Heya Spak
Hows tricks?
(stimpy, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 19:52, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

Greetings Stimples
Have spent the day at work having to apply voodoo magic to get my software to work properly. This is not helped at all by sleep deprivation. Installing Unreal Tournament 3 on my laptop hasn't helped either.

How's yourself?
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 19:56, Reply)

Ahh, voodoo
Did it involve sticking a pin in a CD? UT3 had a real effect on my insomnia... cured it. Just couldn't get in to the game.

I'm good - two misbehaving rats, constantly fighting and decided to throw all the cage lining on the floor. Suggestions for how to stop them doing this? Talking sternly doesn't help.
(stimpy, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 19:59, Reply)

Nah
I just had to change the settings screen to a different sub-project to get the changes to register. I learned this by trial, error and gut instinct. Would still like to stick pins into the programmers who wrote this.

UT3 is having the opposite effect on me.

As for the misbehaving rats, have you tried separating them?
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 21:33, Reply)

UT3 fucking rocks on the PS3 :D
Of course, I would say this since I appear to have become a huge PS3 fangirl (I even bought Heavenly Sword to find out what 'twing twang' is and it's not a bad game if you overlook the very obviously rushed graphics).
( Maladicta, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 19:59, Reply)

Glad someone on here likes UT3
Does anyone want to help me test the online play? Would love to have a game full of b3tans.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 20:21, Reply)

I have rummaged through Maladicta and Flatmate's Pile of PC Games
and have discovered we also have UT3 for the PC. If I can persuade my router not to shit itself and die like it did playing Red Alert, I'm well in.
( Maladicta, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 20:26, Reply)

Yay!
If I can get UT3 to co-operate with my fireall, I could set up a server sometime tonight, but as I'm expecting a phonecall, I may not get round to it for sometime (or may even have to leave it until Wednesday if I can't do it tonight).
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 20:38, Reply)

I need a new router really, but the decent gaming one my flatmate wants is a hundred quid!
Firewall usually behaves itself but may need to be bullied into believing UT3 is kosher before I can attempt online play...
( Maladicta, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 20:43, Reply)

Let me know how the kosher bullying of your Internet doodahs goes and I'll see what I can do for a server.

( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 20:49, Reply)

Will do - may need to bully it a bit!

( Maladicta, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 20:56, Reply)

If in doubt
Get the latex out...
(stimpy, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 21:19, Reply)

You've never seen me threatening the router when it craps out again.
Guitar Hero drumstick, kicking it in very pointy heels, inflatable mallet, crop... kicking it again... the neighbours probably think I'm a nutter when they look in!
( Maladicta, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 21:24, Reply)

As counterintuitive as this sounds
this might actually be a better way of repairing a router than just throwing vast blobs of latex at it.

And if your neighbours are nutters themselves, you've just made some new friends.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 21:40, Reply)

Yeah, I'm not sure drowning it in liquid latex is the way to go.
The landlord would kill me for the mess on the carpet for starters!
( Maladicta, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 21:46, Reply)

Everyone loves latex though!
I sense a new product line. Computer equipment for the fetish market. My idea! None of you go stealing it now!
(stimpy, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 22:07, Reply)

Not computer equipment but user-interface design
for the scat-market - Apple's user-interface paradigm.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 22:15, Reply)

Most people, in fairness, only appreciate it because it stops them getting themselves or their partners pregnant.
It takes a certain calibre to see it having any other purpose!
( Maladicta, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 22:18, Reply)

Like preventing computer viruses?

( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 22:19, Reply)

Okay, that's three uses.
We're doing well!
( Maladicta, Mon 19 Oct 2009, 22:21, Reply)