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p-burn moment:before saying what the problem is, please go away if you are intending to post "heh ipods suck"

so then

I have an iPod Classic latest gen I do suppose, 120gb

I was using it at school today on winamp on a windows xp pc, sorting out big playlists and all

when i finished i closed everything and plugged it out(without doing the safe unplug thing first, though)

it then said "g: (ipod drive) cannot be found" or something along those lines

I did plug it back in and unplug it using the safe unplug thing later on and it still said the same thing

I have no clue what would have been accessing it at that time, but whatever

The problem is:
the iPod seems to not have any songs/videos/playlists on it anymore, while all the settings are intact and the About screen shows 91gb left instead of it being empty

and when I look at it in winamp (and possibly any other ipod managing program) the songs are there and playable


I don't know if anyone had this happen to them before or read something like this, but I'd like to know if you guys have an idea what I could do to get it to see the songs it has again. I tried rebooting, but to no avail. Worst case scenario I will have to transfer all the songs to my pc (because yes, they are not all on my PC so losing them would be terrible), format and then re-transfer, but I really don't want to do that.

Any clues?

So, I just want to get opinions on this:

Which antivirus is the best: Avast, AntiVir or Nod32? Or do you chaps have a better idea?

Also, what would you recommend to use as an anti-spyware program?

Remember the glory days of playing Worms World Party on Hamachi? Those who played with us some time ago should remember, and for others it should seem obvious how fun it was. Me and ATARI wanted to relive those days, but alas, WWP is incompatible with newer Hamachi versions and the older Hamachi versions do not work online anymore. We tried an Hamachi-esque program, but it did not work. So what do we do?

We found Hedgewars, a Worms-clone. Now, to get something straight: some of you call Gunbound a Worms-clone, but here is the difference: Gunbound is a Worms-ish game, while Hedgewars really is a Worms-clone. The menu and the game are separated, making it look and feel alot like Worms 2, but the gameplay is the very same. Movement is a little choppier, but nothing too bad. It also lacks some polish Worms had, but otherwise, it is the very same thing. Some weapons are different, while still being equal counterparts to actual Worms weapons, while others are inspired and different or outright new. Oh, and obviously, instead of playing as Worms, you play as Hedgehogs.

Some new things are very cool though, like customizing each WormHedgehog on your team with his own hat/mask, which is something present in newer Worms games. Some level themes are also very impressive, like the Underwater levels. The level randomizer also looks better, and the game also supports custom image levels and voicepacks(although we haven't managed to make voicepacks work so far..)

Either way, Hedgewars is a really fun Worms-clone, and our backup game until Worms 2: Armageddon comes out on PC.

We're looking for extra players to join in the fun and get some games going. So far, me and ATARI are definitely in. Come play with us!

Get it here



(note the screens are from an older version of the game)


edit: forgot to put a link

I used to have a trendnet 802.11g wireless router. I eventually got fed up with it, what with it restarting often and being really just quite an ass regarding ports and all that. So today I got a Linksys WRT160N-CA, a 802.11n wireless router. However, I still have my trendnet 802.11g PCI wireless adapter in my PC. It's a decent card, from what I know.

However, I am curious about how much better it'd be if I also got a 802.11n wireless adapter. Do any of you guys know?




ps: the one I have in mind is this one



edit: The reason I am questionning myself about this is because I keep reading of how good and long the range of my new router is, yet I am two rooms away in a relatively medium/small sized 5 1/2 appartment and the signal is mostly always Fair or Good (2 or 3 bars out of 5). :/

Now, I know there's an old thread about this but you know what, I don't care.

So, Kirby Super Star Ultra came out a few days ago ( I think at least? ) and I finally got the chance to play it a bit (actually beat the game but whatever)

Granted, as was discussed in the previous thread, it's a port. But it's a mighty good one at that. My first impressions about the port job:

All the minigames are there, the game still plays and feels like Super Star on the SNES, the music is practically the same, the graphics are a tad better, the levels are exactly as they were on the SNES: they weren't changed at all. You still have the short Spring Breeze, the semi-short Dyna Blade, the treasure-hunt Great Cave Offensive, the uh, whatever, Meta-Knight's Revenge and the great Milky Way Wishes. The minigames have been switched for some lamer touch-screen ones, but this isn't so bad. So, as a port, it got everything right. No cross-platform discrepancies whatsoever.

But if that was just it, it would be (though some could believe it still is) just a simple money-making ploy. Porting a popular game to a handheld is always an easy way to get money, though I must say I like the idea of having portable Kirby.

The game adds a few things, or rather, a good enough slew of things to make it a semi-worthwhile port:

First and foremost, all the small cutscenes have been replaced with 3D CG vids, which are very faithful to the original's quirkiness and all that.

The meat of the extras, however, lies in when you beat the final game that was in the original SNES version. You first unlock Revenge of the King, which is basically a souped-up version of Spring Breeze. The short levels have been slightly lengthened, enemy placement has become meaner (so has level design) and all the baddies are a tad tougher and look meaner/creeper(though it's still just a Kirby game: cartoony at best) Some new bosses have been thrown in at the end of this mode, and I must say they were pretty cool.

Then you unlock Meta-Knightmare Ultra. This mode is basically Kirby Super Star Ultra Speedrun. It's not very hard. You play as Meta-Knight, which is basically the sword ability with added moves. If it was just that, it'd be easy, but the game made it even easier: you have some skills you can use after killing baddies, including the ever so cheap Heal skill. Unless you're 3 years old, you can't die. It goes through 5 levels, each one being one of the main games.

Then you have two Arena addons, one which has you playing strictly as a helper and the other is a souped-up version of the main Arena. For those seeking a challenge, go for this mode, even though it's the last you unlock. It can really be frustatingly hard.


No tears though, for whoever who went "OH NO MY SWEET MINIGAMES" when I said the original minigames were out. You unlock the Megaton Punch and the Draw minigames after beating a few modes, so no sweat. However, practically nothing, not even graphics, have been changed for either minigame.

Now, this game is short. I played it alot, especially tonight, but it didn't last me very long(beating every mode even). I think it retails at around 35$, and I think unless you really really love Kirby, it might be a tad too much for what is offered. Granted, it's a pretty great port with neat additions. If you can get a used copy (or can get it on your sd-card), go for it. If you don't like Kirby this wouldn't change your idea of it, but if you do and you got some money to spare, a DS and some boredom to kill, then you should probably give this a shot. I liked Superstar the best, having played it alot as a kid, and this made me feel the same kind of fun.

It has no online multiplayer, but it does have local multiplayer, and you can even play Spring Breeze with a friend with only one game.


I hope this was insightful to whoever cared or wasn't sure whether or not to get this.

I don't think I'm too good at writing reviews, but it's not like I really tried anyway

Yeah, so, since I have my new PC, I want to get new games for it.

Here's the deal, however: I have montly bandwidth limits, which, after being passed, net me extra money to pay per extra gb downloaded. However, this extra money caps at an ammount I will easily be able to pay. It resets on Friday, so I want to download as many games as possible before then.

This is where you come in. Right now I am getting Quake 4. Certain games I will copy off of my friends, but others I will download.

Name me any game you can think that is higher-enough-end to not be played on a pretty old. Any kind, anything. Any game that crosses your thought, mainstream or not, fps, rpg, rts, racing, sim, whatever you can think of.

Anything 2005 and beyond that is generally hard/impossible graphically on older pcs and/or really pretty/demanding at top settings.


I need to find shit to download, nigs!

So yeah, if you've been following, I am posting this from my new PC. It's barebones for now, but most drivers are installed and SP3 is on. My 4850 isn't on yet, but I'll do that tomorrow.

HOWEVER, OF COURSE, I RAN INTO CERTAIN PROBLEMS.

The biggest of which, imo, is that my 250gb hard drive......

...shows up as a 127gb hard drive..? What the hell?


Secundo, Jeff said I should use the IDE cable to set my cd/dvd drive as slave and my old hard drive as master. The problem here is... the two drives are significantly far from each other in the case. There is no way both can be plugged on the same IDE cable.

I was thinking I wouldn't be able to reach my old stuff, but I thought, if anything, I'll unplug the drive, plug the hdd, transfer, etc etc

But I'd really prefer using both. Especially if I can't fix that AGJAHGAGFIOAGAN 127gb problem.

WHAT THE HELL


Oh also I had a weird buzz on my fingers when I unplugged my old pc (the psu was set on off tho) because the powerbar wasn't closed. I'm not gonna die now, am I?



Also before people ask, the drive showed up as 127GB before it even had partitions. It showed up like that in the Windows Install Utility.


Daaaaaaaaang.

I had this wacky idea today. We have the Picture Thread for pictures of you all and all that shitty jazz and yappity yappata yadayadayada but

What if there was a thread like that, except for your pad? I think this could be fun, though I have no idea if it's been done before and if it has feel free to  correct me.

So yeah the premise is simple: show us pics/videos of your place! Fun times for the whole family.


And I will kickstart this thread with a video of my awesome place.



Though if nobody picks up on this, this thread is going straight to hell...



So what's your place look like?

Earthbound Funktastic Gameplay is a certain "challenge" or "game" made up by the guys over at starmen.net. Basically, you play Earthbound part by part every day, and they give you challenges to try and fulfill. That way, you play the game at the same rate as the other people and you do different challenges. It's just a fun activity, and a reason to replay Earthbound.


I found out about this today, and it just barely started. So I'm going to catch up and have fun with these guys.

So, I've been chatting it up with Twobeers for quite some time and I've been planning up a PC for when I get the money. TwoBeers helped me pick up some good, cheap parts and make it a good (not top of the line but still new-gen-ish) PC while not being very costy. I'm just asking for extra feedback on it, and tips if you have any.



Put together on MysteryByte, which is a shop in Halifax. The $694 is what it would cost me with shipping, btw.

So?

Anybody(I know some do) remember this awesome canadian 3d cartoon? It ran for 3 seasons before coming to a stop, only to play for a small 4th season(or two tv-movies) in 2001. The second of these movies ends in a cliffhanger, which was never resolved.

However, since sometime ago, Wikipedia had gotten word of new development, including one fan-oriented project involving a webcomic. The webcomic MAY or MAY NOT be considered in the actual storyline.(which I really fucking hope, because it's some stupid shit having to do with fucking mmorpgs) Along with that, they have planned doing 2-3(or some other number, don't remember) movies to continue the story.

Recently I got word of a website with a countdown, waiting to announce something. I should've posted this earlier, but eh, whatever. The countdown at the time of writing is at 10 hours and 30 minutes of ending. http://reboot.com/

So yeah, this  ends really soon. I'm hyped to see what it's gonna be about, and even more hyped to check out the future installments of ReBoot.

For some reason, I cannot visit certain sites any longer. These sites include Google, Gmail, GamingW, and some others

This is just on my side of the pc. On my account, neither IE, Firefox, Firefox 3 Beta nor Opera can visit these sites correctly.

However, on this side (my mom's) everything works perfectly fine. I seriously tried a few things, used Ad-Aware and such...

..to no avail. Anybody have an idea what's causing this?

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Regardless of all the HYPE I did regarding this thread, this is a serious thread. Totally serious, and it is not infact about GW or 2007 nor 2008. 'tis about me. Entirely about me. This is where I announce something very crazy: I am pregnant.

Except not. This is a coming out of the closest at best, and unfortunately it is not because I am gay(sorry Stadsport) nor because I am a woman(sorry everyone else). It is about the truth. The_Truth, except not. The truth about Eltee. Alot of you know me, alot of you don't care, alot of you just don't know me anyway. For those of you who know me or care, welcome. For the others, you can disregard this if you like, it won't change anything in your life. I can lose all respect you have for me, but I doubt it highly. So just what is this truth anyway? Here it comes.

Most of you people who know me (at least Drule) know my name is Marc.

TOUGH LUCK CHUMP.

The truth here is that I am a fraud. A lie. The identity I have been going on as does not exist. Why did I ever do this? We have to go far, far back. Back a few 6-7 years at least. Being really young back then, I wanted to fit into the people, and act real mature and all that jazz: I felt I had to pose as an older person. If I go by my fake identity right now, I am... 23 years old iirc? And that same fake identity first started lying and posing as a 17 year old. I have followed the years accordingly, and that means (sadly) that I have been around the internet for a full 6 years. The terrifying part is the truth: I was, infact, much like mkkmypet. A very, very young member. Browsing the internet communities at the ripe age of 10 year old. Back then I did not think I would ever fit and/or be respected, so I posed. Even then, saying LOL I'M 17 was not enough and I still acted retardedly and got shunned for it. Along the ages I got less and less retarded, up to this point. Two or so years back, thinking about the past with mates, most notably Roman, with whom I said "HEY REMEMBER THE GOOD DAYS WHEN I WAS RETARDED" when infact the truth was THE GOOD DAYS WHEN I WAS VERY YOUNG AND STUPID. And thus, my getting used to internet communities is not only about getting smarter, but it was also about growing up (this paragraph is going totally haywire let's end it here).

Along the years, I said many lies, as to really build up an identity. Most of these were entirely made up, but some were actually based on my real life. Along the time, I started feeling that it was futile, mostly by seeing the appearance of people younger than I (although mkkmypet is a bad example..). I kept it up, though, mostly as to keep consistency. Strangely enough, I was TERRIBLE at it. Alot of my shit made NO SENSE, but thankfully, people didn't care enough (or were too silly, sorry) to notice. I was asked questions such as HEY LT I WONDER DON'T YOU GO TO COLLEGE TOO? and HEY LT WHERE DO YOU WORK, to these questions I have no ANSWER, but I still managed sliding through. For the fact I was able to keep it up for 6 years, I am very proud. Strangely enough, some people have not entirely believed me at times (like Raziel), but then it resulted in stuff like "Nah LT, you're not 23, you're like 18-19.". Or, back in the old days, I was told (when I was still fakely 19) "WOW MAN I THOUGHT YOU WERE LIKE 25 LOL". That doesn't count though, because it was a pretty silly individual (Jester's favorite Goth Buddy).

So why am I doing this now? Because, like I said, this does not seem to matter anymore, age is no longer a problem. I am still one of the younger members (as opposed to being one of older members), because I want to be able to bring answers to all those questions I CANNOT answer at all and because now I can post in the picture thread! So yes, this drama is all about this. But really, this won't mostly change anything other than you all know the truth about me: I'll still talk the same, I'll still post the same(cause I started just now), I'll still whine about WoW/Naruto the same, I'll still... whatever the same. Now I just have more of an excuse to not know of some subjects!



But that's all good.. but who am I? First off, I am(you know this already if you have good deductive skills) 16 years old. Older than the really young ones, but otherwise quite young! My name is not Marc(which is bland and boring(but wasn't when I was younger)) but rather Renaud(which is boring(albeit not bland(but extremely french))). For those englishmen who wonder, it is pronounced the same as you pronounce the french car brand Renault. My last name will not be revealed here (it might later but not possibly on purpose as, anyway, I want to keep a lid on my really personal life). I don't work and I still go to highschool! How amazing. That's pretty much it, nothing else to change. If there is anything about me I told you guys about and you wonder if it is true, entirely fake or based on true events, ask me about it and I will be glad to tell you the truth. For the record, if Chef, Drule and whoever remember the Ventrilo days, all the stories about my dad are.. entirely true.


All I have to add is that this also gives me an excuse as to why I do not go to the canadian gw meet! Happy New Year 2008, GW. (note: I will still call you all SON and shit, oh the irony..)





But wait wait wait, there's MORE! A SPECIAL OFFER! Three fresh pictures of me, taking this very Christmas! Comes with gifts in hand, shitty lighting, censor boxes for my family and more!


(this might sound like i'm trying to save my ass but i usually look older, i swear)

Oh yeah, to make it even longer and to prevent people from saying TOO LONG, DIDN'T READ, here is a shortened version:

I am lie, I am 16, I don't care, hello world.

I do advise you to read it though.

This better net me the Drama award for 2007 (at the time of posting, it is still 2007 in certain timezones). It is also my biggest post in history.

HAPPY NEW YEAR