Daeval

If you can't do it, just clear your history once in a while and no one will know you're browsing for porn.

-FireFox -Thunderbird -Winamp -Nero -DivX Codecs -AdAware -WinRAR (Zip support is native in XP) -Anti-Virus of Choice -Office Suite of Choice -Instant Messenger of Choice And of course DRIVERS! I like to DL all the latest/best drivers for the hardware I'm going to be using, along with the software above, and burn it to a disk for handy installation to a new system. Then, run Windows Update until you're out of good things to get and you've covered pretty much all the absolutely necessary stuff with me. But then there's the optionals: -ABC (Torrent Client) -eMule -EditPad Lite -WinXP PowerToys (Open Command Window Here, Tweak UI, Power Calculator, and Virtual Desktop Manager) And for some reason I can't seem to do without Acrobat Reader for more than a week after a new install, so I just install it with the OS. Heh. And that's damn near everything, aside from games and school/hobby apps, that I have installed!

Akuma looks a little stretched, but it could just be the art (they always draw him retarted ). The text definately needs some spicing up (Check out http://www.WantedFonts.com), and the white glow is rather plain. All said though, it's one of the better 1emu wallpapers I've seen. So, 7.5

Actually sounds like you do HE HE I get enough of that old friend.Its just I feel theres something more to life than being ordinary u know,Like why do all those overpaid football players get paid so great for running up and down like a bunch of idiots <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Something more to life than physical acts you mean? I take a middle stance: There's a lot more to life than the surface currencies of Money / Power / Sex / Etc. I'd go crazy if I didn't have deeper things to contemplate from time to time, and other complex thinkers to contemplate them with. However, even the worst day can be raised at least a few notches with a good lay.

Taking out an opponent in VF4:Evo in 6 seconds using Goh. Hardcore people could probably do better, but considering I did it more or less by accident, I count it as an accomplishment. Winning a public, 8-man round of HL deathmatch 45 and 5.

Forbidden!

Don't you mean AnimeHeaven? If Anbu's is out I can't find it. :\

"Real life" fighting isn't all fun and games. A student under my judo coach was once attacked by two navy guys armed with metal pipes behind a store. Turns out the ground outside is not as soft as a fighting mat. Using two throws, he shattered one guy's knee and killed the other. It was self defense but, needless to say, a number of lives were seriously and permanently affected. If you want to learn "real life" fighting, as opposed to contact sparring, that's fine and all. It's great for self defense or tournaments, etc in controlled environments. Just be aware of the responsibility involved.

Make sure you're associating the quicktime plugin with mozilla/firefox/netscape or whatever it shows up as in the installer.

Since pretty much anyone else I would mention has been covered: Whoever did the recent incarnation of the Elder Scrolls world (Morrowind). Also, whoever did the first level of Thief: The Dark Project. Screw everyone else who worked on that game.

I believe there is an "assisting illegal activity" type clause that is being used against things like P2P programs and rom or warez sites. You don't have to host the roms or warez you link to to be considered a proponent of illegal activities, at least to most hosts or isps, if not to the law. If someone is "turned away" from emulation because we won't direct-link them to the hottest new rom, that's a problem of their own laziness. Google works and failing that there are plenty of other resources out there. If you want to talk about games or emulators, then this is the place. But you have to get your roms on your own. Fact of the matter is this: GameCop has made his decision based on solid reasoning on a level above and beyond the "emulation scene," (IE Real Life) and plenty of the members, myself included, support him on it.

Google's lawdogs are already tracking them down, I'm sure.

I'm not entirely sure what you mean, but I'm guessing you're talking about clipping issues, as apparent on the bottom left side of the guy's jacket in your first screenshot. It's not as complex as it might at first seem. Basically, the 3D model isn't a real, solid object like a person or jacket would be in real life. Most models in games have collision coded between themselves and other objects, so the player can't walk through walls and things can bounce off of them, etc. However, there's usually no collision WITHIN a particular object. This means parts of that model can pass freely through other parts of the same model, attached models like clothes, or even other independent objects in some cases (see Soul Calibur for many examples). At this point, it's mainly up to the animators to make sure parts don't overlap. When there are interchangeable parts to a character, especially in the case of "accessories" like clothes that you can swap, parts are usually just attached to the main model at a fixed number of points. At those points, the "accessory" will move with the main model, and at other points the "accessory" is allowed to move of its own accord. Since, aside from the fixed points, there is no collision between the main model and any accessories, long and flowing or big and bulky accessories will often overlap with their main model. This goes for other things too, like hands and arms, which aren't usually given their own collision, just handled as part of the main object's collision. When they stick out of the "solid" box or radius that holds the main model, they can pass through thing like they aren't even there. Hope that's what you were talking about. If not, sorry for the rant.

When I played it at E3, it was really bad about ground hits. You could hit a grounded player with a wide variety of moves that you probably shouldn't have been able to. I'm hoping it isn't that bad in the actual release, but I'll get to play it later this week to find out.

That was my impression too before I'd seen it, but a friend convinced me to watch some anyway. I've only seen the first five episodes so far, but it hasn't struck me as DBZ-like in any way. I consider myself an anime fan, but I'm extremely picky and I hate DBZ. Aside from having a blatantly kid-friendly message in the first arc (teamwork, yay..), and a ranma-style obsessive crush, nothing about Naruto has really grated on my nerves so far. It's about kids, but they don't reign supreme over everything like adults don't exist, as in most shows aimed at younger audiences (at least in the states). They're actually written well as convincing kids, with kid-like motivations and immaturities, and the adults are (mostly) given a position of authority and respect that lends an air of maturity to the show. It's neat because you don't often get this combination of perspectives. Combine all that with the increased level of violence that's acceptable in Japan, and it gets kind of hard to tell who this is aimed at. For the most part, I'd say it's worth a look.

Worst flash animation EVER.

I knew someone else would get a kick out of this..

4400?

At this rate, you need to start on Taoism as soon as possible. Seriously though, fighting is a great way to excercise mind, body, and spirit, but picking fights with just anybody is dumb. Join a team if you're in school, or find a dojo for something, and focus on discipline for a while until you can control urges like this. Any respectable fighter knows that to avoid an unecessary fight is better than to have won it. Also, consider what Fatal Rose said. You have to decide whether you want to learn a particular art to compete within that art, such as TKD sparring or competetive Judo, or if you want to try and become a mixed-art fighter, which will make a different style, or combination of styles, more effective. There's nothing wrong with either approach, it's just a personal decision. You'll want to find a dojo/school that matches the approach you want to take.

The animations on my cheese slow down all the time! It's terrible!

I thought so too, but it hasn't been a big deal so far. Granted, I haven't done anything seriously intensive, and I have a decent system (P4 2.8, 512MB, GeForce 4 Ti4600). The worst I've done is openned photoshop with thunderbird and a few firefox windows running, while streaming 128K radio, talking on aim, and transferring files between partitions. Processor usage jumps by about 15-25% and RAM by about 20MB, but you figure I'm making the plug-in run at 1280x1024 in true color mode, with anisotropic filtering (if that works in desktop mode - no way to tell, but the checkbox is marked) and those numbers aren't too bad. It seems pretty low-priority too, if there is a hiccup because I'm doing something funky, it's usually the vis that slows down rather than anything important. Obviously, it's not going to be desireable if you're doing anything major, like video editing or something, but it's great for everyday stuff.

Have you guys seen this? If you can't tell, that would be a winamp visualization plugin running, complete with beat detection, as my otherwise normal desktop background. I'd only ever messed with winamp's visualizations in full-screen mode, making the false presumption that they were only useful while not actually using the computer... I decided to futz around with them now that I got winamp 5.05 and discovered this. It looks like something out of a bad hacker movie. We're not quite to the point where macs can interface with alien attack ships, but this is a step in hollywood's direction. To see it for yourself, hook up winamp with the Milkdrop plugin (included in 5.05), then configure the plugin to run in Desktop mode. Make sure to find the option that lets you see your icons. You might also want to set your start menu to auto-hide. Sorry if this is old news, but I found it too spiffy to keep to myself.

Crazy! No pictures!

I would think it has to do with the fact that IE is by far the most popular browser, and therefore its vulnerabilities are the most targetted by would-be attackers. If you really only visit a few sites, and those are trustworthy, you probably won't run into problems whatever browser you're using. If you do decide to change, I've got to recommend Mozilla's Firefox. It's sleek and sexy, but full featured.

I've been hearing a lot about these lately and I'm wondering if anyone here has played with one? Here's a link: http://www.linker4u.com/pp/item_detail.asp...4-4D6CA55FB885} Not that specific one, necessarily, that's just an example of what I'm talking about. Any general impressions? And what about save games? Can you download/upload save game files to these things? Also, I've heard there is a type of "OS" for the GBA, called Pogosomething, that gives the gba music playback, acts as a rom-loading front-end, and a few other tricks. I'm assuming that's made for these flash linkers?