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D2 has always had this feature (Alt-- and Alt-=).

The Lion

Heh now we know Behemoth's secret

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Munk posted a suggestion to this board earlier about improving your
aim, which is to play instareap games with your reticle turned off.

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Let me make a tribute by informing everyone that many of these programs are not actually freeware, but \"free software\", which is a philosophy that dates way back into the 80's. It's older than the kernel Linux, and much older than the Open Source movement, which merely advocates the prag...

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Sorry, I forgot the emphasis on \"at a distance\"; why can't you just
move in on them and destroy them up close? Maybe you don't do
that because it takes too much time which makes it annoying. But
it is possible...

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[...] and in order to destroy all robots in D3, some skill-switching is needed because on high skill, some of the robots dodge all energy projectiles from a distance, and Vauss/Mass Driver will run out before they are all blown up. On which level in D3 do you need to kill a robot at a distance usin...

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CUDA wrote:"the needs of the many out weigh the needs of the few or the one"

Whoopsy! Guess we can just torture anyone, as long as it's "for the public good"...?

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He does have the authority to order some pretty rough interogation techniques on people who meet certain criteria [...] That's enough, I'd say. No one should be subject to any "rough interogation techniques" regardless of what criteria they meet. And by the way, don't you think lawyers wi...

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Knowing what to expect is just part of being a top pilot...

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Linux can definately be unstable if you are using some kind of buggy driver. Solving this problem can be tricky. First you need to determine which one it is; then, you need to find an upgrade or replacement. Or, if whatever that driver's for is not important, simply stop using it. Unfortunately I'm ...

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So, I guess the ship is not rotating, the camera is just moving around it...

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Something like that, anyway. Maybe a cube... not sure, I don't know the
D1x/D2x code that well. But neither of them have \"polygon accurate
collision detection\" like D3 does (hey, another feature to add to
D2X-XL...).

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In D1x they fixed this, apparently by placing all the gunpoints a little more to the back of your ship, because now you can lay proxbombs through closed/locked doors. :-) Edit: nah, wait a sec. I think this was due to another \"bugfix\"; in the original D1 proxbombs would explode if you fi...

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lol... have none of you noticed that you can supposedly \"Buy Steve Irwin dead on eBay!\"?

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The biggest problem with PGP/GPG is that few people bother to use it.

The Lion

The pictures will also look better once they post bigger screenshots
with a higher JPEG quality setting. But as you said, they're running
low on bandwidth...

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If you search for \"miserable failure\" you even get images of Bush at the top.

The Lion

Remember, only the user \"root\" has full access to the system.
To execute a command as root, put \"sudo \" in front of it.

Earlier post from DCrazy with information about the \"root\" user

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Whatever it takes to scare alien invaders away from this planet...

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On most recent systems, /dev is a RAM-disk; it starts from scratch
at each boot and device files are created on-demand by a daemon
such as udev. So, manual tweaks to /dev are lost when the machine
shuts down or reboots.

Doing a Google search for \"udev\" will help you find out more.

The Lion

Doh, sry :-)

The Lion

Ahhhh, defragging - anothing thing only braindead filesystems such
as FAT and NTFS still need. Hope you're starting to get familiar
with Kubuntu...

The Lion

And Descent itself too, don't forget. Matcens show up as purple
areas on the automap just like player spawn points.

The Lion

I would consider the \"portals\" in Descent 1 and 2 you're talking about to be something entirely different. You did watch the video didn't you? :-) The portals in Portal and Narbacular Drop can not be reproduced in Descent, except maybe to a certain extent in D2X-XL, as I mentioned above....

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The speed of your computer is irrelevant, but your computer has to be reachable (i.e. if you're behind a NAT gateway/router, direct internet connections to your computer are impossible and you will have to configure your router to \"forward\" the connections/UDP packets to your computer. H...

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There is a game called \"Narbacular Drop\" which uses this concept
and which you can download. It looks like Portal itself is just a
mini-game for Half life \"Episode Two\".

I was thinking... could a similar effect be created in D2X-XL by
combining a camera with a teleport? :-)

The Lion

Look for X error messages in /var/log. The name of the logfile is
probably something like Xorg.0.log.

Edit: except you would need a boot CD or something for that...

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Yes, I didn't mean \"unavoidable\". \"The missiles concerned\" had an unlimited FOV and were able to follow you around a corner, but could not see through walls and, most importantly, were very slow (besides being shootable). They wouldn't really make a good multiplayer weapon an...

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Descent 1 & 2 had VR support

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IMO only missiles that can't be dodged should be shootable.
They did this in Forsaken (although the missiles concerned were
not available in multiplayer).

Edit: but being able to toggle it would always be okay, I guess.

The Lion

Those of you that have played against \"DIII-DereX\" or \"Derick\" probably
remember him well. He flies smoothly too, except he doesn't get his butt
handed to him...
Derek plays with 2 joysticks, too. Here's a video he recorded of it.

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Never tried this myself, but I think you can make a HXM with modifications to D1 robots. Put it in your missions dir with the same name as the level (or HOG, or MSN, not sure; just try). I have confirmed that this works with DTX patch files in D1x-rebirth . Just put them in the missions dir with the...

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If you use the \"rabid robots\" cheat in D2 you can hit
the GB directly with weapons too.

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Just did a quick search. Found that literal IPv6 addresses in URLs are enclosed in brackets. There is a very clear description in RFC 2732 , section 2. I saw that RFC 2732 is obsoleted by RFC 3986 , which seems to be a little harder to read, but the bracket convention remains (simply search it for \...

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Here's an article regarding these issues that you may find interesting:

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/misinterp ... right.html

The Lion

Just for the record... I'm with Checkor on this one.

Great vids, nice frag. ;-)

Don't stop making stuff like this!

I think these videos can be very popular, and get people to play
(again), all we need is a couple of links in the right places.

Hmmm... :-)

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