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Greatest Steam tech support reply ever:

"We dont know what the problem is."

True reply.

"George Bush doesnt care about Black People." - Kanye West.

stupid celebrity behavior must be a trend or something...

damn, I didnt find kfs' cameo. Found Ken Banks', though. Gotta love Raven Squad.

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There are three misspellings of "religion" on this page.

does that include the topic?

Long story short, I prefer science over religion. Science doesnt stand in a crowded area and kill several innocents in its own name. Not to mention it can be proven true.

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bump an old thread why dont ya..

Who could not love the buggy editor, lack of patch meshes (not displacements), lack of model scaling, and lack of real time rendering preview? Tis why I went back to doom 3 and am missing out on all the fun stuff (granted, you cant really scale models in doom3 either, but hey, it doesnt have all the other crap (few bugs, but not as many as hammer))

I like the direction of the map. keep it up.

They should call it Biodemic or Panware.

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Naah cant blame their upbringing, they have a will of their own after all.

Get spoonfed Nazi propaganda shit from since you could crawl, and then say that.

I wanted to cry after listening to a song of theirs. Everything about the song just plain sucks. Not to mention the whole nazi thing on top of the whole lack of musical talent.

the m&k combo is what kept me from buying a console for the longest time. Went from SNES to xbox with no in-between. only reason i bought the xbox was so i could play the games i wanted to play that werent available for pc (Ninja Gaiden, Halo 2, Jade Empire, etc). If I have the option to buy a game on console or on PC, I'll take the PC any day.

Some Lyrics of their song entitled "Aryan Man Awake":

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When the man who plows the fields is driven from his lands. When the carpenter must give away what he's built with his own hands. When a mother's only children belong to her no more. And black masked men with guns come bashing down the doors. Where freedom exists for only those with darker skin. Where lies and propaganda will never let you win. Where symbols of your heritage are held with such contempt, and benefits of country 'cept tax are you exempt .Aryan man awake, How much more will you take, Turn that fear to hate, Aryan man awake.

Can you see how they lie to warp your daughter's minds? Can you let your sons be trodden down or held behind? Can you apologize for things you did not do, and leave this battle that we fight to the proud and the few? What will it take for you to waken to the truth? What will it take for you to remember your own youth? What will you give up to help this worthy Cause, and strike with force and fury, without a single pause?

What will it take for you to remember your own folk? What will it take for you to break that heavy yoke? Why do you still cast your eyes downward to the ground? Worry lest what you say have prejudicial sound. Who will stand beside us when the war begins? Who will run and hide their heads and wait to see who wins? Who will face the end and watch a Valkyrie ride forth To join the gods and fallen stormtroopers of the North?

Hard to believe a thirteen year old wrote that.

Mom: "Okay sweety, now go out and sing these words like this. You'll be just like Britiany Spears!"

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Can you see how they lie to warp your daughter's minds?

I love the irony of that line.

I remember when my web design instructor and I got a student to think that a vinyl was a CD that was put in a microwave and spun around really fast to stretch it.

Good times.

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PC Gaming Renaissance on the Horizon?Major industry players plan a major push to revitalize segment.

by Wade Steel

October 31, 2005 - Anyone who has walked into a major gaming retail outlet in recent years can't help but have noticed the ever-shrinking shelf space devoted to PC gaming. The sales figures paint an even more dismal picture for PC gaming enthusiasts: while console gaming sales have increased every year since 1999 to $6.2 billion in 1994, PC gaming sales in the US peaked in 1999 at $2 billion and have declined every year since for a total of $1.1 billion in 2004. Into this environment, major industry players like Microsoft, Dell, and GameStop are making a concerted effort to revitalize PC gaming, according to a Chicago Tribune report.

Chris Donahue, director for the Windows gaming and graphics team at Microsoft, stated that "We underinvested in making sure that hasn't happened, and that's one of the things we're going to fix." GameStop chief operating officer and vice chairman Dan DeMatteo claimed that he "would hate to see it go away...I wouldn't be the one to cause it to go away. If the consumer is there and publishers are making good games for the PC, I will be there."

For its part GameStop is seeking to increase the visibility of PC gaming by entering into a partnership with Dell Computers to place PC gaming kiosks - similar to those already in place for the demonstration of console games - in some of its retail locations. Currently, only 25 out of the over 4,000 GameStop locations nationwide have the PC game kiosks but that number is expected to increase.The kiosks will be powered by Dell's revamped and supercharged XPS computers, coupled with 42-inch Dell high-definition plasma monitors.

While GameStop and Dell are focusing directly on the demonstration of PC gaming for the consumer, Microsoft seeks to re-energize its Windows operating system as a gaming platform and intends to treat the release of its upcoming Windows Vista OS with all the fanfare of a gaming console release. The company intends to tout Visa as "the most game-friendly Windows operating system ever." In addition, Microsoft is attempting to convince PC game publishers to release games on DVDs rather than the current CD format in an effort to eliminate the now-standard multi-disk installation. Furthermore, the company intends to encourage PC game developers to adopt some of the "plug and play" features of consoles by allowing games to be played once the disk is installed rather than waiting for complete installation on the harddrive.

While the release of the next-generation consoles has inevitably brought with it the doomsayers who say the death of PC gaming is nigh, we can see from this report that some of the industry's heavy hitters continue to see the PC as a viable gaming platform and worthy of continued support. This effort can only benefit the entire gaming community - both PC and console alike.

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For sale: Britain’s underground cityMaurice Chittenden

WELCOME to Cold War City (population: 4). It covers 240 acres and has 60 miles of roads and its own railway station. It even includes a pub called the Rose and Crown.

The most underpopulated town in Britain is being put on the market. But there will be no estate agent’s blurb extolling the marvellous views of the town for sale: true, it has a Wiltshire address, but it is 120ft underground.

The subterranean complex that was built in the 1950s to house the Conservative prime minister Harold Macmillan’s cabinet and 4,000 civil servants in the event of a Soviet nuclear attack is being thrown open to commercial use. Just four maintenance men are left.

Property developers looking for the ultimate place to get away from it all need not apply. The site has a notional value of £5m but there is a catch. It is available only as part of a private finance initiative that involves investing in the military base on the surface above.

Already two uses are being considered: a massive data store for City firms or the biggest wine cellar in Europe. More outlandish ideas put forward include a nightclub for rave parties, a 1950s theme park or a reception centre for asylum seekers. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has ruled out any suggestion of using it to store nuclear waste or providing open public access because of the dangers that still lurk below.

The bunker is in a former mine near Corsham in Wiltshire where stone was once excavated to provide the fascias for the fine houses of Bath, about eight miles away.

During the war the mine was a munitions dump and a factory for military aircraft engines. It was equipped with what was then the second largest telephone exchange in Britain and a BBC studio from where the prime minister could make broadcasts to what remained of the nation. The telephone directories were last updated in 1989, the year the Berlin Wall came down.

A system of underground power stations would have provided electricity to the 100,000 lamps that lit its streets and guided the way to a pub modelled on the Red Lion in Whitehall.

A spur line was built inside a tunnel on the main London to Bristol railway, linking it to the bunker. It was meant as an escape route for the royal family to flee London in the event of an attack.

Code-named Burlington, it was never used and as the timescale for a perceived Soviet nuclear onslaught shrank to the notorious four-minute warning of armageddon, the whole concept of evacuating the Queen and her government became obsolete.

The bunker’s very existence was meant to be top secret until it was decommissioned last year. The last cabinet records were removed a decade ago.

A visit there today involves walking into an opening in a hillside and taking a lift down to the bunker. The only sentry is a garden gnome outside one of the entrances. Inside, it is like stepping back 50 years.

Hundreds of swivel chairs delivered in 1959 are still unpacked. There are boxes of government-issue glass ashtrays, lavatory brushes and civil service tea sets.

Pictures of the Queen, Princess Margaret and Grace Kelly are pinned to the walls. The canteen has murals of British sporting scenes painted by Olga Lehmann who went on to design costumes for films such as The Guns of Navarone and Kidnapped.

“It was like a set from The Avengers,” said Nick McCamley, author of Secret Underground Cities, who lived locally and first discovered the existence of the site in the 1960s.

Wing Commander Steve Röver-Parks, who is in charge of the Defence Communication Services Agency, which employs 2,200 service and civilian staff above ground at the site, said: “The MoD is in discussion with several interested parties but nothing has been signed and sealed.

“The mine will be part of a private finance initiative. Whoever gets the buildings above ground will have the rights to the mine. Wine storage is under consideration.”

Wine should keep well at the bunker’s constant temperature once equipment to control the humidity is introduced. Vintners expect an explosion in the sale of fine wines next year when changes in pension regulations will enable people to invest their savings in claret.

Michael Lainas, managing director of Octavian, which stores 800,000 cases of wine in another former stone quarry — three miles from the bunker — which the company bought from the MoD, said: “It’s a nice idea going from a red scare to red wine. Our most valuable deposit is a 1666 bottle of sherry valued at £36,000 that once belonged to the tsar of Russia. But even I am not allowed down there with a corkscrew.”

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So if we divide the 5 million pounds among all the active members of mapcore and we each paid our dues, mapcore could have its own city!

Enemy Territory: Quake Wars.

I'm probably not understanding you correctly, but if i am, just manually go into the poly in edge mode and delete the edge. You could even manually connect two verts together with an edge. I forget what the command is, if its not a node thing, check the edit polygon or polygon menu. if its a cube, though, that wouldn't work, so ill stfu now.

as zyn said, post screens of what you're talking about.

i remember reading somwhere that 6x AA is not supported in source for nVidia Cards. I cant set my 7800 ti 6x AA on any source game, its always defaults back to 4xAA.

Not all bad. 4 works for me.

doesnt look that bad. sucks that the skylight doesnt match the skybox.

Sane men wax their chest hairs, and you commonly refer to your country as Holland.

Wisconsin, USA.