Yeah, I know, it's been a while since I posted. Any way, I Need a new comp as my current one is starting to crap out on me. Here's what I'm thinking for as my next one:
Product Name
Qty
Price
Line Total
 
MSI HD 7950 Twin Frozr III Boost Edition 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card **NEW REVISION** with FREE GAMES
 
£199.99
 
Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - OEM
 
£191.99
Asus MAXIMUS VI IMPACT Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ITX Motherboard
 
£191.99
 
Patriot Viper "Black Mamba" Generation 3 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-17000C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (PV316G213C1K)
 
£119.99
 
Seagate SSHD 7200RPM 2TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DX001) SSHD Hybrid Drive
 
£94.99
 
BitFenix Prodigy 'Tiger' Mini-ITX Cube Case - Orange/Black
 
£69.95
 
XFX Pro 650W Core Edition '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply
 
£64.99
 
Corsair Hydro H80 High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler *Manufacturer Refurbished Unit - 90 Day Guarantee
 
£37.55
 
OcUK 20x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM
     
 
huh, copy and paste straite from the website, awesome, any way, It comes to about just under £1k which is in my budget but I want other's opnion on it since I've always gone for AMD cpu's, I'm dead set on a that asus mini ITX since it has a lot of nice features so I have to use INTEL but I won't LIE, I have no idea which CPU is latest or best or whatever since I don't keep up with them, that and there product naming scheme is hella confusing.
so, what you think?
 
p.s., AMD GPU since the site is giving away free games + amd on top of that are giving away free games how can I not go for that?
EDIT: Totally unrelated but, what does "salty Members" under my name mean?

Is any one playing this? I bought it yesterday, it's fun, though it does take the piss when some bandit comes up and kills you and doesn't even loot your stuff. Still, it's fun.
It's really buggy though but that's no suprise since it's still in Alpha :P my first toon died from a bug that caused my character to float in the air for a while.

For any one who didn't know (and I didn't know untill I just watched it 5 mins ago) This is a show where Derren_Brown convinces a guy that he is in an apocalypse. I've watched it and I have to say It's brilliant, What makes it interesting is that becuase the guy thinks it's all real we get to see how some one in that kind of situation would REALLY act as selfless as some movies have shown people as being? When watching it
I got a kind of Truman Show feel to it and I was thinking this could be a precurser  that kind of show where we convince people that some event has taken place "such as the apocalypse" and we get to see REAL human reactions. Still, now that one show like it has happend I think it would be difficult to do it again, unless you get people from a place that has only limited interaction with such things, otherwise it might make them (the target) suspicious.

p.s. for those that think the actor was fake: Clicky

When I heard that AKIRA was going to made into a LIVe action movie, I was stoked, I LOVED the animation and I welcomed a diferant take on a favorite as it would bring a refreshing perspective and be somthing new, THEN I read this article: http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=84254&utm_source=crowdignite.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=crowdignite.com
I fucking hate Hollywood, It could have been AMAZING, but no they have to fucking ruin it, what a bunch of plebian douche bags, some one should set those asshats strait and make them understand, DON'T FUCK THINGS UP.
Seriously, I was thining how could they fuck up a masterpiece, all they had to do was follow the animation but put there own spin on it, not tha hard an interesting thing to see, instead they can't even get that right, ASS!

I've decided to learn Python (especialy stackless) since it looks really interesting but the IDLE IDE that comes with 2.7 is not user friendly, There's a way to intergrate python and VS 2008 but I can't seem to get it to work. any one know anything about this?

I won't lie, I wrote this after having only played it once so far (I've had the game for much longer, just only been able to play it today) but i decided to write a short game review about it.
 
 
 
 Rocksmith game review
 
 Introduction
 
 Greetings, I don’t normally do Game reviews, In fact I have only done one other and it was such a long time ago that I can’t even remember what game it was that I had reviewed. The game that this review is about is Rocksmith.  In simple terms, Rocksmith is Guitar hero but with a real guitar however, saying it like that really doesn’t do the game justice since you are without the eccentric and colourful displays from Guitar hero or even a character to call your own. Instead you face the 2D animated pictures (high quality pictures) of a crowd of real people and the stages are a much more realistic and the game play is very much different and harder.
 
 
 The good
 
The games graphics are pretty decent, with a multitude of high quality textures and realistic equipments and environments and the note high way (where the notes appear for you to play) is very bright, distinct from the back ground and easy to read. The Song selection you get is varied with different genre of rock music filling the song list. You can also unlock amps to modify your sound so you can effectively turn your PS3 into a Synthesizer pedal box (Non-hard wired pedal) however you have to unlock them and even the ability to use them as well and that can take a little while to do.
The games way of handling difficulty is intuitive and makes getting better easy as the game doesn’t penalize you for sucking, in fact the game feels like it was built around that the player is going to suck, at first all you can hope to do is to limit your level of suckage with the goal of being able to play the complete song. However the difficulty system is a double edged sword.

 
 The Bad
 
If you’re looking to learn to play a song in its actual form you won’t get it to begin with. The way the system works is that it gives you a few notes to play, if you can hit them all then it gives you more but with more notes in the same stretch then before making it harder, if you miss a few it keeps you at the level, if you miss most it drops you down a level. This is good as it allows you to slowly be able to play the full song BUT since you can’t set the level to the max by hand you can’t simply play the full song from the get go so it does takes time to unlock the full song. If you want to play one of those awesome mini- training games, you have to earn it, everything is locked at first and I do mean EVERY thing, save the first songs, and this can be frustrating as the mini-games make for great training and for a bit of silly fun.

 
 The ugly
 
Due to the fact the sound you hear is coming from your guitar, it can cause lag between you playing and the TV so if you don’t have separate sound system you can hook up to the PS3 you will have a tough time, there is an option to change the timing for lag but I didn’t need to touch it.

 
 Conclusion
 
If you’re looking to learn some new songs and you can already play the guitar, don’t bother as it would be faster and FAR less frustrating to simply go look at online tablature. If you’re looking for a new game that’s similar to Guitar hero, don’t get it as this is far harder and time consuming then guitar hero. If however you’re looking to learn to play the guitar or your new to it this makes a GREAT way to learn to play, train and have fun at the same time.
 

 
 Tips for players

• ·         If you find yourself sucking, don’t worry, just keep playing, you WILL get better it just takes time, more than you might expect for a game.
     
• ·         If you’re new to guitar playing then don’t be ashamed if you find your plucking hand starting to flag after an hour or two, it takes time to build up plucking stamina, same goes for your fretting hand.
     
• ·         The mini-games are a GREAT training tool to learn to play better, use them I can grantee you they will help you improve quickly as they all focus on one aspect of playing and allow you to build up muscle memory without getting boring.
     
• ·         There are Technique challenges that teach advanced playing techniques, learn them as they are used in the game but also allow you to play better.
     
• ·         Even when you have the highest score or got gold in a technique challenge, don’t stop playing them as you can only get better by playing them.
  

I've seen them around I'm honestly curious, Exusing the adult nature of them could some one tell me what films these gifs are of?
http://fukung.net/v/24697/894b664371a8fe27cddd38f0d3d2db24.gif [NSFW]

http://fukung.net/v/18179/vacuum_vagina.gif [NSFW]

I have two, any one want one? need e-mail.

I'm making a random dungeon generator, I've had this Idea knocking around my head and I decdied to actually make it, ONe thing I can't decide though is how to place the code. what i mean is, Should I place the code that generates and modifies data inside the object so in essence it modifies it's self or should I create a function that modifies the object that holds all the data.
My current idea is to have a class called Map and any dungeon generated has it's own map object that holds all data about the map, currently my idea is when i want to modify the map data it modifies it's self like so:

Map IceCave = Map.Create("IceCave01", "Ice Cave Entrance");

Icecave.Generate( 1, "cavern", 2, Cave_Ice,)

The other way would be to create an Ice cave object that only holds data and then use a function outside to modify, I'm not sure but one advantage would less memmory ussage, as It wold have to create entire copies of code inside the object for every object, but using the second way means only one set of code to modify data from outside the object.

Why for the love of god can makers of cola drinks never get it right? Besides Coke and pepsi, every other attempt tastes like ass. Now I can't speak for any one in the states as you all use corn syrup but over here we have sugar. For some reason, every cola drink save coke and pepsi are nasty; I mean for example, take Tesco's brand cola (I bought it as it was on offer) I expected it takes bad but not that bad, It has extracts of Apple, Carrots and hibiscus, WTF do they have to do with a Caramel flavored drink? Why can't they make there cola drinks taste of any sembalance of ok?

I was reading a story recently and somthing one of the characters mentioned gave me an idea. Do you think it would be interesting to have a character Who initially there traits make them seem like a really nice person (not perfect), but then as the story goes on you discover that each trait is born from somthing more nefarious and cruel and that by the end of the book, the character has gone through a transformation in the eyes of the reader from a nice calm, smily, happy person to a horrible, cruel, darkly wretched creature without actually changing the character itself? The idea is that the character stays the same throughout the book, just the readers perspective.

Ok, last time I started a topic on how to effectivly hide somthing from the reader but still make it obvious, I have an idea on how to do that, I'm going to lead them by the nose by pointing out somthing that is true but not the whole truth but I'm gonna draw attention to the half truth by putting it in fairly early into the story and being subtle about it by making it not a major thing but point it out every now and then.
But that's not what I'm on about this time, what I want is your opinion on a small segment I wrote already, is it crap? Good? Novel like? Or downright painfull?
What I'm most interested in is your opnion on the writing style of the segmant (and thus overall work).
Also, any words surrounded un a square bracket [like ][/like] is Genma in panda form using signs to communicate.

It was cloudy dreary day, the skies emptying themselves onto the landscape of concrete and metal, a manmade jungle to be sure, the jungle of Nerima. Those without means to prevent a soaking scurried along from one cubby hole to the next, trying to keep from getting wet; the lucky people who had umbrellas were able to see a rather strange sight.
A young man dashed across the walkway, shadowed from above by an umbrella and yet not once getting wet despite the speed of movement; stranger then was the panda following, trying to knock the umbrella out of the young man’s hand. It was a dance, one moved and the other reacted in a strange symbiosis of movement.
A punch, a kick, a block, for obviously they were not dancing but fighting; it was still strange though, after all, wouldn’t a panda fight with kung fu instead of kenpo? At least that’s what most of the audience viewing the scene thought. It would seem then that the people who lived here were at least somewhat used to strange occurrences, instead unperturbed that a panda and man are in fact fighting in the first place.
“I still think It stinks” the man cried “choosing a fiancée for me, I’m supposed to be a man aren’t I?” As strange as it was for the man to start yelling at the panda, it didn’t prepare them for its reply, [it’s for family Honour!] the panda flipped the sign it was holding [you will do as you are told]. The man obviously didn’t like that, evidenced by the fist in the panda’s face. “Suck on that old man, I’m going back to china” the man was about to turn around and run off when the panda shoved a sign in his face [I thought you were a man] the panda flipped the sign yet again [are you going to prove me wrong?]. The man growled at the panda and then his face became downcast, “fine pop, yah win, let’s go meet that friend o’yours”. With that the man and the panda walked away leaving a large number of nonplussed people; after a few moments,  the people walked on deciding that there were important things to worry about then and a man and his panda.
 

p.s. I'm well aware that fanfiction is reguarded by a lot of writers as being low or trash or somthing, If your going to post about that, don't, as I just lampshaded it, thus making mention of that fact, moot point

in 11 hours and 28 minutes (on hard btw, should have set it to nightmare but oh well), I won't mention seconds as that seems a little arbitrary. I won't spoil the ending but I will say it was hugely disapointing, I can only sumise that we'll get more in DLC which in my opinion is BS.
Why the fuck should we have to pay MORE just to see the ending this part of the story? Seriously it's like releasing a movie halfway done and then asking the audiance to wait several months and then pay to see the second part (I'm looking at you HP 7)  We paid for a game and story, the least they could do is finish the damn thing, I think it's a pretty shitty thing to make us pay extra for the end of the story when we've already paid for it.
See here's the thing, It takes 21GB to install, cost £30 and yet we don't even get a real ending, whats worse is relativly  there's hardly any content. I think that ID are taking the Piss in giving us a story ending via DLC. DLC's are for EXPANIONS, that is EXPANDNG the story and game with new content to keep it fresh (and to line the publisher's pockets), not for FINISHING IT.
For the record, Skyrim is about 300 hours of gameplay and it only fits on 1 DVD (rage has 3 btw) and I can get it for about £5 cheaper then RAGE.
 
p.s. What I did play was fun, and the Lighting (whilst static) and shading were spectacular (some scenes looked like hand drawn concept art, aliasing ruined the effect though, can't go higher then 4X) the textures were kinda bad in some parts. I just hope that mods will come out and add some content.
 
 
EDIT: I just realised I should have made a joke about RAGING or being in a RAGE or some RAGE joke... damn, too late, I was far too gone in a RAGE to think of it a the time... ok that was bad... I'm done.

Right, so it's been a long while since I did any programming so I decided to try somthing simple and make a card dealing program and i'm getting an error I can't make heads nor tails of so could some one tell me what I'm doing wrong?

the errors i get are

Compiling...
 Card dealing program.cpp
 c:\users\martin\documents\visual studio 2008\projects\card dealing program\card dealing program\card dealing program.cpp(20) : warning C4244: 'argument' : conversion from 'time_t' to 'unsigned int', possible loss of data
 Linking...
 MSVCRTD.lib(crtexe.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _main referenced in function ___tmainCRTStartup
 C:\Users\Martin\Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Projects\Card dealing program\Debug\Card dealing program.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals 

EDIT : i bet it somthing really simple.

Right, so I regularly check my spam box for anything interesting ; most of the time it's just junk but sometimes I come across a really interesting jem.
Acourding to the mails title I have a free copy of COD blackops, nothing new there but i open it any way just to see what the scam is. Lo and behold, it's about Paypal...
WHAT? isn't it suposed to be about COD:blackops? So yeah go figure they can't even scam properly let alone at all.
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/638/spamfail.png/

So what about you lot? got any fail at scamming pics?

Whats your opinion on the game Rocksmith? Personally I'm really excited. When I was younger I used to play an instrument, then I stopped becuase it would be far too dificult to have kept up the lessons and go to my secondary school at the time (took an hour or more by bus traveling) but now I want to learn the guitar but i umm well to be honest I kinda suck at teaching myself this, for this I've always responed faster with a tutor, (like 10X faster) so to have this game as a feedback to learn the guitar is going to be great so I'm really looking forward to it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAP-IvVXoHM&feature=related <--Rocksmith clips

I was browsing Youtube and I stumbled on this... really creepy thing, the poster talks about how his 3 year old is afraid of the puppets... mate i think most people are at least creeped out by them so i'm not at all suprised that a 3 year old is.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDHSbrPZH4A&feature=feedfbc

what about you lot?

I need some advice. The original idea was to make a starship based on a squid, where it would have tenticles that could graple a ship and hold it whilst i's OP plasma weapon in it's beak could fill it's target with molten plasma. However as i finished the rear end I realised that it wouldn't work, it didn't have a heavy enough feel for it; but instead of mothballing what I had, I decided to turn it into an airship and use it for a differant scene. Now here's the thing, should I or shouldn't I put guns on it. The final scene is a city with gleaming white edifices and a few air ships hanging over it. The ski to one side will be a clear day the other a torm casting a shadow.
Think utilitarian as the theme.

I want some advice before I take it to Mudbox and add detailing, since you want to finish adding major geometry before taking it to a sculpting program like mudbox or Zbrush.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v323/rpgjaguar/Airship.png

also should I add something over the pipes to the rear engines? I dunno I kinda like it as it is but at the same time it feels kinda lacking.

p.s. The ships main colour Will be white with teal or light blue glowy

EDIT: after some thought, i think i'll ditch the pipes  and move the engine boosters into the tale itself, i think the shape will not only flow better but it won't be obscured by the pipes or the engine boosters, i'll post the update when i do it (probebly not for a few days, moving out of my current place)

EDIT: for those that have paid any attention at all, I've decided to include guns but only on the underside.

I recently saw a PhysX card going for £20 in CEX so I was wondering, is it worth getting for that much? I mean would it still be used in games that use PhysX physics?