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, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

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)