Play, Want und Bin
deKay
For the first time probably ever, I actually did play the games I said I was
going to...
Contact (DS)
I've just left Aegis. I really like this game, but it total surreal. Maybe
that's why I like it.
Kirby's Adventure (Wii)
Bought, played, loved, completed! ACE!
Castlevania (PS2)
See my post in the Castlevania thread. To recap: game is OK, but isn't really
Castlevania.
The Castlevania Adventure (GB)
Yes, GB. Of the original variety. And it's AWFUL. It's slow, creaking,
jerky, juddery, and too bloody hard. And the spikey bit == BADNESS. And no
subweapons. Hate it. But completed it anyway.
Castlevania II: Belmont's Revenge (GB)
Much better! Started playing this last night, and it's everything TCA should
have been. It isn't much faster, but it controls a bit better, there's no
scrolly spikey bits (yet... but I'm right near the end now), the game is quite
a bit easier, and you have subweapons. And no jerking! And you can slide
down ropes! Actually enjoying this quite a lot.
Want:
More Castlevania Goodness. Portrait of Ruin will probably arrive today
though, so I'm not too worried. And you never know, we might get SOTN on the
360 this week...
Lots and lots of DS games. Such as:
Yoshi's Island
Kirby Squeak Squad
Thief Wario (or whatever the US version is called)
Diddy Kong Racing
Picross
Magical Starsign
Hotel Dusk
Touch Detective
Children of Mana
Final Fantasy III
Gunpey
Bin:
Well, my 360 at the moment. Both of them :)
I've not played it in weeks, and none of the current games interest me at all.
That'll change when some decent XBLA games are released (SOTN, Worms...)
deKay
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[ste parker]
> Play:
>
> For the first time probably ever, I actually did play the games I said I was
> going to...
>
> Contact (DS)
> I've just left Aegis. I really like this game, but it total surreal. Maybe
> that's why I like it.
>
It's all rather samey, but for some reason I just can't stop trying to
level everything up. Also, dying and not being given the option to just
go to the last save point is an annoyance.
> Touch Detective
I gave this a go, incredibly tedious point 'n' click game.
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deKay
2007 09:54:46 +0000, sefini jorgo geanyet des mani yeof do
uk.games.video.misc, yawatina tan reek esk "[ste parker]"
<imag...@hotmail.com> fornis do marikano es bono tan el:
>> Contact (DS)
>> I've just left Aegis. I really like this game, but it total surreal. Maybe
>> that's why I like it.
>
>It's all rather samey,
Really? I thought the exact opposite.
>but for some reason I just can't stop trying to
>level everything up.
The amount of time I spent boosting my cooking skills just isn't funny.
> Also, dying and not being given the option to just
>go to the last save point is an annoyance.
No, but at least when you die you keep all the items and things you've
collected since your last save, which, if you'd gone back to your last save,
you'd lose.
>> Touch Detective
>
>I gave this a go, incredibly tedious point 'n' click game.
Hmm. A few people on here said otherwise (including James, I think). I had a
brief go at the weekend and it seemed my sort of thing.
Stewart Smith
> deKay wrote:
>> Play:
>>
>> For the first time probably ever, I actually did play the games I said
>> I was
>> going to...
>>
>> Contact (DS)
>> I've just left Aegis. I really like this game, but it total surreal.
>> Maybe
>> that's why I like it.
>>
>
> It's all rather samey, but for some reason I just can't stop trying to
> level everything up. Also, dying and not being given the option to just
> go to the last save point is an annoyance.
>
I was going to say why not just warp back to the ship when you're about
to die but that amounts to much the same thing.
>> Touch Detective
>
> I gave this a go, incredibly tedious point 'n' click game.
>
Yeah, charming in places but very much a kiddies game. I completed it
100% though. Anyone want to buy it? I wish there were more decent
point and click games on the DS as it's pretty much made for it. I'd
probably play through the broken sword games again even though they miss
something without the voice acting.
Play:
Twilight Princess (Wii) Water temple done, Master Sword got. Now for
some relaxation, fishing and heart piece hunting before any more plot.
Want:
Has Super Mario Galaxy got a release date yet?
Bin:
Completely failing to get anything IRL done this weekend as it passed in
a Hyrule flavoured blur.
Stew
Sir Chewbury Gubbins
> Play:
Harmony of Dissonance - GBA. ACESNESS.
Letting my WoW subscription expire.
Children of mana - just finished the second main story dungeon, but been
doing loadsa quests in between.
> Want:
> Kirby Squeak Squad
This - just because of the ACE name.
> Bin:
Erm, nothing really. Well, maybe stinking rows with the missus.
Choobs
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[ste parker]
> Soni tempori elseu romani yeof helsforo nisson ol sefini ill des Mon, 19 Feb
> 2007 09:54:46 +0000, sefini jorgo geanyet des mani yeof do
> uk.games.video.misc, yawatina tan reek esk "[ste parker]"
> <imag...@hotmail.com> fornis do marikano es bono tan el:
>
>>> Contact (DS)
>>> I've just left Aegis. I really like this game, but it total surreal. Maybe
>>> that's why I like it.
>> It's all rather samey,
>
> Really? I thought the exact opposite.
>
Well OK, it puts you in nice varied locations, but that's it. Gameplay
has been identical all the way so far, the different suits don't really
make /that/ much of a difference. Well, bar the cooking one, obviously.
>> but for some reason I just can't stop trying to
>> level everything up.
>
> The amount of time I spent boosting my cooking skills just isn't funny.
>
Equipping the frying pan seems to make things fly up. Also, if it didn't
take so bloody long to cook something, it'd be even faster!
>> Also, dying and not being given the option to just
>> go to the last save point is an annoyance.
>
> No, but at least when you die you keep all the items and things you've
> collected since your last save, which, if you'd gone back to your last save,
> you'd lose.
>
Usually, the only situations where you're likely to die you're near a
save point anyway. Not saying it's a totally bad thing, just the choice
would help.
>>> Touch Detective
>> I gave this a go, incredibly tedious point 'n' click game.
>
> Hmm. A few people on here said otherwise (including James, I think). I had a
> brief go at the weekend and it seemed my sort of thing.
>
It's cute, but extremely linear and basic. And all the characters are
irritating.
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Jaimie Vandenbergh
wrote:
> I wish there were more decent
>point and click games on the DS as it's pretty much made for it.
ScummVM has a DS version now, which will give you access to most of
the Lucasarts back catalogue - Monkey Island and whatnot. May well be
worth buying a naughty-type memory card thing for.
Cheers - Jaimie
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[ste parker]
> On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 10:29:58 +0000, Stewart Smith <nos...@ee.ed.ac.uk>
> wrote:
>
>> I wish there were more decent
>> point and click games on the DS as it's pretty much made for it.
>
> ScummVM has a DS version now, which will give you access to most of
> the Lucasarts back catalogue - Monkey Island and whatnot. May well be
> worth buying a naughty-type memory card thing for.
>
Yet to be updated for slot1 cards last I checked though.
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...actually I see there's a beta where maybe it does.
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deKay
uk.games.video.misc, yawatina tan reek esk "[ste parker]"
<imag...@hotmail.com> fornis do marikano es bono tan el:
>It's cute, but extremely linear and basic. And all the characters are
>irritating.
That almost describes ugvm.
deKay
uk.games.video.misc, yawatina tan reek esk "[ste parker]"
<imag...@hotmail.com> fornis do marikano es bono tan el:
>> ScummVM has a DS version now, which will give you access to most of
>> the Lucasarts back catalogue - Monkey Island and whatnot. May well be
>> worth buying a naughty-type memory card thing for.
>
>Yet to be updated for slot1 cards last I checked though.
Tell that to the version I was playing Maniac Mansion on the other day :)
Shak
"Jaimie Vandenbergh" <jai...@sometimes.sessile.org> wrote in message
news:ki1jt2pame4c11kul...@newsposting.sessile.org...
> On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 10:29:58 +0000, Stewart Smith <nos...@ee.ed.ac.uk>
> wrote:
>
>> I wish there were more decent
>>point and click games on the DS as it's pretty much made for it.
>
> ScummVM has a DS version now, which will give you access to most of
> the Lucasarts back catalogue - Monkey Island and whatnot. May well be
> worth buying a naughty-type memory card thing for.
>
> Cheers - Jaimie
Oooh. Can you use the stylus to point and click?
Shak
Chris Whitworth
> Soni tempori elseu romani yeof helsforo nisson ol sefini ill des Mon, 19 Feb
> 2007 10:49:45 +0000, sefini jorgo geanyet des mani yeof do
> uk.games.video.misc, yawatina tan reek esk "[ste parker]"
><imag...@hotmail.com> fornis do marikano es bono tan el:
>
>>It's cute, but extremely linear and basic. And all the characters are
>>irritating.
>
> That almost describes ugvm.
Can you tell me where I could find some sailors?
Chris
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Sir Chewbury Gubbins
> 2007 10:49:45 +0000, sefini jorgo geanyet des mani yeof do
> uk.games.video.misc, yawatina tan reek esk "[ste parker]"
><imag...@hotmail.com> fornis do marikano es bono tan el:
>
>>It's cute, but extremely linear and basic. And all the characters are
>>irritating.
>
> That almost describes ugvm.
Almost?
Jaimie Vandenbergh
>"Jaimie Vandenbergh" <jai...@sometimes.sessile.org> wrote in message
>news:ki1jt2pame4c11kul...@newsposting.sessile.org...
>> On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 10:29:58 +0000, Stewart Smith <nos...@ee.ed.ac.uk>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I wish there were more decent
>>>point and click games on the DS as it's pretty much made for it.
>>
>> ScummVM has a DS version now, which will give you access to most of
>> the Lucasarts back catalogue - Monkey Island and whatnot. May well be
>> worth buying a naughty-type memory card thing for.
>
I dunno, I've not got the (ahem) equipment. Be bloody mad if you
couldn't. deKay?
Cheers - J
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deKay
12:18:18 GMT, sefini jorgo geanyet des mani yeof do uk.games.video.misc,
yawatina tan reek esk Sir Chewbury Gubbins <chewbury...@nelefa.org>
fornis do marikano es bono tan el:
>>>It's cute, but extremely linear and basic. And all the characters are
>>>irritating.
>>
>> That almost describes ugvm.
>
>Almost?
I don't think anyone here is cute. Well, aside from me.
deKay
2007 12:19:14 GMT, sefini jorgo geanyet des mani yeof do uk.games.video.misc,
yawatina tan reek esk Jaimie Vandenbergh <jai...@sometimes.sessile.org> fornis
do marikano es bono tan el:
>>Oooh. Can you use the stylus to point and click?
>
>I dunno, I've not got the (ahem) equipment. Be bloody mad if you
>couldn't. deKay?
Of course you can. What a stupid question :)
Sir Chewbury Gubbins
> 12:18:18 GMT, sefini jorgo geanyet des mani yeof do uk.games.video.misc,
> yawatina tan reek esk Sir Chewbury Gubbins <chewbury...@nelefa.org>
> fornis do marikano es bono tan el:
>
>>>>It's cute, but extremely linear and basic. And all the characters are
>>>>irritating.
>>>
>>> That almost describes ugvm.
>>
>>Almost?
>
> I don't think anyone here is cute. Well, aside from me.
>
> deKay
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Toe Jam & Earl (Wii)
I've played this before on the Dreamcast emulator but it was somewhat
broken and unplayable. The Wii version works fine and it's great to
finally play the game I first saw on GamesMaster back in the 90s. I was
playing it in co-op and it works nicely. The funky bassline is now
engrained in my head.
Wii Sports (Wii)
Great fun, but a shame that the experience is somewhat ruined by the
unrealistic shirt material dynamics in Wii Tennis.
Worms World Party (Dreamcast)
Every time I play this I struggle with the counter-intuitive front-end
GUI, but it's still a great game. I wish the more modern cartoony 2D
worms games hadn't neutered the cluster bomb of old. It used to be an
awesome weapon but it's considerably feebler these days.
WoW (IBM Compatible)
I'd like to have some harsh words with the designer who thought walking
back to your corpse would be a fun thing to do. It seems like I spend
half my time in the spirit world and it's ruddy tedious. They should
either make the journey automatic (since all I do is hold down forwards
and occasionally dodge a tree) so I can play on my DS whilst I wait or
supply some sort of pong minigame to make the time fly as you walk.
Lego Star Wars 2 (Xbox)
This is so charming.
> Want:
I'm tempted to KF Zo for a week or two. :)
> Bin:
Misplaced pixel-wankery.
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>
> WoW (IBM Compatible)
> I'd like to have some harsh words with the designer who thought walking
> back to your corpse would be a fun thing to do. It seems like I spend
> half my time in the spirit world and it's ruddy tedious. They should
> either make the journey automatic (since all I do is hold down forwards
> and occasionally dodge a tree) so I can play on my DS whilst I wait or
> supply some sort of pong minigame to make the time fly as you walk.
That's why it's called World of Walkcraft :) num-lock is your friend.
Choobs
Paul Evans
Not a lot really. I think I spent some time on The Sims 2, but most of my
time was taken up job-hunting. I'm even considering doing a web-design
course in case a job opportunity arises in something I'm actually interested
in! At the moment, it seems to be wall-to-wall telesales opportunities, or
managerial roles with qualifications I'm sure these agencies are making up.
Sadly, I'm not interested in telesales of any description, and as for
managerial roles... I'm only 28! I'm not quite ready to surrender my
evenings, weekends and social life (or lack of) just yet...
In any case, all the other games I listed last Friday received no attention
at all.
Want:
Oblivion: Shivering Isles (PC): I want somewhere new to explore and seeing
as I finished the main story ages ago (which means no Oblivion gates to
explore), I really need something to do to maintain my interest.
The Sims 2: Seasons (PC): Because erm... It has snow, rain and stuff. Also,
it would be nice if the core game actually recognise the extra RAM in my PC
so that it didn't have to load objects and scenery every time I rotate the
camera. It only seems to use 1GB and refuses to go beyond that, despite my
PC having 3.5GB installed. Instead, it frustratingly uses virtual RAM which
slows things down.
Bin:
Unemployment. It feels like I've been here so many times before.
Wanting to go back to Australia. It's strange how you only remember the good
bits after a while...
Paul.
Chris
> Soni tempori elseu romani yeof helsforo nisson ol sefini ill des Mon, 19 Feb
> 2007 12:19:14 GMT, sefini jorgo geanyet des mani yeof do uk.games.video.misc,
> yawatina tan reek esk Jaimie Vandenbergh <jai...@sometimes.sessile.org> fornis
> do marikano es bono tan el:
>
>>> Oooh. Can you use the stylus to point and click?
>> I dunno, I've not got the (ahem) equipment. Be bloody mad if you
>> couldn't. deKay?
>
> Of course you can. What a stupid question :)
>
> deKay
Can someone please elaborate as to what you're talking about? Do I
understand correctly that I can play my copies of Day of the
Tentacle/Sam and Max etc on my DS Lite using the stylus? I've never come
across this before. What do I need to get it working? It sounds great!
(Apologies, but I'm a bit of a newbie, and not really that technical,
either.)
Sir Chewbury Gubbins
>
> Wanting to go back to Australia. It's strange how you only remember the good
> bits after a while...
I have a permanent residency visa you can have, if you can peel it out
of the passport :) Unfortunately, you might have to pretend to be ten
years older ;-)
deKay
uk.games.video.misc, yawatina tan reek esk Chris <m...@privacy.net> fornis do
marikano es bono tan el:
>> Of course you can. What a stupid question :)
>
>Can someone please elaborate as to what you're talking about? Do I
>understand correctly that I can play my copies of Day of the
>Tentacle/Sam and Max etc on my DS Lite using the stylus?
Yes. Well, assuming they work - most other SCUMM games do so I see no reason
why not.
> I've never come
>across this before. What do I need to get it working? It sounds great!
You need a DS, a flash cart, and a copy of SCUMMVM for the DS. You need the
original games for the PC too. I have an R4, which is ace as you can use
MicroSD cards on it, and you don't need all the PassMe/GBA flash card/firmware
dodgyness associated with most cards.
http://www.cheapmod.net/item--R4DS--r4ds
http://scummvm.drunkencoders.com/
Since the R4 is a "single slot" card, you need to patch SCUMMVM to read the
files from the filesystem of the card, but that's easy enough to do. *I*
managed it :)
Jaimie Vandenbergh
<paul.e...@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>The Sims 2: Seasons (PC): Because erm... It has snow, rain and stuff. Also,
>it would be nice if the core game actually recognise the extra RAM in my PC
>so that it didn't have to load objects and scenery every time I rotate the
>camera. It only seems to use 1GB and refuses to go beyond that, despite my
>PC having 3.5GB installed. Instead, it frustratingly uses virtual RAM which
>slows things down.
That's just Windows, isn't it? You can always experiment with not
having a swap file at all, which makes a huge positive difference for
me. Unless you regularly go off the top of that 3.5gig, of course.
My Computer (right-click), Properties, Advanced, Performance settings,
advanced, Virtual Memory change, no paging file. Behind a sign saying
"beware of the leopard".
Cheers - Jaimie
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Sir Chewbury Gubbins
>
> You need a DS, a flash cart, and a copy of SCUMMVM for the DS. You need the
> original games for the PC too. I have an R4, which is ace as you can use
> MicroSD cards on it, and you don't need all the PassMe/GBA flash card/firmware
> dodgyness associated with most cards.
>
> http://www.cheapmod.net/item--R4DS--r4ds
> http://scummvm.drunkencoders.com/
SOLD!
I'm getting one of them, I am.
Paul Evans
"Sir Chewbury Gubbins" <chewbury...@nelefa.org> wrote in message
news:53tvv7F...@mid.individual.net...
> On 2007-02-19, Great Cthulhu rose from the deep and compelled Paul Evans
> to exclaim:
>>
>> Wanting to go back to Australia. It's strange how you only remember the
>> good
>> bits after a while...
>
> I have a permanent residency visa you can have, if you can peel it out
> of the passport :) Unfortunately, you might have to pretend to be ten
> years older ;-)
>
majority of Australians aged 24+), I might not have much hassle passing
myself off as being 38! It was pretty weird talking to 24-year-old girls
(women?) who fell they were too old to hit the clubs...
Don't know if I would want to live there permanently though - especially as
their Dominos Pizza tastes really bad. And their beans... And the lack of
Guinness is a real concern ;-)
Paul.
Paul Evans
> On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 15:55:37 -0000, "Paul Evans"
> <paul.e...@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>
>>The Sims 2: Seasons (PC): Because erm... It has snow, rain and stuff.
>>Also,
>>it would be nice if the core game actually recognise the extra RAM in my
>>PC
>>so that it didn't have to load objects and scenery every time I rotate the
>>camera. It only seems to use 1GB and refuses to go beyond that, despite my
>>PC having 3.5GB installed. Instead, it frustratingly uses virtual RAM
>>which
>>slows things down.
>
> That's just Windows, isn't it? You can always experiment with not
> having a swap file at all, which makes a huge positive difference for
> me. Unless you regularly go off the top of that 3.5gig, of course.
>
> My Computer (right-click), Properties, Advanced, Performance settings,
> advanced, Virtual Memory change, no paging file. Behind a sign saying
> "beware of the leopard".
>
objects or sound files it couldn't squeeze into that 1GB RAM. From what I
recall, even then it refused to use any more physical RAM.
Also, some games like Company of Heroes and Oblivion refuse to run on my PC
without Virtual Memory enabled. A real pain when neither game makes any real
use of the physical RAM available to them, yet seem to love filling up my
hard drive with temporary files!
Paul.
deKay
16:18:19 GMT, sefini jorgo geanyet des mani yeof do uk.games.video.misc,
yawatina tan reek esk Sir Chewbury Gubbins <chewbury...@nelefa.org>
fornis do marikano es bono tan el:
>> http://www.cheapmod.net/item--R4DS--r4ds
>> http://scummvm.drunkencoders.com/
>
>SOLD!
>
>I'm getting one of them, I am.
One downside of the simgle-slot cards is that they need FAT support from the
assorted emulators and some of the home brew stuff. In time, program authors
will add this, but it's relatively new so not much works right now. There's a
decent Master System emulator, and SCUMMVM (and a pile of PD games too) so all
is not lost :)
Oh - and Moonshell (wot you can install on the card) plays MP3s and videos
too.
Jaimie Vandenbergh
<paul.e...@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>"Jaimie Vandenbergh" <jai...@sometimes.sessile.org> wrote in message
>news:m2jjt2df3gounqmtc...@newsposting.sessile.org...
>>
>> having a swap file at all, which makes a huge positive difference for
>> me. Unless you regularly go off the top of that 3.5gig, of course.
>>
>objects or sound files it couldn't squeeze into that 1GB RAM. From what I
>recall, even then it refused to use any more physical RAM.
>
>Also, some games like Company of Heroes and Oblivion refuse to run on my PC
>without Virtual Memory enabled.
Gawd. That sort of OS service is _meant_ to be completely insulated
from the programs, but I suppose we are speaking about Windows...
Thanks for the warning - I'll bear that in mind.
Cheers - Jaimie
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Paul Evans <paul.e...@ntlworld.com> wrote:
<snip>
>Well, seeing as most Australians consider being 24+ as 'old' (speaking to a
>majority of Australians aged 24+), I might not have much hassle passing
>myself off as being 38! It was pretty weird talking to 24-year-old girls
>(women?) who fell they were too old to hit the clubs...
Is this really the case? Americans also seem to think that life ends at 25
or so, and the rest is just a quietly desperate descent into uselessness
and irrelevancy. I always found it interesting to contrast that with my
Chinese upbringing, which taught that it was in bad taste to celebrate
birthdays until one was past fifty. I can't decide which viewpoint is more
optimistic.
Time is short, but life is long. Go ahead and make plans.
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[ste parker]
>
> Oh - and Moonshell (wot you can install on the card) plays MP3s and videos
> too.
>
It's on by default, isn't it?
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[ste parker]
> On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 16:22:45 -0000, "Paul Evans"
> <paul.e...@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>> "Jaimie Vandenbergh" <jai...@sometimes.sessile.org> wrote in message
>> news:m2jjt2df3gounqmtc...@newsposting.sessile.org...
>>> That's just Windows, isn't it? You can always experiment with not
>>> having a swap file at all, which makes a huge positive difference for
>>> me. Unless you regularly go off the top of that 3.5gig, of course.
>>>
>> I tried that a few months ago, and the game simply stopped loading any
>> objects or sound files it couldn't squeeze into that 1GB RAM. From what I
>> recall, even then it refused to use any more physical RAM.
>>
>> Also, some games like Company of Heroes and Oblivion refuse to run on my PC
>> without Virtual Memory enabled.
>
> Gawd. That sort of OS service is _meant_ to be completely insulated
> from the programs, but I suppose we are speaking about Windows...
>
> Thanks for the warning - I'll bear that in mind.
>
Can't say much on Oblivion (other than I've had no issues) but I'm
certain the CoH demo refused to even install unless I set the pagefile
to be at least value x (I do have one, but keep it at a fairly minimal
set limit). I was surprised, to say the least.
--
[ste]
[ste parker]
I lie - CoH installs, but won't run unless you set a 768MB pagefile,
according to the popup message. Tried gradually increasing, and it let
me run it when I reached 750MB. I have 1GB RAM.
Also needed 1.5GB free space on the OS partition just to unpack the
demo, it gave no choice for temp. extract directory. Oh the fun I had.
--
[ste]
Shak
"deKay" <an...@lofi-gaming.org.uk> wrote in message
news:jqjjt2h2qnqc4et7v...@4ax.com...
> Soni tempori elseu romani yeof helsforo nisson ol sefini ill des 19 Feb
> 2007
> 16:18:19 GMT, sefini jorgo geanyet des mani yeof do uk.games.video.misc,
> yawatina tan reek esk Sir Chewbury Gubbins <chewbury...@nelefa.org>
> fornis do marikano es bono tan el:
>
>>> http://www.cheapmod.net/item--R4DS--r4ds
>>> http://scummvm.drunkencoders.com/
>>
>>SOLD!
>>
>>I'm getting one of them, I am.
>
> One downside of the simgle-slot cards is that they need FAT support from
> the
> assorted emulators
As opposed to?
Shak
[ste parker]
As opposed to no support whatsoever, in other words the emulators don't
work until they are rewritten to cater for the situation.
--
[ste]
Nils Tanner
<kend...@nospam.io> got it all completely wrong and wrote:
> <snip>
>>Well, seeing as most Australians consider being 24+ as 'old' (speaking to a
>>majority of Australians aged 24+), I might not have much hassle passing
>>myself off as being 38! It was pretty weird talking to 24-year-old girls
>>(women?) who fell they were too old to hit the clubs...
>
>Is this really the case? Americans also seem to think that life ends at 25
>or so, and the rest is just a quietly desperate descent into uselessness
>and irrelevancy.
In that case, I think I just died last Wednesday....:-(
deKay
2007 16:37:35 +0000, sefini jorgo geanyet des mani yeof do
uk.games.video.misc, yawatina tan reek esk "[ste parker]"
<imag...@hotmail.com> fornis do marikano es bono tan el:
No, in that you have to put it on the card yourself. But it does come in the
software package you get with the card. IYSWIM.
deKay
--
Lofi Gaming: www.lofi-gaming.org.uk [Gamertag: deKay 01]
Gaming Diary: www.lofi-gaming.org.uk/diary/
My computer runs at 3.5MHz and I'm proud of that
"Zomoniac is wrong"
deKay
2007 17:07:42 -0000, sefini jorgo geanyet des mani yeof do
uk.games.video.misc, yawatina tan reek esk "Shak" <m...@privacy.net> fornis do
marikano es bono tan el:
>> One downside of the simgle-slot cards is that they need FAT support from
>> the
>> assorted emulators
>
>As opposed to?
Um, SomeOtherFileSystemThatFlashCardsUse.
deKay
--
Lofi Gaming: www.lofi-gaming.org.uk [Gamertag: deKay 01]
Gaming Diary: www.lofi-gaming.org.uk/diary/
My computer runs at 3.5MHz and I'm proud of that
"Zomoniac is wrong"
Paul Evans
"Kendrick Kerwin Chua" <kend...@nospam.io> wrote in message
news:Do-dndFXnonCTETY...@io.com...
> In article <53u0uvF...@mid.individual.net>,
> Paul Evans <paul.e...@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> <snip>
>>Well, seeing as most Australians consider being 24+ as 'old' (speaking to
>>a
>>majority of Australians aged 24+), I might not have much hassle passing
>>myself off as being 38! It was pretty weird talking to 24-year-old girls
>>(women?) who fell they were too old to hit the clubs...
>
> Is this really the case?
seem to just give up after a certain age seemingly convinced that they
should've been married and settled down by the age of 25. It's definitely
weird for me because I've got absolutely no plans to either be married or
settled until well into my thirties!
> Americans also seem to think that life ends at 25
> or so, and the rest is just a quietly desperate descent into uselessness
> and irrelevancy. I always found it interesting to contrast that with my
> Chinese upbringing, which taught that it was in bad taste to celebrate
> birthdays until one was past fifty. I can't decide which viewpoint is more
> optimistic.
>
I can see which viewpoint would be the better one! If I had given up at 25,
I would probably have committed suicide by now. Admittedly, I did actually
go through a midlife crisis when I was 24, and a side effect of that was to
drag me back into computer/console gaming after an absence of nearly seven
years! I purchased a PS2 as a result of my midlife crisis!
> Time is short, but life is long. Go ahead and make plans.
So true! The only thing worrying me at the moment is that now I'm 28, I'm
starting to seriously run out of time in choosing a career...
Paul.
Paul Evans
"[ste parker]" <imag...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:53u2m9F...@mid.individual.net...
When I played the demo, I didn't recall it demanding any pagefile space, but
it was the first thing it threw up at me when I tried installing the full
game.
Oblivion said absolutely nothing when I installed it, but when I tried
running it it simply threw me back to desktop with a message specifying a
minimum pagefile size.
What annoyed me is that neither game actually needed it. Even with Windoze
XP hogging resources, there was still over 3GB of physical memory available.
Paul.
[ste parker]
> Soni tempori elseu romani yeof helsforo nisson ol sefini ill des Mon, 19 Feb
> 2007 16:37:35 +0000, sefini jorgo geanyet des mani yeof do
> uk.games.video.misc, yawatina tan reek esk "[ste parker]"
> <imag...@hotmail.com> fornis do marikano es bono tan el:
>
>> deKay wrote:
>>> Oh - and Moonshell (wot you can install on the card) plays MP3s and videos
>>> too.
>>>
>> It's on by default, isn't it?
>
> No, in that you have to put it on the card yourself. But it does come in the
> software package you get with the card. IYSWIM.
>
I meant that it's part of the default package; when you put the R4DS
stuff on the card, you have Moonshell also (although you could be
selective and not put it on I suppose, and you can also switch it for
something else).
--
[ste]
Mal Franks
gaming.org.uk says...
No console or computer games this weekend as I was away for friend's
stag weekend with him and 10 other chaps. However there was some non-
electronic gaming at a nice place in Penrith called Rookin House
so...
> Play:
Archery (RL) - had fun but came 12th out of 12. Definitely would like to
do this again and get more practice.
Clay Pigeon Shooting (RL) - even more fun and came 3rd out out of 12,
hitting 8 out of 12 of the clay pigeons. Really want to do this again.
Once that was out of the way, we went to our lodgings, Swallow* Camping
Barn in Lowswater - the accomodation were literally sheds
http://www.lakelandcampingbarns.co.uk/barnview.asp?ID=11
Then headed into Cockermouth* for food and alcohol before returning back
to the sleeping sheds and into our sleeping bags around 3am. The door to
the shed I was in had a 2 inch gap under it - so it was bloody freezing
and so I slept fully dressed with a warm woolly jumper on for 4 hours
before the cows in the shed by ours decided to start making noises :)
Got home by 5pm the next day and had the most wonderful hot bath ever.
Booked Monday off and so I went to see Hot Fuzz with the missus at the
local picture house - bloody good stuff.
> Want:
More archery and clay pigeon shooting
A few more days of relaxation to recover.
> Bin:
Barn Hostels during winter season - brrrrrrrrrrrrr
* insert f'nars if you want here
Mal Franks
No console or computer games this weekend as I was away for friend's
stag weekend with him and 10 other chaps. However there was some non-
electronic gaming at a nice place in Penrith called Rookin House
so...
> Play:
Archery (RL) - had fun but came 12th out of 12. Definitely would like to
do this again and get more practice.
Clay Pigeon Shooting (RL) - even more fun and came 3rd out out of 12,
hitting 8 out of 12 of the clay pigeons. Really want to do this again.
Once that was out of the way, we went to our lodgings, Swallow* Camping
Barn in Lowswater - the accomodation were literally sheds - no heating
and massive 2 inch gaps under the doors
http://www.lakelandcampingbarns.co.uk/barnview.asp?ID=11
Then headed into Cockermouth* for food and alcohol before returning back
to the sleeping sheds and into our sleeping bags around 3am. The barn
was bloody freezing and so I slept fully dressed with a warm woolly
jumper on for 4 hours before the cows in the shed by ours decided to
start making noises :)
Got home by 5pm the next day and had the most wonderful hot bath ever.
Booked Monday off and so I went to see Hot Fuzz with the missus at the
local picture house - bloody good stuff.
> Want:
More archery and clay pigeon shooting
A few more days of relaxation to recover.
> Bin:
Camping Barns during winter season - brrrrrrrrrrrrr
deKay
2007 09:31:44 +0000, sefini jorgo geanyet des mani yeof do
uk.games.video.misc, yawatina tan reek esk "[ste parker]"
<imag...@hotmail.com> fornis do marikano es bono tan el:
>I meant that it's part of the default package; when you put the R4DS
>stuff on the card, you have Moonshell also (although you could be
>selective and not put it on I suppose, and you can also switch it for
>something else).
The version that came with it is somewhat old though.
deKay
--
Lofi Gaming - http://lofi-gaming.org.uk
Gaming Diary - http://lofi-gaming.org.uk/diary
Blog - http://lofi-gaming.org.uk/blog
Resident Drunk
> Play:
>
Carrying my screaming daughter out of a restaurant with her finger
hanging off.
Want:
To go to restaurants that are not a 20 minute drive to the nearest
casualty dept. in future.
Bin:
Heavy doors.
This weekend.
[ste parker]
> Soni tempori elseu romani yeof helsforo nisson ol sefini ill des Tue, 20 Feb
> 2007 09:31:44 +0000, sefini jorgo geanyet des mani yeof do
> uk.games.video.misc, yawatina tan reek esk "[ste parker]"
> <imag...@hotmail.com> fornis do marikano es bono tan el:
>
>> I meant that it's part of the default package; when you put the R4DS
>> stuff on the card, you have Moonshell also (although you could be
>> selective and not put it on I suppose, and you can also switch it for
>> something else).
>
> The version that came with it is somewhat old though.
>
Yes, the 1.05 kernel comes with 1.5 and now Moonshell is all the way up
to..... 1.6
Have you tried DS Organize at all? I might give it a go, the Moonshell
interface is a bit crap. No video on DS Organize tho'.
--
[ste]
Sir Chewbury Gubbins
> deKay wrote:
>> Play:
>>
>
> Carrying my screaming daughter out of a restaurant with her finger
> hanging off.
Oh no! :( Is she ok now?
deKay
uk.games.video.misc, yawatina tan reek esk "[ste parker]"
<imag...@hotmail.com> fornis do marikano es bono tan el:
>Yes, the 1.05 kernel comes with 1.5 and now Moonshell is all the way up
>to..... 1.6
Hmm. I got 1.4, not 1.5. Anyway, the jump is huge as it seems to support
more video formats and doesn't crash.
>Have you tried DS Organize at all? I might give it a go, the Moonshell
>interface is a bit crap. No video on DS Organize tho'.
No, I haven't.
[ste parker]
> Soni tempori elseu romani yeof helsforo nisson ol sefini ill des Tue, 20 Feb
> 2007 10:52:00 +0000, sefini jorgo geanyet des mani yeof do
> uk.games.video.misc, yawatina tan reek esk "[ste parker]"
> <imag...@hotmail.com> fornis do marikano es bono tan el:
>
>> Yes, the 1.05 kernel comes with 1.5 and now Moonshell is all the way up
>> to..... 1.6
>
> Hmm. I got 1.4, not 1.5. Anyway, the jump is huge as it seems to support
> more video formats and doesn't crash.
>
I just picked up whatever was latest off the R4 website at the time
(which was 1.05 for me). Are you on Moonshell 1.6 now then? Still not
updated, hoping that it handles skipping forward/back through video a
bit better. Got to say, I've been very impressed with what it can do
though.
>> Have you tried DS Organize at all? I might give it a go, the Moonshell
>> interface is a bit crap. No video on DS Organize tho'.
>
> No, I haven't.
>
Oh well, was just wondering how it compared.
--
[ste]
deKay
uk.games.video.misc, yawatina tan reek esk "[ste parker]"
<imag...@hotmail.com> fornis do marikano es bono tan el:
>> Hmm. I got 1.4, not 1.5. Anyway, the jump is huge as it seems to support
>> more video formats and doesn't crash.
>>
>
>I just picked up whatever was latest off the R4 website at the time
>(which was 1.05 for me). Are you on Moonshell 1.6 now then?
Yes.
>Still not
>updated, hoping that it handles skipping forward/back through video a
>bit better.
It seems to be OK, but I don't know how that compares to the older version as
I didn't try it much, mainly because it crashes.
DBSnappa
So, heaven's not much kop then?
Resident Drunk
> On 2007-02-20, Great Cthulhu rose from the deep and compelled Resident Drunk to exclaim:
>> deKay wrote:
>>> Play:
>>>
>> Carrying my screaming daughter out of a restaurant with her finger
>> hanging off.
>
> Oh no! :( Is she ok now?
>
> Choobs
>
She had surgery on Sunday morning to re-attach it & was home again that
night. On Saturday night they had told us that part of the finger would
have to be amputated so we had a very tense night but the surgeon on
Sunday gave us a much better outlook.
Seeing your own child covered in blood & screaming hysterically is not
something I would wish on my worst enemy - I think it will be a while
before anyone in my house gets a good nights sleep.
Sir Chewbury Gubbins
Any chance you can ping me an email? jmd at nelefa dot org
Cheers
J
Nils Tanner
<davidjREMOV...@hotmail.com> got it all completely wrong and
wrote:
>>> <snip>
>>>> Well, seeing as most Australians consider being 24+ as 'old' (speaking to a
>>>> majority of Australians aged 24+), I might not have much hassle passing
>>>> myself off as being 38! It was pretty weird talking to 24-year-old girls
>>>> (women?) who fell they were too old to hit the clubs...
>>> Is this really the case? Americans also seem to think that life ends at 25
>>> or so, and the rest is just a quietly desperate descent into uselessness
>>> and irrelevancy.
>>
>>
>> In that case, I think I just died last Wednesday....:-(
>
>
>So, heaven's not much kop then?
No. Teh Intarnet Connection is lousy up there. No really.
Resident Drunk
> On 2007-02-20, Great Cthulhu rose from the deep and compelled Resident Drunk to exclaim:
>> Sir Chewbury Gubbins wrote:
>>> On 2007-02-20, Great Cthulhu rose from the deep and compelled Resident Drunk to exclaim:
>>>> deKay wrote:
>>>>> Play:
>>>>>
>>>> Carrying my screaming daughter out of a restaurant with her finger
>>>> hanging off.
>>> Oh no! :( Is she ok now?
>>>
>>> Choobs
>>>
>> She had surgery on Sunday morning to re-attach it & was home again that
>> night. On Saturday night they had told us that part of the finger would
>> have to be amputated so we had a very tense night but the surgeon on
>> Sunday gave us a much better outlook.
>>
>> Seeing your own child covered in blood & screaming hysterically is not
>> something I would wish on my worst enemy - I think it will be a while
>> before anyone in my house gets a good nights sleep.
>
> Any chance you can ping me an email? jmd at nelefa dot org
>
> Cheers
>
> J
>
Done
[ste parker]
>
> She had surgery on Sunday morning to re-attach it & was home again that
> night. On Saturday night they had told us that part of the finger would
> have to be amputated so we had a very tense night but the surgeon on
> Sunday gave us a much better outlook.
>
I suppose that's good-ish to hear, will she still have proper use of it,
or too early to know?
> Seeing your own child covered in blood & screaming hysterically is not
> something I would wish on my worst enemy - I think it will be a while
> before anyone in my house gets a good nights sleep.
I'm not sure I will either, I can't stop thinking about it and I can
only assume that my imaginings don't come close to the real thing...
--
[ste]
Toby Newman
> Soni tempori elseu romani yeof helsforo nisson ol sefini ill des Mon, 19 Feb
> 2007 15:57:14 +0000, sefini jorgo geanyet des mani yeof do
> uk.games.video.misc, yawatina tan reek esk Chris <m...@privacy.net> fornis do
> marikano es bono tan el:
>
>>
>>Can someone please elaborate as to what you're talking about? Do I
>>understand correctly that I can play my copies of Day of the
>>Tentacle/Sam and Max etc on my DS Lite using the stylus?
>
> Yes. Well, assuming they work - most other SCUMM games do so I see no reason
> why not.
>
>> I've never come
>>across this before. What do I need to get it working? It sounds great!
>
> You need a DS, a flash cart, and a copy of SCUMMVM for the DS. You need the
> original games for the PC too. I have an R4, which is ace as you can use
> MicroSD cards on it, and you don't need all the PassMe/GBA flash card/firmware
> dodgyness associated with most cards.
>
> http://www.cheapmod.net/item--R4DS--r4ds
> http://scummvm.drunkencoders.com/
>
> Since the R4 is a "single slot" card, you need to patch SCUMMVM to read the
> files from the filesystem of the card, but that's easy enough to do. *I*
> managed it :)
Nitrotracker (http://nitrotracker.tobw.net), which is something I'm keen
to try, states that it's compatible with R4DS.
They say that the nitrotracker works with R4DS: "Works (.nds, use DLDI)"
and from the DLDI page it sounds like all I have to do is download
dlditool.exe and r4tf.dldi from http://chishm.drunkencoders.com/DLDI/,
run dlditool like this:
dlditool <name_of_patch> <rom_file>
which translates to
dlditool r4tf.dldi NitroTracker.nds
and then copy the NitroTracker files to the card, put the card in the
DS, turn on, and make with the funky music!
Does that sound about right?
--
-Toby
250 Nintendo Stars for trade: Wii Play
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Add the word afiduluminag to the subject to circumvent my email filters.
Toby Newman
> On 2007-02-19, Great Cthulhu rose from the deep and compelled Toby Newman to exclaim:
>>
>> WoW (IBM Compatible)
>> I'd like to have some harsh words with the designer who thought walking
>> back to your corpse would be a fun thing to do. It seems like I spend
>> half my time in the spirit world and it's ruddy tedious. They should
>> either make the journey automatic (since all I do is hold down forwards
>> and occasionally dodge a tree) so I can play on my DS whilst I wait or
>> supply some sort of pong minigame to make the time fly as you walk.
>
> That's why it's called World of Walkcraft :) num-lock is your friend.
Numlock is indeed good, as I discovered last night. Thanks for the tip.
Is there any way to invert the fact that I have to hold the mousebutton
down to look around? I'm getting RSI in my knuckle because I'm playing
in first-person with my RMB held down permanently.
Sir Chewbury Gubbins
> On 2007-02-19, Sir Chewbury Gubbins <chewbury...@nelefa.org> wrote:
>> On 2007-02-19, Great Cthulhu rose from the deep and compelled Toby Newman to exclaim:
>>>
>>> WoW (IBM Compatible)
>>> I'd like to have some harsh words with the designer who thought walking
>>> back to your corpse would be a fun thing to do. It seems like I spend
>>> half my time in the spirit world and it's ruddy tedious. They should
>>> either make the journey automatic (since all I do is hold down forwards
>>> and occasionally dodge a tree) so I can play on my DS whilst I wait or
>>> supply some sort of pong minigame to make the time fly as you walk.
>>
>> That's why it's called World of Walkcraft :) num-lock is your friend.
>
> Numlock is indeed good, as I discovered last night. Thanks for the tip.
> Is there any way to invert the fact that I have to hold the mousebutton
> down to look around? I'm getting RSI in my knuckle because I'm playing
> in first-person with my RMB held down permanently.
Guh - no idea. I don't think so. You could always try progressquest
though - much less tiring :)
Choobs
deKay
2007 12:45:21 +0000, sefini jorgo geanyet des mani yeof do
uk.games.video.misc, yawatina tan reek esk Resident Drunk
<askme...@spam.com> fornis do marikano es bono tan el:
>>> Carrying my screaming daughter out of a restaurant with her finger
>>> hanging off.
>>
>> Oh no! :( Is she ok now?
>
>She had surgery on Sunday morning to re-attach it & was home again that
>night. On Saturday night they had told us that part of the finger would
>have to be amputated so we had a very tense night but the surgeon on
>Sunday gave us a much better outlook.
>
>Seeing your own child covered in blood & screaming hysterically is not
>something I would wish on my worst enemy - I think it will be a while
>before anyone in my house gets a good nights sleep.
Jesus /WHAT/?
I hope everything is OK now, or at least will be. That's awful. What on
earth happened?
Zomoniac
> Soni tempori elseu romani yeof helsforo nisson ol sefini ill des Tue, 20 Feb
> 2007 12:45:21 +0000, sefini jorgo geanyet des mani yeof do
> uk.games.video.misc, yawatina tan reek esk Resident Drunk
> <askme...@spam.com> fornis do marikano es bono tan el:
>
>>>> Carrying my screaming daughter out of a restaurant with her finger hanging off.
>>>
>>> Oh no! :( Is she ok now?
>>
>> She had surgery on Sunday morning to re-attach it & was home again that
>> night. On Saturday night they had told us that part of the finger would
>> have to be amputated so we had a very tense night but the surgeon on
>> Sunday gave us a much better outlook.
>>
>> Seeing your own child covered in blood & screaming hysterically is not
>> something I would wish on my worst enemy - I think it will be a while
>> before anyone in my house gets a good nights sleep.
>
> Jesus /WHAT/?
>
> I hope everything is OK now, or at least will be. That's awful. What on
> earth happened?
His original PWB implies it was somehow trapped in a heavy door at a
restaurant. It certainly sounds horrifying, my extreme commiserations
(is that the right word) to the Drunk, and here's hoping here a speedy
recovery and a return to full health. I really can't imagine how
traumatising it must be to see that.
--
Zo
deKay
uk.games.video.misc, yawatina tan reek esk Zomoniac
<the_pro...@hotmail.com> fornis do marikano es bono tan el:
>> I hope everything is OK now, or at least will be. That's awful. What on
>> earth happened?
>
>His original PWB implies it was somehow trapped in a heavy door at a
>restaurant.
Hmm, yes. Perhaps I don't want to know the way it happened then. If that's
what a door did to *fingers*, it is perhaps a small consolation that it was
fingers and nothing 'worse'.
> It certainly sounds horrifying, my extreme commiserations
>(is that the right word) to the Drunk, and here's hoping here a speedy
>recovery and a return to full health.
Ditto to that.
> I really can't imagine how
>traumatising it must be to see that.
Me either :/
Gunther Gloop
news:540el8F...@mid.individual.net...
My whole thumb became detached when I fell on a broken milk bottle when I
was around 7 years old. It was hanging on by the skin only.
As I remember it (it was nigh on 30 years ago -gulp!), 4 stitches fixed it
up. I still have a slight scar, but nothing noticeable. It _could_ be that
more was done besides 4 stitches, but not that I recall. The bone was
definitely snapped/ cut-through though.
An upper centimetre or two was cut off my brother's thumb when he caught it
in a door. He was around 10. To stop people screaming about it, my dad threw
the detached bit into the fire.
It was only afterwards in the hospital did he/we realise it was likely it
could've been re-attached.
That's back when men were men, more decisive and ignorant. ;)
Anyway, I don't mean to minimise your daughter's problem, but I know from
experience that full recoveries can be made after things like that.
Let us know!
-Kevin.
Chris
>> Can someone please elaborate as to what you're talking about? Do I
>> understand correctly that I can play my copies of Day of the
>> Tentacle/Sam and Max etc on my DS Lite using the stylus?
>
> Yes. Well, assuming they work - most other SCUMM games do so I see no reason
> why not.
>
>> I've never come
>> across this before. What do I need to get it working? It sounds great!
>
> You need a DS, a flash cart, and a copy of SCUMMVM for the DS. You need the
> original games for the PC too. I have an R4, which is ace as you can use
> MicroSD cards on it, and you don't need all the PassMe/GBA flash card/firmware
> dodgyness associated with most cards.
>
> http://www.cheapmod.net/item--R4DS--r4ds
> http://scummvm.drunkencoders.com/
>
> Since the R4 is a "single slot" card, you need to patch SCUMMVM to read the
> files from the filesystem of the card, but that's easy enough to do. *I*
> managed it :)
That's very helpful, thanks. I'm going to buy and R4 and relive my
point-and-click youth!
Also, Nitrotracker (mentioned elsewhere in this thread) looks right up
my street. Is there anything else an R4-enabled DS is capable of that I
might not have heard about?
Thanks again.
Resident Drunk
> Resident Drunk wrote:
>>
>> She had surgery on Sunday morning to re-attach it & was home again
>> that night. On Saturday night they had told us that part of the finger
>> would have to be amputated so we had a very tense night but the
>> surgeon on Sunday gave us a much better outlook.
>>
>
> I suppose that's good-ish to hear, will she still have proper use of it,
> or too early to know?
Too early yet.
>
>> Seeing your own child covered in blood & screaming hysterically is not
>> something I would wish on my worst enemy - I think it will be a while
>> before anyone in my house gets a good nights sleep.
>
> I'm not sure I will either, I can't stop thinking about it and I can
> only assume that my imaginings don't come close to the real thing...
Luckily there was a nurse in the restaurant who got her to hold her hand
up and wrapped a cloth napkin around it - I am not sure I would have had
the wherewithal to think of either of those things.
Resident Drunk
> Soni tempori elseu romani yeof helsforo nisson ol sefini ill des Tue, 20 Feb
> 2007 14:24:41 +0000, sefini jorgo geanyet des mani yeof do
> uk.games.video.misc, yawatina tan reek esk Zomoniac
> <the_pro...@hotmail.com> fornis do marikano es bono tan el:
>
>>> I hope everything is OK now, or at least will be. That's awful. What on
>>> earth happened?
>> His original PWB implies it was somehow trapped in a heavy door at a
>> restaurant.
>
> Hmm, yes. Perhaps I don't want to know the way it happened then. If that's
> what a door did to *fingers*, it is perhaps a small consolation that it was
> fingers and nothing 'worse'.
>
>> It certainly sounds horrifying, my extreme commiserations
>> (is that the right word) to the Drunk, and here's hoping here a speedy
>> recovery and a return to full health.
>
> Ditto to that.
>
>> I really can't imagine how
>> traumatising it must be to see that.
>
> Me either :/
>
> deKay
Thank you both - I will spare you the full details - it wasn't nice.
deKay
uk.games.video.misc, yawatina tan reek esk Chris <m...@privacy.net> fornis do
marikano es bono tan el:
>Also, Nitrotracker (mentioned elsewhere in this thread) looks right up
>my street. Is there anything else an R4-enabled DS is capable of that I
>might not have heard about?
It plays pirated games, if that's your thang. It lets you view photos and
stuff too. And you can install some Linux distro on it.
I mainly use mine for emulators (Master System, mainly, at the moment).
DBSnappa
It does send a chill down your spine whenever you hear of a child
injuring themselves - when it's your own, and you're there it really is
shocking. Hope she mends well and quick, mate.
jochta
Ditto, just had that feeling reading this. I've had the parent's
nightmare of a call from nursery saying my daughter had trapped her
finger's in the door, as I drove there thinking the worst I was relieved
to discover nothing too major, nothing broken or worse, just some bruising.
I hope she gets well soon and the finger is as good as new.
deKay
uk.games.video.misc, yawatina tan reek esk jochta <dontb...@spamoff.com>
fornis do marikano es bono tan el:
>I hope she gets well soon and the finger is as good as new.
If comics have taught me anything, she'll be able to fly and shoot laser beams
from it.
deKay
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My computer runs at 3.5MHz and I'm proud of that
"Zomoniac is wrong"
Toby Newman
> On 2007-02-20, Great Cthulhu rose from the deep and compelled Toby Newman to exclaim:
>> On 2007-02-19, Sir Chewbury Gubbins <chewbury...@nelefa.org> wrote:
>>> On 2007-02-19, Great Cthulhu rose from the deep and compelled Toby Newman to exclaim:
>>>>
>>>> WoW (IBM Compatible)
>>>> I'd like to have some harsh words with the designer who thought walking
>>>> back to your corpse would be a fun thing to do. It seems like I spend
>>>> half my time in the spirit world and it's ruddy tedious. They should
>>>> either make the journey automatic (since all I do is hold down forwards
>>>> and occasionally dodge a tree) so I can play on my DS whilst I wait or
>>>> supply some sort of pong minigame to make the time fly as you walk.
>>>
>>> That's why it's called World of Walkcraft :) num-lock is your friend.
>>
>> Numlock is indeed good, as I discovered last night. Thanks for the tip.
>> Is there any way to invert the fact that I have to hold the mousebutton
>> down to look around? I'm getting RSI in my knuckle because I'm playing
>> in first-person with my RMB held down permanently.
>
> Guh - no idea. I don't think so. You could always try progressquest
> though - much less tiring :)
My ProgressQuest lvl 64 Crested Dwarf is still going strong!
DBSnappa
> Soni tempori elseu romani yeof helsforo nisson ol sefini ill des Tue, 20 Feb
> 2007 17:05:32 +0000, sefini jorgo geanyet des mani yeof do
> uk.games.video.misc, yawatina tan reek esk jochta <dontb...@spamoff.com>
> fornis do marikano es bono tan el:
>
>> I hope she gets well soon and the finger is as good as new.
>
> If comics have taught me anything, she'll be able to fly and shoot laser beams
> from it.
>
stands still at those moments when 'shit' happens and you're standing
there witnessing, slightly too far removed to have any effect.
The one thing that time has taught me is that by and large any input I
could have made wouldn't have made it better - some things are simply
unavoidable - accidents DO happen.
DBSnappa
> In article <ifrit2hgd7lbc91lc...@4ax.com>, andyk@lofi-
> gaming.org.uk says...
>
> No console or computer games this weekend as I was away for friend's
> stag weekend with him and 10 other chaps. However there was some non-
> electronic gaming at a nice place in Penrith called Rookin House
>
> http://www.rookinhouse.co.uk/
Hope you watched Withnail and I before going.
>
> so...
>
>> Play:
>
> Archery (RL) - had fun but came 12th out of 12. Definitely would like to
> do this again and get more practice.
Archery is excellent.
>
> Clay Pigeon Shooting (RL) - even more fun and came 3rd out out of 12,
> hitting 8 out of 12 of the clay pigeons. Really want to do this again.
I've never done this, though.
>
> Once that was out of the way, we went to our lodgings, Swallow* Camping
> Barn in Lowswater - the accomodation were literally sheds
>
> http://www.lakelandcampingbarns.co.uk/barnview.asp?ID=11
>
> Then headed into Cockermouth* for food and alcohol before returning back
> to the sleeping sheds and into our sleeping bags around 3am. The door to
> the shed I was in had a 2 inch gap under it - so it was bloody freezing
> and so I slept fully dressed with a warm woolly jumper on for 4 hours
> before the cows in the shed by ours decided to start making noises :)
>
I'm surprised they waited until 7am tbh, but I suppose it's not light
that early at the moment, is it.
Gunther Gloop
> Then headed into Cockermouth* for food and alcohol before returning back
> * insert f'nars if you want here
Consider my fnars inserted. ;)
Mal Franks
davidjREMOV...@hotmail.com says...
> Mal Franks wrote:
> > However there was some non-
> > electronic gaming at a nice place in Penrith called Rookin House
> >
> > http://www.rookinhouse.co.uk/
>
> Hope you watched Withnail and I before going.
Nope, really must get this on DVD
> > Archery (RL) - had fun but came 12th out of 12. Definitely would like to
> > do this again and get more practice.
>
> Archery is excellent.
Indeed. Must see if there's anywhere closer to home when I can try more
of this.
> > Clay Pigeon Shooting (RL) - even more fun and came 3rd out out of 12,
> > hitting 8 out of 12 of the clay pigeons. Really want to do this again.
>
> I've never done this, though.
Definitely recommend trying it. Some bruising close to shoulder as a
result of the recoil is expected though - in my case it wasn't visible
and only noticed it when I had a much needed hot shower when i got back
home from the weekend and applied soap there.
> > Then headed into Cockermouth* for food and alcohol before returning back
> > to the sleeping sheds and into our sleeping bags around 3am. The door to
> > the shed I was in had a 2 inch gap under it - so it was bloody freezing
> > and so I slept fully dressed with a warm woolly jumper on for 4 hours
> > before the cows in the shed by ours decided to start making noises :)
> >
> I'm surprised they waited until 7am tbh, but I suppose it's not light
> that early at the moment, is it.
>
They might have started earlier, but that was when I became aware of
them.
All bloody well worth it though, was nice to do something fun that
didn't involve keyboards or controllers ;-)