Flash Player 10.1

Has anyone else installed this yet? It's fabulous. The list of features on the release page (labs.adobe.com btw) are all the generic crap ("ubiquitous bla bla") but the main feature is hardware decoding of H.264 video. I installed it on the PC I have in my kitchen (a communal computer for youtube/newgrounds/reddit ;p) which has pretty low specs (1.8ghz single core >:/) so full screening any video used to make it stutter terribly, but now everything runs full screen perfectly. It has a 7800GT so I guess theres finally some use for that =]

At 11/21/09 03:41 AM, Xeptic wrote: mw2 rant

I didn't enjoy the single player very much either. It's not awful, it's just incredibly generic.. it's a good game engine, and if they had wrote a good story it would have been awesome. Instead they threw a few things in (sorry if I ruin anything here >_>) such as the airport massacre (especially the ending), the white house, the space thing, the end knife fight thing.. just to try and be different, but without need for it. In COD4 they had the excellent nuke going off and the American character dieing, that was brilliant, and they tried to recreate it in this but it just doesn't really fit in. I didn't think any of the set pieces were particularly good either. I enjoyed some of the missions but not much, I only really kept playing so I could complete it (I knew it was short and theres no point NOT completing it). I did it on hardened, I probably would have enjoyed it more on normal because there were some really annoying instances - like on the oil rig (not a bad level), at the end with all the smoke.. took me about 10 tries to finally get through that, and I think I'm a pretty good gamer >:/

The HDMI cable is for output, not input. Might work, but I doubt it because the laptop screem is specifically for the output from the laptop.

I'm not doing Computer Science but I'm doing computer games programming, currently in my 2nd year at Teesside University. We're mainly using C++ and the first year was basically a catch-up year to get everyone to the same level in terms of programming, maths and presentation.. this year with module choices it's much more specific, I'm doing graphics shading, graphics programming, animation and simulation programming as well as 2 games programming modules (games software development). Assessment wise we have to make a 2D and 3D game this year for the games modules, which should be fun.

I don't think Comp Sci. would be very fun, I see it as leading to a job like in Office Space >:/

What is board.number? board is an array of Cells, you are doing this:

board[i][j] = board.number

This doesn't make any sense. board[i][j] is a struct of type Cell, right? So board[i][j] is just a pointer to a Cell, and board.number is trying to access a member of a Cell that's not there.. you'd need to do something like board[i][j].number to access a Cells number from the board array.

The FMJ challenge was annoying, I just completed my SCAR-H one today. It wasn't too bad, used Bling w/ FMJ + Holographic Sight.. means I can play like normal, but do more damage :3 The only problem I had was I kept running out of ammo.. I really really need Scavenger to play properly. Thankfully I love the PP2000, that gun is one of the best in the game :) It gets really annoying when you run out of ammo for both your main and secondary weapon, though >_>

At 11/19/09 10:25 AM, TheMaster wrote: http://www.destructoid.com/paid-subscrip tion-coming-to-playstation-network-15554 8.phtml

Apparently it's confirmed that Sony are looking at ways to add a premium service to PSN (although online play will remain free).. this isn't as bad as it sounded. That slide looks incredibly fake though - "non-game (video, comic etc)" wtf does comic mean? Why would there be comic distribution over PSN? That doesn't make any sense to me. Also announcing a non-game SDK for release in Q2 of 2010.. so developers can produce.. office applications? Seriously, this slide looks like the sort of thing someone would mock-up.

At 11/19/09 01:03 PM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: The future

One thing I'm looking forward to (I'm switching tracts a tad here) is wireless power. A lot of the major electronics companies are currently working on it and it seems to be going well. I think it's the next big technological innovation - a subtle thing that will change the way we do things, or at least improve all of our devices considerably. I don't think it'll be used (or is being targeted at) home appliances, but things like mobile phones, laptops, portable game consoles.. being able to charge them constantly without having to plug them in will be a big thing. It'll be like having an unlimited battery on your iPod :3

At 11/19/09 05:31 AM, hdxmike wrote: Also who gets the feeling that LARRY ep 1 isnt going to be one of those temporary #1s ?

I just watched it, it's not bad.. but it's definitely not great :S

I played Borderlands through once, that was awesome. I need to get Dragon Age, gonna pick it up for PC because it's cheaper and I don't care that much about it but I think I'll spend at least ~10 hours on it even if I don't get into it.

Anim8or - easy to use, not great and hasn't been updated for over a year.. but like I say, easy to use.. and you can get a plugin to export to POV-Ray (a pretty decent ray tracer), or use the not-so-good rasteriser it comes with.

Google SketchUp - Great for making quick models. Mainly for architectural stuff, but it could be very handy.

This isn't anything new but the story for MW2 is just awful. It starts off fine but then it does something which I've seen being done before, I think writers think it's a smart plot-piece, but really it's not it's just stupid. There were some cool levels, but really.. meh. The airport scene was a bit dull. Also I noticed that when you kill someone, they don't react at all - they just.. fall over. If they added screaming, it would be a lot more effective.

Anyway.. the multiplayer is great, I have a k/d of 1.5 atm but I'm sure it'll go up.. I love the large customisation, so there's something for everyone :)

The game is probably much better on console, I played it on PC and it was definitely not very well optimised for PC >:3 Still a fantastic game though.

At 11/14/09 02:51 PM, Depredation wrote: I wish we had something like that in the UK.

Me too, the only good player we have is iPlayer.. the 4od player isn't great and the itv player is just awful. iPlayer is the fucking shit though, best video player on the web, and it should be for the amount they've spent making that site.

At 11/14/09 01:53 PM, liaaaam wrote:

I wouldn't say it is, i don't condone it

I would say it's illegal, but I think it's one of those grey areas.. it's probably not grey, it's probably pretty damn clear that downloading TV shows = illegal. I do it anyway, especially because I follow a lot of American TV and we don't get those shows here for months/years/ever. I prefer to stream things if I can (I use iPlayer a lot) but I also love having all the series of TV shows I like. I do buy some, but usually they are way overpriced.

Sorry for discussing piracy ;L

I know it's not the art forum, so sorry about that, won't happen again.

I don't think anyone minds, lots of other people do the same thing. That's fantastic, anyway, really cool and well done.

At 11/14/09 11:51 PM, Zyphonee wrote: Oh, and I am downloading every Tarantino movie ever made, I'm totally having the best Sunday ever tomorrow...

Hehe :-) I (and.. everyone else in the world?) love Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs. Not much a fan of Kill Bill but I admit that's mainly because I've never watched them properly. I just watched Inglorious Basterds the other day, my god that film is awesome. Definitely on par with Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs..

A hardcore gamer is one who plays lots of non-casual games. Throwing a controller at something in frustration is not being a hardcore gamer, it's just being whiny. You seem to have got the phrase "hardcore gamer" completely wrong.

At 11/14/09 01:16 PM, andhination wrote: Everybody saying "you need anger management" has obviously never played a game on any difficulty other than easy, just saying.

I always play games on hard and never get frustrated like that, though I guess that's because I'm playing the games on hard because I'm good at games rather than just for the sense of achievement battling through hard modes when I'm not good enough would bring (and the subsequent rewards i.e. trophies/achievements).

At 11/14/09 01:33 PM, Deadclever23 wrote: Does anyone know any good places to watch Family Guy online? All the places I've tried is MegaVideo which takes ages to buffer and of course not being a US citizen I can't watch them on FOX online.

Well, that would be illegal, it's just the same as downloading them.

At 11/14/09 06:36 AM, GustTheASGuy wrote: C++ doesn't have automatic memory management. Using it directly you'll be lost in problems introduced by technicals you don't understand, and won't be able to focus on the engine.

With absolutely no experience in C++ I guess that could be a problem, but the extensibility offered might make it worth using. C++ being one of the most popular languages right now makes it worth learning at some point, especially in the games industry.

At 11/13/09 09:58 AM, explodingbunnies wrote: oh? i found one that does 358 dmg, and with rolands faster firing rate perk, and increased clip size perk, it was quite a good gun.

Meh, my sniper rifle does ~480 damage with 150% crit damage (and since it's a sniper rifle I get headshots 75% of the time), and my revolver does ~70*7, so roughly 500 damage..

Actually my shotgun has the most damage, ~120*11.. I forgot about that, somehow :P Bad clip size (mordecais clip size skill only increases sniper rifle clip) and slow reload, but powerful and accurate.

At 11/13/09 08:53 AM, HeavyTank wrote: pics or it didn't happen

"Holy crap, it shoots rockets!". They're quite common, but not very good (in my experience) :/

I've got very little experience with Xcode but I really didn't like it. My favourite IDE is MSVC, it's excellent (especially for debugging) but I'm 99% sure it's Windows only. In fact I'm not aware of any Mac C++ IDEs except Xcode, so I can't really give you any advice there.

If you wanted to do an XBLA game you'd have to use Windows anyway, if you were using XNA (my assumption) and in that case you'd be using C# anyway.

At 11/12/09 01:16 PM, ZpLiNtEh wrote: w00t my dad got MW2 from Sainsburys, it was 26 quid indeed, get in.

26 quid for the PS3 version? Holy cow.

At 11/12/09 05:15 AM, DirtySyko wrote: There are so many times I'll be trailing someone and they will escape narrowly behind a fence, or they will be in a window covered by a wall, and the RPD would cut through it like it didn't even exist.

I loved getting kills like that, though it's much more satisfying when you're using a sniper rifle (the M40A3).. following an enemy and then they disappear, but you still take the shot by guessing where he'll be.. pow :) Even cooler if it's a headshot.

It was also the only gun I never cared to use a red dot with. I loved the iron sight it had, and you needed that grip if you wanted to snipe across the map.

Yeah, the RPD iron sights were fantastic - better than with the RPD. The MP5 was fine too, which was nice cos it was a good gun especially with the silencer.

At 11/12/09 01:43 AM, DirtySyko wrote: getting rid of the Deep Impact as a perk and turning it into FMJ, which is a gun add-on, making it so if you want to shoot through walls you have to sacrifice having a red dot sight

That's more realistic, though. You can still shoot through walls without FMJ (and Deep Impact on CoD4), just not as much.. I never understood why anyone would use that, it's such a circumstantial weapon. The most killing you will do will be people you can see, but maybe twice per round you will kill someone through a wall - and you can do that without having to sacrifice a perk/attachment, just SLIGHTLY less effectively :L

not unlocking the AK-47 until level 70 makes me very sad

The AK47 was my main weapon in CoD4 too (golden of course), and it kicked major ass.. easily the best weapon in the game, so I can see why it's the one you unlock last.

The graphics are meh - good, but nothing special.

After lots of trouble with online, I'm on now.. pillaging motheruckas =D The single player is a bit meh but the online is just CoD4++, which is fine.

Ok, it came back on :)

At 11/11/09 04:35 PM, IrishGun wrote: My trophies haven't allowed me to sync in the past 2 days.
Anyone else have this problem?

That was patched in the 1.02 update apparently, and sure enough, mine synced just now (when it didn't before).

The online isn't working, this isn't cool :-( Not unexpected, but still uncool.

At 11/10/09 02:35 PM, Jimp wrote: Anyone else grab CoD:MW2 today? Holy shit, FUN! Ive only played probably half the single player so far and its absolutely insane, multiplayer is what I got it for though. Its everything I could have possibly hoped for really, what a great game! This things gonna ruin my final year at uni :)

I pre-ordered it at Play.com, they guaranteed it would be here on release day but it didn't arrive (they only shipped it Monday night!). I hope it arrives today (well, Wednesday, it's technically Wednesday), because I do want to plays it >:P

If anyone wants a game (PS3) add me: jimpuk

I shall, I'm 'notliam' btw if anyone hasn't added me :p

At 11/9/09 05:15 PM, Dromedary wrote: My copy of MW2 just got dispatched. Just thought I'd tell you all :)

Mine too, about 4 hours ago, from Play.com.. who promised it would be here by tomorrow. I don't like my chances >_<

At 11/9/09 07:37 AM, HeavyTank wrote: You obviously never tried a rocket launcher that fires 6 rockets at a time, did you?
It will make you win ALL duels, and is deadly if you fire it on the ground below the enemy...

I had a rocket launcher that fired 5 rockets at once, each about 300 damage, plus x2 electrical damage.. it still sucked :/ (that was at level ~20 too).

I have a revolver that shoots 7x 63 damage, with a clip size of 6.. it kicks uber ass :) Though my house mate who I play over LAN with has a 7x 100 damage revolver with ammo regen, so he wins a bit there >: P

Play.com sent me an e-mail saying they'd guarantee delivery of MW2 on release date (tomorrow) if I bought before 11pm Sunday.. so I bought it on Friday or Saturday (can't remember, but I got purchase confirmation Saturday so I assume I bought late Friday night), since it's £45 there and that's as cheap as I'm gonna find it (well, it's £43 on Amazon but I don't like Amazon very much and I <3 Play). I got my confirmation e-mail, but no dispatch e-mail.. and it's Monday, so the game is supposed to be here tomorrow. It's possible it'll be sent today with next day delivery, but since it's free delivery the only reason they'd do that is to save on breaking the guarantee. I'm kinda hoping the game comes Wednesday and I can try get the game for free or something ;)

At 11/8/09 05:45 PM, xscoot wrote: Holy fuckballs, it's unbalanced. I especially like how he went for kills in an objective based game, and still won. Isn't that great?

A dead enemy can't win the game :/ I love playing HQ (it's all I play, really) and I always just go for kills.. obviously centering around the HQ, as that guy did in that video. I capture the HQ when I can, but I'd prefer to kill lots of people.

At 11/8/09 08:54 PM, Rig wrote: Alright! Connect to newgrounds.nuclearfallout.net:27015 - it should work :D

Fantastic, I'll add it to my favourites and play with you all when I can :)