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So I've mostly finished my map... Now what? - Pez 21:44:37 08/30/10 (14)
[STORY] The StarCraft 2 Campaign Ravil Wants to Play - Mission 7b: "Die for the Swarm" - Ravil 17:34:53 08/31/10 (22)
[STORY] The StarCraft 2 Campaign Ravil Wants to Play - Story Branching Point and Mission 7a: "Redemption." (Now organized in a crude-if-handy website) - Ravil 19:59:24 08/30/10 (7)
[SC2] At least getting curb-stomped in the Silver league gives me a sobering assessment of my skill level. [NT] - Ravil 12:10:27 09/01/10 (2)
- But what if you psi-storm the soft taco? [NT] - Rotten 13:45:05 09/01/10 (1)
  - I think I spend too much time looking for opportunities to do so. [NT] - Ravil 14:29:48 09/01/10 (0)
I uh... manager to play 100 games as Protoss without ever using, or knowing about, chrono boost. [NT] - Rotten 22:32:02 08/31/10 (14)
- I tend to forget it exists after 8m. There have been a lot of close games against terran lately that I have lost because I forgot. Also my post about Platinum numbers was bullJoystickJ. I haven't fought anything but Terran (with maybe a zerg occasionally) for the past week. [NT] - Lord Yuppie 14:43:37 09/01/10 (2)
  - Which really sucks because I win almost all my games against non-Terran but lose almost all the Terran ones. Making it so I can't progress on the ladder. [NT] - Lord Yuppie 14:45:01 09/01/10 (1)
    - I forget a lot of JoystickJ. I forget about the "second base opening protected by destructible rocks" all the time. It's nice seeing 10 Thor's bearing down on a single proton cannon and your mineral line. Heh, oops. [NT] - Rotten 14:50:22 09/01/10 (0)
- Oh Rotten, you so special. [NT] - Psycho Sam! 09:38:23 09/01/10 (0)
- Well, you should have played the single player when they introduced that mechanic [NT] - Pez 06:45:53 09/01/10 (4)
  - No I did, I think I was high as a kite when I played it or something, heh. [NT] - Rotten 10:09:35 09/01/10 (2)
    - Where was the hooker? [NT] - Mana 13:29:53 09/01/10 (1)
      - Dead by then... oh wait lemme check... yeah, totally dead. [NT] - Rotten 13:45:37 09/01/10 (0)
  - Pfft. Single player. [NT] - Ishpeck 10:06:03 09/01/10 (0)
- Wow, now you can really kick that Void Ray strat into overdrive [NT] - Snapper 00:43:29 09/01/10 (0)
- You, sir, are needed in the Shortbus Tournament. Speaking of which, when the hell is that going to start? I'm taking off again mid-September. Kalledon? [NT] - Ravil 22:32:42 08/31/10 (3)
  - I think that qualifies winning the tournament by default actually. Show's over folks. [NT] - Palin 22:40:03 08/31/10 (2)
    - JoystickJ, now I have to use a hotkey besides clicking "a" on an opponent's expansion. [NT] - Rotten 07:18:21 09/01/10 (1)
      - Hey last week I started using control groups so... ya', I'm learning. [NT] - Rotten 08:55:42 09/01/10 (0)
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! My next duty day falls on Labor Day. JoystickJ whoever decided to put CSes on duty sections for the rest of the year. [nt] - If You Ain't Platinum, You Ain't S--- 21:31:29 08/31/10 (3)
- Meh, I had duty days on just about every major holiday weekend over the course of 4 years assigned to a ship. [NT] - TheDeamon 22:12:37 08/31/10 (2)
  - I wished that it was on Tuesday and not the Monday. [nt] - If You Ain't Platinum, You Ain't S--- 22:34:40 08/31/10 (1)
    - Because of that, I'd have to leave West Coast PAX a little earlier on Sunday. [nt] - If You Ain't Platinum, You Ain't S--- 22:36:01 08/31/10 (0)
[LINK] DESTROY THE BRAIN. - Lothos 20:45:32 08/31/10 (0)
[SC2] Ghosts should be able to "hack" machine-based buildings and see the map viewpoint of the other player. [NT] - Rotten 19:00:23 08/31/10 (3)
- You've already got comsat, why would Terrans need yet another magical scouting ability? [NT] - Fron 19:02:08 08/31/10 (2)
  - I don't think it would matter so much since it would pale in comparison to the scans anyway. - Lord Yuppie 14:51:53 09/01/10 (0)
  - Yeah I thought about that after I possted it.... [NT] - Rotten 19:22:23 08/31/10 (0)
[LINK] Hahaha. What is a PhD, explained in pictures... - Grorx 18:25:00 08/31/10 (4)
- I'd never seen this before a week ago, but now it keeps turning up everywhere I look online. [NT] - Ravil 18:54:17 08/31/10 (2)
  - Great Scott! It's gone VIRAL! [NT] - Ishpeck 10:06:33 09/01/10 (1)
    - Great Scott! [NT] - Sloth Meat for Gentlemen 21:19:26 09/01/10 (0)
- It's like a visualization of why all the parties I go to in this city are so bizarre (I'm frequently the only person in the room not doing a graduate degree in Canadian History). [NT] - Fron 18:30:40 08/31/10 (0)
[STORY] The StarCraft 2 Campaign Ravil Wants to Play - Mission 7b: "Die for the Swarm" - Ravil 17:34:53 08/31/10 (22)
- One change I'd probably do is not have another cerebrate outside of the one you captured, as I take it he was the one used during Brood War and thus should be the last cerebrate left (though canonically Kerrigan killed him as well when she was done). Unless he's actually important to the plot or something. Also to actually make this you would actually need some sort of art persons [NT] - Palin 19:38:51 08/31/10 (14)
  - Interesting. (thoughts within) - Ravil 19:54:24 08/31/10 (13)
    - No cerebrate art anywhere in SC2. I'm not sure if the conversion to non-cerebrates is ever really delved into anywhere, but I know canonically there basically aren't any left. My guess would be things like the Queens/Overlords got promoted given that the Overlord is the default Zerg portrait on buildings. *shrug* [NT] - Palin 20:31:34 08/31/10 (12)
      - I assumed Kerrigan assumed that role? What'd be neat is if it turned out to be some plain old ordinary Terran pulling the Zerg strings. [NT] - Rotten 09:14:10 09/01/10 (7)
        Well, the original Overmind was the size of a skyscJoystickJr and *it* had to create cerebrates to delegate authority to once the Swarm got too big. I can't imagine that 5'10" Kerrigan would be able to manage the entire Swarm better than the Overmind without significant help, no matter how powerful a psychic she is. [NT] - Ravil 10:00:58 09/01/10 (6)
        Maybe it just made them because it was lonely. [NT] - Palin 10:47:37 09/01/10 (4)
        This is actually sort of why I thought the idea of Kerrigan killing all the Cerebrates was kind of a stupid plot point. Wouldn't she get really bored? [NT] - Fron@Work 15:22:27 09/01/10 (3)
        I kinda like the idea of her being crazy paranoid about anyone else who could possibly usurp her power-base to the point of basically eliminating all the controllers of the Swam and upgrading some of the grunts to be slightly more brainy but nowhere near the level where they could ever pose a threat. While she's all evil and JoystickJ, she's actually the most insecure person in the sector. - Palin 16:07:29 09/01/10 (2)
        It can be *my* story. That's an excellent characterization, and if I eliminate mention of the second cerebrate from Mission 7b here then it jives perfectly with what I've got planned. [NT] - Ravil 18:21:56 09/01/10 (1)
        It's kind of hinted at in Brood War already, when she's manipulating everyone to kill the new Overmind. A sort of manic focus on not being under anyone else's power again, ever, brought on by the trauma of what happened to her during the original game. [NT] - Fron 19:12:18 09/01/10 (0)
        Maybe WE are the Overmind, man. Think about it. *takes another bong hit* [NT] - Rotten 10:36:58 09/01/10 (0)
      - Well, the second cerebrate is superfluous anyway. The one they recovered could be the "last" cerebrate, sent out by Kerrigan to wipe out what was left of the UED after Brood War. [NT] - Ravil 22:29:53 08/31/10 (2)
        Bonus points if it turns out she completely forgot about him. [NT] - Fron 23:32:12 08/31/10 (0)
        That's probably what I'd go with. Personally I've got my own cerebrate in the mini-story I'm thinking of for my contest map, but he's very good at hiding is all. [NT] - Palin 22:41:31 08/31/10 (0)
      - Didn't Kerrigan promise to spare that cerebrate that helped her in the Zerg Brood War campaign? But then again, she's a backstabbing JoystickJ. [nt] - If You Ain't Platinum, You Ain't S--- 21:50:27 08/31/10 (0)
- I'm kind of disappointed. - Fron 18:10:00 08/31/10 (6)
  - I'm kind of a mixture of green and blue. [NT] - Teal 18:51:53 08/31/10 (3)
    - wot [NT] - Ravil 18:53:10 08/31/10 (2)
      - Prove me wrong, Ravil. Prove me wrong. [NT] - Teal 18:53:32 08/31/10 (1)
        The StarCraft 2 Campaign Ravil Wants to Play - Mission 8: "Teal is Yellow in Disguise." [NT] - Ravil 18:55:05 08/31/10 (0)
  - I considered having him speak in verse. - Ravil 18:51:16 08/31/10 (0)
Huh, Orrin Hatch comes out defending the Mosque near the WTC site. Props to him. - Snapper 13:51:53 08/31/10 (61)
- Obama said the same. They have that right - which doesn't automatically make it a good idea to do so, but they have that right. [NT] - Eye of the Night 18:04:51 08/31/10 (8)
  - I just realized that this is the first time I've seen you in a very long time. [NT] - Sloth Meat for Gentlemen 20:16:34 08/31/10 (7)
    - Not long enough. [NT] - Ishpeck 10:02:20 09/01/10 (0)
    - Well, "a very long time" in CWAL terms, which is probably, like, a month or two. [NT] - Sloth Meat for Gentlemen 20:18:04 08/31/10 (5)
      - He posted less than 2 weeks ago. [NT] - TheDeamon 22:13:23 08/31/10 (4)
        He saw him, but he didn't /see/ him. [NT] - Dark Nexus 18:55:40 09/01/10 (1)
        Maybe the name "Eye of the Night" should automatically wordfilter to "fnord". [NT] - Sloth Meat for Gentlemen 21:20:31 09/01/10 (0)
        Oh, I figured I missed a post or three. I was guessing that he had been posting sporadically enough that one could easily not see him at all, and a quick forum search revealed this to be the case. [NT] - Sloth Meat for Gentlemen 08:17:25 09/01/10 (1)
        We've all finally learned to block him from our minds, such that he no longer exists except in TDs records. [NT] - Psycho Sam! 12:34:46 09/01/10 (0)
- I just hope the plan to build a gay bar next to it, targeting Muslim males for some homosexual<->Islamic relations goes through too. [NT] - Namrok 14:43:44 08/31/10 (4)
  - [VIDS] ... - Ishpeck 22:12:58 09/01/10 (0)
  - Yeah, I was sent that email forward too for some reason. [NT] - Ravil 15:22:40 08/31/10 (0)
  - Apparently there's already a strip club around the corner [NT] - Snapper 14:45:04 08/31/10 (1)
    - Well, there's a porn shop somewhere nearby, according to Mayor Bloomberg. [NT] - Sloth Meat for Gentlemen 15:07:56 08/31/10 (0)
- Some random Muslim criminal mysteriously goes from waiter to millionaire overnight, wrangles up a larger group of insensitive Muslims together to build a monster-mega-mosque two blocks from a site where 3,000 Americans were slaughtered by Muslims, nobody tells them that they can't but some people don't like it and say so. So now you come on to a random forum to bring up the topic [NT] - because all of a sudden you care about the 1st Amendment. Right. - Archangel 14:35:39 08/31/10 (17)
  - Well, it's true that the guy's a criminal. He's the second biggest shareholder in Fox News. [NT] - Lothos 20:09:59 08/31/10 (2)
    - Waka waka waka! [NT] - Archangel 22:58:33 08/31/10 (1) [IMP]
      - Fine form I am today. Yes. This is truth. [NT] - Lothos 00:09:31 09/01/10 (0)
  - I think the Westboro Baptist Church is full of reprehensible people because they protest at funerals. No baptist should be allowed to build a church within two blocks of any graveyard. [nt] - Chronomodra 17:12:10 08/31/10 (5)
    - I'm not saying I agree with the idea. I'm simply questioning Snapper's rather inconsistent support of the Constitution. I didn't hear a peep from him when the old couple with the church was forced to take down a cross that was on their property, a story that it the news just a couple weeks ago. You really want to join that badnwagon, Chrono? [NT] - Archangel 23:23:56 08/31/10 (2) [IMP]
      - Never heard that story; if I had I would've said they could put the cross up. The mosque issue is just a LOT LOUDER. I have better things to do than show outrage at every political thing that pops up. Like play video games.[nt] - Chronomodra 22:07:52 09/01/10 (0)
      - Why some people are drawn to the "but you didn't comment on X!" form of argument I'll never understand [NT] - Snapper 23:59:34 08/31/10 (0)
    - To say nothing of all those insensitive Catholics building houses of worship near daycare centres. [NT] - Fron 18:07:38 08/31/10 (1)
      - I hear they have plans to continue building "Catechism Schools" (Irish Madrassas) throughout the country in order to indoctrinate youth to their twisted thinking despite the pain they have already caused. [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 18:12:05 08/31/10 (0)
  - This may be the best distillation of your anger and paranoia I've ever seen. [NT] - Sloth Meat for Gentlemen 15:09:23 08/31/10 (7)
    - ...Anger and Paranoia? Because I'm the one saying "nobody's stopping anybody from building a mosque so what's all the fuss?" That's paranoia to you? Here's what I've really been wondering: Do you wear that pink vagina of yours in public or is it an RR special? [NT] - Archangel 23:02:15 08/31/10 (4) [IMP]
      - Even if you had made good points above, they would have been marred by your chest-thumping and dribbling vitriol. [NT] - Sloth Meat for Gentlemen 08:23:47 09/01/10 (2)
        Hyperbole is a dish best served on a Meaty platter. [NT] - Ishpeck 10:01:07 09/01/10 (1)
        I mean, I can see a twinge of spite but I wouldn't go so far as to say "dribbling vitriol" and all that nonsense. [NT] - Ishpeck 10:08:45 09/01/10 (0)
    - Invective is a dish best-served on an Archy platter. [NT] - Ishpeck 15:24:27 08/31/10 (1)
      - I like to keep my practice up. It tends to draw a crowd. [NT] - Archangel 22:58:06 08/31/10 (0) [IMP]
- I want to see them build a mosque directly *on* the Ground Zero site, out of building materials recycled from the WTC wreckage. [NT] - Ravil 14:33:53 08/31/10 (2)
  - And use the ashen body parts of victims as a base for paint. [NT] - Ishpeck 14:37:25 08/31/10 (1)
    - Headline: "Communities come together to recycle." [NT] - Lothos 18:16:00 08/31/10 (0)
- Being someone who lives in a delusional world of facts, I have a hard time understanding where this "huge lack of support throughout the country" is actually coming from. [NT] - Ishpeck 14:32:59 08/31/10 (8)
  - Are you saying that you don't believe there's a lack of support, or are you saying that you simply don't understand the opposition? [NT] - Sloth Meat for Gentlemen 15:07:01 08/31/10 (7)
    - I'm saying neither Snapper nor I know how "huge" the lack of support is. [NT] - Ishpeck 15:21:54 08/31/10 (5)
      - Sorry, to be clear, the entire content of the post was the Hatch quote, not me saying anything [NT] - Snapper 15:58:09 08/31/10 (4)
        One of the things Fron got right here.... - Ishpeck 15:59:35 08/31/10 (3)
        The ": " thing also works in a pinch. [NT] - Sloth Meat for Gentlemen 16:31:38 08/31/10 (2)
        Except when it doesn't, since the display code has some bugs I've never taken the time to fix. [NT] - Fron 16:35:08 08/31/10 (1)
        Thus, < blockquote > [NT] - Ishpeck 10:04:34 09/01/10 (0)
- And I couldn't have worded it better myself. How surreal! [NT] - Sloth Meat for Gentlemen 14:25:49 08/31/10 (16)
  - I could have. [NT] - Ishpeck 14:27:36 08/31/10 (15)
    - I would like to hear your take, actually, if you're interested in providing it. [NT] - Sloth Meat for Gentlemen 15:10:40 08/31/10 (4)
      - You don't have the right to tell people what they do with their own property. No matter how insulted you are by it. Period. [NT] - Ishpeck 15:21:00 08/31/10 (3)
        It's always nice when we're on the same page. Or at least, sitting at the same desk where the page is located? [NT] - Sloth Meat for Gentlemen 16:30:46 08/31/10 (2)
        Or at least, desks so similar that they can be confused for one another. [NT] - Ishpeck 10:05:39 09/01/10 (0)
    - Right, but you're not a vapid partisan tool. [NT] - Archangel 14:29:37 08/31/10 (9) [IMP]
      - I wouldn't call Meat "partisan" so much as "insufficiently informed." [NT] - Ishpeck 14:35:54 08/31/10 (8)
        I was referring more to Snapper. Meat's a Canadian with no real vested interest in the affairs of real men. [NT] - Archangel 23:00:05 08/31/10 (2) [IMP]
        Or at least, no coherent interest. [NT] - Ishpeck 10:00:08 09/01/10 (1)
        mnmgngrgh [NT] - Sloth Meat for Gentlemen 21:24:39 09/01/10 (0)
        Insufficiently Informed Partisan Tool for Gentlemen? [NT] - Sloth Meat for Gentlemen 15:11:42 08/31/10 (0)
        *grabs some popcorn* [NT] - Rotten 14:40:10 08/31/10 (3)
        *Grabs cop porn.* [NT] - Ishpeck 14:40:41 08/31/10 (2)
        Why does popcorn go so well with cop porn? [NT] - Lord Yuppie 14:50:06 09/01/10 (1)
        Comparable saltiness? [NT] - Ishpeck 17:43:55 09/01/10 (0)
So... Gallup has the largest polling gap on the generic ballot that it has ever seen on a midterm(tracking since 1942)... 10 point gap vs the previous record of 5 points. [NT] - TheDeamon 13:42:27 08/31/10 (0)
Is there an easy way to extract data from the (still-functioning) hard drive of an old computer with a dead power source? It doesn't sound like the sort of thing that would be at all straightforward to do, but I thought I'd check with Those More Knowledgeable Than Me. [NT] - Ravil 13:20:32 08/31/10 (18)
- Other than just sticking it in a new computer? [NT] - Psycho Sam! 13:30:28 08/31/10 (17)
  - Can one do that? I know nothing of these things. [NT] - Ravil 13:33:05 08/31/10 (16)
    - That made me sound stupider than I actually am. I meant to ask: can one hook up multiple hard drives to the same system with a minimum of fuss and/or power requirements? [NT] - Ravil 13:33:56 08/31/10 (15)
      - Depending on what it is, you should be able to buy an external IDE or SATA enclosure, stick the old drive into that, and then hook it to your current computer as if it were a big USB drive. [NT] - Lothos 18:13:56 08/31/10 (0)
      - Yeah you can slave it to a spare IDE/SATA connector, all you should have to do in theory is go into the Bios. The drive itself might be set to "master/slave" on the "pin settings" which is found right next to your connector on the drive itself. [NT] - Rotten 13:36:07 08/31/10 (0)
      - Yes. The actual procedure varies in difficulty based on how old the old computer actually is, but attaching multiple hard drives to one computer is entirely routine. My desktop has two hard drives, for instance. I had three for a while. [NT] - Fron@Work 13:35:30 08/31/10 (7)
        Is it just a matter of detaching the hard drive from the old computer and hooking it up with similar-looking cables into the new computer? Plus fiddling with some BIOS settings? [NT] - Ravil 13:42:23 08/31/10 (6)
        Simply glue the old harddrive to the case of the new computer. It will handle the rest. [NT] - Palin 14:27:44 08/31/10 (4)
        Duct tape is also applicable if no glue is on-hand. [NT] - Palin 14:28:02 08/31/10 (3)
        If you eat it you will absorb the data. [NT] - Rotten 14:32:29 08/31/10 (2)
        Place your hand on the drive, then shout "INTEL, GRANT ME YOUR POWER!!"! OR open your old borkened computer and take a picture of the hard drive, then take a picture of the innards of your new computer, then we will advise you accordingly [NT] - MagickWizzard 17:00:14 08/31/10 (1)
        You may also have the two hard drives duel. When the winner is decided, he shall behead the loser and gain its data and strength. [NT] - Palin 20:33:54 08/31/10 (0)
        It's pretty easy to set things up inside a computer, since everything more or less has a unique plug. Unless you're me. Don't forget to screw it in safely, and make sure there's no random chunks of metal touching any open contacts. [NT] - Psycho Sam! 13:46:51 08/31/10 (0)
      - Is it a SATA drive? 'Cause those aren't even tricky to line up right(stupid IDE cables), and as long as the second computer has enough extra cables and power cables you should be fine. Can you chain SATA cables? [NT] - Psycho Sam! 13:35:02 08/31/10 (4)
        I ... have to go back into the realm of sounding stupid with the big reply of: "wot?" [NT] - Ravil 13:38:14 08/31/10 (3)
        I'll let someone else explain, as I have a tendancy to break IDE drives... Stupid pins... [NT] - Psycho Sam! 13:40:01 08/31/10 (2)
        Okay, since nobody else seems to want to, just keep poking at stuff until it fits. If it doesn't, poke harder. If that doesn't work, get a hammer and swear a lot. [NT] - Psycho Sam! 14:25:54 08/31/10 (1)
        Just like sex! [NT] - Vektor 01:27:24 09/01/10 (0)
[POLL] Assuming equal cirJoystickJference, can a "soft taco" hold more taco innards than a "hard taco"? I think it can... [NT] - Rotten 12:12:11 08/31/10 (8)
- I think the main issue here is elasticity, and the soft-taco clearly wins there, so I'm going to go ahead and agree with Rotten. [NT] - Steamtrap Entity 13:07:35 08/31/10 (0)
- Well, with a hard taco there's no way to squeeze the ends to keep everything in. Initially I'd say they could hold the same amount, but a soft taco would end up holding more of it until you're finished eating. Not all of it, though. [NT] - Psycho Sam! 12:14:37 08/31/10 (6)
  - Yeah, and what if you psi-storm the soft taco? Dripping potential isn't really within the parameters of the hard v. soft capacity comparison. [NT] - Ravil 12:27:45 08/31/10 (5)
    - RAVIL HAS GAINED THE POWER OF INSTANTANEOUS MEME CREATION [NT] - Announcer 17:01:40 08/31/10 (0)
    - Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrilliant! [NT] - Snapper 13:52:15 08/31/10 (0)
    - You really shouldn't focus on hard counters in a taco situation anyways. Hard or soft, if you just have way more tacos than the other guy you still come out ahead in terms of filling. [NT] - Palin 12:51:44 08/31/10 (0)
    - Get some hookers n' blow? [NT] - Psycho Sam! 12:46:11 08/31/10 (1)
      - And my axe! [NT] - Gimli 13:01:01 08/31/10 (0)
Huzzah 31 hour work days! - Grorx 11:43:59 08/31/10 (1) [IMP]
- Pshht, I rang in the New Year with 36 hours of work, and did I go to bed? No! My friends wouldn't let me. =( We drank for twelve hours to celebrate! Ha ha! [NT] - Psycho Sam! 11:47:30 08/31/10 (0)
And now...a dog that dances merengue! - Steamtrap Entity 11:38:17 08/31/10 (0)
Hey TD, whatever happened to rubberrooms? I need to access mine and I completely forgot my password. I also vaguely recall having mine shut down? [NT] - Namrok 09:30:46 08/31/10 (1)
- If you're talking about the TLD, I never fully took possession of it from Akky, and it was never renewed. Mostly due to a cyber-squatter being faster about moving to grab it than I was. Try *.rooms.cwal.net they're there. [NT] - TheDeamon 09:50:50 08/31/10 (0)
EPIC KKK TROLL! Hmmm... Lothos? - Rotten 07:51:18 08/31/10 (1)
- That's very... thing. The interviewer on that show is one of the biggest asshats in the history of asshattery, so I'm thinking the whole situation might be a setup. [NT] - Lothos 21:48:10 08/31/10 (0)
Wooo, softball tournament weekend coming up! What's this? Hurricane Earl's coming too? I'm sure they'll both get along just fine! - Psycho Sam! 06:23:12 08/31/10 (1)
- Aaaaand the tournament goes ahead as planned! Just... with a little rain! [NT] - Psycho Sam! 11:07:52 08/31/10 (0)
[VIDS] This is probably Kalledoned, but I don't care: Mashup trailer for Scott Pilgrim using Avatar: The Last Airbender. - Lothos 01:27:20 08/31/10 (7)
- I <3 Avatar. [NT] - Ishpeck 10:34:54 08/31/10 (0)
- You know what? Aang pretty much WAS Scott Pilgrim. [NT] - AC 01:42:08 08/31/10 (0)
- Contains spoilers for the whole of Avatar, but if you haven't seen it yet you're Wrong. However, I have the cure for your Wrongness, and can dispense Torrent files in the form of a topical cream. [NT] - Lothos "Guess where the cream comes out. GUESS." 01:29:09 08/31/10 (4)
  - Torrents make me break out in hives. Don't ask me why, I don't know. *shrugs* I'll catch up eventually. Nothing was really spoiled in any case. [NT] - Tssha 11:17:59 08/31/10 (3)
    - Lothos thinks he is invincible because American subpoenas don't work against his IP address. Just you wait, Lothos..!!! [NT] - MagickWizzard 17:02:30 08/31/10 (0)
    - Did you miss the part about being Wrong�? YOU ARE WRONG! [NT] - Ishpeck 12:25:20 08/31/10 (1)
      - OBJECTIVELY! [NT] - Stephen Hawking's Mathematical Brain 12:30:26 08/31/10 (0)
Remember the invincible drone bug in BW? Those were the days... Just make a drone that cannot be killed and march him into your opponents base. Hahahaha. [NT] - Rotten 00:48:29 08/31/10 (2)
- I liked the perma-cloak bug. [NT] - diefortheswarm 08:45:40 08/31/10 (0)
- And don't forget the lurker morph bug and the command center sliding bug. [nt] - If You Ain't Platinum, You Ain't S--- 01:05:25 08/31/10 (0)
So I've mostly finished my map... Now what? - Pez 21:44:37 08/30/10 (14)
- Get some hookers n' blow! [NT] - Rotten 00:37:59 08/31/10 (1)
  - Considering that I read it initially that Pez had finished his NAP, this actually made the most sense of anything. [NT] - Lothos 18:03:51 08/31/10 (0)
- Team up with a mongrel dog nobody loves and a tough as nails street kid with a heart of gold, so that you can pursue unforgettable adventures together [NT] - TheDeamon 00:26:06 08/31/10 (0)
- Those last three sentences also describe about 90% of all the writing I've ever done. [NT] - Fron 22:10:00 08/30/10 (1)
  - Me too. [NT] - Ravil 22:20:07 08/30/10 (0)
- Trick more people into running it, get into popularity list, ???, Profit! [NT] - Palin 22:00:34 08/30/10 (7)
  - And how do I do that pray tell? [NT] - Pez 22:04:15 08/30/10 (6)
    - *shrug* The Bnet forums are one place to get the word out, although that probably still won't do much. 'til the patch eventually comes out that fixes the clusterJoystickJ that is custom games, there isn't much -to- do to get the map out there. [NT] - Palin 23:10:53 08/30/10 (5)
      - Hahahahahahahaha, there's actually a post with the method to get it popular if you -really- want to - Palin 11:46:17 08/31/10 (4)
        "a single-player 5 minutes map gets the same popularity as a 12-players 2 hours map. Therefore, maps with more than 4 players and more than 10 minutes gameplay might not be able to get to the 1st page." - Psycho Sam! 11:50:30 08/31/10 (3)
        Yup! [NT] - Palin 12:52:43 08/31/10 (2)
        Honestly I don't think the Bnet 2.0 creators had actually ever played a Blizzard, RTS or computer game in their lives. That's my only explanation for why it is so bad. [NT] - Palin 12:53:34 08/31/10 (1)
        I think the problem had more to do with groupthink. [NT] - TheDeamon 14:26:04 08/31/10 (0)
I just scritched the living JoystickJ out of a kitten and I'm going to do it again. Try and stop me, CWAL. [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 21:19:59 08/30/10 (1)
- ...can I watch? - Tssha 21:25:09 08/30/10 (0)
Has anyone else heard of the Massive Assault, and Massive Assault Network games? I ran into them by accident today, and had never heard of them. Turned based SF-themed strategy? Anyone got thoughts? I feel like I haven't been paying attention, or they sucked and sank without trace. [NT] - Lothos 20:27:48 08/30/10 (2)
- I was really into them a while back, and absolutely loved them. It helped that unlike every other multiplayer game ever, I was /really/ goddamn good at it :P - Legacy 20:42:53 08/30/10 (0)
- I played the first one a fair bit when it came out, it was good times. [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 20:32:34 08/30/10 (0)
[STORY] The StarCraft 2 Campaign Ravil Wants to Play - Story Branching Point and Mission 7a: "Redemption." (Now organized in a crude-if-handy website) - Ravil 19:59:24 08/30/10 (7)
- The only thing I'd be a bit leary of is the wreckage thing--I mean if the fighting is in one quarter of the map, that's some crazy bouncing on the wreckage if it lands in the other quarters. [NT] - Palin 22:03:34 08/30/10 (3)
  - I have no idea how to program the special effects, so the descriptions of stuff like that are based on my imagination rather than what's possible with the editor. [NT] - Ravil 22:05:53 08/30/10 (2)
    - I meant more the physics. Unless the hidden part is on some sort of giant mountain, or the hybrids can throw stuff really really really far. [NT] - Palin 23:12:05 08/30/10 (1)
      - Both of those are distinct possibilities. [NT] - Ravil 08:17:10 08/31/10 (0)
- I'm running out of ways to say I like these. 7a is certainly a much better way to introduce Our Fabulous New Villains than ancient prophecies and whatnot. [NT] - Fron 21:54:53 08/30/10 (2)
  - I'm sure it will shock you to learn that I'm not planning on taking anything close to Blizzard's direction with the Fabulous New Villains. Glad it was enjoyable! [NT] - Ravil 22:00:08 08/30/10 (0)
Okay, so the top Google search result for CWAL Rubber Room is "www.cwal.net/forums/rr/", which is just a splash page pointing at the new site, whereas the actual Rubber Room is the third result. - Psycho Sam! 19:53:01 08/30/10 (9)
- Google's following the link in the image and getting confused I guess, because that's definitely a static html page. [NT] - Fron 19:54:58 08/30/10 (2)
  - Except I seem to recall including meta-data in that page advertising it as a permanent redirect. Their system should be able to figure that out. [NT] - TheDeamon 23:57:09 08/30/10 (1)
    - Oh, that's probably why the description is picking up content from the new index, then. [NT] - Fron@Work 10:02:42 08/31/10 (0)
- [VIDS] Also found in the description of: - Psycho Sam! 19:54:12 08/30/10 (5)
  - [VIDS] Also: - Psycho Sam! 20:12:12 08/30/10 (3)
    - I'm just impressed by the phrase "We took a step into compositing territory and ended up at JoystickJtery Woods" in the description. [NT] - Lothos 01:56:42 08/31/10 (0)
    - That was random, though I'm impressed at their prominent use of a bunny in their video. Though I wonder if they knew about that particular tie in or not. [NT] - TheDeamon 23:24:31 08/30/10 (0)
    - Qu'est-ce que le JoystickJ? [NT] - Dark Nexus 21:23:43 08/30/10 (0)
  - *blink* [NT] - Fron 19:56:02 08/30/10 (0)
I'm having terrible luck getting you guys to visit The Potato Museum, y'know that? I vote the next CWAL gathering be here on PEI, before it closes for the Summer. [NT] - Psycho Sam! 17:39:20 08/30/10 (4)
- Your Potato Museum is an imposter, the real one is about 20 miles north of me in Blackfoot, Idaho. [NT] - TheDeamon 23:13:03 08/30/10 (0)
- I would go to that, too. [NT] - Vektor 19:37:44 08/30/10 (0)
- I don't care if it's two hours out of the way of anything even remotely interesting, dammit! We're going! [NT] - Psycho Sam! 17:50:02 08/30/10 (0)
- When I saw you had posted pictures on Facebook I got all excited, but there was nary a potato in sight. :-( [NT] - Inconsequential Lurker 17:45:46 08/30/10 (0)
Reminiscing on Maggott isn't doing me any good. So it's time to distract Ishy w/a Quandary�. - Ishpeck 16:36:37 08/30/10 (17)
- Every now and then while browsing the Rubber Room I come across one of his posts and it makes me incredibly sad... =( [NT] - Psycho Sam! 16:41:14 08/30/10 (16)
  - So...which is less sad? Which one doesn't involve disallowing law-abiding people from saving lives? [NT] - Sentient Squirrl 16:50:24 08/30/10 (14)
    - I think that people are horrible things. [NT] - Psycho Sam! 17:01:10 08/30/10 (13)
      - Yeah, the shooter did not self-govern and made a poor decision in both cases. However, the woman who defended herself with deadly force is not a horrible person. To the contrary, she was a brave and responsible person, something we should all aspire to. [NT] - Sentient Squirrl 17:17:53 08/30/10 (11)
        You two both suck as distractions. JoystickJ you both. [NT] - Ishpeck 18:53:01 08/30/10 (10)
        I'm sorry, I was playing Batman. [NT] - Psycho Sam! 19:39:42 08/30/10 (9)
        While I was being Batman. [NT] - Rotten 20:17:31 08/30/10 (8)
        With my axe! [NT] - Gimli 21:11:00 08/30/10 (7)
        Oh, Gimli... I'll be your axe... [NT] - Sloth Meat for Gentlemen 09:46:56 08/31/10 (6)
        And my bow. [NT] - Legolas 10:40:35 08/31/10 (5)
        Um... something about overdrive. [NT] - Ishpeck 10:43:16 08/31/10 (4)
        You have my overdrive? [NT] - Sloth Meat for Gentlemen 11:06:44 08/31/10 (3)
        And my tonds! [NT] - Ishpeck 12:07:40 08/31/10 (0)
        can'tafellerdrinkinpeace? [NT] - Farnham the Drunk 11:08:48 08/31/10 (1)
        Time to kick this boobs are too big into deleting my RR bookmark. [NT] - Ishpeck 12:09:01 08/31/10 (0)
      - [LINK] This is why Flying Spaghetti Monster gave us knives. - Ishpeck 17:03:47 08/30/10 (0)
  - [PICS] In related news, I finally have incentive to get a tactical/MOLLE vest... - Ishpeck 16:47:11 08/30/10 (0)
[SC2] So they caught a maphacker already. - Rotten 14:56:16 08/30/10 (4)
- I'm not entirely convinced that was hacking. [NT] - Ishpeck 17:23:42 08/30/10 (3)
  - So the evidence in that video, combined with forum post doesn't strike as at all suJoystickJious? [NT] - Rotten 17:56:31 08/30/10 (2)
    - SuJoystickJious != Convinced [NT] - Ishpeck 18:53:28 08/30/10 (1)
      - They say suJoystickJion is 9/10ths of the law. [NT] - Psycho Sam! 11:09:20 08/31/10 (0)
[VIDS] Idra's thoughts on the next patch - Mana 14:49:12 08/30/10 (3)
- I've seen a picture of him, he's a dead-ringer for Harry Potter and pasty white as a ghost. Heh. [NT] - Rotten 15:43:31 08/30/10 (0)
- Heh. Aheheh. I don't know why I love these, but dammit... [NT] - Ravil 15:36:47 08/30/10 (0)
- It's refreshing 'cause it's not another damn re-subbed scene from Der Untergang. [NT] - Ishpeck 14:52:18 08/30/10 (0)
[SC2] Finally bothered to do my placement games and got ranked Silver. Heh. Celebratory Shortbuses all around! [NT] - Ravil 14:39:21 08/30/10 (15)
- Oh, and thanks for nothing, Fron: I eased up in my last match because he was turtling pretty intensely and I figured I had him if I could contain him, and he ended up steamrolling me with 22 carriers. [NT] - Ravil 14:44:02 08/30/10 (14)
  - You may wish to attack sooner. [NT] - Palin 17:50:58 08/30/10 (0)
  - Hahaha, whoops. [NT] - Fron 14:44:32 08/30/10 (12)
    - Yeah, the vikings I threw up didn't work so well. There isn't much that hard-counters carriers, is there? [NT] - Ravil 14:47:45 08/30/10 (11)
      - Vikings should be able to beat carriers dollar-for-dollar, I would think, they do get bonus damage. But if you're looking for something you can throw out there in a couple minutes if you don't scout the carriers until he's already got a bunch of them, you're not likely to find anything. [NT] - Fron 15:11:29 08/30/10 (7)
        3 Vikings cost 450/225 and have 375 HP, 1 Carrier/8 ints costs 450/250 and has 450 HP. The Vikings do 42 DPS (decreasing as they die one by one) but the Carrier's armor blocks a significant amount of that even unupgraded (1/8th?). The Carrier does 27 DPS which goes way up with each upgrade, does full damage to Vikings, and doesn't stop hitting until it's fully dead. The conclusion of this post? [NT] - I'm not sure. Just felt like checking. - Snapper 15:42:09 08/30/10 (6)
        What if you have a ghost and you focus fire the carriers? [NT] - MagickWizzard 16:02:07 08/30/10 (5)
        What if you psi storm the Vikings? It's not really within the parameters of a direct Viking v Carrier comparison. Also, I assumed the vikings were FFing the carriers, because if they aren't they'll just hit interceptors and get annihilated [NT] - Snapper 16:08:22 08/30/10 (4)
        That's a good point-- - MagickWizzard 16:33:35 08/30/10 (3)
        Well, in a strict viking vs. carrier scenario, you also have to remember that the vikings will get the first shots, as they have a very, very long range. They also open up at full damage capacity right away, while carriers have to launch interceptors. The vikings can also hit-and-run to capitalize on this. - Vektor 21:39:26 08/30/10 (2)
        Also, don't Vikings have ridiculously slow acceleration? [NT] - Snapper 22:20:47 08/30/10 (0)
        I don't think this is really true, the range difference 9 vs 8 isn't super significant, plus Carriers can still hit after things are out of range once interceptors have launched. Assume that anyone going a Carrier strat researches Graviton Catapult as well. [NT] - Snapper 22:20:16 08/30/10 (0)
      - As Terran? EMP. Terran should always get some EMP going as a default vs. P. [NT] - Rotten 15:02:43 08/30/10 (0)
      - Yamato cannon. Unless he's also getting HTs. I assume he had to be on at least two bases, right? A two base turtle is much much more dangerous than a one base turtle. [NT] - Snapper 14:53:19 08/30/10 (1)
        Also, Carriers will be significantly weaker against BCs than against other units because the high base armor of the BC is essentially multiplied by 8 interceptors with 2 shots each. And you can also get the BC armor upgrades. [NT] - Snapper 14:59:26 08/30/10 (0)
[LINK] Oh, those crazy Italians. - Kainoss 14:32:32 08/30/10 (0)
Diggin' through my old hard disk, I found a transcript from an ICQ conversation w/Maggott. - Ishpeck Supreme Doughnut Delivery Maggott Archivist of CWAL 14:09:01 08/30/10 (4)
- Y) ES. [NT] - The V Man 21:11:41 08/31/10 (0)
- "like" [NT] - Psycho Sam! 16:25:58 08/30/10 (0)
- This is glorious. [NT] - Sloth Meat for Gentlemen 15:35:07 08/30/10 (0)
- *Snickers* [NT] - Ztiev 14:19:45 08/30/10 (0)
"Cheese is a term developed by noobs to reassure themselves that they are "good", but were defeated by unfair play." Ding ding ding, we have a winner. [NT] - Rotten 13:38:46 08/30/10 (1)
- I read an article to this effect a long time ago. And then again recently. [NT] - Vektor 21:40:20 08/30/10 (0)
DJMMM, did you ever get my letter? [NT] - Grorx 12:44:09 08/30/10 (0) [IMP]
Environmentalists block road to Maine wind site. KILL ALL ENVIRONMENTALISTS - Rotten 07:31:32 08/30/10 (8)
- Your subject line is confusing. [NT] - Ishpeck 10:45:18 08/30/10 (7)
  - Why? [NT] - Rotten 10:51:28 08/30/10 (3)
    - I guess I didn't get the memo about "wind site" = "wind power site" [NT] - Ishpeck 14:12:11 08/30/10 (2)
      - By implication you should realize that having "environmentalists" in the subject with "wind" implies wind power. Now I get to lay on top you, completely nude for 2 hours as punishment (but not in a gay way). [NT] - Rotten 14:17:38 08/30/10 (1)
        Yeah. rotten.goJoystickJ(rotten); [NT] - Ishpeck 14:19:35 08/30/10 (0)
  - ...really? [NT] - Tssha 10:49:08 08/30/10 (2)
    - It's a commonly-known fact that Ishpeck is illiterate. You of all people should know. [NT] - Ishpeck 14:11:05 08/30/10 (1)
      - ...what? [NT] - Tssha 21:24:30 08/30/10 (0)
Plain Sight turns out to be rambunctious fun, and does well on the "highly entertaining even while you die a lot" score. (Text) - Lothos 06:59:24 08/30/10 (4)
- Yes, it's a whole lot of fun. Just don't click the shield upgrade on your upgrade list or you'll have to actually buy it. Doh! >_< - Tssha 10:19:26 08/30/10 (0)
- Yeah, I gave it a quick try last night with some bots and it was pretty great. Definitely worth the $2 I bought it for, dunno if it's still on sale. [NT] - Fron 08:41:24 08/30/10 (0)
- I've put a few minutes into it as well and it was entertaining. [NT] - The V Man 07:21:40 08/30/10 (0)
- PLUS, the Achievements are named cool things like "Here I Am, Brain the Size of a Planet" and "Everyone Is Dead, Dave." [NT] - Lothos 07:02:17 08/30/10 (0)
Anyone know a good what-you-see-is-what-you-get kind of webpage-design program? I want to design a basic page to put the SC2 campaign on now that the missions have started to branch, but the prospect of doing all the HTML coding by hand (like I've been doing since I was about 13) really bores me. [NT] - Ravil 23:09:17 08/29/10 (11)
- I use Dreamweaver for html coding. It's got a good setup where you have the code and design side by side, so you can see what you're getting into. [NT] - iThorkos 13:18:46 08/30/10 (1)
  - You're dead to me. [NT] - Ishpeck 14:45:54 08/30/10 (0)
- So can one actually set up something using WordPress on the CWAL FTP site? How would I go about doing that? The install instructions presume a greater depth of web design savvy than I possess. [NT] - Ravil 11:07:26 08/30/10 (4)
  - You'd need to talk to Vektor and get an account setup in MySQL for WordPress or nothing is going to work. It looks like Rask should (barely) meet minimum system specs otherwise. [NT] - TheDeamon (System Administrator) 12:09:04 08/30/10 (2)
    - This is sounding way too complicated. I just want to build a basic HTML website to put up in my RR space, and I don't want to have to write all the HTML by hand. [NT] - Ravil 12:31:43 08/30/10 (1)
      - Well, the setup part of WordPress would pretty much consist of specifying the username/password and database name for WordPress to talk to MySql. Though customization/tweaking would likely be a little bit more involved. [NT] - TheDeamon 12:39:37 08/30/10 (0)
- You can give Wordpress a shot. I did 99.9% of Manath.com with Wordpress and there are quite a few pretty/free templates out there. [NT] - Mana 00:27:48 08/30/10 (3)
  - Wordpress is more of a full blogging system than a design program (although it can certainly do static pages as well). The problem is that you incur a lot of overhead for running what amounts to a CMS system if you're just looking to serve a few static pages... - Vektor 00:57:27 08/30/10 (2)
    - What Vektor said. I got the impression that you wanted your page for personal/limited use, but if you intend on a wide audience feel free to go with whatever. [NT] - Mana 02:46:46 08/30/10 (1)
      - This is just for CWALers to look at. [NT] - Ravil 06:27:48 08/30/10 (0)
[SC2] Quebec would be awesome if they lined up everyone with a driver's license in the province and executed them all. Anyone going to be around for some SC2 tonight? [NT] - Ravil 18:26:29 08/29/10 (11)
- Canada would be awesome if they lined up everyone in Quebec and executed them all. [NT] - Sentient Squirrl 14:27:31 08/30/10 (0)
- Are there any legal provisions making it illegal for the gov't to try this? [NT] - Ishpeck 14:21:06 08/30/10 (0)
- A couple more beatings like that and I'll be terrified to play outside of Bronze for fear of having my ass worn as a hat every game. [NT] - Ravil 21:47:13 08/29/10 (6)
  - I take a replay of every game I win or lose and review it. For one thing, it allows me to relax and enjoy the game as playing vs. a stranger is too stressful to enjoy. But I also learn from my mistakes. Right now I'm playing random vs. the computer to practice for a little bit. [NT] - Rotten 08:38:32 08/30/10 (2)
    - Rotten, I don't have you on my SC2 friends list. What's your character number? [NT] - Ravil 09:45:46 08/30/10 (1)
      - Rotten#647? [NT] - Rotten 10:02:32 08/30/10 (0)
  - That's why you learn from your failures, and become the wearer of ass hats. [NT] - Palin 00:37:21 08/30/10 (0)
  - 1v1s are a LOT different, believe me. [NT] - Thorkos 22:23:40 08/29/10 (1)
    - You very rarely see 22 carriers bearing down on you, in particular. [NT] - Fron 22:26:26 08/29/10 (0)
- Yea, sure [nt] - Kainoss 19:12:04 08/29/10 (0)
- Sure. [NT] - Fron 18:33:40 08/29/10 (0)
I think I'm actually going to mod this in now. - Inconsequential Lurker 16:31:33 08/29/10 (0)