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I made a tiny computer!

Posted by: etoven - 13th March 2012, 2:04 PM - Forum: Ramble City - Replies (3)

	I made a simple os and recorded it on this micro-controller. I was inspired the the Borg costumes in start trek, the light on the board blinks "Erich Toven is a major geek!" in binary. <iframe width="1280" height="720" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/L-RqcrbjVmg?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Would you like a Wasteland sequel developed by the original team?

Posted by: Great Rumbler - 13th March 2012, 10:17 AM - Forum: Ramble City - Replies (31)

	Then crack open your wallet and pitch in $15: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/inxi...2?ref=live Brian Fargo - Team Lead Alan Pavlish Michael Stackpole Ken St. Andre Jason Anderson - Writer Mark Morgan - Composer

Put those old floppy drives to good use.

Posted by: Dark Jaguar - 11th March 2012, 10:02 PM - Forum: Tendo City - Replies (7)

Awkwardness isn't funny any more.

Posted by: Dark Jaguar - 10th March 2012, 10:56 PM - Forum: Ramble City - Replies (7)

	You may have all noticed that lately every comedy from sitcoms to movies seems to be banking on "the awkward" as the go to (or in some cases only) source of comedy. To me, it's old now. There's only so much poorly written dialog one can take before it just gets annoying. I feel this trend has worn out it's welcome.

SIM. CITY. FIVE.

Posted by: Great Rumbler - 9th March 2012, 2:53 PM - Forum: Tendo City - Replies (3)

Quote:-Ocean- We’re making SimCity, not some dopey casual game.
The most important thing is the integrity of the simulation underneath it, the stuff that represents the systems that make up a real city. I don’t want to enforce sustainable design principles in the game – I want them to emerge as natural consequences of your interaction with the simulation.
If you don’t deal with your sewage, with traffic congestion, with walkability & transit, with ground and air pollution – your city will reflect that! And there are lots of people who will want to explore the simulation and see what happens when they do. Making some polluted, congested, urban nightmare is a total win condition, as far as I’m concerned.

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/qm...city_amaa/

Eek

Ralph Baer is 90

Posted by: A Black Falcon - 9th March 2012, 1:33 AM - Forum: Tendo City - Replies (2)

	Quite good biographical article about his life posted on IGN. Read it -- it's by an actual writer, not the IGN regulars. http://games.ign.com/articles/122/1220015p1.html

Why don’t you kill me now Comcast and end my suffering!

Posted by: etoven - 5th March 2012, 6:26 PM - Forum: Ramble City - Replies (3)

What can I say Comcast, your tech support is so horrible that is literally affecting my health. I’m on the edge of a god damn break down. I call to get one thing fixed and you guys hang up in my face 9 times, and three hours later when I finally get a promise of resolution you guys end of fucking up 9 more things. So I call back. Get hung up on 9 more times, then more promises. Only now 18 things are fucked up. And if you think I’m exaggerating in the least, I’m not. Just take a look at the hundreds of call I’ve made so far, over a really simple issue, so simple that a three year old could fix, which I have now been dealing with for over 7 months. And each month of trying to get it right, just makes the situation just worse and worse. On a couple of occasions they have stressed me out so much that I have literally popped a damn blood vessel, I’ve lost so much sleep from stress from these people.

And I just… Can’t stand it anymore.

Mark my words, someone is going to end up mentally ill or worse, committing suicide over this experiment in suffering they call tech support. And only then will the world see what a truly horrible, horrible company this is. I really think they experiment on people, the company invents sick mind games and then sells the results, I really do think this. Because no one’s tech support is this painfully horrible to a society, unless it is intentional. I mean it, there engaging in sick mind games and it has to stop.

PPS. Your claim Comcast that you’re the fastest internet in the country isn’t fooling anyone, seeing as though Cox has made the same claim citing the same study. All I’m saying is someone is full of shit, and I’m betting it’s you Comcast.

Space Stallions!

Posted by: Dark Jaguar - 4th March 2012, 10:30 PM - Forum: Ramble City - Replies (19)

	<iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/5Otaq2tmNMM?feature=player_embedded" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> By the power of my key-tar!

And to think I used to love Milo and Otis...

Posted by: Dark Jaguar - 3rd March 2012, 11:17 PM - Forum: Ramble City - Replies (7)

So, my video card went bad...

Posted by: A Black Falcon - 25th February 2012, 11:51 PM - Forum: Ramble City - Replies (7)

Yeah, it's pretty annoying. This actually happened a week ago or more, but I really need to do something about a replacement, and was wondering if any of you have any ideas. My old card was a GeForce 8800 GTS 320Mb. Now, there are blue tilde marks all over the screen all the time when the computer's on, when I'm using it, and messed up stuff at boot too. I know it's the video card becasue I switched it with the other PCI Express card I have, a low-end Radeon X300, but that's ... not exactly a long-term solution, to say the least. It can barely handle Windows, much less games from the last five years or more. Anyway, there are no problems with this card in, so the problem is definitely the other card. I tried cleaning out the dust from it, but that didn't fix anything, so I assume it's done. :(

So yeah, I need something new. I've seen a few new or used video cards locally, but also of course tehre's online. I have a 600 watt power supply, so even if I was going to spend for the top stuff (I'm not), I couldn't get a Geforce 580 (or their new ones, whenever they release this year probably; ATI just released new stuff, so NVidia's going to be next...) I couldn't power it. I've heard that you can run just about anything up to a 560 on a good 600 watt power supply (mine's a Corsair GS600, so it's pretty decent), but even if I did want to spend that much, I don't know how much I'd want to push it power-wise...

Oh, as for ATI... yeah, I know their stuff is on average a bit cheaper, but I'd really rather not. I've always had NVidia, and ATI's drivers are worse too... maybe some other drivers would help, but sine installing ATI drivers a few days ago (for this X300) I've had more visual issues than I have since before I had this computer, the time after the 8800 broke excepted of course. For instance, it takes way too long to come back from suspend, and often reverses the two monitors when it does so... so annoying.

Um, as for locally available used cards, I saw an 8800GTS 320MB (yeah, same thing I have) for $45 and a GTX 280 1GB for $100. Of course new stuff (400-500 line) costs a good bit more than that. I'm not so sure about either of those, though... both are EVGA, same people who made my card that just failed, so would they just die on me? That place does have a warranty, so though prices are a bit lower for 280s on EBay it might be worth spending the bit extra to get that backup, but still...

So yeah, I need to figure this out, hopefully in not too long. I do want to be able to play recent computer games again. Maybe I'll end up spending more anyway and getting a 560 or something, I don't know. Buying soon before new cards come out isn't a good idea though...

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