Bjossi

Overpopulation will stop being a problem when we start colonizing other worlds and invent new technology that makes better use of what we do have. . .

And there is still no progress on the next FM episode. Would be nice if Ross gave us another update.

You can have lots of laughs if you talk to iGod.

There has been lots of speculation about the G. Some people suggest 'God', some 'Government', few 'Gordon', etc. I lean towards God, a bit less towards Government, and I think we can pretty much rule out Gordon.

Blimey! You lads are some scurvy rascals.

If you are single and want to have sex just out of lust and the girl you have sexual attraction to for the same reason, let it happen I say. Sex is an activity, a game, not a commitment or signing a contract. Until she tells you she's pregnant few weeks later, but that's nothing good use of contraceptives can't avoid.

Even at the age of 22 it is bloody difficult to pick the ultimate highlight. I would probably say "getting laid" if I was fortunate enough to having found the right girl yet, but I haven't. And it seems weird to put video games forward. . . If I decided to do that my choice would be System Shock 2. First played it on a Win98 machine. 300 MHz Pentium and 64 MB memory baby!

He abides to an even higher force, judging by his words of "agreeing to certain restrictions".

Why would lustful sex be a sin at all (Straight or gay)?

I know every single one of the 57 tasks currently running in the background. And if there was malware injected into system files (It would need to get through Defender, NOD32 and UAC first.) then there would be a whole lot more problems with stability than just installing one particular update. SP1 installed fine. Dozens of security updates installed fine. So did GfWL and WLM. This is likely a problem with my OS installation in particular. Or perhaps my software configuration, it might not like a specific service even if it doesn't specifically say it. A simple google search reveals that I'm definitely not the only one who runs into problems installing this update. Nowhere do I see a mention of malware, but a lot of different solutions, one being a reformat, which I wouldn't do even at gunpoint. And BTG, IE is designed to interact with WE and vice versa, to me it seems very likely it needs to be closed during a big update to the browser. It is nothing new when Microsoft integrate their software deeply into the operating system.

If we only were two mods on the forum we could be Mike and Dave.

NOD32 installed here, I didn't think that might cause problems. I'll look into that. No shitware present on my computer except necessary evils like GfWL. Self-built from individual parts. I'll try some more tomorrow. I'm out of steam for tonight. But thanks for the suggestions guys, I appreciate them.

Well, replace joke with running gag then, or anything you would like to call it. It still hasn't been funny for several years.

At least he got an error, mine just freezes.

Is anyone else here on Windows 7 x64 who has problems installing this thing? I downloaded the correct version from Microsoft's website and then ran the installer. So far so good. But now it tells me I have to close pretty much all programs running, from IM programs to explorer.exe itself. That is weird. I have a choice between ignoring this warning and rebooting the computer after the install or forcing Windows to close these tasks. I tried the latter first. Now things started to go to hell. The installation bar starts moving but around 1/5th of the way through I notice my mouse and keyboard stop responding. Considering how ridiculously slow the install is it is hard to see whether the progress bar is moving at all. After waiting a while I give up and force reboot. Let's try this again. I reach the window again where I am asked on how to deal with some running tasks. This time I choose to ignore them. The same shit happens. One more time? All right, fine. I fire up the installer. This time, before choosing to ignore the running tasks I close them all manually. Every single one. After clicking 'Refresh' the list is COMPLETELY blank. That SHOULD do the trick right? Wrong. This time the mouse freezes as usual, but the progress bar moves steadily, now it is only a millimetre away from the finish line. Promising! 5 minutes pass and it is still standing there staring at the wall a millimetre in front of it. Reboot. Again. To put this into perspective here I am installing a fucking BROWSER. Firefox was a setup file few MBs in size. I could choose the install location and the install took a few seconds at most. No reboots needed. No bullshit. It worked right away and very well I must say. Internet Explorer 9? Wants everything turned off and even then there is a good chance a reboot is necessary afterwards. Progress bar is sandwich-making slow. I could probably make two of them, as a matter of fact. The install window does not give any clues whatsoever on what the flying fuck is taking so long. There is not even a cancel or abort button. What about the cute little X button at the top right of all windows you ask? This window does not have it. Are 3rd parties really this much better at designing software than Microsoft, the company behind the operating system that powers them? What the fuck takes minutes during a software installation? Why do programs need to be closed? Why can't Microsoft, FOR ONCE, design a piece of software that is lightweight and modestly tied to the operating system? I am done with this crap from my end of the stick. IE 9 can go to hell, I don't care. Firefox and IE 8 work just fine for me. If you do have a solution or workaround to my problem then I am willing to give it one more shot, but then I'm done.

This joke was 2 years past its expiration date 2 years ago.

Obviously. At the end of HalfLife Gordon has a choice between working with G-Man or dying, at the end of HalfLife 2 the G-Man chooses for Gordon instead of "giving him the illusion of free choice". The G-Man is either above reality itself or the observable reality is limited for the common person in the HalfLife world.

Needing two 3rd party clients to run a game is ridiculous. My comfort zone is no client at all and games that are tidy (don't make a mess outside their own root folder, like in the Users areaI. I am willing to deal with either GfWL or Steam. If the only way to play Quake 5: Return to the Netherworld, System Shock 3 or Jazz Jackrabbit 2D 3 was to use both of these clients on top of one another I wouldn't spend a penny on them, I refuse to vote this shit over myself with my own wallet. One would think that in the times of runtimes, APIs and frameworks it would make development and playing of PC games easier, but no, thanks to clients and DRM it is more of a pain in the ass than ever before.

Yes, but sadly they don't seem to intimidate Microsoft, so GfWL continues being an excruciatingly stinky pile of pigshit.

Freeman's Mind is not a typical Let's play, either. It has added sound effects and alternate routes here and there, it is like using HalfLife as a movie set for your own ideas rather than following its script from A to Z.

I actually don't own one yet, but I am seriously considering a purchase. Funny pic btw, I might use it myself some time.

I know that feeling too well. It is worst on Fridays.

UT2004 is a great timewaster when you're not playing competitively, so much custom content to fool around with in Instant Action.

Yes, there is a reason. Just for the sake of being polite you guys should probably leave it at that.

At my house: 12 Mbps down/0.90 Mbps up Any more download speed would just make it far too easy to bump into the 60 GB monthly quota. I would however greatly appreciate faster upload speed, ~110 KB/s is borderline enough to have a bugfree voice/video conversation over Skype/WLM/whatever.