I have a plan: A plan concerning the weekend and games

In article <MPG.218bd9701bd02e6c989770.RemoveThis@News.individual.NET>,
Trooper <removethis.RemoveThis@trooperlooper.co.uk> wrote:
>In article <ZY6dnXFYteCtVbzanZ2dnUVZ_gednZ2d.RemoveThis@io.com>, kendrick.RemoveThis@nospam.io
>says...
>
>> -KKC, testing the new .sig file...
>
>It's a wee bit confusing for those of us who have progressed beyond
>fixed font

I don't understand. How can you run a VT-100 terminal screen without a
fixed-width font?

-KKC, who should really get to work now. Which today, is taking two weeks'
worth of developer feedback and turning into a one-character document change.
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in a quantity that is also a prime number. Failure to do so will -- @io.com
result in a geometric disturbance conducive to the resurrection of Cthulhu.
Disregard this rule if the meat in the nuggets is not actually chicken.

On 2007-10-26, Kendrick Kerwin Chua <kendrick.RemoveThis@nospam.io> wrote:
> In article <MPG.218bd9701bd02e6c989770.RemoveThis@News.individual.NET>,
> Trooper <removethis.RemoveThis@trooperlooper.co.uk> wrote:
>>In article <ZY6dnXFYteCtVbzanZ2dnUVZ_gednZ2d.RemoveThis@io.com>, kendrick.RemoveThis@nospam.io
>>says...
>>
>>> -KKC, testing the new .sig file...
>>
>>It's a wee bit confusing for those of us who have progressed beyond
>>fixed font
>
> I don't understand. How can you run a VT-100 terminal screen without a
> fixed-width font?

Stop living in the past!

VT-220 or nothing.

Chris
--
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"Back when I was young, we had to travel back in time to put the tape in so
the game would load before we died."

hurricanepilot wrote:
> In article <5odtc0Fme7j7U1.RemoveThis@mid.individual.net>,
> the_proper_one.RemoveThis@hotmail.com says...
>> Nils Tanner wrote:
>>> Apart from the fact that although the plan is indeed there, I'm not
>>> quite sure whether there are many games in it.
>> There will be some in mine.
>>
>> The Orange Box (360) - No doubt I'll spend most of the weekend guiding
>> the other half through Portal. She's called me several times this week
>> and made me put it on to talk her through bits, and she's only on level
>> 18. But if I get to play it myself, then I'll be back on with HL2. Went
>> back last night and got the achievements I'd missed (assaulting a man
>> with a can, finding a faceplate, shooting a basket, go to a singing
>> cave, that kind of thing) so I shall resume my proper game at the start
>> of Ravenholm, and try to use nowt but my gravity gun (I AM A WHORE!).
>
> Can I avoid the 2 point achievement? I only ask as I'm at the bit where
> I think the singing cave probably is (13 points), and I've either got to
> get both achievements or neither if I'm to avoid an uncomfortable
> gamerscore. It took ages to fix it last time.

Get both. They're both extremely easy. Do you want to know?

--

Zo

In article <5kq2i3d7heb035q8pcrt53e2b87l4eec3k RemoveThis @4ax.com>,
ntanner RemoveThis @datacomm.ch says...
> Stuff

In my case this is a Planned Week Off Gaming so I aim to fit in as much
gaming as possible

PC:

Bioshock - getting closer to the point i had reached on my old pc

Deus Ex - will probably install this on new pc and copy over saved games

Far Cry - had this since 2005 when i bought my previous pc

Painkiller - had this in 2004 and came close to completing it on the PC
i had bought in 2002. May as well start from scratch

Clive Barker's Jericho Demo - dl'd wednesday night, looks interesting


360:

Guitar Hero II - plan to do this in Medium difficulty mode

Tiger Woods 2007 - had this for yonks and hardly touched it

possibly buy & play:

Halo 2 (PC) - although i have the xbox version I'll prefer keyboard &
mouse and then i can get onto playing Halo 3 on my 360.

Clive Barker's Jericho (PC) - if i like the demo enough

Hellgate: London (PC) - bit meh about the demo but might give the non-
subscription multiplayer a go as i have mates interested in getting
this.

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On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 11:36:05 +0100, "Shak" <me RemoveThis @privacy.net> wrote:

>"Trooper" <removethis RemoveThis @trooperlooper.co.uk> wrote in message
>news:MPG.218bce94b4c5aaba98976e@News.individual.NET...
>> In article <5odn1lFlu7o8U2 RemoveThis @mid.individual.net>, me RemoveThis @privacy.net says...
>>
>>>
>>> Portal - This arrived midweek and I'm around half way through. Strangely
>>> there's something slightly more accessible about PC games than console
>>> (it's
>>> always on, can save anywhere so can play for 10 mins at a time etc) so
>>> very
>>> likely I'll carry on.
>>>
>>
>> Finished this last night. At about halfway through I have to admit I
>> was wondering what all the fuss was about, but by the end it was
>> fantastic.
>
>I didn't want to mention that I wasn't finding it particularly hillarious up
>to now, so this is reassuring.

Half way through, right? There have been comedy comments (like about
truthfullness, and at the introduction of deadly goop floors), but it
really accelerates.

>I love the game though if only for the portal gun. I can spend ages just
>marvelling at it.

http://www.weebls-stuff.com/wab/cube/

Cheers - Jaimie
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It's time to chant the rites!
It's time to summon Satan on the Muppet Show tonight!

On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 06:10:48 -0500, Kendrick Kerwin Chua
<kendrick RemoveThis @nospam.io> wrote:

>--
>-- Universal

Yer sig's bust.

Just to make sure, you have met xkcd? Sounds just like one of his.

Cheers - Jaimie
--
"It's only work when somebody makes you do it." - Calvin

In article <8sa1i31psofl4rnnsufuupu4vvicir19bp RemoveThis @newsposting.sessile.org>,
Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie RemoveThis @sometimes.sessile.org> wrote:
>On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 06:10:48 -0500, Kendrick Kerwin Chua
><kendrick RemoveThis @nospam.io> wrote:
>
>>--
>>-- Universal
>
>Yer sig's bust.

Sorry, I'm in a super productive technical writing mode, which means I'm
slang-impaired at the moment. Can't tell if you mean to say you like it,
hate it, or are indicating that it is unreadable or otherwise not parsed.

>Just to make sure, you have met xkcd? Sounds just like one of his.

Haven't met him, but I have read the webcomic. I'll concede that I may
have been inspired by that mode of deadpan delivery in more than one thing
I've written.

-KKC, who releases an avalanche of material for his editor/boss on Fridays
so as to avoid receiving new assignments right before the weekend starts.
--
-- Universal survival rule #109 - Chicken nuggets must be served -- kendrick
in a quantity that is also a prime number. Failure to do so will -- @io.com
result in a geometric disturbance conducive to the resurrection of Cthulhu.
Disregard this rule if the meat in the nuggets is not actually chicken.

On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 12:26:32 GMT, Jaimie Vandenbergh
<jaimie.TakeThisOut@sometimes.sessile.org> wrote:

>On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 11:36:05 +0100, "Shak" <me.TakeThisOut@privacy.net> wrote:
>
>>"Trooper" <removethis.TakeThisOut@trooperlooper.co.uk> wrote in message
>>news:MPG.218bce94b4c5aaba98976e@News.individual.NET...
>>> In article <5odn1lFlu7o8U2.TakeThisOut@mid.individual.net>, me.TakeThisOut@privacy.net says...
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Portal - This arrived midweek and I'm around half way through. Strangely
>>>> there's something slightly more accessible about PC games than console
>>>> (it's
>>>> always on, can save anywhere so can play for 10 mins at a time etc) so
>>>> very
>>>> likely I'll carry on.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Finished this last night. At about halfway through I have to admit I
>>> was wondering what all the fuss was about, but by the end it was
>>> fantastic.
>>
>>I didn't want to mention that I wasn't finding it particularly hillarious up
>>to now, so this is reassuring.
>
>Half way through, right? There have been comedy comments (like about
>truthfullness, and at the introduction of deadly goop floors), but it
>really accelerates.
>
>>I love the game though if only for the portal gun. I can spend ages just
>>marvelling at it.
>
>http://www.weebls-stuff.com/wab/cube/

Bother - kinda spoily, so unless you've done the level with the
Companion Cube skip that.

Cheers - Jaimie
--
"By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy;
if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher." - Socrates

On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 11:58:45 +0100, DBSnappa
<davidjboughton.DeleteThis@REMOVEMEhotmail.com> wrote:

>
>GW:RE (360) And this
>
>Forza 2 And this as well, if only to see what my Nephew has done to a
>car I loaned him.



LENT!

On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 07:37:18 -0500, Kendrick Kerwin Chua
<kendrick RemoveThis @nospam.io> wrote:

>In article <8sa1i31psofl4rnnsufuupu4vvicir19bp RemoveThis @newsposting.sessile.org>,
>Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie RemoveThis @sometimes.sessile.org> wrote:
>>On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 06:10:48 -0500, Kendrick Kerwin Chua
>><kendrick RemoveThis @nospam.io> wrote:
>>
>>>--
>>>-- Universal
>>
>>Yer sig's bust.
>
>Sorry, I'm in a super productive technical writing mode, which means I'm
>slang-impaired at the moment. Can't tell if you mean to say you like it,
>hate it, or are indicating that it is unreadable or otherwise not parsed.

Sorry. Your signature is malformed. Unless you really wanted it to
have an extra dash-dash-space?

>>Just to make sure, you have met xkcd? Sounds just like one of his.
>
>Haven't met him, but I have read the webcomic. I'll concede that I may
>have been inspired by that mode of deadpan delivery in more than one thing
>I've written.

It's such fun doing that. Particularly in internal documentation, with
jokes that no-one except the technical audience will read. Though I
did have one setup destroyed by a technical author, who missed the
joke and was making it read better for the expected audience. Sigh.

>-KKC, who releases an avalanche of material for his editor/boss on Fridays
>so as to avoid receiving new assignments right before the weekend starts.

Cunning!

Cheers - Jaimie
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In article <okb1i3ph7qgkl0mgbmjje60kcn8s34kcf6 DeleteThis @newsposting.sessile.org>,
Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie DeleteThis @sometimes.sessile.org> wrote:
>On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 07:37:18 -0500, Kendrick Kerwin Chua
><kendrick DeleteThis @nospam.io> wrote:
>>In article <8sa1i31psofl4rnnsufuupu4vvicir19bp DeleteThis @newsposting.sessile.org>,
>>Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie DeleteThis @sometimes.sessile.org> wrote:
>>>On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 06:10:48 -0500, Kendrick Kerwin Chua
>>><kendrick DeleteThis @nospam.io> wrote:
>>>
>>>>--
>>>>-- Universal
>>>
>>>Yer sig's bust.
>>
>>Sorry, I'm in a super productive technical writing mode, which means I'm
>>slang-impaired at the moment. Can't tell if you mean to say you like it,
>>hate it, or are indicating that it is unreadable or otherwise not parsed.
>
>Sorry. Your signature is malformed. Unless you really wanted it to
>have an extra dash-dash-space?

Ah, that's what you meant. Actually, trn inserts an extra dash-dash-space
just before the .sig file, whereas elm does not. So if somebody is
stripping out the signature when reading e-mails, they won't see the
prefix in any messages I send. I therefore have to include the extra
dash-dash-space in order to be fully and redundantly compliant with
posting and messaging standards. I am selectively obsessive.

-KKC, who is now wasting time with xkcd content until he gets edits back.
--
-- Universal survival rule #109 - Chicken nuggets must be served -- kendrick
in a quantity that is also a prime number. Failure to do so will -- @io.com
result in a geometric disturbance conducive to the resurrection of Cthulhu.
Disregard this rule if the meat in the nuggets is not actually chicken.

deKay wrote:
> Soni tempori elseu romani yeof helsforo nisson ol sefini ill des Fri, 26 Oct
> 2007 11:22:36 +0100, sefini jorgo geanyet des mani yeof do
> uk.games.video.misc, yawatina tan reek esk James Luff
> <lufferov DeleteThis @googlemail.com> fornis do marikano es bono tan el:
>
>> Nils Tanner wrote:
>>> Apart from the fact that although the plan is indeed there, I'm not
>>> quite sure whether there are many games in it.
>> There doesn't seem to be much interest in Metroid for some reason. All
>> the groups have been fairly quiet on this little title. I'm working all
>> weekend but what little time I do have will be spent with this probably.
>
> I assume from this post that it's out today? I thought it was December!
>
> WHAT

Yeah, it's out today. FETCH!

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regards, James Luff
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"There are 10 types of people in the world:
Those that understand binary, and those that don't."

Lister wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 11:58:45 +0100, DBSnappa
> <davidjboughton DeleteThis @REMOVEMEhotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> GW:RE (360) And this
>>
>> Forza 2 And this as well, if only to see what my Nephew has done to a
>> car I loaned him.
>
>
>
> LENT!

That's in April, mate.