Root Access

12:43 AM

@WilliamHilsum Hmm

@OliverSalzburg I got just past the part where you fight a million headcrabs falling on you as you descend the slow lift, then killed the ichthyosaur.. then i had to take a breather

@allquixotic I'm still blown away. Just learned that there is no Xen part in it.

wut? there IS Xen! they said on their wiki!

They're planning to make that part into a whole nother game

wiki.blackmesasource.com/Xen

Yeah

12:46 AM

no reference to another game there

forums.blackmesasource.com/showthread.php?p=480683#post480683

does it just end before you even get to Xen? i guess they ran out of time?

I still have 3 chapters to play

OIC, if Carlos Montero says it then it's true

up through Lambda Core. okay

I guess it'll just be a couple more years ;D

12:50 AM

considering it took them 8 to develop that... and probably more

Xen will be 6 months to a year, another 6 months for Gonarch's Lair, another year for Interloper, and a year for Nihilanth and the end-game

I like the immersion and all, but I was never really as in love with the Half Life games (both HL1 and the new ones) as I am with more story-driven games

also you don't get to deck yourself out in lasting improvements; there's no advancement other than randomly chancing upon more powerful weapons and ammo

To my understanding, it's not like they're just starting now with the work on the remaining chapters.

But, oh well, whenever more is released, I'll be happy to enjoy it

like it would be cool if you could get addons to your HEV suit or have regenerating energy or install better resistance to environmental hazards

I love RPG+FPS blends, not really much on pure FPS, especially if it's light on story

I think they sped up the release for greenlight ;p

Well, HL1 really introduced the concept of story into FPS :D

@OliverSalzburg kind of, but not the kind of story we know these days

12:54 AM

lol

it has story but not dialogue

cough deus ex

THATS story

the Mass Effect and Deus Ex series are my favorite single player games of all time, with Elder Scrolls V - Skyrim a close second/third

@JourneymanGeek yes, totally agree, THAT is what I consider to be the canonical "introducing story into an FPS" game

and the fact that you weren't railroaded into doing things one way

@allquixotic True, but, you can't give Black Mesa a hard time for having little story when it's a remake of the first FPS that had any story :D

Q: How can I make my PCs flee?

12:55 AM

well, you kind of were. you couldn't remain a UNATCO agent even knowing the evil of the conspiracy :P I always maligned that fact, that you were "forced" to rebel

most other areas of the game were open ended but you didn't get to decide "you know what, screw this... I want to rule the world with Walton Simons and become his right-hand man"

they could've made it so that Paul managed to defeat the killswitch and heal himself and take the place of JC if you decide to remain loyal to UNATCO, and you end up fighting him in the end

but I guess they have to draw the line somewhere... like you don't get to side with the reapers in Mass Effect :P

btw, if you are a fan of amazing total conversion mods, check out this one

I actually liked TNM more than the original Deus Ex... somehow

Mechanical snail

Here's a question about how to scare all your computers away:

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My players never run away or avoid conflict. Ever. I throw them ridiculous encounters, they will stay and fight. If I tell them, "You know you're not gonna make it, just run," they stay and fight and blame me, the GM, for the casualties. They complain my encounter was too hard etc. When I tell th...

lol

ah, that would explain why I haven't an account on rpg.SE

"tabletop"

2:31 AM

Thats a new one

vmware player has an automated installer thing for some supported OSes

5:21 AM

@KronoS hosted on bluehost, running silverstripe with a custom theme I designed myself

Can it be that somebody is forging my email address? Because I get "Mail Delivery Failure" from address I know nothing about.

my hosting's like $3/month or something ridiculously cheap like that, with "unlimited" bandwidth and storage, although the TOS basically say "don't abuse the 'unlimited' resources or we'll kick you out"

@nhinkle $3 for BlueHost?

@Boris_yo aye. I got it on some sort of promotion a while ago. It's not the "business" level hosting though - no dedicated IP. I do get SSH though.

@nhinkle Hmmm the cheapest BlueHost offered ever was $4.95 / mo

5:24 AM

shrug I guess I was lucky?

@nhinkle First time using them?

@Boris_yo sort of. I was on... hostmonster I think? My cheap promotional pricing had expired, so I moved to Bluehost. Which is owned by the same company, and works identically, except the domain is different and the colors are blue instead of green. Plopped everything down and it worked just like it ever did!

@nhinkle Is technical support same?

i think so

they're literally the same company

i've only had to deal with customer support once, and they were super helpful

And how good was HostMonster's hosting?

5:35 AM

Same deal, basically. Worked fine. Never experienced any downtime to speak of.

@nhinkle No malware injections to MySQL database?

@Boris_yo not that I've noticed?

@nhinkle I had once on BlueHost and they left me dealing with issue by myself, so later I left them.

hmm, interesting. i've never had any problems from them

what do you use now?

@nhinkle I suspected their server was infected but they denied. Base64 code was in every folder redirecting visitors to some russian site.

@nhinkle HostGator ever since. They are best IMHO.

Bob

5:51 AM

@Boris_yo More likely someone found a security hole in your site. It happens...

6:32 AM

hmm

anyone offhand remember what the command for printing the current time on linux is?

@Bob Specifically my website? As I said it was in every index.php file on my whole account. So my account's security was holed?

Having a weird problem with my router, whenever i switch off the OS without shutting down properly and then reboot and try to connect to the internet, my router refuses to give it a IP

@HackToHell Interesting and appropriate for Cisco CCNA qualified guy.

My DHCP configuration

@Boris_yo it's simple networking :P

What Event Viewer says?

6:41 AM

@Boris_yo The IP address lease 192.168.1.2 for the Network Card with network address 0xXXXXXXXX has been denied by the DHCP server 192.168.1.1 (The DHCP Server sent a DHCPNACK message).

@HackToHell Hmm sometimes my smartphone cannot connect to my router until I connect myself. Maybe you should manually configure copnnection and delete exisiting one?

And what router's log says?

Log does not display anything useful, I must prolly drop into it's shell to read the errors

@HackToHell: tried ipconfig /renew?

@JourneymanGeek yeah, still does not work

I need to reboot the router for it to work :/

@HackToHell If you have test router you could at least tell if problm lies within PC or router...

7:14 AM

I think it's router specific because my last router did not trouble me

TIL ‎27% of Facebook's server capacity is required to store the word: 'lol'

Who wants a free Zemana AntiLogger license for a year ??

zemana.com/Download.aspx

@HackToHell My old 2006 3Com would disconnect every few seconds so I stopped using it.

@HackToHell I don't understand. Where you read that?

►

Prolly is fake

@HackToHell More social media consultants in London than children :)

washingtonpost.com/opinions/…

Database unsubscription is the 2nd common world lie :)

@HackToHell 2858 comments! Holy cow!

@HackToHell They want NWO right? They don't want Illuminati to set their NWO.

7:29 AM

lo

@HackToHell Wut?

Gnintendo

I just did laundry; socks mod 2 = 0. :D

@Boris_yo oops it's supposed to be lol

@Gnintendo You mean money laundry?

@HackToHell Do you understand email SPAM and message source?

Google Nexus contest. Good luck:

http://www.cyanogenmod.com/blog/win-a-nexus-7-or-a-case-from-amzer-and-cyanogenmod

@HackToHell How about these?

http://www.dealextreme.com/p/mini-portable-150m-802-11n-wi-fi-wireless-router-green-115931

http://www.dealextreme.com/p/portable-3g-802-11n-g-b-ieee802-3-ieee802-3u-usb-wireless-wlan-router-ap-client-51797

Bob

10:23 AM

@Boris_yo You could have an insecure file upload script somewhere, or there could be a vulnerability your website software (WordPress, vBulletin, etc., even something you made yourself). Unless other users have experienced the same. In that case, then, yes, it's a problem on the host's side.

10:34 AM

whoot

got my very dirty jabber script working

11:21 AM

@JourneymanGeek What does it do?