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by Shadowfury333
Tue Sep 12, 2006 11:06 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: HPV vaccine
Replies: 35
Views: 3274

Re: HPV vaccine

Teens are plenty educated about sex - about the physical mechanics and the modes of protection and even the life costs (flour babies anyone?), though you can't really expect that latter point to sink in until they've grown up enough to see the effects - lovers breaking up, single parent families ...
by Shadowfury333
Tue Sep 12, 2006 9:46 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: HPV vaccine
Replies: 35
Views: 3274

Re: HPV vaccine

Will Robinson wrote:It's sad though because I know their inhibitions and hangups will rub off on her in spite of my attempts to help her...
Thankfully for my parents, I was scared of sexuality when I was a teenager. I also never came closer than about 2 feet to a girl, so the opportunity never came up.
by Shadowfury333
Tue Sep 12, 2006 9:43 pm
Forum: PTMC Cafe
Topic: New element! (Warning, this post contains high nerdiness)
Replies: 9
Views: 803

For a super nerdy quantum physics/politics joke, it's pretty good.
by Shadowfury333
Sun Sep 10, 2006 10:53 pm
Forum: Other 6DoF Game Efforts
Topic: Developing Levels Now
Replies: 26
Views: 13203

-If you want a different texture applied to the same object, just create another material. But remember, one 2048x2048 texture is better then two 1024x1024 textures (less render passes) Wouldn't the equivalent be four 1024x1024 textures? Also, refresh my memory, did you guys mention anything about ...
by Shadowfury333
Sun Sep 10, 2006 10:46 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: shoot first laws
Replies: 64
Views: 7076

Maybe this will drive it home- If a person has a .50 cal(or any other large caliber) but cannot effectively make hits with it, it is a useless weapon to that person.It is not an inherently inaccurate weapon, the person is inaccurate because the person shooting it cannot control it, so it is useless ...
by Shadowfury333
Fri Sep 08, 2006 3:33 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Street 101
Replies: 6
Views: 1007

Not surprised that this is written by a fellow Canadian, our (in)justice system is a complete joke, hopefully the Conservatives can do something about it, but it will take a while to appoint enough new judges to fix it.
by Shadowfury333
Sun Sep 03, 2006 1:29 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: 1000 cell phones?
Replies: 119
Views: 8080

Lothar wrote:... which is exactly what all of us have been saying. Use all of the tools available -- looks, behavior, whatever you happen to know that helps. (Religion can often be determined from behavioral factors; we don't need a national database.)
Well, at least he figured it out, eventually.
by Shadowfury333
Sat Aug 26, 2006 5:08 pm
Forum: Other 6DoF Game Efforts
Topic: Comments ..
Replies: 19
Views: 9779

yeah, that much I knew. I've talked to Hexetic before about it. Q4 has the support, but I know the guys don't want to use Q4. Good thing too, at least for me. Due to the age and make of my video card (ATI RADEON 9200), I have 2 rendering choices: pixel shaders with full-screen green tint, or color ...
by Shadowfury333
Fri Aug 25, 2006 7:40 pm
Forum: D2X-XL
Topic: Mac users can now host D2X-XL games in .151...
Replies: 6
Views: 2249

Jsut out of curiosity, can people join games in progress, or must they join before the game starts?
by Shadowfury333
Thu Aug 24, 2006 4:06 pm
Forum: D2X-XL
Topic: Mac users can now host D2X-XL games in .151...
Replies: 6
Views: 2249

*does a little jig*

Yay, now if only there were netgames to be played, unless there have been since I last checked.
by Shadowfury333
Tue Aug 22, 2006 2:15 pm
Forum: D2X-XL
Topic: Discussion: Adding stuff to D2X-XL
Replies: 35
Views: 8379

Diedel, have you looked at any other open source projects that use shaders. DarkPlaces seems like a good place to start, as it is programmed in C (though it might be QuakeC), supports shaders, and uses real-time shadowing well. It might be a good reference. If not, you're welcome anyway.
by Shadowfury333
Sun Aug 20, 2006 9:53 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: 1000 cell phones?
Replies: 119
Views: 8080

The other fabrication is that it's either one or the other. It's not. That's an argument made up by civil libertarians and the left. So that's why you kept saying I was a doctrinal leftie/libertarian. Well, by your reasoning you were right in saying that, but thankfully Drakona pulled the wool away ...
by Shadowfury333
Sun Aug 20, 2006 3:34 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: 1000 cell phones?
Replies: 119
Views: 8080

Successful security doesn't have to be undefeatable by the enemy. Sometimes it's enough just to slow him down. Shadowfury called such targeted searching "short-sighted and reactive" -- in opposition to "boarder and more intelligent* measures" "*as in: based on sound intelligence from espionage and ...
by Shadowfury333
Sat Aug 19, 2006 7:12 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: 1000 cell phones?
Replies: 119
Views: 8080

Sigh. As a matter of clarity, you are incorrect. You said you favored " eliminat(ing) narrow, short-sighted and reactive security measures (such as Muslim profiling) in favor of broader and more intelligent measures . . . .", which is your version of the position held by Kilarin. Did I miss ...
by Shadowfury333
Sat Aug 19, 2006 9:25 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: 1000 cell phones?
Replies: 119
Views: 8080

Will correctly points out the illogic in your position. "You seem not to realize" there is no single security measure that cannot be met with an adaptive counter-response. That does not mean you terminate the security measure because it's simply hopeless. So that's not your real issue, otherwise ...
by Shadowfury333
Fri Aug 18, 2006 11:28 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: 1000 cell phones?
Replies: 119
Views: 8080

Will Robinson wrote:
Shadowfury333 wrote:When have I personally attacked these measures?
sorry, if it doesn't apply to you personally then please ignore it. I'm really speaking toward a much larger audience with most of my comments.
I figured, and I don't take any personal offense, despite what my post may have implied
by Shadowfury333
Fri Aug 18, 2006 11:23 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: 1000 cell phones?
Replies: 119
Views: 8080

Hmmm, considering the moaning we saw about Bush for using totally legal means of spying on known al Queda suspects I seriously doubt you would approve of any "espionage". In fact I call bull shiit on your whole claim that we need spying based on all the whining we hear everytime bush trys to do ...
by Shadowfury333
Fri Aug 18, 2006 9:48 pm
Forum: D2X-XL
Topic: D2X-XL support ticket tracker - now on SourceForge.net!
Replies: 17
Views: 5239

Is it even possible to view other's support problems, the current layout would suggest otherwise.
by Shadowfury333
Fri Aug 18, 2006 9:44 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: 1000 cell phones?
Replies: 119
Views: 8080

Will you join me in supporting governmental profiling and preferential searches of men and women of the Muslim faith at airports? Of course you won't. You hold yourself out as a libertarian and that would be antithetical to all that you hold dear, which is your own misperception of the Constitution ...
by Shadowfury333
Fri Aug 18, 2006 5:08 pm
Forum: PTMC Cafe
Topic: Google Stuff
Replies: 10
Views: 847

Also, google used to do this which is quite funny. It doesn't any more though. This still kinda surprises me, as the French had an impressive army, and at one time a pan-european empire, along with many trading and colonial exploits. They also fought valiantly in WWII, they just put the Maginot ...
by Shadowfury333
Fri Aug 18, 2006 7:47 am
Forum: D2X-XL
Topic: D2X-XL suggestions thread
Replies: 410
Views: 92697

=Tempest= wrote:on a related note: I downloaded the midi soundtracks for both games; Descent 2 had LOTS of music that I never heard ingame, was it an expansion pack or something?
D2 Redbook. I don't know how it was released for PC, but it was included on all of the Mac discs.
by Shadowfury333
Thu Aug 10, 2006 9:52 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: shoot first laws
Replies: 64
Views: 7076

I fractured my right wrist, I can't take the .45. I have no qualms about putting a few rounds in someone. One, three, whatever. I'd have a minimum of two anyway. Although I'm not particularily knowledgeable on the subject, isn't two rounds to the chest followed by one to the head standard procedure?
by Shadowfury333
Thu Aug 10, 2006 2:39 pm
Forum: Descent Level Spotlight
Topic: D2X-XL level Speed! updated
Replies: 3
Views: 2138

If flying through a teleport face, you will be instantaneously placed at the teleport's destination location, facing the direction the level designer determined for that teleport, and will keep momentum. Ok, that would be halo and quake style. However, I would think that seeing through the ...
by Shadowfury333
Thu Aug 10, 2006 2:37 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Manipulating the Gospels
Replies: 26
Views: 3291

they decided which Gospels would be accepted and denounced the rest as heresy. Yes, after a great deal of scholarship, debate and prayer*. *if you refute on the grounds of prayer, then obviously you are against organized religion as a whole, since logically prayer would help one organize a religion ...
by Shadowfury333
Thu Aug 10, 2006 10:46 am
Forum: Descent Level Spotlight
Topic: D2X-XL level Speed! updated
Replies: 3
Views: 2138

Just out of curiosity, do the D2 portals work like those in the upcoming game Portal or like the more typical teleporters, i.e. Halo, Quake series, etc.

Here's hoping for the former.
by Shadowfury333
Wed Aug 09, 2006 11:18 am
Forum: D2X-XL
Topic: D2X-XL Bug Reports - Mac OS X
Replies: 168
Views: 49279

Yep that's how mine looks since 1.6.130.
by Shadowfury333
Wed Aug 09, 2006 9:49 am
Forum: D2X-XL
Topic: D2X-XL Bug Reports - Mac OS X
Replies: 168
Views: 49279

I don't think this is a bug, but I've tried using the hi-res textures linked on the d2x downloads section on the front page, and they don't seem to work - I have them in a folder named "Textures" in the Data folder. It should work Here's my folder structure (slightly simplified for easier viewing ...
by Shadowfury333
Wed Aug 09, 2006 9:40 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Al Reuters
Replies: 30
Views: 2636

Perhaps the real news is not the manipulation of news to slant for a certain response but that there are bloggers out there keeping an eye on the guys who should be keeping an eye.... it's great hey :D. culture++ I kinda wish that ++culture would be more correct, then we wouldn't have these ...
by Shadowfury333
Wed Aug 09, 2006 9:36 am
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: shoot first laws
Replies: 64
Views: 7076

Banning guns because some people may use them for crime is about as reasonable as banning computers because pedophiles use them to prey on our children. I wouldn't be surprised if this were the next target for the fear-fueled puritan lawmakers. If it were for savage cavemen like us we'd be all ...
by Shadowfury333
Tue Aug 08, 2006 5:30 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Al Reuters
Replies: 30
Views: 2636

Wait...I just saw the picture...it's the extra smoke that has you guys up in your panties? I was waiting to see something gruesome...not an extra plume of black smoke.... No, it isn't any particular doctored picture, it's the fact that a popular news agency would be so careless as to allow for its ...
by Shadowfury333
Sun Aug 06, 2006 6:24 pm
Forum: Ethics and Commentary
Topic: Israel will fail...
Replies: 109
Views: 7520

it's just downright evil to prevent every citizen of a country the rights and privelleges they deserve, simply because you feel threatened by it's government. Agreed, I'd say that the military powerbase is what should be targeted. Embargoes and sanctions should be limited to that, unless someone ...
by Shadowfury333
Sun Aug 06, 2006 9:38 am
Forum: D2X-XL
Topic: Mac OS X users: get ready to rumble...
Replies: 2
Views: 1673

Thanks
by Shadowfury333
Mon Jul 31, 2006 8:32 am
Forum: D2X-XL
Topic: D2X-XL tracker by Koolbear
Replies: 2
Views: 1606

Re: D2X-XL tracker by Koolbear

A few months ago Koolbear had installed a tracker for D2X-XL, but I could never make D2X-XL detect it. Well, when debugging the OS X version last weekend together with simX, we caught some tracker data packets that had come from KB's server, judged by the first three octets of the IP address, and ...
by Shadowfury333
Sun Jul 30, 2006 10:43 pm
Forum: D2X-XL
Topic: D2X-XL Bug Reports - Mac OS X
Replies: 168
Views: 49279

simX wrote:One of the switches might be the problem. Diedel also might be of more help than I am on which switches to turn on/off to help the problem.
Did you test Glass House with my switch config on your computer?
by Shadowfury333
Sun Jul 30, 2006 9:48 pm
Forum: D2X-XL
Topic: D2X-XL Bug Reports - Mac OS X
Replies: 168
Views: 49279

simX wrote:Hrm. Can you try a pristine player profile?
Still doesn't work, although I have all of my switches still on, except for the -player SF333 one. However, I was able to indentify the sound as the startup sound, but the beginning bit is looping about 20 times per second.
by Shadowfury333
Sun Jul 30, 2006 9:29 pm
Forum: D2X-XL
Topic: D2X-XL Bug Reports - Mac OS X
Replies: 168
Views: 49279

You didn't happen to leave the model textures in the textures folder, did you? It turns out (my mistake) that textures for models SHOULD go in the models folder rather than the textures folder. (Model textures have prefixes of "blpyro", "gx", "missile", "multi", and "ngr".) That did the trick ...
by Shadowfury333
Sun Jul 30, 2006 8:44 pm
Forum: D2X-XL
Topic: D2X-XL Bug Reports - Mac OS X
Replies: 168
Views: 49279

Hmm. Is this an Intel Mac-mini? Copying the switches you use seems to work on my iMac G5, so that might be the problem. No, 1.42GHz G4 Also did you test out version 1.6.121, or did you go straight from 1.6.109 to 1.6.122? If so, did 1.6.121 launch on your Mac? I went straight, I couldn't download 1 ...
by Shadowfury333
Sun Jul 30, 2006 8:28 pm
Forum: D2X-XL
Topic: D2X-XL Bug Reports - Mac OS X
Replies: 168
Views: 49279

By the way, it seemed to be a model problem, not a texture problem. That's what I was trying to tell you. So did 1.6.122 fix the problem or not? [MacMini:Descent II] shadowfury333% ./d2x-xl.app/Contents/MacOS/d2x-xl -macdata -fullscreen -sound22k -render_quality 3 -gl_alttexmerge 0 -playermessages ...
by Shadowfury333
Sun Jul 30, 2006 8:23 pm
Forum: D2X-XL
Topic: D2X-XL Bug Reports - Mac OS X
Replies: 168
Views: 49279

I doubt textures are the problems. For me, I get this: By the way, it seemed to be a model problem, not a texture problem. That's what I was trying to tell you. Woot! New Mac OS X binary out! :D Lots of Mac-specific fixes: complex D2X-XL levels work now, playing Descent 1 levels works again now ...
by Shadowfury333
Sun Jul 30, 2006 10:07 am
Forum: D2X-XL
Topic: D2X-XL Bug Reports - Mac OS X
Replies: 168
Views: 49279

Diedel wrote:Shadow,

it would have been a good idea (tm) to turn the shield sphere off before making screenshots of the pyro. :P
Oh sorry, I'll keep that in mind for any other times.