can really see the Union Jack with a crescent moon in the middle of it, that'd look pretty.

See above

At 10/26/09 10:16 PM, Frank-The-Hedgehog wrote: You sir, is the only laughable human being in this small forum space. Do you have no fear of the government? Of course not, you obviously trust them way too much assuming from your posts. Who could be there to stop them when one day when they inevitably takes control of everything? When they strip down your rights as a citizen of great Britain?

haha, how so? I'd love to see examples of this, I am as free as you Americans are. If I want to work, I work, if I don't want to work, I don't work, if I want to go to the shop, I go to the shop. If I want to wank, I wank.

We, the people, need firearms to protect ourselves, not just from the petty street thugs, but from the people who will take them away from you the first chance they get.

I'd love to, once again, see examples of this.

But of course, they've taken it away from you already, and now they are having cameras in each and every little street corners, watching your every move while ignoring the violence caused by thugs.

I can see you love to listen to the ridiculous media in America. My street has no cameras, I can walk for well over a mile without being caught by any, the only I can show you within my area are those outside shops and I'm pretty sure your shops also have them. And no, they don't hide cameras in the bushes.

Who needs guns, I ask.

over protective uneducated fucks, I answer.

At 10/26/09 10:01 PM, Frank-The-Hedgehog wrote:

At 10/26/09 09:58 PM, BrockManson wrote: 'Color' is a bastardised form of 'colour' you realise...

And english is a bastardised form of latin along with many languages with improved grammar rules, your point?

English people don't try and lecture the latin speakers on their "annoying" language. YOU SEE, FUCK YOU AMERICANS.

At 10/26/09 09:56 PM, PBass wrote: The English language is stupid as hell anyways, it's a wonder how it became the common tongue.

French is awesome. Why can't we all be french? It's like, sex!